Daily Archive: Saturday, May 22, 2021

Cars lined up today at the Guyana National Stadium at Providence for the Ministry of Health’s drive thru for the administering of COVID-19 vaccines.

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

Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Upper Berbice) on Thursday complained that only a small percentage of state contracts are going to its contractors.

CHALCHUAPA, El Salvador,  (Reuters) – Forensic workers unearthed the remains of multiple victims from a grisly crime scene in El Salvador, digging up more bodies on Friday from a pit at the home of an ex-police officer suspected of murdering and burying potentially dozens of women.

(Trinidad Express)A Rio Claro man was chopped to death during an altercation on Friday.

A draft of proposed amendments to the Representation of the People Act should be completed by the end of next month after which the opposition and citizens will be able to make inputs. 

After filing lawsuits against the principals of Cevons, Car Care and Courtney Benn, the government yesterday announced that it will settle with all three parties but vowed to pursue public officers who might have transgressed.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) on Friday confirmed that the plane that crash landed in a savannah in Orealla on Thursday was found with 453 kilogrammes (equivalent to 998 pounds) of suspected cocaine aboard.

Two new COVID-19 deaths were on Friday recorded along with 160 new cases of the virus.

With the latest COVID-19 infections predominant among adults ages 18 to 39, Minister of Health Dr.

Confirming that schools will remain closed for the remainder of the current term, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand on Friday signalled that the resumption of face-to-face learning in September would likely hang on whether enough persons are vaccinated against COVID-19.

Guyana’s table tennis Queen Chelsea Edghill just keeps on creating history for herself and her country.

Three Berbice ranks from the Upper Corentyne area are currently being questioned after they were accused of stealing over $20 million from a Chinese national they intercepted earlier in the week for illegally entering Guyana.

Relatives and friends of Peter Headley, the robbery accused who was killed by a police officer last weekend, held a protest outside of the Ministry of Home Affairs Brickdam on Friday over the apparent “inaction” in the investigation.

Dear Editor, The horror of animals on our roadways has long been a cultural feature of this land.

Retired Assistant Commissioner of Police and Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC) Paul Slowe will be “vigorously” defending the fraud and sexual assault charges levelled against him, which his lawyer says are based on false allegations.

Dear Editor, The Co-operative of Guyana celebrates its 55th anniversary of independence on Wednesday, May 26.

If you have ever spent countless hours looking for the perfect dress that is not only beautiful but modest, then you know exactly how Salina Cruickshank felt every time she had to go shopping for an outfit and why she established Sally’s Stitch Fix.

As many as eight houses located at Zorg-en-Hoop, Blairmont, West Bank Berbice, were damaged by the heavy winds during a freak storm on Thursday afternoon.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korean President Moon Jae-in yesterday injected fresh urgency into attempts to engage North Korea in dialogue over its nuclear weapons, with Biden saying he would meet its leader Kim Jong Un under the right conditions.

Dear Editor, I wish to comment on a few matters that is gaining the attention of the public on Facebook, these are, a police making a stop and enquiry of a civilian and the other, where peace officers went to a location to make an arrest.

BENGALURU,  (Reuters) – India said yesterday it was working to alleviate a shortage of a medicine used to treat a rare fungal disease hitting COVID-19 patients as its healthcare system reels under a massive wave of coronavirus infections.

As the country awaits a decision by the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) on whether it will postpone scheduled assessments, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand yesterday said that the government is open to giving students more time.

I am temporarily displaced for several days so I’m in ‘de countryside’ staying with friends.

The locally-based Lady Jaguars football players will commence preparation today at the National Training Centre in Providence for the 2023 FIFA World Cup qualification.

Dear Editor, The PPP entered government 10 months ago and this accounts for close to 20 percent of its current term in office.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The British government vowed yesterday to examine how the BBC was run, after a damning inquiry into how the broadcaster got its bombshell 1995 interview with Princess Diana and unprecedented criticism from her son Prince William.

When I was growing up, experience and personal growth were never the factors people considered before having children.

One of the two men on trial for the 2016 murder of Laing Avenue taxi driver Orin David was acquitted yesterday after his attorney successfully presented a no-case submission. 

The Guyana Cycling Federation’s (GCF) National Championship kicks off today with the Time trials for all categories.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter from Mr. Samuel A.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Two former Brazilian presidents overcame decades of political rivalry yesterday with a public show of common purpose: blocking Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro from gaining a second term next year.

Kashif Muhammad, co-founder of the long standing Kashif and Shanghai Football Tournament has been appointed Chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC).

Two Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) clerks were among four persons charged on Friday with forging several cheques to the value of $19.4 million in the name of the revenue collection agency.

Tuesday marks 50 years since the Yoruba Singers, known for all-time favourites like, “Itaname”, “Black Pepper”, “Ojinga’s Own”, “Woman Ah Dead Ya Fuh Man”, “Sample”, “Abiola”, and “Crekete” among others, was formed.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – The death toll from COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean passed 1 million people yesterday, according to a Reuters tally, with the pandemic worsening in the part of the world with the highest per capita death rate.

Dear Editor, Mr. Eshwar ‘Vic’ Persaud who died recently was one of three pioneers in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is pulling aid from El Salvador’s national police and a public information institute and will instead redirect the funding to civil society groups, the agency’s head said in a statement yesterday.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – Pfizer and BioNTech pledged yesterday to deliver 1 billion doses of their COVID-19 vaccine to poorer nations this year and another 1 billion next year, the boss of Pfizer said.

Overseas-based Guyanese Angel Bispat and pageant enthusiast Arian Dahlia Richmond are today hosting a children’s event called ‘Painting with a Purpose’ at the National Park.

Two days after surrendering himself to the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU), Omesh Lakeram was on Friday charged with trafficking 207 pounds of ganja and released on $150,000 bail.

The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas offers a slender hope of a return to “normal life” for those caught in the crossfire.

After 25 years Guyanese Eon Rodney who goes by stage name Major Joe B is this weekend releasing his second album, ‘Glory, Glory’. 

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – St Kitts and Nevis Patriots have acquired the services of enigmatic all-rounder Sherfane Rutherford for the upcoming Caribbean Premier League season.

Surviving COVID-19 is not just about being able to breathe. For what is living when it appears that our souls have departed our bodies and have left us listless and cold.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies (CWI) will host the West Indies Professional Cricketers Draft for the 2021/2022 cricket season on Tuesday  25 via video call.

Dear Editor, Activities to mark our fifty-fifth Independence Anniver-sary have begun, but it seems, no evidence of this achievement is visible in the city or elsewhere.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping yesterday pledged an additional $3 billion in aid over the next three years to help developing countries recover from the coronavirus pandemic, and proposed setting up an international forum on vaccine cooperation.

More reports of inundated farms are emerging from the South Rupununi as the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) continues its flood assessment in Region Nine.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s health minister said yesterday the government is doing everything possible to prevent the spread of the concerning coronavirus variant first identified in India in the northern state of Maranhao, which has detected the country’s first cases.