Daily Archive: Thursday, April 25, 2024

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction for sexual assault and rape was overturned by New York’s highest court, reopening the landmark case that fueled the #MeToo movement and highlighting the challenges of holding powerful men accountable.

 (Reuters) – Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has resigned, his office said today, as a transitional council took power with the aim of returning stability to a country where gang violence has caused chaos and misery.

BRASILIA/MONTEVIDEO,  (Reuters) – A diplomatic crisis in Ecuador and uncertainty over Venezuela’s political future have divided South American nations and killed enthusiasm for a summit that Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is trying to convene, diplomats in the region say.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Two million people across England and Scotland are still suffering from long COVID symptoms, of whom 381,000 have had their day-to-day activities limited a lot, according to an official study published today.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Iran’s judiciary confirmed the death sentence of well-known Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi but added that he is entitled to a sentence reduction, state media reported today.

The prospective buyer of the Guyana Marriott Hotel, Egyptian-born American businessman Ramy El-Batrawi passed away yesterday at the age of 62.

Around 1,000 persons were expected to become landowners through the ‘Dream Realised’ Housing Drive, at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, Georgetown yesterday.

Detectives in Regional Division 4’A’ are investigating the murder of 52-year-old Shawn George of Vlissengen Square, East Ruimveldt, Georgetown.

Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill yesterday travelled to the Upper Mazaruni, Region Seven where he officially opened an airstrip at Paruima.

Derek Kissoon, 27,  of Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) died yesterday morning after the car he was driving crashed into a shop at Farm.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that it has screened the proposed construction of a Housing and Commercial Retail Land Deve-lopment project by Trinuyana Investments Inc.

A section of the Mackenzie Market was ravaged by a fire around 9 pm last night,  according to Linden Mayor Sharma Solomon.

-laments six-month delay in receiving information Following a complaint by M S Invest-ments, the NPTAB was found to have erred in its evaluation of tenders for the supply of food to the prisons and the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) recommended remedial action and lamented the six months it took for answers to be provided in its investigation.

Western Tigers thrashed Fruta Conquerors 6-0 when the KFC Elite League continued on Tuesday evening at the National Training Centre in Providence.

Guyana T10 Blast The two Essequibo franchises, the Anacondas and Jaguars, both recorded wins yesterday at the Enmore Community Centre Ground as the Guyana Cricket Board’s (GCB) T10 Blast finally saw action after Tuesday’s games were rained out.

By Mia Anthony Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill yesterday met with vendors who ply their trade along the seawall between Camp Road and Vlissengen Road and he told them that those with a permit will continue to vend as long as they are in compliance with the vending agreement.

Dear Editor, As the Member of Parliament responsible for Region Three, I cannot sit idly by while Minister Zulfikar Mustapha’s mismanagement of vital pump station projects threatens the well-being of our constituents.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday signed a memorandum with miners, USAID and others aimed at achieving malaria-free status by 2030.

Aditi Joshi was crowned the winner of the Women’s National Chess Championship Qualifier following the conclusion of the seven-round event on Sunday at the National Racquet Centre, Woolford Avenue, and Camp Street.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips yesterday facilitated a meeting between the Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba to Guyana,  Jorge Francisco Luis, and Executives of the Cuban company Sistemas de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Construcciones SA de CV (SIECSA), and the Guyana Power and Light (GPL).

(Reuters) – Rudy Giuliani, a former lawyer for Donald Trump, is among 18 people charged in Arizona with illegally seeking to claim the state’s 2020 electoral votes for the then-U.S.

Dear Editor, In a letter which was published in SN on April 18 on the above referenced subject, Mr.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) –  Israel’s military is poised to evacuate Palestinian civilians from Rafah and assault Hamas hold-outs in the southern Gaza Strip city, a senior Israeli defence official said yesterday, despite international warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – A ceremony to install a stalled presidential transition council in Haiti will take place this morning on the outskirts of the capital Port-au-Prince, the  office of outgoing Prime Minis-ter Ariel Henry announced in a statement yesterday.

Dear Editor,  The matter of the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) versus the Ministry of Education has to be a lesson learnt by the trade union community and all Guyanese.

Stakeholders from various sectors were provided with essential tools and climate information to prepare for the upcoming May-June rainy season.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes yesterday closed an investigation into whether former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro sought asylum at the Hungarian embassy in February, citing lack of evidence.

Dear Editor, Let us educate and reeducate our children: Venezuelans in Guyana are not our enemies.

The building that previously housed  Mike’s Pharmacy at Robb and Alexander Sts was yesterday hit by a fire of unknown origin at around 2 pm.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health has revealed the three-person team from the Pan American Health Organisation which has begun its independent investigation into the outbreak at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said yesterday he would step back from public duties “for a few days” to decide whether he wants to continue leading the government after a court launched a business corruption probe into his wife’s private dealings.

The Guyana Fire Service has expanded its fleet with the addition of two foreign used fire tenders.

Dear Editor, Rickford Burke and Mark Benschop, under the guise of advocating for Afro-Guyanese rights, have consistently engag-ed in tactics that, paradoxically, erode those very rights they claim to defend.

Twenty-six-year-old Kwesi Griffith, a miner of Lot 32 Westbury Village, Essequibo Coast, was arrested and  charged with the offences of ‘unlawful possession of firearm without license’, and ‘unlawful possession of ammunition without license’.

By Neha Bansal NEW DELHI – This year marks the 30th anniversary of the United Nations’ International Year of the Family (IYF).

(Trinidad Guardian) Antigua-based airline, LIAT 2020 Ltd, is one step closer to taking to the regional skies after it received its first two jet aircraft.

(Reuters) – Barbados will halt the acquisition of a former slavery plantation belonging to a British Conservative MP after locals said he should transfer land ownership to the state as a “reparations gesture” for historical wrongs.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) launched the Blue Waters U-15 Secondary School League yesterday at the National Training Centre.

Alphas grounded the Eagles by a 3-0 score-line when the Demerara Volleyball Association’s (DVA) Senior Men’s League continued yesterday at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

Milo Secondary School Football The semifinal round of the Milo Secondary Schools Football Championship will commence today at the Ministry of Education ground on Carifesta Avenue.

Speightland and Young Gunners recorded comfortable wins in the women’s and men’s divisions, respectively, when the King and Queen Beach Football Championship continued yesterday at the PPP office compounds in Mackenzie, Linden.

One of the striking observations from the recent exposure of the assault on a Venezuelan schoolgirl by five of her peers is that the usual ad hocery, now a hallmark of this and other administrations, has obviously been employed with regard to the influx of foreign children to the country and in our schools.

Caribbean Youth Table Tennis Championship Guyana suffered defeat in the team semifinal round of the boy’s U-19 division, while the girl’s U-15 outfit fell at the group stage in the 2024 Caribbean Youth Table Tennis Championship in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Dear Editor, Any objective analyst would conclude that the current administration has been even-handed in its approach to national development.