Daily Archive: Saturday, September 19, 2020

Two prisoners died today at the Lusignan Prison and others were injured after guards fired shots to prevent a breakout.

Mohamed-Aslim Zafis, a Guyanese man was fatally stabbed outside a northwest Toronto mosque last Saturday, according to the Canadian Press.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has raised the stakes in the struggle for control of the U.S.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today thanked Colombian President Ivan Duque for his stance against Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro and pledged continued assistance to help fight drug trafficking.

The severe economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic on CARICOM countries was one of the issues raised yesterday by Secretary-General Irwin LaRocque with  visiting US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo.

ROME, CMC – Reigning double Olympic sprint queen, Elaine Thompson, says Thursday’s world-leading win had given her a clear outline of her form ahead of next year’s Tokyo Olympics.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jimmy Cliff has rated the recently released album of late fellow reggae legend and tourmate Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert as a high note and fitting end to more than five decades of stellar achievements.

(Trinidad Guardian) A prison officer was ambushed and killed at his Chaguanas home last night, in what some of his colleagues speculate may have been a hit called from inside the Golden Grove Prison due to an ongoing hunger strike by prisoners.

(Trinidad Guardian) A video of underaged children who appeared to be drinking alcohol during school hours has caught the attention of Education Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly.

President Irfaan Ali believes that the maritime shiprider agreement signed yesterday with the United States and which goes into effect on Monday will not put this country at risk of Venezuelan aggression or negatively impact its border controversy case currently at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

As Guyana and the United States yesterday signed an agreement to bolster private sector investment in infrastructure,  visiting Secretary of State Michael Pompeo steered clear of pronouncements  on this country’s controversial 2016 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with ExxonMobil, saying simply that his government will support investment opportunities here for Americans.

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday defended his government’s support for the private sector in this year’s national budget, calling it part of its vision for economic development.  

The budget allocation for the sport sector could be tripled in 2021.

Saying the emergency budget falls short of several key objectives, Leader of the Opposition Joseph Harmon yesterday announced that the APNU+AFC cannot offer its support for the passage of the estimates.

Four men were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with the murder of businessman Mohamed Haniff, who succumbed in hospital a week ago after he was brutalised during a home invasion at Bath, on the West Coast of Berbice. 

Shadow Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Jermaine Figueira has lambasted the substantive minister, Charles Ramson Jr.,

Guyanese boxer Lennox ‘2 Sharp’ Allen has received moral support from his manager Steven Heid following his recent defeat at the hands of Cuban/American, David Morrell at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday announced that dozens of ranks found nothing of “evidential” value for the investigation into the murders of teenaged cousins Isaiah and Joel Henry after hours of combing the backlands of No. 

Two of the three foreign nationals who were held on Sunday at 9 Miles Airstrip, Issano, Middle Mazaruni River, where they claimed they crash landed, were yesterday charged with entering the country illegally.

The Golden Jaguars, Guyana’s senior men’s football team has been placed in Pot-1 ahead of Concacaf’s Inaugural 2021 Gold Cup Draw which is to be staged on September 28th for Preliminary Qualifiers.

I’m always looking for a silver lining in anything regarding West Indies cricket, hoping that something will spur the resurgence of the team.

While acknowledging missteps by his government, former Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson on Thursday urged the new administration to commit and act to ensure safe and environmentally-sound operations in the oil and gas sector.

Opposition parliamentarian Dr Karen Cummings on Wednesday stated that the former APNU+AFC coalition government managed the COVID-19 pandemic in a timely manner and left the new health minister with “a good pitch and wicket to bat” in the public health sector.

CHAMPAGNOLE, France, (Reuters) – Denmark’s Soren Kragh Andersen claimed his second audacious solo stage win of the Tour de France yesterday with a perfectly timed attack late in the 19th stage, an undulating 166.5-km ride from Bourg en Bresse to Champagnole.

Dear Editor, There are a couple of questions that I wish to direct to the folks at NIS.

The Ministry of Health yesterday confirmed the deaths of two persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), taking the country’s death toll to 64.

Goran Dragic scored a game-high 25 points, Bam Adebayo had 15 of his 21 during a furious third-quarter comeback, and the Miami Heat rallied from an early 17-point deficit to beat the Boston Celtics 106-101 in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals Thursday night near Orlando.

“Fire In My Bones”, a recently released song, has been creating waves with its remarkable arrangement and lyrics, more so because it is the debut for singer, Jamal La Rose.

Dear Editor, The recent letter in the press that speaks of the death of Courtney Crum-Ewing and the lack of completion of the investigation into his murder under the Granger Administration was quite enlightening.

Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill yesterday said the government is “aggressively” working to recommence commercial flight operations at Guyana’s two international airports in the shortest possible time, while assuring that measures in place to do so safely would be continuously evaluated as public health remains paramount.

Describing the Ministry of Legal Affairs as being “dormant” over the past five years, Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall yesterday told the National Assembly that a clear legislative agenda is now in place as he promised less wastage in spending and the delivery of judicial reforms under his stewardship. 

The other day, a food-in friend was sharing with me the pleasures of eating Guyanese-style Aniseed Biscuits.

Dear Editor, Please allow me some space in your newspaper to express some of my views as a citizen of Guyana who lived out of Guyana for more than thirty years.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a stalwart liberal on the U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) Finance Minister Colm Imbert has revealed that after a decade and multiple assessments, that the government’s bailout of CL Financial and CLICO has cost taxpayers TT$30 billion.

By Rudi Webster In the distant future, when cricket lovers look back at the game’s greatest players, two names will stand out; Australian Sir Donald Bradman, the world’s greatest batsman, and West Indian Sir Garfield Sobers, the world’s greatest all-rounder.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Trump administration will ban WeChat and video-sharing app TikTok from U.S.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) yesterday announced that it has received authorisation to commence underwater repairs to it submarine fiber-optic cable, which it says was damaged a few weeks ago in what is suspected to be a case of sabotage.

The deaths of Joel, Isaiah and Haresh are still fresh on my mind, even though I feel less guilty about being alive this week in comparison to last week.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Former West Indies batsman, Philo Wallace, has blamed a failure in leadership for Barbados Tridents’ wretched campaign in the Caribbean Premier League earlier this month.

(Barbados Nation) Accused Andrew Harclyde Pollard could not remember the day or month he started “talking to” Onicka Gulliver and he denied going to her house on the night she disappeared six years ago.

Dear Editor, A sixteen-year-old girl from the Coren-tyne Coast, along with her Grandmother, a friend who drove the car and a family friend, left for the Cheddi Jagan International Airport for a flight to the US in the midst of the protests promoted by David Granger and Joseph Harmon on the West  Coast Berbice, believing that they would be safe, protected by the police.

(Trinidad Express) The murder toll for 2020 has hit the 300 mark.

Three enthusiastic young women are looking to inspire others aspiring to balance the business, arts, relationships, and social issues (BARS) in their lives.

Three men armed with cutlasses yesterday attacked a family of three during a failed robbery attempt at their Nonpareil, East Coast Demerara home.

Dear Editor, I congratulate the new Government as it appears to be taking a keen interest in the established twinning of Aberdeen, UK and Georgetown and the benefits accruing.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he did not want another national lockdown but that new restrictions may be needed because the country was facing an “inevitable” second wave of COVID-19.

Sunday, September 13th, 2020 Parade Ground George-town was the first scene of another display of weeping and mourning that would continue along the East Coast of Demerara and culminate in Berbice.

BERN, (Reuters) – FIFA president Gianni Infantino, the subject of criminal proceedings in Switzerland, spoke of forces which he said wanted to drag the global soccer body into the “darkness of the past” as he defended himself at the annual Congress yesterday.

In the last two weeks, despite trailing vice-president Biden in every poll, president Trump has  encouraged his supporters to believe that he can only lose a “rigged” election.