Daily Archive: Friday, July 1, 2022

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has joined the CARICOM Private Sector Organization (CPSO).

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp XOM.N today signaled earnings from its oil and gas output will rise as much as US$3.3 billion in the second quarter.

President Irfaan Ali this afternoon appointed four of the five persons nominated to serve on the Public Procurement Commission (PPC).

The National Milling Company (NAMILCO) says that it has not increased the prices of any of its products.

AMSTERDAM,  (Reuters) – The Dutch central bank (DNB) today apologized for its role in the 19th century slave trade and said it would fund projects to raise awareness of slavery and to mitigate the effects it still has on people.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India today imposed a ban on single-use plastics on items ranging from straws to cigarette packets to combat worsening pollution in country whose streets are strewn with waste.

(Trinidad Express) PC Clarence Gilkes was killed by a police bullet.

(Trinidad Guardian) After spending almost 17 years in prison and facing three trials, five men convicted of kidnapping a businesswoman and allegedly burying her alive have been set free.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday pleaded with Guyana’s citizenry to trust his government to give them a gas-to-shore project that will bring not only lower power costs but put savings into their pockets while expanding development and prosperity for the nation.

The US last evening committed to donating to Guyana all the Pfizer vaccines it needs in the fight against the  COVID-19 pandemic which has claimed the lives of 1254 persons here.

Dear Editor, Recently, I read a report prepared by SPHEREX Analytics, an accounting firm that produced the 2020 and 2021 financial statements for Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL).

The historic inaugural Caribbean Games got underway on Wednesday night following a party full of music and colour in Guadeloupe.

Dear Editor, The system of industrial relations is informed, influenced and functions within the norms of national legislation, international labour standards, and regional labour policy of CARICOM.

Guyana’s ongoing pursuit of the externalisation of its effort to draw attention to its new-found position as a potential investment haven is set to continue this month with the country’s official participation in the July 6 to 8 Saudi-Caribbean Investment Forum which is being staged in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, in collaboration with the Ministry of Investment of Saudi Arabia.

An East Canje, Berbice woman was strangled and found wrapped in a bag along the Corentyne Highway in Number 1 Village yesterday and a soldier is the main suspect and was detained at his base in Georgetown.

Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname are on the verge of forging closer bilateral energy ties, based on reports arising out of discussions between the Surinamese President Chandrikapersaud Santokhi and Trinidad and Tobago’s Energy Minister Stuart Young in Paramaribo earlier this week, according to a report emanating from Port of Spain.

Leader of the Opposition Aubrey Norton yesterday called for the police officer who fatally shot 23-year-old Quindon Bacchus to be charged with murder.

Dear Editor, I recently returned to Guyana. As I exited the airway bridge at Cheddi Jagan Inter-national Airport, like all other incoming passengers, my eyes were greeted by an unflattering portrait of Mr.

Dear Editor, Are we naive to accept lawlessness as peaceful protest in a democratic society?

In contemplating war and its consequences, it is absolutely necessary that we scrutinise the conflict and its outcomes way beyond the battlefield.

An 86-year-old Mon Repos woman was yesterday afternoon discovered dead in her apartment with multiple stab wounds about her body and police have launched an investigation.

Dear Editor, Street protests has historically been a manifestation of Guyanese social/ political culture – more so by the African community.

Thirty-eight-year-old former taxi-driver Thurston Semple, has been sentenced to 11 years behind bars for brutally raping and beating a sex worker back in February of last year.

Utilizing what he says are lessons extracted from the experience of the more than two-year long harshest experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic, Director General of the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization Qu Dongyu, earlier this week told a UN forum that one of the valuable takeaways from the pandemic is the truism that a robust and well-integrated global agri-food system can contribute to countries withstanding unprecedented challenges, as evidenced during the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 when global agri-food markets proved to be remarkably resilient.

Dear Editor, The Guyana United Artists categorically condemns the use of the right to peaceful protest to rob, loot, and beat innocent civilians and the willful destruction of property.

City, and Lack Ah Scene will contest the final in the 4th edition of the Mocha Street Football Village Cup on Sunday, following semi-final victories on Wednesday evening at the basketball tarmac.

The Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) yesterday held a hearing on the appeal of EPA decisions not to have impact surveys for ExxonMobil’s planned exploration in the offshore Canje and Kaieteur blocks.

Over time, Farmers Markets have proven to be one of the more worthwhile pursuits of the broader agricultural sector, globally and certainly here in Guyana, where the pursuit continues to serve a number of important functions.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s government and indigenous groups’ leaders yesterday reached an agreement to end more than two weeks of protests against the social and economic policies of President Guillermo Lasso which left at least eight dead, indigenous leaders said.

Retired Assistant Com-missioner of Police, Paul Slowe has applied to High Court Judge, Justice Gino Persaud for an injunction to halt any promotion of members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) by the new Police Service Commission (PSC).

Dear Editor, Guyana is poised for economic transformation and development after moving out of the period of the pre-condition for takeoff mode.

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) on Friday last, held a special ceremony at the St Francis Community Developers Centre where nine under-19 females who gained selection to the national side were given financial stipends of $10,000 each under the Dr Puran Singh Incentive Scheme.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – A Russian missile strike in Ukraine’s southern port of Odesa early today killed at least 10 people, a regional official said, a day after Ukraine drove Russian forces from the strategic Black Sea outpost of Snake Island.

Seemingly keen to create a region-wide enthusiasm for an accelerated focus on agriculture and agro-processing as vehicles to provide support for the region’s now widely disseminated 25 x 2025 objective, Guyana is aiming to take its next UncappeD event to Antigua, Event Director of the considerably successful product display of agro-produce and senior Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) official, Ramsay Ali, has told the Stabroek Business.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peruvian firefighters were fighting to contain a forest fire near the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu on Thursday, as the blaze threatened to close in on the ancient city high in the Andean mountains.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that as of June 29th, 2022, one more person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has died.

Dear Editor, Mr. Aubrey Norton, leader of the PNC, lost a glorious opportunity to show himself to the Guyanese people and the world that he is worthy to lead the nation during the mayhem on June 28 on the ECD.

Matthew Pottaya and Sanjay Algoo’s efforts ensured Berbice’s victory over Rising Stars by 13 runs on Wednesday as the Guyana Cricket Board Under-17 inter-county tournament continued at La Bonne Intention, East Coast Demerara.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday June 30, 2022

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday imposed limits on the federal government’s authority to issue sweeping regulations to reduce carbon emissions from power plants in a ruling that undermines President Joe Biden’s plans to tackle climate change and could constrain various agencies on other issues.

Nadia Mohamed, wife of businessman Azzrudin Mohamed, was yesterday released on $100,000 bail following a fatal accident involving the vehicle she was driving and a motorcycle.

WASHINGTON/CARACAS,  (Reuters) – A U.S. delegation led by President Joe Biden’s chief hostage negotiator ended a visit to Venezuela yesterday after failing to secure the release of any of the Americans detained there, U.S.

The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) has named its athlete contingent for the Commonwealth Games.

Dear Editor It seems there is disgruntlement in some quarters with which the swiftness of compensation was meted out to vendors who suffered losses, damages and destruction to property in the mayhem of riotous Tuesday (KN June 30). 

Last year’s novices winners, Michael Sampson, Yusuf Khan, and Aliyah Wong, will all be gunning to repeat as champions when the bodybuilding federation hosts its Intermediate and Mr.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korea claimed yesterday that the country’s first COVID-19 outbreak began with patients touching “alien things” near the border with South Korea, apparently shifting blame to the neighbour for the wave of infections in the isolated country.

(Reuters) – India captain Rohit Sharma has been ruled out of the rescheduled fifth test against England beginning today and seamer Jasprit Bumrah will lead the side instead, the touring team said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The chances of reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal are worse after indirect U.S.-Iranian

(Reuters) – Cricket Australia (CA) is “astonished” by the legal proceedings launched against it by broadcast partner the Seven Network and will “strenuously” defend itself in the court, the governing body said yesterday.

If you are interested in world affairs, you might be familiar with the saying, “when America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold.”

(Reuters) – Nicaragua has shut down 101 civic organizations and charities, including the local branch of the Missionaries of Charity established by Mother Teresa, the country’s national assembly said in a statement late on Wednesday.

Tuesday’s events along the East Coast are illustrative of a number of issues. 

Dear Editor, With other right thinking citizens I have privately and in a letter expressed my abhorrence for the lawlessness that took place during the protest march on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 at Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara.

Three females of Guyanese descent were brutally stabbed resulting in the death of two and one being hospitalised in an attack that occurred in their South Ottawa, Canada, home, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) yesterday reported.

(Reuters) – Former Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone drew condemnation yesterday after the 91-year-old defended Russian President Vladimir Putin in a television interview as a “first class person” he would “take a bullet” for.

More Americana: A very friendly priest I’ve just concluded a lightning-quick two-week stay in the still-mighty USA.

Against the backdrop of two recent, widely publicized and well-supported events in Guyana and Barbados, respectively, which drew attention to both the food security potential of the region and what, up until now, has been a gap between aspiration and realization in that regard, it would have occurred to   observers that what we were witnessing was the familiar hype and hoopla reflected in the pleasing turnouts to view the product displays and the restating of previous official food security-related undertakings by high officials including Heads of Government.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 973’s trading results showed consideration of $10,876,708 from 33,023 shares traded in 37 transactions as compared to session 972’s trading results which showed consideration of $74,000,408 from 169,031 shares traded in 49 transactions.

(Reuters) – Veteran seamer James Anderson will replace Jamie Overton for England in the rescheduled fifth test against India at Edgbaston, the team said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Fourth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas romped into the third round at Wimbledon yesterday with an accomplished 6-2 6-3 7-5 victory over Jordan Thompson under the roof on Court One.

(Reuters) – Jos Buttler has been appointed England’s new limited-overs captain following the retirement of Eoin Morgan, the country’s cricket board (ECB) said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton called for Formula One’s old guard to be given no air time after 91-year-old former supremo Bernie Ecclestone and retired triple world champion Nelson Piquet drew fire for offensive comments.

(Reuters) – Australia’s Cameron Green struck a masterly 77 on a treacherous track and forged half-century partnerships with Usman Khawaja and Alex Carey to put the tourists in charge of the opening test against Sri Lanka in Galle yesterday.

(Reuters) – World number one Iga Swiatek struggled with unforced errors but found her composure when it mattered most to see off Dutch lucky loser Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove 6-4 4-6 6-3 to reach the third round of Wimbledon and extend her winning run to 37 matches.

(Reuters) – India’s Virat Kohli could line up beside Pakistan skipper Babar Azam in the same team next year with the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) planning to revive the Afro-Asia Cup.