Daily Archive: Friday, December 23, 2022

President Irfaan Ali praised the connection between Guyana and Cuba at a reception honouring the 50th Anniversary of  relations between the two countries last evening at the Pegasus Suites and Corporate Centre.

ROME, (Reuters) – The corruption scandal rocking the European Parliament, in which suspects were found with suitcases full of cash, is like something out of crime drama television series “Narcos”, EU Economy Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said today.

 (Reuters) – Fiji’s opposition leader Sitiveni Rabuka is expected to become prime minister when parliament sits tomorrow after winning backing from a coalition of three parties, signalling an end to Frank Bainimarama’s 16 years in power.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – England all-rounder Sam Curran became the Indian Premier League’s (IPL) most expensive ever buy in the players’ auction today as the world’s richest cricket league spent big ahead of the 2023 season.

A final with an international flavour will decide the KFC Goodwill Schools Football Championship tonight, as Region #7 outfit DC Caesar Fox opposes St.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has partnered with emerging football fandom platform, FIFA+, to present the country’s national football tournaments to live audiences around the globe.

Region #6 overcame a one goal deficit to defeat Region #8 by a 3-2 score when the ‘One Guyana President’s Cup’ Football Championship continued last night at the Albion Cricket ground, East Berbice.

Georgetown Mayor, Ubraj Narine, whose Guyana Defence Force (GDF)  Reserve position was recently taken away, plans to take legal action on the basis that his termination was unlawful as he was not on active duty, sources close to him have disclosed.

(Reuters) – India seamer Umesh Yadav and off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin claimed four wickets apiece as the tourists bowled out Bangladesh for a below-par 227 on the opening day of the second and final test in Mirpur yesterday.

(Reuters) – Former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja has been sacked as chairman of the country’s cricket board (PCB) after the 3-0 test series whitewash by England, his interim replacement Najam Sethi said yesterday.

Tiffani Jeffrey, a 38-year-old woman died at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation yesterday after delivering her baby two days ago.

(Reuters) – England have named fast bowler Jofra Archer in their 14-man squad for the three-match One-Day International series in South Africa next month, while there is a first call-up in the 50-over format for in-form batsman Harry Brook.

The EPA says it is awaiting a written ruling from the High Court on the quashing of an environmental permit to oil services contractor Schlumberger Inc before taking action.

Police are reviewing surveillance footage as they continue to investigate the murder of 23-year-old SabuTaro Singh on Regent Street, Georgetown on Wednesday night.

(Reuters) – Benetton Treviso rugby club said yesterday they had suspended one of their players after a Black team member revealed he had received a banana as a Christmas gift from a team mate in the latest act of racism to hit Italian sport.

(Reuters) – China’s three-times Olympic champion Lyu Xiaojun has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for a banned substance, the International Testing Agency (ITA) said yesterday.

The Guyana Forensic Science Laboratory (GFSL) will receive a DNA analysis workflow system in the coming months and samples will no longer be sent overseas for testing.

Dear Editor, It has been near a decade since the Governments of CARICOM established a Reparations Commission to promote regional and global understanding of the enslavement of African people and native genocide with the objective of securing reparatory justice and development for the still suffering people of the Caribbean.

(Reuters) – Australia captain Meg Lanning has ended her break from cricket and was included in the squad for their one-day international series against Pakistan next month, giving the team a boost ahead of the women’s Twenty20 World Cup in February.

President of the Women’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Guyana, Rowena Elliot, has told the Stabroek Business that while Guyanese businesswomen have, over time, arrived at a point where some of them are now “leading and owning sizeable businesses,” women are still “not quite where we want to be” in terms of the extent of their ascendancy up to this time.

Up to yesterday, the Guyana Police Force had still not commented on a video posted on Facebook over a week ago showing two men and a woman storming into the Providence Police Station on the East Bank of  Demerara, with one of the men brandishing a firearm.

(Reuters) – Italy’s soccer prosecutors are seeking the partial cancellation of a ruling that cleared Juventus and other clubs and their executives following an accounting investigation involving capital gains, the football federation (FIGC) said yesterday.

ExxonMobil Corp., the largest U.S.-based energy company, has sold its Irving, Texas, headquarters campus to a real estate investment firm in a sale-leaseback deal through next year, according to CoStar News.

Stabroek Business (SB) recently sat down with Rowena Elliot, the president of the Women’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Guyana to discuss the issue of the ‘glass ceiling’ which is said to be inhibiting women’s upward mobility, especially in the corporate world, and the steps her organisation is taking to counter this and empower women in Guyana to achieve their full potential.

Dear Editor, WPA notes with great concern the government’s announcement via the Attorney General that it intends to repeal the Cybercrime Act and replace it with a new law based on a model emanating from the United Nations.

(CMC) – Carlos Brathwaite, Andre Fletcher, and Fabian Allen are out, but Dominic Drakes, Romario Shepherd, and the Colombo Stars are into the final of the Lanka Premier League.

Time was when there had been a keen ‘rivalry’ between ‘worshipers’ of freshly cut flowers and artificial ones, a clash that pitted the ‘green fingers’ against the ‘crafty’ types.

The government is planning to introduce laws in the new year to better govern electronic transactions and payments, Attorney General Anil Nandlall says.

Dear Editor, Beginning 10th December 2020 the writer has also dispatched the following letters direct to the General Manager National Insurance Scheme, without any response – 5th January, 2021 – 14th June, 2022 The most recent, registered last week, was sent to P.O.

The Bartica couple and a female relative who were allegedly assaulted on Friday, November 11, by two prison officers from the Mazaruni Prison while hanging out at Bushy Bar in Bartica, Region Seven, are still awaiting results from the investigation that was launched in the matter.

For altogether understandable reasons, last Sunday’s usually widely popular Mocha Farmers Market was a shadow of its former self.

(Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) yesterday raised the possibility of boxing being excluded from the 2024 Paris Games, saying its Russian-led world body showed it had “no real interest” in the sport or its athletes.

Dear Editor, I have noted quite recently the disgusting letters of noise nuisance from Sita’s Bar in Kitty.

DETROIT,  (Reuters) – A dangerously frigid arctic air mass gripped a vast expanse of the United States yesterday ahead of what could be one of the coldest Christmas Days on record, as a looming winter storm threatened to upend travel plans for millions of Americans.

(CMC) – An enterprising 45 from West Indies Under-19 batsman Kevin Wickham proved decisive and set up Settlers for a five-run win against Guardians to take the inaugural BIM10 title yesterday.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – An Argentine court has sentenced a former police officer extradited from France to 15 years in jail for the kidnapping and disappearance of a young man during the country’s so-called Dirty War some four decades ago, a court clerk said yesterday.

Dear Editor, According to Newsroom-”Teachers are taxed”, was the statement of a teacher attached to Mathew’s Ridge Secondary School in Region One during a visit to the community by President Irfaan Ali on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – For President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, his surprise visit to Washington this week was a clear success: he returns to Europe with new financial and military commitments from the United States and bipartisan support for Ukraine’s war with Russia.

Detective Constable Courtney Sampson yesterday snagged the Best Cop award in Region Six and urged persons joining the force to do so on good faith and to work hard and not be corrupt.

On the heels of the recent insistent warnings from within the region that the Caribbean’s food security status might not now be as reassuring as we might have imagined the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has given notice that countries in the region should brace themselves for what a Caribbean Media Corporation report says will be the “prolonged effects of external economic shocks in 2023, including for high food and fuel prices and rising international interest rates”.

Arguably the most significant drawback for Guyana from the country’s successive oil finds and projections on the issue of more deposits that lie ahead is the attention that the country has attracted from both potential investors seeking to benefit from the business opportunities that would appear to lie ahead as the country embarks on a multi-faceted developmental agenda.

(Reuters) – Men will be allowed to compete in artistic swimming at the Olympics from the Paris 2024 Games, World Aquatics said yesterday, as part of a drive towards inclusivity hailed by athletes as the realisation of an “impossible dream”.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – A Venezuelan man has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the May murder of a Paraguayan prosecutor in Colombia, Venezuela’s interior minister said yesterday.

Dear Editor, I unhappily note letter from Mayleen Davis and family in Stabroek News of December 22nd.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – Fiji’s Social Democratic Liberal Party (SODELPA) is due to meet today to decide if its decision to form a coalition with the opposition stands, a move that comes after the Pacific country’s military was called in to help police maintain law and order.

A post-mortem examination carried out on the body of Tinesha Johnson, who was found tangled in a torn hammock, yesterday revealed that she died as a result of asphyxia compounded with broncho aspiration. 

Guyana achieved a historic milestone on December 1st when it became the first country to be issued carbon credits under the new high-integrity carbon standard ART (Architecture for REDD+ Transactions) and this has been lauded by Norway.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Chile plans to open an embassy in the Palestinian territories, President Gabriel Boric said late on Wednesday, which could make the Andean country one of only a handful to have an embassy-level office in the territories that are contested with Israel.

(Reuters) – The distasteful taunting of France striker Kylian Mbappe by some Argentina fans amid celebrations in Buenos Aires to welcome back the World Cup winners should be investigated by soccer’s world governing body FIFA, a senior French cabinet minister said.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Chris Ram’s epistle (Dec 21) assailing the airlines flying out of Timehri for penalizing passengers who arrived late for checking in because of extenuating circumstances and urging penalties for airlines for late departure. 

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Sam Bankman-Fried was released on a $250 million bond package yesterday while he awaits trial over the collapse of the FTX crypto exchange, which a U.S.

(Reuters) – Argentina have climbed one place to second in the latest FIFA rankings behind arch-rivals Brazil after their World Cup triumph in Qatar, while the tournament’s surprise package Morocco were big movers and are on the verge of cracking the top 10.

(Trinidad Guardian) The University of the West Indies St Augustine Campus, and the Inter-American Development Bank have signed a Technical Cooperation Agreement in the amount of US$996,000.

SHANGHAI/BEIJING, (Reuters) – A Shanghai hospital has told its staff to prepare for a “tragic battle” with COVID-19 as it expects half of the city’s 25 million people will get infected by the end of next week, while the virus sweeps through China largely unchecked.

0ver 500 senior citizens of Region 3 were on Wednesday treated to lunch at a “historic programme” held at President Irfaan Ali’s private home at Leonora, West Coast Demerara.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 998’s trading results showed consideration of $42,093,665 from 81,976 shares traded in 24 transactions as compared to session 997’s trading results, which showed consideration of $5,052,418 from 21,352 shares traded in 20 transactions.

(Reuters) – Manchester City will travel to Southampton in the League Cup quarter-finals after knocking out holders Liverpool and Manchester United were handed a home tie against third-tier Charlton Athletic in the draw yesterday.

First consider these two relatively–opposing points: compared to many other portions of our planet our Guyana enjoys actual prolonged peace; and do you realise many – too many – opposition politicians – along with many letter-writing surrogates/critics – would experience serious mental trauma if prolonged peace and consistent development offered them no reason to be critical, to oppose or to ‘buse?

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s political opposition to the ruling Socialists voted yesterday by a wide margin to remove the interim government led by Juan Guaido, as they seek a united front ahead of presidential elections tentatively scheduled for 2024.

(Trinidad Express) A woman who lost her husband and her son in a shooting at Three B’s Drive, Piarco, claimed yesterday that, despite constant reports about being followed home by suspicious people, the police never responded.

By Olga Speranskaya and Alexandra Caterbow MUNICH/OTTAWA – In late November, the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution met for the first time.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – A Belgian judge ruled yesterday that European lawmaker Eva Kaili will remain in custody for another month as an investigation continues into corruption charges in a graft case involving World Cup host Qatar, Belgian prosecutors said.

Dear Editor, Mr. Norman Browne, in a letter to the editor of Stabroek News dated December 19 2022, expressed reasons why he rejects President Irfaan Ali’s call for members of the diaspora to return home and participate in nation building.

Dear Editor, It is sad when our national leaders descend to a level of deception which allows them to replace “facts,” with propaganda for political grandstanding.

Back in February of this year the Ministry of Agriculture issued a media release asserting that farmers and agro- processors would “benefit from lucrative markets this year.”

Following a meeting with former PPP/C heads of state held shortly after President Irfaan Ali’s accession to office he was reported by the Department of Public Information as saying: “The whole issue of National Unity, how do we achieve national unity, were discussed … How do we look for example at the Racial Hostility Act to make it stronger with greater penalties for those who are bent on creating mischief and dividing our people?”

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday December 22, 2022 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) is warning members of the public to be on the alert for possible telephone credit scams.