Articles published on Tuesday, August 5, 2014
The suspense surrounding whether A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) will support the Alliance For Change’s (AFC) no-confidence motion against government is over as the coalition has answered with a resounding yes.
Forty two U.S. military cadets completed a training course at the Colonel Robert Mitchell Jungle and Amphibious Training School (CRMJATS) in Essequibo as part of the Cultural Understanding and Language Proficiency (CULP) Program.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Nelson Mandela’s second wife, Winnie, has launched a legal challenge to the will of the late anti-apartheid leader, the latest sign of feuding and bad blood in South Africa’s first family.
PAC Chairman Carl Greenidge says action will be taken against Office of the President (OP) Permanent Secretary Omar Shariff and the head of the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project if it is found that they failed to properly deal with the disappearance of 103 laptops from a warehouse in 2012.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is expected to be questioned for 30 minutes by Opposition members at the next sitting of Parliament under the revised Standing Orders.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Sayeeda Warsi resigned from her position as a senior minister in Britain’s Foreign Office today, saying she could no longer support the government’s policy on the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Main opposition APNU will be reviewing the AFC’s proposed no-confidence motion today during its weekly shadow cabinet meeting and leader David Granger says the coalition has a positive reaction to it.
At about 1500h yesterday, police say that Alex Narine, 17 years, of Columbia, Essequibo Coast, was involved in an argument with a man over a computer at Drying Floor Ground, Anna Regina, during which he was stabbed to his back.
A Lichfield, West Coast Berbice man died and another was injured when his motorcycle, CF 9968 collided with a Honda Civic motorcar, PKK 7500 at Woodley Park around 7:35 pm on Sunday.
Mahdia residents yesterday once again took to protesting over poor roads and services, vowing that they will in turn refuse to sell gold to the Guyana Gold Board until action is taken to address the grim state of their village.
Region 10 Chairman Sharma Solomon and the group he leads have restated their belief that the rules of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) were not adhered to during the party’s 18th Biennial Congress, bringing into question the transparency and fairness of its elections.
A man is expected to appear before the court shortly after police were able to match his fingerprints to those found at the scene of the murder of a North Ruimveldt woman.
The trial of Linden Primo, the man accused of firing a gun during the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) 18th Biennial Congress on July 27, is set to begin tomorrow.
Chandanie Dass yesterday succumbed to injuries she suffered after her car collided with another at Annandale Public Road, Essequibo Coast on Saturday evening.
Working People’s Alliance (WPA) member Tacuma Ogunseye yesterday maintained that late President Forbes Burnham was prepared to do whatever was necessary to hold on to power, including using personal violence.
Jermaine King, who is accused of disfiguring his former partner by dousing her with a corrosive substance, was yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court after a city court found that a prima facie case was made out against him.
Guyanese singer Lisa Punch was eliminated from ABC’s Rising Star on Sunday night during Week 7 of the series after her rendition of Alicia Keyes’ “This Girl is on Fire” failed to attract more than 59% of votes on the East Coast.
The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has denounced Stabroek News’s ongoing campaign for local government elections (LGE), saying it is unethical.
The second annual “State of the Black and African Guyanese” forum, to be held on August 10th, will address the levels of violence against women, the depressed socio-economic status of Afro-Guyanese, and confront the negative correlation between young African males in Guyana and the country’s law enforcement system.
Kooldeep Looknauth, President of the Guyana Tropical Amazon Bird Society (GTABS) and tour guide, drowned last Thursday in the Rupununi.
By Duncan Saul Christianburg/Wismar Secondary again solidified their status as the nation’s leading football institution by clinching their third consecutive national title, defeating Waramadong Secondary 2-0 when the Digicel U-18 Secondary Schools football tourney concluded Sunday.
When a bloodied Donald Rodney came to her house after the bomb blast that killed his brother Walter Rodney on June 13, 1980, he was in shock, human rights activist Karen de Souza testified yesterday.
Former West Indies opening batsman Clayton Lambert will lead the Masters XI in their highly anticipated feature cricket match of the Guyana Festival against the President’s XI on Saturday at the Providence National Stadium.
Andre Percival coach of the Guyana senior female team which departed for Dominica yesterday is confident of his team’s chances ahead of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional Super50 Tournament.
Victims of the fatal car collision at Taymouth Manor public road on Saturday that claimed the life of Ivan Belvin Benn, are all still hospitalized.
Junior Williams, 23, accused of having an unlicensed gun in his possession, was yesterday remanded to prison after a court was told he is to be charged soon with murder.
By Delvon Mc Ewan Guyana continued its impressive run in the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional Under-19 Tournament with a comprehensive victory over the Leeward Islands in their opening limited overs encounter yesterday at the Enmore Community Development Centre ground.
GLASGOW, (Reuters) – As Glasgow basks in the afterglow of hosting a popular 20th edition of the Commonwealth Games, Scotland’s largest city can reflect on a job well done even if the sporting action underwhelmed on a global scale.
The Guyana Hydrometeorologi-cal Office is to install 30 more Automated Weather Stations (AWS) to its current stock across the country to supplement and verify radar data.
Dear Editor, I have decided to take this opportunity as a concerned citizen to highlight an observation that I have made with the work that has commenced on the Church Street Canal.
A Linden man was yesterday remanded to prison after being accused of having a quantity of cannabis in his possession.
GROS-ISLET, St. Lucia, CMC – A handy all-round performance from Sohail Tanvir and a crucial innings from Henry Davids were the main ingredients that propelled St.
GAZA/CAIRO/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel and Islamist Hamas were expected to hold their fire for three days starting today, under terms of an Egyptian-brokered truce, while launching negotiations to cement a long-term deal to end a four-week Gaza war.
Dear Editor, The problem of settlement of the Ukrainian crisis by exclusively political, diplomatic and peaceful means raises concerns.
Dr Nichole Nedd-Jerrick, Head of the Enmore Polyclinic, recently participated in a public health programme in the US sponsored by the US Embassy here.
An all-round exhibition of cricket by the defending Regional U19 champions Jamaica broke the backs of their opponents Barbados who suffered a humiliating eight-wicket loss in the first round of the 50-over leg in this year’s West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) competition, played at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground, Bourda.
The first leg of the XX annual Inter Guiana Games (IGG) came and went just like the times some of the athletes recorded on the track over the weekend in regaining the track and field title.
Education Minister Priya Manickchand and a team on Sunday consulted with the Region Seven community of Kamarang on the five-year Hinterland Education Improve-ment Programme (HEIP).
The US Embassy’s Youth Action Network (YAN) teamed up with visiting US military cadets on August 2 to refurbish a shelter for domestic violence victims.
Dear Editor, Once again, the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown have expressed disgust at the unprecedented unilateral action of Ms Carol Sooba to deduct monies from the allowances of certain councillors for the month of July 2014.
Dear Editor, A letter in your paper of August 4 contains a comment disputing my reference to Vishnu Bisram as “a respected pollster” some time ago (‘Lack of familiarity with day-to-day events’).
FREETOWN/MONROVIA, (Reuters) – Hundreds of troops deployed in Sierra Leone and Liberia yesterday to quarantine communities hit by the deadly Ebola virus, as the death toll from the worst-ever outbreak reached 887 and three new cases were reported in Nigeria.
Farmers from Pomeroon, one of two major coconut areas in Guyana, have formed the Pomeroon Coconut and Other Crop Farmers Association with the aim of expanding coconut production in the area, GINA reported yesterday.
(Reuters) – James Brady, a former U.S. presidential press secretary who became a leading gun control crusader after he was critically wounded in an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, has died, a family spokeswoman said yesterday.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Spinner Nathan Lyon has been recalled to Australia’s squad for the trip to Zimbabwe after two years out of one-day international cricket but there was no place for in-form top order batsman Phil Hughes.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Trent Bridge has been officially warned about its pitch by the International Cricket Council (ICC) after the first test between England and India last month fizzled out into a run-laden draw.
BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered his air force for the first time to back Kurdish forces against Islamic State fighters after the Sunni militants made another dramatic push through the north, state television reported yesterday.
Dear Editor, On Wednesday August 6, we will be observing the twenty-ninth death anniversary of the late president, Mr Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, who led this country for twenty-one years from 1964 until his death on August 6, 1985, at the age of 62 after undergoing a throat operation.
Around sixty students from secondary, technical and tertiary institutions in regions three, four and seven are attending a six-week Work Study Attachment Programme at Banks DIH Limited.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday delivered an address to the House of Representatives regarding government’s decision on the implementation of constitutional reform.
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OUTSKIRTS OF ARSAL, Lebanon, (Reuters) – The Lebanese army advanced yesterday into a border town attacked by Islamists at the weekend in the most serious spillover of the three-year-old Syrian civil war into Lebanon, and the Beirut government said the deadly assault would not go unpunished.
Dear Editor, As we mark the 29th anniversary of the passing of our late President L.
National player Ronuel Greenidge scecured thr first win for the Guyana Chess team at the 41st World Chess Championships in Tromso, Norway.
We said in our editorial last Tuesday that after the occurrences at the PNCR’s Biannual Congress the weekend before last, it would be naive in the extreme for the political party to pretend that it will remain unaffected by those events and that it can simply assume an ‘as you were’ posture.
Jason John (inset), one of two men knifed to death on July 20 by a man who had been jilted by another was yesterday laid to rest at Le Repentir Cemetery.
