Daily Archive: Friday, April 8, 2011

Articles published on Friday, April 8, 2011

$85M modern well drilled at Tuschen

More than 20, 000 East Bank Essequibo residents are expected to benefit from improved water supply after the Ministry of Housing commissioned an $85M well at Tuschen that is expected to pump up to 120 cubic metres of water per hour.

Marlon Samuels

CCC hoping to halt Jamaica four-peat bid

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Surprise finalists Combined Campuses and Colleges will seek to make history while denying powerful Jamaica their fourth straight title, in the final of the Regional First Class Championship starting here today.

Trophy Stall Angels

GT&T 10/10 Softball Cricket Competition

Trophy Stall XI is set to defend their title as the second edition of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) 10/10 Softball Cricket Competition enters into its quarterfinal stage tomorrow at the Everest Cricket Ground from 09:30hrs Ramish Sunich, manager of both the Trophy Stall XI and the Trophy Stall Angels who also have a spot in the female version of the quarterfinals weighed in on the performance of his male troops.

Veerasammy Permaul

Corbin, Permaul praise HPC

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Emerging shot-maker Kyle Corbin has credited the West Indies High Performance Centre for his exciting form this season in the Regional First Class Championship.

Miandad turns down Caribbean trip

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, CMC – Pakistan batting legend Javed Miandad will not join the national squad for the Test and one-day series against West Indies later this month and says he will decide on the batting coach offer after the tour.

 The proposed entrance to the synthetic track at Leonora.

Athletes happy for synthetic track but…..

By Treiston Joseph Athletes, some of whom will compete on Guyana’s first synthetic track to be erected at Leonora and which is expected to be completed some time next year are happy with the latest development but have some reservations.

Ms Hamilton should be reinstated

Dear Editor, As an ex-member of the army, I always remember that safety and security is the business of every citizen of Guyana, and I don’t think that anyone in their right senses is going to instruct a magistrate to travel in a speedboat to conduct state business in the interior (Bartica), an area where innocent citizens lost their lives in a massacre.

Jamaican schools to go high-tech

(Jamaica Gleaner) The government has started to roll out an ambitious multimillion-dollar project designed to place high-speed Internet in schools, post offices and public libraries across the island within 18 months.

CLICO file for DPP

(Barbados Nation) CLICO’s alleged contravention of an August 2009 order by the Supervisor of Insurance to stop selling new business is headed for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).