Daily Archive: Saturday, February 13, 2021

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate acquitted Donald Trump today in his second impeachment trial in a year, with fellow Republicans blocking conviction over the former president’s role in the deadly assault by his supporters on the U.S.

President Irfaan Ali today announced that several communities along the East Coast of Demerara will benefit from a pilot project to enhance unity in Guyana in keeping with his “oneness” theme.

Unveiling a record $383.1 billion budget for 2021, Minister with responsibility for Finance Dr Ashni Singh said yesterday that the economy is projected to grow by 20.9% if it reopens via a gradual lifting of COVID-19 restrictions.

With his presentation of the government’s proposed $383.1 billion national budget, Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh yesterday announced several measures aimed at bringing relief to the many households and businesses that have been experienced financial distress over the past year and beyond.

Declaring that he was “not a ghost,” the holder of two controversial trawler licences yesterday said he has been in the fisheries business for 20 years and deserves an equal opportunity as a Guyanese to operate in the sector.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday, kick started a delayed Mass Drug Administration (MDA) across Guyana to eradicate Lymphatic Filariasis.

A New Amsterdam, Berbice woman is now in police custody after she fatally stabbed her partner during the wee hours of yesterday morning at Main and Pitt streets, New Amsterdam during a fight.

Former Executive Director of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited, (NICIL), Winston Brassington has won a lawsuit against the Kaieteur News newspaper for defamatory statements it had published about him back in 2014 and he has been awarded $10 million in damages.

The Ministry of Health yesterday confirmed the deaths of two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), taking the total number of deaths from the virus in Guyana to 186.

An additional sum of $2.5 billion has been proposed for the Cheddi Jagan Inter-national Airport (CJIA) Expansion Project, Minister of Finance Ashni Singh yesterday announced.

A total of $60.7 billion has been earmarked for the education sector in this year’s national budget to develop a world class system that ensures equal access to world class education in all levels, according to Minister with the responsibility for finance Dr Ashni Singh. 

As government forges ahead with its plan to revive the sugar estates across the country, $2 billion has is to be allocated to the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) this year to undertake critical capital works, Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh announced yesterday when he presented the proposed 2021 budget to the National Assembly.

Government is proposing to spend a total of $22.2 billion this year on public safety and security, Finance Minister Dr.

The government has budgeted approximately 13 per cent of its proposed $383.1 billion budget to the health sector, with special allocations for the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines and to add resources to address mental health issues.

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said that all adult migrants living in Guyana will be vaccinated for COVID-19 in order for herd immunity to be achieved.

The Government Analyst-Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) on Friday announced plans to take action against street food vendors who fail to comply with basic food hygiene requirements.

A recent study conducted in four of Guyana’s most populated regions has found that limited mental health support and the lack of tester-counsellors and social workers in Region Six as major gaps in providing HIV services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Speaker of the National Assembly Manzoor Nadir has rejected a claim by Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon that he had directed members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) to bar opposition parliamentarians from entering the grounds of the Arthur Chung Conference Centre on Thursday.

ExxonMobil yesterday confirmed that the third stage flash gas compressor that malfunctioned recently and other key parts from the offshore Liza Destiny Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) oil platform have arrived in Germany and are being disassembled for inspection and assessment. 

Alwin Joseph and Babuni Harihar, the two persons whose bodies were recovered after an ill-fated bid to return to Guyana from Suriname via the backtrack route on Mon-day evening, died from both asphyxia and drown-ing, pathologist Dr.

A security guard was killed on Thursday night in an accident along Rupert Craig Highway in the vicinity of the University of Guyana (UG) Access Road, where she and a policeman collided.

A Police Sergeant has been placed under close arrest after he allegedly shot his partner in the neck during an argument at her Onderneeming West Coast Berbice home on Thursday night Injured is Shonetta James, a Special Constable.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Captain Leon Johnson hobbled to his second List A hundred as Guyana Jaguars won their second game on the bounce with a five-wicket victory over Leeward Islands Hurricanes in the Regional Super50 Cup here last night.

A woman has pleaded guilty to attempting to extort $10 million from her boyfriend by threatening to tell the police that he raped her.

Minister of Natural Resources and Patron of the Berbice Cricket Board, Vickram Bharrat made a surprise visit to the Guyana Cricket Board/Hand-In-Hand U-19 Inter-County tournament yesterday where he presented Berbice opener, Rampertab Ramnauth, with a bat.

Rawle Bernard, who is accused of murdering a man at a barbecue on the West Coast of Berbice in 2017, was yesterday found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter, for which he was sentenced to 11 years in prison.

A city Magistrate on Thursday ruled that the two counts of misconduct in public office laid against Deputy Chief Election Officer (DCEO) Roxanne Myers are to remain indictable.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall has defended the government’s failure to circulate the proposed budgets for constitutional agencies last year, while blaming the constitutional crisis created by the former APNU+AFC administration for forcing emergency actions to preserve the effective functioning of the state.

Berbice made sure that tomorrow’s clash against Demerara will be an all to play for affair, handing Essequibo a six-wicket defeat yesterday in the Guyana Cricket Board/Hand-in-Hand Under-19 Inter-County tournament.

Two days after being detained by the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU), two men were yesterday separately charged with trafficking cocaine.

(Trinidad Express) What is usually celebrated as a Fantastic Friday turned into a day of complete sorrow as hundreds of people came out in the streets of Arima yesterday to say their final goodbyes to Andrea Bharatt.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s lawyers said yesterday Democrats had provided no evidence the former president incited last month’s deadly U.S.

Dear Editor, For months, former President, David Granger, refused to acknowledge the results of the March 02, 2020 Elections while claiming that “as President of Guyana and leader of the government, it is my policy that any declaration which comes from the Chairman of GECOM would be recognized by the Coalition government.”

The Jai Hind Cricket Club of Albion, Corentyne, Berbice has launched its inaugural Mash Cup Masters T20 cricket tournament to be played on February 23.

Corentyne butcher Asif Hamid, who was sentenced to 15 years last month after admitting to the 2015 killing of a man he had strangled and buried in a shallow grave, is appealing the sentence which he says is too severe.

Dear Editor, Since it was announced Guyana would become an oil producing nation, I have made repeated calls for local stakeholders’ engagement in determining a way forward.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – A U.N. envoy yesterday said U.S. and E.U.

Blush Makeup Artistry has been creating flawless faces and the artist behind the statement looks is Filisha Singh, who, as it turns out, was once a total tomboy.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The United Nations human rights investigator for Myanmar urged the U.N.

Dear Editor, I share a couple thoughts on President Ali’s inaugural address to the National Assembly. 

GENEVA, (Reuters) – All hypotheses are still open in the World Health Organization’s search for the origins of COVID-19, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing yesterday, after Washington said it wants to review data from a WHO-led mission to China.

It’s no secret. The ingredient is love. To cook, to bake, to make something for someone is the one of the sincerest ways to say, I Love You.

(Trinidad Guardian) Pepper spray will be available ahead to women and girls within a regulated arrangement where a permit will be required .

Rickardo Maniram, called ‘Rocky,’ was yesterday acquitted in the rape a 16-year-old girl who prosecutors say he had also impregnated.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s aides have launched a formal review of the U.S.

Dear Editor, After reading Mr. Bisram’s letter on politicians in Guyana and U.S.

The police have arrested a suspect in the murder of Kevin Smith, who was stabbed to death during an attack at his Sophia residence on Monday.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Joshua Da Silva and Nkrumah Bonner both fell agonisingly short of hundreds while tail-ender Alzarri Joseph lashed an attacking half-century, but it was speedster Shannon Gabriel who rattled Bangladesh with a brace of wickets to put West Indies in command of the second Test here yesterday.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s election authority said yesterday it will conduct a recount in most of the country to ensure the transparency of Sunday’s presidential elections, after one of the candidates made accusations of electoral fraud.

Silence is violence. Silence perpetuates violence and normalizes it. Like many, the news of the death of Andrea Bharatt in neighbouring Trinidad shook me.

Dear Editor, Maybe I missed it, but did His Excellency outlined plans for the aged, infirmed and differently abled in his inaugural address to the Twelfth Parliament?

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – After playing in front of limited crowds in a boisterous atmosphere in Melbourne, players will return to the ‘new normal’ from today as an eerie silence will descend on the Australian Open with fans barred for the next five days.

The son of Dulmattie Boodlall, the woman who was struck down by a by a Guyana Police Force minibus at Nandy Park in January, plans to await the outcome of the trial of the lawman who was driving at the time before deciding on further legal action.

(Reuters) – India vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane hopes they can level the four-test series against England by flexing their spin muscles in the second match beginning today on a more spin-friendly track at Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium.

A montage of wounds is on display in Guyana. But the kaleidoscope of red and pink gashes seems not to have persuaded most of us to change or demand a better society.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Legendary speedster Sir Curtly Ambrose has praised West Indies’ outstanding performance in the ongoing Test series in Bangladesh, and says the form of the players could keep the first choice picks out of the squad in upcoming series.

Four Guyanese are among 23 artistes in the final of the 26th Chutney Soca Monarch competition, seeking to dethrone the reigning monarch, Trinidadian Chutney singer GI Beharry.

CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque has written Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing appreciation for New Delhi’s donation of 500,000 COVID-19 vaccines to the region.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Joshua Da Silva said yesterday he was “gutted” at missing out on triple figures, after falling for 92 on the second day of the second Test here.

The National Assembly last Thursday confirmed an order for continuing trade with the United Kingdom following its withdrawal from the European Union (EU).

With close to 2.4 million people dead from Covid-19 and more than 100 million infected, the end of the pandemic remains a distant prospect in many countries, even those with sufficient supplies of vaccines.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The UK Supreme Court yesterday allowed a group of 42,500 Nigerian farmers and fishermen to sue Royal Dutch Shell (RDS) in English courts after years of oil spills in the Niger Delta contaminated land and groundwater.