Daily Archive: Friday, June 16, 2023

 (Reuters) – An aide of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro sought legal support to back up a military intervention to prevent President President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva coming into government after last year’s elections, a police report showed today.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – A delegation of African leaders began a peace mission in Kyiv today, undeterred by what Ukraine said was a volley of Russian missiles intended to greet them in the capital.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – There is an ongoing global threat posed by toxic cough syrups, the World Health Organization (WHO) told Reuters, saying it was now working with six more countries than previously revealed to track the potentially deadly children’s medicines.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and several members of Cabinet have met with Chief Justice Ivor Archie to discuss the administration of justice in the country.

More than two years ago an article published in another section on the local print media announced, in the wake of the signing of an agreement between Amaya, the Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest) and the Ministry of Agriculture, that yet another undertaking was underway towards the creation of a viable dairy industry in Guyana.

Dear Editor, I’ve never lived in a Secondary School dormitory in the interior, however in recent years, I used to visit the institutions at St.

It is almost certainly not by accident that the realization of Guyana’s protracted ‘oil and gas’ dream would appear to be coinciding with the emergence of an entrepreneurial spirit that is beginning to infect increasing numbers of young Guyanese, causing them, in many instances to shift career choices and to begin to take their minds down pathways that, hitherto, may well never have previously crossed their minds.

A recent report by the Inter-American Development Bank, (IDB), has shed light on a critical issue faced by Caribbean businesses – the need to improve productivity and embrace technology to drive growth and competitiveness.

Dear Editor,        The loss of Nakema Young Deonauth aka Dimitri and Damendra, has been devastating and very hard to come to terms with especially given the circumstances surrounding his unnatural death.

Despite losing Georgetown and with several of its high-profile crossover candidates suffering stinging defeats, PPP General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that the government has a plan to transform the city and will stick to it.

Go Blue Consulting, a Caribbean-based training and consulting company, is collaborating with American Leadership Trainer Stedman Graham to stage an Identity Leadership Masterclass and Business Mixer on Wednesday June 21 at the Guyana Marriott Hotel in Georgetown.

Dear Editor, Please allow me space in your newspaper to ask a profound and burning (no pun intended) question.

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) is advising all stakeholders that following consultations with Ministries of Education from across the region yesterday morning, that the regional examinations will be administered as scheduled. 

Even as member countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) seeks to find their way out of what international agencies have said are food security challenges, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley whose country is at the centre of the search for solutions to the problem, she appears adamant that the people of the region should, nonetheless be mindful of the nutritional and health considerations associated with what they eat.

With all the systems currently being implemented, Petra Organization Co-Director Troy Mendonca stated that he anticipates an exciting climax to the ExxonMobil U14 Boy’s and Girl’s Football Championship, which is scheduled to conclude tomorrow at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

Finding among other things that government has “substantial public, economic and pecuniary interests,” High Court Judge Priya Sewnarine-Beharry has allowed it to join the litigation challenging a decision made by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a permit to ExxonMobil for its Gas to Energy (GTE) project.

Dear Editor, A little before 9 a.m. today (Thursday, 15th June), I was caught in the slow-moving north-bound traffic travelling along Mandela Avenue.

League leader and undefeated outfit Western Tigers dismantled Den Amstel 4-0 when the KFC Elite League continued yesterday at the National Training Centre, Providence Malachi Granum opened the scoring in the 44th, thumping his effort past the goalkeeper into the far corner following a one on one situation inside the penalty box.

One of the men who was accused of robbing and murdering Guyana Defence Force Lieutenant (Coast Guard), Rondel Douglas, was remanded to prison when he made his appearance before Acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Dear Editor, I don’t normally pay attention to Jagdeo’s press conferences on Thursdays, primarily because I have more important matters to attend to, and I refuse to subject myself to his bothersome rhetoric, which I find to be a nuisance.

Trinidad and Tobago Energy Minister Stuart Young earlier this month used his address to the Caribbean Sustainable Energy Conference in Port of Spain to assert that securing funding for the smaller countries in the Caribbean to pursue renewable energy undertakings is a consideration that ought to be brought further to the forefront of the wider regional agenda.

In a period when Guyana’s export value leapt by 89.5% compared to 24.3%  for the comparable period last year, the remainder of much of the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean fared comparatively badly, according to a new study recently released by the Inter -American Development.

Rehanna Reginald, a resident of East Canje, Berbice who was unlawfully arrested by members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) on November 7, 2020 and kept in custody until November 11, 2020 was on Wednesday awarded the  sum of $2,250,000 by the Chief Justice for breaches of her Constitutional rights.

(CMC) – Vice captain Rovman Powell and leg-spinner Yannic Cariah got into the groove and powered West Indies to a 114-run win against United Arab Emirates in the second and final series of warm-up matches for the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier yesterday in Zimbabwe.

Dear Editor, The headline read “Some parents with no custody for children dishonestly collected cash grants-Manickchand’ (INews June 14). 

Buxton Secondary defeated Cummings Lodge 11-4 in the semifinal round to seal their berth to the East Coast Demerara divisional final yesterday in the Youth Basketball Guyana Regional Conference Championships.

Seemingly focused on utilizing its role during its trade and investment visit to West Africa, of utilizing its trade and investment promotion credentials to accelerate the economic transformation of the region, Caribbean Export has communicated to the Stabroek Business the successful signing of three (3) Memoranda of Understandings between the region and Ghana, in the course of its ongoing Caribbean/West Africa Trade Mission aimed at “fostering collaboration and exploring trade opportunities between the West African country and the Caribbean.”

A Corentyne teenager was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with the murder of a rice farmer from Number 57 Village, Corentyne.

Dear Editor, The Tourism and Hospitality Association will be holding its Annual General Meeting today.

The Government of Guyana fully meets the minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking, according to the 2023 US State Department report on the crime.

Beginning today, Carlos Petterson-Grifith will chalk up and step on the platform to compete against the world’s best at the IPF World Classic Open Powerlifting Championship in Malta.

Dear Editor, June 13 marked yet another death anniversary of Dr.

With less than a day remaining before Guyana’s first-round playoff fixture against Grenada in the CONCACAF Gold Cup Prelims, Golden Jaguars Head-coach Jamaal Shabazz, who is currently unable to travel with the squad, declares that he expects a very competitive matchup against ‘Spice Boys’.

Dear Editor, Truth be told, I had no fear of the APNU losing its strongholds to the PPP/C, who claimed that they were going to win the Municipalities of Georgetown, New Amsterdam, Linden, Bartica and Mahdia.

Nigel Thomas of James and Victoria streets, Albouystown, Georgetown was on Wednesday found not guilty by a 12-member jury in the High Court in Demerara for the murder of Kyle Chase.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Canada will coordinate an aid operation to Haiti this summer in response to the Caribbean nation’s volatile security, Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said yesterday, while announcing fresh sanctions against a former politician and a famous singer.

(Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Energy and several other federal agencies were hit in a global hacking campaign that exploited a vulnerability in widely used file-transfer software, officials said yesterday.

Eagles defeated the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) 3-2, when the Demerara Volleyball Association (DVA) Senior Men’s League continued yesterday at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  (Reuters) – Jamaican Finance Minister Nigel Clarke said he is seeing “definite interest” from other Caribbean countries to join in issuing a regional catastrophe bond that would protect their budgets from hurricanes and spread investor risk across more countries.

A post-mortem examination conducted by Dr. Nehaul Singh on the body of 38-year-old businessman, Dimitri Deonauth revealed that he died as a result of brain haemorrhaging  due to blunt trauma to the head compounded by compression injures to the neck.

JAKARTA,  (Reuters) – Indonesia’s attorney general’s office has named three palm oil companies as suspects in a corruption investigation, alleging misconduct in obtaining export permits at a time when shipments were being restricted.

Dear Editor, June 16 marks the 75th anniversary of the Enmore Martyrs when five striking sugar workers namely Rambarran, Pooran, Lallabagee, Kissoon and Surijballie were brutally gunned down by the colonial police while demonstrating in front of the Enmore factory to highlight their grievances.

Dear Editor, History will record that during the 2023 Local Government Elections, the PPP squandered government monies to bribe opposition supporters to vote for them.

Oil explorer CGX Energy says it has reached a total depth of 20,450 feet on its Wei-1 bypass well in the  Corentyne Block, Corentyne  and will now undertake further examination of “encouraging” hydrocarbon deposits.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Top food producer Brazil will start stocking up on food staples, a government agency said yesterday, as the leftist administration of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva makes good on last year’s campaign trail promise to curb food inflation.

LUBBOCK, Texas,  (Reuters) – The Texas panhandle town of Perryton was struck yesterday by one or more tornadoes, causing fatalities, the mayor said, as images from the ground showed much of the town left in rubble by the twister as emergency crews searched for survivors.

The fifth edition of the ‘Stage of Champions’ Bodybuilding and Fitness Championship continues to gain positive attention from the corporate community.

The South Turkeyen Sports Committee announced yesterday that its u16 four-a-side, small-goal football competition which was penciled for June 10th at the Vryheid’s Lust Playfield, East Coast Demerara, will now be hosted at the same venue tomorrow.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1023’s trading results showed consideration of $12,072,643 from 49,254 shares traded in 28 transactions as compared to session 1022’s trading results, which showed consideration $12,624,566 from 33,335 shares traded in 23 transactions.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi met with Cuban counterpart Miguel Diaz-Canel yesterday, his last stop on a three-nation Latin American tour aimed at shoring up support among Latin American allies saddled, like Iran, by U.S.

Dear Editor, All democracies need an active opposition harrying the government in power at every turn.

It will doubtless be recalled that the disclosure by ExxonMobil that the long-held belief that large deposits of oil lay within Guyana’s maritime jurisdiction was indeed true, created an unbridled furore here in Guyana.

AHMEDABAD, India,  (Reuters) – Roofs were blown off houses and trees and electric poles uprooted in several parts of India’s western state of Gujarat as a severe cyclone made landfall overnight and heavy rain continued to lash the coast early today.

The Vryheid’s Lust bridge on the Railway Embankment, East Coast of Demerara is to be closed tonight for repairs.

Part 1 Chinese Communist Party Chairman, Mao Zedong once stated that “Women hold up half the sky.”

“This is clearly a wipeout,” said a jubilant Bharrat Jagdeo following the announcement of the local government elections, “[We have] made phenomenal inroads in APNU strongholds.”