Daily Archive: Sunday, March 26, 2023

Yesterday at 8:30 pm, hundreds in Guyana joined with millions of people from 190 countries and territories in a moment of global unity pledging their support for the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF’sj Earth Hour.

Politics No shared governance without trust: Shared governance at the executive level would come if Guyana’s citizenry calls for it during the constitutional reform process but at the moment the PPP/C cannot trust the main opposition on supporting its holistic developmental policies, the party’s General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo on March 23rd said, repeating a position he has previously enunciated.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today dismissed Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, triggering mass protests, a day after Gallant broke ranks with the government and urged a halt to a highly contested plan to overhaul the judicial system.

KYIV, (Reuters) – NATO today criticised Vladimir Putin for what it called his “dangerous and irresponsible” nuclear rhetoric, a day after the Russian president said he would station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.

PRETORIA,  (Reuters) – South Africa pulled off the highest successful run chase in Twenty20 international cricket on Sunday to beat the West Indies by six wickets at Centurion on an afternoon of blistering assault on the ball as well as the record books.

The Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation (DHBC) today said that its asphalt plant will be down for two weeks from April 12 to April 27, 2023.

BEIJING/TEGUCIGALPA/TAIPEI, March 26 (Reuters) – China established diplomatic ties with Honduras on Sunday after the Central American country ended its decades-long relationship with Taiwan, while Taiwan’s foreign minister accused Honduras of demanding exorbitant sums before being lured away by Beijing.

Hari Singh knew he wanted to be a lawyer from around the age of six but even though this dream became a reality years later, it took him moving to the US to get what he called a “baptism by fire” in court experience which shaped the trajectory of his career to where he is today.

Owned and operated by Alana Bunbury Walton, Jaws Zero Waste store aims to reduce plastic pollution as a one-stop shop for refills and raw materials for haircare, skincare, and house cleaning agents.

“Everyone here is so friendly,” people from big cities say when they visit Guyana.

Focusing on the foreign exchange controversy, commentator and chartered accountant Christopher Ram has pounded the government over the management of the economy and has called for the exclusion of non-bank cambios and for more banking licences to foster increased competition.

In October last year, a Russian news site published a short video of Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner Group, the Russian mercenary army, sitting with four men on a rooftop terrace in the resort town of Gelendzhik, on Russia’s Black Sea coast.

By Joseph Allen Little Learning Day Care at Ogle, East Coast Demerara, where a seven-month-old girl became  ill and later died has  been operating for many years without a licence from the Child Care and Protection Agency and as such has been closed down.

Last Update: 1,657.925                          Movement: 0.984% Current Update: 1,674.238 YTD             Movement: 3.226%The Lucas Stock Index gained 0.984 percent during the third period of trading in March 2023 on the sale of 48,858 shares.

By Subhana Shiwmangal Varying reasons are being proffered for the  continuing high price for plantains including the cost of fertilisers, inflation by middlemen and a fungus.

The call for better infrastructure was a key issue raised in a major ministerial outreach in the historic East Coast Demerara village of Victoria yesterday.

Poultry farmers in Mahai-cony in Region Five  are pleading with the Ministry of Agriculture to intervene to stem the importation/ smuggling  of chicken into Guyana which they say is resulting in reduced sales for them in the local markets.

Guyana’s High Court has awarded Eureka Medical Laboratories Inc (EML) a $62.4 million judgment against United States offshore medical provider, RemoteMD LLC, after that company packed up business here and filed for bankruptcy in its home country, leaving over $100 million owed to locals for the third party services it received.

Although elated with being provided with a new road, residents of Bamia Drive in Amelia’s Ward, Linden, who questioned its durability as well as the walkway and drainage infrastructure were assured by Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill,  that the works are sound.

Slingerz FC was crowned the inaugural West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) ‘Commander Cup’ Champion, edging Pouderoyen 1-0 in the dying embers of a pulsating final Friday evening at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora.

The construction company which had been working on the Parika Market when it went up in flames will rebuild it at no additional cost to the government, according to the Minister of Local Government, Nigel Dharamlall.

Dear Editor, I am writing in reference to a letter published in the Stabroek News on March 23, 2023, with the caption, “The Vreed-en-Hoop shore base, funded with Guyana’s oil revenues makes it a private, public partnership”.

PRETORIA, CMC – New West Indies Twenty20 International captain Rovman Powell started his reign with a bang yesterday when he dragged his side to a three-wicket win against South Africa and gave them a 1-0 lead in their three-match series.

Dear Editor, While the destruction of homes and livelihoods of some Cane View, Mocha residents by the PPP/C, still remains fresh in the minds of Guyanese, the PPP/C has now turned their attention on the residents of Peters Hall, East Bank Demerara.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) yesterday said that the Blair-mont Estate has utilised the good weather conditions over the last seven days to surpass its weekly sugar production target, ending March 25, 2023, by 12%.

With an emphasis on building on the momentum of a successful 2022, the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) will institute a weekly training programme which is scheduled to commence on Friday at the Andrew ‘Six Head’ Lewis Gym, Albouystown.

Dear Editor, On the eve of the annual Babu Jaan rally organized by the PPP/C in honour of Cheddi Jagan, the PNC once again sought to besmirch the good name of the former democratically elected President of Guy-ana and deny him the honour, Father of the Nation.

Four years after reports of the sighting of an abandoned helicopter on Mount Ayanganna, there has been no word from the past or present government on any reports or investigation to determine how the chopper got there.

As defined by the Oxford Dictionary, a meritocracy is “a society governed by people selected according to merit.”

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant yesterday called on the government to halt legislation on changes to the judiciary, saying the bitter dispute over the measures poses a danger to national security.

(Reuters) – Russia will station tactical nuclear weapons in neighbouring Belarus, President Vladimir Putin said yesterday, marking the first time since the mid-1990s that Moscow will have based such arms outside the country.

The Ministry of Agriculture’s National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) is taking Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton to task for what it describes as an erroneous claim made concerning a koker and channel at Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo.

Dear Editor, Please, first, let me commend Stabroek News for your continued recognition and spotlighting of the urgent need to repair our institutional weaknesses as a nation, even as we adjust to the oil economy.

A century from Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) captain Christopher Barnwell followed up by a seven-wicket haul from Ashmead Nedd left Everest Cricket Club reeling at the end of the opening day of their Georgetown Cricket Association’s GISE/Star Rentals/Trophy Stall first-division two-day contest.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – An expanding anti-corruption probe in Venezuela has led to the detention of 10 officials and 11 businessmen, the country’s attorney general said yesterday, adding that arrest warrants for 11 more people have been issued.

As part of its efforts to reduce the overcrowding at the Kato Secon-dary School in Region Eight, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand has announced that a modern secondary school will be built in another village, Kopi-nang and will cater for students from within that catchment area.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Elder Hamilton Green’s letter in yesterday’s SN, on Cheddi Jagan’s poster at Houston and his name replacing to the Timehri Airport.

Popular promoter and one of the country’s top dominoes players Lyall Gittens, in association with Next Level and Untouchable Boss, will this afternoon stage a dominoes tournament at the Guyana Legion, Carifesta Avenue.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – At least 2,000 mummified ram heads dating from the Ptolemaic period and a palatial Old Kingdom structure have been uncovered at the temple of Ramses II in the ancient city of Abydos in southern Egypt, antiquities officials said yesterday.

Guyana Harpy Eagles moved within grasp of regaining the West Indies Championship after beating Jamaica Scorpions by 228 runs before lunch on the final day at the National Stadium, Providence.

(Reuters) – At least 23 people were killed and dozens injured as a tornado and strong thunderstorms swept across Mississippi late on Friday, the state’s emergency management agency said after the twister left a trail of damage for more than 100 miles (160 km).

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico’s Supreme Court temporarily suspended on Friday parts of a controversial electoral reform pushed by the country’s president, while also confirming it will consider a lawsuit from independent electoral institute INE that seeks to overturn it.

Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit  (CANU) officers yesterday intercepted a male carrying a haversack on the Zeeburg Public Road, East Bank Essequibo (EBE).

Dear Editor, I am conducting research, to be published later this year, on the history of the village of Prashad Nagar, and Hari Prashad, the pioneer after whom the village is named.

The BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2023 which ends today in the UK, featured a Guyanese film on its programme.

“It is a battle I go through every day. Sometimes I don’t want to fight and other times like I don’t have a choice.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC), on Thursday, March 23, 2023, met with the Chief Election Officer Vishnu Persaud to discuss preparations for Local Government Elections (LGE).

Introduction Today’s column continues to elaborate on the meaning I am intending to attach to the three key concepts referred to in last week’s column; namely, extractivism, petrostate and happenstance.

Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841 – 1924), ‘The Black Death’ as he was popularly known, was an extroverted man with an adventurous spirit.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour looks at the second match of the West Indies campaign in the 1975 Prudential World Cup Tournament.

Learning to stand up for oneself is a hard skill to develop and even more so when one is navigating this under established power dynamics.

Not all that long ago, looking into the future, it would have been easy to prophesy  the situation in South Africa: the whites in their apartheid laager fighting on and on a prolonged last-ditch battle against an ANC growing increasingly militant and the whole country disintegrating into blood-soaked ruin.

In 1943 Cheddi Jagan returned to a British Guiana that was a cauldron of poverty.

Defending champion Christianburg/Wismar, Berbice Educational Trust, President’s College and New Amsterdam Multilateral recorded wins when the 9th Milo Secondary Schools U18 football championships resumed yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground on Carifesta Avenue.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro will not attend an Ibero-American summit this weekend hosted by the Dominican Republic, a Venezuelan official said yesterday, after receiving a positive COVID-19 test even though he has since tested negative twice.

WACO, Texas,  (Reuters) – Die-hard fans of Donald Trump flocked to the ex-president’s election rally in Waco, Texas, yesterday, brimming with defiance as their favored candidate faces legal peril from prosecutors and mixed polling ahead of next year’s Republican primary elections.

Ramadan started three days ago and many of my Muslim brothers and sisters have begun a period of fasting, prayer, reflection and community.

In a multicultural space such as ours, the world is at our doorsteps and in our backyards.

Dear Editor, On Tuesday, March 21st the world marked Internation-al Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

It could only be wished that the government would stop the pretence.

Guess what I had last weekend? Hassar curry, with hassar from Essequibo flown in within 48 hours of being caught!

Have you ever felt the joy of growing a plant from a seed that you planted?