Daily Archive: Wednesday, April 3, 2024

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Oil major Shell SHEL.L is seeking a long-term license from the U.S.

KAMPALA,  (Reuters) – Uganda’s constitutional court today refused to annul or suspend an anti-LGBTQ law that includes the death penalty for certain same-sex acts, but voided some provisions it said are inconsistent with certain fundamental human rights.

Police are investigating a fatal incident which occurred at about 8.40 last night on the public road at Cottage, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, which resulted in the death of 27-year-old Shemroy Henry of Lot 2 Belmont.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday read the “riot act” to stakeholders in the power sector over the continuing disruptions in supply and breakdown of equipment.

United Airlines on Monday inaugurated its nonstop flight from Houston, US to Guyana, a route seen as important to ExxonMobil which has its headquarters in the American city.

In anticipation of what will be the largest meeting to date, the PPP/C will bring their 32nd Congress to the capital city, slated for the first week in May, and it will be held at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC), party sources say.

By Subhana Shiwmangal Two children are in critical condition in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital following an accident on Monday around 7.30 pm on the Grass Field, Enmore Access Road.

We are champions! Raucous applause filled the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, at that statement by Minister of Culture, Youth, and Sport, Charles Ramson Jr.

Pedestrian, 51-year-old Nicholas Khelawon died yesterday morning after he was struck by minibus #BZZ 1192, driven by a 29-year-old from Kaikan Street, North Ruimveldt, Georgetown.

The Rights of the Child Commission (RCC) has rejected the Ministry of Education (MoE)’s claim that its Allied Arts Unit (AAU) did not receive any request for information regarding the exclusion of children from this year’s Mashramani Competition.

West Coast Berbice outfit Monedderlust remained winless in the KFC Elite League as they went lost to West Demerara unit Den Amstel by a 0-3 score yesterday at the National Training Centre in Providence.

Dear Editor, I have noted that the infallible ones are at it again, this time the President was reported to have said “We inherited a system that was in total collapse.

A sizable gathering at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Ground on Saturday paid witness to the conclusion of the Demerara Cricket Board’s Inter Association U-19 cricket competition, which the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) won in a last-over finish.

Dear Editor, After a dreary and rain-filled day on Easter Friday, the sun stamped its authority on the weather charts by showering its brilliant radiance the following day, Saturday March 30, 2024 onto the residents of New York.

Yesterday, Jose Felix Lindore and Javier Perez appeared before Magistrate George at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court where they both pleaded not guilty to the offence of trafficking a narcotic, to wit 536 kilogrammes of cocaine.

The semi-final round of the Santos 60th Anniversary Masters Football Championship will commence today at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

Dear Editor, Although this May Indians would have been in Guyana for 186 years (starting on May 5, 1838), documents relating to their arrival and oppressive conditions, perseverance and survival as well as death on the plantations have not been preserved and protected.

The Ministry of Home Affairs yesterday said that both the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) and the Guyana Police Force are actively engaged in combating a large wildfire in the Perseverance/Providence area on the East Bank of Demerara and along the Demerara River below the Sand Hill area.

Two men have been held for questioning in relation to the murder of Paul Waterman who was shot during an armed robbery at a Vreed-en-Hoop supermarket.

Dear Editor, There is a block-wide ring fence on the Stabroek Block and, the benefits to Guyana, Guyanese and our economy continue to accrue; yet many persist in calling for ring-fencing within the Stabroek Block, despite the negatives such a provision would impose.

NICOSIA,  (Reuters) – Seaborne aid for Gaza is returning to Cyprus after Israel killed seven aid workers of World Central Kitchen, Cypriot officials said yesterday, as the U.S.-based

Dear Editor, Mr. Alistair Routledge is more than Exxon’s Country Head in Guyana. 

Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill has visited ongoing projects in Region 9 and warned contractors to deliver.

Dear Editor, The explanation offered about the current spate of blackouts about ‘sudden rise in development in the country have caught the company with its back against the wall’ (GDN), has to be seen as an admission of sorts.

DAKAR,  (Reuters) – Senegal’s once jailed opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye was sworn in yesterday as the West African nation’s fifth and youngest president ever, promising to restore stability and bring economic progress.

Shammy Edwards and Ken Summer appeared yesterday before Magistrate Michelle Matthias at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court in relation to the offence of trafficking  5.994 kgs of cannabis.

Stephan Hope, the security guard who fatally shot Ashanti Liverpool, remains hospitalised under police guard in critical condition with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – More than 53,000 people fled Haiti’s capital in just three weeks of March as conflict between powerful armed gangs wreaked havoc for civilians, with the state largely absent and a path out of the chaos yet to be established by politicians.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – The Kremlin said yesterday that a visit by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to Russia was being prepared, a sign of continued close ties between the two major oil-producing nations which are both at odds with the United States.

Dear Editor, The Executive Council and Members of the Guyana Public Service Union, join with the rest of Guyana, in expressing our deepest sympathy to the relatives and dear friends of Retired Chancellor Désirée Patricia Bernard, JCCJ.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Guadeloupe-born author Maryse Conde, who wrote about colonialism, slavery and the French-Caribbean diaspora, died in southern France at the age of 90.

TAIPEI, (Reuters) – A 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked Taiwan yesterday, the strongest tremor to hit the island in at least 25 years, killing one person, injuring dozens and sparking a tsunami warning for southern Japan and the Philippines that was later lifted.

Fawaaz Bacchus, the Managing Director of MF Bacchus Construction and Transportation Service, located at Fairfield on the Essequibo Coast, yesterday donated four new motorcycles to the Guyana Police Force Transport Department.

Dear Editor, On Easter Sunday, I accompanied my wife to a very uplifting Easter Sunday Service at St.

By Michael R. Bloomberg NEW YORK – Even as COVID-19 recedes into the background of everyday life, the broader decline in US life expectancy is still with us, because too many elected officials refuse to take its causes seriously.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – In just three years, Brazil’s hugely popular Pix payment system has become the country’s favorite way to pay, replacing cash and wire transfers in many cases and now threatening the dominance of credit cards in the booming e-commerce sector.

Three persons were charged yesterday in relation to simple larceny on the Anirud Construction Firm between March 24th and 28th, 2024, at Great Diamond New Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara.

GREEN BAY, Wisconsin,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump called immigrants illegally in the United States “animals” and “not human” in a speech in Michigan yesterday, resorting to the degrading rhetoric he has employed time and again on the campaign trail.

(Reuters) – England all-rounder Ben Stokes has opted out of selection for this year’s Twenty20 World Cup to focus on regaining his fitness ahead of the summer’s test fixtures, the country’s cricket board (ECB) said in a statement yesterday.

The fact that the two playing fields differ vastly in size and quality of surface is of no consequence.

(CMC) – Once again set up by their batting, which included an enterprising 40 not out from West Indies white-ball batsman Nicholas Pooran and was inspired by another destructive spell from fast bowler Mayank Yadav, the Lucknow Super Giants sealed a 28-run win against hosts Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League yesterday.

Dear Editor, March 31st. 24, was supposed to be a momentous and historic day for all of the nations in the Caribbean particularly those that are members of CARICOM.

ALMATY,  (Reuters) – The operator of Kazakhstan’s giant offshore Kashagan oilfield denied reports of an oil spill near the field and said yesterday its facilities were working normally.