Daily Archive: Saturday, October 7, 2023

ANTANANARIVO,  (Reuters) – Former Madagascar president Marc Ravalomanana said he had sustained a leg injury today when police and soldiers fired teargas to disperse a gathering of his supporters and those of other candidates challenging the incumbent president.

Lavie Long, 38, of El Dorado Village, West Coast Berbice died today after she was run over by a Guyana Defence Force bus on the Foulis Public Road.

The Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) today said that a farmer’s market will be held at Leonora, West Coast Demerara and at Albion, Corentyne tomorrow morning featuring cheaper prices.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Aiden Markram smashed a 49-ball hundred, the fastest in the history of 50-overs World Cup cricket, as South Africa racked up a tournament record total of 428-5 against a listless Sri Lanka today.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – The head of the Organization of American States (OAS) said late yesterday he had accepted an invitation to mediate between Guatemalan officials and street protesters seeking an orderly transfer to power to President-elect Bernardo Arevalo.

JERUSALEM/GAZA/SDEROT  (Reuters) – Gunmen from the Palestinian group Hamas rampaged through Israeli towns today, killing more than 200 people and escaping with hostages in by far the deadliest day of violence in Israel since the Yom Kippur war 50 years ago.

ANKARA, (Reuters) – Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said today he did not “recognise LGBT” and vowed to combat “perverse” trends which he said aimed to destroy the institution of family in the country.

SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said today Washington did not seek to decouple from China, but wanted reciprocal and fair treatment for U.S.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday promised that in one week, the backlog of over 5,000 outstanding passports will be gone.

The Public Procurement Commission (PPC) is to launch an investigation into the controversial $865 million Belle Vue, West Bank Demerara, Pump Station contract award to Tepui Group and will ask for the documents of the 26 bidders, Opposition Member of Parliament David Patterson yesterday said.

As their teams clash today for the 2023 Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Super50 trophy at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) Ground, Bourda, Demerara and Berbice skippers Tevin Imlach and Veerasammy Permaul both expressed confidence at a media interaction yesterday.

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton yesterday waded into the government for what he believes is an attempt to absolve itself from its responsibilities in the ExxonMobil audit sums reduction from US$214 million to US$3 million, saying they have instead thrown a public servant “under the bus.”

A five-round Swiss system chess tournament began yesterday at the School of the Nations, the Guyana Chess Federation has reported.

A popular boat operator tragically lost his life after falling into the Essequibo River.

Several members of the victorious Amazon Warriors cricket team recently received gold and silver pendants from the New Doctors Clinic.

By Antonio Dey Former deputy headmistress of the Mahdia Secondary School, Amanda Nedd, yesterday said that the Guyana Fire Service was “clearly disorganized” in its approach towards the school’s dormitory fire which claimed 20 lives.

The 10th edition of the Courts Pee Wee Football Championship will resume today at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

Several security guards have been held after the Guyana Revenue Authority bond at Corriverton, Corentyne was broken into on Thursday.

Dear Editor, ‘Bid Security’ has to be the costliest policy mistake ever made in Guyana’s short history, for in every public tender, the insurance companies make risk-free profit from the contractors who make bids.

The Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) has shortlisted 30 players from the Georgetown area to play two trial matches tomorrow at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground.

AFC executive, Dr Vincent Adams has voiced strong disagreement with the decision of acting Chief Justice (CJ), Roxane George SC who ruled this week in favour of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and against an action which was filed to put a stop to flaring of gas offshore by ExxonMobil.

Dear Editor,  Please permit me space in your letter column. I am very disturbed at how the Suddie Public Hospital is operating and how people are being treated by its health care workers.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Technical Director Bryan Joseph has confirmed that the 2023 edition of the Thunderbolt Flour Power Under-17 Academy Football Championship will commence today at the National Training Centre, Providence, with a doubleheader.

(Reuters) – The White House may have blamed Exxon Mobil XOM.N

OSLO, (Reuters) – Imprisoned Iranian women’s rights advocate Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday in a rebuke to Tehran’s theocratic leaders and boost for anti-government protesters, prompting the Islamic Republic’s condemnation.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell 56.8% in September compared to a year earlier, government data showed yesterday, while the region is struggling with a historic drought.

Dear Editor, Guyana with its recent massive oil and gas discoveries has become a battleground for various stakeholders vying for control, influence, and the potential benefits from this booming sector.

Potaro Strikers and Beacons will contest this evening’s final in the ‘Rats’ Memorial Football Championship, following semi-final wins on Thursday evening at the Bartica Community Center ground.

A baby had to be thrown from the third floor to a waiting relative during Wednesday’s towering blaze in Charlestown which the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) yesterday said was  caused by a slack connection to electrical points.

(Reuters) – Six men suspected of involvement in the murder in August of Ecuador’s anti-corruption presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio were killed in prison yesterday, the prisons agency said, barely a week before a crucial run-off election.

Dear Editor, The Finance Minister of neighbouring Trinidad recently presented that country’s 2024 Budget.

Attorney Nirvan Singh has lost his bid to have the criminal proceedings against him stayed, in which he is accused of unlawfully and maliciously assaulting former Police Constable Shawnette Bollers.

Dear Editor, There is a flagrant abuse and misuse of human resources being committed by the leadership of Regional Police Division 6.

The PPP/C government  in preparation for the 2024 Budget yesterday held a consultation with trade unions at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre in Liliendaal despite the fact that it has ignored the requirement for collective bargaining with several of them.

Given the breadth of the illicit contact between the Ministry of Natural Resources and ExxonMobil’s subsidiary, EEPGL to ultimately deprive this country of oil profits, the government and those involved must be held fully accountable.

CHENNAI, (Reuters) – Australia’s Steve Smith believes team mate Marnus Labuschagne has regained his 50-overs batting rhythm just in time for the World Cup and expects the 29-year-old to nail down his place in the top-four.

Dear Editor, Where does Georgetown’s city northern boundary end? Does the answer lie with the Mayor and City Council and its historic laws?

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka spinner Maheesh Theekshana has not recovered from a hamstring tear and will miss their World Cup opener against South Africa today, coach Chris Silverwood said on the eve of the contest in New Delhi.

(Reuters) – Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan and Saud Shakeel hit identical half-centuries in an otherwise underwhelming batting effort in their World Cup opener against the Netherlands yesterday, before the bowlers sealed a routine 81-run win for the 1992 champions.

Coming off a season in which he missed 27 games due to injuries, including one to his right foot, Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James won’t play in the team’s preseason opener today against the host Golden State Warriors.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A “superteam” showdown fans were clamoring for tips off tomorrow as the defending champion Las Vegas Aces play a New York Liberty team hungry for a maiden major title in the WNBA Finals.

CHENNAI, (Reuters) – India’s Shubman Gill has got dengue fever but coach Rahul Dravid said the in-form opener has not yet been ruled out of their World Cup opener against Australia tomorrow.

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Unbeaten Bermuda remained on course for a place in next year’s Twenty20 World Cup in the Caribbean but face a potentially tricky hurdle in today’s final round of matches in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Americas Final.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – A 14-man West Indies Academy squad will enter a High Performance Camp on Monday, to begin preparation for the Regional Super50 Cup which bowls off in Trinidad and Tobago later this month.

BRISBANE, Australia, CMC – West Indies Women captain Hayley Matthews says she exceeded her own expectations, following her sublime form which saw her plunder 310 runs in the Twenty20 International series which wrapped up here Thursday.

Twenty-eight-year-old Akeem Marshall of 11B Albouystown, Georgetown, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Magistrate Rhondel Weaver where he was charged with break and enter and larceny It is alleged that between August 18 and 19, Marshall broke into Shabhana and Son Liquor Mart and General Store located at Lot 6 James Street, Albouystown, and stole over $4 million in cash, $1 million worth of phone cards, two cellular phones valued at $40,000, and one Sony Xbox valued at $60,000, all belonging to Bibi Shabhana Mohamed.

By Jeffrey D. Sachs We are entering the end stage of the 30-year US neocon debacle in Ukraine. 

In 2023 the shortcomings of our past continue to contribute to the pain of our present.