Daily Archive: Wednesday, September 21, 2022

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Inter-American Development Bank’s board of directors is reaching an “emerging consensus” that its president Mauricio Claver-Carone should be removed after an independent ethics investigation, a source familiar with the process told Reuters.

An Ann’s Grove woman is now hospitalised after a gruesome attack by her husband, who , who chopped their son to death before attacking her and ending his own life.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Barbados has issued the world’s first government bond with a clause allowing payments to be suspended in the event of another global pandemic, a move expected to attract interest from dozens of other countries savaged by the COVID-19 crisis.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States plans to resume full immigrant visa processing in Havana for the first time since 2017, a move that follows high-level talks earlier this year between the two countries, U.S.

MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – An outside firm hired to investigate whistleblower allegations found evidence that Inter-American Development Bank President Mauricio Claver-Carone engaged in an intimate relationship with a staffer, three sources briefed on the probe told Reuters.

LONDON, (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered Russia’s first mobilisation since World War Two and backed a plan to annex swathes of Ukraine, warning the West he was not bluffing when he said he’d be ready to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia.

Two environmental activists have filed a suit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to quash the permit it issued for the ExxonMobil Guyana-led Liza Phase 1 oil project in the Stabroek Block, offshore Guyana.

A man was yesterday handed a four-year jail sentence after admitting to being party to the theft of $400 million worth of raw gold from a Mahaica dealer and four others, including two subordinate Guyana Police Force (GPF) ranks, are in custody in connection with the ongoing investigation of the crime.

With funding from Canada, a new project spearheaded by the Justice Education Society was yesterday launched with the aim of strengthening access to justice for women, girls and Indigenous peoples.

A city constable was stabbed to death yesterday morning after he attacked a man who was trying to stop him from harassing his sister-in-law.

An elderly pedal cyclist is now dead after he was struck down along the Met-en-Meerzorg Public Road on the West Coast of Demerara (WCD) by a Sheriff Security Inc.

Opposition Parliamentarian Ganesh Mahipaul has moved for full disclosure of the remuneration packages of the Chair, Commissioners and other members of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the March 2020 general and regional information.

The International Republican Institute (IRI) has been able to get politicians from both the government and opposition to work together to address a series of mechanisms aimed at strengthening Guyana’s electoral infrastructure.

Government has announced that it is looking for marketers of oil from the Liza 1 and Liza 2 platforms but for a second time has not released to the public information on the requirements or the specific period the contract would cover.

Contentions over whether appeals should first be determined on the Chief Justice’s ruling invalidating the composition of the new Police Service Commission (PSC) have snared progress in the action challenging the suspension of the previous members of the body.

Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha on Monday said that government is still working to resolve the issue of outstanding payments from the Panamanian government for rice supplied.

With the ongoing distribution of government cash grants, real time audits are being conducted by the Audit Office, according to Auditor General Deodat Sharma.

The Opposition APNU+AFC is reiterating its call for the government to ask Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo to step down and make way for an independent investigation into the allegations of bribery made by Chinese businessman, Su Zhirong and aired in a Vice News expose back in June.

Digicel Guyana has committed $60 million under an agreement to support the Ministry of Health on its special needs vision over the next three years.

GTT has committed $150 million to Guyana’s Cricket Carnival over the next three years, as a partner to the event.

In celebration of its 10-year partnership with the Caribbean Premier League (CPL), the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) on Monday evening launched its El Dorado Master Blender CPL T20 Rum.

Yesterday at the Marriott Hotel, ExxonMobil ushered in the sixth consecutive season as the main sponsors of the Guyana Amazon Warriors.

Seventeen-year-old Aryan Doodnauth of Coffee Grove on the Essequibo Coast in Region Two is aspiring to become a chemical engineer with the intention of lifting his family out of poverty.

Guyana Amazon Warriors’ head coach, Rayon Griffith has underscored the significance of the team’s final four matches as they begin their home leg against Jamaica Tallawahs tonight.

Dear Editor, In a SN article dated 8/15/2022 and captioned, ‘Guyana set to receive 12 lifts of profit oil for 2022 – Ministry’, it is reported ‘…that the expected total production of oil in 2022 is 93.6 million barrels of oil… (from which) …Guyana will get an estimated 12 lifts of one million barrels each, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources.’.

Ganesh Choonilall, the driver who allegedly struck down 63-year-old Ameer Ali, known as ‘Greens Boy’, along the Adventure Public Road on the Essequibo Coast and then fled, was on Monday remanded to prison on two charges.

A Region One miner was asked to post $320,000 bail for his release on Monday after he was charged with trafficking almost 15 pounds of marijuana while travelling in a West Coast Berbice minibus in which a police officer was travelling. 

Dear Editor, The VP has made it very clear that his PPP Government will not renegotiate the worst oil contract in the world signed by the PNC.

Dear Editor, The attention of the Ministry of Finance has been drawn to a number of statements made by Nigel Hinds recently on the subject of racism.

A 62-year-old miner, who police say was found with quantities of both marijuana and cocaine in his possession, was remanded to prison on Monday after being faced with two drug charges.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Saturday presented football equipment to the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) during an outreach programme.

There was a major shutdown of the Demerara-Berbice Interconnected System on Monday after a truck being used to execute works along the Lamaha embankment collided with a pole supporting a key Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) transmission line.

Dear Editor, The News Room media outlet published that the Finance Minister rejects ‘racist rambling rants’ of Nigel Hinds, on Sep 19, 2022.

A former Western Tigers footballer Shaun Thompson, who resides overseas, has donated a quantity of football equipment to his old club.

Dear Editor, I wish to commend the Vice President for calling on citizens to monitor the work of contractors in their respective areas.

Seventeen new COVID cases were on Tuesday reported by the Ministry of Health after 303 tests were carried out.

The Ministry of Agriculture through its Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) and the Agriculture Sector Development Unit last week handed over a total of 20 imported pigs, comprising 17 females and three males, to new and established swine farmers last week to improve their stock and boost the country’s overall pork production levels.

Dear Editor, My love for Literature was enhanced when in the mid- seventies I began to study, via a Wolsey Hall Correspondence Course, for the London University “A” Level GCE English Literature Examination.

ROME (Reuters) – The Brothers of Italy party, which is tipped to win national elections at the weekend, suspended one of its candidates on Tuesday after he was found to have praised Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler in online posts.

The St. Stanislaus College has applauded the class of 2022 for its results at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE).

Dear Editor, The roads and certain aspects of drainage is in a deplorable condition.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico/SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, (Reuters) – Hurricane Fiona bore down on Turks and Caicos Islands today as a powerful Category 3 storm, threatening to devastate the tiny Caribbean archipelago after cutting a path of destruction through the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.

KYIV (Reuters) – Russian-installed leaders in occupied areas of four Ukrainian regions set out plans for referendums on joining Russia, a move Ukraine and its allies dismissed on Tuesday as a stunt by Moscow to try to reclaim the initiative after battlefield losses.

(Reuters) – England opener Alex Hales hit a superb half-century and Harry Brook made an unbeaten 42 as they beat hosts Pakistan by six wickets in their Twenty20 meeting yesterday — their first match in the Asian country for 17 years.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – New batters will come in at the striker’s end after a catching dismissal even if those in the middle had crossed, the International Cricket Council said yesterday as it detailed several changes to playing conditions.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Cameron Green smashed 61 and Matthew Wade provided the late assault to secure Australia’s four-wicket victory in the first Twenty20 International against India yesterday.

Dear Editor, On Monday, September 19, 2022, after disembarking from an Inter-Caribbean Airways flight from Timheri to Bridgetown, I witnessed the mistreatment of a Guyanese senior citizen in a wheelchair.

MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Inter-American Development Bank’s board yesterday reviewed an independent report showing evidence of some allegations made by a whistleblower against the bank’s chief, Mauricio Claver-Carone, according to a source with knowledge of the matter.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Shelley Nitschke has been appointed head coach of the Australia women’s cricket team for the next four years with the task of overseeing a tricky transition of a highly successful team.

(Reuters) – Australian Tom Moody has left his role as Sri Lanka’s director of cricket after his contract was terminated by mutual agreement, the country’s board (SLC) said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Wall Street closed down on Tuesday as traders, already cautious of making new bets on the eve of a U.S.

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