Daily Archive: Sunday, September 11, 2022

A Springlands, Corentyne teenager died yesterday from injuries he sustained after a tire exploded in his face while he was pumping it up with a compressor.

(Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 struck eastern Papua New Guinea today killing at least four people, injuring others and damaging property and essential infrastructure.

(Barbados Nation) Several acres of land at Fortress Hill, St Thomas, are being prepared to be used for the living quarters for the hundreds of Chinese workers who will be employed on the Scotland District road rehabilitation project.

(Trinidad Express) There was a mass shooting in Malick shortly before nightfall Saturday.

Attorney Nigel Hughes said it would be “difficult” for the Regional Security System (RSS) to come up with a “full” and “credible” report on the corruption allegations levelled by Detective Sergeant Dion Bascom due to key flaws including the failure to interview him.

Major incentives will be given to persons seeking to move or invest in Silica City – government’s 12,000-plus- acre upscale smart city development on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway, about 45 miles from the densely populated capital of Georgetown, President Irfaan Ali says.

Officials on Thursday afternoon carried out an operation against human trafficking at Bikers Bar located at Covent Garden, East Bank Demerara during which fifteen female foreign nationals were found.

Drainage authority Chairman, Lionel Wordsworth says that the Ministry of Agriculture will issue a statement as it relates to the $800m Adventure, Corentyne pump station.

Promising luxurious dining with a Caribbean-influenced Chinese cuisine that makes up an à la carte menu of dishes from around the world, hotelier Robert Badal will on Thursday open the 15,000-square foot Fusion Restaurant to complement his recently launched US$100m Pegasus Suites and Corporate Office.

Critical service delivery systems such as counselling and providing shelters to victims need to be strengthened to aid in achieving the objectives of the donor-funded Spotlight Initiative which is intended to eliminate violence against women and girls.

The construction of a cross street in West Canefield, East Canje Berbice has come in for criticism with residents labelling it as too narrow.

History was created last evening as Charlestown Secondary became the first school to secure the boy and girl’s ExxonMobil football championships at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

President Irfaan Ali on August 24 met with representatives from Embraer Brazil, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of commercial and executive aircraft, with substantial and growing operations in defence and security.

A taxi driver was last Friday remanded to prison after he was charged with illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition.

Guyana Amazon Warriors 162/4 (Klaasen 61*, Hetmyer 32 ; Royal 2/15, Chase 1/25) beat Saint Lucia Kings 161/7 (Charles 87, du Plessis 31; Shamsi 2/14, Paul 2/27) by six wickets    Guyana Amazon Warriors secured their first victory of the 2022 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) season with a win over Saint Lucia Kings by six wickets in front of a lively home crowd last night.

A swimming coach was on Friday released on $60,000 bail after pleading not guilty to a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm.

In keeping with His Excellency, President Irfaan Ali’s theme of ‘One Guyana’, the boxing association of Guyana has taken a stance to decentralize the fistic sport starting this weekend. 

A father and son were on Friday arrested after they were busted by the Customs Anti Narcotic Unit (CANU) with a quantity of suspected lidocaine and cocaine.

A visit by FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich to Guyana later this year and the expansion of chess in the Americas were some of the decisions made at the 2022 FIDE Congress held recently in Chennai, India.

The watch and keys recovered from what appears to be a gruesome murder site at Yarrowkabra have been identified as belonging to missing Parfaite Harmonie man, Marc Melville, 47.

Five families living in the Amerindian community of Mainstay/Whyaka, Region Two yesterday received certificates of home ownership from Food for the Poor (FFTP) Guyana Inc. 

Dear Editor, While 10,368 students wrote the CSEC exams, and 671 students wrote the CAPE, our Ministry of Education has done its annual celebration of a tiny percentage of academically and intellectually gifted students who have done expectedly well at the CSEC and CAPE exams.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz ended Frances Tiafoe’s dream run at the U.S.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) says more house lots were assigned yesterday at  the Experiment Housing Scheme in Region Five.

Dear Editor, The Attorney-General`s recent request to have GECOM avail to him the list, submitted to GECOM by the APNU-AFC, of the names of the persons purportedly impersonated has opened the pandora box that provides an opportunity for the public exposure of the following: 1.

GCC walked away with the men, women and girl’s U20 division titles while Old Fort copped the boy’s U20 division when the Lucozade indoor hockey championships concluded yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue.

Sixteen-year-old Chavelle Solomon of Supenaam fought against tremendous odds to attain a secondary education and then excel at the recent Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination with twenty-one subjects (19 grade ones and 2 grade twos). 

Botofago and Winners Connection secured contrasting wins when the Upper Demerara Football Associa-tion (UDFA) senior men’s League continued yesterday at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground, Linden.

Dear Editor, The relationship between myself and Ralph Ramkarran is predated by a relationship between my father, Stephen Lewis, and his father, Boysie Ramkarran.

LONDON, (Reuters) – On a day of tumbling wickets, seamer Ollie Robinson took five for 49 as England skittled South Africa  for 118 on the third day of the third test at The Oval yesterday, before grinding their way to 154 for seven in reply, a lead of 36 runs.

At 91, Doris Harper-Wills is still basking in the afterglow of Carifesta 72, the first ever such festival to be held in the Caribbean.

(Trinidad Express) Phillip “The Boss” Boodram, the reputed drug lord who was freed from prison in June after 17 years on the charge that he was involved kidnapping and burying alive a businesswoman, has been shot and killed by police.

Dear Editor, It was reported in the media that in October 2021, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs, Sharon Hicks, was arrested by the police after allegedly demanding bribes from a businessman who paid her with marked bills that were retrieved during a sting operation conducted by the police.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Trinbago Knight Riders slumped to their second defeat in three outings after their batting suffered yet another meltdown in pursuit of a gettable target against Jamaica Tallawahs here yesterday.

Dear Editor, I put the following questions which in my view are beyond party affiliation and partisan politics… this is about the future of the country.

Colin De La Cruz, 46, headmaster of Waramuri Primary School, wants the Ministry of Education to gazette the ‘primary top’ or secondary department of Waramuri primary as a discrete secondary school based on the outstanding performance of its students at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – A supporter of far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro stabbed to death a backer of leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, authorities said on Friday, in the latest example of rising political tensions ahead of the upcoming election.

President Irfaan Ali met yesterday with representatives of Canada’s Swoop Airlines: Kyle Hart and Bert van der Stege at State House.

Dear Editor, Queen Elizabeth’s passing was expected and it offers an opportunity to examine what she, as the Monarch, represented to us in the detritus of the British Empire.

By Tieanna Jordan Singer and songwriter Karissia Couchman has been making a name for herself on the local music scene.

KYIV/HRAKOVE, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Moscow abandoned its main bastion in northeastern Ukraine yesterday, in a sudden collapse of one of the war’s principal front lines after Ukrainian forces made a rapid advance.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – World number one Iga Swiatek swept to victory over Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur 6-2 7-6(5) in the U.S.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela will seek the extradition of a former top energy official and launched fresh legal action against a former oil minister, who it is also trying to extradite from Europe, the state attorney-general’s office said on Friday.

The Ministry of Health yesterday recorded 12 new cases of COVID-19.

Dear Editor, Yet again the koker has broken bringing untold destruction, losses and misery to the communities of Providence and Peter’s Hall. 

“It really break my heart to see how he cry and if it was not for pride I would have break down tuh and cry.

The women who represented Guyana at the 2022 Chennai Olympiad moved up 16 places on the chess ladder from 136 to 120 in only their second international outing.

The death of Queen Elizabeth II brings to an end the longest ‘reign’ of a monarch in British history.

The wide range of films screened at the Toronto International Film Festival each year often means that debut filmmakers are sometimes more established ones, sometimes even exploring similar things thematically.

Hands up if you ended the week feeling inspired, grateful and are ready for another beautiful week of healthy habits.

(Trinidad Guardian) The body found wrapped in plastic in Brasso almost three weeks ago, has been identified as Piparo landlord Darius Jerrybandhan.

I tell the story of Tony Judt. Tony Judt was a writer on recent world history whom I greatly admired. 

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The state funeral for Queen Elizabeth will be held on Monday, Sept.

Introduction Last week’s column used the World Bank’s systematic country diagnostic, SCD, of Guyana, to unravel the embedded obstacles to the country’s lack of inclusive development along with the grim persistence of poverty up to the advent of its windfall oil finds in 2015.

The season of exam results is upon us again.  While the top achievers both at CSEC and CAPE have been announced, we do not as yet have the figures for how the two sets of candidates as a whole performed.