Daily Archive: Thursday, August 22, 2019

ExxonMobil Guyana has reemphasized its commitment to a culture of safety by holding a workshop on this issue for contractors today at the Marriott Hotel.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian state oil major Rosneft has become the main trader of Venezuelan crude, shipping oil to buyers in China and India and helping Caracas offset the loss of traditional dealers who are avoiding it for fear of breaching U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Roman Catholic Priest, Father Urban Hudlin’s car was stolen last Saturday while he was visiting a home in Diego Martin.

(Jamaica Observer) A Connecticut woman who federal prosecutors say helped arrange 28 sham marriages to obtain immigration benefits for non-citizens has pleaded guilty.

(Trinidad Express) A 36-year-old woman is dead while a 34-year-old man is in a serious condition at the Port of Spain General Hospital following a confrontation yesterday morning in Laventille.

(Jamaica Observer) SIX Jamaicans are among hundreds worldwide to benefit from the 2019 US Government-funded International Exchange programmes and fellowships — Fulbright and Humphrey.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A Portland family has been left heartbroken as what they said was a nearly two-decades-long abusive relationship ended in tragedy Tuesday night, leaving the matriarch dead, her common-law husband on the run, and other members of the family homeless.

(Trinidad Guardian) Just one week af­ter com­plaints were raised about cats in­vad­ing the Ca­roni Bird Sanc­tu­ary, dis­turb­ing pho­tos have sur­faced on so­cial me­dia show­ing the an­i­mals dead from ap­par­ent poi­son­ing at the same site.

A 46-year-old clothes vendor was yesterday afternoon fatally stabbed by her husband following an argument and the man is now hospitalised in a critical condition after he subsequently tried to kill himself at the couple’s Nabaclis Sideline Dam, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home.

After meeting for over three hours yesterday, the government and opposition commissioners of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) failed to come consensus on the holding of constitutionally-due general elections.

An American Airlines (AA) aircraft, which was preparing to depart the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) yesterday morning, had its takeoff aborted after some of its tyres were damaged when it came into contact with temporary runway lights.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Domestic Airways Incorporated was yesterday fined a total of $75,000 for occupational health and safety violations, including failing to give notice of the death of Pilot Randy Liverpool earlier this year.

A cabinet maker was yesterday sentenced to five years in prison and fined $10.8 million after admitting to having possession of 60 pounds of cannabis for trafficking.

General Secretary of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) Hector Edwards is spot on.

A sweets vendor is to spend the next five years in jail after he admitted to robbing fellow vendors in a gunpoint attack in Charlestown.

Azerbaijan is offering scholarships at its leading universities as well as oil and gas training to Guyanese.

Jason Holder’s men will face an uphill battle today against a powerful Indian side as both teams kick-start their ICC World Test Championships campaign. 

The Mass Action People’s Movement (MAPM), which last week began lobbying for President David Granger to announce a date for elections and the resignation of his Cabinet, is hoping that with sustained effort it will be able to function as a civil society watchdog for years to come.

The Ministry of Natural Resources has donated four heat extractors to the Fairview Primary School at Kurupukari, in Region Eight, following an appeal for an intervention to address the building’s extreme heat conditions.

Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) General Secretary, Hector Edwards believes the body is doing all it can to groom athletes but needs further assistance to develop them into medalists.

The Mahaica-Mahaicony-Abary Agriculture Development Authority (MMA/ADA) has said that it is owed over $1 billion in fees by some farmers, who nonetheless continue to benefit from its services to them, including drainage works.

The Guyana Karate Federation’s IKD Caribbean Cup which gets underway this weekend at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall has a familiar sponsor.

Jonathan Van Lange and Krystian Sahadeo helped Guyana notch up two impressive wins over the host and Puerto Rico respectively on the opening day in the teams’ category of the 2019 Caribbean Mini and Pre-cadet championships currently being played in the Dominican Republic. 

Dear Editor, I welcome Mr Trevor Benn’s comment in the Sunday Stabroek of 18th August 2019 that the IMC he chairs is soon to hold an AGM for the Guyana Public Service Co-operative Credit Union Ltd.

Air Services Limited’s (ASL) wharf and bond facility at Soesdyke will be used for storage of tools and equipment for the oil and gas sector and will not house waste or toxic chemicals, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Executive Director Dr Vincent Adams has said.

Guyana’s Vadeanand Resaul was stopped in the quarter-finals of the COTECC Trinidad Summer Bowl Under – 14 championships in the Twin Island Republic on Tuesday.

Dear Editor, I am a resident of Continental Park, Plantation Peter’s Hall on the East Bank of Demerara, who would like to take this opportunity on behalf of all the residents of the area to vent through the letters column of your newspaper, the complete disgust and frustration of everyone residing there as it relates to the unlawful grazing of cattle in the neighbourhood.

Prior to the deaths of Hilrod Thomas and his two young daughters, Clarissa and Theresa Rozario, who were burnt in a fire at their at King and Robb streets home in 2014, one of the two accused in their deaths, Ganga Kishna, had threatened to burn the property down.

A porter was yesterday charged with fatally beating a drinking companion during an argument last Saturday night at Kumaka, in Region One.

The Guyana Football Federation [GFF] will stage an Extraordinary Congress on Saturday with the objective of adopting the entity’s 2018 audited financial statements.

BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro yesterday accused non-governmental organisations of burning down the Amazon rainforest to hurt his government, as a growing global outcry against the wildfires raged through social media.

Dear Editor, The case of Ismay Lake, as reported in the Stabroek News of August 08, 2019, goes against everything that social security is intended to represent.

Gilbert Thomas, the man who is accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend and her new partner during an argument at Hururu Mission, Berbice River one week ago, was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with two counts of felonious wounding.

The latest edition of the Clive ‘Breezer’ Nedd Memorial Masters Football championships will commence Sunday at the Georgetown Football Club [GFC] ground, Bourda.

Dear Editor, As our August holidays quickly come to an end and parents prepare for the re-opening of school, I want to remind them of the importance of sport in our children’s lives, from preschoolers to high-schoolers.

A young Mahdia miner has been given a two-year sentence for breaking and entering a shop and stealing $500,000 in cash and phone credit.

BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday challenged Britain to come up with alternatives to the Irish border backstop within 30 days, but French President Emmanuel Macron cautioned there would be no renegotiation of the Brexit deal.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the letter, ‘Suggestions to improve passengers’ experience at CJIA’ by Shazaam Ally (SN: 18/08/19).

HARARE (Reuters) – Phelekezela Mphoko, a former deputy to ousted Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe, was charged yesterday with criminal abuse of office, his lawyer said, in the latest move by the new anti-corruption commission.

LONDON, CMC – The historic Oval will make a much anticipated return to West Indies’ itinerary for their three-Test tour of England next year.The

LEEDS, England, (Reuters) – The absence through injury of leading Australia batsman Steve Smith gives England a golden chance to level the Ashes series in the third test at Headingley, but the hosts must resolve their own batting problems first.

(Trinidad Express) A suspected car thief died in a crash yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Express) The Emperor Valley Zoo has four new additions. Four red kangaroos have been brought in from a facility in Texas, USA.

A lone bid has been received for the rehabilitation of roadways from Paramakatoi to Monkey Mountain, which is among five projects in Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) for which bids were opened on Tuesday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board, in Kingston, Georgetown.

Eagles FC and Amelia’s Ward Panthers sealed their semi-final berths in the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) leg of the NAMILCO u17 championship yesterday at the Wisburg Secondary School ground.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday that his administration was seriously looking at ending the right of citizenship for U.S.-born

The Ministry of Education’s announcement last month that the Caribbean Vocational Qualification (CVQ) will be piloted in 11 schools starting next month, is a step in the right direction.

Some Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) customers are due to be reimbursed by the company after the unexpected loss of mobile data from their cellular plans.

As a child, I heard vivid stories from my father about his fearless mother, a flashing firecracker, who thumped contrite men, foolish enough to interfere with her family and livelihood.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro posted on social media that funding for movies with LGBT+ themes was being suspended, a decision that was published yesterday on the country’s official web site.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Fast bowler Miguel Cummins has been called up for the opening Test against India starting here today after all-rounder Keemo Paul was ruled out with a left ankle injury.

 Dear Editor, Guyana’s High Commissioner to the UK, F. Hamley Case, has succeeded in getting the slave-era ‘Demerara Bell’ back to Guyana from Cambridge University after a lunchtime tete-a-tete with the Master of St Catharine’s College, Professor Sir Mark Welland, two weeks ago The bell came from plantation Anna Catherina, West Bank Demerara.

LONDON, CMC – West Indies fast bowling legend, Michael Holding, has criticised Jofra Archer’s workload during the second Ashes Test at Lord’s as “unsustainable”, arguing that bowling 44 overs in the match was tantamount to “abuse”.