Daily Archive: Thursday, February 10, 2022

The curfew enforced under the COVID-19 Emergency Measures could likely be removed from as early as tomorrow, according to President Irfaan Ali.

ISLA PESCADORES, Peru,  (Reuters) – Peppered with fishing boats and thousands of hungry marine birds, from afar Peru’s protected Isla Pescadores – Spanish for Fishermen’s Island – looks much as it always has.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Charles has tested positive for COVID-19, his office said today, the second time that the heir-to-the-throne has contracted the disease.

(Trinidad Guardian) Venezuelan father Yemmi Santoyo had a day of mixed emotions yesterday when he had to identify the body of his baby boy, who was shot dead by members of the Coast Guard over the weekend, but was hours after reunited with his daughter.

(Trinidad Guardian) A hearse belonging to Dennie’s Funeral Home caught afire while carrying a body to his funeral along the North Coast Road yesterday.

Chinese companies operating  here are following local laws and best practices, Beijing’s embassy here said yesterday.

A high-level team of United Kingdom businesses is scouting out investment opportunities here including government’s planned Silica City.

High Court Judge Gino Persaud has ruled that the June 20th, 2019 decision of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) to increase the cost for a certificate of compliance to 0.5% of what at that time was the market value of the property was among other things, in excess of jurisdiction, null and void.

APNU+AFC Member of Parliament, Sherod Duncan was yesterday suspended from the next four sittings of the National Assembly after he vociferously protested  a dildo remark directed at a woman MP by Local Government Minister, Nigel Dharamlall.

The police last night said that a man died yesterday on the Eye Lash Main Access Road, North West District (NWD) following a collision between a lorry and an All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV).

Auditing of cost oil, reviewing of oil and gas legislation, the establishment of the Local Content Secretariat, and preparation for the review of field development plans, are among the projects that have received allocations in the Ministry of Natural Resources’ budget.

Photographer Keron Bruce has filed a $200 million suit against social media personality Mikhail Rodrigues, popularly known as “Guyanese Critic,” for what he said were defamatory statements made about him.

As Regional first-class cricket returned yesterday, the first round opening day of the West Indies championship unfolded with  Guyana Harpy Eagles’ bowlers being frustrated by Windwards Volcanoes’ last wicket pair.

Finding for the third time within the last week, the 60-year base sentence applied by Justice Navindra Singh as being excessive and without jurisprudential basis, the Guyana Court of Appeal has again reduced a sentence imposed by the judge.

Two persons were yesterday charged after allegedly stabbing and wounding a man during a scuffle at the Kitty Seawall.

Dear Editor, I refer to the front page lead story of the Kaieteur News newspaper dated Monday, 7th February, 2022, boldly titled: “After withdrawing $126B ‘illegally’ from oil fund…Govt, now tables motion seeking Parliamentary approval to cover tracks.

A twenty-six-year-old man has been charged with attempting to murder a man whom he gave his grandmother’s sliding glass door to keep. 

Dear Editor, There has been a continual flow of opinions during the past two years urging the PPP/C government to re-negotiate the Exxon and Partners’ Profit-Sharing Agreement (PSA) of 2016.

Guyana has recorded three more COVID-19 deaths along with over 160 new cases of the virus.

Caribbean Mixed Martials Arts Council Chairman Jason Fraser has commended the developmental work of the Guyana Mixed Martials Arts Federation (GMMAF), which led to the association securing full membership status at the recently staged International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) congress.

Dear Editor NCN wishes to offer a response to the letter, “Save the Basil Persaud Show” published in your Monday, January 31, 2022, edition.

With the government seeking to make Guyana an arbitration hub, a United Kingdom law firm – Signature Litigation – has expressed interest in collaborating with the administration on the revamping of the arbitration laws of Guyana.

That is the number of athletes that have so far punched their tickets to this year’s CARIFTA Games in Jamaica so far following the first trials staged last Sunday at the National Track and Field Centre.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – A geomagnetic storm triggered by a large burst of radiation from the sun has disabled least 40 of the 49 satellites newly launched by SpaceX as part of its Starlink internet communications network, the company said.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Former Leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is leading early polls ahead of October elections, said yesterday he would propose less taxation on the poor and more on the rich if he wins, and reduce fuel prices.

Just over $16.7 million is expected to be expended on the renovation of Region Two’s State House annex.

Dear Editor, John Mair is at it again, working tirelessly to lift the curtain and introduce some light on this fabled oil wealth of ours, no longer a fable, but the stuff of dreams come true. 

The Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPLF) is set to kick off its 2022 calendar of activities Sunday with the staging of its Novices/Juniors and Sub Juniors Championships.

Hard hitting all-rounder Odean Smith believes that a lack of application by the top order batsmen was responsible for the West Indies coming up short against India in the second One Day International (ODI) yesterday.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador yesterday said diplomatic relations with Spain should pause, turning on Mexico’s former colonial power as he sought to deflect criticism of his plan to strengthen state control of the power market.

Dear Editor, It must be seen as damaging and damning the bribery question posed to the high ranking official in the echelon of power. 

Two suspects are now in police custody following a robbery with aggravation committed on a 33-year-old businessman of Foulis, E.C.D,

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) overcame newcomer Venguy 3-2, when the Demerara Volleyball Federation (DVF) Senior League competition continued on Tuesday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue, Georgetown.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Canadian truckers blockade is posing a risk to the auto industry’s supply chain and U.S.

Yesterday, ranks of Regional Division #6, led by an Assistant Superintendent of Police, conducted an eradication exercise at Fort Nassau Savannah, Upper Berbice River where a farm consisting of about ten thousand cannabis sativa plants ranging from three to five feet in height with a street value of $4M was destroyed.

Dear Editor, I feel compelled to respond to the wild allegations and insinuations made against the Vice President  of Guyana, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo.

Formerly, when a woman was appointed to the top position in a firm, she was lauded as having broken through the so-called glass ceiling.

(Reuters) – England fast bowlers James Anderson and Stuart Broad will be considered for selection again in the English summer, interim managing director Andrew Strauss said yesterday.

AHMEDABAD, India, CMC – West Indies’ two-decade wait for a series success on Indian soil continued here yesterday after another top order implosion rendered an otherwise straightforward run chase difficult, and sent them to a humbling 44-run defeat in the second One-Day International.

ANTANANARIVO,  (Reuters) – The death toll in Madagascar from Cyclone Batsirai rose to 92, the state disaster relief agency said yesterday, as information continued to filter in from areas of the country that were badly affected.

Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony has issued a call for more persons to get vaccinated even as almost 1,900 COVID-19 vaccines were administered on Monday.

BIRMINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – Leeds United battled back to earn a 3-3 draw at Aston Villa after a virtuoso first-half display by Philippe Coutinho had left Marcelo Bielsa’s team crestfallen yesterday.

(CMC) At the Brian Lara Stadium, Bryan Charles starred with six for 48 to send Jamaica Scorpions crashing for 141 against Trinidad and Tobago Red Force.

The Nets and 76ers are making progress on a possible trade that would send James Harden to Philadelphia and Ben Simmons to Brooklyn, ESPN reported yesterday.

By  Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK – Although some supply shortages were anticipated as the global economy reopened after the COVID-19 lockdowns, they have proved more pervasive, and less transitory, than had been hoped.

Dear Editor, I cannot decipher the intent or objective of the interview.

MIRITI-PARANA, Colombia  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Scurrying nimbly through thick Colombian Amazon rainforest, teenager Pablo Galindo Tanimuca abruptly slows his pace and puts a finger to his lips, asking for silence as he approaches a small salt-water pond regarded as sacred by his indigenous community.