Daily Archive: Wednesday, September 7, 2022

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has lined up a supply of monkeypox vaccine for Latin America and the Caribbean, as the Americas becomes a new epicentre for the rapidly spreading disease.

Members of the public living in and beyond the Grove/Diamond area, and particularly those persons who may need to get to the airport for a flight are being advised to make alternative arrangements or to do so earlier, as the paving and milling of the Grove/Diamond section of the East Bank Highway (EBH), will begin from 9 tonight.

 (Reuters) – Britain’s Cineworld Group CINE.L today filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States as the world’s second-largest cinema chain operator struggles to rein in its massive debt.

TIRANA,  (Reuters) – Albania severed diplomatic relations with Iran today and kicked out its diplomats after a cyberattack in July it blamed on the Islamic Republic, a move Washington supported as it vowed to take action in response to the attack on its NATO ally.

(Barbados Nation) With the winter tourist season just two months away, one economist is warning that Barbados cannot afford to have gun violence derail what he believes will be a make-or-break season in terms of the country’s economic recovery.

Agronomist Dr Oudho Homenauth passed away yesterday at the age of 65.

After a more than six-year hiatus, Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Charles Ramson yesterday announced the return of the Guyana Prize for Literature with changes that will see it being an annual event and future plans for a festival and symposia across the country.

Two persons died yesterday afternoon while seven others were injured after the minibus they were travelling in was involved in a four-vehicle accident, along with a horse cart, on the Good Hope Public Road on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD).

Saints Conquerors, GCC Spartans, Saints S7N, and Old Fort secured semi-final victories when the Georgetown Football Association Senior Men’s League continued yesterday at the National Training Centre, Providence.

The burnt remains discovered at Yarrowkabra by the police on Sunday are believed be those of Marc Melville who went missing two Mondays ago and there was evidence of chop wounds.

Guyanese fighter Stephan Da Silva will fight for the WBL World Title on Australian soil on the Gairy St Clair Superhero Pro Fight Night card. 

With the second of its appeals still pending more than a year after both its petitions challenging the March 2nd, 2020 polls were thrown out, the Opposition APNU+AFC has been granted Monday October 3rd, 2022 to be heard on a Motion it has filed requesting the swift hearing of that outstanding appeal.

The Martinique company, Somara AS, has been notified by Guyana’s Maritime Administration Department  (MARAD) that its barge which collided with the Demerara Harbour Bridge on Sunday morning is being detained here until further notice.

The Demerara Cricket Club Sunday night celebrated 110 years as a club with a dinner at the Queenstown venue.

On Mondays to Fridays between 07:00 to 09:00 hours no traffic will be allowed east on the Railway Embankment from the Sheriff Street roundabout to Ogle, the Guyana Police Force announced yesterday.

Jets Number Four and Number One basketball teams  secured the senior and junior titles in the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) 3×3 Championship which was staged at the Retrieve Hard Court in Mackenzie recently.

Government is yet to decide whether it will make the report of the Regional Security System (RSS) review into allegations made by Detective Sergeant, Dion Bascom public as findings or recommendations could potentially hamper related investigations. 

(Reuters) – Cameron Green braved cramps to smash a career-best 89 not out and secure Australia’s nervy two-wicket victory against New Zealand in the opening one-day international in Cairns yesterday.

The body of the Corentyne fisherman who went missing during the wee hours of Friday after he was reportedly struck by lightning was yesterday discovered along the Mahaica foreshore.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England batsman Ollie Pope says Jonny Bairstow, one of the team’s top performers of the summer, will be missed in the decisive third test against South Africa at The Oval, but has backed Harry Brook to rise to the occasion if selected.

Days after his friend and co-conspirator admitted his part in the 2016 killing of Simone Hackett, Cleavaughn Hamilton on Monday confirmed their joint roles in the slaying of the mother of his son whom he stabbed at least a dozen times.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Kylian Mbappe played chief tormentor as Paris St Germain started their Champions League campaign by beating Juventus 2-1 at home yesterday, their first victory against the Italian side.

Dear Editor, I am trying to reconcile the headline, “VP says be vigilant against ‘shoddy work’ by contractors,” (GC, Sept.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Tunisian fifth seed Ons Jabeur overcame her own frustrations to reach the U.S.

After being closed for more than ten years, the Mara Police Station, East Bank Berbice was yesterday reopened.

Dear Editor, A few months ago a resident of Industry penned a few letters to your newspaper regarding a very bad section of road on 6th Street, Industry.

Dear Editor, We refer to the letter from “broadcast journalist” Enrico Woolford (September 5, 2022), `Extremely unfortunate juxtaposition by Ravi Dev’.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – s defeat at the U.S. Open on Friday in what was likely the final match of her glittering career was the most-watched tennis telecast in ESPN’s 43-year history, the network said yesterday.

With contract negotiations for the planned gas-to-energy project set to begin during the early part of October, the government is looking to hire a consultant firm to provide legal and commercial advisory services as well as negotiation support for the project.

Dear Editor, Despite the greatest blow to the sector in modern times, our ability and at times inability to transition to new methods of tuition and learning, our students did exceptionally well at the various regional examinations.

(Reuters) – AC Milan midfielder Alexis Saelemaekers earned the Serie A title holders a 1-1 draw at Austrian side Salzburg in their Champions League Group E opener yesterday.

Since the reopening of schools this week, the pupils of the Santa Rosa Primary School in Moruca, Region One, are forced attend classes using a shift system as various sections of the school are in a debilitated state.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said yesterday that he had changed his mind about deploying the armed forces to oversee public security as he defended his plan to give the Army control of the civilian-led National Guard.

Dear Editor, There are some who see Guyana’s demographic makeup one way.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Two indigenous communities from Ecuador’s Amazon region yesterday demanded the Constitutional Court enforce rulings from 2018 and 2019 to protect thousands of hectares (thousands of acres) of tropical jungle from oil and mining projects.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The new British Prime Minister Liz Truss has selected a cabinet where for the first time a white man will not hold one of the country’s four most important ministerial positions.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England and South Africa go into tomorrow’s final test at The Oval without key batsmen as each side looks to secure a series that is intriguingly poised at 1-1 after emphatic victories by both sides.

Twelve new COVID-19 cases were yesterday recorded by the Ministry of Health after 314 tests were carried out.

Dear Editor, Like Swami Aksharananda (SN Letters, September 6, 2022) I too am puzzled by the outrage expressed by Mr Enrico Woolford (SN Letters, September 5, 2022) over the historical truths and personal sentiments stated by Mr Ravi Dev in his letter published September 4, 2022 in this column.

NASSAU,  (Reuters) – A 58-year-old Pennsylvania woman died in a shark attack in The Bahamas yesterday, police said.

A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Corporal was yesterday reported to have died by suicide.

LONDON, (Reuters) – South Africa’s top order batters have to step up and get some big scores if they are to stand a chance of winning the three-test series away against England, emerging batsman Keegan Petersen said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A document describing a foreign government’s military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities, was found in the FBI’s search last month of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, the Washington Post reported yesterday.

KYIV/VIENNA, (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces shot down five Russian cruise missiles yesterday, most of them in the south, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, but he made no mention of a new military success in the east hinted at by officials earlier.

Dear Editor, Congratulations are in order for all our students who excelled at this year’s CSEC and CAPE examinations.

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall has written to Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), retired Justice Claudette Singh requesting the documents reportedly presented to her by the APNU+AFC during the recount process for the March 2020 polls.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Cricket Australia (CA) has appointed Simon Longstaff as its inaugural ethics commissioner, four years after he led a scathing review of the board’s culture in the wake of the Newlands ball-tampering scandal.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro is calling supporters to attend street rallies alongside Independence Day military parades today, a showing that may gauge support for the far-right leader’s attacks on democratic institutions ahead of an October election.

In the aftermath of Monday’s windstorm that ravaged the East Coast Demerara communities of Bare Root and Dazzell Housing Scheme, a team from the opposition APNU+AFC visited the area for a first-hand look at the damage incurred and to offer what assistance it could, while calling for urgent government relief for affected families.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canadian police converged on the James Smith Cree Nation yesterday, drawn back to the area by possible sightings of the man wanted in a stabbing spree that killed 10 people, but the suspect remained at large in the third day of an intense manhunt.

Dear Editor, The letter writer calling for a review of the existing passport issuance measures and recommendations therein (SN September 6), are with some merit. 

Gervase Warner, the Chief Executive Officer of Massy Holdings, was direct.

ASUNCION,  (Reuters) – A journalist was murdered on Paraguay’s violent border with Brazil yesterday, the latest episode of violence in a region increasingly besieged by drug trafficking and gang disputes.

By Yasmine Sherif and Gordon Brown EDINBURGH – Following this year’s catastrophic flooding in Pakistan, millions of young Pakistanis’ life opportunities are hanging by a thread.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Flushing Meadows has found a new darling in Frances Tiafoe, who set up a potential U.S.

The Guyana Men’s football team kicked off the 2022-23 CONCACAF Nations League Tournament on a positive note, on 4th June, in the Dominican Republic, by beating Montserrat 2 – 1.