Daily Archive: Sunday, August 1, 2010

Articles published on Sunday, August 1, 2010

Hans Brattskar

Independent REDD+ review to be done in next few months

– results have implications for monetary disbursements, Brattskar says The independent review of the REDD+ enabling activities required before any money is disbursed to this country under the Guyana-Norway forest protection agreement will be done within the next few months, Director of Norway’s Climate and Forest Initiative, Ambassador Hans Brattskar says.

Dr Leslie Ramsammy

Ramsammy calls for higher taxation on alcohol products

Given the debilitating effects the abuse of alcohol has on the country’s economy, health and social services, Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy said there is need for higher taxation on alcohol products and called for a national effort to address the abuse of the substance, which results myriad social ills.

GCA calls 36 junior cricketers to one-day programme

Thirty-six youth cricketers have been selected to attend a Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) organised one-day Skills Development Programme on Tuesday at the National Gymnasium from 9am The programame will be conducted in two sessions; the 19 selected under-15 players will occupy the centre from 9am to 12pm while the 17 under-19 players will begin their session at  1pm and it will conclude at 4pm.

Members of the new GTTA executive at the head table following yesterday’s AGM. From left, Deidre Edghill, Linden Johnson, Robin Hunte, Godfrey Munroe, Henry Greene and Harold Hopkinson.

Greene elected president of GTTA

-pledges to take table tennis places By Tamica Garnett Commissioner of Police Henry Greene was yesterday unanimously elected president of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held at Zoom Inn Hotel on Croal Street.

Administrator of Cops Guyana Limited, Berbice branch, Priya Rampersaud (right) presents a cheque to Neil Reece as his coach Randolph Roberts (left) looks on.

Sponsors dish out support for Reece

Berbice’s top junior cyclist and captain of the Flying Ace Cycling Club, Neil Reece, has been selected by the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) to represent Guyana at the Junior Caribbean Championships which will be held in Aruba on August 7 and 8.

WICB needs to make adjustments to Twenty20 format

Cozier on Sunday After a lukewarm start in a constituency more concerned at the time with calypso tents, all-night fetes and Kadooment costumes and in spite of Trinidad’s routinely wet July, the WICB’s first regional T20 championship came nicely to the boil for last night’s final at the Queen’s Park Oval.

Bauxite union elects new executive

The Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) yesterday elected a new executive body at its fifth Triennial Delegates Conference with a vow to intensify the fight to be recognised by the Bauxite Company of Guyana Incorporated (BCGI).

Brownsville, the ‘hood that New York left behind

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Josephine Spearman alternately fought back tears and grew defiant with anger when discussing the murder of her son, one of 11 shootings in 15 days recently that have made the neighbourhood of Brownsville, Brooklyn, one of the most dangerous in the United States.

Just my size

Just my size:  This shopper seemed to have found the right footwear yesterday, sliding her foot into the right side of a pair of leather slippers that fit perfectly.

aDavis, Hosein steer T&T to easy win over Barbados

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – An unbroken sixth-wicket partnership between Derone Davis and Akeal Hosein hauled Trinidad and Tobago out of trouble and steered them to a convincing five-wicket win over Barbados in the second round of the TCL Group West Indies Under-19 One-Day Trophy yesterday.

This One

Ready to celebrate Emancipation Day: This shopper yesterday sought comfortable shoes to match her African wear in the downtown Stabroek area.

Chess players

FIDE-rated player Romario Sanches from Suriname is all concentration as he searches for the most accurate move during his game with Guyana’s Shiv Nandalall at the international chess tournament that was held at the stadium recently.

Team to probe 1990 coup named

Ibrahim to look for mastermind (Trinidad Guardian) A five-member panel, headed by retired Justice of Appeal Mustapha Ibrahim, will seek to trace the mastermind of the July 1990 attempted coup and ascertain if any public or state officials were involved.

Emancipation

Emancipation is the great watershed in Guyanese history, when those who were in bondage were afforded some official space within the society to pursue goals of their own choosing for the first time in two hundred years.