Daily Archive: Friday, October 14, 2022

Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill today received the official report of the Board of Inquiry (BOI), regarding the October 8th 2022, collision of the vessel, Tradewind Passion, into the Demerara Harbour Bridge.

Ranks of Regional Police Division #6 led by a Deputy Superintendent along with prison officers, this morning conducted a search of the New Amsterdam Prison, during which a number of contraband items were confiscated.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan migrants stranded on the U.S.-Mexico

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Haiti is facing a humanitarian catastrophe as it struggles with malnutrition, gang violence, inflation and a cholera outbreak, the U.N.’s

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Liz Truss fired her finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng today and scrapped parts of their economic package in a desperate bid to stay in power and survive the market and political turmoil gripping the country.

(Trinidad Guardian) What started off as a fender bender turned into a fatal attack after a mechanic was beaten and stabbed to death by a group of Spanish-speaking men shortly after midnight yesterday.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – French food company Danone DANO.PA will shed control of its dairy food business in Russia in a deal that could lead to a write-off of up to 1 billion euros ($978 million), it said today.

VALLETTA, (Reuters) – Two men went on trial today for the murder of Maltese anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia almost five years ago to the day she died in a car bomb.

The Governments of Guyana and China yesterday signed an Air Services agreement which lays the foundation for flights between the two countries.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph’s (GTT) fibre optic cable rollout is now in 100,000 homes.

The Lethem Power Com-pany (LPC) has come under fire for its silence after residents in the Region Nine Township were forced to endure one week of power outages without any official word.

Coomacka crushed Blueberry Hill 5-2 when the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) Senior Men’s League continued last evening at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground, Linden.

The International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly-Guyana (IDPADA-G), while acknowledging that the government is not mandated to provide it with funding, said that they are considering legal action to force the reinstatement of its $8 million monthly subvention for the remainder of 2022.

There is every likelihood that Guyana could be the centre of attention when the October 23-28 2022 Trade Americas, Caribbean Region Trade Mission and Business Conference gets underway in just over a week’s time.

GT Panthers earned a berth in the elimination round of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Senior Men’s League, upsetting Santos by a 2-1 score-line on Wednesday evening at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda, Georgetown.

Social issues particularly gender equality are at the heart of the United Kingdom’s  foreign and development policy and UK official, Alicia Herbert said they are working with Guyana to “accelerate” the pace and examine strategies to tackle these areas.

With Guyana, as a member country of CARICOM, having committed itself to the goal of reducing regional food imports by 25% by 2025, there exists, at this time, a disproportionate government emphasis on the oil and gas and agro-processing sectors, the preoccupation with the former seemingly having the effect of leaving the latter behind, operators in the sector who participated in the Stabroek Business’ recent ‘mini survey’ have told this newspaper.

The prices for English tomatoes in the city’s main markets have dropped significantly over the past two weeks following increased supplies by local farmers Stabroek News visited the Bourda and Stabroek markets this week to get a sense of the direction in which prices for tomatoes are moving and it was observed they have dropped quite a bit over the past fortnight.

Star cyclists, Jamual John and Andre ‘Padlock’ Green will represent Guyana and their respective clubs in the Tobago International Cycling Classic which starts today.Back

The Trinidad and Tobago-owned company RAMPS Logistics, which is currently providing support services to international operations involved in Guyana’s oil recovery exercise is crediting its local subsidiary, El Dorado Offshore (EDO), with playing an integral role in the process through the contribution which El Dorado has made to providing more than four hundred Guyanese workers with skills that are important to the overall execution of the oil recovery process.

Soesdyke Falcons and Swan recorded wins when the East Bank Demerara Football Association (EBDFA) Senior Men’s League continued on Sunday at the National Training Centre, Providence, East Bank Demerara.

Three Corentyne men have been remanded after being found under a tree with a large amount of marijuana.

The Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the March 2020 general and regional elections is set to begin on November 3rd and the Government is inviting persons who wish to give evidence to contact the Secretary of the Commission.

With almost 600 million people across the world likely to have to make do with less than US$2.15 per day by year 2030, the globally touted progress in reducing extreme poverty is quite likely to grind to a shuddering halt by 2030 according to the World Bank’s recently released latest Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report.

(Reuters) – Brazil forward Neymar will stand trial next week on fraud and corruption charges over his transfer to Barcelona from Santos in 2013 and the complainant, Brazilian investment firm DIS, said yesterday it was demanding a five-year jail term.

Dear Editor, An economically sound Wales gas-to-energy (WGTE) would be a most satisfying development for Guyanese. 

Anand Sanasie, the owner of the Kingston buildings housing the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), has filed a lawsuit seeking to recover the just over $9 million which he says the Commission owes in rent and is refusing to pay. 

(Reuters) – India’s current batting line-up is their best ever in cricket’s shortest format but the team must improve their fielding in Australia if they are to bring home a second T20 World Cup trophy, former coach Ravi Shastri has said.

The Guyana chapter of the nine year-old Women Entrepreneurship Network of the Caribbean (WENC) is currently seeking to extend its influence across the country with a view to strengthening the “Voice, Visibility and Viability of local women entrepreneurs through advocacy, training and networking.”

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Professor Andre Brandli’s letter to the Editor of Stabroek News dated October 11, 2022, with the caption “Mr.

(Reuters) – A former president of Venezuela’s soccer federation (FVF) has been banned by FIFA for five years and fined more than $410,000 after being found guilty of financial corruption, world soccer’s governing body said yesterday.

Situated as it is in the distant reaches of Jacklow, in the Pomeroon river, neither Centaur Holdings, the parent company of a farming/agro-processing enterprise, nor   Green Diamond Foods, the brand under which Centaur Holdings markets its products, is likely to be household names across the country.

Germin Williams, aged 43 years of Nelson Street, Mocha, East Bank Demerara was on Wednesday charged by police  with Break and Enter and Larceny Contrary to Section 229(a) of the Criminal Law (Offences) Act, Chapter 8:01.

Dear Editor, I read with interest the letter of the Chief Labour Officer, published in the October 12, 2022, Stabroek News.

(Reuters) – World number one Iga Swiatek tamed China’s Zheng Qinwen 6-4 4-6 6-1 yesterday to ease into the quarterfinals of the San Diego Open and close in on an eighth title this season.

It appears that Guyana is not the only country in the Caribbean where the micro- and small-business sectors have an enduring grouse with financial institutions over the quality of customer service that they receive.

The body of a homeless man was yesterday morning discovered by residents at Adventure, Region Two in a bus shed.

Dear Editor, Response is made to Chief Labour Officer (CLO) Dhaneshwar Deonarine’s letter, “The union must now bring this illegal strike to an end” (SN, 12th October 2022).

(Reuters) – The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will hear the Chilean football federation’s appeal on Nov.

In a show of good faith, the European Union (EU) announced a major allocation of funds to address the food crisis in the region.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives committee probing the Jan.

The Digital in Motion Programme was launched yesterday morning at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre to help small businesses to retool.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Warning that inflation threatens to become “a runaway train,” the managing director of the International Monetary Fund urged policymakers to keep up the fight against rising prices even if it means more pain at a time of extraordinary economic turmoil.

Dear Editor, Reference your news story (SN Oct 9), the PNC Member of Parliament for Region 10, Jermaine Figueria, acted maturely and professionally and should be applauded and emulated for meeting, shaking hand with, and welcoming President Irfaan Ali to Linden.

(CMC) – Touring West Indies will face the Australia Prime Minister’s XI in a four-day pink-ball game Down Under next month, in commemoration of the 70-year anniversary of the celebrated fixture.

Twenty-nine-year-old Curtis Vasconscellos of 1st Street Agricola, East Bank Demerara who was arrested for Robbery Under Arms committed on a 50-year-old female of Mahaica, East Coast Demerara, was yesterday charged and remanded to prison for the offence.

KYIV/KUPIANSK, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Evacuees from Ukraine’s southern Kherson region were expected to begin arriving in Russia today after a Moscow-installed official suggested residents should leave for safety, a sign of Moscow’s weakening hold on territory it claims to have annexed.

Dear Editor, Yesterday 12 October was African Holocaust Day. This is because Christopher Columbus came to these parts on 12 October 1492, and this was the beginning of the holocaust of Indigenous and African peoples in the region.

The Ministry of Agriculture recently held its Pesticide Vendors Education and Certification Programme to satisfy the needs of the industry and to ensure sound management of chemicals.

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The last round and finals of the Guyana Cricket Board’s Senior Inter-County 50-over tournament has been moved to the National Stadium, Providence, East Bank Demerara.

LONDON/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – British finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng cut short his trip to Washington for this week’s global finance minister meetings and has headed back to London amid reports Prime Minister Liz Truss is considering reversing more of her government’s controversial “mini-budget”.

Dear Editor, IDPADA-G has been in the news recently with some folks passionately defending it, while attacking the government.

Guyana, in its few areas of progressiveness, had in 2010 passed the Sexual Offences Act that addressed the criminalisation of marital rape.

(CMC) – Two-time Twenty20 World Cup-winning captain, Daren Sammy, believes West Indies can produce “something special” at the latest edition of the tournament starting later this month.

Public attention is habitually focused on what happens at central government level, even although decisions taken at the local level may have a greater impact on the daily lives of villagers in any given location.

After waiting some seven months, cricket fans will have the opportunity to see the highly anticipated clash between Everest Cricket Club and Demerara Cricket club (DCC) in the Georgetown Cricket Association’s Noble House Seafood’s two-day second division tournament this weekend.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips on Wednesday told Afro-Guyanese that the Government is committed to inclusivity and values the traditions and customs of all Guyanese.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 988’s trading results showed consideration of $30,997,854 from 58,207 shares traded in 39 transactions as compared to session 987’s trading results, which showed consideration of $40,492,697 from 121,632 shares traded in 30 transactions.

One of the stories in this issue of the Stabroek Business seeks to draw attention to the October 23-28 2022 Trade Americas, Caribbean Region Trade Mission and Business Conference the purpose of which, as we understand it, seeks to afford potential American investors opportunities to peruse the region for investment openings including, in what one hopes, might be instances of joint venture undertakings that benefit our own businesses as well as job creation.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday October 13, 2022

-The “working-from-home” phenomenon I peruse our newspapers and Internet Applications; watch and listen to television and political presentations, it is easy to appreciate that too many contributions – some unwittingly, many deliberately – often, even daily, either emphasise or incite our human contributors’ differences.

(Reuters) – Five people including an off-duty police officer were shot dead in the North Carolina capital of Raleigh yesterday, prompting a massive manhunt that shut down part of city and resulted in the arrest of one suspect, officials said.