Articles published on Monday, September 28, 2015
Based on actual and projected performance, the Marriott Hotel is expected to make an operating profit based on cash flows by the end of this year, its special purpose company Atlantic Hotel Inc (AHI) said in a statement today.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Phil Simmons was today suspended as West Indies head coach, for criticising the selection process regarding the one-day team for the upcoming tour of Sri Lanka.
President David Granger (right) and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro (second from left) during the meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (centre) yesterday in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting.
President David Granger says he is confident that a resort to the court to settle the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy will yield a ruling in Guyana’s favour.
CHICAGO, (Reuters) – Alcoa Inc, which has been hurt by falling prices for aluminum, its core product, said today it would split into two publicly traded entities as its traditional operations and higher-value and automotive businesses were diverging and no longer compatible.
Guyana and Venezuela last evening agreed to receive their respective ambassadors with Venezuela also accepting an investigative United Nations team which afterwards will report to the UN Secretary General for a decision on the way forward.
The government has not been transparent enough in all of its actions in its first 100 days in office, including in the appointment of ministers, which was “untidy,” Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc (TIGI) President Calvin Bernard says.
A police officer in training is now dead after his motorcycle slammed head on into a speeding car early yesterday morning.
Three people are now dead after three separate accidents yesterday and on Saturday morning.
Decisions made by the Defence Board with respect to Coast Guard head Gary Beaton and his alleged connection to a vehicle transfer scandal is not for the public’s ears, according to Minister of State Joseph Harmon.
Chairman of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guy-SuCo) Dr Clive Thomas has said the commercialisation of key assets along the coast could provide much-needed revenue streams for the cash-strapped state company.
Head of the State Assets Recovery Unit (SARU) Dr Clive Thomas said that the lease by which Red House was let to a company linked to the former PPP administration has to be re-valuated as market principles must determine the price or lease of public property.
A man suffered third degree burns yesterday after he fell into a trash heap which flared up.
Two years after a fire destroyed its main warehouse at Ogle East Coast Demerara, Beepats Company Limited has commissioned a 75,400 square feet state-of-the art warehouse facility at Dennis Street, Sophia.
A storage facility in Happy Acres, East Coast Demerara was incinerated after a fire which followed an explosion engulfed the two-storey building.
With elections for the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) only weeks away, several names notably Odinga Lumumba, Alfred King and former GFF Vice-President Rawlston Adams are being touted as possible candidates for the top post.
(Reuters) – Bookmakers have lengthened the odds that European soccer boss Michel Platini will succeed Sepp Blatter as head of the sport’s global governing body FIFA, after Swiss prosecutors said they were investigating Blatter over a payment to Platini.
Dear Editor, I was filled with a sense of pride on Saturday, September 26, when I witnessed the Guyana Defence Force on a route march along the East Coast of Demerara.
Half centuries from David Latchaya and Anthony Bramble and a six-wicket haul by Veerasammy Permaul engineered a crushing 140-run win for Albion Cricket Club over Upper Corentyne in the Bobby Deonarine/Tom Gruntzel/Tenelec Inc.
OTTAWA (Reuters) – With Canada’s three main political parties all getting around 30 per cent support in polls, the odds of a period of political instability after the October 19 election are rising.
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell has labelled as “disturbing” claims by West Indies head coach, Phil Simmons, of outside interference in the selection of the One-Day International squad for Sri Lanka.
Dear Editor, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo is quoted in the press as saying that under his watch the PPP will return to power.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia ap-peared to seize the initiative in international efforts to end the conflict in Syria yesterday as Washington scrambled to devise a new strategy for the war-ravaged country and France sent warplanes to bomb Islamic State targets.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Cricket Australia (CA) is sending its own security expert to Bangladesh to determine whether or not it is safe for the Australian team to proceed with its planned tour.
Dear Editor, Mr Barton of the East Coast Cricket Board, in a recent retort to my suggestion that cricket clubs on the East Coast be told the truth, claimed that the East Coast Cricket Board and the East Coast Demerara Cricket Association are two names belonging to the same board and that the names are being used “interchangeably.”
BARCELONA (Reuters) – Separatists have won a clear majority of seats in Catalonia’s parliament, preliminary official results showed yesterday, in an election that set the region on a collision course with Spain’s central government over independence “Catalans have voted yes to independence,” acting Catalan regional government head Artur Mas told supporters, with secessionist parties on track to secure 72 out of 135 seats in the powerful region of 7.5 million people that includes Barcelona.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Former batting star Brian Lara stroked a typically elegant unbeaten half-century but the WICB President’s XI still got the better of the UWI Vice-Chancellor’s XI by seven wickets in the Dominica Relief Celebrity charity game here Saturday night.
Dear Editor, Since no one with the required information will explain why Bravo and Pollard are pariahs of WI one-day cricket, I will speculate publicly about the reason or reasons, and pose the question, whether they deserve their banishment.
By Justice for Walter Rodney Campaign, London, England While Walter Rodney’s assassination in 1980 remains Guyana’s most traumatic political murder in living memory, Guyanese can cite several others which shocked the nation, paralysed its progress, and which are still awaiting proper formal investigation.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Legendary former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd has paid special tribute to late Indian cricket administrator, Jagmohan Dalmiya, lauding him as someone who had “a deep passion” for the sport.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Blasting hard-line conservatives as “false prophets,” US House Speaker John Boehner yesterday said Congress will avoid a government shutdown this week and he will push through as much unfinished legislation as possible before leaving at the end of October.
Last week’s article on the role of the Permanent Secretary and Regional Executive Officers (REOs) in our system of public financial management generated some positive reactions.
Dear Editor, “We will never bow, bend or break in the face of intimidation and aggression.
The tragic death of Alexis Syfox earlier this month from pregnancy complications prompted a frank admission from Minister of Health Dr George Norton about the difference between criticising a system from the outside and addressing its difficulties from within.
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia intends to refuse a visa for US singer and hip-hop star Chris Brown, a government spokesman said yesterday, following through on a threat made last week over the singer’s history of domestic violence.
Residents of St Cuthbert’s Mission were asked about whether there are jobs available to villagers in the community and what recommendations they wanted to make as regards the creation of jobs.
Dear Editor, It could be convincingly argued that our failure to achieve greater progress as a nation can be attributed to certain constraints or limiting factors.
CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa have recalled all-rounder Albie Morkel for the three-match Twenty20 series in India starting on Friday.
HARARE, (Reuters) – Left-arm spinner Imad Wasim took career-best figures of four for 11 as Pakistan beat Zimbabwe by 13 runs in the first Twenty20 international at the Harare Sports Club yesterday.
