Daily Archive: Tuesday, September 5, 2023

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – In 2014, after the Mars Orbiter Mission, known as Mangalyaan, made India the first Asian country to reach Mars orbit, and the first country ever to do so in its maiden attempt, The New York Times published a cartoon.

(Reuters) – Tropical Storm Lee was forming east of the Lesser Antilles and was expected to rapidly intensify into an extremely dangerous hurricane by the weekend, the U.S.

Up to August 28th this year, the number of traffic deaths has skyrocketed by 60.2% compared to the same period last year.

 (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un plans to travel to Russia this month to meet President Vladimir Putin and discuss supplying Moscow with weapons for the war in Ukraine, the New York Times reported.

Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony announced on Sunday that a contract has been inked for a new hospital to be built in New Amsterdam which will also be equipped with a training centre and a section for psychiatric patients which will result in the eventual closing of the National Psychiatric Hospital.

Two years after being slapped with a $20m default judgment and filing a series of appeals in a bid to evade payment to former government Minister Annette Ferguson whom he had defamed, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has found himself back to having to honour that initial ruling and whatever award for damages will be imposed against him for libel.

Minister with responsibility for Finance, Dr Ashni Singh on Sunday told reporters in Berbice that two international hotels are expected to be developed at Palmyra, as massive development continues at the location.

The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) yesterday named a five-member boxing team for next month’s Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile.

1996 LAW ran out winners last Thursday when the curtain came down on the Strikers Sports Club’s 15th annual All Female Dominoes tourney at its clubhouse.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – On the American Labour Day holiday, U.S.

A 22-year-old paralyzed girl is now dead after a suspected heart attack, however, relatives believe that the New Amsterdam Hospital could have done better in offering care to the young woman when they visited on Saturday morning.

Twenty persons who were a part of the cane harvesters’ protest yesterday were arrested after they attempted to block the Canje Turn with wooden poles and structures.

(Reuters) – India shook off some sloppy fielding and fired with the bat to comprehensively beat Nepal in a rain-shortened Asia Cup match in Pallekele yesterday as they joined arch-rivals Pakistan in the Super Four stage from Group A.

LONDON, CMC – Veteran seamer Kemar Roach and his West Indies Test captain Kraigg Brathwaite suffered contrasting fortunes in the English County Championship here yesterday.

Two men yesterday pleaded not guilty to an armed robbery at a Lusignan supermarket on August 29th and were granted $150,000 bail each.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Man-of-the-Match Rahkeem Cornwall churned out an astonishing hundred as Barbados Royals completed the third highest run chase in Caribbean Premier League history with a remarkable eight wicket victory over luckless St Kitts and Nevis Patriots here late Sunday.

Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) romped to an eight-wicket win over Lusignan yesterday after Nkosi Beaton’s unbeaten half-century, played a pivotal role in taking his team into today’s final at Bourda Ground against West Demerara. 

As the police continue to work on solving the brutal murders of Melissa Arokium and her eight-year-old son, Anthony Arokium, investigators have re-arrested her older brother Cerrano Arokium and her neighbour Deo Naris for further questioning.

Dear Editor,  The opposition continues to display a pattern of blatant distortion of facts, misrepresentation of policies, and outright fabrications.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said after talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin yesterday that it would soon be possible to revive the grain deal that the United Nations says helped to ease a food crisis by getting Ukrainian grain to market.

Dear Editor, I wish to convey my gratitude to the doctors, nurses, and staff of the Intensive Care Unit and the High Dependency Unit of GPHC for the period August 2 to September 1, 2023 in relation to treatment of a patient who was a member of my family.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Madison Keys stunned third seed Jessica Pegula 6-1 6-3 in an all-American clash on Arthur Ashe Stadium yesterday, reaching the U.S.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba has uncovered a human trafficking ring that has coerced its citizens to fight for Russia in the war in Ukraine, its foreign ministry said yesterday, adding that Cuban authorities were working to “neutralize and dismantle” the network.

Dear Editor, The video circulating (GDN) of an elderly, disabled woman being maltreated and subsequently died, warrants an investigation.

MADRID, (Reuters) – The Spanish men’s team criticised the country’s soccer boss Luis Rubiales yesterday for his “unacceptable behaviour” after he kissed Jenni Hermoso on the lips following Spain’s victory in the Women’s World Cup 15 days ago.

BLACK ROCK CITY, Nevada,  (Reuters) – Burning Man organizers reopened the road leading out of the remote Nevada desert festival yesterday, allowing tens of thousands of attendees to escape after they had been trapped for days by mud.

Dear Editor, Simplistic as it may seem, a political party, historically or contemporarily, whose leaders and members were subjected to constant political harassment and intimidation, its leaders jailed, and brutal attacks inflicted on its organization as well as overt and covert acts of destabilization executed when in office; such a party is likely to succeed upon assumption of office.

XIAMEN, China, CMC – Former World and Olympic champion, Kirani James, says he is focussed on progressive improvement with next year’s Paris Olympics in mind, after capturing the 400 metres at the Xiamen Diamond League.

(Reuters) – Mitchell Marsh is set to compete with Travis Head and David Warner for a slot at the top of Australia’s order at the World Cup after dominating with the bat in the Twenty20 series win over South Africa.

BOGOTA/MEXICO CITY,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – For decades, drug traffickers carried their cash in suitcases to dodge banking controls, and the police.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – China’s largest private property developer, Country Garden 2007.HK,

Dear Editor, The way in which some politicians approach politics over the years has to change for Guyana to rise above mediocrity.

(Reuters) – Kane Williamson will captain New Zealand at next month’s World Cup after making “sufficient progress” in his recovery from a knee injury, the country’s cricket board said yesterday.

A man who was wanted in connection with robberies in Region Three was yesterday held by the police at Peters Hall on the East Bank Demerara.

(Trinidad Guardian) Terror reigned at Massy Stores in St Ann’s on Sunday, as five bandits, one armed with a gun, stormed the supermarket beating one of five workers before leaving with an undisclosed sum of US and T&T currency.

President Irfaan Ali says that Islamophobia has adversely affected multicultural societies like Guyana and must be uprooted and condemned by all means.

Jarrel Barker, 21, of Lot 3585 Tuschen, West Demerara, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Magistrate Rhondell Weever to answer to a false pretence charge that was read to him.

 Thirty-year-old Steve Bacchus, a taxi driver of Lot 25 E North Sophia, was refused bail after he appeared before Senior Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Diamond/Grove Magistrates’ Court yesterday charged with trafficking in narcotics.

LAGOS,  (Reuters) – A long-awaited Lagos light rail service began operations yesterday as Africa’s most populous city looks to ease its chronic travel congestion.

After serving 172 years as a safe home for orphaned girls, the St.

Jerome Bernard of Lot 178 Sophia ‘C’ Field appeared before Senior Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Diamond/Grove Magistrate’s Court yesterday accused of possession of narcotics.

Police are investigating a fatal accident at about 6.20 pm on Sunday on the Haarlem Public Road, West Coast Demerara (WCD), which resulted in the death of 73-year-old Abdool Mohamed of Lot 5 Haarlem.

A man found dead at Parika on Saturday suffered multiple incised wounds.

Hundreds of residents in Matthews Ridge, Region One are now benefitting from the recently completed $244 million concrete road project at Heaven Hill.

  Dear Editor, Patriotic and independent-thinking Guyanese from all walks of life and ethnic backgrounds envisioned a bright ray of hope for a long-awaited change in the country’s destructive partisan political culture when the new party Alliance for Change [AFC] secured six Parliamentary seats at the 2006 National Elections and seven at the 2011 polls.

Secretary to the Mahdia dorm fire Commission of Inquiry, Javed Shadick, on Monday confirmed receipt of Attorney at Law Dexter Todd’s request for a stay of the COI until all criminal proceedings are completed which involved his client, who is currently facing 20 murder charges.

Insofar as we have, over the decades, given back anything meaningful to that handful of local athletes who have ‘done us proud’ on the international stage, what we have done, for the most part, has been limited to affording them some measure of public exposure and from time to time handing out modest honoraria that do little justice to the recognition that they would have brought us on the international stage.