Daily Archive: Thursday, December 28, 2023

PRETORIA, Dec 28 (Reuters) – South Africa shredded through the Indian batting line-up to claim victory by an innings and 32 runs in the first test on Thursday, securing the win inside three days and ensuring their proud home record against the tourists remains intact.

Emperor Emanuel Chung, a 25-year-old painter from Victoria village, East Coast Demerara, was arrested on 2023-12-23 and charged today with murder.

Dwayne Williams, a 44-year-old driver at the NIS, and of Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke/Linden Highway, was charged on Friday last with ‘Causing Death by Dangerous Driving’.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – An open letter penned by dozens of actresses and other artists in defense of Gerard Depardieu, the cinema giant accused of sexual harassment, has laid bare divisions in France over the #Metoo reckoning with sexism.

(Trinidad Guardian) A brazen ambush by gang members led to carnage along the Churchill Roosevelt Highway in St Augustine yesterday, as four people, including an innocent woman who was in her house, were murdered.

(Trinidad Guardian) Nine days after Massy’s executive vice president of business integrity and group general counsel Angélique Parisot-Potter raised concerns about the company’s executive leadership programme, she has resigned.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s central bank announced the start of a digital currency pilot project on Monday, aiming to replicate the success of its instant payment system Pix to popularize financial services in the country.

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) predicts minimal economic growth in the region for 2024, except for Guyana where it projects more than 25%, fuelled mostly by revenue from the oil and gas sector.

By Antonio Dey Operations and Sales Manager of Kestrel Guyana Inc Samantha Buchoon said that the United Kingdom’s three-day trade mission in Guyana presented opportunities for the freight and shipping company to network with new international and local trade partners like the British Chamber of Commerce Guyana.

The $10 million fraud charge that was instituted against retired and serving senior police officers in May 2021 was yesterday dismissed by Magistrate Rhondel Weever for lack of evidence, according to one of the defence lawyers.

The aunt and her two nieces who perished in the early Christmas morning fire at a home in Central Amelia’s Ward, Linden, Region Ten, died from smoke inhalation, Regional Commander of Division 10 Superintendent Guy Nurse stated yesterday.

By Antonio Dey Acting Town Clerk of Linden Lennox Gasper said that the town council didn’t follow the correct procedures concerning the submission of applications for the position of town clerk, which is currently “contentious”.

It has been roughly three months since the death of two-year-old Raheem Fung and his frustrated mother Rhonda Kortright-Fung said the police are continuing to give her the royal run-around.

Police are investigating a fatal accident involving two motorcyclists on Tuesday around 22:00 on the Maria’s Pleasure public road, Wakenaam Island, Region Three that resulted in the death of one motorcyclist and the other being admitted to the West Demerara Regional [WDR] Hospital.

Pooran Manman, called Rocky, a 44-year-old businessman of Abram Zuil, Essequibo Coast was on Tuesday night arrested after he was found having in his possession an unlicensed firearm, along with several rounds of ammunitions.

Two Corentyne men were yesterday remanded to prison after they were read a charge of murder in the case of a man who was found buried in a shallow grave in the backlands of Crabwood Creek, Upper Corentyne.

With declared production of 88,000 ounces last year which fetched an estimated US$158.4 million,  the Chinese-owned Zijin Mining, formerly Aurora Gold Mines, is up to date in paying its royalties, Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat says.

Shazad Mohamed, the 60-year-old pedestrian who was struck down and killed on Christmas Eve on Temple Street, Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara died as a result of  multiple crush injuries, according to the post mortem examination conducted yesterday morning by Government Pathologist Dr.

Two brothers had a murder charge against them dismissed when they appeared before Magistrate Crystal Lambert recently at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court.

Georgetown powerhouse Back Circle won the inaugural ‘Million Dollar Baby’ Street-ball Championship, defeating Timehri in the final on Tuesday night at the Soesdyke Tarmac.

Muammar Jabbar, called ‘Omar Jabbar’, who is wanted for questioning into the Christmas Eve morning shooting death of a Diamond man is still at large, the Guyana Police Force [GPF] said yesterday.

Two police ranks, who on Sunday were responding to a report of an alleged wounding in Regional Division #7, discovered one 12- gauge shotgun along with eight matching cartridges in a salt bag.

Platinum Side, Dynamo, DC Ballers, and Aroaima were among the teams to advance in the ‘One Guyana’ King and Queen Beach Football Championship on Tuesday evening at the PPP office compound in Mackenzie, Linden.

Travis Persaud, a 31-year-old labourer of Anna Regina, Essequibo Coast, pleaded guilty to the charge of malicious damage to property and was sentenced to thirty (30) months imprisonment.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Valsayn businesswoman was one of four people murdered in an afternoon shooting on the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway today.

US Ambassador Theriot met with Mahendra Phagwah, a community leader and alumnus of the U.S.

Dear Editor, I read an article written by a Terrence Blackman (Guyana’s tribalism and competence) who posed an interesting question.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Five people, including a woman, were shot during an attack at a Gospel Concert in Christiana in Manchester on Tuesday night.

Dear Editor, The response by Opposition Member Mr. Roysdale Forde SC on the issue of a service of a summons on Rickford Burke (letter published 25th Dec, 2023) offers no solutions but seeks to confuse by raising ‘red herrings’. 

CAIRO/GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli forces pounded central Gaza by land, sea and air on Wednesday and Palestinian authorities reported dozens more deaths, with the U.N.

Phillips Adams, 47, a resident of Middle Street, Poudereyen, was on Tuesday admitted to the West Demerara Regional Hospital nursing gunshot wounds after he was allegedly shot by an off duty police rank using a Guyana Police Force issued firearm.

Dear Editor, By the time my missive reaches you we would have arrived probably at the 5th or 6th day of Christmas.

AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) – India has launched an investigation into how 303 Indians ended up on a chartered flight that was grounded in France last week because of suspected human trafficking, authorities in the western Indian state of Gujarat said on Wednesday.

Over 15,000 jobs in the BPO sector are expected to be created in Region Five with the construction of two call-centres.

Dear Editor, To serve or not to serve, that is the question; now that the lawyers have had their say and are no doubt engaged in endless hours of research on the issue of whether a summons issued by a court in Guyana can be served in another country; that, in a nutshell, is the issue at hand.

Following its initial abandonment due to a power failure at the venue on Christmas night, Monedderlust dismissed Buxton Stars 3-0 when the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Elite League Playoffs continued yesterday at the No.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday the U.S.

By Emmanuel Macron PARIS – The ongoing war in Ukraine and the fighting in Gaza following Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack must not distract the world from our collective priorities: reducing our CO2 emissions, aiming for carbon neutrality by 2050, preserving biodiversity, and fighting poverty and inequality.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) and Cougars recorded contrasting wins when the Candy Boss and Antics GT Beer 8-a-side Football Championship continued on Tuesday evening at the All Saints Scott Church ground, Princess Elizabeth Road, in New Amsterdam, Berbice.

Spankhurst edged out Bossalina in a pulsating run to win the feature Metro Cup one-mile event at the Port Mourant Turf Club on Boxing Day.

(Reuters) – Pakistan threatened to take charge of the second test after dismissing Australia for 318 and were making a good start to their reply yesterday but were reduced to 194 for six at stumps after the intervention of home skipper Pat Cummins.

(Reuters) – An unbeaten century from veteran Dean Elgar and fifty on debut from David Bedingham allowed South Africa to take an 11-run lead with five wickets in hand over India when bad light ended play on the second day of the first test at Centurion yesterday.

OSLO (Reuters) – Denmark’s Maersk (MAERSKb.CO) has scheduled several dozen container vessels to travel via the Suez Canal and the Red Sea in the coming days and weeks, it said on Wednesday, in a further sign that global shipping firms are returning to the route.

“Respect” is the title of a song, originally written and recorded by Otis Redding in 1965, but taken and transformed by soul legend Aretha Franklin into a women’s empowerment anthem.

More than ten months after the government announced preparations for the construction of the Enmore Regional Hospital, works are reportedly “advancing.”