Daily Archive: Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Articles published on Tuesday, December 12, 2017

PPP/C MP Juan Edghill (centre) and some of his party colleagues walking to the Brickdam Police Station today.

Edghill drama

Drama continued at Parliament today around PPP/C MP Juan Edghill who was later charged with breaching a police barricade and  went of his own volition to the Brickdam Police Station to hear the charge against him.

Trent Boult

New Zealand wrap up Windies series with 240-run win

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – New Zealand’s bowlers steadily chipped away at the West Indies lineup to record a ruthless 240-run victory shortly before tea on the fourth day of the second test at Seddon Park in Hamilton on Tuesday to wrap up a 2-0 series sweep.

PPP/C MP Juan Edghill (right in spectacles) being shielded by fellow MPs as the police attempted to evict him from Parliament Chambers yesterday.  PPP/C Chief Whip Gail Teixeira is at centre. (Keno George photo)

[Videos] PPP/C MPs clash with cops over Edghill ejection

Photos by Keno George The start of the consideration of the estimates of the revenue and expenditure for 2018 descended into chaos yesterday when opposition MPs faced off against police over a bid to physically remove member Juan Edghill from the parliament chamber and PPP/C members claim they were assaulted in the ensuing melee.

Fast bowler Miguel Cummins celebrates a wicket. (Photo courtesy CWI Media)

Windies on the ropes chasing world record target

HAMILTON, New Zealand, CMC – Opener Kieran Powell completed a ‘pair’ to leave West Indies in dire straits in their pursuit of a world record target of 444 runs, after Ross Taylor’s 17th Test hundred put New Zealand in a near invincible position, in the seond and final Test here yesterday.

Real Madrid face formidable PSG test

(Reuters) – Holders Real Madrid will have to overcome a sizeable obstacle when the Champions League resumes in February after yesterday’s draw pitted the 12-times winners against Paris St Germain.

If Broomes takes credit for Stephen’s reinstatement as part of govt she should take responsibility for sugar workers’ retrenchment

Dear Editor, Junior Minister of Natural Resources, Simona Broomes, in her contribution to the 2018 National Budget debate on December 6, 2017, among other things, spoke about the re-employment of Skeldon Estate worker, Daniel Stephens who, it is recalled, was dismissed in September, 2014 after an altercation with the then Estate Manager.

All requested documents handed over to SOCU

Though the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) is saying that it has not received all the documents requested from the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) in its US$500 million Guyana Rice Development Board probe, the bank continues to maintain that it has handed over all the documents.

Where are we heading?

Dear Editor, The majority side of the aisle in the hallowed Chamber led by the leader of that side, chose to walk out when the leader of the opposite side rose to make concluding remarks to the week long budget debate.

West Indies star Johnson Charles … punched a hundred for Rangpur Riders.

Charles hundred puts Riders in final

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies opener Johnson Charles stroked his maiden Twenty20 hundred to propel Chris Gayle’s Rangpur Riders to a 36-run over Comilla Victorians and into today’s final of the Bangladesh Premier League.

Ministers should be sacked

Dear Editor, I must commend Robert McRae for his courage and clarity of thought after he stated the case so clearly in relation to the ExxonMobil signing bonus deception and called for the sacking of all those involved.

Juan Orlando Hernandez

OK to criticize Venezuela, but turn a blind eye on Honduras? Not really

At a time when the United States should be going out of its way to stop a dangerous regression toward dictatorships in Latin America, the Trump administration — which to its credit has denounced the power grabs by the leftist leaders of Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua — should be equally critical of the slide into authoritarian rule by the conservative president of Honduras.

The clouds and LBI

Dear Editor, It was a brilliant morning. Motoring into La Bonne Intention Estate on this November day, the last, I could not help observing the designs of the overhead clouds, vividly white, clear, the glistening edges reflecting the sun’s rays which reached out, as if to say ‘have a good day’!

Opportunity for agro-processing

These past three weeks have witnessed the opening of two of the largest supermarkets ever to be launched locally, and there is a sense in which the officially acknowledged slowdown in the economy notwithstanding, the two multi-million dollar investments point to evidence of an encouraging measure of local investor confidence, never mind the apprehension reflected in the post-budget responses by the country’s major business support organizations.