Daily Archive: Sunday, April 2, 2023

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – New York City police have thrown up metal barriers around Trump Tower and blocked roads near Manhattan Criminal Courthouse as they brace for potential protests ahead of Donald Trump’s expected surrender to prosecutors on Tuesday.

(Reuters) – Well-known Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed in a bomb blast in a cafe in St Petersburg today, Russian news agencies reported.

Economy Ram pummels gov’t over management of economy: Focusing on the foreign exchange controversy, commentator and chartered accountant Christopher Ram has pounded the government over the management of the economy and has called for the exclusion of non-bank cambios and for more banking licences to foster increased competition.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia and other OPEC+ oil producers on Sunday announced further cuts in their production amounting to around 1.16 million barrels per day in a surprise move they said was aimed at supporting market stability.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson announced his 2024 U.S.

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – Pope Francis led a Palm Sunday service the day after he was discharged from hospital following a bout of bronchitis, and urged the world to take better care of the poor, the lonely and the infirm.

We know that we mark our lives by rituals and traditions.

-gov’t has kept report hidden for two years The first ever audit report of the cost claims by ExxonMobil and its partners for 1999 to 2017 found that a whopping 12.8% of its US$1.67b expenses could be disputed by the Guyana Government as they were not allowable or did not have sufficient supporting documentation.

The Ministry of Health yesterday commissioned its first Diabetes Comprehensive Care Centre at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara.

Audits for the Guyana Marriott Hotel have been completed up to 2019 and these accounts will be published upon completion of the audit for the year ended 2021.

One person has been arrested over the death of Canada-based Guyanese woman, Roma Dookeran who was here on a business trip and was later found on the Leguan Island foreshore, This is according to Crime Chief, Wendell Blanhum during an interview with the Sunday Stabroek.

The Government through the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development distributed 14 tractors to the 14 Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDC) in Region Three during a two-day outreach The tractors, worth over $100 million, were handed over by President Irfaan Ali and are intended to boost works on the ground and are the partial fulfilment of a promise made by the president which also included the handout of subventions for the NDCs.

Working People’s Alliance (WPA) activist, Tacuma Ogunseye was yesterday interviewed by the police about controversial statements he made at a March 9th public meeting at Buxton and remains in custody.

A career best bowling performance from off-spinner Kevin Sinclair handed Guyana Harpy Eagles an unlikely 17-run win over Leeward Islands Hurricanes and gave Leon Johnson his sixth championship as he bid  farewell to Regional four-day cricket.

A solar photovoltaic (PV) farm has been commissioned at Bartica as part of government’s push for renewable energy.

Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha yesterday said that the company by the name of Farmlands Guyana Inc which is gearing up to cultivate 1,000 hectares of land in the Tacama Savannah, Berbice with corn and soya beans comprises Guyanese and foreign investors.

The top brass of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) recently presented a cheque worth $3M to the Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) to help offset its expenses for the upcoming CARIFTA Games in the Bahamas.

Following an overwhelming response of in excess of 2000 applicants, the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport (MCYS) in collaboration with the National Sports Commission (NSC), will officially launch its annual Easter Vacation Swimming Programme tomorrow at the National Aquatic Centre, Liliendaal with a grand opening ceremony from 10am.

The International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly-Guyana (IDPADA-G)  has issued an open letter to President Irfaan Ali seeking an urgent, constructive engagement with the government.

The Trinidad and Tobago two-member contingent of Prince Charles, and Shania Nunez will add international substance to the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA)’s U16 Championship, which is penciled to commence this evening at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

Dear Editor, Much has been written by a particular media house about the government’s attendance, or more particularly non-attendance at meetings of the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC).

If the Parika Market contractor had covered his contract under special insurance then the government should have levied on it after the fire and re-advertised for the works under a new contract, former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran says.

Dear Editor, On Friday, March 24, 2023, Justice Gino Persaud delivered his ruling in the case of Paul Slowe v The Secretary of the Police Service Commission, et al.

The $386 million project being funded by Global Affairs Canada to improve maternal and neonatal care in Guyana’s hinterland regions will be bridging a critical gap in the healthcare sector for rural areas, according to Dr Narendra Singh, a professor at McMaster University.

Defending champion Wismar/Christianburg, East Ruimveldt, 8 of May and Bartica recorded victories when the 9th Milo Secondary Schools U18 Football Championship resumed yesterday at the Ministry of Education (MOE) and the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) grounds respectively on Carifesta Avenue.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A rock concert was in store on a Friday evening at the Apollo Theatre in Belvidere, Illinois, with hundreds of people looking forward to an evening of death metal music to start the weekend.

The first golf course in Region Three opened to the public yesterday and dozens of players, special invitees and officials were in attendance for a first look at the innovative design by Aleem Hussain. 

With the season fast approaching, twenty-five-year old Tiffany Adams better known as “Kite Girl” of Haslington, East Coast Demerara, met up with Stabroek News on Thursday and spoke a bit about herself and her interest in kite-making.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A social media influencer who once had 58,000 Twitter followers was convicted by a federal jury of election interference in the 2016 U.S.

Dear Editor, I refer to an article captioned `Recovering painkiller addict Keith Burrowes wants to prevent others going the same route’ published in the Sunday Stabroek on 12/03/2023.        

(Reuters) – Faced with an increasing number of women defying the compulsory dress code, Iran’s judiciary chief has threatened to prosecute “without mercy” women who appear in public unveiled, Iranian media reported yesterday.

Police ranks in Regional Division #7, on Friday between 20:00 hrs and 21:30 hrs, conducted random searches around the township of Bartica, where several persons were stopped and searched.

Dear Editor, Attention must be drawn to the frequent and fatal accidents on our roadways over the last year.

Everest Cricket Club’s Ushardeva Balgobin yesterday notched up his maiden first-division century in the Georgetown Cricket Association’s GISE/Star Rentals/Trophy Stall two-day tournament continued.

Indar Bhagwant, a 42-year-old driver of Logwood, Enmore, East Coast Demerara, appeared last week at the Cove and John Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Fabayo Azore, where he was charged with  the offence of  cruelty to an animal.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Satellite images show a high level of activity at North Korea’s main nuclear site, a U.S.

Dear Editor, I write with reference to Moses Bhagwan’s “Stop this hypocrisy about charging people for racial incitement” (Stabroek News, 2/4/2023).

Dear Editor, ‘Soon…very soon’; ‘at the appropriate time’, famous last words, beg the questions: ‘how soon is soon?’

Briton John once again finished on the podium following stage two of the Jamaican Cycling Classic Montego Bay race yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The upcoming final judgment in the successful Piarco Airport civil case in Miami will be completed by settling pre-verdict interest over the 19 years which the case took to complete, plus costs—which could bring the final figure which T&T will receive close to TT$1 billion.

Constable #24890 Doris (centre), who is stationed at the Alberttown Police Station, has been recognised for his hard work and dedication and was awarded for his Outstanding Performance throughout the month of March, 2023, the police said yesterday.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Consumer price inflation in Pakistan jumped to a record 35.37% in March from a year earlier, the statistics bureau said yesterday, as at least 16 people were killed in stampedes for food aid.

Dear Editor, It was noted in the press that starting last month, Guyana had the serendipitous intersection of observances from the three major religions that involved fasting by their adherents – Nauratri, Ramadan and Lent.

Kwakwani, Lower Corentyne, Vryman’s Erven and New Amsterdam Multilateral recorded victories when the Regional Conference in the Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) Secondary School Championship continued.

Jalen Brunson scored a career-high 48 points and outdueled Donovan Mitchell in a potential postseason preview Friday night, when the visiting New York Knicks pulled away in the fourth quarter for a 130-116 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers.

I have loved Poetry all my long life. It is impossible for me to name an all-time favourite – though Derek Walcott’s   A LETTER FROM BROOKLYN would be a contender.

(Barbados Nation) A series of rates and conditions of service have been put in place for people in the construction sector employed by firms which have been awarded Government contracts.

Dwyane Wade and Dirk Nowitzki are among 12 inductees in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2023.

The sun had dipped on the Atlantic Ocean and mosquitoes arrived out of the dense green vegetation bordering Hope Beach.

The constitutional reform process, 1999-2000, and other measures spawned by the Herdmanston Accord, sought to bring to an end the 1997 post-election violence.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Fortune favoured West Indies all-rounder Kyle Mayers, and he played a starring role with the bat on his debut in the Indian Premier League yesterday and set up a 50-run win for Lucknow Super Giants against Delhi Capitals.

Nisa Walker, the owner at Oasis Cafe turned 60 on March 17 and on Sunday (Mary 18th) she celebrated it with a bang at the Promenade Gardens in Georgetown. 

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Egypt and Syria agreed to strengthen cooperation yesterday during the first official visit by a Syrian foreign minister to Cairo in more than a decade, the latest sign of Arab states mending ties with President Bashar al Assad.

Introduction For the convenience of several enquiring readers, I begin today’s column with a brief recap.

Never before in Guy-ana’s history has there been 50 or more girls and women playing chess.

I have never learnt the names of flowers.                                             From beginning, my world has been a place Of pot-holed streets where thick, sluggish gutters race In slow time, away from garbage heaps and sewers Past blanched old houses around which cowers Stagnant earth.

A delegation from the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court recently conducted a study tour of the Sexual Offences Court here.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Roger Seymour looks at a Test Match that evolved into somewhat of a precursor of T20 cricket.

Dear Editor, I am an overseas pensioner presently in Guyana for a short while.

Last week in an advertisement in this newspaper, miners, shopkeepers and the residents of Eteringbang related how they were being harassed and robbed by the National Guard and infamous Sindicato gang of Venezuela.

The land of baguettes, macarons and luxury has caught fire yet again and I don’t say such to gloat or make fun, but rather to serve as a reminder that even the most idealistic places that we tend to romanticise and idealise have their own problems.

Today my sister Svetlana Abrams tells the heart-warming journey of supporting her young daughter’s dream of becoming an entrepreneur.

Have you ever seen the surface of a lake at night?

Some 166 persons benefited from free spectacles last week, when a Ministry of Human Services and Social Security team held an outreach in Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni).

If you are looking for ways to get the most of your workouts, I am here to help.

It is indeed fantastic that we can celebrate those from among us who leave for greener pastures, “make it”, as we say, then return, however temporarily, for perhaps refuelling or grounding.

Dear Editor, For the last 68 years there has been a  struggle between Indians and Africans for ascendancy and the country has been swallowed up in racial hostilities and there has been limited restraint in the language we use to and about each other privately or in public places.

Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha yesterday handed over inputs to develop the Agriculture Science Departments from Winifred Gaskin Secondary School and Manchester Secondary School, in Region Six.

Literature is a hobby for science student Samir Mohammed, who won the Guyana Prize for Literature for Short Story and the Guyana Prize for Literature for Poetry, in the Youth Male categories.

As she takes on the mandate to represent Guyana on the international stage, US-based Malika Manelva Blount is on a second journey to improve and develop the country’s health sector through her pageantry platform and the non-profit organisation she founded in 2018.

Cow deh a pasture he nah remember seh dog and butcher deh till he see am!!.

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