Daily Archive: Sunday, December 3, 2023

Voting has been extended by two hours in Venezuela’s controversial referendum on Essequibo despite an apparent low turnout.

Commissioner of Police  Clifton Hicken, Deputy Commissioner Mr Calvin Brutus, and members of the Admin Team met this morning with officers and ranks at the Guyana Police Force at the Tactical Services Unit (TSU) Square, Eve Leary, Georgetown.

A pipe that broke since Thursday morning due to a truck that was parked on the parapet in front of the St.

(Reuters) – Brazil will never join the OPEC+ group of oil-producing nations as a full member and instead only seeks to participate as an observer, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said today.

FAR ROCKAWAY, Queens (WABC) — Police say a man went on a stabbing rampage in a Queens home this morning, killing four people, including two kids, before attacking two responding police officers.

SRINAGAR, India,  (Reuters) – An Indian court has granted bail to seven Kashmiri students who were arrested under anti-terror laws for allegedly celebrating Australia’s victory over India in the men’s Cricket World Cup final last month, a lawyer said yesterday.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Nine people were killed and 15 injured after armed men raided Peru’s Poderosa mine with explosives and took hostages, the Interior Ministry said late yesterday.

Speaking in a broadcast from Essequibo, President Irfaan Ali this morning assured Guyanese that there is nothing to fear in the coming days from Venezuela’s referendum today and he called on Venezuelans to join in supporting the resolution of the border controversy at the International Court of Justice.

By Antonio Dey Former Public Works Minister David Patterson has reiterated that the controversial award of the $865 million Belle Vue pump station contract to the Tepui Group, does not meet the standard evaluation criteria for bidders, and that the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) must provide updates, on the subject and “stop playing games.”

A new champion will be crowned in the MVP Sports Girl’s Pee Wee Football Championship as Marian Academy defeated titlist North Georgetown 2-0 in the semi-final section yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

As Venezuela votes today in a referendum that can see moves to annexe Guyana’s territory, President Irfaan Ali has called on Cuba to urge Caracas to ensure that the region remains a zone of peace.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Electoral Committee officially released the list of eligible voters for the impending elections on December 9th, disclosing that 18 entities will be eligible to exercise their franchise and that Santos, Western Tigers, the Guyana Police Force (GPF), and West Demerara are ineligible.

Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha yesterday strongly refuted claims by the opposition of chicken smuggling and instructing police to release shipments being transported from Suriname to the New Guyana Marketing Corporation.

The Trinidad & Tobago (T&T) Police, GBTI GCC, GCC Spice, and YMCA Old Fort have all booked semi-final berths in the women’s category of the Diamond Mineral Water Hockey Festival.

While adverting to Guyana’s booming economy, the IDB country strategy for 2023-2026 has cited risks to its successful implementation.

Leader of the Opposition Aubrey Norton, during an outreach in Essequibo yesterday, welcomed the ICJ’s (International Court of Justice) ruling ordering Venezue-la not to take any action that interferes with Guyana’s control over the Essequibo.

The Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) has partnered with Sawh Voltcom Construction Inc.

By Antonio Dey Trade between the UK and Guyana amounted to £1.6 billion up to the second quarter of 2023.

Needing only a draw to seal their place in the CONCACAF W Gold Cup Prelims, the Lady Jaguars will face off against Antigua and Barbuda today at 17:00hrs at the IR Franklin Essed Stadium, Suriname, in their final group stage match.

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commis-sion (GGMC) yesterday said that no lives were lost following blasting activities at Aurora Gold Mines Inc.

Upper Demerara overcame a one-goal first-half deficit to defeat Berbice to capture the National Milling Company (NAMILCO) U17 Association Football League Championship yesterday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground in Bourda.

Guyana’s Head of State, Irfaan Ali has urged world leaders to cast aside the “doctrinaire approach” towards achieving net zero by 2050, and devise realistic solutions as climate action cannot be to the detriment of the world’s developing countries and poorest people.

Banks DIH Limited, via its Banks Beer, Gt Beer, Vita Malt, Rainforest Water, and Ryda Hard Wine brands, has thrown its support behind the ongoing ‘East Bank vs.

During the last week, the Cricket West Indies (CWI) High Performance Unit (HP) paid the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Harpy Eagles Franchise (GHE) a visit during which the two parties held a historic meeting.

Dear Editor, Years ago, I had a very good friend, Steven Correia, the General Manager of Correia Brothers poultry farms of Atkinson Field, Timehri.

GAZA/CAIRO, (Reuters) – Israel faced growing U.S. calls to avoid further harm to Palestinian civilians in its fight against Hamas militants in Gaza, as the warring sides yesterday showed no sign of moving toward reviving their collapsed truce.

MovieTowne Guyana, located off the Rupert Craig Highway at Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara, yesterday held the grand opening for their Ferris wheel just in time for the Christmas Season and in celebration of their 4th  anniversary.

Dear Editor, Last time we wrote that Maduro’s bellicosity towards our Essequibo was “all political”; without a shred of legality supporting what in effect would be an annexation of two-thirds of our national territory.

With several positions yet to be confirmed heading into the year-end championship, the 2023 edition of the Limacol Secondary Schools Football League will culminate this evening at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – A pledge to triple the world’s installed renewable energy by 2030 is poised to win support from more than 110 countries at the COP28 climate summit yesterday, with some pushing to make the deal global by the end of the U.N.

Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha yesterday said that workers attached to the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) received their wages and he strongly condemned the Opposition for being mischievous and peddling information that the workers were not being paid.

The inaugural ‘One Guyana’ King and Queen Beach Football Championship will commence on December 8th in the mining town of Linden.

Dear Editor, Judge Damone Younge’s ruling in favour of Mr. Shariff Zainul, a carpenter, is a deserved slap in the face of the NIS management, the Ministry of Finance who supervises them, and the NIS  Board – an outfit which fiddles while NIS pensioners burn.

Dear Editor, In his speech accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez roved around Latin America cataloging several of the despots and dictators that had reigned in the region; including the wars, massacres, coups and the heedlessly cruel rate of infant mortality.

Traffic ranks received certificates on completion of a short ‘crash’ course facilitated by United Kingdom-based Accident Investigation specialist, Chris Goddard.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said yesterday that Brazil’s participation in the OPEC+ group of oil-producing countries is to convince nations to transition away from the use of fossil fuels.

Dear Editor, Allow me to extend a hearty ‘Welcome home’ to President Irfaan Ali on his return from the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28).

By Abigail Headley “I give all glory to God for the great things He has done in my life and for allowing me to recognize the potential I had hidden inside of me.

By Miranda La Rose Harold Bascom, self-taught in every sphere of his professional life, is an award-winning playwright, artist/illustrator, stage director and author.

(Reuters) – Left-arm spinner Taijul Islam claimed a match haul of 10 wickets to bowl Bangladesh to a comprehensive 150-run victory against New Zealand in the opening test in Sylhet yesterday.

Let’s gyaff! What are you thinking about for the Christmas menu?

The Guyana Police Association on Friday in a show of support for the children of the late Woman Police Constable Annette Abel, made a monetary donation to the two young adults to assist with any of their needs at the moment.

The Lucas Stock Index fell 0.136 percent during the final period of trading in November 2023. 

Introduction Today’s and next week’s column combine to form a preface to my intended task of updating the Buxton Proposal.

By Rae Wiltshire Vibert Dummett is an artist who specialises in portrait drawings, paintings, and designs (fashion), with a penchant for using household bleach to create patterns on cloth.

I have read numerous pieces of written work in which the author begins by stating something along the lines of: ‘I thought for hours on how to begin this piece.’

In the run-up to the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation’s National Senior Championships next month, and after detailing the benefits of the deadlift last week, this column looks at the squat aka the king of lifts.

(BBC) As the world reflects on the cultural significance of hip-hop in the year of its 50th anniversary, the power of its origins are more significant than ever.

Could an individual game in the single round robin event between Loris Nathoo, an improved 1700 player, and Taffin Khan, a 2000 FIDE competitor, signal the switch of the Guyana National Chess Championship title?

As noted in last week’s article, “Bernadette Indira Persaud AA – A visual poet…mostly in her words”, Persaud had a predilection for art as a child which she nurtured whenever opportunities arose.

(Reuters) Rape is widespread amid the war in Sudan. Young women from the ethnic-African Masalit tribe say they were sexually assaulted at gunpoint by RSF paramilitary and Arab militia forces during attacks on the city of El Geneina in West Darfur.

“I was in a job that was slowly draining me. I couldn’t believe I was there for so long as I had given myself just about two years but yet eight years later, I was still there and it was not doing good for me.

Gregory Peck, an American actor, once said, “Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.”

There is something deeply traumatising about navigating online social spaces in moments of absolute political turmoil and instability.

Prologue  On 8th January, 1987, it was announced that the 1988 Australia Tour of the West Indies had been cancelled.

On Friday the International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled in favour of Guyana.

Joseph Brodsky, the great Russian poet who died at the sadly young age of 56, on receiving his Nobel Prize in the Grand Hall of the Swe-dish Academy in Stockholm in December, 1987, declared a great truth: “There is no doubt in my mind that, should we have been choosing our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programmes, there would be much less grief on earth.”

(Reuters) – Panama published a ruling finding Canadian miner First Quantum’s FM.TO

The boastful bravado of the Nicolas Maduro/Delcy Rodriguez political duopoly, mirroring the audacious and nefarious plots of the Venezuelan ruling elite, has been dented by the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

(Reuters) – Nicaraguan police late on Friday charged the owner of the local Miss Universe franchise with conspiracy, money laundering and spreading fake news, just weeks after the Central American nation’s first victory in the pageant.