Daily Archive: Monday, June 15, 2020

Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland today welcomed the CARICOM observers report on recount of the March 2nd general elections and called for the acceptance of the  results.

In its scathing report upholding the integrity of the March 2nd general elections, the CARICOM observer team has castigated GECOM commissioners for undermining the legitimacy of the electoral body.

The Organisation of American States (OAS) today welcomed the findings of the CARICOM observer team that the recount of votes from the March 2nd      elections provides the basis for the declaration of a result and it called for the incumbent APNU+AFC to begin the process of transition.

The CARICOM observer team at the recount of votes from the March 2nd general elections says it reflects the will of the people and provides a basis for the declaration of a result.

A Guyana Defence Force bus overturned at De Kinderen, West Coast Demerara today at 4 am.

MANILA,  (Reuters) – Veteran Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, whose website has put President Rodrigo Duterte under tough scrutiny, was convicted of libel today and faces up to six years in jail, in a ruling widely seen as a blow to media freedom.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Several districts of the Chinese capital put up security checkpoints, closed schools and ordered people to be tested for the coronavirus on Monday after an unexpected spike of cases linked to the biggest wholesale food market in Asia.

(Jamaica Observer) The memory of setting a new 100 metres world record on June 14, 2005 is still fresh in Asafa Powell’s mind.

(Barbados Nation) More churches reopened their doors to the public on June 14 under COVID-19 protocols, with some leaders calling for half-hour more than the 60-minute limit for services. 

(Trinidad Express) Don’t kill Christopher Columbus a second time just for killing sake.

(Trinidad Guardian) A teenager was gunned down in Arima on Sunday night after gunmen ambushed a group of boys in their community.

(Trinidad Guardian) Six of the 305 people who started their 14-day quarantine on Friday on board the Enchantment of the Seas cruise ship docked in T&T waters have tested positive for the COVID-19.

(Jamaica Observer) An educator who returned to Jamaica in 2019 from the J-1 Teacher Exchange programme has pointed fingers at the Jamaica and United States governments’ inefficiencies, blaming them for the revocation of a B1/B2 visitor’s visa issued to her.

(Jamaica Gleaner) One of the bullets suspected to have come from the M16 rifle used by 39-year-old Damion Hamilton to murder two cops at an upstairs house in Horizon Park on Friday could have killed Kamika Blake* had she been watching television that morning.

Being stripped of the World Boxing Association (WBA) super middleweight Gold World Title was mind boggling but perhaps it was a blessing in disguise according to Lennox ‘Too Sharp’ Allen.

Only two teams have managed to produce test series triumphs over England at home during the past decade; Graeme Smith’s South Africa in 2012 and a Sri Lankan unit led by Angelo Mathews two years on. 

A New and United Guyana (ANUG) yesterday accused rogue elements at Gecom of collaborating with APNU+AFC to have the March 2nd general elections annulled and it said the lawful course for Commission Chair Claudette Singh is to declare the winner of the polls.

Aubrey Hutson, President of the Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG), said yesterday that the association will be fully compliant with the strict competition guidelines recently published by Track and Field’s governing body, World Athletics.

With hundreds of Statements of Poll for District Four still to be verified, Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo mounted the second floor of the Ashmins building on March 5th and shouted out fake numbers to the horror of party agents, plunging the March 2nd elections into months of crisis which still remains to be resolved up to today.

Having completed and delivered their report to CARICOM on observations of the recount of the March 2nd General and Regional elections here, the three-member CARICOM team is today scheduled to leave for their respective home countries.

MANCHESTER, England, CMC – Head coach Phil Simmons says West Indies have shown great character over the first week of their quarantine since arriving here for next month’s three-Test series against England.

Police in Berbice are investigating a fatal accident involving a pedal cyclist and an off-duty police constable along the Number 68 Village Road, Corentyne yesterday afternoon.

Dear Editor, I am vain enough to think that GECOM was convinced by my argument that a particular (statistical)  standard of proof would be required for the results of the recount to have been put aside because of “anomalies and discrepancies”, in favour of some other results for the final declaration of the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections.

West Indies fast bowler Kemar Roach says he wants to get his hands on the Wisden Trophy again and will be going all out to defeat England in the upcoming three-Test Series.

The Close Circuit Television (CCTV) security system which saw the installation of more than one hundred cameras in and around the city continues to function and has led to the arrest and prosecution of “lots” of traffic and crime offenders to date.

Dear Editor, If the Chair of GECOM, Justice Claudette Singh, accepts the uninvited and ultra vires opinion of the CEO of GECOM, Keith Lowenfield, that the results of the recount are not credible and that by his account, only 185,000 of the 460,000 votes case are credible, Ms.

(BBC) There will be “no friendships” between the West Indies players and England’s Jofra Archer during the sides’ upcoming Test series, says bowler Kemar Roach.

Dear Editor, I recognize a work of sublime art. I look upon it as the handiwork of the mysteries of man’s mind, magical minds many times resplendent in the majesty of its mesmerizing and incomprehensible madness.

BELGRADE, (Reuters) – An emotional Novak Djokovic could not hold back the tears while hosting a charity event at his tennis complex by the Danube River yesterday.

No new COVID-19 case was reported yesterday after another 32 tests were done, according to the Ministry of Public Health.

(Reuters) – New coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in record numbers swept through more U.S.

The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit says that it found a ganja farm at St Cuthbert’s Mission  on Saturday and one man has been arrested.

Dear Editor, I am directing this plea to President David Granger.

The Los Angeles Lakers have their eye on an NBA championship when the season resumes next month, but center Dwight Howard said the team will have to do it without him.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, who won acclaim for his role in the 2016 biopic of then Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, was found dead at his home in Mumbai on Sunday, police said.

The partially decomposed body of a man who was discovered by residents of Meten-Meer-Zorg floating in a trench, was yesterday morning identified as Andy Williams, 46 years, a construction worker, formerly of Lot 136 Zeeburg, West Coast Demerara.

Dear Editor, I am a single parent of three children. My eldest boy is taking the NGSA examination.

San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich sharply ripped NFL commissioner Roger Goodell for folding under pressure from president Donald Trump in the past when it came to national anthem protests.

(Reuters) – The death of Rayshard Brooks, a black man killed by a white police officer in Atlanta on Friday, was a homicide caused by gunshot wounds to the back, the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office said yesterday.

A year after the death of a patient at the National Psychiatric Hospital in New Amsterdam, his mother is still awaiting justice.

Dear Editor, All law students trained in Guyana and the Caribbean learn almost immediately what Article 8 of the Constitution says.

(Reuters) – The stance of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in potentially banning athletes who kneel in support of anti-racism protests is a breach of human rights, the Global Athlete movement said yesterday.

The first Palms Geriatric Home resident to contract COVID-19 has been identified as Buneshwar Ramdeholl, a carpenter who formerly lived in Berbice.

Dear Editor, Permit me to congratulate Dr Henry Jeffrey on his excellent Future Notes column: captioned, `Votes in the boxes’ published in the Stabroek News, Wednesday, June 10, 2020 edition.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – Real Madrid beat Eibar 3-1 yesterday in their first competitive match at the Alfredo di Stefano stadium following La Liga’s three-month break due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – The governor of the federal district in which Brazil’s capital Brasilia is located closed the area around the presidential palace, ministries, Supreme Court and Congress yesterday to keep right-wing supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro from gathering there.

One by one the masks are coming off. First, it was the District Four Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo who tried to fix the election in favour of APNU+AFC by casting aside Statements of Poll and inflating and deflating figures according to his whims.

Dear Editor, The lockdown and other measures to address COVID-19 have resulted is an ongoing struggle for students who are preparing for the Secondary Schools Exam/National Grade Six Assessment.

(Reuters) – Rory McIlroy came into the PGA Tour’s first tournament back from a three-month COVID-19 break as the favourite to win but after a number of miscues in the final round yesterday the Northern Irishman was not even the highest-placed Rory in the field.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said a cross-government commission would examine racism and the disparities experienced by minority ethnic groups in education, health and the criminal justice system following Black Lives Matter protests.

Since the recount of the votes for the 2 March 2020 general and regional elections commenced on 6 May, we have been tracking developments on a weekly basis as the exercise progressed.

Two women of Guyanese heritage were at the forefront at a protest in New York City to fight against racial profiling following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis. 

By Angelique V. NixonAngelique V. Nixon is a Bahamas-born, Trinidad-based writer, artist, and scholar-activist.