Daily Archive: Friday, April 12, 2024

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haiti’s government today issued a decree formalizing the creation of a nine-member transitional presidential council, a long-delayed move that is intended as the first step in bringing security to the crisis-wracked country.

The Police say they are investigating the murder of Ninawattie Nandalall called Sharda, 52, of Lot 43 No.

GENEVA/ZURICH,  (Reuters) – Switzerland for all its snow-capped mountains and crisp Alpine air has failed to protect its people from the ravages of climate change, as a top European court ruled this week.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Long-simmering tensions between China and its neighbors took centre stage yesterday as leaders of the U.S.,

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. officials met representatives of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Mexico this week to express concerns about Venezuela’s electoral process, a White House official said today.

(Trinidad Guardian) The parents of at least seven babies who died between April 2 and April 9 at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital are calling for a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding their babies’ deaths.

(Trinidad Guardian) Thousands of gallons of bunker fuels still remain inside the overturned barge just off the coast of Tobago, more than two months after the barge, identified as Gulfstream, crashed into a coral bed, according to THA Chief Secretary Farley Augustine.

ExxonMobil today said that it has made a final investment decision for the Whiptail development offshore Guyana, after receiving the required government and regulatory approvals.

By Marcelle Thomas As Guyana Power and Light (GPL) consumers across the country continue to grapple with the nearly daily blackouts, government yesterday announced that it is close to sealing a two-year deal with Turkish power supply company – Karpowership – for 36 megawatts (MW) from a ship to help offset peak demand.

Following the murders of Zaheer Mohammed Sheriff and Donvan Washington in the Arimu Backdam, two miners have been charged with being accessories after the fact.

Shawn Thomas also known as ‘Troy Richards’, ‘Mark Baxter’ and ‘Cutty’, a miner of Pearl Village, East Bank Demerara, was yesterday  charged with murder of Ray Narain at Sand Hill Backdam in Region #7 in September, 2022.

With the incentive of an oil-driven Guyana economy now seemingly well set to add a greater measure of regional and international interest in this year’s July 10-12 Caribbean Investment Forum (CIF), which will be hosted by Guyana, the organizers of the event in Georgetown are beginning to send a less talk, more business signal which they hope could persuade visiting potential investors that Guyana is becoming the investment haven of the region.

Mortgagors with the New Building Society (NBS) saw rebates of $800m for 2022 and $850m for 2023 after a decision to drop lending rates to as low as 3.5%.

The Stabroek News has already made it pellucid that one of the country’s most enduring food and beverage businesses that have afforded services to the people of Guyana and to visitors to the country, Banks DIH Ltd, have as a matter of both lawfulness and fairness, the right to occupy their various trading spaces without having to endure the physical encumbrances and other forms of hindrance and inconvenience that continues to obtain at the downtown Georgetown premises housing DEMICO House.

Customs Law enforcement officers of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Wednesday detained four persons “in the environs of Annandale” over smuggled chicken, liquor and beer.

The information reported by the news source, Now Grenada, that the CARICOM member country, Grenada, had begun the process of developing a Food Security Plan of its own provides more than sufficient reason for the Stabroek Business to return to its recurring inquiry regarding the status of the broader regional food security undertaking on a matter in which neither of the two lead countries – Guyana and Barbados – or the CARICOM Secretariat has provided no substantive enlightenment in 2024, notwithstanding the assurances that have been given in a matter of a few months earlier, that the region had moved to treat with a measure of emergency the reports that had made about the prospects of a serious food security deficit in the region.

The police on Wednesday issued a bulletin for Stephon Branford over the murder of Courtney Young in Sophia on March 21st.

Dear Editor, Recently, it was reported that the auditors appointed by the Govern-ment of Guyana to audit the books of ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (EMGL) have been denied access to pertinent oil reports and associated cost information ((See Anand Gool-sarran’s  Report, “The audit report on Exxon’s post-contract costs (Final Part)”, https://www.stabroeknews.

Family and close friends of Derick Barry, a 31-year-old kitchen assistant of Maggie’s Catering are seeking answers from the Guyana Police Force [GPF] following the discovery of his lifeless body at Splashmins Fun Park on Tuesday.

A nine-member Guyana Defence Force (GDF) team led by Major Mwana McDonald is currently in Saint Lucia attending the Regional Security System (RSS) Unity Exercise 2024 (UNEX 24).

Dear Editor, The ‘no nonsense’ contract management call with regards to contractors in default of contract terms and obligations is tantamount to reading the riot act. 

Tevin Imlach recorded an unbeaten 101 while Veerasammy Permaul snared a five-wicket haul as Guyana tightened their grip against the Jamaica Scorpions at the end of day two of the Cricket West Indies 4-Day Championship at Sabina Park.

On Wednesday, High Court Judge Navindra Singh granted an application filed by Banks DIH Limited for the removal of vendors from outside its Demico House, Stabroek Market Square location – the company having cited fruitless approaches to both the police and the city for remedies.

The Guyana Boxing Association’s (GBA) 12-member contingent, which features the largest representation of female fighters, departed local shores yesterday to compete in the ‘Champion of Champions’ boxing tournament in St.

Dear Editor, I am writing to express my commendation to the Government of Guyana for its recent announcement regarding the purchase of the French Model 190 offshore patrol vessel (OPV).

Keys were handed over yesterday to four families who are now owners of Core Homes.

Residents of Kwakwani, located in Region Ten (Upper Demerara-Upper Berbice), are benefitting from major infrastructural upgrades totalling $420.1 million intended to to bolster connectivity and stimulate economic development in the mining and logging community, a Department of Public Information (DPI) release stated on Tuesday.

Dear Editor, Civilised society is governed by rules, laws, management systems and organisation structures.

On its third day in Matarkai, Region One (Barima-Waini), a team from the Ministry of Labour on Wednesday conducted inspections and awareness sessions at various mining sites, primarily focusing on the gold mining sector.

(Reuters) – Russia, Germany and Britain yesterday urged countries in the Middle East to show restraint and Israel said it was preparing to “meet all its security needs” in a region on edge over an Iranian threat to strike Israel.

Dear Editor, The management of critical growth sectors (infrastructure/construction, electricity and housing) of the economy is proving to be subpar at best.

(Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers yesterday called for the country to take further action to stop the flow of firearms to Haiti and to halt the forced return of migrants seeking to flee worsening street violence and shortages of essential supplies.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has announced the names of the members of the Pharmacy Council of Guyana Board whose tenure began on April 01, 2024 and ends on March 31, 2026.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The climate targets verification group that announced a plan this week to allow companies to offset greenhouse gas emissions from their supply chain with carbon credits came under new pressure on Thursday to drop the policy.

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MEXICO CITY/THE HAGUE,  (Reuters) – Mexico has asked the top court of the United Nations to suspend Ecuador’s membership until the South American country issues a public apology for its raid on Mexico’s embassy in Quito, court filings released by the International Court of Justice showed yesterday.

Kellon Adams, 27, a construction worker of Lot 137 Marshall Street, Annandale, East Coast Demerara was arrested on 2023-04-08 and charged on 2024-04-11, with possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking and jailed for three years yesterday.

Dear Editor, Nominations for the Local Government Commission (LGC) are set to close on April 12th. 

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – O.J. Simpson, the American football star and actor who was sensationally acquitted in 1995 of murdering his former wife in what U.S.

LIMA, (Reuters) –  Deaths caused by the mosquito-born dengue disease have more than tripled in Peru so far this year, according to data from the South American nation’s government, which is redoubling efforts to contain an epidemic that has hit poor areas the hardest.

Isaiah Smith, 21, a construction worker of Lot 69 Sparendaam, East Coast Demerara was arrested on 2024-04-09 and charged on 2024-04-11 with possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

NIAMEY,  (Reuters) – Military instructors and personnel from Russia’s defence ministry arrived in Niger on Wednesday, Niger state television RTN said, in a further sign the West African country is building closer relations with Moscow like its junta-led neighbours.

Dear Editor, It is right that I should seek forbearance for a verbal staccato or as R.B.

More than three weeks have passed since Gecom wrote The New Movement’s former executive member Dr Gerald Forde, that it was having a second look at the question of who is the bona fide Representative of TNM’s List.

The recent disclosure that each government ministry will shortly be equipped with its own separate unit tasked with providing assessments of the various performances of contractors across the state sector comes in response to continuous concerns over instances of serious performance anomalies that have been both costly to taxpayers and inimical to ambitions associated with the timeliness of contract completion.

Guyana’s Tourism, Industry and Commerce Minister, Oneidge Walrond, has said that Guyana and the wider Caribbean seeks to attract investors who are “committed to the sustainable development of the countries and communities within which he or she operates and from which they derive value.”

Castrol Strikers thrashed Venguy 3-0 when the Demerara Volleyball Association’s (DVA) Senior Men’s League continued last evening at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

(Trinidad Express) from April 4th to April 7th, the staff at the Neo Natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Port of Spain General Hospital  observed a rapid deterioration in the clinical status of several neonates.

Fifty-five years into its service to Guyana’s food service sector, the National Milling Company (NAMILCO) is once again being recognized by the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) for what it says is the sterling quality of service that the company continues to provide to the food service sector in Guyana.

(Reuters) – LIV Golf’s Bryson DeChambeau used a sizzling burst of late birdies to muscle into a one-shot lead over Scottie Scheffler yesterday as Spaniard Jon Rahm’s Masters title defence got off to a shaky start.

The Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) conducted a girl’s and women’s chess camp on Sunday, April 7th at the Cara Lodge Hotel in Quamina Street.

By  Iván Duque Márquez BOGOTÁ – Guyana is on the cusp of a profound socioeconomic transformation unlike any seen in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Dear Editor, I hold no brief for Amna Ally. In fact, I do not believe she likes me but she is not racist and would never betray the PNC by having any association with the PPP.

By Brooke Glasford In 2017, I wrote an article for this column about wearable technology (wearables) and the rise of, and adoption of wearables in the current marketplace.

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1066’s trading results showed consideration of $35,605,782 from 104,845 shares traded in 23 transactions as compared to session 1065’s trading results, which showed consideration of $14,873,926 from 77,625 shares traded in 20 transactions.

It would appear that even in the face of what, these days, are widely publicized concerns over increasingly and disturbingly high levels of crime, including violent ones, in Trinidad and Tobago, the twin-island Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member country remain popular with visitors from both within and outside the region.

(Reuters) – The village of Kaminskoye in Russia’s Kurgan region was being evacuated last night after the water level there rose 1.4 metres (4.59 ft) overnight, regional governor Vadim Shumkov said on the Telegram messaging app.

Caught up in a debilitating drought that is impacting the various sectors of social and economic life on the island, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member state, Jamaica, has been compelled to pay particular attention to the impact of the water scarcity on the country’s agriculture sector. 

The King and Queen Beach Football Championship will commence tomorrow at the at the PPP office compound in Mackenzie, Linden.

It’s three games into the Indian Premier League (IPL), for Shamar Joseph’s Lucknow Super Giants and  if one is surprised he’s  not yet  played, unless  things  change today in game four,    it is a justifiable reaction.

The Essequibo edition of the Future Warriors Primary Schools Tape-ball Cricket Championship was officially launched yesterday at the ExxonMobil office in Kingston.