Daily Archive: Thursday, December 1, 2022

The Ministry of Education today announced that the new Chief Education Officer will be  Saddam Hussain.

HONG KONG/BEIJING, (Reuters) – China is set to announce an easing of its COVID-19 quarantine protocols in the coming days and a reduction in mass testing, sources told Reuters, a marked shift in policy after anger over the world’s toughest curbs fuelled widespread protests.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Joint Select Committee (JSC) of Parliament on National Security yesterday heard that some 19,000 containers entered T&T over an eight-month period without being checked by customs officials.

Opposition members yesterday registered strong objections to the Hire Purchase Bill citing the absence of crucial safeguards for the protection of consumers but this did not stop its passage.

In what is increasingly becoming a battle between the government and local councils over jurisdiction for community projects, President Irfaan Ali last night lashed out at the opposition APNU+AFC over its stance on works at Den Amstel on the West Demerara which saw Works Minister Deodat Indar instructing the removal of padlocks placed by the NDC on a sports ground.

A wanted bulletin was yesterday issued for Mohammed Ramzan Shaheed who is accused of robbing and killing an 85-year-old Bushlot, West Coast Berbice woman on Monday morning.

The Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the March 2nd 2020 general elections yesterday learnt that based on documents provided by the Guyana Police Force (GPF) that most of the instructions between March 5 and March 6 of 2020 came from two senior ranks identified as Assistant Superintendents (ASP) Kingston and Nurse and it also heard testimony about the evacuation of the GECOM Chair from the Ashmins building.

Guyana and India discussed cooperation on a broad range of matters including oil and gas when the two sides held the fourth session of their foreign office consultations in Georgetown on Monday.

Ezekiel Newton and Keliza Smith powered to emphatic wins in the blue riband 100m races yesterday highlighting Day 4 of this year’s ‘Nationals’ currently  underway at the National Track and Field Centre.

Chairman of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Shurwayne Holder yesterday said that his party received unsatisfactory answers to most of the issues it raised with Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) officials at a meeting on Tuesday, Holder, who was speaking at the party’s weekly press conference, said the officials included the commission’s chair Justice (ret’d) Claudette Singh and Chief Election Officer Vishnu Persaud and during the meeting the party raised issues such as the Preliminary Voters List (PVL)  being more suited for national and not regional elections and concerns about the new gazetted boundaries for local authorities.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A U.S. House of Representatives committee has obtained access to Donald Trump’s tax returns, following a years-long court fight with the Republican former president who has accused the Democratic-led panel of being politically motivated.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chinese newspapers turned their front pages black today and flags were put at half mast in mourning for the death of former president Jiang Zemin, whose death has prompted a wave of nostalgia for the more liberal times he oversaw.

Noticing the business opportunities afforded the diaspora as Guyana’s oil and gas sector continues to grow, a young Canadian-Guyanese has established his logistics company here and is welcoming businesses and investors to partner with him.

(Reuters) – Russian forces tried to advance in eastern Ukraine and trained tank, mortar and artillery fire on Kherson in the south, the Ukrainian military said, as Western allies sought to buttress Ukraine and its neighbours against Moscow.

Career diplomat Keith George on November 23rd presented his Letters of Credence to Mary J.

Dear editor, I recently wrote that the UN was dead wrong to suggest solar power as a better source of power for Guyana than natural gas.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – China, Russia, Algeria and Turkey have pledged to restructure Cuba’s debt, provide new trade and investment financing, and help ease an energy crisis, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel told state-run media following a rare trip abroad last week.

Dear Editor, I hope this letter attract the attention of someone who has the authority to stop the dreadful noise nuisance that emanates on a nightly basis from Sita’s Bar & Liquid Love at Station Street, Kitty. 

Athletics action in the 60th edition of the National Schools Cycling, Swimming and Track and Field Championships continued Tuesday at the National Track and Field Centre at Edinburg.

A Rose Hall, Corentyne woman and her husband were on Tuesday arrested as police launched an investigation after there were reports of an overseas-based Guyanese man claiming that he was defrauded by a woman in Guyana.

ExxonMobil has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to identify suppliers who can provide Platform Support Vessels (PSV) and Fast Support Vessels (FSV) services next year.

Dear Editor, America is back in Venezuela.  Well, Chevron has been officially cleared to set up shop across the border to make public what was happening on the sly. 

Presidents of two boxing organizations, Umar Kremlev of the IBA and the WBA’s Gilberto Jesús Mendoza, have agreed on future cooperation between the organizations and the development of a roadmap of mutual work across complete interests during their meeting in Mexico City.

LISBON,  (Reuters) – Global police agency Interpol confirmed yesterday it had issued a red notice for Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, daughter of the country’s former president, asking global law enforcement authorities to locate and provisionally arrest her.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for Matthew Gangapersaud, the Coren-tyne man who allegedly slashed his ex-wife’s face last month leaving her with an injury that required twenty-eight stitches.

Dear Editor, There are various types of violence that are constantly being committed against women and the five main ones are physical violence, verbal violence (including hate speech), psychological violence, sexual violence and socio-economic violence.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Hakeem Jeffries was unanimously elected on Wednesday to become the Democratic Party’s top leader in the U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has reached a nine-figure settlement with the U.S.

Dear Editor, It is interesting what is going on in Georgetown.

Virjanand Depoo on November 23rd presented his Letters of Credence to Chandrikapersad Santokhi, President of Suriname, accrediting him as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Guyana to Suriname.

Dear Editor, The saga of the ship, the bridge and government continues and is unfolding with daily twists and turns.

The 2022 edition of the Diamond Mineral Water International Indoor Hockey Festival will commence this evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue.

Police are investigating a fatal accident that occurred on Tuesday at about 12:30 hrs on the Buxton Public Road, East Coast Demerara, in which 19-year-old Treon Goppy was killed.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad welcomed its largest cruise ship to date earlier today when the MSC Seashore made its inaugural visit to Port of Spain with approximately 3,500 passengers on board.

QUITO, (Reuters) – The Ecuadorian government declared an animal health emergency yesterday due to an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu, its Agriculture Ministry said.

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) estimated that in 2021, there were between 33.9 million and 43.8 million people living with HIV around the world.

LUSAIL, Qatar, (Reuters) – Mexico scored twice in five second-half minutes in a thrilling last-ditch effort to stay in the World Cup yesterday, beating Saudi Arabia 2-1 but agonisingly missing out on the last 16 on goal difference.

DOHA, (Reuters) – Lionel Messi missed a first half penalty but Argentina’s Alexis Mac Allister and Julian Alvarez scored in a 2-0 victory over Poland at Stadium 974 yesterday as both teams booked their places in the knockout stages of the World Cup.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Nicholas Pooran’s third half-century of the Abu Dhabi T10 lifted leaders Deccan Gladiators to a 10-wicket victory over Bangla Tigers at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium here yesterday.

AL RAYYAN, Qatar, (Reuters) – An energetic and determined Tunisia claimed a famous victory over a France team made up mostly of back-up players yesterday, but their 1-0 win over the reigning champions was not enough for the North Africans to progress to the World Cup knockout stages.

PERTH, Australia, CMC – West Indies’ two-Test campaign Down Under started in chastening fashion as Marnus Labuschagne unveiled an eighth Test hundred to spearhead Australia’s domination of the opening day of the first Test here  yesterday.

With the construction of a tarmac at the back of the Hydronie Market on the East Bank of Essequibo, vendors are relieved that their selling woes would soon be addressed. 

Established wicketkeeper/batter, Shemaine Campbelle, is back in the West Indies Women’s side, joining four of her countrywomen for the first two One Day Internationals against England Women.

LONDON/LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Christine McVie, whose songwriting and signature vocals helped make British-American group Fleetwood Mac one of the best-selling rock bands of all time, died yesterday.

By Joschka Fischer BERLIN – We are witnessing an unprecedented confluence of major and minor crises.

PERTH, Australia,  CMC – Tagenarine Chanderpaul has made his Test debut for West Indies, 28 years after his legendary father Shivnarine made his debut for the Caribbean side.

Dear Editor, When the West Indies team was knocked out of the recently concluded world cup, one newspaper headlined them as “Worst Indies.”

(Trinidad Express) One November night in 2005, four people were liming at a house in Arima drinking puncheon when one of them, a 45-year-old man, indicated he wanted to have sex with another member of the group, a 15-year-old boy.