Daily Archive: Thursday, January 14, 2021

The Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised the police to charge three persons with murdering Isaiah and Joel Henry, the West Coast Berbice (WCB) teenagers who were brutally killed more than four months ago.

President Irfaan Ali  today announced that residents of Region 10 will soon benefit from the construction of 1000 homes.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain will ban arrivals from Brazil, other South American states and Portugal due to concerns over a new coronavirus variant, transport minister Grant Shapps said today.

(Jamaica Star) Twins Zaneta and Zuri Scott were eager to celebrate their mother Rosemarie’s graduation from the University of the West Indies, Mona, tomorrow.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China reported its biggest jump in COVID-19 cases in more than 10 months as infections in northeastern Heilongjiang province nearly tripled, underscoring the growing threat ahead of a major national holiday when hundreds of millions of people usually travel.

(Trinidad Guardian) A suspected hitman was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer along the Lady Chancellor Hill in St Ann’s on Wednesday night.

A fire this morning at Little Diamond on the East Bank of Demerara has left one person dead.

The Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) yesterday signed a US$12.7M contract with an Indian company to commence the construction of an ocean-going passenger and cargo ferry for the North West District and other parts of the country.

The Guyana Government has hired a United States (US) lobbying firm to aid it in its relations with US government agencies and members of the US Congress.

A father of one died on Tuesday night following an accident on the Soesdyke/ Linden Highway.

A man was yesterday charged with raping a girl, 13, and released on $150,000 bail.

In the wake of Moraikobai in Region Five being declared a COVID-19 hotspot, a medical team is to be deployed there today but the head of the community has lamented poor communication on the virus from the authorities.

Tenders were yesterday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for a number of Infrastructural works around Guyana through the Central Housing and Planning Authority.

Forty-three new COVID-19 cases were yesterday reported after 195 more persons were tested for the virus.

Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha yesterday commissioned a $60.4 million (US $302,000) Fertilizer Testing Laboratory at the Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals Control Board (PTCCB), according to the Department of Public Infor-mation (DPI). 

The driver involved in an accident at Yarrowkabra which claimed the life of Dayle Jordan was released on $300,000 bail after he was charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

The Guyana Court of Appeal yesterday morning continued hearing the Director of Public Prosecutions’ (DPP) appeal of a High Court ruling quashing her order that Marcus Bisram be tried for the murder of Faiyaz Narinedatt.

The James Harden saga ended yesterday when the Houston Rockets traded the star guard to the Brooklyn Nets as part of a four-team trade, according to multiple reports.

Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill yesterday said that the MB Sandaka is available as a “substitute” vessel for travel between Guyana and Suriname although a date has not yet been set for resumption of the service.

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) yesterday denounced the unilateral declaration by the outgoing United States administration in designating Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism.

Dear Editor, Venezuela’s latest aggressions need to be fully understood by us Guyanese for what they really are.

Shafeek Mohammed is currently facing trial for the 2016 murder of Ramkarran Mohanlall at  Annandale South, ECD.

Head Coach of the West Indies women’s team, Courtney Walsh, is calling for his unit to step its game up in order to reach the pinnacle of the sport.

As part of its efforts to revitalise the sugar industry, government is looking into a small-business initiative for cane farmers which will allow them to have access to small loans to invest in their farms.

Dear Editor, We were confident you would support the Transparency Institute Guyana Inc’s (TIGI) call for open governance in any investment in a gas pipeline from our offshore oil and gas fields.

Dear Editor, I have spent my career crafting governance systems in states that are polarized and in some cases engaged in violent conflict. 

Newly appointed captain of the West Indies Test side, Kraigg Brathwaite has rubbished the labeling of the team as a second-string side and in fact backs them to do well.

The Ministry of Education (MoE) has refuted a statement published in an article in this newspaper yesterday titled “GTU to share ideas with ministry on keeping NGSA students safe” as a “blatant inaccuracy.”

Dear Editor, The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela should be Guyana’s friendly, helpful neighbour.

Director of a United States-based charity organization, Brian Jenkins, who was fearful of having to stay longer in Guyana as a result of positive COVID-19 tests, is hopeful of leaving the country by Saturday after the intervention of the US Embassy.

The Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) has submitted a list of 12 local coaches, one of which will be selected to participate in the PanAm Sports webinar conference titled ‘The language of Coaching: Communication for Elite performance’.

Dear Editor, Due to the intervening holiday season, there has been relative quiet on the CXC front since mid-December.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump yesterday became the first president in U.S.

Police are awaiting legal advice on a possible charge over the death of Adiraj Persaud, the man who died last Friday after riding into a minibus at Herstelling Public Road, East Bank Demerara.

(Trinidad Express) Officers of the Financial Investigations Branch (FIB) of the Police Service committed an illegality and breached the Consti-tutional rights of the Trini-dad Express when it executed two search warrants at the media house last March.

The Guyana Badminton Association (GBA) has rolled out its first initiative for the year, taking the new badminton format –Air Badminton- to one of the local secondary schools.

(Reuters) – More than 10 million Americans have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as of yesterday, according to the U.S.

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand yesterday said that her ministry will know the true extent of the effects of the novel coronavirus on the education system after CAPE and CSEC registration as she disclosed that the number of students present for the Easter term is less than that of the Christmas term.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro has tried to sabotage efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19 in his country and pursued policies that undermine the rights of Brazilians, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said yesterday.

Following an inspection of the Guyana National Stadium ground after the staging of the GFF/Kashif and Shanghai ‘Bounceback Classic’, Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Charles Ramson Jr.,

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson is on track to roll out its single-shot coronavirus vaccine in March, and expects to have clear data on how effective it is by the end of this month or early February, the U.S.

Dear Editor, With just a few days to go before US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Harris are inaugurated, US installed “interim” or alternative Vene-zuela president Juan Guaido will share his vision of the next steps for his country for 2021.

Police have arrested two of the three men involved in a robbery committed on Yogeshwar Seemangal on Tuesday night in the vicinity of Stabroek Market.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s health ministry has registered Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine for use against COVID-19 under an emergency use authorisation procedure, vaccine developers said yesterday.

LONDON,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Accelerating biodiversity loss, climate change and over-consumption are swiftly pushing human societies toward a “ghastly future” of growing hunger, political division and societal breakdown, leading scientists said on Wednesday.Despite

A labourer was sentenced on Tuesday to 18 months imprisonment after he was charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition without being a lawful licence holder.

Dear Editor, The withdrawal of the report, “Signed Away”, by the Global Witness (GW) organization saw a swift response by Raphael Trotman in the SN, `Global Witness allowed itself to be used just prior to Guyana’s elections’.

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – Nicaragua is in talks with Russia’s Gamaleya Insti-tute to acquire the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said yesterday.

Dear Editor, There was no conferral of national awards to the 2020 recipients.

CANBERRA, Australia, CMC – All-rounder Carlos Brathwaite struck the winning runs off the only ball he faced as Sydney Sixers beat Sydney Thunder by five wickets under Duckworth-Lewis-Stern, to stretch their lead to six points at the top of the Big Bash standings here yesterday.

(Reuters) – The third one-day international between the United Arab Emirates and Ireland in Abu Dhabi today has been called off because the hosts are still in quarantine following COVID-19 cases in their camp, the Emirates Cricket Board said yesterday.

GALLE, Sri Lanka, (Reuters) – Wet weather and the potential for a more seamer friendly wicket means England are in no rush to name their bowling attack for the first test against Sri Lanka starting in Galle today, captain Joe Root said.

(Reuters) – Experienced Sri Lanka batsman Angelo Mathews, who missed their recent trip to South Africa due to a hamstring injury, has returned to the test side for the two-match home series against England starting today.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Team GB Chef de Mission Mark England said yesterday he was confident the Tokyo Olympics would go ahead this year but athletes could expect them to be very different due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Joel Embiid scored 35 of his 45 points in the second half and overtime to lift the host Philadelphia 76ers past the Miami Heat 137-134 on Tuesday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Sir Andy Roberts has described all-rounder Jason Holder as a “damn good cricketer” but says he is “lost” as a captain, and should look to the coaching staff for help during matches.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Spinner Nathan Lyon will be pinching himself when he dons the baggy green cap of Australia and joins the 100-test club for the fourth and final match against India at the Gabba tomorrow.

(Reuters) – Cricket’s landscape could expand to unexpected horizons as early as next month if a bilateral series between Afghanistan and Zimbabwe goes ahead in the Middle Eastern country of Oman, where the test match format has never been played before.

A twenty-one-year-old West Bank Demerara labourer was on Tuesday night robbed of his valuables by a man armed with a cutlass.

On January 6, 2021 the California Congresswoman, Jackie Speier thought back to a traumatic November day, as she and her colleagues in the United States (U.S.)

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Toronto-Dominion Bank should be held liable for more than $4.5 billion of losses at the collapsed Antigua bank of former Texas financier Robert Allen Stanford, lawyers for its liquidators argued in a Canadian court on Monday.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Health Ministry said yesterday that vaccination of the country’s population against COVID-19 will begin with vaccines imported from China and India as soon as their emergency use has been approved by health regulator Anvisa, planned for Sunday.

News this week that global carbon dioxide emissions possibly fell about 8% last year is but a drop of positivity in what has been a calamitous year for the planet.