Daily Archive: Friday, April 17, 2020

Articles published on Friday, April 17, 2020

IPL Trophy

IPL 2020 suspended until further notice

Due to the evolving global health concerns regarding COVID-19 and lockdown measures implemented by the Government of India to contain the spread of the pandemic, the IPL Governing Council of the BCCI has decided that the IPL 2020 Season will be suspended till further notice. 

COVID-19 guidelines

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends following these preoccupations in order to reduce the chances of contracting COVID-19: ●  Avoid large events and mass gatherings.

Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Ministry of Health and Wellness, Dr Jacquiline Bisasor McKenzie.

Why Jamaica rejected Cuban COVID-19 drug

(Jamaica Gleaner) Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie has said that the Government’s decision to reject the use of the Cuban antiviral drug Interferon Alpha 2B to treat persons battling COVID-19 at this time was made after consultations with experts in the public-health sector.

Carl Greenidge

Greenidge ‘not fired’ – Harmon

Director General of the Ministry of Presidency Joseph Harmon yesterday maintained that the Foreign Secretary Carl Greenidge has not been fired.  “After every elections the President has to make a decision on what his cabinet looks like… It is a procedural matter after an election to bring to an end the engagement of all of those persons; be it advisors or be it a minister,” Harmon told reporters yesterday.

Claudette Singh

GECOM Chair to rule today on recount process

By the end of today, the world is expected to finally have a clear indication on the next step in Guyana’s protracted 2020 General and Regional Elections (GRE) when the Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) publicizes the timeline and other logistical arrangements for the holding of the national recount.

COVID-19 forces indefinite suspension of IPL

MUMBAI, India, CMC – West Indies T20 superstars contracted to play in the Indian Premier League (IPL) this year will have to wait for their big pay day, with the 2020 season officially suspended until further notice due to growing concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nicholas Deygoo-Boyer

Chamber voice

Business (This interview was provided at the request of the Guyana Review) GR: Can you give us your own assessment of the impact which the political climate has had on the business environment?

NACAC president, Mike Sands.

Track and field body sees no problems with CARIFTA Games postponement

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Track and field’s regional governing body, NACAC, said it did not anticipate any major issues arising after the 49th CARIFTA Games was pushed back until next year because of the novel coronavirus outbreak.   Bermuda, which was expected to stage the region’s premier junior track and field championship over the Eastern weekend, has been retained as host and the games will still be designated the 49th edition.

There should be an international treaty governing process and declaration of election results

Dear Editor, The vile events that continue to unfold following the March general election which has been hijacked by the PNC and its willing APNU/AFC/GECOM accomplices in order for the party to cling to power must give global leadership pause to seriously consider drafting and establishing an international treaty that would govern the process and declaration of election results held anywhere in the democratic world.a

A brief historical glimpse at urban crime in Georgetown: Part One

By Barrington Braithwaite To understand the social considerations that helped to sow the seeds of urban crime in some areas of George-town (particularly during the nineteenth century) you have to reflect, considerably, on the political circumstances of the period, the stereotypes that fashioned the ‘haves and have-nots’, which had its roots in European stereotypes.

Oil and the fashioning of a national direction

When, in May 2015 the United States ‘super major’ ExxonMobil handed us the news that beneath our territorial waters lay oil & gas riches beyond our (and perhaps even their) expectations, the knowledge altered our outlook as individuals, families, communities and as a nation, in an unprecedented way.  Before the ExxonMobil discovery and disclosure our perspective on oil resided in an awareness that for us it might be an as yet unearthed resource (earlier exploratory pursuits had admittedly thrown up positive evidence of the presence of oil in our territorial waters) that might one day ‘come to the surface’.

Christopher Punch

Mazaruni Prison escapee recaptured

Convicted prisoner, Christopher Punch, who escaped from the Mazaruni prison just over a month ago after he asked to be released to urinate in some bushes near to where he was carrying out labour duties, has been recaptured.

Emergencies! Both war-rooms reconvene

“Thanks to the President’s Leadership…” PNC War room: Dire concerns, challenges Compared to the real or contrived confidence, exuberance and positive positions regarding the polls before March 02, this first war-room emergency session since election day was sombre, somewhat gloomily uncertain.

Chaos or tidiness?

Locked in our homes as we are for the duration, some of us may be overcome by the urge to embark on a thorough decluttering, and create a clear, orderly space in our living quarters.