Daily Archive: Tuesday, February 21, 2023

The Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) today issued wanted bulletins for eight persons in relation to money laundering and financial crimes offences.

Dozens of disgruntled rice farmers today walked out of a forum with Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha at the Rice Producers Association (RPA) Bond at Anna Regina.

Devon Brutus, a 24-year-old painter of Lot 78 Middle Walk, Buxton, East Coast Demerara was charged yesterday with the following offences: (1) Causing Death by Dangerous Driving (2) Being an unlicenced driver (3) Breach of Insurance The police say that he appeared at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Fabayo Azore where he pleaded not guilty to all three of the charges.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin today delivered a nuclear warning to the West over Ukraine, suspending a bilateral nuclear arms control treaty, announcing new strategic systems had been put on combat duty and warning that Moscow could resume nuclear tests.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The fossil fuel industry is failing to tackle methane emissions despite its pledges to uncover and fix leaking infrastructure, according to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) published today.

Cane View/Mocha residents whose homes were demolished by the government to make way for a road have told their lawyers to start legal proceedings after government failed to signal interest in mediation.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament was yesterday forced to abort another meeting after three government members tendered excuses and two did not show up.

A Rosignol man, who last month opted to plead guilty to fatally stabbing his wife back in November, 2020, was yesterday sentenced to twenty years in prison.

Dear Editor, While the concern about Trinidad & Tobago’s continued refusal to lift the ban on honey has been raised within the context of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas, it is also useful to put it in a commercial context for everyone’s information and guidance.

Seventy-five-year-old Lynette Gray, the grandmother of Jermaine Johnson Jnr, the eight-year-old who perished in a fire in Cummings Lodge last month has died of her injuries.

Dear Editor, As part of a wider campaign of concern and outrage over the multi-billion-dollar tax evasion, money laundering, racketeering and wire fraud probe involving a Guyanese family conduit and Chinese businesspersons in Guyana and China, a small group of individuals were planning a picket exercise today (Tuesday), outside of the Chinese Embassy on Mandela Avenue.

There was fever pitched excitement, an overflow of fight fans and fistic fury not witnessed locally in years when the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) hosted the Patrick Ford Memorial Boxing Tournament on Sunday at the National Gymnasium. 

The Ministry of Home Affairs on Sunday said that it is aware of the recent incident that occurred on Friday, February 17, 2023, at Woodley Park Secondary School, West Coast Berbice.

Minister of Housing and Water Collin Croal, yesterday handed over the keys for ready-to-move in two-bedroom homes to nine families who were squatting on the Annandale Sea Defence Reserve, East Coast Demerara.

The recently-elected Demerara Cricket Board has announced that the 2023 season will get underway shortly with a new Inter-Club 50-overs-a-side knockout tournament for first-division clubs.

Dear Editor, I refer to SN’s ongoing high cost-of-living series, and make this confession. 

KYIV,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden walked around central Kyiv on an unannounced visit yesterday, promising to stand with Ukraine as long as it takes, on a trip timed to upstage the Kremlin ahead of the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion.

The United States’ Lesser Antilles Medical Assistance Team (LAMAT), in partnership with Guyana’s Ministry of Health, will perform surgical operations, provide dental services, and conduct professional knowledge exchanges through March 3.

The Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) hosted its first Drag Race Meet of the season Sunday at the South Dakota Circuit dubbed Drag Wars 1.0.

Dear Editor, Recently, a labour leader attacked the government and another union over assistance to GuySuCo signaling a lack of solidarity among unions and their leaders.

Mobile Money Guyana, known widely as MMG, has teamed up with the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) to host the National U-14 Chess Championships.

The Skeldon Post Office is in a “deplorable and disgusting” condition, APNU+AFC Councillor for Region Six, Shurla Scott told the Regional Democratic Council last week.

Dear Editor, Hopetown farmer Trevor Jameer was doused with gasoline and set afire on the 17th of February because he assisted the police in removing a car torched following an accident; on the day following there was no statement from the Guyana Police Force addressing this barbaric criminal action, instead we were bombarded by images of the Acting Commissioner of Police, Clifton Hicken dapperly dressed in an all-white outfit directing his energies towards the preparation of the GPF Mash band.

ANTAKYA, Turkey,  (Reuters) – Another earthquake struck the border region of Turkey and Syria yesterday, just two weeks after the area was devastated by a larger quake that killed more than 47,000 people and damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council issued a formal statement yesterday denouncing Israel’s plan to expand settlements on occupied Palestinian territory, the first action the United States has allowed the body to take against its ally Israel in six years.

The Guyana Industrial Minerals (GINMIN) has thrown its support behind the ninth Milo Secondary School Football Championship by donating eight complete kits that will be utilized during the event’s round of 16 stage.

Dear Editor, Guyana is facing a complex set of challenges and opportunities in the face of decreasing demand for oil worldwide.

Some 50 farmers from various communities along the Soesdyke-Linden Highway will receive two piglets each as part of government’s aggressive efforts to expand the livestock sector, a Department of Public Information (DPI) release said on Friday.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to a letter in the Stabroek News edition of February 18, 2023, captioned, “the Exxon HQ budget is an added burden on the backs of Guyanese”, by opposition Member of Parliament (MP), Ganesh Mahipaul.

The police in Region Five are still on the hunt for the person who attacked a Hopetown, West Coast Berbice cattle farmer resulting in him being hospitalized.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – A major wildfire in eastern Cuba was spreading closer to a national park yesterday, threatening hundreds of residents in its path, Cuban state television said Monday.

Dear Editor, With the looming first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, analysts and historians will long debate whether Russia’s security was indeed severely compromised and its invasion of Ukraine in defence of its national security had any basis in international law and whether the United States and its allies were over-ambitious in expanding the European Union and NATO to the borders of Russia.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israel’s parliament yesterday voted to push ahead with a contested overhaul of the country’s judicial system championed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s religious-nationalist government that has sparked mass protests.

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) on Sunday donated a quantity of much needed supplies to a group of Venezuelan indigenous migrants living in Lethem, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo.

Dear Editor, I am offering prizes to anybody who survived the entire four hours of the Guyana Prize for Literature last weekend.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – The United States proposed yesterday that the U.N.

Allan Caleb, a 70-year-old bed-ridden pensioner of Mabaruma, North West District, on Saturday benefitted from a rehabilitated stairway as part of President Irfaan Ali’s Men on Mission initiative.

SAO SEBASTIAO, Brazil,  (Reuters) – The death toll from devastating rainfall in southeastern Brazil rose to 40 yesterday, official figures showed, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited the region and said homes should no longer be built in areas at risk of landslides and major floods.

Former West Indies test player Rajendra Chandrika has been named captain of the Select XI which will compete in the Guyana Cricket Board’s Inter-County competition beginning Friday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India yesterday invoked an emergency law to force power plants that run on imported coal to maximise output ahead of an expected record surge in power usage this summer, according to an internal power ministry notice seen by Reuters.

Dear Editor, My friend Gokarran Sukhdeo reminded me: “Racial pluralism in Guyana was not an invention of British colonialism, although the British mastered it and practiced it with the greatest expertise, especially in India and Africa, namely, caste and tribal hierarchical delineations.

Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha and Prime Minister Mark Phillips on Sunday handed over a tractor to the Whim/Bloomfield Corentyne NDC, valued some $5 million.

By Josep Borrell EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs 24 February 2022 will forever be recalled as the day when Russia started its brutal, unprovoked and illegal invasion of Ukraine.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Integrity Commission (IC) Executive Director Greg Christie has strongly rejected calls for his resignation, declaring that he has been unbiased in his duties over the last three years at the anti-corruption agency.

The successive  oil and gas fora that have been staged in Guyana have had the effect of attracting a level of international attention to the country that complements the high global profile which the country had incrementally accumulated in the wake of ExxonMobil’s 2015 announcement of its first major oil find offshore Guyana.

(Reuters) – Netherlands’ Femke Bol ran the 400 metres in 49.26 seconds at the Dutch Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn Sunday to break one of the longest-standing world records in track and field.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – The disappearance of a star Chinese dealmaker has left his bank struggling to reassure clients and staff, people with knowledge of the matter said yesterday, and has heightened concerns about “key man risk” for investors.

LONDON, (Reuters) – More than 30 countries, including the United States, Britain and France, yesterday pledged their support for banning Russian and Belarusian athletes from competing in international sporting events, a British government statement said.

Two employees of a security service have been arrested over indiscriminate shooting on Sunday.

Harpy Eagles all-rounder Romario Shepherd has been included in both the One Day International (ODI) and T20 sides announced by the Cricket West Indies selection panel yesterday.

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has long been overly sensitive to world opinion, partly because Modi himself craves outside approval.

Jayson Tatum never anticipated becoming the record-holder for most points scored in the NBA All-Star Game.

Dear Editor, Do not be fooled by a book’s cover, or its title, as in the case of “Shitty People.”