Daily Archive: Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Articles published on Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Ashes of the past

Writing her regular column in the Weekend Mirror newspaper of 6-7 October, former president Mrs Janet Jagan stirred the ashes of the smouldering controversy about the fatal fire in which members of the Abraham family were murdered.

Pelswijk wins, Atwell loses

Guyana suffered mixed fortunes when the International Boxing Association (AIBA) World Boxing Champion-ships got underway yesterday at the University of Illinois-Chicago, USA with Hendrick Pelswijk winning his bout and Clive Atwell losing.

Men’s hockey squad seeks Pan American ranking

Four players who were on Guyana’s bronze medal winning team the last time a Caribbean men’s hockey tournament was staged back in 1989 have been named on an 18-man squad to compete in the Pan American Hockey Federation (PAHF) Caribbean championship billed for next month in Trinidad and Tobago.

The Perfect Point

You know what bothers me? Predictions. These days people have been giving me all kinds of predictions both sport and non-sport related.

Europe should repatriate Africa’s cultural artifacts

Dear Editor, Professor James Watson’s statement that he was “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really” is really the irony of the ages and a sign of the darkness of the world in which he lives.

Seized gems origin still a mystery

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) was up to yesterday still trying to determine the origin of the 4,000 carats of rough diamonds it seized on Monday from a Belgian firm that was trying to export the gems to Dubai.

“Going it alone is not a viable option”

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the world is changing in the United Nations’ favour as more people and governments understand that multilateralism is the only path in an interdependent and globalizing world, so going it alone is not a viable option.