Daily Archive: Monday, April 6, 2015

A tiny kite just for me (Photos by Arian Browne)

Flying my kite in the Atlantic (Photos by Arian Browne)

Picnic on the Kingston foreshore (Photos by Arian Browne)

Keeping a close eye on the kites at the Kingston seawall (Photos by Arian Browne)

A showstopper hairstyle on the Kingston seawall with kites in the background.

(Reuters) – England made a confident start to their three-test tour of West Indies by bowling out a St Kitts Invitational XI for 59 runs in a two-day match in Basseterre today.

At about 0550h. today police say that the body of Quincy Bowman, 31, was found on a bridge at Festival City, Georgetown, with a suspected gunshot injury to his head.

At about 2000h last night, police say that Brazilian businessman Antonio De Sena, 58 years, was shot and killed by an armed man during a robbery at Arau Landing, Wenamu River.

(Jamaica Gleaner) “I couldn’t find my glasses,” Jean Small said. She was explaining to The Sunday Gleaner, an extra-long, between-scenes wait that the audience had during her one-woman show, The Awful Truth, at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts (PSCCA) recently.

Giving a preview of its plans should it win the May 11 elections, the PPP/C says it will continue to fight corruption and has pledged to establish the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) and hold local government elections before June 2016 – promises it has made before but failed to fulfill.

Professor Harold Lutchman, a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Caribbean Court of Justice and also a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guyana, has agreed to be the Representative of the List for the APNU+AFC alliance, Stabroek News has confirmed.

Promising 15,000 supporters to escort their leader to the nearest point to City Hall for tomorrow’s Nomination Day, the APNU+AFC coalition is assuring persons it will be a celebratory march.

The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) says on Nomination Day tomorrow it will present outstanding and committed Guyanese on its List of Candidates for the General and Regional Elections on May 11.

Dear Editor, In this celebration of Eusi Kwayana on his 90th birthday, I wish to share some of the personal and treasured encounters I have had with this ageless man.

CP Got Even won the feature A and Lower 1800M event of yesterday’s Guyana Cup Fever denying the favoured Score’s Even in the nation’s biggest race meet so far for the season. 

A 21-year-old man is feared dead after the boat he was travelling in was involved in an accident on the Pomeroon River.

Dear Editor, Vanessa Kissoon is a special kind of politician who doesn’t come often, and because of her rarity and commitment to politics as a force to bring about positive change and improve the lives of those she represents, she deserves to be on the 2015 List of Representatives and return as a member of parliament.

(Cricinfo) Sunil Narine will play the IPL this season for Kolkata Knight Riders after the BCCI’s sub-committee dealing with suspect actions gave him a clean chit.

By Jeff Trotman The killing of businesswoman Shevon Gordon, 44, outside her home on Saturday evening has stunned the Linden business community.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) last week surpassed the half-way point of its 2015 first crop target ending the week with over 45,000 tonnes of sugar produced.

Dear Editor, I would like to respond to Dr Luncheon’s inappropriate discussion recently about the participation of former soldiers and officers in David Granger’s campaign.

The Ministry of Public Works on Thursday set up a temporary pedestrian walkway for residents of Eastville Housing Scheme, after the main bridge into the community collapsed under the weight of a loaded heavy-duty truck.

Dear Editor, Why look overseas for “model open-air crematoriums” when a good model exists already at Blairmont Estate in West Berbice.

In a finale that promised so much but delivered so little, Beterverwagting (BV)-A were crowned the Guinness of the Streets East Coast of Demerara champions, dismantling Melanie-B by a 4-1 margin at the Haslington Market Tarmac on Saturday.

Dear Editor, Last Wednesday afternoon I took my rescue dog Carlisa (on a leash) for a walk.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has denied a report in yesterday’s edition of the Kaieteur News that its investigators were told by suspects that mining engineer Trevor Abrams was killed in a plot hatched by a businessman with ties to the mining sector.

Co-leader of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine says it comes as no surprise that former police commissioner Laurie Lewis paved the way for Gregory Smith, the main suspect in the 1980 death of Dr Walter Rodney, to obtain a Guyana passport years after.

The visiting United States of America Cricket Academy (USACA) teams suffered three defeats in their final encounters here.

Dear Editor, I noticed a full-page ad at the front of the April 2 Stabroek News announcing glorious improvements in the GT&T internet service.

Dear Editor, In berating the coalition platform of the APNU+AFC Bharrat Jagdeo (past and apparently current President better known for his vow of poverty) and other government and PPP spokespersons isolated the PNC from the opposition APNU+AFC coalition and focused on its past.

Team Evolution defied the odds to finish first and second in yesterday’s 50-mile Powerade road race at West Demerara. 

WILDEY, Barbados, CMC – Bahamian Lilly Higgs won her maiden CARIFTA gold, Aruba smashed their own girls 400 metres freestyle relay record and Damon St Prix produced a blistering final leg in the corresponding boys event to lift Barbados to a sensational victory, on an action-packed opening night of the 30th CARIFTA Swimming Championships here Saturday.

GARISSA, Kenya, (Reuters) – The son of a Kenyan government official was one of the masked gunmen who killed nearly 150 people at a university last week, the interior ministry said yesterday, as Kenyan churches hired armed guards to protect their Easter congregations.

Andre Hardy will be spending the next two months in jail after he slapped his partner, who told him to do what he wanted after he reprimanded her for emptying his bank account.

The labourer who was found at the home of Samantha Benjamin, the Buxton woman who was dismembered and dumped into the ocean, has confessed to killing her, according to a reliable police source, who says a murder charge will likely be read in court as early as tomorrow.

Inspired by Surindra Kaneez’s century, St. Stanislaus College opened its 2015 Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/ Brainstreet under-15 campaign with a comprehensive victory over Gandhi Youth Organisation (GYO).

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the United States yesterday to seek a better deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program and said he would press American lawmakers not to give Tehran “a free path to the bomb.”

Dear Editor, Bharrat Jagdeo is campaigning for a fourth term and power without accountability.

PARIS, (Reuters) – The second patient to receive an artificial heart made by French firm Carmat is leading a normal life including physical exercise, eight months after his transplant, the 69-year-old man told weekly Le Journal du Dimanche in an interview.

Dear Editor, The APNU+AFC’s campaign theme ‘It is time’ is appropriate at this juncture of the nation’s development for all Guyanese to take note and say it is time for change.

The Board of Trustees of the Anna Catherina Islamic Complex (ACIC) has announced that it has signed a multi-million-dollar contract for the property adjoining its institution and will soon embark on upgrading and expanding its school to cater for additional levels.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Serena Williams won her eighth Miami Open title with little trouble, enjoying a 6-2 6-0 win over Spain’s Carla Suarez Navarro in just 56 minutes on Saturday.

LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – “Furious 7” raced to the top of the domestic box office, picking up a massive $143.6 million in its opening weekend.

(The Sports Xchange) – – – -The Golden State Warriors extended their winning streak to 12 games with a comprehensive 123- 110 points victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday.

By Vidyaratha Kissoon (This is an edited version of a blog which was posted on http:// churchroadman.

Dear Editor, The recent cold blooded and brutal slaughter of one hundred and forty eight college students in Kenya reportedly by al-Shabab Islamic extremists must be condemned by all right-thinking people throughout the world.

Politikles

Guyana has had a sad history of public accountability since it attained its Independence.

Underdogs Georgetown Football Club (GFC) were crowned the inaugural Massy United Insurance Company-sponsored Fruta Conquerors U-15 champs upsetting previously undefeated Renaissance FC 3-1 on penalty kicks on Saturday.

Rice farmers on the Essequibo Coast have been lamenting for some time now about the prices they are paid for paddy compared with the cost of production.

By Frank A. Campbell It’s the kind of birthday you can easily forget.

With nomination day looming tomorrow, the average voter has thus far been dealt an uninspiring and deficient hand by the main contestants.

Dear Editor, I write with reference to an invented controversy now raging in the Guyanese press.

CHICAGO/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – With painstaking effort, a group of Chicago hospitals has managed to cut by half the number of infections caused by an especially deadly type of superbug.