Daily Archive: Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Articles published on Tuesday, November 10, 2015

More education urged to prevent pesticide poisoning

The Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals Control Board (PTCCB) yesterday unveiled a $46 million chemical storage facility at the National Agriculture Research and Extension Institute at Mon Repos, where calls were made for more to be done to prevent accidental and deliberate poisonings.

Loss of support costs Srinivasan ICC post

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Narayanaswami Srinivasan’s tumultuous tenure as the International Cricket Council (ICC) chairman was cut short yesterday after the powerful Indian board (BCCI) withdrew support for its former president.

A new day in Latin America?

Here’s a scenario that seemed highly unlikely only a few weeks ago, but has a 50 percent chance of happening in light of the political earthquakes that are rocking Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, and could mark the end of a 15-year-old leftist populist cycle in South America.

A restored Georgetown is worth working for

Those of us (or at least some of us) who either live in Georgetown or, for various reasons, frequent the capital, would have experienced the ‘feel good’ sensation that derives from the effort in the past few months to change the appearance of parts of the capital city that had been left to degenerate and decay over time.