Daily Archive: Friday, December 30, 2022

The lifeless body of a 78-year-old woman was yesterday discovered at her Paramakatoi Village, Region Eight home and an autopsy revealed that she had been suffocated and beaten.

Some 1,000 persons on the East Bank of Demerara are the latest beneficiaries of the government’s part-time jobs initiative, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported today.

 (Reuters) – Deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was convicted of five counts of corruption today and jailed for seven more years, an informed source said, wrapping up a marathon of trials condemned internationally as a sham.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping told Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin today that the road to peace talks on Ukraine would not be smooth and that China would continue to uphold its “objective and fair stance” on the issue.

The government and Demerara Bank Limited (DBL) yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) solemnizing an announcement that had been made in October by President Irfaan Ali of a collaboration by the two sides in a $900m revolving fund for the forestry sector.

While noting that the Guyana Government has implemented a series of measures to ease the cost of living burden, a recent Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) report has raised concerns over the inflation level here and  its impact on purchasing power.

Investigators have made a breakthrough in their probe into the murder of Shimron Adams, the businessman who was shot during a robbery at his Lodge establishment on Monday night.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) says it has surpassed its goal of distributing 20,000 house lots  over the life of this administration and promised that next year will see many more achievements.

Lawrence Junior Joseph, a 35-year-old businessman of Lot 176 Republic Park Gardens, Georgetown, and Andrea Miller, a 47-year-old businesswoman of Lot 27 Victoria Road, Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, were on Wednesday, charged with  the possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking and unlawful possession of ammunition without a licence.

Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal says a team from his ministry will visit the Parika Sea Dam next month to advise squatters there on how they can find suitable housing.

(Reuters) – Pele, the legendary Brazilian soccer player who rose from barefoot poverty to become one of the greatest and best-known athletes in modern history, died yesterday at the age of 82.

Dear Editor, On the eve of the inauguration of a new president, a legend, whose name and life was synonymous with football, has passed, in a country which is football crazy.

Adrian Singh, a 29-year-old businessman of Lot 164 Bladen Hall, East Coast Demerara, was yesterday charged with unlawful possession of two pistols, (one .32 Beretta and one .32 Taurus) along with 15 rounds of live ammunition (eight .32 and seven .25) without licence.

Dear Editor, I am writing this letter to bring to the attention of the President of this country and his Finance Minister an injustice and discrimination that is being perpetuated on the junior and senior staff pensioners of GuySuCo.

Tournament favourite Region #4 will battle Region #3 in the ‘One Guyana President’s Cup’ Football Championship match on Sunday at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora, following semi-final wins on Wednesday evening.

The Ministry of Health will continue to expand the hearing aid programme next year.

A bankruptcy judge in Houston, Texas on Wednesday allowed a Hess Corp.

LA PAZ/SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia,  (Reuters) – Bolivian prosecutors are requesting six months of pre-trial detention for right-wing opposition Governor Luis Fernando Camacho in connection to 2019 political turmoil, state prosecutor Omar Mejillones said yesterday.

Dear Editor, I seldom use the description “Icons” and “Celebrities”. But sometimes, from my youth, I say or write “stars”.

Dear Editor, I wish to humbly respond to a letter carried in your letter column titled “ Better Hope/LBI NDC to reports are far from satisfactory” on December 28, 2022.

GUAYAQUIL,  (Reuters) – Insecurity in Ecuador is hurting the Andean country’s exports of products like bananas and shrimp, an exporters association said, amid assaults on shipping containers and contamination of shipments with drugs.

A 30-year-old taxi driver of Tuschen has reported to the police that his car was stolen during an armed robbery on Tuesday.

Kester Ward, a 36-year-old miner of Clonbrook, East Coast Demerara, was yesterday charged with the unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – The armed forces of Colombia and Ecuador on Wednesday signed an agreement to implement a plan to contain drug trafficking and organized crime on their shared border, authorities in both countries said.

Dear Editor, The year 2022 was a very successful one for the Berbice Cricket Board despite been a challenging one due to several non-cricketing challenges.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chinese state-media said COVID testing requirements imposed by several places around the world in response to a surging wave of infections were “discriminatory”, in the clearest pushback yet against restrictions that are slowing down its re-opening.

Dear Editor I write to clarify arguments I recently made concerning cultural change in Guyana, and some of the challenges that lay ahead.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Opposition lawmakers in Venezuela seeking the removal of Juan Guaido as the country’s interim president said yesterday that foreign assets will not pass to the government of President Nicolas Maduro if Guaido is removed from his post.

One month after a Ministry of Public Works driver was released on station bail after his vehicle stuck down and killed a cyclist on the East Coast Public Road, family members say they were told by police that the file is at the DPP’s office.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Residents of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv were urged to head to air raid shelters early today as sirens wailed across the city, a day after Russia carried out the biggest aerial assault since it started the war in February.

Dear Editor, Step by Step Foundation would like to inform the public that the Step by Step School for children with autism closed in July 2021.

Jorrel Jacobs, a 31-year-old miner of Lot 47 Nabaclis, East Coast Demerara, was yesterday charged with the unlawful possession of a .32 Beretta pistol without a licence.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian police said they carried out nationwide raids and arrested at least two people yesterday in investigations into an alleged coup attempt during riots by supporters of defeated far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. 

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A Chinese military plane came within 10 feet (3 metres) of a U.S.

Dear Editor, As the world prepares to welcome the year 2023, so too is Guyana.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – As the person who dressed the Sex Pistols, Vivienne Westwood, who died yesterday at the age of 81, was synonymous with 1970s punk rock, a rebelliousness that remained the hallmark of an unapologetically political designer who became one of British fashion’s biggest names.

(Jamaica Gleaner) United States law enforcement now has on its radar key US players in the criminal underworld who continue to fuel Jamaica’s crime problem.

Nineteen-year-old Muraino Thomas was on Wednesday remanded to prison over the robbing of a Riverstown couple. 

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Education (MoE) is playing a key role is laying the education infrastructure to propel the social and economic transformation of the country that would lead to “fairness” in the allocation of state resources to all Guyanese, irrespective of race, gender, region, or religious affiliation.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in as Israel’s prime minister yesterday in a comeback at the head of a hard-right cabinet that promises to expand Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and pursue other policies criticised at home and abroad.

(Trinidad Guardian) A man who was shot in Pinto, Arima on Wednesday has succumbed to his injuries at hospital.

Forty-six-year-old Gregory Benjamin of Charity Squatting Area on the Essequibo Coast was on Wednesday remanded to prison on a charge of  hitting his ex-wife on Christmas Day. 

Guyanese Americans – Documented and naturalised On this last 2022 weekend – the cusp of a brand new year in our part of the world it is almost natural to ponder, wonder, cogitate, speculate, be curious as to what that imminent period, 2023, will present to us as a nation.

(CMC) – West Indies wicketkeeper-batsman Shai Hope is among an impressive four-player shortlist for the ICC Men’s One-day International Player-of-the-Year 2022 award.

(Reuters) – A depleted Australian attack secured an innings and 182-run victory over South Africa in the second test yesterday, wrapping up the series with a match to spare after the visitors’ batting woes were rudely exposed once more.

Dear Editor, I am puzzled and I hope that your investigative journalism would seek some clarity so that ordinary folks could understand how a police rank posted at the official residence of the country’s President could be promoted in circumstances where he was obviously ill prepared for a situation that he should have been prepared for.

Here we are about to enter the New Year with one of the highest poverty rates in Latin America, according to a World Bank report in October.

By Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Anastassia Fedyk, and Ilona Sologoub BERKELEY – On August 1, 1991, a little more than three weeks before Ukraine declared independence from the Soviet Union, US President George H.W.

(Trinidad Express) Cleon Teesdale is expected to appear before a Princes Town magistrate on Friday, charged with seven offences including the murder of Sachel Elliot and her daughter, 17-month-old Nova Brereton.

ANKARA,  (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan eliminated a retirement age requirement on Wednesday in a move that allows more than 2 million Turkish workers to retire immediately, less than six months before an election.

A Kitty man was on Wednesday placed on $100,000 bail after being charged with possession of narcotics.

(Reuters) – Australia have included top order batsman Matt Renshaw and spinner Ashton Agar in a 14-man squad for the third test against South Africa.

(Reuters) – Novak Djokovic will never forget how it felt to be deported from Australia earlier this year but the Serb said his willingness to return for next month’s Grand Slam at Melbourne Park shows the depth of feeling he has for the country.

(CMC) – Concacaf described late Brazilian footballer, Pelé as “a true icon of the game”.

(Reuters) – New Zealand’s Kane Williamson, liberated from the burden of red-ball captaincy, struck a classy 200 not out to put his team in control of the opening test against Pakistan yesterday.

(CMC) – West Indies Women have welcomed the return of former captain Stafanie Taylor and the recall of long-serving batsman Britney Cooper to a 16-member squad to play in a Twenty20 International tri-series against India and hosts South Africa from January 19 to 30 next year in East London.