Daily Archive: Tuesday, March 30, 2021

For failing to file his defence on time in a libel action brought against him, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has been ordered to pay former Minister within the Ministry of Communities Annette Ferguson, the sum of $20,000,000.

GENEVA/ZURICH  (Reuters) – Data was withheld from World Health Organization investigators who travelled to China to research the origins of the coronavirus epidemic, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said today.

JALALABAD,  (Reuters) – Gunmen killed three female polio vaccination workers in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, officials said, adding that a blast had also rocked the provincial health department headquarters but left no casualties.

(Trinidad Guardian) Single mother of two Natalie Brathwaite put her son in the care of the Children’s Authority of T&T because he was heading down the wrong path and she thought they would help him to become a better person.

(Trinidad Guardian) A proposal has been offered up by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI) for a new financial model which would see host governments contributing 50 per cent of overall financing—with the remainder coming from students’ fees, entrepreneurial efforts, private sector donations, and alumni grants.

Convicted drug-trafficker Shaheed Roger Khan on Monday said that he was the target of the recent `hit’ outside the Palm Court bar that claimed the life of gold dealer Ricardo Fagundes and he called on President Irfaan Ali to ensure the investigation is “impartial” as he demanded justice.

Ensuring proper management of Guyana’s projected oil bonanza will likely pose a great challenge given social and political pressures and the country should therefore adopt an expenditure rule, according to a February 2021 Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) study.

Around 31,000 persons have so far received COVID-19 vaccines and the administration of second doses to those who were in the initial batches is expected to begin this week.

An Enmore, East Coast Demerara (ECD) motorcyclist died yesterday morning following a collision with a canter truck along Melanie, ECD Public Road.

Saying Guyana is “deeply concerned” over the widening development gap between rich and poor countries as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, President Irfaan Ali yesterday issued a call for more systems to be put in place to aid countries struggling to rebound from the effects.

Several measures are being implemented at the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) to enable maintenance work following damage to span nine, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said on Sunday.

In the aftermath of the flooding that affected hundreds of residents on Sunday due to the failure of an operator to close a sluice gate at Princes Street, Deputy Mayor Alfred Mentore yesterday said the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has the situation well in hand while adding that persons responsible would be reprimanded.

Bissoondyal Singh was yesterday elected president of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB).

Key roads in Good Hope and Mon Repos on the East Coast of Demerara are to be repaired, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll now stands at 229 after two more fatalities were recorded yesterday.

The Golden Jaguars, Guyana’s senior men’s football team will attempt to secure their first win in the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers today when they battle The Bahamas at the Estadio Panamericano in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic.

A soldier remains hospitalised at the Linden Hospital Complex after he and another Guyana Defence Force (GDF) rank were allegedly beaten and wounded by civilians on Saturday night.

With an ongoing battle between government and the opposition over the Chairmanship delaying the work of the Public Accounts Committee, the reconstitution of the Public Procurement Commis-sion (PPC) has also been stalled.

(Reuters) – Myanmar protesters held overnight candle-lit vigils after an advocacy group said security forced had now killed over 500 people since a Feb.

Fourteen persons were arrested early on Sunday morning after the police raided a party at Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara to enforce the COVID-19 measures.

Dear Editor, The launching of the Chinese sea food plant is indeed `More fishy tales’ (SN March 28) – an apt caption for the content of your informative editorial for a lack of transparency under which licences were granted for sea bob fishing as well as for the foreign owned processing plant.

The Ministry of Education’s Welfare Department at Linden, in Region Ten, has advised both learners and their parents to use stress-relieving activities to cope with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico’s president on Monday sharply condemned the weekend killing of a Salvadoran woman in Mexican police custody, who died after a female officer was seen in a video kneeling on her back.

Usual suspects, Emanuel Archibald, Devaughn Barrington, Attoya Harvey and Anfernee Headecker were among the standout performers when the Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) staged its third development meet of the season on Sunday at the National Track and Field Centre.

Dear Editor, It is obvious to anyone who pays attention that Hinduism in Guyana, mainly through its two national festivals, Divali and Holi, is interpreted in ways by political parties and their various surrogates to promote their respective agendas and to condemn their opponents.

ISMAILIA, Egypt,  (Reuters) – Shipping was on the move again late yesterday in Egypt’s Suez Canal after tugs refloated a giant container ship which had been blocking the channel for almost a week, causing a huge build-up of vessels around the waterway.

Ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) were last night involved in a chase along the Lusignan Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara with a civilian motor vehicle, suspected to have contained illegal drugs.

Officials from the Guyana National Fisherfolk Organization (GNFO) on Friday hosted their second national election.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that the virus was probably transmitted from bats to humans through another animal, and that a lab leak was “extremely unlikely” as a cause, a summary seen by Reuters said yesterday.

Dear Editor, The article in the Sunday Stabroek of 28th March on `A History of George-town’s Cemeteries’ with a picture showing the deplorable condition surrounding the tombs therein caught my attention…….this

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Captain Kraigg Brathwaite was on the verge of a ninth Test hundred but his first in nearly three years, as he propped up an otherwise erratic West Indies batting effort on the opening day of the decisive second Test against Sri Lanka here yesterday.

BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday lost two ministers when his combative Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo stepped down over struggles to get coronavirus vaccines, sources said, and Defense Minister Fernando Azevedo e Silva unexpectedly quit.

Dear Editor, Minister Todd and PS Harper are trying the patience of the UK diaspora.

OTTAWA/TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Canadian health officials said yesterday they would stop offering AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to people under age 55 and require a new analysis of the shot’s risks and benefits based on age and gender.

A party of police officers yesterday morning carried out a raid at the New Amsterdam prison during which a quantity of contraband items including seven improvised weapons were found and seized.

(Trinidad Guardian) Preliminary investigations have revealed that two of the teenagers who recently escaped from a safe house belonging to the Children’s Authority, and who were killed on Sunday night, may have been caught in the crossfire of gang violence.

BRASÍLIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga said yesterday that he was pushing Brazilian and U.S.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – England have no reason to push the panic button despite their 2-1 loss to India marking a second straight series defeat in the 50-overs format, said stand-in captain Jos Buttler.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A brilliant second half strike forced Trinidad and Tobago to share the points in a 1-1 draw with minnows Puerto Rico while lowly-ranked Montserrat stunned Central American giants El Salvador with a late goal to earn a point in another 1-1 stalemate, in the opening round of CONCACAF qualifiers for the 2020 FIFA World Cup on Sunday.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Leeward Islands Cricket Board (LICB) has slammed the decision by Guyana Cricket Board and Barbados Cricket Association representatives not to attend last Sunday’s scheduled Annual General Meeting of Cricket West Indies, accusing the respective bodies of “bringing CWI into such disrepute”.

Minister of Amerindian Affairs,  Pauline Sukhai says Government is taking steps to boost agriculture production in Amerindian communities countrywide.

If there appears to be a tiresome redundancy of comment on the extent of public indifference to the strictures associated with the country’s efforts to keep the worst excesses of the Coronavirus at bay, that is because of the need to constantly remind ourselves that we are in the midst of a global emergency and that we ignore those strictures, possibly at our own peril.

(Reuters) – Zimbabwe will host Pakistan next month for two tests and three Twenty20 internationals, all behind closed doors at Harare Sports Club, Zimbabwe Cricket said on Sunday.

Dear Editor,  Another mother has died after giving birth.  This time, it is alleged, COVID is the snatcher of life. 

Engineering giant, H. Nauth & Sons yesterday announced that it would partner with the Guyana Golf Association (GGA) and Nexgen Golf Academy to take on the challenge of leading golf to the forefront of Guyanese sports, starting with an Easter Weekend tournament that will demonstrate how serious they are about the game.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – All members of South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) party who have been charged with corruption or other serious crimes must step aside within 30 days, or else face suspension, President Cyril Ramaphosa said yesterday.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia’s professional sports leagues scrambled to put contingency plans in place yesterday after Queensland authorities announced a snap three-day lockdown in state capital Brisbane to deal with a COVID-19 outbreak.

Devin Booker scored a game-high 35 points Sunday afternoon to help the Phoenix Suns hold off the host Charlotte Hornets 101-97 in overtime.

By  Justin Vaïsse PARIS – Will negotiators from the Global South be barred from attending the United Nations climate summit (COP26) in Glasgow in November because they are not vaccinated against COVID-19?

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India captain Virat Kohli said confining players to ‘bubbles’ for months on end is not sustainable and the game has to consider scheduling changes to reduce the mental toll tours are taking during the COVID-19 pandemic.

There is an old saying that you wait ages for a London bus and then two (or even three) come along at once.

Discarded West Indies players Shai Hope and Roston Chase will have to fight their way back into the Test team, after not being selected for the matches against Sri Lanka.

(Reuters) – Three years after his ignominious exit as Australia’s captain in the wake of the ball-tampering scandal, Steve Smith has said he is keen and ready to lead the national side again if an opportunity came his way.

VALLETTA/SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – A widening investigation into allegations of high-level corruption on the island of Malta, first levelled by murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, stretches to China and a $400 million investment into Europe by a Chinese state power company, Reuters has found.