Daily Archive: Tuesday, December 15, 2020

President Irfaan Ali today met with three former PPP/C Presidents at State House.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, today congratulated Democratic President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their Nov.

Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels has been asked to proceed on leave effective immediately.

An East Canje, Berbice mother has  confessed to beating her six-year-old child with a piece of wood then dumping her into a nearby swampy area after the child became unconscious.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican nurse who created history by becoming the first person in the United States to receive the COVID-19 vaccine is urging her countrymen to get the life-saving jab to shield them from the virus that has infected almost 73 million people globally and killed 1.6 million.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is set to approve its first COVID-19 vaccine on Dec.

LONDON/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and thousands of businesses scrambled yesterday to investigate and respond to a sweeping hacking campaign that officials suspect was directed by the Russian government.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police are investigating a firebombing incident in Cocorite on Sunday night in which a 92-year-old man was killed and his elderly wife in her 80s warded in a critical condition.

The charges of misconduct in public office, which were previously instituted against Finance Minister Dr.

By Readawne Henery A Bachelor’s Adventure youth was found murdered yesterday a short distance away from his home and his family is at a loss as to why.

Director of the Argentine Team of Forensic Anthropology (EAAF) Dr. Luis Fondebrider, who is currently here to assess whether his team can assist the police with the murders of West Coast Berbice (WCB) cousins Isaiah and Joel Henry as well as Haresh Singh has visited the crime scenes and met with the families of the teenagers.

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security has launched an initiative where special needs children between the ages of 4 and 15 can make a wish and an effort would be made to fulfil it.

Attorney at law Nigel Hughes has posited that ethnic relations in Guyana can be improved through the collection and analysis of data on the impact of government policies on each race and ethnicity.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, CMC – Test captain Jason Holder has hailed West Indies’ second innings performance and the encouraging debuts by wicketkeeper Joshua Da Silva and fast bowler Chemar Holder but says the Caribbean side were “still not good enough”, following their second successive innings defeat to New Zealand here yesterday.

Kacey Heyliger, one of the suspects in the fatal shooting of contractor Peter Gonsalves, was yesterday charged with murder and remanded to prison.

The Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) is arranging to provide fresh cow’s milk from local farmers and distributors to consumers at a low price.

HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka, CMC – Man-of-the-Match Johnson Charles plundered an entertaining half-century as Jaffna Stallions charged into the final of the Sri Lanka Premier League with a thumping 37-run victory over Dambulla Vikings here yesterday.

The 2018 and 2019 Annual General Meetings of the GAWU Credit Union have approved measures which will see members benefiting from nearly $5m in their accounts.

The body of a Windsor Forest youth who went missing on Sunday while setting fishing hooks washed ashore yesterday morning.       

A fire, suspected to be electrical in origin, destroyed a Buxton, East Coast Demerara (ECD) house yesterday afternoon leaving a couple counting millions of dollars in losses.

The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) has pledged its full support to newly-elected President of the International Boxing Association (AIBA), Umar Kremlev.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) yesterday passed a motion to replace acting Town Clerk Candace Nelson, who councillors accused of not understanding her role.

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Charles Ramson (Jr.) has urged the Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF) to “produce more champions” as he committed to providing more support to aid the development of the sport.

Autopsies performed yesterday on the charred remains of Carolina Kennedy and her two daughters, who perished in a fire which was allegedly set to their Bartica home on Saturday night revealed that their cause of death is “undetermined”.

Magistrate Alisha George yesterday granted the prosecution a month-long adjournment to seek advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on how to proceed in the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against the five accused in the killing of Better Hope moneychanger Aaron Latchman and his daughter, Arian Latchman, following the recent escape of one of the men.

In a nail-biting opening round of the Demerara Under-19 Inter-Association 50-over tournament, East Bank held its nerve to beat East Coast by five runs at Enmore Community Centre ground yesterday.

A man was on Thursday charged with attempted murder after the wounding of another man.

A crafty half-century from national Under – 15 batsman, Alvin Mohabir, was the cornerstone of Georgetown’s 99-run win over West Demerara in the opening round of the Demerara Inter-Association Under – 19 50-overs tournament yesterday. 

The Buxton/Friendship Youth Incubator was launched on Saturday at the Tipperary Hall in Buxton, East Coast Demerara.

Steffon Williams, the suspect in the robbery of a schoolboy, was remanded to prison last Thursday on a separate charge. 

Long-serving badminton executive, Gokarn Ramdhani, has once been re-elected President of the Guyana Badminton Association (GBA).

Dear Editor, In the best of times, youth sports (school and grassroots) are an afterthought, often struggling to receive vital support, but thanks to a few understanding and generous community partners – youth sports have time and time again proven their worth as an essential link to the regeneration process of sports development.

Dear Editor, Perhaps inspired – and funded – by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and spearheaded by the Attorney-General’s  Legal Affairs Ministry, the current “conversations” on alternative sentencing and Penal and Law Reform reveal how insensitive the police and justice systems could be towards those found guilty of crime – major and minor violations.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF), with the support of from the Union of European Football Association (UEFA) and the Confederation of North, Central America and the Caribbean (Concacaf) will in 2021 create a professional football league.

LANSING, Mich./WILMINGTON, Del.,  (Reuters) – President-elect Joe Biden delivered a forceful rebuke yesterday to President Donald Trump’s attacks on the legitimacy of his victory, hours after winning the state-by-state Electoral College vote that officially determines the U.S.

The High Court will on December 17, 2020 issue a ruling on the the application filed by attorney Timothy Jonas who is challenging last year’s appointment by former President David Granger of four senior counsel.

Dear Editor, The National Insurance Scheme was established in Guyana by the relevant Act in 1969.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A New York City intensive care unit nurse yesterday became the first person in the United States to receive a coronavirus vaccine, saying she felt “healing is coming,” as the nation’s COVID-19 death toll crossed a staggering 300,000 lives lost.

Guyana yesterday recorded its 156th COVID-19 fatality even as more cases of the virus were reported.

SAN JOSE DE GUANIPA, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Francisco Belisario, a Venezuelan mayor, retired general and member of the ruling Socialist party, had enough.

Dear Editor, Guyana is now in the hands of a new government and there is much work to be done with the aim of bringing relief to the people in every aspect of infrastructure works. 

(Reuters) – South Korean Kim A Lim birdied her final three holes to come from behind and win the U.S.

(Reuters) – The Premier League said yesterday that six people had returned positive results in its latest round of COVID-19 tests conducted on players and staff last week.

TORONTO/MONTREAL  (Reuters) – Canada kicked off its inoculation campaign against COVID-19 yesterday by injecting frontline healthcare workers and elderly nursing home residents, becoming just the third nation in the world to administer the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.

Kevin Durant returned to the court for the first time in 18 months on Sunday night and was pleased to get that step out of the way.

The Houston Rockets tried to convince James Harden to stay by importing John Wall from the Washington Wizards.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump was clear with Latin America during his four-year administration: don’t do business with China.

NELSON, New Zealand, CMC – Contrasting half-centuries from the left-handed pair of Nicholas Pooran and Shayne Moseley were undermined by a career-best spell from left-arm spinner Rachin Ravindra that sent West Indies A tumbling to a 101-run defeat against New Zealand A in the second “Test” yesterday.

Days after a ministerial outreach to Region 10 where residents pleaded for urgent improvements, the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) has commenced works to have a number of drains and canals cleared, a release from the Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday.

It is hard to know what the future holds for Venezuela, its opposition leader Juan Guaidó, or the present US-led policy that emphasizes sanctions and isolation.

Over a period of less than two months, public pronouncements by heads of key regional development support organizations including Head of the Caribbean Development Bank, Dr.

(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of National Security Stuart Young has successfully defended a legal challenge brought by Shirlanne Sacha Singh against the exemption process to manage the entry of people into T&T.

(Trinidad Guardian) Relatives of Stephon Ramnarine, 26, yesterday claimed he was in an abusive relationship but stayed because he was in love.