Articles published on Sunday, September 20, 2009
Central government and the city council yesterday brokered a deal to end Georgetown’s garbage crisis, and contractors are expected to resume garbage collection tomorrow, Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh said yesterday.
– Sarwan’s half century not good enough By Marlon Munroe A spirited late order 47 from Treon Forde and a breezy 52 from West Indies middle order batman went in vain as Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) lost by a mere four runs to Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) in the first division Neal and Massy limited-overs competition yesterday at the GCC ground.
-says new CABOFE president Guyanese Peter Abdool By Donald Duff Peter Abdool has huge boots to fill but the dynamic Guyanese businessman is up to the task.
– Tucker optimistic of successful GABBFF Seniors By Rawle Toney President of the Guyana Amateur Bodybuild-ing and Fitness Federation (GABBFF) Frank Tucker believes that even though reigning `Mr.
The scales are balanced heavily against local consumers when they purchase local fruit.
The first round of the ten round qualification tournament for the National Chess Championships was played last evening and continues today at the Kei-Shar’s Sports Complex. Eight
Among the most memorable acts in recent and contemporary Caribbean theatre is a theatrical innovation out of Guyana known as Dem Two.
(BBC) James Anderson has urged his England team-mates to treat the final one-day match against Australia as a one-off warm-up match for the Champions Trophy.
ROME, (Reuters) – Italian tax authorities seized earrings worth 4,000 euros ($5,880) from visiting soccer legend Diego Maradona on Friday to help pay off his back taxes, they said in a statement.
By Rawle Toney Team Guyana played with much enthusiasm but was overpowered by the visiting South Carolina Lady All-Stars team 63-35 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Friday night as the US based team began their goodwill tour on a positive note.
Let’s take a break today from our current discussion on oral ailments to treat a more acute problem affecting our pets.
The Guyana Karate Federation will today stage its 2009 seniors karate championship at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
The Berbice and Demerara Cricket Boards have name squads to play in a specially arranged Inter-County match today at the Rose Hall ground in Canje to commemorate the BCB’s 70th anniversary.
The year is fast coming to an end but there seems to be no let up in horse racing activity.
Fire destroyed a house at Cove and John, East Coast Demerara yesterday morning leaving a family of three devastated and lamenting the loss of a home they had only recently renovated.
Bandits dealt a 33-year-old woman five slashes on her neck and chops about her body when they barged into her Yakusari, Black Bush Polder house around 7.45 pm on Friday, carting away over $300,000 in money and jewellery.
The water level in Capoey Lake, located on the Essequibo Coast in Region Two, is gradually receding owing to the El Nino dry weather phenomenon as well as water being drained from the lake to nearby rice fields.
Guyana has received the promised $3billion (US$15 million) from the regional Petroleum Fund, which is to be used to assist Clico (Guyana) to meet its liabilities, President Bharrat Jagdeo announced on Friday.
The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) says that interventions have been made to bring relief to residents being affected by water disruptions in Plaisance, Vryheid’s Lust and other neighbouring East Coast communities.
Obituary We regret to inform our readers that Wayne Brown, whose columns on the US presidential campaign and its aftermath, and more recently on US and world political events, died on Tuesday.
President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday said the claim that members of the army moved the bodies of missing sugar workers from the front of Buxton to the backlands in 2005 would have to be probed by police as the sole constitutional authority for investigating criminality.
In the 1960s the Caribbean’s diaspora had a distinctive identity. It predominantly comprised migrants who had grown up or been born in the region, understood it well and maintained a close relationship with family and friends at home.
With bids already in on the majority of the immovable properties of Clico (Guyana), the High Court will soon consider whether to wind up the company as repeatedly argued by the Judicial Manager, and or allow some lines of business to continue in keeping with submissions made on behalf of the troubled insurance company.
Justice Winston Patterson has aborted the trial of three men jointly indicted for wounding after reports that persons were seen speaking with members of the jury.
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian President Alvaro Uribe agreed yesterday to rebel demands that they be allowed to free hostages one at a time rather than all at once, a reversal in government policy that could speed up releases.
Driver’s story doesn’t sound right -police As police investigate last Wednesday’s Unity, Mahaica crash that claimed two lives, questions have been raised about the account given by the driver of the car which slammed into an electricity post and flipped into a nearby ditch.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will not deploy new missiles in the Kaliningrad enclave after the United States dropped plans for an anti-missile shield in Eastern Europe, Russia’s deputy defence minister said yesterday.
-was due to migrate Police have detained a motorcyclist who struck and killed an East Coast Demerara resident yesterday as he was crossing the road.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama will hold a joint meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday to help restart peace talks between the two sides, the White House said.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian prosecutors found no suspicious materials on the ship Arctic Sea despite media reports it was carrying an air-defence system for Iran, Russian newswires reported on Saturday.
The lessons of Ramadan has reinforced obligation to end the scourge of poverty in the country, according to the Central Islamic Organization of Guyana (CIOG).
KABUL (Reuters) – A run-off presidential election, if needed in Afghanistan, must take place before the third week of October or it will have to be delayed until winter weather lifts next year, a senior election official said on Saturday.
Progress is only possible through individual and collective sacrifices, the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) says.
Business Page By Christopher Ram Introduction After two years before a Special Select Committee, new anti-money laundering legislation was passed by the National Assembly on April 30, 2009 and assented to by the President on August 14, 2009, a gap of close to one hundred days.
Four concerns In last week’s consideration of the pros and cons of conditional cash transfers as a policy tool for fighting the increased poverty and economic distress occasioned by the global economic crisis I referred to the results of impact evaluations of these schemes, mainly in Africa and Latin America.
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Forensic tests on the DNA from the body of a man killed during a raid by Indonesian police this week confirm he was Noordin Mohammad Top, one of Asia’s most wanted militants, police said yesterday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Conservative Christians, a key base for the Republican Party, said yesterday they were targeting 16 Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in the 2010 congressional elections.
So finally the President has shown the ruling party’s hand. The citizens of Georgetown have to endure the piles of refuse and the serious health hazard that these represent, because the denizens of Freedom House or the Office of the President or both want an excuse to impose an Interim Management Committee on the capital.
A Gardener’s Diary The fruit of papaw (or papaya or pawpaw) is one my favourite tropical fruits.
Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green is urging that EID-UL-FITR be used as an occasion for healing, while living according to beliefs.
And I also know the most important thing is that the questions must never stop.
