Daily Archive: Monday, November 21, 2022

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Less than seven months after being appointed as West Indies white ball captain, Nicholas Pooran has called it quits, saying the decision was in his best interest and that of the team.

Amid a surge of COVID-19 cases, two East Berbice-Corentyne men have succumbed to the virus.

Twenty-one-year-old Amrita Sampal of Line Path Corentyne, Berbice, has been missing since yesterday and her family is asking for help in locating her.

Detectives in Regional  Police Division #10 are investigating the murder of 22-year-old Kelly Charlotte, a teacher of 790 One Mile Extension, Wismar, Linden, which occurred at about 21:15 hours last night at the said address.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) said yesterday its board of governors has elected Brazil’s Ilan Goldfajn as president of the financial institution, after Mauricio Claver-Carone, the first American to lead it, was ousted over ethics violations.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says he always knew Jack Warner’s involvement with FIFA “could and would be an embarrassment to T&T.”

SANTA CRUZ/LA PAZ, Bolivia,  (Reuters) – Tropical, sunny and relatively wealthy, Bolivia’s farming region of Santa Cruz has long butted heads with the arid highland political capital La Paz.

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – A 5.6-magnitude earthquake killed more than 50 people and injured hundreds in Indonesia’s West Java province on Monday, with rescuers trying to reach survivors trapped under the rubble amid a series of aftershocks as night fell.

United States Ambassador Sarah-Ann Lynch has said that the potential for corruption and need for inclusion are key challenges for Guyana as it navigates its oil wealth.

What seemed like a routine cholecystectomy (gallstone removal surgery) at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) for a 45-year-old East Coast Demerara (ECD) teacher ended tragically and her family is calling for a comprehensive investigation into the post-operative care given to patients at the facility.

Winston Missigher and Attoya Harvey are your 2022 South American senior 10k Classic champions.

Guyana Telephone and Telegraph’s (GTT’s) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Damian Blackburn says thousands of pending landline applications have been reduced to just over 100.

Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha on Saturday commissioned a facility in St Ignatius, Region Nine to process peanuts and cashews.

Central Mackenzie overcame a one goal deficit and a numerical handicap, to defeat South Amelia’s Ward 2-1 yesterday in the Region #10 zone of the ‘One Guyana President’s Cup’ Football Championship at the Wisburg Secondary School ground.

Dear Editor, Permit me space in your newspaper to make a point for the frontline Social Care Workers to be recognised in the special group or category of workers that are being considered for special salary adjustments.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, (Reuters) – Countries closed this year’s U.N. climate summit yesterday with a hard-fought deal to create a fund to help poor countries being battered by climate disasters, even as many lamented its lack of ambition in tackling the emissions causing them.

The body of  Elick Alexander, a 55-year-old Wismar boat captain who went missing on Saturday  was recovered yesterday morning in the Demerara River at around 10 am. 

Stewartville will battle Den Amstel in the semi-final round of the Region #3 Zone in the ‘One Guyana President’s Cup’ Football Championships tonight at 20:30hrs, following respective quarterfinal victories on Saturday evening at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua,  CMC – Jamaica Scorpions nearly squandered a golden opportunity but held their nerve in the end to upset reigning champions Trinidad and Tobago Red Force by three wickets and clinch their first Super50 Cup title in 11 years here Saturday night.

The Ministry of Agriculture on Saturday launched its Agriculture Improvement Support Programme and sixteen Region Nine villages have been given aid to the tune of $22m.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is under Russian control, was rocked by shelling yesterday, drawing condemnation from the U.N.

Dear Editor, In his letter “One man and one group seem to know what our public servants need” (Stabroek News, Nov.19, 2022), Hamilton Green, Elder, writes “Dictatorship is where a governing group ignores the other tiers of governance, a dictatorship is where established social and other institutions, such as religious bodies, the trade unions, are trivialized, if not trampled upon.”

Dear Editor, Further to my letter in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek “Mr.

AL KHOR, Qatar, (Reuters) – Ecuador eased past World Cup debutants Qatar 2-0 yesterday with first-half goals from veteran striker Enner Valencia in a one-sided affair that was the first opening game defeat for a host nation in the tournament’s history.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.,  (Reuters) – A gunman opened fire inside a LGBTQ nightspot in Colorado Springs late on Saturday, killing at least five people and injuring 25 others before being stopped by “heroic” clubgoers, police said.

Former City Engineer, Gregory Erskine died after he was involved in an accident on Saturday morning at about 7:15 on the Perseverance Public Road, Mahaicony.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago Red Force captain Nicholas Pooran has pointed to inept batting in Saturday’s Super50 Cup final as the reason behind their three-wicket defeat to new champions Jamaica Scorpions.

Dear Editor, I read in your newspaper about the efforts by H.E.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Iran’s clerical rulers have stepped up suppression of persistent anti-government protests in the country’s Kurdish region, deploying troops and killing at least four demonstrators on Sunday, social media posts and rights groups said.

Six persons are now homeless after a fire of unknown origin destroyed their one-flat wooden and concrete house at Hope, according to a press release from the Guyana Fire and Rescue Service.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Canada has sanctioned former Haitian President Michel Martelly and two former prime ministers for financing gangs, Canadian authorities said today, the latest in a series of measures targeting alleged backers of Haitian criminal groups.

Dear Editor, I respond to Tacuma Ogunseye’s letter, “It seems it is Dev who is stuck in the past” (SN 11-17-22), which was a riposte to my intervention, “The opposition’s struck-in-the-past mode provided critical opportunities for the PPP’s well-oiled machinery”.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Turkish warplanes carried out air strikes on Kurdish militant bases in northern Syria and northern Iraq on Sunday, destroying 89 targets, Turkey’s defence ministry said, in retaliation for a bomb attack in Istanbul that killed six people one week ago.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Captain Rovman Powell has described Jamaica Scorpions’ stunning group stage defeat to West Indies Academy as “a wake-up call” which helped to transform his side’s campaign, and lay the platform for their eventual capture of the Super50 Cup.

Fifteen high school graduates will soon begin their seven-month apprenticeship with Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited. 

(Barbados Nation) Barbados’ economic progress relies on more than just the Government’s investment in capital projects, especially during these hard times.

Port Mourant Cricket Club managed a one-wicket victory over Albion Cricket Club while Rose Hall Canje defeated Edinburgh by 66 runs in the Berbice Cricket Board/Albion Community Centre Cricket Club under-19 tournament this weekend.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron accused Russia of feeding anti-French propaganda in Africa to serve “predatory” ambitions in troubled African nations, where France has suffered military setbacks and a wider loss of influence over recent years.

Dear Editor, This letter is an attempt on my part to make up for the many issues I failed to comment on, because of a change in my situation.

A sixty-four-year-old taxi driver is among three persons who were arrested by the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) last week after a narcotics bust.

HARARE,  (Reuters) – Zimbabwean health workers have left the country in droves over the past year, a senior official at the Health Services Board (HSB) revealed on Sunday.

(Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard yesterday said it has recovered the body of one person after a vessel carrying Cuban migrants capsized off Florida’s Little Torch Key, adding it rescued nine people and was searching for five others.

Dear Editor, I would sum up COP 27 in two words. 

Police Sports Club handed Ace Warriors a 103-run defeat on Saturday in the Georgetown Cricket Association/Atlantic Marine Supplies Inc.,

A twenty-seven-year-old De Willem, West Coast Demerara resident was on Friday night busted with over 800 grammes of cocaine by drug enforcement agents.

An 18-year-old was last Thursday remanded to prison after being charged with two counts of robbery with violence.

ROME,  (Reuters) – The United Nations’ Security Council needs to take “significant measures” in response to the latest intercontinental ballistic missile launch by North Korea, foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) major industrialised nations said yesterday.

On October 30th, a US-based Guyanese, Gladstone Haynes, 43, disappeared while touring Orinduik Falls in Region Eight.

By Raghuram G. Rajan CHICAGO – The deliberations at this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) suggest that while policymakers realize the urgency of combating climate change, they are unlikely to reach a comprehensive collective agreement to address it.

Dear Editor, In observance of International Men’s Day which is celebrated on the 19th of November, on behalf of every woman, child and man, themselves, I would like to say thank you.

Last week, the Conference of Parties (COP 27) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ended with a decision to create a “loss and damage” fund to assist poorer countries that are worst affected by global warming and climate change.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel will visit China from Nov.

Georgetown (GT) registered a second-round win over East Bank by a 306-run margin as the Demerara Cricket Board Under-15 inter-association tournament continued at Queen’s College Ground on Saturday.