Daily Archive: Tuesday, June 1, 2021

The Ministry of Health today said that as of May 31, 2021, two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

GECOM Chair, Justice (retired) Claudette Singh has written to Deputy Chief Election Officer (CEO) Roxanne Myers giving her up to June 15th to show cause why she shouldn’t be dismissed.

A motion was today tabled at GECOM’s meeting for the dismissal of embattled Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield.

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) today said that in collaboration with regional authorities it is currently accommodating 53 residents at shelters countrywide following severe flooding.

A miner died yesterday after a tree fell into a mining pit at the Sandhills Backdam, Cuyuni during heavy rain.

MANILA, (Reuters) – A Philippine court today dismissed a cyber libel case against award-winning journalist Maria Ressa, which was one of several lawsuits against her and news site Rappler, which have put President Rodrigo Duterte under tough scrutiny.

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – Pope Francis today issued the most extensive revision to Catholic Church law in four decades, insisting that bishops take action against clerics who abuse minors and vulnerable adults, commit fraud or attempt to ordain women.

(Trinidad Express) In the space of one month, the families of 326 people were left in shock and heartbreak after losing their loved ones to the Covid-19 virus.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday denied attempting to influence the work of the Police Service Commission (PSC), a charge levelled by the Chairman, former Assistant Commissioner Paul Slowe.

Following a ruling by the Guyana Court of Appeal yesterday, which found that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) did not act unconstitutionally by ordering that Marcus Bisram be tried for the murder of Faiyaz Narinedatt, the former accused is expected to be placed back into custody.

Long-serving Administrator of the National Cultural Centre Daphne Rogers died on Sunday morning after an almost year-long battle with breast cancer, according to her foster daughter.

Photos by Orlando Charles Frustration continued to grow yesterday among farmers of Grass Hook and Big Biaboo, Mahaica River, as floodwater continues to rise, threatening the survival of their remaining crops and livestock.

Close to 199,000 persons have so far received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine even as the health minister yesterday appealed for those vaccinated to come forward for their second dose.

Veteran journalist and entrepreneur Mondale Smith died yesterday after a battle with COVID-19.

While saying that flooding could not have been avoided in Georgetown due to the amount of rainfall that has occurred, City Engineer Colvern Venture has maintained that the City Council did not neglect its responsibilities in minimizing the impact.

Dear Editor, Vaccination is the long-term tool to get out of the pandemic and eventually beat COVID-19.

Dear Editor, GHK Lall expressed misgivings in SN May 24th over my pitch for Guyana to use its oil wealth to create a social welfare state on par with such countries as Denmark and Sweden (see letter in KN 16th and SN 17th May).

A motorcyclist has been placed on bail after being charged with causing the death of a man in an accident in February on the Rupert Craig Highway.

Team Guyana’s 12-athlete contingent wrapped up its Senior South American Championship campaign in Guayaquil, Ecuador yesterday with five medals including a bronze in the Men’s 4x100m relay.

Dear Editor, Every human, I believe, has dreams of how they would like to enjoy their later years.

The Ministry of Health yesterday announced that four new COVID-19 deaths occurred between May 29 and 30.

Dear Editor, I was very sad to hear of the death of Mondale Smith.

Even as concerns have been raised by Houston, East Bank Demerara (EBD) residents about approval being granted for the setting up of a waste treatment facility in the village, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that approval was also given to another company for the storage of a radioactive source at Coverden, also on the East Bank.

Dear Editor, Permit me a space in your newspapers to first congratulate the Minister Charles Ramson Jnr.

Guyana is expected to receive approximately 150,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson single-shot COVID-19 vaccine next month.

Dear Editor, I think SN’s editorial of May 31st covered a lot of territory, and didn’t leave much untouched. 

Two families from Sideline Dam, Middle Road, La Penitence, are now seeking help after a tree fell and destroyed their homes during a heavy downpour on Sunday morning.

Former Great Diamond resident Alvin Calder, who was earlier this year convicted of the 2007 shooting death of Mahdia gold miner Joseph Willy, was on Friday last sentenced to 10 years, 11 months behind bars.

Dear Editor, The recent flooding nationwide is a very serious indicator of what is to come.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peru yesterday almost tripled its official COVID-19 death toll to 180,764, following a government review, making it the country with the worst death rate per capita, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

Clyde Watson, 36, the radio DJ who was charged in April with stabbing the selector for his show, was yesterday freed of a malicious wounding charge after agreeing to pay compensation.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Leading Cuban dissident Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara was discharged from hospital yesterday, four weeks after authorities ended his hunger and thirst strike and admitted the “artivist.”

Junior Pan American Games-bound badminton Akili Haynes has already commenced training under top seed, Narayan Ramdhani.

Dear Editor, The Chief Citizen is miffed at suggestions of deliberate flooding in the city, but the council, under whose management the city falls, must bear some responsibility for this.

Boat operator Tony Rampersaud now awaits sentencing after a jury yesterday afternoon convicted him of manslaughter for the 2016 killing of Venezuelan national Henry Mendonca.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Lawmakers yesterday ratified the appointment of a judge linked to a judicial corruption probe to sit on Guatemala’s top court, a few days before a visit by U.S.

Dear Editor, I have just seen a report where Edghill and Hamilton are reported to be claiming that the reason behind the flooding in Georgetown is because the M&CC pump attendants were asleep.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro promised a Yanomami community that he would respect their wishes to keep mining out of their reservation in the Amazon, though he said he would still seek access to other indigenous lands for commercial agriculture and mining.

One of the two suspects who are currently being sought by the police in relation to the murder of Ronald Omar Smith during a robbery on Camp Street last Friday is known to the police.

Dear Editor, The National Data Management Authority (NDMA) and the Ministry of Legal Affairs have issued calls for procurement of proprietary software.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian authorities are investigating 10 police officers who allowed civilians to shoot at demonstrators in Cali, a high-ranking official said yesterday, while the attorney general’s office linked three more deaths to protests.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cases of life-threatening malnutrition are expected to more than double among young Haitian children this year, due to COVID-19, gang violence and extreme weather associated with climate change, the U.N.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Test outcast Shai Hope pressed his case for a recall with an attacking half-century while Jermaine Blackwood struck a typically breezy fifty, but bowlers dominated as 14 wickets tumbled on the opening day of the four-day practice match here yesterday.

(BBC) The 2021 Copa America will be hosted by Brazil, after Argentina was stripped of the tournament just two weeks before it starts.

Chris Paul collected 18 points and nine assists to lift the visiting Phoenix Suns to a 100-92 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday afternoon in Game 4 of their Western Conference first-round series.

(Reuters) – Brooklyn Nets’ Kyrie Irving said NBA arenas had become like “human zoos” after a fan was arrested for throwing a water bottle at the former Celtic guard on Sunday.

Toka, Region 9, which has a population of approximately 300 persons will soon have a new water well in their village, a release yesterday from the Guyana Water Inc (GWI) said.

A 21-year-old man from suburban Braintree, Mass., is awaiting arraignment on assault and battery charges by means of a dangerous weapon after allegedly throwing a water bottle in the direction of Kyrie Irving following the Boston Celtics’ Game 4 playoff loss to the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Japan’s Naomi Osaka stunned the French Open yesterday when she announced she was withdrawing from the tournament in the wake of her decision to boycott post-match media duties, explaining she had been suffering from depression for almost three years.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Legendary captain Sir Clive Lloyd has urged under-fire stroke-maker Shimron Hetmyer to “produce the runs” and remove any debate over his eligibility for a central retainer contract.

Reading, over the weekend, a short but insightful account of the impact of the ongoing countrywide heavy rainfall on the South Rupununi village of Karaudarnau, afforded the Stabroek News by the young village Toshao allowed for a sobering insight into the gulf between the lifestyles – if indeed such a term is appropriate here – of ourselves, coastal dwellers, and those other Guyanese, Amerindians, mostly, domiciled in the same territorial space as us but, nonetheless, dwelling at a distance sufficiently far removed in terms of way of life, as to cause it to seem as though we live in different worlds.

Dear Editor, Having done a brief ad hoc review, based on information published in the media – mainstream and social media on the frequency, scale, scope, feedback from parties in constitutional matters before the Guyana Courts, comments, and concerns from legal professionals, as well as feedback from the general public, I would like to recommend that Guyana begin a serious conversation or go even further, and establish a Constitutional Court.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Nick Hockley has been confirmed as Cricket Australia’s permanent Chief Executive after steering the game through an “impossible summer” during the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Raghuram G. Rajan CHICAGO – With President Joe Biden’s administration recommitting the United States to the Paris climate agreement, and with a major United Nations climate-change conference (COP26) coming later this year, there is new hope for meaningful global policies to meet the challenge.

Sometime in the next twelve months, when the pandemic is fully brought under control in North America and Europe, visitors will return to the Caribbean in significant numbers.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health has recorded 16 additional COVID related deaths, bringing the total to 495.

ROME,  (Reuters) – An Italian court yesterday sentenced the former owners of the Ilva steelworks, Fabio and Nicola Riva, to 22 and 20 years in jail respectively for allowing it to spew out deadly pollution.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australian cricketers, including former captain Steve Smith and David Warner, were released from hotel quarantine in Sydney yesterday after being evacuated from India amid a surge of COVID-19 cases.