Daily Archive: Friday, August 5, 2022

 (Reuters) – Tullow Oil said today it would abandon drilling operations at Beebei-Potaro exploration well in offshore Guyana after results showed the well bore water.

Washington, DC, 5 August, 2022 (PAHO) – As monkeypox cases continue to rise in several countries of the Americas, Member States of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) today held a Special Session of the Directing Council to consider a Resolution to address the outbreak, including supporting equitable access to vaccines for at-risk populations in the region.

The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) today said that the fire which ravaged the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), located at the Guyana Police Force Headquarters Annex, Rabbit Walk, Eve Leary on November 20, 2021 was electrical in origin.

TAIPEI,  (Reuters) – China announced today it was halting dialogue with the United States in a number of areas, including between theatre-level military commanders and on climate talks, in an escalating furore over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.

The Essequibo River island of Leguan is scheduled for a six-hour power interruption tomorrow, Saturday, August 6.

A youth was this morning charged with manslaughter after he allegedly confessed to fatally stabbing an East Canje Berbice businessman last Sunday evening. 

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Flash floods caused by abnormally heavy monsoon rains killed at least 549 people in Pakistan over the past month, with remote communities in the impoverished southwestern province of Balochistan among the hardest hit, a government agency said.

(Trinidad Guardian) Digicel T&T Chief Executive Officer Abraham Smith says over the past five months, more than 10,000 customers have lost service because of copper thieves cutting their lines.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Government does not support the legalisation of marijuana in this country, Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Faris Al-Rawi has said.

By Emmerson Campbell in Birmingham, England Kenisha Phillips will join the likes of sprint superstar, Elaine Thompson-Herah in today’s 200 metres semifinals after making it past the heats yesterday here at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, England.

Contrary to what the developers of the Vreed-en-Hoop shore base have asserted, fishermen on Tuesday and Wednesday told Stabroek News that their fish pens have been fouled by mud and refuse thrown up by dredging off the  Demerara River mouth.

By Emmerson Campbell in Birmingham, England Natalie Cummings recorded Guyana’s highlight performance of these Commonwealth Games so far when she served, looped, and smashed her way to the women’s singles Round of 16 following a seven-game thriller with Ruqayyah Kinoo of Mauritius.

By Emmerson Campbell in Birmingham, England An early crash in yesterday’s men’s individual Time Trial at these ongoing Commonwealth Games here in England derailed any chance of Christopher Griffith making his mark in his Games debut.

Two years and five months after a crane crashed into the city’s abattoir on Water Street, no slaughtering is occurring there and this has severely inconvenienced butchers and citizens.

Digicel Guyana yesterday launched its LTE service in Lethem, Region 9.

Seasoned referee, Tyrone Tyrell, was elected unopposed as President of the Guyana Football Referees Council (GFRC), when the entity staged its electoral congress on July 21 at the National Training Centre (NTC), Providence, East Bank Demerara.

Months after the launch of a major Black Belly Sheep Project in West Coast Berbice by President Irfaan Ali, the first batch of the ruminants  arrived in Guyana yesterday from Barbados.

Slingerz FC dismantled Crane 5-0, when the West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) Senior Men’s League continued at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora.

Dear Editor, Permit me to respond to the irrational and obviously self-blinded Dr.

In light of the  parliamentary sitting set for next Monday, lawyer for the eight suspended APNU+AFC MPs, made an application before High Court Judge Damone Younge, for them to be allowed to attend.

Pele FC Alumni, and the University of Guyana (UG) inked a historic bursary award agreement, which will offer five undergraduate scholarships at the country’s highest tertiary institution.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to take this opportunity to join in welcoming our African leaders to Guyana.

The Lady Jaguars ended their campaign in the CONCACAF Girls U15 Championship on a positive note, defeating Turks and Caicos 3-1 yesterday at the Hillsborough County Sportsplex Field in Tampa Bay, Florida.

Dear Editor, A few days ago, I met a pensioner who was coming out of a supermarket and she greeted me and asked what I was doing outside the supermarket.

Construction of the first fifty flat, three-bedroom homes at the Cummings Lodge Housing Scheme, Georgetown, is underway, the Central Housing and Planning Authority says.

The International Solar Alliance’s (ISA) mission to solarize the world by 2030 looks promising as solar adoption in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region has increased by 44% in 2021, compared to 26 % in 2020 and 15 % in 2019 but cautions were yesterday sounded about the cost of transitioning and the need for finance.

 Dear Editor, We are a remarkably free country when it comes to the public expression of opinions by small groups of people who set themselves up to speak with political authority while representing no one in particular and are given a platform in our national newspapers.

The HERO Caribbean Premier League’s playoffs and finals tickets will go on sale today in Guyana.

With several members of the West Indies and India national cricket teams unable to travel to Florida, USA, for the remainder of the T20I series due to visa issues, the intervention of President Irfaan Ali ensured that members of the sides arrived on local shores for the considerations of the US Embassy.

The Police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding a fatal incident which occurred on Wednesday at about 11.30 pm on the Kuru Kururu Public Road, Soesdyke/Linden Highway involving motor lorry GNN 4083 which was being driven by 47-year-old Shawn Lim of Hyde Park, Timehri EBD.

Dear Editor, New mantra in town: for Guyana to grow, PPP must go. 

(Reuters) – Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from next week’s U.S.

An 18-year-old north west labourer was murdered on Wednesday by two persons who beat and stabbed him.

TAIPEI, (Reuters) – China deployed scores of planes and fired live missiles near Taiwan yesterday in its biggest drills in the Taiwan Strait, a day after U.S.

Dear Editor, In my early years, I was visited by a young man, now deceased, who asked me to guide him in publishing a long poem.

Dear Editor, Opposition Leader, Aubrey Norton, made an absurd new highlight, calling for a “… end to `discrimination’ by PPP/C.”

Head of Delegation of the European Union to Guyana, Dr Fernando Ponz Cantó along with Deputy Head of Delegation,  Evelina Melbarzde yesterday took a message of road safety to Region Two with the distribution of 1,000 reflective bands.

(CMC) – Fast bowler Marquino Mindley’s early three-wicket burst took the headlines as West Indies “A” grabbed the honours on a shortened opening day of the first four-day “Test” against Bangladesh “A” yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Democratic U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema said yesterday she agreed to “move forward” on a $430 billion drug pricing, energy and tax bill, subject to a Senate arbiter’s approval of the bill, which Democrats intend to pass over Republican objections.  

Working People’s Alliance (WPA) member David Hinds on Tuesday called at an opposition rally in Georgetown for the equitable sharing of the “oil money” to all Guyanese.   

(CMC) – Jamaican Rasheed Broadbell equalled a 22-year-old Commonwealth Games record as he capitalised on the absence of Olympic champion Hansle Parchment to win gold in the men’s sprint hurdles yesterday Running out of lane six, the 21-year-old stormed to an impressive personal best 13.08 seconds, equalling Colin Jackson’s long-standing mark from 1990.

(Reuters) – U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay parents of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre at least $4.1 million for falsely claiming the shooting was a hoax, a Texas jury said yesterday.

SAN JUAN,  (Reuters) – U.S. authorities yesterday announced criminal charges against former Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vazquez, who was in office from 2019 to 2021, for alleged corruption during her 2020 election campaign.

Dear Editor, Once more Guyana’s President would appear to have excited the population with the prospect of a specialist ‘Paediatric and Maternal Hospital’ – to be constructed at Goedverwagting, East Coast Demerara.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is aware of a letter penned by Mr.

African descendants in Guyana recently celebrated another year of emancipation from the heinous system of enslavement our ancestors were trapped under.

By Guo Haiyan Chinese Ambassador to Guyana Taiwan has belonged to China since ancient times.

It’s August! Explore Guyana! These few remarks probably best simplifies my personal understandings, approaches and stressful intolerance with respect to the concept and related issues regarding race.

Brittney Griner was sentenced to nine years in a Russian penal colony yesterday after a judge found her guilty on drug smuggling and possession charges.

President Irfaan Ali says  he wants the Guyana Defence Force’s Air Corps to be the premier Air Corps in the Region.

ISTANBUL/KYIV, (Reuters) – Three ships carrying a total of 58,041 tonnes of corn have been authorised to leave Ukrainian ports today  as part of a deal to unblock grain exports, as a Russian offensive forced Ukraine to cede territory in the east.

Overseas the news is grim. War in Ukraine, world food shortages, soaring energy prices, inflation, substantial cost-of-living increases and the like.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Efforts by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to turn an Independence Day military parade into a political event for his re-election campaign has become a test of the armed forces’ loyalty, retired generals and analysts said.