Daily Archive: Thursday, February 8, 2024

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian police today confiscated former President Jair Bolsonaro’s passport and accused him of editing a draft decree to overturn election results, pressuring military chiefs to join a coup attempt and plotting to jail a Supreme Court justice.

Sky High Aviation Services will launch three weekly flights connecting the Dominican Republic with Guyana, beginning February 18, 2024.

NORTH OF SYLINGARFELL, Iceland,  (Reuters) – A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted today for the third time since December, pumping lava up to 80 metres (260 feet) into the air and disrupting life in the Reykjanes peninsula.

(Trinidad Guardian) Massy Holdings Ltd announced yesterday the early retirement of Gervase Warner, the group’s president and CEO.

Police are investigating the suspected drowning of Alexander Angoy, a 31-year-old miner of Diamond Housing Scheme, EBD, which occurred at about 19:07 hrs on Monday evening at Chinese Creek backdam, Puruni River, in Region Seven.

(Reuters) Quitol (Goa): India wants to sign a multi-year oil purchase deal with Guyana and acquire stakes in the South American nation’s exploration areas, the Guyanese minister for natural resources said today.

By Abigail Headley As their union’s strike enters the fourth day today, teachers yesterday kept up the pressure on the government for collective bargaining.

The fire on Saturday, February 3rd at the power plant of the Albion Sugar Factory caused serious damage, according to a statement yesterday from GuySuCo.

Amid delay in a key loan being finalized, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has written to the United States EXIM Bank expressing support for the bank’s financing of the huge gas-to-shore project.

The Guyana Harpy Eagles bowlers were made to toil under overcast conditions at the Conaree Cricket Ground yesterday, as experienced Trinidad & Tobago Red Force batsman Jason Mohamed hit an unbeaten century to pilot his side to 215/4 after bad light ended play early on the opening day.

Police officers have been visiting schools on the East Coast and the East Bank of Demerara, to gather information pertaining to teachers’ attendance in the wake of the strike called by the GTU.

Dear Editor, I refer to a recent article in K/N captioned “Mahipaul exposes sloth in the construction of 10 pumps by National Drainage and Irrigation Authority between 2020 and 2023”.

Dear Editor, I am writing to express my thoughts on the ongoing discussions surrounding the demands for salary increases by members of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU).

Lodge All-Stars, Gold is Money, Sparta Boss, and North East La Penitence secured quarterfinal berths when the ‘Georgetown versus the Rest’ street-ball championship continued on Tuesday evening at the Back Circle tarmac in East Ruimveldt.

Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Technical Director Bryan Joseph confirmed that the provisional squad for the impending 2024 CONCACAF Men’s U20 Qualifiers has been reduced to 24 players and that the team will commence its encampment period today.

“I want to apologize to the deceased family. I never meant to take their loved one’s life.”

Dear Editor, Before liberalization of the telecommunications industry in 2020, GTT monopolized this sector and did as they pleased, and this sadly continues to date unabated.

The impending Mashramani Street-ball Championship, which is pencilled for Sunday, February 18th, at the National Park tarmac, Thomas Lands, received an additional injection of financial support from Nel Global Security and UK Goods and Services.

Scores of teachers in Region Two continue to gather in front of the region’s Department of Education demanding an increase in their salaries.

Dear Editor, We refer to the letter “A serious problem wi1h the CCI share price” by Christopher Ram in your publication on February 7, 2024.

Major works for the US$6m Liliendaal pump station are being done offsite.

(Trinidad Express) Tobago’s serene waters were yesterday marred after an overturned vessel off its south-western coast near Canoe Bay saw an ‘extensive’ oil spill polluting the area, in some cases reaching the coastline.

Toolsie Persaud Limited has donated a plethora of building materials to the Guyana Golf Association (GGA) and the Nexgen Academy to assist in the building of a playing facility at the West Side Course in Vreed-en-Hoop that will be used by students and beginners.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – At least five agents of Haiti’s BSAP, an armed environmental agency that in recent years has evolved into a paramilitary body, were killed in a shootout with national police in Port-au-Prince yesterday, the police trade union told reporters.

The traditional heavyweight Western Tigers will stage their annual general meeting (AGM) and Electoral Congress on February 24th at the West Ruimveldt playfield at 16:00hrs.

By Mia Anthony As the teachers’ strike enters its fourth day today, schools all across the country continue to be affected.

Dear Editor, No leader should be above the law. In authoritarian countries, rulers do and or act as despots, violating human rights and even murdering people.

Despite concluding the Elite League Playoff on January 6th, the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has yet to pay the competing clubs their preparation grant that was announced at the launch of the competition, which commenced on December 17th.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Dengue fever has surged in Brazil’s hot rainy season, forcing health authorities to take emergency measures and start mass vaccination against the mosquito-borne illness.

Dear Editor, Some teachers on the picket line were saying we now have oil money therefore salaries should be increased.

DOHA/TEL AVIV, (Reuters) – Mediators from the U.S., Qatar and Egypt scrambled to forge a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in their four-month-old war in the Gaza Strip after America’s top diplomat on a Middle East mission said there was still hope for a deal.

The sum of $12 million will be spent on the purchase of desktop computers for several Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) to aid them in the Single Window process which will soon be implemented by the government to ease doing business here.

The police yesterday issued wanted bulletins for two men over a series of robberies in the Cuyuni and Windsor Castle on the Essequibo Coast.

A brilliant innings from Shelton Ramsey propelled Achievers B to a four-wicket victory over home side and arch-rival D’ Edward in the final of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB)/Anil Lalsa 2nd Division T20 Championship.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Republicans in the U.S. Senate yesterday defeated a bipartisan effort to bolster border security that had taken months to negotiate, but said they could still approve aid for Ukraine and Israel that had been tied up in the deal.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s Constitutional Court yesterday approved a request from a terminally ill patient to decriminalize euthanasia and ordered the National Assembly to approve a law regulating the procedure within a year.

Dear Editor, Society must stand in solidarity with the teachers union to protect our nation’s children.

Twenty-three-year-old mother of two, Melissa Cort, appeared yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court before Chief Magistrate (ag) Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus after it was alleged that on February 5, while at the Supreme Court lockups, she took 20 cigarettes and one lighter to her boyfriend, Patrick Smith, who is on trial for a capital offence.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Department’s financial crimes unit yesterday proposed a plan to require real estate professionals to flag suspicious activity, in a bid to curb illicit funds flowing through residential real estate.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A former Honduran police chief has pleaded guilty to a U.S.

Dear Editor, So the M&CC has the vendors playing ‘transfer the problem where no court order exists’. 

Dear Editor, Chartered Accountant and attorney-at-law, Mr. Chris Ram, should be in the diplomatic corps. 

A twenty-one-year-old man of Lot 690 Kuru Kuru, Soesdyke-Linden Highway, was arraigned before Magistrate Rhondel Weever at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Monday, charged with illegal possession of a tear gas canister.

SAN JOSE,  (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s government said yesterday it had granted asylum to Panama’s former President Ricardo Martinelli, after the ex-leader, currently facing a lengthy prison sentence at home, requested the protection at Nicaragua’s embassy in Panama City.

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – A commander from Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed armed group in Iraq that the Pentagon has blamed for attacking its troops, was killed in a U.S.

Dear Editor, I believe it might be helpful to examine how the teacher profession has evolved from the time I taught, to where it is now.

(Reuters) – The top court in global sport began hearing former Wimbledon and French Open champion Simona Halep’s appeal against a doping suspension that could end her career.

Police are investigating a report of armed robbery committed on Thakoor Harryram called ‘Ricky’, a 43-year-old taxi driver of Lot 190, West Indian Housing Scheme, Bartica, which occurred between 20:20 and 20:30 pm on Sunday at his residence.

(Reuters) – New Zealand took their time but eased to a comprehensive victory over an inexperienced South Africa side by 281 runs late on the fourth day of the first test yesterday to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Former Chilean President Sebastian Pinera died from asphyxiation due to submersion after the helicopter he was piloting crashed into a lake in southern Chile on Tuesday, the local prosecutor’s office reported yesterday.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Two explosions near electoral candidates’ offices in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan killed 26 people and wounded dozens yesterday, officials said, raising concerns over security on the eve of a general election.

In the fairy tale ‘’The Steadfast Tin Soldier’’ by Hans Christian Andersen, the central figures are a tin soldier – the last of a batch of 25 and made one-legged because the tin ran out – and a paper ballerina formed executing a pirouette, with one leg drawn up.