Daily Archive: Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Statement by NICIL on the Resubmission of Bids for the Purchase of NICIL’s Shares in Atlantic Hotel Inc.

CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said today that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy had agreed to meet a group of African leaders to discuss a potential peace plan for the conflict.

A US multimillion-dollar project to transform the East Bank of Demerara Public Road into a four-lane, fully-lit thoroughfare all the way to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri is expected to begin this year,  according to Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not been granted a stay of the High Court ruling ordering it to enforce the liability clause in permits it issued to ExxonMobil Guyana for its offshore oil operations.

Less than two days after the Linden home invasion which resulted in a double murder, the police have issued wanted bulletins for two suspects.

The Police are investigating a fatal accident that claimed the life of 57-year-old Ralph De Castro of Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara on Saturday night.

Attorney Lesley Benjamin has been summoned before the Legal Practitioners’ Committee (LPC), a committee which was set up to probe complaints against lawyers.

More than fifty families occupying lands at Plantation Hope (Enmore Grass Field), East Coast Demerara were expected to receive their Agreements of Sale yesterday.

The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 60-year-old woman of Corentyne, Berbice, whose decomposing body was found on Sunday.

Police are investigating the stabbing to death of Raynold John, a 24-year-old miner of Moruca Village, North West District,  which occurred at about 00:30 hrs on Sunday at ‘Chiney Creek’ Backdam, Puruni River.

The Ministry of Health yesterday congratulated Dr Abdulla Amin and team on the safe delivery of an 11.2-pound baby at the Diamond Diagnostic Hospital.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) and Western Tigers recorded victories when season five of the Guyana Football Federation Elite League commenced Sunday night at the Police Sports Club ground,Eve Leary.

Some 1,000 members of the Guyana Police Force on May 13th, graduated from the COPSQUAD 2000 initiative through the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund under the Spotlight Initiative.

Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett participated yesterday in the 2023 UN Security Council Briefing Series for non-contested candidates and presented Guyana’s vision and priorities for its term on the UN Security Council.

KYIV/LONDON,  (Reuters) – Ukraine yesterday hailed its first substantial battlefield advances in six months as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy won pledges for new long-range drones in Britain to add to a haul of Western arms for a counteroffensive against Russian invaders.

A podium chasing Track and Field outfit departed for Colombia last evening to compete in the South American Athletics U-20 Championships.

Ceon Bristol, head of Briso Promotions, promoters of this Sunday night’s Pro/Am boxing card at the National Gymnasium said yesterday that the atmosphere for the fights will be electrifying.

Justice Simone Morris Ramlall yesterday vacated Abdul Mc Lennan’s guilty plea to manslaughter after he told the court before sentencing yesterday that he was first attacked by Leslie Fraser, a handyman/security guard, who he is accused of cuffing, causing him to fall and hit his head in 2017 at Rose Hall Town, Corentyne.

WILMINGTON, Delaware,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Virgin Islands has subpoenaed Tesla Inc TSLA.O

Dear Editor, Being focused on the pleasurable pursuits of a single retired life, I have paid fleeting attention to the ongoing debate related to EEPGL liability insurance and the submissiveness or lack thereof of the EPA.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday met with the Chairman of Qatar Tourism and Group CEO of Qatar Airways Akbar Al Baker in Doha.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. officials yesterday said there will be “tougher consequences” for migrants illegally crossing the southern border as U.S.

Dear Editor, I have duly noted the press release issued by the Speaker of the National Assembly, in which he accused me of being ‘mischievous’ for submitting a motion to discuss oil spill liability coverage, and for ‘grandstanding’ and ‘playing to an audience’.

Scores of residents living at Dartmouth and neighbouring communities in the Evergreen/Paradise Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) in Pomeroon-Supenaam are requesting skills training, agriculture projects, and the upgrading of several streets.

LAGOS, (Reuters) – Nigeria needs $12 billion to clean up decades-old oil spills in southern Bayelsa state over a 12-year period, a new report said yesterday, and singled out Shell SHEL.L

Dear Editor, Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that I would have to be writing to put on record the lack of decency, transparency, accountability, and fairness by the Guyana Press Association (GPA), an organisation that all citizens and my colleagues should trust as the guardians of such principles.

Dear Editor, Recently, readers have been supplied with many comments concerning the ratings of our country Guyana in the international concept of freedom of expression as represented by the newspapers.

A 29-year-old miner of Arakaka Compound, North West District, was on Monday arrested by police after he was found in possession of an unlicensed .32 Taurus pistol with an empty magazine.

(Reuters) – An 18-year-old gunman shot three people to death and wounded six others, including two police officers, in a northwest New Mexico town yesterday before police shot him dead outside a church a short time later, police said.

Dear Editor, A recent interview on Al Jazeera with the IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva was spot on in how the strategy of the IMF is structured.

Police ranks from regional division #7 on Sunday arrested a 27-year-old man after he took ownership of 560 grams of suspected marijuana that they found in a tray of a vehicle they intercepted.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelans are battling fast-rising utility bills as subsidies from the cash-strapped government dwindle, leaving many paying large chunks of their salaries for electricity and water despite regular blackouts and mains water shut-offs.

With numerous failed efforts at commercialization, the Ministry of Agriculture has embarked on another pilot project for onions here with lands on the Soesdyke Highway and at the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) currently under cultivation.

(Trinidad Express) The Government of Trinidad and Tobago has received final judgment in the sum of US$131,318,840.47 in the civil matter arising out of the Piarco Airport corruption scandal.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuadorean authorities have detained a former energy minister amid an investigation into alleged bribery linked to state oil firm Petroecuador, the attorney general’s office said yesterday.

Dear Editor, Remember I am saying so from today: this contentious Guyana Press Association one ain’t over, baby. 

Thirty small and growing agro-processing business leaders participating in this year’s Economic Development Accelerator (EDA) programme, according to a statement yesterday from the US Embassy.

Dear Editor, It has been noted that there appears to be an increasing number of assaults (beating) of Police Officers while conducting their duty of maintaining public order in the country.

(Reuters) – Brazil, the world’s top chicken exporter, has for the first time confirmed Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) cases but only in wild birds, the Agriculture Ministry said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Ukrainian anti-graft authorities said yesterday they were investigating large-scale corruption in the country’s Supreme Court system and shared a photograph of piles of dollars neatly lined up on a sofa.

SYLHET, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies A head coach, Rayon Griffith, says one of his main roles on the three-match “Test” tour of Bangladesh is to foster an environment where players can further develop their talent.

Dear Editor, It took a while, but at last some positive moves on E-bikes in the course of regularising its use and usage on the roadways.

(Trinidad Guardian) Foreign ministers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will meet in Jamaica from today to review regional foreign policy and community governance matters.

(Reuters) – There is a “very real possibility” that Pakistan will boycott this year’s World Cup in India if they lose hosting rights to the Asia Cup, the chairman of the country’s cricket board Najam Sethi told Reuters.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Barrister/Attorney-at-Law; Commissioner, and currently Honorary Commissioner, of the International Commission of Jurists When the late Lloyd Luckhoo, Q.C.

LEICESTER, England, (Reuters) – Two goals from Curtis Jones and a sublime finish from Trent Alexander-Arnold gave Liverpool a 3-0 win away to Leicester City in the Premier League yesterday, boosting their Champions League hopes while deepening the Foxes’ relegation worries.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping said yesterday strong China-Eritrea relations were key to bolstering peace in the Horn of Africa region and pursuing mutually beneficial development, speaking at a meeting in Beijing with his Eritrean counterpart.

By  Cédric O PARIS – On March 22, the Future of Life Institute published an open letter calling for a six-month moratorium on the development of generative artificial intelligence systems, citing the potential dangers to humanity.

(Reuters) – On-field umpires will no longer be required to give a soft signal before referring decisions to TV umpires, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said yesterday as it detailed several changes to playing conditions.

On the evening of Friday May 5th, outside MovieTowne, bystanders and a wider audience that ‘joined in’ courtesy of ‘candid’ cellphone cameras, witnessed a sustained assault on an on-duty policemen by two men, the brazen openness of which would have shocked those who witnessed the occurrence, either directly or electronically.  It was one of those occurrences that sharply underscored the erosion of public order in Guyana as manifested in a protracted assault on lawful authority and a patent failure on the part of law enforcement to push back the phenomenon.

On Wednesday, May 10, 2023, Food For The Poor (Guy) Inc donated thirty sets of kiddies furniture to the Department of Education, Region One.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Captain Joshua Da Silva said West Indies A were focussed on playing a results-oriented brand of cricket, as they prepare to face Bangladesh A in the first of three four-day “Tests” bowling off here today.

Shubman Gill, Mohd. Shami, Mohit Sharma sparkled in Ahmedabad to power Gujarat Titans into the Play-offs with a comprehensive win over Sunrisers Hyderabad in Match 62 of TATA IPL at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad yesterday.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, May  CMC – Captain Hayley Matthews struck her second half-century of the campaign and picked up a hat-trick as part of a six-wicket haul as unbeaten Barbados rattled off their fourth straight win with a 73-run thrashing of Windward Islands, to retain their Women’s Super50 crown.

History is not on the side of the Denver Nuggets. They have never beaten the Los Angeles Lakers in a playoff series, and three of those losses came in the Western Conference finals — 1985, 2009 and 2020.

ROME, (Reuters) – Carlos Alcaraz crashed to a humbling 6-3 7-6(4) defeat by Hungarian qualifier Fabian Marozsan in the third round of the Italian Open yesterday as his quest for a third straight title on clay before the French Open ended in disappointment.