Daily Archive: Friday, October 30, 2020

The Government of Guyana today terminated the employment of  Colvin Health-London with immediate effect.

(Reuters) – Chris Gayle may have missed out on yet another Twenty20 ton today when he was dismissed for 99 but he wrote his name into the history books when he became the first player to smash 1,000 T20 sixes.

The city council today warned all vendors that with effect from Monday November 2, 2020, there will be no unauthorized vending in and around the City of Georgetown.

The Guyana Government today implemented changes in the COVID-19 emergency measures from November 1st which will see gyms being able to open up to 50% capacity after being locked down for months and the curfew being further eased.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) today said that as of October 30, 2020, one more person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has died.

Canada today announced that its envoy here, Lilian Chatterjee has been appointed as the new High Commissioner for Barbados.

(Trinidad Express) Police have arrested a young couple in connection with the gruesome murder of of Princes Town businessman Christopher Hosein, whose body was discovered burnt and bound next to his torched sports utility vehicle in Ste Madeleine on Wednesday.

(Reuters) – Between playing President Donald Trump in Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s debate preparation and helping to vet Kamala Harris as his running mate, battle-tested election attorney Bob Bauer has been at the centre of Biden’s presidential campaign.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The old shop by the roadside in Huddersfield, St Mary, that Beverley Dressikie uses as classroom for her two daughters has been destroyed by winds associated with Hurricane Zeta whose outer bands affected the island recently.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The November 3 United States presidential election has been cast in existential terms amid criticisms by Jamaican expatriates that Donald Trump has damaged the White House and lowered America’s standing in the world.

 (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp posted its third straight quarterly loss today and detailed deeper spending cuts to come, as the oil major reels from the COVID-19 impact on energy demand and prices.

(Trinidad Guardian) North-East Tobago has been awarded the prestigious UNESCO Man and the Biosphere designation.

Two days before the March 2nd polls, the David Granger-led Cabinet approved the agreement for the sale of land at Ogle earmarked for an ambitious Caribbean Marketing Enterprises Inc.

(Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp said yesterday it could cut its global workforce by about 15%, including deep white-collar staff reductions in the United States, as the COVID-19 pandemic batters energy demand and prices.

Tenders were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the rehabilitation of Hunter Street in Georgetown which it is estimated will cost over $102 million.

Controversial flaring from the Liza-1 oil well will likely continue until the end of this year as Hess – one of the partners in the offshore operations –  announced that Guyana’s maximum 120,000 barrels per day production output will not be achieved until December.

More than ten years ago, Aadil Baksh was handed the reins of leadership of Imam Bacchus & Sons, one of the most successful private sector business enterprises in the history of Essequibo.

Sunita Persaud, the woman who was seriously injured after she was pinned by a tree that fell onto the shed she was under in the Success squatting area one week ago, remains hospitalised in an unconscious state.

Keen to ensure compliance by local manufacturers with high food safety standards as the novel coronavirus challenge seemingly grows increasingly more formidable, the Government Analyst-Food and Drugs Department (GA-FDD) on Saturday last undertook an inspection visit to the operations of the Morning Glory Rice Cereal Factory at Anna Regina to review the level of its adherence to the food safety protocols ahead of the facility being granted clearance to continue production beyond this year.

Twenty-four new cases of COVID-19 were recorded by the Ministry of Health yesterday with 77 recoveries listed while the death toll remains at 123.

The capacity of the Diamond Water Treatment Plant on the East Bank of Demerara is expected to rise within the next month as a result of the drilling of an additional well at the facility.

Not even the sense of doom and gloom that has descended on much of the world ever since the sudden, unannounced arrival of the novel coronavirus pandemic in 2019 has succeeded in diminishing what Junette Stuart believes is people’s innate desire to enjoy their lives.

The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) most recent Regional Economic Outlook excerpts which were reported in several Caribbean territories over last weekend have asserted that Latin America and the Caribbean have suffered considerably more than other regions, in both human and economic terms on account of the still raging COVID-19 pandemic.

Following a virtual five-hour Ministerial engagement yesterday, the G-77 and China negotiating bloc is calling on developed countries to live up to their obligation to provide climate financing to assist developing countries in realizing their ambition to grow along low carbon pathways and develop resilience. 

Yet another initiative would appear to be underway to secure Guyana’s much sought-after increased market in the United States for the country’s agricultural and agro-produced goods through an information-sharing arrangement involving Guyanese public and private sector officials on the one hand, and US functionaries suitably positioned to aid the process, on the other.

A Hog Island, Essequibo River businessman was on Wednesday night attacked and robbed at Vreed-en-Hoop on the West Coast of Demerara.

Executive Director of the International Trade Centre (ITC), Pamela Coke-Hamilton, says the competitiveness of the Caribbean in terms of a destination for doing business is constrained by factors that include the high cost of electricity, though she singles out Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago as exceptions to that rule.

The Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony  is optimis-tic that the new COVID-19 emergency health measures for November could be published in the Official Gazette by today.

TAMPA, Fla.,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden showcased their contrasting approaches to the resurgent coronavirus pandemic as they rallied supporters yesterday in the battleground state of Florida with the clock winding down to Election Day.

Dear Editor, I refer to the article published in the Stabroek News  29th October, 2020 under the caption ‘Nandlall, Jonas for silk – Office of the Presi-dent’, and recognize the attempt at balance.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – West Indies assistant coach, Roddy Estwick, believes the tour of New Zealand could be a pivotal one for Roston Chase to finally assert himself as a genuine world-class all-rounder.

Police are still to arrest a suspect in the hit and run that claimed the life of Devanand Bansie along the Mon Repos Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara, almost a month and a half ago.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Iconic former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd is concerned by the inclusion of only two specialist openers for the two-Test tour of New Zealand but believes uncapped Joshua Da Silva should be groomed to fill the crucial position.

VANCOUVER/TORONTO,  (Reuters) – A judge has blocked an attempt by Canada’s attorney general to get parts of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou’s arguments dismissed in the case to extradite her to the United States, according to a ruling released yesterday.

This week’s announcement that the CARICOM Competition Commission (CCC) has launched a market study to determine how persons in the region have been affected by flight disruptions arising out of the advent of COVID-19 could answer some questions about airline service standards that go beyond the pandemic itself.

Dear Editor, I have read with much interest the steps that Minister Walrond stated she took to renounce U.

Guyana is advocating an urgent re-think of what Foreign Minister Hugh Todd on Monday told the Thirty-eighth Session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) are the “skewed criteria” which he said had been applied in “graduating” countries to middle-income status and which have now come back to haunt some “deserving countries from accessing much needed assistance to fight to overcome vulnerabilities, and in the process establish their resilience.”

A burglar, who is accused of breaking into Courts Guyana Inc, located at Main and St.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s Labour opposition suspended its former leader Jeremy Corbyn yetserday after he downplayed a report that detailed serious failings in the party’s handling of persistent anti-Semitism complaints during his 2015-2019 leadership.

Dear Editor, The first inkling of a powerful, still not come-to-grips with, shock, came via the telephone.

Having regard to the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and its global impact on the well-being of the Caribbean and the institutions that sustain the economies of the region, the Caribbean Public Health Agency’s (CARPHA) primary focus for much of this year has been on reducing the economic impact which the pandemic has had on the tourism-dependent countries of the region.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – A vaccine scheme co-led by the World Health Organization is setting up a compensation fund for people in poor nations who might suffer any side-effects from COVID-19 vaccines, aiming to allay fears that could hamper a global rollout of shots.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) in an effort to dispel confusion surrounding the tax measures outlined in the 2020 National Budget and their effective dates of implementation has issued the following information to the public to provide guidance and clarity.

PARIS/NICE, France,  (Reuters) – A knife-wielding Tunisian man shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church in the French city of Nice yesterday before being shot and taken away by police.

Dear Editor, The recent Chilean constitutional victory is an inspiration to the struggle in countries where democracies are being undermined by dictatorships and other forms of oppressive rule.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil expects to have a vaccine against COVID-19 approved and ready for use in a national inoculation programme by June, the head of the country’s health regulator Anvisa, Antonio Barra Torres, said yesterday.

LONDON,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – He is regularly dubbed the world’s best ever diver, but Olympic gold medallist Greg Louganis still questions whether he missed out on lucrative sponsorship deals and top TV jobs because he was gay and HIV+.

A post-mortem examination conducted on the body of Kamal Wilson, the Kwebanna villager who was killed on Monday, has determined that he died due to haemorrhage and shock after multiple chop wounds.  

Jermaine Figueira, APNU+AFC Member of Parliament and Shadow Minister of Sport, has criticized the National Covid-19 Taskforce for their failure to establish a structured timeline as well as the relevant guidelines and procedures for a phased reopening of the sporting sector.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 886’s trading results showed consideration of $4,469,113 from 49,826 shares traded in 12 transactions as compared to session 885’s trading results which showed consideration of $6,525,349 from 31,027 shares traded in 17 transactions.

(IPL) Ruturaj Gaikwad scored his second successive fifty while Ravindra Jadeja slammed 31* off 11 balls as Chennai Super Kings beat Kolkata Knight Riders.

Yesterday we reported that the Guyana Police Force had received the results of DNA samples which had been sent to St Lucia for analysis in relation to the murder of cousins Isaiah and Joel Henry as well as Haresh Singh on the West Coast Berbice.

Denial of justice has long plagued this land. It is no strange occurrence for human atrocities to be committed, ride the waves of our collective consciousness before fading out of memory.

The environment of aplomb in which the Small Business Bureau was launched at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre in October 2013 was always felt in some quarters to be a dead giveaway insofar as its likely success in bearing the weight of nurturing a robust small-business infrastructure was concerned.

“Infect?” In a medical/health-care context to infect means to contaminate (especially with some disease or “some disease-producing matter; as in communicating pathogens.”)

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – The United States said yetserday there were “serious doubts” about the credibility of Tanzania’s presidential election while the leading opposition candidate urged countries not to recognise the results of a “travesty” of a poll.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to `Clerk of the National Assembly seeking legal advice on Walrond renunciation’ (SN Oct 29).