In Brief : Barbados Prime Minister, Guyana Elections, Haiti, West Indies Cricket Team

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In Brief : Barbados Prime Minister,  Guyana Elections,  Haiti,    West Indies Cricket Team

 

Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley

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Guyana  President David Granger

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Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has infuriated some Guyanese with statements she made regarding the Guyana Elections. Mottley questioned how the Chief Electoral Officer, could deem votes to be invalid. One irate Guyanese Imran Khan wrote:

“Prime Minister Mottley, in an uncharacteristic wild flight of fancy chomped and challenged “on what grounds and by what form of executive fiat does the Chief Election Officer determine that he should invalidate one vote far less 115,000 votes.”

For over three months, the result of the Guyana elections, has been in limbo. The MCG can only hope that Mottley’s actions and the Guyanese response do not seriously damage CARICOM.

 

The MCG welcomes and congratulates regional governments, frontline workers, and all citizens in the sterling fight against COVID-19. At least two countries have declared they are technically COVID free. This is an outstanding achievement by any standards.

We now call on CARICOM members to swiftly assist Haiti, as it grapples with COVID. Present reports indicate that Haiti is almost under siege from the challenges of the virus. The slogan: “We are all in this together “, should become a reality as we collectively assist our brothers and sisters in Haiti, during these difficult times.

 

The current West Indies cricket team on tour of England, will be playing under what we call scientific conditions, to avoid contracting the virus. We are aware that this experiment is designed to discover if the game will be attractive and financially feasible under the “bio-bubble”.  According to reliable sources the “bubble” is ‘a sanitized  cricket biosphere with strict entry standards and limited movement outside of its cordon’.

We hope that our boys are not being used as guinea pigs. In some quarters, there have been questions regarding the financial benefit, to be gained from such a tour and if the reward is worth the risks. We can only hope that the tour is a success and our boys do not end up being “a penny wise and a pound foolish".

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