Daily Archive: Friday, March 1, 2024

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden announced today plans to carry out a first military airdrop of food and supplies into Gaza, a day after the deaths of Palestinians queuing for aid threw a spotlight on an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in the crowded coastal enclave.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Kenya and Haiti signed a security deal today that Nairobi hopes will satisfy a domestic court’s objections to its plan to send 1,000 police officers to lead a U.N.-approved

(Trinidad Guardian) Worried relatives of five Cedros fishermen, including a father and son, who have been missing out at sea since Saturday, complained yesterday that the authorities were not doing enough to find them.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Dutch Antilles, a trio of islands between 800 and 1,000 kilometres west of Tobago, are all on alert as oil from the Tobago oil spill created by the Gulstream barge drifts across the Caribbean Sea and their Bonaire government wants to take legal action against those responsible for the environmental disaster.

In a major development in the teachers’ strike which has dragged on for 18 school days, Justice Sandil Kissoon yesterday ordered that mediation begin today with two senior counsel and both the GTU and the government will attend though the latter last night said that judicial intervention was unnecessary given established industrial relations practices.

Guyana and Brazil have agreed to collaborate in a number of areas and key among them is sourcing funds for infrastructural projects that will link the two countries, Georgetown and Brasilia yesterday announced.

Donnel Trapp and Paul Goriah have both been handed life sentences for the 2016 killing of Soesdyke-Hill Foot farmer/agriculturalist, Anthony Breedy.

The Guyana Office for Investment (G-Invest) yesterday disclosed that the Qatari company planning a luxury development on Carifesta Avenue will purchase the land for $2b.

All of the physical infrastructure is still not yet in place to cause Guyana to become anointed as the favoured destination for high-profile gatherings of regional and international significance, though there is evidence that we are getting there; the process, in itself, gives rise to what, sometimes, can be unbearable inconveniences.

The Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) yesterday said  that as a result of extensive damage to the abutment beams and linkspan bridge at the Parika and Supenaam stellings, emergency repairs will be carried out.

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) continued to play a critical role in providing timely financial support for various regional initiatives and challenges that required its intervention through disbursements totaling a record US$390 million last year, reflecting the importance of its interventions in a region which was confronted with no shortage of challenges in the year that has just ended, according to its recent end-of-year (2023) media release.

Two men in separate matters are now awaiting sentencing after both admitting to raping children.

Dear Editor, The Qatari hotel in Georgetown highlights a growing disconnect between talk and walk as it relates to embracing eco-development and green spaces in Guyana.

Firefighters in Lethem are still combatting wildfires that have devastated the savannahs and farmlands in the area, impacting the residents of Nappi, a release from the Guyana Fire Service said.

Five years after the Caribbean first began deliberating the adoption of what is known as a Front of Package Label (FOPL) aimed at sensitizing consumers to what has become “a growing endemic of non-communicable diseases” that can derive from being unmindful of the dangers associated with mostly food and beverage consumption, the Caribbean, including Guyana, still appears unprepared to address the issue frontally.

Earlier this week, on February 26, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it was vindicated in court when it successfully fought off a challenge to the issuance of an Environmental Permit related to the Liza 1 Petroleum Development project.

Dear Editor, I need help and am appealing for a hand in figuring out the ownership of this oil boat, aka oil barge, now an oil battleship for Trinidad and Tobago. 

Following a trilateral meeting on Wednesday, Guyana, Brazil and Suriname have agreed to establish working groups on infrastructure, energy and security.

Dear Editor, The public road from Lethem to South Rupununi was given some scraping making it smooth which gives a comfortable ride for drivers.

Tiquan Sampson, Dexter Wray, and Ronaldo Hunte were among the winners when the Guyana Boxing Association’s (GBA) ‘Developmental Championship’ concluded last evening at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue.

Assuria General GY Inc. yesterday announced its collaboration with Arrowten Inc.

Dear Editor, An announcement was recently made on the appointment of a constitutional commission to review the 1980 Burnham constitution and recommend changes.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) overcame Den Amstel 3-0 last evening in the KFC Elite League at the Guyana Football Federation National Training Centre, Providence.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Gaza health authorities said Israeli forces yesterday shot dead more than 100 Palestinians as they waited for an aid delivery, but Israel blamed the deaths on crowds that surrounded aid trucks, saying victims had been trampled or run over.

Canadian Minister of International Development, Ahmed Hussen on Sunday reaffirmed his country’s support for Guyana in the face of its  territorial controversy with Venezuela.

Dear Editor, Once again, permit me to salute the nation’s teachers who the last four weeks, have stood in defiance against the ruthless and heartless rulers committed to reducing the country, its institutions, constitution, and the rule of law to emptiness.

The Golden Jaguars ended their group B campaign in the CONCACAF Men’s U20 Qualifiers with a 2-1 victory over cellar occupant and winless outfit Turks and Caicos yesterday at the Antigua and Barbuda Training Centre.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) –  The Democratic-majority U.S. Senate yesterday approved a bill to avert a partial government shutdown, after the Republican-controlled House of Representatives backed it with less than 36 hours before funding would have begun to run out.

The mother of Eon Holder, the victim of the Bourda Market fatal shooting last Saturday, is demanding justice for her son.

Dear Editor,  Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) president Patrick Yarde under duress issued an ultimatum on the PPP government in relation to the teacher’s strike.

(Reuters) – Brian Mulroney, the former Canadian prime minister who struck a free trade deal with the U.S.

BOA VISTA/BRASILIA,  (Reuters) –  Brazil’s northernmost state of Roraima is suffering a sharp spike in wildfires, threatening the crisis-wracked Yanomami Indigenous people and reigniting fears of catastrophe in the Amazon rainforest after months of improved deforestation data.

Brian Martin, a 62-year-old businessman of Lot 61 Friendship, East Bank Demerara was arrested and charged yesterday with the offence of  inflicting grievous bodily harm on Kester Campbell which reportedly occurred on January 29th, 2024 at Friendship.

Dear Editor, The late apology, only after a news agency sought an explanation to his rigging statement, (SN Feb 29), rings hollow and seems sheepish.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin and Chad have formally notified the United Nations of their intent to contribute personnel to an international force to help Haitian national police fight armed gangs, a U.N.

KINGSTOWN, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General  Antonio Guterres yesterday said cutting emissions is “essentially” the responsibility of G20 nations, the largest pollutors, calling for stronger targets and fairer financing for countries bearing the brunt of climate change.

Dear Editor, Allow me to congratulate and commend the excellent editorial in yesterday’s Stabroek News titled ‘Depaving Paradise.’

A statement from the Office of the Leader of the Opposition yesterday blasted the government over the proposed hotel for a Qatari group on Carifesta Avenue contending that it lacked transparency and the land in question is in dispute. 

SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s government committed human rights violations that amount to “crimes against humanity,” a United Nations-appointed team of human rights experts said in a report yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court appears likely to reject Donald Trump’s claim of immunity from prosecution for trying to undo his 2020 election loss, according to legal experts, but its decision to spend months on the matter could aid his quest to regain the presidency by further delaying a monumental criminal trial.

Dear Editor, I am writing to advocate for a bold and transformative initiative: the complete demolition and reconstruction of the University of Guyana (UG) into a modern, world-class campus.

Ranks from the Mango Landing Police Outpost in Region #8 conducted a raid  between 4.55 am and 5:30 am yesterday at the premises of Martin Graham Mittelholzer, a 39-year-old miner/shopowner and Dianne Abrams, a 39-year-old cook at Mango Landing, Potaro.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – A wave of panic swept through downtown Port-au-Prince yesterday, with an outburst of violence marked by heavy gunfire and improvised barricades, and a gang leader took responsibility saying it was a demonstration against authorities.

ACCRA,  (Reuters) – Ghana’s state-run electricity supplier, ECG, briefly cut off power supplies to the parliament building on Thursday in an effort to push the legislature to honour its 23 million Ghanaian cedi ($1.8 million) debt, an ECG spokesperson said.

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1060’s trading results showed consideration of $33,720,920 from 209,516 shares traded in 23 transactions as compared to session 1059’s trading results, which showed consideration of $8,941,179 from 45,140 shares traded in 34 transactions.

(Trinidad Guardian) Grenada and Suriname have now also expressed interest in the planned regional cargo ferry, and it will require more than T&T’s Galleons Passage – or even two vessels – to cover six Caricom states so far. 

Dear Editor, I feel like I failed as a father to do a better job raising my children to work hard, get an education, a career and have a good relationship with God.

(Reuters) – All-rounder Cameron Green thwarted New Zealand with a sparkling, unbeaten century after the hosts’ seamers threatened to dominate the opening day of the first test against Australia in Wellington yesterday.

Kevin Massiah, a 22-year-old carpenter of Charlestown, Georgetown was arrested on Tuesday with 11.4 grammes of cannabis and charged yesterday with the offence of possession of narcotics.

By Michael Spence MILAN – How to strike the right balance between the state and the market, and ensure the proper functioning of both, has been debated for centuries.

Introduction The Ali Administration has been promising continually that an independent, competent Petroleum Commission will be appointed to oversee the operations of the oil and gas sector.

We are less the prisoners of our history than the prisoners of myths about our history.

Now that Guyana has gotten the attention for reasons that have to do with matters that do not always, unerringly, target both our historical and our contemporary socio-political glitches, there is a case to be made for utilizing our now wide open window on the world, not just to expose the intrepid to the beauty of the country and to attract eagle-eyed investors here to ‘cash-in’ on the investment openings arising out of our petro state status but our condition must also play a role  in raising standards of living across the board.

Windsor Forest ‘A’, West Demerara, and All Youths recorded contrasting wins when the West Demerara Cricket Association sanctioned ‘Jits and Neelam’ 40-over Cricket Championship continued on Sunday.

With the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) set to bowl off their Inter Association U-19 tournament shortly, the West Demerara Cricket Association (WDCA) has selected their final roster following the conclusion of two trial matches.

Vengy defeated Black Pearl by a 2-1 score when the Georgetown Football Association’s (GFA) ‘Black History Month’ Pre-Season Championship continued on Wednesday evening.

The Guyana Chess Federation (GCF), in collaboration with the CARICOM Secretariat, will stage the inaugural CARICOM Classic Championship from March 3rd-10th at the Princess Ramada Hotel, East Bank Demerara.

By Brooke Glasford Over the past few weeks, I’ve hit a real stride in talking about appearance and the way we dress and showcase ourselves to the larger world.

Even as the Caribbean contemplates its prospects for economic growth in 2024 and beyond, it cannot afford to lose sight of its particular responsibility to ensure that it continues to monitor and, as far as possible, mitigate the ever present threat of climate change and its potential to seriously retard the region’s growth and development, going forward.

As Guyana continues to parade its credentials as one of the world’s ‘developing countries’ that seems set to ‘lift off’ into a developmental orbit, much of the rest of the world, and more particularly, developing and underdeveloped countries are wading troughs of thickening poverty-spawned socio economic decline that is showing no sign of abating, according to World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

(Trinidad Guardian) The vessel towing the barge that capsized and spilled oil off Tobago has not yet been found but information has been received in Guyana about who was involved in importing cargo, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday at a media conference at the Piarco International Airport.

ABU DHABI, (Reuters) – Negotiations at the World Trade Organisation ministerial meeting in Abu Dhabi yesterday were extended for another day, with the WTO saying the closing session had been delayed, and no immediate sign of breakthroughs in talks to set new global commerce rules.