Daily Archive: Thursday, October 14, 2021

The Ministry of Health today said that as of October 13, 2021, six more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Ex-police constables Delon Chapman and Leon Ashby who were last month convicted of raping a woman who had gone to the Turkeyen Police Station to make a report, have each been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Several vehicles crashed just before midday today after dense smoke from a suspected rice field fire billowed across the main access road in Foulis, Region Five.

KONGSBERG, Norway, (Reuters) – A 37-year-old Danish citizen who had converted to Islam is suspected of killing five people with a bow-and-arrow and other weapons in the Norwegian town of Kongsberg in a rare incident of mass killing in Norway, police said today.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – The tiny Pacific nation of Palau has the world’s highest percentage of people vaccinated against COVID-19, the Red Cross said today, urging the country’s laggard neighbours to follow its example and step up incoluation efforts.

Mahdia businesswoman, Denise Vieira, 47, was yesterday found dead in her Pepper Hill home and her husband, a miner,  has since been taken into custody, The police in a statement today said that the two, who  had been together for around eight years, had been estranged over the last three months.

(Trinidad Guardian) The ten-year-old son of Princes Town mechanic Kishoan Ramlogan has been crying since he was told that his father was gunned down on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police are investigating the kidnapping of a Central businessman.

Disparities in multidimensional poverty among ethnic groups in Guyana are consistently high but across the four hinterland regions there is a greater representation in the Amerindian community.

Thirty-year-old vendor Francis Gonzalves has been sentenced to 18 years behind bars for raping a woman back in 2018.

The authorised dealer of Honda motor vehicles in Guyana, Marics & Company Ltd, has issued a recall notice to address issues with vehicles in line with its parent company’s directives.

Aaron Hing, godbrother of British teenager, Dominic Bernard, will face trial at the High Court in Berbice over the murder of the teenager in 2015 at Kildonan, Corentyne, after a not-guilty plea was entered on his behalf at the court yesterday.   

High Court Judge Franklyn Holder has ruled that Magistrate Leron Daly can proceed to conduct a Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the misconduct charges laid against former Deputy Chief Election Officer (DCEO) Roxanne Myers.

With the promise of a “more comfortable” environment for prisoners, the three modern facilities which are currently being constructed at the Lusignan Prison are scheduled to be completed early next year, Director of Prisons (ag) Nicklon Elliott says.

SHARJAH, CMC – Sunil Narine and, perhaps, Andre Russell will come face to face with fellow West Indian Dwayne Bravo in the final of the Indian Premier League tomorrow in Dubai.

A 50-year-old school janitor died on Monday morning, hours after consuming a mixture of wine and an energy drink.

Dear Editor, It was good to see the Minister responsible for Finance, Dr.

Three more COVID-19 deaths were yesterday reported along with some 150 new cases of the virus.

The partly decomposed body of a 65-year-old man was on Tuesday discovered in a drain at Parika Backdam, East Bank Essequibo.

Dear Editor, Something I have long argued for is that perpetrators should be in safe houses and women living in their family homes.

Face-to-face schooling got underway on Monday at the state-of-the-art Westminster Secondary School in Region Three.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s president yesterday hailed a U.S. decision to open their shared border in November after more than 18 months of pandemic restrictions, though millions of Mexicans inoculated with Chinese and Russian vaccines face being shut out.

Dear Editor, Women and children are often seen as “second class citizens.”

Two men have been granted bail while their third alleged accomplice remains on remand on a trafficking of narcotics charge.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Vaccination rates against COVID-19 in the United States have risen by more than 20 percentage points after multiple institutions adopted vaccine requirements, while case numbers and deaths from the virus are down, Biden administration officials said yesterday.

The Lusignan Golf Club is expected to see the largest turn out of golfers this Saturday for the Trophy Stall Golf tournament which tees off at 12.30 hours.

Dear Editor, I write this missive on the heels of “National Coming Out Day ‘’ , an annual LGBTQ+ awareness day held on October 11 in several countries worldwide with the purpose of supporting those in the LGBTQ+ community in “coming out of the closet”. 

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden yesterday urged the private sector to help ease supply chain blockages that are threatening to disrupt the U.S.

Tenders were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the provision of dry and fresh rations for the Guyana Defence Force which saw large bids coming from several companies.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the article “Ministry warns city against shady property transactions.” 

A team from the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC)  arrived in Guyana on Tuesday to announce the results of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE).

Dear Editor, The fear of dying alone is nearly universal — a fact of which anyone who’s taken care of a critically ill patient is acutely aware.

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – The top Honduran opposition parties yesterday united behind Xiomara Castro as their candidate for a November presidential election, giving the wife of a leftist former president who was ousted in a coup a stronger chance of ousting the ruling party.

The news of Gokarn Ramdhani’s passing has left the sports fraternity in a state of shock including Canada-based Bronco’s Athletics.

Dear Editor, Much has been written publicly and broadcast internationally about the decades of foreign military interventions and debacles in Afghanistan ending with the Saigon-style departure by US forces from Kabul following the swift assumption to power by the Taliban.

Three youths ages 16, 17, and 21 were yesterday arrested by police following the robbery of a jewellery store.

(Reuters) – The United States plans to hold up to seven offshore wind auctions in the next four years and will extend its ambitions to areas that have yet to be developed such as off the coast of California and in the Gulf of Mexico, a Biden administration official said yesterday.

Cricket West Indies’ Director of Cricket,  Jimmy Adams, has suggested the region could see the return of first-class cricket by January 2022.

(BBC) The seventh edition of Australia’s Women’s Big Bash gets underway today and four up-and-coming England hopefuls will make their debuts in the Twenty20 tournament.

By Neville Trotz Dr. Neville Trotz served as Dean, Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Guyana and Director of the Institute of Applied Science and Technology at Turkeyen, Guyana, before becoming Science Adviser to the Commonwealth Secretary-General (1991-1997).

Only a few minutes’ walk from the seaside community of Cromarty in the Scottish Highlands, a 17-year-old mixed-race student was stabbed during a brawl outside the local school.

West Indies captain, Kieron Pollard, has welcomed the inclusion of the Decision Review System (DRS) and other amendments to the matches for the upcoming T20I World Cup.

“What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice and everything nice, that’s what little girls are made of…” Adults of a certain age would be familiar with this rhyme, which has been attributed to English poet Robert Southey, who died in 1843.

(Reuters) – Kenyan distance runner Agnes Tirop, a two-times World Championship bronze medallist, was found stabbed to death at her home, Athletics Kenya said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Middle-distance runner Mary Cain has sued Alberto Salazar and Nike for $20 million, alleging years of abuse by the coach while training at the company’s now-shuttered athletics programme, according to The Oregonian and other media.

T20 superstars, Chris Gayle and Kieron Pollard, have both spoken of the mental strain the bio-secure environment could have on players with the two players  giving their own experiences dealing with the stringent regulations.

As World Sight Day is observed across the globe, Dr Johan Da Silva and the Lion’s Club of Bel Air are reminding Guyanese of the importance of having regular eye check-ups and not waiting until something is wrong.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Cricket Australia Chairman Earl Eddings resigned yesterday, a day before he was due to stand for re-election at the board’s annual general meeting.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – FIFA has opened disciplinary proceedings looking into the clashes at Wembley Stadium between police and Hungarian supporters at Tuesday’s game against England, saying it has “zero tolerance against such abhorrent behaviour”.

West Indies vice-captain, Nicholas Pooran says he is not concerned by his current form while reckoning that he is not in a lean patch for runs.

Dear Editor, Only late yesterday afternoon, I got around to catch up with the news. 

(Trinidad Guardian) After an absence of two decades, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will resume flights between Amsterdam and this country on Saturday.

(Reuters) – Daniil Medvedev was knocked out in the fourth round of Indian Wells by Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov yesterday as the world number two’s near-flawless start turned nightmarish in a 4-6 6-4 6-3 defeat.

Walter Lippmann, American writer and political commentator once posited, “The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.”

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Sao Paulo have parted ways with Argentine coach Hernan Crespo “by mutual accord”, the Brazilian club said yesterday.