Daily Archive: Friday, August 20, 2021

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

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) today announced the launching of a feasibility study for a commercially viable dairy operation using fresh cow’s milk.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica has been jolted back into lockdown mode owing to a suffocating third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic as the Andrew Holness administration continues to fend off deciding whether mandatory vaccination will have to be implemented.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan.

KAMPALA, (Reuters) – Uganda said today it had suspended the operations of 54 non-governmental organisations, a move that one of the groups described as “political persecution”.

(Barbados Nation) The Pfizer vaccine will be available to members of the general public, aged 18 and up, from today.

(Trinidad Guardian) Despite the reservations by some parents about having their children vaccinated at this time, Education Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly said both vaccinated and unvaccinated students will be welcomed back into schools next month.

Guyana and Suriname yesterday agreed to pursue proposals to craft a joint strategy to develop natural gas reserves which also potentially aims at tapping into the lucrative Brazil market.

Surinamese optics store, Optiek Ninon yesterday opened its first overseas branch on Camp Street.

The planned bridge across the Corentyne River will use the design, finance, build and own model and a team has been established to discuss in the coming weeks a comprehensive investment framework and advise on a final location, President Irfaan Ali and Surinamese President Chandrikapersad Santokhi yesterday announced.

A woman, who was before the court for causing the death of a police officer in 2019, had the charge withdrawn after $5 million in in compensation was given to the mother of the deceased.

Two persons who were arrested earlier this week in relation to a quantity of suspected cocaine in packets of powdered milk were released after forensic tests revealed that the substance was actually milk.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall yesterday initiated  legal proceedings against a Jamaican company, former Public Works Minister David Patterson and two others over $72.4m worth of motion scales which were fully paid for by the state in 2017 but never delivered.

A Rosignol, West Bank Berbice man died after he was beaten with a piece of wood and stabbed while leaving a shop in his neighbourhood yesterday afternoon.

A woman is now hospitalised after she was launched through the front windscreen of a minibus due to a collision along the Rupert Craig Highway, between Conversation Tree Road and Bel Air Access Road, East Coast Demerara.

Casey Stephen, the driver allegedly involved in the hit-and-run accident which claimed the life of Ryan Boodhoo, is now facing four charges and is on over $1 million in bail.

(ESPN Cricinfo)-The agonisingly tense denouement to the first Test between these sides would be enough to inject life into any series, and the shot in the arm West Indies gained from that thrilling one-wicket win should serve them extremely well.

The Golden Jaguars U14 Boys and Girls team will not participate in the 2021 edition of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Challenge Series following the official confirmation of the host nation and venues.

One hundred and forty-one new COVID-19 cases were yesterday recorded along with another death.

(Reuters) – Manchester City’s Kevin de Bruyne and Chelsea pair N’Golo Kante and Jorginho are in the running for UEFA’s 2020-21 male player of the year award after topping an all-midfield shortlist published yesterday.

(Reuters) – Naomi Osaka said she had felt “ungrateful” at times over the last year for not fully appreciating her life as one of the world’s top tennis players.

A boat captain was earlier this week remanded over the murder of a Berbice man whose body was found at Kumaka Waterfront, North West District with what appeared to be marks of violence on his face and neck, several days after he was reported missing.

The People’s Progressive Party/Civic administration has again signalled its intention to move to revise the existing contractual terms that obtain in respect of royalties “as part of a new Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) for future crude and gas projects” according to an August 17 Reuters news report.

(Reuters) – Allyson Felix isn’t done just yet. Just two weeks after she picked up gold in the 4X400m relay in Tokyo, her second of two medals from the 2020 Games to become the most decorated woman in track and field history, the 35-year-old American is returning to the track.

Minister of Labour, Joseph Hamilton yesterday said that he never received any report concerning 39-year-old Tanesha Fredericks who was reportedly forced to work without adequate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) on an offshore rig  while employed by Trinidad oil company—Centipede Offshore (Guyana) Inc.

With local entrepreneurial growth, particularly in the agri-foods sector having long been hampered by chronic weaknesses in mechanisms to allow for businesses to access regional, extra-regional and even local markets, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), through its Regional Economic Project Initiative, is seeking to help remove that constraint by working with the state-run Small Business Bureau (SBB) to introduce an e-commerce regime designed to create a new opening for local products to benefit from significantly enhanced market access.

Head of the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), Assistant Superintendent Elston Baird is urging ranks of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) to remain professional while performing their duties even though some situations might cause them aggravation.

(Reuters) – Arsenal’s troubled start to the Premier League season could get worse before it gets better as they prepare to host Chelsea this weekend before a trip to champions Manchester City a week later.

Pheona Agard appears to like nothing better than ‘doubling up” as a secondary school teacher and an emerging entrepreneur preoccupied with what she says is “the blending of several business ventures.”

(Reuters) – Uncapped wicketkeeper Josh Inglis was the surprise inclusion in Australia’s 15-man squad for the Twenty20 World Cup as selectors recalled paceman Pat Cummins and leading batsmen Steve Smith and David Warner for the tournament.

Tenders were on August 17 opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the rehabilitation of the Main Access Roads at Ituni/Tacama in Region Ten.

The administration of Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel has given the ‘green light’ to Cubans owning their own businesses, a move observers say could be the first step in the direction of ushering in economic reforms designed to help respond to the unrelenting pressures which the administration faces at the hands of Washington and in more recent times, the further debilitating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Cuban economy.

(Reuters) – Lionel Messi will not be included in Paris St Germain’s squad for today’s Ligue 1 game at Brest, French daily L’Equipe reported, adding that his former Barcelona team mate Neymar has also been left out.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) and the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) have collectively voiced their disapproval of the latest coronavirus measure instituted by the government that mandates that persons wishing to visit ministries, government departments and agencies must first be vaccinated.  

At 50 Sonia Noel has lost none of her passion for fashion; except that her jubilee celebration is, she says, much more likely to bare the philanthropic side to her character.

(Reuters) – Yorkshire have issued an apology to former player Azeem Rafiq following an independent investigation into allegations of institutional racism found he was a “victim of inappropriate behaviour”, the club said yesterday.

By Matthew Smith for Oilprice.com The aggressive push to decarbonize the world economy is forcing big oil to examine how the carbon emissions of its operations can be reduced with a goal of becoming carbon neutral.

A man was on Wednesday taken into police custody after he was found with a .38 pistol and five matching rounds at a city hotel.

(Reuters) – Manchester United and Scotland great Denis Law has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia, the 81-year-old said in a statement yesterday.

 The United Kingdom has given the green light to a replenishment of its funding to the Caribbean Development Bank with the issuance of a new Order for payments to the Bank’s Special Development Fund (SDF).

KABUL,  (Reuters) – The Taliban called on Afghanistan’s imams to urge unity when they hold their first Friday prayers since the Islamist group seized control of the country, as protests against the takeover spread to more cities yesterday, including the capital, Kabul.

Dear Editor, Thirteen years ago I wrote a letter entitled “We Must Take Global Warming into Account in Planning Our Future.”

Concerned that the Caribbean and Latin America should become enlightened by the sobering experience of the still raging coronavirus pandemic and the devastating socio-economic impact which it continues to have on the hemisphere, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Alicia Barcena has used the forum of the recent XXI Meeting of Foreign Ministers of CELAC to urge that the region become an actor in the development and production of new vaccines as part of its wider regional health strategy.

CAVAILLON, Haiti, (Reuters) – A drip of foreign aid began to reach more rural areas of southwestern Haiti yesterday, arriving five days after a powerful earthquake https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/magnitude-7-quake-strikes-western-haiti-usgs-2021-08-14

(Reuters) – Barcelona learned last week that a future without Lionel Messi does not have to be so bleak and they will look to build on the greater team unity that was on display in their season-opener when they visit Athletic Bilbao tomorrow in LaLiga.

(Trinidad Express) Hindu organisations have united and written to the Minister of Health and Chief Medical Officer, calling for them to immediately discontinue to ban on open pyre cremations across Trinidad.

(Reuters) – The Taliban have said they will not interfere with the Afghan men’s national cricket team, the country’s biggest sporting success of recent years, or stop the expansion of the flagship Twenty20 league, an Afghan cricket official said.

The confirmed presence of ‘world class’ oil deposits offshore Guyana does not mean that reaching and recovering those will be equivalent to the proverbial ‘walk in the park’ according to an August 15 Oil Now report.

Dear Editor. The US is just the latest mighty power whose mission in Afghanistan ended in failure.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Government will go to Parliament next week Wednesday to extend the State of Emergency by another three months.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department said yesterday it had imposed sanctions on three Cuban officials it said were involved in the suppression of protests on the island that began on July 11.

(Reuters) – Afghanistan’s International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Samira Asghari has called on the United States to help evacuate the country’s top female athletes and coaching staff “before it is too late” following the Taliban takeover of her nation.

On the calm morning of the last day, the “Gran Rio R” vessel, ironically, sailed right past its Crown Point destination at the south-western corner of Tobago, since the nine-member foreign crew were required to first register with the immigration authorities further away at the Port of Scarborough.

Opposition voters would be justified in asking what their party really stands for and whether it is even aware of what country it should be operating in.

With the exception of those who have been preparing for and writing entrance and exit examinations, the majority of children have been out of the physical school environment for well over a year.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday August 19, 2021       Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

Former GDF officers can’t `humiliate’ themselves I willingly admit, concede that for years I’ve been addicted to the Cable Television Channels such as the BBC, Al Jazeera, Fox News and CNN – among others.

The South Turkeyen Sports Committee in partnership with the Bovell Family, will stage a King and Queen Domino Competition on Sunday August 22 at the family’s residence in Dennis Street, Sophia.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 928’s trading results showed consideration of $43,280,786 from 393,632 shares traded in 22 transactions as compared to session 927’s trading results which showed consideration of $17,605,897 from 47,620 shares traded in 16 transactions.

Dear Editor, Garbage pile up in the city but the chief citizen is not about the city’s business, but other business elsewhere.

The national jollification associated with the public disclosure of our May 2015 ‘first oil’ and the several others that have followed had dragged on for some time though there are indications that it is beginning to occur to us that ‘all that glitters is not gold’ and that after the confirmed oil discoveries and the commencement of oil recovery and sales there are some challenging, even unpalatable realities that we ignore at our peril.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil is negotiating with Argentina on the construction of a billion-dollar pipeline from the Vaca Muerta shale gas reserves, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said yesterday.