News – Page 353 – Guyana Times International

Two jointly charged with murder of Covent Garden teen

May 12, 2017 TIMES INT'L

Two prime suspects in the fatal stabbing of Covent Garden teen Brian Charles Yearwood were on Monday morning hauled before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan on a joint charge of murder. The charge stated that Shannon Cox, 20, and Andy Damel Peters, 17, unlawfully murdered the 16-year -old on April 29, 2017 at Covent Garden, East Bank Demerara (EBD). It was previously reported that Yearwood was fatally stabbed in the chest, in the compound of the Covent Garden Nursery School, during a concert hosted by the school. His grieving mother related…

Sovereignty belongs to the people, not State – NTC Vice Chair

May 12, 2017 TIMES INT'L

A top official of the National Toshaos’ Council (NTC) has sought to correct recent assertions by African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) Executive Eric Phillips that sovereignty belonged to the State and not to individual groups. NTC Vice Chairman Lennox Shuman expressed his disagreement with that statement, during an interview with this publication on Tuesday. He noted that Guyanese, as the electorate, held sovereignty in their hands. “As it relates to sovereignty, sovereignty belongs in all the people of Guyana. But while we must understand that while we say one…

CCJ orders Guyana to refund $$$ in Environmental tax

May 12, 2017 TIMES INT'L

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has ruled that Guyana refund Trinidad-based beverage company, SM Jaleel (SMJ) and its subsidiary in Guyana, Environmental Tax imposed between 2011 and 2015 which can amount to millions of dollars. CCJ President, Sir Dennis Byron on Tuesday ruled that the taxes levied during this period are in violation of the Caribbean Community’s (Caricom) Single Market and Economy rules. In handing down the ruling, Sir Dennis Byron stated that Guyana has been clearly unjustly “enriched” at the expense of SMJ and GBI (Guyana Beverages Inc),…

Hamilton Green and his pension

May 12, 2017 TIMES INT'L

Dear Editor, Reading the recent article in the newspapers about ‘Hamilton Green on his pension’, I first discounted it as the utterances of a mentally confused octogenarian. But then when I read the feature ‘History will not be kind to Hamilton Green’, I felt the need to add my ‘two bits’. Mr Green speaks glibly about a period of drought for himself and his family of almost 25 years, referring to the period from 1992 when he was ousted from the position of Prime Minister due to his party’s loss…

A wonderful opportunity to be magnanimous has slipped by

May 12, 2017 TIMES INT'L

Dear Editor, In my role as an ‘Apostle to the Gentiles’, I am involved in issues that trouble the “least among us”. I work with ex-offenders, recovering addicts, and the street people; and if there is one thing I find severely lacking in Guyana, it is the availability of mentors. If our chronic and precipitous brain drain has done anything, it has robbed Guyana of a pool of role models and mentors, increasingly among men and boys. Therefore, whenever an occasion arises, and purely by evolutionary default, those in need…

Wismar Massacre to be commemorated in NYC

May 12, 2017 TIMES INT'L

Dear Editor The 100th Anniversary Foundation, NY, a NGO, has issued a release saying it will commemorate the 1964 Wismar Massacre at a special Remembrance ceremony in Richmond Hill on Friday evening, May 26. The NGO said that May 26th should not be a day for only celebrations. It noted that during May 1964, some 3000 Indo Guyanese were victims of a massacre in Wismar. It is known as the WISMAR MASSACRE OF INDIANS. This year marks the 53rd anniversary of that PNC preplanned annihilation of Indians. The independent media…

5 ‘Advisors’ for Guyana’s Attorney General may be a world record

May 12, 2017 TIMES INT'L

Dear Editor, Every person who has ever served in the office of Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs must have felt a profound sense of flattery when they learnt that the current holder of the office was gifted three (3) retired Judges — one from the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), one from the Court of Appeal of Guyana, and one from the High Court of Guyana — along with two (2) law professors, each possessing a doctorate in law, to assist him in the discharge of the functions…

Cutlass-wielding bandit caught after robbing neighbour

May 12, 2017 TIMES INT'L

Police in Berbice were able to catch a known criminal who led them into a swamp after he went into his neighbour’s house and robbed her of cash and jewellery using a cutlass. The incident took place about 08:00h on Monday at Lot 126 Lord Street, Fort Ordinance, Canje, Berbice. According to Lalita Kellawan, 55, she was in the kitchen of her home when her neighbour came through the door brandishing a cutlass. She said the man grabbed her and choked her. At the time, her 90-year-old mother was in…

NCDs: A major threat to national development

May 12, 2017 TIMES INT'L

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), of all the major health threats that have emerged over the years, “none has challenged the very foundations of public health so profoundly as the rise of chronic Non-Communicable Diseases”. Caused by poor lifestyle choices, such as tobacco use, alcohol abuse, unhealthy diets, and physical inactivity, NCDs have resulted in large numbers of young people dying. A significant number have also fallen ill and, therefore, cannot contribute to their families or the development of their communities in any way. Heart disease, cancer, diabetes,…

The French Government

May 12, 2017 TIMES INT'L

The French presidential elections last week grabbed world attention primarily because it was seen as a sign of how extensive the move towards “populism” – read “right wing” sentiment –was in Europe, after the Brexit vote in Britain and the election of Donald Trump in the US. Now that Emmanuel Macron’s one-year-old En Marche! Party has defeated Marine Le Pen of the National Front (FN), the analysts will be generally consumed by the implications for EU unity and the terms of Britain’s exit as well as the facticity of Le…