Daily Archive: Thursday, October 24, 2019

BOSTON,  (Reuters) – The state of Massachusetts sued Exxon Mobil Corp today, accusing the oil giant of misleading investors and consumers for decades about the role fossil fuels play in climate change.

Talks between A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance for Change (AFC) have stalled following the former’s apparent unwillingness to accept Khemraj Ramjattan as the coalition’s 2020 Prime Ministerial (PM) candidate.

(Trinidad Express) A thief with a firearm ripped a gold chain off the neck of a woman holding a baby in South Oropouche on Tuesday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The 39 people found dead in the back of a truck near London are believed to be Chinese nationals, police said on Thursday, as they questioned the driver detained on suspicion of murder.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Residents of Mountain View are fearful that yesterday’s daring daylight murder of a reputed lieutenant of an eastern St Andrew crime lord could trigger a series of reprisals in the violence-plagued community.

As the curtain comes down on the SBF Petroleum/Cricket Guyana Incorporated Jaguars 50-over Franchise League, two teams remain in contention for the title but defending champions, Essequibo, already has one hand on the trophy ahead of today’s final round.

People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) presidential candidate Irfaan Ali says he is not fazed by the formation of new parties  and their possible impact on his chances at the upcoming general elections.

(Trinidad Newsday) It was anything but a happy birthday for a Tunapuna man accused of sexually assaulting a teen couple on October 14.

Guyana Football Federation (GFF) President Wayne Forde said that the National Training Centre at Providence will undergo a transformation to be converted into a dormitory which will aid in preparation of the respective national programmes.

A 35-year-old businessman was beaten to death on Tuesday night during a misunderstanding at Unity, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara (ECD) and his cousin has since been arrested by the police.

Chung’s Global Enterprise, one of the country’s leading Construction comapnies yesterday threw its support behind the November 9 – 10 Mackeson/Rawle Toney 3X3 Basketball Classic which will be held at the Burnham Basketball Court in Georgetown.

The 45-year-old man who admitted to chopping his wife to death in a 2016 attack at the Bygeval Secondary School was yesterday sentenced to 22 years in prison for manslaughter  and eight years for wounding his wife’s cousin, Brenda Thomas.

A West Coast Berbice man was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with the murder of rice farmer, Godfrey Adolphus Pluck Reynolds.

Kawhi Leonard scored 30 points, leading the host Los Angeles Clippers to a 112-102 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers in the season-opener on Tuesday night at the Staples Center.

The Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) on Thursday secured a High Court order for the civil forfeiture of foreign and local currency which amounted to over $16 million.

The Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) has put the ongoing Noble House Seafoods, Second Division two-day competition on pause for the time being to resume action in the New Building Society (NBS) forty overs tournament this upcoming weekend. 

Gold is Money, North East La Penitence, Tiger Bay, Beterverwagting (BV) and Future Stars secured contrasting wins when GT Beer ‘Keep Ya Five Alive’ Futsal Championship continued on Tuesday at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice and fire­fight­ers had to break in­to a se­nior cit­i­zen’s home in South Trinidad yes­ter­day af­ter staff locked the gate and re­fused a woman ac­cess to her aunt.

The man whose partly decomposed body was found in a trench at Patentia, West Bank Demerara on Monday morning with a plastic bag over his head has been positively identified and the police have since arrested his neighbour who confessed to the crime.

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Rashleigh Jackson was rescued from his burning Republic Park, East Bank Demerara home around mid-day yesterday after a fire of unknown origin gutted a section of the building.

TORONTO (Reuters) – Before the start of a new NBA campaign yesterday the Toronto Raptors and their fans spent the final few moments before tip-off basking in last season’s glory by unfurling a championship banner and collecting diamond encrusted rings.

While questions remain about PPP/C presidential candidate Irfaan Ali’s first set of academic credentials, he is listed as a graduand for a Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of the West Indies (UWI) and was to have graduated yesterday at the St Augustine Campus in Trinidad.

(BBC) Russia must expect to be banned from the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo for inconsistencies in laboratory data sent to investigators, says the head of Russia’s anti-doping agency (Rusada).

(Jamaica Observer) Chairman of the Guardsman Group, Kenneth ‘Kenny’ Benjamin, today offered condolences to the family and friends of Paul Bruce, a security officer of the company who was killed in St Lucia last Friday, October 18.

A Venezuelan businessman who was allegedly trying to sell ammunition to the residents of Arau, Region Seven, was yesterday remanded to prison after he failed to give the court a fixed place of abode.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies left-hander Jonathan Carter has been named to lead Barbados Pride in the upcoming Regional Super50, in a 14-man squad that sees the return of all-rounder Kyle Mayers for the first time in seven years.

Republic Bank (Guyana) is advising its customers of the implementation of a new banking platform to take effect on November 04, 2019.

The eighth annual Payless Variety Store 11-race cycling programe will pedal off on Saturday in the inner circuit of the National Park.

Dear Editor, At this time, it is my opinion that the oil industry in Guyana will come to an end within a relatively short time frame.

With a commitment from Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) to a scheduled overhaul of its plants and works currently ongoing, the Environmental Protection Agen-cy (EPA) believes the company is setting an environmental oversight standard for all to follow.

A masterful half-century from out-of-favour West Indies test batsman Vishaul Singh proved to be the deciding factor for East Bank’s six-wicket win over Upper Corentyne at Bourda on Tuesday. 

Dear Editor, Three innocent mothers are dead – somebody’s aunt, mother-in-law, cousin or grandmother. 

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Sourav Ganguly will lead the Indian board like he led the national team, the former captain said as he promised a fair and untainted administration after taking over as president of the world’s richest cricket board yesterday.

The Department of Labour of the Ministry of Social Protection is to conciliate in a dispute between GuySuCo and GAWU at Blairmont pertaining to a controversial promotion.

Dear Editor, In an earlier recollection mention was made of the hospitality the Booker Group provided at Herdmanston House in Queenstown.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A U.S. House of Representatives impeachment inquiry devolved into chaos yesterday as Republican lawmakers, encouraged by President Donald Trump to get tougher in fighting Democratic efforts to impeach him over dealings with Ukraine, stormed into a high-security hearing room and delayed testimony by a witness.

LA PAZ,  (Reuters) – Bolivian leader Evo Morales yesterday repeated his claim of victory in a presidential election and accused the opposition of trying to orchestrate a coup, after mass opposition-led protests since the Sunday vote that claimed the counting was rigged.

Dear Editor, I write to pay kudos to the fantastic editorial that appeared in SN on 22 October 2019 (`Our snack foods imports bill’). 

MOSCOW/ANKARA/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Russian military police started to deploy on Syria’s northeast border yesterday under a deal with Turkey to drive out Kurdish fighters, marking Moscow’s deepening influence in the region two weeks after the United States pulled out forces.

BRUGES, Belgium (Reuters) – After being left out of the starting line-up in the Champions League yesterday, Kylian Mbappe said he wanted to prove Paris St Germain would find it hard to do without him and showed as much by coming off the bench to bag a hat-trick in a 5-0 away demolition of Club Brugge.

A 29-year-old Venezuelan who allegedly held a knife to a woman’s throat in Mabaruma before robbing her of her money was yesterday remanded to prison.

Dear Editor, Wesley Kirton displays naiveté when he writes that the PPP should not protest the GIPEX and instead seek a speaking role at the event.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Students and trade unionists led marches through Santiago yesterday in the first formally organised demonstration against social inequality since Chilean President Sebastian Pinera pledged social reforms to try to quell days of rioting.

(Reuters) – Boeing Co said yesterday it still expects U.S. regulatory approval for its grounded 737 MAX in the fourth quarter, sending its shares higher despite a slump in quarterly profit.

(Reuters) – Iran has been banned indefinitely from international judo competition until it can give strong guarantees that its athletes will be allowed to face Israelis, the International Judo Federation (IJF) has said.

The Ministry of Natural Resources  (MoNR) yesterday commissioned its first Warden Station at Dagg Point, Bartica.

GRAYS, England, (Reuters) – British police found the bodies of 39 people inside a truck at an industrial estate near London yesterday and said they had arrested the driver on suspicion of murder.

The Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) is set to run off a one-day junior fast bowling clinic on Monday at a venue to be announced later.

I admire the trio of tiny squirrels scampering up the Julie mango trees, in the early morning sunshine, with the distant curtains of metallic mist looming above the lush Northern Range.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s indigenous movement said yesterday that it paused talks with President Lenin Moreno because of the government’s “persecution” of the group’s leaders since a halt to violent anti-austerity protests.

Dear Editor, There are two troubling customer service issues to which I wish to draw attention.

News this week that transgressors had recently been caught performing illegal logging and mining in the Iwokrama rainforest should raise the ire in all of us.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Karen Cummings will represent Guyana at the XVIII Summit of Heads of States and Government of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) scheduled to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan on October 25 and 26.