Monday 14
Germany wins World Cup title
PHILIPP Lahm of Germany was presented with the World Cup trophy by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter after defeating Argentina 1-0 in extra time during the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil Final match between Germany and Argentina at Maracana on July 13, 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.‘B’ Division Police form youth group in East Canje, Region 6

THE Guyana Police Force (GPF) ‘B’ Division, under the command of Assistant Commissioner Brian Joseph and Senior Superintendent Marlon Chapman, formed a Youth and Sports group in the East Canje Berbice area to continue the drive to forge relations with the wider community and to address the many social ills in that part of the society. The group is expected to attract youths from the villages of Reliance, Adelphi, Goed Bananen Land and Betsy Ground.

Households in Albuoystown and Campbellville taken down with strange illness
THREE adults and five children from two separate households in Albouystown and Campbellville were earlier this week rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) and were treated for what is believed to be the dreaded mosquito-borne Chikungunya disease. Two adults and a ten-year-old girl from the Campbellville household, who were first taken to the hospital about two weeks ago, were said to have been positively diagnosed with the disease, according to the matriarch of the home, Joycelyn Griffith. They were given Panadol and sent home, but on returning home, two other children were said to have taken ill and were taken to the GPHC for treatment.

Tuesday 15
Businessman shoots gun-toting assailant dead
AGRICOLA resident Kevin Fields, 21, was fatally shot by a businessman after he snatched a bag with some $1.7M from him in a Sheriff Street auto spares store and attempted to flee. The Titus Street, Agricola resident and an accomplice had trailed the businessman from another location in the city, and after the man entered Ramchand Auto Spares on Sheriff Street to make a purchase he followed him there. The two bandits had arrived on a Honda CG motorcycle and parked to the south over Duncan Street.

Guyana’s Lisa Punch makes it to the quarter-finals
ALL Guyana waited with bated breath for home-girl Lisa Punch to steal the deal in her faceoff against Alice Lee in the ABC’s ‘Rising Star Reality Show’ last Sunday night. Being the first contestant in the duet rounds of the show, Alice Lee had certainly taken the advice of the judges and had upped her game in terms of performance and stage presentation. Sadly she missed managing to ‘bring down that wall’ falling short by one point, netting sixty-nine. She, however, had the advantage of all three judges voting on her side in the competition. Punch obtained sixty-six points, needing three more votes to bring down the wall.

Guyana-registered cargo vessel intercepted with ganja in int’l waters
A GUYANA-registered cargo vessel en route to Port Georgetown from Jamaica was recently intercepted with over 5,000 pounds of compressed marijuana and illegal weapons, according to police sources. The MV An-Nur usually transports rice from the Essequibo Coast to neighbouring countries and around the Caribbean. Some five Guyanese crew members were reportedly arrested when the vessel was intercepted.

Wednesday 16
Skeldon Estate foreman found dead behind ‘back-track’ boat service
A FIELD foreman attached to the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo)’s Skeldon Estate was found dead behind a popular back-track boating service at Springlands, on the Corentyne. While the details surrounding the death of 52-year-old Ravindranauth Tirka, alias ‘Engine’ remains sketchy, an autopsy done by Government Pathologist, Dr. Vivikanand Brijmohan at the Skeldon Public Hospital, has since revealed that death was due to manual strangulation. Reports are that robbery may have been the motive, since his ‘Blu’ cellular phone and gold chain were missing.

Buxton teen, two-year-old infant missing
NINETEEN–YEAR–OLD Oliva Holloway of 10 Charlie Street Buxton, East Coast Demerara and her two–year–old baby girl, Divine Holloway, have been reported missing since Monday July 14. This is not the first time that the teenager has gone missing. Last month she vanished after work but showed up at home early the following morning. According to a relative, persons are of the view that the young lady and her child might be in Region 3 where she has been seeing a young man.

Four Guyanese fishermen missing, feared dead
FOUR Guyanese fishermen are feared dead after their hands were reportedly tied before they were chopped and beaten with cutlasses and then tossed into Suriname waters, where they ply their trade. The captain of the vessel was the only one who managed to jump off the vessel and swim to shore, and was reportedly rescued by persons in Suriname. While this publication has experienced great difficulty to get the names of the missing crewmen, who are feared dead, one source told the Chronicle that at this point the only names given for the men are Dane, Gopie and Gomes.

Thursday 17
New MOE website is comprehensive, user-friendly – Manickchand
THE eagerly awaited Ministry of Education (MOE) website will allow teachers to share information and best practices and through its live chat feature citizens will be able to speak to education officials as well as the Minister of Education. The website also caters for children to take quizzes and tests that can be marked and returned to them via an email account. The information on the site will range from curriculum guides, past test papers, CSEC and CAPE syllabuses, to colouring packets and interactive videos for nursery children, interactive quizzes for primary age children from grades 2-6, tips for parents and teachers as well as a host of education policy documents among other important information.

Two dead, several critical after speeding minibus topples in Linden
TWO persons are now dead after a Route 43 minibus toppled several times before landing on its wheels in the bushes at the corner of the road in the vicinity of Long Creek on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway. Dead are the minibus driver who has been identified as Roger Hudson of Linden but up to press time this publication did not have the name of the other person who died in the crash. Some 12 passengers are critical at the Mc Kenzie Hospital.
An eyewitness in a car told this publication that he was driving when he saw the minibus BSS 4774 speeding along the highway and trying to overtake another vehicle.

Birth certificate requirement for passports adjusted to two years
THE Ministry of Home Affairs (MOHA) said that with immediate effect, applicants for passports and other travel documents will be required to present original birth certificates that were issued no less than two years prior to the date of submission of the applications, instead of six months.

Friday 18
New Market and Camp Street junction to remain closed for next 14 days
THE Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) said that under the Government of Guyana (GOG) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) US$10M Georgetown Sanitation Improvement Programme (GSIP), civil works at the junction of New Market and Camp Streets will continue for the next 14 days. This junction will therefore remain closed to traffic. The company says in a press release that the two-week closure is to facilitate the completion of the ‘main gate valve chambers’ which form a pivotal component of the rehabilitated sewerage system.

PPP rededicates Michael Forde Bookstore & Internet Café
THE People’s Progressive Party (PPP) held a Commemorative Re-dedication of the Michael Forde Book Store and Internet Café on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the ‘bomb blasting’ of Michael Forde, an employee of the initial bookstore, on July 17, 1964. Prime Minister Samuel Hinds’ unveiled a massive portrait of Forde, who had been killed by subversive elements at the tender age of 22. The chairman of the proceedings noted that the Party was rededicating an important landmark in Guyana’s history, since it was exactly 50 years ago that the facility, initially the Progressive Bookstore, was renamed the Michael Forde Bookstore after Forde had been killed by an explosive device planted in the very store.

13 Guyanese to undergo training in Mexico
THIRTEEN Guyanese are to receive training in Mexico in priority areas for local agricultural development. The Guyanese officers are participating in programmes in the areas of Family Farming, Protected Agriculture, Sheep Production, Rural Tourism and Plant Pathology. The training follows an agreement signed by the Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock Rural Development, Fisheries and Food of Mexico, (SAGARPA) and the Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) on April 29th last. The Summit had agreed to the provision of training for 150 technical personnel in the field of agricultural development, in the CARICOM member states.

Saturday 19
Collapsed house fatally crushes mentally-ill man
DEMITRI Reis, 23, who was mentally ill, met a gruesome and tragic end when the dilapidated and abandoned wooden house he was sleeping under collapsed crushing him to death. Mother of the deceased, Jennifer Curry-Hoppie said that she woke up to the news and is still in a state of shock but could not bear to see the broken and bloodied body of her son at the scene. She explained that two years ago her child went to the interior to work, and while there she received the news that he ‘run mad’ and shortly after he returned home early one morning and she noticed a strange change in his behaviour.

GRA’s LEID officials come under heavy gunfire
THE Guyana Police Force is currently investigating an armed attack on four officers of the Guyana Revenue Authority’s (GRA) Law Enforcement and Investigation Division (LEID) in the vicinity of Dundee, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara. The officers, who were conducting a surveillance exercise based on intelligence received, came under heavy gunfire after detaining three minibuses containing 150 boxes of chicken for which no papers could be produced, and a car driven by the son of a suspected smuggler.

Crane woman found dead in her home
THIRTY-YEAR-OLD Candy Rawlins of Lot 4, Crane Housing Scheme, West Coast Demerara, was found dead in her home. The discovery was made by the woman’s 11-year-old daughter who was tied to a chair in the home by the suspect who has been married to Candy Rawlins for about three years now. The daughter reportedly told relatives that her “stepfather” tied her then entered the room he shared with his wife and proceeded to tie her up also. She recalled that after tying up her mother, the man then proceeded to beat her and later slit her throat with a knife.
The man then packed his working bag and calmly walked out of the house leaving the little girl tied to the chair and her mother bleeding from the slash to the throat.