Daily Archive: Thursday, April 2, 2020

US Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah-Ann Lynch today issued a statement defending the input by her and US government officials on the need for a fair result from the March 2nd general elections here.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Court of Appeal will on Friday morning deliver its judgment in the Vybz Kartel murder case. 

President David Granger today announced that public gathering at places of entertainment  including bars and restaurants will be prohibited from 6 pm to 6 am with effect from midnight tomorrow.

As of today, the number of confirmed Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Guyana remains at 19 while the number of persons who have been tested thus far has increased from 70 to 75.

The Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) set up by the Commonwealth to deal with persistent and serious violators of its shared principles today called on GECOM “to immediately fulfil its constitutional mandate and ensure the sovereign right of the people of Guyana to duly elect their Government is respected through a transparent and credible counting and tabulation process”.

 (Reuters) – The coronavirus has been a far deadlier threat in New Orleans than the rest of the United States, with a per-capita death rate much higher than in New York City.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to ramp up coronavirus testing after his government faced criticism for being slower than some European peers to roll out mass checks for front-line health workers and the population.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – Spain’s death toll from the coronavirus rose above 10,000 today after a record 950 people died overnight, but health officials saw a glimmer of hope with the epidemic slowing in terms of proportional daily increases in infections and deaths.

(Jamaica Observer) The Jamaican Government says it is unable to respond to the rescue plea for 36 Jamaican from the Cave Hill, Barbados, campus of The University of the West Indies who have been left stranded on that island after airports here were closed to incoming passengers on March 21 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Jamaica Gleaner) As the coronavirus pandemic spreads like a bush fire throughout the United States, several Jamaican healthcare professionals on the front line tell of a brutal grind of attrition that has seen COVID-19 infections creep towards the one-million mark and deaths topping 45,000.

(Jamaica Star) Jhonny Martin and his wife Louise from Murray Mountain, St Ann, were plunged into mourning last Monday after losing their daughter Loraine ‘Marvet’ Martin to cancer.

“I was allowed to give a brief blessing and prayer. It lasted about five minutes.

The National Sports Commission yesterday issued a press release stating that sports facilities under its control remain closed owing to the Coronavirus pandemic.

Despite displaying a severe symptom of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and having been in direct contact with relatives of Jermaine Ifill, the man who died days after testing positive for COVID-19, Quincy Braithwaite says that health officials are refusing to test him because he has not displayed 90% of the manifestations of the disease.

As we continue to review Steven Jacobs’ Regional Under-19 successes as skipper of Guyana’s 2006 and 2007 teams, we’ll take a look at the composition of the 2007 class and how their careers panned out after their junior playing days.

Dear Editor, The information from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) is crystal clear: self-isolation reduces the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.

Four deaths have now been attributed to COVID-19 with the latest being that of a 59-year-old man at the Diamond Hospital last night.

Dear Editor, One ought not to be a sideliner on the electoral process, especially when your silence strengthens a dictatorship.

Less than a week before the March 2nd elections, Minister of Finance Winston Jordan granted permission for a number of state assets to be sold, among them some 2.5 acres of prime land at Mud Lot, Cummingsburg, Georgetown, to BK International.

Dear Editor, The events of the last year or so – constitutional breaches and defiance, along with the GECOM dodges and attempts to swear in the wrong president – have rendered Guyana an unstable environment.

Jermaine Ifill, who died on Tuesday from the COVID-19 virus,  got no response from the state hotline after reporting his symptoms and made several attempts to acquire a non-rebreather mask and an oxygen tank while in institutional isolation just prior to his death.

Dear Editor, I am urging my friend Mayor Ubraj Narine to reconsider his decision not to implement an immediate lockdown of Georgetown.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) is unimpressed with the current government’s management of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.

Dear Editor, March 2, 2020 was the day that the Guyanese nation voted in the General Elections. 

Chairman of West Indies senior male selection panel, Roger Harper has described the prematurely ended West Indies Championship as interesting while listing a few players that stood out.

As her attorney had announced, APNU+AFC candidate Ulita Grace Moore will be appealing the Full Court’s decision discharging injections she had previously been granted which had halted preparations for a recount of votes cast at the March 2nd polls.

Dear Editor, General elections were held in Guyana, on March 2, 2020, and to date the results have not been made available to the parties that contested the elections.

The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) is still fighting on the ropes to bring its four boxers home from Cuba.

Dear Editor, Three events in the past years have captured and captivated my imagination as far as Guyana is concerned.

Despite the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) threatening the cricket landscape for the 2020 season, teenaged West Berbice cricketers, Seon Glasgow and Nigel Deodat are working hard to excel in this year’s under-19 tournament.

Drug accused businessman Ghalee Khan is seeking a plea deal with US authorities in relation to his cocaine trafficking charge, according to court documents.

Dear Editor, Is there a plan for the Leadership of the Coronavirus Committee/Task Force to meet with the Leadership of Corporate Guyana/Private Businesses (Banks DIH, DDL, the Financial Institutions, ANSA McAl, Massy Group, Demtoco, Digicel, GTT, Grace Kennedy, etc etc etc  and to engage them in meaningful discussions about your plans, the activities you are hoping to undertake and the quantity of resources needed and their possible assistance in helping the nation  to  acquire the required  items?

By Shaquawn Gill In spite of the ‘social distancing’ precautions advised by the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) in light of the deadly novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), senior citizens yesterday gathered in clusters at post offices across the country to collect their pensions.

The Georgetown Grand Prix schedule will have to be altered, due to the Novel Corona Virus (Covid-19) Pandemic, when organizers get an opportunity to meet.

Police on Monday recovered a motor car which was stolen more than one week ago during an armed robbery committed on taxi driver Shameer Shafeek with almost all of its parts stripped.

Dear Editor, For anyone in the Ministry of Public Health or from the Covid-19 multi-stakeholder response forum that is interested in having more test kits to help detect the virus amongst the populace, please do reach out to Mylab Discovery Solutions Pvt Lab.

Participation in the 2020 Pan Am junior squash championships in El Salvador was high on the agenda of the Guyana Squash Association (GSA) but the tournament is now in limbo as the world struggles to deal with the deadly COVID– 19 pandemic. 

(Barbados Nation) A mandatory quarantine period for all visitors, restrictions on when to leave home, a ban on the sale of liquor and a change in the operating hours of all essential businesses are among the measures acting Prime Minister Santia Bradshaw announced in an address to the nation last night.

Dear Editor,      These are hard and despairing days.       Theodore Roethke wrote: “In a dark time the eye begins to see…”        There is still so much good.

In a bid to contain the coronavirus, parks are to be closed over the Easter weekend.

A handyman was yesterday brought before a Georgetown Magistrate’s Court, on a charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Cricket West Indies president, Ricky Skerritt, has warned that the regional side’s climb up the rankings ladder will be a gradual one, noting he did not anticipate significant change during his first tenure.

(Trinidad Guardian) Mere hours after the Ministry of Health announced the nation’s fourth death from the COVID-19 virus came news yesterday morning of a fifth death.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to highlight a common characterization or distorting, of Coronavirus prevention in the global medical community.

Two youths were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with robbing a man of his cellphone.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Four new states imposed sweeping stay-at-home directives yesterday in response to the coronavirus pandemic, putting over 80% of Americans under lockdown as the number of deaths in the United States nearly doubled in three days.

(Trinidad Express) Police Commissioner Gary Griffith’s threat to close banks, supermarkets and markets cannot be enforced.

Dear Editor, We all breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the rulings of the High Court on March 31, 2020 with regards to the appeal brought by Mr.

The energetic co-founder of the Reliance Healthcare Group, Jermaine Ifill described himself in his LinkedIn profile as “ambitious and open-minded, honest and kind,” someone who loved travelling and working.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – An indigenous woman in a village deep in the Amazon rainforest has contracted the novel coronavirus, the first case reported among Brazil’s more than 300 tribes, the Health Ministry’s indigenous health service Sesai said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Trump administration said yesterday it was deploying more U.S.

Dear Editor, Seeking legal resolution to the various impasses by the political parties during this election process has proven the strength and independence of the judiciary.

Whenever a country faces a crisis of any kind be it natural disaster, war, or health related, the people likely to suffer the most are the poor and the vulnerable and this is because they have no buffers, financial or otherwise with which to ride out any literal or virtual storm.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Chairman of FIFA’s normalisation committee for Trinidad football, Robert Hadad, says he has no vested interest in the local game and stakeholders should not expect any partiality.