Daily Archive: Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Three Berbicians were today charged with robbery under arms over  the $50m heist at the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of Region Six on September 13 and were placed on $500,000 bail.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Philippe churned further northwest across the Caribbean today, the U.S.-based

A Corentyne woman who was shot on Sunday morning is now fighting for her life at the Georgetown Public Hospital while investigators have held her fiancé, Neil Madramootoo, an engineer in Region Six for questioning.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India has invited French oil major TotalEnergies TTEF.PA

DAKAR,  (Reuters) – Islamist militants in Mali began a blockade of Timbuktu by cutting road access in August and then shut off river and air routes in an offensive that has put the city once again on the frontline of a jihadist insurgency.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Scientists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for creating ultra-short pulses of light that can give a snapshot of changes within atoms, potentially leading to better detection of disease.

 (Reuters) – India has told Canada that it must repatriate 41 diplomats by Oct.

(Trinidad Guardian) Finance Minister Colm Imbert has announced a nearly $60 billion 2024 budget, promising to pay public servants’ backpay of $1 billion by Christmas this year, to triple the intake of police officers to 1,000 next year and to allocate school supplies and book grants of $1,000 to needy students chosen through a means test.

Housing loans for teachers of $15m at an interest rate of 3.75% were floated yesterday by President Irfaan Ali in a meeting with a large number of educators at State House but a livestream of the session ended abruptly just when a litany of problems were raised including WiFi not being available over the last two years in one school.

The sod was yesterday turned for a new magistrate’s court at Anna Regina to the tune of $178m.

Dear Editor, On the 3 October 1899, 124 years ago, on an autumn morning in Paris, some of the world’s most distinguished jurists listened to a description of the boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela.

Foreign Minister Hugh Todd yesterday said that his Brazilian counterpart has expressed support for the International Court of Justice (ICJ) process for the resolution of the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy.

Dear Editor, Respectfully, the reference in your Sunday editorial that ‘[I]n 2016 the ICJ ruled China’s claims in contravention of the International Convention on the Law of the Sea’, and the repeated reference that China ‘can dismiss a decision by the World Court’, which is the forum from which all Guyana currently awaits a decision in our territorial controversy, is erroneous.

The family of Melissa Arokium and her eight-year-old son, Anthony Arokium, who were murdered at their residence in Rose Hall Town, Corentyne are dissatisfied with the way in which investigators are handling the probe as the police are yet to file charges against any suspect.

After three nights of fistic fury at the National Gymnasium, the Guyana Defence Force Boxing Gym (GDF) boxers stood tall as they mounted a staunch defence of the Andrew `Sixhead’ Lewis National Novices Boxing Championships title Sunday night.

Dear Editor, We are grateful if you can publish our grave concerns affecting all NIS pensioners.

Three men narrowly escaped being burnt to death after the engine of a fuel laden vessel exploded yesterday at Port Kaituma, Region One.

A 31-year-old welder of Farm, East Bank Essequibo (EBE), died on Sunday night when the motorcycle he was riding collided with a truck two villages away. 

Dear Editor, We born, we grow up, we work to pay taxes then we get old and are put out to pasture, literally.

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – West Indies Women’s captain Hayley Matthews slammed an incredible 132 and led her side in the highest successful run chase of all-time in women’s Twenty20 Internationals against hosts and world champions Australia Women yesterday.

Essequibo coasted to a 172-run drubbing of  the Select XI in the first round of the Guyana Cricket Board senior Inter-County limited overs competition  Sunday.

Dear Editor, You can talk until the cows come home but if you do not have unity as a people, others wouldn’t respect you.

By Shabna Rahman The Venezuelans who were detained on Thursday after arriving in Guyana following a five-day journey, were given “special care” while in custody and joined their relatives after being released a few hours later. 

NAPLES, Italy, (Reuters) – Real Madrid are set to play one of the best teams in Italy in what promises to be their toughest group stage game, coach Carlo Ancelotti said yesterday ahead of their Champions League clash.

Dear Editor, The cost-of-living is unconscionable; it is driving poor Guyanese into deliriums and hallucinations. 

Thirty-nine-year-old Kelvin Mickle of Lot 429 West Ruimveldt Housing Scheme, appeared before Magistrate Rhondel Weever at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with carting off $6m in firearms and cash at knifepoint.

(Reuters) – Moeen Ali smashed a quickfire half century to guide champions England to a four-wicket victory over Bangladesh in a rain-affected World Cup warm-up game in Guwahati yesterday.

Dear Editor, Mr. Milton Jagannath in a letter in the Stabroek News, 1st October, 2023, completely misread my letter on the subject of enslavement and indentureship.

As Breast Cancer Awareness Month gets underway, the Guyana Cancer Foundation is organizing several events to mark the occasion.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s success off the field has not been matched by their performances on it at World Cups over the last decade but with a near-perfect buildup, familiar conditions and recent history on their side, the hosts are favourites to end their title drought.

A 19-year-old recently appeared before Senior Magistrate Zamilla Ally-Seepaul and was placed on $500,000 bail after pleading not guilty to the charge of dangerous driving and causing the death of a 26-year-old man.

Dear Editor, The positon of Regional Executive Officer has never been published in the Annual Budget – a matter of indifference to both Government and Opposition.

(Reuters) – Devon Conway scored a half-century to guide New Zealand to a seven-run victory over South Africa in a rain-affected World Cup warm-up game yesterday.

The man accused of causing the death of pedal cyclist Lloyd Garraway on the Hydronie Public Road, East Bank Essequibo was recently placed on $500,000 after pleading not guilty to the charge of causing death by dangerous driving.

Dear Editor, Only one Guyanese group had the wherewithal and resources to bid for an oil block in Guyana’s recent auction, it is made up of five black businesswomen who were able to craft a joint venture with international partners, this speaks volumes for their abilities and credibility.

The Guyana Police Force says that two brothers who murdered a 29-year-old miner, Manuel Francis called ‘Sammy’ of Princeville Village, Potaro, Region Eight on September, 28th are in custody.

One unwavering goal resulted in Damian Lillard landing with the Milwaukee Bucks.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council yesterday authorized a foreign security mission to Haiti, a year after the Caribbean country asked for help to fight violent gangs that have largely overrun its capital Port-au-Prince.

Dear Editor, Guyana became an independent country (nation) at 12 midnight Thursday 26th May 1966.

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – West Indies Women’s captain Hayley Matthews said the responsibility that comes with the role, and her exposure to franchise cricket over the past couple years were key factors in the improvements to her batting.

Chief Labour Officer Dhaneshwar Deonarine yesterday said that he has not examined the public service union’s letter concerning the breakdown of industrial relations with the Ministry of Public Service but promised to do so in due course.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A defiant Donald Trump attacked New York’s attorney general and the judge overseeing his civil fraud trial as it began yesterday, with a state lawyer accusing the former president of generating more than $100 million by lying about his real estate empire.

Dear Editor, It happened before, it is happening again. Each year, when Christmas is almost upon us and the power grid buckles allegedly from increased demand, comes the same platitudes: we will get it fixed; have patience and understanding amid finger pointing. 

Dear Editor, A current photograph of the GCC ground at Bourda doing the rounds on social media triggered a terrible nightmare that devastated my recent night’s sleep.

From its outset, the ‘high octane’ (somewhat glitzy) tempo that characterized the media reporting on the October 9-13 Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) was rather out of sync with the sense of doldrums and crises that have since emerged from the much more sober and serious assessments of the condition of agriculture, and by extension, the state of food security in the Caribbean.

A 43-year-old construction worker accused of raping an eight-year-old girl in January of last year has been acquitted of the charge.

The Devin Booker-Kevin Durant-Bradley Beal era in Phoenix began yesterday with media day, and there was no shortage of players embracing the challenge with Booker as the Suns’ de facto leader.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A former Nigerian oil minister appeared in court in London yesterday charged with receiving bribes in the form of cash, luxury goods, flights on private jets and the use of high-end properties in Britain in return for awarding oil contracts.