Daily Archive: Friday, August 4, 2023

Early this morning, between 0400 hrs and 0600 hrs, a Traffic Enforcement Exercise was held on the Friendship Public Road, East Bank Demerara, targeting motor lorries.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s top court suspended opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi’s defamation conviction today, allowing him to return to parliament and contest national elections due next year.

(Reuters) – A Russian warship was seriously damaged in an overnight Ukrainian naval drone attack on Russia’s Black Sea navy base at Novorossiysk, two sources said today, after Russia said it had fended off the attack.

(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar stood her ground last night, saying she would not apologise for calling on citizens to “light up” home invaders in self-defence.

Police are investigating the shooting death of Adviser to the Minister of Education, Olato Sam, age 53, of Lot 2811 Youth Place South Ruimveldt Park, Georgetown, which occurred at around 00:30 hrs this morning in the vicinity of Gold Rush Bar located at Plaisance Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara.

The government yesterday approved massive hikes in the external and domestic debt ceilings – the second time in 30 months – signalling an aggressive borrowing campaign for massive infrastructural and other spending.

A Bara Cara pump attendant was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with the murder of Dhanraj Basdeo in 2014.

The Electronic Communications and Transaction Bill, which was laid in the National Assembly on July 20 by the Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, Oneidge Walrond with the aim to establish the legal framework for the use and acceptance of electronic records and signatures was passed last evening.

Two miners were killed on Wednesday night at Moon-light Backdam, Kamarang, after the mining pit they were working in collapsed and buried them.

The  Chinese Landing Village Council yesterday said that it never asked government to stop all mining on its lands as some of its villagers earn their livelihoods this way and it continued to differ with the decision of the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs to dispatch a “fact-finding” mission in response to a resolution of the IACHR.

A few things should be said, bluntly, about the now concluded Small Business Week.

Twenty-two-year-old Ossaffo Chester, who was wanted by police in relation to murder committed on Gerald Sobers, turned himself in at the Cove and John Police Station yesterday afternoon.

The Stabroek Business’ own assessment of the prevailing conditions under which scores of micro and small businesses ply their trade in the country’s capital and its environs compels it to make the point that, over the years, official attitudes to ensuring that small businesses that ply their trade in the capital ought, first, to be provided with convivial trading spaces within which to ply their trade; those spaces, having been allocated, the feet of the occupants should be held firmly to the fire insofar as ensuring that those spaces are well-kept, free of the filth and the assorted encumbrances that are left behind at the end of the trading day.

Keenin Fraser was found with 27 pounds of cannabis sativa worth more than $11 million in his possession yesterday at Coomacka Mines Junction, during a roadblock exercise.

A recent comment from Trinidad and Tobago’s (T&T) Prime Minister, Dr.

Dear Editor, Black members of the PPP have, from time immemorial always faced the brunt of attacks from the PNC; BH Benn, EMG Wilson, Una Mulzac, George David, Isaac Fraser, Arthur Cumberbatch, Charlie Cassato, Harold Snagg, Louis Mitchell aka ‘Coffee’, Eric Gilbert, Cyril Belgrave, Shirley Edwards, Victor James, Gladwin Levius, Maurice Herbert, Clinton Collymore, Gerald Beaton and Roger Luncheon were some of the untold number of Black PPP stalwarts who suffered in one way or another under the Burnham dictatorship.

Based on recent predictions from the Hydrometeorological Office that the country will endure an extended dry season for the remainder of 2023, the Office of the Prime Minister has mandated that a National El Nino Preparedness and Planning Committee mobilize to anticipate the effects.

(CMC) – Romario Shepherd proved he had nerves of steel when he conceded only six from the final over, and West Indies grabbed a four-wicket win against India in the first Twenty20 International yesterday in Trinidad.

Dolphin, DC Caesar Fox, Carmel and West Ruimveldt/Charlestown earned quarterfinal berths, when the round of 16 section concluded yesterday in the 8th iteration of the Digicel Schools Football Championship at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

Rice feeds more than half the world – but we are about to enter a major shortage of this staple, putting food security and livelihoods at risk as prices rise.

Dear Editor, Many and richly deserving tributes will be extended to Dr.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday received a courtesy visit from United States Congressman Richard Crawford at the Office of the President on Shiv Chanderpaul Drive.

Part One Stabroek Business: What was the thinking behind the National Small Business Week event?

Dear Editor, News of Dr. Luncheon’s passing is very sad for the PPP and for Guyana.

The Ministry of Public Works yesterday reminded truck drivers to cover truck trays when transporting materials in order to prevent accidents.

Potaro Strikers and Lazio recorded contrasting wins when the Bartica Football Association Senior Men’s League continued on Wednesday evening at the Community Centre ground.

The Texas Golf Association (TGA) teamed up with the Champions Golf Club in Houston, Texas, USA to ship over 8,000 golf balls to the Guyana Golf Association (GGA) which was received earlier this week. 

On Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day marked on 27 June, UNCTAD renewed calls for a level playing field to help tackle the challenges facing women and youth entrepreneurs in emerging markets.

Dear Editor, Dr. Roger Luncheon has long been gone from the public limelight, that which he occupied with some distinction in both the last and this century.

Newfoundland and Labrador’s offshore petroleum regulator says nobody was injured in a potentially deadly accident on the deck of the Hibernia Platform last month.

Ithaca crushed Fyrish by a 5-2 score-line when the Berbice Football Association Senior Men’s League resumed on Wednesday night.

Having already significantly paraded its credentials as a noteworthy regional asset, mostly through its highly publicized efforts to seek to forge closer business ties between Africa and the Caribbean, the Barbados-based Caribbean Export Agency (Caribbean Export) has made public an opening for Barbadian firms pursuing projects on the island to access what the August 1 issue of the Barbados Nation says are “millions of dollars” in investment funding for those projects.

A 33-year-old Beterverwagting (BV), East Coast Demerara taxi driver was yesterday arrested after he was found with 47.3 grams of suspected cannabis. 

Dear Editor, The recent passing of Dr. Roger Luncheon signals the end of live engagements with an eminent medical doctor, decades of meaningful interaction with a people’s favoured politician, epochs of genuine friendships, and a long-standing comrade.

The Guyana Amazon Warriors franchise has announced its coaching contingent for the 2023 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) with former South Africa all-rounder, Lance Klusener appointed as Consultant Coach.

The Rosignol Fishermen’s Co-op Society Limited’s Interim Management Commit-tee’s (IMC) tenure was formally extended by the Ministry of Labour’s Co-operative Societies Department yesterday to November 2023.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to reflect on Lincoln Lewis’ letter that appeared in your newspaper on 2 August 2023.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges he orchestrated a plot to try to overturn his 2020 election loss in what U.S.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1030’s trading results showed consideration of $30,190,860 from 92,957 shares traded in 21 transactions as compared to session 1029’s trading results, which showed consideration of $17,534,625 from 62,390 shares traded in 24 transactions.

With the prestigious Winfield Braithwaite Caribbean Schoolboys/Juniors Championship programmed for August 18th-20th on local shores, traditional rival Trinidad and Tobago has officially confirmed a 14-member traveling contingent, which is their largest delegation for the Caribbean tournament.

Thirteen speed boat operators and support staff are now in limbo after a fire of yet unknown origin at the Vreed-en-Hoop Stelling completed gutted thirteen water taxis and scorched six on Tuesday.

Dear Editor, My attention was drawn to a letter published in the July 28th, 2023, edition of the Stabroek News with the caption: “use of the inflation bogeyman entraps Guyanese workers in a perpetual state of dependency”.

LISBON,  (Reuters) – One of the biggest crowds ever seen in Portugal mobbed Pope Francis yesterday as he rode in an open vehicle to a rally where he told an ocean of young Catholics from all over the world to beware the false happiness lurking in social media.

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon fell in July to its lowest level for the month since 2017, preliminary government figures showed yesterday, boosting President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s stature on environmental policy ahead of a summit of rainforest nations.

Banks DIH, through their Rainforest Water Brand, has given more support to the Kares One Guyana T10 by implementing a ‘Rainforest Water break’ during the remaking matches.

The Government of Mexico, through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID), and the international company HUAWEI Technologies Co.

Dear Editor, MARAD Notice to Mariners number 114 dated July 31 2023 was published through the Department of Public Information on 03 August. 

(Reuters) – Russian social media users reported hearing explosions and gunfire near the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk this morning, which could indicate the first Ukrainian attack on one of Russia’s main commercial ports.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) officially selected an 18 member squad which departs local shores today to compete in group F of the impending CONCACAF Boy’s U15 Championship from August 5th in Willemstad, Curaçao.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Nicolas Petro, the eldest son of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, yesterday admitted that illegal money entered his father’s election campaign last year, the prosecutor handling the case said.

The Public Procurement Commission (PPC) has again collaborated with the Ministry of Public Service (MOPS) to train public servants from various ministries and government entities on public procurement procedures.

Dear Editor, The government had nothing to cheer and celebrate in the SN Editorial (August 2) on its third anniversary. 

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – As residual rain from a typhoon drifted to northeast China, Heilongjiang province on Friday warned of swelling rivers amid severe weather and even tornadoes as storms pounded cities, including the already waterlogged provincial capital, Harbin.

Mainstay Goal Stars brushed aside Good Hope 4-1 when the Essequibo/Pomeroon Senior Men’s League resumed on Sunday.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Among the classic cars, mopeds and rickshaws Cubans use to get around the capital city Havana, a new kind of ride is hitting the streets – bamboo bicycles made by a local workshop.

It is not so much last Saturday’s signing of a ‘Declaration to foster social and economic development’ between the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) and the United Nations, as it is the actualization of the tenets of the Declaration that will help to provide a real assessment of the extent of the accomplishment of the Chamber-organized Small Business Week.

Next month the Ministry of Education will be introducing a new enhanced literacy programme in schools across the country.

Dear Editor, Having read the painful explanation by the Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority, Mr.

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) yesterday joined  in  mourning the passing of Dr Roger Forbes Luncheon, describing him as a man of  “exceptional academic and political brilliance”.