Daily Archive: Sunday, February 8, 2015

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Jamaica Franchise, chasing 340 for victory against Guyana Jaguars, reached 105 for six in their second innings at the close on the third day of their fifth round match in the WICB Professional Cricket League at Sabina Park here today.

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – Jason Holder has dismissed the idea the captaincy could prove a burden during the upcoming ICC World Cup.

A 2014 Public Bus Commuter Satisfaction survey showed that only 41 percent of the public is satisfied with the service provided, according to the Ministry of Public Works (MPW).

A government led by A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) would review the decriminalisation of marijuana, according to General Secretary Joseph Harmon, who says research needs to be done.

(Jamaica Gleaner) West Indies fast bowling great, Sir Andy Roberts, believes the decision by Joel “Big Bird” Garner to challenge Whycliffe “Dave” Cameron for the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) presidency is the right one.

(Reuters) – David Warner and Glenn Maxwell struck blistering centuries as Australia flexed their batting muscles to expose defending champion India’s bowling limitations in a World Cup warmup match in Adelaide today.

(Trinidad Express) Former National Security minister Gary Griffith has named Communications Minister Vasant Bharath as the minister who tried to influence him not to speak out in the alleged witness tampering matter involving fired attorney general Anand Ramlogan and Police Complaints Authority (PCA) director David West.

Despite optimistic pronouncements by government officials, progress on the implementation of the Amaila Falls Hydroelec-tricity Project (AFHP) is likely to take some time with the Board of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) expected to approve a loan for the project by June of next year.

Story by Dacia Whaul with photos by Arian Browne   If you like hot days and cool nights without having to pay for it, then you might consider visiting Timehri.

The details of the “compensation” package accepted by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) to drop a highly-publicised multi-million dollar tax evasion case against Glenn Lall, his wife Bhena and a remigrant couple are being shrouded in secrecy.

Questioning the rationale behind the recent promotion of the two `torture’ cops, Chairman of the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) Mike McCormack says that the “bizarre incident” should be reversed immediately and result in the resignation of Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee.

On March 27 last year, a smiling President Donald Ramotar once again brushed off questions about why he had not done anything with regard to the results of an investigation that uncovered financial irregularities and implicated top officials at the state broadcaster NCN.

Introduction Last week’s column revealed that in 2015, even as Guyana approaches half a century of Independence, several classical features of its colonial economic structure remain intact by global standards.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Wicketkeeper Shane Dowrich struck his second first class hundred to put Barbados Pride in command against Leeward Islands Hurricanes, while leaders Guyana Jaguars took a handy lead over Jamaica Franchise on the second day of the fifth round of matches in the WICB Professional Cricket League here yesterday.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is looking to improve its care to diabetic patients with the launch of the three-year Guyana Retinopathy Programme later this month.

Life in Guyana can be a series of puzzlements or strange behaviours that often remain unexplained, or not attended to, sometimes for years after they emerge.

Working alongside and observing Dr Jagdeo (then Mr Jagdeo) at close range in the PPP for twenty years, I know that he must be enormously tickled at the controversy generated by the court action challenging the presidential two-term limit.

A Guyanese man and woman were on Friday fined $60,000 each when they appeared separately before a magistrate in Barbados and pleaded guilty to trafficking in cocaine.

An elderly greens vendor lost his life yesterday morning when he crashed into a parked truck along the Number 56 Village, Corentyne Public Road.

Manifestos – by which we are shortly to be seriously afflicted – are viewed with grave scepticism by mostly everyone except those who painstakingly compile them.

The suspect in custody for the murder of Paradise resident Dexter Stanford, who was stabbed in the eye with a metal rod, is said to be a mentally-challenged man who was frequently tormented by residents.

A few weeks ago (TPC 25 January, 2015) we alluded to some physical changes which take place relative to our pets, specifically dogs and cats.

The Kuru Kururu resident who was shot on Friday sustained some 15 bullet wounds, hospital sources said yesterday.

By Tony cozier Stuart Williams, stand-in West Indies head coach over the five months since Ottis Gibson was dismissed last August, hopes that the return of Darren Bravo and Kemar Roach brings “a different feel to the whole team, maybe the spark that we need in the World Cup”.

Nine-year-old Kelly Ann Archer remains unresponsive in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital’s (GPH) Intensive Care Unit (ICU), two days after she was struck down by minibus on her way home from school.

Team Coco’s rider, Stephano Husbands, started off the month of February strong in the National Park, winning the feature 35-lap event of the National Sports Commission (NSC) sponsored Mashramani 10-race programme.

‘It is universally acknowledged’ that good creative writers do not write for prizes.

Shameful The loan by the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) to the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) raises once again the concern about the conscious mismanagement of the resources of the Guyanese people by the PPP/C government.

Western Tigers sealed their berth to the quarterfinal section of the Mayor’s Cup knockout football tourney, overcoming Agricola Red Triangle by a 2-0 margin on Friday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground in Bourda.

Two men are in custody after police recovered illegal firearms and ammunition in their possession on Friday night.

Germany’s chess grandmaster Arkadij Naiditsch promoted a rook pawn to the queening square and so defeated world champion Magnus Carlsen at the Grenke Chess Classic at Baden-Baden.

It will be Georgetown versus Berbice when Fruta Conquerors and Pele FC faceoff with New Amsterdam United and Cougars FC respectively in the Mayor’s Cup knockout football tourney today at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground in Bourda.

Santos FC and Georgetown Football Club (GFC) secured penalty shoot-out wins to book their place in the next round when the u-15 section of the Frank Watson Memorial u-15 and tourney commenced yesterday.

Former champs St. George’s Secondary, got their campaign off to the perfect start, crushing St.

His mother was and remains his life’s anchor; his six sisters and many other women who “guided and nurtured him with kindness and lots of love” to make him evolve into a human being who people are proud to be associated with, have Selwyn Collins’s eternal gratitude.

Craig FC defeated Herstelling FC by a 1-0 score line when the East Bank Football Association (EBFA) Pee Wee football tourney continued yesterday at the Grove Community Centre ground.

MUNICH (Reuters) – Germany’s Angela Merkel said yesterday that sending arms to help Ukraine fight pro-Russian separatists would not solve the crisis there, drawing sharp rebukes from US politicians who accused Berlin of turning its back on an ally in distress.

With the start of the new semester and very little time to cook during the week, I find myself making large pots of soups on the weekends and then placing them into individual containers so that I can consume them during the week.

The recent history of oil-rich Venezuela should be taught in universities around the world as a textbook case of an economic miracle in reverse: despite having benefited from the biggest oil boom in recent history, the country has managed to be poorer.

The turmoil at the Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) has taken another turn.

Pomegranate is an exotic antioxidant and one of the superfruits. It is rich in nutrients which makes it popular around the world and the seeds are an excellent source of fibre.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Former West Indies and Jamaica all-rounder Richard Austin has died in hospital here at age 60.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s popularity has plunged by nearly half since her recent re-election as a severe government corruption scandal, an economic slowdown and surging prices for electricity, gasoline and bus fares left voters feeling misled.

Sun Parakeets or Sun Conures are stunning yellow-orange birds with wings featuring a mix of yellow, green, and blues.

YAOUNDE (Reuters) – African nations pulling together a regional force to fight Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants yesterday pledged 8,700 soldiers, policemen and civilians, an increase from earlier estimates for the mission.

Despite the price of oil falling from a high of US$107 per barrel in the middle of 2014 to just over US$50 in late January 2015, this has so far failed to reduce the cost of air travel with the airlines that operate the North American and European routes that bring millions of visitors to the region each year.

GROS ISLET, St. Lucia, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago Red Force, replying to Windward Islands Volcanoes 400 for eight declared, were 129 for five at the close on the second day of their fifth round match in the WICB Professional Cricket League at Beausejour Cricket Ground here yesterday.

Dear Editor,   Mr Robeson Benn, Minister of Public Works is the latest in the line of ministers of the government prepared to violate the oath/affirmation they have taken and to defy the constitution and the laws of the country.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s Marxist FARC rebels have invited the newly-crowned Miss Universe Paulina Vega, a native of the country’s Caribbean coast, to attend their peace negotiations with the government, a bid to end 50 years of fighting.

Dear Editor, I was greatly disturbed by Hamilton Green’s February 7 letter in SN captioned ‘No animals in the zoo,’ in particular by his statement: “Halfway through I was embarrassed – no lions, no elephants, no adequate representation of our hinterland or animal life.”

Exactly why the government will not condemn the promotion of two police officers who are known to have been guilty of the torture of a boy is extremely puzzling.

Dear Editor,   Some pronouncements tell the reader more about the institutions making them than the matters they are supposed to be addressing.

Olive Ridley sea turtle mangled by fishing nets, ships: This sea turtle of the Olive Ridley species had one of its flippers severed when it was caught in a fishing net off the Guyana coast sometime last week.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Leeward Islands Hurricanes, replying to Barbados Pride’s 406 for six declared, were 84 for five in their first innings at the close on the second day of their fifth round match in the WICB Professional Cricket League at Kensington Oval here yesterday.