Daily Archive: Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Articles published on Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Ryan Persaud

Vive la Force boy, 14, killed by stray bullet

A 14-year-old boy died yesterday after he was shot by a stray bullet near his home at Vive la Force, West Bank Demerara and the community said his death may have been avoided if police had acted on numerous reports of reckless shooting into the area from boats on the Demerara River.

The decrepit bridge leading into Garden of Eden collapsed on Sunday.

Garden of Eden Bridge collapses

Frustrated residents of the East Bank Demerara community of Garden of Eden say that they are disgusted and fed up after making pleas to those in authority about the decrepit bridge only to have it collapse the day before school reopened.

Airbenders Janella Munroe (number 14) being challenged by All Greys defender Rawl Davson.

All Greys crush Airbenders 6-1

All Greys increased their lead at the top of the table when they crushed Airbenders 6-1 as action the John Fernandes Insurance Services Limited second division hockey tourney recommenced at the Providence National Stadium on Sunday.

Krishmar Santokie

`We played our hearts out’

Krishmar Santokie, the Jamaican left-arm seam bowler, has scoffed at suggestions that the team’s defeat against the Jamaica Tallwahs in the Limacol Caribbean Premier League (LCPL)  might have been because the team underperformed.

Isseneru villagers demonstrated because of the threat to our traditional lands and resources

Dear Editor, The Isseneru Village Council of Isseneru Amerindian Village in Middle Mazaruni kindly requests that you publish our reply to a letter written by one Peter Persaud which appeared in the Guyana Chronicle of Wednesday, August 14, 2013 captioned ‘APA demonstration had nothing to do with land titles,’ in which he made a number of unfounded allegations against the Isseneru Village Council and also included the usual nasty misrepresentations in a failed attempt to discredit our protest held on the International Day of Indigenous Peoples.

Dilma Rousseff

Brazil, Mexico ask US to explain if NSA spied on presidents

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil assailed the United States yesterday after new allegations that Washington spied on President Dilma Rousseff, complaining that its sovereignty may have been violated and suggesting that it could call off Rousseff’s planned state visit to the White House next month.

The international community should take a strong stand against the bloodshed and destruction in Syria and other countries

Dear Editor, The Muslim Community of Guyana, represented by the various Islamic organizations strongly condemns the bloodshed, destruction, violence and human rights atrocities that are taking place in several countries, such as Syria, Egypt, Palestine, Nigeria, Burma and Iraq, and calls on the international community, led by the United Nations and other powerful world bodies, to take definite and decisive action to put a quick end to this human suffering.

Syria and President Obama’s proverbial ‘red line’

Last week, the likelihood of United States missile strikes in Syria appeared imminent after Secretary of State John Kerry announced that Washington was in possession of evidence that the Syrian government had, on August 21, used chemical weapons against its civilian population and that more than 1,000 people had been killed.

Their faces say it all

Their faces say it all: Schoolchildren looking tired and agonized as they await transportation at the Route 42 Minibus Park after their first day of the new school year yesterday.