Daily Archive: Saturday, April 24, 2021

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

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden today said the 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide, a historic declaration that infuriated Turkey and is set to further strain already frayed ties between the two NATO allies.

Director of Prisons, Gladwin Samuels has been notified that he will not be returning to that position following the end of his leave.

(Trinidad Express) MINUTES after offering prayers at his home in Penal yesterday, Ramnath Ramlochan was electrocuted when the bamboo jhandi (Hindu prayer flag) he was installing came into contact with an overhead electrical wire.

(Trinidad Express) Police arrested six bathers at the Salybia Beach, Matura on Wednesday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica-born Robert Runcie, the superintendent of public schools in Broward County, Florida, is denouncing a perjury charge filed against him arising from testimony at a grand jury.

With the Audit Office preparing to investigate suspected procurement abuses at the state-owned Guyoil, resigned General Manager Trevor Bassoo on Friday distanced himself from a new claim that he had been negotiating with firm Aaron’s Royality Inc.

The Ministry of Education yesterday announced that two Queen’s College students are the top performers at the 2020 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) assessments.

Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony on Friday reported that more than 115,000 persons have received their first shot of a COVID-19 vaccine in Guyana, even as a high of 214 new infections were confirmed.

Former government minister Annette Ferguson has filed a $50 million lawsuit against Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton, whom she alleges made libelous statements about her during a televised programme.

Collis Whyte, the Route 48 minibus driver who was seen in a viral video chasing a traffic rank with a cutlass, will be spending the next 12 months behind bars after admitting to multiple charges, including resisting arrest and threatening behaviour.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Sports minister Nathi Mthethwa has turned up the heat on Cricket South Africa’s (CSA) embattled Members Council after stripping them of the right to run the game, putting the country’s participation in future international tournaments in doubt.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) and the state-run Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) on Friday reached an agreement that will now see sugar workers receiving a “one-off payment” of monies to settle wage increases owed from 2019.

(BBC) Japan has announced emergency Covid measures in Tokyo and three other areas in a bid to curb rising infections, just three months before the country is set to host the Olympics.

The Guyana Water Inc (GWI) on Friday recommissioned the Moblissa water supply system on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway, bringing potable water into the homes of close to a hundred persons.

As the country’s economy continues to grow from the oil and gas business, President Irfaan Ali yesterday implored the private sector to join with government and focus especially on diversification into agro-processing and aquaculture to avoid the Dutch Disease.

Dear Editor, Please permit me a few lines of succinct but hopefully effective reply.

Fourteen of ExxonMobil Guyana’s offshore workers have tested positive for COVID-19.

Option Group of the United States of America has joined forces with the ‘Cricket gear for young and promising cricketers in Guyana’ project.

Dear Editor, To my sisters and brothers in Guyana, the COVID-19 vaccines can save our lives.

Members of the main opposition coalition APNU+AFC met with a team from ExxonMobil on Thursday to discuss issues relating to the malfunctioning third stage gas compressor.

(Reuters) – The United States can immediately resume use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, top health regulators said yesterday, ending a 10-day pause to investigate its link to extremely rare but potentially deadly blood clots.

A number of West Indies stars past and present are rallying to assist West Indies all-rounder Kesrick Williams and the people of St Vincent and the Grenadiers who have been affected by the eruption of the La Soufriere volcano.

Leon ‘Lee’ Hardowar was a graphic designer when the coronavirus hit Guyana last year and the company he worked with was among the many that closed temporarily.

Dear Editor, Allow me a small space to comment on the letter by the teacher who is ‘sick and tired of the way teachers are treated’ (SN April 22, 2021) because we as parents are also upset of the way that we and our children are treated when it comes to online teaching.

Two men, who the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) has accused of trying to traffic cocaine, were on Friday each asked to post $300,000 bail for their release after they denied a joint narcotics charge.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – People across India scrambled for life-saving oxygen supplies yesterday and patients lay dying outside hospitals as the capital recorded the equivalent of one death from COVID-19 every five minutes.

The other day I was craving something homely with a hint of sweetness that I could have with a hot or cold beverage.

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) on Wednesday last partnered with J’s Supermarket to host a 40-over cricket tournament as it continues to prepare for another restart of the 2021 season.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police and Customs made a major discovery of high-powered guns, ammunition, and equipment during a raid at a Bond at Piarco International Airport, on Thursday night.

Dear Editor, It is with regret that as a remigrant, I am witnessing Dear Land of Guyana as a spiraling decadent society; when as a youngster, British Guiana and Guyana enjoyed and sported public decency. 

Multiple rape accused Thurston Semple has been once again been committed to stand trial at the High Court for the offence.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Younger Brazilians are increasingly being affected by COVID-19, with those in their 20s showing the greatest increase in deaths so far this year, according to a report published by government biomedical institute Fiocruz yesterday.

Sometimes it’s hard to escape being exposed to the violence that is happening around us.

(Trinidad Guardian) An Enterprise man was shot dead by police in what officers described as a gunfight yesterday morning.

The police have arrested a suspect in the robbery of an employee of Health International Inc, who was relieved of over $1 million after he was violently dragged out of his moving vehicle on Lyng and Princess streets, Charlestown.

Dear Editor, I would like to bring to the attention of our president the issue of the Covid-19 relief cash grant which he introduced to the nation.

BARCELONA,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Pressure on wealthy governments to stop financing polluting coal projects in developing nations is getting results, with more countries announcing they will no longer make such investments.

Twenty-eight-year-old Kristal Inshan, reigning Mrs India Guyana will represent Guyana in Sri Lanka in November at the Mrs World Pageant.

Tomorrow, the St Stanislaus College auditorium will be transformed into a battleground for some of the strongest men and women in Guyana.

Dear Editor, First the incredulous query was: why did they go to the media?

Andrew Jagmohan, the truck driver who was killed in a freak accident after being pinned to his steering wheel by one of the logs he had been transporting , died of multiple injuries, an autopsy has concluded.

(Reuters) – Surrounded by clear blue skies and fields of sugar cane crops on the Pacific coast, a farm in the northwest of Costa Rica is now home to a giant radar capable of tracking small objects in space that threaten the safety of astronauts and satellites.

Luka Doncic finished with 30 points, nine rebounds and eight assists to lead the Dallas Mavericks to a 115-110 victory at against the visiting Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night.

LONDON, CMC – West Indies Test captain, Kraigg Brathwaite, hit his maiden half-century for Gloucestershire while Alzarri Joseph completed another for Worcestershire, both knocks helping to put their respective teams in strong positions in the third round of the County Championship.

The ambitious carbon reduction targets announced at Washington’s virtual climate summit are equal parts aspiration and political strategy.

Brush N’ Pour, an art supply business, will host an event next Friday called ‘Sip N’ the Art Gallery’ where artists from Linden will have the opportunity to display their work.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil recorded 2,914 new COVID-19 deaths, and 69,105 new cases of coronavirus, the Health Ministry said yesterday.

(Reuters) – A “noxious” gaseous smell coming from St Croix’s recently reopened refinery that caused schools to close was caused by excess emissions of hydrogen sulfide, U.S.

Brief Scores: Punjab Kings 132/1 (KL Rahul 60*, Chris Gayle 43*; Rahul Chahar 1/19) beat Mumbai Indians 131/6 (Rohit Sharma 63, Suryakumar Yadav 33; Ravi Bishnoi 2/21, Mohammad Shami 2/21) by 9 wickets.

Dear Editor, I write to share a terrible experience I had while shopping online using my Scotia Bank MasterCard.

The Suffering Hardships, distress and pain cling to us like skin on bones.

The Commissioner of the Police (Ag) Nigel Hoppie and other senior officers on Thursday visited the family of the late Senior Superintendent Charmaine Stuart to give their condolences.