Daily Archive: Sunday, October 1, 2023

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council is set to vote on Monday to approve the deployment of foreign police to Haiti and authorize the use of force to help the Caribbean country fight violent gangs that have largely overrun the capital Port-au-Prince.

In what was described as a significant move that underscored the growing strength and depth of bilateral relations between Guyana and Brazil, Deputy  Police Commissioner ‘Operations’ (ag.)

A ‘Narcotics Eradication Exercise’ was conducted yesterday afternoon at Onderneeming Sand Pit, Essequibo Coast, during which Police ranks discovered a plot of land about two acres in length, with about five hundred Cannabis plants, ranging from three inches to twelve inches in height.

(Barbados Nation) Yesterday was the hottest day in Barbados on record, as the temperature peaked at a sizzling 34.2 degrees Celsius.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley is being touted as one of the main contenders to be the next secretary general of the United Nations, with a fellow regional leader saying she would get his vote.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 49-year-old businessman was shot and killed by gunmen at his Valencia workplace yesterday afternoon.

ANKARA, (Reuters) – Two attackers detonated a bomb in front of Turkish government buildings in Ankara today in an assault that left both of them dead and two police officers wounded, in what authorities called the capital’s first terrorist attack in years.

Shortly after Jocelyne Josiah’s student application for entry to the University of Guyana (UG) was rejected, supposedly based on her qualifications and teaching experiences, she was accepted at the University of Waterloo (UofW) in Ontario, Canada.

By Mia Anthony Sheikh Mohamed, one of the three hearing-impaired Guyanese models set to compete for the titles of Mr and Miss Deaf International in Tanzania, has said that the opportunity to represent Guyana on an international stage is a dream come true.

As time draws near for the annual celebration of Cancer Awareness (in the month of October), data in a new Lancet Commission on Women, Power, and Cancer (LCWPC) and an accompanying analysis of previous International Agency for Research on Cancer data has shown that nearly seven in 10 women who died prematurely from cancer in 2020 could have been saved.

One of the exciting things I like about going to markets is discovering new ingredients or unfamiliar varieties of familiar fruits, vegetables, herbs etc.

The Lucas Stock Index fell 0.165 percent during the final period of trading in September 2023. 

Amid rising blackouts and increased consumption,  GPL has procured 17 reconditioned containerised generator sets from the Dominican Republic which will produce 28.9 Megawatts (MW) of power and they will be installed in time for Christmas.

Three weeks after he committed to provide evidence that he had reached out to Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton eight times in an attempt to fulfill his constitutional mandate, President Irfaan Ali is yet to deliver on the promise.

Referee Jermaine Craig raises the hand of Guyana Police Force bantamweight boxer Julian Clarke who stopped his Guyana Defence Force opponent Wavel Massiah in one minute and 56 seconds of the second round of their clash Friday night.

Cougars downed Ithaca 3-0 when the Berbice Football Association Senior Men’s League continued Friday evening at the Rosignol Community Center ground.

Following severe criticism of conditions at the Skeldon Hospital, the Ministry of Health (MOH) yesterday said it is working to place more nurses at the facility with two additional doctors placed at the location as of Friday.

While disappointed at the frequency of recent power outages, President Irfaan Ali reminded citizens of Guyana Power and Light’s prevailing circumstances and struggles maintaining stable electricity.

Dear Editor, In defending the accounting practices and financial statements of Exxon – and by extension, its Joint Venture Partners Hess and CNOOC – Alistair Routledge, Exxon’s CEO in Guyana, claimed that its books are audited.

The 2023 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) has come to a thrilling conclusion, and what a season it was!

In an intense clash of cricket giants, Berbice emerged victorious against Demerara in a thrilling encounter during the opening match of the Guyana Cricket Board’s Senior Inter-County Super-50 competition at the Blairmont Estate Cricket Community Development Centre Ground yesterday where they secured a 27-run win.

Debunking a claim by an APNU MP that sugar had not been produced at the recently-reopened Rose Hall estate, the Agriculture Ministry on Friday said that around 100 tonnes had been churned out between September 24 and Septembers 28 APNU’s Member of Parliament Vinceroy Jordan last week challenged the Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha, and GuySuCo to release the production amount and cost so far for the Rose Hall Estate which officially returned to grinding last Sunday as he claimed that sugar was not produced at the location since its reopening. 

Dear Editor, The Opposition parties – in and out of Parliament – and several affiliates such as IDPADA-G, went up to Washington last week to attend a two-day “Conference on Guyana” hosted by the Brooklyn-based CGID.

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – Captain Hayley Matthews has embraced the urging of new head coach Shane Deitz to “play with freedom”, as West Indies Women prepare to face powerhouses Australia Women in the opening Twenty20 International today (9:20 pm, yesterday Eastern Caribbean time).

Dear Editor, It has never been my fortune to meet a happy Guyanese.

A fire on Old Road, Eccles, East Bank Demerara, at 10:30 am on Friday, gutted two houses, leaving a total of 14 persons homeless; a family of four at Lot 77, and 10 occupants at Lot 76, a rental property.

By Antonio Dey Residents of Penny Lane, South Ruimveldt Gardens yesterday breathed a sigh of relief after water was restored to their homes following several days of disruption due to a broken water main.

BENGALURU, (Reuters) – Torrential rain washed out the warm-up match between hosts India and reigning 50-overs World Cup champions England in Guwahati yesterday, while the clash between Australia and the Netherlands in Thiruvananthapuram was delayed due to a wet outfield.

Dear Editor,        On Saturday, September 23, 2023, something incredible took place in Guyana that did not happen when His Excellency Dr.

The curtain will come down on the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) senior championships today at the National Track and Field Centre in Edinburgh, West Demerara with the 200m for men and women among the day’s feature events.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress passed a stopgap funding bill late yesterday with overwhelming Democratic support after Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy backed down from an earlier demand by his party’s hardliners for a partisan bill.

Dear Editor, This letter is in response to your strange editorial 09/30/2023, `Why not privatise everything?’

By Deneita Fredericks The critical role of females  in forest conservation and management was one of the issues highlighted at a workshop on Friday that homed in on gaps in gender equality in forest-dependent communities.

Dear Editor, Unfortunately for all of us, the political opposition went to Capitol Hill, Washington DC, and embarrassed all of Guyana with their ineptitude.

As part of its ongoing 30th anniversary celebrations, retail home furnishing giant, Courts, has awarded a number lucky customers with prizes at all their branches across the country.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee vowed yesterday to block military aid and arms sales to Egypt if it does not take concrete steps to improve human rights in the country.

Defending champion Enterprise showed yesterday that they meant business with a 5-1 defeat of Colaaco when the 10th Courts Pee Wee Football Championship continued yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue. 

Port Kaituma and Rupununi recorded hard-fought wins in the men and women’s divisions respectively when the Amerindian Heritage Games Football Championship continued Friday evening at the Everest Cricket Club ground, Carifesta Avenue and  Camp Road.

A speeding ambulance heading in the direction of Skeldon yesterday afternoon slammed into a motor car along the Corentyne highway however there were no reported injuries. 

Dear Editor, Mr Nascimento’s claim of “multiple egregious comparisons of indentureship equaling slavery” (SN13/09/23) was troubling.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China’s factory activity expanded for the first time in six months in September, an official survey showed on Saturday, adding to a run of indicators suggesting the world’s second-largest economy has begun to bottom out.

Dear Editor, I am writing to express my deep concern and disappointment regarding Hard Rock Cafe’s recent decision to use the 1763 Slave Rebellion on their steak menu, captioned “Blood Over the River.”

Kayum Khan, a 40-year-old unemployed man of Grove Sea Dam, East Bank Demerara, was charged on Friday with break and enter and larceny and jailed for six months after pleading guilty.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is clinically stable one day after hip surgery and has begun to walk in physiotherapy sessions, the Sirio-Libanes Hospital in Brazil’s capital said yesterday.

Mahaica Determinators mauled Beterverwagting (BV)/Triumph 8-0  Friday evening at the Buxton Community Centre ground in the East Coast Demerara Football Association Senior Men’s League.

John David Washington and Gemma Chan star in a fast, “relentlessly tense” new sci-fi that is “hard-edged and dark”, writes Nicholas Barber.

Dear Editor, The coalition of opposition parties in Guyana known as the APNU + AFC is losing the interest of independents.

Surveying our Guyana-based visual art community in 2023, must give one cause to pause.

The Caribbean Premier League dubbed ‘the biggest party in sports’ was won by the Amazon Warriors for the first time since its inception and Guyanese fittingly celebrated.

An impulsive buy, a scented candle, a bath bomb, a new essential oil, pillow mist, the list can go on and on, are all products and practices we tend to associate with self-care, a word that gets thrown around steadily that seeks to describe the way in which we tend to ourselves after we have been battered by life and all its woes.

Belle West and the No. 1 All-Stars played to a 1-1 stalemate when the West Demerara Football Association Senior Men’s League continued yesterday at the Tuschen ground.

Last week, we started a celebration of Guyanese Amerindian art by directing some attention to its origins, history and rise.

International condemnation greeted Venezuela’s statement of 19 September rejecting the “illegal bidding” for oil blocks carried out by the Government of Guyana.

At high tide, when the wind is strong, from my veranda in Bel Air Gardens I could swear the sea seems taller.

Introduction In today’s column I take on board more frontally the added reputational and business risks, which flow from the circumstance that ExxonMobil [Guyana’s lead oil Contractor] displays the characteristics of a zombie corporation as that term is commonly understood in the formularization of the dynamics of zombie firms in business and economics.

In the 1980s, Garry Kasparov was taking the world by storm which reminds me of a time in the 1920s when Jose Raul Capablanca of Cuba was beating everyone in chess.

The Guyana National Reserve on September 27 welcomed a new Commandant and bid farewell to Colonel Trevor Bowman, following his early retirement.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Americans celebrated the 99th birthday of former President Jimmy Carter this weekend, with the White House putting up a wooden cake display on its north lawn and the Carter library in Georgia hosting a party for the public.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour looks at one of the most phenomenal feats in the annals of Test cricket, the West Indies’ record of 27 consecutive Test matches without defeat.

(Trinidad Guardian) The public can now access over 200 speeches and other writings penned by the first Prime Minister of T&T, Dr Eric Williams, as part of a digitalisation project to preserve the country’s legacy for future generations.

The week before last Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn and Deputy Police Commissioner ‘Operations’ Ravindradat Budhram flew to China to attend the Global Public Security Forum.

Recently I came across the name Majah Hype. Apparently this individual was born Colin Nigel McPherson and he is described as a Caribbean comedian who is known for his skits on social media.