Daily Archive: Friday, August 25, 2023

Over the next two days, around two thousand families from all income brackets, will leave the Guyana National Stadium, Providence, having completed the first step to homeownership.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Retired Guatemalan colonel Juan Ovalle Salazar was sentenced to 20 years in prison yesterday for his role in the massacre of 25 Indigenous people, mostly children, some 40 years ago during one of the most brutal periods of the country’s conflict.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will stand trial in 2025 on charges of corruption and illegal financing related to alleged Libyan funding of his successful 2007 presidential bid, the financial prosecutor’s office said today.

  (Trinidad Guardian) The negotiations between Caribbean Airlines (CAL) and the Trinidad and Tobago Pilots’ Association (TTALPA) have taken a different turn as the Government is now set to intervene in the process.

By Deneita Fredericks Hundreds  of people assembled at the National Stadium yesterday to witness the opening of the 2023 International Building Expo hosted by the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA).

Seventeen-year-old Alex Muntaz of Cotton Field, Anna Regina in Region Two made his parents and the region proud once more when preliminarily he topped the country at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate Examinations (CSEC).

Two brothers of murder victim Melissa Arokium are among four persons in custody over the gruesome attack on Wednesday that also claimed the life of her son, Anthony Arokium.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and industry (GCCI) is seeking to ensure that the recent visit to India by its President, Kester Hutson, better positions it to serve the country’s private sector, particularly through the strengthening of trading links between the two countries.

Raymond and Agisha David, a Guyanese brother and sister team, have challenged themselves to ‘look in’ on Guyana from their long-established home in Suriname, to test their entrepreneurial mettle in the country’s entertainment sector.

While acknowledging the significance of an apology for African enslavement, President Irfaan Ali has stated that it is but a first step towards achieving comprehensive reparative justice, as the legacy of slavery extends far beyond the confines of historical memory.

By Joseph Allen The family of an inmate at the New Amsterdam Prison who was serving a sentence of 16 months for assault, is seeking answers over his death after he was found injured in his cell.

This week the Stabroek Business’ continues its ‘look in’ on some of the better-known trading spaces that add their special offerings of ‘color to Sunday Trading.

Dear Editor, Another more modern and more instructive way of saying of Guyana “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” is to say that Guyana is not a learning society. 

Dear Editor, Long time when social ladders were steep and rungs treacherous, the shopkeeper was a man to reckon with, not only for rations.

The University of Guyana and the Guyana Reparations Committee yesterday clarified that the apology they helped negotiate with the heirs of slave owner John Gladstone includes slavery and indentureship since he was integrally involved in both. 

(CPL) – The Guyana Amazon Warriors got their first win of the 2023 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) with a comfortable 65-run victory against the St.

It is by no means uncommon for slogans and undertakings linked to important landmark events in the Caribbean to count for little in terms of actualization of stated objectives.

Much is being made of a landmark decision made by voters in the South American Republic of Ecuador.

(CMC) –  Danielle Williams secured her second World Sprint Heptathlon title nearly a decade after she captured her first, as she and Antonio Watson delivered upsets to earn gold for Jamaica on day six of the World Athletics Championships yesterday.

Dear Editor Guyana, a country blessed with abundant oil resources, holds the potential for an economic transformation that could drastically improve the lives of its citizens.

The Ministry of Health yesterday denied a Village Voice report that it had procured dengue vaccines and was keeping this a secret.

Guyana Football Federation (GFF) President Wayne Forde stated that the decision to withdraw from the CONCACAF u17 Women’s Qualifiers was due to financial constraints, as well as management personnel limitations.

Dear Editor, I am a simple man, but could you help me because reading the news in the independent media is sending up my blood pressure.

A 40-year-old construction worker died yesterday after he was beaten by a group of persons at a birthday party.

Guyanese Fashion Designer, Junette Stuart, is preparing to ‘step out’ into the glare of a bigger, more dazzling stage on one of the world’s best-known fashion capitals of the developed world, the United Kingdom.

As the nation’s boxing prospects racked up victories inside the ring at the just concluded Winfield Braithwaite Caribbean Schoolboys and Junior Championship, the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) and its referee/judges commission also recorded wins of their own.

A Sophia man succumbed yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit 10 days after he was knocked off his motorcycle on D’Urban Street, Georgetown.

Dear Editor Ours is a society that has been beaten down by an age old political system with local Machiavellian leaders who themselves are products of that same broken society.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – The BRICS bloc of developing nations agreed yesterday to admit Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt, Argentina and the United Arab Emirates in a move aimed at accelerating its push to reshuffle a world order it sees as outdated.

By Antonio Dey The pass rates for Mathematics and English, still languish at 34% and 70% respectively at the 2023 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Examinations.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s National Assembly, which is dominated by the ruling socialist party, yesterday named loyalist Elvis Amoroso as head of the National Electoral Council (CNE).

Dear Editor, I have always considered that Jagdeo and the PPP could have done much more for sugar workers through any of a variety of approaches to the economic restructuring of the sugar industry to avoid what has become a financial and economic disaster for both sugar workers and the industry. 

(Reuters) – A former police officer killed three people and wounded six others when opening fire at a famed biker bar in Southern California before he was shot dead by police late on Wednesday, officials said.

President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), Wayne Forde, has confirmed that the National Track and Field Centre in Edinburgh will host the League ‘B’ fixture against the Bahamas in the 2023/2024 Nations League on September 12th.

Dear Editor, Dr. Roger Forbes Luncheon’s funeral epitomised the man he was, punctuated with a great sense of statesmanship, servitude and unassuming authority.

PANAMA CITY,  (Reuters) – The Panama Canal expects to maintain restrictions on daily vessel transit and maximum draft for at least 10 more months amid a prolonged drought that has lowered the water level, an official from the waterway said yesterday.

Forty-year-old Mark Braithwaite of Four Miles Housing Scheme was hammered to death by a businessman during an argument on Wednesday evening.

BAMAKO,  (Reuters) – Niger has authorised Mali and Burkina Faso’s armed forces to intervene on its territory in case of an attack, the countries said in a joint statement yesterday, a possible sign the junta in Niger plans to keep resisting regional pressure to stand down.

Monedderlust recorded the largest margin of victory to date in the Berbice Football Association Senior Men’s League, thrashing newcomer Fyrish 18-0 on Wednesday evening at the Rosignol Community ground.

(ESPN Cricinfo) – Pakistan clinched an epic last-over thriller against Afghanistan to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the ODI series, in Hambantota yesterday.

By Antonio Dey The Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) has recorded a 90.8% pass rate according to preliminary results disclosed by Chief Education Officer (CEO) Saddam Hussein who noted that this represented a dip in this year’s pass rate as compared to 93.2 % in 2022.

Dear Editor, It is essential to acknowledge that the enslavement of Africans and the transatlantic slave trade should not be conflated with the system of indentureship.

ATLANTA,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s mug shot was released last  evening after he was booked at an Atlanta jail on more than a dozen felony charges as part of a wide-ranging criminal case stemming from the former U.S.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1033’s trading results showed consideration of $6,676,363 from 19,197 shares traded in 27 transactions as compared to session 1032’s trading results, which showed consideration of $17,865,642 from 32,930 shares traded in 25 transactions.

Potaro Strikers crushed Wolves United by a 4-0 score-line when the Bartica Football Association Senior Men’s League continued at the Community Centre ground on Wednesday evening.

(Reuters) – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights asked Guatemala to provide more protections for President-elect Bernardo Arevalo and Vice President-elect Karin Herrera, it said yesterday, citing “serious and urgent” risks to their wellbeing.

Dear Editor, I must congratulate the staff of Stabroek News for the remarkable work they are doing in terms of news output.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s government will honor the result of a referendum to block oil operations in the Amazon, which will see machinery removed within a year, the government said yesterday.

The Alliance for Change (AFC), a key constituent in the previous APNU+AFC Coalition government, has described the recent criticism of its members Khemraj Ramjattan, David Patterson and Dr.

By Nina L. Khrushcheva MOSCOW – A revanchist agenda, driven by the desire to rectify perceived historical wrongs, lies at the heart of Russia’s foreign policy and provides the rationale for its war in Ukraine.

Arguably the most worthwhile takeaway from the recent visit by the President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) President, Kester Hutson, to India to attend the August 3-4 Ninth CII India-Latin America and the Caribbean Conclave under the theme ‘Furthering Economic Partnerships for Shared & Sustained Growth’ was the profusion of ideas which the visit yielded for the shape of Guyana’s economic diplomacy, going forward.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his condolences to the family of Yevgeny Prigozhin yesterday, breaking his silence after the mercenary leader’s plane crashed with no survivors two months after he led a mutiny against army chiefs.

In circumstances where members of the public do not feel safe in their homes or on the streets, it might have been thought that the Police Service Commission and the President within the ambit of their respective spheres of authority, would give careful consideration to senior appointments in the GPF.