Daily Archive: Sunday, August 17, 2014

President Donald Ramotar along with Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana, Nicole Giles and several other Cabinet members today visited the Guyana Goldfields, Aurora, Cuyuni operations.

President Donald Ramotar along with Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana, Nicole Giles and several other Cabinet members today visited the Guyana Goldfields, Aurora, Cuyuni operations.

The management of the Guyana Amazon Warriors has decided to challenge the outcome of yesterday’s CPL final which it lost via the Duckworth-Lewis method to the Barbados Tridents in St Kitts.

APNU Member of Parliament Joseph Harmon has told Commissioner of Forests James Singh that he is open to a debate with him on the controversy over Bai Shan Lin’s (BSL) operations here and requested a range of agreements with the Chinese company.

(Trinidad Express) While Government continues to press on with its promise to make sweeping changes to the Constitution, the backlash against the bill continues to grow. The

Log exports for the first six months of this year were valued at US$8.7 million, compared to less than US$1 million for plywood, challenging Finance Minister Dr.

Whitewater Village is a community in Region One, Barima-Waini, just a few miles from the border with Venezuela.

A Zeelugt woman was found dead at Boerasirie, East Bank Essequibo on Friday evening and her body exhibited signs of possible strangulation and that she might have been run over by a vehicle.

Imagine waking up one day to total darkness and hours later you are told that you are blind forever.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Barbados Tridents beat Guyana Amazon Warriors to capture the 2014 Caribbean Premier League title, after rain spoiled an absorbing contest that appeared headed for an enthralling end of here yesterday.

Five years after her son-in-law allegedly attempted to kill her, a Trinidad-based Guyanese woman has managed to track the man to Guyana, from where she is hoping he will be extradited to stand trial.

The recent revelation that the manpower of the Guyana Police Force will be increased by 45% is a welcome move according to Opposition Leader David Granger who nevertheless expressed the belief that this would have little effect unless there is a holistic approach to the many issues affecting the Force.

Despite a sprinkling of spectators and the intermittent showers, the first day of the fifth annual Boyce/Jefford Classic had some scintillating performances.

Despite the higher returns that can be realized from the value-added processing of logs locally, government has not moved with alacrity to compel major logging firms such as China’s Bai Shan Lin and India’s Vaitarna Holdings Private Inc (VHPI) to do so and as the companies continue to export huge quantities of logs annually, Guyana has been foregoing millions of dollars.

Alpha United head coach Wayne Dover is adamant his team must secure a win when they oppose USA’s Portland Timbers in their second home match of the CONCACAF Champions League on Tuesday at the National Stadium.

The Ministry of Labour plans to intervene this week on behalf of former employees of the Hotel Tower, after management of the business broke several promises to pay over owed wages and benefits.

Disciplined bowling from Darien Best and national leg spinner Steven Sankar helped Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) crush the Guyana Defence Force by 120 runs in the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/ Noble House Seafood’s second division two-day competition yesterday at the Gandhi Youth Organisation (GYO) ground.

Colts overcame a third quarter shooting spree by Trinity Grid Holdings (TGH) Pacesetters to clinch the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Trifecta second division title by a 78-66 margin on Friday at the Burnham Court.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) has launched an investigation into the alleged assault of an Officer Cadet by training instructors at the Colonel John Clarke Military School in Tacama.

A Fyrish man succumbed to injuries yesterday morning, just hours after he was involved in an accident along the Corentyne, Berbice Public Road.

Guyana’s junior badminton ended the individual events of the Caribbean Regional Badminton Championships (CAREBACO) with eight medals following the conclusion of that aspect of the tournament Friday night at the Alfred Sangster Auditorium University of Technology, Kingston Jamaica.

When the articles on cancers and tumours commenced in May, we had no inkling that so many weeks/ months would be needed to cover the salient topics associated with this ailment.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Mahela Jayawardene remained unbeaten on 49 in his farewell innings after spinner Rangana Herath’s career best figures of nine for 127 gave Sri Lanka control of the second test against Pakistan yesterday.

I’m admitting it from the start: I am not a fisherman.

The Caribbean Press on Friday launched 15 new Guyana Classics books at the Umana Yana, bringing the total number of works in the collection to 75.

Billy Gawrych of the Pro Impact Stunt Team from California, US, practising his stunt for the Hits and Jams Bikers Fest today at the National Park (Photo by Arian Browne)

Watching President Barack Obama at his mega-summit with nearly 50 African heads of state in Washington, D.C.,

Guyana’s final round eleven game at Tromso in the 41st World Chess Olympiad pitted her against Palau, an island country in the Pacific Ocean.

Guyana has been able to seal a deal with Panama for the supply of 5,000 tonnes of rice per month beginning in September with the contract period running up to the end of this year.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Joe Root passed fifty for the fifth time in the series to lift England to 385 for seven and a commanding lead of 237 runs at the close on the second day of the fifth test against India at The Oval yesterday.

Part 2 A single tree yields approximately 50 to 200 breadfruit per season.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Paris St Germain have called for Bastia striker Brandao to be banned from soccer for life after he appeared to headbutt Italian international Thiago Motta yesterday.

Popular songs are normally ephemeral. They are generally like fashion – here today and gone tomorrow despite their impact and success during the time that they command popular acclaim.

DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian rebels are receiving new armoured vehicles and fighters trained in Russia, with which they plan to launch a major counter-offensive against government forces, a separatist leader said in a video released yesterday.

MONROVIA (Reuters) – Health care workers in Liberia have administered three doses of the rare, experimental drug ZMapp to three doctors suffering from Ebola, two medical workers in Monrovia told Reuters.

ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada,CMC-West Indies opening batsmen Andre Fletcher will lead a 16-man Grenada squad in a 50-over warm-up match against the touring Bangladesh team today, the Grenada Cricket Association (GCA) announced on Friday.

On August 15 Panama celebrated one hundred years of operation of its canal.

FERGUSON, Mo (Reuters) – Missouri Governor Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew in Ferguson yesterday, trying to restore order after a week of racially charged protests and looting over the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer.

Revolting news In its mid-year report, the government disclosed that the Guyana economy grew by 3.2 per cent.

(Reuters) – Top seed Serena Williams overcame a slow start to beat Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki 2-6 6-2 6-4 yesterday and reach her second straight Western and Southern Open final in Cincinnati.

Dear Editor, During the last week, the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) in two full-page paid advertisements in Kaieteur News on (August 13; August 15) has defended the massive over-cutting by and for the Chinese transnational logger Bai Shan Lin.

This horned frog (Ceratoprhys cornuta) in the Iwokrama Rain Forest is doing what it does best; hiding in the leaf litter, waiting to pounce on unsuspecting prey.

General Secretary of the PPP, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee, declared at his press conference last week that the PPP has no problem with shared governance and the ‘winner does not take all’ principle.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – The Brazilian Socialist Party plans to launch environmentalist Marina Silva as its presidential candidate next week, replacing party leader Eduardo Campos who was killed in a plane clash, a senior party official said yesterday.

Dear Editor, The gathering storm over the management of Guyana’s forestry and related concessions raises a number of troubling questions especially as this government approaches the end of its term in office.

ONE of Clive Lloyd’s many problems as new head of West Indies’ selectors concerns who he is.

Who would have thought Guyana had developed so far so fast?

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters flooded the centre of Pakistan’s capital yesterday, vowing to stay in the streets until Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resigns.

Breezing out on a branch at Wineperu, Essequibo, Region 7. (Photo by Arian Browne)

One might have thought that as time passes the heart might harden as arteries harden and the sense of loss grow less acute as the five familiar senses most certainly tend to do.

Most of us prepare some sort of chicken dish on the weekends in addition to another meat.

Dear Editor, Guyana has the most beautiful and durable species of wood in the world.

Guyana’s squash players Sunil Seth and Alex Arjoon among the men and Victoria Arjoon and Akelia Wiltshire for women made strong starts for individual honours as the Caribbean Area Squash Championships got underway in Barbados yesterday.

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