Daily Archive: Friday, November 1, 2019

Republic Financial Holdings Limited (RFHL) today announced that it completed the acquisition of seven Scotiabank operations in the Caribbean yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The St Ann police are searching for a woman who allegedly dumped her newborn in an outdoor toilet in Esson Castle district, near Alexandria, St Ann, and disappeared.

(Trinidad Express) Police are searching the home of businessman Patrick Aboud Jr.

(Jamaica Observer) Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Daryl Vaz is confirming receipt of correspondence from the United States Embassy in Kingston, which stated that his US visa has been revoked.

(Trinidad Express) A fatal crash on the Beetham Highway, Port of Spain has caused traffic mayhem for commuters entering the Capital, but the Ministry of Works and Transport is not opening the Priority Bus Route to citizens.

A deal being hammered out between governing coalition partners APNU and the AFC to save the Cummingsburg Accord would see the AFC prime minister not becoming President were that position to become vacant.

Salt water from the recent spring tides has entered the rice lands in the Mahaicony Backlands and farmers are unsure of future cultivation since the land has become salted and will not be able to sustain growth.

Australian miner Troy Resources is reporting third quarter gold output of 10,042 ounces and says it won’t restart operations at its Region Seven mine until it is satisfied it can do so with certainty.

As more locals tap into benefits from the emerging oil and gas sector, John Fernandes Limited has partnered with industrial services firm, the Baker Hughes Company (BHC) to provide onshore support services here.

“This year, it is here for us, to be honest, but we have to go out and show it with good plans and execution.

Nearly 40 years after the death of Walter Rodney, his widow Pat Rodney, is again calling on government to make public the report from the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) done on his June 13, 1980 death and to provide the public with a truthful account of his demise.

Defending champions Essequibo fell to a 25-run loss at the hands of Lower Corentyne during the second round of the Guyana Cricket Board’s Female 17-and-under T20 franchise league.

The press freedom attack by the government on Stabroek News via the Department of Public Information (DPI) will enter its fourth month today with the newspaper not having received a single advertisement from the agency in October.

Ricky Rubio hit two of Phoenix’s five 3-pointers in a 21-0, first-quarter run Wednesday as the Suns ran away from Golden State 121-110 in San Francisco on a night when the Warriors lost Stephen Curry to a broken left hand.

Former Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) accountant Peter Ramcharran, who is on trial for allegedly falsifying the entity’s account, is expected to lead his defence later this month.

The image of success and ‘plenty’ that so often characterizes Guyana’s agricultural sector conceals the hard work, sacrifice and frequently the frustration which, more often than we imagine, impacts their lives and livelihoods.

As the South/Central Essequibo T20 competition continued earlier this week, Parmesh Parsotam stroked an unbeaten half century to see Central Essequibo champions Bacchus Bulls defeat Aurora Knight Riders by six wickets.

Kevin Stephens, the former MMC Security Force guard who admitted to killing a colleague during an argument in 2016, was on Tuesday sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Number 5 Village emerged as the winner of the opening leg in the Youth Go & GT Beer ‘Beat them Bad’ Inter-Village Football Championship on Sunday, at the Paradise community ground.

A twenty-eight-year-old man of Unity, Mahaica was yesterday charged with the murder of his cousin, Arvin ‘Krishna’ Dipchand of Dochfour, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

With high quality standards having increasingly become an essential prerequisite for keeping up with – and increasingly, fending off both local and international jousting for limited markets – the local manufacturing sector appears be cultivating an increasing awareness of the necessity to raise their game.

Plaisance Guardians, Kwakwani Ballers and Victory Valley Royals secured their respective semifinal berths, when the Brusches U-18 Basketball Classic continued on Saturday and Sunday at the Mackenzie Hardcourt, Linden. 

Dear Editor, Former President Jagdeo is right in `Jagdeo calls on GECOM Chair to explain ‘patently illegal’ decision on uncollected ID cards’ (SN Oct 31).

Former Attorney General Anil Nandlall is challenging the validity of the Region Five Rice Assessment Committee and its authority to determine any claim before it, owing in part to the non-appointment of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), which is required to advise on its Chairman.

Success has a tendency of imposing its own pressures and so it seems with the Guyana Marketing Corporation’s Farmers Market, which from all indications, has become popular with both shoppers and vendors. 

Bent Street brushed aside Tiger Bay 7-1 to earn their semifinal berth in the GT Beer ‘Keep Ya Five Alive’ Futsal Championship on Wednesday at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

Dear Editor, Society has a responsibility to seriously review the statements made by Mr.

With major automakers announcing new electric car models at a regular pace, there has been growing interest in recent years about the impact of electric vehicles on the overall car market, as well as global oil demand, carbon emissions, and air pollution.

The Corentyne woman who was  reported missing this week was yesterday found at Blairmont Village, West Coast Berbice.

Scotiabank Ltd has been named by an organization known as The Great Place to Work Institute among the top 25 list in the 2019 World’s Best Work­places by the Great Place to Work Institute, the Trinidad Guardian reported yesterday.

Dear Editor, I appreciate that Dr Henry Jeffrey found the time to respond to my letter published in both the Guyana Chronicle and Stabroek News (25/10/2019).

(Field Level Media) Minnesota Timberwolves forward/center Karl-Anthony Towns and Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid, who were ejected during a Wednesday night game, were each suspended two games by the NBA yesterday.

Keisha Burke, the 20-year-old woman who dealt a policewoman several punches to the face, was yesterday ordered to serve a 14-day prison sentence for the crime after she opted to accept responsibility at the commencement of her trial.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A deeply divided U.S. House of Representatives took a major step yesterday in the effort to impeach President Donald Trump when lawmakers approved rules for the next, more public, stage in the Democratic-led inquiry into Trump’s attempt to have Ukraine investigate a domestic political rival.

Dear Editor, Why has Stabroek News chosen to ignore QC? Queen’s College is currently celebrating its 175th anniversary.

LUCKNOW, India, CMC – Newly-appointed West Indies head coach Phil Simmons has warned his charges of the threat posed by his former side Afghanistan, and says execution and consistency will be crucial to success in the upcoming series.

A 44-year-old man, who police say had four grammes of cocaine in his possession, was yesterday sentenced to one year in jail after being found guilty of the crime.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong police fired tear gas to break up masked anti-government protesters mingling with Halloween revellers in fancy dress near the upmarket club district of Lan Kwai Fong yesterday after a standoff lasting hours.

Yesterday, the Department of Tourism, the Ministry of Business, the Guyana Tourism Authority and the Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana launch-ed Guyana’s first ever Agro-Tourism Expo which will be staged up to November 2, 2019.

*Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana MArketing Corporation or Ministry of Agriculture.

Dear Editor,  I was sad to learn of the death of Vibert Yong-Kong earlier this week.

TOKYO (Reuters) – England will rightly be favourites to win tomorrow’s World Cup final after dethroning the All Blacks last weekend but they are likely to have to pull another big performance out of the bag to prevent South Africa from securing a third crown.

Attorney Anil Nandlall has moved for an early and expedited hearing of his appeal of the Chief Justice’s decision to dismiss his application to compel Cabinet’s resignation.

(Trinidad Guardian) Cov­er up! That is one of the ma­jor find­ings of the re­port of a com­mit­tee set up by Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to in­ves­ti­gate the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the dis­missal and pay­ment of $150,000 to a for­mer em­ploy­ee of the Min­istry of Sport and Youth Af­fairs, af­ter she al­leged that she was sex­u­al­ly ha­rassed by the for­mer min­is­ter Dar­ryl Smith.

NEW YORK/KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has struck a deal to recoup $1 billion in funds allegedly looted from a Malaysian state investment fund by fugitive financier Jho Low, in a record capture for a U.S.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – David Warner capped a brilliant return to form on home soil with a third successive half-century to fire Australia to a seven-wicket victory and a 3-0 series sweep of Sri Lanka in Melbourne yesterday.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Director of cricket, Jimmy Adams, believes the West Indies Emerging Players squad’s inclusion in the Regional Super50 is a crucial development initiative.

(Trinidad Guardian) An off-duty police officer disrupted the plans of a group of bandits in Santa Cruz yesterday after he shot one man and forced the group to abandon their criminal mission.

Dear Editor, It must be the summit of dishonesty and hypocrisy for Jagdeo who never made public the contracts he signed to tell the media that “it should be a crime to keep contracts secret”.

DAKAR,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Speaking calmly through tears, in a hearing streamed live on YouTube, former beauty queen Fatou Jallow told how Gambia’s ex-president Yahya Jammeh locked her in a room and raped her.

The Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL) last night said that it is currently experiencing a shortfall in generation as a result of an inadequate supply of Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) resulting from delays in deliveries by its contracted HFO supplier.

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport Corporation (CJIAC) on Wednesday staged a Full Scale Emergency Exercise during the evening.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – As executives gather in Rio de Janeiro ahead of a blockbuster offshore oil auction, a mysterious crude spill is raising questions about whether Brazil’s oil industry is growing faster than the government’s ability to police it.

The news that the ExxonMobil will commence commercial oil production in December would have come as a surprise to many Guyanese given that, for some time now, ‘the first quarter of 2020’ had been the widely publicized timeline for the development. 

At a Press Association dinner last Saturday Foreign Secretary Carl Greenidge expressed his concern about the fact that the narrative of the controversy pertaining to Guyana’s border with Venezuela was being relayed to the world in a way which was “distorted and untrue.”

DUBAI (Reuters) – Scotland and Oman registered contrasting victories in the qualifiers to claim the last two berths and complete the lineup for next year’s Twenty20 World Cup in Australia.

-an innocent beautiful bank robber? Slightly personally upset that I didn’t avoid the local politics today.

(Barbados Nation) The disciplinary committee of the Barbados Bar Association has made a recommendation for another attorney to be disbarred.

Three women: a 42-year-old businesswoman, a 23-year-old housewife and a 37-year-old mother.

Dear Editor, The calls keep coming.  The chair should speak.  I agree, as they have some merit. 

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 849’s trading results showed consideration of $1,027,995 from 5,652 shares traded in 8 transactions as compared to session 847’s trading results which showed consideration of $2,305,330 from 15,295 shares traded in 12 transactions.