Daily Archive: Monday, September 5, 2022

Guyana today condemned the Surinamese Government over the harassment of local fisherfolk including the failure to grant licences that had been agreed.

Queen’s College student, Bhedesh Persaud is unofficially the top performer for Guyana at the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations, the Ministry of Education announced today.

Anna Regina Multilateral School (ARMS) students Ramoll Baboolall and Uotam Heeralall are unofficially the top performers for Guyana at this year’s CSEC exams, the Ministry of Education announced today.

Former pork knocker Aubrey Bobb is now awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to the 2017 murder of city businessman Godfrey Scipio, popularly known as “Saga,” who was shot during a robbery.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Kenya’s Supreme Court on Monday upheld the Aug.

(Trinidad Express) The 2022 murder toll has reached 400 and climbing.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Liz Truss will become Britain’s next prime minister after winning a leadership race for the governing Conservative party today, vowing to press ahead with promises of tax cuts and to deal with a growing energy crisis.

(Reuters) – Seven-times world champion Lewis Hamilton apologised for an expletive-laden radio outburst at his Mercedes team as his hopes of a first win of the Formula One season disappeared in yesterday’s Dutch Grand Prix.

Sparta Boss won the ‘Keep Ya Five Alive’ Futsal Championship, crushing newcomer Slingerz  9-5 on Saturday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue.

Plans are in the pipeline for the bodybuilding federation to host its flagship National Seniors Championships on December 17 at the National Cultural Centre.

A sand barge yesterday crashed into the retractor span of the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) causing extensive damage and resulting in hundreds of persons being stranded on both sides of the Demerara River for almost seven hours.

The China Star store burnt to the ground in Lethem, Region Nine on Saturday night.

Pakistan 182 for 5 (Rizwan 71, Nawaz 42) beat India 181 for 7 (Kohli 60, Rahul 28, Rohit 28, Shadab 2-31) by five wickets Mohammad Nawaz stunned India with the bat after helping restrict them with the ball after a rampant start to give Pakistan a thrilling win in their Super 4 match against India yesterday.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – Marcus Rashford struck twice as Manchester United made it four wins in a row and ended Arsenal’s perfect start to the Premier League season with a 3-1 victory at Old Trafford yesterday.

A 42-year-old man was on Saturday night killed by a speeding car on the Blankenburg Public Road, West Coast Demerara (WCD).

ZANDVOORT, Netherlands, (Reuters) – Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won his home Dutch Grand Prix from pole position for the second year in a row yesterday to send the fans wild and his Formula One world championship lead into triple figures.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA)  distributed 1,843 house lots during the first six months of the year and is planning to allocate another 8,000 before the end of 2022, according to the Ministry of Finance’s mid-year report.

A carpenter was on Wednesday morning discovered dead along the Corentyne foreshore after leaving home on Tuesday afternoon to catch crabs for his children.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – American teenager Coco Gauff used her superior speed to overcome a second set deficit and pull off a thrilling 7-5 7-5 win over China’s Zhang Shuai to reach the quarter-finals of the U.S.

Declining their request for a road opposite the conservancy, Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill has told residents of Canal No.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Italian Matteo Berrettini reached his second consecutive U.S.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – All-rounder Kyle Mayers played two vital roles before rain intervened to create a tense finish as Barbados Royals kept St Lucia Kings winless with an 11-run victory under the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method here yesterday.

Ten families in Region Two (Mainstay/ Whyaka) and Region Five (West Coast Berbice) will be the beneficiaries of homes from Food for the Poor (FFTP) Guyana Inc.

Dear Editor, Consistent with its declared disenchantment with the Guyana Football Federation, SN has once again essay-ed another editorial – SN of August 24, 2022 entitled `GFF Constitution Amendments’ in another attempt to further diminish the image of the organization.

Dear Editor, I am angry.  I am ashamed.  I am disgusted and just plain sick at what passes for leadership decision-making and governance in this country. 

The limited existing literature on the history of Guyana’s archaeology has received a boost with the official launch of the University of Guyana Press (UGP) publication, “The Archaeology of Guyana, Second Edition”, a University of Guyana (UG) release on Tuesday stated. 

Four hundred and fifty persons who are beneficiaries of house lots at the Experiment Housing Scheme, West Coast Berbice will now be able to access their lands and commence construction of their homes, following the completion of infrastructure at a section of the scheme, according to a release on Wednesday from the Central Housing & Planning Authority (CHPA).

Dear Editor, The Great philosopher Socrates encourages his students to use three sieves, i.e

BRIGHTON, England, (Reuters) – Alexis Mac Allister scored twice as Brighton & Hove Albion deepened the crisis at Leicester City with an emphatic 5-2 Premier League victory at the Amex Stadium yesterday.

WELDON, Saskatchewan,  (Reuters) – Canadian police hunted for two suspects in a stabbing spree that killed 10 people and wounded at least 15 others mostly in a sparsely populated indigenous community early yesterday.

SEOUL, South Korea, CMC – Jamaica’s Reggae Girlz improved after the break before going down to a 1-0 defeat against South Korea on Saturday as they gear up for next year’s Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

Scores of young people in the Pomeroon-Supenaam Region were on Wednesday educated on how to make themselves more marketable through a “Preparedness for world of work” one-day workshop hosted by the Ministry of Labour’s Central Recruitment and Manpower Agency. 

Dear Editor, I believe the excerpt below is an extremely unfortunate juxtaposition, tendentious vilification sans verification, authentication or validation from Ravi Dev.

Dear Editor, I find it unusual that the Government  of Guyana hasn’t officially  issued a statement  on the unprecedented  floods that have devastated  millions of Pakistanis.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Chileans overwhelmingly voted against a proposed new constitution on Sunday, rejecting what would have been one of the world’s most progressive charters.

Mahaica Determinators and Dynamic FC recorded contrasting wins, when the East Demerara Football Association Senior Men’s League continued on Saturday evening at the Buxton Community Centre ground.

(Trinidad Express) For many years, the archives and library of Trinidad and Tobago’s first prime minister, Dr Eric Williams, housed at The University of the West Indies’ Alma Jordan Library, has been a key resource for many academic papers, ­theses, lectures and books.

An anti-crime patrol unit attached to the Beterverwagting Police Station on Saturday night discovered 121.7 grams of marijuana at Hendricks Street, Triumph Front, East Coast Demerara.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – European leaders yesterday sought to ease the impact of high energy prices across the continent, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned of a difficult winter, even as he reported progress in a counter-offensive against Russian troops.

(Trinidad Guardian) Dr Slinger Francisco known around the world as the Mighty Sparrow—who was baptised Saturday in Brooklyn, New York —will now be using his gift of singing for the Seventh Day Adventist Church and the Glory of God according to Seventh Day Adventist Pastor Clive Dottin.

By Adrienne Rooney, Ramaesh J. Bhagirat-Rivera, Vibert Compton Cambridge Adrienne Rooney is a Ph.D.

Dear Editor, Omar Khayyam, the l2th century renowned Persian philosopher, poet, astronomer and mathematician in his glorious ‘Rubaiyat’ wrote the following beautiful quatrain:- “T’is all a Chequer Board of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays; Hither and thither moves and mates and slays And one by one back in the closet lays.”

THE DECLARATION AGAINST CORRUPTION I will not pay bribes. I will not seek bribes.

On Friday, the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) responded to an editorial that appeared in Tuesday’s edition of Stabroek News which had raised questions about the award to Kares Engineering Inc of the contract for the construction of the North Ruimveldt Secondary School.

Hi-Stars downed Coomacka 2-1 when the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) Senior Men’s League continued yesterday at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground, Linden.