Daily Archive: Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Durn Hunt, the Corriverton man who today pleaded guilty to murdering his girlfriend in October 2018, will return to court next month to be sentenced.

(Reuters) – West Indies batter Devon Thomas has been provisionally suspended for alleged match fixing, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said today, charging him with seven counts under its Anti-Corruption code.

The Police say they are investigating a fatal accident which occurred at about 16:50 hrs yesterday in the vicinity of Hill Foot, Soesdyke/Linden Highway.

The Police say they are investigating a fatal incident which occurred at about 11.55 last night at Melanie Public Road, East Coast Demerara and which claimed the life of a senior prison officer.

MONTEVIDEO, (Reuters) – Uruguayans in the capital Montevideo are praying for rain amid a historic drought that has left the main reservoir for the city with only ten days of water left.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Security staff shielded Shell SHEL.L Chief Executive Wael Sawan and the firm’s board of directors as climate protesters tried unsuccessfully to storm the stage at the energy giant’s annual shareholder meeting in London on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Secret Service said it had detained the driver of a rented box truck that crashed into security barriers near the White House last night, perhaps intentionally, but that there were no injuries or ongoing danger.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has declined his salary increase amid public backlash over the massive pay hikes for politicians that were announced last week.

(Trinidad Guardian) Former government minister Brian Kuei Tung, businessman Steve Ferguson and United States businessman Raul Guiterrez Jr have signalled their intention to appeal the Government’s US$131.5 million (approx.

Dear Editor, Guyana mourns today. The grief, the pain, the sorry is palpable.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter by Ms. Alissa Trotz in your newspaper dated May 22nd, 2023 and headlined “Expired, unsigned insurance document submitted by EPA refers to Egypt and not Guyana.”

-three days of mourning declared Deep sorrow and shock gripped the small Region Eight town of Mahdia and other hinterland communities after arson obliterated a girls secondary school dormitory on Sunday night claiming 19 lives with another nine hospitalised in Georgetown.

It is no coincidence that Gujarat Titans and Chennai Super Kings, teams that have built their campaigns around continuity, consistency in selection and role clarity, have earned the right to a second chance by finishing in the top two.

By Joseph Allen A total of nine students from the Mahdia Secondary School Dormitory who had to be air-dashed to Georgetown suffering from burns and severe smoke inhalation from the fire that consumed the female dormitory are currently hospitalized at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation [GPHC].

Dear Editor, Early this morning I was alerted to the tragic news that nineteen young persons perished in a fire at Mahdia Secondary School dormitory. 

Sarysha Phillips and Richard Marques scored 16 goals between them as goals rained down on the second weekend of the Oceaneering Under-14 hockey League at the St.

Hurt by the devastating news of children from their community perishing in the Mahdia Secondary School dorm fire, residents of Chenapou, Region 8 yesterday called for support and justice.

Dear Editor, Nineteen of Guyana’s young children are dead in Mahdia. 

Guyana has been officially identified as a future base for boxing camps and seminars and arrival of contingents from Barbados and Trinidad are imminent.

The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) will continue its sponsorship of  Willon Cameron, the Physical Education Teacher at President’s College pursuing a Sports Coaching degree at the University of the West Indies Mona Campus.

The police are investigating a fatal accident which occurred yesterday at about 11 pm at Camp and Church streets, Georgetown and which claimed the life of Natisha Natalie Fernandes.

Dear Editor, Father God, before you I lay the heavy hearts of those mourning losses, crying and begging for comfort of some kind.

SYLHET, Bangladesh, CMC – A confident West Indies “A” will be looking to build on their impressive showing last week when they face Bangladesh “A” in the second four-day “Test” starting here today.

A complaint by the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) which could have delayed future payments under the US$750m carbon credits scheme has been rejected, according to the Architecture for REDD+.

Dear Editor, Our deepest condolences to the families who lost loved ones due to the fire in Mahdia.

Rumina Construction Saturday provided a timely boost to the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) in the form of funding for its Under-19 team.

The University of Guyana (UG) yesterday expressed  grief at the loss of lives in the Mahdia dormitory fire on Sunday and said that it will deploy specialist teams to offer support.

Dear Editor, Amazingly, the discovery of oil off the coast of Guyana seem to generate many pseudo experts on petroleum and gas.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Reigning Women’s T20 Blaze champions Jamaica emerged from the weekend unscathed, after holding off a stubborn Trinidad and Tobago to post a six-run win and their second straight victory of the tournament here Sunday.

Bilateral relations have now been bolstered following the Ghana Chamber of Commerce-Guyana launch, at Church and New Garden streets, Queenstown, yesterday  morning, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said.

Dear Editor, We are still reeling from the daring prison escape, now comes the horrific tragedy of the fire at the Mahdia Secondary School dormitory.

The Ministry of Legal Affairs in association with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) yesterday handed over a new vehicle and computer equipment to the Drug Treatment Court of Guyana under the Support for the Criminal Justice System Programme.

Dear Editor, The test of a nation’s moral fibre is the reaction to a national tragedy like this sad loss of life.

TAUNTON, England, CMC – Former West Indies all-rounder, Deadra Dottin, failed as Thunder opened their Charlotte Edwards Cup campaign with a six-wicket defeat to Western Storm here Sunday.

The Office of Opposition Leader, Aubrey Norton yesterday expressed condolences to the families, relatives, friends, residents of Mahdia, Region #8 and all Guyanese over the deaths of 19 children in Sunday’s dormitory fire.  “We wish all those that are injured a speedy recovery and express our support and gratitude to the medical team and others who are engaged in the process of treating and helping the injured and hope there are no more fatalities. 

By Charwayne Walker The cricket fraternity in the West Indies and Barbados was saddened recently with the passing of former St.

Dear Editor, Five years ago, Chatham House, in its infinite wisdom, dispatched a band of worthies (from Oxford and elsewhere) to a caucus at State House to lecture the APNU/AFC administration on the sanctity of contract.

The first batch of twenty-three residents in and around the mining town of Mahdia that started the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs’ garment construction programme on May 9 graduated on Saturday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy could not reach an agreement yesterday on how to raise the U.S.

Dear Editor, Please allow me a response to Mr. Vincent Alexander’s recent tirade against me that was carried in the letter column of the Sunday Stabroek Sunday May 21, 2023 in which he made several spurious objections to the contents of a letter that I drafted and circulated among members of the African Guyanese cluster of organizations that elected me as their official representative on the Ethnic Relations Commission.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The International Boxing Association (IBA) has suspended federations from New Zealand, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden for joining a ‘rogue’ rival organisation, it said yesterday.

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) yesterday responded to the fire at the Mahdia Secondary School which left 19 children dead.

(Reuters) – The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region said yesterday that a Ukrainian “sabotage group” had entered Russian territory in the Graivoron district bordering Ukraine and was being repelled by Russian security forces.

Dear Editor, May 26 is Guyana’s 57th independence anniversary. The historic date also marks the 59th anniversary of the atrocities committed against Indians in the mining town of Wismar.

The Miami Heat shot the lights out and left the Boston Celtics in the dark on Sunday in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals.

Forty-six-year-old Kwese Lewis was yesterday placed on $400,000 bail after falsely pretending that he was in a position to acquire Canadian and American visas for four persons.

Media freedom, that which rightly belongs to the people and which ought, correctly, to speak for the people, is still, as it has been for as long as we have been an independent nation, manipulated by successive political administrations.

By Ralph Gonsalves, Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa, and Wavel Ramkalawan KINGSTOWN/APIA/VICTORIA – It is too early to tell whether all the talk about reforming development finance at this year’s International Monetary Fund and World Bank Spring Meetings will translate into meaningful policy action for the Global South.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Former Chief Speech-Writer of the UN Secretary-General The Economist of May 20-26, 2023, carries a riveting article, “How to prevent a third world war”, based on an eight-hour interview with veteran global strategist, Dr Henry Kissinger, who turns 100 during the month of May.

(Reuters) – Seven U.S. states that depend on the overused Colorado River on Monday reached agreement to cut consumption and help save a river that provides drinking water for 40 million people and irrigation for some of the country’s most bountiful farmland.

Dear Editor, In response to a letter published in your newspaper on Monday, May 22, 2023, captioned “Corrupt and unethical conduct within GPL” the Guyana Power and Light Inc.

One week shy of his 39th birthday, Carmelo Anthony retired from the NBA yesterday.