Daily Archive: Monday, October 22, 2007

Articles published on Monday, October 22, 2007

Carolan Lynch murder trial

Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys on Friday denied beauty queen Carolan Lynch’s attorneys’ requests for the negatives of photographs taken of her murdered cambio boss husband, Farouk Razac’s body during the post-mortem.

Criticism of the gov’t and ads

In his most recent defence of the government’s decision to withdraw ads from Stabroek News, President Jagdeo attempted to dismantle the argument by this newspaper that its editorial independence and criticisms of the government were behind the cut-off.

Spanish Flop!

Roberto Duran of ‘no mas’ fame would have been proud. A first round quitter and a third round stoppage was the best that the Dominican Republic had to offer on Saturday night last, at the Thirst Park ground much to the disappointment of the small crowd in attendance.

Boxers can reach Beijing – Torrington

Vice-President of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) Rudolph Torrington said yesterday he expected each member of Guyana’s three-man boxing team currently in Chicago, USA to qualify for next year’s Olympic Games in Beijing, China.

Victory Valley Royals in victory lane

Victory Valley Royals (VVR) moved to the top of the points standings with 18 points after defeating New Ballers 90-68 on Friday night at the Mackenzie Sports Club hardcourt in a match of the Linden Amateur Basketball Associa-tion/National Communi-cations Network second division tournament.

Six die in blow-out

Six persons including two children and a heavily pregnant woman died after a car suffered a tyre blow-out on the East Coast Demerara (ECD) Highway at Bel Air, near the now abandoned Texaco Gas Station causing the driver to slam head-on into a concrete fence and a guard hut.