Daily Archive: Saturday, September 30, 2023

Dear Editor, Articles by Dr. Tarron Khemraj appearing on his business page in SN 2023/09/24 and SN 2023/09/10 require some comments, since the use of ‘Balances from Abroad’ imply that Commercial Banks have readily available sources of foreign exchange that are liquid balances and can be deployed to make good any foreign exchange ‘shortage’ affecting the Private Sector.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives passed a stopgap funding bill today with overwhelming Democratic support after Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy backed down from an earlier demand by party hardliners for a partisan bill.

Ongoing rehabilitation work at the Albion Community Centre Ground. The ground is being upgraded to an international standard facility, according to a brief statement from the Ministry of Finance.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A Texas investment firm agreed yesteday to pay $2.51 million to settle a U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Defamatory posts on social media have cost one user more than $1 million which he has been ordered by the High Court to pay to chief executive of the North Central Regional Health Authority (NCRHA), Davlin Thomas.

(Trinidad Express) Hours after a 13-year-old Rio Claro schoolgirl attended an identification parade to point out the perpetrators who had sexually assaulted her, she and her uncle were shot dead and her father critically wounded in their home early yesterday.

Seven months after Courts Guyana announced its intention to construct a 50,000 square foot multi-complex facility at Farm, East Bank Demerara, full approval has not been granted by the authorities.

By Shabna Rahman The West Central Mall was opened yesterday with the Executive Director, Hemraj Albert stating that it was much needed in Region 3 and he was glad to contribute to its development.

Optique Vision Care is a local eye care company that was established in 2013 and ten years later is a success story with five branches and a sixth to be opened soon.

Nadina Taharally and Roger Rogers will represent Guyana next week at the World Masters Classic Open Powerlifting Championships.

Following the violent storm in a farm at Jawalla Village, Region Seven, that claimed the lives of three women on Thursday afternoon, the weather conditions improved enough yesterday  for the four injured persons to be airlifted to Georgetown for further medical attention.

Guyana yesterday continued to push back against efforts by Venezuela for direct talks over their border controversy amid an escalation from Caracas which has signalled plans for a referendum on the matter.

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – West Indies Women’s head coach Shane Deitz was generally satisfied with the way his side played in their opening match on the Tour of Australia.

Christopher Henry of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) last night electrified the crowd at the National Gymnasium when he stopped Shawn Rodney of the Guyana Police Force Gym as the Guyana Boxing Association’s Andrew `Sixhead’ Lewis (GBA) National Novices championships boxed off last night.

Prince Sinclair, who was arrested on Wednesday after he allegedly drove into, injured, and used a series of expletives against Police Constable Daniel Fredricks in New Amsterdam, was yesterday slapped with twelve charges.

The CCJ Academy for Law yesterday announced the selection of 48 regional lawyers to be recognised as luminaries and among them are eight from Guyana including Senior Counsel Rex McKay.

The Masters football fraternity under the name Guyana Football Association of Masters (GUYFAM ) held an over 55s one day festival last Sunday at the GFC ground where the Linden Masters triumphed over the two other competing teams.

Dear Editor, Heroin is being transshipped through Guyana, according to the compilers of the Global Organized Crime Index, in this, we are being asked to believe that a product from Asia is being shipped to South America for onward distribution to Europe and North America; not a great business model.

Dear Editor, Recently I overheard a conversation in a public office whereby a public officer said the government is building roads.

(Reuters) – Mysterious gnome statues appeared this week in the surroundings of the Pedro Bidegain stadium in the run-up to Saturday’s derby between San Lorenzo and Huracan in the Argentine Professional League Cup.

Leader of the Opposition, Aubrey Norton and his team on Tuesday met with representatives of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC.

A new Shell gas station is now open for business at Lot AB Plantation in Enmore on the East Coast of Demerara.

(Reuters) – Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk will fight in Saudi Arabia for the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world at a date to be decided, organisers said yesterday after contracts were signed.

 Dear Editor, Do the PNC and AFC want to be treated seriously as an opposition?

Dear Editor, As an old PNC member, one of the things I was most grateful for during the Burnham era, was the relative absence of major and recurring crimes. 

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Former cricket executive Chris Dehring said his native Jamaica missed a huge opportunity to promote itself when the decision was taken to skip bidding to stage matches in the ICC Men’s Twenty20 World Cup next year in the Caribbean and the United States.

Social media personality Mikhail Rodrigues, popularly known as “Guyanese Critic,” has had contempt proceedings brought against him for failing to pay some four million dollars in rent owed to his previous landlord.

Dear Editor, Relatively, Indigenous month 2023 could be described a success in the Amerindian communities throughout Guyana.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The Organization of American States (OAS) said yesterday that Guatemala’s attorney general’s latest actions against electoral authorities are an “intolerable violation” of the country’s constitution, in one of its strongest condemnations yet.

A shooting that occurred on Thursday at about 6.45 pm on Freeman Street, East Ruimveldt, George-town has left two women injured with the suspect yet to be arrested.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Hardline Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday rejected a bill proposed by their leader to temporarily fund the government, making it all but certain that federal agencies will partially shut down beginning tomorrow.

LONDON, CMC – Long-serving West Indies pacer Kemar Roach heaped praise on the player management system of Surrey after the English county club were confirmed Division 1 first-class champions for the second year running.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – A museum exhibit displaying Aztec ritual offerings dug up from underneath downtown Mexico City opened on Friday in a first-ever showcase that offers new insight into pre-Hispanic art and religious practices.

Jairo Medina Hernandes, a 35-year-old Venezuelan, was yesterday charged with murder committed on Estepanie Gracia on September 22 at Mosapai Backdam, Wenamu River, Region Seven.

(Reuters) – An admitted former street gang leader was arrested yesterday on a charge of murder in the Las Vegas shooting death of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur nearly three decades ago, a long-unsolved crime that became a defining moment in the history of rap music.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – New Zealand captain Kane Williamson made an encouraging half-century on his return from injury, while Pakistan counterpart Babar Azam provided glimpses of his current form in a warm-up match ahead the 50-overs World Cup in Hyderabad yesterday.

(Reuters) – Jamaican women’s national soccer team coach Lorne Donaldson will not renew his contract with the team, the country’s football federation said yesterday.

By Nina L. Khrushcheva MOSCOW – When North Korean leader Kim Jong-un stepped out of his armored train at a railway station in the eastern Russian town of Khasan for his recent meeting with President Vladimir Putin, I could not help but think of the satirical 2017 film The Death of Stalin.

Dozens of Venezuelans who were arrested on Thursday at Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo after they arrived with a boat were all released around 1 am yesterday. 

Dear Editor, When one hears of the disputes between Governments and a) Guyana Public Service Union, b) Guyana Teachers’ Union respectively, one has to wonder about the lack of sympathy of the former, who in the same breath endorses GAWU’s settlements of remuneration packages’ in new Collective Agreements.

The signs have been clear since the first days of this administration: the privatisation of public services is a policy.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Top U.S. general Mark Milley retired yesterday after a four-year tenure, saying in a speech that U.S.

By Pamela Nauth (This week, Mosa Telford has a guest columnist) Pamela Nauth is a professional social worker, trained counselor, and consultant.

(Trinidad Express) Another child has been killed in Trinidad. A 13-year-old girl and an older male relative were shot dead in a house in Rio Claro.