Articles published on Friday, December 20, 2019
ExxonMobil today announced that oil production has started from the Liza field offshore Guyana ahead of schedule and less than five years after the first find of hydrocarbons, which is well ahead of the industry average for deepwater developments.
Two brothers serving in the Guyana Police Force (GPF) were granted their release this morning after they were jointly charged with abducting and wounding 17-year-old Ak shay Budhiram, who was allegedly beaten and burnt at the brothers’ La Parfaite Harmonie home.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Sarah Kleven’s “jaw hit the ground” when she received an email on Wednesday informing her that she was among 50 teachers shortlisted internationally for the ‘world’s most dedicated teacher’ award.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Hanover-based pastor who was arrested and charged last week following allegations that he sexually molested several children in the parish will spend Christmas behind bars as he was remanded when he appeared in the Hanover Parish Court yesterday.
PARIS, (Reuters) – French telecoms group Orange and its former CEO Didier Lombard were guilty of “moral harassment” that prompted a spate of suicides during a restructuring at the company in the late 2000s, a Paris court ruled today.
(Trinidad Guardian) Relatives of bank employee, Roma La Mothe, 28, who was found dead in a drain along Demerara Road in Arima, are disputing rumours that a close relative had anything to do with her demise.
(Trinidad Guardian) One Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) employee, who moonlighted as a security officer with MI4 Security Services, was shot dead early this morning at Pennysavers Supermarket, Carnbee, Tobago.
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday warned that if his party returns to government it will exclude the company which concludes an agreement with the current administration to buy Guyana’s first oil from “any and all open tenders”.
Angela Jacobs, a Bygeval Secondary School student who is one of the survivors of the fatal Fairfield, Mahaicony accident that resulted in five deaths, says the driver of the minibus she was in had been speeding but no one said anything to him.
The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) and the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China yesterday concluded a Memorandum of Understanding between the two sides to commence a partnership which places the development of table tennis at the fore.
The two policemen who were placed under close arrest for allegedly torturing seventeen-year-old Akshay Budhairam remain in police custody, according to Commander of Region Three Assistant Commissioner Simon McBean, who said that no other suspect is being sought.
Twenty-five-year-old West Indies all-rounder Romario Shepherd capped off a dream year after he was named the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) male cricketer of the year (2019) while his fellow Berbician Shemaine Campbelle secured the female equivalent.
President David Granger on Wednesday assured military veterans of his commitment to ensuring that they live comfortable lives and that their future generations will benefit from petroleum revenues which should not go to the pockets of the rich.
-Amelia’s Ward Panthers also advances Amelia’s Ward Panthers and Coomacka sealed their respective berths to the elimination round when the Upper Demerara Football Association [UDFA] Year-end Championship continued on Wednesday at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC), Linden.
Following an investigation by the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC), local Christian Disc Jockey (DJ) Kester Deane has apologized for suggesting that Hinduism was in some way responsible for the recent social issues plaguing the country.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Australia’s Pat Cummins became the most expensive overseas buy ever in the Indian Premier League when the Kolkata Knight Riders paid a staggering 155 million rupees ($2.18 million) for the fast bowler in yesterday’s auction in Kolkata.
(Reuters) – Ash Barty and Rafa Nadal were named International Tennis Federation’s (ITF) World Champions for 2019 yesterday, rewarding them for stellar seasons in which they finished at the top of women’s and men’s rankings respectively.
American Airlines (AA) yesterday started daily flights between the JFK International Airport in New York and the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.
CHATTOGRAM, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies opener Lendl Simmons extended his run-scoring form with a half-century as he helped power Chattogram Challengers to a 16-run victory over Dhaka Platoon in the Bangladesh Premier League here Wednesday.
Saying that Houston Estates owes almost $450 million in taxes to the city, Georgetown Mayor Ubraj Narine yesterday said the company has been using one compliant account to process the sale of lands which fall under other accounts that are in arrears.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Bangladesh are “slightly reluctant” to play a test series in Pakistan and have offered only to tour the country for three Twenty20 internationals next month, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has said.
Strategic Recruitment Solutions Inc. (SRS), a local human resources and talent recruitment firm, is continuing to ensure that Guyanese find work in the burgeoning oil and gas and related sectors and it has trained and enabled 94 persons to find work in those fields to date.
Government on Wednesday evening was served by the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) with an unmistakable reminder that the long-standing woes of the sector repose, overwhelmingly, in the protracted failure of successive political administrations to provide an electricity supply which, in terms of both quality and consistency meets the needs of a manufacturing sector striving for growth.
Tomorrow, Saturday December 21, will mark the final opportunity for 2019 that consumers will be afforded to experience direct face-to-face marketplace engagement with farmers and agro-processors through the vehicle of the Guyana Marketing Corporation’s now familiar D’Urban Park Farmers’ Market.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India seamer Deepak Chahar has been ruled out of the decisive third one-day international (ODI) against the West Indies due to an injury, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) said yesterday.
Minutes after presenting a court with photocopies of his qualifications yesterday, Leslie Veerasammy, Managing Partner of Nizam Ali & Company, was told by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan that he would be allowed to testify as a defence witness but would not be deemed an expert.
It may not yet be rated amongst the world’s ‘blue ribbon’ vodkas, but the Mutiny Island Vodka has created a sufficiently robust regional stir to possibly increased demand for breadfruit, widely believed to be an untapped superfood.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Democrats yesterday pressed the Republican-controlled Senate to call Donald Trump’s top lieutenants to testify in its trial of the impeached president, as they sought to focus attention on the trial ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
(Trinidad Guardian) Terry Fenwick has been chosen as the new coach of Trinidad and Tobago’s senior men’s football team.
Imran Ramsaywack, the 25-year-old Berbice labourer who was on trial for the murder of a United States-based Buxton woman in 2015 was on Wednesday sentenced to death for the crime.
Sergeant Gladwin Hanover of Region Two was on Wednesday named the Guyana Police Force Best Cop for the year at the Force’s annual awards ceremony, held at Eve Leary.
(Reuters) – The magazine founded by the late Reverend Billy Graham that is influential with conservative evangelical Christians in the United States called yesterday for President Donald Trump to be removed from office.
The ill-fated November 27th incident which saw a Toronto-bound Fly Jamaica Boeing 757 aircraft skid off the runway at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri as the pilots attempted an emergency landing marked the start of a controversy-strewn interlude to which, more than two years later, there would seem to be no end.
(Field Level Media) Donovan Mitchell scored 30 points, including a reverse layup that put Utah ahead down the stretch, and helped the visiting Jazz to a 111-106 win over the Atlanta Hawks yesterday.
Dear Editor, There was a carefully constructed letter titled ‘Sugar industry contributed US$1.6B in levy over 29 years and deserves support’ (SN December 18).
ABUJA, (Reuters) – Nigeria’s former attorney general was detained by the country’s financial crimes agency upon his return home yesterday, the commission said in a statement, as part of an investigation into one of the oil industry’s biggest suspected corruption scandals.
Amid continuing horrific accidents, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) yesterday urged all road users to “stringently uphold traffic laws and regulations, and exercise good judgement when using the roadways by observing the five C’s – care, caution, consideration, common sense and courtesy.
LAHORE, (Reuters) – Fast Bowler Lahiru Kumara and spinner Lasith Embuldeniya picked up four wickets each to help Sri Lanka bundle out hosts Pakistan for 191 in the first innings on the opening day of the second and final test in Karachi yesterday.
If your plans for tomorrow include putting in an appearance at the Farmers’ Market, (the final one for 2019) that will be staged at D’Urban Park, beginning at 06:00 hrs, you would do well to seek out a quiet, even shy agro- processor, Rebecca Abdool, marketing her products under the trading name Becky’s Blessings.
Dear Editor, I was saving this to write a comprehensive treatise on road safety, but the recent minibus road deaths have prompted me to shorten it, to deal for now with the deadly duo, speed and minibuses.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Seven Democratic U.S. presidential contenders squared off on the debate stage in Los Angeles yesterday, offering viewers their different takes on issues including taxes and trade.
The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) has signalled its long-term commitment to partnering with the Guyana Tourism and Hospitality Association in supporting the maintenance of Guyana’s latest tourist attraction – the `I love Guyana’, 3-dimensional sign, which was officially launched on Wednesday.
(Reuters) – ‘El Clasico’ may have finished goalless, but Real Madrid were left emboldened by their superb performance at Barcelona and will hope to build on the momentum when they host Athletic Bilbao on Sunday in their final La Liga game of 2019.
(Trinidad Express) The four people who died in the crash of the Solomon Hochoy Highway near Gasparillo this morning, have been identified.
A number of both state-owned and private sector firms are increasingly coming under the gun for what is felt to be their unrelenting exploitation of the world’s oil, gas and coal reserves, which are believed to be directly linked to more than a third of all contemporary greenhouse gas emissions.
Dear Editor, Basil Butcher, in my youth, was a very popular sports figure, and cricket was truly “cricket, lovely cricket”; I remember his performances at Lords and other cricket stadiums all over the world and we youths were affixed to our little radios, listening as the West Indian team under Garfield Sobers dished out victory after victory.
(Reuters) – World soccer body FIFA banned the former president of Panamanian football Ariel Alvarado for life yesterday and fined him 500,000 Swiss francs ($510,300) after finding him guilty of bribery.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate, rushing to meet a looming deadline, approved and sent to President Donald Trump a $1.4 trillion package of fiscal 2020 spending bills that would end prospects of government shutdowns at week’s end when temporary funding expires.
(Trinidad Express) Weeks after he was shot during a robbery in Arima, Corporal Frank Fox has died.
An 18-year-old who allegedly snatched a woman’s purse on Water Street was remanded to prison on Wednesday after he was read a robbery charge.
The new Guyana Marketing Corporation has agreed to provide us with the above information which we will publish on a weekly basis subject to receipt.
…and some fake, false and sham Okay, whether in living–room, kitchen, office, factory, crowded congested store or street, you won’t want to read anything that’s too long or prolix at this time.
Dear Editor, In the Kaieteur News edition of June 30, 2019, and Stabroek News edition of December 12, 2019, Desmond Alli wrote a letter lamenting that things were getting worse for senior artists.
PRETORIA, (Reuters) – Fast bowler Kagiso Rabada says the new-look South African squad are learning fast from head coach Mark Boucher and batting consultant Jacques Kallis ahead of the first test against England in Centurion that starts on Boxing Day.
CONAKRY, (Reuters) – Guinea President Alpha Conde said yesterday that he would seek a public referendum on a new constitution, a move his opponents fear he will use as a pretext to hang onto power beyond the end of his constitutional mandate.
A youth was released on bail on Wednesday after he told a city court that he was attacked by the person he was accused of wounding.
(Trinidad Express) A “new State” will be created next week when weed is decriminalised in Trinidad and Tobago.
It was on Wednesday that President David Granger told the senior officers of the Guyana Police Force that “Guyanese desire a Force which they can trust,” It was incumbent on the organisation, he said, to ensure that their roles and responsibilities were clearly understood and that every effort was being made to fulfil them.
There can now be no question that a gale force wind of expectation is sweeping all corners of Guyana arising out of the prospects deriving from our new-found oil and gas expectations, and what is now the imminent arrival of ‘first oil,’ in a matter of days, assuming that the pronouncement of the adjusted timeline announced some weeks ago holds good.
“Service and Protection,” this has been the ironic motto of the Guyana Police Force since its formation.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 856’s trading results showed consideration of $20,227,720 from 197,089 shares traded in 22 transactions as compared to session 855’s trading results which showed consideration of $21,163,368 from 229,196 shares traded in 29 transactions.
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