Daily Archive: Sunday, October 27, 2013

Articles published on Sunday, October 27, 2013

Diwali Utsav

President Donald Ramotar (centre), former President Bharrat Jagdeo (right) and Culture Minister Dr Frank Anthony (second from left) join Bollywood recording artistes Jeffrey Iqbal (third from right) and Gunjan Singh (third from left) at the annual Diwali Utsav hosted by the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha for the first time at the Guyana International Conference Centre (GICC) yesterday.

`Thanks for that’

Going in I admit I’m frequently complaining about things wrong in Guyana, and I make no apologies for that; we have many things wrong and we should do more complaining – me included. 

Anthony Abrams

Alpha United crowned GFA Players Cup champs

Alpha `The Hammer’ United were crowned the inaugural Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Players Cup champions crushing Santos 5-0 through an Anthony Abrams helmet trick at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda on Friday.

`We know not whence they come but they die not’

If you think about it carefully it seems impossible to reconcile two things which most people would very much like to believe – one, that they enjoy free will and in some ultimate sense are masters of their fate, and, two, that the God of all creation is omnipotent and has a master plan for us all.

Raymond Bandhu on the attack against West Ruimveldt yesterday.

West Ruimveldt edge St Gabriel’s 2-1

West Ruimveldt edged St. Gabriel’s 2-1 in a quarterfinal fixture  of the Petra Organization/Courts Guyana in collaboration with Banks DIH Limited Pee Wee U11 football tourney at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue yesterday.

A Comfort of Crows

Mark this for a mercy; that here birds, even here,   sustain the wide and impossible highways of warm current, divide the sky; mark this- they all day have amazed the air, that it falls apart from  their heavy wings in thin wedges of sound; though the dull black earth is very still, sweating a special sourness they make high over the  hard thorn-trees their own magnificent turning, they chain all together with very slow journeys to and fro the limits of the dead place; smelling anything old and no longer quick.

Italy’s Mount Etna volcano erupts

ROME (Reuters) – Europe’s tallest and most active volcano Mount Etna erupted yesterday, spewing glowing lava into the air and sending a vast plume of smoke over the southern Italian island of Sicily.

Maritime line

Whether or not the latest confrontation with Venezuela is a purely maritime issue hinges on one thing alone, namely, where the maritime border begins.

The Staghorn fern

Platycerium bifurcatum commonly called Staghorn fern originates in the tropical areas of Australia, Asia and Africa, but has adapted well to Guyana.