Daily Archive: Friday, October 22, 2021

(Trinidad Express) Cricket West Indies (CWI) has announced the end of the arrangement that had Sandals Resorts International as the principal partner of West Indies cricket for the last four years.

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

Minister within the Ministry of Public Works, Deodat Indar on Wednesday rejected China Harbour Engineering Company’s (CHEC) request for an extension of its deadline to complete additional works at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), the Department of Public Information (DPI) said in a release.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Top executives from Exxon Mobil Corp, BP America, Chevron Corp and Shell Oil will testify on Oct.

Since February this year when vaccination against the COVID-19 virus began, the Ministry of Health has administered over 650,000 doses.

The Trinidadian firm which has won the $780m contract to rehabilitate the neo-gothic City Hall has advertised for an art restoration specialist.

 (Reuters) – Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer and wounded a director when he discharged a prop gun on a movie set in New Mexico yesterday, authorities said.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Marie Cohuet hid in a lavatory inside the Louvre art museum for over two hours, plotting her gatecrashing of Louis Vuitton’s Paris Fashion Week show in protest at the environmental damage that activists say is caused by the fashion industry.

 With approval from government already granted, a locally created telecommunications company has partnered with United States investors to plug a large sum into 5G services which will add to Guyana’s growing telecommunications pool.

Two policemen were yesterday charged with rape and were released on $75, 000 bail each.

In the aftermath of  recent bee attacks which resulted in four fatalities, the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) has announced that it will soon extend bee removal services to places that are considered residential spaces. 

(Reuters) – Twenty20 cricket started out as a “young man’s game” but its most prolific exponents, West Indies, have repeatedly shown that success in the format is determined by experience more than anything else.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of October 20, 2021, six more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Head Selector of the Wes Indies Women’s and Girl’s cricket, Ann Browne-John, indicated that there is a lot to be gained for the West Indies ladies on their tour to Pakistan.

Guyana’s trio of boxers set to compete at the inaugural Junior Pan Am Games next month in Cali, Colombia stand to benefit from much-improved preparation.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was yesterday signed in Dubai to advance closer technical cooperation between Guyana and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

With nearly 900 persons so far dead as a result of COVID-19, Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony has disclosed that almost half of those deaths have been recorded in Region Four.

The Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) is set to host a trial meet on Saturday with the prize being a chance to represent Guyana at the 15th World Swimming Championships (25 metres) in Abu Dubai from December 15 to 22.

(Reuters) – The following are five bowlers to watch at the Twenty20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates and Oman: TABRAIZ SHAMSI (SOUTH AFRICA) No player has taken more T20 international wickets this year than Shamsi, with his 28 scalps catapulting him to the top of the International Cricket Council bowling rankings.

A fisherman who is suspected to have drowned was yesterday found at the No.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Education recently responded to the concerns expressed by Swami Aksharananda regarding the matter of Christian-themed prayers recited at an organized event hosted by the Ministry of Education.

(Reuters) – The following are five batsmen to watch at the Twenty20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates and Oman.

The advent of COVID-19 and the resulting enhanced level of public concern has been primarily responsible for what is believed to be a healthier food safety environment, according to the outcomes of a mini survey undertaken by the Stabroek Business among food vendors operating mostly in Georgetown and a handful of communities outside the capital.

Employees of Bosai Minerals Group yesterday downed tools to protest the company’s proposal of a 5.5% wages and salary increase.

Dear Editor, Kudos to the entrepreneurial spirit of the manufacturers of Topco products.

Dear Editor, The Government’s recently released second draft Local Content legislation looks good on paper, but in reality, does little to solve the real issues local businesses face every day in Guyana.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) will soon be increasing its digital footprint as plans are in the works to offer all of its billing online.

Against the backdrop of increasing debate in the region over considerations that include a continually rising food import bill and increased health-related challenges arising out of what is believed to be unhealthy dietary choices, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has used World Food Day, October 16, to seek to focus the attention of the region on the importance of infusing food-related issues more pointedly into regional public policy contemplations.

(Reuters) – Pakistan have never lacked talent and Babar Azam’s team will be highly motivated too when they launch their bid for a second Twenty20 World Cup title in the familiar surroundings of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday.

Dear Editor, On the 14th, October 2021, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha met with farmers of Craig and Garden of Eden on the East Bank Demerara.

A second suspect was charged on Monday with the murder of Nelson Thomas, who was fatally stabbed after returning home from the interior to register his baby.

There is something in the appearance of Quintasia Whyte – ‘Queen Whyte’ as she refers to herself in her promotional blurb – that is deceptively ordinary, as if beyond an evidently creative spirit sits the persona of a genuine ‘home girl.’

BALTIMORE, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said yesterday he was close to striking a deal to pass major infrastructure and social spending measures, with just a handful of issues still under debate, after weeks of intraparty bickering among his fellow Democrats.

(Reuters) – Scotland thumped Twenty20 World Cup co-hosts Oman to storm into the tournament’s Super 12 stage, along with Bangladesh who thrashed Papua New Guinea in Muscat yesterday.

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) may still be imprisoned in a condition of inertia in the matter of embracing a collective initiative to shore up its food security and reduce its mammoth food security bill, but as has become customary in the region, individual countries are sometimes inclined to make gestures which customarily fall short of going ‘the whole nine yards’ in terms of becoming a building block on which the edifice of a food-secure Caribbean will stand.

(Reuters) – Virat Kohli will step down as India’s 20-over skipper after the Twenty20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates and Oman and the talisman could not have hoped for a better setting as he takes another stab at leading the side to a global title.

After seeking an extension to file its defence in the more than $100 million libel suit brought against it by former President David Granger, the new position of the Kaieteur News (KN) is that it will not contest the matter and therefore will no longer be filing a defence.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – A Haitian man identifying himself as the leader of the gang that kidnapped a group of American and Canadian missionaries said in a video posted on YouTube yesterday that he was willing to kill “these Americans” if he does not get what he needs.

Dear Editor, I am saddened to learn of the passing of Colin Smith with whom I have been acquainted over three decades and for whom I have always had great respect and admiration.

Dear Editor, We live on a ball.  It rotates on its axis at 1,000 miles an hour and hurtles through space at 67,000 miles an hour, on its trajectory around the sun.

While it has been known for decades that the sustained recovery of fossil fuels has militated against scientific efforts to properly assess just where the world is going insofar as climate change is concerned, the picture has changed dramatically in recent years… to a point where confident predictions are being proffered with regard to the rate at which fossil fuel recovery must decelerate in the period ahead lest the world drifts into the zone of a climate catastrophe.

Karishma Dhanoopdarie, 12 years old is one of Region 2’s successful National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) candidates.

(Reuters) – The first Barcelona v Real Madrid meeting after the departure of Lionel Messi to Paris St Germain will be headlined on Sunday by two youngsters as a game typically billed as a clash of superstars instead looks to the upcoming talent of Vinicius Jr and Ansu Fati.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitian authorities said yesterday that a Colombian national, considered a suspect in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, had been arrested in Jamaica as investigations continues.

A besieged Venezuelan economy has receive a sorely needed vote of confidence from the Swiss financial institution Credit Suisse, which says the country’s economic travails notwithstanding, it is likely to grow by 5.5% this year.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s attorney general’s office yesterday said it has opened a preliminary investigation against President Guillermo Lasso for tax fraud, after an opposition leader presented allegations against him linked to the Pandora Papers leak.

Evan Fournier scored a career-high 32 points and hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 56.1 seconds left in the second overtime Wednesday night for the host New York Knicks, who squandered an 11-point lead late in the fourth quarter before edging the Boston Celtics 138-134 in an entertaining season opener for both teams.

Dear Editor, I write to commend, compliment, extol, and congratulate the government of India on reaching the record milestone of administering over one billion vaccines on Thursday October 21.

(Reuters) – The EU drug regulator is unlikely to decide whether to approve Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine until at least the first quarter of 2022 because some data needed for the review is still missing, a source with knowledge of the matter said.

(CMC) – West Indies Women will tour Pakistan next month for three One-Day Internationals, Cricket West Indies confirmed early yesterday.

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month.  The Consular Section of the U.S.

A simple “X” marks the end of her lengthy will, still filed in the National Archives at Kew, but the wealthy woman of colour described as the “Queen of Demerara” was most determined that her children and grandchildren would get a proper education in Britain.

There is a certain loop in which we exist when it comes to raising awareness and support for mental health care.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday October 21, 2021 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 937’s trading results showed consideration of $6,577,550 from 46,645 shares traded in 16 transactions as compared to session 936’s trading results which showed consideration of $21,069,806 from 152,950 shares traded in 25 transactions.

“Troubles”? Two Davids, one Moses I’m plunging into the risk of being mainly political today.

There are unmistakable signs that the People’s Progressive Party/Civic administration has decided to throw a considerable measure of its ministerial weight behind what one might call its ‘economic diplomacy’ initiative that targets, simultaneously, a Guyanese diaspora that has evinced a fair measure of curiosity about such prospects as might arise from the developmental possibilities that inhere in the country’s status as a repository of world class oil & gas resources and on the other hand, the interests of expatriate foreign investors.

(Trinidad Express) The Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago was the scene of chaos yesterday as Opposition Members took umbrage with House Speaker Bridgid Annisette-George over the process regarding the tabling of an impeachment motion for the removal of President Paula-Mae Weekes from office.

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – Nicaraguan police detained the two top executives of the nation’s largest business association yesterday, amid a wave of arrests ahead of Nov.

Dear Editor, The twice weekly meeting of PAC to clear the backlog of reports seems reasonable.

The government is committed to providing quality secondary education for all children. 

(Reuters) – The evacuation of a second group of 57 refugees from Afghanistan linked to women’s soccer and basketball, comprising mainly women and children, has been completed after negotiations, world soccer’s governing body FIFA said today.

  (Trinidad Guardian) Leader of the Jamaat Al Muslimeen, Imam Yasin Abu Bakr, has died.