Daily Archive: Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Articles published on Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Drug trade No.1 threat

-MPs conference hears The illicit drug trade remains the toughest public safety challenge in the region, which needs to confront problems like the unemployment of young people and the proliferation of firearms which are being exploited by criminal enterprises.

Windies selectors stick with new-look squad

– Ryan Hinds only new addition ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – West Indies selectors have stood by the makeshift West Indies squad for the second Test against Bangladesh starting Friday, with Barbadian batsman Ryan Hinds the only new addition to the line-up.

Victoria Arjoon

And then there were two

– Keisha Jeffrey, Victoria Arjoon crowned squash queens Guyana started this year’s Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) championships with three squash queens but were left with only two when the curtain came down on the individual competition yesterday in Barbados.

Flamingo’s Cordel Dowding (left) records his team’s fifth goal with 1:20s on the clock (top left) to go into the final half as he beats the Alpha United goalkeeper to the top bar in the Guinness Futsal Tournament at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall Monday night. (Orlando Charles photo)

Guinness Futsal..

Flamingo shrivels Alpha It was thrills and spills on an action-packed second night of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports and Georgetown Football Association,  Guinness Futsal  tournament at the  Cliff Anderson Sports Hall Monday.

T&T U19s poised to beat Windwards

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Windward Islands gave another inept batting display and were facing defeat in their TCL Group West Indies Under-19 second-round match against Trinidad and Tobago yesterday.

GS&WCA tapeball competition….

Bank of Guyana squeezes past Enmore Bank of Guyana (BOG) squeezed past Enmore to advance to the third round of the Guyana Softball and Windball Cricket Association (GS&WCA) 15/15 tapeball competition following the playoff of second round matches last weekend at the GS&WCA ground on Carifesta Avenue.

GECOM to advise Lall on demarcation of NDC constituencies

GECOM recently agreed to put together a proposal for the demarcation of constituencies within Neighbourhood  Democratic Councils  that are geographically small and/or under-populated  and to submit suggestions for the number of seats respectively for consideration by Minister of Local Government Kellawan Lall.

Bangladesh duo fined for excessive appealing

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Bangladesh bowlers Shakib Al Hasan and Shahadat Hossain have been fined 10 and five percent  of their match fees respectively for excessive appealing in the  first test against West Indies, the International Cricket  Council (ICC) said yesterday.

Ramnarine’s provocation reaches its zenith

– monster WICB has created is giving it hell; players must choose between WICB and WIPABy Orin Davidson Regardless of how you twist and turn this one around, there are no ifs and buts about the genesis of the latest shame perpetrated on West Indies cricket.

Give talks a chance, US tells Honduras rivals

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, (Reuters) – The United States  and the Costa Rican mediator in Honduras’ political crisis  urged the rival sides yesterday to give talks a chance after  the ousted president threatened to abandon dialogue if he was  not reinstated quickly.

Region Three sending 12 students to QC

-secured 20 places in the top 1% Twelve students from the Leonora Primary School won places at Queen’s College (QC) at the National Grade Six Assessment and Region Three has secured 20 places at the country’s top secondary schools.

Sotomayor cool under Republican grilling

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s  Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor fended off Republican  attacks yesterday, saying “diversity on the bench is good for  America” and her legal decisions would be based on law, not  racial bias.

Honduras unresolved

Strong diplomatic, and in some cases, financial pressure placed on the regime established in Honduras by the military, has not succeeded in finding an avenue for the return of exiled President Manuel Zelaya.