Daily Archive: Wednesday, September 22, 2021

The Ministry of Health today said that as September 21, 2021, two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

 (Reuters) – Former West Indies all-rounder Marlon Samuels has been charged with breaching four counts of the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) anti-corruption code, world cricket’s governing body said today.

LA PALMA, Spain, (Reuters) – Lava poured from an erupting volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma for a fourth day today, blanketing houses and fields, a day after people with homes on the path of the molten rock were allowed back briefly to recover belongings.

(Trinidad Express) Over 24 years of domestic abuse suffered by a Tarodale family culminated in the killing of one of their youngest children, a one-year-old girl, during a bloody cutlass attack on Sunday night by a rejected lover.

The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) yesterday distanced itself from a decision to retender a contract, as claimed by the Ministry of Agriculture, and its Board will meet next week to discuss the issue.

Having found that there was no proper monitoring system in place at the breached reservoir owned by Guyana Manganese Inc.

The Ministry of Health yesterday reported the deaths of five more persons with COVID-19, including a 92-year-old man.

Six months after he was gunned down outside the Palm Court bar on Main Street, the family of Ricardo Fagundes last evening demanded answers from the police on the state of their investigation.

A probe by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has concluded that the recent pollution on the Kingston seashore, Georgetown was a result of waste oil being dumped into the Demerara River.

Guyana has engaged the Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro on recent attempts by Venezuela’s government and opposition to use the border controversy between the two countries as a point of negotiation.

An Upper Berbice River logger was on Monday remanded to prison over the murder of Kevin Hercules, whose body was discovered floating downwards in the Berbice River last Tuesday.

A policeman and a robbery suspect were both shot in their thighs during a scuffle on Leopold Street yesterday.

A Stanleytown, New Amsterdam man died yesterday afternoon after he lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a parked lorry on the Beterverwagting Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara.

A total of 164 persons were up to yesterday morning hospitalized across Guyana with COVID-19 and Minister of Health Dr.

Guyana Amazon Warriors’ all-rounder, Romario Shepherd finished the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) as the joint second highest wicket-taker in the tournament but it was a conversation during a rained out West Indies match that changed his perspective.

The Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) will be facilitating a public hearing tomorrow into all appeals submitted against the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision not to require an impact assessment for the York Investment Inc quarry mining project.

A guard attached to the MMC Security Service was discovered dead at her workplace yesterday morning and the police have launched a probe to determine the circumstances surrounding her passing.

The border between Lethem and Bonfim in Brazil remains closed until such time as both governments decide it is safe and reasonable to allow border crossings.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – Chinese leader Xi Jinping said yesterday that China would not build new coal-fired power projects abroad, using his address at the United Nations General Assembly to add to pledges to deal with climate change.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Democrats in the House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday to fund the U.S.

Australian mining company Troy Resources Limited yesterday announced that current Non-Executive Director, Richard Beazley, will assume the role of interim CEO and Managing Director, effective immediately following the sudden death on Monday of CEO, Ken Nilsson.

Fresh off the West Indies Under-19 tour of England, Matthew Nandu revealed that the anchor role he played for the team was something he enjoyed.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden mapped out a new era of vigorous competition without a new Cold War despite China’s ascendance during his first United Nations address yesterday, promising military restraint and a robust fight against climate change.

A Lamaha Park woman who was injured in an accident over a week ago, succumbed on Monday to injuries sustained.

The National Sports Commission (NSC) in effort to aid Carlos Peterson-Griffith’s participation at the 2021 World Classic Powerlifting Championships in Halmstad, Sweden, has sponsored the totality of his attendance at the event which starts today and ends October 1t This was confirmed yesterday during a simple presentation ceremony held at the NSC’s headquarters where Director of Sport, Steve Ninvalle, said, “Our budget is not infinite.

Dear Editor, Over the next twenty years in Guyana, the ‘big picture’ will be more complex with many new and unexpected problems, and there will be great opportunities to develop a better quality of life for the overwhelming majority of the nation who are workers, farmers, the poor, the unemployed and the dispossessed.

The Guyana Lottery Company (GLC) made an official presentation yesterday to the Linden Bauxite Flyers Cycling Club at their Lamaha Street Head Office, as part of their sponsorship arrangement with the sports body.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund said its executive board yesterday to discuss a report prepared for the World Bank alleging that IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva pressured staff to alter data to favor China while serving as the bank’s CEO.

Dear Editor, The online article captioned, `Gov’t finally names members to natural resources transparency body’ (SN September 21) refers. 

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti/CIUDAD ACUNA, Mexico,  (Reuters) – Angry scenes broke out at Haiti’s main airport yesterday among migrants sent home from a squalid Texas border camp, as U.S.

Foreign Ministers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) yesterday impressed upon United States Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman the urgency for the delivery of the second tranche of donations of Pfizer vaccines from the US.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau failed in his bid to win a Liberal majority government after a low-energy campaign in the middle of the pandemic, and party insiders see an increasing chance he will step down before the next vote.

Dear Editor, The public that visits the GPO daily to apply for or uplift documents especially birth and marriage certificates, often leaves disappointed.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peru’s energy and mines minister said yesterday the government wants to revise the framework for the country’s mining industry, redrafting the umbrella law that regulates the sector, as well as the legislation that sets royalty payments.

Once bustling with bars, snackettes and miners, the landing which serves as the core of the gold mining community in the Marudi Mountains in the Rupununi has become eerily desolate – a ghost town filled with nothing but empty shacks and a handful of persons as a years-long stalemate between prospectors and the regulatory authorities continues.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Argentina yesterday unveiled plans to ease coronavirus pandemic restrictions, including loosening strict border controls, allowing more commercial activities and getting rid of the mandatory wearing of face masks outdoors.

VILNIUS,  (Reuters) – Lithuania’s Defense Ministry recommended that consumers avoid buying Chinese mobile phones and advised people to throw away the ones they have now after a government report found the devices had built-in censorship capabilities.

Dear Editor, Mr Ralph Ramkarran posits the view that the PPP is no longer a Marxist-Leninist party.

The Guyana senior women’s national football team will play Puerto Rico in two friendly matches and will be encamped there in October as the squad accelerates its preparations for the initial round of FIFA World Cup qualifiers in November.

Region Two is currently experiencing an increase of Covid-19 with 23 persons having died from the virus to date and 158 active cases.

Works on the new well at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara are progressing as planned despite some minor setbacks.

CAPE TOWN/BERLIN – The northern summer of 2021 has brought a series of record-breaking natural disasters.

West Indies cricket fans who broke their self-imposed solitary confinement over the weekend, and returned to the reality of everyday life discovered that their nightmares of the past week were, and still are, real.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The European Court of Human Rights found yesterday 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.

LAHORE, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Pakistan have been “used and binned” by the “Western Bloc”, cricket board chairman Ramiz Raja said yesterday, adding that he thinks Australia will join New Zealand and England in cancelling their tour of the South Asian country.

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DUBAI, CMC – Twenty20 World Cup-bound West Indies pair of Nicholas Pooran and Fabian Allen starred for all the wrong reasons in a final over drama that ended with Rajasthan Royals clinching a thrilling, two-run victory over Punjab Kings in the Indian Premier League yesterday.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Cricket West Indies (CWI) chief executive officer Johnny Grave said he will be speaking with officials from the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) about the West Indies tour of Pakistan in December.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Long-serving Trinidad & Tobago Cricket Board president Azim Bassarath became the latest high-profile figure to question the selection of the West Indies team for the ICC Twenty20 World Cup from October 00 to November 00 in the United Arab Emirates and Oman.

SYDNEY, CMC – Trinidad & Tobago goal shooter Sam Wallace is one of six players to re-sign with Super Netball champions New South Wales Swifts for another two seasons.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Re-appointed Guyana head coach Jamaal Shabazz said he wanted his fourth stint in the post to be marked with players serious about going all the way to the 2026 FIFA World Cup to be jointly hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico.

MIAMI, Florida, CMC – Concacaf unveiled yesterday, a major expansion of its Champions League as part of a new calendar of regional club competitions.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga tested positive for COVID-19 hours after accompanying President Jair Bolsonaro to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, the government said.

Dear Editor,  After enjoying the peace, rest and reflection offered during the International Day of Peace one does start to become concerned about how long such peace will be maintained.