Daily Archive: Tuesday, October 11, 2022

 (Reuters) – Angela Lansbury, the British-born actress whose career spanned eight decades and produced indelible portraits of a wide range of characters from villainesses to sleuths and light comic roles in movies, on stage and on television, died at age 96, her family said today.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) this afternoon dismissed the appeals filed by brothers Orwin and Cleon Hinds who back in 2015 were convicted for the 2011 murder of Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund warned today of a disorderly repricing in markets, saying global financial stability risks have increased, raising the risks of contagion and spillovers of stress between markets.

 (Trinidad Express) Videsh Dookran, 15, left his family’s home in Golconda telling his mother that he was going to a ‘cook’ at a relative’s house on Saturday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) The pilot of a JetBlue Airways aircraft approaching the Piarco International Airport around 12.30 pm Monday, was forced to take evasive action to avoid close contact with a Caribbean Airlines aircraft which was on a trajectory to cross JetBlue’s path at nearly the same altitude.

Days after a major accident closed it, the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) reopened to traffic at 9 last night but will only be able to accommodate vehicles carrying up to 12 tonnes.

With a recent court ruling in his favour, proprietor of Precious Metal Mines, Tamesh Jagmohan says his company is currently working on a development plan for the former Sunset Lakes property.

The Chairman of the Wyburg/ Caracas Neighbourhood Democratic Council who was stung by a swarm of bees while checking on works in the backlands on September 27 succumbed to his injuries on Sunday morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Keevin Allicock lost his South American Games semi-final bout without throwing a single punch yesterday in Paraguay after failing to make weight prior to his 57kg bout versus Ecuador’s Jean Pachito. 

Guyana’s participation in boxing at the ongoing South American Games in Paraguay ended last evening after Desmond Amsterdam and Keevin Allicock lost their respective semi-final bouts. 

Michael Wilson, 40, a labourer of Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara (ECD) was fatally stabbed yesterday morning at about  8.15 and his 30-year-old common law wife has been taken into custody.

Three Kaieteur News (KN) employees were held at gunpoint and robbed yesterday in their Saffon Street office by bandits who later carted off a safe with millions of dollars in what the newspaper’s owner said was an inside job.

A sensational century from Kemol Savory coupled with a solid half-century from Kevon Boodie ensured Essequibo an eight wicket win over the President’s XI yesterday at the Everest Cricket Club ground, Camp Road.

MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – West Indies brushed aside minnows United Arab Emirates by 17 runs Sunday in their first official warm-up match but concerns remained ahead of the Caribbean side’s Twenty20 World Cup campaign.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – India maintains a “healthy dialogue” with Russia and will look at what is offered following an announced ownership revamp to the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project, Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri told Reuters.

West Demerara giant Pouderoyen FC downed Airy Hall 2-1 when the maiden edition of the Paradise Sports Club ‘Stop Violence against Women and Children’ Football Champion-ship continued on Sunday.

Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand is confident that Universal Secondary Education will be a reality by 2025.

Seven men were arrested yesterday afternoon after the police carried out an operation in Black Bush Polder and discovered them under a tent with over 65 pounds of cannabis.

Berbice dominated Demerara in the Guyana Cricket Board Senior Inter-County 50-over tournament yesterday at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground to secure a 189-run win.

Dear Editor, The MV Tradewind Passion, a 118m long ship with gross tonnage 5,001 and Dead Weight Tonnage of 7,112 metric tonnes, impacted the Demerara Harbour Bridge at 5:57am on Oct 8, 2022.

NOTTINGHAM, England,  (Reuters) – Nottingham Forest held visitors Aston Villa to a 1-1 draw in the Premier League yesterday, halting a run of five consecutive defeats and moving off the bottom of the table.

Dear Editor, I am responding herewith to Mr. Bhagwandin’s letter to the Editor of Stabroek News published October 8, 2022, and entitled `The overall objective of the PSA is to obtain a higher profit share after fully recouping investment costs’.

Twenty-two Guyanese startup founders with great ideas in science, technology and agriculture have been shortlisted as the new cohort of Venture Fellows for the 2022-23 Guyana Innovation Prize programme.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – England captain Jos Buttler declined to appeal against Australia’s Matthew Wade for obstructing the field in the series-opening T20 match in Perth on Sunday but said he might be less forgiving in the upcoming World Cup.

Dear Editor, Permit me to respond to Joel Bhagwandin’s letter in SN of October 8th, captioned, ‘The overall objective of the PSA is to obtain a higher profit share after fully recouping investment costs’; but before doing so, I would like to recommend that Joel Bhagwandin take some finance and economic classes from Mike Persaud, ‘BetterWaytoRetire’, and Burch01, among others, who in the comments section of Stabroek News, advanced pertinent interpretations of his letter.

A 22-year-old motorcyclist was taken into custody on Sunday after the police allegedly found an unlicensed firearm and several live rounds concealed in his pants crotch.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine vowed to strengthen its armed forces after Russia launched its biggest aerial assaults on cities since the beginning of the war, forcing thousands to flee to bomb shelters and prompting Kyiv to halt electricity exports to Europe.

WARSAW, (Reuters) – Real Madrid will focus on sealing a place in the Champions League knockout stage with a win against Shakhtar Donetsk in Warsaw yesterday and striker Karim Benzema will be back in the team to help, coach Carlo Ancelotti said Real Madrid are top of Group F on a maximum nine points from three games and a win against second-placed Shakhtar — on five points — will take them into the knockout phase.

Dear Editor, The continuing war in Ukraine is showing no signs of letting up.

Police last night said they are investigating a complaint made by a 40-year-old Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara (EBD) man who alleged that he began experiencing “burning” about his body after “something” dripped on him while he was making a report at the Brickdam Police station.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Democratic chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee called yesterday for a freeze on cooperation with Saudi Arabia, including most arms sales, accusing the kingdom of helping underwrite the Russian war on Ukraine after OPEC+ announced last week it would cut oil production.

Dear Editor, The Wales gas-to-shore facility (GTSF), one of the high, if not the highest-cost PPP/C manifesto’s projects has generated a plethora of media articles and discussions, mostly negative.

(Reuters) – Former Yorkshire spinner Azeem Rafiq and ex-head coach Andrew Gale are among five players who have been reprimanded by England’s Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) for historical social media posts, the country’s cricket board (ECB) said.

`Eating Papaw on the Seashore’ which was produced and written by Guyanese film maker Rae Wiltshire premiered on Saturday at a LGBTQ+ short film festival at the Theatre Guild.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Iranian security forces intensified a crackdown on anti-government protests in several Kurdish cities yesterday, as demonstrations elsewhere in Iran spread into the country’s vital energy sector.

(Reuters) – British sprinter Chijindu Ujah was banned by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for 22 months yesterday for a doping violation at last year’s Tokyo Olympics but cleared him of intentionally taking prohibited substances.

Four senior members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) on Saturday graduated from the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad and Tobago with their Legal Education Certificate (LEC).

Dear Editor,  No chicken! No fish! This is the reality intermittently facing the Guyanese populace.

(Reuters) – The United States and Canada should take the lead in forming a strike force to confront Haitian gangs that have created a humanitarian crisis by blocking access to a key fuel terminal, Haiti’s ambassador to the United States said on Monday.

(Reuters) – New Zealand will play two tests and three one-day internationals on their tour of Pakistan starting in December, before returning to the country next April for five Twenty20 internationals and five ODIs, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Monday.

Last Thursday, we learnt that two students of a city school had been charged and remanded into custody following the murder of a Govern-ment Technical Institute (GTI) student, Samuel Grannum, who reportedly died from injuries sustained during a confrontation between ‘rival gangs’ two Fridays ago.

By Neville J. Bissember With a deteriorating economic situation, starvation and low troop morale (sounds familiar?),

Dear Editor, Please permit me space in your newspaper letter column to air the grievances and neglect of farmers on the left bank of the Corentyne River, between Curry Island and Pigeon Island.

Three COVID-19 cases have been recorded by the Ministry of Health after 65 tests were conducted.