Daily Archive: Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Articles published on Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Ronsford Beaton

Ronsford Beaton can resume bowling – ICC

The International Cricket Council (ICC) today announced that following remedial work and reassessment, the bowling action of Guyanese and West Indies fast bowler Ronsford Beaton has been found to be legal and he can now resume bowling in international cricket.

Chair of the South Georgetown Branch of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) Kirwyn Mars carries a placard stating that the “CAPE and CSEC top students back the teachers’ strike and so should you” at yesterday’s protest action in front of the Ministry of the Presidency. The placard includes a headline from the Sunday Stabroek of August 19.

VIDEO: Teachers in protests as strike begins

Teachers around the country took to the streets yesterday to protest government’s failure to honour joint proposals for wages and other benefits and faced with the possibility that the new school year will begin with a strike, the Ministry of Education announced contingency plans, including the deployment of trainees.

Guyana Under – 11 boys capture bronze 

Guyana’s boys’ Under – 11 table tennis unit, captured the nation’s lone medal – bronze –  in the team’s event of the ongoing Caribbean Mini-Cadet and Pre-Cadet championships currently being played in the Dominican Republic.

Raewin Senior

T&T hand Guyana U19 first loss

Defending champions, Guyana, suffered their first loss of the Cricket West Indies Regional Under-19 tournament, going down to Trinidad and Tobago by four wickets in the sixth round yesterday at Arnos Vale Playing Field while Jamaica registered a three-wicket win over Barbados and Windward Islands defeated Canada by 79 runs.

(l-r) Ershaad Ali (5-34) and Omesh Danram (59 not out) guided UG to victory.

Ali, Danram guide UG to seven-wicket win over MYO

Ershaad Ali spun a web around Muslim Youth Organisation (MYO) before Omesh Danram smashed an unbeaten half century to lead University of Guyana (UG) to a seven-wicket win at MYO on Sunday in the New Building Society/ Georgetown Cricket Association second-division 40-overs competition.

From right are GWI Managing Director Dr. Richard Van West-Charles receiving the certificate from the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) Head of Conformity Assessment Department Rodlyn Semple while Water Quality Manager Deon Anderson (second from left) and Laboratory Consultant Dr. Karamchand Ramoutar look on.

GWI’s water quality lab nationally certified

With its Water Quality Laboratory at the shelter belt now certified by the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) for the first time, the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is proposing to construct  a number of mini laboratories around the country, Managing Director Dr.

Carib Beer must go beyond public apology for ad

Dear Editor, The Caribbean Voice (TCV) (www.caribvoice.org) joins with other NGOs and Women’s Rights Organizations in calling upon Carib Beer to go beyond a public apology in expressing their contrition for the awful ad that was both offensive and insensitive to women and gender based violence victims and activists in Guyana and the rest of the Caribbean.

Contrasting wins for GFC, GT Panthers

Home side Georgetown Football Club and newcomer GT Panthers secured contrasting wins when the Georgetown Football Association [GFA]-Interim Management Committee [IMC] ‘Stag Revival Cup’, commenced Sunday.

Cutting of the ceremonial ribbon with Dr. Lowell Porter and Kuru Kururu top student Garnett Bristol (DPI photo)

Kuru Kururu hosts first-ever Business Expo

The Kuru Kururu Small Business Association hosted its inaugural Business Expo on Saturday last with the aim of bringing more exposure to the small businesses in the community, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said yesterday.

Minibus service standards should be set and regulated by the authorities

The fact that some commentators are advocating that any increase in minibus fares be linked to an across-the -board improvement in the quality of service afforded commuters resembles a desperate bid to claw back some measure of leverage from an industry ‘gone wild’ though the more one thinks of throwing in ‘good behaviour’ as part of the criteria for increased fares the more it seems to be not a particularly good idea.

Alcohol abuse crisis must be made an elections issue

Dear Editor, Please permit me to make a little contribution in relation to the topical issue of alcohol abuse in the society and my  impulse to being proactive on the subject has been recently recharged having  heard the Opposition Leader complaining about alcohol usage in Parliament, an editorial in one  of the leading dailies, Caitlin Vieira’s the Psychologist and You (Sunday 19th and Sunday 26th August 2018) and now a definitive study reported by AFP (Paris, France)  done by lead researcher Max Griswald at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, Washington.