Daily Archive: Thursday, August 10, 2023

UK oil company Tullow is exiting the Guyana market after poor returns from its efforts in the offshore Orinduik Block.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Cuba has begun using its own tankers to ramp up crude imports from Mexico, which in the second quarter surpassed Russia as a key oil provider to the fuel-thirsty island, according to vessel monitoring data.

(Trinidad Express) Thousands of Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) customers were unable to place calls, access mobile data and Internet services for hours yesterday after the provider suffered a widespread network outage.

Police are investigating the murder of Jermaine Goring, a 35-year-old welder of Lot 75 ‘B’ Sara Lodge, Stewartville, West Coast Demerara, at about 7.30 pm yesterday.  

After hours of questioning,  a Financial Paper for approval of $61b in supplementary financing was approved at around 10.45 pm yesterday, pushing consideration of a key petroleum bill into this morning.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips has called on states within the Amazon region to find viable solutions to combat the serious challenges faced but he contended that  environmental protection must not “translate to the absence of development” in the respective countries.  This is according to a release yesterday from the Office of the Prime Minister.

Two persons were held by police at Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo on Tuesday after   three firearms and over 170 rounds of ammunition were found in their house.

Businessman Nazar Mohamed has written to rights group, Red Thread strongly denying that he and his son were connected to any threats to the organisation.

Fabian Smith,  34, was arrested by Police in connection with the murder of 55-year-old shopkeeper Andrew Harris of Surinamo Landin, Region #7.

Christopher Douglas was yesterday sentenced to four years imprisonment after pleading guilty to possession of 26 kg of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.

Desmond Amsterdam put on a praiseworthy performance in the light heavyweight gold medal bout last night at the AMBC Championship in Cali, Colombia but had to settle for the silver medal following a close points loss to Canada’s Keven Beausjour. 

The University of Guyana Students’ Society (UGSS) has issued a call for an investigation into what is alleged to be an occurrence of nepotism during the selection of student athletes for the FISU World University Games.

President of the Guyana Cricket Board Bissoondyal Singh yesterday lamented the poor turnout of spectators for the Guyana leg of the current tour of the West Indies by India and suggested that the cost of tickets might have been responsible for the low turnout.

Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha asserted that 1,100 sugar workers will be rehired at the Rose Hall estate next month as opposition Members of Parliament continued to question outlays to GuySuCo.

Eliuge Allicock who was wanted for the murder of Calvin Nelson was arrested by the police on Monday at Issano, Region 7, the police say.

The Ministry of Education and Guyana Tourism Authority in collaboration with the Guyana Golf Association and Nexgen Golf Academy  will tee off the Savannah Milk National Junior Golf Championship from today in Essequibo.

Head coach of Guyana’s U-13 cricket team which scored a 2-0 series win over a Trinidad and Tobago side, Amir Rahaman, says that in order to advance further, his players should focus on competing at a higher level at their local clubs and academies.

The Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC)  has praised Dr. Tiffany Fiedtkou, an anaesthesiologist over what it said was a life-saving medical evacuation of a young patient on Monday last from Mabaruma to Georgetown.

Best boxer at this year’s Michael Parris Pepsi U16 boxing championships, Tiquan Sampson and champion boxer of last year’s championships Keyon Martin, headline a 21-member squad Selected by the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) to successfully defend home turf in the upcoming Winfield Braithwaite Caribbean Schoolboys/Juniors Championship scheduled from August 18 at the National Gymnasium. 

Shevaun Bobb, 33, of Lot 58 Nelson Street, Mocha, East Bank Demerara appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus to answer to the charge of obtaining money by false pretence which she denied.

Dear Editor, A letter entitled “Notions that the level of borrowing is reckless are far-fetched” penned by Mr.

The mother of the two boys who died in a fire at Moblissa on Sunday morning had left them alone while she went in search of kuru fruit to sell.

Singh yesterday visited the National U17 team at the hostel following the team’s final training session ahead of the upcoming Cricket West Indies (CWI) Rising Stars Regional Under-17 Tournament which commences today and ends September 1, in Trinidad and Tobago.

Dear Editor, In times of great tragedy, there is the press, the call, the need for great sensitivity. 

In what can only be described as the greatest comeback in the history of the Digicel Schools Football Championship, Carmel Secondary overcame DC Caesar Fox 3-2 on penalty kicks in their semi-final encounter at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue last evening to earn a place in Sunday’s final.

Dear Editor, I am writing to express my utmost enthusiasm regarding the recent formation of the Movement for Unity and Democracy (M.U.D)

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – The former head of Brazil’s Federal Highway Police was arrested yesterday in an investigation of interference in the 2022 presidential election runoff, a Supreme Court decision showed.

The Ministry of Education yesterday received several items from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to aid migrant students and schools in the hinterland regions.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – A suspect in the killing of Ecuador presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio has died from injuries sustained during a shootout, the attorney general’s office said on Wednesday on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.

Star sprinter, Tianna Springer, will aim to clinch her second medal of the Youth Commonwealth Games today in Trinidad when she contests the final of the women’s 200m. 

Dear Editor,  Recently on social platforms, a video was circulating with a woman’s voice complaining of the fogging machine and foolishly claiming that ‘they’ wanted to kill them out. 

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba in July recorded its hottest month since 1951, officials said, with the soaring temperatures on land and sea straining the country’s decrepit electric grid and pressuring fragile ocean resources.

Twenty-year-old Mark Griffith, of Lot 26 Bent Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown and twenty-five-year-old Nicolas Hyman of M 62 Samaan Street, Diamond Park, East Bank Demerara appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus to answer to the charge of robbery under arms.

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden yesterday signed an executive order that will prohibit some new U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) The energy sector was given a dose of good news over the weekend after the discovery of virgin oil in the Jacobin-1 well.

The veterinary inspection of all horses entered to compete at the Guyana Cup Day Sunday at Rising Turf Club will commence tomorrow and end on Saturday.

Dear Editor, Last year’s horse racing activity caused one of the longest and largest traffic pile up in recent memory.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday announced a key advancement in its Pathology Department with the recent acquisition of a state-of-the-art microtome machine and an advanced auto tissue processor.

KAHULUI, Hawaii,  (Reuters) – At least 36 people have died after wildfires, fanned by winds from a faraway hurricane, devastated much of the resort city Lahaina on Hawaii’s Maui island, the Maui County said in a statement late yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A shake-up in the leadership of one of West Indies cricket’s most influential territorial boards appears to be in the making.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Public information in Mexico is becoming more difficult to access under President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a civil rights group said yesterday as it showed that scores of government databases are no longer updated.

Decision-makers  were encouraged yesterday to involve youths and children in climate policy formation and action at the opening of a three-day Advocacy and Youth Forum, at the Pegasus Hotel, Kingston, Georgetown.

By Michael Spence MILAN – Around the world, supply is struggling to keep up with demand.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Former UN Under-Secretary-General Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana Previously Director of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia (1992-1996)   Wars end in one of three ways: victory/defeat; stalemate; or negotiated outcomes.

Dear Editor, The term “constructive criticism” is used loosely these days and any type of criticism is regarded as “constructive criticism”, when in fact, 99% of the time, they are not.

An incident in Montgomery, Alabama in the US last weekend has been trending on social media and has given rise to memes and commentary, some of which only serve to fuel the narrative of hate that appears to be inexorably seeping into society, despite much effort to the contrary, like the parasite it is.