Articles published on Monday, April 20, 2015
(Barbados Nation) PRIME MINISTER Freundel Stuart last night launched a scathing attack on principal of the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Sir Hilary Beckles, accusing him of a “singular exhibition of bad, bad manners”.
The National Frequency Management Unit (NFMU), along with its partners, today hosted a Tech Day Camp to engage female secondary school students in activities related to ICT, GINA said.
The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination, on Thursday April 16, 2015 hosted the Civil Society Stakeholders Consultation for the Guyanese Vulnerable Communities Capacities Strengthening Project, funded by the delegation of the European Union to Guyana.
A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) yesterday wrapped up a two day visit to Toronto, Canada.
The police say they are conducting investigations into reports that at about 1930h.
The Justice and Peace Commission (JPC) of the Catholic Church today said it is launching a campaign to monitor political speeches on the campaign trail in a bid to deter inflammatory presentations among other things.
Lawyers for former president Bharrat Jagdeo this morning argued for the private criminal charge against him to be dismissed.
(Trinidad Express) Gunmen ambushed a businessman and his family outside the family home in Caroni last night.
The police say that investigations are being conducted into the circumstances surrounding the death of vendor Mohamed Ramzan Abrahim, 49 years, of Shieldstown, WBB, who was found on the roadway at Shieldstown at about 2040h on Saturday with an injury to his forehead.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Young Lancashire batsman Liam Livingstone has smashed a world record 350 in just 138 balls during a one-day match.
A teenager was early yesterday morning stabbed to death by her boyfriend of two years at a dance in ‘B’ Field, Sophia.
As the ailing sugar industry continues to be a major campaign issue for next month’s general elections, President Donald Ramotar yesterday announced several aspects of a revival plan to supporters at a rally in the Berbice sugar community of Albion.
Civil society groups have outlined priority issues for political parties to endorse including constitutional changes to ensure elected representatives are directly accountable to those who elect them, ending river mining and reviewing international contracts in the extractive sector.
The Guyana Sugar Corporation has made the decision to once again keep the US$110M Skeldon factory going until it meets its modest 17,200-tonne first crop target as the estate has struggled to make 30 percent of it so far, sources say.
The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is concerned that taxpayers are still experiencing “tax shocks” at the cash register as businesses fail to adhere to the policy regarding advertising products and services that are VAT inclusive.
May will see the commencement of the trial of the three persons charged with trying to smuggle cocaine onto a Canada-bound flight by using the Cheddi Jagan International Airport’s VIP section to evade security.
Government has pledged to sign a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) with the European Union (EU) as part of its Forest Policy implementation for the prevention of deforestation.
Hundreds of secondary school students last Friday flocked to the Turkeyen Campus, where the University of Guyana held its annual Career Fair.
The Local Government Ministry on Wednesday handed over 20 heavy duty tractor/trailers to 10 of the 16 NDCs in Region Six Berbice, at a ceremony held on the lawns of State House in New Amsterdam.
A team from the African Union Commission last week paid a three-day working visiting to the Caricom Secretariat headquarters to examine systems and procedures of operations to extract best practices that will ultimately improve the union’s working methods.
As National Elections Day nears, the tube, the radio waves, print and social media are rife with political advertisements paid for by opposition parties and the government.
A 35-year-old Bagotstown man is nursing a gunshot wound after he was shot while standing on a street in the community with his friends on Saturday evening.
The Region Six Regional Democratic Council has removed the “illegal” speedbumps blamed for causing a fatal accident on the JC Chandisingh access road in Rose Hall town last week.
It was a bridge too far and ‘Hammer’ blows too few for local giants Alpha United as they were eliminated from Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Championship, outclassed by Trinidad and Tobago unit Central FC 3-1 yesterday at the National Stadium.
A six off the penultimate delivery of the game gave Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) a four wicket win over Gandhi Youth Organisation (GYO) in a thriller yesterday at the MSC ground.
The construction of a US$54 million five-star hotel and casino at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara is still in limbo eight months after the sod-turning ceremony.
New Amsterdam (NA) Kings will oppose Unruly Gang while East Bank Gunners will tackle Manchester Boys in the semi-final round of the inaugural Guinness of the Streets Berbice edition following contrasting wins on Saturday. The
The Guyana Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GBCHA) will formally announce this month its expanded mandate to include health awareness in the workplace and community.
West Front Road and Bent Street were the latest sides to clinch their berth to knockout round in the inaugural Guyana Beverage Company Busta Football championship, defeating Cross Street and Holmes Street Tiger Bay respectively on Saturday Hosted at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, West Front Road overcame Cross Street
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – West Indies Cricket Board chief executive, Michael Muirhead has described the newly launched Four Knights Academy as a “masterstroke”, and says it has the potential to play a critical role in national development here.
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Opener Devon Smith says batting out the entire last day to save the first Test has further strengthened West Indies’ self-belief that they can compete against England in the on-going three Test series.
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Ian Bell says West Indies’ fightback in the first Test last week came as no surprise to the England side.
Dear Editor, It appears that the Ministry of Agriculture and Guysuco have different sets of policies and systems for Berbice cane farmers/contractors and another for Demerara cane farmers, especially West Bank Demerara cane farmers .
(Jamaica Observer) It was not a scheduled item on the agenda for discussion when United States President Barack Obama met with Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and seven of her Cabinet ministers on Thursday, April 9 at Jamaica House, but the matter was destined to come up.
Dear Editor, The O.D.C, commonly known as the Ogle Diagnostic Centre, located in the compound of the Guysuco Head Office in Ogle was a health institution established in 1979 where the sugar workers along with their immediate families were entitled to free medical treatment and hospitalization.
Dear Editor, It is very difficult to take Mr Jerome Khan seriously since he reads plain English like this and sees in it a tantrum, a fit, and a deepening vortex that swallows.
By Arif Bulkan, Ulele Burnham and Alissa Trotz The nation is now 21 days away from an epochal election.
BANGALORE, India, CMC – West Indies limited overs batsman Lendl Simmons struck a half-century in only his second innings of the new Indian Premier League season to help Mumbai Indians beat Chris Gayle’s Royal Challengers Bangalore by 18 runs, and end their losing streak here yesterday.
A koker door at Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara broke on Saturday under the pressure of high tides and quick work by the Regional Democratic Council of Region Three aided in the installation of a temporary solution.
Dear Editor, In a letter to the Stabroek News on 17/4/15 (‘Revisionist History’), Justice Charles Ramson makes the astonishing claim that “critical support” was given by the PPP to the PNC “only for the nationalisation of the bauxite industry.”
GENEVA, (Reuters) – The World Health Organization has admitted serious failings in its handling of the Ebola crisis and pledged reforms to enable it to do better next time, its leadership said in a statement seen by Reuters yesterday.
About a week ago, the ruling party placed an advertisement in the Kaieteur News highlighting an article in the Guyana Chronicle dating back to November 1992.
Dear Editor, Guyana has been described by letter writers and columnists alike as the place that civilization touched but briefly.
ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Chinese president Xi Jinping is due in Pakistan today where he will launch $46 billion in projects linking the old allies, a figure that far exceeds U.S.
AHMEDABAD, India, CMC – Dwayne Bravo smashed an exhilarating unbeaten half-century but then leaked runs with his medium pace as the previously unbeaten Chennai Super Kings crashed to an eight-wicket defeat to high-flying Rajasthan Royals here yesterday.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – A video purportedly made by Islamic State and posted on social media sites yesterday appeared to show militants shooting and beheading about 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya.
A new low in this election campaign was registered on Saturday on the Essequibo Coast with the slinging up of effigies of the presidential and prime ministerial candidates of the APNU+AFC.
(BBC) All-rounder Liam Livingstone hit a world-record 350 from just 138 balls for Nantwich in a National Club Championship match against Caldy.
This week we asked stakeholders at the University of Guyana which issues they wanted to see addressed in the elections campaign.
Dear Editor, On the evening of April 6 last, on the campaign trail in Canal Polder 1, a senior and respected politician is reported to have appealed to his audience to take to action recalling Krishna’s famous exhortation to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Two Cuban dissidents yesterday lost in their attempts to become the first openly declared political opponents to win election in Cuba since the 1959 revolution, each failing in races for the municipal assembly.Hildebrando
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Three media outlets said yesterday that Mexican federal police killed 16 unarmed people in two separate attacks in January, appearing to contradict an account by the federal government that the deaths could have been caused by friendly fire.
