Articles published on Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Security Norton rejects proposal for Hicken to be confirmed as Top Cop: Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton has rejected a proposal by President Irfaan Ali that acting Commissioner of Police Clifton Hicken be substantively appointed to that position.
Keith Jeffrey called ‘Pugga’, a 58-year-old labourer from Enmore sea dam, East Coast Demerara, was arrested and charged with the murder of Theodore Baynes, which occurred on September 30, 2024, at Haslington North, East Coast Demerara.
STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – U.S. scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries and inventions that laid the foundation for machine learning, the award-giving body said today.
(Trinidad Guardian) The new car industry has been labelled as the largest consumer of foreign exchange in this country by Minster in the Ministry of Finance Brian Manning.
-says hard currency flows expected to adequately cover imports Total foreign exchange transactions for the first half of this year increased by 39.0 percent to US$9,889.1m compared to the first six months of last year and the Central Bank is assuring that the exchange rate for US dollar is expected to remain “relatively stable” and flows to the market are expected to adequately cover imports.
Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha yesterday commissioned a $100 million Soil Chemical Services Laboratory at the National Agricultural Research and Extension institute (NAREI) at Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara.
-customer nursing bullet wound A bandit died yesterday after he was shot by a Berbice businessman during an attempted robbery at his jewellery store along the Main Road in New Amsterdam.
Dear Editor, Over the years, the state constructed two bridges across the Rupununi River in Southern Region Nine.
Dear Editor, A few months ago via a letter to Stabroek News, I appealed for the installation of hand rails at the Vreed-en-Hoop taxi service stelling.
-man held after exchange of gunfire, pilot escapes In the South Rupununi, the police on Sunday intercepted a plane which may have been smuggling mercury for gold mining and one man was arrested during an exchange of gunfire while the pilot of the craft managed to escape to Brazil.
Dear Editor, Summary points should be provided for revision for C.S.E.C.
`It’s very stressful and frustrating that this entire saga has been swept under the rug and life just goes on as if nothing ever happened because we are not the entitled ones.
Dear Editor, It has come to my attention that there are many entities (some quite prominent) failing to make, and in some cases who never have made National Insurance contributions for their employees.
Residents of Santa Aratack in Region Three have received a modern communal kitchen for the first time.
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – Prime Minister of St Lucia Philip J.
-official says it will be known in `due course’ On Sunday night, even as the curtains came down on the 2024 season of the Republic Bank sponsored Caribbean Premier League, legendary Guyanese and West Indies cricketer Sir Clive Lloyd announced the launch of a new T20 competition, the Global Super League, which will be hosted in Guyana from November 26 to December 7.
Dear Editor, Reflecting on yesterday’s CPL T20 halftime show, there are several lessons to be learned from both an event management and branding perspective.
Sitting in the Constitutional and Administrative Division of the High Court, Justice Fidela Corbin-Lincoln has ruled in favour of the Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers (UAAW) in relation to a contested trade union recognition for Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) workers.
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel’s third-largest city, Haifa, and Israel looked poised to expand its offensive into Lebanon yesterday, one year after the devastating Hamas attack on Israel that sparked the Gaza war.
Dear Editor, Charrandass Persaud’s pivotal vote in the 2018 no-confidence motion against the APNU+AFC coalition remains a subject of considerable debate.
President Irfaan Ali is to address the National Assembly on Thursday.
(Reuters) – Hurricane Milton strengthened rapidly in the southern Gulf of Mexico yesterday as it skirted the northern edge of the Yucatan peninsula, home to tourist hotspots and cargo ports, with a strike expected on Florida this week.
Dear Editor, The letter writer has lamented the High and Parade Streets project, claiming it to be another waste of money (SN October 6).
SANTO DOMINGO/PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s foreign minister yesterday blasted a policy announced last week by the neighbouring Dominican Republic to deport tens of thousands of migrants back to Haiti, where gang violence is fueling a devastating humanitarian crisis.
A fire officer yesterday appeared in court on cybercrime charges of spreading false information about several of her colleagues including Chief Fire Officer Gregory Wickham and was placed on $350,000 after denying the charges before Magistrate Fabayo Azore.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said yesterday there are “a lot of bad genes” in the United States, while discussing murders allegedly committed by immigrants living illegally in the United States.
Dear Editor, Before presenting facts to dispute Fuad Rahaman’s missive supporting the Republican Party in the U.S
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s transitional presidential council transferred the rotating presidency yesterday to architect Leslie Voltaire despite opposition from outgoing president Edgard Leblanc Fils, who refused to sign a decree ratifying the move.
The New Highway Producers Cooperative Society has elected a new Committee of Management following its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Sunday, September 29, 2024.
STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – U.S. scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine yesterda#y for the discovery of microRNA and its crucial role in how multicellular organisms grow and live.
Dear Editor, I write with reference to Fuad Rahaman’s letter published in the SN yesterday (Oct 6th) urging Guyanese-Americans to vote for presidential candidate Donald Trump.
(Trinidad Guardian) The United States Ambassadors to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, Guyana, and Suriname will visit Trinidad and Tobago from October 8-12, 2024.
A man was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $35,000 after he allegedly assaulted a police officer at the East La Penitence police station.
Dear Editor, There is a notion propagated by some commentators and aspirational political leaders alike that despite Guyana’s high GDP growth rates, the long lines at the passport office daily is indicative of people migrating.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Cissy Houston, Grammy-winning soul and gospel singer and mother of the late Whitney Houston, died in her New Jersey home yesterday at the age of 91.
(Trinidad Guardian) The mother of teenager Jayden Lalchan who ended his life on October 3 following an alleged bullying incident at school, is not happy with how school officials handled their complaints.
-file on five suspects sent to DPP for advice Head of the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) Corporate Communications Unit, Mark Ramotar, told report-ers yesterday that Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum has indicated that a file was prepared and sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for advice in relation to the five suspects in police custody for the abduction of Joshua David.
It is conceivable that it would not have occurred to many Guyanese residing on ‘the coastal plain’ that both children and teachers in parts of the hinterland must endure the safety and health hazards as well as the indignity that attends the need to use pit latrines outside of schools’ and, seemingly, that there appears not to exist, up to this time, any immediate-term plan to remove this unacceptable obstacle to the delivery of education in a convivial environment in those areas.
LONDON, (Reuters) – A British doctor yesterday pleaded guilty to an audacious but unsuccessful plot to kill his mother’s partner with a fake COVID-19 vaccine, which involved him forging medical documents and dressing in disguise to inject his victim with poison.
By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana; Senior Fellow at the Ralph Bunche International Institute, New York.
QUITO, (Reuters) – A judge in Ecuador yesterday ordered 30 people to stand trial in a wide-ranging organized crime and drug trafficking case involving the Andean country’s judicial system.
Dear Editor, The stark tableau of Leonora has unfolded before the reading Guyanese public.
The Guyana Body Building & Fitness Federation (GBBFF) has announced the list of countries and territories confirmed to participate in the Central America & Caribbean (CAC) 2024 Championships which will be hosted here in Guyana on October 19-20 at the National Cultural Centre.
Senior Inter-County cricket will make its return from Sunday (October 13) as the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) is set to host the 2024 Senior 50-Over Inter-County tournament.
Veteran Guyanese cyclist, James Joseph captured a Silver Medal yesterday at the ongoing Union Cycliste International (UCI) World Masters Championships in France.
(Reuters) – Pakistan captain Shan Masood smashed 153 and forged a 253-run partnership with fellow centurion Abdullah Shafique to put the hosts on course for a massive first innings total in the opening test against England on Monday.
Two women yesterday appeared before Magistrate Fabayo Azore charged with threatening behaviour and wounding committed against each other and were granted bail after denying the charges.
(Field Level Media) LeBron James and his son, Bronny, made NBA history on Sunday when they played together during the Los Angeles Lakers’ preseason game against the Phoenix Suns in Palm Desert, Calif.
By Fazeer Mohammed (Trinidad Express) Officials of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) will never admit it but all that seething rage and unrestrained cussing triggered by last Tuesday night’s bizarre finish at the Guyana National Stadium would have been music to their ears.
