Daily Archive: Friday, June 26, 2020

The pressure continues to build on the incumbent APNU+AFC to clear the way for the transition of power with key US senators calling for President David Granger to concede.

Responding to critics here over her position on Guyana’s elections, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley said simply: `The truth hurts”.

Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield says he has executed his constitutional duties.

The governing APNU+AFC coalition today insisted that GECOM must act only on “valid” votes cast at the March 2nd general elections even though there is no basis for discarding votes which were counted on the night of the polls and during an exhaustive recount.

LONDON/GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The World Health Organization-led coalition fighting the coronavirus needs $31.3 billion over the next 12 months to develop and roll out tests, treatments and vaccines, it said today.

The Ministry of the Presidency this morning said that nineteen companies have been shortlisted for the marketing of Guyana’s oil from the Liza Destiny FPSO.

A clear act of insubordination is how one source has described the report submitted by Chief Election Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield to GECOM on Tuesday in which he erased over 115,000 votes from the March 2nd general elections.

Norway’s Ambassador to Guyana, Nils Martin Gunneng yesterday joined the call for the national recount of votes to be used for the declaration of the result from the controversy-laden March 2nd general elections.

MANCHESTER, England, CMC – Rookie Shamarh Brooks believes the opening three-day warm-up game was critical for West Indies’ batting group in becoming acclimatised to English conditions, especially since it was their first taste of competitive action since arriving here two weeks ago for next month’s Test series.

Still some distance away from recovering from the ongoing impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the Caribbean would appear to be already looking beyond that challenge and focussing on the growth of its niche markets in Europe.

The government is extending the timeline on its tax relief measures for persons and businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

LONDON (Reuters) – Thirty years of hurt came to an end for Liverpool when they were confirmed as Premier League champions yesterday courtesy of second-placed Manchester City’s 2-1 defeat by Chelsea.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the local business community has pushed more than 50% of businesses in the manufacturing sector into a condition of partial operation and forced the complete cessation of operations of more than 17% of the enterprises.

(Reuters) – Australia and New Zealand were handed the right to host the 2023 Women’s World Cup soccer tournament by a comfortable margin after a vote by the FIFA Council yesterday.

Guyana has now recorded 215 cases of the novel coronavirus disease as six new cases were recorded yesterday.

The global accounting community is being cautioned that some of the circumstances arising out of the current COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to a higher likelihood of accounting-related fraud, the United States-based International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) has warned.

Noting its commitment to bringing a timely conclusion to the impasse over Guyana’s March 2 elections that has been brought before it, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has designated all of next Wednesday for dealing with the matter.

MANCHESTER, England, CMC – Shamarh Brooks and wicketkeeper Shane Dowrich redeemed themselves with timely half-centuries on the final day of the three-day warm-up match here yesterday, to taste form ahead of the opening Test against England.

Communication technology infrastructure and services that inhibit the ability of the Caribbean to make adjustments to the manner in which business and educational pursuits are undertaken in the current COVID-19 environment continues to be a much-discussed issue across the region.

(Trinidad Express) Deeply disturbing. These are the words used by Mount Saint Benedict in responding to a viral Facebook video of a woman claiming she was sexually assaulted by a priest from the Mount from age seven to 12.

Six persons were charged yesterday with breaching COVID-19 restrictions during the APNU+AFC protest march held last week.

LONDON (Reuters) – A superb solo goal by Christian Pulisic and a second-half Willian penalty earned Chelsea a 2-1 home win over Manchester City, a result that handed Liverpool the Premier League title, their first league championship triumph in 30 years.

Hastily adopted by some entities in the region as an emergency response to the advent of COVID-19, “remote work” is likely to become “a permanent option” for jobs that so allow, with more than half the Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) in the Caribbean saying they plan to improve the remote working experience, a recently released report on a June 8-11 study undertaken by international business consultancy firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) says.

(Trinidad Guardian) “When are you coming home, daddy?”  It is what Kirk Bayne hears every time he speaks to his children via WhatsApp.

With the CONCACAF Beach World Cup Qualifiers tentatively slated for early 2021, Guyanese International Kenard Simon has said that the current COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on the team’s preparation.

Dear Editor, In an unprecedented 115 days after General and Regional Elections were held in Guyana, a declaration is yet to be made electing a new President. 

As if Venezuela’s economic woes were not enough to demand the full-time attention of President Nicholas Maduro and his government, the administration in Caracas must contend as well with the pressures of working out just how it extricates 18.1 million barrels of the country’s oil stuck at sea on an estimated sixteen tankers from the grip of United States-imposed sanctions that international refiners, mindful of threatened penalties by the Donald Trump administration, are avoiding like the proverbial plague.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) will need approximately $1 billion if it is going to keep its doors open and prepare for the second crop.

LUBBOCK, Texas,  (Reuters) – The governor of Texas temporarily halted the state’s reopening on Thursday as COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations surged and the country set a new record for a one-day increase in cases.

A pensioner lost his home yesterday when a two-storey Kingston building went up in flames.

Dear Editor, It has been 115 days since Elections Day when 464,565 Guyanese people stepped forward to cast their ballot on March 2, 2020.

(Reuters) – FIFA announced yesterday that it had agreed a $1.5 billion relief plan to help deal with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global game.

With the COVID-19 pandemic challenging the international community to find ways around the restraints imposed by social distancing, there is evidence that some countries are already embracing technology to arrive as close as they can to a condition of normalcy insofar as interaction associated with bringing buyers and consumers together is concerned.

(Trinidad Guardian) Relatives of Carenage businessman Koongebeharry Jaisarie, 64, are demanding justice after his body was discovered days after he went missing.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives approved a sweeping Democratic police reform bill yesterday, sending the measure to the Senate despite opposition from President Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress.

By Shaquawn Gill Almost 3 months after the institution of guidelines to combat the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and nearly four months since Elections Day, vendors in Bourda Market continue to outline the hardships that they face on a daily basis by the absence of many of their usual customers.

Dear Editor, I joined Bishops’ High School for girls (as it was then named) in 1967.

(Reuters) – Atlanta Hawks guard Vince Carter officially announced his retirement from professional basketball yesterday after an NBA record 22-season career during which his high-flying dunks made him one of the game’s top players in his prime.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The attorney general for the District of Columbia yesterday filed a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil Corp, BP Plc, Chevron Corp, and Royal Dutch Shell Plc for “systematically and intentionally misleading” consumers about the role their products play in causing climate change, the latest action by a U.S.

The local CrossFit community is pleased that parent company CrossFit Inc will be under new ownership.

                                          Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday June 25, 2020

Dear Editor, Every government, organization or person who has publicly condemned the flagrant, vulgar and incessant attempts by the rigging cabal and their acolytes to perpetrate fraud at the 2nd March 2020 elections held in Guyana and to attempt to defeat the will of the electorate and steal the new Government, has been met with public vitriolic abuse and vilification.

Police have arrested a person of interest in relation to the shooting death of a Kitty construction worker which occurred just after daybreak on June 22 in Agricola.

KARACHI, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) will ground a third of its 434 pilots on suspicion that they hold “dubious” licences and flying certificates, a company spokesman said yesterday, prompting concern from international safety and transport bodies.

As part of its strategy to improve its customer service and overall operations, the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) recently added nine newly-licensed tourist guides to its ranks.

Dear Editor, Over the past months, the words “evil” and wicked” have surfaced as descriptions of the acts of fraud being attempted by the PNC and its co-conspirators in the ongoing post-election crisis.

-Victoria: – More fallout from the Floyd protests As like last Friday, again as this is being written earlier in this week, I am/we are not blessed with any conclusion to the March 02 elections.

These past few weeks the Stabroek Business has been engaging small business owners in order to determine the extent of the impact that COVID-19 has had on their enterprises.

This must be a first in the world.  It cannot have happened in any other democracy that a Chief Election Officer could arrogate to himself the power to decide which votes he would count in a general election and which he wouldn’t.

*Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana MArketing Corporation or Ministry of Agriculture.

(Reuters) – Fast bowler Jofra Archer has been cleared to join England’s training squad ahead of their three-test series against West Indies after testing negative for COVID-19, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said yesterday.

By Dr. Bertrand Ramcharan (Previously UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (Ag.)

Ever since I was a young child, I enjoyed the news.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Ministry of National Security has acquired four additional offshore patrol vehicles and two maritime aircraft to aid in improving border security, reducing transnational crimes and providing support to other small island developing states.