Daily Archive: Friday, November 24, 2023

Several persons have been arrested by the police in relation to a housing fraud probe, according to Minister in the Ministry of Housing, Susan Rodrigues who also strongly defended one of her employees who had been implicated on social media.

GAZA/ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER,  (Reuters) – Hamas fighters released 24 hostages on Friday during the first day of the war’s first truce, including Israeli women and children and Thai farm workers, after guns fell silent across the Gaza Strip for the first time in seven weeks.

 (Reuters) – A convoy of trucks bringing goods into Myanmar from China has gone up in flames in what state media reported today was an insurgent attack, compounding surging insecurity that has raised concern in neighbouring China.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South African former Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius, jailed nine years ago for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, was granted parole today effective from Jan.

(Trinidad Guardian) Unruly students will not be left idle after expulsion, but will instead be enrolled in the Military Led Academic Training (MiLAT) programme through a mandatory policy to cut down on indiscipline while ensuring learning objectives are met.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday visited communities in Region One and Region Seven and assured residents that Guyana remains committed to peacefully resolving the ongoing border controversy with Vene-zuela and that there was absolutely nothing to fear.

A man who was wanted by police in relation to armed robbery and other matters  was yesterday afternoon stabbed to death at Eruma Back-dam, Two Point Landing, Cuyuni River, Region #7.

Access to global incentives for forests and sufficient climate financing will be among the major topics of discussion Guyana will be raising at the 2023 UN Climate Change Confer-ence in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday.

The Bar Association of Guyana has added its voice to the matter of the Guyana/Venezuelan border controversy, specifically Venezuela’s proposed referendum with a view to annexing Essequibo.

Owners of small agro processing commercial ventures who participated in the November 16-19 GUYEXPO event at the Sophia Exhibition have told the Stabroek Business that they frequently “miss out” on publicly advertised opportunities to benefit from initiatives that can advance their businesses on account of their preoccupation with ‘making a living’ and their detachment from channels that connect them with those opportunities.

Dear Editor, This year’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is being observed under the theme “Invest to prevent violence against women and girls”.

Arising out of concerns raised by the Stabroek Business regarding the progress being made by the authorities in rolling back the smuggling of gold out of Guyana, a source with several years of experience of the sector has told this newspaper that the continued outflow of gold from Guyana and (mostly) into neighbouring countries is almost certainly occurring with the “full knowledge” of “people in authority” in Guyana.

(Reuters) – Josh Inglis smashed Australia’s joint-fastest century in Twenty20 Internationals before Suryakumar Yadav powered India to a two-wicket victory in a thrilling series opener yesterday.

A Canefield businessman and his family are now left to pick up the pieces after a fire which reportedly spread from a neighbour’s garbage heap completely destroyed his premises which housed his furniture business, bond and all of his household items that he acquired in the last thirty-five years.

Dear Editor, We are all thinking, as Guyanese right now, whether there is any possibility that our neighbouring Venezuelans to the west will do anything rash about their claim of Essequibo.

Dear Editor, It seems I am the proud new owner of the ‘sea lane’ proposition, gifted by Neville Bissember who purports ignorance of the Hoyte Administration’s original offer through our Good Officer Barton Scotland C.C.H.

In circumstances where small businesses in Guyana are still not exactly ‘going wild’ over the extent to which their growth ambitions are receiving sufficiently energetic backing from the country’s ‘high profile’ commercial banks in pursuit of the growth of their businesses, their counterpart Small Business Enterprise [SME’s] in Trinidad and Tobago would appear to be ‘singing a different tune.’

Dinesh Seepersaud was yesterday sentenced to life for the  rape of a Corentyne woman at knife point during a burglary at her home in 2020.

It was an evening of upset victories as Haynes Ballers and YMCA secured semi-final berths following hard-fought quarterfinal victories when the ExxonMobil/New Era Futsal Championship continued on Wednesday evening at the Retrieve Tarmac, Linden.

Dear Editor, Stabroek News in its November 19, 2023 editorial headlined ‘Patriotism and Geneva’ wrote; ‘No one should be impugning the allegiance to this country of any of our leaders, past or present.’

By Antoinette Connell Barbados joined 68 other countries in the third edition of the African continent elite Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) 2023, a showcase of the massive investment potential for billions through intra-Africa alliances.

Two months after the Ministry of Public Works promised that a part for the gear box of the Chinese-made ferry, Sabanto, will arrive in Guyana, there is still no sign of the part which is needed for the ferry to resume a more efficient service. 

Dear Editor, I absorb what is going on in Guyana today, and ponder whether we have become an utterly soulless society. 

Small business owners who constantly fret over the hurdles one never fails to encounter in the pursuit of running a small business just about anywhere in coastal Guyana ought to interact more with their opposite numbers in hinterland communities in order to put their own circumstances into perspective.

With the issue of food security very much on the front burner for CARIFORUM states, the European Union (EU) is stepping in to assist the region in this regard.

Dear Editor, Kindly allow me to vent my dissatisfaction of the services by the Georgetown branch that deals with our passports!

A week before the high profile global climate change forum gets underway in Dubai a new United Nations report on climate change has brought news that national climate action plans by countries across the world remain insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius and meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil could reach historically low levels of deforestation in one to two years, the head of the environmental protection agency said yesterday, as the country ramps up conservation efforts under left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips on Wednesday told a meeting of South American defence and foreign ministers in Brazil that Venezuela’s December 3rd referendum on Essequibo poses a threat to the stability of the entire region.

A male student of an East Coast Demerara school has been arrested after striking a male police rank in the head with a piece of wood yesterday afternoon.

DOHA/GAZA,  (Reuters) – Israel and Hamas start a four-day truce today with the militants to release a first group of 13 Israeli women and child hostages later in the day, the first break in a war that has devastated the besieged Gaza enclave.

Trinidad and Tobago may not be about to surrender its credentials as the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) member country with the most prominent petro-imprint on its economy, up to this time, though, that said, its ambition to ‘shine’ in the regional export sector, outside of oil and gas would appear to be altogether undiminished.

(Reuters) – Haiti’s Center for Human Rights Analysis and Research (CARDH) is provisionally suspending its work due to imminent danger to its staff, its executive director said yesterday, as gang wars escalate in parts of the capital Port-au-Prince.

Dear Editor, It is several weeks since the infamous prisoner release.

In the weeks preceding the staging of the Caribbean Week of Agriculture  [CWA] in October no pains were spared across the region to ‘big up’ the event, coverage of its agenda suggesting that it might well be one of those regional events that might play a pivotal role in helping to turn the proverbial corner in the matter of shoring up what we were being told for several months were our shabby food security bona fides.

Over the past three years, the Board of Industrial Training (BIT) has significantly impacted the lives of 347 persons in Region Seven through comprehensive training in 14 occupational skills.

THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – Dutch Muslims expressed shock yesterday at the election win of far-right populist Geert Wilders, who has previously called for mosques and the Koran to be banned in the Netherlands.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Europe’s Ariane 6 launcher has passed a key rehearsal in preparation for its first flight, the European Space Agency (ESA) said yesterday – part of efforts to bring the delayed rocket to the launchpad in 2024.

Dear Editor, It is unnecessary for me to defend the latest assault by the Editorial and column writers in the State controlled Chronicle on independent media, the likes of Stabroek News, Kaieteur News and others.

By Geisha Kowlessar-Alonzo Myckiel Haynes is a shining example that dreams, along with hard work and dedication, do in fact come through.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country’s recent launch of a spy satellite was an exercise of its right to self-defence, as Pyongyang celebrated the event as showing it could strike anywhere in the world, state media reported.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Cubans yesterday marched in front of the U.S.

Dear Editor, Earlier today, the US, UK, Canada, EU States and a few developed economies, rejected a proposal at the UN which sought to establish a global intergovernmental approach to bridging the gap between rich and poor, by stopping tax abuse globally.

Michael Gilkes, a 19-year-old labourer of Den Amstel, West Coast Demerara, was arrested yesterday morning at the Vreed-en-Hoop Stelling after he was allegedly found with 1,108 grams of cannabis in his possession.

Guyana Football Federation (GFF) boss Wayne Forde affirmed that he wants to witness the completion of the ongoing National Training Centre (NTC) and Durban Park infrastructural projects as the reasons for seeking reelection and that he is uncertain of the implications of the third term statute inside the entity’s constitution.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) have renewed their commitment to their partnership.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Business heir and former legislator Daniel Noboa was sworn in as Ecuador’s new president yesterday, pledging to reduce violence and create jobs via urgent legislative reforms.

The Petra Organisation yesterday afternoon launched their season-ending marquee tournament, the fourth KFC Goodwill Football Championship, at the Cara Lodge Hotel on Quamina Street.

(CMC) – Openers Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Zachary McCaskie batted resolutely through four overs before the close and ensured West Indies A safely began their chase of 224 to win the first “test” against South Africa A yesterday.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1046’s trading results showed consideration of $2,391,660 from 9,040 shares traded in 6 transactions as compared to session 1045’s trading results, which showed consideration of $32,702,158 from 97,947 shares traded in 39 transactions.

Power-lifting standout Carlos Peterson-Griffith will become the first Guyanese to be outfitted with official SBD apparel customised with the nation’s colours.

After a prolonged absence from the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Elite League, Slingerz Football Club is within five matches of returning to the highest level of club football locally.

(CMC) – Former West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels was handed a ban from all cricket for six years on November 11 after he was found guilty of anti-corruption code violations related to the Abu Dhabi Ten10 tournament four years ago.

Gold is Money, North East La Penitence, and Minions recorded hard-fought wins when the Devon ‘Worm’ Charles Benefit Futsal tournament concluded last evening at the National Gymnas-ium,  Mandela Avenue.

LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Bolivians are battling wildfire blazes that have torn through 3 million hectares (11,583 square miles) of land this year, with firefighters and police using hoses, sprinklers and at times bottles of water to try to hold back flames.

At the beginning of this month President Irfaan Ali attracted criticism for saying that it was no longer realistic to wait on the City Council to undertake important works in the various wards.

Dear Editor, At a press conference on 21st November, Dr Keith Rowley was asked by a journalist why Venezuela was at this time ramping up its claim to Essequibo.

The resuscitation of GuyExpo last week following a hiatus of seven years was a commendable initiative given the fact that the optional avenues for product promotion for farm produce and their by-products have always been decidedly limited.

Introduction Let me confess to being as surprised as many of the readers of this column, on learning that Belize is in fact an oil producing state!