RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – A gunman stormed a house party and killed 11 people, including his former wife and 8-year-old son, before shooting himself in the head during a New Year’s party in the southeastern Brazilian city of Campinas late on Saturday.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Grammy Award-winning singer Mariah Carey shrugged off a botched New Year’s Eve show in New York’s Times Square, telling fans and critics on Sunday that life does not always go as planned.
(Trinidad Guardian) Killers ended 2016 with a bang with six murders being recorded in four separate incidents across the country between Friday and yesterday
A seventh man was reported to be brain-dead following one of the shootings.
Nine lawyers including the present Attorney General (AG) and a sitting judge were yesterday elevated to Senior Counsel (SC) status by President David Granger, 20 years after the last batch, with the former AG claiming bias and a lack of transparency in the appointments.
Even at a time when the attention of Guyana’s coalition government is focused on energizing the country’s underperforming economy, the administration still cannot afford to allow its attention to wander from a foreign policy agenda that includes managing relations with two neighboring countries with which separate territorial controversies loom large.
There has been an undeniable air of expectancy here in Guyana arising out of the disclosure last year by the United States company, Exxon Mobil that commercial deposits of oil and gas had been offshore Guyana.
The One-Day 50 overs league which was scheduled to commenced on Tuesday has been postponed and a date for the commencement of the league will be announced later.
The body of Surujpaul Dindyal, who died after he was struck down by a car earlier this month, will be exhumed and examined since it was mistakenly buried along with four others that were unclaimed and subjected to ‘poor burial’.
Efforts to `green’ Guyana will accelerate in the new year focusing on economic diversification, empowerment at the community level and renewable energy, President David Granger said, even as he stressed government’s commitment to ensuring a better life for all Guyanese.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, CMC – The Pakistan Cricket Board confirmed yesterday they had invited West Indies to play two Twenty20 Internationals here next March, as authorities here attempt to end the country’s exile from international cricket.
BRISBANE, Australia, CMC – West Indies Women batting star, Deandra Dottin, has quipped that she looks as if she has fought legendary boxer Mike Tyson, after undergoing a successful facial surgery to rectify injuries sustained in an ugly on-field collision during the Women’s Big Bash earlier this week.
The Government Analyst Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) has had an interesting 2016 and this year all efforts will be placed on obtaining international accreditation, building staff capacity and re-operationalizing the laboratory to ensure that the public is better served, Director Marlan Cole says.
As agriculture moves increasingly to the forefront of the Guyana economy the Guyana Review examines some of the key achievements of the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) in 2016
April last brought rainfall after a prolonged dry season that started in 2015.
Hibiscus sabdariffa commonly called sorrel or roselle comes from the Malvaceae family and originated from India and Malaysia; it later spread to Africa and the Caribbean.
By Philbert Gajadhar
No greater contrast could be imagined than that which existed between the imaginative power, the passionate drive and humour of Doris Rogers’ art on the one hand and her appearance and habits on the other.
(Reuters) – Captain Kane Williamson and Neil Broom both flirted with centuries as New Zealand cruised to an eight-wicket victory over Bangladesh in their third one-day international to complete a 3-0 series sweep at Saxton Oval in Nelson yesterday.
Many of the recommendations made in the 2015 forensic audit into the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) have been implemented but the Board has decided that the company should not be liquidated.
This month, Artists Stanley Greaves AA and Akima McPherson refer to their Conversations on Art, which will come to a close with the 24th installation next month.
By Alicia Nicholls
Reprinted from Caribbean Trade Law and Development: Posted on November 17, 2016
The United States’ position as most Caribbean countries’ largest economic partner and an important foreign policy ally means that constructive engagement with the incoming Trump administration is not just a choice but an imperative.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, CMC – Cornell Glen scored his first international goal in seven years as Trinidad and Tobago came from behind to beat Nicaragua 3-1 in their friendly international here Friday night.
January
Wales Estate closure announced
Government announced the closure of the Wales sugar estate by way of a surprise statement issued from the Ministry of Agriculture.
x Members of the Interim Management Committee of the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) will be meeting during the first week of the new year to discuss the way forward for the sport which has recently grabbed headlines for the wrong reasons.
Fidel Castro’s death on Friday November 25 was, arguably, one of the most profoundly anti- climactic occurrences in contemporary global politics, his end coming a decade after he had relinquished the title of ‘El Commandante,’ Cuba’s unquestioned leader for forty-seven years.
It was one of those nights when the children had gone to bed with little to eat, when she had had to cover the distance from Kitty to Kingston on foot and when the Guard Hut felt colder and more desolate than it customarily did.
President of the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) Philip Fernandes has declared that 2016 was a positive year for the development of the sport in several notable areas.
Opposition Highlights Deficiencies Of Assembly
Stabroek News Parliamentary Report
By Sharief Khan
DEFICIENCIES in the functioning of Parliament rose to the fore again as the National Assembly wrapped up sittings for the year.
In 2016 the Ministry of Public Health recorded 9,415 new cases of malaria, 842 cases of dengue fever, 35 lab confirmed cases of zika and 135 cases of chikungunya.
Dear Editor,
In the wake of the recent controversy over the eviction of the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre (CJRC) from the heritage property that is Red House, I am professionally and personally obligated to provide some clarity on the issues.
On December 29 the Attorney General’s Chambers issued a statement asserting that the lease that had been granted to the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre (CJRC) in connection with the property in Kingston, Georgetown, known as ‘Red House,’ was invalid.
A meeting between the government and stakeholders in the sugar industry has resulted in the government encouraging the parliamentary opposition and sugar unions to make their own recommendations about the future of sugar in Guyana.
ADELAIDE, Australia, CMC – Kieron Pollard’s cameo and Chris Jordan’s brace helped Adelaide Strikers to a convincing 48-run victory over Sydney Sixers and their first points in the latest edition of the Big Bash League here yesterday.
Odessa Primus says she was born to be funny. Perhaps oddly enough her claim is not particularly believable, at least not when her intellect strikes you like a rumbustious gust of breeze once you engage her in conversation.
The Enterprise Busta Sports Club (EBSC) has congratulated two of its members who were rewarded for outstanding performances during the year by the Guyana Cricket Board at its annual awards ceremony Thursday evening at Umana Yana.
Despite City Hall being cash strapped and unable to help boost community development following the March 18, Local Government Elections, Constituency 14 has made progress, Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan said, through the assistance of central government and private/public partnerships.
Dear Editor,
Can the Government of Guyana and the Ministry of Social Cohesion please explain how the present, imminent and future closure of sugar estates which are severely affecting the livelihoods and financial survival of working families of all ethnicities and their dependents but predominately those of East Indian descent, are
helping to forge social cohesion.
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council yesterday welcomed a ceasefire in the Syrian civil war, but rebel groups threatened to abandon the two-day-old truce if violations persisted.
(Reuters) – New Zealand opener Martin Guptill will miss the Twenty20 series against Bangladesh with a hamstring injury and will be replaced by in-form batsman Neil Broom, the country’s cricket board said on Saturday.
The young mother of 13-year-old Christopher Boucher, who is suffering from a perforating corneal laceration to his left eye, is appealing to the public for assistance to get her son the eye surgery he needs abroad.
By BC PIRES
The 1990s, the Queen’s Park Oval, West Indies playing – India, if memory serves, but mine is more likely to spit in my soup – and Carl Hooper slid down the wicket, like a cobra on cocaine, to lift some poor sap – Anil Kumble?
(The Sports Xchange) – Klay Thompson scored 17 of his game-high 29 points in a third-quarter runaway, propelling the Golden State Warriors to victory over the Dallas Mavericks.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities yesterday released former opposition governor and presidential candidate Manuel Rosales from house arrest and freed five lesser-known anti-government activists from prison, Rosales said via Twitter.
Dear Editor,
Those who have read PPP/C Member of Parliament Anil Nandlall’s letter ‘Consultations for this government are no more than a publicity gimmick’ (SN, December 24, 2016) which speaks to issues of governance, including referencing Article 13 and 38A in the Guyana Constitution, can definitively conclude that the PPP/C when in government knew what was right.
BAGHDAD/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Three bombs killed 29 people in Baghdad yesterday as fighting intensified in the northern city of Mosul, where Iraqi government forces are trying to rout Islamic State militants from their last major stronghold in the country.
The Black Nunbird is glossy blue-black with white-grey edges on its wings and a bright orange-red beak, and belongs to the family of birds known as puffbirds.
At 78, Eugene Lewis is the chairperson for her community and she supports herself by rearing chickens and ducks, coupled with produce from her fruit trees and she maintains that she wants it no other way since her independence is her greatest asset.
Guyana Football Federation (GFF) boss Wayne Forde said the federation is not actively seeking a replacement for the Golden Jaguars head-coach Jamal Shabazz despite the latter being appointed assistant coach of the Trinidad and Tobago senior setup.
There’s a narrow trench running along the side of the road where I live on the East Coast, and it’s often fascinating to watch a chicken hawk diving down from the overhead utility wires to snatch an unsuspecting Kreketeh from the edge of the trench.
While there are still no tablets being stored at the Sussex Street bond, the facility is being used to store medicines, medical supplies and medical equipment.
ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) – A gunman shot his way into an Istanbul nightclub packed with New Year’s revellers early today, killing at least 35 people and wounding more than 40 in what the provincial governor described as a terrorist attack.
We can only hope that the outcome of the final Sharjah test against Pakistan on November 3 provides some kind of impetus for the West Indies cricket team ahead of what will almost certainly be a far more testing encounter against England later next year.
All roads will lead to the Mining Town of Linden tonight when Silver Shattas tackles Eagles FC in the grand finale of the fourth annual Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) GT Beer championships at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) ground.
Dear Editor,
Let me take this opportunity to first extend Happy New Year’s greetings to you and your entire staff and by extension the entire country we all love, Guyana.