Articles published on Sunday, August 4, 2013
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The St. Lucia Zouks defeated the Guyana Amazon Warriors by five wickets in their CPL T20 match at the Providence Stadium on Sunday night Scores : Guyana Amazon Warriors 126 for 6 off 20 overs – (Lendl Simmons 38, Christopher Barnwell not out 29 ; Denesh Ramdin not out 13 ; Shane Shillingford 3/23).
President Donald Ramotar came out slightly ahead of former President Bharrat Jagdeo in voting yesterday for a new 35-member Central Committee of the People’s Progressive Part y.
(Trinidad Express) Gunmen have claimed the lives of seven people between last Friday night and yesterday morning.
(Trinidad Express) Political leaders have agreed to President Anthony Carmona’s call to bite the bullet of campaign financing reform.
The turbulent relationship of a Jonestown, Mahaica couple ended tragically early yesterday morning when Ryan James murdered his wife of two years and then killed himself by ingesting poison.
Today we bring you a visual ‘World beyond…’ The photographs are from Hosororo and Kumaka and were taken by Duncan Saul.
The People’s Progressive Party acknowledged corruption in the party and government on the second day of the 30th Congress yesterday.
Original Amaila Falls developer ‘Fip’ Motilall will be paid US$12 million at the financial closure of the project and he has explained how it was that his company Synergy Holdings Inc and its minority partner Enventure Inc transferred the licence to Sithe Global – the developer since 2009.
A man was shot dead when at least two gunmen invaded his shop at Oronoque, Port Kaituma, Region One just after 10 pm last night in what appeared to be a robbery.
An elderly security guard was pummelled by two robbers at his worksite in Stanleytown, New Amsterdam on Thursday night.
Five persons, including the pilot, aboard a small Remote Area Medical Outreach (RAM) plane escaped unhurt after the aircraft crash landed at the Aishalton runway in Region 9 on Friday afternoon after its front wheel came off.
Nazalena Natasha Houston, the lone survivor of the brutal attack by her husband that left her two children dead, yesterday said police could have prevented the tragedy by acting on a report she made to them the day before.
Prime Minister Sam Hinds says Guyana Power and Light (GPL) will not be made to pay for losses suffered from the Amaila Hydro project to Sophia, as the point of billing is the Georgetown substation.
Just when we were beginning to digest the news that Nicaragua had signed a contract with a Chinese company to build a $40 billion inter-oceanic canal that would compete with a soon-to-be expanded Panama Canal, Guatemala announced this week that it’s jumping into the fray and will build a $12 billion inter-oceanic “dry corridor.”
Conclusion The last topic left to be considered in this rather extended appraisal of the management of Guyana’s public investment programme is its third and fourth phases, namely, project management and implementation and the conduct of ex-post evaluation audits of projects.
As concerns grow over the number of children who are killed or wounded during violent fights between their parents, the Child Care and Protection Agency (CC&PA) has taken note and according to its head Ann Greene a national campaign to deal with the situation is being planned.
Coach of Guyana’s Amazon Warriors, Roger Harper said yesterday that the team’s game plan ahead of tonight’s game of the Limacol Caribbean Premier League at the Providence National Stadium against the St Lucia Zouks was to “stick to the basics” adding that the team was a good all-round unit.
Mood of the company The Guyana National Printers Limited (GNPL) will be celebrating its 75th birthday next year.
Over 1000 delegates cast their votes on the second day of the PPP/C’s 30th Congress yesterday for the 35 persons who will comprise the Central Committee, although the results will not be known until today.
PPP General Secretary Donald Ramotar on Friday said the calibre of party members is on the decline and he lamented that new members did not have the same level of commitment as those of the past.
Stretching 200 miles offshore, the Exclusive Economic Zones of most Caribbean nations cover areas of ocean vastly larger than the land masses to which they belong.
European Union (EU) funding for the Guyana Mangrove Restoration Project (GMRP) under the 11th European Development Fund will hinge on government’s ability to meet indicators.
As Guyana’s interest in tourism appears to be gaining momentum, it is useful to reflect on the development of that sector in two Caribbean countries – St Vincent and the Cayman Islands – that moved into tourism at approximately the same time in the 1960s.
The work of the ten civilians, appointed to help reform the Guyana Police Force (GPF) under the Strategic Management Department (SDM), has encountered a roadblock because of the non-cooperation of senior officers and at least one member has tendered their resignation, according to APNU parliamentarian Winston Felix.
THERE were a host of inevitable questions hanging over the Caribbean Premier League when Julian Hunte, then West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president, announced last year that it was selling its annual Twenty20 tournament to Verus International, a wealth management organization based in New York and Barbados.
Last week Colin Campbell, an old Etonian and quintessentially English, died at his home in Blackhorse Lane, South Mimms, in Hertfordshire at the age of 86.
By Ralph Ramkarran By the time this article is published the Emancipation Day commemoration of the 175th Anniversary of the abolition of slavery would have passed.
HARARE (Reuters) – Africa’s oldest president, Robert Mugabe, was declared winner of Zimbabwe’s election yesterday, but his rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, said he would challenge in court a result he called a fraud that would push the nation back into crisis.
In sweltering conditions at the National Park yesterday, United Cycle Club’s (UCC) Hamzah Eastman scorched a star-studded field of rivals and sprinted away with the top honours in the feature 35-lap event of the 10th annual Seven Seas sponsored 11-race cycle programme.
Says Donald Duff There are few national sports teams in Guyana that can match the achievements of the national junior squash teams.
On each anniversary of Emancipation the African presence in the Caribbean is celebrated; whatever can be exhibited of the cultural traditions is highlighted and the performing arts pay tribute to the African vestiges that they can claim.
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Insurgents attacked the Indian consulate in Afghanistan’s eastern capital yesterday, killing nine people and reinforcing fears that a bloody regional power struggle will be played out in the country once most foreign troops leave.
BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – A century from Andy Gobin steered Trinidad and Tobago to an innings and 79 runs victory over the Leeward Islands in their West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Under-19 three-day match here yesterday.
Dear Editor, As my son has been granted Guyanese citizenship and because of our mutual love of the country and its people I monitor the Guyana press on line almost every day as far as possible.
Continued Breast infection (mastitis) Last week we discussed ‘caked breasts.’ Today, we will examine that ailment which is a common problem that develops just after delivery of the puppies, and as they start to suckle.
The National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue will today be a hive of activity when Deon Carter stages his birth anniversary dominoes tournament.
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s army-backed rulers and allies of its deposed Islamist president gave the first signs yesterday of a readiness to compromise, pressed by Western envoys trying to head off more bloodshed.
The small Cessna on a medical outreach that crashed in Aishalton yesterday.
Dear Editor, Effective emancipation must allow us to make genuine choices.
Forty-year-old Marilyn Severin attempted to abort her baby three times by using the drug Cytotec and it was only on the third attempt when she was more than six months pregnant that the baby boy was expelled.
RABAT (Reuters) – Riot police broke up a protest by hundreds of Moroccans late on Friday against a royal pardon for a Spanish paedophile serving a 30-year sentence for raping and filming children as young as four.
Skipper of the Antigua Hawksbill, Marlon Samuels and Jamaica Tallawahs Head coach Paul Nixon yesterday said their respective teams remain in good spirits despite losing their opening matches of the Limacol Caribbean Premier League (LCPL).
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Dear Editor, Thanks to relentless scrutiny from the opposition political parties and informed patriots like Mr Christopher Ram, Mr Ramond Gaskin and others, the people have finally received some data and information on the proposed US$858M Amaila Falls Hydroelectric Project.
Wanda Fortune, one of victims of last Thursday night’s violent cutlass attack on three females at Sophia, is decrying the slothful response of the police, saying it gives her no confidence even as the alleged attacker continues to make calls to the family promising to finish them off.
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MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – Kevin Pietersen defiantly struck a mature century but England were staring down the barrel at 294 for seven at stumps on the third day of the third Ashes test on Saturday, still 233 adrift on first innings.
(Trinidad Guardian) Parliamentarians are not immune from extradition. That was the comment given to the Miami Herald newspaper by Peter Carr, a spokesman for the United States Department of Justice, following former national security minister Jack Warner’s successful re-election as the MP for the Chaguanas West constituency on Monday.
In January of this year Mayor Hamilton Green convened a meeting to explore approaches to saving City Hall, which is in a critical state.
Dendrobium orchids originate from South-east Asia and the South Pacific including India, Australia and Fiji.
They shall not pass! This donkey tied up in an alleyway in Port Mourant took on the role of guardian, and charged at anyone who tried to pass him.
Dear Editor, The statements made by PPP officials at the opening of the People’s Progres-sive Party’s 30th Congress and at recent press conferences should be cause of concern, if not alarm for all Guyanese.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York Times Co has agreed to sell The Boston Globe to the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox baseball team for $70 million in cash, a small fraction of what the Times paid for the newspaper 20 years ago.
