Daily Archive: Tuesday, March 31, 2020

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri this evening said that it will be closed until May 1st as part of measures against the coronavirus.

 (Reuters) – The coronavirus pandemic took a personal turn for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday as he disclosed that his brother, CNN television anchor Chris Cuomo, had tested positive for the disease caused by the virus.

The second patient who succumbed to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) this morning has been identified as the Executive Director of Reliance HealthCare, Jermaine Ifill.

The Full Court this morning ruled that the injunctions granted to APNU+AFC candidate Ulita Grace Moore to halt a recount of the votes cast at the March 2 polls and granted by Justice Franklyn Holder are null and void.

(Trinidad Guardian) The families of patients who die as a result of the COVID-19 virus will not be able to retain possession of their corpses.

(Trinidad Express) Just hours before the Trinidad and Tobago borders were officially closed at midnight last week Sunday, Princes Town MP Barry Padarath boarded a flight out of the country.

(Trinidad Express) Police are searching for a man who fled a hospital from quarantine after undergoing a test for the Covid 19 virus.

(Trinidad Express) The owner of a bar in California has been charged with opening to customers, in breach of the COVID-19 regulations.

(Trinidad Guardian) A group of Cuban nurses are due to arrive in T&T shortly to assist local healthcare professionals in the fight against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

(Jamaica Observer) University of Technology (UTech), Jamaica student Rayvon Stewart is on top of the world this morning after his invention “XERMOSOL” was yesterday named by Commonwealth Secretary General Baroness Patricia Scotland as a possible key weapon in the fight to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

(Jamaica Star) An 18-year-old Jamaican, Kyle Lambert, has been accepted to six Ivy League universities in the US, a feat his former principal, Nadine Molloy, describes as a major achievement.

(Jamaica Star) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced that effective April 1, 2020, from 8 p.m.

Status Hotel on Croal Street in a notice in today’s Stabroek News announced its closure until further notice over the COVID-19 pandemic.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – More equipment is needed to protect the world’s nurses working on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic to save lives, the head of the International Council of Nurses said.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Trump administration today offered to begin lifting Venezuela sanctions if the opposition and members of President Nicolas Maduro’s Socialist Party form an interim government without him, marking a shift in a U.S.

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Social Protection has suspended visitation to the Palms Geriatric Facility on Brickdam and other old people’s homes.

Guyana under-15 coach, Ryan Hercules believes Cricket West Indies (CWI) made the right call in cancelling the Regional boys’ under-15 championship 2020.

Eon Hooper has played only a single first-class game for the Guyana Jaguars but the 29-year-old off-spinning all-rounder is hungry to make a comeback.

While Guyana’s confirmed cases of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) remain at nine after almost three weeks since the first was confirmed, Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence yesterday disclosed that it is projected that the country could record as many as 1,400 and she assured that the necessary measures are being implemented to handle the situation.

Cricket West Indies (CWI) president Ricky Skerritt lamented the startling impact of the global pandemic Coronavirus in his latest interview with a Trinidadian Morning talk show. 

While still maintaining confidence that the governing APNU+AFC coalition has won the disputed March 2 general elections, the AFC yesterday said that whichever party forms the next government must show “magnanimity” and “accede” to an agreed governance pact that encompasses shared governance and “national unity”.

This year’s Regional U – 19 cricket tournament was cancelled by Cricket West Indies (CWI) because of the growing concerns surrounding the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Marcus Brian Bisram was yesterday freed of the murder charge laid against him over the killing of carpenter Faiyaz Narinedatt but his freedom was short-lived as he was re-arrested by police based on a directive from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), who believes there is sufficient evidence for him to stand trial in the High Court.

Following an application by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo, the Full Court yesterday stayed the proceedings initiated by APNU+AFC candidate Ulita Grace Moore to halt a recount of the votes cast at the March 2 polls and will today rule whether it has the jurisdiction to hear his appeal.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Cricket West Indies chief, Ricky Skerritt, has assured the region that presidential term limits are still on the cards and will be addressed once the Wehby Governance report is submitted within the next month.

The Olympic Solidarity Scholarships that Guyanese and other athletes around the world benefit from was set to expire following the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, however due to the postponement of the Games as result of the pandemic, COVID-19, the scholarships will continue.

Dear Editor, This is a historic moment for the best display of Guyanese Ethical and Transformational Leadership of the highest calibre.

The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) is not in favour of the Caribbean Examinations Council’s proposed Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination strategy, according to its General Secretary Coretta McDonald.

Mayor Ubraj Narine yesterday announced that the council will not lock down Georgetown nor institute a curfew on non-essential services; instead the City will work with stakeholders such as the Ministry of Public Health to implement recommendations on social distancing and hygienic practices to battle the coronavirus.

BARCELONA, (Reuters) – Barcelona players will make an extra contribution on top of the 70% pay cut they have agreed to take during the enforced La Liga break so that the club’s other employees can earn their full salaries during the coronavirus crisis, captain Lionel Messi said.

Dear Editor, Though I am pessimistic about the prospects of power sharing in this country, I see it as the only way out of our draining problems.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Eliud Kipchoge, the world’s greatest marathon man, reckoned his first reaction was shock when he heard at home in Kenya that the 2020 Olympic Games had been postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak.

Justice Franklyn Holder is this afternoon expected to rule on whether he has jurisdiction to hear a challenge by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo to the legality of a March 13th declaration of results for Electoral District Four (Region Four), made by Returning Officer (RO) Clairmont Mingo.

Dear Editor, The Coalition has been plying a narrative, over the last few years, that we should accept the atrocious oil deal with Exxon because the US would help defend the company and our country against Venezuelan aggression.

A police investigation has been launched into the circumstances surrounding the death of a 61-year-old diver in the Upper Mazaruni River.

Dear Editor, Our country is reeling from two major pandemics the COVID-19 and the APNU+AFC election virus.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – The postponed Olympic Games will now begin on July 23 next year and run until Aug.

The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) yesterday bemoaned what it said was an apparent lack of leadership by the government on addressing the coronavirus crisis and it urged that relief measures be put in place to aid struggling workers.

Dear Editor, And just like that, we were wiped from the country.

(Reuters) – Athletics’ world championships have been postponed until the summer of 2022 and the global governing body is seeking new dates for the event in Eugene, Oregon that was originally scheduled for 2021.

A 20-year-old labourer who is accused of fatally beating 48-year-old Leron Ault during an argument less than a week ago was charged with murder yesterday and remanded to prison.

Dear Editor, The press statement issued Sunday by the PPP/C relating to the injunction filed to stop the recount poses a clear and present danger to the independence of the judiciary and respect for the rule of law.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus pandemic climbed past 3,000 on Monday, the deadliest day yet in the country’s mounting crisis, while New York cheered the arrival of a gleaming 1,000-bed U.S.

Former president of the T&T Football Association (TTFA) William Wallace will have to find an estimated TT$300,000 to $500,000 for legal costs if he and his three vice presidents are to challenge the world governing body for football (FIFA) in their efforts to overturn FIFA’s decision to remove them from office and implement a Normalisation Committee to manage the affairs of T&T football.

(Trinidad Express) Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh said Trinidad and Tobago will soon benefit from the expertise of a group of intensive care nurses from Cuba as the country steps up its fight against COVID-19.

In an effort to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) has since implemented a revised visitation policy to restrict the number of persons allowed to visit patients at the facility.

Dear Editor, I have been looking on with interest at the PPP and their alignment with Foreign governments (United States, Canada, Britain and the Organization of American states) seeking to have Guyanese agree with a position  that we must put aside our Supreme Law and go with their own agendas.

(Reuters) – The coronavirus pandemic and resulting plunge in crude prices will result in a leaner, stronger oil industry but raise the risk of shortages further down the line, Goldman Sachs analysts said yesterday.

President of the St Ann Football Association (St. A. FA), Danny Beckford says that the large number of administrative mishandlings that dogged the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) over the last two years is the main reason FIFA has restricted funding to the federation and demanded changes.

Canadian miner Guyana Goldfields Inc yesterday announced that it will be delaying the filing and delivery of certain of its continuous disclosure documents.

Dear Editor, Over the past several weeks, like so many millions around the world, I have been compelled to pay persistent attention to the media coverage of the global pandemic of COVID-19, which continues to grow unabatingly.

BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said yesterday that there can be no more quarantine measures imposed on the country than those already in place to combat coronavirus because jobs are being destroyed and the poor are suffering disproportionately.

RAYAD Emrit is keeping focus during the Covid19 break as he returned to the lower tier of national cricket after two decades to propel Police Cricket Club to the highest level locally.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica is to impose a seven-day islandwide curfew effective April 1 as the government seeks to limit the spread of COVID-19.

(Trinidad Express) The Health Ministry’s Chief Medical Officer says the two latest COVID-19-positive victims appear to be the first cases of ‘local spread’.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Robert Hadad, chairman of the FIFA normalisation committee controversially set up to run Trinidad and Tobago’s football, has shot down suggestions there was any sinister intent to use the body to target certain administration officials.

Just a few weeks ago it was possible for Trinidad’s Prime Minister, Dr Keith Rowley, to indicate in a major speech, that the Caribbean as whole had a potentially very bright future as a major western hemisphere oil and gas supplier.

Residents of the community of Coomacka Mines in Region Ten, have established a handwashing station at the entrance of their community, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

A man who appeared to be mentally unstable was yesterday brought before a city court to answer to a charge that he attacked his stepfather, leaving him in a critical condition.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Public Health (MOPH)  represented by Doctor Lauren Bancroft and team made an arrangement with the Guyana Market Vendors Union to meet at the Critchlow Labour College on Friday, March 27, 2020 at 11:00 hrs to engage the Union’s Executive and its area representatives for the Ministry’s continuing exercise to educate, sensitize and to give advice on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic facing Guyana.

As this newspaper has already said in its editorial columns, there was something unsettling about last week’s rebuke by WHO/PAHO local representative Dr.

WASHINGTON/MOSCOW  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed during a phone call yesterday to have their top energy officials discuss slumping global oil markets, the Kremlin said, as Trump called Russia’s price war with Saudi Arabia “crazy.”

By  Simon Johnson WASHINGTON, DC – We live now in the post-virus world.