Articles published on Thursday, September 5, 2013
(Trinidad Express) Gary Griffith has been appointed National Security Minister, becoming the fourth person to hold the critical post, since the Peoples Partnership took power three years ago.
(Trinidad Express) Businessman Vincent P Greig known as “Ba” was shot and killed around 10 am today.
Guyana has marginally improved its ranking on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Competitiveness Index, rising from a ranking of 109 out of 144 countries in last year’s report to 102 out of 148 countries in the current report.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Meteorological Service is reporting that Tropical Storm Gabrielle, the seventh named system this Atlantic hurricane season, has formed near Puerto Rico.
The road to the El Dorado Senior Inter-county 50 overs-a-side competition will be travelled today when Leon Johnson’s XI battles Steven Jacobs’ XI at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground, Bourda as players look to place themselves in contention to secure places on the Demerara team for the upcoming Guyana Cricket Board Inter County competition.
Call centre company, Qualfon, yesterday embarked on a massive expansion of its business here which will see US$4M ($800M) spent in the first phase on a complex at Providence with a promise of 6,000 new jobs in about three years.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- Fast bowlers Sheldon Cotterrell and Tino Best and opener Chris Gayle have been singled out for producing some of the most electrifying moments in the recent Limacol Caribbean Premier league (LCPL).
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Flavia Pennetta reached her first grand slam semi-finals and Richard Gasquet booked a long awaited return to the last four of a major in a pair of upsets at the U.S.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Defending champion Andy Murray fears Stanislas Wawrinka has developed the confidence required to cause an upset in their U.S.
The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) has announced a male and a female squad to commence training at the National Park rugby field in preparation for the North American Caribbean Rugby Association (NACRA) Seven’s tournament in the Cayman Islands in November.
MADRID, (Reuters) – Spain coach Vicente del Bosque is missing several key performers for tomorrow’s World Cup Group I qualifier away to Finland but one player who will be available comes into the match in a rich vein of form.
An early morning fire yesterday destroyed a section of the L’ Aventure Secondary School, at Canal Number One, West Bank Demerara, likely displacing some of the school’s nearly 700 students just three days into the new school term.
This season’s most successful cyclist, Alanzo Greaves and National Road Race Champion, Raynauth Jeffrey will spearhead a six-man team of cyclists to compete in the annual four-stage Bigi Bergi road race in Suriname next week.
A 23-year-old West La Penitence resident was yesterday morning stabbed to death on North Road, after an argument with another man.
(The Sports Xchange) – Jason Kidd will not only coach the Brooklyn Nets, but he’ll own a stake in the team as well, according to a report.
Guyana falls among the worst performers in Latin America and the Caribbean, the others at the bottom being Guatemala and Haiti, according to the Global Burden of Diseases Injuries and Risk Factors study 2010, released by the World Bank yesterday.
Trinity Grid Holdings (TGH) Pacesetters Basketball Club in collaboration with Ansa McAl through its Mackeson brand officially launched its 12 team inter-ward competition at the entity’s Beterverwagting boardroom yesterday.
Sirmattie Ramnaress, the Diamond, East Bank Demerara businesswoman who was murdered last week, died as a result of a ruptured spleen and brain haemorrhaging, her post mortem examination stated.
(Reuters) – Zimbabwe have moved the venue of next week’s second test against Pakistan from Bulawayo to Harare for logistical reasons and to save costs, the Zimbabwe Cricket Union announced yesterday.
By Jeff Trotman The Region 10 Regional Democratic Council (RDC) has asked government to undertake remedial works on the deteriorated Linden-Kwakwani road, but “erratic inclement weather conditions” are being blamed for hampering preparatory works for repairs to some sections.
Carifesta XI held from August 16-25 in Paramaribo, Suriname had approximately thirty participating countries from the Caribbean Community (Caricom), Union of South American Nations (Unasur) and other delegations from as far as Asia.
(Reuters) – A 127-run partnership between Malcolm Waller and debutant Sikandar Raza helped Zimbabwe to a slender 32-run lead with three wickets in hand over Pakistan at the end of the second day of the first test in Harare.
Dear Editor, The Alliance for Change considers the recent character assassination of two of its leaders a feeble attempt to destroy the party’s credibility.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee will consider taking action against pole vault world champion Yelena Isinbayeva, a Youth Olympics ambassador, after her comments in favour of Russia’s new gay law triggered a major controversy last month.
A city businessman is at the centre of investigations into the shooting to death of biker Kirk Davis on Tuesday night.
Hours after being robbed, a storeowner shot a man identified to him as one of the perpetrators last evening near the Stabroek Market.
President of the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) Simona Broomes yesterday flayed police over their handling of the assault report made against her, saying there has been a “glaring” lack of professionalism.
The state of Florida is alleging that Guyanese Natalie Belmonte who was murdered in July 2011 in the state had been sexually assaulted by her adopted son Gerard Lopes who will go on trial on Monday over her killing.
A man was fined and 14 others were released on bail after they were charged yesterday with the willful obstruction of the sole roadway stretching 36 miles between Linden and Ituni.
Dear Editor, The Stabroek News of Tuesday September 3, 2013 reported that the University of Guyana Council sacked the Bursar and Chief Accountant.
With three days before pedal hits metal, the speed demon drivers and daredevil bikers competing in the second National Race of Champions are fully revved up for a day of adrenaline rushing velocity.
ROME, Italy, CMC- Italy’s criminal doping investigation into former 100-metre world record-holder Asafa Powell, Jamaica teammate Sherone Simpson and their trainer has been delayed.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a resolution yesterday authorizing limited U.S.
Dear Editor, President Ramotar’s most recent criticisms of APNU’s position on Amaila, relative to the employment of Guyanese and other matters are baseless, misleading, erroneous, and intellectually dishonest.
Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Khurshid Sattaur says that he will be forced to reinstitute the “stringent measures” in place to facilitate the examination of exports, including rice shipments.
The Berbice Volleyball Association (BVA) will be staging a one day mini-v volleyball festival for Primary schools and for grade seven students of secondary schools tomorrow at the Area “H” Ground in Port Mourant.
Taxi driver Troy Burrowes was yesterday charged with stealing valuables while pretending to help remove household articles during the fire at Da Silva’s House of Optics on Sunday.
Dear Editor, I write to dig up once again the sore issue of the grossly underpaid state of teachers in particular, and public servants generally.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Furious about a report that the U.S.
Dear Editor, Guyanese must wake up and realize that bad politics have killed our country (whether Indian, African, Amerindian, etc) and we need to stand up and take back Guyana.
McDoom resident Calvin Barrow was yesterday fined $100,000 for wounding a man he found installing an illegal electrical connection from his yard.
Former national footballer Albert Barton also known as T-Barts who passed away on August 27 at the age of 81 will be buried today at the Le Repentir Cemetery.
AMMAN/DOHA, (Reuters) – General Ali Habib, a former Syrian defence minister, has become the most senior member of President Bashar al-Assad’s ruling Alawite sect to defect, opposition figures said yesterday.
Dear Editor, It was just last week that the legendary Michael Findlay was commenting on the content of the development aspect of the CPL and I had cause to revisit the spin-off benefits that were derived from the Stanford T 20 tournament.
A vendor accused of using violence to rob a woman of her gold chain was yesterday denied bail and remanded to prison.
(Jamaica Observer) Beginning yesterday, Jamaicans travelling to Canada for visits, work or study were required to provide their biometrics under new regulations enforced by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC).
ST.JOHN’S , Antigua, CMC- The West Indies will travel to India in November to play two Tests and three one-day internationals, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) confirmed on Tuesday night.
VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – The Vatican has recalled its ambassador to the Dominican Republic and relieved him of his duties pending an investigation, after local media accused him of paedophilia, a spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church said yesterday.
HOUSTON/CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela failed to act in good faith or properly compensate ConocoPhillips for three big oil assets the country expropriated in 2007, a World Bank arbitration panel said yestereday.
Dear Editor, I read in the newspapers of August 29 that there are prizes for 16-19 years age group in the Neal and Massy 10K Road Race and Fitness Walk.,
(Trinidad Express) The Downtown Owners and Merchants Association (DOMA) on Tuesday expressed concern over what it said appeared to be the profiling of young Afro-Trinidadian males.
CARACAS, Venezuela, CMC- Jamaica edged out Brazil by two points to advance to the second round of the FIBA Americas Championship here Tuesday night.’
The United States Supreme Court recently ruled that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was unconstitutional.
The L’Aventure Secondary School, Canal No.1 ablaze yesterday.
Dear Editor, Guyana has come out tops in the CSEC examinations for yet another year.
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LIBREVILLE, (Reuters) – A corruption investigation in Gabon has revealed the existence of about 3,000 fake civil servants who receive monthly government salaries despite holding no official positions, officials said.
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(Jamaica Observer) ST CATHERINE, Jamaica — Two men were Tuesday night gunned down at a bar along the Linstead by-pass in St Catherine.
Facing critical challenges in the Guyanese homeland, like our shortage of skills and lack of a world class human resource capital pool, we need to exercise creative thinking to find solutions.
Action in the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Players Cup group stage continues today with two fixtures at the Tucville Community Centre ground.
On Tuesday morning citizens woke up to the news that a 14-year-old boy had been shot dead the day before; mowed down by a stray bullet, reportedly fired indiscriminately by some trigger-happy moron reportedly shooting at the unseen for the pleasure of it.
Dear Editor, Congrats to Ruel Johnson for his shortlisting for the Guyana Prize for Fiction.
