Articles published on Sunday, January 5, 2020
(Jamaica Gleaner) Cricket West Indies (CWI) President Ricky Skerritt has hit back at his critics for what he says is a misinterpretation of his comments concerning the hiring of overseas coaches after recent appointments to the West Indies coaching set-up.
(Trinidad Guardian) Pastor Vinworth Dayal, head of the Third Exodus Assembly, was unrepentant about the more $28 million he claimed he had accumulated in tithes over many years at his Longdenville church.
Police in Region Three are probing the discovery of two lifeless bodies in a room at the Aracari Resort Versailles, West Bank Demerara.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s parliament today swore in legislator Luis Parra as its new leader after government security forces blocked opposition leader Juan Guaido from entering parliament, in what Guaido’s allies called a “parliamentary coup.”
(Jamaica Observer) The New Year is off to a super start as a Jamaican has won the last Super Lotto jackpot for 2019.
TOKYO, (Reuters) – Kane Tanaka has extended her record as the world’s oldest person by celebrating her 117th birthday at a nursing home in Fukuoka in southern Japan.
(Trinidad Express) He tried saving two drowning girls, but paid with his life.
The opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has written to Commissioner of Police Leslie James requesting an urgent investigation of an alleged attack on party activists during the public announcement of their campaign launch.
The man killed during the armed robbery of a Chinese restaurant owner at Tuschen Housing Scheme, East Bank Essequibo, on Friday night has been identified as accused serial robber Mark Prince, who was part of a gang of five that included a member of the Joint Services.
Government has failed to account for over $800 million spent in 2018, according to the Auditor General’s report.
Auditor General (AG) Deodat Sharma has advised the Ministry of Education to terminate a more than $350 million contract for the construction of the St Rose’s High School after the contractor failed to complete the work more than a year after the award.
A high level of discipline and commitment is expected of the four boxers during their three-month training stint in Cuba ahead of the Olympic Qualifiers in March.
The tragic stories of teenagers who were both rejected by their families as a result of their HIV positive status are what pushed Dr Niccollette Boatswain to join in the fight against the virus in Guyana.
The Government of Guyana continued to make overpayments to contractors throughout the 2018 fiscal year, according to the unreleased Auditor General’s (AG) report.
Two weeks after the historic first draw of crude oil in the Stabroek Block, offshore Guyana, production stood at approximately 500,000 barrels.
Newbies to the Guyana Jaguars for Professional Cricket League, Kevin Sinclair and Nial Smith will look to capitalize on the opportunity and cement their place with good performances.
Following his election to the top post of the Georgetown Football Association [GFA] on November 2 last year, former FIFA International Referee Otis James sat down with Stabroek Sports to discuss the issues plaguing the association and his developmental plans for 2020.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will invite expressions of interest from international professionals to staff its oil and gas unit after recent efforts to recruit locals failed to produce suitably qualified and experienced persons.
A sister shared about her eye-opening experience during a recent visit to Mahdia, in Region Eight.
The Department of Energy (DoE) will sign a contract later this month with the firm which successfully bid to help overhaul the legislative framework to regulate Guyana’s burgeoning oil and gas industry, Director Dr Mark Bynoe has said.
SYLHET, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies white-ball starts Lendl Simmons and Kesrick Williams played meaningful roles as Chattogram Challengers returned to their winning ways with a six-wicket victory over Khulna Tigers in the Bangladesh Premier League here yesterday.
Sweet veins of sugar run deep within our skin Whipped and seared with striations of blood And salt-filled wounds, an indelible record Written on our backs A dark ink that runs through time Straight from our fore-parents’ pain History is not a past tense but a well-remembered thing Of toil and terror that bleeds into the present hours And addresses our soul with stories of monied greed That dripped from light, sugar-sweetened skins Those that clamped the chains, those that cracked the whips To brutish laughter and are risen yet again To entrap with new stories of gluttony and greed Wearing their thin disguise, wearing their blackened sheen That drills down through layers and layers of time To claim sweet veins of oil that rest unworried in the core beneath And we who once were hurt and who once felt the pain Have learned to profit from the loss And to profit from the gain And the massa-day avarice we once condemned and blamed We see in the mirror now garbed in full length And caught in full embrace of the very greed Of the very sweetened deals Now that we have signed our name Here on this dotted line that pushes past the past That pushes past the pain To reveal the grins, the skin-teeth open mouths Of the shiny, oil-slickened beings That we have become -Ryhaan Shah
Four men, including one armed with what appeared to be a submachine gun, robbed a Parika, East Bank Essequibo bar and almost a dozen patrons on Friday night.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Marnus Labuschagne scored a maiden double century to drive Australia to 454 all out before New Zealand’s openers resisted the home attack to post 63 without loss on the second day of the third test yesterday.
Ryhaan Shah, who has worked as a journalist in print and television, has had three novels published in the United Kingdom.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Grenada’s Prime Minister, Dr Keith Mitchell, has praised the “attitudinal change” of the new Ricky Skerritt-led Cricket West Indies administration, and says it is a “fundamental” departure from “arrogance” which marked the previous Dave Cameron leadership.
A vagrant was fatally stabbed on Friday evening during a fight with two other vagrants for a vacant sleeping spot on a stall at the Corriverton Market.
Guyana’s cultural diversity, linkages to the Caribbean, pristine rainforest and delicious Chinese food were highlighted on yesterday’s edition of popular American morning show, Today, where the country was featured as one of the Top 5 destinations to visit this year.
Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence yesterday responded to the outrage caused by the ‘Word of God’ declarations posted on the Ministry’s Facebook page, while saying that they were not a statement or policy by the ministry.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – West Indies Under-19s head coach, Graeme West, does not believe the side’s wretched results in last month’s Tri-Nations Series is cause for major concern.
In Guyana, there is enormous diversity among Indigenous nations, each of which have their own distinct culture, language, history and unique way of life.
Dear Editor, I refer to Mike McCormack’s letter in the Friday edition of your paper in which he noted that based on figures published, the gold industry earned $1.5 trillion (not billion but trillion) between 1980 and 2019.
There’s a strange duality that comes with writing about films as a job.
CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Dean Elgar and Rassie van der Dussen put on a century fourth-wicket stand for South Africa but England have taken charge of the second test after reducing the home side to 215 for eight at the close of the second day at Newlands yesterday.
Three masked gunmen robbed the owners of a Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice clothing store last evening and battered one of them during the attack.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Captain Darren Bravo and exciting all-rounder Justin Greaves both struck half-centuries as CWI President’s XI dealt a blow to Ireland’s confidence ahead of next week’s start of the three-match one-day series against West Indies, with a convincing three-wicket win here yesterday.
Five men who were held in connection with the murders at a Number 63 Beach hotel, where the owner and a watchman were found dead, have been released from police custody, a source confirm-ed yesterday afternoon.
(Trinidad Guardian) The former head of the Professional Standards Bureau (PSB) of the T&T Police Service (TTPS) Totaram Dookie, who was recently promoted to the rank Assistant Commissioner of Police, was sent on leave just over a week ago.
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Dear Editor, On Jan 1st, a Facebook friend forwarded a video (approx.
Albion has joined Rose Hall Town Bakewell, Port Mourant Cricket Club and Rose Hall Canje in the semi-finals of the Berbice Cricket Board/ Ramnaresh Sarwan Under-17 limited overs tournament.
Ninety-seven-year-old Cecil Thomas was the first toshao of Campbelltown, which is the closest village to Mahdia, in Region Eight, at just a five-minute walk away.
The family of late painter Donald Mootoo, who died in a gruesome accident along the Montrose, East Coast Demerara in the early hours of New Year’s day, is at a loss as to how he met his death.
BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday threatened to hit 52 Iranian sites “very hard” if Iran attacks Americans or U.S.
Dear Editor, The caretaker president at the launch of the coalition elections campaign, in his address on constitutional reform regarding the no-confidence motion, is reported to have said, “That nonsense they tried to do…” Wasn’t it the same ‘nonsense’ the then opposition did in 2014 in bringing a no-confidence motion against the government?
(Reuters) – Indian all-rounder Irfan Pathan announced his retirement from all forms of the game yesterday, bringing the curtain down on an illustrious career which included a World Twenty20 triumph.
The rice sector produced 1,049,874 metric tonnes (mt) of paddy in 2019, marking the second highest annual production to date, according to the Guyana Rice Development’s Board (GRDB).
SYDNEY/MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Bushfires burned dangerously out of control on Australia’s east coast yesterday, fanned by high temperatures and strong winds that had firefighters battling to save lives and property, as a change in wind conditions merged several large fire fronts.
Dear Editor, Anyone who has been watching the Australian fires has seen much of the horror that nature can produce.
Some of you have decided that sometime in 2020 you will start taking control of your health and fitness by eating right and incorporating exercises into your regimen.
Dear Editor, I just came off the road and there they were: hanging, staring, bracing.
MORUYA, Australia (Reuters) – Choking smoke from raging bushfires blocked Bec Winter’s path to safety but she put faith in her horse Charmer to find a way, eventually reaching refuge in a local pub in the coastal town of Moruya, Winter said yesterday.
There are 173 squatter areas across regions Two to Six, and regions Nine and Ten which have been identified as being suitable for regularization, according to Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) Director for Community Development Gladwin Charles.
What is autism? Autism or autism spectrum disorder is a developmental disorder that affects the way a person interacts and communicates with their environment and those around them.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India captain Virat Kohli does not endorse the idea of reducing test matches to four-day affairs and yesterday warned administrators against tinkering too much with the purest format of the game.
(Trinidad Guardian) Financial Intelligence Branch (FIB) investigators were on Friday counting “millions of dollars” they seized from the Third Exodus Assembly Church in Longdenville headed by Pastor Vinworth Dayal on Thursday evening.
At the dawn of what was both a new year and a new decade, President David Granger delivered the head of state’s customary address to the nation.
Introduction Starting today, I shall attempt to offer readers as careful an assessment as I can of the developmental rationale that lies behind the Buxton Proposal, as I formulate it.
The financing of political campaigns without accountability can lead to corruption and it often does.
“for what else is there but books, books and the sea, verandahs and the pages of the sea to write of the wind and the memory of wind whipped hair in the sun, the colour of fire.”
Minister of Public Service Tabitha Sarabo-Halley says government will continue to award scholarships for University of Guyana (UG) law graduates to pursue their Legal Education Certificate (LEC) at the Hugh Wooding Law School (HWLS) next year if it is re-elected.
Media experiences are an integral part of your life if you are a musician creating songs for public consumption and, as you would imagine, they can vary from exhilarating to painful, and of course you never know in advance which it will be.
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Floods that killed more than 50 people in Indonesia’s capital after the biggest rainfall since records began should be a wake-up call to climate change in one of the world’s biggest carbon emitters, environmental groups said.
Last Update: 590.57 Movement: 2.61% Current Update: 605.99 YTD Movement: 17.70% LUCAS STOCK INDEX The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) rose 2.61% during the final period of trading in December and the year 2019.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Miley Cyrus’ decision to settle a US$300-million (J$40-billion) copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Jamaican songwriter Flourgon has been hailed as a “win-win” for entertainers from the land of reggae.
A new year has begun and with it comes the responsibility of a select few positively administering chess for 2020.
The annual Hamilton Green Birthday Anniversary Inter-Ward football tournament will conclude today at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora.
Dear Editor, In Stabroek News’ The Scene of 4th January 2020, artiste Courtney Noel promises a new single, “You know you are a Guyanese”.
