Articles published on Saturday, October 17, 2020
Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Vindhya Persaud is launching a Garment and Accessories Cottage Industry Initiative on Monday, October 19, 2020 which is also aimed at creating employment opportunities.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India’s coronavirus infections rose by another 62,212 cases over the previous day and a local media report said today that the government had begun identifying about 300 million people who would be given the vaccine first when it is ready.
ABUJA/LAGOS, (Reuters) – The Nigerian army will begin a two-month national exercise, it said today, while denying the move was part of any security response to recent widespread demonstrations against alleged police brutality.
(Trinidad Guardian) British Member of Parliament Steven Baker has responded to criticisms levelled against him by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley.
(Trinidad Express) Southern Division police are investigating three deaths in three separate shooting incidents on Friday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) There is not a large Jamaican presence in Lake Charles, Louisiana – the section of the southern state that was bludgeoned by Hurricane Laura six weeks ago.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Two bullet-riddled bodies with heads severed, which were found at Plum Lane off Whitehall Avenue in St Andrew, have triggered an intense probe by senior investigators of the Major Investigation Division who are working diligently to piece together whatever evidence or clues they can find to nab the perpetrators of the heinous murders which left the community in shock.
With the opening of the borders in Guyana, Caribbean Airlines (CAL) will operate its first commercial service between Guyana and New York, on Monday, 19 October.
The Ministry of Housing commenced a two-day land title distribution exercise also at the National Stadium at Providence, where President Irfaan Ali assured those who more interested in getting house lots that new developments would soon be underway.
Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon yesterday urged that the state find a mutually acceptable solution to resolve the plight of squatters at Success, East Coast Demerara, while vowing that the opposition would seek to ensure that they are treated fairly.
While hundreds of squatters struggle to stay afloat amidst the deliberate flooding of Success on the East Coast of Demerara by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), President Irfaan Ali is urging that they allow his government to develop housing the “right way”.
Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn yesterday signalled plans to tackle street vending and traffic congestion in the Stabroek Market area in George-town.
Through funding from the European Union, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), in partnership with the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), has secured down payments to purchase over 1 million doses of the expected COVID-19 vaccines for Caribbean Member States.
Chief Selector, Roger Harper, yesterday dropped Shai Hope from the Test squad to tour New Zealand next month but persevered with opener John Campbell who has also been a failure recently in the Test arena.
Fed up with a number of PNCR Leader David Granger’s unilateral decisions concerning party members and policies, executive member and key diaspora financier Basil Blackman on Wednesday resigned from his position.
Mumbai Indians (MI) moved to the top of the points table after they beat Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by eight wickets in Match 32 of the Dream11 Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi yesterday.
Police say rounds were discharged at Success, East Coast Demerara squatters who were suspected on Thursday of trying to rob Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) guards in an attack.
Yuri Garcia Dominguez and Ateeka Ishmael, the principals of Accelerated Capital Firm Inc (ACFI), were yesterday faced with two new charges, including operated a pyramid scheme.
A site visit of the National Track and Field Centre at Leonora is scheduled today by Minister of Sport, Charles Ramson Jr.,
Just three days after Justice Carol Gobin ruled FIFA’s decision to appoint a normalisation committee to run TT football as “illegal”, TT Football Association (TTFA) technical committee chairman Keith Look Loy has resigned.
A high tide damaged a section of a koker door at Number 52 Village, Coren-tyne yesterday afternoon, leaving residents in the community and its envi-rons at risk of devastating flood damage.
SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Veteran T20 superstar, Chris Gayle says he is open to playing any role in the batting order for Kings XI Punjab in the ongoing Indian Premier League.
President Irfaan Ali has issued a $50 million “presidential grant” to Region Six for works to be done on roads, which the regional administration says are urgently needed.
Following the recent liberalisation of the telecommunications sector, Digicel yesterday announced a reduction of its overseas calling rates.
(Reuters) – World heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is hopeful that boxing fans will be allowed at The O2 in London when he defends his IBF, WBA, WBO and IBO titles against Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev on Dec.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Beleaguered Trinidad and Tobago FA president, William Wallace, says if FIFA wins next week’s court appeal he will not pursue any further legal challenges against football’s powerful world governing body.
In observance of Breast Cancer Awareness month, ANSA McAL Trading Limited in collaboration with ROCHE yesterday donated US$2,400 to the Giving Hope Foundation.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s former defense minister Salvador Cienfuegos used his power in office to protect a faction of the Beltran-Leyva cartel, directing operations against rival gangs and even finding maritime transport to ship drugs, U.S.
“Queer Coolie-tudes,” an award-winning documentary by Guyanese-Canadian filmmaker Dr Michelle Mohabeer, will screen for the first time in Guyana tonight when the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) continues to virtually host its annual film festival.
MILAN, (Reuters) – Cristiano Ronaldo become involved in a public row with Italy’s sports minister yesterday as the pair indirectly accused each other of lying over whether the Portugal international had broken health rules after testing positive for COVID-19.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The troubled International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has appointed its third interim president in as many days, with Britain’s Michael Irani taking over from Thailand’s Intarat Yodbangtoey.
Finding a number of publications made in 2017 by the Guyana Chronicle against proprietor of the SleepIn International Hotel Clifton Bacchus, Pasha Global Inc.
(Reuters) – Pfizer Inc said yesterday it could file in late November for U.S.
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(Trinidad Express) Com-missioner of Police, Gary Griffith, has welcomed the decision of Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to bring in British and Barbados police officers to assist in the investigations into the seizure and subsequent disappearance of $22 million in cash which had been found in a house at Kathleen Warner Drive, La Horquetta, on September 22.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday reported the deaths of two more persons who contracted COVID-19.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – England’s limited-overs captain Eoin Morgan will take over as captain of Indian Premier League side Kolkata Knight Riders after regular skipper Dinesh Karthik stepped down, the franchise announced yesterday.
BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – The European Union should renegotiate a 1 billion euro ($1.2 billion) contract it sealed last week with Gilead for a six-month supply of the COVID-19 drug remdesivir after it showed poor results in a large trial, experts said yesterday.
Dear Editor, I am not a politician, not a lawyer, nor a teacher but rather, I consider myself as a humanitarian worker, with several decades of rich experience in this noble field.
(Barbados Nation) Canada was placed in the category of high risk in the latest update of Barbados travel protocols effective yesterday.
Now that the COVID-19 testing backlog has been cleared and the National Public Health Reference Laboratory (NPHRL) has boosted its capacity to process samples, Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony has said government will no longer be proceeding with its planned testing arrangements with the United States and Brazil although samples will still be sent to the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) to ensure that results are accurate.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson said yesterday it was now time to prepare for a no-trade deal Brexit unless the European Union fundamentally changed course, bluntly telling Brussels that there was no point in continuing the negotiations.
Dear Editor, There have been many letters recently about an “ethnic security dilemma (ESD)” in Guyana.
Guyana is a cold place. We know that compassion, equality and justice are not guaranteed to all.
(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica’s first state-run shelter for victims of domestic violence is ready.
(Reuters) – USA Cricket has launched its first strategic plan https://www.usacricket.org/media-release/usa-cricket-launches-foundational-plan outlining initiatives to be launched until the end of 2023 with the target of becoming a full member of the International Cricket Council by 2030.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Friday ruled that Venezuelan state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela’s 2020 bonds are “valid and enforceable,” a court document showed, in a setback for opposition leader Juan Guaido.
Dear Editor, Since 1895, the USA has always been involved in matters concerning the Essequibo.
The son of a former Deputy Commission-er of Police who was arrested earlier this week in connection with the robbery at the Eugo Supermarket at Melanie, East Coast Demerara (ECD) remains in police custody.
Split-screen town halls with candidates duelling for audiences is the perfect emblem of where the United States finds itself on the eve of this election.
