Daily Archive: Sunday, January 13, 2008

Articles published on Sunday, January 13, 2008

National priority

Reporting last week on the performance of the education sector in 2007 Minister of Education Shaik Baksh acknowledged that the literacy level is declining across the country.

Barbados maintains control on rain-ruined second day

Compliments of GT&T, P&P Insurance Brokers, Trophy Stall, Camille’s Enterprise, Demerara Power Company, RHTY&SC, Travel Span and Lifetime Real Estate Barbados maintained their dominance over Guyana at the end of the second day of their second round clash in their 2008 Regional Carib Beer cricket match at the Kensington Oval ground yesterday.

Parchment’s debut spoilt

Brenton Parchment’s Test debut was twice spoiled yesterday. The West Indies opening batsman, whose contributions were 11 and 20, set out with the team’s defeat by an innings and 100 runs in the third Test and with a fine of 50 per cent of his match fee for intentionally running into South Africa’s fast bowler Dale Steyn during his second innings on the second afternoon.

Mani to serve as adviser to WICB media rights team

Ehsan Mani, one-time president of the International Cricket Council (ICC), has been retained by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) as part of its team to consider bids for audio-visual rights to West Indies cricket outside of Britain for the period 2008 – 2010.

Ian On Sunday

The Economic Partnership Agreement negotiated between the European Union and Cariforum came into force on January 1, 2008.1 have not, I confess, read all thousand pages of its main text, appendices, annexures and schedules.

The View From europe

“Small nations, big ambition”: These are the words used by the Chairman of a major European company to describe the recently initialled Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe.

Chess

It is 1914. Nicholas II, Czar of all the Russias, is hosting a great chess tournament arranged by the St Petersburg Chess Society.

The golden age of film musicals in Guyana

I was flattered recently when Ian McDonald in his Sunday Stabroek column of December 16 challenged, “Anyone can mention a subject to Godfrey – sweeties, seawall or sugar estates or dominoes or the old D’Urban racetrack or anything you like – and hardly pausing Godfrey could produce a Nostalgia which will make you laugh and wonder, and say ‘yes that is how it was.'”

Business Page

Introduction The statement made by Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) in a letter published in the Sunday Stabroek of December 30, 2007 “reiterating” the position of the PSC that it wanted the government to continue the present and unjustifiable 16% VAT rate and to apply it to reforming (reducing?)

Marriott negotiations ‘stalled’

Negotiations between Marriott and a “third party owner” for a possible Marriott flagged hotel in Georgetown are currently “stalled” after more than two years of talks, a senior Marriott source has told this newspaper.

Barama yet to receive re-certification

One year on, Barama Com-pany Limited (BCL) is yet to receive its re-certification from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) after being suspended in January 2007 following an audit for failing to maintain the standards in forest management which it had previously reached.