Daily Archive: Saturday, December 18, 2021

Cricket West Indies (CWI) today announced that it will start  a recruitment process for the new Men’s Selection Panel in January.

Outgoing Chairperson of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Volda Lawrence this morning told the opening of the party’s 21st Biennial Delegates Congress that it is time the PNCR takes a new road with renewed leadership.

Multiple deaths have been reported thus far following an early morning West Coast Berbice (WCB) accident.

American deep-sea scientist, Dr Erik Cordes, has informed the Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) that the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for ExxonMobil’s Yellowtail project is seriously deficient and does not paint the correct picture of the impact of its offshore activities.

While saying he would not be contesting for the leadership of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) at its Biennial Delegates’ Congress today due to concerns about the process, former Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Greenidge yesterday made a call for the party’s executive to allow its membership to help fashion the way forward no matter the outcome of the voting.

CGX Energy Inc yesterday commissioned a bridge that leads to the company’s Deep Water Port, located aback Seawell village, Corentyne, Berbice, while the company’s Executive Chairman, Professor Suresh Narine, announced that it is on schedule for full operation by October 2022.

The Ministry of Finance last night said that the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Bill 2021 tabled in Parliament on Thursday will allow for greater accountability and transparency in the management of Guyana’s oil resources and it rejected criticisms of it contained in a Page One Comment in yesterday’s edition of Stabroek News.

Ministry of Amerindian Affairs Permanent Secretary Sharon Hicks was yesterday charged with accepting $200,000 as a bribe to process payment requests for the representative of a security firm.

Flying directly from Barbados, InterCaribbean Airways’ inaugural flight touched down at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri (CJIA) yesterday to signal the imminent launch of new flight options for travellers and connectivity to over 13 Caribbean destinations.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday promised the release of a further $100 million for works on the Upper East Bank Berbice main access road at in Mara committed, which has been in a deplorable state for a number of years.

Four years after Xavier Boyal was fatally shot at Puruni Landing, Cuyuni River, the man who confessed to killing him was on Friday sentenced to 15 years in jail for manslaughter.

National swimmer Aleka Persaud has become the first local female swimmer to go below the one-minute mark in the 100-metre freestyle event.

Following government’s tabling of its proposed Local Content Bill in the National Assembly on Thursday, six years after the discovery of oil offshore, frontrunner for the leadership of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Aubrey Norton says a wider cross-section of the business community should have been consulted.

Millions of dollars were lost when a joinery at Tuschen Housing Scheme, East Bank Essequibo, went up in flames in the early hours of Friday morning.

Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn yesterday announced that a modern 11-storey structure will be constructed as the new Brickdam police station.

A Region Seven miner was yesterday sentenced to eight years in jail for killing a man who reportedly intervened in an argument he and his wife were having.

The National Sports Commission, Fitness Express and DTS Trading and Shipping will do some heavy lifting for the Guyana Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation Inc.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro had a “direct and relevant” role in spreading disinformation about the country’s electoral process during live streams on social media, a federal police document reviewed by Reuters yesterday said.

Dear Editor, What is elder abuse? It an intentional act or failure to act that causes or creates a risk of harm to an elderly person; age 60 and above.

Dear Editor, While the rules of engagement on the determination of salary increases for 2021 may not have been followed to the script, it is without a doubt that many public servants appreciate the receipt of the seven per cent salary increase, retroactive to the beginning of the year.

The Ramdhani siblings Narayan and Priyanna last night battled each other in the final of the Trophy Stall sponsored Christmas Open doubles competition with the winner set to be the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the tournament.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico will impose visa requirements on Venezuelan visitors, the interior ministry said yesterday, as the country attempts to stem a steep rise in the number of people from the South American nation trying to enter the United States illegally.

David Smith, a businessman who pleaded guilty to killing his cousin by stabbing him with an arrow during an argument at a Cuyuni River mining camp, was on Friday sentenced to seven years behind bars.

A phlebotomist has been remanded after a city court heard that she allegedly stole raw gold and other articles amounting to over $1 million from her ex-boyfriend.

Former test cricketers Philo Wallace and Roland Butcher believe there is more to be done by the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) with regards to the development of West Indies cricket.

Dear Editor Over the years, I’ve watched on in amusement and disgust, as various persons vied for party leadership of the PNC.

(Trinidad Guardian) A St. James man is expected to appear again before the courts in January 2022, to face charges of three counts of murder.

(Reuters) – Two years into the coronavirus pandemic, the United States is confronting another dark winter, with the red-hot Omicron variant threatening to worsen an already dangerous surge of cases.

Dear Editor, The peaceful community of La Jalousie and Blankenburg on the West Coast of Demerara is calling out the Police and the Government about a relentless threat to our physical wellbeing.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia said yesterday it wanted a legally binding guarantee that NATO would give up any military activity in Eastern Europe and Ukraine, part of a wish list of security guarantees it wants to negotiate with the West. 

Police are probing the murder of a Venezuelan national, who was gunned down on Thursday night at Baramita, in Region One.

(Jamaica Observer) The Integrity Commission and the Financial Investigations Division (FID) yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) aimed at strengthening both organisations’ response to public corruption, money laundering, organised crime, fraud and financial crime.

(Barbados Nation) With four convictions for assault with intent to rape, a previous 15-year jail term for rape and two new acts committed 16 days apart, there was no doubt, said Justice Randall Worrell, that Kinchar Kenny Lavonne Mascoll was a serious danger to society.

Dear Editor, The nation, and the diaspora, look forward to the process and outcome of Saturday’s PNC’s internal elections to choose its executive leadership.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc was marketing a collection of President Xi Jinping’s speeches and writings on its Chinese website about two years ago, when Beijing delivered an edict, according to two people familiar with the incident.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) on Friday commended the government for tabling of the Local Content Bill in the National Assembly, while maintaining that it would facilitate material benefit to the Guyanese private sector.

A vendor was yesterday remanded after being charged with having over $5 million in cannabis in his home. 

PARIS, (Reuters) – Mohammed Ben Sulayem pledged to help fix Formula One’s problems after being elected president of the governing FIA yesterday, but recognised he may also have to punish Lewis Hamilton for breaking the rules by not attending the sport’s gala awards.

(Trinidad Express)  A 21 year old mother of three was killed on Thursday afternoon during an altercation near her Quash Trace, Sangre Grande home.

(Reuters) – World sport continued to reel from the surge in COVID-19 cases yesterday with politicians urging sportspeople to set an example by not shunning the vaccine, while international competitions were affected as countries introduced travel curbs.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Cricket West Indies has praised the Nicholas Pooran-led squad for completing the Twenty20 International (T20I) series against Pakistan despite a COVID-19 outbreak in the camp, and says the main focus remains the health of all players and ensuring their safe return to the Caribbean.

Kevin Durant totaled 34 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists and converted a tiebreaking four-point play with 1:46 remaining as the short-handed Brooklyn Nets beat the Philadelphia 76ers 114-105 Thursday night in New York.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – West Indies Women’s head coach Courtney Walsh says the Caribbean women will have to reset to get focused for the upcoming ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup, following almost two weeks of quarantine in Oman.

ADELAIDE, (Reuters) – Australia declared their first innings on 473-9 and then reduced England to 17-2 after a near-flawless evening session to take charge of the day-night second Ashes test yesterday.

Guyanese love Christmas. Christmas music is played as early as October and some people will ‘break up’ the house a month or more before they clean and decorate.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A federal judge sentenced a U.S. Capitol rioter to more than five years in prison yesterday on charges that he threw a wooden plank and a fire extinguisher at police during the Jan.

Imagine a village where for generations, the inhabitants have dipped buckets in a river for their water.

Dear Editor, Role models are people who we aspire to be like.

Two more COVID-19 deaths were on Friday recorded along with 23 new cases.

‘Contrary breeze ah mek crow and eagle light on one line!’