Daily Archive: Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Customers of Central Georgetown are currently experiencing a disruption in their water supply due to a ruptured 16-inch transmission line on Church Street in Georgetown. 

General Manager of the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) Rawlston Adams today declined to comment on the discovery that he approved the purchase of an over $800,000 bracelet for himself with money from the DHB.

Beepats Distributing Company today  announced that it will be entering the hotel industry with the intent of establishing a Marriott Four Point Sheraton Airport hotel and resort near to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri.

(Jamaica Observer) FITZROY Coore, branded as one of Clarendon’s most wanted criminals and who was shot dead by law enforcers in Manchester on Sunday, used two women as human shields in an attempt to escape after he was cornered in a house, the police have reported.

(Jamaica Gleaner) From a homeless shelter in Kingston, 60-year-old Devon ‘Frank’ Wade has launched a business which allows him to employ other homeless persons to design, build and furnish the homes of prospective and current homeowners.

(Jamaica Star) Twenty-seven years ago, Debbie Eaton lost her right leg to gunshot wounds, but that did not prevent her from living a full life.

(Trinidad Guardian) A blind pensioner was among several tenants of a building in Port-of-Spain who had to climb through a window to escape a fiery death yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain today became the first country in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca, hoping that rapid action would help it stem a surge of infections driven by a highly contagious variant of the virus.

NEWLYN, England,  (Reuters) – For England’s fishermen, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit trade deal is a betrayal because it allows some European Union boats continued access to Britain’s rich inshore coastal waters.

LUCKNOW,  (Reuters) – Over 100 retired senior civil servants and diplomats urged the Hindu nationalist leader of Uttar Pradesh state to repeal a new law criminalising forced religious conversion of brides, warning in an open letter that it risked fuelling communal tensions.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s Senate voted today to legalize abortion, a first for a big country in Latin America and a triumph for women’s rights campaigners achieved over the visceral objection of the Catholic Church.

(Barbados Nation) Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth George has delisted Sandals Barbados Resort and Spa as a designated quarantine hotel effective January 5, 2021, and three tourists have been held for questioning by police, according to a media statement on Tuesday.

Cuban national, Joel Rodriguez, on Monday confessed to the murders of Tara Krishnaran and her 11-year-old daughter, Larissa Singh, of Princes Street, Lodge.

Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal yesterday disclosed at a housing drive held at the University of Guyana Tain Campus, Port Mourant, Berbice, that the ministry has so far distributed a total of 3,600 house lots in regions Three, Four and Six. 

A man was yesterday sentenced to 23 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to the 2012 killing of a United States-based Guyanese man who had returned to Guyana for what he thought would be a vacation.

Edward Skeete, known as ‘Pretty Boy’, is currently a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital nursing two gunshot wounds after he was involved in a shootout with several men in James Street, Albouystown, on Monday.

Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha has ordered that emergency drainage works be done in Black Bush Polder, Corentyne After a visit yesterday to the area, Mustapha explained that Johanna and Yakusari were more seriously affected by the flooding and to some extent Mibicuri.  

Speaker of the National Assembly Manzoor Nadir yesterday confirmed that he and three members of his family have tested positive for COVID-19.

A two-storey North Ruimveldt house was yesterday gutted by fire which was allegedly set by an occupant of the home.

Competitive football is back and long standing benefactor, Mohamed’s Enterprises is thrilled about it.

Three new COVID-19 cases were yesterday recorded after some 168 more persons were tested for the virus.

A Rose Hall, Corentyne man yesterday escaped after he threatened his ex-wife at the New Amsterdam Police Station, while being armed with two knives. 

Davion Mars, on Sunday last, won the 2020 national Rapid chess championships which was contested at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence, East Bank Demerara. 

Dear Editor, The Guyana Prison Service (GPS) notes with some concern, attempts on social media by some persons to deliberately misconstrue and to cast aspersions on the act of the Special Remissions granted by the Prison Service for the release of sixty-five former inmates.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday confirmed that a few persons have been forging COVID-19 test results in order to travel.

A post-mortem examination conducted on the remains of David Barclay, the man who died after he jumped onto a moving car that dragged him, revealed his cause of death to have been multiple injuries.

The beginning of the new year is set to be a decisive juncture for the administration of cricket in Guyana as the Court of Appeal is set to pronounce on a portion of the Cricket Administration Act, which prevents the staging of the Demerara Cricket Board’s (DCB) elections. 

Dear Editor, As we continue the debate about Guyana`s ethnic diversity and the ethnic conflict which has afflicted our society, there are those who attribute our problem solely to the politicians and there are those who differ.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras said that it had received 232.6 million reais ($44.65 million) on yesterday in a settlement with Swiss energy trading firm Vitol, which was implicated in a sprawling national corruption probe.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) is investigating the suspected suicide of a 13-year-old girl, of Timehri, East Bank Demerara, which occurred yesterday afternoon.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the editorial `Sugar news not good’ (SN Dec 28).

(Barbados Nation) Residents of St Vincent and the Grenadines were warned to stay away from La Soufriere volcano after increased seismic activity was detected in the dome over the weekend.

A Port Kaituma man, who was injured in a collision last Friday when the ATV he was operating toppled, has succumbed to his injuries.

On the heels of several players opting not to tour Bangladesh, West Indies’ chief selector Roger Harper has expectations of the second string side being competitive.

Dear Editor,  The Guyana Oil Company (Guyoil) since its formation in 1976 has been among the very few autonomous state corporations that has consistently made a profit each year of its operations. 

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell yesterday put off a vote on increasing COVID-19 relief checks from $600 to $2,000 and urged senators to override President Donald Trump’s veto of a defence bill, in a rare challenge to his fellow Republican three weeks before Trump leaves office.

Cricket West Indies’ Director of Cricket, Jimmy Adams is seeing the positives amidst the gloomy situation after several key players opted not to tour Bangladesh.

Dear Editor, Our democratic dispensation troubles me, not because of its neonate fundamentals, but its exposition to the unappreciative artisans who demonstrate their utter unfamiliarly with its quintessential architecture.

PARIS, (Reuters) – French fashion designer Pierre Cardin, whose futuristic space-inspired looks upended catwalk styles in the 1960s and 70s, has died at the age of 98, France’s Fine Arts Academy said.

(Barbados Nation) The management of Arawak Cement Plant yesterday issued a statement in relation to the death of employee Brian Moore on Monday.

The Ministry of Public Works in collaboration with the Ministry of Local Government has embarked on a project to swiftly repair 100 roads using sums from the $600 million requested recently from the National Assembly.

A miner was yesterday stabbed during an argument with another man at Eyelash Backdam, North West District.

Dear Editor, Yesterday as I listened to an interview done at Pfizer with our very own Scientist Vidia (Bobin) Roopchand, it has only now sunk in as to the magnitude of the work this son of the soil has done.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Representative-elect Luke Letlow of Louisiana has died of COVID-19, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said yesterday.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Deaths in Latin America and the Caribbean from COVID-19 topped 500,000 yesterday, and cases soared above 15 million amid holiday festivities, according to a Reuters tally of figures in official government reports.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela has signed a contract with Russia to acquire enough of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine to inoculate 10 million people in a first phase, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said yesterday.

A nine-year-old West Bank Demerara boy is now hospitalised after he was struck down by a car along the Canal Number One Access Road on Monday afternoon.

President of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB), Hilbert Foster, has called on executives of the board and cricket clubs in Berbice to renew their commitment to the county by leading not only with hard work but by example.   Foster was speaking at a special Brian Ramphal award ceremony held at the board’s office in New Amsterdam at the weekend where several cricketers were honoured. 

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – A rejuvenated India shorn of Virat Kohli turned the tables on Australia to claim the second test within four days in Melbourne yesterday, a rousing eight-wicket victory that breathed life into the series.

WILMINGTON, Del./LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – The first known U.S. case of a highly infectious coronavirus variant was detected in Colorado yesterday as President-elect Joe Biden warned it could take years for most Americans to be vaccinated for the virus at current distribution rates.

Dear Editor, In just a matter of days the year 2021 will be upon us.

Dear Editor, The dawn of a New Year always brings with it a renewed sense of hope and optimism.

By Brajendra Navnit, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to WTO A proposal by India, South Africa and eight other countries calls on the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to exempt member countries from enforcing some patents, and other Intellectual Property (IP) rights under the organization’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, known as TRIPS, for a limited period of time.

In a comment on last week’s Future Notes, Mr. Mike Persaud said, ‘we need a Constitutional Reform idea that would trend or move the people away from this over-racialized politics’, and then asked ‘Any ideas on this question, … Jeffrey?’

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine has requested regulatory approval to launch Phase 3 trials in Brazil, Brazilian health regulator Anvisa said late yesterday.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) yesterday  hosted its first ever Holiday Hot Meal activities in Central Georgetown, Region 4 and New Amsterdam, Berbice, Region 6.

Last Thursday, on Christmas Eve, Santa Claus made a pit stop in Georgetown and dropped off his gift for local, starved football fans; the revival of the Annual Kashif and Shanghai (K&S) Holiday Knockout Football Tournament.

Brandon Clarke converted the go-ahead tip-in with 38.6 seconds remaining in overtime and the visiting Memphis Grizzlies outlasted the short-handed Brooklyn Nets for a 116-111 victory on Monday night.

GOLD COAST, Australia, CMC – West Indies Test captain and all-rounder, Jason Holder, blasted 16 runs from the last over to earn Sydney Sixers a thrilling two-wicket win over Melbourne Renegades with a ball to spare, in the Australian Big Bash here yesterday.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Test captain Jason Holder and white-ball skipper Kieron Pollard are among 10 players who have pulled out of the next month’s tour of Bangladesh over COVID-19 related concerns, in a massive blow to the five-match series.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – Tim Southee became the third New Zealand bowler to capture 300 test wickets as he dismissed two Pakistan batsmen to help push his side into a strong position at the close of play on the fourth day of the first match yesterday.

PRETORIA, (Reuters) – Rookie seam bowlers Wiaan Mulder and Lutho Sipamla took two wickets each as South Africa bowled injury-hit Sri Lanka out for 180 to complete a handsome victory by an innings and 45 runs on day four of the first test at Centurion Park yesterday.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – In June, the United States imposed sanctions on half a dozen oil tankers managed by established shipping firms.