Daily Archive: Friday, January 17, 2020

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump turned to some legal heavyweights to help defend him in his Senate impeachment trial with the addition today of former independent counsel Ken Starr, who paved the way for former President Bill Clinton’s 1998 impeachment, and prominent lawyer Alan Dershowitz.

If there is an iota of contrived modesty somewhere within Camille Deokie-Gorakh, it is smothered beneath a persona that appears instinctively warm and outreaching, a disposition that compels her to tell her own considerable story without overdoing and yet without failing to include the pertinent details, however small those may seem.

(Jamaica Observer) The Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, says it is moving forward with plans to unveil a statue of Jamaican Olympian Asafa Powell at the National Stadium in February .

(Trinidad Guardian) The Red House has been pro­claimed as the place for the con­tin­u­a­tion of Par­lia­ment.

(Jamaica Star) A Corporate Area store owner is livid after one of her former employees allegedly colluded with another and stole millions of dollars worth of items.

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – Suicides in Japan in 2019 fell to their lowest number in more than 40 years, police said today, marking the 10th straight year of declines.

 (Trinidad Express) National Security Minister Stuart Young has given the assurance that Venezuelan migrants who were given registration cards will receive “an automatic six-month extension” at the end of the expiry period.

(Trinidad Express) A day after his 43rd birthday, Julien Christopher Caleb was gunned down.

With global oil prices rising and falling as part of a continued “boom-bust” cycle, Guyana is being advised to embrace “observer’ status within the club of oil producers referred to as OPEC+.

Stressing that Guyanese can only benefit from the country’s bountiful resources if they are protected, President David Granger yesterday called on the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) to consider its role in strengthening border and maritime defence and ensuring the economic development of the country.

“Maybe I’m paying for my past sins,” were the words uttered by Shawn Harris, the Kitty man who was found guilty of murdering a vagrant in 2017, prior to a life sentence being handed down to him yesterday.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has declared that if his party cannot stop the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) from using House-to-House registration data to update the voters list they must be given an opportunity to verify every change made.

Moments before his trial for the murder of  Jermaine Simon was set to continue at the High Court in Georgetown, Trevor Anthony Amsterdam yesterday pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter and was sentenced to 19 years.

Four persons are now in custody after a truck headed to Berbice was found with marijuana and cocaine yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Opener Tagenarine Chanderpaul’s defiant half-century kept champions Guyana Jaguars afloat after seasoned Test seamer Kemar Roach grabbed four wickets to undermine the innings, on the opening day of their second round encounter here yesterday.

TAROUBA, Trinidad, CMC – Test left-hander Darren Bravo was eyeing a half-century as Trinidad and Tobago Red Force took the upper hand on the opening day of their second round Regional four-day contest against Leeward Islands Hurricanes here yesterday.

The senior Guyana Police Force Officer accused of sexually assaulting a female has been relieved of his duties and an administrative decision “will be made shortly”, according to Commissioner of Police Leslie James.

PORT ELIZABETH (Reuters) – Ben Stokes survived several scares but featured in a 76-run late afternoon partnership with Ollie Pope as England reached 224 for four wickets at close on the opening day of the third test against South Africa yesterday.

A Guyanese man was on Wednesday arrested and charged with second-degree murder of Alejandro Melendez, who police say was hit three times in the parking lot of 760 State St, Schenectady, New York, on Christmas morning.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Captain Kieron Pollard has urged his side to pay attention to the small details and improve their bowling discipline, as they seek to come from behind and win the three-match Twenty20 series against Ireland.

Following the conclusion of a second trial, Romal Jewan was yesterday acquitted by a jury on charges of raping a 13-year-old girl.

Even as global fossil fuel exploration, not least the world’s major oil exploration companies, face what all too frequently has been a humbling pushback from the growing army of environmental lobbyists, the membership of which has been buttressed in recent years by high-profile supporters, not least, the United Nations, advocates of continued investments in fossil fuel exploration and exploitation continue to have their moments, the year 2019 decidedly providing much to ‘shout about’ insofar as significant new oil finds are concerned.

Passport generation at the Central Passport Office at Camp Road, Georgetown has been interrupted due to the incorrect lamination reel being procured and plans are afoot to rectify the issue, Minister of Citizenship Winston Felix told Stabroek News.

LONDON (Reuters) – Eliud Kipchoge and Kenenisa Bekele, the only men to go under two hours, two minutes for the marathon, will go head-to-head over the classic distance in this year’s London Marathon, organisers said on Friday.

The Crane, West Coast Demerara man who allegedly stabbed his wife to death at midnight on Tuesday before ingesting poison has been listed in stable condition and is currently under police guard at the West Demerara Regional Hospital.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Kavem Hodge and veteran opener Devon Smith fashioned half-centuries as Windward Islands Volcanoes produced a solid batting display, to keep Jamaica Scorpions in the field for the entire first day of their second round fixture at Sabina Park.

Dear Editor, In a letter of 13th January, 2020, to the media, I raised the matter of media broadcast coverage, particularly the coverage of the State owned and operated National Communica-tions Network (NCN), of the political parties contesting the General and Regional Elections as a fundamental requirement for conducting a free and fair election.

All too frequently denied ready access to critical information on manufacturing processes associated with popular product lines in the food, cosmetics and fashion industries, consumers the world over continue to unwittingly run health risks associated with consuming or applying products that may, sooner or later, seriously compromise their health.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has shortlisted 60 local players to commence training at the National Training Centre, Providence, for the impending CONCACAF Men’s U20 Championships, which is slated to be hosted in Nicaragua from February 15th-23rd.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Senate impeachment trial on whether to remove U.S.

Dear Editor, Your newspaper  did very well in recalling to our minds the lives and careers of several outstanding Guyanese who died during the past year. 

Commissioner of Police Leslie James yesterday declined to address the reasons behind the secondment of Assistant Commissioner of Police Clifton Hicken and Senior Superintendent Fazil Karimbaksh.

NAIROBI (Reuters) – A top Kenyan athlete ran away from anti-doping testers who had visited their training camp unannounced to take samples, a senior athletics authority official said, as the East African nation ramps up efforts to combat doping.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise, who began ruling by decree this week, wants to use his new power to overhaul the constitution in an attempt to break a “decades-long cycle of political crises,” a planned presidential statement seen by Reuters shows.

While the Small Business Act of Guyana (2004) provides a legal context that both defines the small business and sets out the paradigms within which such businesses operate, the growth and development of the small business sector has not, up until now, advanced to a level that might have been anticipated.

Talks between Russian bauxite company, RUSAL and the Guyana Bauxite & General Workers Union (GB&GWU) have been stalled for over two months as the Ministry of Social Protection’s Labour Department has failed to facilitate the talks.

Dear Editor, I would like to bring this matter to your attention, after a long time of putting it off.

(Trinidad Guardian) Broken pieces of red and blue ink pens on the road outside the Southern Girl Guides Headquarters marked the spot yesterday where Dr Rudradeva Sharma was kidnapped before being killed in a vehicular crash.

LA PAZ,  (Reuters) – Bolivian former President Evo Morales retracted his call for the organization of militias in his home country yesterday after the comments sparked outcry from its interim government.

Colours Boutique has maintained its longstanding partnership with the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Championship, donating the team uniforms for the 2020 season, which is slated to kick-off on January 24th.

With the widely anticipated oil & gas-powered growth in the Guyana economy having already realised evidence of efforts to step up standards in some sectors of the Guyana economy, local cosmetologist and massage therapist, Marcia Trotz, is determined that her own enterprise will not get left behind.

Dear Editor, I note with interest the expanded role the Carter Center intends to play in our upcoming General and Regional Elections.

Post mortem results for Belle West resident, Mohamed Rasheed, called ‘Spanner’ who died at the West Demerara Regional Hospital on Tuesday morning revealed that the man did not die as a result of the beating he was said to have suffered on Sunday night.

(Barbados Nation) As Barbados continues its move away from the mandatory death penalty, another legal first was created yesterday in the No.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China is expected to report today that economic growth slowed to its weakest in nearly three decades in 2019 amid a bruising trade war with the United States, and more stimulus steps are expected this year to help avert sharper slowdown.

PORT ELIZABETH (Reuters) – Paceman Jofra Archer will stay on tour as England hope to get him fit for the last test against South Africa in Johannesburg next week, officials said yesterday.

I love parables. The simplicity in them – turning initial confusion, into absolute clarity – and then being able to apply the principle to your life in a way that does not drain you of energy and resources.

Twenty-three Haitians, who were caught by Lethem police illegally departing the country, were each fined a sum of $30,000 on Wednesday after they admitted to the offence.

Dear Editor, I so much regret my inability to attend my friend and schoolmate ‘Bud’ Lee’s departure ceremony on Thursday 16th January, at the Georgetown Club.

Seven Cubans who were arrested at the Mabura Police Station while on their way to Lethem were fined on Wednesday after they all admitted to overstaying in the country.

(Trinidad Express) Who shot and killed two brothers and their cousin in Wallerfield yesterday morning?

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Guatemala’s government said yesterday prosecutors carried out raids and arrested a former mayor accused of corruption as the U.S.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The Indian cricket board signalled it is ready for life without Mahendra Singh Dhoni after dropping the long-serving wicketkeeper from its list of centrally contracted players yesterday.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 860’s trading results showed consideration of $16,113,346 from 198,076 shares traded in 22 transactions as compared to session 859’s trading results which showed consideration of $79,199,340 from 886,256 shares traded in 36 transactions.

The new Guyana Marketing Corporation has agreed to provide us with the above information which we will publish on a weekly basis subject to receipt.

This week’s disclosure that a delegation comprising representatives of sixteen Jamaican companies will be visiting Guyana later this month to pursue what has been described as “mutually beneficial business opportunities,” is a development of note that ought not to be allowed to pass without public comment.

First there were nineteen, then there were thirteen, then there were eleven and now there are nine.

Nomination Day, One Rohee, Ten Returning Officers I had to succumb?

Today’s column returns to the issue of Local Content Policy (LCP) which appears either to have been drowned out by the excitement of First Oil or in which interest seems to have ebbed – a pattern since the Local Content was first raised in the aftermath of the disclosure of the signing of the 2016 Petroleum Agreement.

Currently, global food and water supplies are precariously perched on the brink of disaster. 

Dear Editor,  Anyone who knows Kit Nascimento and Tony Vieira knows you can read them.