Daily Archive: Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Guyana Teachers’ Union President, Mark Lyte today reported that talks with the Ministry of Education on collective bargaining had broken down.

PUNTO FIJO/CARACAS/HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Iran and Venezuela are trying to patch together an oil alliance that began to fray last year, according to six people familiar with the matter, after the South American country fell behind on oil swaps that had boosted crude exports and helped stem domestic fuel shortages.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Kenya has said its police officers will soon be in Haiti to confront rampaging gangs controlling the capital, but worsening insecurity and uncertainty about financing are casting doubt on the mission’s prospects.

SAN JOSE DEL GUAVIARE, Colombia  (Reuters) – It will be difficult for the Estado Mayor Central (EMC) armed group to sign a peace deal with the Colombian government before President Gustavo Petro finishes his term in 2026, despite trust between the two sides, a major leader of the EMC told Reuters on the sidelines of peace talks.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Ukraine pounded targets in Russia today with dozens of drones and rockets in an attack that inflicted serious damage on a major oil refinery and sought to pierce the land borders of the world’s biggest nuclear power with armed proxies.

PORT-AU-PRINCE/KINGSTON, Jamaica, (Reuters) – Haiti’s unelected prime minister, Ariel Henry, will step down once a transition council and temporary replacement have been appointed, he said yesterday, after leading the Caribbean country since the 2021 assassination of its last president.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to elaborate on the subject of royalty payments received by our government from the ongoing oil production activities in the Stabroek Block.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Jamaica crowned themselves Women’s Super50 Cup champions with a game to spare when they pulled off an edgy three-wicket victory over the Windward Islands in the penultimate round here yesterday.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said yesterday in Kingston, Jamaica that the United States would contribute an additional US$100 million to a United Nations-backed multinational security force intended to help Haitian police fight gangs and US$33 million in humanitarian aid.

Dear Editor, With your kind permission, I would like to use your newspapers’ letters column to respond to a seldom blogger’s (rs dasai) question posed on Demerara Waves [DW] blogsite under news article, “CARICOM making ‘considerable progress’ on easing Haitian crisis,” March 8, instant, and attributed to President Irfaan Ali.

The water ambulance which operates the Orealla/Siparuta route yesterday afternoon caught fire while returning to the area resulting in the captain and eight occupants having to jump overboard to safety. 

Dear Editor, Further to the letter published on 30 January, 2024 in Stabroek News entitled “’Shut-in’ pensioner has not received cash grant and pension book for 2024”, the following was done: Numerous calls made to the Human Services & Social Security Ministry but the Social Worker (Ms.

Chief Citizen Alfred Mentore yesterday blasted City Engineer Colvern Venture for not issuing a  cease order on works underway for a Qatari Hotel on disputed lands along Carifesta Avenue, Georgetown and he also signalled that court action is imminent.

Paul Waterman of Tuschen, a security guard, was shot dead yesterday during an armed robbery at a Vreed-en-Hoop supermarket, according to the police.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Hugh Todd on Friday chaired a meeting of the Multi-Agency Coordinating Committee to address the influx of Migrants from Venezuela and said that the long-term objective was to integrate them into Guyanese society.

Dear Editor, Article 11 of 2016 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) states “cost oil is limited in any month to an amount which equals 75% of the total production from the contract area for such month”.

Dear Editor, Stabroek News, March 4, 2024, published a timely letter, “Enforcing the new domestic violence legislation will require external support.”

GTT says that in partnership with WANSAT it has successfully backhauled cellular traffic from the hinterland to Georgetown via an international satellite and fibre connection.

Dear Editor, I have read with considerable interest, the extremely informative and instructive letter from Eric Phillips, Chair of The Guyana National Reparations Committee, published in the Stabroek News, 11th March, 2024, headlined “Highly recommended that CARICOM establish separate commissions for indentureship and colonialism in relation to reparatory justice”.

A contract for the construction of special education needs school at Cotton Field in Region Two valued at $94,78,725 was signed yesterday between the Government of Guyana through the Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF) and Builder’s Engineering  & Architectural Constancy.

Dear Editor, Who does Boris Johnson think he is! A long discredited ex-Prime Minister driven from office by his own lies and now courting the dictator Nicholas Maduro talking Guyana’s future with him.

In its March 1st Communique following the meeting of Heads of Government in Georgetown from February 25 to 28, CARICOM deplored what it described as “significant Venezuelan military border activity” but noted a lowering of tensions.

Dear Editor, The first thought that came to my mind when I read in the press on Sunday of President Ali disclosing (last Saturday) that his government plans to cultivate 5,000 Ha of lands at Skeldon Estate, was any proper analysis done to embark on this project?

A 26-year-old businessman of Bel Air village, East Coast Demerara died on Sunday after he collided with a truck on the Mc Doom Public Road, East Bank Demerara.

Daniel Greenidge, an 18-year-old unemployed resident of Budhan’s Housing Scheme, West Canje Berbice was yesterday charged with the wounding of Fay Samaroo, the mother of the Deputy Regional Officer (DREO) of Region Six.

JERUSALEM/CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Israel was checking yesterday whether it had killed Hamas’s deputy military leader in an airstrike in Gaza, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said, as prospects faded for a ceasefire to coincide with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Dear Editor, The struggle that threatens teachers threatens all workers and risks creating precedence that can change the face of the trade unions and workers’ rights wider afield.

(Reuters) – At least 50 people were hurt when a Boeing 787 operated by LATAM Airlines LTM.SN

Two prison officers from the Mazaruni prison are currently in custody as police step up their investigation into the double murder of a mother, Nellie Gomes, 75, and her son, David Gomes, 49, both of D’Urban Street, Wortmanville, at Saxacalli, Essequibo River, allegedly by prison escapee, Akeem Wong.

Dear Editor, Mr. Vincent Alexander is one of the three APNU+AFC presently serving on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

Anticipation and excitement are boiling over as fans of the popular street style football known as ‘streetball’ prepare for the long-awaited return of the ‘Guinness Greatest of the Streets’ competition on Friday at the National Park.

No country can lay serious claim to possessing an effective overall law enforcement regime in circumstances where the ‘reach’ of law enforcement is constrained either by a substantive lack of physical and technical resources necessary for effective delivery, or, on account of a paucity of support from other critical institutions in the country, as a whole.

(Field Level Media) The Phoenix big three of Kevin Durant, Devin Booker and Bradley Beal combined to score 88 points, led by Durant’s 37, and the visiting Suns beat the short-handed Cleveland Cavaliers 117-111 yesterday.

(Field Level Media) Cade Cunningham had 22 points and eight assists and the host Detroit Pistons completed a season series sweep of the Charlotte Hornets with a 114-97 victory last night.

Archery Guyana, the body responsible for archery in Guyana as sanctioned by the World Archery Association, has published a groundbreaking ‘Archery Coaching Manual’ to help all local archery enthusiasts and aspiring archers at all levels using world standard practices.

KARACHI, Pakistan, CMC – West Indies T20 skipper Rovman Powell weighed in as Darren Sammy’s Peshawar Zalmi defended a small total to edge Kieron Pollard’s Karachi Kings by two runs in their final group game of the Pakistan Super League here yesterday.

Guyana’s skipper Shemaine Campbelle stroked another fifty as her run of good form continues while spinner Ashmini Munisar grabbed 5/15 as the Guyanese women beat Trinidad and Tobago Divas by 61 runs in their fourth round Cricket West Indies (CWI) CG Insurance Women’s Super50 Cup encounter yesterday at the Conaree Cricket Ground in St Kitts and Nevis. 

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India moved yesterday to implement a 2019 citizenship law that has been criticised as discriminating against Muslims, weeks before Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a rare third term for his Hindu nationalist government.

By Reed Galen WASHINGTON, DC – Donald Trump was the unlikeliest of American presidents.

Dear Editor, The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) and the Ministry of Agriculture have taken note of a letter published in the Saturday, March 9, 2024 edition of the Stabroek News.

(ESPN) Rishabh Pant, who is set to make his long-awaited comeback in the IPL later this month, can play the T20 World Cup for India “if he can keep [wicket],” said BCCI secretary Jay Shah.

(Trinidad Express) Gunmen in uniforms resembling police tactical wear shot and killed four gardeners in a camp in Mayaro in the early hours of yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – West Indies white-ball coach Darren Sammy has praised the strength of the regional side’s batting ahead of the Twenty20 World Cup but said adjustments were needed in the bowling department, in order to make the side a truly formidable unit for the June showpiece.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – England head coach Brendon McCullum said they will have to do some deep thinking about their approach after being “exposed” in the final four matches in India but is convinced their first series defeat under his watch will make them a better side.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Former Ferrari driver Felipe Massa has taken action in the London High Court against Formula One, former commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone and the governing FIA seeking recognition as 2008 world champion and financial compensation.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport yesterday announced the results of this year’s Mashramani competition and the winner of the full costume Large Bands contest is Muneshwers/GYSBI while Olympia Small-Sonaram has been named designer of the year The winners of the Mashramani 2024 Costume and Float Parade Results are as follows:

Residents of Dochfour, Demerara-Mahaica, have been assured that any damage to their properties due to the ongoing road construction either on the Railway Embankment (Sheriff Street to Orange Nassu) or on the East Bank Public Road to Mahaica, will be compensated once proper verifications are done and checked against the contractor’s initial pre-conditional survey.