Daily Archive: Sunday, May 19, 2024

The Guyana Defence Force says it stands in support of Private Azim Khan, who is currently battling for his life in the ICU after the tragic home invasion incident at Mon Repos on May 9th.

(Reuters) – Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs posted an apology to social media on Sunday, two days after the release of hotel surveillance video that appeared to show him attacking his ex-girlfriend.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister crashed today as it was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog, an Iranian official told Reuters, and rescuers were struggling to reach the site of the incident.

(Trinidad Guardian) An early morning shooting at a popular liming spot in Sangre Grande has left two people dead and two others fighting for their lives at the hospital after undergoing emergency surgeries.

(Trinidad Guardian) “What a desperately bad place we’re in in Trinidad and Tobago.” These were the words of the former principal of the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Prof Clement K Sankat, who was robbed yesterday morning. 

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia said today  that Ukraine launched a major 62-drone attack on Russian regions forcing one oil refinery in southern Russia to halt operations, and that Kyiv’s forces had fired U.S.,

Lesley Billingsley, a former special needs teacher, model/actor and first generation Canadian of Guyanese parentage, is unapologetically a full-time mother by choice and an advocate for mothers to be themselves and not who others want them to be, as well as for minority communities to rise above their circumstances. 

-should not be means to target, control – GHRA Government is working on legislation aimed at registering non-governmental organisations (NGO) and says that it will consult with local groups when the draft is complete.

By Shuntel Glasgow The United States Agency for Inter-national Development (USAID) Youth Resilience, Inclusion and Empowerment (Y-RIE) in collaboration with Tagman Media Inc recently conducted a crime and violence research programme to foster youth development and highlight recommendations to help curb the issues.

I am not new to kohlrabi. I first found out about it back in 2008 at the annual Agriculture Festival (Agrofest) that year.

-650 already registered for first phase There is a growing need for welders in the oil & gas sector and in response, government is stepping up training efforts with the aim of targeting 3,000 Guyanese, through a new programme by the School of the Nations in collaboration with the Guyana Online Academy of Learning (GOAL).

Dah mouth dat man tek fuh court woman, ah de same mouth he ah tek an put she ah door!

The police and the Ministry of Labour are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 19-year-old of Lot 105 Covent Garden, East Bank Demerara, who was electrocuted on Friday while installing gutters on a three-storey building under construction at 27 Norton Street, Wortmanville, Georgetown.

Police are investigating the murder of 19-year-old Orlando Samaroo of Lot 439 Belle West, West Bank Demerara, which occurred between 2024-05-16 and 2024-05-17 at Belle West (Phase #2).

The Government of Suriname has not yet issued the 150 SK fishing licences to Guyanese fishermen, which were promised in 2021 following an agreement between the two countries, and President Irfaan Ali on Thursday said that he was dissatisfied at the situation.

One person died last night after being hit by a motorcar on Eccles Public Road, East Bank of Demerara.

The Guyana Press Association (GPA) has asserted its refusal to become a puppet of any political organisation and says it will not stand idly by as its members are attacked or defamed.

The Mahaica/Mahaicony/Abary-Agricul-tural Development Authority (MMA-ADA) at Onverwagt, Region Five yesterday received a $110 million amphibious excavator to aid in the efficient delivery of services for the area, a Department of Public Information (DPI) release stated yesterday.

Police yesterday confirmed that investigations are continuing into the allegations of rape against former Minister of Local Govern-ment, Nigel Dharamlall, who was released on $500,000 bail after turning himself into the Cove and John Police Station on May 14.  

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) is not comfortable with the ruling party’s response to the allegations of sexual misconduct against one of its senior members and feels that national standards of professional conduct must be elevated.

Dear Editor, The recently concluded PPP 35th annual congress will go down in history for the election of Nigel Dharamlall to the  35-member, central committee of the PPP party, and to its executive council. 

The Essequibo Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ECCI) has unveiled plans to establish a new office in Richmond, with the aim of broadening its membership base and fostering economic growth for businesses in Region Two. 

Dear Editor, The recent news of disciplinary action taken against two persons by the Medical Council of Guyana (MCG) caused me to compare provisions of the Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Act 2010 with the Medical Practi-tioners Act regarding the relationship between legal and medical practitioners and their res-pective clients. 

The riverine communities of Orealla and Siparuta on Wednesday elected Laurence Vandenburg, a 26-year-old teacher to be their new Toshao and he hopes to turn the village into a model for other Amerindian villages by properly managing and utilizing the finance and resources available.

Dear Editor, I wrote the other day that somebody is taking Guyanese for jackasses. 

(Reuters) – Oleksandr Usyk scored a razor-thin split decision over Tyson Fury to become undisputed heavyweight boxing world champion in a thrilling contest at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh.

NSC Independence 3-Stage Road Race By Michelangelo Jacobus It was a record-breaking performance from Briton John as he shattered the stage one and two records as the highly anticipated National Sports Commission’s (NSC) Independence 3-Stage cycling road race pedalled off with a feverish pace from the Corriverton Police Station in Berbice yesterday.

Dear Editor, As a purely internal matter, the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) at its recent Congress took the far-reaching step of removing any references to Marxism/ Leninism and Socialism from its Constitution.

Introduction Chapter 20 of the book is a celebration of the women in politics particularly beginning in 1961 when Moses Nagamootoo joined the PPP as a youth in pre-independence Guyana.

Dexter McDonald, a man who was wanted over a series of robberies and rape was apprehended at Belfield, East Coast Deme-rara (ECD) on Friday.

Dear Editor, During the last sitting of the Parliament, Bill 19 of 2023 was presented and approved.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) –  Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz demanded yesterday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commit to an agreed vision for the Gaza conflict that would include stipulating who might rule the territory after the war with Hamas.

– GASA executive no shows at meeting with Sport Minister Following the filing of a complaint by Dolphin Speed Swim Club to the World Aquatic Integrity Unit on allegations of misconduct by the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA), the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA), and the National Sports Commission (NSC) after a meeting on Thursday, has suspended funding to the entity.

More than two months after this country said it was ready to sign on to the Samoa Agreement, this still has not been done with Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hugh Todd, assuring that Georgetown will be a signatory to the agreement at the next available opportunity.

Dear Editor, There is a stubborn refusal by Guyanese of all stripes to accept that Maduro is already engaged in hybrid warfare against us.

HANOI, (Reuters) – Vietnam’s Communist Party has named police minister To Lam as the state president, the government said yesterday, and also nominated a new head of the parliament in a major leadership reshuffle.

Ronald Deen, 50, a labourer of Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara (EBD) is in  a critical condition after he was chopped during a row with a security guard at Eccles Industrial site on Friday.

Dear Editor, The government’s announcement of forgiveness of education loans that will benefit an estimated 13,000 UG students and costing $11 billion dollars is a huge investment in the youths of Guyana.

TUNIS, (Reuters) – Freedoms in Tunisia are being threatened under the rule of President Kais Saied and the authorities are using the judiciary and police to punish their opponents, 10 local rights groups said at a joint conference yesterday.

-as Guyana prepares for ICAO audit The National Assembly last week approved 16 amendments to the Civil Aviation Act which were identified as needed following a comprehensive review of the 2018 legislation to improve the aviation sector as Guyana prepares for an upcoming audit from the Internation-al Civil Aviation Organi-zation (ICAO).

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Iran yesterday said it will send experts to its ally Venezuela to help with medical accelerators in hospitals it said had been stopped due to Western sanctions.

Dear Editor, In normal circumstances, the amendments to the constitution of a political party or for that matter, any organisation, is nobody’s business but that of its members.

JAKARTA,  (Reuters) – A volcano on the remote Indonesian island of Halmahera has spectacularly erupted, spewing a grey ash cloud into the sky, and people from seven nearby villages have been evacuated, authorities said last night.

TBILISI, (Reuters) – Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili has announced that she has vetoed a draft law on foreign agents, Russia’s state-run TASS news agency reported on Saturday.

Mulkumar Bhopaul, 28, a labourer of Lot 18 Betsy Ground Village, East Canje Berbice was arrested on May 15, 2024  for armed robbery on  Sasnarine Somwaru, a rice farmer of  the same village on May 14,  2024.

Dear Editor,  One thing one learns as a letter writer is brevity and to the point.

(Reuters) – Two top Biden administration officials held indirect talks with Iranian counterparts this week in an effort to avoid escalating regional attacks, Axios reported on Friday.

Inevitability is a difficult concept to come to terms with. All throughout our lives, we are taught that we are solely responsible for the choices we make, and the consequences we experience for those choices.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, the second of two parts, Roger Seymour looks at the legacy of Andy Roberts.

Thirteen youths have graduated from the Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited-sponsored 2023/2024 Youth Link Apprentice-ship Programme which capped off seven months of training, according to a release yesterday from the Bank.

The Government Technical Institute (GTI) recently held its annual open day with a unique twist.

In honour of Mother’s Day, Women’s Haven Guyana on Sunday donated organic feminine care products to mothers in the Maternity Ward at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Linden Championship YMCA, Silver Bullets, Turf President, and DC Ballers secured their berths to the round of 16 segment in the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Linden Championship on Friday evening at the Silver City Hard-court. 

We are centuries in the future of Wes Ball’s “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”, but we could also be centuries in the past for all the ways the world we spend the film in seems like a kind of Dark Ages.

The Confucius Institute at the University of Guyana (CIUG) celebrates its 10TH Anniversary today, having been inaugurated on May 19, 2014, in an official ceremony involving the President of Guyana and the Ambassador of China. 

Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill yesterday visited and inspected the ongoing construction of the Conversation Tree to Dennis Street four-lane road project, which a release from the ministry said is progressing rapidly.

The third official Jamaican trade mission to Guyana ended on a high note, according to that country’s Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce Senator Aubyn Hill, who said that the feedback from the visiting businessmen was positive.

Guyana’s Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) combatant Carlston Harris was defeated in his return to Octagon last evening, as he lost via knockout to American Khaos Williams at the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s (UFC) Fight Night 241 at the Apex facility in Enterprise, Nevada.

Breaking Down Sexual Offences This week’s article will be relatively short as we look at conduct which everyone probably knows to be a crime: intercourse with an animal.

The diaries of William Gladstone, one of the greatest British Prime Ministers, are astonishing.

The untimely passing in January last of the able and distinguished Justice Jacob Wit of the Netherlands has created a vacancy in the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).

I received so many perplexing reactions from friends when I shared that I was travelling to  Qatar. 

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has announced an initiative for its ChessMom project.

Dear Editor, It is indeed perplexing…the landmark ruling’s formal judgment is still unavailable. 

The members of the Constitutional Reform Commission were sworn in early last month. 

(Reuters) – Iga Swiatek beat Aryna Sabalenka 6-2 6-3 to win her third Italian Open title yesterday as the Pole came out on top once again in a battle between the top two in the women’s rankings following her Madrid Open triumph earlier this month.

Food For the Poor (Guyana) Inc (FTTP) continues to impact the lives of less fortunate children in Guyana and this time it has launched an initiative to provide vital support for children with mobility challenges through the distribution of one hundred (100) pediatric wheelchairs, a FFTP release announced yesterday.

P.J. Washington made two free throws with 2.5 seconds left and the Dallas Mavericks advanced to the Western Conference finals for the second time in the past three seasons with a 117-116 victory over the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder last night.

The Ministry of Education says it has taken another step towards bridging the educational gap between the hinterland and the coast.

Canada’s High Commissioner to Guyana, Mark Berman and the United Nation’s Population Fund (UNFPA) Deputy Director for the Sub-Regional Office for the Caribbean, Jenny Karlsen, on Tuesday last, signed a two-year extension of the Canada-funded “Enhancing Quality, Access and Logistics of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights” (EQUAL SRHR).

Wismar/Christianburg, Brickdam, and Patentia secured their berths in the ExxonMobil Boy’s and Girl’s U-14 Football Championship, following wins in the qualifying segment yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

LA VICTORIA, Vene-zuela, (Reuters) –  Vene-zuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez said yesterday he will ensure all political parties are free to operate if he unseats President Nicolas Maduro in a July vote, and he urged the military to uphold the country’s institutions as intended by the constitution.