Daily Archive: Friday, November 4, 2022

(Trinidad Guardian) A Guyanese national was shot on Thursday night as he stood outside his home at Orange Grove Road, St Augustine.

The five men who are accused of murdering the Number 70 Village, Corentyne carpenter Faiyaz Narinedatt back in 2016, were moments ago found guilty following their trial at the High Court in Berbice.

 (Reuters) – The United States and Canada today imposed sanctions on two Haitian politicians, including the president of the country’s Senate, as Washington accused them of abusing their positions to traffic drugs and collaborate with gang networks in the country.

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has issued a call for 35 witnesses to appear at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court on Monday, November 7th 2022 at 8.30 am to testify in the case against alleged Ponzi scheme accused Yuri Garcia.

Yesterday, Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers conducted an operation within the Botanical Gardens and intercepted a motor vehicle with two male occupants.

President Irfaan Ali has departed Guyana for the US, where he will attend the American Caribbean Maritime Foundation (ACMF) Anchor Awards Gala to be held later today, at the Fort Lauderdale Yacht Club in Florida.

Police in Regional Division #2 are investigating a report of a fatal accident which occurred yesterday at about 7 pm  on the  Charity Extension Scheme Access Road on the Essequibo Coast.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz today condemned threats to use atomic weapons in Ukraine, with Scholz warning that Russia risked “crossing a line” in the international community by resorting to nuclear force.

(Trinidad Express) Police are at the scene of murder and suicide in San Fernando this morning.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitian police have taken control of a fuel terminal that had been blockaded by armed gangs since September, three sources said today, ending a standoff that had triggered a humanitarian crisis and talks of foreign military intervention.

A high-level South Korean-US business team is on a visit here and President Irfaan Ali has told them that his government is seeking partnerships that will make Guyana globally competitive for 2030 and beyond.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A British subsidiary of mining and trading group Glencore GLEN.L

Stabroek Business: I am assuming that you are now Head of the Essequibo Chamber after having been in business for some time.

The insatiable global appetite among women for looking good has, over time, served to create a multi-billion dollar ‘good looks’ industry which from a business perspective, has created lucrative entrepreneurial opportunities ranging from what, these days, are multi-million beauty sector enterprises to relatively modest but nonetheless thriving ‘beauty shops’ that have become expert at enhancing women’s sense of self, mostly by ‘doing things’ with their hair.

With the GuyOil/Tradewind Tankers U18 Secondary School Football League slated to conclude on Sunday, tournament coordinator, the Petra Organization, staged a pre-match press conference yesterday at the Brandsville Hotel, Pike Street with the competing Christianburg/Wismar outfit and Golden Grove unit.

The noteworthy strides which Guyana’s agro processing sector continues to make, largely through the diligence and creativity of a clutch of mostly micro and small businesses – and which can benefit incrementally from a more generous measure of state support – was again manifested recently with the disclosure that the local Only Coconuts brand of agro produce was named among other brands from the Caribbean that ‘turned heads’ at the October 15-19 SIAL Paris 2022 Product Display event at Paris Nord Villepinte in France.

Western Tigers earned their berth to the semi-final round in the Georgetown Football Association Super-8 Knockout Championship, defeating the Guyana Police Force 3-1 in extra time on Wednesday evening at the Georgetown Football Club ground, Bourda.

Stabroek Business has learnt that the currently dormant local Chapter of the Women’s Entrepreneurial Network of the Caribbean (WENC) will shortly be seeking to reinvent itself with a view to helping to provide leadership to the continually growing entrepreneurial community as it seeks to broaden the base of the range of opportunities available for the creation and growth of women-led businesses.

By Matthew Smith   ●             Venezuela’s vast oil reserves are                 estimated to exceed 300 billion                 barrels   ●             While there is considerable                 opposition to Biden removing                 sanctions on Venezuela, recent                 developments point to a recali-                 bration being urgently required   ●             Any attempts by the Biden                 administration to reconsider                 sanctions to allow foreign energy                 companies to drill in Venezuela                 may not garner the outcomes                 desired The severe energy crisis which emerged after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine is causing energy prices to soar.

As it announced that the auctioning of some 14 offshore blocks will not take place until next year, government yesterday disclosed that the new model oil and gas Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) will see big changes such as the upping of royalty from 2% to 10%, corporation tax of 10% and a  limiting of the amount of blocks for companies.

Dear Editor,  The devastating impact of the denial of our resources to the masses struck me with a sense of grief and repulsion while visiting a site for the distribution of the cash grant and next year’s pension books. 

Public hearings for the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the controversial March 2020 general elections will commence today and Chairman, Justice (retired)  Stanley John stressed that the probe is only interested in the “truth” and “what in fact occurred”.

With the Caribbean coming under increasing pressure to mount a robust response to what is now being widely seen as a condition of food insecurity in parts of the region, some Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states would appear to be stepping up to the proverbial plate with responses to a challenge that has never before been known to unduly disturb the region.

Senior Minister in the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance Ashni Singh yesterday said that the 48% poverty rate reflected in the updated World Bank factsheet on Guyana, was arrived at using figures from 2019.

Dear Editor, I write in my capacity as Registrar of the Supreme Court in response to an unsigned advertisement in your Friday, 28th October edition intituled, “Open Letter to the Chancellor of the Judiciary: Justice for Complainants’ Grievances Against Attorneys”.

Trinidad and Tobago may not, any longer, be the prolific oil and gas producer that once decidedly set its economy apart from those of the rest of the Caribbean Community.

Justice Sandil Kissoon yesterday handed down a 30-year sentence to Timothy McKenzie, who was on trial for the 2018 murder of Stabroek Market vendor Richard Noel.

Dear Editor, I have been a PPP/C supporter since 2001. That is for twenty-one years.

British International Investment, (BII), formerly the Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC), has announced its return to the Caribbean following an absence of several decades.

KYIV, (Reuters) – A Russian-installed official in southern Ukraine said Moscow will likely pull its troops from the west bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson and urged civilians to leave, possibly signalling a retreat that would be a setback to Russia’s war.

Dear Editor, Space will not permit to address everything in Dr.

Botofago and Winners Connection secured easy wins when the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) Senior Men’s League continued on Wednesday evening at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) ground, Linden.

For the immediate future at least, it would appear that foreign oil companies that had been part of joint venture arrangements with Venezuela in the shadow of United States-imposed sanctions have, it seems, decided to call it a day, according to an Oilprice.com

A man accused of attempting to murder his reputed wife was yesterday sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to the offence back in October.

Dear Editor, It is appalling that the relevant authorities are condoning the muddy condition with which rice farmers between Greenwich Park and Vergenoegen in Region Three have been leaving the public road.

LAHORE,  (Reuters) – Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was shot in the shin yesterday when his anti-government protest convoy came under attack in the east of the country in what his aides said was a clear assassination attempt by his rivals.

CARIFTA Games gold medallist, Attoya Harvey, along with rising sprint star, Ezekiel Newton, will headline Guyana’s 30-member track and field team for this year’s Inter Guiana Games (IGG) scheduled for November 25 to 27.

LA PAZ,  (Reuters) – A leading civic group in Bolivia threatened to hold a national strike to pressure the government to carry out a census next year, a potential escalation of protests that have already brought the farm hub of Santa Cruz to a near standstill.

Ever since the Irfaan Ali-led government took office in 2020, Guyana has been hosting a number of foreign investment missions with very little to no announcements of actual investments.

In anticipation of what has long been predicted as the country’s imminent major oil find, the authorities in Suriname are reportedly positioning a local secondary technical school to commence oil and gas training.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada will do targeted draws for skilled immigrants for the first time starting next year, allowing it to cherry pick applicants with the most in-demand skills for the regions of the country that most need workers, the federal immigration minister told Reuters.

The quarterfinal section in the ninth edition of the Courts Pee Wee Boys U11 Football Championship will commence tomorrow at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue in Georgetown.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Protests on Brazil’s highways began to fizzle out yesterday after far-right President Jair Bolsonaro asked his supporters to clear the blockades they had mounted with lines of trucks after his defeat in the presidential election.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Previously Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute and Chancellor of the University of Guyana Moises Naim, acclaimed author and public intellectual, has just published a well-received and dramatic book on the new politics of our time, The Revenge of Power (2022).

Dear Editor, It was for me a rare experience. On Wednesday November 2, I visited a DHL Express Office.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France’s lower house of parliament suspended its session on Thursday after a far-right MP shouted, “Go back to Africa!”

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 991’s trading results showed consideration of $16,945,862 from 35,608 shares traded in 19 transactions as compared to session 990’s trading results, which showed consideration of $39,156,891 from 134,057 shares traded in 27 transactions.

Leader of the Opposition Aubrey Norton on Tuesday described the government’s low-income houses as “kitchen coops” while urging citizens to demand more when it comes to accessing housing.

Dear Editor, I wish to ask why Nicolette Fernandes is only speaking out now, when she is almost at the end of her playing career.

Nature’s fury adds to man’s inhumanity It was relatively easy for a one-time national election “animal” like me to become engrossed with the electoral goings–on – just past or current.

It is probably unlikely that another country in the Caribbean can be found that surpasses Guyana in terms of the proclivity on the part of its political administrations to embrace a governance process that appears to favour the making of empty promises.

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(Reuters) – Rebeca Andrade became the first Brazilian to win the women’s individual all-around title at the world gymnastics championships in Liverpool, England yesterday.

In 2021, the International Monetary Fund projected Guyana as the fourth largest growing economy in the world for 2022.

(CMC) – Darren Bravo’s half-century went in vain as reigning champions Trinidad and Tobago Red Force slipped to a narrow three-run defeat to Guyana Harpy Eagles in the Super50 Cup late Wednesday night.

(Reuters) – World number one Carlos Alcaraz swept aside Grigor Dimitrov 6-1 6-3 to book his place in the Paris Masters quarter-finals yesterday and reigning champion Novak Djokovic advanced with a 6-4 6-1 win over Karen Khachanov.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombia’s Congress yesterday approved a tax reform bill that will raise an additional 20 trillion pesos ($4 billion) annually for the next four years, in part through increased duties on oil and coal.

(Reuters) – Pakistan kept alive their slim hopes of reaching the Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals with a 33-run victory over South Africa in a rain-shortened Super 12 match yesterday, bringing the tournament’s only unbeaten record to an end in the process.

SOCU was set up in 2013 as a specialised unit within the Guyana Police Force to investigate allegations and reports in respect of money laundering and terrorism.