Daily Archive: Saturday, June 25, 2022

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) today stated that Royalties paid to the Guyana Government under the 2016 oil agreement are an expense incurred in the production of income for the contractor(s), but are not allowable in the calculation of Cost Oil.

A boat transporting over a dozen persons sank in the Essequibo River on Saturday afternoon.

LKYIV, (Reuters) – Ukrainian troops have “almost left” Sievierodonetsk after weeks of intense fighting against Russian forces, the mayor of the eastern city said today, signalling the biggest reversal for Ukraine since losing the port of Mariupol in May.

OSLO, (Reuters) – Terrified revellers at a gay bar in Oslo hid in a basement and desperately called loved ones as a gunman went on the rampage, killing two people and injuring more than 20 on the day the city was due to celebrate its annual Pride parade.

(Trinidad Express) A five-year-old girl was among three people who died in an early morning fire in Gasparillo today.

After years in the pipeline, a US$106.3 million contract was yesterday signed between the government and Indian company Ashoka Build Con for a road link between Ogle, East Coast Demerara and Eccles, East Bank Demerara (EBD) and it could be finished in two years.

Mere hours after Ramps Logistics Guyana made a public call for the Local Content Secretariat to provide justifications for its denial of the company’s application to access the local content register, confidential information between the company and the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) was leaked to the press.

One week after the Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) decided against an internal review of the March 2020 general and regional elections, the opposition-nominated Commissioners, again, submitted a motion calling for same.

The Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis National Novices Championships returned with a punch filled start last evening to its familiar stomping ground, the National Gymnasium.

A team from the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) is currently in Guyana on an appraisal mission for a US$120 million loan that government is seeking to pave the Linden-Soesdyke Highway, Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh announced on Friday.

Arguing that the recently announced Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the 2020 general and regional elections is a duplication of functions of an Elections Court, the main opposition parties have renewed calls for an internal investigation to be conducted by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

Guyana ended its participation in the inaugural International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) Pan American Championships Monterrey, Mexico with two silver medals.

Cute Stuff, a small business started by a Corentyne high school teacher, has been taking the decorating industry in Berbice by storm, snagging decorating jobs for a variety of events within the ancient county.

Public Works Minister Juan Edghill yesterday announced that an operation will start on Monday to remove encumbrances from the country’s roadways and reserves.

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GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – Young fast bowlers Alzarri Joseph and Jayden Seales grabbed three-wicket hauls to punish Bangladesh, as West Indies seized control of the second Test with a clinical opening day performance here yesterday.

Says Charwayne Walker Guyana’s national chess team did remarkably well on debut at the World Chess Olympiad in 1978 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

While unable to provide a timeline within which the investigation into the fatal shooting of Quindon Bacchus is expected to be completed, Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA), retired judge William Ramlall, has said the body is working at a “very fast rate” on the probe.

A star-studded ‘Stand with Me’ concert has been arranged for this evening to help raise funds for the medical expenses of Monix Hetemeyer, the teacher who had to have her leg amputated in the aftermath of a car crashing into the restaurant where she was dining with a friend on the evening of February 20, in New Amsterdam, Berbice.

Two men arrested after what police said was a drug deal at Wales, West Bank Demerara, were yesterday each released on $300,000 bail after they denied a charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

Town Style – Arts & Flavours, billed for today and tomorrow, is the second edition of a three- part series of market expositions organised by the Almond Tree Multipurpose Co-operative Society Ltd (proposed) for 2022.

Gold Strikers, Agricola, and City recorded hard-fought wins when the 4th edition of the Mocha Village Cup continued on Thursday evening at the Basketball Tarmac.

A two-year sentence was on Friday handed down to a man who admitted to snatching a woman’s gold chain and assaulting her during the attack.

Fourteen semifinalists have been chosen from the 38 young women between the ages of 17 and 26 who were recruited for the Miss World Guyana pageant, it was revealed on Thursday.

The Milo Secondary Schools Football Competition will continue today at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue, with another four elimination encounters.

The Ministry of Health on Friday reported that a total of 112 new COVID-19 cases had been recorded from the latest batch of testing.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Although critics seem to either love or hate film director Baz Luhrmann’s biopic Elvis,” they all agree on one thing: Austin Butler excels in his portrayal of the ‘King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.’

West Indies women’s head coach, Courtney Walsh, is  fully in support of the inaugural women’s Caribbean Premier League (CPL) stating that the iniative was a good one.

Bartica Secondary and Three Miles Secondary Schools became the latest additions to the golf programme as the Ministry of Education Allied Arts Unit and Nexgen Golf Academy continues pushing to take golf to every region in Guyana by end of 2022.

In keeping with its plan to ensure all Guyanese can access affordable housing, the Ministry of Housing and Water’s Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) launched its Home Construction Assistance Programme in Region Three on Friday.

LONDON (Reuters) – American pop star Beyonce Knowles-Carter has surprised fans with an early release of her single ‘Break My Soul’ from upcoming album ‘Renaissance’, setting social media ablaze with song lyrics that some say tap into rising worker anger at conditions.

Dear Editor, National news outlets, including this distinguished newspaper, have been documenting problems that are emerging as a consequence of the Local Content Act, which was passed by Parliament in late December 2021.

Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) Inspectors on Friday, June 24, 2022, destroyed more than 5,000 pieces of substandard electrical fittings that were seized from businesses during the months of May and June 2022.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – A Swiss appeals court found former FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke guilty of forging documents and accepting bribes in a case involving World Cup media rights, it said yesterday.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – A Cuban court sentenced a leading artist-dissident to nine years in jail yesterday and another to five years in a high profile case that human rights groups branded a “farce” but that Cuban state media said was a fair trial over “common crimes.”

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – For fans eagerly awaiting the season four finale of hit Netflix show Stranger Things, cast member David Harbour has a clear message: “You’ll be blown away.”

Dear Editor, Francia Marquez, an Afro-Columbian, stood up for the marginalized and the ‘nobodies’ and won. 

LEEDS, England, (Reuters) – England century maker Johnny Bairstow and debutant Jamie Overton blazed a thrilling unbeaten seventh wicket stand of 209 in 223 balls to guide their teetering side to 264 for six at the close of the second day of the third test with New Zealand yesterday.

Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill has pledged to meet with seafarers to address their working conditions and other issues of concern.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – It took Russia weeks of fierce fighting, an untold number of casualties, and relentless shelling before the exhausted Ukrainian defenders of Sievierodonetsk received orders to quit its smouldering wreckage.

Dear Editor, There are times in life when we have to make declarations in order to move to the next desired stage.

(Trinidad Guardian) Leader of Grenada’s New National Party and Opposition Leader-elect Dr Keith Mitchell has congratulated Prime Minister-elect Dickon Mitchell on his victory at the polls following the general elections of June 23, 2022.

Since the investment by the Government of Guyana of some $100 million for the expansion and upgrade of health facilities in Region Two, some 90 per cent of the work has been completed thus far.

Last weekend the long-awaited VICE News feature, “Guyana For Sale” was released.

LONDON/KIGALI,  (Reuters) – Boris Johnson’s Conservatives lost two parliamentary seats yesterday, a new blow to Britain’s prime minister who then lost a close ally with the surprise resignation of his party’s chairman and faced renewed calls to quit.

What if your average American viewer slumped down on their Lazy Boy on Sunday evening and purely by chance flicked on VICE’s “Guyana For Sale”? 

LONDON (Reuters) – Kit Harington is involved in a Game of Thrones spin-off about his character Jon Snow, the actor’s co-star on the hit fantasy television series has said.

Dear Editor, I refer to the former Minister of Finance Winston Jordan’s letter published in Stabroek News, Monday, June 20, 2022 edition under the caption, “Pending a study,100,000 of the poorest households should be targeted for annual cash transfer of US1,000”.

For as long I can remember, acne has plagued my life.

(Reuters) – Australia’s Alex Carey and Marnus Labuschagne combined for a gritty 51-run stand to help them seal a consolation four-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the fifth one-day international in Colombo yesterday as the hosts took the series 3-2.

KIGALI, (Reuters) – Commonwealth members yesterday voted to keep Patricia Scotland as secretary-general of the 54-nation club after some members including Britain tried to oust her, two sources told Reuters after a behind-closed-doors vote.