Daily Archive: Saturday, October 16, 2021

The Ministry of Health today said that as of October 15, 2021, four more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Another 1,000 Guyanese are now landowners, as the Ministry of Housing and Water – Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) returned for its second allocation exercise on the East Bank of Demerara yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) An unimaginable tragedy for one woman who, in the wake of the pandemic, has lost both her first love and her firstborn mere days apart to COVID-19.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia reported a record 1,002 deaths from the coronavirus yesterday, the first time the daily number has passed the 1,000-mark since the start of the pandemic.

A 21-year-old businessman was fatally stabbed during a robbery yesterday afternoon in his family’s electronics store at Strathspey, East Coast Demerara (ECD) and the police have since arrested the prime suspect, who they say confessed to the crime.

Retired Assistant Commissioner of Police and former Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Paul Slowe was yesterday released on bail after being formally faced with a charge of conspiracy to defraud the State and three counts of sexual assault.

Contracts worth a total of $1.4 billion were signed yesterday for critical road construction and rehabilitation works in regions Four, Six and Seven, including the Moleson Creek to El Dorado, Corentyne road that will be vital for the construction of the Corentyne River Bridge.

A 29-year-old man died after suffering severe lacerations about his body yesterday afternoon after he reportedly walked into a running aircraft propeller at the Kamarang Airstrip, Region Seven.

Former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Sergeant Keyon King has once again pleaded guilty to armed robbery charges stemming from August’s $58 million Wallison Enterprise gold heist at Kitty and he blamed pressures to provide for his family for driving him to participate in the crimes.

An aspiring teacher Nirvana Wimal, of Success Elementary, is this year’s top student at the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA).

The Rugby Americas North (RAN) 7s championships kicks off today in the Turks and Caicos Islands and the ‘Green Machine’ will look to transform into robot mode in order to end its four-year title drought.

A review of the results of this year’s National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) has shown that the students performed best in English Language while Mathematics had the lowest performance rate.

Days after a wanted bulletin was issued for him, Seon Ceasar, who is wanted in connection with the murder of Nelson Thomas, the gold miner who was fatally stabbed last month, was yesterday handed over to the police by his lawyer.

For the third week in succession, the nation’s cyclists will transform the open roads into their battleground.

The Health Ministry on Friday reported five more COVID-19 fatalities along with some 108 new infections.

The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) came through in crunch time for the national men’s rugby Sevens team which will compete at this weekend’s Rugby Americas North (RAN) Championship in the Turks and Caicos.

Guyana has so far received over 300,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX facility.

Drummer Handel Neptune hopes to leave a legacy of someone who has done all he could to ingrain culture in the people of Buxton, just as it was taught to him many years ago.

Bodybuilders and the top brass of the Guyana Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation Inc.,

Having heard arguments in the appeal filed by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo to the $20 million default judgment which had been imposed against him to pay former government minister Annette Ferguson, the Full Court has reserved its decision, which will be rendered at a date to be announced. 

Region Two cash crop and livestock farmers, who were affected by major flooding in May, on Friday received flood-relief grants from the Ministry of Agriculture.

As I said in last week’s column, a lot of my cooking these days is throwing together ingredients, particularly what is on hand, or creating something with leftovers.

National table tennis player Miguel Wong has received sponsorship from Digicom ahead of upcoming engagements.

Dear Editor, Imagine if you drive your car to an Esso gas station and fill your tank with US$27.20 in gas.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – A Brazilian Senate probe into the government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic will recommend in its final report due next week that President Jair Bolsonaro face 11 criminal charges, the senator leading the inquiry said yesterday, though it remains highly unlikely that he will face a trial on any such charges.

Golden Jaguars international Bayli Spencer-Adams recently signed for English Premier League outfit Leicester City where he will feature as a member of the team’s U23 programme.

Chairman of Region Six, David Armogan last week announced that three locations have been identified in the region for residents to lodge their claims and/or complaints in relation to the government’s flood relief grants.

Death will always appear to be untimely for anyone who has lost someone no matter how predictable it seemed.

(Barbados Nation) Police identified the man who was shot and killed at Kendall Hill, Christ Church, yesterday morning as Miguel Taitt.

Dear Editor, Opposition elements have been launching an unending attack on the PPP/C government accusing the administration of discrimination against Afro-Guyanese; of firing government workers; and of being “installed” into office, among other things.

With the new deadline for the Sheriff Street/Mandela Avenue road project fast approaching, the Ministry of Public Works under whose aegis the project is being executed, is pushing for all major works to be completed by October 31.

Incumbent president of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA), Kalam Azad Juman-Yassin has said that he would like to have elections as soon as possible.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Supply chain woes and growing inflation concerns pushed aside a widening gap in COVID-19 vaccinations and mounting debt problems for developing countries as the top concerns for global policymakers at International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings this week.

Designer Deborah Kehinde will launch yet another collection virtually on Monday.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Left-wing guerrillas from the National Liberation Army (ELN) in Colombia have claimed responsibility for a Friday morning attack against a pipeline used to transport crude to the country’s most important refinery, located in the city of Barrancabermeja.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to a letter by Melinda Janki who is demanding the immediate halt to all oil exploration and production in the Guyana Basin.

Former West Indies captain, Jimmy Adams is hopeful that the West Indies could defend their T20 World title later this month on the backs of their game-changers.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – Suicide bombers attacked a Shi’ite mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, killing at least 35 people, the second week in a row that militants bombed yesterday prayers and killed dozens of worshippers from the minority sect.

The Miss World Guyana pageant has once again been cancelled owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.

SANTO DOMINGO, (Reuters) – A tribunal in the Dominican Republic has convicted two people for corruption involving Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht, which admitted to paying $92 million in bribes to win public works contracts in the Caribbean nation.

The Ministry of Health on Monday opened the newly renovated Better Hope Health Centre on the East Coast of Demerara.

Dear Editor, I write to bring to your notice several issues affecting the delivery of education specifically in District Four.

Dear Editor, Aubrey Norton has done more than thrown his hat into the ring for PNC leader.

Guyanese national basketball players and Plaisance Guardians duo Akeem Cranston and Israel Yaw are the recipients of athletic scholarships from ASA College in New York City, USA.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – President of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA), Christopher Samuda has labelled the decision of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) to set athletics and swimming as the only two compulsory disciplines at the Games from 2026 onwards as a “body blow to sports”.

The Rupununi Music and Arts Festival will host its total local edition virtual concert dubbed “Is We Ting”, which premieres live on Facebook and YouTube tomorrow afternoon.

DUBAI, CMC – For the second time in a month to the date, veteran West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo hefted a franchise Twenty20 title when Chennai Super Kings (CSK) overcame Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) to win the Indian Premier League (IPL) for the fourth time yesterday.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – The leader of Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), Olaf Scholz, took a major step towards succeeding Angela Merkel as chancellor on Friday, announcing that he and the leaders of two smaller parties aimed to move into formal coalition talks.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said late yesterday that it will accept mixed-dose coronavirus vaccines from international travelers, a boost to travelers from Canada and other places.

The history of the Americas is the history of the rape of its resources, the decimation and displacement of its indigenous people, and the deliberate underdevelopment of its economies.

We can never heal if we are dishonest about our history.

In yesterday’s edition of Stabroek News the  narrative under the heading `Jung Bahadur Singh was a pioneer for Indian social, cultural and economic rights’ was erroneously published as a letter attributed to E.B.