Articles published on Sunday, March 16, 2014
DHAKA, (Reuters) – West Indies captain Darren Sammy cannot overstate the importance of Chris Gayle’s towering presence at the top of the batting order but insists others will have to contribute if they are to defend their World Twenty20 title in Bangladesh.
SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Crimeans voted overwhelmingly to break away from Ukraine and join Russia in a referendum today that has alarmed the former Soviet republic and triggered the worst crisis in East-West relations since the Cold War.
On Friday APNU conducted an outreach exercise in Lusignan on the East Coast of Demerara.
Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Pauline Sukhai has been conferred with the Medal of Merit by the Republic of Congo, the highest order within its category, the Government Information Agency said.
A 20-year-old Customs Broker died early this morning after he lost control of his car which smashed into a utility pole behind the Continental Group of Companies, Industrial Site, Mandela Avenue.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Detectives from the Kingston Central Police Division have now charged the juror in the Vybz Kartel murder trial who allegedly tried to sway others to change their verdict to not guilty.
At about 2000h last night, police say that a fatal accident occurred at Hopetown, WCB, that resulted in the death of pedestrian Ted James Da Silva, 49 years, of Hopetown.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Paceman Mitchell Johnson was ruled out of the Twenty20 World Cup by an infected big toe today in a blow to Australia’s hopes of snaring the one major international trophy they have never won.
KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysian investigators are trawling through the backgrounds of the pilots, crew and ground staff who worked on a missing jetliner for clues as to why someone on board flew it perhaps thousands of miles off course, the country’s police chief said.
Close to a year after an extension to the $800 million contract for the supply of 14 flood relief pumps from India, not a single one has been commissioned thus far.
Mist swirls around the tops of the three hills of Rupertee and the cold breeze streaming from the nearby Pakaraima Mountains, makes a memory – at least for a while – of the heat that can sear the Rupununi savannahs.
Police are being accused of ignoring the initial reports from a 12-year-old that her father had assaulted her mother and was threatening to kill her entire family on Friday night, just a short while before the man kept his word and set their home on fire at Port Kaituma.
Despite meeting with two government ministers, no answers were received regarding two excavators that were linked to furtive plans for a road in a remote part of Region Nine and villagers remain opposed to the building of a new road, Toshao of Karaudarnau Valare Anderson has said.
The most serious human rights abuses that have occurred in Guyana have involved complaints by suspects and detainees of mistreatment on the part of the security forces, unlawful killings by the police, and poor prison and jail conditions, the 2013 US Report on Human Rights has said.
By Delvon Mc Ewan Veersammy Permaul and Narsingh Deonarine yesterday combined to bowl Guyana back into their regional four-day match against the Windward Islands at the Providence National Stadium after the locals had surrendered first innings points.
A stint in the lock-ups, a charge of larceny and a case that dragged on for five years marked the beginning of a turning point in Karen de Souza’s life when she realized that living is much more than making oneself comfortable while others suffer around you.
For all of us, at whatever strata we live, episodes come along on our journey that transform us significantly purely from the realization or understanding those encounters generate.
CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Kirk Edwards made an emphatic return to the Barbados team with his eighth first-class hundred, to lead a strong batting performance against Combined Campuses & Colleges in the Regional Four-Day Championship here yesterday.
While police continue to search for two men suspected to be responsible for the attack in a Port Mourant rice field that left two men dead and others injured, the widow of one of the victims said she has lost all faith in law enforcement to deliver justice.
In intermittent showers at the National Park yesterday, Team United’s Orville Hinds reigned over a field of Guyana’s premier wheelsmen to cart off the spoils of the feature 35-lap event of the ninth annual Diamond Mineral Water 11-race programme.
Against the background of the passage in the National Assembly of the Local Authorities (Election Amendment) Bill, not yet assented to by the President, which provides that local government elections be held by August, the Chairman of the Elections Commission, Dr Steve Surujbally, announced that the Elections Commission is ready to “go into election mode” as soon as the date for local government elections is fixed.
Former national lightweight champion, Revlon Lake will be the first local pugilist to take the ring when the Caribbean Contender Boxing Series boxes off in Jamaica on Wednesday.
Like nurses anxiously watching the pulse rate and temperature of patients in an emergency ward, for a long time we were schooled to observe movements in Gross Domestic Product as the indication of whether a country is healthy or ailing.
Plight of vulnerable This would be the final article on anticipations of the 2014 budget.
And then there were four. The semifinals of the Guyana Amateur basketball Federation’s (GABF) Road to Mecca national club championships will take place tonight at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall a Linden versus Georgetown final a certainty.
President Donald Ramotar yesterday affirmed his position that the Anti-Money Laundering/Coun-tering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) (Amendment) Bill should be passed in its current form and “forthwith.”
Until relatively recently, almost all Caribbean economic thinking has been focused on the encouragement of investment onshore, with the emphasis on commodities, manufacturing, tourism, financial services and artisanal industries such as fisheries.
INEVITABLY, the shorter the game, the more frenzied the tempo, the more exciting the action, the more unpredictable the outcome.
“Terrible!” Dawn Hopkinson-Jacobs exclaimed when asked to describe Key Drive road in Enterprise Gardens, East Coast Demerara.
I had reported a few weeks ago in this series data comparing the unit cost of sugar production for Caricom producers in 2005.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Test left-hander Darren Bravo led three batsmen with half-centuries but Trinidad and Tobago lost wickets late in the day, to concede some momentum to the Leeward Islands on the opening day of their Regional Four-Day match here Friday.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro won a diplomatic victory by defeating a US-backed proposal at the 34-country Organization of American States that would have suggested an outside mediation to end that country’s political crisis, which has already left more than 25 dead and hundreds of wounded.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Two principal figures in the West Indies team management have backed Andre Russell to excel in his new role, even as the Jamaican all-rounder struggles to fill the slot made vacant by injured Twenty20 star Kieron Pollard.
The nutrition of companion animals (pets) has received considerable interest during the recent decades, and certain large manufacturers of dog and cat foods have conducted extensive research and feeding trials, in order to establish nutritious diets that need no supplementation.
The Santa Fe mega farm in the Rupununi has responded to questions about the toxicity of chemicals it uses and their impact on the surrounding wetlands, stating that it is committed to proper management of the chemicals and to ensuring that contamination of surrounding waters is minimal.
Remember when? Four young people showing how the piggy back is done along Belfield Road in Victoria, East Coast Demerara yesterday.
The Ministry of Local Government’s failure to cope with the responsibility for encouraging economic development in municipalities and communities is causing airstrips, bridges and stellings across the country to fall apart, APNU said on Friday.
The Bishops’ High trounced School of the Nations by a 5-1 margin when the Milo/Petra Organization Schools Football tourney continued yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground on Carifesta Avenue.
Dear Editor, As reported in SN of March 15, the Ministry of Public Works (MPW) has started to install the first of six geo-textile tubes to function as groynes along the Kitty to Kingston foreshore.
The Festive Amazon (Amazona festiva), also known as the Festive Parrot, is a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family.
Lodge Secondary breezed past St. Mary’s High by a 3-0 margin when the Milo/Petra Organization Schools Football tourney continued yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.
Competitive chess players are becoming increasingly aware of the calamitous nature of blunders, those irrefutable errors which occur when one least expects them.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro warned protesters in Caracas yesterday to clear a square they have made their stronghold, or face eviction by security forces.
Twenty-two junior police officers graduated from a Personal Computer (PC) Repairs/Maintenance Course yesterday, at the Guyana Police Force Training Centre.
The Port Mourant Turf Club (PMTC) will be a hive of activity today with the club’s grand horse race meet.
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – A missing Malaysian airliner appears to have been deliberately steered off course after someone on board shut down its communications, Prime Minister Najib Razak said yesterday.
It is always interesting to study traditional festivals, their place in a society and how they are continually affected by time and geography.
Guyana’s track and field representatives at the ongoing South American Games in Santiago, Chile, Winston George, Alicia Fortune, Cleveland Thomas and Cleveland Forde all failed to medal in their respective events on Friday.
Dear Editor, Drunk drivers should, at all times, be compelled by law to face the courts, and all applicable penalties, especially when death or bodily injuries result.
Neoregelia commonly called Blushing bromeliad is found throughout South America, Central America and Florida, and grows in trees in the rainforest.
Dear Editor, Even though the Georgetown to Rosignol public train service ended in 1972, we are witnessing a train crash very slowly in Guyana – the Guyana Cricket train.
This country is not good at systems. Thinking is not just short term but also fragmented, and when the inevitable consequences of a disorganized or incoherent approach make themselves apparent, procrastination seems to be the preferred response.
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SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) – Pro-Russian leaders in Crimea made final preparations yesterday for a referendum widely expected to transfer control of the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine to Moscow, despite the threat of sanctions and condemnation from Western governments.
Defending female champions Tutorial Secondary were held to a 0-0 draw by East Ruimveldt Secondary when the fourth edition of the Guyana Sports Development Foundation (GSDF) Pepsi/Scotia Bank Football tourney commenced yesterday.
