Articles published on Sunday, October 6, 2013
From right are President Donald Ramotar, former President Bharrat Jagdeo, Prime Minister Sam Hinds, presidential advisor, Gail Teixeira and Home Affairs Minister and PPP General secretary Clement Rohee at the Tain, Corentyne event on Saturday to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the PPP’s ascent to office .
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has revoked the grades for 70 Jamaica College (JC) students who sat physics in the 2013 Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) at the school earlier this year.
A father and son were on Thursday evening shot and killed on the Venezuelan border close to the North West District and it has been reported that lawmen in that country confronted the duo over a robbery and a shooting report.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Witness Protection Programme has collapsed. So said attorney Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj, who implemented the programme 17 years ago, while he served as attorney general under the United National Congress government. Established
(Trinidad Guardian) China Railway Construction Caribbean Company, the contractor selected by the Chinese government to build the Arima Hospital at a proposed cost of TT$1.6 billion (and also the now stalled Amaila Hydropower Project), has been named as one of five Chinese enterprises ordered to investigate shoddy work in the construction of railway projects.
By Clifton Ross Commanding half-centuries from Mossadek Hossain Saikat and Jashim Uddin led the touring Bangladesh U19 team to a 111-run drubbing of the Guyana U19 team yesterday at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground, Bourda.
Royal Woodworking, which closed the doors on its Alexander Street store last week after over 50 years in business, is expected to become the latest location in the city rented by Chinese merchants.
A Kuru Kururu man is the latest road fatality after he was struck down on Friday evening by a motor car.
Former Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) welterweight titlist, Simeon ‘Candy Man’ Hardy has been reinstated as champion and will replace Jamaican, Sakima Mullings in the WBC Cup.
West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president Dave Cameron was even more upbeat than usual over the decision at last weekend’s directors’ meeting in Kingston to award the regional Super50 competition – all of it – to Trinidad and Tobago for the next three years.
A nine-year-old No 64 Village Corentyne boy was yesterday crushed to death after falling from a moving tractor in the No 64 back lands.
Dark horses St. Pius Primary defeated tournament favourites Tucville Primary 1-0 when the Petra Organization/Courts Guyana Incorporated in collaboration with Banks DIH Limited Pee Wee U11 football tourney continued at the Thirst Park ground yesterday.
Prospect, a small village located approximately 5 miles from Georgetown on the East Bank of Demerara, is home to nearly 800 residents.
BK Western Tigers edged Northern Rangers 1-0 when the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Players Cup continued at the Tucville Community Ground on Thursday.
Bitter party political animosity divides the nation and holds back united efforts to solve the multitude of problems which need our combined human resources.
Three armed gunmen on Friday night robbed the recently opened Smile Mini Mart and Gas Station, located at Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara, escaping with nearly $20,000 in cash and the cell phone of an employee.
First decade With a low debt profile, working capital over $5 billion and in excess of $2 billion in cash, Banks DIH is nowhere close to being in trouble.
A 50-year-old mother of two and teacher at the Grove Primary School collapsed and died shortly after participating in a march in observance of World Teachers’ Day on Friday.
Construction on the MovieTowne complex at Turkeyen, will take two years, according to Chairman of Multi-Cinema Guyana Incorporated Derek Chin, who says the costs associated have swollen to US$35 million.
National cyclist, Alanzo Greaves will look to repeat as champion when the Flying Stars Cycle Club organized Victor Macedo Memorial road race pedals off this morning.
Introduction Last week’s column provided a brief synopsis of the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) international standard.
Shanique Myrie is a Jamaican national who was detained at the Grantley Adams Airport in Barbados upon arrival on March 14, 2011 and deported the following day to Jamaica.
Almost a year after he pleaded guilty to mortgage fraud conspiracy in New York, Guyanese businessman Ed Ahmad made a court appearance to have his bond arrangement modified.
Camptown Football Club edged the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) in a seven goal thriller 4-3 when action in the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Players Cup continued at the Tucville Community ground on Friday.
Cassia Alphonso’s Black Cake Mix, won the award for Best Book of Poetry in the 2012 Guyana Prize for Literature, jointly with Ian McDonald’s The Comfort of All Things.
The F and H Printing Establishment in association with the Georgetown Dominoes Association million dollars dominoes team tournament will continue tomorrow at the Dynasty Sports Bar from 6.30pm.
The sister of a 66-year-old woman is pleading with the public to help find her after she went missing during a hospital visit September 24 last.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Manchester United unearthed a sparkling gem to lighten the early-season gloom, Adnan Januzaj striking twice in a 2-1 win at Sunderland yesterday after resurgent Liverpool stormed to the top of the Premier League.
DELHI, India, CMC – Barbadian Dwayne Smith shared an opening partnership of 90 runs with Sachin Tendulkar of India to lead the Mumbai Indians to a six-wicket victory over Trinidad and Tobago in the second semi-final of the Champions League Twenty20 here yesterday.
We’re taking our time in the Caribbean writing our musical history.
SHIMOGA, India, CMC – West Indies A and India A drew their second unofficial Test yesterday, with the touring side holding a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.
Dear Editor, Nearly thirty years ago I asked a hinterland villager, who had sold me some handicraft but had not received the payment I had sent through an agent, “What do Amerindian people do to someone they find out has been stealing from them?”
President Barack Obama’s state-of-the-world speech before the United Nations General Assembly recently did not mention any Latin American country, and virtually omitted the region as a whole.
Former chairman of the Private Sector Commission Ramesh Dookhoo said that the decision by the United States authorities to withhold permission for two air carriers to operate directly to the US from Guyana will have implications not only for ticket pricing but also on business here.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US forces launched raids in Libya and Somalia yesterday following the deadly attack on a Nairobi shopping mall last month, capturing a top al Qaeda figure wanted for the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, a US official said.
Over the last two to three years Russian interest in the Caribbean has been growing, so that today Moscow’s diplomatic profile and its economic presence in a number of Caribbean nations is now stronger than at any time since the end of the cold war.
The woman who it is alleged is behind Thursday’s attack that left Linda Phillips hospitalised with several stab wounds, is in police custody and has denied any involvement in the attack.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, CMC – Off-spinner Sunil Narine is the latest to confirm participation in the 2013 Caribbean Single Wicket Tournament, scheduled for Trinidad on October 13.
Dear Editor, To my mind, the usefulness of court action in the NICIL/Marriott case is that it could, the law allowing, permit that certain critical information be subpoenaed and hence exposed to public examination.
CARACAS (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro’s government plans to use fingerprint machines at airports to try to root out no-shows who buy tickets to scam travel-related currency controls without even flying, in the latest symptom of Venezuela’s economic chaos.
LAHORE, (Reuters) – All-rounder Mohammad Hafeez has been dropped from Pakistan’s squad for the two-test series against South Africa that will begin in the United Arab Emirates later this month.
Dear Editor, Some encounters over recent weeks have proved enlightening. To my surprise I discovered different generations of our citizenry were totally unaware of the most influential institution in the societal culture in which too many of us continue to subsist.
Continued from last week Temperature As a puppy is born, his temperature is the same as that of his mother.
Search parties are still searching for 42-year-old Rakesh Persaud called ‘Pork Soup’ and Rajin Ramsammy, 22, called ‘Kishan’ of John’s Housing Scheme, Port Mourant, Corentyne.
The Rights of the Child Commission (RCC) views the fatal shooting of Vive la Force teenager Ryan Persaud with concern but there is not much that can be done at this moment since the matter is in the hands of the police, says Deputy Chair Rosemary Benjamin-Noble.
(The Sports Xchange) – Houston Rockets center Dwight Howard responded to Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s criticism that he does not have a high enough basketball IQ to be a great player.
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it.
Dear Editor, The letter captioned ‘Cheddi Jagan was not present at the UG’s inauguration in 1963’ written by Harry Hergash and published in the Stabroek News on October 4 is incorrect.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon said yesterday it would recall most of the roughly 400,000 civilian Defense Department employees sent home during the government shutdown, in a move that could greatly lessen the impact of the shutdown on America’s armed forces.
WILLEMSTAD, Curacao, CMC – The coach of Trinidad and Tobago’s 400 metres hurdles World Champion Jehue Gordon has been selected as the 2013 Coach of the Year by the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Association (NACAC).
The Davallia fern is commonly called the Rabbit foot fern, and it originates from the tropical Island of Fiji.
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s government said a Sudanese man trained by al Qaeda was among the leaders of a raid on a Nairobi shopping mall in which at least 67 people were killed, the worst attack in the country in 15 years.
Dear Editor, Please allow me a space in your newspaper to air my extreme dissatisfaction as a letter writer.
The euphoria that once greeted the results of the elections of October 5, 1992 has evaporated, APNU said, and it called on the executive government of Guyana to “reset” its politics.
Everyone believes we are in election mode. The vilification is there; the vulgarity is there; and the rallies up and down the country for the 5th October 1992 anniversary are there.
