Daily Archive: Sunday, April 29, 2012

Articles published on Sunday, April 29, 2012

Jamaica sex offender still teaching

(Jamaica Observer) A teacher who was convicted and sentenced for indecent (sexual) assault against an eighth grader at a high school in Kingston is still working there, as no disciplinary action was ever taken against him by the school board.

Three leaders of the  Alleluia Church at  Jawalla: From left to  right are Bornstein  McCardy, Zachary  Robinson and Basil  Leonard. The church  building is behind  the trio.

Jawalla

Story and photos by Gaulbert Sutherland At the place where the Mazaruni and Kukui rivers unite in the heart of the jungle sits Jawalla, an Amerindian village of gold mines, casak and religious accord.

Devon Gibson

Boy, 8, missing feared drowned

An eight-year-old St Margaret’s Primary School boy is feared drowned after he disappeared yesterday when he and a group of friends went swimming in the Atlantic Ocean aback of the Guyana Forestry Commission.

Ana Lozano left and Mandessa Moses going at it in their six-round super featherweight fight Friday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. (Orlando Charles photo)

Lozano on her way to world recognition after thrashing Moses

By Emmerson Campbell The name Ana Lozano might not have been  a familiar one among Guyana’s boxing fans before Friday night but after the Venezuelan thrashed the World Boxing Council’s  No.12 ranked boxer, Mandessa Moses in her debut bout at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Friday night, she may well be on her way to world recognition.

Sunday opening of UG library

The University of Guyana Library has announced in a press release that it will be open to all users from 10:00hrs to 17:00hrs  on the following Sundays: May 13, May 20, May 27, June 3 and June 10.

Chris Gayle

Gayle superb but RCB loses; Narine thrives

KOLKATA, India,  CMC – Talismanic West Indies left-hander Chris Gayle smashed his fourth half-century in six innings and surpassed 300 runs for another Indian Premier League season but his Royal Challengers Bangalore suffered a 47-run defeat at the hands of Kolkata Knight Riders here  yesterday.

Joe Harmon

Joseph Harmon – APNU

This is the Sixteenth in our series on new parliamentarians After twenty-three years in the Guyana Defence Force and another 15 years as a lawyer in private practice, Joseph Harmon is now an “active politician” and a new face in the 10th sitting of the National Assembly, a sitting he hopes would be the turning point in the country’s history.

 Imran Khan

Boxers to depart Tuesday for Olympic box off

By Emmerson Campbell London Olympic Games hopeful and joint Junior Sportsman of the Year Imran ‘Magic’ Khan, along with Stefan Gouveia and Burt Braithwaite will wing out to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Tuesday to participate in the Olympic Games box offs.

Change will take time

Sometimes you learn from an unexpected source.  When I lived in Grand Cayman, I came to know one of the older boat builders, an interesting man named Ira Walton.

Escaped China activist in US protection-rights group

BEIJING (Reuters) – Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is under US protection in Beijing after an audacious escape from 19 months under house arrest, a US-based group said yesterday, in a drama that threatens to ignite new tensions between the two governments.

Correction

With respect to a letter by Krysta Bisnauth which appeared in our Friday edition (April 27) captioned ‘St Stanislaus workshop on Henry Greene case had brilliant speakers,’ it was Dr Alissa Trotz who spoke at the workshop and not Dr Maya Trotz as was erroneously printed in the letter.

Gunmen hit Syrian army from sea, Moscow slams rebels

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Gunmen in inflatable dinghies killed several security officials in an attack on a military unit on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, state media said yesterday, the first seaborne assault reported during the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.

Deals, cuts and dialogue

If one didn’t know better, one might have thought that some of our politicians were competing with the rulers of the Italian city states in Renaissance times, since there has been more than enough intrigue and perfidy to go around in the last ten days.