Daily Archive: Sunday, March 12, 2023

A 22-year-old man was today discovered dead in Angoy’s Avenue after he was involved in a fight on Friday evening and attacked last evening by relatives of the person who was injured in the earlier altercation.

US Vice President Kamala Harris’s Special Advisor for the Western Hemisphere, Joseph Salazar, and Deputy Director for the Western Hemisphere Affairs (WHA), Office of Caribbean Affairs, Michael Taylor will visit Guyana from March 12-14, 2023.  

My Top 20 films of 2022 1. “Women Talking” (d. Sarah Polley) 2.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Discovering the origins of COVID-19 is a moral imperative and all hypotheses must be explored, the head of the World Health Organization said, in the clearest indication yet that the U.N.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence offered his most forceful rebuke to date of his one-time boss Donald Trump yesterday, saying that history will hold him accountable for his role in the Jan.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Saudi Arabian oil giant Aramco 2222.SE on Sunday reported a record annual net profit of $161.1 billion for 2022, up 46% from the previous year on higher energy prices, increased volumes sold and improved margins for refined products.

Amid heightened complaints from businessmen about the unavailability of foreign currency, the Bank of Guyana (BoG) on Friday issued a circular to bank cambios which is intended to crack down on shadowy transactions.

By Rae Wiltshire  “I am Guyanese and I will always be Guyanese.

After being hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant constriction of the global supply chain, the Region Nine Santa Fe Farm is preparing to resume work with its eyes set on assisting Guyana to cut its food imports by 2025, Farm Director Eldon Bremner said.

By Nikita Blair March is Women’s History Month, in which we celebrate women’s contributions to history, culture and society.

Sisters super-heavyweight Abiola Jackman and light-welterweight Alesha Jackman will depart Guyana today for New Delhi, India, where they will participate in the Women’s World Boxing Championships.

JOHANNESBURG, CMC – West Indies were left to ponder another abject failure after pacer Gerald Coetzee and off-spinner Simon Harmer ripped through their batting to lead hosts South Africa to a 284-run win in the second Test yesterday.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday said that the statements made on Thursday by executive member of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), Tacuma Ogunseye, were  made with the intention of promoting “hate, terrorism and racism” in the country and has since called on Guyanese to condemn such actions.

Staying on the course he has adopted over the last several years, Roger ‘Young Bill Rogers’ Hinds competed in both the Calypso and Chutney Monarch competitions this year, and added one more title to his collection when he won the calypso competition.

Slingerz FC and Den Amstel earned their semi-final berths in the West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) ‘Commander Cup’, following contrasting victories on Friday evening at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora.

Citizen and Environment and Democracy Advocate, Simone Mangal-Joly has penned an open letter to President Irfaan Ali strongly criticising the appoint-ees to the Environmental Assess-ment Board (EAB) which she suggests renders it incapable of professionally fulfilling its mandate due to glaring conflicts of interest.

It is now six years since former administrator Keith Burrowes kicked his addiction to painkillers; an affliction that changed his life, destroyed his family life, and damaged friendships as well as his reputation.

By Roger Seymour In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour examines the making of Kabir Khan’s epic film 83 and the legendary cricket match it pays homage to.

Defending champion Wismar/Christianburg, 8th of May, Cummings Lodge and St. Stanislaus secured wins when the 9th Milo Secondary Schools U18 Football Championship resumed yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground on Carifesta Avenue.

Seventy-one-year-old Stella Parhoo, one of the persons involved in the gruesome Greenwich Park accident on the East Bank of Essequibo (EBE), succumbed to her injuries on Friday afternoon taking the death toll from the accident to five.

A man was last night shot at Kamboat on Sheriff Street.

Guyanese Mixed Martial Artist Carlston Harris rebounded from his first ever defeat in the Ultimate Fighting Championship to secure a unanimous decision victory over Jared Gooden yesterday at the entity’s Fight Night 221 in Las Vegas.

The Lucas Stock Index fell 0.471 percent during the first period of trading in March 2023 on the sale of 56,939 shares.

Half centuries from Shamar Yearwood and Ronaldo Alimohamed highlighted Demerara’s innings on the opening day of their second-round showdown in the Guyana Cricket Board senior four-day Inter-County tournament against the Select XI at the Georgetown Cricket Club, Bourda ground, yesterday.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips yesterday said that bollards will be erected around key electrical installations and he denied a claim by former Public Works Minister David Patterson that GPL was purchasing cheap plastic products.

(The Hill.com) The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is suing ExxonMobil over racial discrimination after multiple nooses were found at one of the company’s facilities. 

While paperwork pertaining to the lands for their machining project at the former Guyana Sugar Corporation [GuySuCo] Enmore packaging plant is yet to be completed, the Guysons joint venture, Guysons K+B Industries, is in the meantime working at the West Ruimveldt location, sources close to the company say.

By Troy Peters The Guyana Hockey Board has announced a squad of 18 players and two reserves for the Junior Pan American men’s hockey tournament to be played from April 10-18 at the Barbados National Hockey Centre.

Leader of the Alliance For Change, Khemraj Ramjattan on Friday  said that his party believes that the planned Palmyra stadium and multipurpose facility on the Corentyne should have been discussed in the National Assembly as he called the project an example of “bad governance”.

AHMEDABAD, India,  (Reuters) – Shubman Gill smashed a career-best 128 and Virat Kohli regained his form to fuel India’s robust reply to Australia’s first innings total of 480 on day three of the fourth and final test in Ahmedabad yesterday.

A new library was opened yesterday at the Mon Repos Primary School on the East Coast of Demerara through the efforts of ‘Spread the Words’, a group led by Laura Ryan.

Upon review, Vidushi Persaud-McKinnon has been deemed eligible to contest the Electoral General Meeting (EGM) of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) in two days.

Dear Editor, I am an octogenarian. Ipso facto I was around when NIS started and interestingly participated when their Inspectorate discussed the Rules/ Regulations at TUC sponsored Workers Education seminars at locations all over Guyana. 

Dear Editor,  Last Wednesday, I was a panellist on a social media platform along with WPA’s David Hinds and Deon Abrams (and two others) to discuss “Strategies for fostering Social Cohesion in the era of Oil and Gas”.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on   March 8th, 2023 convened a meeting of the Multi-Agency Coordinating Committee (MACC) to address the influx of migrants from Venezuela into Guyana.

The Guyana Fitness Games ‘Mighty Malt Fitness Challenge’ gets cracking today at the National Park from 14:00hrs.

Dear Editor, Thanks for the delicately crafted editorial titled `Dr. Misir’s four months’ (SN, March 11). 

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s BBC faced a mounting crisis as a row over football presenter Gary Lineker’s criticism of government migration policy led to a presenter mutiny, drew a comment from the prime minister and left the broadcaster’s boss defending his position.

Keldon Johnson hit for 23 points and recently acquired Sandro Mamukelashvili scored all 11 of his points in the fourth quarter as the host San Antonio Spurs waylaid the Western Conference-leading Denver Nuggets 128-120 on Friday to snap a two-game losing streak.

A Good Hope, East Bank Essequibo fisherman is currently in police custody pending charges for having in his possession seven grammes of cocaine, discovered during a search by a police patrol on Friday, in the Anna Regina car park, Essequibo Coast.

Dear Editor, One notes the continuing complaints of so many survivors, as well as Editorials, about the increasing numbers and types of road accidents, resulting primarily from our poor Traffic Management.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Ukraine’s foreign minister urged Germany in an interview published yesterday to speed up supplies of ammunition and to start training Ukrainian pilots on Western fighter jets.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) yesterday said that it has been made aware of and condemns in the strongest possible manner a public statement broadcast on the platform of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), at which the Leader of the Opposition was participating.

(Cricinfo) West Indies will use the next year to map out a management plan for their red and white-ball players to ensure they enjoy a balance between international and franchise cricket.

Georgetown, East Bank Demerara and East Coast Demerara recorded contrasting wins when the Tiger Rentals U13 boys football league continued yesterday at the National Training Centre, Providence.

One hundred and sixty-nine residents of Buxton and surrounding communities on the East Coast Demerara graduated from four Technical and Vocational Disciplines through the Board of Industrial Training on Friday.

Dear Editor,  The clear call for mayhem by an opposition political radical, emanating from the very place where the self proclaimed ‘resistance fighters’ were holed up following the 2002 jail break, and from where chaos and destruction were born and unleashed, must be condemned in the strongest terms as anti-national, bordering on the creation of terror against the state and which can be deemed treasonous.  

LIMA,  (Reuters) – At least six people have died in Peru over the last few days as a powerful cyclone unleashed torrential rains, battering hundreds of homes and causing major disruptions in northern areas of the Latin American country, authorities said.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, CMC – West Indies captain Kraigg Brathwaite has questioned his side’s mentality after they crashed to a heavy 284-run defeat inside four days of the decisive second Test against South Africa.

Dear Editor, Recently Albouystown has been in  the  headlines and focus of all things representing Guyana.

In a move to ensure that beneficiaries of the national housing programme can access their lots before year-end, engineers attached to the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) fanned out across the country on Friday with contractors to identify each contractor’s respective lot(s) for infrastructure development.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – The French Senate last night adopted President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular pension reform plan in the wake of a seventh day of demonstrations that were not as large as authorities had expected.

Presidential nominee of the Guyana Olympic Association, Electoral General Meeting, Robin Singh is urging the body to ‘abort the current iteration’ scheduled in the next two days.

Sohan Goolab called ‘Shortman’, a 49-year-old fisherman of Anns Grove Squatting Area, East Coast Demerara, was arrested on Wednesday, March 8 and charged on Friday with the possession of 4 grammes of cocaine.

Dear Editor,  An Afro and Indo Guyanese woman will lead the PNCR and its coalition into the next general elections.

(Reuters) – Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, yesterday asked Pope Francis and other religious leaders to persuade Ukraine to stop a crackdown against a historically Russian-aligned wing of the church.

It is game day for in excess of 200 athletes who have registered to compete in the inaugural Jefford Classic Mile, set for a 13:00hrs start in the National Park. 

The local saying, “What don’t kill does fatten,” clicked recently. This aptly describes enduring and succeeding despite challenging circumstances.

Last Wednesday, International Women’s Day was observed.  This day is observed on March 8th annually and seeks to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women.

An Essequibo Coast man appeared at the Suddie Magistrate’s Court on Thursday for the offences of driving under the influence of alcohol.

You would not be human if you’ve never wondered how long it takes to notice changes from your new exercise routine.

The irony of seeing so many lengthy messages of support for women and the importance of their contribution to society for International Women’s Day when just a mere two days before a woman was murdered by her partner was aggravating.

Introduction Today I consider the Consortium’s third member, CNOOC Nexen Petroleum Limited; a subsidiary of the CNOOC group and its subsidiary Nexen. 

In a statement on Friday, the Chairman of the Joint Services, Brigadier Godfrey Bess, reminded citizens of Guyana that, irrespective of its ethnic composition, the Joint Services of Guyana is an apolitical institution and will continue to serve the people of Guyana.

One ordinary morning some years ago I had an unusual experience.

The World Chess Federation (FIDE) has joined the Sport Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA).

Contract Gov’t seals US$34m e-ID card deal: Arising out of its request for assistance from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2021, the Government of Guyana yesterday inked a US$34 million contract with German-headquartered company, Veridos, for the production and rollout of an electronic citizenship card that consolidates the data of the holder, providing for easier access to public and private sector services. 

Have you ever wished that you could turn back time? Have you ever wanted to relive a moment that has already passed?

MAPUTO,  (Reuters) – Cyclone Freddy pummeled Mozambique yesterday, killing one person, ripping roofs off houses and triggering a lockdown in one port town, a resident and local media said, two weeks after 27 died when the storm first made landfall.

(Trinidad Guardian) Roger Gaspard SC is seeking counsel as he prepares to respond to a lashing from Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley during a People’s National Move-ment (PNM) public meeting in Barataria on Thurs-day night.

For those without access to social media the statement issued by Brigadier Godfrey Bess on Friday must have been something of a puzzle, since no full context for it was given.

Last week, after a couple meals of dhal, rice, and fried salt fish; okra, and fried salt fish; karaila and fried salt fish, I had had more than my fill of fried salt fish.

Dear Editor, Having listened to recent presentations made at public meetings by leading members of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), I cannot restrain the compulsion to state how appalled I am at the utterances, and to lend my voice in total condemnation of the calls for violence made by some of the speakers.

The Mike James Drama Group of Linden returned to the stage on February 18 last with James’ latest play called For Better or Curse  performed at Lichas Hall. 

When was the last time two films in a major Oscar category featured varying interpretations of a single character?

East Ruimveldt crushed Chase Academy 4-0, when the Georgetown leg of the Blue Waters Girls U15 Developmental Football League continued on Friday at the Georgetown Football Club ground, Bourda.