Daily Archive: Saturday, May 23, 2020

Eight-five ballot boxes  from the March 2nd general elections were recounted today at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, according to GECOM commissioner, Sase Gunraj in a post on his Facebook page.

Over 500 businesses have already applied to benefit from COVID-19 relief grants from the Ministry of Business  through the Small Business Bureau, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

LONDON, (Reuters) – A COVID-19 test that gives results in just over an hour and which requires no laboratory, potentially allowing for swifter testing of much larger numbers of people, is being rolled out at a number of London hospitals after getting regulatory clearance.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Nearly 200 political figures from around the world today decried Beijing’s proposed national security laws for Hong Kong, including 17 U.S.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaicans, who visited the United States and overstayed their time as a result of COVID-19 travel restrictions, will not be penalized by the United States Immigration department. 

Mayor of Bartica, Gifford Marshall confirmed yesterday that the mining town has recorded its first novel coronavirus (COVID-19) case.

(Trinidad Express) On the same day that he was involved in a road traffic accident which cost him his left leg, Police Constable Shane Smith said his son was born.

(Trinidad Guardian) Christine Ramdeen, the mother of Junior Soogrim, who drowned with his younger brother Jason, 7, in a pool at an abandoned quarrying site in Valencia last Sunday, says she is now fearful for her life after she has received two death threats during the week.

(Trinidad Guardian) Soca artiste Kimba Sorzano was granted $85,000 bail after he appeared before a Point Fortin magistrate today (Friday) charged with two sexual offences.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaican born NBA great Ewing hospitalized with COVID-19 WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – Jamaican born National Basketball Association (NBA) Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing, now the head basketball coach at Georgetown University, is in hospital with COVID-19.

(Jamaica Gleaner) National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says that like the 1,044 Jamaican crew members who returned to the island this week via the Adventure of the Seas, there are nine other cruise ships on the high seas with nationals eager to come home.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of 963Img Radio and member of the Evangel Church in New York, Patrick Thorpe, has been very busy in recent times as he organises thousands of food packages for those hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Jamaica Gleaner) After the alleged brutal slaying of her two sons 10 years ago during the so-called Tivoli incursion, Marjorie Williams is struggling to erase from her thoughts nightmarish flashbacks that remind her of the horrific event.

The nation’s fittest duo, Dillon Mahadeo and Delice Adonis will now have to set their sights on the 2021 Reebok CrossFit Games.

With only 41% of ballot boxes completed after day 17 of  a 25-day recount process, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is to meet today on accelerating the work and how to address claims of irregularities that are being raised by APNU+AFC agents.

By Rr. Rudi Webster I have often wondered why some athletes with great potential often disappoint, and why others with less physical ability and potential often exceed expectations and play really well.

Guyana has lifted its second one-million barrel cargo of crude oil entitlement from ongoing offshore production and the oil tanker Sonangol Namibe departed these shores yesterday afternoon.

Compound Archer Winnette Lawrence recently became the first Guyanese to participate in an international archery competition. 

The five men who were on board a boat that crashed into another vessel along the Upper Berbice River, resulting in the deaths of four men, were yesterday jointly charged with manslaughter.

The COVID-19 pandemic has derailed many sporting activities across the globe but the 2020 cycling season is not lost locally, in fact, plans are in the pipeline to get the wheels of the discipline turning once again.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s cricket board will not push for the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia to be postponed but would consider staging the Indian Premier League (IPL) in the October/November slot if it becomes available, a senior BCCI official has told Reuters.

Denis Jaikarran, the Regional Executive Officer (REO) of Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), was yesterday released on self-bail after he was charged with assaulting Regional Vice-Chairperson Nandranie Coonjah in September last year.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Cricket South Africa (CSA) plan to isolate players and support staff in a “bio-bubble” to minimise their exposure to COVID-19 and hasten a return to play.

Dear Editor, On Sunday last, David Granger emerged from his home complete with massive security  surrounded by a phalanx of former APNU+AFC Ministers and imposed his ‘Presidential’ presence on the GECOM Recount proceedings.

The Public Health Ministry yesterday said that no new cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were recorded from its latest round of testing.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Cricket West Indies has begun its search for a permanent head coach to oversee the embattled senior women side and halt a troubling run of results.

Dear Editor, While politicians fiddle, Guyana is smoldering under conditions which can flare into devastating social and economic wildfires.

A Leguan resident died yesterday afternoon after the tractor he was operating reportedly toppled at Waterloo backdam, Leguan, leaving him submerged.

Dear Editor, At the start of this COVID-19 Lockdown adventure, I absolutely thought I was going to make the most out of all this extra time.

Police are investigating an alleged murder in Region One, where a man was stabbed to death by his common-law wife on Friday afternoon.

Longtime Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan died at age 78 yesterday.

KARACHI, Pakistan, (Reuters) – A Pakistan International Airlines Airbus jet with 99 people aboard crashed into a crowded residential district of the city of Karachi yesterday afternoon after twice trying to land at the airport, a witness said.

RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said he was unwilling to see his family get “screwed” because of his inability to change law enforcement officials, according to a video released yesterday set to deepen the political crisis surrounding him.

Cricket West Indies (CWI) is yet to pronounce on the remaining regional tournaments for the calendar year.

(Reuters) – A flotilla of five tankers carrying Iranian fuel for gasoline-starved Venezuela is approaching the Caribbean, with the first vessel expected to reach the South American country’s waters tomorrow, according to Refinitiv Eikon tracking data.

Dear Editor, “GECOM Chairperson, retired Justice Claudette Singh, in a public statement on Thursday, reaffirmed emphatically: `While I continue to monitor the trends based on the allegations in the Observa-tion Reports, I am of the view that he who asserts must prove.’”

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Guyana, yesterday donated $20 million in food supplies to the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) in effort to provide support and relief to the people of Guyana during the current COVID-19 outbreak.

Scottie Pippen is “beyond livid” with Michael Jordan for his portrayal in the 10-part documentary “The Last Dance.”

Dear Editor, Certain elements involved in the ongoing Recount being held at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre continue to make unsubstantiated declarations in an attempt to frustrate and delay the process. 

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain will introduce a COVID-19 quarantine for travellers arriving from abroad from June 8, interior minister Priti Patel said yesterday, a measure that airlines have warned will devastate their industry.

The St. Joseph Mercy Hospital (SJMH) yesterday announced its launch of a novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing and treatment facility at the St.

(Trinidad Guardian) As of Thursday, there are no active cases of COVID-19 in the country.

TikToker Manisha Singh also known as ‘Swaggarherself’ has been dancing for some seven years.

Guyana is among eight Caribbean countries that are to benefit from a United Kingdom £3 million (USD $3.8 million) contribution to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to help contain the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and mitigate its impact in the region.

Dear Editor, Permit me a few lines to mourn the passing of a Caribbean media giant – Oliver Clarke who chaired the Jamaica Gleaner.

(Reuters) – The Premier League is “as confident as we can be” about England’s top-flight soccer league restarting in June, its chief executive Richard Masters was quoted as saying by the BBC yesterday.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The more than a century old car rental firm Hertz Global Holdings Inc filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday after its business all but vanished during the coronavirus pandemic and talks with creditors failed to result in needed relief.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Communist-run Cuba said this week that use of two drugs produced by its biotech industry that reduce hyper-inflammation in seriously ill COVID-19 patients has sharply curbed its coronavirus-related death toll.

Last week, for the first time ever, I ate a hot dog with the bread-bun that accompanied it and I liked it.

Dear Editor, The world is currently in a lockdown owing to the Global Pandemic of COVID-19.

Current COVID-19 measures have taken a severe toll on the economies of the indigenous communities of Orealla and Siparuta, according to Toshao Carl Peneux.

GAZA, (Reuters) – Trading jabs and punches, a team of young female boxers – some as young as four – trained on the beach in Gaza this week after their club was closed due to COVID-19.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – An English court threw out a $1.1 billion case Nigeria had brought against Royal Dutch Shell and Eni related to a dispute over the OPL 245 oilfield, a court document showed yesterday, while a related trial in Italy continues.

PERTH, (Reuters) – Relief and excitement are the overwhelming emotions for Afghanistan after Australia confirmed they would host them for a one-off test in Perth from Nov.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil became the world No. 2 hotspot for coronavirus cases on Friday, second only to the United States, after it confirmed that 330,890 people had been infected by the virus, overtaking Russia, the Health Ministry said.

For the first time in a long time this week I enjoyed a meal in a restaurant in the city where I live.

(Reuters) – New York Knicks great Patrick Ewing yesterday said he has tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

Dear Editor,  I am wondering if regional bodies like UNASUR of which Brazil is a member (hope I got that right) and other countries who are members of regional agencies and bodies (OAS?)

(Reuters) – In the fight against COVID-19, the decades-old anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine has become a political football, with U.S.

The former Director of Sport is one of two persons who were released on $25,000 bail each on Thursday after they were charged with breaching the COVID-19 measures during a People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) protest last Saturday morning.

Two days ago, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference announced that China will shortly introduce legislation to further silence pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

Guyanese were treated to a fine show by artiste Charmaine Blackman last Saturday night when she blew up Facebook with her live solo concert that saw some 41,000 viewers while it was live and has since seen views climb to more than 97,000.

Dear Editor, I write to express my appreciation to SN for publishing letters in my name.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Argentina missed payments on around $500 million in already delayed bond coupons yesterday, creditors and a ratings agency said, marking the country’s ninth sovereign default amid ongoing restructuring talks with creditors.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Formula One’s 10 teams have agreed cost-cutting measures including a budget cap of $145 million for 2021, the BBC reported yesterday.

The Canadian chapter of the Association of Concerned Guyanese (ACG), is requesting the assistance of the Canadian government to continue to support a free, fair and transparent outcome of the March 2 elections in Guyana.

The novel coronavirus disease is a threat regardless of ethnicity, sexual orientation, social class, profession or religion.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday sought to further pressure on Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega by imposing another round of sanctions, this time targeting the country’s army chief and finance minister.