Articles published on Thursday, May 21, 2020
Statement by GECOM Chair Claudette SinghI am perturbed by an article published online via websites and social media platforms as well as in the today’s edition of the Kaieteur News under the caption, “Justice Singh doesn’t think it’s GECOM’s role to probe claims of anomalies – Commissioner Sase Gunraj.”
The Carter Center today expressed disappointment at not being able to return and observe the recount of votes at Guyana’s March 2nd general elections.
BENGALURU/LONDON, (Reuters) – The United States has secured almost a third of the first one billion doses planned for AstraZeneca’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine by pledging up to $1.2 billion, as world powers scramble for medicines to get their economies back to work.
TAIZ, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Jamil al-Saboot and his family were told by a Yemeni aid agency to self-isolate to stop the spread of coronavirus, he knew he would not heed the advice.
(Sportsmax) The West Indies tour of England this summer is becoming increasingly likely following positive discussions between the medical team and staff of the English Cricket Board and the CWI on Monday.
Inspite of the Covid-19 pandemic affecting the local football landscape, Guyana Police Force (GPF) defender Trevon Lythcott, disclosed that he has continued to train compliments of an organized training schedule in expectation of the discipline’s recommencement.
West Indies legend, Sir Clive Lloyd is of the opinion it would not be wise for the Caribbean side to tour England with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic not yet under control.
Canadian-owned Guyana Goldfields Inc (GGI) on Tuesday terminated the services of over 160 employees and plans to continue to reduce its approximately 530-member workforce over the next few days as it prepares for a takeover by Canadian silver miner Silvercorp.
A total of 71 ballot boxes were recounted yesterday at the conclusion of day 15 of the national recount and as GECOM seeks to further accelerate the process, Chairperson, Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh intends to ask the national COVID-19 task force for two more work stations.
Cricket West Indies (CWI) has begun processing payments for a number of international cricketers but match fees for the West Indies Championship remain outstanding.
An investigation has been launched after a 25-year-old mother died after delivering her baby at the Fyrish Health Centre on Saturday evening.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia quick Josh Hazlewood says the proposed ban on cricketers using saliva to shine the ball will be difficult to police but ultimately might not make much difference to the art of swing bowling.
MUMBAI, India, CMC – The Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) believes it can capitalise on the window opened if the International Cricket Council cancels the Twenty20 World Cup later this year.
The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) has offered a compensation package to the widow of Ryan Khayum, the Pomeroon River farmer, who died in a boat accident involving a GDF coastguard vessel to cover her losses following the crash, a relative told Stabroek News.
Twenty-six more persons were tested for COVID-19 yesterday and of that number, no new case of the virus was recorded.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan plan to send a 25-man squad to England in July to meet the demands of playing an entire tour in a ‘bio-secure’ bubble, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief executive Wasim Khan told Reuters.
Two families are now counting their losses after a storm swatted their houses at Number 36 Village, Corentyne destroying their roofs and other sections.
LONDON, CMC – Jamaican international Adrian Mariappa confirmed yesterday he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus but said he was dumbfounded over how he had contracted it.
Eight members from the uniformed branch of the Presidential Guard Unit (PGU) recently tested positive for the coronavirus.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia quick Pat Cummins wants cricket’s lawmakers to approve the use of an artificial substance to shine the ball after a ban on the use of saliva was recommended in the wake of the COVID-19 health crisis.
Dear Editor, I’m writing on behalf of 18 family members who have been stranded in Aruba waiting for an opportunity to return home.
Former president of Cricket West Indies (CWI) Dave Cameron has sent a legal letter to the board seeking a copy of the PKF report that was done on behalf of the board, last year.
A Corentyne pedal cyclist died after he was struck by a hire car along the Princetown Public Road, Upper Corentyne yesterday.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Some English Premier League games could be shown on a free-to-air basis when soccer returns after pausing due to coronavirus, culture minister Oliver Dowden said yesterday.
Dear Editor, President David Granger over the past few days has shifted from his position of general silence and has now engaged the media and appeared on a radio programme.
A teenager who was shot on March 6th with pellets by a police rank during the Bush Lot Village protest over the elections result is still awaiting surgery.
(Jamaica Observer) Amidst the joy felt by Jamaican crew members as Royal Caribbean Cruise Line’s Adventure of the Seas docked in Falmouth on Tuesday, one of their colleagues has been left broken.
MANAUS, Brazil, (Reuters) – The mayor of the largest city in the Amazon rainforest said the coronavirus pandemic is killing indigenous people and warned of a “genocide” if Brazil’s right-wing government fails to protect vulnerable tribes.
Police have arrested a third suspect in connection with the murder of security guard Margaret Dawson, whose battered body was found in Le Repentir Cemetery on Monday morning.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Cricket Australia (CA) is exploring the possibility of disinfecting the ball during matches to minimise the health risk to players during the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of its medical team said yesterday.
(Barbados Nation) Minister of Tourism Kerrie Symmonds said yesterday that the Grantley Adams International Airport remains closed to commercial traffic until June 30, however, there is no guarantee airlines will resume flying to Barbados at that time.
Dear Editor, In a letter published in both SN and KN on May 20, 2020, authored by David Hinds, he accused the western powers to “have openly chosen a side in the current standoff- they have taken the PPP’s side”.
(Trinidad Guardian) At least one person who tested positive for COVID-19 and discharged had to be taken back in after redeveloping symptoms.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – The city of Wuhan, the original epicentre of China’s coronavirus outbreak, conducted 856,128 tests for the disease on Tuesday, the local health authority said today, compared with 467,847 a day earlier.
(Sportsmax) Lawyers representing William Wallace and the ousted executive of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) were yesterday granted permission to serve documents o FIFA pertaining to their case against them to be heard in the Trinidad and Tobago High Court.
The nursing supervisory department at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) has confirmed that the hospital is indeed experiencing intermittent water shortages after a complaint was made to this newspaper.
RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s coronavirus outbreak worsened yetserday and the South American nation could soon have the second-highest number of cases in the world as the Health Ministry reported 888 new deaths and nearly 20,000 new infections in a single day.
(Trinidad Express) As the country awaits a reaction from Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley on the controversy swirling around National Security Minister Stuart Young, he retreated to his garden yesterday where he spent time relaxing and doing some “focused thinking”.
Dear Editor, I was incredulous after listening to the Benschop interview of Mr.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The following is a brief roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus.
A father of four was yesterday ordered by Magistrate Sunil Scarce to do community service for breaching the national COVID-19 curfew.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Bolivian authorities yesterday fired the health minister and opened an investigation of potential corruption over allegations that officials bought ventilators at inflated prices, underscoring the global challenge to prevent graft in the coronavirus pandemic.
Dear Editor, Since Mingo’s fiasco at Ashmins building, there have been loud and persistent cries of electoral fraud.
WEST Indies Retired Players Foundation committee member Dr Nigel Camacho said he was shocked to hear US$500,000 was sent by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to Cricket West Indies for the benefit of past players.
KOLKATA/DHAKA, (Reuters) – A powerful cyclone pounded eastern India and Bangladesh yesterday, killing at least 14 people and destroying thousands of homes, officials said, leaving authorities struggling to mount relief efforts amid a surging coronavirus outbreak.
The application for a relief flight to repatriate citizens of the United States who are marooned here due to COVID-19 travel restrictions is still being looked at, Director General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Egbert Field clarified on Tuesday.
(Barbados Nation) Barbados is still under a 24-hour national curfew. That was made clear by Attorney General Dale Marshall, who said the intention is to keep as many Barbadians at home while the COVID-19 pandemic remains a threat, even as Government has partially reopened some businesses and individuals are allowed in public at various times during the day.
There is an idiom that says, ‘Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes’, it means that you really cannot understand another person’s experience until you have put yourself in their situation.
PARIS, (Reuters) – Former Tour de France stage winner Jarlinson Pantano has been handed a four-year suspension after failing an anti-doping test last year, the International Cycling Union (UCI) said yesterday.
Dear Editor, The Coalition is shadow boxing in semantics. While its Leader said or inferred the elections were free and fair and “orderly,” this does not mean the elections (the fraudulent acts in District Four aside) lacked credibility.
Installment 2020-4 Q: I am a US Citizen interested in returning to the US, will there be another flight?
A week ago, Guyana’s Department of Public Information (DPI) issued a flattering Government statement saluting incumbent President David Granger on the fifth anniversary of his swearing in and congratulating him on his second term in office.
MIDLAND, Mich., (Reuters) – Rising floodwaters unleashed by two dam failures submerged parts of the central Michigan town of Midland yesterday, displacing thousands of residents and spreading into a Dow Chemical Co plant in the riverfront city.
