Daily Archive: Sunday, July 12, 2015

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Guyana Amazon Warriors defeated Jamaica Tallawahs by 84 runs in their Caribbean Premier League game at Sabina Park here today.

Minister in the Ministry of Social Protection, Simona Broomes today refuted a claim in a Guyana Times report that she had been mining on Amerindian lands.

Investigations are being conducted into a report that at about 1900h.

Fire early this morning gutted the former Kissoon’s complex on the southern side of Camp and Robb Sts.

President Nicolas Maduro has written to the United Nations asking for the appointment of a Good Officer to solve the border controversy with Guyana.

Story and photos by Shabna Ullah   The friendly people of Fellowship, West Coast Demerara welcomed us warmly during an afternoon visit and were happy that their village would be featured in ‘The World Beyond Georgetown.’

An East La Penitence youth was knifed to death shortly after he left a masjid where he had gone to pray last evening.

Shock rippled through the Golden Grove community yesterday after the decomposing bodies of a mother and her infant daughter were found in their home on Friday night and police were up to late yesterday trying to make contact with her husband.

There have been 56 road fatalities from 45 accidents, between January and June this year the Guyana Police Force (GPF) said yesterday, adding that for the same period in last year there were 57 fatalities from 52 accidents.

It is highly doubtful that DIPCON will have its contract further extended on the long-delayed East Bank Demerara (EBD) road improvement project.

Sources say the killing of businessman Ganesh Ramlall on Sunday was most likely a `hit’ and nearly a week after the gunning down the police appear stumped in a case which is being seen as a test of the new administration’s intent to produce results.

A background of crisis Last week I indicated that the first international conference on financing for development held in Monterrey, Mexico at the end of 2002 was a precursor to the launching by the United Nations of its global development agenda.

In an article published on Sunday June 28, 2015, headlined ‘Great-grandmother and mechanical whiz pursues skill at technical school’, Yvonne Trim’s age was stated as 68.

Historic institution GuySuCo is now the subject of inquiry, which inquiry, among other things, aims to determine if the company could be saved.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) said yesterday that as at the end of June this year there had been was a 9% increase in serious crimes in comparison to the same period last year.

Following the election, the press has understandably seen numerous suggestions from citizens concerning things in the government that are in need of urgent attention.

A 30-year-old employee of Prittipaul Singh Investments Inc was rushed to the Accident and Emergency Unit (A&EU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) last night after he was hit down by a vehicle on Mandela Avenue, Georgetown.

President of the Essequibo Paddy Farmers Association Naith Ram yesterday called on Minister of Agriculture Noel Holder to convene an urgent meeting to update rice farmers on the PetroCaribe agreement and other issues facing them.

The overall winner of this evening’s Mr. Gym Expo will be rewarded with a beautiful trophy compliments of The Trophy Stall of Bourda Market.

Four Guyanese students will be completing high school on scholarships across the world, having been selected under the United World Colleges (UWC) Guyana first cycle.

Since I am generally the first to point out when something is not going right and when there is blatant and inexplicable incorrectness, allow me to emphasise how pleased I am with the Sunday Stabroek’s formatting of these series of articles on animal care/health.

By Tony Cozier   IT was inevitable that the current Ashes series, literally now in full swing in Cardiff, should have been preceded by an exultant outpouring of nostalgia from one side.

In Guyana getting a good education is defined as getting good exam results.

Judges at the second Loyola Documentary Film Festival (LDFF) on Friday complimented filmmakers on their concepts, but felt the films they produced lacked technical proficiency.

One of the few issues of agreement between all political parties in Guyana after 1992 was term limitation for the President.

Paul DeNobrega out-pedalled Robin Persaud in a thrilling two-man sprint finish yesterday to emerge winner of the feature 35-lap event of the 15th annual P and P Insurance and General Consultancy Limited 11-race cycle programme.

The Lorelei   I know not if there is a reason Why I am so sad at heart.

Region #2 champs Charity Secondary earned a national quarterfinal berth in the Digicel Secondary Schools Championship, overcoming Region #1 holders Port Kaituma 3-2 yesterday in a national playoff at the Kumaka ground in Moruca.

Mangoes are in season. Laden branches bend with the weight of plentiful fruit, ripe for the picking.

The 6th Hainan Danzhou chess tournament concluded yesterday. The 16-year-old chess phenomenon Wei Yi played a game with Cuba’s number two player, Lazaro Batista Bruzon.

National player Priscilla Greaves played unbeaten last weekend to capture the girls 18 years and under title at a specially arranged tournament run by the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) in observance of Olympic Day.

Winning is nothing strange to Guyana’s most decorated muscleman Hugh Ross, but the behemoth’s victory at last month’s World Bodybuilding Championships was arguably his most satisfying.

      Jacaranda acutifolia, commonly called the ‘fern tree’, originated in Brazil and comes from the Bignoniaceae family.

Latin America’s old-guard leftist leaders and at least two prominent US Nobel Prize-winning economists say that Greece, much like Argentina in 2001, can default on its foreign debts without facing an apocalyptic scenario.

This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world Elizabeth Drew is the author, most recently, of Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon’s Downfall.

Guyana’s hopes of medaling at the ongoing 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada will now rest on the shoulders of the swimmers and the track and field athletes.

CAACUPE, Paraguay (Reuters) – Pope Francis praised Paraguay’s women for rebuilding their nation from the ashes of war in the nineteenth century in a mass at the country’s most sacred religious site yesterday.

An unbeaten knock of 25 from Gordial Mattai and a composed innings of 24 from skipper Ricky Deonarine led Guyana Fllodlight softball cricket team to victory in the 2015 New York Softball Cricket League 2015 Legends Cup, in New York, United States of America recently.

When Caricom Heads of Government met in Barbados at the start of the month, their proceedings were dominated by a discussion of Venezuela’s unjustified claim to much of Guyana’s coastline and most of its exclusive economic zone, and to the marine jurisdictions of a number of other Caribbean member states.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Sceptical euro zone finance ministers demanded yesterday that Greece go beyond painful austerity measures accepted by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras if he wants them to open negotiations on a third bailout for his bankrupt country to keep it in the euro.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – St Kitts and Nevis Patriots used a three-wicket burst from seamer Carlos Brathwaite, to beat St Lucia Zouks by 26 runs in the Caribbean Premier League here Friday night.

(Jamaica Observer) – Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller on Thursday broke ground for the construction of the first utility-scale solar energy power plant in Jamaica, which, upon completion, will be the largest such facility in the Caribbean.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Standing a set and 5-1 up in the Wimbledon final against a Spaniard playing only her second match in tennis’s most famous arena, a fourth consecutive grand slam singles title looked a formality for Serena Williams yesterday.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Former Cuban President Fidel Castro, 88, made his second public appearance in a week on Thursday, meeting with military officers and civilians who were honoured for their performance in food production, official media reported yesterday.

PHNOM PENH (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When hundreds of fishermen were rescued from a life of slavery on Thai fishing boats off the coast of Indonesia earlier this year, the world took notice.

ASUNCION (Reuters) – Pope Francis appealed to world leaders yesterday to seek a new economic model to help the poor, and to shun policies that “sacrifice human lives on the altar of money and profit.”

Dear Editor, I would summarise my understanding of the Chief Justice’s ruling on the term limit case thus: Act 17 of 2001 (amending Article 90 of the 1980 constitution), which imposes term limits by a 2/3 parliamentary vote, is unconstitutional because it reduces the amount of democracy, and that reduction flies in the face of Article 1, which declares Guyana to be “an indivisible, secular and democratic sovereign state.”

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – A rapid William Perkins half-century condemned St Kitts and Nevis Patriots to a six-wicket defeat here yesterday, as the hosts struggled with their second game in 24 hours at Warner Park.

MUR DE BRETAGNE, France, (Reuters) – Alexis Vuillermoz earned the French their first victory on this year’s Tour de France, his final kick proving too hot to handle for the big guns in the eighth stage yesterday.

She connected! This young girl gets ready to smash a ball yesterday during a game of street cricket at Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara yesterday – a sure sign that July-August vacation has started.

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Foreign Ministry has lodged a protest with the United States for its condemnation of the deportation of a group of Uighurs from Thailand last week, as state television showed pictures of some being returned with hoods on their heads.

Dear Editor, The WPA is surprised that, on their return to Guyana, both President David Granger and Minister Carl Greenidge expressed satisfaction with respect to the ‘Statement on the Decree 1787 of Venezuela,’ which emanated from the conclusions of the 36th Caricom Heads of Government Conference that was recently held in Barbados.

Trench fishing is fun! Fisherman casting his net in a swollen trench at Friendship, East Coast Demerara yesterday.

CARDIFF, (Reuters) – Stuart Broad and Moeen Ali led England’s charge to a 169-run victory over Australia with a day to spare in the first test yesterday to make a flying start in their bid to regain the Ashes.

Dear Editor, To claim what’s not yours is an act of misplaced aggression.

President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela has been very loquacious on the subject of Guyana recently.

No more barrier… One week after two metal structures were affixed to this bridge on the Railway Embankment at Liliendaal to prevent large trucks from traversing the bridge, which cannot withstand their weight, both have been broken off – no doubt by large trucks. 

POTOCARI, BOSNIA  (Reuters) – Serbia’s prime minister was forced to flee a ceremony held to mark 20 years since the Srebrenica massacre on Saturday, when mourners hurled stones and bottles at him in what his government later described as an attempted assassination.