Daily Archive: Saturday, October 26, 2019

LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Bolivian President Evo Morales today vowed to hold a run-off election if an audit of a vote count that handed him an outright win finds evidence of fraud, as he sought to calm a sixth day of protests and international criticism over his disputed re-election to a fourth consecutive term.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Residents in Cox Piece in deep rural St Mary have dubbed as Moses the day-old baby retrieved from a pit latrine in the community on Thursday morning, likening him to the iconic biblical figure who was saved and catapulted to greatness.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The St Andrew South police are hunting for a man in connection with the mob killing of a motorist on Ricketts Crescent in Kingston 13 on Thursday afternoon during heavy showers.

(Trinidad Express) China Town may have been the talk of the town yesterday.

Two persons including a nurse are now dead following an early morning accident at Obama Drive, Linden.

In a historic move, 13 companies and persons have been debarred for varying periods by the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) from getting government contracts, including the Chinese company presently executing the East Coast Demerara road expansion project.

The decomposed body of a 14-year-old West Bank Demerara (WBD) boy, who was missing for a week, was yesterday discovered in a shallow grave and police say his alleged killer, a 42-year-old rice farmer, has admitted to hitting him on the head during a fight.

Another Guyanese is in a New York jail after he was busted with 2.28 kilogrammes of cocaine in his luggage shortly after disembarking a flight from Guyana at the John F.

A 48-year-old sailor attached to the Transport and Harbours Department was on Thursday evening fatally stabbed during an argument at the Parika stelling and the suspect, who was also wounded, has been arrested.

Trinidad and Tobago’s Varma Rambarran dethroned Guyanese Ransford Goodluck to become the new West Indies Fullbore Shooting Council/West Indies Fullbore Shooting Championships Individual champion following three days of intense marksmanship at the at the Tucker Valley Rifle Range, Chaguaramas.

Ramesh Ramdeen, who is accused of fatally stabbing a fellow fisherman outside of his Met-en-meerzorg, West Coast Demerara (WCD) home on Sunday evening, was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with murder.

One day after the Alliance for Change (AFC) declared that negotiations on a revised Cummingsburg Accord had stalled, A Partnership for National Unity’s (APNU) lead negotiator Volda Lawrence has disputed this claim.

A team of 11 players and two coaches will depart Guyana on Monday to participate in the 8th annual TRI-Nation tennis tournament.

While a lot of familiar faces return to the Guyana team for the Colonial Insurance Super50 tournament next month, Kemol Savory is set to make his senior debut  while Jonathan Foo and Ronsford Beaton makes their return to the national team.

The file on the investigation into the almost two-week old attempted robbery outside of El Dorado Trading that left gold miner Deon Stoll dead has been sent for legal advice, according to Crime Chief (ag) Michael Kingston.

Chairperson of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Volda Lawrence says that her government has “shown that it will walk the walk” when it comes to addressing crime but has been hampered from achieving big successes because “people are still afraid to testify.”

The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) will today stage a Sports Forum at Olympic House Liliendaal, Greater Georgetown.

Carlton Bourne, who was recently charged with a series of armed robberies, was yesterday ordered to serve a six-week sentence after he admitted to spitting on and threatening one of his accusers.

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia’s limited-overs captain Aaron Finch craves for continuity in team selection ahead of next year’s Twenty20 World Cup at home as they prepare the blueprint for success with three-match series against Sri Lanka and Pakistan from tomorrow.

The organiser of the second Guyana International Petroleum Exhibition (GIPEX) yesterday stated that it is registered here and is working with the local private sector to ensure the event bring maximum benefits for Guyanese and the country.

The Guyana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GYEITI) yesterday hosted a workshop aimed at examining ways to improve transparency and accountability in Guyana’s extractive resources sector.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados Pride are hoping to use some of the momentum from Barbados Tridents’ Caribbean Premier League success to propel them in next month’s Regional Super50.

Samuel Hinds Jr. last week heard that five charges against him, including assaulting a policeman, were discharged after a no-case submission made by his lawyer was upheld by a city magistrate.

Bent Street, Back Circle, Gold is Money and Tiger Bay are through to the knockout phase of the GT Beer ‘Keep Ya Five Alive’ Futsal Championship continued on Thursday at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

(Reuters) – Leicester City recorded the biggest ever English top-flight away win by beating 10-man Southampton 9-0 at a rain-sodden St Mary’s to move up to second place in the Premier League yesterday.

Days after he reportedly admitted to killing his neighbour before dumping his body in a nearby trench at Patentia, Sundar Singh was yesterday charged with manslaughter and released on $600,000 bail.

When 10-year-old Lee Braithwaite sang one Harvest Sunday at his church, little did he or anyone else know, especially his proud grandmother who sat up front, that he would decades later be releasing his own albums.

TOKYO (Reuters) – With South Africa feeling they are close to perfecting their attritional game-plan and Wales having long ago decided that defence can be the best form of attack, tomorrow’s second World Cup semi-final will probably not bring many surprises.

All I have now of Diwali celebrations in my family are memories.

A murder convict will be returning to jail after he was given a three-year sentence yesterday for wounding a co-worker in an attack with a cutlass.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – As many as a million Chileans protested yesterday in the capital Santiago in the biggest demonstrations yet since violence broke out a week ago over entrenched inequality in the South American nation.

Dear Editor, The GAWU has continued to follow very closely and with great anxiety, the second sugar crop production.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, Oct 25, CMC – Windsor Park is set to return as a venue for West Indies’ home schedule next year when it hosts two limited overs fixtures on the New Zealand tour, as the region braces for a heavy itinerary which will also see tours by South Africa and minnows Ireland.

I don’t find Germany incredibly capitalist. I suppose it’s because at its core and surface level socialist policies are so strongly interwoven.

(Reuters) – A U.S. judge yesterday validated the legality of the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump and ordered his administration to hand over an unredacted copy of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

A 17-year-old is feared dead after he went missing while swimming in the Puruni area yesterday.

Former national cyclist Jolyon Joseph rolled back the years, producing a vintage performance to snatch a silver medal at the recent International Cycling Union (UCI) 2019 Masters Track Cycling World Championships in Manchester, England.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Open Golf Championship returns to the Lusignan Golf Club this weekend for what is expected to be two days of highly competitive golfing.

Designer Donna Ramsammy-James showcased her 20th local collection last Sunday at her Century Palms Gardens home at a gathering of 140 persons.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Following is the West Indies 2020 itinerary announced by Cricket West Indies yesterday: MATCH SCHEDULE (West Indies men) (Ireland in West Indies) January 4: 50-over warm-up match – Three Ws Oval, Barbados January 7: 1st Colonial Medical Insurance ODI – Kensington Oval, Barbados January 9: 2nd Colonial Medical Insurance ODI – Kensington Oval January 12: 3rd Colonial Medical Insurance ODI – Grenada National Stadium, Grenada January 15: 1st T20I – Grenada National Stadium January 18: 2nd T20I – Warner Park, St Kitts January 19: 3rd T20I – Warner Park, St Kitts  (West Indies in England) June 4-8: 1st Test – The Oval June 12-16: 2nd Test – Edgbaston June 25-29: 3rd Test – Lords (New Zealand in West Indies) July 8: 1st Colonial Medical Insurance ODI – Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Ground, Antigua July 10: 2nd Colonial Medical Insurance ODI – Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Ground  July 13: 3rd Colonial Medical Insurance ODI – Windsor Park, Dominica July 15: 1st T20I – Windsor Park July 18: 2nd T20I – Guyana National Stadium, Guyana July 19: 3rd T20I – Guyana National Stadium (South Africa in West Indies) July 15-19: warm-up match – Brian Lara Cricket Academy, Trinidad July 23-27: 1st Test – Queen’s Park Oval, Trinidad July 31 to August 4: 2nd Test – Daren Sammy Stadium, Saint Lucia August 8: 1st T20I – Broward County Stadium, USA August 9: 2nd T20I – Broward County Stadium, USA August 12: 3rd T20I – Sabina Park, Jamaica August 15: 4th T20I – Sabina Park August 16: 5th T20I – Sabina Park (West Indies ICC T20 World Cup) October 25: vs New Zealand – Melbourne Cricket Ground October 28: vs Australia – Perth Stadium October 30: vs Qualifier B2 – Perth Stadium November 3: vs Pakistan – Adelaide Oval November 7: vs Qualifier A1 – Melbourne Cricket Ground  November 11: Semifinal 1 – Sydney Cricket Ground November 12: Semifinal 2 – Adelaide Oval November 15: FINAL – Melbourne Cricket Ground

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States has imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe’s state security minister, Owen Ncube, over what it says is credible information of his involvement in “gross violations of human rights,” U.S.

Dear Editor, Only if you have been living under a rock then you would be surprised at the stalled elements emanating from the meeting between APNU and AFC.

Presidential Guard Travis Fullington, one of two survivors from the horrendous October 15th Friendship, East Bank Demerara crash, has been discharged from the hospital, Traffic Chief Linden Isles confirmed yesterday.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Ivan Archivaldo Guzman, the leader of Los Chapitos wing of the Sinaloa Cartel, was behind the assault on security forces that prompted the release of his half-brother from a house in the city of Culiacan last week, a top Mexican official said.

Pulse Entertainment is always celebrating but come tonight that will turn up a notch with the highlight of the year party dubbed ‘Gods of Olympus’ in celebration of its tenth anniversary.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – West Indies captain Stafanie Taylor has returned from Australia where she made a significant impact for her new team Adelaide Strikers in her short stint in the Women’s Big Bash.

MANILA,  (Reuters) – A mayor on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s list of local officials suspected to have drug links was killed by still unidentified gunmen yesterday, the latest high-profile killing in his war on drugs.

Sleep-In International Hotel and Casino Inc has filed an application in the High Court seeking to compel the Gaming Authority to “consider” and “determine” an application made by the hotel since 2017 for a Casino Premises Licence and a Casino Operator’s Licence.

Dear Editor, I have to get in the action.  I am rearing to go, as rich action, it promises to be. 

WASHINGTON/HAVANA,  (Reuters) – The U.S. government said on Friday it would bar U.S.

The semifinal round in the Courts Pee Wee football  U11 competition will take place  today at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

The Miss Berbice 2019 pageant was launched last week at the Albion Sports Complex where a small but elegant ceremony saw four contestants sashed.

This year a few new political parties were formed. The March 2020 elections are no doubt critical, but we have been there before.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seemed to have little idea of what lay ahead when he appeared before the US Congress’ Financial Services Committee earlier this week.

BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – A thick sludge of crude oil has been washing up on vast stretches of Brazil’s coast for nearly two months, and authorities and experts have been baffled by its origin.

There are so many entry-points to thinking of the recent action-thriller “Gemini Man”, that’s it’s hard to decide where exactly to start: With the fact that it has only recouped $120 million since it premiered worldwide two weeks ago despite a $130 million budget?

Attorney Anil Nandlall on Wednesday filed a notice of appeal, signaling his intention to appeal the High Court’s decision on his application to compel Cabinet’s resignation.

Dear Editor, The essays appearing in your newspaper over the past few days have looked at the question of identification without reference to the conflicts that we know result from their affirmation.