Articles published on Sunday, November 14, 2021
(ICC) Mitchell Marsh’s power-packed 77 not out and a superb spell from Josh Hazlewood fired Australia to their first ICC Men’s T20 World Cup title against New Zealand in Dubai.
A West Coast Berbice (WCB) man was last evening fatally beaten while his son sustained head and other injuries after they were attacked by five villagers from a nearby village who claimed that the older man had broken into their house and stolen jewellery.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. military covered up 2019 airstrikes in Syria that killed up to 64 women and children, a possible war crime, during the battle against Islamic State, the New York Times reported yesterday.
VIENNA, (Reuters) – Austria is placing millions of people not fully vaccinated against the coronavirus in lockdown as of Monday to deal with a surge in infections to record levels, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said today.
(Trinidad Guardian) Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh has revealed that the country’s vaccination programme has stalled.
As it denounced government’s negligence in failing to meet the deadline for the audit of over US$9 billion in expenses claimed by ExxonMobil, anti-corruption watchdog Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc.
A New and United Guyana (ANUG) has called for inquests into the deaths of four men who were killed by members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) within the last two months.
Civil society group Article 13 has issued a call for the government to ban the exportation of logs and provide full disclosure on foreign companies working in Guyana’s forestry sector.
By Baytoram Ramharack On July 9, 1999, University of the West Indies lecturer Tyrone Ferguson launched his book To Survive Sensibly or to Court Heroic Death: The Political and Economic Management of Guyana 1965-1985, which examined Forbes Burnham’s political tenure in office.
The Chief Education Officer Dr. Marcel Hutson on Friday announced that the programme to inoculate children ages 5 to 11 against COVID-19 will commence this Friday.
For miles, acres of rice fields and farmland greet the main access road along the Essequibo Coast, serving as testament that the region is an agricultural powerhouse.
Dear Editor, The PPP/C Government must not attempt to subvert an established constitutional electoral system.
President Irfaan Ali on Friday said discussions are ongoing on promised wages and salary increases for public servants and an announcement would be made very soon.
A new Open champion will be crowned when the Georgetown Softball Cricket League Inc.
Dear Editor, The proposed amendment to the Representation of the People Act (RoPA), if passed in its present form, would be a missed opportunity for needed reform.
DUBAI, (Reuters) – A trans-Tasman scrap will determine 20-overs cricket’s new world champions today and there is little to choose between Australia and New Zealand after their near-identical progress to the summit clash in Dubai.
Dear Editor, Guyana received its independence since 1966 and one would have hoped that concerns about racial insecurity would have dissipated over the years but they have not.
A Venezuelan student who attended Crane Primary School is among the top ten National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) performers for Region Three.
After decades without any of its students placing at the country’s top secondary schools, St.
Young fast bowling sensation Jayden Seales has set his sights on getting the early breakthrough for West Indies if given the chance in their upcoming two-Test series against Sri Lanka.
GUAYAQUIL, (Reuters) – At least 68 prisoners were killed and more than two dozen injured in overnight violence at Ecuador’s Penitenciaria del Litoral prison, the government said yesterday, in what officials characterize as fights among rival gangs.
Elizabeth Sue-Alert was doing a Zoom interview when she was interrupted by a timid child’s voice.
By Tony (McWatt) and Reds (Perreira) One of the English dictionary’s definitions of the word reform is “to amend or improve by change of form or removal of faults!”
Dear Editor, Each year, at this time, I stop and reflect on the contribution to World War II of four of my father’s eight brothers, Denis, David, Douglas and Rory.
Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony on Thursday announced that pregnant and lactating women would be allowed to choose which COVID-19 vaccines they would like to be administered to them.
(Trinidad Express) – The Ministry of Health is negotiating with the manufacturers/suppliers of the new potentially life-saving Covid treatment antiviral drugs with a view to procuring them in the fight against the pandemic, if and when they are approved by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
GLASGOW, (Reuters) – U.N. climate talks in Scotland ended with a global agreement aimed at keeping alive hopes of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius, and so maintain a realistic shot at saving the world from catastrophic climate change.
Becoming pregnant during the COVID-19 pandemic was not what Cianna Persaud had in mind.
Dear Editor, It is alarming to read in SN and KN of a prosecutor’s home being fired upon by gunmen.
Two United States-based Guyanese brothers lost their lives last Tuesday after they reportedly drowned while on vacation in Puerto Rico.
Dear Editor, I wish to extend my sincere thanks to all who have contributed to my ongoing research of the story of sweet drink in Guyanese society.
Bartica bested visitors West Demerara by a 2-0 score when the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Academy Training Centre (ATC) U13 Challenge Series, continued yesterday at the Bartica Community Centre ground.
Elicia Noble-Lashley appears to be supremely conscious of the fact that people eat with their eyes first.
(Trinidad Express) – Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced that the State of Emergency will be lifted on Wednesday.
(Trinidad Express) – Kedar Ramsingh appeared virtually in court yesterday charged with the murder of Premnath Maraj and wounding his sister with intent.
Two more persons who tested positive for COVID-19 have succumbed to the virus, according to the Ministry of Health.
Guyana’s male table tennis players were all beaten in their opening matches of the International Table Tennis Federation’s (ITTF) Pan American championships in Lima, Peru yesterday.
Dear Editor, Covid-19 is a travesty to Guyana and the world!
GLASGOW, (Reuters) – Negotiators closed a deal to settle rules for carbon markets at the U.N.
Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed, 464 pp. SolarisI love cosmic horror.
KHARTOUM, (Reuters) – Five protesters were killed yesterday as huge crowds defied gunfire and tear gas in Sudan’s capital Khartoum and other cities to demonstrate against a military takeover, witnesses and medics said.
It is said that science and poetry do not mix. It is said that science is down to earth and poetry is up in the clouds.
“It is hard to find a place to rent in this country when you single and have children.
The art of diplomacy has long been enhanced by art itself.
A total of 40 residents of Charity, Anna Regina and Suddie, in Region Two, received on the spot house lots during an outreach conducted by the Ministry of Housing and Water on Friday.
KARACHI, Pakistan, CMC – Experienced fast bowler Shamilia Connell says a clean sweep of the three-match series against Pakistan today will be vital to West Indies Women’s momentum, as they head into the all-important ICC World Cup qualifiers in Zimbabwe.
The previous column on October 31 (`Bank profit and interest rate: the Brassington thesis’) noted that fee incomes comprise the third largest source of income for the overall commercial banking sector in Guyana.
The amendments to the elections’ laws proposed by the Government through the Representation of the People (Amendment) Bill are woefully inadequate.
Introduction I began the discussion on the petroleum metrics and finances of the Buxton Proposal by observing that the only material change to the data previously utilized was the computation of Government Take by the IDB in their Technical Note back in August 2020, entitled ‘Traversing a Slippery Slope: Guyana’s Oil Opportunity.’
There is some quirk in the minds of politicians which makes it possible for them to espouse certain principles when they are out of office, and then promptly do the opposite when they are in government.
Dear Editor, Sometime in June and July of 2020 a number of students from several high schools had the ability to write ten or more subjects at CXC but did not have the resources.
Can you believe it? 2022 is mere weeks away. A new year is fast approaching and as customary I know many of us have not fulfilled some of the planned resolutions for the current year, myself included.
We first meet Will Sharpe’s version of Louis Wain, painter and eccentric in the early 20th century, as an old man (a well-aged Benedict Cumberbatch) gazing into space as images of a somewhat younger Wain walks solemnly through the street in funereal attire with a group of women.
