Daily Archive: Tuesday, September 7, 2021

The Ministry of Health today said that as of September 06, 2021, seven more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – El Salvador today became the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, although it suffered teething problems when the government had to unplug a digital wallet to cope with demand.

(Trinidad Express) A Caratal man who was initially detained by police for failure to attend court for a house-breaking incident, has allegedly confessed to a murder. 

(Trinidad Express) Massy Holdings Ltd announced yesterday that it is selling the group’s 100 per cent interest in Massy United Insurance Ltd to the Coralisle Group for US$90.5 million (TT$606 million).

(Trinidad Express) The woman, who is listed as the Director of Traveline Travel Agency in Chaguanas, was charged with 14 counts of fraudulent conversion while her husband, Rasheed, was charged with 12 counts of fraudulent conversion.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp today said it will begin measuring methane emissions from production of natural gas at a New Mexico facility, joining a number of shale gas producers seeking to provide the data to buyers.

Public schools across the country reopened on Monday for face-to-face learning for nursery- and primary-level students and the Ministry of Education indicated that there was a high turnout by both teachers and their charges despite some reports of lockouts in some regions as a result new vaccination requirements. 

The Guyana Association of Bankers Inc has announced that financial institutions would soon be conforming with the newest COVID-19 measures, which place restrictions on access by unvaccinated persons.

Local ExxonMobil affiliate Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) has said that its planned 12-Well Exploration and Appraisal (E&A) Drilling Program in the Canje Block, offshore Guyana, is slated to begin by the first quarter of 2022 once environmental authorisation is given for the project.

Some unvaccinated parents and teachers in Region Two were locked out from schools on Monday as a result of newly enforced requirements for access.

Region Six’s primary and nursery schools reopened yesterday for face-to-face learning but while there was a poor turnout of students overall, parents who opted to send their children to school were happy with the arrangements.

A casual visitor to the town of Linden, in Region Ten on Monday could be forgiven for thinking it was a holiday.

A 26-year-old Wakenaam man was yesterday apprehended by residents of the community after he allegedly chopped his father to death during an argument.

The police on Sunday found a total of 44 pounds of cannabis with an estimated street value of $6.6 million in a car that was abandoned on the eastern side of the Wismar Bridge, at Linden, after the occupants fled the moving vehicle as law enforcers approached.

With government moving to place greater restrictions on access to public spaces by unvaccinated persons, Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony yesterday said the decision was driven by the need to ensure public safety.

Dear Editor, I read with amusement and concern on the new development surrounding the CJIA Modernization Project, where there has been an award of a $400M contract between the Ministry of Public Works and Total Solutions, published in Stabroek News on September 4, 2021.

A century from national all-rounder, Christopher Barnwell in the United States Minor League T20 tournament capped off an impressive outing by Guyanese over the weekend.

Guyana on Monday confirmed the deaths of six more persons who had COVID-19, taking the country’s death toll from the virus to 647.

Dear Editor, The Covid-19 vaccination system in Guyana needs revamping, because currently, the situation is quite absurd.

With Region Two recording an increase in coronavirus cases, the Region’s Task Force will be taking the necessary actions to ensure that businesses and residents adhere to the COVID-19 measures, while calls continue for more persons to get vaccinated.

Guyana Amazon Warriors’ lead coach, Rayon Griffith reckons the best is yet to come in this season’s Caribbean Premier League (CPL) with the focus on the semi-finals.

Dear Editor, I read in the news that President Irfaan Ali had announced that the repainting of the State House was being funded by the private sector.

With their parents eager for the resumption of face-to-face learning, hundreds of children in Region Two have already received their first Pfizer jabs under the adolescent COVID-19 vaccination campaign that is now underway.

Local businesses KSM Investment, Bakewell and BM Soat are the latest companies to join the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club’s efforts to construct a new home for the family of Chunilall Sonaroo.

Dear Editor, One assumes that the EPA reports to a Minister.

On the one-year anniversary of the discovery of the mutilated bodies of West Coast Berbice (WCB) teenagers Joel and Isaiah Henry, President Irfaan Ali said the government supports the Guyana Police Force (GPF) in its efforts to ensure that the perpetrators of the crime face the “fully penalty” of the law.

LONDON, (Reuters) – India’s world class attack produced a bowling masterclass on a flat deck at The Oval yesterday to secure a memorable 157-run victory in the fourth test against England.

Dear Editor, I thank Minister Frank Anthony for stepping forward, removing the trash talk, and clearing the air on vaccines and children, and immunization interval necessary. 

BARCELONA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – On the heels of last month’s warning from the U.N.

LONDON, (Reuters) – India skipper Virat Kohli lavished praise on his bowlers yesterday, hailing their exploits in The Oval test against England as one of the top three bowling performances under his captaincy.

BECKENHAM, England, CMC – Teddy Bishop was left stranded short of a century, underlining West Indies Under-19s disappointment as they crashed to their second straight defeat to England Under-19s here yesterday.

Dear Editor, First the minority arm was against the chairman and vice, now it is a combined clamour against the executive officer of the region over budget.

A man was shot while another escaped during a confrontation over a claimed counterfeit $5,000 bill outside of a Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) supermarket last night.

(Reuters) – The Taliban claimed victory yesterday in the last part of Afghanistan still holding out against their rule, declaring that the capture of the Panjshir valley completed their takeover of the country and they would unveil a new government soon.

(Reuters) – Former United Arab Emirates (UAE) wicketkeeper Gulam Shabbir has been banned from all forms of cricket for four years after admitting breaching six counts of the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) anti-corruption code, world cricket’s governing body said yesterday.

Dear Editor, Sometime last week GTT announced with great fanfare that their Blaze service has been “upgraded” and that customers would immediately see faster connectivity and better service.

Several persons were injured after a minibus and pick-up collided last night at the junction of Croal Street and Avenue of the Republic, Georgetown.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard said yesterday it was investigating nearly 350 reports of oil spills in and along the U.S.

BECKENHAM, England, CMC – Rising Stars stroke-maker Teddy Bishop has underscored the value of batsmen making adjustments to their approach, in order to score runs in English conditions.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Thirty-nine-year-old Guyanese labourer Tarachand Gobin was denied bail when he appeared at the Sangre Grande Magistrates’ Court charged with two counts of common assault and assault occasioning a wound.

An Upper Corentyne teenager is now hospitalised with a chop wound after a row over a pig between his father and another man ended in an armed conflict on Sunday.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil prepared for Independence Day demonstrations today by supporters of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who has called for a show of support for his attacks on the country’s Supreme Court that are rattling Latin America’s largest democracy.

(Reuters) – Afghanistan’s professional T20 cricket tournament, which was due to start on Friday, has been postponed, an official from the country’s cricket board (ACB) told Reuters.

Dear Editor, Two months after a July 13th News-room article, “After years of advocacy, Cabinet greenlights Guyana Hemp Industry”, I can picture Michael Kirton, co-chair of GHI, once more losing his optimism, probably salivating on his words  – “The battle to legalise industrial hemp in Guyana has come to an end,” to Newsroom.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – FIFA is investigating the abandonment of the Brazil-Argentina World Cup qualifier with its president Gianni Infantino labelling the events “crazy”, while Tottenham Hotspur are reportedly ready to take disciplinary action against their Argentine players.

(Trinidad Express) – Police are investigating a million-dollar cyber heist in which US$247,500 (TT$1.7 million) of taxpayers’ money was stolen via a wire transfer conducted by Lake Asphalt of Trinidad and Tobago (LATT).

News reporting from across the Caribbean this past week has been weighted heavily in the direction of the decision-related challenges confronting governments at the beginning of the  second consecutive academic year since the coronavirus pandemic has, for the most part, kept the region’s children out of the classroom.

Some years ago, the then Prime Minister of Barbados, the late Owen Arthur, told me that unless regional leaders could agree on how to achieve economic parity between CARICOM’s member states, a viable Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) might not be attainable.

Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) inspectors last Friday seized 50 dial scales, not approved for commercial use, from vendors at the Stabroek and Bourda markets in Georgetown.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – The Chilean health regulator yesterday approved the COVID-19 vaccine produced by China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd for use in children over 6 years of age, allowing more people to be included in the country’s rapid inoculation campaign.

Dear Editor, On Sunday, September 5th, 2021 I tuned in to the virtual meeting being hosted by the APNU+AFC with residents of Region Ten.

SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – El Salvador has bought its first 200 bitcoins, President Nayib Bukele said yesterday, an announcement that sent the price of the cryptocurrency rising one day before the country formally adopts it as legal tender alongside the U.S.