(Trinidad Express) Sea bathers, small craft operators and persons involved in any other sea-related activities this weekend are asked to exercise extreme caution as there is expected to be “large battering waves” along exposed coastlines.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – Florida’s senior citizens are falling victim to a Jamaica-based lottery scam that is spreading across the United States, often involving former drug traffickers drawn by the ease of the lucrative crime, U.S.
The West Indies Cricket Board today announced that the Guyana Cricket Board has written to advise of the GCB’s ability to host the First Test between West Indies and Pakistan in July, a WICB release said.
Police say that at about 1440h today, Brazilian national Marcia Maria Martins, 45 years, of Vlissengen Road, Georgetown, was in front of a store on Regent Street when she was attacked by a man who was armed with a handgun.
LONDON (Reuters) – Canadian pop star Justin Bieber was filmed lunging and shouting abuse at a photographer today during an ill-fated stay in London which has gone from bad to worse after he collapsed on stage the day before.
CARACAS (Reuters) – From Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Cuba’s Raul Castro, about 30 heads of state joined Friday’s funeral of Hugo Chavez in a last goodbye to the charismatic but divisive Venezuelan leader who changed the face of politics in South America.
(WICB) BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The West Indies Cricket Board’s Selection Panel today named the 13-man squad for the 1st Test match against Zimbabwe at Kensington Oval.
(Trinidad Guardian) Commercial banks across T&T have been put on alert after a security breach which has put large numbers of Visa and MasterCard debit and credit cards across the Caribbean at risk. The
(Jamaica Observer) After 18 years of hit singles and sold-out tours, Grammy-winning deejay Shaggy recently announced his split from manager Robert Livingston.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican and Guyanese citizens account for the vast majority of CARICOM nationals who have been refused entry into Barbados over the last five years, according to statistics compiled by immigration officials there.
(Trinidad Express) Jamaica’s newest air carrier, Fly Jamaica, was affected yesterday after one of its aircraft sustained a windshield crack as it was departing the Norman Manley International Airport en route to New York, USA.
(Reuters) – Canadian teen pop star Justin Bieber tweeted that he was “getting better” after collapsing on stage from shortness of breath during a performance in London and being rushed to the hospital on Thursday.
UNITED NATIONS/SEOUL, (Reuters) – The United Nations imposed new sanctions on North Korea aimed at curtailing its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes and China, the isolated regime’s only major ally, said it wanted the measures fully implemented.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Mystery off-spinner Sunil Narine wrecked Guyana to give Trinidad and Tobago the upper hand on the second day of their fourth round match in the Regional Four-Day Championship here yesterday.
Region 10 Chairman Sharma Solomon yesterday said that he is not to be blamed for the July 18, 2012 confrontation between protestors and police that resulted in the shootings that claimed the lives of three Lindeners and left close to two dozen others injured.
North Georgetown Secondary School ‘A’ Team (boys) played unbeaten throughout yesterday’s Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU)/Hamson’s Mash-ramani Tournament en route to lifting the winner’s trophy of the one-day competition.
Victims of the Marudi trail beating are angry that the policeman who inflicted blows on them is still in the area working but acting Commissioner of Police Leroy Brumell says that nothing is wrong with this as the investigation is still ongoing.
An ultimatum by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) for Guyana to sign on for a Pakistan Test match later this year expired last night without final word from the government but the signs were positive that an agreement would be reached.
Professor Jacob Opadeyi, the new Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guyana (UG), yesterday said a continuous curriculum review and evaluations of the performance of the academic staff would be features of the pillars that he believes will take the university from where it is now to one on par with any foreign tertiary institution.
St. George’s Secondary compliments of a collective offensive output crushed Queen’s College 5-0 in the opening of the round of sixteen football fixtures which commenced at the Ministry of Education Ground, Carifesta Avenue yesterday.
The Guyana Association of Women Lawyers (GAWL) has lamented the lack of female representation on boards of management of leading private sector entities and has pointed to the need for those entities to focus on gender-based violence (GBV).
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez will be embalmed and put on display “for eternity” at a military museum after a state funeral and an extended period of lying in state, acting President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday.
Murder accused Lloyd Rampersaud was yesterday sentenced to 70 years in jail after he was found guilty of killing Munilall Mangru, called ‘Boy’ while his co-accused and brother Roy Rampersaud was found not guilty and freed.
Stabroek Business has learnt that the long-awaited formal launch of the LCDS Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE) and Building Alternative Livelihoods for Vulnerable Groups project, which will be administered by the Small Business Bureau situated within the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, will take place before the end of March.
A US expert on compost production and solid waste disposal, who is here to work with local farmers on maximising the transformation of backyard waste into useful manure, has told Stabroek Business that understanding the value of backyard waste can contribute to the creation of more efficient and safe regimes for the disposal of solid waste.
A farmer who allegedly chopped another was yesterday remanded to prison, after he was charged with felonious wounding, when he made an appearance at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
Wherever and whenever we experience a persistent spate of robberies – whether these may target sections of the business community, private homes or citizens going about their routine business – those institutions responsible for protecting the citizenry have every right to worry.
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Opener Chris Gayle’s drought continued here yesterday when he fell without scoring as Jamaica’s batting again wilted on the second day of their fourth round match in the Regional Four-Day Championship against Windward Islands.
MENLO PARK, Calif., (Reuters) – Facebook Inc introduced a visually richer, mobile device-oriented “newsfeed” yesterday, in the most significant changes to date for the social network’s most recognizable feature.
Dear Editor,
As the world gets ready to mark International Women’s Day Friday March 8, we in Guyana want to know why after three years, the Sexual Offences Act, 2010 is still to deliver justice to the hundreds of victims of sexual offences in Guyana.
The Retrieve Unknowns were presented with the $250,000 first prize and winner’s trophy from the inaugural Mackeson Futsal Super-16 knock-out tournament, at a simple ceremony hosted at ANSA McAl’s
CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Leeward Islands met resistance from left-handers Anthony Alleyne and Raymond Reifer, after Steve Liburd gathered a resolute half-century to anchor them to a first innings lead over Combined Campuses and Colleges in the Regional Four-Day Championship yesterday.
A quintet of gender and equal rights support groups yesterday said that in order to create long-term, positive change in the lives of women, gender equality must also result in equal opportunity and pay for women’s work.
SEOUL/UNITED NATIONS – North Korea threatened the United States on Thursday with a preemptive nuclear strike, raising the level of rhetoric just before the U.N.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Top order batsman Hamilton Masakadza stroked an unbeaten century as Zimbabwe enjoyed a good outing ahead of next week’s first Test, against the WICB’s High Performance Centre here yesterday.
Dear Editor,
The Guyana Legion is an organisation established to promote unity among veterans, fostering a spirit of comradeship, and ensuring the social and economic well-being and welfare of its members, especially the aged, disabled and the destitute.
Dear Editor,
I don’t know if Minister Benn feels as much of an association with the Soesdyke-Linden Highway as he does with NCN, but I wonder if he can be persuaded to rush up to the highway one night to see how dangerous it can be for some commuters.
Workers of the Blairmont Estate who took strike actions to ensure that GuySuCo continues to pay them based on “bed-top assessment” were back on the job from yesterday.
DUNEDIN, New Zealand, (Reuters) – Openers Hamish Rutherford and Peter Fulton capitalised on the cheap dismissal of England by guiding New Zealand to 131 without loss at close of play on the second day of the first test yesterday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Oneil Grant, the president of the Jamaica Civil Service Association, has served notice on the Government that members of his association are not prepared to entertain talks of a wage freeze beyond 2015.
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Guyana began its return to a market economy in 1989 with the implementation of the “Economic Recovery Programme” (ERP) which was introduced by the Hoyte Administration.
In its International Women’s day message, the Women’s Progressive Organisation (WPO) recognised that domestic and gender-based violence are some of the most pervasive forms of violence that violate women’s human rights and are barriers that prevent women from achieving their full potential.
CAPANGA, Mozambique, (Reuters) – For Mozambican tribal queen Zoria Macajo, the thatched-hut village of Capanga, nestled in the hills above the Zambezi river, has been her family’s home for generations.
(Trinidad Express) Had the State suspected CL Financial would have attempted to sell off assets behind its back, then a clause holding chairman Lawrence Duprey personally liable for the billions of tax dollars that were pumped into the failed conglomerate and its subsidiaries may have been an option that could have been pursued.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – Sri Lanka pulled off a dramatic 4 wicket win over West Indies in the last over of their fourth T20 international at the R Premadasa Stadium here yesterday.
President of the George-town Chamber of Com-merce and Industry (GCCI) Clinton Urling says the chamber wants to see an increased level of private sector compliance with codes and regulations relating to fire safety.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 501’s trading results showed consideration of $1,756,747 from 22,597 shares traded in 12 transactions as compared to session 500 which showed consideration of $12,493,690 from 195,200 shares traded in 19 transactions.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Tennis will introduce biological passports for players and increase the number of blood tests done each year, the sport’s anti-doping agency said yesterday.
Celebrating women: A lunch was yesterday held by the National Assembly at Hotel Tower to celebrate women MPs and members of staff of Parliament Office.
(Jamaica Observer) Ephieum Allen, deputy director of immigration at the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency, on Wednesday testified during the final sitting of the Caribbean Court of Justice in Kingston that Caribbean Community (Caricom) nationals are not refused entry into Jamaica unless under dire circumstances.
The GHRA says despite the legal improvements that have been made to secure women’s rights none has been accompanied by sufficient determination to translate them into effective protection that safeguards the lives of women.
Dear Editor,
There is a deficiency in the justice system which is revealed firstly, when law enforcement in haste arrests the wrong persons and secondly, when those persons are denied a fair trial.
By Clinton Urling
Recently, when the local chapter of Trans-parency International (TI) announced the results of the latest edition of the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), the report raised many eyebrows and ruffled many feathers throughout the community. For
(Trinidad Express) Two men were on Wednesday sentenced to a total of 134 years in prison for the kidnapping, robbery with violence and attempted murder of a Diego Martin woman almost eight years ago.
The five prize winners from Guyana in the Harris Paints ‘40 Prizes for 40 Years’ promotion were Gordon Bovell, Dawn Sinclair and Oswald Blair, who each won grocery vouchers valued at $90,000, $60,000 and $50,000 respectively; Glendon Parkinson who won a microwave oven and Natasha Kissoon who won a barbeque grill.
For service to the House: In celebrating International Women’s Day, the National Assembly yesterday honoured four women for their yeoman service to the House.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Bangladesh skipper Mushfiqur Rahim is confident that his team can take advantage of a depleted Sri Lankan squad and secure a maiden test win over their opponents in the two-match series starting in Galle today.
Dear Editor,
Please allow me space to pay tribute to a friend and brother who recently migrated to a destination for which he did not need a visa or a passport.
It’s the Attorney/Politician Nigel Hughes I mean. And the Constitution in question here is the Constitution of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana (1980, with Amendments to 12th August 2003) which governs the national, even personal, lives of Mr Nigel and all citizens of the forty-three-year old Republic.
Guyana could shortly be joining other Caribbean countries currently engaged in actively promoting the region as a wedding tourism destination if efforts are successful to have amendments made to existing legislation governing marriage licences.
BERNE, (Reuters) – Soccer’s governing body FIFA has written to the Nigerian Football Association over reports that lesbians had been banned from playing football in the West African nation.
Dear Editor,
I have had reason in the past to publicly acknowledge and support the bold and objective stand that the editorial staff of the Stabroek News have taken on a variety of human-rights issues and undemocratic practices by the current government in Guyana.
Notwithstanding the fact that the late Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, was capable of deeply dividing public opinion both at home and abroad, there is no gainsaying the massive outpouring of grief in Venezuela and across Latin America and the Caribbean on his death at the relatively young age of 58.
(Barbados Nation) West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president Julian Hunte is unlikely to get the support of the Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control he once headed in elections later this month.
(Barbados Nation) West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president Julian Hunte is unlikely to get the support of the Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control he once headed in elections later this month.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Mystery off-spinner Sunil Narine wrecked Guyana to give Trinidad and Tobago the upper hand on the second day of their fourth round match in the Regional Four-Day Championship here yesterday.
North Georgetown Secondary School ‘A’ Team (boys) played unbeaten throughout yesterday’s Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU)/Hamson’s Mash-ramani Tournament en route to lifting the winner’s trophy of the one-day competition.