Daily Archive: Sunday, October 17, 2021

Police in Regional Division #5 are investigating a fatal incident which occurred at about 10.

So, we have come to the end of these reflections on the 150-year-old story of nonalcoholic carbonated beverages, popularly called “sweet drink” in Guyana. 

The Police say they are investigating a fatal accident which occurred just after midnight today on High Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown in the vicinity of Carnegie School of Home Economics.

The Police say they are investigating a fatal accident which occurred at about 10.30 pm last night  at the Liliendaal Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara, in the vicinity of the Liliendaal Bridge.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct 17 (Reuters) – As many as 17 American Christian missionaries and their families, including children, were kidnapped yesterday  by gang members in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince, U.S.

(Barbados Government Information Service) Seven Barbadians, five men and two women, lost their battle with COVID-19 between Thursday and Saturday.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says he wrote to the Police Service Commission (PolSC) last year to express his loss of confidence in then-Police Commissioner Gary Griffith.

(Trinidad Guardian) Only two per cent of the people who died from COVID-19 and five per cent of those hospitalised were vaccinated against the disease, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley revealed yesterday.

The love for volunteerism and humanitarian work has propelled Ewin Enmore, 39, into becoming an administrator with the Guyana Red Cross Society (GRCS) and the President’s Youth Award Republic of Guyana (PYARG).

By Stanley Greaves The recent fire that destroyed the Brickdam Police Station—an historic building that housed the Region 4 (A) Headquarters—has implications for the safety of our National Art Collection in the wooden building, Castellani House, Guyana’s National Art Gallery.

While a large oil spill is seen as being an unlikely outcome of the ExxonMobil-led Yellowtail Development Project, an environmental study has recommended that the company be required to commit to regular response drills, simulations and exercises as part of needed preparations in the event of a worst case scenario.

Guyana has received positive responses from the Lowering Emissions by Accelerating Forest finance (LEAF) coalition on its proposal to retail its carbon credits to the world, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo says.

In a move aimed to kick-start the country’s first-ever National Sports Academy, the National Sports Commission yesterday met with the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) and the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA).

The national men’s rugby team experienced mixed results when the two-day Rugby America’s North (RAN) Championship kicked off yesterday in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

An 81-year-old woman is now dead after a fire, suspected to have started by an unattended candle, gutted her Bartica, Region Seven house on Friday night.

National table tennis player, Miguel Wong, is set to take up a month’s training in Germany courtesy of a US$8000 investment from the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA).

The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) on Friday renew its call for an engagement with President Irfaan Ali on a range of issues, including the mandatory vaccination policy for teachers and outstanding financial matters.

With the life of the Police Service Commission (PSC) having expired, Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall SC has moved to strike out the court action initiated by the body to challenge President Irfaan Ali’s suspension of its members and complete a promotions process.

Following the withdrawal of several nations from the qualifiers for the 2022 Concacaf Women’s U17 Championship (CWU17C), the Lady Jaguars have been repositioned in Group-C of the event, set for October 20th-November 1st, at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, FL, USA.

By Tony (McWatt) and Reds (Perreira) SWOT is an acronym for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.

  By Janette Bulkan On your way to or from Guyana’s international airport at Timehri you travel on the East Bank Demerara road.

Bombarded with complaints of poor service offered by his company, CEO of Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) Damien Blackburn at a meeting on Friday promised residents of Bartica the delivery of services will be significantly improved within the next six months.

DUBAI, CMC – Former West Indies leg-spinner Samuel Badree said the presence of more than one spinner in many of the teams for the ICC Men’s Twenty20 World Cup was not surprising.

Colin Smith, the longstanding Editor of the Catholic Standard newspaper, passed away yesterday after being hospitalised for a brief period.

Guyanese cricketers, Chandrapaul Hemraj, Christopher Barnwell and Trevon Griffith enjoyed success with the bat on day two of the Atlanta Open T20 2021 while Bhaskar Yadram stood out with the ball.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Long-serving president Azim Bassarath faces a challenge for the top post of the Trinidad & Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) from current secretary, Surujdath Mahabir at this year’s annual general meeting on October 30.

Dear Editor,        This week has seen three events which I consider will cause our justice system to be seen in an opaque way and should be commented upon.

The Ministry of Health yesterday confirmed the deaths of four more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

Region Six’s top performing students at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA), are all aspiring to great heights. 

Dear Editor, After viewing the telecast and listening to the various presentations and the announcement of the CAPE, CSEC and other CXC examination results, I am motivated to make the following observations.

CARACAS/PRAIA, (Reuters) – Venezuela yesterday said it would suspend negotiations with the opposition that were set to resume this weekend, after Cape Verde extradited Colombian businessman Alex Saab to the United States on money laundering charges.

Director of Cricket at Cricket West Indies, Jimmy Adams, has outlined four areas where players may be exempted from the minimum fitness standard.

CV Nunes Primary, located at Anna Regina, managed to outshine the rest of the primary schools in Region Two at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) as four of its students were among the top ten performers for the region.

Thirty-seven-year-old fast bowler, Ravi Rampaul believes he is fit enough to rumble for defending champions, the West Indies, when he plays his first international match after nearly six years in the upcoming T20 World Cup.

Dear Editor, I noticed in today’s paper three full-page ads in newspapers, celebrating Caribbean Statistics Day under the theme, “Leave No One Behind…Everyone Counts.”

KINSHASA, (Reuters) – President Felix Tshisekedi has called for an audit of Democratic Republic of Congo’s vast forest concessions and the suspension of all “questionable contracts” until the audit is concluded.

The youngest of 14 children and half of a pair of identical twins, Shane Tull was always surrounded by family and from an early age he knew he wanted to work with people and help them.

DUBAI, CMC – Two former West Indies pacers have hailed the evolution of the Twenty20 format and said that they are looking forward to the ICC men’s T20 World Cup, starting on Sunday in the United Arab Emirates and Oman.

Dear Editor, In the weeks preceding the March 2, 2020, elections several of us appeared on Globespan in New York, commending in debate the value of cash grants to Guyanese as the country prepared to gain substantial revenues from the oil industry.

A visually-impaired Corriverton Primary School girl secured a spot at one of the nation’s top secondary schools at the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) 2021.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia reported a record 1,002 deaths from the coronavirus yesterday, the first time the daily number has passed the 1,000-mark since the start of the pandemic.

Throughout her professional life Coretta Moore was accustomed to receiving commendations for her performance, until her later years as a bank employee when she was forced into a position she was ill-equipped for and which ultimately led to her collapse into a severe state of depression.

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, (Reuters) – Southeast Asian countries will invite a non-political representative from Myanmar to a regional summit this month, delivering an unprecedented snub to the military leader who led a coup against an elected civilian government in February.

Cricket West Indies Masters Association (CWIMA) has extended best wishes to the West Indies cricket team for what the body hopes to be a dominantly successful ICC T20 World Cup  tournament in the UAE during the next few weeks.

Dear Editor, In a missive which appeared in SN on October 12, Engineer Gonsalves elucidated his participation in the intrigues involved in the construction of an access road which he labelled Section 7 to the proposed Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) on a tributary of the Potaro River.

Results from last year’s Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) examinations were rectified in the favour of students in over 3,000 cases, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand said on Thursday.

Gacarma Catering has over the last year secured many clients and though it is a success story in the making, it took much perseverance and hard work by the owner Grabiela Rodriguez, a Venezuelan migrant.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Emmanuel Macron yesterday denounced as an “unforgivable crime” a bloody crackdown on Algerian protesters by police in Paris 60 years ago, the strongest recognition by a French president of a massacre in which many bodies were thrown into the River Seine.

Dear Editor, No less than five persons have been murdered at the hands of the Guyana Police Force since August 2020.

The South Turkeyen Sports Committee announced that their pre-Youman Nabi three-a-side small-goal football competition, which was set for today, will now be staged on Tuesday at the Sophia Tarmac.

Twenty-three of thirty-six (36) Guyanese companies that participated in this year’s edition of the Awards were declared winners at the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) third National Quality Awards (NQA) Ceremony hosted at Parc Rayne, Lot 1 Rahaman’s Park.

Over the last half century and more we have expended so much of our political energies on the issue of who should govern us, that the question of the quality of governance has received little attention.

(Trinidad Express) – Paula-Mae Weekes created history in becoming this country’s first female President in 2018.

“Pawns are the soul of chess.” — Francois Andre Danican Philidor, French chess player and composer (1726-1795)                                                   Decades ago when I learned chess, a few years after the Guyana Chess Association (GCA) was established in 1972, we were excited at the thought of exploring a new game.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – A powerful right-wing Hindu group linked to India’s ruling party has called for curbs on streaming platforms and cryptocurrencies, saying regulation was essential.

Introduction In last week’s column I was able to introduce only four of the 11 reasonings, or what I have labelled as the Whys and Wherefores, which lie behind my singling out of a portion of Guyana’s windfall oil revenues for cash transfers to Guyanese households as a singularly effective policy intervention measure against income poverty.

The previous column discussed several important roles of banks in a society.

Up to five years ago I would walk regularly to meetings from my office north along Avenue of the Republic, from west of the Supreme Court building, then west into Robb Street, to the then Fogarty’s building in Water Street.

Dear Editor, I am very concerned about the state of my country, specifically in light of the complaints I have personally received regarding public service employment.

Three persons who are accused of trafficking 6.232 kilogrammes of cocaine in frozen curry and Pepperpot were on Friday charged and remanded.

From all accounts a beautiful soul died last week by suicide.

Resolution and Independence      I was a traveller then upon the moor; .

Scrolling through my social media timelines on Wednesday, I could not help but notice the amount of RIP posts for a young woman from many of her Facebook and Instagram friends.

Toronto is a calm, clean, well-ordered, cosmopolitan, peaceful city.  If one long weekend in this city of two and a half million people there are a couple of murders it is an alarming law and order crisis.  

If the unhinged earnestness of Tom Hardy’s central performance was the hook that necessitated a sequel to the 2018 “Venom”, it’s a bit surprising that the recently released sequel – titled “Let There Be Carnage” begins with someone other than Eddie Brock and his faithful symbiote friend.

As a young man in West Dem, Guyana, living at Vreed-en-Hoop, going to Saints Stanislaus on a scholarship, I made many trips to my father’s farm in the Pomeroon, sometimes by train, sometimes by bus, linking up with the ferry to Adventure, and then by bus to Charity, and boat to the farm. On