Daily Archive: Sunday, November 10, 2013

Articles published on Sunday, November 10, 2013

St. Puis captain and tournament MVP Marcus Wilson receiving the championship trophy from Courts Marketing Director Molly Hasan while members of the team and presentation panel look on  (Orlando Charles photo)

St Pius crowned Pee Wee champs

St. Puis were crowned Pee Wee U11 champions after they defeated West Ruimveldt 2-1 in a thrilling final of the Petra Organization/Courts Guyana in collaboration with Banks DIH football tourney concluded yesterday at the Thirst Park ground.

A horse-cart with passengers
passing through the village

Nigg

During a visit to Nigg, Corentyne in the scorching mid-afternoon sun, the village appears quiet and empty with hardly any activity, save for vehicles including a horse-cart with passengers, passing through.

BHS defeat Vryman’s Erven 3-0

Berbice High School crushed Vryman’s Erven Secondary School 3-0 in their semi-final matchup when action in the Hope Football Club Memorial football tournament continued  Wednesday at the Scott’s School ground, New Amsterdam.

Roger Federer

Fighting Federer claws his way to semi-finals

LONDON, (Reuters) – When Roger Federer hangs up his rackets his sublime artistry will be his lasting legacy but yesterday’s win over Juan Martin del Potro at the ATP World Tour Finals showed when the chips are down he can also fight like an alley cat.

Changing the nation’s frame of mind

By what values should we strive to live in order to achieve a community in which differences are accommodated, a community where there is diversity of discourse but a recognition of the common good regardless of politics, religion, race and personal beliefs?

Iran says hopes for nuclear deal at next meeting

GENEVA (Reuters) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said today they hoped Iran and six world powers would reach an agreement when they gather again in 10 days, adding that the latest round of talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme was something all delegations can build on.

Wasteful Windies

More than any other team, the West Indies have found an assortment of ways of turning wine into water, rather than the other way round that was a specialty of their great predecessors of the 1980s.

Tokyo area hit by magnitude 5.5 earthquake

(Reuters) – An earthquake with preliminary magnitude of 5.5 shook eastern Japan, including the capital Tokyo, on Sunday morning, but there were no immediate reports of damage and no irregularities at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant.

In 21 years no senior PPP official has been prosecuted in what has been the greatest orgy of corruption

Dear Editor, Here we go again! The press has reported that Mr Rohee, newly appointed General Secretary of the PPP, announced at a recent Press Conference the establishment of an internal Integrity and Discipline Commission to, “ensure that members of our Party serving in public offices at all levels, maintain the highest level of integrity in the performance of their duties.”

Outmoded vision

Like some other countries on this continent Guyana is a partial democracy, but without the populism which characterizes their forms of government.

Russell Brand’s socialist revolution

By John Lloyd  (Reuters) Russell Brand, the British comedian, used a guest editorship of the 100-plus-year-old leftist magazine New Statesman last month to call for a “total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system.”