Daily Archive: Thursday, November 14, 2019

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said today President Donald Trump already has admitted to bribery in the Ukraine scandal at the heart of a Democratic-led inquiry, accusing him of an impeachable offense under the U.S.

(Jamaica Gleaner) After spending the last four years doing damage control because of issues brought on by a name mix-up, Jamaican actress Shauna Chin is happy to finally be able to move on with her life.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Narcotics Police arrested and charged a British man on Tuesday at the Sangster International Airport for breaches of the Dangerous Drugs Act.

(Jamaica Observer) Twenty-year-old Russelle Foster, who was charged with the murder of 23-year-old national footballer, Tarania Clarke, was remanded in custody when she appeared before the court on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s top court today delayed a verdict on the lifting of a centuries-old ban on women of menstruating age entering a Hindu temple, asking more judges to consider the case involving gender discrimination and religion that has divided opinion.

(Trinidad Newsday) A 31-year-old father on Tuesday found out in the Chaguanas magistrates’ court that he had been paying maintenance for two children whom, he later found out are not his.

(Jamaica Observer) THE driver of the garbage truck that killed seven-year-old Clan Carthy Primary School student Benjamin Bair was yesterday charged with manslaughter.

(Trinidad Guardian) The griev­ing moth­er of the eight-year-old Nathaniel Find­ley, who died af­ter suf­fer­ing a seizure at his Pri­ma­ry School on Mon­day, is call­ing for a full in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to his death.

(Trinidad Guardian) An op­por­tunist!  That’s how Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) pub­lic re­la­tions of­fi­cer Ani­ta Haynes de­scribed Christo­pher Wylie who worked with Cam­bridge An­a­lyt­i­ca (CA) and con­duct­ed da­ta min­ing and analy­ses in T&T.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President Owen Speid said that the ongoing migration of the nation’s teachers to so-called greener pastures was having a negative impact on some schools, resulting in the merger of classes to make up for the shortfall.

West Indies Women captain Anisa Mohammed has declared that the team needs to score more runs and improve in all areas if they are to keep the series alive against an India Women team who are aiming to seal the series with their third win in the third T20 International at the National Stadium, Providence tonight.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has congratulated Guyana Football Federation (GFF) President Wayne Forde and his executive committee on their re-election following the entity’s Extraordinary Congress staged on November 9th at the Pegasus Hotel.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Zlatan Ibrahimovic will not return to the LA Galaxy for the 2020 MLS season, the team said in a statement yesterday.

(Field Level Media) Rookie guard Ja Morant scored on a drive to the basket with 0.7 seconds left to give the Memphis Grizzlies a 119-117 victory against the host Charlotte Hornets last night.

Public servants, including teachers, nurses and doctors,  and members of the defence, police and security services, will receive permanent, tax-free increases in wages – 8.5% to 9% – and hefty allowances this year all of which will be retroactive to January 1st 2019, President David Granger announced during an address to the nation yesterday.

Two persons including a taxi driver are now dead following a head-on collision between a car and a truck yesterday afternoon at Port Kaituma, North West District.

(Field Level Media) Nikola Vucevic collected 25 points and 12 rebounds as the host Orlando Magic pulled away in the fourth quarter for a 112-97 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers last night.

International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Level III coach and course conductor, Christian Lilleroos, is currently on local shores to facilitate a High Performance Camp for Titans Table Tennis Club at the Red Cross Guyana Headquarters, Kingston.

Three taxi drivers and a mechanic who were charged with stealing three vehicles were yesterday remanded to prison after the court heard that more charges for similar offences will soon be brought against them.

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Promising batsman Will Pucovski has ruled himself out of selection for Australia’s test series against Pakistan due to “matters pertaining to mental wellbeing”, Cricket Australia said today. 

While underscoring that its two finds so far offshore Guyana were heavy crude oil and it will now have to assess the viability of the project, the United Kingdom-based Tullow Oil has assured that it is not thinking of leaving.

The National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue this evening will be a hive of activity when the inaugural ‘Rio Indoor Streetball Championship’ officially commences with the group stage round from 19:00hrs.

The roads of Corentyne will be transformed into a cycling battleground on Sunday when the eighth edition of the Guyana Beverage Company’s 50-mile race is staged from 10:00hrs.

More than half of Guyana’s women (55%) have experienced at least one form of intimate partner violence (IPV) in their lifetime, according to the first comprehensive national survey on gender-based violence in Guyana.

With the formal launch pegged for Tuesday, November 19th at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue from 11:00hrs, the official playing fixtures for the inaugural Dragon Stout ‘Community Cup’ streetball championship were released yesterday.

The closure to traffic of a third lane along the East Bank of Demerara roadway during  peak hours has caused major chaos over the past two days and Traffic Chief Linden Isles said that the situation will be reviewed today.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) believes Guyana must review its place in CARICOM and decide whether it is beneficial to remain part of the block, and that the country should leverage the looming opportunities in the petroleum sector to secure better trade arrangements with sister States.

LUCKNOW, Afghanistan, CMC – West Indies strokemaker Nicholas Pooran has been slapped with a four-match ban for ball tampering, casting a dark shadow over the Caribbean side’s recent one-day whitewash of Afghanistan.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Public Infrastructure has heard the cries of residents living along the corridor from Fort Wellington to Bath Settlement in Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) and wishes to inform that street lights have been confirmed for this vulnerable stretch.

LUCKNOW, India, CMC – Head coach Phil Simmons says he wants West Indies to display the same high level of intensity shown in the one-day series when they take on Afghanistan in the three-match Twenty20 series bowling off here today.

A 12-member jury yesterday found Rajen Dindial guilty of manslaughter in relation to the killing of a man at a Grove wedding house two years ago.

Dear Editor, It is with grave concern that I pen this letter.

(Reuters) – Portugal’s Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo is ready to play in their Euro 2020 qualifiers against Lithuania and Luxembourg despite concerns over his fitness which came to the fore last weekend, coach Fernando Santos said yesterday.

The four suspects, including a cop, who were arrested by the police in relation to the Matthews Ridge Airstrip robbery on Monday during which a quantity of raw gold was stolen will be escorted to the city today for further questioning.

Dear Editor, In conversations with Guyanese voters, the ringing refrain by well-intentioned Indo Guyanese and Afro Guyanese who seek to justify supporting the party of their ethnicity is that their party is ‘the lesser of two evils’.

LONDON (Reuters) – Rafael Nadal produced an incredible fightback to beat Russian Daniil Medvedev and keep his ATP Finals hopes alive yesterday, saving a match point at 1-5 down in the decider before winning 6-7(3) 6-3 7-6(4).

Although he ended union representation at his Pegasus Hotel back in 2010 following a bitter fallout with the Clerical and Commercial Workers Union (CCWU), Change Guyana presidential candidate and hotelier, Robert Badal says that he wants to make clear that he is not anti-union.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, testifying yesterday in the first televised hearing of the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, linked the president more directly to a pressure campaign on Ukraine to conduct investigations that would benefit him politically.

A boy who was severely beaten at the Mon Repos Primary School is recovering even as other medical complications have arisen and his mother is mulling the way forward.

(Reuters) – Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has been appointed as FIFA’s new chief of global football development, with the Frenchman set to oversee the growth of the sport plus technical matters, soccer’s world governing body said yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) GraceKennedy Limited has won the first stage of its legal battle with the Guyana Revenue Authority, GRA, which wanted its remittance subsidiary in that market to pay taxes at a higher rate as a commercial company, which would have resulted in hundreds of millions in back taxes.

Dear Editor, Your last Sunday editorial `No coalitions’ highlights a grave gap in our country’s political debate.

LA PAZ,  (Reuters) – Bolivian security forces clashed on the streets of La Paz with supporters of unseated president Evo Morales yesterday, firing tear gas to clear crowds who hurled rocks and set fires in a test to Bolivia’s new interim leader.

Dear Editor, MP  Gail Teixeira’s letter published in the Sunday Stabroek, November 10, 2019, captioned: `Betrayal of Walter Rodney falls at the feet of his trusted comrades’, is a mixture of political deception and fallacy.

(Reuters) – Spain’s all-time top scorer David Villa announced yesterday he is retiring from football at the end of the Japanese top flight season.

A truck driver who reported to the police that he lost the money he was entrusted with by a businesswoman to buy food items was charged with simple larceny yesterday and granted bail.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The top American diplomat in Jamaica has questioned why local authorities have not been able to stem the flow of illegal guns coming into the island.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Anti-government protesters paralysed parts of Hong Kong for a fourth straight day yesterday, forcing school closures and blocking highways and other transport links to disrupt the financial hub amid a marked escalation of violence.

A man was yesterday granted bail after denying a damage-to-property charge.

At the recent final Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) disclosure meeting for ExxonMobil’s Payara operation, conservationist Annette Arjoon-Martins questioned officials about the treatment and disposal of hazardous waste, highlighting that there could be serious problems if seepage, for instance, were to occur.

Bond. James Bond had slipped in silently. I caught my breath and stopped dead in my tracks.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Cricket West Indies president, Ricky Skerritt, says under-fire batsman Nicholas Pooran must use the ball tampering incident as a “learning experience.”

Dear Editor, It is good that we have been able to put to rest Mr.

(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of National Security Stuart Young says he is very con­cerned about the in­for­ma­tion brought to light in Christo­pher Wylie’s book about how the UNC sanc­tioned a breach of cit­i­zens’ pri­va­cy.