Daily Archive: Saturday, April 2, 2022

The newly appointed Commissioner of Police Clifton Hicken embarked today on his first major community outreach since he assumed the top post in the Police Force.

The Guyana Police Force’s Criminal Investigation Department throughout the twelve Regional Police Divisions is soon expected to be strengthened, as 66 ranks yesterday successfully completed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Induction Course.

 ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine, (Reuters) – The Red Cross was renewing efforts to evacuate civilians in a convoy from the besieged port of Mariupol today as Russian forces looked to be regrouping for fresh attacks in southeast Ukraine.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan suggested today that he might not accept a vote to oust him, a move he alleged was being orchestrated by the United States.

Jamaica yesterday announced the candidature of Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, for the post of Secretary-General of the Commonwealth.

(Trinidad Express) Mother of two Omatie Deobarran was killed at her home in Barrackpore on Friday night.

VALLETTA,  (Reuters) – Pope Francis came the closest he has yet to implicitly criticising President Vladimir Putin over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, saying today a “potentate” was fomenting conflicts for nationalist interests.

ExxonMobil was yesterday cleared for its fourth well offshore after the government issued a production licence two days after the EPA granted a stoutly contested environmental permit for what will be the largest oil extraction operation yet in Guyana’s waters.

After months of delay PNCR Head Aubrey Norton is closer to entering Parliament and becoming Opposition Leader and he could be accompanied by the party’s former Chair Volda Lawrence.

The Ministry of Health yesterday began the disbursement of the $180 million allocation to assist dialysis patients to cover their treatment expenses.

A 22-year-old New York-based woman is accusing Minister of Local Government Nigel Dharamlall of harassing her for sexual relations at a time when she was vulnerable and in a depressed state.

A US senator has taken the Biden administration to task for its failure to support energy projects in Guyana via its vote at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

The body of a 69-year-old lorry driver was on Thursday discovered floating in the Mazaruni River in Region Seven and an autopsy yesterday revealed that he had been strangled.

In the rollout of its automated payment system, the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) is currently targeting vehicles with charge accounts before moving on to individuals, General Manager Wayne Watson yesterday stated.

The five persons who were busted by the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) in Prashad Nagar last Tuesday, were released on $500,000 bail each yesterday.

The Ministry of Public Works yesterday signed contracts totalling $5.57 billion to construct and upgrade roads and bridges in the hinterland and communities on the coast.

DOHA, (Reuters) – Global soccer heavyweights were pitted head-to-head and intriguing political storylines drawn as the schedule for the 2022 World Cup was completed at a glitzy ceremony in the Qatari capital yesterday.

Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn is looking for other possible locations for the operations of more water taxis along the Demerara River.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricketers in host countries for the recent ICC Under 19 Men’s Cricket World Cup 2022 are set to benefit from a donation of 15 bowling machines which were purchased by Cricket West Indies (CWI) for the 16 participating squads to use in their training sessions.

The Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC), yesterday issued an apology to its fans, spectators and racers for the incomplete March 27 Quarter-Mile return and has planned a one-day event on April 10.

Following the sudden death of its owner, Lakeram ‘Mike’ Singh,  Mike’s Pharmacy on the East Coast of Demerara  was yesterday closed to business until further notice.

Rajendra Chandrika and Amir Khan kicked off the East Coast Cricket Board/Navin-Hanso first-division 50-overs-a-side tournament with impactful centuries recently.

The Institute of Private Enterprise Development (IPED) has gotten a good rating from regional credit rating body CariCRIS, Caribbean Information and Credit Rating Services Limited (CariCRIS) in a statement on Thursday said it has assigned initial corporate credit ratings of CariBBB (Local Currency Rating) and CariBBB- (Foreign Currency Rating) on its regional scale, gyA+ (Local Currency Rating) and gyA (Foreign Currency Rating) on the Guyana national scale to IPED.

Pegged at a cost of nearly $38m,  the spanking new building which will now house the Kwakwani Magistrate’s Court and its living quarters, was commissioned and handed over to the Upper Demerara community yesterday.

A fire which was apparently started by a lighted kerosene stove resulted in the death of a pensioner at Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara (ECD) on Thursday morning and destroyed a wooden house.

The Demerara Cricket Board/Premier Insurance U15 inter-association 2022 tournament, continued with West Demerara Beating East Bank by seven wickets and East Bank defeating Upper Demerara by 38 runs.

DMYTRIVKA, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Ukraine recaptured more territory around Kyiv from Russian soldiers who left shattered villages and their own abandoned tanks as they moved away from the capital, while a disputed cross-border strike in Russia complicated peace talks yesterday.

Retired staff of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) are set to benefit from a 75 percent reduction in their internet costs, according to Jasmin Harris, Senior Manager of Public Relations and Corporate Communication at GTT.

Popular sports store, Star Sports Trophies and Awards of 28 Logwood, Enmore, East Coast, Demerara recently donated more cricket gear towards the “cricket gear for young and promising cricketers in Guyana” project.

Gym enthusiasts anxious for a sweat session at Space Gym 2.0 will have to wait a bit longer as its opening has been delayed.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States will work with allies to transfer Soviet-made tanks to Ukraine to bolster its defenses in the Donbas region, the New York Times reported yesterday, citing a U.S.

GTT says it has collaborated with the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) to modernize its calling and reporting infrastructure through the donation of four phones equipped with caller ID and recorders and this will reduce prank calls.

The Guyana Badminton Association yesterday benefited from the National Sports Commission’s generosity when they received $1.6M for their participation at this year’s Yonex Panam Individual Championships.

 MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – The director of Nicaragua’s La Prensa newspaper was sentenced yesterday to nine years in prison for money laundering, according to his relatives, in the latest sentencing of a government opponent detained at the order of the administration.

BRUSSELS/BEIJING, (Reuters) – China offered the European Union assurances yesterday that it would seek peace in Ukraine but said this would be on its own terms, deflecting pressure for a tougher stance towards Russia.

UK-based Guyanese Erica Bissember has recently embarked on a career in music, having honed her vocal and piano skills since she was a girl.

The contracts are in for the return of professional boxing. Amid trash talk yesterday, the locally based combatants for the ‘Guyana Fight Night Road to Redemption’ card inked their respective contracts at the headquarters of the boxing board at the Avenue of the Republic.

Dear Editor, Having read Assistant Commissioner of Police (R’td) Mr. Paul Slowe CCH, DSM, on the subject “The nuances of the appointment of Mr.

If the headline confuses you, don’t let it, I’ll explain. A few years ago when I first saw the name of this dish on social media, I tilted my head to one side in confusion.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lan-kan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared a nationwide public emergency late yesterday following violent protests over the country’s worst economic crisis in decades.

Dear Editor,   My missive to you today is the result of the severe depression surrounding the sitting Minister of Local Government and its implications. 

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Former West Indies vice-captain Kirk Edwards and out-of-favour Test gloveman Shane Dowrich have completed Level Two of Cricket West Indies’ Representative Coaching Programme.

The Georgetown Cricket Association is bracing for a packed weekend of cricket in the city with the Noble House Seafoods second-division two-day final set to take place.

ADEN,  (Reuters) – The warring sides in Yemen’s seven-year conflict have for the first time in years agreed a nationwide truce, which would also allow fuel imports into Houthi-held areas and some flights operating from Sanaa airport, the U.N.

Privilege is blinding. Sometimes it is hard to recognise because those steeped in it embrace it as a natural way of life, and expect everyone else to just accept its inescapable chaos and unfairness as realities.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian democracy is being “threatened,” Edson Fachin, the president of Brazil’s electoral court (TSE), said yesterday, saying the country faced “a turbulent period” ahead of a fraught October presidential election.

Dear Editor The start of the Vasant Navratri 2022 period is good to reflect on the recent exchanges around Hindus and the alcohol culture in Guyana – exchanges which just reinforced the personal lessons from trying to get Hindu inclusion in dealing with the alcohol problem.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Workers at an Amazon.com Inc AMZN.O warehouse in New York City voted to form the first union at the second-largest U.S.

‘Oluwa ni ireti mi’ meaning ‘God is my hope’ is the name of the newest bag collection from Nigerian designer Deborah Kehinde.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s central bank employees began an indefinite strike for a wage increase yesterday, threatening the stability of the wildly popular Pix instant payment system and other data releases.

Dear Editor, Stabroek News edition of Thursday, March 31, 2022, under the caption, “GRA List of Professionals for which Practice Certificates were approved as of March 17, 2022”, refers.

DURBAN, (Reuters) – South African off-spinner Simon Harmer took all the wickets in his first test appearance for seven years as Bangladesh reached 98 for four at the close of play on a gloomy second day of the first test at Kingsmead yesterday.

Out of 1,811 tests that were performed yesterday, the Ministry of Health has recorded five new COVID-19 cases.

(Reuters) – Actor Will Smith has resigned from Hollywood’s Aca-demy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, saying yesterday that his slapping of presenter Chris Rock on stage at this year’s Oscars ceremony was “shocking, painful and inexcusable.”

AMSTERDAM,  (Reuters) – Chile asked judges at the World Court yesterday to award it “equitable and reasonable” use of the waters of the Silala river, which runs from Bolivia into Chile, in the latest dispute between the South American neighbours.

Daily we are greeted by shocking headlines telling us about the gore and social issues.

By Daniel J. Arbess NEW YORK – Russian climate envoy Anatoly Chubais’s decision last week to resign from the government and leave Russia may turn out to be highly significant.

The Escapė (Es-ca-pay) Book Club is hosting its Easter Clothing Drive, accepting new and used clothing in good condition, that will go to the Mahaica Children’s Home.

Like many countries, Guyana is a land of several divides – the most obvious being one of race, a tragic legacy of empire and a subject thoroughly discussed over the years. 

Dear Editor, Some years ago, I raised the very issue I am again about to raise in a letter published by your newspaper.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, CMC – Hayley Matthews believes the difficulties of the last several months resulted in a united West Indies Women’s squad, and led to their relative success at the ongoing ICC Women’s World Cup.