Daily Archive: Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Articles published on Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Some of the future tennis stars

Tennis camp

On Tuesday, 42 young hopefuls for tennis success started out at the annual P&P Insurance Brokers Junior Tennis Camp hosted by the Guyana Tennis Association (GLTA).

Bharrat Jagdeo

Jagdeo returns

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo is on a list of 31 names released by the PPP/C yesterday to take up their seats in Parliament, virtually sealing his anointment as Opposition Leader.

Courts to open optical stores

Courts (Guyana) Inc is branching out into Optical Stores. In an advertisement in the July 5th Sunday Stabroek, UNICOMER (Guyana) Inc, the parent company for home furnishers, Courts is seeking an Optical Chain Manager whose purpose will be to roll out and oversee the operations of the Optical Stores.

North West Secondary’s Junior Willis (no.14) is denied by the Santa Rosa Secondary custodian sealing his team’s dramatic sudden death shoot-out exit from the event during their semi-final affair at the Kumaka ground.  (Orlando Charles photo)

Santa Rosa sets up Port Kaituma rematch

In what will be a rematch of last year’s final, Santa Rosa will faceoff with Port Kaituma after the former edged North West Secondary 7-6 on sudden death kicks in their semi-final affair when the Digicel Secondary Schools Football Championship continued yesterday.

Tabraiz Shamsi

Warriors need to win today

The last time the Guyana Amazon Warriors and the St Kitts Patriots met Warriors skipper Denesh Ramdin struck a match-winning 50 to help his team thump the Marlon Samuels-led team by seven wickets.

Serena fights off Azarenka, targets Sharapova

LONDON, (Reuters) – The heavy hitting shook the ground and the volume would have raised the Centre Court roof, had it been closed, as Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka traded blows like a couple of prizefighters at Wimbledon yesterday.

Time to remember

Dear Editor,   On this the tenth anniversary of the 7/7 atrocity in London it’s time to remember Guyana’s own Michael Brotherson who was at Edgware Road when one of the bombs went off.

Anti-crime meeting

Anti-crime meeting: President David Granger (third from left) yesterday meeting with Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo (third from right), Minister of State Joseph Harmon (left), Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan (second from left), Commissioner of Police Seelall Persaud (2nd right) and Deputy Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force, Colonel Kemraj Persaud at the Ministry of the Presidency.(GINA

Sanders is miles ahead of the other two candidates for the post of Commonwealth Secretary General

Dear Editor,   The decision to establish Caricom was taken by Heads of Government on July 4, 1972, and the following year, the Treaty of Chaguara-mas was signed replacing Carifta to have a more “togetherness” not only in terms of free trade and free movement, but to “enhance levels of international competiveness” and “enhance co-ordination.”

Greece and the powers

About two weeks ago we thought it useful to comment on the parlous financial situation of Greece, and the encounters which the government of that country was having in relation to seeking assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as well as from the countries of the European Union that are members of what is now described as the Eurozone.