Daily Archive: Friday, July 24, 2020

The Liberty and Justice Party led by Lenox Shuman today spurned a proposal for talks by APNU+AFC and said that a good first step would be for the incumbent coalition to concede that it had lost the March 2nd elections.

Saying that it is not open to talks with the caretaker government, A New and United Guyana  (ANUG) today said that the resolution to the current crisis lies in APNU+AFC conceding the election and allowing a new administration to be sworn in.

Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield was released on $450,000 bail this morning after he was formally read private criminal charges alleging fraud and misconduct in his handling of the results of the March 2nd elections.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan joined thousands of worshippers at Hagia Sophia today for the first prayers there since he declared the monument, revered by Christians and Muslims for almost 1,500 years, a mosque once again.

(Reuters) – Devon Brumfield could hear her father gasping for breath on the phone.

(Trinidad Express) National Security Minister Stuart Young says the number of Trinidadians involved in the Venezuelan human trafficking ring is disturbing.

(Trinidad Guardian) A video of Watson Duke, leader of the Progressive Democratic Patriots (PDP) inadvertent calling on his supporters to “Vote for PNM,” has gone viral.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Fans of 007 got a delightful treat on Wednesday when the official Instagram account of the latest Bond flick, No Time To Die, shared two fabulous photos from their filming in Jamaica.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Born with one hand with only a thumb, 51-year-old Daphne Williams is a picture of resilience.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Entities will be able to conduct COVID-19 testing of high-touch surfaces as well as to check if the virus is present in the air.

Even as the EPA works on “tightening the language” for permits so that start-up periods are not abused by companies, ExxonMobil is currently producing 98,000 barrels of oil per day at the Liza-1 offshore well and hopes to meet its 120,000 per day target on August 10th 2020, the same day that routine flaring is projected to end, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Director Dr Vincent Adams said yesterday.

The South Rupununi District Council (SRDC) yesterday said that two elderly residents of the village of Potarinau who had been in contact with persons who tested positive for COVID-19 have died.

A man was killed yesterday in a suspected robbery at Middle Road, La Penitence, in Georgetown.

Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield was finally served yesterday with summonses pertaining to three private criminal charges filed against him over alleged elections fraud and he is due to face the court today.

The body of a Corentyne man was retrieved yesterday morning from a creek in Region Seven in which he disappeared while swimming with friends.  

General Secretary of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Amna Ally has refused to confirm or deny that APNU+AFC  will be participating in a series of public meetings this weekend.

Almost two weeks after two new cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were detected in Itabac, Region Eight, health officials are yet to go into the indigenous community to commence requisite contact tracing and quarantining in keeping with established Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) protocols.

Caribbean Airlines will today bring home 147 Guyanese who were stranded in Jamaica, Cuba and Barbados as the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCCA) has granted approval for another repatriation flight.

A pensioner and his family lost their home on Wednesday night when a fire of electrical origin destroyed a two-storey house at Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara.

Guyana is among Caribbean countries which will benefit from critically needed personal protective equipment (PPE) under a CDB programme.

A man has been sentenced to 14 years behind bars for the murder of 18-year-old Alex Daniels, who was killed during an argument at Frenchman Backdam, Mabura, in Region 10.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A new Richards-Botham trophy will be up for grabs when England and West Indies next meet in a test series as the teams pay homage to two of their greatest cricketers.

At 25, Minerva Collins already has five hands-on years of farming under her belt.

(Reuters) – The United States yesterday recorded more than 1,100 deaths from COVID-19, marking the third straight day the nation passed that grim milestone as the pandemic escalates in southern and western U.S.

Guyana has so far recorded 176 COVID-19 recoveries as the number of cases continues to rise.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – The Pacific island nation of Tonga has asked Beijing to restructure its large bilateral debt load, the government said yesterday, as the pandemic upends the region’s tourism revenues and an onerous Chinese loan repayment schedule looms.

(Reuters) – Former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson will make a much anticipated return to the ring when he faces four-division world champion Roy Jones Jr.

At 69, imminent retirement does not appear to be on Shameer Khan’s immediate-term agenda.

A Sophia family of four lost their home in a fire on Wednesday morning due to what the Guyana Fire Service says was an illegal electricity connection.

Golden Jaguar International and long-serving Fruta Conquerors talisman Eon ‘Beckham’ Alleyne, says that his unexpected move to GFF Elite League rival, the Guyana Police Force (GPF), was instigated to secure a new challenge in his football career.

WENCHANG, China,  (Reuters) – China successfully launched an unmanned probe to Mars yesterday in its first independent mission to another planet, a bid for global leadership in space and a display of its technological prowess and ambition.

Dear Editor, It seems to have become the norm that individuals and organizations that take actions or make statements which appear to be averse to the rigging agenda are subject to various kinds of attacks. 

At a time when a heightened level of threat to human health resulting from the global ravages of the coronavirus pandemic is intensifying the call of the food nutrition lobby for increased fruit consumption, it is comforting to note that of the ten healthiest fruits on the planet, six of them are commonly grown in Guyana and are not only plentiful and affordable but are also grown in family orchards across the country.

The near five-month-old political impasse over the outcome of Guyana’s March 2 general elections has, not unexpectedly, attracted comment in the international oil & gas media with a recent report asserting that the failure, up until now, to see the declaration of the winner of the poll is not unrelated to who controls the country’s fortune-transforming oil wealth in the immediate future.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil registered 59,961 additional cases of the new coronavirus yesterday, the second-highest daily jump after a record on Wednesday, bringing total confirmed cases to nearly 2.3 million in the world’s worst outbreak outside the United States.

MANCHESTER, England, CMC – Captain Jason Holder said here yesterday West Indies were fully aware of the stakes involved and were resolved to produce an improved performance, as they prepared for today’s start of the do-or-die final Test at Old Trafford.

Guyana’s first Infectious Disease Hospital, which is currently being constructed at the former Ocean View Hotel at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara, is expected to be fully operational by next month.

Dear Editor, Since the PNC-led APNU/AFC lost the No-Confidence Motion vote in the National Assembly Guyana has been going through very difficult times.

Delwyn Moore, the driver involved in an accident that claimed the life of Kuru Kururu resident Glemina Adrian on Sunday, has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador is monitoring a large fleet of fishing vessels, many of them Chinese, off the Galapagos Islands and has increased patrolling to ensure the ships do not enter the area of the ecologically sensitive islands, the defense minister said yesterday.

A farmer was on Monday sentenced to seven years behind bars for bludgeoning a housemate to death after the man ate his wild meat and cassava bread.

Dear Editor, As a Grade Six teacher who has served the children of Guyana for more than twenty years, I am anxious about the reopening of schools.

What has been described as “the perfect storm of urgent need, supply shortages and overwhelmed health systems and governments” resulting from the ravages of the coronavirus has created what the Washington-based social enterprise and media platform Devex has described in a recent feature as a “wealth of opportunities for corruption.”

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Bangladesh are planning to reschedule their three-test series in Sri Lanka in October following the postponement of this year’s Twenty20 World Cup in Australia, according to a report.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The re-scheduled Diamond League meeting due to be held in Gateshead on Sept.

Appreciating PNC mind-control successes Of course friends, I would expect no sympathy for my self-imposed dilemma.

The idea of reparations for the atrocities committed during the transatlantic slave trade is often a hotly contested idea.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China’s foreign ministry said it told the U.S.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 872’s trading results showed consideration of $8,626,930 from 89,920 shares traded in 14 transactions as compared to session 871’s trading results which showed consideration of $7,698,040 from 36,714 shares traded in 12 transactions.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday April 23, 2020

Dear Editor, The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) takes this opportunity to respond to your newspaper’s inserts into the Union’s press statement carried on Monday July 20, 2020.

One can envisage the justices of the CCJ rolling their eyes around in exasperation when the latest frivolous electoral appeal from Guyana lands on their bench. 

One of the more challenging assignments that will face the country once we begin in earnest to assess and seek to limit the extent of the damage that the coronavirus has inflicted on the business sector will have to do with creating some sort of blueprint for putting those various micro- and small businesses that have folded or faltered badly under the weight of the pandemic, back together again.