Daily Archive: Friday, April 2, 2021

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A motorist rammed a vehicle into U.S. Capitol police today and brandished a knife, killing one officer and injuring another and forcing the Capitol complex to lock down in an attack that police said did not immediately appear to be terrorism-related.

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

Twenty-five thousand doses of Russia’s Sputnik-5 COVID-19 vaccine arrived today at the CJIA, Timehri, according to the Department of Public Information. 

Darren Harris, 46, a cook of ‘E’ Field Cummings Park, Sophia was stabbed to death last night and his reputed wife is in custody.

Three persons are in custody after a Victoria, East Coast Demerara labourer was chopped to death on Sunday at around 4.30 am on Leopold Street in the city.

An ambulance driver is in custody after an accident yesterday afternoon resulted in the death of businessman, Colin Ming today.

As of last night the public health team has administered 39831 doses of COVID-19 vaccines, according to Dr Leslie Ramsammy, advisor to the Minister of Health.

President of the Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG), Aubrey Hutson has quashed recent reports of the boiling ‘concerns of the association’, labelling the allegations as “totally inaccurate and false”.

Charges were yesterday laid against four persons, including PNCR member and attorney James Anthony Bond and former acting Chief Executive Officer of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) Colvin Heath-London, who are accused of conspiring to defraud the state through the unsanctioned disposal of land at Peters Hall, East Bank Demerara. 

A Finance Ministry official died after the vehicle he was travelling in with three other ministry employees toppled at Mabura, Region Ten yesterday afternoon.

Former Golden Jaguars captain Christopher Nurse has questioned the narrative of a transition policy within the senior men’s football program, following the lack of opportunity for local players during the recently concluded matches in 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers.

Head of the University of Guyana’s recently established Institute of Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (UGIRIE) Professor Pat Francis says that the institution can play a novel role in creating a nexus between academia and the realization of initiatives that make ‘real life’ contributions to Guyana’s development.

By Matthew Smith for Oilprice.com The oil reserves of the two countries has captured the international oil industry’s attention.

Dear Editor, After reviewing yet another editorial published in the  March 28th, 2021 edition of the Sunday Stabroek, on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture, I would like to make some things clear.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua,  CMC – West Indies were left needing ten wickets today to win the second Test and clinch the two-match series after captain Kraigg Brathwaite, his predecessor Jason Holder and rookie Kyle Mayers all lashed half-centuries to spearhead a clinical victory bid yesterday.

Describing it as revenge for the murder of his brother Joel Henry, the prime suspect in the killing of West Coast Berbice (WCB) resident Surojdeo Deochand reportedly confessed to relatives that he committed the crime while under the influence of alcohol.

Dear Editor, Unable to immediately respond to the stunning revelation of the massive disposal of expired medicines, the Leader of the Opposition, Joe Harmon, finally resorted to outright lies.

Head of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), Nizam Hassan, was yesterday terminated from his job for what sources say was the country’s inability to collect over $1 billion owed for rice shipments sold to Panama.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Incumbent Cricket West Indies president, Ricky Skerritt, appears set to be returned unopposed at elections later this month after the under-fire pair of Anand Sanasie, and running mate Calvin Hope, announced yesterday they were withdrawing their challenge.

The recent disclosure that the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has launched a funded programme – Women Growing Together in the Americas – which seeks to encourage women entrepreneurs in the hemisphere to integrate their businesses into foreign trade and regional value-chains, is deserving of region-wide acknowledgement. 

Dear Editor, Now that Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has decreed that the gas-to-shore project is a “no brainer”, implying that it is viable without a feasibility study, one is left to ponder how this could be the case when we do not know how much the project will cost.

By Jerry Haar and Deanne Butchey  Newsamericas -March 25, 2021 Many believe that oil is the magic bullet that will hit the bull’s eye of prosperity for Guyana, dramatically increasing revenue, growth, and economic development (regardless of how and where that largesse is spent).

Four new COVID-19 deaths yesterday pushed Guyana’s death toll to 235 while 126 new cases were confirmed.

 (Reuters) – New Zealand opener Finn Allen smashed 71 off 29 deliveries to help the hosts thrash Bangladesh by 65 runs in the rain-shortened third Twenty20 international yesterday to complete a 3-0 sweep of the series.

A one-million barrel cargo of Guyana’s Liza light crude is currently on its way to India aboard a vessel chartered by the US commodity trading company, Trafigura Trading LLC, according to a news report published by the Caribbean Business Report a week ago today.

(Reuters) – Australia paceman Josh Hazlewood has decided to opt out of the Indian Premier League (IPL) and rest up for a crowded schedule of international cricket culminating with the Ashes at the end of the year.

Essequibo resident Adriane Sewdeen now awaits sentencing after a jury yesterday afternoon convicted him on charges of raping an 11-year-old girl on two occasions back in 2018.

Dear Editor, The decision to allocate space on the Merriman Mall for Sleep-In Hotel and Casino’s customers to park should be seen as a practical and progressive move by the Mayor and City Council that addresses severe congestion issues that many residents of the area have complained about.

(Reuters) – Roberto Bautista Agut maintained his spotless record against Daniil Medvedev with a 6-4 6-2 quarter-final victory over the world number two at the Miami Open, ensuring there will be a new ATP Masters 1000 winner on Sunday.

A United States-based Guyanese college professor is advocating the establishment of a Ministry of Employment and Training Service (METS) in Guyana to help create a cadre of trained local personnel to respond to the needs of the country’s oil & gas sector and the wider Guyana economy.

While City Hall says the lease of a section of the Merriman Mall to Sleepin Hotel and Casino proprietor Clifton Bacchus for the development of a parking lot is being finalised, the businessman yesterday said that he has already made payment for a one-year period and has started preparatory works.

Dear Editor, For some weeks now our media was inundated with articles about the proposed “Gas-to-Shore” power plant.

With successive political administrations in Guyana having made several failed attempts at improving the country’s trading links with the rest of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the present government is reportedly having yet another try at improving trading links with the region, according to a March 27 Caribbean Business Report story which hints at the likelihood of yet another attempt to do so.

(Reuters) – South Africa’s new limited overs skipper Temba Bavuma must be given time to find his feet but coach Mark Boucher believes his appointment as the country’s first black captain represents “exciting times”.

Dear Editor, “War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.”

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday filed an urgent application seeking to set aside the default judgment ordering him to pay former government minister Annette Ferguson $20M, owing to his failure to file a defence on time in a libel action she brought against him.

Eleven-year-old Latchman Ramanand on Tuesday drowned while on a fishing trip at the Enmore North seawall, East Coast Demerara.

Some of the earliest reports on Guyana’s oil & gas discovery and recovery pursuits this year focussed on Westmount Energy, an investor in the Canje Block.

(Reuters) – Cricket’s world governing body has held encouraging talks with India’s cricket board (BCCI) over visa and tax arrangements as the country prepares to host the Twenty20 World Cup in October, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said yesterday.

According to the Secretary of the Sea and River Defence Board (S&RDB), Jermaine Braithwaite, works  commenced yesterday and will continue into this morning to raise the level of the lands where an overtopping at the community of Zeelandia, Wakenaam, Essequibo River known as ‘Ganga’, was brought on by a high tide.

Dear Editor, Vacancy Notices are becoming more and more colourful in the daily press, very likely because of the job market becoming increasingly more competitive, even though some invitations are to levels of applicants who may not be literate enough – for example, to interpret whether he/she is the ‘semi-skilled person’ – comparable to the ‘Porter’ shown in the same NOTICE.

More than a year after the global onset of the COVID-19 pandemic triggered the hurried region-wide closure of schools across Latin America and the Caribbean, the World Bank has said in a report released last week that the consequential “enormous losses in learning, human capital, and productivity, may translate into a decline in potential aggregate earnings for the region of US$1.7 trillion, or approximately 10 per cent of total baseline earnings.”

(Reuters) – Myanmar activists held candle-lit protests overnight and scrambled to find workarounds for a new internet shutdown today, as opponents to the military’s bloody crackdown on dissent vowed no letup in efforts to unseat the ruling generals.

(Reuters) – The governor of Japan’s Osaka prefecture has called for the cancellation of the Olympic torch relay in its largest city amid a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases, presenting an early test to organisers as they plan for the Games during the pandemic.

Dear Editor, He was the most venerable and knowledgeable of that stock of practical cane breeders and selectors who by mere cane sniffling, or eyeing the physical appearance of the cane itself and of course an innate knowledge of the cane’s family background, its genetic makeup, Roy can virtually predict its potential as a superior cane.

Gold  Prices for three day period Thursday August 2, 2018 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

It is not often that a funeral oration attracts nationwide attention. 

(Trinidad Express) A new wave of natural gas pain hit Trinidad and Tobago yesterday.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday said that 15-year-old Adyemi Azeez is feared drowned after he went missing yesterday at the Onderneeming beach on the Essequibo coast.

(Reuters) – Pakistan’s men’s and women’s national team players fear their careers could be jeopardised with the country’s soccer federation (PFF) staring at a FIFA ban after a forced takeover of its national headquarters in Lahore.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Public Service Cooperative Credit Union registered number 849 is dear to my heart.

A now-17-year old boy who was accused of raping a 6-year-old when he was 13 years old, was on Wednesday acquitted of the offence.

Me kite, you balluh? Perhaps unashamedly, most of the sentiments of my lead caption are repeats from almost exactly three years ago.

In the halls of power, anything goes. So frequent are accusations of physical and economic violence that both politicians and the public have adopted a blasé attitude towards it all.

Under the previous political administration, two Ministers of Government, first, the then Finance Minister Winston Jordan and afterwards, Dominic Gaskin in his capacity as Minister of Business, made public what they said was government’s intention to usher in the full and effective implementation of the provision in the 2004 Small Business Act to allow for small businesses to access 20 per cent of state contracts in circumstances where the effective completion of those contracts lay within the scope of their competence.

Savitri Boodram. Aka Sabo –

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 908’s trading results showed consideration of $49,098,157 from 440,723 shares traded in 20 transactions as compared to session 907’s trading results which showed consideration of $12,637,918 from 127,803 shares traded in 18 transactions.

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – The Canadian province of Ontario will enter a limited lockdown for 28 days tomorrow, as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations rise and more dangerous virus variants take hold, the premier said yesterday.