Daily Archive: Thursday, November 19, 2009

Articles published on Thursday, November 19, 2009

A student of the Port Kaituma Primary School places teddy bears at the memorial monument in memory of the children killed. (GINA photo)

Jonestown gets memorial plaque

The memory of those who perished in the Jonestown tragedy thirty-one years ago is being honoured with the erection of a plaque at the site displaying the simple inscription: ‘In memory of the victims of the Jonestown Tragedy, November 18, 1978, Jonestown, Guyana’.

District 10 certified school champions

By Rawle Toney After days of carefully scrutinizing the results of the National Schools Track and Field, Cycling, Swimming and Teachers Championships, it was concluded that District 10, Upper Demerara/Kwakwani are still the overall champions of the event.

Homchand Pooran

GCB Inter-County Competition

Barnwell ensures Demerara clears deficit By Marlon Munroe Half centuries from Homchand Pooran, Royston Crandon and Rajin Ivan helped Berbice take a 56-run lead in the first innings but a pugnacious unbeaten 69 from Christopher Barnwell ensured that Demerara cleared the deficit to reach 109 without loss on the second day of the GCB four-day inter-county competition.

The Champs are here! Guyana’s victorious male and female sevens rugby team

Champion rugby squad returns home

Guyana’s male and female rugby squad returned home on Tuesday evening after clinching the North American and Caribbean Rugby Association Sevens Championships which was hosted in Mexico City last week.

GABA launches eight nights of basketball

-three new teams join the fray By Rawle Toney Basketball fans in the city can gear themselves for eight nights of pulsating action in the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association’s (GABA) 3rd Division and Open Knockout championships set for the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Man charged with robbing teachers

A 22-year-old man accused of robbing teachers who were distributing National Identification Cards at the Enterprise Primary School was remanded to prison after a court appearance in the Cove & John Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.

Remanded over beating of sleeping man

Magistrate Priya Beharry yesterday ordered that a 26-year-old man be remanded to prison when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court  for allegedly dealing a man several lashes with a piece of wood while he was asleep in a hammock.

Kensington slated

By Tony Cozier Five months before it hosts the final of the third World Twenty20 championship, Kensington Oval has been slated by the International Cricket Council’s pitch consultant for the sudden and “significant” deterioration in its pitch block.

Windies batsmen fail to `show up’

BRISBANE, Australia, CMC – Set back by Chris Gayle’s unexpected return to Kingston to attend to his ill mum, West Indies failed to inspire confidence in the batting in their Australia tour opener against Queensland on Wednesday.

Children’s rights

Twenty years ago, the member states of the United Nations agreed to a binding treaty of international law which would allow all children in all countries and of all ethnicities and cultures to live in a world in which their human rights would be respected and adhered to.

Obama vows Afghan exit; Clinton prods Karzai

KABUL, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama  pledged yesterday to end the Afghan war before he leaves  office, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on Hamid  Karzai to make a new compact with his people on the eve of his  inauguration.

Women and Slavery before and after 1833 – (Part 2)

History This Week –  No./2009 By Cecilia McAlmont IntroductionIn the previous article the horrors and trauma women endured under chattel slavery before 1833 were discussed – the psychological trauma of the denial of their personhood and humanity, their dual role of producers of staples to ensure the profitability of the plantation and that of reproducers i.e.