Daily Archive: Friday, October 11, 2024

Twenty-eight persons were displaced as a result of Wednesday’s fire at Puruni in Region Seven.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said today it made “no sense” for the U.S.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South African prosecutors have decided not to charge President Cyril Ramaphosa over a theft from his game farm that nearly cost him his position two years ago.

FORT PIERCE, Florida,  (Reuters) – Millions of Floridians were still without electrical power today, more than a day after Hurricane Milton roared across the midsection of the state, touching off tornadoes and leaving at least 16 people dead.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Kenya will send 600 more police officers to Haiti next month to bolster an international anti-gang mission, President William Ruto said today during a visit by the Haitian prime minister intended to speed up deployments to the force.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France announced today new curfew measures to try and quell civil unrest on its Caribbean island of Martinique, which has been hit by violent protests over the last month due to anger over rising living costs.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, won the Nobel Peace Prize today, in a warning to countries who have nuclear weapons not to use them.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has defended the $50 million allocation to the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) for entertainment and functions.

-free university education from January, 50% cut in power tariff before end of 2025 President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced a cash payment of $200,000 to each household, free university education from January next year, a 50% cut in electricity charges before the end of 2025, a universal health voucher of $10,000 and a minimum wage of $100,000 per month in the public sector by the end of 2025 among other measures.

-refuses to sit in Parliament for President’s speech The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) refused to attend yesterday’s sitting of parliament, and instead held a public demonstration on the grounds that the administration is insensitive to the high cost of living and refuses to engage in the democratic systems afforded by parliament, a release from the party stated.

Over the course of the Stabroek Business’ coverage of the small business sector it has not been uncommon to find that teachers, among other professionals, having removed themselves from the relatively routinized environment of the classroom, tend, in a great many instances, not to simply drift off into simply putting their feet up.

x Inhospitable weather conditions and a scarcity of inputs that are important to the ‘good health’ of the agriculture sector are largely responsible for the doleful mood that appears to have swept over some farmers who live and work in Essequibo.

-only 16% were reached An Auditor General’s report has found major flaws in one of government’s flagship programmes for vulnerable women including poor design and follow-up but said that improvements are being made.

-Auditor General’s Report The Auditor General’s Report for 2023 says $160.8m was paid to the firm headed by Mikhail Rodrigues known as `Guyanese Critic’ for the Belle Vue Pump Station works but up to August 14, 2024 no works were in progress at the time of the visit of the auditors.

The Golden Jaguars will resume their campaign today in League A of the CONCACAF Nations League against Guatemala at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora, with history firmly in the corner of the Central American unit.

-Auditor General’s Report The Auditor General’s Report on the public accounts for 2023 says that billions of dollars worth of drugs expired between January 2023 and June 2024.

Dear Editor, The ‘talk of the town’ is about the proposed confirmation of Clifton Hicken, the extended acting Commissioner of Police as Commissioner.

Long considered a sector that could play a pivotal role in the advancement of a Guyana economy that had always been harnessed by resource restraint considerations, Guyana, on account of the opportunity arising out of its relatively new found oil and gas resources, is beginning, seemingly, to fit tourism into the country’s development matrix.

The shifting patterns of economies across the world are redefining the post-retirement options of salaried workers.

Colombia’s airline Avianca will begin twice weekly flights here from December 11, a move hailed by government officials here.

Dear Editor, As discussions about democracy and governance dominate the national conversation, we must not forget the far deeper crisis that many Guyanese face on a daily basis: abject poverty.

‘Rats Memorial’ Football Championship – Rivers View, Potaro to contest women’s decider Rising Stars and Potaro Strikers will contest the men’s divisional, while Rivers View and Potaro Strikers will battle in the women’s decider following semifinal wins in the ‘Rats Memorial’ Football Championship on Wednesday evening.

A five-year-old child of Prospect, East Bank Demerara, died yesterday after a metal barrel exploded while his parents were attempting to cut it open with a welding torch.

Dear Editor, The things that will only take place in Guyana… like having fuel bonds, selling gasoline and diesel, in the midst of hotels, restaurants, grocery store, night club, even a pharmacy… all places where people congregate, mix and mingle.

An engineer from Region Eight whose company received a $28m road building contract for a project he would have had oversight of has declined to comment to Stabroek News on the matter.

Dear Editor, I guess like me, many Guyanese were taken by surprise after an announcement by Mr.

The initial phase of the infrastructure works for the new Hauraruni Housing Scheme along the Soesdyke-Linden Highway has met with the approval of the government.

Dear Editor, International organizations like the European Union and the US State Department have joined local groups to call upon the PPP/C to expand inclusivity measures in their governance model.

Shawn Caesar, a 28-year-old miner, appeared at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Magistrate Teriq Mohammed to answer the charge of raping a child under sixteen years.

FORT PIERCE, Florida/ST. PETERSBURG, Florida,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Milton plowed into the Atlantic Ocean yesterday after cutting a destructive path across Florida that spawned tornados, killed at least 10 people and left millions without power, but the storm did not trigger the catastrophic surge of seawater that was feared.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Dr. Ramesh Gampat’s letter in the October 9th edition of the Stabroek News captioned, “data on arrivals and departures cannot prove whether or not Guyanese are leaving permanently abroad”.

SAINT-MARC, Haiti, (Reuters) – Armed men launched fresh attacks on the Haitian town of Arcahaie, local media reported on Wednesday, as families mourned the growing list of victims of a massacre days earlier in an agricultural town some 60 km (37 miles) to the north.

LONDON/PARIS/ROME, (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy yesterday discussed his proposed “victory plan” with the leaders of Britain, France and Italy, and the incoming head of NATO as he seeks to garner military support to put himself in a position for eventual peace talks.

In observance of the Inter-national Day of the Girl Child, the High Commission of Canada yesterday continued its eight-year tradition of hosting one exceptional young woman as the High Commissioner for the Day.

Dear Editor,  I am writing to share my thoughts on the rebranding of Shell to Mobil under Sol’s stewardship and the potential this brings to Guyana’s fuel market.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexican senators yesterday passed regulations stipulating how a judicial overhaul that reforms the country’s constitution will be implemented to popularly elect judges.

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday October 10, 2024

Principal of the J.T.W Management Institute, Guyanese Management Specialist, Joycelyn Williams, has been sharing with the Stabroek Business her perspectives on what she regards as the country’s “management requirements” in the oil and gas era and on the suitability of the existing training curriculum to meet those needs.

With the Caribbean seemingly having ‘gone quiet’ following a period of energetic assertiveness about a region-wide Food Security Plan to push back concerns voiced at the level of various UN food-related agencies regarding the region’s seeming diminishing food sufficiency bona fides, it would appear that, for the time being, at least, some member countries of the regional grouping are seeking to take more direct responsibility for their own food self-sufficiency. 

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – A senior Hezbollah official eluded an Israeli assassination attempt yesterday in Beirut, three security sources said, as Israeli strikes there killed 22 people and the U.N.

Paiwomak Warriors crushed 3 Region FC in the women’s divisions when the Rupununi Football Association (RFA) Senior League continued.

The Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF), in partnership with Republic Bank, launched the maiden edition of the ‘One Guyana’ National B Division Championship yesterday at the Ministry of Culture, Youth, and Sport boardroom, Main Street.

(Reuters) – Rafa Nadal will call time on his illustrious but injury-plagued career after next month’s Davis Cup Finals, the 22-times Grand Slam champion announced yesterday, as one of the greatest players in the sport prepares for an emotional farewell.

“We must nurture creativity and innovation,” said President Irfaan Ali recently.

(CMC) – As part of efforts to nurture emerging talent, Cricket West Indies (CWI) has awarded 30 of the region’s up-and-coming male and female cricketers with one-year contracts.

Head of the GPF’s Corporate Communica-tions Unit, Mark Ramotar yesterday said that three persons are in police custody over the plane that was intercepted in Bashaizon Village, South Rupununi on Sunday.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) –  Indigenous organizations in the Brazilian state of Para said they were not consulted by the government before it signed a deal with multinational companies to sell carbon offset credits to support conservation of the Ama-zon rainforest in the state.

(CMC) – Karishma Ramharack spun circles around Bangladesh Women’s batters, and Hayley Matthews finally found her groove as West Indies Women jumped to the top of Group B in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup with a comprehensive eight-wicket win at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium yesterday.

x The push by Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member countries to become important players in the global oil and gas industry does not stop at three member countries, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and more recently Suriname.

(Reuters) – England notched up their highest total in 86 years thanks to Harry Brook’s triple century and Joe Root’s double ton, declaring on 823-7 before Pakistan collapsed to a perilous position on the fourth day of the first test yesterday.

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1092s trading results showed consideration of $159,310,122 from 493,534 shares traded in 41 transactions as compared to session 1091’s trading results which showed consideration of $977,814 from 4,249 shares traded in 14 transactions.

By Stefania Fabrizio, Florence Jaumotte, Marina M. Tavares Men hold about 70 percent of the world’s polluting jobs, so one might think that they have the most to lose from the transition to cleaner energy.

Dear Editor, Saturday 12 October 2024 is the 532nd anniversary of African Holocaust Day.