Daily Archive: Sunday, July 25, 2021

The Ministry of Health today said that as of July 24, 2021, four more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) suffered a shutdown last night after one of its units was taken out of service because of an oil leak which was deemed as high risk for a fire starting.

Kenneth Smith, 54, of Ocean View, Utivlugt died yesterday while walking on the De Willem Public Road following a collision between two vehicles.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British health minister Sajid Javid apologised for and deleted a tweet urging people to take a COVID-19 vaccine and not to “cower” from the virus, saying today he had made “a poor choice of word”.

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – Austrian Anna Kiesenhofer caused one of the biggest shocks in Olympic road racing history with an audacious solo victory in the women’s race as a quartet of Dutch champions paid for an apparent communications meltdown on Sunday.

(Trinidad Guardian)  Trinidad and Tobago has crossed the 500,000 mark of people being administered the COVID-19 vaccine.

(Trinidad Guardian) Unvaccinated Special Branch police officers have been moved from President Paula-Mae Weekes and Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley’s security details.

(Trinidad Express) A fight between a couple led to the death of a 73-year-old man.

As a young doctor in internal medicine Kamela Bemaul-Sukhu was troubled by the many patients with blood disorders who at times lay in hospital beds for long periods with no real help given to them; this drove her to become specialised and today she is the only hematologist in the country.

While President Irfaan Ali has declared that schools will reopen in September, a mere five weeks away, the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) has said it cannot support the move until clear safety protocols are agreed with the union for the protection of both teachers and learners.

Twenty-one-year-old Keenan Prince had never heard the word hemophilia until her only child was diagnosed with the condition recently.

The National Assembly’s Constitutional Reform Committee met only twice this year due to COVID-19 constraints but this should not be seen as non-commitment to the process by the PPP/C government, Attorney General and Chairman of the body Anil Nandlall says.

“If you think gold mining is hard, the mining industry is harder to regulate and harder to manage because there are so many people with so many agendas, it is difficult to keep yourself on the straight and narrow—but keep yourself you must, if you want change,” says Urica Primus, founder member and President of the NGO, Guyana Women’s Miners’ Organisation (GWMO).

As it announced a rollout of state-of-the-art mobile service in Region Two, Digicel Guyana has called on the government to free up spectrum for the expansion and upgrade of its services.

Several observers have noted that the account in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York does not constitute the National Resource Fund (NRF).

The government has issued a Request For Proposals (RFP) to restart the scrapped Amaila Falls Hydro Project, for which it wants construction to begin by the second half of 2022.

(Westt Indies 191 for 6 (Pooran 59*, Holder 52, Starc 3-26) beat Australia 187 (W Agar 41, Hosein 3-30) by xx wickets Nicholas Pooran and Jason Holder rescued West Indies from more top-order troubles to level the ODI series in Barbados in the match that was delayed by 48 hours after the Covid-19 score in the home side’s camp.

Introduction Today’s column continues my rather extended interrogation cum discussion (over the  past several weeks) of the plethora of mis-representations, deceptions, and plain fake news put out ceaselessly in the social and print media by the local and external purveyors of noise and nonsense directed at Guyana’s emergent oil and gas sector.

The police suspect foul play after the body of a man was found dead in a fuel truck along the Tuschen Public Road, East Bank Essequibo, in the wee hours of Saturday morning.

Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) President Bissoondyal Singh has declared Guyana ready to host Pakistan next week.

The Olympic podium dreams of table tennis player, Chelsea Edghill and boxer, Keevin Allicock ended yesterday in Tokyo, Japan.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday confirmed that five more people who were infected with COVID-19 have died.

In the previous installment, we noted that, as was the case with Josė Gomes d’Aguiar, Carl Wieting and Gustav Henri Richter, the founders of Wieting & Richter Ltd.,

Some residents of Kwakwani, in Region 10, are bracing themselves for more losses as floodwaters in the community are once again rising. 

Standout featherweight, Keevin Allicock promised to box his way back to redemption at the Olympic Games in 2024 immediately after exiting the ring yesterday following his debut loss at ongoing the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.

Political leadership transitions can sometimes be full of drama. The transition to Desmond Hoyte after Burnham’s passing in 1985, was followed by the expulsion of its second most powerful leader, Hamilton Green, then a gradual but wholesale demolition the ‘left wing’ of the Peoples National Congress (PNC).

Dear Editor, Permit me a space in your editorial to briefly respond to the misinformation spouted by the Chief Education Officer, on behalf of the Ministry of Education, in an attempt to defend its reference “No Consultation on NGSA Examination Date.”

With a language barrier seen as a challenge to vaccination against COVID-19 in some parts of Region One, Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony has said a specialised campaign may have to be undertaken.

Towards the end of life – and when you are eighty-eighty and counting you are not very distant from the end – you become more reflective.

LEEDS, England, CMC – West Indies Women batting star, Hayley Matthews, was among the runs but her effort went in vain as Welsh Fire suffered a six-wicket defeat to Northern Superchargers in the Women’s Hundred here yesterday.

After a competitive year-long application process, Capoey Lake, Essequibo Coast resident Sara Henry has secured a scholarship to read for her Master’s Degree under the Ireland Fellows Programme for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Henry, a Senior Planning and Monitoring Officer at the Protected Areas Commission (PAC), is the first Guyanese to be afforded the opportunity under the programme.

Going in, although this is the traditional Sunday space in Stabroek News for my SO IT GO column, I am operating merely as a conduit this week for my wife Annette and her very focused work as an environmentalist.as

(Reuters) – South Africa captain Temba Bavuma hit 72 runs and the bowlers then restricted Ireland as the visitors won by 49 runs to complete a clean sweep of their three-match Twenty20 international series in Belfast yesterday.

Dear Editor, For the next thirty years in Guyana, it is expected that a more complex economy and society will be created.

Although many businesses have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, Absolutely Yours Public Relations and Event Coordinators has seen an increase in its revenue stream as it has attracted lots of clients in need of help operating in a business landscape that is becoming more virtual.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has said that Chair of the Trade Union Recognition Board Dr Nanda Gopaul has still to acknowledge a complaint lodged by it against the government over its requests to begin negotiations on wages and salaries. 

WASHINGTON/BEIJING, (Reuters) – U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will tell China in upcoming talks that while Washington welcomes competition with Beijing, there needs to be a level playing field and guardrails to ensure that does not veer off into conflict, senior U.S.

(Reuters) – NBC’s broadcast of the Tokyo Olympic Games opening ceremony drew 16.7 million viewers, the smallest U.S.

Dear Editor, I would like to make some comments on the article by Dr.

The recent death of one of Guyana’s most acclaimed actors, the legendary Clairmonte Taitt, was marked by a number of tributes and remembrances.

Dear Editor, I am 64 years old. I have health issues, I am hypertensive and presently suffering from dizzy spells which I know for sure is the result of severe stress that is causing my cholesterol level to rise because of constant acts of noise abuse.

(Reuters) – The Vatican released information on its real estate holdings for the first time yesterday, revealing it owns more than 5,000 properties as part of its most detailed financial disclosures ever.

A clerk who was waiting to pay workers was robbed of $2 million by armed robbers at Caneview Avenue, in South Ruimveldt, on Friday afternoon, according to the police, who say three suspects have since been held.

Russell Westbrook could be a candidate to join LeBron James and Anthony Davis with the Los Angeles Lakers.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – The United States men’s basketball team will begin their pursuit of a fourth successive Olympic title today with an intriguing match-up against a French squad led by a man the Americans will know well — Utah Jazz centre Rudy Gobert.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A federal appeals court late on Friday reversed course and let stand a lower court order prohibiting the U.S.

I’ve spent way too much time marvelling at the oddity of the title of Steve Soderbergh’s new crime drama, “No Sudden Move”.

Dear Editor, I write in response to a letter published in your newspaper on July 16, 2021 under the caption “GTT can certainly care more for their customers” by M.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemalan anti-graft fighter Juan Francisco Sandoval fled the country early yesterday, the country’s human rights ombudsman said, only hours after being fired in a move that sparked international outrage.

A Vigilance man was arrested on Friday after he was found with a plastic gun following a failed bid to escape from the police.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Protesters took to the streets in several Brazilian cities yesterday to demand the impeachment of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, whose popularity has fallen in recent weeks amid corruption scandals against the backdrop of the pandemic.

A man was apprehended by police on Thursday after a teen reported that he raped her in April at a store in Region Seven.

Rice is not the enemy to your physique goals. Despite being on a calorie restricted ‘diet’, I eat rice and other things people deem as out of the question for fat loss.

Dear Editor, The politicisation of our national colours has now gone all the way to Tokyo.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia has sent a shipment of coronavirus-related humanitarian assistance to Cuba, including 1 million medical masks, the defence ministry said yesterday, adding President Vladimir Putin had given instructions for the aid.

The second annual golf camp by the Guyana Golf Association and Nexgen Golf Academy, dedicated to former Coach Colin Ming finished on a high note Thursday at the Scouts Association of Guyana ground with a  competition.

(Reuters) – The Pakistan Super League (PSL) will be held in January and February next year, the country’s cricket board said yesterday following a meeting with the Twenty20 tournament’s franchises.

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has announced an online 2021 Chess Olympiad from August 13 to September 15 at which Guyana would be represented.

PARIS, (Reuters) – French anti-riot police fired teargas yesterday as clashes erupted during protests in central Paris against COVID-19 restrictions and a vaccination campaign, television reported.

Dear Editor,   It is savagely ironic that in today’s Guyana, there are imperious political leaders, who swagger arrogantly, yet who are so pathetically insecure that they are sharply ruffled by anything and anyone that stand against their corruptions, distortions. 

Commander Dion Moore with responsibility for Region Seven said on the GPF’s online programme last week that Guyanese vessels were being attacked by Sindicato and other guerrilla gangs along the Cuyuni River.

(Barbados Nation) – “If we cannot get consensus  . . .

Introduction Today’s column continues my rather extended interrogation cum discussion (over the  past several weeks) of the plethora of mis-representations, deceptions, and plain fake news put out ceaselessly in the social and print media by the local and external purveyors of noise and nonsense directed at Guyana’s emergent oil and gas sector.

Section of new Hauraruni Access Road collapses: The Ministry of Public Works says it has observed that a section of the recently completed Hauraruni Access Road (Phase I) on the East Bank of Demerara has collapsed.

Minister of Housing and Water Collin Croal on Saturday commissioned an upgraded water distribution system at St.