Daily Archive: Friday, July 29, 2022

President Irfaan Ali was last evening conferred with a Certificate of Congressional Recognition by Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee for his “visionary leadership” in Guyana and the Caribbean.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – London’s High Court has rejected President Nicolas Maduro’ s latest efforts to gain control of more than $1 billion of Venezuela’s gold reserves stored in the Bank of England’s underground vaults in London.

ODESA, Ukraine/KYIV,  (Reuters) – Dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war appeared to have been killed when a prison building was destroyed in a missile strike today, with Moscow and Kyiv accusing each other of carrying out the attack.

 (Reuters) – The two largest U.S. oil companies, Exxon Mobil Corp XOM.N

(Trinidad Express) A Trinidadian living in Florida has pleaded guilty to hiring a hitman to kill his ex-girlfriend’s fiancé.

Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday took another COVID-19 test and the result returned negative, a release from the Department of Public Information said today.

The Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) yesterday launched a Hepatitis C programme which will see patients receiving the necessary treatment and care free of cost.

While a permit is still to be issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), ExxonMobil is forging ahead with plans for the massive gas-to-shore project and has since made a contingent award of the contract for the construction of the pipeline.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for Kwesi Eusi Robinson of Lot 13 Deroy Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown.

International Day against Trafficking in Persons (TIP) will be observed tomorrow, and as part of the local judiciary’s efforts to combat this scourge, it has placed significant emphasis on reporting the crime.

The XX11 Commonwealth Games got underway last evening with a spectacular opening ceremony at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, England.

APNU+AFC Parliamentarians Christopher Jones, Ganesh Mahipaul, Sherod Duncan, Natasha Singh-Lewis, Annette Ferguson, Vinceroy Jordan, Tabitha Sarabo-Halley and Maureen Philadelphia have received their letters of suspension from the National Assembly informing them that they would not be receiving their salaries and other benefits during that period.

Petra Organization Co-Director Troy Mendonca, has stated that preparation of the playing surface is being undertaken at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue, Georgetown, to ensure that the facility is ready for the semi-final matches in the Milo Secondary School Football Championship on Sunday.

Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn has revealed that the government received requests for 9,270 work permits for the period August 2020 to May 2022 but has only granted 4,847 of those.

Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha and officials from the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) on Monday met with members of the Rice Farmers’ Fertilizer Assistance Registration and Verification Committee to discuss the relief programme announced last May by President Irfaan Ali.

Dear Editor, A reader directed our attention to a letter in response to TIGI’s call for a commission of inquiry in Su-Gate.

Court cases brought against officers of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) in the wake of the March 2nd, 2020 general elections have been adjourned until October 6 and two new applications have been made by the state’s prosecutors.

Guyana’s athletes and officials have arrived in Barbados for the 49th edition of the Central America and Caribbean (CAC) Bodybuilding and Fitness Championships.

In response to recent reports of their Berbice location being shut down, Amazon Caribbean Guyana Ltd.

WASHINGTON/BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chinese leader Xi Jinping warned against playing with fire over Taiwan in a call with U.S.

Dear Editor, It is with some amount of trepidation, I pen this letter, for it seems that my writings and utterances are easily misinterpreted by some who should welcome the kind of interventions I have been making relative to the matter I intend to explore.

More than six weeks have elapsed and the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) still has not paid the Golden Jaguars senior men’s roster their match-day fees for the 2022 Concacaf Nations League, which was staged from June 4 to14.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. economy unexpectedly contracted in the second quarter, with consumer spending growing at its slowest pace in two years and business spending declining, raising the risk that the economy was on the cusp of a recession.

Dear Editor, The Region 6 Health Department is grateful that a letter dated 24th of July,2022 captioned “Gov’t’s healthcare programme lacks equity in rural areas” provides an opportunity to highlight many significant improvements within the health sector of Region 6 over the last two years.

Despite committing to working towards hosting the constitutionally overdue Local Government Elections (LGE) by the end of this year,  seven months later,  the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is yet to identify a clear timeline for hosting those elections.

President Irfaan Ali wants the Guyanese diaspora to know that his government is working “assiduously” to build a Guyana that reflects the principles which defines its citizens and their diversity.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s environmental authority yesterday granted an initial permit that will allow a major highway to be paved through the centre of the Amazon rainforest, the minister of infrastructure said, in a move that threatens to increase deforestation.

Dear Editor, Connect the dots on that rushed visit to the bastion of democracy, and it points in the direction that the government of that country is not at all pleased or happy with the way certain things are happening here, more so in view of that revealing report. 

(Trinidad Guardian) The board of the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) has been mandated by Cabinet to immediately begin the execution of a transformation plan for WASA, which will start with the cutting of 213 members of the executive team, followed by cuts in an unknown number of WASA staff.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips yesterday met with Guyana Reparations Committee Chairman, Dr Eric Phillips and a visiting African Royal Delegation from South Africa and the Kingdom of Lesotho who are in Guyana for Emancipation celebrations 2022.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine stepped up its counter-attacks against Russian forces in the south while Moscow bombed Kyiv’s outskirts for the first time in weeks as Europe’s biggest conflict since World War Two dragged on with no end in sight.

Dear Editor, Kindly permit me to write a few words on the housing sector.

Paradise Invaders and Rosignol United secured lopsided wins when the Berbice Football Association Senior Men’s League continued on Sunday at the Paradise Community Centre ground, West Coast Demerara.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – A string of recent arms-trafficking scandals in Haiti, including the discovery of weapons in a shipping container labeled as church donations, has ignited anger over a steady flow of U.S.

The Georgetown Masters Association three-day event titled the ‘Caricom Football Championships’ which was initially scheduled to commence on July 2 at the Georgetown Football Club, Bourda, Georgetown, will now kick off tomorrow.

Dear Editor, The following is a quote from a recent letter in the Guyana media: “Nothing justifies abuse, except the victim who has become so comfortable within the environment, the victim who believes that without the abuser, there will be no way to have basic necessities for survival, the victim who thinks about the family unit and the destruction abandonment will cause to that unit or the psychological effects it will have on the child/ children.

(CMC) – Left-handed stroke-maker Shimron Hetmyer has made a return to the West Indies side for the first time in nine months after being named in a 16-man squad to face India in a five-match Twenty20 International starting today.

After more than seven hours of back and forth debate, the National Assembly last week Thursday passed an amended motion which will see new employees of the public service receive their first salary within a “reasonable” time.

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka spinners Prabath Jayasuriya and Ramesh Mendis snared nine wickets between them to help the hosts to a 246-run series-levelling victory against Pakistan on the fifth and final day of the second test in Galle yesterday.

(Reuters) – United Arab Emirates will replace Sri Lanka as the venue for the Asia Cup, starting next month, due to the ongoing political and economic crisis in the island nation, the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) said.

(Reuters) – Chile’s Football Federation (ANFP) is appealing against FIFA’s decision to dismiss their complaint that Ecuador fielded an ineligible player during the World Cup qualifying campaign.

(Reuters) – Four times world champion Sebastian Vettel announced yesterday his retirement from Formula One at the end of the season, saying his goals had changed and he wanted to focus more on family and interests outside the sport.

Land transactions in this country quite often degenerate into contention and confusion.

My two favourite “Freedom Issues” I took a break from my usual Emancipation Lamentations in this space for a few years.

(Reuters) – Former Arsenal captain and manager Terry Neill has died at the age of 80, the Premier League club said yesterday.

KINSHASA,  (Reuters) – Licensing rights for 30 oil and gas blocks in the Democratic Republic of Congo went up for auction yesterday, opening parts of the world’s second-biggest rainforest to drilling that could release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, jeopardising climate goals to tame global warming.

(Reuters) – Rilee Rossouw smashed a brilliant unbeaten 96 as South Africa defeated England by 58 runs in the second Twenty20 International yesterday, levelling the three-match series.

SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela  (Reuters) – Colombia’s incoming government and Venezuela will appoint ambassadors to the two countries’ capitals after years without diplomatic relations and will work to boost security along their shared border, officials said yesterday.