Daily Archive: Monday, August 26, 2024

Police in Regional Division 4’C’ arrested and placed before the court three men from the East Coast of Demerara for allegedly committing a series of armed robberies at three filling stations (gas stations), namely the Guyoil station on the Railway Embankment road and Chico Ramas gas station at Coldingen, ECD, on August 20th 2024; and Rubis Gas Station at Success, ECD, on August 23rd 2024.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Canada is reducing by tens of thousands the number of temporary foreign workers it brings in, reversing some expansions to the programme it made in 2022 as the government struggles to bring down numbers of temporary residents.

Advertising agency Impressions has dismissed a Facebook post which made certain allegations about the head of the company.

Demerara Tobacco Company Limited (Demtoco) has registered a profit of $1.28b for the first half of this year.

Columbia, Essequibo Coast businessman, Haimant Chowtie aka `Two Leaf’  and his family were robbed over the weekend of cash and jewellery.

In keeping with its mandate of monitoring local content within the petroleum sector, the Director of the Local Content Secretariat (LCS), Dr Martin Pertab, and Secretariat staff visited Halliburton last Friday.

MADRID/SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, (Reuters) – Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez starts his second visit this year to West Africa tomorrow, aiming to curb migration to the Canary Islands and to counter the Russian presence in the Sahel region.

(Trinidad Express) `Huegla de Melandro Ismael’, which translates to ‘Strike by criminal Ismael’, was on a sign found next to the body of a man who had been buried recently, then dug up, doused with a flammable liquid and burnt sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning in Sangre Grande.

(Trinidad Express) Pan Trinbago’s headquarters will be constructed at the old post office site on Wrightson Road in Port of Spain, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has confirmed.

(Trinidad Express) The action to repossess the MovieTowne cineplex in Port of Spain was an act of thuggery that caused great embarrassment and loss of money, said chairman of Trinbago Commercial Development Company Ltd (TCDC) Derek Chin.

QUETTA, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Separatist militant attacks on police stations, railway lines and highways in Pakistan’s restive province of Balochistan, coupled with retaliatory operations by security forces, killed at least 51 people, officials said today.

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Guyana Public Service Co-operative Credit Union Ltd (GPSCCUL) which was convened on August 25th had to be adjourned because of the lack of a quorum.

Aside from salary increases, the Ministry of Education and the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) Memorandum of Agreement on Wednesday 21st, 2023 outlines a series of agreements on housing, health and other areas for 2024 to 2026.

TAROUBA, Trinidad, CMC – Led by superb bowling from Romario Shepherd and Shamar Joseph, West Indies snatched victory from the jaws of defeat to upset South Africa by 30 runs and capture the three-match T20 series with one match to spare.

Dear Editor, The world is changing and it is changing very fast due to factors such as climate change, artificial intelligence, improved technologies, social media platforms, wars and even in terms of what was not acceptable as legal, customs and norms.  One

-38,921 claims for sickness benefit disallowed   The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) saw a 16.5% rise in income for 2022 and a hefty boost to its insurance fund.

By Michaelangelo Jacobus Even rain could not put a damper on the well-attended final of the second edition of the Kares T10 Tapeball competition at the Providence National Stadium, East Bank Demerara on Saturday night.

The Office of the Prime Minister says that its facilitating agency, the National Data Management Authority (NDMA), has completed phase one of the Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) Satellite Connectivity project, which aims to benefit over 250 hinterland, remote, and riverain communities, by the end of this year.

Dear Editor, It has to be wondered, the medex, recovering from dengue fever, who had other underlying health conditions, was allowed to return to field work so soon. 

(Reuters) – Bangladesh registered their first ever test win over Pakistan after spinners Mehidy Hasan Miraz and Shakib Al Hasan bowled them to a memorable 10-wicket victory in the series opener in Rawalpindi yesterday.

A total of 362 toshaos, senior councillors and chairpersons of the Community Development Councils from across Guyana were sworn in as ex-officio justices of the peace (JPs) and rural constables at the recent toshaos conference.

Guyanese pugilist Colin ‘Superman’ Lewis fought splendidly at the recently concluded Ronald Wilson Memorial Boxing Championships in Barbados, collecting two gold medals and the individual accolade of ‘Best Overall’ boxer.

Dear Editor, I’m writing to share my concerns about the ongoing high inflation in Guyana, which is really squeezing a lot of people, especially those who are already struggling.

‘Greatest of the Streets’ Bartica edition Tournament favourites Mighty Ruler, Avengers, and Misdemeanor secured berths to the quarterfinal segment following respective round-of-16 wins in the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Bartica edition on Friday night at the Community Centre tarmac. 

Dear Editor, Government needs to take action to narrow the widening gap between the rich and the poor, the super-rich and the middle class; both Jagan and Burnham would have pursued some kind of policy to aid the lower income people.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) is urging trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles operating in the new Lusignan housing scheme not to use the Lusignan Prison Road.

(Reuters) – The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) said on Thursday it has imposed an administrative penalty of C$50,000 (US$36,764.71) on Imperial Oil  over a months-long toxic tailings leak at the oil and gas producer’s Kearl oil sands mine.

West Meten-Meer-Zorg, Sawpit, and Royal Strikers recorded contrasting wins in the West Demerara Cricket Association-sanctioned GH Renovations T20 Championship. 

Dear Editor, In recent years, the treatment of indigenous communities by the PPP government has revealed a troubling pattern of exploitation and neglect.

GCA 2-Day 2nd Division Competition   Despite rain wiping out most of the first day of their encounter against the Ace Warriors, Bel Air Rubis managed to bowl their opponents out twice on the second day to complete a 67-run victory in the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/Friends of Cricket 2-Day 2nd Division competition.

The University of Guyana is set to begin its new academic year for 2024/2025 with a week-long series of orientation sessions starting today and culminating on Friday August 30th.

Dear Editor, You cannot change something, with any degree of credibility or commitment, if you failed to understand it and give it a chance to work.

CHORZOW, Poland, CMC – The Dominican Republic’s Marileidy Paulino continued her dominance in the women’s 400 metres, while Jamaica’s Ackera Nugent, Tia Clayton and Shanieka Ricketts all won their respective events at the Silesia Diamond League here yesterday.

Dear Editor, There have been two major activities this week of note – the National Toshaos Conference and the releasing of the CSEC/CAPE results.

Stabroek News spoke to Toshaos from various villages in the hinterland about the cost of living and how it is affecting them.

Given that we are in the year 2024, nearly five years into oil production and with an average annual input into the budget from petroleum revenues of U$1b – $200b – there is surely unanimous agreement that pit latrines at schools should be a thing of the past.

ZANDVOORT, Netherlands,  (Reuters) – McLaren’s Lando Norris ended Max Verstappen’s unbeaten home record with a commanding Dutch Grand Prix victory and second win of his Formula One career to breathe new life into the championship yesterday.

Last week, we concluded our discussion of the two Supplementary Estimates totalling $40.8 million that the National Assembly approved three weeks ago.

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel early yesterday, as Israel’s military said it struck Lebanon with around 100 jets to thwart a larger attack, in one of the biggest clashes in more than 10 months of border warfare.

By Samuel Brathwaite Dr. Samuel Braithwaite is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at The University of the West Indies, Mona.

Dear Editor, I believe that the world is bracing itself for a transformation.

Op-Ed by Lilian Chatterjee, High Commissioner of Canada to Barbados and former High Commissioner to Guyana As I end my diplomatic career as Canada’s High Commissioner and return to Ottawa at the end of August, I do so with enormous gratitude and pride for the privilege Prime Minister Trudeau bestowed on me over the past 7 years to represent Canada to Guyana, Suriname and CARICOM (2017-2020) and Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean State (2021-2024).