Daily Archive: Sunday, September 3, 2017

A storm at Kuru Kururu on the Soesdyke Highway this afternoon uprooted several utility poles and trees and wreaked havoc on the property of residents there and at the Splashmins Resort.

(ESPN Cricinfo) Wayne Parnell’s terrific display with bat and ball hauled Barbados Tridents to a 16-run win over table-toppers Trinbago Knight Riders at Kensington Oval.

  SEOUL,  (Reuters) – North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test today, which it said was an advanced hydrogen bomb for a long-range missile, marking a dramatic escalation of the regime’s stand-off with the United States and its allies.

(Trinidad Guardian) Former director of the National Museum and Art Gallery and well known patriot, Dr Claire Broadbridge, 80, was found brutally murdered at her St Ann’s home last evening.

The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) has emerged as a key figure in Keevin Allicock’s corner.

The investigation by the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) into the $632 million emergency drug purchases for the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) has found that laws were broken.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Man-of-the-Match Chadwick Walton and New Zealander Luke Ronchi slammed scintillating half-centuries as a rampant Guyana Amazon Warriors crushed Jamaica Tallawahs by nine wickets to virtually secure a spot in the playoffs of the Caribbean Premier League.

An appetizing recipe of rugby sevens will be dished out today at the National Park from lunch time as the top clubs battle for supremacy in the Trophy Stall 7s Tournament.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) yesterday said it is working with domestic operators to resume interior shuttle operations, which were suspended last Wednesday, even as residents of hinterland communities across Guyana are already contending with the resulting disruption of their lives.

LEICESTER, England, CMC – West Indies head coach Stuart Law has labelled Shimron Hetmyer as one for the future, following the exciting left-hander’s better than run-a-ball unbeaten hundred against Leicestershire here yesterday.

Mohamed ‘Fuzzy’ Sattaur, the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the state-owned National Communi-cations Network (NCN), died yesterday.

Dryshore is a quiet little village in Essequibo, approximately four miles from the Supenaam jetty skirted by the villages of Warousi and Hibernia.

The lawyer for US-based Guyanese murder accused Marcus Brian Bisram has argued that the 1931 treaty between the US and the United Kingdom, which the prosecution has relied on for his extradition to Guyana, had been called into doubt by the Supreme Court here.

West Ruimveldt giant Western Tigers and Kitty based unit Northern Rangers secured contrasting quarterfinal victories when the Corona Beer Invitational Football championships continued Friday.

Local company R.L. Sukhram and Sons Sawmill, one of the two firms that have secured a lot in the former Barama Company Limited (BCL) concession in the North West region, plans to focus on value-added production and expects to finalise a deal soon with an Asian investor for the development of a plywood and veneer factory.

  It would be safe to say that football means the world to 47-year-old N-Zinga Maxwell; she dedicates her time and energy seven days a week to the game, often free of charge.

The Fort Wellington Hospital doctors who are under investigation by the Medical Council of Guyana (MCG) for allegedly overprescribing opioids have submitted their responses and are expected to be interviewed to determine culpability, according to Chairman     Dr Navindranauth Rambarran.

Introduction: Proviso It is worth repeating: my two previous columns had sought to make it abundantly clear that if a local oil refinery is established, which is wholly owned, managed and operationalized, either separately, or through a partnership (or some other joint arrangement), involving only 1) foreign investors (whether private, state, or some combination thereof), or 2) domestic private investors, this would be acceptable in my judgement, subject to one important proviso or caveat.

As the year proceeds, Mexico, the world’s thirteenth largest economy, is expected to rebalance its international trade relationships.

– Adams smashes 145  East Bank, batting a second time on day one, ended the day on 20 – 1 in the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), Jaguars three – day league while being a run behind Georgetown as 22 wickets tumbled at Lusignan Community Centre Ground, yesterday.

The National Industrial and Commercial Invest-ments Limited (NICIL) is currently still engaged in negotiations with Hong Kong Golden Telecom Limited (HKGT) to settle the Chinese company’s remaining payment for its purchase of government shares in the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT).

In a vibrant democracy elections should be a cause for celebration, an ever welcome occasion regularly marking the successful outcome of what in any country’s history has always been a long struggle to overcome authoritarian, and often brutal, rule.

Continued from last week Miniature roses are most likely descendants of the old Chinese rose Rosa chinensis. 

Dominant Recall from last week’s article, the overall situation of the commercial banks can be regarded as satisfactory despite the distortions in the foreign exchange market earlier in the year. 

The stunning news, unprecedented in Africa’s history, broke on Friday morning that the Kenyan Supreme Court had overturned the results of the August 8 elections which the incumbent president, Uhuru Kenyatta, 55, had won with 54 per cent of the vote.

While the defects at the $728 million Kato Secondary School in Region Eight have been fixed in a record two months by contractor Kares Engineering, the school will not be opened when the new term begins tomorrow because there has been a delay in getting it furnished.

Faith is at the core of all religious festivals, but they tend to follow discernible patterns in the way they are practiced.

LEICESTER, England, CMC – Rookie Shimron Hetmyer produced a stunning unbeaten century while wicketkeeper Shane Dowrich also chipped in with three figures, as West Indies dominated the opening day of their two-day match against Leicestershire here yesterday.

A police constable is currently under close arrest after he struck down and injured a pedestrian on Friday night while reportedly driving under the influence along the Stewartville Public Road, on the West Coast of Demerara.

Caribbean media was awash this week with reports of Chris Gayle, playing for the St Lucia Stars in the CPL, as opposed to the Talawahs, the side representing Jamaica in the national tournament, running into some concerted booing from the crowd at Sabina, purportedly because of his disloyalty, or rejection of his roots.

HOUSTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Saturday he will discuss the fate of a five-year-old US-South Korean free trade deal with his advisers next week in a move that could see him pull out of the accord with a key American ally at a time of heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula.

Mark Griffith, the shot man suspected to have been a part of the attempted armed robbery along the Liliendaal Railway Embankment road, was yesterday positively identified as an accomplice in the crime.

In his largely entertaining and insightful book,  Grandmasters of Chess Pulitzer prize winner and music critic/chess correspondent for the New York Times, Harold C Schonberg, tells us about the origin of the word grandmaster.

Two months after the reconstruction of the case files was completed, Magistrate Alex Moore has set September 15 as the date for the Nezaam Ali rape case to be reopened and all the parents of the alleged victims have been asked to attend the hearing at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court.

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Saturday the country had a problem with its judiciary, which annulled his election win of last month, “and we must fix it”.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US Justice Department said it had no evidence to support the unsubstantiated claim made in March by President Donald Trump that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Last week alcohol and bodybuilding was discussed. This week is somewhat of a continuation.

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea said on Sunday it has developed a more advanced nuclear weapon that has “great destructive power” and leader Kim Jong Un inspected a hydrogen bomb that will be loaded on a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

There are times when you can’t be bothered with cooking vegetables and rice separately.

The Caribbean Advertising Federation (CAF) has awarded Nand Persaud and Company Limited with the Silver Addy Award for its Pure Acreage Rice social media campaign, which has been recognised as being among the top advertising campaigns in the Caribbean.

YK Investment & Pawn Shop joined the growing list of sponsors to support the inaugural Guinness Cage Football Championship, donating a gold chain for the tourney’s eventual Most Valuable Player (MVP).

 As many crowded city streets to complete last minute shopping for the start of the new school term, these children were making the most of their remaining holiday with a game of ‘Dog and the Bone’ in the National Park yesterday.

Dear Editor, My company, Ramroop’s Investments Inc, is the owner of the property, via transport, located at Lots 1 & 2 Lombard & Cornhill Streets that formerly housed the Head Office of the now defunct Guyana National Cooperative Bank.

  “You think I am happy?” she asks, her panting signalling that her baby is getting more difficult to carry by the minute.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British police arrested a 35-year old man yesterday over an incident at London’s Oval Cricket Ground which was evacuated on Thursday after a crossbow bolt was fired onto the pitch.

HOVE, England, CMC – Stafanie Taylor made yet another telling contribution as she helped lift Western Storm to their first ever Women’s Super League title with a seven-wicket win over Southern Vipers in Friday’s final.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Saturday defended free trade and young migrants in the United States, saying his government would not accept insults against “national dignity” from the administration of US President Donald Trump.

The ‘Sport of Kings’ continues on Sunday at the Ryan Crawford Memorial Turf Club as Alness, Corentyne, Berbice with a grand one-day horse race meet.

A storm hit the community of Kako, in Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni), last evening, resulting in damage to 10 houses, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).  

CARACAS (Reuters) – Human rights activist Lilian Tintori, the wife of Venezuela’s best-known detained political leader, said on Saturday she had been barred from flying out of the country and summoned to a court hearing over cash found in her vehicle.

The red-eyed vireo (Vireo olivaceus) is a small American songbird. It is somewhat warbler-like but not closely related to the New World warblers (Parulidae).

Three weeks ago David Jessop in his Sunday column wrote about the resuscitation of railways in some parts of the Caribbean.

Dear Editor, I hope everyone who loves cricket saw/followed that great Test match at Headingley.