Daily Archive: Sunday, July 4, 2021

The Ministry of Health today reported 73 new cases of COVID-19.

A gunman posing as a customer on Friday afternoon carted off over a million dollars from the Lyken Funeral Home as it was in the process of paying staff The gunman fled on a waiting motorcycle.

SARASOTA, Fla.,  (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday condemned New York prosecutors for bringing charges against his namesake company and longtime financial adviser, using a campaign-style rally to air a host of grievances.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – All six people on board a private plane, including two Americans missionaries, were killed when the aircraft crashed in Haiti, southwest of capital Port-au-Prince, according to media reports and a missionary group.

(Trinidad Guardian) As homicide investigators await confirmation that the burnt skeletal remains, found at a dumpsite in Gasparillo, are from missing mother Kadijah Flament, police charged two suspects yesterday.

Admitting that the company has a number of existing inefficiencies, new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT), Damian Blackburn has said $5 billion is being invested this year to fix its network to enhance the services offered to customers and businesses.

Police have arrested two suspects in the murder of taxi driver Kenrick Trim, including one who has allegedly admitted to seeing the other stabbing the now deceased man.

Editor’s note: This is the first entry in a series, “Sweet Drink: A Preliminary Exploration of the Social History of Nonalcoholic Carbonated Beverages in Guyana (1870–2020),” based on Professor Vibert Cambridge’s research. 

Saying that confidence has been restored in the country’s democracy since his administration assumed office in August last year, President Irfaan Ali on Friday assured Guyanese in the New York diaspora that the government is moving towards inclusive governance for all.

Guyanese consume about 1.4 litres per person a day of carbonated soft drinks, or ‘sweet drinks,’ which enabled the local industry to contribute US$668 million to the Guyanese economy between 2008 and 2018, according to United States-based Guyanese Dr Vibert Cambridge.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has criticised the Guyana Police Force (GPF) for arresting and detaining for six of the nine women who claim to be able to provide an alibi for Glaston Henry, one of the persons charged with the murder of West Berbice teen Haresh Singh.

Dr Terrence Isaacs is currently completing his residency in the United Kingdom to become a consultant in medical psycho-therapy.

After a near-death experience while battling COVID-19, which saw her having to be administered oxygen for 58 days, Nisa Walker is happy to finally be able to breathe on her own again and has a deeper appreciation for life. 

Although he may not have known it at the time, when Bonaventure Fredericks was hired as the office assistant for the Region Eight (Potaro/Siparuni) Regional Democratic Council (RDC) office in 1981, he was getting a practical education that would eventually land him in the seat of the Regional Chairman some 34 years later.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday confirmed that another person who was infected with COVID-19 has died, increasing the country’s death toll from the virus to 478.

Article 13 of the Guyana Constitution was invoked by Minister Gail Teixeira during last week in response to the call of US Congressmen Albio SIres and Hank Johnson for more political inclusion in Guyana and for the country’s wealth to benefit all of its citizens.

The previous column explored the question of money ‘printing’ and inflation.

While saying that the government continues to work aggressively to procure COVID-19 vaccines for Guyana, President Irfaan Ali on Friday was unable to give an update on how soon needed Sputnik V second doses would be in the country.

By Winston Anderson The recent report, in Stabroek News, of the tabling of a bill in the National Assembly of Guyana to give effect to a 2018 ruling by the Caribbean Court of Justice (‘CCJ’), is a development to be highly commended and recommended as illustrating governance by dialogue in the interest of the people of the Caribbean.

Introduction As a social scientist, I have observed, in recent years the unprecedented rise at a global existential level of some of the scariest social phenomena I have ever encountered.

Let me give my memories of one weekend at Cambridge University when I met two of the most remarkable men of the age, one after another.

With government failing to hold a post-Cabinet press briefing in the 11 months since it assumed office, President Irfaan Ali on Friday said press releases would soon be issued.

Looking back on the story of the emergence of my Tradewinds band in Caribbean music, it is interesting that I did not have any burning desire to be a professional musician when I migrated from Guyana to Toronto, Canada, in the early 1950s.

A man is now hospitalised after he came under a hail of bullets in an apparent execution attempt last Friday night.

Floodwaters in Moraikobai, Region Five, have started to recede once again after water levels rose last week following heavy rainfall.

Plants in homes and offices are familiar sights. There is a wide variety to choose from and while some people opt for the known, tried and true plants, others want some-thing more exotic; Preya’s Creations is happy to provide them.

Negotiations for a processing plant in Black Bush Polder are almost concluded, while two pump stations are to be set up.

The Woman Speaks to the Man who has Employed her Son   Her son was first made known to her as a sense of unease, a need to cry for little reasons and a metallic tide rising in her mouth each morning.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT), Damien Blackburn says the COVID-19 pandemic “significantly” impacted the company’s revenue, particularly that of the mobile sector.

I attended my second Bocas Lit Fest back in April and was once again introduced to many Caribbean writers whose work I am excited about.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – One of the largest ransomware attacks in history spread worldwide yesterday forcing the Swedish Coop grocery store chain to close all 800 of its stores because it could not operate its cash registers.

The Golden Jaguars, Guyana’s flagship men’s programme, suffered an unceremonious and embarrassing exit from the first round of the 2021 Gold Cup Preliminary round, losing to Guatemala 0-4 last evening at the DRV PNK Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) has apologised for a sexist bill payment ad.

Poland. December 31. 1999. Four hours before midnight, and a 22-year-old man (Sebastian) takes a TV presenter and a security guard hostage.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – A prominent Italian cardinal was among 10 people sent to trial in the Vatican yesterday charged with financial crimes including embezzlement, money laundering, fraud, extortion and abuse of office.

Dear Editor,        Throughout our fifty-five (55) years of independence, Guyana’s political system and its economic structure have not been positively transformed to achieve a significant level of national unity and overcome jobless growth and persistent poverty.

“Sometimes I wonder how a mother could do that to her own child.

Mashabo Primary School, a school located in the Indigenous Mashabo Village along the Essequibo Coast, recently received thirty tablets and five laptops from the Guyana-Jamaica Friendship Association (GJFA), an organization that adopted the school almost seven years ago.

(Trinidad Express) – Government is seeking to vaccinate 300,000 more people in Trinidad and Tobago in the “shortest time.”

LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s government on Friday evening rejected a request by presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori to seek an international audit of its June 6 election, leaving her with few recourses to overturn the apparent lead over her rival candidate Pedro Castillo.

Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Nigel Dharamlall on Friday presented a $10.5 million mini excavator to the Grove/ Diamond Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) for the general maintenance of the constituency.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Association of Professional Land Surveyors (GAPS) would like to address the views expressed by Ms.

I’m currently preparing for a competition in El Salvador next month and hence I am on the homestretch of intense training and a strict diet regimen.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced that all construction – both public and private – can resume from Monday, as the Government further relaxes COVID-19 restrictions.

SANTO DOMINGO, (Reuters) – A slightly weakened Elsa was close to the southwestern peninsula of Haiti on yesterday, prompting tropical storm warnings for large swaths of Hispaniola, Cuba and Jamaica.

The Ministry of Public Works (MoPW) yesterday conducted restoration works on the Wisroc Road, Linden, following a request by the Regional Chairman, Derron Adams.

On Wednesday June 30, 2021, Abhimanyu Mishra, a 12-year-old from Englishtown, New Jersey, USA, became the youngest grandmaster in the history of chess, breaking the 19-year record of Russian grandmaster Sergey Karjakin, who had achieved the feat in 2002 at the age of 12 years and 7 months.

Dear Editor, I refer to the article titled, “Over 1500 children contracted COVID-19; four hospitalized” (KN July 3). 

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – West Indies suffered at the hands of Man-of-the-Match Aiden Markram and red-hot opener Quinton de Kock and then watched as their own batting misfired again, to crash to a 25-run defeat and their sixth Twenty20 International series loss in their last nine outings here yesterday.

RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASÍLIA, (Reuters) – Protesters took to the streets in Brazil yesterday demanding the impeachment of President Jair Bolsonaro and more vaccines to fight the coronavirus pandemic, as the country faces the world’s second deadliest outbreak after the United States.

Much has changed in Guyana over the fifty-plus years since Independence except for one thing: the politics.

University of Guyana (UG) Professors Subramaniam Gomathinayagam and Raymond Jagessar were recently recognised by the Guyana Innovation Prize Stakeholders for their outstanding work in the fields of agriculture and food-based science, respectively.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia batting spearhead Steve Smith is hopeful of recovering in time from an elbow injury for this year’s Twenty20 World Cup but says he will skip the tournament if needed to be fully fit for the team’s Ashes defence against England at home.

LE GRAND BORNAND, France, (Reuters) – Defending champion Tadej Pogacar put the hammer down on the Tour de France yesterday as he claimed the overall leader’s yellow jersey with a vintage ride on the eighth stage, a 150.8-km Alpine trek from Oyonnax to Le Grand Bornand.

(Reuters) – England fast bowler Ollie Robinson has been cleared to resume playing, after he was deemed to have served a ban over racist and sexist comments he made on social media as a teenager, a Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) said yesterday.

The Milwaukee Bucks are returning to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1974 after Khris Middleton and Jrue Holiday combined for 59 points in a 118-107 victory over the host Atlanta Hawks that wrapped up a 4-2 triumph in the Eastern Conference finals last  night.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – A disappointed West Indies captain Kieron Pollard yesterday admonished his batting group to take a critical “look at themselves”, and hinted at changes following the 3-2  series defeat to South Africa here yesterday.

Consecutive half centuries from national all-rounder, Christopher Barnwell, has kept Somerset Cavaliers undefeated in the LA Open 2021 cricket competition.

Last Update: 766.06                          Movement: 0.00% Current Update: 766.06                    YTD Movement: 10.72%                                 LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The Lucas Stock Index remained unchanged during the final period of trading in June, 2021.

By Ras Abdalla Tafari Wadada The 4th of July – Independence Day- is a much anticipated and celebrated day in the lives of Americans while in Guyana, we who hold the ‘Beautiful Game’ close to our hearts, continue to remember this day.

Dear Editor,   Attorney-General Nandlall is currently on a visit to New York.

Aleka Persaud has officially replaced Jamila Sanmoogan as the lone female swimmer to represent Guyana at the Tokyo Olympics.

Two West Indies women players Chadean Nation and Chinelle Henry are in a conscious and stable condition after collapsing on  separate occasions on the field of play on Friday.

The West Indies Women embodied the words of their cricketing anthem, when they “rallied” as a team to win the CG Insurance 2nd T20 International by seven runs via the Duckworth/Lewis/Stern method, after the match was called off at the end of the 18th over at the Coolidge Cricket Ground in Antigua  Friday.

(Trinidad Guardian) – The Ministry of Health has recorded 13 additional COVID related deaths.

(MIT News) – Engineers at MIT and Harvard University have designed a novel face mask that can diagnose the wearer with Covid-19 within about 90 minutes.

(University of Colorado at Boulder) – Working out just five minutes daily via a practice described as “strength training for your breathing muscles” lowers blood pressure and improves some measures of vascular health as well as, or even more than, aerobic exercise or medication, new University of Colorado at Boulder research shows.

(Rockefeller University) – Scientists have long searched in vain for a class of brain cells that could explain the visceral flash of recognition that we feel when we see a very familiar face, like that of our grandmothers.