Daily Archive: Thursday, July 15, 2021

The Ministry of Health today said that as of July 14, 2021, three more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Members of the PNCR’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) today piled pressure on party leader, former President David Granger over the long-stalled Congress of the party and the admission of two parties which they deemed “shells” to A Partnership for National Unity.

(Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson is voluntarily recalling five Neutrogena and Aveeno brand aerosol sunscreen products after detecting a cancer-causing chemical in some samples.

JAKARTA,  (Reuters) – Former Indonesian maritime affairs and fisheries minister Edhy Prabowo was sentenced by a court today to five years in prison for accepting bribes in a corruption scandal involving the export of lobster larvae.

(Trinidad Guardian) With just days to go before the border reopens on July 17, Government has announced a mandatory travel document to enter Trinidad and Tobago.

The Ministry of Natural Resources (MoNR) yesterday held a pre-bid meeting with prospective bidders to market this country’s oil and reported participation by over 20 companies from around the world.

Afibia Yankana and Akeem Haymer were yesterday afternoon both handed life sentences after admitting mid-trial that it was they who had fatally stabbed Rawle Rodrigues during a robbery back in 2017.

In an effort to maximise its performance, the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) yesterday commissioned seven excavators.

Reiterating that the annual cash grant for public school students will rise incrementally from $19,000 to $50,000 in five years, Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand yesterday launched the programme on the Essequibo Coast.

A passenger of one of the two boats which collided in the Mazaruni River claiming the lives of 10 persons back in 2013, said that the vessel he was in had been travelling extremely fast.

Fuel prices have increased following several months of reductions with current figures being similar to costs prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand and several other government ministers yesterday turned the sod signifying the beginning of the construction of a new Abrams Zuil Secondary School in Region Two.

(Reuters) – All-rounder Mitchell Marsh scored 75 and picked up three wickets as Australia defeated West Indies by four runs in the fourth Twenty20 international in St Lucia yesterday to record their first win in the five-match series.

Dear Editor, It was 1986. As a Magistrate, I had just finished holding Court in Jonestown territory, Matthews Ridge and Monkey Mountain.

Ronald Ali was on Tuesday acquitted on a charge of raping a Linden woman back in 2019.

Dear Editor, Editor, there are two issues I would like to highlight for the benefit of the people and politicians of this country.

A Lamaha Park vendor was yesterday remanded by a City Magistrate after being charged with attempting to murder a woman by stabbing her with a pitch fork.

Dear Editor, I was extremely appalled to see the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown inviting bids recently for the leasing of the City Constabulary Training Complex on Water Street.

Government assistance to access financing for small and start-up businesses, along with the need for ease in doing business took focus yesterday when President Irfaan Ali and Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo held a closed-door meeting with Guyana’s Private Sector.

Dear Editor, The shenanigans at GECOM continues. Now the meeting to determine the fate of employees involved in attempted electoral manipulation could not commence as their employment contracts were not available to the Commission.

Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill on Tuesday commissioned the new and improved Washer Pond Road in Linden, Region 10.

Dear Editor, It must be the joke of the century for the installed Minister of Education to be advocating a $19,000 (under US $100) payout for every child in public schools, since this programme is ill conceived and will not improve the lives of the children, parents or teachers or increase their access to education.

SAO PAULO/BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – More than 10,000 species of plants and animals are at high risk of extinction due to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest – 35% of which has already been deforested or degraded, according to the draft of a landmark scientific report published yesterday.

Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha and Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce Oneidge Walrond yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which seeks to further develop the agri-tourism policy in Guyana.

Dear Editor, July 15th, 2021 marks the 1st Anniversary since the passing of two renowned Guyanese, George Simon and Osaze.

With no official international matches or tournaments scheduled for the remainder of the year, the local contingent of the Golden Jaguars, the senior men’s football programme, is yet to resume training sessions at the National Training Centre, Providence. 

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Scattered protests broke out in Haiti’s capital yesterday as gasoline shortages added to concerns over insecurity and police announced new arrests a week after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise pitched the already-troubled Caribbean nation into political chaos.

It has been over two months now and the police say they are yet to receive legal advice as it relates to the accident involving the Vice Chairman of Region Six, Zamal Hussain which resulted in the death of a Number 19 Village, Corentyne man.

A police sergeant is currently in critical condition after he was struck down and run over on Tuesday night by a drunk driver along the East Bank Public Road at Peters Hall.

Dear Editor, The paintings that were sent to the Netherlands for the “Benedicto IV: Mighty Echo of the Amazon Rainforest – Revelations of the Guianas” exhibition last October have arrived back home.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was transferred to a Sao Paulo hospital yesterday to undergo tests for an obstructed intestine, with the president’s office saying he could receive emergency surgery in his latest health complication from a 2018 stabbing.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two women were among eight people murdered yesterday in Arima and St Augustine as police fear gang warfare has now broken out over the murder of Kareem “Pinto Boss” Walters of Pinto Road in Arima on Monday.

Guyana’s COVID-19 fatalities yesterday surpassed the 500 mark after four more deaths were reported.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Authorities in Colombia, working alongside counterparts in Panama and the United States, have seized 5.4 tonnes of cocaine worth $185 million, the Andean country’s navy said yesterday.

Dear Editor, There are too many Public Relations people around in different guises in the state sector; this extends to government propaganda channels in private/social media sectors, too. 

(Trinidad Express) With the arrival of 800,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccine into Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday, the Government’s plan is to have 400,000 persons vaccinated in an eight to ten weeks campaign with the aim of bringing the number of persons fully vaccinated to 600,000.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies Under-19 head coach, Floyd Reifer, says the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has forced his coaching staff to resort to “creative and innovative ways” to assess players, ahead of next January’s ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup set to be staged in the Caribbean.

(Reuters) – England’s limited-overs skipper Eoin Morgan has returned to the squad for their Twenty20 international series with Pakistan following his self-isolation, after three players and four staff members of the one-day side tested positive for COVID-19.

Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith has said there will be increased security around the Trinidad and Tobago men’s senior football team participating in the Concacaf Gold Cup in the US.

SAINT-LARY SOULAN, France, (Reuters) – Tadej Pogacar controlled his rivals and extended his overall lead in the Tour de France as the final podium took shape in a gruelling 17th stage won by the defending champion yesterday.

(Reuters) – Lionel Messi is set to extend his stay at Barcelona by signing a new five-year deal, with the Argentine talisman set to take a wage cut, La Vanguardia newspaper and ESPN reported yesterday.

A Festival City businessman who is facing multiple charges for allegedly obtaining money from persons by promising to import heavy-duty equipment for them has been remanded over more charges.

At the end of April this year, China passed a food waste prevention law that now prohibits competitive eating and the making of binge-eating videos; people caught performing either of these two acts face hefty fines.

Installment 2021-7 Q: Will my case move faster if I pay a third party? 

Dear Editor, One wonders how many players in the construct of Local Government and Regional Development would have heard of the existence of an Urban Development Programme instituted some 18 years ago in 2003.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba announced yetserday it was temporarily lifting restrictions on the amount of food and medicine travelers could bring into the country in an apparent small concession to demands by protesters who took to the street last weekend.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – The postponed Tokyo Olympic Games will create new “stars and legends” despite a one-year delay, fragmented preparations and the absence of fans in the stadiums, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said yesterday.

MILWAUKEE – Khris Middleton scored 10 consecutive points in the fourth quarter to rally the Bucks to a 109-103 victory in Game 4 and Milwaukee evened the NBA Finals with the Phoenix Suns last night.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Former UN Under-Secretary-General; Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana Guyana remains in search of a national consensus.

HOUSTON, Texas, CMC – Unlucky Grenada endured a rocky start to their CONCACAF Gold Cup campaign when they suffered a heavy 4-0 defeat to Honduras at the BBVA Stadium here Tuesday night.

Abandoned for more than 50 years, and surrounded by Guyanese jungle, the manganese mine had become home to vast colonies of breeding bats and putrid piles of guano.

(Reuters) – International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president Anita DeFrantz says she admires Sha’Carri Richardson for coming clean on her cannabis use which resulted in the American sprinter accepting a one-month ban and missing the Tokyo Games.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – A COVID-19 cluster at a Japanese hotel where dozens of Brazilian Olympic team members are staying raised new concerns about infections at the Tokyo Games, as the host city recorded its highest number of new cases for six months.

(Reuters) – The International Cricket Council said yesterday it has changed its points system ahead of the second edition of the World Test Championship (WTC) after receiving feedback that it needed to be “simplified”.

LONDON, CMC – Left-arm spinner Fabian Allen has stormed into the top 10 of the ICC Twenty20 bowlers rankings, one of several West Indies players enjoying upward movement in the latest update announced by cricket’s world governing body yesterday.