Daily Archive: Tuesday, August 22, 2023

President Irfaan Ali today announced that the National Intelligence and Security Agency building will be renamed to recognise the contributions of former Cabinet Secretary and Secretary to the Defence Board, the late Dr Roger Luncheon.

PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Rescuers in Pakistan pulled five of seven children to safety after they became stranded with their teacher in a cable car high over a ravine, but a helicopter rescue operation was called off as night fell, media and a security source said.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) has published the names of persons who are to uplift land titles on Saturday, August 26th at the National Stadium, Providence, East Bank Demerara.

BANGKOK, (Reuters) – Thai property mogul Srettha Thavisin was elected prime minister after a decisive win in a parliamentary vote today as his party’s fugitive figurehead Thaksin Shinawatra made a historic homecoming after years in exile and was taken straight to jail.

(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Airlines (CAL) lost an estimated $15 million during the two-day flight disruption of its operations over the weekend, according to sources within the airline.

(Trinidad Guardian) Life is a circle and what you do to others today will definitely find its way back to you one day.

Buffeted by pilot sickouts over the last two days, Caribbean Airlines last night said that from today all flights are expected to operate as scheduled but recovery flights are ongoing.

Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall SC, Chancellor of Judiciary (ag) Yonette Cummings and Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday turned the sod for the construction of a new Magistrate’s Court at Friendship, East Bank Demerara.

By Joseph Allen One week after the Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill named Trinidad and Tobago company, Kallco as a ‘non-performing contractor’ due to the manner in which several projects are being carried out, its principals are to meet with him and other officials here shortly.

Former Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) officer, Superintendent Krishnadat Ramana is the new Commander of Regional Division 4 C.

Declaring that the discovery of 11 billion barrels of oil is a revolution for the country, Shadow Minister of Justice, Roysdale Forde SC says that the Constitution is in need of radical change and reordering if  “Oil Rich Guyana” is going to be an equitable one.

The Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Mahdia dormitory fire which claimed the lives of 20 children will hold its first sitting today at 2 pm at 95 Middle Street, Georgetown.

Two women were placed on $25,000 bail each after they were charged yesterday with assaulting each other.

Defending champions Guyana successfully retained their overall title in the Winfred Braithwaite Caribbean Schoolboys and Juniors Championships Sunday night with local star Shaquain James being adjudged the overall best fighter at the event’s conclusion on Sunday evening.

The girl who was badly burnt in the Mahdia dormitory fire on May 20 has been discharged from Staten Island Hospital, New York City, after a three-month recuperation under specialist care.

By Mia Anthony Andre Smith’s Dragonfly Drones and Geospatial Solutions, a concept that lies in leveraging drones to enhance efficiency, minimize environmental impact and monitor crop health, has emerged triumphant at the Black Entrepreneurs Association (BEA) business pitch competition.

In what was a virtual final, Jessica Callender checkmated Sasha Sharriff to become the new national women’s chess champion playing unbeaten in the Guyana Chess Federation’s Diamond Insurance Women’s national championships at the School of the Nations last weekend.

Almost two weeks after he was struck by a motorcar on August 9th while crossing the Mocha to Diamond new access road in the vicinity of Prospect on the East Bank of Demerara, Denzel Smith remains unconscious at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Some 11 young chess players are participating in the XIV CAC Youth Chess Festival in Trinidad and Tobago.

Farmers and residents from Melanie and nearby communities along the East Coast of Demerara will soon benefit from improved drainage as works have started to desilt several main canals in the area.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuadorean referendums to ban oil drilling in a part of the Amazon and mining in a forest outside Quito easily passed, drawing cheers yesterday from Indigenous leaders and environmentalists despite warnings from oil and mining groups about billions of dollars in lost income.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union yesterday threw their support behind the cane harvesters who were transferred from the Rose Hall Estate as a result of its closure, and have been on strike since last Wednesday morning calling for severance before they return to the estate.

Kevin Archer, a 31-year-old-gold miner and his 31-year-old wife Carletta Sutton, both of Lot 1 Sparendaam Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara, were arrested on 2023-08-19 and charged jointly yesterday with possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A Kenyan delegation has arrived in Haiti and has been meeting with the country’s national police, as it assesses leading a possible United Nations-backed multinational security force to help police fight escalating gang warfare.

By Deneita Fredericks With the mosquito-borne dengue fever on the rise and eleven persons having died so far this year, some of those who were infected have spoken to Stabroek News about the severe symptoms they experienced and one has urged speedier attention for patients at public clinics According to a release from the Ministry of Health, the virus has at last count infected 2169 persons with 239 persons hospitalized and 11 deaths.   As case numbers continue to soar in various regions of the country, persons who have now recovered are glad they’re able to tell their stories— enduring extensive hospital stays and battling the virus despite age or medical conditions.

Dear Editor, I am all for loyalty to a particular race of people or a particular party, but loyalty to Our Nation is of more importance when the decisions we make will affect us all.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – The Canadian government, under pressure over the rising cost of housing, could consider capping foreign student visas, which have rocketed in recent years, new Housing Minister Sean Fraser said yesterday.

A fire of unknown origin on Sunday afternoon destroyed a wooden dwelling at the Bartica Arcade, Bartica, Essequibo River.

Dear Editor, President Ali announced that he extended the services of Clifton Hicken acting Commissioner of Police to a date to be determined.

DUBAI/HARAR, Ethiopia,  (Reuters) – Saudi Arabian border guards have killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants, including women and children, who attempted enter the kingdom along its mountainous border with Yemen, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said yesterday.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador yesterday publicly attacked a Reuters report published last week detailing how organized crime groups disguised drug profits as routine remittances to move money from the United States to Mexico.

Foundation work for a  new apartment complex is underway at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara on land facing the Atlantic Ocean.

Dear Editor, “No to an oil refinery”, the SN editorial of August 21st is a gem. 

BANGKOK,  (Reuters) – Thailand’s fugitive former premier, Thaksin Shinawatra, returned yesterday from 17 years in exile, a historic homecoming that coincides with a bid by his political allies to form a new government with some of its biggest rivals.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump plans to surrender on Thursday in Atlanta in connection with his indictment in Georgia on charges he sought to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state, he said on social media on Monday.

BUDAPEST,  (Reuters) – Burkina Faso’s Hugues Fabrice Zango soared to victory in the men’s triple jump for the country’s first-ever World Athletics Championships gold yesterday, while 18-year-old title favourite Jaydon Hibbert of Jamaica pulled out injured.

BUDAPEST, (Reuters) – Olympic champion Daniel Stahl won a dramatic World Championship discus gold with the final throw yesterday just minutes after Kristjan Ceh thought he had done enough to retain his title when his final throw edged him in front of the Swede.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, CMC – West Indies stars Lendl Simmons and Dwayne Smith produced cameos but their efforts went in vain as Atlanta Riders slipped to a seven-wicket loss to New York Warriors in the US Masters T10 yesterday.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Rain has forced the abandonment of the nightcap game in the Caribbean Premier League between St Lucia Kings and St Kitts and Nevis Patriots without a ball bowled here Sunday.

Action will continue today in the Republic Bank nationwide U23 Inter-Club Super50 tournament on the East Coast and Berbice.

Aug 21 (Reuters) – The National Basketball Association’s New York Knicks sued rivals the Toronto Raptors in Manhattan on Monday, accusing the Raptors’ new coaching staff of hiring a “mole” who gave the team their scouting reports and other confidential material.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Three veterans from last year’s Under-19 World Cup have been named in a 15-member West Indies Under-19 squad to tour Sri Lanka later this month.

(Trinidad Express) The family of a three-year-old non-verbal autistic child are complaining that their return trip home to Trinidad was tainted by several rude interactions on board a Caribbean Airlines (CAL) flight from Tobago last week.

By Hippolyte Fofack CAIRO – Nearly 22 years after Jim O’Neill, then an economist at Goldman Sachs, coined the BRIC acronym to capture the economic potential of Brazil, Russia, India, and China, the group – called the BRICS since the addition of South Africa – contributes more to global GDP (in purchasing-power-parity terms) than the G7.

Given all of the various issues that have been preoccupying the Caribbean, climate change and food security being just two of them,   cricket, even as ‘our boys’ continue to ‘rack up’ one humiliating defeat after another, has descended close to the bottom of our scale of hurtful woes.

Dear Editor, I have noted the reports of the results of post-mortem examination conducted on Melinda Niewenkirk.

MADRID, (Reuters) – The Spanish soccer federation chief apologised yesterday after an unsolicited kiss on player Jenni Hermoso’s lips during celebrations of the country’s Women’s World Cup victory sparked outrage, with Spain’s second deputy prime minister calling for his resignation.

BUDAPEST, (Reuters) – Sha’Carri Richardson finally delivered on three years of promise when the American overcame the challenge of being stuck out in lane nine by delivering a late surge to win world 100 metres gold in a championship record 10.65 seconds yesterday.

Aug 21 (Reuters) – Argentina’s men’s basketball team spurned their last chance to reach the Paris 2024 Olympics after losing 82-75 to the Bahamas in the FIBA Olympic pre-qualifying final, marking the first time they have failed to reach the Games in more than two decades.

BUDAPEST, (Reuters) – United States sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson said winning the world 100 metres final from lane nine yesterday was fitting after a lifetime of being in her own world.

Residents of Victoria, East Coast Demerara are expected to benefit from skills training and employment opportunities through the Community-based Employment Stimulation Project (CESP).