Articles published on Wednesday, October 9, 2019
(Jamaica Gleaner) The school community at Munro College in St Elizabeth is in mourning following the death of third form student 14-year-old Diego DeSouza who passed away in his sleep in the early hours of this morning.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Former Education Minister Ruel Reid and two members of his family are among five people arrested in the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU)-Education Ministry corruption probe.
(Trinidad Express) The pastor detained by police in connection with the “rescue” of 69 men and women on Wednesday, appeared before a Parliament Joint Select Committee (JSC) in June 2016.
(Trinidad Guardian) Sixty-nine people ranging from the ages of 19 to 70 years have been found locked away in cages at a church located along the Eastern Main Road in Arouca on Wednesday morning.
NAIROBI, (Reuters) – During a high-level meeting at Ethiopia’s foreign ministry in July, officials were shocked by social media reports that their prime minister was visiting Eritrea.
(Jamaica Observer) Ninety-five year-old Nora Johnson, a resident of Mendez district in Point Hill, St Catherine, is the latest recipient of a new home under the Government’s Indigent Housing Programme, which is expected to significantly improve her standard of living.
(Trinidad Guardian) Venezuelan pirates who operate out of Patos Island, one of Venezuela’s small uninhabited island, have reportedly kidnapped three Icacos fishermen for ransom.
(Trinidad Guardian) In 2020 the T&T Police Service (TTPS) will create a centre with the capacity to monitor and analyse social media activity via the use of surveillance systems, and the TTPS will also get the Armoured Personnel Carriers which Police Commissioner Gary Griffith had advocated since he was the National Security Minister under the People’s Partnership regime.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Government Senator Robert Morgan has “unequivocally” withdrawn a controversial tweet he posted on Monday with which the Opposition has taken issue.
(Jamaica Observer) Residents of Twickenham Park housing scheme in St Catherine are enraged.
Guyana will soon be the beneficiary of $1 billion (€ 4.5 million) under the “Spotlight initiative”, a joint European Union and United Nations partnership to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls worldwide.
A nineteen-year old labourer of Melanie Damishana, East Coast Demerara (ECD), was charged with the murder of Golden Grove resident David Gentle yesterday morning.
The Guyana Elections Commission has processed more than 2,000 new registrations over the one week that the Claims and Objections process has been ongoing.
With significant revenues expected from imminent oil production, the Bank of Guyana (BoG) has started preparation to insulate the economy from inflation and is receiving help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Caribbean Technical Assistance Centre (CARTAC).
Guyana’s Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with ExxonMobil’s subsidiary is not very different from other frontier oil countries, according to the International Monetary Fund which says that a key focus now should be on how the revenues accrued are spent.
Former West Indies off-spinner and coach Roger Harper is among four men chosen by Cricket West Indies to be on the senior selection panel for the regional team.
A geologist at Australian-owned mining company Troy Resources died yesterday morning after a cave where he was working collapsed at its Karouni operation in Region Seven and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has been instructed to carry out a thorough investigation.
As part of its second anniversary in Guyana, Hero Caribbean MotoCorp on Monday made a monetary contribution to the Cancer Institute of Guyana.
A Guyanese is the valedictorian of the Hugh Wooding Law School’s (HWLS) graduate class of 2019 as Guyanese took that honour and several coveted prizes during the school’s graduation and award ceremony, which was held last Saturday in Trinidad.
The Guyana National Rifle Shooting team which is set to compete at this year’s West Indies Full-bore Shooting Championships in Trinidad and Tobago is still in need of corporate assistance.
Tenders were yesterday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the construction of the Abram Zuil Secondary School.
Narayan and Priyanna Ramdhani continued their glowing showing in Canada after the Guyanese siblings combined to cart off three titles at the Yonex Alberta Series Number One tournament, held at the Sunridge Badminton Centre in Calgary Alberta Canada October 4-5.
A resident of Diamond, on the East Bank of Demerara, was yesterday morning robbed of his gold chain by two men who held him at gunpoint.
As a soon to be oil producing nation, Guyana cannot afford bureaucratic delays in doing business, according to Inter-national Monetary Fund (IMF) Mission Chief to Guyana Dr.
A newly constructed Revenue Office and renovated City Constabulary outpost are among the improvements to the Albouystown Market, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).
Many within the sporting fraternity have emphasized the importance of exposing Guyana’s budding athletes to international high-performance training engagements in the absence of an encouraging local sports environment to harness local talent but few have had an elastic imagination to match their words with action.
Michael Munroe, Kalesh Loakman, and Javed Shadick, three recent graduates of the Hugh Wooding Law School (HWLS), on Monday became Guyana’s newest attorneys-at-law after being admitted to the local bar.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Captain Kieron Pollard believes Trinbago Knight Riders’ crucial win in last Sunday’s playoff match, could be the turning point for his side as they head into tomorrow’s massive semi-final against archrivals Barbados Tridents.
Dear Editor, I recently stood at the intersection of Regent and Camp streets waiting to cross the road.
Dear Editor, On 8th of October I read in the local newspapers that PPP-aligned radio and TV stations have challenged the legality of the broadcast authority board.
The inaugural Dragon Stout ‘Community Cup’ Street-ball championships moved one step closer to realisation as the 16 participating teams have been confirmed.
The Ministry of Natural Resources has condemned as “baseless and mischievous” an online report which claimed that the son of Minister Simona Broomes had been issued mining lands as “repayment” for her remaining in government.
Dear Editor, Recent news reports highlighted security enhancements at the GPHC to combat the thievery that has become almost normal within that institutional complex.
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada’s government has lauded the achievement of Anderson Peters following his historic capture of the men’s javelin title at the World Championships in Qatar last Sunday.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno yesterday ordered a curfew around government buildings after six days of violent anti-austerity protests that have pushed his administration out of the capital Quito and brought hundreds of arrests.
Amir Mohammed, a police handwriting analyst, was yesterday allowed to continue his testimony during the trial of Rosanna Ramnarine, the former Guyana Gold Board (GGB) accountant accused of six counts of fraud.
Dear Editor, I am writing this letter to let you know that you’re wasting your time applying for a firearm licence if you’re not connected politically, unwilling to pass something and if you don’t know someone who can help you.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman tried to give $1 million to Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez’s election campaign after being promised protection for his cocaine shipments, a witness at Hernandez’s criminal trial in New York said yesterday.
LONDON, CMC – Promising teenaged Barbadian all-rounder Nico Reifer has penned a one-year rookie deal with English county Surrey for the upcoming 2020 campaign.
ROME, (Reuters) – Italy’s parliament voted yesterday to cut the number of elected lawmakers by more than a third, approving a reform championed by the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement that could profoundly impact the political landscape.
With a 95% vaccination coverage for yellow fever in Guyana annually, the need for capturing the other 5% has been stressed.
(Reuters) – Australia yesterday named Steve Smith and David Warner in their Twenty20 squad for home series against Sri Lanka and Pakistan as selectors firm up plans for next year’s World Cup on home soil.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica has been given the go-ahead to list the first-ever Caribbean green bond on the stock market, which will be used to raise money to fund environment-friendly projects.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The White House said yesterday it would refuse to cooperate with a “baseless, unconstitutional” congressional impeachment inquiry, setting Republican President Donald Trump on a collision course with the Democratic-led U.S.
With its focus on promoting healthy living, the Ministry of Agriculture yesterday distributed medicinal plants to 100 patients attending the clinic at the Guyana Cancer Institute.
Dear Editor, I wish to share my views on the issue of direct cash transfer.
LONDON, (Reuters) – England’s players are ready to walk off the pitch if they are subjected to racist abuse in Euro 2020 qualifiers against Czech Republic and Bulgaria, striker Tammy Abraham said yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) Moruga labourer Christopher Moore was having an argument with a man over a cellphone when he was gunned down on Saturday.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson must pay $8 billion in punitive damages to a man who previously won $680,000 over his claims that it failed to warn that young men using its antipsychotic drug Risperdal could grow breasts, a Philadelphia jury said yesterday.
A police witness testified yesterday when the trial of Maryann Daby on charges of illegal possession of a gun and ammunition continued in a city court and he recounted the discovery of the weapon at her home.
Dear Editor, This is in reference to the letter by Charles Sohan (Stabroek News, October 7, 2019, `Elevators on East Bank overpasses will prove to be a costly error of judgement’).
When the 17th edition of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Athletics Championships concluded on Sunday in Doha, Qatar, a gathering storm of dark clouds continued to linger over the world of athletics.
The Ministry of Natural Resources yesterday cautioned that the final amnesty it has announced for miners in arrears on payments will not be extended.
(Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing a new rebellion from his cabinet over concerns of a no-deal Brexit, with a group of cabinet ministers poised to resign, The Times newspaper reported on Wednesday.
(Reuters) – When U.S. Olympic and Paralympic competitors take their moment in the spotlight at the Tokyo 2020 Games, they will be able to thank their parents, spouses, coaches — and now their sponsors too.
At a pre-election campaign rally in Linden last Saturday, President David Granger is reported to have said: ‘Now my brothers and sisters, we are in government again.
Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), through its Assistant General Secretary, Aslim Singh, took part in a two-day meeting of Latin American and Caribbean trade unions affiliated to the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU).
