Daily Archive: Friday, February 16, 2024

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump must pay $354.9 million in penalties for fraudulently overstating his net worth to dupe lenders, a New York judge ruled today, handing the former U.S.

The capsized M.V. Torani is being removed from the Mazaruni River.

Colonel General Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Colonel Kenlloyd Roberts and a team of Officers on Wednesday welcomed French Captain (Navy) Laurent Martin and team for a courtesy call at Defence Headquarters, Base Camp Ayanganna, Thomas Lands.

MUNICH, (Reuters) – The head of the United Nations today called for technology firms to stop profiting from the proliferation of toxic content after accusing social media platforms of complicity in fuelling antisemitism, racism and anti-Muslim bigotry.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia’s most prominent opposition leader Alexei Navalny collapsed and died today after a walk at the “Polar Wolf” Arctic penal colony where he was serving a long jail term, the Russian prison service said.

(Trinidad Express) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has volunteered his country’s resources to help mitigate the oil spill impacting Tobago’s southwestern coast as the toxic slick continues to float towards neighbouring territories.

(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of Works and Transport Rohan Sinanan is denying allegations that the Government has been withholding critical information from the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) regarding the Tobago oil spill.

(Trinidad Guardian) Grenada has contacted the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency and other partners, as possible oil from the Tobago oil spill has entered their marine area of responsibility.

Almost three years since Guyana declined to enter into a long-term oil supply deal with India, the issue has arisen again and the government has again poured cold water on the idea.

Whenever, over several decades, the idea of Guyana becoming a ‘tourism haven’ has arisen, the idea was frequently doused with cold water, not on account of the country’s lack of credentials to support a tourism sector, but on account of ‘excuses’ that were underpinned by a mix of ideological idiocy and refusal to accept that what we saw as the grandeur that was associated with tourism in other parts of the world could not possibly be replicated here.

Chief Executive Officer of the recently established ASGM GUYANA – Artisanal Small Gold Miners Guyana (ASGM) John Applewhite-Hercules earlier this week told the Stabroek Business that the focus of his new company is to work with both current and prospective small miners and potential investors in pursuit of their investment ambitions in the gold mining sector.

As teachers took to the streets on day nine of what they say will soon become an indefinite strike, Vice President (VP) Bharrat Jagdeo has said that the Ministry of Education (MoE) may have to explore online methods to ensure that students are provided with tuition.

While extending glowing praise for Guyana’s oil-driven economic expansion, visiting Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Kenji Okamura did issue cautionary hints including on overheating of the economy and the need for balanced growth.

By Abigail Headley The father of the girl who was disqualified from the children’s Mash competition for singing about the government’s 6.5% increase say that he and his wife are trying to console her as she is disappointed at the turn of events.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Education is alarmed at the blatant misinformation and inconsistencies apparently aimed at misinforming contained in the recent editorials and articles published in the Stabroek News.

In a lengthy critique of the government’s trillion-dollar 2024 budget, the GPSU says it will not address poverty or the cost of living unless priorities are reconsidered.

Akeem Wong, a convict serving a 15-year sentence for rape, escaped from the Mazaruni prison compound yesterday.

Alex Arjoon, Steven Xavier, Jason Ray-Khalil, and Alysa Xavier were among the winners when the Bounty Farms Mash Handicap Squash Championship continued last night at the Georgetown Club facility on Camp Street.

Dear Editor, Some 62 years ago, on February 16, infamously labelled ‘black Friday’, a budget riot was unleashed in British Guiana.

The Castle Hotel at Lot 12 Chapel Street, New Amsterdam was destroyed by fire in Wednesday afternoon.

Defending champion Guyana Harpy Eagles suffered a first-inning collapse after being bundled out for 188 as the Leeward Islands, led by left-arm spinner Daniel Doram, seized a mammoth lead to strengthen their grip on the encounter yesterday at Warner Park, St.

Dear Editor, The National Security Advisor posted a video on social media showing someone dressed in APNU+AFC colours and APNU written on his/her clothing doing what many considered to be witchcraft.

Teachers in Region Two continued to observe the GTU strike for the ninth day yesterday as they gathered on the side of the Anna Regina high bridge.

Dear Editor, So we are advancing step by step, day by day into the dark dungeon of a dictatorship, despair and disunity with the walls decorated with donkey’s dung.

(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden yesterday again told Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he should not proceed with military action in Rafah without a credible and executable plan to protect Palestinian civilians, the White House said.

Dear Editor,  I am a lover of Calypso as an art form.

Thirty-six-year-old Winston Hazel, the electrician who was shot twelve times on Tuesday night in Tucville, Georgetown, remains hospitalized in a critical condition.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – A recent spike of violence in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, is preventing the World Food Programme (WFP) from reaching hundreds of thousands of people in urgent need of supplies, as conflicts between armed gangs worsen an escalating humanitarian crisis.

Dear Editor, Clement Rohee’s letter debunking the distorted views of Vishnu Bisram, and consequently, Clem Seecharran, whose book slandering my father, President Cheddi, is the basis of Bisram’s connivance to attack Jagan’s role in Guyana’s history.

Abdool Shakoor and Yogindra Bheemsingh yesterday appeared before Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh at the Whim Magis-trate’s Court, according to the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit.

ATHENS,  (Reuters) – Greece’s parliament approved a bill allowing same-sex civil marriage yesterday, a landmark victory for supporters of LGBT rights that was greeted with cheers by onlookers in parliament and dozens gathered on the streets of Athens.

Dear Editor, Well it is correct when one engages in strike action one cannot be engaging in work/job related matters or activities at the same time.

The Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Upper Berbice) administration  breached Section 43 of the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act 2003 in 2019 since 228 cheques totalling $131.8 million were prepared for work that was still to be completed.

PORT OF SPAIN,  (Reuters) – An oil spill that has stained Tobago’s coastline in the Caribbean is entering into Grenada’s waters and could impact neighbouring Venezuela, Tobago’s Chief Secretary Farley Augustine told Reuters yesterday.

With the March 18-21 staging in Guyana of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) 38th Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean (LARC38), the point cannot be made too strongly that the forum should not be allowed to metamorphose into stirring speeches, animated ‘talk shops’ and a final communique that talks a great deal but says little, if anything.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – The Kremlin dismissed yesterday a warning by the United States about Moscow’s new nuclear capabilities in space, calling it a “malicious fabrication” and a trick by the White House aimed at getting U.S.

CNOOC Petroleum Guyana Limited (CPGL) – a partner with ExxonMobil in the offshore oil operations – wrapped up its third annual CPGL Green Art and Innovation Competition with a prize-giving ceremony on Wednesday at its offices.

Confirmation in 2015 that Guyana had become an ‘oil rich’ nation triggered, shortly thereafter, energetic public chatter regarding possible lucrative ‘openings’ in various parts of the industry for the trained/qualified.

Dear Editor, With reference to the current Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) strike, this teachers’ union, and the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) should let the Guyanese people know of their observance of the Guyana Trades Unions’ Act as outlined hereunder.

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1058’s trading results showed consideration of $17,953,318 from 82,684 shares traded in 40 transactions as compared to session 1057’s trading results, which showed consideration of $28,841,713 from 78,248 shares traded in 50 transactions.

Exxon is no stranger to politics. It understands the importance of billboards (India and Guyana) and the politics of Buses (the USA and the Tories Brexit bus).

(Reuters) – David Bedingham scored his maiden test century as South Africa handed New Zealand a victory target of 267 on a tricky pitch on the third day of the second and final test at Hamilton’s Seddon Park yesterday.

(Reuters) – Captain Rohit Sharma and middle-order batter Ravindra Jadeja smashed defiant hundreds to drag India out of the doldrums and into a comfortable 326 for five on the opening day of the third test against England yesterday.

In the opening encounter of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Women’s Inter-County T20 tournament, Berbice, led by their bowlers, dismantled Essequibo to win by seven wickets in a low-scoring match at the Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) Ground yesterday.

The ruling party has never been noted for its aesthetic sensibility, but what most distinguishes it is the fact that whenever confronted with an open urban space it is overcome by the compulsion to fill it with a concrete monstrosity.

Golden Jaguars U20 Men’s head coach, Kayode McKinnon, is of the opinion that his charges are well prepared for the challenges presented in Group B at the impending CONCACAF Qualifiers, which will be staged in Antigua and Barbuda from February 23rd.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government has asked staff from the United Nations’ human rights body to leave the country within three days, saying it will conduct a revision of its cooperation with the organization, with the UN saying it would evaluate next steps.

For reasons that are altogether unclear to this newspaper, the Government has – as far as we are aware – neglected/declined to make an official announcement regarding participation by local Agro Processors in this year’s Barbados Agro Fest which is being staged from??

With the Caribbean continuing to attract increasing global attention as much for its reputation as a favoured tourism destination as for its more recent growing profile as a continually emerging investment haven, the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) is moving to help make the region more accessible to visitors by upgrading its airline route development regime.

Even as governments and other institutions in the region work to clear a comfortable path on which to lay the foundation for enhanced social and business ties between Africa and the Caribbean, countries and institutions continue to take pleasing initiatives in support of further strengthening the foundation on which a more robust relationship can thrive.

While, at an earlier juncture, there appeared to have been some kind of modus vivendi between the ‘climate changers’ and the global oil giants on the need to drastically cut fossil fuel emissions in order to try to push back an imminent climate catastrophe, it transpires, or at least so it seems, that the attempt to ‘paper over’ the gap between the two sides was contrived purely to avoid a circumstance that might have scuttled last December’s COP 28 Forum in the United Arab Emirates.

Global Head of the World Gold Council, Juan Carlos Artigas, has painted a ‘glittering’ picture of the performance of the gold sector in 2023 whilst asserting that the precious metal will also retain what he says is a “strong strategic advantage” in 2024.