Daily Archive: Friday, June 19, 2020

AFC executive and former Minister of Business in the APNU+AFC government, Dominic Gaskin tonight said that there was no reasonable basis on which the governing coalition can  claim to have won more votes than the PPP/C in the March 2nd elections and he said claims of fraud have been “grossly exaggerated”.

The Justice For All Party (JFAP), a component of the incumbent APNU+AFC coalition today called for the swearing in of PPP/C presidential candidate Irfaan Ali.

The Ministry of Education (M0E) says that a total of eleven teachers of the Moruca sub-district, Region One have tested positive for the Coronavirus as of noon today.

The Court of Appeal will sit tomorrow at 11 am to hear submissions on the application filed to prevent the Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield from submitting a report to enable a final declaration from the March 2 polls.

The Guyana Court of Appeal is currently sitting to consider how to proceed on an application filed yesterday to prevent the Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield from submitting a report to enable a final declaration from the March 2 polls.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating, with yesterday’s 150,000 new cases the highest in a single day and nearly half of them in the Americas, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Johnson & has decided to stop selling skin-whitening creams popular in Asia and the Middle East, it said on Friday, after such products have come under renewed social pressure in recent weeks amid a global debate about racial inequality.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Approximately 3,000 Jamaicans who are beneficiaries of the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA) breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday after the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Donald Trump administration cannot end the programme that was instituted by executive order by then President Barack Obama eight years ago.

Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield yesterday failed to submit the report of the valid votes cast in the March 2 General and Regional Elections (GRE) in direct contravention of a directive from Chairperson Justice Claudette Singh.

The Court of Appeal application filed yesterday to prevent the Chief Election Officer (CEO) from submitting a report to enable a final declaration from the March 2 polls is contending that the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) deviated from the order that guided the national vote recount and failed to determine “final credible” results.

According to the general secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo today’s hearing at the Court of Appeal is the last episode in the APNU+AFC Coalition’s quest to disenfranchise Guyanese voters.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has refuted allegations of improper and secretive disposal of documents from its Camp Street, Georgetown headquarters and insists that whatever was observed was normal and above board. 

The Ministry of Education (MoE) last night said that six teachers of Santa Rosa Primary School, Moruca, Region One have tested positive for the Coronavirus and have all been placed in institutional isolation.

The refusal yesterday of the Chief Election Officer, Keith Lowenfield  to submit a final report for the certification of the result for the March 2nd general elections is an act of gross insubordination and an undermining of electoral democracy. 

Dear Editor, It was not surprising that the Chair of GECOM, Claudette Singh, thought it “fit and proper” to give Mr.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has expressed its complete lack of faith in the embattled Chief Election Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield, to execute his mandate and describes his reports as prejudiced and not credible.

Dear Editor, I read with surprise a social media post alleging that “tons of documents” were removed from the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and destroyed.

As phase one of the planned rollback of COVID-19 restrictions began yesterday, Guyana learned that 12 new cases of the novel coronavirus disease have been confirmed in Region One.

Dear Editor, A few millennia ago, an ambitious Roman general was given control of the province of Gaul.

While main operator in the Stabroek Block, ExxonMobil, has been silent on the March 2 General and Regional Elections, president of partner company, John Hess, said that they believe that a new government will be soon sworn in and anxiously await working with them.

Dear Editor, This response is about deficiencies in the CARICOM Observer Report 2020.

Dear Editor, It is Thursday morning as I write, as a nation waits with indrawn breath for the coming of 13:00hrs and whatever lies beyond. 

(Trinidad Guardian) The State has been ordered to pay a little over $300,000 in compensation to a 27-year-old man from Sangre Grande, who was doused with hot water and pepper sauce during an interrogation by police in 2015. 

Dozens of APNU+AFC supporters yesterday took to the streets in front of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) in clear violation of the measures still in effect to prevent the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).

Even as conventional ‘high street’ businesses closed their doors having been left with little option but to ‘wait out’ the coronavirus pandemic, small businesses in the agriculture and agro-processing sectors have had to apply themselves to creative ways of keeping their enterprises afloat.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s firebrand education minister resigned yesterday, following blunders that aggravated tense relations between the right-wing president and the country’s Supreme Court.

Dear Editor, Writing on Guyana’s Elections 2020, Associated Press accredited journalist Bert Wilkinson made the bizarre assertion that “Following a recount of some districts, Granger’s party was almost 160,000 votes behind the main opposition People’s Progressive Party”.

Just over 100 APNU+AFC supporters took to the streets of New Amsterdam yesterday in a march to press Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chairperson Claudette Singh to declare the coalition the winner of the 2020 general and regional elections and they were told to prepare for a long fight. 

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian police yesterday arrested a former aide to President Jair Bolsonaro’s eldest son in a graft investigation threatening to undermine the far-right leader and ratchet up his battle with the judiciary.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump came under attack from both sides of the American political spectrum yesterday as liberal Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and former White House aide and conservative hawk John Bolton both declared him unfit to lead the country.

Based on the new measures recently issued by the National Task Force on COVID -19, as part of Phase 1 of the reopening of Guyana, the National Park will be opened to the general public beginning today.

Dear Editor, Guyana recently lost one of the most patriotic sons of the soil Mr.

Mainstream medical opinion may still be decidedly reluctant to pronounce definitively on just how important a role old-style ‘bush’ remedies, popular in the Caribbean, contributes to the health and wellness regime in the region.

Countries with strong agricultural bases are likely to be encouraged by the most recent assessment of the global food market released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) which projects that the agri-foods sector is likely to continue to demonstrate a greater resilience in the face of the continued COVID-19 threat.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – In much of Cuba, restaurants welcomed back customers yesterday while families escaped cities for the beaches as the government started to ease the Caribbean island’s three-month-old lockdown restrictions after curbing the coronavirus outbreak there.

A Meadow Brook teenager died on Tuesday afternoon in a collision in Campbellville.

(Reuters) – AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc said yesterday it plans to reopen theaters at about 450 locations in the United States on July 15 and expects returning to full seating capacity around Thanksgiving.

Dear Editor, Do we prefer to have our elections determined by legal technicalities instead of ballots cast?

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada officially racked up 100,000 cases of the novel coronavirus yesterday and although the outbreak is slowing, health experts said major challenges remain.

Yoga is an ancient form of exercise which is rooted in India and its rich cultural heritage.

ATLANTA,  (Reuters) – The former Atlanta police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks last week turned himself into authorities yesterday afternoon, in keeping with an arrangement with prosecutors, jail records showed.

Dear Editor,  The 2nd March 2020 elections, whose official result is eagerly awaited, has more drama than a soap opera.

The new Guyana Marketing Corporation has agreed to provide us with the above information which we will publish on a weekly basis subject to receipt.

Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) Head-coach Junior Hercules has revealed that he has completed a draft of the Level One Coach’s Training Manual and Syllabus, which will be presented upon its completion to the local governing body.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Health Ministry reported new COVID-19 statistics yesterday showing the country fast approaching 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases and 50,000 deaths.

With yesterday marking the first anniversary of Guyana’s maiden campaign in the 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup, the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) President Wayne Forde sat down to discuss the historic event.

Two Venezuelan nationals accus-ed of stealing over $200,000 worth of clothes as well as a generator from their employer were remanded to prison after denying the allegation.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Lawyers for former world athletics chief Lamine Diack, who is on trial for corruption, on Thursday protested their client’s innocence and said the 87-year-old would die in jail if sentenced to a prison term.

MANCHESTER, England,  CMC – West Indies assistant coach Roddy Estwick believes uncapped Nkrumah Bonner can still make an impact in the Test arena, despite his belated call-up at age 31.

Black Lives Matter; it is a phrase that is so simple and profoundly brief in its request for humanity.

(Field Level Media) Troy Weaver was named general manager of the Detroit Pistons yesterday after 12 seasons with the Oklahoma City Thunder franchise.

LAHORE, Pakistan,  (Reuters) – Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ehsan Mani has said the logistical challenge of keeping 16 teams in a bio-secure bubble to limit the risk of COVID-19 makes staging the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia this year “impossible”.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – With questions still being raised about selectors’ choices for the squad for the Test tour of England, former opening batsman Philo Wallace has suggested that the reasons behind player selections and omissions be made public.

Dear Editor, I write to acknowledge your, Editor’s note that Mr Christopher Ram is not a “shareholder” in the Stabroek News.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday dealt President Donald Trump a major setback on his hardline immigration policies, blocking his bid to end a programme that protects from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants – often called “Dreamers” – who entered the United States illegally as children.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia,  CMC – When the St. Lucia T10 Blast bowls off next Tuesday, former West Indies captain Darren Sammy will be among cricketers who will be on the field competitively for the first time since a COVID-19-forced break in sports here.

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Adrian Giddings, General Secretary of the West Demerara Football Association (WDFA), has declared that the entity will not resume any football activities in the immediate future unless given the mandatory green light by the Ministry of Public Health.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell is confident regional governments will assist Cricket West Indies (CWI) whose financial woes have been exacerbated by the current COVID-19 pandemic, but insists restructuring is vital.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia head coach Justin Langer has defended the board’s decision to lay off staff despite losing batting coach Graeme Hick from his coaching team.

The conspiracy to deny the will of the people  continues unrestrained.

-The Floyd protests – A few consequences Please note that these views were penned before GECOM’s Fit-and-Proper Iron-Lady Chairperson pronounced on Recount Results or any possible final fateful declaration.

A recent assessment by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the global food security situation – some aspects of which are reported in this issue of the Stabroek Business – strongly suggests that at least up until now and in the wake of the advent of COVID-19,  global supplies are holding their own even though, worryingly, longer-term availability threats still revolve around high prices as well as challenges associated with getting supplies to those regions where life-threatening shortages exist.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday June 18,2020 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

(Jamaica Observer) A Jamaican immigrant is now behind bars in New York, following his arrest yesterday for manslaughter and weapons possession in connection with the death of a Brooklyn man at a house party.

(Jamaica Star) Reggae artiste Ancient Warrior said he narrowly escaped death after he was chopped by a machete-wielding man after an argument developed over chicken at his home in Vanity Fair, Linstead, St Catherine.