Daily Archive: Thursday, May 15, 2014

Articles published on Thursday, May 15, 2014

Nigel Hinds

B/ballers banned!

Kumar stops b/ball teams from training at CASH; GABF president calls the situation an atrocity Director of Sport Neil Kumar yesterday told the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) that he was withdrawing with immediate effect permission for the GABF’s usage of the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) for its training of the various national basketball teams.

Basil Rodrigues

Basil Rodrigues laid to rest

Educator and cultural icon Basil Cuthbert Rodrigues, 81, was yesterday laid to rest in his home village of Moruca in the north west following a short service at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Brickdam in the morning.

Darcel Harris

G/town coach Darcel Harris confident of victory

Darcel Harris, head coach of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) side said that he is confident his charges will claim the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) inter-association title, when the event commences on Saturday 17th in Linden.

Shimron Hetmyer

Essequibo, President’s XI upset B/ce, Demerara

-GCB U19 competition By Delvon McEwan   The Demerara under-19 team was again on the losing side in another closely contested match against the President’s XI as they were defeated with a ball to spare in the second round match of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Under-19 50 overs tournament, yesterday, at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) Ground, Bourda.

Correction

  In the article captioned ‘Town Clerk standoff, verbal abuse and a bomb scare…’ appearing in Monday’s edition of the Stabroek News it was erroneously stated that Office of the President Liaison Kwame McCoy had stated that the meeting was “illegal”.

Port security seminar

Representatives from the International Port Security Program, in conjunction with the Maritime Administration of Guyana, conducted a port security seminar on May 6-8, 2014, at the Regency Hotel.

Mr. Khan’s letter should galvanize Guyanese Indians to start looking at themselves and decide who they are

Dear Editor,   I found the letter, `The Nigam concert and false consciousness’ by Romain Khan in your May 12, 2014 issue a splendid opportunity for scholars, commentators and politicians to comment on just who are the East Indians of this country, how have they evolved since their freedom from indentureship and what is the psychic content of these people.

Cocaine in, cocaine out

Local drug traffickers’ moves to put cocaine in everything they possibly could to get it out of the country to where it can earn big bucks in North America resulted in a tragic occurrence last week when four people died, including a child, after drinking what was suspected to be SSS Tonic laced with liquid cocaine.

Dr Hook bombs in Jamaica

(Jamaica Observer) UNWILLING to sit through another painful performance, patrons embarked on a mass exodus from the LIME Golf Academy in New Kingston at Sunday’s To Mom With Love concert, bringing it to an end after only two songs into headliner Dr Hook’s performance.