Daily Archive: Friday, April 9, 2021

Kevin LaFleur ,25, today fled the Mazaruni  Prison, Region Seven. Enquiries, police say, revealed that LaFleur, whose last known address is listed as 84 Providence Housing Scheme EBD, was serving a sentence of 56 Months for Robbery Under Arms.

The Guyana Police Force today rejected social media claims that there had been a series of kidnappings and that reports of missing persons are not being addressed by the force.

Minister in the Ministry of Public Works, Deodat Indar (foreground) today made a visit to Kato Village in Region 8 to check on works on the mini hydro power plant construction on the Chiung River.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC has requested assistance from Canada on electoral reforms, forensic sciences and ballistics among other areas.

  Rondell Bacchus, the man who was arrested by the police earlier this week in relation to the execution-style killing of gold dealer Ricardo Fagundes, was this afternoon released from police custody.

Educations Minister Priya Manickchand has met with Delisha Budhu who wrote a letter in the last Sunday Stabroek setting out the plight of young persons in Black Bush Polder, Corentyne  who need access to jobs, training and other opportunities.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Norwegian police said today they have fined Prime Minister Erna Solberg for breaking COVID-19 social-distancing rules when she organised a family gathering to celebrate her birthday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth’s husband who helped modernise the monarchy and steer the British royal family through repeated crises during seven decades of service, died today at Windsor Castle.

ROSE HALL, St Vincent and the Grenadines, (Reuters) – La Soufriere volcano on the eastern Caribbean island ofSt.

(Jamaica Star) Jamaican dog Joseph is certainly living the high life with his new owner Rachel Kornblum in Toronto, Canada.

Canada and UNICEF yesterday announced a three-year project worth $495m geared to provide services to vulnerable residents of Region One (Barima/ Waini).

Today  will mark 28 years since Monica Reece was murdered and her body dumped on Main Street and while the killing remains unsolved to date, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum has assured that the investigation remains open.

The construction of the $1 billion Westminster Secondary School located in La Parfait Harmonie, Region Three, has finally been completed.

Eva Pearson, the woman who is accused of stabbing her former partner during an argument last Thurs-day, was yesterday remanded to prison on a murder charge.

A newborn suffered a fractured shoulder and respiratory failure during delivery at the Georgetown Public Hospital and his mother is laying the blame squarely on the shoulders of the hospital staff.

A suspect, who police say confessed to the killing of Roy Ross, the man who was found dead in his home at Swan Village, Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke-Linden Highway on Monday, has been charged with the crime.

Days after he was reported missing, the lifeless body of a 20-year-old miner was yesterday discovered floating in the Arakaka River, North West District (NWD), Region One.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that two more persons who were infected with COVID-19 have died.

The body of man who was reported missing on Wednesday was found floating by his daughter at Dredge Creek, along the Pomeroon River.

Some recent COVID-19 deaths could’ve been prevented if the infected persons had been immunised against the virus, according to Health Minister Dr.

President Irfaan Ali  yesterday offered support and solidarity to St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves as experts warned that an eruption of the La Soufrière Volcano on the island was imminent.

What appeared initially to be promising rice supply deals between local millers, Nand Persaud & Company and three external markets, including Cuba, now appear to have collapsed under the strain of what the local company says has been those markets’ failure  to meet payment agreements in a timely  manner.  

Mayor Ubraj Narine yesterday stated that the decision to lease a section of the Merriman Mall to be used as a parking lot was first discussed at  committee level on December 9th, 2020.

In light of the Guyana senior women’s football team seeking government intervention into the unequitable distribution of resources by the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), former Golden Jaguars captain Christopher Nurse, declared that the Federation needs to publicise financial packages for the women’s team so as to ascertain whether the claims in the letter are indeed accurate. 

Seeraj Liala aka ‘Spring Cat’ and his wife Chandrawattie Narine are this week’s ‘fruits and vegetables’ personalities.

Dear Editor, There are more than 100 fixed-site vaccination centers in Guyana where people can get their COVID-19 vaccines.

With Guyana scheduled to depart local shores on Monday for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 Pre-Qualifiers in San Salvador, El Salvador, head-coach of the senior men’s team Junior Hercules, has disclosed that the players have commenced daily training sessions to focus on building team chemistry.

The attorney for Rondell Bacchus, the suspect who is being questioned by the police in relation to the gunning down of gold dealer Ricardo Fagundes more than two weeks ago outside Palm Court says that the police have no evidence linking his client to the crime.

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member countries are seeking ways of building on existing initiatives to realise improvement in their food security status even as collectively, they share a food import bill thought to be in the vicinity of around US$5 billion at this time.

Dear Editor, Re Incremental Crumbling of our Beautiful Capital, I thank Ms.

Dear Editor, In a shrinking world, where diversity of culture and faith is becoming more prolific in communities than ever, and where newer democracies are rapidly emerging around the world, bridge building fosters understanding and creates opportunities for civic cooperation and shared work for the common good.

Atlantic Fuels Inc (AFI) has filed contempt proceedings against the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) which had both been ordered by the High Court last month to pay in excess of $12 million in storage cost for 635,353 liters of diesel fuel they had seized from the fuel company.

A  Stabroek Business Feature If the authorities can hardly be blamed for putting a brave face on what, in many instances, has been the commendable efforts of small and micro businesses, notably those in the agriculture, craft and agro processing sectors, to ‘soak up’ the pressures of the covid-19 pandemic, we need to be mindful that we not extend this focus into the realm of the illusionary.

Dear Editor, Despite worldwide estimations that one in six boys are affected by sexual violence before they are eighteen, very little evidence is available.

The US Embassy’s Humanitarian Assistance Programme (HAP) has conducted training related to first aid and trauma care for staff attached to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital as well as the regional health department.

Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness wants a further extension of the Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI) by the Group of 20 (G-20) nations for Caribbean countries as a further response to effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the region.

Twins Manufacturing Chemists, one of Guyana’s leading pharmaceutical and household names, is celebrating 50 years in the drug manufacturing business.

The return of strength athletes to the platform is imminent, according to the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) Public Relations Officer, Runita White.

Dear Editor, “For example, in education, we are investing heavily in early childhood education, universal primary and secondary education, improving access to and quality of tertiary education, strengthening technical and vocational education, improving learning outcomes at all levels, and ensuring lifelong learning…” The preceding quote, extracted from SN’s column of April 07, 2021 offers great potential for human resources development in this country.

With the end of the era of the Donald Trump presidency having, up until now, done little to ease the pressure in Washington to remove the Maduro administration from office in Venezuela, Caracas would appear to be in the midst of consolidating its already close ties with Russia, Moscow having proven to be a strategic ally during the difficult years.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil yesterday set a daily record of 4,249 COVID-19 deaths, with overwhelmed hospitals running low on supplies and the Senate about to open an investigation into the response of the government of President Jair Bolsonaro, who has played down the pandemic from the start.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday March 22 made another bid to throw its lot in to respond to the global coronavirus pandemic when its executive board approved further extensions to already temporary adjustments which it had made to its lending frameworks during the early months of the pandemic.

Dear Editor, For me, Geoffrey Da Silva’s April 7th letter, “‘Sash’ Sawh served Guyana dedicatedly, PPP/C gov’t must do comprehensive probe of his murder,” has hit home hard.

A Wisroc mother and her two children are under observation at the Linden Hospital Complex after allegedly ingesting a poisonous substance.

Despite being snubbed by the Golden Jaguars management team for the recently concluded opening rounds of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers, midfielder Neil Danns disclosed that he still harbours intentions of representing Guyana when the competition resumes in June.

PRAGUE/MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia called on Slovakia yesterday to return hundreds of thousands of doses of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, citing contract violations, in an escalating row between the two countries after a Slovak watchdog raised doubts about the shot.

Dear Editor, I see that you added an address to my letter in yesterday’s edition entitled `We should start a `Make Georgetown Beautiful Again’ movement’.

The Guyana Court of Appeal has set Monday—April 12th—to conduct a case management conference (CMC) for the hearing of the appeal filed by the main opposition APNU+AFC to the dismissal of one of its two petitions challenging the March 2nd, 2020 General Elections.

Guyanese-born, United States-based Karen Abrams, who pioneered the introduction of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) as an integrated discipline in Guyana has been named by the prestigious Forbes Magazine amongst a group of 50 women over the age of 50 whose work, Forbes says, reflects “the full range of career and passion project paths including entrepreneurship, business ownership, non-profit and philanthropic pursuits, inspirational leadership, public service, policy conceptualization and implementation and social advocacy.”

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan is facing a backlash from rights groups as well as his two ex-wives for remarks over the weekend linking the country’s high incidence of rape to “obscenity” in society.

The relatives of Vanessa Lewis-Sahadeo, the Corentyne mother who died after an unsuccessful delivery at the New Amsterdam Hospital in late February, on Wednesday picketed the New Amsterdam office of Regional Health Officer (RHO), Dr Vishalya Sharma.

Dear Editor, Solar power has taken center stage, compliments of GEA head, Dr.

As countries in the Caribbean confront varying degrees of pushback from recalcitrant pockets of population over adherence to strictures believed to be important in minimising the impact of COVID-19, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is warning that countries which fail to enforce strictures effectively could possibly face an acceleration of the pandemic as well as the advent of new strains of the virus.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden and his Attorney General Merrick Garland announced limited measures to tackle gun violence in the United States yesterday in what the White House described as a first step to curb mass shootings, community bloodshed and suicides.

Giftland has donated more masks and sanitisers to the Guyana Police Force (GPF).

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday April 8, 2021

Dear Editor, It is time for some measure of respect-ability and competency to be restored at the level of the Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB).

TORONTO, Canada, CMC – The Global T20 League, which has featured the likes of West Indies stars Kieron Pollard, Chris Gayle and Andre Russell, will be moved to Malaysia for this year’s third edition due to the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions here.

(Reuters) – Mumbai Indians have assembled a side that looks even stronger than their back-to-back title-winning teams, with only Delhi Daredevils and Sunrisers Hyderabad appearing capable of denying them a third straight Indian Premier League (IPL) crown.

While this is not the first time that relatively young persons have been elected to lead the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), one senses, this time around, an infusion of collective enlightenment amongst the relatively young team that has been chosen to head the Chamber in the period ahead.

(Reuters) – A wild finish left Dustin Johnson five shots behind the leaders yesterday as the defending Masters champion faced much fiercer conditions at Augusta National compared to the toothless layout he triumphed on five months ago.

A water vendor was placed on $40,000 bail after he denied maliciously wounding another vendor by pelting him with a brick.

(Reuters) – A former professional football player shot and killed a prominent South Carolina doctor, his wife, two grandchildren and another man before taking his own life at his home a short distance away, authorities said yesterday.

BELFAST,  (Reuters) – Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government put aside factional differences yesterday to call for calm after frustration among pro-British unionists over post-Brexit trade barriers helped trigger some of the worst violence in the region in years.

(Reuters) – FIFA will be ready to implement an automated system for offside calls at next year’s World Cup in Qatar, Arsene Wenger said.

(Reuters) – Rio de Janeiro abandoned plans to rename its famous Maracana Stadium in tribute to Pele yesterday after a widespread outcry from fans.

(Reuters) – This year’s French Open has been postponed by a week due to the COVID-19 pandemic and will begin on May 30, the French Tennis Federation (FFT) said yesterday.

It is no secret that Guyana has a drug problem. The increasing creativity and scope of its drug operations has found its way into local and international entertainment.

(NEMO/CMC) Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gonsalves has issued an evacuation order effective immediately.

-Pandemic humour … I believe that it’s the United Nations Organisation – the UN – which determines how far out or how much of a sea or ocean belongs to some country that is contiguous to that mighty body of water.

Dear Editor, A few weeks ago, mention the name Mahadai Das locally and there might be the dullest flicker of recognition, if that.

(Reuters) – Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford and Bruno Fernandes secured a hard-fought 2-0 victory at Granada in the Europa League quarter-final first leg to put their side in the driving seat.

The government has been in office for more than eight months yet still it has not named heads to some key missions, despite all the talk about the role they could play in encouraging investment to this country.

(Reuters) – India batting great Sachin Tendulkar said yesterday that he has been released from hospital a week after he was admitted when he contracted COVID-19, but he will remain in isolation at home.

(Reuters) – Barcelona travel to Real Madrid tomorrow in what is set to be one of the most pivotal El Clasico meetings in recent memory, with both sides fast closing in on stuttering Atletico Madrid at the top of the La Liga table.

(Reuters) – Toni Nadal, the man who masterminded nephew Rafa’s incredible career, is returning to the Tour as part of the coaching team of Canadian youngster Felix Auger-Aliassime.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 909’s trading results showed consideration of $892,232 from 8,749 shares traded in 7 transactions as compared to session 908’s trading results which showed consideration of $$49,098,157 from 440,723 shares traded in 20 transactions.