Articles published on Wednesday, August 24, 2022
A contract with a project sum of $566.9M was signed today for the reconstruction of the North Ruimveldt Secondary School which was destroyed by fire on June 19 last year, a release from the Ministry of Education said.
Former Alliance For Change (AFC) leader Raphael Trotman is resigning from the National Assembly.
LIMA, (Reuters) – A Peruvian judge yesterday admitted a $4.5 billion lawsuit against Spanish oil firm Repsol SA REP.MC,
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A New York Democrat who campaigned on abortion rights and the future of U.S.
BANGKOK, (Reuters) – Thailand’s Constitutional Court suspended Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha today after accepting a petition from an opposition party seeking his ousting on the grounds that he has held office for his full, legally mandated term.
Finding that the President had meaningfully consulted the Leader of the Opposition, acting Chief Justice Roxane George SC has affirmed the appointments of the Chairpersons of both the Police Service Commission and the Integrity Commission.
The lead investigator of the team assigned to Guyana by CARICOM’s Regional Security System (RSS) to review the investigation of the murder of Ricardo ‘Paper Shorts’ Fagundes is in Guyana and has started work, government sources have confirmed.
A Trinidadian company has won the contract to provide transportation services for the Marriott Hotel and some local taxi drivers who are being let go are crying foul.
The 3rd edition of the Guyoil/Tradewind Tankers Secondary Schools Football League was officially launched yesterday at the entity’s Green Office, Providence Terminal, East Bank Demerara.
Guyana won both the Men’s and Women’s doubles titles last evening in the XXVII Senior Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) Championship in Jamaica.
The size of the recently released Preliminary List of Electors (PLE), which he says contains 684,354 names, equivalent to over 91% of Guyana’s population at the last census count, is proof that a clean voters’ list is needed before any election is held, Leader of the Opposition Aubrey Norton said on Tuesday.
Melanie defeated Buxton United by a 2-1 score-line when the East Demerara Football Association Senior Men’s League continued at the Buxton Community Centre ground.
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has tasked its Chief Election Officer with reviewing the work plan for the hosting of the overdue Local Government Elections (LGE) since the proposed date of December 12, 2022, falls outside of the legal timeframe.
Two families united over the weekend through the marriage of a young couple were plunged into mourning yesterday afternoon after the groom, an overseas-based Guyanese, lost his life in an accident along the Bath, West Coast Berbice Public Road.
Dear Editor, Guyana faces many challenges in sugar but the most important one is the weather.
Dear Editor, It was with much amazement that I watched the recent press conference with Clifton Hicken and Wendell Blanhum.
Two months after a Judge ordered that he be paid his almost $30 million in outstanding benefits and in spite of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council’s repeated commitment to honour the ruling, former Town Clerk Royston King is yet to receive any payment.
KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysia’s top court ordered former prime minister Najib Razak to begin a 12-year prison sentence yesterday after upholding a guilty conviction on charges related to a multi-billion dollar graft scandal at state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
Dear Editor, Guyana is the richest country in CARICOM and with massive oil resources, we can all live ever happily after, if we unite as a nation, and realize our motto of “One People, One Nation, One Destiny.”
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian police yesterday conducted raids targeting several businessmen who have backed President Jair Bolsonaro’s re-election, two sources said, after a media report accused them of discussing the virtues of a coup d’etat if the far-right leader lost the October vote.
A total of $160 million is now being paid monthly to the 4,000 persons who have been employed under a government initiative as part-time workers in Region Six.
(Reuters) – A jury yesterday convicted two men accused of conspiring to trigger “a second American revolution” by kidnapping Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, handing the U.S.
SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – Close to 20 former Salvadoran officials and two businessmen are under investigation for ties to the diversion of $184 million from the state during ex-President Salvador Sanchez Ceren’s administration, the attorney general’s office said on Monday.
Government recently tabled a bill to mandate bar owners/operators not to sell alcohol to drunk persons or designated drivers while also increasing the fines for breaching the responsibilities of their respective licences.
KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukrainians on Wednesday mark 31 years since they broke free from the Russia-dominated Soviet Union in what is certain to be a day of subdued, but defiant celebrations overshadowed by fears of new Russian missile attacks.
Dear Editor, The passing of the Hemp Bill, though discriminatory in nature, offers a new crop with great possibilities for Guyana… The bill is discriminatory in the sense that Clause 23 of the Bill, “gives the Minister the power to designate geographical areas, by Order subject to the negative resolution of the National Assembly, to cultivate or manufacture industrial hemp and hemp-related products.”
The Ministry of Health has reported 26 new COVID cases after 264 more tests were conducted.
Dear Editor, I notice my fellow Americans are reregistering their presence in this country, with bigger and bigger footprints.
ASUNCION, (Reuters) – Paraguay’s Attorney General’s office said yesterday it opened a criminal investigation into Vice President Hugo Velazquez, almost two weeks after the U.S.
ABUJA, (Reuters) – The United States will turn over to Nigeria $23 million taken by former military ruler Sani Abacha, officials said at an event to sign the agreement yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) – Opposition Leader, Kamla Persad Bissessar SC MP, has taken aim at the recently concluded Agri Investment Forum Expo 2 by questioning how it will address issues plaguing farmers.
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) recently concluded a three-day public outreach to Essequibo, Region Two.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s secret appointments to ministries during the COVID-19 pandemic “fundamentally undermined” responsible government despite being legally valid, according to advice from the solicitor general.
Ashley Khalil was crowned the Women’s Champion at the XXVII Senior Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) Championship, defeating countrywoman Taylor Fernandes 3-1 last evening in Jamaica.
(CMC) – The Barbados Royals, Guyana Amazon Warriors, and Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) are going into the Women’s SKYEXCH 6IXTY today with “balanced” teams featuring international stars they hope will help them win the inaugural tournament.
Dear Editor, I am writing on the team on ‘Nothing to Laugh About’.
(Trinidad Guardian) – Scrap iron workers joined with taxi drivers of Barrackpore yesterday, blocking the roads with heaps of gravel, burning tyres and other debris.
The International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly-Guyana (IDPADA-G) has disputed claims by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo that it has misused monies received, while maintaining that its funding has been allocated to various developmental projects for Afro-Guyanese.
By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Dr. Olufemi Taiwo a Nigerian who is now Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University, has written a seminal new book on global philosophy, Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously (Hurst, 2022), which has salutary lessons for Africa, the continent of his birth, and for the world at large, including Guyana.
This Saturday, the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) is scheduled to hold an Extraordinary Congress at the GFF National Training Centre at Providence to ratify proposed amendments to its constitution.
MADRID, (Reuters) – A $75-million superyacht linked to a sanctioned Russian steel billionaire was auctioned yesterday in Gibraltar, court sources said, in what is understood to be the first sale of its kind since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
(CMC) – Cricket West Indies (CWI) has paid tribute to Irvin Warrican, the former St Vincent and Grenadines and Windward Islands all-rounder, coach and team manager who passed away on Sunday at the age of 56.
