Articles published on Monday, May 29, 2023
The police tonight said that Orlando Charles, a 45-year-old pilot and businessman of Lot 45 Middle Street, Georgetown, is to be charged by the Guyana Police Force with 16 counts of Trafficking in Persons.
An Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam woman was today remanded to prison after she was charged with her husband’s murder following her reported confession to investigators in Region Six that the victim discovered her cheating and began nagging at her and as such she decided to poison him.
President Irfaan Ali departed for Brasilia, Brazil this morning to participate in the Meeting of the Presidents of South American Countries tomorrow.
A 15-year-old girl was today charged with the murder of 19 children who died after the May 21st blaze at the female dormitory of the Mahdia Secondary School.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican business giant and founder of the LASCO Affiliated Companies, Lascelles Chin, died on Saturday night in the United States.
KAMPALA, (Reuters) – Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has signed one of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ laws, including the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality”, in defiance of Western condemnations and potential sanctions from aid donors.
The police said yesterday that members of the Joint Services fatally shot a man who was wanted in connection with assisting notorious death-row prison escapee Mark Royden Williams, while they were transporting him on a trail at St Mary’s Logging Area, Essequibo River, about 58 miles south of Bartica.
Mining operations and other livelihood practices in some sections of Middle Mazaruni, Region Seven have come to a standstill as flooding has returned.
The Rose Hall Jammers and prospect Keon Britton earned the marquee accolades when the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) staged its Pepsi/Mike Parris School Boys and Juniors championships yesterday at the Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis Gym.
As Guyana prepares for its Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) assessment later this year, Attorney General Anil Nandlall says that three draft pieces of legislation aiming to strengthen this country’s regulatory architecture will soon be presented to the National Assembly.
Waramuri and Bartica recorded lopsided wins in the girls and boys’ divisions respectively when the ExxonMobil U14 Football Championships continued yesterday at the National Insurance Scheme ground, Carifesta Avenue.
Derrick White scored on a tip-in just before the buzzer sounded and the Boston Celtics forced a Game 7 with a solid 104-103 victory over the host Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference finals on Saturday night.
Self-confessed drug trafficker Barry Dataram was recently granted US$500,000 bail by Magistrate Judge Lois Bloom and he is now confined to home detention in the US.
The increasing presence of sargassum seaweed on Guyana’s coast has put fishermen in further turmoil.
The Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPLF) staged its Intermediate and Masters’ Championship yesterday at Chase’s Academy.
The Office of Director of Public Prosecu-tions has advised that charges be instituted against the teenager who allegedly set the fire that destroyed the Mahdia Secondary School dormitory, leaving 19 children dead.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The final of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will be played today after heavy rain in Ahmedabad did not allow a single ball to be bowled in the contest between champions Gujarat Titans and heavyweights Chennai Super Kings yesterday.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan extended his two decades in power in elections on Sunday, winning a mandate to pursue increasingly authoritarian policies which have polarised Turkey and strengthened its position as a regional military power.
KYIV (Reuters) – Russia unleashed waves of air strikes on Kyiv overnight in what officials said appeared to be the largest drone attack on the city since the start of the war, as the Ukrainian capital prepared to celebrate the anniversary of its founding on Sunday.
Davendra Rampersaud, the pharmaceutical supplier who was freed last year of supplying the Ministry of Health (MOH) with expired HIV test kits and is now facing a six-count indictment in the US, was granted US$60,000 bail on the same day he pleaded guilty to three counts of the six-count indictment.
Sidwell Sandy who finished atop the podium in the juvenile category at the recently concluded Independence Three-Stage road race, is poised to add to his palmares.
Dear Editor, I never knew that in Guyana the responsibility for school safety was not that of the Minister of Education, but that of persons called Regional Education Officers and a quite different Ministry.
Dear Editor, What is this, somebody working overtime to constrict our thinking, to torture grievers?
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Violence by armed gangs has fallen “drastically” since the emergence of a vigilante justice movement that has seen at least 160 suspected criminals killed in the last month, a report by local human rights research group CARDH said on Sunday.
Commander of Regional Police Division 4 ‘C’, Senior Superintendent Khali Pareshram said on Saturday that the murder of Choorandan Chetram (Reid), 44, of Lot 101 Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, was still under investigation by the police.
(Trinidad Guardian) Repeatedly targeted, beaten and terrorised by bandits, armed with guns or cutlasses, farmers are buckling under pressure.
PARIS, (Reuters) – The famously fickle Paris crowd made themselves heard on the opening day of the French Open, booing when Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk refused to shake hands after her first-round defeat by Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus yesterday.
(Reuters) – The Texas Senate on Sunday was set to begin deliberations to permanently remove from office Attorney General Ken Paxton, a conservative firebrand and ally of former President Donald Trump, who was impeached by the House this weekend over accusations by fellow Republicans of abuse of office.
Dear Editor, I refer to Robin Singh’s letter in SN of May 24th titled: “An unlimited parent guarantee must be backed by an asset register”, and wish to respond as follows: Robin Singh argues, “it must be backed by an asset register, all of which would then be under lien and would require Guyana’s assent for any decision involving them.
Interviews and photos by Subhana Shiwmangal Stabroek News spoke to members of the public in the Better Hope East Coast Demerara area about the rising cost of living and how it is affecting them.
Powerhouses and league contenders Western Tigers and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) maintained their perfect record in the KFC Elite Football League, defeating Buxton United and Den Amstel respectively on Saturday evening.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy predicted on Sunday that a majority of his fellow Republicans would support the deal to suspend the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling that he negotiated at the weekend with President Joe Biden.
Dear Editor, The Democratic National Congress extends heart-felt Independence Anniver-sary Greetings on the observance of Fifty-Seven years of Guyana’s Independence from Britain.
The construction of the proposed four-lane Wismar/Mackenzie Bridge is to be funded under the US$200 million financial agreement with the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB).
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s government said on Friday the United Nations has confirmed the Amazonian city of Belem as the host of the COP30 climate change summit in November 2025.
DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia and the United States called on Sunday for the extension of a ceasefire deal that has brought some let-up in a six-week war between military factions, but said both sides had impeded aid efforts and were posturing for further escalation.
Josh Hazlewood remains a chance to play in the ICC World Test Championship final after Australia included the seamer in the 15-man squad to face India.
While there is much more to be done to respond to the trauma and grief that have enveloped the families of the 19 children who perished in the fire at Mahdia two Sundays ago, equally important is the establishment of accountability for what happened.
In a message for the World Day of Prayer for Care of Creation, Pope Francis stated that the world must rapidly ditch fossil fuels and end the “senseless war against creation”.
LONDON, CMC – Sunil Narine’s handy all-round performance was not enough to save Surrey from a narrow five-wicket defeat to Sussex, in the T20 Blast here yesterday.
Dear Editor, The calls I received since sharing a social moment, in London yesterday, with Guyana’s most reputable and loved journalist, Gordon Moseley of News Source, a media outlet that is supported by Guyanese from all walks of life, tell me that the PPP is afraid of its own shadow.
The police are seeking legal advice as regards the Rupert Craig Highway crash on April 4 that claimed the life of Kissoondai Sewratan, 69, of La Bonne Intention (LBI).
(Jamaica Gleaner) The police are searching for three boys who reportedly escaped from the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre at Tredegar Park, Spanish Town, St Catherine on Saturday.
TAOS, New Mexico (Reuters) – A biker was charged with murder after a shootout between rival motorbike gangs at a motorcycle rally in Red River, northern New Mexico, on Saturday in which three gang members were killed and five wounded, police said.
