Daily Archive: Saturday, August 31, 2019

(Reuters) – India pace bowler Jasprit Bumrah completed a hat-trick against West Indies on the second day of the second test in Jamaica on Saturday as the home team’s all-too-familiar batting woes continued with another collapse.

(Reuters) – Five people were killed, including a shooter, and around 21 were injured in a gun rampage in the cities of Midland and Odessa in west Texas today, police and a local television station reported.

Hurricane Dorian spun west today, putting Georgia and the Carolinas in the path of a possible landfall as well as Florida, where some beaches were all but deserted on the holiday weekend as visitors braced for the dangerous category 4 storm.

Caribbean Airlines today announced that flights to The Bahamas and Florida have been cancelled as a result of the approach of Hurricane Dorian.

(Barbados Nation) A mother’s worst fear was realised today.   Barbara Dorant-Layne broke down after identifying the body taken from a shallow grave at Walkers, St Andrew, this afternoon as that of her son Rahim Ward.

(Barbados Nation) On Thursday, Jason Renaldo Ashton declared his head was hot and that was why he told a man “what I had to tell him”.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Donald Tapia, the new United States (US) ambassador to Jamaica, arrived in Jamaica yesterday.

(Trinidad Newsday) A taxi driver conned by a woman who claimed to work for a television station believes the culprit is the same person who used a similar story and stole $300 from the wallet of a print-shop owner in San Fernando last week.

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Hong Kong police fired tear gas and water cannon today as pro-democracy protesters threw petrol bombs in the latest in a series of clashes that have plunged the Chinese-ruled city into its worst political crisis in decades.

(Trinidad Guardian) Tears flowed and anx­i­ety in­creased among Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T staff yes­ter­day, as some col­lect­ed their re­trench­ment let­ters and oth­ers wait­ed for hours at cam­pus­es through­out the coun­try.

Mercury imported into Guyana for use in small and medium-scale gold mining will be capped at 1,000 flasks or 34,500 kilogrammes per year, with importers allowed to import a maximum of 150 flasks of mercury at any one time.

It is the belief of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) that the now-cancelled house-to-house registration exercise along with an extended claims and objections process will produce a credible voters’ list, the party’s General Secretary Amna Ally said yesterday.

Following repeated dismissals in the magistrates’ courts of criminal charges instituted by the police against agents of sports-betting giant Superbet, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has instructed the lawmen not to file any new charges until they have received advice from her.

A former Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) clerk has been charged with obtaining a bribe from the owner of the Rio Nightclub in exchange for not seizing illegal alcoholic beverages found on the premises.

Guyana was awarded the Destination Stewardship Award by the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) during the Carib-bean Sustainable Tourism Awards on Thursday in St.

After almost 21 years, police have made an arrest in the murder of Viola Thomas, who was allegedly stabbed to death in 1998 by her husband, who was recently held in connection with stabbing another woman.

Citing the active court case related to the issue, Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson has declined an invitation from the Berbice Bridge Company Incorporated (BBCI) to discuss “a fair and reasonable offer…for the purchase of the ownership of the Bridge.”

Sherlock James, the gold miner who is accused of fatally stabbing his wife, Vinnette Headley-James, during an argument at their Nabaclis, East Coast Demerara home more than a week ago, was yesterday charged with murder and remanded to prison.

Seven months after allegedly fleeing the scene of the fatal Nismes accident which claimed the life of a senior citizen, the man accused of being responsible was yesterday charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

Two men were yesterday committed to stand trial for the murder of America Street moneychanger Shawn Nurse, who was fatally shot during a robbery last year.

Head Coach of the Guyana Amazon Warriors (GAW), Johan Botha has suggested Shoaib Malik will captain the side in the 2019 edition of the Caribbean Premier League.

Three former members of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), who were accused of omitting entries totaling $52 million from the general ledger of one of its bank accounts, yesterday heard that the charge was dismissed.

With less than a month to go before the start of the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, Team Guyana’s outfit is yet to be officially selected and released to the public.

An Ann’s Grove resident was remanded to prison yesterday after he was accused of possession of just over 96 pounds of cannabis for trafficking.

A 35-year-old dredge owner and his wife were allegedly set on fire while they were asleep on Thursday morning, following a confrontation with a man at their camp at Toroparu Landing, in Region Seven.

Following his unexpected appointment to the helm of the Golden Jaguars senior coaching position, Brazilian Márcio Máximo was officially unveiled yesterday by the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) at the National Training Center, Providence.

National Under – 19 Skipper Ashmead Nedd and Kevlon Anderson have been shortlisted to attend a West Indies Under – 19 Rising Stars training camp in Antigua from September 13-23.

Region One Chairman Brentnol Ashley has registered his concerns over the fact that some schools in the region would not be ready to accommodate students when the new school year begins on Monday.

Dear Editor, Chairperson of the Guyana Elec-tions Commission (GECOM), Justice (ret’d) Claudette Singh met with members of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) on Thursday, 29th August, 2019 to discuss GECOM’s state of readiness for the upcoming General and Regional Elections.

Local bodybuilder Yannick Grimes is locked in and fully focussed on the 2019 Central America and Caribbean Championships (CAC) bodybuilding in the Dominican Republic from October 11-14, 2019. 

Dear Editor, For the better part of two years the main road leading to the Charity Wharf or to be more precise the last one hundred and fifty metres has become a one-way road and this decision was made primarily to accommodate vendors on both sides of the road and quite recently the Mini Bus and Car Park that was constructed has been given to the vendors to ply their trade so as to facilitate infrastructure work at the extreme end of the road.

After being without electricity for almost two weeks, the township of Mabaruma has seen power partially restored and the community awaits the restoration of full power when the main 750 kVA generator is repaired.

A former consultant is suing government for in excess of $25 million for breach of contract after he says he took up an offer to direct the Ministry of Health’s mental health and maternal and child-health improvement programmes for just US$5,000 a month, giving up a better paying job in the United States, only to be told that the work agreement was invalidated.

Vadeanand Resaul, who is one of Guyana’s most promising junior lawn tennis players has ended his tour of Antigua on a winning note, capturing the doubles title at the Antigua COTECC Wadadli Bowl 2019 Under – 14  tournament. 

Dear Editor, We, the residents along the Mon Repos Railway Embankment, humbly seek your kind assistance in publicizing our plight.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Dorian churned toward Florida with increasingly powerful winds and drenching rains yesterday, wreaking havoc on people’s Labor Day weekend plans in one of America’s biggest vacation destinations.

Wayne Gerald DeAbreu and Devin Persaud on Saturday last, represented Archery Guyana at the 2019 World Archery approved tournament – Double 720 Qualification – in Baltimore, Canada.

Dear Editor, The Constitution of our country, as in every other democracy, is a body of fundamental principles or established precedents by which we have all agreed to be governed.

Another group of youths yesterday graduated from the third ‘Youth in Natural Resources’ apprenticeship programme.

A cattle farmer was yesterday sentenced to two years behind bars after admitting to possession of an unlicensed firearm and matching rounds that were found on him during a police search.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – India captain Virat Kohli and opener Mayank Agarwal stroked half-centuries but West Indies skipper Jason Holder responded with a terrific display of pace bowling, as the home side shared honours on the opening day of the decisive second Test here yesterday.

SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – The account of Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey was hacked yesterday afternoon, sending public tweets and retweets including racial slurs and curse words to 4 million followers before Twitter secured the account.

Dear Editor, Having made her observations and having heard the arguments, it is time now to pragmatically follow the rule of law and the Constitution.

A labourer has been sentenced to 24 months in prison after being found guilty of break and entry and larceny.

Eagles FC overcame Den Amstel by a 4-3 score yesterday when the West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) leg of the NAMILCO U17 championships resumed at the National Track and Field Center, Leonora.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – After more than 1,000 days of political brawling, hordes of headlines and dizzying lurches in sterling, the battle of Brexit enters the endgame.

Dear Editor, Guyana is well poised to receive its share of oil early in the new year.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – In late August, U.N. officials, judges and civil society leaders met in Guatemala to say farewell to a U.N.

The fourth annual Limacol football tournament will commence today at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesfa Avenue.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Factory activity in China shrank in August for the fourth month in a row, official data showed yesterday, as the United States ramped up tariff pressure and domestic demand remained sluggish.

Fourteen boys, all between the ages of 13 and 17, have been equipped with barbering skills after recently completing a two-month “Protect Your Peace” training course.

Dear Editor, My heart aches for the family and country as we lost another youth, another son, Rivaldo Williams as a result of reckless crime caused by the menaces of society.

The new horror-comedy “Ready or Not” manages to offer an inexplicably pleasant experience considering its plot and genre.

Businesses along Sussex Street are not expected to be affected by the planned closure of a section of the road.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Australian universities will be required to work with security agencies to ensure they guard against undue foreign interference, Minister for Education Dan Tehan said on Wednesday.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Communist-run Cuba unveiled tighter regulations on non-agricultural cooperatives yesterday, including curbs on their prices, in keeping with a broader push to increase control of the growing non-state sector.

Recently alarms have been sounded about the Amazon burning. It is estimated that there have been over eighty thousand fires in Brazil this year and most are taking place in the Amazon as a result of deforestation.

(Reuters) – England fast bowler James Anderson has been ruled out for the rest of the Ashes series against Australia due to a niggling calf injury, the country’s cricket board (ECB) announced yesterday.

Three years ago, a narrow majority of British voters supported a campaign to take their country out of the European Union.

Dear Editor, In my letter `Disaffected APNU+AFC supporters don’t want Bharrat Jagdeo as puppet master’ (SN, 18th February 2019) I noted that the PPP/C cannot win over disaffected APNU+AFC supporters and is now likely to lose the next General Election.

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Seven eggs from the world’s last two remaining northern white rhinos have been successfully fertilised artificially, reviving hopes of saving the endangered animals, scientists said last Monday.

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – The death toll from Democratic Republic of Congo’s year-long Ebola outbreak has climbed above 2,000, government data showed on Friday, as responders battle to overcome community mistrust and widespread security problems.