Daily Archive: Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Japan is to assist Guyana and three other CARICOM countries with the treatment of COVID-19 infected patients.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has announced a new procedure for the examination of exports and scanning.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The British monarchy maintained its silence today, after Meghan and Prince Harry accused a family member of making a racist remark about their son and said she had been alienated to the point of contemplating suicide.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The English cricket board must stop treating its players in a “namby-pamby way” and dock money if they put the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) above national duty, former test batsman Geoffrey Boycott said.

(Trinidad Express) A man has been charged with the murder of Princes Town mother of two Karen Rauseo.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago will receive only a third of the first batch of vaccines allocated to it by the COVAX facility come month-end.

Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony has said health authorities are likely to administer COVID-19 vaccines in four phases.

Six persons including a shipper were arrested yesterday morning following the discovery of 3.304 kilograms of suspected cocaine hidden in salted fish at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri.

ExxonMobil yesterday said that teams are finalizing the logistics for the departure of the flash gas compressor and silencers for the Liza-1 platform from Germany to Guyana this week.

The Trinidad and Tobago-based Francis Lau Boyce Construction Inc. (FLB) was officially launched yesterday at a ceremony at its Georgetown office.

Two Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) estates are celebrating after surpassing their weekly sugar production target for the first time in months.

The COVID-19 death toll in Guyana now stands at 203 as two more fatalities were recorded yesterday.

Trinidad-headquartered Ramps Logistics has launched a new direct service from Miami, USA to Guyana for those shipping less than a container.

The wife of goldsmith Vijay Jaigobin, the man who died after crashing his vehicle into a culvert and toppling into a nearby trench at the Berbice Bridge Entrance last Thursday, succumbed yesterday to the injuries she suffered in the accident.

An Albouystown man is now dead after he was run over by a truck at the junction of Houston Public Road and Mandela Avenue yesterday morning.

A 47-year-old Linden resident was on Saturday night discovered dead in front his house shortly after he was involved in a confrontation with two females and an autopsy yesterday showed that he died as a result of hypotension and gastritis.

A vendor was yesterday released on bail after being charged with assaulting a lawman, property damage and use of threatening and abusive language even as her lawyer says the police assaulted her Vanessa Gonsalves, 38, of Lot 45 Princes Street, was yesterday charged with assaulting a police officer along with three other charges when she appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.

Stricter protocols for the COVID-19 vaccination campaign are expected to be in place so as to prevent persons from “jumping the queue”.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Opener John Campbell turned the page on a low-scoring tour of Bangladesh when he carved out an attractive hundred to take centre stage on the opening day of the West Indies four-day warm-up match here yesterday.

Deputy Chief Election Officer (DCEO) Roxanne Myers has filed a $70 million lawsuit against the Kaieteur News for what she says are libelous statements it published against her in January of this year.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Kieron Pollard has hailed the character shown by West Indies’ batsmen after they survived another stern examination by Sri Lanka’s spinners to win the final Twenty20 International and take the three-match series here Sunday night.

The next meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) could be this week.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) on Saturday published the official rulebook for the recently enacted Members Financial Assistance Programme (M-FAP), paving the way for members to apply for funding using a mechanism that mirrors FIFA’s global funding structure.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) commemorated International Women’s Day (IWD) yesterday, challenging the society to alter its behavior and views on women while issuing a call for the increased participation of females in the discipline.

Multiple power outages over the weekend along the East Bank of Demerara were caused by excavation works done by a private citizen, Junior Works Minister Deodat Indar disclosed during a site visit yesterday.

Nurses and other staff members of the Linden Hospital Complex are continuing industrial action over remarks made by its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and despite the Ministry of Health warning that negotiations relative to the situation will not commence until they stand down.

The Guyana men’s senior basketball team will be the highest ranked unit participating in the opening round of the FIBA Basketball World Cup – Americas Pre-Qualifier in El Salvador following the latest FIBA world rankings.

Berbice Educational Institute out-performed the competition to capture the champions title at the inaugural Inter-Schools golf skills championship held Friday by the Ministry of Education Allied Arts Unit and the Guyana Golf Association (GGA). 

As the world observed International Women’s Day yesterday, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) presented a cheque of $720,000 from its Pinktober funds to the Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association (GRPA).

Dear Editor, On International Women’s Day 2021, Help & Shelter warmly celebrates the resilience of Guyanese women and the tremendous achievements and contributions that they have made and continue to make on a daily basis to the development of Guyana.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – A Brazilian Supreme Court judge yesterday annulled the criminal convictions against former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a move that could allow the popular politician to run in next year’s presidential election.

Schools will remain closed to face-to-face learning this month and while the Education Ministry is eying the possible resumption of in-school learning after the Easter Holiday, the decision would ultimately rest on further advice from the Ministry of Health on the success of its ongoing COVID-19 immunisation campaign.

Dear Editor, I wish to offer a few comments on the letter, ‘In Guyana we must be careful not to be consumed by policies that lead to inequalities,’ by long standing politician Hamilton Green (Stabroek News, March 4, 2021) in which he states “…we have the propaganda gurus in high gear as we observe the anniversary of the 2020 General Elections… Of course, we have the lengthy statements about Elections 2020 and except for a brief sentence, the source of the problem is ignored, which is going into an election with an imperfect list and the country buckling under a dictum to suspend house to house registration”.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Biden administration is granting temporary protected status to Venezuelan migrants living in the United States and is also working to coordinate international pressure against President Nicolas Maduro to hold free and fair elections, senior U.S.

Insurance giants, North American Fire & General Insurance Company Limited (NAFICO) is the latest sponsor of the Big Man Cricket tournament.

Dear Editor, The polarization of politics in Guyana did not prevent the holding of free and fair elections.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) yesterday issued a release reiterating its position on the hosting of  the Big Man Cricket tournament.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department arrested another alleged associate of the anti-government Oath Keepers militia on charges he took part in the Jan.

In efforts to eradicate Lymphatic Filariasis in Guyana, the Ministry of Health on Saturday extended the ongoing Mass Drug Administration (MDA) campaign to regions one and five.

A ruling handed down by Justice Nareshwar Harnanan on Friday confirmed that Minister with responsibility for Finance, Dr.

Dear Editor, Response is being made to Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton’s letter, “Gross irregularities have been found in co-op societies, African Guyanese not being targeted” (SN 3rd March 2021).

MALABO,  (Reuters) – The death toll from a series of explosions in a military barracks in Equatorial Guinea has risen to 98, the health ministry said yesterday after volunteers searched the rubble for bodies.

Giannis Antetokounmpo’s All-Star experience was perfect on the court Sunday night.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The International Cricket Council said yesterday it would add two more teams to both the one-day and Twenty20 editions of the women’s World Cup from 2026 as part of its plans to expand the women’s game.

By Ricardo Hausmann and José Ramon Morales-Arilla CAMBRIDGE – Imagine you are driving down a road and arrive at a junction.

What, on Sunday, amounted to a decidedly embarrassing episode in the process of the staging of a public event executed under the patronage of the President, was as much a function of the seeming indifference that has attended the official approach to the enforcement of the protocols associated with seeking to guard against the worsening of the COVID-19 pandemic, as it was a manifestation of the widespread and now seemingly out of control public indifference to those protocols.

A little over a year ago this column observed that the pandemic will pass, but noted that more telling will be the way in which the region responds to the impact of a virus-induced recession.

(Reuters) – India’s women will play their first test match since 2014 when they take on England in a one-off game later this year, India’s cricket board (BCCI) secretary Jay Shah said yesterday.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia’s international season came to a close with an emphatic loss to New Zealand in a Twenty20 series decider in Wellington on Sunday, leaving many questions to be answered over the coming months.

Dear Editor, I note Mrs. Eva Etwaroo-Orderson’s statement that she was not assaulted by Kwame Mc Koy.

(Reuters) – Earlier this month, Loren Hughes, a longtime resident of the U.S.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – New Zealand beat Australia in the Twenty20 series to maintain their perfect home season on Sunday in a timely boost for Kane Williamson’s team who will get two opportunities this year to shed their status as the game’s perennial bridesmaids.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Lebanon’s president told the army and security forces on Monday to clear roadblocks after a week of protests over a collapsing economy and paralysed government, but the army chief warned that troops should not get sucked into the political deadlock.

A donation and grant policy was yesterday adopted by the Georgetown Mayor and City Council following a majority vote in favour.