Articles published on Friday, May 20, 2022
Amid a public outcry, the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) this afternoon explained its decision to terminate a private criminal charge brought under the Racial Hostility Act by police corporal Shawnette Bollers against attorney Nirvan Singh.
(Barbados Nation) After 128 years of offering educational services in Barbados, the Ursuline Convent School will be closing in August 2023.
(Trinidad Express) A teenager was fatally shot outside his home on Wednesday.
Less talk and more tangible work towards realistically achievable targets is what is needed if the region is to meet its ‘25 per cent by 2025’ food import reduction bill, President Irfaan Ali yesterday declared as he laid out plans this country has and recommendations for the region.
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders yesterday agreed that regional trade barriers must be removed and investments in shipping are required if they are going to achieve food security and the goals of 25 by 2025.
With the Full Court divided in its finding on the appeal filed by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo to the $20M default judgment granted against him to former government Minister Annette Ferguson that decision currently stands.
Tagenarine Chanderpaul struck his third first-class century while Gudakesh Motie crossed the triple-figure mark for the first time in his career as Guyana Harpy Eagles piled up 490 for seven in their first innings against Barbados Pride who closed the second day of the West Indies Championship on 48 for two.
Acres of cane under the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s (GuySuCo) field research programme at LBI were recently cleared for housing development.
A pedestrian is now dead after falling under a moving garbage truck.
An exceptional all-round performance from Kaysia Schultz ensured Demerara Women a 179-run win over Select XI yesterday at National Stadium, Providence as the Guyana Cricket Board senior female inter-county tournament continued.
Dear Editor, I am reluctantly intervening in the exchanges of letters over the past few days between Dr.
The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has ordered the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) to repay more than $45 million in taxes deducted from James Ramsahoye in a decades-old action which had its genesis in the 1998 termination of his employment by the now-defunct Linden Mining Enterprise (LINMINE) and Bauxite Industry Development Company Limited (BIDCO).
Dear Editor, My attention was drawn to a letter published in the Stabroek News on May 15 2022 captioned: “We Amerindians are focused on the prize and will not be distracted by voices in the wilderness”.
Dear Editor, “We do not need to know the beginning of a child’s story to change the ending,” someone said.
Attorney General Anil Nandlall yesterday met with the Chair and Commissioners of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to discuss the proposed amendments to the Representation of the People Act (RoPA).
The local contingent of the Golden Jaguars Senior Men’s Program, will depart local shores tomorrow (Saturday) for the twin-island republic of Trinidad and Tobago, as they intensify preparations for the 2022 CONCACAF Nations League in June.
An informal follow up conversation with a gathering of local agro-processors who participated in the recent Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association –staged UncappeD event at the Providence Stadium has yielded the opinion that the likely single biggest government failure up until now in terms of support for the growth of the country’s agro processing sector has been its inability, up until now, to provide a facility that will enable the country’s agro-processors to undertake “end-to-end” manufacture and packaging of their produce to a point of them leaving the facility with “ready for market” products.
The Ministry of Health yesterday said that one new COVID-19 death has been reported.
Dear Editor, The First Lady, a public figure, hosted a so-called charity event that attracted a fair amount of criticism which in turn opened the floodgates to an outpouring of support.
Even as regional food security appears to have returned close to the top of the agenda of the Carib-bean Community (CARICOM), Jamaica, one member country that has consistently demonstrated an interest in raising its own agricultural profile has announced that its agriculture is to benefit from an infusion of funding from the World Food Programme (WFP) with which to increase its agricultural output and improve sustainability and resilience in the sector.
Dear Editor, In a previous Letter to the Editor, I drew attention to the fact that the war in Ukraine is blowing no one any good, except for the military—industrial-complex which is raking in billions of dollars in profits at the expense of death, destruction and human suffering.
KYIV/SLATYNE, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Ukraine’s industrial Donbas region, the focus of recent Russian offensives, has been destroyed, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said as some of the world’s richest countries pledged to bolster Kyiv with billions of dollars.
Due to the increase in the price of raw materials and inputs, Bounty Farm Limited has increased the price of its chicken.
Dear Editor, This is a brief response to the May 13 edition of Mr.
ATHENS, (Reuters) – Vangelis, the Greek composer whose rousing electronic theme music for the Oscar-winning 1981 film “Chariots of Fire” became one of the most loved movie scores, has died at the age of 79.
Guyana will continue to support Baroness Patricia Scotland for the post of Commonwealth Secretary General, Foreign Secretary Robert Persaud yesterday announced.
Suriname’s preparation to introduce the international community to a country empowered by its new-found status as a hitherto relatively little-known South American republic now empowered by the prospects that inhere in significant oil wealth, continues to take shape under the administration of that country’s president, Chandrika Santokhi.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Biden administration yesterday accused Cuba of fueling controversy over its possible exclusion from the U.S.-hosted
Dear Editor, I am a hard-working and proud indigenous woman who provides for and takes care of my family of three while my husband is away in the interior, Region Seven.
At a pre-sentencing hearing yesterday morning for former mason Adjuke Josiah, the court heard from the victim impact statement of the 15-year-old girl he raped back in 2018, of the pain and shame with which he has left her.
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada yesterday said it plans to ban the use of China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd HWT.UL
Contending that what, in some instances, are their considerable unrecovered hydrocarbon resources should not become subject to recovery time lines set by rich countries, African nations like Angola contend that such timelines can only be determined by the vicissitudes of growth and development in those countries.
Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday May 12, 2022 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.
Police are now on the hunt for three men who robbed a medical student at gunpoint of a car and an iPhone.
Dear Editor, The following are extracts from SN’s report of Thursday, January 27, 2022: “The Government earmarked a total of $74.4 billion for the educational sector in the 2022 national budget.”
LONDON, (Reuters) – British police ended their investigation yesterday into COVID-19 lockdown parties held at Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Downing Street office, having handed out 126 fines in a scandal that had called into question his leadership.
With traditional farming facing so many challenges and with more persons tapping into the new technologies available for growing, Alfred Brazier of Shaade Hydroponics, and Wayne Gardener of Lincoln Farms, have embarked on a business venture which is a one-stop shop to get persons growing in these new ways with their brainchild, Aquatic Solutions.
MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said his government was “not interested” in attending the U.S.-hosted
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso will attend the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles next month, he said yesterday during a visit to the South American country by U.S.
Forty principal owners in the NBA have more than a combined $10 billion tied up in China, investments that have significant impact on the valuation of the teams, according to an ESPN report published yesterday.
(Reuters) – Defending champion Novak Djokovic and 13-times winner Rafael Nadal are on a quarter-final collision course at the French Open following the draw yesterday.
(Reuters) – Olympic 100m and 200m champion Elaine Thompson-Herah has withdrawn from this weekend’s Birmingham Diamond League meet after she experienced discomfort in training, her management agency said yesterday.
(Reuters) – India’s top court yesterday ordered a one-year jail term for cricketer-turned-lawmaker Navjot Singh Sidhu for a road-rage assault case that killed a man over 30 years ago.
Dear Editor, I do believe in order for the layman to understand the nuances of the law a full explanation is needed and warranted as to the discontinuation of the charge against the lawyer on serious allegations.
(Reuters) – Amnesty International and other rights groups have called on FIFA to set aside $440 million to compensate migrant workers in Qatar for “human rights abuses” during preparations for the 2022 World Cup.
Two days ago, the Director of Public Prosecutions Shalimar Ali-Hack discontinued the private criminal charge that was brought against attorney-at-law, Nirvan Singh.
Murder in Guyana, killings in New York I speak – and write here – with more than reasonable authority.
(Reuters) – Broiling temperatures and the absence of Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike threatens to dampen the enthusiasm at Pimlico tomorrow when the 147th the Preakness Stakes goes ahead without the hope of a Triple Crown winner this year.
(Reuters) – England fast bowler Jofra Archer has been ruled out for the season with a stress fracture in his back, the country’s cricket board (ECB) said yesterday.
Nowhere in the hemisphere have the risks associated with the oil industry been more graphically illustrated recently than in Peru when, back in January, a tanker spilled oil at a refinery owned by the Spanish oil company Repsol, the mishap reportedly directly affecting more than 700,000 Peruvians and causing the authorities there to have to effect an elaborate and costly cleanup.
MONTREAL, (Reuters) – Canada’s public health agency yesterday confirmed the first two cases of monkeypox virus infections in the country after authorities in Quebec province said they were investigating 17 suspected cases.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 967’s trading results showed consideration of $23,013,445 from 64,086 shares traded in 34 transactions as compared to session 966’s trading results which showed consideration of $52,989,751 from 156,479 shares traded in 35 transactions.
Our conversation earlier this week with some of the women who had participated in the display and marketing of goods and services at the recent UncappeD event at the Providence Stadium drove home, perhaps in a manner that had not occurred to us previously, the seriousness of what, for the most part, is a substantive gender lobby for the creation of an environment that is far more convivial to allowing modest, women led businesses to grow and to prosper.
(Reuters) – Tiger Woods struggled mightily in the opening round of the PGA Championship yesterday at Southern Hills Country Club where he played through significant discomfort over his closing holes and will have plenty of work to do to make the cut.
When celebrating World Press Freedom Day Minister Kwame McCoy rhapsodized about government’s commitment to freedom of expression.
A 19-year-old was yesterday released on $40,000 bail after she was allegedly found with 36 grams of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking.
(Reuters) – Niroshan Dickwella’s defiant rearguard with Dinesh Chandimal frustrated Bangladesh and helped Sri Lanka eke out a draw in the opening test in Chattogram yesterday.
