Daily Archive: Sunday, April 20, 2014

Articles published on Sunday, April 20, 2014

Midnight mass

Catholics at the Church of the Ascension in New Amsterdam participating in the Easter Vigil Midnight Mass observances in New Amsterdam on Saturday evening.

Midnight mass

Catholics at the Church of the Ascension in New Amsterdam participating in the Easter Vigil Midnight Mass observances in New Amsterdam on Saturday evening.

Lethem rodeo scenes

President Donald Ramotar (left) presents a symbolic cheque for $500,000 to   John Macedo,   Chairman of  the Rupununi Rodeo Committee as Minister of Tourism Irfaan Ali, Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai, Minister of Sports Dr Frank Anthony and other members of the committee look on. 

Man stabbed to death at Lethem

The police say that at about 0540h today, the body of Terrence Robin James, 23 years, of Kwatamang Village, North Rupununi, was found on the Tabatinga Public Road, Lethem, with suspected stab wounds to the chest.

Jamaicans angry at new ATM tax

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaicans yesterday reacted with anger to last Thursday’s announcement in Parliament by Finance and Planning Minister, Dr Peter Phillips that new taxes will be slapped on Automated Teller Machine (ATM) withdrawals, as well as on all electronic banking transactions.

A panoramic view of the Rising Sun Turf Club

Rising Sun

Story and photos by Desilon Daniels and Samaria Deonauth   Sandwiched between Washington and Seafield/Number 42 Village, the small village of Rising Sun on the West Coast of Berbice is a community of close familial ties.

Relocation ahead for 14 Mile Issano community

– to make way for Troy Resources mine The Region Seven gold mine to be built by the Australian firm Troy Resources Guyana Inc would see the 14 Mile Issano community, a mining settlement which according to one estimate comprises some 100 persons, having to relocate.

AG says no to jury abolition

Attorney General Anil Nandlall has rejected suggestions that the jury system should be abolished and while he stands firm that reform as he had proposed recently in Parliament is the better option, legal sources say this would only work if the isolation of jurors and shorter trial times are taken into consideration.

Fire destroys Nabaclis home

The Nabaclis East Coast Demerara home of a mother of four was last evening destroyed by fire and she is now pleading with the public for assistance especially with school items to enable her children to return to school.

Reflections on another birthday

A few weeks, it seems, since the last one, a new birthday has come along – the 81st no less, hardly believable when one thinks how not so long ago one could joyfully spring up stairs three at a time if the occasion demanded it or party until dawn (very possibly celebrating another West Indies victory as No.

How the US made its Putin problem worse

WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK (Reuters) – In September 2001, as the US reeled from the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Vladimir Putin supported Washington’s imminent invasion of Afghanistan in ways that would have been inconceivable during the Cold War.

David Fraser

A deteriorating heritage building

Clive McWatt puts the case for preserving East Lothian House in East Berbice as a heritage plantation farm museum East Lothian House continues to intrigue me and there has been a recent surge of correspondence on FaceBook of other persons who are curious about its history and current demise.

Anthony Abrams

Wortmanville/Bent Street edges Charlestown

Wortmanville/Bent Street edged Charlestown by a 2-1 score line in their quarterfinal match when the first annual Grassroots Foundation inter-ward knockout football tourney continued on Thursday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda.

Darian Dickson’s unbeaten half century was enough to guide DCC ’A’ to a victory over GYO yesterday.

Dickson guides DCC A to victory over GYO

A patient half century by Darian Dickson guided Demerara Cricket Club ‘A’ to a seven-wicket victory over hosts Gandhi Youth Organisation (GYO) when the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/Brainstreet U-15 limited overs tournament continued yesterday.

Slanted information

A letter in Kaieteur News this week, by Mr M Maxwell, made the trenchant point that our forefathers came to Guyana already imbued with the racial prejudices of their ancestral homelands; that those ethnic divides, while recognized and exploited by the British for their own advantage, were a pre-existing condition; it was certainly used but just as certainly not created by the colonialists.

Windwards on top after Johnson rocks T&T

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – West Indies A pacer Delorn Johnson produced a sharp, late burst, to rock Trinidad and Tobago and give Windward Islands the advantage on the opening day of their Headley/Weekes Trophy semi-final here yesterday.

Citrus Cake (Photo by Cynthia Nelson)

Citrus Cake

In good taste This is my mom’s favourite cake. When she says that she is giving up sweet for Lent, she means that she is giving up this cake for Lent.

Lethem rodeo scenes

President Donald Ramotar and several other members of the Cabinet, including Tourism Minister Irfaan Ali yesterday participated in the Annual Lethem Rodeo festivities in Rupununi, Region Nine, where the Head of State pledged his administration’s commitment toward continued development of the region.

Male Golden-Headed Manakin (Photo by Jake Bicknell)

Manakins

“Iwokrama’s mission is to develop strategies for conservation and sustainable development of the tropical rain forest system for local people in Guyana and the world at large.

Carlsen on chess, computers and life

Norwegian chess superstar, world chess champion and ambassador extraordinaire for chess, 23-year-old Magnus Carlsen, visited Moscow’s Institute of Physics and Technology, the equivalent of MIT, where he conducted two simultaneous exhibitions recently.

Easter lily

Just look at the beautiful flowers in bloom and you can tell it is that time of the year – Easter or Spring as they say in northern climates.

Statements from Kiev and the West about Russia being behind the eastern Ukraine protests are groundless

Dear Editor,   The decision of President of Ukraine Victor Yanukovych to take time to analyze the proposed Association Agreement with the EU on the EU conditions and not to sign it right away, because it would dramatically worsen the socioeconomic situation in Ukraine and affect Ukrainians, provoked public unrest that eventually culminated in an unconstitutional coup.