Daily Archive: Sunday, April 9, 2017

Articles published on Sunday, April 9, 2017

Suspect in murder of Parika woman held

Police in ‘D’ Division arrested the elusive suspect in relation to the recent murder of Dhanwantie Ram, 29, at about 02:00hrs today at Parika, East Bank Essequibo, during which process he sustained a gunshot wound to his right arm.

A farmer moors his boat after returning from the farm

Bee Hive

Photos by Joanna Dhanraj Situated on the East Coast Demerara, Bee Hive is hemmed by the Atlantic Ocean, a coconut plantation and Clonbrook and Greenfield; it is 30 kilometres away from the capital and home to more than 1,500 residents.

Kieran Powell during a pre-match interview yesterday.

West Indies not prepared to squander one-nil lead

West Indies’ prodigal son, Kieran Powell who, in a major way contributed the team’s historic run chase in Friday’s Brighto Paints Q Mobile Cup One – Day curtain raise with a fighting half century, has indicated that the Caribbean side is not prepared to squander one-nil lead during a pre-match interview ahead of the second ODI.

Contextualizing local content requirements for Guyana’s oil & gas industry in Caricom

Introduction My aim has been in recent columns to lay out carefully the economic rationale in support of the proposition that, if Guyana’s coming oil and gas extraction industry is to play a transformative role in its economic development, then the dynamic integration of whatever economic benefits are derived from the industry into other economic sectors is essential.

Understanding men

It goes back to my youthful West Dem days in the 1950s: with no TV or CDs or Facebook, I found laughter in behaviours around me, in characters I’ve mentioned before, such as ‘Four Foot’ and ‘Big Os’, and the shopkeeper Tony Vieira at my aunts’ shop at Hague Front.

Flashback- Nicholas McArthur (yellow) of Chase Academy battling to maintain possession of the ball against a Sir Leon Lessons player during their semi-final affair at the Ministry of Education ground in the Milo Secondary School Football Championship.

Monumental clash!

A monumental clash, months in the making, will culminate the Milo U18 Secondary Schools football championships tonight as two-time defending champions Chase Academy battle fierce rivals Morgan Learning Center (MLC) at the Ministry of Education ground.

Jeffrey, Persaud excel at GT Grand Prix

Two-time Caribbean Motor Racing champion Kristian Jeffrey once again emerged winner in all three allotted races in the featured Shifter Karts Pro Cup when the second Motorsports GT Grand Prix was staged Friday at the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club venue.

Mexico to grant residency to 588 stranded Cubans

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico said on Friday it would grant residency permits to 588Cubans who were stranded in the north of the country after the United States ended its “wet-foot, dry-foot” policy, which had given legal status to almost every Cuban to reach US soil.

Joyce and Sebastian Ramsuchit

Three held over newspaper vendor robbery

Three persons have been detained in connection with the armed robbery committed on newspaper vendor Sebastian Ramsuchit and his family two Saturdays ago and they are expected to be placed on an identification tomorrow, according to Commander of ‘A’ Division Clifton Hicken.

Missionaries in schools

Last month through letters to this newspaper, the public’s attention was drawn to visits to some of our secondary schools by a US missionary group called the Faithful Word Baptist Church, led by Pastor Steven Anderson.