Daily Archive: Friday, August 9, 2024

PANAMA CITY,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gave a scathing response to an offer today from his Panamanian counterpart, Jose Raul Mulino, to facilitate his departure to a third country to allow for a political transition.

Guyana and Brazil have launched a joint probe into the alleged smuggling and trafficking of underage girls.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – A regional turboprop plane crashed near Sao Paulo in Brazil today, killing all 61 people on board, the airline said.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Improving law and order in Bangladesh is a priority for the new caretaker government, the adviser to the interior ministry said today, as the battered nation limps back to normality after Sheikh Hasina resigned as prime minister and fled.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s BBC said Huw Edwards, its former news anchor who pleaded guilty last month to making indecent pictures of children, should return the salary he was paid after his arrest in November, adding he had not been up front about the charges.

The tourism and hospitality sector in Region Six is set to receive another boost with the Guyana Office for Investment’s (G-Invest) signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the construction of a modern hotel and convention centre.

By Shuntel Glasgow Hundreds gathered at the Guyana National Stadium yesterday  for the opening of International Building Expo 2024 and President Irfaan Ali declared that the planned Silica City will be a “masterpiece”.

Attorney, Richard Layne, 35, was on Thursday night found dead in a locked car outside his D’Urban Backlands residence and CCTV footage will be  pivotal in elucidating what happened as there are gaps in the varying accounts. 

Eleven-year-old Chitwrattie Rohan (Fareena) was allegedly choked to death by her 12-year-old relative while engaging in a ‘play fight’ yesterday morning at her grandfather’s Martyrs’ Ville home on the East Coast of Demerara.

Police have arrested four persons and seized three Glock pistols as they investigate an alleged shooting incident on Samora Haddaway, a 41-year-old driver from Timehri, which occurred at about 11 pm on August 06th, 2024, at Garnett and Middleton streets, Georgetown.

One hundred and eighty-six recruits, including 55 females, have earned their rites of passage into the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) following the successful completion of the Basic Recruit Specialisation Course 2024-01 (BRSC 2024-01).

(Reuters) – Letsile Tebogo became the first African to win the men’s Olympic 200 metres title yesterday when he powered clear of American duo Kenny Bednarek and a COVID-hit Noah Lyles to claim Botswana’s first Olympic gold medal.

-maintenance cost high Social media netizens have reported that the dental boat, Lady Janet, is currently down, and a post by  Andrieko Basir shows the boat in a state of deterioration and sinking.

CMC – West Indies’ left-arm spinner Jomel Warrican struck late to leave the first Test against South Africa evenly poised at the end of yesterday’s second day at the Queen’s Park Oval.

-retroactive to September 1st , 2023 A day after a court ruled that a 30% excise tax on remigrants’ vehicles over 3000 cc was unlawful, the state legitimized the tariff by gazetting new regulations and making them retroactive to September 1st, 2023.

A sampling of urban working class Guyanese, predominantly women with school-age children did not find them as upbeat as President Irfaan Ali might have hoped they may be about what he had to say recently about the “deliberate initiatives and policies” that his administration has undertaken “over the last four years to address the rise of global food prices and cushion the cost of living for Guyanese.”

Cuban engineers who arrived here in May to assist the sugar industry will be here for 12 months based on performance and the government says attempts to recruit the skills locally failed.

The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) has given the recently hurricane-ravaged regional tourism industry ‘four stars’ for what it described in a media pronouncement as the “extraordinary resilience” it demonstrated in the wake of Hurricane Beryl which created an unprecedented level of disruption to normal life in those territories.

Dear Editor, I recently had to use Princes Street as a route to enter Georgetown and there are a few issues which need urgent attention by the relevant authorities.

CONCACAF Girl’s U-15 Football Guyana recorded their second consecutive win in League C of the CONCACAF Girl’s U-15 Championship following a 1-0 win over Guadeloupe yesterday at the Guillermo Prospero Trinidad Stadium in Oranjestad, Aruba.

Three men were arrested on Wednesday in Corentyne, Berbice, as part of Police investigations into the theft of two bulls valued at $240,000 belonging to Ganisey Parsram, a 63-year-old from #64 Village.

Dear Editor, I think that hand rails are needed at the Vreed-en-Hoop water taxis’ stelling to afford passengers safety and comfort, especially the aged.

DETROIT,  (Reuters) – U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic opponent Kamala Harris will debate on Sept.

-PNCR continuing to skip meetings The A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) yesterday issued a statement on rules for making decisions and frequency of  meetings and it also noted that its founding member, the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) has not been attending its gatherings..

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Three Columbia University deans, who engaged in what the school’s administration called troubling text message exchanges that touched on “ancient antisemitic tropes,” have resigned, a university spokesperson said late yesterday.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Health should not be apprehensive in obtaining the dengue vaccine due to cost.

A new police outpost is now in operation to provide better security at the Bourda Market in Georgetown after President Irfaan Ali engaged vendors at the shopping hub on Wednesday morning.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russian forces were battling Ukrainian troops for a third day yesterday after they smashed through the Russian border in the Kursk region, an audacious attack on the world’s biggest nuclear power that has forced Moscow to call in reserves.

Dear Editor, A little over a week ago, a contingent of Government officials went to the USA to woo Guyanese abroad to come back home and invest.

Mark Chester, a 29-year-old labourer of Queenstown, Essequibo Coast was charged on Wednesday with attempting to commit murder and later that day he was committed to stand trial in the High Court on the matter.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A former Mozambique finance minister was convicted yesterday on U.S.

Haimraj Narine, a 22-year-old taxi driver from Aberdeen, Essequibo Coast, was charged yesterday with the rape of a child under 16 and committed to stand trial in the High Court.

Dear Editor, The declaration by AFC Leader Nigel Hughes that the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) is a ‘politically neutral’ organization during his announcement that the deputy head of the APA Laura George had joined the AFC election campaign team; there is no indication that Laura George has resigned from the APA and Hughes thoughts on ‘conflicts of interest’ are well known.

Roy Anthony Callendar, a 64-year-old labourer of Grove Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, was charged yesterday by ranks from the Grove Police Station with setting fire to a dwelling. 

DAKAR,  (Reuters) – Burkina Faso’s junta has urged its citizens to report suspicious neighbours and activity in the name of national security as the Sahel nation battles a near decade-long jihadist insurgency.

Dear Editor, Kahlil Gibran once said, “We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them”.

ACCRA, Ghana, (Reuters) – Ghana opened its first commercial gold refinery in Accra, the capital, yesterday as part of an effort by Africa’s leading gold producer to add value and earn more from the precious metal, which has been mined for centuries.

Liu Wei, a 45-year-old resident from Eccles Industrial Site, East Bank Demerara, was arrested on 2024-08-05 by ranks from the Providence Police Station and charged on Wednesday  with the unlawful wounding of  47-year-old Bao Lin.

Dear Editor, I am delighted to acknowledge the arrival of eighteen new Peace Corps volunteers to Guyana, a tradition that has been enriching our nation since 1966.

BARCELONA,  (Reuters) – Former Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont defied an arrest warrant to appear at a rally in Barcelona on Thursday after seven years of self-imposed exile, before fleeing the scene with the help of a local police officer.

There is yet to be any official update by the Government of Guyana on efforts to lift the long-running ban on catfish exports to the US.

Dear Editor, I agree. The return for a supplementary budget following the trillion dollar one, is troubling and needs explaining.

Bahamaian Police Commissioner Clayton Fernander says senior members of the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) will arrive this month to “personally oversee” aspects of the investigation surrounding voice notes that purported to capture a quid-pro-quo arrangement involving a senior police officer, a lawyer and two murdered men, Michael Fox Jr and Dino Smith.

NEUGLOBSOW, Germany, (Reuters) – Scientists in Germany have identified plastic-eating fungi that could offer a glimmer of hope in tackling the problem of millions of tonnes of waste polluting the world’s oceans every year.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) have upped their longstanding partnership aimed at helping Guyana’s Ministry of Health eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) as a public health concern.

Dear Editor, In 2010, after retiring from the U.S. military, I made a significant life change by moving to Guyana to work as a volunteer.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro yesterday said he had signed a decree to block access to social media platform X for 10 days, after earlier saying social media was used to incite violence following the country’s presidential election.

(Reuters) – Google is facing a bigger threat from Sam Altman’s OpenAI even as it awaits a decision on how antitrust regulators in Washington plan to level the playing field in the internet search business.

We are no strangers to riots in this country, but London apart, where street violence in the central areas particularly is anything but unknown, it is not a common occurrence in England as a whole.

(Reuters) – American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone obliterated her own 400 metres hurdles world record with a time of 50.37 seconds to retain her Olympic title yesterday.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday November 3, 2021

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1083’s trading results showed consideration of $26,187,831 from 26,644 shares traded in 22 transactions as compared to session 1082’s trading results which showed consideration of $34,919,105 from 77,742 shares traded in 37 transactions.

INNSBRUCK/LONDON – In 1853, under orders from President Millard Fillmore, US Navy Commodore Matthew Perry led four warships on a mission to persuade Japan to end its 200-year-old isolationist policy.

Reports reaching Guyana from our sister CARICOM member country, Trinidad and Tobago, suggests that there is something almost surreal about the seemingly ceaseless orgy of violence, underpinned by routine targeted executions, reportedly a manifestation of the proliferation of gruesome ‘gang wars’ in which clinical ‘terminations’ have become the order of the day.

Anand Alphonso, called ‘Dolo’, a 43-year-old labourer of Lima Housing Scheme, Essequibo Coast was on Wednesday charged with possession of a forged currency note.

Dear Editor, The protests and state sponsored violence against protesters for respecting the will of voters in Venezuela (that voted last July 28) brings back memories of responses to similar protests in Guyana and America during the struggles for free and fair elections in Guyana.

(Reuters) – American Grant Holloway finally added Olympic 110 metres hurdles gold to his sizeable trophy cabinet yesterday, exploding out of the blocks as usual before cruising to victory.

Approximately 100 entrants have been confirmed from the 16th edition of the Jumbo Jet Thoroughbred Racing Committee-organised Guyana Cup Horse Racing Championship, which is slated for Sunday at the Rising Sun Turf Club, West Coast Berbice.

Just over two years ago, on June 28, 2022, the World Bank released a missive titled ‘The Fight Against Food Insecurity in the Caribbean’ in which it outlined various global and regional circumstances that were, collectively, seriously degrading food security in the region and it was out of this that came a boisterous and seemingly energetic move on the part of CARICOM member countries to seek to create a template that might push back the worst excesses of food security in the region.

KFC Elite League Santos pursuit of a top-four finish in the KFC Elite League suffered a minor setback as they were held to a scoreless draw by Monedderlust last evening at the National Training Centre, Providence.

Guyana’s reputation as ‘the food basket of the Caribbean’ has never, for a moment, been called into question, the consistently enduring performance of our agriculture sector making the point that not only do we produce sufficient to feed ourselves (and this bears no relation to high food prices in our municipal markets) but also to help ‘cover’ for the food deficit that obtains elsewhere in the region.

Victory Valley Royals will oppose Block 22 Flames in the final of the Kevin Joseph/Team 13 U-23 Basketball Championship tomorrow evening at the Amelia’s Ward Hard Court, Linden, following semifinal wins.

For more than one reason the hurricane season in Caribbean causes some of the sectors that have traditionally been the mainstay of the region’s economy to become afflicted with compulsive attacks of jitters.

(Reuters) – Chang Yuan became the first woman boxer to win Olympic gold for China by beating Turkey’s Hatice Akbas by unanimous decision in the women’s bantamweight final at the Olympics yesterday.

Across political administrations in Guyana there have been persistent concerns about the physical conditions that obtain at our municipal markets which, in instances, are well-known to be downright deplorable even hazardous to health.

Ricardo Narine reclaimed the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) National Junior Championship, besting the challenge of a talented field in the nine-round event at the David Rose Special School.

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is reportedly readying itself to take on what may well be the most demanding assignment in its history: improving public road transport in the region.

(Reuters) – The Netherlands beat Germany 3-1 in a shootout after a 1-1 draw to win the gold medal in men’s hockey at the Paris Olympics yesterday with Duco Telgenkamp firing home the final penalty shot past goalkeeper Jean-Paul Danneberg.

(Reuters) – The United States took the first, convincing step towards ending their men’s 24-year Olympic sprint relay drought when they qualified fastest from yesterday’s heats, with more firepower to come, but Jamaica crashed out after poor changeovers.

Borderline, Tabatinga, and Far East recorded wins in the men’s division, while Gladiators United was victorious in the women’s section when the Rupununi Football Association Senior Leagues commenced at the Culver City Community Centre ground.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil and Nicaragua expelled each other’s ambassadors yesterday in a tit-for-tat retaliation as relations deteriorated between two formerly allied leftist governments.