Daily Archive: Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Articles published on Tuesday, May 18, 2010

K Juman Yassin

GOA hopes gov’t will get on board for CAC Games team

By Marlon Munroe With a proposed 50 or 60-man team that should represent Guyana at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico in July, the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) is hoping that the Government of Guyana can assist with financing as it has done in the past.

The hole in the upper right portion of the photo was made by the bandits

Guard killed in chilling Corentyne robbery

-EO of Nand Persaud and Co. injured-Heavily armed gunmen fired wildly A security guard was killed and another man is nursing gunshot wounds at the Georgetown Public Hospital after heavily armed bandits opened fire at a house at Wellington Park, Corentyne around 1:40 am yesterday.

Paddy bug hits rice crop

With more than 10,000 acres already lost to paddy bug infestation, surveys of affected areas showed a poor level of sanitation in and around rice fields and staggered sowing dates, Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud says.

Jamaica to extradite Dudus, PM not resigning

(Jamaica Observer) A deeply apologetic Prime Minister Bruce Golding last night announced that Justice Minister Dorothy Lightbourne will sign the authority for extradition proceedings to commence against Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke who is wanted by the United States to face gun- and drug-running charges.

Payment of taxes ‘tremendous’

– GRA boss urges greater compliance Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Khurshid Sattaur is calling on non-compliant taxpayers to submit their returns and in expressing appreciation to those who have honored their obligation he noted that “the payment of taxes has been tremendous”.

Twenty20 comes of age in Caribbean feast

BRIDGETOWN,  (Reuters) – Twenty20 cricket came home  with England’s impressive World Cup win  on Sunday and the game  which began as a crowd-pleasing thrash really came of age over  the past three weeks in the Caribbean.  

Pietersen humbled by renaissance

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Talismanic England batsman Kevin Pietersen said Sunday his resurgence in form, becoming a recent father and winning the World Twenty20 Championship had been an experience like no other.

Suriname investigating plane crash

Feverish campaigning for Suriname’s legislative elections next Tuesday was dampened yesterday as the bodies of the eight passengers killed on a domestic flight at the weekend, were brought to the capital Paramirabo.

ICC hails tournament for showcasing Caribbean culture

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Cricket’s world governing body, the International Cricket Council, has praised the involvement of Caribbean fans in the just concluded World Twenty20 Championship and said their participation was a key ingredient behind the tournament’s success.

Gun violence

Last week’s forum – “In Harm’s Way: Girls in Settings of Endemic Armed Violence” – that was organized to observe the ‘Global Week of Action Against Gun Violence’ by the International Action Network against Small Arms was cause for both controversy and concern.