Daily Archive: Sunday, November 27, 2022

A twenty-two-year-old teacher of Region Two is currently in police custody assisting with investigations into the murder of her grandmother.

Members of the Joint Services yesterday destroyed three large ganja farms along the Ebini Trail, Upper Berbice River.

SHANGHAI/BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Crowds of demonstrators in Shanghai shouted and held up blank sheets of papers today, as protests flared in China against heavy COVID-19 curbs following a deadly fire in the country’s far west sparked widespread anger.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s niece, a well known rights activist, has called on foreign governments to cut all ties with Tehran over its violent crackdown on popular unrest kindled by the death in police custody of a young woman.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country’s intends to have the world’s most powerful nuclear force as he promoted dozens of military officers involved in the recent launch of a new ballistic missile, state media reported today.

(Trinidad Guardian) The country is bracing for more flooding, landslides and gusty winds through tomorrow morning following yesterday’s deluge, which sent rivers across Trinidad over their banks.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Morvant teenager was gunned down on Thursday night, after the killers reportedly mistook him for a relative.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved the contentious US$1.3 billion gas-to-energy project, including ExxonMobil’s development of a natural gas transport pipeline, a materials offloading facility and natural gas liquids plant.

In the face of a risk assessment that gold smuggling is one of the highest money laundering threats in Guyana, Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC says that the government plans to take measures to crack down on the crime and to boost prosecutions.

Years before he was gunned down in front of Palm Court on Main Street, Georgetown, at least one attempt was made on the life of gold dealer, Ricardo Fagundes.

Information associated with the registration of a helicopter, allegedly stolen from the Venezuelan military and stored at a hangar of Roraima Airways since 2018, have been handed over by the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) to Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), which is investigating the case, according to Public Works Minister Juan Edghill.

In 1995, tour operator Frank Singh, 63, of Diamond, East Bank Demerara and his wife Sabita took a lead and started the adventure tour company, Rainforest Tours, when local tourism was virtually unheard of.

Feeling as if it was all over for him, Antoine Craigwell said he was seconds away from throwing himself onto a train’s track when he had some flashbacks about his mother.

Thomas Carstens Jr, the American tourist who died during a fishing expedition in the Rupununi last Tuesday, panicked when he saw the vessel begin to take in water and jumped overboard, resulting in his demise, according to the Guyana Police Force (GPF).

The Ministry of Health yesterday announced that a new COVID-19 death has been recorded.

Community activist Dr Veerasammy Ramayya is expected to be charged with a cybercrime offence on Thursday at the Springlands Magistrate’s Court based on comments made during one of his live social media broadcasts earlier this year.

Guyanese are well aware of the Opposition allegations that the electoral list is bloated and needs to be ‘cleaned.’

Guyana won the Inter-Guiana Games Football title, defeating Suriname 2-0 yesterday at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora.

Two impulses contend in me – one is to allow chaos to take hold and the other is to keep everything tidy and in good order.

Dr Leslie Ramsammy has succeeded in getting the default judgment that was granted against him in a libel suit brought by former General Manager of the National Communications Network (NCN) Enrico Woolford set aside.

Members of the Civil Society Forum (CSF) met with Leader of the Opposition Aubrey Norton and a team from the People’s National Congress Reform last Wednesday.

Sherwin Sampson led Team Guyana’s sweep of the podium in the cycle road race of this year’s Inter Guiana Games (IGG) staged yesterday at West Demerara. 

It is truly exciting to think of all the things that our future will be.

A Mahaica Creek labourer died on Saturday morning after a tractor toppled and pinned him while he was ploughing a rice field.

The Competition and Consumer Affairs Commission (CCAC) on Friday evening awarded five outstanding businesses and a consumer rights advocate for compliance with the Consumer Affairs Act at its Inaugural Compliance Award Ceremony.

Police last night said they have arrested a Route 44 minibus driver hours after he assaulted traffic ranks performing duties on the Montrose, East Coast Demerara Public Road.

“It has not been easy but I love children and so it makes it easier for me.

The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development on Friday signed a $13.6 million contract with the North Sophia Community Development Council (CDC) to develop a community centre.

Dear Editor, In the USA, we have the Trumpians, now called “election deniers”, peddling propaganda that the 2020 US elections were rigged to benefit the Democrats, despite no evidence.

Dear Editor,  Elections are very important for a functioning democracy. They facilitate democracy by allowing people to have a choice on who would govern them.

Introduction While the fiscal rules of Guyana’s PSA indicate the sources of its oil revenues yield,  the finds/discoveries indicate the quantity, quality and trend in petroleum reserves accumulation and its reporting.

While delivering one of the keynote speeches at the historic resuscitation of the Inter Guiana Games (IGG) following a five-year hiatus, Director of Sport, Steve Ninvalle, disclosed that plans are being conceptualised for the inaugural staging of the Border Games between Nickerie District and Corentyne Addressing the gathering of dignitaries, officials and athletes, which also included Prime Minister Mark Phillips, Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Charles Ramson jnr.,

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) certified Sterling Products Limited (SPL) and Nand Persaud & Company Limited last week to use the Made in Guyana standards mark on their locally manufactured products.

On November 11 the Unit of Allied Arts (UAA) in the Ministry of Education staged the Secondary Schools Choral Speaking Festival 2022 in Guyana. 

Dear Editor, I’ve been in Guyana for several weeks, and it’s been a joy to indulge in ole-time get-togethers with Guyanese of all stripes and colours.

Ninety-eight girls yesterday graduated from an online Guyanese Girls Code Information and Communication Technology (ICT) programme that was conducted by the Office of the Prime Minister’s Industry and Innovation Unit in collaboration with the University of Guyana.

Dear Editor, The headlines in the two Guyanese newspapers and one online entity that I read all spoke late last week of BP being awarded a one-year contract to market our oil. 

Guyana’s dominance in the discipline of track and field at the Inter Guiana Games continued yesterday at the National Track and Field Centre.

In 2020, German actress Maria Schrader made her directorial debut with the Netflix miniseries “Unorthodox”, the first Netflix series to be primarily in Yiddish.

The Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) and the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, on Friday launched the inaugural Guyana Fishing Festival at the Piraiba (Lau Lau) Lodge, Makari, Region Eight.

Rosignol won the Region #5 title in the One Guyana President’s Cup Football Championship, defeating Paradise 1-0 on Friday evening at the No.

In visual art, scale refers to the size of the object represented in relation to the human body or the real-life counterpart of the object being represented.

(Reuters) – Public anger in China towards widening COVID-19 lockdowns across the country erupted into rare protests in China’s far western Xinjiang region and the country’s capital of Beijing, as nationwide infections set another record.

Dear Editor, Aubrey Norton wants Guyanese to ‘suck salt’ is how Minister Kwame McCoy puts it, and I add ‘to go back ‘sucking salt’ as it was in the pre-1992 era.

In observance of World AIDS Day, the National Aids Programme Secretariat (NAPS) will be hosting an inaugural Continuing Medical Education (CME) HIV/STI (Sexually Transmitted Infections) conference on December 4, according to the Department of Public Information.

Dear Editor, I plan to comment this weekend on the happy drift where we have people in high places without the acumen, without the experience, and consequently, the humility to recognise their severe limitations.

(Reuters) – The Vatican on Saturday accused Chinese authorities of violating a bilateral pact on the appointment of bishops by installing one in a diocese not recognised by the Holy See.

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic hit the fitness industry worldwide very hard.

Under the BIODEV2030 initiative, WWF-Guianas held a Biodiversity Engagement Consolidation event linking two key economic sectors, agriculture and gold mining, to mainstreaming biodiversity with a discussion on how to reduce pressures and threats on the environment created by activities within those sectors.

Dear Editor, They suddenly disappear and just as suddenly reappear, these reported missing youths, in particular, young ladies. 

For many years, chess players associated winning with the Soviet Union and afterward, with Russia.

(Reuters) – Belarus’s long-standing foreign minister has died suddenly, the state news agency Belta reported on Saturday, two days before he was meant to meet his Russian counterpart.

(Reuters) – Venezuela’s government and opposition have asked the United Nations to manage a fund for billions of dollars now held in foreign banks, which will be gradually unfrozen to combat a humanitarian crisis in the oil-rich nation, delegates announced in Mexico City on Saturday.

Joint Services Salaries pumped up for parts of Joint Services, 8,000 persons will benefit: President Irfaan Ali on Thursday announced that effective from January 1st, 2023, sections of the Joint Services will benefit from adjustments to their minimum salaries to the tune of $1billion.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Left-armer Sheldon Cottrell and West Indies teammate Johnson Charles both produced superb efforts to ensure Samp Army crushed Delhi Bulls by eight wickets in the Abu Dhabi T10 here yesterday.

Governing a nation which has become an oil economy with lightning speed is a complex business.

CANBERRA, Australia, CMC – Tagenarine Chanderpaul grabbed the headlines again with an attractive half-century but West Indies’ final day run chase fell short as their four-day match against the Australian Prime Minister’s XI finished in a tense draw here yesterday.

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – Explosive former West Indies all-rounder Deandra Dottin smashed an unbeaten fifty and returned to grab two wickets as she propelled underdogs Adelaide Strikers to a 10-run victory over Sydney Sixers and to their first ever Women’s Big Bash League title here yesterday.

Dear Editor, I write to bring attention to a recently published children’s book, Affirmation Stories from the Magic Window: I AM Positively Grand, by a new author, I.

LUSAIL, Qatar, (Reuters) – Lionel Messi kept his dream of winning his first World Cup alive by rifling in the opening goal in yesterday’s 2-0 victory over Mexico in World Cup Group C, proving he was far from done in the tournament.

By Nigel Westmaas The process of rediscovery and recovery of the historical abundance of Guyana’s past continues in various forms and fora without a significant and broad public education component.

DOHA, (Reuters) – Kylian Mbappe crowned an exhilarating individual performance with two second-half goals to make champions France the first side into the last 16 of the World Cup as they beat Denmark 2-1 in their Group D clash at the 974 Stadium yesterday.

(Reuters) – Russia is likely removing nuclear warheads from ageing nuclear cruise missiles and firing unarmed munitions at Ukraine, Britain’s military intelligence said on Saturday.

Anthony Davis racked up 25 points and 15 rebounds, LeBron James added 21 points in his return after missing five games and the visiting Los Angeles Lakers sprinted away from the plummeting San Antonio Spurs 105-94 on Friday.

AL WAKRAH, Qatar, (Reuters) – Australia beat Tunisia 1-0 at the Al Janoub Stadium yesterday to register their first World Cup victory in 12 years as they provisionally moved up to second in Group D behind reigning champions France.

AL RAYYAN, Qatar,  (Reuters) – An emotional Robert Lewandowski scored his first World Cup goal as Poland brought Saudi Arabia back down to earth with a bump yesterday with a 2-0 Group C victory that rejuvenated their tournament campaign.

(The Gleaner) – Two men are now dead following an alleged dispute involving a policeman on Saturday morning in Frankfield, Clarendon.

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