Daily Archive: Thursday, December 10, 2020

The European Union (EU) this afternoon announced the release of $19.8b in budgetary support for Guyana.

The Government of Guyana today said that 26 Haitians who were being kept at the Hugo Chavez Rehabilitation and Reintegration Centre pursuant to a police investigation opted to leave the facility last night for an address of their choice.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall today told the High Court that the appointment of Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce Oneidge Walrond as a Member of Parliament had been unconstitutional and that the matter will remedied by having her sworn-in again.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Lebanon’s investigating judge has charged caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab and three former ministers with negligence over the Beirut port blast that killed 200 people and ruined a swathe of the capital in August.

PUNE, India/NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India, the world’s biggest vaccine maker, is getting set for the massive global blitz to contain the coronavirus pandemic with its pharmaceutical industry and partners freeing up capacity and accelerating investments even without firm purchase orders.

(Jamaica Observer) Opposition Member of Parliament Mikael Phillips wants a referendum on replacing the Queen as head of State pinned to the local government elections due by February 2022.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican Professor Kevin Fenton has been named on the Powerlist 2021 as the second most influential black person in Britain for his role in the fight against the novel coronavirus.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Detectives attached to the Barnett Street and Freeport police stations in Montego Bay are probing whether gunmen who snatched an 18-month-old infant from her mother’s arms on Monday are holding her at ransom to bait her father.

(Trinidad Express) The office of the Member of Parliament for Moruga/Tabeland was severely damaged by fire on Thursday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A steelpan tutor who began a sexual relationship with a then 12-year-old student in 2009, which eventually resulted in three children, has been sentenced to nine years in prison.

A new investment firm is taking aim at US energy giant Exxon Mobil Corp, pressing it to reinvent itself by focusing more on clean energy to improve its financial performance.

During an outreach yesterday, President Irfaan Ali said that over $5B will be spent in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) before the end of the year and 600 house lots are to be developed in the Charity and Lima Sands areas.

The police have arrested a suspect in relation to the fatal shooting of contractor Peter Gonsalves, who was attacked and robbed of his Honda XR motorcycle in front a Newtown, Kitty bar on Monday night.

The Beehive community is in a state of shock following the death of an eight-year-old pupil of Clon-brook Primary School who is believed to have been electrocuted yesterday morning after he was found in an unconscious state with an electric drill in his hand.

(Reuters) – Bermuda and The Bahamas aren’t exactly big players in the oil-and-gas world.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, CMC – A West Indies side in disarray following a heavy first Test defeat, the departure of two high profile players and several fitness worries, will be seeking to put all those distractions aside when they clash with New Zealand in the all-important second Test starting here today (6 pm,  Eastern Caribbean time).

A Chester Village resident who was struck down by a minibus on the Chester Public Road, West Coast Berbice on Monday, yesterday succumbed to his injuries at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Documents have surfaced that show that newly-appointed member of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) board, Robert Mohamed had allegedly operated an unlicensed radio station in the United States (US) several years ago.

With the Golden Jaguars management team exploring the idea of contesting an international friendly before the March 21st start of the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers, former national stalwart Kayode McKinnon, says that a one off match is far from ideal as preparation for the competition.

Traffic on the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) has been restricted to minibuses, cars and lorries no heavier than 12 tonnes after a tug and barge transporting bauxite crashed into the high span of the bridge yesterday afternoon shifting it out of alignment.

In an effort to ensure that justice remains accessible, the Supreme Court of Judica-ture has embarked on a Public Education and Engagement Programme which allows the courts to continue functioning in keeping with the safety guidelines triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka, CMC – Johnson Charles’s poor start to the Sri Lanka Premier League continued yesterday after his Jaffna Stallions went down by six wickets to Kandy Tuskers.

Athletes get ready, the Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) has received the green light from the National COVID-19 Task Force to stage its leg of the South American 10K Road Classic on Sunday at West Demerara.

When Shannon Gabriel takes to the field tonight in the second Test between West Indies and New Zealand he will become the 35th West Indian to play a half century of Test matches.

West Indies assistant coach, Roddy Estwick is calling on his side to turn out peak performances saying that it was not time to talk but for action.

Dear Editor, In Guyana, the people most negatively affected by corruption are women and men who are workers, farmers, small business people and the poor.

Tenders were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the expansion and refurbishment of Practical Instruction Centres in the Hopetown, Beterverwagting and Fellowship villages.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, CMC – West Indies assistant coach, Roddy Estwick, said the Caribbean side had been forced to have “honest and open discussions” in the wake of their chastening innings defeat to New Zealand last weekend in Hamilton.

With hinterland regions continuing to record COVID-19 cases, Director of the National COVID-19 Task Force Secretariat (NCTFS) Nazrul Hussain yesterday disclosed that screening points will be established in three regions to monitor persons returning to the coastland during the Christmas Season.

Dear Editor, Firstly, I wish to remind the Hon. Minister of Home Affairs that it was on the 6 September,2020 that Joel and Isaiah were murdered in no ordinary fashion but in the most cruel, dreadful, gruesome and barbaric form, which to some has never been heard of on these local shores of our beloved Guyana.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump and 17 U.S. states yesterday threw their support behind a long-shot lawsuit by Texas seeking to overturn his election loss by asking the U.S.

Dear Editor, I like the idea.  This one about gathering five presidents (former and present) in one room. 

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Former West Indies batting coach, Toby Radford, has questioned the mentality of the Caribbean side’s batting group, and has pointed to “panic” as one the main reason for their chronic collapses in the Test format.

Azam Ally has earned himself the distinction of being Guyana’s first locally trained and accredited helicopter pilot.

(Reuters) – India captain Virat Kohli is impressed with how well T Natarajan has coped with the pressure in Australia on his first international tour and says the left-arm seamer could be a real weapon at next year’s Twenty20 World Cup on home soil.

Dear Editor, It is no secret that Guyana has long been the whipping boy of the Caribbean, largely due to its depressed economic status; engendered by inept political leadership, global economic crises, mismanagement of the economy and graft.

WASHINGTON/PALO ALTO, (Reuters) – Facebook Inc could be forced to sell its prized assets WhatsApp and Instagram after the U.S.

A woman accused of being the host of a curfew-breaking house party held at Back Street, Dem Amstel, West Coast Demerara (WCD), was on Monday released on $10,000 bail after she pleaded not guilty to the offence.

Thirty-two new COVID-19 cases were recorded yesterday. This increase was seen on the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 dashboard which showed that the 32 new cases moved the total number of positive confirmed cases to 5,732.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canada yesterday approved its first COVID-19 vaccine and said initial shots will be delivered and administered across the country starting next week, while every Canadian will be able to be inoculated as early as the end of September.

Dear Editor, I make these brief comments hoping that it may catch the eyes of the President and his cabinet.

A man who is accused of robbing a Corentyne vendor yesterday appeared at the Reliance Magistrate’s Court where he was charged and sentenced for  robbery under arms.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday slapped sanctions on Wan Kuok Koi, a leader of China’s 14K Triad organized crime group and a member of the Chinese Communist Party’s Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the U.S.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Two headed goals from Karim Benzema helped Real Madrid reach the Champions League knockout stages with a convincing 2-0 home win yesterday over Borussia Moenchengladbach, who also progressed to the last 16.

(Trinidad Express) The autopsy done on the body of murdered 18-year-old Ashanti Riley has found a cause of death, and it was brutal.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Allies of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro won 91% percent of the legislature’s seats following a vote on Sunday that was boycotted by the opposition and disavowed by the United States and the European Union.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s medicine regulator said anyone with a history of anaphylaxis to a medicine or food should not get the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, giving fuller guidance on an earlier allergy warning about the shot.

The Police are currently trying to recover the body of a 72-year-old Venezuelan labourer who it is feared drowned while attempting to free a boat’s propeller from a seine on Tuesday.

The Toshao of Warapoka in Region One, Alan Henry yesterday said that the COVID-19 infection rate in the community of 500 may be much higher as not much testing is being done.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa will tour Pakistan next month for the first time in 13 years to play two tests and three Twenty20 Internationals, officials confirmed yesterday.

Dear Editor, When initially it was given several ‘nick-names’, one was ‘Longest Floating Socialist Bridge’ (referring to Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham during whose regime the Demerara Harbour Bridge was erected).

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Two-time Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles called for end to an interim government created in 2019 by congress chief Juan Guaido with U.S.

I have a precious but dwindling jar of dried Guyanese salted seabob that I save to use sparingly in my cooking.

In an effort to further public dialogue on penal reform across the Caribbean, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has invited international experts and local thought leaders to offer their views on major issues that need to be addressed in order to improve correctional outcomes.

Today is Human Rights Day. It was on this day, 72 years ago, that the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

ACCRA,  (Reuters) – Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has won a second four-year term in office, the election commission said yesterday, following a tightly contested vote that was tainted by violence in which five people died.

(Reuters) – England’s tour of Sri Lanka will go ahead in January and will feature two test matches behind closed doors in Galle, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said yesterday.

An ex police officer has been rearrested in connection with the robbery committed on Marcus Brian Bisram on November, 29, Commander of Region Six, Jairam Ramlakhan said yesterday. 

Dear Editor, Yesterday, December 9th, 2020 marked World Genocide Commemoration Day.