Articles published on Sunday, December 26, 2010
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – “Humiliation of a century”, “Pathetic Aussies hit Ashes low”, “Ponting’s men humiliated” — local newspapers pulled no punches after what one described as Australia’s “worst cricketing day for 100 years”.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made his first use of new decree powers yesterday to create a $2.3 billion fund for reconstruction after widespread flooding that left more than 130,000 people homeless.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, (Reuters) – Tony Parker scored 20 points and made 14 assists to help the San Antonio Spurs rebound from their worst loss of the season with a 94-80 victory over the Washington Wizards yesterday.
ABIDJAN, (Reuters) – Ivory Coast presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara called today for a nationwide general strike that would shut the country down until internationally isolated incumbent Laurent Gbagbo cedes power.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala captured nearly two dozen suspected drug traffickers, automatic weapons and small planes in a country-wide sweep to crack down on Mexican cartels smuggling drugs through Central America.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Heavy snow and strong winds slammed the northeastern United States today, canceling hundreds of flights and causing havoc as travelers scurried to return to work after the Christmas holiday.
It has been almost three days since shipping clerk Gail Perreira was snatched at gunpoint and as relatives continue to receive ransom demands, her location and the motive for the kidnapping remain a mystery.
DURBAN, South Africa, (Reuters) – Dale Steyn produced another magnificent exhibition of fast outswing bowling today to scythe through the Indian batting on the opening day of the second test at Kingsmead.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Chris Gayle’s decision to represent Western Australia instead of Jamaica in Twenty20 cricket next month has not gone down well with the Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA).
(Barbados Nation) One regional manager wants a more youthful look for West Indies cricket come the New Year.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – Eight U.S. tourists were killed and 21 injured when their coach hit a stationary truck in southern Egypt, the state news agency MENA said today.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – England seized control of the Ashes today by skittling Australia for 98, a record low for the hosts in Melbourne, and building a lead of 59 runs without loss at the close of the first day’s play in the fourth test.
(Trinidad Newsday) Guyana’s national squash team coach Alwyn Callender, insisted that more facilities for development must be put into Trinidad and Tobago (TT) squash, to further the sport throughout this country and the Caribbean.
(Trinidad Express) “All she wanted for Christmas was a dolly. She said, ‘Granny, I would like to have a dolly for Christmas please.
Caricom General Insurance Company Ltd, formerly GuyFlag, recently won judgment in the High Court after years of fighting for a licence to operate an insurance business in the country.
A Berbice-based group of engineers had proposed a long-term solution to the problematic areas along the East Bank of Demerara (EBD) which are threatened by the nearby river but the group’s ideas were never considered.
A year-old drainage filter installed at the Annandale Pump Station has been wrecked and the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is replacing it.
The Christmas season for many is a time of joy, delicious food and spending quality time with family and friends.
The WPA, the GTUC and ACDA have voiced support for Mark Benschop and Freddie Kissoon’s efforts to highlight the dangers posed by the overflowing city landfill, while condemning their arrest and detention as acts of intimidation.
Labour Minister Manzoor Nadir has rejected assertions that the government has demonstrated double standards in its treatment of the retrenched Barama Company Limited workers and the 57 RUSAL workers who were fired over a year ago.
As the suspected leaf spot disease Black Sigatoka continues to ravage banana and plantain farms across the country, the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) has said that preliminary results of samples sent to the United Kingdom (UK) to be tested point to symptoms of the scourge.
As she turns four today, Varshanie Ramdass will finally hold the doll placed out of her reach on a wooden shelf in her Plastic City, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara home.
By Nills Campbell Dr Kurt Stephenson had set his heart on becoming a medical doctor.
Asks Tony Cozier Two names leapt off the computer screen last week from the e-mail announcing the preliminary West Indies 30 for the forthcoming World Cup.
The year 2010 was a great year for the Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) which embarked on fundraising activities and which gave monetary donations to the Pakistan Flood Relief and to Haiti.
When 26-year-old Monica Carmichael of Number 30 Village, West Coast Ber-bice learnt she was pregnant with her second child she was elated, but she died following surgery to remove the baby which also died.
Dear Editor, Some persons would by now be familiar with the following often repeated quote: “There are men and women of the Caribbean who are so blinded by their own brilliance that they do not see the darkness through which they lead others.”
Dear Editor, “One thing I cannot do, unless I am prepared to resign from the PPP, is to add condemnation to my appeals.”
The 2010 Women’s World Chess Championship is being held at Hatay, Turkey and ends today.
(Trinidad Express) Low tourist arrivals and occupancy, trending downward in the last three years, have combined with other factors to make a perfect storm that is creating havoc on Tobago’s tourism industry, squeezing the life out of the hotel business and the island’s economy.
VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Benedict prayed for a rebirth of peace in the Middle East and encouraged Catholics in Iraq and communist China to resist persecution in his Christmas message read amid heightened security yesterday.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli tried to bully the U.S.
ABIDJAN, (Reuters) – Three West African presidents will fly to Ivory Coast on Tuesday to tell incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo to quit or face force, Benin said yesterday, a sign of mounting regional determination to force him out.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez, who survived two coup attempts but was finally forced from office as the first Latin American leader to be convicted of corruption, died yesterday in Miami.
