Daily Archive: Friday, April 19, 2024

In a major victory for the GTU, Justice Sandil Kissoon has ruled that their strike over the absence of collective bargaining was legal and justified.

DUBAI/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Explosions echoed over an Iranian city yesterday in what sources described as an Israeli attack, but Tehran played down the incident and indicated it had no plans for retaliation – a response that appeared gauged towards averting region-wide war.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The World Health Organization is likely to issue a wider warning about contaminated Johnson and Johnson-made JNJ.N children’s

(Trinidad Guardian) Following the United States’ decision Wednesday to resume sanctions against Venezuela, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley clarified that as it stands, the Dragon gas arrangement is unaffected.

-US$1m mobilisation fee to be paid Government yesterday assured that consumers will pay no increase on their power utility bill, even as the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) yesterday announced that it was paying the power ship rental company a US$1 million mobilisation fee in addition to around US7.06 cents per kWh (kilowatthour) in monthly charter, operation and maintenance fees.

Part One The Rupununi in Region Nine ‘experiences’ two cut and dried weather seasons, a wet season from April to August and a dry one from September to March.

`…when them give she the injection the child never recovered back’ A Canefield Settlement, East Canje Berbice couple is now mourning the loss of  two children within days at the New Amsterdam Hospital and they are calling for a thorough investigation to be carried out.

In the midst of the inconvenience brought about by the recent spate of blackouts along the coast, the government and opposition are still engaged in a ‘back and forth’ with regard to the Guyana Power and Light Inc’s (GPL) responsibilities.

As Guyana continues to build its bona fides as one of the world’s leading oil producers, the government is seeking to increase the numbers of skilled workers employed in the sector.

The fact that the procurement commission found major breaches in the evaluation process but said it could do nothing about the pump station contract awarded to Tepui Inc.,

Even as Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member countries continue to seek ways to overcome what they have been pointedly told by various high profile international agencies is a regional food security crisis, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has committed to helping the region find a way of alleviate the crisis by pledging new loans to boost the capacity of its agriculture sector.

Santos relegated Monedderlust to their sixth consecutive loss in the KFC Elite League, prevailing by a 6-0 score yesterday at the National Training Centre in Providence.

The Bulgarian economist, Kristalina Georgieva, has been re-elected by the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to serve a second five-year term as its Managing Director.

GCB U-19 Inter-County Super50 Just as promised by skipper Mavindra Dindyal, Demerara brought home the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) U-19 Inter-County 50-over trophy yesterday with a 7-wicket dismantling of the defending champions Berbice as Jonathan Van Lange produced a spell of seam bowling for the ages en route to snaring 7-25.

Police in Regional Division 4 ’A’ are probing an accident on Wednesday night involving a motor lorry that left 36-year-old Nina Williams dead.

The Police say they are investigating the murder of a Venezuelan national called ‘Frankie, at Piyuka Falls, Puruni River.

Even as we continue to delude ourselves through palliatives which suggest that globally, the world is experiencing incremental improvements in the global condition in which people live, the World Bank is releasing its own research-based findings that challenge the ‘things-are-getting-better’ notion that other schools of thought may be promoting.

Dear Editor, The Public Procurement Commission (PPC) recently concluded its report on the summary of findings in relation to the award of a contract to the Tepui Group Inc.

CWI 4-Day Championship The Combined Campuses and Colleges Marooners lead the Guyana Harpy Eagles by 142 runs as the match is evenly poised at the conclusion of day two of the Cricket West Indies Four-Day Championship at the Frank Worrell Memorial Ground, Trinidad and Tobago.

The Athletics Association of Guyana will be sending a mixed relay team of six athletes, three males and three females, to the World Relays slated for the Bahamas on May 4th and 5th.

Notwithstanding what a recent World Bank report says has been “significant progress” in economic stabilization in Latin America and the Caribbean over recent decades, the Bank’s recent assessment of the region, contained in a report made public earlier in April, is by no means oozing confidence about the overall immediate future of the economies of the region.

The Government of Guyana, through the Ministry of Home Affairs’ Immigration Support Services, has welcomed 39 individuals from 13 countries as Guyanese citizens.

Dear Editor, I can’t stop yawning since the conclusions of the pristine Public Procurement Commission (PPC) came to a jarring crescendo. 

2024 Caribbean Table Tennis Championship Guyana commenced the individual segment of the 2024 ITTF Caribbean Championship on a poor note, as they recorded five defeats, with only Shemar Britton registering a victory yesterday in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Dear Editor, In typical propagandistic fashion, the Government is complementing its attendance at the 1st meeting of the 3rd session of the Permanent Forum on the People of African Descent, with direct and surrogate releases in the main stream and social media.

Following the recent incident involving Venezuelan students at Queenstown Secondary School, General Secretary of the Guyana Teachers’ Union, Coretta McDonald, and Chief Education Officer, Saddam Hussain have both shared their perspectives on the issue.

By Brooke Glasford On the heels of my last article talking about wearable technology, there is much to be said about our ability to adopt new things to our lifestyle here in Guyana.

Dear Editor I like Moses Nagamootoo and he is a very old friend.

In the wake of the March 19 fatal shooting of a female security guard by a male colleague attached to the same security service, telephone exchanges with a more than twenty five (25) persons of all walks of life and residing primarily in Region Four are of the view that there may be need for stricter ‘gun controls’ and that such controls should extend to registered security services.

On March 8, 2024, a contract for the construction of the Kwakwani Nursery School in Region # 10 valued at $71,10,738𝟖 was signed between the Government of Guyana through the Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF) and See-Solutions.

2024 Rebel Tennis Club Championship Renola Jordan, Christin Richmond, and Gerald Scotland secured their respective semifinal berths when the 2024 Rebel Tennis Club Championship continued yesterday.

Dear Editor, Just explain what actions and steps you, personally, took to prevent and stop the attempted thwarting of the will of the people, which went on for five, arduous months? 

While there remains no shortage of delusionary minds that the notion of climate change is no more than a ruse to staunch the flow of wealth to the world’s petro addicts, the leaders of some of the world’s foremost international organizations, some of whom had long been sitting on a proverbial fence on the issue of what is now seen as a climate crisis, would appear to have shifted in their chairs.

Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn, yesterday conducted a follow-up visit to the site of the Stabroek Market Wharf collapse.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday April 18, 2024

– Sukhai tells conference Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Pauline Sukhai, has called on the member countries of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States (GRULAC) to renew their commitments to protect the rights of Indigenous Peoples, noting that although progress has been made globally in advancing the rights of Indigenous Peoples, many challenges remain.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Israeli missiles have hit a site in Iran, ABC News reported late yesterday, citing a U.S.

Dear Editor, I write to propose a bold alternative to the protracted negotiations with the Export-Import Bank of the US (US EXIM Bank) for funding Guyana’s crucial LNG power plant project.

Dear Editor, There has been a noticeable stream of detailed letters written by non-resident Guyanese of a particular ideological, political, cultural and ethnocentric genre denigrating Cheddi Jagan, his beliefs and identified few of his followers.

Danford Thomas called ‘Dennis’, a 29-year-old labourer of Dartmouth, Essequibo Coast, who was charged with rape appeared at the Anna Regina Magistrate’s Court on  April 17, 2024, before Magistrate Tamieka Clarke.

KAIRANA/CHENNAI, India, (Reuters) – India began voting today in the world’s largest election as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a historic third term in office on the back of growth, welfare, his personal popularity and Hindu nationalism.

The 3rd ExxonMobil Linden Schools Football Championship continues today at the Wisburg Secondary Ground with a doubleheader.

OIAPOQUE, Brazil,  (Reuters) – State-run energy firm Petrobras has hit growing resistance from Indigenous groups and government agencies to its premier exploration project, which would open the most promising part of Brazil’s northern coast to oil drilling.

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1067’s trading results showed consideration of $35,605,782 from 104,845 shares traded in 23 transactions as compared to session 1066’s trading results, which showed consideration of $7,211,308 from 49,104 shares traded in 17 transactions.

As if the development agenda of the Caribbean is not already packed with a host of imposing and in some instances, immediate challenges, weather forecasters at Colorado’s State University (CSU)  are putting the region on notice that an “extremely active” 2024 Atlantic hurricane season is likely to cause countries in the region to have to ‘park’ some of the plans already listed on their development agendas to focus on what, in some instances, are likely to be significant life-threatening emergencies.

HOUSTON/CARACAS,  (Reuters) – The day after the United States announced it would reimpose costly limits on Venezuela’s oil sector, the South American nation braced for the consequences and its president warned that the “grave error” would also hit U.S.

By failing, up until now, to provide the people of the Caribbean with an update on the state of readiness of the promised Food Security Terminal and some kind of reasonable timeframe by which it will begin to serve the region, those Caribbean Heads of Government that have been charged with responding to what we have been told is a food security crisis in the region and those ‘lesser’ functionaries responsible for the execution of this most important project have exposed themselves to being accused of doing the region a disservice.

By Robert Redford and Xiye Bastida NEW YORK – There was a time, not so long ago, when the depletion of Earth’s ozone layer seemed like an insurmountable challenge.

Dear Editor, The long-awaited Constitutional Reform Commission has been sworn in, with an unclear mandate on how far-reaching the process will go in reforming the constitution.

Whenever challenged about its longstanding nemesis, corruption, the preferred refrain from the ruling PPP/C is always for the claimant to present the evidence.

(Trinidad Express) DNA tests have confirmed that the body of a woman found in Arima in October is that of 23-year-old Alisha Phillip.

(CMC) – A Player-of-the-Match performance from their captain Hayley Matthews drove West Indies women to a 113-run win against hosts Pakistan women in the first ICC Women’s Championship one-day international yesterday.

Mark Chester, a 29-year-old labourer of Queenstown, Essequibo Coast, was charged yesterday with the attempted murder of Marlon Jones, a 45-year-old man of Lot 2 Queenstown, Essequibo Coast.