Articles published on Sunday, December 20, 2020
(Reuters) – Shipments of Moderna Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine began leaving warehouses early today, heading for healthcare facilities around the United States in a push to distribute the second approved coronavirus vaccine.
ExxonMobil Guyana is celebrating the first year of oil production from the Liza field offshore and says it has reached full capacity of 120,000 barrels per day.
The Audit Office of Guyana has recommended that the Guyana Police Force (GPF) conduct an in-depth investigation into the Health Ministry’s rental of the Sussex Street, Charlestown drug bond under the former government as well as institute charges where necessary.
A woman and her two-year-old grandson are now dead after the boat in which they were travelling capsized in the Lower Pomeroon River on Friday night as they were returning home.
By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan “It is a great victory to the people of Guyana”, President Irfaan Ali declared on Friday 18 December as he welcomed the decision of the International Court of Justice on the border case.
Two relatives of the murdered teen cousins Joel and Isaiah Henry were on Friday faced with five charges in wake of an altercation with Guyana Police Force ranks at the Sparendaam Police Station.
Four persons were arrested yesterday after ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) unearthed approximately 189 pounds of high-grade marijuana at a Dartmouth, Essequibo Coast house.
The recent increase of COVID-19 cases in Region Ten is a result of persons continuing to disregard COVID-19 preventative measures, including infected persons who are refusing to adhere to isolation protocols, Regional Chairman Deron Adams has said.
Up to Friday, almost 12,000 households in Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) had received the government’s $25,000 COVID-19 relief grants.
With the Christmas season usually being a time when people are more at risk for mental health struggles, a clinical psychotherapist has said even more intervention is needed now due to the added anxieties brought on by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Caliper Drone Services has further monetized its overhead shots by turning them into picturesque holiday postcards, promoting less popular but beautiful places around Guyana.
(Reuters) – Australia crushed India by eight wickets inside three days of the first test at Adelaide Oval yesterday, skittling the tourists for their lowest innings score in 88 years of test cricket and taking a 1-0 lead in the four-match series.
The Ministry of Health yesterday reported that 29 additional cases of COVID-19 have been recorded, taking the total number of cases recorded by Guyana to 6,105.
As a girl growing up, Deborah Barrow-Graham could argue a point very well whether at home or at debate competitions at the schools she attended.
President Irfaan Ali on Friday made good on a pledge to award university scholarships to three soldiers stationed at Kaikan in Region Seven.
Final-year law student at the University of Guyana Joshua Edward began selling homemade pizza last year in order to raise money to conclude his studies.
Minister of Governance and Parliamentary Affairs Gail Teixeira on Friday said while former president David Granger made a political misstep when he refused to attend last week’s lunch meeting with President Irfaan Ali, the administration is still open to engaging him.
Throughout her academic life, 21-year-old Danella Clement faced quite a number of challenges but her final year at the University of Bedfordshire proved to be the most difficult and challenging due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Private Sector Commission (PSC) has called on Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh to pronounce on the election body’s preparedness to hold local government polls, while calling the potential involvement of elections officials who have been charged with misconduct in office “unacceptable.”
Like most disciplines, the COVID-19 pandemic knocked amateur boxing down for a count in 2020.
What is the allure of a palindrome? The question lingered through much of Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet,” which presents itself as a kind of filmic palindrome.
Following a year foiled by the Novel Coronavirus pandemic, Caribbean people can look to a prosperous 2021 with an unprecedented amount of cricket coming to the region.
Online Guyana, a new e-commerce company, has created a virtual marketplace where local businesses can sell their products.
Dear Editor, We noted with delight your article of December 16 headlined `Constitutional, electoral reforms should be ‘people-driven’ – President, former Presidents say.’
A 27-year-old pedestrian succumbed at a city hospital early yesterday morning, hours after he was allegedly struck down by a Ministry of Housing and Water pick-up truck along the Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) public road.
Dear Editor, The non-cooperation of the Guyana Police Force with the internationally renowned Argentinian expert, brought by the Guyana Human Rights Association, to assist in the inquiry of the murders of Joel and Isaiah Henry and Haresh Singh must be of concern to every Guyanese.
The study of indentureship since its establishment in British Guiana in 1838 has two historical landmarks.
Christmas Day is just five days away and I would be the first to admit that this is the time to eat drink and be merry.
Dear Editor, Allow me to present the facts and correct the false information with regard to a fake screenshot in circulation purporting to reflect a comment which I never made.
Vendors of the East Ruimveldt Market are upset with a Local Government Ministry decision to greenlight rehabilitation works that requires them to vacate the area at a time when they usually see an increase in sales.
(Trinidad Express) Even if a person has been administered a Covid-19 vaccine in another country, if he or she intends to enter Trinidad and Tobago, the person will be required to show Covid-negative status.
A senior official of the International Chess Federation, known by its French acronym FIDE, once noted that perhaps the game of chess was devised by aliens.
Dear Editor, I met Dominique Ahmad in the late 90’s through the late, Mrs.
(Reuters) – Speaking at a private dinner for tech security executives at the St.
Minister of Human Services and Social Security Dr Vindhya Persaud yesterday installed five Boards of Guardians in Region Six to review applications for public assistance.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has summoned Venezuela’s Ambassador to T&T, Carlos Amador Perez Silva, to a meeting to discuss recent developments concerning both countries – and Trinidad and Tobago’s position.
PARMA, Italy, (Reuters) – Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice, taking his Serie A tally for the season to 12 in only nine games, as defending champions Juventus cruised to a 4-0 win at Parma yesterday.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Liverpool’s Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah each netted twice in a scoring masterclass as the visitors thrashed Crystal Palace 7-0 to record their first away win in the Premier League since September and move a provisional six points clear at the top.
Last Update: 676.18 Movement: 2.11% Current Update: 690.47 YTD Movement: 13.94%LUCAS STOCK INDEX The Lucas Stock Index rose 2.11% during the second period of trading in December 2020.
(Reuters) – Former test batsman Mohammad Wasim has been appointed Pakistan’s chief selector, succeeding Misbah-ul-Haq, until the 2023 World Cup in India, the country’s cricket board said yesterday.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Selectors are scheduled to announce the squad for the tour of Bangladesh early next week, Cricket West Indies CEO Johnny Grave, has confirmed.
Introduction To round off my evaluation of Guyana’s emergent oil and gas sector in its very first year, I shall report in coming columns on the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) Technical Note, IDB-TN-1994, published August, 2020 and entitled, ‘Traversing a Slippery Slope: Guyana’s Oil Opportunity.’
The International Court of Justice (World Court) ruled on Friday last that it has jurisdiction to entertain Guyana’s application with regard to the dispute concerning “the legal validity and binding effect of the award regarding the boundary between the colony of British Guiana and the United States of Venezuela, of 3 October 1899.”
Many holiday meals are about the big and best cuts – prime rib, crown roasts and whole legs – of pork, beef or lamb.
Several years ago I played at the funeral of a St Lucian friend who had died after a tough two-year battle with cancer.
Dear Editor, Immediately after the five agonizing and harrowing months when a combative campaign was waged by members of APNU+AFC to remain in office through rigged elections, the former Minister of Public Health and Chairman of the People’s National Congress (PNC), Mrs.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former West Indies Under-19s batsman, Jyd Goolie, pressed his case for a place in the Trinidad and Tobago Red Force squad for next year’s Regional Super50 with an audacious hundred in the second trial game here Friday.
HOBART, Australia, CMC – Keemo Paul’s Australia Big Bash debut was virtually without fanfare as his Hobart Hurricanes brushed aside Melbourne Renegades by six wickets, to move to the top of the standings with their third win in four outings yesterday.
The diaries of William Gladstone, one of the greatest British Prime Ministers, are astonishing.
Residents of the township of Mabaruma, in Region One, are expected to receive a 24-hour electricity supply from today with the installation of a new generator at the Mabaruma Power Station.
(Reuters) – Australia spearhead Pat Cummins was pleasantly surprised by their fiery, flawless display of pace bowling which consigned India to a record low total in the opening day-night test yesterday.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed an effective lockdown on over 16 million people in England and reversed plans to ease curbs over Christmas, saying Britain was dealing with a new coronavirus strain up to 70% more transmissible than the original.
(Reuters) – Robert Lewandowski hailed a year to remember as his two goals helped Bayern Munich come from behind to beat Bayer Leverkusen and go top of the Bundesliga yesterday, capping a fantastic 12 months for him and his team.
(Trinidad Guardian) Amidst the bustle of Christmas shopping on High Street, San Fernando, Venezuelan migrants are roaming the streets in search of work and food.
A match-winning, unbeaten half-century from Indian Premier League (IPL) winner, Sherfane Rutherford, piloted 22 Yards to a comfortable eight-wicket win over Somerset Cavaliers and into the final of the 2020 U.S
Last Tuesday three ex-presidents and the current one held a forum at State House, sans Mr David Granger.
BARCELONA, (Reuters) – Lionel Messi equalled Pele’s haul of 643 goals for Santos after scoring for Barcelona against Valencia in La Liga yesterday, matching the Brazilian great’s scoring record for a single club.
(Reuters) – Trained dogs can identify people with COVID-19, even those with no symptoms, according to researchers.
(Rutgers University) – Conservation of fish and other marine life migrating from warming ocean waters will be more effective and also protect commercial fisheries if plans are made now to cope with climate change, according to a Rutgers-led study in the journal Science Advances.
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Kangaroos can learn to communicate with humans similar to how domesticated dogs do, by using their gaze to “point” and ask for help, researchers said in a study published on Wednesday.
(University of East Anglia) – Having hope for the future could protect people from risky behaviours such as drinking and gambling, new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) has suggested.
LA PAZ (Reuters) – A scientific expedition high in the Bolivian Andes revealed 20 species new to science, including “lilliputian frog” plus four rediscovered species including the “devil-eyed frog” previously thought to be extinct, Conservation International said.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The organizers of the Grammy awards last Thursday launched an initiative to elevate Black voices at all levels of the music industry and ensure that Black artists are fairly compensated for their work.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Tom Cruise let rip over an apparent breach of COVID-19 safety protocols on the London set of the new “Mission: Impossible” movie, telling crew members they would be fired if they don’t obey the rules, Britain’s Sun newspaper reported on Tuesday.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Film drama “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” may be set in the racially divided United States of the 1920s and was written almost 40 years ago, but it arrives with much to say about today.
LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian police drugs-squad members disguised as Santa Claus and an elf swooped into a house in Lima not to deliver gifts but to capture a suspected cocaine and dope dealer as part of an anti-drug operation.
Washington (American Educational Research Association) – A new study has found that roughly 51 percent of all American parents surveyed in March and April had at least one child struggling with distance learning and were themselves experiencing significantly higher levels of stress after they were forced into new roles as educators for their children due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
JUNTUN, China (Reuters) – Wang Liutai is no ordinary kung fu master.
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chilean President Sebastian Pinera was slapped with a $3,500 fine on Friday after posing for a selfie on the beach with a bystander without wearing a mask as required during the coronavirus pandemic, health authorities said.
