Daily Archive: Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Articles published on Wednesday, October 10, 2018

President David Granger with Ministry of Education officials (at left) during the meeting with executive members of the Guyana Teachers’ Union at State House during a meeting on Monday morning. (Ministry of the Presidency photo)

Teachers set to reject gov’t wage offer

Teachers are not in favour of government’s new wage offer of 10 per cent for 2016 and eight percent for 2018 and the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) will likely refuse the offer when representatives meet with the Ministry of Education (MoE) today, according to General Secretary Coretta McDonald.  

CRICKET CRISIS! West Indies … have not won on Indian soil in 24 years.

Caribbean cricket crisis…..

RAJKOT, India,  CMC – Ex-Test opener Daren Ganga says West Indies’ heavy defeat in the first Test last week was another stern reminder of the crisis in Caribbean cricket, and that cricket in the region was in need of a structural overhaul.

Nyron Joseph

Joseph pleased with showing in 2018

Senior national squash player, Nyron Joseph is pleased with his showing in 2018 following his herculean effort on Sunday to recapture the Lucozade Handicap Squash title which brought the curtain down on senior squash tournaments for the year at the Georgetown Club Squash court. 

Dwayne Adams resisted with a fighting 74.

Narayan’s century flattens North Soesdyke

Former Guyana youth player Danny Narayan smashed a blistering century and returned with the ball to take two wickets for Ruimveldt to propel North Soesdyke to a 44-run defeat at the Everest Cricket Club ground Sunday as the fifth annual East Bank Demerara Cricket Association/Neville Sarjoo Memorial 40-overs-a-side tournament continued.

Pensioners continue to be mistreated

Dear Editor, The various summary reports on TV channels and in the press about the candidatures (parties, groups, individuals) for representation at the forthcoming Local Government (not communities) Elections, gave brief insights into their respective programmes, aspirations, and even reservations about the future prospects of their communities.

Excluded AIBA presidency candidate lodges CAS appeal

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Kazakhstan’s Serik Konakbayev, a vice president of the international boxing association (AIBA), has filed an urgent appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against his exclusion as a presidential candidate, CAS said yesterday.

CCAA has folded when it is most needed

Dear Editor, I opened an e-mail last Saturday from Sally Yearwood, Executive Director of the Caribbean-Central American Action (CCAA) that began as follows, “Dear Wesley, Caribbean-Central American Action (CCAA) has always been an organisation driven as much by its programs and advocacy as by the people who have supported it over the years. 

IOC has asked Senegal to help in Diack investigation

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee has asked Senegal to support a French investigation into the son of the former head of the international athletics federation (IAAF) who is suspected of corruption, IOC President Thomas Bach said yesterday.

‘Not getting to the poorest’

As this column has noted before, it was the dreaded Cardinal Richelieu who claimed, ‘If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.’