Daily Archive: Thursday, November 24, 2022

Nicholas Balkishun, a 28-year-old tailor of Lot 108 Best Road, West Coast Demerara who was arrested on 2022/11/23, was charged for the following offences: 1.

President Irfaan Ali today announced salary adjustments for members of the Disciplined Services.

KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim was sworn in as prime minister today, capping a three-decade political journey from a protege of veteran leader Mahathir Mohamad to protest leader, a prisoner convicted of sodomy and opposition leader.

(Barbados Nation) Attorney Ernest Winston Jackman has been sentenced to 7  years for stealing his clients’ money and money laundering.

-cites absence of  investigations, prosecutions Gold smuggling is one of the highest money laundering threats in Guyana, according to the second Money Laundering (ML) and Terrorist Financing (TF) National Risk Assessment (NRA).

In spite of major setbacks since it began in late 2012, the development of the Windsor Estates gated community at Providence, East Bank Demerara, is a success story says owner/developer Danny Sawh, as 80 per cent of the property owners defied the criticism that the homes would be too expensive for Guyanese to afford.

DOHA, (Reuters) – Former champions Spain got their World Cup off to a pulsating start with a record 7-0 rout of Costa Rica yesterday as a Ferran Torres brace and a sumptuous strike from Gavi sent them past the 100-goal mark in soccer’s showpiece event.

Aimed at developing local engineers and technicians, the Beharry Group through its subsidiary Beharry Energy Holdings yesterday entered a tri-country joint venture with United Kingdom (UK) Headquarter-ed, XL Group and Atlantic XL out of Canada.

Three days of action packed sports rivalry involving the best student-athletes from the ‘Guianas’ will get underway tomorrow when the highly anticipated Inter Guiana Games (IGG) makes its grand return.

Forty-three-year-old Mario Heywood has been sentenced to serve 17 years behind bars for raping a nine-year-old girl on three separate occasions in 2018.

A post-mortem examination  on 22-year-old Kelly Charlotte yesterday revealed that she died of multiple incised wounds.

If Nicholas Albert’s intuition comes to fruition, he will be crowned the next Mr.

Mohamed Qualander, Rajiv Latchana and Ryan McKinnon copped the Open, Production and Limited divisional titles, when the Guyana Sports Shooting Foundation (GSSF) staged its El Dorado Security Service year-end championships Sunday at the Camp Stephenson shooting range, Timehri.

A United States (US) tourist is missing after the boat which he had joined for a fishing trip reportedly capsized on Tuesday morning in the Rupununi River, Region Nine.

Dear Editor, The APNU+AFC cabal and affiliated groups continue with desperate attempts at race-baiting which they hope will incite civil unrest against the democratically elected People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Government and end the tremendous benefits being experienced by all Guyanese.

David Outar and Patrick Ross have been freed of the 2016 murder of Gafoor’s manager Terry Lackhan, who was found dead in his Herstelling, East Bank Demerara home, with a rope around his neck.

Dear Editor, I was truly saddened by news of the death of Mr.

Tobias Harris shook off a minor ankle scare early in the third quarter to score a season-high 24 points as the short-handed 76ers beat the visiting Brooklyn Nets 115-106 on Tuesday night in Ben Simmons’ return to Philadelphia.

DOHA, (Reuters) – Late goals by substitutes Ritsu Doan and Takuma Asano gave Japan an incredible 2-1 comeback victory over Germany in the World Cup yesterday in another emotional fillip for Asian soccer after Saudi Arabia’s shock win over Argentina.

The Government yesterday dismissed allegations by the Alliance For Change (AFC) that disgraced former High Commissioner to India, Charrandass Persaud was still performing his role as the envoy.

Dear Editor, Stabroek News editorial on Tuesday November 22, 2022 entitled ‘Climate negotiations breakthrough for the Caribbean’ identified the ground- breaking decision that a dedicated fund be created to support developing and under developed countries seeking to respond to climate crises as a hall mark of the recently concluded COP 27 summit in Egypt.

Over 10,000 customers of the New Building Society (NBS) with a collective mortgage portfolio of more than $52 billion can now pay their instalments from their mobile devices with mmg+ or from the more than 820 mmg+ agents across the country A press release from GTT said that NBS collaborated with mmg+ to launch a new mortgage payment option on Tues-day.

CANBERRA, Australia, CMC – Fast bowler Alzarri Joseph’s late three-wicket burst with the second new ball hauled West Indies back into contention after a trio of half-centuries had threatened to give the Australian Prime Minister’s XI complete control on day one of the four-day first class tour match here yesterday.

Dear Editor, Guyana does not have the capacity to absorb the wealth that is flowing in.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – The head of Brazil’s electoral court Alexandre de Moraes yesterday rejected a complaint from President Jair Bolsonaro’s allies to challenge the presidential election, which the incumbent lost by a small margin, according to a court document.

With the Alliance for Change (AFC) still to communicate its decision to break away from its coalition partner, APNU at the end of the year, Oppo-sition Leader Aubrey Norton on Tuesday said they are yet to make a determination whether the AFC’s parliamentary seats will be reassigned.

Editor Vincent Alexander is a sage and a wise man. He was, after all, the Registrar of the University of Guyana.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Nicholas Pooran wasted little time in refocusing after quitting the West Indies white-ball captaincy, lashing a whirlwind half-century to fire his Deccan Gladiators to a 35-run victory over Team Abu Dhabi on the opening day of the Abu Dhabi T10 here yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Imports of sugar from a company in the Dominican Republic will be blocked at all U.S.

The Government of Guyana yesterday stated that the services of Spaniard, Carlos Barberán Diez, an individual consultant was terminated by the current administration  on September 13, 2020, in connection with a corrupt practice as part of the Petroleum Governance and Management Project in Guyana.

DOHA, (Reuters) – Germany players placed their hands over their mouths during a team photo ahead of their game against Japan for their World Cup Group E yesterday as the row over FIFA’s threat of sanctions over the “OneLove” armband continued.

Dear Editor, Kindly allow me some space in your newspaper for this letter.

WINDHOEK,  (Reuters) – A large crane lifted a colonial-era statue of German official Curt von Francois in Namibian capital Windhoek yesterday, as a crowd that gathered nearby clapped and hooted in delight.

A 28-year-old man was on Tuesday remanded to prison after being charged with the murder of a labourer from New Amsterdam, Berbice.

Dear Editor, In his letter “I suggest Hergash deals with the message and not the messenger” (Stabroek News, November 22, 2022), Elder Hamilton Green writes “Mr.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – The German government plans to introduce a special levy to skim off 33% of windfall profits made by oil, coal and gas companies, which could generate revenue of between one and three billion euros, finance ministry sources told Reuters.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Former Australia coach Justin Langer has reopened old wounds over his acrimonious resignation, lashing out at unnamed “cowards” in the team who complained in the media about his intense coaching style.

Dear Editor, For the last five months or so, I have failed to keep up my practice of writing brief notes about persons, obscure or famous, who have died.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – England white-ball captain Jos Buttler is unfazed by their 3-0 whitewash in Australia and has urged the administrators to make sure bilateral cricket remains relevant.

(Reuters) – Some two in five of Haiti’s growing number of cholera cases are among children, the United Nation’s children’s agency warned yesterday, saying youth suffering from severe malnutrition ran three times the risk of dying from the bacterial disease.

Tenders were opened on Thursday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the rehabilitation of the Bartica Ferry Stelling for the Transport and Harbours Department (THD).

AL RAYYAN, Qatar, (Reuters) – Michy Batshuayi scored and Thibaut Courtois saved a penalty as a lacklustre Belgium opened their World Cup campaign yesterday with a scrappy 1-0 win over an energetic Canada side returning to the finals for first time in 36 years.

Region Three policemen yesterday arrested a motorcyclist at the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) Police outpost after they found 31 grammes of marijuana in his pants crotch.

WASHINGTON/KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the United Nations Security Council to act against Russia over air strikes on civilian infrastructure that again plunged Ukrainian cities into darkness and cold as winter sets in.

Dear Editor, In recent days, attentive readers of the “Letter to the Editor“ section of Stabroek News will have witnessed an exchange of opinions between Attorney General Anil Nandlall and Messrs.

CHESAPEAKE, Va., (Reuters) – A Walmart supervisor armed with a handgun and several magazines of ammunition opened fire on fellow employees in a Virginia store, killing six people before turning the gun on himself in a break room, witnesses and police said yesterday.

Dear Editor, COP27 has come and gone. Why did Guyana’s President Ali not go?

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) yesterday handed bowling all-rounder Chamika Karunaratne a suspended one-year ban from all forms of cricket following a disciplinary inquiry into violations committed at the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that as of November 22, 2022, one more person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has died.

 (Trinidad Express) Lone diving survivor Christopher Boodram wept throughout his testimony at the commission of enquiry (CoE) yesterday as he expressed sorrow and guilt at failing to fulfil his promise of returning for his “brothers” in the pipeline.

AL KHOR, Qatar, (Reuters) – Croatia’s World Cup campaign got off to a stuttering start with a 0-0 draw against a battling Morocco yesterday as the 2018 runners-up lacked the punch and guile of the side that went so close in Russia.

PRISTINA,  (Reuters) – Kosovo and Serbia reached a deal on Wednesday to end a nearly two-year dispute over car licence plates in northern Kosovo, which the West had warned could trigger ethnic violence, the European Union’s foreign policy chief said.

Dear Editor  It is nearly six years since I have exited the media, however, I have managed to stay abreast with current affairs and though there has been a change in administration within the Guyana Cricket Board [GCB] I still question whether decisions over at the Regent Road office continues to be blatantly politicized.

The 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties (COP27) overran its scheduled end by two days as its delegates struggled to close a deal on a ‘loss and damage fund’.

The three men who were allegedly intercepted with $5 million worth of ganja by the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) were on Tuesday remanded to prison after they were read a drug trafficking charge.