Daily Archive: Friday, May 19, 2023

Royden Williams aka `Smallie’ this afternoon escaped from the Mazaruni Prison with assistance of persons from the outside.

The Guyana Press Association (GPA) today rebuffed an attack by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on its President and the elections it held last Sunday.

XIAN, China,  (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping today unveiled a grand plan for Central Asia’s development, from building infrastructure to boosting trade, taking on a new leadership role in a region that has traditionally been a Russian sphere of influence.

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was given a warm welcome at an Arab summit today, winning a hug from Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince at a meeting of leaders who had shunned him for years, in a policy shift opposed by the U.S.

Fifteen days after a historic High Court decision finding it in breach of insurance requirements for the Liza-1 well, ExxonMobil yesterday announced that it had filed its own appeal against the judgment.

Opposition Leader, Aubrey Norton yesterday lashed out at the government’s decision to place a ban on the importation of poultry and poultry products, as according to him it has not taken into consideration that the stricture will likely trigger a surge in prices.

Emphasising that the none of its parliamentarians are on the Integrity Commission’s list of defaulters, PPP General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo  yesterday said that the party supports making public the names of all persons that fall into this category.  “We support the publication of all of the names of the people who are in default,” Jagdeo, also Vice-President, declared yesterday.

Sixty-nine percent of Guyanese believe that most or all members of political parties here are involved in corrupt practices, according to the World Justice Project report 2022 which was released on Wednesday This was a key finding of the report taken from the General Population Poll (GPP) conducted for the World Justice Project in 2022.

After you travel the thirty five miles from Charity you arrive at the mouth of the Wakapau Creek.

One day after the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) issued a wanted bulletin for a Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara couple in relation to money laundering, the couple yesterday morning turned themselves in with their attorney, Bernard Da Silva.

There are no indications that the threatened global rice shortage, touted as the likely biggest shortage of its kind in more than two decades is likely to impact on either the availability of rice to local consumers or on existing agreements which the local rice milling company, Nand Persaud and company enjoy with its buyers abroad, Head of the company Mahendra Persaud has told the Stabroek Business.

The Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre (PRRC) in partnership with the Ministry of Health and MiracleFeet, a US-based organisation, will embark on a three-day training programme to implement Phase II of a national programme for the treatment of Clubfoot in Guyana, using the Ponseti Method.

On Wednesday,  17th of May 2023, Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers conducted an operation at 101 Hunter Street, Albouystown, Georgetown and intercepted 18 lbs of ganja on a shop.

Seemingly keen to raise the country’s tourism profile to match the surfeit of external interest in Guyana triggered by the emergence of a ‘world class’ oil and gas sector, the Government of Guyana is pressing the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) into service in pursuit of a visitor experience that would match, if not surpass, those other outstanding ones in the hemisphere.

Rural and hinterland health centres were given a boost with the donation of equipment from the Pan American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO).

The Lady Jaguars have been drawn in group A of League B in the CONCACAF W Gold Cup Qualifiers following the official draw yesterday in Miami, Florida.

As small Guyanese businessmen and women who attended this year’s Agro Fest event in Barbados continue to contemplate the ‘key takeaways’ from the event, some of the participants in the event are of the view that having invested in providing an opportunity to market their goods in an external market, the authorities should proceed seamlessly into opening up avenues that can complement the exposure and experience which the Agro Fest event had afforded them.

The Guyana National Olympians Association (GNOA) honored the nation’s lone Olympic medalist, Mike Parris yesterday, unveiling a bust of his image at the Merriman’s Mall.

Already preoccupied with the fortune-changing impact which the country’s oil finds have had on transforming its developmental perspective, the country can anticipate further likely windfalls from its gas resources, according to an oilNow report published earlier this week.

Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU)  officers acting on information received, conducted a search operation on Wednesday at an interior transportation service company, which led to the discovery of a quantity of suspected cannabis concealed in a box containing packs of snacks.

Despite concluding the 2022/2023 CONCACAF Nations League in March, the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) is yet to remunerate the Golden Jaguars senior men’s programme their match-day fees for the fixtures against Bermuda and Montserrat. 

Energy rich but environmentally threatened Brazil can become a global clean energy powerhouse while making a unique contribution to pushing back the despoiling of the environment in the Amazon region, according to a new World Bank Group report released earlier this month.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A decision by Brazil’s environmental regulator to block state-owned oil company Petrobras’ Amazon oil project has exposed tensions in President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s coalition between green advocates and those prioritizing economic development.

The Guyana Association of Women Lawyers (GAWL) yesterday strongly condemned an attack by Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC on a member of the magistracy but he yesterday defended his right to criticise her ruling.

With the Caribbean already having, last year, rolled out several initiatives aimed at shoring its food sufficiency bona fides in the wake the food security ‘shots’ fired across its bows by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the region has moved to roll out a series of initiatives designed to mitigate the likelihood of member countries of CARICOM drifting into the realm of basket cases insofar as food sufficiency is concerned.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s supreme court voted yesterday to convict former President Fernando Collor de Mello on corruption and money laundering charges.

With the ‘One Guyana’ Futsal Championship set to conclude tomorrow at the National Park, Thomas Lands, captains of finalists Sparta Boss and Bent Street have expressed respective confidence in emerging victorious during a pre-match press conference yesterday at the Mohamed Enterprise headquarters.

Thirty-one-year-old Quincy Letlow, of Lot 13 West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on May 17, before Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus where he pleaded not guilty to assaulting a police officer with intent to prevent lawful apprehension after being identified as a suspect in a robbery.

Dear Editor, Mr. Enrico Woolford has offered a response to my letter on the subject of the recent Guyana Press Association elections in which he writes that Kit Nascimento “has decided to go into his toolkit to tinker with the Guyana Press Association and declare what should or should not obtain”.

Twenty-nine-year-old Kester Gilkes, a taxi driver of Lot 227 Blue Berry Hill, Linden, appeared yesterday at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Crystal Lambert to answer to the charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

(Trinidad & Tobago Guaridian) ANSA Merchant Bank Limited (AMBL) has reported robust revenue of TT$256 million for the first quarter of 2023.

Dear Editor, Guyana is making more and waves all over.  This little country down South of the border is in the big time, real prime time; and in this instance-two of them, really-it all has to do with Exxon. 

Buxton United defeated Den Amstel 2-0 when the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) Elite League continued last evening at the Eve Leary ground.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Fabrizio Fidati, who lost his right hand in an accident 25 years ago, had not experienced the sensation of temperature in his missing digits until trials for a bionic technology unlocked the cool of iced water and heat of a stove burner for him.

(Jamaica Observer) UNRELIABLE technologies and a lack of confidence in the banking sector have been cited as the reasons Jamaicans are opting out of holding their funds digitally.

The seven-member track and field outfit currently in Bogota, Colombia will get into the blocks today at the South American Athletics U20 Championships and they are all primed for the podium.

Dear Editor, Mercy Investment Services, Inc is a ministry of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, whose mission is to “recognize the moral imperative of work for a just and sustainable world”. 

WASHINGTON/CARACAS, (Reuters) – The U.S. has assured the United Nations that it will shield a proposed UN-administered Venezuela humanitarian fund from creditors, people familiar with the matter said yesterday, removing a key obstacle to getting the money flowing.

Michael Embrack, a 38-year-old man of East Canje, Berbice yesterday pleaded guilty to trafficking in narcotics and was jailed for a year. 

Trinidad and Tobago’s Lee Ann Boodram will be banking on her experience to come up trumps against Abiola Jackman when the pair matches gloves on Sunday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Walt Disney Co DIS.N will shutter its immersive Star Wars-themed luxury hotel in Orlando this September, less than two years after it opened, as the media giant cuts costs throughout its entertainment and parks businesses.

Dear Editor, However insignificant I may be in the scheme of things, I love ExxonMobil and I think they’re a great company and I am very happy that they are here since we, obviously, cannot drill Guyana’s oil by ourselves and I can see in no forseeable time when we will be able to do so ourselves.

Fazaad Ali appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly to answer to the charge of littering.

Allico Sealey yesterday appeared before Magistrate Peter Hugh at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court charged with the offence of possession of a narcotic for the purpose of trafficking and was sentenced to 18 months.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s Constitutional Court yesterday paved the way for early legislative and presidential elections, rejecting a series of cases brought by opposition politicians to block President Guillermo Lasso’s decision to dissolve the National Assembly.

Dear Editor, With Guyana on the fast-paced course of development and economic success, it is not surprising that the current PPP/C government spearheading the transformation has become the target of attacks and propaganda campaigns by political opportunists envious of the progress.

The South Turkeyen Sports Committee announced yesterday that they will host a three-a-side, small-goal football competition on Sunday at the Vryheid’s Lust Playfield, East Coast Demerara.

Dear Editor, I am pleased with the advances being made in the telecoms sector, promised as early as July.  

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazil is investigating a suspected case of avian influenza A (H5N1) in a person living in the southeastern state of Espirito Santo, where this week the first ever confirmed cases in wild birds were detected, the Health Ministry said.

A man appeared yesterday at the Cove and John Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Fabayo Azore to answer to the charge of larceny of cattle.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden telephoned his Papua New Guinea counterpart James Marape yesterday after cancelling a historic meeting in the Pacific islands nation to tell him Secretary of State Antony Blinken would travel in his place, the two leaders said.

(CMC) – Lead selector Desmond Haynes said the selection panel plans to provide a list of players to Cricket West Indies that they could start grooming for future leadership roles in the West Indies team.

(CMC) – Pace bowling prospect Jair McAllister defied half-centuries from Saif Hassan and Jaker Ali to end with career-best figures and enable West Indies “A” to take a healthy first innings lead against hosts Bangladesh “A” in the first “Test” yesterday.

By Macsood Hoosein Macsood Hoosein is a Guyanese-born professional working in sustainability and finance internationally.

Part 2 With approximately 90% of Guyana’s population living in Coastal areas, its forested regions have largely remained intact, with deforestation rates standing between 0.02% to 0.079% over the past two decades.

(Reuters) – Eric Cole, still chasing a first career win, charged to the top of the PGA Championship first round leaderboard ahead of a pack of major winners yesterday before play was halted due to darkness, bringing the curtain down on a wild day at Oak Hill.

Last Sunday this newspaper published an episode in the series ‘132 Carmichael Street’ by the artist Stanley Greaves.

(Reuters) – Kentucky Derby winner Mage will be gunning for the middle jewel of U.S.

(Reuters) – Holder Rafa Nadal will miss the French Open after failing to regain full fitness from a hip injury suffered at the Australian Open in January, and the 14-times Roland Garros winner added he expects to retire following the 2024 season.

The body of a 60-year-old boat captain who went missing after a river mishap on Monday was found on Wednesday by a search party headed by a police sergeant in the vicinity of Eteringbang Landing, Cuyuni River.

It is by no means the most common of occurrences for heads of governments to travel to foreign capitals for the formal opening of their countries’ diplomatic missions abroad.

Dear Editor, On Friday May 26, 2023, the Macedonia Joppa Voluntary Committee (MJVC), a non-profitable organization on the Corentyne will mark Guyana’s 57th Independence Anniversary with the largest celebrations ever seen in Region 6.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Government’s move to extend the term of local government representatives by a year has been deemed unlawful.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1019’s trading results showed consideration of $4,418,501 from 12,377 shares traded in 17 transactions as compared to session 1018’s trading results, which showed consideration $1,325,848 from 1,637 shares traded in 11 transactions.