Daily Archive: Thursday, February 25, 2021

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) today said that bids were opened for the modern four-lane Eccles to Mandela Highway Project.

The Ministry of Health today said that two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

CANBERRA, (Reuters) – Australia’s parliament passed a law today to make Alphabet Inc’s Google and Facebook Inc pay media companies for content on their platforms in reforms that countries such as Britain and Canada are looking to replicate.

VALLETTA,  (Reuters) – Two men suspected of supplying the bomb that killed Maltese anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia faced formal charges in a late-night court appearance under heavy security by armed police.

(Trinidad Guardian) The limited availability of foreign exchange has meant that individuals and business have had to turn to the black market for US dollars.

(Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp’s global oil and gas reserves tumbled by a third last year as the COVID-19 pandemic slammed global oil prices and demand, the company said yesterday.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that three more men who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Less than a day after the police issued a wanted bulletin for Osafo Sereste Grundell, also known as ‘Safo’ or ‘Curlup’ who was wanted for questioning in relation to the murder of Dale Christopher, the man yesterday turned himself over to the police.

The body of the  Manager of ACME General Store, 54-year-old Sandra Dee Barker of La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara, was found dead in her office by a colleague yesterday morning, two days after she was last seen alive.

Amesha Thuesday Grant and Amela Latahsa Thuesday – twin sisters – yesterday gave birth to their babies 13 minutes apart at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital creating history at the regional institution.

ExxonMobil yesterday said that the reassembly of the Liza Destiny oil platform’s flash gas compressor has been completed and is now being prepared for testing at the MAN Energy Solutions workshop in Germany.

A Black Bush Polder, Corentyne man was yesterday sentenced to nine years and two months in prison after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter at the High Court in Berbice last week.

The Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony yesterday announced that the Government Analyst-Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) has granted emergency use approval of the Russian Sputnik and China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines in Guyana.

The burnt body of a man found on Monday near Huaxin Supermarket at Enmore, East Coast Demerara, has been identified as an Enmore pensioner, 72-year-old Mathura Etwaru.

A fisherman from Crab-wood Creek, Upper Coren-tyne was sentenced to 11 years in prison yesterday after he admitted to killing a friend some three years ago.

APNU+AFC  front bench-er Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday called for a 10% retroactive salary increase for public servants pending negotiations with the relevant agencies including the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU).

The Trinidad and Tobago police yesterday sent out a release seeking assistance in locating the relatives of a Guyanese woman who was killed in an accident last Friday along the Chaguanas Main Road in Trinidad.

A wanted bulletin was yesterday issued for Shabeki Chase by the Guyana Police Force (GPF) in relation to the offence of trafficking in narcotics.

Guyana Jaguars will be boosted by the inclusion of Raymon Reifer and Veerasammy Permaul for  today’s semi-final clash against Windward Islands Volcanoes in the CG Insurance Regional Super50 Cup.

All systems are in place for round one of the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) Drag Race this weekend.

Leroy La Fleur who pleaded guilty to felonious wounding committed on Suraj Azeez on September 11, 2019, when he appeared at the High Court in Berbice last week, was sentenced to six years and seven months in prison yesterday.

Assuria General Insurance will partner with NexGen Golf Academy to host the ‘Just for Beginners Golf Championships’ from March 10 at the Scouts Association of Guyana ground on Woolford Avenue.

Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha says that the agri sector  is about to “take off” with this year’s budgetary allocation of $22.6B, which he vowed will see the country being the “bread basket” of the Caribbean and the agriculture “powerhouse” of the hemisphere.

The police were summoned to the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC) yesterday after Opposition Member of Parliament (MP) Cathy Hughes reported that her laptop was missing.

Dear Editor, I feel compelled to add my letter-writing outraged voice to the reported – with video evidence – low-level (low-life?)

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has recorded a 21.9%  reduction in serious crimes over the past three months.

Dear Editor, It is reported in SN of February 23, that the Minister of Labour boasted in Parliament of having appointed twenty one new Occupational Health & Safety Officers within the past five months and increased the number of Labour Officer from sixteen to twenty six – ten during the same period.

(Reuters) – Spinner Axar Patel claimed a career-best 6-38 as India bundled out England for 112 on the opening day to take charge of the day-night third test in Ahmedabad yesterday.

A former sales manager of Dutch energy services company SBM Offshore was yesterday convicted by a London jury of conspiracy to bribe public officials to secure lucrative oil contracts in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.

The former chief of Antigua’s Financial Services Regulatory Commission (FSRC) was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in prison for his role in connection with a $7 billion Ponzi scheme involving the Stanford International Bank (SIB).

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said yesterday that the head of the European Union’s delegation in Caracas had 72 hours to leave the country and declared her persona non grata after the bloc imposed new sanctions on Venezuelan officials this week.

Dear Editor, It is inconceivable but apparently true that an illegal event, with about five hundred persons in attendance, could be allowed to take place all night long.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s nominee to be director of the CIA, William Burns, told a Senate committee yesterday that he saw competition with China – and countering its “adversarial, predatory” leadership – as the key to U.S.

Scott Leon Ting-A-Kee, an up and coming writer from Guyana, has been shortlisted for the Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize (JAAWP) by the Bocas Literature Festi-val, the Caribbean’s only prize for emerging writers.

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez said yesterday that allegations by U.S.

Dear Editor, Reading of the most horrible crime to be perpetrated on any female, let alone a nonagenarian, forced my innermost being to once again cry out for a return of the death penalty. 

ACCRA, (Reuters) – The World Health Organization’s global vaccine-sharing scheme COVAX delivered its first COVID-19 shots yesterday, as the race to inoculate the world’s poorest people and tame the pandemic accelerates.

Luka Doncic drained a 3-pointer to snap a tie with one-tenth of a second remaining in the fourth quarter, lifting the host Dallas Mavericks to a 110-107 victory over the Boston Celtics on Tuesday.

A Nigerian national who police say is part of a criminal organisation that has allegedly scammed unsuspecting Guyanese victims out of millions, is facing more fraud charges.

The driver of the lorry in the accident which claimed the life of Murvey Andrew Madhoo was on Monday released on $300,000 bail after he was charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed into law yesterday a legislation that establishes the autonomy of the country’s central bank to make sure it is free of political interference.

Dear Editor, Congratulations to Our Nation for its 51st anniversary as a Republic.

TORONTO, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A river has won legal rights for the first time in Canadian history, in a move hailed by environmentalists as a new way to protect nature from humans.

The announcement last Thursday that the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) was moving to implement a policy to regularise vending in Georgetown should have come as no surprise to anyone.

AHMEDABAD, India, (Reuters) – India renamed the world’s largest cricket stadium after Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday, a move that drew immediate praise and criticism.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil had 66,588 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 1,428 deaths from COVID-19, the highest daily toll since Jan.

Dear Editor, The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB), under the inspirational leadership of Hilbert Foster, has transformed itself to an organization admired not only in the Co-operative Republic, but the entire Carib-bean.

(Reuters) – England opener Zak Crawley said they were frustrated by some of the umpiring decisions on day one of the ongoing day-night test against India in Ahmedabad yesterday.

BERGAMO, Italy, (Reuters) – Ferland Mendy grabbed a late winner to earn lacklustre Real Madrid a 1-0 win over 10-man Atalanta in yesterday’s Champions League last-16 first leg.

(Reuters) – Tiger Woods’ car accident cast a shadow over the World Golf Championships (WGC) event in Bradenton, Florida, yesterday, as the players prepared for the tournament.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden yesterday revoked a proclamation from his predecessor that blocked many green card applicants from entering the United States.

Taken into high orbit on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, the watching satellite captured in astounding detail, the historic rupture from Guyana’s rare earthquake of magnitude 5.6 on January 31 last.

Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance, Gail Teixeira  says that her government is committed to addressing ethnic insecurities and fighting all forms of discrimination and racism.