Daily Archive: Sunday, July 20, 2014

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Jamaica Tallawahs defeated Guyana Amazon Warriors by four runs, in the ninth game of the Caribbean Premier League at the National Stadium here today.

GAZA/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – More than 60 Palestinians and 13 Israeli soldiers were killed as Israel shelled a Gaza neighbourhood and battled militants today in the bloodiest fighting in a near two-week-old offensive.

Police say that investigations are being conducted into a fatal accident that occurred at about 0010h.

Two persons from the gay community were during the wee hours of this morning brutally stabbed to death at separate city locations by a man who later confessed to the killings and committed suicide by torching himself.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Actor James Garner, best known for his prime-time television roles as the wisecracking frontier gambler on ““Maverick” and as an ex-con turned private eye on ““The Rockford Files”, has died at age 86, Los Angeles police confirmed early today.

APNU’s votes will decide if a no-confidence motion against the government succeeds but it is in a tight spot over whether or not to support the move, according to analysts and any decision on a pre-electoral alliance for the elections that would arise should the motion pass, lies with the AFC.

Most of the residents of the close-knit community of No 5 Village, West Coast Berbice are engaged in business from selling iguanas and water coconuts to running food stalls by the roadside.

Salim Feroze Hack, the captain of a boat from which four fishermen are still missing after it came under attack by pirates nearly two weeks ago in Surinamese waters, believes that their attackers were Guyanese.

A woman’s handbag and an umbrella believed to be the property of missing St Stanislaus College teacher Nyozi Goodman, who has been missing since July 6, were found at the back of the Botanical Gardens yesterday afternoon.

Within 30 minutes of the shooting to death of teenager Ashmini Harriram, police knew the colour of the car the killer had escaped in, but according to former police commissioner Winston Felix setting up roadblocks with a view to intercepting it would have been pointless if they did not have the licence plate number and details of the suspect.

Within recent years many persons have gone before the courts and pleaded guilty to trafficking large quantities of cocaine and marijuana but there has been little evidence of follow-up arrests or charges as it relates to the distributors of the drugs.

The hassar fish pond project embarked on by the Government of Guyana, through the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs to provide a livelihood for the remote Region One Amerindian community, Tobago Hill, has become a white elephant 3 years after its implementation.

Fly Jamaica Airlines yesterday while adverting to the fact that airline operators worldwide encounter delays owing to various issues said that it has taken note of the “sensational news” published by the Jamaica Observer and the Stabroek News which has brought disrepute to the airline.

The AFC released on Friday last a letter to the President of Guyana in which it advised that it will be tabling in the National Assembly a motion of no confidence in the government.

Too many of my good friends are overwhelmed with work which prevents them living more peaceful, varied, interesting and fulfilled lives.

Minister of Natural Re-sources and the Environment Robert Persaud on Monday denied that Chinese logging firm Bai Shan Lin (BSL) controls over 960 000 hectares of forest.

Following claims by the Guyana Police Force (GPF) that investigations into Wednesday night’s shootout between Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) enforcement officers and smugglers have been hindered by the GRA, the tax-collecting agency has dismissed the allegations deeming them “wicked, malicious, and atrocious.”

Introduction At the request of several readers today’s column will evaluate the proposal which is finding favour in several highly-indebted Caricom countries for the payment of slavery reparations by the former slave-owning countries to slave descendants in the region, to be made in the form of national debt relief.

This week’s announcement by the presidents of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — the so-called BRICS countries — that they will create their own international financial institution was greeted with polite scepticism and some criticism in Washington DC.

Vidol Rawlins who vanished after allegedly fatally stabbing his wife on Friday, is still at large and is being sought by the police for questioning.

Song-writers are essentially observers; that’s where the process begins; that’s where the ideas or interpretations or slants that song-writers present in a song originate.

The Guyana Bar Association (GBA) yesterday called on President Donald Ramotar to dissociate himself from a racist editorial in the July 17 edition of the state-owned Guyana Chronicle and other such content carried by the newspaper.

An unbeaten half-century from opener Martin Guptill reinforced by Krishmar Santokie’s four wickets steered the Guyana Amazon Warriors to a comfortable 9-wicket win over the St Lucia Zouks last evening in match seven of the 2014 Limacol Caribbean Premier Tournament (LCPL) T20 tournament.

As this is being written a series of summits have been taking place in Brazil which may have a lasting effect on the way in which the Caribbean and other small indebted nations come to address their future.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Marlon Samuels stroked a classy half-century but was outshone by an equally fine one from Shoaib Malik, as Barbados Tridents beat Antigua Hawksbills by five wickets to post their first win in the new Caribbean Premier League campaign.

 Delayed release The preliminary 2012 census report is out but it does not provide data on employment and the labour force in general.

GALLE, Sri Lanka (Reuters) – Kumar Sangakkara remained unbeaten after a sparkling half-century as Sri Lanka responded well to the challenge of scoring 370 runs in four sessions in order to win the first test against South Africa yesterday.

HOYLAKE England (Reuters) – Tiger Woods lamented a succession of errors after the former world number one slumped to a one-over-par 73 on a good day for scoring in the third round of the British Open yesterday.

Celery originated from the Mediterranean. It was originally used for medicinal purposes as the seeds contain oil.

KARACHI (Reuters) – Pakistan’s new batting coach Grant Flower has termed his new assignment as the biggest challenge of his coaching career and is hopeful of making the batsmen more consistent.

Guyana retained their Boys and Girls team titles, defeating Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago 3-2 respectively in their corresponding finals, when the team section of the 2014 Caribbean Junior Squash Championships concluded yesterday in Hamilton, Bermuda.

The Enchanted Caribbean is one of the annual productions of the National Dance Company.

Guyana’s participation at the important 2014 Norway Chess Olympiad, scheduled for the beginning of August, represents a milestone for the sprinkling of local practitioners of the ancient game.

Berbice won 2014 Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Women’s Inter-county competition yesterday, dethroning Demerara via the Duckworth Lewis calculation at the Everest Cricket Club, Carifesta Avenue.

Continued from last week In last week’s column, in my haste to conclude the painful and distressing topic of tumours/cancers, I omitted mentioning two of the most frequent ailments in our tumour/cancer discussions, namely those associated with the vagina and the breast.

HRABOVE/DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukraine accused Russia and pro-Moscow rebels yesterday of destroying evidence to cover up their guilt in the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner that has accelerated a showdown between the Kremlin and Western powers.

LONDON (Reuters) – A defiant half-century by opener Murali Vijay kept alive India’s hopes of setting England a tough fourth-innings chase in a tense second test at Lord’s yesterday.

Jamaica Tallawahs’ skipper Chris Gayle is confident of smashing Guyana Amazon Warriors’ star spinner Sunil Narine for a quartet of sixes come tomorrow when the two teams square off in what is termed as the grudge match in this year’s Limacol Caribbean Premier League (LCPL) T20 tournament.

GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel fired shells into the Gaza Strip and militants kept up rocket fire into the Jewish state today with no sign of a diplomatic breakthrough to end the worst fighting between Israel and Hamas in two years.

Dear Editor, It was and remains a wonderment to me how we Guyanese endured without open revolt the oppression of the later years of the Burnham regime.

RISOUL, France (Reuters) – Vincenzo Nibali strengthened his stranglehold on the Tour de France when he gained further ground over his rivals in the second Alpine stage won by Poland’s Rafal Majka yesterday.

Dear Editor, At a recent press conference to mark the third anniversary of the APNU, the major opposition force in the National Assembly, coalition leader Mr David Granger addressed the unrivalled successes of the APNU in its relatively brief existence despite what he lamented as the serious lack of facilities and resources it faces.

ORLANDO, Fla (Reuters) – A Florida jury has awarded the widow of a chain smoker who died of lung cancer punitive damages of more than $23 billion in her lawsuit against the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, the nation’s second-biggest cigarette maker.

Butter Potatoes are simply potatoes cooked in butter. They make an elegant side dish and I generally reserve them for making at holidays or on special occasions.

Dear Editor, Monday July 7 was Caricom Day, a holiday in Guyana.

The glittering sapphire jewel weaving though the dark, humid forest is not an illusion.

Publication of some initial data from the 2012 census has precipitated a flurry of hypothesizing.

For a host of reasons, it was just what makes Twenty20 cricket as universally popular as it is.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The ancient Christian community of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul had all but fled yesterday, ending a presence stretching back nearly two millennia after radical Islamists set them a midday deadline to submit to Islamic rule or leave.

    A truck nearly fell into the Essequibo River yesterday morning after the driver made a misjudgement when trying to navigate his way onto a ferry around 6am.