Daily Archive: Sunday, November 28, 2021

The Ministry of Health today said that one more person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has died.

Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony on Friday commissioned a state-of-the-art health centre at Supply, East Bank Demerara.

ROTTERDAM, (Reuters) – Dutch health authorities said today that 13 cases of the new Omicron coronavirus variant have been found in the Netherlands among passengers that were on two flights from South Africa that arrived on Friday.

 (Reuters) – A Guatemalan stowaway hidden in the landing gear compartment of an American Airlines jet survived a flight yesterday from his home country to Miami, where he was turned over to U.S.

(Barbados Nation) The man who was charged with the murder of Samara Bristol was remanded when he appeared in the Supreme Court before Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes yesterday morning.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Mottley is hitting back at critics who questioned the reason for moving to a parliamentary republic and reopening the Golden Square Freedom Park amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Trinidad Guardian) In one week, COVID-19 has claimed three members of a Longdenville family.

BELGRADE, (Reuters) – Hundreds of environmental protesters blocked several major roads in Serbia yesterday to protest against two new laws that they say will give free rein to foreign mining companies in the country.

With the six-week review period for the draft amendments to the Representation of the People Act (RoPA) winding down, the Electoral Reform Group (ERG) is calling on the government to simplify the proposals in order to reach the wider Guyanese population and extend the timeframe.

Eight candidates have been shortlisted for consideration as prospective commissioners for the Public Procurement Commission (PPC).

By Baytoram Ramharack George Lamming, the Bajan novelist and social commentator said that the name Cheddi Jagan evokes “permanence and awe” of the type “which time confers on certain historical monuments.”

The family of an 18-year-old girl who recently took her own life are blaming officers at the Cove and John Police Station for her drastic action because of the way they handled her allegation of rape against a taxi driver.

An Essequibo family is now mourning the death of a 16-year-old labourer, who fell from a high steel structure at a rice mill on Saturday afternoon.

HARARE, Zimbabwe, CMC – West Indies Women could face a logistical nightmare in returning home after the International Cricket Council pulled the plug on the Qualifiers here yesterday, due to travel restrictions slapped on several African nations as a result of emergence of a new strain of the COVID-19 virus.

A fire, suspected to be electrical in origin, destroyed a Line Path guesthouse in the wee hours of Saturday morning, leaving the owner with millions of dollars in losses.

By Tony (McWatt) and Reds (Perreira) From its first session to the last the eventual outcome of the November 21-25 Sri Lanka-West Indies 1st Test played at the Galle International Stadium, was somewhat predictable, the hosts winning by the very comfortable margin of 187 runs.

Team Guyana’s campaign got off to a rocky start during the first two days of  the inaugural Junior Pan American Games in Colombia In badminton, Akili Haynes, Priyanna Ramdhani and Tyrese Jeffrey all  went down in straight sets.

Chief Labour Officer Dhaneshwar Deonarine has been instructed to convene a meeting with National Tripartite Committee (NTC) to resume discussions on the national minimum wage, Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton has said.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) and Guyana National Women’s Football Association (GNWFA) yesterday launched the inaugural Women’s Super-16 Festival.

Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Lenox Shuman has said that he has been threatened with victimization following posts he made on Facebook.

With just under two weeks to go before the People’s National Congress Reform’s 21st Biennial Delegates’ Congress, former Party Chairman Basil Williams on Saturday announced that he had accepted a nomination to contest for the office of Leader.

It was happy hunting for the visiting West Demerara giant Pouderoyen FC as they defeated local heavyweight Rivers View 1-0 when their pre-season tour of Bartica commenced on Friday evening at the Community Centre ground.

The Ministry of Health on Saturday confirmed that a fully vaccinated woman was the country’s latest COVID-19 fatality.

HARARE, Zimbabwe, CMC – Head coach Courtney Walsh has endorsed the decision by the International Cricket Council to scrap the 50-over Women’s World Cup Qualifiers but said West Indies Women were thrilled with their qualification for next year’s showpiece in New Zealand The ICC announced yesterday the tournament would not continue due to the emergence of the new Omicron variant of COVID-19, which had led several major countries to slap travel restrictions on southern African nations, including Zimbabwe.

Dear Editor, Caribbean citizens are uncommonly proud of nurturing remarkable statesmen, harbouring unusual political conundrums and throwing up more than their fair share of idiosyncratic political leaders.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Cricket West Indies said yesterday it was working assiduously to ensure the safe return of the women’s squad from Zimbabwe, after the Inter-national Cricket Council abruptly cancelled the 50-over World Cup Qualifiers in response to a new strain of COVID-19 in southern Africa.

Regaled by his maternal grandmother about the exploits of lawyers at the Matthews Ridge Magistrate Court, a young Jensen Samaroo was so intrigued not just by the stories but the obvious admiration she had for lawyers that he resolved in his heart to become a legal luminary she would be proud of.

Dear Editor, Please allow me space in your letters column to highlight the plight of residents of Tuschen New Housing Scheme, East Bank Essequibo, regarding the deplorable condition of its main access road.

While many children who have tested positive for COVID-19 have shown mild symptoms or none at all, medical experts have voiced concern over the growing number of those with lingering effects months after they contracted the deadly virus. 

The majority of persons currently hospitalized at Guyana’s Infectious Disease Hospital, at Liliendaal, are pregnant women, according to Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony.

Dear Editor, In British espionage and author Graham Greene lore, there was a ‘fifth man’ out there. 

Thirty-eight years ago, former diver Dion De Souza and a ‘sailor’ were lost in the forested and wet highlands of the Cuyuni/Mazaruni region without food and shelter.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Left-arm spinner Axar Patel claimed figures of 5-62 to help India grab a handy 49-run first-innings lead in the opening test against New Zealand yesterday.

The Ministry of Finance on Friday denied a claim by former Minister of Finance Winston Jordan that a conflict of interest existed as a result of the Head of its Project Cycle Management Division (PCMD), Tarachand Balgobin chairing the national procurement board.

LONDON/BERLIN/AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – Britain, Germany and Italy detected cases of the new Omicron coronavirus variant yesterday and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced new steps to contain the virus, while more nations imposed restrictions on travel from southern Africa.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Pat Cummins is focused on doing justice to his appointment as Australia’s new test captain and believes limited-overs leadership would be “too much” for him, the 28-year-old said yesterday.

Dear Editor, Electric cycles have no laws governing their use on the roadways, (INews Nov 26), but a horse cart does. 

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has called for the long delayed reforms of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and the electoral system to be made priority. 

After years of trying, La Trisha Layne got pregnant and had just begun looking forward to motherhood when 12 weeks into her pregnancy she suffered a miscarriage and soon found that there was no support for the crippling grief she endured.

A Stanleytown man died last evening after he crashed his motorcycle along Strand, New Amsterdam.

When Niomi Bhimsain started Yummybites.gy, she had no idea what was in store for her but she was confident that her love for creating desserts and her need to generate an income would help her to push through despite the ongoing pandemic.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia has no plans to invade Ukraine and suggestions to the contrary are malicious U.S.

Dear Editor, A number of recent concerns raised in the media does give the impression that the Government is losing control of some key strategic initiatives underway.

Global table tennis stars have continued to make their presence felt as the 2021 ITTF World Table Tennis Championships Finals moves into the quarterfinal stage at the George R.

Dear Editor,  I don’t think that the democratically-elected PPP/C Government of President Irfaan Ali understands that it has sidelined the unions in awarding a 7% pay raise to public servants.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France is willing to discuss autonomy for the French Caribbean territory of Guadeloupe if it is in the interests of the people who live there, government minister Sebastien Lecornu said.

Eleven local chess players competed last Sunday in the Jamaica Online Open Tournament.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Hours after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the newly-identified coronavirus variant, Omicron, as a variant of concern, T&T has announced restrictions to entry for travellers from seven African countries.

(Reuters) – The one-day international series between South Africa and the Netherlands has been postponed after the discovery of a new COVID-19 variant in South Africa led to travel curbs being enforced, the two cricket boards said yesterday.

Almost three years after her home’s completion, a single mother is unable to move into it because of a mix up with measurement of her land, preventing her from building a fence around her home as she would be doing so on her neighbour’s land.

One of the subjects of study developed by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) that has been slowly gaining ground is Drama, which is offered at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) level as Theatre Arts and at the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) level as a part of the Performing Arts.

Have you ever questioned silently, or even out loud, how or why some of your mates from school look much more aged than you do?

Introduction Because of its centrality to the query — as to whether projected oil revenues are likely to be large enough and sufficiently stable to finance successfully income transfers of  the magnitude and stability required to alleviate substantially income poverty in Guyana — I need to explore more fully the workings of Government Take under the ruling PSA.

Just as Guyana is beginning to emerge out of the Covid darkness, the Omicron variant has been first detected in South Africa but almost simultaneously discovered in other countries such as Israel, Belgium and other African countries.

De’Aaron Fox recorded 34 points and eight assists and Buddy Hield scored 25 points off the bench as the Sacramento Kings notched a dramatic 141-137 triple-overtime victory over the host Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Warnings of potential foul play are flying from all sides ahead of today’s presidential election in Honduras, raising fears of possible disputes and unrest if leading challenger Xiomara Castro does not win by a clear margin.

When a President addresses the nation it is usually with respect to a situation or occurrence which affects everybody, or at least is of direct relevance to everybody.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) is currently investigating the discovery of cannabis and a gun with ammunition at a Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, home.

When I worked in the sugar industry I remember once discussing a problem with a young and junior colleague.

The theatrical poster for “King Richard” introduces us to an important discrepancy.