Daily Archive: Friday, March 10, 2023

The Chairman of the Joint Services, Brigadier Godfrey Bess today said that he wished to remind citizens that irrespective of its ethnic composition the Joint Services “is an apolitical institution and will continue to uphold the noble position of service to the people of Guyana”.

(Trinidad Express) An ex-boyfriend of Rio Claro mother of two Patrice Aaron has been charged with her murder.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed today to re-establish relations after seven years of hostility which had threatened stability and security in the Gulf and helped fuel conflicts in the Middle East from Yemen to Syria.

(CMC) – Jason Holder cracked his first half-century in more than a year-and-a-half, and bailed West Indies out of another batting crisis to reduce South Africa’s first innings lead to 69 in the second Test yesterday.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) and Belle West secured their berths to the main draw in the inaugural West Demerara Football Association ‘Commander Cup’, following playoff wins on Wednesday evening at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora.

Citing high production costs, rice farmers across the country are still to be convinced that government’s recent announcement that they will be paid at least $4,000 per bag of paddy will bring any relief to them.

Eagles defeated the Guyana Defence Force to clinch the Demerara Volleyball Association (DVA) Senior Men’s League championship, prevailing 3-1 yesterday at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

As suggested in the Friday March 3 issue of the Stabroek Business, the Governments of Guyana and India would appear to be on the verge of ‘sealing a deal’ that would effectively play a role in calming nerves in the Indian capital, Delhi, over access to oil supplies sufficient to meet the needs of the world’s third largest consumer of oil.

As customary, Fitness Express has once again answered the call of the bodybuilding federation, agreeing to shoulder the sponsorship load of the upcoming Novices Championship.

For the first payment for its oil share for 2023 from the agreement with ExxonMobil and partners in the Stabroek Block, Guyana received US$82.25M which will be added to the already US$1.3B in the Natural Resource Fund,  held in a New York Federal Reserve Bank account.

A man has been found guilty of trafficking in persons and sentenced to prison.

Amir Khouri was elected to the helm of the Guyana Karate Federation (GKF) unopposed when the entity staged its Biennial General Meeting on Sunday March 5th at the Young Men’s Christian Association facility.

If there may have been a time when business relationships between and micro-enterprises and what can be described as the country’s blue ribbon business establishments, notably, ‘brand name’ supermarkets, changing consumer habits have begun to shove that propensity behind us.

Consistent with a historical pattern of leaving behind image-enhancing ‘footprints’ of the philanthropic dimension to its hugely profitable oil-recovery operations in poor countries, ExxonMobil, along with its partners, has ‘kicked off’ the creation of an envisaged $3.7 billion project aimed at delivering to Guyana, a stadium built “to International Cricket Council (ICC) standards,” a showpiece undertaking that targets the transformation of the country into a magnet for major international sports and general entertainment events to go along with the country’s envisaged image as a petro power.

Founder of the Amaya Milk Plant, Omkaar Sharma visited Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha at his office yesterday and presented him with a sample of paneer, a release from the Department of Public Information said.

KFC and Trophy Stall have once again signed on to become the latest sponsors of the Guyana Fitness Games ‘Mighty Malt Fitness Challenge’ scheduled for Sunday at the National Park.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israel’s president urged the government to abandon attempts to push through bitterly contested plans to overhaul the judiciary and seek a model with broad support as tens of thousands of protesters returned to the streets yesterday.

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Manhattan prosecutors have signaled to Donald Trump that he could face criminal charges relating to the former president’s alleged role in hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, the New York Times reported yesterday, citing four unnamed sources.

by Andreas Exarheas Rigzone Staff ‘The sands are shifting for the global EV market’.

Potaro Strikers and AK Galaxy recorded comfortable victories when the Bartica leg of the Namilco U17 Football League resumed on Wednesday evening at the Bartica Community ground.

Head of the state holding company, NICIL,  Radha Krishna Sharma, in response to queries from this newspaper  over the termination of a deed of lease yesterday said he is not in position to comment on the matter.

West Indies legend Sir Clive Lloyd has issued the call for the next president of Cricket West Indies to put his attention towards female cricket.

Dear Editor, Frank Cecil Percival Kippins, born in Georgetown, Guyana on January 23, 1925, departed this life in Atlanta, Georgia on March 7, 2023.

KYIV/ZOLOCHIV, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Russia fired a huge wave of missiles across Ukraine yesterday as people slept, killing at least nine civilians and knocking out power in an attack Kyiv said included six Kinzhal hypersonic cruise missiles, one of Moscow’s most valuable weapons.

Ewart Stewart, the 38-year-old lorry driver who was arrested on March 6 over the gruesome accident on the Greenwich Park Public Road, East Bank Essequibo, was charged yesterday with four  counts of Causing Death by Dangerous Driving.

Some weeks ago, long before he had even got his feet wet insofar as the agro-processing industry is concerned, 28 year-old Adaiah Fyffe took the decision to get himself and his Wild Rupununi dehydrated sweet fruit condiments to last month’s Barbados Agro Fest event.

Well-known private sector executive and former Managing Director  of Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL), Ramesh Persaud, has resigned from that post and is now heading National Hardware Limited (NHL).

(Reuters) – Toronto’s school board has become the first in Canada to recognize that caste discrimination exists in the city’s schools and has asked a provincial human rights body to help in creating a framework to address the issue.

Dear Editor, Recently twenty nine civilians were installed in the Guyana Police Force as sergeants and prosecutors.

Perhaps surprisingly, the staging of Barbados’ highly anticipated Agro Fest in February saw no update of the widely anticipated Regional Food Terminal even though the March 4 issue of the Barbados Today’s report on comments made by a senior Barbadian government official on aspects of the keenly anticipated project may more than suffice for the mission.

19 wickets fell on the opening day of the second round clash in the Guyana Cricket Board senior inter-county four-day tournament between Essequibo and Berbice yesterday.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – The Brazilian president’s top foreign policy adviser has met with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in the first outreach by Brazil’s new leftist administration to both the government and its opposition.

By Deodat Maharaj It is good to see movement to deepen the trade and investment partnership between Africa and the Caribbean.

The body of a driver from Ogle, East Coast Demerara (ECD) was discovered in a drainage canal near his home on Wednesday night.

Dear Editor Here in Guyana, observers must have followed closely the political and social content of posts and messaging on social media as well as some speeches given and views expressed from different quarters of Guyanese society to mark the occasion.

Muslim Youth Organization (MYO) defeated Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) by 38 runs in the Georgetown Cricket Association/ Atlantic Marine Supplies Incorporated Suzuki motorcycles second division T20 tournament recently.

Dear Editor  The skeletal remains, supposedly of an elderly female resident of an EBE village, who, reports indicate, was last seen about seven months ago, is a sad case of a person dying all alone. 

WASHINGTON, USA – IDB Lab, the innovation laboratory of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, and its WeXchange platform, which promotes the growth of women entrepreneurs in technology from the region, announce the launch of a new call for applications to connect the most innovative and dynamic women entrepreneurs in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) in the region with potential opportunities for access to financing.

Potaro Strikers dismantled Bartica All-Stars 4-0 in the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Women’s Developmental League playoff on Wednesday night at the Bartica Community Centre ground.

A maximum of 80 Caribbean women entrepreneurs with a minimum of 2 years of entrepreneurial experience will have the opportunity to apply for the four-month, self-paced online learning programme under Republic Bank.

(Reuters) – A Brazilian senator called yesterday for a Congressional investigation into the sale of a Petrobras PETR4.SA

Dear Editor, While the government, NGOs and other entities and institutions are increasingly focusing on redressive acts and measures to tackle gender-based and domestic violence, that focus is missing a key element.

Incremental pressure from high-profile international environmental fora and ‘solemn’ promises from the ‘big players’ in the global oil and gas industry to ‘change gears’ failed to yield the desired results in terms of reduced natural gas flaring in 2022, according to the Internal Energy Agency.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canadian Police said yesterday they are investigating allegations that two Montreal-area centres are being used as Chinese state-backed “police stations” to intimidate or harass Canadians of Chinese origin.

Another batch of Berbicians allocated lands at Experiment, Region Five were taken on a lot identification exercise on Wednesday by the Surveys Unit of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA).

Women’s history within the labour force has been a long and tumultuous one.

(In tribute to the late columnist Allan Fenty, Stabroek News will be running some of his earlier columns in his regular Friday slot.

Last Friday Police Commissioner (ag) Clifton Hicken summoned his senior regional Traffic Officers to Eve Leary for a meeting.

The oil and gas sector, understandably, is now, by far, the overwhelmingly dominant ‘item’ on Guyana’s developmental agenda.

(Reuters) – Usman Khawaja smashed the first century by an Australia batter in the current series against India to steer the tourists to 255 for four after the opening day of the fourth and final test yesterday.

TBILISI, (Reuters) – Georgia’s ruling party said yesterday it was withdrawing a bill on “foreign agents” after two nights of violent protests against what opponents called a Russian-inspired authoritarian shift that imperilled hopes Georgia joining the European Union.

Dear Editor, Some weeks ago, the Berbice Cricket Management sought to find out more about their high achieving representatives, mostly at national and international levels.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1009s trading results showed consideration of $17,695,337 from 56,939 shares traded in 29 transactions as compared to session 1008’s trading results, which showed consideration of $119,812,258 from 182,404 shares traded in 44 transactions.

Five men from the Essequibo Coast have been charged with the offence of driving under the influence of alcohol.

(Trinidad Express) If the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) does not receive additional staff soon, then it could lead to an inevitable collapse of the criminal justice system.

(Reuters) – Bangladesh’s Najmul Hossain Shanto scored a half-century before all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan got the hosts over the line for a six-wicket win against Twenty20 world champions England in Chattogram yesterday to kick off their three-match series.

(Reuters) – Kusal Mendis and captain Dimuth Karunaratne scored half-centuries as Sri Lanka pushed to 305 for six before bad light brought stumps early on day one of the first test against New Zealand in Christchurch yesterday.

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