Daily Archive: Tuesday, November 12, 2019

One year after the position of Chancellor became vacant at the University of Guyana (UG), the council has selected Professor Edward Greene, former UN Special Envoy and CARICOM Deputy Secretary-General, as the new Chancellor.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Supreme Court’s conservative majority signaled support on Tuesday for President Donald Trump’s bid to kill a programme that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants – dubbed “Dreamers” – who entered the United States illegally as children, even as liberal justices complained that the move would destroy lives.

(Trinidad Express) A twenty-nine year-old San man was in police custody last night after he turned himself in after he kidnapped his one legged landlord and threw him down a precipice off the North Coast Road last week.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong police fired tear gas today in the Central financial district, over the harbour in Mong Kok and at universities to break up pro-democracy protests which they said were leading the city to the “brink of total breakdown”.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A psychiatric evaluation has been ordered for the St James woman who was recently charged in connection with the deaths of her two sons, in a fire which destroyed their home in Paradise, Norwood, on November 1.

(Trinidad Newsday) Murdered Water and Sewage Authority (WASA) worker Ganesh Leroy Codjoe is being hailed a hero by relatives.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Consultant psychiatrist and government senator Dr Saphire Longmore has turned the spotlight on the treatment of mentally ill persons by their families and the wider society, charging that the stigma and discrimination against this group was “very unfortunate”.

The Bustamante Hospital for Children is to benefit from a new three-storey, 150-bed ward, set to cost $150 million, using the majority of the funds coming from the Shaggy & Friends concert staged in 2018.

Migration, death, and even imprisonment are among the reasons why some city residents on the national register have not collected identification cards from the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), a check by this newspaper has found.

The police in Region 4 (a) (Agricola-Cummings Lodge) are investigating the murder of a vagrant, whose lifeless body was discovered yesterday morning at the corner of Regent and Light streets, Bourda The dead man has been identified by the police as `Andrew’ or `Spongebob’, 35, of  the Timehri Docks area.

ExxonMobil will be training protected species observers as part of its plans to mitigate the environmental impact on marine life of its operations offshore and it is encouraging organisations to apply although it has already received about 100 applications for training.

An excavator operator is currently a patient at a city hospital after he was shot and robbed yesterday afternoon while on duty at Sussex Street, Albouystown.

Members of the Region Six Regional Democratic Council (RDC) are currently at logger-heads with the Regional Executive Officer (REO) over the selection of appointees for the Regional Tender Board. 

The driver who is allegedly responsible for last Friday’s hit-and-run accident along the Timehri, East Bank Demerara Public Road which claimed the life of security guard, Harrichan Ramsundar has been arrested by the police.

Guyana’s most exciting super flyweight pugilist, Elton Dharry is in confident mood ahead of the biggest fight of his career to date.

Sandra Russell, a Jamaican national who had been imprisoned last year for possession of cannabis for trafficking, has filed a lawsuit against the state for false imprisonment and the breach of her constitutional rights after she was kept at the East La Penitence Police Station for almost eight months without charge after serving her sentence. 

Christopher Barnwell and Raymond Reifer piloted Guyana to a 13-run victory over the United States in the Colonial Medical Insurance Super 50 series in Port of Spain, Trinidad yesterday.

LUCKNOW, India,  CMC – Elegant stroke-maker Shai Hope carved out a seventh one-day hundred as West Indies completed a rare series whitewash with a five-wicket victory over Afghanistan in the third One-Day International here yesterday.

Two East Canje, Berbice men were last week each sentenced to four years in prison after they pleaded guilty to robbing several persons at a Canefield Settlement beer garden and supermarket back in April.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – World number one Rafael Nadal made a disappointing start at the ATP Finals as he suffered a first career loss to Germany’s reigning champion Alexander Zverev, going down 6-2 6-4 yesterday.

The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) has expressed concern at the withdrawal of state advertisements by the Department of Public Information (DPI) from Stabroek News and the Guyana Times.

A bus driver was on Friday charged with storing provocative pictures of a man and woman and he was granted his release on a total of $120,000 bail after denying any wrongdoing.

The 10th edition of the highly anticipated Busta T20 Festival became a reality when the collaboration between Enterprise Sports Club and Guyana Beverages Inc was renewed over this past week, setting the event for launching this Saturday.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – Left-hander Nicholas Kirton struck his second half-century in three innings as Barbados Pride rebounded from a shock defeat to CCC Marooners, to crush minnows Canada by nine wickets here yesterday.

A taxi driver of Ruby, East Bank Essequibo was yesterday morning shot in his head during a robbery on Leopold Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown.

A shopkeeper and a labourer were both charged last Friday with possession of ecstasy pills for the purpose of trafficking.

Rose Hall Town Thunderbolt Flour will now play Albion Cricket Club in the final of the Berbice Cricket Board Ivan Madray T20 tournament after beating Young Warriors Cricket Club by seven runs in the lone semi-finals on Saturday.

President David Granger on Sunday evening told the residents of Victoria village that they should be proud of their village’s history as their ancestors, despite their struggles, persevered and pioneered economic independence and democratic empowerment.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – For the second time in as many days, 15-year-old Shafali Verma inflicted misery on West Indies Women, hammering her second straight half-century to condemn the hosts to a crushing 10-wicket defeat here Sunday.

Donne Dojoy, the Guyanese woman who was fatally stabbed in Queens, New York last Friday was previously assaulted by her estranged husband Dineshwar Budhidat in August and had an order of protection out against him.

Pit-bulls 3.0 was crowned the inaugural Rawle Toney/Mackeson 3×3 Basketball Champion, defeating Smooth on Sunday at the Burnham Court, Middle and Carmichael streets.

Vabita Arjune, 50, was hit by car late last month and died on Thursday.

The price for fuel in Region One continues to drastically affect communities there, Regional Chairman Brentnol Ashley yesterday told Stabroek News.

A complete bowling performance by former West Indies U-19 leg-spinner, Amir Khan spurred Everest to an innings and 10 runs victory over Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) on Saturday in the GISE/Star Party Rentals/ Trophy Stall first-division two-day tournament.

University of Guyana suffered a two-wicket defeat at the hands of Muslim Youth Organization (MYO) in the Georgetown Cricket Association’s New Building Society 40-over second-division tournament on Saturday.

Two students of the Guyana Industrial Training Centre (GITC) have been awarded grants by the Small Business Bureau to make their ideas for businesses a reality.

Undefeated Lodge Secondary and President’s College clinched lopsided wins when the GuyOil/Tradewind Tankers Secondary School Football League continued yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

Dear Editor, Paragraph 5 of the Judgment of the Caribbean Court of Justice delivered on 12 July 2019 on consequential orders flowing from the passage of the No Confidence Motion passed by the National Assembly on December 21, 2018, stated:  “The judiciary interprets the Constitution.

An intelligence-led operation conducted by ranks of the Regional Police Division Four (A), under the command of an Assistant Superintendent yesterday unearthed 1,076 grams of suspected cannabis.

Dear Editor, I am obliged to respond to Henry Jeffrey’s letter ‘Justice demands GECOM deprive PPP/C of any opportunity to benefit from bloated list’ published in SN on November 9, 2019.

LONDON, (Reuters) – German tennis great Boris Becker has had his bankruptcy restrictions extended to 2031 after an investigation into assets and undisclosed transactions valued at more than 4.5 million pounds ($5.80 million).

Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Irwin LaRocque wants the cost of natural disaster insurance to be more affordable.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Bolivia’s former president, Evo Morales, is flying to Mexico, where he has been granted asylum, Mexico’s top diplomat said last night, as unrest shook the South American nation.

(Field Level Media) Forward Andrew Wiggins poured in 33 points and the visiting Minnesota Timberwolves spoiled the return of All-Star forward Blake Griffin with a 120-114 win over the Detroit Pistons yesterday.

Dear Editor, A letter and a news item published by your newspaper moved me to pen this missive to suggest that the time is nigh for a consensus by elected officials for a National Truth and Reconciliation intervention.  

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives committees leading the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump yesterday released a transcript of a Pentagon official’s testimony as Trump continued to seethe over the investigation.

(Field Level Media) Kemba Walker sank eight 3-pointers and scored 24 of his 29 points in the second half to lead the host Boston Celtics past the Dallas Mavericks 116-106 last night.

Dear Editor, The deterioration of a section of the road to the Haags Bosch Landfill Site, between Republic Gardens and the eastern end of the Windsor Estates gated community, poses serious risks of damage to vehicles and injury to users of that road.

A labourer who stole more than $1.5 million in articles from the home of a woman was on Friday sentenced to 14 months in prison after a city magistrate found him guilty of the offence.

(Reuters) – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was admitted to an Atlanta hospital yesterday for a procedure to relieve brain pressure from bleeding caused by recent falls, the Carter Center said in a statement.

(Field Level Media) Jaren Jackson Jr. scored a season-high 24 points and Dillon Brooks added 21 as the visiting Memphis Grizzlies outlasted the San Antonio Spurs 113-109 yesterday in the Alamo City on the night the Spurs retired the jersey number of longtime standout Tony Parker.

The former Head of Antigua’s Financial Services Regulatory Commission, Leroy King was extradited to the United States on Friday in connection  with the Ponzi scheme that brought down US billionaire R.

A young man was fined on Friday for stealing two bicycles.

Dear Editor, Reference is being made to Frederick Kissoon’s letter `Lewis’ position on the state ads cutoff to SN is nonsensical’ (SN Nov 11th).

By Kenneth Rogoff SOUTH BEND – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was at least half right when he recently told the United States Congress that there is no US monopoly on regulation of next-generation payments technology.

(Field Level media) Longtime Canadian hockey commentator Don Cherry was fired yesterday after his on-air comments that many believed disparaged immigrants.

A larceny accused, who is already serving a four-month sentence for stealing a phone, on Friday tried to negotiate for a similar sentence if he admitted to a similar crime.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong riot police fired tear gas at a university campus today, a day after a protester was shot and a man set on fire in some of the worst violence to rock the Chinese-ruled city in more than five months of anti-government demonstrations.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leaders looking to oust their country’s socialist government can perhaps take some hope from the resignation of its leftist ally in Bolivia, President Evo Morales, on Sunday after weeks of street protests.

Dear Editor, Guyana is buried deep in a constitutional crisis because of the decision of our political players to not hold elections within three months of the successful passage of the no-confidence motion or based on an extension granted by 2/3 of the National Assembly.

By Jeffrey D. Sachs NEW YORK – The worst foreign-policy decision by the United States of the last generation – and perhaps longer – was the “war of choice” that it launched in Iraq in 2003 for the stated purpose of eliminating weapons of mass destruction that did not, in fact, exist.

Last week the Government Analyst-Food and Drugs Department (GAFDD) announced that yet another consignment of expired foods had found its way into Guyana and that some of it had breached the official monitoring systems that ought to be afforded by the Customs and Trade Administration and by now, have almost certainly found their way onto the local market.