Daily Archive: Thursday, April 28, 2022

British High Commissioner to Guyana, Jane Miller (right) and her predecessor Greg Quinn attended a dinner on Tuesday  organised by the Guyana High Commission to welcome the visit to the UK by President Irfaan Ali and a delegation.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – California’s attorney general announced today he issued a subpoena to ExxonMobil XOM.N

(Reuters) – The premier of the British Virgin Islands was arrested in Miami today for alleged money laundering and conspiracy to import cocaine, according to a U.S.

Police in Region Seven are probing the murder of a 49-year-old Venezuelan woman, whose body was found buried in a shallow grave with multiple chop wounds on Tuesday at Eteringbang Landing, Cuyuni River.

KYIV, (Reuters) – The United States accused Russia today of planning to stage fake independence votes to justify its conquest of territory in Ukraine, as Russian forces stepped up a major offensive in the east.

 (Reuters) – Ukraine accused Russia today of stealing grain in territory it has occupied, an act which it said increased the threat to global food security posed by disruptions to spring sowing and the blocking of Ukrainian ports during the war.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden asked Congress for $33 billion to support Ukraine – a dramatic escalation of U.S.

Yardan Jacobs, the labourer who was shot along with his cousin more than a week ago in North Sophia has succumbed at a city hospital.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The U.N. human rights committee said today that corruption proceedings against former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that led to his imprisonment and prevented him from running again for office in 2018 violated due process.

(Trinidad Express) As Debe grandmother Sita Jagessar was laid to rest yesterday, her daughter Melissa Jagessar was charged with her murder.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health has confirmed that the country is now recording 85 per cent more daily COVID-19 cases on average when compared to two weeks ago.

(Trinidad Guardian) The relatives of one of two men who were murdered during a shooting incident in Couva said yesterday if the killer is not arrested by the police, they will get justice from God.

The Inter-American Com-mission on Human Rights (IACHR), in a landmark ruling, has recommended that the Government of Guyana adopt the necessary measures to ensure that the Region Seven Amerindian village of Isseneru and its members receive “full reparations for the material and immaterial damages they suffered on the account of the violation of their human rights.”

Businessman Nazar ‘Shell’ Mohamed is forging ahead with operationalising Hadi’s World Inc’s Quarry operation in Region Seven, as the company yesterday signed a US$25 million agreement with China Harbour Engineering Company Limited to execute the works there.

Speaking to scores of  potential UK investors, President Irfaan Ali yesterday highlighted opportunities in tourism and cutting the Caribbean’s high food import bill.

TechnipFMC Guyana on Tuesday commissioned a shore base at McDoom on the East Bank of Demerara to serve the oil and gas industry.

Ja Morant scored 18 of his game-high 30 points in the fourth quarter, including a tiebreaking layup in the final second, and the Memphis Grizzlies defeated the Minnesota Timberwolves 111-109 on Tuesday to take a 3-2 lead in their first-round Western Conference playoff series.

This year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) examinations have been delayed by three weeks and are now scheduled to be administered from May 23rd.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to share what some residents in the Richmond Housing Scheme, Essequibo Coast experienced on the 23rd of April, 2022.

Lolita Rebeiro, the country’s Chief Medex, lost her battle to cancer on Tuesday evening.

Damian Bissoon, a murder accused who turned himself over to the police on Monday after almost four years on the run, was yesterday remanded to prison.

Dear Editor, Over the twenty years since our school has been in existence, a number of cases have come to our attention involving children alleging rape. 

After becoming Guyana’s second fastest man of all time during the Velocity Fest meet last weekend at the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica, Emanuel Archibald has his sights set on stepping onto the podium at international events this season.

Dear Editor, In a letter to Stabroek News on 26th April, 2022, Vishnu Bisram, after listing the various attempts to rig our elections from 1968 onwards and identifying the historical context in which these attempts were made, with which I have little or no disagreement, asks the question “why the effort was made to rig the outcome (the March 2020 elections) after the election rather than on Election day or before the count or during the initial count”?

A cyclist from Foulis, on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD), succumbed on Tuesday morning after he collided with a car along the Enmore access road, ECD.

WARSAW/SOFIA/KYIV,  (Reuters) – European leaders denounced Russia’s attempt to “blackmail” Ukraine’s allies over gas supplies, as Western sanctions batter the Russian economy already struggling with its worst crisis since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union.

Dear Editor, President Irfaan Ali spoke far and wide and not just on oil/gas at Tuesday’s Carlton House investment seminar in London.

Policy Forum Guyana (PFG), a local NGO, has expressed disquiet with two of the appointees to the Board of Directors of the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) and is questioning the practicality of the decision.

Equipped with the latest gym weights and relevant equipment from the internationally renowned brand, Life Fitness, Space Gym 2.0 is set to open its doors to the public on Tuesday.

(Reuters) – A court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail yesterday after finding her guilty in the first of 11 corruption cases she faces, a source with knowledge of the proceedings said.

Dear Editor, After numerous viewing of the Visit Guyana page on Facebook, created by the founders, Chris and Stacey Rahaman, the page makes you want to consider touring beautiful Guyana all over again.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif yesterday appointed Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, son of assassinated former premier Benazir Bhutto, as foreign minister, giving his coalition ally a senior role in repairing frayed ties with the United States and other Western countries.

UNESCO, CARICOM  and The University of the West Indies (UWI) have launched the ‘Creative Caribbean – An Ecosystem of “Play” for Growth and Development’ project in the amount of Euros 3 million.

The athletes and coaches from table tennis, 3×3 basketball and swimming who are competing in the first wave of the South American Youth Games arrived safely in Argentina and have started going about their tasks in relation to their respective sports disciplines.

Owing to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic over the last two years, an estimated 2.8 million people, or nearly 40% of the population in the English-speaking Caribbean is food insecure—1 million more than in April 2020—and the situation is further compounded by rising food prices and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his base are energized and spoiling for a new fight, political analysts say, after he defied the Supreme Court by pardoning an ally who was sentenced to jail for threatening its judges.

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) last Saturday, hosted a live interactive session at the Albion Community Development Centre Cricket Ground with four legendary test players.

Dear Editor, The parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) finally got off its throne and went after someone. 

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peruvian police said yesterday they had evicted an indigenous community that had established a camp inside a huge open pit owned by MMG’s Las Bambas copper mine that had forced the Chinese-owned company to halt operations.

The substance found in the vehicle in which the lifeless bodies of Richie Hansraj and Justin Teixeira were discovered was yesterday sent overseas for testing, sources confirmed.

Guyana Harpy Eagles head coach Esuan Crandon says his side is fine-tuning preparations for the resumption of the Regional first-class season next month.

Dear Editor, The ‘Vacancy Announcement’ in respect of the below mentioned positions indicated closure of applications as at March 25, 2022.

Dear Editor, Your editorial “Spending the oil money” on April 25, 2022, argues the Guyanese government is making a flawed decision by immediately using funds from the Natural Resource Fund (NRF).

Some 800 residents in the remote community of Monkey Mountain, Potaro–Siparuni (Region Eight) can now boast of improved water supply, the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) said on Tuesday.

The third and deciding match between Castrol Strikers and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) in the semifinals of the men’s senior volleyball league was suspended Tuesday evening.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government are likely to be excluded from the U.S.-hosted

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The northern English city of York yesterday stripped Britain’s Prince Andrew, who is the Duke of York, of the freedom of the city.

The Ministry of Health yesterday reported a total of 8 new COVID-19 cases.

Dear Editor, In the past, Guyanese who won a world championship were rewarded with a plot of land and a house.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – A Colombian judge yesterday dismissed a request by the attorney general’s office to shelve a witness-tampering investigation against divisive former President Alvaro Uribe.

By Charwayne Walker Former national footballer Anthony `Brains’ Bowen has died in the United States of America.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – The Cuban central bank issued regulations yesterday for virtual asset service providers, after giving a nod last year to the personal use of cryptocurrencies, a move some experts said could help the Communist-run Caribbean island skirt stiff U.S.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Cricket West Indies chief executive, Johnny Grave, has admitted to being surprised by the timing of Kieron Pollard’s retirement from international cricket.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Alzarri Joseph’s Gujarat Titans beat Nicholas Pooran’s Sunrisers Hyderabad in a last-ball thriller at the Wankhede Stadium yesterday, to march to their fourth straight win and back to the top of the Indian Premier League standings.

Mikal Bridges scored 31 points and Chris Paul added 22 points and 11 assists as the host Phoenix Suns defeated the New Orleans Pelicans 112-97 on Tuesday night to take a 3-2 lead in their Western Conference first-round playoff series.

Victor Oladipo scored 23 points and Bam Adebayo posted 20 points and made a key defensive play as the Miami Heat held off the visiting Atlanta Hawks for a series-clinching 97-94 victory in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference’s first round Tuesday night.

Investigators are probing a break and enter and larceny committed at the D’Urban Backlands home of former President, David Granger during which a number of electronic items were stolen.

JAKARTA,  (Reuters) – Indonesia widened the scope of its export ban on raw materials for cooking oil to include crude and refined palm oil, its chief economic minister said yesterday, leaving markets in shock over the latest policy reversal.

Dear Editor, So the day long power outage experienced on Tuesday April 26, was as a result of private contractors operating excavators which damaged power lines (News Room April 26). 

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – The Brazilian government’s indigenous affairs agency Funai said yesterday that it is looking into a report that a Yanomami teenager died after she was abducted and raped by illegal gold miners on her reservation.

(Reuters) – The England cricket board (ECB) look set to return to a split coaching set-up after inviting applications for two new head coaches, following Chris Silverwood’s resignation.

On April 19, Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn and Commissioner of Police (ag) Clifton Hicken held a meeting with more than 100 policewomen from various divisions at the Offi-cers’ Training Centre, Camp Road, Georgetown, where domestic and gender-based violence was among the subjects addressed.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Faf du Plessis backed Virat Kohli to come good with the bat after he was out for a low score in the Indian Premier League once again on Tuesday as his team slumped to a fourth defeat of the season.