Daily Archive: Friday, July 19, 2024

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s agriculture ministry declared today an animal health emergency in the country’s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul after a case of Newcastle disease was detected on a poultry farm.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Organizational decisions by Venezuela’s electoral authorities – from polling station staffing to the lay-out of the ballot – have been made with the intention of confusing voters and creating obstacles to a free presidential election on July 28, say opposition figures and analysts.

(Reuters) – A worldwide tech outage crippled industries from travel to finance today before services started coming back online after hours of disruption, highlighting the risks of a global shift towards digital, interconnected technologies.

THE HAGUE,  (Reuters) – The United Nations’ highest court said that Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories are illegal and all states should cooperate to bring an end to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, in an important advisory opinion issued on Friday.

Two suspects in the fatal shooting of 27-year-old sex worker and trans woman Shawn Simon are expected to appear in Court today, the police say.

Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha says he will meet today with the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) amidst a statement by the procurement commission that the NDIA is not co-operating on the question of the controversial pump station contract awarded to Tepui Inc.

Imam Badrudeen Khan who heads the East Street Darul Uloom Masjid was refused entry into the United States this week and his visa revoked following arrival at the John F Kennedy Airport, New York.

With the physical transformations, not least the multi-sectorial makeover ‘explosion’ unfolding in Guyana, the need for the burnishing of the country’s Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) profile has become a matter of the utmost urgency.

The police yesterday issued a bulletin for Odelle Garnette known as `Crab’ over the shooting  of six-year-old boy, Jeremiah Gustave on July 9th on Charles Street, Charlestown.

Amidst a surfeit of young, emerging, female would-be entrepreneurs  marketing fashion across Guyana, a handful appear to strive to be different, their advertising ‘pitch’ seemingly reflecting an enduring eagerness to ‘arrest’ the attention of the potential buyer.

-had been suffering from kidney failure Convicted prisoner, Lindon Lamaizon from the Lusignan prison was pronounced dead at about 6 am on Wednesday July 17, 2024, in unit # 3.

(CMC) – Six wickets after tea enabled the West Indies to bowl out England in the second Test of the Richards-Botham Trophy Series yesterday after Ollie Pope led powerful batting for the hosts with his sixth Test hundred.

Guyana Jaguars defeated Tinto’s Academy of Trinidad and Tobago 4-2 when the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) Boy’s U-16 Youth Academy Cup continued yesterday at the National Training Centre in Providence, East Bank Demerara.

On Wednesday, the Mayor of Georgetown, Alfred Mentore and several councillors were given training on the recently launched Single Window System for Planning and Development Application.

The Government of Trinidad and Tobago is facing a concerted private sector protest over what the business community says is its acute vulnerability to the present bloody urban crime wave which, apart from its manifestation in cold-blooded murders and confrontations among heavily armed gangs, has also been having a severely debilitating effect on a private sector now seized with an acute attack of jitteriness. 

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), through its Global Firearm Programme, has donated two advanced drones to the Ministry of Home Affairs.

CWI Rising Stars U-19 Men’s 2-Day Guyana suffered a crushing nine-wicket loss to fierce rival Barbados yesterday when the Cricket West Indies (CWI) U-19 2-Day Championship continued at the Arnos Vale Ground in St.

Dear Editor, God bless Stabroek News. When such is due, of course.

Dear Editor, A few months ago, I read in your newspaper whilst President Irfaan Ali was doing an outreach in one of the villages in this country, he said that the aim of this exercise was to bring the Office of the President to the people so that he can listen to the concerns of the people and bring relief to them on the spot.

By Subhana Shiwmangal A playpark and a gym were commissioned yesterday by a Guyanese company, Cabana Marketing and Fantasy Sports, at the Mahdia community centre ground, Region Eight.

Dear Editor, My first thought was that writer C. Sohan should not elicit a response.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has announced the completion of a Smile Train mission.

In response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Beryl across the Caribbean, Massy Distribution (Guyana) Inc.

MILWAUKEE/REHOBOTH BEACH, Delaware,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump described yesterday how he narrowly survived an attempt on his life, telling a rapt audience at the Republican National Convention in his first speech since the attack that he was only there “by the grace of Almighty God.”

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado’s security chief has been released from jail a day after he was arrested on charges of gender violence.

Dear Editor, Over the last four years, reading Joel Bhagwandin’s missives in the Stabroek News, I was 90% certain (to put a percentage # on it) that Bhagwandin was working in the best interests of Exxon – and not for the State of Guyana.

The late legal stalwart, Ashton Chase SC was yesterday honoured with the launching by his family of a non-profit entity to promote his life’s work, a Department of Public Information (DPI) release said yesterday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Telecommunications were widely disrupted in Bangladesh yesterday amid violent student protests against quotas for government jobs in which nearly two dozen people have been killed this week.

(Reuters) – Trinidad and Tobago’s High Court reaffirmed yesterday a decision recognizing U.S.

Dear Editor, After losing at the T20 and a devastating loss in the First Test against England, the West Indies allowed England to set a record for the fastest 50 in Test cricket.

ROME, (Reuters) – A Milan court has ordered a journalist to pay Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni damages of 5,000 euros ($5,465) for making fun of her in a social media post, news agency ANSA and other local media reported.

Dear Editor, Persons must resist the new brazen attempt by the Jagdeo/Ali People’s Progressive Party (PPP) regime to entrench its contempt for the right of the African man, woman and child to be treated with respect and dignity.

(Reuters) – The Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF) has allocated $2.74 billion in loans across nine countries in the region to help fuel their energy transition, shore up their ecosystems and improve infrastructure, it said yesterday.

The Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) has launched  another an experiential tour – ‘Ride Along GY’ – in Bartica, Region Seven, offering locals and tourists the chance to explore historical and other breathtaking tourist sites from the seat of a bicycle. 

GCB U-17 50-Over trials The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) announced two teams led respectively by Parmeshwar Ram and Afraz Budhoo to compete in an assessment exercise after rain severely affected the U-17 Inter-Country Super50 Championship, which would have been utilised to shortlist players.

Employing phrases ranging in severity from ‘pi..ed off’ to ’frustrated’ ‘(eight children attending state-run secondary schools in Region Four last week expressed to the Stabroek Business their concern over the likelihood of them being unable to fill the tuition gap created by the recently ended protracted teachers’ strike, which will now have to be filled, somehow, prior to the commencement of the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) scheduled for mid- next year.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday July 18, 2024

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1080’s trading results showed consideration of $26,927,489 from 84,911 shares traded in 52 transactions as compared to session 1079’s trading results which showed consideration of $12,646,380 from 23,680 shares traded in 30 transactions.

By Eric Parrado WASHINGTON, DC – Long before he became a leading theologian, Saint Augustine famously appealed to God: “Lord, grant me chastity and continence – but not yet.”

(Reuters) – Suryakumar Yadav was appointed India’s T20 captain yesterday ahead of Hardik Pandya and his tenure will begin with a three-match series in Sri Lanka later this month.

As is not infrequently inclined to happen in the Caribbean, we find ourselves – sometimes on account of no more than a lack of focus – becoming distracted on issues that are of varying degrees of importance either to individual member countries or to the region, as a whole.

Whenever natural disasters – or other events that legitimately merit media attention – occur in the region, reporting ‘prejudices’ frequently exclude those tiny pockets of Caribbean people who occupy small geographic spaces in bona fide Caribbean territories, but which rarely for any reason – save and except some earth-shattering occurrence that simply cannot be ignored – attract the attention of the mainstream regional and/or international media.

4th Diagaku World Cup – Prashad, Pooran also cop top spots’ Guyanese Keenan Beaton, Maya Balram, Ethan Khan, Karesa Prashad, and Preme Pooran turned in sterling performances to grab gold in their respective categories when the 4th Diagaku (IKD) World Cup commenced yesterday at the National Gymnasium.

Dear Editor, It is most wholesome to read that Prime Minister (PM) Brigadier (Ret’d) Mark Phillips met with the Carter Center team in Guyana for pre-elections’ evaluation.

The semifinal section in the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ West/East Bank Demerara edition will kick off this evening at the Pouderoyen Tarmac.

Former West Indies B all-rounder Derek Kallicharran, as well as members of the Kaiteur Cricket Club, have contributed three boxes of cricket balls to the ‘Cricket Gear for Young and Promising Cricketers in Guyana’ project.

At the 158th anniversary symposium of the police, cumbersomely titled ‘Modernising Policing by Balancing Technology, Community Engagement, & Global Best Practices,’ Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn on Tuesday referred to a 20% decrease in serious crime over the past few years.

(Reuters) – A federal appeals court yesterday blocked President Joe Biden’s administration from continuing to implement a new student debt relief plan designed to lower monthly payments for millions of Americans.

(ESPN Cricinfo) – The ICC has warned USA Cricket (USAC) it risks being “put on notice” for non-compliance with its Associate membership status, barely a month after the last game of a historic, first-ever ICC global event staged in the country.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) says it is “paying close attention” to recent developments affecting the membership of the Board of Directors of One Caribbean Media (OCM).

-GPS Head advises prison officers Director of Prisons, Nicklon Elliot has advised Prisons Officers at the Camp Street location to always maintain the highest standard of respect and professional conduct as it involves taking care of offenders who have been deprived of their liberty and as a result may be mentally disturbed.