Daily Archive: Friday, January 13, 2023

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian federal prosecutors today asked the Supreme Court to investigate former President Jair Bolsonaro for allegedly encouraging anti-democratic protests that ended in the storming of government buildings by his supporters in Brasilia.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is warning the public that fake Demerara Gold packaged sugar is in circulation, and on the shelves of some supermarkets in Guyana.

LONDON, (Reuters) – In the twilight of the Soviet Union, Yevgeny Prigozhin was languishing in prison for theft.

By Shuntel Glasgow A fire of unknown origin gutted the Christ Church Secondary School on Camp and Middle streets yesterday afternoon, just days after combustion in a lab had to be quelled.

Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill yesterday disclosed that 132 new roads are to be done in Region Six and 1,000 more metres  for the Mara thoroughfare.

For over 30 years scientists at ExxonMobil have accurately projected the warming effects of fossil fuels on the planet, even as the company downplayed climate science while cautioning against any drastic move away from hydrocarbon usage, according to a recent study, the New York Times yesterday reported.

A female teacher was yesterday assaulted by a parent at St Angela’s Primary School in South Cummingsburg, Georgetown.

Officials from the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, headed by Minister Charles Ramson Jnr.,

The two police officers who allegedly shot and killed fisherman, Kishan Budburgh and Police Corporal Dwayne McPherson following a confrontation earlier this month at Mahaicony have been placed on open arrest as the investigation continues.

Ogle Airport Incorporated (OAI) yesterday said it is in the process of replacing a defective baggage scanner at the EFCIA.

A drive from Supenaan to Anna Regina on Tuesday, January 3, provided a glimpse of the customary annual weather-related challenges that the country’s rice industry faces.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was yesterday signed between Durable Wood Products Inc.

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) is predicting a busy 2023 with RL Contracting the latest in a long line of sponsors to come on board.

Guyana’s seeming meteoric accession to recognition as an emerging leader in the global oil and gas industry is expected to be further accentuated against the backdrop of the forthcoming February 14-17 showpiece Second Edition of the International Energy Conference and Expo Guyana 2023 (IECEG) which, like its predecessor, will feature ExxonMobil Guyana as the event’s premier sponsor.

Even though a verification exercise is underway, opposition-appointed commissioners at the Guyana Elections Commission are pleading for specific criteria to be identified for field staff in the demarcation of constituency boundaries.

Seemingly mindful of the importance of the critical role of the Diaspora in his administration’s ‘One Guyana’ agenda, President Irfaan Ali used his recent visit to India to underscore the significance of the overseas-based Guyanese community, particularly their potential role in the social and economic development of Guyana, in the country’s ‘oil and gas’ era.

Cricket West Indies’ (CWI)  Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Johnny Grave has revealed that each of the six territories will be equipped with a strength and conditioning (S&C) coach in order to further  professionalizing the system.

Parents yesterday gathered in front of the Graham’s Hall Primary School in Cummings Lodge to protest for justice on behalf of a teacher, Shawn Marshall, who was assaulted by a parent of a pupil on Wednesday.

With the right tools, policymakers can help to manage the climate risks impacting economies and financial systems By Tobias Adrian, Vikram Haksar, Ivo Krznar When it comes to the devastating impact of climate change, most people think of the harm inflicted on lives and livelihoods.

Former West Indies batting coach, Toby Radford, has thrown his support behind Guyanese coach, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, to be the next coach of the West Indies senior men’s team.

A 26-year-old Guyanese succumbed on Tuesday, days after he was involved in an accident in Ontario, Canada.

By Fitzroy Fletcher The Caribbean Agri-Business Association (CABA), some years ago, stated in its “Strategic Plan” that the deficiency in the technology supply service in the CARICOM region was the most critical impediment to the development of the agriculture sector.

On Wednesday, 11th January,  Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers conducted an operation within the vicinity of Mandela Avenue, where they intercepted a motor vehicle with a single occupant.

While the timeline for the transition is unclear, a number of jobs in the oil and gas sector that are currently being done by humans will, perhaps sooner than we think, pass to robots, according to the United States-based data and analytics-based company Global Data.

Dear Editor, In preparation for the upcoming budget, it is CRGs hope that the Government will keep in mind the lessons learned during the years leading up to 2023.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian police found a draft decree in the home of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s justice minister that appears to be a proposal to interfere in the result of the October election he lost, two people familiar with the investigation said yesterday.

The driver/owner of a white Toyota Avensis motor car PNN9845, Ronson Winston Harding of Stewartville, West Coast Demerara was arrested yesterday by Police ranks in Regional Division #3 and his vehicle impounded at the Leonora Police Station.

Determined not to relinquish its credentials as the powerhouse of the regional energy industry, Trinidad and Tobago has been redoubling its efforts to attract foreign investors to its energy industry, aware as it is that, in recent years, international interest in the region’s oil and gas sector has shifted decidedly to Guyana, where ExxonMobil remains anchored to the portents promised by what, even now, are believed to be some of the largest off-shore deposits of oil anywhere in the world.

(Trinidad Guardian) The “Mother of all Carnivals” is on and the Government does not intend to institute any additional restrictions despite rising COVID-19 cases.

First Lady Arya Ali yesterday donated computers to three orphanages as part of her efforts to expand her ‘Adopt-an-Orphanage’ initiative.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Singer Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of the “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Elvis Presley, died on Thursday at the age of 54 after being rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital, her mother said.

Dear Editor, The parapet in front of my home has been threatening to collapse into the city drains. 

The multiple challenges, not least “an acute economic crisis and an adverse international context which have repercussions in the national economic and social sphere”, compels Cuba “to resort to creative resistance, strengthen local development and local productive systems, fundamentally those that do not depend on foreign currency, as well as develop the circular economy and stimulate innovation,” Head of State and Communist Party Leader Miguel Diaz–Canel told the Cuban people in a recent presentation that appeared designed to prepare the country for more tough times mostly on account of the island’s more than half a century’s old United States economic pressures.

(Trinidad Express) Men dressed as police officers and soldiers gunned down an American citizen in Arima on Tuesday.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Elson Low’s letter captioned, “Since the government has stated an intention to own the pipeline it must approach parliament for funding”, Stabroek News, January 12th, 2023. 

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s own administration named a special counsel to probe the improper storage of classified documents at his home and a former office yesterday, an embarrassing echo of a wider-ranging inquiry directed at his main political rival, Donald Trump.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday January 12, 2023

President Irfaan Ali yesterday expressed profound gratitude to the government and people of India as he accepted an Honorary Doctorate from the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University in New Delhi, India.

A Guyanese swimmer from the Silver Sharks Aquatic Club, died after he was struck down on a crosswalk in New Jersey, USA.

Dear Editor, In what can only be described as stinging and frustrated statements from top judicial officers of the need for more judges in an overburdened and taxed system, yet again another promise… the cries will be addressed within three months, with the appointments of the requisite Commissions – the PSC and JSC. 

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Thousands took to the streets of Peru’s capital Lima yesterday in a peaceful protest against the new government and president, after weeks of bloody clashes triggered by the ousting of former President Pedro Castillo left at least 42 dead.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates said yesterday that the head of state oil giant Abu Dhabi National Oil Company would lead this year’s COP28 climate summit, fuelling activists’ worries that big industry is hijacking the global response to environmental crisis.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1,001’s trading results showed consideration of $7,490,126 from 15,360 shares traded in 16 transactions as compared to session 1,000’s trading results, which showed consideration of $59,871,724 from 246,836 shares traded in 61 transactions.

(Reuters) – Australia’s men’s team has withdrawn from their one-day international (ODI) series against Afghanistan in March following further restrictions on women’s and girls’ rights imposed by the Taliban, Cricket Australia (CA) said yesterday.

ADELAIDE,  (Reuters) – World number eight Daria Kasatkina stumbled to close out the match but progressed to the semi-finals of the Adelaide International 2 with a 6-3 7-6(3) win over Petra Kvitova yesterday.

Democracy doesn’t seem to be doing at all well around the globe at the moment, and particularly not in this hemisphere.

Dear Editor, I hold to certain principles in this life and will never compromise them.

PRETORIA, South Africa, CMC – West Indies Women’s Rising Stars head coach, Steve Liburd, says he is comfortable with his side’s preparation ahead of next weekend’s start of the inaugural ICC Under-19 Women’s T20 World Cup.

Squatting in the media is always framed in contentious terms. Mainly, the topic comes up when those residing on lands that were not titled to them, are being forced out by the government or private citizens.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s major indigenous organization said yesterday it was preparing to hold protests in mining areas in an attempt to stop extractive activities near its communities.

(Reuters) – Joao Mendes, son of former Brazil and Barcelona forward Ronaldinho, is undergoing trials with Barca’s youth team, Spanish media reported yesterday.

It would have come as quite a shock to many of us in the Caribbean when, around the middle of 2022, the World Bank declared that in its view the Caribbean was facing a “food crisis.”

Thanking female teachers, nurses As 2022 ended, then onwards into this still “new” year, the world’s media, which, seemingly, revels in bad, very bad, news, transmitted global death and destruction to all who bother.

(Reuters) – A Saudi Arabian businessman is leading bidding to watch the latest chapter in Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi’s celebrated rivalry in global soccer with a 10 million riyals ($2.66 million) offer for a ticket to a showpiece game.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russia is building up its forces in Ukraine but Ukrainian forces are holding out in fierce fighting for the eastern town of Soledar, Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar said yesterday.

HARARE, (Reuters) – Former England batsman Gary Ballance contributed 30 runs on his international debut for Zimbabwe as they beat Ireland by five wickets yesterday to win the opening Twenty20 international of their three-match series.

Leader of the PNCR, Aubrey Norton says he will soon name a General Secretary for the party.

Jrue Holiday scored 27 points and Brook Lopez added 20 points and 12 rebounds to help the visiting Milwaukee Bucks hold off the Atlanta Hawks 114-105 on Wednesday.

(Reuters) – Argentina featured heavily in shortlists for FIFA’s Best awards following their World Cup triumph, with forwards Lionel Messi and Julian Alvarez, goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez and coach Lionel Scaloni receiving nominations in their categories.

(Reuters) – Afghanistan spinner Rashid Khan is considering his future in the Big Bash League (BBL) after Australia’s men’s team withdrew from their one-day (ODI) series against Afghanistan, citing the Taliban’s restrictions on the rights of women and girls.

(Reuters) – India’s Kuldeep Yadav and Mohammed Siraj wreaked havoc with the ball as the hosts completed a four-wicket victory over Sri Lanka to triumph in the One-Day International series with a game to spare at Eden Gardens yesterday.