Daily Archive: Saturday, May 9, 2020

The Ministry of Public Health today said that the number of persons with COVID-19 has risen from 94 to 97.

The PPP today challenged a GECOM decision to livestream observation reports from the recount process which it said were riddled with `ridiculous’ claims and would lead to further delays in the process.

The Ministry of Public Health today said that it is broadening testing to find asymptomatic COVID-19 patients.

(Jamaica Observer) Almost 300 Jamaicans are to leave the island this weekend to take part in the seasonal farm work programme in the United States and Canada, despite recent reports that several of their countrymen are among 47 workers employed to a farm in Canada who have contracted the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s senior men’s ice hockey team’s historic championship win at last year’s Amerigol LATAM Cup is memorialised in a Canadian sports yearbook published earlier this year.

(Trinidad Guardian) “You are a traitor lady.” This was the accusation Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley levelled against Opposition leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday, as he accused her of conspiring to get the United States to sanction Trinidad and Tobago over a fuel deal emanating from this country which may have eventually Venezuela.

The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) is doing whatever in it can to assist its umbrella bodies and athletes during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Emuwnah Pross and Tevin Bremner will face-off in the final of the inaugural I-Bet Supreme FIFA 20 ‘League of Champions’ e-Sports Championship, following semifinal, wins on Thursday evening.

Former junior chess champion, Attorney-at-Law, Ron Motilall, supports the Guyana Chess Federation’s decision to suspend tournaments locally and says there are several alternative measures the GCF could use to keep the players active.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Former top West Indies cricket administrator, Deryck Murray, has warned against a forced restart of cricket amidst the current challenges posed by the deadly coronavirus pandemic, and says any premature actions by authorities could lead to a deepening of the crisis.

International cricketer Keemo Paul recently returned to his homeland of Saxacalli on a mission to aid the village with basic food and cleaning supplies.

Forty-three ballot boxes from the March 2nd general elections were recounted yesterday, bringing the three-day tally to 108 of 2339 boxes and upping the pressure on GECOM to decide how to quicken the process that has been slowed by numerous queries from the incumbent APNU+AFC.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – India captain Virat Kohli and his team mates would be ready to spend two weeks in quarantine in Australia if that helped the tour go ahead as planned later this year, a top official of the Indian board has said.

With a resident of the Palms Geriatric Home officially the latest COVID-19 fatality and at least one other suspected to be a positive case, staff yesterday said they did not have adequate protective gear even as efforts continued to test and track those who may have come into contact with them.

LONDON, CMC – England Test captain Joe Root has thrown his support behind the radical proposal aimed at ensuring the Test series against West Indies comes off in July, arguing fans were “desperate for some live sport” and players were frustrated by the lack of playing time.

Questioning if an attempt is afoot to “sideline” certain persons during the ongoing recount of votes cast at the March 2nd polls, Chairman of A New and United Guyana (ANUG) and attorney Timothy Jonas yesterday revealed that he has been contacted by the Public Health Ministry to undergo testing for COVID-19.

Guyana’s Keemo Paul will be featured in a Hero Caribbean Premier League film on May 22.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s chief selector, Tony Gray, believes Denesh Ramdin remains the best gloveman in the region, despite the rise of several other wicketkeepers in recent years.

A total of 41 persons have been charged in Berbice over the past week with breaching the national curfew and other restrictions in place to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

(Reuters) – The magical atmosphere will be missing if the cricket season currently stalled by the COVID-19 pandemic resumes in empty stadiums, India captain Virat Kohli has said.

A man died yesterday morning after he was struck by a car along Aubrey Barker Road, in South Ruimveldt, and the police are searching for the driver, who abandoned the vehicle and fled the scene afterward.

A mother is calling for answers after her one year old child passed away at a city hospital following questionable care.

(Reuters) – Children will need more access to sport in the post-pandemic world and there is a pressing need to press authorities to stop school sports “withering on the vine”, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said yesterday.

Houston Rockets head coach Mike D’Antoni is in championship-or-else territory when the 2019-20 season resumes.

In his Europe Day message, European Union (EU) Ambassador Fernando Ponz Cantó yesterday said he would not wish dictatorship on any country, including Guyana.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The biggest threat to Brazil’s ability to successfully combat the spread of the coronavirus and tackle the unfolding public health crisis is the country’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, according to British medical journal The Lancet.

Guyana continues to record few to no increases in the amount of confirmed cases of COVID-19, even as testing has been ramped up.

Dear Editor, As I begin to write, I am reminded of a Martin Carter piece in 1958, when he opined that ‘just as the man on the peak of a mountain sees a different world from the man in the valley, just so should we, from our particular context of being, see something more and something different from anybody else.’

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – The reigning NBA champions Toronto Raptors said yesterday they will allow players access to the team’s training facilities from next week under strict guidelines amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The U.S. government reported more catastrophic economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis yesterday as the pandemic pierced the very walls of the White House and California gave the green light for its factories to restart after a seven-week lockdown.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The White House National Security Council yesterday denied the United States was involved in a bungled incursion into Venezuela this week, allegedly to overthrow President Nicolas Maduro, adding if it had been, it would have been “overt, direct & effective.”

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) last evening announced that the delayed examinations for Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) students will be held in July.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Canada’s amateur sport system will receive C$72 million ($51.72 million) in coronavirus relief funding from the federal government, the country’s Heritage Minister said yesterday.

Dear Editor, Yesterday marked one month since the President of GAWU, Mr Komal Chand passed away while he was receiving medical treatment in Cuba.

ACCRA,  (Reuters) – Ghana has directed Eni SpA and Springfield E&P to begin talks to combine their adjacent oil and gas fields, according to a letter seen by Reuters.

The Miss/Mrs/Teen/Mr India Guyana Organization this week introduced the five contenders who will vie for the inaugural Mr India Guyana title this year.

(Trinidad Guardian)  “You are a traitor lady.” This was the accusation Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley levelled against Opposition leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday, as he accused her of conspiring to get the United States to sanction Trinidad and Tobago over a fuel deal emanating from this country which may have eventually Venezuela.

I lost my mother less than 2 months ago. Over the years, I have been fortunate, through my writings, to express thoughts of love and appreciation to my mother and for that, I am truly grateful.

Dear Editor, The recount of the Elections has started. The media have been shutout of the premises to camp on the roadside.

Former NHL player Georges Laraque, who has recovered from COVID-19, doesn’t want to see the season resume amid the pandemic.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose sharply in April, government data showed on Friday, as the coronavirus outbreak keeps many environmental enforcers out of the field and the country prepares to deploy troops to fight illegal logging.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Russian soldiers are operating drones over Venezuela as part of a search operation for members of a paramilitary force that led a botched invasion this week, local media reported yesterday, citing deleted tweets from a state military command center.

Dear Editor, In its publication on May 4, 2020 the Stabroek News carried a story under the caption `Teemal Judgment seen as key part of Massiah’s legacy’.

MILAN, (Reuters) – Inter Milan’s entire first-team squad have given negative results in testing for the coronavirus, the Serie A club said on Friday as they prepared to resume training.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina will keep pushing for talks with creditors even as a deadline for its $65 billion debt restructuring proposal passed yesterday with little sign it had the support needed from international bondholders to unlock a comprehensive deal.

As the police continue to probe the execution-style killing of Linden clothes vendor Glenroy Chapman, the lone suspect who was in custody has been released on station bail, Commander of Region 10 Hugh Winter yesterday confirmed.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s Chief Prosecutor Tarek Saab said yesterday his office had requested the detention and extradition of U.S.

Many of us already have new healthy habits emerging as a result of the lockdown.

There has been much speculation about the events that followed the March 2nd general elections.

The last six weeks have cost 33 million Americans their jobs –  up from 22 million just a fortnight ago.

Dear Editor, The Olympics have been rescheduled but the APNU+AFC games have not been affected.

(BBC) Teams will be allowed to use five substitutes when the season resumes after a Fifa proposal to help with fixture congestion was approved.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund yesterday said it would back Peru’s request for a two-year $11 billion flexible credit line to be used as precautionary financing, as the copper-rich South American nation seeks to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

Colleen Daly, the North East La Penitence vendor who was severely chopped about her body two Saturdays ago by her common-law husband before he took his own life, has been discharged from the hospital but is unable to do anything without support.

ASUNCION,  (Reuters) – The fast spread of the coronavirus in Brazil represents “a great threat” to Paraguay, which has managed to contain the advance of the pandemic over the last two months with a strict lockdown, President Mario Abdo said yesterday.

With the coronavirus pandemic having placed routines and the pursuit of dreams on hold, Earllesa Mingo, an aspiring actress and comedienne has still been able to entertain thousands of people through the TikTok app.

LONDON/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Hackers linked to Iran have targeted staff at U.S.