Daily Archive: Sunday, September 24, 2017

Articles published on Sunday, September 24, 2017

Captain Rondell McArthur breaches the Caribs’ defense to put his name on the scoresheet. (Orlando Charles photo)

Panthers back to winning ways

The Panthers are back in the win column. The winningest rugby outfit of the 2017 season rebounded from last week’s 25-36 loss at the hands of Pepsi Hornets with an emphatic 39-nil victory against the hapless Yamaha Caribs when the Bounty Farm 15’s league continued yesterday at the National Park.

Sandra Granger

Rights must be respected, people valued – First Lady

Guyana’s First Lady Sandra Granger believes that “rights are rights” and in order to build a cohesive society we must respect and value each other regardless of race, creed or sexual orientation, even as she suggested that at the level of Caricom, a model legislation be drafted and adopted by all countries to ensure that member states conform to the many international conventions they have signed.

Young archers in the making?

Young archers in the making? Some of the younger competitors who participated in the archery competition during day two of the three-day annual Indigenous Heritage Games at the Everest Cricket Ground yesterday.

Jagdeo can be credited with fundamental transformative moves

Dear Editor, It has become necessary to underscore the fact that a new trend seems to be developing, whereby persons wishing to etch their names in the public psyche latch onto a prominent individual in society, which, more often than not these days, is former president and current Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo – an art that some could argue has been perfected by columnist, Freddie Kissoon.

Florida court orders Duprey to pay US$60 M

(Trinidad Express) Former executive chairman of CL Financial Lawrence Duprey was ordered by a Florida judge in July to pay more than US$60 million to British American Insurance Company (BAICO) in damages in relation to the TT$1.9 billion Green Island project in Osceola County, Florida.

Literature’s importance in Carifesta

A very significant factor in Carifesta is literature. A meaningful study of this regional cultural festival is a lengthy and complex undertaking that will require many revisits, including its treatment and representation of the region’s literature.

Contradiction

This is a contradictory government.  President David Granger goes to the United Nations and delivers an impressive address, once again putting the case to the world body as to why the commitment given by former Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and subsequently the present incumbent of that office, António Guterres, should be adhered to.

Effective communication strategy

As anyone who has seen me perform knows, I frequently go off in some good-natured commentary on various things cultural, and one of them is the effectiveness of our dialect, so that a reaction from Bernard Fernandes, a diaspora Guyanese, lauding a point about dialect I recently made, leads me to shout, as I have before, for the value of our dialect and to consequently object when it is attacked. 

Stake your plants

Now is the time to stake your plants! Last Sunday, the heavy rain came and it became so windy that many of my trees and shrubs were swaying in all directions. Thunder

A Yellow-tufted Woodpecker (Melanerpes cruentatus) at Bounty Farm, Timehri. (Photo by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)

Yellow-tufted Woodpecker

The yellow-tufted is a small, mostly black woodpecker with a white rump, and an elaborate yellow facial tuft that extends from a yellow eye ring; it also has a red belly. Yellow-tufted