Daily Archive: Monday, July 4, 2022

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill.,  (Reuters) – Six people were killed and at least two dozen injured when a rooftop gunman opened fire at a Fourth of July parade in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Highland Park today, turning a civic display of patriotism into a scene of panicked mayhem.

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) today said that it has advised that police Lance Corporal Kristoff DeNobrega be charged with the murder of Quindon Bacchus on June 10.

(Barbados Nation) Police have identified the bodies of the four people found in a home at Breezy Hill, St Philip this morning.

  DAR ES SALAAM, (Reuters) – Tanzania said today it had signed an agreement with a Turkish firm, Yapi Merkezi, to build a $900 million modern railway line as part of the country’s efforts to upgrade transportation links and boost trade with its neighbours.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was likely killed by unintentional gunfire from Israeli positions, but independent investigators could not reach a definitive conclusion about the origin of the bullet that struck her, the U.S.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – A Turkish court rejected today a request to extradite a man wanted by Haiti over his alleged involvement in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise.

The Police Complaints Authority (PCA) yesterday said that it has recommended to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) that three cops be charged in relation to the fatal shooting of Quindon Bacchus on June 10.

A third suspect in the murder of octogenarian Agnes Dillon of  Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara has confessed to committing the crime.

The  Promotions List for Senior Officers of the Guyana Police Force was released yesterday with Senior Superintendent Calvin Brutus, who is currently performing the functions of Deputy Commissioner ‘Administration’, heading the list of those promoted to Assistant Commissioners.

Team Guyana finished with a five-medal haul, a silver and the remainder bronze when the curtain came down on the inaugural Caribbean Games last night in Guadeloupe. 

Days after being given reasons for the refusal of its Local Content certificate, Chief Executive Officer of Ramps Logistics Guyana, Shaun Rampersad said they are working to submit supplementary documents this week.

A fatal accident yesterday afternoon at Silver Hill, Soesdyke-Linden Highway has claimed the life of a pedestrian.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips is to lead a high-level government outreach today to the East Coast Demerara villages of Buxton/Friendship.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that a fully vaccinated Region Two man, 20, has succumbed to COVID-19.

Dear Editor,  I attended the Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) public scoping presentation on the Uaru project 5.00-7.15 pm on Monday May 23, 2022, at the Umana Yana, Georgetown, Guyana.

Michael Sampson, Aliya Wong and Yusuf Khan shone the brightest under the lights of the Berbice High School auditorium when the Intermediate and Mr.

Dear Editor, The exchange of views concerning the cry ‘No Justice, No Peace’ by residents of Golden Grove and a similar cry for justice against the injustices meted out to the Mon Repos market vendors by a marauding gang has become immersed in the ‘Monday morning quarter back’ syndrome.

A twenty-six-year-old minibus conductor yesterday morning succumbed to injuries sustained in an accident which occurred on Friday night.

A brawl at the Route 42 Bus Park in the vicinity of the Stabroek Market has left a man hospitalised with stab wounds and another with a gunshot wound.

Dear Editor, Page 8 of Stabroek News of July 2, 2022 carried an article which included a photograph with President Ali, Hakeem Mohamed, recently sworn member of the Police Service Commission, Patrick Findlay, Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Prime Minister, Mark Phillips, Attorney General, Anil Nandlall and Minister of Governance, Gail Teixeira.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) officially launched the National Milling Company (NAMILCO) Thunderbolt Flour Power National Under-17 League Saturday at the National Training Centre, Providence.

Dear Editor, Last Wednesday evening the President gave the reasons for not having meaningful dialogue with the Leader of the Opposition, saying that the Opposition continue to state that his Government had been improperly elected and is therefore illegal and that it is disrespectful.

YIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine’s forces have withdrawn from the bombed-out city of Lysychansk, prompting Russia to claim full control of the eastern Luhansk region, a key Kremlin war goal, but President Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed to regain the lost territory.

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport Corporation has invited bids for the construction of a new administrative office building estimated to cost $906m.

Dear Editor, It didn’t take long to follow on the heels of what I call the mayhem in Mon Repos. 

A “council decision” will be made Friday by the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG)  rather than a personal one addressing allegations written by the AAG’s General Secretary and Treasurer to the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) against the body’s head, Aubrey Hutson. 

(Reuters) – The congressional panel investigating last year’s attack on the U.S.

Some 100 residents of Sophia, Georgetown on Saturday benefitted from the government’s $250, 000 business grant, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

One of Guyana’s top table tennis player Paul David copped two silver medals at the 2022 US nationals Table tennis Championships in Fort Worth, Texas, yesterday.

Dear Editor, Please be good enough to accommodate this response to the letter in SN of Tuesday June 28, titled `Worker participation in decision-making remains relevant today’.

ALMATY,  (Reuters) – Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said yesterday there were casualties among civilians and law enforcement officers after rare protests in the Central Asian country, and an exiled opposition politician said at least five people had been killed.

Dear Editor, Even though they know that GDP is a very imperfect measure, economists have settled on this value as the best available indicator of economic performance since the 1960s.

Aroima, Linden Technical Institute (LTI), the Bishops’ High, and President’ College clinched wins when the Youth Basketball Guyana coordinated National Schools Basketball Festival (NSBF) continued yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue.

A security guard was on June 29th remanded to prison on a charge of attempted murder.

Defending champion Christianburg/Wismar, West Ruimveldt, Cummings Lodge, and North Ruimveldt secured victories when the Milo Secondary School Football Championship continued yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

BIRMINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – India tightened their grip on the rearranged fifth test against England, with an overall lead of 257 and with seven wickets in hand, despite Jonny Bairstow’s belligerent hundred on day three of the contest at Edgbaston yesterday.

By Alissa Trotz Alissa Trotz is Editor of the In the Diaspora column.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Rovman Powell and Brandon King struck starkly contrasting half-centuries as West Indies once again dominated Bangladesh to earn a comfortable 35-run victory in the second Twenty20 International at Windsor Park yesterday.

Dear Editor, A video was recently circulating on Facebook where a cyclist was bullied out of the cycle lane by a canter truck and then by a car that was pushing its way on to the main road.

While upholding the right of citizens to agitate in the furtherance and defence of their interests, the Electoral Reform Group (ERG) says that it is appalled at the acts of rioting and looting that occurred on June 28 in connection with the protests related to the Quindon Bacchus killing. 

(Trinidad Express) On Saturday at around 5 p.m. Curtis Harriot Junior was gunned down at Debe.

The removal of Dr. Marlan Cole from the position of Director of the Government Analyst-Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) back in March this year may well not have come as a complete surprise to him.

(ICC) Former West Indies batter Shivnarine Chanderpaul has been appointed the head coach of the USA Women’s senior and U19 teams.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Italian 10th seed Jannik Sinner produced one of the best performances of his young career to oust Spanish teen sensation Carlos Alcaraz in four sets at Wimbledon yesterday and advance to his maiden quarter-final at the grasscourt major.

SILVERSTONE, England, (Reuters) – Protesters stormed the Silverstone track after a massive opening lap crash at the British Grand Prix yesterday brought out a red flag to halt the race.

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COPENHAGEN,  (Reuters) – Three people were killed and several more were wounded in a shooting at a shopping centre in Copenhagen yesterday, Danish police said, adding they had arrested a 22-year-old Danish man and charged him with manslaughter.