Daily Archive: Monday, December 20, 2010

Articles published on Monday, December 20, 2010

Police find two guns in Upper Waini

Yesterday, police ranks recovered two firearms while conducting an investigation along Sulphur Road, Upper Waini, The ranks first conducted a search on an abandoned building at Sulphur Road where they found a .32 Taurus pistol with three matching rounds.

N.Korea says won’t react to South drill

YEONPYEONG, South Korea, (Reuters) – North Korea said   it would not react to military drills staged by the South near   their disputed border today and, easing tension further,   CNN reported that Pyongyang had agreed to the return of   nuclear inspectors.

AFC calls for emergency Parliament session on sugar

Following last week’s threat by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) to de-recognize the main union representing sugar workers, the Alliance For Change (AFC) is calling for a special, emergency session of Parliament to discuss the fate of sugar, sugar workers and the sugar industry.

Spring tide alert

A spring tide advisory is in effect and the Sea Defence Unit of the Public Works Ministry is advising the public to take all necessary precautions during the period.

Anthony Abrams

Alpha United demolish Seawall FC 6-0

-advance to quarter-finals Alpha United scored a lopsided 6-0 win over Seawall Football Club when the 21st Kashif and Shanghai Football tournament continued at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) Ground last night.

Moen Gafoor right,  starts the ball rolling in his match against Colin Chichester (photo by Orlando Charles).

Gafoor wins GASP tournament

National player Moen Gafoor emerged overall champion of the Scrabble tournament organized by the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players at the Malteenoes Sports Club yesterday.

Britany van Lange

Van Lange closes with another PB

Carifta Games gold medalist Britany van Lange finished second in her heat of the women’s 200m freestyle event at the FINA (World Swimming Federation) World Championships (25m) yesterday.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni played a captain’s knock of 90 but his innings, like Tendulkar’s 50th test ton, is likely to be in vain.

Record ton in vain

CENTURION, South Africa, (Reuters) – Sachin Tendulkar scored his 50th test century yesterday but it looked unlikely to save India from losing the first test against South Africa.

The proposed telecoms legislation should take account of predatory pricing by firms with dominant power

Dear Editor, Stabroek Business reported that an anonymous “source close to the telecommunications sector” has advised that government should take seriously the position that granting an operating licence to an illegal operator would amount to rewarding it for illegality (‘Gov’t should ponder GT&T concern over draft law – telecoms source’ SN, December 17). 

Carl Greenidge is being denied his right to work

Dear Editor, The rights of citizens to live and work in the region is under threat, and this is evident in the Guyana Government and Caricom denying Carl Greenidge the right to express his opinion at a private function as to how the country of his birth is being managed, yet at the same time Caricom did not raise a voice when more than two hundred young men were executed by phantom squads.

Chris Tetley

ICC report slams Eden Gardens, Wankhede renovations

(Cricinfo) An International Cricket Council’s (ICC) inspection team has raised serious concerns over the preparedness of two key World Cup venues – Eden Gardens in Kolkata and the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai – in time for the tournament, which begins on February 19, 2011.

Safe parking…

Safe parking….then in the trench: when motor car PLL 597 tried to avoid colliding with motor van PKK 3639, which reportedly sped across the junction at

Sachin Tendulkar’s factfile

1973: Born April 24, Mumbai. 1988: Scores 100 not out in his first first-class match for Bombay against Gujarat in the Ranji Trophy becoming the youngest cricketer to score a century on his first-class debut, aged 15 years and 232 days.

Reuters World News Highlights

MINSK – Police in Belarus beat demonstrators with batons and  rounded up opposition leaders in a violent crackdown after an  election yesterday that was certain to return President  Alexander Lukashenko for a fourth term.

Nightmare and reality

However he may try to spin it, the record will show that President Jagdeo described Guyana’s experience tapping forest protection funds from Norway as a “nightmare”.

How good we once were

I had completely forgotten that almost 15 years ago, living in Grand Cayman, I had sent my friend Colin Cholmondeley (then living in Jamaica) a short column from Wisden Cricket Monthly by BBC broadcaster and writer John Arlott on the West Indies cricket tour of England in 1950.