Daily Archive: Friday, April 22, 2022

The National Literacy Department within the Ministry of Education will be hosting “A Reading Affair” tomorrow Saturday, April 23, 2022, at the New Central High School (5-6 Princes Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown) from 10:00h to 16:00h.

With reference to the news item published by Stabroek News on April 20, 2022, under the caption `U.S.

KYIV/MARIUPOL,  (Reuters) – A Russian general said today that Moscow wants to seize all of southern and eastern Ukraine, far wider war aims than it had acknowledged as it presses on with a new offensive after its campaign to capture the capital Kyiv collapsed last month.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Britain and India agreed today to step up defence and business cooperation during a visit to New Delhi by Boris Johnson, who said a bilateral free-trade deal could be wrapped up by October.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – NATO must avoid a direct military confrontation with Russia that could lead to a third world war, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in an interview with Der Spiegel when asked about Germany’s failure to deliver heavy weapons to Ukraine.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two relatives, a 31-year-old woman and her common-law husband, have been charged with manslaughter following the death of six-year-old Zackariah Charles.

(Trinidad Guardian) When Joshua Mahabir died from gunshots on Wednesday night, the spanner he used to fix his car was still in his hand and the phone he was speaking to his wife on lay at his side.

(Trinidad Express) Mask-wearing remains mandatory on board Caribbean Airlines flights, according to the airline’s corporate communications manager, Dionne Ligoure.

Leader of the Opposition Aubrey Norton says that while he is yet to receive an official invitation from President Irfaan Ali for talks, any such forum should not be restricted to constitutional matters but also include issues affecting both government and the opposition.

By Tony Thorne Guyana is featured in the cover story of the April edition of the National Geographic magazine.

After-tax profit for the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) soared by 28% last year compared to 2020.

Underscoring the societal and public health issues caused by drug addiction, which it says it recognizes lead to many drug addicts committing minor offences to support their habits, the judiciary is currently conducting a training workshop aimed at sensitizing participants about the objectives of the adult and adolescent Drug Treatment Courts (DTC) and the roles they would be required to play as drug court team-members.

Valiant efforts to rectify the mechanical issues at the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s (GuySuCo) Uitvlugt estate, have so far proven futile and plans are afoot to call off the estate’s first crop, a source familiar with the issue said.

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand at the opening of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) 2nd Triennial Delegates Conference on Wednesday promised that teachers will find no resistance from the ministry on sensible and practical positions.

By Aviso Paul With foul play suspected to be behind the fire that claimed the life of 51-year-old Nicola Marshall Jacobs, her 10 children are demanding justice and have called on the Guyana Police Force and the Guyana Fire Service to conduct a thorough investigation.

The Golden Jaguars U-16 boys’ team suffered their second consecutive loss in the UEFA Assist Friendly Tournament, losing 0-7 to Montenegro yesterday in Bosnia & Herzegovina.

Two weeks after a wanted bulletin was issued for him in relation to the murder of a miner, 19-year-old Joshua Williams was on Wednesday found hiding in his father’s Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke/Linden Highway home.

The CARIFTA Games contingent returned from Jamaica yesterday following their seven-medal haul heroics and during a meeting with Minister of Sport, Charles Ramson Jr, they were assured of individual rewards.

Rawl DaCosta of Lower Pomeroon River, Region Two was yesterday sentenced to 18 months imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to an unlawful wounding charge.

After nine rounds of action, a playoff round will be utilised to determine the National Junior Chess Championship between Ethan Lee and Ricardo Narine, after the duo finished tied on 6.5 points, and were adjudged as the top two finishers by the Buchholz and Sonneborn-Berger tie-breaker systems.

Guyana was one of 25 countries which yesterday voted for a resolution at the  Organization of American States (OAS) to suspend Russia as a permanent observer to the inter-governmental institution over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

The Edward B. Beharry & Company Ltd is continuing its long-standing support of Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG), and has donated $1,000,000 towards the entity’s developmental projects.

Despite complaints of poor water quality from their current arrangement, residents within the communities of Betsy Ground and Gangaram, Region Six have opted out of receiving potable water from the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI).

An elderly Rose Hall Town, Corentyne woman is now in critical condition  after she was found yesterday with a slit on her throat in a veranda located in the lower flat of her house.

Long time sponsor of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC), Bakewell Guyana, last week renewed its cricket sponsorship of the club.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF), has expressed condolences to the family of sport administrator, Andre Daziel, who passed away in the United States of America at the age of 51.

Just days before today’s opening at the Providence Stadium of the third staging of the UNCAPPED product promotion event, one of the prime movers behind its original conceptualization, Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association, Vice President and Chairman of its agro-processing sub-sector, Ramsay Ali, told the Stabroek Business that plans to advance the development of agro processing locally had been significantly derailed by developments arising out of the intervention of the covid-19 pandemic.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday reported that during drug eradication exercises on Wednesday along the Berbice River a total of $45m in narcotics was destroyed.

Tournament organiser, and experienced sport administrator, Edison Jefford of the Magnum Independence Cup, has officially confirmed that the tournament, which is in its 4th iteration, will now be staged at the National Park tarmac, Georgetown.

Dear Editor, About 252 million years ago the earth and ocean got hotter.

Dismissing the impact of two consecutive years of challenges associated with the coronavirus pandemic and putting behind them the even more protracted official neglect that continues to confront hinterland communities, the residents of Lethem and its satellite communities, last weekend rolled up their proverbial sleeves to deliver what the Mayor of the Rupununi and Interim Chairman of the Rodeo Committee, John Macedo, told the Stabroek Business was “the biggest Rupununi Rodeo ever.”

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The U.S. government yesterday unveiled charges against former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez of participating in a cocaine-importation conspiracy and related firearms offenses, and he was extradited to the United States.

Senior Minister in the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance, Dr Ashni Singh, along with fellow Governors of the Caribbean Region on Wednesday  attended a meeting with World Bank Managing Director, Axel Van Trotsenburg, held under the theme “Road to Recovery: Tools for Building Back Better in the Caribbean”.

Dear Editor, The year 2038 is as far away from present day as the year 2006.

Driven by an oil & gas industry that is projected to significantly transform the face of the country’s economy, possibly in as little as a decade, Guyana continues to attract encouraging external prognoses for growth in the period ahead.

Following an absence of more than a year, the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Championship resumes with the Linden edition, which is scheduled to kick-off tomorrow at the Christianburg hardcourt, Linden.

SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado said yesterday that recent cyberattacks on state computer systems are aimed at destabilizing the Central American country as it transitions to the new government of president-elect Rodrigo Chaves.

The Guyana National Cadet Corps (GNCC) recently concluded a four-day Annual Staff Conference and Retreat at the Aurora Secondary School, Essequibo Coast, a post on the Guyana Defence Force Facebook page said.

(Reuters) – Former tennis world number one Serena Williams and seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton have joined Martin Broughton’s bid to buy Premier League club Chelsea, a source close to the bid told Reuters yesterday.

When the Stabroek Business paid an extended visit to Region Nine late last year, we had found Lethem and its satellite communities in a condition of less than high spirits, the state of the community’s economy, not least the condition of high unemployment and decline in business in the modest commercial sector and the pressures being felt by the ranching community on account of the intervention of the COVID-19 pandemic that had cost them two successive ‘seasons’ of the Rupununi Rodeo resonating in the outlook of the entire community.

Dear Editor, It made disappointing reading the state Kingston Seawall was left in following Easter Monday festivities (GT April 20).

President Irfaan Ali on Tuesday accepted Letters of Credence from Mario Chan as the Non-Resident Ambassador of the Philippines to Guyana and the Letters of Commission from Ignatius Graham Mudzimba as Non-Resident Ambassador of Zimbabwe, according to an Office of the President release.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. and Cuban officials met in Washington for talks about migration yesterday as the United States seeks to quell rising numbers of people attempting to cross its southern border, including increasing numbers of Cubans.

Dear Editor,  It’s usually not my style to directly reply to or attack individuals who express their opinion, but after reading a recent letter written by Lenox R.

Dear Editor, Can I please say ’congrats’ to my friend/brother in democracy, Major-Gen Joe Singh on his appointment to head the NRF.

(Reuters) – Former Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel and ex Arsenal striker Ian Wright are among six ex-players who have been inducted into the Premier League’s Hall of Fame, the league said yesterday.

Ten new cases of the novel coronavirus have been reported by the Ministry of Health after its latest round of testing.

HOUSTON/WASHINGTON/CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Some U.S. oilfield firms whose Venezuelan operations were frozen by sanctions are joining an appeal to Washington for authorizations to restart oil drilling in the South American country, according to eight sources with knowledge of the talks.

Up to earlier this week Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA was preoccupied with preparing a long overdue shipment of a 190,000-barrel cargo of diesel for shipment to Cuba in what, reportedly, was a bid to help its closest political ally in the region stave off fuel shortages that could have serious implications for electricity generation during the first half of this year Cuba relies on fuel imports to cover the majority of its overall fuel demand and reportedly has not received diesel from Venezuela since last September, causing the country to have to resort to higher prices on the open market. 

Dear Editor, Over the past decade the criticism of the sugar industry has been incessant.

(Reuters) – The massed ranks of Ferrari fans will be hoping to celebrate a triumphant homecoming at Imola on Sunday after Charles Leclerc’s early season domination raised expectations to the highest levels in years.

The report, “Lawyer accused of abusing cop charged with racial hostility,”  published in the Thursday, April 21, 2022 edition of Stabroek News, should have indicated that proceedings against attorney Nirvan Singh were based on a private criminal charge.

Guyana is among a number of oil-producing countries in South America named in an article published in last Wednesday’s edition of the Nepal Times and authored by Inter Press Service development, environment and human rights journalist, Humberto Marquez, that could benefit from new “business opportunities for the oil-producing countries of the developing South” arising out of the “oil and gas supply crisis” spawned by Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine.

BRUSQUE, Brazil,  (Reuters) – A 100-year-old man from the southern Brazilian city of Brusque has entered the Guinness World Record book for working the longest in the same company: 84 years.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukrainian fighters were clinging to their last redoubt in Mariupol this morning after Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed victory in the biggest battle of the war, declaring the port city “liberated” following weeks of relentless bombardment.

(Reuters) – Elina Svitolina said Russian and Belarusian players who denounce Moscow’s invasion of her country Ukraine should be allowed to participate at Wimbledon.

By Dora Benedek, Juan Carlos Benítez, and Charles Vellutini Many governments aiming to achieve a durable economic recovery from the pandemic must raise significant amounts of revenue in the fairest way possible.

Dear Editor, The National Insurance Scheme was established 1969, a forerunner to comparable schemes in the Caribbean which a Guyana leadership team helped to build.

THE HAGUE,  (Reuters) – International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan has rejected a request by Venezuela to delay an ICC probe into alleged human rights violations, according to documents released yesterday, and he will seek to reopen a full investigation.

SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – Shanghai authorities doubled down on their offensive against COVID-19 yesterday, launching a new round of city-wide testing and warning residents their three-week lockdown would only be lifted in batches once transmission is stamped out.

Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony on Wednesday said that enough COVID-19 vaccines are available for all needed doses.

(Reuters) – World number one Novak Djokovic said Wimbledon’s decision to ban Russian and Belarusian players over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine is “crazy”.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday April 21, 2022 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

Dear Editor, The world is currently living through a Black Swan event as the coronavirus continues to cause chaos to some countries.

HAVANA, April 21 (Reuters) – Russia on Thursday donated nearly 20,000 tonnes of wheat to political ally Cuba, a welcome gift to the Caribbean island nation beginning to feel the pain of soaring global prices for grains following the war in Ukraine.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India, the world’s third biggest oil importer and consumer, is looking at boosting oil purchases from Brazil, oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri said yesterday after a meeting with Brazilian Energy Minister Bento Albuquerque.

Dear Editor, I scan the Guyana landscape and evade getting bogged down in the brightness and grimness of our times. 

(Reuters) – Brazilian soccer great Pele was discharged from hospital yesterday, Sao Paulo’s Albert Einstein hospital said, three days after he was admitted to continue receiving treatment for a colon tumor.

In a recent column in this newspaper former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran drew attention to three major projects which had been financed by China’s Exim Bank and which he described as having failed.

With one of the highest suicide rates in the world, it is not surprising that many Guyanese struggle with mental health challenges.

Ukraine again – real and surreal For old veteran People’s National Congress (PNC) man – now brand new Opposition Leader – Norton, there must be a few in-betweens from confrontation to recognition.

Stabroek Market and its immediate environs underwent a massive clean-up on Wednesday. 

Embassy of the United States of America          100 Duke & Young Streets, Kingston, Georgetown, Guyana    Installment 22-4 1. 

THE HAGUE,  (Reuters) – Judges at the International Court of Justice ruled yesterday that Colombia must “immediately cease” patrolling and trying to control fishing in parts of the Caribbean that the ICJ said are within Nicaragua’s exclusive economic zone.

THE HAGUE,  (Reuters) – Judges at the International Court of Justice ruled yesterday that Colombia must “immediately cease” patrolling and trying to control fishing in parts of the Caribbean that the ICJ said are within Nicaragua’s exclusive economic zone.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 963’s trading results showed consideration of $39,736,950 from 127,707 shares traded in 21 transactions as compared to session 962’s trading results which showed consideration of $25,726,216 from 64,544 shares traded in 33 transactions.

Having just a few months ago undertaken a working visit to Region Nine where we conducted extensive interviews with businessmen and women from various economic sectors and with other sections of the community, the Stabroek Business was able to secure an enhanced understanding of the circumstances of the region, including its economic potential and some of the challenges that continue to suppress economic growth in the region.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Chile’s constitutional convention rejected yesterday a set of proposals focused on expanding environmental protections, especially around the major mining sector, a blow to reformers which will push the articles back to committees to be reworked.