Entries for 08 September 2020
Guyana: Three arrested for murder; Home Affairs Minister urges residents not to block road – UPDATED
— The land owner, his son and an employee have been arrested for the murder of the two youths
UPDATE: Two more persons (Total now five), arrested for murder of teenagers. Police use tear gas and rubber bullets on protesters on Monday night
Demerara Waves: By Denis Chabrol in Crime, News – September 7, 2020
Photo: Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn
After an overnight lull, residents of Number 5 Village, West Coast Berbice on Monday morning blocked the public road to continue venting their anger against the brutal slaying of two youths in the backlands of Cotton Tree village where they had gone to pick coconuts.
Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn appealed to the understandably grief-stricken villagers to cease said blocking that section of the east-west thoroughfare as it would hamper police from solving the crime speedily. “I wish to urge all residents of the local communities to act in a manner that is lawful and helpful to the Police in aiding their work and in preserving the peace across and between all communities,” Mr. Benn said. Continue reading →
US Politics: He Predicted a Trump Win in 2016. What’s His Forecast For 2020? | NYT Opinion video
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He Predicted a Trump Win in 2016. What’s His Forecast For 2020? | NYT Opinion
Right now, polls say Joe Biden has a healthy lead over President Trump. But we’ve been here before (cue 2016), and the polls were, frankly, wrong. One man, however, was not.
The historian Allan Lichtman was the lonely forecaster who predicted Mr. Trump’s victory in 2016 — and also prophesied the president would be impeached. That’s two for two. But Professor Lichtman’s record goes much deeper. Continue reading →
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MEDICAL: Vitamin-D is Your PPE [Personal Protective Equipment] against viruses – Video
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MEDICAL: Vitamin-D is Your PPE [Personal Protective Equipment]
An interview with Wayne Cezair, a Caribbean man, talking about Vitamin D and its ability to boost our immune systems so that it is able to fight infections like COVID-19. Wayne Cezair is a practitioner in “Natural Medicine”. He is concerned about the mixed messages and the false information that we are getting in regard to COVID-19 and similar viruses.
You may agree or disagree with his analysis of the COVID-19 virus and Vitamin D as a protective measure against it. This website is just giving you alternate information and is not promoting his ideas as being valid.
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OPINION: Guyana: Encouraging events; disturbing developments – By GHK Lall
—- Random issues from last week
GHK Lall
Sep 06, 2020 Features / Columnists, News – By GHK Lall
I start on an encouraging note. From Friday September 4 (KN), I read that, “Six patients released from COVID-19 ICU after restorative plasma treatment.” That is as good as any news around here in ages. I know Dr. Mahendra Carpen well, who shared the positive news, which was that six pandemic patients in “extremely critical condition” have a new lease on life.
Extremely critical from COVID-19 and ICU could mean goodbye. But this pioneering approach, where the plasma of recovered patients struck by the deadly virus was used, proved successful. Continue reading →