LONDON, (Reuters) – Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson said Robin Van Persie was “lucky to be alive” after claiming the Dutchman was blasted “deliberately” in the head with the ball from point-blank range by Swansea’s Ashley Williams.
BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Dozens of people were killed and many more wounded in a Syrian government air strike that hit a bakery where a crowd was queuing for bread today, activists said.
(Jamaica Observer) The Office of the Contractor General (OCG) says that the J$1.2 billion in cost overruns on Government projects last year was just the tip of the iceberg as the true figure could be “frightening”.
A Plaisance businessman who was shot twice last night in what family members and neighbours believe was a botched robbery, died about five minutes after being rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
(Jamaica Gleaner) While Sizzla Kalonji may not be one of the artistes gay lobby groups have called ‘reformed’, the reggae crooner has strongly rejected the olive branch from the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG), offered to support Jamaican entertainers, who despite toning down their anti-gay rhetoric, have continued to come under attack from gay lobby groups abroad.
(Jamaica Gleaner) “I’ll be home for Christmas.” That was the mantra of two Jamaican fishermen while they drifted at sea for days without any idea of how they would get back to friends and family in St Thomas.
(Barbados Nation) THE POLICE ARE warning Barbadians to be careful with their cash after one Bridgetown firm said it had encountered counterfeit dollars.
ROME, (Reuters) – Italian caretaker Prime Minister Mario Monti said today that he would be ready to offer his leadership to political forces that adopt his agenda of reforms the country needs.
(Trinidad Express) A Florida juror who voted to convict Jamaican reggae singer Buju Banton on drug charges has denied improperly researching the case during trial, in spite of a weekly newspaper’s report that quoted her as saying that she did.
(Trinidad Express) Residents of Powder Magazine, Phase I, Cocorite, yesterday attempted to stop leader of the Congress of the People (COP) Prakash Ramadhar from distributing toys to children living in the housing development and from cutting a ribbon for a repaired swing.
(Trinidad Express) About 300 passengers on a Caribbean Airlines flight out of the JFK International Airport in New York, USA, who were stranded there since last Friday were due to finally arrive home early this morning.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Cricket legend Kapil Dev remembers what it was like playing for his country against India’s bitter rival, Pakistan, when he made his international debut in 1978: a bowler was expected to aim at the batsman’s body.
(Trinidad Express) More questions surrounding the multimillion-dollar house of Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Minority Leader Ashworth Jack have surfaced.
The government and opposition are trading blame over the long standing failure to agree on and confirm candidates to hold the offices of the Chancellor and the Chief Justice.
Photos by Shabna Ullah
You know it is Christmas at No 8 Village, West Coast Berbice when the aroma from the black cake baking in a huge mud oven fills the air.
If the government does not change the way it behaves in the game’s administration locally, the Guyana Cricket Administration Bill may “have a hard time” when it comes up for debate and passage in the National Assembly next January, according to APNU MP Carl Greenidge.
The PPP would do well to heed the call by former stalwart Ralph Ramkarran to have its membership elect the leaders of the party, but the current leadership does not seem amenable to this, says former Central Committee member and now AFC leader, Khemraj Ramjattan.
By Iva Wharton
A group calling itself the National Cricket Stakeholders is calling on the government to enforce its laws which could see members of the embattled Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) being held in contempt of court.
MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – Brisbane Heat coach Darren Lehmann has sparked controversy in the Australian Big Bash League by accusing West Indies all-rounder Marlon Samuels of throwing.
Norway on Friday announced that it will contribute US$45 million to the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF), bringing the total contributions from Oslo under the Norway-Guyana climate and forest partnership to a total of US$115 million since 2009.
As the outline of Twenty20 Caribbean Premier League was revealed last week, Julian Hunte reacted with the delight of someone opening a special Christmas present.
A Partnership for National Unity’s (APNU) Carl Greenidge does not believe that the motions passed in the House are futile and of no effect and he is of the view that it should take no more than such instruments to compel government to act.
Keon Marshall bagged a helmet trick as Soesdyke Primary defeated Company Road 8-0 when the inaugural Chico/Kashif and Shanghai Under-13 inter-schools football tournament kicked off yesterday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground.
Unfortunate circumstances forced state officials to remove two little girls from the only places they called home, and now they are living as sisters with another mother whose only wish is to make this Christmas a memorable one for them.
By Duncan Saul
Blueberry Hill Football Club edged a game Ann’s Grove All-Stars team 3-2 while Riddim Squad needled Beacons FC 1-0 Friday night at the Georgetown Cricket Club, ground Bourda in the latest action in the Georgetown Football Association/Banks Beer Knockout Cup.
By Duncan Saul
Despite being a relatively young team, Blueberry Hill of Linden is not ruling out altogether the possibility of winning the second annual Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Banks Beer Cup Knockout football tournament.
The National Assembly on December 17 adopted the report of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on its examination of the 2009 Auditor General’s report, which detailed continued instances of breaches of the law and contractor overpayment in the operations of budget agencies for that year.
President of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Julian Hunte has written to the Territorial Boards (TB) expressing concern over what he considers to be a recent attack on the WICB and over the fact that the legitimacy of the WICB seems to be under question.
I remember a very long time ago, in the era of Prime Minister, not even then President LFS Burnham, when I was a Director in the sugar industry, I had occasion to enquire from an official at the then State Planning Commission about a request made months before for approval for the introduction of a new incentive scheme in the industry.
Tradition gathers around Christmas. Pageants and homecomings and longed-for preparations repeat themselves year after year and become treasured lifetime rituals.
Correction, addition and appreciation
In last week’s column I stated as the year in which the Government of Guyana took over the assets, liabilities and operations of the Royal Bank of Canada as 1994.
Many people look forward to celebrating Christmas Guyanese style, with pepperpot and homemade bread, black cake, ginger beer and lots of alcohol being the main attractions.
By Emmerson Campbell
Essequibo’s Shaka Moore brought the curtains down on this year’s Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) amateur boxing tournament with a scintillating victory over Junior Henry at the third GBA/Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) under 16 tournament which was staged yesterday at the Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis Gym.
Regional boat did not run over speedboat, says Region 2 chairman
Regional Chairman of Region 2, Parmanand Persaud yesterday denied allegations that the boat he was travelling in ran over the speedboat in which six persons were killed in the Pomeroon River last week and that his boat did not stop to render assistance.
By Emmerson Campbell
A second half hat-trick by national forward, Dwight Peters, earned his club, Alpha United, a hard fought three-one victory over Rosignol United when the 23rd Kashif and Shanghai Tournament continued Friday night at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground.
By Alim Hosein
The established artists did not have things their own way when the prizes in the 2012 Guyana Visual Arts Competition and Exhibition (GVACE) were announced at the Awards Ceremony on Friday night last.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela will not call fresh elections if Hugo Chávez’s cancer prevents him from taking office by Jan 10, the head of Congress said yesterday, despite a constitutional mandate that the swearing-in take place on that date.
Co-Director of the Kashif and Shanghai Organisation Aubrey `Shanghai’ Major said yesterday that contrary to a radio advertisement which is being played dancehall mega star Anthony Davis better known as `Beenie Man’ will not be at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground on January 1.
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptians voted yesterday in the second round of a referendum expected to approve an Islamist-drafted constitution that lays foundations for a transition to democracy but is criticised as divisive by the opposition.
NEW YORK, CMC – The lure of beating undisputed sprint champion Usain Bolt has become the driving force behind American Justin Gatlin’s training during the tough winter months.
Since President Barack Obama has appointed Senator John Kerry as secretary of state to replace Hillary Clinton when he starts his second term next month, you may see a somewhat greater US focus on Latin American affairs.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Benedict made a surprise pre-Christmas visit to the jail holding his former butler yesterday and pardoned him for stealing and leaking documents that alleged corruption in the Vatican.
(Trinidad Express) Upgrades to the immigration system to assist with the detection of fraudulent passports and other travel documents is set to begin by January next year.
NEW YORK, CMC – Jamaican Usain Bolt’s astonishing repeat success at this year’s London Olympics, coupled with his US$9 million per-year deal with Puma, has catapulted him onto Forbes Magazine’s 2012 prestigious 30 under-30 sports list.
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s civil war has reached stalemate and international efforts to persuade President Bashar al-Assad to quit will fail, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday.
Eoin Morgan hit a six off the final ball as England squared the two-match Twenty20 series against India with a dramatic six-wicket victory in Mumbai yesterday.
After two decades it is difficult for a party like the PPP whose only apparent objective in politics is to retain power, to bamboozle anyone about its real motives.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian police used batons, tear gas and water cannon to turn back thousands of people marching on the presidential palace yesterday in intensifying protests against the gang-rape of a woman on the streets and on social media.
Minister of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran has rejected suggestions that hospitals in Matarkai sub region in Region One are without vehicles, insisting that a vehicle was sent to the Pakera Hospital at the behest of then president Bharrat Jagdeo in 2011.
MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – Marlon Samuels’s Melbourne Renegades triumphed over Kemar Roach’s Brisbane Heat in the Australian Big Bash here yesterday, but neither West Indies player had any major role in the outcome.
(Barbados Nation) Another international agency has relegated Barbados’ credit rating to “junk” status but while government says it was not surprised by the move, the opposition contends that it was another sign the economy was not stable.
QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa yesterday announced a 9 per cent increase in the minimum wage for private-sector workers for 2013, a move that may help consolidate his February re-election bid that polls broadly show him favored to win.