Daily Archive: Saturday, March 20, 2021

The Ministry of Health yesterday announced COVID-19 guidelines for the Hindu festival of Phagwah which will be celebrated on March 28.

The Ministry of Health today said that two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

After managing to elude the police for two months, the police on Friday arrested the suspect in the murder of Kuru Kururu resident, Answar Stoll.

One year after it left Guyana, the European Union Electoral Observation Mission (EU EOM) has returned in a bid to help kick start electoral reform.

Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon has moved to secure the help of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to mediate the current stalemate between the Irfaan Ali government and the main parliamentary opposition APNU+AFC.

Arguing that the Court of Appeal lacks jurisdiction to hear the matter, Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall SC has filed a motion seeking to strike out the appeal filed on behalf of the main opposition APNU+AFC coalition over the dismissal of one of its two petitions challenging the March 2, 2020 elections.

Within the past three months, the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security’s 914 emergency hotline received a total of 197 reports, 80% of which were domestic violence (DV)-related.

Following a request by Stabroek News, the Ministry of Housing and Water has released the names of the awardees of nearly $14b worth of contracts in the housing and infrastructure sectors and a number of contractors have clinched multiple awards.

Nine firms have pre-qualified to bid to design and build the new Demerara Harbour Bridge and government is hopeful that the selection process will be concluded to allow for construction to begin in the last quarter of the year.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Cricket West Indies (CWI) said Caribbean countries hoping to host matches in next year’s ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup stood to benefit from an estimated US$10 million injection into their economies, as the governing body yesterday announced the opening of the venue bid process.

As government yesterday expressed optimism that the Cheddi Jagan International Airport expansion project will be completed for the December 31 deadline as works are on track, it also announced that Chinese contractor China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has already completed 90 per cent of outstanding issues it agreed to remedy last December.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Head coach Phil Simmons said  yesterday West Indies would not be resting on their laurels against Sri Lanka, and were hoping to play even better than they did on the recent Bangladesh tour.

Over 15,000 persons have so far been vaccinated against COVID-19, according to Health Minister Dr.

The University of Guyana (UG) last evening held the first of five convocation ceremonies for its 2019/2020 graduating class and President Irfaan Ali reiterated his government’s commitment to refashioning the tertiary institution.

Challengers for the leadership of Cricket West Indies (CWI), Anand Sanasie and Calvin Hope have outlined in their manifesto, a 100-day plan to improve the sport should they win upcoming elections.

Gold production at Aurora Gold Mine Inc (AGM) has been halted temporarily as the company works to improve its stockpile of ore to support continuous milling and processing activities, Director of Corporate Office, Compliance, and Government Relations Peter Benny has said.

Cricket West Indies (CWI) president Ricky Skerritt has acknowledged meeting Guyana’s Sports Minister Charles Ramson Jr, although the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) was not invited.

A businessman is now dead following an accident at Loo Creek Public Road, Soesdyke-Linden Highway, on Tuesday night.

Former West Indies captain, Sir Clive Lloyd says that although the West Indies team looked good in Bangladesh the team must continue its upward trend with the goal of beating the bigger teams.

The Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) season is expected to resume this weekend with six matches.

Dear Editor, APNU+AFC’s MP, Ganesh Mahipaul, has no moral authority to talk about medicine shortages.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Tanzania’s new President Samia Suluhu Hassan said yesterday the country should unite and avoid pointing fingers after the death of John Magufuli, her COVID-19 sceptic predecessor, urging the east African country to look forward with hope and confidence.

If you ask Nicholas Alphonso about his music you will receive a modest response but ask a fan and you will hear quite a different story.

The Garcia brothers Levi and Judah have been included in a 26-member TT men’s senior football squad to face Guyana in a 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifying match on March 25 in Dominican Republic.

Dear Editor, There was a time when we did put country and solidarity above all else to achieve a common goal and fulfil a common purpose.

For a second time, Roberto Miggins and Quacy Benjamin have both been freed of a charge of murder owing to the state’s failure to present sufficient evidence against them.

Long lines stretched longer by social distancing, and empty shelves have been the experience of many people across the world, as the global pandemic took hold and countries went into various periods of lockdown/shutdown.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados Cricket Association president, Conde Riley, has praised Cricket West Indies vice-presidential hopeful, Calvin Hope, as a “consummate professional” with a broad vision for the development of the game.

Dear Editor, It was reported in the News Media that Phillip Jhagroo who was incarcerated for allegedly killing a friend on the Island of Leguan escaped from the Lusignan Prison, East Coast Demerara.

(Reuters) – International pressure on Myanmar’s military junta to halt its repression of pro-democracy protests following last month’s coup increased yesterday but on the streets, security forces shot dead at least nine demonstrators in an unrelenting crackdown.

A minor was yesterday charged and remanded over the murder of 10-year-old Anthony Cort, who was shot dead last week during a robbery in Sophia.

A post-mortem examination has determined that four-month-old Kaylee Williams, who was found pinned under one of her father’s feet in the wee hours of Sunday morning, died of traumatic asphyxia.

Dear Editor, It was reported in a recent news item on national television (NCN, March 18), the opposition councilors of Region Five RDC, realized it is fruitless and not in their best interest to not work and cooperate with the government side of the Council.

Since the pandemic began, women have faced the brunt of it.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Fast bowler Alzarri Joseph says he wants to have a major impact on the two-Test series against Sri Lanka starting here tomorrow, and says he is still motivated by the historic series win in Bangladesh last month.

DANDONG, China/OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday criticized China for blocking access to the trial of Michael Spavor, a Canadian detained by Beijing since late 2018 on spying charges, a case that is part of a wider diplomatic spat between Washington and Beijing.

The mother of Raoul Anthony Melville, the taxi-driver who is suspected to have been murdered in his Bagotstown home, is calling for his killer/s to be brought to justice.

Dear Editor, Please allow me some space in your column to express my frustration at the way some media houses in Guyana over-exaggerate whenever there is a payment for sugar workers.

Two-time Chutney and Calypso Monarch, Roger ‘Young Bill Rogers’ Hinds is back at it again as he competes in next week’s Chutney and Calypso Monarch competitions hoping to bag hat tricks in both competitions.

(Reuters) – The human immune system makes many antibodies in response to COVID-19 infection or vaccination, and no single variant of the new coronavirus can yet escape all of them, according to a study posted on Thursday on bioRxiv ahead of peer review.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition, recognized by the United States as the legitimate government, yesterday said it would request Washington’s permission use funds frozen in U.S.

Bradley Beal scored 43 points on 16-of-24 shooting to lead the Washington Wizards to a 131-122 victory over the visiting Utah Jazz on Thursday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) -Indian High Commissioner Arun Kumar Sahu did not communicate the availability of India’s 500,000 vaccines to CARICOM and that is why Trinidad and Tobago did not know it was an option.

The husband of Beverly Bumbury, the pregnant woman who died during the wee hours of Sunday morning while en route to the hospital, is calling for a probe into what he says was a refusal by a health worker to offer medical care to his wife before her death.

On Tuesday, poet Aurelia Sue-Ann celebrated her thirteenth birthday, three years since she published her book, A Little Poet’s World.

O’Neisha Stellingburg, the woman who lost control of the car she was driving a week and a half ago at Moblissa, Linden Highway, remains in an unconscious state in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

MADRID, (Reuters) – Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said Liverpool will be physically demanding opponents after the two sides were drawn together in the Champions League quarter-finals, but the glamour tie will not distract them from their La Liga title bid.

A new book by Bill Gates addresses the climate crisis with urgent clarity.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime Minister Andrew Holness has warned that there will be prosecution if corruption and/or negligence led to the disappearance of a vial of COVID-19 vaccine from the Cornwall Regional Hospital in St James recently.

Thousands of Marijuana plants were yesterday destroyed by the police during a drug eradication exercise at the rear of Yarrowkabra Village, along the Soesdyke-Linden Highway.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Friday said that the Government of Guyana has granted a further extension to the tax relief measures on medical and other supplies for COVID-19 prevention, care and treatment.

In his book ‘A New Earth’, Eckhart Tolle wrote a paragraph under the title ‘Our Inherited Dysfunction’.