Articles published on Friday, August 9, 2019
President David Granger (right) and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo met again today at State House to continue discussions on the rulings of the Caribbean Court of Justice on the motion of no confidence and the pathway towards general elections among other matters.
(Cricket West Indies) ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Rahkeem Cornwall could make his long-awaited Test debut on home soil, when West Indies kick off their campaign in the new ICC World Test Championship against India later this month.
(GAWU statement) Yesterday, August 08, the first scheduled day of harvesting of the canes of the second crop, workers of all the gangs of Albion Estate have downed tools, severely affecting operations at the Estate.
The Management of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport Corporation (CJIAC)wishes to inform the general public that last evening at approximately 23:30 hours the Airport Runway Lighting System experienced a failure due to a slack cable connection.
(Trinidad Express) Minister in the Ministry of Public Administration and Communications, Marlene Mc Donald spent Thursday night at the St Joseph Police Station and police are expected to continue their line of questioning today.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prisoner Dillon Clarke, who escaped from the Golden Grove Prison in Arouca yesterday while out on an agricultural project, remains on the run.
(Jamaica Observer) Hundreds of Jamaican college and university students who were banking on landing jobs in the US this summer to save for their tuition when school reopens in September have found themselves with neither the promised jobs nor the US$1,500 they each paid to secure placement.
KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysia filed criminal charges today against 17 current and former directors at subsidiaries of Goldman Sachs Group Inc following an investigation into a multi-billion-dollar corruption scandal that led to the demise of state fund 1MDB.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Alfred Samuels, an advanced prostate cancer survivor, was the winner of the Ambassador of the Year Award given by Cancer Research UK (CRUK).
(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.
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday gave notice that if government fails to hold general elections by September 18th, the opposition party would ignore all of its claims to legitimacy after that time.
Detective Constable Richard Persaud, the Berbice rank who was transferred to the Tactical Services Unit (TSU) after being accused of planting a material suspected to be ganja at a Superbet in East Canje, Berbice last month, has resigned from the Guyana Police Force.
President David Granger has described claims that Haitians are being used to pad the National Register of Registrants Database as “incredible”.
Two of three men charged with the possession of over 12 pounds of cocaine last year were yesterday sentenced to three and a half years in prison after they were found guilty of the crime, while the charge against their co-accused was dismissed after a city magistrate found that he had been none the wiser about the drugs.
Just under two months after establishing its presence here, Trinidadian supermarket chain Coss Cutters is preparing to open its second branch.
Acting Town Clerk Sharon Harry-Munroe has been sent on administrative leave after allegedly failing to carry out instructions issued to her by the Local Government Commission (LGC).
The first One Day International between India and West Indies in Guyana in 30 years was abandoned due to consistent showers at the National Stadium, Providence yesterday.
An investigation will be launched into allegations by the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) that the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Union’s credit union has been spending large sums of money without proper authorisation.
The Jubilee Tarmac Park will be a battlefield tonight when the eagerly anticipated Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ National Championship officially kicks off.
Despite being disappointed by the limited number of artworks that participating countries are allowed to feature at the upcoming Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) in Trinidad & Tobago, the Guyanese Visual Arts delegation is confident that the selected pieces will leave an impression at the event.
Trend-Setters, High Rollers and Germans United secured lopsided wins when the 6th edition of the New Era Entertainment/Mohamed’s Enterprise Futsal Tournament continued on Wednesday.
Ricoldio Kyte, the 31-year-old interior shopkeeper who pleaded guilty to two charges of illegal possession of firearm and ammunition last week, was yesterday sentenced to one year in jail.
Guyana Rush Saints defeated Far East Sports Club 2-1, when the Theresa and George Bobb/RFA Under-17 Women’s Football tournament continued on Wednesday at the St Ignatius Sports Ground.
Darrel John, who faced a charge of possession of ecstasy, yesterday had the matter dismissed by a city magistrate.
Aliyah Abrams finished last in the 400m women’s final yesterday while Brenessa Thompson ended fifth of six starters in semifinal two of three in the 200m, dashing Guyana’s last hopes of medaling at the ongoing Pan American Games in Lima, Peru.
The National U-15 footballers secured their quarterfinal berth in the CONCACAF Under-15 Championship, defeating Cayman Islands 2-0 yesterday at the IMG Academy, Florida, USA.
A Rose Hall Town, Corentyne fire on Wednesday has left an elderly woman homeless, after the two-storey wooden and concrete house she took care of was completely destroyed.
With issues of food safety increasingly becoming a consideration that impinges on the state of nations’ health as much as their respective economies, there are indications that the issue is increasingly attracting the attention of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member countries.
A taxi-driver and his passenger have both been found innocent of a firearm possession charge.
TAROUBA, Trinidad, CMC – Teenager Shubman Gill punished West Indies A with his second first class double hundred, leaving the hosts with a huge victory target and a battle for survival in today’s last day of the final four-day “Test”.
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Manchester United succeeded in offloading striker Romelu Lukaku to Inter Milan on a transfer deadline day which saw plenty of business but few jaw-dropping deals from Premier League clubs.
Dr Balwant Singh’s Hospital yesterday, announced the appointment of Guyana’s first embryologist, Ganesh Persaud, as head of the In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) laboratory at the hospital in Georgetown.
In what can well be regarded as a breakthrough opportunity for local small and medium-sized business which, traditionally, have found it difficult to afford the high cost of benefitting from product exposure at international trade fairs, the Stabroek Business has been informed that locally based Guyanese businesses will have access to free booth space at which to display their goods at the October 9-10 Florida International Trade and Cultural Expo (FITCE).
STEM Guyana is using the longest holiday of the school year to good effect by reaching into some of the far corners of Guyana in collaboration with various partner organisations to help prepare the country’s young people to become what, sooner rather than later, will be the highly sought after labour force needed to take the responsibilities of economic and social development forward.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – South Africa’s Hashim Amla announced his retirement from international cricket yesterday, bringing the curtain down on one of the country’s leading batting careers.
BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tens of thousands of Venezuelans fleeing turmoil at home face perilous new journeys and risk falling into the hands of criminal gangs after three South American countries clamped down on the mass exodus, the United Nations and experts say.
Commander-in-Chief, President David Granger, presented Lieutenant (Lt) Britany Van Lange with her Instrument of Commission on June 27 last, solemnising her status as an officer of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF).
High levels of unemployment in the formal sector have long been steering new generations of job-seekers in alternative directions which, even up to a decade or so ago, would probably not have been on their radars.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian prosecutors are dropping a rape case against soccer star Neymar, they said yesterday, likely bringing an end to the most serious of charges against the Paris St Germain striker.
BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Four LGBT+ people are murdered every day in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to “alarming” new research released yesterday by a regional network of gay rights groups.
Dear Editor, On paper, retired Justice Claudette Singh is as qualified and suitable as any, for the appointment as the Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).
LONDON (Reuters) – Arsenal have signed Brazilian centre back David Luiz from London rivals Chelsea, the Premier League clubs said yesterday.
Within a matter of weeks, revelations surfacing here in Guyana and in Trinidad & Tobago point to what would appear to be similar challenges being faced by law enforcement in the two CARICOM countries arising out of indications that policemen may be playing a role in facilitating the pursuits of criminals.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia has broken up a criminal network which helped companies evade some $670 million in value added taxes over the last 12 years, President Ivan Duque said yesterday, in an operation he said was a “really hard hit” to corruption.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Cricket Australia welcomed transgender women on to its elite teams yesterday as it issued guidelines for their inclusion, amid a toxic battle over fairness in female sport.
Dear Editor, In the written Judgement of the Honourable Justices Saunders, Wit, Hayton, Anderson and Rajnauth-Lee delivered on the 12 day of July 2019, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) at item “[6]” expressly states: “Given the passage of the no confidence motion on 21 December 2018, a general election should have been held in Guyana by 21 March 2019 unless a two thirds majority in the National Assembly has resolved to extend that period.
There appears to be no short-term end in sight to either the political crisis facing the administration of Vene-zuela’s President Nicholas Maduro or his country’s beleaguered economy as Washington earlier this week announced yet another round of punishing sanctions against the country believed to possess the world’s largest oil reserves.
(Reuters) – A federal appeals court yesterday rejected Facebook Inc’s effort to undo a class action lawsuit claiming that it illegally collected and stored biometric data for millions of users without their consent.
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Dear Editor, Recently, no less than the President stated that there were “200,000 incorrect entries” on the voters’ list, the “list was corrupted and needed to be sanitized”, hence the need for a new National House-to-House Registration and a new national identification card.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Howard Webb has more experience than most of officiating top flight football matches and his stint in North America’s Major League Soccer has convinced him that Video Assistant Referees (VAR) will only improve the English Premier League.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian far-right President Jair Bolsonaro said yesterday that an Army officer who was convicted of torture during the country’s 1964-1985 military dictatorship was a “national hero.”
The primary purpose of the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) we are told, is to assemble artists, musicians, authors, and the various other strands of creative people and to display the folkloric, artistic and other creative manifestations of the Caribbean.
(Reuters) – Leicestershire Foxes captain Colin Ackermann set a new Twenty20 bowling record on Wednesday by taking seven wickets for 18 runs in his team’s victory over Birmingham Bears in the T20 Blast.
Dear Editor, Emmanuella and Success are stars, and Mark Angel is a good creator of contemporary slapstick comedy with an uncanny ability to leverage the Social Media pathway to success.
While the horizon must seem unrelievedly grim to many citizens, once in a while a few specks of bright light appear to relieve the gloom.
Haiti, one of the only countries I know to have a perennial adjunct attached to it.
The new Guyana Marketing Corporation has agreed to provide us with the above information which we will publish on a weekly basis subject to receipt.
-Image versus reality… Greetings friends. I won’t completely avoid traffic fatalities, court decisions, murder, robbery, rape and local politics today.
The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) is advising residents of Upper Berbice River communities that it is currently engaged in Exercise Greenheart in the areas between Mara Settlement and Tacama waterfront.
Introduction It has been a week of headlines in the petroleum sector.
(Trinidad Guardian) The resurrection of a six-year-old investigation into the alleged siphoning of over $1 million from a government ministry to three organisations linked to family and friends culminated in the arrest of Public Administration Minister Marlene McDonald and her husband yesterday.
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ISLAMABAD/SRINAGAR, India, (Reuters) – Pakistan halted its main train service to India yesterday and banned Indian films as it exerted diplomatic pressure on New Delhi for revoking the special status of Kashmir, the region at the heart of 70 years of hostility between them.
