Daily Archive: Sunday, August 21, 2022

By Oneka LaBennett Oneka LaBennett is an associate professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Southern California.

(Trinidad Guardian) Guyanese President Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali is calling on Guyanese people living in T&T to return home to the economic opportunities that exist there.

 (Reuters) – The daughter of an ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue who advocates Russia absorbing Ukraine was killed in a suspected car bomb attack outside Moscow, Russian state investigators said on Sunday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three weeks before strangling seven-year-old McKenzie Hope Rechier, the 25-year-old suspect confided in a neighbour that she planned to kill the child and herself.

Hours after the Guyana Police Force (GPF) tried to discredit claims by embattled Sergeant Dion Bascom that he was the person who presented then murder suspect Rondell Bacchus to Criminal Investigation Department (CID) ranks, Bacchus yesterday confirmed the lawman’s story.

Toshao of Chinese Landing Orin Fernandes has said officers from the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) and the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) who recently visited the community concluded that there are no glaring violations at the Tassawini mines.

Government wants local participation in the planned auction of available offshore oil blocks and is hoping for help from the United States with the process.

Having gone through what she has described as “a number of heartbreaks”, including acting in the best interests of her daughters and separating from them while they were young, and being in an abusive relationship, life coach Annalisa Bahadur believes she is in a position to help people heal from the many heartbreaks they may have had to face and in doing so she strategically focuses on men.

President of Suriname Chandrikapersad Santokhi on Friday, announced that his country will be making lands available to regional farmers in an effort to further CARICOM’s 25 by 2025 plan.

Almost a year ago Davindra Sukhu moved from being a healthy working father of two when he was diagnosed with COVID-19 as well as Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) which resulted in him becoming paralysed and only able to move his fingers.

A 32-year-old man died early yesterday morning after he crashed his car into a truck along the Rupert Craig Highway.

Pouderoyen FC and Slingerz recorded contrasting victories, when the West Demerara Football Association Senior Men’s League continued on Friday evening at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora.

Upper Demerara River businessman Wasir Mohammed, and international company Chemtech Limited have partnered and applied to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for permission to build a US$200 million Oil Refinery & Integrated Post Petrochemical Manufacturing Complex.

By Rae Wiltshire Rhagu, born Mangal Persaud Rhagunandan, grabbed a pen and paper and started to write.

President Irfaan Ali on Friday sounded a warning that the region has to work collectively to fix the systems to address food sustainability and production.

Jermaine Figueira, Shadow Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, has lambasted the Guyana Football Federation (GFF)’s Statutes Review Process, labelling the recently concluded procedure as nothing more than a power grab under the pretence of reform.

Samuel Johnson, that great man of letters and heavyweight of good sense in eighteenth century England, commonly said the people whom we should most beware in the world are those who constantly insist on finding fault, those whose clouds are never lit by silver linings, those who everlastingly “refuse to be pleased.”

In wake of concerns raised by the Attorney General, the Cuffy250 Committee has announced a one-week postponement of its planned forum on the state of African Guyanese, which was due to be held today.

Ann’s Grove dismantled Victoria Scorpions, while Buxton Stars edged Mahaica Determinators when the East Demerara Football Association Stag Beer Senior Men’s League continued on Friday.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to “Family of Ricardo Fagundes sees truth in cover up claims” (Aug 20) and “Police force directs Bascom to report for duty” (Aug 20).

The judiciary, along with the executive and legislature, is one of the three constitutional pillars of the state.

The High Commission of India has announced that a scholarship has been granted to Guyanese national Dayvishanie Naipaul, who will be travelling to New Delhi, India to commence a three- year programme of Indian classical dance, Bharatnatayam, under the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) scholarships.

Dear Editor, If anyone following the reoccurring fiascos involving the Guyana Police Force, more importantly, the recent allegations of cover-up regarding the murder of ‘Paper Shorts’ and believes the abnegation emanating from the hierarchy of the Guyana Police Force, then we are living in a world of vulgar prevarication.

Introduction Last week’s column asserted that, logically, any serious critique of Guyana’s Natural Resource Fund, NRF, ought to be pursued at two hierarchical levels of abstraction.

(Reuters) – New blasts resounded in the Russian-annexed Crimea peninsula yesterday and a Russian missile hit a residential area of a southern Ukrainian town not far from a nuclear power station, wounding 12 civilians, Russian and Ukrainian officials said.

Dear Editor, Vice-President Jadgeo has once again taken to the media to vilify me.

Most of us were meeting again face-to-face for the first time after 47 years or more, and we didn’t know what to expect of each other even though the majority of us had been chatting via Facebook Messenger for over a year and we had bonded online.

By Jeff Trotman Following his recent completion of studies at the Hugh Wooding Law School, in Trinidad, Pierre Squires has been urged by the Guyana United Youth Development Association (GUYDA) to pursue his impending legal career with integrity, while also making time to give back to others. 

Dear Editor: In a recent article, “Canada-funded programme launched to train specialist maths teachers” (SN, Aug.

LUANDA,  (Reuters) – The body of Angola’s former President José Eduardo dos Santos, who died in Spain in July, arrived in the Angolan capital Luanda last evening, casting a new element into a tense election campaign.

Youths from various communities in Region Two were trained in sari making, dancing and public speaking at recent Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha Essequibo Coast Naujawaan summer camps.

Public theatre continues to return to the Guyanese stage and there have been different types of productions in an interesting variety of venues.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Plunging water levels of the Yangtze River have revealed a submerged island in China’s southwestern city of Chongqing and a trio of Buddhist statues on it that are believed to be 600 years old, state media Xinhua has reported.

Dear Editor, The Vice President never ceases to amaze (“PPP/C will not allow businessmen involved in “illegal activities” to tarnish its reputation -Jagdeo” (KN August 20). 

The Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce (CCCC) is preparing to host its annual Berbice Exposition and Trade Fair in October.

According to well established Hollywood logic, any movie about a rule-breaking action hero needs to add nuance to his character by giving him a wife and a daughter to contextualise his character arc and provide some essential emotional robustness.

Lucretia Bradford, who had been the oldest woman in Region Two, recently passed away.

Dear Editor, On May 12th, SN published an article by Femi Harris, titled “Neesa Gopaul case: CCJ judges cast doubt on testimony used to convict Jarvis Small – -Justice Saunders says there should have been separate trials”.

“I love my mother. But then I could say I dislike my mother.

(Reuters) – Somali forces have ended the siege at a hotel in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, the AFP news agency said in a tweet yesterday, citing a security commander.

(Trinidad Express) The bound and bullet-riddled bodies of two men were found in Tucker Valley, Chaguaramas, on Friday.

Dear Editor, Accurate socio economic data is critical to addressing inflation and other problems facing a country. 

The Ministry of Health on Saturday reported 15 new COVID-19 cases from the results of 279 tests.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has praised jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny on the second anniversary of his attempted poisoning and denounced Russia’s clampdown on freedom of speech.

The rectus abdominis, commonly called the abs, gets all the attention, and rightly so.

Dear Editor, We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office, so says Aesop, the Greek storyteller several centuries ago; that holds true to this very day.

(Trinidad Guardian) Seven-year-old McKenzie Hope Rechia is dead after being allegedly strangled by a close female relative at her home in Palo Seco, yesterday.

As Guyanese continue to battle the rising cost of living, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday said government has been continuously analysing the situation to implement appropriate measures.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Rain forced a no-result in the final 50-over match of the three-game series between West Indies A and Bangladesh A at the Daren Sammy Cricket Ground here yeterday.

We seem to lurch from one corruption scandal to the next without any of them being resolved.

HARARE,  (Reuters) – Seamer Shardul Thakur took 3-38 as India completed a five-wicket win over Zimbabwe to claim victory in their three-match One-Day International series with a game to spare at the Harare Sports Club yesterday.

LONDON, CMC – Guyana international Nathan Moriah-Welsh netted as Newport County claimed their first English League Two victory of the season, while Antigua and Barbuda forward Rhys Browne’s third goal of the season secured a narrow win for fifth-tier Wealdstone.

Last Update: 1,840.132                               Movement: -0.947% Current Update: 1,822.705                         YTD Movement: 77.169%                                      LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The Lucas Stock Index fell 0.947% during the third period of trading in August 2022.

WIDUCHOWA, Poland, (Reuters) – As thousands of dead fish neared the banks of the Oder River in the village of Widuchowa in western Poland on Aug.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Cricket West Indies has welcomed the unveiling of the men and women’s ICC Future Tours Programme, which will be highlighted by major home series against powerhouses India and England next year and the staging of the men’s Twenty20 World Cup in the Caribbean.