Daily Archive: Sunday, December 14, 2014

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The high level task force commissioned with investigating the ill-fated recent tour of India says the West Indies Cricket Board, players union WIPA and West Indies players, were all at fault in the controversy.

Poinsettias have become the symbol of Christmas, evoking the holiday spirit.

Hot rod: This man was snapped by Stabroek News photographer Arian Browne riding around La Bonne Intention on his mini CBR.

Clamp down: This driver was pleading yesterday with police officers to release his vehicle after they had placed a wheel lock on it because it was parked under a ‘No Parking’ sign in front of the City Mall in Camp Street (Photo by Arian Browne)

Guyana’s candidate at the Miss World contest in London today, Rafieya Hussain made it into the top 10.

(Trinidad Express) Angry relatives walked around with cutlasses looking for killers following Friday’s shooting deaths of two men and a woman when gunmen stormed a house off the Eastern Main Road, Valencia.

While the report into the incident involving the Chinese ferry MV Sabanto, which ran aground last month on Wakenaam is not yet complete, preliminary findings indicate that the incident was due to human error.

Fort Island, located not very far up the Essequibo River, boasts the best preserved built evidence of Dutch settlement in Guyana.

A Berbice man was stabbed to death during the wee hours of Saturday morning after intervening in a row between his niece and her common-law husband.

Calling for calm, clean, efficient elections and early results come next year, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) on Friday said that all of this can be achieved if there is no fear or intimidation of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom).

Government is preparing to start infrastructural works that are needed ahead of the planned construction of a bridge across the Corentyne to link Guyana and neighbouring Suriname.

The recent acquittal of the policeman accused of shooting a drug counsellor dead in 2011, owing to conflicting testimony during the High Court trial, has placed eyewitness testimony under scrutiny once more.

(Reuters) – Australia beat India by 48 runs in a thrilling end to the first test at Adelaide Oval yesterday, with Nathan Lyon picking up seven wickets after Virat Kohli scored an inspired century for the visitors.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Three Jamaica athletes are said to be among 225 athletes from 39 countries who, according to a documentary aired on German television on Monday, returned suspicious samples that were allegedly covered up by track and field’s governing body the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), according to a report published in the Daily Telegraph on Thursday.

In a long life I have become accustomed to the usefulness of reading.

Alpha United continued their dominant showing in the Georgetown Football Association/Banks Beer Cup, hammering Northern Rangers 16-0 in their group fixture at the Camp Ayanganna ground on Friday.

It’s not nature’s topography; the complex pattern of waterways draining our coastland wasn’t always there.

For some who oppose the PPP, an alliance of opposition political parties to contest elections has always been a prime objective.

The family of Seema Poloram, who has been missing for 11 days, is still seeking the public’s help to locate her.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Leg-spinner Yasir Shah has been called into the Pakistan squad for the rest of the one-day series against New Zealand in the United Arab Emirates to replace injured pace bowlers Umar Gul and Bilawal Bhatti.

Mood swing From all indications general elections in Guyana will be held in 2015.

After 11 days of pulsating action, the Georgetown leg of the Guinness Greatest of the Streets football tournament will culminate today when Festival City Warriors battle North Ruimveldt in the grand finale at the National Park Tarmac in Thomas Lands from 10:45 am.

A little over a week ago Britain and its Overseas Territories held their annual Joint Ministerial Council in London.

Competition favourites Enterprise Primary secured their berth in the semi-final round of the inaugural Health 2000 Guyana Incorporated Girls Primary Schools football tournament by downing derby rivals Tucville Primary 3-0 in the quarterfinal stage yesterday.

Another inmate has been charged with having marijuana in the Georgetown Prison.

After rattling St. Stanislaus College for a record low 23 runs, Sophia Cricket Club galloped to an eight-wicket victory to continue their impressive run in the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/ New Building Society second division 40 overs tournament.

Two young men were each sentenced to nine months in jail on Friday after they admitted to stealing a Christmas caroler’s collection.

Led by an Anthony ‘Awo’ Abrams hat-trick, Slingerz FC steamrolled Beavers FC 5-0 when the Vitamalt/Aqua Mist sponsored West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) Knockout Cup continued on Friday.

Two men were remanded to prison on Friday on a charge that they robbed another man of over $2M in valuables in a knife-point hold-up and left him tied up as they made their escape.

The following games were played at the 2014 Qatar Masters, Doha, where 92 grandmasters were participants.

So now we know. According to Whycliffe “Dave” Cameron, President and Supreme Leader of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), it’s not his governing body that’s responsible for the woes that continue to afflict West Indies cricket but rather those of us who write and commentate on the game.

Over 100 young people are now equipped with work and life skills, having completed some 4 to 5 weeks of training under the United States Agency International Development (USAID) Skills and Knowledge for youth Employment (SKYE) project.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Alastair Cook’s role as England captain for next year’s World Cup was cast into doubt when head coach Peter Moores said his position would be reviewed after the team’s current one-day series in Sri Lanka.

Competition favourites Enterprise Primary secured their berth in the semi-final round of the inaugural Health 2000 Guyana Incorporated Girls Primary Schools football tournament by downing derby rivals Tucville Primary 3-0 in the quarterfinal stage yesterday.

LIMA (Reuters) – UN talks on slowing climate change were threatened with collapse yesterday after China clashed with the United States and led emerging nations to reject a compromise outline of an agreement.

(Reuters) – Australia’s David Warner and India’s Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli have been fined by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for ill-tempered incidents during the fourth day of the first test in Adelaide.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US Senate passed a five-day extension of federal funding yesterday, staving off a government shutdown and buying lawmakers more time to resolve a fight over a longer, $1.1 trillion spending bill led by Tea Party firebrand Ted Cruz.

Surinamese bodybuilder Daes Burgzorg became the first ever Flex Night International Men’s Physique winner when the event was held here last Sunday.

There is a group of workers who toil in the shadows and whose efforts are most times not appreciated.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Thousands marched in Washington, New York and Boston yesterday to protest killings of unarmed black men by police officers.

Dear Editor, It is both disturbing and disappointing to read that the fibre-optic cable component of the E-Government Project has been suspended since November 2013 due to faulty installation that now requires remedial work (GT, December 12).

Well, Christmas time, the season of goodwill and reflection, is upon us.

(Reuters) – Australia captain Michael Clarke has raised the prospect that his cricket career could be over after injuring his hamstring in the opening test against India in Adelaide yesterday.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, CMC – West Indies will hold their first training session in Centurion today, as they beef up preparations for the first Test against South Africa starting Wednesday.

Sometimes life throws things at you that would overwhelm even the most resolute of people, but for a 44-year-old mother of two battling with a sick husband and a salary which cannot purchase food for the family for a month, there is nothing too big that you cannot overcome, once there is life.

This Tuesday December 16, 2014 is the 105th birthday of Edgar Austin Mittelholzer (1909-65), standard-bearer for Guyanese and West Indian literature.

Happy to see Santa:  This boy jumped onto Santa’s knee to receive his Christmas gift at the Ruimveldt Children’s Aid Centre on Friday.

KABUL (Reuters) – The Afghan Taliban killed a Supreme Court official, a dozen mine clearers and several national and foreign soldiers but also suffered heavy losses from intensifying violence ahead of the withdrawal of most international troops in the next two weeks.

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Underneath the lead story in our Tuesday edition there was a court report about a Venezuelan soldier being remanded to prison in Georgetown.

Dear Editor, I wish to make a correction to Mr Eric Phillips’ letter that was carried in your issue of December 6 (‘The British Guiana colonization scheme is little known’).