Daily Archive: Tuesday, May 25, 2021

The Ministry of Health this afternoon confirmed the deaths of seven more persons due to COVID-19, including a 17-year-old.

Sherwin Crandon, the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) prosecutor who was held in a recent sting after allegedly collecting a $300,000 bribe to dismiss a court case, was charged today.

BAMAKO, (Reuters) – Mali’s interim vice president, Colonel Assimi Goita, said today that he had seized power after the transitional president and prime minister failed to consult him about the formation of a new government.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Indian civil aviation regulators have begun an investigation after a video went viral on social media that appeared to show a couple getting married midflight surrounded by family and friends.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley isn’t fooling herself. The Barbados Labour Party leader on Sunday night boasted of many things her administration had been able to achieve in the first three years in office, but said there was still plenty to be done.

Three persons: Antonia Henry, 87, her daughter Melina Emmanuel, 40, and her granddaughter, Akese Jerome, 8, were killed on Sunday night after a speeding driver lost control of his car and plowed into them and others sitting on the curbside of a road at Kairuni, Soesdyke-Linden Highway.

On Thursday—May 27th—acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire SC will rule on whether Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield will be added as a party to the proceedings in which the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Commissioner of Police have requested the Statements of Poll (SoPs) and Statements of Recount (SoRs) from the March 2nd, 2020 elections for use in criminal cases against the CEO and others.

Guyana yesterday received five ultra-cold storage freezers from the United States Embassy to increase the country’s capacity to store COVID-19 vaccines.

Ex-soldier Jermaine Jefford now awaits sentencing after a jury convicted him yesterday afternoon for the 2016 murder of Laing Avenue taxi driver Orin David.

While floodwater is receding from some Rupununi communities, Region Nine Chairman Bryan Allicock yesterday reported that water levels in at least two North Rupununi villages are rising.

Richard Austin Shamlin and Ian Charles Jones, the Directors of Superior Concrete who had verbally abused Minister of Housing and Water Collin Croal and his team when they carried out a surprise visit to their operation site, will not be allowed back in Guyana to conduct business, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has announced.

Guyana’s COVID-19 deaths yesterday increased to 361 as two more persons who tested positive succumbed.

As they continue their quest for justice, family members of Peter Headley, the robbery accused who was fatally shot by a policeman more than a week ago held a protest outside of the office of Commis-sioner of Police (ag) Nigel Hoppie yesterday.

Dear Editor, On May 10, 2021 the Guyana Police Force held two separate elections at Police Headquarters, Eve Leary and elected ranks to serve on the executive body of the Police Association.

With over 1,000 receiving vaccines during last Saturday’s vaccination drive-thru event at the National Stadium, another has already been planned for tomorrow.

Dear Editor, Sitting silently in our constitution is Article 40 (1), which states that “every person in Guyana is entitled to the basic right to a happy, creative and productive life, free from hunger, ignorance, and want”.

A decision pertaining to the official results of the National Cycling Championships staged on Sunday is imminent since it has been sent to the President of the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF), Linden Dowridge for his acknowledgment.

In an effort to produce more high profile cricketers and administrators, Team Daniels has begun a weekly coaching seminar for interested Essequibians.

Dear Editor, With elections’ reform in the air, Guyanese must remember that each of us, regardless of political loyalty, suffered at every election since independence, with the March 2020 Elections providing the clearer, most recent example of the will to lie, cheat and steal by the politically affiliated persons in GECOM.

The ruling in the case challenging the promotion of police officers who have disciplinary matters pending against them, has been given a new tentative date—June 18th.

(Cricinfo) Senior players. Who needs ‘em? Bangladesh would argue they do.

Dear Editor, According to news reports over the weekend, the Vice-President announced that Guyana will not be headed into a lockdown because, as he says, there is no evidence that it works anywhere.

(BBC) Max Mosley, who has died aged 81, was one of the most influential and important figures in motorsport over the last half-century – and also among the most controversial.

BRUSSELS/KYIV,  (Reuters) – Western powers prepared to pile sanctions on Belarus and cut off its aviation links  yesterday, furious after it scrambled a warplane to intercept a Ryanair aircraft and arrest a dissident journalist, an act one official denounced as ‘state piracy’.

Dear Editor, May 26 is upon us, and I have heard no announcements on the conferring of National Awards.

KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C., (Reuters) – Phil Mickelson blocked out the distractions and kept his mind quiet in front of a raucous gallery to win the PGA Championship by two strokes on Sunday and become golf’s oldest major winner at the age of 50.

Australian miner, Troy Resources Limited says that the start of Guyana’s first underground gold mining project could commence in October and Chief Executive Officer Ken Nilsson assured that the company is not shutting down operations here.

Alex Matthias was last Thursday sentenced to 15 years behind bars for the 2018 Old Year’s Day stabbing death of 23-year-old Vilvoorden, Essequibo Coast labourer Kevin Bettencourt.

Dear Editor, Over the weekend my attention was drawn to an article in the Stabroek News and your Monday Editorial about the Government settling with businessmen whom it decided were unsuspecting.

LONDON, CMC – Trusted West Indies seamer Kemar Roach has described his County Championship stint with Surrey as “amazing”, and says he is excited about a return at some point in the future.

(Trinidad Express) Police have responded to a murder-suicide at Caparo where a man bludgeoned his estranged wife to death and committed suicide overnight.

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security (MoHSSS) is currently exploring ways in which the Social Work programmes and possibly the Sociology programme offered by the University of Guyana (UG) could be made more applicable to the needs of the ministry’s social workers.  A MoHSSS release last week disclosed that Minister, Dr Vindhya Persaud and Deputy Permanent Secretary Anjanie Ramlall, held talks with Senior UG Lecturer and Sociologist Andrew Hicks, and Coordinator of Post-Graduate Studies in the Department of Sociology Debbie Hopkinson at the Ministry’s East and Lamaha streets location to discuss the matter.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Young Steffi Soogrim out of Trinidad and Tobago continued to impress the coaches and lead selector during the second West Indies Women’s high-performance camp in Antigua, guiding the Anisa Mohammed XI to a 6-wicket victory over the Hayley Matthews led XI on Saturday.

(Trinidad Express) A PetitValley woman was killed in a knife-fight in the kitchen with another female relative on Sunday.

Dear Editor, In a few days, we Guyanese will be observing the 55th anniversary of our country’s independence from the United Kingdom.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Olympic organisers are fully focused on delivering the Tokyo Games and there is no internal debate on whether they will happen, Team GB Chef de Mission Mark England said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. intelligence agencies are examining reports that researchers at a Chinese virology laboratory were seriously ill in 2019 a month before the first cases of COVID-19 were reported, according to U.S.

Dear Editor, On Saturday, May 22 at about !8:00 H (6:00 p m) in the fading light, I observed weeding taking place on the parapets of Cummings Street, Albert-town and North Cummingsburg. 

While lauding the investment of the offshore developer Tristar Incorporated at West Demerara, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo last Friday emphasised that investors must respect laws and policies governing the environment and all other areas.

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T recorded 15 more COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, pushing the country’s death toll closer to 400.

Dillon Brooks scored 31 points and Ja Morant added 26 to lead the No.

By Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel BERKELEY/CHICAGO – US President Joe Biden’s decision to back the call for waiving intellectual-property protections for COVID-19 vaccines reflects the extent of global pressure for universal vaccine access.

The practice of placing public communications ‘specialists/ experts’ – or whatever other contemporary titles attach themselves to such personages – in almost every state agency, is reflective of government’s unceasing ‘circling   of the wagons’ around the preparation and dissemination of information for public consumption.

Will the decision by several US cruise lines to home port in the Caribbean this summer become a permanent fixture, or is it just a temporary work around?

Dear Editor, One of the things that make for a modern society is its orderliness or the way in which that society organizes itself. 

(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.