Daily Archive: Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Articles published on Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Line trip results in widespread power outages

The Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) has blamed a trip on the transmission line linking the Kingston Power Station and Sophia sub-station for interrupting the power supply to customers within West Demerara, sections of the East Coast of Demerara and Georgetown yesterday.

The 704 Food and Entertainment Complex yesterday afternoon.

704 group closing two fast food franchises

The Management of the 704 Food and Entertainment Complex has acknowledged that the impending closure of the Dixie Lee and Miami Grill franchises is in part because the businesses had never really taken off, coupled with the country’s economic decline.

Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah.

Shah will be dangerous, warns Radford

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Batting coach Toby Radford expects world-rated leg-spinner Yasir Shah to play another huge role in the in the decisive third Test and has warned West Indies’ batsmen against taking him lightly in the all-important contest starting here today.

A scene from the visit to Region Nine (GINA photo)

Gov’t officials engage Region 9 youths

Students from St Ignatius Secondary, Annai Secondary and the Bina Hill Institute were given the opportunity to suggest their needs with regard to youth empowerment and sports development when a team of Ministry of Education officials visited Region 9 last week.

No glory for Narine as KKR stumble

MOHALI, India, CMC – Sunil Narine sparkled but only briefly in his new role as opener as his Kolkata Knight Riders suffered their fifth defeat of the Indian Premier League campaign with a 14-run loss to Kings XI Punjab here yesterday.

Rewriting history

The IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations), the world governing body for athletics kicked off its 2017 international season with the first meet in the Diamond League in Doha, Qatar last Friday, but the main topic of conversation was not this season’s centre piece, the 16th edition of the IAAF World Champion-ships scheduled for London, England in August.

Motion to reverse MMA land rent increases defeated

The opposition’s bid to have increases in land rent and other charges to farmers in the Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary-Agricultural Development Authority (MMA-ADA) reversed was defeated on Monday when the government used its majority to vote down a motion moved by PPP/C’s Dharamkumar Seeraj in the National Assembly.