Daily Archive: Saturday, April 9, 2022

(Barbados Nation) Stressing that crimes against tourists have far-reaching consequences for Barbados’ economy, a judge slapped the gun-toting burglar, whose shot crippled a Canadian visitor in a botched burglary, and his cutlasswielding accomplice, with 31 years in jail yesterday.

The Ministry of Education today expressed condolences on the passing of actor and educator, Henry Rodney.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan lost a confidence vote in parliament today, the speaker of the lower house said, following desertions from coalition partners who blame him for a deteriorating economy and failure to deliver on his campaign promises.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine is ready for a tough battle with Russian forces amassing in the east of the country, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said today, a day after a missile attack in the east that officials said killed more than 50 civilians trying to evacuate.

LAGOS,(Reuters) – Nigeria’s national electricity grid has collapsed for the second time in a month, the federal ministry of power said today, leaving the parts of the country it serves, including capital Abuja and Africa’s biggest city Lagos, without power.

(Reuters) – The first all-private team of astronauts ever launched to the International Space Station (ISS) arrived safely at the orbiting research platform today to begin a week-long science mission hailed as a milestone in commercial spaceflight.

Assuring that Guyana will commit the necessary resources to ensure that CARICOM’s ’25 by 2025’ food import reduction is achieved, President Irfaan Ali yesterday called on all politicians in the region to join the effort.

A police investigation was conducted into the allegation that attorney Nirvan Singh assaulted and hurled racial insults to Woman Police Constable Shawnette Bollers and the case file has been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for legal advice.

Anthony Persaud, the youth who last month pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted murder, admitting that he had stabbed another man to the abdomen with a pair of scissors, has been sentenced to six years in prison.

Even as he reiterated Guyana’s condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the current war, President Irfaan Ali yesterday defended Guyana’s abstention vote on the United Nations resolution to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council for gross excesses in Ukraine, saying the country awaits findings of the United Nations investigations.

Government has tabled a motion to amend the Standing Orders to require that there be five members present, including at least two from the ruling party, for there to be a quorum of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).

In order for the vision of ‘One Guyana’ to be achieved, religious bodies must play an integral role in building the foundation, according to President Irfaan Ali.

Weeks after the decision by the board of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) not to renew the contract of Head of the Safety Programme Col (Ret’d) Cargill Kyte came to light, Board Chairman Javed Shadick has related that Kyte has been rehired as an Airworthiness Inspector.

While government believes that the three years hosting of the Caribbean Premiere League (CPL) finals here will generate economic activity for locals as it showcases this country to the world, President Irfaan Ali on Friday said that a dollar amount on state subsidy has not yet been determined.

Photographer Keron Bruce was yesterday charged with a cybercrime based on the accusation that he spread false information about reporter Leroy Smith.

The two men who the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) said it found wrapping cocaine pellets in March were on Friday granted $300,000 bail each.

The Lady Jaguars and Nicaragua played to a dour scoreless stalemate in their group F fixture, when the 2022 Concacaf W Championship Qualifiers resumed yesterday at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora.

Two persons were taken into police custody on Thursday following the discovery of 6.015 kilogrammes of cannabis in a vehicle in which they were in as well as at their Enterprise Gardens, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home.

A police prosecutor who is accused of dodging two sentence warrants was on Wednesday placed on self-bail after he was charged with obstructing the course of justice.

Winner of the women’s singles event at the XXIX Pan American squash championships in Guatemala, Guyana’s Nicolette Fernandes said the win was surprising and unexpected.

Dear Editor, Bill Cotton asks, ‘Who will offer a vision of Guyana 2030 that is inclusive and acceptable to all?”

A man was yesterday denied bail after the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) claimed it found him with a pistol and matching rounds.

Starting today, the Lusignan Golf Club has planned a series of activities leading up to the Easter Weekend including events for adults as well as kids.

The family of 52-year-old fisherman Terrence Gomes, who is now missing and presumed dead, was up to Friday still awaiting word on signs of his body.

Dear Editor, I write to support Acting Commissioner Clifton Hicken’s declared mission to have ethnic balance in the Police Force.

LVIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Ukraine called for more weapons and harsher sanctions after it blamed Russia for a missile attack that killed at least 52 people at a train station packed with women, children and the elderly fleeing the threat of a Russian offensive in the east.

Dear Editor, It is always refreshing to encounter the brighter side of America, which was what shone through in the United States Senate confirmation vote for U.S.

The Ministry of Health on Friday reported five new COVID-19 cases from 899 test results.

Minister of Agriculture Mustapha Zulfikar has announced that Region Two will be benefiting from two agro-processing facilities that will be located at Anna Regina and Charity and will afford farmers the opportunity to add value to their produce.

Dear Editor, Another great trend going on in schools is not wearing backpacks but using alternatives to carry books such as using recycled rice bags, drink-cases, garbage bags, bins etc.

The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) in conjunction with 100 Degrees Sports and FK Sports launched the first National Track and Field Grand Prix series yesterday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Hollywood’s film academy yesterday banned Will Smith from attending the Oscars for 10 years after the best actor winner slapped presenter Chris Rock on stage at the Academy Awards ceremony 12 days ago.

As a young girl Tinnisha Lewis obsessed over the decor she saw at events she attended and always wondered whether or how she could make it better.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said yesterday he would not recognise an opposition government if it succeeded in an attempt to oust him, the latest twist in a political crisis engulfing the nuclear-armed nation.

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – A Honduran judge yesterday signed off on the extradition of former police chief Juan Carlos Bonilla to the United States, where he is wanted for drug trafficking and use or possession of firearms.

Guyana Americas Merchant Bank Inc. (GAMBI) on Friday announced that the Trustees of the Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) Retirement Savings Plan have awarded it a contract to provide Investment Advisory and Brokerage services.

Dear Editor, I made two online applications, and one in person, at Mahaica in February 2022 for GTT Fibre Optic and I am waiting for it to be connected.

With exactly two weeks to go for the ‘Guyana Fight Night Road to Redemption’ card, the combatants are ramping up their preparation.

Tis the season of baking – buns, breads, and rolls, all with enriched dough and dried fruit, the most popular being Cross Buns.

Georgetown will be buzzing with high-profile clashes in the Georgetown Cricket Association’s (GCA) GISE/Star Party Rental/Trophy Stall, two-day first-division opening round this weekend.

Dear Editor, The headline, “APNU/AFC cannot benefit from its own wrongdoing,” is like a common theme where the opposition is concerned.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) yesterday confirmed a ruling ordering Peru not to release jailed ex-President Alberto Fujimori, who was on the verge of leaving prison last month after a presidential pardon was reinstated.

Acting Commissioner of Police Clifton Hicken has charged all Heads of Departments and Branch Commanders within the Guyana Police Force (GPF) to “improve their output” by placing more emphasis on the management of resources within their control.

VIENNA,  (Reuters) – Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has set off on a one-day trip to Ukraine during which he will meet President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv this morning, his office said in a statement.

The thought of having children terrifies me and it has for as long as I could remember.

The Bartica Easter Regatta returns this year and kicking off the series of events is Gospel Fest promoted by Chosen Generation Band, on Monday night.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The head of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Mauricio Claver-Carone, yesterday said he was the target of an “anonymous political media campaign” after Reuters reported the bank’s directors were looking into an accusation that he had an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate.

Chief Fire Officer (ag) Gregory Wickham on Thursday said that 150 more fire hydrants will soon be installed across the country.

Dear Editor, In the early eighties at Linden, the bauxite company was thriving and people came from every part of Guyana to work and have a better life.

(Reuters) – Akshata Murthy, the wife of British finance minister Rishi Sunak, said yesterday that she would stop avoiding British tax on her foreign income — bowing to pressure which her husband had earlier dismissed as a political smear.

Roger ‘Young Bill Rogers’ Hinds and Ryan Adams have teamed up to record the single “Family” and they dropped both the song and video last week; the latter has since garnered over 10,000 views.

This week I had the privilege of traveling across the Rupununi.

Dear Editor, The abstention is mind boggling.  Having supported and denounced the invasion of Ukraine at the UN and seeing the daily atrocities and human rights violations being committed in that country with the ongoing war, (Putin’s ‘special military operation’) Guyana chose, along with several other CARICOM states, to sit on the sideline and remain silent on the UN resolution on the suspension of Russia from the UN Human Rights Council. 

(Reuters) – A federal jury yesterday acquitted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 and the judge overseeing the case declared a mistrial for two other men after jurors could not come to a verdict for them.

LONDON, (Reuters) – German tennis great Boris Becker was yesterday found guilty of four charges, including failing to disclose, concealing and removing significant assets, under the Insolvency Act 1986 following his bankruptcy trial in London.

It is hard to see a way forward for GuySuCo. From an output of 331,000 tons in 2002 to 58,000 in 2021, central government subsidies to the corporation now exceed total revenues.

(Reuters) – More than a third of all homes and businesses in Puerto Rico remained without power yesterday, the second day of a massive outage on the Caribbean island that may have been caused by a fire at a power plant.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Rising West Indies star Odean Smith had a day to forget in the Indian Premier League, suffering the indignity of a first-ball ‘duck’, dropping a catch and then giving up a brace of sixes off the last two deliveries of the game, as his Punjab Kings went down by six wickets to Gujarat Titans in a last-ball finish.

AUGUSTA, Ga., (Reuters) – A battling Tiger Woods clawed his way out of early trouble to stay in the Masters hunt, carding a second round two-over 74 yesterday as the wind gave him more problems than the right leg that he nearly lost in a career-threatening car crash.

(Reuters) – England all-rounder Ben Stokes is on course to return to action in the County Championship next month following a scan on a left knee problem he struggled with during last month’s tour of the West Indies.

The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) will be collaborating with sectoral agencies, including the Ministry of Education, to tackle drug use in schools.