Daily Archive: Friday, July 31, 2020

(Trinidad Guardian) Having been together with the father of her children for 15 years and having gone through years of severe abuse to a point where she sustained broken bones in the process, 26-year-old Vera Golabie refused help from the police to be placed in a safe house.

(Trinidad Guardian) Despite an increase in locally spread COVID-19 cases, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says the August 10 General Election will go on.

(Trinidad Express) A 14-year-old boy is in serious condition at hospital after his lip was bitten almost half off during an argument with a close female relative early Friday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Two American sisters who were charged by the police following the seized of a quantity of cocaine valued at $1.3 million were each offered $100,000 bail when they appeared before the St James Parish Court on Friday.

The Government of Guyana in collaboration with the National COVID-19 Task Force, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Public Health and the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has brought home 2,006 Guyanese including students who were stranded overseas as a result of the closure of airports over the Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

The 24-hour stay of the ruling of the Appeal Court, which dismissed a challenge to the use of the results of the national recount to make a final declaration from the March 2nd polls, has expired with no further action being taken as yet.

(Reuters) – Heavy rains from Hurricane Isaias could hit Florida late tonight before the powerful storm moves up the east coast into early next week, the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States today imposed sanctions on a Chinese company and two officials related to the company for what it said were human rights abuses against Uighurs and other ethnic minority people in China’s Xinjiang province, the Treasury Department said.

CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Agriculture Department has identified more than a dozen plant species ranging from morning glories to mustard in bags of unsolicited seeds arriving in the mailboxes of thousands of Americans, mostly postmarked from China.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp, which has major operations offshore Guyana, today reported a $1.1 billion second-quarter loss on sharply lower energy demand and prices from the COVID-19 pandemic, and confirmed plans to make “significant” reduction to costs.

(Trinidad Express) The Ministry of Health is reporting five more Covid-19 cases this morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) With the growing perception that Venezuelans are responsible for T&T’s second wave of COVID-19 spread, human rights activists say landlords are now evicting migrants over the fear of prosecution by the State.

(Trinidad Guardian) As the fear of the recent uptick in localised COVID-19 cases continued to fuel debate on whether the Government should again lock down the country, the Ministry of Health yesterday reported eight new cases, the highest daily count since the virus hit Trinidad and Tobago’s shores.

As he called for a swift declaration of the March 2nd General Elections using the recount votes which he said is inevitable, CARICOM Chairman and Prime Minister of St.

In a unanimous judgment, the Guyana Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal filed by Misenga Jones, who was seeking to have the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) prevented from using the results of the national recount to declare a winner of the March 2nd elections.

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

The current trials of the fifteen year-old Hosororo Hill, Region One, Blue Flame Women’s Group is a typical example of the plight of many of the centres of economic activity in Guyana’s interior communities where a passion for entrepreneurship continues to be undermined by logistical blockages and official sloth in creating conditions more convivial to their growth.

The approximately $1.6 billion Centre for Disease Control and Prevention which has been the source of major controversy in recent months was yesterday morning commissioned by caretaker President David Granger.

Places of worship across the country will be permitted to reopen from August 1 under updated COVID-19 emergency measures that have been gazetted as part of phase four of Guyana’s reopening.

For local small and micro businesses, simply surviving the ravages of the current rampaging COVID-19 will be a considerable achievement.

Guyana has now recorded a total of 401 COVID-19 cases since the outbreak began in the country.

What is still touted as one of the fastest growth industries anywhere in the business world has been unable to hide from the ravages of the coronavirus according to authoritative sector sources.

In the wake of a unanimous Guyana Court of Appeal (CoA) decision throwing out the latest challenge to the recount result by an APNU+AFC supporter, Organisation of American States (OAS) Secretary General, Luis Almagro yesterday said the right of appeal should not be abused.

Assessments of the longer term impact of COVID-19 on the way we live and a likely time frame for a return to some semblance of normalcy in several key service areas are likely to have to be revisited even as the pandemic continues to show no sign of slipping into retreat mode.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Sir Everton Weekes was yesterday immortalised as a “special gift of grace, gentility and greatness” and also hailed as a working class hero and nation-builder, as the country and region bid farewell to the West Indies legend who passed away earlier this month.

President David Granger has reverted to stating that he will accept any declaration made by the Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission.

It is only over the past decade or so that the popularity of cupcakes has really gone through the proverbial roof here in Guyana.

Despite stringent objections from several respondents, the appellant in the case of Misenga Jones vs the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) et al was yesterday granted a 24-hour stay on the effect of the Court of Appeal’s dismissal of the case. 

Dear Editor, De facto Finance Minister Winston Jordan in an epistle which appeared in the July 29, Stabroek News sought to assuage concerns about the economy and obviously defend his stewardship as Minister.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending July 30th , 2020 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

Following the dismissal of the Misenga Jones appeal the members of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) have been invited to a meeting on Sunday at 10 am to discuss the way forward.

(Trinidad Guardian) As the fear of the recent uptick in localised COVID-19 cases continued to fuel debate on whether the Government should again lock down the country, the Ministry of Health yesterday reported eight new cases, the highest daily count since the virus hit Trinidad and Tobago’s shores.

(Trinidad Guardian) Republic Financial Holdings Limited (RFHL) announced yesterday a profit attributable to shareholders of the parent of $774 million for the nine-month period ended June 30, 2020.

Dear Editor, I am grateful for the informative piece written by my professional colleague Mr.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 873’s trading results showed consideration of $6,079,395 from 61,435 shares traded in 15 transactions as compared to session 872’s trading results which showed consideration of $8,626,930 from 89,920 shares traded in 14 transactions.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Former West Indies batting coach Toby Radford has questioned the preparation and technical approach by the side’s batsmen during the just concluded Test series, and also believes the Caribbean unit placed undue pressure on their seam attack by not rotating their squad.

Two weeks ago the Stabroek Business commenced publishing promotional features on various small and micro business across the country in an effort to raise their profiles at a time of challenge associated with the onset of the Coronavirus.

A local campaign is calling on the Protected Areas Commission to place all of Guyana’s remaining mangroves under legal protection immediately.

The New Guyana Marketing Corporation has agreed to provide us with the above information which we will publish on a weekly basis subject to receipt.

Former Barbadian Prime Minister Owen Arthur who died on Monday has been commemorated in tributes from all over the region. 

Dear Editor, This July month’s experiences of extended blackouts (the absence of ‘power and light’) raise the speculation of how some of our village agencies would respond to the ‘real’ demands of a new ‘virtual’ technological environment.

While acknowledging the level of talent that presently encompasses the Senior Men’s Programme, former Golden Jaguars captain Christopher Nurse, says that Guyana runs the unwanted danger of losing its identity due to the lack of a strong local core.

As true slips of the tongue, it was hardly along the lines of the American politician, who resigned following evidence of tax evasion, or like the quip about dictatorship from the 43rd President who gave the world “Bushisms.”

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday raised the idea of delaying the Nov.

Tomorrow we celebrate the end of chattel slavery, the day our ancestors were emancipated from an inhumane system that should have never existed.

– My usual three Emancipation “mischiefs” Wonder what did yesterday come up with?

Our decision to lend an even higher level of editorial attention than we customarily do to micro and small businesses in the agriculture and agro-processing sectors has to do with the predicament that many businesses of these types find themselves in on account of the strictures that have arisen out of the COVID-19 pandemic.