Daily Archive: Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Former government minister Annette Ferguson today defended a High Court order awarding her damages against Vice-President Bharrat Jagdeo because of his failure to file a defence in a libel case.

As part of the Ministry of Education’s efforts to prepare Grade Six students to write the 2021 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA), Minister of Education Priya Manickchand had announced that study packages will be sent to every child in the public sector.

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security today denied that the residents of the Palms elderly care home were being served black tea because of a shortage of milk.

CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE said today their COVID-19 vaccine was safe and effective and produced robust antibody responses in 12 to 15-year olds, paving the way for them to seek approval in the United States and Europe in weeks.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Volkswagen AG’s U.S. unit issued a false news release claiming it would rename its U.S.

(Trinidad Express) “ Fire Faris!” This was the call of Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar as she noted that errant government ministers in other countries were swiftly dealt with after breaking Covid-19 laws.

(Trinidad Guardian) The long-anticipated COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX facility are now in Trinidad and Tobago.

With Guyana’s pensionable cohort projected to reach 20% of the total population size by 2050, a complete overhaul of its pension system is being recommended by a recent Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Study.

President Irfaan Ali says that the  worst of the economic effects of last year is over and this is now the time for recovery and rebounding.

A West Coast Berbice man was yesterday found chopped to death in the kitchen of his home located in Number Three Village, West Coast Berbice.

With limited information on the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination drive, there is strong skepticism among members of the Indigenous Wapichan and Wai-Wai tribes in some of the most far-flung communities in Region Nine, which some fear could hinder national efforts to achieve herd immunity.

A man accused of chopping his wife about her body and severing several of her fingers in the process was on Tuesday charged with attempted murder.

Two more COVID-19 deaths were yesterday recorded in Guyana, increasing the total number of deaths in the country to 231.

An arrest warrant has been issued by the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) for Rawle Junior Farrell, 32, of Sixth Street, Paradise Housing Scheme.

A fisherman was yesterday released on $300,000 bail after he was charged with the attempted murder of a Kumaka man.

A labourer, who pleaded not guilty to stealing almost two dozen cows, was yesterday released on $50,000 bail.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) is awaiting legal advice on possible charges against the proprietors of several popular nightspots who were arrested over breaches of the COVID-19 curfew early in March.

Details are still being finalised to have COVID-19 samples sent to the United States for genetic sequencing in an effort to determine whether any variants of the virus are in Guyana.

Government is expecting the first set of Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccines to arrive in Guyana later this week and will continue the expansion of the vaccination programme as more shots arrive.

According to a release from the Guyana Police Force (GPF), Paul Watson, a former policeman of Zeelugt, EBE, was arrested yesterday for obtaining money under false pretence.

The United States has welcomed the news that COVAX has completed its first delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to Guyana. 

Brothers Phillip and Fidel Williams will now have to face a retrial over the 2016 murder of Brazilian gold miner, Naldinho De Costa Souza, after a jury was unable to arrive at a verdict.

An Orealla man is now dead after reportedly swallowing his dentures while on the operating table at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.

Two sisters have been admitted to the Linden Hospital Complex nursing multiple injuries, including burns and a broken limb, after an attack was launched by the boyfriend of one of them.

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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.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Diligent West Indies were facing a long, arduous toil on today’s third day after finding success hard to come by on a lifeless pitch, leaving the decisive second Test evenly poised at the end of the second day here yesterday.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) has concluded a series of strategic engagements with various stakeholders on the revised draft Local Content Policy (LCP).

According to a press release from the United States Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) a Guyanese man was detained at the John F.

The Golden Jaguars senior men’s team rebounded from their dismal performance in the opening Group-F match of the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers by besting The Bahamas 4-0 yesterday at the Estadio Olímpico Félix Sánchez, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Rain forced the second New York Tri-State Under-15 match to be abandoned after Georgetown Cricket Club’s (GCC) Rivaldo Phillips chalked up a comfortable century yesterday at Muslim Youth Organisation ground, Woolford Avenue.

Dear Editor, I am a relatively young man, as is the majority of the Guyanese population. 

A woman is now hospitalised at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) after she fell from a speeding ATV in an accident along the Pouderoyen Public Road, West Bank Demerara on Monday night.

Newly elected president of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), Bissoondyal Singh said yesterday that his focus will be on the nursery level of cricket locally.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haiti emerged from the brutal and dynastic Duvalier dictatorship to democracy 35 years ago.

Dear Editor, Hardly a week passes without a news item in the media outlets of some form of abuse committed against women and girls in this country.

The European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) last week organized a Stakeholder Roundtable to receive feedback on its Final Report and Recommendations on the March 2020 General and Regional Elections and according to Attorney General Anil Nandlall everyone present committed to reform.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro yesterday signed an executive order to disburse 5.3 billion reais ($918.08 million) in new loans to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, as the country hit a record tally of 3,780 deaths in the past day.

 (Reuters) – G. Gordon Liddy, a brash former FBI agent who helped orchestrate the 1972 Watergate break-in, a crime that began the unraveling of Richard Nixon’s presidency, died yesterdayat the age of 90.

Dear Editor, I get calls from Guyanese around the world and at home all the time.

(Reuters) – Top-ranked Belgium slammed eight goals against Belarus and the Netherlands crashed seven past Gibraltar but Portugal suffered a scare before beating Luxembourg as the World Cup qualifying matches continued yesterday.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport has apologised to the public for not being able to air the Senior and Junior Calypso Monarch and the Junior Soca Monarch competitions as previously announced.

Dear Editor, There is a new general manager in place at DHB, but still no Director of Sport.

(Reuters) – A charter flight carrying the Utah Jazz to Memphis yesterday was forced to return to Salt Lake City airport after an engine was damaged when the plane struck a flock of birds shortly after takeoff, according to multiple reports.

The Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce held its 15th Annual General Meeting on March 24, 2021 at which a new Executive Body was elected to serve for the fiscal year 2021-2022.

(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.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Tony Hernandez, a former Honduran congressman and brother of the sitting president, was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years for drug trafficking by a U.S.

(Reuters) – Indian batsman Shreyas Iyer has been ruled out of the Indian Premier League (IPL) season after injuring his left shoulder during India’s one-day international series with England, his franchise the Delhi Capitals announced yesterday.

“Caribbean cricket has been hijacked by a small clique of people who are hell bent on destroying Caribbean cricket and my position [is], unless the question is answered as to who owns that asset, we’re spinning top in mud,” stated Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley in mid-April 2017, during an interview on the Trinidad and Tobago television station CNC3’s Morning Brew show.

(Reuters) – Aruba’s prime minister resigned yesterday after prosecutors on the Dutch Caribbean island announced an investigation into one of the parties making up her ruling coalition for suspected embezzlement of funds, the government said in a statement.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – A stampede at a Tanzanian stadium crushed 45 people to death as mourners paid last respects to late President John Magufuli, police said yesterday, many times more than the five fatalities initially announced after the disaster on March 21.

A 46-year-old Linden man was yesterday brought before a city court to answer a burglary charge.

By Jeffrey D. Sachs NEW YORK – America is two cultures in one nation.

During the recent fracas in the National Assembly, Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton is said to have taunted the opposition by asking them what they had done for Africans during their term of office.

Dear Editor, The President and Executives of the Berbice Cricket Board would like to express our profound gratitude to the following persons for their role in resolving the decade-long cricket problem in Guyana.