Daily Archive: Saturday, August 6, 2022

Andrews Supermarket based in South Ruimveldt is set to open in the centre of the city at the former Nigel’s Supermarket building on Robb Street.

A blistering anchor leg today by star sprinter Noelex Holder propelled Team Guyana into a historic men’s 4x100m relay final here tomorrow at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, England.

GAZA/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel struck in Gaza and Palestinians fired rockets at Israeli cities on Saturday after an Israeli operation against the Islamic Jihad militant group ended more than a year of relative calm along the border.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – A second fuel storage tank near Cuba’s supertanker port in Matanzas exploded this morning following a blaze which burned through the night after lightning hit another tank last evening.

By Emmerson Campbell in Birmingham, England Missing the finals of both the 400m and the 200m at the ongoing Commonwealth Games here in Birmingham, England has motivated star sprinter, Kenisha Phillips to return to the track a fitter, stronger and faster athlete.

By Emmerson Campbell in Birmingham, England Tennis stars, Chelsea Edghill and Natalie Cummings are into today’s women’s doubles Round-of-16 at these Commonwealth Games currently underway here in Birmingham, England.

Rubbishing claims of being incompetent and unable to effectively manage the country’s largest state-owned factory, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) Sasenarine Singh has challenged former board member and critic Tony Vieira to produce evidence of corruption within the executive management of the entity.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has appointed Assistant Technical Director Bryan Joseph to the post of acting Technical Director, a move which was done in recognition of his results-driven record with the respective youth development programmes locally.

LAUDERHILL, Florida,  CMC – West Indies are hoping a change of scenery results in a change of fortunes, when they clash with India in the crucial fourth Twenty20 International of the five-match series at the Central Broward County Park Stadium here today.

Amidst calls for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to identify a date for the constitutionally overdue Local Government Elections (LGE), Chief Election Officer Vishnu Persaud has said that the Secretariat is currently in preparation mode.

Aiming to ease public transport headaches for both passengers and operators, a United States-based Guyanese businessman Ken Deocharran on Friday launched an online taxi booking platform, Book-A-Ride.

The Petra Organization coordinated ExxonMobil U14 Boys and Girls football championship will commence tomorrow at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue, Thomas Lands, Georgetown.

A youth was yesterday charged with manslaughter and asked to post $750,000 bail for his release after over the fatal stabbing of an East Canje Berbice businessman.

MANCHESTER, England, CMC – Andre Russell’s cameo went in vain as Manchester Originals crashed to a six-wicket defeat to Dwayne Bravo’s Northern Superchargers in their opening game of the Hundred here yesterday.

A Canefield Settlement, East Canje, Berbice estate worker lost his life during the wee hours of Friday morning after he reportedly fell into the pump station where he was working aback the Rose Hall Estate.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – Test hopeful Tagenarine Chanderpaul missed out on a half-century as West Indies A took command of their opening four-day “Test” against Bangladesh A here Friday.

(Reuters) – Israeli Blessing Akawasi Afrifah stunned favourite Letsile Tebogo to win the men’s 200 metres by a whisker in 19.96 seconds at the world under-20 championships in Colombia on Thursday.

Several persons are now injured in the aftermath of a serious accident that occurred along the Windsor Castle Public Road, on the Essequibo Coast.

(Field Level Media) LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers are discussing a two-year extension worth $98 million, according to multiple reports.

Forecasting Guyana to be the fourth top global oil producer by 2035, Rystad Energy has said that all of its reports and projections for this country are independently conducted and are based on facts and numbers before it, despite the fact that many of its clients are oil companies.

(Reuters) – Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp has likened player welfare to climate change as an issue that everyone is aware of but no one is prepared to confront, calling on soccer’s governing bodies to act before it is too late.

Dear Editor,  In response to an unfortunate letter from former Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr.

Government is standing by its position that it has not received a reply from United States Congressman Hakeem Jeffries to a request for a meeting it sent him.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – Chelsea committed a reported 62 million pounds ($74.72 million) yesterday to buy Spanish left back Marc Cucurella from Brighton & Hove Albion with the south coast club collecting a 46 million pound profit on a player they had signed just 12 months ago.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to two letters carried in the Stabroek News editions of July 5th and 7th 2022 by Professor Kenrick Hunte, former Ambassador and Mike Persaud, respectively.

The Ministry of Health on Friday reported 74 new COVID-19 cases after 645 tests were conducted.

TAIPEI, (Reuters) – China announced yesterday it was halting dialogue with the United States in a number of areas, including between theatre-level military commanders and on climate change, in a furore over U.S.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The International Cricket Council (ICC) is optimistic of retaining the game’s all-format players despite their mounting workload in a busy calendar, chief executive Geoff Allardice said.

Dear Editor, At the sitting of the National Assembly on Thursday, July 21, 2022, several bills were tabled, including a Supplementary Financial Paper, Number 1 of 2022, totaling $44,794,011,175B.

Doctors and nurses attached to the Oscar Joseph hospital at Charity, in Region Two, are fearful after two patients were recently attacked in separate incidents at the facility.

(Reuters) – U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay the parents of a 6-year-old boy killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre $45.2 million in punitive damages – on top of $4.1 million in compensatory damages already awarded – for falsely claiming the shooting was a hoax, a Texas jury decided yesterday.

(Reuters) – An oil and gas industry study commissioned by the campaign of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for the October elections will recommend bolstering Petrobras’ refining capacity, including through the reversal of refinery privatizations, one of the study’s authors told Reuters.

 (Reuters) – Rafa Nadal has withdrawn from next week’s U.S. Open tune-up event in Montreal, Canada due to the same abdominal strain which forced him to miss his Wimbledon semi-final last month, he said yesterday.

Most readers of this newspaper’s editorials cannot meaningfully appreciate the struggles of a working class mother to feed, clothe and house herself and her children in current times.

Dear Editor, Following the murder of Quindon Bacchus by a member of the Guyana Police Force on June 10, 2022, the public was informed that the Police Complaints Authority would be investigating the incident.

The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) on Friday confirmed that the fire that ravaged the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) last year was electrical.

If oil ah float watah deh ah battam. Frederick and Skeeta need to be alert!

There is no disputing the lure and lusciousness of bread smeared with rich creamy butter… sometimes melting, settling deeply into the crumb, depending on the warmth of the bread – toasted or fresh from the oven.

The theme for ACDA’s Emancipation Festival 2022 was “Celebrating the enduring African spirit through cultural expression” and the sub-theme is “Realizing the Guyanese dream through community economic empowerment.”

SINGAPORE/MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Adverse weather across top rice suppliers in Asia, including the biggest exporter India, is threatening to reduce the output of the world’s most important food staple and stoke food inflation that is already near record highs.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Russia and Ukraine accused each other yesterday of shelling Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant as fighting raged again in the crucial border region of the Donbas and three more ships left ports carrying previously blockaded Ukrainian grain.