Daily Archive: Sunday, November 6, 2022

This morning, Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers with support from the GDF Coast Guard intercepted two vessels suspected of transporting cannabis along the coast of No 47 Village, Corentyne, Berbice.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt,  (Reuters) – Delegates at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt agreed after late-night talks to put the delicate issue of whether rich nations should compensate poor countries most vulnerable to climate change on the formal agenda for the first time.

Police are investigating a fatal accident that occurred yesterday at about 16:45 hrs on Foulis Public Road, East Coast Demerara.

The police today said that an unidentified man of Amerindian descent was found dead last night on the Lusignan prison road with stab wounds to the left side of the neck.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government rejected yesterday a decision by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to resume an investigation into alleged human rights violations by the South American country’s officials.

(Trinidad Express) Levi Williams, 29, and Kafele Pierre, 30, both of Malick, Barataria, were killed in Carenage last night.

LIMA, (Reuters) – Thousands of people took to the streets across Peru on Saturday to demand the resignation of embattled President Pedro Castillo, a leftist whose government is under investigation for corruption.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Sri Lankan cricket authorities said on Sunday that Danushka Gunathilaka, a member of their team for the T20 World Cup tournament in Australia, had been arrested in Sydney over an alleged sexual assault.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Pakistan joined India in the Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals today after South Africa crashed out of the tournament after a stunning defeat by the Netherlands.

DAR ES SALAAM, (Reuters) – A Precision Air flight carrying 39 passengers made a crash landing into Lake Victoria today while attempting to reach a nearby airport in Tanzania, the airline said.

Starting next year, ExxonMobil will have a new offshore helicopter services provider as the Portugal- headquartered Omni Helicopters Inc (OHI) has partnered with Roraima Airways to bring a service that it says will focus heavily on training and transfer of skills in the sector to locals.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) believes that the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)-funded Citizen Security Strengthen-ing Programme (CSSP) has significantly helped not only in infrastructure building and personnel improvement but in lowering crime and building public trust.

The Bar Association of Guyana yesterday issued a stinging reply to Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall after he contended that there may be a “hidden agenda” for the Association’s protest outside of the Guyana Police Force’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) headquarters on Friday over the recent arrest of an attorney.

A Reliance Settlement, East Canje Berbice man is calling on the Guyana Police Force to reopen the investigation into the murder of his 16-year-old son, Vivian Singh Balrup, who was fatally beaten at Number 63 Beach almost 13 years ago.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) is calling for the government to level the playing field by applying the new fiscal terms it has announced for oil contracts to ExxonMobil and its partners.

A Korean group has indicated its interest in submitting a proposal for the construction of the Amaila Falls Hydropower Plant (AFHP), Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has said.

Construction of the paved US$190 million Linden to Mabura Road has started and foundational works are progressing.

With the National Assembly slated to meet on Monday, following its two-month annual recess, the Alliance For Change (AFC) has said parliamentary scrutiny of government is being hamstrung by the non-functioning of key committees, some of which have yet to be convened after two years.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) and the Government of Guyana (GoG) following a meeting with several stakeholders, will stage a year-end inter-ward football competition dubbed ‘One Guyana President’s Cup’, which is set to commence next Sunday.

Dear Editor, Windfall taxes on oil companies in the wake of booming oil prices seem to be getting high level attention, moreso even than the general call for “putting a price on carbon.’ 

Dear Editor, I wish to offer some of my thoughts on the fiscal criteria being considered for the upcoming auction of oil blocks in offshore Guyana.

Ireland-born Shaun McGrath, 61, came to Guyana in 1989 on a two-year contract with the former owner of the Pegasus Hotel in Georgetown.

Enterprise, St. Pius, Marian Academy and North Georgetown sealed their semi-final berths following quarterfinal wins in the Courts Pee Wee Boys U11 Football Championship at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue yesterday.

Leader of the Opposition Aubrey Norton on Tuesday conceded that the voters’ list used in the 2015 general and regional elections, which saw his party elected to government, was indeed bloated but argued that the present list is far more bloated.

Nine years ago when Amani Mohamed entered this world she was a bouncing baby girl who was developing as per norm.

The construction of an apartment building at Lindley Avenue, Nandy Park, East Bank Deme-rara is proceeding without permission, according to Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) Chief Executive Officer Sherwyn Greaves.

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) will, next year, stage two Caribbean championships back-to-back.

Dear Editor, I wish to respond to a false statement in an article titled “Guyanese Lieutenant Colonel Kester Craig appointed Deputy Executive Director of CDEMA” published by Village Voice on 4th November, 2022.

Through the First Lady’s Menstrual Hygiene Initiative, every secondary school-aged girl across the country is set to benefit from a full year’s supply of free sanitary napkins and distribution has already started in regions 1, 5, 6, and 10.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) on Friday held a meeting to outline its academy programme activities with several coaches and administrators from across the country in attendance.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – England qualified for the Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals with a nervy victory by four wickets over Sri Lanka in their final Super 12 match yesterday, sending hosts and defending champions Australia out of the tournament in the process.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the letter “NIS apparently defective record keeping practices played a major role in their refusal to pay my pension”.

On Thursday, the Women’s Leadership Programme (WLP) welcomed the first 12 graduates into what it called its “fraternity of assertive and innovative women leaders,” following a graduation ceremony ushering them into their new roles as “mentors and change-makers.”

Dear Editor, How people see Guyana’s Oil is how they would behave in managing the oil industry.

Brandon Ingram returned from a four-game absence caused by a concussion to score a game-high 26 points as the host New Orleans Pelicans held off the short-handed Golden State Warriors 114-105 on Friday night.

A post-mortem examination performed on the remains on Gladstone Haynes, the tourist who disappeared while swimming at the Orinduik Falls last week, revealed that he died as a result of asphyxiation due to drowning compounded by blunt trauma to the head.

Dear Editor, Board Members of the Guyana Chess Federation, (GCF), must be commended for taking an unwavering and united stance on the need for accountability and transparency, thereby preserving the slow but steady gains made so far by chess locally.

Ministry of Public Works Electrical Engineer Nigel Butts has informed that the inoperable traffic lights on Vlissengen Road between Church Street and North Road were vandalized.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – South Africa and India will look to seal places in the Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals with regulation wins over cricketing minnows as the Super 12 phase wraps up with a flurry of matches today.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Rank underdogs West Indies Academy stunned favourites Jamaica Scorpions by 12 runs in a low-scoring contest here yesterday, to blow Zone B of the Super50 Cup wide open.

(Reuters) – Iran acknowledged for the first time on Saturday that it had supplied Moscow with drones but said they were sent before the war in Ukraine, where Russia has used them to target power stations and civilian infrastructure.

Saying it is responding to demand, Surinam Airways has announced extra flights on the Paramaribo – Georgetown – Miami route during the period November 21, 2022 to January 5, 2023.

Dear Editor, During the 1980’s, the then Burnham Gov’t decided to build a community centre on the Presbyterian Mission at Saxacalli, however the land on which the centre was built belonged to the Presbyterian Church.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Reigning champions Trinidad and Tobago Red Force quickly bounced back from defeat with a dominant seven-wicket victory over Windward Islands Volcanoes.

(Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who was heavily criticised for a trip to Beijing this week, said on Saturday his and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s joint statement opposing the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine had been reason enough for the visit.

Dear Editor, The Caribbean Voice is happy that the Gatekeeper’s Training Program is being relaunched.

A total of 61 nursery school teachers participated in a two-day Behaviour Management Workshop to build their knowledge to assess students’ behaviours and create a positive learning environment.

(Reuters) – Twitter on Saturday updated its app in Apple’s App Store to begin charging $8 for sought-after blue check verification marks, in Elon Musk’s first major revision of the social media platform.

Dear Editor, Kindly permit me to respond to Dr. Gary Girdhari’s “Dr.

BELMOPAN, Belize, (CMC) – The Government of Belize, in the aftermath of Hurricane Lisa, is requesting some US$11 million to meet immediate needs and to provide basic food, household supplies, and construction materials to enable affected persons to have a level of human dignity. 

A man has been remanded to prison after being charged with stealing a car and going on a joyride that ended when he reportedly crashed it.

(Reuters) – Flightline produced one of horse racing’s all-time great performances to win the Breeders’ Cup Classic in Lexington, Kentucky yesterday, living up to sky-high expectations and lofty comparisons to icon Secretariat.

(Reuters) – Nurses in Britain will go on strike, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said on Saturday, an action that will add to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s challenges during an economic crisis.

Dear Editor. Some have questioned the need for the CoI into the attempted heist of the March 2020 general elections.

Bids were opened on October 25 at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the construction of two police stations at Mocha and Tuschen.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s transition team has invited two economists, Persio Arida and Andre Lara Resende, who helped design the Real Plan that stabilized the economy in the 1990s, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on Saturday.

(Reuters) – People calling for a boycott of the World Cup in Qatar are from a handful of countries that do not represent the rest of the world which is looking forward to the tournament, Qatar’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani has said.

It was last July that President Irfaan Ali made his appearance at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre fully attired in Saudi Arabian dress to discuss investment with a trade delegation from the kingdom.

(Reuters) – Israeli soldiers fatally shot a Palestinian 18-year-old in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, health officials said, the latest in a string of deadly incidents in the territory.

I do not think the intelligent and opened-minded Minister of Education minds me delivering little, well-meant lectures to her from time to time.

The Ministry of Health on Saturday reported one new COVID-19 case.

Dear Editor, The fall in life expectancy at birth was more alarming than the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on national income for a majority of countries in the Central American and Caribbean region, as a result of the rise in death rates.

Rickford Burke, well known Guyanese anti-PPP political activist in New York, has finally landed a political gold mine.

Dear Editor, Service of Distinction is what we should bestow on Mr.

Now that the matter of the ousting of Frankie Farley from the presidency of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) is being addressed by the World Chess Federation (FIDE), we should continue with the business of circulating the game of chess to the general public.

When the calendar flipped, I issued a challenge on my social media page titled ‘No Sugar November’.

Come January, it will be six years since the Women’s Chronicles column became a reality and to be honest I was not sure it would have made it this far.

Following their unbeaten run in the qualifiers to seal a berth to the main draw of the FIBA 3×3 AmeriCup Championship men’s division, team Guyana was bundled out of the event yesterday, following consecutive losses to Canada and Mexico in Pool C at the AT&T East Plaza in Miami, Florida.

“Black Adam”, the latest in our current reality of multiple CGI superhero spectacles per year, feels built on paradoxes.

Can you imagine the beauty of a city at night? The colours that swim in the blue glass windows of skyscrapers?

Introduction Today’s column begins the wrap up of my presentation related to Guyana Government Take.

Balance is a necessity of art, as in life. Without it, we feel off-kilter.

(Reuters) – Haitians on Saturday hoped for a quick return of fuel supplies after police broke up a gang blockade that for two months had left the economy without gasoline or diesel and triggered a humanitarian crisis.