Daily Archive: Thursday, July 30, 2020

(Jamaica Gleaner) Portmore Mayor Leon Thomas has rejected claims he is the father of a 30-year-old visually impaired man from Six-Miles in Bartons in St Catherine.

(Trinidad Express) A police constable turned up at the Matura Police Station this afternoon, to say that he and his wife were involved in a fight and she was injured.

(Trinidad Express) In what has been the third judgment of its kind, a High Court judge has struck down a policy by the Customs and Excise Division over the importation of adult toys into the country.

(Trinidad Guardian) In the past week, Trinidad and Tobago has had five people who contracted COVID-19 from an unknown source within the country, sprouting eight more cases through primary contacts and forcing some businesses to close for sanitisation exercises, the closure of three schools and the self-quarantining of hundreds of people.

(Jamaica Observer) Reigning Miss World, Jamaica’s Toni-Ann Singh will serve an extra year as the international pageant will not be staged due to the current pandemic.

(Jamaica Observer) Olympian Asafa Powell has requested a paternity test for his daughter.

The United States today announced that additional “senior individuals” from Guyana will be prevented from entering the country for undermining democracy.

Justices Dawn Gregory,  Priya Sewnarine-Beharry and Rishi Persaud   today threw out the appeal of Misenga Jones against the decision of Chief Justice Roxane George that the recount votes be used for the declaration of the result of the March 2nd general elections.

The Guyana Court of Appeals today delivers its decision in the case brought by Misenga Jones against The Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) et al.  

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump today raised the possibility of delaying the nation’s Nov.

(Trinidad Express) Over 3,000 people attempted “double dipping” into the Salary Relief Grant, and the Income Support Grant distributed by the Government through separate ministries to assist cash-strapped families and individuals during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – China today accused the United States of stoking a new Cold War because certain politicians were searching for a scapegoat to bolster support ahead of the U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has called on the Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to cancel hosting of the 2020 Caribbean Premier League (CPL) in the wake of a surge of Covid-19 cases.

(Trinidad Guardian) With the country at the start of what appears to be a second phase of COVID-19 infections following five locally transmitted infections from an unknown source last week, the Ministry of Health is in overdrive to locate the source/s and determine the spread of this wave of infections through contact tracing.

Guyana’s oil reserves and investment potential were yesterday boosted by the Hess Corporation announcement that appraisal of the Yellowtail well and 13th discovery in the offshore Stabroek Block it shares with ExxonMobil and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has yielded two additional reservoirs.

Pleading guilty to the charge of manslaughter for killing his partner Reona Payne whom he shot some 14 times back in 2018, former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) captain Orwain Sandy now awaits sentencing which will be delivered next Tuesday.

The Guyana Police Force continues to be tightlipped about a wild chase through the city on Saturday morning that left two civilians hospitalised with gunshot injuries and a host of cops being investigated including three under close arrest.

President David Granger and First Lady Sandra Granger have both tested negative for the novel coronavirus disease.

Despite various authorities claiming that the majority of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the South Central Rupununi are imported, the Toshao of Potarinau, Carl Albert says that this is not so and disclosed that the cases in the community and in one of its satellite villages are the result of one individual who crossed the Guyana/Brazil border.

Businessman and ANUG member Kian Jabour yesterday refused to respond to questions pertaining to a video in which he told a young woman that she was mentally unstable as she attempted to evict his Taco Loco business from its Thomas Street location.

The police in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) are investigating the death of a 32-year-old woman on Tuesday night shortly after she reportedly fell ill.

Canadian-owned Guyana Gold-fields Inc (GGI) posted second quarter revenue for 2020 of US$53.7 million while producing 28,500 ounces of gold and it signalled that there may be no further gold production this year at its Aurora site as it transitions to underground operations.

Private criminal charges of misconduct in public office have been filed against Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) retired Justice Claudette Singh, for what complainants  are alleging is her disregard of advice that the recount of votes of the March 2nd elections was unlawful.

Dear Editor, At my age and experience of understanding all the means that political/electoral losers will employ to retain power, it becomes more personally sickening to hear refrains about independence and sovereignty of our State.

(Reuters) – California, Florida and Texas, the three largest U.S. states, all set one-day records for fatalities from COVID-19 yesterday, a Reuters tally showed, and the Miami-area school district said students would not return to classrooms when the new academic year begins as deaths from the virus spiked nationwide.

A Port Mourant, Corentyne vendor was yesterday arrested after she was busted attempting to smuggle a quantity of suspected cannabis hidden in tennis rolls, into the New Amsterdam Prison.

Dear Editor, The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our way of life in many ways.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Argentina’s government yesterday launched a bid to reform the judiciary by increasing the number of federal courts, diluting the power of those that already exist, in what the opposition has labelled as an attempt to manipulate the court system.

President of the Guyana Squash Association (GSA) David Fernandes is hoping that the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic subsides in the coming months so as to expose the country’s top juniors to some much-needed international squash in an effort to further foster their development. 

Two new cases of the novel coronavirus along with four more recoveries were recorded yesterday.

Dear Editor, The vile and baseless attacks on the Barbadian Prime Minister and former CARICOM Chair, Mia Mottley; Chairperson of the GECOM, retired Justice Madam Claudette Singh; Chief Justice Madam Roxane George; Justice Madam Priya Sewnarine-Beharry; and attorney at law Mrs.

(Reuters) – Scientists have solved an enduring mystery about Stonehenge, determining the place of origin of many of the megaliths that make up the famed monument in Wiltshire, England, thanks to a core sample that had been kept in the United States for decades.

Neleissa LaRose, the four-year-old who was severely burnt about her body during an incident at her Berbice River home more than six months ago return-ed this week from the United States (US), where she was being treated.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has finally paid off the remaining financial debt to the players for the 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup and the 2017 International Friendly against South Asian opponent Indonesia.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) Traffic Department has recorded a total of eighty accidents which resulted in eighty-four deaths for the year thus far and the majority of the victims were motorcyclists, Traffic Chief Linden Isles said.

Dear Editors, On a recent engagement with the Child Care and Protection Agency, Dr.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Communist-run Cuba is loosening restrictions on small businesses as it seeks to stimulate a state-dominated economy hammered by the implosion of ally Venezuela, U.S.

West Indies captain, Jason Holder is the latest to speak out on the financial issues affecting Cricket West Indies (CWI).

Dear Editor, The passing of former Prime Minister of Barbados, Owen Arthur, is a great loss to Carib-bean intellectual thought, practice and leadership. 

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Google and Facebook took particularly sharp jabs for alleged abuse of their market power from Democrats and Republicans on Wednesday in a much-anticipated congressional hearing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBFDQvIrWYM&feature=emb_logo

Five employees from the City Treasurer’s Department have been sent on administrative leave following an allegation of fraud against them.

Colin Lewis recently went on the record with Stabroek Sport to discuss his ordeal in Cuba and his future plans in a Question and Answer. 

(Reuters) – Patrick Mouratoglou, the long-time coach of Serena Williams, feels the U.S.

(Reuters) – World number one Ash Barty will skip this summer’s U.S.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – An NBA season like no other resumes inside a bio-secure bubble in Orlando today, following a four-and-a-half month break, in what will probably be the most uniquely challenging title run in the 74-year history of the league.

(Reuters) – England named an unchanged squad for first match of the three-test series against Pakistan that begins on Aug.

Dear Editor, The ghosts of past generations of Parliamentarians have been waiting, some more patiently than others, to help to arrange accommodation for the next entry of their colleagues in what for the latter would be a new dispensation.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The onus will be on Pakistan’s top batsmen to post competitive totals against England but batting coach Younis Khan said the team will need “a fighting tail” to win the series.

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal’s three-year ban for an anti-corruption breach has been halved by an independent adjudicator, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said yesterday.

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazil yesterday reopened international air travel to foreign tourists, which had been banned since March, even as the country’s coronavirus outbreak ranks as the world’s second worst.

On Sunday last, this newspaper’s “Women’s Chronicles” column saw women addressing their disappointment at the hoops they were being made to jump through to visit non-Covid-19 patients at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

LONDON,  CMC – Kemar Roach’s four-wicket first innings haul in the Old Trafford third Test has seen him gain one place in the latest International Cricket Council’s Test bowling rankings.

(Reuters) – Former champions Novak Djokovic, Rafa Nadal and Serena Williams have all entered next month’s Western & Southern Open in New York, which will serve as a tune-up for the U.S.