Daily Archive: Wednesday, June 9, 2021

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Biden administration plans to donate 500 million Pfizer coronavirus vaccine doses to about 100 countries over the next two years, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canada today took a cautious first step toward easing COVID-19 border restrictions, saying it was prepared to relax quarantine protocols for fully vaccinated citizens returning home starting in early July.

 US Ambassador to Guyana Sarah-Ann Lynch has congratulated Emmanuela Desir of Georgetown as the first female from Guyana to attend the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

The police are investigating the fatal stabbing of Bartica miner, Shemar Drakes, 20.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s government acted unlawfully when it gave a contract to a public relations firm run by associates of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, a London court ruled today.

Wanda Patricia Wilson, 56, of Kara Kara, Linden was yesterday afternoon found battered to death at her house and her son has been taken into custody.

 (Trinidad Express) The Health Ministry’s call for citizens to come to the health facilities today for the vaccine on a first come, first serve basis, has led to mass confusion.

The body of attorney Hubert Rodney, 77, was found last night at his home in Durbana Square,  Lamaha Gardens.

ExxonMobil today said it made a discovery at Longtail-3 in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana – its 20th find offshore Guyana.

(Trinidad Express) A Wallerfield woman was hunted down by two gunmen, and executed last night in Wallerfield.

Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony yesterday announced that the government has purchased some 100,000 doses of the Chinese Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine.

The Guyana Police Force has announced the intention to institute a charge of conspiracy to defraud against Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield, Deputy Chief Election Officer Roxanne Myers and Region Four Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo.

A murder convict is one of two prisoners who have escaped from the Lusignan Prison.

The state’s star witness on Monday said that it was Lennox Wayne, called ‘Two Colours’, who fatally shot beautician Ashmini Harriram in 2014 but the accused yesterday maintained his innocence in a sworn statement.

Floodwaters in the Mahaica River have reached record heights and continue to rise leaving residents distressed and worried.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that as of June 7, 2021, five more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

A 12-year-old girl is the country’s latest road fatality following an accident at Farm, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) just after 3 pm yesterday.

Grade Six pupils across Guyana will begin the first of two National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) mock examinations today, the Ministry of Education said.

A 33-year-man from Region One is suspected to have drowned while swimming in a pond aback his mother’s home in Port Kaituma.

Police are searching for two men who stole a car from a hire car driver after luring him to Rasville on Monday night.

Anticipating construction works to be completed by October of this year on its US$5 million-plus facility,  Lusignan Heliport directors yesterday announced that the company plans to build this country’s first polytechnic training centre that would also offer helicopter underwater escape training (HUET) and Basic Offshore Safety Induction and Emergency Training (BOSIET) certification.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Uncapped teenaged fast bowler Jayden Seales is a shock inclusion in a 13-man West Indies squad announced yesterday for the opening Test against South Africa bowling off here later this week.

A data entry clerk from Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara is in police custody following an alleged attempt to smuggle cannabis into the Lusignan Prison.

Smalta on Monday signed national table tennis prodigy Chelsea Edghill to a long-term contract as its newest Brand Ambassador ahead of her Olympic voyage to Tokyo, Japan in July.

While the authorities seem unclear about the purpose, massive land preparation works have again begun at a site at Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara, which was once slated for government’s specialty hospital.

Tenders were on June 1st opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the construction of the Vryheid’s Lust Primary School.

The Golden Jaguars dismal campaign in the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers ended on an undesirable note, as they lost to Puerto Rico 2-0 yesterday at the Warner Park Sporting Complex in Basseterre, St.

Floodwaters have significantly receded in Region Nine over the last few days but according to Chairman Bryan Allicock, residents are bracing for a second hit now that rainfall has resumed.

Cricket West Indies’ chairman of selectors, Roger Harper, said yesterday that the 13-man squad picked for the first test against South Africa beginning tomorrow in St Lucia was selected on current form.

The appointment of staff for the Law Reform Com-mission is expected to begin soon as nominees for the post of Chairperson and Commissioners are currently being screened, Attorney General Anil Nandall says.

Nineteen-year-old fast bowler Jayden Seales has earned his maiden call up to the West Indies squad to face South Africa in two-Tests and he is hopeful of breaking into the final XI come Thursday.

Dear Editor, On leaving the junction of Soesdyke-Linden Highway, driving up the highway about a mile from the junction on the North is a village named Hill Foot.

Dear Editor, Chaos is too polite a word to describe the state of the Guyana Police Force at the moment.

Well it was what I expected. That Shannon Gabriel,  Darren Bravo, Jahmar Hamilton and Jomel Warrican, who should not have been in fact ever named in any squad, it should have been 13 virtually straight from the get go have been omitted.

The Guyana Forestry Commission is currently overseeing a complaints mechanism established for forest operators to ensure better compliance and governance in the sector.

Dear Editor, I wish to respond to a letter which was published in the Stabroek News of June 3rd, 2021 by Mr.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has apologised to Deron Roberts, a national athlete who was mistreated after he was misidentified by police officers on Thursday.

Following the International Federation of Association Basketball (FIBA) thorough survey on the global state of the women’s game, the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) is committed and determined to advance gender parity in the discipline.

A man who admitted to stealing a bicycle was on Wednesday ordered to do community service and placed on self-bail for two other charges.

Toyko-bound swimmers, Jamila Sanmoogan and Andrew Fowler are currently training at the Aura Aquatics facility in Florida, United States of America.

Dear Editor, There is in existence a grouping whom former leader of the People’s National Congress/Reform (PNCR), Robert Corbin, once famously described as a ‘’bunch of wild men.’’

The Rotary Club of Georgetown in collaboration with Rotary District 7030, has launched its Shade House Vegetable Garden & Mini Fruit Farm at the Cheshire Home for the disabled, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Hundreds of Peruvians demonstrated outside the elections office in Lima yesterday as the presidential vote count neared its end, with socialist Pedro Castillo holding on to a narrow lead and tensions rising over contested ballots and accusations of fraud.

Dear Editor, The news that the Guyana Fire Service has had to condemn and deem as a public hazard Guyana’s most famous and picturesque nineteenth-century Gothic Revival building, the City Hall of Georgetown would have been funny if it weren’t so sad.

Two teens were on Monday arrested after one of them was found with a .38 Taurus revolver containing four live rounds of ammunition after a police chase in South Georgetown.

(Trinidad Guardian) A total of 599 people have so far succumbed to COVID-19 as 10 more deaths were recorded over the previous 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health.

Dear Editor, May I please take up some space within your august journal in order to make some cogent expressions regarding certain eventualities within the Guyanese diaspora? 

A file is being prepared for the office of Director of Public Prosecutions for advice on the accident that claimed the life of Mark Ault at Dora Linden-Soesdyke Highway on Sunday night.

CANBERRA/AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – A global sting in which organised crime gangs were sold encrypted phones that law enforcement officials could monitor has led to more than 800 arrests and the confiscation of drugs, weapons, cash and luxury cars, officials said yesterday.

(Reuters) – The England and Wales Cricket Board has vowed to take “relevant and appropriate action” after questions were raised publicly about historical tweets from several England players.

(Reuters) – New Zealand captain Kane Williamson is a doubt for the second test against England at Edgbaston due to an elbow injury while seamer Trent Boult is available for selection, coach Gary Stead said yesterday.

Kevin Durant scored 32 points in three quarters and the Brooklyn Nets did not miss a beat without James Harden, cruising to a 125-86 rout of the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals in New York.

MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Nicaraguan police detained two pre-candidates for the presidency yesterday, raising the number of recent arrests of potential contenders to unseat longtime President Daniel Ortega to four.

By  Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK – Slight increases in the rate of inflation in the United States and Europe have triggered financial-market anxieties.

Dear Editor, I had a chance to examine the ‘evidence of racial discrimination in government hiring practices’ as presented by GHK Lall in a letter in Stabroek News `There could only be one reason behind the dismissal of these two senior Gold Board employees’ (June 6th, 2021) and have found that of the two cases outlined do not pass muster.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas beat world number two Daniil Medvedev in straight sets yesterday to advance to the French Open semi-finals for the second straight year and end the Russian’s surprise run on the Parisian clay.

Last Wednesday, 2nd June, was the day Oliver ‘Ollie’ Robinson, the Sussex seam bowler had dreamed of for a long time.