Daily Archive: Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Articles published on Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Has the Brigadier gone AWOL?

Not a handful of weeks ago the announcement that retired Army Commander Brigadier David Granger has pipped one-time PNC Finance Minister Carl Greenidge for the nomination as the party’s presidential candidate set tongues wagging amongst the party faithful. 

Hottest pair award

Bollywood actors Anushka Sharma (R) and Ranveer Singh (L) accept the award for the hottest pair during the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) show in Toronto June 25, 2011.

Ruel Ritch (centre, right) controls the ball as he runs past Neil Gordon (centre, left) during the high pressure finals.

Class above the rest

Marian Academy held their composure to come from behind and win the Georgetown ‘City’ Confer-ence Championship trophy last Sunday in their match against St Stanislaus College in the Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG)/ National Sports Commission (NSC) Schools’ National Basketball Festival finals.

Adrian Barath and Ramnaresh Sarwan at nets yesterday. (CaribbeanCricket.com)

Onus on batsmen!

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Darren Sammy made it clear that there was only one way for West Indies to win the second Test against India, starting today at Kensington Oval, and level the three-Test series.

Nirmala Sugrim from her hospital bed yesterday.

Fish vendor recovering from accident

Nirmala Sugrim, the fish vendor, who was injured after the car she was travelling in collided with a minibus on Wednesday morning last, has been transferred from the High Dependency Unit to the Female Surgical Ward at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

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Serena and Venus booted, worry for Nadal

LONDON, (Reuters) – It took less than two brutal  hours at Wimbledon yesterday to disprove the theory that Serena  and Venus Williams could march back to continue their domination  of the grasscourt slam having hardly swung their rackets in  anger for months.

Apology

We apologise for the fact that the letter captioned ‘Why are Guyanese so reluctant about trying to attract women for traditionally male dominated but difficult-to-recruit roles?’

Essequibo opener Kevon Boodie hits Cellink Berbice off-spinner Loydell Lewis over the top en route to his aggressive 51, in his team’s unsuccessful run-chase yesterday. (Orlando Charles Photo)

Cellink Berbice beats Essequibo by 31 runs

By Colin Benjamin Defending champions Cellink Berbice begun their title defense with a 31 run  victory over a much-improved Essequibo team in the penultimate round of the 2011 Guyana and Trinidad Mutual (GTM) Under 19, limited overs tournament at Providence Stadium, yesterday Scores: Berbice 211/9 in 50 overs, Dominic Rikki 61, Jamal La Fluer 32; Anthony Adams 3-34 and Ricardo Adams 2-42.

Wiggins has unfinished business in France

PARIS, (Reuters) – Having learnt from last year’s  failure, Bradley Wiggins believes he is now fully ready to  tackle a punishing Tour de France and  become the first Briton  to climb on to the podium on the Champs Elysees.

Political mileage?

Dear Editor, I noticed on the TV recently and in your newspaper that Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud were accusing the PNCR of trying to score cheap political mileage by the visit of PNCR presidential candidate Mr David Granger to the flooded areas of Region 9.

US drones kill 21 militants in NW Pakistan

WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Missile strikes from two US drones killed at least 21 suspected militants in Pakistan’s South Waziristan yesterday, Pakistani officials said, part of an intensified US assault in the tribal belt this month.

Kingston fire victims

It seems the Kingston fire victims are very adamant about their decision to stay on the premises, until they receive word from the Ministry of Housing.

Corruption and the private sector

Last week, Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) José Miguel Insulza used his opening address at the Second Conference on the Progress and Challenges in Hemispheric Cooperation against Corruption to reflect on the role that corruption continues to play in retarding development and disfiguring democracy, particularly in developing countries.

COP denounces cabinet changes

(Trinidad Express) – A letter of complaint from the Congress of the People (COP) denouncing changes in the People’s Partnership administration was delivered to Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Sunday night.

Near-Earth asteroid passes over Atlantic Ocean

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – An asteroid with an estimated girth as large as a garbage truck soared within 7,500 miles (12,070 km) of the Earth yesterday as it passed harmlessly over the Atlantic Ocean, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).