Daily Archive: Tuesday, July 25, 2023

President Irfaan Ali arrived in China today for a one-week visit.

U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) Commander General Laura J. Richardson arrived in Guyana today to meet with local leaders to discuss the U.S.

Parliamentary Over $31b in extra spending approved by Parliament: The government on July 20th granted approval for $26,532,000,000 in supplementary provisions by the National Assembly to cover projects such as the replication of the Hope drainage canal in regions five and six and other sea defence projects.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) today called on President Irfaan Ali to swear in the newly-elected mayors and deputies.

SINGAPORE,  (Reuters) – Human-induced climate change has played an “absolutely overwhelming” role in the extreme heatwaves that have swept across North America, Europe and China this month, according to an assessment by scientists published today.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China removed Foreign Minister Qin Gang from his post today after a one-month absence from public duties, replacing him with his predecessor Wang Yi, state media said, after weeks of speculation about what had happened to him.

United National Congress (UNC) leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar says the party’s lawyers will support Tobago House of Assembly chief secretary Farley Augustine and Tobagonians in the courts and will also support them in Parliament and on platforms.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on Friday issued Resolution 41/2023, through which it granted precautionary measures in favour of members of the Indigenous Carib Community of Chinese Landing, who it said are “currently at serious, urgent risk of suffering irreparable harm to their human rights”.

Twenty-five-year-old bus driver, Rohan Mangal, and twenty-two-year-old nurse, Anjali Singh Mangal, of Lot 69 Delph Street, Campbellville, Georgetown, appeared yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly to answer to the charge of simple larceny that was jointly read to them and which they both denied.

The CARICOM Private Sector Organization (CPSO) has praised the announcement by President Irfaan Ali of the lowering of financing costs for poultry farmers here  and says the regional industry   can potentially displace extra-regional imports of US$149 million per annum. 

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – If there were concerns about blowouts when the Women’s World Cup expanded to 32 teams this year, minnows Haiti, Jamaica and Ireland have served notice they deserve to be on the game’s biggest stage.

Carlos ‘Beast’ Evans, who is wanted by police in Guyana in connection with the murder of a Rosignol businessman on March 13th, 2020 was arrested last Saturday by the Surinamese police.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Selectors have handed shock recalls to left-hander Shimron Hetmyer and speedster Oshane Thomas for the three-match One-Day International series starting Thursday in Barbados.

By Kevin Watkins ABIDJAN – If you are looking for an argument in West Africa, try asking which country serves the best jollof.

(Trinidad Express) An historic Test at an historic venue. The Queen’s Park Oval in Port of Spain in all its glory played host to the 100th Test match between the West Indies and India – two teams with an immense legacy in the longest format despite the downfall suffered by the former in recent times.

Nineteen countries have joined India as initiating members of the “Global Biofuels Alliance”, as New Delhi’s bid to bolster biofuels as a low-carbon pathway received backing from within and beyond the G20 group of countries.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Persistent rain spoiled the final day of an absorbing contest, forcing a disappointing draw in the second and final Test between West Indies and India here yesterday.

By Abigail Headley When Nadia Budwah donated one of her kidneys to her son Aditya Mohabir in January of 2021, little did she know that two years later she would watch him suffer again and this time pass away due to bone cancer coupled with tuberculosis (TB).

Dear Editor, Mr. Raphael Trotman will probably go down in history as the government minister who signed the agreement for the worst petroleum deal ever inflicted on a sovereign state.  

MORRISVILLE, North Carolina,  CMC – Former West Indies white-ball captain, Nicholas Pooran, struck a blistering unbeaten half-century to put MI New York in sight of the Major League Cricket playoffs, with an eight-wicket win over Akeal Hosein’s Washington Freedom.

As the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) continues to press the issue of a multi-year agreement, the Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, has said that that such matters are dealt with at the level of the President’s office.   “As you are aware that the Ministry has never negotiated, it’s always been from a level of Office of the President.”

Dear Editor, It is indeed shocking that a man who stabbed Nadina Kalamadeen, a 35 year-old mother of 5 children multiple times killing her, was given an inexplicable sentence of 10 years with time off for period spent in remand resulting in the possibility that he will be free in 6 years.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – Australia head coach Andrew McDonald dismissed prospects of Pat Cummins stepping down as test captain after the ongoing Ashes series following the team’s struggles against England in the drawn fourth test at Old Trafford.

President Irfaan Ali’s ‘Cut Rose’ project, which was conceptualised to create employment for single parents continues to make progress and has earned over $4 million for the first half of 2023, a report yesterday from the Department of Public Information (DPI) said.

Dear Editor, “… slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

The Calibro Band’s musical equipment which disappeared in a taxi after an injured band member was dropped off at the Mahaicony Cottage Hospital following an accident, was successfully recovered yesterday, according to Band member Leon ‘Supercat’ Dundas.

After gold medal runs at the CARIFTA Games in The Bahamas and the South American U20 Championships in Colombia earlier this season, Tiana Springer is poised to add more hardware to her collection when she takes her talents to Trinidad to compete at the Commonwealth Youth Games.   This is according to coach for the sojourn, Julian Edmonds. 

President of the Guyana Boxing  Association (GBA), Steve Ninvalle yesterday was in the corner of boxing great and former world featherweight and super featherweight champion, Azumah Nelson. 

Dear Editor, Alternatives for political representation in Guyana have been rendered almost non-existent by the collective failure of the PPP and PNC to facilitate the necessary constitutional reforms and to dis-associate themselves from ethnopolitical politicking.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israel’s parliament yesterday ratified the first bill of a judicial overhaul sought by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after last-gasp compromise efforts collapsed and failed to ease a constitutional crisis convulsing the country for months.

Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony said at the recent Annual RHOs Conference that 216 more interventions are being targeted for  primary health care. 

DAKAR,  (Reuters) – Ghana’s former sanitation minister Cecilia Abena Dapaah, who resigned from her post on Saturday, has been arrested in a corruption inquiry, the West African nation’s Office of the Special Prosecutor said on Monday.

USAID’s Youth Resilience, Inclusion and Empowerment (Y-RIE) Program is seeking creative concepts that focus on youth development issues; propose smart, locally-driven approaches; bring partners together to work effectively and implement innovative activities.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Dominant Pakistan took charge of the second test against Sri Lanka after bundling out the hosts in two sessions for a paltry 166 at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground yesterday.

Dear Editor, I have seen some activity in the media recently concerning the cost of chicken in Guyana, when compared to imported chicken.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso yesterday declared a state of emergency and night curfews in three coastal provinces, amid a wave of violence over the weekend in the Andean country that left at least eight people dead.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Environmental law charity ClientEarth’s unsuccessful attempt to sue Shell SHEL.L

(Trinidad Guardian) When BW268 touched at the Robert L Bradshaw International Airport just after 10 am yestyerday, it marked the first time Caribbean Airlines (CAL) was operating scheduled flights to St Kitts.

(Reuters) – England are desperate to win the final Ashes test against Australia despite a series victory no longer being possible as they look to build for the future, batter Zak Crawley said.

Dear Editor, Another investigation, another damming report on findings and recommendations and, it is alleged, no affirmative action on implementation of the recommendations, in the chilling BOSAI employee accident death earlier this year (SN July 23). 

Businessman Samuel Chandool and his wife Chitralekha have been ordered to pay damages in the sum of $750,000 for constructing a building with a wall and concrete platform extensions which encroached on the land of resident Dian Balram, of Vreed-en-Hoop, West Bank Demerara.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russia destroyed Ukrainian grain warehouses on the Danube River in a drone attack yesterday, targeting a vital export route for Kyiv in an expanding air campaign that Moscow began last week after pulling out of the Black Sea grain deal.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Senior U.S. Department of State official Brian Nichols said yesterday he had spoken with Guatemalan Foreign Minister Mario Bucaro to stress the need to hold a free and fair run-off in the Central American country’s presidential election next month.

Dear Editor, I absorbed Minister Edghill’s comment on diaspora expectations, and how its members need to manage those better. 

ADELAIDE, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Ary Borges said she went through the full gamut of emotions during her Women’s World Cup debut in yesterday’s 4-0 win over Panama, adding that she was as surprised as anyone to score a hat-trick in her first game at the showpiece event.

Twenty-seven-year-old Clifford Vieira, (no address given) appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Magistrate Rhondel Weever to answer to the charge of using abusive language.

It really matters little how much we shout about our ‘oil economy,’ make pronouncements about envisaged transformations and ‘soak up’ the credentials bestowed upon us by the assorted experts about just where we rank in the pecking order of oil-producing countries.  As has been the case elsewhere, oil can just as easily deliver a poisoned chalice, as it can, some measure of development, for reasons, some of which are already painfully apparent in our altogether deformed socio-political condition.

The Ministry of Public Works yesterday said that teams have been mobilized and systems put in place to ensure the smooth shuttling of passengers and goods across the Demerara River.

GAZA,  (Reuters) – Archaeologists working on a 2,000-year-old Roman cemetery discovered in Gaza last year have found at least 125 tombs, most with skeletons still largely intact, and two rare lead sarcophaguses, the Palestinian Ministry of Antiquities said.

(Trinidad Guardian) Former United National Congress (UNC) chairman Jack Warner has made his return speech to UNC supporters, telling them that he intends to dismantle his political party, the Independent Liberal Party (ILP), to bring his supporters back to the UNC.

Dear Editor, I have always been one of those who strongly encouraged industry and investment across our economic sectors, whether banking, animal husbandry or otherwise, as a means of increasing output, lowering costs and increasing efficiency, with greater benefits for customers. 

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – There was relief rather than celebration at the news that Australia had retained the Ashes when cricket fans Down Under woke up yesterday morning after the Manchester rain had rescued their team in the drawn fourth test.