Daily Archive: Thursday, March 11, 2021

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – All-rounder Jason Holder has been sacked as Test captain and replaced by compatriot Kraigg Brathwaite for the two-Test series against Sri Lanka starting later this month, Cricket West Indies announced late today.

The Guyana Police Force say it is investigating the murder of 11-year-old student Anthony Cort who was reportedly shot dead by one of two bandits during a robbery earlier today.

APNU+AFC today called for the immediate release from police custody of former lands and surveys commissioner Trevor Benn.

Veteran engineer Raymond Latchmansingh has passed away, according to the Guyana Association of Professional Engineers (GAPE) in a Facebook post.

The Ministry of Health says that another person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has died.

(Reuters) – Myanmar’s military government accused deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi today of accepting illegal payments, while eight people were killed when security forces opened fire on protests against the coup, witnesses said.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Prince William said on Thursday that Britain’s royals were not racist after Meghan, wife of his younger brother Harry, said one unnamed member of the family had asked how dark their son Archie’s skin might be.

COPENHAGEN, (Reuters) – Denmark is suspending for two weeks the use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine shots after reports of the formation of blood clots in some who have been vaccinated, including one death in Denmark, Danish authorities said on Thursday.

(Trinidad Express)  Businessman Emile Elias has been charged with two sexual offences against a minor.

(Trinidad Guardian) Minutes before 15-year-old Akid “Chuffie” Duke was killed, gunmen warned the driver of the vehicle the boy was seated in to “leave the area” as it was “hot.”

With a steep decline in applications for housing loans in 2020 and government’s promise of 50,000 house lots by 2025, the New Building Society is seeking to increase its portfolio this year and yesterday announced a reduction in interest rates following formal approval of the lifting of the loans threshold from $12 to $15 million which had been announced in Budget 2021.

By Readawne Henery The Ministry of Health yesterday began vaccinating persons sixty years and older with both the Oxford- AstraZeneca Covishield, and Chinese Sinopharm vaccines at the Vreed-en-Hoop Health Centre, West Bank Demerara, the Enmore Polyclinic on the East Coast of Demerara and other centres across the country.

As the global price for crude oil continues to rise steadily, Guyana has received the highest rate since petroleum production began offshore in December of 2019, averaging US$61 per barrel on its latest and fifth lift of one million barrels.

As he had previously hinted, Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall SC has filed a more than $400 million lawsuit against S.

Former head of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), Jagnarine Singh has been appointed the new acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI).

The Guyana Police Force today said that the removal of the police chaplain Pastor Patrick Doolichand has been rescinded.

It has been one year since Guyana recorded its first Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) case and while the pain of the sudden death of the country’s ‘Patient Zero’ remains fresh, uncertainty also still looms as to where she might have contracted the virus.

Eighty-one new cases of COVID-19 were yesterday  recorded even as one new fatality was reported.

Former Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC), Trevor Benn was arrested by the police yesterday morning for questioning in relation to the sale of several acres of land belonging to the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL).

Guyana is expected to increase its testing for variants of the novel coronavirus through a new partnership with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, USA.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Elegant stroke-maker Shai Hope became only the eighth West Indies batsman to score 10 One-Day International hundreds when he carved out a high-quality century in his first ODI in 12 months, to power the Caribbean side to a comfortable eight victory over Sri Lanka here yesterday.

In a majority verdict of 10-2 on manslaughter, a jury yesterday acquitted Mark Louchee of the 2003 killing of Collis De Abreu who police had said he shot outside the Blue Iguana nightclub.

Express International Inc has been managing its parent company’s US trucking service from the West Demerara and 200 jobs have been created here and  more are planned.

Dear Editor, Crime is more preventable than Covid -19 was but the simultaneous escalation of these two is like enduring a nightmare from which it is difficult to wake.

Tenders were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement & Tender Administration Board for the supply and delivery of Water Meter Boxes for the Guyana Water Inc.

Golf will take a new format on Saturday when the Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) hosts the Oasis Café/Akamai Trading tournament.

Guyana’s mangrove forests which are an important part of coastal sea defence will soon benefit from a multi-institutional agreement that will allow for enhanced monitoring and evaluation as well as much-needed protection.

Dear Editor, Sometimes I wonder why certain things in Guyana are so inherently incredible.

The National Assembly last Thursday passed unopposed a $25 billion budget for the Ministry of Education which Minister Priya Manickchand has described as “all about responding to COVID-19”.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the caption, “PPP/C Rosignol/Zeelust NDC councillors retract resignations” (SN, March 10, 2021). 

Chairman of the Big Man Cricket (BMC) committee, Raj Singh, said yesterday that the tournament will go ahead as planned as they do not need permission from the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB).

An Essequibo man is currently on trial before Justice Gino Persaud and a jury at the High Court in Essequibo on charges of raping an 11-year-old girl on two occasions back in 2018.

Dear Editor, Two initiatives to be undertaken by the Ministry of Human Services caught my attention. 

The Assuria’s inaugural three-hole golf championships got off to a competitive start yesterday at the Nexgen Golf Academy. 

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter titled “ It is ironic that Green a beneficiary of the ‘divide and rule’ strategy is now cautioning against it” dated March 9, 2021 written by Harry Hergash and published in Stabroek News.

Guyana Football Federation (GFF) boss Wayne Forde says that the participation of several national players in an unsanctioned football tournament in Buxton could have derailed the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers training camp if an outbreak of Covid-19 cases was detected during testing.

A construction worker was on Tuesday remanded to prison after he was charged with attempted murder.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives gave final approval yesterday to one of the largest economic stimulus measures in American history, a sweeping $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that gives President Joe Biden his first major victory in office.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Public health nurse Marcia Thomas Yettman yesterday became the first person in Jamaica to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

Dear Editor, I blessed a house last Sunday and then I blessed a bus.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Opener John Campbell extended his form with a half-century while Rahkeem Cornwall proved his all-round worth as 21 wickets tumbled on a dramatic penultimate day to hand Kraigg Brathwaite’s XI a four-wicket victory over Roston Chase’s XI in their four-day warm-up match here yesterday.

A man who previously had to repay persons for defrauding them was again charged with fraud and has been sentenced to two years behind bars.

(Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council yesterday condemned violence against Myanmar protesters and called on the army to show restraint, but failed to denounce the military takeover as a coup or threaten further action due to opposition from China and Russia.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazil has registered a record for daily COVID-19 fatalities, with 2,286 people dead from the virus in the last 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry yesterday.

The police constable involved in the Hibernia, Essequibo Coast accident which killed Symone Williams is still in police custody while the autopsy on the deceased is scheduled to take place on Saturday.

Dear Editor, The statement by Opposition leader Joseph Harmon asking for the confirmation of the acting Chancellor and acting Chief Justice is the most important and meaningful statement made by him since he assumed that office.

SIRTE, Libya,  (Reuters) – Libya’s long-divided parliament yesterday approved an interim government mandated to bring the fractured country together after a decade of chaos and violence, and to oversee elections in December as part of a U.N.-backed

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.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Southampton will host the June final of the inaugural World Test Championship (WTC) which was originally scheduled at Lord’s, Indian cricket board president Sourav Ganguly has said.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – New Zealand captain Kane Williamson will miss the one-day series against Bangladesh with an elbow problem, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) said on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – International Cricket Council Chief Executive Manu Sawhney has been sent on leave after an investigation by an independent audit firm revealed adverse findings over his style of working.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – United Nations human rights experts said yesterday they were looking into allegations that Venezuelan police forces had killed 200 people this year and investigators raised concerns about possible summary executions.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Several former West Indies players have questioned the dismissal of Danuska Gunathilaka, after the left-hander was controversially given out for obstructing the field during yesterday’s opening One-Day International here.

Last October, just before the launch of an ambitious billion-dollar project aimed at combatting domestic violence at the end of that same month, this newspaper published two articles that reported on the presence of that scourge in two different segments of society.

March 10 (Reuters) – After Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan earned their maiden call-ups to the Indian national team, vice-captain Rohit Sharma stressed on the importance of playing without any pressure when they take on England in a Twenty20 series.

About two decades ago, the unexpected, recorded find of a lifetime along the rolling plains flanked by the Kanuku Mountains, thrilled conservationists and became world famous in ornithological lore.

Center Meyers Leonard will stay away from the Miami Heat indefinitely as the team and the NBA investigate his use of an anti-Semitic slur during a video-game livestream on Tuesday.

A 50-year-old labourer was yesterday charged for break and enter and larceny committed on Sunday at F.E.

Dear Editor, There is still no light on the vacant High Commissioner post in London.

BUDAPEST, March 10 (Reuters) – Second-half goals from Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane eased Liverpool into the quarter-finals of the Champions League with a 2-0 second-leg win over RB Leipzig on Wednesday, to complete a comfortable 4-0 aggregate victory.

NBA stars Chris Bosh and Paul Pierce, WNBA great Lauren Jackson and Villanova coach Jay Wright are among the 14 finalists announced Tuesday for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2021.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Paris St Germain buried the ghosts of their embarrassing 2017 exit as they drew 1-1 at home with Barcelona yesterday to complete a 5-2 aggregate victory that sent them into the Champions League quarter-finals.

SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil, (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and President Jair Bolsonaro yesterday both fired an early starting gun on a 2022 election set to be dominated by the raging pandemic, a weak economy and deep political polarization.