Daily Archive: Friday, August 12, 2022

The US Embassy today announced the selection of two Guyanese scholars for 2022 Fulbright Scholarship Awards. 

The Government of Guyana today signed a US$44 million loan agreement with the World Bank as part of the Strengthening Human Capital through Education Project.

Senior Minister in the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance, Dr.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The climate resilience minister for the Caribbean island nation of Grenada has been tapped to become the next United Nations climate chief, according to three sources familiar with the selection.

(Reuters) – Author Salman Rushdie will likely lose an eye and suffered severed nerves in an arm and damage to his liver after he was stabbed today, his agent said, adding that Rushdie was on a ventilator.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Paraguayan Vice President Hugo Velazquez today said he would resign and withdraw his candidacy for the presidency, after being blacklisted by the United States for alleged “significant” acts of corruption.

Pandit Tharun Balgobin, also known as ‘Arun,’ was this morning remanded to prison on the charge of murdering Aangraj Kumar Indrapal, who was found floating in the pump station where he was working aback the Rose Hall Estate last Friday morning.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain officially declared a drought in parts of England today as households faced new curbs on water usage during a prolonged period of hot and dry weather that has kindled wildfires and tested infrastructure.

(Trinidad Guardian) Even as condemnation and calls for justice for local sporting hero Anderson Peters continued to grow across Grenada yesterday, Assistant Supt Simon Douglas, of the Royal Grenada Police Force (RGPF), assured a thorough investigation is being conducted.

Police in Regional Division #4A are reporting a simple larceny committed on a 26-year-old male of Eccles, a 21-year-old male of Campbellville and a 36-year-old male of Ogle; which occurred at Space Gym on Mandela Avenue yesterday at about 7.50 pm..

Declaring the President’s appointment of Clifton Hicken to act as Commissioner of Police, lawful; Chief Justice (Ag) Roxane George SC said the Head of State acted well within the Constitution, given the peculiar circumstances with which he was confronted.

Two sisters were yesterday remanded to prison after they were charged jointly with the murder of Sophia resident, Vanessa Anderson on Monday.

After indicating that they prefer to work alone to avoid a conflict of interest, officers from the GGMC as well as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) investigating mining operations in Chinese Landing were seen being transported by the same miners against whom reports of violations have been made, according to Toshao Orin Fernandes.

The Fifth Circuit of the US court on August 3rd denied ExxonMobil’s bid for a US$1 billion tax refund for its oil-and-gas agreements with Qatar and Malaysia.

The Golden Jaguars have seemingly withdrawn from the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Boys U14 Challenge Series, which is pencilled to commence tomorrow in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 

Eight persons were arrested after officials from the Guyana Revenue Authority’s (GRA) Law Enforcement and Investigation Division (LEID) seized two vessels and one minibus laden with a quantity of uncustomed goods and foreign liquor in Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) and Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne).

Guyana will commence its 3×3 basketball campaign at the Islamic Solidarity Games in Konya, Turkey tomorrow. 

Dynamic FC upset Elite League outfit, Ann’s Grove, by a 2-0 score-line, when the East Demerara Football Association (EDFA) Senior Men’s League continued at the Buxton Community Centre, ground on Wednesday.

Rehabilitation of a 200-metre portion of Thomas Lands, Georgetown, will have to be redone by the contractor, Pooran Manman and Sons Contracting Services, as the asphalt work which was done is not of the required standard.

A 26-year-old man was yesterday sentenced to four years imprisonment and fined $2.3 million while his co-accused was released on $150,000 bail after they were charged in relation to the discovery of $1.5m in cocaine at Norton Street, Georgetown earlier this week.

The Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) while upholding the EPA’s decisions not to have impact surveys for ExxonMobil’s planned exploration in the offshore Canje and Kaieteur blocks, has ordered the oil company to conduct an environmental study looking at cumulative impacts of offshore activities.

The Editor, Since political independence, 56 years ago, we have allowed ourselves as a people to be divided and exploited by both internal and external political and business forces, all to the detriment of ourselves and our offspring’s. 

Two days after two men were injured after gunmen opened fire at Melanie Damishana on the East Coast Demerara, two suspects have been arrested and are in police custody assisting with the investigation.

Dear Editor, Further to ExxonMobil (XOM) Guyana’s Media and Communications Manager’s “We remain committed to our partnership with the people and government of Guyana as we continue to responsibly develop the country’s oil and gas resources.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. federal agents were looking for documents relating to nuclear weapons when they raided former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida this week, the Washington Post reported yesterday.

Dear Editor, Up to not so long ago Guyana was historically acknowledged as the ‘land of many waters’.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Satellite pictures released yesterday showed devastation at a Russian air base in Crimea, hit in an attack that suggested Kyiv may have obtained new long-range strike capability with potential to change the course of the war.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian business leaders, intellectuals and artists gathered yesterday to read manifestos defending democratic institutions after attacks by President Jair Bolsonaro that have raised fears he could reject the results of October’s presidential election.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF), with support from the Government of Guyana, has established an Academy Training Centre (ATC) in Region Seven, which is the 10th centre in its national youth football development programme.

First Lady Arya Ali yesterday turned the sod signalling the commencement of construction of a Business Centre For Persons with Disabilities.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that two elderly, unvaccinated men have died from COVID-19.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A former Virginia police sergeant who joined Donald Trump’s supporters in storming the Capitol on Jan.

When Demerara Cricket Club’s (DCC) Trevon Griffith hit 300 against Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) at the former’s venue in Queenstown in March 2022, fans were questioning whose record the pugnacious left-hander was about to eclipse.

Dear Editor, The International hotels and offices that will be built here are greatly appreciated by all Guyanese. 

(Trinidad Guardian) Three men were murdered in separate incidents in Couva, Point Fortin and Santa Cruz between Wednesday night and yesterday.

The third edition of the Junior GolFun Camp hosted by the Guyana Golf Association (GGA) and Nexgen Golf Academy tees off on Monday from 16:00 hours at the Scouts Association Ground on Woolford Avenue, Georgetown.

The Lady Jaguars football roster, which competed at the recently concluded CONCACAF Girls U15 Championship in Tampa Bay, Florida, USA, only comprised 14 players owing to travel related issues.

A and E Construction, Supplies and Services has resumed work on the Wismar Housing Scheme Road in Linden after residents on Wednesday blocked the access bridge with debris as they protested against the incomplete project.

Dear Editor, I would first like to apologize on behalf of the Ministry of Education who was in charge of our school’s curriculum while most of our politicians (both past and present) were in school.

(Reuters) – An armed man who tried to breach the FBI building in Cincinnati, Ohio, yesterday was shot dead by police following a car chase, a gun battle and a standoff in a cornfield northeast of town, officials said.

CARACAS / BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Venezuela and Colombia yesterday appointed ambassadors to each other’s capitals, moving to rebuild relations between the two countries that have been broken for more than three years.

By Charwayne Walker When Aubrey Bishop, president of the then Guyana Football Association (GFA), and Ken Galt, then leader of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation met in Georgetown in 1970, the number one priority on the agenda was the resuscitation of the game in the region.

Surely sugar is becoming bitter Quite recently I’ve been noticing observers and commentators yearning for constructive, robust but responsible parliamentary and political opposition.

(Reuters) – Australian Nick Kyrgios produced another extraordinary performance to demolish compatriot Alex de Minaur 6-2 6-3 at the Canadian Masters yesterday, a day after stunning the world number one Daniil Medvedev.

(CMC) – Off-spinning all-rounder Sunil Narine shone with the ball but failed with the bat but his Oval Invincibles still did enough to take down Dwayne Bravo’s Northern Superchargers by three wickets in a tight finish at the Oval.

(CMC) – Left-arm seamer Colin Archibald claimed a three-wicket haul to stall Bangladesh A’s progress, on another truncated day of the second four-day “Test” yesterday.

(CMC) – Rookie off-spinner Kevin Sinclair is poised to make his One-Day International debut after being chosen in a 14-man squad to face New Zealand in the upcoming three-match series in Barbados.

(Reuters) – The National Basketball Association (NBA) will retire the number 6 jersey worn by Boston Celtics great and civil rights icon Bill Russell, who died late last month, the league said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Polish world number one Iga Swiatek was stunned by Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad Maia in a 6-4 3-6 7-5 defeat at the Canadian Open yesterday, while Jessica Pegula beat holder Camila Giorgi to join Coco Gauff and Simona Halep in the quarter-finals.

Dear Editor, Since becoming a petroleum producing country, public commentators often reference Guyana as the next Dubai in terms of whether Guyana has what it takes to mirror Dubai’s success as an oil rich country.

Anyone who thought Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai could be depended upon to work in the interest of an Indigenous community blighted by the presence of illegal miners, should think again. 

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Power was restored in downtown Toronto yesterday after an outage left the offices of Canada’s top businesses in the dark, forced the evacuation of one of the city’s biggest shopping malls and trapped people in elevators.

Guyana is a small pond with big fishes. The evidence of this is seen in the fact that it really does not take much for one to quickly become an “influencer” or a personality that is well known and celebrated.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cubans have been left to endure six- to 18-hour blackouts, and search for ever-scarcer gasoline in the wake of a spectacular blaze that destroyed 40% of Cuba’s main fuel depot and shuttered its only supertanker port.

Police ranks responding to a report of noise nuisance on Wednesday arrested two men following the discovery of twenty-five pounds of cannabis at Third Phase, Kwakwani.