Andre Haynes

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan have offered to host global flagship tournaments after the International Cricket Council (ICC) invited expression of interest from its members for events in the 2023-31 cycle. 

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo yesterday announced that the government has granted permission to private health facilities to conduct testing for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and to treat confirmed cases. 

Guyana is expecting to soon receive some 30,000 masks and other essential equipment, including ventilators, from China to aid in the country’s fight against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). 

With restrictions in place against public gatherings in order to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), government officials yesterday continued to appeal to citizens to refrain from traditional Easter activities, including flying kites in public spaces.  

Almost a week after instituting month-long restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), including a 6pm to 6 am public curfew, the government last Thursday gazetted revised measures and expanded the list of “essential services” that are permitted to operate during the period.  

Public transport operators seem to be abiding by the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) protocols, according to traffic Chief Linden Isles.  

Masked bandits invaded a Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice business and stole a sum of cash, phone cards and television sets during the wee hours of Friday morning.

A fire of unknown origin destroyed the home of a Bent Street, Wortmanville family in the early hours of yesterday morning.  

The police in Region 4(B) are on the hunt for four men who invaded a Republic Park, East Bank Demerara home and robbed a businessman and his family of over $1 million in cash and gold jewellery last Friday morning. 

Dear Editor,    Close to 6 weeks after the 2nd March 2020 General and Regional Elections in Guyana, the world, in utter bewilderment, watches on, as a cabal, clutching illegally onto the reins of Government, continues to execute their joint enterprise with three Commissioners and a grouping within the GECOM Secretariat, to thwart the democratic process and prevent the declaration of the true results of those elections. 

Dear Editor,    The reality of Good Friday and the restrictions imposed in the interest of mitigating COVID-19 have given me the latitude to pay more than usual attention to comments, in the media, about GECOM and in this instance about Lowenfield, per se, in relation to the “Lowenfield” proposal of 156 days for the recount. 

Dear Editor,    I do not know which party won the March 2 election but when one group is acting as if it didn’t, the odds are it didn’t.

Dear Editor,    The last time I spoke to Comrade Komal Chand was a day or two before he departed for Cuba.

Dear Editor,    Guyana continues to endure the unprecedented General Election impasse and heightened tension as a consequence of hesitancy on the part of the Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to adopt the Chief Election Officer’s (CEO) final report for the March 2, 2020 declared election results. 

Dear Editor,     When the news highlights the slow reaction of the Ministry towards the testing of the virus and the lack of hedging in the oil market it becomes clear that there is a problem.

Dear Editor,  The signatories to the letter ‘Mr. Granger no longer entitled to be called President’ (SN April 10), was very clear and explicit that ‘from 21st December 2018 Guyana did not have a president or any ministers’. 

Dear Editor,  These are very challenging times for all Guyanese. It has impacted our lives in many ways and has brought out the humanitarian nature in many of our compatriots and some of our business people while it has also brought out the worst in others who have sought to exploit the situation.  

Deputy Chief Medical Officer (DCMO) Dr. Karen Gordon-Boyle today announced that up to April 2nd, the number of confirmed novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in Guyana had increased from 19 to 23.

The CARICOM high-level team that was due to oversee a recount of votes cast at the March 2 elections has decided to call it quits and will today depart Guyana as a court order today blocked the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) from proceeding although both President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo agreed to the process, sources this afternoon confirmed.

A second case of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was today confirmed in Guyana, while the results of another suspected case is yet to be disclosed.