Daily Archive: Tuesday, June 16, 2020

(Jamaica Observer) The Ministry of Health and Wellness has reported that a traveller passed away in the immigration hall at the Sangster International Airport shortly upon arrival to the island today.

PARAMARIBO, (Reuters) – Surinamese President Desi Bouterse, a former military ruler who has dominated the country’s politics in recent decades, lost last month’s national election, the country’s electoral authority said today  after three weeks verifying the vote.

Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield was this afternoon directed to prepare the final report for the March 2nd general elections using the data from the recount of votes.

1600 customers of GTT’s Blaze service are currently experiencing an internet outage, Public Relations Officer at the company Jasmine Harris said today.

The Carter Center today commended the Guyana Elections Commission on the completion of the recount process and welcomed the CARICOM observer report, which indicates that despite minor flaws in the process, the recount results are acceptable and provide the basis for a declaration of results from the March 2 election.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Indian police will probe whether an up-and-coming Bollywood actor who committed suicide at the weekend was depressed in part due to “professional rivalry,” in a film industry that is dominated by big names and has been accused of being insular.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – North Korea blew up an office set up to foster better ties with South Korea today in a “terrific explosion” after it threatened to take action if North Korean defectors went ahead with a campaign to send propaganda leaflets into the North.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China National Biotec Group (CNBG) said on Tuesday its experimental coronavirus vaccine has triggered antibodies in clinical trials and the company plans late-stage human trials in foreign countries.

(Jamaica Gleaner) MORE THAN 40 American Airlines pilots were born in Jamaica, and of that lot, two of them were responsible for steering the first flight of 126 passengers to the island on Monday as the island reopened its tourism sector.

(Jamaica Gleaner) ALTHOUGH IT has been 14 years since his five-year-old daughter was mowed down by a gunshot as she stood waiting on her dad, the pain is still fresh for Sheckton Hudson.

In a blistering report the three-person scrutinizing team from CARICOM declared that the National Recount of votes and by extension the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections were sufficiently transparent to reflect the will of the Guyanese people and form the basis for the declaration of the results.

Having declared that CARICOM was the most “important interlocutor” on Guyana’s elections, caretaker President David Granger will now have to say where he stands on the report of its observer team which stated yesterday that the recount of the March 2nd elections provides a basis for the long-awaited declaration of a result.

Tyrone Rowe called ‘Cobra’ was yesterday released from prison after completing his sentence for the 2010 killing of Troy Collymore, who he shot after a robbery at a Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, pharmacy.

The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) will continue to do all in its power to repatriate the four boxers who have been stranded for almost three months in Cuba.

West Indies fast bowler, Kemar Roach, believes execution will be the determining factor to who wins the Wisden Trophy in the three-Test series against England next month.

During the National Recount the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) allowed itself to be manipulated by the two larger political parties and violated the rights of the Guyanese electorate.

By Eion Jardine The late Andrew Alphonso Murray Jnr., lived for boxing.

Andy Williams, the construction worker whose partially decomposed body was discovered floating in a trench at Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara last Monday, was murdered, an autopsy yesterday confirmed.

There’s a lot at stake for West Indian batting duo Kraigg Braithwaite and Shai Hope during the Caribbean side’s upcoming test tour of England.

Exam-level students returned to schools across Guyana yesterday while observing safety protocols to protect themselves from the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

MANCHESTER, England,  CMC – Assistant coach Roddy Estwick said yesterday West Indies had put last year’s Wisden Trophy triumph behind them and were cognisant of the new challenges which lay before them when they faced England in next month’s three-Test series.

As police await the results of ballistic tests to determine who inflicted the fatal wound to Kevin Batson, the Linden man who was killed after carrying out a robbery last week, his mother has said that eyewitnesses are pointing to law enforcers as being responsible.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – UEFA are set to complete the Champions League with a ‘Final Eight’ tournament held over 11 days in Lisbon, according to a plan which will be presented to their executive committee for ratification tomorrow.

The first of two repatriation flights scheduled for this week to bring Guyanese stranded in the United States home is expected today, Director General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority Egbert Field has said.

Dear Editor, It seems to me that the most hackneyed cliché to come out of the post “No Confidence Motion” period is the phrase “uncharted waters”.

Players set to return to the court next month as part of the NBA’s restart are discussing the best way to push the “Black Lives Matter” movement to the forefront.

A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) bus was left overturned alongside the De Kinderen public road, on the West Coast of Demerara yesterday after the driver lost control while navigating a turn.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – With a shortened distance and owners barred from the stands amid the coronavirus outbreak, the 152nd running of the Belmont Stakes on Saturday will bear little resemblance to previous years.

Revelana Smith, also known as ‘Ducky,’ was committed to stand trial last week for the attempted murder of her ex-partner’s girlfriend.

Dear Editor, Now that CARICOM or the most “appropriate interlocutor” of the elections has issued its report, upholding the integrity of the will of the electorate as exercised in the free and fair elections held on March 2, 2020, it is imperative for the GECOM Chair to lawfully declare the obvious winner without further haste.

(Reuters) – Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Durant has become the latest NBA player to buy into a sports team with the announcement yesterday that he purchased a 5% stake in Major League Soccer’s Philadelphia Union.

Dear Editor, We are on the eve of a momentous declaration regarding the “mother of all elections”, the declaration of the “results” of the March 2020 elections.

Two repeat offenders were each sentenced to four years in prison last Thursday after they were charged with a $13 million theft.

A La Parfaite Harmonie disc jockey was remanded to prison after being charged with two counts of rape at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court last Friday.

Dear Editor, Basil Williams’ misconception of the law is legendary. It is manifest in his latest missive published in the Stabroek News on the 14th day of June 2020, under the caption “In light of evidence before it GECOM ought not to request final report from CEO”.

(Reuters) – The United States Tennis Association will hold the U.S.

A labourer is now facing a murder charge after allegedly involving himself in a fight with a co-worker of one of his friends.

Dear Editor, As a youth I heard frequently from many adults that “politics is a dirty game.”

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Cricket Australia (CA) Chief Executive Kevin Roberts is set to be replaced by an interim CEO after losing support of the board over his stewardship of the game during the coronavirus shutdown, local media reported yesterday.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – The U.S. government yesterday accused Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of “illegally” installing a new national electoral council to oversee parliamentary elections due to take place later this year.

Two person have been moved to the  COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Even at the best of times, the cruise lines are controversial Caribbean partners, sharply dividing opinion between happy travellers, citizens, hoteliers, environmentalists, academics, and governments.

Joshua Harris and David Blitzer purchased a $140 million minority stake in the Pittsburgh Steelers, NBC Sports reported.

Dear Editor, Fifteen weeks following the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections, it seems that the process is coming to a close.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday delivered a watershed victory for LGBT rights and a defeat for President Donald Trump’s administration by ruling that a longstanding federal law barring workplace discrimination protects gay and transgender employees.

Last Wednesday, with a bluntness that some may regard as diplomatically indelicate, Common-wealth Secretary General, Baroness Patricia Scotland asserted that in the midst of the various COVID-19 emergencies that have arisen here in the Caribbean, we can expect the occurrence of instances of unwholesome opportunism amongst those in our midst whose sensitivities are finely tuned to recognize and extract exploitative advantage from circumstances of  challenge and tragedy.