Articles published on Sunday, February 6, 2011
NAIN, Jamaica, CMC – Gifted batsman Marlon Samuels re-launched his career with a monumental, unbeaten double century that put Jamaica in command of their first round match of the Regional First Class Championship against Guyana here today.
Sincere and heartfelt congratulations are extended to Natasha Maria Vieira who graduated from the Hugh Wooding Law School, Trinidad and Tobago, and who was called to the Guyana Bar in September, 2010.
We are yet to be given a reason – a good one or otherwise – for Minister in the Ministry of Finance, Jennifer Webster’s $295,000 One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) blunder in the National Assembly.
Jagdeo tours Mysore Palace: Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo being taken around the Mysore Palace by Deputy Director of Palace Board P.
(de Ware Tijd) — On Friday, at the transfer of command, it was made quite clear that the National Army (NL) has to be brought to greater heights.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka eased to a 26-run victory in the third one-dayer against West Indies to wrap up the series 2-0 today.
PERTH, (Reuters) – Australia paceman Mitchell Johnson again found the WACA a happy hunting ground to inspire the hosts to a 57-run victory and a 6-1 series hammering of England in the seventh and final one day international today.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman held talks today with opposition groups including the officially banned Muslim Brotherhood to try to find a way out of the country’s worst crisis in decades.
Two young men died early this morning after the car they were in plunged into a trench near the Houston/Meadow Bank turn.
Four months after being given the go ahead to start the first phase of the Amaila Falls road project, Synergy Holdings Inc is behind schedule having completed just over 10 per cent of the work to date.
The process to select the PPP/C’s presidential candidate for this year’s general elections is set to begin this week, according to information reaching Stabroek News.
The juvenile justice system currently offers “highly unsatisfactory” conditions under which young children are being detained and this is unacceptable, according to women and children’s advocate Karen DeSouza.
Guyanese contractor, Aubrey Butin was gunned down in Barbados early yesterday morning outside his St James home during a robbery.
Two parliamentary parties have excoriated the government’s One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) initiative with GAP’s MP Everall Franklin calling for an immediate review of it.
The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) says it is losing as much as $80,000 per month on each landline service and will be looking at more economically viable ways to meet the communication needs of residents in the unserved areas.
By Cathy Richards PNCR presidential candidate hopeful Carl Greenidge attracted strong support among the residents of Region 10 on Friday, which saw the largest turnout at the ongoing Town Hall-style meetings organised by the party.
A 33-year-old mother of two left her Tain, Corentyne home more than a month ago and has not been seen since.
Some 55 workers from the call centre NP Communications Inc yesterday protested outside the company after they were told they were being laid off.
Government says it has funds available for the procurement of the furniture and equipment for the Family Court, but that it is awaiting approval of the rules by the Rules Committee of the High Court.
Armed bandits on Friday morning snatched more that $2 million from a Campbellville businesswoman after wilfully slamming into the back of the car she was travelling in.
Sheet Anchor, the last village in East Canje before reaching New Amsterdam has a population of over 4,500 with a section under the Canje Bridge that many people do not know exists.
Introduction We have not heard much from or about it recently.
Newly-appointed technical director of the National Rugby Sevens team, Spencer Robinson, is pleased with the progress the team has made in preparing for the International Rugby Board (IRB) Sevens World Series in Las Vegas, United States.
After two years of gradually losing popular support at home and political influence abroad, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez could be one of the big winners of a major rise in world oil prices triggered by the Egyptian uprising.
CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Windward Islands bowlers upstaged a half-century from Kyle Corbin to put their side in a favourable position over Combined Campuses & Colleges in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.
Let me take you back about 10 years. I was living in Grand Cayman, with my Pomeroon background, out in the country on a big piece of land, and I would often take a break from my fruit trees to watch West Indies cricket.
NAIN, Jamaica, CMC – A gutsy batting effort earned Guyana first innings points but Marlon Samuels stroked a confident, unbeaten half-century to keep Jamaica in the hunt, on the second day of the first round of the Regional First Class Championship yesterday.
By Mary Noel Menezes, RSM On October 24, 1935 six Sisters of Mercy arrived in British Guiana bound for Mahaica, where they began caring for the large number of patients at the Mahaica Leprosarium, as it was then called.
Vampire bats, creatures of many myths and legends, are blood-feeding, flying mammals found throughout Central and South America.
Three wickets in one over by Georgetown Cricket Club’s (GCC) Joshua Wade and a commanding 93 from Gavin Singh have Police facing an uphill task to take first innings points against the home team in the Heroes Cup first division two-day tournament.
A welder of the Skeldon Sugar Estate sustained first and second degree burns on Thursday afternoon after a “steam pipe” collapsed.
Located at 72 John Street and Stone Avenue, Campbellville, is Major’s Woodworking, a little workshop that specialises in the making of wooden shutters.
A fire believed to have been started by vagrants burning electrical wire for copper gutted an unoccupied house at 106 Croal Street yesterday morning.
The Guyana Olympic Association kindly invited me to speak at their recent Annual Awards ceremony.
(Cricinfo) Hot Spot will not be part of the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) that will be used during the 2011 ICC World Cup, reducing the system to its basic requirements: a ball-tracker (in this case Hawk-Eye), a super slow-motion camera and a ‘clear’ stump microphone.
AUCKLAND (Reuters) – Jesse Ryder scored his second one day international century to help New Zealand earn a face-saving 57-run victory over Pakistan at Eden Park yesterday in the sixth and final match of their series.
Unknown persons broke into the Campbellville Post Office some time between Friday night and early yesterday morning and made off with an undisclosed amount of cash after torching a safe.
LONDON (Reuters) – Newcastle United produced an astonishing fightback to draw 4-4 at home to Arsenal yesterday after trailing 4-0 as a record 38 goals were scored in the Premier League yesterday.
Unless trees are looked after properly, with attention paid to the treatment of wounds which have been made by nature or by man, they may become infected with one of a few dozen fungus diseases and become a risk to life and limb.
Team GDF snatched the male and female titles at the conclusion of the Inter-Services Cross Country Championships on January 29, the GDF said in a release on Friday.
The Stag Beer Inter-Ward Seven-a-Side Street Football tournament is geared to create waves among competing teams from the various areas in Linden when it kicks off on February 14.
Junior cyclist Paul DeNobrega pulled off a stunning victory yesterday at the National Park when he out-sprinted a number of senior cyclists to win the 18th Annual Ricks and Sari Agro Industries Limited youth race programme.
Of all the many mysteries surrounding the Indian Premier League (IPL), the most mystifying, on the face of it, has been Chris Gayle’s inability to attract a bid at the auction for the 2011 edition from the multi-millionaire industrialists and Bollywood stars who own the franchise teams.
Introduction Two fundamental considerations take pride of place in the substantive evaluation of Guyana’s government budget, 2011 and therefore provide a logical starting point for my forthcoming columns.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – With their eyes already firmly fixed on their pending World Cup campaign, West Indies will search for a confidence-boosting win when they face Sri Lanka in the final One-Day International of their three-match series today.
DOHA (Reuters) – Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt and fast bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif were banned for at least five years yesterday after they were found guilty of corruption by an International Cricket Council (ICC) tribunal.
Caribbean governments were, they suggested, looking at significantly cutting the regional secretariat’s budget and this would mean the loss of key staff.
CAIRO (Reuters) – Unrest in Egypt could turn increasingly vicious, leading opposition activist Mohamed ElBaradei warned yesterday, as President Hosni Mubarak clung to power after 12 days of demonstrations.
Getting it right: Pupils at St Gabriel’s Primary School practising yesterday for the Children’s Mashramani competitions which kick off this week.
This Bill seeks to amend the New Building Society Act, Cap 36:21, to provide for the licensing and supervision of the Society, by the Bank of Guyana primarily under the Financial Institutions Act 1995, the Bank of Guyana Act 1998 and any other law.
(Jamaica Observer) A day after the United States requested the extradition of accused drug lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke in 2009, National Security Minister Dwight Nelson is said to have expressed deep fears to then police commissioner Hardley Lewin that the government could collapse if the request was granted.
MILAN (Reuters) – Writers, intellectuals and a former president of the constitutional court rallied in Milan yesterday against scandal-hit Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, accusing him of wrecking Italy’s international reputation.
Organophosphate poisoningThere are several chemicals on the market which pet owners use to eliminate ectoparasites (ticks, fleas, lice, etc) and which have a base ingredient of organophosphates or carbamates.
TUNIS (Reuters) – At least two people were killed and 17 others wounded in northern Tunisia yesterday when police opened fire to quell a protest after a senior police officer slapped a woman in the face, official and media sources said.
Dear Editor, I would like to bring to the attention of the Guyanese public that after doing a fan-out exercise on behalf of the Alliance for Change, I found that many young people who ought to be voting for the first time are not registered.
(Poui, Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing, No: XI, December 2010; eds Mark McWatt, Jane Bryce, Hazel Simmons-McDonald, Mark Jason Welch, Dept.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – As unrest sweeps the Middle East, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said he would give up half his salary in a possible bid to head off simmering discontent, and called for a two-term limit to be placed on his office.
Dear Editor, The first thing to note is the AFC’s Action Plan did not (and I insist did not!)
In chess as in life, when people cannot figure out what you are doing, they are kept in a state of terror – waiting, uncertain, confused. -Robert
Sunday Cartoon
Proceedings in our House of Assembly are usually fairly turgid, except when they are enlivened by the occasional witticism, such as when Minister Kellawan Lall rose to his feet to speak on Monday, and Ms Debbie Backer called out to her fellow parliamentarians, “Duck!”
