Daily Archive: Sunday, September 19, 2021

The Ministry of Health today said that as of September 18, 2021, twelve more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Security guard Sigmol Gouveia, 26, of Block A, Sophia was last night fatally stabbed at a dockyard at Vreed-en-Hoop stelling, West Coast Demerara.

MANILA,  (Reuters) – Boxing star Manny Pacquiao said today he will run for president of the Philippines next year, after railing against corruption in government and what he calls President Rodrigo Duterte’s cozy relationship with China.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Media Association of T&T (MATT) has spoken out again Trinidad-born US-based rapper Nicki Minaj for her attacks on local reporter Sharlene Rampersad on social media.

(Trinidad Guardian) A family dispute is believed to be the motive behind the murder of a Claxton Bay mother and her 21-year-old daughter who were both shot in the head on Friday.

Close to 200 of the Albion Estate’s cane harvesters took to the streets yesterday to protest for financial assistance due to the impact of the May/June floods, which damaged the estate’s sugar cane, resulting in a drastic drop in their weekly earnings since the start of the new crop.

A police pursuit along the Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara (ECD) Public Road on Friday night has left a 26-year-old man dead and a teenage girl seriously injured.

Guyana will get a total of five lifts of one million barrels of oil this year and not the anticipated six after production was scaled back earlier this year due to the flash gas compressor problems aboard the Liza Destiny FPSO, according to Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat.

Veteran engineer Charles Ceres says that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)  is operating in breach of its own governing Act in key areas, including the denial of the need for impact assessments for major projects and the pool of qualified consultants it should enlist to undertake these.

Sandrama Roma Raju, the Corentyne woman who was allegedly burnt by her husband during the wee hours of last Monday morning, succumbed to her injuries at the New Amsterdam Public Hospi-tal last evening.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday announced that seven more persons who were infected with COVID-19 have died, taking this month’s death toll from the virus to 88.

The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) has suspended its recently launched “Boots on the Ground” protests.

A rigid education campaign and counselling sessions are being credited with the St.

The Takutu Bridge will remain closed to all but the transport of essential items while the Government of Guyana and the Roraima State in Brazil discuss protocols for a possible re-opening, according to statements from both sides following a meeting in Boa Vista on Friday.

Ranks from the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) and the Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday morning destroyed over $100 million in illicit drugs, including cocaine and marijuana that had been seized over the past two years.

Government has revoked the order to compulsorily acquire lands at locations on the East and West Bank of Demerara that the APNU+AFC had proposed to have the new Demerara Harbour Bridge built since that project has been shifted to another location and the lands are no longer needed, Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill says.

Some 1,800 girls in Region Nine are due to benefit from a year’s supply of sanitary napkins under the Menstrual Hygiene Initiative, which was launched in the region on Friday by First Lady Arya Ali as part of an historic programme to end period poverty in Guyana.

A clinical performance by Eagles saw them clinching the Demerara Volleyball Association (DVA) ‘A’ League Championship, brushing aside Young Achievers in straight sets on Friday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in collaboration with the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), recently conducted a number of inspections of quarries in the Mazaruni and Essequibo areas and found that most of the operations were at an acceptable level of compliance with their permits and management plans.

By Reds (Perreira) and Tony (McWatt) “Knives for Roger Harper and his hallucinating band of selectors, aren’t yet drawn.

USA-based Guyanese and We Stand United Cycle Club (WSUCC) rider, James `Jolyon’ Joseph captured respective gold and silver medals at the 2021 USA Cycling Masters Track National Championships held at the Valley Preferred Cycling Centre, Breinigsville, PA on Thursday. 

Dear Editor, While the Pope urges COVID inoculations, saying “vaccines are humanity’s friends,” Minister Manickchand revealing that 17 schools closed in one week as teachers test positive, Minister Anthony revealing a one-day record of 313 new COVID cases, and the High Court (as expected) denying injunctions against Government’s COVID measures, it is so sad to read all the sorrowful headlines of unvaccinated people gone too soon.

The Ministry of Housing and Water has announced that it will begin enforcing measures to prevent persons from using the roadways in government housing schemes to store construction materials.

Golden Jaguars international and former captain Samuel Cox has praised the appointment of Jamaal Shabazz as head-coach of the senior men’s programme by the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) for the fourth time.

Dear Editor, I write as a follow up to my letter of December 25th 2020 on the subject of “Vascular Surgeon desperately needed”. 

The Government of Guyana is seeking three international consultants to review and assess studies for the Payara Development Project in the Stabroek Block, offshore Guyana.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Latin American and Caribbean nations should aspire to a bloc like the European Union, Mexico’s president and other leaders said yesterday in a bid to wrest influence away from the Washington-based Organization of American States (OAS).

Commander of Region Two Denise Griffith has reiterated calls for cooperation from residents of Dartmouth, in Region Two, after the main roadway was once again blocked late Friday afternoon when protesting resumed over the killing of businessman Orin Boston.

After years of feasting on turtles and their eggs as delicacies, the residents of Sand Creek, South Central Rupununi have taken up new traditions.

Dear Editor, A very long time ago many people believed that the Earth was flat.

Guyanese Carlston Harris continued his historic run in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), stopping American Impa Kasanganay in the first round on the preliminary card of the promotion’s Fight Night: Stann vs Smith event at their Apex facility in Las Vegas, Nevada Friday night.

(Reuters) – The quartet of newly minted citizen astronauts comprising the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission safely splashed down in the Atlantic off Florida’s coast yesterday, completing a three-day flight of the first all-civilian crew ever launched into Earth orbit.

Anita Bennie was up late watching television one night in March last year when she passed her hand across her right breast and felt a lump.

Dear Editor The contributor waiting almost five years for her social security issues to be resolved, (‘4 years and 8 months of excuses from NIS’, SN Sept 17), begs the question: would it take an outreach for this matter to be resolved? 

West Indies Women will be coming with all guns blazing for the fifth and final One Day International against South Africa Women today to avoid a series whitewash on home soil.

Police are still awaiting advice on the fatal stabbing of Roy Boston, who was killed last month after an argument at a shop in Swan Village, Linden-Soesdyke Highway.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – More than four months after the COVID-19 outbreak halted the world’s richest Twenty20 tournament, the Indian Premier League resumes in Dubai today with a mouth-watering clash between the IPL’s two most successful franchises — Mumbai and Chennai.

CIUDAD ACUÑA, Mexico, (Reuters) – U.S. authorities moved some 2,000 people to other immigration processing stations on Friday from a Texas border town that has seen an influx of Haitian and other migrants, the Department of Homeland Security said yesterday.

Police are on the hunt for two bandits who allegedly robbed two women at gunpoint of their belongings on Austin Street, Campbellville on Friday night.

Dear Editor, I note in the letter columns of Friday’s SN edition a purported statement from the Guyana Presbyterian Church (GPC), signed by Rev.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Industrial Court president Deborah Thomas-Felix has stated that mandatory vaccinations cannot be implemented unilaterally by employers.

Coming from Koriabo, a riverain Warrau community of no more than 200 people at the time “with very limited access to education” in the Mabaruma sub-region, Myra Pierre-Moore, 51, the Learning Resource Development Officer at the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD) says that as a child she never dreamt she would become the educator and professional she is today.

MELBOURNE/PARIS, (Reuters) – Australia has made a “huge” diplomatic error by ditching a multi-billion-dollar order for French submarines in favour of an alternative deal with the United States and Britain, France’s envoy to Canberra said yesterday.

Despite a 2-4 series loss to England Under-19, West Indies youth players, Isai Thorne and Matthew Nandu were able to chalk up exceptional performances throughout the six Youth One Day Internationals.

Dear Editor, What was ‘dished out’ to Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, was abominable, unacceptable.

(Trinidad Express) – A Barrackpore family is in mourning after two of their relatives died 24 hours apart.

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is advising that all those, including pensioners, who wish to visit its offices must either pre-sent a vaccination card or make an appointment. 

For the past two years, Ambika’s Plant Shop has been providing outdoor and houseplants to an ever-growing customer base.

Introduction Today’s column concludes the mini-series discussion of the three texts, which I have indicated has had an immense influence in shaping my understanding of, and providing insights into, the rapidly evolving global energy dynamic.

Last Wednesday businessman Mr Orin Boston was lying in his bed around 4 am in Dartmouth, Essequibo, when a SWAT team kicked down the back door of his home, burst into the bedroom and shot him.

(Trinidad Express) – A mother and daughter were shot and killed at their home on Friday evening.

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has announced the appointment of Sheree Deslandes to the role of Director of Corporate Services.

World Suicide Prevention Day is observed annually on September 10. It is organised by the International Association for Suicide Prevention and endorsed by the World Health Organization and represents a global commitment to focus attention on suicide prevention.

The Woman and The Jaguar There was this woman who took care of us when we were younger and our mother went to work.

If you are feeling burnt out or exhausted after periods of extended stress or because of your workload, you are not alone.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – New Zealand’s abrupt decision to pull out of their cricket tour of Pakistan has created “an unfortunate scenario” but the hosts know how to overcome such crises, the chairman of the country’s cricket board Ramiz Raja said yesterday.

Typically, economists do not have the luxury of conducting lab-based experiments as in the natural sciences.

Dear Editor, I would like to take this opportunity to offer David Granger these words of encouragement.

The vigorous 2021 Online Chess Olympiad ended on Wednesday last, with tournament favourite Russia winning following a victory over the USA.

Elia Kazan’s “A Streetcar Named Desire” premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 9, 1951.

(Reuters) – A woman charged with murdering her three young daughters, just weeks after the family arrived in New Zealand from South Africa, appeared in court yesterday.

On February 23, 1970, Guyana adopted a Republican constitution and became the Cooperative Republic of Guyana.

D’Urban Park and D’Urban Backlands are named after Sir Benjamin D’Urban, appointed Governor of Demerara-Essequibo in 1824.

The world yearns for more and more speed – speed of exchanged communications, immediate access to information, concept instantly converted into conception – is destroying an important part of our lives.