Daily Archive: Friday, August 6, 2021

The Guyana Revenue Authority today said that as of Monday, August 9th   it will be implementing the new gazetted  regulations for COVID-19 and those  without a vaccination card will have to make an appointment for service.

 (Reuters) – United Airlines Inc today  became the first U.S. airline to require all its domestic employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

KABUL, (Reuters) – Taliban fighters today assassinated the Afghanistan government’s top media and information officer in the capital Kabul, an act condemned by the senior U.S.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – Shaunae Miller-Uibo of The Bahamas won the women’s 400 metres in 48.36 seconds today, retaining her Olympic title, as American Allyson Felix took bronze, her record 10th Olympic medal.

Two mining camp workers were yesterday found dead in their hammocks at Black Water Backdam, Cuyuni River.

Three armed bandits posing as customers yesterday carried out a daring robbery at a Gordon Street, Kitty gold establishment and escaped with over $50M worth in cash and raw gold.

When 39-year-old Tanesha Fredericks started working at a local subsidiary of Trinidad Oil Company – Centipede Offshore (Guyana) Inc, she had no idea that several months later she would be unable to turn on a tap because of the injuries she would sustain as a result of handling toxic chemicals and cleaning agents without proper gloves.

One of the two men who were recently freed of murdering West Berbice teenager Isaiah Henry was yesterday re-charged while his co-accused is also expected to face the court again.

President of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA), K.A Juman-Yassin yesterday said that the “buck stops with him” over the predominantly red uniforms worn by Guyana’s competitors at the Tokyo Olympics.,

Two women from Region Five are the country’s latest COVID-19 fatalities and 84 new cases of the virus have been reported.

(Reuters) – Six-time Ballon d’Or winner Lionel Messi will leave Barcelona despite both parties having reached an agreement over a new contract, the La Liga club said yesterday, citing economic and structural obstacles to the renewal of the deal.

Detectives in Region Six are intensifying the hunt for the female mastermind and her male accomplice in connection with the murder of Hemraj Pardesi of Reliance Settlement, East Canje, Berbice His body was discovered in his yard during the wee hours of Wednesday.

Guyana has joined the Media Freedom Coalition. The British High Commission and the High Commission of Canada stated in a joint release yesterday that the two countries on Tuesday officially welcomed Guyana as a member of the Media Freedom Coalition.

(Reuters) – Steven Gardiner of the Bahamas won the 400 metres yesterday, becoming the first athlete to win Olympic gold in an individual men’s event in his country’s history, after a carefully balanced race shut out the Americans over a distance they once dominated.

International reports published earlier this week indicate that India can be expected to look increasingly to diversified sources, not least Guyana, to secure its oil imports, as the country seeks to attach a high priority to further diversifying its energy sourcing basket in an effort to avoid becoming hostage to international pricing and supply shocks.

Mayor of the Town of Anna Regina, Rajendra Prabhulall, is maintaining that there will be no roadside vending from today and all vendors will be relocated to the Bush Lot market at Cotton Field.

Oil and gas firms TotalEnergies and Apache Corporation have discovered more oil off the coast of Suriname.

An inquest has been ordered by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to determine the circumstances of the death of Anthony Pakanram, who was fatally stabbed at Providence over a week ago.

Two legitimate gold miners operating separate mining claims in the interior have responded with skepticism  to the recent official undertaking given by Natural Resources Minister Vickram Bharrat that government will continue to set its face against illegal mining.

A post-mortem examination conducted on thirty-two-year-old Venezuelan national, Ilan Antonio Singh who was found in the alleyway aback of SleepIn Hotel on Church Street has ruled that the hotdog vendor died as a result of blunt trauma to his head and strangulation.

With successive oil finds incrementally enhancing Guyana’s portfolio as the new investment haven, external perceptions of the country as the owner of one of the more sluggish economies in the Caribbean have disappeared, virtually overnight, to be replaced with the image of a country with overwhelming investment potential.

Granted a stay of the default judgment for which damages were to be assessed and imposed against Vice President (VP) Bharrat Jagdeo for defaming former government minister Annette Ferguson, the assessment-hearing which had been set for last Wednesday did not come off. 

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) yesterday distributed several pieces of football equipment to its respective Academy Training Centers (ATCs) at the National Training Centre in Providence, as the entity announced its plan to resume the program.

Among the different members of the palm family, the Coconut tree is acknowledged as the ‘tree of life’ on account of the various products derived from its various parts that contribute to feeding people and helping to support their health needs.

A number of Government ministries have put out notices making it known that unvaccinated persons will be barred from entry unless an appointment is made.

With the local agro processing sector being pressed to ‘shift gears’ in order to maximize growing external market opportunities, a collaborative effort involving the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), the Small Business Bureau (SBB) and the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS), on Wednesday,  saw representatives of ten (10) agro processing establishments participate in a competence-enhancing exercise designed to help further raise all-round standards in the sector.

The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) has given the Guyana Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation (GBFF) a huge lift by assisting to help to fund the cost for the airfare of the 10-member contingent to El Salvador.

Dear Editor, It is with deep regret that I note the appointment of Mr.

The injured teen Johnny Persaud, who was involved in the recent fatal accident at Diamond, East Bank Demerara, has regained consciousness and is now breathing on his own.

World Bank Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean, Carlos Felipe Jaramillo and Country Director for the Caribbean, Lilia Burunciuc, completed their first official visit to Guyana yesterday and pledged to make a real impact on improving the lives of people here. 

Adrian Giddings, Secretary of the West Demerara Football Association (WDFA), has announced that Friday September 3 is the date that has been confirmed for the organisation’s constitutionally mandated Electoral Congress.

Dear Editor, In a 2019 letter, a suggestion was made to implement a diaspora strategy.

If the region as a whole still appears deaf to the sonorous message regarding the unbearable strain on its fragile economies of a multi-million USD food import bill, some countries may be quietly seeking to transform their own individual concerns on the issue into some form of practical action.

SANTO DOMINGO,  (Reuters) – Haiti’s government has requested help from the United Nations to conduct an international investigation into the killing last month of President Jovenel Moise, the country’s embassy in the Dominican Republic said yesterday.

Dear Editor, I write in response to a letter published in your newspaper on August 5, 2021 under the caption ‘Our major ISP is fumbling around, only competition will wake GTT’ by Sandra Khan.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) yesterday donated six Blu G70 smartphones, SIMs and $1,000 Top Up on each phone to the Future Economic Development Strategy Cooperative Society Limited (FEDS) in Linden.

With parts of the country’s agricultural sector now seemingly recovering from the ravages of the recent flooding, there are signs that the country’s farmers have lost none of their pride in their earned reputation of being in possession of the food basket of the region.

Dear Editor, At such a time as this, when an unpredictable deadly virus has killed over 4 million people and infected 196 million around the world, and there is no telling what would happen next, I expected the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) to not only mould the nation but be the teachers and educators to the nation that vaccination is the road we must take.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden took a step toward his goal of slashing greenhouse gas emissions yesterday with an executive order aimed at making half of all new vehicles sold in 2030 electric, a move made with backing from the biggest U.S.

SB: Come November, the Women’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Guyana (WCCIG) will celebrate the second anniversary of its founding.

A six-year-old drowned on Wednesday at Tiger Creek Backdam, in Region Eight.

The Office of the St Vincent Prime Minister last evening said that Prime Minister Ralph  Gonsalves was physically assaulted and wounded by Opposition demonstrators while attempting to enter the House of Assembly.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The Atlantic Ocean’s current system, an engine of the Northern Hemsiphere’s climate, could be weakening to such an extent that it could soon bring big changes to the world’s weather, a scientific study said yesterday.

More than half a century after the commissioning of the roughly 45-mile Soesdyke-Linden Highway, the vast expanse of land that sits off its shoulder is still to fulfill the purpose for which it had been designated.

The Ministry of Health says that it has seen a significant increase over the past few days, in the number of persons coming out to receive their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Dear Editor, It is an interesting construct, at least from a management perspective, as it also invites enquiry about the communication and decision-making processes in Public Administration.

(Trinidad Express) Caribbean Airlines has announced that it lost more than TT$326 million in the fix six months of 2021.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden yesterday offered temporary “safe haven” to Hong Kong residents in the United States, allowing what could be thousands of people to extend their stay in response to Beijing’s crackdown on democracy in the Chinese territory.

The cause of death of a Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, man whose car ended up in a trench along the Warren Public Road, East Coast Berbice, was drowning.

Dear Editor, The scant regard and treatment meted out to a female utilities cleaner with a foreign company operating locally, has to be wondered why the company did not think or believe the female worker had the gall to file a lawsuit against them. 

Even as the respective countries in the Caribbean continue to take their own separate tilts at bemoaning what they regard as the distressing state in which much of the region’s agricultural sector finds itself, there still appears to be no apparent region-wide move to respond to what is regarded as a looming crisis.

(Reuters) – American Katie Nageotte needed a third and final attempt to clear her opening height but overcame the nervous start to win the Olympic women’s pole vault gold medal yesterday.

(Reuters) – The United States failed to make the Olympic men’s 4×100 metres relay final after a ragged run saw them finish a shock sixth in their semi-final yesterday, the latest in a dire run of performances in an event they dominated for decades.

US Ambassador Sarah-Ann Lynch yesterday visited a medical outreach underway in Mabaruma and which the US Embassy is a part of.

-The Olympics, me and Guyana Let’s declare the whole of August “Emancipation Month” for this column of twenty-eight years.

Anyone who hoped that local government elections would usher in a new era of democracy at the community level, releasing the energies and innovativeness of citizens so they could address the problems in their neighbourhoods more effectively, should not hold their breath.

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Hundreds of business leaders representing large Brazilian banks and other companies yesterday published a letter titled “Elections will be respected,” in an apparent rebuke of President Jair Bolsonaro’s recent threats against the 2022 elections.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A Brazilian congressional committee yesterday voted against a constitutional amendment to adopt printed ballots, in a major defeat for far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.

(Reuters) – Sharing videos from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on social media is not allowed, even for athletes, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said yesterday as it looked to protect broadcasters’ rights.

(Reuters) – Kevin Durant and Team USA trounced Australia yesterday in the men’s basketball semifinals to move into the finals and just one victory away from a fourth straight gold in the Olympics.

(Reuters) – Seamer James Anderson won the latest round of his duel with India captain Virat Kohli and dragged England back into the contest on a rain-marred second day of the opening test yesterday.

Even as the respective countries in the Caribbean continue to take their own separate tilts at bemoaning what they regard as the distressing state in which much of the region’s agricultural sector finds itself, there still appears to be no discernable region-wide move to respond to what is regarded as a looming crisis.

(Reuters) – England’s Jofra Archer will miss this year’s Twenty20 World Cup and the Ashes series against Australia after the country’s cricket board (ECB) said yesterday the fast bowler suffered a recurrence of a stress fracture in his right elbow.

(Reuters) – Kenya’s Abel Kipsang broke the Olympic men’s 1,500 metres record in the semi-finals yesterday to ease into the final.

(Reuters) – New Zealand will visit Pakistan in September for the first time in 18 years to play three one-day internationals and five Twenty20 matches in Rawalpindi and Lahore, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said yesterday.

(Reuters) – China won the Olympic women’s team table tennis gold medal yesterday after a 3-0 victory over Japan in the final continued the country’s undefeated streak in the event.

(Reuters) – Chasing the “bigger throw”, Ryan Crouser of the United States retained his title in the men’s shot put in Tokyo yesterday, breaking his own Olympic record three times in the final as he grabbed gold with a mark of 23.30 metres.

(Reuters) – Valentino Rossi, one of the greatest and most charismatic of motorcycling champions, called time on his MotoGP career yesterday and looked forward to a future in car racing.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday July 29, 2021

Dear Editor, After the attempted rigging of Guyana’s 2020 elections democracy was restored by decent minded citizens and the international observers especially CARICOM.

Screaming seagulls study snorkelers, beyond the low wall of pale pink boulders that protect the private beach lined with coconut trees and bright orange deck chairs.

In recent weeks, several within the private sector made clear their intentions to mandate that their unvaccinated workers undergo regular COVID-19 tests.