Articles published on Sunday, December 13, 2015
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – In the clearest sign yet it intends to resist the recommendations of CARICOM’s Governance Review Panel, the West Indies Cricket Board says it has retained the services of Dominican lawyer Anthony Astaphan.
Minister of State, Joseph Harmon yesterday commissioned the multi-million-dollar Aruwai Whitewater Resort in the Cuyuni/Mazaruni area, the brainchild of Bartica gold miner, Chunilall Baboolall.
About 0300h. today, the police say that Cheryl Embrack, 50 years, of Grove Housing Scheme, EBD, was entering her home when she was attacked by two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun.
(ICC) West Indies all-rounder Marlon Samuels has been banned from bowling in international cricket for 12 months following an independent assessment of his action, which took place at the ICC’s accredited testing centre in Brisbane earlier this month.
(Trinidad Guardian) Support from the Opposition and an online petition may not be enough to keep Central Bank Governor Jwala Rambarran in office.
(Reuters) – West Indies captain Jason Holder’s week went from bad to worse yesterday when he was fined 60 percent of his match fee for a slow over rate during the first test loss to Australia and could face a ban if the tourists reoffend.
Government is being urged to “proceed with haste” to sell the Marriott Hotel in light of uncertainty about the financial viability of its operations and rising costs that could take the final price tag for the project to at least US$98 million.
Each year the elected leaders of Britain’s overseas territories (OTs) gather from around the world to meet with British ministers in London.
Photos by Joanna Dhanraj Golden Grove or Grove, as most persons call it, on the East Bank Demerara is said to be one of the most developed villages in Guyana.
I’m a think-positive guy, not from some Pollyanna position, but largely because that’s how my mind works.
As calls continue to be made for marijuana use to be decriminalized, President David Granger says government will contradict itself if it concedes to this given that it has already taken a position on smoking in public places and will on Thursday be tabling legislation in this regard.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul snatched a five-wicket haul to give Guyana Jaguars a crucial first innings lead over Jamaica Scorpions in a low-scoring game before their batsmen built on that advantage to give the defending champions the edge on the second day of their fifth round clash yesterday.
I regret I write with grimness in this festive season. Perhaps it is good to remember that for countless millions in the world this is, as T S Eliot reminded us in the greatest poem ever written about the birth of Christ, “Just the worst time of the year.”
HOBART, Australia, CMC – West Indies suffered their worst Test defeat to Australia in 84 years when they crashed to an embarrassing innings and 212-run loss inside three days here yesterday.
Government’s holding company NICIL acted as an agent for the sale of Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) properties, and in 2010 sold properties to then Prime Minister Sam Hinds and then Housing Minister Irfaan Ali, among others, and in some cases, this was without
(Kamal Ramkarran is the author of the original and longer version of this 2009 article, which has been abridged and amended by me with his permission).
An average teenage girl these days is busy experimenting with cosmetics and building a following on social media platforms.
President David Granger say that he sees no “justification or need” to rescind the controversial Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) inked by government with Fedders Lloyd for the specialty hospital project.
Thirty-two Rupununi women have successfully completed a ‘Self-Reliance and Success in Business’ workshop held at the Indigenous Peoples Conference Hall in Lethem, Region Nine, under the auspices of the Office of the First Lady.
The 2016 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) examinations will be written on April 27 and April 28, a month after the traditional time for the annual sitting.
Leisurely Saturday market: The East La Penitence was possibly the only one in the city not overrun with shoppers yesterday.
Not simple The revenue challenge facing the new administration is not a simple one.
GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Out-of-favour West Indies left-hander Narsingh Deonarine and rookie batsman Yannic Cariah both carved out unbeaten half-centuries as Trinidad and Tobago Red Force mounted a strong reply on day two of their fifth round match against Windward Islands Volcanoes here yesterday.
The Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) on Friday officially commissioned two wells in the Region Ten communities of Hururu and Bamboo Landing.
Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin (right) and newly appointed CEO of GTT Justin Nedd (left) did the ceremonial ribbon cutting when GTT yesterday launched its retail store in the Fogarty’s building.
North Georgetown whipped St Margaret’s Primary by five wickets to win the North Georgetown Zone in the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Scotiabank Kiddy Progression One Cricket School Competition, played Thursday at the National Racquet Centre, at Woolford Avenue.
Introduction Last week I offered the view that for the foreseeable future, the GDP will continue as the premier measure worldwide, and in Guyana, of economic size and progress, as well as national and individual welfare/well-being.
First Lady Sandra Granger yesterday joined with officials from the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) to spread Christmas cheer to close to 300 children at City Hall.
St Stephen’s downed defending champs Stella Maris 3-1 on penalty kicks yesterday in a rematch of last year’s finale to clinch the 2nd Smalta/Ministry of Public Health Girls U-11 Football Championship.
Almost two months after her only child was discovered dead in his Good Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home, Bibi Shaliza Hamid is hoping that the perpetrator/s will be apprehended soon.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Roston Chase continued to impress with his second first class hundred while seasoned off-spinner Ashley Nurse claimed a five-wicket haul to quell a Leeward Islands Hurricanes fightback on the second day of their fifth round match in the Regional First Class Championship yesterday.
President David Granger yesterday distributed 21 bicycles to children enrolled in the Sophia Literacy Programme at Congress Place, to assist them with transportation to school and also announced that the centre will receive a subvention to ensure its survival.
The Guyana Prize for Literature in collaboration with the Department of Culture in the Ministry of Education staged a “Festival of Guyanese Literature” a week ago.
Climate change, one of the most pervasive environmental problems that has confronted human-kind, increases children’s vulnerability to hunger, malnutrition, water-borne diseases and other illnesses and threaten their basic rights.
(continued) Tongue problems Let’s today look at ailments associated with the tongue.
“A raft of post-mortems has inevitably followed yet it remains difficult to foresee where to next for West Indies cricket.
Dear Editor, In the last few days, SN has carried what is purported to be the final NICIL Forensic Report issued by Mr Anand Goolsarran, the appointed Forensic Auditor (FA) of NICIL.
PARIS (Reuters) – The global climate summit in Paris agreed a landmark accord yesterday, setting the course for a historic transformation of the world’s fossil fuel-driven economy within decades in a bid to arrest global warming.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Smarting from last weekend’s election defeat, President Nicolas Maduro warned yesterday of a “large-scale crisis” in Venezuela as a showdown looms between the socialist government and opposition-led legislature.
President of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has transferred the powers of his office to Deputy President Georgios Makropoulos following the announcement that the US Treasury had placed him on a blacklist.
The Berbice Bridge Company Inc (BBCI) donated a quantity of apples and grapes to the New Amsterdam Special Needs School for its annual Christmas Party.
Assistant national volleyball coach Ian Wills has said reinstating the sport into the school system as well as creating a strong developmental academy will help Guyana to perform better and be more successful in future overseas tournaments.
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabian women voted for the first time yesterday in local council elections and also stood as candidates, a step hailed by some activists in the Islamic patriarchy as a historic change, but by others as merely symbolic.
Dear Editor, I feel that I have to write this letter because of Mr Haseeb S.
Government is not expecting an answer to a request for a juridical settlement of the ongoing border controversy with Venezuela in the short term, according to President David Granger, who nonetheless is confident that United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is actively looking at the matter.
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Scores of women rebel fighters were forced to undergo abortions under a policy of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in their five-decade war against the government, Colombia’s top prosecutor said on Friday.
Dear Editor, Some of us are lucky to meet a person who would change our life for the better.
5-Spice-rubbed, Hoisin-glazed Roast Chicken While many people will be clamouring for the more prized meats at this time of the year, there are also many who will be looking to an all-time, ‘ordinary’ favourite – the bird, chicken.
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Nearly 90 people were killed during Friday’s clashes in the Burundian capital, the army said on Saturday, the worst outbreak of violence in Burundi since a failed coup in May.
Santa at Kamarang: Trans Guyana Airways continued its annual tradition of sharing Christmas joy and good cheer to the residents of Kamarang on Friday, when for the fourth year in a row, it flew in ‘Santa Claus’ along with his helpers to give approximately 200 gifts to the students and teachers of Kamarang Primary School.
Dear Editor. I agree with Milton Bruce (‘We have refugees here in Guyana already’ SN, December 12) that we should assist internal refugees as a priority.
HOBART, Australia, CMC – Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland says he hopes West Indies cricket authorities “take on board” the recommendations of CARICOM’s Governance Review Panel.
Members of the Disciplined Forces, along with all other categories of public servants, can look forward to some sort of bonus from government before the year ends, President David Granger said on Friday last.
(Continued from last week) Poinsettias are now available in Guyana and are on sale at plant shops.
After six months in office there is one thing the new administration should have discovered by now, namely, that government is not easy.
(Trinidad Guardian) – A 21-year-old Arima woman is now in police custody after stabbing her common-law husband to death during a domestic dispute, on Friday.
The Merriman Mall Christmas tree.
A Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara man lost his life last evening after he crashed into a tree around Letter ‘T’ Estate, Mahaica-Berbice.
President Barack Obama has never been terribly interested in Latin America, but the new political winds in Argentina, Venezuela and the latest events in Brazil offer him a golden opportunity to improve US relations with the region.
Uitvlugt Warriors and Pouderoyen FC punched their ticket to the next round of the West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) 2nd Annual Josiah Memorial Christmas Football Championship, securing contrasting opening night wins over Eagles and Bagotville on Friday at the Dem Amstel ground.
CORONA, Calif (Reuters) – With tears in her eyes, Mohammad Halisi’s young daughter asked her father “Why are we bad?”
