Daily Archive: Friday, April 5, 2024

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck near New York City thid morning, the U.S.

The Guyana Defence Force today informed of a tragic incident relating to a collision between a Coast Guard vessel and a civilian vessel in the Moruca River, Region One (Barima Waini), resulting in loss of lives.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – The Israeli military dismissed two officers and formally reprimanded senior commanders after an inquiry into the killing of seven aid workers in an air strike in Gaza this week found serious errors and breaches of procedure, the military said.

PARAMARIBO,  (Reuters) – The families of Surinamese activists slain for their opposition to the government in the 1980s say decades of suffering and sluggish legal proceedings have been prolonged by the apparent inability of authorities to locate the man at the center of it all: former President Desi Bouterse.

Police are investigating the murder of Edward Bramnarine, also known as Eddy, a 49-year-old ‘vagrant’, whose body was discovered at about 11.20 last night on Water and Holmes streets, Georgetown.

The government and the opposition yesterday condemned Venezuela’s latest activation of legislation to annex Guyana’s Essequibo region, noting that it violates the Argyle Agreement signed in December last year.

In the wake of 38 people being evacuated from Santa Mission/Santa-Aratak and neighbouring communities yesterday morning as a wildfire escalated to a point where firefighters were unable to access the affected areas in order to extinguish it, citizens around the country are urged to be vigilant.

The United States-based Global Energy Monitor (GEM), a non-governmental organization which catalogs fossil fuel and renewable energy projects globally and shares, has issued a report which states that, going forward, oil and gas producers are seeking to quadruple their investments in the oil and gas sector despite the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) warning issued three years ago that new oil and gas fields are incompatible with the 1.5°C climate target.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) yesterday announced that it had written to Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton informing him of plans to initiate strike action, which Hamilton said goes against a pending court case instigated by the union.

Buxton United’s winless streak in the KFC Elite League continued last evening as they went down 0-4 to Fruta Conquerors at the National Training Centre, Providence.

As much as anything else, Guyana’s now accustomed role as host to high-profile regional and global gatherings underscores the acceptance by the international community that the country’s new-found oil economy qualifies it as a place to be when matters of business and investment in the region are under scrutiny.

Farmer Richard Martin has been sentenced to 13 years in jail for the September 2020 killing of Bourda Market labourer Ovid Chester, who was stabbed after he reportedly conned Martin out of a construction net that he promised to sell.

Guyana Football Federation (GFF) President Wayne Forde declared that the Golden Jaguars appearance in the inaugural FIFA Series in Saudi Arabia should be regarded as a moment of national pride.

The Guyana Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has recently reported pleasing outcomes to an initiative undertaken by the Chamber in collaboration with the European Union.

Club 45 and Linden will contest the final of the Santos 60th Anniversary Masters Football Championship tonight, following semi-final wins on Wednesday evening at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

Those persons who were left counting their losses due to the damages incurred to their homes and businesses following the fatal accident that claimed the life of 21-year-old pedestrian, Nicholas Khelawon, on Tuesday morning on the public road at Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara, are now demanding to be compensated.

Essequibo Archers have been the latest entity to secure affiliation with Archery Guyana, according to an official release from the local governing body.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to thank the Prime Minister for his response as well as his public acknowledgement that contradicts the untruths which claim that nothing was done during 2015 – 2020.

Even as the issue of global hunger continues to occupy a place of prominence among the priorities of the international community, a UN Environment Programme (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.

Dear Editor, It is commendable the work the government is doing to push infrastructure work in the Independence Boulevard, but this must be met with improving the standard of living of the citizens.

Police in Linden yesterday said they arrested two men with some 9,979 grammes of suspected cannabis while a third was arrested for offering a bribe of $453,000 to the lawmen to release the suspects.

Belladrum Secondary conducted theoretical and practical golf sessions at the sport’s Lusignan facility in preparation for their impeding Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations.

Not a great deal has been heard from the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) regarding the ‘potential participation’ of local businesses in the 135th Canton 2024 Spring Fair scheduled to be staged at the Canton Fair Complex, Guangzhou, China from April 15-19, though it would do both Guyana’s image and the image of the Chamber a power of good if Guyana were to make an appearance, even a modest one at one of the world’s biggest events of its kind.

Dear Editor, It is generally agreed that the visit to Guyana by Mr.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has expressed its disappointment in the non-selection of the Guyanese trio of Ashmini Munisar, Plaffiana Millington, and Shabika Gajnabi for the West Indies women’s team tour of Pakistan and is questioning the criteria used for selection.

A US-based Guyanese who was allegedly found with an unlicensed firearm and ammunition on Sunday last at a horse racing event in Berbice has been charged and remanded to prison.

Dear Editor, It was good to see media reports of the workshops on kite-making carried out for children in various communities this Easter.

The Ministry of Health has embarked on outlining the steps to be taken for the implementation of the National Action Plan for Health Security under what has been tagged the ‘One Health Approach’.

Once widely respected in the region as a country that has never shirked from turning to the land to ensure its food security bona fides, there is, these days, concern that the number of local farmers is continuing to dwindle, according to the Jamaica Agriculture Society (JAS).

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden threatened on Thursday to condition support for Israel’s offensive in Gaza on it taking concrete steps to protect aid workers and civilians, seeking for the first time to leverage U.S.

Dear Editor, Pictures of high profile managers, board members and other supporting entities of the power company, at the break of dawn reading of the ‘riot act’ meeting, some looking perplexed, puzzled, uncertain and uninvolved, highlights and sends a message of an entity in dire straits.

Having become, largely through its oil and gas bonanza, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country enjoying the highest profile in the region, the International Conference on Business, Commerce and Management Studies, scheduled to be held in Georgetown, the country’s capital, on May 25, 2024, is likely to attract further regional and international attention to Guyana.

A 73-year-old woman recently benefitted from a successful total hip replacement – right hip joint surgery performed by doctors of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), the first of its kind, according to a release from the Department of Public Information (DPI).

Dear Editor, I write both as a seasoned ex-BBC factual producer and one who knows just a little about contemporary Guyana and oil.

Cut all colonial ties, including use of the Privy Council as this country’s final court of appeal.

With the Cricket West Indies (CWI) 4-Day Championship slated to resume on April 10th, the Guyana Harpy Eagles commenced their preparatory phase with a training session yesterday at the Meten-Meer-Zorg ground on West Coast Demerara.

The first batch of families awarded house lots in Le Ressouvenir Housing Development, East Coast Demerara were able to identify them on Wednesday in the presence of Minister of Housing and Water Collin Croal.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump suffered a pair of legal setbacks on Thursday as judges spurned his calls to dismiss criminal charges over the former U.S.

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LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s Congress on Thursday voted twice against formally debating the launch of a process to impeach under-fire President Dina Boluarte, who is facing a probe into her possession of expensive jewelry, including luxury Rolex watches.

With approximately two months before the commencement of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, a team of officials from the organising committee conducted an inspection exercise on Wednesday of the four venues that will be utilised in Guyana.

Dear Editor, As we approach the General Elections in 2025, it is important to acknowledge the continuous efforts of the current government since taking office in 2020.

The government has launched an initiative to accelerate its efforts to eliminate communicable diseases.

DUBAI (Reuters) – Hounded by months of deadly Israeli attacks in Syria, Iranian military commanders thought it safe to convene a top-level meeting inside Iran’s embassy compound in Damascus, believing it protected by international norms shielding diplomatic missions, according to a dozen Iranian, Syrian and regional officials.

(Reuters) – Rafa Nadal withdrew from the upcoming Monte Carlo Masters yesterday, saying his body is not yet ready for competition, casting more doubt on whether the 22-times Grand Slam champion will compete at his favourite major, the French Open.

(Trinidad Express) A mother has been arrested after being identified from a video posted on social media showing her verbally and physically abuse two young children.

Dear Editor, President Ali has been placed above his capacity.  This much is clearer. 

There exists at this time an uncanny coincidence between Guyana’s parading of itself as an oil-producing ‘rising star’ on the one hand and on the other, seemingly hurtling towards a return to that ‘zombie’ regimen of power outages that had once traumatized generations of Guyanese.

Police on mobile patrol yesterday morning arrested a resident of Henrietta, Essequibo Coast after he was found in possession of an unlicensed firearm.

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1065’s trading results showed consideration of $14,873,926 from 77,625 shares traded in 20 transactions as compared to session 1064’s trading results, which showed consideration of $27,871,614 from 148,917 shares traded in 36 transactions.

(Reuters) – Walt Disney’s (DIS.N) streaming service will start cracking down on password-sharing from June, CEO Bob Iger said on Thursday, as the entertainment conglomerate looks to boost subscriber growth and make the business profitable.

Following the killing of seven aid workers from the World Central Kitchen in Gaza on Monday, three former UK Supreme Court justices and more than 600 legal experts have written a 17-page letter to the government.