Daily Archive: Saturday, August 1, 2020

Seventeen new cases of COVID-19 have been reported today, according to the Ministry of Public Health.

The Guyana Association of Women Lawyers has denounced growing attacks on the judiciary, judicial officers and female attorneys.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Facebook said today it has put a global block on certain accounts controlled by supporters of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro implicated in a fake news inquiry, a day after it was fined for not complying with a Supreme Court judge’s order to do so.

CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – South Africa’s director of cricket Graeme Smith does not expect the national team to be back in action until November at the earliest and confirmed the scheduled tour of West Indies has been postponed indefinitely.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Paulette Wilson, a prominent Windrush campaigner, has died. She was 64.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Sherine Virgo said she will not cut her seven-year-old daughter’s hair despite yesterday’s court ruling that Kensington Primary School did not breach her child’s constitutional rights when it denied her access in 2018 for having dreadlocks.

Despite posting a loss for the second consecutive quarter, ExxonMobil yesterday announced it is maintaining its capital expenditure here but wants a quick approval of its third well, Payara, while warning that delays could cost Guyana significantly.

Although granted a one-day 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, attorneys for appellant Misenga Jones had not taken a decision on an approach to Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) up to yesterday afternoon.

West Indies skipper, Jason Holder, is of the opinion that the exposure to English county cricket would be ideal in helping to a turn around the fortunes of his side’s batsmen.

Twelve Brazilian nationals were intercepted by members of the Guyana Police Force in Region Ten on Thursday and authorities were up to yesterday awaiting the results of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) tests that were administered to them.

Ahead of the start of the fourth phase of reopening since the institution of COVID-19 restrictions, Guyana yesterday reported 12 new cases, taking the national total to 413 since March 11. 

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – The COVID-19 shutdown could not have come at a worse time for Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin but the American says she has made full use of the mini off-season and is raring to go when the professional circuit restarts next month.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia batsman Matthew Wade expects India’s pacemen to make use of the short ball when they tour Down Under but says none will be as effective as New Zealand’s Neil Wagner with the bouncer.

With the COVID-19 pandemic still requiring physical distancing, the annual Emancipation anniversary celebrations are being held virtually this year.

(Reuters) – Hurricane Isaias has shifted west, raising a threat to the Florida panhandle where it is expected to hit late today before hugging the eastern U.S.

(Reuters) – The Dallas Cowboys were ranked the world’s most valuable sports team for a fifth consecutive year according to an annual list published by Forbes yesterday that was dominated by National Football League clubs.

As Guyana celebrates Emancipation Day, the Black Lives Matter-Guyana movement is set to be launched virtually today.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico surpassed Britain as the country with the third-highest coronavirus death toll yesterday, as the pandemic reaches new milestones in Latin America and threatens to disrupt efforts to reopen the region’s reeling economies.

Dear Editor, On July 29, Stabroek News published a letter titled `Economy not on verge of collapse, outlook is for real economic growth in excess of 40 percent’ by Minister of Finance Winston Jordan.

BERN,  (Reuters) – Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has called for his successor, Gianni Infantino, to be suspended by the global soccer body after criminal proceedings were opened against Infantino in Switzerland.

For the past three months local restaurant Bettencourt’s has been using tips from its customers to offer meals to a section of Guyana’s frontline workers as a sign of gratitude for their efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam yesterday postponed a Sept.

Dear Editor, Today all Guyanese are expected to join hands as we celebrate African Emancipation Day.

Fifteen-year-old Nivedita Motiram, a Canadian of Guyanese parentage, has been announced as the winner of the 14th season of a Toronto-based singing contest.

Eight years after three Linden men were shot and killed by police during a protest against the former government’s proposed cut in electricity subsidies, the state has agreed to pay a total of $77 million to their families to settle wrongful death lawsuits that were filed.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has elevated to the House of Lords his younger brother, a cricket hero and some of his allies in the campaign to take Britain out of the European Union.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States intensified its economic pressure on China’s Xinjiang province yesterday, imposing sanctions on a powerful Chinese company and two officials for what it said were human rights abuses against Uighurs and other ethnic minorities.

 (Reuters) – U.S. deaths from the novel coronavirus rose by at least 1,453 yesterday, the biggest one-day increase since May 27, to reach a total of 153,882, according to a Reuters tally.

Dear Editor, I am a retired Guyanese-Canadian living in Canada. I left Guyana, regrettably, with my wife and daughter in 1980 after having graduated as a Fitter Machinist from the Bookers Sugar Estates Apprentice Training Centre in Port Mourant, in 1974, and having worked at the Rose Hall Sugar Estate in Canje, Berbice, from 1974 to 1980.

(Reuters) – England batsman Joe Denly has been ruled out of the remaining two one-day internationals against Ireland through injury, with Liam Livingstone taking his place, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Bank of Jamaica, BOJ, plans to test a digital currency as an alternative to cash later this year.

Former Bahamian Prime Minister Perry Christie has described the late, former Barbadian Prime Minister Owen Arthur as an “extraordinary” man of CARICOM and  a vibrant political source for the regional integration project.

I am hungry and I want to come home to Guyana to eat.

The body of an elderly resident of Martindale, Lower Pomeroon, was found floating in a trench on Tuesday afternoon, several hours after he had left his residence to purchase ice in the area.

With every passing day, I try to reflect on my blessings and privileges.

Dear Editor, As I am typing this email to you, mosquitos are sucking me alive and I’m sweating profusely.

MANCHESTER, England,  (Reuters) – Newcastle United head into the short Premier League close season surrounded by uncertainty after the collapse of the proposed Saudi takeover — with an owner who wants to sell the club but with no viable purchaser in place.

(Reuters) – NASA’s next-generation Mars rover Perseverance blasted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral yesterday atop an Atlas 5 rocket on a $2.4 billion mission to search for traces of potential past life on Earth’s planetary neighbour.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced a change in the number of people who can congregate in groups, from 25 to 10.

(Barbados Nation) The Ghanaian nurses are here. The contingent of 49 female and 46 male nurses was warmly greeted by a delegation of health and tourism officials shortly after arrival at Grantley Adams International Airport on Thursday evening aboard a chartered Azores Airlines flight.

No flaring occurred during the period ExxonMobil ceased works offshore in the Stabroek Block for maintenance and satellite data shared by conservationist Annette Arjoon-Martins was that of heat from the floating production storage and offloading vessel.

A 20-year-old dancehall artiste is using social media to his advantage to promote his music.

(Reuters) – NBA teams bowed their heads and knelt during the playing of the U.S.

Dear Editor,  The constant flip-flopping on his position on election declarations makes it impossible to believe much less accept yet again the latest backward somersault in this regard. 

Representative John Lewis of Georgia, an icon of the American Civil Rights movement, received a fitting send-off this week despite the political and economic upheaval in the United States.

Black Lives Matter murals were painted this week on streets in Berbice, Bartica and Georgetown.

PORTLAND, Ore.,  (Reuters) – Portland had its first day without tear gas in weeks after state police took over from federal agents guarding a courthouse that had become a battleground for agitators and tactical units.