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Six weeks after the March 2nd general elections, a crisis triggered by a rigging attempt in GECOM to hand victory to the incumbent APNU+AFC rumbles on with the way forward resting heavily with the Chair of the electoral body, Justice (retired) Claudette Singh.

Police in Berbice yesterday arrested the suspect in the murder of an unidentified woman whose battered body was found stuffed in a barrel which was found partially submerged in a trench at R and S Street, Belvedere, Corentyne, on Saturday. 

A forty-year-old labourer of Lusignan Railway Embankment, ECD, was caught yesterday about 6.30 am in the act of attempting to throw a bag containing two cellular phones, one hundred and four grams of suspected cannabis and other items into the Lusignan Prison compound.

BAKU/DUBAI/LONDON,  (Reuters) – OPEC and allies led by Russia agreed today to a record cut in output to prop up oil prices amid the coronavirus pandemic and said they had an unprecedented deal with fellow oil nations, including the United States, to curb global oil supply by 20%.

Region 10 (Upper Demerara/Upper Berbice) today said that a COVID-19 test on a six-year-old girl who died after breathing problems came back negative.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Stirling Moss, the British racing driver who ranked as an all-time Formula One great despite never winning the world championship, died today at the age of 90 after a long illness.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) yesterday said that it had dispatched a letter to Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence expressing concern about the confidentiality of testing for the coronavirus and quarantine procedures.

“When will you make an end?” an impatient Pope Julius II calls up to Michelangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the 1965 film The Agony and the Ecstasy.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he owed his life to hospital staff, in his first comments since leaving intensive care for coronavirus treatment, while his government came under mounting pressure to explain why the death toll was rising so fast.

The number of persons with infected with the COVID-19 virus has risen from 40 yesterday to 45 today.

Director General of the Civil Defence Commission (CDC), Lieutenant Colonel Kester Craig has defended the body’s COVID-19 relief work.

The Ministry of Natural Resources today expressed condolences at the news of the passing of Paterson `Pat’ Thompson, the first Chairman of the Guyana Bauxite Company (GUYBAU).

(Reuters) – U.S. deaths due to the coronavirus surpassed 20,000 today, the highest reported number in the world, according to a Reuters tally, although there are signs the pandemic might be nearing a peak.

A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) rank died on Thursday night after he was involved in a motorcycle accident on the Essequibo Coast.

(Reuters) – Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Friday that they will work together to create contact tracing technology that aims to slow the spread of the coronavirus by allowing users to opt into logging other phones they have been near.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain has not yet reached the COVID-19 peak which would allow for an easing of tight restrictions of movement, health minister Matt Hancock said today.

NEW DELHI/DHAKA, (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to extend a nationwide lockdown to tackle the spread of the coronavirus, the chief minister of Delhi state said today, without disclosing how long the extension would be for.

The Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic is affecting the field work of the Environmental Protection Agency, according to its Director Vincent Adams, who has said that the staff is using their time to conduct research and do analyses.

The Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL) is asking that persons avoid kite flying in neighbourhoods and follow COVID-19 safety protocols during their Easter celebrations.

Former presidential adviser on petroleum,  Dr Jan Mangal says that in the current electoral crisis, President David Granger is part of the problem.