Daily Archive: Sunday, October 27, 2019

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Fugitive Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died “whimpering and crying” in a raid by U.S.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Education Ministry has confirmed that it has received “isolated reports” of the hand, foot and mouth disease across the island.

An impressive showing by the senior Caribbean Championship-bound trio, Christopher Griffith, Michael Anthony and Jamaul John resulted in the National Park record being shattered when the eight annual Payless Variety Store 35-lap featured School boys and Invitational race ended yesterday.

In what could only be described as a bizarre match, Goergetown Cricket Club (GCC) routed Third Class for just 15 runs in yesterday’s Georgetown Cricket Association/New Building Society’s Second Division 40-over tournament.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has published the list of registrants generated from the contentious national house-to-house registration exercise but commission members are divided on how the information is to be treated, while the opposition has questioned its legality and called for its withdrawal. 

Dennis `The Menace’ Thomas, a 2015 Caribbean Development Tournament middleweight silver medallist has announced plans to wipe off the ring rust and throw his hat into the ring for this weekend’s Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) Terrence Alli Open boxing championships at the National Gymnasium.

COLORADO SPRINGS, United States,  CMC – United States plan to use the upcoming Regional Super50 to further repair damaged confidence, following the disappointment of missing out on advancing to the Dubai qualifier for next year’s Twenty20 World Cup.

Samantha Young has never used drugs or alcohol, but she has seen and experienced the debilitating and sometimes horrific effects of substance abuse.

Two persons are now dead and two others are injured following a head-on collision between an ambulance and a car along Obama Drive, Amelia’s Ward, Linden early yesterday morning.

The life of the current Public Procurement Com-mission (PPC) expires today and despite the Constitution providing for two commissioners to be granted four-year terms to allow for transitioning, this has not happened.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – Leading opener Hayley Matthews has been left out of a 14-member West Indies squad to face touring India Women in the first two One-Day Internationals of the three-match series which bowls off here next Friday.

By Nicholas Peters Colonialism had already imposed colonial mindsets on the psyche of African people, which meant that they continued to reproduce coloniality as their future even after direct juridical colonialism has been dismantled – Sabelo J.Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Fair treatment of all businesses and no taxes on start-ups until they begin to turn a profit is a key pledge of the soon-to-be-launched Change Guyana political party, whose presidential candidate Robert Badal is asking voters to trust his experience and leadership as a businessman.

MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Manchester City closed the gap on Premier League leaders Liverpool to three points with a 3-0 victory over Aston Villa yesterday, while a hat-trick by American Christian Pulisic helped steer Chelsea to a 4-2 victory at Burnley.

Nicholas Peters’ “Imagining Future Guyanas” is the last of four non-fiction works we decided to feature this month.

Richmond Housing Scheme on the Essequibo Coast has been in existence for more than 30 years and a haven to the 1,000+ people who made it their home over the years.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Legendary former West Indies captain, Sir Vivian Richards, has endorsed Kieron Pollard’s appointment as white-ball skipper and believes “politics with the last regime” prevented the Trinidadian from assuming the position sooner.

A Venezuelan woman was shot dead in the wee hours of yesterday morning after rushing to the aid of her Guyanese boyfriend when he came under fire from a gang of men at Rock Landing Kaikan, Wenamu River, in Region Seven.

Sita and Jatayu         It was Jatayu who tried to pursue Rawan to save Sita, his treasured King’s wife, as she prayed to her Rama to free her from Rawan’s clutch, squeezing tight her spleenThe Vulture King, Jatayu’s time was due.

A new champion will be crowned in the (EBFA)/Ralph Green Under-11 Football competition after Riddim Squad defeated defending champions Timehri Panthers 2-0 yesterday in the semi-finals at the National Training Centre, Providence.

The return of the spring tides, which will be in effect until Monday, has left several residents on the northern side of Glazier’s Lust and Columbia, Mahaicony, counting losses and fearing that even worse lies ahead.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Cricket West Indies president, Ricky Skerritt, said he is shortly looking forward to reviewing the recommendations of the Task Force on Corporate Governance Reform.

Thousands of persons yesterday took to the city streets to show their support for the fight against breast cancer at GTT’s Pinktober Cancer Awareness 5K/10K Walk and Run.

The police have arrested a teen who they believe may be responsible for the murder of Guyana Defence Force (GDF) rank Olijah Chesney, whose body was found in Tucville Squatting area, in Georgetown, almost two weeks ago with gunshot wounds.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates,  CMC – A highly professional Netherlands romped to an emphatic 92-run victory over winless Bermuda who bowed out of the ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium yesterday after suffering a sixth successive Group A defeat.

“I was almost ready to get baby and we had not marry for a very long time when I found out he was cheating, and this thing got me so sick that I end up in hospital.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has announced a crackdown on the use of fire crackers and other illicit explosive devices, while noting that those persons found in possession of these items will be prosecuted.

(Trinidad Newsday) A war of words has intensified between the police and the magistracy with Police Commissioner Gary Griffith directly calling on a magistrate to not bully his officers, and the magistrate accusing policemen of pedalling misinformation about the courts.

The second ‘GuyOil/Tradewind Tankers Secondary Schools Football League’ will commence today at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

Using the same weights or machines can become monotonous and boring.

Dear Editor, Interests in oil blocks should be awarded in ways that maximise the value to the resource owner, that is, to the country and its people.

The Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL) yesterday announced that its 69kV submarine cable is back in operation following the successful completion of remedial work.

We have grown up in a society where the predominant belief is that disciplining a child means “licks.”

North Georgetown and St. Agnes will contest the final of the Courts Pee Wee Football U11 competition following semi-final wins yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

Dear Editor, Sherwood Lowe’s letter, “We need a systematic evaluation of the 1999/2000 constitutional reforms” (SN: 25/10/19) is exactly the kind of missive this country needed four years ago when this government came to power with great promise to shake up constitutional reform.

It may be convenient to repeat the words of Mikhail Gorbachev following the G7 summit of 1991: “The ice has started moving… and the icebreaker is on its way toward renewal.”

BERLIN/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Wednesday it had achieved a breakthrough in computing research by using a quantum computer to solve in minutes a complex problem that would take today’s most powerful supercomputer thousands of years to crack.

A dominating performance from the Sinclair family saw Rose Hall Thunderbolts to an eight-wicket win over Upper Corentyne in the Berbice Cricket Board Ivan Madray T20 tournament yesterday at the Area H Ground.

The Guyana Coalition of Services Providers is being revived, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which says a new board of directors is in place and a one-year work plan is being implemented.

(Trinidad Express) A year after her boyfriend was gunned down, Melissa Cain was shot and killed by a man dressed in camouflage.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said yesterday he would shake up his Cabinet to quell a week of mass protests against inequality that have rocked the South American nation.

Dear Editor, Exxon is accused of cooking the books. One set of accounting records for shareholders (investors) and another for its management.

LONDON (Reuters) – Oil and gas corporation BP plans to build a $25 million pilot plant to test new technology the energy company says will allow plastic bottles and food packaging to be recycled again and again.

Seeing the need for members of the Guyanese workforce to provide the best services that they can, a local company, Professional Training, Employment and Consultancy Services, has been working to help workers develop their skills and themselves in the process.

Eagles flew their way past Den Amstel 7-0  when the West Demerara Football Association [WDFA] U17 League resumed yesterday at the Uitvlugt ground.

The Pesticides and Toxic Chemical Control Laboratory was recommissioned last Thursday.

LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivian President Evo Morales  yesterday vowed to hold a run-off election if an audit of a vote count that gave him an outright win turns up evidence of fraud, as he sought to calm a sixth day of protests and international criticism over his disputed re-election to a fourth term.

Dear Editor, Instead of Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo seeking to undermine the independence and work of GECOM, he should be advising the nation when he and the other opposition Members of Parliament are prepared to honour the ruling of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) regarding the responsibility of the National Assembly with respect to elections. 

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Introduction Last week’s column briefly evaluated the perspective of private investors and their value added proposals for constructing “modular mini-refineries” utilising Guyana’s crude oil.

Jaded by the PPP/C’s 23 years in office, many were elated at the coalition between the APNU and AFC because it offered the real possibility of ending the PPP/C’s long incumbency.

A day is dulled and dimmed if it passes and I do not pick up a book of poems in my library, browse in some anthology, find a new poem in the latest issue of Poetry Review or The New Yorker or some other magazine or at least glance at some old favourite lines from Hopkins, Walcott, Yeats, Carter or a score of other supreme masters of the art and craft of making poems.

Things turned sour Dear Minerva, I just broke up with my boyfriend of four years.

(Reuters) – Bangladesh opening batsman Tamim Iqbal has withdrawn from the tour of India next month due to personal reasons, the country’s cricket board (BCB) said yesterday.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has reiterated its pledge to protect individual citizens against abuse by officialdom.

It didn’t come to me like a bulb lighting up; it took a long time for the realisation to dawn but when it did come it landed with so much force that I remember it left me thinking, “Halle-lujah; I never thought of it before, but that’s true” and what I’m referring to is the fact that the most gifted calypsonians were those who had the advantage of having lived a very focused life, of having taken part in or seen or heard of unusual things, and – this is the key part – then being able to find a novel way of expressing the idea or the behaviour in a humourous or sardonic manner in a song.

(Trinidad Guardian) A man who dared to call the po­lice “ful­ly dunce” has been ar­rest­ed and charged.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A revelatory cache of fossils dug up in central Colorado details as never before the rise of mammals from the post-apocalyptic landscape after an asteroid smacked Earth 66 million years ago and annihilated three-quarters of all species including the dinosaurs.

Dear Editor, As a subjective assessment, Mr Tacuma Ogunseye’s letter, “APNU+AFC coalition not ideal manifestation of multi-racial politics but is the best nation has achieved to date” (SN: 25/10/19) is not an exaggeration but tells us of the substantial distance left to be travelled before we could arrive at a sensible form of governance.

VATICAN CIT (Reuters) – An assembly of Roman Catholic bishops from the Amazon yesterday proposed that married men in the remote area be allowed to be ordained priests, which could lead to a landmark change in the Church’s centuries-old discipline of celibacy.

The fate of the AFC as a viable political party will be determined in the not-too-distant future. 

Police on Tuesday conducted several cordon and search exercises within the Region 4 A (Agricola/Cummings Lodge) division.

Rangoli designs made by staff members of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on Friday to celebrate Diwali.