Daily Archive: Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Security Benn urges introspection, accountability in police force: In a strongly worded address at the Guyana Police Force’s 158th Anniversary Symposium on Tuesday, Home Affairs Minister, Robeson Benn called for introspection and accountability within the force and said that ranks must not extort people.

Residents of De Hoop, Mahaica, have been assured that the $294.3 million infrastructural works on the main access road will be completed by the end of August, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said today.

ADDIS ABABA,  (Reuters) – The death toll from two landslides in southern Ethiopia has risen sharply to 157 and the number could increase further, a government official said today.

ABOARD THE HUALCOPO, Ecuador, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s navy is ready to protect the seas around the Galapagos Islands from illegal fishing by foreign ships whose annual visits threaten marine wildlife in the archipelago’s waters, following training exercises with neighbouring allies.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI)  yesterday expressed deep concern over recent revelations of corruption and financial impropriety within the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and is calling for an immediate independent investigation into the matter.

-boyfriend critically injured Two families are now left to pick up the pieces after a devastating crash along the Corentyne Public Road left an 18-year-old dead and her 24-year-old boyfriend critically injured.

The second man implicated in the murder of transgender woman, Shawn Anthony Simon was yesterday remanded to prison by acting Chief Magistrate Faith McGusty before whom he appeared virtually in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The European Union (EU) and the  Inter American Institute for Co-operation on Agriculture (IICA)  yesterday signed an agreement  which will enable support here for a landmark forest governance pact.

A 27-year-old man was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $700,000  after he appeared before Magistrate Clive Nurse charged with robbing an employee of Toucan Distributors of $10m in the Young Street, Kingston compound of the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI).

Two Guyana Defence Force (GDF)  ranks appeared before Magistrate Sunil Scarce  charged with possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking and were remanded to prison.

The Ministry of Agriculture yesterday began spraying rice fields in Region Six  to address the paddy bug issue, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported.

It also announced an expansion in the number of teams in the Women’s T20 World Cup to 16 from 2030 (ESPN) The ICC has confirmed that a review into the conduct of T20 World Cup 2024 will be carried out after the global body set up a panel with three of its board directors – Roger Twose, Lawson Naidoo and Imran Khawaja – to oversee the review and submit findings later in the year.

The government, through its Hinterland Housing Programme is working to improve housing for 20 vulnerable families in the Karisparu Village and Meriwa settlement located in Region Eight.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) says it is advancing interventions to ensure better water distribution and sanitation systems in Kwakwani, Region 10, where more than 7,000 persons would stand to benefit from improved services.

– Van Lange named captain of Guyana U17 squad In a match shortened by rain, Afraz Budhoo’s XI won the second Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) U17 Trial Match yesterday at the Meten-Meer-Zorg Community Ground, West Coast Demerara.

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport,  Charles S. Ramson, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) , Brigadier Omar Khan and the Colonel Administration and Quartering, Captain Coast Guard Vernon Burnett, MSM, on July 21, 2024, held engagements with the management, coaches and players of Guyana Defence Force Football Club (GDF FC).

-Enoe captures Rapid title FIDE Master (FM) Anthony Drayton emerged victorious, capturing the Open Blitz title at the recently held Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) Rapid and Blitz tournament at School of the Nations.

The Government of Guyana yesterday signed a US$45 million agreement with the World Bank, for the Coastal Adaptation and Resilience (CARes) project as it continues to ramp up efforts to strengthen the country’s flood adaptation and resilience.

-fielded ineligible player By Michaelangelo Jacobus In a twist ahead of the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ West/East Bank Demerara Championship final, set for Friday, Jetty Gunners have been disqualified from the championship match after an investigation found that they fielded an ineligible player during their semifinal against Showstoppers.

Expressing outrage and condemnation over the recent shooting and killing of Westminster resident Jairam Ramkishun and Venezuelan national Evelyn Alves, the Alliance for Change (AFC) is calling on Guyanese to demand more from the Government and the Guyana Police Force (GPF).

Thirty-two-year-old Jeremy Gordon Smith, an IT technician, appeared yesterday before Magistrate Clive Nurse at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with two offences of publishing obscene videos of his ex-girlfriend and was released on $150,000 bail.

Dear Editor, President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, is contesting elections in that country due to be held on the 28th of this month, that is, this coming Sunday, for a third time in office.

With prosecution witnesses lined up, Budhram Heeralall, a 40-year-old driver of Good Hope Housing Scheme, ECD, went on trial at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Abigail Gibbs over a serious accident in April 2023 that left a city businessman with brain damage.

(Reuters) – Vice President Kamala Harris will campaign in the critical battleground state of Wisconsin today for the first time as a presidential candidate after enough Democratic delegates pledged to endorse her, clearing her path to the nomination.

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) recently said that its Product Compliance Department seized and destroyed 11,660 pieces of substandard electrical fittings and equipment including wires, cables, lamp holders, circuit breakers, extension cords, power outlets, receptacles, knife switches and plugs.

Dear Editor, A loud voice went still on Saturday July 20th. 

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Various Palestinian factions have agreed to end their divisions and strengthen Palestinian unity by signing the Beijing Declaration last night in China, according to Chinese state media.

Jitendra Baljodah, a 35-year-old taxi driver from Onderneeming/Sand Pit, Essequibo Coast on Friday pleaded not guilty to assaulting two peace officers.

UNITED NATIONS/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. envoy to the United Nations announced tens of millions of dollars in aid for Haiti during a visit a month after the first contingent of Kenyan police arrived as part of an international security mission aimed at tackling gang violence.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Streets appeared calm in Bangladesh’s capital yesterday, a day after the Supreme Court agreed to scrap most government job quotas that had angered student-led activists and led to deadly protests.

Ricardo Singh, a 24-year-old from Onderneeming/Sand Pit, Essequibo Coast, appeared yesterday before Magistrate Teriq Mohammed where he pleaded guilty to armed robbery and was sentenced to 27 months in jail.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to missive of Mr. Tony Vieira outlining the failure of Skeldon sugar factory (July 20).

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva yesterday urged Venezuela’s government to respect the result of next Sunday’s presidential election, saying he was “scared” by incumbent president Nicolas Maduro’s threat of a bloodbath if he loses.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s top court ruled yesterday that restaurants cannot be forced to display the names of their owners, suspending police orders in two northern states that critics had said could foment discrimination against Muslims.

(Reuters) – Reigning Olympic champion Alexander Zverev is hopeful the knee injury he suffered at Wimbledon will not impact his chances of gold in Paris but says it is not yet healed.

(ESPN) The ball that got Shoaib Bashir going was not even a wicket-taking delivery.

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Barbados won the West Indies Under-19 Championship here Sunday after the two-day final against Jamaica ended in a tame stalemate at the Arnos Vale Stadium.

FARNBOROUGH, England,  (Reuters) – Demand for air travel has normalised after a years-long boom following the COVID-19 pandemic as holidaymakers and travellers baulk at higher fares, executives at major airlines said at the Farnborough Airshow on Monday.

DALLAS, Texas,  CMC – Former West Indies white-ball captains, Kieron Pollard and Nicholas Pooran, produced contrasting knocks as MI New York notched their first win in six outings with a four-wicket verdict over LA Knight Riders in the Major League Cricket tournament here Sunday.

NOTTINGHAM, England, CMC – Captain Kraigg Brathwaite on Sunday tried to hastily turn the page on a yet another dismal West Indies batting performance, urging his side to stay “mentally tough”, as he switched his attention to next week’s final Test at Edgbaston.

The duo’s joint statement called Lara’s ‘claim’ of Richards making Hooper cry categorically false (ESPN) Viv Richards and Carl Hooper have strongly hit back at former West Indies team-mate Brian Lara for “gross misrepresentations” in his book – Lara: The England Chronicles.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Protection of Brazil’s Indigenous communities from violence by land grabbers and ranchers was “insufficient” in 2023, according to a report published yesterday, dashing hopes that the situation would improve under leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force is in crisis, inside a vicious circle of corruption and more from which it seems impossible to escape.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Australia would not pick a convicted rapist for the Olympics, team chief Anna Meares said on Monday after the Netherlands selected a beach volleyball player convicted of that offence.

(Reuters) – India’s new head coach Gautam Gambhir believes veteran batsmen Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma can both continue playing until the 2027 World Cup if they remain fit but said yesterday that the decision was entirely up to them.

(Reuters) – USA Cricket and Cricket Chile have been formally put on notice for their non-compliance with the International Cricket Council’s membership criteria, the sport’s governing body said yesterday.

The U.S. Embassy in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport – Guyana, National Sports Commission, and Athletics Association of Guyana has launched the 2024 U.S.

Leaving aside – for the moment – the just ended seventy-odd days of industrial action by state-employed teachers, which eventually gave way to discourses between the Ministry of Education and the Guyana Teachers’ Union on the matter of teachers’ emoluments, there had been much earlier indications that large ‘chunks’ of our education system that had to do with the condition of ‘good order’ that is indispensable to an amenable teaching/learning environment had, across a wide swathe of the state-run education system, deteriorated.  

By Renzo R. Guinto SINGAPORE – People across Asia have eagerly awaited the end of heat-wave season, which now appears to be drawing to a close.

PARIS, (Reuters) – The Paris Olympics, which open on Friday, will feature a new sport in breaking, plus three young sports returning from the Tokyo Games — climbing, skateboarding and surfing.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Four-time NBA champion LeBron James will be Team USA’s male flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on July 26, the American team said yesterday.

Dear Editor, Through a family friend who had cancer surgery and needs radiation therapy I was made aware of the fact that the Cancer Institute of Guyana, in order for the radiotherapy to commence, demands full payment.