Daily Archive: Friday, October 15, 2021

Strathspey, East Coast Demerara businessman, Ganesh Persaud, 21, died this afternoon after being fatally stabbed during a robbery.

An Air Services Limited porter died this afternoon after he was reported to have walked in front of the propeller of a plane that had landed at Kamarang, Region Seven.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of October 14, 2021, five more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

LEIGH-ON-SEA, England, (Reuters) – A British lawmaker was stabbed to death today in a church by an assailant who lunged at him during a meeting with voters from his constituency, knifing him repeatedly in an attack which politicians described as an assault on democracy.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament today decried the repeated absence of technical officers who have been summoned to appear before it and said this delinquency must be seen as an attempt to stymie the work of the body.

Nirvana Wimal of the Success Elementary School is the top performer at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment, the Ministry of Education today announced.

Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) says it is seeking to put in place multiple lease agreements for residential apartments/townhouses.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A COVID-19 testing laboratory in central England has been suspended over concern that it has been incorrectly giving negative PCR test results to people who are infected, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said today.

(Trinidad Express) A man who was wanted by the police for several months after he absconded when placed on bail for an alleged acid attack on a woman, has been committed to stand trial for attempted murder.

(Trinidad Express) The Chaguanas Chamber of Industry and Commerce (CCIC) is reiterating its call for proper surveillance camera in the country, following the kidnapping of Central business man Kartikey Ramsundar on Wednesday.

Guyana has once again emerged as the top overall performer at the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) and Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams as it recorded results higher than the regional average in 20 of the 33 subject areas offered by CXC.

Former Finance Minister Winston Jordan yesterday said a series of allegations raised against him by Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC are false and baseless.

A Pepper Hill, Mahdia businesswoman was bludgeoned and strangled to death on Wednesday and her estranged reputed husband is in custody.

The enduring weaknesses of a sugar industry that continues to be besieged as much by political controversy as by chronic underperformance are among some of the key features of the 2021 Ministry of Finance Mid-Year Report made public recently by Senior Minister in the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance Dr.

Several vehicles were involved in a pile-up just before midday yesterday at Foulis, West Coast Bebrice leaving a driver seriously hurt and others with minor injuries.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips talks with South Florida WLRN’s Tim Padget during a recent official visit to the United States WLRN: Prime Minister Mark Phillips sees no contradiction in Guyana being both a fossil-fuel leader and a climate-change mitigator; but will Venezuela try to grab its oil?

Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon yesterday said that he is “actively considering running” for the People’s National Congress Reform’s (PNCR’s) leadership at its upcoming congress even as he confirmed that former general secretary of the party, Aubrey Norton, is no longer with his office as the Chief Executive Director.

As STEMGuyana enters its 5th year as a contributor to helping to fill “the Technology Education space in Guyana,” its founder, Guyanese-born Karen Abrams, believes that the organisation “is poised to make an even more significant contribution to mainstream education” in the period ahead.

A four-year-old Region One boy is among the country’s latest  COVID-19 fatalities.

Ex-police constables Delon Chapman and Leon Ashby who raped a woman who had gone to the Turkeyen Police Station to make a report back in 2018, have each been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

For all the public hype and euphoria that had attended both official and public responses to ExxonMobil’s announcement of its first oil find offshore Guyana back in May 2015, there was always the likelihood that that response might collide with the consequences of the mounting climate change lobby that was beginning to assume ominously global proportions despite what had appeared for a while to be the studied indifference of the oil majors to the phenomenon.

School syllabuses must be reconfigured to teach key competencies that will enable students to function in any environment, according to Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) Registrar and Chief Executive Dr Wayne Wesley, who yesterday said much of what was taught in school is no longer relevant in the working world.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain will offer six-month emergency visas to 800 foreign butchers to avoid a mass pig cull, it said yesterday, after farmers complained that an exodus of workers from abattoirs and meat processors had left the pork sector fighting for survival.

Even as the Caribbean contemplates the mountain that it will have to climb if it is to ascend the lofty peak of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – a collection of 17 interlinked global goals designed by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in 2015 to be a “blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all” – a new World Bank Report suggests that the region may be even further away from the realisation of those goals than might have originally been imagined.

Dear Editor, The editorial ‘Another solar boondoggle’ of 9th October referred to ‘environmental extremists [who] hold that Guyana should not produce oil.’

A confident national men’s rugby sevens team departed for the Turks and Caicos last evening on a quest to end its title drought and return to the 592 with hardware.

With efforts by Caribbean agro-processors to maximise access to intra- and extra-regional markets falling short of expectations largely on account of failure to meet extra-regional consumer packaging and labelling requirements, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) is taking steps to remedy this shortcoming by offering training in countries in the region whose export markets may be seriously threatened by below par packaging standards.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden yesterday signed legislation temporarily raising the government’s borrowing limit to $28.9 trillion, pushing off the deadline for debt default only until December.

The country’s Health Emergency Operation Centre (HEOC) recently visited over 50 businesses to ensure compliance with the COVID-19 emergency measures.

Kevin Andries, the bus driver who was fatally wounded earlier this week during a “shootout” with the police at Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara (EBD) was shot once in his buttocks.

Tired, perhaps, of the fun and fashion associated with her accustomed circle of entertainment, local fashion buff Sonia Noel took a decision to mark her 50th birth Anniversary in an unaccustomed manner.

Dear Editor, Jung Bahadur Singh was first named ‘Deenanath’ at birth, meaning ‘protector of the poor’.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico is slated to impose visa requirements for Brazilian visitors amid efforts to slow a wave of U.S.-bound

CNOOC Petroleum Guyana Limited (CPGL), a partner in this country’s offshore Stabroek Block where at least 10 billion barrels of oil equivalent have been discovered is partnering with the University of Guyana (UG) for 18 scholarships valued at just over $4m.

Dear Editor, Why Roger Harper and his merry band of selectors can never get it right when it comes to the selection of a West Indies team, when it is obvious to the rest of the Caribbean what the best team available is.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday October 14, 2021

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – U.S. former President Bill Clinton was in a California hospital yesterday with an infection and responding well to two days of treatment, his doctors said.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for Kevon Lloyd Lagodou called Yusuf Ali Lagodou or Shaykh Yusuf Ali Ibn Lagodou, 28, who is wanted for questioning in connection with fraud.

Dear Editor, I fully support the call by the APNU+AFC and local environmentalists for Guyana to up its commitments on climate change ahead of the Glasgow Climate Conference.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Two Yanomami children drowned in a river on their reservation where illegal gold miners operate a dredger, an indigenous leader said yesterday, alleging the boys were sucked into the machine as they bathed.

While Guyana at present is classified as one of the democracies of the world – although it came close to losing that status last year – it does not exhibit the full range of characteristics associated with a liberal democracy. 

Ranks of the Joint Services yesterday morning conducted a search at the Lusignan Prison during which a number of prohibited items were unearthed.

Dear Editor, A government agency is not encashing vouchers from another government agency over alleged sums owed.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 936’s trading results showed consideration of $21,069,806 from 152,950 shares traded in 25 transactions as compared to session 935’s trading results which showed consideration of $3,943,252 from 12,187 shares traded in 12 transactions.

(Trinidad Guardian) For the first time since Independence, this country is temporarily without a Commissioner of Police.

A boundary-filled innings from Akshaya Persaud inspired the West Coast Warriors to a 26-run win over Cosmos Cricket Club in the New York National Cricket League/Rockaway Group T20 league.

(Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court yesterday refused a petition by the U.S.

Chandrapaul Hemraj’s destructive century ensured Samp Army an eight-wicket win over Brampton Pacers yesterday in the Atlanta Open T20 2021.

At the risk of sounding like a stuck record we consider it necessary to point out what we believe to be the enduring tendency on the part of the Ministry of Agriculture to often ‘talk up’ the responsibilities of its portfolio without paying due attention to the actualisation of its undertakings, that is to say, seemingly being oblivious to the fact that – as we say in Guyana, ‘the noise in the market is not the sale’.

The mere presence of Chris Gayle is invaluable according to West Indies vice-captain, Nicholas Pooran, as the team embarks on their T20 World Cup title defense later this month.

City vending as survival – and blight Recall – those friends still interested – that the first CARICOM Guyana 2020 votes recount was aborted.

All-rounder, Roston Chase, is embracing the anchor role as he is set to make his T20I debut for West Indies in the T20 World Cup.

(Reuters) – Kenyan athletes Eunice Sum and Julius Yego led the tributes to compatriot Agnes Tirop who was found stabbed to death at her home in the town of Iten on Wednesday.

(Reuters) – Serbian Ana Ivanovic, Italy’s Flavia Pennetta and Spaniards Carlos Moya and Juan Carlos Ferrero headlined the list of six nominees up for induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

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).

(Reuters) – Tour de France organisers have designed a highly treacherous route for the 2022 edition which will feature rides in gusting winds, cobblestones and punishing mountain stages.

As mandatory vaccination policies take effect, predictably, there has been a lot of pushback from people.