Daily Archive: Friday, September 23, 2022

A delegation headed by Rob W. MacDonald, Trial Attorney, US Department of Justice, Office of International Affairs and including members of the United States Marshall Service, Department of Justice and US Law Enforcement Officers with responsibilities for the Caribbean Region met with Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall, SC, on Tuesday 20th September 2022.

A 25-year-old Rural Constable was killed this morning after she was run over by a vehicle driven by her partner, a Police Sergeant, who afterward took his own life by consuming poison.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Diplomatic efforts by French President Emmanuel Macron in response to the war in Ukraine were a failure and “deeply harmful” for Kyiv, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former NATO secretary-general, said in an interview published today.

TRIPOLI, Lebanon,  (Reuters) – At least 71 people died when the migrant boat they were aboard sank off the Syrian coast after sailing from Lebanon earlier this week, the Lebanese transport minister said, as search operations continued on Friday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s new finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng unleashed historic tax cuts and huge increases in borrowing on Friday in an economic agenda that floored financial markets, with sterling and British government bonds in freefall.

(Barbados Nation) Government will end the mask-wearing mandate and travel protocols related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) at midnight on Thursday in Barbados.

(Trinidad Guardian) Frustrated by the cries of a nine-month-old baby girl, a female relative reportedly fed the baby a deadly mixture of poison and milk in her bottle.

(Trinidad Guardian) It’s been six years since Ria Sookdeo was snatched away from her family after dropping her children off to school in South Trinidad.

One month after it embarked on the claims and objections period, in preparation for the overdue Local Government Elections (LGE), the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has now reported that just 17 objects have been made to entrants on the preliminary voters’ list so far.

Various categories of workers from the Blairmont and Uitvlugt Estates yesterday picketed the management of Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), accusing it of unfair and unequal treatment under recently implemented payment policies.

Two more suspects, including a 17-year-old, are expected to be charged today in relation to the multi-million dollar gold theft from a Mahaica, East Coast Demerara dealer.

A Canada-based Guyanese man, who had been here on holiday, was struck down by a minibus – reported to be speeding – just as he was crossing High Street last evening.

The Queen’s College (QC) Old Students Association on Thursday issued an “unreserved” apology over a video it produced to welcome new students to the school, which critics said failed to reflect the ethnic diversity of the student body.

With just under a month remaining before the staging of the October 19-20 Florida International Trade and Cultural Expo (FITCE) it appears that barring an eleventh hour change in circumstances, the chances of a full-strength group of Guyanese small businesses participating in the event are slim.

More than three years after he was “accidentally” released from prison while awaiting trial for murder, Alvin Reid, known as ‘Satan,’ was recaptured on Wednesday.

All necessary permissions were obtained from the Sea and River Defence Department of Ministry of Public Works for the construction of a decking platform at the Kitty Seawall.

Relieved at the end of the flooding that had seriously affected their farming pursuits for the better part of two years, the members of the Mocha Arcadia Multi-Purpose Agricultural Society are looking forward to returning to their land, livestock and livelihoods.

What had once been seen as the potential start of a new chapter in trade relations between Guyana and Cuba appears to have been soured by the Caribbean island’s protracted failure to liquidate amounts owing to a local miller for rice it purchased just over five years ago.

The management of the Guyana/Suriname Ferry Service yesterday advised that the M.V.

Almost certainly to the surprise of considerable numbers of Caribbean people, we are being told that the number of us facing “moderate to severe” levels of food insecurity now stands somewhere around 4.1 million.

Having reportedly evicted a group of 25 farmers from their land some years ago, the Corentyne, Berbice, John/Clifton Co-operative Land Society Limited has now itself been ordered by a Court to vacate and hand over portions of the land to the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL).

(CPL) – Guyana Amazon Warriors made it two from two in their home leg of the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) with a thrilling run chase to defeat the Saint Lucia Kings.

There was increasing evidence of the continued acceleration of the social and economic recognition of cannabis at the recent staging of the CanEx Business Conference and Expo at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in St James, Jamaica.

Tickets will be issued soon to errant road users who have been caught by the now operational e-ticketing system that is being piloted by the government.

Perhaps with an eye to providing early momentum for the region’s undertaking to reduce its extra-regional food imports by 25% by 2025, Trinidad and Tobago’s National Entrepreneurship Development Company (NEDCO) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the country’s Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) which a report in a section of the Trinidad and Tobago media says is intended to raise the profile of local food production in the twin-island Republic.

The Full Court has affirmed the previous ruling of High Court Judge Franklyn Holder, who invalidated a poll conducted back in 2020 by the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) in an attempt to replace the Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers to represent workers at the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) Burma Rice Research Centre.

Following concerns raised about its shortage of details on the requirements for prospective marketers for its oil, government yesterday released the criteria and also announced that the contracted period would be for one year.

Dear Editor, At GECOM’s commission meeting today, September 19, 2022 a decision was taken to appoint a GECOM retiree to the position of Assistant Chief Election Officer.

Barbadian Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Business Development Sandra Husbands appears set to shove the country’s small business community to a more exalted level of entrepreneurial thinking in keeping with what she regards as some of the criteria for being part of the contemporary global business community.

A Crabwood Creek couple and their two children saw their house go up in flames yesterday morning after a pressure cooker exploded on the stove top.

Even as it reels from United States sanctions that have limited its revenue from oil exports, Venezuela, believed to have the world’s largest oil reserves, is beginning to send signals that it is taking halting steps towards resuming its place in the global oil and gas industry pecking order.

Dear Editor, Again I ask the question, this time more directly to Mr.

The maiden edition of the Joshua Denny Memorial U20 Football Championship will occur today at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue, Georgetown.

A Linden family is now displaced after a fire, suspected to be electrical in origin, gutted their home on Tuesday morning.

Dear Editor, It has come to the attention of the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Guyana (ICAG) that various comments were published on Facebook by Mr.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has just released a paper exploring measures which it says can help expose pay differences between men and women and identify the underlying causes of what is widely believed to be unjustifiable gender discrimination.

Netrockers president, Akanni Blair, has criticised the state of football in the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) jurisdiction, affirming that the continued lack of financial assistance from the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) will only serve to exacerbate further deterioration.

Dear Editor, A magician draws your attention and focus on one thing while all the hidden tricks and details are happening somewhere else.

Former Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) and Commissioner of the Customs and Trade Administration Lambert Marks has died.

A more than half a century old United States economic embargo against Cuba came into the spotlight at the 77th session of the United States General Assembly when Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez launched a spirited salvo against the strictures imposed against his country in his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York earlier this week.

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Thursday that “acts of chaos” are not acceptable, in a warning to protesters who have taken to the streets across the country to vent their fury over the death of a woman in the custody of the morality police.

KYIV/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Some draft-age Russians rushed to the borders on Thursday to escape their country’s biggest conscription drive since World War Two, as world powers rounded on Moscow at the United Nations, accusing it of escalating the conflict in Ukraine.

A mother of five was on Wednesday arraigned in a city court on a charge of the simple larceny of items totaling $495,000.

Blackpool FC of New York, which was formed in 1971 by former Guyanese footballers who had migrated to the USA in the late 1960/70s, will host their second luncheon for former local footballers tomorrow at the TT Marshall Cottages in Anira Street, Queenstown.

The 3rd edition of the prestigious GuyOil/Tradewind Tankers Secondary Schools Football League will continue tomorrow at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue, Georgetown, with four fixtures.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday September 22, 2022

Dear Editor, For many years, spanning several regimes, a huge number of cases have either been dismissed or unnecessarily mitigated resulting in an absurdly low fraction of jail time- vis a vis the sentence that would be imparted from the original charge.

(CPL) – The St Kitts & Nevis Patriots secured a seven run win over the Trinbago Knight Riders to stay in contention for a 2022 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) play-off spot.

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – A Honduran court sentenced the country’s former first lady, Rosa Bonilla, to 14 years in prison on Wednesday on charges of fraud and misappropriation of funds destined for social programs, a judicial spokesperson said.

(Trinidad Express) Businessman Hugh Leong Poi has been charged with conspiring to defraud the State of $1.4 million in motor vehicle taxes from the purchase of a $2.3 million Mercedes-Benz AMG G63.

Dear Editor, More than any other diaspora community to which Indian labourers were taken, British Guiana has earned the distinction of being a former colony, if not the only one, that has been characterized by a long tradition of continuous agitation and protests against British colonialism and the plantocracy.

Guyana on Thursday reported 17 new COVID-19 infections from its latest test results.

The Insurance Institute of Guyana (IIG) recently conducted a motor insurance claims fraud course in collaboration with Guyanese born Cecil Jaipaul of Jaipaul Consulting, based in Toronto, Canada.

By Mark Cliffe LONDON – Scientists have longed warned that climate change will adversely affect weather patterns and living conditions around the world.

(Reuters) – Naomi Osaka’s title defence at her home Pan Pacific Open ended yesterday when the former world number one withdrew ahead of her second-round match against Beatriz Haddad Maia due to abdominal pain.

(Reuters) – Some of the most iconic moments of Roger Federer’s glittering career featured Rafa Nadal across the net but today his great Spanish rival will be alongside him for his final bow.

(Reuters) – Venezuelan police have arrested a fugitive Malaysian businessman nicknamed ‘Fat Leonard’ who is at the centre of a major U.S.

The British would like to indulge themselves with the thought that the death of Queen Elizabeth marked the end of an era in their portion of the planet, but in the UK as well as in the rest of the world the real fin de siècle came on February 24th this year, with the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

(Reuters) – Chess world champion Magnus Carlsen remained vague yesterday about whether or not he thought Hans Niemann was a cheat after he abruptly conceded his contest against the American at the Julius Baer Generation Cup online tournament following one move.

(Trinidad Express) With the start of the new law term, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) came in for criticism from judges from the Court of Appeal who called on the State to get its act together.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 985’s trading results showed consideration of $25,114,649 from 99,471 shares traded in 33 transactions as compared to session 984’s trading results, which showed consideration of $38,402,700 from 105,930 shares traded in 30 transactions.

Dear Editor, There were four names given for the Elections CoI, but only three took the oath of office, after a lengthy time elapsed.

Already Oil-rich? Or wealth (to come)? I seriously doubt that I have the ability, journalistic/ literary stamina and relevance to write daily letters to the press.

(Reuters) – Babar Azam hit a brilliant century and Mohammad Rizwan scored 88 to lead Pakistan to a crushing 10-wicket win over England in the second Twenty20 International in Karachi yesterday and level the seven-match series at 1-1.

The Florida-based Guyanese/American Chamber of Commerce (GACC) is owed a considerable debt of gratitude for agreeing to stage an event at the Critchlow Labour College on Monday September 26, the aim of which is to better prepare local small businesses in the agro processing, craft and other sectors to access markets in the United States.

(Reuters) – Fifteen players from the Spaain women’s squad have threatened to quit international duty if their coach Jorge Vilda is not fired, the Spanish FA (RFEF) said yesterday.

At risk of angering the “Not all men” brigade, I thought it important to explore a long held narrative that has been maintaining its position in popular media, the idea of toxic masculinity.

(Reuters) – Chilean coach and former player Sebastian Rivera has been banned for life and fined $250,000 after being found guilty of a record 64 match-fixing offences, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) said yesterday.

(CMC) – Off-spinner Karishma Ramharack triggered a late collapse but New Zealand Women held their nerve to come away with a two-wicket win in the second One-Day International yesterday and an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.

Darren Aronofsky’s latest film, which had its North American premiere at TIFF after resounding success at its world-premiere at the Venice Film Festival, is based on a 2012 Drama Desk winning play of the same name.