Daily Archive: Saturday, April 18, 2020

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday that China should face consequences if it was “knowingly responsible” for the coronavirus pandemic.

Guyana has recorded its seventh novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) death. A release from the Department of Public Information quotes Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence as having confirmed that the death of the unidentified individual.

(Trinidad Guardian) The United States says it is not militarising the Caribbean but will remain transparent in all of its operations as it mounts a united effort to dismantle the transnational narcotics trade.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Doctors and health workers criticised the British government today for suggesting that personal protective equipment (PPE) worn while treating patients infected with coronavirus could be re-used, as supplies run low across the country.

(Reuters) – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said today  that a recent drop in hospitalizations and other improving metrics indicated the state may be past the peak of its coronavirus crisis and on a path toward stabilizing the healthcare system.

(Jamaica Star) Richard Cox thought he was taking three of his children to experience pure fun in Gayle, St Mary, on Wednesday morning.

(Jamaica Star) The National Environment Planning Agency (NEPA),  has condemned the actions of persons shown in recent videos circulating on social media, taunting crocodiles with dogs,  at the Greater Portmore Sewage Ponds in St.

(Trinidad Express) Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh said a hacker used his Facebook account to advise someone to mute their television when journalists ask questions at the news conferences.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police were forced to disperse a large crowd of people gathered at the Barakah Grounds in Chaguanas yesterday, to get hampers distributed by a team under the guidance of well-known media owner Inshan Ishmael.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police have detained a man for the shooting death of a Assistant Superintendent of Police in Chaguanas yesterday.

The long-awaited recount of votes from the March 2 general elections will be conducted using no more than 10 workstations, according to the Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), retired judge Claudette Singh, but it remains unclear when the process will begin and how long it will last.

Vanessa Benjamin, the 21-year-old Ithaca Village, West Bank Berbice woman who was killed on Thursday afternoon, was stabbed over 15 times, her family said yesterday.

Food security in Indigenous villages has become a growing concern for residents as travel restrictions to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the increased cost of flights have negatively impacted the delivery of basic necessities to the usually remote communities.

Ms. Bikini champion, Chandini Khan is adamant that it is time for Guyanese “to up our game” in the fight against the pandemic, COVID-19.

National left-arm spinner Kaysia Schultz is banking on a solid performance in the  Regional Women’s Super50 competition  to stake a claim for a West Indies call-up.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Caribbean Premier League organisers have alluded to novel social distancing measures which could be implemented to ensure the popular Twenty20 tournament comes off as planned, but say they will only proceed with the staging of the event once it was “safe to do so”.

The annual Mayor’s Cup/Inter-Ward/Village football tournament has been rescheduled Coordinator, former national football coach Lennox Arthur has said.

Following an official filing by United States lobbying firm JJ&B LLC, which says it was hired by government to change the narrative surrounding the March 2 elections, the Ministry of the Presidency (MoTP) yesterday stated that neither the Government of Guyana nor President David Granger had hired it.

The second largest daily increase in positive novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases here was recorded yesterday even as Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) representative Dr William Adu-Krow said that the curve was slowly being flattened. 

With many households on the breadline due to the lockdown stemming from the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) and Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC) plan to engage affected families with relief packages.

Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller admitted he was stunned to learn that he tested positive for the coronavirus, especially since he maintains he was strict in his adherence to social distancing.

The police are on the hunt for a man who allegedly shot and killed a labourer on Wednesday night at Middle Mazaruni River.

The closure of all schools in Guyana has been extended until further notice, according to the National COVID-19 Task Force.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados Pride captain Kraigg Brathwaite has come in for praise for his handling of the side during the recent successful campaign in the domestic first class championship, despite his ordinary form with the bat.

While warning that its independent modelling of the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) projects 19,500 cases by the end of the first week in May, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) yesterday said that a fully-empowered government needs to be in place to grapple with the health threat and that this would only be possible with a quick end to the elections crisis through a recount of votes.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Quinton de Kock will be overlooked as captain of the South Africa test team to avoid overburdening the nation’s top performer over recent years, director of cricket Graeme Smith said yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Former Leeds United and England defender Norman ‘Bites Yer Legs’ Hunter has died at 76 after contracting the new coronavirus, the Championship (second-tier) club said yesterday.

A group of Lodge residents, formally known as the Lodge Housing Scheme Beautification Group, yesterday distributed 25 large hampers to vulnerable members of the community in their effort to ease the impact resulting from the shutdown due to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – The U.S. economy has imploded in the past month amid aggressive measures to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, with 22 million people filing for unemployment benefits and most factories, stores and other businesses at a virtual standstill.

Noting that there is sometimes need for attorneys to be in contact with their clients even after regular working hours, the Guyana Bar Association (GBA) has written to the National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF) requesting that attorneys be classified as essential workers.

It has been over a month since the Cricket West Indies (CWI) Regional Four-Day Championship was halted at the eighth round because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro yesterday called for the reopening of the country’s borders, as he pushes to restart South America’s largest economy, but conceded he may be blamed if the new coronavirus outbreak worsens as a result.

CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – Cricket South Africa (CSA) confirmed yesterday they had made former test skipper Graeme Smith’s tenure as director of cricket permanent, keeping him in the role until March 2022.

“She is all the things a good baker/caterer is,” one reviewer said of Lianne Fernandes-Sears and her works of art.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada will invest C$2.5 billion ($1.8 billion) in measures to help the hard-hit oil and gas industry during the coronavirus outbreak, which has killed 1,250 people in the country, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said yesterday.

A 20-year-old man was on Thursday remanded to prison after he was charged with the murder of Albert Raghu, the Enmore, East Coast Demerara labourer who died after he was stabbed during a quarrel over loud music on Sunday night.

Dear Editor, The world has witnessed, through the international community, its Observers and Heads of Missions in Guyana, a criminal conspiracy to prevent the real results of our General and Regional Elections being declared and the substitution of a fraudulent result carried out in the main by three  senior officers of GECOM on behalf of the political party clinging to power.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is chairing a team of experts—including former People’s National Movement and People’s Partnership finance minister economists Wendell Mottley and Winston Dookeran—who are drafting a recovery roadmap for Trinidad and Tobago following the COVID-19 crisis.

Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association President Dr Warren Blake says Jamaica might have to send two separate teams to the World Athletics Championships and Commonwealth Games in 2022 as the events are scheduled to be held days apart.

Bread. It is the food that everyone has a passionate opinion on and about.

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria,  (Reuters) – Nigeria’s Rivers State has quarantined 22 Exxon Mobil Corp.

Almost three weeks after he allegedly shot and killed his father during an argument, a Paramakatoi Village pork knocker Dintus John was yesterday charged with manslaughter and remanded to prison.

Dear Editor, In retrospect, I will go out on a limb and say that we were totally unprepared for a pandemic  of this magnitude, globally.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A federal judge has ordered a Florida-based company to stop selling a product that it says cures COVID-19 but prosecutors allege contains a powerful bleach that could make people sick when it is ingested, the Justice Department said yesterday.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian startup Rappi is piloting deliveries by robots as a safe way of getting food to people forced to stay at home due to the coronavirus pandemic.

I have always enjoyed cooking for more than one reason. Satisfaction from seeing people whom I care for eat meals I prepared has been one of my biggest motivators.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A British court awarded $11 million in damages and expenses yesterday to a former partner at global accounting firm Ernst & Young who exposed money laundering at a major gold refinery in the United Arab Emirates.

Sandra Brescenio, the woman who allegedly stabbed her common-law-husband to death on Sunday during an argument at their home, was yesterday charged with manslaughter and granted $300,000 bail.

Dear Editor, COVID-19, the disease caused by SARs-CoV-2, is wreaking havoc on people’s lives and the economy.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – Premier League clubs yesterday discussed possible models for finishing the current season but did not consider a specific date for play to resume while U.K.

NEW DELHI/BENGALURU,  (Reuters) – Latin American countries including Brazil, Argentina and Colombia have scrapped import duties on some respiratory equipment from India as a temporary trade-relief measure to fight the new coronavirus, engineering exports body EEPC India said yesterday.

Newly established tourism promotion company Tourism Guyana and the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work together to promote the awareness of Guyana’s tourism product and to drive market demand among locals and international travellers.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – The tennis governing bodies have joined forces to support lower-level professionals who are struggling financially during the sport’s shutdown due to the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Dear Editor, With the Covid-19 lockdown, I stave off cabin fever being entertained on a daily basis by the APNU+AFC’s hilarious antics clutching at any straw to stay in government.

MONTREAL,  (Reuters) – Transport Canada said on Friday that all airline passengers would be required to wear a non-medical mask or face covering during travel to curb the spread of coronavirus.

Artists tend to view the world through a very vivid perspective.

(Reuters) – The NBA has reached an agreement with the National Basketball Players Association to withhold 25% of each player’s salary from May 15 due to the shutdown of the sport because of the coronavirus pandemic.

In December 1915 the British Minister of Munitions, David Lloyd George, described the war in Europe as a “convulsion of Nature … bringing unheard-of changes in the social and industrial fabric … a cyclone which is tearing up by the roots the ornamental plants of modern society … an earthquake which is upheaving the very rocks of European life.

A short trip downtown the day after the curfew was implemented a couple of weeks ago, was gloomy.

MEXICO CITY,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A judge ordered the Mexican government to extend its coronavirus protections to migrants, ruling that health care be guaranteed to detainees and temporary residence permits given to those especially vulnerable to the disease.

Guyana Carnival, Duck & Drake Promotion and Events592 are set to put on their third virtual party tonight dubbed ‘Stag in Yuh Yard’, an initiative that first kicked off two Saturdays ago via social networking site Zoom.

Two brothers were arrested on Thursday after the discovery of an unlicensed pistol and several live rounds at their Guyhoc Park, Georgetown residence.

As the Ministry of Public Infrastructure awaits financing to execute works on a vulnerable portion of Mahaicony sea defence, emergency measures have been put in place to monitor the erosion that is rapidly taking place.

Dear Editor, Over the years I’ve seen the numerous media reports of families losing their entire life’s possessions, and I’ve witnessed the trauma that fire creates in people’s lives.

BEIJING/SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – Nearly 1,300 people who died of the coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan, or half the total, were not counted in death tolls because of lapses, state media said yesterday, but Beijing dismissed claims that there had been any kind of cover-up.