Daily Archive: Thursday, December 15, 2022

India’s High Commission here today condemned an attack at State House – the residence of President Irfaan Ali – that left a guard and the assailant seriously injured.

The Nigerian man who stabbed a State House guard five times remains in critical condition from injuries he suffered during a shootout in the vicinity of the premises.

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T’s distribution conglomerate, Massy Holdings has acquired US grocery store chain Rowe’s IGA Supermarket for US$47 million.

Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chair, retired Justice Claudette Singh SC, yesterday ruled that Local Government Minister, Nigel Dharamlall, has no authority to constitute constituencies in Local Authority Areas as he did in Order 50 of 2022.

Guyana yesterday launched a scheme with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for Guyanese youths to be trained as computer programmers, software developers and related skills.

Suraj Veersammy, the man accused of murdering his wife whose battered body was stuffed in a barrel which was found partially submerged in a trench at R and S Street, Belvedere, Corentyne, in April, 2020 will return to court in January to be sentenced after he opted to plead guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter yesterday.

Powerhouse Region #4 sent a stern warning to the field in the inaugural ‘One Guyana President’s Cup’ Football Championship, dismantling Region #7 by a 6-1 score-line last evening at the National Track and Field Facility, West Coast Demerara.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has recommended that no criminal charge be brought against  SOCU officers over their  detention of attorney, Tamieka Clarke  and private criminal charges  against the three officers have also been tossed.

Zaheer Hussein who was accused of killing his former father-in-law, Alexie Gomes back in 2020 has been found not guilty of the offence.

With the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) National Training Centre at Providence confirmed as the venue, the 3rd edition of the KFC Goodwill Schools Football Series will kick-off today with an exciting doubleheader.

The two United States companies that have been selected to build the Wales gas to shore plant – CH4 Guyana Inc and Lindsayca Inc – have teamed up with SOL Guyana to bid to set up an oil refinery here.

The stepmother of Damian Bissoon who was charged in April with the 2018 Kitty murder of Taj Anthony Jarvis, was yesterday charged along with a neighbour with obstructing the course of justice in relation to the murder and released on $400,000 bail.

(Reuters) – France will play Argentina in the World Cup final after beating Morocco 2-0 in an enthralling semi-final yesterday to stay on course to retain the title and end the fairytale run of the North Africans in Qatar.

Peter Charles, the man who is suspected to have fatally shot his partner, Asasha Ramzan before taking his own life on Tuesday was a licensed firearm holder, police sources confirmed.

A driver attached to the Regional Democratic Council of Region Six was yesterday charged with possession of narcotics which he was found with on Sunday last while operating a vehicle attached to the Health Department in New Amsterdam.

Dear Editor, The arrest of Mayor Ubraj Narine for questioning President Ali’s motives for continuously refusing to engage with him “is it because I am a Hindu and he is a Muslim?”

Dear Editor, In an updated fact sheet published by the World Bank on Guyana, dated October 6th, 2022, and last updated on November 2, 2022, the Bank highlighted that “in 2020, 71.6% of Guyanese households had experienced income loss compared to January 2020 levels – with the most severe impact typically found in low-income households”.

The Architecture for REDD+ Transactions’ (ART) approval of Guyana’s carbon credits has set a dangerous precedent in the business as it overlooked the history of human rights violations occurring in the country, says the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA).

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden yesterday announced an agreement aimed at bolstering trade ties between the United States and Africa after years in which the continent took a back seat to other U.S.

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Tuesday urged the government to adjust the salaries of all public servants.

Dear Editor, Oma Devi Virasamy. Oma translates to “giver of life,” and Devi translates to ”goddess”.

Dear Editor, Many moons ago, I spent three years in India, from 1979 to 1982.

CNOOC Petroleum Guyana Limited (CPGL), a 25% working partner in the Stabroek block has donated a complete solar lighting community system to Moraikobai, the only indigenous village in Region Five, with support from POWERCHINA, one of the world’s largest power construction enterprises.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday sanctioned what it described as a “major drug dealer” in the Dominican Republic, barring Americans from dealing with Jose “La Arana” Calderon and freezing his assets.

The trial of Sean Stoll who was charged with the 2016 accidental killing of his best friend Nafasi Edghill, is set to commence today before High Court Judge Simone Morris-Ramlall at the High Court in Demerara.

Dear Editor, I recently purchased a new phone from the Digicel branch in Main Street which had a fault difficult for me to detect, as its “broadcast” sent heavy electronic static sounds to whomsoever I called. 

LONDON, (Reuters) – National Health Service nurses in Britain will strike today in their first ever national walkout, as a bitter dispute with the government over pay ramps up pressure on already-stretched hospitals at one of the busiest times of year.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – Belgium’s intelligence service worked closely with other European countries for more than a year to uncover the graft scandal now rocking the European Parliament, the justice ministry said.

United States Ambassador to Guyana Sarah-Ann Lynch on Tuesday lauded government’s efforts in increasing salaries for health workers and public servants saying that fair wages would help to retain the human resources of this country.

Dear Editor, It was interesting to see all stops have been pulled out to create a pathway for Guyana’s qualification in the 2026 World Cup Football, with the inaugural One Guyana President’s Cup Football tournament.

A Diamond juice vendor was yesterday charged with a cybercrime after he allegedly posted several videos with degrading remarks about the Commissioner of Police (Ag) Clifton Hicken and Assistant Police Commissioner Calvin Brutus.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Honduras will sign an agreement today to install a United Nations-backed anti-corruption mission in the country, a foreign ministry official said Wednesday, making good on a key campaign pledge of President Xiomara Castro to root out graft.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peru announced a nationwide state of emergency yesterday, granting police special powers and limiting freedoms including the right to assembly, after a week of fiery protests that have left at least eight dead.

Dear Editor, The most recent outburst from the mayor has left many persons either laughing at him or feeling disgusted by his behaviour.

(Reuters) – Moscow said no “Christmas ceasefire” was on the cards after nearly 10 months of devastating war in Ukraine, even as the release of dozens more prisoners including an American showed that some contacts between the two sides remain.

(Reuters) – The men’s “big four” may be history but two of its remaining members, Novak Djokovic and Rafa Nadal, kept offering stiff resistance to the next generation in a seismic year for tennis.

The announcement by President Irfaan Ali on Sunday that 150 homes were to be constructed for vulnerable members of the  population across the country, by members of an initiative dubbed Men on Mission which he leads, was deserving of plaudits.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prof Michelle Mycoo, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at The University of the West Indies (UWI), St Augustine says there are over 396 squatter sites located on state lands in T&T.

(Reuters) – Kane Williamson has stepped down as New Zealand test captain and has been replaced by Tim Southee, the country’s cricket board (NZC) said today.

Some visitor visa applicants qualify to have their interviews waived and can submit their application documents for visa processing via our authorized courier service – currently DHL.

(Reuters) – American 400 metres runner Randolph Ross has been handed a three-year suspension for violating whereabouts rules and falsifying an email sent to anti-doping authorities, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said.

The fledgling circuit announced yesterday that the tournaments will be held at the Gallery Golf Club in Tucson, Ariz.,

By Janette Bulkan On 1 December, Winrock International and The Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) published the news on their websites that Winrock’s Architecture on REDD+ Transactions (ART) had issued the world’s first TREES credits to Guyana, a total of 33.47 million carbon credits.

Dear Editor, Is the 8% increase for the sugar industry only for categories represented by GAWU?

(Reuters) – Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy yesterday told the head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that his country opposes the idea of Russian athletes taking part in the 2024 Summer Games in Paris, the presidential office said.

(CMC) – A destructive spell from Carlos Brathwaite formalised a 10-run win for Kandy Kings against Jaffna Kings in a top-of-the-table clash in the Lanka Premier League yesterday, after a Player-of-the-Match performance from Fabian Allen with the bat and an all-round show from Andre Fletcher.

(Reuters) – Having just delivered the most exciting group stage ever seen at a World Cup, with a tried and tested format that keeps hundreds of millions of fans enthralled, FIFA now faces the prospect of ripping it all up.

(Reuters) – India’s Cheteshwar Pujara and Shreyas Iyer combined in a 149-run stand for the fifth wicket to help the tourists overcome a top order wobble and reach 278-6 against Bangladesh on the opening day of the first test in Chittagong yesterday.

Jayson Tatum scored 44 points and Jaylen Brown added 25 points with 15 rebounds as the visiting Boston Celtics ended a rare losing skid with a 122-118 overtime victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday in a battle of longtime rivals.

City Mayor, Ubraj Narine and Opposition Member of Parliament, Sherod Duncan were today slapped with several charges stemming from comments they made during a standoff over the removal of vendors from outside of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) on Monday.