Daily Archive: Saturday, November 21, 2020

The UK Home Secretary, Priti Patel, was accused of violating the Ministerial Code of Conduct by bullying staff.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has said there is to be no Christmas parties in the public service in 2020 and has called on the private sector to follow suit.

BEIJING/DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Leaders of the 20 biggest economies (G20) are debating this weekend how to distribute COVID-19 vaccines, drugs and tests around the world so that poorer countries are not left out as nations look for ways to manage a post-coronavirus recovery.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Battered by setbacks in a desperate bid to overturn the U.S.

MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Mexico has committed to the arrest of a high-level cartel leader under a deal with U.S.

Three more prisoners including two murder accused have escaped from the Lusignan prison.

Prime Minister, Mark Phillips yesterday commissioned a 900-kilowatt generator set at Kwakwani Utilities Incorporated—which will lead to the Upper Demerara/Upper Berbice community having 24-hour electricity.

Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) ranks yesterday conducted a raid at a two-bedroom house located at 804 C’ Field Sophia and uncovered suspected amphetamines, met-amphetamines and ganja in a bedroom.

Colvin Heath-London, the former acting Chief Executive Officer of state holding company NICIL, was taken into police custody yesterday over controversial land deals at Peters Hall and investigators now have a statement on the role played by attorney James Bond in the lucrative flipping of several plots.

The police are probing the circumstances surrounding the death of well-known doctor and lecturer Wesley Torrington, whose partially decomposed body was discovered in his Roxanne Burnham Gardens, South Georgetown home yesterday morning.

A taxi driver was yesterday charged with the murder of Bibi Nasmonisha Ramjit, the elderly woman who was found dead at her La Grange, West Bank Demerara home last month, while an arrest warrant was issued for the alleged mastermind behind the crime, who managed to escape from police after being handed over by Surinamese authorities on Wednesday.

Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce Oneidge Walrond yesterday said she has done “nothing illegal” and will continue right to sit in the National Assembly since she did “all that is within her power” to renounce her American citizenship before she was sworn in as a Member of Parliament (MP).

Cricket is set to return today with the Guyana Cricket Board/Tropical Springs Over-40 T20 tournament bowling off across the country.

Tomorrow, the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) and its long distance runners will join athletes around the world in a virtual marathon-distance relay race, inspired by the Japanese Ekiden: The Asics World Ekiden 2020.

The Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) and the Ministry of Health on Friday seized more than 700 pounds of meat products imported from Brazil after a raid at the Casa Mato Grosso Supermarket on Robb Street, in Georgetown.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – London’s farewell edition of the ATP Finals could still have its dream climax after world number one Novak Djokovic beat Alexander Zverev 6-3 7-6(4) to seal a last-four spot yesterday.

Guyana’s total number of COVID-19 cases has now surpassed the 5,000 mark, just over eight months since the confirmation of the first local case.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Chairman of the Trinidad & Tobago Football Association (TTFA) normalisation committee, business executive Robert Hadad said it will be a long, arduous process to restore credibility and stability into the organisation and the sport in the two-island republic.

The main opposition APNU+AFC yesterday accused the governing People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) administration of “trying to stifle the National Assembly” by failing to set a legislative agenda and holding sittings.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – West Indies all-rounder Stafanie Taylor said she experienced racism in Australia nearly a decade ago, and is pleased with how players in the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) have supported the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement by taking a knee this season.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall says the government remains willing and prepared to do “everything lawfully possible” to ensure that persons who invested with suspected Ponzi scheme operator, Accelerated Capital Firm Inc (ACFI), are refunded their money.

Dear Editor, Some of my friends thought I was imagining things – again.

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) on Thursday issued a removal order to operators of dredges who are illegally mining on the titled lands of Micobie, in Region Eight.

(Reuters) – FIFA has banned Haiti’s football federation president Yves Jean-Bart for life after finding him guilty of sexually harassing and abusing multiple female players, including minors, global soccer’s governing body said on Friday.

(Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s desperate bid to overturn the Nov.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said yesterday that Canada’s hospital system could be overwhelmed by a possible quadrupling of new COVID-19 cases by year end as its biggest city Toronto prepared to impose a lockdown.

Dear Editor, More than a decade or so ago my now deceased friend and colleague of Trinidad & Tobago would post me copies of CONTACT, a magazine produced by that country’s Private Sector Association, of quality and content I always wished it could have been emulated by our own counterpart body.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has created a Covid-19 Task Force, whose aim will be to craft protocols and oversee the preparation for the safe resumption of the discipline in the coming months.

Tests conducted by the Cornell University Research Lab in the United States have confirmed that the devastation of the local duck industry last year was caused by duck hepatitis virus.

KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – Asia Pacific leaders set aside differences yesterday with their first joint communique in three years, calling for free and predictable trade to help a global economy laid low by the coronavirus pandemic.

Dear Editor, Culture as it relates to sports is not something we hear a lot about in Guyana.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for a 32-year-old Brazilian national, who knifed a drinking buddy to death and wounded another after an argument at Balamani Backdam, Cuyuni River, earlier this month.

“To be measured against a standard bearing the name of a literary giant like Edgar Mittelholzer is intimidating.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Tickets for six short-format matches between Australia and India in November and December were all but exhausted yesterday, Cricket Australia said, while there was also some good news about the opening match in the test series.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Glenn Maxwell’s break from cricket a year ago to deal with mental health issues proved timely in helping him build the tools to handle the stresses of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Australia batsman said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of National Security says the Opposition’s failure to support the continuation of the Anti-Gang Act “will have very serious negative effects on the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service’s (TTPS) fight against gangs and criminality.”

Dear Editor, I am concerned about the spread of COVID-19 among our schools’ student population and its unabated surge nationally as the PPP government moves ahead with plans not only to reopen the economy but the school system.

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, (Reuters) – More than 1,000 demonstrators attacked a Carrefour Brasil supermarket in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre yesterday after security guards beat to death a Black man at the store.

Curry of any kind, dhal, fried (sauteed) vegetables, and choka(s) are the many things we eat with roti.

An Alberttown man is now wanted by the police for allegedly conspiring to defraud the state of Guyana over the last three years.

(Trinidad Guardian) Insensitive comments by a person recording a cell phone video of the body of a man who was fatally shot, have generated ire among social media users.

QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand, CMC – Opener John Campbell failed to ease concerns about his durability and was dismissed early, after solid top-order batting from New Zealand “A” – led by a hundred from Rachin Ravindra – put West Indies bowling under pressure in their three-day tour match on Friday.

Dear Editor, Since 1953 we have been going to the polls and ticking a box against the name of a political party of our choice. 

The young man accused of killing Mahaicony businesswoman Bibi Shairoon Nesha Ali was yesterday afternoon found not guilty by a jury.

PARIS, (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron has accused Guinea’s President Alpha Conde of changing the constitution solely to stay in power, a move that he said was serious for the future of Africa’s top bauxite producer.

It has been close to a month and I haven’t been on my bicycle nor have I engaged in any form of exercise.

CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – England all-rounder Chris Jordan believes there is still much to be gained by teams taking a knee to highlight the Black Lives Matter movement, but says it is the conversations that go on behind closed doors that will make the most difference.

Dear Editor, Our small artist community is vanishing, four of our senior artists versatile in painting and sculpture are in urgent need of medical treatment not available at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Three men from the East Coast and East Bank of Demerara were yesterday nabbed along the Corentyne Public Road, after they allegedly stole a quantity of local and foreign currency from an Upper Corentyne boat owner.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Gilead’s remdesivir should not be used for patients hospitalised with COVID-19, regardless of how ill they are, as there is no evidence the drug improves survival or reduces the need for ventilation, a World Health Organization panel said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) An appeal has been made to Education Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly to get answers from the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) and put an end to “nine weeks of torment” for thousands of secondary school pupils.

Michelle Playter has dropped a second single in time for the holidays.

 (Reuters) – Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said he is unsure what the future holds for Lionel Messi but hopes as a Barcelona fan that the Argentine forward will remain at the La Liga club until the end of his career.

Former APNU+AFC government minister Jaipaul Sharma yesterday issued an apology to Attorney General Anil Nandlall over allegations he previously made on his Facebook page, which attracted a libel suit this week.

President Trump’s slow-moving and mercifully incompetent coup underscores the scale of his defeat.

Last week the world celebrated Diwali. Diwali is a celebration of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance.

(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s outside advisers will meet on Dec.

(Trinidad Guardian) It’s official.  MovieTowne Chaguanas will be closed permanently, leaving only the Port-of-Spain and San Fernando branches.

Dear Editor. After reading Anand Goolsarran’s  Accountability Watch Column `The changing mandate of NICIL over the years (Part 1 & 2)’ – (SN, 20th November 2020) I am more enlightened about how NICIL has operate.

Bockarie is back in his home country after a four-year stay in Nigeria with a new release amid heightened political friction over accusations of corruption, tribalism and partisanship between Sierra Leone’s two main political parties.