Articles published on Tuesday, September 21, 2021
To compelling, if varied, results, three films screened at the recently concluded TIFF2021 explored similar themes of women in crisis struggling to acclimate to the systems around them – Canadian family-drama “All My Puny Sorrows”, the Brazilian horror film “Medusa”, and the Danish drama “As In Heaven”.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) today said that as of September 20, 2021, five more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The European Court of Human Rights found today that Russia was responsible for the assassination of ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who died an agonising death in 2006 after being poisoned in London with a rare radioactive substance.
(Barbados Nation) Barbados is dangerously close to losing out on precious doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Weeks after Stabroek News had reported that the government had been delinquent in naming its members to the local extractive industries transparency body, the administration yesterday complied.
Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn has promised the family of Essequibo businessman, Orin Boston that all efforts will be made to ensure his death is “thoroughly” investigated and he also said there will be a review of the Guyana Police Force’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
A compromised drainage system is suspected to be the primary cause of the recent flash flooding in Matthews Ridge, Region One, after the reservoir belonging to Chinese-owned Guyana Manganese Inc (GMI) collapsed, Regional Chairman Brentnol Ashley said yesterday.
Come November, Guyanese visiting the US must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and Washington is still to make a decision on which vaccines it will accept.
Australian mining company, Troy Resources Limited says that its Managing Director, Ken Nilsson, passed away yesterday morning after failing to recover from a medical procedure last week.
Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha yesterday decided to establish a committee in the Mahaicony Branch Road area to review the listing of farmers who have gotten flood relief grants after receiving numerous complaints that their losses were under-reported.
Pre-cooked pepper-pot and cookup – standout offerings in Guyanese cuisine – are among a host of products seeking overseas markets in a USAID-funded programme.
The government’s current focus on the sugar industry is making the Rose Hall Factory operational and a single bid was last Thursday received to fix the roof of the boiler house of that estate.
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Andre Russell’s three-wicket burst helped bundle Royal Challengers Bangalore out cheaply and set up a comfortable nine-wicket victory for Kolkata Knight Riders in their first game of the newly restarted Indian Premier League here yesterday.
Auditor General Deodat Sharma yesterday presented to the Speaker of the National Assembly his report on the public accounts for the fiscal year ended December 2020.
Guyana Amazon Warriors’ all-rounder Romario Shepherd was the buzz of this year’s Caribbean Premier League (CPL) competition and a lot of this improvement came from his thought process.
Ursula Dainty-Corbin, Queenstown’s oldest female resident, passed away on Sunday at her home in Region Two.
A suspect has been charged with the murder of Nelson Thomas, the Kaneville miner who was found dead almost two weeks ago.
MONTREAL, (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today acknowledged he will need to work with other parties after he fell short of winning a majority in parliamentary elections, leaving him once more dependent on opposition legislators to govern.
A man who is accused of stealing over $1.25 million in camera accessories and a printer was denied bail on Monday after a City Magistrate heard that he has a similar charge pending.
Dear Editor As I see it, we are on the cusp of another ‘New Age.’
CIUDAD ACUNA, Mexico, (Reuters) – The White House yesterday criticized the use of horse reins to threaten Haitian migrants after images circulated of a U.S.
A vendor was yesterday released on $300,000 bail after being charged with pretending to be in a position to sell a plot of land at Eccles, East Bank Demerara, to a real estate agent.
Dear Editor The Government of Guyana seems very confused about how deal with the problems caused by alcohol consumption.
The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport has embarked on transforming the unused area at the National Stadium into a multipurpose facility that will cater for the disciplines of football, volleyball, tennis and basketball.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Weeks before the World Bank scrapped its flagship Doing Business rankings following a damning independent probe, a group of external advisers recommended an overhaul of the rankings to limit countries’ efforts to “manipulate their scores.”
The Ministry of Education is aware of the challenges facing students in hinterland communities, including limited access to virtual learning, and is relying on the COVID-19 vaccination rollout to get them back in schools, according to Deputy Chief Education Officer (Amerindian and Hinterland Education Development) Marti De Souza.
United States of America- based Guyanese and We Stand United Cycle Club (WSUCC) member, James Joseph signed off competing at the 2021 USA Cycling Masters Track National Championships with his first Team Sprint gold medal Sunday night at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center, Breinigsville, PA.
Dear Editor, I sincerely apologize to the general public who attended the function at Leonora Mandir on Sunday, September 19, and were subjected to a great insult.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The United States said yesterday it had put Guatemala’s attorney general and five Salvadoran Supreme Court judges on a list of “undemocratic and corrupt” officials, in a sign of the Biden government’s frustration with Central American authorities.
SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has on Twitter proclaimed himself “dictator” of the Central American country, in an apparent joke that has done little to dispel concerns about his increasing concentration of power.
According to President Irfaan Ali it is imperative that the international community not be distracted from achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of Agenda 2030 even as it copes with the COVID-19 recovery.
Dear Editor, I need my payslips from the Department of Education, Region 4.
Guyanese Under-19 players, Matthew Nandu and Isai Thorne returned home on Sunday last, after participating in the just concluded West Indies tour of England.
A half century from national all-rounder, Akshaya Persaud spurred West Coast Warriors to the Deo and Sons T20 title Sunday.
YENAGOA, Nigeria, (Reuters) – Nigerian authorities imposed a communications blackout yesterday in several parts of Sokoto state as a crackdown against armed kidnappers in the country’s northwest region spreads.
Prime Minister Mark Phillips, who is performing the functions of President, yesterday morning administered the oath of office to Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance, Gail Teixeira, to perform the functions of Prime Minister.
(Trinidad Guardian) “These men are demon. They don’t have no God in them,” lamented the grandmother of 15-month-old Sariah Williams who was fatally chopped by a relative during a domestic dispute on Sunday night.
Dear Editor, There has been much reporting of carefully thought out cash grants being given impetuously to a substantial number of farmers, apparently without differentiation of the nature, volume or condition of various crops.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India will resume exports of COVID-19 vaccines in the October quarter, prioritising the global vaccine-sharing platform COVAX and neighbouring countries first as supplies rise, the health minister said yesterday.
Commercial activities have re-commenced in the Onderneeming community in Region Two after two days of protest.
The topic of our first article after a two-year hiatus was selected on account of the recurrent theme we have noticed.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – New Zealand will return to the sub-continent in November to play three Twenty20 Internationals and two test matches in India, two months after abandoning their tour of Pakistan over safety concerns.
(Reuters) – After a decade spent trying to woo back cricket’s international elite, Pakistan is facing the prospect of being declared the game’s no-go area again, and the anger is palpable.
Last week’s account of the travails of Jamaica’s former Minister of Agriculture Floyd Green, whose occupancy of the portfolio crashed and burned swiftly after he had been ‘caught on camera’ transgressing the protocols associated with the so-called No Movement Day, one of the mechanisms now in place in Jamaica designed to help push back what now threatens to become a Covid-19 tsunami, would not, one feels, have gone altogether unnoticed here in Guyana.
(Reuters) – England have withdrawn their men’s and women’s teams from next month’s tour of Pakistan, the country’s cricket board (ECB) said yesterday, three days after New Zealand abandoned their tour of the country amid security concerns.
(Reuters) – Former New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns said he faces the “greatest challenge” he has ever faced after suffering a spinal stroke following life-saving treatment for a torn artery.
(Reuters) – Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma will return to the side for their Indian Premier League match against Kolkata Knight Riders on Thursday after missing Sunday’s 20-run defeat by Chennai Super Kings in Dubai, head coach Mahela Jayawardene said.
(Reuters) – “Life goes on” was the message from coach Massimiliano Allegri after learning of Cristiano Ronaldo’s desire to leave last month, but four Serie A games into a future without their former talisman, Juventus continue to go from one disaster to the next.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Police Service has lost its 15th police officer to COVID-19.
Dear Editor, September 22 marks one year since the release of the Caribbean Examination Council’s 2020 CSEC and CAPE examination results, and the start of a struggle to secure the best interests of, and fair and accurate grades for, our region’s students.
(Cricinfo) Almost two years after Sourav Ganguly had announced that the financial health of domestic cricketers would be his “biggest priority” as BCCI president, the board yesterday announced sizeable hikes in match fees for men and women at the end of its apex council meeting.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Andrew has been served in the United States with a sexual assault lawsuit by a woman who said his conduct occurred around when his friend Jeffrey Epstein was sexually abusing her, court papers show.
The Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) yesterday said that with immediate effect passengers travelling to the north west district on the state ferry must be vaccinated or show a negative PCR test.
