Daily Archive: Friday, January 20, 2023

See tomorrow’s edition of Stabroek News for the annual Ram and McRae review of the 2023 budget.

Edward Skeete called “Pretty Boy”, who had several brushes with the law here, was shot dead yesterday in French Guiana.

 (Reuters) – Google’s parent Alphabet Inc GOOGL.O said today it is cutting about 12,000 jobs, or 6% of its workforce, as the technology sector reels from layoffs and companies stake their futures on artificial intelligence (AI).

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police today carried out raids against people suspected of involvement in the Jan.

(Trinidad Express) Leela Ramsubhag was brutally beaten and killed, and her partially nude body discarded in the yard of a house in Claxton Bay yesterday morning.

Local financial services group, Hand-in-Hand, has teamed up with the Trinidadian arm of Tiger Rentals to establish a new company, Environmental and Technical Solutions Inc.

Shoddy work on the Princes Street sluice caused flooding in Charlestown and Albouystown yesterday and Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha has condemned the contractor.

Bethel Chimezie was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with attempting to murder a police officer at State House and discharging a loaded firearm at another.

People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) member, Dawn Hastings-Williams was yesterday announced as the party’s new General Secretary.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A high-level retreat involving a core training squad, the head coach and the top brass of Cricket West Indies is among 34 recommendations put forward by an independent three-member group in a report, aimed at helping West Indies “hit the reset button” in time for the 2024 ICC T20 World Cup.

Mohan Mootoo, a 20-year-old security guard of C. Mohan Security Services, accidentally shot himself and a 15-year-old vendor on Robb Street, Bourda on Wednesday night.

POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa, CMC – West Indies Women suffered a 10-wicket thrashing at the hands of New Zealand Women here but still booked their place in the Super 6, second round of the ICC Women’s Under-19 T20 World Cup here yesterday.

Four GTT customers  on Wed-nesday collected keys for the grand prize of a new Toyota Raize as the company concluded its “Tis the Season” Christ-mas promotion at its 55 Brickdam location. 

Tevin Imlach and Chandrapaul Hemraj  chalked up half-centuries on the second day of the second Guyana Harpy Eagles warm up match at the National Stadium, Providence yesterday.

A protracted ‘territorial’ controversy was still ensuing between rice and cattle farmers in the Kokerite Savannahs in the Black Bush Polder when the Stabroek Business made its second visit there last week, our first visit having been made back in 2015.

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Shimron Hetmyer tasted form for the first time but his West Indies counterpart Rovman Powell perished for a three-ball ‘duck’ as Gulf Giants logged their third win in as many matches with a crushing 101-run victory over Dubai Capitals here yesterday.

Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill yesterday afternoon received a courtesy visit from some members of the Black Entrepreneurs Association over government infrastructure contracts.

A Guyana-Suriname-Trinidad and Tobago ferry service is envisaged as one of four proposed routes for an Intra-regional ferry service mooted in a document prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) titled, “Proposal for the implementation of a ferry service through Public Private Partnerships (PPP’s) in the Eastern Caribbean Region”.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) is praising the government for its 4.3B budget allocation for the sports sector adding that the government’s funding of the historic National Cricket Academy underscores its commitment to the sector.

The Ministry of Education (MoE) yesterday handed over safety equipment to the Technical and Voca-tional Education and Training departments of ten  secondary schools.

As has become customary with major international fora that have to do with climate change, conflicting perspectives, once again, threaten to cast shadow over the COP 28 event, which is scheduled to be held in the oil-rich Middle East Emirate, Dubai, from November 30 to December 12, this year.

Stabroek Business: Can you outline for the Stabroek Business, briefly, what you consider to be the two or three priority areas of focus for the GMSA at this time?

Interim head coach of the West Indies senior men’s team, Andre Coley, is looking to start his stint on a positive note and aims to achieve this with clear and open communication.

The Ministry of Public Works (MoPW) issued a strongly-worded public notice yesterday urging citizens, owners and operators of businesses to “desist from erecting or placing structures, stationary or mobile, along thoroughfares and main access roads, and more specifically areas identified for infrastructural development.”

VICE Media, which shot to notoriety here last year following an exposé  on bribery involving Chinese businessmen and an attempted takedown  of Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo is restarting its sale process after earlier interested bidders balked at the initial price tag, according to a CNBC report yesterday.

If the Washington-sanctioned return of the US oil company Chevron Corp.

Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, met with Kuru Kururu residents yesterday to address education concerns.

(ICC) With the group stages now completed, the ICC Under19 Women’s T20 World Cup is heating up, as 12 teams move on to the Super Sixes stage.

Dear Editor, For some time now, it has been of concern to me that a critical element of Good Governance – Inclusivity – is observed in the breach by the current Government.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Injury-hampered Novak Djokovic moved into the third round of the Australian Open yesterday as the path to a 22nd Grand Slam title opened up for him with the premature exit of second seed Casper Ruud.

KYIV/BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy said his government was expecting “strong decisions” from defence leaders of NATO and other countries meeting today to discuss boosting Ukraine’s ability to confront Russian forces with modern battle tanks.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has said in its recent Climate Risk Report that while climate change poses the single greatest risk to the global economy, it is the risk that the international community is least prepared to deal with and the short-term price that countries will have to pay – a cost of living crisis.

Dear Editor, It is important that we appreciate the 2023 Budget allocations, (791 billion), and what the general public should note is that this budget is being financed without any new taxes.

The Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) is the latest national federation to compliment the government on the sports allocation in the 2023 national budget.

If the rewards associated with the successful recovery of commercial deposits of oil and gas can realize both meaningful economic and social transformation for beneficiary countries, the risk of mishaps that could amount to nothing short of protracted crisis are ever present, as some of the world’s major oil spill-related occurrences have amply demonstrated.

Post-mortem examinations yesterday on the elderly couple murdered in Yakusari, Black Bush Polder by armed bandits  revealed that they died due to multiple factors.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Groups of Americans will be able to directly sponsor refugees for resettlement in the United States under a new program announced yesterday, a major shift that could bolster admissions and reduce government costs.

Dear Editor, The CCJ has ruled that the men involved in the cold, callous and calculated murder of Clementine Parris (aka Robb St.

Steven Surujbally a 24 year-old of Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara, is nursing a gunshot wound after being attacked by two men on motorcycle at about 20:30 hours on Wednesday at 3rd Street, Cummings Lodge.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Thousands of protesters in Peru, many from the country’s heavily indigenous south, descended on Lima, the capital, yesterday, angered by a mounting death toll since unrest erupted last month and calling for sweeping change.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Senior officials in India’s government have said they want to have a bigger role in choosing judges, a demand several lawyers and judges say threatens the independence of the judiciary.

 The highly anticipated East Coast Mash Cup will kick off this evening at the Golden Grove Ground, with a double-header.

Dear Editor, It was the most impressive and productive trip of a Guyanese head of government to India.

URUARA, Brazil, (Reuters) – Brazilian environmental agents cut through the rainforest with machetes yesterday in search of criminals in the first anti-deforestation raids under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has pledged to end surging destruction inherited from his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro.

(Reuters) – Antigua and Barbuda’s ruling party held on to power in the Caribbean nation’s general elections, according to results released yesterday, securing a third term for Prime Minister Gaston Browne.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday told residents of Ruby Village, East Bank Essequibo that the government is aiming to position Guyana as a main hub for food supply to the entire Caribbean region and Ruby Backland can play a crucial part.

The Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) has joined the many national sports associations/federations that have praised this year’s budget allocation for sports.

Steven Adams put back a missed Ja Morant layup and Dillon Brooks blocked a desperation 3-point attempt from Darius Garland as time expired to lead the Memphis Grizzlies to their 11th straight win, 115-114 over the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday night.

Dear Editor, Recently, there has been chatter about one of your editorials, titled Big Market Inflation, seemingly by some who have a limited understanding of what causes inflation, as their solutions are by themselves, inflationary, making the situation worse. 

Over the past two years there has been a spate of school fires, a phenomenon which might tempt conspiracy theorists to the view that something sinister is afoot.

(Reuters) – David Crosby, one of the most influential rock musicians of the 1960s and ’70s and who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with two different groups, has died at the age of 81.

A PNC budget vs a “disposable-income” budget “How are you?” Who cares?

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1002’s trading results showed consideration of $30,588,358 from 90,264 shares traded in 30 transactions as compared to session 1001’s trading results, which showed consideration of $7,490,126 from 15,360 shares traded in 16 transactions.

Investigators probing the fatal shooting of fisherman, Kishan Budburgh and Police Corporal Dwayne McPherson had been asked to address “some points” in the investigation and the file was yesterday re-sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for further legal advice.

HAVANA/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A visiting U.S. delegation wrapped up two days of talks on law-enforcement issues with Cuban officials in Havana yesterday, the State Department said, the first meeting of its kind since such negotiations were halted under former President Donald Trump.

To their credit, what President Irfaan Ali and Prime Minister Mia Mottley were able to accomplish, through the fashioning of last year’s food display events in Guyana and Barbados, was the creation of a much wider regional focus on the food security bona fides of the region as a whole.

A few days ago, I was completing an interview for a story I was working on.

Dear Editor, The budget season is upon us with the Finance Minister Dr.