Articles published on Wednesday, August 28, 2013
In another of a series of statements lamenting the stalled hydropower project, Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh today said that unless the main opposition, APNU changes its mind, it seems the Amaila scheme has died.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Star Hollywood couple Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones have separated in what could spell the end of their nearly 13-year marriage, People magazine reported on Wednesday, and a representative for Zeta-Jones confirmed the separation.
The Guyana Power and Light today said that the Demerara Interconnected System suffered a total shutdown yesterday during adverse weather conditions.
(Trinidad Guardian) Mystery spinner Sunil Narine and middle order batsman Darren Bravo will both miss the Red Force T20 series against Guyana on the weekend. Manager
(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — Scantily clothed people, dancing to the tunes of kabula music and living sexual pleasures, seems to be common at the illegal swimming resort Bigi Pan near the village of Wi Santi in the District of Para.
From Donald Duff in St Lucia Trenace Lowe picked up two matches while Chelsea Edghill won the decider as the Guyana women’s table tennis team stunned the defending women’s champions, the Dominican Republic by three games to two to rush into the semi-finals on the first day of the 51st Caribbean Table Tennis Championships yesterday in St Lucia.
(Trinidad Express) Dr Wesley Debideen was yesterday murdered as he sat in his car at the Grand Bazaar at Valsayn by a “determined” gunman, police said.
ANSA McAL has suspended its proposed multimillion-dollar biofuel project here even as government boasts of more bio energy initiatives.
By Erica Williams A teenage driver was charged yesterday with the dangerous driving death of a 12-year-old boy, for which he was released on $200,000 bail.
Policeman Kevin Bruster was yesterday charged with sexually assaulting a young woman who is believed to have been trafficked into the interior.
Commuters travelling between New Amsterdam (NA), Berbice and Georgetown are complaining that hire car drivers who ply the route are exploiting them by increasing their fares from $1,500 to $2,000 during afternoon hours.
The police will be seeking legal advice on how to proceed in the death of East Canje chainsaw operator Chandradat Hussain, who was found hanging at a logging camp at Kurduni, Berbice River last Friday.
Bids were yesterday placed for government security projects which also saw tenders from legally embattled firm Strategic Action Security.
President Donald Ramotar, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and members of their respective governments will meet this Saturday at the Guyana International Con-ference Centre (GICC) for bilateral talks.
Robert Manna, who was found dead at Westminster, Parfait Harmonie, died as a result of a fractured skull, a post-mortem examination has found.
Post-mortem examinations are to be done today on the two children who perished in a fire on Sunday as investigations continue into the cause of the blaze and whether the siblings had been left without adult supervision.
The eleventh Caribbean Festival of Arts (Carifesta) concluded under the theme We are doing it together on Sunday evening with a spectacular cultural display in Paramaribo’s Independence Square in neighbouring Suriname.
It has been a week since Albouystown resident Tolasicy Marshall was stabbed to death by a man who he claimed owed him money and police are yet to find the perpetrator.
Lead opposition party APNU is calling for highway patrols following a tragic accident on the Soesdyke-Linden High-way on Sunday that claimed two lives.
A city stallholder yesterday admitted to the assault of another man but explained that he acted in defence of both his wife and himself after the complainant cursed her and chucked him.
Nicholas Anthony Smith, the accused in the mugging of a man, was yesterday refused bail and remanded to prison.
The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security has teamed up with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to host a camp for 30 children who have been affected by domestic and family violence.
Chairman of the Linden IMC, Orrin Gordon, says the municipality continues to be challenged to meet its mandate as many property owners flout their obligations to pay rates and taxes and new properties in Amelia’s Ward are being evaluated below current market prices.
The New Zealand government has financed an Industrial Arts Centre focused on carpentry and joinery at Shulinab, South Central Rupununi that will enable residents to tap into the construction industry and capitalise on the growing market at Lethem and in Brazil.
Minister of Health, Dr Bheri Ramsaran has charged the new Berbice Regional Health Authority (BRHA) board to tackle childhood non-communicable diseases and to engage stakeholders in both regions Five and Six to inform the operations of hospitals under its purview.
By Orin Davidson Capitalizing on vociferous support from a small but ardent gathering of Guyanese, Sachia Vickery posted her maiden Grand Slam match victory yesterday by dispatching veteran Mirjana Lucic-Baroni at the US Open tennis tournament here in New York.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic blasted their way into the second round of the U.S.
The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), yesterday nominated five cricket coaches to attend the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB)-sponsored tutor/assessor course at the University of Technology (UTech) in Jamaica.
National heavyweights Slingerz FC will oppose the unpredictable BK Western Tigers when semi-final action in the Slingerz/National Association for Women Football (NAWF) Goal for Gold tournament continues today at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground in Bourda.
A bus conductor was remanded to prison yesterday on a charge that he tried to steal a woman’s shoulder bag.
Berbice under-17 batsmen Brian Dukhna and Brandon Persaud struck half centuries and propelled Lower Corentyne straight into the finals of the 2013 Republic Bank Under-17 Inter-zone Cricket Competition in Berbice.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- West Indies head coach Ottis Gibson says he wants to see an improvement in the quality of pitches for future editions of the Limacol Caribbean Premier League (LCPL).
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- West Indies pacer Ravi Rampaul has recovered from an ankle injury and should be available to represent Trinidad and Tobago in the Champions League Twenty20 in India next month, reports here have indicated.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Scientists said yesterday they have achieved the first human-to-human mind meld, with one researcher sending a brain signal via the Internet to control the hand motion of a colleague sitting across the Seattle campus of the University of Washington.
(Reuters) – Zimbabwe recorded their first win over Pakistan for 15 years as they cruised to a seven-wicket victory in the opening one-day international at Harare Sports Club yesterday.
AMMAN/BEIRUT, (Reuters) – The United States and its allies were gearing up yesterday for a probable military strike against Syria that could happen within days as punishment for last week’s chemical weapons attacks blamed on President Bashar al-Assad’s government.
Dear Editor, Joining a number of organizations which paid tribute to the life and work of Eusi Kwayana, and on behalf of a number of members of the WPA Executive Committee and party, I made the following brief remarks: “The Working People’s Alliance are proud to have him in our ranks.
LINZ, Austria, CMC- American Justin Gatlin fought off rain and a challenge from two Caribbean sprinters to win the 100m at the Gugl Games in Australia on Monday.
Dear Editor, The University of Guyana ‒ both campuses ‒ has done fancy orientations and opening ceremonies for the new semester, and just imagine, their new applicants do not even have their registrations and profiles approved.
Dear Editor, The Minister of Education, Ms Priya Manickchand has said that “the single, most important issue in the country (is) the education of the nation’s children.”
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s efforts to avoid a debt default could drag on for another year or more as it fights “holdout” bondholders to the bitter end in U.S.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-Trinidad and Tobago has been selected as the venue to contest the region’s premier One –day competition, the Regional Super 50 tournament in January next year, the Guardian has reported.
The Rotaract Club of Georgetown Central donated a number of school items to children from the Sophia community who were successful at the National Grade Six Assessment.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – More than 20 state restaurants in Cuba are about to become employee-run cooperatives as Raul Castro’s communist government continues its retreat from running just about everything on the Caribbean island.
Public Relations specialist Christopher “Kit” Nascimento was elected president of the Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) at its AGM held on Thursday.
Dark skies: Ominous clouds which led to thunder claps and rain, swept across Georgetown yesterday afternoon as evidenced in this Kareem Liverpool photo taken around 3.10 pm.
Scores of young people on August 25, 2013 joined the Progressive Youth Organisation (PYO) to paint one hundred and one pedestrian crossings across Guyana as part of its “Road Safety and Back to School Campaign”, a release from the PYO said yesterday.
Dear Editor, The idea of big investment in Guyana will, from now on, suffer the expertise of our local experts who will sustain a level of harassment under the pretext of safeguarding the people who pay taxes.
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- The West Indies Cricket Board has announced A-team squads to tour India next month for “tests”, One-day and T20 matches.
Dear Editor, I wish to congratulate Gumendra Shewdas for having been crowned world champion of the 53 kg class in the IPF World Juniors and sub-juniors Men’s Championship recently held in Texas USA.
The local government reforms of 2013 appear grounded in what Desmond Hoyte pejoratively referred to as “local government per se” (reforming local government for reform’s sake), and in this spirit I will begin this examination of the Bills that were recently passed by the National Assembly but are still to be assented to by the president.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Shoaib Malik of the Barbados Tridents and Krishmar Santokie of the Guyana Amazon Warriors are the top runscorer and wicket taker of the inaugural Limacol Caribbean Premier League which ended here over the weekend.
Better surveillance: Dogs hanging high on Alexander Street between Robb Street and North Road.
Since Michael Manley succumbed in the second half of the 1970s, after his experiments in economic and foreign policy radicalism, to the IMF’s insistence that he accept one of their more severe programmes for the recuperation of a depressed Jamaican economy, the country has gone through a number of attempts at trying and retrying those IMF policies to which it had originally objected.
