Daily Archive: Sunday, May 23, 2021

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

Two men died in a crash on the Timehri Public Road last night at around 8.30.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips yesterday said that the Government will continue to distribute relief items to flood-affected residents of Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo (Region Nine).

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hugh Todd today led an official delegation to Suriname to further discuss advancing areas of cooperation through the Strategic Dialogue and Cooperation Platform (SCDP).

GOMA,  (Reuters) – A smoking trail of lava from a volcanic eruption covered hundreds of houses in eastern Congo today, leaving residents to pick gingerly through the wreckage, though the flow halted just short of the major city of Goma.

 (Reuters) – Former Republican U.S. senator Rick Santorum has been dropped as a senior political commentator by CNN after remarks he made about Native American culture drew criticism.

(Trinidad Express) Public health regulations, which were due to expire today, have now been extended to July 4.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health has recorded 17 additional COVID-19 related deaths.

(Trinidad Express) – Couva market vendor Amar Ramkhalwhan would have turned 34 in just four months had his life not been taken by the Covid-19 virus.

When Minister of Human Services and Social Security Dr Vindhya Persaud recently expressed gratitude to foster parents who have “opened their hearts and homes to children” in need of family-based care, she was referring to women like Melrose George, who has been fostering children for the past eight years.

Two young nurses working at a regional hospital saw abused women turning up to be treated daily and apart from helping to treat them they also wanted to understand the cause and effect of such violence.

Although his recent term as toshao of Orealla-Siparuta, was far from smooth sailing, Carl Peneux, 64, is hopeful that his successor can build on the groundwork that he has laid for the development of the Corentyne River indigenous communities that have a population of about 1,700 of mainly Lokono (Arawak) and Warrau peoples.

With nearly US$345 million in a United States account from oil proceeds and no legislation for a Natural Resource Fund or its spending nearly 18 months after oil production began, the World Bank says Guyana’s fund needs early operationalising.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced that while his government is committed to the transparent spending of Guyana’s oil revenue, it cannot at this stage commit to implementing the internationally praised Norway model for a Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF).

“Building a home is a taxing process for any person but I believe it’s a lot more difficult when you’re young and add to the mix, a woman.

For the past two months, Total Logistics Solution, owned by Charmaine Alleyne, has been managing logistics for corporations and entrepreneurs as well as providing immigration services, document preparation and filing needs.

Police on Friday arrested a second suspect in the murder of Anthony Cort, the 10-year-old who was fatally shot during a robbery in Sophia more than two months ago and he has purportedly admitted to this involvement in the crime and implicated his teenage accomplice as the person who fired the fatal shot.

A father of five was on Saturday crushed by a truck he was driving after he fell out of the vehicle when it toppled down a hill at 26 Miles Port Kaituma, in Region One.

[Gabrielle Mohamed, Is You Madness, Nah Me Own: A Short Collection of Creole Poetry, Georgetown: Gabrielle Mohamed, 2019.

Add another Time-Trial title to Raynauth Jeffrey’s lengthy and diverse palmares.

A 40-year-old labourer is now dead after he was reportedly struck down along the Kuru Kuru Public Road, Soesdyke-Linden Highway in a hit-and-run accident and his family is pleading with the driver responsible to surrender.

By Nikita Blair May is a month brimming with themes for Guyana.

Funding for seven athletes and two officials to attend the South America Championships in Ecuador will be covered by the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA).

Zack Snyder’s enthusiasm has always been his most distinctive characteristic as a filmmaker.

Guyana’s death toll from the novel coronavirus has increased to 355 following the confirmation of four more fatalities, which occurred on Thursday and Friday.

Sheik Sadeek died at the end of January 1986 in the U.S.A.

While urging citizens to get vaccinated against COVID-19, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday said government is not considering a lockdown to address the continued rise in cases as he contended that there is no empirical evidence that they work.  

Electoral reform ought to be one of the core institutional reforms needed for Guyana to evolve into a modern society without extreme inequality and circumvent political instability.

Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon on Friday encouraged all Guyanese to take every precaution against contracting COVID19, including taking the available vaccines.

It took longer than expected for the challenge to the jurisdiction of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to materialise.

“Kaimana’o kasarai wuru’u pidan dakatakinaowaz, ukaminka’uta pugaru na’iki ukazannaatan nii pugaru rinai  koroonaa  vairos ai.”

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Amnesty International named one of Cuba’s leading dissidents a “prisoner of conscience” on Friday, saying state security appeared to have him under supervision and incommunicado at the hospital where authorities admitted him nearly three weeks ago.

Introduction Today’s discussion addresses the notion of Dutch Disease. This is put forward in the 2021 National Budget as the most dangerous pitfall the Authorities will have to navigate as the country pursues economic growth and development with macroeconomic balance.

As United Kingdom-based company Valiant Business Media (VBM) prepares to host the third Guyana Petroleum Exhibition (GIPEX) summit virtually next month, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday announced that government would not be participating, citing concerns about inadequate local content initiatives and accusing the organisers of ties to the opposition.

People often ask me about this column or that, or this song or that.

A practice session for the West Indies cricketers yesterday in St Lucia was cancelled and no explanation was given.

SHANGHAI/BEIJING, (Reuters) – Yuan Longping, a Chinese agronomist known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s and staving off hunger for millions died at the age of 91 in the central province of Hunan yesterday, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Dear Editor, Thanks to Mr. Yog Mahadeo’s post on Facebook today (May 21, 2021), my worst fear was confirmed this morning when I read the Guyana Elections Commission procurement list of electronic equipment to ‘upgrade’ our election system.

The Giftland Group of companies on Saturday apologized to its customers for selling items branded with the prejudicial phrase “All Lives Matter.”

A pedal cyclist is now suffering from broken ribs and a punctured lung after he was involved in an accident along the Foulis Railway Embankment, on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD).

Lima, (Reuters) – Peruvian construction conglomerate Aenza has signed a settlement with judicial authorities admitting that the company’s previous management and six former executives committed acts of corruption, the Andean country’s prosecutor’s office said on Friday.

After announcing on social media and at the gym that I had taken my first shot of Sputnik V, one of the vaccines in the fight against COVID-19, I was asked several questions.

Dear Editor, Every once-in-a-while someone comes along who bestrides the world like a colossus.

(Trinidad Guardian)-  In just two days, more than 14,000 people have already started the process of applying for the Salary Relief Grant for May, Finance Minister Colm Imbert disclosed yesterday.

The Guyana Chess Federation’s (GCF) annual independence six-round classical tournament continues today from 10 am at the National Stadium, Providence.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States will expand Haitian eligibility for a humanitarian programme that grants deportation relief and work permits to immigrants who cannot safely return to their home countries, the Department of Homeland Security said yesterday.

Dear Editor, He called to say he had had surgery. Then the news came fast, perplexing and saddening.

The Ministry of Public Works on Friday advised the general public to take all necessary precautions during the spring tides period of May 23, 2021 to May 29, 2021.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health has recorded 7 additional COVID related deaths.

LAHORE, Pakistan, CMC – Shimron Hetmyer’s gradual isolation from Test cricket continued yesterday when he was signed by Multans Sultans for next month’s continuation of the Pakistan Super League.

LONDON,  CMC – West Indies seamer Kemar Roach warmed up for next month’s two-Test series against South Africa with a brilliant four-wicket haul to help give Surrey control of their County Championship clash against Middlesex at the Oval.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil yesterday registered 1,899 new deaths due to COVID-19, the Health Ministry said, bringing the total death toll in the country to 448,208.

Dear Editor, Where exactly is this “One Guyana?” I need to know because I need to move out of this divided Guyana that our Government is shamelessly nurturing.

Last Update: 711.78                                Movement: 1.77% Current Update: 724.35                           YTD Movement: 4.69%                                  LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The Lucas Stock Index increased 1.77% during the third period of trading in May 2021.

The City Council has not lost its talent for taking the harried citizens of Georgetown by surprise. 

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, (Reuters) – Lava from a volcanic eruption reached the airport of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s main city of Goma yesterday, as thousands evacuated the city.