Daily Archive: Sunday, January 1, 2017

Articles published on Sunday, January 1, 2017

Six murdered in T&T

(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.

Neighbours meet: President David Granger and Suriname President Desi Bouterse

Diplomatic noises on Guyana’s two most contentious borders

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.

Crop production is set to increase

Spotlight on NAREI

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.

Sorrel

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.

No liquidation of NICIL

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.

Trinidad and Tobago’s Cornell Glen scored his first international goal in seven years.

T&T rebound to hammer Nicaragua

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.

The Year in Review

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.

Horace Burrowes

IMC of GCF to meet this week

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.

Night Shift

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.

 Yadram, third from left, and Chanderpaul Singh, second right, with executives of the EBSC.

EBSC congratulates its GCB 2016 awardees

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.

Sherod Duncan and Members of the Stabroek Rotaract Club on a visit to the Shirley Field-Ridley Play ground

Constituency 14 made progress in 2016 – Duncan

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.

Baghdad blasts kill 29 as Mosul fighting intensifies

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.

A Black Nunbird (Monasa atra), photographed in Rockstone Village, Essequibo River.  Photo by Kester Clarke (http://www.kesterclarke.net)

Black Nunbird

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. 

Nature’s gifted performers

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. 

Kraigg Braithwaite

West Indies cricket plodding along

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.

Yannick Simon

All roads lead to Linden

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.