Daily Archive: Tuesday, August 10, 2021

A businessman is now dead after he and another man came under heavy gunfire tonight along Regent Street, in Georgetown.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of August 09, 2021, three more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Malisha Dutchin, who is accused of being the mastermind behind the murder of overseas-based Guyanese Hemraj Pardesi, was today charged with the crime alongside an alleged accomplice, even as police continued a hunt for a third accused.

Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Sergeant Keyon King and two security guards have been remanded to prison over last week’s $58 million Wallison Enterprise gold heist at Kitty.

Three suspects, including a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Sergeant, who were arrested in connection with the Wallison Enterprise multi-million dollar gold heist at Kitty, are expected to be charged today by police, who say the men have confessed.

A statutory meeting of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) was on Monday aborted after a standoff between some city councillors and recently appointed Interim Town Clerk Candace Nelson, who was served with notice of a legal challenge to her appointment.

President Irfaan Ali has ordered that freight charges be reduced to pre-pandemic levels in order to lower taxes on imports, thereby relieving consumers of the burden of rising prices on commodities that have been passed on due to higher shipping costs.

Two persons were yesterday charged with four counts of forgery stemming from a nearly $30 million wire transfer fraud that targeted the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI).

House Speaker Manzoor Nadir yesterday denied a move by Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon for the National Assembly to discuss the recently implemented COVID-19 measures, which he said have placed undue restrictions on unvaccinated persons.

Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield has discontinued his legal challenge to bar government-nominated members of the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) from voting on a motion to dismiss him.

Two men are Guyana’s latest COVID-19 fatalities while 12 new cases have been recorded, according to the Ministry of Health.

Up to last weekend, nearly 30% of the adult population of Region Two had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to Regional Health Officer Dr Ranjeev Singh, who says newly implemented measures to restrict access by the unvaccinated to government services have resulted in an uptake. 

The government has confirmed that a payment of over US$79 million was received into the Natural Resources Fund (NRF) account for Guyana’s seventh oil lift.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Batsman Shamarh Brooks has been recalled along with rookie fast bowler Chemar Holder in a provisional 17-man squad for the two-Test series against Pakistan starting here Thursday.

Guyana may have lost up to an estimated US$13 million in potential returns on investments due to its sloth in not operationalising its Natural Resource Fund, according to economist Dr Tarron Khemraj.

The police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for a suspect in the murder of Jaleel Leow, who was shot and killed last week while at a friend’s house in Sophia.

Following the completion of a second trial, Kevin Mohan, known as ‘Chucky,’ was yesterday afternoon convicted of the 2016 murder of his aunt, Anita Mohan, whom police say he stabbed to death and then robbed.

West Indies are set to embark on another Test series and head coach, Phil Simmons is once again putting the batting at the forefront of his concerns.

A man was yesterday sentenced to 20 months behind bars after a court heard that he chopped his sister with a cutlass because she was going to report him to the police.

A jury yesterday afternoon acquitted Dexter McIntosh of raping a 12-year-old girl.

Dear Editor, Sir Lester Bryant Bird left us this morning (Monday) at about 5.30 lying peacefully in bed. 

Dear Editor, British race car driver and Seven-time Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton after finishing third in the Hungarian Grand Prix a couple Sundays ago needed assistance to get to the podium because he had dizzy spells.

A Linden man has been charged with the murder of Eon Williams, called ‘OJ,’ who was shot and killed in 2019, while with his girlfriend at Lover’s Lane Amelia’s Ward, Linden.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF)   completed a high-level, Concacaf-facilitated referee seminar last  weekend.

Dr Richard Van West-Charles, a director of Atlantic Fuels Inc., was on Monday charged with furnishing a false or misleading invoice to the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA).

Dear Editor, One could not help being engaged with the submission of SN’s Editorial of Sunday August 08, regarding the convoluted stance of the Government vis-à-vis the Opposition.

Dear Editor, Permit to use this medium to compliment those responsible for the excellent service I received from the NIS earlier today.

Accusing the judge who conducted his trial of committing a number of errors, Travis McDougall, who was sentenced in 2017 to 25 years for shooting and killing businessman Ashok Raghoo, is appealing his conviction and sentence.

Guyana Jaguars’ batsman Akshaya Persaud stroked a brilliant half-century and picked up four wickets in his debut match in the Caribbean Fest 40-over tournament in New York but rain forced the match to be abandoned.

Police are searching for two men who robbed a man of over $900,000 in valuables, including jewellery, during a robbery at Two Miles Good Fortuin, West Bank Demerara.

Dear Editor, Please allow me some space in your column to express my frustration with the service provided by Guyana Water Inc.

(Trinidad Express) – Trinidad and Tobago has logged its first COVID-19 maternal death and the first case of transmission from mother to child.

Despite bagging match figures of 7-107 in the just concluded ‘Best v Best’ match in Jamaica Guyana’s left-arm orthodox spinner was again sidelined by the West Indies selection panel for the first test against Pakistan which starts Thursday in Jamaica.

(Reuters) – The United Nations panel on climate change told the world today that global warming was dangerously close to being out of control – and that humans were “unequivocally” to blame.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – The St James police have arrested and charged a Granville man for the murder of a mother and her son in the community of Top Hill in Retirement.

Dear Editor, I refer to the recent news that the PPP government has placed new measures in place to encourage vaccination against COVID-19.

The regional administration of Region Six has estimated that over $75 million is needed to finance the necessary repairs to the region’s dams that were either damaged or destroyed by recent devastating flooding, which is still ongoing in some parts of the country.

By Håvard Halland and Günther Thallinger PARIS/MUNICH – Institutional investors are increasingly embracing the effort to achieve net-zero greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions by 2050.

BARCELONA/PARIS, (Reuters) – Lionel Messi appeared in no hurry to leave his home in Barcelona yesterday as fans gathered outside spoke of their sadness at the departure of the club’s greatest player and Paris St Germain supporters clamoured for his arrival.

(Reuters) – Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in the United States are at a six-month high, fueled by the rapid spread of the Delta variant across swathes of the country grappling with low vaccination rates.

Dear Editor, Was the court’s time wasted with the sudden termination of the court matter which sought certain reliefs in a certain dismissal case?

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – A superb unbeaten century from Anderson Amurdan was the highlight of the opening day of the CWI Rising Stars U19 trial series on Sunday.

(Loop News) – Annamay Lewis, a 56-year-old vendor of Layou, appeared before a Kingstown Magis-trate yesterday morning charged with wounding Prime Minister of St Vin-cent and the Grenadines, Dr Ralph Gonsalves during a protest last Thursday in Kingstown. 

NOTTINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – A near 50-run haul by India’s notoriously brittle batting tail in the first innings of the drawn opening test against England was like “gold dust”, Indian captain Virat Kohli said.

(Reuters) – All-rounder Shakib Al Hasan triggered a middle-order collapse as Bangladesh thrashed Australia by 60 runs in the fifth Twenty20 international in Dhaka yesterday to secure a handsome 4-1 series win over the touring side.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France rolled out the red carpet for the Olympic flag yesterday, with the host of the next 2024 Summer Games promising to make the sporting spectacle open to the masses after a pandemic-hit Tokyo Games held behind closed doors.

We have moved on from the euphoria and lightheadedness of May, 2015, when the years of wishful thinking that had to do with our unreachable oil resources and the promise that those resources held for national transformation, were replaced by definitive proof that we were not, after all, simply a nation of dreamers.

Former Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Sir Lester Bryant Bird died yesterday.

The amendments to the Petroleum Act were yesterday passed by the National Assembly after a grueling five hours of debate during which the opposition questioned the urgency and recommended further consultation.