Daily Archive: Monday, February 15, 2021

With no explanation offered, the Ministry of Public Works last Friday terminated the services of its Chief Works Officer Geoffrey Vaughn, who has been working at the Ministry for the past 15 years.

The Ministry of Health today said that another person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has died.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – A South African inquiry into corruption during Jacob Zuma’s time as president will ask the constitutional court to impose a jail term on the former leader after he defied an order to appear before the inquiry today.

The Attorney General (AG) has filed an action against BK Marine Inc.

(Jamaica Star) While clutching her five-year-old grandson in her arms, Cherry Anderson muttered, “Jay, a me a your mother and grandmother now, mommy gone to rest.”

(Jamaica Star) The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is advising members of the public to dismiss as rumour information that has been circulated via social and other media that Kalina Collier, an American, was kidnapped in Jamaica.

BENGALURU,  (Reuters) – Indian politicians and activists today condemned the arrest of a 22-year-old climate campaigner accused of helping edit and distribute an online document that Sweden’s Greta Thunberg had promoted in support of farmers protesting in the country.

(Barbados Nation) Minister of Health Jeffrey Bostic today confirmed Barbados lost its first health care worker in the battle against COVID-19.

Former EPA Head Vincent Adams is insisting that ExxonMobil’s flaring of gas amid a compressor problem on its oil platform is in breach of its production permit and he said that the government has to be better informed so that it could enforce the law.

A 19-year-old man and an 18-year-old mother of one died yesterday after the vehicle they were in crashed into a utility pole on Homestretch Avenue shortly after midnight. 

The Government of Guyana has sued Courtney Benn Contracting Services Ltd and CARICOM General Insurance Company Inc for a total of just over $359m pertaining to the incomplete Linden Technical Institute (LTI) dormitories.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Seventeen wickets tumbled on a dramatic fourth day as West Indies snatched a nerve-jangling 17-run victory to edge Bangladesh in the second Test and complete a truly astonishing series whitewash here yesterday.

Businessman and former Guyana Lands and Surveys (GL&SC ) Board member  Wilfred Brandford says that the $13.5M he paid for lands at the entrance to South Ruimveldt that the government wants returned was too high a figure since he has spent tens of millions developing it over a 17-year period.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Veteran Chris Barnwell’s maiden List A hundred inspired a 109-run crushing of Jamaican Scorpions, as Guyana Jaguars won their third straight game in the Regional Super50 Cup here last night.

An application seeking to liquidate assets to fulfill the debts owed by joint stockholding company, Jacob Investments Limited (JIL)—owners of real estate, is currently before the High Court.

Demerara defeated Berbice by two wicket yesterday to lift the Guyana Cricket Board/ Hand In Hand under-19 Inter-County title.

Twenty-four new cases of COVID-19 have been detected as the pandemic continues expanding here daily.

(Reuters) – India seized control of the second test after their spinners wreaked havoc on a dustbowl and skittled out England for 134 at Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium yesterday.

Citizens from across the country will today have an opportunity to tell government their views and expectations of  a Local Content Policy (LCP) for the petroleum sector, as President Irfaan Ali is scheduled to lead a stakeholder consultation on the draft which is expected to be transformed into law.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Lendl Simmons’s sixth List A hundred failed to guarantee Trinidad and Tobago Red Force a clinical win as the star-studded side stumbled and stuttered before pulling off a messy four-wicket victory over Windward Islands Volcanoes.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – As the second week of the Australian Open begins, fans eagerly wait to see if the two Grand Slam winners left in the men’s draw can reach the summit clash intact as injury clouds loom over defending champion Novak Djokovic and Rafa Nadal.

A UNDP-implemented project has allocated funds to help women and others who might have been trapped at home with abusers during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

With the opposition having boycotted the session, the government side of the House on Friday night passed the Small Business (Amendment) Act 2020.

Dear Editor, The current Administration must be congratulated on its recent budget submittal.

(Reuters) – Security forces in Myanmar deployed armoured vehicles in major cities today (Asia time) two weeks after the military overthrew the elected government and detained its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi sparking the biggest protests in more than a decade.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Serena Williams stormed into the quarter-finals of the Australian Open yesterday with a gritty 6-4 2-6 6-4 victory over Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka.

Dear Editor, It has become necessary for me to make this statement listening a few weeks ago to a reading of remarks made in Guyana by the Environmentalist attorney at law Ms.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Manchester City are romping away in the title race but the Premier League continued to throw up surprises yesterday as first Manchester United and then Everton dropped points to sides written off as relegation fodder.

Dear Editor, It is a standard practice in some parts of the world like many fiscal regimes in the Middle East and African oil-producing countries to divide the periods of the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) into stages: (1) Exploration phase that is most likely divided by two periods; first being exploration period of prospecting and, a second exploration period with each having specific minimum exploration obligations and expenditures which must be conducted within a specified timeframe.

A Corentyne man was on Saturday evening admitted to the Port Mourant Hospital following a fight between him and two friends at a Superbet location in Tain, Corentyne.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peruvian Foreign Minister Elizabeth Astete said last night that she resigned after acknowledging she received a dose of the coronavirus vaccine from China’s Sinopharm, outside of clinical trials and before the national immunization programme began.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A hacking campaign that used a U.S. tech company as a springboard to compromise a raft of U.S.

Kevin Durant scored 20 points in his return to the San Francisco Bay Area and Brooklyn’s “Big Three” were firing on all cylinders Saturday night as the Nets opened a Western Conference swing with a 134-117 victory over the host Golden State Warriors.

Dear Editor, I have been following with fascination the development and debate over Local Content for Guyana’s nascent energy sector. 

A Corentyne man was on Saturday evening admitted to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after he was struck by a vehicle which fled the scene at the Number 19 Public Road.

After starting out with only a tent and a grill for what he described as a “Friday gig,” Rondae Hawker recently launched his mobile Hawker’s Burger Shack and Grill near the former Waterchris Hotel and Bar on Waterloo Street where he started.

CONAKRY,  (Reuters) – Guinea declared a new Ebola outbreak yesterday when tests came back positive for the virus after three people died and four fell ill in the southeast – the first resurgence of the disease there since the world’s worst outbreak in 2013-2016.

Presented on Friday under the theme `A Path to Recovery, Economic Dynamism and Resilience’,  the 2021 budget offers some of the customary concessions  to the cost of living burden.

On 4 February 2021, the Fiscal Management and Accountability (Amendment) Act 2021 was passed in the National Assembly.

Dear Editor  It has to be pondered how one finance minister can prepare and present the biggest budget ever with no tax increases, in fact reversing several such measures from previous budgets, while another finance minister increased and included several burdensome tax measures in past budgets.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Interim Test captain Kriagg Brathwaite has been branded a “general of the highest proportions” by Ian Bishop, with the outstanding former West Indies fast bowler contending the seasoned opener had moulded the side into “national heroes”, in the wake of the series whitewash of Bangladesh.

By Renuka Anandjit and Angelique V. Nixon Renuka N. Anandjit is a Guyanese born, Trinidad-based scholar and activist.