Daily Archive: Saturday, July 11, 2020

(Jamaica Star) Tahj-jai Sharpe, a Jamaican at the Howard University in Washington DC, in the US, had made plans to advance into post-grad school, but he is now worried about his future.

The Organization of American States (OAS) today repudiated the latest report by Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield fabricating a `win’ for the incumbent APNU+AFC and it warned that in the coming days a report will be issued to the body’s Permanent Council on this and other matters.

Professor Sir Hilary Beckles today called for the recount result from Guyana’s March 2nd general elections to be declared stating that `There is no other option that will be acceptable to the region and wider world’.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Amitabh Bachchan, one of India’s best known movie stars, has tested positive for COVID-19 together with his actor son Abhishek Bachchan, and both been moved to a private hospital, the actors said late today.

The Ministry of Public Health has confirmed that Guyana recorded its 17th COVID-19 related death.

(Trinidad Guardian) Victoria’s Secret has opened its first retail store in Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Express) Nationals currently stranded in the United Kingdom have written to National Security Minister, Stuart Young, requesting exemptions to be repatriated later this month.

(Jamaica Star) In 2008, Kaydene Simth was rushed into an operating theatre after doctors determined that her scoliosis was so bad that there was insufficient blood flow to her brain.

(Jamaica Gleaner) David Sinclair, the widower of Carsha Johnson-Sinclair who died under questionable circumstances at the National Chest Hospital in Kingston on Wednesday, is pressing the hospital to provide information on what led to the death of his wife.

Britain’s Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development today urged GECOM to declare a final result on the basis of the recount of votes.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaican sprint king Usain Bolt has hinted he could be tempted out of retirement if former Coach Glen Mills asked him.

Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield has disregarded a directive by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chairperson Claudette Singh that he use the results of the national recount to submit a final report on the March 2 polls.

Embattled Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield has been given up to 11 am today by Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chair Claudette Singh to produce a final report of the March 2nd general elections using the results of the national recount of votes.

West Indies opener, Kraigg Brathwaite believes his side could come out with a victory if they can keep England to a small second innings total in the first Test.

A woman was granted bail by Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall after being on remand for over 18 months for allegedly killing her husband. 

While not naming Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield, the Organization of American States yesterday said that one of the principal obstacles to the declaration of a result from Guyana’s March 2 elections is “a person whose duty it is to defend Guyana’s democracy through ensuring respect for the results of elections.”

SOUTHAMPTON, England, CMC – Opener Kraigg Brathwaite snapped a run of poor form with a half-century while wicketkeeper Shane Dowrich got his first fifty on English soil as they helped West Indies carve out an invaluable first innings lead on the third day of the opening Test here yesterday.

By Eion Jardine Our latest inductee into the Stabroek Sports’ Boxing’s Hall of Fame is a `Superman’.

Following Wednesday’s decision by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday called for an announcement of the final results of Guyana’s March 2 polls as soon as possible.

Following the recovery of three of its residents, the Palms Geriatric Home is now COVID-19 free, according to the Ministry of Social Protection.

The Hero Caribbean Premier League and the government of Trinidad & Tobago have come to an agreement for the whole of the 2020 season to be played in that country.

(Reuters) – Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said yesterday he was not looking ahead to a potential Champions League quarter-final tie against Juventus because any loss of focus could result in elimination by Real Madrid in the last 16.

Acting Army Chief of Staff Brigadier Godfrey Bess has given his assurance to the heads of the western diplomatic missions that the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) remains apolitical.

Former Jamaica Prime Minister ­, who headed the Organization of American States (OAS) election observer mission to Guyana, has said that the behaviour of government functionaries has raised “serious doubts” over whether they will accept the ruling of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) that has prevented the Chief Election Officer (CEO) from invalidating over 115,000 votes from the March 2nd polling.

SPIELBERG, Austria, (Reuters) – Formula One’s governing body has warned Ferrari about the risks of breaching the sport’s COVID-19 protocol and protective ‘bubble’.

July 10 (Reuters) – Manchester City will discover on Monday whether their appeal against a two-year UEFA ban from European football has been successful, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) announced yesterday.

Guyana yesterday reported four new cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

SOUTHAMPTON, England, (Reuters) – An “angry and gutted” Stuart Broad sought reassurance about his England future after being dropped for the ongoing series opener against West Indies, the 34-year-old quick said yesterday.

Dear Editor, Guyana’s highest Court has spoken on the March elections, and the air of all of CARICOM is purer for the CCJ’s Judgement. 

Water levels in some Mahaicony farms and grazing lands remain relatively high as unfavourable weather conditions have forestalled works to effectively seal the sea defence breach.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Players will have to motivate each other in absence of any spectators in cricket’s post-coronavirus reality, Pakistan spin bowling coach Mushtaq Ahmed has said while quarantining with the team in England ahead of a three-test series next month.

A 20-year-old, who beat a man to death with a hammer while he was a teenager, was on Thursday sentenced to seven years in prison on a manslaughter charge.

(Reuters) – New cases of COVID-19 rose by nearly 69,000 across the United States yesterday, according to a Reuters tally, setting a record for the third consecutive day as Walt Disney Co.

Dear Editor, On July 5, 2020, Stabroek News carried a letter titled `Smooth economic expansion associated with a new-born oil economy is absent’ in which the author, a regular writer, once again, sought to mislead your readers with what he tries to pass off as deep economic analysis.

Dear Editor, Justice Claudette Singh’s letter on July 9, 2020, requesting Mr.

(Trinidad Guardian) More than six years after her death, ten men will stand trial for the murder of former Independent Senator Dana Seetahal, SC.

The question regarding the difference between art and craft is one that perhaps may never be definitively answered.

ESPN NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski apologized for a profane email response he sent to Missouri Sen.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan declared Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia a mosque yesterday  with the first Muslim prayers to begin in two weeks, after a top court ruled the ancient building’s conversion to a museum by modern Turkey’s founding statesman was illegal.

A 19-year-old Bartica miner died on Tuesday, days after he allegedly sustained injuries during a football game at Armu Backdam, Cuyuni Backdam in Region Seven.

The body of the Venezuelan youth who had gone missing after he fell overboard into the Cuyuni River on Monday has been retrieved.

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) wants the NBA to expand the approved messages players can choose to wear on the backs of their jerseys when the season restarts on July 30 near Orlando.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago is expected to generate a new revenue stream that has dried up during the COVID-19 pandemic by hosting the 2020 edition of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL), Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday.

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

What’s Cooking is a series in which I answer questions and share advice about food and cooking that you have but may be too shy to ask.

Dear Editor, One of the best things that could have happen for me is for the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres to comment on the Guyana March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections.

Dear Editor, The letter dated July 10, 2010 from Mr. Keith Lowenfield, Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Elections Commission to the first female Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission, trampled on the authority of Justice Claudette Singh, with the utmost disdain and disrespect in this unending nightmare, stemming from Guyana’s General and Regional Elections held on March 2, 2020.

The Me Too movement is a crusade against sexual abuse and harassment.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The first games in the South American qualifying competition for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have been moved back to October from September, soccer’s global governing body FIFA said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Police are searching for a criminal who raped a woman and forced her boyfriend into disturbing sexual acts at Valencia on Thursday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday commuted the sentence of his longtime friend and adviser Roger Stone, sparing him from prison after he was convicted of lying under oath to lawmakers investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S.

At the time of writing this, a declaration had not yet been made for the general and regional elections which were held in March.

A businesswoman was on Tuesday robbed of over $800,000 in cash and other valuables after bandits broke into her car.

In a Page One comment on June 25th, Stabroek News stated the following in relation to the Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield: “As we have said before, Mr Lowenfield must be summarily dismissed from his position.