Articles published on Thursday, July 9, 2009
MIAMI, (Reuters) – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) scrambled to get a team together for the first test against Bangladesh starting today after the selected players decided to boycott the match due to contract disputes.
-cite weather as a factor in schedule International Cricket Council (ICC) spokesman Brian Murgatroyd and ICC Twenty20 World Cup Tournament Director Ernest Hilaire have said that they are baffled by claims made by the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) and the Government of Guyana about a World T20 match schedule, contrary to what they were promised.
Belfield Tigers crownedBelfield Tigers crushed Mid Section Lions, 5-1, in the final to become the champions of the seventh Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport Inter-Block Football Competition at the Victoria Community Centre ground on Sunday.
-warns against kangaroo court PNCR Executive Aubrey Norton has denied accusations that his statements about the outcome of the controversial Georgetown District Conference vote have brought the main opposition party into disrepute, warning that such claims appeared to be intended to provide the basis for bringing “spurious charges” against him.
A 66-year-old man, who was on trial before the Berbice Assizes for the 2005 rape of a girl who was then ten years old, hanged himself on a tree in his backyard some time between Tuesday night and yesterday morning.
Alpha complete first round undefeated-commands leader board Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United have a comfortable three-point lead at the top of the leader board as they played undefeated in the first round of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Cellink Plus Premier League which concluded on Sunday evening at the Tucville playfield.
Drug trafficking accused Ghalee Khan, who was busted in the US last November and later charged with jumping bail, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a drug charge.
Mike’s Pharmacy donates equipment to EssequiboSoftball cricket in Essequibo received a boost when a quantity of wickets, bats and balls were presented by the Guyana Softball League (GSL) on behalf of Mike’s Pharmacy to aid in the running off of the Kiddy Care Softball Tournament which is geared to attract the under-15 level.
The charge of attempting to commit murder on City Mall businesswoman Dhanwantie Phulchand was yesterday read to a 16-year-old girl at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court who was later remanded to prison.
The Guyana Netball Association (GNA) has announced that the Award Ceremony and Netball Under-16 Competition has been moved back from this Saturday to July 18.
GNSC claims nail-biting victory-Ghost Riders dominate Friendship Guyana National Shipping Corporation (GNSC) scored a cliffhanger win over Ghost Riders while Knight Riders proved too strong for Friendship when play continued last weekend in the Guyana Softball and Windball Cricket Association (GS&WCA) sponsored 15-15 Tapeball cricket tournament at GS&WCA ground on Carifesta Avenue.
Principal Education Officer, Chandrakala Ramsammy has died. She was 52. Relatives last evening confirmed her death but declined to say anything about the circumstances.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Forward Ron Artest achieved a long-cherished dream when he officially signed a three-year contract with the NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers yesterday.
PERPIGNAN, France, (Reuters) – Frenchman Thomas Voeckler timed his move to perfection to clinch a maiden Tour de France win after an early breakaway surprised the sprinters’ teams yesterday.
–Commonwealth Secretary GeneralCommonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma says economies which are extremely reliant on one or two products will face obvious problems in an increasingly changing trade environment and he stressed that the way global trade is shifting it is difficult for small states to maintain one aspect of a trading arrangement.
Yousuf returns to topple Younus in Test ranking Chanderpaul moves one spot up to fourth Mohammad Yousuf has returned to international cricket with a big bang by achieving the number-one position in the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen for the first time in his career.
Dear Editor, For my generation and indeed, for the generations following mine, and.
-following deaths from vomiting, diarrhoea A team of officials from the Regional Health Services (RHS) department of the Ministry of Health will be visiting the Moruca Sub-Region in the coming days as part of a medical outreach as preparations are underway to have a Cuban doctor stationed at Moruca in the coming weeks.
CARDIFF, (Reuters) – England fought their way into the ascendancy on the opening day of the first Ashes test yesterday before two late wickets put Australia firmly back in the match.
Calls have started to trickle in and there may be hope for Nalini Mohammed nee Shivram, the woman who has been undergoing dialysis for the last two years.
Dear Editor, All does not seem to be well at the Canefield Power Station.
Former university librarian Yvonne Stephenson has described the late Kathleen Drayton as “a strong advocate for women’s rights” and a “very serious academic”, who made her presence felt on the campus.
L’AQUILA, Italy, (Reuters) – Group of Eight leaders agreed yesterday the world economy still faced “significant risks” and it was too early to unwind measures put in place to end the deepest recession in living memory.
Dear Editor, The MMA/ADA Board has no rice farmers other than Mr Seeraj, the General Secretary of the Guyana Rice Producers Association.
KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s former captain, Inzamam-ul-Haq, yesterday begged the International Cricket Council (ICC) to give more tests to his country, saying a dearth of top-level matches could damage the game.
CHICAGO, (Reuters) – The United States Olympic Committee will launch a cable television network devoted to Olympic and Paralympic Games next year, with Comcast Corp agreeing to carry the channel in its cable lineup.
JAKARTA, (Reuters) – Indonesia’s voters handed President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono a second five-year term yesterday, placing their faith in his firm hand on the economic tiller and his promises to quicken the pace of reform.
Dear Editor, I have been reading in the newspapers that streets will be repaired and old vehicles, etc, and illegal structures removed.
By Cathy Richards PNCR Member of Parliament Vanessa Kissoon has slammed conditions at the Paediatric Ward at the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC), which she says are making patient care difficult.
Dear Editor, The letter ‘UNAIDS applauds the decision of India’s High Court’ by Michel Sidibé (SN, July 7) is disturbing in its whimsical disregard for science, medicine, the extant law, and the truth.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The Indian cricket board has warned players to keep away from a new private domestic tournament barely a month after the end of a major row over another unofficial league.
URUMQI, China, (Reuters) – Paramilitary police fanned out in the far-flung Chinese city of Urumqi yesterday to try to stifle unrest days after 156 people were killed in the region’s worst ethnic violence in decades.
TCL Guyana Inc. (TGI) yesterday announced a 5 percent discount on all cement leaving the plant this month.
A 32-year-old rice farmer who allegedly knowingly made a false statement on a passport application form was yesterday placed on $60,000 bail when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lankan government doctors who gave civilian casualty figures to the media in the final months of the island nation’s 25-year war recanted yesterday after spending weeks under arrest.
(Trinidad Guardian) – A Mt Hope businessman said he was prepared to be killed, moments after he fought back with three armed robbers, shooting one of them in the process on Tuesday afternoon.
KARACHI, (Reuters) – The start of this year’s Champions Trophy in South Africa has been brought forward by two days to Sept.
Dear Editor, We have a great amount of man-made wealth in the form of schools, hospitals, community centres, offices, magistrate’s courts and other public buildings, to name some in Region 2.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Dutch international striker Robin van Persie has signed a new long-term contract with Arsenal, the Premier League club said yesterday.
Joint services patrols at Bamia, Linden-Soesdyke Highway and the Amelia’s Ward Highway have been suspended following the recent shooting of a Linden man at the Bamia blockade.
Dear Editor, Apart from track and field athletics, I have also been a fan of tennis over the years.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – More than two dozen Internet sites in South Korea and the United States, including the White House, were attacked in recent days by hackers that South Korea’s spy agency said may be linked to North Korea.
GONAIVES, Haiti (Reuters) – Former US President Bill Clinton visited the mud-stained streets of the Haitian city of Gonaives on Tuesday on his first trip as United Nations special envoy to the poor Caribbean nation.
Critchlow Avenue, Roxanne Burnham Gardens. Does anything need to be said about this?
Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force is responding to a letter that was published in the Stabroek News of September 8, 2008, under the caption ‘Police did not respond,’ a copy of which was forwarded to the Commissioner of Police.
LOCH LOMOND, Scotland, (Reuters) – Ernie Els must work on his anger management in order to rekindle the magic that earned three major championships, the South African said yesterday.
Fans cheering Tuesday’s Michael Jackson look-a-like contest at City Hall. The eventual winner was St Paul Rodney (right) known as ‘Visa’.
A man who allegedly killed another with an axe handle on Friday was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
DUBLIN, (Reuters) – A group of 133 Irish lawyers yesterday demanded the scrapping of a draft law against gangland crime they say will hurt constitutional rights by allowing non-jury trials, secret hearings and “opinion evidence”.
History of the British Guiana Railway System – Georgetown to MahaicaPart 4This is the fourth instalment in a series of articles which gives a brief overview of the History of the British Guiana railway with particular reference to the Georgetown-Mahaica link.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – The police are trying to find the gunman who shot and killed a New Zealand consultant in St Andrew last night.
Dear Editor, What are the functions and responsibilities of the government and elected leaders?
A two-day regional workshop aimed at promoting sustainable chainsaw milling in the Guiana Shield/Caribbean got underway yesterday at the Regency Suites Hotel, with the importance of the sector being underscored but a warning also that recovery rates need to be improved.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Former India captain Saurav Ganguly, who retired last year, wants to use his experience to make a difference in an administrative role, domestic media reported yesterday.
RAMAT HASHARON, Israel, (Reuters) – In the late 1990s, a computer specialist from Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service hacked into the mainframe of the Pi Glilot fuel depot north of Tel Aviv.
A resolution and a daughter’s biography It’s another birth anniversary for Slinger – “The Mighty Sparrow” – Francisco today.
This garbage bin was knocked over on Regent Street outside of City Hall.
Despite persistent calls by the United Nations over the past year, gains made in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have begun to slip backwards and downwards in a spiral that could spell even worse hunger and poverty in the world than what obtained prior to the targets being set.
Former GG favours term limits A former governor general has weighed in on the debate about whether Caribbean leaders should be restricted to term limits in government.
