Daily Archive: Tuesday, November 15, 2022

The ferry to service the north west which was built in India is due to arrive here in January, 2023, according to a release today from the Indian High Commission.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness today declared a state of public emergency in parts of the capital Kingston and in some central and western parishes in an attempt to control rising crime linked to gang violence.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, (Reuters) – Government ministers and negotiators from nearly 200 countries today began the hard slog of finding common ground for a deal at the annual U.N.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – An employee at Canada’s largest electricity producer Hydro-Quebec who was involved in researching battery materials has been charged with espionage for allegedly trying to steal trade secrets to benefit China, Canadian police said yesterday.

 (Reuters) – Financial regulators in the Bahamas yesterday appointed liquidators to run FTX’s unit in the country, just days after authorities said they were looking for any “criminal misconduct” by the collapsed crypto exchange.

Putting contractors on notice that her Ministry will not be accepting substandard work and delays in the construction of buildings to house students, Education Minister, Priya Manickchand, yesterday turned the sod for the expansion of two schools in Georgetown.

Minutes before its midday deadline, the Local Con-tent Secretariat (LCS) yesterday issued Ramps Logistics (Guyana) Inc  its Local Content Certificate as ordered by acting Chief Justice Roxane George on Friday.

The two maternity deaths at the Georgetown Public Hospital [GPHC] over the weekend occurred because of complications and an internal investigation into both cases has begun, Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony said yesterday.

The Ministry of Labour has denied that it is dragging its feet regarding Pritipaul Singh Investment and former workers who are demanding their severance pay after they were sent off in September  when the company rejected a bid for unionisation.

The police in Berbice have held a man who ran into the Bohemia Primary School yesterday with a cutlass and menaced persons in the compound.

While lauding its collaborative efforts with government in securing benefits for miners, including tax incentives for the industry, the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) says that there are other issues affecting the industry which must be addressed such as the rising cost of production.

Powered by Torginol, Kristian Jeffrey painted the picture perfect ending, coming from behind to win the Radicals Caribbean Cup series on Sunday in the highlight of the Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club’s (GMR&SC) International Race of Champions meet at the South Dakota Circuit.

The police are still on the hunt for the man who fatally stabbed  Joshua Dianid, a 28-year-old truck driver of Kwakwani Staff Hill, Upper Berbice River on Sunday morning at Bushpool Kwakwani.

Fitness Express, Guyana’s leading supplement and gym equipment supplier is the latest corporate sponsor to sign on to the third and final leg of the South American 10k event scheduled for Sunday.

City Mayor Ubraj Narine moved a motion at yesterday’s statutory meeting that former Town Clerk Royston King be paid outstanding sums in full within 72 hours.

Jobe Caesar, a national footballer, was yesterday remanded to prison on two charges, illegal possession of a firearm and illegal possession of ammunition. 

It was an evening of contrasting victories, as Paradise and Rosignol advanced to the second round in the Region #5 leg of the One Guyana President’s Cup, which kicked off Sunday evening at the Rosignol Community Centre ground, West Coast Berbice.

Dear Editor, Last Tuesday at his press conference, Mr. Aubrey Norton finally exposed the folly of his bloated list complaint.

Opposition Member of Parliament, Juretha Fernandes was yesterday rushed to the hospital after she complained of feeling unwell.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – West Indies cricketer Kieron Pollard has called time on his Indian Premier League (IPL) career after playing for Mumbai Indians (MI) for 13 seasons but will continue with the league’s most successful team in the role of batting coach.

Western Tigers was crowned the Georgetown Football Association ‘Super-8’ Champions after defeating Georgetown Football Club (GFC) 2-1 on Sunday evening.

Dear Editor, Further to the publication on 13 September 2022 on NPTAB’s website for MNRE’s Gas to Energy as it is named therein, the population is left to wonder what the cost of the NGL plant is.

The Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) has identified four teams with a fifth to follow for its U15 Inter Association tournament which is scheduled to commence next month at venues to be identified.

Businessman Roopan Ramotar has applied to the court for prescriptive title to a property in Plantation Exmouth in the Essequibo Coast Village of Dartmouth.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Captain Shai Hope constructed a high class half-century to power Barbados Pride to a five-wicket victory over Leeward Islands Hurricanes and into the semi-finals of the Super50 Cup here late Sunday night.

Dear Editor, I just could not resist commenting on Dr. Jerry Jailall’s most recent letter to the Editor, wherein was expressed perhaps all the oft-repeated but today discredited myths about marijuana.

NUSA DUA, Indonesia, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping engaged in blunt talks over Taiwan and North Korea yesterday in a three-hour meeting aimed at preventing strained U.S.-China

The police are still on the hunt for the four persons who were involved in the shoot-out at Laing Avenue last Friday that resulted in the death of 53-year-old Dexter McFarlane who was hit by a stray bullet.

On Saturday, the George-town Chamber of Commerce & Industry (GCCI) was part of the graduation ceremony held for 14 youth, one of whom was a young woman, who successfully completed ‘Basic Electrical Training’ with the Guyana Police Force (GPF).

Dear Editor, As someone who was trained as an economist, being among the few in Guyana who attended courses sponsored by the IMF’s Caribbean Regional Technical Assistance Center (CARTAC), the blame for my extended ten-year stint in the teaching profession is solely mine.

(Reuters) – Kari Lake, one of the most high-profile Republican candidates in the midterm elections to embrace former President Donald Trump’s false claims of voter fraud in 2020, lost her bid to become the next governor of Arizona, Edison Research projected on Monday.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and cricket great Imran Khan led tributes to Pakistan’s valiant fight in Sunday’s Twenty20 World Cup final against England saying the country was proud of the team led by Babar Azam.

KHERSON, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Kyiv welcomed reported Chinese comments criticising threats to use nuclear weapons as G20 leaders met in Indonesia yesterday, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in the spotlight.

Dear Editor, The amendment to the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act of 1988 by Bill No 2 of 2021 falls short of the expectation of full decriminalisation of cannabis under 30 grams.

The first Emergency Medical Service (EMS) was yesterday launched in Region Five and a $28 million fire station was also commissioned at Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice (WCB).

Joel Embiid had a massive performance, scoring a career-high 59 points and flirting with a quadruple-double, to lead the host Philadelphia 76ers to a 105-98 win over the Utah Jazz on Sunday night.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – A dust-up among aides to Brazil’s president-elect over the country’s choice to lead the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is fueling concern that hardcore leftists on his team are eclipsing the influence of more market-friendly moderates.

(Reuters) – Ecuador have left defender Byron Castillo out of their 26-man squad for the World Cup despite the player being deemed an Ecuadorean national by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

A pedestrian is currently hospitalised in a serious condition after he was injured in an accident along the Ogle Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD) yesterday afternoon.

Dear Editor, That visit to the UK which unfortunately did not take place, and turned out to be nothing more than an expensive airplane ride, has lessons for all of us.

LUSAKA,  (Reuters) – Zambia has asked Russia to explain how one of its citizens who had been serving a prison sentence in Moscow ended up on the battlefield in Ukraine where he was killed, Zambia’s foreign affairs minister said yesterday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Grammy-winning musician Roberta Flack, whose hits include “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” has been diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and can no longer sing, her representatives said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Brazil’s democracy prevailed under attacks during elections in October by far-right social media militias that sought to discredit the voting system, the head of the national electoral authority said on Monday.

The fact that the Chief Executive Officer of the Trinidad and Tobago-based company Ramps  logistics opted to cite what he saw as the fairness of the judicial system in the aftermath of the court’s ruling that  deemed as unlawful the decision by the Local Content Secretariat to make available to the company, by yesterday, a Local Content Certificate for which it has properly applied and was legally entitled to, was good for the  country’s judicial system no less than it was for the overall image of the country, not least, external perceptions of the integrity of its business culture.

Police in Regional Division #2 arrested and charged Ustus Dhari, a 33-year-old hire car driver of Lima Public Road, Essequibo Coast with the  Possession of Narcotics for the purpose of Trafficking, to wit 2.7 grammes of cocaine.

At about 12:00 p.m. on Sunday, Leading Fireman Hinds, who is attached to the Leonora Fire Station, travelled with the Police to Aliki, Essequibo River, to investigate a fire that had occurred there at 6:30 that morning.

Just over a week ago and for the 30th year running the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favour of a resolution condemning Washington for its continuing embargo on Cuba.

Dear Editor, I wish to utilise your letter column to advise young poets not to be too fast to present a freshly written poem to others.

(Reuters) – South Africa have selected fast bowler Gerald Coetzee for the first time and handed a recall to batsman Theunis de Bruyn for their crucial three-test tour of Australia that starts next month.