Articles published on Sunday, July 3, 2016
BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Evin Lewis once again flaunted his talents in a punishing half-century as St Kitts and Nevis put on an impressive show to trounce St Lucia Zouks by 58 runs and pick up their first win of the Caribbean Premier League here Sunday.
The police say they are investigating the murder of Fredrick Peters, age 36 years of Lot 90 Recht-door-Zee, West Bank Demerara which occurred at about 22:45 hrs yesterday at his home.
President David Granger this morning sat down for a breakfast meeting with Roosevelt Skerrit, Prime Minister of Dominica, who is in Guyana for the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) Thirty-Seventh Regular Meeting of the Heads of Government.
Guyana is closer to exiting from years-long scrutiny of its anti-money laundering framework by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and key inspections have been set for September.
(Trinidad Guardian) The T&T economy stands to benefit financially from the presence of the Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) in this country, so says CEO of TKR Venky Mysore.
(CPL T20) Colin Munro became the first overseas player to make a Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) century as he played a remarkable lone hand that helped the Trinbago Knight Riders to reach a competitive score against the Guyana Amazon Warriors, but not a winning one.
Conclusion Widespread The examination of Massy and its performance in 2015 began last week.
In the latest salvo in the war of words between Brian ‘BK’ Tiwarie and former president Donald Ramotar, the businessman yesterday claimed that he only penned a letter affirming his support for the PPP a month before the 2015 general elections as he feared his aviation company would be evicted from the GuySuCo hangar at the Ogle airport.
The European Council President, Donald Tusk, could not have been clearer.
Photos by Joanna Dhanraj Adventure on the Essequibo Coast is still affiliated with the former ferry stelling.
Raul Leal kicked off the month of July in fine style yesterday winning the feature 35-lap event of the sixth Malta Supreme 11-race programme at the National Park The Team Evolution rider outsprinted national wheelsman, Hamza Eastman (Team Coco’s) in a thrilling two-man finish to take the spoils of the event.
The Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) investigation of Ministry of the Presidency Permanent Secretary (PS) Omar Shariff involves a personal business that he operates and has nothing to do with his job, his attorney Sanjeev Datadin said yesterday, while adding that media reports suggesting that his client has billions of dollars are untrue and have put his safety at risk.
On-going series The recent media release by ExxonMobil to the effect that the findings of its second offshore well (Liza 2) appear to confirm the substantial size of Guyana’s potential oil and gas reserve, presents me with a welcome opportunity to remind readers that my recent columns on Guyana’s extractive forest sub-sector are directly linked to an ongoing series dedicated to evaluate Guyana’s future as an intensive natural resources extraction-dependent economy, in the coming time of large-scale oil and gas production and export.
LONDON, (Reuters) – American Sam Querrey survived two scares to complete the biggest shock at this year’s Wimbledon by toppling Grand Slam-chasing Novak Djokovic in the third round yesterday.
This week the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) is back with us as the matches begin at Warner Park in St Kitts, and the second one, with Guyana’s Amazon Warriors meeting the St Kitts and Nevis Patriots, was a thriller.
The Government of Guyana and the Opposition yesterday extended condolences on the passing of former Trinidad and Tobago prime minister Patrick Manning, to his widow Hazel, his sons Brian and David, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and the government and people of Trinidad and Tobago.
BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Chris Gayle’s half-century headlined Jamaica Tallawah’s five-run victory over St Kitts and Nevis Patriots, to send the hosts tumbling to their second defeat in three days, in the Caribbean Premier League here yesterday.
A recent exchange of six letters took place between Tacuma Ogunsaye and Clairmonte Lye, contributed to by Manzoor Nadir, in SN between the June 22 and July 2 triggered by Mr Ogunseye’s claim that Dr Roger Luncheon allegedly withdrew an offer made by Dr Cheddi Jagan to Professor Clive Thomas to be the Minister of Finance.
A Sophia resident died on Friday afternoon and his cousin was injured after the car they were travelling in swerved from a motorcycle and landed in the canal at Dennis Street, Sophia.
Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) President Nigel Hinds is confident that Guyana will be competitive at the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) u16 Championships.
I find it hard to understand why most people never, literally never, read poetry.
A newspaper vendor was on Friday afternoon discovered dead near his stall at One Mile, Linden and the police are awaiting the result of the post-mortem examination to determine his cause of death.
Beavers secured their first win in the West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) leg of the NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power Under-17 Championship, edging Wales FC 4-3 yesterday at the Den Amstel ground.
In this their 16th Conversation on Art, Artists Stanley Greaves AA and Akima McPherson discuss Bernadette Persaud’s Lotus of July.
Ron (not his real name) was just 14 when he was sent to the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) for committing the ‘offence’ of wandering and while he still has some residual anger, he believes that the institution saved him.
Although thrilled that his commitment to preserving the rights of the indigenous peoples and his research in the Arecuna language have been recognised, national awardee Lawrence Anselmo says more needs to be done to protect the language or it could be lost.
Fruta Conquerors and Alpha United maintained their perfect record in the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) leg of the Namilco Thunderbolt u17 league, defeating Pele and Camptown FC respectively yesterday at the Tucville Community ground.
The virtues, the value, the merits and the importance of the work of Stephanie Bowry are yet unsung.
BORDEAUX, France, (Reuters) – Germany won an epic shootout featuring 18 penalties 6-5 to end their jinx against Italy in major tournaments and reach the Euro 2016 semi-finals after the game finished 1-1 following extra time yesterday.
In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour looks at the highlights and forgotten moments of the 1975 World Cup Final.
Eight years have gone by since the burnt remains of eight miners were found at Lindo Creek and the wife of the camp owner is calling on the government to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the tragedy, which she says has left more questions than answers in its wake.
Wendy Quinn, wife of the British High Commissioner to Guyana, Greg Quinn, on Friday lauded the Guyana Baseball League (GBL) for sending a national women’s U21 team to Halifax, Canada, to participate in an invitational tournament from August 4-10.
Months have passed since the lawyers for Sam Hinds Jnr and Bishnarine ‘Sanjay’ Persaud appealed their sentences but dates for their hearings are yet to be set.
Defending Men’s Open Champ Nyron Joseph as well as top seed Alex Arjoon sealed their berths to the semi-final round when the Digicel Senior National Squash Championship continued on Friday at the Georgetown Club Facility.
The Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) continues to search for a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and says that no confidence by the Board in its former head Colin Welch led to his termination, after only six months of service.
“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life.
Summer’ or the July/August holidays, as we know it, is here.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Federal Bureau of Investigation interviewed Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for three and a half hours yesterday as part of the probe into her use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state, her campaign said.
After much anticipation and preparation, the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) U16 championships will commence today at the renovated Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Mandela Avenue.
President David Granger says it is evident that some families have been affected by the abuse of alcohol or other substances although he is unaware of how widespread the problem is.
One man is in custody following the shooting of a security guard during an attempted robbery at the Berbice Educational Insti-tute (BEI), New Amster-dam yesterday morning.
Bounty GCC defeated St. Stanislaus 4-2 when the Lucozade Indoor Hockey Championships continued on Friday at the National Gymnasium.
Everyone knows that pineapple and stone fruits can be grilled but there are other fruits that can be grilled too such as citrus fruits like oranges.
(Reuters) – Activist and writer Elie Wiesel, the World War Two death camp survivor who won a Nobel Peace Prize for becoming the life-long voice of millions of Holocaust victims, died yesterday.
Beavers secured their first win in the West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) leg of the NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power Under-17 Championship, edging Wales FC 4-3 yesterday at the Den Amstel ground.
Two armed bandits invaded an Enmore, East Coast Demerara (ECD) supermarket on Friday evening and stole an undisclosed amount of cash and other valuables, while holding the staff and customers at gunpoint.
DHAKA/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Bangladesh, faced with the worst militant attack in its history, is probing deeper for possible ties between the men who murdered around 20 people in a restaurant and trans-national Islamist extremist groups, security officials said.
LONDON (Reuters) – British leadership contender Andrea Leadsom said the UK could pull out of the European Union as early as next year following last week’s referendum vote to leave the bloc.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A record fifth-wicket stand between captain Dwayne Bravo and Hashim Amla, coupled with a Barbados Tridents batting meltdown, lifted Trinbago Knight Riders to their first win of the Caribbean Premier League here Friday night.
President David Granger is expecting Caricom Heads of Government to support Guyana’s call for a juridical settlement to the Guyana/Venezuela border controversy.
Dear Editor, In what I had intimated would be my last letter to you on the problems of the Deeds Registry in relation to its land-titles records, I did express my utter disappointment over the fact that following the evacuation of the Commercial Registry ever since December, 2015, there is no manifest effort by the Registrar of Deeds to utilize the now vacant space toward the rehabilitation and repair of the land registers.
Sprucing up of the East Coast Demerara road ahead of tomorrow’s opening of the Caricom Heads of Government summit.
Dear Editor, I must state categorically, that Mr Ramotar has so far failed to address pertinent issues raised by me regarding the acquisition of state property by his relative at grossly under-valued cost (‘Tiwarie’s claim of ceasing to support PPP before 2015 election’ SN, July 2).
Asparagus sprengeri meyeri commonly called Fox Tail Fern originated in South Africa.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s Minister of Internal Security yesterday accused Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, of not doing enough to prevent incitement against Israel and said the social network was “sabotaging” Israeli police work.
Low tide at Ogle, East Coast Demerara (Photo by Keno George)
The Black-capped Donacobius is a familiar sight in marshes and wet pastures across much of South America.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – World and Olympic champion Usain Bolt is facing a race against time to be fit for the Rio Olympics after he was forced out the Senior National Championships with a grade one tear of his left hamstring on Friday night.
In an article published in yesterday’s edition titled ‘I was a born PPP – Ramotar releases letter showing Tiwarie backing PPP up to a before polls’ – former president Donald Ramotar’s brother Peter Ramotar was named as the person at whom Tiwarie levelled a series of accusations.
Sunday’s Cartoon
“A week is a long time in politics,” remarked the late Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
(Trinidad Guardian) – Days before his passing, former prime minister Patrick Manning told his wife he knew he was dying.
