Articles published on Friday, July 14, 2023
The following statement was issued today by Nazar Mohamed and Azruddin Mohamed in relation to a Reuters report The Mohameds take note of a special Reuters report titled “US Probing Exxon Contractor in Guyana for Smuggling Drugs, Gold” dated July 14, 2023.
BENGALURU, (Reuters) – India’s space agency launched a rocket today that will attempt to land a spacecraft at the lunar south pole, an unprecedented feat that would advance India’s position as a major space power.
(Trinidad Express) “Greed and jealousy”. These were the reasons relatives of Reynold Victor—who was killed on Tuesday near the Croisee in San Juan—gave as to why Victor was shot dead and his mother’s Morvant house firebombed on Wednesday.
Gold trading businessman Nazar `Shell’ Mohamed today denied explosive claims in a Reuters report that he and his son Azruddin Mohamed were engaged in gold and drug smuggling.
Guyana has moved up in the World Bank country classification index according to gross national income (GNI) and is now regarded as a high-income country, a change from being middle income and one that would see scaled down access to concessional loans and higher interest rates for borrowing from international development organisations.
Wesley Bazil called ‘Tappy,’ who was convicted last month for raping a 15-year-old girl who had gone to his shop to make a purchase, has been handed a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
Despite objections from Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton to several of the newly-selected appointees to the Public Service Commission (PSC), President Irfaan Ali yesterday went ahead and swore in the members of the body.
George Moses of Lot 18 Lamaha Street, Newtown, Kitty, Georgetown yesterday appeared virtually via Zoom at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court before Acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus where he was charged with the capitol offence of murder.
Interview with GCCI President Kester Hutson GCCI President Kester Hutson speaks with the Stabroek Business Stabroek Business: Does this event this early in your presidency provide an indication that the GCCI will now be paying more attention to the promotion of small businesses, going forward?
Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill on Wednesday morning met with fishermen at the Meadow Bank wharf in Georgetown, whose boats were damaged by the wake created by a cargo vessel.
France is upping its presence here with the establishment of a bureau which will be functional from September, French Ambassador to Suriname and Guyana, Nicholas de Lacoste on Wednesday night announced.
Stabroek Business: Could you enlighten us on the history behind Small Business Week?
In the continually unfolding environment of local entrepreneurship where modest ‘hopefuls,’ no less than the more ambitious ones, seek earnestly to ‘cash in’ on the winds of change that appears to have drifted Guyana’s way on promises of an economic transformation driven by our protracted, now realized oil and gas ‘dream,’ Guyanese women are sending unmistakable signals that they are determined not to be left behind.
Addressing a media conference at his office on Wednesday, President Irfaan Ali says he plans to have extensive consultations with teachers all across the country on the matter of a comprehensive benefits package.
(CMC) – West Indies had little reward after enduring a long, hard grind, while the Indian opening pair of Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rohit Sharma made merry and carved out monumental hundreds to put their side firmly in control of the first Test yesterday in Dominica.
Dear Editor, A good friend and prominent Guyanese banker who has lived in Canada and the USA and worked extensively in the Caribbean and who currently works here recently remarked that “Nothing can prepare you for Guyana.”
JAKARTA/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held “candid and constructive” talks with top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi yesterday in Indonesia’s capital, an official said, the latest in a series of interactions Washington says are aimed at managing competition between the rival superpowers.
Dear Editor, President Ali held a live broadcast Press Conference on Wednesday last (12th July, 2023), broadcast on NCN TV and online at 10:00 am and rebroadcast at prime time that evening.
Even the increasing robustness of the climate change lobby remains insufficient to push back the determination of the ‘big players’ in the global oil and gas industry, if some of the recent reports on the posture of the oil majors are anything to go by.
The Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday awarded a total of $159.075 million in cash and other incentives to members of the Force as part of its annual anniversary Awards Ceremony, with over $19.925 million going to ranks as cash prizes for their outstanding performance.
Guyana’s rugby team was scoreless once again on day two of action yesterday in this year’s Rugby Americas North (RAN) Men’s U19 XVs tournament being staged at the Mona Campus in Jamaica.
KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine has received cluster bombs from the United States, munitions banned in more than 100 countries, but has pledged to only use them to dislodge concentrations of enemy soldiers.
Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has once again buried its head in the sand over recent questions regarding the calibration of key tools of their law enforcement arsenal.
Up to this time it appears to be the case that Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member countries are making ‘heavy weather’ of trying to navigate their way out of the choppy waters’ of food insecurity communicated to the region by the World Bank/ Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) as far back as 2021 and at least twice thereafter, the two latter warnings coming over the past two years.
The quick response of the Guyana Fire Service yesterday afternoon managed to contain a fire of unknown origin to the upper flat of Eldorado Trading in Da Silva Street, Newtown, Kitty, Georgetown, causing millions in damage.
Mil Ballers bested Agatash United by a 4-2 score-line when the Bartica Football Association Senior Men’s League continued on Wednesday evening at the Community Centre ground.
BENGHAZI, (Reuters) – Production at Libya’s El Feel, Sharara and 108 oilfields was shut yesterday in a protest against the abduction of a former finance minister, a tribal leader told Reuters on Thursday.
The Bar Council of the Bar Association of Guyana has expressed its deep regret at the passing on July 10 of Ashton Chase OE, SC.
In a message intended as much for the West as for the English-speaking Caribbean, as a whole, Barbados Prime Minister, Mia Mottley, through her recent official visit to Venezuela, has unmistakably signaled that she intends to take her country’s foreign policy wherever its vital interests may lead it.
Dear Editor, America needed 100 hours of Desert Storm to liberate Kuwait in 1991.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The sweetener aspartame is a “possible carcinogen” but it remains safe to consume at already-agreed levels, two groups linked to the World Health Organization (WHO) declared yesterday.
Aubrey Younge will battle Phillip Squires today in the Men’s 35 Singles final of the Guyana Tennis Association (GTA) ‘One Guyana’ Open, following a semi-final victory over defending champion Ronald Murray yesterday.
Dear Editor, It is puzzling, the marathon press conference was moderated not by the Minister with responsibility for Public Affairs but by a public relations consultant.
The Rose Hall Estate had a successful steam trial done last month with management and staff geared up for the estate’s official opening for the second crop of this year.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government will not allow election observers from the European Union to serve during its 2024 presidential elections, a top ruling party lawmaker said yesterday.
(Reuters) – Marketa Vondrousova showed there was no room for any gushing sentiment as she ended the remarkable run of new mum Elina Svitolina with a 6-3 6-3 victory over the Ukrainian to reach the Wimbledon final for the first time yesterday.
Dear Editor, It is with great concern that I address the recent remarks made by Minister Robeson Benn of the Ministry of Home Affairs at the Guyana Police Force, 184 Anniversary, Wreath Laying Ceremony for Fallen Heroes.
Police are investigating the killing on Saturday of 23-year-old Louis Phillips, a vaquero of Parikwarnawa Village, Central Rupununi, Region Nine.
(Reuters) – Novak Djokovic continues his hunt for a fifth straight Wimbledon title and eighth overall to equal Roger Federer’s record haul when the Serbian meets Jannik Sinner in the semi-finals today knowing the threat the young Italian poses.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A former Mozambique finance minister pleaded not guilty yesterday to U.S.
Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.
Dear Editor, Early Tuesday morning Guyanese woke up to the sad news that Mr.
Opposition Councillor of the Region Two Regional Democratic Council (RDC), Prince Holder, has called on the government to give full compensation to all vendors at Charity affected by the recent fire at the market.
(Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) yesterday said it was confronted with the “irreconcilable positions” of Russia and Ukraine regarding the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes at next year’s Paris Olympics.
AMSTERDAM/BOGOTA, (Reuters) – The World Court yesterday rejected a lawsuit by Nicaragua seeking to define and expand its deep sea economic rights beyond those previously established in a long-running maritime border dispute over a trio of Caribbean islands with Colombia.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala’s top court yesterday suspended an order barring the party of anti-graft candidate Bernardo Arevalo from running for the presidency, after a flood of international criticism that the country’s democracy was in jeopardy.
Dear Editor Few things are more destructive for national development than the refusal to change.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1027’s trading results showed consideration of $1,863,115 from 2,903 shares traded in 13 transactions as compared to session 1026’s trading results, which showed consideration of $88,321,064 from 317,043 shares traded in 72 transactions.
By Ajay Banga WASHINGTON, DC – World leaders are all too familiar with the global community’s challenges – loss of progress in our fight against poverty, an existential climate crisis, a fledgling pandemic recovery, and a crippling war on the borders of Europe.
When it comes to allegations of sexual assault, often, we buy into long held beliefs about whether it is believable or not.
For all the measures put in place by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to roll back the tide of food insecurity following the United Nations World Food Programme’s (WFP) revelation late last year that 4.1 million people (or 57 percent of the region’s population) were facing food insecurity, concerns persist that the region is still some distance from being out of the woods on the issue.
Region Four Health Officer, Dr Gavinash Persaud says a refresher course in life support training will be held for personnel at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre following reports of the poor treatment of powerlifter Rawndel Clementson who later succumbed.
CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa’s top court yesterday rejected an attempt to overturn a previous decision that found former president Jacob Zuma should go back to jail after being released early on medical parole.
Buried in a presidential address lasting all of 78 minutes on Wednesday was the nugget that the Public Service Commission would be set up before the end of the week.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States has banned former Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela Rodriguez from entering the U.S.
(Reuters) – Men’s and women’s teams competing in International Cricket Council (ICC) events will receive equal prize money, the sport’s governing body said yesterday.
