Daily Archive: Saturday, October 1, 2011

Articles published on Saturday, October 1, 2011

Sarwan still owed IPL money

(ESPN Cricinfo) West Indies batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan and Australian Simon Katich are among a group of cricketers still owed contract payments from the BCCI for the 2010 Indian Premier League.

CN Sharma

Sharma slapped with four-month ban

CNS Channel 6 will be off the air effective Monday at midnight after President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday handed broadcaster CN Sharma a four-month licence suspension as a sanction for a May 4, 2011 Anthony Vieira commentary in which there were damaging statements about Bishop Juan Edghill.

Guyana, Venezuela recommit to Good Offices process

Amid heightened rhetoric over Guyana’s submission of an application to extend its continental shelf, Georgetown and Caracas yesterday recommitted in Trinidad and Tobago to the UN Good Offices process and their respective facilitators are to meet to discuss the matter and then report back to their governments.

Mortimer Mingo

Mingo admits sending $1.5M cheque for Pradoville lot

After the Ministry of Housing dramatically produced a cheque he had tendered to it, Region 10 chairman Mortimer Mingo acknowledged for the first time yesterday that he had sent the instrument for $1,500,500 to recognise the offer of a house lot at the controversial Pradoville 2 Scheme but had it dishonoured after discovering that other chairmen had not been offered lots.

Digicel urges GT&T/ATN, gov’t to explain hold up of liberalizing law

Digicel Guyana is demanding “a full and frank explanation” from GT&T’s US owners, Atlantic Tele-Networks (ATN) “regarding the nature and extent of any legal or other threats made against the Government of Guyana concerning the planned introduction of telecommunications reform in Guyana last week,” the mobile operator said in a press release yesterday.

TTCB committed to Windies unity  

THE TRINIDAD and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) has disassociated itself from recent statements made by national team captain Daren Ganga which suggests that Trinidad and Tobago should break away from the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and go it alone in international cricket.

Road hogs

It is said that in general, generalisations should be avoided. We are told that we should not malign an entire group of people because of the behaviour of some members of that group.

No recipe, made spontaneously: Channa & Ham Hocks Photo by Cynthia Nelson

Impromptu cooking

Hi Everyone, have you ever noticed how great food tastes when it’s a dish you didn’t plan or don’t quite have the ingredients for it, or you just threw it together on the spur of the moment?

Keiron Pollard

Pollard shines with cameo before rain forces wash-out

BANGALORE, India, CMC-IANS – West Indies batsman Kieron Pollard banged a characteristically stroke-filled half-century but heavy and unabated rain washed out an exciting contest between a spirited Mumbai Indians and Cape Cobras in the Champions League Twenty20 late yesterday.

Stephanie Fraser

Van Lange, Rodrigues to spearhead IGG swim team

Ronaldo Rodrigues, fresh from participating at the Commonwealth Youth Games in the Isla of Man and Britany van Lange, will spearhead the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) 12-member team to the upcoming Inter Guiana Games (IGG) later this month in Suriname.

The female ‘ideal’

Dear Editor, We live in a place in which women and girls are subject to abuse and violence from men and boys who believe that there is some ‘natural’ or even ‘divine’ right to put down and humiliate women in different ways.

What we have for politics now leaves us bored and frustrated

Dear Editor, The election carnival is about to begin and everyone running for President and Parliament are already basing their chances on different racial and ethnic configurations in order to cast the fishnet and haul in a majority of ‘hassa,’ and if a few ‘houri‘ or ‘bangamary‘ enter the cast net, then ok, because then they can claim cross-over voting.

Canje Creek breach sealed

Chief River and Sea Defence Officer Geoffrey Vaughn revealed last night that a sea defence breach in the Canje Creek, caused by unusual spring tides, and which had resulted in flooding in Tucber, Nurseville and Winkel in New Amsterdam, has been sealed andDavid `Shakes’ Christopher the water has receded.

Brazil seeks $3.25 bln tax break for telecoms

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Dilma  Rousseff will propose 6 billion reais ($3.25 billion) in tax  breaks over the next five years for the construction of  telecommunications networks, in an effort to keep the sector  booming despite the global financial crisis.

The Eurozone crisis

Earlier this week, a series of remarkable statements by an American trader turned a routine segment of BBC television news into a compelling glimpse of the greed and fear that are commonly said to drive the world’s stock markets.

Kamla discharged from hospital

(Trinidad Express) A smiling Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar exited the St Clair Medical Centre yesterday after her 48-hour stay, but admitted to being “scared” after her blood pressure dropped suddenly and left her feeling “weak”.