Daily Archive: Tuesday, August 6, 2019

GEORGETOWN, Guyana,  CMC – India defeated West Indies by seven wickets in the third and final Twenty20 International at the Guyana National Stadium here Tuesday.

(Barbados Nation) The body of the woman found along the beach at Hastings, Christ Church, has been identified.

(Trinidad Express) A 15-year-old girl, died in her bedroom on Monday afternoon, with a positive pregnancy test next to her body.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Protesters in Hong Kong must not “play with fire” and mistake Beijing’s restraint for weakness, China said today in its sharpest rebuke yet of the “criminals” behind demonstrations in the city whom it vowed to bring to justice.

Under pressure over the last year to account for hundreds of Haitians who have arrived in this country but did not leave legally, Minister of Citizenship Winston Felix yesterday said that the police have found no evidence of people smuggling and he called recent reportage on this matter “xenophobic”.

With oil production scheduled to commence from March next year, Minister of Finance Winston Jordan says that just above US$100 million will likely be available for Budget spending in 2020.

Without general elections by September 18, the “ship of Guyana sails into unchartered constitutional waters and nobody knows just what will happen”, political commentator and former Speaker of the National Assembly, Ralph Ramkarran told an American Chamber of Commerce in Guyana (AmCham) event last evening at the Marriott Hotel.

Acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire SC is expected to make a ruling next Wednesday on the challenge by Christopher Ram to the ongoing house-to-house registration exercise.

Justice Gino Persaud last Friday ordered that three Mahaicony residents be compensated a total of almost $8 million for their unlawful arrest and the impoundment of a vehicle by the Guyana Police Force.

International cricketer Christopher Barnwell is now free on bail after he was charged yesterday with assaulting a police officer during a cricket match.

His escaping imprisonment only through presidential respite is one of the key issues Minister of Finance Winston Jordan will consider as he mulls a possible return to his current post if asked by the APNU+AFC coalition to serve again, should they win the next general elections.

Newly-appointed Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) retired Justice Claudette Singh will preside over her first meeting of the commission on August 15, one day after the acting Chief Justice, Roxane George  provides a ruling on a challenge to the House-to-House registration exercise underway.

Bariel Hall, the 18-year-old who remained a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital after being the victim of a hit and run accident just over two months ago, succumbed to his injuries yesterday morning.

Chairman of the Corentyne Fishermen’s Co-operative Society Parmeshwar Jainarine yesterday recommended compensation and protection for victims after pirate attacks.

(Jamaica Observer) The father of a six-year-old who received cuts to his genitals in a vicious attack last week in White Horses, St Thomas, is trying to dissuade the lad from seeking to exact vengeance on the 16-year-old boy who is accused of committing the act.

After being sent on administrative leave in late April, Director of Youth Melissa Carmichael has said that to date she has not been given a reason for the decision.

With the three-match T20 series already lost, West Indies head into the final contest at the National Stadium, Providence with Fabian Allen replacing Kharry Pierre.

High Court Judge Fidela Corbin-Lincoln is expected to hear further arguments on Thursday before making a determination as to whether she will grant Charles Ceres an injunction he is seeking against Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo, whom he has sued for libel.

A 7-year-old girl was severely burnt about her body early yesterday morning after a fire of unknown origin gutted her Mon Repos North, East Coast Demerara home.

Senior female national squash champ Ashley Khalil is of the view that Guyana’s involvement at the 2019 Pan American Games was ideal preparation for the upcoming senior Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) championships to be held in Guyana later this month. 

(Jamaica Observer) The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has launched an investigation to determine the origin of a video that is now circulating on social media, showing a policeman intervening in an altercation between a man sporting locks and another individual who appears to be a cross-dresser.

Residents of Jacklow Village in the Lower Pomeroon will have Internet access in and around their community before the end of September 2019, a release from the Ministry of Public Telecommunications said yesterday.

Guyana’s table tennis whiz Chelsea Edghill was yesterday edged out of the ongoing Pan American Games in Lima, Peru in the round of 16 knockout stage. 

Guyana’s four-member Track and Field team will aim to end the nation’s medal drought so far at the ongoing Pan American Games in Lima, Peru when action in the discipline starts today at the Athletics Stadium, in the Villa Deportiva Nacional Videna.

The Ministry of Natural Resources yesterday launched its third Annual Youth Apprenticeship programme at the Herdmanston Lodge.

The 2019 Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ season will conclude this weekend when the National Championships kick off Friday at the Jubilee Park Tarmac.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Sea Lots man who is well known to the po­lice has been de­tained for ques­tion­ing in the mur­der of the five Car­li Bay fish­er­men who were beat­en and thrown over­board on Ju­ly 22.

A youth yesterday admitted to committing two armed robberies and said he did the crimes because he was hungry and had no money.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Kingston-based Harvest Temple Apostolic Church has vowed to press on, declaring that it has nothing to be ashamed of as its disgraced pastor awaits sentencing on sex-related charges after impregnating a 12-year-old girl.

Dave & Celina All-Stars, LA Ballers, Royal Warriors and West Side Connection won their matches when the 6th edition of the New Era Entertainment/Mohamed’s Enterprise Futsal Tournament continued on Sunday.

A fire, suspected to be of electrical origin, destroyed a two-storey house at Line Path, Upper Corentyne, yesterday morning and the homeowner was seriously burnt during his escape.

Guyana got off to a losing start in their CONCACAF U15 championships campaign with a 0-3 defeat yesterday to Nicaragua at the IMG Academy, Florida, USA.

Dear Editor, Unlike most CARICOM Member States, Guyana, by its seminal participation in the establishment of the Caribbean Court of Justice (hereinafter referred to as the CCJ) in 2001, had “buried its navel string” in its decision-making process.

Some uplifting things occurred in the course of the Emancipation Day festivities at the National Park last Thursday; and If ever we arrive at a point where considerations of race and ethnicity cease to be a barrier to the sense of nationhood to which we say we aspire, or at least if we can, somehow, manage to leave the historic toxicity of racial division behind, that may well be the result of the incremental effects of manifestations like those at the National Park on Thursday.

The driver in the hit-and-run accident which claimed the life of Annandale resident, Leon Fung-a-Fat, is still to be apprehended Delon, a brother of Fung-A-Fat, yesterday told Stabroek News that the family have not heard anything from the police on the progress of the investigation.

With just six days to go, it is almost showtime for the Guyana Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation’s flagship event, the Senior National Championships.

Dear Editor, I refer to the Stabroek News editorial of Monday, 5th August (Constitutional governance).

A young construction worker has been ordered to undergo counselling after admitting to possession of ganja, which he claims he uses for medicinal purposes.

Dear Editor, Indranie Deolall is a name I recall from her days at the Guyana Chronicle in the 90’s when she wrote  the report on the turtle that had washed up on the foreshore.

A Stabroek Market vendor was granted bail on a ganja trafficking charge after pleading not guilty yesterday.

BIRMINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – Australia spinner Nathan Lyon ripped through England’s batting line-up as the hosts lost the first Ashes test by 251 runs after being bowled out for 146 in their second innings yesterday.

The usu­al­ly sub­dued res­i­den­tial St Ann’s com­mu­ni­ty re­coiled in hor­ror on Monday af­ter a would-be rob­ber shot dead a res­i­dent who wres­tled with a gun­man who at­tempt­ed to storm a house.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa fast bowler Dale Steyn has announced his retirement from test cricket, but will be available for one-day international and Twenty20 cricket, he confirmed yesterday.

Dear Editor, The recent mass shootings in the United States have once again brought to the fore the issue of hate crimes which are blamed on xenophobic tendencies fuelled by political rhetoric.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday proposed tighter monitoring of the internet, mental health reform and wider use of the death penalty in response to two mass shootings over the weekend that left 32 people dead in Texas and Ohio.

BRIDGTOWN, Barbados, CMC – Andre Russell continued participation in the Global T20 Canada while opting out of the Twenty20 series against India through injury is all part of the plan for the all-rounder’s rehabilitation, Cricket West Indies has said.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the letter which appeared in Stabroek News dated Saturday August 3, 2019 and captioned `NIS claim cannot be processed as GuySuCo has not paid in my contributions’.

NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR, (Reuters) – India yesterday revoked the special status of Kashmir, the Himalayan region that has long been a flashpoint in ties with neighbouring Pakistan, moving to grasp its only Muslim-majority region more tightly.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a freeze on all Venezuelan government assets in the United States yesterday, sharply escalating a diplomatic and sanctions drive aimed at removing socialist President Nicolas Maduro from power.

Twenty-four children yesterday attended the first of a two-day STEM Robotics Camp, facilitated by the Office of the First Lady, the Ministry of the Presidency (MoTP) said.

Dear Editor, As a reader of the Stabroek News, I was a bit taken aback by its publication on Saturday, August 4th 2019 of a story which says that over 100,000 persons have registered so far during GECOM’s house-to-house registration exercise.

WASHINGTON/SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – A yearlong U.S.-China trade war boiled over yesterday as Washington accused Beijing of manipulating its currency after China let the yuan drop to its lowest point in more than a decade.

BIRMINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – Steve Smith became only the fifth Australian to make two centuries in the same Ashes test as another imperious, near-perfect innings on Sunday put a blunt England attack to the sword and left them on the brink of defeat in the Ashes opener at Edgbaston.

Dear Editor, The Minister of Natural Resources Hon. Raphael Trotman and staff of the Ministry of Natural Resources wish to express sincerest condolences to the family of Retta Samuels who died in a mining pit collapse on Friday, August 2, 2019.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – North Korea has generated an estimated $2 billion for its weapons of mass destruction programmes using “widespread and increasingly sophisticated” cyberattacks to steal from banks and cryptocurrency exchanges, according to a confidential U.N.

(BBC) Former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum has announced his retirement from all cricket at the age of 37.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Deforestation in Brazil’s rainforest has jumped around 67% in the first seven months of the year, according to preliminary data from Brazil’s space research agency, which the government has attacked as misleading and harmful to the national interest.

Tucber Park Cricket Club (TPCC) of New Amsterdam is set to host a one-week summer camp. 

Dear Editor, I have a serious matter that is affecting myself and family that is causing us to be uncomfortable in our own homes.

By Landry Signé and Ameenah Gurib-Fakim WASHINGTON, DC/PORT LOUIS – At a time when the United States, once a standard bearer of multilateralism, is embracing protectionism, Africa has taken a bold step in the opposite direction, creating the world’s largest free-trade area since the establishment of the World Trade Organization in 1995.

A newly released International Monetary Fund forecast has bad news for Latin America: It will be the slowest growing region in the world this year.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Police fired tear gas at protesters in multiple parts of Hong Kong yesterday after a general strike hit transport and the city’s Beijing-backed leader warned its prosperity was at risk.

(Trinidad Express) The elderly man who was beaten during a mystery attack in Penal in which his daughter was shot, has died at hospital.