Daily Archive: Tuesday, January 11, 2022

The Ministry of Health today said that as of January 10th, 2022, three more men who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was under fire today after it emerged his private secretary had invited over 100 people to a “bring your own booze” party in the garden of Downing Street during the first coronavirus lockdown.

KAMPALA,  (Reuters) – A prominent Ugandan writer and critic of long-ruling leader Yoweri Museveni has been charged with communications offences related to tweets critical of the president and his son, the charge sheet showed on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three-time T&T Olympian Deon Lendore has died in a car accident in Texas.

The presence of oil industry vessels in areas that were once profitable fishing grounds for local fishermen has forced them to scope out new grounds resulting in extremely low catches and high overhead expenses.

A Corporal attached to the Special Constabulary was crushed to death yesterday morning after she lost control of her bicycle and fell along the La Penitence Public Road, Georgetown.

A Friendship, East Bank Demerara man was yesterday charged over the murder of two gold miners at Nassano Backdam on Christmas Eve.

Oil and gas co-operation will be one of the items on the agenda when Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro makes an official visit to Guyana later this month.

A Roraima Airways pilot has been suspended and the domestic airline is facing penalties for breaching aviation regulations in the Britten-Norman Trislander  crash-landing at Eccles, East Bank Demerara last August.

A quick response from the New Amsterdam Fire Service last evening saved a multi- million dollar building which houses ANSA McAl and Bhivar in New Amsterdam from going up in flames A sudden fire had started in the upper flat of the building where Bhivar is located.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – West Indies’ series against Ireland was thrown into doubt yesterday after two additional players, including captain Andy Balbirnie, tested positive for COVID-19, forcing organizers to postpone today’s second One-Day International at Sabina Park.

A Brazilian national was on Sunday robbed of a quantity of gold jewellery and cash along the Puruni trail in Region Seven and the police have since arrested three suspects, who they said confessed to the crime.

Seematie Chandra who was crushed to death on Wednesday under her house at Bonasika had been urged by her mother to relocate from the area.

Some 438 new COVID-19 cases were yesterday recorded and the current active total stands at over 6,000.

An APNU+AFC-sponsored motion was yesterday passed during the Mayor and City Council’s (M&CC) statutory meeting recommending the dismissal of City Engineer Colvern Venture. 

— GROUP A PREVIEW This year, the West Indies plays host to the ICC Under 19 Men’s Cricket World Cup for the first time and Group A will provide a first look at the defending champions. 

The Guyana Government has issued a Request for Information (RFI) on firms with the capacity to provide engineering, procurement and construction services for 33 megawatts peak (MWp) of solar power.

Fresh from receiving sponsorship for their online players from the Demerara Distillers Limited, the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) will stage a one-day online competition for players less than 12 years of age.

The Ministry of Education says that there was a high turnout of teachers yesterday despite a call by the GTU for a day of isolation in the face of rising COVID-19 numbers.

Dear Editor, In an editorial published in its September 12, 2021 edition, Stabroek News challenged the PPP/C’s commitment, or non-commitment, to the fundamentals of a liberal democracy.

A successful bid to host the highest regional event in 2024, its athletes returning with hardware from international outings, and successfully hosting its statutory competitions albeit amid the pandemic, were the highlights of bodybuilding for the year 2021.

Essequibo businessman Deleep Singh was elected president of the Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) at its  Annual General Meeting Sunday at the Imam Bacchus Library Hall, Affiance and said that the challenge was now to resuscitate cricket in the Cinderella County.

Dear Editor, Wednesday, Jan 12, will mark the 169th anniversary of the arrival of Chinese to Guyana as indentured labourers.

A motion on the proposed gas-to-shore project in the name of APNU+AFC MP David Patterson has now been placed on the parliamentary notice paper.

Dear Editor, The sudden resignation of Simona Broomes from the PNCR party because of what she claims to be, the absence of “systems, and consultation” within the party, comes at a testing time for the new PNCR leadership.

President of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA), Steve Ninvalle, yesterday met with former Guyanese Welterweight Champion, Terrence Alli, where he made a presentation of hampers, a cellphone and cash. 

Despite a fighting half century from Matthew Nandu, India Under-19s easily whipped West Indies Under-19s by 108 runs in the first of their International Cricket Council Under-19 World Cup warm up match at the Providence National Stadium Sunday.

WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega was sworn into office for his fourth consecutive term yesterday, hours after the United States and European Union imposed sanctions on several figures in his government following elections Washington has called a “sham”.

Approximately 25,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine are expected to arrive in Guyana this week.

Dear Editor, There was a welcome return to a proven good governance practice during the week of 2nd January.

CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – A U.S. man with terminal heart disease was implanted with a genetically modified pig heart in a first-of-its-kind surgery, and three days later the patient is doing well, his doctors reported yesterday.

Rose Hall Canje Arborsmart registered an emphatic 295-run drubbing of Edinburgh Warriors yesterday as the Berbice Cricket Board Telenec Under-15 got underway.

A 28-year-old man died after the ATV he was travelling on overturned at Nassano Backdam Main Access Road, North West District, Region One on Sunday night.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to “Bonasika tragedy” (January 10) – the editorial on the mother and daughter who were crushed to death when their dilapidated house collapsed.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Russia and the United States gave no sign of narrowing their differences on Ukraine and wider European security in talks in Geneva yesterday, as Moscow repeated demands that Washington says it cannot accept.

Dear Editor, It is the predawn hours, and I am thinking: where is this country going? 

More progress will be made this year on a swine abattoir, according to a release yesterday from the Ministry of Agriculture.

(Reuters) – The outgoing leader of Haiti’s senate yesterday said he would continue to lead sessions despite his term in office expiring, amid continued weakening of state institutions following last year’s assassination of President Jovenel Moise.

Dear Editor, The letter writer offering the suggestion of the Minister of Finance as chair of the NRF Board (SN Jan 9), is being deleterious and cannot be taken seriously.

Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony yesterday revealed that approximately 50 samples are expected to be sent for gene sequencing this week to determine if the COVID-19 Omicron variant is present here.

Klay Thompson returned from a 2 1/2-year absence with 17 points in 20 minutes of play, and Stephen Curry scored a game-high 28 points Sunday night as the Golden State Warriors snapped a two-game losing streak with a 96-82 win over the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers in San Francisco.

An Edinburgh, East Bank Berbice (EBB) teenager is now in the New Amsterdam Public Hospital in a serious condition after he was involved in an accident along the Gay Park Public Road on Sunday evening.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – New Zealand skipper Tom Latham smashed 252 before Trent Boult and Tim Southee wrecked Bangladesh with the ball to put the hosts on course for a series-levelling victory on day two of the second and final test in Christchurch yesterday.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa’s Dean Elgar says the third and final test against India at Newlands today is his team’s biggest match in 15 years as they look to win a series against the number one side in the world and provide confidence to a new group of players.

Dear Editor, It is difficult not to expect the Guyana Teachers Union to react most assertively to the perceived superficiality of manning the Teaching Service totally with ‘trained and licensed’ teachers, albeit from an unspecified effective date.

(Trinidad Guardian) A shootout between police and bandits on the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway near the Couva hospital has resulted in the death of one man while another escaped.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic was back in training hours after winning a court challenge to remain in Australia yesterday, thanking the judge who released him from immigration detention and saying he remained focused on trying to win a record 21st tennis major.

President Irfaan Ali and senior members of his cabinet yesterday met with a team from the Commonwealth Secretariat led by its Secretary-General, Patricia Scotland QC at the Office of the President on Shiv Chanderpaul Drive.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Heavy rainfall in southeastern Brazil has prompted miners including Vale SA to suspend some operations, they said on Monday, after downpours caused deadly floods in the northeast and threatened to delay harvests in the midwest.

There has been, in recent years, no marked change in the leaden-footed posture of CARICOM member states in the matter of setting and more importantly, efficiently and expeditiously implementing an agenda for taking the region closer to a condition of food security.