Daily Archive: Monday, June 2, 2014

Articles published on Monday, June 2, 2014

Pomeroon man killed in Greenwich crash

At about 1330h today police say that Paul Gonsalves, 21 years, of Pomeroon, Essequibo River, was in a motor vehicle travelling along the Public Road at Greenwich, East Bank Essequibo when the driver lost control of the vehicle and collided with a utility pole.

Health and family life education meeting

In a coordinated effort to further strengthen the delivery of Health and Family Life Education (HFLE) within the Guyanese school system, the Ministry of Education (MOE) in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), CARICOM and a number of other stakeholders, are meeting for two days to review Guyana’s HFLE programme.

Trinidad boys shot dead execution-style

(Trinidad Express) A NINE-YEAR-OLD boy and his 15-year-old brother, both believed to be instrumental in seve­ral robberies in the Port of Spain area, were yesterday killed when gunmen entered their family’s home, forced them to lie down and shot each one in the head.

Donald Ramotar

Gov’t slams WICB over pulling of test match from Providence National Stadium

It is hoped that the arrogance and contempt assumed by the WICB as it purports to give directions to a sovereign Government of a CARICOM member state is noted’   The Guyana Government yesterday slammed the West Indies Cricket Board’s (WICB) decision to remove the scheduled third cricket test match between the West Indies and New Zealand from the Providence National Stadium because of the passage of a bill which seeks to regularize cricket administration in the country and questioned whose interests the WICB was really representing.

Novak Djokovic

Gulbis hits back to beat Federer

PARIS, (Reuters) – Roger Federer suffered his earliest defeat at the French Open for a decade yesterday when he lost to Latvian Ernests Gulbis in the fourth round but Novak Djokovic made light work of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to reach the quarter-finals in a flash.

Providence scrapped as venue for third Test

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Government interference in the running of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has forced the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to scrap the National Stadium at Providence as the venue for the third Test against New Zealand later this month.

Dexter George (left) and Tevin Imlach scored half centuries for DCC in their rain affected match.

Rain affects GCA Noble House Seafoods competition

Dexter George and Tevin Imlach scored half centuries for Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) on the first day of their rain affected match against the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) in the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/Noble House Seafoods second division two-day competition on Saturday.

Santos, GFC draw 1-1

Santos FC and the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) played to a 1-1 stalemate when the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) U17 league continued yesterday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda.

Qualfon incident

On May 20, 18 workers of Qualfon’s Call Centre at Goedverwagting had to be rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation in various states of consciousness and some of them in hysterics.