Articles published on Sunday, November 22, 2015
The Ministry of Tourism today said that when the Kaieteur Falls is reopened to visitors following a suicide there yesterday there will be restricted access until further notice.
The Guyana Veterans Legion on Friday received another sizable donation, on the celebration of Veterans Day, as Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Mark Phillips handed over a cheque for $1M to the association.
Cabinet has given its no-objection to some $2.9 billion in contracts, the majority of which is for the rehabilitation of community roads and State Minister Joseph Harmon has urged that labour within those communities be utilised for the work.
(Trinidad Express) Low energy prices have forced the National Gas Company (NGC) to freeze all salaries and benefits to staff for the rest of 2015 and 2016.
The Alliance For Change (AFC) will continue to maintain its individual identity and its leader Khemraj Ramjattan says he would rather resign than have the party merge with APNU.
Farm on the East Bank Demerara is nothing like its name, unless you count the little kitchen gardens here and there.
Several large foreign investment projects which had been championed by former president Bharrat Jagdeo are now languishing despite earlier pledges that they would take off.
A woman yesterday reported to the police that she was drugged and gang raped by Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) employees at the entity’s Mahdia location last Friday and her upset relatives have expressed concern at the manner in which the complaint is being dealt with.
We should beware the over-mighty state. A state that gathers all powers to itself drains initiative away from where it does most good ‒ at the local level, at the level of the small group, the family, the individual.
Veteran journalist Mohamed Rachid Osman died suddenly yesterday morning at his Bent Street, Wortmanville home.
Vishaul `Cheesy’ Singh cracked his third First-Class hundred and his second this season, to help power the Guyana Jaguars to a first innings 337 against visitors Barbados Pride who were 60-4 when day two of the 3rd Round WICB/PCL Regional 4-Day match ended yesterday at Providence, Guyana.
A four-year-old child, of Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, was yesterday morning rushed to the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after she was attacked by a pit bull owned by her family.
High profile clashes will bring down the league stage in the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Stag Beer Elite League when league leader Alpha United opposes Slingerz and Pele FC tackle the Guyana Defence Force today at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground.
Introduction Thus far, my reflections on Guyana’s economic statistics have centred on its national accounts, and in particular the GDP.
To mark its 21st anniversary, Demerara Bank Limited (DBL) yesterday opened its new head office and corporate banking branch at Camp Street, North Cummingsburg.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago Red Force were propelled by Jeremy Solozano’s maiden first class hundred but Jamaica Scorpions were making a strong reply on the second day of their Regional First Class contest here yesterday.
The absurdities are everywhere, conspiring to tax your brain when it needs a break.
A young woman jumped off the Kaieteur Falls yesterday morning in an apparent suicide.
The world love winners, just ask Usain Bolt. The best way to make a name for yourself in the sporting arena is to be a winner.
UNICEF has again called for an end to institutionalized violence in schools by abolishing corporal punishment and scaling up strategies for alternative forms of discipline, which do not include corporal punishment in any of its many forms.
On the 26th of May 2015, President David Granger said “Our diplomats must open more markets”.
Tabeluia serratifolia commonly called Yellow Poui is a member of the Bignoniaceae family and is native to Central and South America.
IT was inevitable that the high expectations for the latest review of the management of West Indies cricket would quickly turn into the turmoil that has typified its sharp decline of the past two decades.
Minister of State Joseph Harmon on Friday dispelled recent reports of new overseas diplomatic postings, while saying that there are no recommendations for any such positions engaging the attention of Cabinet.
I made this last week and it was so good that I am definitely making it as a side dish for one of the holiday meals.
It was a final befitting the inaugural Banks Beer Inter-Corporation Futsal Championship as hosts Banks DIH downed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 8-5 on Friday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Homestretch Avenue.
A January 1974 US diplomatic cable highlighted the dire economic circumstances facing the country and stated that it was soon expected to run out of foreign reserves and that stringent import restrictions were likely.
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday he wanted global cooperation to combat terrorism after Islamist militants killed 19 people, including six Russians, in an attack on a luxury hotel in Mali.
A September, 1974 US diplomatic cable described the sale of the Guyana Graphic by the Thompson Group to the state as a forced one and cites the then PNC government’s “harassment” of the newspaper’s employees as a key factor.
With positions in the semi-final round up for grabs, the elimination round in the GTT/Limacol Football Championship will commence today at the Victoria Community ground in the East Coast of Demerara.
The annual National Drama Festival (NDF) of Guyana is in progress at the National Cultural Centre, running every night at 7 o’clock until November 28.
Dear Editor, About 8 kilometres from Highbury, East Bank Berbice, where the first batch of indentured servants landed on May 5, 1838 can be found the village of Lonsdale.
(Reuters) – Western leaders who met on the margins of last week’s Group of 20 summit in Turkey agreed to extend sanctions against Russia for its actions in Ukraine by six months until July of next year, a senior European diplomat told Reuters.
Military Tattoo display
The European Team Chess Championships remain the world’s third most pre-eminent team tournament.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Governments worldwide have no hope of combatting modern day slavery unless credible data is collected on the hidden crime so victims can be identified and helped, a leading campaigner said.
The Department of Labour is taking the owner of the Aracari Resort to court for several breaches of the labour laws after a security guard was dismissed for refusing to chase dogs out of the compound.
A fault at the Kingston Power Station was likely responsible for the total shutdown of the Demerara Berbice Interconnected System (DBIS) yesterday morning.
SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – Successful former Australia captain Steve Waugh has blamed poor leadership and the lure of global Twenty20 tournaments for the demise of West Indies cricket.
Dear Editor, I loved John Willems’s touching tribute to his father-in-law, Eugene Correia (‘Eugene Correia was very knowledgeable about the interior’, SN, November 21), which made my Saturday morning.
Dear Editor, Your correspondent M Maxwell (‘A massive salary increase…’ SN, Nov 20) is yet another reader who can’t recognise irony when he sees it, as in the Nov 18 letter of Pastor Jeffrey that he referred to.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgium put the capital Brussels on maximum security alert yesterday, shutting the metro and warning people to avoid crowds because of a “serious and imminent” threat of coordinated, multiple attacks by militants.
In terms of a definition, I think the one most easily understood would reflect an inflammatory condition of the mouth which usually produces small vesicles or abscesses.
The head of Digicel’s Marketing Department Jacqueline James (at centre) poses with members of the media who participated in the company’s “Merry Mansion Hunt” on Thursday, when Digicel launched its “Merry Mansion Reloaded” Christmas promotion.
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduran police arrested a Syrian woman and two Pakistani men yesterday after determining they were travelling illegally and presumably en route to the United States, authorities said.
In the early hours of last Sunday morning, former Crime Chief Leslie James was the victim of a home invasion when he was confronted by armed bandits.
The Mayor Hamilton Green 81st birth anniversary Inter-Ward tourney will continue today at the Dem Amstel Community ground with four fixtures.
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DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh executed two opposition leaders today for war crimes committed during the 1971 war to break away from Pakistan, a senior police official said, in a move likely to draw an angry reaction from supporters.
