Daily Archive: Sunday, July 11, 2021

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) says that 722 land titles/transports are ready for uplifting.

In the aftermath of the flooding that swamped the country and overwhelmed drainage infrastructure, the NDIA has advertised for six engineers.

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M.,  (Reuters) – British billionaire Richard Branson today soared more than 50 miles above the New Mexico desert aboard his Virgin Galactic rocket plane and safely returned in the vehicle’s first fully crewed test flight to space, a symbolic milestone for a venture he started 17 years ago.

VENICE,  (Reuters) – BlackRock Chief Executive Larry Fink today called for governments to develop a stronger long-term climate finance plan to unlock the private capital needed to fund the transition to a low-carbon economy.

(Trinidad Guardian) Kelly Phillip, the nurse accused of murdering Princes Town mother Kadijah Flament, has been returned to the St Ann’s Psychiatric Hospital.

(Trinidad Guardian) The restaurant industry in T&T is in crisis says Prestige Holdings Group CEO, Simon Hardy.

(Trinidad Guardian) The batch of drugs stolen from St James Medical Health Facility has been valued at $2.5 million and it includes one that is used to treat critically ill COVID-19 patients.

Saying government has continued to ignore its obligations under the existing labour agreement, the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has requested an urgent meeting for overdue negotiations on wages, salaries and allowances for the years 2020 and 2021.

A career army man, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Charles is a pilot who has been flying around Guyana for almost four decades and has taken a special interest in documenting the country’s sights on camera.

Government-nominated Elections Commissioner Bibi Shadick is hoping that the lawsuit filed by Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield will not delay the adjudication of the motion for his dismissal since no injunction has been granted by the court. 

Six Rasville families lost their homes on Saturday after an apartment building was gutted in a fire started by a child.

Twenty-two-year-old Kim Spencer has a love for birds and she wants to ensure that they are protected in their natural habitat.

(Reuters) – Shimron Hetmyer’s 61 off 36 balls and Dwayne Bravo’s unbeaten 47 helped the West Indies seal a comprehensive 56-run victory over Australia in the second Twenty20 international in St Lucia yesterday, to take a 2-0 lead in the five-match series.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday confirmed the deaths of three more persons who were infected with COVID-19, including a centenarian.

Team Guyana’s delegation to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games was officially unveiled yesterday with seven athletes set to represent the country in four disciplines in Tokyo, Japan.

With multiple COVID-19 cases having been confirmed in Santa Rosa, in Region One, the Village Council has instituted several measures, including extended curfew hours, in a bid to curb the spread of the virus.

By Nigel Westmaas  In 1889, there was massive riot in Georgetown that led to widespread unrest and the destruction of buildings, especially Portuguese shops.

A 36-year-old porter died in an early morning accident on Saturday after he lost control of the minibus he was driving and crashed into the fence of Apex Academy along the Montrose, East Coast Demerara (ECD) Public Road.

QUILLAN, France, (Reuters) – Bauke Mollema completed a bold, vintage solo raid to claim his second Tour de France win in 11 participations at the end of the 14th stage, a rough 183.7-km ride from Carcassonne yesterday.

Christopher Nurse, former captain of the Golden Jaguars said yesterday that the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) appears satisfied with the performance of current head-coach Marcio Maximo despite recent failures in the FIFA World Cup and Gold Cup Qualifying campaigns.

The government will begin disbursing its “Because We Care” Cash Grant and the School Uniform and Supplies Grant for children in the public school system this week, the Ministry of Education announced on Saturday.

President Irfaan Ali on Friday lobbied for greater support for private sector development when he met with the recently elected Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) President Dr Hyginus ‘Gene’ Leon and a visiting delegation.

West Indies leg-spinner, Hayden Walsh Jr., is calling on players to strive for consistency in the five-match T20I series against Australia.

Eight-year-old Aditya Ramlogan calmly puts on his sandals and all seems well until he stands and begins to walk.

Throughout his life, longtime educator and administrator Edward Jarvis has been met with a lot of adversity that could have left him bitter, such as losing his vision, divorce and the death of a son.

The biennial National Conference of the Alliance for Change (AFC), due to be held this month, has been postponed as the party’s leadership brainstorms ways to hold the gathering while adhering to COVID-19 protocols.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Argentina won their first major title in 28 years yesterday when an Angel Di Maria goal gave them a 1-0 win over Brazil and a record-equalling 15th Copa America.

The Gentleman’s Lounge, which was launched just over a week ago, is geared towards catering for men as indicated by its name and its objective is to provide quality grooming and relaxation services for men in a calming atmosphere.

Dear Editor, Recently, the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Governance, Gail Teixeira,  announced in Parliament that the Government is asking for G$700 million for what she called a Regional Joint Support Team, RJST, which had already been set up.

As part of its housing programme, the government has applied to register several parcels of land in Diamond and Grove, on the East Bank of Demerara, and La Reconnaissance, on the East Coast of Demerara.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Ash Barty joined an illustrious list of Australian names etched on Wimbledon silverware as she beat Karolina Pliskova in a nerve-shredding final to become the first woman from Down Under to win the singles title for 41 years yesterday.

(Reuters) – The 6-foot-5 frame of Matteo Berrettini will be standing in the way of Novak Djokovic’s relentless pursuit of hoarding as many tennis milestones as possible when the two meet in a Wimbledon final  today where both men will be eyeing the record books.

A Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) diagnosis in January 2020 saw Anjeli Surujpaul, a University of Guyana student, having to make drastic changes to her life and she is now working to raise awareness about the autoimmune deficiency.

Dear Editor, Fifty- five years ago Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham and Dr.

The question of who is the greatest chess player of all time is constantly being asked and debated.

Dear Editor, Over the years I have been fortunate to travel the world and experience many diverse and distinct cultures.

Diagnosed with the largest arteriovenous malformation (AVM) locally, Police Corporal Amit Bacchus is in urgent need of a lifesaving surgery and is seeking the public’s assistance in raising funds to have the procedure done.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Half-centuries by opener Rashada Williams and Shabika Gajnabi went in vain as West Indies Women ‘A’ slipped to a heavy nine-wicket defeat to Pakistan Women ‘A’ in the opening one-dayer here yesterday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – One of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders said yesterday his men would take to the streets in protest at the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, threatening to pitch the impoverished Caribbean nation deeper into chaos.

(Reuters) – Italy manager Roberto Mancini urged his players to entertain the public one last time at Euro 2020 and said he has no plans to alter the Azzurri’s attacking style for today’s final against England at Wembley.

Police are now searching for two men who robbed a policeman of his motorcycle on Friday evening at Spurwing Drive, South Ruimveldt, Georgetown.

Dear Editor, As we approach the one-year milepost of President Mohamed Irfan Ali in office, I cut through the political propaganda and PR fluff, and measure the man and leader using six yardsticks. 

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Clashes between police and a gang in northwestern Caracas this week have left at least 26 dead, including four officers, and 38 people injured, Venezuelan Interior Minister Carmen Melendez said yesterday.

A Rupununi youth is now in police custody after he stabbed his neighbours following a drunken argument. 

Dear Editor, Even though I’m not a user/consumer of the purified water selling about the place, I must say that I’m quite pleased to see a list of approved water filtration places.

(London School of Economics and Political Science) – It takes us less than half a second, on average, to decide whether a food tastes good but twice as long to decide how healthy it is, according to new research from LSE’s Department of Management.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced that 800,000 two-dose vaccines will arrive in Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday morning.

Guyanese have long known that Haiti had been the poorest country in the Caribbean.

“For me I don’t think school should reopen because it is not safe with COVID-19.

Enslaved Africans had been emancipated for less than two years when Richard Schomburgk, a Prussian scientist, arrived in hot and humid equatorial British Guiana on the evening of Friday, January 21, 1840.

Introduction As observed last week, eight of the world’s top ten producers of barrels of oil per day are National Oil Companies, NOCs.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth has sent a message to the England soccer manager to wish the team luck ahead of its most anticipated game since the 1966 World Cup final.

Dear Editor, The ever popular slogan of the Grenada Revolution now appears in the reverse with the tabling of the Opposition Motion of No Confidence against two Ministers of the PPP/C Administration.

Unless a hurricane strikes, the international media pay little attention to Haiti in the normal course of the news cycle, since they conclude, rightly or wrongly that it is in a state of permanent crisis and there is consequently never anything new to report.

Police on Friday arrested a 25-year-old man after finding a quantity of cocaine and cannabis near him during a mass stop and search operation on the East Coast.

(University of South Florida) – All it takes is three consecutive nights of sleep loss to cause your mental and physical well-being to greatly deteriorate.

The world is endlessly fascinating, countlessly full of interesting people. Once at a party long ago I met a visitor to Guyana who turned out to be an expert on grass-hoppers.

(Duke-NUS Medical School) – The impact of loneliness in old age on life and health expectancy has been categorically quantified for the first time in a new study by scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School (Singapore), Nihon University (Tokyo, Japan) and their collaborators, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

While exercising may be the ‘easy’ part, staying on top of your nutrition may pose more of a challenge when it comes to fat loss.

Are the “Conjuring” movies the most intriguing franchise of this century?