Daily Archive: Sunday, January 16, 2022

The Ministry of Health today said that as of January 15th, 2022, nine more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Trends have emerged in Guyana where political parties, principally the PNCR, sometimes define their responsibilities as relating to only those who they ‘represent’ or their ‘supporters’ or who ‘voted for them,’ even though, as Government or Opposition, they are expected to represent the interests of all Guyanese.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – Tsunami-hit Tonga remained largely uncontactable today with telephone and internet links severed, leaving relatives in faraway New Zealand praying for their families on the Pacific islands as casualty reports had yet to come through.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Tennis superstar Novak Djokovic flew out of Australia today after a court upheld the government’s decision to cancel his visa, capping days of drama over the country’s COVID-19 entry rules and his unvaccinated status.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – The COVAX global vaccine-sharing programme has delivered 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses, one of the organisations which manages it said today.

Embattled Fire Chief Kalamadeen Edoo has declared that the corruption allegations being levelled against him are “false” and designed to tarnish his reputation.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced plans to have police and surveillance cameras deployed at specific locations around the country’s capital city in order to curb littering.

Amesha La Rose, a fifth form student of St Ignatius Secondary, Region Nine, is happy to be back in the classroom despite the current anxiety about rising COVID-19 cases across the country. 

The Ministry of Health has confirmed five more COVID-19 fatalities, including a three-year-old boy, as well as over 1,000 new infections.

A week after People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) leader Aubrey Norton made it known that his party believes he should be the Leader of the Opposition, he on Friday skirted questions on the ongoing discussions with the current office holder, Joseph Harmon.

Even as the nation awaits word from President Irfaan Ali on the composition of the Natural Resource Fund Board, the Private Sector Commission (PSC) has launched a formal call for nominees from all of its sectoral bodies and corporate representatives.

India Under-19s skipper, Yash Dhull churned out a brilliant half-century followed by an exuberant performance by the spinners to hand their side a 45-run win over South Africa Under-19s in match four of the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Under-19 World Cup yesterday.

On his weekly Facebook programme ‘Issues in the News,’ Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC last Tuesday announced that the process for constitutional reform will commence this year and he hoped for the full participation of all stakeholders.

The Auditor General has found that almost $24 million has been unaccounted for as part of the dietary programme in Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni).

The spinners took centre stage yesterday at the Albion Community Centre Ground, Berbice on day two of the Guyana Harpy Eagles Best versus Best second practice match.

Dear Editor, Recently the Minister of Public Works announced that negotiations are still ongoing between the Guyana government and China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC), which is the contractor selected to construct the US$256.6 million new bridge across the Demerara River. 

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – West Indies vice-captain Shai Hope says the team needs to find the right formula to cope with the double challenge of unfavourable wicket conditions and a penetrable Irish bowling attack in today’s decider in the One-Day International (ODI) series against Ireland.

With many fisherfolk across Guyana reporting steady declines in their catches, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha last Wednesday faced questioning by the Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Economic Services on what the government is doing to ensure marine fisheries sustainability.

By Tony (McWatt) and Reds (Perreira) The Men’s Senior team in danger of losing a three-match ODI series to Ireland and an Executive Board in apparent disarray.

Dear Editor, During the past week a woman visited my workplace, a secondary school on the lower East Coast.

By The Rt Hon Patricia Scotland, Commonwealth Secretary-General If the ocean is the lifeblood of the Commonwealth, then forests are the lungs that breathe life into its whole system.

Employers should have strict policies in place at their businesses to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in workplaces, Minister of Health Dr.

Almost two years ago when COVID-19 became a reality in Guyana and schools were shut, Monix Hetemeyer, a teacher, saw how students around her were suffering and with the support of other like-minded colleagues, she started an online platform – Teachers’ Initiative Online Programme – to assist in teaching students who were not being engaged at the time.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Virat Kohli shocked Indian cricket yesterday by abruptly resigning as the national side’s test captain, after leading the team to several memorable victories in his seven years in charge.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to “Invigorated Crossover voters …” by Dr.

(Trinidad Guardian) – One day after celebrating his birthday, a 31-year-old man was gunned down at a business place in Tabaquite yesterday.

Local health authorities on Friday received 28,800 more doses of the one-shot Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine through a donation from the Government of Spain.

Overseas-based Guyanese Shaheed Yusuf is planning to stage a countrywide knockout softball tournament this year.

Candace Phillips wears many hats. The product development manager at the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) is an advocate for tourism development, Indigenous peoples and women, and also a mother.

(Reuters) – An underwater volcano off Tonga erupted yesterday, triggering tsunami warnings and evacuation orders in Japan and causing large waves in several South Pacific islands, where footage on social media showed waves crashing into coastal homes.

Dear Editor, I have for some time lamented the unreciprocated homage that Guyana pays its Sister CARICOM States.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Jamaican authorities have detained a former Haitian senator who was a key suspect in the murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in July, Jamaican national police said yesterday.

An East Bank Berbice single mother of six on Friday received a newly constructed house on the lot she became the owner of 13 years ago.

Dear Editor, In the spirit of cooperation, local and regional development, I must commend the Government on its ability to look beyond the problems of the recent past.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Trinidad’s Ministry of Health has recorded 24 additional COVID-related death.

There are calls for more resources to be dedicated towards improving braille literacy among the visually impaired population in order to promote social inclusion.

Government has granted approval for the return of Aruba Airlines, Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill said, having reviewed the airline’s application to operate here.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Three uncapped players and experienced leg-spinner and right-handed batter Afy Fletcher have been included in the 18-member squad for the One Day International (ODI) series against South Africa Women later this month.

Introduction Last week’s column wrapped up my rather extended revisit of the Buxton Proposal, BP.

Transport Sports Club, Thomas Lands, will be the venue for today’s Mark `Jumbie’ Wiltshire birth anniversary dominoes tournament.

GTT on Saturday reported the disruption of services to its customers in Linden and surrounding areas due to a deliberate act of vandalism.

Looking back at it, so many years later after it came into being, that was the name, The Base,  most commonly used to refer to Guyana’s international airport, Atkinson Field, which had been created during World War Two, as the jumping-off point from North America for US Air Force planes headed for the Far East and Europe. 

Attorney General Anil Nandlall was in full flow last week on his Facebook programme after disclosing that the company Smart City Solutions had sued for compensation.

In the previous column, I noted several positive features of the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Act of 2021.

Over 100 students aged seven to 15 years old are benefitting from a compre-hensive online program-me, conducted by the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF), to learn and study the game of chess.

Determined to peel away the veil that sometimes covers how sex and sexuality are addressed locally, young medical doctor Patricia Douglas has opened a consultancy company to provide quality, non-clinical sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services.

What are movies for? It’s a question that often haunts cinematic discourse, as if a pithy response explaining the whys of cinema would make it more important.

Joseph Brodsky, the great Russian poet who died at the sadly young age of 56, on receiving his Nobel Prize in the Grand Hall of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm in December, 1987, declared a great truth: “There is no doubt in my mind that, should we have been choosing our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programmes, there would be much less grief on earth.”

I is a long memoried woman        From dih pout of mih mouth from dih treacherous calm of mih smile you can tell I is a long memoried woman -Grace Nichols   Nanny   Ashanti Priestess and giver of charms earth substance woman of science and black fire magic Maroonic woman of courage and blue mountain rises Standing over the valleys dressed in purple robes bracelets of the enemy’s teeth curled around your ankles in rings of ivory bone And your voice giving sound to the Abeng its death cry chilling the mountainside which you inhabit like a strong pursuing eagle As you watch the hissing foaming cauldron spelling strategies for the red oppressors’ blood willing them to come mouthing a new beginning song is that you Nanny – Is that you Nanny?

“This cost a living really getting to me now. Well it getting to me long now but now is like me head spinning.

Dear Editor, Finally, in all of Guyana, one man – Glenn Lall, owner of Kaieteur News – has found the gumption, and moral courage to stand in the middle of the road and tell the Government and oil companies that he will not sit idly by and allow the looting of Guyana to continue.

Many of you have decided to start your fitness journey in 2022, so here is a tool for your toolbox: a pre-workout supplement.

(Trinidad Guardian) – A retired police officer was found murdered at his home in Chaguanas yesterday morning.