Daily Archive: Sunday, October 31, 2021

The Ministry of Health today said that as of October 30, 2021, seven more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

A Bloomfield man is now mourning the loss of his wife and baby at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital over the weekend.

(ICC) New Zealand produced a stunning bowling display to beat India by eight wickets and get their ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 campaign up and running. 

GLASGOW,  (Reuters) – The United Nations COP26 summit that starts in Glasgow this week has been billed as a make-or-break chance to save the planet from the most calamitous effects of climate change.

(Trinidad Express) More and more Covid-19- positive people are requiring hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) treatment, and nearly all are unvaccinated.

Retired Justice William Ramlal’s tenure as Chair-man of Police Complaints Authority (PCA) is currently in limbo as government is yet to renew his contract, which expired at the beginning of this month.

New telecoms sector entrant Green Gibraltar is seeking approval to install and operate a 5G telecommunications network in seven of the country’s regions.

Maydha Persaud, 69, retired headmaster and teacher of Abram Zuil Secondary School, is this year marking 50 years in the teaching profession, and now teaching mainly students seeking a second chance at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC), even though he retired from the formal education system 14 years ago.

Current APNU+AFC Shadow Minister of Legal Affairs Roysdale Forde has announced his interest in contesting for the Chairmanship of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) at the party’s upcoming Biennial Delegates Congress.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Imperious England cantered to their third straight win while South Africa clinched their second, to leave embattled West Indies under pressure in Group 1 of the Twenty20 World Cup here yesterday.

ROME, (Reuters) – Leaders of the world’s 20 biggest economies yesterday endorsed a global minimum tax aimed at stopping big business from hiding profits in tax havens, and also agreed to get more COVID vaccines to poorer nations.

Work to restore Georgetown’s City Hall is scheduled to begin tomorrow and Trinidadian contractor Fides Ltd has said Guyanese will make up a large part of its labour force.

Dear Editor, We are Economics students at the University of Guyana writing in support of a proposal that will allow Guyana (and Suriname) to make a bold contribution to achieving all the four stated goals of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), which begins in Glasgow today, (Oct 31, 2021) under the theme “Together for our Planet.”

For years, the name Shaundell Shipley could be described as being synonymous with community building and child advocacy as regardless of the environment she would not hesitate to intervene once a child was at risk.

Dear Editor I have been an employee at LBI Head Office for the past 25 years and I am nearing pensionable age but what I have overheard and seen happening there has never happened before.

Aviator Malcolm Chan-A-Sue and his wife Margaret Chan-a-Sue have both been admitted as patients at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) following a multi-vehicle accident yesterday at High and Barrack streets, Kingston.

By Tony (McWatt) and Reds (Perreira) Prior to the start of the 2021 ICC T20 World Cup, Cricket West Indies’ Face-book Page had labeled the West Indies’ team’s campaign to regain its title as the tournament’s reigning champions “Mission Maroon!”

Dear Editor, A few days ago, GHK Lall in reviewing our political landscape pointed to the prospect that if nothing is done, the demographics of our country could be changed in just a few generations.

Guyana’s chances of earning a medal at the ongoing International Boxing Association (AIBA) Men’s World Boxing Championships in Serbia ended yesterday after Desmond Amsterdam’s loss.

Commissioner of Police (ag) Nigel Hoppie has singled out the low academic requirements for entry to the Guyana Police Force (GPF) as being a contributing factor to the substandard conduct of some law enforcers, including use of excessive force and corruption.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Desperate to have her infant son Pierre admitted to hospital to treat his anemia and diarrhea, Mirlande Cherie set out two weeks ago on an odyssey to find a medical facility that had not already been shuttered by Haiti’s fuel shortages.

The Guyana Youth and Environment Network (GYEN) in partnership with The Breadfruit Collective (TBC) recently published a climate change ebook to inspire children and adults to be more conscious of the environment.

Dear Editor, President Ramotar is a good man and my favorite President.

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Charles Ramson Jr., has expressed his desire to see the game of golf grown in Guyana.

(Barbados Nation) – Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has taken the financial institutions to task over high bank fees, her upbraiding coming on the heels of Central Bank Governor Cleviston Haynes announcing a cap on point of sale and ATM fees for banks and credit unions.

While stressing that he was committed to fulfilling his constitutional responsibilities, President Irfaan Ali on Friday signaled that he would be willing to engage Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon on the long overdue substantive appointments of top judicial officers.

Maritime logistics company Abu Dhabi Ports is currently evaluating the possibility of establishing a deep water harbour link between Guyana and Brazil, according to President Dr Irfaan Ali.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Nineteen Haitians died when a boat transporting them between the southern coastal settlements of Anse-a-Pitre and Marigot sank in the early hours of Saturday morning, Prime Minister Ariel Henry said on Twitter.

Dear Editor, Let me say up front I do not agree with the new curfew hours. 

West Demerara overcame a 2-0 deficit to draw 2-2 with Rupununi when the Academy Training Centre (ATC) u13 Football Challenge Series continued yesterday at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora.

(Reuters) – American Airlines Group Inc said yesterday it has canceled hundreds of scheduled flights over the weekend due to staff shortages and unfavorable weather conditions.

The Lady Jaguars suffered a humbling 6-0 loss to Honduras yesterday in the qualifiers of the 2022 Concacaf Women’s U17 Championship (CWU17C), at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, FL, USA.

Georgetown Mayor Ubraj Narine says he will meet with stakeholders to find a solution to stop roadside vending but until then he will not remove vendors because that is how they make their living.

Beacon Foundation Limited has received a donation of $1,070,000 from the Sea-board Overseas Trading Group through local subsidiary National Milling Company of Guyana (NAMILCO), which it says will assist the foundation with the long-term support of cancer patients and their families.

Dear Editor, I am writing this letter highlighting the frustration of Pensioners.

WASHINGTON/ROME, (Reuters) – The United States and European Union have agreed to end a festering dispute over U.S.

Dear Editor, Poor race relations lie not in the Guyana Constitution but in the hearts and minds of those who lack appreciation for cultural and ethnic diversity. 

US Ambassador, Her Excellency Sarah Ann Lynch expressed her support for the Nexgen Golf Academy Cancer Awareness 5th Annual Golf event Friday afternoon when she joined dozens of players who came out to participate. 

Five schools in regions Two and Six along with the University of Guyana recently benefitted from donations of art material, science and sports equipment, and textbooks among other items, estimated at more than $8 million.

With government seeking to position Guyana as a leading example of a net carbon sink economy at the ongoing 26th UN Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP26), civil society campaigners have called out President Irfaan Ali for failing to meaningfully consult with citizens even as they urged that the country demand that all states take urgent action to cut their greenhouse gas emmissions. 

DUBAI, (Reuters) – India captain Virat Kohli lashed out yesterday at the “spineless people” who abused bowler Mohammed Shami online after his side’s defeat in their Twenty20 World Cup opener against Pakistan last weekend.

Days after he was shot during a home invasion at Spring Garden, in Region Two, speedboat operator Mohamed Gafoor and his family are still in distress and do not believe that the police are doing all that they can to apprehend the perpetrator.

This column is the third in a series of essays exploring various aspects of the Guyanese financial system.

Jules Rimet, the French visionary who founded the World Cup, aimed for a rapprochement of nations through football.

“Dune” has been built up as a potential turning point of 2021 cinema since its premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

Dear Editor, This letter is to raise a formal grievance concerning severed sugar workers.

Introduction Today’s column has two primary goals. The first is to provide non-specialist readers, after five successive weekly columns, with a brief re-cap of the distinguishing elements of the Buxton Proposal.

Guyana is and has always been a primary producer. During its years of Independence, although there was some economic growth, Guyana was unable to significantly diversify its economy by, firstly, adding value to what it produced and, secondly, advancing the process of industrialisation.

Throughout my childhood, my mother would cook ‘greens,’ like cabbage, bora and pak-choi, which would be combined with rice or roti for lunch and/or dinner.

“I agree that when you grow older that you have to somehow get past your childhood hardships and just live because if you hold on to your childhood trauma then you might never be able to live in the true sense.

There was a very rare event in western theatre and an important advancement for Caribbean literature when a new opera, “The Knife of Dawn” (2016), opened at the Royal Opera House in London on October 24, 2020.

Anyone who had hoped that we would be holding local government elections this year will by now realise that is unlikely.

KHARTOUM, (Reuters) – Security forces shot dead three people during nationwide protests in Sudan yesterday, a doctors committee said, as hundreds of thousands of people demanded the restoration of a civilian-led government after a military coup.

In a vibrant democracy elections should be a cause for celebration, an ever welcome occasion regularly marking the successful outcome of what in any country’s history has always been a long struggle to overcome authoritarian, and often brutal, rule.