Daily Archive: Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Articles published on Tuesday, April 28, 2015

‘I felt threatened by Mr Ramsaran’

Human rights activist Sherlina Nageer yesterday made a formal complaint to police against Health Minister Bheri Ramsaran, accusing him of threatening behaviour during an encounter outside the Whim Magistrate’s Court just over a week ago.

PPP ad inadvertently carried

A paid advertisement for the People’s Progressive Party/Civic in the form of a cartoon showing military personnel with weapons in their hands inadvertently appeared in the April 26th edition of the Sunday Stabroek.

Dr Terrence W. Farrell

Society commentary…Fixing our broken down institutions

A Presentation to Trinidad and Tobago Transparency Institute Anti-Corruption Conference Hilton Hotel, March 20th 2015 A few weeks ago, Justice Gillian Lucky sentenced two men to jail terms, one for 10 months for drug trafficking and the other for 5 months for shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm and robbery.

Participants in the Kraft Toucan Industries junior Skill Level tourney displaying their respective accolades following the conclusion of the tourney on Sunday.

Joseph, Wiltshire win titles

Nyron Joseph clinched the A category title while Shomari Wiltshire claimed the category B accolade when the Kraft Toucan Industries junior Skill Level tourney concluded at the on Sunday at the Georgetown Club Racquet Complex.

Bharrat Jagdeo

Politics…Bharrat Jagdeo and the PPP/C’s

A Perspective It took but a matter of days after President Donald Ramotar had made public the date for the holding of general elections for the country to realize that Bharrat Jagdeo would be the ruling Party’s engineer-in-chief in its bid for yet another term in office; and as the days went by it became clear that Mr.

Creative writing…Cold reality

It took half a dozen or so attempts before her shaky legs eventually carried her to the other side of the street, to the side where a handful of boisterous young men were drinking beer and tossing rude remarks at passing teenaged girls who were mostly grinning in response, as though the lewd remarks that were being flung their way they were fulsome compliments.

Elson Browne-Low

Why young people must go to the polls

 By Elson Browne-LowMuch has been said about young voters’ role in the May 11 general and regional elections, and as the recent student strike at the University of Guyana has demonstrated, young people have become frustrated with the hand that they are being dealt as Guyana moves forward.

The ‘roll over’ factor in West Indies cricket

Time was when the manner of last Saturday’s nine-wicket defeat suffered by the West Indies at the hands of England would have sent shock waves through the Caribbean; it would have brought forth a collective howl of outrage, a baying for blood, a boisterous, insistent demand that heads roll.

Street performance

Street performance: Three Argentines busking on Vlissengen Road yesterday. The three young women are a year and three months into their trip through South America; they perform in every country.