Daily Archive: Sunday, August 28, 2022

A Guyanese woman died yesterday aboard a Caribbean Airlines (CAL) flight on which she and her family were returning home to New York  and her relatives are still in shock as she had no complications prior to boarding.

Senior Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh today witnessed the signing of a contract totaling $219 million for the upgrade of the Capoey Lake main access road on the Essequibo Coast.

There will be a disruption in water services tomorrow night as GWI interconnects 12-inch transmission mains and road crossing pipelines at Church Street between Vlissengen Road and New Garden Street.

NOIDA, India (Reuters) – Indian authorities demolished two illegally constructed skyscrapers in a wide plume of dust debris today near the capital New Delhi, razing the tallest structures ever pulled down in the country in less than 10 seconds.

 (Reuters) – Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who took office earlier this month, yesterday proposed a multilateral ceasefire to all illegal armed groups operating in the country as part of an effort to promote peace and end decades of internal conflict.

Weeks after she decided she wanted to end the abusive relationship she was in, a 28-year-old La Bonne Intention (LBI), East Coast Demerara woman was allegedly stabbed to death by her common-law partner shortly after returning home on Friday night.

A Ministry of Labour investigation has been launched into the fatal workplace accident that claimed the life of 30-year-old Cindy Jattan at Gafoors last Friday.

Government remains tight-lipped on the findings of ExxonMobil’s $460 million pre-contract audit, almost two years since the findings were handed over to the Energy Department, even as it trumpets transparency in the oil and gas sector. 

Skeletal remains were yesterday morning discovered along the Eversham, Corentyne foreshore and they are suspected to be that of a missing Suriname fisherman.

Team Guyana is poised to retain the Winfield Braithwaite Caribbean Schoolboys Championship trophy after dominant wins last night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue.

Defending champion Cummings Lodge, and Charlestown stormed their way into the Boys semi-final, while New Campbellville and East Ruimveldt punched their tickets to the Girls final four section, when the quarterfinal round in the ExxonMobil U14 Football Championship concluded yesterday.

A fire, caused by a child playing with a cigarette lighter, gutted a Friendship, East Bank Demerara (EBD) apartment on Friday and quick action by firefighters prevented the blaze from spreading to other sections of the building.

Local squash queen Nicolette Fernandes created history when she became the first Guyanese to win a World Masters squash title, defeating South African, Slyoli Waters, 3-0 to clinch the Women’s 35-plus division title at the World Masters Squash Championship in Poland.

Civil activist Jonathan Yearwood, who is seeking a copy of the contract(s) entered into by the Ministry of Housing and Impressions Inc relating to the International Building Expo, is yet to receive any word from the Ministry.

With the Golden Jaguars supposedly only partially remunerated for their campaign in the 2022 Concacaf Nations League, despite the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) being contractually obligated to do so, team manager, Rawle Adams is tightlipped on whether the management staff is also owed by the local governing body.

Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance Gail Teixeira has called on the Guyana Police Force to “investigate threats” allegedly made by Leader of the Opposition Aubrey Norton against Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) retired Justice Claudette Singh.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) yesterday successfully hosted its Extraordinary Congress at the National Training Centre, Providence, East Bank Demerara, where amendments to the constitution were ratified, following a statutes revision process.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) has said that in order for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to deliver free, fair and credible elections, it must first address the concerns of all stakeholders, which means embarking on a period of house-to-house registration with the aim of compiling a new voters’ list.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has made a donation of more than $1 million worth of equipment to the East Bank Cricket Association (EBCA) as part of its gear distribution programme.

Guyana has been struggling in the area of sexual and reproductive health although some barriers have been broken, according to Patricia Sheerattan-Bisnauth, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Caribbean Family Planning Affiliation, who says the health risks that women face have tremendous impact on their families and society as a whole.

Dear Editor, The IDB healthcare survey and report is just another revelation of our low healthcare standards.

Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC) Khemraj Ramjattan has said that the insistence of its coalition partner – APNU – to have a say in the determination of who occupies the seat of Vice Chair of Region 10, appears to be a “replication” of the 2020 situation in Region Four.

Guyana clinched the overall team title in the XXVII Senior Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) Championships, as they secured the Men and Women team section with an unbeaten record on the final day in Jamaica.

Dear Editor, Kenya went to the polls on Aug 9th but the declared winner William Ruto has not been sworn in as yet: the declaration has been challenged in the Courts by his veteran rival Raila Odinga, who lost his fifth attempt at capturing the Presidency.

The University of Guyana Foundation (UGF) in collaboration with Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) has launched a limited edition rum, blended exclusively by DDL in celebration of the University of Guyana’s 60th anniversary and to raise funds for the institution.

Dear Editor, Thank you for allowing me the space in your newspaper to advocate to those mainly between 20yrs – 45yrs to run for office in the next local government elections.

The name Mervyn Anthony is probably unknown to the present day golfers competing at the Lusignan Golf Course.

Dear Editor,  I would like to refer to a letter in SN August 25th by Janell Cameron, Public Relations Officer, Ministry of Agriculture.

Despite a spirited century from Mavindra Dindyal, Guyana drew their fourth-round clash with Jamaica in the ongoing West Indies U19 championships.

Andrew Kendall, the Head of the Department of Language and Cultural Studies at the University of Guyana (UG), has recently been selected as a judge for the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).

If unconventional was a person it would have to be Sadie Amin, a woman who wears the hats of human rights advocate, sexual and reproductive health advocate, environmental advocate, cancer survivor and politician.

Joint Venture partners CGX and Frontera have received environmental authorization to spud the Wei-1 exploration well at the Corentyne block offshore Guyana.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. intelligence community will assess the potential risk to national security of disclosure of materials recovered during the Aug.

Slingerz FC and Den Amstel will contest the final of the West Demerara Football Association League Knockout Championship, following semi-final wins on Friday evening at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora, West Coast Demerara.

Dear Editor, I support the call by Jillian Adams that “Allegations of corruption should be investigated by independent body” (Aug 27).

    By Cyril Dabydeen The waves surged towards Beachhead Point like a man in a hurry, the heave and roll of great billows rising to a crescendo against the fisherman’s cry above the undulating sea near crab-backed, mollusc-shelled Palmyra.

Although she is determined to showcase her art on regional and global stages, singer-songwriter Keshia Thomas, professionally known as Kaiya, admits that she did not trust in her own creative ability at first.

Rawle Franklin, one of the four men recently held after a shootout with the police on Mandela Avenue, was last Friday faced with multiple charges, including shooting at police, armed robbery and abduction, and he was remanded to prison.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Twenty-five years after being named as the accus-ed abuser of more than 30 boys at the St Dominic’s Children’s Home, a 51-year-old man was on Friday arrested by police.

Dear Editor, This past week I was dumbfounded by the decision making of Citizens’ Bank Management. I

TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – Rival factions battled across Libya’s capital yesterday in the worst fighting there in two years as a months-long political standoff burst into urban warfare that threatens to escalate into a wider conflict.

(Reuters) – Liverpool earned their first win of the season in stunning fashion after equalling the record for the biggest ever Premier League victory with a 9-0 thrashing of newly promoted Bournemouth at Anfield yesterday.

(Reuters) – Evergreen James Anderson took three wickets as England’s seamers steered their side to victory over South Africa by an innings and 85 runs just before the close of the third day of the second test at Old Trafford yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Acting Police Commissioner Mc Donald Jacob says there is no policy in the T&T Police Service to target or “hunt” young Afro-Trinidadians.

Peter Gorinsky, a globally respected authority on tropical fly fishing who introduced countless friends, family and clients to the wonders of nature in Central and South America, has died in San Jose, Costa Rica at the age of 80.

Sentences amounting to a total of four months in jail were on Thursday handed down to a vagrant by a city magistrate after he pleaded guilty to two charges of simple larceny and claimed that he committed the crimes to support his drug habit.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Moscow and Kyiv traded fresh accusations yesterday of shelling around the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, which has been a focus of international concern that fighting in the area could trigger a disaster.

Dear Editor,  The African economy is in trouble not because Africans are lazy.

(Reuters) – LIV Golf has joined a handful of its players in their antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour, according to an amended complaint that showed four golfers have now removed their names.

TUNIS, (Reuters) – Japan pledged $30 billion in aid for development in Africa on Yesterday, saying it wants to work more closely with the continent, with the rules-based international order under threat after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Multi-million dollar bids from five companies were opened last Thursday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the construction of an access road to the Blairmont Waste Management Facility under the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development.

Dear Editor, Dr. Devanand Bhagwan, in his Aug 25 letter, commented on “Should the composition of GECOM staff reflect what Guyana looks like?”

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Thousands of followers of Argentina’s former president and current Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner took to the streets in her defense yesterday, days after two prosecutors called for a 12-year prison sentence and a ban on public office for alleged corruption during her government.

The conference, “Resisting the emerging apartheid state of Guyana,” scheduled for last Sunday, was postponed. 

My tutor at Cambridge, Professor Nick Hammond, authority on the history of ancient Macedonia and on the life of Alexander the Great, used to coach me on what he called “exercises of the mind.”

2022 is quickly coming to an end, the calendar is about to flip to September in a few days and many of us are feeling burnt out.

Even before the title characters in Clio Barnard’s “Ali and Ava” meet, a brief musical montage early on binds them together in moments of isolation.

For a chess championship, the attire is a bit unusual: everyone is wearing swim trunks and goggles.

Introduction The list of topics that I had proposed some weeks ago indicating what I intended to revisit going forward, along with an updating of my recommendations on these, identifies the Buxton Proposal as being the next topic.

“But mommy, I don’t like this bag. You say you would buy the other  one,” an obviously distressed primary school girl said to her mother on the jampacked Regent Street pavement.

Ships that met                     I looked up one day And in he walked A tall man with seeing Eyes.

Dear Editor,  I refer to your publication dated 5th August 2022, and editorial, titled ‘Shaking hands’.

(CMC) – Barbados Royals’ second win came courtesy of the West Indies-South African connection of Hayley Matthews and Chloe Tryon yesterday.

Last week Dr Betrand Ramcharan in a feature article in this newspaper discussed a recent work by Dr Olufemi Taiwo on decolonisation.

(Trinidad Express) – Mother of seven-year-old Mc Kenzie Hope Rachier has been charged with her murder.

The Ministry of Health on Saturday confirmed that 23 more persons have been infected with the novel Coronavirus based on the results of 255 tests that were done.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Charles has guest edited an edition of the country’s only Black newspaper to mark its 40th anniversary, honouring the contributions of African-Caribbean communities to the arts and society.