Daily Archive: Monday, June 20, 2022

The Guyana Police Force’s Office of Professional Responsibility says it is currently investigating an incident following a social media post where ranks of the Police Force’s Regional Division  4 ‘C’ were shown to have followed the Leader of the Opposition, Aubrey Norton on June 13th, 2022 after a visit he made at Golden Grove Market Street, East Coast Demerara.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The boat used by killed British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira to travel Brazil’s Amazon was found last evening, authorities said in a press statement.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – Around 70,000 Belgian workers marched through Brussels today demanding government action to tackle sharply rising living costs, as one-day strikes at Brussels Airport and on local transport networks nationwide brought public travel to a near-halt.

 (Reuters) – Oscar-winning Canadian screenwriter and director Paul Haggis is under house arrest in southern Italy on charges of sexual assault and aggravated personal injury, accusations that Haggis denies, his lawyers said today.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has tested positive for COVID 19.

A VICE News programme yesterday maintained that there were serious grounds for concern about inducements offered by Chinese companies here and Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo vowed to sue his tenant and businessman Su Zhirong for statements in the broadcast suggesting that he (Jagdeo) took bribes.

East Ruimveldt heavyweight Back Circle clinched Magnum Tonic Wine ‘Unfinished Business’ Championship, brushing aside Bent Street 4-0 score on Saturday evening at the National Park tarmac, Thomas Lands.

Minister in the Ministry of Public Works, Deodat Indar yesterday denied instigating the visit by police to Stabroek News in relation to documents in the possession of a reporter but the newspaper is standing by its report on the matter.

Shadow Attorney General, Roysdale Forde SC yesterday called for the resignation of Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo and an independent probe of allegations in a VICE News programme in which businessman Su Zhirong said that Jagdeo took bribes.

The DCSN Manufacturing Inc pre-stressed concrete plant at Little Diamond was officially commissioned yesterday.

Dear Editor, I thought long and hard about whether I should respond to Tacuma Ogunseye’s letter, ‘Had Mr Jordan done the responsible thing in dealing with the Buxton Proposal he would still be finance minister’ (Stabroek News, Saturday, June 18, 2022).

The Ministry of Health yesterday reported two more COVID-19 deaths. This takes the total number of deaths from the pandemic to 1,247.

Eleven bodybuilding athletes have been shortlisted by the Guyana Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation Inc.

Twenty persons in key sectors were trained last week to improve the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) response to emergencies during disasters.

Dear Editor, I am responding to the headline in the Sunday Stabroek of June 19, 2022 `Ali pledges to address South flood woes’.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron lost control of the National Assembly in legislative elections yesterday, a major setback that could throw the country into political paralysis unless he is able to negotiate alliances with other parties.

V Fitness gym of Soesdyke, emerged victors of the first edition of the recent Fitness Combat event which was organised by Videsh Sookram.

A Guyanese man who is wanted by the US government over drug trafficking has been arrested in Kenya.

Dear Editor, I do hope that this letter would not be misconstrued, misinterpreted to be politically biased as is often the case when one speak on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. 

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy predicted Russia will escalate its attacks this week as European Union leaders consider whether to back Kyiv’s bid to join the bloc and Moscow presses its campaign to win control of the country’s east.

Pinnacle Business Services Inc., and Jade’s Wok each donated $G100,000 towards Guyana’s national chess team’s participation in the 2022 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad in Chennai, India.

Residents of Second Street, Johanna North, Black Bush Polder are pleading with President Irfaan Ali to look into having works carried out on their street which is currently in a deplorable state.

Dear Editor, CARIFESTA XV, the Regional Cultural Festival is scheduled to be held in Antigua and Barbuda from August 11th to the 21st.

BOGOTA/BUCARAMANGA,  (Reuters) – Leftist Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla movement who has vowed profound social and economic change, won Colombia’s presidency yesterday, the first progressive to do so in the country’s history.

The Guyana Mixed Martial Arts Federation (GMMAF), has confirmed that Ijaz Cave will be unable to compete at the Pan American Championships in Monterrey, Mexico, after failing a medical evaluation.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House panel investigating the January 2021 attack on the U.S.

Finding that Diamond Quarry had been given an “unequivocal assurance” from the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) that its quarry licence application over 848 acres had been favourably considered, and Notice of the Intention to Grant would be published, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in a unanimous judgment, on Wednesday ruled that licence over what was deemed disputed lands, belongs to Diamond Quarry Inc.

Dear Editor,  Reference is made to the news article `Query on minister’s ties to company results in cops visiting Stabroek News’.

(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.

Chris Bowman, co-director of Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG), the country’s leading youth development arm of the discipline, has disclosed that the maiden Tertiary Basketball League, was a monumental success, adding that plans are afoot for the improvement and evolution of the burgeoning programme.

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.

Dear Editor, It baffles that a wrong body is given and not recognized, in the burial mix-up. 

Two men were last week arrested after being found with 236 grams of cannabis.

(Reuters) – Pathum Nissanka cracked a brilliant 137 while Kusal Mendis scored a half-century before getting injured as Sri Lanka beat Australia by six wickets in the third one-day international yesterday to take a 2-1 lead in the five-match series.

The second day of the 2022 Candidates saw just one game ending with a victory and three draws.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – John Campbell struck his third Test half-century but his first in 16 innings as West Indies required just shy of half-hour to complete a seven-wicket victory over Bangladesh in the opening Test here yesterday.

National player Shemar Britton was the winner of the first, of two sets of trial matches organised by the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA).

(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.

(Reuters) – England beat Netherlands by six wickets in the second match of their ODI series yesterday but were made to work much harder than in their spectacular record-breaking opening win.

In Friday’s 97th instalment in his seminal series in Stabroek News on the oil and gas industry, chartered accountant and commentator Christopher Ram has developed a series of stunning statistics and insights into the earnings of the three partners in the lucrative Stabroek Block for the year 2021 compared to Guyana.

Dear Editor, With reference to my letter in the June 4 edition of SN entitled `Waiting six months on banks to refund my money’, a special thanks to Mr.

(Cricinfo) A seventh defeat in 10 Tests has left Bangladesh scrambling for answers.

(Reuters) – Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz showed his Wimbledon credentials yesterday, hammering world number one Daniil Medvedev 6-1 6-4 to win the ATP 500 grasscourt tournament in Halle, Germany.

Residents of Sixth Street, Cummings Lodge, want action to address the deplorable state of the street.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republicans in Texas formally rejected President Joe Biden’s election in 2020 as illegitimate and voted in a state-wide convention that wrapped up this weekend on a party platform that calls homosexuality an “abnormal lifestyle choice.”

According to a new study, the two Antarctic glaciers – the Thwaites Glacier, also known as Doomsday Glacier about the size of Great Britain, and the slightly smaller Pine Island Glacier – are melting so fast that they are now losing ice at a faster rate than any time over the past 5,500 years.

By Melinda Janki Melinda Janki is an attorney-at-law practising in Guyana and an international lawyer who has worked in over 20 countries.