TIMES INT'L

President, Opposition Leader meet

July 20, 2018July 20, 2018 TIMES INT'L

Opposition Leader Dr Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday led a team to meet with a government delegation headed by President David Granger at State House. The meeting was the first set of “meaningful consultations” to discuss the nominees for the appointment of the Public and Police Services Commissions. According to a brief statement from the Ministry of the Presidency, in an invited comment after the meeting, Minister Harmon said that the President as required by the Constitution, has consulted with Jagdeo and he expects that the Commissions will soon be sworn…

Big and Bad Broom

July 20, 2018July 20, 2018 TIMES INT'L

Satiricus wondered how he’d ever win. Not only did he have to defend his KFC party and leaders Nagga Man and Rum Jhaat to his friends; he had to squeeze his nose and do the same for the Pee an’ See and their four partners in their APANU coalition within THE Government coalition. As he ambled into the Back Street Bar, he breathed a sigh of relief most of those partners didn’t really exist!! “Hey Sato!!” yelled Hari, as soon as he espied his pal. “Like your hungry Minister is…

Man found guilty of raping 9-year-old girl

July 20, 2018July 20, 2018 TIMES INT'L

…to serve 2 consecutive life sentences In what she said was meant to send society a strong message, Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on Wednesday sentenced 46-year-old Navindra Badal, called ““Uncle Ravi,” to serve two consecutive life sentences for raping a nine-year-old girl on two separate occasions during 2016. It was determined in the Sexual Offences Court that the acts were committed between July 1st and 31st, 2016, and August 14th and 15th, 2016 at an East Coast Demerara village. When the jury returned the guilty verdicts after two hours of deliberation,…

President Granger should update his ‘Code of Conduct’

July 20, 2018July 20, 2018 TIMES INT'L

Dear Editor, I ask your indulgence to allow me a public forum to call for a Commission of Inquiry into APNU+AFC Minister Simona Broomes’s activities as a trafficking in persons (TIP) activist. I make this call because Ms. Broomes’s recent false accusations against hard working Guyanese citizens show a callous disregard for truth, honesty and ethics. For the minister to calmly state, “I do not know what you are talking about” when asked by reporters if she had an apology for levelling false allegations after her lies had been exposed…

“Official bullying”

July 20, 2018July 20, 2018 TIMES INT'L

…President, PNC should publicly disassociate themselves from Broomes’ action – Hinds The fracas that occurred at the New Thriving restaurant’s parking lot and involved allegations of a guard pointing a gun at Junior Natural Resources Minister Simona Broomes – an allegation that has since been debunked by video footage — reinforces the need for the existence of a strong ministerial code of conduct. This is according to Dr David Hinds, who also expressed disappointment that so far only one official, Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence, has publicly addressed the matter.…

Vulgarity reaching epic proportions

July 20, 2018July 20, 2018 TIMES INT'L

Dear Editor, Simona Broomes is in the news again, and I should say for all the wrong reasons. She is at it again, exposing her baser material this time to personnel of a private security firm. It seems that the lawlessness and vulgar behaviour of this woman knows no bounds, as she goes on this mindless rampage. Not so long ago, this very same individual showed to the world how base she can be when she assembled the “boom out” video in the hallowed chambers of Parliament. In that Youtube…

Agreeing…

July 20, 2018July 20, 2018 TIMES INT'L

…on elections goals? Under fire from the Opposition – both for his appointment and his decision on the Deputy CEO of GECOM – Rtd Justice James Patterson made some conciliatory noises, saying that “elections count for nothing if they aren’t “free and fair””. Was he trying to placate the Opposition as he addressed employees of the elections body who were being trained for the imminent LGE? But in his remarks, notwithstanding the laudatory sentiment, Patterson simply emphasised why he was objectionable to the Opposition in the first place. He noted,…

Personal trainer jailed for sexually assaulting teen

July 20, 2018July 20, 2018 TIMES INT'L

Twenty-seven-year-old Michael Sampson, personal trainer of a 14-year-old female, was on Monday found guilty of sexually assaulting this female, and has been sentenced by City Magistrate Judy Latchman to four years’ imprisonment. The charge Sampson had faced had alleged that he sexually assaulted the lass on February 19, 2018 at Delhi Street, Prashad Nagar. The 14-year-old female had reportedly been at Sampson’s home on the day in question, and he allegedly had touched her inappropriately. The matter was reported to the Police, and he accordingly was charged. Sampson had initially…

CPL 2018: Get in the game!

July 20, 2018July 20, 2018 TIMES INT'L

Last year, patriotism, national pride and excitement ran high as thousands of Guyanese flocked the Guyana National Stadium at Providence to be part of several exciting Caribbean Premier League home matches; which no doubt had a continuing redounding positive impact on the country’s overall economic and tourism development. It must be stated from the outset, the CPL had managed also to unify a very divided Guyana, as persons from all sections of society — regardless of their race, creed, sexual orientation and political persuasion — rallied behind the so far…

Former Gold Board accountant slapped with fraud charge

July 20, 2018July 20, 2018 TIMES INT'L

A former Guyana Gold Board (GGB) accountant was on Wednesday slapped with six counts of fraud and taken before city Magistrate Fabayo Azore at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. Rosanna Ramnarine was allegedly fired in November 2017, after an audit of the GGB allegedly unearthed a major fraud involving herself and a clerk at the agency. The prosecution is contending that the 35-year-old former accountant defrauded the company of over G$1 million between the period of February 1 and June 30, 2017. It was previously reported that the former accountant and…