Daily Archive: Monday, April 8, 2019

Articles published on Monday, April 8, 2019

Brazil tribal lands under new threat from farmers, miners

RAPOSA SERRA DO SOL, Brazil,  (Reuters) – A decade after the Macuxi people won a bloody legal battle to expel rice planters from their reservation in a remote part of Brazil, their hold over ancestral lands has come under threat again from new right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro.

Irfaan Ali

‘Integrity on the line’

PPP/C presidential candidate Irfaan Ali should urgently address concerns about the authenticity of his academic qualifications since his integrity is on the line,  Working People’s Alliance (WPA) executive Dr David Hinds says.

DCC pose with the championship cup after scampering past GCC in an exciting low-scoring affair (Royston Alkins photo) 

Nedd’s brilliance spurs DCC past GCC in U-19 final 

A brilliant spell of left-arm spin bowling by West Indies youth player Ashmead Nedd spearheaded a thrilling 22-run win for the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) over host and archrival, the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) in the final of the Noble House Seafoods Under – 19 Generation Next Cricket competition yesterday. 

Sir Hilary Beckles

Pybus HPC approach was “deeply troubling”: Sir Hilary

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – UWI Vice-chancellor, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles has described interim West Indies head coach, Richard Pybus’ perception of the now defunct high performance centre as “deeply troubling”, and says the Englishman failed to understand what was required to develop the modern West Indies player.

 KKR all-rounder Sunil Narine.

Narine finds form to put KKR over Royals

JAIPUR, India,  CMC – Sunil Narine fired with the bat for the first time this season as Kolkata Knight Riders extended their fine run with a dominant eight-wicket win over Barbadian Jofra Archer’s Rajasthan Royals here yesterday.

Corrective action has been taken

Dear Editor, Whether it was a direct result of my letter to your newspaper (January 09, 2019) headlined “these two stretches of pavements at the stadium require work”, or a mere coincidence, I am happy to state that corrective action has been taken on issues/concerns (which were) highlighted.

Tangled web

Dear Editor, First their resignation was accepted with immediate effect, then portfolios to be handled by stand-ins, now earlier position recanted and resignations not effective immediately.

NBA roundup: Bucks lock up No. 1 seed

Playoff intensity showed itself from the opening tip at Philadelphia on Thursday as Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 45 points and grabbed 13 rebounds in the Milwaukee Bucks’ 128-122 comeback victory over the 76ers that clinched the best record in the Eastern Conference.

A White Axio sedan on fire in Gasparillo in early March.

Car fires ignite new fuel fears in Trinidad

(Trinidad Guardian) Wide­ly shared so­cial me­dia posts blam­ing im­port­ed fu­el for at least six in­ci­dents in re­cent months in which cars caught fire have been dis­pelled by me­chan­ics who be­lieve poor main­te­nance and shod­dy mod­i­fi­ca­tions were done to the ve­hi­cles were like­ly the cause of the fires.

Some of the participants hard at work (DPI photo)

Easter kite fest

In keeping with the spirit of Easter, hundreds of children yesterday participated in a kite making competition hosted by the family of Minister within the Ministry of Natural Resources, Simona Broomes in Lodge Housing Scheme, Georgetown, according to the Department of Public Information.

Conflict of interest

It has come to public notice that a clear conflict of interest arose sometime in 2017 at the ministry with responsibility for the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) after Minister Valerie Adams-Yearwood’s husband, Godfrey Yearwood, secured a contract to build houses for the same CH&PA.