Daily Archive: Saturday, March 20, 2010

Articles published on Saturday, March 20, 2010

El Nino bakes Mahaica Creek

Cash crop farmers in the Mahaica Creek are moving from bounty to bare as the relentless El Nino phenomenon bakes their plots and rice farmers are not far behind as their already limited access to water continues to dwindle.

The three-toed sloth

Whose sloth?

Queries are being made to determine the origins of the three-toed sloth that was featured on the front page of our Tuesday edition.

Randolph Morgan powers his way to the new Caribbean record. (Orlando Charles photo)

Morgan sets new Bench Press record

– poised to retain champion lifter title By Marlon Munroe Randolph Morgan seems poised to retain the champion lifter title after he set a new National, Regional and Caribbean record in the Bench Press on the first day of the fourth IPF/NAPF Caribbean Islands Bench Press and Powerlifting Championships at the Princess Hotel yesterday.

Courts Pacesetters Royston Siland soars high above the opposing players from Maccabees looking for a tip in during their Open encounter which Pacesetters won 91-80. (Orlando Charles photo)

Indiscipline overshadows Courts Pacesetters victory

Courts Pacesetters basketball team emerged victorious against Macaabees Thursday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall as the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Open and Third Division Leagues continued but their 91-80 victory was marred by indiscipline from some of the team’s players which was sparked by claims of biased officiating.

Symonds helps Deccan to first home win

(Cricinfo) The match was hurtling towards a dull climax when Irfan Pathan tried to pull off the improbable with an audacious innings, but eventually Deccan Chargers prevailed and sealed their first win against Kings XI Punjab in IPL history yesterday.

Motion to force MP declarations postponed

The government’s intention to have Members of Parliament (MPs) declare annual declarations of income to the Integrity Commission or face disciplinary action was temporarily put on hold when a motion to give effect to this was deferred at Thursday’s sitting of the National Assembly.

Expansion boost: Karen DeSouza of Red Thread (left) signs the contract with Second Secretary of the Japanese Embassy, Mariko Chiba yesterday at the organisation’s Princes and Adelaide streets office.

Red Thread inks grant pact with Japan

– for solar energy, expansion of centre Red Thread signed a contract with the Japanese Embassy yesterday for grant assistance which will fund several projects at its South Georgetown office including expansion works and the installation of an alternative source of energy.

Desrey Fox probe report with President

The report on the investigation ordered by President Bharrat Jagdeo into the treatment that late minister Dr Desrey Fox received at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) has been forwarded to the Office of the President following its completion.

Twins

Will we win? Ministers Jennifer Westford (left) and Jennifer Webster took the opportunity last evening to try their luck in the casino.

Anti-corruption dominates U.S. Africa policy

DAKAR, (Reuters) – In the eight months since U.S.  President Barack Obama’s first visit to sub-Saharan Africa, the  army has seized power in Niger, a power struggle in Nigeria  bedevils its government, and Guinea’s then leader stands accused  of involvement in a massacre.

The road to Perdition

The first thing that strikes a visitor (Guyanese or otherwise) to Georgetown is the chaos that prevails on the roads and the noise that attends this burlesque: of cars over-accelerating and swerving, of brakes screeching, of horns uniformly blaring and (until recently) of music pulsating from every minibus.