Daily Archive: Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Articles published on Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Nice to see you again

Patricia Rodney, the widow of Walter Rodney, greeting Father Malcolm Rodrigues today at the Commission of Inquiry into Walter Rodney’s death.

John Holt

John Holt remembered

(Jamaica Observer) THE life, music and legacy of veteran Jamaican artiste, John Holt, was on many-a-lip at National Honours and Awards ceremony at King’s House in St Andrew, yesterday.

APNU meets President

A team from A Partnership for National Unity yesterday met with President Donald Ramotar and his team and discussed the coalition’s demand for a date for local government elections and for a clutch of rejected bills to be signed into law.

   Christopher Matthias

CONCACAF team due today

Guyana Football Federation (GFF) President Christopher Matthias said CONCACAF’s Director of Legal Affairs Marco Leal and FIFA’s Head of Member Associations Primo Calvalho, will be arriving on local shores today to begin the process of creating a normalization committee.

Arbitrator to be named for Skeldon worker dispute

The Guyana Sugar Corporation and the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) will meet with the labour ministry today to finalize arrangements for an arbitrator to be appointed in the case of a Skeldon estate employee who was sacked after an altercation with the manager.

 Fire fighters spraying water on the burnt building on September 9.

Wai Wai group’s estimate for Umana Yana rebuilding submitted for inclusion in budget

The cost to rebuild the historic Umana Yana, which was gutted by fire last month, has been submitted to the Ministry of Finance to be included in 2015 budget following an estimate given by a Wai Wai group, According to Permanent Secretary of the Culture Ministry Alfred King, who spoke with Stabroek News at his Main Street Office yesterday, members of the Wai Wai tribe visited and looked at the remains of the Umana Yana and developed a framework.

Martin Pestano-Belle and Ryan Hemraj recorded centuries for their respective teams GCC and TSC in the opening round of the GCA/NBS competition.

MYO, UG play to three-run thriller

A three runs thriller between the University of Guyana (UG) and the Muslim Youth Organisation (MYO) ended in favor of MYO as action in the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/New Building Society (NBS) second-division 40-overs-a-side competition continued Sunday at various venues in the city.

Stand-out Samuels makes big strides in rankings

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Just as he did in the recent one-day series against India, stroke-maker Marlon Samuels has again provided the only bright spark for West Indies in the latest International Cricket Council’s rankings released yesterday.

AFC national conference put back

The biennial National Conference of the Alliance For Change (AFC) which was to be held on October 25th has been deferred as the party’s no-confidence motion against the government is still to be debated.

Accused carjacker choked driver with seatbelt

An accused carjacker was yesterday refused bail after a court heard that he allegedly wrapped a seat belt around his victim’s neck before dumping him out of his car The charge against Trayon Anderson was that he, in the company of two other persons, on April 4, robbed taxi driver Mortimer Trim of a car, valued $2.6 million along with a quantity of cash, a wristwatch and a cell phone.

Concerned Mitchell willing to mediate players impasse

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell says he is prepared to act as a mediator in the ongoing pay dispute between West Indies players and their representative, the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) that led the one-day team to abandon their tour of India last week.

Pele stay top of GFA league

Pele FC maintained their lead at the top of the standings, humbling Sunburst Camptown 4-0 when the second round of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Stag Beer first division league continued today at the Tucville Community centre ground.

No-confidence vote manoeuvring

Dear Editor, In response to your news article, “AFC to press Speaker on Parliament date – Ramjattan cites Ramkarran opinion, separation of powers,” (October 20), I believe that although the country continues to sail uncharted waters since November 28, 2011, the AFC appears to be doing the toughest part of the work trying to prevent the country from continuing to sail in a direction certain local political pirates want to take it for further plundering.

WICB unlikely to escape India lawsuit

HYDERABAD, India, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board seems unlikely to escape a lawsuit over its players’ sudden abandonment of the Indian tour, after Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) interim president N.

Amna Ally (left) making a presentation (PNCR photo)

PNCR honours Linden senior citizens

Head of the Human Resources department of the PNCR, Volda Lawrence, Assistant General Secretary, Amna Ally, MP and a team travelled to Linden on Saturday to celebrate with senior citizens of the mining town in observance of senior citizens month.

Home Economics: Shedding an undeserving stigma

One of the positives about the annual Secondary Schools Home Economics Competition sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in conjunction with the Ministries of Agriculture and Education is that it provides opportunity for schools possessing children with varying levels of academic acumen and located in far flung corners of the country to match skills in a discipline where the playing field is more or less level.