Daily Archive: Friday, April 29, 2022

Preliminary analysis of the substance found in the back seat of the vehicle where 25-year-old Paishnarine ‘Ritchie’ Hansraj and 34-year-old Justin Teixeira were found dead in the parking lot of the Marriott Hotel on Saturday, April 23rd, 2022, has confirmed the presence of cyanide.

Senior Minister in the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance, Dr.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine acknowledged today it was taking heavy losses in Russia’s assault in the east, but said Russia’s losses were even worse, as U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – German tennis great Boris Becker was jailed for two years and six months by a London court today for hiding hundreds of thousands of pounds of assets after he was declared bankrupt.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – The British Virgin Islands should have its constitution suspended, its elected government dissolved and effectively be ruled from London, according to a highly critical report into governance in the British overseas territory released today.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Vice President Kamala Harris will virtually meet leaders of 15 Caribbean nations today and continue her work engagements from home after testing positive for COVID-19 earlier this week.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan/AHMEDABAD, India,  (Reuters) – Pakistan issued a heat warning after the hottest March in 61 years while in parts of neighbouring India schools were shut and streets deserted as an intense heave wave today showed no signs of abating.

BEIJING/SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – China’s capital Beijing closed more businesses and residential compounds today, with authorities ramping up contact tracing to contain a COVID-19 outbreak, while resentment at the month-long lockdown in Shanghai grew.

The body of 53-year-old Waynumattie Permaul called ‘Datalin’ was found this morning in a shallow grave in her yard at Kilcoy, Chesney, Corentyne, Berbice police said.

The Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) on Tuesday upheld a decision of the EPA not to require an impact study for the construction of a new bridge over the Demerara River, relying in the main on a 2017 study which had concluded that the impacts of the project were “medium and manageable”.

The  current influx of United States dollars and lower demand for the currency is the reason the Guyana dollar is holding at a steady exchange rate of US$1 to $200, and not that there is an appreciation, Central Bank Governor Gobind Ganga says. 

Former Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan was yesterday questioned by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) in relation to the sale of several acres of land at Ogle, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

The police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for 24-year-old Denzil Haynes of Sophia who is being sought in relation to the murder of Yardan Jacobs.

Leader of the Opposition Aubrey Norton says that while Parliamentary Com-mittees provide an avenue to raise issues affecting the country, there are no mechanisms for action in addressing them.

Verification of a passenger’s vaccination status and proof of negative COVID-19 antigen or PCR test result is now the responsibility of airlines flying into Guyana, rather than that of the authorities at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.

Three days after he was involved in a serious accident along the Plaisance Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD), motorcyclist Ronaldo Saul-Drepaul succumbed to his injuries at a city hospital.

A 22-year-old taxi driver was on Wednesday remanded to prison after he was charged with robbing a Crane, West Coast Demerara (WCD) businessman of twelve gold chains worth $1.5M.

Police in Region Two are trying to locate a hire car HC 7997 which reportedly stopped for an armed bandit at Anna Regina, Essequibo Coast, who had just had robbed a store of $700,000. 

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Chief executive Johnny Grave is confident a “record year” of revenues can transform Cricket West Indies’ finances crippled by the COVID-19 pandemic, and return the organisation to sustainability.

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) on Wednesday called on its strategic partners to work together to execute bold and urgent actions to transform the Region’s energy landscape and lay the ground for faster progress towards attaining green energy and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. 

Guyana, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago are expected to head the regional ‘pack’ this year insofar as economic growth is concerned, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), though it says that the rest of the region is not likely to fare anywhere near as well as these three front-runners.

Defending champion Bent Street suffered a shock loss, while Gold is Money, Alexander Village, North East La Penitence and Future Stars recorded contrasting wins when the Magnum Independence Cup continued on Wednesday at the National Park tarmac.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – California’s attorney general announc-ed yesterday he issued a subpoena to ExxonMobil XOM.N

Back in December 2020 when the Mocha/Arcadia Multi-Purpose Agricultural Co-operative Society hosted its first Market Day, the event was intended to both shine a light on the success of residents of the community in creating modest agricultural ventures that could serve as income subsidies and to provide a service to residents of neighbouring communities.

Minister of Sport, Charles Ramson Jr and the Director of Sports, Steve Ninvalle, met with the five medalists from the recently concluded CARIFTA Games, their families, coaches and the President of the AAG, Aubrey Hutson for individual closed-door sessions.

Currently facing a multimillion dollar libel suit from Senior Superintendent Fazil Karimbaksh, retired Assistant Commissioner of Police and former Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Paul Slowe has been slapped with yet another—like the first—to the tune of $70 million also.

Just over five months after the British government had dispatched its Deputy Trade Commissioner for Latin America and the Caribbean, Spencer Mahoney, to engage government officials here on possible avenues for expanded trade and investment relations between the two countries arising out of the dramatic opening up of the country to foreign investment, Guyana’s president, Irfaan Ali, has used his feature address at a Guyana Investment Seminar in London earlier this week to state that the United Kingdom needed to demonstrate greater interest in the investment opportunities that Guyana had to offer.

Top local seed, Narayan Ramdhani and Trinidad’s Nicholas Bonkowsky on Thursday advanced to the quarter final of the Men’s Doubles in the XXV Pan American Individual Badminton Championship in El Salvador.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Two Russian missiles struck Kyiv during a visit by the head of the United Nations, Ukrainian officials said, but the West believes the battles for the besieged port of Mariupol and other areas in the east and south may determine the war’s outcome.

The Police are trying to make contact with a 55-year-old businessman of Harlem, West Coast Demerara who accidentally discharged his firearm, hitting a $1.3 million Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) scanner.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is committed to providing accurate information to all Stakeholders in a timely manner.

On a visit to the United Kingdom President Irfaan Ali has reportedly been talking up Guyana’s tourism sector during a roundtable discussion with businessmen from the United Kingdom and the European Union and making clear his administration’s preparedness to embrace a ‘big player’ in the sector, the Department of Public Information says. 

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The U.N. human rights committee said yesterday that Brazil graft investigators violated due process in bringing a case against former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that led to his imprisonment and barred him from running for office in 2018.

The Guyana economy was the least affected among Caribbean and Latin American countries by the ravages of the debilitating COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recently released World Bank semi-annual report on the region.

A 14-year-old is now hospitalised after he was involved in a serious accident along the Fyrish Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice, where he was driving a car on Wednesday night.

Dear Editor The performance of any individual or organization, or association that does not respond to well-founded criticism with a willingness to change will be prosaic.

SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – As many as 12.38 million Shanghai residents, nearly half the population of China’s financial hub, are now in lower-risk areas, meaning they can leave their homes, the government said yesterday.

By Lorraine Sobers Natural gas has been accepted as a cleaner alternative to fuel oil for electricity generation for over eight decades.

Days after his arrest, Nigel Abraham was on Wednesday remanded to prison for allegedly murdering his foster son, 17-year-old Daniel Wilson, at Black Water, North West District.

Dear Editor, The VP is on a roll having rolled into Region Five and rolled out one thousand part time jobs as assistance to cushion the rising cost of living; grants to assist businesses among several other initiatives. 

One thousand Barbados black belly sheep are currently being examined for signs of illness before arriving to Guyana’s shores, Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha, M.P,

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told allies yesterday he aims to represent a seven-party center-left coalition in his challenge to incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in this October’s election.

Dear Editor, The best financial advice to give a country that is now developing faster than before, is use money very wisely.

Several persons are in hospital following an accident on the Uitvlugt Public Road, West Coast Demerara last evening.

Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn on Wednesday visited Police Headquarters, Eve Leary and the Ruimveldt Police Station Marine Department to conduct inspections.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday December 16, 2021

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador will immediately lift mask mandates for both indoor and outdoor spaces thanks to significant gains made against coronavirus, President Guillermo Lasso said yesterday.

Dear Editor, President Ali had a very busy second day in the UK.

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

Dear Editor,  The Indian Diaspora Council International (IDC) fully endorses Ravi Dev’s proposal for May 5 to be declared Indian Arrival Day in Guyana.

(Trinidad Express) Businessman Inshan Ishmael has been defeated in a civil lawsuit he brought against the Trinidad Express Newspapers Ltd, and its editor-in-chief Omatie Lyder and journalist Renuka Singh for defamation of character.

A nine-year-old pupil of Tain Primary School, Corentyne, Berbice, was yesterday morning discharged from the Port Mourant Public Hospital after she was struck down by a car on Wednesday night.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 964’s trading results showed consideration of $13,731,868 from 42,538 shares traded in 27 transactions as compared to session 963’s trading results which showed consideration of $39,736,950 from 127,707 shares traded in 21 transactions.

Dear Editor, On the 18th August, 2020, I went to NIS in Camp Street to have an update on my NIS contributions.

(Reuters) – If bowlers increasingly become cannon fodder in Twenty20 cricket, people like Julian Wood might be to blame.

(Field Level Media) Joel Embiid scored 33 points and grabbed 10 rebounds as the visiting Philadelphia 76ers defeated the Toronto Raptors 132-97 last night to win their first-round playoff series in six games.

(Trinidad Guardian) Massy has confirmed that the shutdown of its supermarkets across the country was caused by a cyber attack that led to its check out service being made inoperable.

Stephen Curry scored 30 points in his first start of the series and the Golden State Warriors clinched their first-round matchup with a 102-98 victory over the Denver Nuggets in Game 5 on Wednesday night in San Francisco.

(Reuters) – Premier League club Chelsea is on borrowed time and only has weeks to complete its sale, Britain’s Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport told the BBC yesterday.

Giannis Antetokounmpo eclipsed the 30-point mark for the third time in the last four games as the Milwaukee Bucks earned a 116-100 win over the visiting Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night to advance to the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs.

(Field Level Media) Every superhero needs a foil, with the Memphis Grizzlies’ high-flying Ja Morant ready to end the current drama of a first-round playoff series against the Minnesota Timberwolves and Karl-Anthony Towns.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Rovman Powell unfurled a 16-ball cameo as Delhi Capitals chased down a modest total to beat Andre Russell’s Kolkata Knight Riders by four wickets yesterday, and remain within touching distance of the Indian Premier League playoffs.

(Reuters) – England unveiled Ben Stokes as their test captain yesterday, hoping for a swift turnaround under the talismanic all-rounder after a tame end to Joe Root’s five years in charge of the team earlier this month.

Unesco’s World Press Freedom Day is to be celebrated here on May 3 and 4.

Up to this time we are yet to make a proper assessment of the extent of the impact which the Coronavirus has had on micro and small businesses in the farming and agro-processing sectors.

I’m sure that I was advised by some knowledgeable superiors during my own active People’s National Congress (PNC) “days”, long ago, that I could be jailed for refusing to register as a voter.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Russian businessman Oleg Tinkov, who last week criticized Russia’s war in Ukraine, has sold his 35% stake in the company he founded to a firm controlled by Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin, the companies said on Thursday.

In a little over a month, Guyanese LGBTQI+ persons and allies will begin celebrating Pride, an annual event aimed at not only highlighting love and gender identity in all its forms, but also a period of reflecting how far we have come and how far we still have to go.

Ten new COVID-19 cases were yesterday reported by the Ministry of Health from 1, 077 tests that were conducted.