Articles published on Sunday, November 29, 2009
Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee says government will soon inform the US officially that the administration cannot honour its request for the extradition of Barry Dataram because a year-old Full Court decision still stands.
– West Indies dusted inside three days despite a debut ton by opener Adrian Barath Brisbane, Australia: *Despite a remarkable counterattacking debut century from Adrian Barath, it’s done and dusted – the opening Test match between Australia and the West Indies at the Gabba that is.
JAMIE PANDARAM, Sydney Morning Herald: “Michael Hussey claimed a wicket, Shane Watson was on a hat-trick.
By Marlon Munroe Courts Pacesetters blew out Beepat Scorpions in front of a small gathering of fans at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall in the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Open and Third Knockout tournament Friday night.
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.
By Marlon Munroe Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) spinner Toataram Bishun took 14 wickets while Kevin George scored a century against Lusignan Cricket Club (LCC) in the Guyana Cricket Board three-day first division countrywide tournament at the Queenstown facility yesterday.
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– ‘Hammer and army clash tonight for Super League title and $1M’ By Rawle Toney In war they say never take a knife to a gun fight so what the Guyana Defence Force players walk with tonight when they face off with the unbeaten Alpha United in the final of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Super League is anyone’s guess.
By Marlon Munroe Master Teruyuki Okazaki on Friday declared that he was impressed with the standard of karate in Guyana as the karatekas prepare for next year’s Pan-American championships to be held here.
Last week I concluded my rather extended discussion on the current global economic crisis and the lessons to be learnt from this.
“Life nice,” says Nicola McDonald, the Victoria amputee who was the victim of a brutal attack by her partner a little over two weeks ago, “It still nice.”
By Rawle ToneyGuymine.com has continued its support of the Kashif and Shanghai Football tournament which is celebrating two decades this year while A & J Carpet house is for the first time stepping onboard.
(Continued) By Dr Pankaj Kshatriya, MD (Physician) What is a stress test?
The proposed fixture between Guyana’s national Under-20 squad and Trinidad and Tobago’s Pro-League side Joe Public scheduled for today will no longer take place.
The Guyana and Suriname ferry service is to resume today following the completion of an emergency bypass which had to be created after the Jackson Creek bridge collapsed on Thursday.
Today we have global recognition that unsustainable patterns of consumption are leading to extremely serious social and environmental impacts worldwide.
Lilawattie Persaud wakes at 3am to prepare breakfast, gets her children ready for school and then treks across muddy land to look for work.
Akeem `The Dream’ Kanhai proved a nightmare for the Amelia’s Ward New Ballers last Thursday as the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) second-division tournament bounced off at the Mackenzie Sports Club hardcourt.
UGLOVKA, Russia (Reu-ters) – A bomb caused a Russian train crash that killed dozens of people and injured 100 more, officials said yesterday, stoking fears of an upsurge in attacks in Russia’s heartland.
Reporter: ‘Mike, how are you approaching this fight?’ Tyson: ‘ With bad intentions.’
(BBC) Returning fast bowler Shane Bond inspired New Zealand to a thrilling 32-run victory in the first Test against Pakistan in Dunedin yesterday.
GuySuCo is unable to boost sugar exports because of the siltation in the Demerara River and the Interim Board has proposed dredging the river.
PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) – Britain will host talks on Afghanistan on Jan.
The 6th Caribbean Writers’ Residential Workshop sponsored by The Cropper Foundation in Trinidad recently circulated invitations to new writers to send in applications for places in their 2010 workshop, and Poui, the Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing recently launched its latest issue, Volume 10, in Barbados.
Having discussed all the various tooth and gum ailments over the past weeks, we must now logically turn to the prevention aspect.
ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Abu Dhabi, wealthy capital of the United Arab Emirates, will “pick and choose” how to assist debt-laden neighbour Dubai, a senior official said yesterday, after fears of a Dubai default sent global markets reeling.
-less financially ambitious plan mooted Five years after their church was gutted by a Christmas morning fire, the members of Sacred Heart are still working to generate enough finances to fund the reconstruction of the church which is estimated to cost $260M.
(BBC) Tiger Woods will not speak to police about his car crash outside his Florida home on Friday until today, his agent has told police.
LA PAZ – Bolivian President Evo Morales looks set to win re-election easily on Dec.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Nikolay Davydenko’s expectations of beating Roger Federer at the ATP Tour Finals were so low that he was already dreaming of lying on a beach in the Maldives by the end of the weekend.
CAYENNE, French Guiana (Reuters) – Police conducting a corruption inquiry have detained French Guiana mayor Leon Bertrand, who served as tourism minister under former President Jacques Chirac, Radio France Outre-Mer said yesterday.
Dear Editor, I get several calls every week informing me of animals in distress.
A new law will see persons who raise false fire alarms facing steeper fines or imprisonment, as the administration attempts to send a strong warning to alarmists.
By Jeffrey A Engel Jeffrey A. Engel is Director of Programming, Scowcroft Institute for International Affairs, Texas A&M University.
An East Coast Demerara woman and her daughter, both detained for questioning after the murder of local actor Joel Fraser, were both released on station bail on Friday.
(Barbados Nation) His attorney contended that the warm blows and resulting 27 stitches non-national Dorwin Lyght got when he broke into a man’s home was enough punishment.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former West Indies off-spinner Rangy Nanan believes left-arm spinner Sulieman Benn is out of his depth at Test level and says he’s unlikely to have much success there.
Dear Editor, A depressed community, a town that has fallen on hard times, the once prosperous mining town – these are a few of the phrases of some who endeavour to describe the town of Linden.
Three men were arrested at a roadblock at Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara on Friday after allegedly stealing a woman’s gold chain.
Cozier on Sunday To those in his native Trinidad – Brian Lara most prominent among them – who always regarded Adrian Barath’s advance into the West Indies Test team as a matter of when, rather than if, the solid little opener’s delightful debut hundred in Brisbane yesterday would not have been surprising.
It is probable that at some time in the next two weeks Europe will announce that a final deal on bananas has been achieved.
LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – The remains of 602 people caught fleeing famine in Ukraine 60 years ago and shot by the Soviet secret police were reburied yesterday, closing a dark chapter in the country’s history.
Dear Editor, The PNCR has a history of trying to gain political power through the back door and creating camouflages to conceal their weakened political status.
A Gardener’s Diary At this time of the year one is quite anxious about trying to get one’s hands on particularly choice plants now coming onto the market.
At his annual press briefing last year, Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee told the media that road fatalities for 2008 had declined dramatically in comparison with the previous year – in fact, by an extraordinary 54.6%.
BRISBANE, Australia, CMC – Opener Adrian Barath has hailed batting star Brian Lara as a major reason for his success, following his maiden Test century against Australia at the Gabba on Friday.
PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said yesterday his family helped him cope with the pressures of his job, denying reports that he took it out on office equipment when he was angry.
An Essequibo Coast resident is in custody after police found a quantity of cocaine in his home last Friday night.
Lost Child: Habeeb Khan playing the role of an abandoned child interrupts local comedian Henry Rodney while he was opening the Mori J’von Comedy Jam at the National Cultural Centre last Friday night.
Dear Editor, The National Communications Network CEO visited Berbice last Sunday to host a live call-in programme to discuss NCN Berbice with the general public.
PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) – Commonwealth nations representing one-third of the world’s population threw their weight behind accelerating efforts to clinch an “operationally binding” UN climate deal in Copenhagen next month, their leaders said yesterday.
