Daily Archive: Sunday, June 19, 2022

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo today told Stabroek News that he will sue his tenant, Su Zhirong for claims that he made on a VICE News programme alleging that he (Jagdeo) took bribes to facilitate deals by Chinese investors.

ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s state-appointed human rights commission said in a statement late on Saturday that a video circulating on social media showed government security forces carrying out at least 30 extrajudicial killings in December 2021.

(Barbados Nation) The reputation of the island’s legal profession is taking “a battering” as four lawyers currently sit in prison convicted for stealing their clients’ money.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados is being held aloft as proof that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is no longer the institution that pushes countries into economic reforms at the expense of pain and social dislocation.

(Trinidad Express) The family of missing Moruga farmer Sanjay Deodath has offered a reward of $20,000 to anyone with information that will lead to his safe return.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Exemplary seamer Kemar Roach snatched his 10th five-wicket haul in Tests and a record 50th wicket at the Vivian Richards Cricket Stadium, as he pulled alongside the legendary Michael Holding at 249 wickets on the all-time West Indies list while putting the hosts on the verge of victory in the opening Test here yesterday.

Barcelona, and Denmark international Martin Braithwaite is scheduled to arrive on local shores next week as part of his mandate as the Goodwill Ambassador, following a partnership between the Danish Football Association (DBU) and the Guyana Football Federation (GFF).

Guyana’s Director of Sport Steve Ninvalle recently met with his Suriname counterpart Gordon Tjouw Ngie Touw to discuss the restarting of the Inter Guiana Games.

Barbados got their revenge over Jamaica after beating the girls in yellow by 11 runs via the Duckworth Lewis and Stern Method in their rain-affected Super50 match up at the National Stadium, Providence yesterday.

In deciding against a proposal for an internal investigation to be launched into the events of the March 2020 general and regional elections, Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) retired Justice Claudette Singh reasoned that such an exercise would be outside of the remit of the body and potentially infringe on the jurisdiction of the High Court.

Agricola, Touches, Red Force, Slugs and Lack Ah Scene recorded contrasting victories when the Mocha Village Cup continued on Friday evening at the Basketball Tarmac.

As more miners continue to move into the Region One indigenous community of Chinese Landing, Toshao Orin Fernandes is reporting increased threats made on his life, while accusing the police of failing to act on them.

An enquiry by the Sunday Stabroek about Minister in the Ministry of Public Works Deodat Indar’s connections to a company saw him accusing the newspaper of being in possession of stolen documents, leading to a visit by the police.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – West Indies superstar all-rounders Hayley Matthews, Stafanie Taylor and Deandra Dottin have been named to captain the three franchises in the historic Women’s Caribbean Premier League which bowls off in August.

Marics and Company Limited, the home of Honda in Guyana, has donated $G100, 000 towards Guyana’s national chess team’s participation at the 44TH FIDE Chess Olympiad to be held in India, the birthplace of chess.

In 2008, when he was Crime Chief, former Commissioner of police Seelall Persaud journeyed to the dangerous terrain of Christmas Falls, Upper Berbice River with other officers in an effort to dismantle the notorious Rondel ‘Fineman’ Rawlins gang, which was responsible for several heinous crimes.

Dear Editor, The US President Biden has unleashed a scathing tirade against Exxon saying, “We will make sure that everyone knows Exxon profits – Exxon made more money than God this year…Number two reason they are not drilling is that they are buying back their own stock, which should be taxed quite frankly and making no new investments.

The Milo Secondary Schools Football Championship resumed with a bang yesterday, as Charlestown, Dolphin Secondary, Carmel and West Ruimveldt secured wins at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue. 

The family of Raiwattie Pooran, a 12-year-old girl who succumbed some seven weeks after she was struck down by a car along the Industry Public Road on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD), is seeking answers to questions about her supervision at the ‘Bless The Children’s Home,’ where she had been living.

Dear Editor, The Electoral Reform Group (ERG) is encouraged by the President’s announcement that he will soon name the members of an international commission of inquiry (CoI) “to probe attempts to rig the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections.”

The cricket teams of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club from July 18, will be hosting their annual Republic Bank Summer Camp and Cricket Academy as part of their personal developmental programme.

A 27-year-old man succumbed at a city hospital yesterday afternoon, hours after he crashed into a parked truck along the Brickery, East Bank Demerara Public Road.

Dear Editor, The Government of Guyana is obliged to respond to the Inter American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR) and the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discri-mination (UN CERD) regarding Indigenous rights violations here in Guyana. 

MONTREAL, (Reuters) – Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton was ecstatic after fourth place in Canadian Grand Prix qualifying raised the Mercedes driver’s hopes of returning to the Formula One podium.

Three Guyanese have been confirmed dead following a five-alarm fire in Queens, New York, according to the New York Post.

The body of a recently deceased Reliance, East Canje, Berbice man had to be removed yesterday from what was expected to be its final resting place after it was discovered that it had been given to the wrong family, which had carried out a funeral and burial on Tuesday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Italy’s Matteo Berrettini reached his fourth consecutive grasscourt final as he overpowered unseeded Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp at the Queen’s Club Championship yesterday.

KYIV, (Reuters) – With a blessing for its EU ambitions and a pledge of unwavering support from Britain, Ukraine vowed yesterday to prevail against Moscow as it battled Russian assaults near a key eastern city and multiple locations came under shell and missile attack.

Dear Editor, The commemoration at the beginning of this month of Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee brought back memories of her first visit to Guyana on Feb 4-6, 1966 just before our independence on May 26th.

Dear Editor, Please permit our company, Fire Sprinkler & Safety Equipment Services, to express our congratulations to the government of Guyana on the construction boom that our country is undergoing.

BHUBANESHWAR/LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) – Protesters in India’s eastern state of Bihar damaged public property and ransacked offices in a railway station yesterday, expressing outrage at a new military recruitment plan and demanding the government reverse course.

(Reuters) – Former world number one Naomi Osaka has pulled out of Wimbledon due to a left Achilles injury, the four-times Grand Slam champion said yesterday.

This is the eighth entry in a series on the current state of civil society in Guyana Every year the Women and Gender Equality Commission (WGEC) submits substantial reports to  Parliament with recommendations which are laid in the National Assembly  but have never been debated or considered, according to WGEC commissioner Vanda Radzik.

At the New Fire Festival in Trinidad and Tobago in 2019, agro processor Andrew Campbell, 32, who was already involved in dehydrating local fruits for snacks, was encouraged to get involved in chocolate making by a Trinidadian social activist and chocolatier and so began his sojourn into the chocolate making cottage industry.

By Claudia Tomlinson Abstract Many notable individuals of African-Caribbean descent became activists for racial justice in Britain following migration in the 1940s and 1950s.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso has declared a state of exception in three of the Andean country’s provinces, in a bid to calm protests called by indigenous groups in rejection of the government’s economic policies.

Dear Editor, It is sickening that the alcohol industry keep using Father’s Day and other events to encourage men to keep drinking.

(Reuters) – England will keep chasing the 500-run mark in one-day internationals (ODI) after narrowly missing out on the milestone in a record-breaking win over Netherlands, Jos Buttler said.

KABUL, (Reuters) – An attack claimed by Islamic State on a Sikh temple in the Afghan capital Kabul yesterday killed at least two people and injured seven, officials said, another deadly incident in a spate of violence targeting minorities and places of worship.

Dear Editor, It is gratifying to know that the current government is making leaps in assisting Guyanese.

SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday saluted the Golden State Warriors after the team won their fourth NBA championship in eight years and said he looks forward to welcoming them to the White House.

The Ministry of Health on Saturday reported a total of 74 new COVID-19 cases.

Food for the Poor (Guyana) Inc recently celebrated its 31st anniversary of service to the poor and vulnerable in Guyana.

Dear Editor, One could not help but applaud the nobility of the current Administration and familial groups in their respective pronouncements on the 74th anniversary of Enmore Martyrs’ Day.

Ever so often I would observe clients and other gym goers, running on fumes or dragging through a workout simply because of the lack of fuel in their reserves.

Yesterday we reported on Attorney General Anil Nandlall’s complaint against the opposition whose members, with one exception, on Friday absented themselves from a meeting of the Standing Committee for Constitutional Reform.

As of Friday, June 17, a total of 400 children had registered for the children with disabilities cash grant, according to Minister of Human Services and Social Security Dr Vindhya Persaud.

Recently Vice President Jagdeo proposed the government’s plan to provide part-time employment to thousands of Guyanese.

Introduction Today’s column begins with my wrap-up of last week’s column.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF), the local governing body of association football, launched a League Development Programme Club Workshop yesterday at the National Training Centre, Providence.

The most famous love poem ever written, with the possible exception of the Song of Solomon, is a poem entitled ‘Ad Pyrrham’ by the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus, better known as Horace.

The Leader of the Opposition could not have been under surveillance by policemen in full regalia, including masks, following his vehicle on motorcycles.

“Once every four years the world goes to war. They call it the games.”

Let’s imagine a scenario. You are a space ranger on a quest to explore a habitable planet.

(Barbadian writer George Lamming died on June 4, four days before he would have celebrated his 95th birthday.

As we celebrate our father’s today worldwide we are republishing in this space a piece in which a young woman spoke of her love for her Dad.