Daily Archive: Thursday, October 15, 2020

A Joint Operation conducted by the Guyana Defence Force in collaboration with the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) earlier this week found a massive tunnel mining operation in the New River Basin some 50 miles east of Masakenari (Gunns Village), South Rupununi.

Guyana has recorded another COVID-19 fatality.  The latest fatality is a 46-year-old female from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) who died while receiving care at the Ministry of Health’s medical facility.

With demonopolization likely to increase competition, GTT today said that 300Mbps is now available to its business customers on the country’s largest fibre network.

LONDON, (Reuters) – London, the world’s international financial capital, will enter a tighter COVID-19 lockdown from midnight tomorrow as Prime Minister Boris Johnson seeks to tackle a swiftly accelerating second coronavirus wave.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Four years ago, U.S. President Donald Trump rode a wave of late-deciding voters to a shocking election victory.

 (Reuters) – South African pace bowler Anrich Nortje bowled the fastest ball in Indian Premier League (IPL) history on Wednesday during his team Delhi Capitals’ 13-run victory over Rajasthan Royals.

 (Trinidad Express) A Police Constable and a civilian have been charged with a $680,000 robbery.

Acting Commissioner of Police Nigel Hoppie yesterday said that investigators are currently pursuing new leads as they continue to investigate the murders of teenaged cousins Isiah and Joel Henry, who were  killed more than a month ago at Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice (WCB).

The threatened flooding of Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) lands at Success, East Coast Demerara to force the removal of dozens of squatters began yesterday but those occupying the area have vowed to stay put.

It took a full five months after the Monday March 2 polling day for the eventual results of Guyana’s March 2 general elections to be declared in favour of the opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic, the intervening period having been punctuated by an unseemly controversy over the outcome of the poll characterised by equal measures of ludicrousness, legal resort, and the unprecedented high-profile intervention of sections of the  international community holding out for a declaration of a final result, after a CARICOM Observer Mission had overseen a recount of the votes and declared the incumbent David Granger-led coalition to have been voted out of office.

(A Devex Feature) By Barbara Stilwell, Kathryn Irwin As COVID-19 continues its global spread, the unique role nurses play in keeping the world healthy has come into sharper focus.

The Eugene F Correia Inter-national Airport (EFCIA) at Ogle is prepared to receive its first commercial traffic since the COVID lockdown – a Caribbean Airlines (CAL) flight from Barbados on Monday.

Another of the three suspects said to be involved in the murder of Albouystown teen, Jumal Lancelot Park, is currently in custody after he surrendered to the police yesterday morning in the presence of his lawyer and relatives.

At the end of February as alarm bells began to sound on the growing spread of the COVID-19 virus, the World Bank established a multi-sectoral global task force to support country response and coping measures.

Odel Roberts was yesterday afternoon acquitted of the 2015 murder of Sophia businessman Shawn Anys who police had said was shot and killed by bandits.

There can be no doubt that as is the case in every facet of life that is essential to our well-being as a society, the relatively sudden and barnstorming arrival of COVID-19 has caught us completely by surprise.

Chairman of the People’s National Con-gress Reform (PNCR), Volda Lawrence, was yesterday faced with two counts of conspiracy to commit fraud.

By Bert Hoffmann No region depends more on tourism than the Caribbean.

Police have arrested a relative of a former Deputy Commissioner of Police, who was the security guard on duty on Tuesday night at the Eugo Supermarket situated at Melanie, East Coast Demerara (ECD) when armed bandits invaded and carted off over $1M in cash and other items.

By Barrington Braithwaite The period beginning in the 1950’s was characterised by joblessness, and sub-standard living conditions.

Twenty-four additional cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) were confirmed by the Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday.

By Mac Margolis This time last year Guyana’s future looked bright.

PARIS/PRAGUE,  (Reuters) – France impos-ed curfews while other European nations are closing schools, cancelling surgeries and enlisting student medics as overwhelmed authorities face the nightmare scenario of a COVID-19 resurgence at the onset of winter.

The Deeds and Commercial Registry Authority today said that it has taken note of an “ill-informed, reckless and malicious post being circulated on social media which sought to convey that a large number of staff of the Registry contracted COVID-19”.

With the West Indies set to begin preparation for the 2021 International Cricket Council T20 World Cup, the big question is who will open the batting?

By Karen Abrams While many educators are debating the merits of virtual education versus in-classroom education, very few are taking a holistic approach to the changes that are necessary in the entire education system. 

Delhi Capitals (DC) moved to the top of the points table after they beat Rajasthan Royals  (RR) by 13 runs in Match 31 of the Dream11 Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium yesterday.

LUBBOCK, Texas,  (Reuters) – Texans yesterday joined a wave of Americans casting ballots at a record-setting pace, jamming early-voting polling places ahead of a Nov.

Pensioners are set to enjoy an ease in the cost of living with the announcement that they will receive 2,000 gallons of water (ten cubic meters) free of cost from January 1 in keeping with budgetary provisions.

Guyana has become the latest country to host an office of the Geneva-headquartered Global Compliance Service, and International ISO Certification Body & Registrar.

(Reuters) – Misbah-ul-Haq has decided to step down from his role as the chief selector of Pakistan but will continue to serve in the capacity of head coach, the country’s cricket board (PCB) said yesterday.

GDF Lance Corporal Kester Bowen was yesterday charged with assaulting and obstructing a peace officer acting in the execution of his duties.

By Martien Van Nieuwkop Back in March the World Bank Group announced that it would make available a US$12 billion package, an unprecedented level of financing to help developing countries and businesses respond to the health and economic impacts caused by COVID-19.

After years of work, the rehabilitation and expansion of the Brickdam lockups has been finally  completed to the tune of $60M and the facility was handed over yesterday to the Guyana Police Force (GPF).

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the forefront some of the most pressing global challenges that humanity has faced in recent history.

Executives of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) continue to be one of the major interest groups pushing for a swift resolution to Guyana’s cricket impasse.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Rapid antigen diagnostic tests for the novel coronavirus will be a game changer in the fight against the pandemic, the Pan American Health Organization’s (PAHO) director Carissa Etienne said yesterday.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has offered to assist Guyana with electoral reform, according to a statement yesterday from the AG’s Chambers. 

By Jenny Gonzales Even as coastal communities in the hemisphere seek to sustain their pushback efforts against COVID-19, reports emanating from non-governmental organizations including the Socio-environmental Institute (ISA) and Greenpeace Brazil point to an aggressive ‘invasion’ of indigenous reserves and conservation units in the Amazon rainforest by well-financed miners, unmindful of either the impact of their gold recovery pursuits on the continued destruction of the rainforest or, more recently, that threat of the spread of the coronavirus among the indigenous Indians inhabiting the world’s largest expanse of rainforest.

DES MOINES, Iowa,  (Reuters) – Under siege over his handling of the novel coronavirus pandemic, Presi-dent Donald Trump yesterday cited what he said was his son’s mild bout of the virus as a reason why American schools should reopen as soon as possible.

President of the Guyana Squash Association (GSA) David Fernandes has dismissed any possibility of Guyana participating in any international squash event even though Guyana has reopened its international airports to commercial flights.

Director of Social Services, Whentworth Tanner, during a recent interview with Stabroek News, disclosed that two wards at the Palms Geriatric Home are currently being renovated as part of efforts to have the facility as “elderly friendly” as possible and up to standard.

With the covid-19 pandemic forcing a lockdown of the football sector, emerging Fruta Conquerors youth coach Gersild Wright, stated that 2021 will be the year of personal development in his objective of becoming a certified and enhanced tactician.

Dear Editor, It is now 11:20 pm Monday, October 12th 2020 and the residents of the Kitty neighbourhood in the vicinity of Lamaha and Alexander streets, David and Gordon streets, have been subjected to loud music and loud talking from what sounds like a party, some form of merriment.

By Ornetta Waldron Natalie is a micro-enterprise owner and a single parent of three school-age children.

Sentenced back in 2017 to 62 years in jail for killing his cousins—brothers Imran and Shaheed Bacchus—Abdul Budhoo in an appeal has contended that the trial judge erred in directing the jury on provocation and that the sentence imposed upon him is severe.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Sports minister Nathi Mthethwa has informed the International Cricket Council he intends to intervene in the running of crisis-ridden Cricket South Africa (CSA) unless the latter commits to governance reforms by Oct.

Inspiration for the fifty-one poems comprising Alicia Daniels’ “Book of Poetry 1” may not be the only gift that she has gotten from her Christian faith but it has been a rewarding payback.

Dear Editor, The Demerara Assizes commenced on 6 October 2020 with an impressive list of 370 cases.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett yesterday said it is an “open question” as to whether Trump could pardon himself while adding that the top U.S.

(Reuters) – A rare 1623 book that brought together William Shakespeare’s plays for the first time sold for a record $9.97 million at auction yesterday, Christie’s in New York said.

Dear Editor, One of the shortcomings with the appointments of non-traditional supporters of the PPP is their lack of authority to make decisions, allocate funds and recruit staff; in essence, these appointments incline towards being rubber stamps with perks, re: status, financial entitlements, duty-free concessions, VIP travel access and being invited to the glamour events hosted by the Government.

With almost two complete terms of missed school behind us, we find ourselves in a condition of bewildering uncertainty as to whether we will face a third term of near-complete absence of conventional classroom schooling.

The Ministry of Health on Monday received medical equipment from PAHO/WHO and  India valued at $122m to aid Guyana’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Joseph E. Simon, longstanding secretary of the Berbice Football Association (BFA), was the recipient yesterday of a new folding wheelchair compliments of the Overseas Disturbance Response Group (ODRG), the Trellis family and the BFA.

Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Nigel Dharamlall has appointed Dwight John as the Regional Executive Officer (REO) of Region Ten (Upper Demerara-Upper Berbice) with effect from yesterday.

Dear Editor, With the COVID-19 pandemic severely affecting all facets of life worldwide, sports has not been spared, and here in Guyana, local sports have been hard hit with no sign of recovery in the near future.

A ‘new normal’! An interesting term uttered by several sport pundits and columnists of the reality that will exist and persist after the normalisation of the sporting world.

NEW YORK/RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s J&F Investimentos, parent company of the world’s largest meatpacker, JBS SA, pleaded guilty to U.S.

TOKYO/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Dentsu Group Inc., donated more than $6 million to Tokyo’s successful campaign to host the 2020 Olympics, according to bank records seen by Reuters, and it lobbied members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on behalf of the city, according to three people involved in the lobbying.

In more ways than one the sport of bodybuilding is on an encouraging upward trajectory in Guyana.

Dear Editor, I write to address one “substantive difference” identified by Mr Vincent Alexander in his reply (SN 10-13)  to my earlier intervention where I proffered my views on the nature of our political impasse, which,  I stated arose out of our African and Indian-Guyanese Security Dilemmas.

As part of its commitment to making a positive difference in the communities and countries in which it operates, Republic Financial Holdings Limited (RFHL) has announced that it has become an official signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Banking.

As the region’s oil-rich newcomer Guyana looks to steadily soar production, neighbouring Trinidad and Tobago (TT) is struggling with decreased resources, declining output and Covid-19 related-contractions in its troubled energy sector.

MONTERREY, Mexico,  (Reuters) – Mexico’s health ministry yesterday reported 4,056 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infection and 478 additional fatalities, bringing the total in the country to 829,396 cases and 84,898 deaths.

On Monday last, the Ministry of Education was forced to issue an apology for what it deemed “inappropriate content” on the Guyana Learning Channel.

(Reuters) – New Zealand’s oldest surviving test player John Reid passed away at the age of 92 in Auckland, the country’s cricket board (NZC) said yesterday.

(Jamaica Star) A young girl was this afternoon rescued from floodwaters in the Sandy Gully in the Bay Farm Road area of St Andrew.