Daily Archive: Friday, August 27, 2021

The Ministry of Health today said that as of August 26, 2021, three more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority says that around 1,000 low-income and moderate-income house lots were handed out today.

Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana, Mark Berman has stressed the importance of Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs).

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The Bank of England said today it has removed 10 oil paintings and busts of seven governors and directors who had known connections to the slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries and hired a researcher on slavery for its museum.

(Reuters) – Tropical Storm Ida could hit the U.S. Gulf Coast near New Orleans this weekend as a powerful hurricane, as it strengthened overnight, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported early today, issuing hurricane and tropical storm watches for much of the area.

 (Jamaica Information Service) The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is recommending that member countries adopt a phased approach to reopening schools for face-to-face learning in the new academic year in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has said yesterday he was concerned and worried that the current policy for returning nationals could expose the country to the deadly Delta variant, and what it could mean for the unvaccinated population.

Over 200 children were yesterday administered their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine as the adolescent COVID-19 inoculation programme was officially launched.

One person is now dead and three have been listed as critical after being involved in an accident at Kilometer 33, Buckhall, Region One. 

Kevin Mohan known as ‘Chucky,’ was yesterday afternoon handed a life sentence for the murder of his aunt Anita Mohan, who raised him from a baby and whom he slashed and beat to death and then robbed of $10,000 back in 2016.

Trinidadian health authorities say that one case of the COVID-19 Delta variant recorded was someone who travelled from Guyana but the Ministry of Health here has not been able to confirm cases of any variants through testing.

The three men who were arrested by the police on Tuesday in relation to the discovery of a quantity of medical equipment and documents have been identified as employees of the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) and one has confessed to pilfering COVID-19 vaccine booklets.

Having earlier this year found a new oil supplier in Guyana, to help ease its huge productive sector of the jitters associated with the prevailing policies of an increasingly idiosyncratic Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), India’s oil demand travails persist in the face of a continuing decline in its own domestic production for the second consecutive month at the end of July.

The Alliance for Change (AFC) has officially submitted a motion of no confidence against Region Four Chairman Daniel Seeram.

One of the more enlightening sights that attended the programme of events held to mark the thirtieth year since the establishment  of The Gift Centre, was that of the company’s 71-year-old founder, Doris Lewis, who she assured us, had briefly ‘slipped out of retirement’ to place her own personal imprimatur on the commemorative programme.

The Judicial Service Commission (JSC), the Police Service Commission (PSC) and the Public Service Commission are all likely to be re-appointed by the end of this month.

A Best Village, West Coast Demerara woman almost lost her life on Sunday when she was stabbed several times by her former partner.

Last weekend’s EXPO 50 event at the Giftland Mall organised by fashion designer, Sonia Noel, to mark her 50th birthday served as a pointed reminder that Guyana is bursting at the seams with women of entrepreneurial vision who are still to attract the market attention that they deserve.

(CPL)-St Kitts & Nevis Patriots got their 2021 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) campaign off to a winning start with a comprehensive 21 run win over the Barbados Royals yesterday.

Dear Editor, In an article which appeared in the news media on August 24, it was reported that the Public Works Minister (PWM) exhorted Guyanese to ensure that contractors produce superlative projects and that they should report instances of sub-standard works executed within their communities.

Soursop is commonly found in South America and the Caribbean and is one of Guyana’s most highly prized fruits.

Those healthcare workers who do not comply with COVID-19 protocols and are barred from entry to the workplace will not be paid.

Dear Editor, In his Sunday column, Ralph Ramkarran argues that since the passing of Cheddi Jagan, the PPP has “ceased to be a Marxist-Leninist Party” (8/22/21).

Law enforcers responding to a report of noise nuisance were on Wednesday assaulted by a Parika Facade, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) woman as seen on a video released by the police.

Increasingly, the local female skin care and body beauty market is beginning to pay a greater measure of attention to the fast-emerging options to the high-priced imported products that have saturated the local (and Caribbean) market and which, not only on account of cost, have become unreachable to working women.

Dear Editor, On Monday, 16th August 2021, I went to GTT office at 55, Brickdam to reconnect my Blaze account (Number Provided) which I suspended for six months (March to August 2021).

Even as the threat of outbreaks of new strains of the COVID-19 virus surface with increasing regularity, the issues of testing and being vaccinated have increasingly become matters of public controversy in parts of the region.

Four more COVID-19 deaths were yesterday reported along with some 151 new cases of the virus.

Dear Editor, Land preparations for housing as well as the construction of bypass roads behind DDL and north of the established Diamond Housing Scheme are in progress.

Thirty four year old Tracy Payne is part of an emerging contingent of young whose excursions into one business pursuit or another are beginning to make a persuasive statement about the emergence of a new generation of Guyanese businesswomen.

(CMC) – Left-hander Shimron Hetmyer’s sparkling half-century and Romario Shepherd’s three-wicket blitz condemned reigning champions Trinbago Knight Riders to a nine-run defeat in the opening game of the Caribbean Premier League yesterday.

Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall SC has announced that plans are in train for the revamping of Guyana’s Mental Health Act, with specific attention to be paid to persons in the penal system.

Police Commander of Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni), Senior Superintendent Michael Kingston said that rape is the only serious crime that has seen an increase.

Dear Editor, At the end of 2019 the Chinese authorities announced to the world that they detected a virus that was attacking the respiratory system of people and had killed an unknown number in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China.

(Reuters) – U.S. troops helping to evacuate Afghans desperate to flee Taliban rule braced for more attacks today after Islamic State struck the crowded gates of Kabul airport, killing scores of civilians and at least 13 U.S.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) will commence a talent identification (ID) program on local shores and the United States of America during the months of August and September in preparation for the upcoming 2022 Concacaf Men’s U20 Championship Qualifiers in November.

There had always been a certain inevitability to the recent Global Alert issued by INTERPOL in the matter of the means by which countries acquire adequate supplies of the COVID-19 vaccines.

Dear Editor, Kindly publish the following in your daily newspaper. A) The Specialty Hospital.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The White House said it regretted the Supreme Court’s decision yesterday to end the Biden administration’s pandemic-related federal moratorium on evictions, and urged states, cities, landlords and others to do what they could to help.

Over 1,000 persons countrywide have benefited from the free distribution of spectacles from the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security with over 130 persons receiving in Region Two this week. 

Eton Moses, General Secretary of Elite League outfit, Buxton United, sat down with Stabroek Sport to discuss several pertinent football-related issues inclusive of the senior men’s national program, the COVID-19 climate and vaccination, as well coaching and refereeing development.

Dear Editor, The Caribbean-American Coalition Inc, a civic organization headquartered in New York, overwhelmingly supports the resettling of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Afghan families in Guyana.

(Reuters) – Nicaraguan prosecutors yesterday charged eight opposition leaders with conspiracy, including three who planned to challenge President Daniel Ortega’s bid to secure a fourth consecutive term in power.

Two weeks have passed since Brazilian, Euclid Da Silva was gunned down on Regent Street, Georgetown and the police are yet to apprehend his killers.

BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tribes from the Amazon have called for urgent action to protect the world’s largest rainforest in a formal motion to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), to be considered at its global congress in France next month.

Dear Editor, In any economy, two-thirds of all economic growth rate lie on the consumers’ outlay.

The police in Berbice are currently hunting a teenager who allegedly torched his grandmother’s house at Number 60 Village, Corentyne, yesterday following an argument.

                                         Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday August 26, 2021

(Reuters) – Sebastian Vettel described his disqualification from a second-placed finish at the Hungarian Grand Prix as “bitter” and called for more tolerance to be written into Formula One’s rules.

(Reuters) – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce led a list of upsets at a blustery Diamond League meeting in Lausanne yesterday as she beat Olympic sprint queen Elaine Thompson-Herah in the women’s 100 metres.

At a forum associated with the recent visit to Guyana by President Santokhi of Suriname, both Minister in the Office of the President Dr Ashni  Singh, and Suriname’s Foreign Minister, Albert Ramdin, reportedly expressed the view that, over time, Guyana and Suriname had failed to make good, the advantage of proximity to raise the profile of their bilateral relations in fields that include cross-country investment and other forms of business and economic cooperation.

There is no doubt that COVID-19 has significantly impacted our way of life and increased the prevalence of many socio-economic issues within Guyana.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Argentine prosecutors have charged President Alberto Fernandez with allegedly breaking a mandatory quarantine, local media reported yesterday, when he and his partner hosted a birthday party last year with friends.

Sars Cov-2: Responding to all variants This, of course, is my own simplified sequence of modern-day intervention – both “subliminal” and openly direct – by the United States of America (USA) into our local colonial and post-colonial politics.

Dear Editor, First the union walked away from schools’ assessments and is now seeking free PCR tests for those of its membership not desirous of taking the vaccine.

A minibus driver is now counting losses after his La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara home was broken into.

(Reuters) – After an Olympic stumble Novak Djokovic will get a second bite at history in the Big Apple with a calendar year Grand Slam there for the taking at the U.S.

(Reuters) – Chelsea and Italy midfielder Jorginho was named European soccer body UEFA’s men’s Player of the Year for 2020-21 yesterday while Barcelona’s Alexia Putellas won the women’s award.

(Reuters) – Former England test captain Ted Dexter, one of the country’s greatest players, has died aged 86 after a recent illness, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) said yesterday.

(Reuters) – England captain Joe Root smashed his third hundred in three tests, putting his team in pole position for a series-levelling victory in the third match against India yesterday.

(Reuters) – Venus Williams will miss the upcoming U.S. Open due to an injury, becoming the third U.S.

“Our body! Our choice!”  was the cry at Square of the Revolution and in Mackenzie and Wismar on Wednesday in relation to compulsory vaccination for Covid 19.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 929’s trading results showed consideration of $20,768,855 from 44,243 shares traded in 10 transactions as compared to session 927’s trading results which showed consideration of $43,280,786 from 393,632 shares traded in 22 transactions.

(Reuters) – Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy was charged by the Cheshire Constabulary with four counts of rape and one count of sexual assault yesterday, with the Premier League club suspending the Frenchman pending an investigation.