Articles published on Tuesday, December 22, 2020
After years of controversy enmeshing three administrations, the PPP/C government and CHEC have sealed an agreement for the expansion of the CJIA which will see the Chinese contractor doing US$9m more works at its own cost.
(Trinidad Express) A MAN charged with the rape of his wife faced the San Fernando magistrate on Monday.
The Ministry of Health this morning confirmed that as of yesterday, December 21st, 2020, one more person who tested positive for COVID-19 has died, taking the total number of deaths from the pandemic to 160.
Police say they are investigating the murder of George Chuck-A-Sang, age 82 years a retired priest of Vlissengen Road, Lodge which occurred between 12/18/2020 about 08:00hrs and 12/21/2020 about 15:00hrs at the said address.
(Jamaica Observer) THE local public health system has again been thrown into high alert as hundreds of individuals, mostly Jamaicans, arrive in the island from Britain where a new strain of the novel coronavirus — described as “out of control” by officials there — has forced London and other areas into strict lockdown.
(Trinidad Express) A philanthropist, who was always content with what he had, is Trinidad and Tobago’s newest Lotto jackpot millionaire.
(Trinidad Guardian) Two shipping companies announced on Friday that come January 17, 2021, customers wishing to import items into Trinidad and Tobago will have to pay their freight charges in US dollars.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is asking where did the money go when it comes to aid from the US to assist with Venezuelan migrants.
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has expressed concern over the Ministry of Agriculture’s recent approval of two trawler licences for the Atlantic seabob trade, which its local office here has said could lead to overfishing, the loss of trade certification and collapse of the industry.
The Government of Guyana last night said that it does not share the reservations of Dr.
Guyana’s budget for fiscal year 2021 will be presented on Friday, February 5th, sources close to the process say.
A motorcyclist succumbed on Sunday evening at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after he collided head-on with another motorcycle which then slammed into the front of a car leaving the rider critically injured.
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is on track to have Local Government Elections (LGE) held at the end of 2021 when it is legally due.
A woman’s grief turned to anger on Sunday when she went to a city funeral home to dress her father’s corpse for his funeral service and found that her family had been given the wrong body.
Forty-six new COVID-19 cases were recorded yesterday with the majority of them in Region Four.
Dear Editor, I refer to the misreading of the World Court decision by Dr.
The Ministry of Housing and Water has received 12 Expressions of Interest (EoI) after publicly advertising in the hope of raising US$250m ($50b) to support its housing development plans.
Egyptian professional bodybuilder Mamdouh Elssbiay, also known as `Big Ramy’, rebounded from being infected with Covid-19 to win the Mr Olympia title.
Dear Editor, It is now an open secret that Guyana is on the cusp of enormous development and progress.
The U.S. Embassy yesterday announced the 2021 cohort from Guyana for the U.S.
The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security’s Childcare and Protection Agency (CPA) has placed 66 children with foster families this year, in keeping with its goal to reduce the number of children in institutionalised care.
Dear Editor, Not too long after the World Court ruled on Guyana’s application concerning the ‘legal validity and binding effect of the award regarding the boundary between the colony of British Guiana and the United States of Venezuela of October 3, 1899’ the press published two rather interesting interpretations regarding the Court’s decision.
The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) yesterday said that customers sending letters and parcels to London, England are asked to note that all mails to this destination have been suspended until further notice.
Dear Editor, The comments below the online version of my last letter printed in Stabroek News on December 17 (under the caption `Assurances by Minister Edghill over airport project’) have come to my attention and I thankfully respond to them.
Former Guyana First-Class player, Garfield Charles, says that he is disappointed with the lack of fight shown by the West Indians on their recent tour to New Zealand.
Local anti-drug authorities and their overseas counterparts have been exchanging information as the probe continues into the discovery of 11.5 tonnes of cocaine in a container of scrap metal in Belgium more than a month ago.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday imposed sanctions on three Nicaraguan officials over their support for leftist President Daniel Ortega’s government.
Dear Editor, Over the next 25 years as an oil-producing country, most of us do not want Guyana to become a country where corrupt politicians and officials provide unfair advantages for their families (nepotism), friends and business associates (cronyism) at the economic expense of the overwhelming majority of the population who are farmers, workers, the unemployed, the under-employed, the dispossessed, the marginalized, the poor and the hungry.
AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – The European Union geared up to start mass vaccinations against COVID-19 just after Christmas after the shot developed by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech cleared regulatory hurdles yesterday.
Dear Editor, While the Private Sector Commission (PSC) is pointing a finger at GECOM, the public’s hands are pointing toward the PSC as its own independence and credibility are in the balance.
—despite efforts of Barnwell, Griffith Enterprising knocks from Guyanese Trevon Griffith and Christopher Barnwell, failed to secure championship honours for 22 Yards who went down to Atlanta Paramveers by 10 runs in the final of the 2020 Edition of the U.S
Massy Motors Guyana Limited last evening launched its partnership with four worldwide brands through a virtual presentation.
(Trinidad Express) Convicted narcotics trafficker and alleged ‘zesser’ party organiser Dorrel Simon was shot and killed on Sunday night.
DOVER, England, (Reuters) – Countries across the globe shut their borders to Britain yesterday due to fears about a highly infectious new coronavirus strain, causing travel chaos and raising the prospect of food shortages days before Britain is set to leave the European Union.
(Reuters) – Nicaragua’s National Assembly yesterday passed a law to prevent people the government believes financed attempts to oust President Daniel Ortega or encouraged sanctions against his officials from standing in the 2021 general elections.
Riley Gill, the man who was arrested on Friday night after the boat which he was captaining capsized in the Lower Pomeroon River resulting in the deaths of his wife and two-year-old grandson has been released on $100,000 station bail.
Dear Editor, “Guyana is a diverse nation; 39.8% of the population is of Indian origin (see Indo-Guyanese), 30% African (see Afro-Guyanese), 19.9% multiracial (almost all part African, including Dougla, Creole-Mulatto, Zambo-Maroon, and Pardo), 10.5% Amerindian and 0.5% other, mostly Chinese, Europeans (most notably Portuguese)”: Wikipedia.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said yesterday he had tricked a Russian secret agent into disclosing details of the botched plot to kill him and had been told that poison had been placed in his underpants.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress yesterday approved an $892 billion coronavirus aid package, throwing a lifeline to the nation’s pandemic-battered economy after months of inaction, while also keeping the federal government funded for another year.
Dear Editor, In a recent letter to the Editor re the Walrond-Allicock matter, I focused on the need for us, as a nation, to urgently address the question of a national ethos, as a matter of importance.
Lucius Welcome, the biker who was injured in a collision along the Stanleytown Public Road, West Bank Demerara, almost three weeks ago, is still hospitalised.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian health regulator Anvisa said yesterday it had certified the production standards of CoronaVac, China’s Sinovac-produced coronavirus vaccine candidate, which is being tested in Brazil.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The evening sky over the Northern Hemisphere treated stargazers to a once-in-a-lifetime illusion yesterday as the solar system’s two biggest planets appeared to meet in a celestial alignment that astronomers call the “Great Conjunction.”
(Reuters) – New Zealand has retained spinner Mitchell Santner in their test squad to face Pakistan in a two-match series despite Ajaz Patel’s return to fitness, coach Gary Stead has said.
Very soon, possibly by the time that this column is read, the European Union and Britain will have decided on the nature of their post Brexit relationship.
By Shlomo Ben-Ami TEL AVIV – When the struggling street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself alight in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, on December 17, 2010, he could not possibly have imagined how consequential his desperate protest would be.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Quinton de Kock has accepted the South Africa test captaincy for this international season only as he concedes the selectors have struggled to identify a viable candidate as a long-term solution in the five-day game.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Chelsea striker Tammy Abraham scored a late opportunist double to secure a 3-0 home win for Chelsea over West Ham United in the Premier League yesterday after Brazilian defender Thiago Silva had fired them in front with an early header.
Dear Editor, Two discredited top brass of the moribund AFC took to the airwaves right after the March 2nd, 2020 elections to spread the most ridiculous fake news that they had found some Russians in Guyana who were going to hack our manual paper and pencil elections.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia confirmed yesterday it has detected two cases of a fast-spreading new coronavirus strain that has forced Britain to reverse plans to ease curbs over Christmas, the first confirmed cases of the strain in the Asia-Pacific region.
(Reuters) – England have included former South Africa test all-rounder Jacques Kallis as a batting consultant for their two-test tour of Sri Lanka that starts on Jan.
Last week’s brief and seemingly innocuous media release issued jointly by the Private Sector Commission (PSC) and the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) was not as run-of-the-mill as it might have seemed.
(Reuters) – Pakistan captain Babar Azam has been ruled out of the first test against New Zealand in Mount Maunganui starting Dec.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A member of Cricket West Indies’ medical advisory committee, Dr Akshai Mansingh, has backed the travel and COVID-19 quarantine protocols put in place for the upcoming Bangladesh tour and believes players will not be placed at any unnecessary risk while on international duty.
When the NBA season tips off today – with the Los Angeles Lakers among the teams in action as they face the Los Angeles Clippers – it will mark the end of the shortest pre-season in US professional sports history.
Minister within the Ministry of Public Works, Deodat Indar (left) presents the cheque to Nadie Budwah at Vriesland.
