Daily Archive: Friday, July 23, 2021

Former Police Corporal Derwin Eastman has been committed to stand trial for the murder of businessman Godfrey Scipio, while his co-accused, former police constable Jemeson Williams, has been freed of the charge.

ARRIVAL STATEMENT CARICOM ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION TO THE GENERAL ELECTIONS OF SAINT LUCIA   In a letter dated 7 July 2021, the Honourable Allen M.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – An Indian court today extended the custody of Raj Kundra, a businessman married to popular Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, police said, in a pornography case that has stunned the country’s film industry.

CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti,  (Reuters) – A U.S. delegation and other dignitaries were hurried to vehicles as reports emerged of shots fired and crowd control gas used on protesters outside the funeral of late Haitian president Jovenel Moise today.

Amid criticisms that the garb of Guyana’s representatives at the Tokyo Olympics is overpoweringly red, the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport today said it had nothing to do with the selection.

KAMPALA,  (Reuters) – Uganda has spent over $30.2 million on buying new vehicles for lawmakers, a move that has been slammed by critics who depict it as profligacy in a country struggling to buy vaccines to stem a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Barbados Nation) It’s time to stop playing the vaccination waiting game, warns Minister of Health Jeffrey Bostic.

One week after releasing conflicting statements, the members of the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) yesterday met and deliberated on not one but two motions brought against party leader David Granger.

Daniel Watson who in 2018 held his reputed wife’s head under water, causing her to suffocate, was yesterday sentenced to 18 years behind bars for her killing, after pleading to the charge of manslaughter.

The Rose Hall Sugar Estate yesterday hired 113 persons and the process will continue today with a total of around 200 to be taken on.

Forty-nine-year-old Wazir Potter was yesterday afternoon sentenced to 18 years behind bars for the rape of a 12-year-old boy in 2018.

Neither of the boats involved in the deadly 2013 Mazaruni River crash was licensed at the time of the tragedy which claimed the lives of 10.

With climate change a growing concern, especially following the devastating floods that heavily impacted Region Seven, the Upper Mazaruni District Council (UMDC) has repeated its call for their land rights to be legally recognised.

Aiming to meet its requirement to have 450 cane transporting punts in time for the 2022 opening of the Rose Hall Sugar Estate, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) yesterday signed contracts with two companies for the supply and delivery of assorted materials.

The case file on the investigation into the shooting of a 25-year-old woman by Region Nine Regional Executive Officer Karl Singh has been sent to the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for legal advice.

The two Brazilian men who were remanded after they were busted with close to 1,000 pounds of cocaine when their plane crash-landed at Orealla, have been released on $3 million bail each.

Following the conclusion of a second trial, Stephen Mc Curdy was yesterday found not guilty of the charge of rape.

(CMC) – Australia’s One-Day International series against West Indies was thrown into doubt yesterday after a member of the home side’s support staff tested positive for COVID-19, forcing the suspension of the second ODI at Kensington Oval.

The Charge d’ Affaires of the People’s Republic of China’s Embassy,  Chen Xilai, yesterday donated US$50,000 to the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) to aid Guyana’s flood relief efforts.

While in Linden yesterday to launch the Government of Guyana’s Because We Care cash grant programme at the Christianburg/Wismar Secondary School, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand urged residents to take the COVID-19 vaccine so that schools can safely reopen for face-to-face teaching.

Superintendent Dion Moore, the Commander of Region Seven, has said Guyanese vessels are being attacked by sindicato and guerrilla gangs along the Cuyuni River, resulting in the Joint Services increasing their patrols.

The University of Guyana’s College of Medical Sciences (CMS), on Tuesday  launched its Bachelor of Science in Mental Health Nursing Programme.

Guyana’s successive world class oil finds beginning back in May 2015 have propelled the country to the top of the list of Foreign Direct Investment recipients across the entire Caribbean Community (CARICOM) last year and second behind the Dominican Republic across the Caribbean and Latin America as a whole, according to a recently released assessment of FDI inflows into the region released earlier this month by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

An off-duty policeman and his passenger were on Wednesday arrested after police recovered 231 grammes of marijuana that was thrown from their vehicle at Stanleytown Public Road, West Bank Demerara.

The Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) has released some details of a plan to pilot the creation of a local web portal in support of significantly enhanced sharing of information and the refining of connectivity and communication aimed at linking local product and service providers with potential markets locally, regionally, and internationally.

A contract to the tune of $144.5M for the procurement of a pontoon barge and two long-reach hydraulic excavators was yesterday signed by the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA).

Recently elected Chairman of the Essequibo Chamber of Commerce Aadil Baksh has told the Stabroek Business that numbered among his priorities as head of the Business Support Organization (BSO), is to create an environment in which key state institutions tasked with providing services that have to do with the well-being of the country’s business community are suitably responsive to the needs of the Essequibo business community.

The Guyana Online Academy of Learning (GOAL) has completed the application process and is encouraging applicants to be on the lookout for emails to confirm that they have been awarded a scholarship.

Towards the end of last year, and having collaborated with colleagues in the authorship of a report on agri-food systems in Latin America and the Caribbean, Michael Morris, an expert on agriculture at the World Bank, gave an incisive interview on agricultural systems in the region, examining their strengths and weaknesses and providing a perspective on how those systems can be refined and improved to take account of better fulfilling its obligation to realising food security in the region and secondly, adopting systems that seek to mitigate the effects of climate change.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday imposed sanctions on a Cuban security minister and an interior ministry special forces unit for alleged human rights abuses in a crackdown on anti-government protests earlier this month.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF), the local governing body of association football, and Marcio Maximo, have reached a mutual agreement to terminate the latter’s contract as the head of the Golden Jaguars Senior program.

As the country’s COVID-19 inoculation programme continues, the Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony, has reported that authorities currently only have both first and second doses for the Sinopharm and AstraZeneca vaccines.

If Latin America and the Caribbean may not be ideally positioned to follow developed countries seeking to ensure that their higher education systems return to normalcy at the earliest possible time, some institutions in the region would appear to be moving to ensure that they are not left too far behind.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s political leaders lined up yesterday to stress next year’s presidential election is certain to take place, after a bombshell newspaper report that Brazil’s defense minister had issued a threat about holding the highly polarized vote.

In what will be seen as a break from customary state practice, recently installed Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Wednesday, July 14, used a public speech intended as an official pronouncement on the recent street protests in Havana to look inward at what he said were his government’s shortcomings in handling what, reportedly, are mostly public concerns over food shortages that triggered the demonstrations.

Table tennis star, Chelsea Edghill, and swimmer, Andrew Fowler, will be bestowed the honours of being Guyana’s Flag Bearers during the Olympic Games opening ceremony today in Tokyo, Japan.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that as of July 21, 2021, three more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Dear Editor,  The attempts by some members of the PNC executive to tarnish the character and attempt to  oust former President David Granger from the party is something that cannot go unnoticed, for it is the act of sheer evil rooted in wickedness and deceit. 

Dear Editor, I would like to support the Wales gas to shore project, but whatever the leaders of the PPP government provide as enlightenment only adds more darkness and slyness to what is present. 

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico will send two navy ships loaded with food and medical supplies to Cuba, the foreign ministry said yesterday, after President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador blamed the U.S.

Few if any issues symbolise the failure of the integrationist intent of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) than its failure, over more than three decades, to realise the implementation of its hoped-for Single Market and Economy (CSME), and at the end of yet another meeting of CARICOM Heads… a virtual one, this time around, in the light of the still rampaging coronavirus, the regional movement’s new Chairman, Antigua’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne said that regional Heads have agreed to have yet another tilt at the elusive goal.

Five companies on Tuesday presented proposals for consulting services for a cost recovery audit and validation of Guyana’s Profit Oil share.

Track star, Emanuel Archibald is Guyana’s representative at the Olympic Games blue-ribbon 100m event which determines the fastest man on the planet.

On Wednesday, the national cyclist earned his second back-to-back signature win of the 2021 season, sprinting to victory in the Farmsup/Doosan sponsored 45-mile road race.

A study released by the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) earlier this month points to what it says is “an opportunity for tropical timber producers” arising out the likely doubling of global resource use by 2050.

A man who was being robbed at gunpoint managed to apprehend his robber by chasing after him, the police yesterday said.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – El Salvador has ordered the arrest of former President Salvador Sanchez Ceren and nine top officials from a past administration as part of a money laundering and corruption probe, the Attorney General’s office said on Thursday.

Dear Editor, It has been reported in the News Media that President of the Republic has proclaimed that the National Flag of Guyana be flown at half-staff on Government Buildings on July 23 for the funeral of the late president of Haiti, Jovenel Moise who was assassinated earlier this month.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Seven Democratic senators yesterday said that newly released materials show the FBI failed to fully investigate sexual misconduct allegations against U.S.

Just days after Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) president, Hyginus ‘Gene’ Leon, had expressed skepticism regarding the likelihood of Caribbean countries realising the 2030 time frame for the achievement of the United Nations-designated Social Development Goals (SDG), the government of Trinidad and Tobago has publicly stated its commitment to attaining those goals, the hurdles placed in its way by the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic notwithstanding.

Former Chief Magistrate  and attorney-at-law K.A. Juman-Yassin S.C. says  that there are many factors which a court has to consider in determining whether or not a person is granted their pre-trial liberty.

Dear Editor, I was very saddened to learn about the death of Ms Pat Pierre.

The police are investigating an accident involving a motorcyclist who was injured at Airy Hall Public Road, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara.

LONDON/SINGAPORE/MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – A Chinese logistics firm has emerged as a central player in the supply of sanctioned oil from Iran and Venezuela, even after it was blacklisted by Washington two years ago for handling Iranian crude, seven sources with knowledge of the deals told Reuters.

(Trinidad Express) In the space of 25 days, three members of a Cunupia family died from the Covid-¬19 virus while four others tested positive.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday July 22, 2021

Dear Editor, I have been following with interest the reports from the Scoping Meetings being convened by the Government, through the EPA, and ExxonMobil on the Gas to Shore Project.

(Reuters) – Rugby League World Cup organisers and Britain’s sports minister yesterday said they were “extremely surprised and disappointed” after defending champions Australia and New Zealand withdrew from this year’s tournament in England.

(Reuters) – The Italian Grand Prix at Monza in September will feature Formula One’s second sprint race after the experimental format made its debut at Silverstone last weekend, the sport said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Australia will play five Twenty20 International matches in seven days in a whirlwind tour of Bangladesh next month, the cricket boards of both countries said yesterday.

(Reuters) – India’s build up for its five-test series against England suffered another setback after fast bowler Avesh Khan injured his thumb in a warm-up match in Durham.

(Reuters) – South Africa’s David Miller hit an unbeaten 75 runs to help the tourists out of early trouble before their spinners then restricted Ireland to secure a 42-run victory in the second Twenty20 international at Belfast yesterday.

(Reuters) – Mohammad Naim and Soumya Sarkar scored half centuries as Bangladesh beat Zimbabwe by eight wickets to win the first match of their Twenty20 series at the Harare Sports Club yesterday.

(Reuters) – Andy Murray has overcome career-threatening hip surgery to give himself a shot at completing a hat-trick of Olympic tennis titles, but the Briton will have to hit the ground running in Tokyo after being given a tough first-round draw yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain yesterday sanctioned the son of Equatorial Guinea’s president for misappropriating millions of dollars which London said was spent on luxury mansions, private jets and a $275,000 glove that Michael Jackson wore during the “Bad” tour.

A man succumbed to his injuries last Thursday following an accident at Haslington, East Coast Demerara.

(Reuters) – The iconic splendour of Mount Fuji will provide a majestic backdrop to the Olympic men’s road race tomorrow- but those in the saddle will not be enjoying the view.

Hardly likely I’ll ever live to see… Because I’ve been at this repeatedly over past years, I must be brief, succinct.

(Trinidad Express) A Sangre Grande woman was charged with murder, kidnapping and other offences and expected to appear before an Arima Magistrate.

(Reuters) – The British government has been urged to mandate a minimum standard protocol for concussions across sports in a bid to reduce the risk of brain injuries among athletes, according to a parliament committee report published yesterday.

One of the obstacles in the way of achieving any kind of rational governance in Guyana is the politicisation of so many organisations in the society.

(Reuters) – Tokyo Olympics organisers have fired the opening ceremony director on the eve of the event after reports emerged of a past joke he had made about the Holocaust, while media said former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a strong advocate of the Games, would also not attend.

By Jorge G. Castañeda MEXICO CITY – In the Caribbean, summer is when things happen.

In early May, the “Women’s Chronicles” column in Stabroek News did a piece on sexual harassment within the police force.

Dear Editor, As the opposition continues in its mission to thwart the work of GECOM.

It is not the Stabroek Business’ impression that the recent engagement between President Irfaan Ali and representatives of the private sector would have taken full account of the particular concerns of micro and small businesses even though this does not necessarily suggest that there is not, somewhere in the pipeline, some plan that will unfold, sooner rather than later, for the President to engage, eyeball to eyeball (figuratively speaking, of course) with some representative group from the thousands of small businesses across the country, many if not most of which share common problems that require common solutions.

Chris Paul and Kawhi Leonard lead a list of potential free agents headlining a brief NBA offseason that kicks off next week with the 2021 NBA Draft.