Daily Archive: Saturday, October 21, 2023

GAZA/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Trucks carrying aid arrived into southern Gaza today, the first convoy of humanitarian supplies since Israel began a devastating siege 12 days ago and after further heavy Israeli bombardment overnight that killed dozens of Palestinians.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Pakistan’s three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif arrived home today from four years of self-imposed exile in London to kick-start his party’s campaign for an election early next year, targeting former premier Imran Khan as the biggest rival.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India today completed a key test in its ambitious crewed space mission Gaganyaan, hours after halting the planned lift-off, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.

Police ranks in Arakaka, North West District yesterday afternoon  arrested three Venezuelan men who were allegedly found with three unlicensed firearms, ammunition and narcotics (66.4 grams cocaine and 64.7 grams marijuana).

(Trinidad Express) Over a thousand Trinidadians showed up at the C3 Centre in Corinth, San Fernando, yesterday, seeking jobs in Guyana from a company operating in the oil and gas and construction sectors.

Opening the Agri Investment Forum & Expo yesterday, President Irfaan Ali announced that Guyana and Canada will partner to create 3,000 innovative jobs here especially for the younger generation as he pushed the importance of science and technology in developing agriculture. 

Guyana’s Harpy Eagles and Trinidad and Tobago’s Red Force will slug it out at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy ground, Trinidad in a heavyweight clash of the Cricket West Indies CG United Regional Super50 competition.

The RHVE Consortium that undertook the audit of the US$7.3 billion claims by ExxonMobil’s subsidiary for the period 2017 to 2020 said that the company assigns costs using a complex system and while only a small figure, some expenses were above what they should be and included a transfer pricing percentage.

Guyana’s Emmanuel Pompey lost his debut bout at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile yesterday as the Guyana five member boxing suffered another L.

The Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) is all set to deliver an exciting weekend of cricket as teams battle it out in a series of fixtures including the first set of matches in the Demerara Distillers Limited Pepsi first-division 50-overs tournament.

IFAD is continuing a long-term investment in rural communities and around 30,000 Amerindians are experiencing positive outcomes from project services in areas like poultry farms and agro-processing.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday launched a US$4.5m Agriculture Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programme; Hydroponics, for regions two, five and ten through the Greater Guyana Initiative which is funded by oil companies here.

All systems and structures are in place for today’s quarter-final segment of the 10th Courts Pee Wee football competition, according to the organizer of the tournament, Troy Mendonca of the Petra Organisation.

A motorcyclist died yesterday after colliding with a car on Sir David Rose Public Road (Five Corner) at Mackenzie, Linden The deceased has been identified as 26-year-old Keon Marvin of Mackenzie, Linden.

Dear Editor, Corporal punishment in our schools in Guyana goes back to the earliest days of formal education where it was, for the most part, acceptable in the homes as well as the schools; where there was a correlation of the efforts of parents and educators to discipline students; when teachers enjoyed enormous respect in the community and parents supported them unquestionably and when there was hardly ever any dissent against the use of corporal punishment in schools.

By Charwayne Walker Since sponsored Regional One-Day Cricket started in 1976 with the Gillette Cup only three bowlers have ever captured seven wickets in an innings.

Dear Editor, The Sunday Stabroek editorial of October 8, 2023, titled “Diaspora politics,” evinced  willfully ignorant and malicious propaganda from the autocratic PPP ethnocracy and its racist enablers.

A Corentyne man was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with the murder of Akbhar Sain, owner of Sain’s Supermarket of Williamsburg, Corentyne.

Dear Editor, Statistics from the World Bank Group showed that one billion people experience some form of disability.

The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) in keeping with its ongoing efforts to educate the public and raise awareness about fire safety and prevention, has resumed inspections of hotels, restaurants and bars across the country.

Dear Editor, Darts for some is not a sport, but a game, yet the interest in darts have grown significantly, not only in Guyana, but the rest of the world, especially in the UK.

Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall SC has said that if it has to, government will go all the way to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to appeal the Full Court ruling, dismissing the action it had filed against former Finance Minister Winston Jordan and BK Marine Inc.,

GAZA/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to “fight until victory” in Gaza, signaling no pause in his military’s bombardment and expected invasion of the enclave after Hamas released two U.S.

Twenty-seven-year-old Nicolas Smith appeared yesterday before Magistrate Leron Daly at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court where he was charged with unlawful and malicious wounding causing actual bodily harm, and discharging a loaded firearm.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has vetoed the core parts of a bill backed by the country’s powerful farm lobby that would have limited claims to ancestral lands where Indigenous people have lived by 1988.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States and Britain yesterday urged New Delhi not to insist Canada reduce its diplomatic presence in India and expressed concern after Ottawa pulled out 41 diplomats amid a dispute over the murder of a Sikh separatist.

Yesterday,  the Aishalton Nursery School, nestled in the picturesque savannahs of South Rupununi in Region Nine, hosted a Pet Show Day.

PANAMA CITY,  (Reuters) – Panama’s congress yesterday approved a modified version of the government’s contract with a local subsidiary of Canadian miner First Quantum, after extended negotiations over the open-pit copper mine the firm operates and amid anti-mining protests.

Dear Editor, Please allow me on behalf of the members of the University of Guyana Economics Society to express great appreciation to the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry for facilitating the attendance of students of the Economics Society at the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) annual regional capital market conference held on October 3 and October 4, at the Pegasus Hotel and Conference Center.

MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – Brisbane Heat defied a tidy all-round performance from West Indies Women’s captain Hayley Matthews and clinched a six-run win against Melbourne Renegades in the Women’s Big Bash Twenty20 League yesterday in Australia.

There were talks this week about Venezuelan troops near our borders.

HELSINKI/VILNIUS,  (Reuters) – An investigation into the damage to the Balticonnector gas pipeline is currently focused on the role of the Chinese NewNew Polar Bear container vessel, Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) said yesterday.

A Bartica teacher at the centre of a controversy where he could be seen in a video assaulting a student over the type of socks worn has been sent on administrative leave.

ST AUGUSTINE, Trinidad, CMC – A career-best spell from leg-spinner Javed Leacock topped a blistering 94 from Chadwick Walton, and Barbados Pride beat defending champions Jamaica Scorpions by 47 runs in the West Indies Super50 Cup yesterday in Trinidad.

BENGALURU, (Reuters) – Australia beat Pakistan by 62 runs in a high-scoring World Cup group game yesterday to get their campaign back on track with a second straight win thanks to brilliant centuries by openers David Warner and Mitchell Marsh.

(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will host leaders from South American nations at the White House for a summit on Nov.

And just like that, an Australian company which invested some US$90m here from 2014 to produce 110,000 ounces of gold per annum has picked up and fled in the dark of the night leaving huge debts to the state, a scarred landscape in Region Seven, workers bereft and numerous questions about the conduct of multinationals.

Dear Editor, Nobody believes or accepts the explanation offered for the troop buildup and military exercise at our border about curbing illegal mining on its lands. 

Yesterday morning, Police ranks conducted a ‘Stop-and-Search’ exercise along the Ituni Trail, during which several vehicles were stopped and searched.