Articles published on Saturday, December 13, 2008
Albouystown and Tiger Bay to battle for top honours tonight By Kizan Brumell For the love of football, players and fans endured the heavy rain on Thursday evening at the National Park Tarmac to witness two exhilarating semi-final matches in the Georgetown Football Association organized Guinness Greatest of De Street football competition.
Rain could be similar to 2005Floodwater continued to rise in some East Coast Demerara (ECD) villages yesterday although drainage stations have been pumping water day and night since last Saturday and the government yesterday warned that rainfall could be similar to that during the 2005 Great Flood.
Friendship Secondary defeated New Diamond Secondary School in the East Bank zone final played recently at the Diamond Community Centre ground.
Says political consensus argument invalid In a landmark decision in favour of Lindeners, Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang ruled yesterday that government cannot penalize the people of the mining town and freeze applications for wider broadcast access until it reaches a political consensus with the main opposition party on broadcast legislation.
Guyana defeat W/Islands by one wicket Guyana rebounded from their first round loss to Barbados, to defeat the Windward Islands by one wicket when the two met in the second round of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board of Control (TTCBC) organized Regional Under -17 competition yesterday.
A hymac was yesterday deployed to raise a low-lying section of the Boerasirie Conservancy dam where some overtopping had occurred at Canal Number Two, Region Three Chairman, Julius Faerber confirmed.
A Guyana team comprising members of the Hornets and the Yamaha Caribs Rugby Football Club recently copped the Caribbean International Rugby 7’s Overall Women’s 2008 Championship title.
The time to make Alika Morgan National Sportswoman of the Year is now or never for the National Sports Commission (NSC), the body entrusted with making such a decision.
A new four-storey shopping complex located at the corner of Regent and Wellington streets was officially declared open on Thursday, just in time for the Christmas season.
Dear Editor, We of the Sunbeam Women’s Group would like to take the initiative to publicly congratulate the staff and the parents of the children of the Supply Primary School who have done so well at the recent Grade Six Examinations.
“Dem telling stories my Worship,” stated Nigel Reece who allegedly attempted to steal a laptop computer from the Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security.
President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) Claude Blackmore has expressed satisfaction with the performance of Ricardo Martin and Janella Jonas, who participated in the just concluded South American Youth Championships in Lima, Peru.
What is it about the Classique dancers that makes them so enviably good?
Dear Editor, Your news item that contains a call from Caricom leaders to ‘End the embargo in Cuba,’ (December 9), smacks of the type of hypocrisy that is the hallmark of nations that have benefited from the democratic system, a system that allowed leaders to be freely elected by people who have the constitutional right to vote in regular elections.
Representatives of six secondary schools in Georgetown braved the torrential downpour on Wednesday to make presentations at an event commemorating International Human Rights Day, 2008.
4,000 cases at Georgetown Hospital this year – Ramsammy In unanimous condemnation of widespread violence against women in particular, the National Assembly on Thursday passed a motion that aims to push the House into collective action against the scourge.
Pacesetters will defeat Ravens– Bobby Cadogan By Rawle Toney“It’s no doubt that we will come out victorious on Sunday,” says Bobby Cadogan, coach of the Courts Pacesetters team, as they prepare to take on their nemesis Dyna’s Ravens in a winner-take- all grudge match this Sunday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
-court told A security guard who allegedly broke into his employer’s house and stole over $300,000 in cash was remanded to prison yesterday when he appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Some people just don’t get it… The prejudice that follows women simply because they are women is endless, notwithstanding the harsh realities of what happens to some of our sisters in countries across the globe.
Dear Editor, Politicians’ object in life should be to improve the quality of life for their constituents.
Dear Editor, There is something necessarily adversarial about politics. It is with this in mind that I read Van West Charles’s proclamation of his intention to pursue a politics that will have as its means or its objective the dissolution of perceptions of “difference” that continue to divide us.
The Berbice Cricket Board of Control (BCBC) dream to have its own permanent head office took a step closer to realization last Thursday, when the New Amsterdam Town Council (NATC) donated a plot of land towards the construction of same.
Jug Jug: No longer a tradition? Hi Everyone, Though it is a traditional Barbadian Christmas dish, it does not make an appearance on feast-laden tables throughout the island.
Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday remanded to prison a taxi driver who allegedly had carnal knowledge of an eleven-year-old girl.
-reports One of four persons held in connection with Tuesday’s fatal beating of Ardell Haynes in the East La Penitence area has been released and sources say around 12 persons surrounded the man during the melee that ended in his death.
“I find de cooler on de road,” Wazir Alli told Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson on Wednesday when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of breaking and entering a woman’s snackette and stealing several items.
A new DSL Cash and Carry branch was opened yesterday on Sheriff Street by Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL).
Dear Editor, It was very interesting to see that Mr Jagdeo recently endorsed Senator Obama a few days before the US presidential election, and even stated that if he could, he would have campaigned for President Obama.
Not even the heavy downpours could prevent national race walk champion Rudolph Mitchell from chalking up his 84th consecutive victory, and subsequently capture the Office of the President (OP) trophy, in the Cavaliers Sports and Tour Club (CSTC) organized Eid- Ul-Adha 10 laps event last Sunday.
By Tony Cozier in DUNEDIN AS the rain and arctic chill arrived in Dunedin yesterday, 24 hours later than predicted and eliminating the entire second day of the first Test at the University Oval, John Dyson acknowledged a troubling point.
For a long time deportee has been a bad word, not just in Guyana but in every country that has what the developed nations call “a migrant population.”
A team of orthopaedic doctors from ‘Health and Education Relief for Guyana,’ recently concluded evaluations and surgeries on children afflicted with club foot and deformities of the hand at the Georgetown Hospital.
Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson on Wednesday remanded to prison a man who allegedly obtained a quantity of plastic bags valued over $200,000 through credit by fraud four years ago.
Apart from Bryon Lee and the Dragonnaires, Krosfyah, and at one time, Square One regional bands have had relative success in pulling off big shows here; the inclusion of at least one ‘big’ artiste is crucial.
Dear Editor, Crime continues to permeate every sphere in our country.
Kei-Shar’s Gift Shoppe recently presented 108 pupils of the Sophia Primary School with gift certificates worth $1,500 each for Christmas.
