Daily Archive: Saturday, October 2, 2021

Two of the best films that played at TIFF this year felt like self-conscious purgings of personal demons from the filmmakers.

Family dramas across generations, continents and genres were a recurring preoccupation at the Toronto International Film Festival this year.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 17-day-old baby was detained at the Piarco International Airport along with his family shortly after arriving in the country from Orlando, Florida on September 17.

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

Former Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee today expressed sadness at the destruction of the Brickdam Police Station by fire and said that criticisms of the fire service’s performance should be the subject of an immediate investigation.

A fire destroyed the Brickdam Police Station on Saturday as firefighters struggled to contain the blaze at the wooden building.

Following a call by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) for the tabling of local content legislation by the end of this year as its members say they are being sidelined from  oil and gas works, Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat yesterday assured that government is assiduously working towards that timeline.

Bibi Nazeela Habiboodean and the man she hired to kill her father were yesterday both sentenced to death by High Court Judge Sandil Kissoon, who described the savage beating the septuagenarian victim endured as reprehensible.

The police have managed to identify two suspects in the murder of electrician Joshua Denny and on Friday recovered the motorcycle believed to have been used in their getaway.

Weeks of protesting by residents in the Brazilian town of Bonfim have ended as the Guyana Government has agreed to more movement of traders between the two countries but with COVID-19 rules in place.

A nine-year-old girl is now dead after being struck by a car along the Islington Public Road on Friday morning.

Soon after St Gabriel Primary student Sophia Kerr entered her online classes as per normal last Monday morning her father heard her yelling that she couldn’t see anything.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday began advertising to fill several critical positions, including that of the Chief Election Officer (CEO).

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) came under intense public scrutiny yesterday after it unveiled an all-male Corporate Management team.

Guyanese international musician Eddy Grant has come out victorious in the first stage of a lawsuit he has initiated against former US President Donald Trump over the unauthorised use of his popular song ‘Electric Avenue.’

The Ministry of Health on Friday reported six more COVID-19 fatalities along with 228 new cases of the virus.

The government will begin distribution of 2022 pension booklets and the one-off $25,000 COVID cash grant for pensioners from Monday.

(Trinidad Guardian) An inspired spell of slow bowling from Prem Singh who took a hat trick saw the West Indies to victory over India as they copped the inaugural Legends World Cup T20 title in Fort Lauderdale, USA Thursday.

DUBAI, CMC – Punjab Kings defied the departure of veteran West Indies batsman Chris Gayle and held their nerve in the final over to edge out Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by five wickets in the Indian Premier League (IPL) yesterday.

Twenty-five-year-old Mohammed Imran Khan, who has alleged that he was abducted and beaten, was remanded to prison on Friday on a charge of raping a child. 

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Former West Indies batting coach Toby Radford said fitness will play a critical role in the success of the Windies squad during the ICC Twenty20 World Cup from October 17 to November 14 in the United Arab Emirates and Oman.

Dear Editor, The GAWU’s Oil and Gas branch, in recent weeks, has been in contact with its fraternal union the Oil Workers Trade Union (OWTU) of Trinidad and Tobago.

Steve Atkinson and Jayson Atkinson, the father and son accused of abducting Essequibo bus driver Mohammed Imran Khan and battering him, were charged on Friday with assault causing actual bodily harm.

After three days of searches, the decomposed body of 39-year-old Harry Mangal of Abrams Creek body was found in the wee hours of Friday morning.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British heavyweight Joe Joyce said yesterday that he should be handed the 2016 Olympic gold medal if his Rio de Janeiro final with Frenchman Tony Yoka was found to have been manipulated by corrupt boxing officials.

When “Never Gonna Cheat” singer Sonia Singh, who is making waves in the Chutney genre, learnt of the Guyana Talent Search competition, she immediately jumped on it without a second thought and ended as one of the ten winners.

Editor, I am penning this short response not because the content of his missive is of much interest but to avoid being disrespectful to my friend, former Prime Minister Samuel Hinds.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Australia captain Tim Paine said the Ashes will go ahead regardless of some England players’ reluctance to deal with tough COVID-19 quarantine restrictions.

The police were yesterday looking for two men who robbed and brutalised a 60-year-old Corentyne businessman on Thursday evening.

(Reuters) – An experimental antiviral pill developed by Merck & Co could halve the chances of dying or being hospitalized for those most at risk of contracting severe COVID-19, according to data that experts hailed as a potential breakthrough in how the virus is treated.

Step forward with your left foot (count 1) Move your right to your left foot (uh) count 2 Step backward with your right foot (count 3) Move your left foot to your right foot (uh) count 4 Now repeat these steps to the rhythm in your head as your tastebuds recall the dance of enjoyment of the Pol Sambol (coconut sambol) you just ate.

Dear Editor, Instructive it was, the diligence with which a funeral parlour was recently closed, even more justifiably in these pandemic times.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 25-year-old man with dual citizenship (Canada and T&T) was expected to appear before a Port of Spain Magistrate yesterday, charged with the murders of his grandmother, mother and brother, which occurred on September 24.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Olympic 110 metres hurdles champion Hansle Parchment of Jamaica said he would like to finish his track & field career at the Paris Olympics in three years’ time.

(Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor yesterday refused to block New York City’s requirement that its public school teachers and employees be vaccinated against COVID-19.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) is investigating the reported robbery of four persons at the Chico Ramos Gas Station, at Coldingen Public Road, East Coast Demerara on Thursday.

NECOCLI, Colombia, (Reuters) – An influx of thousands of mostly Haitian migrants seeking transport northward toward the United States is pushing locals in the Colombian beach town of Necocli out of housing, residents said, as landlords favor migrants able to pay in dollars.

Dear Editor, The first batch of police officers recently graduating from the “COPSQUAD2000” initiative on how to handle domestic violence should set the stage for the reengineering of police training.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – In a rare visit to the U.S. Capitol, President Joe Biden tried yesterday to end a fight between the moderate and progressive wings of his Democratic Party that threatened to torpedo his domestic agenda.

Dear Editor, I have read the recent thoughts put forward concerning the suggestion of approaching the UN Security Council to start the process of compensation to leave the Oil & Gas in the ground.

At 11 years old, Kaysheena Bindiya Singh was one of the youngest contestants on the Guyana Talent Search Competition.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela yesterday launched its second monetary overhaul in three years by cutting six zeros from the bolivar currency in response to hyperinflation, simplifying accounting but doing little to ease the South American nation’s economic crisis.

(Reuters) – Golden State Warriors’ Draymond Green said it is not his place to convince team mate Andrew Wiggins to take a COVID-19 shot and described the debate surrounding vaccinated and unvaccinated players as a “political war”.

A man and a woman are now in custody after 847 grammes of cannabis were found in their home, the police have said.

As stated in yesterday’s editorial, any local content emphasis should primarily be on jobs and the transfer of skills from expatriate workers to local employees over a well-defined period to create a cohort of highly skilled Guyanese that can begin to take ownership of the industry.

Ahead of the celebration of its third anniversary next month, the Frass Friday team marks a new milestone with the launch of its first radio programme on MAAD 97.5 FM next Friday.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia’s Victoria state has included professional athletes in a vaccination mandate that will require about 1.25 million “authorised workers” to have two COVID-19 shots by the end of November.

A Guyana Defence Force bus, or the ‘ormy bus’ as some have dubbed it, has been used in the rounding up of those who breach the COVID-19 curfew.

A youth was released on $50,000 bail after a City Magistrate heard that he has agreed to fix the damage caused to a laptop he allegedly stole. 

Dear Editor, During my time as a primary school student, there was this old expression, “Your environment reflects you.”

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil had 18,578 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours and 506 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said yesterday.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The United Nations does not accept Ethiopia’s decision to expel seven senior U.N.