Daily Archive: Tuesday, June 27, 2023

The Minister of Public Works of Suriname Dr Riad Nurmohamed will visit Guyana from tomorrow to attend the second High-Level Decision Makers (HLDM) Meeting on the planned Corentyne River bridge.

 (Reuters) – Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin arrived in Belarus today under a deal that ended a brief mutiny by his fighters, as President Vladimir Putin praised his armed forces for averting a civil war.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka has scrapped plans to export 100,000 endangered toque macaque monkeys to China, the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society of Sri Lanka, one of the 30 petitioners who went to court against the proposal, said on Monday.

(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar and former top cop Gary Griffith have joined forces for the August 14 local government election with both declaring that the common enemy is Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, who must be removed.

(Trinidad Express) So disgusted was Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley by the dismal display of the West Indies cricket team, that he took to social media, and held nothing back.

The Childcare and Protection Agency (CPA) yesterday said that the complainant in the rape allegation against the Minister of Local Government, Nigel Dharamlall had not been denied legal counsel.

HARARE, Zimbabwe, CMC – Teja Nidamanuru defied Nicholas Pooran’s hundred with a scintillating one of his own while Man-of-the-Match Logan van Beek produced a fearless all-round effort, as Netherlands stunned West Indies in a dramatic Super-Over to leave the Caribbean side’s World Cup hopes hanging by a string here yesterday.

APNU has expressed dismay at the government’s draft Petroleum Activities Bill and said that it should address  direct spending from cost oil.

Murder accused Wayne Chester is now awaiting sentencing after being found guilty of the 2017 murder of Guyanese, French Guiana-based clothes vendor, Purcell Moore, who was shot dead during a robbery.

As expected Vanisha Munroe, Melitha Anderson and Seon Budhan took home the marquee trophies when the Intermediate Bodybuilding Championships concluded on Saturday night at the Berbice High School.

Bygeval, Leonora Secondary, Patentia, Woodley Park, and Rosignol secured contrasting wins when the eighth edition of the Digicel Schools Football Championship continued yesterday.

By Shuntel Glasgow Vendors along the popular hangout known as ‘Plaisance Line-Top’ who had been on the Railway Embankment for years were issued letters to vacate their spots within seven days for a four-lane road expansion.

Guyana’s Shemar Britton had his fine run at this year’s Central American and Caribbean table tennis championships halted by Cuba’s Livan Martinez, a former Caribbean U12 champion at the quarterfinals yesterday in El Salvador.

The police in Region Two have confirmed that the businessman whose canter ran over and killed 13 year-old  Rovin Williams has been discharged from the hospital and is on station bail.

St. Stanislaus College and the Bishops’ High will contest the Georgetown final tomorrow in the Youth Basketball Guyana ‘Regional Conference Championships’ following semi-final victories on Sunday.

The Guyana Prison Service (GPS) yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for convicted escapee, Ronaldo Parris, 23, following his flight from the Lusignan Prison, East Coast Demerara on 20th June, 2023.

Eastveldt defeated Black Pearl 2-1 when the Georgetown Football Association Senior Men’s League commenced on Sunday evening at the Georgetown Football Club ground, Bourda.

Top Cop Clifton Hicken yesterday said that the police force is still to receive feedback from the DPP on the file it submitted on the rape allegation against Minister of Local Government, Nigel Dharamlall.

The Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) and representatives from several district councils on Saturday met with the verifier of a controversial carbon credits scheme under which this country is to receive US$750m over 10 years with 15% of the monies to go to Indigenous communities.

Briton John soloed to victory to claim the senior men’s title for this year’s National Road Race Championship yesterday in Linden.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Captain Hayley Matthews carved out a fourth One-Day International hundred and then grabbed three wickets as West Indies Women repelled a spirited challenge from Ireland Women, to come away with a 58-run win here yesterday.

Curtis Edwards and Basdeo Sukoom appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly to answer to the charge of larceny from several vehicles which they denied.

Dear Editor, In a letter to the Editor in March this year (titled ‘Gov’t has scant interest in utilizing statistics in relation to living standards and quality of life of citizens’), I wrote: “The starkest indication of the government’s avoidance of creating and using statistics on people-centric development is its approach to poverty elimination.

Dear Editor, It seems, from all accounts, some sections of society are not happy that a decision on the way forward in the rape allegation matter has not been arrived at.

(ICC) Sean Williams’ swashbuckling 174 helped Zimbabwe maintain their 100 per cent record as they beat USA by 304 runs.

A brand new sign board was yesterday handed over to the Guyana Society for the Blind.

New York State Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar (D-AD 38) and New York City Mayor Eric Adams yesterday declared victory in the fight to designate Diwali as a school holiday in New York City.

Dear Editor, The vexed question is who will be Guyana’s next Commissioner of Police.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago opened their CONCACAF Gold Cup campaign with a 3-0 thrashing of St Kitts and Nevis at the DRV PNK Stadium here Sunday.

(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday he let Saturday’s aborted mutiny go on as long as it did to avoid bloodshed, while the Wagner mercenary group boss who led the uprising said he never intended to overthrow the government.

(Reuters) – Costa Rica has unlocked a total of around $519 million for its economic reform program and a climate and sustainability program, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said yesterday.

Dr. Honnett Searwar M.B.B.S., F.R.C.S. (Ed.)  passed away on 23rd June, 2023, according to the St Joseph Mercy Hospital.

Dear Editor, Earl Butz, Secretary of Agriculture in the Reagan Administration (1980 – 1988) was fired – not for committing a crime but for insulting the Pope.

Members of the Guyana Golf Association (GGA), the Westside Golf Club and Lusignan Golf Club are getting ready to take on the top players from around the Caribbean at the Tobago Plantations, Magdalena Grand Beach and Golf Resort in Tobago from July 14-16.

(Reuters) – A 23-year-old was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty yesterday to killing five people in a 2022 mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – An index evaluating Latin American countries’ ability to root out corruption showed most countries moving backward, according to the ranking released yesterday.

Yohance Yarris appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus, to answer to the charge of robbery which he denied.

Dear Editor, The alleged rape and sodomy of the 15 year old Indigenous girl by a government minister should be condemned by all, also, the way the process is being handled.

Guyana Cup winner Alado will run for the first time in East Berbice on July 30 when more than $7M will be up for grabs at the Port Mourant Turf Club.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Guatemalans fed up with persistent graft scandals yesterday catapulted an unheralded anti-corruption candidate into a run-off for the presidency, raising hopes of a renewed drive to clean up the government after years of frustration.

HOUSTON, Texas, CMC – Israel-based forward Frantzdy Pierrot scored deep in stoppage time as Haiti came from a goal down to beat Qatar 2-1 in the CONCACAF Gold Cup here Sunday night.

Dear Editor, I keep trying to help Vice President Jagdeo.  The more he tries to tighten his interest rate narratives, the more his slip is showing. 

(Barbados Nation) Former Prime Minister of Barbados, The Right Honourable Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, K.A.,

Two brothers were yesterday charged with assault causing grievous bodily harm after they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate Court before Acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs.

By  Nina L. Khrushcheva MOSCOW – Yevgeny Prigozhin may have called off his attempted coup just before his Wagner Group mercenaries reached Moscow, but the rebellion may nonetheless have fatally undermined Vladimir Putin’s regime.

The Public Procurement Commission (PPC) on June 23, 2023, hosted a Public Open Day from 10am to 2pm at the New Amsterdam Recreational Park, Vryman’s Erven, New Amsterdam, Berbice, Region 6.

Dear Editor, Practically every day we are bombarded by news about the Nigel Dharamlall imbroglio.

In quick succession, between June 8th and June 25th, the Government of Guyana released news, first, of the signing of a contract worth $688 million for the rebuilding of a new Christ Church Secondary School to replace the one destroyed by fire back in January, and just last week, the commissioning of a $585 million ‘state-of-the-art’ Abram Zuil Secondary School in Region Two.

Team Guyana’s campaign in the discipline of boxing at the ongoing Central America and Caribbean (CAC) Games ended Sunday evening following Emmanuel Pompey’s loss on the scorecards.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Monday gave 86 medals to Indigenous and military rescuers who worked to find four children who survived a plane crash in the country’s Amazon and lived for more than five weeks in the jungle.

JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday objected to a decision by Israel’s nationalist-religious government to approve the construction of around 5,700 additional housing units for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank.