Daily Archive: Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Articles published on Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Religious leaders, from left, Faith-based Network of T&T president, Winston Mansingh, Archbishop Jason Gordon, SDMA Secretary General Satnarayan Maharaj, ASJA president Yacoob Ali, T&T Council of Evangelical Churches president Desmond Austin and Mufti Mohammed Haque during a press conference at Archbishop’s House, Port-of-Spain yesterday.

T&T religious heads reject same sex marriage

 (Trinidad Guardian) The country’s leading religious leaders yesterday called on Government not to amend the Equal Opportunities Act to accommodate the LGBTQIA community, while they want an amendment to the Marriage Act to entrench marriage as a union between a male and female when Parliament meets in September.

 Roger Harper (right) and Mayor Patricia Chase-Greene (left) unveils the Clive Lloyd Drive sign.

Clive Lloyd Drive sign unveiled after 15 years

Fifteen years after a careless driver mowed down the sign that honored and reflected the contribution of one of the greatest to play the game of cricket, a collective effort between the Mayor and City Council, Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) and Top Brandz has made it possible for the sign be once again erected.

The post of Chief Fire Officer was deleted

Dear Editor, SN’s very thoughtful Editorial of Friday June 8, 2018 titled ‘Improved Facilities for Fire Service’ touched an old (raw) nerve; for it’s a decade or more since I have attempted to bring attention to the indifference with which such a critical service as the Guyana Fire Service is treated.

The Bee Hive incident

When public officers who knowingly place themselves in harm’s way in pursuit of enforcement of the law are harmed or come under attack from those whose criminal pursuits they seek to deter, not only do law-abiding citizens have a duty to roundly condemn such acts and to insist that the perpetrators are determinedly ferreted out and suitably punished, but the state itself has an obligation to place every available resource at the disposal of the effort to hunt down and apprehend the guilty parties.