Daily Archive: Friday, February 7, 2025

Guyana yesterday extradited Harry Narine Rajkumar to Canada to face multiple criminal charges.

President Irfaan Ali today denied approaching businessman Terrence Campbell to be his prime ministerial candidate in 2020.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Patricia Bullrich, Argentina’s security minister, is on a mission to stamp out drug gangs in the South American nation that have driven rising violence and led to a spike in cocaine shipments to Europe.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the United States from February 12 to 13 and hold talks with President Donald Trump, Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said today.

Signs continue to grow that USAID-funded programmes in Guyana have been put on hold and may not resume as notices have been sent to recipients to halt all spending until further notice from Washington.

-says welcomes full investigation With pressure building on the administration over a real estate scandal swirling around the former CH&PA Head, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that AFC Leader Nigel Hughes had acquired 75 acres of state land under the former APNU+AFC government.

CWI Regional 4-Day Championship – Guyana Harpy Eagles trail by 209 runs By Michelangelo Jacobus On a rain-hit second day at the National Stadium, Providence, the defending champions, Guyana Harpy Eagles, found themselves in an unfamiliar position, on the back foot, against a determined Combined Campuses & Colleges (CCC) unit in their CWI Regional 4-Day Championship clash.

The Ministry of Health will begin the vaccination of health care workers and  the elderly population with the seasonal influenza vaccine, according to Health Minister Dr.

A proposal for a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in the management of the Canawaima Ferry Service was formally presented at this week’s International Business Conference (IBC) Suriname 2025 for the consideration of the Governments of Guyana and Suriname.

Mashramani Street Football Championship North East La Penitence, Stabroek Ballers, Bent Street, and Back Circle B clinched respective wins when the Mashramani Cup Street-ball Championship continued on Wednesday evening at the Mocha Community Centre hard-court.

Twenty-one-year-old Curtis Cort Jnr, of Lot 1429 Glasgow Housing Scheme, East Bank Berbice, appeared yesterday before Magistrate Ravindra Mohabir at the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court, where he was charged with causing the death of Avenash Charam by dangerous driving.

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo says he has intervened in the ongoing controversy surrounding construction works at the Golden Grove Burial Ground which have led to the destruction of tombs.

The World Bank has announced the elevation of Guyana’s status to a ‘high-income’ country, a milestone in the country’s long and testing journey through the cavernous corridors of poverty and the attendant unpalatable sobriquets – ‘Banana Republic’ being one of those – a development which could set the country on the path to a significantly upgraded global image.

Port Mourant dismantled Black Bush in the divisional final of the Berbice Cricket Board-sanctioned Republic Bank League Inter-Secondary Championship.

Dear Editor, We are on the eve of the 80th Anniversary since the end of the second world war, which resulted in the defeat of Hitlerite Fascism.

With the Caribbean still seemingly unmoving in its timeline of 2025 for reducing food imports into the region “changing patterns of climate variability and extreme weather events” that are   “negatively affecting all dimensions of food security and exacerbating other underlying causes of malnutrition in all its forms in Latin America and the Caribbean” would now appear to be seriously threatening that timeline. 

Thirty-year-old Shemika Herman, a GDF rank, of Fort Wellington, West Coast Berbice, recently appeared before Magistrate Ravindra Mohabir at the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

With Guyana’s development profile reflecting the need to place greater emphasis on a skills development regimen that places more emphasis on targeting the critical needs of the country the privately-owned Pro Care Therapy and Wellness Centre ‘processed’ its first cohort of graduates, presenting them with Caribbean Vocational Qualification (CVQ) certificates that will now allow them to apply their skills in Therapeutic Massage Therapy in support of the country’s mainstream Health and Wellness sector.

Dear Editor, I support the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) criticism of National Insurance Scheme (NIS) re the service given to seniors and NIS contributors.

-help being sought for differently-abled daughters By Khamisi Slowe The family of 64-year-old Vakeanand Sukdeo, who was killed in a road accident on Wednesday morning, is seeking assistance to care for his two differently-abled daughters, who he solely supported.

By Georgetown Chamber of Commerce on February 6, 2025 In keeping with the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (GCCI objective of ensuring that local companies benefit from the oil and gas sector through information sharing and capacity building, a MODEC Vendor Forum was hosted on February 5 through a collaborative effort between the Chamber’s Petroleum Committee and the company.

Dear Editor, The scandal-ridden Central Housing & Planning Authority (CH&PA) is making the headlines with one explosive allegation after another (CH&PA CEO quits after questions about NY property’, SN, Feb.

Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn told Wednesday’s Committee of Supply meeting  that the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) is actively inspecting all dormitories across the country to ensure they meet fire safety standards.

(Reuters) – The Trump administration’s effort to slash and reshape American foreign aid is crippling the intricate global system that aims to prevent and respond to famine.

Dear Editor, Our nation stands at a crossroads. We have endured decades of racial division in politics, where each election deepens the mistrust between our two largest ethnic groups.

A truck yesterday ran into a house at Lusignan after hitting a utility pole and then smashing into a car.

JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday Israel would hand over Gaza to the United States after fighting was over and the enclave’s population was already resettled elsewhere, which he said meant no U.S.

LCSS Alumni U-15 Cricket Lower Corentyne (LC) and New Amsterdam/Canje recorded comfortable wins when the second round in the LCSS Alumni Inter-Zone U-15 Cricket Championship commenced.

Several key issues including envisaged financial commitments to member countries in the year ahead were ventilated when the Inter-American Development Bank convened its X111 Annual Consultation with Caribbean Governors on February 2-3, in Nassau, Bahamas.

A Police ‘cordon and search’ operation was conducted on Wednesday at the home of Bibi Joe, a 43-year-old unemployed female resident of Sheet Anchor Village, East Canje, Berbice and several persons were arrested after 5.1 kg of marijuana was found.

The Vurlon Mills Football Academy, in partnership with KFC, launched their U-8 and U-10 Challenge Series yesterday at the St.

Dear Editor The Editorial ‘Gas cylinders lacuna’ (SN Feb 4) was quite revealing. 

SALEMPURA, India, (Reuters) – It took Daler Singh six months and $45,000 to reach the United States last month without paperwork.

PANAMA CITY,  (Reuters) – Panama President Jose Raul Mulino said yesterday the U.S.

The Gleaner – February 5, 2025 A start-up in Mexico is trying to help get a handle on one Gulf Coast city’s plastic waste problem by converting it into gasolene, diesel and other fuels.

With Trinidad and Tobago’s once vaunted oil and gas sector that has set the country’s economy on a decidedly higher plain than those of its CARICOM counterparts now on the decline, a recent report deriving from an economic pulse survey conducted by the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) in partnership with accounting firm EY has indicated that a majority of respondents “are not confident about the economy in 2025,” according to a report in the Trinidad Guardian of Monday February 3.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Federal Election Commission Commissioner and Chair Ellen Weintraub said yesterday she received a letter from President Donald Trump that purports to fire her but added that the action was illegal.

BCQS Masters Squash Alex Arjoon, Jason Ray-Khalil, and Lydia Fraser clinched divisional victories when the BCQS Masters Squash Championship resumed last evening at the Georgetown Club facility, Camp Street.

Dear Editor, My friend and Councillor of the Georgetown City Council, Mr.

Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn revealed on Wednesday  that 10,659 voluntary members of Community Policing Groups have been trained across the country to enhance law enforcement functions within their local areas and they also help with border security.

NAIROBI/SANTO DOMINGO, (Reuters) – More than 100 Kenyan police arrived in Haiti’s capital yesterday to reinforce a security mission whose future has been in limbo, after the U.S.

The recent exchange between the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) and the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has prompted a response to the spat by a private sector employer whose business enterprise interacts with the NIS on behalf of its employers for “going public” in circumstances where “whatever the problem might have been” it ought to have been possible to have the matter not become the subject of a public exchange which, in her view, “ought to have been settled amicably.”

(Reuters) – A federal judge in Seattle yesterday accused Donald Trump of ignoring the rule of law for political and personal gain as he declared an executive order that the Republican president signed seeking to curtail birthright citizenship to be unconstitutional.

Dear Editor, Whenever I bring a non-Guyanese visitor to Guyana, they almost invariably comment on the airport personnel – specifically, that nearly all immigration officers and other staff at the airport appear to belong to a single ethnic group.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness yesterday morning directed Jamaica Customs to ensure the full rollout of scanners at the island’s ports to detect contraband, primarily illegal weapons, entering the country.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) and the Guyana Local Government Officers Union (GLGOU), yesterday signed a Memorandum of Agreement on wage and salary increases, along with additional benefits, for M&CC employees in 2024 and 2025, according to a release from the Ministry of Labour.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday February 6, 2025.

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1109’s trading results showed consideration of $13,345,177 from 35,467 shares traded in 37 transactions as compared to session 1108’s trading results which showed consideration of $12,909,323 from 47,435 shares traded in 48 transactions.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A key safety system was turned off on the U.S.

(ESPN Cricinfo) – It was both untidy and emphatic. India made light work of their 249 target, passing it with 68 deliveries to spare in Nagpur.

(ESPN Cricinfo) – Australia’s trio of specialist bowlers toiled manfully during a see-saw day one against a fighting Sri Lanka on a dry Galle surface that did not live up to the hype but occasionally spun sharply and is expected to deteriorate significantly.

Dear Editor, Portugal recently spent €90 Million on a solar project that produces 126 MW of electricity.

By Peter Singer MELBOURNE – Donald Trump has wasted no time clarifying what “America First” – the dominant idea driving his election campaign – means in practice.

ANSA McAL Distribution Inc. (AMDI) is once again sponsoring the Parkside Steel Orchestra for this year’s Panorama competition scheduled for February 19 at Kingston Beach.

(Trinidad Guardian) Cement prices are set to increase by seven per cent from February 17, which is almost a year to the day since it was last increased.

Recently, readers were informed through a Stabroek News editorial (1/23/2025) about the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport’s plan to host, for the second time, a Jamaican artform, dancehall, competition as part of Guyana’s 2025 Mashramani celebration.