Daily Archive: Friday, December 16, 2022

Justice Nareshwar Harnanan this afternoon ordered the quashing by certiorari of an environmental permit issued by the EPA on 9th June, 2021 in favour of Schlumberger permitting Schlumberger to construct a radioactive substances and materials storage and calibration facility at lot 1 Area X Houston on the East Bank of Demerara.

The sequel to 2009’s megahit “Avatar”, this one subtitled “The Way of Water”, arrives in cinemas to a markedly different world than its predecessor.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russia rained down scores of missiles on Ukraine’s power grid today, killing at least two people, damaging nine energy facilities and forcing Kyiv to introduce emergency blackouts across the country as winter bites.

BEIJING/SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping and his senior officials pledged to support China’s battered economy next year as the deaths of two veteran state journalists highlighted the worsening spread of COVID-19 in the capital Beijing.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – A huge aquarium in Berlin that was home to around 1,500 exotic fish burst today, spilling 1 million litres (264,172 gallons) of water and debris onto a major road in the busy Mitte district, emergency services said.

European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevičius and Guyana’s Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat this week signed a legally binding trade agreement to promote the sustainable trade of legal timber to the EU.

After demanding to see the President, a Nigerian man stabbed a State House guard five times and seized a gun from another before he was seriously injured in a shootout on Carmichael Street yesterday.

By Subhana Shiwmangal City Mayor, Ubraj Narine and Member of Parliament, Sherod Duncan, both appeared yesterday morning at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan where several charges were read to them following a standoff on Monday evening over the intended removal of vending caravans outside of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The Technical Acceptance Ceremony for the India-built north west ferry, MV MA LISHA was held in Kolkata, India yesterday.

There is every likelihood that Beverly Tapp, a 59-year-old Guyanese woman with a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and a master’s degree in Highway Engineering from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, along with her daughter, Josephine, an attorney-at-law and tax advisor, are the owners of the only women-owned road engineering firm in Guyana.   

The opening action at the 3rd edition of the KFC Goodwill Schools Football Series which commenced yesterday at the National Training Centre, Providence, saw DC Caesar Fox crush Golden Grove 6-0, while defending champion Annai going up against Christianburg/Wismar, played to a 2-2 stalemate.

Kennie Timmerman, a 25-year-old man of Third Avenue, Bartica died yesterday  after he lost control of an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) around 11.10 am and collided with the veranda of a wooden house at Karrau Village, Lower Mazaruni.

Caribbean Heads of Government and the region’s law enforcement institutions could come under greater pressure to pay attention to what a high-profile US integrity ‘watchdog’ institution has cited as an apparent increase in what we in the region describe as scams but which are more widely known as fraud schemes.

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

Finding no merit in his appeal, the Guyana Court of Appeal yesterday affirmed the conviction and 65-year sentence imposed on Esan Germain, who a jury in 2017 had found guilty of sexually abusing a 4-year-old girl on three occasions—with the final assault occurring when she was seven years old.

Guyana concluded its four-match international hockey series against host nation Barbados with positive results, as the junior side recorded a win alongside a drawn affair for the senior outfit on Sunday at Wildey Park.

The ‘holy grail’ of amateur boxing in Guyana will take centre stage this evening following a three year absence as the Terrence Ali National Open Championship commences at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

Already confronted with food security challenges which, since earlier this year, had compelled the Caribbean to move in the direction of establishing a regional food terminal designed to respond to ‘worst-case’ scenarios, particularly in the least food-secure countries in the region, Caribbean Community countries have just been served notice of the likelihood that their circumstances are likely to get worse before they get better.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) and the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial, and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) yesterday signed a collective labour agreement that will see over 70 per cent of GPL employees receiving a seven per cent salary increase.

Hillside defeated Lack Ah Scene, while Stabroek Ballers and Touches contested a high scoring draw, when the maiden edition of the Mocha Village ‘East Bank versus the Rest’ Streetball championship continued on Sunday at the Basketball Tarmac, Mocha.

Local Government and Regional Development Minister, Nigel Dharamlall, accompanied by Housing and Water Minister, Collin Croal, and Head of the Civil Defence Commission (CDC), Colonel Nazrul Hussain, paid a visit to flood-hit Region Seven on Wednesday.

With little more than an entrepreneurial instinct and a passion for turning whatever local fruit ‘fits the bill’ into a dehydrated condiment, 28-year-old Adaiah Fyffe has convinced himself that what started as no more than a likeness for that kind of experimentation, has grown into a conviction that it take him to a breakthrough both here in Guyana and perhaps elsewhere in the region.

The Government of Guyana (GOG) and the United Nations (UN) System on Wednesday hosted a Joint National Steering Committee (JNSC) meeting at which they recommitted to   attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs.)

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Western allies stepped up their support of Ukraine with additional funding, sanctions against Moscow and expanded military training while Kyiv’s defence minister predicted a new Russian offensive.

Just days after the administration of President Joe Biden made the decision to allow the US oil major Chevron to return the Venezuela to add its technical weight to the boosting of the country’s oil industry, the authorities in Caracas announced last week that the country’s oil exports had moved above that of the previous month though overall production still remained anchored below the 2021 average.

By Charwayne Walker Defending Jacob Cup champion, Queen’s College, successfully defended their title in the 1945 edition, against St Stanislaus College in the final on first innings points at the British Guiana Cricket Club (BGCC) ground, Thomas Lands.

Dear Editor, It gives me no pleasure to ever tell any media entity how to do its work, however, this latest article, “$803 million to patch East Bank Demerara Roads, published in Thursday’s Kaieteur News is untruthful and very misleading to the general public.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate passed legislation yesterday authorizing a record $858 billion in annual defense spending, $45 billion more than proposed by President Joe Biden, and rescinding the military’s COVID vaccine mandate.

Almost two years to the day since hosting their first market day on December 19, 2020, the members of the Mocha/Arcadia Agricultural Cooperative Society will be hoping that they not only see the return to their popular Sunday Market Day of their faithful customers but that, having now cleared drainage and irrigation challenges that had habitually flooded their farms and put them ‘out of business’ for a protracted, they can expand their market.

The government has made its third and final withdrawal from the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) for 2022, according to an announcement by Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh.

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – Honduras and the United Nations yesterday signed an agreement that paves the way for a new international anti-corruption commission in the Central American nation, where widespread graft has fueled violence and spurred mass migration.

SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – China reported 2,157 new symptomatic COVID-19 infections on Dec.

Dear Editor, I break my Christmas fast to express disappointment at my brother, His Worship, Pandit Ubraj Narine, Mayor of Georgetown. 

Through several official and unofficial complaints received by it, the Competition and Consumer Affairs Commission (CCAC) says it has been recognized that there is a growing problem of scams in shopping in the local online marketplace.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peruvian ex-President Pedro Castillo’s prison stay was extended by 18 months amid a deepening diplomatic spat with left-leaning countries in the region that oppose his removal as ongoing blockages threaten logistics at key copper mines.

For all the focus being placed on the role that fossil fuels play in the hastening of climate change, major oil and gas companies apparently have little intention of taking concrete action to transition away from oil and gas recovery and move towards clean energy options, according to a recent report compiled by representatives of the Democratic Party on the United States Oversight Committee.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday December 15, 2022

PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Panama’s government ordered Canada’s First Quantum Minerals FM.TO

Guyana Defence Force (GDF) ranks currently working on the Kaieteur Airstrip Expansion Project have been commended by the Minister of Public Works for the job  they have done so far.

(Reuters) – The hundreds of Russian drones hovering ominously over the Ukrainian battlefield owe their existence to an elastic, sanctions-evading supply chain that often runs through a shabby office above a Hong Kong marketplace, and sometimes through a yellow stucco home in suburban Florida.

Dear Editor, Is the Cybercrime Act driving ‘free speech’ offshore of Guyana?

Dear Editor, Please permit me space within your Editorial columns to air my concerns surrounding the recent racially divisive speech of Mayor Ubraj Narine.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 28-year-old prisoner of the Maximum Security Prison (MSP), Port-of-Spain (PoS), appeared virtually today before the Tunapuna Magistrates’ Court, charged with the December 2020 killing of Dhanraj Manan, 50.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. National Archives yesterday released thousands of documents related to the 1963 assassination of then-President John F.

For Guyanese editor Samuel Sukhnandan, the recent China International Press Communication Centre (CIPCC) programme provided an opportunity that will have an impact on his writing as it relates to China.

(Reuters) – Poland’s Szymon Marciniak will referee Sunday’s World Cup final between Argentina and France, the Polish FA said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Soccer bodies UEFA and FIFA yesterday won the backing of an adviser to Europe’s top court on rules contested by potential rival the European Super League (ESL) as anti-competitive in a case that could affect other sports.

(Reuters) – Fernando Santos has left his job as Portugal coach after his team lost to Morocco in the World Cup quarter-finals, the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) said yesterday.

But why 25th December? Defined simply, basically, morality has to do with the sense of what is right, beneficial for an individual or a society as a whole.

(Reuters) – As Croatia and Morocco pick up the pieces after their World Cup semi-finals defeats, the two teams will welcome the prospect of potentially leaving Qatar on a high when they square up in the third-place playoff tomorrow.

On Wednesday Mayor Ubraj Narine along with MP Sherod Duncan were escorted to the Brickdam Police Station and charged with attempting to excite hostility or ill will on the ground of race, using a computer system in an attempt to excite ethnic division on the ground of race and obstructing traffic.

By Nick Butler LONDON – Many have dismissed last month’s COP27 climate conference as a failure, owing to the lack of progress on pledges made at the COP26 summit last year, and to the absence of clear commitments to phase out fossil fuels.

From November 25th to December 10th, the annual 16 days of activism campaign against gender-based violence against women and girls was observed.

Dear Editor, Coming upon the insistent annual increases given by governments over the last two decades or more it seems certain now that the basic principles of compensation management are totally ignored, if at all known so far as the Public Service is concerned.

With viable means of existence in hinterland communities outside of the gold mining sector being historically difficult to come by, the search for alternatives has led to small-scale agriculture which, while being sufficient to satisfy largely subsistence requirements, has not, in too many cases, been expanded to lucrative  commercial levels.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 997’s trading results showed consideration of $5,052,418 from 21,352 shares traded in 20 transactions as compared to session 996’s trading results, which showed consideration of $55,766,988 from 188,488 shares traded in 30 transactions.

(Reuters) – Spinner Kuldeep Yadav and seamer Mohammed Siraj wreaked havoc with the ball sharing seven Bangladesh wickets between them to put India in the box seat in the opening test in Chittagong yesterday.

ANKARA,  (Reuters) – A Turkish court ordered the arrest of a journalist in the country’s southeast for allegedly spreading “disinformation”, his lawyer said yesterday, marking the first pre-trial detention under a new law that critics say threatens free speech.

(CMC) – A change of scenery meant nothing, and West Indies Women endured another demoralising defeat in their current home series against England Women, losing the second Twenty20 International by 16 runs on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has confirmed that it has approved a US$80 million loan to boost the efficiency, quality, sustainability, and resilience of Trinidad and Tobago’s drinking water supply and water security.

(Reuters) – Rafa Nadal was crowned the ITF world champion for the fifth time in his career while top-ranked Iga Swiatek won the women’s award after a superb 2022 season, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Real Madrid have reached an agreement to sign Brazilian teenager Endrick from Palmeiras, the teams announced yesterday, beating a host of leading European clubs linked to the prodigy.