Daily Archive: Friday, September 13, 2024

Former US President Donald Trump infringed copyrights by using Eddy Grant’s iconic “Electric Avenue” in a 2020 campaign video without permission, a federal judge ruled today, rejecting Trump’s argument that he made legal fair use of the song.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) today said that it has started replacing transmission mains along the Avenue of the Republic and High Street.

 (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Gordon has formed near the Cape Verde islands, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said today.

Senior Superintendent, Krishnadat Ramana has been appointed as the new police commander of Region 1 (Barima-Waini), and this became effective on Tuesday.

 (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said today it had cleared Bavarian Nordic’s BAVA.CO mpox

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Chinese regulators today hit PwC’s auditing unit in mainland China with a six-month business suspension and a record fine of 441 million yuan ($62 million) over the firm’s audit of troubled property developer China Evergrande Group 3333.HK.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Kenya’s acting chief of police was sentenced to six months in prison today after he repeatedly defied orders to testify about the whereabouts of three men allegedly abducted by police officers.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Water shortages in Cuba are increasingly flaring tempers, including in capital Havana, as problems mount for hundreds of thousands of residents already ragged from shortfalls in food, fuel and electricity.

Sterling Products Limited’s (SPL) after-tax profit for the first half  of this year was $99.1m,  up from last year’s figure for the  corresponding period of  $83.9m.

(Trinidad Guardian) The ANSA McAL Group has announced strategic changes to its head office executive team.

International Environmental Advisor, Erik Solheim, has congratulated Guyana on its efforts to maintain its pristine forest coverage, as well as advancing global climate adaptation and mitigation efforts, a Department of Public Information (DPI) release said on Wednesday.

Dear Editor, I would like to respond to an article in yesterday’s paper, “Time for us to do what is right – teach only language and math in primary school,” (SN, Sept.

Several members of the Guyana Police Force are participating in a two-day procurement training exercise conducted by the Public Procurement Commission (PPC).

Dear Editor, The current national concern regarding the dismal math test results, which has prompted presidential commentary, underscores a pressing need for a more profound and analytical approach.

-police were responsible for list with questionable bidder SOCU has acquired documents relating to procurement for the Guyana Police Force (GPF) from the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) as it continues its investigation of financial impropriety claims against Deputy Police Commissioner Calvin Brutus.

Based on the reports that continue to emanate from the media in Trinidad and Tobago on the crime situation in the twin-island republic, they suggest that much of the country’s private sector, it would seem, believes itself to be a specific target of violent episodes, and it would appear to the country’s Business Support Organizations (BSO’s) that individual businesses and business owners are now completely preoccupied by the crime wave.

Dear Editor, On May 5, 2008, some 15 years ago, I wrote an article which was carried by the Stabroek News, entitled “We need a national conversation on literacy” in Guyana.

(CPL) – A confident five-wicket victory with 21 balls remaining by the Saint Lucia Kings saw them get their 2024 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) campaign back on track and consign the St.

Dear Editor, Those who know something of Greek history and about the Trojan War might not have come across the name Glaucus.

Even as information disseminated by high-profile international agencies, including the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), points to an enhanced focus on eradicating the use of mercury in the global gold recovery industry, local gold miners are reportedly still prepared to defy the widely proven serious health threat linked to the use of the lethal chemical element in pursuit of significantly increasing their earnings from the industry.

-health sector programme manager Lifestyle diseases account for around 76% of deaths in Caricom.

Following the recent meeting with Senior Minister in the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance and Public Service, Dr Ashni Singh, and US Exim Bank officials in Washington, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo says that the bank’s board is likely to discuss the US$660 million funding for the Gas-to-Energy (GtE) project at an October meeting.

Guyana, along with long-standing South American petro giants, Brazil and Argentina, continue to be in the ‘front row’ of countries in the hemisphere in terms of crude oil production, according to a September 4 disclosure by the globally regarded, Oslo-based independent energy research and business intelligence company, Rystaad Energy.

Campbellville Street-ball Championship  Albouystown and Stabroek Ballers secured their berths to the round of 16 when the inaugural edition of the Campbellville Village Cup Street-ball Championship continued last night.

Dear Editor, Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali on 5 September announced that CARICOM had put the dismal performance of Caribbean students in Mathematics on its agenda.

Following an afternoon consultation with the Ministry of Public Works, sand truck owners, who normally park at the Ruimveldt reserves, have agreed to relocate their trucks.

Region #9 and Region #6 recorded contrasting victories in the women’s division when the Amerindian Heritage Games Football Championship resumed last night at the Everest Cricket Ground on Carifesta Avenue and Camp Street.

Dear Editor, There is a perceived spat brewing in who ordered the audit/investigation at the state marketing agency. 

The Ministry of Housing and Water – Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) yesterday warned about the purchase of land at Amelia’s Ward/Fitz Hope, Phase 4, Linden outside of its official processes.

Dear Editor, Congratulations are due to Attorney General Anil Nandlall for ‘vehemently’ rejecting Dr.

-commander denies claim A Corentyne ten-day worker says she was strip-searched at the Springlands Police Station after being arrested on the accusation that he had been overpaid.

Dear Editor, Please permit me space in your publication to write on a matter that has national, regional and international implications for the Guyana Police Force, Guyana and bilateral cooperation on transnational and other crimes.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – The United States supports creating two permanent United Nations Security Council seats for African states and one seat to be rotated among small island developing states, U.S.

Dear Editor, My view of our world is aligned with that of our Indigenous brothers and sisters, “The earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth” (Low, 1995).

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s police and crime minister had her purse stolen at a meeting of senior police officers on Tuesday when she spoke about the growing problem of theft and shoplifting, a government official said yesterday.

The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) yesterday alerted the public to fake Guyana stamps in circulation.

Beginning today, workers under the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development’s Community Infrastructure Improvement Programme (CIIP) will begin with the clearing of clogged drains and overgrown bushes in the vicinity of Garnett and De Abreu streets.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Biden administration said yesterday it was imposing U.S. sanctions on 16 allies of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in response to voter fraud in the country’s election and his government’s ensuing crackdown on the political opposition.

Dear Editor, When one believe Guyana cannot get any lower now in addition to the deep rooted corruption and the ‘friendism’, cronyism and nepotism, we have a female, because of a small issue re payment for a 10 days’ worker placed in the lock up at the Springlands Police Station and stripped naked.

(Reuters) – A North Dakota state court judge yesterday overturned the state’s near-total abortion ban, clearing the way for abortion to become legal in the Midwestern state for the first time in more than a year.

CULIACAN, Mexico,  (Reuters) – Authorities in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa yesterday canceled national day celebrations and shut schools on the back of escalating violence stemming from internal Sinaloa Cartel fighting, which has left 12 people dead since Monday.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil’s Amazon rainforest through the world’s largest wetlands to dry forests in Bolivia, breaking a previous record for the number of blazes seen in a year up to Sept.

Dear Editor, The Britcham launch at Lords Cricket Ground was a rip roaring success.

Following media reports of itel Guyana’s plan to cease operations locally, affecting more than 400 hundred workers, the Ministry of Labour has engaged the Business Process Outsourcing company on workers’ severance pay.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – The Israeli military yesterday named nine men it said were Hamas militants killed in Gaza airstrikes that the U.N.

A doctor attached to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital is now seriously hospitalized with head injuries after she was struck by a lorry outside of the hospital yesterday.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday September 12, 2024

Rebel Junior Tennis Championship Siblings Kimora and Niomi Erskine sealed their place in the Girl’s Doubles final, while Anastasia Semple and Gerald Scotland advanced to the respective divisional finals when the Smalta/Rebel Junior Tennis Championship continued at the GBTI court in Diamond, East Bank Demerara.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil formally received yesterday the return from Denmark of an Indigenous cloak made with 4,000 red feathers of the scarlet ibis bird, a sacred mantle that was taken by Europeans during the 17th century colonial era.

It is not commonplace for routine visits to Guyana by trade delegations from sister CARICOM countries to be led by the Prime Minister of the visiting country.

Dear Editor, On the eve of May 25th, 1966, the lowering of the Union Jack, a symbol of the colonial past, welcomed the hoist of the Golden Arrowhead, the emblem of a new nation.

The recent destructive rampage across parts of the Caribbean by Hurricane Beryl would appear to have done nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of Caribbean countries in their pursuit to continue to take measures to promote their tourism ‘offerings.’

Guyana’s winless run at the 45th edition of the Chess Olympiad in Budapest, Hungary, continued as both the women’s and men’s teams incurred defeats in the Open Division.

Cornelia Ida (CI), Sawpit, and Windsor Forest recorded contrasting wins in the West Demerara Cricket Association-sanctioned GH Renovations T20 Championship.

For a small country Guyana has produced a remarkable number of eminent scholars who have made valuable contributions in a variety of fields, but of these only Shridath ‘Sonny’ Ramphal who died on August 30 had an impact on the course of world events. 

(CMC) – With Cricket West Indies’ (CWI) chief executive officer Johnny Grave set to depart in just under three weeks, the regional institution has commenced its search for his replacement.

With crime in Trinidad and Tobago continuing to seriously compromise normalcy in the business sector, the country’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry is stepping up its anxiety level, expressing “deep concern” over what would appear to be a continually escalating crime wave and the danger that it poses to the ability of the country’s business sector to benefit from a condition of normalcy.

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member country Suriname, would appear to be moving to use the ‘leverage’ deriving from its recent oil recovery breakthrough to extend its interest in other region-building pursuits, this time, eyeing involvement in one of the Caribbean’s primary preoccupations, food security.

Every Man, Woman and Child in Guyana Must Become Oil-Minded – Column 136 Introduction Over the past three weeks, this Column has shown how the PPP/C has reversed its pre-election promise to review and renegotiate the 2016 Petroleum Agreement.

Costa Rica Future Series Badminton Championship Priyanna Ramdhani and Trinidad and Tobago partner Chequeda de Boulet advanced to the semifinal round in the women’s doubles of the Costa Rica Future Series Badminton Championship.

Big Girls won the Strikers 16th Anniversary All-Female Domino Championship, which concluded on Saturday at the Dynasty Sports Club in South Ruimveldt.

Dear Editor, The upcoming general elections in the USA will not be close as the pundits are predicting because of one important factor which has always meant the most in circumstances which are complicated and difficult to comprehend like the situation when Harry Truman, a virtual unknown Vice President who succeeded Roosevelt in 1945, went on to become a great US President;  or Ronald Reagan, a movie star, became Governor of California and then President of the USA  when  low  expectations of his rule proved wrong and he delivered the fall of communism; or John F.