Daily Archive: Friday, December 25, 2020

The Guyana Cricket Board today expressed sympathy on the passing of broadcaster Reyaz Hussein. 

-despite having own counsel The Ministry of Legal Affairs under the APNU+AFC  administration paid a sum of $99.650M in legal fees/retainer agreements to three law firms and seven external attorneys during last year.

The sixty-five prisoners, who were among those granted early release by the Guyana Prison Service (GPS) over the COVID-19 pandemic, served one-third of their sentences and portrayed good behaviour during incarceration.

Auditor General Deodat Sharma says that an audit at the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) unearthed that $181.567M in fuel was uplifted by an unauthorised vehicle.

Acting Chief Justice Roxane George has awarded a US$2 million judgment to the government holding company, the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), in a lawsuit that was initiated to secure the outstanding balance for the acquisition of Guyana Stores Limited just over a decade ago by the Tony Yassin-led Royal Investments Incorporated (RI). 

Vishnu Panday, who was appointed by GuySuCo as Point Person/General Manager of the Skeldon Estate has since tendered his resignation, a source confirmed last evening to Stabroek News. 

A Kitty hardware store was yesterday robbed by three men and the now-traumatized owner was held at gunpoint and beaten.

For 30-year-old Dr Philicia Findlay-Hardyal, working on Christmas Day has always been a privilege but this Christmas Day will be extra-special for her as she hopes to ensure that critically ill COVID-19 patients feel special despite not being able to see their families or loved ones.

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security (MoHSSS) recently launched its inaugural “Wish Upon A Star” initiative for special needs children and 50 were granted their wishes.

Hundreds of Guyana Oil Company (GUYOIL) workers took part in a countrywide sit-in on Wednesday after they were informed that they would not be receiving agreed increases in wages and salaries or bonus.

Eight new COVID-19 cases were yesterday recorded after just over 100 new tests were conducted, according to the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 Dashboard  The Dashboard also indicates that the eight new cases have increased Guyana’s total number of confirmed cases to 6,266.

If neighbouring Suriname may not have altogether stolen the international spotlight from Guyana in the oil & gas industry on account of its own significant discoveries, it has done an impressive job of grabbing a sizeable share of global attention for itself as an influential player in South America’s new-found position as the hemisphere’s most lucrative hydrocarbon hunting ground.

A US$30.4 million Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) loan recently extended to Guyana is intended to add weight to the country’s efforts to seek to maintain minimum levels of quality of life for vulnerable persons amidst the welfare-related pressures brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.

About a week before the fateful shooting that has changed his life, Winston Fraser and his wife were talking about having children.

Christmas wishes have come through for the Dhuman family of Corentyne, Berbice when their unfinished house was completed so they could move in for the holiday season. 

Nikesha Punch is one of those scores of emerging local creative souls in the Guyana manufacturing sector whose opportunities to ‘parade’ their products on the local market, are these days, constrained by the persistence of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

A beleaguered Caribbean Airlines (CAL), whose long-standing yeoman service to the regional air transport industry is often forgotten amidst the slew of service-related criticisms that it has had to face in relatively recent years is still far from putting its problems behind it.

Christmas socials are probably the most anticipated event for students on the academic calendar but this year the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted that traditional end-of-year celebration, until a teacher of St.

As the international community continues to be preoccupied with pushing back the scourge of the dreaded COVID-19 global pandemic, the local food service industry could be a critical cog in the wheel of limiting the further spread of the virus locally, Director of the Government Analyst-Food & Drugs Department (GA-FDD) Dr Marlon Cole, told the Stabroek Business earlier this week.

Police have stated that investigations into the armed robbery of a Crane Housing Scheme, W.C.D.,

History was created on Wednesday night when Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Dr.

While the Christmas season is a time of celebration for many families, it won’t be for Annasha Lall and her family.

Buoyed by its new-found profile as the pick of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries as a potential regional investment haven, Guyana is preparing to entertain the presence of the highly regarded Jamaican investment company, NCB Capital Markets Ltd.

While there is no definitive word regarding a timeline for the availability of COVID-19 vaccinations in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced this week that it will be mobilising US$1 billion to help countries in the region acquire and distribute the vaccine.

By Shabna Rahman During the Christmas season, Patricia Baird would display her live flower plants at the Parika market for sale on Thursdays and Sundays.

West Demerara Masters wrote their names in the history books after defeating Jai Hind Jaguars by eight wickets in the first match under lights at the renovated La Bonne Intention Cricket Ground.

Introduction Rohan Kanhai was born on 26 December 1935 at Plantation Port Mourant, Corentyne, Berbice.

(Trinidad Guardian) From next month four shipping companies in this country will no longer be accepting TT dollars from customers wishing to import items here, instead, they will only be accepting payment of freight charges in United States dollars.

A single mother of Bee Hive, East Coast Demerara, has been making the season merry for others by taking orders for cakes, but for her, Christmas would never be the same again.

Dear Editor, I refer you to last Saturday’s newspapers’ (KN and SN of 19th December 2020) reports on the ICJ decision on the 1899 Arbitral Award read by Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, President of the World Court.

Dear Editor, I recently learnt from a medical practitioner that the underlying cause of most foot ulcers/wounds, is chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) from a damaged blood valve.

Reflections by ALFEN Something, or numerous glues of values of resilience, tolerance, understandings – and love, kept Harry and Hetty together as legally happily wedded man – and – wife for fifty-four years.

(Trinidad Guardian) Touchstone’s Ortoire Block could have as much as one trillion cubic feet (tcf) of wet natural gas and may potentially produce in excess of 200 million standard cubic feet of gas per day (mmscf/d) according to Paul Baay, director, president and chief executive officer of Touchstone Exploration Inc.

The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant additional strain that it has placed on the resources of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has not diminished the enthusiasm of the regional institution for throwing its support behind creative pursuits in the Caribbean.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The Indian Premier League (IPL) is set to become a 10-team affair from 2022 after the Indian cricket board yesterday approved a proposal to add two more franchises to the world’s richest Twenty20 competition.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has noted the most inappropriate and unconstitutional action of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) that has assumed the role of Judge, Jury and Executioner when it pointedly advanced calls for the removal of select GECOM employees.

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LONDON/BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Britain clinched a narrow Brexit trade deal with the European Union yesterday, just seven days before it exits one of the world’s biggest trading blocs in its most significant global shift since the loss of empire.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico yesterday inoculated its first person against COVID-19 to kick off a fightback from a pandemic that has killed 120,000 people in the country and battered the economy, celebrating a Christmas roll-out that also began elsewhere in Latin America.

(Reuters) – Next year’s men’s Under-20 World Cup in Indonesia and Under-17 tournament in Peru have been moved to 2023 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, soccer’s world governing body FIFA said yesterday.

The Christmas season is a time that is usually filled with great joy and celebration.

(Reuters) – NBA Commissioner Adam Silver yesterday said a $50,000 fine was sufficient discipline for James Harden after the Houston Rockets guard broke the league’s COVID-19 protocols by attending a recent party, adding a suspension would have been too harsh.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday December 24, 2020 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers yesterday blocked attempts to alter a $2.3 trillion coronavirus aid and government spending package, rejecting President Donald Trump’s demand for extensive changes and leaving benefits for millions of Americans at risk.

While the appeal by the President of the Tourism & Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG), Mitra Ramkumar, for a reopening of the various entertainment spots was entirely predictable, even understandable, the point cannot be made too strongly that such consideration as is given to THAG’s appeal must be set against the objective conditions that obtain, that is to say, those conditions that have to do with the circumstance of the pandemic and the threat that it continues to pose, on the one hand and on the other, the situation in which the entertainment sector finds itself.

(Trinidad Express) A Chaguanas man who was beaten after he defended his mother in an altercation, has died.

Happy Holidays to our Prime Ministers I know that Guyana’s late legend of local trade unionism Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow was fond of reminding folks that “Politics follows you from the cradle to the grave.”

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 894’s trading results showed consideration of $10,785,489 from 109,563 shares traded in 28 transactions as compared to session 893’s trading results which showed consideration of $58,269,672 from 662,937 shares traded in 26 transactions.

This is a strange Christmas.  It probably doesn’t have any equivalent since the 1918-20 ͗flu pandemic which killed millions of people worldwide and took a heavy toll in Guyana as well.

Dear Editor, In a terse statement on December 22, 2020, the Guyana Government stated that it did not share the reservations expressed by Dr.