Daily Archive: Friday, November 29, 2019

US Ambassador Sarah-Ann Lynch (right) recently hosted over 100 Guyanese senior citizens at her residence for a Thanksgiving luncheon, sponsored by the American Chamber of Commerce of Guyana (AMCHAM Guyana). 

Reuters) – A court in Suriname today convicted President Desi Bouterse of murder for the execution of 15 opponents in 1982 during an earlier term as military ruler of the South American country after he and other soldiers led a violent coup to seize power.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has called for a single development plan for the country that doesn’t change with governments and wants constitutional reforms that will see the restoration of executive functions to a Prime Minister sitting in Parliament with only certain constitutional functions performed by a President.

(Trinidad Newsday) Pakistani-American cricketer Ali Khan is asking his fans on social media to “move on” from an issue over his being a part of soca singer Destra Garcia’s Me Gusta video.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A 34-year-old woman who reported a bizarre toilet birth has denied allegations that she tried to kill the newborn.

(Jamaica Star) When you think of a university classroom, you immediately think books, laptops, pencils and pens.

(Trinidad Guardian) A sergeant in the T&T De­fence Force was ar­rest­ed by of­fi­cers of the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team (SORT) yes­ter­day for the al­leged rape and bug­gery of a child.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson said today it would be “best” if U.S.

`(Trinidad Express) A member of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force was held by police yesterday following a report of a sexual assault of a boy.

LUCKNOW, India, CMC – Shamarh Brooks struck a maiden Test hundred and Rahkeem Cornwall became the first West Indies spinner to claim a 10-wicket match haul on the subcontinent, as the Caribbean side dominated day two of the one-off Test against Afghanistan here yesterday to put themselves on the verge of a comprehensive victory.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited (RBGL) yesterday assured customers that their data remains secure despite the challenges they have faced after effecting changes to banking systems and says it expects to have the issues fully resolved by the middle of December.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – WI Emerging Players defeated Barbados Pride by three wickets in the first day/night semi-final of the Regional Super50 Cup at Queen’s Park Oval here yesterday.

Government has declared its “intention” to properly gazette and rename the National Archives of Guyana as the Dr Walter Rodney Archives.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has approved the applications of several international organizations to observe the March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections.

Guyana Coema Construction Services Inc (GCCS) has officially joined the list of sponsors for the second edition of the KFC Goodwill Secondary School Football Championship, inking a partnership pact yesterday during a simple ceremony at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

GBTI GCC Tigers, Old Fort and Saints were amongst the winners when the 15th edition of the Diamond Mineral Water Indoor Hockey Festival commenced on Wednesday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue.

Towana Clarke, the Corporate Secretary at the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI), was yesterday granted her release on $700,000 bail after she was charged with causing the death of Police Constable Carl Roach in an accident at the intersection of Brickdam and Chalmers Place.

Rajen Dindial, the 34-year-old who was found guilty of killing a man in 2017 at a Grove wedding house, was yesterday sentenced to 15 years in prison for the crime.

The Guyana Senior Men’s provisional basketball squad commenced their training camp on Wednesday at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue, for the impending Goodwill International Series against Grenada.

Defending champions Annandale crushed St Stanislaus College by a 5-0 scoreline when the GuyOil Secondary Schools Football League championship continued on Wednesday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

Just over a week after his co-accused was freed, Dereck Bailey, one of two men separately charged with causing the death of four-year-old Ambeka Providence in a collision at Sheriff Street in 2016, was freed of the charge yesterday after a city magistrate dismissed it due to insufficient evidence.Bailey,

Dear Editor, The issue that has been raised about the name allocated or name change regarding the (Walter Rodney) National Archives seems to be punctuated with political posturing.

Director General of the Ministry of the Presidency, Joseph Harmon, says the cost of maintaining Guyana’s sea defence is a major drain on Guyana’s resources, as he emphasised a need for policymakers to consider removing important aspects of the country’s public infrastructure to higher ground.

The Buxton Community Centre Ground will be a hive of activity this evening when the inaugural 592 Beer Inter-Village Football Festival continues with a doubleheader.

Georgetown Football Club (GFC) downed Mahaica Determinators 2-0 when the Turbo Energy Drink Knockout Football competition continued on Wednesday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

Samuel Allen, the youth accused of killing a Brazilian miner during a robbery at Arakaka, Region One five years ago, was yesterday found not guilty of the crime by a jury.

Last Friday, with most of the business community’s attention turned in the direction of the Guyana International Petroleum Business Summit & Exhibition (GIPEX) at the Marriott Hotel, which was being closely monitored both locally and externally, a decidedly more modest gathering of local small businesses had defied the brisk early morning downpour to occupy tents along the westernmost block on Regent Street, displaying locally-made products including jams and jellies, cooking sauces, cosmetics, spices, wines, jewellery, clothing and footwear.

Dear Editor, I note the response by Mr. Godfrey Statia, Commissioner General, to my letter questioning the power and the authority of the Minister of Finance to issue Regulations under section 105 of the Income Tax Act exempting from income tax the retroactive percentage increase for 2019 for Government employees/public servants, etc.

(CWI) – Cricket West Indies selection panel yesterday named the two squads to face India in the One-Day International and T20 Internationals next month.

Sandra Craig has good reason to be pleased about her investment in travelling to the United States to participate in the October 9-10 Florida International Trade Conference and Expo (FITCE) in Fort Lauderdale.

Cabinet yesterday noted the award of contracts by procurement agencies for a number of projects including $259.7m to Ivor Allen for the construction of the Ruimveldt Polyclinic and $71.3m to B&J Civil Works for rehabilitation of roadways from Paramakatoi to Monkey Mountain in Region Eight.

Dear Editor,  I am writing with concern about tax free pay raises. 

Time was when Bartica appeared to have satisfied itself with being known simply as the ‘Gateway to the Interior’.

A 47-year-old man was yesterday found guilty of four counts of sexual activity with a child and is expected to be sentenced in two weeks.

NUR-SULTAN (Reuters) – Kazakhstan’s Astana fought back to beat a youthful Manchester United side 2-1 at home yesterday, earning their first points in the Europa League’s Group L this season.

Dear Editor, I believe the time has come for the relevant Ministries/Organizations such as the Guyana Revenue Authority and the Ministry with responsibility for Sport to keep a closer eye on what is being presented in some quarters, to the people of Guyana, particularly the younger people, as the art and combat sport of Karate-do.

Aundre Singh, who is one of two men recently sentenced for the possession of over 12 pounds of cocaine at Rupert Craig Highway last year, was yesterday sentenced to one year in prison after he pleaded guilty to illegal possession of cocaine found at his home subsequent to his arrest for the prior offence.

Dear Editor, I look belatedly at developments concerning Central High School (Central) and I hear the silence of Guyanese lambs. 

During our recent coverage of a product display staged at the Pegasus Hotel through a collaborative effort between the Sonia Noel Foundation for the Creative Arts and the Women’s Association for Sustainable Development we met and spoke with a number of women who are aggressively seeking to turn their creative passions into entrepreneurial pursuits.

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – England captain Joe Root’s decision to take five seamers into the second test against New Zealand and bowl first paid dividends with the hosts 86-2 at lunch on the first day at Seddon Park in Hamilton today.

The brawl between two students of the Richard Ishmael Secondary School was triggered after the female student made disparaging remarks about a relative of her schoolmate, a source close to the school told Stabroek News yesterday.

VALLETTA,  (Reuters) – One day in the summer of 2017, Vince Muscat dropped his friend Alfred Degiorgio at the Busy Bee, a harbour-front café near Malta’s capital renowned for its pastries stuffed with ricotta cheese.

(Trinidad Guardian) A High Court judge has lament­ed that the war against crime has to be fought not on­ly on the streets but with­in the Po­lice Ser­vice where there are some er­rant and crim­i­nal­ly-in­clined of­fi­cers.

With countries across the world increasingly embracing or at least diligently probing the medical options afforded by marijuana, the tiny CARICOM island group of St.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The head of Russia’s Olympic Committee said yesterday it was carrying on with preparations for the Tokyo Olympics next year and criticised World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) recommendations to punish some Russian Olympic officials as excessive and wrong.

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Master batsman Steve Smith is consulting experts on how to get a better night’s sleep before cricket matches, but will be fully alert when facing his Brisbane nemesis Yasir Shah in the second test in Adelaide, according to Australia captain Tim Paine.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – Breaking a month-long lull in missile tests, North Korea fired two short range projectiles into the sea off its east coast yesterday in what appeared to be the latest try out of its new multiple rocket launchers, South Korea’s military said.

(Trinidad Express) Mother of one, Shanice Williams, was shot dead by a man who called her out of her home on Wednesday night.

According to Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo, government lacks the will to increase the wages and salaries of workers employed by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo).

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Dear Editor, The Walter Rodney COI report cannot truly be made “public” if it is unavailable in the library, university, the press, and bookstore.

Remington Eastman, the father of Brian Eastman, the police officer who died in the horrific accident on the Rupert Craig Highway said his death came as a shock to the family and has left them devastated as they had earlier in the day lost another family member.

Survivors of sexual assault will tell you, recovery can be a daunting journey.

It was Mr Eusi Kwayana who first drew attention in a letter to the name-change on the board outside the archives on Homestretch Avenue from ‘Walter Rodney Archives’ to ‘The National Archives’.

It is not just Guyanese who have been slipping in and out of daydreams arising out of the seemingly limitless prospects that repose in the country’s fast arriving oil and gas sector.

Dear Editor, Mr. Freddie Kissoon sometimes wields his Kaieteur News (KN) column like a blunt instrument and with it he recently bludgeoned his way into a matter about which he lacked basic information.

Part 79   Introduction The word is now out that long before the earlier planned date of First Oil, Guyana will witness the historic pouring of the first barrel of crude oil catapulting the small country of barely three-quarter million persons onto the world’s petroleum stage.

HONG KONG/BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China warned the United States yesterday that it would take “firm counter measures” in response to U.S.

(Barbados Nation) The entire Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre ( LESC) may eventually be taken over by the Ross University School of Medicine.

Regarding Prime Minister Prakash (HYA) Perhaps it’s because my still-legal, real wife is distant; because my four daughters are all very, very adult and physically distant; because family presence is somewhat merely virtual, I’m no longer a “Christmas person.”

BARCELONA (Reuters) – Antoine Griezmann has had a tough start to life at Barcelona but is finally showing signs of settling in as he prepares for Sunday’s crunch clash at title rivals Atletico Madrid, his first game back at his old club since a bitter split.

Dear Editor, At a time when male violence against women has taken centre stage,  I find the response by no less than the high ranking education official inappropriate.