Daily Archive: Tuesday, December 10, 2019

(Reuters) – A Pennsylvania appeals court today  dismissed Bill Cosby’s bid to overturn his 2018 sex assault conviction, rejecting his lawyers’ argument that a judge deprived the comedian of a fair trial by allowing other accusers to testify.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives announced impeachment charges against President Donald Trump today, making him the fourth president in U.S.

  The US embassy today said that the United States’ only interest in scheduled general elections here is that they be free, fair and peaceful.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp won a major victory in a closely-watched lawsuit today when a judge ruled that the company did not defraud investors out of up to $1.6 billion by hiding the true cost of climate change regulation.

(Jamaica Star) After what dancehall artiste and producer Rum Blood calls an entertaining Friday evening on the streets of Los Angeles, California, on November 29, he woke up in a jail cell the next morning.

Police ranks in Region No. 2 (Pomeroon-Supenaam) acting on information received, yesterday at about 13:20hrs intercepted a motorcar at Charity, Essequibo Coast but seconds after, the vehicle sped away and the driver disposed of a bag through the front passenger side window.

(Trinidad Newsday) A St Helena couple has 28 days to explain their wealth after a High Court judge granted the police an order under new legislation.

(Trinidad Express) San Fernando is expected to get a new mayor when the City Corporation meets on Thursday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The 34-year-old fa­ther who al­leged­ly struck a Form Three stu­dent at the Mara­bel­la South Sec­ondary School is in po­lice cus­tody.

(Jamaica Observer) A year after graduating from the Occupational Associate Degree programme at Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) in Kingston, scores of graduates are yet to receive the document which confirms that they have earned the qualification.

(Jamaica Observer) The United States of America’s longest federal court vacancy ended last Thursday after nearly 14 years of foot-dragging and politics as the US Senate confirmed a Jamaican-born university professor to a North Carolina trial court seat in a bipartisan vote.

(Jamaica Star) Two persons have died as a result of injuries sustained in a motor car after a collision on Chesterfield Drive in St Andrew on Monday.

THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – Gambia’s legal team described mass rapes, the burning of families in their homes and killing of dozens of Muslim Rohingya children with knives as it set out its genocide case against Myanmar at the U.N.’s

COPENHAGEN, (Reuters) – Denmark is moving forward with plans to build an artificial island tying in power from offshore wind farms of up to 10 gigawatts (GW) of capacity, more than enough to supply all households, as part of efforts to meet ambitious climate change targets.

The Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) is about to embark on a national remapping exercise after more than half a century but the scheduled start was delayed after a laptop was allegedly stolen from the Canadian company contracted to execute the project.

Four Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) employees were fired this year for corruption.

The preliminary inquiry in the charge against Marcus Bisram, the alleged mastermind of the murder of a Corentyne carpenter, is now expected to commence next Monday after Magistrate Alex Moore reported sick ahead of the scheduled start at the Springlands Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara family’s Christmas preparations were ruined yesterday morning after a fire, suspected to have been caused by an unattended diya, gutted their home.

Guyana completed a 3-0 sweep of their Goodwill International Basketball Series against Grenada, defeating the visitors  Sunday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue.

Guyana has moved up two places on the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Index (HDI), where it now ranks 123rd of 189 countries.

Days after pile driving began for the rehabilitation of the dilapidated Leguan Stelling, another section collapsed yesterday afternoon, alarming residents over the potential repercussions for the island.

Team Guyana’s 13-member outfit finished with three gold medals when the fifth annual Caribbean Boxing Championships concluded on Sunday in Trinidad.

Come December 22, president of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) Hilbert Foster will seek re-election for the post when the body meets for its Annual General at the New Amsterdam Town Hall.

The driver of the Route 31 minibus that was involved in the more than one-week-old accident at Nismes, West Bank Demerara Public Road, which left four persons dead and several others injured, has been released on station bail as the police continue their investigation.

Leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo is seeking a recall to the West Indies senior side and sees the upcoming Professional Cricket League Regional Four-Day Championships as the perfect opportunity to stake his claim.

The Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of Region Six has been notified that National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) machinery has been used for private work in the region and Regional Executive Officer (REO) Kim Williams-Stephen has said that the operators were cautioned as a result. 

Golden Grove and Friendship clinched  quarterfinal places Sunday in the inaugural ‘592 Beer Inter-Village Football Festival’ at the Golden Grove Community ground.

Guyana Carnival 2020 was officially launched on Sunday evening, with a preview of costumes highlighting its “Around the World” theme.

Tishawn Thomas, a young miner, was granted bail yesterday after he pleaded not guilty to an attempted murder charge.

Anthony Davis scored a season-high 50 points, sparking the Los Angeles Lakers to a 142-125 victory over the visiting Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday night.

Dear Editor, It is interesting to read in the news that GTT has seen a “ballooning of the demand for internet bandwidth – 500 per cent in two years.”

LAHORE, (Reuters) – There is a lot more at stake than World Test Championship points for Pakistan when they host Sri Lanka in a two-match series this month as the country hosts its first tests on home soil since the 2009 militant attack on Sri Lanka’s team bus in Lahore.

Clothes vendor Collis Burrowes, who the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) says was found with a quantity of crystal meth and ecstasy at Springlands, was yesterday faced with two drug trafficking charges.

Mark Grimmond and Chatterpaul Singh, the two men accused of attempting to kill a Lethem businessman, were yesterday committed to stand trial at the High Court.

Dear Editor, Please refer to the letter written by the former Attorney General, Mr Anil Nandlall, ‘Presidential pardon enabled Donald Rodney to travel to Guyana and testify before the Commission of Inquiry’ (SN: 28/11/19), which referred to a pardon as granted to me, (yet again) and to his separate enumeration of certain facts of an appeal.

Dear Editor, Whilst the speeding and recklessness continues on our roads, (moreso with the minibuses), and the carnage seems to continue unabated, it seems as though the traffic police at the Alberttown Police Station have a different approach to ease road accidents.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia’s batting mainstay Steve Smith is confident the Boxing Day test against New Zealand will be played on a safe, quality pitch at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) and does not want the venue to lose the marquee fixture over surface concerns.

A Brazilian youth, who had been arrested for murder, will be spending the next three months in jail after pleaded guilty to trafficking marijuana that was found in his possession.

WHAKATANE, New Zealand (Reuters) – Eight people were missing and presumed dead after a volcanic eruption covered a small New Zealand island popular with tourists in hot ash and steam, killing five people and seriously injuring around 30 more.

Murder accused Travis Evans, known as ‘Short Boss,’ yesterday admitted to raping a woman and robbing her of $650,000 in a 2010 attack.

(Trinidad Guardian) A High Court judge has grant­ed an or­der pro­hibit­ing two Chi­nese na­tion­als from dispos­ing of close to $10 mil­lion which had been paid by a State com­pa­ny for the con­struc­tion of a govern­ment school.

Dear Editor, I do believe that the sugar industry’s past and future management will be a topical, and rightly so, issue in the upcoming election.

(Reuters) – Russia was banned from the world’s top sporting events for four years yesterday, including the next summer and winter Olympics and the 2022 soccer World Cup, for tampering with doping tests.

(Trinidad Express) A Los Iros fisherman, who intervened in an argument between his sister and another man, was stabbed to death on Sunday night.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia was banned from the Olympics and world championships in a range of sports for four years yesterday after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) ruled to punish it for manipulating laboratory data, a WADA spokesman said.

The police in Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) are probing the discovery of skeletal remains, suspected to be those of a man, which were found on Sunday in the Marudi Mountain area.

International Human Rights Day 2019 finds the world with little new to acclaim in terms of progressive enjoyment of rights when viewed as a whole. 

Dear Editor, The presidential candidate of the newly-minted political party Change Guyana, Mr Robert Badal, in a letter which appeared in the December 6th edition of Stabroek News, said that he “…was deeply disturbed at the level of poverty and unemployment…” in the villages that once depended on the now-closed Wales sugar estate.

MADRID (Reuters) – The European Union will not hesitate to take steps to protect its industries from competitors who do not respect the 2015 Paris Agreement to curb global warming, the EU’s top climate official said yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) St Kitts-Nevis Opposition Leader Denzil Douglas has denied a report in Britain’s Daily Mail that he was detained at Gatwick International Airport when he tried to leave the country with 70,000 pounds sterling in cash.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department’s internal watchdog said yesterday that it found numerous errors but no evidence of political bias by the FBI when it opened an investigation into contacts between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia in 2016.

Region Four A Commander Assistant Commissioner Edgar Thomas has refuted a claim by the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) that the police force abused its power to suppress sugar workers who were exercising their freedom of expression during a protest one week ago.

MUSCAT, Oman, CMC – Rain brought much-needed relief to Bermuda’s battle-weary cricketers when their Cricket World Cup Challenge League B match against Kenya at the Al Amerat Cricket Ground, Ministry Turf 2 ground was abandoned, each team picking up a point.

Dear Editor, December 9th is designated by the United Nations as Anti-Corruption Day.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua,  CMC – A batting meltdown saw West Indies Under-19s squander a golden opportunity for their second win of the Tri-Nations Series, when they slumped to a 29-run defeat to England Under-19s here Sunday.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil will send an emergency security force to the indigenous reserve of Cana Brava in the northeastern state of Maranhao to protect the Guajajara tribe after two members were shot dead over the weekend, a government decree said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Small business owners are being asked to be wary of counterfeit $100 notes.

So the Ministry of Education has put an end to the annual Christmas party at public schools in its customary form, (there still appears to be a level of public uncertainty as to just which schools/regions are affected) proffering instead a different model of seasonal revelry, a supervised, sedate, sit-down Christmas luncheon where music will be restricted to Carols and where dress will be confined to school uniforms.

Last month CARICOM’s Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) took a decision that will likely determine whether Anglophone Caribbean sugar producers have a sustainable future.

Reported missing after travelling to Suriname to fish for crabs last Sunday, four Berbice men have been found alive and unharmed.

Dear Editor, The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948, envisioning a world where “all members of the human family” enjoy “freedom, justice, and peace in the world.”