Articles published on Wednesday, April 8, 2020
(Jamaica Star) Popular dancehall artiste, Dexta Daps has been arrested. The details surrounding his arrest are not yet known but THE STAR understands that the entertainer is being held at the Hunt’s Bay police station.
Ministry of Public Health update:The situation in Guyana, as of today 8th April 2020, is as follows.
Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield today proposed 156 days for the recounting of ballots from the disputed March 2nd elections.
(Jamaica Star) Kari Douglas, councillor for the Trafalgar Division in South East St Andrew, has been charged for breaching the COVID curfew and disorderly conduct.
(Jamaica Star) Shay Townsend is COVID-19 free. The 35-year old Jamaican, who has been living in Italy for six years, tested positive for the coronavirus on March 16 and endured the agony of isolation, the pain associated with the disease, and the fear of death.
(Jamaica Star) Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips, who has been diagnosed with stage 3 colan cancer, said the decision was made to rush his recent operation because of the COVID-19 crisis.
(Reuters) – Novavax Inc said today it had identified a novel coronavirus vaccine candidate and would start human trials in mid-May.
Veteran trade unionist and long-time PPP executive Komal Chand died early this morning in Cuba where he had gone for treatment, General Secretary of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) Seepaul Narine confirmed.
STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Sweden’s Foreign Minister Ann Linde today hit back at U.S.
LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was “clinically stable” in intensive care today and responding to treatment for COVID-19 complications, amid questions about how key coronavirus crisis decisions would be made in his absence.
(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago’s main business chambers are calling on the Government to help them save jobs by implementing a tax credit on salaries for companies that do not make any profit over the next three months.
Deryck Jaisingh, who died on Monday from the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), made numerous attempts to contact the COVID-19 hotline to report the severity of his symptoms but never got any response until 11 days later, when his condition had significantly worsened.
The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has temporarily removed the Value Added Tax (VAT) from Water and Electricity and extended the deadline for the filing of tax returns to June 30, 2020.
In orders issued yesterday afternoon, the Guyana Court of Appeal reiterated that while the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) can proceed with a recount of the ballots cast in the March 2nd general and regional elections, it cannot abdicate or delegate its supervisory function over the election process, more particularly the recount of the ballots.
(Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp said yesterday the start of production at its Payara project in Guyana, its third major development in the world’s newest offshore oil hotspot, could be delayed as the company scales back spending due to the crude price crash.
Guyana’s fittest man, Dillon Mahadeo, still has his hard hat on in preparation for the Reebok CrossFit Games even as there is some speculation that the event may not take place because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Guyana continues to record increases in the number of positive COVID-19 cases, with the announcement that there are now 33 confirmed cases even as the Health Ministry launched a new app to aid in the response to the outbreak.
The uniqueness of siblings representing a team has often captivated spectators.
If you were going to tell the history of cricket in a handful of objects, the purple, wide-brimmed hat would be one of them There’s solace in the old clips, especially of cricket.
A Port Mourant land surveyor, who fell to the ground during a fight with a known associate, was later picked up in front of his residence yesterday morning and rushed to the Port Mourant Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
In what has become a tradition over the past few years, the annual Canada-based Tranzac Cricket Academy tour to Guyana has been cancelled for 2020.
The Atlantic Ocean yesterday began to overtop a vulnerable section of the Content, Mahaicony, sea defence and the Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson has asked for an emergency meeting to be convened today to discuss a solution.
According to Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence, Guyana conducted its first test for COVID-19 on February 26 exactly two weeks before the first imported case of the virus was recorded.
The recently formed Guyana Golf Association (GGA) intends to tee off a golf academy in the coming months.
The Guyana Sugar Corporation is currently functioning on a skeleton staff even though it falls under the category of essential services.
Members of the sacked executive of the TTFA (TT Football Association) – president William Wallace and his deputies Clynt Taylor, Susan Joseph-Warrick and Joseph Sam Phillip – will be filing their appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), as they try to thwart FIFA’s running of the local governing body.
Dear Editor, The last thing I would want to do is spread inappropriate alarms and frighten further an already reeling and vulnerable population; at, least the ones that care enough to be concerned about COVID-19 developments.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Even as medical teams struggled to save an onslaught of gravely ill coronavirus patients and deaths hit new highs, the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations seemed to be leveling off in New York state, the U.S.
The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has issued its first in a series of monthly bulletins featuring the work of the organization; the first edition captured highlights of the January – February 2020 period.
The Region 10 policing division is currently faced with the challenge of operating with limited personnel but efforts are being made to ensure that emergency measures ordered by Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are fully enforced.
Dear Editor, My name is Aarti Dowlath. I am a Physics teacher at the secondary school level in Trinidad.
The two primary markets in the city of Georgetown were in full swing yesterday as they were allowed to operate within the confines of a six-hour day, despite concerns surrounding the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
(Reuters) – The new coronavirus is killing African-Americans at a higher rate than the U.S.
NEW YORK, CMC – Former international football strongman, Trinidadian Jack Warner, has again found himself at the centre of corruption charges after being implicated in another elaborate million-dollar scheme in a 53-count indictment unsealed Monday in the US District Court in Brooklyn.
(Trinidad Express) As of Tuesday afternoon, the Health Ministry reports the following: Number of samples submitted to the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) for testing for COVID-19 878 Number of samples which have tested positive 107 Number of deaths 8 Number of persons discharged 1 The Ministry of Health provides the following update: ● One additional person has tested positive for COVID-19 – Contact of person positive with COVID-19.
Dear Editor, Even though my cousin, Jimmy Bacchus, made a quiet exit from this transient life, he has not left us.
The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) is continuing to provide families within vulnerable communities across the country with supplies as the country is currently under curfew due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Former captain Michael Clarke believes Australia went soft against India during the 2018-19 home series fearing sledging the likes of Virat Kohli would cost them lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) contracts.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Two pregnant women diagnosed with the new coronavirus in Peru have given birth to babies who have tested negative for the disease, a hospital in the capital Lima said yesterday.
Dear Editor, I wish to respond to articles in the press on a recent statement from the Private Sector Commission (PSC) ‘Private sector opposes total national recount…’.
LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was set to spend a second night in intensive care yesterday to help his fight against a coronavirus infection, as his designated deputy said he would pull through because “he’s a fighter”.
A contracted Guyana Power and Light worker died on Sunday after he fell from a transition tower while executing his duties in Ithaca, West Bank Berbice.
Former FIFA vice-president Jack Austin Warner has expressed “no comment” to claims in an Associated Press report last evening that he received US$5 million in bribes for votes for Qatar to be awarded host nation for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
(Trinidad Express) Government has hired four private security companies to provide mobile security patrol services in residential districts on a 24-hour basis throughout Trinidad during the period April 6 to May 5, in the first instance.
Dear Editor, Article 160 A (1) of the Constitution of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana provides as follows: “all persons, institutions and political parties are prohibited from taking any action or advancing, disseminating or communicating any idea which may result in racial or ethnic division among the people.”
LONDON, (Reuters) – Formula One has put almost half its staff on furlough until the end of May due to the novel coronavirus with chairman Chase Carey and senior management also taking a pay cut, an F1 spokesman said yesterday.
(Barbados Nation) Barbados has recorded the third death from COVID-19. Head of Infectious Diseases at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Dr Corey Forde, said the 95-year-old male died at 3 a.m.
The risk of contracting the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from an asymptomatic host is relatively low, Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/ WHO) country representative Dr William Adu-Krow said on Monday.
LUSAKA, (Reuters) – Glencore’s Zambian unit Mopani Copper Mines (MCM) will shutter its mines today following disruption from the COVID-19 pandemic and low copper prices, it said in a statement, after the country’s mines minister earlier criticised the closure.
(Barbados nation) Five Barbadians in New York died of the coronavirus on Monday, reported Barbados’ Consul General Mackie Holder.
Dear Editor, Having read Eric Phillips letter (SN,4/6/2020), I am curious as to what he meant by his statement: “Today, in Guyana, the primary deformity in our social contract lies in a winner-take-all constitution that imposes a ruling `ethnic minority’”.
CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa’s Sunshine Tour has created a fund for players and caddies to provide financial assistance for the next two months, but commissioner Selwyn Nathan said the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic could take the game back 20 years.
The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) says it has arranged for over $1M in care hampers to be given to cancer patients and care providers at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump sharply criticized the World Health Organization yesterday, accusing it of being too focused on China and issuing bad advice during the new coronavirus outbreak and saying he would put a hold on U.S.
Dear Editor, As we are all aware West Indies cricket has been in the doldrums for the longest while now, where we are either number eight or nine in the rankings in all three formats of the game and I want to submit that one of the main reasons is because we have never selected the best team to represent us over the years and that includes under the chairmanship of Clyde Butts, Clive Lloyd and Courtney Brown.
(Jamaica Observer) Two Jamaicans who went to the United Kingdom during the Windrush era and became church leaders in Wolverhamption died 24 hours apart after contracting the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Birming-hamLive newspaper reported on Monday.
QUITO, (Reuters) – An Ecuadorian court sentenced former president Rafael Correa yesterday to eight years in prison after finding him guilty of corruption charges.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to accelerate and take us into unknown territory, its tentacles are spreading further and further.
By Erik Berglöf, Gordon Brown, and Jeremy Farrar Erik Berglöf, a former chief economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, is Professor and Director of the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
It must be obvious to the vast majority of the Guyanese that if the coalition government had won the 2020 elections, the festivities would have been substantial, long over, the PPP/C left to lick its wounds, and given the weakness of the health system, the national focus, would have been – as it should be – exclusively on the coronavirus crisis.
LONDON, (Reuters) – England could field two different teams on the same day at separate venues if the COVID-19 pandemic leads to a compressed home season, wicketkeeper-batsman Jos Buttler has said.
A woman was detained by the police shortly after mid-day Monday after she allegedly threatened to shoot her partner who managed to disarm her.
