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The recount of votes from the crisis-ridden March 2nd general elections is expected to finally get underway on Wednesday, GECOM agreed today.

Pressure is mounting on the Guyana Government to permit the return of the Carter Center to observe the recount of votes with the UN Resident Coordinator here, Mikiko Tanaka adding her voice.

T&T’s archaic Education Act of 1966 could be one of the reasons why Ministry of Education officials are now seeking advice from the Chief Personnel Officer and Attorney General on how teachers can be made to account for their work while at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Jamaica  Observer) “I’VE totally given up on going home.” Those were the words of a Jamaican woman aboard the Caribbean Princess cruise ship now headed to the Dominican Republic, instead of Ocho Rios, after the captain announced that the Jamaican Government was not in a position to accept the Jamaican crew members.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The novel coronavirus which has been sweeping the globe and crippling economies as it unleashes a deadly assault had brought Cheryl Burnett face to face with scenarios that she never imagined would have unfolded in her lifetime.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) today urged that the authorities take steps to ensure that the Carter Center is able to return to observe the recount of votes from the March 2nd general elections.

(Reuters) – Billionaire investor Warren Buffett on Saturday said the United States’ capacity to withstand crises provides a silver lining as it combats the coronavirus, even as he acknowledged that the global pandemic could significantly damage the economy and his investments.

 (Reuters) – Roche has won emergency approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for an antibody test to determine whether people have ever been infected with the coronavirus, the Swiss drugmaker said http://pdf.reuters.com/htmlnews/htmlnews.asp?i=43059c3bf0e37541&u=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20200503:nGNE71pdqt

(Trinidad Guardian) Two international relations experts agree that the US has no justifiable reasons to impose sanctions on T&T.

Following another series of meetings, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is expected to meet today to finally set a date for the start of a recount of the votes cast at the March 2 elections.

The Carter Center last evening said that it has been unable to secure permission from the Government of Guyana for an observer to travel into the country on Monday to observe the recount of votes for the March 2 national elections.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – After weeks of intense speculation about the health of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the country’s official media said he had attended the completion of a fertiliser plant, the first report of his appearance since April 11.

“It’s very stressful being unemployed. I ain’t getting assist from nowhere I was unemployed… about a month now.

Samuels Morris, the country’s latest novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) victim, was a diabetic who was “very ill” and was admitted to the public hospital in a “bad shape.”

MANAUS/RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Inmates at a prison in Manaus, a Brazilian city deep in the Amazon that has been hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak, briefly took seven prison guards hostage yesterday, the local prison authority told Reuters.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A Supreme Court judge issued an injunction yesterday suspending for 10 days a move by Brazil’s right-wing government to expel Venezuela’s 30 diplomats and consular staff.

With no pre-existing health conditions and for someone who lives a fit and healthy lifestyle, businessman Karan Mehra initially thought that the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was not a threat to him until he developed symptoms and ended up in an isolation facility for 33 days.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – A prison riot in the western Venezuelan state of Portuguesa has left at least 46 people dead and 60 injured, according to a rights group and an opposition lawmaker.

Several buildings designated for the isolation and quarantine of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients have been completed and another is under construction as villagers have moved to prepare the Moruca sub-district to treat cases.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – There have been 4,970 new cases of the novel coronavirus in Brazil and 421 deaths over the last 24 hours, the health ministry said yesterday.