Daily Archive: Sunday, May 1, 2022

The Ministry of Agriculture is inviting bids for the construction and installation of an abattoir and related infrastructure in Region Five with an engineer’s estimate of $465.2m This project has been under consideration for a number of years.

Police are investigating a fatal accident that occurred around 2:15 am today at the intersection of Sandy Babb Street and Vlissengen Road in the vicinity of Camp Ayanganna involving motor Jeep #PTT 4136 which is owned and was being driven by Roberto Narine, a 37-year-old male of School Street, Peters Hall, EBD; and motor car #PXX 4592 which is owned and was being driven by Sheik Baksh,  a 31-year-old of Dowding Street, Kitty with occupant Ian Mekdeci (deceased), a 27-year-old male of First Avenue Subryanville, Georgetown.

A construction worker died in a hit and run accident at Better Hope on the East Coast Demerara last night.

The Guyana Police Force today said that a member of the Guyana Defence Force is in custody over a  violent robbery at Mahaica last evening.

TAOS, N.M.,  (Reuters) – A drought-driven wildfire in northern New Mexico exploded into a “megafire” of 100,000 acres, or 157 square miles, yesterday and could still more than double in size, a fire official said.

(Trinidad Express) One hundred and six cases of police shootings resulting in civilian deaths are engaging the attention of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA).

(Trinidad Guardian) Former commissioner of police Gary Griffith is officially back in politics.

(Trinidad Guardian) A debut novel described by the judges as “rollicking, enjoyable, and at times incredibly moving” is named the outstanding Caribbean book of the past year.

Guyana’s expanding oil and gas sector will not affect the country’s environmental credentials, effectively allowing it to maintain its carbon sink status, according to Senior Director for Climate and REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) in the Ministry of Natural Resources Pradeepa Bholanath.

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday shared a proposal by government to remove the names of dead persons from the National Register of Registrants.

Some may say that Dr Indhira Harry was predestined to become a mental health practitioner but for her it was really witnessing the results of the holistic treatment of a person’s mind in the final stages of her studies that drew her to the field rather than growing up with psychiatrist Dr Bhiro Harry as a father.

Two persons are now missing and feared drowned after a small tug in which they were travelling capsized on Friday night as they were heading into the Canje Creek.

Akeem Stewart and Keliza Smith won the blue riband 100m and 200m events when the inaugural Arrowhead League got underway last evening at the National Track and Field Centre. 

Dear Editor, When new oil discoveries are announced, should Guyanese jump for joy or should we wail and lament that rapacious foreign neocolonial corporations will ship away the bulk of the benefits and leave the Guyanese people with crumbs?

A teenage Rose Hall Town, Corentyne money changer was robbed of $1.5 million in cash yesterday morning by men who pretended that they wanted to convert a large amount of United States currency.

Now in her 27th year at the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL), analytical chemist Sharon Sue-Hang-Baksh has climbed the corporate ladder at the company, where she is now a board member with responsibility for technical services and holds the prestigious title of Master Blender.

Since Moses Nagamootoo ‘unfriended’ me from Facebook at the end of the elections’ crisis, I have been unable to trace those activities that he may choose to make public to FB friends.

Dear Editor, It is said that history repeats itself, that we relive it over and over. 

A 19-year-old shopkeeper is currently hospitalised after he was shot early yesterday morning by two bandits who broke into his Sophia business.

The spirit grows weary with the weight of woe in the world at large.

This the first entry in a series on the current state of civil society in Guyana.

Dear Editor, Driving in Guyana stinks to the high heavens, and I am making that sweeping statement about the conduct of drivers on the roads.

In an effort to enhance the female component of cricket in the capital, the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) will host its first-ever female youth camp this month.

Introduction Today’s column starts with a brief acknowledgement of my completion of the indicated “considered critique” of ExxonMobil’s performance in relation to global climate change and energy transition.

Dear Editor, The full page advertisement from Bocas Lit Fest represents the acts of generosity during the pandemic when organisers of normally paid face-to-face events went virtual.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) President Patrick Yarde has said that successive “incompetent” ministers of Labour have continued to disregard the rights of both workers and trade unions, thus creating conflicts.

A Lloyd N De Arts production with the very meaningful title, Unmasked, was performed on April 21.

Dear Editor, Thursday I got a call from a businessman to check out a security system I set up a few years back at his home.

Guyana’s low cost oil resource continues to be key for Stabroek Block partner Hess, which on Wednesday said it foresees global commodity demand for decades to come, even as the company vowed to continue accelerated development as requested by the current government.

The annual Mayor’s Cup nine-a-side Inter Ward/Village knockout football will conclude today after several weeks of action at various venues.

Dear Editor, It has been reported in one section of the online media that residents in Region Five, during an interactive outreach session were told than an increase in NIS pensions was ruled out at this time (Demerarawaves, April 28).

KYIV, (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv to vow continued support for Ukraine’s fight against Russia, as Moscow said it had struck at weapons supplied by Western nations in the country’s south.

A fire, suspected to be an act of arson, destroyed a Good Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) house on Friday night.

Cast your eyes westward at sunset this evening (or tomorrow night) and you may just see it: the crescent moon hanging low on the horizon, signalling the end of Ramadan.

A second-half offensive blitz propelled Melanie to the 592 Beer ‘Skills for Cash’ 7-aside football championship after they overcame a 0-2 deficit to defeat Monedderlust 5-2 in the final Friday at the No.

The Magnum Independence Cup will resume this evening with seven matches at the National Park Tarmac in Thomas Lands.

It’s hard to say this without sounding a little self-satisfied, but halfway into “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” I guessed the exact way the last two scenes would play out.

Dear Editor, We need to make Home Economics compulsory for all schools in Guyana for the CSEC since it’s very much necessary in our everyday lives.

MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Two top executives of Nicaragua’s largest business association have been convicted of “undermining national integrity”, in the latest of a series of judicial actions against political opponents of President Daniel Ortega.

A young teacher was on Friday held at knife-point and robbed of over $300,000 worth of valuables at Tuschen New Housing Scheme, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) as she was walking home from school.

“The first time she run away it was like my whole heart did get cut out.

The Lady Jaguars were dumped out of the 2022 Concacaf U17 Women’s Championship, losing to former champions and regional powerhouse Mexico 0-15 in a Round of 16 clash at the Estadio Olímpico Félix Sánchez in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Dear Editor, Kindly permit me space in your widely read newspaper to respond to a reply by Mr.

The Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) has announced that it will provide over one 100 programme planners and health care service providers from the region with the opportunity to complete programmes on Clinical Management of HIV and Leadership and Management in Public Health with the Global Health E-Learning Program (eDGH), University of Washington. 

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Washington should make it clear to the “messianic” Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro that any effort to undermine his country’s elections would trigger multilateral sanctions, a newly retired U.S.

(Trinidad Express) – Homicide detectives are investigating the shooting death of a 48-year-old woman who was shot dead in Petit Bourg yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Express) – Only seven of Massy Stores’ 23 branches reopened on Friday following Thursday’s cyber attack.

(Reuters) – The United States has held high-level talks with the UK over how they can co-operate more closely to reduce the chances of war with China over Taiwan and to explore conflict contingency plans for the first time, the Financial Times reported, citing people familiar with the situation.

Dear Editor, Whatever happened to self-improvement in this country? I’m tired hearing of domestic violence, murder and illicit love affairs gone wrong.

The University of Guyana will be hosting a virtual symposium to mark 184 years of East Indian Arrival to Guyana on Wednesday.

Chess players worldwide, some one billion of them, are ecstatic that face-to-face chess has returned.

A question I get asked quite a lot is what kind of foods should be eaten before and after training.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Kieron Pollard’s Mumbai Indians finally broke their winless run in the Indian Premier League when they beat Shimron Hetmyer’s Rajasthan Royals by five wickets with four balls to spare here yesterday.

OMAHA, Neb., (Reuters) – Warren Buffett yesterday used the annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway Inc to reveal major new investments including a bigger stake in Activision Blizzard Inc while also railing against Wall Street excess and addressing the risks to his conglomerate of inflation and nuclear war.

Eight years after the submission of a petition by the villagers of Isseneru and the Amerindian Peoples Association with regard to the violation of that community’s human rights, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has found in their favour.

Dear Editor, The Cooperative Republicans of Guyana extend warm wishes to all of our workers on this Labour Day.

(Trinidad Express) – There was no sabotage. The island-wide blackout of Wednesday, February 16 was “an act of God” “triggered” when a 21.64-metre-tall fungus-infected Palmiste tree in the vicinity of Grants Trace Extension Road in the Rousillac area hit a high-voltage transmission line, causing a cascading chain of events which led to system failure in Trinidad.

Last Update: 1,798.152                          Movement:1.377% Current Update: 1,822.910                     YTD Movement: 77.189%LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The Lucas Stock Index rose 1.377% during the fourth period of trading in April 2022.