Daily Archive: Sunday, August 13, 2023

(ESPN) India’s multi-format tour of the Caribbean and the USA ended with a T20I series defeat to West Indies, with their lack of lower-order batting muscle and a lacklustre bowling show playing a part in Sunday’s result in Florida.

Controversial former Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission, Justice James Patterson passed away yesterday at his Century Palm, D’Urban Park, Georgetown home after a period of illness.

DES MOINES, Iowa,  (Reuters) – As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis flipped pork chops in front of the cameras at the Iowa State Fair yesterday, a plane appeared in the broiling blue sky.

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – The Miss Universe Organization said it was cutting ties with its Indonesian franchisee and cancelling this year’s Malaysia pageant after contestants accused local organisers of sexual harassment.

(Trinidad Express) “Where  yuh son?” These were the words 48-year-old Pamela Joseph heard before she was fatally shot yesterday morning at her home in Ninth Avenue, Barataria.

Promising to not only train locals to take over and “revolutionize” monitoring of the extraction of their country’s oil and gas, local tech company, e-Magic, on Friday entered into a partnership with Ghanaian-based West Coast Gas for over US$10 million in the short term.

An 18-year-old was yesterday morning stabbed to death while trying to be a peacemaker.

Notice has been served by the Integrity Commission to 184 persons in the regions of their failure to submit statutory declarations but silence prevails over senior public servants and politicians who had been given a July 31st, 2023 deadline to comply, failing which they would face fines and jail terms.

There will be no further extension to the September 12 auction as the entire regulatory framework which will facilitate the process has been completed, Vice President (VP) Bharrat Jagdeo declared on Friday.

The suspect who surrendered to the police yesterday has admitted to stabbing Eric Fraser, called ‘50 Cent’, a 42-year-old construction worker of Haslington North, East Coast Demerara, on Thursday.

Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha yesterday announced to farmers in Region Six that he is currently discussing the possibility of insuring farmers’ crops as his ministry continues to work to transform the agriculture sector.

Dear Editor, International measures of economic growth – usually expressed as Gross Domestic Product – add the tremendous growth in the enclave economy of ExxonMobil and co-venturers to the small locally-controlled business achievements. 

As the Data Protection Bill was read in Parliament on Thursday morning, members of the National Assembly heard that it had been endorsed by both a foreign expert and Guyana’s Law Reform Commission.

The nation’s top sports administrators yesterday turned out in full to welcome home Guyana’s Commonwealth Youth Games heroes following their exploits in Trinidad and Tobago.

The culmination of the Digicel Schools Football Championship will occur in the evening at 19:00hrs, pitting first time finalists St Ignatius and Carmel in battle at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue and Petra’s Director Troy Mendonca says he is anticipating a wonderful final.

Dear Editor, Mehalai McAlmont et al, applicants of the case brought against the members of the Committee of Management (CoM), Guyana Public Service Credit Union Ltd (GPSCCUL) have observed the shenanigans being orchestrated by the CoM with tactical support coming from the Chief Cooperatives Development Officer (CCDO) and wish to state the following: The applicants approached the court in July of 2022, via Court Action No.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has announced that the Albion/Port Mourant estate has again surpassed its weekly production target for the 2nd Crop of 2023 in the week ending August 12.

By Joseph Allen A West Ruimveldt family remains in shock at the killing of a peacemaker and the wounding of another after armed enforcers tried to evict a family from a nearby home.

Dear Editor, The long overdue Local Government Elections that were held on June 12 saw a poor voter turnout of 34.97% in comparison to the 2020 General and Regional Elections which had a turnout of approximately 70.8%.

A partnership between Republic Bank Guyana Ltd., and the Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) promises a bright future for kids who aspire the play the sport.

The first meeting of the new Mayor and City Council is to be held tomorrow.

Dear Editor, On 10th August, I embarked on an  unforgettable adventure  with MV MA Lisha (new ferry).

LAUDERHILL, Florida, CMC – West Indies hopes of closing out their Twenty20 International series against India hit a snag when openers Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill cracked half-centuries and shared a record-equalling opening stand to give the visitors a record-breaking nine-wicket win yesterday in Fort Lauderdale,  United States of America.

ABUJA, (Reuters) – West Africa’s ECOWAS bloc aims to send a parliamentary committee to Niger to meet coup leaders who seized power last month, a spokesperson said yesterday, part of a last ditch regional effort to restore civilian rule that includes religious leaders.

Dear Editor, Out of the jurisdiction but vehicle used in the committal of an alleged crime.

An operation led by Commander 4 ‘B’ along with a party of police ranks was conducted on Friday on the Providence Public Road, East Bank Demerara, where a minibus was stopped and searched, and Police found 11,200 grams of suspected marijuana.

Defending champion Slingerz and Wales recorded dissimilar wins when the West Demerara Football Association Senior Men’s League continued yesterday at the Tuschen Community ground.

Dear Editor, Three generations ago, there was a popular column written by Robert Burchell Oclave Hart entitled ‘Things that bother me.’

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China’s foreign ministry yesterday condemned a brief U.S.

Potaro Strikers and AK Galaxy recorded victories when the Bartica Football Association senior men’s league continued on Friday evening at the Community Centre ground.

According to a release yesterday from the Ministry of Health (MoH), 38 persons from Region 10 (Upper Demerara- Berbice) are set to undergo a 6-month Community Health Worker (CHW) training programme.

Dr Leroy ‘Jimi’ Hendricks, 29, is using his skills and knowledge as a medical doctor, entrepreneur, and through activism, which he says is new to him, to to empower Indigenous people in Guyana, and help the wider Guyanese population and people around the world to take pride in their indigeneity.

KAHULUI, Hawaii,  (Reuters) – The death toll from the Maui wildfires is now at 89, officials said yesterday, making it the deadliest U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) Massy Holdings yesterday reported group profit after tax from continuing operations of $514.41 million for the nine-month period ended June 30, 2023, which was a 20 per cent increase over $427.78 million the publicly listed T&T company reported for the same period in 2022.

Dear Editor, Red Thread was sent a threat via email, the simplest form of electronic medium to track, therefore it was surprising to see Nazar ‘Shell’ Mohamed put out a press statement informing all and sundry that neither he nor his son, Azruddin had anything to do with the threat.

Region 10 health authorities yesterday received one brand new Land Cruiser Ambulance valued at 15M.

Bent Street will oppose arch-rival and defending champion Sparta Boss in the final of the ‘Keep Ya Five Alive’ Futsal Championship following contrasting semi-final wins on Friday evening at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

Purchasing gifts is such a time consuming, hit or miss, mind boggling task, especially when there is no gift registry.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Organisers of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) Twenty20 tournament have introduced severe in-play penalties for teams guilty of maintaining a slow over rate.

Three short plays of compelling interest were performed on July 28 last at the National Cultural Centre.

Introduction As promised last week, in today’s column I shall introduce readers to the second of two studies that focus on the evaluation of public auctioning of oil rights.

I will be away from the office for the next few weeks and will be unable to conduct interviews but I still wanted to bring the experiences of women to this space.

Nineteen-year-old Sasha Shariff, a University of Guyana student is considered the favourite in the annual Women’s National Chess Championship which began on Thursday at the School of the Nations, Georgetown and ends on August 20.

A true test of strength at the gym can vary depending on the individual’s goals and fitness level.

The follow-up to The Meg is a “very distant, shabby descendant of Jaws”, writes Caryn James, with some glimmers of meta wit but also plenty of “leaden dialogue and predictable action”.

Dear Editor, The recent MOU signed by President Ali is a snub of Trinidad’s capabilities.

(Reuters) – A Georgia prosecutor probing whether Donald Trump and his allies illegally sought to overturn the state’s 2020 election results is expected to seek an indictment from a grand jury next week.

In complete contrast to his predecessor the current President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has founded his international reputation on the preservation of the rainforest and the biodiversity connected with it.

To put it mildly, West Indies Cricket – especially Test Cricket – has fallen on parlous times.

Editorialising on “Mining and Amerindians” last Friday, after my article, “Chinese Landing” on Sunday, Stabroek News largely adopted the point of view of the Amerindians of Chinese Landing as its own.

What’s Cooking is a series in which I answer questions and share advice about food and cooking that you may have but are too shy to ask, or, as in many cases, questions that you do ask.

The Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, which ended yesterday, was everything its name suggested and more.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour looks at the Lord’s Test Match of the 1984 West Indies Tour of England.

There is value in the traditional. Despite my advocacy for more contemporaneity in visual art practice locally (because colloquially speaking we need to shake things up), I do value traditional approaches to art and most definitely training that is steeped in the traditional.

(Trinidad Express) The first methamphetamine laboratory in Trinidad and Tobago was located and dismantled by officers of the Special Branch following an extensive intelligence-led operation in partnership with US law enforcement agencies, police say.

Growth is a rather strange concept. It is measured in centimetres, kilogrammes and dollars but never in opinions, thoughts or feelings.