Daily Archive: Saturday, April 29, 2023

The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) yesterday announced the approval of the Uaru Field Development Plan (FDP) and the issuance of the Uaru Petroleum Production Licence to ExxonMobil’s subsidiary here, EEPGL. 

 (Reuters) – Five people including an 8-year-old child were killed in a shooting at a home in Cleveland, Texas, ABC News reported on Saturday, citing local police and authorities.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Honduras is one of the deadliest countries in the world for human rights defenders, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) said yesterday after a visit to the Central American country.

The Government of Guyana, through the Office of the First Lady, will be setting up a Multipurpose Recreational Park in Tuschen, Region Three, and another in Diamond/Grove, Region Four, the Department of a Public Information (DPI) reported yesterday.

The government has announced that preparations are underway for the 2023 International Building Exposition to be held in August, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said.

Dear Editor, The OECD/G20 Inclusive Frame-work on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) is implementing a landmark reform to the international tax system, which will ensure multinational enterprises will be subject to a 15% effective minimum tax rate.

Dear Editor, As I noted a year ago, I am delighted to acknowledge Black History Month in February and observe Amerindian Heritage Month in September. 

Dear Editor, After making much ado about the selling of the now profitable hotel, with the reasoning that now is the right time, the sale is off the table, at least for now, as the bids are too low and not what was expected. 

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp XOM.N yesterday reported a record first-quarter profit that was more than double a year ago and topped Wall Street estimates as rising oil and gas output overcame a pullback in energy prices from high levels.

Dear Editor, The PPP/C is ultra-hypocritical to “argue that public servants should not have political ties.”

Former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Chief of Staff (CoS), Brigadier Godfrey Bess yesterday said he never felt unconfirmed even though his preferment as CoS came just one day before he retired.

By Mia Anthony (Intern with the Guyana Media and Communication Academy) Kross Kolor Studios has won a grant which will enable teenagers who wish to be a part of the music industry in Guyana, the chance to showcase their talents and to monetize their work.

Dear Editor, I refer to the article “Home Affairs PS was not travelling on gov’t business – Chandan-Edmond says she must go on leave” in the April 26 edition of your newspaper.

Dear Editor, I was most disappointed to hear the Former President say, during a recent press interview, that he did not have any interest in the alleged incident in which the Indian lawyer had allegedly spat upon the African policewoman and addressed her in very insulting terms.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips yesterday officially declared opened the Linden Town Week Entrepreneurs’ Village and Arts Festival which was organised by the Region 10 Youth Entrepreneurship Association (REYA) at the Linden Technical Institute, Linden.

Dear Editor, It is time citizens of Guyana have a national and frank discussion about the killing of our women, mothers, friends and daughters. 

A GWI employee is now counting his losses after a kerosene stove that was used incorrectly exploded yesterday morning and destroyed his home at Lot 1391 Viva Street, North Ruimveldt, Georgetown.

Dear Editor, Here we go again, slapping at each other as we now approach local elections, with claims and counterclaims of rigging,  bribery of voters, smear tactics and outright political brinkmanship, and of course, the blame game.

The Restorative Justice Centre of Guyana was launched on Thursday morning in a ceremony attended by government ministers, Joint Services personnel, and members of the diplomatic corps, a release from the Guyana Police Force stated.

Sebert Blake has added another accolade to his post retirement resume’.

Dear Editor, It has been 43 years since the constitution of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, ordered the establishment of the 10 Regional Democratic Councils as the local governing authorities for the regions, and 33 years since Order 51 established the lower-tier local governments authorities, municipalities, neighbourhood democratic councils, and to date, those authorities have not been given their full financial autonomy from central government to manage their local affairs.

Sportsman-of-the-Year, Desmond Amsterdam and Olympian, Keevin Allicock currently have their hard hats on in Uzbekistan, focused and training for  the stern test that is imminent.

Yesterday, a team of PPP/C members led by Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill; Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, Oneidge Walrond; former Mayor Patricia Chase-Green and Local Government Election  Candidate Roneta Small conducted a walkabout in several areas around Georgetown including Sophia, North Ruimveldt, South Ruimveldt, Rassvillle, Festival City, Tucville and Stevedore Housing Scheme.

Dear Editor, There is great excitement about the formalization of the National Intelligence and Security Agency.

The Guyana Water Inc (GWI) as part of its efforts to make potable water available to all communities on the coast is presently conducting restoration works on the East Coast of Demerara.

ST JOHN’S, CMC – A majestic, maiden first-class double hundred from opener Kirk McKenzie and a composed maiden first-class hundred from Kevin Wickham led dominant West Indies Academy batting against Team Weekes in the second match of the Headley-Weekes Tri-Series yesterday in Antigua.

KHARTOUM,  (Reuters) – Strikes by air, tanks and artillery rocked Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, and the adjacent city of Bahri yesterday, witnesses said, mocking a 72-hour truce extension announced by the army and a rival paramilitary force.

Dear Editor, This a follow up to my previous letter on energy development, where I suggested that we, as a nation, pursue using the $2 Billion USD investment that was put aside for the gas to energy project to develop solar energy.

ANSA Motors is now the authorised dealer for Hyundai construction equipment.

The fourth ExxonMobil boy’s and girl’s U14 football competitions was launched yesterday at the Cara Lodge Hotel on Quamina Street.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuban and U.S. officials met yesterday in Havana to discuss anti-terrorism measures, Cuba’s interior ministry said, broaching a particularly thorny subject between the two long-time rivals in the latest in a series of bilateral talks.

An award ceremony for the second China-Guyana Friendship Youth Leadership Development Competition was held yesterday at the Chinese Embassy.

Dear Editor, It was at the behest of the late Messrs.

Guyanese field standouts, competing for Jamaica College, Gabriel Lim and Trevon Hamer won their respective events on the opening day of the 127th Penn Relays at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito believes the leak last May of a draft opinion that ended the nationwide right to abortion was meant to “intimidate” the court into changing its decision, the conservative justice told the Wall Street Journal.

Dear Editor, A reputable jurist, Lord Denning, once stated that the ‘Law is an Ass’. 

Two women were yesterday granted bail after they pleaded not guilty to assaulting each other.

MUMBAI, CMC – West Indies left-handed batting duo of Kyle Mayers and Nicholas Pooran teed off in a run fest that catapulted Lucknow Super Giants to a 56-run win against Punjab Kings in the Indian Premier League yesterday.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India and Russia agreed to strengthen their defence partnership in talks between their defence ministers on Friday, the Indian government said, amid worries in New Delhi that the war in Ukraine was hurting its own military supplies from Moscow.

In a rebuttal on April 26, the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance took umbrage at the April 23rd editorial in this newspaper entitled ‘Regional anti-corruption conference’.

Dear Editor, The APNU’s allegations that in the course of submitting of lists of candidates and nominators, acts of forgery, impersonation, intimidation and threatening behaviour were committed, is reminiscent of similar allegations made in the aftermath of the 2020 elections.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Last June, Mexico’s oil regulator unanimously rejected a plan presented by state energy company Pemex to develop its biggest discovery in three decades, arguing the proposal was both economically and technically unsound.

In this season of Guyana, we are wounded by idiocy and frequent dishonesty.

Minister of Labour, Joseph Hamilton says that the seven recommendations made to BOSAI in the wake of the death of its  employee are to prevent the recurrence of such incident as no one was found culpable for Neptrid Hercules’ death.

Jaylen Brown scored 32 points and Jayson Tatum added 30 to give the visiting Boston Celtics a 128-120 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Thursday, ending their Eastern Conference first-round playoff series in Game 6.