Articles published on Sunday, April 27, 2008
Rajasthan Royals continued to surge up the points table by beating Bangalore Royal Challengers comprehensively by seven wickets at the Chinnaswamy Stadium yesterday to draw level with the Chennai Super Kings with three wins each.
Wordworth McAndrew passes on By Oscar Ramjeet Guyana has lost one of its greatest cultural and folklorist icons who died at the South Orange Hospital in New Jersey.
Do the interim EPAs create opportunities for Caricom? By Dr Clive Thomas We saw last week that as the WTO-waiver deadline approached at the end of last year, the stratagem that might best describe the process of hasty initialling of interim EPAs was “the aversion of disaster at all costs, with agreement reached nowhere.”
Freedom for the collision of views By Ian McDonald Whatever happened to the National Broadcasting Authority Bill?
– Floyd McDonald Vice-Chairman Deputy Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Nanda Kishore Gopaul was yesterday elected as Chairman of the New Building Society (NBS) at the body’s Annual General Meeting held at the Berbice High School in New Amsterdam, Berbice.
Nostalgia 373 By Godfrey ChinDuring 2003, I encouraged the Guy-Aspora to record ‘the street where they lived’ in Guyana.
By Calvin Roberts Buoyed by their two run win over West Indies in the knockout phase of this competition along with a man of the match performance from Zafar Gohar, Pakistan on the back of a 105 run first wicket partnership between captain Muhammad Babar (51) and Muhammed Nadeem (90) scored 332-5 in their 50 overs then bowled out Holland for 102 to win their opening game in the league competition of the CLICO sponsored International Under-15 cricket tournament by a whopping 229 at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence yesterday.
Anxious to get back to their farmlands, Buxton farmers have proposed that they be employed by the army to help clear the backlands, saying the process has been taking too long, leaving them unable to provide for their families despite partial compensation for lost crops.
Illegal disconnections: GPL should put its house in order By Eileen Cox The Guyana Power & Light Inc wastes no time when it wishes to disconnect a customer but takes its time when a reconnection is to be done.
Dear Editor, It is a matter of grave concern that we appear to have a multi category approach in responding to calls for justice in our legal system.
The region needs a unified position on the global debate over climate change By David Jessop New international fault lines are emerging at the point where concerns about climate change, agriculture, food and energy meet.
Young wife and mother Reena Sultan who had been suffering from end-stage kidney disease says she has a new lease on life now that she has had a kidney transplant.
The athletes and officials of the three sports disciplines are ready for take-off in the first stage of the 2008 Inter-Guiana Games which will be held from May 1-4 in Suriname.
Dear Editor, As most of the world and our Caricom partners begin to run out of domestic food supplies and imported substitutes increase in price, all eyes will be on Guyana to pick up the slack.
Guyana’s rifle shooters, the reigning Caribbean short range champions departed the country yesterday to compete in the regional Rifle shooting championships billed for next week in Kingston, Jamaica .
Masquerade is an appropriate form for Carifesta By Al Creighton Carifesta X has been launched in Georgetown.
Portions of the debris on the site of Hamson’s General Store on Regent Street which was gutted by fire late on Friday night were still smouldering early yesterday morning, while a pall of smoke hung over the entire area.
– Camptown/Alpha United play to stalemate Fruta Conquerors slammed three unanswered goals past the Georgetown Football Club while Sunburst Camptown and Alpha United played to a 3-3 draw when the Guyana Football Assoc-iation’s Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) Cellink Plus Premier League competition continued on Friday at the Tucville ground.
– culture ministry Cultural anthropologist and folklorist Wordsworth McAndrew devoted his working life in Guyana to the promotion of practices and traditions which gave the then new post-independent nation identity, the Ministry of Culture said in a release.
Roundworms By Dr Steve Surujbally Roundworm infections in dogs and cats occur pretty frequently.
Dear Editor, Guyanese families have been feeling the effects of the global food crisis as the cost of living rises severely.
-Mike, James Brusche, Shelly Hubbard here to give back to basketball By Kiev Chesney The Guyana United States Basketball Affiliates (GUBA) in collaboration with the Haynes Basketball Found-ation on Thursday launched the US/Guyana Goodwill Tour which commenced last night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
Go easy on the chemicals By John Warrington I briefly talked about using chemicals towards the end of last week’s column.
-engineer Philip Allsopp says in letter Engineer Philip Allsopp says he does not believe that impending doom lurks on the coast of Guyana in terms of rising seas and erosion if coastal management is tackled intelligently and continuously and he pointed to the need for a survey launch so hydrographic surveys could be done.
By Kizan Brumell The Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) pulled off a victory against the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) in a breath-taking Georgetown zone final of the inaugural Noble House Invitational Twenty20 knockout cricket tournament at the Malteenoes Sports Club ground yesterday.
Epilepsy: The brain’s ‘electrical storm’ Continued By Dr Santosh Mhetre (Paediatric consultant) What to tell your doctor Most doctors will never see your child have a seizure; they don’t happen often in the doctor’s office.
Dear Editor, During the 80s, kick-down-the-door crime (under Mr Burnham’s tenure) affected the East Indian way of life, even more than an irrelevant PPP under the Jagans.
The Volunteer Youth Corps (VYC) is conducting a literacy and numeracy project in Lodge for early school-leavers and single mothers in order to equip them with the skills needed to be productive.
The inaugural Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC)/Guyana Beverages Limited-sponsored Kool Kidz Under-19 Twenty20 competition for secondary schools across Region Six commenced last Friday with Deon Moore grabbing 5-6 in a losing effort for his school, Lower Corentyne Secondary, in one of the six matches played while two were washed out.
Colombia’s raid into Ecuadorian territory and the subsequent revelations about the files on Raúl Reyes’ computer have done more damage to President Chávez’s grand hemispheric projects than anything Washington in its wildest dreams could have conceived of.
Dear Editor, I saw Mrs Jagan twice on television after the death of her husband, saying that it used to pain her to see the nasty things people say of Dr Jagan.
Chess develops decision-making skills With Errol Tiwari ‘Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny’Making those critical and irreversible decisions over the chessboard determines the outcome of our game.
The owner of Tel Tale 2, the vessel that sank off the coast of Santo Domingo two weeks ago is calculating his losses in relation to yet another ship, but says he intends to compensate each member of his crew for their hard work.
