Daily Archive: Friday, March 29, 2024

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) tonight reported more problems in its network amid public expressions of disgust.

Senior cop Mitchell Caesar was questioned by US authorities when he entered the country on vacation leave recently.

Govindra Swambeer, a 38-year-old fisherman of Whim Corentyne, Berbice, was arrested on 2024-03-27 and charged yesterday with Possession of Firearm without License and  Unlawful Possession of Ammunition without License.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) today said that it recently experienced problems with three of its larger engines.

At about 2.30 this morning, acting on information received, Police trailed a Toyota Allion car bearing registration #PAE 2420 from a bar located at New Road Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara, to Crane Old Road, where the car and driver were stopped and searched.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Israel carried out its deadliest strikes in months on northern Syria’s Aleppo province today and said it killed a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon, stepping up its campaign against Iran’s proxies in parallel with its war in Gaza.

MAMATLAKALA, South Africa,  (Reuters) – A bus crash in northern South Africa killed 45 pilgrims travelling from Botswana for Easter festivities yesterday, authorities said, with the sole survivor an eight-year-old girl currently being treated in hospital.

What is being touted as a strategically important moment for the Caribbean will materialise with the hosting by Guyana of a Caribbean Investment Forum from July 10 to 12 this year.

In the Rupununi community of Toka, Region Nine, cattle farming is a critical source of income with rustling the bane of the farmers’ existence.

Concerned that the institutional framework to combat corruption is not yet sufficiently strong and effective, the UN Human Rights Committee (CCPR) yesterday called on Guyana to take  a raft of measures including protection of whistleblowers.

With investment-starved countries in the Caribbean and Africa keen to turn the tide and attract a more generous level of foreign investment into the region, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is seeking to shoulder at least some of the responsibility associated with attracting meaningful investment opportunities into those countries.

The Guyana Association of Women Lawyers (GAWL) was among those who paid rich tribute to retired justice Desiree Bernard who passed away yesterday at the age of 85.

Trinidad and Tobago is giving credit to its startup loans, grants and training from business chambers and state agencies in the twin-island Republic for what the business community is saying has been a vibrant resurgence of retail business activity in San Fernando and its surroundings.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has possibly brought the KFC Elite League into disrepute as they have dithered in their decision to sanction the Western Tigers for fielding an ineligible player during their Anns Grove fixture on March 2nd.

After rain washed out their round one encounter against Barbados on Tuesday, the Guyana U-15 team got their campaign off to a rollicking start with a 9-wicket win over Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) in round two yesterday at Coolidge Cricket Ground in Antigua.

Stating that it was concerned that extrajudicial killings continue to occur,  the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) yesterday called on the government to set up a Commission of Inquiry into such deaths during the period of 2002 to 2006.

Dear Editor, The Rupununi Football Association (RFA) is by far the biggest of the Regional Member Associations (RMAs) currently affiliated to the Guyana Football Federation, with a total of thirty-two clubs registered with the RFA.

The Ministry of Education’s Unit of Allied Arts says that no request has been received from the Rights of the Child Commission  (RCC)  for information on the exclusion of two children from the recent children’s Mashramani contest.

Guyana had a dream debut at the Indoor Hockey Masters World Cup, dismantling Canada 10-2 in an over-45 encounter yesterday at the David Ross Sports Village on the University of Nottingham Campus.

Dear Editor, The prolonged drought has hit the residents of Saxacalli hard. 

Opposition Member of Parliament (MP), Senior Counsel Roysdale Forde, has ‘thrown his hat into the ring’ and stated his intention to run for leadership of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), while stating that for the party to move up and onward, it was imperative to Regroup, Refocus and Rebuild.

Dear Editor, Sometimes we must be realistic, after the final ICJ ruling on the existing Essequibo controversy, then what?

Exxon Mobil Corp. and Cnooc Ltd have merged arbitration claims against Chevron Corp.’s

Dear Editor, A friend sent me a short clip of President Ali being interviewed for the BBC’s Hard Talk programme. 

The case brought by the state against Rickford Burke alleging libel and other offences has been deferred pending proceedings that he has lodged in the High Court.

Dear Editor, Anyone’s heart would certainly empathise with the recent tragedy of the three young children who drowned in Region 9.

Delah Stewart, a 40-year-old minibus driver of Tuschen New Housing scheme was yesterday placed on $350,000 bail on the charge of causing death by dangerous driving.

The Ministry of Health on Wednesday  hosted a graduation ceremony for Region Ten’s first batch of Community Health Workers.

Dear Editor, It is indeed unfortunate that those in charge of our development, although we can see that they are doing a good job in improvement of the material resources of our country, seem not to realise that we need most of all to implement the inculcation of ethical and moral principles into our society.

On Wednesday, while in Region Ten, Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony in the company of Regional Health Officer, Dr Gregory Harris commissioned a newly refurbished Ambulance Station in the Linden Hospital Complex.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) –  Dengue cases in the Americas rose in the first three months of this year by three times the number of infections reported in the same period last year, the head of the Pan American Health Organization said yesterday.

 THE HAGUE/CAIRO,  (Reuters) – The World Court yesterday unanimously ordered Israel, accused by South Africa of genocide in Gaza, to take all necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies to the enclave’s Palestinian population and halt spreading famine.

Castrol Strikers defeated the Eagles when the Demerara Volleyball Association’s (DVA) Senior Men’s League continued yesterday at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

If it is altogether the right thing to ensure that the country’s health services are properly equipped to respond to what we anticipate to be the incremental demands on it in the period ahead, then the matter of how the issue of external recruitment into our health sector is gone about, including whether or not such recruitment should be undertaken without due consideration is also not a consideration that should be overlooked.

Last week Minister of Governance Gail Teixeira and the government she represents discovered that the world according to the PPP does not travel well beyond the borders of this land.

Rivers View and Eteringbang will contest the final of the Regatta Football Championship tomorrow following semi-final wins on Wednesday evening at the Bartica Community Centre ground.

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1064’s trading results showed consideration of $27,871,614 from 148,917 shares traded in 36 transactions as compared to session 1063’s trading results, which showed consideration of $10,764,446 from 43,822 shares traded in 40 transactions.

The infrastructural expansion of the Ministry of Education ground on Carifesta Avenue received a boost yesterday as Blue Water Shipping donated several concrete poles that will be utilised to improve the existing lighting apparatus of the facility.

Introduction During the recent Oil and Gas conference in Guyana, Mr.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said yesterday it is serious that a candidate could not be registered for the election in Venezuela.

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News may be ‘Guyana’s most trusted newspaper’ but is it the national  journal of record?

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has stated in its just released March Global Trade Update that while global trade is poised to rebound this year, in effect reversing the downward trend observed last year, other factors including “geopolitical issues and shipping disruptions” impacted by international conflict could stifle what, in different circumstances, might have been a much more positive outlook.

(Trinidad Guardian) The news of potential legislation that will amend the law restricting the importation of honey into T&T has stung local beekeepers.

Even as the issue of global hunger continues to occupy a place of prominence among the priorities of the international community, a UN Environment Program-me (UNEP) report released earlier this week asserts that, globally, more than one billion meals a day went uneaten in households across the world in 2022, even as 783 million people were affected by hunger and a third of humanity faced food insecurity.

Le Van Tam is no stranger to how the vagaries of global trade can determine the fortunes of small coffee farmers like him.

After commencing with 32 teams, the quarterfinal round in the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Georgetown edition will take centre stage as the final eight sides battle tomorrow evening at the National Park tarmac in Thomas Lands for a place in Sunday’s semi-final segment.

The regional life insurance company, GK Life, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Grace Kennedy Financial Group (GKFG), is reportedly targeting Guyana as one of two immediate-term ports of call for establishing itself as a provider of financial services.

Three Hill and Challengers clinched the women’s and men’s divisional titles, respectively, when the Climb Guyana Easter Football Cup concluded on Sunday at the Aranaputa Sports Ground, North Rupununi.

‘De Chief’ Archery Club became the latest entity to acquire affiliation with Archery Guyana, according to a press release from the local governing authority.

Police are investigating the shooting of Calvin Johnson called ‘Gunbutt’, a 41-year-old labourer of East Ruimveldt Trench Road, which occurred at about 8.30 pm on Wednesday in an attack by five men, two of whom were armed with handguns.