Daily Archive: Saturday, October 20, 2012

Articles published on Saturday, October 20, 2012

30 admitted to Barbados bar

(Barbados Nation) A BARBADOS beauty queen; a Queen’s Counsel in a Trinidadian law firm, a teacher of two decades’ experience, an experienced banker and a handful of Barbados Scholarship and Exhibition winners are among those now able to practise law in Barbados.

Dr. Roger Luncheon

Speaker warns OP

-cites concerns about presidential assent to bills Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman yesterday warned the Office of the President (OP) against provoking a constitutional crisis and argued that should President Donald Ramotar, without good reason, not assent to bills passed by Parliament “he can be considered to be in gross dereliction of his constitutional duty.”

GHRA calls for new political morality

-after Agricola unrest In its first statement on the recent Agricola unrest, The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) yesterday said that Guyana needs a change of political morality and a politics of mutual confidence rather than politics driven by mistrust.

No running water for days in Dazzel Housing Scheme

Some residents of Dazzel Housing Scheme at Paradise, East Coast Demerara, reported that they had been without water for three days up to yesterday and many are outraged at the “inhumane treatment” being meted out to them at the hands of the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI).

The late Vic Puran’s children being comforted moments before the funeral service began at his Kitty home yesterday.

Vic Puran cremated

Members of the local justice system as well as relatives and friends of late criminal lawyer Vickramaditya ‘Vic’ Puran said their final goodbyes to him yesterday before his body was cremated.

Personal chef up for bids at DDL education charity dinner

An international renowned personal chef available to the highest bidder will be the feature event of a dinner as Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) tonight gears to raise funds for children of its charitable foundation, who have excelled at the National Grade Six examinations but cannot afford city schooling.

Jack Warner

Federation to sue Jack Warner

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC-The Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) plans to sue its former special adviser, Works Minister Jack Warner, to recover financial accounts pertaining to funds raised during the 2006 World Cup campaign.

The Pitbulls receiving the cheque for one million dollars from Troy Cadogan.

Pitbulls collect million dollars cash prize

Winners of the Mackeson Smooth Moves 3-on-3 basketball competition, the Pitbulls, yesterday collected their one millions dollars cash prize from Ansa McAl’s Marketing Director Troy Cadogan at the company’s Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara Head Office.

Raiders, Bulls seek to remain unbeaten tonight

Retrieve Raiders and Half Mile Bulls, winners of last week’s opening round, will clash this evening while Victory Valley Royals and Block 22 Flames will face off in the other match when the inaugural BOSAI  Minerals group (Guyana) Incorporated Open Challenge basketball competition continues with round robin play at the Mackenzie sports Club Hard Court.

UCI to rule on Armstrong case Monday

PARIS, (Reuters) – The International Cycling Union (UCI) are expected to give their reaction on Monday to USADA’s ruling that seven times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong doped throughout his career, the governing body said yesterday.

Criminal underworld severe and exacting

Dear Editor, I was at pains to find a title for my letter today mulling over a few here and there but finding it difficult to settle on one fitting enough, however, sticking to the basic principles of the Language my English Teacher Reverend Britto would say to me keep it simple yet gripping, so I’ve decided to caption it “Less work for the police.”

China’s Nobels

The British historian John Keegan once wrote that the political history of the twentieth century could be approximated to the biographies of six men.

T&T removed from money-laundering blacklist

(Trinidad Express) After being on the “brink” of being blacklisted by intergovernmental body the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), Trinidad and Tobago has now been removed from the dark- grey list and will no longer be directly monitored by the organisation, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has announced.