Daily Archive: Tuesday, December 31, 2019

(Jamaica Gleaner) Restaurants of Jamaica, the operators of KFC in Jamaica, says disciplinary action is to be taken against a worker who used a local homophobic slur against a male customer.

Having considered their high quality of service in the legal profession, and with confidence in their knowledge of the law, President David Granger has announced the appointment of four long-serving legal practitioners as Senior Counsel with effect from January 1, 2020.

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – Protesters attacked the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad today and the ambassador and other staff were evacuated as anger over U.S.

LISBON/JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – An Angolan court has ordered assets of Isabel dos Santos, daughter of the country’s former leader, to be frozen in the highest-profile move of an anti-corruption drive launched by President Joao Lourenço.

(Jamaica Gleaner) On a normal day, residents of Kiora, George’s Valley, would have awakened to the cool Manchester breeze and the coos of native birds.

(Jamaica Star) Dozens of persons ran from a KFC restaurant on Sunday after a rat ran across the menu board, just as hungry persons were preparing to collect their favourite pieces of chicken.

Why is Police Commissioner Gary Griffith on Facebook reprimanding and responding to his critics?

(Trinidad Express) The election year of 2020 will begin with a political bang as Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley this morning announced a shakeup up to his Cabinet.

A five-wicket haul from Keon Joseph followed by an unbeaten half century from Anthony Bramble saw Johnson’s XI to a five-wicket win yesterday against Anthony Adams’ XI on the final day of the Guyana Jaguars three-day practice match at Providence.

After the dust settled at the Golden Grove Community Centre ground, Golden Grove and Friendship emerged victorious from their semi-final matches in the inaugural 592 Beer Inter-Village Football Festival on Sunday.

Members of the Enmore Community Centre Cricket Club (ECCCC) on Sunday gathered to recognize the club’s top players, officials and fans of 2019.

Fruta Conquerors and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will battle in the GFF Super 16 championship final after claiming semifinal wins on Sunday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda.

People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) presidential candidate Irfaan Ali yesterday maintained that he will not be a puppet for former president and current PPP General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo should his party win office.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – Former Warwickshire batsman, Trevor Penney, has replaced Guyanese Rayon Griffith as West Indies fielding coach for the white-ball sides.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies players had a day to forget in the Bangladesh Premier League here yesterday, as all suffered failures in heavy defeats for their respective franchises.

A Princes St, Wortmanville resident died yesterday afternoon after he collapsed upon seeing a fire destroying the apartment building that he and others called their home. 

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar, dogged by injury, said he was not yet thinking about next year’s Twenty20 World Cup in Australia and that his main target was to get fit first.

Banks DIH’s after-tax profit zoomed by 10.7% from $4.085b last year to  $4.524b this year.

An ex-soldier was yesterday charged with the manslaughter of Rose Hall vendor, Stephen Lewis when he appeared at the Whim Magistrate’s Court. 

Anthony Davis had 23 points and nine rebounds as the host Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Dallas Mavericks 108-95 on Sunday night at Staples Center.

FIDE Master, Anthony Drayton completed a dominant weekend at the National Stadium, Providence by adding the Guyana Chess Federation’s National Rapid Championship to his long list of accolades.

KHARTOUM,  (Reuters) – A Sudanese court sentenced 29 members of the national intelligence service to death by hanging yesterday over the killing of a teacher in detention in February during protests that led to the overthrow of former president Omar al-Bashir.

Guyana and Suriname yesterday signed a tourism accord in Paramaribo, according to a statement from the Ministry of Business.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton’s absence from Britain’s New Year’s honours list has angered his Formula One fans and triggered fresh debate about the sport’s status and whether the six-times world champion is sufficiently appreciated at home.

PRAGUE,  (Reuters) – A Slovak court handed a 15-year prison sentence to a man charged with facilitating the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak in 2018 in a plea deal yesterday, a spokeswoman said.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Central Housing and Planning Authority of Guyana (CH&PA) Lelon Saul has said that Guyanese who have the means to purchase land on the open market should do so, while assuring that land prices will not increase despite the anticipated oil-driven economic boom, which is usually accompanied by an increased demand for land.

There is a need for strengthened HIV and AIDS awareness and sensitisation programmes, according to Deputy Programme Manager of the National AIDS Programme Secretariat (NAPS) Dr.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India will participate in the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham reversing earlier plans to boycott the event over the absence of shooting as a medal sport, the country’s Olympic association and the Games organisers announced yesterday.

Dear Editor, Linden is drained by about 20 major or minor creeks, all of which flow into the Demerara River.

PARIS/TOKYO,  (Reuters) – Carlos Ghosn, the ousted boss of the Renault-Nissan carmaking alliance who was grounded in Japan while awaiting trial on charges of financial misconduct, was in Lebanon as of yesterday, a person close to Ghosn told Reuters.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia have added D’Arcy Short to their one-day squad for next month’s tour of India after seam bowler Sean Abbott was ruled out of the trip with a side strain, Cricket Australia (CA) said yesterday.

A man of Guyanese parentage was arrested and charged with five counts of attempted murder after he allegedly stabbed five persons who were celebrating Hanukkah on Saturday in New York City.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to respond to a letter in your newspaper dated December 30, 2019: `Child Care and Protection Agency needs institutional strengthening.’

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Opener Dominic Sibley has joined the growing list of England players and staff stuck down by illness in South Africa, the England and Wales Cricket Board said in a media release yesterday.

Daquan Robinson, who admitted to impersonating a policeman in order to commit robberies, was yesterday sentenced to two years in prison.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – A Chinese court sentenced the scientist who created the world’s first “gene-edited” babies to three years in prison yesterday for illegally practising medicine and violating research regulations, the official Xinhua news agency said.

Dear Editor, He has been High Commissioner in London for just three years.

(Trinidad Express) The Southwest Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) has described as inaccurate the information that a 75-year-old man came back from the dead after suffering a heart attack on Boxing Day.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba is set to return for their Premier League visit to Arsenal on New Year’s Day after sitting out Saturday’s 2-0 win over Burnley as a precaution, manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has said.

Titus Valenzuela, a youth who says he robbed his boss because his family needed the money, was yesterday sentenced to 12 months in jail after he admitted to the crime.

A Corentyne man was yesterday charged with murdering a driver on Christmas morning outside of a club located on the public road in Portuguese Quarter, Corentyne. 

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi yesterday condemned U.S.

Dear Editor, Weeks after, and mother and father were still in tears, in sympathy with their tearful daughter who had been one of the students that only heard of the abusive wound inflicted by a group of school-mates on one other at her East Coast primary school.

By Sergei Guriev PARIS – From Hitler to Stalin, and from Mussolini to Mao, the world’s twentieth-century dictators took to heart Niccolò Machiavelli’s famous dictum that “it is better to be feared than loved.”

Dear Editor, History will confirm that in the four years and five months of his rule in Guyana, Mr.

Coomacka and Topp XX will contest the final of the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) year-end championship, following semifinal wins on Sunday at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC), Linden.

Even the most far-seeing of soothsayers might have been disinclined to risk their reputations on venturing a prediction on the condition in which Guyana would find itself going into the third decade of the twenty first century.

A construction worker is now awaiting sentencing for stealing over $200,000 in gold jewellery and UK currency.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ce­cil Skeete—the man who ac­cused top cop Gary Grif­fith of chok­ing, punch­ing, and putting a gun to his head—has been shot dead.

By Justin Yifu Lin and Yan Wang BEIJING – Since the 1960s, more than $4.6 trillion (in constant 2007 dollars) in gross bilateral and multilateral official development assistance (ODA) has been transferred to low-income countries.