Daily Archive: Monday, September 12, 2022

The police today said that Ronald Zahur, 45, is wanted for questioning in relation to sexual assault.

The government is in the process of assembling a technical team to aid in the restructuring of the country’s sugar industry amid reports of strained relationships in GuySuCo and challenges in other areas.

(Trinidad Guardian) Several people scampered for their lives as gunmen stormed a Claxton Bay bar on Saturday night, murdering expectant father Kyron Marcano and injuring others.

Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran says the Ministry of Education, the national tender board and Cabinet all failed in their duty to the public by not acting to stop Kares Engineering Inc from securing a $566.9m North Ruimveldt Secondary School contract considering its previous poor performance on an even larger project.

(Sydney, Australia)- Guyana has a new boxing world champion.  Georgetown’s Stephan Da Silva defeated Fiji’s William Mel at the Gairy St Clair Superhero Pro Fight Night in Sydney, Australia  to become the new WBL Junior Lightweight World Title holder.

Guyana’s Ezekiel Newton took his talents to São Paulo, Brazil, and ran off with a silver medal in the boys 200m event at the South American U-18 Championships. 

President Irfaan Ali yesterday commissioned the rehabilitated Burnham Boulevard in Mocha Arcadia and pledged support for a series of improvements including repairs to the Barnwell Road, an announcement greeted with broad approval from residents.

All of the popular hotels in Georgetown are booked solid for the upcoming Cricket Carnival period including the recently opened US$450-$750 a night Pegasus Suites and most of the government- partnered bed and breakfast pre-fabricated houses at Providence.

Camptown crushed Black Pearl 5-0, when the Georgetown leg of the National Milling Company (NAMILCO) U17 Football League continued yesterday at the National Training Centre, Providence.

GT Panthers and Camptown recorded contrasting victories, when the Georgetown Football Association (UDFA) Senior Men’s League continued yesterday at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora.

Attorney Nigel Hughes has written to acting Top Cop, Clifton Hicken seeking a copy of the report by the Regional Security System (RSS) on the corruption allegations that were made by  his client, Sergeant Dion Bascom in relation to the probe of the murder of Ricardo Fagundes.

Dear Editor, Please afford me the opportunity to expose the PPP’s farcical Public Accountability and Oversight Committee which now overlooks Government’s spending of our oil money among other issues.

KYIV/KHARKIV, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Ukraine accused Russian forces of attacking civilian infrastructure in response to a rapid weekend offensive by Ukrainian troops that drove Russia to abandon its main bastion in the Kharkiv region.

Linden in Region Ten is set to benefit from the expansion of economic activities with the launching there of two subsidiaries of the CB Group of Companies.

Guyana’s four-member outfit which competed at the FESUPO Powerlifting and Bench Press Championship which concluded yesterday in Brazil will return home with precious metal.

Dear Editor, Even, or especially, in the midst of outpouring of grief at her death at 96 years old, it bears reminding that for the past seven decades, Elizabeth II has played the colonial good cop, to the British imperial machinery’s bad cop – while it was Her Majesty’s troops that were sent to undermine and reshape Guyana’s pre-independence political direction for over a decade, from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, it was Her Majesty herself who alighted to ‘grant’ independence in 1966. 

Some 232 recruits have signed up for the latest round of basic training in the Guyana Defence Force (GDF).

LONDON, (Reuters) – Mourners in their thousands will be able to file past the coffin of Britain’s late Queen Elizabeth in a round-the-clock lying-in-state from Wednesday evening to early on the day of her funeral.

(Reuters) – Australia beat New Zealand by 25 runs in the third one-day international yesterday to complete a 3-0 series sweep and give captain Aaron Finch a winning farewell in his final 50-overs appearance.

Dear Editor, The Main Street murder gets mistier by the day, more of a mystery with each new development. 

The East Canje Berbice area stole the spotlight regionally at the National Grade Six Assessment with a student from the Cumberland Primary School not only topping the region but tying with two others for the country’s top position.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Two unions negotiating contracts for almost 60,000 workers at major U.S.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka were crowned Asia Cup champions for the sixth time after Bhanuka Rajapaksa’s batting pyrotechnics and Wanindu Hasaranga’s all-round brilliance secured their 23-run victory against Pakistan in the final yesterday.

Dear Editor, I do not believe in humiliating persons for poor performances. 

The Chinese Embassy in Guyana on September 2nd  mourned  the passing of former Minister of Foreign Affairs  Rashleigh Jackson and expressed condolences to his family.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – More than a year after the Great Resignation took hold in the United States, Canada is grappling with its own greyer version: The Great Retirement.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Unbeaten Barbados Royals won their fifth on the trot to send their clearest signal yet of their Caribbean Premier League title challenge, when they defeated Jamaica Tallawahs by eight wickets here yesterday.

Dear Editor, On Friday, September 9, 2022, I read both the Kaieteur News and the Stabroek News and saw news pieces that caught my attention.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Forces in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region that have been fighting the central government for nearly two years said yesterday they are ready for a ceasefire and would accept an African Union-led peace process.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that five new cases of COVID-19 have been detected.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz claimed his first Grand Slam title and took the world number one ranking with a 6-4 2-6 7-6(1) 6-3 win over Norway’s Casper Ruud in the U.S.

Dear Editor, Whenever someone of renown, stature, or of exceptional personage passes on, the world pays attention, pays homage, eulogizes and usually laments and grieves.

On Friday, September 9th,  the Ministry of Home Affairs issued a statement on the conclusion of the government’s engagement of the Regional Security System (RSS) to evaluate/review corruption allegations that had been made on August 11 by Detective Sergeant Dion Bascom about the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) handling of the probe into the murder of Ricardo Fagundes on  March 21 last year.

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

On Wednesday, a team from the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) accompanied by Minister of Health Frank Anthony and other members of Cabinet, met with residents of Dazzell Housing Scheme and the Bare Root Village on the East Coast of Demerara, who were affected by a storm last Monday.

By Vidya Kissoon Vidyaratha Kissoon is involved in the work for gender equality Red Thread, the Breadfruit Collective, Guyana Trans United, SASOD and the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition joined with the Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies Rights Advocacy Project (U-RAP), to host a conversation ‘Living Good 2’ on 19 August, 2022.

The award of the contract in the sum of $566.9 million to Kares Engineering Inc.

(Trinidad Guardian) Bloody gang rivalry and brazen killings have now taken over parts of Tunapuna as many unemployed young men find it easier to access firearms for as little as $500 to commit crimes.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Openers Alex Lees and Zak Crawley steered England to the brink of victory over South Africa in the decisive third test at The Oval as the home side reached 97 without loss chasing a modest 130 before bad light intervened on the fourth day yesterday.