Articles published on Sunday, December 27, 2009
A Brazilian national who journeyed to Lethem to party was found stabbed to death near the Takutu Bridge on Christmas morning and investigators believe that the assailant fled to Brazil.
By Rawle Toney Defending champions Pele came from behind to inflict a painful 2-1 win over the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) in the second game of the Kashif and Shanghai Christmas Day double header at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.
President of the Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA), Christopher Ram, has outlined a 10-point plan while calling for government support in an effort to move the sport forward.
By Marlon Munroe For the past year, Vishal ‘Cheesy’ Singh and Rajendra ‘Rahul’ Chandrika have been doing what they know best – making runs at all levels of Guyana’s cricket.
The Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) will tonight play host to a night of reflection and remembrance in honor of Colin Wiltshire, the former British Guiana opening batsman who died last week.
Business Page Introduction The word ‘merry’ fits in with Christmas as horse goes with carriage.
Pink balls, playing at nights under lights and, according to chief executive, Ernest Hilaire, “a cricket festival atmosphere.”
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Taliban insurgents had planned to use five Americans, now detained in Pakistan, who had contacted the militants via the Internet, to carry out attacks in the US-allied country, a police official said yesterday.
PATONG, Thailand (Reuters) – Thousands of candles lit up Thailand’s Patong beach, thousands of saffron-robed Buddhist monks marched and people held vigils as Asia marked the fifth anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami yesterday.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – West Indies Cricket Board chief executive, Ernest Hilaire has chided players union president, Dinanath Ramnarine over his public criticism of the shortened regional first class season, and says the Board had taken a financially prudent decision in cutting back on the number of matches in next year’s championship.
‘Dirty secrets’ I hope that I have already indicated clearly Norway’s double standards in its climate change and global warming actions.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Roberto Mancini marked his first game in charge of Premier League side Manchester City with a 2-0 home win over Stoke City yesterday.
Surely I am not the only one to have noticed that not long before India’s Test team rose to No.
European Union (EU) Ambassador to Guyana Geert Heikens says a regular and in-depth analysis of the sugar industry is needed as a necessary step forward, and he has also referred to reports in the local press about the state of the sector as disquieting.
DETROIT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Nigerian man with possible links to al Qaeda militants was charged yesterday for trying to blow up a US passenger plane with an explosive device on approach into Detroit, US officials said.
(BBC) Australia’s openers both narrowly missed out on centuries but gave their side a strong start in the first Test against Pakistan in Melbourne yesterday.
Guyana is not yet ready to start issuing skill-certificates to domestics wishing to travel to other Caricom member states to ply their trade and none of the relevant agencies could give a timeframe for readiness.
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Baton-wielding riot police clashed with opposition backers in Tehran who used a Shi’ite religious festival to stage new anti-government demonstrations on Saturday, an opposition website and witnesses said.
By Dr Ritesh Kohli, MD (Internal Medicine Specialist) A stroke is caused by the sudden loss of blood flow to the brain or bleeding inside the head.
As you read this, the New Year is just around the proverbial corner.
The Queensland Bulls state team has its eyes on Barbados and West Indies fast bowler Kemar Roach for Australia’s Twenty20 ‘Big Bash’ tournament in the 2010-11 season.
Police are investigating the death of a Bagotstown resident, who is believed to have been killed during a drunken squabble some time yesterday morning.
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s most prominent dissident, Liu Xiaobo, was jailed on Friday for 11 years for campaigning for political freedoms, with the stiff sentence on a subversion charge swiftly condemned by rights groups and Washington.
The intention of the Guyana Chess Federation is to transform chess from backroom obscurity to a Goliath like cricket in popularity among sporting disciplines in Guyana.
DURBAN, South Africa, (Reuters) – England ran out South Africa captain Graeme Smith among a burst of three quick wickets to reduce the hosts to 175 for five on the first day of the second test yesterday.
LAGOS (Reuters) – A Nigerian charged yesterday with trying to blow up a US passenger plane [see main story on page 4] is the son of a prominent former banker, a family member said yesterday, shocking the country’s wealthy elite.
The police constable and two men who were held for Wednesday’s robbery at Crabwood Creek, Corentyne remain in police custody and advice will be sought from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) tomorrow on the way forward.
By Dominique Moisi PARIS – “Do not forget India.” That warning made sense 10 or 15 years ago; not any longer.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – British director Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes set a Christmas Day sales record at the box office in North America, taking a narrow lead over last weekend’s champ, Avatar, according to early estimates released yesterday.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Several cricket administrators in the Twin Island Republic said their main New Year wish is to see the continued resurgence of the West Indies team and the decline in the conflict between the region’s major stakeholders.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actor Charlie Sheen, star of the hit sitcom ‘Two and a Half Men,’ has been released from jail in the Colorado ski resort city of Aspen after his Christmas Day arrest on domestic violence charges, police said.
A gang of armed men descended on a mining camp at Waini Backdam, in Region One (Barima Waini) on Thursday, terrorising workers during a search for the camp manager.
Tears For The New YearI have always thought of tears as redemptive, irrigating my bone-dry spirit, disposing it to bloom again, unfurling astonishing, frail flowers of hope.
CHENNAI, (Reuters) – India’s master batsman Sachin Tendulkar has opted out of next month’s triangular one-day series against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh to save himself for the upcoming test series against Bangladesh.
Brindley Horatio Benn, CCH, former High Commissioner to Canada, Chairman of the People’s Progressive Party, Deputy Premier and Minister of the Government died on December 11, aged 86.
-cops acted within power, says Crime Chief As most of the country celebrated Christmas, the family of slain suspected robber Hemchand Gopaul was still in mourning, while insisting that police shot the wrong man.
(Trinidiad Express) A $30 million fire in Tobago has left 95 people jobless.
MANILA, (Reuters) – Manny Pacquiao plans to sue Floyd Mayweather, the American’s father and Golden Boy Promotions in the next few days following a row over doping procedures, the Filipino world champion said in a statement on Friday.
LONDON (Reuters) – An attempted attack on a US plane on Christmas Day illustrates aviation’s enduring need for viglance against determined extremists constantly trying to outwit the industry’s defences to inflict devastating harm.
Dear Editor, Norway has provided a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and though we will see some cash from this, most of the cash flowing in years 1 and 2 will not aid Guyana’s development, but rather fund international scientists who will run and control the monitoring system that has to be put in place before the back end of the money can flow.
As 2009 comes to a close Sunday Stabroek takes a light-hearted look at the 2010 prospects for some of our leaders according to the astrological charts.
LONDON, England, CMC- Trinidadian international Rickey Shakes scored the winner for Ebbsfleet United in a close encounter but there was no such glory for Jamaican striker Deon Burton who was sent off as nine-man Charlton snatched a late draw on Saturday.
Opposition says it has placed spotlight on deteriorating security situation but has not achieved main goals A little over a month since they published a dossier on human rights abuses here, members of the joint opposition parties say it has placed a spotlight on the deteriorating security situation although one of its primary architects admits it has failed to achieve its main goals.
Five injured, 9 missing in ship fire in Caribbean CARACAS (Reuters) – Nine sailors were killed and five were burned in a Christmas Day blaze aboard a Greek freighter in waters off a Venezuelan Caribbean island, the official Venezuelan news agency ABN reported on Friday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Koss Corp fired its vice president of finance after she allegedly embezzled more than US$20 million from the headphones maker for a multi-year shopping spree of expensive clothes, jewellery and other personal items.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Cleveland Cavaliers crushed the Los Angeles Lakers 102-87 in Friday’s Christmas Day showdown between two of the NBA’s top teams.
I was interested to read that gardeners throughout Britain are being urged to collect and save trimmings of their yew trees (Taxus baccata) for processing into the anti-cancer drug, Taxol.
Dear Editor, There is a group of men around dedicated to rinsing, washing, and sanitizing.
Guyanese turned out in their numbers last evening to be part of this year’s Main Big Lime.
When the historians of the future look back on 2009, they may well view it as one of those ‘catalyst’ years that set up the conditions for change in the political firmament.
ROME (Reuters) – An Italian toy store opened at 4 am on Christmas morning to help a frantic mother whose gifts for her children had been stolen from a basement.
(Trinidad Express) A woman used her body as a shield for her younger brother when gunmen began shooting at him Thursday morning.
