Daily Archive: Saturday, March 15, 2014

Articles published on Saturday, March 15, 2014

(From left) Anthony Autar, Public Relations Officer of the Guyana Foundation, Supriya Bodden founder of the NGO and Dr. Latchman Narain.

Mental health crisis being ignored

The tragedies of the mentally unstable wandering the country’s streets and the continuing domestic violence murders and suicides point to a mental health crisis that is largely being ignored by the government and private organisations, says the founder of the Guyana Foundation Supriya Bodden.

CCC defy B/dos to post respectable score

CAVE HILL, Barbados,  CMC – A defiant stand between Kavem Hodge and Jomel Warrican followed half-centuries from Kyle Corbin, Chadwick Walton and Shacaya Thomas to prop up Combined Campuses & Colleges’ batting against Barbados in their grudge match here yesterday.

Was involved with design of the sea defence construction in 1972

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Philip Allsopp’s letter in SN dated March 13(‘It would be improper to challenge the integrity of the Marriott foundation…’) and would like to say that I did not ask him as a soil expert to challenge the foundation design for the Marriott Hotel, but only to comment as regards the type of foundation designed by the Chinese for the project.

Ukraine accuses Russia of fomenting violence in east

DONETSK, Ukraine, (Reuters) – The new governor of the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk yesterday said Russians were behind violent clashes between rival demonstrators in which one man was killed, and accused Moscow of distorting the truth in its account of what happened.

Joshua Persaud

Persaud scores ton as Georgetown wins again

By Delvon Mc Ewan Georgetown registered its second victory on the back of a well-played century by Joshua Persaud in the latest round of the Demerara Cricket Board under 15 inter-zone 50 over competition, yesterday at Enmore ground, East Coast Demerara.

Australia, Sri Lanka eye elusive Twenty20 title

(Reuters) – Cricket will shed all pretensions of being a lazy, nuanced game and reward brute force when top teams brawl in Bangladesh over the next three weeks for the biggest crown of the game’s shortest and most unabashed format at the ICC World Twenty20.

No mail delivery service for Potaro Road residents

Dear Editor, Among the issues residents living along the Potaro Road have been complaining of to the Bartica United Youth Development Group is the non-delivery of mail to their homes, and that sometimes when they go to the post office to uplift their mail they have to spend a lot of time searching through boxes for it.

US$20m medical facility slated for Jamaica

(Jamaica Observer) ST JAMES, Jamaica — Hospiten Group, a Spanish-based company, yesterday morning announc-ed that it will begin construction of a state-of- the- art medical facility at a cost of US$20 million in the upscale community of Cinnamon Hill in Rose Hall, St James.

The lost boy

Although at 13 he was indicted for murders committed during massacres at Lusignan and Bartica, Dwane Williams was just a blip on the public’s radar until the recent High Court trial where he went from being a co-accused to a state witness.

Rwanda’s strongman politics

South Africa’s recent expulsion of three Rwandan diplomats for their involvement in the murder and attempted murder of political dissidents is yet another troubling instance of President Kagame’s willingness to use violence to silence his critics.