Daily Archive: Monday, January 24, 2022

The live feed of the 35th sitting of the National Assembly today.

OUAGADOUGOU, (Reuters) – Burkina Faso’s ruling party said today President Roch Kabore had survived an assassination attempt, adding that what began as a mutiny by some soldiers yesterday was rapidly evolving into a coup.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haiti was struck by a 5.3 magnitude earthquake and a series of smaller tremors today that killed one person and led panicked residents of the Caribbean nation’s southern peninsula to flood into the streets.

One of the accused who was on trial for the 2016 Black Bush triple murder today pleaded guilty and the court heard that he has said that he  ‘shoot them one, one’ – so as to not leave back any evidence or eyewitnesses of their attempts to steal fuel from

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Career-best cameos from Romario Shepherd and Akeal Hosein caused tremors for England late on but West Indies failed to repeat their heroics of 24 hours earlier, and slipped to an agonising one-run defeat in the second Twenty20 International here yesterday.

On the eve of today’s National Assembly sitting where disciplinary action is likely against  APNU+AFC members for raucous behaviour on December 29th , the opposition coalition served notice of a motion of no confidence against Speaker of the National Assembly Manzoor Nadir and another to send 22 members on the government’s side to the Privileges Committee for “unparliamentarily conduct”.

The National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF) is still to make a decision on the sanctions to impose against the organisers of the Futsal Final on January 8th over severe overcrowding and other breaches of  COVID-19 guidelines and protocols.

It is now crunch time for Corwin D’Anjou and Ijaz Cave to show their worth against some of the world’s best fighters.

Still working to pinpoint why newly installed generator sets at the Garden of Eden plant malfunctioned, more Wärtsilä engineers have arrived in the country with the aim of resolving the issue, Guyana Power and Light Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bharat Dindyal said yesterday.

The Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) kicked off its 2022 calendar of activities yesterday at the National Track and Field Centre and some usual suspects were among the standout performers.

Despite promises that oil and gas transactions would be transparent and the public would be kept up to date, the audit by UK firm IHS Markit of the US$460M in pre-contract costs claimed by ExxonMobil still has not been released by government and the opposition will today be asking for answers when the National Assembly meets.

Dear Editor,        Most people I’ve spoken to think about herd immunity all wrong.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Liverpool took advantage of Manchester City’s dropped points with a 3-1 victory at Crystal Palace on Sunday, taking a small bite out of City’s commanding lead of the Premier League.

Mangroves have begun to spring up on the Malgre Tout/Versailles, West Demerara foreshore where they were destroyed last year to make way for the TriStar Inc oil and gas shore base facility.

A Holland-based Guyanese woman and her three-year-old daughter have been denied entry into Trinidad and Tobago after immigration officials flagged her for failing to meet the country’s COVID-19 entry requirements.

Dear Editor,  The Region Three COVID-19 Task Force along with stakeholder agencies will join the Guyana Police Force from today (January 24, 2022) in ramping up enforcement in relation to breaches of the COVID guidelines as the Region has seen over 100 positive cases daily along with several related deaths within the past two weeks.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – India captain KL Rahul said there needs to be some “hard conversations” for the team after their 3-0 defeat in the one-day series against a relatively inexperienced South Africa side.

WASHINGTON/LONDON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department announced yesterday it was ordering diplomats’ family members to leave Ukraine, as U.S.

Days after he was named as a nominee of the Public Procurement Commission (PPC), financial analyst Joel Bhagwandin was appointed as the Managing Director of an oil and gas shore base company, TriStar Inc.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Quinton de Kock scored a superb century as South Africa completed a clean sweep of their three-match one-day international series against India with a tense four-run victory at Newlands yesterday.

Dear Editor, I was reading the Bolsonaro persona non grata in Guyana letter published in the January 21st edition of SN, when I stumbled upon this figure: “Brazil’s Indigenous population, which makes up 36.2% of Brazil’s population,” which would be quite a figure! 

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – Honduran lawmakers in rival alliances backed two different people as congressional president yesterday amid disputes between President-elect Xiomara Castro and dissident members of her party, warning of a new political crisis in the poverty-stricken Central American nation.

Dear Editor,  With the discovery of oil off our shores, there is much talk about economic growth and development and how to make it “sustainable”.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – The Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) has shifted next month’s white-ball series against West Indies to only two stadiums instead of six, in order to “mitigate biosecurity risks” amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF) is still to make a decision on the sanctions to impose against the organisers of the Futsal Final on January 8th over severe overcrowding and other breaches of  COVID-19 guidelines and protocols.

Mikal Bridges scored 23 points and Bismack Biyombo added 21 points with 13 rebounds as the Phoenix Suns extended their winning streak to six games with a 113-103 victory Saturday over the visiting Indiana Pacers.

The Ministry of Health expects to procure the necessary equipment to print digital COVID-19 vaccination cards in the first quarter of this year, Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony disclosed recently.

Dear Editor, With reference to the missive published in the Stabroek News on January 21, with the title ‘Bolsonaro persona non grata in Guyana’ I wonder if any of the signatories realise that a democratically elected President of a country on an official visit to another country is the representative of the country and people and does not visit as a private citizen.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Guatemala asked a group of international donors, including the United States and United Kingdom, to avoid meddling in its election for attorney general, a powerful anti-corruption office in the Central American nation.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Gael Monfils’s blistering start to the season continued yesterday as he eased past Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic 7-5 7-6(4) 6-3 to reach his second Australian Open quarter-finals.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – A fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine given to people over 60 in Israel made them three times more resistant to serious illness than thrice-vaccinated people in the same age group, Israel’s Health Ministry said yesterday.

On his weekly Facebook programme ‘Issues in the News,’ Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC said that work aimed at constitutional reform, as well as amendments proposed to the Narcotics Act have already begun.

Dear Editor, Value Added Tax (VAT) on education, water, electricity, food, medical items, dismantling of the CSO programme which employed over 2000 Amerindians, and closure of Guysuco estates which saw over 7000 workers fired… were among the draconian budget measures delivered by the PNC dominated APNU+ AFC administered government; so when Aubrey Norton says he has made budgetary suggestions to the government for consideration, I worry.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Home hero Ash Barty will play an Australian Open quarter-final for the fourth straight year after defeating emerging talent Amanda Anisimova 6-4 6-3 in Melbourne yesterday.

By Clem Seecharan Emeritus Professor of History London Metropolitan University This is abridged from my introductory essay to a biography of Rai by Baytoram Ramharack, Against the Grain: Balram Singh Rai and the Politics of British Guiana (Trinidad: Chakra, 2005).

Dear Editor,  To watch the process of restoration of anything that is broken seemingly beyond repair is a beautiful thing.

One person was arrested by police on Friday during a raid at the Stabroek Market which led to the discovery of 478 grammes of marijuana.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Opposition leader Juan Guaido on Sunday called for Venezuelans to take to the streets on Feb.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Rafa Nadal survived a mammoth first-set tiebreaker before going on to beat fellow lefty Adrian Mannarino 7-6 (14) 6-2 6-2 and reach the quarter-finals of the Australian Open yesterday, remaining on course for a men’s record 21st Grand Slam title.

Tomorrow, Transparency International will be releasing its 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) along with a comprehensive look at corruption over the last decade indicating which countries have improved or regressed over this period.

(Trinidad Express) The Judith Jones-led Police Service Com-mission (PolSC) has released the letter of complaint written by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley against then-police commissioner Gary Griffith in September 2020.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Elections Commission is moving too slowly in putting its house in order.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso said yesterday he will send an additional 1,100 police officers to coastal Guayaquil and increase military presence there amid a spate of violent deaths the government says are connected to the fight against the drug trade.

The police in Regional Division 4A say they are on the hunt for four identifiable females who allegedly threw a corrosive liquid on a woman on 2022-01-21 at about 20:40 hours at the corner of Norton and John streets.

It is increasingly clear that ExxonMobil’s business of unbridled extraction of oil offshore Guyana has taken pre-eminence over responsible governance and regulatory authority.

The U.S. Embassy in Georgetown has congratulated Colonel Raul Jerrick, of the Guyana Defence Force, who was successfully awarded a Master of Arts in Security Studies, with an emphasis on Countering Terrorism from the United States Naval Postgraduate School.