Daily Archive: Friday, February 19, 2021

Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill today announced the termination of the troubled Leguan stelling rehabilitation project.

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Charles Ramson Jr has set February 26 as the date for the long-awaited election of the new executive of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB).

Wood products manufacturer Floor It today opened a showroom in Queenstown, Georgetown.

LAGOS, (Reuters) – A federal court in Lagos has issued an injunction barring Royal Dutch Shell’s Nigerian subsidiares from withdrawing money at 20 local banks until it ringfences potential damages in a lawsuit brought against the oil major by Aiteo Eastern E&P.

ZURICH,  (Reuters) – The U.N. human rights watchdog said today it has asked the United Arab Emirates for more information about the status of Dubai’s Sheikha Latifa and proof that she is alive.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago is among the Caribbean countries late to order COVID-19 vaccines.

The Giftland Group says it has gotten judgment in its favour in a more than five-year-old battle with the Georgetown Mayor & City Council (M&CC) which it had said accused it of owing in excess of $100 million in rates and taxes.

The Ministry of Public Works and the Canawaima Ferry Service Inc last night announced the resumption of a regular ferry service between Moleson Creek, Corentyne and South Drain, Suriname from Sunday, 21st of February 2021.

A Corentyne man was yesterday sentenced to 13 years in prison for the killing of a guard while his co-accused who was a teenager at the time of the murder was sentenced to two months in jail.

Gopaul Sewsankar, also known as ‘Romel’, 24, of Lot 85 Yakusari North, Black Bush Polder who is accused of fatally stabbing his teenage brother on 19 March, 2017, pleaded guilty to manslaughter yesterday when he appeared at the High Court in Berbice.

A Linden labourer was yesterday sentenced to four years in jail and fined $1.7 million after he was charged with attempting to traffic cocaine in fudge.

Ralph Jones, the father of one of the prisoners who escaped from the Mazaruni prison on Tuesday has since admitted to supporting the quartet during their escape by providing them with change of clothing.

The economic impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the indelible mark that it has left on tourism industry in the Caribbean is reportedly doing little to interfere with the prediction by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that the region will record some level of growth this year.

Refusing to surrender to the rampaging assault on their livelihoods by the ravages of COVID-19 the members of the Mocha Arcadia Multipurpose Agriculture Cooperative Society are set to stage their second Producers Market Day in two months on Sunday February 21, Chairman of the Society Raeburn Jones told Stabroek Business earlier this week.

The search for the boat containing bodies that was seen floating offshore Guyana on Monday will continue outside of the country’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill says.

(Trinidad Express) West Indian legends Clive Lloyd and Deryck Murray both said Kraigg Brathwaite could retain the captaincy of the WI Test squad ahead of the upcoming Sri Lanka series.

Little Otter Candles, Jessica Alexander says, has emerged from her love for candles and home fragrances and out of many months of research into candle-making.

The police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for a third suspect in relation to the murder of retired priest, George Chuck-A-Sang, a day after a couple was remanded to prison for the crime.

(Field Level Media) LeBron James will start in the All-Star Game for the 17th consecutive time when this season’s contest is held March 7 in Atlanta, extending his own record.

After being disappointed by Budget 2020 for its lack of direct support towards businesses, which have suffered tremendously from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the collective private sector anticipated with hope that Budget 2021 would contain comparable fiscal measures like the billions granted to households and public sector employees last year.

Over 1,000 more persons were recently tested for COVID-19 within a 24-hour period resulting in 25 new cases of the virus being recorded.

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(Reuters) – The Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) was the fourth most-watched domestic competition in Australia for the 2020-21 season, Cricket Australia said on Friday, attracting an average audience of more than 200,000 for a sixth consecutive year.

The Mayor and City Council will soon implement a policy to regularise vending throughout the city.

Dear Editor, The GAWU saw the letter written by former President Donald Ramotar titled “Paradigm shifts needed in sugar industry to regain viability” which appeared in the February 16, 2021 Stabroek News.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Fast bowler Akeem Jordan flattened Windward Islands Volcanoes with a devastating five-wicket haul to earn Barbados Pride their first win of the Super50 Cup and keep alive their slim chances of a semi-final spot.

Developing countries including territories in Latin America and the Caribbean are likely to find the pace of their post COVID-19 recovery significantly compromised notwithstanding the fact that during 2020, a full calendar year of the pandemic, they attracted a record share of global foreign direct investment, according to Investment Trends Monitor published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) at the end of January this year.

Long serving patron of local motor racing and platinum sponsor of the National Drag Championship round one, Secure Innovations & Concepts Inc has acquired Deryck ‘Mad Dog’ Jaisingh’s Supra.

Dear Editor, Despite Senior Minister in the Office of the President with responsibility for finance, Dr.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance, the most advanced astrobiology lab ever sent to another world, streaked through the Martian atmosphere yesterday and landed safely inside a vast crater, the first stop on a search for traces of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet.

BOGOTA/RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As U.S. President Joe Biden develops his climate change agenda for the global stage, foreign and trade policies could also be used to tackle the thorny issue of rising deforestation in the Amazon, researchers and former officials said.

STEM Guyana, the organization which dramatically raised the country’s technology profile by fielding teams that distinguished themselves at prestigious international robotics competitions in Washington and the United Arab Emirates, earlier this week told the Stabroek Business that it is preparing to distribute nearly 1000 lessons plans to parents & vulnerable students across the country.

A businessman who allegedly obtained over $11 million from two persons by promising to import heavy duty equipment for them was on Monday granted bail in the sum of $300,000.

Riders get ready, competitive cycling returns to the 592 with the Forbes Burnham Memorial road race tomorrow.

The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board on Tuesday opened bids for the procurement of dietary items, janitorial supplies and other essential items under the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security.

A pleasing afternoon in the company of one of the current key players in what is almost certainly the most enduring eating house in contemporary Guyana, Clinton Urling, was sufficient to send a message that the onset of COVID-19 has done little to dampen the entrepreneurial spirit of the second-generation owners of German’s Restaurant.

Dear Editor, This has relevance to your reports on local content (Feb 18) and GHK Lall commentary (Feb 17) as well as other commentaries.

PARIS/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday said it was ready to talk to Iran about both nations returning to a 2015 agreement that aimed to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons, seeking to revive a deal that Washington itself abandoned nearly three years ago.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Former commanders from Colombia’s demobilized FARC guerrillas yesterday accepted accusations by a transitional justice court that they committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during the group’s 50-year war with the state.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Naomi Osaka ended Serena Williams’ bid for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title with an imperious 6-3 6-4 win yesterday, a victory that booked her spot in her second Australian Open final and left the American great in tears.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Recent comments by Petrobras Chief Executive Roberto Castello Branco regarding the possibility of a truckers’ strike will have consequences, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said yesterday, adding that “something will happen in the coming days.”

From the beginning of racism, colorism has existed; that is not an opinion, it is a fact.

Dear Editor, First the minister is accused of lying.  Then that is countered with the former minister being accused of lying.

It may have come as a surprise to some of the representatives of the mainstream private sector when representatives of the small business sector put in an appearance at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre on Monday to further make a case for far greater attention to be paid to their growth needs in order to better position them to, among other things, benefit from some of the promised spinoffs from the oil & gas sector and to otherwise consolidate their operations.

Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand has disputed statements made by former Minister and current Member of Parliament, Cathy Hughes about the number of smart classrooms in the education system.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison vowed  yesterday to press ahead with laws to force Facebook Inc to pay news outlets for content, saying he had received support from world leaders after the social media giant blacked out all media.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 902’s trading results showed consideration of $26,152,703 from 283,622 shares traded in 39 transactions as compared to session 901’s trading results which showed consideration of $13,605,378 from 76,114 shares traded in 38 transactions.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday February 18, 2021 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – South African all-rounder Chris Morris became Indian Premier League’s (IPL) most expensive buy in the players’ auction on Thursday, while China’s Vivo returned as the title sponsor of the eight-team tournament.

In a nation such as ours where politics has insinuated itself into almost all facets of public life, about the only subject area to get the Guyanese mind exercised will be of a political order. 

Black history month, White history always Only you can decide if this PNC meeting did take place as is about to be described.