Daily Archive: Friday, July 9, 2021

The Ministry of Health says that as of July 08, 2021, three more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

The three men who are accused of setting fire to the building that housed the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) office in Linden last year were this afternoon charged and remanded to prison.

New Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) President Dr. Hyginus ‘Gene’ Leon arrived here today for talks with the Guyana Government.

On June 4, 2021, in keeping with an aid agreement between the Korea Customs Service (KCS) and the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), a delegation of six consultants from KCS visited the GRA and began consultations for the modernisation of the Guyana Customs Administration. 

  Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield has approached the High Court to have government-nominated Commissioners Sase Gunraj and Bibi Shadick barred from voting on the motion brought for his dismissal.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – At least 52 people were killed, 20 injured and many more feared trapped after a massive fire raged through a juice-making factory in Bangladesh, officials said today, the latest industrial fire accident in the country.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A British police officer today admitted murdering Sarah Everard, whose killing sparked anger, protests and soul-searching across the country about what the authorities and society could do to stop male violence against women.

The gap between the two shots of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine can be extended up to 180 days and it will remain effective, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said today, according to Reuters.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Couva Point Lisas Chamber of Commerce (CPLCC) is appealing to landlords to give commercial tenants a chance.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police seized six high-powered rifles in Curepe yesterday afternoon.

The disclosure by ExxonMobil that the natural gas extracted from its oilfields as part of operations for the US$900 million Wales gas-to-shore project will be sold to third parties before the remainder is transported to the planned power plant to be owned by the Government caused quite a stir during one of the company’s public scoping meetings leaving many calling for more project details to be provided.

(CMC) – West Indies are leaving nothing to chance against Australia even though the visitors will be missing several of their leading stars for the five-match Twenty20 International series which bowls off today.

Former Golden Jaguars captain Samuel Cox has declared that he is disappointed in Guyana being unable to progress to the second round of the 2021 Concacaf Gold Cup Playoffs following their lopsided loss to Guatemala on July 3.

With 60 players ranging from ages 4 to17 enrolled in the Guyana Golf Association and Nexgen Golf Academy programme, parents and children are hailing the Camp as a success and demand has led to a second Camp scheduled for August 2-14.

Almost a year after a fire destroyed the upper part of a building at Wismar, Linden which housed the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) office, police have arrested two suspects who they say have since admitted their involvement in the crime and implicated two others, including the suspected mastermind, who is yet to be arrested.

Efforts are underway to hold a delegates-only Con-gress in October in deference to COVID-19 protocols and in obser-vance of the 64th Anniver-sary of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR).

Guyana last week recorded its second ever shipment of oil to India when the one million barrels of crude left here for delivery to the state-owned Indian Oil Corp Ltd.

A 51-year-old farmer succumbed on Wednesday afternoon, hours after he was allegedly attacked by his nephew during an argument over plantains at Leguan Island, Essequibo River.

When we went in search of De Hoop, Mahaica rice farmer Moorlia Ganschiana just over a week ago, we were told that he had gone fishing.

The badly decomposed body of an Epsom man, who was reported missing on July 4, was yesterday found in the backlands.

(Reuters) – So clinical has Novak Djokovic’s form been during the Wimbledon fortnight that it is tempting to suggest the All England Club engravers are already etching his name on the trophy for a sixth time.

Against the backdrop of the June 27 United Nations-designated Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day the Guyanese-American Chamber of Commerce says in a media release that both the Guyana and United States governments must seek to enhance their efforts to nurture micro-, small and medium-sized enterprise development.

(Reuters) – The Olympics will take place without spectators in host city Tokyo, organisers said yesterday, as a resurgent coronavirus forced Japan to declare a state of emergency in the capital that will run throughout the Games.

Guyana is set to receive US$1.8 million from The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to assist with managing COVID-19 in the country.

(Reuters) – England’s makeshift one-day international team put the COVID-19 issues that hit the previous squad behind them to bowl out Pakistan for 141 runs before cruising to a clinical nine-wicket win in the series opener in Cardiff yesterday.

Introduction The issue of taxation of the oil companies has aroused particular interest ever since it became known that the Government has to find some $5.391 billion to pay the tax liability of the two partners of Esso in the Stabroek Block – CNOOC and Hess – which reported pre-tax profit of the equivalent of $16.175 billion in 2020.

(Reuters) – Former world number one Karolina Pliskova reached her maiden Wimbledon final after coming back from a set down to beat second seed Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus 5-7 6-4 6-4 yesterday.

One hundred and twelve new COVID-19 cases were yesterday recorded along with two more fatalities.

On Friday June 2, Reuters reported that data from Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA coupled with the comings and goings of oil tankers suggested that the beleaguered South American Republic’s oil exports had increased in June.

(Reuters) – World number three Rafa Nadal will return to action for the first time in more than a month at the Citi Open in Washington, organisers said yesterday, as the Spaniard looks to put his French Open semi-final defeat by Novak Djokovic behind him.

Even as Barbados, along with the rest of the Caribbean, continues to feel the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic particularly in the small business sector, its government appears to be backing the cooperatives sector to help navigate the country through its current economic challenges.

The trial of Afibia Yankana and Akeem Haymer who are accused of the 2017 fatal bus park stabbing of Rawle Rodrigues, is set to commence on Tuesday, July 13th before Justice Sandil Kissoon at the High Court in Georgetown.

Weeks after assuming office as the sixth president of the Caribbean Development Bank, the St.

Dear Editor, Without question, job creation and high employment must remain priority national development goals.

(Reuters) – The International Cricket Council’s (ICC) chief executive Manu Sawhney will step down with immediate effect, four months after he was sent on leave following an investigation into his style of working, cricket’s world governing body said yesterday.

Former president of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Dr Compton Bourne is calling for an increased number of small businesses in the composition of business enterprises across the region.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) is appealing to the Ministry of Labour to address the plight of the workers at Demerara Timbers Limited (DTL) who have reported “serious concerns” to the union.

Dear Editor I am a bit weary of listening and watching Regional Police Commanders on the programme, “Police and You” giving accounts of their stewardships and positing figures of certain categories of reported serious crimes and traffic accidents to indicate how well their divisions are performing.

(Reuters) – Middle-order batsman Haris Sohail will return to Pakistan after a hamstring injury cut short his England tour, the touring team said yesterday, just hours before the one-day series gets underway in Cardiff.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – A heavily armed commando unit that assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moise this week comprised 26 Colombians and two Haitian Americans, authorities said yesterday, as the hunt went on for the masterminds of the brazen killing.

Scotia Bank’s operations in both Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica, have reported some measure of success in navigating the choppy waters of the quarter that ended in April this year.

Thirty adolescent mothers in Region One (Barima-Waini) have completed a Ministry of Education (MoE) programme which has equipped them with skills in cookery, enabling them to gain employment or start their own business.

Dear Editor, From the filings of multi-million dollars law suits to no confidence motions and counter motion.

(Reuters) – Bjorn Kuipers will become the first Dutch referee to take charge of a European Championship final when England take on Italy in Sunday’s Wembley showpiece, the continent’s soccer governing body UEFA said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden yesterday strongly defended his decision to pull U.S.

It has been seven weeks since robbery accused Peter Headley was fatally shot by a policeman and the authorities remain tightlipped about the probe.

The trial of Devon Thomas and Cabesh Persaud who are accused of causing the deaths of 10 persons in a boat crash back in 2013 is set to commence on Tuesday July, 13th at the High Court at Suddie.

Dear Editor, Something so unknown as to be extinct occurred on Wednesday. 

Dear Editor, I am in support of OGGN (Oil and Gas Governance Network) leader Mike Persaud’s call that Parliament should review major projects pertaining to Guyana’s natural resources to prevent giveaways, such as the current oil contracts signed by a Minister in the previous PNC Government defeated in a no-confidence motion and defeated in the subsequent general election of 2020.

(Reuters) – When England players woke yesterday morning, back at their secluded countryside training base St George’s Park, they will have no doubt felt the afterglow of the wild celebrations of their Euro 2020 semi-final win over Denmark at Wembley.

(Reuters) – Zaila Avant-garde, 14, became the first African American to win the 90-year-old Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday by correctly spelling ‘Murraya,’ a genus of plants, staying cool after a near miss with a botanical word in a previous round.

The fact that the Caribbean and Latin America are badly lagging behind member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is stymying development in the hemisphere and points to the need for urgent and significant investment in broadband penetration in order to close the digital divide, a recent study by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says.

Dear Editor, Within recent times, we have witnessed not exactly an exodus but a noticeable movement of individuals away from the APNU/AFC Coalition.

(Reuters) – Mahmudullah scored a career-best unbeaten 150 in a massive ninth wicket stand of 191 as Bangladesh moved into a strong position at the close of day two of the first test against Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club yesterday.

Between March and August last year folks supporting the sanctimonious Brigadier-President utilized every subterfuge to execute elections thievery.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 922’s trading results showed consideration of $21,817,712 from 125,110 shares traded in 29 transactions as compared to session 921’s trading results which showed consideration of $59,934,425 from 239,487 shares traded in 31 transactions.

The twin factors of climate change and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on labour loss and its implications for the agricultural sector are among the primary factors that now bring the issue of food security in the Caribbean into ever sharper focus.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – The economic cost of a regional power outage in Central America on Wednesday was estimated at around $18.2 million, the head of the region’s electricity operator EOR said yesterday, identifying two failures behind it.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday July 08, 2021 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba said yesterday its two-shot Soberana 2 vaccine, delivered with a booster called Soberana Plus, had proven 91.2% effective in late stage clinical trials against the coronavirus, following similar news about its Abdala vaccine.

A few weeks ago, members of the Rastafarian community staged protests in front of the Attorney General’s Chambers.

The assassination of  Haitian President Jovenel Moïse on Wednesday and the wounding of First Lady Martine Moïse during an invasion of their home just outside of the capital Port-au-Prince must be deplored in the strongest possible terms. 

(Reuters) – Britain will send its largest ever team for an overseas Olympics to the Tokyo Games, the British Olympic Association (BOA) said yesterday, with more female than male athletes for the first time.