Daily Archive: Monday, July 27, 2020

More than a dozen ranks of the Guyana Police Force were placed under close arrest after they allegedly opened fire injuring two civilians during a high speed chase early Saturday morning.

(Jamaica Observer) The August Town community in St Andrew has been left baffled after 47-year-old Kenneth Grant, a former football coach, was yesterday discovered swinging from an electrical cord at his residence in what the police have since said is a suspected case of suicide.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Bans on international travel cannot stay in place indefinitely, and countries are going to have to do more to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus within their borders, the World Health Organization said today.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The St Catherine South police have launched an investigation into the death of a Portmore woman.

(Barbados Nation) From humble beginnings in St Peter, Owen Seymour Arthur, who passed away yesterday,  rose to lead Barbados during one of its most turbulent times, serving as Prime Minister from 1994 to 2008.

Former Barbadian Prime Minister Owen Seymour Arthur passed away this morning at age 70.

The EPA says two reports done by government agencies found Troy Resources Guyana Inc (TRGI) liable for the death of geologist Ryan Taylor at its Karouni mine site on October 8th, 2019 but the company says that it hasn’t seen either of the reports.

Branded as reckless for his call to caretaker President David Granger to disregard the constitution and rule regardless, long-time People’s National Congress Reform executive and former Prime Minister under the Forbes Burnham regime, Hamilton Green yesterday said that his words were just a “lapsus linguae” (slip of the tongue).

A biker died last evening following a collision with a pedal cyclist on Mandela Avenue.

A twenty-eight-year-old Essequibo Coast motorcyclist who was involved in an accident with a canter succumbed to his injuries yesterday morning, several hours following the crash.

Norway is continuing to await a fair and transparent conclusion to the March 2nd general elections before further talks are held on the continuation of a forest pact with this country, State Secretary Mathias Fischer of  Oslo’s Ministry of Climate and Environment says.

A Mon Repos resident died on the spot after he was struck down yesterday by a speeding car.

APNU yesterday hosted 12 meetings throughout Region Six with residents despite not having permission from the Guyana Police Force. 

The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) yesterday said that it held a Lethem resident on Saturday suspected of smuggling 251 cases of beer.

Within a matter of 24 hours, ten new COVID-19 cases were confirmed after the  testing of eighty-five persons, according to yesterday’s Ministry of Public Health’s dashboard.

Dear Editor, The recent ruling of the Chief Justice in Misenga Jones versus the Guyana Elections Commission et al, despite the matter now being taken up at the Appeals Court, signals that legal maneuvering may finally be close to the end. 

With the closure of the Wales sugar estate at the end of 2016, 774 private farmers who supplied the factory with cane were also affected and while many have had to find other alternatives to provide for their livelihoods, a few are hanging on and are now supplying the Uitvlugt sugar estate although now, they cultivate less than a quarter of the acreage that they did four years ago.

Dear Editor, Three times I supported the election of women leaders from the Caribbean who promised to repeal their countries’ anti-sodomy laws.

(Reuters) – Florida yesterday became the second state after California to overtake New York, the worst-hit state at the start of the U.S.

Dear Editor,  “She is a woman of high standards, moral Integrity, honesty, and has demonstrated loyalty to her office.

Kissoondatt Premsukh also known as ‘Dave’, the 49-year-old contractor who was gunned down on Thursday last, was shot just over a month ago at a store in Coldingen.

PORT MANSFIELD, Texas, (Reuters) – Hanna, the first hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic season, left a trail of destruction along the Texas coast yesterday, downing power lines, toppling part of the U.S.-Mexico

Dear Editor, The Liberty and Justice Party reiterates its support for the Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission, Madam Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh.

An Islington jeweller is now nursing two broken legs after he jumped about eight feet from his verandah to escape from two armed bandits who attempted to invade his premises on Friday morning.

(Reuters) – “Gone With the Wind” star Olivia de Havilland, considered the last surviving actress of the Golden Age of Hollywood, died yesterday at the age of 104, the Hollywood Reporter said.

Dear Editor, The APNU+AFC continues to drain the emotional capital of the nation.

Since the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) launched the country’s first and only COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit, a total of 56 patients have passed through that unit.

Boxing standout Keevin Allicock has emerged as the lone Guyanese pugilist to be included in the latest world rankings released by world governing body AIBA.

TURIN, Italy, (Reuters) – Juventus won Serie A for the ninth season in a row when Cristiano Ronaldo set them on the way to a 2-0 win over Sampdoria yesterday although the Portuguese veteran missed a late penalty.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – Manchester United and Chelsea secured places in the Champions League with wins on the final day of the Premier League season while Watford and Bournemouth were relegated along with bottom club Norwich City.

Citing the inactivity of players due to the nonexistence of local football, Travis Bess, head coach of West Demerara giant Pouderoyen FC, says the ongoing Summer Transfer Window should not have taken place because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

West Indies left the field yesterday with four substitute fielders as England set them 399 for victory.

West Indies head coach, Phil Simmons has not ruled his side out of the third Test and consequently the series despite the team in a tricky position.

MANCHESTER, England, CMC – Battle-weary West Indies were staring at a heavy defeat after enduring one of their worst days of the tour, as Chris Broad’s six-wicket haul followed by a trio of damaging half-centuries installed England as firm favourites to win the decisive third Test and retain the Wisden Trophy.

As APNU+AFC and its surrogates continue to defy the will of the people by first sponsoring naked electoral fraud and when that failed occupying all tiers of the judiciary with spurious and vacuous legal challenges to the declaration of the result of the March 2nd elections, it is evident that Guyana faces its greatest threat to democratic governance since the massively rigged elections of 1985, courtesy of the then PNC which today again features in treachery of the same order.

As the West Indies tour of England winds down, head coach Phil Simmons has lauded the efforts of the bowlers for their work over the three-Test series.

The incumbent APNU+AFC yesterday claimed that there was  “a carefully orchestrated plan to oust a legitimately elected government and to im-plement regime change”, a contention which has been dismissed by the PPP.

Dear Editor,  The general call by the body representing the legal fraternity to political parties to restrain  supporters from attacking members of the judiciary and others in the execution of their duties, thrice it was noted by that body, is well intended. 

Los Angeles Clippers guard Lou Williams must complete a 10-day quarantine and will miss the first two games of the restarted season next week, the NBA announced yesterday.

LEICESTER, England, (Reuters) – Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer heaped praise on his team after they sealed a place in next season’s Champions League with a nervy 2-0 win at direct rivals Leicester City on the final day of the Premier League season.

West Indies captain, Jason Holder, has earned the ire of former fast bowler, Winston Benjamin, who has not liked the way he has treated paceman Alzarri Joseph.

Guyana’s quest to attend the Junior Pan America hockey championship in 2020 has been delayed for at least a few months after the Pan American body recently announced that the tournament will now be hosted in 2021 due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazil registered an additional 555 deaths attributable to the novel coronavirus over the last 24 hours and another 24,578 confirmed cases, the health ministry said yesterday.

In democracy, leaders step aside when they are voted out of office.

Caught between binaries, barred by anti-Asian exclusion laws, did some West Indians of Indian origin claim Blackness in early 20th-century America?