Daily Archive: Friday, November 21, 2014

Articles published on Friday, November 21, 2014

GECOM to start new cycle of registration

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has decided to embark on a new cycle of registration on December 1st and this has attracted the ire of the main opposition APNU which sees it as a tactic by the ruling PPP/C to delay general elections.

Narsingh Deonarine

Jaguars hope to go two up

Following their innings and 10-run trouncing of the Leewards, table leaders Guyana Jaguars will look to go two up in the 2014/2015 West Indies Cricket Board Professional Cricket League (WICB PCL) Franchise 4-Day Tournament when they face the Windward Islands Volcanoes in round two today at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

Guyana’s Ulrica Sutherland (right) in the process of challenging Brianna Govia (no.17) of Trinidad and Tobago for possession of the ball during their matchup

Guyana out of contention in hockey

Team Guyana’s hopes of qualifying for the medal round of the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games hockey tourney came to an unfortunate end, drawing with defending champs Trinidad and Tobago 0-0 in their final pool-B matchup yesterday.

Payment time: Members of the Trinidad and Tobago Soca Warriors and the technical staff receive their cheque for $9, 64,368 from Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar at the Office of the Prime Minister, St Clair yesterday. Standing with the cheque are team captain Kenwyne Jones, centre, general secretary of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association Sheldon Phillips, left and the Prime Minister. Next to the Prime Minister is Minister of Sport Dr Rupert Griffith.

Govt pays Soca Warriors

(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s senior football team, including the technical staff were handed cheques for outstanding salaries and fees to the value of an estimated $10 million yesterday at the Office of the Prime Minister at St Clair Avenue.

Invitation to dialogue?

Dear Editor,   President Ramotar’s retort to Carl B Greenidge’s comments about the status of investment agreements concluded during the period of the prorogation of the National Assembly, as reported in the Guyana Times of November 12, “I am in Government, you’re not,” refers.

Tenacious Brazilian judge oversees deepening Petrobras probe

CURITIBA, Brazil, (Reuters) – In a country where big court cases often drag on for a decade or more and abruptly fall apart on technicalities, the man leading a bribery probe at Brazil’s state-run oil firm Petrobras is described by allies and even rivals as perfectly suited to the task.

East Coast of T&T heavily flooded

(Trinidad Express) Torrential rainfall swept across the east coast of Trinidad yesterday for the sixth consecutive day, worsening an already grim situation along the Manzanilla Mayaro Road, and in communities near the Ortoire River.

‘Shiv on the Shore’

Rahul Bhattacharya has done it again. The Indian cricket writer and novelist, who was so intrigued by our country during a cricket tour by India that he returned to spend a year among us and wrote The Sly Company of People Who Care (2011), has now written for the November edition of the new online magazine, The Cricket Monthly, a wonderful tribute to one of our favourite native sons, Shivnarine Chanderpaul.