Daily Archive: Friday, June 3, 2016

Articles published on Friday, June 3, 2016

Nesta Carter

Jamaican sprinter Carter fails 2008 doping re-test

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Jamaican Olympic sprint relay gold medallist Nesta Carter has returned an anti-doping violation for the banned stimulant Methylhexanamine after the re-testing of 454 samples from the 2008 Beijing Games, two sources familiar with the case have told Reuters.

No India tour match for Guyana

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC– The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) yesterday announced the schedule for India’s Caribbean tour, which was thrown into jeopardy after the regional side pulled out of a series on the sub continent nearly two years ago.

McCullum eager to reunite with DJ Bravo for CPL

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC- Star New Zealand batsman Brendon McCullum says he is excited about the prospects of reuniting with West Indies allrounder Dwayne Bravo when he makes his debut in the HERO Caribbean Premier League (CPL) which begins later this month.

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 670’s trading results showed consideration of $5,891,453 from 230,211 shares traded in 16 transactions as compared to session 669’s trading results, which showed consideration of $26,424,867 from $435,480 from 901 shares traded in 5 transactions.

Remembering the days of ‘chowse’

Dear Editor, I wouldn’t have thought that anyone else remembered the then Traffic Chief Joe Braz’s refashioning of English pronunciation until I saw the Gittenesque use of “chouse” in her condemnation of how things went during the Gala State Dinner marking the country’s Independence Jubilee.

Kitco Market Data

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday June 2, 2016Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

New Designs: Some of the new designs at the Fibre Tech showroom earlier this week

Fibre Tech production driven by housing sector growth, regional market interest

Almost seven years after Fibre Tech Industrial Plastics was honoured by the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) for its pioneering work in opening up an export market in the region for its fibre-glass table tops, cupboards and bathtubs, the company’s owner and Chief Executive Officer Somat Ali said the company continues to seek ways of maximizing market opportunities on both the domestic and international markets.

Civilisation versus barbarism

In an online comment on a letter to this newspaper (‘Lost opportunities at the flag-raising ceremony’, May 28, 2016), which related some of the security shortcomings of the event and the boorish, violent behaviour of one section of the crowd towards a group of young Americans, Dave Martins notes, “We have become cantankerous and hostile, and both visitors and residents encounter those attitudes… Those behaviours are now ingrained, and even accepted as the norm.”