Daily Archives: 02/16/2021

TRAVEL: US CDC lists Guyana as ‘high risk’ for COVID-19 transmission

02/16/2021 – 9:25 am

 Feb 16, 2021  Kaieteur News – By Sueann Wickham

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

Guyana has been listed among the countries with Level Four COVID-19 transmission by the United States’ Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In layman’s terms, this means that Guyana is a very high-risk country for transmission.

Given its high-risk status, the CDC has advised persons against travelling to Guyana, stating that
“Travellers should avoid all travel to Guyana.”    Continue reading →

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EDITORIAL: Guyana’s Budget for 2021 – By Stabroek News

02/16/2021 – 12:09 am

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Presented on Friday February 05, under the theme `A Path to Recovery, Economic Dynamism and Resilience’,  the Guyana 2021 Budget offers some of the customary concessions  to the cost of living burden.

Back in the finance seat,  Minister Ashni Singh announced that the old age pension will rise to $25,000 per month from $20,500 and public assistance will increase from $9,000 per month to $12,000. He costed these two measures at $4.5b. Water tariffs are to be reduced by 5% across the board and the Value-added Tax zero rate is to be restored to  key food items including wheaten flour, “basic breads” and cooking oil among others.        Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: Universities need to wise up – or risk being consigned to history – The Guardian

02/16/2021 – 12:03 am
By: John Naughton – The Guardian – Sat 13 Feb 2021 16.00 GMT
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The pandemic has shown that other ways of teaching and learning are possible
  • Students locked down at Manchester Metropolitan University express their frustration to passersby.

    Photo: Students locked down at Manchester Metropolitan University express their frustration to passersby. Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images

The thing about pandemics, observed the historian Yuval Noah Harari, is that they tend to accelerate history. A couple of years ago, appalled by the environmental, financial and working-time costs of running research conferences, I wondered aloud how long it would take for many of these events to be conducted online – and gloomily predicted that it would take another decade.       
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