Daily Archive: Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Articles published on Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Anthony summons cricket board

 -for answers on alleged financial irregularities Sport Minister Frank Anthony has summoned the entire executive of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) to a meeting today, following allegations of serious financial irregularities that may have led to the brutal acid attack on assistant treasurer Pretipaul Jaigobin.

Two in a row… Natural Sciences captain Hugh Arthur (second right stooping) is flanked by his championship winning team after yesterday’s final (Orlando Charles Photo)

Arthur leads Natural Sciences to controversial Inter Faculty title win

By Floyd Christie The Faculty of Natural Sciences are the champions of the University of Guyana Inter Faculty Basketball Competition for the second straight year after their captain Hugh Arthur sealed a 70-69 points win from the free throw line with zero seconds on the clock in the final of the competition at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall yesterday.

Winning team, Police Sports Club, pose with their coach (standing third from left) Lyndon Wilson. Third from right is star athlete, Dennis Horatio.

Police rule U-23 c/ships

By Tamica Garnett Wins from Nadine Rodrigues, Tiffany Carto and Dennis Horatio, aided by consistent presence in all events contested, were the key ingredients in the Police Sports Club (PSC) recipe for winning the inaugural Under-23 track and field championships Sunday at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary.

Henin script in tatters as Nadal marches on

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Justine Henin received a standing  ovation yesterday as she walked off Court Suzanne Lenglen but it  would have had a hollow ring for the Belgian after her script  for a joyous French Open return had just been torn to shreds.  

England record untroubled win

LONDON, (Reuters) – England regained control of the  first test at Lord’s yesterday to quash Bangladesh’s hopes of a draw with an ultimately untroubled eight wicket victory.  

Clean up:

Clean up: Youngsters from the community cleaning up this area at Hadfield Street, Wortmanville on Saturday.

International mines workers union wants ministry to act on bauxite dispute

Dear Editor, I write representing a global union federation, the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions (ICEM) based in Geneva, Switzerland, and I write to express concern over management conduct and the Labour Ministry’s woeful neglect in upholding national Guyanese laws and international labour standards in the long-running dispute between GB&GWU and the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc.

In Mexico, a drug war of choice?

By Bernd Debusmann World Affairs columnist Bernd Debusmann has reported from close to 100 countries, on stories from the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and the seizure of American hostages in Iran to Lebanon’s descent into anarchy and the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan.

Mc Kinnon on target in Trinidad

Former national football captain Kayode Mc Kinnon was on target for Tobago United who went under to Ma Pau 1-3 in the latest round of matches in the Trinidad and Tobago Professional league.

‘Dudus’ hunt intensifies

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Two men believed to be members of the criminal enterprise run by Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke were among nine persons arrested in the upper St Andrew neighbourhood of Kirkland Heights on Sunday during a massive military-police operation in search of the alleged drug kingpin.