Daily Archive: Monday, November 18, 2013

Articles published on Monday, November 18, 2013

Rappelling

Officer Cadets rappelling from the Bell 412 helicopter at the Colonel Ulric Pilgrim Officer Cadet School on Sunday at Camp Stephenson.

Setting a trap

Officer Cadet Lawrence King demonstrating the use of traps in jungle survival at the Colonel Ulric Pilgrim Officer Cadet School at Camp Stephenson on Sunday.

Cadets in training

Fifteen Officer Cadets, three of whom are Belizean nationals on Sunday demonstrated aspects of military training they are undergoing at the Camp Stephenson, Colonel Ulric Pilgrim Officer Cadet School, according to GINA.

Team United’s Orville Hinds celebrating his stage win yesterday on Homestretch Avenue.

Jeffrey wins Ride for Life five-stage event

Team United’s Orville Hinds brought the curtain down of the ‘Ride for Life’ five-stage road race with a victory but Team Coco’s Raynauth Jeffrey took the overall spoils of the seventh annual event which concluded yesterday on Homestretch Avenue.

Eileen Selina Marray

Resist temptation to micro- manage UG, gov’t told

Government was urged to “resist the temptation for political intrusion and micro-management” at the University of Guyana (UG) as 1367 students were bestowed with their diplomas and degrees at the institution’s  47th Convocation exercise held at the Turkeyen Campus on Saturday.

Fast-moving killer storm, tornadoes batter US Midwest

CHICAGO (Reuters) – A fast-moving storm system triggered multiple tornadoes in Illinois and Indiana yesterday, killing at least two people, injuring about 40 and flattening large parts of the city of Washington, Illinois as it crashed across the Midwest, officials said.

Solid waste recycling MoU

Considering the depth and age of the debate for best procurement practices and good governance, it is appalling that the government has embarked on a Memorandum of Understanding for what could be a US$30M waste recycling plant in such a flawed manner.

Those three financial papers

On 7 November 2013, the Minister of Finance tabled three financial papers in the National Assembly requesting the Assembly to approve of $12.385 billion in supplementary estimates, as summarized below:The Assembly had approved of the 2013 budget in the sum of $163 billion against the Government’s original request of $208.8 billion.