Daily Archive: Thursday, September 7, 2023

Retail and home store giant Courts is celebrating thirty years in Guyana with official celebrations starting this month.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund and World Bank today issued a rare joint statement pledging to step up their cooperation to address climate change, debt vulnerabilities and countries’ digital transitions.

WASHINGTON,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Florida officials in May issued a statewide ban on using cellphones in classrooms, administrators in one county felt they did not go far enough.

By Deneita Fredericks As part of an initiative to enhance diabetes care and reduce the mortality rate in Guyana, the Ministry of Health has partnered with Mount Sinai Health System to distribute machines that will reveal blood sugar levels over months and new treatment guidelines have also been introduced.

By Antonio Dey Alma Wells, 53, of Kaneville, East Bank Demerara died at approximately 6:15 am yesterday while travelling to Georgetown from Mabaruma on the MV Ma Lisha, her family told Stabroek News.

By Shabna Rahman The police believe that 29-year-old Shannen Obermulla-Mohamed of Parika, East Bank Essequibo was beaten to death on Tuesday and her body burned.

The police last night issued another bulletin for Keon David in connection with the July 29th 2019 murder of Kurt Anthony Duncan at Seeta’s Bar.

Trinbago Knight Riders 208/6 (Pooran 102, Russell 39,; Holder 2/39, Ahmad 1/27) beat Barbados Royals 166/7 (Mayers 70, Evans 20, van der Merwe 20; Salamkheil 2/18, Hosein 2/21) by 42 runs (CPL) Trinbago Knight Riders last night earned a valuable win as they defeated Barbados Royals by 42 runs in the 2023 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL). 

A fire of unknown origin that started early yesterday morning, destroyed a two-storey building housing an auto spares business situated at lots 446-447 Annandale on the East Coast of Demerara.

Eleven vibrant individuals with a passion for football have successfully completed the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) three-day Referee Introductory Course which was held September 1 in Linden, Region 10, a release from the football association stated.

A section of the Bartica stelling that was slated to be rehabilitated, yesterday collapsed following high winds and heavy rainfall.  

(BBC) Jenni Hermoso has filed a legal complaint over the kiss by Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales.

The Demerara Cricket Club and the Albion Community Development Centre cricket team will clash today in the national playoffs at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground.

The Bank of Guyana (BoG) has written the Guyana Sugar Corporation calling on it to pass on $420m in contributions from workers that are intended for their STEPS pension scheme.

Dear Editor, It would be remiss of me, as a citizen, to remain silent in view of the various pronouncements being made and actions taken that are antithetical to democracy by those who profess to be the product of democracy, as in free and fair elections, and the ultimate guardians of democracy.

The Guyana Police Force has issued a traffic advisory on the East Bank Demerara as the country prepares to host 10 matches in this year’s Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) including the final.

Dear Editor, On the first day of the new school year I went to collect my daughter and found her drenched in perspiration and swooning.

Finding that a challenge was wrongly brought against Head of the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA), Mahender Sharma and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Natural Resources Joslyn McKenzie; when it should instead have been filed against the environmental appeals board on which they sit, the entire case was thrown out.

In what will now be his final bid to evade paying former government Minister Annette Ferguson damages for libel, Vice President (VP) Bharrat Jagdeo has now taken his challenge to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).

DAMBULLA, Sri Lanka,  CMC – West Indies Under-19s were left facing a tall order after Dinura Kalupahana struck a composed hundred to put them under pressure on the second day of the opening Youth “Test” here yesterday.

Dear Editor, Some Guyanese teachers don’t seem to understand the purpose of homework.

`We don’t get involved in the details of these contracts. We don’t certainly get involved in the details of any business.

BLOEMFONTEIN, (Reuters) – South Africa are looking to balance giving returning players a chance to find their form with trying to gain some team momentum as they begin a five match One Day International series at home against Australia today.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s suspension of a decree enabling environmental consultations prior to the licensing of industrial and mining projects has paralyzed investments worth $2 billion, business associations said yesterday.

Dear Editor, I refer to your paper’s lead story titled: “Appeal court rejects Jagdeo’s latest bid to avoid paying judgment to Ferguson – damages to be set at new hearing” (SN Sept 5th) – and wish to comment as follows: This case is about information Jagdeo might have received in 2019 and something he might have said relating to Minister Ferguson allegedly receiving property improperly.

(Reuters) – Argentina forward Lionel Messi was among the nominees for the men’s Ballon d’Or trophy announced by organisers France Football magazine yesterday.

Following a shooting incident at Eteringbang in Region Seven, allegedly involving the Venezuelan ‘Sindicatos Gang’, concerns have risen again among residents that their security is not getting the type of attention needed but the police commander insists that the situation remains under control. 

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – The death toll from heavy rains in southern Brazil rose to 36, local authorities said yesterday, as a tropical cyclone battered and soaked the region, flooding homes and swelling rivers.

Dear Editor, No!  Why is it that senior Americans fail to understand that the PPP does not need America anymore? 

Cricket enthusiast and popular juice man, Norman Welch received a new bicycle from a local powerhouse in the medical field, The New Doctor’s Clinic recently.

Akeem Booker, 28, of ‘Container City’,  West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, appeared yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court before Chief Magistrate (ag) Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus where he was charged with the theft of a car.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The Mexican ruling party’s plans to name yesterday its candidate for next year’s presidential election were roiled by controversy when one of the leading contenders denounced the vote to pick a winner and said it must be redone.

Dear Editor, The striking, protesting sugar workers plain, just refuse to get it: they are not entitled to severance or the cash payout, since, by their own choice, they were not terminated or severed or made redundant. 

(Reuters) – The U.S. Interior Department yesterday  said it would cancel oil and gas leases in a federal wildlife refuge that were bought by an Alaska state development agency in the final days of former President Donald Trump’s term.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Leaders Barbados Royals suffered a middle order collapse to taste their first defeat of the Women’s Caribbean Premier League, with a 13-run loss to Trinbago Knight Riders here yesterday.

A sales clerk attached to Silvie’s Industrial Solutions in Region Two and his family of six are now homeless after his house was completely gutted by fire yesterday at around 9 am. 

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombia’s first-ever bidding round to license maritime blocks for offshore wind farms has been delayed, the ministry of mines and energy said.

Dear Editor, I wish to examine the management of the Guyana Gold Board (GGB/the Board) for the period 2010-2019. 

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – Japan launched its lunar exploration spacecraft yesterday aboard a homegrown H-IIA rocket, clearing a path to become the world’s fifth country to land on the moon early next year.

The Mahdia dormitory fire Commission of Inquiry (CoI) will continue with its work, despite a request from attorney-at-law Dexter Todd for proceedings to be halted since the court matter involving his client is still to be concluded, Commission Secretary, Javed Shadick, told Stabroek News yesterday.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A New York state judge yesterday rejected Donald Trump’s bid to delay a scheduled Oct.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The rapid spread of a citrus disease in Brazil has pushed orange juice prices to near record highs as it threatens years of output from orchards in the world’s largest producer.

Dear Editor, On Sunday, I accompanied my wife to a church service and later was part of a meeting of the Guyana Legion and ended the day with a lengthy meeting of City Councillors at their request.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Seventeenth seed Madison Keys confidently swatted aside Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova 6-1 6-4 to reach the U.S.

Some 150 persons are set to benefit health wise from a project that seeks to tackle the incidence of chronic health conditions.

Last Saturday, while witnessing the harvesting of a bio-fortified rice variety at Lesbeholden, Black Bush Polder, Berbice in the presence of farmers, officials from Caricom and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha declared that India’s ban on rice exports would open the market for Guyana.

(Trinidad Guardian) The owner of a scrap iron business in Claxton Bay was executed in a hail of bullets in his vehicle near his home on Wednesday.

Dear Editor, I was saddened to read of the recent death of Cecil ‘Skip’ Roberts.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine has made important progress in its counteroffensive against Russia’s invasion, U.S.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Second seed Aryna Sabalenka crushed Zheng Qinwen 6-1 6-4 yesterday to reach her fifth straight Grand Slam semi-final and end the Chinese 23rd seed’s charmed run at the U.S.