Daily Archive: Wednesday, October 4, 2023

President Irfaan Ali says that his Government is positioning Guyana as a “major destination for eco-tourism” with Central American nation, Costa Rica, as a model.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cancelled part of a high-speed rail project today, ending weeks of uncertainty and provoking anger in his Conservative Party as he sought to reinvent his premiership as one of tough decisions and action.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of clusters of atoms known as quantum dots, now used to create colour in flat screens, light emitting diode (LED) lamps and devices that help surgeons see blood vessels in tumours.

(Trinidad Guardian) Investigators believe revenge was the motive for the murders of Keith “Pam Pam” Roberts and Allan Azard Ali who were gunned down in Point Fortin on Monday night in an attack that left their friend, Anthony Junior “Mario” Bermudez, critically wounded.

For their share in a US$300 million investment made with two other local businesses in the NRG consortium for the Vreed-en-Hoop Shorebase Inc (VEHSI), the Nazar ‘Shell’ Mohamed-owned Hadi’s World Incorporated has pulled out and is selling its shares to the other partners, a decision, Mohammed says, is based on personal religious beliefs.

Believing that a company awarded a nearly billion-dollar contract for the construction of a pump station at Belle Vue, West Bank Demerara, did not meet the bidding criteria, former Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson has written to the procurement commission asking for an investigation to be launched into the matter.

Attorney-at-law Nigel Hughes yesterday stated that his clients facing elections fraud charges continue to be denied their right to a fair trial as their case has been prolonged for three years.

A contractor clearing vegetation in the Friendship backdam on the East Bank of Demerara triggered widespread power outages yesterday.

President Irfaan Ali (left) yesterday received the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) award for his Leadership in Food Security and Sustainable Development during a special award ceremony last evening in San Jose, Costa Rica.

A five-wicket haul from Veerasammy Permaul followed by a blistering knock from Kevin Sinclair spurred Berbice to a three-wicket win over the Select XI in the second round of the Guyana Cricket Board’s senior Inter-County limited overs competition yesterday.

By Michaelangelo Jacobus Following the successful staging of the Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis National Novices Boxing Championships, the Guyana Boxing Association’s (GBA) President Steve Ninvalle has expressed pleasure at the return of the Republican Boxing Gym after five years of inactivity.

As testimony continued yesterday at the third public hearing in the presidential inquiry into the Mahdia dormitory fire, the proceedings were disrupted by a power outage.

The Government of Guyana yesterday hailed the 124th anniversary of the arbitral award that settled the boundary with Venezuela and reiterated that it is awaiting settlement at the World Court of the controversy that arose over the border in 1962 In a statement, the government said: “As Guyana commemorates the anniversary of the Arbitral Award of 3 October, 1899, we continue to adhere to and embrace the rules of international law and respect our pacta sunt servanda (agreements must be kept) obligation”.

By Charwayne Walker They say a prophet is never honoured in his own country and sometimes an athlete is not valued unless he/she competes for another country.

`Once there is a plan in place, there will be a role for the governments, and the governments should and could get involved in ensuring that the nursery (of the game) is kept alive, and that our boys and girls are properly resourced and trained, and then feed upwards’ PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad & Tobago prime minister Keith Rowley boldly predicted that if West Indies fail to “get its act together”, teams such as the United States will easily beat them on the international stage.

Following an appeal, Guyanese businessman Ghalee Khan was late last month re-sentenced in the US to a term of just 18 months, almost two years after he was initially sentenced to nine years in prison for drug trafficking and bail jumping.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – West Indies Women’s captain Hayley Matthews reinforced her place at No.

Chairman of Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) and Executive Member of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Daniel Seeram is to appear in court on October 10 on a charge of assaulting his wife.

Two inmates of the New Amsterdam Prison were yesterday found guilty at the High Court of the murder of a fellow prisoner in an attack at the facility in 2017 In July, 2017, Dillon Boucher, 25, of Haslington Village, East Coast Demerara; Rooplall Abrahim, 24, of Lot 4 Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice; and Ramchand Latchman, 23, of Number 65 Village, Corentyne, were charged with the murder of Neshan Jagmohan, 27.

The installation process for the lighting apparatus at the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) National Training Centre in Providence officially commenced yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A handful of Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday ousted Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy, as party infighting plunged Congress into further chaos just days after it narrowly averted a government shutdown.

Dear Editor, President Ali’s announcement of housing loans for teachers is a good strategy in an overall teacher retention plan, in addition to honouring all Collective Bargaining agreements with the teachers’ union.

Arkanel Edwards called ‘Akko’ a 22-year-old logger of Capoey Mission, Essequibo Coast was charged yesterday with the attempted murder of 42-year-old Mark Rodrigues on March 11th.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Switzerland and the United States have donated $8.4 million to Brazil’s Amazon Fund to help stop deforestation and preserve the world’s largest tropical rainforest, the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES) that manages the fund said yesterday.

NAPLES, Italy, (Reuters) – Real Madrid fought back to secure a barnstorming 3-2 win at Napoli in their Champions League Group C clash yesterday, with the Italian side’s keeper Alex Meret scoring an unfortunate own goal to hand the Spaniards victory late in the second half.

(Reuters) – More than 60 Jamaican primary school kids were hospitalized after eating potent rainbow-coloured cannabis candy, the Caribbean country’s education minister said on social media platform X, causing them to vomit and hallucinate.

Dear Editor, It is not easy for a Guyanese born before the turn of the millennium to be objective in the context of race in relation to politics in Guyana.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – England hope to ride their formidable batting firepower to a second successive World Cup title but if India’s crafty spinners and sprightly pace attack can fully exploit home conditions the country’s cricket-mad fans could have something to celebrate.

George Aubrey Archer, a 72 year-old pensioner of Suddie Public Road, Essequibo was charged on Monday with possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The failure of Congress to reauthorize the main U.S.

EL TAMBO, Colombia, (Reuters) – Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro yesterday launched a new national drug policy that will look to reduce the size of coca crops, cut potential cocaine output and prevent deforestation linked to drug trafficking, while helping transition small farmers to the legal economy.

Dear Editor, Demerara Bank in Diamond is the only bank of the three that are adjacent and in close proximity to the other, and which encashes the  monthly NIS pension of the aged.

Yesterday, the Ministry of Education’s Migrant Education Support Unit in collaboration with the National Literacy Department (NCERD) hosted the second annual Spanglish Bee at the National Centre for Educational Resource Development. 

Dear Editor, In one of his Tuesday’s articles, GHK Lall notified us that he plans to piggyback on SN’s Cost-of-Living Series “to continue taking the pain of the poor in Guyana and give it prominence before political leaders who avert their eyes, and harden their hearts.”

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial yesterday imposed a gag order – promising sanctions for any violations – on the former U.S.

BENGALURU,  (Reuters) – Pakistan batsman Babar Azam scored a breezy 90 against Australia while Iftikhar Ahmed sparkled at the top of the order with an 83 but the 1992 world champions could not prevent a 14-run defeat in their World Cup warm-up game in Hyderabad yesterday.

(Reuters) – Belize is developing a pilot project to convert the masses of foul-smelling sargassum seaweed swamping its pristine beaches into biofuel, its prime minister said in a statement published by regional Caribbean bloc CARICOM yesterday.

Mayor of Arima in Trinidad and Tobago, Balliram Maharaj, yesterday paid a courtesy call on Mayor of Georgetown, Alfred Mentore.

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

Dear Editor, With every passing year the significance of October 5th 1992 will recede more and more into the limbo of our country’s political history.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit  yesterday said that the Dominica Electricity Services Company (DOMLEC) is to rent three megawatt generating system from a US-based firm that when commissioned on November 15, will end the load shedding situation on the island.

Host Rosignol United and Monedderlust recorded lopsided victories when the Berbice Football Association Senior Men’s League continued on Monday evening at the Community Centre ground.

Lionel Fitzpatrick Haynes, a 61-year-old man of Auchlyne Estate, Corentyne, Berbice, was charged on Monday with riding an unlicensed motorcycle under the influence of alcohol.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – Manchester United’s miserable season continued with a 3-2 home defeat by Galatasaray as Casemiro was sent off giving away a penalty which Mauro Icardi missed before scoring the winner to leave the hosts bottom of Champions League Group A yesterday.

Last week Sunday, the Guyana Amazon Warriors finally overcame the label of ‘always the bridesmaid never the bride’ when they emerged as the winners of the eleventh edition of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) T20 Final, after stumbling at the final hurdle on five occasions in the first seven years of the tournament.

Dear Editor, The teachers have spoken loud and clear! Give us increases in allowances, preferably tax free.

By Joseph S. Nye CAMBRIDGE – The great-power competition between the United States and China is a defining feature of the first part of this century, but there is little agreement on how it should be characterized.

(Reuters) – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) yesterday condemned an escalation of violence against journalists in Haiti, saying media workers are among those who have been killed, kidnapped and lost their homes as gang violence has surged.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistan yesterday ordered all illegal immigrants to leave the country or face expulsion after revealing that 14 of 24 suicide bombings in the South Asian nation this year were carried out by Afghans.