Daily Archive: Monday, May 6, 2024

RAFAH, Gaza Strip, (Reuters) – Militant group Hamas today agreed to a ceasefire proposal in the seven-month-old war with Israel in Gaza, hours after the Israeli military told residents to evacuate some parts of Rafah, which has been sheltering more than a million displaced people.

Benjamin Seaford, a 16-year-old of Lot 12 Public Road, Kitty, was fatally stabbed this morning.

A man who was arrested on a complaint of domestic violence on May 5th was found hanging today in his cell at the Lethem Police Station.

(Trinidad Guardian)Tobago investigators have identified the body found over a precipice in Mt St George as 32-year-old Shellon Walters-Joseph, of Mt Marie, Scarborough.

ROME,(Reuters) – Italy’s Defence Minister said on Monday economic sanctions against Russia had failed and called on the West to try harder to negotiate a diplomatic solution with President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – As the Democratic minority leader in a Republican-controlled House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries’ influence is normally limited.

PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Panama’s former security minister Jose Raul Mulino on Sunday stormed to victory in a presidential poll dominated by his old boss, the popular ex-leader Ricardo Martinelli, who buttressed his campaign despite being holed up in Nicaragua’s embassy.

By Abigail Headley President Irfaan Ali secured the highest number of votes of the 35 delegates elected to the Central Committee during the People’s Progressive Party’s (PPP) 32nd Congress.

The body of a 47-year-old US-based Guyanese was found dead in a garage fire in Jamaica, Queens on Thursday last.

The police are investigating an incident that occurred yesterday at L and P Construction Company, Eccles Industrial Site, East Bank Demerara, that claimed the life of 52-year-old Zheng Shun Lui.

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday confirmed that the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) had  voted to erase Marxism-Leninism and Socialism from its Constitution during the recent 32nd Congress.

KFC Elite League – GDF leads standings due to superior goal difference Defending champion and undefeated league leader, the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), and second-place outfit Slingerz FC battled to a scoreless draw in their final matches of round one in the KFC Elite League on Saturday evening at the National Training Centre, Providence.

The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) has announced the ideal sowing period for the second crop of 2024.

– defeats Joshi in a marathon battle Jessica Callender emerged triumphant in a successful defence of her women’s title after a four-hour-long battle yesterday with 13-year-old Aditi Joshi, who finished as the runner-up at the Guyana Chess Federation’s (GCF) 2024 National Women’s Championship.

During an intelligence-led operation at a La Penitence Squatting Area home yesterday, police discovered a .32 Taurus pistol and a matching round along with 30.3 grammes of cannabis.

The Ravens and Pacesetters recorded comfortable wins when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association’s (GABA) U-23 Men’s League continued on Saturday evening at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

Agricola Red Triangle and Soesdyke Falcons played to a 4-4 draw when the East Bank Demerara Football Association Senior Men’s League commenced yesterday at the National Training Centre, Leonora.

Pensioners queuing at the Bourda and East La Penitence post offices last week lamented the ordeal they faced while collecting their pensions and disability payments.

Steve Ninvalle, President of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA), praised the decision of the International Boxing Association (IBA) to invest in excess of USD$80 million in prize money for the next four-year cycle.

JERUSALEM/DOHA (Reuters) – Israeli authorities raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its office after the government decided to shut down the Qatari-owned TV station’s local operations on Sunday, an Israeli official and an Al Jazeera source told Reuters.

Part 74 Stabroek News spoke to members of the public in Riverview, Georgetown about the rising cost of living and how it is affecting them.

CAIRO/DOHA (Reuters) – Prospects for a Gaza ceasefire appeared slim on Sunday as Hamas reiterated its demand for an end to the war in exchange for the freeing of hostages, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flatly ruled that out.

Dear Editor, The PPP congress is a copy of the Chinese Communist Party’s congress (except of course, Michael Jackson’s dance recital, which was very funny and will resonate for years to come in every aspect, especially from a propaganda and public relations perspective).

-says Ali at party’s 32nd Congress Guyana’s ongoing transformation and projected growth will continue under the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) government. 

Hope and Charity played to a 1-1 draw when the Essequibo Coast/Pomeroon Football Association’s (ECPFA) Senior Men’s League continued yesterday at the Anna Regina Multilateral Ground.

Homegrown Guyanese footballer Omari Glasgow made history on Saturday night when he came on as a substitute for midfielder Brian Gutiérrez in the 79th minute of Chicago Fire’s Major League Soccer (MLS) fixture against the New England Revolution at Soldier Field.

Dear Editor, I’ve always thought ‘Arrival Day’ was in commemoration of the disparate peoples that ‘arrived’ here from far flung places.

A Guyanese from the South Rupununi has been awarded with a prize by a prestigious UK charity for his efforts in the Indigenous-led protection and conservation of an endangered bird.

CAIRO (Reuters) – The armed wing of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas claimed responsibility on Sunday for an attack on the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza that Israel said killed three of its soldiers.

Clifton Hinds, 38, of Sarah Johanna Squatting Area was  granted bail in the sum of $500,000 when he appeared before Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Diamond Magistrate’s Court on a charge of felonious wounding.

Following the successful staging of its inaugural Night Golf event on Friday evening, Nexgen Golf hosted the second edition on Saturday night, with Rohan Albert and Marisa Morgan-Bonie emerging victorious at the Scout Association Ground on Woolford Avenue.

Shafeek Alli, a 22- year-old labourer of Cow Pen Street, Eccles, East Bank Demerara who pleaded guilty to robbing a pensioner was fined $75,000 when he appeared before Magistrate Sunil Scarce on Friday last.

Despite being afforded a second shot at qualifying for the 2024 Olympic Games in the Mixed 4x400m and Men’s 4x400m Relays at the World Relays in Nassau, The Bahamas, both Guyanese teams once again fell short last evening in spite of their best efforts.

AMMAN (Reuters) – An Israeli airstrike killed four members of a family in a house in a border village in southern Lebanon on Sunday, civil defence and security sources said.

(Trinidad Express) Four people were killed and eight injured in a mass shooting at Powder Magazine in Cocorite on Saturday night.

Dear Editor, I have listened to the speeches given over the weekend and I have seen the videos of the events leading up to the grand event.

Dear Editor, I am writing to express my deep concern regarding recent developments within our political party – the People’s National Congress – PNC/R, specifically the decision by Mr.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The parents of an American and two Australian surfers presumed to have been killed in northern Mexico have arrived in the country and will try to identify the dead bodies believed to be their children, a Mexican regional official said on Sunday.

PARIS (Reuters) – President Xi Jinping lauded China’s ties with France as an international model on Sunday as he arrived in Paris for a rare visit against a backdrop of mounting trade disputes with the EU.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Sunday he had to be hospitalized again in the northern city of Manaus due to a skin infection caused by a bacteria, adding there is no forecast for when he could be discharged.

(CMC) – Retired West Indies off-spinner Sunil Narine continued his batting exploits in the Indian Premier League with a swashbuckling 81 that set the foundations for a 98-run win for the Kolkata Knight Riders against hosts the Lucknow Super Giants yesterday.

The report by the Media Institute of the Caribbean  (MIC) on Guyana’s Access to Information Act of 2011 underlines again the shortcomings of this piece of legislation which was meant to be a critical adjunct to transparency in government but which has barely functioned.

Dear Editor, On the heels of World Press Freedom Day, observed on Friday, May 3, the Netanyahu Government has voted to shut down the operations of the renowned Al Jazeera in Israel (SN May 5).

Last Thursday, the Stabroek News carried an article under the caption “Trinidad AG to Auditor General: I won’t be intimidated by threats”, caught our attention.

WASHINGTON, May 5 (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accused Democratic rival President Joe Biden of running a “Gestapo administration” in a private address to donors in which he also attacked prosecutors involved in his criminal indictments, according to a recording heard by U.S.

Jaybez Harrypersaud, 20, a labourer of Lot 29 Public Road, Providence, East Bank Demerara, was on Friday granted bail in the sum of $300,000 on a charge of break and enter and larceny.

Feminists, women’s rights advocates, and civil society members across the Caribbean are aggrieved by the continued genocide in Palestine and the equivocation of many CARICOM Member States in response.