Acting Assistant Secretary for the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Michael G Kozak this evening said he expected President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo to honour their commitment to “respect legitimate recount results”
In a tweet this evening, Kozak, who has frequently commented on the Guyana elections said: “We look to President Granger and Opposition Leader Jagdeo to honor their commitments to respect legitimate recount results.
With the recount of votes from the March 2nd general elections drawing to a close, the envoys of the US, UK, Canada and the EU today said “is important for all stakeholders to uphold the integrity of the process and peacefully accept the wishes of the Guyanese population”.
A 35-year-old driver was today remanded to prison after he was charged with the murder of businesswoman Sattie Beekharry, who was killed in her Atlantic Gardens, East Coast Demerara home earlier this week.
In their final report on the March 2nd polls, the European Union Election Observer Mission (EU EOM) has said that the integrity of the entire electoral process was “seriously compromised” by vote count in Region Four and has cited the senior Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) officials for acting in violation of the law.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin chided the billionaire boss of Norilsk Nickel today over a huge Arctic fuel spill and ordered changes to the law to try to prevent such a disaster from happening again.
ZURICH, (Reuters) – Swiss prosecutors have opened an investigation into the $2 billion loan scandal which tipped Mozambique into a debt crisis, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) said today.
SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Papua New Guinea’s mining regulator said today it is planning to bring criminal proceedings against a Barrick Gold Corp joint venture over what it says was an attempt to illegally export $13 million in silver and gold to Australia.
(Jamaica Observer) Principals of high schools across the western region say all is in place to ensure a seamless start on Monday to the temporary reopening of schools to facilitate students sitting secondary level exit examinations in July.
The APNU+AFC Coalition during yesterday’s tabulation made significant gains, managing to decrease the lead held by the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) in the General Elections to 7,073 votes.
The General Secretariat of the Organisation of American States (OAS) last evening declared that the soon to be concluded National Recount here will yield a credible result for the March 2nd General and Regional Elections (GRE).
Campaign Co-Chair of the APNU+AFC Coalition, Joseph Harmon yesterday doubled down on claims that the March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections were riddled with fraud before contending that the three-person scrutinizing team from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will in their report determine the credibility of the entire elections.
After finding that accused Marcus Bisram was unlawfully committed to stand trial for murder, Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall on Monday also granted him an order prohibiting the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) from bringing an indictment in the High Court charging him with the capital offence.
Whereas unlike in other countries, some even here in the Caribbean, where the onset of COVID-19 has placed the issue of food security close to the top of the national agenda, this thankfully has not been the case in Guyana.
For all the reality that the protracted closure of the City Mall has created hardships for people who ply their trade inside the facility (the same can be said for other businesses across the country), not everyone will be particularly comforted by its sudden re-opening.
Five members of the US Congress have written to President David Granger urging that he ensure an internationally recognised declaration of the results of the disputed March 2nd general elections consistent with the laws of Guyana.
(Jamaica Observer) For the second time in 12 years, a family has been left distraught following the brutal killing of a mother of five children in the Heartease community here.
In one of the more telling indicators yet that Guyana’s western neighbour, Venezuela, has fallen on seriously hard times, the country’s President, Nicholas Maduro, announced on Sunday that beginning last Monday, the country officially credited with possessing the single largest reserves of oil anywhere, has set aside its long-standing policy of providing citizens with gasoline at highly subsidised prices.
A Corentyne pastor and nine others yesterday faced charges that they breached the restrictions on social activities under the emergency measures instituted to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus disease.
A recent study undertaken by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and Imperial College, London, reported in the Business Green on Friday that shares in firms investing in renewable energy not only “significantly” outperformed fossil fuel stocks in some of the world’s richest countries but also “displayed far more resilience to the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic” since the beginning of 2020.
Although Region Nine has no active cases of the coronavirus disease and everyone who had direct contact with the region’s only confirmed case have tested negative, it is still under threat as persons continue to travel back and forth between Guyana and Brazil.
Dear Editor,
I have written to the GECOM Chairperson, Ret’d. Justice of Appeal Claudette Singh, suggesting a just, legal and non-partisan standard of proof that must be provided by any party that is asserting discrepancies and anomalies in the General and Regional Elections (G&RE) and/or the National Recount (NR).
With Latin America and the Caribbean facing the COVID-19 pandemic “from a weaker position than the rest of the world” there is, as yet, no telling what the pandemic’s economic impact on the region is likely to be at this stage, according to a recent assessment undertaken by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
In keeping with its efforts to make housing affordable for Guyanese, the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) has extended its Republic Jubilee land discount promotion until June 30.
The global onset of the coronavirus and the attendant need for health-related responses have exposed the debilitating limitations of the health services in Latin America and the Caribbean countries, says a recent report prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC).
Dear Editor,
David Granger, on 17th May, 2020, at a Press Conference across the road from the Convention Center, where the election Recount is coming to a conclusion, told the nation when asked “to what extent would your Coalition accept the result coming from the Recount” evaded the question.
(Trinidad Guardian) Flashing smiles filled their faces so much that they were imprinted in the masks worn by all 29 Trinidad and Tobago nationals who finally touched home soil at the Port of Port-of-Spain yesterday, after disembarking the Carnival Fantasy cruise ship.
(Jamaica Gleaner) CIBC First Caribbean Interna-tional Bank, which operates in Jamaica and throughout the region, recorded a net loss of US$110 million for the April second quarter, due to the impact of COVID-19 on its operations.
(Jamaica Observer) THE funeral for Jodian Fearon, the 23-year-old woman who died after being denied access to health care in April, is scheduled for tomorrow.
As the nation nears the conclusion of the Recount of the votes cast in the March 2nd general elections, the Private Sector Commission (PSC) yesterday called upon all the people of Guyana and each of the contesting parties to recognize and accept the result of the Recount, agreed to by both President David Granger and General Secretary of the PPP/C Bharrat Jagdeo, as the final decision and declaration of the Guyana Elections Commission.
Dear Editor,
In a letter by me in the Stabroek News dated 3rd June, 2020 and captioned `Recount is not about simple numbers but a more complex and complete evaluation,’ I presented factual evidence to buttress the claim as captured in the headline of said letter in response to the effrontery of the European Union Ambassador Fernando Ponz Canto suggesting, inspite of the very glaring evidence of electoral fraud and corruption discovered in every region that, “ it was impossible to cheat”.
As the still rampaging coronavirus pandemic persists, compelling companies to consider and increasingly, implement work-from-home policies, rich countries are, in more ways than one, reaping the benefits of their technological advancement.
The COVID-19 mobile testing unit yesterday completed a three-day operation at a Diamond, East Bank Demerara location, where four persons were tested after a total of 14 were screened.
Dear Editor,
As the nation awaits the declaration of the final recount to determine the winner of the March 2, 2020 elections, the fundamental question is whether Guyanese will once again emerge the perennial losers until the next election cycle.
Dear Editor,
A public response by US resident Ambassador to Guyana, her Excellency Sarah-Ann Lynch on the US Embassy’s Facebook page decrying the murder of Mr George Floyd by a Minnesota police officer was drawn to my attention.
*Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana MArketing Corporation or Ministry of Agriculture.
MINNEAPOLIS, (Reuters) – Prominent civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton told mourners yesterday George Floyd’s fatal encounter with police and the nationwide protests his death ignited marked a reckoning for America over race and justice, demanding, “Get your knee off our necks.”
LONDON, (Reuters) – Cheap renewable energy, climate policies and the coronavirus are pushing fossil fuel companies towards a process of “terminal decline” that could trigger a new financial crisis unless regulators act, according to a study https://carbontracker.org/reports/decline-and-fall
RIO DE JANEIRO/MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The number of coronavirus deaths in Brazil blew past Italy’s toll yesterday, while Mexico reported a record number of new cases, as regional leaders in Latin America push to end quarantine measures and kick their economies back into gear.
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TORONTO, (Reuters) – The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) was plagued by decades of corruption orchestrated by autocratic former president Tamas Ajan, said Richard McLaren after he led an independent investigation into the governing body.
(ESPN CricInfo) Eighty-five percent of ticket-holders for this summer’s rescheduled Test against West Indies at The Kia Oval have opted to roll their tickets over to next year’s visit of India, rather than accept a full refund, according to figures released by Surrey on the day that the original fixture had been due to get underway.
(ESPN CricInfo) Steve Elworthy, the ECB’s director of events, believes that the plans for July’s Test series against West Indies are robust enough to withstand a second wave of Covid-19 outbreaks, following this week’s announcement that the Ageas Bowl and Emirates Old Trafford have been chosen to host the three games.
(Trinidad Guardian) Former West Indies Team manager and current manager of the Guyana Amazon franchise Omar Khan said, two of his players who have opted out of the West Indies tour of England, should not have.
Following a string of commendable performances during the Golden Jaguars ‘League B’ campaign in the CONCACAF Nations League, international Daniel Wilson, stated that his goal is to become an integral member of the Men’s Senior Programme for the foreseeable future.
(Field Level media) NBA owners voted to restart the regular season for the 22 teams in contention for the playoffs in a near-unanimous vote of the league’s Board of Governors yesterday afternoon.
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Coronavirus is spreading fast through Brazil’s indigenous populations, with deaths caused by the disease increasing more than five-fold in the past month, according to data collected by a national association of first peoples.
(ESPN CricInfo) Concerns about their families are understood to be the primary reason behind Darren Bravo, Shimron Hetmyer and Keemo Paul declining to be part of the West Indies Test squad for the England tour.
