Articles published on Thursday, August 8, 2019
President David Granger today met with the members of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and reassured that government will continue to respect its independence and await its advice on the holding of “credible elections,” while appearing to back down from his previous hardline position on the need for house-to-house registration to update current voter database.
(Trinidad Express) Minister of Public Administration Marlene McDonald and her husband have been arrested.
(Reuters) – The Dallas-area mother of the young man arrested in the mass shooting that killed 22 people in El Paso, Texas, had called police weeks earlier expressing concern about his fitness to own an assault-style rifle, CNN said on Wednesday.
(Jamaica Observer) The Denham Town evangelist who was seen in a video being attacked by a Rastafarian man while delivering a spirited sermon in Arnett Gardens is calling the altercation a blessing.
(Barbados Nation) The young mother and wife whose family died in the tragic fire of July 24 has broken her silence publicly forgiving her husband, opening up about having her ability to grieve taken away and touching on persistent rumours.
(Trinidad Newsday) A social media post featuring a traffic ticket allegedly received via mail is a demo.
(Trinidad Guardian) A crack-shot team of anti-crime experts has been hired by a business lobby group to assist the T&T Police Service in dismantling and prosecuting criminal gangs who have been linked to the majority of murders in the country.
President David Granger and his APNU+AFC Cabinet are following the directions of Attorney General Basil Williams and will not be resigning, Director General of the Ministry of the Presidency Joseph Harmon said yesterday.
Denied survivor’s benefit by the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) she never knew she was entitled to until 26 years after the death of her husband, a High Court judge last week declared that Ismay Lake is entitled to the benefits stemming from the more than one thousand contributions her husband Vibert would have made to the Scheme when he was alive.
The Board of Inquiry (BoI) ordered by President David Granger to investigate the arbitrary dismissal of three workers by Minister of Public Service Tabitha Sarabo-Halley has recommended that the trio be reinstated.
In line with earlier reports in the Sunday Stabroek, Haitians entering the country move rapidly to exit the country via Lethem and local bus operators continue to make connections with them at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport upon arrival.
Owayne Lynch, the Stevedore taxi driver who was found dead at Cemetery Road, Mocha Arcadia, with multiple wounds about his body on Tuesday night, was heard arguing about money with his passengers shortly before his death.
President David Granger has invited recently appointed GECOM Chairman Claudette Singh and all six of the GECOM Commissioners to a meeting today to discuss the elections body’s state of preparedness for general elections, sources last evening confirmed.
Cabinet has agreed that the ministers of Natural Resources and Finance would engage to examine short and medium-term remedies to enable the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) to make outstanding payments to staff, which could include tapping the Contingencies Fund.
Longstanding member of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Dave Danny Jr last evening announced his exit from the party and said he has now pledged his support to the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP).
Kopinang in Region Eight was recently added to the list of interior destinations in Guyana to where persons resident in the area can travel or take cargo by air without having to pay Value Added Tax (VAT), joining a list of 53 other interior airstrips that enjoyed such status since February 2017.
An investigation into the accident which occurred in May and left a teen as a patient of the hospital for over two months before he succumbed, is still ongoing.
A 25-year-old resident of Sophia is currently in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was shot on Saturday afternoon, allegedly by a policeman who was attempting to arrest him.
A fisherman was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with raping a woman.
Twenty-nine new US Peace Corps Volunteers were welcomed here at a ceremony yesterday.
An 18-year-old man, who has faced a string of robbery charges in the local courts, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday, charged with another theft and was again granted bail.
The Preliminary Inquiry into the charge against two men, including the operator of Rockies Hotel in Georgetown, accused of plotting to kill a Lethem businessman, continued yesterday with evidence being led by several police witnesses, even as the second accused was granted bail by the High Court.
Two recipients of the Guyana Fund for Cultural and Creative Industries (GFCCI), Leon Saul and Martin Massiah, are both planning on revealing Guyanese talent to the world via a television series and short documentary series respectively with their share of the project funding.
(Barbados Nation) Former Minister of Industry and Commerce Donville Inniss will be in court again tomorrow in the United States.
For the first time in three decades India will play a One-Day International (ODI) in Guyana when they turn up at the National Stadium, Providence today looking for a positive start in the three-match series against West Indies.
Another crop of promising West Indian under – 15 cricketers, including three Guyanese departed the region Monday for a tour of England, all set to represent the Caribbean.
Two bandits armed with hand guns invaded the Fyrish Village, Corentyne house of an overseas-based Guyanese on Thursday and robbed her and her relatives of valuables.
Four Guyanese are among 20 other regional under – 19 players that were asked to remain in the St.
In acknowledgement of the desire to ‘give back’, former students of the North Georgetown Secondary School (NGSS) yesterday presented their alma mater with 30 computer tablets and accessories.
This year’s Guyana Cup horse race meet is saddling up to be the best one yet and B.M
A Stevedore Housing Scheme resident was yesterday granted bail after he was charged with breaking the leg of another man following a drunken argument.
Romario Baljeet yesterday faced cross-examination in the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the charge against Abdul Imran Khan, who is accused of attempting to murder him in an attack at the Palm Court nightclub.
Associated Packers Industry (API) will be making its debut as a corner man of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) for the staging of the fourth Caribbean Schoolboys and Juniors Boxing Championships later this month.
EL PASO, Texas, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump met victims and first responders from last weekend’s deadly shootings in Texas and Ohio yesterday, as chanting protesters accused him of inflaming tensions with anti-immigrant and racially charged rhetoric.
A vendor was yesterday sentenced to three years in prison after admitting to a marijuana trafficking charge.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Technology company Mastercard yesterday announced Dalton Fowles as the country manager for Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago.
India has decided that enough is enough. They are looking to rebuild.
Dear Editor, I detect a sliver of light in the midst of the political uncertainty covering Guyana, in the statement, “the prospects of a win-win, or winner-does-not-take-all outcome is a gray area and should not be ruled out completely” in a letter to the editor, published yesterday, from Clement J.
Essequibians on July 26th 2019 participated in discussions over the ways in which Guyana’s oil and gas sector would impact society.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – NATO needs to understand the implications of China’s rise as Beijing expands its power around the world, including areas that may challenge members of the North Atlantic security body, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said yesterday.
SandPipers Cricket Club is set to bowl off its annual Soesdyke Premier League (SPL) T10 Tape Ball Cricket tournament, beginning Sunday and culminating on August 31.
Dear Editor, The recent announcement that the University of Glasgow has apologised for its role in slavery and has agreed to provide ₤20 Million to fund Caribbean developmental projects that will be undertaken in collaboration with the University of the West Indies (UWI) suggests that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is in the process of settling upon a sensible and workable strategy for the pursuit of the goal of the payment of Reparations or compensation for the multiplicity of genocides and “crimes against humanity” that were committed against the sons and daughters of Africa by the nations, governments and institutions of Europe and North America during some 400 years of European orchestrated slavery and slave trade.
SAN JUAN, (Reuters) – Puerto Rico got its third governor in less than a week yesterday just hours after the bankrupt U.S.
The National U15 footballers will faceoff with Cayman Islands in a must-win encounter today as they attempt to seal a quarterfinal berth in Division-2 of the CONCACAF u15 Championship at the IMG Academy, Florida, USA.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, (Reuters) – Three Congolese doctors have been arrested for allegedly planning an attack on a hospital that killed a senior World Health Organization (WHO) epidemiologist involved in the Ebola response, a prosecutor said yesterday.
Dear Editor, I was indeed pleased and relieved that finally the Demerara Cricket Board will be having its election of office bearers on 2019-08-11 following a Court Order.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government will skip a round of Norway-brokered talks today and tomorrow to protest a new set of U.S.
Dear Editor, August 15, 2019 marked thirty four years since the passing of Forbes Burnham.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Kieron Pollard said West Indies would continue to work on reducing their dot ball count but stressed that power-hitting would always remain a key element of their arsenal in Twenty20 Internationals.
This year, I received an unusual birthday gift of a small, possible Pandora’s box that seemed simple and innocuous with bright rainbow-like stripes against crisp, white cardboard.
(Trinidad Express) Three people have been shot and killed at Pipiol Road, Santa Cruz, a crime hot spot.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court yesterday suspended a lower court decision to transfer imprisoned former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from the southern city of Curitiba to a penitentiary in the state of Sao Paulo.
TAROUBA, Trinidad,, CMC – Off-spinner Krishnappa Gowtham’s hat-trick, coupled with fast bowler Chemar Holder’s late burst, brought to life an otherwise dull rain-hit day and left the third four-day “Test” intriguingly poised heading into today’s penultimate day.
ISLAMABAD/SRINAGAR, India, (Reuters) – Pakistan said today it would expel India’s ambassador and suspend bilateral trade with its arch-rival after New Delhi stripped its portion of the contested Kashmir region of special status.
Dear Editor, Two news captions caught my attention on Tuesday; one was in SN, the other in KN.
On Monday last, NBC news in the United States carried a story of a Roman Catholic priest in Florida who had been arrested the previous Saturday night after a breathalyzer test allegedly showed that he was two times over the legal limit to drive.
