Daily Archive: Saturday, June 6, 2020

Ninety-three ballot boxes from the March 2nd general elections were recounted today, according to GECOM Commissioner Sase Gunraj.

While reiterating that he will abide  by the declarations of GECOM, President David Granger adverted to numerous reports of “irregularities” at the March 2nd general elections and said these appeared to have been committed deliberately.

Suriname’s electoral authorities on Thursday finally announced preliminary results from the May 25 elections won by opposition parties, which on Friday accused the government of Desi Bouterse of stymieing efforts to seat a new legislature, according to the Associated Press (AP).

(Trinidad Express) There has been a double murder in Les Coteaux, Tobago.

Yet again the selection panel of Cricket West Indies (CWI) has broken the glass ceiling making ridiculous choices when it comes to team selection.

The job of being a cricket selector is by no means an easy one.

(Trinidad Guardian) A mother and her son were gunned down in their Tunapuna home last evening.

Legendary West Indies fast bowler Michael Holding said recent performances by West Indies against England should give the regional team confidence heading into the upcoming tour.

(Trinidad Guardian) Desperate to return home following the death of his mother and the condition of his seven-month pregnant wife, a T&T national in Suriname has made an urgent request to National Security Minister Stuart Young for an exemption for entry.

Unlike most sports in Guyana, horse racing venues are usually overflowing with spectators. 

(Jamaica Gleaner) Walking into Andrew Nelson’s yard in Simon, Clarendon, the first sight to pull in wandering eyes is a wheelchair hoisted in a tree.

With the tabulation of the recounted ballots from the March 2nd general elections drawing to an end, by the end of yesterday the opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) had a lead of 16,371 votes over the incumbent APNU+AFC coalition.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Former West Indies pacer Winston Davis believes strongly that West Indies have the talent to return to the pinnacle of international cricket, but adjustments in the cricketers’ mindset and the relationship between players and administrators are required for that to happen.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Having earned a place in the West Indies Test squad for the upcoming tour of England, left-handed batsman Nkrumah Bonner is ready to prove that Cricket West Indies (CWI) made the right call in choosing him to be part of the historic series.

With the Education Minis-try preparing to move ahead with the holding of examinations for thousands of students across the country next month, the leadership of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) yesterday said it would not be supporting the decision as it maintained that the school environment poses a “threat” to learners, teachers, and families due to inadequate coronavirus safety protocols. 

(Reuters) – The International Cricket Council (ICC) is discussing the possibility of introducing substitutes if a player tests positive for COVID-19 during a test match, England and Wales Cricket Board director of special projects Steve Elworthy said.

Chief Education Officer (CEO) Ingrid Trotman yesterday said that students who don’t want to sit the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) exams over the two-day course in July will not be forced to write the exam.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Cricket Australia’s (CA) forecast of a near 50% plunge in the revenue that underpins player payments has been met with scepticism by the players’ union, who called for talks to “shine a light” on the board’s calculations.

A flight from Miami to Georgetown is expected to land today with the first group of Guyanese who were approved to return home since the closure of the country’s airspace due to COVID-19 restrictions, de facto Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson has confirmed.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The LA Galaxy has parted company with Serbian midfielder Aleksandar Katai after his wife published “a series of racist and violent social media posts,” the Major League Soccer (MLS) team said yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Black smoke billowed from cars set on fire and debris blocked the intersection of Waltham Park and Hagley Park roads in Kingston as residents of Cockburn Gardens protested the fatal shooting of 32-year-old Jermaine ‘Shawn‘ Ferguson yesterday morning.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Prominent Democratic politicians yesterday embraced the cause of U.S.

APNU+ AFC campaign Co-Chairman Joseph Harmon yesterday said that the Organisation of American States (OAS) went into the “boundary” of “interference” when it declared that the National Recount will yield a credible result for the March 2nd general and regional elections.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin chided the billionaire boss of Norilsk Nickel yesterday over a huge Arctic fuel spill and ordered changes to the law to try to prevent such a disaster from happening again.

Dear Editor, Several weeks ago, the Ministry of Education assured parents that it would reschedule the sitting of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) examinations to a date that would not cause panic and allow adequate time for children whose preparation for these exams was disrupted by the arrival of the COVID-19 virus in Guyana.

(Jamaica Observer) Chief executive officer of MBJ Airports Limited, Shane Munroe, says the company, which operates the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, has implemented a raft of measures aimed at enhancing the safety of staff and travellers who will be utilising the port in just over a week.

In its final report on the March 2nd elections here, the European Union Elec-tion Observer Mission (EU EOM) has said that the integrity of the entire electoral process was “seriously compromised” by the non-transparent tabulation of results in Region Four, for which it blamed senior Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) officials.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) said yesterday that doping samples taken from three-time world weightlifting champion Nadezhda Evstyukhina and two other Russian weightlifters had tested positive for the same banned substance.

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 yesterday.

As the recount of the ballots cast at the March 2 polls nears its conclusion, the heads of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and the European Union diplomatic missions have stressed the need for all stakeholders to “uphold the integrity” of the process and “peacefully accept” the wishes of the Guyanese population.

US based Guyanese Devindra Mohanlall is creating a name for himself in the makeup industry, having turned what was a hobby when he was a 13-year-old living in Albion, Berbice, into a career.

Dear Editor, My statement that: “fraud once committed, makes everything a nullity.

BARCELONA, (Reuters) – Barcelona captain Lionel Messi sat out yesterday’s training session as he has a small thigh strain, the Spanish champions said.

Dear Editor, I am making this appeal to the Chair of GECOM I write out of deep concern for the future of Guyana, but more importantly for the future of our young people.

(Trinidad Express) On Monday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Cincinnati noticed something strange about a shipment of food products transiting through a local express consignment facility.

For the fifth day in succession Guyana has recorded no new case of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) after the results of another round of testing.

For us Guyanese, the headline should probably read, ‘Curry obsessed, are we?’

Former NBA MVP Kevin Durant will not make his Brooklyn Nets debut when the season resumes next month, the New York Post reported yesterday, ending speculation that the veteran forward might salvage some games in the 2019-20 season.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – The Group of 20 rich and emerging economies has pledged more than $21 billion to fight the coronavirus, the group said early today.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Briton Dan Evans says a sports psychologist described him as one of the angriest people he had ever met during his one-year ban from tennis for cocaine use in 2017.

Dear Editor, Permit my audacity responding to your editorial note on letter captioned, `Editorial note was an act of suppression and an attempt not to acknowledge profound aspects of the Recount Order’ on Friday, 5th June, 2020.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A Brazilian Supreme Court minister yesterday prohibited police raids in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas during the novel coronavirus pandemic, as a grounds-well of criticism of brutal police tactics grows in Latin America’s largest nation.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A serial rapist who was ordered to serve 38 years in prison for each of the eight women he victimised over a six-week span has had his sentence slashed in half.

Courts Guyana yesterday donated 20 Aeroboxes to the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) to aid in the protection of frontline health care workers.

What an exhausting week! This year has really overreached its ability to make us feel as if we are living through ‘The Hunger Games’.

SINGAPORE,  (Reuters) – Papua New Guinea’s mining regulator said yesterday 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.

Donald Trump began his presidency with a promise to put “America first.”

Dear Editor, One of the greatest threats facing peace and cohesion in the world today is disinformation.

There are cries worldwide for justice and peace stemming from the murder of George Floyd in the United States of America.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – President Jair Bolsonaro threatened yesterday to pull Brazil out of the World Health Organization after the U.N.

ROME, (Reuters) – The fixture list is ready and the restart date is confirmed but the Italian football federation (FIGC) is still worried that the Serie A season might not finish due to rules for quarantining players infected with COVID-19.

Guyana is slated for one of the biggest virtual local concerts to be hosted on Facebook Live come the night of June 14, when 10 popular artistes will put on a grand COVID-19 relief show.

Rafeek Khan, the 35-year-old driver who was found hiding in the Atlantic Gardens home of businesswoman Sattie Beekharry a short while after she was heard shouting “murder,” was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with killing her.

(Reuters) – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg yesterday said he would consider changes to the policy that led the company to leave up controversial posts by President Donald Trump during recent demonstrations protesting the death of an unarmed black man while in police custody, a partial concession to critics.