Daily Archive: Friday, November 26, 2021

 (Reuters) – West Indies all-rounder Jason Holder has been rested for next month’s white-ball tour to Pakistan while Evin Lewis, Shimron Hetmyer and Andre Russell have been left out for personal reasons, the country’s cricket board (CWI) said today.

GWI says it will be restarting its disconnection campaign targeting those with outstanding balances.

WASHINGTON/GENEVA, (Reuters) – The discovery of a new coronavirus variant named Omicron triggered global alarm today as countries rushed to suspend travel from southern Africa and stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic suffered their biggest falls in more than a year.

 (Reuters) – Oil prices plunged more than 10% today, the largest one-day drop since April 2020, as a new COVID-19 variant spooked investors and added to concerns that a supply surplus could swell in the first quarter.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) says it has taken note of, and is deeply concerned at, the recent spate of fires across the capital city.

 (Reuters) – Former Rio 2016 and Brazilian Olympic Committee President Carlos Arthur Nuzman has been sentenced to 30 years and 11 months in jail for buying votes for Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 Olympics.

NEMBE, Nigeria,  (Reuters) – Three weeks after the Santa Barbara wellhead failed, it is still blasting water, gas and oil across Nembe in Nigeria’s Delta, littering the shoreline and water with yellow-brown clumps of waste as cleanup crews and booms struggle to contain it.

(Barbados Nation) Come on home! That’s Prime Minister Mia Mottley’s call to Barbadians living in the diaspora who want to help the country move forward.

(Barbados Nation) Chief Executive Officer of Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) Inc.,

Guyana and the European Union (EU) have begun discussions on a $640m (€2.73m) technical cooperation facility to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

With questions being raised about its competence to build  the new Fire Service Headquarters, Mohamed’s Enterprise is defending the award of the $641 million contract and says it has been involved in construction for some 30 years now.

A construction worker yesterday morning perished in a fire of unknown origin at Enterprise, East Coast Demerara which destroyed the home he and his brother shared.

(CMC) – Nkrumah Bonner and Joshua Da Silva both struck half-centuries but managed only to delay the inevitable as West Indies slumped to a heavy 187-run defeat to Sri Lanka in the opening Test yesterday.

Ryan Alberts also known as ‘Murray’ now awaits sentencing for the 2016 unlawful killing of 19-year-old miner Dalton Emmanuel, formerly of Yarakita, North West District.

Dear Editor, According to your section ‘Article 13’s call for log exports ban misinformed – Forestry Commission’ (SN November 23, 2021), the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) criticized the call for an immediate ban on log exports as ‘misinformed, emotional and nonfactual’. 

GuySuCo plans to collaborate with the Guyana Golf Academy/Nexgen Golf Academy to ensure that kids from the Enmore Orphanage and surrounding areas are given the opportunity to experience a grand holiday celebration in a safe manner.

The Lethem community, more particularly the business community there, appears hopeful rather than optimistic about the prospects of a Rupununi Rodeo being staged this year.

A Colombian national who was attending court for an assault charge grabbed the  complainant and choked her while in the courtroom.

Children under four years old in the North Rupununi now have access to Early Childhood Development (ECD), to assist them in their journey to well-rounded, educated adulthood thanks to a collaboration by Canada, the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security (MoHSSS), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

Seeking to demonstrate that  the preoccupation of the two neighbouring Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries is not focussed exclusively on the prospects that inhere in their relatively recent world-class oil finds, Guyana and Suriname have been exploring, through both state and non-state channels, to solidify bilateral relations in areas that include initiatives at the level of their respective private sectors.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter in Stabroek News yesterday in which the Insurance Association of Guyana has spoken up.

Dear Editor, Commuting on the East Bank of Demerara is quite a challenge and in spite of all the promises to ease the traffic congestion there seems to be no end in sight.

Several residents in the Amerindian community of Bethany in Region Two are now equipped with the knowledge of boat building compliments of the Ministry of Labour’s Board of Industrial Training (BIT).

Nicola Whittaker comes across as being one of that ‘clique’ of fast-emerging Guyanese women who these days, are taking to the local world of entrepreneurship like ducks to water, exuding all of the confidence which, not many moons ago, was considered the exclusive purview of a ‘species’ that used to be termed ‘hard-nosed businessmen’.

For all the unabated social and economic pressures impacting job retention and income earnings this year arising primarily out of responses to the coronavirus pandemic, the World Bank is still forecasting a more than meagre increase in remittance flows to Latin America for 2021.

More than a week after the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) finalised its list of nominees for the various leadership roles at its upcoming congress, the nominees are yet to receive an official letter asking them to accept or decline.

Dear Editor, Covid-19 and its devastating ability to mutate and create more deadly variants, has resulted in us adopting whatever precautionary methods are available.

Dear Editor, Please allow me space in your newspaper to offer, on behalf of the residents of Affiance village on the Essequibo Coast, my sincere gratitude to Mr.

Guyanese youth all-rounder, Matthew Nandu, produced with both bat and ball to give West Indies under-19 ‘B’, an eight-wicket win in their third warm up match.

If not a great deal is ever publicly spoken in Guyana about the application of Neem as a pest control agent in the agricultural sector, the opposite may now be the case in Ghana where one of the country’s experts on crop protection is apparently getting attention with his recommendation that Neem Oil be applied as an organic pest control agent in the country’s agricultural sector.

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hugh Todd yesterday  presented Guyana’s candidature to host the 38th Session of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2024.

Dear Editor, There will be those in the midst of this paralyzed Guyanese society who will point to the Ahmaud Arbery trial and verdict, and wax righteously about justice, and the long wait, and righting of wrongs. 

The Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association will honour its former Vice President, the late Reyaz Hussain with two (2) T20 matches this Sunday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain yesterday said it was concerned by a newly identified coronavirus variant spreading in South Africa that might make vaccines less effective and imperil efforts to fight the pandemic.

It is difficult to imagine an eight-year-old girl still making her way through the rigours of primary school, otherwise preoccupied with grappling with the skills associated with cooking.

Three persons were yesterday added to Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll. This was revealed by the Ministry of Health in a press release which stated that the country’s COVID-19 fatalities increased to 983.

Competitive action in the inaugural Junior Pan Am Games gets underway today in Cali, Colombia.

A man was denied bail on Wednesday after he was charged with using a gun to steal $900,000 from a fish vendor.

(Trinidad Guardian) In a sombre address to the nation, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley last night retraced the events of the last two years of the COVID-19 virus, its arrival and treatment in Trinidad and Tobago and warned that if the current infection rate continues, the parallel health system would be overwhelmed within days.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele took the stage last weekend at the end of “Bitcoin Week” to the cheers of fans delighted his Central American country has become the first to adopt crypto currency as legal tender, alongside the U.S.

The Brazilian state-run oil company, Petrobras, has identified the presence of hydrocarbons in the country’s Santos Basin, 150 miles from the City of Santos, in the state of Sao Paulo, according to a November 19 report by Rigzone, one of the leading global sources of news in the industry.

Dear Editor, I do not believe that we as a society are on the same page, especially when it comes to the use of our roadways.

Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Nigel Dharamlall wants to regulate the vendors at the Port Mourant Market, who not only vend there, but along the road shoulders of the Corentyne highway running through the community, causing an influx of traffic every weekend, and a massive garbage pile-up after.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday November 25, 2021

BANJUL,  (Reuters) – A Gambian commission wrapped up a sweeping three-year public inquiry into former president Yahya Jammeh’s 22 years in power yesterday by recommending prosecutions for killings, torture and other abuses committed during his tenure.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Pleasantville shop owner was shot and killed by a man pretending to be a customer at his business place yesterday.

Dear Editor, Much is being said about Amaila Falls Hydroelectric Project (AFHP) over the years.

On the issue of sustained advocacy for the creation of a convivial environment in which the country’s micro and small businesses can grow and prosper, the Stabroek Business readily admits to having been something of a ‘stuck record’ in its editorial ’offerings.

Danuel House Jr. scored 18 points off the bench and served as the spark plug as the Houston Rockets snapped a 15-game losing streak with a 118-113 win over the visiting Chicago Bulls on Wednesday.

“Try to avoid downtown Georgetown, Ole Folks” This opening sentence promises that today’s offering will be brief.

(Reuters) – A Kenyan court has freed the country’s soccer chief who was arraigned last week over allegations of corruption, his lawyer said yesterday.

Earlier this month President Irfaan Ali and his team jetted off to Glasgow without consulting anyone regarding the nation’s climate change plans, although they still committed to an agreement there on forests and land use.

Toka in the North Rupununi, Region Nine, is refocusing its attention on agriculture, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 942’s trading results showed consideration of $1,526,954 from 7,390 shares traded in 8 transactions as compared to session 941’s trading results which showed consideration of $13,595,842 from 75,543 shares traded in 29 transactions.

(Reuters) – The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Thursday approved reforms designed to give athletes more representation in the organisation’s decision-making process.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Authorities on the Caribbean island of Martinique ordered a curfew yesterday after protesters looted shops and set up burning barricades as demonstrations against COVID-19 protocols spread across France’s overseas’ territories.

Every once in a while, something occurs to remind us how much further we really have to go as a society.

(Trinidad Guardian) Plans are in the pipeline to give legendary West Indies batsman Chris Gayle a send-off in Jamaica.

(Reuters) – Tim Paine is stepping away from cricket for an “indefinite mental health break”, his manager said today, leaving Australia’s Ashes preparations in disarray a week after the wicketkeeper’s resignation from the captaincy.

Dear Editor, Almost every week there are appeals being filed for sentences handed down in cases convicted?

(Reuters) – Debutant Shreyas Iyer and recalled opener Shubman Gill struck half-centuries to help India overcome Kyle Jamieson’s terrific display of seam bowling and post 258-4 in the opening test against New Zealand in Kanpur yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago has set a new daily record of Covid-19 deaths with a staggering 31 deaths being reported by the Ministry of Health yesterday, including another child.