Daily Archive: Friday, May 13, 2022

President Irfaan Ali and Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton met for the first time today at which a number of preliminaries were clarified on appointments to constitutional commissions.

The five men accused of murdering Danian Jagdeo, a phone card distributor, on February 8, 2017, at Adventure, Corentyne, during a robbery were this afternoon  found guilty following a trial at the High Court in Berbice.

Cummings Lodge businessman Manohar Singh was last night robbed outside of his residence.

(Reuters) – Elon Musk tweeted that his $44-billion deal for Twitter Inc TWTR.N

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican government is dismissing a claim by under-pressure Commonwealth Secretary General Baroness Patricia Scotland that “there is no vacancy” and that Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister Kamina Johnson Smith should end her bid for the top post. 

Caribbean Container Inc (CCI) has disclosed in its recently released 2021 Annual Report that despite a harrowing operating year in 2021, the company’s operations nonetheless recorded a gross profit of $445 million, a 1.7 per cent increase on its gross returns for 2020.

Beharry Restaurant Holdings (BRH) under its KFC brand, continues to maintain its developmental partnership with the Guyana Mixed Martial Arts Federation (GMMAF), by becoming the premier sponsor of the entity’s second international competition, the Pan American Championship, which is slated for Monterrey, Mexico from June 22 to 24.

After more than five decades, Guyana is once again preparing to export manganese as the Chinese-owned Guyana Manganese Inc (GMI), is currently loading ships in Region One with the ore for export.

The National Milling Company (NAMILCO), has renewed its sponsorship agreement with the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) to restart the Thunderbolt Flour Power U-17 Boys League, which is tentatively scheduled to commence in June.

MVP Sports is the latest entity to throw its support behind the 4th Magnum Independence Cup, donating an undisclosed sum yesterday, which will aid in the successful staging of the prestigious championship.

CARICOM members are still discussing the possibility of boycotting the upcoming Summit of the Americas that is set to take place in Los Angeles, California, from June 6, according to Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley.

The 39th edition of the Independence Three-Stage road race set for this weekend, is creating quite a buzz in the cycling community.

Local consortium, PCG Incorporated says it will be in a position to offer its pipe coating services to the oil and gas industry by early 2023, in time for ExxonMobil’s fourth and largest project offshore Guyana – the Yellowtail development.

A family is now mourning the loss of their son who died in an accident yesterday along the Bushy Park Public Road at Mahaicony on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD).

Guyana Breweries Incorporated (GBI) under their Stag Beer brand, will serve as the titular sponsor of the East Demerara Football Association (EDFA) Senior Men’s League, which is slated to commence on Sunday at the Golden Grove ground, East Coast Demerara.

More than a month ago, the government had announced the removal of the excise tax on fuel and this led to a decline in prices, however, as of yesterday there has been another rise particularly in relation to diesel. 

The Berbice Cricket Board this weekend will begin its distribution of over $1 million worth of cricket balls to 90 clubs across the county.

Paul Cheong was yesterday re-elected as Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) when elections were held at its Annual General Meeting (AGM) and will serve another term from 2022-2023.

As rain washed out the final day’s play in the last Guyana Harpy Eagles practice match, head coach, Esuan Crandon says he is happy with the progress made from the two matches.

(Reuters) – Former world number one Greg Norman downplayed the 2018 killing of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi as he outlined plans for the LIV Golf Invitational series, saying: “We’ve all made mistakes.”

A man succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday night at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), after he was involved in an accident along Mandela Avenue in Georgetown.

(Reuters) – Rafa Nadal was knocked out of the Italian Open after the 21-times major winner was beaten 1-6 7-5 6-2 by Canadian Denis Shapovalov in the last-16 of the Italian Open yesterday.

What to make of President Nicolas Maduro’s incremental moves to extract his country’s oil & gas industry from the conundrum in which it finds itself is not an easy matter on which to make a definitive determination.

Dear Editor, I would like to thank Stabroek News, the writer in particular, for the editorialized obituary on my friend, Samuel Bremner (“The Street Linguist” May 11, 2022). 

Saif Arjune, aged 21 years, of Lot 35 Green Field, East Coast Demerara was yesterday  charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

(Reuters) – Cricket Australia continues to monitor the situation in Sri Lanka but has no plans to change the schedule of the upcoming tour of the island state despite continued violence, the governing body said yesterday.

What, reportedly, is an agreed US$10 billion dollar payback to Ghana by the People’s Republic of China for Bejing’s rights to mine bauxite in the country’s 200-odd square kilometer environmentally important Atewa Range Forest Reserve, continues to encounter fierce pushback from a swathe of international environmentalists and pockets of ordinary Ghanaians notwithstanding evidence that the project appears to have the backing of the government of the country’s Head of State, Nana Akufo-Addo.

Dear Editor, One is not certain how old is Swami Aksharananda, or how much research he has done on the history of education in British Guiana, and in Guyana.

HELSINKI/KHARKIV, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Moscow warned Finland yesterday it would face consequences as it seeks to apply for NATO membership “without delay” and Ukraine said it had damaged a Russian navy logistics ship in the Black Sea, where there has been renewed fighting in recent days.

Commissioner of Police (ag), Clifton Hicken yesterday met with officials from the Child Care and Protection Agency (CPA) to discuss issues relating to children and juveniles who are in conflict with the law.

(Reuters) – Former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum has been appointed head coach of England’s test team, the country’s cricket board (ECB) said yesterday.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka appointed a new prime minister yesterday, as its embattled president seeks a way out of the country’s worst economic crisis since independence that has sparked widespread protests.

Dear Editor, There will be no protest action much less major protest actions in Region 10 to halt the terrible and blatant discrimination visited on Linden and the region by the PPP government.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that 52 new COVID-19 cases have been recorded.

By Curtis Williams (Trinidad Guardian) With high global prices for petrochemicals and government urgently needing money from the energy sector the Keith Rowley administration has told one of the world’s largest methanol producers it wants all the downstream plants up and running and there is now hope that the idle Titan plant could restart later this year.

The Caribbean Export Development Agency is playing a key role in helping regional small businesses emerge from the economic onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic by preparing them for the export market.

(Reuters) – Surprise Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike will not compete in next week’s Preakness Stakes due to the quick turnaround, the colt’s owner said yesterday, meaning there will be no Triple Crown champion this year.

Legislation to govern the real estate sector will soon be developed.

(Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered ministers to slash 91,000 civil service jobs to free up billions for tax cuts, the Daily Mail reported yesterday.

Dear Editor, The advent of the Oil and Gas will bring untold millions to our treasury and for this we are thankful.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has labelled the country’s crime situation as ‘unusually horrendous’, saying that the country has serious, serious social difficulties. 

(Reuters) – Four-times major winner Naomi Osaka is breaking away from IMG to launch her own sports agency with longtime agent Stuart Duguid.

A number of Heads of Government from the Caribbean and Central America have confirmed their participation in the Agri-Investment Forum and Expo, set for next week at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC) at Liliendaal.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – At least 11 people drowned when a vessel carrying Haitian migrants capsized near Puerto Rico, the U.S.

By Jonathan Josephs Business reporter, BBC News The war in Ukraine is set to cause the “largest commodity shock” since the 1970s, the World Bank has warned.

Dear Editor, Alfred Bhulai’s letter in S.N of Wed 4th May referring to my Office, to wit, “The well known practical uselessness of the Office of the Commissioner of Information under the ATIA is too painful to repeat” has been drawn to my attention.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden opened a gathering of Southeast Asian leaders with a promise to spend $150 million on their infrastructure, security, pandemic preparedness and other efforts aimed at countering the influence of rival China.

(Reuters) – Former Australia captain Tim Paine’s playing career may be over, with the wicketkeeper omitted from Tasmania’s list of contracted players.

(Trinidad Express) A woman was found dead in her home in Blue Basin yesterday, with a piece of cloth covering a fatal wound to her head.

Dear Editor, Last January I sent the below captioned letter to our local newspapers; however, it was not published to date.

For the vast majority of small business owners who turned up at the recent UncappeD event at the Providence Stadium two weekends ago, the event served as a timely release valve for one of the sectors of the Guyana economy that had suffered most under the punishing regime of the coronavirus pandemic which appears, for the time being at least, to have subsided somewhat.

LAS BAMBAS, Peru,  (Reuters) – The community of Fuerabamba in the Andean region of Peru was resettled eight years ago to make way for a giant Chinese-owned copper mine, in a $1.2 billion scheme billed as a model solution to protests dogging the South American nation’s mining sector.

The Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) in collaboration with I-Net Communications Inc.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Argentina, one of the largest wheat exporters, yesterday became the first country in the world to authorize the planting of GMO wheat when it approved the national commercialization of the HB4 GMO wheat variety developed by Bioceres BIOX.BA.

Dear Editor, I am saddened, surprised and disappointed in our Prime Minister.

In part 3 we showed that oil companies seemed to have no trouble providing insurance to protect foreign stakeholders and how moral hazard featured in banking, so much so that it helped bring down the financial system in 2007/8.

It would have been more than a little reassuring if the recent remark attributed to Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha regarding what he sees as the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) readiness for investments in the agriculture sector could have been accepted as a given.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 966’s trading results showed consideration of $52,989,751 from 156,479 shares traded in 35 transactions as compared to session 965’s trading results which showed consideration of $75,556,170 from 151,306 shares traded in 30 transactions.

Fearful streets, private security Even after the late GAWU’s Komal Chand “revealed” to me the Holy Man’s original Hindu name, I remained a fan of the West Demerara based Swami Aksharananda.

We can learn many lessons from the way that political groups and others in power treat and respond to allegations of abuse by those within their leadership.

Principal Magistrate, Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus is now the second magistrate to have recused herself from the former Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan’s misconduct case.

April was not a good month for the government in relation to indigenous matters. 

(Reuters) – Naomi Judd, matriarch of the country music duo the Judds, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound a day before being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, her family said yesterday.

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