Articles published on Sunday, March 9, 2014
Laying wreaths in the memory of late Presidents Cheddi Jagan and Janet Jagan at Port Mourant today were (from left) Barbara Fries, sister of Cheddi Jagan, former government minister Harripersaud Nokta and Doris Persram, another sister of Cheddi Jagan.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Marlon Samuels provided a support act to openers Dwayne Smith and Chris Gayle to help West Indies to a 27-run win over England to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match Twenty20 International series at Kensington Oval today.
The fate of the planned US$18M Specialty Hospital at Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara, is still in limbo as the Exim Bank of India has halted funding amid claims of corruption by one Indian parliamentarian and a company, AFC Leader Khemraj Ramjattan says.
(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago law enforcement officials yesterday handed over the nine members of the ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jewish Group Lev Tahor to Canadian law enforcement and immigration officials at the Piarco International Airport for their return to Canada.
A 57-year-old woman was shot dead reportedly in execution-style at Fyrish, Corentyne, Berbice and her sister seriously injured when two men barged into their home around 10:30 pm on Friday.
Story and photos by Dacia Whaul Ruimzigt is a small village located a few miles from Vreed-en-Hoop on the West Coast of Demerara between Windsor Forest and Wallers Delight.
Self-confessed gang member Dwane Williams has been in police protective custody for the past six years and in response to questions about whether he has access to psychological therapy and educational opportunities, and has the opportunity to learn basic social skills, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said that a special programme has been developed for him.
The Guyana Sugar Cor-poration’s (GuySuCo) two-year working relationship with South African firm Bosch Engineering is nearing an end, but problems persist despite the additional US$30 million spent to rehabilitate the troubled US$110 million Chinese-built Skeldon factory.
House of Prayer Tucville Assemblies of God Church hosted a clean-up exercise along Critchlow Street on February 24.
This groyne is being built perpendicular to Carifesta Avenue. In this photo taken on Friday, Ministry of Public Works officials were checking the geo-tube which has been installed.
Winners of the various Mashramani categories posed at the Umana Yana on Friday.
New soca Monarch Kwasi Edmonson entertaining the audience at the Mashramani awards on Friday at the Umana Yana.
In honour of International Women’s Day on Saturday, posters were erected on utility poles in several parts of the city celebrating Women in Education.
David Rose Secondary crushed Richard Ishmael Secondary 5-1 when the Milo/Petra Organization Schools Football tourney continued yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.
The police are still looking for former policeman Shawn Fordyce, who is accused of brutally chopping his wife and her three daughters in a fit of rage on the night of August 1, 2013 in Sophia.
APNU says it will continue to seek balanced coverage from the National Communications Network (NCN) and the Government Information Agency (GINA) and a statement made by its leader David Granger in this regard has been viewed by GINA as a grave threat.
Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang on Friday ordered two children and the common-law wife of late former Commissioner of Police Henry Greene to make a joint application for a grant of Letters of Administration of his estate.
A 10-member Guyana table tennis team dominated the teams and singles events of an interland table tennis and developmental championships in Suriname among teams from Suriname and French Guiana recently.
It would be difficult to say what the impact of pesticide and fertiliser runoff on the wetlands ecosystem surrounding the Santa Fe mega farm in the Rupununi would be without knowing what sort of chemicals are being used, Director of Conservation International (Guyana) Dr David Singh says.
It has been almost two months since promoter Trevor Rose was gunned down and while no one has been charged with his murder, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud says that investigators are on the case.
There is need for Caribbean universities to get their students out of the classrooms and more into their communities to help these become developed and sustainable and to address their many social problems.
Left arm spinner Sulieman Benn yesterday bowled defending champions Barbados to first innings points against Guyana in their day/night encounter of the West Indies Cricket Board regional four day competition at the Providence National Stadium.
By Tony Cozier AFTER the West Indies were routed by an innings in less than three days in their two Tendulkar farewell Tests in India last November, Clive Lloyd said they “looked drunk” on an overindulgence of Twenty20 cricket.
Last week’s column introduced six performance indicators for the sugar industry, which I will examine in coming weeks: production, costs, profitability, land productivity, factory productivity, and combined (land and factory) productivity, in that order.
The Berbice Cricket Board’s Telenec Incorporated U15 one-day cricket competition which began last Saturday in West Berbice, saw wins for Blairmont and Bush Lot United Sports Club New Beginning cricket team in games played at the Bush Lot and Bath grounds.
The widow of Dennis Harris, the man who died at the West Demerara Regional Hospital after slashing one of his wrists while trying to force his way into his house, remains in police custody, her daughter said.
It’s a nutty world at Aranaputa. But in a delicious way.
Satnanand Sahadeo, accused of the 2005 murder of dental technician Vishnu Santiee, was freed on Thursday in the High Court by Justice William Ramlall after a no-case submission was upheld in his favour.
Left arm spinner Sulieman Benn yesterday bowled defending champions Barbados to first innings points against Guyana in their day/night encounter of the West Indies Cricket Board regional four day competition at the Providence National Stadium.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Kieran Powell missed out on his seventh first class century but Leeward Islands batted all day to defy Jamaica on the opening day of their second round, Regional Four-Day match in St Kitts on Friday.
In perfect conditions for racing at the National Park yesterday, Team United’s Hamzah Eastman secured victory in the feature 35-lap event of the inaugural 11-race Caribbean International Distributors Inc.
Almost every time you get on an aeroplane to go somewhere, several learning experiences come your way.
Oumesh Ballram, the Berbice teen who was shot two weeks ago during an attempted robbery at his house, was released from hospital on Thursday.
Law and order Irrespective of the political system, there is general agreement that the safety and security of people are the responsibility of governments.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies batting star Chris Gayle has lamented the manner in which Kevin Pietersen was treated by England’s cricket authorities.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies face England today in the first Twenty20 International of their three-match series, with head coach Ottis Gibson confident his side can come away with a valuable series win in the build-up to the T20 World Cup in Bangladesh later this month.
The headline statement of President Barack Obama was of general application.
At 80 years old I do not think I can be criticised for writing about ageing.
The nation-wide club championships currently being held by the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) to determine the country’s top club will continue today with the quarter-final matches involving the top teams of Georgetown and Linden.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Researchers with a Caribbean trade bloc have found that decriminalizing marijuana and exploring its use for medicinal purposes could help boost the region’s sluggish economy.
Vriesa splendens commonly called Swordtail or Flaming Sword comes from the bromeliad family and originated from Venezuela and the Guianas where it grows in trees in the rainforest.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s disastrous government is in much bigger trouble than most people think, not because of the student protests that have already resulted in at least 19 deaths, but by a 56 per cent annual inflation rate — the world’s highest — that may soon turn his country ungovernable.
Queen’s College upset Tutorial Secondary 2-1 when the Milo/Petra Organization Schools Football tourney continued yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.
Birdshooting Season Birdshooting season the men make marriages with their guns My father’s house turns macho as from far the hunters gather All night long contentless women stir their brews: hot coffee chocolata, cerassie wrap pone and tie-leaf for tomorrow’s sport.
Russia’s de facto annexation of Crimea marks a twenty-first century turning point, carrying with it as many messages for the Caribbean as it does for Europe and the United States.
For one thing, I have observed that, over the past few decades, more and more publications, articles, surveys, research projects and studies are being documented.
(Reuters) – Lahiru Thirimanne returned to torment Pakistan again as in-form Sri Lanka lifted the Asia Cup title after their comprehensive five-wicket victory in the final yesterday.
KUALA LUMPUR/HO CHI MINH CITY (Reuters) – A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast yesterday, and European officials said two people on board were using false identities.
A blunder in chess is a disastrous move, a move which confers misery on its perpetrator, and which causes in most instances the immediate termination of a game.
Dear Editor, Minister within the Ministry of Local Government Norman Whittaker is quoted in your March 7, 2014 issue as saying that “the vast majority of the populace is not prepared for the holding of local government polls by 1st August,” and therefore, to go ahead (with the holding of these elections by that date) “would result in the waste of a lot of money.”
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya threatened yesterday to bomb a North Korean-flagged tanker if it tried to ship oil from a rebel-controlled port, in a major escalation of a standoff over the country’s petroleum wealth.
(The Sports Xchange) -Guard Terrence Ross showed no ill effects from a sprained left ankle that sidelined him from last Sunday’s game, leading the Toronto Raptors to a comfortable 99-87 points win over the Sacramento Kings.
This recipe is about taking Sago out of the realm of breakfast and transforming it into dessert mode.
Dear Editor, On March 7, 2014, the Stabroek News carried an article in which Mr Norman Whittaker, Minister in the Ministry of Local Government is reported as asserting that the “vast majority of the populace is not prepared for the holding of local government polls by August 1st” and that “to go ahead would result in the waste of a lot of money.”
The government received justified commendation for announcing last year that a commission of inquiry would be held into the death of Dr Walter Rodney in 1980.
Dear Editor, In SN of February 21, I read with great sadness about a robbery on Sunil and Tina Ramesh across from GT&T on Church Street.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Seventeen wickets tumbled but Test batsman Darren Bravo stroked an unbeaten half-century to prop up Trinidad and Tobago and keep them in contention against Windward Islands in their Regional Four-Day contest here yesterday.
KIEV/SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) – Shots were fired in Crimea to warn off an unarmed international team of monitors and at a Ukrainian observation plane, as the standoff between occupying Russian forces and besieged Ukrainian troops intensified.
