Daily Archive: Saturday, September 27, 2014

Articles published on Saturday, September 27, 2014

Computers are improving human chess skills

Whilst the charismatic 23-year-old Norwegian chess grandmaster and world champion Magnus Carlsen was competing in the USA’s Sinquefield Cup two weeks ago, India’s Vishy Anand was winning the Bilbao Masters Final simultaneously on the other side of the world, in Spain.

Raphael Trotman

Trotman not prepared to resign over allegations

Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman yesterday said that he was not prepared to resign in the face of recent allegations of sexual abuse, while his party accused Attorney General Anil Nandlall of involvement in directing his accuser to attorney Jaya Manickchand.

Climate encounter

President Donald Ramotar (centre) and Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh (left) with Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Dr Rajendra Pachauri during an encounter on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

St Ignatius celebrates heritage

Prime Minister, Samuel Hinds (third from left), Region Nine Chairman, Wilson Laurentino and toshao Musa Xavier among Region Nine residents at yesterday’s Amerindian heritage celebrations in St Ignatius.

Keith Lowenfield

GRO submitted record of former president’s death to Gecom

After weeks of criticism, Registrar General Greta McDonald has said that the General Register Office (GRO) did supply the confirmation of the death of late former president Arthur Chung to the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) in the month following his passing in June 2008, although he remains listed on this year’s preliminary list of electors (PLE).

West Indies batsman Leon Johnson, who recently became the 300th cricketer to play for the West Indies in the 500th test match played by the regional side,  was last night honoured by the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) following his debut against Bangladesh in the second test  in Gros Islet, St Lucia September 13-17.
Johnson, who at 16 made his first class debut for Guyana, has played club cricket for GCC.
Above Johnson, third from right, shares the moment with some of his contemporaries from left, Joshua Wade, Elon Fernandes, Trevon Griffith, Christopher Barnwell, Robin Bacchus, Delon Fernandes and Vishal Singh. See details in tomorrow’s issue.
(Orlando Charles photo)

Leon Johnson honoured by GCC

    Above Johnson, third from right, shares the moment with some of his contemporaries from left, Joshua Wade, Elon Fernandes, Trevon Griffith, Christopher Barnwell, Robin Bacchus, Delon Fernandes and Vishal Singh.

Kemo Paul launches one for a maximum (Orlando Charles photo)

Demerara whip Developmental XI by innings and 15 runs

Amir Khan’s ton and Paul Wintz’s four wickets overshadowed Kemo Paul’s half-century as Demerara whipped the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Developmental XI by an innings and 15 runs with one day to spare as the second round of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) four-day Inter-County tournament concluded yesterday at the Everest ground.

 Dr. Joyce Jonas (second, right) hands over a copy of the Study Guide to Assistant Chief Education Officer Leslyn Edwards-Charles (second, left). They are flanked by GT&T Public Relations Officers Nadia DeAbreu (left) and Allison Parker (right). (Photo by Arian Browne)

Study guide published to benefit CSEC literature students

Students writing literature under the 2015 to 2017 CSEC literature syllabus will have the assistance of a study guide to Wole Soyinka’s play The Lion and the Jewel, which was handed over to the Ministry of Education by Dr Joyce Jonas yesterday, at Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company’s (GT&T) boardroom.

Putting drama first

Pardon me for being repetitive, but with the recently concluded graduation of artists across their respective fields under the newly formed Institute of Creative Arts; and the National Drama Festival’s first set of plays to be staged in less than a month, I feel it is my duty to return to arts and its place in our future.

Lawsuit makes for awkward start to Modi’s big US visit

NEW YORK/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off his maiden visit to the United States as India’s leader yesterday, facing an unwelcome reminder of his once-strained relations with his host nation: a lawsuit alleging he failed to stop anti-Muslim rioting in 2002.

Surinamese model Xaviera Rijger in Sonia Noel’s First Resort (Photo by Helio)

First Resort takes Belize

Seemingly on a world tour, Sonia Noel’s First Resort has now made an appearance in Belize, following an invitation from that country’s National Institute of Culture and History.

The Future of Storytelling

This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world Beth Cardier, a fiction writer, holds a PhD in narrative structure from the University of Melbourne.

Overlooking the news

The glut of recent stories whose prominence was due to footage that could be easily shared by online communities shows the growing influence of social media on how we gather and respond to the news.