Daily Archive: Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Senior Minister in the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance, Dr.

The Ministry of Health today said that a pre-existing condition led to the death of a vaccinated boy from Moruca on October 4.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) this afternoon confirmed the deaths of nine more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), taking the country’s death toll from the pandemic to 816.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Pfizer Inc will study the effectiveness of its vaccine against COVID-19 by inoculating the whole population over the age of 12 in a town in southern Brazil, the company said today.

Bartica miner Eon Anthony Ramnarine, 38, was stabbed to death on Monday at Obanna Backdam, Kuribrong in Region Seven.

The Ministry of Finance’s Mid-Year Report for 2021 says that Guyana recorded real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth of 14.5 percent while non-oil GDP grew by 4.8 percent, despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and floods experienced in May-June.

Only five of the nine companies pre-qualified to submit technical and financial proposals to build and design the New Demerara Harbour Bridge did so yesterday when tenders for the project were opened.

Days after the Guyana Fire Service faced scathing criticism over its performance in fighting the Brickdam Police Station blaze on Saturday, Fire Chief Kalamadeen Edoo was yesterday sent on leave.

An autopsy performed on the 13-year-old Moruca boy who died hours after he was administered the second dose of the COVID-19 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, gave his cause of death as haemorrhaging in the brain.

Murder has been ruled out in the death of Dannie ‘Rickey’ Persaud who was found in the upstairs of a wedding house at Goed Fortuin, West Bank Demerara.

Political confrontation would lead us nowhere, PNCR Chair and acting party leader Volda Lawrence told an event to celebrate the 64th anniversary of the party yesterday while former President and party leader, David Granger warned against factionalism.

Four more unvaccinated persons are Guyana’s latest fatalities as a result of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

In the quest of a new paradigm in relations, Guyana and Barbados yesterday discussed a range of natters including how they can work together to lower their food import bills.

The judiciary yesterday launched its revised code of ethics for judicial officers, which seeks among other things, to ensure integrity, impartiality and independence in upholding the Rule of Law.

SHARJAH, CMC – Neither West Indies white-ball captain Kieron Pollard nor Trinidad & Tobago compatriot Evin Lewis had a starring role in an eight-wicket win for defending champions Mumbai Indians over Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League (IPL) yesterday.

Dear Editor, I am writing this letter to request Internet Providers to look into providing internet service to a long deprived area, Black Bush Polder.

Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday formed a committee in the Upper Corentyne which will be responsible for selecting the 150 fishermen to be sent to Suriname to acquire licences to fish in Suriname’s waters.

Tenders were yesterday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the rehabilitation of the Main access road at Ituni/Tacama in Region Ten.

Dear Editor, The VP rolled into Region Six and brought Christmas early for severed sugar workers.

Over 1,200 persons were inoculated at the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 vaccination drive-thru on Sunday at the National Cultural Centre (NCC) in Georgetown.

Dear Editor, I was born in Supenaam, on the bank of the mighty Essequibo River, and was literally brought into this world by African hands.

Dear Editor, I read with great concern and anguish that during a ceremony to commemorate the life and death of the Great Mahatma Gandhi, that His Excellency, High Commissioner of India proposed in the presence of the President that the Parade Ground and Middle Street be renamed after Mahatma Gandhi.

The Minister of Health yesterday stated that the administration of the Pfizer vaccine has been extended to cover pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers.

Dear Editor, My late and honoured friend who would have been one of the most outstanding legal minds in the Commonwealth, having won four consecutive appeals before the Privy Council, Sir Fenton Ramsahoye, advises that one of the things a man/woman doesn’t know is that ‘he/she does not know’.

“We shall always protect the rights of the people,” is what President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Justice Adrian Saunders said is the court’s “solemn promise” to the Region.

Dear Editor, Guyana is an interesting place. While Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo, who is the lone member of the ‘National Investment Committee’ is telling the Guyanese people that we must temper our expectations and should not expect benefits from the oil and gas industry until the next few years, people are selling island(s) in our country.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers pounded Facebook yesterday, accusing CEO Mark Zuckerberg of pushing for higher profits while being cavalier about user safety, and they demanded regulators investigate whistleblower accusations that the social media company harms children’s mental health and stokes divisions.

A Corentyne family is now mourning the loss of their loved one after he fell from his work truck along the Number 65 Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice, on Monday.

President of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF), Michael Singh, has officially confirmed that the entity’s Youth and Women’s Leader, Sileena Arjune, will be the coordinator of the men and women’s 3 x 3 teams at the upcoming FIBA AmeriCup Championship in Florida.

Dear Editor, President Dr. Irfaan Ali was ‘spot on’ when he described the Guyana Fire Service’s (GFS’s) response to the Brickdam Police Station fire as “poor at its best.”

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) believes that sugar workers nationwide, who it claims were all unfairly punished by the previous administration, are deserving of government’s recently announced financial support  programme.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – Japanese-born American Syukuro Manabe, German Klaus Hasselmann and Italian Giorgio Parisi won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics yesterday for work that helps understand complex physical systems such as Earth’s changing climate.

(Trinidad Guardian) Economist Marla Dukharan says the 2021/2022 Budget presentation lacked transparency and accountability because the country was not told how much money was collected, spent and borrowed in the last fiscal year.

(Trinidad Guardian) Preparations for prayers turned into tragedy after a 34-year-old father of one was gunned down while picking flowers yesterday.

Dear Editor, The recent raging debate in your newspaper over local content is truly a lot of words for what is a very simple issue.

As a result of Saturday’s devastating fire at the Brickdam Police Station, Shahab Hack, a businessman of Georgetown and a road safety advocate, has donated in excess of 48 traffic wands and other items to the Guyana Police Force.

LOS ANGELES, Calif., (Reuters) – A section of the oil pipeline that burst off the Southern California coast was displaced 105 feet (32 meters) across the ocean floor, officials said yesterday, fueling speculation that a ship’s anchor may have caused the environmental disaster.

(Reuters) – Red carpet galas, top-tier endorsement deals and hitting with British Royalty — the past three weeks have been a whirlwind for 18-year-old U.S.

(Reuters) – England all-rounder Sam Curran will miss this year’s Twenty20 World Cup with a lower back injury, the country’s cricket board (ECB) said yesterday.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico could see asylum applications jump 70% this year compared with 2019 as requests from Haitians soar, though most of those Caribbean migrants do not meet the criteria under current rules, according to Mexico’s top asylum official.

(Reuters) – England will be well prepared for the Twenty20 World Cup because half of the squad is getting used to conditions in the United Arab Emirates by playing in the Indian Premier League, bowler Tymal Mills said.

Officials from the Caribbean Agriculture Research and Development Institute (CARDI) yesterday handed over a quantity of pepper seeds that were produced by the institute to assist the government with its ongoing flood relief efforts.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the Tuesday October 5, 2021 Stabroek News.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Didier Deschamps was coach Aime Jacquet’s voice on the pitch when France won the World Cup in 1998, but now he is the one sitting in the dugout he has found his own trusted lieutenant in Paul Pogba.

Kyrie Irving reportedly missed the Nets’ first practice held in Brooklyn  yesterday, suggesting the All-Pro guard remains unvaccinated.

(Reuters) – West Indies could be tempted to play Shimron Hetmyer as a finisher at the Twenty20 World Cup after the Delhi Capitals batsman excelled in the role again in Monday’s Indian Premier League (IPL) victory against Chennai Super Kings.

(Reuters) – All-rounder Anna Peterson, the first New Zealand woman to pick up a hat-trick in a Twenty20 international, called time on her career with the national team yesterday after nearly a decade playing for the ‘White Ferns’.

By  Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – In the weeks since the Taliban’s theocratic terrorists returned to power in Kabul, the people of Afghanistan, particularly its women and girls, have been subjected to unimaginable suffering as the world’s attention turns to other issues.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, (Reuters) – Jamaica’s Olympic and world championship medallist Nesta Carter, whose positive doping test caused Usain Bolt to be stripped of his Beijing 2008 Olympic 4×100 metres relay gold, has tested positive again and faces an anti-doping hearing next week.

MMA fighter Justin Thornton died Monday at age 38. He sustained serious injuries in a Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship bout in August in Mississippi.

By guest writer, Donald Rodney October 1, 2021 The Escazú Agreement, or “Escazú”, is a regional agreement in which Guyana is obligated to guarantee citizens’ right of access to information, public participation and justice in environmental matters.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Kylian Mbappe yesterday stopped short of saying he would leave Paris St Germain when his contract expires at the end of the season but Real Madrid president Florentino Perez said he was optimistic the France striker would join the Spanish giants.

LONDON, (Reuters) – WBC world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury says he will be a “sad and lonely” person when he ends his boxing career.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Victoria and New South Wales (NSW) have given up on playing other state rivals in Australia’s Sheffield Shield before Christmas after being barred from travelling due to COVID-19 restrictions.

On 23rd September, this newspaper carried an article in which a mother related the frustration she was enduring in her attempts to secure video footage of her daughter from the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) to fulfil the request of an international scout.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – The Australian government has been “flexible and practical” to ensure the Ashes can go ahead but the fate of the series lies in England’s hands, health minister Greg Hunt said yesterday.

CROZIER, La., (Reuters) – Bruce Westley stood outside his wrecked mobile home, pointing to a small lime green tent, two patio chairs and a 30-quart aluminum pot atop a single propane burner.

Golden State Warriors swingman Andrew Wiggins said he felt “forced” to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.