Daily Archive: Friday, September 3, 2021

The Ministry of Health today said that as of September 02, 2021, four more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Two officers attached to the Law Enforcement and Investigation Division (LEID) of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) were seriously injured during an anti-smuggling operation last night.

Leaders of Region 10 today said that the region will shut down on Monday, September 6th over the government’s vaccination policy.

Six men were today remanded to prison over the murder of Crabwood Creek Hindu Priest, Rishi Bharrat, who was fatally beaten in front of his house on Saturday evening.

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said in a surprise move today he would step down, setting the stage for a new premier after a one-year tenure marred by an unpopular COVID-19 response and sinking public support.

(Trinidad Guardian) A veteran attorney who ordered a hit on his secretary that he suspected of snitching about his illegal activities, has lost his appeal against his conviction for attempted murder.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Trinidadian mother and her son lost their lives in historic floods that swept through New York City overnight from Wednesday to yesterday.

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), former President David Granger sent shock-waves through his party and constituency when he advised yesterday that he had gone on an indefinite leave of absence from the party.

A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Lance Corporal and his girlfriend, who was visiting from Barbados were on Wednesday night gunned down in Sophia.

Aimed at providing enhanced 21st century connectivity for customers across the country with increased data speeds, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) yesterday announced that an additional $2B will be invested towards the upgrade of its fibre-optic internet service.

With the ban on the export of catfish (Siluriformes) to the United States still in effect, discussions between technical officers here and in the US are ongoing in an effort to resume the trade.

Environmentalist Simone Mangal-Joly has written to the Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) objecting to the EPA’s decision to not require an impact assessment for Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited’s (EEPGL) 12-Well Exploration and Appraisal Drilling programme in the Canje Block offshore Guyana.

US businesses flocking Guyana to cash in on investment opportunities continue to complain of the lack of a business-friendly environment.

The Ministry of Education (MoE) on Wednesday unfurled a range of programmes for students along with a teachers’ welfare initiative.

Eight more COVID-19 deaths were yesterday reported, increasing the total number recorded this week to 22.

An Air Services Ltd (ASL) aircraft which was carrying passengers and cargo yesterday suffered a punctured tyre while attempting to land at the Port Kaituma airstrip.

Even as speculation had become rife that India’s oil supply challenges arising primarily out of an idiosyncratic production posture on the part of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) might have been eased somewhat by the prospect of a long-term oil supply deal with Guyana, a media report published on Monday by the media group Caribbean News Global (CNG) says that Guyana has walked aside from such a deal.

Dear Editor, I was recently awarded a scholarship by GOAL to do a certificate in Wedding Planning and Decoration at the University of West Indies Open Campus.

The ongoing Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Guyana programme has come in for high praise from the UK-based multinational oil company, Tullow Oil, for what the company says has been its “continued pursuit of dispersing STEM learning across the length and breadth of Guyana.”

(CMC) – Roston Chase’s third Twenty20 fifty handed St Lucia Kings their second win of the Caribbean Premier League and lifted them off the floor of the standings, as they convincingly beat Guyana Amazon Warriors by 51 runs yesterday.

The mental health effects on COVID-19 patients are being taken care of according to the doctor in charge of the country’s COVID-19 hospital as a facility is expected to be set up to deal with the long-term effects of the virus.

Dear Editor, For the past five months users of the GT-Lethem road have suffered much hardship due to the deterioration of the road as a consequence of the extended rainy season.

If you think that the tried and tested pursuit of reading a book ‘from cover to cover’ might have been supplanted by the advent of information technology you may wish to know that there are instances, quite a few of them in fact, in which old habits die hard.  

(CPL)-St Kitts & Nevis Patriots maintained their unbeaten start to the 2021 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) with a remarkable final ball win over Barbados Royals, who suffered their fourth defeat of the tournament.

Dear Editor, Recognizing the need to clarify some misconceptions with reference to Mr.

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) yesterday responded to reports of what was claimed to be crude oil at the Kingston seashore, in Georgetown and initial assessments have revealed that the substance was in fact animal fat that was dumped in the vicinity.

Caribbean Business Report Despite making progress in its economic reform programme, Barbados still faces “severely depressed” conditions, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Dear Editor, We are told by Guyana Water Inc. that water is life, yet here in my area the GWI well is in the middle of a cemetery at Fyrish Village surrounded by flood water since the rainy season started.

The police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found on Wednesday floating in the Puruni River, Region Seven, and bearing what appeared to be gasoline burns.

Dear Editor, The recent publication by the Environmental Protection Agency, Guyana (EPA) that an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is not required for the new Demerara Harbour Bridge because it is a replacement is backward.

The government has extended the deadline for submission of Expressions of Interest for Gas Related Investments here by two weeks to facilitate additional inquiries garnered from the recent Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston, Texas.

It hasn’t taken too long since the announcement some weeks ago by the Cuban government of reforms that would allow small- and medium-sized ventures to formally incorporate as businesses and access state financing.

Dear Editor, I return from my now annual self-imposed 40-day retreat in the wilderness to this public service commitment of mine, and there is this unending sameness of the way things are in daily Guyanese life.

MAPLEWOOD, N.J.,  (Reuters) – Flash flooding killed at least 44 people in four North-eastern states as remnants of Hurricane Ida unleashed torrential rains that swept away cars, submerged New York City subway lines and grounded airline flights, officials said yesterday.

With several countries in the region still lagging behind current global thinking on the importance of radically adjusting their approaches to the packaging and labelling of food products the Caricom Private Sector Organization (CPSO), an Associate Institution of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is beginning to extoll the virtues of the region embracing Front of Package Nutrition Labels (FOP), a product labeling format that provides key health and nutritional information, relating to, among other things, the fat, sugar, salt, or calorie content of foods, clearly, on the front of food packaging.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, yesterday donated personal protective gear and cleaning products to the Ministry of Education to support hygiene measures as schools reopen their doors to students nationwide next week.

Dear Editor, I am happy to learn State House is being restored to its National Trust colours, and apparently at no cost to the Treasury (News Room, Sept 1).

By Arthur Deakin In a recent offshore oil & gas conference in Houston, Texas, in the US, Guyana’s foreign minister said that the country’s economy is expected to grow 500 per cent by 2030.

Tenders were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the emergency supply of drugs to treat HIV and New GPC was the only bidder at $307m.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A Texas law imposing a near-total ban on abortion that the U.S.

Dear Editor, The change of government from APNU/PPP Civic & PPP Civic/APNU results in repainting white to green/green to white – of State House and Government property – is this the best use of my tax $.

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage the global community with no hard immediate-term evidence of a respite in sight, a mid-August World Bank report says that an increasing number of countries across the globe are facing growing levels of acute food insecurity which carries with it the threat of a likely reversal of several years of development gains.

The autopsy recently conducted on the remains of 39-year-old Shawn Albert aka ‘Dexter/Rastaman’- a popular pastry vendor attached to Lin’s Bakery – revealed that he died as a result of haemorrhage from the gunshot injuries he suffered to his chest.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – A legal reform in El Salvador that seeks to fire all judges over the age of 60 that was approved by allies of President Nayib Bukele came under criticism from a U.S.

ABUJA,  (Reuters) – Billions of dollars in funding aimed at developing the Niger Delta, Nigeria’s volatile and impoverished oil-producing region, have been lost over the past two decades, the Nigerian government said yesterday, citing a new forensic audit.

Dear Editor, Consequent to an alleged statement by a Minister to senior Government security personnel that they should seek to achieve ethnic balance in our security services.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday September 2, 2021

Regional Chairman David Armogan yesterday announced that Region Six is fully prepared for the reopening of schools on Monday to facilitate face-to-face learning, explaining that teachers will be responsible for ensuring social distancing and the wearing of masks in classrooms. 

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – Swedish supergroup ABBA announced their first new album in four decades yesterday and said they would stage a series of virtual concerts using digital avatars of themselves in London next year.

Dear Editor, One does not have to be protagonist for any side of this non-productive DIVIDE.

A Berbice policeman is now hospitalized in a stable condition after he slammed into a motor lorry around 2 pm on Tuesday along the Upper Corentyne Public Road.

Kwesi Thomas was elected as the new president of West Demerara giant Pouderoyen FC, when the entity staged its electoral congress on August 29 at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora.

(Reuters) – Kylian Mbappe has been ruled out of France’s World Cup qualifiers against Ukraine and Finland after sustaining a calf injury in Wednesday’s 1-1 draw against Bosnia, the French federation said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Runners in this year’s Boston Marathon will need to provide proof of vaccination or produce a negative COVID-19 test in order to participate, race organisers said yesterday.

For now at least, we must accept as made public, information provided by Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Office for Investment (G-Invest) Dr Peter Ramsaroop and reported by the Department of Public Information (DPI) not just that “the government has held talks with members of the diaspora in Texas and Florida, USA on the roles they could play in Guyana’s development” but also that “many overseas-based Guyanese have expressed a desire to return home.”

(Reuters) – Roger Federer was the highest earning tennis player in the world over the last 12 months, making about $90.6 million before taxes, despite the Swiss maestro’s time on court being limited by injury, Forbes’ said yesterday.

(Reuters) – The Dutch grand prix at Zandvoort this weekend promises to deliver a fast race on a unique track where organisers hope their innovations will make up for a possible lack of overtaking action.

The Covid-19 situation has imposed enormous stress on everyone, but leaving that aside what most affects us is less the nonsense from the politicians than the inconveniences, irritations and frustrations that impinge on the pursuit of our daily lives. 

KINSHASA,  (Reuters) – Twelve people died and 4,400 fell sick in southern Democratic Republic of Congo following a tailings leak from the Catoca diamond mine in Angola in July, Congo’s environment minister said yesterday.

By Winston Anderson Hon Mr Justice Winston Anderson is third most senior Judge on the Carib-bean Court of Justice (CCJ) and Chair-man of the CCJ Academy for Law.

(Reuters) – Poland’s seventh seed Iga Swiatek said she was feeling the pressure that accompanies Grand Slam success after being made to sweat by unseeded Frenchwoman Fiona Ferro before sealing a 3-6 7-6(3) 6-0 win to reach the U.S.

Despite having the official label of being a food secure nation, it is no secret that Guyana is anything but.

(Trinidad Guardian) In what could turn out to be a major scandal for the government and state-owned National Gas Company, (NGC) Guardian Media has obtained confidential correspondence between Finance Minister Colm Imbert and the Board of the NGC that show the Board seeking, and Imbert agreeing, to grant them personal protection against being held to account should the company lose over $440 million in an ill-fated attempt to save Atlantic LNG Train 1.

(ESPN Cricinfo)-Sri Lanka scored 90 runs off the last 10 overs of their innings and defended 90 in the last 10 overs of South Africa’s to take the series lead and 10 points into the World Cup Super League table.

Dear Editor, We Christians believe that Jesus Christ came in the flesh and is the Son of God.

A truck driver was on Wednesday sentenced to seven months in prison after pleading guilty to embezzlement.

(Reuters) – Kimi Raikkonen said yesterday Formula One had never been the most important thing in his life and he would walk away with no regrets, no complaints and no particular plan for the future.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 930’s trading results showed consideration of $8,732,550 from 18,537 shares traded in 18 transactions as compared to session 929’s trading results which showed consideration of $20,768,855 from 44,243 shares traded in 10 transactions.

(Reuters) – World number three Stefanos Tsitsipas fired down a career-high 27 aces on the way to a 6-3 6-4 6-7(4) 6-0 win over second-round opponent Adrian Mannarino on Wednesday, but another protracted bathroom break drew jeers from the U.S.

(CMC) – An uninspired West Indies Women failed to come to grips with a demanding run chase and slumped to a meek 50-run defeat to South Africa Women yesterday, and fall behind in the three-match series.

Pity, sad that I’ll never live to SEE… Way in the days of yore – my bygone past – former PNC Minister Annette Ferguson is the type of lady – physically – I just loved.

(Reuters) – Cristiano Ronaldo will wear Manchester United’s famous number seven jersey once again following his return to Old Trafford, the Premier League club said yesterday.

(Reuters) – World number one Ash Barty stormed into the third round of the U.S.

(Reuters) – England bowled out India for 191 before suffering a top-order collapse of their own on a bowler-dominated opening day of the fourth test at The Oval yesterday.