Daily Archive: Thursday, January 25, 2024

The first meeting of the Joint Commission as envisioned by the Joint Declaration of Argyle for Dialogue and Peace.

Lindsayca + CH4 (LNDCH4 Guyana), the US company that will be executing the country’s ambitious gas-to-energy project today announced it is seeking to hire 100 persons here this year.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police launched an operation today to investigate the alleged illegal monitoring of citizens by the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (ABIN) during the administration of former President Jair Bolsonaro.

BRASILIA/MONTEVIDEO,  (Reuters) – South America is seeing a surge in cases of the mosquito-borne disease dengue during the southern hemisphere summer, prompting Brazil to roll out a novel vaccine campaign, while in Argentina many stores have run out of bug spray.

Shadow Minister of Education Coretta McDonald on Monday rapped the Ali Government for failing to appoint an international independent commission to investigate the circumstances surrounding the dormitory fire that claimed the lives of 20 children in Mahdia on May 21st,2023.

An accident on Tuesday evening at the junction of Heroes Highway and the Diamond Main Access Road, East Bank Demerara, has claimed the lives of two persons.

By Abigail Headley In a drive to aid food security, the United States yesterday launched a regional programme to boost agricultural productivity and coconuts and cherries will be among the areas of focus here.

By Antonio Dey APNU+AFC MPs yesterday staged a walkout from Parliament following derogatory remarks from the governing benches towards a female MP.

Sparta Boss, North East La Penitence, and Gunners were among the winners when the ‘Georgetown versus the Rest’ Street-ball championship commenced on Tuesday evening at the Back Circle tarmac, East Ruimveldt.

Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Vinceroy Jordan, yesterday lashed out at Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha, over the sum of $1.3 billion allocated towards the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), flagging the Board as the main driver of production, varieties, and yields within the rice industry.

Today’s first meeting under the Argyle Declaration of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Guyana and Venezuela in Brasila is important as it paves the way for talks between the two countries  on other important matters such as energy security and climate, President Irfaan Ali says.

You’ll have to roll back the years through decades of  West Indies cricket   for a similar feel -good.  

Rohan Narine called Prem Narine, a 52-year-old businessman of Cullen Public Road, Essequibo Coast, was charged yesterday with the rape of a female.

Dear Editor, I categorically condemn Members of Parliament Anand Persaud and Kwame McCoy’s verbal sexualised attacks on Member of Parliament Juretha Fernandes during the sitting of the Budget Debate on Tuesday, 23rd Jan 2024, and express dismay Speaker Manzoor Nadir did not find such unbecoming behaviour deserving to direct MPs Persaud and McCoy to apologise and leave the House, forthwith.

Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs Amanza Walton-Desir on Tuesday questioned the lack of sustained effort by the government to keep  Venezuela’s illegal claim to Essequibo in the forefront of all international interactions and suggested the establishment of a Foreign Relations Council.

Dear Editor More than entertainment, music is a vehicle of expression.

By Michaelangelo Jacobus After spinners Anthony Adams (4/15) and Junior Sinclair (4/26) condemned Kevlon Anderson and his men to 97 all-out in just about two sessions on Tuesday, openers Raymond Perez and Matthew Nandu stroked brilliant half-centuries yesterday to put Kemol Savory’s XI firmly in charge with a 214-run first innings lead.

APNU+AFC Member of Parliament, Khemraj Ramjattan during his presentation on the 2024 budget in the National Assembly on Tuesday deplored the government’s allocation to infrastructure as according to him more money should have been apportioned  to lowering the cost of living in the country.

GAZA/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – The United Nations said yesterday that Israeli tanks struck a huge U.N.

Dear Editor, It’s unlikely anyone will miss the massive PR work of the so called development government is executing daily and their boasts.

Opposition Member of Parliament Geeta Chandan-Edmond was yesterday helped from the podium during a budget debate presentation and taken to the hospital after her speech appeared slurred and incoherent.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia accused Ukraine yesterday of deliberately shooting down a Russian military transport plane carrying 65 captured Ukrainian soldiers to a prisoner exchange in what it called a barbaric act of terrorism that had killed a total of 74 people.

Dear Editor, IDPADA-G calls on the African Prosperity Network to withdraw its bestowal of the African Global l.eadership

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Public prosecutors chasing illegal gold mining in Brazil’s Amazon region yesterday opened an investigation into on-line sales of mercury through Mercado Libre MELI.O,

The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha (GHDS) on Sunday celebrated its 50th anniversary at the Pandit Reepu Daman Sanskritik Kendra in Ganges St, Prashad Nagar, Georgetown.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said yesterday he will declare that wildfires burning in the country are a natural disaster, freeing up funds to fight the blazes amid soaring temperatures and the El Nino weather phenomenon.

To a defamation claim brought here against it and State-owned media entities by New York-based Guyanese political commentator—Rickford Burke—who is seeking more than $500m in damages, the government’s contention is that the court lacks jurisdiction to hear the case.

Dear Editor, When I heard of the passing of the eminent Guyanese diplomat, Rudy Insanally I was moved to write about the experience I had in my interaction with him when I served as Ambassador of Colombia to Guyana, Suriname and CARICOM. 

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombia’s inspector general yesterday suspended Foreign Minister Alvaro Leyva from his role for three months over possible irregularities in the tender process for producing passports in the Andean country.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday received 13 motorcycles which were donated by several private sector entities/businesses from across the country, including Innovations America, J’s Supermarket, Two Brothers Service Station/Shioil, Jaigobin Hotel and R.

Dear Editor, Lest there be uncertainty, I memorialize a vital statistic for the record. 

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Climate change is the main culprit for a record drought in the Amazon rainforest that has drained rivers, killed endangered dolphins and upended life for millions of people in the region, according to a study released yesterday.

(Reuters) – An experimental gene therapy being developed by a Chinese company restored hearing in children with congenital deafness, researchers working on a clinical trial reported yesterday, adding to growing evidence of the efficacy of such treatments.

Dear Editor, It seems that on a daily basis, we are constantly bombarded with reasons why we are frustrated with our politicians.

By Benjamin N. Gedan CARTAGENA – By facilitating the inauguration of Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo, despite a last-ditch effort to overturn his landslide election victory, US President Joe Biden has reaffirmed his longstanding commitment to defending democracies around the world.

LONDON, CMC – West Indies captain, Hayley Matthews, has been voted the International Cricket Council’s Women’s Twenty20 Player-of-the-Year.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Alexander Zverev served up a huge shock at the Australian Open yesterday by stunning second seed Carlos Alcaraz to make the semi-finals after third seed Daniil Medvedev fought hard to avoid an upset at the hands of Hubert Hurkacz.

(Reuters) The West Indies won the toss last night in the second Test against Australia and opted to bat.

By Carlos Felipe Jaramillo Education in Latin America and the Caribbean has a failing grade.

(Reuters) – Brisbane Heat speedster Spencer Johnson helped to lift his side to a second Big Bash League title yesterday, rising to the occasion and claiming a career-best 4-26 against Sydney Sixers who were defeated by 54 runs in the season decider.

HYDERABAD, India, (Reuters) – India have not lost a test series at home since 2012-13 but captain Rohit Sharma does not want him team mates to start believing they are unbeatable in their own conditions.

Nineteen-year-old Justin Oliveira appeared yesterday  before Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court where he was charged with armed robbery.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s agricultural research agency Embrapa yesterday opened an online learning programme called “Sowing forests on Indigenous lands” to help Amazon communities reforest degraded land in the rainforest and beyond.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates,  CMC – West Indies white-ball seamer Dominic Drakes produced a top spell but it was not enough, as Sherfane Rutherford steered Desert Vipers to a six-wicket win over Gulf Giants in the ILT20 here yesterday.

HYDERABAD, India,  (Reuters) – Spinner Shoaib Bashir has been ruled out of England’s opening test against India following a visa delay, now resolved, an episode that has marred the buildup to the five-match series between the sides beginning in Hyderabad today.

POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa,  CMC – Jewel Andrew extended his purple patch with a polished unbeaten half-century as West Indies registered their first points of the ICC Under-19 World Cup with a comfortable five-wicket victory over Scotland here yesterday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Butter chicken – one of India’s best-known dishes globally – is delicious and apparently also contentious, with two Indian restaurant chains doing battle in court over claims to its origins.

As harbingers go, July 2023 certainly packed a wallop. Pegged as the hottest month ever recorded in history by global climate scientists, with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius in some places, it is unfortunately not likely to be an anomaly and worse yet, will surely be surpassed in the future.