Daily Archive: Sunday, June 5, 2022

WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – When the United States said last year it would host the 2022 Summit of the Americas, officials had high hopes the event would help repair Trump-era damage to relations and reassert U.S.

An unidentified man was today found dead in Self Help Square, East Ruimveldt, Georgetown with a suspected gunshot wound.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Spain’s Rafael Nadal will look to continue his remarkable career after crushing Norway’s Casper Ruud 6-3 6-3 6-0 today to lift a record-extending 14th French Open, saying despite injury concerns he would battle on.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Russian strategic bombers fired missiles at Kyiv from as far away as the Caspian Sea early today and explosions shook two of the Ukrainian capital’s eastern districts, Ukraine’s air force and the city’s mayor said.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – A court in Colombia has ordered President Ivan Duque to be fined and placed under house arrest for five days, it said yesterday, citing the Andean country’s leader failure to comply with a previous ruling that demanded he protect a national park.

 (Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has accused the Opposition of using “xenophobic” statements to hinder The Immigration (Carib­bean Community Skilled Nationals) (Amendment) Bill, 2022, which he said could potentially harm this country’s Caricom relations.

Finally addressing the long-overdue appointment of a substantive Chancellor and Chief Justice of Guyana, President Irfaan Ali has said that while he has no issue appointing the top judicial officer, he would do so when the “right time comes.”

Government will this week begin the administration of COVID-19 vaccines for children in the 5 to 11 age group, Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony announced on Friday.

(Reuters) – World number one Iga Swiatek confirmed her dominance of women’s tennis by sweeping aside American teenager Coco Gauff 6-1 6-3 to claim her second French Open title in three years yesterday.

The final round of matches in the West Indies Championship ended in draws which was good enough to see Barbados Pride retaining their title.

Although the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is yet to finalise a timeline and date for the holding of the overdue Local Government Elections, the Commission’s Secretariat has gone ahead with the advertisement of vacancies for polling day staff.

Although China Railway Construction Company Limited and its partners will design, finance and build the new Demerara Harbour Bridge, it is the Government of Guyana that will decide on toll fees, according to Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill.

The Golden Jaguars got off to the perfect start in League ‘B’ of the CONCACAF Nations League, defeating Montserrat 2-1 yesterday at the Felix Sanchez Olympic Stadium, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Mahaica Determinators and Buxton Stars recorded contrasting wins when the East Demerara Football Association (EDFA) Senior Men’s League continued last evening at the Buxton Community ground.

This is the sixth entry in a series on the current state of civil society in Guyana.

A 30-year-old taxi driver has been arrested after he allegedly falsified a report of being abducted and robbed of his car.

(CMC) – Kyle Mayers and Shamarh Brooks carved out contrasting maiden One-Day International hundreds but West Indies were forced to withstand a bold counter-offensive from the Netherlands before pulling off a 20-run victory and a clean sweep of their three-match series yesterday.

(Reuters) – George Kambosos needed a second attempt to make the weight for today’s lightweight unification world title bout against Devin Haney after initially failing to dip under the limit despite stripping naked at yesterday’s weigh-in in Melbourne.

A Number 41 Village, West Coast Berbice family lost their home on Friday to a fire, which also left one person nursing burn injuries. 

(Reuters) – International Cricket Council (ICC) chair Greg Barclay said women’s test matches should be played over five days, but raised doubts over the place of the longer format in the future of women’s cricket.

Dear Editor, Is the Government simply “winging it” or does the Government have a plan?

Former Commissioner of Police Seelall Persaud on Friday launched a book detailing his experiences in the Guyana Police Force, including the evolution of crime after the February 2002 Camp Street jailbreak.

Dear Editor, I note with interest the disbursement of cash grants to select sections of society within recent times.

Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton has been tasked with presenting Cabinet with a holistic paper on the views of stakeholders on the implementation of the new national minimum wage, according to President Irfaan Ali.

(Reuters) – Joe Root hit an unbeaten 77 to steer England to within 61 runs of victory in the first test while New Zealand require five wickets as the contest remained intriguingly poised at the end of a tense third day at Lords.

Pointing out that countries make environmental commitments on paper but are slow to implement them, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Guyana Yeşim Oruç said that Guyana’s commitment to the Low Carbon Development Strategy 2030 (LCDs 2030) is now more important than ever.

Dear Editor, This is a somewhat belated response to what was an insightful and relevant editorial  of May 31 `Primus inter pares?’

The Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport (MoCY&S) in collaboration with the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) launched its Swimming Academy yesterday at the Aquatic Centre and used the occasion to introduce the $7 million state-of-the-art touchpad.

KINSHASA, (Reuters) – More than $400 million in tax advances and loans that Democratic Republic of Congo’s state mining company Gecamines said it paid to the national treasury cannot be found, according to a report by the government’s public finances watchdog.

(Reuters) – France and Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema has dropped an appeal against a one-year suspended prison term for his role in the attempted blackmail of a former teammate over a sex tape, his lawyer told French sports daily L’Equipe yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) – Noted Barbadian author George Lamming died yesterday at the age of 94.

A 50-year-old woman of Region Four, Demerara-Mahaica, was on Saturday identified as Guyana’s latest COVID-19 fatality.

(Reuters) – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday blamed recent protests in Iran on foreign “enemies” seeking to overthrow the Islamic Republic.

About four to five years ago, Aisha Jones, better known as the rapper ATayJAH, was going through some mental health issues and was suicidal.

Dear Editor, Former Guyana Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud, opened up about his remarkable journey in law enforcement in his autobiography or memoir Stepping Out of the Herd: My Life in the Guyana Police Force (2022). 

The family of Reonol Williams, the 50-year-old man who disappeared after he was struck down at Enmore, East Coast Demerara (ECD) almost two weeks ago, is seeking an urgent meeting with either Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn or the acting Commissioner of Police Clifton Hicken for answers on the status of the investigation.

TUNIS, (Reuters) – Tunisia’s judges will suspend work in courts for a week and hold a sit-in to protest against a purge of their ranks, amid growing tensions over the president’s attempts to consolidate one-man rule.

Dear Editor, Are members of the Guyana Police Force above the law in our beloved country?

Although she has been deemed cancer free, 45-year-old Aloma Garnett tears up when talking about her diagnosis and how difficult the fight was, but for her giving up was never an option and that is the message she wants to get over to other women.

(Reuters) – Former Argentina striker Carlos Tevez confirmed late on Friday that he has retired from professional soccer, one year after leaving Buenos Aires club Boca Juniors citing burnout.

Dear Editor, Opposition Leader Mr. Aubrey Norton’s response that he was otherwise engaged to the recent request by the President to meet to further discuss the constitutional appointments is tantamount to gross disrespect to the highest office of the land.

(Reuters) – The judicial council of Iraq’s Kurdistan said the region’s oil law remained in force, rejected a ruling from the federal supreme court that Kurdish authorities should hand over their crude supplies.

June is Caribbean Heritage Month in the United States, acknowledging and celebrating the contributions of Caribbean immigrants there.

(ESPN Cricinfo) – Four senior players made defining contributions as Afghanistan began the ODI leg of their Zimbabwe tour with a 60-run victory in Harare yesterday.

Dear Editor, It is baffling, members of the long-awaited constitutional Public Procurement Commission have not been sworn in, even though names have been approved. 

(Reuters) – Rafa Nadal has never lost a French Open final.

Politicians seem to exist in a world of their own invention that bears little correspondence to the reality which confronts ordinary citizens.

Introduction Today’s column addresses three tasks.  First, wrapping-up last week’s evaluation of National Budgets [2021/ 2022] as providers of Government of Guyana, GoG, indicators on the condition of Guyana’s oil and gas sector.

This week, the University of Guyana (UG) will host its inaugural exhibition of innovations at the National Library, where more than 40 of what it describes as “ground-breaking innovative projects” created by staff and students will be on display.

Looking back at it now, from the vantage point of being a player myself, the 2022 National Chess Championships were energetic.

 The calendar has swiftly flipped to June. We are already at the halfway mark for 2022 and perhaps, for some of you, that New Year’s Resolution vigor and drive might have dwindled or died.

When “Brave” premiered at the Seattle International Festival in June, 2012, it was the first feature from Pixar Animation Studios to feature a female protagonist.

At the end of last month, there was a theatrical exhibition on stage at the National Cultural Centre that was not widely publicised.

“Is the same feeling, you know that anxious feeling. You does call it anxiety, well that is what happening right now.

The recent consultation process between President Ali and Opposition Leader Norton commenced on May 13 and was adjourned for the President to provide the CVs of the nominees.

RIYADH,  (Reuters) – Two Saudi government delegations plan to visit the United States this month, officials said yesterday, as Riyadh and Washington step up efforts to fix strained ties and lay the ground for an eventual visit by U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – More than a year into U.S. President Joe Biden’s sweeping effort to tackle the “root causes” of migration with aid to Central America, projects likely worth millions of dollars have been canceled or put on hold due to corruption and governance concerns, U.S.

For thirty years Al Creighton has been commenting in the Sunday Stabroek on literature, theatre, dance, music, art and all the arts.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine said yesterday it had recaptured a swathe of the battlefield city of Sievierodonetsk, where intense fighting continued, in a rare counter-offensive against Russia’s main assault force that had been steadily advancing in the east.