Daily Archive: Sunday, May 30, 2021

The Ministry of Health today said that three more persons have succumbed to COVID-19.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The British government is thinking about making COVID-19 vaccination compulsory for healthcare workers to stop the spread of the virus in hospitals, vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi said today.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Gavin MacLeod, who played a wise-cracking news writer on the classic 1970s U.S.

 (Reuters) – Two people have died and more than 20 were injured in a shooting outside a billiards club in Hialeah, a town to the north of Miami in Florida, police said early today.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health reported 12 deaths due to COVID-19 and 381 new positive cases between May 21 and May 28.

(Trinidad Guardian) Chief Executive Officer of the North Central Regional Health Authority (NCRHA) Davlin Thomas has created a firestorm following claims that the new team of doctors he put into the rotation at the Couva Hospital achieved a 60 per cent decrease in mortality of COVID-19 patients.

On the ground in Lesbeholden, Black Bush Polder, President Irfaan Ali yesterday ordered that three pumps be added to the one currently located at Adventure in order to speed up the draining of the backlands, where farmers have collectively lost hundreds of cows already.

Current head of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) Senior Superintendent Fazil Karimbaksh has acknowledged that the Police Service Commission (PSC) has moved to institute disciplinary action against him over accusations of sexual harassment, which he says are “trumped up.”

The police were yesterday trying to piece together the events that led to the deaths of a man and his nephew at Three Friends Mines, in Region 10, which has left a family looking for answers.

Efforts are ongoing to finalise arrangements for a sitting of the National Assembly despite the continued reluctance of Parliament Office staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19, Speaker Manzoor Nadir has said.

A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Lance Corporal reportedly drowned yesterday after the boat in which he and other ranks were travelling capsized in the vicinity of Karasabai Village, in Region Nine 9 (Upper Takatu/Upper Essequibo).

The Golden Jaguars, the Guyana men’s senior football team arrived in Antigua & Barbuda yesterday to commence a training camp on their path to their final destination of St.

During a series of on the ground engagements on Saturday, President Irfaan Ali sought to reassure flood-affect residents in several communities that government is working with all stakeholders, including the Civil Defence Commission (CDC), to ensure that their needs are provided for.

The country’s COVID-19 death toll continued to rise on Saturday when the Ministry of Health reported two more deaths and 98 new cases of the virus.

PORTO, Portugal, (Reuters) – Chelsea won their second Champions League title and denied Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City their first after Kai Havertz grabbed a first-half goal to secure a 1-0 win in yesterday’s all-English final at the Estadio Do Dragao.

Yusuf Khan, Aliya Wong and Michael Sampson took their talents to Linden yesterday and posed and flexed their physiques to the marquee titles at this year’s Novices Bodybuilding Championships.

The audit requested by Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh after procurement irregularities surfaced at the state-owned Guyana Oil Company (GUYOIL) is complete and a draft report is being prepared, according to Auditor General Deodat Sharma.

Team Guyana snatched three medals on Day One of the Senior South American Championships yesterday in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Chairman of the Guyana Gold Board (GGB) Dr Gobind Ganga has confirmed that there are currently active discussions between the Board and German company Argor-Heraeus to possibly trace the origin of gold declared by miners.

The opening match of the inaugural Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Under-19 franchise competition was abandoned yesterday after consistent rain at the National Stadium, Providence.

Four years after a study found that villagers of Parabara, in the Deep South Rupununi, had high levels of mercury exposure, they still remain in the dark about the significance of the discovery, with many going about their lives as they always have.

Top female player Priyanna Ramdhani and Akili Haynes will represent Guyana at the 2021 Pan American Games in Colombia in November.

As the police continue their search for the suspects in the murder of Ronald Omar Smith, the man who was shot during a robbery on Friday afternoon, the driver who accompanied Smith during his errands remains in custody.

Dear Editor, Schlumberger-Guyana Inc.’s planned construction of a “Source Storage and Calibration Building” facility at 1 Area X Houston, EBD, Georgetown which was given EPA approval only came to the attention of the majority of residents of Houston and surrounding communities through news reports in late April and early May. 

One day after landing a one-year sponsorship deal with the Guyana Lottery Company, Guyana’s Chelsea Edghill was the recipient of the largesse of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) which plunked down US$12000 towards her training for the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Although poverty forced her to drop out of school when she was in second form, community health worker (CHW) and activist Everly Klass-Sampson has gone on to pursue her dreams of building her adopted community of Caria Caria in the Essequibo River into a healthy and socially strong one.

Dear Editor, A cry for Climate Justice to the Minister of Health, Minister of Agriculture, President of Guyana, Ambassador of the United States of America and United Nations.

A fire of unknown origin has left three persons displaced after it destroyed their Montrose home in the wee hours of Saturday morning.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF), the local governing body, has postponed its  Ordinary Congress which was scheduled to be held yesterday.

As Guyana has expanded its COVID-19 vaccination programme to all adults, the Minister of Health recently revealed that it would be difficult to say exactly how many healthcare workers were inoculated to date.

By Nigel Westmaas  “Haiti has repeatedly been punished for its original sin of racial insurgency” -Johnhenry Gonzalez, Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti Toussaint Louverture Haiti’s revolutionary history and the real sources of its perennial failure as a nation state in modern times has too often been denied, sanitized or ignored in general narratives about the country and society.

Dear Editor, Freddie Kissoon in his Kaieteur News column of Tuesday May 18, 2021, has some pointed questions for the Electoral Reform Group (ERG).

RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilians staged protests against President Jair Bolsonaro’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in at least 16 cities across the country yesterday, carrying signs such as “Out with Bolsonaro” and “Impeachment now.”

LONDON, CMC – Kraigg Brathwaite twice got starts but failed to carry on while West Indies Test colleague Alzarri Joseph played a small role in Worcestershire’s victory push, on the penultimate day of matches in the County Champion-ship here yesterday.

(Reuters) – The remaining matches of the Indian Premier League (IPL), which was suspended earlier this month, will be completed in the United Arab Emirates in September and October, the Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) said yesterday.

Dear Editor, In the last seven days: 25 Guyanese died from COVID-19; 821 Guyanese tested positive for COVID-19 (and May is now the top month for infections with 3,320— with 4 days left to be counted); Guyana is averaging 117 confirmed cases a day; the positivity rate has been above 11% each day of the last seven days; the ICU is averaging almost 21 persons per day; persons in Institutional Isolation have averaged 102; on average 1,849 persons have been in Home Isolation; and quite alarming: a week ago the Dashboard showed on May 21 that 59 more females were infected with the COVID-19 virus than males (in contrast, on December 29 the Dashboard showed 219 more males were infected than females), today, seven days later, that number has more than doubled to 122 more females infected than males.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – At least 13 people died on Friday in the Colombian city of Cali, the epicentre of demonstrations across the country, and many of those deaths may have been linked to protests, Mayor Jorge Ivan Ospina said yesterday.

A letter from prominent citizens in Stabroek News last Friday called for consultation on electoral reforms.

Pauline Chase was on Friday elected, unopposed, as the President of The Bar Association of Guyana for the fiscal year 2021-2022.

An electrical network has been completed for the hinterland community of Kokerite Hill (Kokerital), Mabaruma, Region One.

PARIS/LONDON, (Reuters) – The increasingly effective green backlash against oil majors by activists and shareholders is a welcome development for the aviation industry as it prepares to raise its own environmental goals, the head of global airline body IATA said on Friday.

(Trinidad Express) – Trinidadian Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday afternoon announced a total closure of all restaurants and bars, along with hardwares for one week.

Dear Editor, We are unfortunately witnessing discriminatory behavior developed by the Guyanese authorities against Haitian migrants who recently landed in Guyana.

She sits on the pavement in front of a popular downtown Georgetown mall, her hands working feverishly as she crochets.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – New South Africa captain Dean Elgar says his “frustrated” side are fired-up to perform on their two-match tour of the West Indies after being starved of test cricket for much of the past year.

MUMBAI,(Reuters) – India reported yesterday 173,790 new coronavirus infections during the previous 24 hours, its lowest daily rise in 45 days, while deaths rose by 3,617.

What started as an effort by two longtime overseas-based Guyanese friends to entertain and comfort during the current COVID-19 pandemic has blossomed into a social movement aimed at helping those in need in their homeland.

Jayson Tatum scored a playoff career-high 50 points to lead the Boston Celtics to a 125-119 victory over the visiting Brooklyn Nets in Game 3 of their Eastern Conference first-round series Friday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) – More people without comorbidities are dying of COVID complications and patients are becoming younger.

The Caribbean Royal Shining Star Youth and Humanitarian Organiza-tion on Wednesday treated the public to a short dance display at the 1763 Monument in commemoration of Guyana’s 55th Independence anniversary.

Dear Editor, I earned the displeasure of many of my colleagues and friends when after Irfaan Ali was sworn in as President and delivered his initial address with all the ingredients of nationalism, I said let us support him and give him an opportunity to make true his words.

In one conversation with Godfrey, amidst the multitude of evocations that continually cascaded out of his extraordinary memory, he told me about bird-whistling competitions and donkey-cart racing in Guyana long ago and described to me the hundred and one manifestations of that condition of bewitched infatuation in a man or a woman called typee.

The Guyana Government has decided to fund 20,000 scholarships for various online degree and certificate programmes, which are going to be housed under the Guyana Online Academy of Learning (GOAL).

BELGRADE, (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic enjoyed success at his own tennis centre when he won the Belgrade Open with a 6-4 6-3 win over Slovakian Alex Molcan in yesterday’s final but his performance left a lot to be desired ahead of the French Open.

If you ever find you can’t decide between a sandwich or salad, know that it is possible to have both.

It seems Guyana is to have a new city.  Not a town, or an urban settlement, but a city. 

Founded by three brothers, recently established food business the Brekkfuss Klubb has been creating quite a stir among foodies, so much so that it has had to extend its menu to include brunch and lunch.

“Cruella”, like many recent Disney live-action films, does not exist on its own – it’s signalling to the past and to the future in a kind of never-ending state of prolepsis.

Introduction The 2021 National Budget identifies a successful local content policy, LCP, as required for converting projected petroleum windfall revenues into sustained economic differentiation and growth; combined with economic diversification and development.

“What’s your favourite Tradewinds song, and which one you feel has had the strongest reaction?”

In You The Earth Little rose, roselet, at times, tiny and naked, it seems as though you would fit in one of my hands, as though I’ll clasp you like this and carry you to my mouth, but suddenly my feet touch your feet and my mouth your lips: you have grown, your shoulders rise like two hills, your breasts wander over my breast, my arm scarcely manages to encircle the thin new-moon line of your waist: in love you loosened yourself like sea water: I can scarcely measure the sky’s most spacious eyes and I lean down to your mouth to kiss the earth.

Jackie ‘Jaxx’ Hanover is well known for her music and more recently her Jaxx Apparel clothing line.

(Trinidad Express) – A nurse was stabbed to death and her body set on fire at an apartment in Malabar, Arima yesterday afternoon.

Over the last weekend, the Guyana Chess Federation engineered a combined junior and senior Independence over-the-board tournament and a virtual girls’ competition.

Dear Editor, In spite that COVID -19 infections and deaths have been escalating amid repeated vaccine shortages, the Guyanese Government has refused to use a lockdown to slow the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in protecting ordinary Guyanese from dying.

By John Seeram As is customary each year, the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA)–Global has set the month of May as International Internal Audit Awareness Month.

SHENZHEN, China, (Reuters) – China yesterday successfully launched an automated cargo resupply spacecraft to rendezvous with an orbiting module, in the second of a series of missions needed to complete its first permanent space station.