Daily Archive: Saturday, September 7, 2019

Repairs being done today to the roof of the Mahdia Primary School after high winds created havoc yesterday.

After its Palme d’Or winning debut at Cannes earlier this year, Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite” had its Canadian premiere this past week at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Canadian teenager Bianca Andreescu beat Serena Williams 6-3 7-5 in the U.S.

(Trinidad Newsday) Relatives of murdered man, Ricky Mohammed, 54 believe land dispute may be the reason why he was shot yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) A woman and a child died in a road traffic accident this morning involving a truck.

NASSAU, Bahamas,(Reuters) – Thousands of displaced people are living in “rapidly deteriorating” conditions in the worst-hit parts of the Bahamas six days after Hurricane Dorian made landfall, the United Nations World Food Programme warned today.

VENICE, Italy,  (Reuters) – Hundreds of demonstrators took over the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival for several hours  today, demanding action to fight climate change and a ban on cruise ships entering the lagoon city.

KHARTOUM,  (Reuters) – Sudan’s toppled former leader Omar al-Bashir was the only person with a key to a room at the presidential palace holding millions of euros, his last office manager testified today.

(Trinidad Guardian) Over the past week, about 15 cus­tomers of Sco­tia­bank’s San­gre Grande branch had thou­sands of dol­lars stolen from their ac­counts af­ter their cards were skimmed.

The Secretariat of the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) yesterday presented to the commissioners a draft schedule of timelines which sets the earliest date for General and Regional Elections as March 2020.

The State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA) yesterday announced that it was seeking to recover $2.7 billion from Queens Atlantic Investment Inc over its controversial acquisition of the former Sanata Textiles complex and $274 million from the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) for the purchase of the Kingston property that is now its headquarters.

A three-year-old child succumbed yesterday afternoon while being rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was struck by a hire car along the East Bank Berbice Public Road.

The months-long investigation into alleged corrupt practices involving Deputy Commissioner of Police Lyndon Alves has ended with him being cleared of any criminal conduct, Commissioner of Police Leslie James said yesterday.

A state-of-the-art $65 million police station was commissioned by Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan at Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara yesterday, with ‘user-friendly’ facilities that include a special room for dealing with domestic violence complaints.

Guyana Amazon Warriors will face St. Kitts and Nevis Patriots in the second match of the 2019 HERO Caribbean Premier League (CPL) for both teams tonight.

A team from the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) is expected to be deployed to the town of Mahdia following reported high winds which caused damage to a number of structures in the town, including a school building which had its roof blown off.

Nineteen-year-old Afghanistan leg spinner, Qais Ahmad is set to replace Saurabh Netravalkar in the Guyana Amazon Warriors squad for the 2019 HERO Caribbean Premier League.

Their opponents were the same. The city was different and the result remained the same.

 Keemo Paul, following his heroics with the bat to guide the Guyana Amazon Warriors to a match-winning total over the St Lucia Zouks on Thursday evening, said he is quite focused on evolving into the kind of player who can craft more enterprising moments with both ball and bat throughout CPL 2019.

Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday disclosed that while the contract of former embattled head of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) Sydney James has not expired, he will not be returning to the unit.

(Trinidad Guardian) The de­bate over a ban on fire­works raged yes­ter­day af­ter a young male Red Kan­ga­roo at the Em­per­or Val­ley Zoo died from “trau­ma and stress” it ex­pe­ri­enced af­ter the In­de­pen­dence Day fire­works in the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah.

Fraudsters are posing as officials of the National Industrial and Commercial and Investments Limited (NICIL) in order to sell properties belong to the government holding company, its acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Colvin Heath-London has said.

A roadmap that seeks to improve Guyana’s trade-related systems was officially launched yesterday with officials underscoring that its implementation would make Guyana a more attractive destination for foreign direct investment.

Professional boxing will return later this month to the 592, ending a lengthy wait for the starved fans of the ‘Sweet Science’.

Workers attached to the Rose Hall Mayor and Town Council on Thursday downed tools demanding minimum wage along with payments owed to them for the first seven months of the year.

Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) Guyana has once again thrown its financial support behind the Petra Organization, donating $2,500,000 towards the staging of their second annual International Goodwill Secondary Schools football tournament.

A three-year sentence was yesterday handed down to taxi driver Kacey Chapman, one of three men jointly charged with illegal possession of guns and ammunition that were discovered in his car at High and Princes, Georgetown, last year.

All roads will lead to the Berlin Tarmac tonight when the inaugural 592 ‘Street Kings’ Streetball tournament kicks off with eight elimination matches.

HARARE,  (Reuters) – Robert Mugabe, the bush war guerrilla who led Zimbabwe to independence and crushed his foes during nearly four decades of rule as his country descended into poverty, hyperinflation and unrest, died yesterday.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has inked a four-year deal with sportswear manufacturer and kit supplier Capelli Sports.

A man has been sentenced to three months in prison after pleading guilty to assaulting his wife by whipping her with a cable.

Fatu Gbedema sat in the lobby at the Pegasus Hotel attired in her colourful African print accessorized by her beaded bracelets, ring and earrings; hers because she made them.

(Jamaica Gleaner) He left Savanna-la-Mar in Westmoreland for a visit to The Bahamas in 1990, but his stay was made permanent, having met his now wife there.

LETICIA, Colombia,  (Reuters) – Seven Amazonian countries yesterday signed a pact to protect the world’s largest tropical forest via disaster response coordination and satellite monitoring, amid recent fires that torched thousands of square miles of the jungle.

A man was yesterday sentenced to three months behind bars for spitting on a woman who insulted him.

It’s been a while since I have eaten something and been excited about it.

The Golden Jaguars commenced their League-B campaign in the CONCACAF Nations League in the perfect manner, defeating host Aruba 1-0 yesterday at the Ergilio Hato Stadium, Curacao.

The tug and barge that crashed into the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) on Monday was not anchored in a correct position, the investigation by the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) has found.

BENGALURU,  (Reuters) – India lost contact with a spacecraft it was attempting to land on the moon yesterday, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said, in a setback to the nation’s ambitious plans to become the first country to probe the unexplored lunar south pole.

The reality of turning 30 this month hasn’t really sunk in for me.

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka fast bowler Lasith Malinga claimed four wickets in four balls for the second time in his international career to rip through the New Zealand batting order in a Twenty20 match at Pallekele yesterday.

Dear Editor, My attention was drawn to a letter written by Robin Singh and published in Stabroek News, September 04, 2019 under the caption, `Guyanese still without comfort of acceptable Sovereign Wealth Fund’. 

Attorney General Basil Williams SC has moved to have the High Court strike out the application by attorney Anil Nandlall to compel Cabinet’s resignation.

Thirty children benefited from Purple Arts Production’s annual drama workshop this year and displayed what they learned at a show, Emerge 8, last Saturday evening at the Theatre Guild in Kingston.

A Canefield man is now hospitalised after a collision resulted in him being pinned by a minibus along the Rose Hall, Canje Public Road yesterday morning.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele yesterday unveiled a new independent commission to tackle corruption, taking inspiration from a U.N.-backed

(Reuters) – Pakistan cricket great Abdul Qadir, who revived the art of leg-spin bowling, has died at the age of 63, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said yesterday.

Dear Editor, The financial oligarchy of the United States of America has, throughout history, used measures to economically and financially stifle nation-states and, consequently, their populations.

MANCHESTER,  (Reuters) – Rain delayed play on the third day of the fourth Ashes test at Old Trafford yesterday, with England trailing Australia by 474 runs with nine wickets remaining in their first innings.

Every year thousands of pageants are held around the world. Many of these pageants are about empowerment and celebrating femininity.

The vicissitudes of British democracy have suddenly become more entertaining than the Ashes.

Dear Editor, All Guyanese capable of some level of thought should be asking themselves whether we are the most naive and gullible people in the world.

There was song, dance, drama and poetry when the 18 eighteen quarterfinalists of the Miss Guyana Teen Scholarship competed at the preliminary competition at the St Joseph High School last Saturday night in the run up to tonight’s pageant.

MARSH HARBOUR, Bahamas,  (Reuters) – The smell of death hung over parts of Great Abaco Island in the northern Bahamas yesterday, as relief workers sifted through the debris of shattered homes and buildings in a search expected to dramatically drive up the death toll from Hurricane Dorian.

As part of an ongoing Central Government support programme for all municipalities throughout Guyana, the Communities Ministry on Thursday donated a new $45 million garbage truck to the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC).

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – An American Airlines mechanic was ordered temporarily detained yesterday after he was charged with purposely damaging an aircraft in July amid a dispute between the airline and its mechanics union involving stalled contract negotiations.

Quentin Tarantino’s ninth feature film, “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” arrived in local theatres at the tail-end of last week for a very brief theatrical run after being released worldwide in July and August.