Daily Archive: Sunday, August 7, 2016

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – Jamaica Tallawahs defeated Guyana Amazon Warriors by nine wickets, in the Final of the Caribbean Premier League at Warner Park here Sunday night.

The controversial container fee has been reduced to $5,000 from $25,000 on an interim basis following a meeting between the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Private Sector Commission (PSC) on Friday.

CASTRIES, St Lucia,  CMC − Darren Sammy’s apparent axing as West Indies Twenty20 captain has sparked outrage among West Indies cricket fans across the Caribbean, with several taking to online social media platform, Facebook, to express disgust and to call for a boycott of the upcoming third Test against India starting here Tuesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Why exactly are they going to Isis? That’s the question Government is giving priority attention to, along with ongoing moves to tighten overall security, National Security Minister Edmund Dillon has said.

Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) are at loggerheads over the recent reinstatement of Michael Khan as the hospital’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

The name is of English origin, but that is just where it stops, Middlesex, the first village in Canal Number Two, was bought by four brothers, Rahiem Lalman, Mangal, Liliah and Karan.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, CMC – There was disappointment for the Caribbean on the opening day of swimming competition at the 2016 Olympic Games here yesterday as none of the five swimmers in the opening session advanced to the next phase of competition.

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC — Leeward Islands suffered a heavy 147-run defeat to Jamaica but still emerged Regional Under-19 three-day champions at the end of the third and final round of games here yesterday.

Mayor of Georgetown Patricia Chase-Green has said that it is her administration’s intention to work towards fulfilling the recommendations of the central government with regard to the controversial parking meter contract between the city and Smart City Solutions Inc (SCS).

A man was admitted to the hospital on Friday evening after he was shot to the abdomen by a police officer, who was responding to a report of domestic violence at Itaballi Check Point.

Plaisance was crowned the inaugural Banks DIH Limited/Alex Bunbury Sports and Academics Academy U-13 football champions, edging West Ruimveldt-B on sudden death penalty kicks yesterday at the Parade Ground.

Corriverton Link secured a win via walkover in the Berbice Football Association (BFA) zone of the NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power Under-17 Championship yesterday after Hopetown United was unable to field a team at match time at the Burnham Park ground.

Lesbian teen Michelle (not her real name) says all she wants is to be allowed to live her life free of hate and discrimination and not be constantly labelled as “mentally unstable.”

Team Evolution (TE) is turning the local cycling circuit into a one-team show.

Police have found a gun that is believed to be the one with which 17-year-old Andel Daniels accidentally shot himself.

Introduction As I have opined before, the microeconomic information supplied in last Sunday’s column, depicting employment levels within the extractive forest sub-sector, generally conforms to what might have been anticipated, given the weak, erratic, and declining economic returns exhibited by the sub-sector, when analyzed from a macroeconomic/national accounts perspective, for the decade 2006-2015.

A mental assessment conducted on staff at three state-run child care facilities found troubling issues, including the inability of more than half of the caregivers to define the term abuse and the use of lashes as the main form of punishment.

LONDON, CMC — West Indies Women captain Stafanie Taylor shone with the ball but failed with the bat as her Western Storm slipped to a five-run defeat to Loughborough Lightning in the inaugural English Women Super League here on Friday.

Combined efforts Having seen what has happened over the years to many economies of oil-producing countries, the thought has crossed the minds of many Guyanese as to what oil will do to this country.

Consultations on the draft State Assets Recovery Bill 2016 will be done countrywide before it is finalized and taken to the National Assembly for passage, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said on Thursday.

Challenging the integrity of the work of the Commission of Inquiry into the death of Walter Rodney, government used its majority in the wee hours of Friday morning to rework an opposition motion to have the findings adopted.

I find it hard to believe that Donald Trump – whose candidacy was declared a year ago seemed a bad joke – is the Republican nominee for the presidency of the United States.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s male beach volleyball pair Alison Cerutti and Bruno Schmidt made a winning start in their hunt for gold yesterday, beating their Canadian opponents in straight sets on Copacabana’s golden sand.

The Parika, East Bank Essequibo mother of three, who was brutally chopped about her body three days ago continues to battle for her life and it is understood that the incident stemmed from her asking her attacker to contribute towards the maintenance of their son.

The official information is that Guyana’s petroleum deposits are estimated to be equivalent to 800 million to 1.4 billion barrels of oil from the results of two wells.

CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC — Controversial former West Indies Cricket Board CEO, Dr Ernest Hilaire, says he is shocked by the axing of Darren Sammy as Twenty20 captain and has questioned the rationale behind the decision.

Most people I meet have this impression that the life of a travelling musician – as we say, “on the road” – is one big joyful experience, seeing new cities and countries, playing before ecstatic crowds, doing well financially, meeting famous people, after hours parties, nuff woman and food and drink, as well as the harder stuff, with the pattern repeated more or less every day, on and on.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC — Andre Russell smashed his maiden Twenty20 hundred as Jamaica Tallawahs beat title-holders Trinbago Knight Riders by 19 runs in a rain-hit affair at Warner Park here Friday night, to book a spot in today’s Caribbean Premier League final against Guyana Amazon Warriors.

Desperately in need of money to take care of her five children, Geeta Boodhoo, who lost a hand during an attempt on her life just over a year and a half ago, says authorities are “dragging their feet” on her request for public assistance.

Dear Editor, I have checked and rechecked the Minister of Finance’s release and quotes verbatim from the newspapers, “The Finance Minister has announced interest reduction packages for those who make arrangements to repay their loans by August and September, 2016.

Dear Editor, With reference to the letter `Goolsarran, others hired by government or in private practice should not have columns in newspapers’ in yesterday’s edition of Stabroek News, I wish to make the following points.

As has been widely reported, Cuba has entered a new period of austerity.

Almost two years have passed since waitress Debra Blackman was gunned down at the restaurant where she worked and although a video recording of the suspect committing the act was released by police, the man remains at large.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – The man who lit the Olympic flame was told he would be replacing Pele only an hour ahead of time and the selection of Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima provided the Rio Olympics with the perfect redemption story before they had even started.

Dear Editor, It was a funeral which was almost entirely English.

There is an often repeated lament in Guyana about the state of the local theatre.

Residents of Ann’s Grove, on the East Coast Demerara, are calling on the relevant authorities to repair their deplorable roads and clear the weed-infested drains that continue to overflow and cause flooding.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – The Rio Olympic Games got off to a shambolic and nervous start yesterday, with organisers apologising to angry fans kept waiting hours at security checkpoints to enter venues while, outside, shootings and bomb scares kept visitors on edge.

The Turquoise Tanager is mainly dark blue, with turquoise edging to the longest wing feathers and a yellowish lower underparts.

Dear Editor, The APNU+AFC administration has to be mindful it does not continue sending the signal that the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing or decisions are being made without due diligence.

BIRMINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – Jonny Bairstow and Moeen Ali shared an unbroken partnership of 132 to lift England to 414 for five and a lead of 311 runs over Pakistan on the fourth day of the third test at Edgbaston yesterday.

A follow up visit to several departments of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council has found some corrections to the many breaches unearthed.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The African National Congress lost its grip on local government in Tshwane, home of the South African capital Pretoria, as results yesterday gave the opposition Democratic Alliance a second big win in the ANC’s worst election since the end of apartheid.

Dear Editor, I should like to agree with fellow pensioner Nowrang Persaud (SN Aug 5, 2016, “Why advertise parliamentary sittings on TV when email etc.

Guyana is still to decide on its position on the late Dr Cheddi Jagan’s New Global Human Order (NGHO), which comes up at next month’s United Nations General Assembly, as according to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge many of its elements that could garner international support have been incorporated in other initiatives.

“Once every four years, the world goes to war. They call it the games.”

BULAWAYO, (Reuters) – Tom Latham scored a century for a second successive match as New Zealand pulverised the home bowling to finish on 329 for two on the first day of the second test against Zimbabwe yesterday.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian rebels broke through to besieged opposition-held areas in eastern Aleppo yesterday in an assault on a major government military complex meant to end a month-long siege, insurgents and a monitoring group said.

Dips and spreads make for easy snacking, creating sandwiches, and for impromptu entertaining.

An autopsy has revealed that 34-year-old construction worker Asraf Hoosaney who fell to his death while working on a bond at La Bonne Intention on Tuesday died as a result of being electrocuted.

Chairman of the National Task Force Commission (NTFC) for the Rehabilitation, Restoration and Renewal of Guyana Major General (rtd) Joseph Singh says that as the body gets more traction, the nation can expect to see policy recommendations implemented through respective ministries, especially in social protection.

(Reuters) – Dilruwan Perera laid bare Australia’s spin frailties again yesterday to spin Sri Lanka to a series-clinching 229-run victory inside three days of the second test in Galle.

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Almost four months after a devastating earthquake hit Ecuador, a leading government minister has appealed to tourists to return to the financially-struggling Andean country.

Dear Editor, The public relations dimension of several changes this government would have had to manage has, frankly, been well handled.

Dracena reflexa commonly called Song of Jamaica originated in Madagascar and Mauritius.

(Reuters) – The US Coast Guard has repatriated 97 Cuban migrants picked up at sea, part of a surge in attempts to reach the United States from the Communist-run island, the service said yesterday.

The flurry of claims and counterclaims about responsibility for the costly failures at projects such as the high-value Kato Secondary School and the Good Hope Bridge is enough to send the tax-paying public into apoplexy.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Carmine Tommasone made boxing history when he became the first fully professional fighter to compete in the Olympics yesterday, winning his opening bout against an amateur from Mexico.

Artists Stanley Greaves AA and Akima McPherson in this their 17th Conversation on Art discuss George Hope’s Mahagony sculpture Progress Through Unity, which is undated.

Dear Editor, It seems fair to say that a significant number of Guyanese are of the view that crime is rampant in the Republic and as a result they live in fear of becoming victims.

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s air force sent bombers and fighter jets on “combat patrols” near contested islands in the South China Sea, in a move a senior colonel said was part of an effort to normalise such drills and respond to security threats.

Columbus travelled the world in a sailboat but you can’t get to gym?