Daily Archive: Sunday, February 19, 2023

Carifesta and Homestretch avenues and Thomas Lands are set for major upgrades.

June 12 is new date for Local Government Elections: Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Nigel Dharamlall on February 15th informed GECOM  that June 12, 2023, has been selected as the date for the long overdue Local Government Elections (LGE).

Police on the Essequibo Coast are investigating the murder of Anthony Shivlall, called ‘Davie’, a 27-year-old of Lima Sands, Essequibo Coast, which occurred around 2 am today.

A scene from the Children’s Mashramani parade yesterday. (Department of Public Information photo) 

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – The United States held joint air exercises bilaterally with South Korea and Japan involving strategic bombers today, a day after North Korea fired a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in a “sudden launching drill”.

ANTAKYA/KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey, (Reuters) – Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said a convoy of 14 of its trucks had entered northwestern Syria today to assist in earthquake rescue operations, as concerns grow over lack of access to the war-ravaged area.

(Trinidad Express) Newly appointed Government Senator Richie Sookhai has denied accusations on social media that his family donated air-conditioning units to the People’s National Movement (PNM) to install at its Balisier House headquarters in Port of Spain.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ricardo “Daddy Chinee” Melville is the 2023 Chutney Soca Monarch, while breakout performer, nine-year-old Katelin Sultan is the new Queen of Chutney.

PANAMA CITY,  (Reuters) – A substantial hike in children crossing the Darien jungle – linking Panama with Colombia – is expected this year, the United Nations said on Friday, amid a surge in migrants making the dangerous journey to reach the United States.

China’s Embassy in Guyana on Thursday said that it does not view the recent $4.1b money laundering investigation involving some 22 Chinese companies as complete and has forewarned that it considers presently any presumption of guilt as unfair.

The police are investigating an accident on the Coldingen Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD) on Friday at about 5:30 pm which claimed the life of a pregnant woman and left her sister critically injured.

Following through on his promise to engage the Black Entrepreneurs Association (BEA) of Guyana, Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill yesterday opened the first session to help members to get familiar on the procurement process and to be business-ready.

A 23-year-old Linepath, Skeldon man died after he was involved in an accident along the Crabwood Creek Public Road  around 7.45 pm yesterday.

The East Bank has finally ascended to the throne of the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ East Bank/West Demerara Championships after Ballerz Empire defeated three-time winners and six-time finalists Showstoppers 2-1 in the final on Saturday evening at the Pouderoyen Tarmac.  Solomon Austin handed Ballerz Empire the lead in the seventh minute, stunning the enormous crowd, as he intercepted an errant pass from the final defender, before dribbling the onrushing player and slamming the ball into the back of the empty net.

A Good Hope construction worker has died after suffering chop wounds to his abdomen in an altercation.

The Georgetown Cricket Association’s (GCA) U15 cricket team extended its dominance in Demerara by beating West Demerara by 10 wickets in the Demerara Cricket Board U-15 Inter-Association 50-over tournament yesterday.

CARICOM Heads of Government have urged the group’s Georgetown-based Secretariat to accelerate its efforts in the mobilisation of resources towards the achievement of the 25 by 2025 food initiative.

With the Guyana Boxing Association Patrick Ford Memorial boxing tournament set for this evening at the National Gymnasium, Stabroek Sports, as a mark of respect for the late Ford and also as an incentive for the young boxers who will be in action this evening, reproduces a photograph with Ford in action against `The Greatest’ the late Muhammad Ali, a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world who visited Guyana in 1979.

Late folklorist and columnist Allan Arthur Fenty was yesterday remembered as a larger than life individual who was always principled.

Five persons were left homeless on Friday after a fire at Number 64 Village, Corentyne.

Dear Editor, The Department of Public Information has distributed several articles in the last few days in mid-February 2023 about the jurisdictional forest-based carbon credits (33.47 million tonnes of CO2e) awarded by Winrock/ART/TREES to the Government of Guyana on 01 December 2022 and sold immediately to the oil company Hess Corporation (USA). 

Dear Editor, On January 8, 2023, ExxonMobil, and its consultant, Accorn, jointly published a notice as per Section 11 of the Environmental Protection Act advising the public that an Environmental Impact Assessment was submitted for Exxon Mobil’s application for an Environmental Permit for its Uaru offshore oil and gas production floating platform.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) says that contrary to reports in the press it has not commenced the registration of electric bikes, electric cycles and electric golf carts presently traversing the roads of the country.

Dear Editor, The issues of squatting and violence continue to plague Good Hope, ECD.

Residents of Wakapoa and Akawini (Baracaro) in the Lower Pomeroon and Karawab and Kabakaburi in the Upper Pomeroon will receive first-time access to potable water with the drilling of new wells.

Dear Editor, A new form of venting anger is in the making, or so it seems. 

Police Sports Club (PSC) duo, Lennox Andrews and Andrew Lyght Jr.,

On Friday between 6.30 am and 9 am  a search was carried out at the Timehri Prisons headed by OC#2 subdivision-DSP Davis, OC Timehri Prisons, Superintendent of Prisons A.

(Reuters) – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has decided to receive hospice care and “spend his remaining time at home with his family” instead of additional medical intervention, the Carter Center said yesterday.

Former West Indies and Guyana captain, Ramnaresh Sarwan is once again back as chairman of selectors of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), the territorial board announced yesterday as a decision made at an Executive meeting.

At about 10.10 pm on Friday, Police ranks in Regional Division #3 acted on information received and proceeded to the Pouderoyen Tarmac, West Bank Demerara, where they arrested a bartender who had in his possession an unlicensed 9mm pistol with matching rounds of ammunition.

Dear Editor, The Government has been talking up the big benefits of its gas to energy project, and that electricity prices will be halved, or more, when it is completed.

There are not that many constitutions across the globe which haven’t been subject to tinkering.

When Verama Basdeo, 40, escaped the harsh economic crisis in Venezuela and returned to Guyana, she dreamed of a better life, but she can never achieve those dreams if she continues living on the Parika Sea Dam.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korea said yesterday it had tested a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) the previous day in a “sudden launching drill” that confirmed its readiness for “mobile and mighty counterattack” against hostile forces.

Growth, learning and youth are three concepts that are intertwined with each other.

The chess world is saddened by the passing of Jorge Vega Fernandez (1935-2023).

Police have launched an investigation into a river collision involving a Guyana Defence Force craft and that of a Venezuelan national on Friday morning on the Cuyuni River in Region Seven.

(Reuters) – England’s Stuart Broad blitzed New Zealand’s top order in a dazzling spell under the Bay Oval lights to leave the hosts reeling on 63 for five after the third day of the first test yesterday, 331 runs shy of their unlikely victory target.

Dear Editor, Monday February 20, 2023 marks the centenary of the birth of one of our outstanding Guyanese, Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin gave a spectacular rearguard response to help India overcome Nathan Lyon’s spin masterclass as the hosts nearly matched Australia’s first-innings 263 on a dramatic day two of the second test yesterday.

Last Update: 1,702.593                  Movement: -0.697% Current Update: 1,691.084            YTD Movement: 4.265% LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The Lucas Stock Index fell a further 0.697 percent during the second period of trading in February 2023 on the sale of 84,737 shares.

When she was three years old, the multitalented Tristana Roberts paraded in a butterfly costume while in nursery school for that year’s Children’s Mashramani road march.

PAARL, South Africa, CMC – West Indies face yet another must-win game in the Women’s Twenty20 World Cup when they take on a confident Pakistan in their final group stage game here yesterday.

What are the results of Nurse Leah & Danny’s work with villagers?

Sure, we can and do eat pancakes all year round but somehow when there is a designated day, it’s exciting.

After a horrific accident, being in a coma for approximately three weeks and suffering memory loss for a short while, 21-year-old Floretta Spooner of Coldingen, East Coast Demerara is on a journey to inspire others with her story while also developing her new business in the natural remedy field.

I remain distracted by the knowledge that select visual artists were called into a meeting with the high-level official in December.

It is Friday, February 10 and I have just won the Guyana Prize for Literature in Drama.

MUNICH, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday warned top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi of consequences should China provide material support to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, saying in an interview after the two met that Washington was concerned Beijing was considering supplying weapons to Moscow.

Introduction In today’s column I wrap-up my revisit of previous calls to build an oil refinery; whether 1] state-owned and or operated 2] as a Joint Venture, JV, or 3] privately owned and operated.

Quite a lot of people who I have interacted with have claimed that they have anxiety with just the thought of joining the gym.

The Guyana Prize for Literature Literary Festival 2023, which was held last weekend had a number of interesting features.

“I just needed to go out and work. I don’t know if it is the right thing, because is like I am still working it through.

The question is really very simple: Will the PPP/C propose inclusive governance in the constitutional reform process that is due to commence this year, as promised in its 2020 Manifesto?

Who can doubt that the West Indian nation in relation to its tiny population and insignificant economic and military weight has been disproportionately blessed by the fruits of our extraordinary range of creative men and women.