Daily Archive: Friday, January 27, 2023

BOA VISTA, Brazil, (Reuters) – Dozens of indigenous children suffering from malnutrition and acute diseases have been hospitalized in northern Brazil, with relatives in hammocks holding their emaciated frames in scenes that underscore the gravity of a public health crisis.

The Management of the Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation (DHBC) today offered its  apology to the citizens and visitors of Guyana, who last night were forced to endure vulgarity via a message on its digital messaging board.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Shares of India’s Adani Enterprises ADEL.NS plunged today after a scathing report by a U.S.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s former chief justice Maikel Moreno has been indicted on money laundering charges related to bribe payments he allegedly received in exchange for influencing court decisions, the U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) There will be no International Soca Monarch competition this year, as its promoters have decided to cancel it after Government refused their request for funding to the tune of $10 million.

As he called on government yesterday to update the nation on the status of oil recovery at the Liza 1 Project, Opposition Member of Parliament, David Patterson said that ExxonMobil had in 2018 given the APNU+AFC government assurances that four years after production and with only 120,000 barrels of oil equivalent (boe) per day, there would have been a 50/50 profit share.

The same support given to western and other countries investing in Guyana will be afforded to Caribbean nations and nationals coming here, President Irfaan Ali yesterday stated.

The issue of whether the ruling in the case of Desmond Morian v.

With over 2,000 grants distributed to support small businesses within the past two years, Budget 2023 caters for an increase of 40 per cent in outlays to develop small entities, Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commence, Oneidge Walrond said.

The MV Ma Lisha, the ocean-going cargo-cum-passenger ferry vessel which was built in India departed for Guyana three days ago and is expected to arrive here by early March.

The Guyana Americas Merchant Bank Inc (GuyAm Bank) says it was the lead arranger of a US$10m loan financed by GBTI for  Arimu Investments Inc which is building a hotel at Robb and Oronoque Sts.

Government and opposition members of Parliament on Wednesday clashed over the hefty sums being pumped into the sugar industry, which opposition members said has been showing no signs of improvement.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh yesterday held discussions with the United Kingdom Small Island Developing States’ (SIDS) Envoy, Rebecca Fabrizi and raised the need for concessional financing for countries like Guyana with vulnerabilities.

The second annual National Sports Conference organised by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, the National Sports Commission and the Department of Sport will get underway tomorrow morning at the National Cultural Centre.

An initiative by the sub associations affiliated to the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) aimed at reviving the sport is receiving support from the Guyana Breweries Inc.

The Board of Industrial Training (BIT) has helped Bartica boy Kirt Lewis to become a breadwinner for his family.

The Ministry of Education, the Guyana Teachers’ Union and the Teaching Service Commission met yesterday for the first time in three years to begin the process of promoting teachers across the country.

 Kevin McKenzie’s name is synonymous with Guyana’s rugby success as a player.

A likely preoccupation with managing the incremental socio- economic transformation that is projected to arise out of Guyana’s oil and gas industry should not be allowed to compromise the traditional heavy focus on the country’s agriculture sector, not at a time when concerns over regional and global food security dictate that the country direct more resources towards the continual growth of the sector.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados Pride’s bid for a third successive first class crown will begin at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground in Antigua next week, when they take on traditional rivals Guyana Harpy Eagles.

With predictions emanating from the global Analytics company, GRO Analytics Intelligence, regarding a likely sharp reduction in rice production in 2022/2023 (a projection with which the United States Department of Agriculture concurs), it would be instructive to attempt to assess the implications of this pronouncement for Guyana, the foremost rice grower in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

In response to a proposal, India Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to visit Guyana this year but New Delhi’s High Commissioner here,  Dr.

Members of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) selection committee yesterday said that Ashmead Nedd’s selection ahead of Antony Adams on the Guyana Harpy Eagles squad for this year’s regional four-day competition was a case of timing as well as long-term prospects.

Two brothers were yesterday arrested by police over the possession of cannabis after a search of their residence.

While it is expected that planning for the February 24-26 Barbados Agro Fest is, by now, well underway, the region is yet to be afforded the full details of what is expected to be an event that is expected to help light the way in the matter of the direction in which the Caribbean is headed in pursuit of strengthening its food security bona fides.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies (CWI) yesterday announced that former West Indies captain and batting legend, Brian Lara, has agreed to assist CWI as a Performance Mentor – working across all international Teams and with input into the West Indies Academy.

There is a persuasive argument for asserting that the encouraging growth of the country’s agro-processing sector over a period of a decade or more has been due, overwhelmingly, to the diligence and inventiveness of local agro processors, mostly women with little or no formal training in the discipline, and even without the profusion of technology that has attended the incremental global growth of the sector.

Approximately five hundred children of policemen and women were on Wednesday presented with bursaries for their academic achievement for the years 2021 and 2022 at the National Grade Six examinations.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Cricket West Indies president, Ricky Skerritt, has heaped praise on the West Indies trio of Kraigg Brathwaite, Shai Hope and Alzarri Joseph, who were this week named by the International Cricket Council in their Teams-of-the-Year.

Evidence that the free movement of people and goods has become increasingly important to both the development of the respective countries of the region as well as to realizing the collective benefits to be derived from their shared membership of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) would appear to be pushing the region with greater haste towards a breakthrough in the quest for upgraded intra-regional air travel.

Saying that the Government has a more “emphatic” approach towards crime and violence, Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn yesterday argued in the National Assembly that serious crime decreased by 20 percent between 2015 and 2022.

JENIN, West Bank,  (Reuters) – Israeli commandos killed seven gunmen and two civilians in a raid on a flashpoint town in the occupied West Bank yesterday, Palestinian officials said, stirring fear of further flare-ups after the largest single death toll in years of fighting.

Attorney-at-law and university lecturer, Chevy A. Devonish, has been selected by multinational firm Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP to take part in its ‘Foreign Attorney Program’, a release from the Attorney General’s Chambers said yesterday.

The year 2022 for the Guyana Golf Association (GGA), Nexgen Golf Academy the sport of golf overall was nothing short of exceptional.

Evidence that Guyana’s now proven world class oil and gas resources continue to attract the attention of some of the world’s leading players in the industry has recently been underscored in the disclosure by Hess Corporation, one of the United States’ high-profile oil companies, earlier this week, that it will be allocating a huge slice of its 2023 US$3.7 billion capital and exploratory budget to exploratory work offshore Guyana.

(Reuters) – Five former Memphis police officers were charged yesterday with murder in the death of a Black motorist, Tyre Nichols, from injuries he sustained in a violent encounter following a traffic stop, prosecutors said.

Students of Queen’s College Lictor Live will enjoy a brand new media room fitted with modern hardware and software to take Lictor Live digital for the first time and do more visual productions.

Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Chairman of Selectors, Ravindranauth Seeram and Territorial Development Officer (TDO), Colin Stuart were at odds with each other over whose responsibility it was to inform the captain of his selection in the Guyana Harpy Eagles 13-man squad for the upcoming Regional First Class tournament.

The importance of an accelerated upgrading of the country’s human resource base to a level where Guyanese can access key jobs in the country’s oil and gas sector has triggered a disclosure by the Ministry of Education that it is seeking the services of a Consultant to undertake an audit to determine the extent to which the country’s skills will require upgrading to meet the job requirements.

Dear Editor, There first of all appears to be a preference for Midwives and Pharmacists in the health sector.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukrainian civilians raced for cover yesterday as Russia fired a barrage of missiles and drones across the country, killing at least 11 people, according to officials, a day after Kyiv won Western pledges of battlefield tanks to combat Moscow’s invasion.

Dear Editor, A leader with considerable global standing, a man respected (and condemned) by many, shared a few thoughts and words during an engagement recently. 

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Irvine Shillingford, the first Dominican to represent West Indies, passed away here earlier yesterday.

(Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury yesterday imposed sanctions on Paraguay’s former President Horacio Cartes and current Vice President Hugo Velazquez, citing “rampant corruption that undermines democratic institutions.”

(Reuters) – Fiji’s president yesterday suspended the commissioner of police after a general election saw the first change in government in the Pacific island nation in 16 years, after the military earlier warned against “sweeping changes”.

Carlos Edward, a 52-year-old taxi driver of Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, Berbice, was arrested on 2023/01/20 and charged on 2023/01/24 by ranks of the Mahaica Police Station with the offence of possession of narcotics.

LeBron James has earned his 19th All-Star selection in 20 NBA seasons, tying Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the most in league history.

Dear Editor, GECOM Commissioner, Mr. Vincent Alexander has tried without success to refute what I said in my missive published in the letter columns of S/N 22/1/ 23.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haitian police officers yesterday blocked streets and forced their way into the country’s main airport to protest the recent killing of officers by armed gangs expanding their grip on the Caribbean nation.

Mashramani is just a couple weeks away and local costume designers are still awaiting feedback from the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport on plans for the festival.

Work is work, but when it comes to certain professions, there is an expected moral commitment for persons to work out of love and not economic gain.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. military carried out an operation that killed a senior Islamic State leader in northern Somalia, U.S.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1003’s trading results showed consideration of $30,893,291 from 94,423 shares traded in 41 transactions as compared to session 1002’s trading results, which showed consideration of $30,588,358 from 90,264 shares traded in 30 transactions.

It will take some time and some amount of sitting down together, before the ‘nuts and bolts’ of the proposed Caribbean Energy Alliance, put forward recently by the T&T Energy Minister Stuart Young, can be properly ‘fleshed out.’

Church-going – where “The Church” must go How more personal could I get in this space today?

Last week Charlestown and Albouystown experienced heavy flooding as a consequence of what Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha described as “faulty work” on the part of a contractor who had installed a steel door in the Princes Street sluice.