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CANU BUSTS LINDENER WITH $1.4M GANJA
Tuesday Oct. 26, 2021
ELDERLY HOME VISITING COMMITTEE PROVIDING SPECIALISED CARE TO RESIDENTS
The Elderly Home Visiting Committee, since its installment last July, has made significant progress in organizing its 10-member team. It has been providing practical, timely, and specialized care to residents with a number of healthrelated issues. The committee earlier this month paid a visit to Uncle Eddie’s, Ivy Hall, Holy Family, Gentle Women’s, Archer’s, New Nazareth, and National Veterans Rest Homes, as part of commemorating Month of the Elderly. Though the team
may not be able to visit all 19 homes across the country before the end of the month, plans are definitely on stream to have visitations continue. The team did checkups and extended personalized care to residents. The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security expressed gratitude to Dr. Ruth Quaicoe and her team from Georgetown Public Hospital for working along on this initiative. The Committee conducts a holistic review of elderly residential facilities to ensure that they are keeping in line with the guidelines set out
for them. It consists of responsible citizens drawn from society. The Committee has already informed all of the homes that it will be visiting them. It has sent the Minimum Standards for Elderly Residential Facilities so that they can fix whatever measures are lacking before the team shows up. “Our main goal is to make the home as functional as possible. We don’t want to just go and criticize, so we’re giving them time to get things in place,” Committee Chairperson, Dr. Kamela BemaulSukhu has said.
According to her, the specialty services include dermatology, audiology, cardiology, dental, ophthalmology, mental health, and psychiatry. A list is kept of who needs glasses, hearing aids, etc. so that the team can help them source it. The team is also expected to monitor the facilities to ensure that residents are treated with consideration, respect in full recognition of personal dignity and individuality. It will seek to ensure that the residents receive care, treatment, and services that are adequate, appropriate, and in compliance with relevant statutes, policies, and rules.
Drug convict nabbed three years after jail sentence imposed
Three years after being slapped with a five-year jail term and a $12 M fine for narcotics possession, a Fort Ordinance, East Canje, Berbice man was finally caught during a stop and search on Monday. He is now beginning to serve his sentence. The convict, 25-yearold Ricardo Welch, was caught just about 13: 00 hours in New Amsterdam, Berbice-Corentyne At the time, ranks were reportedly on a mobile patrol on Princess Elizabeth Road, New Amsterdam, when they saw a male pushing a cycle. The police said that the man began acting in a suspicious manner upon seeing the ranks. A search was conducted on his person but nothing illegal was found. Nevertheless, he was
taken to Central Police Station, New Amsterdam. It was then Welch’s name showed up in the records. Those records revealed two conviction warrants from Region Five, where he was sentenced to five years imprisonment and the other where he was fined $12,519,300. Both warrants stemmed from an offence committed on March 28, 2018, at Weldaad Back Street, WCB. He was convicted for possession of 20,865 grams of cannabis for the purpose of trafficking. Welch was granted bail and subsequently found guilty in absentia on July 31, 2018. The warrants were immediately executed on him and he is currently detained, waiting to be taken to the New Amsterdam Prison.
GUYANA GETS US COVID ASSISTANCE GRANT Building on the strong partnership with CARPHA and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the United States—through the United States Agency for International Development— announced US$2.5 million in urgent COVID-19 assistance for countries in the Eastern Caribbean region, The Bahamas, Guyana, Suriname, and Trinidad & Tobago. This assistance will provide support for the operational costs of COVID-19 vaccination campaigns, outreach activities to reduce vaccine hesitancy in collaboration
with local influencers and celebrities, vaccine hesitancy surveys, and equipment procurement to support the development of COVID-19 vaccine information systems, laboratory detection, and vaccine storage. Chargé d’Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Georgetown, Mark Cullinane, announced the funding during a review of the USAID/CARICOM regional strategy on October 21. He said, “This review speaks to the level of importance that the United States holds CARICOM as a strategic partner in the global COVID-19 response and
advancing health security in the Caribbean..the United States will work proudly alongside our regional partners, PAHO, UNICEF, CARPHA and CARICOM in efforts to mitigate and eliminate the effects of the pandemic in Guyana and the wider Caribbean.” USAID Regional Representative for the Eastern and Southern Caribbean, Clinton. D. White, noted that “the new funding will also respond to urgent gaps in COVID-19 case management such as procuring oxygen, laboratory equipment, and other critical items to help reduce deaths from
COVID-19 in Caribbean countries.” CARICOM, SecretaryGeneral, Dr. Carla Barnett, expressed appreciation for this assistance, particularly on behalf of those CARICOM Member States who would benefit, noting that “no Member State has been spared from this deadly virus and its devastating impact on the health and wellbeing of their citizens and their respective economies”. She anticipated that the resources will assist the Member States “to intensify their logistical arrangements and communications to further support vaccine readiness while countering
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vaccine hesitancy and disinformation, which we anticipate will increase the numbers of persons vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus”. This additional assistance from the historic American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 builds on the previous COVID-19 support provided to Caribbean countries. USAID has provided nearly $63 million in COVID-19 assistance to the Caribbean, including nearly US$7.45 million specifically to the Eastern and Southern Caribbean, since the beginning of the pandemic to address the health, humanitarian, and economic impacts of
COVID-19. USAID’s COVID-19 assistance to Caribbean countries is helping to deliver vaccines and get shots in arms, expand access to COVID-19 testing and treatment, protect and train health workers, deliver life-saving health commodities and equipment, share reliable public health information, and safeguard global health security
Elections Petition hearing Court to hear further submissions from Coalition
After over a year and a half dealing with Election Petition, 99 of 2020, which challenged the invalidity of the March 2020 National Elections results, Attorney General Anil Nandlall and Trinidadian Senior Counsel Douglas Mendez, representing Bharrat Jagdeo, has objected to more submissions being made by to the court by the Petitioners Lawyers, Member of Parliament, Roysdale Forde. Nandlall and Mendes are also calling for the matter to be concluded soon. Elections Petition, 99 of 2020, was struck out by Chief Justice, Roxane Georgetown early this year, on the basis that the second named respondent, former President David Granger, was served the petition after the prescribed time for service had expired. As such, Attorney for Petitioners, Brennan Nurse, and Monica Thomas moved to the appeal court. Since then, both Counsel Mendez and Nandlall have insisted that the court does not have jurisdiction to hear the matter. It was argued that the matter should be heard in the Full Court of the High Court and not in Appellate Court. Nandlall had also argued that the appeal
should be struck out as there is no statutory or constitutional jurisdiction to the Court of Appeal to hear an election petition dismissed for procedural impropriety or any other reason not stated in Article 163 (1) of the Constitution of Guyana. Senior Counsel Mendes has maintained that the petition should have never been appealed and neither does the Full Court or the Appellate Court have jurisdiction. He had also noted that the petition (#99) was dismissed on procedural grounds and as such, it cannot be appealed. With those arguments put before the table in both oral and written submission, Attorney Forde today during a virtual hearing before Chancellor of the Judiciary Yonette CummingsEdwards and Justices of Appeal Dawn Gregory and Rishi Persaud asked the court the make additional submissions to the court based on the argument put forward. That, however, did not sit well with Attorney Nandlall and Mendez, who said that at this stage
it would not be necessary since the court has already heard the extensive argument. Additionally, Mr. Mendez contended that it would not be fair to the other parties in the matter since the submission might contain some elements to which the other parties have not responded. Mr Nandlall agreed with Mr. Mendez and called for the matter to go to a ruling. Forde on the other hand explained that the submissions are related to what has been summited to court and just form part of a reply to those arguments and do not contain anything new.
However, Chancellor Cummings gave Mr. Forde time to submit in writing. She also gave the respondent seven days after receiving the submission to respond. Chancellor Cummings noted, however, that anything in the submissions that are not directly related to what is already submitted to the court will not be regarded. She said that this is a matter of national importance and all parties must be heard. In the end, the date of November 26, 2021, was given for reports after which she will further consider the submissions and set a date for ruling.
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CANU busts Lindener with $1.4M ganja
While the CustomAntiNarcotics Unit(CANU) last Friday arrested three men in the Sophia area with over $1.8 M worth of marijuana, only one of the men was charged today, Tuesday, and placed on $250,000 bail. That defendant is Roylon Adolph from Industrial Area, Mackenzie, Linden. Adolph appeared before Chief Magistrate, Ann McLennan and denied the allegation of trafficking made against him. According to the CANU charge sheet is alleged that Friday, 22 at ‘D’ Field Sophia traffic of 4.296 kg of cannabis “poppy” valued at over $1.8 million. Adolph was represented by Attorney at law, Dexter Todd, who made a submission for bail. Bail was granted is the sum of $250,000. Adolph was ordered to make the next court
appearance on November 22. Until then, he is also expected to make regular visits to the CANU Headquarters. Reports are that on the day in question, CANU Officers while conducting operations at ‘D’ Field Sophia, carried out a search of a white Toyota Fielder wagon in front of a shop. The search led to the discovery of 4.296 kg of cannabis “poppy” valued at over $1.8 million. The drug was discovered in eight bulky parcels. At the time, the search was conducted in the presence of the driver, 31-year-old Roylon Adolph, of 657 Industrial area Mackenzie, Linden. The lone passenger was 31-year-old, Akeem Matheson, a labourer, of 169 Sin City ‘B’ Field Sophia. The shop owner and the two occupants were
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Many years ago I was a teacher. In fact, that was my first job. It started way back in 1966. I entered the Government Teachers Training College in 1967 majoring in Chemistry and Physics. From time to time I was required to teach Mathematics when the teachers were not there. It was an exciting period in my life. It took at least three years to prepare children for the external examinations. I taught at the Bartica Government Secondary School, the only Grade B Secondary School to prepare and secure passes in Physics and Chemistry at the GCE O’ Levels to this day. Grade B Schools were expected to prepare children for Integrated
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Sciences. In those days, children wrote the General Certificate Examinations commonly referred to as GCE. This year there were praises for those children who did remarkably well at the Caribbean Secondary Examinations and CAPE. These examinations have replaced the GCE O’ Levels and A’ Levels. I saw some Facebook posts, one by Education Minister Priya Manickchand. I merely posted whether credit should not go to the Coalition. I got no answer. When the Coalition came to office in 2015 there was a focus on the education system. I am not going to go into the
figures that highlighted how poorly Guyana was performing when compared to the other Caribbean territories. This year Guyana was the best-performing country. The results of these recent examinations reflected the four years of preparation under a modified and upgraded school system. However, there was no mention of this. Instead, there was talk about the Coalition doing nothing during its term in office. Then I saw the performance by the children at the Grade Six Assessment Examinations. Way back in the 1990s when Wilfred Success was a teacher at West Ruimveldt Primary School he secured some astounding results. That school secured six
children in the top ten. The noise was deafening. Most of the people in the country claimed that Wilfred Success cheated; that he had procured the examination papers in advance and had drilled the children. The reality is that he continued to produce top-performing children to the point that parents now seek him out. He has opened his private school. This year, again he got astonishing results. Only this time nobody claimed that he had cheated. He got four in the top ten and would be sending nearly two dozen children to Queen’s College. Indeed, there is the maxim that if the children have not learned, the teachers have not taught. Wilfred Success is a teacher and
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he has employed other teachers. The public schools did the best they could, bearing in mind that during this pandemic many parents, ordinary people, could not afford computers, did not have access to the internet and therefore could not get their children to attend online classes. There were 13,000 who wrote the exams. No more than 1,300 would go on to good secondary schools. Again, we should understand that many of the parents are not academically inclined so they did not give their children the needed attention and supervision. But many of these children did well under the circumstances. They deserve congratulations. And there were some other things that caused raised eyebrows. Former Assistant Commissioner Paul Slowe was out of the country when SOCU laid charges for some incidents dating back to 2019. Heaven knows why those charges have surfaced only now. However, while Slowe was doing his job with the West Indies Cricket Board the charges were laid but not read to him. By way of a summons sent to Attorney at Law Nigel Hughes last week, he was informed that he needed to attend court. And that he did. When he was in the court four SOCU ranks decided that they should arrest him. If a man is in court to answer charges that have to be read to him and there was no arrest warrant, on what ground can he be arrested? The truth is that the authorities wanted to have him appear in court with handcuffs and shackles for no other reason than to embarrass him. He knows his rights and he resisted, causing
the ranks to assault him. There have been criticisms of this episode from lawyers and former magistrates. There has been total silence from the Attorney General. This episode lends support to the widely held belief that the government is using the police to harass and to embarrass those who dare to comment on its wrongdoings. It suspended the Police Service Commission as a means of preparing its own list of police promotions. Then the Attorney General files to the court for the move by the Police Service Commission to challenge the government’s refusal to recognize the PSC list of promotions, be struck out because the commission has been suspended by the government. He argues that there is no commission to represent the action. We’ll see where that argument goes. The other thing that bothered many people was the fact that a man, Colin Bailey, spent almost six years in jail on a murder charge when the police had no evidence to hold him. He was freed by the judge who questioned the fact that the matter reached the high court although there was no evidence against Colin Bailey. And while in jail, Bailey suffered a heart attack and contracted COVID. I have approached the DPP to explain how such a thing could happen. There were too many checks and balances. I am awaiting her response.
GUYANA GEARS FOR ELECTRONIC VACCINATION CARDS Guyana will later this week sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Government of India that will see Guyana accessing the COVID-19 Vaccine Intelligence Network (COWIN) software, to produce electronic vaccination cards. Health Minister, Dr. Frank Anthony, MP, made the disclosure on Wednesday, during the COVID-19 update. The new electronic which Once we get that COVID “During this week, Understanding, type vaccination cards will curb the forging of we’ll be signing off will allow us to now get software, that’s going to the Memorandum of the COWIN software. be what we will be using. vaccination documents.
So, we will migrate the electronic data that we have into that software, and then we’ll be able to produce the new cards,” he said. The minister said the manual registers of vaccine distribution and vaccination booklets are currently being converted into digital format. “We have recruited staff for that purpose. We have designated special areas where we are doing all that, with the equipment and so forth, to make sure that that is happening. So that is an ongoing
process,” the minister noted. Dr. Anthony said it is still important for persons to keep their current vaccination cards, as the COVID-19 measures stipulate that persons must produce those cards to transact business at government ministries and agencies. Persons who operate public transport must also produce their cards if asked by a police officer, or by anyone working on behalf of the Ministry of Health.
and stored onboard then later transported onshore for further treatment and disposal in accordance with applicable Guyana regulations and guidelines, as well as international conventions. Minister Dharamlall says the weighbridge will go a far way in supporting the efficient management of waste at the facility. “The weighbridge is quite a significant investment in the Haags Bosch Sanitary Landfill facility. For quite a while our weighbridge
has not been working. We are very grateful for this intervention,” he said. According to him, significant investments have been made to maintain the facility over the years, which he hopes will be bolstered through similar corporate partnerships. Measuring 18,3m by 3,3m, the weighbridge steel scale has a capacity of up to 135 metric tonnes per load. The Haags Bosch landfill facility receives about 450 metric tonnes of waste, delivered by some 200 trucks daily.
ExxonMobil Guyana provides weighbridge to Haags Bosch landfill facility
ExxonMobil Guyana has provided a truck weighbridge scale to the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development for use at the Haags Bosch Landfill site aback Eccles. President of ExxonMobil Guyana, Alistair Routledge, accompanied Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Nigel Dharamlall for a brief visit to the facility recently where the weighbridge has already been installed. Mr. Routledge said that the weighbridge is
part of the company’s strategy to ensure responsible management and treatment of waste in Guyana. “We are committed to cradle-to-grave waste management for our operations and the landfill site here at Haags Bosch plays a key role in that,” he outlined. ExxonMobil Guyana has conducted a “cradle to grave” waste analysis study which was approved by the Environmental Protection Agency in September. The company has since submitted to the EPA a comprehensive
waste management plan for review. “ExxonMobil Guyana and its prime contractors continue to implement a number of steps to minimize the generation of waste including
recycling and reuse where appropriate,” Routledge said. “Hazardous and non-hazardous wastes generated by the various offshore operations are appropriately treated
Man remanded for one murder, faces another murder charge
Following the murder of 20-year-old Chris Persaud, of Strathsphey, East Coast Demerara (ECD) last Friday during a robbery, Kapildeo Gangadin was slapped with that murder
charge. He has also been questioned in connection with another murder. The accused, 24-yearold, Kapildeo Gangadin appeared before Magistrate Fabayo Azore
in the Cove and John Magistrate’s Court this morning. With no sign of emotions, Gangadin was not required to plead to the indictable charges.
According to the police, Gangadin on October 8, last, at Strathsphey, stabbed Persaud to his neck while robbing him of his gold chain. It was further alleged that Gangadin, back in January, stabbed Mukesh Mangra during a robbery. Gangadin was remanded to prison until January 17, 2022. On the day of Persaud’s murder, Gangadin pretended to be a customer at Persaud’s Store. He attacked Persaud who reportedly resisted and was stabbed to his neck and about his body. Police arrested Gangadin for the murder and he later confessed. Gangadin while being
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under arrest was also questioned about the January 2020 murder of Mangra. Gangadin according to the police escaped to Suriname after that killing. Back then it was alleged that Gangadin, along with Vivekanand Ram and Roy Jaglall who were subsequently charged with murdering fisherman Mangra and are presently on remand, robbed the man. The 24-year-old fisherman of Coldingen, East Coast Demerara (ECD) was found with several stab wounds about his body. Based on reports a painter was heading
home on his bicycle when he made the gruesome discovery. Mangra’s lifeless body was lying on the Western side of the said road with two stab wounds to his abdomen; one to the left side and the other to the right side. The painter immediately contacted the nearest police station and ranks reportedly responded promptly to the scene. They found a blue-handled knife almost 50 feet away from the body At the court today, Persaud’s father, in tears said that Gangadin could have taken what he wanted but not his son’s life.
Faulty electric point causes fire scare at NIS head office
Days after the Brickdam Police Station went up in flames, National Insurance Scheme (NIS) went on high fire alert and called in the Guyana Fire Service after an overloaded loaded switch started to smoke on Monday.
operations started to change the damaged points. Later when everything was under control, some staff operating in the affected area were told to take the rest of the day off, as power was expected to
The NIS was said to be the third fire emergency call for the day. There was another at the Guyana Post Office. Speaking to the media after the incident, the Divisional Commander of the Guyana Fire Service (GFS), Hemchandra Persaud, said that with such high fire risk the GFS remains on high alert also. “We have seen an increase in calls especially from (Monday). We had three calls. We would have responded to the GPO, NIS, and a bridge in Campbellville where there was a rubbish fire lit by someone.
that GFS due to the high risk has also shifted its approach due to high-level risk. “We are going to raise the level of preparedness; we are at the drawing board right now with senior officers knowing that we had a serious fire at the Brickdam Police Station. Of course, in life, we have to go through the vicissitude of life and there are always changes that we have to adapt to. “So, we are working as it is right now to look at our resource and to see what necessary we need, especially in this point in time, when we
According to the Guyana Fire Service, just before midday, in the Office of the General Manager, Holly Greaves, an electrical point started to smoke. The fire service responded with three fire trucks, an ambulance, and the ranks from Guyana Police Force. On arrival on the scene, firefighters explained that a point in the room was indeed smoking. With the aid of the policemen and women, the building was cleared of staff and others. With smoke still emanating from the point, prompted the shutting off the power to the building, they quickly tackled the affected area and the situation was quickly brought under control. The police also indicated that later the NIS Electrical Engineer quickly took over and
out for some time. The police advised the NIS to check the entire power supply chain to ensure that the problem does not occur again. The police also with safety in mind, to avoid a recurrence of the Brickdam Police Station fire a fire tender was left on standby.
“That fire was extinguished by the Campbellville units at GPO because it’s a high-rise building, it’s a Government building with lots of occupants. We would have sent a full response so that nothing got out of control,” Mr. Persaud explained. Mr. Persaud added
have a very hot weather and of course what is unfolding currently we have to first start thinking ahead and anticipate any eventuality.” This comes as the President, Mohammed Irfaan Ali blasted the GFS on its preparedness for the Brickdam Police Station fire.
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Guyana to release CSEC, CAPE and NGSA results by Oct. 15.
The Ministry of Education announced on Saturday, that the Caribbean Examination Council has chosen Guyana as the host country to ‘release’ this year’s CAPE and CSEC results on October 14, 2021. In addition, NGSA is expected to be released on October 15; with raw exam scores coming from Barbados. The Caribbean Examination Council’s (CXC) Caribbean Secondary Education Certification (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) were written during June -July this year. The examinations were written at a later date this year due to the effects, consequences, and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Caribbean and the world. The Ministry of Education announced on Saturday, that the Caribbean Examination Council has chosen Guyana as the host country to ‘release’ this year’s CAPE and CSEC results on October 14, 2021. These results will be available to candidates on the CXC’s online portal from October 15, 2021. The National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) was equally affected by the pandemic and was written on August 4-5 of this year. Since 2016, CXC was contracted by the Government of Guyana to develop, administer and mark this examination/assessment annually. This year to further
advance the transparency and integrity of the examination/assessment, CXC’s responsibilities were extended and increased to include verification of raw scores. Additionally, to conduct and manage all reviews or appeals after the results are published and further to present the data and analysis of each year’s assessment. The Ministry of Education has been informed by CXC that the raw scores will be ready and sent from Barbados to Guyana by Tuesday, September 28, 2021, after which the National Data Management Authority (NDMA) will standardize the scores and offer placements according to the scores, and print results’ slips. In addition, from this year: 1. NGSA candidates will NOT be penalized with their raw scores because they were older than 12 years 6 months at the end of March of the year, the examination was written. 2. The standardized scores per subject will be rounded up to the nearest whole number and the TOTAL score will be given as a decimal number thereby offering candidates more fairness. The Education Ministry also encourages this year’s NGSA, CSEC and CAPE candidates to return all textbooks and resource materials to their respective schools. Failure to do so may result in being unable to access results
Temporary home for Brickdam police up and running close to the lockups. When they arrived the fire seemed coming from the sections close to lockup. The fire, however,
Following the fire which destroyed 80 percent of the Brickdam Police Station Commander of the Division, Simon McBean, has noted that despite the setback the force is ready to serve the community. This response comes as ranks of the division, particularly from the Brickdam Police Station, are affected in terms of accommodation after Saturday’s fire took out most of the complex, destroying files, offices, properties of civilians, and the force. The Brickdam police are relocated to St. Stanislaus
College where they will accommodate the public and by extension ensuring that the laws are upheld. Commander Mc Bean has insisted that the police are now up and ready to serve the community from all various departments. “The inquiries department is up and running, traffic service is up and running, the Criminal Investigation Department is up and running. Those are our primary areas of operation. The patrols are out in full force,” Mr. Mc Bean said. He added, “All of our services are up and
quickly spread with the aid of wind to other sections of the building. At the scene, members of the force were seen saving what they could
running. We are trying. There are some minor works going on to get the ranks comfortable The Commander’s office will be fully operational.” Commander Mc Bean says while the space may not be adequate it remains workable. The ranks are now getting comfortable in their new spaces. Just Saturday the Brickdam Police Station went up in flames leaving nothing but two buildings in the compound. According to the Guyana Fire Service, the fire started just before midday around a section
Another fire threatens a government building
The building that houses the Police and Public Service Commissions has become the fourth government building in four days under fire watch after an overloaded wire called for the presence of the Guyana Fire Service(GFS). Following the fire, which ravaged the Brickdam Police Station, a fire scare at the Guyana Post Office (GPO) and at the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) in the past few days, the fire service was once more on high alert, today, as the smell of smoke emanated from the PSC building. According to reports, it was just around midday, when the staff of the Local Government and Regional Development building, who share a compound with the PSC said that info@guyanapostonline.com
they smelled something was burning. In the midst of taking precautionary measures, the fire service was called in. Also turning up was the Guyana Power and Light (GPL). On arrival, fighter fighters and the GPL staff later identified the fault and quickly moved to cut power to the building. After accessing the situation, it was found that an external wire that leads to the PSC building was overheating and required immediate attention. The worker from the GPL then changed the faulty wire, as an overassessment of the entire electrical grid is expected to be done to ensure that issue does not occur again. The copper of the wire was seen burning and it was removed from the
building. This happened after over 80 percent of the Brickdam Police Station was allegedly set by a Lodge resident, Clarence Greene, and small electrical fires at the GPO and NIS. Divisional Commander of the fire service, Hemchandra Persaud, said on the heels of the fire at the NIS building, there is a need for an assessment of the building with the old electrical set, to prevent any fire.
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have. The fire continued to travel, burning several shops nearby and an old gas station on Hadfield Street, aback by the police station.
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Tuesday Oct. 26, 2021
LIZA UNITY ARRIVES, ON TRACK FOR EARLY 2022 START UP
The Liza Unity floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel has arrived in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana after traveling nearly for 53 days and more than 11,000 nautical miles on its journey from Singapore.
Christened by First Lady Arya Ali earlier this year, the SUSTAIN-1 certified vessel will now be connected to the spread mooring before preparation for testing and commissioning. “I’m so proud of the Unity team. The
sail itself is long. The advent of COVID-19 was challenging, but the team was resilient, pushed through, and delivered a beautiful FPSO that’s here in Guyana. “We’re all really excited that
she’s joined the neighborhood next to Liza Destiny, and we’re really looking forward to the next few phases as we bring this FPSO online into 2022,” said Mike Ryan, Production Manager of ExxonMobil Guyana. “The standard for operational excellence set with the construction of the Liza
Unity demonstrates the level of quality that we aspire to meet on every aspect of our projects.” The Liza Unity FPSO has been awarded the SUSTAIN-1 notation by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), the Classification Society for the unit. It is the world’s first FPSO to achieve such recognition for sustainability for its design, documentation, and operational procedures. This means that the design and construction of the unit are assessed against and adheres to the requirements of the ABS Guide for Sustainability Notations, aligned with the applicable United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs). “We remain committed to producing the energy which is essential to modern life and economic development, in a way that helps protect people and the environment,” Ryan added. The Liza Phase 2 development will produce up to 220,000 barrels of oil per day from the Liza Unity FPSO. This vessel will be supported by a total of six drill centres and approximately 30 wells. Liza Phase 2 is expected to cost $6 billion, including a lease capitalization cost of approximately $1.6 billion, for the Liza Unity floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel.
Rape victim points Two brothers fight, Man held for one crime in jail for child one now in ICU out suspect five support years later
Five years after being wanted for rape, a 34-yearold man was arrested after he was pointed out by the victim in the Diamond Grove Area. The accused, Hemraj Sankar, called Raymond was caught just around 17:00 hours on Monday, according to a police report. At the said time, police from the Golden Grove/ Diamond Police Station
were on patrol when they came upon Sankar, who was clearly identified as the perpetrator. He is wanted in Region Two in relation to the alleged rape of a Child Under 16 Years in 2016. Sankar was arrested and placed into custody at Golden Grove/Diamond Police Station. He will be transferred to Region Two for the continuation of the investigation
A fight between two brothers and a brother-inlaw has left a policeman fighting for his life after he was stabbed several times in his abdomen. The incident occurred just around 18:00 hours on Monday in Canefield Settlement, East Canje Berbice. Two brothers, one of them a 22-year-old, and the 29-year-old policeman had a misunderstanding that led to a fight. One of the brothers armed himself with a knife and stabbed the other to his abdomen several times
and once on his leg. The policeman’s 24-year-old brother-inlaw, who resided close by, after trying and couldn’t stop the fight, dealt the 22-year-old, several cuffs about his body. Shortly after, the injured policeman was escorted to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital where he has been admitted as a patient in the intensive care unit. Both the assailant and the brother-in-law were arrested as investigations continue.
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TA man while being investigated for illegal sexual activity is in more trouble after it was found that he had owed over $1M in child support. Frank Beets was apprehended over
illegal Sexual Activity allegations and was in the custody of the police when it was found out that there were several outstanding affiliation warrants totaling $1,045,000.