Daily Archive: Saturday, June 20, 2020

Change Guyana, which contested the March 2nd general elections, today called on President David Granger to concede defeat and allow the inauguration of PPP/C presidential candidate, Irfaan Ali.

The Guyana Court of Appeal is to rule on Monday at 1.30 pm in the case brought by Eslyn David against GECOM and the Chief Election Officer seeking to stop the declaration of the results of the March 2nd general elections.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaican choreographer Dr L’Antoinette Stines is seeking in excess of US$150,000 in her suit against entertainment mogul Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter and his pop music superstar wife Beyoncé Knowles-Carter.

(Trinidad Express) A truck driver who breached a protection order and beat his wife has been sentenced to six months imprisonment with hard labour.

(Trinidad Guardian) The mother of a three-year-old, who experienced medical issues after participating in a survival swimming class, has sued the Diego Martin Swimming School. 

(Trinidad Express) An 18-year-old woman is expected to appear before a Port-of-Spain Magistrate on Monday charged with knifing to death a man.

(Trinidad Guardian) Cramped together in wicker baskets and cages— baby monkeys, parrots, and a macaw were rescued by police during an exercise in south Trinidad yesterday.

Underlining the supremacy of the Constitution, GECOM Chair Claudette Singh yesterday urged the dismissal of a case before the Guyana Court of Appeal seeking to stop the declaration of results for the March 2nd general elections.

Saying that the APNU+AFC coalition has been deliberately fooling its supporters with grossly exaggerated claims of electoral fraud, former minister Dominic Gaskin yesterday urged the incumbent to be honest and accepts its defeat and work towards regaining the swing voters it will need to win any future elections.

The Justice For All Party (JFAP), a member of the incumbent APNU+AFC coalition, yesterday said it recognised that the opposition People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) has won the March 2nd elections and it argued that presidential candidate Irfaan Ali should be allowed to be sworn in without any delay.

Almost half of the persons who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Moruca sub-district, in Region One (Barama-Waini), are teachers and the Ministry of Education yesterday ordered all schools there shuttered until the spread of the virus is contained.

West Indies fast bowler Shannon Gabriel believes the West Indies should play to their strength and replicate the plans which brought them overwhelming success against England last year.

Following reports that the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) recently decided to not honour claims for sickness or accident benefits made by sugar workers, the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) yesterday called on the entity to rescind the decision.

West Indies batting coach Floyd Reifer is confident his side can pull of a series win against England once the batting fires.

A lot of negative takes have surrounded the  West Indies’ team’s batting ahead of its three-match test series against England next month.

The body of a 17-year-old Stanleytown, New Amster-dam girl was fished out of the Berbice River on Thursday evening and two persons have since been arrested as police are seeking to determine if she was a victim of foul play. 

The Demerara Cricket Club has extended congratulations to West Indies Under19 World Cup off spinner Ashmead Nedd who recently earned his maiden first class call up.

Two repatriation flights from Trinidad and Barbados yesterday brought home over 300 Guyanese nationals who were stranded abroad after borders were closed by governments to curb travel during the still-ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Two men were yesterday remanded to prison after they were charged with the murder of construction worker Andy Williams, whose partially decomposed body was discovered floating in a trench at Met-en-meerzorg, West Coast Demerara (WCD) two weeks ago.

ANKARA, (Reuters) – NBA center Enes Kanter, an outspoken critic of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, said yesterday his father had been acquitted of charges that he was a member of a terrorist group.

A post-mortem examination done on the body of the Tain Settlement pensioner Chandradarie Budhu has revealed that she was strangled and struck to the head by her attackers. 

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) will review its tie-up with sportswear maker Li Ning following a public backlash against Chinese companies though Vivo will stay on as title sponsor of the Indian Premier League (IPL), sports officials told Reuters.

Guyanese Priest, Father (Fr) John Persaud, was on Friday appointed as the Bishop of Mande-ville, Jamaica.

MANCHESTER, England, CMC – Stylish West Indies middle-order batsman Shai Hope believes he has it in him to repeat the amazing heroics at Headingly in 2017 when he led his side to one of their most famous wins against England.

Dear Editor, The GAWU has learnt that the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) has recently taken a decision not to honour claims for sickness or accident benefits made by sugar workers from the beginning of the year.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Chelsea manager Frank Lampard says he is excited about the club’s signing of striker Timo Werner from RB Leipzig but his immediate focus is sealing a top-four finish in the Premier League.

Following a request by security agencies, a temporary ban has been placed on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, over Georgetown and a section of the East Bank of Demerara.

Dear Editor,  As a Grade Six teacher who has served the children of Guyana for more than twenty years, I am always concerned about the welfare  of children. 

(Reuters) – Novak Djokovic still feels inspired by Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal, the men’s world number one tennis player has said, adding that the rivalry between the so-called ‘Big Three’ is a great promotion for the sport.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil passed 1 million coronavirus cases on Friday and approached 50,000 deaths, a new nadir for the world’s second worst-hit country as it struggles with a tense political climate and worsening economic outlook.

Dear Editor, My use of “contempt” in this correspondence’s context has to do with disrespect, deception, even the ability, the practice to despise.

HARARE,  (Reuters) – Zimbabwe Health Minister Obadiah Moyo was arrested by police yesterday over allegations of corruption in government procurement of around $60 million worth of medical equipment, the Daily News newspaper reported.

An Xpress Delivery Service delivery man was held at gunpoint and robbed of his motorcycle and other valuables at Congress Drive, South Ruimveldt Park yesterday morning.

(Reuters) – Rob Gronkowski is feeling healthy again and has rediscovered his love of the sport he walked away from after mounting injuries zapped his desire to ever play in the NFL again.

Dear Editor, It is clear as daylight on a bright sunny day, that David Granger, in power as a de facto President, with the full support of the police and army under his command, if not in absolute control, is most certainly complicit in an obvious and determined decision of APNU+AFC to remain in government regardless of the expressed will of our people in the 2nd March Elections.

Dancehall singer/songwriter Clayton ‘Maad Raas’ Smyrna is celebrating his 43rd birthday today, by dropping his newest single, “Dem Boys”, which speaks of his personal experiences in the local music industry.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australian cricket is ripe for a woman to run the board for the first time and has excellent candidates within easy reach, according to star all-rounder Ellyse Perry.

Dear Editor, The surprising increase in Covid-19 cases raises concern of an under detection of the virus.

ATLANTA,  (Reuters) – Thousands marched through U.S. cities yesterday in Juneteenth observances marking the abolition of slavery more than a century and a half ago, an occasion freighted with special resonance this year amid America’s reckoning with its legacy of racism.

The police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a man, who is wanted for questioning in relation to larceny by public officer.

Every day I miss the men in my family, for all sorts of reasons.

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.

Dear Editor, When President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo along with Caricom and GECOM’s Chair signed the “aide memoire”, the document that stated the terms and conditions of the recount and verification of the votes cast in the ten electoral districts in the country, it was followed by a gazetted order that gives legality to the mandate of the recount process.

(Trinidad Guardian) Oilfield Workers Trade Union president general Ancel Roget pay tribute to the founder of the labour movement Tubal Uriah Buzz Butler during the wreath-laying ceremony yesterday.

The payment of old age pensions for July will begin on Monday, June 29, 2020 at all post offices countrywide, the Ministry of Social Protection announced yesterday.

Dear Editor, It was the prestigious ‘legitimate interlocutor ‘. Now it seems it too has been banished with others.

It is hard to believe that just a few weeks ago I was complaining about price gouging for masks and hand sanitizers where I live as well as looking for toilet paper helplessly and stocking up on non-perishable food items.

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”.

SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Costa Rica’s government will halt reopening the country’s economy due to an increase in the number of coronavirus cases over recent days, a senior official said yesterday, in a blow to the Central American nation which has already lost 100,000 jobs.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Seven major European investment firms told Reuters they will divest from beef producers, grains traders and even government bonds in Brazil if they do not see progress in resolving the surging destruction of the Amazon rainforest.

Although the incumbent APNU+AFC coalition has publicly maintained that the elections were not credible, its Prime Ministerial candidate Khemraj Ramjattan on Wednesday told members of his staff that he is prepared to accept the results of the national recount of votes cast at the March 2nd polls which show a victory for the opposition PPP/C.

A virtual show launched five weeks ago, ‘One on One with Tracy Khan’, takes full advantage of the new normal wrought by closures resulting from the novel coronavirus.

This week I saw crying and smiling faces. I heard talks about despair and talks about victory.

Several persons lost their home following a fire that gutted a Prashad Nagar, Georgetown home yesterday afternoon.

(Reuters) – Marseille have been fined 3 million euros ($3.36 million) for breaching a settlement agreement relating to financial fair play (FFP) rules but will retain their spot in next season’s Champions League, UEFA said yesterday.

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

LONDON/CARACAS,  (Reuters) – In the vaults beneath the Bank of England, where foreign nations stash parts of their vast gold reserves, lie 1.7 billion euros ($1.9 billion) of disputed gold bars.

Dear Editor, In all the farrago and noise about the fallout from the March 2nd Elections there has been much public debate.

In December 2019 the Philippines’ ‘trial of a decade’ ended with a judge handing down life sentences to members of a powerful political clan for their roles in a 2009 massacre in the southern province of Maguindanao.