Daily Archive: Saturday, March 4, 2023

Yesterday, Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) Officers conducted an operation at a property located at Festival City, North Ruimveldt, Georgetown, where they intercepted one male with two hardcover suitcases in his possession.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday launched the construction of a $3.7 billion stadium and multipurpose facility at Palmyra, Region Six, with funds from ExxonMobil’s Greater Guyana Initiative (GGI), stating that there will be no excuses for not delivering the project on time.

Guyana’s next general elections will be held in November or December 2025 owing to the five-month impasse that followed the 2020 polls.

Government is mulling a day-to-day reporting system for foreign currency at commercial banks, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday, in order to have an understanding behind the alleged short-age.

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo announced yesterday that the government will tap into Indian expertise in tissue culture to boost the agricultural sector, as well as other areas.

Following the approval of India’s cabinet to a proposed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to deepen the energy relations between Georgetown and New Delhi, Foreign Minis-ter of the South-Asian country Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will be in Guyana to sign the document, the government announced yesterday.

Former Deputy Mayor of George-town, member of the Alliance for Change (AFC), former president of the Georgetown Cricket Club, and businessman, Lionel Jaikaran, 57, of Parade Street, Kingston, George-town, was found dead at his home.

Acting Commissioner of Police Clifton Hicken has issued stern instructions to senior traffic to implement strategies to reduce the sudden increase in road fatalities which according to police figures has 18 for the year.

Two persons are now in custody after one of them was intercepted by the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) while further investigation had later led to the arrest of the other.

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security, through their Guyana Women’s Leadership Institute’s and Women Innovative and Investment Network (WIIN) has so far distributed a total of $16.2 million to over 200 women as seed funds to enable women to ‘start-up’, ‘build’ and ‘foster’ their entrepreneurial businesses.

With an emphasis on empowering and certifying its technical officials, the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) will afford Three-Star Coach Sebert Blake the opportunity to participate at the IBA Cutman Technician Course, which is being conducted at the Women’s World Championship in New Delhi, India from March 15-31.

By Troy Peters A new modernized Rifle shooting Complex may soon be on the cards as the famous Timehri Rifle ranges could be making way for an Eco-Park at Yarrowkabra at Soesdyke Linden, Highway.

A man who was recently arrested for posing as an employee of the Ministry of Housing/Central Planning and Housing Authority and purporting to be in a position to sell plots of land to other persons was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $250,000.

Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir, on Thursday morning launched the Regional Speaker’s Youth Debating Competition.

The competitive racing season continues tomorrow with the staging of the second edition of ‘One Guyana’ Bartica Cycling Classic. 

Massy Motors yesterday announced their lucky grocery winners who all received $50,000 each in vouchers along with the other winners who won paid electricity bills and oil change among others.

“A cut man in the corner is critical for any boxer’s success and it is great that I have been given this opportunity to represent Guyana in terms of getting this qualification.”

Cycling fans, supporters, and the Bartica public can be assured of an exciting day of racing come tomorrow when the second  ‘One Guyana’ Bartica Cycling Classic is held, organised by We Stand United Cycle Club (WSUCC). 

The Guyana Police Force’s Regional Division 4B (Traffic Department) on Thursday launched their National Road Safety Council at Diamond, East Bank Demerara, under the theme ‘Safe Driving, Saves Lives’.

CENTURION, South Africa, CMC – Jermaine Blackwood said he was “gutted” by West Indies’ 87-run defeat to South Africa on Thursday, and said the visitors’ batting could have been “a bit more selective” during their second innings run chase.

An unbeaten century from national batsman, Kemol Savory, drove Essequibo to a 271-run win over the Select XI in their first-round clash in the Guyana Cricket Board’s senior Inter-County four-day clash.

Students from the Karasabai Primary secondary department in Region Nine, (North Rupununi), are benefiting from online classes taught by subject specialists and seasoned educators on the coast.

Key personnel from the Bureau of Statistics and other national and regional agencies were recently trained in the use of a Statistical Business Register (SBR) application which facilities the integration of administrative data.

Dear Editor, There are a few key questions which Exxon needs to always answer when presenting a new project.

INDORE, India, (Reuters) – Battered in Nagpur and bruised in Delhi, Australia flipped the script on a minefield of a pitch in Indore to register a rare test victory in India yesterday.

A number of tenders were opened on Thursday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for projects for the Guyana Defence Force.

Dear Editor, The article with the gauze left inside a woman following a caesarean section at the Suddie Public Hospital reminds me of a similar incident that occurred at the said hospital some years ago.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – England opener Jason Roy hit a superb century and skipper Jos Buttler made 76 before Adil Rashid and Sam Curran grabbed four wickets each as the tourists beat Bangladesh by 132 runs in the second one-day international yesterday for a 2-0 series victory.

Dear Editor, Neil Adams` letter on March 1, 2023 is very instructive, not because of its content.

Acting Commissioner of Police Clifton Hicken on Thursday visited Lethem, Region 9, and listened to law enforcement issues that are plaguing the town even as he urged residents to work with and not against the police, a release from Guyana Police Force said.

LONDON (Reuters) – Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist Ales Bialiatski was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday by a court in his native Belarus which found him guilty of financing protests in a trial condemned by the United States and the European Union as a “sham”.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) sealed their final’s berth in the Demerara Volleyball Association Senior Men’s League, defeating Young Achievers on Thursday evening at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

(Trinidad Guardian) Having arrived in Trinidad and Tobago before the COVID-19 pandemic in search of a better life, Marcia Jimson (not her real name), 17, was sold for $10,000 to a trafficker who then put her to work as a prostitute in an upscale Chaguanas home.

Dear Editor, I am writing to express my concern about the reckless and dangerous driving that I have observed on the roads especially on the Railway Embankment on the East Coast, during the one way driving from Mon Repos to Sheriff Street at the morning peak hours on weekdays.

Luka Doncic amassed 42 points and 12 assists and Kyrie Irving scored 40 points to lift the host Dallas Mavericks past the Philadelphia 76ers 133-126 on Thursday.

The body of the GEB Security guard who reportedly slipped and fell in the Demerara River while he was on duty was found floating in the Demerara River in the vicinity of the Pritipaul’s Singh’s Wharf, Peter’s Hall, East Bank Demerara on Thursday.

CHASIV YAR, Ukraine (Reuters) – Russian troops and mercenaries rained artillery on the last access routes to the besieged Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on Friday, bringing Moscow closer to its first major victory in half a year after the bloodiest fighting of the war.

(Trinidad Express) Police have made a sex offenders registry public for the first time, with 16 men appearing on it at the moment.

Dear Editor, I am forced to write an open letter so that my fellow Guyanese, the EU, the UK, and the United States departments for democracy, are aware of the destruction of local democracy by the government of Guyana.

The Ministry of Health’s Maternal and Child Health Department (MCH) last Tuesday held its first Quarterly MCH and Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) review meeting at the Marriott Hotel, Kingston.

Accolade giants, Trophy Stall, will sponsor today’s Lusignan Golf Club’s 18-hole Medal Play tournament at the Lusignan Golf Course, East Coast Demerara The event is expected to feature most of the country’s premier golfers who will  tee off from 12.30 hours.

(Reuters) – Richard “Alex” Murdaugh, the disgraced lawyer and member of a powerful South Carolina family, was sentenced to life on Friday for killing his wife and son in what prosecutors said was an attempt to hide his drug addiction and theft of millions of dollars.

(Barbados Advocate) The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has started a new phase of its public procurement reform programme, which is helping Eastern Caribbean countries to increase efficiency and effectiveness in govern- ment procurement.

By Brian Callaci WASHINGTON, DC – In late February, the US Federal Trade Commission dropped its attempt to block Meta’s acquisition of the virtual-reality company Within.

Dear Editor, On Wednesday last week (22nd February), an ugly partisan confrontation, which says nothing in favour of the principals involved, took place between the Chairman of Region 4, Mr.

A baby was abandoned in a clump of bushes near a canal in Mahaicony this week.

Tucville Secondary crushed Institute of Academic Excellence 3-0 when the Georgetown leg of the Blue Water Girls u15 Developmental Football League started yesterday.

A 21 year-old Essequibo businessman was arrested on Wednesday after being found in possession of suspected cannabis.

When governments become enraptured with the scale of monies flowing into their economies they lose interest in any real regulation or oversight that might constrict the bonanza.

MIAMI (Reuters) – Companies may face steeper penalties for misconduct if they lack policies around employees’ use of personal cell phones and messaging apps, a top U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Decriminalising sex work in Trinidad and Tobago will lead to a dent in human trafficking, says former health minister Fuad Khan.