Daily Archive: Friday, December 27, 2019

LONDON, , CMC – Legendary former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd, along with former Windies batting star Gordon Greenidge, have been awarded Knighthoods in the Queen’s New Year Honours list.

President David Granger has issued the Proclamations for the dissolution of Parliament and the ten Regional Democratic Councils on December 30, 2019.

The bodies of a Corentyne hotel owner and his worker were found bound at his hotel located at Number 63 Village, Corentyne, this afternoon.

(Jamaica Star) In the early hours of Christmas Eve, a Best Dressed Chicken truck carrying hundreds of chickens ready to be prepared for holiday dinners was stolen.

WINDHOEK,  (Reuters) – Two former ministers and four others accused of taking bribes to offer fishing rights in Namibia’s biggest corruption scandal will see in the New Year from custody after a court dismissed their urgent release application today.

(Trinidad Newsday) UNC PRO Anita Haynes on Tuesday told Newsday the alleged photos of a UNC politician were now a dead issue.

(Jamaica Observer) Althea Needham, a Jamaican living in the United States (US), recently brought cheer to more than 200 children and adults in Kitson Town, St Catherine.

(Jamaica Gleaner) With road deaths totalling 426 since January 1 this year, the country has inched perilously closer to 1993’s historic figure of 434, with four days remaining in 2019.

(ESPN) West Indies cricket achieved redemption this decade after staring down the barrel in the first ten years of the 21st century.

(Field Level Media) Julius Randle scored 33 points as the New York Knicks pulled away in the second half and recorded a 94-82 victory over the host Brooklyn Nets last night.

(Field Level Media) Christian Wood scored 22 points off the bench, Tim Frazier had 17 points and six assists, and the host Detroit Pistons snapped a five-game losing streak by blasting the Washington Wizards 132-102 yesterday.

(Field Level Media) Frontcourt mates Jaren Jackson Jr. and Jonas Valanciunas combined for 41 points, the Memphis bench added 46 and a strong second half powered the visiting Grizzlies to a 110-97 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder yesterday.

(Field Level Media) Luka Doncic scored 24 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and distributed eight assists in his return to the lineup after missing four games to help the Dallas Mavericks hold off the visiting San Antonio Spurs 102-98 yesterday.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – New Zealand paceman Neil Wagner denied Steve Smith his first century of the home summer but Australia’s batsmen dug in to push to 336 for five at lunch on day two of the Boxing Day test last night.

(Barbados Nation) Nicholas Pooran has hailed the impact of Kieron Pollard on his development, describing the new West Indies white ball captain as a big brother and father figure.

 (Reuters) – Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers described Liverpool right back Trent Alexander-Arnold’s range of passing as “phenomenal” and said the 21-year-old’s attacking instincts were as good as that of a midfielder.

PRETORIA,  (Reuters) – Quinton de Kock fell five runs short of his century after dragging South Africa out of early trouble to 277 for nine at the close on the opening day of the first test against England at Centurion Park yesterday.

(Reuters) – Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will run in both the 100 metres and 200 metres events at the Tokyo Olympics next year.

At least five fishermen’s shacks located along the shores of the Ogle, East Coast Demerara seawall have been destroyed following a fire which occurred on Christmas Day.

A labourer was on Thursday morning stabbed to death not far from his home.

(Barbados Nation) One of the Barbados Pride cricket selectors expects the team to do very well in the upcoming Professional Cricket League regional four-day competition.

A resident of East Bank Essequibo is now dead after he lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a lamp post and fence early yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Express) The West Indies cricket team may have lost the T20I and ODI series against India but Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board president Azim Bassarath is seeing a lot of positives in their fighting performances on the subcontinent.

A man was on Tuesday robbed of millions of dollars when his car was stolen subsequent to conducting a transaction at a city bank.

For a few days beginning on Friday December 20th when ExxonMobil announced its first ‘lift’ from its Liza 1 well in the Stabroek Oil Block to Monday December 23 when the news broke that a fifteenth oil discovery had been made at the Mako-1 Well southeast of the Liza field in the same Stabroek Block, Guyana grabbed the international headlines in a manner that it had never done previously.

Paradise and Friendship secured semi-final berths in the 592 Beer Inter-Village Football Festival on Christmas Day, defeating Buxton and Mahaica via penalty kicks at the Buxton Community Centre ground.

A vendor of Port Mourant, Corentyne, lost his life after a fight during a game of chic-chic at Rose Hall Town Public Road on Christmas Eve around 10.15 pm.

The Western Tigers and Guyana Police Force [GPF] quarterfinal encounter in the Guyana Football Federation [GFF] Year-end Championship was interrupted due to a power failure on Christmas Day at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary.

Even as the global oil industry’s attention was fixed on developments like the continually unfolding reality of Guyana’s huge and potentially game-changing oil discoveries, the international community was considering the recent United Nations Climate Change engagements as significant disappointments if not failures in terms of delivery of any real progress in its climate change pursuits.   

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government did not anticipate the protests against a new citizenship law that have raged across the country and is now scrambling to control the damage, members of his ruling party said.

CHATTOGRAM, Bangladesh, CMC – Johnson Charles continued to press for a West Indies recall with another half-century in the Bangladesh Premier League as his Sylhet Thunder went down by eight wickets to Dhaka Platoon.

A driver of Rose Hall Town, Corentyne, was fatally stabbed with a broken bottle following a club fight during the wee hours of Christmas morning.

If the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) can claim to have attracted a fair measure of public attention and patronage at last Saturday’s final Farmers Market for 2019, it must surely be aware that it will have to set the bar somewhat higher next year if it is going to be able to lay legitimate claim to helping to create an expanded market for the increasing volumes of local agro produce, condiments and cosmetics being produced in Guyana.

ANKARA/TRIPOLI,  (Reuters) – Turkey will send troops to Libya at the request of Tripoli as soon as next month, President Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday, putting the North African country’s conflict at the centre of wider regional frictions.

LONDON,  CMC – Midfielder Keanu Marsh-Brown, who represented Guyana in this summer’s CONCACAF Gold Cup, has had his contract with Welsh club Newport County terminated by mutual consent.

Executive Member of  the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) Dr. David Hinds says continued probing by the political party has revealed that the decision to change the name of the national archives from the Walter Rodney Archives to the National Archives was made by the administration of the entity, as opposed to government.

In what is one of the earliest concrete recommendations from the manufacturing sector  regarding how the  Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) garnered from the country’s oil and gas earnings can be used to strengthen the other sectors of the country, the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) says that it would wish to see resources from the Fund target the aggressive pursuit of the establishment of a value-added manufacturing sector, underpinned by deployment of a “cluster approach” by local small and medium-sized enterprises (SME’s).

Dear Editor, 2019 has been an unforgettable political year for Guyana, if only for the indelible and extreme breaches of our Constitution and Court Rulings following the No Confidence Vote and the grand finale confession coming three years after the signing of a Production Sharing Agreement (PSA), when the APNU+AFC administration represented by Minister Raphael Trotman, casually stated that “I would be the first to admit that we should have done far better than we have done.”

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Archeologists have discovered a large palace likely used by the Mayan elite more than 1,000 years ago in the ancient city of Kuluba, near the modern day tourist hot spot of Cancun in eastern Mexico, Mexican anthropology officials said.

The son of a US-based Guyanese couple died early Christmas morning after the car he was a passenger of crashed into a utility pole along the Central Avenue of Schenectady, New York.

Dear Editor, I must be optimistic; I have to be, or there is nothing. 

(Reuters) – India’s veteran tennis player Leander Paes announced on Wednesday that 2020 would be his “farewell year” as a professional before he hangs up his racket.

Just how precarious the global food availability situation continues to grow is reflected in the contents of the latest Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of commonly-traded food commodities whilst assessing the status of food availability in countries around the world.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Bangladesh are ready to play Twenty20 Internationals in Pakistan next month but the test series must take place in a neutral venue, the chief executive of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), Nizamuddin Chowdhury, said.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Peru´s labour watchdog has found McDonald’s Corp´s Latin America franchisee Arcos Dorados guilty of six “very serious” violations of local safety and health laws following the deaths of two employees in a restaurant kitchen.

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News editorial on Wednesday entitled `Dependable Butcher’ is a fitting tribute to a fallen legend and a simple and humble person, Basil Fitzgerald Butcher.

The body of a 16-year-old Brazilian boy was discovered on the Guyana bank of the Takutu River, some six days after he went missing.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday December 26, 2019          Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

A little over a year ago Mr Juan Guaidó declared himself president of Venezuela on the grounds that the 2018 election had been rigged by President Nicolás Maduro.

MANCHESTER,  (Reuters) – Anthony Martial scored twice as Manchester United hit back in emphatic fashion from a rocky start against Newcastle United to open their Christmas programme with a 4-1 victory at Old Trafford yesterday.

“Seasons greeting! All-all-all the best! Happy successful holidays! A victorious New Year 2020!

Nadia’s Craft Shop displaying bottles creatively transformed into attractive orniments

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – A Chilean environmental court has upheld a complaint by indigenous communities in the country´s northern Atacama Desert about the use of water by SQM, the world´s No.

(Trinidad Guardian) Moruga farmer Damien Mollineau planned to pamper his wife on Boxing Day yesterday by cooking for her while she rested.

The beginning of another decade is upon us. With it always comes the hope of new beginnings and a chance to change course from things that are working against us.

(Jamaica Observer) The new 194 megawatt (MW) natural gas power plant in Old Harbour, St Catherine is now operational, Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) announced Monday night.

While we cannot but concede that oil and gas has, understandably, cornered the lion’s share of business reporting in 2019, the Stabroek Business’ focus on the small business sector over the past year has been a function its own deliberate and largely successful efforts to raise its national profile, considerable impediments and challenges notwithstanding.

Floodwaters, which were the result of incomplete work to an Endeavour, Leguan Koker  have significantly receded since a stop-log door was installed during the late hours of Christmas Eve, Regional Engineer Seenarine Nandram said.

Dear Editor, During the year we continued to address the attitude of the foreign-owned Demerara Timbers Limited (DTL) which is refusing to engage our Union in the process of Collective Bargaining.