Daily Archive: Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Articles published on Wednesday, October 4, 2017

President Granger

Granger says still studying GECOM list

  Noting that Chief Justice Roxane George’s ruling does not prohibit him from choosing a `fit and proper’ person for GECOM Chairperson, President David Granger said today that he is still studying the list of nominees and intends to meet Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo in the near future.

There is resolution in law

Dear Editor, I welcome the action taken by Anil Nandlall, PPP/C Member of Parliament and attorney-at-law, to approach the ancestral lands Commission of Inquiry (CoI) to resolve what has been an ongoing dispute pertaining to the village of Kingelly, West Coast Berbice.

Bent St caterer robbed of car by gunman

The Police are investigating an armed robbery committed on a 36-year-old caterer of Bent Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, which occurred about 7.10 on Monday evening at North Road between Alexander and Bourda streets, by three men, one of whom was armed with a handgun.

Yahoo says all 3 billion accounts hacked in 2013 data theft

(Reuters) – Yahoo on Tuesday said that all 3 billion of its accounts were hacked in a 2013 data theft, tripling its earlier estimate of the size of the largest breach in history, in a disclosure that attorneys said sharply increased the legal exposure of its new owner, Verizon Communications Inc.

League unveils new All-Star Game format

(The Sports Xchange) – The NBA and its Players Association announced yesterday a new format for the 2018 NBA All-Star Game in Los Angeles that will abandon the traditional Eastern Conference versus Western Conference matchup.

Playboy

Hugh Hefner, the founder and publisher of Playboy magazine passed away last week at the age of ninety-one. 

GAWU General Secretary,  Seepaul Narine (third from left) presenting the donation to CDC Director, Colonel (Ret’d) Chabilall Ramsarup in the presence of officials from the Union and the CDC

GAWU donates to hurricane relief 

  The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) on Monday provided a monetary donation towards the Caribbean hurricane relief efforts which are being coordinated here by the Civil Defence Commission (CDC).

Reasons and sincere reasons

‘The lawfulness of state actors’ decisions frequently depends on the reasons they give to justify their conduct, and a wide range of statutory and constitutional law renders otherwise lawful actions unlawful if they are not justified by reasons or are justified by the wrong reasons’(Mathilde Cohen.