Daily Archive: Friday, November 27, 2020

(Reuters) – A federal appeals court today rejected an attempt by U.S.

Less than three months after a request was made by the Guyana Association of Professional Engineers (GAPE) for an Engineering Bill to be considered by the Government, Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill has delivered a draft document for Cabinet Sub-Committee consideration.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) is continuing  to call on the Parliament of Guyana to convene all of the Standing and Select Committees, in particular the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – An Iranian scientist long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb programme was killed in an ambush near Tehran today that could provoke confrontation between Iran and its foes in the last weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) says  that a recruit who was undergoing Basic Recruit training, died yesterday morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

LONDON/MANILA, (Reuters) – Britain gave AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine a vote of confidence today when it asked its regulator to assess the shot for a rollout after experts raised questions about trial data and the company said it may run another study to gauge efficacy.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron is “very shocked” by images purporting to show a Black music producer being beaten up and racially abused by Paris police, BFM TV reported, quoting comments given to it by the presidency.

TAIPEI, (Reuters) – Legislators from Taiwan’s main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party threw pig guts and exchanged punches with other lawmakers in parliament today as they tried to stop the premier taking questions, in a bitter dispute over easing U.S.

WELLINGTON,  (Reuters) – New Zealand greeted international cricket back in the country with a thrilling five-wicket victory in the first Twenty20 against West Indies today.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The $1-trillion bill to efficiently upgrade Jamaica’s roads requires a paradigm shift in construction and maintenance policy and provision of a credible budget, National Works Agency (NWA) Chief Executive E.

(Jamaica Star) Sackeno ‘Nico’ Ross, 30, mysteriously fell ill last Monday at his home in Rae Town, Kingston, with swellings all over his body and bruises all over his chest.

(Trinidad Guardian) The young man who found the abandoned baby hidden among bushes in Freeport last Thursday wants to visit the infant, to see for himself how she is doing.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced that all “health care professionals” will now be classified as frontline workers and receive a bonus equivalent to two weeks’ pay as part of his government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The police are investigating the murder of a Good Intent, West Bank Demerara woman in her home and her son has been taken into custody.

Guyana and Brazil are once again discussing the construction of a highway between the two South American states.

Ogle hotel developer, Caribbean Marketing Enterprises Inc (CMEI), yesterday announced that it would be relinquishing the controversial 21 acres of land that was transferred to it shortly before the March 2 general elections and said that it would reapply and hopes to find favour with the new administration.

Dr. Ashni Singh who is currently serving as senior minister with responsibility for Finance and former NICIL Head Winston Brassington are both to continue facing charges of  misconduct in public office over their sale of state lands when they had served under the previous PPP/C government.

Although ExxonMobil has been bullish on its over nine billion barrels of oil reserves to date in the Guyana basin, the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday reported that from documents it has seen, the company has lowered its outlook on oil prices for much of the next decade.

WELLINGTON,  (Reuters) – The New Zealand and West Indies cricket teams will both take a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement before their Twenty20 match at Eden Park in Auckland later today, New Zealand captain Tim Southee has said.

Two days after his arraignment at which he pleaded not guilty to murdering and raping Cornelia Ida senior, Bibi Keniez, Jaipaul Hitlall was yesterday sentenced to 20 years in prison after changing his plea.  

A policeman was charged on Wednesday with the offence of sexual activity with a minor and he was remanded to prison.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s Diego Maradona, one of the world’s greatest ever soccer players, was buried yesterday amid a global outpouring of grief from the streets of Buenos Aires to Naples in Italy.

With both Guyana and Suriname having realized significant fortune-changing oil discoveries in recent years, two of South America’s poorest countries that have for decades been locked in a border dispute characterized by awkward confrontations could be positioning themselves to engage in a collaborative initiative that could set both countries on a path to comprehensive economic transformation.

The Ministry of Agriculture has initiated an  investigation to determine how two new trawling licences were issued.

Yesterday’s assertive refrain against “wanton incidents of domestic violence against women” by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry is to be commended.

QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand,  CMC – Opener Kraigg Brathwaite gave proof that he may be running into form ahead of the two-Test series against New Zealand, with a masterly hundred to give West Indies a strong start against the Blackcaps’ reserves in a tour match yesterday.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – India captain Virat Kohli said he was kept in the dark about deputy Rohit Sharma’s hamstring injury and believes the opener should have travelled to Australia to boost his chances of playing the test series against Tim Paine’s men.

Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton has expressed disappointment after his request to meet with workers without management present at Troy Resources’ gold mining operations was denied during his visit to the site on Wednesday.

Guyana’s multiple major oil discoveries beginning in May 2015 may have set the country on the path to realising a level of wealth not before seen in the Caribbean, but a recent World Bank Review still regards the country as being “one of the poorest in South America.”

 (Reuters) – World 100 metres champion Christian Coleman has appealed against his ban for breaching anti-doping whereabouts rules, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said yesterday.

Only time will tell whether the recent visit to Suriname by President Irfaan Ali would have marked a definitive and – for both Guyana and Suriname – mutually beneficial turning point in bilateral relations between the two countries.

The Ministry of Education (MoE) through the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD) is collaborating with owners of television stations across Guyana to assist in the expansion of the Guyana Learning Channel (GLC).

A responsible knock from Rohan Mangal aced the chase to see RP Construction record a three-wicket win over WD Masters in the latest round of the Guyana Cricket Board/Tropical Springs Over-40 T20 tournament.

Forty new COVID-19 cases were yesterday recorded. This was revealed in the Ministry’s COVID-19 dashboard which indicated that the 40 new cases that were recorded increased the total number of positive confirmed cases in the country to 5,276.

The Golden Jaguars’ prolonged absence from international football due to the Covid-19 pandemic continues to affect their International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) rankings, as they remain rooted on 166th.

One doubts that any ‘true’ Guyanese will be looking forward to having to sacrifice their Christmas holidays on account of the COVID-19 pandemic … but most people are hedging their bets.

A teacher was yesterday sentenced to 3 years’ imprisonment and fined $2 million after being found guilty of indulging in sexual activity with a student.

MANAMA, (Reuters) – Seven-times world champion Lewis Hamilton yesterday urged Formula One to do more to push for human rights, saying the issue was a “massive problem” in some of the sport’s host countries.

Local entertainment promoters and night clubs would do well to take note of the decision by the administration of Prime Minister Andrew Holness in Jamaica which is widely regarded as the entertainment capital of the Caribbean, to keep in place an existing ban on such public events during the Christmas season.

The police have launched an investigation into an incident yesterday which resulted in two convicted Lusignan prisoners being injured after they were involved in a fight.

Dear Editor, The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) announced last week its plan to host a national conversation on ethnic relations to, according to its press release, “have frank and open discussions to capture diverse views on factors that impede ethnic harmony and recommendations for the compilation of a report, to be submitted to the National Assembly and relevant stakeholders for implementation.”

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Monday condemned the government’s dismissal of the EPA Head, Dr Vincent Adams.

Andrew Grogan, former national player and coach, has officially launched the local arm of his ‘My Soccer Academy (MSA)’, as an avenue to give back and develop the discipline of football in Guyana.

The reintroduction of the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) on the new PPP/C’s development agenda has been welcomed by the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) as an initiative that will add impetus to the economic advancement of the country particularly on account of its potential contribution to the agricultural sector.

Dear Editor, The PPP’s legislative agenda is looking conspicuously thin to date.

As the sense of emergency and worsening crisis in poor countries arising out of the onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic becomes increasingly clear, World Bank Group President David Malpass has called for a refashioning of the arrangements governing the management of the debt burden of those countries in order to further accentuate an already critical situation.

Tommyann Bunbury, the woman who was arrested on Monday after cocaine was found hidden in her luggage at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri was yesterday refused bail after being charged with possession of narcotics for drug trafficking.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) joins with the Guyana Human Rights Association, the Henrys’ legal team, other organisations and individuals in seeking legal justice for the murders of Joel and Isaiah Henry and Haresh Singh.

A 54-year-old man was found dead in his apartment at Tuschen Housing Scheme on Wednesday.

Stock market updates

WASHINGTON/REHOBOTH BEACH, Del.,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday he will leave the White House if the Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden, the closest he has come to conceding the Nov.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – The state of Sao Paulo could roll out the COVID-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac even without approval from Brazil’s health regulator, the state’s governor said in an interview on Thursday.

Dear Editor The 2020 statement from the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security for International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls  concludes in the opening paragraph ‘..

The use of antigen testing for COVID-19 is expected to be introduced this week, according to Health Minister, Dr.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – A Venezuelan court sentenced six former executives of U.S.

With much that is valued about women entrepreneurship as a whole having been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the co-hosts of the 5th Annual Women in Business Expo, the Sonia Noel Foundation, is hoping that today’s virtual event which will use the interior of the Pegasus Hotel as its visual backdrop, will help to generate an enhanced measure of public enthusiasm for the fashion sector, particularly, less than a month away from Christmas.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo yesterday dismissed as “irrelevant” a U.S.

(Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Two years after the murder of popular Brazilian councilwoman Marielle Franco, her partner Monica Benicio has also won a council seat and vowed to fight for justice and LGBT+ rights.

Students of Brickdam Secondary located in East La Penitence are being targeted and robbed by criminal elements in the vicinity of the school, according to the teachers.

Dear Editor, I heard a great speech from a war veteran, called “If you to change the world, make your bed.”

– Even co-operation against COVID impossible?   Whilst at my own book-signing event at Austin’s Book Service two Fridays ago I came across a few village histories in the store.

By Readawne Henery Taxi drivers operating East Bank short-drop cars say that their livelihoods have been severely affected by the drastic reduction in the amount of cars now allowed to park in their allotted area.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chile’s opposition-controlled Senate yesterday approved a government-backed bill that would allow citizens to make a second withdrawal from their public pensions to further blunt the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

Expressing what he says is a “strong desire” to contribute to “a private sector” initiative that responds to the vulnerabilities to which both patrons and staff of high-traffic establishments including shopping centres, banks, hospitals, and other public places, are exposed in the face of the prevailing coronavirus pandemic, Starr Computers President Mike Mohan earlier this week briefed the Stabroek Business on the new Starr Disinfectant Channel, a four-stage sanitising device which has been installed at the company’s Brickdam complex.

A lot of holidays during my younger years were spent in mining communities.

(Reuters) – AstraZeneca is likely to run an additional global trial to assess the efficacy of its COVID-19 vaccine using a lower dosage, its chief executive was quoted as saying yesterday amid questions over the results of its late-stage study.

Dear Editor, On Wednesday 25th November, between 9-11 am, contractual workers changing meters for GPL were working in the Leonora Pasture East Housing Scheme.

Illegal mining has been a major problem in the interior for many decades as a consequence of the high price of gold on the international market coupled with a negligent approach on the part of the authorities to the enforcement of the regulations.