Daily Archive: Monday, August 24, 2020

Guyana today  surpassed 1,000 COVID-19 cases as some 74 more persons tested positive for the virus.

Former Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix today responded to concerns that have been raised about the naturalization of a Cuban citizen who is now at the centre of a major Ponzi scheme probe.

PNCR Chair Volda Lawrence was today placed on $100,000 bail after appearing before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennon on private criminal charges including conspiring to forge documents to show a win for APNU+AFC at the March 2nd general elections.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Retired Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt says he is still awaiting results of a coronavirus test, noting that he has not had any official communication from the Ministry of Health and Wellness.

Keiron Jemison Alleyne, 31,  is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to forgery committed on the Central Housing & Planning Authority on January 3, 2020 at D’ Urban Street, Wortmanville, Georgetown.

GENEVA/LONDON,  (Reuters) – Some 172 countries are engaging with the COVAX facility designed to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, the World Health Organization said on Monday, but more funding is needed and countries need now to make binding commitments.

CENTRAL ISRAEL,  (Reuters) – Israeli youths have unearthed hundreds of gold coins stashed away in a clay vessel for more than a thousand years.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Self-taught chef and event promoter Omar Walters, who was born in New York to Jamaica parents Maxine Greaves and Paul Walters, brought visibility to Brand Jamaica.

After several requests for financing from government to meet its payroll obligations, Cabinet on Friday sanctioned a disbursement of $600M from the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) to the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha says.

More Guyanese are coming forward with stories on how they lost big after being lured into investments with Accelerated Capital Firm Inc (ACFI) which is now the subject of a major Ponzi scheme investigation here.

The PPP/C government has scrapped the shortlist of 19 companies that had submitted proposals to sell Guyana’s portion of oil from the Liza-1 well and yesterday launched a new Request For Proposals (RFP).

A number of farmers in Region Five were ecstatic on Saturday to receive news from Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, that they would be allowed to once again farm on the land which they were removed from by the region’s former Regional Executive Officer, Ovid Morrison.  

Thirty new coronavirus cases have been confirmed as of yesterday, according to the Ministry of Health’s (MoH) COVID Dashboard bringing the number of confirmed cases in Guyana to 955.

Much needed repairs on generator sets that power towns in the hinterland are among the immediate public infrastructure priorities of the new People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) government.

TAROUBA, Trinidad, CMC – Nicholas Pooran struck a responsible half-century but perished in the penultimate over as St Lucia Zouks won three on the trot for the first time in the Caribbean Premier League with a 10-run victory over Guyana Amazon Warriors.

President Irfaan Ali has promised that he and his ministers will be having regular engagements with both the media and the public.

Skipper of the Guyana Amazon Warriors says his side is “gutted” after suffering their second loss in four matches of the Caribbean Premier League last night.

The resumption of catfish exports from Guyana to the United States is on the list of top priorities for newly sworn-in Minis-ter of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha, who plans to engage US Ambassador Sarah-Ann Lynch to iron out longstanding regulations.

Although the new government has signalled its intent to disband the State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA), it is concerned that the shuttering of the body would see some 40 members of staff out of a job.

President of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU), Ryan Dey would like to see the new government bring about sweeping changes so as to cause a revolution in sports in Guyana.

A businesswoman of Wismar, Linden was held at gunpoint and robbed of a quantity of cash and her cellular phone on Saturday night.

TAROUBA, Trinidad, CMC – Reigning champions Barbados Tridents crumbled under the pressure of a venue record run chase and slumped to their second defeat in three games with a 19-run loss to Trinbago Knight Riders here yesterday.

Dear Editor, I write with reference to articles on the ‘Establishment of the Law Reform Commission’ published in yesterday’s edition of the  Kaieteur News and the Guyana Chronicle  at pages 1 and 49, and 12, respectively. 

(Reuters) – James Anderson claimed his fifth wicket as England enforced the follow-on against Pakistan on the third day of the third and final test at the Rose Bowl yesterday, despite a battling century by visiting skipper Azhar Ali.

An InterCaribbean Airways repatriation flight landed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), at approximately 4.01 pm yesterday with 51 Guyanese from various parts of the Caribbean.

Dear Editor, I refer to Othneil Lewis’s SN letter of 2020-08-23 (`Shuman’s appointment as advisor conflicts with parliamentary role.”).

Dear Editor, Over the past weeks we have been raising our concerns about child sexual abuse and specifically telling you the stories of the everyday experiences of girls and boys who were sexually abused.

LISBON, (Reuters) – Bayern Munich were crowned European champions for the sixth time after beating Paris St Germain 1-0 thanks to a second-half header from former PSG youth academy graduate Kingsley Coman in an absorbing Champions League final yesterday.

Procurement details are being hammered out for urgent works to seal the sea defence breach that opened at Dantzig, Mahaicony last week.

(Trinidad Express) A chemist who was the focus of an investigation into threats of terrorism back in 2003 was killed along with his two sons yesterday.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Marco and Tropical Storm Laura tore through the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico yesterday, forcing thousands of coastal residents in Louisiana and Cuba to flee, and flooding roads in Haiti’s capital, with damage across the region expected to worsen this week.

Dear Editor, I refer to the article titled, `Ramkarran, Shuman and Gouveia appointed as gov’t advisors’ (SN August 23). 

By Eion Jardine Shondell `Mystery Lady’ Alfred was born with the boxing gene in her Deoxyribonucleic acid or what is commonly referred to as DNA.

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) is requesting the presence of the below-named individuals to visit its office at 10:00 am on Wednesday, August 26, 2020 to discuss pending matters with regard to racially insensitive comments.

(Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday hailed FDA authorization of a coronavirus treatment that uses blood plasma from recovered patients, a day after accusing the agency of impeding the rollout of vaccines and therapeutics for political reasons.

Dear Editor, When President Ali was the Minister of Housing, he started building the Providence Gardens (aka the Remigrant Scheme), in Providence, East Bank.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Australia’s World Cup-winning all-rounder Lisa Sthalekar was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame yesterday, along with South African Jacques Kallis and Pakistan batting great Zaheer Abbas.

(Reuters) – John Marshall keeps a picture of Breonna Taylor in his office at the headquarters of Kentucky’s largest school district, a visual reminder, he says, of the need for curriculum changes that better honor and focus on Black stories.

The “majority” leadership of Change Guyana, the party which was launched by businessman Robert Badal to contest the March 2nd general elections, has taken the decision to dissolve it.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – More than a dozen people were crushed to death or asphyxiated as partygoers tried to flee a Lima nightclub after it was raided by police for hosting a party in violation of coronavirus restrictions.

Months after he allegedly threatened to kill ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) following the interception of a quantity of cocaine on a fibreglass vessel at Parika, East Bank Essequibo, Ryan Pemberton called ‘Sancho’ remains on the run.

New Era Entertainment, coordinators of the Mohammed Enterprise Futsal championships in the mining town of Linden has indicated that the seventh edition of the prestigious tournament will not be staged this year due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

In last week’s article, we referred to the urgent need to convene Parliament in order to set the legislative agenda for the rest of the year, including the presentation and approval of the budget for 2020.

By Steven Jensen Steven L. B. Jensen is a Senior Researcher at The Danish Institute for Human Rights.

BAMAKO,  (Reuters) – Mediators from West Africa’s regional bloc reached agreement on certain points in talks with Mali’s military junta that are aimed at returning the country to civilian rule, the parties said yesterday, adding that some outstanding issues remained.

Entering the fourth week of its term and with an emergency budget for 2020 pending, the PPP/C administration has crucial decisions to make on the oil and gas sector and little time to do so.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said yesterday he wanted to punch a reporter in the face for asking about bank deposits made in the account of his wife, First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro, by a former aide to one of his sons.

Dear Editor, Allow me to use your pages to recommend that the leader of the LJP take note of the words of our most distinguished poet: “…a mouth is always muzzled by the food it eats to live…” Martin Carter, 1969.

(Jamaica Observer) The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) had advised that Laura would be passing north of Jamaica yesterday and that the Meteorological Service of Jamaica had issued a flash flood watch for low-lying and flood-prone areas of all parishes, effective until 8:00 pm today.

(Jamaica Observer) With Jamaica a signatory to the legally binding landmark Minamata Convention on Mercury to protect human health and the environment from the adverse effects of mercury, a group of researchers at The University of the West Indies (UWI) are on a campaign to get Jamaicans to reject skin bleaching products containing mercury.