Daily Archive: Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Articles published on Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Moses Nagamootoo

PPP censures Nagamootoo over GAWU comments

PPP censures Nagamootoo over GAWU comments The PPP has censured executive member and presidential hopeful Moses Nagamootoo for his recent public statements on GuySuCo’s threat to derecognise the sugar workers union GAWU with party General Secretary Donald Ramotar labeling his statement as grandstanding and in bad taste.

Benschop, Kissoon still in custody

Social activists Mark Benschop and Freddie Kissoon were up to 11 am today still in police custody and from their cells at the Brickdam Police Station lockups they shouted that they were being victimized and punished by the government.

The fire scene (Photo by Zoisa Fraser)

Blaze close to Giftland scares Water St

A blaze close to popular Water Street store, Giftland OfficeMax created a scare in the busy shopping district after midday yesterday and prompted a strong reaction from the store’s management to the welding activities which started the blaze.

Ernest Hilaire

WICB backing suspended Shillingford

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board has thrown its full support behind embattled off-spinner Shane Shillingford who was yesterday banned by the International Cricket Council from bowling after his action was deemed illegal.

Digicel: Let the market decide

Digicel CEO Gregory Dean says the company is in favour of a market-driven rollout of its network and services as opposed to a regulated approach currently envisioned under the draft telecoms legislation.

Manny Pacquiao

Mosley/Pacquiao fight in the works

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – American Shane Mosley’s  adviser met the promoter of boxing’s number one fighter   Manny Pacquiao yesterday to finalise terms on a May 7 bout in   Las Vegas, the former welterweight champion said.   

Kallis unhurt after car crash

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa all-rounder  Jacques Kallis escaped unhurt after being involved in a car  crash on Tuesday.    Kallis’s car collided with the gate of a house in Wynberg, a  suburb of Cape Town, in the early hours of Tuesday but the  35-year-old player was not injured and will be able to play in  South Africa’s Boxing Day test against India in Durban.     “Jacques did have a very minor accident which left his car  and somebody’s gate post damaged.

Peter Parks

Berbice teams beaten but not disgraced

Berbice teams, New Amsterdam United and Rosignol United were beaten but not disgraced as Santos and Guyana Defence Force (GDF) marched into the next round of the Kashif and Shanghai Football Festival following matches Sunday evening at Blairmont Community Centre ground.

Leonel Fernandez

Corruption “rampant” in Dominican Rep

SANTO DOMINGO,  (Reuters) – The publication by  WikiLeaks of U.S. diplomatic cables reporting alleged “rampant”  business corruption in the Dominican Republic has prompted a  State Department apology and denials from Dominican officials.

Sugar workers were not the vanguard

Dear Editor, The current group  of sugar workers have made and continue to make contributions to Guyana, but it does more harm than good when those contributions are misrepresented, especially given the fact that persons are generally au fait with the struggles and political intricacies of sugar from slavery to now.

Trent Johnston

Ireland name experienced preliminary squad

DUBLIN, Ireland, CMC – The Phil Simmons-coached Ireland have named their 22-man preliminary squad for next year’s Cricket World Cup, retaining a large chunk of the players who campaigned in the Caribbean showpiece three years ago.

Tendulkar eyes test top spot in ICC rankings

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Prolific Indian batsman Sachin  Tendulkar has closed in on Kumar Sangakkara at the top of the  ICC test rankings and can overtake the Sri Lankan captain with  a good showing in the remaining two tests against South Africa.