Daily Archive: Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Four persons who were arrested by ranks from the Guyana Police Force’s Major Crimes Unit were charged today with Murder: “Contrary to Common Law” committed on Haresh Singh with occurred on 9th September, 2020 at Number 3 Village, West Coast Berbice, the police said.

Last Tuesday, several members of the Cuban Medical Brigade who will shortly leave Havana for Guyana were received at the Guyana Embassy in Cuba by Ambassador Halim Majeed.

Hugh Todd, Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, held informal discussions with Senator, Dr Amery Browne, Minister of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago, last week.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping today urged Chinese Communist Party members to remain loyal and continue to serve the people as he awarded a new medal of honour to 29 members as part of the ruling party’s 100th anniversary celebrations this week.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa’s highest court today sentenced ex-president Jacob Zuma to 15 months in jail for failing to appear at a corruption inquiry, as Zuma appeared to run out of options in his battle to escape prosecution.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) is reporting an increased demand for Jamaican ganja on the global market.

Contending that President Irfaan Ali acted unconstitutionally in their suspension, the Police Service Commission (PSC) Chair-man Paul Slowe and other commissioners yesterday proceeded to announce the promotion of 132 ranks.

A case file containing the details and purported evidence in the murder of West Berbice teenager Haresh Singh has been sent for advice by the Guyana Police Force to the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

Omela Singh, the La Parfaite Harmonie woman who was left critical after she was stabbed by her estranged partner, succumbed to her injuries on Sunday evening.

Kimbia James Prescod, the Stabroek Market vendor accused of the fatal stabbing of fellow vendor Robert Bizzeth after a clash over a vending spot, was charged with murder yesterday.

Acting Chief Roxane George-Wiltshire SC has ruled that there is nothing unlawful in the Police Service Commission (PSC) not promoting officers who have pending disciplinary matters against them.

Fifty Haitian nationals, including two children, were found on Sunday by law enforcement officials along the Lethem trail.

The announced shipment of 100,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccines ordered by government is due to arrive in Guyana this week, Minister of Health Dr.

A young man succumbed on Sunday after the motorbike on which he was a passenger crashed due to a near-collision with a car along Mandela Avenue.

Forty-nine-year-old Wazir Potter now awaits sentencing after being found guilty yesterday afternoon of raping a 12-year-old boy.

Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd yesterday announced it has closed a transaction with JHI Associates Inc, a private company incorporated in Ontario and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, for Eco to acquire up to a 10% interest in JHI which will allow it access to the Canje offshore block where oil exploration is taking place.

As fifth form students writing the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) turned out for the start of their exams yesterday, Minis-ter of Education Priya Manickchand said that she believes the students are not any less prepared than their predecessors.

Guyana’s COVID-19 fatalities have risen by four to 466. The Ministry of Health announced the deaths in a press release yesterday.

A man who police say pointed a gun at a constable outside of a Burger King was denied bail yesterday after a city magistrate heard that he has similar charges pending in the court system.

Olympic Games bound boxer, Keevin Allicock and his coach, Sebert Blake are off to Moscow, Russia today, where they will be an integral part of a high-level, three-week training camp ahead of the Olympic  Games scheduled for July 23 to August 8 in Tokyo, Japan The preparatory sojourn was made possible by the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA).

The government has promised assistance to Kevin Phillips, the owner of the vulcanizing shop at the corner of D’Urban and George streets, Werk-en-Rust which was destroyed in a fire on Thursday last.

With animals battling to survive in the heavily submerged Kokerite Savan-nah, one cattle farmer in Black Bush Polder recently said that he witnessed a man dealing chops to his five cows and one bull on a dam in the front areas – the result of ongoing conflict with rice growers.

Guided by their motto: “Every animal deserves a second chance,” Winella and Allan Greene are on a mission to rescue strays and dream of one day acquiring a plot of land to establish an animal sanctuary.

Despite a winless run in the 2021 Indoor Pan Am Cup hockey tournament, the Guyana national female team gained valuable experience.

First Lady Arya Ali yesterday kept  a commitment made to a local animal welfare group and presented it with a mobile animal clinic and rescue unit.

Dear Editor, We are in a race, a deadly race. The winner lives.

Members of the Rastafari-an community yesterday continued to protest for the suspension of jail sentences for the possession of small amounts of cannabis along with its use being respected as a religious right.

Dear Editor, Our major parties, while in government, tout their achievements at national development.

West Indies captain, Kieran Pollard reckons the five-match series is wide open as they prepare to take on South Africa in the third T20I at 14.00 hours today.

Tenders were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the Rehabilitation and Retrofitting of the Guyana Marketing Corporation’s packing facility at Parika along with other projects.

The Local Government Commission last Friday met with acting Town Clerk Sherry Jerrick and three of the City Council’s Department heads and requested information on the supervision of the city’s drainage infrastructure, garbage collection schedules and defaulting taxpayers.

RIO DE JANEIRO/ BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s government yesterday unveiled emergency hydroelectric measures in response to a drought that has emptied reservoirs and fanned inflation expectations.

Four Guyanese table tennis players are in line for selection to the International Table Tennis Federation’s ITTF’s World Hopes Programme.

AMBA GIORGIS, Ethiopia,  (Reuters) – The former rulers of Ethiopia’s Tigray region said on Monday they were back in control of the regional capital Mekelle after nearly eight months of fighting, and the government which ousted them declared a unilateral ceasefire with immediate effect.

Dear Editor, COVID -19 infections and related deaths have been steadily increasing for several months under the PPP/C Govern-ment because it has failed to implement effective and fundamental strategies in slowing the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

SURFSIDE, Fla.,  (Reuters) – Search-and-rescue teams pulled two more sets of remains from the concrete and steel rubble of a partially collapsed Florida condominium tower yesterday, bringing the death toll to 11 with 150 people still listed as missing four days after the disaster.

Dear Editor, I must concede to my long-standing neighbour George Cave that I did not pay attention to his advice about the limitations of the established Teaching Service Commission.

One person was confirmed dead after a mining pit at Black Water Backdam, Mazaruni, caved in yesterday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) As a predominantly oil and gas economy T&T must and will accelerate the exploration and development of its hydrocarbon resources or run the risk of the resources becoming stranded.

Troy Glasgow, an East Ruimveldt man who was charged with committing two knife-point robberies, was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in jail after being found guilty of the crimes.

Dear Editor, Something rather unfortunate now visits the letter columns.  It is where others dive headfirst into exchanges between sword fencing letter pairs. 

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haiti will hold a constitutional referendum on Sept.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombia said yesterday it will receive a U.S.

Dear Editor, There are vehicles coursing through city streets any hour of the day and night, blaring and blasting music from systems with decibels that could awake the dead.

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) said yesterday they were sending players Kushal Mendis, Niroshan Dickwella and Danushka Gunathilaka back home from the team’s England tour for breaching bio-bubble protocols.

(BBC) Tom Banton scored a ferocious unbeaten century as Somerset beat Kent by 10 wickets in the South Group yesterday.

By António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations  As the world grapples unevenly with the effects of COVID-19, a parallel and equally horrific pandemic has threatened half the world’s population. 

By Faizal Deen Along with numerous creative and scholarly publications, Faizal Deen is the author of Guyana’s first LGBTQ+ poetry collection, Land Without Chocolate, a Memoir (1999).

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – This year’s Twenty20 World Cup will be moved to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) because to the COVID-19 situation in India and travel restrictions stemming from it, a top official of the Indian cricket board told Reuters yesterday.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s Supreme Court said yesterday the government and Congress should legalize recreational marijuana use, bringing the country a step closer to creating one of the world’s largest legal markets for the plant.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Defending champion Novak Djokovic began his quest for a sixth title with victory over British teenager Jack Draper yesterday but suffered an early scare as Wimbledon returned after a two-year absence.

(Reuters) – France striker Kylian Mbappe’s failure to score, not least in yesterday’s penalty shootout loss to Switzerland in the last 16, saw the world champions slide out of Euro 2020 without ever really getting going at the tournament.

A man was yesterday placed on $75,000 bail after he was charged with sexual assault.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Selectors have stuck with the same 13-man squad for today’s third Twenty20 International against South Africa here.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Captain Kieron Pollard has defended West Indies’ aggressive batting approach in the Twenty20 International series against South Africa, stressing his side were unwilling to “compromise our strengths” ahead of the critical third match here today.

Milwaukee Bucks forward Khris Middleton had missed two-thirds of his shots from the field entering Sunday’s pivotal matchup against the Atlanta Hawks in the Eastern Conference finals.

(Reuters) – The U.S. Olympic trials went out with a bang on Sunday, as Sydney McLaughlin broke the world record in the women’s 400 metres hurdles in 51.90 seconds and world champion Noah Lyles won the men’s 200m in a world-leading 19.74.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Fielding two sets of teams to play different formats simultaneously will showcase India’s formidable bench strength but Rahul Dravid, who will coach the limited-overs side in Sri Lanka, would not call it the way forward yet.

ASUNCION,  (Reuters) – The United States said yesterday it will donate one million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to Paraguay, offering relief to the South American country whose immunization program is moving slowly amid a new wave of COVID-19 cases.

There will, presumably, be an inquiry into the likely cause of the June 19 fire that effectively rendered the North Ruimveldt Multilateral School unusable that, in its own way, has added to the current crisis in our education system resulting from the advent of Covid-19 and the necessity to close schools and place the formal education of thousands of our children on an indefinite hold.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Environmental Management Authority (EMA) and the police do not have the power to shutdown authorised events due to noise levels.