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Thursday Jan. 20, 2022

PRESIDENT ALI TO HOLD DISCUSSIONS WITH PRESIDENTS BOLSONARO AND SANTOKHI

GUYANA TOPS AS CAPE, CSEC

COALITION SAYS THAT PPP SEEKING TO HIDE ITS INCOMPETENCE …BY REDUCING THE NUMBER OF DAILY COVID-19 TEST.

Pg4 CANU MAKES DRUG FIND ABOARD FOREIGN VESSEL

Thursday Jan., 20, 2022

PRESIDENT ALI TO HOLD DISCUSSIONS WITH PRESIDENTS BOLSONARO AND SANTOKHI

infrastructure integration President Irfaan and the development of Ali is scheduled to a deep water harbour in make a working visit to Paramaribo on Guyana.

Since Guyana offers Thursday to meet with the shortest and quickest the President of the access to the Atlantic Republic of Suriname, for significant parts of Chandrikapersad Santokhi, and the northern Brazil, a road connection linked to the President of the deep-water port could Federative Republic of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro. also serve the interest of The leaders are both countries. expected to discuss the When the two leaders spoke last Monday via formation of an energy teleconference, they corridor, oil and gas and other natural resources discussed enhancing the partial scope agreement opportunities, among between their nations areas of common interest. with the hope of On Friday, President bolstering trade.

Bolsonaro and a team of They also deliberated on topics for further officials are expected to President Irfaan Ali and President of the Republic of Suriname, Chandrikapersad Santokhi travel to Georgetown for with President Ali and Discussions will economic relations, telecommunications, engagements at the a one-day official visit his team of Ministers. centre on improving energy and food security, a g r i c u l t u r e , Ministerial levels.

GUYANA TOPS AS CAPE, CSEC Guyana again has gained top honors in last year’s Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) and Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC).

Guyanese students topped both Exams, regionally.

According to data released by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), both top students from the Exams are Guyanese.

Hitting the list at the top of the CAPE level, Samuel Haynes from Queen’s College has been awarded ‘Overall Outstanding Achievement’ with nine grade ones.

Zaynab Shaffie from Queen’s College was awarded ‘Overall Outstanding Achievement’ also with 18 Grade Ones and two Grade Twos.

More Guyanese students reigned supreme among the top students in the Caribbean with Crystal Benjamin from the Bishops’ High School taking Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) CAPE Accounting award, Abdul Subhan, from the St. Stanislaus College,

Zaynab Shaffie

topping the region at CAPE History.

Riley Nurse also from Queen’s College and Saalih Rahim from the Isa Islamic school also scored the ACCA CSEC Accounting award.

Additionally, at the CSEC level, Roshini Samaroo from Queen’s College is the region’s top Humanities student, Naresh Jagnanan from the Essequibo Islands Secondary School is the region’s top Business student and Sarena Razak from Queen’s College is the region’s top Technical Vocational student.

Guyana’s performance

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at (CSEC) and CAPE Exams for 2021 have marginally outshone the rest of the region, as Guyana’s Students improved their performance in several subject areas despite of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Hit with the factor of a revised platform to host the exams due to the pandemic, Guyana reportedly earned top honors in the exams.

In the area of CAPE, Dr. Nicole Manning noted that Guyanese students in all 16 unit subject areas they sat every student received 1-5 grades, which is considered acceptable.

This was announced during a ceremony hosted by Guyana (Ministry of Education) at the Arthur Chung Convention Center last year, where the Director of Operations at the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), Dr. Nicole Manning delivered the results of the 2021 results for Guyana and the Caribbean at large.

Ms, Manning at the time announced that in the area of Caribbean studies Guyana had a 92% pass rate, Communication Studies unit 2 at 97%, Sociology Unit 1 at 96%, Sociology Unit 2 at 96%.

Law Unit 1 at 95%, Law unit 2 at 96%, Integrated Mathematics at 80 %, Pure Mathematics Unit 1 at 59%, Pure Mathematics 2 at 75%.

It was announced that in the area of Chemistry Unit 1 the local students secured 84%, Chemistry Unit 2. 95%, Biology Unit 1, 90%, and Biology Unit 2, 97% per cent.

It was also announced

by Ms. Manning that Guyana outshone the rest of the Caribbean nations in every area of the CSEC Exams.

In her presentation, she

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highlighted that in most subject areas Guyana performed well by having grades between 1-3.

In the area of English, A, regional 74% of students had grades 1-2, while in Guyana 68% had the said grade. English B, the rest of the region had a 61 % pass rate, Guyana also did too.

In the area of integrated science regionally 66% of students has a pass rate while Guyana had a 69% pass rate. In the area of Biology, regional students had an 89% pass rate as compared to Guyana’s 93% pass rate.

Chemistry, regionally 63% as compared to Guyana 61% pass rate, Physics the locals had a 66% as compared to Guyana 62 % pass rate, Electronic Document Preparation saw a pass rate of 87% as compared to Guyana 88 % pass rate, Human social biology regionally had a 68 % pass rate while Guyana had a 77 % pass rate.

Additionally, Principles of business had a 79 % pass rate as Guyana had a 75 % pass rate, in the subject area of Social studies, the region had a 54% pass rate while

Guyana had a 53% pass rate.

Information Technology saw a pass rate of 89% for regional students as compared to Guyana 93%, Office administration saw a 79% for the region as compared to Guyana 80% pass rate.

In the area of Maths, CXC announced that Guyana overall performed better than the Caribbean, due to improvements but that she does not have the data available yet.

At this year’s exams, it was noted that there was a reduction in CAPE registration candidates and subject entry, the lowest it has ever been in the past four years.

This year saw some 27,750 Students registered to sit the exams. There were some 110, 070 subject entries. However, it was disclosed that 8.3 per cent of students were absent, and was the highest absentee rate for the past four years.

On the CSEC side of things, some 103,445 registered to sit the exams in 502,859 subject entries.

In this area also, there were some 11. 2 percent of students being absent.

CANU makes drug find aboard foreign vessel

Ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit(CANU) have arrested 19 foreign nationals with over 36 pounds of Marijuana on a cargo vessel.

CANU reported that the bust was made Tuesday night at the GNIC Wharf, Lombard Street, Georgetown during an operation.

The drugs were

discovered aboard a vessel with foreign registry that was scheduled to leave Port Georgetown later Wednesday morning with a quantity of cement.

The parcels, along with

the vessel’s crew of 19, were taken to the CANU headquarters for further processing. The narcotic was tested and confirmed to be marijuana–a foreign type known as ” creepy ” with a total weight of 16.046 kgs (36 lbs.), and a street value of approximately $14 million.

CANU insisted that If this narcotic had reached its intended destination, its street value would have been much higher.

The said operation is part of an ongoing multiagency and multi-national investigation aimed at dismantling a regional network involved in the movement of narcotics from Guyana using cargo vessels.

Thursday Jan., 20, 2022

Man killed after collision with boat propeller

A family in the Pomeroon River is now mourning the loss of a family member, who was hit with the boat engine propeller and later died.

The dead young man has been identified as 23-year-old Chive Persaud of Jacklow, Upper Pomeroon River.

According to the reports, Persaud was on Tuesday night, traveling to

Port Kaituma sitting at the back of a boat.

At the time, Persaud somehow came into contact with the propeller and was injured badly.

With cuts all over his body, he was rushed to the Mabaruma Regional Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.

Persaud was said to be the only child of his parents.

Coalition says that PPP seeking to hide its incompetence …by reducing the number of daily COVID-19 test.

The APNU+AFC Coalition has noted a statement from Health Minister Frank Anthony of a decision taken by the PPP administration to restrict persons from getting the PCR COVID-19 test at public health facilities.

This decision confirms what the APNU+AFC Coalition has been saying

all along, that the PPP administration has no plan in place to effectively tackle and reduce the spread of COVID-19, a statement from the Coalition read.

This move by the Government is twofold; 1.

To allow for the reduction in reporting of the number of positive cases we have seen daily. The public will

no longer be in receipt of the true spread of COVID-19 in the nation; 2. To force persons away from public facilities to private centers where they will have to pay to be tested. The current rapid spread of the Coronavirus is a direct result of the Government’s incompetence and total disregard for the health

and safety of citizens by those in office, the statement added.

Upon learning that the Omicron variant was in Brazil and the Caribbean, no efforts were made to prevent its entry into Guyana. Brazil to Guyana crossing remains open with little to no COVID-19 measures in place. No efforts were made to

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reduce or stop flights from countries that were recording high numbers of positive cases due to the Omicron variant.

“Instead what we heard from the Health Minister was that systems will be put in place to send samples for testing as numbers increase, a clear indication that no plan was in place to deal with the expected. We do not know if and when samples were sent for testing to confirm which variants are in Guyana.”

The Coalition said that this is the level of crassness the people of Guyana have to endure from this careless administration.

The COVID-19 numbers are drastically out of control and further expose the PPP’s incompetence. Their only strategy now is to attempt to show a reduction in the numbers by testing less and hiding the real numbers from the public, according to the statement.

This is not how a Government manages a

health crisis, it added.

The people of Guyana, in accordance with ARTICLE 24 of the Constitution of Guyana which states: “Every citizen has the right to free medical attention and also to social care in the case of old age and disability”, should have unhindered access to PCR testing, according to the Coalition statement.

At this juncture the Government should be boosting its capacity to do more daily testing so that it can be aware of the COVID-19 situation and make informed decisions to positively impact the health and safety of the people of Guyana.

“Instead, what we are made to endure is a Government that is shying away from its responsibility and placing more and more of our citizens at risk.”

Thursday Jan., 20, 2022

ELECTRIC CYCLIST CRUSHED BY CONTAINER TRUCK

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the accident on Water Street in Georgetown which took

The accident occurred the life of 71-year-old on Tuesday about 14:30 Carlon Windsor Barrett of Lot 32 (A) Victoria hours.

Investigations have Avenue, Eccles East Bank so far revealed that an Demerara.

articulated motor vehicle – lorry # GZZ 6378 with trailer # TEE 6391 attached with a 40-foot container laden with lumber, and

driven by Jormen John Joseph,33, years of Lot 1268 B Field Sophia, Greater Georgetown, was proceeding south along the centre of the eastern carriageway of Water Street.

As it approached Muneshwar Limited the driver alleged that he put on his vehicle’s right side indicator to turn west onto the western carriageway.

He further said he then felt the right side rear wheel of the trailer run over something, causing him to immediately stop and exit his vehicle.

He noticed the wheel on top of the cyclist’s body and cycle.

The ambulance service was contacted which arrived shortly on the scene with a team of Emergency Medical

Technicians, headed by Doctor Etwario who examined the cyclist and pronounced him dead at the scene.

The body of the deceased was escorted to the Memorial Gardens Funeral Home Mortuary where it awaits a post mortem examination.

Deputy Superintendent Williams, Inspector Boyce and a party of police visited the accident scene and a standard breathalyzer test was conducted on the driver of the articulated vehicle but no trace of alcohol was found in his system.

However a notice of intended prosecution was prepared and served on the said driver as further investigations are continuing.