Daily Archive: Saturday, September 21, 2024

The police are investigating the murders of  Mohamed Kalameeden Nasir, a 30-year-old carpenter of Lot 1, Stewartville, West Coast Demerara (WCD) and Arvinda Roopram, a 25-year-old  construction worker of Lot 52 Stewartville, WCD, which occurred at about 2.50 am today in the vicinity of the District Club located at Leonora.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Donald Trump today rejected another debate with Vice President Kamala Harris before the U.S.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Authorities in Martinique are banning demonstrations in four municipalities after violent protests over rising living costs led to the imposition of a curfew earlier this week, according to a statement issued today.

(Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will not be joined by his party’s embattled pick for North Carolina governor when he visits the critical electoral state today, the Trump campaign said.

(Trinidad Guardian) Chief Justice Ivor Archie says inadequate staffing, resources, poor payment packages for judges and funding continue to impede operations within the judicial system.

Following consternation over the Phillipai Primary in Region Seven having a latrine, an Education Ministry survey has found that 77 hinterland schools have such outdoor facilities, sources say.

-says she was not told of cannabis in alleyway By Shuntel Glasgow Debbie Tyson  says there were no grounds whatsoever for the recent police search for narcotics at her Lot 86 BB Eccles, East Bank Demerara home which came up empty-handed.

The township of Linden in Region Ten has long been struggling with flooding and poor drainage and as such, Prime Minister (PM), Mark Phillips and the Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill, held a meeting yesterday with stakeholders to address these issues.

-incident stemmed from breach of turn system at Stabroek Square A man was yesterday sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for felonious wounding.

-Hetmyer, Shepherd, bowlers lead the way  By Michaelangelo Jacobus A night that seemed like it would end with the Guyana Amazon Warriors fans going home dejected, ended instead with great ecstasy and wild celebrations at the Providence National Stadium in Guyana as local boys Shimron Hetmyer, Romario Sheperd and Shamar Joseph produced the goods with bat and ball to steer the Guyanese franchise to a well-deserved 30-run victory over the St.

Factory workers attached to the Rose Hall Estate have called off a strike after the corporation decided to replace the new production manager they had protested against.

An International ShotoKan Karate Federation (ISKF) Guyanese team accompanied by a delegation of 99 participants, parents, and supporters, has safely arrived in London, England for the ISKF 4th ShotoCup World Tournament.

The police yesterday said that an autopsy showed that Meshach Pierre, a 30-year-old mammologist died on Thursday from compression injuries to his neck.

The Guyanese Open and Women Chess teams suffered heavy losses in their round 9 matches yesterday at the 45th Chess Olympiad currently being staged in Budapest, Hungary.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) –  The United Nations’ expert on human rights in Haiti said yesterday that the situation in the conflict-hit Caribbean nation had worsened and efforts to rebuild security must be amplified as a security mission deadline fast approaches.

Twenty-six-year-old Nick Wellington appeared yesterday before Magistrate Faith McGusty at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer to the charge of break and enter and larceny.

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – The Honduran Supreme Court yesterday declared unconstitutional the legal underpinning of special economic zones exempt from local laws and taxes known as ZEDEs, which have drawn foreign investors lured by the promise of light taxation and regulation.

-over $65m in stock carted off Thieves recently broke into Samtronix, a smartphone and electronic gadgets store located at 136 Regent Street, Georgetown, and carted off over $65 million of stock.

Chief of Defence Staff Brigadier Omar Khan on Thursday decorated thirty-three  Officer Cadets (OCDTs) of the Standard Officer Course number fifty-six with their new badges of rank, elevating them to the rank of Ensigns.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Some 53 people have been killed and 51 others are missing in  Mexico’s western Sinaloa state since rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel began clashing on Sept 9, local authorities said yesterday, with gruesome violence showing no signs of abating.

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander and other senior figures in the Lebanese movement in an airstrike on Beirut yesterday, vowing to press on with a new military campaign until it is able to secure the area around the Lebanese border.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness, while rejecting some of the startling findings of the investigation by the Integrity Commission into his statutory declarations, said on Wednesday that the report has cleared him of involvement in any illicit enrichment.

Dear Editor, Land ownership in Guyana is a prerequisite to transform Guyana’s economic food security and family sustainability.

Business and Economic Commentary by Christopher Ram Part 11 The bureaucracy in Guyana can at times – and in different places – be stifling, overbearing, frustrating and totally unproductive.

(Reuters) – Georgia’s Republican-controlled election board voted yesterday to require a labour-intensive hand count of potentially millions of ballots in November, a move voting rights advocates say could cause delays, introduce errors and lay the groundwork for spurious challenges in the battleground state.

Senior Minister in the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance and the Public Service, Dr.

Dear Editor, In every broken society, there exists a group of children often overlooked, ignored, and left to fend for themselves against an array of challenges.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s former presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez said yesterday he sought diplomatic refuge after being warned President Nicolas Maduro’s security forces were “coming for you.”

BUDAPEST,  (Reuters) – She speaks seven languages, has a PhD in particle physics, an apartment in Budapest plastered with her own pastel drawings of nudes, and a career that took her around Africa and Europe doing humanitarian work.

A radio host was yesterday morning busted with over $4.3m worth in marijuana during a road stop at Weldaad, West Coast Berbice and was remanded to prison after she opted to plead guilty to the offence. 

(Trinidad Express) Two men were found dead in separate incidents early Thursday morning.

Dear Editor, I wish to draw attention to the persistent issues of fraud within the Guyana sugar industry, which bear troubling similarities to the infamous rice scandal in Thailand.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited honoured sixteen RightStart account holders for their outstanding achievements in the National Grade Six Assessment, Caribbean Secondary Examination Certificate, and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination at a  ceremony at Cara Lodge Hotel, Georgetown on Thursday.

Ending Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) as a public health threat here by 2030 will take much effort as it will all around the world.

(Reuters) – The first edition of the annual FIFA Intercontinental Cup for club teams from around the world will have five matches, with European Champions League winners Real Madrid to play in the final on Dec.

(Reuters) – Surrey successfully defended their County Championship title to claim the trophy for a third consecutive season yesterday after rivals Somerset lost at Lancashire.

CHENNAI, India,  (Reuters) – India spared Bangladesh the ignominy of a follow-on but grabbed an overall lead of 308 with seven wickets in hands to seize control of the opening test in Chennai  yesterday.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – Azim Bassarath has expressed his delight at being re-elected as vice-president of Cricket West Indies (CWI) following the hosting of a Special Meeting of Members here yesterday.

Dear Editor, For Guyanese to feel overwhelmed by the chatter about ‘autocracy’ and ‘democracy’ within the recent past is quite understandable.

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates,  (Reuters) – Afghanistan registered another emphatic victory over South Africa yesterday, beating them by 177 runs in the second one-day international to take an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three-match series in Sharjah.

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent,  CMC – Shafiqua Maloney, who created history by becoming the first Vincentian to advance to the finals of an Olympic event, said that while she did not medal, a loss is when one does not learn anything from the experience.

(Trinidad Guardian) San Juan Government Primary became the first school in the country to be outfitted with a special vending machine that doesn’t dispense snacks or beverages.

(Reuters) – The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced a revised schedule for their three-test series at home against England yesterday, with the second test being moved from Karachi to Multan.

Melissa Atwell is a human rights activist who resides in the United States.

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka put themselves in a good position on the third day of the opening test against New Zealand after Dimuth Karunaratne and Dinesh Chandimal made half-centuries but the hosts lost some of their momentum to reach 237-4 at stumps in Galle yesterday.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – A Russian missile strike has damaged infrastructure and an Antigua-flagged civilian vessel in the Ukrainian port of Odesa, the regional governor said yesterday.