2020 – Page 32 – Guyana Times International

Pomeroon duo freed of 2016 manslaughter charge

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020 TIMES INT'L

Thirty-six-year-old Lennox Baharally and 21-year-old Rondell Edwards, both boat builders, exited the Suddie High Court as free men on Wednesday after a no-case submission submitted by their attorney was upheld by trial Judge, Justice Sandra Kurtzious. The two men went on trial before Justice Kurtzious after pleading not guilty to a manslaughter charge which detailed that on April 26, 2016, they unlawful killed Mohammed Shameer at Jacklow, Pomeroon. At the summary of the matter on Wednesday, Attorney Jerome Khan argued that the State failed to provide sufficient evidence that the…

Poverty and sugar

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020 TIMES INT'L

In Guyana, far too many of our people are considered poor and are still waiting to access the opportunities that would allow them to lift themselves out of poverty. In his early months in Government, President David Granger had said that Guyana has enough resources to banish poverty forever. However, after almost five years in power, the nation did not see many real programmes implemented to address poverty and to create “the good life for all” that was promised on the campaign trail during the May 2015 polls. In fact,…

Gov’t failed to include youths in Guyana’s development – Jagdeo

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020 TIMES INT'L

For almost five years, the A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) coalition Administration failed multiple times to include young people in the plans for Guyana’s future, and ensured that the older generation were placed in seats of power. This is according to Opposition Leader and People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo, who told hundreds of party supporters at Lien Ken-Pen Square, Linden, Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice) on Sunday, that unlike the current Government, the PPP/Civic has over 50 young persons included on its list of candidates…

Labourer jailed for slapping reputed wife

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020 TIMES INT'L

A 55-year-old was jailed for six months on Wednesday after he admitted to slapping his reputed wife during an argument. Wayne Johnson, a labourer of Waterloo Street, Georgetown, appeared before Magistrate Faith McGusty at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts to answer to two charges. He admitted that on January 17 at North Road, Georgetown, he unlawfully and maliciously assaulted Carlann Smith. The man, however, denied that on the same day, he made use of threatening language towards Smith. In court on Wednesday, the Virtual Complainant said that she is tired of…

Granger, APNU/AFC treat sugar workers as second-class citizens

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020 TIMES INT'L

Dear Editor, For five years, sugar workers asked David Granger for help. These hardworking people ask for nothing, but being paid fairly. There is nothing decent and honest about ignoring the workers. Wage freeze is the ultimate in anti-working class politics and Granger and APNU/AFC have consolidated their anti-working class credentials by ignoring these sugar workers. For five years, Granger has ignored sugar workers’ plight, excepting giving the orders to fire over 7000 of them, approving a wage freeze and closing four estates. Anytime the PPP and the sugar unions…

Raising the ante…

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020 TIMES INT'L

…on elections rigging To those who hoped the PNC could be weaned away from their old politricks to hold on to power by any means necessary, Volda Lawrence’s latest outburst must’ve popped THAT bubble!! Lawrence is the Chairman of the PNC – a most strategic position, for which she’d beaten out that other ambitious conniver, Basil Williams and even the heir apparent Joseph Harmon. They didn’t cry “RIGGING!!” as Aubrey Norton had done a decade before when she beat him out for the Georgetown District Chair!! Norton, of course, was…

GNBS, GRA scrutinised oil lift – Energy Department

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020 TIMES INT'L

…as 1M barrels of oil depart Guyana for the US The first million barrels of Guyana’s oil has been lifted, loaded and has departed Guyana’s shores, with the Energy Department confirming that representatives of Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) and the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) were on hand to scrutinise the process. In a statement on Tuesday, the Department of Energy announced that oil tanker MV Yannis departed for the US with Exxon’s share of the oil. It had previously been announced that when oil production starts, the…

APNU/AFC ‘destroyed’ Guyana – Jagdeo

January 17, 2020January 17, 2020 TIMES INT'L

People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo has railed at the A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) coalition over its mismanagement of the affairs of Guyana. Jagdeo was at the time addressing a huge crowd at the Albion Community Centre, where the PPP/Civic held its rally on Sunday. The former President said that since entering into power in 1992 and restoring Guyana to a viable and democratic state, this would be the first General and Regional Elections that the PPP/C would be contesting as the Opposition. However,…

Guyanese man accused of murdering Queens woman, 92, should have been deported – ICE

January 17, 2020January 17, 2020 TIMES INT'L

The brutal slaying of an elderly woman in Queens, allegedly by an undocumented Guyanese man, has sparked a national debate over US immigration policies. The federal immigration officials are blaming the city’s sanctuary policy for enabling the crime and City Hall, in turn, has criticised the federal officials for using the tragedy to trumpet their immigration agenda. According to an article in the New York Times, the rape and murder of 92-year-old Maria Fuertes became a flash point in the broader debate over immigration on Tuesday when federal authorities contended…

Bisram’s murder case: Matter returns to Berbice, new Magistrate assigned

January 17, 2020January 17, 2020 TIMES INT'L

Acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus on Wednesday overruled submissions made by attorneys for murder accused Marcus Bisram to have the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) conducted at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. On Monday, attorneys Glen Hanoman, Sanjeev Datadin and Dexter Todd requested that the case remained out of the Berbice jurisdiction since accusations were made that the Magistrate in that district was biased. To support the request, the lawyers told acting Chief Magistrate Isaacs-Marcus that the bias and prejudiced behaviour from Magistrates in Berbice has promoted the submissions. The defence counsels further…