Articles published on Saturday, July 8, 2023
BEIJING, (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen today urged closer communication between China and the United States to improve economic decision-making, and challenged China to join global initiatives to help poorer nations address climate change.
AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who announced the sudden collapse of his fourth government on Friday due to splits over migration policy, is interested in seeking a fifth term but could face the toughest elections of his career.
KANIUKAI, Lithuania, (Reuters) – NATO has turned Vilnius into a fortress defended by advanced weaponry to protect U.S.
(Trinidad Guardian) Thousands of residents across Trinidad were left to hang dry after begging and pleading for water for the past three days.
The Guyana Fire Service today said it has managed to contain a large fire that is continuing to burn at a Chinese supermarket located at Saffon and Sussex streets, Georgetown, opposite the La Penitence market.
The Guyana Fire Service today said it has managed to contain a large fire that is continuing to burn at a Chinese supermarket located at Saffon and Sussex streets, Georgetown, opposite the La Penitence market.
President Irfaan Ali reassured Lindeners that they have a “very bright future” when he spoke yesterday at the Commissioning Ceremony of the US$120m Kiln #15 and Metallurgical Grade Bauxite (Maz) Project of the BOSAI Minerals Group (Guyana) (BMGG) Inc.
By Deneita Fredericks and Mia Anthony The Ministry of Education yesterday announced the results for the 2023 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA and this year three students tied as the top performers scoring 506.7 out of 507.7; Anaya Jagnandan of the New Guyana School, Ritisha Gobin of Academy of Excellence, and Glasford Archer of Leonora Primary School, earning them a coveted place at Queen’s College.
Santa Rosa was crowned the Region #1 winner, while Mahaicony Technical Institute captured the Region #5 title when the Digicel Schools Football Championship continued yesterday.
A move to end time-consuming preliminary inquiries in the courts is moving ahead with a major reform bill soon to go to Cabinet and then to the National Assembly.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Emerging left-handed batsmen Alick Athanaze and Kirk McKenzie could be in line to make their debut in Tests after they were named in a 13-member West Indies squad for the first Test against India, starting on July 12 at Windsor Park in Dominica.
Twelve contacts were signed yesterday for the construction of the Tuschen Secondary in Region Three and the Hosororo Secondary in Region One.
The results of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) written on May 03 and 04, 2023 were yesterday released to schools and there has been a significant improvement in the results for maths.
HARARE, Zimbabwe, CMC – A resolute 87 from Keacy Carty was the only bright spark for West Indies when they ended their miserable run in the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier with a chastening, eight-wicket defeat at the hands of Sri Lanka yesterday in Zimbabwe.
The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) yesterday said that it has written Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton over comments he made at a recent public meeting about the First Lady, Arya Ali.
The battles on the courts have intensified with the divisional finals of the Guinness Senior National men’s and women’s Squash championships set for this weekend, at the Georgetown Club, Camp Street.
Dear Editor, I refer to a press release from the Department of Public Information dated 06 July on the illegal sale of carbon credits from forests on titled Amerindian Village Lands.
GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Captain Hayley Matthews continued to leave an indelible mark on the series, carving out an eighth Twenty20 International half-century as West Indies Women strolled to an uncomplicated eight-wicket win over Ireland Women here Thursday.
Dear Editor, I read recently the narrative of the Attorney-General Nandlall of the anguish, agony, anxiety and pain as a result of the judicial system inflicting trumped up charges.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Stefanos Tsitsipas fought off Andy Murray to silence a partisan Centre Court crowd with a superb 7-6(3) 6-7(2) 4-6 7-6(3) 6-4 victory in a gripping Wimbledon second-round match yesterday.
Shivnanand Henry called ‘Sunny’, a 29-year-old construction worker of DeGroot En Klyne, Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara, was yesterday charged with the murder of his wife, Bibi Naseefa Baksh.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Two workers died and another remained missing after a raging fire broke out early yesterday morning at an offshore platform run by Mexican state oil company Pemex just off the southern edge of the Gulf of Mexico.
(Reuters) – Bangladesh’s one-day captain Tamim Iqbal reversed his decision to retire from international cricket a day after his emotional announcement, saying on Friday he was instructed to continue playing by the country’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Dear Editor, Let me be pellucid! I condemn sexual assaults, including rapes, domestic violence, murders, or any felony.
President Irfaan Ali says that there is a “real possibility” that CARICOM will achieve its ambitious goal of reducing the region’s food importation bill by 25 percent by 2025.
(Reuters) – The United States announced yesterday that it would supply Ukraine with widely banned cluster munitions for its counteroffensive against occupying Russian forces, and NATO’s leader said the military alliance would unite at a summit next week on how to bring Ukraine closer to joining.
The fire that destroyed a section of the bustling Charity Market, Region Two on Thursday evening left three fire-fighters injured and destroyed twenty-nine stalls.
Dear Editor, With CARICOM celebrating now its 50th anniversary, this nonagenarian who was the first Chief of Personnel of the Secretariat, and possibly the oldest pensioner – from 1992, had hoped that the Pension Committee which reports to the Secretary-General would by now have placed as the last item on the meeting’s item the two-year old petition for an increase on a thirty-one year old pension – indeed the principle of which three of us had discussed with the current Secretary-General as far back as when the latter was the Deputy.
LEEDS, England, (Reuters) – Key wickets late in the day helped put England in with a chance of staying in contention in the Ashes series in their must-win third test, Australia finishing a thrilling day two on 116-4 with a second-innings lead of 142.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s lower house of Congress approved on Friday the main text of a tax reform that will restructure the country’s complex consumption taxes, a move President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva touted as a “great victory”.
Tom Brady lost millions in the collapse of cryptocurrency company FTX, for which he served as an “ambassador,’ The New York Times reported Friday.
Dear Editor, Many thought the discovery of oil in Guyana would be a blessing, but monitoring the situation in Guyana, many are of the opinion it comes with a curse.
Safraz Khan, a 42-year-old businessman, is now in a stable condition after he was shot three times by a man dressed in a yellow raincoat.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – An apartment building collapsed in northeastern Brazil yesterday, leaving at least eight people dead and five missing, according to officials, as rescue workers scoured the rubble in a frantic search for survivors.
(Reuters) – Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) said it will take a “tougher stance” on the behaviour of its members and introduce measures to protect players at Lord’s after the Australian team were verbally abused during the second Ashes test against England.
Like his two other accomplices, Wayne Chester has also been sentenced to life in prison for the 2017 murder of Guyanese, Cayenne-based clothes vendor, Purcell Moore, who was shot dead during a robbery.
Dear Editor The visit to Guyana by US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, was a major success.
One of the pitfalls of us trying to guess where this oil-laden republic might be headed both economically and sociologically, is to compare it to other countries which have experienced similar booms.
TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – The Honduran government yesterday told Chinese officials it is seeking investors to help fund construction of a proposed $20 billion rail line connecting the country’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts, part of a binational trade and investment push.
