Daily Archive: Friday, April 28, 2023

President Irfaan Ali tonight said that he had ordered that a bill for a national intelligence agency be taken to a select committee of Parliament for full deliberations.

A Venezuelan woman was jailed for six months on Wednesday for operating a brothel in contravention of the Trafficking in Persons Act, according to a release from the Ministry of Human Services.

(ExxonMobil) IRVING, Texas – April 28, 2023 – Exxon Mobil Corporation today announced first-quarter 2023 earnings of US$11.4 billion, or US$2.79 per share assuming dilution.

UMAN, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Russia hurled missiles at cities across Ukraine as people slept early today, killing at least 17 people in the first large-scale air strikes in nearly two months.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – BBC Chairman Richard Sharp resigned today after an independent report found he breached rules by not disclosing a potential conflict of interest in his role in securing a $1 million loan for the then-prime minister, Boris Johnson.

THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – A Dutch court today ordered a man who judges said had fathered between 500 and 600 children around the world to stop donating sperm.

Beterverwagting (BV) upset Gold is Money by a 1-0 score-line when the One Guyana Futsal Championship continued on Thursday evening at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

Defending champion Swag Entertainment, Silver Bullets, Axe, Universal Ballers, and Everybody Got It recorded contrasting wins when the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Linden Championship resumed on Wednesday evening at the Amelia Ward/Wisroc Car Park.

The Lady Jaguars are scheduled to compete in the CONCACAF W Gold Cup Qualifiers after the local confederation announced the details yesterday for the inaugural 2023 Road to the W Gold Cup.

Of all the accomplishments that are linked to the Adel Rainforest Resort at Pomeroon, the owner, Zena Stoll is probably proudest of the establishment’s cuisine.

Just over a year after it applied,  ExxonMobil Guyana has gotten a five-year environmental permit for the Uaru project – what would be the fifth oil extraction operation in Guyana’s waters – and a parent company insurance guarantee is to feature for the first time.

The Government of Trinidad and Tobago is reportedly becoming increasingly unhappy over what has become a protracted delay in moving ahead with the channelling of natural gas to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member country from Venezuela, under the so-called Dragon gas extraction project, between the two countries.

St. Rose’s High crushed Charlestown Secondary 33-16 when the Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) coordinated ExxonMobil Regional Conference Championships continued yesterday at the Burnham Court, Parade ground.

Vice-President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday announc-ed that the Guyana Marriott Hotel will remain under the government’s control for now as it will not be moving ahead with its sale given that the highest bid to purchase the hotel was only US$65m.

(CMC) – Tame performances from the West Indies duo of Shimron Hetmyer and Jason Holder failed to stop Rajasthan Royals from climbing to the top of the Indian Premier League table with a 32-run win against Chennai Super Kings yesterday.

By Brooke Glasford I was recently on a Caribbean Airlines flight out of Guyana and was very excited to come across the March/April issue of the Caribbean Beat magazine.

The main opposition APNU yesterday insisted that the upcoming June local government elections cannot proceed without an investigation into the alleged irregularities discovered on PPP/C lists submitted on Nomination Day.

(CMC) – Opener Kirk McKenzie made hay while the sun shone and cracked an even, unbeaten half-century for West Indies Academy before rain brought an early close against Team Weekes in the second match of the Headley-Weekes Tri-Series yesterday in Antigua.

One of the particular specializations of both state and private sector bureaucracies is a seemingly incurable proclivity for sound bite-driven pronouncements – attention-getters as these are referred to in media circles – designed to secure more elaborate repetition in the media in ways that massage their own egos.

As controversy continues to swirl around why the Home Affairs Ministry Permanent Secretary had her phone seized by US authorities and US visa revoked, the government now has to defend political work being done by a senior public servant when it had publicly frowned on such practices.

(CMC) – Barbados Pride and West Indies Test pacer Kemar Roach showed his pedigree with an inspired spell for Surrey to put them in charge of their rain-hit English County Championship match against Warwickshire yesterday.

If the scale of what is believed to have been in, recent years, the cataclysmic decline in the Venezuelan economy with all of its devastating consequences, is attributed largely to Washington’s intervention to staunch the flow of the country’s oil to international markets, it transpires, according to recent reports, that graft and corruption among oil industry officials may well have made its own hefty contribution to the decline.

A report on the death of a BOSAI worker has made seven recommendations that the Chinese company has to institute within set timelines.

By Shaniya Harding and Tanacia Karim (Interns with the Guyana Media and Communication Academy) From Monday, for the next six weeks, pupils of the Enterprise Primary School will do only reading interspersed with robotics and some play time as the Education Ministry continues a radical drive to lift literacy rates.

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on Friday April 21 launched a series of webinar conversations designed to focus attention on what has become the high-profile issue of the urgent shoring up of the region’s food security credentials.

Dear Editor, International Occupational Safety and Health Day is being celebrated today April 28, 2023, under the theme: ‘A safe and healthy working environment is a fundamental principle and right at work’.

(Reuters) – Former world number one Simona Halep has called on the International Tennis Federation (ITF) to give her the chance to clear her name after she was provisionally suspended in October for failing a drugs test.

By Raphael John-Lall Trinidad and Tobago Guardian  –  Local business leaders all agree that becoming proficient in the use of the Spanish language is important as T&T’s businesses seek to enter Latin American markets.

Franchise quarterback Lamar Jackson is staying with the Baltimore Ravens on a five-year contract, agreeing to terms yesterday mere hours before the start of the NFL draft.

Dear Editor, Election is an important pillar in any democratic society and the recent revelations in the public domain regarding persons’ names appearing on the electoral list without their consent, persons who are deceased and who have been out of the jurisdiction for years appearing as signatories on those lists, should be taken very seriously.

A 38-year-old man of Lot 57 Thomas Street, Georgetown, was on Tuesday charged with causing death by dangerous driving and driving under the influence of alcohol.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States will ramp up deportations while also expanding legal pathways for would-be migrants as it braces for a possible spike in illegal border crossings when COVID-19 restrictions are set to end next month, U.S.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – While Chile’s plan to take control of its lithium industry has caused global shockwaves, state-led production of the metal used to make electric vehicle batteries is seen by analysts as likely years away given technical and political challenges.

Jimmy Butler scored 42 points as the visiting Miami Heat advanced to the Eastern Conference semifinals with a 128-126 overtime victory over the top-seeded Milwaukee Bucks in Game 5 on Wednesday.

Dear Editor, On behalf of the Indo-Caribbean Federation, I wish to thank everyone for their contributions to the Federation’s project that has rehabilitated the Leguan Cottage Hospital’s Delivery Room, Maternity Ward, and Waiting Area.

(Reuters) – Television personality Jerry Springer, known for a long-running talk show that featured raucous audiences, controversial topics and fist-fighting guests and who briefly served as Cincinnati mayor, died at age 79 yesterday, his family said.

Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) President, Dr. Gene Leon, says countries in the region must accelerate their renewable energy transition regimes in response to oil shocks that threaten to create untenable situations for their respective economies.

On the heels of it receiving an environmental permit, ExxonMobil yesterday made a final investment decision for the Uaru development offshore Guyana.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – The Brazilian government apologized yesterday for mistreating Afro-Brazilian families that were forcible moved from their coastal home in northern Brazil four decades ago to make way for the construction of a spaceport.

Dear Editor, Now that it has been confirmed, what was known all along, that there was a shockingly brazen attempt to rig the elections, would the Order of Democracy now be handed out to those deserving individuals and groups who stood their ground and ensured the will of the people was upheld? 

(Reuters) – In early February, Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in northern Alberta started fielding calls from community members after the provincial regulator revealed toxic wastewater had been leaking for months from a tailings pond at Imperial Oil’s IMO.TO

The Mayor of Bartica has announced that he will not be contesting Local Government Elections come June 2023 and thinks it’s time for the youth and females to step up.  

Fight fans brace yourselves for a Colombian invasion. Seon Bristol, CEO of Briso Promotions disclosed yesterday that Colombian fighters are set to invade these shores to battle on a Pro/Am card penciled for May 21 at the National Gymnasium.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly yesterday approved a law allowing the government to seize assets linked to corruption cases, as it investigates irregularities at state oil company PDVSA and other state companies.

Home Affairs Permanent Secretary Mae Toussaint Jr Thomas was in transit to China on April 8 when she was subjected to what is called a secondary inspection by US Customs and Border Protection at Miami Airport.

As one of three countries that make up the Guiana Shield, Guyana’s forested landscapes and ecological biodiversity is one that has set it apart as a conservation haven.

Dear Editor, In Guyana, playing loud music in public transportation is illegal.

Lindeners celebrated their first ever Building Expo in conjunction with the grand opening of Mast Villa at Amelia’s Ward.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba’s Catholic Church yesterday said the “door was open” to future talks over the release of prisoners on the island following a meeting the previous day with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and top advisors.

The most recent attempt by the Caribbean to establish its food security credentials in a wider international community, where hunger and all its attendant consequences have become a serious concern would appear to have fallen, primarily to Guyana and Barbados, the former having been assigned much of the responsibility for substantive food production and the latter, for the creation of the physical infrastructure associated with the creation of the facility.

The Guyana Basketball Coaching Association will stage its electoral congress on Sunday at the National Racquet Centre, Woolford Avenue.