Daily Archive: Tuesday, February 28, 2023

The Ministry of Public Works today said that $27.6m worth of roadworks at Melanie Damishana on the East Coast of Demerara have been completed.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A U.S. judge today ordered Glencore Plc GLEN.L

In keeping with the decision of CARICOM Heads of Government at their 44th Regular Meeting in Nassau, The Bahamas, 15-17 February 2023, a CARICOM Special Mission went to Haiti yesterday February 27, 2023 for a one day working visit. 

(Jamaica Gleaner) Ferdinand ‘Ferdy’ Mahfood, founder of Food For The Poor, died peacefully on Sunday, surrounded by his family in prayer.

Following an audit report over breaches in relation to COVID-19 purchases, Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee [PAC], Jermaine Figueira, has recommended that the Ministry of Health make recommendations for the amending of the Procurement Act 2003 to include emergency acquisitions and improved regulations.

An East Bank Berbice man who was charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol was yesterday placed on a total of $1.2m bail after he was involved in an accident that resulted in the death of Corporal Alden Reynolds on Thursday last.

Two Brazilians — helicopter pilot Alexandre Felix Plan and labourer Ricardo Brags Silva, were charged yesterday with several offences when they appeared via zoom before Magistrate Allan Wilson at Lethem.

With no increase in the cost to generate electricity in Linden, the Interim Management Committee of the Linden Utility Services Cooperative Society Limited (LUSCSL) was urged by Labour Minister, Joseph Hamilton, to rescind its management’s decision to increase the tariff to consumers.

CENTURION, South Africa, CMC – Captain Kraigg Brathwaite will hope to oversee the end of West Indies’ 24-year drought without a Test series win against South Africa, when the two teams clash in the opening Test starting at SuperSport Park starting here today.

Dear Editor, Has anyone asked the fish or fishermen? MARAD notice number 30 (2023) published on February 24 is for 8 months of geotechnical and geophysical surveying in the vicinity of the Demerara Main Ship Channel near Plantation Best and covering 70 square nautical miles. 

National Open Under14 and Under16 champion Kyle Couchman, last weekend won the U14 competition held by the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF), a release from the GCF stated.

By Shuntel GlasgowAround sixty residents of Yarrowkabra, on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway face the permanent loss of access to water from a spring because of sand mining in the area.

After changing her plea for the third time and with the last one being guilty, former media worker 26-year-old Zanneel Nirmala Williams was yesterday sentenced to four years imprisonment and fined $14.4 million for drug trafficking at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri.

After a three-year hiatus, competitive cycling is set to make its return to Bartica on Sunday.

Dear Editor, Thanks to Christopher Ram for his accounting analysis of vacancies in our various levels of schools, as advertised by the Teaching Service Commission – interestingly an annual exercise only, regardless of how perpetual these absences have been.

This year will usher in a new title sponsorship for the Starlet Cup of the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) with B.M.

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand, has said that a recently concluded Regional Department investigation reveal-ed that an incident that occurred at Woodley Park Secondary on February 17th, was not racist.

Dear Editor, I was an eleven-year old boy at the laying of the cornerstone in 1945 for the Lachmansingh Primary School on Canadian Presbyterian Mission land.

Dear Editor, It is nice to have another oil conference with other topics in Guyana.

Berbice are currently in the driving seat against Demerara heading into the final day of their first-round clash in the Guyana Cricket Board senior Inter-County four-day tournament.

After apologizing for his act and pleading for leniency, Eduardo Alexander Moore, who was held with 2.382 kilograms of cocaine by the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) on Albert Street, yesterday pleaded guilty to trafficking and was sentenced by Principal Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus to four years and three months behind bars.

Dear Editor, You are looking at a historic building where I have some historic memories.

All eyes will tomorrow be on Rajendra Chandrika and Keemo Paul when the second match of the first round in the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) senior inter-county four-day tournament between Essequibo and the Select XI gets underway at the National Stadium, Providence.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak struck a deal with the European Union on post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland yesterday, saying it would pave the way for a new chapter in London’s relationship with the bloc.

Following months of extensive infrastructural works in the Grove area, drivers can now effortlessly pass through the once heavily congested area, according to a Ministry of Public Works release.

The first Literacy and Robotics Programme of the Ministry of Education was launched at Den Amstel Primary School, Region Three yesterday through the National Literacy Department and the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD.

DONETSK PROVINCE, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Russian forces pressed their offensive in eastern Ukraine as they attempted to encircle the small mining city of Bakhmut, the scene of the toughest fighting in battlefields saturated by rain and an early spring thaw.

Dear Editor,  On Wednesday February 22, 2023, hundreds of children from the Macedonia Joppa district in Eastern Corentyne took to the roadways to celebrate Guyana’s 53rd Republic Anniversary.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canada yesterday announced a ban on Chinese-owned social media app TikTok from government-issued devices, saying it presents an “unacceptable” level of risk to privacy and security, adding to the growing rift between the two countries.

Dear Editor, In the recent past, I have had cause to complain that it is one level of unfairness for Stabroek News to decide to rarely publish the statements of the Opposition, but another level for SN to be ignorant of what the Opposition has been saying and doing.

President Irfaan Ali on Sunday morning visited the community of Agricola and heard complaints of contaminated water flowing through pipelines, clogged drains and canals, deplorable roads and not enough streetlights.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA),  Sherwyn Greaves yesterday conducted a site visit at the agency’s developing housing scheme in Amelia’s Ward – Phase 4, Linden where infrastructure works are ongoing.

Dear Editor, Kindly allow me to extend Republican Greetings to you, your team and by extension my Guyanese brothers and sisters.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador and Belgium on Monday agreed to increase bilateral cooperation in their fight against international organized crime, a day after Ecuadorean police seized nearly nine tonnes of drugs bound for the European country.

Sachin Sukaram whose last known address is 91 Uitvlugt Pasture, West Coast Demerara is wanted by the police in connection with sexual assault.

Dear Editor, I write with reference to Annette Ferguson’s letter, “Truth of Burnham’s visionary leadership must be told” (SN 26/2/2023).

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CENTURION, South Africa, CMC – Newly appointed Proteas captain Temba Bavuma says his side will be taking nothing for granted against West Indies, despite the visitors’ poor record on South African soil.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights This piece invites the attention of all sectors of society in Guyana: Government Opposition, Civil Society, and others.

(Reuters) – Kane Williamson cemented his claim as New Zealand’s greatest test batsman after he eclipsed Ross Taylor as the nation’s leading run-scorer on the way to an inspirational century against England in the second test yesterday.

(Reuters) – Neil Wagner took four wickets and held two crucial catches as New Zealand pulled off a ‘Mission Improbable’ by beating England by one run in the second test on a nerve-jangling day five after being made to follow on.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Forest fires raged on in Cuba’s eastern region on Monday, inching toward more populated ground more than a week after sparking near a national park.

The Ministry of Education’s Friday February 17 memorandum addressing the subject of “some schools conducting educational tours to locations/places that do not contribute to better student outcomes,” attracts attention if only because, whatever the Ministry’s concern in the matter at hand, the manner in which it expresses itself suggests that it has no interest whatsoever in disclosing the specifics on the incident that gave rise to the missive, in the first place.

(Trinidad Guardian) Descendants of John Treveleyan, part owner of six plantations in Grenada, apologised yesterday for the role the family played in slavery and made donations to the University of the West Indies (UWI) Open Campus.