Daily Archive: Friday, January 12, 2024

The Management of the Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation (DHBC) today said  it has observed an increase in vehicles overtaking during the standard two-way traffic crossing on the Demerara Harbour Bridge.

THE HAGUE,  (Reuters) – Israel today rejected as false and “grossly distorted” accusations brought by South Africa at the U.N.’s

WARSAW,  (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of opposition supporters massed outside Poland’s parliament yesterday to protest against the new government’s changes to state media and the imprisonment of two former ministers convicted of abuse of power.

PARAMARIBO (Reuters) – The lawyer representing Suriname’s ex-President Desi Bouterse, who has yet to turn himself in to start a prison sentence for involvement in the murder of 15 activists in 1982, said today he planned to speak with his client.

(Trinidad Express) It is possible that as many as six people in the country have died from the flu so far this year, a Ministry of Health doctor said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Acting Commissioner of Prisons Deopersad Ramoutar last evening confirmed that one of his officers had been killed during a gun attack in Arima.

(Trinidad Guardian) Business owners at Long Circular Mall, St James, are calling for heightened security following a shooting incident in the mall’s ground level car park yesterday.

WASHINGTON/ADEN, Yemen,  (Reuters) – U.S. and British warplanes, ships and submarines struck across Yemen overnight in retaliation against Iran-backed Houthi forces for attacks on Red Sea shipping, a widening of regional conflict triggered by Israel’s war in Gaza.

With just days before the reading of the 2024 Budget, Leader of the Opposition, Aubrey Norton has reshuffled his shadow Cabinet sparking dissent from Jermaine Figueira of the PNCR.

Leroy Williams called ‘Buxton’, a 34-year-old unemployed man of D’Urban Backlands, Georgetown, was fatally shot at about 7.10 pm on Wednesday at a hotel located at the corner of Robb and Cummings streets, Georgetown.

The long overdue PPP congress will be held in the first week of May, the Party’s Executive Committee  members have determined, General Secretary (GS) Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday announced.

Technical Director (TD) of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), Bryan Joseph, has confirmed that the national U20 programme has resumed its preparatory phase for the impending 2024 edition of the CONCACAF Men’s U20 Qualifiers.

Patrick Smith Felix is now awaiting sentencing for the part he played in the February 2020 killing of Cuban butcher—Ofredis Duarte Campos—who was at the time making his way to work at the Rossignol Butchery.

The Guyanese senior men’s basketball team finished third in the international goodwill tournament in Paramaribo, Suriname, defeating French Guiana 85-69 to conclude the event on a positive note.

A joint operation by ranks of the Guyana Police Force and the Guyana Defence Force (Coast Guard) has led to the discovery of ten acres with approximately six thousand Cannabis Sativa plants ranging from three inches to six feet in height, and about eight thousand  pounds of dry Cannabis Sativa in a house.

Georgetown Football Association (GFA) President Otis James has confirmed that the entity’s pre-season championship, which is in partnership with the West Demerara Football Association, will commence this Sunday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground in Bourda.

While some small scale business owners in the agro processing sector still appear to hold the view that the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) has an important role to play in the helping their businesses to grow and particularly to secure more markets both within and outside the region, they insist that the state-run entity can only realize these objectives if it is removed from within the operating framework of the Ministry of Agriculture and allowed to function outside the framework of the conventional state sector.

Trinidadian Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley confirmed on Wednesday that Guyana, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago have agreed to a ferry service company.

Guyana’s local cycling season will kick off later this month as the Kaieteur Attack Racing Cycle Club announces the 5th edition of their ‘Guyana to Suriname Cycling Group Ride’, which is proposed for January 25th-29th.

Lloyd Daniels, a 44-year-old miner of One Mile Itaballi, Region #7, was yesterday charged with the murder of fellow miner Jimmy Ashby.

If the same can probably not be said for some state agencies charged with providing important, often critical services to local consumers, the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) would appear to be doing its best to be an exception.

Four Guyanese referees have secured qualification to the 2024 FIFA List to officiate in international matches during this 12-month period.

Local golfers in Guyana will benefit from equipment that was donated by local and overseas patrons of the sport, as several hundred clubs were handed over to the Guyana Golf Association and Nexgen Golf Academy recently.

The impending emergence of Aubrey Odle’s A-Pro Photography Establishment would appear all set to coincide with the surfeit of transformations that are taking place in now oil-rich Guyana and which will have to be captured for posterity.

Police in Regional Division #10 are investigating an incident involving a five-year-old child of  Wismar, Linden who was found with a bullet lodged in her throat.

Guyanese basketball player Israel Yaw’s two-game win streak ended on Monday against Coppin State University, as his team, the University of Maryland, lost 55-58 at the Physical Education Complex in Baltimore, Maryland.

GAZA/THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday condemned South Africa’s genocide case against Israel in Gaza as “hypocrisy and lies”, as some Gazans returned to scenes of total devastation in the north of the enclave where Israeli forces have begun withdrawing.

Still preoccupied with emergency measures designed to stave off what some international agencies described as serious food security challenges, the Caribbean has been the recent recipient of what is perhaps a surprisingly upbeat 2024 prognosis for its economic prospects, going forward, from the World Bank. 

Dear Editor, In this country, there has never been a successful Third Force.

Rupununi resident, Yuri Nicholas, is set to be sentenced on February 5th for the 2019 killing of Elton Leonard.

WARSAW (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of opposition supporters massed outside Poland’s parliament on Thursday to protest against the new government’s changes to state media and the imprisonment of two former ministers convicted of abuse of power.

One of Trinidad and Tobago’s leading daily newspapers has painted a disturbing picture of a likely increase in what is already an alarming rate of what it says are “acts of criminality” that target the business community in the twin-island Republic.

Dear Editor, Since the commencement of 2024, the Ali regime has embarked on several “sod-turning ceremonies.”

Companies which accepted awards in this country’s first oil blocks bid round have until the end of this month to submit additional documents requested by government for the due diligence process, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday announced.

QUITO/LATACUNGA, Ecuador (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa laid out plans for two new high-security prisons on Thursday, part of his pledge to wage war on drug gangs, as the families of nearly 180 prison staff being held hostage by inmates demanded action to rescue them.

(Reuters) – A.P. Moller-Maersk (MAERSKb.CO) will use trains to avoid the drought-hit Panama Canal for some of its vessels, the Danish shipping giant said as low water levels have caused one of the world’s main maritime trade routes to reduce crossings.

(Trinidad Express) Another officer from the St Joseph Police Station is facing disciplinary action based on content that was leaked online.

By Joseph Boll Reprinted from The Royal Gazette, January 4, 2024 Climate change, its detrimental effects and the potential to wipe out the region completely have received an increasing amount of attention over the past few years as major world powers move to cut back on fossil-fuel use and adopt clean energies.

Dear Editor, It is good to see the regional authorities of Region Nine having their road maintainers ‘scraping the road’ as we say in the Guyanese language, from St Ignatius to Shulinab.

A thirty-one-year-old field technician was yesterday charged with armed robbery. Totaram Boomattie aka Vick of Lot 174 Good Hope pleaded not guilty after the Administration of Justice Act was administered.

(Reuters) – New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, one of the most successful coaches in National Football League history, will leave the team after 24 seasons and six Super Bowl titles, he said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google said on Wednesday it is laying off hundreds of employees across multiple teams, with Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman also leaving the company, as the tech giant continues to cut costs.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s annual inflation rate sped past 211% in December, official data showed on Thursday, hitting the highest level since the early 1990s as new libertarian President Javier Milei seeks to head off hyperinflation with tough austerity measures.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1053’s trading results showed consideration of $15,355,747 from 46,362 shares traded in 29 transactions as compared to session 1052’s trading results, which showed consideration of $7,994,953 from 23,046 shares traded in 18 transactions.

(Reuters) – Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has said he has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and has a year to live in a “best-case scenario”.

Later this year Guyana will host the 38th session of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Public Accounts Committee is back in the news again, this time accompanied by a liberal dose of nonsense-speak from Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill.

Dear Editor, South Africa’s action in taking Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is an act that is saving the conscious of humanity of the world’s people.

An Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam woman who was charged with her husband’s murder in May last year was last week freed at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court due to the police’s file being incomplete.

For all its socio-economic challenges in recent years, not least the near decimation of its tourism industry inflicted by COVID 19, the World Bank continues to see Jamaica as being on a positive growth trajectory, asserting at the beginning of 2024 that the island’s economy is poised to continue to grow for a fourth year in a row, albeit at a more gingerly pace than in previous years.

(ESPN) Wanindu Hasaranga wrecked the Zimbabwe batting order with 7 for 19 in his first international in seven months, his googly causing devastation on a major scale, his slider and legbreak not far behind.

The infamous tax certificates We recall from Column 119 that while the tax is paid by the Government of Guyana, the oil companies receive from the Guyana Revenue Authority ‘proper tax certificates’ in their names.

(ESPN) West Indies showed they are determined to put up a fight during their Australia tour with a spirited effort on day two of their warm-up match in Adelaide.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Shivam Dube proved his utility in India’s crowded batting lineup with a belligerent half-century to secure their six-wicket victory against Afghanistan in the opening T20 International in Mohali yesterday.

(Reuters) – The Mahindra Formula E racing team scrapped plans for an AI-generated female influencer yesterday after facing a backlash on social media.

(Reuters) – Former Yorkshire County Cricket Club chairman Colin Graves apologised yesterday to anyone who suffered racism at the club and for his previous dismissal of racist incidents as banter.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday conducted a walkabout at Farm and Mocha, East Bank Demerara, as part of efforts to improve communities.