Daily Archive: Sunday, June 4, 2023

VIENNA, (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia will make a deep cut to its output in July on top of a broader OPEC+ deal to limit supply into 2024 as the group seeks to boost flagging oil prices.

President  Irfaan Ali (right) met with a team from the Saudi Fund for Development led by its CEO, Sultan Abdulrahman Al-Marshad today.

(Trinidad Express) A Princes Town businessman was shot dead inside his vehicle on Saturday night.

BAHANAGA, India, (Reuters) – Indian authorities today completed rescue operations after the country’s deadliest rail crash in more than two decades, with signal failure emerging as the likely cause of an accident that killed at least 275 people.

PPP General Secretary and Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo last evening announced at Corriverton that the government is looking to bring 40,000 acres under cultivation following a meeting with farmers at Crabwood Creek.

From performing in community musical theatre productions, small-town born and raised Canadian actress with Guyanese and Jamaican roots, Vanessa Sears, 30, has made her Broadway debut in the new musical “New York, New York”.

While finding common ground on matters such as reparations for historical atrocities, a government delegation and one from IDPADA-G differed significantly on the state of the African-Guyanese population here when they made presentations  recently at a UN forum.

The other day, in preparation for a meal, I assembled some things on my plate that I did not cook, deliberately to be eaten together.

The inaugural adult ‘Learn to Swim’ programme, which is a collaborative effort between the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport and the National Sports Commission, was officially launched at the National Aquatic Centre, Liliendaal yesterday.

Citing a conflict of interest surrounding two members of a panel, a court application has been filed by civil society activist Danuta Radzik challenging the hearing of an appeal of a decision not to require an impact survey for the proposed 300 MW gas to power plant.

The Office of Leader of the Opposition, Aubrey Norton yesterday berated the governing PPP/C over the cancellation of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meetings with eight called off for this year so far.

Technical Director of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) Terrence Poole has become the second Guyanese official to successful completion the prestigious International Boxing Association (IBA) Cut Technician Course.

It was 2009. I was 15 years old and had attended the St Joseph High School fair with friends.

(BBC) Being half-fish, half-human isn’t quite a superpower, but Disney’s live-action Little Mermaid reinvents the animated classic for the age of Marvel movies, complete with kinetic action scenes and an endless overload of CGI.

Christianburg/Wismar, Bartica, Chase Academy, and Waramuri were amongst the teams to seal quarterfinal berths in the boy’s division, following round of 16 victories in the ExxonMobil Secondary Schools U14 Football Championship at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue yesterday.

The decision by former staunch APNU+AFC Member of Parliament, Barbara Pilgrim to switch support to the PPP/C has raised eyebrows and questions about the motivations behind the move.

Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers while conducting an operation at Eliza Mary, Corriverton, Berbice, yesterday intercepted a Surinamese man with a quantity of narcotics suspected to be MDMA (ecstasy) and hashish.

SHARJAH, CMC – West Indies captain Shai Hope said he was ready for the dawn of another era for his side yesterday when they face the hosts United Arab Emirates in the first One-day International in their series of three.

Dear Editor, It was encouraging to see the recent contribution to the discourse on Guyana’s development by my mentor and former colleague in the Department of Economics of the University of The West Indies, Professor Compton Bourne.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) and the Guyana Cricket Umpires Council (GCUC) have reached agreement on several issues affecting the smooth functioning of umpires at the national level.

Dear Editor, Criminality has returned with a vengeance under the People’s Progressive Party (PPP).

The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Sundar Nandkishore, 58, of Herstelling Sea Dam who was found in his bed on Friday morning engulfed in flames.

The Inaugural edition of the Isun’s Health-Conscious Master’s football league will resume today at the Georgetown Football Club ground, Bourda with three matches.

Thousands of citizens are now benefitting from new arrangements that were implemented by the Guyana Police Force (GPF) Traffic Department to ease congestion in Region Three.

Dear Editor, This week the  Presidential Commission on the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) rightfully continued its advocacy for no smoking and the implementation of the laws and so related to Tobacco. 

SINGAPORE,  (Reuters) – Senior officials from about two dozen of the world’s major intelligence agencies held a secret meeting on the fringes of the Shangri-La Dialogue security meeting in Singapore this weekend, five people told Reuters.

An inquest is to be held in the Coldingen Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD) accident on February 17 that claimed the life of a pregnant woman, Bibi Mohammed and and left her sister seriously injured.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former West Indies white-ball captain Kieron Pollard and fellow retired international all-rounder Dwayne Bravo are two of four established Twenty20 specialists retained by four-time champions Trinbago Knight Riders for this year’s Caribbean Premier League, starting in August.

Dear Editor, I, and I suspect every other person living in Guyana who is in receipt of a British Government pension, has since earlier in year been subjected to an ongoing saga of incompetence and prevarication, from the office of Pension Service.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden yesterday signed a bill that suspends the U.S.

On the 2nd of June 2023, Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers conducted an operation at the Charity stelling where a search of a boat in the presence of the sole occupant revealed a box containing a number of parcels suspected to be cannabis.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Defending champion Iga Swiatek continued her imperious, merciless march towards a third French Open title in four years with a 6-0 6-0 humiliation of Wang Xinyu yesterday to reach the fourth round.

Dear Editor, The PPP seems poised to capture a historic landslide victory in the upcoming Local Government Elections (LGE).

BAHANAGA, India, (Reuters) – At least 288 people have died in India’s worst rail crash in over two decades, officials said yesterday, after a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one in an accident a preliminary report blamed on signal failure.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Manchester City moved to within one victory of completing a momentous treble as they deservedly beat arch-rivals Manchester United 2-1 in the FA Cup final thanks to Ilkay Gundogan’s record-breaking double yesterday.

Dear Editor, Why did the PPP/C and the APNU/PNC/AFC both get it wrong.

The police are continuing to probe the death of two miners,  Osborn Fredricks and Collis Fredricks on Friday on the Fourteen Miles Issano Trail, Maza-runi after a truck turned over and pinned them.

DAKAR,  (Reuters) – New clashes broke out yesterday between Senegalese opposition supporters and police in parts of the capital Dakar, the third day of protests in the West African nation sparked by the prosecution of an opposition leader.

The “Chinese Bridge” language competition that is part China’s efforts to share its culture around the world, has come to Guyana.

Some 200 years ago, chess became a matter of personal challenge and international competition.

Considering Guyana’s small population and its cultural and linguistic isolation on the South American coast, curiosity is always the order of the day for me when I learn of Guyanese in strange and far-flung places.

Security ‘Smallie’, accomplice shot dead: After almost two weeks of intensive searching by the Joint Services, escaped death row prisoner Mark Royden Williams, also known as ‘Smallie’, and his accomplice were fatally shot by the Joint Services during what was described as a confrontation.

“Sometimes it is as if she is giving up on life and at other times well I just don’t know if it is living or just existing.

Guyanese-British actor and prize-winning poet Marc Matthews is one of the foremost dramatic, stage and literary personalities in the Caribbean.

It is June and the halfway point of 2023. Most gyms everywhere are starting to witness a decline in membership as the annual bump up fades and people start to give up on their New Year’s fitness goals.

Uncivilised, violent, devil worshipping and a country inherent in bad luck are some of the stereotypes most of us tend to believe of Haiti and Haitians.

Regardless of who we are or how different we are from each other, there is one thing that we will always love and protect – our common home.

(Reuters) – Batsman Marnus Labuschagne believes Australia will benefit from increased stability in their Ashes squad as they prepare to face England in the first test of the series later this month.

So now that Smallie and his immediate accomplices are dead then that is the end of the story.

Dear Editor, As the Mahdia fire victims were recently laid to rest, I should not be writing this letter today.

The importance of using clear, accurate language in explaining the problems that face a nation like Guyana cannot be too strongly emphasized.

The heavy fall a few days ago of 80-year-old President Biden, after stumbling on a sandbag in his path, does not reflect the quality of his negotiating skills.

Introduction Judging from the frequent feedback, which readers of this column regularly provide to me it seems they are very impressed by the exceptional speed with which Guyana has been able to move from its First Find [May 2015] to its First Oil [December 2019].

(Trinidad Express) Former executive chairman of CL Financial (CLF) and CLICO director Lawrence Duprey has been ordered by the High Court to reimburse more than US$139 million or approximately TT$1 billion ($947 million plus interest) to the companies for facilitating a deal to sell shares in what was then called CLICO Energy to Proman Holdings (Barbados) Ltd in February 2009.