Daily Archive: Friday, January 8, 2021

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said today she has instructed the Rules Committee to be prepared to move forward on a motion to impeach U.S.

The Ministry of Health today reported that there were 41 new cases of COVID-19.

The Ministry of Health today named the members of a broad-based National COVID-19 Vaccines Task Force in preparation for the arrival and roll out of the immunization campaign against the coronavirus disease in Guyana.

United States Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah-Ann Lynch yesterday expressed shock at Wednesday’s rioting in the US Capitol but she said that the country’s strong institutions will always prevail.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. House Democrats are prepared to move forward with impeachment proceedings against Republican President Donald Trump as early as next week following his supporters’ siege at the U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) This year has started the same way 2020 began with the severing of workers in the downstream petrochemical sector as the State-owned National Gas Company fails to reach a gas supply agreement with a petro-chemical company.

 (Reuters) – A U.S. Capitol Police officer, Brian Sicknick, has died of injuries suffered when supporters of President Donald Trump assaulted the legislative building, the force said, bringing to five the number dead from the riot.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s medical regulator today approved Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for use, the health ministry said, adding that it had agreed to purchase an additional 10 million doses of the shot as it eyed a spring rollout of the shot.

The current and  former Attorneys General say they are unaware of the Financial Intelligence Unit’s (FIU) recommendation for a high-level probe of gold trading which was made in 2019.

A pensioner was burnt to death yesterday morning after a fire, suspected to have been caused by an unattended stove destroyed his Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) home.

ExxonMobil has started drilling operations at the Bulletwood-1 well site in the controversial offshore Canje block.

Clive Fields, the man who was seen in a video circulated on social media being kicked in the head by a lawman after efforts to subdue him at Stabroek Market, has been charged with robbery with aggravation and granted bail.

Forrester Gravesande, who was found guilty of murdering his neighbour, was yesterday sentenced to 56 years in jail.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) is investigating the suspected suicides of two men, including a pensioner, in separate cases along the Essequibo Coast and at Linden.

The Ministry of Education yesterday hosted a virtual consultation with 739 Grade Six teachers from both private and public schools to discuss the writing of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA).

There is still no functioning Regional Democratic Council (RDC) in Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) five months after the official declaration of the results from the March 2 Regional Elections.

Thirty-three new COVID-19 cases were recorded yesterday, pushing Guyana’s total active cases to 307.

Region Six Chairman, David Armogan yesterday confirmed the resignation of the Skeldon Estate General Manager, Vishnu Panday, stressing that they are presently searching for his replacement. 

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – India hit back with three wickets before lunch on the second day of the third test today but Steve Smith looked in ominous form on 76 not out as Australia reached the break on 249 for five.

Thirty-seven persons in the public school dorms across Guyana have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).

An Interim Management Committee (IMC) was installed last month to manage the affairs of the Amalgamated Transport & General Workers Cooperative Credit Union, following a discovery of fraud. 

The available evidence continues to make a pretty strong case for asserting that the extent to which the major Business Support Organizations (BSO’s) consider themselves to be responsible for overseeing in a meaningful way the steady growth and development of micro and small businesses is strictly limited.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Cricket West Indies does not anticipate this year’s home tours being hit by player withdrawals due to the COVID-19 pandemic, contending the decision by 10 first team players to opt out of the upcoming Bangladesh series was based on “unusual circumstances”.

(Field Level Media) Andre Drummond posted game-highs of 22 points and 15 rebounds, Larry Nance Jr.

Realistic hope for meaningful improvement in the global economy this year will hinge on the extent to which efforts to roll back and even halt the further spread on the coronavirus gain meaningful momentum, the World Bank says in its January 2021 Global Economic Prospects Report published earlier this week.

The residents of Overwinning, East Bank Berbice yesterday received 28 streetlights from the Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Nigel Dharamlall. 

The Guyana Police Force yesterday said its officers found a revolver with matching ammunition on a man while he was in the vicinity of the Demerara Harbour Bridge.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australian Claire Polosak became the first woman to officiate at a men’s test yesterday when she took up her role as fourth umpire for the match between Australia and India.

The police say that an inmate at the Lusignan Prison was yesterday found with cannabis hidden in his pants waist. 

Like hundreds of other Guyanese who have been operating modest business enterprises during 2020, Vasil Wood believes that the experience of having to do business in the destabilising environment of COVID-19 may well have taken him to a critical fork in his entrepreneurial road.

(Field Level Media) Reserve Joe Harris scored a season-high 28 points, Caris LeVert added 22 as the short-handed Brooklyn Nets led most of the way and recorded a 122-109 victory over the visiting Philadelphia 76ers on Thursday night in New York.

The U.S. Embassy yesterday said that as part of the United States’ continued commitment to Guyana and its security, Navy Admiral Craig Faller, commander of U.S.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – A play-to-win culture and dominance at home have propelled New Zealand to the top of the official test cricket rankings for the first time after a crushing win over Pakistan, helped in no small part by having the world’s best batsman.

A limited survey amongst shoppers in the Bourda and East La Penitence municipal markets just prior to Christmas found consumer dispositions to the pumpkin fruit ranging from an I-can-take-it-or-leave-it posture to revelations that pumpkin is a routine part of their diets.

Dear Editor, In their letter of 23rd December 2020, two lawyers (Messrs Reichler and Sands) representing Guyana before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) solemnly assured the Guyanese people that the decision of the International Court of Justice (18th December 2020) was “entirely favourable” to Guyana.

Like so many facets of life in so many places around the world, the agriculture and manufacturing sectors in Jamaica have the COVID-19 pandemic to thank for cutting short and, in fact, overturning the promising growth spurt with which they started 2020.The

Dear Editor,  I notice that some supporters and surrogates – still hopeful relentless riggers who failed for five months – took to Facebook to try to “rejoice” over the riotous takeover of the American Capitol/Parliament precincts and building on Wednesday of this week.

After being in and out of consciousness for approximately two weeks, city businessman Deodat Ramsamooj, who was struck down by a speeding car on December 26, 2020, is showing signs of recovery, his nephew Nathan Persaud said.

After bursting onto the scene in 2015, Guyana’s fittest man, Dillon Mahadeo has made several splashes in the fitness arena, this year he plans to make waves.

Following the denial of permission to begin training for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 Pre-Qualifiers in February by the National COVID-19 Taskforce, GABF President Michael Singh, says that the entity will once again seek approval from the relevant authorities to commence team preparation.

Just how indifferent Caribbean Community (CARICOM) governments have been, over a protracted period in aggressively attending to issues that have a critical bearing on the food security issues which most of them have been facing for several years is reflected in the fact that a decade after the regional movement appeared to paying a high level of what turned out to be little more than lip service to crop insurance in its agricultural sector, one of their number appears to placing the issue on its domestic agricultural agenda again.

Dear Editor, I never, ever, thought that matters would come to this pass in the United States of America. 

Renovations at the Palms Geriatric Home have been completed and the facility is now capable of accommodating 240 residents.

The International Data Corporation (IDC), one of the world’s leading global providers of market intelligence, advisory services, and events linked to the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets, is projecting that the year ahead will continue to be shaped by “the disruptive forces of COVID-19,” which it says has already changed “everything across all verticals now and into the future.”

The newborn infant that was discovered abandoned in the compound of a sawmill in Kwebanna, Barima-Waini, Region One, on New Year’s Day has been discharged from a hospital in Region One and is in the care of its mother, a 14-year-old girl with a speech impairment, and her parents.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to your article `Notables who passed away in 2020’ and I would like to add a notable name which you may have inadvertently missed.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump faced the threat yesterday of a second impeachment, a day after his supporters breached the U.S.

In an effort to commence training for the impending Concacaf World Cup Qualifiers in March, the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has  officially tested members of its locally based senior men’s national squad and staff for the COVID-19 virus.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The chief of the U.S. Capitol Police will resign, according to media reports yesterday, a day after the federal force charged with protecting Congress was unable to keep supporters of Republican President Donald Trump from storming the building.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Experienced international batting coach, Toby Radford, has raised concerns over the potential negative impact of sending a depleted squad to Bangladesh, and fears the pullout by players could have adverse implications for the image of West Indies cricket.

Police say a Brazilian national who died at a Region Seven mining campsite on Wednesday complained about pains and swelling in his abdomen before his death.

                                             Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday January 07, 2021

PARA STATE, Brazil,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In the middle of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, far from the laboratories of the world’s major pharmaceutical companies, the Kayapó indigenous people of Para state are using a drink made from vines to help them ward off the worst effects of COVID-19.

Dear Editor, Democracy must be preserved at all cost, including the use of sanctions.

(Barbados Nation) Dr Corey Forde, Barbados’ lone infectious diseases specialist, will be the first person to receive a coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine if Government is able to secure at least four by this weekend.

How to `co-operate’ with riggers I’ll concede upfront that today’s offering might come off as a bit of a ramble not too coherently fashioned.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Former Test batsman, Daren Ganga, believes West Indies players needed to exercise more faith in the judgement of Cricket West Indies instead of pulling out of the tour to Bangladesh.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 896’s trading results showed consideration of $194,765,851 from 2,238,868 shares traded in 19 transactions as compared to session 895’s trading results which showed consideration of $300,790,924 from 3,662,850 shares traded in 17 transactions.

After battling a COVID-19 outbreak in October and November of last year, Toshao of Kwebanna, Paul Pierre, on Tuesday said that the community is basically “back to normal” as residents are operating as though the virus has been completely eradicated.

Towards the end of last year, according to information made available by the US Department of Defense, the new Coast Guard cutter, the USCGC Stone departed from Pascagoula, Mississippi, in order to conduct its first deployment to the South Atlantic.

(Trinidad Express) Kurt Sylvester, the husband of Couva secondary school teacher Suzette Sylvester, has been charged with her murder.

Dear Editor, I am thinking of establishing a new political party.

A group of visiting foreign journalists, we stood that cold morning to one side, struck into silence by the sheer size and splendour of the Capitol’s Rotunda, as we stared at the ornately decorated dome with its neo-classical motifs, in soaring symmetry above us.

(Part. 1) As global economies expand, the way in which we interact, communicate, travel and trade has significantly changed over the years.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 yesterday, the health ministry said, as daily new cases accelerated to a record of 87,843 after year-end holidays in the country with the world’s second-deadliest outbreak.

Since the World Bank has as many tools as any other organization with which to fashion projections regarding the likely behaviour of the global economy, going forward, it is altogether reasonable to assume that some measure of seriousness will be attached to its projections and predictions in the period immediately ahead.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – BP Plc has given the operator of a Caribbean refinery more time to fully restart and retain its crude oil supply agreement after the plant failed to hit operating targets last year, according to people familiar with the matter.

(Trinidad Guardian) International reinsurers are threatening to fully withdraw from the T&T insurance market, the Association of Trinidad and Tobago Insurance Companies (ATTIC) has warned.