Articles published on Monday, August 19, 2013
LONDON, (Reuters) – Prince William and his wife Kate released two informal family snapshots as the first official photos of their son, Prince George, on Tuesday, disappointing royal fans hoping to get a good look at Britain’s newest royal heir.
PPP executive Clement Rohee was this afternoon announced as the new General Secretary of the ruling party following the first meeting of its newly elected Central Committee today.
Days before the PPP’s 30th Congress there were attempts by “some comrades” to lobby against certain candidates to the Central Committee elections including former President Bharrat Jagdeo and this prompted a letter from President Donald Ramotar warning those engaged in this to desist.
At about 1535h yesterday, police say that Richard Alpin, 58 years, of Orealla, was driving a motor tractor down a hill when the vehicle toppled and pinned him.
(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard came to the rescue of over 540 passengers yesterday evening after the pleasure vessel the Harbour Master ran aground after setting sail from Cocorite.
Work on the US$18 million specialty hospital at Turkeyen is expected to commence soon as a consultancy contract has been awarded to a local company to ensure government gets “value for money” Attorney-General Anil Nandall says.
A miner was on Saturday stabbed to death at a mining camp in the interior.
The Coalition for the 1823 Parade Ground Monument yesterday held a ‘Remembrance Walk/ Freedom Walk’ in honour of the 1823 martyrs from Le Ressouvenir, East Coast Demerara as the group signalled its determination to build a monument to the martyrs at Parade Ground.
Jamaican dancehall artiste Mavado yesterday blamed the promoter of the Slingerz Summer Jam for his no-show at Saturday’s concert at Providence and slammed the arrangements made including a 19-hour flight from Jamaica to Guyana in a cramped small plane with no bathroom.
Dangerous driving is what eyewitnesses are saying was occurring prior to a Route 45 minibus (Main Street/Lamaha/GPHC) slamming into the fence of the Alpha Hotel along the East Bank Public Road in Agricola resulting in 17 persons being rushed to the hospital.
With recent revelations that the Skeldon sugar factory is costing an additional US$30 million for rehabilitation works, the union GAWU is demanding full disclosure of any and all budgetary support that the EU provided for the industry.
Two persons are suffering from head trauma after a head-on collision on the public road at Airy Hall, Mahaica at approximately 18:00 hrs yesterday.
Three years after acquiring large forest concessions here and exporting unprocessed logs, start-up logging company Vaitarna Holding Private Incorporated (VHPI) is yet to set up its promised wood processing facility.
Guyana will be exploring the prospect of exporting other goods to Venezuela during the visit of that country’s President Nicholas Maduro later this month, according to Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett.
Earlier this month, the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) welcomed over 300 visitors from Suriname and Holland at Moleson Creek, Region Six, after they disembarked the Canawaima ferry.
A plumber was remanded to prison on Monday after it was alleged that he had 55 grammes of cannabis in his possession.
The Sophia Training Centre two Fridays ago held its twenty-fourth graduation ceremony at the Carifesta Sports Complex for 94 students who completed its six-month training in several subject areas under the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports’ Youth Entrepreneurial Skills Training (YEST) programme.
In typical Jamaican fashion, reggae dance hall superstars Busy Signal and Konshens put on nothing short of electrifying performances Friday night at the Jamzone Regional Night.
By Jairo Rodrigues in Paramaribo, Suriname Satin doll, Perdido, Deemwaee, Torus Africa, Blue Bussa, Bassledee… These are the songs that the Guyana National Steel Orchestra tapped out at their first performance since the opening of the Caribbean Festival of Arts in Paramaribo, Suriname on Friday.
Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) President Craig Archer Saturday night said that Guyana has earned an automatic qualification for the 2015 Pan Am Games to be held in Toronto, Canada.
CARIFTA Games gold medalist Jevina Straker and CARIFTA Games representative Alita Moore shattered records on the second and final day of the IV Boyce/Jefford Classic yesterday.
Dr Louis Regis, noted West Indian academic, researcher and literary critic, in delivering a memorial lecture in honour of the late Guyanese poet Martin Wylde Carter on Wednesday at the Umana Yana, shared the view that in his examination of Carter’s poems he found him to be a liberal humanist, and that his poetry and political activism are all derived from this fact.
The Guyana Police Force and Police Wives Association in a simple ceremony two Thursdays ago closed another annual youth camp held at the Aurora Secondary School, Pomona, Essequibo Coast.
On a windy Sunday afternoon at the Seawall Bandstand, last year’s senior road race champion, Orville Hinds returned to his triumphant ways by blowing away a star studded field to emphatically win the feature 30-lap event of the inaugural Bryden and Fernandes Classic yesterday.
Guyanese cyclists, Bruce Camacho and Aubrey Gordon secured podium finishes at the recently concluded World Masters Games which was staged in Turin, Italy.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican authorities have increased security along the country’s northeastern border with the United States after arresting the suspected leader of the Gulf Cartel, one of the oldest drug trafficking groups in Mexico, a spokesman said yesterday.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Chris Gayle blasted 51 of 25 balls to set the foundation for a successful chase as Jamaica Tallawahs defeated the Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel by three wickets in match 21 of the Caribbean Premier League at the Sabina Park here yesterday.
FRASQUIA, Bolivia, (Reuters) – Bolivian indigenous farmer Carmelo Flores, who could be the oldest person to have ever lived, attributes his longevity to quinoa grains, riverside mushrooms and around-the-clock chewing of coca leaves.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Foreign investors, who rapaciously scooped up U.S.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Usain Bolt, already enshrined as one of the greatest Olympians of all time, became the most successful athlete in world championship history when he anchored Jamaica to victory in the 4×100 metres relay yesterday.
MOSCOW, Russia, CMC – Usain Bolt was presented on Saturday with the 2012 International Association for Sports Journalists (AIPS) Male Athlete of the Year award for his outstanding performance at the Olympic Games in London last year.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, fighting for its political survival, has accused security forces of killing dozens of detained Islamists, upping the pressure in a crisis that has rocked the Arab world’s most populous state.
LONDON, (Reuters) – British authorities used anti-terrorism powers on Sunday to detain the partner of a journalist with close links to Edward Snowden, the former U.S.
Dear Editor, As the discussions on how to deal with violence rages on, may I suggest the following?
MOSCOW, Russia, CMC- Sprint legend Usain Bolt has expressed shock at comments made by Mike Rodgers, a member of USA’s 4x100m team, which finished second behind Jamaica on Sunday’s final day of the 14th IAAF World Athletics Championships.
ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC-Barbados and Guyana have recorded their second straight wins in round two of the West Indies women T20 tournament in here yesterday.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan politicians traded insults at the weekend with a showdown looming in the National Assembly over President Nicolas Maduro’s plans to ask for fast-track decree powers he says he needs to combat corruption.
Dear Editor, On the stage on which the politics of Guyana is being performed, one would expect at any moment to see the appearance of Habeeb Khan or Jerry Lewis to participate in the pantomime.
Bike thrills: Daredevil displays at the Jamzone bike fest at the National Park on Sunday.
OSLO, (Reuters) – The ability of Europe’s aging forests to absorb carbon dioxide is heading towards saturation point, threatening one of the continent’s main defences against global warming, a study showed yesterday.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – The writing was perhaps already on the wall for Bo Xilai, the controversial former top official of China’s southwestern city of Chongqing, when he appeared at last year’s parliamentary meeting, alternately chastened and combative.
Dear Editor, A comment on the statement: “Education apartheid is returning to Guyana” by the Leader of APNU Brigadier (rtd) David Granger, asks the question “Education apartheid”!
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad & Tobago, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago team at the 14th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Moscow, Russia wasn’t approved by the General Council of the National Association of Athletics Administration (NAAA).
KABUL, (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s landmark oil project has ground to a halt and most Chinese staff have left less than a year after production started because there is still no transit agreement in place to refine the oil, an employee and a government official said yesterday.
Dear Editor, President Ramotar has stated that the Amaila Falls project would not incur any national debt to Guyana’s Treasury/taxpayers.
By Sunity Maharaj Editor’s Note: In this week’s diaspora column, first carried in the Trinidad Express Newspaper on August 10,2013, columnist and social activist Sunity Maharaj reflects on the struggle to recognise domestic employees as workers.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara is set to link up with the Jamaica Tallawahs for the final stretch of the Limacol Caribbean Premier League (LCPL), organisers have confirmed.
Bike thrills: Daredevil displays at the Jamzone bike fest at the National Park on Sunday.
Dear Editor, I wish to congratulate the Opposition Leader David Granger, the PNCR and APNU for the principled and responsible position they took on the Amaila Hydro Project.
CINCINNATI, (Reuters) – Rafa Nadal continued his outstanding hardcourt form beating John Isner 7-6 7-6 in the final of the Western and Southern Open yesterday, setting up the Spaniard as the red-hot favourite heading into the U.S.
Bike thrills: Daredevil displays at the Jamzone bike fest at the National Park on Sunday.
Since my article of 5 August on the Amaila Falls Project, a number of important developments took place.
Thrill: Bikers in a thrilling display yesterday at the Jamzone bike fest at the National Park.
Bike thrills: Daredevil displays at the Jamzone bike fest at the National Park on Sunday.
Dear Editor, I refer to two letters in the Friday, August 16 edition of the Stabroek News: Annan Boodram’s ‘Politics has become a zero sum game in Guyana,’ and Mahamood Shaw’s ‘Boodoo was not given due process.’
Interviews and photos by Shabna Ullah Mohamed Haniff, Imam of NA `Everybody agrees that Guyana is in need of hydropower.
MADRID, (Reuters) – Gerardo Martino enjoyed his competitive debut with Barcelona more than Carlos Ancelotti’s with Real Madrid as the La Liga champions stormed to a 7-0 demolition of Levante in their season opener at the Nou Camp yesterday.
Exuberance: Guyanese artistes entertaining the audience at New Amsterdam, Suriname yesterday during their Carifesta presentation.
We extend a hearty welcome to the delegates of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union’s 44th Annual General Assembly and wish them the most fruitful of deliberations in Georgetown.
