Daily Archive: Thursday, May 25, 2023

Superintendent of the Mazaruni Prison, Alexander Hopkinson is among six persons who were charged today with conspiring to facilitate the escape on Friday of death row prisoner Royden Williams known as `Smallie’.

Today, CANU Officers conducted an operation at an abandoned house located at Avocado Square East Ruimveldt, Georgetown which led to the discovery of various types of ammunitions.

The Ministry of Health today said that 29 children from the Mahdia dormitory fire have been assessed and treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital and its medical teams have been mobilised to provide services to the Region Eight community and to remain on standby.

FREETOWN,  (Reuters) – A giant tree that towered over Sierra Leone’s capital for centuries and symbolised freedom to its early residents came down overnight during a heavy rainstorm.

HANOI,  (Reuters) – A noodle vendor in Vietnam famous for imitating celebrity chef “Salt Bae” to allegedly mock a top government official was sentenced to five and a half years in prison today, police said, after a court found him guilty of anti-state propaganda.

(Trinidad Guardian) Election footing is on, as Local Government elections will be held within 90 days of the Privy Council’s May 18 judgment.

Sources say grilled windows at the Mahdia Secondary School Dormitory were flagged by the fire service as a hazard in November of last year and February of this year – months before Sunday’s deadly blaze that claimed 19 lives.

Following the submission of 26 recommendations in their report on the 2020 General Elections where eight were singled out as priority areas, the European Union Election Observation follow-up mission yesterday said that many of them are still concerns of stakeholders today, with only two implemented.

The fifth edition of the ‘Stage of Champions’ Bodybuilding and Fitness Championship will take place July 9 at the Ramada Princess Hotel.

Police are investigating the murder of Terrence Washington, a 47-year-old carpenter of Lot 60 D’Urban Street, Lodge, Georgetown who was attacked by two men.

SYLHET, Bangladesh, CMC – Left-hander Kirk McKenzie passed fifty for the fourth time in five innings but narrowly missed out on three figures, as West Indies A carved out a small lead on day two of the second four-day “Test” here yesterday.

Dear Editor, Your editorial of 24 May (Mahdia tragedy, https://www.stabroeknews.com/2023/05/24/opinion/editorial/mahdia-tragedy/) on the horrific deaths of 19 children in a dormitory fire on Sunday night (and other children who are seriously burnt, all the children scarred for life) reminded us of the government’s serial failures to learn from the earlier deaths of three schoolgirls in Waramadong Secondary School dormitory in August 2008 and the fire that razed the boys’ dormitory of the Bartica Secondary School 8 months earlier in December 2007.

As the manhunt continues for notorious convicted killer, Mark Royden Williams six days after he escaped the maximum security Mazaruni prison, Region Seven remains tense and social activities have declined particularly because of his deadly relationship with the town of Bartica.

SYLHET, Bangladesh, CMC – Left-handed opener Kirk McKenzie said he was disappointed by his failure again to reach triple figures but was now focussed on making amends in his remaining opportunities.

Finding that his defence of alibi had not been put to the jury, the Court of Appeal has ordered that Sheldon Lynch be retried on two charges which allege that he had raped a 10-year-old girl on two separate occasions—in 2010 and 2011 respectively.

Dear Editor, We reflect on the risks involved as ExxonMobil drills through ~2,000 metres of water (>1 mile) and ~3,700 metres (> 2 miles) of rock to get to the petroleum and associated gas located under the weight of such pressure in Guyana’s offshore territory. 

Swag Entertainment, DC Ballers, Gunners, and Kara-Kara recorded victories, when the Linden ‘One Guyana’ Beach Football Championship continued on Sunday evening outside the PPP/C office in Mackenzie.

Dear Editor, Your 24 May 2023, editorial fails on a number of fronts: First, hindsight is 20/20.

Ex prison officer and bodybuilder Warren George, who last Wednesday made a daring attempt to escape the custody of a police officer at the High Court in Georgetown where he was on trial, has been found not guilty of the rape charge which was levelled against him.

Fitness Express has continued its long-standing support of the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPLF). 

(Ministry of Education photos) Sixteen-year-old Sabrina John was yesterday laid to rest in her home village of Karisparu, Region Eight.

Dear Editor, No one can replace a child who died. No one can erase the helpless horror of parents who live the final terrified moments of their children’s lives as the fire roasts and smokes them to death.

P&P Insurance Brokers Tuesday provided a timely boost to the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) in the form of funding for the under-19 team.

The Ministry of Agriculture’s Hope Coconut Industries Limited (HCIL) recently acquired a shipment of Brazilian Green Dwarf coconut seed nuts.

Dear Editor, As we observe another Independence Day in Guyana, there is nothing to celebrate.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies (CWI) Senior Men’s Selection Panel yester announced changes to the West Indies “A” Team squad currently Bangladesh and the West Indies ODI squad to play the UAE in Sharjah.

Guyana’s gold medal winning contingent returned on Tuesday from the South American U-20 Championships, which was held in Bogota, Colombia from May 19-21.

As the country continues to mourn the deaths of the 19 children following the Mahdia Secondary School dormitory fire, two patients continue to fight for their lives.

Dear Editor, Our nation has lost nineteen young lives and we are all grieving for their innocent lost.

Space Gym 2.0, is the latest corporate entity to support the Intermediate and Masters Powerlifting Championship scheduled for Sunday at Chase’s Academy.

Police are investigating a fatal accident that claimed the life of  Beshma Jagdeo, a 49-year-old fisherman of Lot 895 Second Field, South West, Cummings Lodge, Georgetown, on the Rupert Craig Highway in the vicinity of MovieTowne.

Dear Editor, They stood by you but you could not stand vigil, hold a candle and say a silent prayer for them. 

The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) is down in the ruck pushing to change its recent run of mediocrity in an effort to return the sport and its players to its illustrious glory days.

Compiled by Anita Baker and Shemila Karim (Interns with the Guyana Media and Communication Academy) With Local Government Elections (LGE) set for June 12th 2023 in municipalities and neighbourhood democratic councils Stabroek News went into the streets to get the views of Guyanese who are eligible to vote.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Negotiators for Democratic President Joe Biden and top congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy held what both sides called productive talks yesterday to try to reach a deal to raise the United States’ $31.4 trillion debt ceiling and avoid a catastrophic default.

Dear Editor, According to our country’s fire safety regulations GCP 9-3 Fire Safety, code of practice for buildings part 3: Fire safety use and occupancy (from 2005) 5.1.1.5, a school is considered an Occupancy Group A-4 structure.

A prison officer died in an accident at Loo Creek on Sunday evening.

SYLHET, Bangladesh, CMC – Fast bowler Akeem Jordan said utilising the grassy pitch and building pressure had been key to his five-wicket haul on the second day of the second four-day “Test” against Bangladesh A.

(Reuters) – A state-sponsored Chinese hacking group has been spying on a wide range of U.S.

Dear Editor, Things all dormitories, orphanages, and shelters where children are housed must have: 1.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies (CWI) yesterday announced that following an assessment of a remodeled bowling action, Guyanese fast bowler Ronsford Beaton has been cleared to resume bowling in regional and international cricket.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Western Australia state has agreed to compensate an Aboriginal group for historic acts including issuing mining leases on their traditional lands, setting a precedent that is set to allow Indigenous groups a greater say in future developments.

Dear Editor, Probably, it has taken hundreds of thousands and perhaps trillions of words, printed and spoken nationally and internationally, to explain how and why the nineteen school children perished along with the nine who have been hospitalized as a result of the fiery conflagration that ripped through the girl’s secondary school dormitory at Mahdia, at Region 8.

Fifty-seven-year old Raymond Wilson, of Lot 508 Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on May 23 before Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus to answer to the charge that was laid against him.

Forty-nine-year old Dexter Forde, of Lot 1952 Bobby Peak, Festival City, Georgetown, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Chief Magistrate Sherdel-Isaacs Marcus charged with insulting former city mayor Pat Chase Green.

LA PAZ,  (Reuters) – Roman Catholic Church leaders in Bolivia said yesterday the institution had been “deaf” to sexual abuse in Church-run schools and said they were taking action after a series of accusations in recent weeks led to protests and a legal investigation.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suffered a chaotic start to his 2024 presidential election race on Wednesday when glitches marred an online forum hosted by Twitter owner Elon Musk that was meant to showcase DeSantis’ fitness for the job.

Dear Editor, On behalf of the World Trade Centers’ Association and myself, I am reaching out as we hear the horrible news of fire at the dormitory in Georgetown on May 22nd that took so many young lives. 

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada and Saudi Arabia have agreed to restore full diplomatic ties and appoint new ambassadors, both countries said yesterday, bringing to a close a 2018 dispute that damaged relations and trade.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – The Colombian unit of Italy’s biggest utility, Enel ENEI.MI,

Dear Editor, Where is God in all our tragedies as a multi-cultural society? 

A Goedverwagting man who was on trial for allegedly trafficking cannabis in 2021 was freed of the charge on May 23.

(Reuters) – Uncapped fast bowler Josh Tongue has been picked in England’s 16-man squad for next month’s one-off test against Ireland, the country’s cricket board (ECB) said yesterday.

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) yesterday received two mobile phones and two SIM cards from the Digicel Speed Release Store in Mahdia, Region 8.

By Nate D.F. Allen and Nanjira Sambuli WASHINGTON, DC/NAIROBI – Last year, Google’s Equiano undersea cable began conveying terabytes of data per second to and from African shores.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Guyana followed up tidy bowling led by Plafianna Millington with steady batting to clinch a five-wicket win against hosts Leeward Islands in their third-round match of the West Indies Women’s T20 Blaze on Tuesday.

Ernst Mach, the 19th century Austrian physicist and philosopher, had observed that thought experiments are a structured display of our natural curiosity about the world.

(Reuters) – Tina Turner, the American-born singer who left a hardscrabble farming community and abusive relationship to become one of the top recording artists of all time, died yesterday at the age of 83.

(Reuters) – A 95-year-old woman who was allegedly tasered by a police officer in her Australian care home, died in hospital yesterday, the New South Wales police force said.

(Reuters) – Consumer prices in Mexico fell by more than expected in the first half of May, driving annual inflation to its lowest in 20 months in the first figures released after the central bank decided to pause interest rate hikes.

Dear Editor, Much has been written on the Mahdia fire tragedy thus it may be superfluous to pile up on the various outpourings of anger and grief, however, my experiences with the concerned authorities has been horrible.

CHENNAI, India, CMC – Former West Indies captain Nicholas Pooran suffered the indignity of a first-ball ‘duck’ as Lucknow Super Giants’ progress in the Indian Premier League playoffs came to a screeching halt with a depressing 81-run defeat to Mumbai Indians here yesterday.