Daily Archive: Sunday, May 31, 2015

Articles published on Sunday, May 31, 2015

Uprooted

An uprooted tree on Takuba Road in the vicinity Meadowbrook Gardens, between Meadowbrook Drive and Jamoon Drive following heavy rain and flooding today.

GASA national long course c/ships open

Aleka Persaud, Amy Grant, Leon Seaton and Onika George were among the winners at yesterday’s opening of the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) National Long Course Swimming Championships at the National Aquatic Centre.

Restoring standards

Among the many items on the varied ‘to do’ list for Guyana’s new government, the problem of falling standards in our society is being raised frequently by social commentators, and in the very early days following the election President Granger has raised this matter, both specifically and by alluding to it, in several of his speeches.

Lloyd turns to youth policy

By Tony Cozier   Chief selector Clive Lloyd offered two reasons last Sunday for Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s omission from the West Indies squad for the two forthcoming Tests against Australia, effectively ending the longest career of any West Indian.

Meckdeci, Wiltshire continue impressive form

Benjamin Meckdeci and Shomari Wiltshire continued their impressive form in the Guyana Squash Association (GSA) sanctioned Woodpecker Products Junior National Championships, securing multiple wins on Saturday morning at the Georgetown Club Facility on Camp Street.

Vic Persaud has established himself as essential to public service

Dear Editor,   When I heard that our brand-new President had embarked upon the course of establishing his constitutional office as our country’s principal ‘Cabinet-maker,’ I reached for my favourite daily and there he was, not the Chief in all his excellence as you ought to expect – but that reassuring presence, the white haired eminence, the Prince of Protocol Mr ‘Vic’ Persaud, doing his thing.