Daily Archive: Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Persons 40 years and older will from next week be eligible to receive  COVID-19 vaccines.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Several Caribbean island nations have issued a plea to the United States to share its stockpile of COVID-19 vaccines with the region as it has said it would with Mexico and Canada, calling on it not to neglect its “third border.”

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

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India has put a temporary hold on all major exports of the AstraZeneca coronavirus shot made by the Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s biggest vaccine-maker, to meet domestic demand as infections rise, two sources told Reuters.

 (Reuters) – Myanmar’s junta freed hundreds of demonstrators today arrested during its months-long crackdown on protests, while businesses in Yangon were shut and streets deserted in response to a call by anti-coup activists for a silent strike.

LISBON,  (Reuters) – Europe’s top human rights group said on Wednesday that Portugal must do more to confront its colonial past and role in the transatlantic slave trade in order to help fight racism and discrimination in the country today.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba will administer experimental COVID-19 shots to nearly the entire population of the capital Havana by May as health authorities carry out massive interventional studies and late stage trials, officials said yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) Businessman Hamenauth Sarendranauth, who fought to get bail on COVID-19 charges, died yesterday – the day he was supposed to return to court.

(Trinidad Express) Masked men demanding cash and drugs chopped to death a Point Fortin man yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Government will engage the private sector in its search for viable vaccines outside the COVAX facility for Trinidad and Tobago.

Following reports that Nazar ‘Shell’ Mohammed has been granted four quarrying licences for development, BK International yesterday registered its objection saying that the areas granted overlap acre-age it has already applied for and prospected on.

A search is underway for a man who shot at police and then fled, triggering the fatal shooting of two prison escapees and a woman on Monday night in the Better Hope South backlands.

The Ministry of Health is hoping to stabilise the country’s drug and medical supplies by July after having to discard billions of dollars in expired stocks, Health Minister Dr.

As police continue their investigations into the execution-style killing of Ricardo Fagundes, forensic investigators are working to determine if the car found on fire at Swan Village was the getaway vehicle used by his assailants.

Anticipating “significant progress” in the partnership with government in advancing the gas-to-shore project here, ExxonMobil yesterday announced that the associated gas availability from the Liza fields has been changed from 35 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd) to 50 mmscfd. 

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Kyle Mayers earned his first Test wickets when he produced two critical strikes in as many overs to break a dangerous, record century stand, as he hauled West Indies back into the opening Test after half-centuries from Oshada Fernando and Lahiru Thirimanne threatened to put Sri Lanka in the ascendancy here yesterday.

Guyana’s COVID-19 fatalities yesterday jumped to 220 as four new deaths were recorded.

Tenders were yesterday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the construction of the new St.

Brian Seymour who was last week found not guilty of attempted murder but guilty of felonious wounding committed on Leon Charles at Litchfield Village, West Coast Berbice, on February 10, 2016, was yesterday sentenced to seven years imprisonment.

With the Golden Jaguars set to open their FIFA World Cup Qualifying campaign against arch-rival Trinidad and Tobago tomorrow, former International Vurlon Mills feels that encounter could eventually decide who progresses to the next round in the prestigious tournament.

Two prisoners were taken to seek treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after being attacked by fellow inmates at the Lusignan Prison on Monday.

By Orin Davidson in New York Partisan support in sport is a given in almost every country where it exits.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday promised “fiscal incentives” and “boundless” investment opportunities to participants at a Guyana-European Union Investment Conference.   

A tenacious ton from Balchan Baldeo saw Rose Hall Tigers lifting their first title with a 10-wicket win over Chesney in the Berbice Cricket Board/Premium Asphalt/TR Construction T20 final on Sunday.

Dear Editor, One is grateful to SN of March 20 for exposing the transparency with which taxpayers’ money has been distributed within the purview of the Ministry of Housing and Water, in respect of the following construction projects: a)            Infrastructural Works * 37 Contractors awarded a total of 68 contracts to a value of $12,018,879,315 b)            Housing Construction 14 Contractors awarded 122 contracts to the value of $1,828,000,000 c)            Other Works 4 Contractors awarded 9 contracts to the value of $139,121,556 To the scrutinising eye some contractors are better known than others.

Some 20,470 persons have been vaccinated as of Monday, while no adverse reactions to any of the vaccines used here have been reported.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s prospects for retaining power were uncertain yesterday after exit polls in Israel’s fourth national election in two years projected yet another stalemate.

Dear Editor, Many Guyanese workers have it good here, and should consider themselves lucky. 

Dear Editor, I refer to a Kaieteur News (KN) article dated March 22, 2021, both in print and in the digital form, captioned `Controversial T&T Company gets $365M health contract’.

A post-mortem examination conducted on the remains of 15-month-old Sahara La Cruz, who died last Tuesday at her Cabora Village, Moruca residence, has determined the cause of her death to be a brain infection.

BOULDER, Colo.,  (Reuters) – Police yesterday publicly identified the suspect accused of killing 10 people – including a policeman – in a hail of bullets at a Colorado supermarket, marking the second deadly U.S.

Dear Editor, In order to reform any proposed system,  you must first inquire as to what are the defects of the existing system. 

(Reuters) – A federal judge in Washington, D.C., yesterday criticized the U.S.

PUNE, India, (Reuters) – India debutant Prasidh Krishna and fellow seamer Shardul Thakur combined to derail England’s chase and bowl the hosts to a 66-run victory in the one-day series opener in Pune yesterday.

Two weeks after the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) issued a demand letter to SOL Guyana Inc (Sol) for more than $3.3 billion in Excise Taxes and interest, the two entities are engaged in a discussion on the way forward.

Two men who are accused of killing Samuel De Souza, a labourer who was found dead in front his house shortly after a confrontation earlier this month, were yesterday released on $400,000 bail after being charged with manslaughter.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson told lawmakers yesterday Britain’s vaccine success was due to capitalism and greed, The Sun newspaper reported, in comments aimed at praising pharmaceutical companies for their work on COVID-19 shots.

Dear Editor, I read Mr Prescott Mann’s letter (`There is a continuing problem in language use in state and private media’, March 23, 2021) and understand his frustration with the daily battering that our spoken and written language receives in the media.

Dear Editor, Prime Minister (PM) of Antigua and Barbuda, the honourable Gaston Browne, has set a standard of excellence that should be emulated by all the leaders in the Caribbean and further afield.

Savitree Budram, the valedictorian of the University of Guyana’s Tain Campus, has urged that more resources be made available to the Berbice campus, including its library, so that its students “do not have to request books from Turkeyen”.

Young cricketers from New Jersey and its environs in the United States are about to benefit from vital exposure once again in Guyana.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A large plant being used to manufacture Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine was cleared by U.S.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil suffered a record 3,251 COVID-19 deaths yesterday, as pot-banging protests erupted across the country during an address by President Jair Bolsonaro in which he defended his pandemic response and pledged to ramp up vaccinations.

Dear Editor, On Saturday March 20, 2021 I had cause to take my wife to the Woodlands Hospital for a medical condition and after seeing the doctor, he gave us papers to go and do an ultrasound, EKG and some lab tests.

“Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes” Translation: “I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts” – Virgil’s Aeneid Book II, line 48 As the People’s Republic of China’s world economic power continues to expand rapidly, it is being accompanied by a shrewd willingness to increase its influence on the direction of global affairs.

Christian Wood scored 19 points, all in the second half, while John Wall produced a triple-double as the Houston Rockets snapped their franchise-record 20-game losing streak with a 117-99 victory over the visiting Toronto Raptors on Monday.

A brief meeting of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) ended yesterday with no decision made about the myriad issues facing the Commission.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – Skipper Tom Latham led from the front with an unbeaten century as New Zealand beat Bangladesh by five wickets in the second one-dayer yesterday to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.

(Reuters) – Liverpool’s Premier League title defence collapsed in spectacular fashion this season but defender Andy Robertson said they still have time to turn things around and claim a place in the top four.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton will be fired up for a fight with Max Verstappen this season but Formula One’s most successful driver may be in no rush to commit to 2022, according to 1996 world champion Damon Hill.

(Reuters) – Alexander Zverev said letting his best chance so far at Grand Slam glory slip through his fingers at last year’s U.S.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – New Zealand called up an uncapped Finn Allen and picked Will Young for the three-match Twenty20 series against Bangladesh yesterday in their bid to compensate for the absence of six players bound for next month’s Indian Premier League (IPL).

By César Gaviria BOGOTÁ – US administrations come and go, but America’s repressive drug strategy remains a constant.

ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed confirmed for the first time yesterday that troops from neighbouring Eritrea entered the northern Tigray region during the five-month-old conflict, the first such acknowledgement after months of denials.

Every so often one comes upon a set of events that underline both the possibilities and the tragedy that is Guyana. 

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court yesterday ruled that former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had not been treated impartially in graft probes, strengthening his chances of running against President Jair Bolsonaro in next year’s vote.