Daily Archive: Sunday, September 17, 2023

An inquest has been ordered by the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) into the death of 13-year-old Rovin Williams who fell from his employer’s pickup on June 12th this year.

A Guyanese woman has been found murdered inside the luxury Los Angeles apartment she had been living in for just one month, cops said, according to a report in the New York Post.

(Trinidad Guardian) NiQuan Energy has been forced to put its plant to sleep (it is now offline) because it has neither natural gas nor permission to run it.

 (Reuters) – Wartime Pope Pius XII knew details about the Nazi attempt to exterminate Jews in the Holocaust as early as 1942, according to a letter found in the Vatican archives that conflicts with the Holy See’s official position at the time that the information it had was vague and unverified.

The highest ranking Democrat in the US House and Brooklyn Congressman, Hakeem Jeffries on Thursday met with President Irfaan Ali and his delegation in Washington and stressed the need for an inclusive society here and for the government and the opposition to work together.

The main opposition grouping, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) yesterday called for the removal of Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo from the oil and gas portfolio following confusion over a key audit which saw the Ministry of Natural Resources going beyond what had been  recommended by the Guyana Revenue Authority.

Godlyn Lyte cannot recall the precise moment when she resolved to pursue a career in art.

Three persons are currently patients at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) following an accident on Friday night at the recently-commissioned Eccles/Haags Bosch roundabout.

Sixteen-year-old Akeelah Andrew of Christ Church Secondary was the standout among 11 teenagers on Saturday last at the National Cultural Centre and thus won the Miss Guyana Teen Scholar 2023 title and crown.

The Ministry of Public Works has been regularly patching potholes along the Corentyne Highway, however, some of the recent patches have already begun to erode leaving road users in dismay.

Down Independence Boulevard and Other Stories by Guyanese-Canadian writer, poet and publisher Ken Puddicombe, the winning entry in the 2022 Guyana Prize for Literature, Fiction category, is an entertaining and educational work that is one third historical, one third fictional and one third personal experiences, set in Guyana’s immediate pre and post-independence era.

Veterinarian Dr. Steve Surujbally has filed a $100m  lawsuit against the State, which he says ought to compensate him adequately for his land compulsorily acquired for the gas to shore project.

Pain Hustlers, a drama about the opioid epidemic, is “too worried about being a downer to be convincing”, writes Caryn James as the film premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Over 300 persons including farmers, agro- processors, women, youth, and other stakeholders, will benefit from a $28.3 million agro-processing facility at Charity in Region Two.

There is no need to state the obvious about the heat we are experiencing here in the Caribbean.

A cabin built in 2018 at St Cuthbert’s Mission (now known as Pakuri) was destroyed by fire after the village council ordered its removal but the toshao says it was accidental.

On Friday, the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) and Champion of Hop (NGO) launched Pinktober 2023 at the Marriott Hotel in Kingston, Georgetown.

The Lucas Stock Index fell 0.449 percent during the second period of trading in September 2023. 

Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill says that the deadline for the rehabilitation of the Eteringbang airstrip  in Region Seven has now been pushed back to the end of the year. 

The Guyana Learning Channel yesterday  premiered an animated show, “The Amazing World of Cho” about a girl from the hinterland.

Mexico on Friday evening announced that it will be establishing a chamber of commerce in Guyana, and attributed this move to this country’s growing economy from its oil and gas resources and the vast opportunities that will be available here.

The Guyana Police Force has seemingly hit a brick wall as it relates to the investigation into the murders of Melissa Arokium and her eight-year-old son, Anthony Arokium, as sources close to the investigation have said that they have not made any “headway” on the matter since the release of the two suspects who were rearrested and released earlier this month.

Guyana Amazon Warriors moved back to the top of the table last night after beating Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) by six wickets in match 28 of the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL).

(Reuters) – Negotiators for the United Auto Workers and Ford Motor had “reasonably productive discussions” toward a new contract, the union said yesterday, while officials at Chrysler parent Stellantis said a proposal to resume work at an idled Illinois factory has fallen through.

Residents on Friday held a protest in front of the McGowan Primary School located in Liverpool Village, Corentyne over the state of the road leading to the facility.

By Donald Duff A business-like approach is the modus operandi of running a successful cycling federation.

By Donald Duff Former national cyclist Victor Rutherford is calling for the appointment of a national cycling coach attached to the Department of Sport following the retirement of veteran coach Hassan Mohammed.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Education’s (MOE) announcement of new class size guidelines, and clear definition of roles of school administrations in teacher supervision are tiny steps in the right direction for our education system needing massive reforms.

(Reuters) – The Texas Senate yesterday acquitted Attorney General Ken Paxton on all 16 articles of impeachment he faced before that body, allowing the conservative firebrand to keep his state office.

Police are investigating the discovery of the decomposed body of a 42-year-old labourer of Region Two in a canal at Dredge Creek, Region Two, on Friday morning.

Dear Editor, “But that should not have happened. I am told there was no great discussion.

S Jagmohan Construction has agreed to compensate the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) for damage caused when one of its excavators accidentally came into contact with a GPL distribution line at Conversation Tree.

As expected, the Commonwealth Youth Games record breaking relay quartet dominated in their individual events when the Inter Guiana Games (IGG) trials was staged at the Police Progressive Youth Club ground yesterday.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – U.S. colleges are confronting their past ties to slavery with public apologies, renamed buildings and scholarships for descendants – a push that could shape national efforts to tackle the thorny issue of reparations.

Walter Scott, a 57-year-old coach of Lot 21 Friendship, East Bank Demerara, was arrested on 2023-09-13 and charged on Friday with the offence of Inflicting Grievous Bodily Harm, Contrary to Section 50 of the Criminal Law (Offences) Act, Chapter 8:01.

Dear Editor, Last Sunday evening a lengthy list was created and posted on social media on the vehicle numbers, names of drivers and their speeds that were above the legal limit.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – A plane crash in Brazil’s northern Amazon state yesterday has left 14 dead, the state’s governor said.

(Reuters) – American Christian Coleman stunned world champion Noah Lyles to win the men’s 100 metres at the Diamond League final in Eugene, Oregon yesterday as Jamaican Shericka Jackson took the women’s sprint title.

Dear Editor, The recent fiasco over the audit of Exxon is a clear indication that the current structure in place to manage the oil sector is inadequate.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Jamaica Tallawahs put themselves on the brink of qualification for the playoffs of the Caribbean Premier League when they brushed aside beleaguered St Kitts and Nevis Patriots by 59 runs in their penultimate group stage game here yesterday.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – The disappearance of China’s defence minister, the latest in a string of upheavals in the country’s top ranks, is stoking uncertainty about President Xi Jinping’s rule as an internal security clampdown trumps international engagement.

The Atlantis Cuisine restaurant at the West Central Mall, located at Groenveldt, Leonora, West Coast Demerara was declared open during a cocktail event on Tuesday evening. 

SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un discussed practical issues in stepping up military cooperation with Russia’s defence minister, state KCNA news agency said yesterday, having what KCNA called a “fresh heyday” of relations between the two countries.

Agatash dismantled AK Galaxy by a 4-1 score-line when the Bartica Football Association Senior Men’s League continued on Friday evening at the Community Centre ground.

Wackindra Ramcharitar, a 35-year-old resident of Lot 61 Guava Bush, Albion, Berbice, whose house was completely destroyed by fire received a hamper on Friday from Police ranks in the Ancient County.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – On his first trip to Cuba during his third term in office, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called the embargo imposed by the United States on the island “illegal” and denounced the island’s inclusion on the list of state sponsors of terrorism.

Dear Editor, Hinduism does not need a strident ‘defence’ as other religions; the guiding philosophy that underpins Hinduism is not dependent on belief in a god or gods, much less militant defence of its symbols.

MEXICO CITY, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Lawmakers in Latin America are carving out new rights for the human brain in response to advances in neurotechnology that make scanning, analyzing and selling mental data ever more possible.

Steve Greene, a 20-year-old construction worker of Lot 64 Kaneville, East Bank Demerara, was arrested on 2023-09-13 by a rank from an anti-crime patrol unit and charged on Friday with larceny.

Nah every crab hole get crab. Should Robyn prepare for another disappointment?

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has launched a programme that will benefit the mental health and development of adolescents and children.

Paulo Coelho, a Brazilian lyricist and writer once said “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”

Henry Muttoo (MBE), a wise arts-man of the Caribbean, in August said as he accepted a Guyana Cultural Association of New York Lifetime Achievement Award, “Give the people not what they want but what they should want.”

Sometimes staying focused at the gym can be challenging, especially with the many distractions.

Ol Higue Ol’ woman wid de wrinkled skin, Leh de ol’ higue wuk begin.

There was insufficient newspaper reporting yesterday on the reasons for the dismissal of the charge against Mr.

Introduction In both my initial column in the series on the public auction of oil block rights and the likely remaining opportunity window for successful Guyana crude oil exportation and my later re-cap of this column, I have remained steadfast in my view that this window is likely to last until the decade of the 2050s.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour looks at an historic Test match between England and the West Indies Prologue “Upon all the new settlements the Spaniards make, the first thing they do is build a church, the first thing the Dutch do upon a new colony is to build them a fort, but the first thing ye English do, be it in the most remote part of ye world, or amongst the most barbarous Indians, is to set up a tavern or drinking house,” attributed to English Sea Captain Thomas Walduck (who was possibly a privateer), in a letter to John Searle, his nephew in London, 1708, on the Historic London Town and Gardens website.

A day is dulled and dimmed if it passes and I do not pick up a book of poems in my library, browse in some anthology, find a new poem in some magazine or at least before my eyes shut glance at some old favourite lines from Hopkins, Walcott, Yeats, Carter or a score of other supreme masters of the art and craft of making poems.

Friday was International Democracy Day which brought in its train the expected commentary from government on the five months’ suspension of democratic norms here some three years ago.

Thirty years ago, in September 1993, two separate World Championship matches were played in the Netherlands and England for the first and only time in chess history.

LOCKEPORT, Nova Scotia,  (Reuters) – Lee made landfall as a post-tropical cyclone packing hurricane-force winds in a far western part of Canada’s Nova Scotia province yesterday, flooding roads, downing trees and cutting out power for tens of thousands of people along the North Atlantic coast.

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka spinner Maheesh Theekshana will miss the Asia Cup final against India after sustaining a hamstring injury during their win over Pakistan, the country’s cricket board (SLC) said yesterday.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Developing nations yesterday declared Sept. 16 the annual “Day of Science, Technology and Innovation in the South” as they prepared to wrap up a two-day summit on the subject.

This week, a sister shares her recent experience at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Dear Editor, Permit me to thank Pt Ubraj Narine, Geeta Chandan and others for doing their duty as Hindus to protect our  Dharma and for bringing this matter to the public’s attention.