Daily Archive: Sunday, October 6, 2019

(CPL) Guyana Amazon Warriors continued their unbeaten 2019 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) by crushing the Barbados Tridents to progress to the CPL final at the Brian Lara Stadium on Saturday 12 October.

(Trinidad Express) A Chase Village man was killed instantly on Friday night when his car crashed into a utility pole along the Uriah Butler Highway.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A second whistleblower has come forward with first-hand knowledge of President Donald Trump’s attempts to get the Ukrainian president to investigate a political rival, lawyers for the official said today.

(Trinidad Newsday) Although he was given an honorary doctorate last month Police Commissioner Gary Griffith does not want to be referred to as “doctor” after checks raised doubts over the institutions that bestowed it.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Despite the fact that they can be imprisoned for non-payment of child maintenance fees, nearly 5,000 fathers are being taken to court by Jamaican women for child maintenance every year.

(Jamaica Observer) Opposition Senator Dr Andre Haughton took to social media Friday evening in an attempt to rebuff criticisms about his foot-in-mouth moment in Parliament earlier in the day when, during a presentation in observance of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, he declared his love for female breasts.

(Jamaica Observer) Four Jamaican final year Norman Manley Law School students, with the backing of their coaches, Hanielle Hines and Meridian Kohler, were declared champions of the Cybersecurity Moot at the inaugural Qatar International Cybersecurity Contest on October 3.

(Trinidad Express) A Trinidad and Tobago immigration official based in Caracas, Venezuela has sent a distress call to the T&T authorities to send him money to survive or bring him back home.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong police and protesters clashed today as tens of thousands marched through the central city wearing face masks in defiance of colonial-era emergency powers which threaten them with a year in prison for hiding their faces.

When Andrea Tucker was diagnosed with breast cancer, she was scared.

As the 2019 HERO Caribbean Premier League (CPL) enters the final stage, undefeated Guyana Amazon Warriors will push for a spot in the finals when they take on Barbados Tridents in the first qualifier while St.

By Carinya Sharples Growing up, not many of the characters in the books I read looked like me.

By Royston Alkins The lucid tale of the Guyana Amazon Warriors franchise has over the course of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL), been met with mixed reactions and unfortunate fortunes.

‘The books that make us’ is the first of four non-fiction works that will be featured this month.

Strangroen is a tiny community in Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara. Its handful of families have a total of 25 members, most of whom are grown and are employed in the rice fields or at Rayaadul Rice Industries in the village.

Jamaul John did it again! The Team Coco’s wheelsman kicked off the month of October in fine style, winning his third consecutive race yesterday, underlining his sublime late season form.

In these sad, dislocated times let us dwell a while on what is permanently important in the nation.

The Police Sports Club (PSC), the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) and the Gandhi Youth Organization (GYO) continued their unbeaten runs in the 2019 New Building Society (NBS), Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Second Division 40-over tournament after recording triumphs yesterday. 

While assuring that that their votes would not be taken for granted, President David Granger last evening appealed to Lindeners and the nation to give his government a second term in office to continue the “sound” developmental policies his APNU+AFC coalition has initiated since its election in 2015.

October 5, 1992, the date of the return to democracy after a quarter of a century, promised not only a new era of democracy, but of winner-does-not-take-all politics.

Herstelling, Grove Hi-Tech and Swan football teams secured contrasting wins when the East Bank Demerara Zone of the NAMILCO U17 football competition  continued yesterday at the National Training Center, Providence.

A Festival City man was shot dead by masked bandits who broke into his home early yesterday morning.

Introduction Today I start my discussion of the fourth and penultimate Guidepost listed in the spending dimension of Guyana’s Petroleum Road Map.

Defending champion Timehri Panthers, Swan, Eagles and Riddim Squad were among the winning teams when the fourth East Bank Football Association/Ralph Green U11 League continued yesterday.

Despite its two oil finds to date, the United Kingdom-headquartered Tullow Oil says it has not yet determined if the discoveries are in commercial quantities and wants Guyana’s expectations of it to be tempered until additional exploration and data analysis.

West Ruimveldt, St. Ambrose, St. Agnes, North Georgetown and Redeemer clinched easy wins when the 2019 edition of the Courts Pee Wee U11 football competition resumed yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

Emphasising the need for a change in the governance system to encompass the main political forces, A New and United Guyana (ANUG) yesterday announced that 73-year-old two-term House Speaker Ralph Ramkarran will be its presidential candidate for the March 2020 elections.

It could well be that my time as a musician has left me prejudiced, but I have long felt that there are striking examples of creative genius about in the musical world that we glide by without noticing or appreciating what is sitting right there before us until some circumstance or occasion brings the condition clearly into focus. 

Sonnet 130   My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Rohit Sharma completed a century in each innings in his maiden test as opener as India pressed for victory in the first test against South Africa by setting the touring side a daunting target of 395 at Visakhapatnam yesterday.

Dear Editor, I know not the people.  I know not, nor do I wish to know, the merits or demerits of respective contentions.

WASHINGTON/ATHENS,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday opened a new front in the impeachment battle that threatens his administration, blasting a prominent member of his party for criticizing his push to get foreign nations to probe a leading Democratic rival.

Following numerous reports of persons being robbed by a gang of armed robbers near the Providence Stadium after last Friday night’s cricket match, extra security will be patrolling in and around the area today, ‘A’ Division Commander Marlon Chapman has said. 

I received quite a bit of feedback from last week’s column, so I have decided to do a part 2 of sorts.

DOHA, (Reuters) – A United States quartet led by Christian Coleman blazed to the 4×100 metres relay title at the world athletics championships yesterday, clocking the second fastest time ever at 37.10 seconds to end a 12-year gold medal drought.

The police are investigating a gunfight that occurred at La Penitence Market yesterday afternoon during which a suspected bandit was shot.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – North Korea’s top negotiator said late yesterday that working-level nuclear talks in Sweden between officials from Pyongyang and Washington had broken off, dashing prospects for an end to months of stalemate.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia will find ways to help Cuba secure supplies of oil and petroleum products, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview broadcast on Saturday.

There are times when we become extremely stressed out by life’s troubles and we find it hard to keep a good attitude.

A 74-year-old Port Mourant, Corentyne grandmother was left bloodied on Friday when armed bandits attacked her family at their home.

SANTA CRUZ DE LA SIERRA, Bolivia,  (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched through the streets of Bolivia’s largest city, turning up heat on President Evo Morales as they voiced outrage over his government’s response to wildfires that have razed broad swaths of the country’s forests this year.

Dear Editor, On Friday, I bore witness to the initiation of what I’ve only heard rumours of – the destruction of one of Georgetown’s largest living monuments – the silk-cotton tree that resides within the compound of Carnegie School of Home Economics.

DOHA, (Reuters) – Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands completed a unique double when she dominated the race to win the 1,500 metres at the world athletics championship yesterday, adding to the 10,000 metres title she won earlier in the competition.

“How you could go to a Pandit? We are not Hindus, we are Christians,” she said with a hint of anger.

(Barbados Nation) Yet another family and community is in mourning following gun violence.

CARACAS/MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov was in Caracas yesterday to underline Moscow’s support for Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro that has helped him stay in power despite intense Western pressure to quit.

(Reuters) – The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) Finals head into Game Three today with an air of uncertainty, as it remains unclear whether the sport’s brightest star will play in the matchup between the Connecticut Sun and Washington Mystics.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The contentious resolutions that sought to bar members of the public from accessing Cabinet documents for 70 years was officially withdrawn from the order paper of the Senate yesterday.

A 13-year-old student of St John’s College is presently nursing injuries in the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after a motorcycle struck him off of his bicycle last night.

Dear Minerva, About six months ago, I ended a relationship with a guy I really cared for because he was taking up residence abroad and I knew that the long-distance thing would not work for me.

Dear Editor, For decades, since our Independence in 1966 to now, Guyana has been suffering from inadequate potable water and reliable electricity.

Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence was elected Vice-Chair of the Executive Board of the World Health Organisation (WHO) during the just-concluded 71st Session of the body’s Regional Committee for the Americas.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuadorean indigenous and union organizations kept protests going yesterday and promised no let-up in their push to overturn austerity measures by President Lenin Moreno’s government that have convulsed the nation for three days.

Scenes from the 62nd anniversary activities in Linden yesterday. Jamaican cricketer Chris Gayle also travelled to the town and met residents.

(Reuters) – India all-rounder Hardik Pandya underwent successful surgery on his lower back in London and hopes to return to action in “no time”.

Dear Editor, Recognising the intense deceptive lobbying efforts of the PPP in fueling a series of orchestrated distorted views of the Caribbean Court of Justice’s (CCJ) ruling and the constitutional requirements to aid Guyana’s restoration of constitutional normalcy and peaceful resolution of our current political crisis, I publicly called on the government on several occasions not to bow to the engineering calls for proclamation of a date for elections.   

(Barbados Nation) Almost three months after being shot in the back of the head, a Christ Church man is reported to have succumbed to his injuries.

The Gaico Grand Prix chess tournament was a fulfilling one, taking into consideration its turnout, the distribution of grand prix points, the prizes and the promise of Olympiad favour.

It is not often that former heads of state or government admit to having made mistakes during their period of office, and in this country it is very rare indeed.