Daily Archive: Friday, July 10, 2020

While not naming Chief Election Officer, Keith Lowenfield, the OAS today said that one of the principal obstacles to the declaration of a result here is “a person whose duty it is to defend Guyana’s democracy through ensuring respect for the results of elections”.

Chief of Staff, Brigadier Godfrey Bess, today reiterated the apolitical nature and posture of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), when he met with senior diplomats of the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Canada and the European Union, this afternoon, in the Conference Room, Defence Headquarters, Base Camp Ayanganna.

GECOM Chair Claudette Singh today reiterated her instruction to the Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield to present the results of the recount of the March 2nd general elections to her and he has up to 11 tomorrow to do so.

Adverting to Wednesday’s decision by the Caribbean Court of Justice, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres today called for an announcing of the final result.

Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield has failed to meet the deadline set by Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chairperson Claudette Singh for the submission of a report on the results of the March 2 elections, saying that he needs “clarifications” in order to facilitate a lawful declaration of the results.

GECOM Chair  Claudette Singh today repudiated what purports to be a recording between her and a staff member.

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Hong Kong police searched the office of an independent political pollster today, 10 days after Beijing imposed sweeping national security legislation that has sent a chill across the former British colony.

The Head of the OAS election observer mission to Guyana, Bruce Golding says that the big question now is whether the incumbent government will accept the ruling of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Wednesday throwing out a Court of Appeal decision which inspired the Chief Election Officer (CEO) to slash over 115,000 votes.

(Jamaica Gleaner) East Rural St Andrew Member of Parliament Juliet Holness is urging Jamaicans, in particular those who have returned from overseas, to comply with the established protocols to protect others from contracting the deadly coronavirus.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – An advance team from the World Health Organization (WHO) has left for China to organise an investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus which sparked the global pandemic, a spokeswoman said today.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russian firefighters have been seeding clouds to bring down rain over wildfires raging in Siberia, the authorities said today.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadian ambassador, superstar and entrepreneur Robyn ‘Rihanna’ Fenty’ took to Instagram today to express admiration for Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley and to say thank you for her kind words.

Opposition-nominated members of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) are cautiously hopeful that the torturous elections will end today at 2 pm when Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield submits a report of the “valid votes counted in the National Recount as per the Certificates of Recount.”

Nick Skeete, 31, who was part of a gang that raped a young woman four years ago, was yesterday sentenced to 26 years behind bars when he made a virtual appearance before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow at the Sexual Offences Court.

As part of its efforts to assist communities by providing support to persons affected by COVID-19, Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) is donating 4,000 cases of juices to the Civil Defence Commission (CDC).

Although a death certificate has been issued for Lethem teacher Donna Ambrose-Greaves, indicating that she died as a result of several factors inclusive of a pulmonary haemorrhage, disseminated intravascular coagulation, pneumonia, and COVID-19, her husband says that he was told that no autopsy was possible.

Although the Health Department in Region One (Barima-Waini) established several screening sites at various ports of entry into Mabaruma, this has not been successful, hence the recent increase of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the sub-district, the Regional Chairman Brentnol Ashley has said.

De facto Public Health Minister, Volda Lawrence says that healthcare workers suffer “excruciating torments” whenever they came up short in providing critical services for their patients especially those needing medical care for COVID-19.

Guyana has recorded two new cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), while six persons are now in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Canadian-based WestJet Airlines yesterday afternoon brought home the first set of Guyanese who were stuck in Canada subsequent to the closure of borders due to the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

Guyana Power and Light (GPL) has reported widespread damage to its Transmission and Distribution (T&D) structures in Demerara, Berbice and Essequibo after the recent unusually high winds and heavy rainfall.

Anthony Lowe, the demolition worker who was pinned on Wednesday after a Banks DIH building that was being demolished collapsed, remained in “critical” condition up to last evening.

New CARICOM Chair Ralph Gonsalves yesterday urged respect of Wednesday’s Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruling by all stakeholders and he said he expected an early declaration by GECOM of the result of the March 2nd general elections.

Marcia Gonsalves-Kwang refuses to sit and watch what, up until now, has been a rewarding agro-processing enterprise become just one of a swathe of once promising ventures to fall victim to COVID-19.

After a video of a Schenectady police officer kneeling on the head of a Guyanese man went viral, a review is currently underway while policing reforms, including a ban on the use of a knee to a person’s head or neck as a control hold, have been announced. 

Monifa Freso refuses to be consumed by the quicksand of COVID-19.

Dear Editor, I watched, with absolute dismay, David Granger come out of State House yesterday to address a crowd of APNU+AFC supporters who, under the COVID-19 regulations, should have been immediately dispersed by the police.

The post-mortem of Louis Armstrong, a miner who died as a result of a mining pit cave-in on Monday at Black Water Backdam, Cuyuni River, Region 7, has revealed his cause of death as suffocation.

Following the devastating fire which claimed the lives of a small family of three and left at least 28 others homeless, the surviving families yesterday told Stabroek News that they are still adjusting to their losses while laying their loved ones to rest.

Dear Editor, On June 30, the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) was passed by China’s top legislature, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), added to the list of national laws in Annex III to the Basic Law of the HKSAR, and applied locally by the Chief Executive of the HKSAR.

While small populations and farming initiatives of various kinds are commonplace in the Caribbean, there is still reason to believe that COVID-19 can breach the region’s less-than-impregnable food security defences if the pandemic persists for much longer.

Students sitting their oral exams will have a timetable which will ensure that they are not all congregated in the school compound in keeping with the coronavirus safety measures.

Dear Editor, Salaams and congratulations to the ninth Executive President of Guyana Dr.

By Casandra Thompson-Forbes & Vinode Mamchan (Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Premier League stakeholders will have to adhere to strict COVID-19 guidelines during the 2020 edition of the event here in Trinidad and Tobago next month, Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs Shamfa Cudjoe said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday firmly rejected President Donald Trump’s arguments for sweeping presidential immunity and ruled that a New York prosecutor can obtain his financial records but prevented – at least for now – Democratic-led House of Representatives committees from getting similar documents.

Manufacturing high-quality food spices requires the strictest rules and recipes. In the first instance you must choose ingredients of the highest quality which means that you must have some awareness of the conditions under which they are cultivated.

Having gone almost entirely unnoticed in the global oil & gas industry for decades, both Guyana and neighbouring Suriname are now claiming their respective shares of the global spotlight.

Dear Editor, Following the welcomed Caribbean Court of Justice’s decision on the 8th of July, 2020, it is now for Gecom and essentially its Chairwoman to act swiftly in concluding the exhaustingly lengthy Elections which has been prolonged for in excess of four months causing grave distress to our nation, in accordance with the recount results.

SOUTHAMPTON, England,  CMC – Fast bowler Jason Holder produced the best figures by a West Indies captain against England with a career-best six-wicket haul here yesterday, flattening the hosts and handing the Caribbean side the initiative on the second day of the opening Test.

(Reuters) – More than 60,500 new COVID-19 infections were reported across the United States yesterday, according to a Reuters tally, setting a one-day record as weary Americans were told to take new precautions and the pandemic becomes increasingly politicized.

Rehanna Rahaman, the teenager who died last month hours after she was allegedly beaten by her boyfriend died as a result of a spontaneous abortion.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Opposition has welcomed Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley’s move to invite both Caricom and the Commonwealth to send election observers to Trinidad and Tobago for the August 10 General Election.

Dear Editor, In 2010, Barak Obama took responsibility for what he described as a “systemic failure” that resulted in an alleged terrorist boarding a flight to the United States.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Defying warnings that to seek out Donald Trump was to court disaster, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador instead emerged from their first meeting as a “cherished friend” of his U.S.

Q: Is the Consular Section open? A: The Consular Section is open on a limited basis for American Citizen Services (ACS) and emergency cases. 

The advent of COVID-19 appears to have set the stage for a ‘hackers holiday’ according to a report emanating from the regional telecommunications giant Digicel.

*Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana MArketing Corporation or Ministry of Agriculture.

(Trinidad Express) Oropune resident Saglal Samlalsingh, 32, is to appear before the Arima Magistrates’ Court to answer three charges including that of murder.

Dear Editor, Noting the national importance of the Guyana March 2 election issue that was presented to it, the CCJ’s President Adrian Saunders observed that everyone would want this matter to be over as soon as practicably possible.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday imposed sanctions on the highest ranking Chinese official yet targeted over alleged human rights abuses against the Uighur Muslim minority, a move likely to further ratchet up tensions between Washington and Beijing.

On Wednesday the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) delivered its judgment invalidating the ruling of the Guyana Court of Appeal on valid votes, which essentially paved the way for GECOM to finally declare a result for the March 2nd general elections using the figures from the recount. 

The probe that the Stabroek Business has been conducting these past several weeks in order to determine how small and micro-businesses have been faring in the restrictive environment of COVID-19 has been, in more ways than one, revealing.

(Reuters) – This year’s Asia Cup tournament, originally scheduled for September, has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) said yesterday.

– PPP? PNC? How “inclusive”? Look friends! If others don’t do it; haven’t done it, I do it here now.

(Reuters) – The WTA yesterday confirmed the addition of events in Prague, Czech Republic and Lexington, United States, to its provisional calendar which now features 21 tournaments.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s government announced yesterday it planned to ban setting fires in the Amazon for 120 days, in a meeting with global investors to address their rising concerns over destruction of the rainforest.

Dear Editor, Each time GECOM is about to move the process forward blockades are thrown its way, with another delaying tactic to further frustrate and seemingly to deny the will of the people. 

If it’s one thing society continues to do, it is the excusing of violence and sexual predation against women and girls.

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic forcing the shutdown of the local footballing landscape, emerging Golden Jaguars centre-half Kevin Layne stated that he remains mentally focused in anticipation of the eventual resumption of the discipline.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Two of the biggest names on the British high street said they would cut more than 5,000 jobs yesterday after conceding that customers were unlikely to return to their old ways after the COVID-19 crisis upended retail.

SOUTHAMPTON, England,  CMC – Captain Jason Holder said yesterday he was thrilled with his seventh career-five wicket haul that proved England’s undoing but stressed he was already focussed on helping West Indies build a sizeable lead with the bat in order to consolidate their advantage.

Most Guyanese are hoping that the CCJ’s decision on Wednesday marks the end of the long excursion into legal back alleys intended to block the declaration of the true result of the election held on March 2nd.

Police are conducting an extensive investigation into the Cummings Lodge apartment complex fire that left three persons dead, Region Four (A) Commander, Senior Superintendent Phillip Azore has confirmed.

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