Daily Archive: Monday, June 13, 2022

The police today said that Quindon Bacchus who was controversially shot by a law enforcer on Friday died of multiple gunshot wounds.

Phillip Jhagroo now awaits sentencing after being found guilty of the 2019 murder of a Leguan youth, Mark Narine, who police had said was lashed off his motorbike by the accused and thrown overboard. 

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – New York City plans next month to auction a midtown Manhattan apartment owned by a Venezuelan media mogul with ties to socialist President Nicolas Maduro’s government, after U.S.

The New Thriving Chinese Restaurant is adding quarrying to its menu of businesses as the establishment has applied to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a quarry permit in Region Two citing the high demand for stone here.

Despite setting what was seen as a low target to cushion the devastating impacts of the 2021 floods, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has not been able to meet its first crop production target.

With a cop under close arrest for the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Quindon Bacchus, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday afternoon said the Police Complaints Authority will be asked to launch a thorough investigation.

Dear Editor, I confess that the Sunday Sta-broek’s headline was arresting: “Gold trader Jagmohan writes Benn seeking probe of business for ‘clean bill of health’” (SN June 12). 

Feuding in the Guyana Public Service Co-operative Credit Union (GPSCCU) has reached fever pitch with one of the factions taking out an advertisement to deny that a Special General Meeting of Members has been called for June 25, 2022.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – American Christian Coleman won the men’s 100 metres in 9.92 seconds and Aleia Hobbs overcame compatriot Sha’Carri Richardson in the women’s 100 metres at the NYC Grand Prix yesterday.

MULTAN, Pakistan, CMC – Captain Nicholas Pooran and Akeal Hosein excelled in unfamiliar roles but neither could save West Indies from a 53-run defeat in the final One-Day International for yet another whitewash to Pakistan here yesterday.

Dear Editor, With Thomas Malthus’s groundbreaking theory that population growth will outrun food supply, the issue of hunger has hit the front burner again.

A Bartica man who was wanted by police for questioning into the discovery of high-powered weapons was on Friday charged and sentenced to four years imprisonment.

Another supermarket is expected to be set up at the Robb and Light streets location which once housed Nigel’s Supermarket.

A group of overseas based table tennis players including three former national table tennis champions have thrown their support behind national table tennis player Shemar Britton.

Dear Editor, Monday, June 13th, 2022, Guyanese as well as the diaspora commemorate the 42nd Anniversary of the assassination of Walter Rodney.

The Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) National Senior Championship was scheduled to be held last weekend and Olympian, Emanuel Archibald, was gunning for an emphatic win in the blue riband 100m event.

The Police are moving to seek legal advice and institute charges against the three persons suspected to be involved in the robbery committed on eight businessmen at LBI last Tuesday.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter, “Prevailing approach to budgeting leads to questionable actions in all regions” in Stabroek News, dated June 11, 2022.

The feeling-out process is complete. All even at 2-2 in the NBA Finals, the Boston Celtics and Golden State Warriors now contest a best-of-three for the championship.

Edward Gittens, 36, who lives on the streets of Georgetown, walked into a medical outreach with a dishevelled appearance, but came out looking transformed after taking advantage of the shower and hair cutting services offered. 

Dear Editor, Recently I went to the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall at Homestretch Avenue for a meeting.

The touring Bangladesh cricket team and Cricket West Indies’ President’s  XI played to a draw in the lone warm up match before the Test series against West Indies gets underway.

Dear Editor, Here we go again, tangling with the Constitution.  Is it for the Opposition Leader (OL) to submit names to the Presi-dent to agree with or is it for the President to engage the OL in seeking consensus on his (President’s) nominees for the top judicial appointments?

Businessman Tamesh Jagmohan has written to the Guyana Police Force asking it to investigate a Facebook video which he says made a number of scurrilous allegations against him.

Undefeated sides, Barbados Women and Jamaica Women will lock horns today in the fourth round to see who will potentially put themselves in a better position to lift the Cricket West Indies T20 Blaze title.

Dear Editor, I just learnt of the sad passing of Ms.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – World Trade Organization chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala expressed cautious optimism on Sunday that more than 100 trade ministers meeting in Geneva would achieve one or two global deals this week, but warned the path there would be bumpy and rocky.

Police have arrested a man who they said confessed to murdering two Brazilian goldminers at Gold Camp Backdam, Mount Ayanganna, Potaro River.

Dear Editor, Since our Government is so committed to “One Guyana,” how about a “One Guyana” minimum wage, not a higher minimum wage for Government workers and a lower minimum wage for private sector workers?

(Reuters) – It might look and smell like McDonald’s but now it’s Vkusno & tochka.

DUBAI/BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Argentine authorities have grounded an Iran-linked Venezuelan Boeing 747 cargo plane, a local opposition lawmaker and Iranian state media said yesterday, in an unfolding drama that is throwing a spotlight on political undercurrents in Latin America.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) yesterday extended congratulations to the Alliance For Change (AFC) on the “successful staging” of its 7th National Conference on Saturday.

 Pamela Manasseh, Marketing Manager of Beharry Restaurant Holdings Incorporated, has reaffirmed the company’s commitment to the Guyana Mixed Martial Arts Federation (GMMAF) and its developmental narrative, adding that the partnership is indicative of the company’s burgeoning sports catalogue.

Dear Editor, God knows how much I want to be optimistic about the future of Guyana.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – In a potential breakthrough toward the first significant new U.S.

ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil,  (Reuters) – Brazilian police said yesterday search teams have discovered belongings of missing British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira who went missing in the Amazon rainforest a week ago.

The Ministry of Health yesterday reported 33 new cases of COVID-19.

Guyana youth cricketers, Mavindra Dindyal and Matthew Nandu were in full swing Saturday during the Brampton-Etobicoke and District Cricket League in Canada as Kaiteur defeated Ontario Cricket Academy by 38 runs.

Dear Editor, Visit areas in Guyana and it is possible that in every one you will find stray and neglected dogs.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukrainian defenders were fighting fiercely for “every metre” of Sievierodonetsk, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, as Russian forces destroyed a bridge to another city across the river, leaving stranded civilians with just one way out.

Sixteen special needs schools and organisations will begin benefitting from guidance counselling services this month via a programme being funded by the Office of the First Lady.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Music producer Linval ‘Shab Don’ Thompson Jr has been charged with three counts of murder.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Shane Warne has received his first Australian state honour posthumously after being named an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) along with former tennis player Ash Barty in the Queen’s Birthday list.

Dear Editor, In observing June 13 (today), the 42nd anniversary of the assassination of Dr.

For months, the Ali administration has prevaricated on approving the National Minimum Wage (NMW) at $60,000 per month from the current figure of $44,400 as recommended by the Ministry of Labour’s Tripartite Committee in January this year.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Corporate plans to slash greenhouse gas emissions fall short of what is needed to combat climate change, with “major credibility gaps” found among the world’s largest companies, according to a new stocktake of net-zero efforts in the public and private sector.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – The Venezuelan government said yesterday it had recorded its first case of monkeypox in a man who entered the country though its principal airport near Caracas after arriving from Madrid.

We face a world in peril. From the war in Ukraine in all its dimensions to the deepening impacts of the climate crisis; from the COVID-19 pandemic to escalating humanitarian needs, hunger and poverty, the months ahead will test the multilateral system.

A new real estate association was launched on Friday. A release from the group said the executive comprises Melissa Khan; Neil Mcphoy; Ramkumar Jewanram; Petes Persaud; Stanley Wills; Sandy Harry; Nicola Duggan; Kerron Boston; Cassandra Bidajhar; Avinash Balac; Eurie Hohenkirk; Ulric Mentore; Ryan Gomes and Amrita Sookram.

Editor’s note: Amidst the photo ops and handshakes, two principled speeches stood out at the recently concluded 9th Summit of the Americas this year.