Daily Archive: Friday, May 31, 2024

The West Indies Men’s T20 World Cup squad arrived in Guyana today ahead of their first game against Papua New Guinea on Sunday at the Providence National Stadium.

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri says it is ready to welcome a surge of visitors for the upcoming ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, kicking off at the Guyana National Stadium on Sunday, June 2.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump made history yesterday as the first former U.S. president convicted of a crime.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – OPEC+ is working on a complex deal to be agreed at its meeting on Sunday that will allow the group to extend some of its deep oil production cuts into 2025, three sources familiar with OPEC+ discussions said on Thursday.

MIDRAND, South Africa, (Reuters) – South African parties geared up for coalition talks today as the governing African National Congress (ANC) looked set to fall well short of a majority for the first time in 30 years of democracy.

USS WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Argentina naval forces and a U.S. fleet including the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington carried out naval exercises yesterday in waters off the South American nation, a show of closer ties under new President Javier Milei.

-Linden–Lethem travel affected Over 300 Region 10 households have been affected by rain-fuelled flooding and   travel between Linden and Lethem was greatly affected yesterday by storm surges  which sliced the trail and swamped crossings.

Thomas Lands has been closed for two weeks from yesterday for the latest in several attempts to repair defects on the road, calling into question again the decisions made in contract awards and whether public funds aren’t being wasted.

The government has made available $10 million to commence the cleaning and dredging of the Moruca River, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported yesterday.

If there remains an acute recognition that, in terms of facilities associated with international gatherings, Guyana still lags behind many of its Caricom counterparts, the republic’s bona fides as the region’s now fastest growing economy has made it the current choice of destinations in the region for the hosting of major international conferences on regional and international business issues.

The community of Santa Rosa,  in the Moruca sub-district, Region One, will soon begin large-scale citrus cultivation, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported yesterday.

Dear Editor, The image of a section of an approach to the highly touted concrete bridges along the Kurupukari – Lethem corridor being completely washed away was as unsurprising as it was inevitable.

Guyana is targeting the ‘topping’ the 710,000 tonnes’ rice production target of set in the country’s 2024 budget, an accomplishment that will provide an encouraging measure of assurance in circumstances where the rice industry is challenged to both meet domestic consumption needs as well as to shoulder its responsibility to the wider regional needs in the context of helping to meet the food security challenges facing the wider Caribbean.

Dear Editor, I write this letter as Patron of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) because I was astonished to read in the Sunday Stabroek Sport, 26th May, 2024, that a straightforward request from the Rugby Union to the Protected Areas Commission (PAC) to rehabilitate the changing rooms and showers at the National Park Rugby Ground to enable the hosting of an International Rugby Match and subsequently made to the Ministry of Culture, Youth & Sport for support by the Protected Areas Commission (PAC), “is currently before Parliament and awaiting approval from Cabinet”.

(ESPN Cricinfo) – Blistering half-centuries from Nicholas Pooran and Rovman Powell helped the West Indies make a statement ahead of the T20 World Cup 2024 as they hammered an undermanned Australia in their final warm-up game in Trinidad.

Already having established a noteworthy reputation on the extra-regional market for success in penetrating sizeable sections of the international market for agro-processed products, Jamaica’s agro-processing sector is pushing the country’s farmers harder to increase production at the level of the farm in order to further expand the sector’s international market.

Foreign Secretary Robert Persaud yesterday met with Hosaka Yasushi, Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan who was in Guyana on a one-day visit.

In the bottom of the table clash, ninth placed Monedderlust defeated 10th positioned Buxton United 2-1 when round two of the KFC Elite League resumed last evening at the National Training Centre in Providence.

GABA Men’s U-23 League Kobras and Colts tallied wins when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association’s (GABA) U-23 Men’s Championship continued Wednesday evening at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

Dear Editor, I think it is true to say that every right thinking person appreciates progress, real progress; not the one that takes you one step forward and two steps backward.

With the issue of climate change and its continually degrading effects on environmental, social and economic circumstances, particularly in poor countries, becoming an increasingly acrimonious item on the global climate agenda, Prime Minister of the tiny and climate vulnerable Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member state of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne, has seized the opportunity afforded by his country’s presidency of the decade’s Summit for Small Island Developing States (SIDS), on Monday, to blast “empty” and “grossly inadequate” climate pledges, saying wealthy nations have failed to meet obligations to limit damages from carbon emissions.

-democracy forum hears Local elections observer missions are more important watchdogs of the process  than international monitors and countries should ensure that representatives from many diverse groups are a part of that process, a panel on democracy underscored on Wednesday.

Dear Editor, The mining town is in dire need following flooding, but the same ole game of trading blame and finger pointing is in full flow between the sides.

Various earlier initiatives designed the long-weakened links between Africa and the Caribbean in forgettable ‘business collaboration,’ most notably the slave trade.

The Office of the First Lady is to collaborate with the Ministry of Public Works and Sheriff Guyana Inc to develop and beautify the Independence Park in Region Two.

Dear Editor,  In his recent letter published in the Stabroek News on May 26, 2024, under the caption “City Still to Present and Approve Budget for 2024,” Councillor Alfonso De Armas expressed concerns over the city’s delayed budget presentation and approval process.  While

Irresponsible road use and the various negative consequences of the phenomenon, coupled with the failure of the authorities to match what now appears to be the most serious challenge ever to safety on our roads, has recently attracted a pointed public statement from the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry [GCCI], ‘calling out’ the authorities on what it sees as a heightened regime of lawlessness in the country’s road use culture and particularly “the inadequate management of road usage by heavy duty trucks.”

AMSTERDAM,  (Reuters) – A group of around 40 large European and American institutional investors on Tuesday urged companies to refrain from taking shareholders to court over disagreements relating to their proposals.

Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) Patron Kit Nascimento is once again questioning the slothful manner in which the Ministry of Culture, Youth, & Sport is approaching a request from the rugby fraternity and the Protected Areas Commission (PAC) for support in the upgrade of the playing facilities in the National Park.

The surfeit of crime that is currently affecting some Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries is doing nothing to stem the flow of extra regional visitors who have always favoured this part of the world as destinations for reflection and relaxation.

Dear Editor, I am writing to offer a rebuttal to the article titled “AG Nandlall Sets Record Straight on Peter’s Hall Properties Acquisition,” recently published in the Guyana Chronicle.

As the 2024 Cricket World Cup T20 tournament prepares to kick off on June 1, 2024, the US Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) provided $10,000 USD in funding under the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI) to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Implementing Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS) to support Guyana’s security and counternarcotics preparations by improving canine capacity to detect fentanyl and other narcotics.

Dear Editor, The recently highly publicized call for violence against key members of the Cabinet is yet another in recent times.

Taleshwar Persaud called `Baggi’, 23, was yesterday charged with the rape of a child under the age of 16 years. 

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL), under its Pepsi brand, has thrown its support behind the 5th edition of the ExxonMobil Boy’s and Girl’s Schools U-14 Football Championship, which is currently being staged at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

If the prognosis provided by the United Kingdom oil company, United Oil Plc.,

– event set for Sunday start The Georgetown Football Association (GFA) launched their 2024 Senior Men’s League last evening at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground in Bourda.

Two contiguous South American neighbours with eye-catching petro power potential may well be an emerging reality for the international community to contemplate as news emerges of what, reportedly, has been a recent major development in Suriname’s unceasing effort to transform its known significant oil reserves into a tool with which to transform the fortunes of the country’s economies.

Two ‘Made in Guyana’ certified companies, Precision Global-Only Coconuts and SS Natural Fruit Flavor have been selected to participate in a major food and beverage forum in Manaus, Brazil.

Dear Editor, To have money sitting in the NRF (invested abroad, generating employment abroad) for future generations when Guyanese today are facing hardship is ludicrous.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday May 30, 2024

Safirah Sumner continued their dominant showing in the Kraft Mac and Cheese Junior Squash Championship, overcoming Demetri Love 3-2 last evening at the Georgetown Club Squash Courts on Camp Street.

Dear Editor, History will show that there exists a conflict of interest with GECOM commissioner Vincent Alexander who has earned many accolades and national respect for his exemplary work fighting for the holding of credible elections in Guyana.

On Wednesday,  Police in Regional Division #4 ‘A’ conducted a ‘Cordon and Search’  Exercise at Lot 4 Public Road, Ruimveldt, Georgetown and arrested a 24-year-old female after finding eleven  transparent ziplock bags  containing a quantity of leaves, seeds, and stems suspected to be cannabis.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime yesterday when a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying documents to cover up a payment to silence a porn star ahead of the 2016 election.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced plans to develop 500 acres of land to expand cassava production for Mabaruma communities in Region One (Barima-Waini).

Namibia’s 100-metre women’s record holder, Beatrice Masilingi, will make her debut at the Aliann Pompey (AP) Invitational Track and Field Meet, which is set for June 22nd at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora.

Dear Editor, It is with profound sadness that the New York PNCR Group pays special tribute to the late Party stalwart, Oscar Eleazar Clarke, CCH.

(Reuters) – A Trinidad and Tobago court order has granted ConocoPhillips COP.N

MIDRAND, South Africa,  (Reuters) – The African National Congress looked set to lose the parliamentary majority it has held for 30 years, partial election results yesterday showed, as voters punished the former liberation movement for years of decline in South Africa.

An employee of Airton De Oliveira in Matarkai, Region One (Barima-Waini) is recovering from minor injuries after a 17-foot pit wall collapsed at the mining site of Arakaka Perseverance, Matarkai, on Saturday, May 25, 2024, at approximately 7:30 am.

(ESPN Cricinfo) – There wasn’t much to separate these two sides when they met in the last T20 World Cup final, but in the final T20I before that tournament’s next edition kicks off, the gap between the two is positively chasmic.

Dear Editor, My generation grew up with the understanding that those elected to political leadership are bound by the constitution, our tradition and encircled by honesty, propriety and truth.

For those in the Linden area who awoke after 48 hours of non-stop rain to find their furniture and belongings under water and their electrical goods damaged, there can be little consolation in the accusations being traded between the government and the local authorities.

By Tom Achoki, Lawrence Were, and Ahmed Ogwell NAIROBI/BOSTON/WASHINGTON, DC – On December 12, 2019, a group of patients in Wuhan, China, started showing symptoms of an atypical pneumonia-like illness that did not respond well to standard treatments.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuadorean police said yesterday that the leader of a major gang from the South American country, who is implicated in the January murder of a prosecutor, among other crimes, has been arrested in Panama.

Guyana is not one of those ‘hot spots’ – so to speak – among the territories in which matches of the 2024 Cricket World Cup (CWC) will be played where serious security-related occurrences are expected to mar the events themselves, or create a discomfiting atmosphere, particularly for visitors to the country who will arrive here to see the games.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Supreme Court has ruled that dancehall entertainer Vybz Kartel and his co-accused are to remain behind bars pending a decision in the Court of Appeal on whether they should be retried for murder.

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1073’s trading results showed consideration of $11,119,923 from 36,357 shares traded in 44 transactions as compared to session 1072’s trading results, which showed consideration of $27,736,343 from 166,739 shares traded in 33 transactions.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israeli forces killed at least 12 Palestinians in a dawn airstrike on Rafah in southern Gaza yesterday and fighting raged in several other areas of the coastal enclave, Gaza medics said.