Daily Archive: Wednesday, November 2, 2022

The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) of the Ministry of Agriculture is inviting bids for 58 major trench clearing projects in Georgetown, according to an advertisement published in today’s Stabroek News.

Yusuf Hinds, aged 26 years, of Bartica who is accused of raping a girl between 2022/10/01 and 2022/10/27, was yesterday charged and placed before the court.

Detectives are probing the murder of 34-year-old Dick Grant called ‘Buss Mouth’, or ‘Guinness’, a miner of Amokokopai Village, Region #7 and Blackwater Backdam Potaro in Region #8.

(Trinidad Express) member of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force on the base in La Romaine sustained a gunshot injury to the head on Tuesday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says the Government has spent $80 million to install 2,500 CCTV cameras across the country to give the T&T Police Service an extra boost in its fight against the criminal element.

 (Reuters) – CVS Health Corp CVS.N, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc WBA.O

Last week’s theft from a private jet at CJIA was a major security breach that will lead to closer scrutiny by aviation bodies and blame trading has already begun as tighter measures should have been in place since June this year.

By Subhana Shiwmangal Rashanna Dindayal, 31, and her unborn child died on October 20 at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) and her family is concerned that they have not been given accurate information about her passing.

The World Bank has said that Guyana’s poverty rate is among the highest in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region prompting the Opposition to call on the government to utilize the resources from the oil and gas sector to bridge the gap.

The body of 43-year-old Gladstone Haynes was found at 6.30 this morning at the Orinduik Falls in the North Pakaraimas.

Thirty-three-year-old Troy Chapman who was caught on camera raping a three-year-old toddler while she slept was yesterday handed a life sentence by Justice Sandil Kissoon who in denouncing the abhorrence of the act, said that the sentence needed to reflect the gravity of the sex offender’s depravity.

The long-awaited written ruling of acting Chief Justice Roxane George SC throwing out the second petition challenging the results of the March 2nd 2020 general elections, has finally been made available, which will now allow for the record of appeal challenging that ruling to be prepared.

ExxonMobil will not be using the Netherlands-headquartered SBM Offshore to build its fifth planned FPSO as it has signed a contract with Japanese floating oil and gas production systems provider, MODEC to build the vessel to support its planned Uaru project.

The trial of Lurick Fiffee who is accused of the 2018 killing of his ex-girlfriend Rosemary Rudder, had to be aborted yesterday after one of the jurors realized that he is related to one of the witnesses called by the prosecution.

President of the Guyana Olympic Association K. Juman Yassin yesterday conceded that his association should shoulder some of the blame for the lack of a physiotherapist and medical personnel at the recent South American Games when boxer Keevin Allicock fell ill after failing to make the weight for his semi-final bout.

The Guyana Lands & Survey Commission (GLSC) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) yesterday announce the start of aerial surveying and mapping across the country using LIDAR Technologies.

Bandits armed with a gun and hammer pounced on a Corentyne Superbet on Monday evening robbing patrons of a sports bar and  leaving at least two persons injured.

On Monday, Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU)  officers conducted an operation in the vicinity of the Sophia (48) Bus Park where they intercepted a male carrying a bag.

A team of police from Regional Police Division # 2 headed by Regional Commander Superintendent K.

Dear Editor, I like how the AG’s office was eager to disclose quickly and readily information sent to him on the election case.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel’s former premier Benjamin Netanyahu said last night that his right wing, religious camp was on the cusp of a great election win, after exit polls predicted his bloc gaining a slim parliamentary majority that would pave the way for his comeback.

KYIV/MYKOLAIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – The world must respond firmly to any Russian attempts to disrupt Ukraine’s grain export corridor, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, as more ships were loading despite Moscow suspending its participation in a U.N.-brokered

Dear Editor, The Government of Guyana has been managing the affairs of government transparently and inclusively since its assumption of office on August 2, 2020, following a devastating five-month delay caused by the former APNU+AFC Coalition government and senior GECOM officials repeatedly attempting to thwart the will of the Guyanese electorate and prevent the declaration of the legitimate government of Guyana.

The Ministry of Education’s radio station- EdYou FM yesterday officially launched its website at the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD) office, Kingston, Georgetown.

The final round of group stage matches of the MVP Sports Futsal Championships which was penciled in to commence this evening has been rescheduled for Saturday evening at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

The curtain will come down on the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ East Coast Demerara zone Saturday evening at the Haslington Market Tarmac with exhilarating showdowns expected in the crowning of a new champion.

Dear Editor, I can objectively critique my party while fighting with everything.

Opposition-appointed Commissioners on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Vincent Alexander and Desmond Trotman yesterday said that they are withholding their support for the upcoming local government elections citing a number of reasons.

ABU DHABI, (Reuters) – The United States and United Arab Emirates have reached an agreement to spend $100 billion on clean energy projects with a goal of adding 100 gigawatts globally by 2035, U.S.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s attorney general has detained seven people, including former officials, as part of an investigation into suspected corruption in state oil company Petroecuador, it said yesterday.

Dear Editor, I am continuing to await my refund from Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) for a ticket booked for July 17th 2020 but which was cancelled because of COVID-19.

The police say that at around 16:40 hrs yesterday, a 35-year-old mason of Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara (EBD) and a 25-year-old labourer of Golden Grove, EBD, went into the Grove Police Station and reported that they were robbed by six men on bicycles, armed with knives at Friendship, EBD.

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro yesterday did not concede defeat in his first public remarks since losing Sunday’s election, saying protests by his supporters were the fruit of “indignation and a sense of injustice” over the vote.

(Reuters) – Rapper Takeoff, a member of the influential, Atlanta-based rap group Migos, was shot and killed at a party held at a Houston bowling alley early yesterday.

The second round of the 2022 edition of the JOF Haynes Memorial Inter-Secondary School Debating Competition continued yesterday.

Dear Editor I write with reference to Dr. Gary Girdhari’s Letter to the Editor published in Stabroek News (October 30, 2022).

CARACAS, (Reuters) – The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela held their first bilateral meeting in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, yesterday, where they discussed topics including trade, human rights and protecting the Amazon rainforest.

Steve Nash is out in Brooklyn after two-plus seasons. The embattled head coach was let go by the Nets yesterday after a 2-5 start to the season and plenty of controversy already.

Paul George made a contested 15-foot baseline jumper with 6.2 seconds left to give the Los Angeles Clippers a 95-93 victory over the visiting Houston Rockets on Monday night.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Roston Chase warmed up for his imminent return to Test cricket with an unbeaten half-century as Barbados Pride made a winning start to their Super50 Cup campaign by brushing aside minnows West Indies Academy by six wickets yesterday.

Over the past six decades the sport of boxing, more notably on the professional side, has been a source of great pride for our fledgling nation, spawning a few World and Commonwealth Champions.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – England survived Glenn Phillips’s late onslaught to beat group leaders New Zealand by 20 runs in a major boost to their semi-final hopes at the T20 World Cup in Brisbane yesterday.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – The Dutch government intends to levy a windfall tax on fossil fuel companies retroactively for the year 2022, it said yesterday.

Dear Editor, So, it seems, the only way to garner votes and support was to lambaste, assail  and discredit a legally elected government and by extension a sovereign state, aided and abetted by some individuals, as was the case with the recent Town Hall meeting.

By Wazim Mowla The 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP27, is just around the corner.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Lisa will become a hurricane overnight, the U.S.

The Correia Group of Companies has announced that Andrea and Salvador de Caires will now be part of the company’s ‘development of excellence in tourism’ at the Baganara Island Resort on the Essequibo River.