Daily Archive: Monday, October 7, 2019

The Police today said that Martin Fraser, Renard Caesar, Richard Caesar, Randy Billy, Sherwin Benjamin and Denzil Grant are wanted by the police for questioning in relation to the murder and attempted murder of Ian Williams and Melita Antigua respectively on September 28, 2019 at Lover’s Lane, South Amelia’s Ward, Mackenzie, Linden.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A federal judge today said U.S. President Donald Trump must hand over eight years of tax returns to Manhattan prosecutors, forcefully rejecting the president’s argument that he was immune from criminal investigations.

(Jamaica Observer) A police sergeant accused of abducting and raping a 16-year-old girl in June was  offered $300,000 bail when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court last Friday.

(Jamaica Observer) Marlene Lyons, the mother of slain taxi driver Oshane McLennon, believes he was senselessly gunned down by criminals who once lived in the Majesty Gardens community which he called home.

Trinbago Knight Riders skipper Kieron Pollard believes the Guyanese in the crowd who booed him vociferously yesterday are worried about facing TKR in a knockout game.

(Trinidad Newsday) Deangelo Clark, the suspect in the murder of his 20-year-old Trinidadian girlfriend Kiara Alleyne, will be charged with murder today.

STOCKHOLM/LONDON,  (Reuters) – Two Americans and a Briton won the 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for discovering a molecular switch that regulates how cells adapt to fluctuating oxygen levels, opening up new approaches to treating heart failure, anaemia and cancer.

While Attorney General Basil Williams says that a “crisis situation” will result if the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) does not return to the National Assembly, his predecessor and PPP executive Anil Nandlall says government must absorb that blame as his party remains adamant that it will not be returning to the House.

More irrigation pumps have been dispatched to flood-affected farmlands along the Mahaicony coast in a bid to drain farms of salt water which rushed in from spring tides over the last week and some land may not be usable for two years.

With the National Toshaos Council conference beginning today, the opposition PPP yesterday made a 15-point pitch for the improvement of Indigenous communities and pilloried the government for violating the constitution.

As he awaits the approval of the renunciation of his United States Citizenship, Director General of the Ministry of the Presidency Joseph Harmon says that he will be on the APNU+AFC list of candidates for the next election and cannot wait to serve.

The Ministry of the Presidency is seeking nominations for national awards for 2020 in two categories.

Attorney at Law Anil Nandlall has on behalf of two PPP-aligned media houses challenged the legality of the governing board of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA).

As Agriculture Month is being observed, cash crop farmers have said that a change in the weather pattern which saw rainfall all through August has resulted in them cultivating late, harvesting a smaller quantity and selling at increased prices. 

Distancing itself from a workshop on local policies ExxonMobil says its engagement with the APNU+AFC government on business and policy initiatives is similar to its practices globally and should not be cause for worry.

With the objective of alleviating child hunger and increasing the rates of school attendance in communities marred by poverty, Food for the Poor Guyana Inc.

Led by a record breaking, breathtaking century from Brandon King, Guyana Amazon Warriors cemented their fifth finals appearance and the chance to win their maiden HERO Caribbean Premier League (CPL) title after beating Barbados Tridents by 30 runs last night at the Providence National Stadium.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The commissioner for Broward County in South Florida, United States, Jamaica-born Dale Holness, says despite calls for relaxed regulations to allow for more law-abiding citizens in Jamaica to acquire a legal firearm for self-preservation, the authorities must be careful those guns do not end up in the wrong hands.

As he underscored the importance of communication mediums and access to information, President David Granger on Saturday said that his government will ensure that every town has its own broadcast network.

PROVIDENCE, Guyana, CMC – The Trinbago Knight Riders’ bowlers produced a stifling performance and captain Keiron Pollard delivered the finishing blows to the St Kitts and Nevis Patriots to lead the defending champions into the semifinals of the Caribbean Premier League here yesterday.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) was outclassed by stunning effort from the Diplomats who defeated them by 29 runs in the latest round of the 2019 New Building Society (NBS), Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Second Division 40- over tournament while the Transport Sports Club (TSC) and the Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) recorded their first win. 

At least two members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have re-introduced visa requirements for Haitian nationals.

Dear Editor, And they are off! The much-anticipated announcement of the date for national and regional elections, occasioned by the passing of the December 21, 2018 No Confidence Vote, has been made.

(Trinidad Guardian) As Trinidad & Tobago joined the rest of the world in cel­e­brat­ing World Teach­ers’ Day yes­ter­day, ques­tions have arisen about what in­cen­tives can be of­fered lo­cal­ly to at­tract more males to the teach­ing pro­fes­sion.

Minister of Natural Resources,  Raphael Trotman met with the South Rupununi Development Council (SRDC) and the National Toshaos Council (NTC) on October 3rd and 4th respectively and one of the issues raised was the possible extension of an IDB-funded project.

The Under-20 football teams of Fruta Conquerors and Santos will face-off in the final of the Limacol football competition  following semifinal wins on Saturday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Coordinator of the Jamaican Language Unit at The University of the West Indies, Mona, Dr Joseph Farquharson, has asserted that there is still a stigma attached to Patois, otherwise called Jamaican creole, because it was born out of the island’s colonial past.

Dear Editor, In an article which appeared in the news media on September 30 on the East Bank road overpasses, it was reported that the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) under Minister Patterson had awarded a contract  for ten elevators attached to five overpasses located at various locations along the East Bank Demerara Roadway.

Led by a Man-of-the-Match effort from national U15 player Alvin Mohabir, Transport Sports Club (TSC) defeated hosts, the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) by two runs in an U– 15 fixture under lights Saturday evening. 

With no new leads in the murder probe of Festival City man, Darrell Breedy, who was shot on Saturday morning during a home invasion, investigations are continuing.

Dear Editor, I was most impressed with a discourse given by Liberty and Justice Party leader Lenox Shuman on Saturday afternoon in Richmond Hill, Queens.

On the occasion of World Habitat Day today, Minister in the Ministry of Communities Annette Ferguson has lauded a scheme in Linden which transforms bauxite overburden into blocks.

GCC The Sequal and Saints clinched this year’s Guyana Hockey Board (GHB), Bounty Paper Towel-Quicker Picker Upper second-division hockey league titles on Saturday at the Saint Stanislaus College Ground.

(Trinidad Guardian) A San­ta Cruz man who po­lice be­lieve was on his way to meet ac­com­plices to car­ry out a hit on a law en­force­ment of­fi­cer was ar­rest­ed by of­fi­cers from the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team (SORT) yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

Dear Editor, Having been invited by way of a September 30, 2019 instrument under the hand of Ms Marcia Crawford, Human Resources Manager, GECOM and captioned ‘Training for temporary Management Staff’, I presented myself at approximately 08:10h on October 06, 2019 to the registration clerk at La Bonne Intention Secondary School training venue.

The CARPHA Caribbean Regulatory System (CRS) has announced that it will begin charging modest user fees to the companies that apply for medicines recommendation through the CRS, starting November 15, 2019. 

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A second whistleblower has come forward with first-hand knowledge of President Donald Trump’s attempts to get the Ukrainian president to investigate a political rival, lawyers for the official said yesterday.

Golden Warriors edged Wales by a 3-2 score in the West Demerara Football Association [WDFA] Senior League yesterday at the Goed Fortuin Community Center ground.

Dear Editor, In my capacity as President of the Guyanese American Chamber of Commerce (GACC) and Chair of the Private Sector Council of the Institute of Caribbean Studies (ICS)  I wrapped up on Friday a series of engagements in Washington, DC with officials at the US Department of State; some key lawmakers and their staff on Capitol Hill; and representatives of a number of non-government and political organizations.

The Indigenous Community of Santa Aratak says it is making strides as it continues to promote its tourism potential.

Grove Hi-Tech, Mocha, Swan and Timehri Panthers-A secured wins when the East Bank Demerara Zone of the NAMILCO U17 Football Championship continued yesterday at the National Training Center, Providence.

Dear Editor, I make no pretence at being even a watered-down version of the once Mighty Chalkdust.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The treatment of U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch – disparaged by President Donald Trump and abruptly recalled from Ukraine – exemplifies what current and former U.S.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuadorean authorities began arresting shopkeepers for raising food prices as indigenous groups clashed with security forces yesterday in a fourth day of protests against President Lenin Moreno’s austerity measures.

(Trinidad Guardian) A taint­ed eye in­jec­tion—brought in­to Trinidad and To­ba­go via “il­le­git­i­mate im­por­ta­tion chan­nels”—has left sev­en di­a­bet­ic pa­tients blind (ei­ther in both eyes or one).

After some three hours of intense competition, nineteen year old Atasha Pantlitz walked away on Saturday with the inaugural crown of the 2019 Miss Skeldon Heritage Resort pageant.

DOHA, (Reuters) – A successful world athletics championships had looked like a desert mirage but the event eventually came to life with an oasis of thrills and packed houses to rescue Qatari organisers and officials before the curtain came down yesterday.

Dear Editor, PPP and PNC are the two behemoths that have dominated Guyanese politics and alternately took turns at the presidency.

On Friday, a team from the Guyana Oil Company Limited (GUYOIL) headed by the Marketing and Sales Manager Jacqueline James travelled to Kato Village, Region 8 to distribute school supplies to the children of the village as part of their Hinterland Outreach.

The spectacle of Britain all but tearing itself apart over its future relationship with the European Union (EU) has been unedifying.

By Tara Patricia Cookson Tara Patricia Cookson is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia and director of Ladysmith, a research consultancy focused on gender equality and social protection.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – North Korea said yesterday there was no way the United States would bring alternative plans for their stalled nuclear talks to a meeting proposed by Stockholm in two weeks after weekend negotiations in Sweden broke down.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Fast bowler Mohammed Shami picked up a five-wicket haul while left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja took four in South Africa’s second innings to bowl India to a comprehensive 203-run victory in the opening test at Visakhapatnam yesterday.

Dear Editor, The issue of cash transfer is very topical. I do not think, or rather I know I am not qualified to argue cash transfer with Prof.

The 150th birth anniversary of Indian independence leader and civil rights activist Mahatma Gandhi was observed by the Indian High Commission on October 2nd in the Promenade Gardens where his statue is located.

It would be instructive for all citizens to examine where the nation and its prospects rest today after the epochal events of the last nine months.

The Guyana Oil Company Limited (GUYOIL) on October 3, 2019 hosted a Cancer Awareness forum for employees as part of several activities planned for the month of October.