Daily Archive: Sunday, April 17, 2022

Bartica businessman Premnauth Persaud, 54, died yesterday after he was struck by a motorcycle.

Yesterday, Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers conducted an operation at a residence in Bel Air Avenue, Lamaha Gardens  and found two parcels of cocaine and an amount of ganja.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukrainian soldiers appeared to defy a Russian ultimatum to lay down their arms today in the pulverised port of Mariupol which Moscow said its forces had almost completely seized in what would be its biggest prize of the nearly two-month war.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Indians have the freedom to practice their faith and there is no growing intolerance between religious communities, the country’s minority affairs minister said in an interview published today amid spurts of religious riots in various parts of the country.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The Archbishop of Canterbury has condemned a British plan to send tens of thousands of asylum seekers to the East African country of Rwanda, saying the policy did not stand “the judgment of God”.

(Trinidad Guardian) The ex-wife of Coastguardsman Kester Williams, Janelle Yard-Blackman, is urging women to leave violent relationships immediately.

(Trinidad Express) Asha Samaroo is expected to face a magistrate for allegedly faking her kidnapping.

The deaths of two of his beloved singers due to their addiction of drugs is what drove an adult Shirvington Hannays to become a clinical supervisor, addiction counsellor and TeleHealth mental health professional, but he took this route also when he was at the lowest point in his life and was on the verge of ending it.

Saying that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) “systematically and knowingly” violated the law,  environmentalist Simone Mangal-Joly is contending that the environmental permit issued for ExxonMobil’s Yellowtail Development Project is “illegal and Invalid” as a result.

At 26 and the mother of a 15-month-old baby, Nadine Jalil-Rahat has not experienced any form of abuse, but she has seen and heard enough to take action.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has lodged a complaint with the Local Content Secretariat over the practice here by foreign companies of bundling contracts for services in the oil and gas sector to the disadvantage of local companies.

Bless her heart, my late Mother would buy all sorts of chocolate eggs for us at Easter; small ones filled with white chocolate and a yellow-dyed colouring for the yolk and large ones with little chocolate eggs inside.

Government has hired Indian policy advisor and labour economics researcher Dr Anil Yadav to conduct an assessment of Guyana’s short and long-term cross-sectoral labour capacity needs and design a strategy to guide government-planned immigration and labour policies, President Irfaan Ali says.

Rising from the ashes of two years of COVID-19, the CARIFTA Games returned with a bang to a familiar venue here in Kingston, Jamaica yesterday.

By Baytoram Ramharack Ramesh Gampat, Essays: Guyana – Economics, Politics and Democracy [Bloomington, Indiana, Xlibris, 2022, 635 pages].

Petitions calling for the removal of Wikki/Calcuni toshao Ezard Fredericks were not in accordance with the relevant laws, according to Minister of Amerindian Affairs Minister Pauline Sukhai.

As one of the greatest boxing events in Guyana’s history draws closer, the boxing board’s President, Peter Abdool and local promoter Aleem Hussain paid a courtesy call to the Chief of Staff Brigadier Bess to thank the armed forces for their service to the country and donated a large quantity of complimentary tickets.

Mr. Parsram Executive Director The Environmental Protection Agency  Georgetown Guyana   Dear Mr.

The fundamental objective of a political party is to gain political office and implement its policies for the benefit of the country.

Dear Editor, The Chinese Embassy would like to raise its serious concern to the Stabroek News for publishing an article written by Abe Shinzo on April 15, which reflects a vicious attempt to instigate confrontation between major countries.

Police in Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) are investigating the murder of a 36-year-old woman, whose lifeless body was found with a chop wound to the head last Wednesday morning and a man, with whom she was last seen, has been arrested.

When I am in any great city I search out the bookstores and in them spend what are hours of pure pleasure.

Dear Editor, As residents are restless and hurting due to an increasing high cost of living, Government is to be commended for outreaches to allay their fears and disgruntlement.

The professional musician’s life has many attendant aspects, other than the activity itself, so that any successful Caribbean musician will tell you that one of the problems is dealing with hecklers who consider themselves comedians and will shout stuff at you from the crowd, very loud.

A Venezuelan national was fatally stabbed during a confrontation with a fellow national on Friday night at Port Kaituma, Region One.

Dear Editor, A few years ago, a prominent Senior Counsel called to inform that an electrical appliance I installed on his property had stopped working.

Introduction Today’s column addresses the second and third focus areas of my present critique of ExxonMobil.

Six persons were taken into custody last Wednesday after a search of a Mahdia-bound minibus in which they were travelling unearthed over 40 pounds of cannabis with a street value of some $6 million.

Members of the Joint Services yesterday conducted raids for contraband at all the prisons across the country, uncovering phones and improvised weapons.

Ash Wednesday -1 Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man’s gift and that man’s scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?)

Dear Editor,  Over the past two weeks, Nigel Westmaas and I have been discussing an event from the mid-19th century (The Angel Gabriel Riots) and its possible lessons for us in our present.

Dear Editor, I drive between Essequibo and Georgetown for a livelihood.

During last week the public at large viewed a shocking video of a young woman being viciously abused.

President of the Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF) Levi Nedd has lobbied for a range of development projects from the Federation Internationale de Volleyball(FIVB) including a Development Centre.

KYIV/LVIV/MARIUPOL, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Russia said its troops had cleared the urban area of Mariupol and only a small contingent of Ukrainian fighters remained inside a steelworks in the besieged southern port yesterday, as missile strikes hit Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and other cities.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Rwandan President Paul Kagame has said that the driving force behind the economic growth that his country had achieved in the 2010s was driven mainly by the agricultural sector.

Commissioner of Police (ag) Clifton Hicken on Thursday read the proverbial “riot act” to junior officers of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) as he reminded them of their roles and responsibilities outlined in the Standing Orders and charged them to work towards changing the public perception of the force.

Nominations are open to the public for the 25 Influential Women Leaders Awards (25IWLA), which have returned to highlight the outstanding achievements of women nationwide.

Three releases currently in cinema, Michael Bay’s “Ambulance”, Ruben Fleischer’s video-game adaptation “Uncharted”, and Daniel Espinosa’s comic-book adaptation “Morbius” offer divergent (and sometimes convergent) approaches to what blockbuster filmmaking looks like in 2022.

Dear Editor, My lengthy paper submitted last year to the National Assembly of the Guyana Parliament, entitled: “GuySuCo- the course it should follow to escape the syndrome of declining productivity and profitability; and the critical role it can and should play in the political, economic and social development of Guyana”, was read by Dr.

Guyana’s Golden Jaguars lost to French Guiana 1-2 in an international friendly yesterday in the capital city of Cayenne.

(Trinidad Guardian) – There is a problem with leadership in T&T, according to Archbishop Jason Gordon– they don’t serve.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Francis condemned the cruelty of the war in Ukraine yesterday at an Easter vigil Mass he attended but at which he did not preside, presumably because of leg pain that has forced him to curtail activities.

It is true that chess is considered an elitist game and only the great schools of a nation teach and play it.

Seeking to promote creativity among youths within the Good Hope and Pomona Neighbourhood Democratic Council and Bethany in Region Two, the Altruists Youth Group on Saturday hosted Easter Hat, Basket and Egg Hunt contests at the Pomona Playground.

Dear Editor, The vexatious matter of the Ministry of Health official acting like the law unto himself at a recent cremation (SN April15),  is a manifestation of the authority public officials assume and are allowed to assume, and as reported in the particular case, without any pushback by the grieving relatives, who accepted the antics of the official. 

The Buxton ground is the venue for the annual Mayor’s Cup nine-a-side Inter Ward/Village knockout football tournament which continues today.

Guyana’s national female hockey team  suffered its second loss in the 2022 Central American & Caribbean (CAC) Games Qualifiers, losing to the unbeaten host nation Bermuda 0-1 yesterday in Hamilton, Bermuda.

(Trinidad Guardian) – For several hours on Good Friday, police and soldiers combed through the streets of San Fernando, raiding apartment buildings and checking all medical institutions to find three men whom they believe murdered a soldier.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Clashes broke out during a Hindu religious procession in the Indian capital New Delhi yesterday, injuring several people, including policemen, police said, days after similar religious violence in three states.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – A yacht linked to Russian aluminium tycoon Oleg Deripaska arrived in a bay near the southwestern Turkish resort of Gocek on Saturday, as more Russian billionaires head for Turkey to flee Western sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The ceremonial opening of the April assizes was held the week before last after a two-year hiatus caused by the pandemic.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. border authorities arrested 210,000 migrants attempting to cross the border with Mexico in March, the highest monthly total in two decades and underscoring challenges in the coming months for U.S.

Dear Editor, My father used to say at the providence dining table that ‘procrastination is the thief of time!’

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Kieron Pollard’s quick-fire knock was insufficient as Mumbai Indians’ campaign lurched from concerning to calamity with their sixth straight defeat of the Indian Premier League here yesterday.

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