Articles published on Monday, May 24, 2021
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today expressed concern about plans by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) to maintain the upcoming exams schedule in light of the current COVID-19 pandemic and the dislocations caused.
The Ministry of Health today said that two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.
(Trinidad Express) Police have responded to a murder-suicide at Caparo where a man bludgeoned his estranged wife to death and committed suicide overnight.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine is highly effective in fighting off and neutralizing the aggressive coronavirus variant first discovered in Brazil, according to Russia’s Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and a study conducted by researchers in Argentina.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian government leaders appealed to farmers to call off a mass protest this week for fear it could prove a viral “super-spreader” event as the country’s overall death toll from COVID-19 crossed 300,000 today.
(Barbados Nation) The Royal Barbados Police Force is continuing investigations into the death of a police officer who was shot and killed while responding to an attempted robbery in his neighbourhood of Rose Hill, St Peter on Saturday night.
Three persons died last night after a speeding car plowed into a group of persons who had gathered at the side of the road at Kairuni on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway.
A recent forensic audit of the state-owned Guyana Oil Company (Guyoil) has revealed that nearly $1b in fuel was siphoned off in a racket involving the company and the Guyana Defence Force where the fuel would be picked up and then transferred to third parties and charges are likely soon, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo says.
Two men died and another was seriously injured after the car they were in crashed along the Timehri Public Road on Saturday night.
The 2021 National Road Race champion will be decided by the governing body for cycling, Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) after the race ended in protests yesterday.
For the half year ended March 31st, 2021, Banks DIH registered unaudited profit after taxation of $2.275b compared to $1.982b in 2020, a rise of $293m or 14.8%.
The rights of Guyanese voters would be in serious jeopardy if former President David Granger was to have his way and elections issues were withdrawn from under the ambit of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), according to commentator Ralph Ramkarran SC.
Following Guyana’s second non-participation at a CONCACAF senior men’s football championship, former national custodian Travis ‘Zoti’ Bess has once again lambasted the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) for its continued neglect of the other versions of the discipline.
With the majority of farms in the Deep South Rupununi inundated due to the early seasonal rain, food security over the next three months is under threat, Michael Thomas, Vice Chairman of the South Rupununi District Council says.
The Guyana Karate College (GKC), under the leadership of the legendary Guyanese karate master, Frank Woon-A-Tai, M.S.,
From Joseph `Reds’ Perreira in St Lucia Cricket Commentator When I read the 20/20 squad announced for St.
Students of the University of Guyana’s (UG) Faculty of Engineering and Technology are now able to gain practical experience in the development of drilling fluid (MUD) for the Oil and Gas Sector following the launch of a MUD lab at the Turkeyen Campus.
Dear Editor, I have long considered former President Mr. Samuel Hinds among the less than a handful of politicians of the past forty years who can be described as honest and decent.
Forty-two-year-old former office assistant Derrick Mohabir was on Friday acquitted of charges of raping and robbing a female police officer.
Reliable sources have confirmed that Nial Smith and Gudakesh Motie have been drafted by the Guyana Amazon Warriors for the 2021 Caribbean Premier League.
Kevlon Anderson secured his first contract with the Guyana Jaguars on Thursday, a step in his career which he feels is one of the most significant so far.
The Denmark-headquartered Blue Water Shipping (BWS) has opened an office in Guyana and is looking to provide a number of services for the energy sector including import and export, freight forwarding, and personnel logistics.
Dear Editor, I/we must all thank Mr. Sherwood Lowe for his expansive, even exhaustive, welfare state thinking, with its recipes of obligations, panoramic breadth, and far-reaching implications.
Dear Editor, The Government’s recent inaugural Diaspora Conference under the Ali administration is probably the best effort of any administration to reach out to Guyanese in the Diaspora.
(Reuters) – The Asia Cup has been postponed for a second year after the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) said yesterday there was no room on the calendar to host the rescheduled tournament.
Four persons from Better Hope, East Coast Demerara were on Saturday night robbed at gunpoint by a male of cash and other valuables.
The Ministry of Health yesterday said that four more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.
Dear Editor, I quote from a report in the May 23rd edition of your publication.
LONDON, CMC – Outstanding West Indies seamer Kemar Roach brought the curtain down on his County Championship stint with a superb five-wicket haul as Surrey earned a draw with Middlesex in an exciting finish to their contest yesterday.
A Plaisance man is currently a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital nursing gunshot wounds to the left side of his torso and his right leg following an altercation over money on Saturday afternoon.
Dear Editor, The case filed by two Guyanese vs. Exxon should be considered the case of the Guyanese People vs.
GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Cricket West Indies (CWI) has said the high performance camp here will continue in small groups today despite fast bowler Marquino Mindley testing positive for COVID-19.
Dear Editor, The recent happenings in which members of our police force have been accused of acts of fraud and violence towards members of the public must be a wake-up call for us to make a serious effort to address the need to include the instilling of some sort of ethical education into their training programme.
A forty-one-year-old West Canje, Berbice hire car driver yesterday morning woke up to discover his car was missing.
Devin Booker recorded 34 points, eight assists and seven rebounds to lead the Phoenix Suns to a 99-90 victory over the visiting Los Angeles Lakers in the opening game of the Western Conference first-round series yesterday afternoon.
Dear Editor, Another day, another fraud committed against a state agency, yet again a banking institution is involved.
Two Berbice residents were injured after the motorcycle they were on collided with a car driven by a twenty-seven-year-old intoxicated driver on Saturday night.
(Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes lost their Formula One championship leads at the Monaco Grand Prix yesterday but the sport’s most successful driver said he was calm and ready to come back stronger.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Belarusian authorities scrambled a fighter jet and flagged what turned out to be a false bomb alert to force a Ryanair plane to land yesterday and then detained an opposition-minded journalist who was on board, drawing condemnation from Europe and the United States.
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been accused of illegally financing his 2012 re-election campaign.
(Trinidad Express) Public health regulations, which were due to expire yesterday, have now been extended to July 4.
Dear Editor, Congratulations to the Diaspora Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Rosalinda Rasul for the mega conference they organised at the weekend.
A motorcyclist was on Saturday night beaten with a cutlass by identifiable bandits on a BMX bicycle at Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara before they robbed him of his ten pennyweight gold chain valued at $50,000.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Cricket in Sri Lanka plunged into a crisis after leading players refused to sign new contracts they find “unfair and non-transparent” on the eve of their one-day series in Bangladesh.
GOMA, (Reuters) – A smoking trail of lava from a volcanic eruption covered hundreds of houses in eastern Congo yesterday, leaving residents to pick gingerly through the wreckage, though the flow halted just short of the major city of Goma.
At a wide-ranging press conference on Friday, Vice-President Bharrat Jagdeo disclosed that the state had decided to settle several significant cases brought against well-known businessmen as they had apparently been unsuspectingly drawn into the transactions in question.
By Angelique V. Nixon & Alissa Trotz Angelique V. Nixon is a Bahamas-born, Trinidad-based writer, scholar and activist.
