Articles published on Thursday, May 2, 2013
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles challenged President Nicolas Maduro’s narrow election victory before the Supreme Court on Thursday, prolonging what appears to be a futile effort to overturn last month’s vote.
CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Jacques Kallis’s withdrawal from South Africa’s squad for the Champions Trophy has been described as a major blow but it also gives the team the chance to move forward free of past baggage.
(Jamaica Observer) PUBLIC Defender Earl Witter says evidence from his investigations into the May 2010 Tivoli Gardens incursion by the security forces suggests that “excessive or undue resort to lethal force” was used by the security forces during the operation.
ATLANTA, (Reuters) – Chris “Mac Daddy” Kelly of the 1990s rap duo Kris Kross likely died of a drug overdose, police said on Thursday, a day after the 34-year-old was found unconscious at his Atlanta home.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States is rethinking its opposition to arming the Syrian rebels, U.S.
At about 0650. today, police say that Traffic Officer Superintendent Hugh Denhert was involved in a damage accident while driving his motor vehicle along the Little Abary Public Road, ECD.
KHARTOUM, (Reuters) – More than 60 miners were killed this week in Sudan’s Darfur region when the gold mine they were working in collapsed, a police spokesman said on Thursday.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar will today take a note to Cabinet to amend the laws to ensure that no journalist can be jailed under section nine of the Libel and Defamation Act for the malicious publication of any defamatory libel.
Despite the recent inclement weather, the spirit of the national rugby squad is far from dampened as the ruggers continue to prepare assiduously for the NACRA senior men’s 15s Caribbean championships home game against Barbados on May 18.
Great Britain’s David Calvert yesterday won the individual shooting competition at the Timehri Rifle Ranges.
Former boxing promoter Keith Bazilio and boxing coach Maurice `Busy’ Boyce yesterday paid tributes to the late boxer Fitroy Whyte who was buried in the United States of America last Saturday.
The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) wants to send a team of boxers to Cuba to participate in two tournaments there.
Former national U19 opening batsman Alfred Mentore was re-elected unopposed as president of the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) at its Annual General Meeting (AGM) held recently at the Club’s pavilion at Lance Gibbs and New Garden Streets, Georgetown.
Mackenzie High School and New Silver City Secondary School played to a 0-0 draw last Saturday at the Wisburg Secondary School Ground as the Scotiabank/Pepsi schools football tournament continued in Linden.
The Guyana Softball League (GSL) has once again thrown its support behind the YOLO Entertainment Group by endorsing their second leg of the 10/10 Challenge Series to be staged on the (ECD) East Coast of Demerara.
The Guyana Netball Association (GNA) is presently in the red financially says vice president of the association Lawrence Griffith.
Mark Scott, Council Member/ Competitions Director of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) has resigned.
BARCELONA, (Reuters) – Bayern Munich stormed fortress Nou Camp to claim a berth in the first all-German Champions League final when they routed Barcelona 3-0 yesterday for a crushing 7-0 aggregate success that saw them hailed as the new kings of Europe.
The delivery of health and education is to get a further boost with the arrival of yet another batch of United States Peace Corps volunteers.
A Guyanese woman was on Tuesday night chopped to death in Barbados by her estranged husband who is now under police guard at a local hospital after he allegedly ingested a poisonous substance.
HYDERABAD, India, CMC – Barbados and West Indies batsman Dwayne Smith extended his rich vein of form but his Mumbai Indians crashed to a surprise seven-wicket defeat to West Indies captain Darren Sammy’s Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League yesterday.
Guyana remains listed as ‘Partly Free’ in the latest Freedom House rankings for media freedom—a year after slipping from ‘Free’ status.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago have the Herculean task of stopping perennial champions Jamaica’s march towards a sixth straight Regional Four-Day title when they meet in the semi-finals starting here today.
Venting about the actions of the AFC and APNU in Parliament, President Donald Ramotar said yesterday that he will consult with them to get them to change their minds about the budget cuts.
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Newly minted one-day champions Windward Islands will hope to keep their dream season alive when they clash with Barbados in the semi-final of the Regional Four-Day Championship starting here today.
Opposition Leader David Granger yesterday renewed the call for unity in the trade union movement, saying it is the key to solving the country’s problems.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Twenty of the world’s most troubled countries have made progress in efforts that range from reducing poverty to improving the education of girls and cutting down on the deaths of women in childbirth, the World Bank said yesterday.
Dear Editor, The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment has noted the continuous misunderstanding and, at times, deliberate misrepresentation of the way in which the financial management of Guyana Geology and Mines Commission Operates (GGMC) is executed.
LEEDS, England, CMC – Leeward Islands left-hander Chesney Hughes narrowly missed out on a 117-year-old record here Tuesday when he stroked a monumental unbeaten double hundred for Derbyshire at Headingley.
FRIA, Guinea (Reuters) – Failure by Guinea’s politicians to reach agreement for a long-delayed legislative poll is stirring up tribal violence, jeopardising economic gains and raising fears that the military could once again step in.
The body of the man that was found on the Providence Public Road East Bank Demerara on Monday, after an apparent hit and run accident, was yesterday identified as Suriname national Steven Rinaldo Tinnie.
LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivian President Evo Morales expelled a US development agency from his country yesterday, marking the latest confrontation between Washington and a bloc of left-wing governments in Latin America.
Dear Editor, I was out of the country from the end of March to around the middle of April this year, and so I am responding to two matters which were printed in the newspapers in Guyana.
LONDON,(Reuters) – Former England captain Mike Gatting was named as the next president of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) yesterday.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Sprint icon Usain Bolt has pulled out of this weekend’s Jamaica Invitational with a hamstring strain.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – International Syria mediator Lakhdar Brahimi is determined to resign because he is fed up with the deadlock over how to end the country’s two-year civil war and believes his role has been compromised, UN diplomats said yesterday.
Police last evening were still looking for a third suspect in the killing of one of their own and the injury to two others even as A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) condemned the attack and called on government to immediately reform the police force.
Dear Editor, Every day as I drive around the city, I have a feeling of great sadness on how terribly we are treating our environment.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Settlers at Virginia’s Jamestown Colony resorted to cannibalism to survive the harsh winter of 1609, dismembering and consuming a 14-year-old English girl, the US Smithsonian Institution reported yesterday.
Dear Editor, It is heart-wrenching to read about the death of the passenger who was hit a number of times by a minibus conductor over noise pollution in the bus.
Guyana received US$400 million in remittances last year, which accounted for 17% of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to a new report on remittances in the region.
(Sports Direct) – Denver’s Andre Iguodala collected 25 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists as the Nuggets forced a Game Six against Golden State with a 107-100 points win.
As Guyana prepares to observe 175 years since the arrival of East Indians to these shores the Nadira and Indranie Shah Dance Troupe has organised a grand Dance Theatre under the theme “175 years of Cultural Retention Depicted in Dance” to help usher in the celebrations.
LONDON (Reuters) – William Roache, the world’s longest serving soap actor according to Guinness World Records, was charged yesterday with two counts of rape against an underage girl, British prosecutors said.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of Cubans filed through Havana’s Revolution Square yesterday in a May Day parade that paid tribute to Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan leader who was the Caribbean island’s top ally and benefactor before his death from cancer in March.
Dear Editor, Help & Shelter recognizes with great respect the recent actions of GWMO members in rescuing four victims of trafficking in persons (TIP) despite the risk to their personal safety.
In exploring who we are as a nation, where we want to go as a people, and how to get there, we must find a way to delve deep into our creative reservoir, to look inside ourselves.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Legendary Sri Lanka off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan was yesterday announced as the final international franchise player for the lucrative Caribbean Premier League which bowls off in July.
Scenes from the rededication of St Philip’s Parish Church, St Philip’s Green, Smyth Street, Werk-en-Rust yesterday.
By Naomi Wolf NEW YORK – When America absorbed the bombings at the Boston Marathon, what was striking was what did not happen.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The Los Angeles Clippers are sweating on the fitness of All-Star forward Blake Griffin, who aggravated an ankle injury during a first-round playoff loss to Memphis on Tuesday that leaves the team on the brink of elimination.
The delivery of health and education is to get a further boost with the arrival of yet another batch of United States Peace Corps volunteers.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Opposition and government supporters flooded Venezuelan streets in rival May Day marches yesterday as a continuing dispute over the results of last month’s presidential vote kept political tensions high in the OPEC nation.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
LONDON (Reuters) – Tax havens such as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands will work more closely with Britain and other European countries to fight tax evasion, British finance minister George Osborne said today.
Dear Editor, I refer to a letter in the Stabroek News of April 29 captioned ‘Still a high cost for a bridge.’
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said yesterday that there was no Government policy to reward or withhold State advertising to media houses.
(Trinidad Express) LAWRENCE Duprey, former executive chairman of insurance giant, CL Financial, had said in his witness statement that he did nothing wrong.
