Daily Archive: Sunday, November 13, 2022

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) today disclosed the death of a 19–year old female and the stillbirth of her first twin.

The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Alliance For Change (AFC) today said that after much debate it has arrived at a consensus that the party will not contest the upcoming local government elections (LGE) without changes to the list of electors.

(Trinidad Guardian) Twenty-five-year-old Curtis “Faddy” Smith, of Diego Martin, was gunned down outside Starbucks, Sun Plaza, Munroe Road, Chaguanas, yesterday.

PHNOM PENH,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden told Asian leaders today that U.S.

PHOENIX, (Reuters) – Democrats held onto control of the U.S. Senate, handing a major victory to President Joe Biden and extinguishing hopes of the “red wave” that Republicans had expected leading into the midterm elections.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) last night disclosed that a 40-year-old maternity patient from Region Six died yesterday at the Ocean View Infectious Diseases Hospital.

Melbourne (Reuters) Ben Stokes held his nerve with an unbeaten half-century as England claimed their second Twenty20 World Cup title with a five-wicket win over Pakistan at the Melbourne Cricket Ground today.

Guyanese-American building contractor and developer Danny Sawh plans on investing about US$350 million into the transformation of 100 acres of former Ogle estate lands into a luxury waterfront gated community with a built in lagoon surrounded by state of the art residential properties, green spaces and a commercial area.

A report by United States-based business magazine Forbes has revealed that Guyanese account for the largest diaspora population when compared to the rest of the world.

As a child Deondra Wishart walked miles to school because her single mom had no money to give her for transportation; there were days when she went without food and it was during those difficult times that she resolved in her mind that education was the way out.

Sixty persons occupying lands at Charity squatting area in Region Two received their certificates of title on Saturday.

Becoming a pastor, counsellor, teacher and journalist are among the best things that have happened to Terrence Esseboom, 61, who says his training in these areas have helped him to steer others to get on the right path in life.

By Rae Wiltshire On his Instagram page, graphic designer, colorist and special effects artist Akeem King has posted drawings of black women with locs and afros.

A performance audit into the management of healthcare waste at hospitals conducted from January 2017 to July 2019 found that the overall system was poor and placed healthcare workers and patients in harm’s way.

Family members of 53-year-old Dexter McFarlane, who was killed in a crossfire on Friday afternoon, are calling for justice as well as for proper security measures to be implemented within the Laing Avenue neighbourhood.

Why is it necessary for the US Ambassador, Her Excellency Sarah Ann Lynch, to again call for inclusion, long term growth for all nationals and legislation against corruption?

Introduction As part of the revisit of my  previous evaluation of publicized modelled calculations of Guyana Government Take ratios, I had observed last  week that, just over two years ago [August 2020] the Inter-American Development Bank, IADB, and also much more recently, in August of this year, 2022,  Rystad Energy, published modelled calculations of Guyana Government Take along with projections of Guyana Government revenue flows and related operational and investment matters,  over a decade and more going forward to 2025-7 and beyond into the 2030s.

Indian company Ashoka Build Con has commenced construction works for the long gestating four lane East Coast-East Bank Demerara bypass road project.

There were recently two theatre productions on the Guyanese stage on the same weekend, standing in contrast to each other in many ways, and bringing to notice a number of significant features of the present time.

Although there has been improvement in the state of cleanliness across the city, President Irfaan Ali said that “heavy” focus will be placed on enforcement to ensure that it is maintained.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – A confident England will look to deny Pakistan a fairytale finish in today’s Twenty20 World Cup final and become the first nation to hold both global white-ball trophies – if Melbourne’s fickle weather permits.

Lines are ubiquitous in the natural and man-made environments. Look out your window, which itself is an arrangement of lines creating shape, you will likely see the wires of GPL and GTT.

St. Pius and Enterprise will contest the final of the Courts Pee Wee Boys U11 Football Championship, following semi-final wins yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

Warren Douglas, local vintner and owner of the well-known nature retreat getaway Pandama Retreat & Winery, died suddenly on Thursday at the Linden/Soesdyke establishment he called home.

In 2019, two African MFA students—Yvette Ndlovu from Zimbabwe and Shingai Kakunda from Kenya—met while studying in the United States.

The Court’s jurisdiction to intervene in the internal affairs of Parliament was hotly debated on Friday morning when arguments in the case of the eight Members of Parliament (MPs) suspended by the Assembly’s Committee of Privileges were heard by the High Court.

An Organising Committee has been installed by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport and the National Sports Commission (NSC) to ensure the faultless running of the Inter Guiana Games (IGG) which returns on November 25.

“The Wonder” feels like an important step in the maturity of Florence Pugh onscreen.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has expressed dismay at the PPP/C-led government’s foot dragging concerning constitutional appointments, especially those concerning the judiciary and what it sees as the politicization of all arms of government.

Ariel and Name Brand will battle in the Open final while Regal and NYSCL will clash in the final of the over-50 category of the sixth Georgetown Softball Cricket Leage (GSCL) Inc.,

Our dreams often carry an odd quality of unrecognisable beauty. Dreams are one of the mysteries of the human mind, and are the subject of many scientific theories and examinations.

Fifty-one former employees of Pritipaul Singh Investment Inc. are demanding that the owner of the company keeps his promise to pay them their severance after he reportedly suggested they leave over an attempt to unionise and they have also accused the Ministry of Labour of dragging its feet on the case.

Dear Editor, This Letter “A Fair Deal for Guyana – A Fair Deal for the Planet”, was sent to President Irfaan Ali by 45 Guyanese on Friday, November 11, to coincide with the UN Climate Summit, COP27, being held in Egypt.

Albion Community Centre Cricket Club walked away champions of the Berbice Cricket Board/ Ivan Madray Memorial T20 after beating Young Warriors Cricket Club by nine runs yesterday.

Close to three months since the Ministry of Labour launched an investigation into the death of Cindy Jattan, who was crushed to death while on duty at the Gafoors Hardware Store at Land of Canaan on the East Bank of Demerara (EBD), it is yet to conclude its report.

On the eve of the start of the inaugural One Guyana President’s Cup today amongst the 10 administrative regions, President Irfaan Ali stated that the event is part of the government’s plan to integrate sports into the national existence.

Dear Editor, Throughout 2009 I argued for the Opposition and its partisans to abandon their insistence that the PPP was an “Elected Dictatorship”, since it blocked them from seizing the real opportunity to win power at the polls.

(Reuters) – Villagers holding flowers waited on the road to the southern city of Kherson to greet and kiss Ukrainian soldiers on Saturday as they poured in to secure control of the right bank of the Dnipro River after a stunning Russian retreat.

I make visits up the great Essequibo to rest the body, refresh the mind and remind the soul of the beauty in this world.

THE Prime Minister T20 softball tournament is set to conclude today and the top performers will benefit from troiphies donated by the popular Trophy Stall Establisment of Bourda Market.

On Friday, November 4, a new restaurant, Amici, opened its doors to the public on the rooftop of the building at Lot 301 Church Street, Queenstown, where it now offers visitors authentic Italian food.

“For two months I wasn’t seeing my health and I was thinking, ‘Lord, I hope I am not pregnant’, because I cannot deal with that right now.

(Reuters) – Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said on Saturday her mission in life was to ensure the island continued to belong to its people and that Taiwan’s existence was a provocation to no one, in a fiery pre-election rebuff to China.

Dear Editor, We must always welcome medical inputs from the Government.

Driving to the gym, I zoomed past a few houses on the commute but not fast enough not to hear Christmas carols being played in some of them.

In observation of National Road Safety month, Yesi Consultancy on Friday donated 100 traffic wands and 10 first aid kits to the Guyana Police Force (GPF).

Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is credited with having originated in Ancient Greece in 648 BCE in the art form of pankration that combined boxing and wrestling, and also in Ancient China in the discipline of Leitai, which possessed similar underpinnings.

(Reuters) – Nineteen people were killed and six others were injured when a bus fell into a canal in northern Egypt on Saturday, the Health Ministry said.

(Barbados Nation) – A coalition of opposition political parties and civil society organisations, Friday said they planned to stage peaceful protests from this Thursday to stop the December 6 snap general election, insisting that no elections should be held in Dominica without electoral reform.

Dear Editor, The state of affairs in Guyana’s schools are getting worse as the days goes by.

The South Dakota Circuit will be littered with machines built for speed today when the Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club’s (GMR&SC) hosts its International Race of Champions meet, which will also serve as the final leg of the Radicals Caribbean Cup series.

Three new COVID-19 cases have been recorded after 234 tests were conducted.

About three weeks ago it was reported that former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov had an accident in Moscow and was hospitalised.

Dear Editor, The big message in the PPP’s “Drugs Bill” is that “you not going to jail for up to 30 grammes of   marijuana.”

(Barbados Nation) – The UN’s main human rights agency is calling on the Dominican Republic to halt the deportations of Haitian migrants at a time of unrest in their country.

(Reuters) – British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said he will have to raise taxes in next week’s budget plan in order to fix the public finances and soften a potentially long recession, a newspaper quoted him as saying on Saturday.

President Irfaan Ali’s academic thesis was on regional and urban planning, so the citizens of this land might have been justified in assuming that his government would have been more committed to introducing a measure of order into our built environment than what the evidence would currently suggest is the case.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Veteran all-rounder Jonathan Carter’s five-wicket haul derailed a promising run chase by West Indies Academy and earned Barbados Pride a comfortable 82-run win in the Super50 Cup here Friday night.

Dear Editor, On the 12th November 2022 and a few times prior, His Excellency and team led a clean-up campaign across the country.

(Reuters) – Iran’s hardline judiciary has indicted 11 people over the killing of a Basij security force member during unrest, state media reported on Saturday, as authorities sought to quell nine weeks of protests.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Guyana Harpy Eagles wasted little time in regaining their winning momentum in the Super50 Cup by thumping Combined Campuses and Colleges by 129 runs here yesterday.

(Reuters) – Five countries – Argentina, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Brazil and Chile – nominated candidates for president of the Inter-American Development Bank ahead of a Nov.

The Guyana Shore Base Inc (GYSBI) on Friday made a financial contribution to the Board of Industrial Training (BIT) for training of citizens to ensure they are equipped to get involved in the oil and gas sector.

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