Articles published on Sunday, June 19, 2011
Decisions following June 17th meeting of WICB Board of Directors (WICB) Kingston, Jamaica – Following are decisions taken by the Board of Directors of the West Indies Cricket Board at the meeting of the Board in Kingston, Jamaica on June 17th.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States scored twice in the second half to beat a 10-man Jamaica squad 2-0 today and advance to the semi-finals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
At about 0850h. today police ranks stopped and searched motor vehicle PJJ 9393, which was en route to Suriname, at Molsen Creek, Corentyne.
More than 300 former employees of the defunct Diamond Sugar Estate turned up to uplift their severance benefits at the Diamond Secondary School today as emotions ran high on “the ending of an era” of sugar cultivation on the East Bank of Demerara estate.
Fire ravaged a five bedroom, two-flat house at 528 D’ Field, Turkeyen today at around 10:30 am.
(ICC) A number of rising and talented cricketers have improved their positions in the Reliance ICC ODI Player Rankings following the conclusion of the West Indies and India series which the tourists won 3-2 on Thursday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Majority state-owned Telecommunications Services of T&T (TSTT) is set to award a multi-million dollar advertising contract to Ross Advertising Ltd, the advertising agency of People’s Partnership, owned by Ernie Ross. But
(Jamaica Gleaner) A mole in the Ministry of Finance provided the United States Embassy in Kingston insider information on almost every move made by then Finance Minister Dr Omar Davies.
(Barbados Nation) Police are investigating a possible murder. This follows the discovery of the partially decomposed body of missing woman Sharika Olivia Bishop which was discovered yesterday morning in a field at Thyme Bottom, Christ Church.
(Barbados Nation) A St Michael Man accused of buggering two schoolboys has been remanded to Dodds Prisons until July 15.
(Trinidad Express) Attorney General Anand Ramlogan yesterday was the only Cabinet Minister to criticise the e-mails sent from the home computer of Sasha Mohammed, special adviser to the Prime Minister, attacking Express editor-in-chief Omatie Lyder and Express reporter Anna Ramdass.
Introduction The detailed figures presented in last Sunday’s column on Guyana’s sugar production for the years 1961 to 2010 (on the basis of 3-year averages) and the accompanying chart reveal three notable features.
Among the frustrations in modern life are things so ridiculous, so patently illogical, that when you run into them you are propelled to ask, “When are we going to stop this?”
Introduction Five months after the passage of the largest budget ever, Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh has gone back to the National Assembly for an additional $6.3 billion for spending this year.
For a short while one summer day out of nowhere in my life she flashed like a comet across my sky.
As the one-time baseball legend and master of malapropisms Yogi Berra might have put it, it is like déjà vu all over again.
What irony! Despite all their grandiose rhetoric about Latin American unity, Brazil, Argentina and Chile have not yet come out in support of Agustín Carstens, the Latin American candidate to head the International Monetary Fund.
Farmers in the Hope/ Dochfour area, East Coast Demerara are in a quandary after receiving conflicting messages from officials from the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) as regards the Hope Relief Canal.
There is a saying that Nero fiddled while Rome burned. The recent situation between the West Indies Cricket Board
Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang says an improved work ethic is required to significantly reduce the chronic case backlog in the system, particularly in a litigious society like Guyana where cases are being filed in staggering numbers.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Unseeded Italian Andreas Seppi won the first ATP title of his career in extraordinary circumstances yesterday when Serbian opponent Janko Tipsarevic retired hurt in a rain-interrupted Eastbourne International final.
Sometimes it seems as if officials are engaged in a game that involves having those they are most meant to help, guess about their intentions.
The Giant Water Lily (Victoria amazonica) is a flowering plant and the largest of the Nymphaeaceae family of water lilies in the world.
BETHESDA, Maryland, (Reuters) – Rory McIlroy, whose record-setting start produced the lowest 36-hole total at a U.S.
Youths are concerned about the ethnic divide and “traditional racial voting” which they believe plagues General Elections in Guyana.
United States of America’s 16th president Abraham Lincoln once said that “nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
No mattresses, poor quality food, insanitary conditions and mosquitoes are part of life in the New Amsterdam Prisons.
This Bill seeks to protect animals against diseases by controlling the movement of animals into, out of and within Guyana so as to prevent the introduction and spread of animal diseases within Guyana and other countries, and to ensure the safe and humane movement of animals to and from Guyana and to regulate the importation of animals and production of animal products and livestock feeds.
A city businessman reportedly shot himself in the head early yesterday morning as he was driving home after “hanging out” at a Kitty bar.
Former national netball player Shanomae Pearce-Baptiste has been elected as the new secretary of the Guyana Netball Association (GNA).
Another positive feature in the recent Guyana National Drama Festival was the clear sign that some amount of theatre is taking place among schools and youth groups.
KABUL (Reuters) – The United States is in contact with the Taliban about a possible settlement to the war in Afghanistan, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said yesterday, the first official confirmation of US involvement in negotiations.
Alex Arjoon and Nicolette Fernandes hardly broke a sweat in reaching the final of the Digicel Senior National tournament Friday evening at the Georgetown Club Squash courts.
Continued from last week Before we continue, as promised, with the discussion on different types of breathing, allow me to mention a few more conditions (see last week’s TPC) which can contribute to respiratory diseases.
The body of an unidentified man was yesterday midday found floating in the Demerara River beneath a wharf in Kingston.
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Rebels waging a drawn-out war to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have run out of money, their oil chief said yesterday, and he accused the West of failing to keep its promises of urgent financial aid.
Deonarine Ramsook, 55, of Belvedere, Corentyne enjoyed being creative from a young age, not realizing that he would later develop his skill and earn a living from it.
Police yesterday during a search operation at Belmont, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara found more that seven kilogrammes of marijuana.
By Colin Benjamin On a day in which wickets fell so often it was if one was watching a highlights package of a 20 overs-a-side game, Demerara closed the second day of the 2011 Guyana and Trinidad Mutual (GTM) Under 19 Inter County three-day competition on 72 for 3 with a overall lead 160 runs, after they had bundled out Essequibo for miserly 96, at Providence National Stadium, yesterday.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic said he was better prepared for Wimbledon than ever yesterday despite minimal practice on grass.
The first projects to be funded through the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF) remain in the developmental stage 18 months after the forests’ saving agreement was sealed with Norway.
Photos and text courtesy of Mr Dmitri Allicock The once popular 1897 Wismar- Rockstone railway symbolized upper Demerara and served as a cornerstone in its development before bauxite came to dominate.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and Republican House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner teamed up in a golf match yesterday to try to build a friendlier climate for troubled talks on the US debt and deficits.
Sherman Munroe of Tiger Bay
LUSAKA (Reuters) – Frederick Chiluba, Zambia’s first democratically elected president who fought off corruption charges after standing down, has died aged 68, a government spokesman said yesterday.
Most gardeners will know that the bulb is a development in plants which is designed to assist them survive long periods of dormancy that occur in dry places on earth.
Dear Editor, After reading your article, ‘Jamaican Contractor General corruption fight drew US admiration – cable,’ (June 17), I couldn’t help wondering what the Wikileaks cables on information from the US Embassy in Georgetown to Washington have to say about the fight by any Guyana government official against corruption.
Father’s Day shopping
Last Saturday’s boat accident at the mining community of Bartica in which two persons sustained injuries adds to a growing number of such incidents, while the agencies that hold authority over the sector remain silent on their investigations.
WASHINGTON DC, CMC – For Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz to reach their first CONCACAF Gold Cup semi-final in 13 years, they will have to do what they have never done in their history – beat the United States.
What is the matter with the Anglican Church, one wonders. How can it put up one of its older places of worship for sale without exploring the possibilities for how it could be saved?
Transparency
Forty-eight-year-old Mary (not her real name) has had a pain-filled existence for most of her life, as a result of abuse in all forms that started from her childhood days.
Part 2 Solid waste Collins told this newspaper that they are using the excavator to desilt the main drainage, starting from the outfalls.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez met with Cuban President Raul Castro and former leader Fidel Castro as he “recovers satisfactorily” from surgery in Havana last week, Cuban press reported yesterday.
AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian troops and gunmen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad stormed a town near the Turkish border yesterday, burning houses and arresting dozens, witnesses said, in a persistent military campaign to crush popular revolt.
Dear Editor, Many Guyanese of my generation view any talk of a railroad with nostalgia, as we fondly remember the days of the train.
Dads hanging out
SOUTHAMPTON, England, (Reuters) – Kevin Pietersen continued his return to form by hammering 85 but captain Andrew Strauss failed again as England took a firm grip on the third day of the third and final test against Sri Lanka yesterday.
