Daily Archive: Tuesday, October 19, 2021

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

Commander of the Suriname Armed Forces, Colonel Henri Van Axeldongen and a delegation are currently in Guyana and are being hosted by the Guyana Defence Force (GDF).

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia today proposed to shut workplaces for a week at the start of November as its daily COVID-19 death toll hit a new record and a sharp rise in cases continued, leading to fresh calls from the Kremlin for people to get vaccinated.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson today set out his ambition on Tuesday for a green revolution that would force Western economies to kick their centuries old addiction to fossil fuels.

LA PAZ,  (Reuters) – Members of a group involved in killing Haitian President Jovenel Moise in July had conspired to assassinate Bolivian President Luis Arce in 2020, Bolivia’s interior minister said yesterday.

Former Police Sergeant Colin Bailey, who after spending six years behind bars was released following an admission from the prosecution at his trial that it never had any evidence linking him to the murder of his reputed wife of 21 years has vowed to sue the State.

The Ministry of Health yesterday announced a new partnership with the radiology nonprofit organization, RAD-AID Inter-national, to expand and improve radiology capabilities and services throughout the country. 

A pensioner is now dead while another man is currently hospitalised after they were attacked hours apart by a swarm of bees at Montrose, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Pressure continued to mount on out-of-form superstar Chris Gayle after yet another failure yesterday, coming in West Indies’ seven-wicket defeat to Pakistan in their first official warm-up match ahead of next weekend’s start of the Twenty20 World Cup group stage.

Kapildeo Gangadin, the man who allegedly stabbed and killed businessman, Ganesh Persaud during a robbery on Friday is to be charged with the murder tomorrow along with that of Coldingen, East Coast Demerara fisherman, Mukesh Mangra which occurred in 2020.

Guyana’s Infectious Disease Hospital is expected to receive a boost in capacity with the installation of an oxygen plant through a donation.

ST JOHNS, Antigua, CMC – Barbados will host the majority of matches in next year’s England T20 International (T20I) and Test Tours of the West Indies, with Antigua and Grenada set to be the venues for the remaining games in Cricket West Indies’ (CWI) most lucrative home tour.

Residents and farmers of Rivers-town on the Essequibo Coast now have full access to a new drying floor.

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) is currently engaged in discussions to have the sport secure its own home.

As any good functioning organization would do, the Guyana Squash Association held trials to fill two vacant spots on the squash team to this year’s Junior Pan Am games in Cali, Colombia later this year.

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand on Friday said that plans are in train for more secondary schools to offer Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) subjects.

Five more COVID-19 deaths were yesterday reported and three of these were of unvaccinated persons.

Thanks to standout Track and Field athlete, Chantoba Bright, Guyana finished with two medals at the South American Under-23 Championships which was staged in Ecuador during the weekend.

Attorney Nigel Hughes said he wrote to Commis-sioner of Police (ag) Nigel Hoppie and Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) Justice (ret’d) William Ramlal in relation to the investigation into the fatal shooting of Dartmouth businessman, Orin Boston and is yet to get a response.

A former Queensway Security Service employee, accused of stealing millions from the company, was yesterday faced with the first set of charges stemming from a police investigation.

Five months ago, Kevin Durant’s dramatic three-pointer merely tied Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Milwaukee Bucks in Brooklyn.

This year’s sitting of the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) and Caribbean Secondary Educa-tion Certificate (CSEC) saw a four-year high in the number of absentee candidates, according to the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC).

(Reuters) – Ireland seamer Curtis Campher accomplished the rare feat of taking four wickets in four consecutive deliveries when he ran through the Netherlands middle order batting in their Twenty20 World Cup match in Abu Dhabi yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Colin Powell, the first Black U.S. secretary of state, a top military officer and a national security adviser, died yesterday at age 84 due to complications from COVID-19.

BELGRADE, (Reuters) – World number one Novak Djokovic once again declined to reveal whether he has been vaccinated against COVID-19 and said he was unsure if he would defend his title at next year’s Australian Open.

A mason accused of possession of 19 rounds of ammunition was granted bail yesterday after he told a court that he was badly beaten by police.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries pulled its American staff out of the country for nine months because of political unrest before returning them last year, according to the group’s 2020 annual report.

Region Two’s Regional Health Officer (RHO), Dr. Ranjeev Singh, recently disclosed that schoolchildren were amongst the one hundred persons who were vaccinated against the coronavirus in the community of Wakapoa (Pomeroon-Supenaam) which had seen a spike in cases. 

(Reuters) – Brazilian forward Neymar will miss Paris St Germain’s Champions League group game against RB Leipzig after picking up an injury on international duty, manager Mauricio Pochettino said yesterday.

 NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has requested the support of other full members of the International Cricket Council ahead of next month’s crucial meeting where the game’s future in the South Asian country is likely to be decided.

Dear Editor, On October 14, Guyana hosted CXC in the declaration of the 2021 CAPE and CSEC results broad outlines of which were presented.

Sentenced back in July to a total of 50 years—of which he is required to only serve half of that amount for raping a school girl he transported to lessons, Inteaz Mohamed has filed an appeal, arguing that the sentence is too harsh.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Former test all-rounder Tony Dodemaide has been named on Australia’s panel of selectors with chairman George Bailey and coach Justin Langer, Cricket Australia said yesterday.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Three people were left dead and three hospitalized after Jamaican police raided the compound of a small religious organization due to concerns the group was preparing to carry out “ritualized killing,” Jamaican police said yesterday.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Indigenous communities from Ecuador’s Amazon yesterday sued the government to halt plans by President Guillermo Lasso to increase oil development in the country, calling the expansion efforts a “policy of death.”

Dear Editor, There are few politicians, who on their arrival on the political scene, bring with them an air of freshness to the humdrum of local politics.

A man accused of stealing a motorcycle was refused bail yesterday after police say he evaded the court for six months.

(Trinidad Express) After his wife died from the Covid virus in September, Dennis Lalchan was determined to fight to stay alive for his four children.

Dear Editor, There will be no change to the education system in Guyana at the national and/or institutional levels; the only change will come from individual parents/guardians who choose to accept a change in the definition of education from “the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university” to “Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, morals, beliefs, and habits.

(Reuters) – The New York Knicks are the NBA’s most valuable team for a seventh consecutive year, according to the annual list published by Forbes yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A nationwide manhunt was up to last night continuing for a suspect in yesterday’s explosion at the Parkade, Government Campus, Port-of-Spain, which left parts of the capital city cordoned off from pedestrian and vehicular traffic.

It took ‘no time at all’ for the earliest wave of official information into the immediate-term probe of the Saturday October 2 fire that destroyed almost everything that was once the Brickdam Police Station, to be trotted out and thereafter to be quickly advanced to a point where the authorities could state, seemingly with monumental confidence, that it was a prisoner in the custody of the police who was responsible for the incineration of almost the entire complex.

Dear Editor, It would be interesting to learn how many, and who, in GuySuCo are familiar with such sugar industry institutions as: ACP – African, Caribbean, Pacific Group of States ●             Sugar Division of the European Union ●             WISA – West Indies Sugar Association ●             Commonwealth Sugar Agreement ●             Caricom Market But more relevantly Guyana was identified as having the highest rainfall of any sugar producing country anywhere – averaging 90” in a year.