Daily Archive: Sunday, June 2, 2013

Articles published on Sunday, June 2, 2013

Henrique Capriles

Venezuela’s Capriles says Maduro government will fall

SAN FRANCISCO DE YARE, Venezuela,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles says President Nicolas Maduro’s government will “cave in” under the pressure of growing economic troubles, in-fighting and a belief by many Venezuelans that it stole the April election.

T&T’s Lake Asphalt in deal with Chinese firm

(Trinidad Express) The ties between Trinidad and Tobago and China are set to get stronger as State-owned asphalt production company, Lake Asphalt, yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Chinese firm Beijing Oriental Yuhong Waterproofing Technology Co Ltd.

 Showing them how it’s done! This group of youngsters
looks on as their colleague dribbles a football.

Lusignan

Sandwiched between Annandale and Good Hope on the East Coast of Demerara, Lusignan, is a predomi-nantly Indian Guyanese community where most residents earn their livelihood in the farming and fishing industries, and some are employed by the public and private sectors.

Shalimar Ali-Hack

Are the guilty going free?

A high number of accused persons have walked free after High Court trials since the start of the year, for which the poor quality of police investigations, inexperienced prosecutors and a vulnerable jury system are being blamed.

 Guyana’s rugby players failed to rein in Trinidad and Tobago’s ruggers who sped to a 20-0 victory in the final of the NACRA 15-a-side championships yesterday at the UWI Campus ground, St. Augustine. (Orlando Charles photo)

Local ruggers schooled on UWI campus

By Emmerson Campbell in Trinidad and Tobago The national rugby team was booted out of the NACRA Senior men’s championships after receiving a 20-nil drubbing from Trinidad and Tobago yesterday at the University of the West Indies campus ground here in St.

Kitty woman doused with acid

A 54-year-old Station Street, Kitty woman yesterday was doused with acid in an attack she believed was retaliation for speaking out on the constant noise nuisance from a bar reportedly owned by a senior policeman in the residential area.

Patchy Windies floored by Watson century

CARDIFF, Wales, CMC – West Indies played well in patches but could not withstand an imperious century from opener Shane Watson and slumped to a four-wicket defeat to Australia in their opening warm-up match of the ICC Champions Trophy here yesterday.

Mahendra Persaud

GNRA looking to blood new shooters

In the wake of the Guyana national rifle shooting team’s loss of the short range title at the recent West Indies Full-bore rifle shooting championships in Barbados national Full-bore Captain Mahendra Persaud said the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) is looking to place more emphasis on blooding new shooters to aid in the development of the sport.

Tony Cozier

Champions Trophy triumph not beyond Bravo’s men

By Tony Cozier A HOST of variables confront the West Indies in the seventh, and last, ICC Champions Trophy tournament that starts for them against Pakistan on Friday at London’s Oval, venue as well for their second qualifying round match against India on Tuesday week. 

Daniel Gajie

Cross-border trade with Brazil slows

Cross-border trade with Brazil has dropped from two years ago with commerce still largely weighed in favour of the Brazilian side, according to President of the Rupununi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI), Daniel Gajie who says activities will be held to promote Lethem.

Author GHK Lall (right) autographing a copy of his new book, Sitting on a racial volcano (Guyana Uncensored) for Georgetown Public Hospital CEO Michael Khan on Friday. (Photo by Arian Browne)

GHK Lall confronts spectre of race in new book

“The problem of race is the most obscure of all and Lall has opened the proverbial Pandora’s Box, not just by cracking it open, but by ripping the cover off altogether,” Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman said on Friday at the launching of writer GHK Lall’s Sitting on a Racial Volcano (Guyana Uncensored).

Marian Academy crowned G/town Conference Champions

Marian Academy yesterday crushed the Georgetown Technical Institute 56-19 to be crowned Georgetown Conference U20 champions for the third consecutive year as the Youth Basketball Guyana’s (YBG) National School Basketball Festival (NSBF) continued at the Marian Academy School Court, Carifesta Avenue yesterday.

Socialisation at Saints

There is a Guyanese organisation in Toronto called the St. Stanislaus College Alumni Association which has done stellar work over the years raising funds to help maintain the school.

Biden — new US point man for Latin America?

Perhaps Secretary of State John Kerry’s lack of attention to Latin America might not be so bad after all — it is moving Vice President Joe Biden to get more involved with the region, and may help turn US-Latin American relations into a White House foreign policy priority.

Expansion thrust for HPC, says WICB president

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Newly elected West Indies Cricket Board president Dave Cameron is planning a major expansion of the High Performance Centre, that will see similar academies established in every cricketing territory across the region.

Trench

Residents of Diamond have complained that the standing water on the side of the roadway along the public road is making their lives miserable.

All aboard!

All aboard! These boys found use for an old freezer yesterday, taking a sail along the swollen Mandela Avenue trench near the John Fernandes Container Terminal.

Priorities

There is something about governments which are in office for any extended period that causes them to become divorced from the electorate that put them there in the first place.