Articles published on Sunday, November 13, 2016
A twenty-eight-year old Chinese chef who was minutes after midnight shot and robbed as he was in the process of entering his Bonasika Street, Section ‘K’ Campbellville home, is hospitalised at a private hospital, in a stable condition, the police say.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump backed away from his promise to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican
(Trinidad Express) Expect deportations of undocumented Caribbean immigrants under United States president-elect Donald Trump.
(Trinidad Express) A Sangre Chiquito PH driver and father of one was chopped to death on Friday evening when he and a friend argued over the friend’s refusal to move a car out of the victim’s yard.
The deplorable state of the Skeldon Estate and the expenses it is incurring have pushed the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) Board to look at the options of either selling or diversifying it.
The first ever ‘South Cummingsburg Derby’ will decide the 5th Annual Courts Pee Wee Football Championship, as holders St.
Hosororo, a small community within the Mabaruma sub-district of Region One (Barima/Waini), exudes serenity.
Left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul’s 19th First-Class five wicket haul bowled the Guyana Jaguars into a commanding position, as they lead the Jamaica Scorpions by 116 runs heading into the third day, in round one of the 2016/17 Digicel Professional Cricket League (PCL) Regional 4-Day tourney being played at Providence.
A large quantity of contraband items, including improvised weapons as well as cell phones and drugs, were seized during raids conducted at the Georgetown and New Amsterdam prisons yesterday as part of increased security measures.
From Donald Duff in New York The second game of the Agon sponsored FIDE World Chess Championship match between defending champion Magnus Carlsen and challenger Serjey Karjakin ended in a draw yesterday, at the Fulton Market Building, Fulton Street, Manhattan, after only 32 moves.
The police are hunting for the tenant who allegedly shot his landlord four times in his legs on Friday evening, after he was warned to discontinue doing illegal business on the man’s property.
The over 1,600 new graduates of the University of Guyana (UG) were yesterday urged to stay and make the country great once more.
Soesdyke Falcons and Circuit Ville Jaguars fashioned hard-fought wins against Kuru-Kururu Warriors and Herstelling Raiders respectively, when the Guyana Football Federation (GFF)/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power U17 League continued yesterday.
When 23-year-old Dr Kibwey Peterkin delivered the 50th valedictorian’s address at the University of Guyana’s convocation ceremony last evening, he became not only the first medical student to do so but the first student from the Faculty of Health Sciences to have earned the honour.
The national men’s rugby team finished second to Jamaica in Group D while the local women were winless in Group B following first day of action in the Rugby Americas North (RAN) 7s championship being staged in Trinidad.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies cricket was once again rocked by controversy on Saturday when batting star Darren Bravo was controversially sent home ahead of the Tri-Nations Series in Zimbabwe, after the West Indies Cricket Board sensationally cancelled his match/tour contract over a contentious tweet deemed “disparaging” to president Dave Cameron.
Thieves broke into the Brickdam Secondary School sometime between Thursday afternoon and Friday morning and carted off two laptop computers and a quantity of cash.
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – An explosion claimed by militant group Islamic State ripped through a Muslim shrine in southwestern Pakistan yesterday, killing at least 52 people and wounding scores, officials said.
A Bel-Air resident is wanted by the police for questioning in connection to a multi-million-dollar fraud at the ScotiaBank, Carmichael Street location and two other persons including an employee of the bank are also the subjects of the investigation.
BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – An excellent all-rounder display from Rahkeem Cornwall rallied Leeward Islands Hurricanes and left Barbados Pride with an uphill task, heading into the third day of their opening round Regional Four-Day Championship contest at Warner Park.
ExxonMobil has begun investing funds in the Diamond Special Needs School to improve its infrastructure and enhance the capacity of its teachers in relation to special needs education.
The Second Annual GY CAN AM golf tournament tees off this morning at 10.00 am at the Lusignan Golf Club, East Coast Demerara.
LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian prosecutors said they have evidence to convict ex-president Ollanta Humala of money laundering, accusing him of taking illicit funds from Venezuela and Brazilian construction companies, the attorney general’s office said Friday.
Two recreational grounds in south Georgetown were on Friday commissioned by the Department of Culture Youth and Sport of the Ministry of Education as a part of its Community Grounds Enhancement Project.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Debutant fast bowler Roshon Primus’s six-wicket haul turned the tables on a fighting half-century from veteran opener Devon Smith, as Trinidad and Tobago Red Force took honours on the opening day of their day/night first round Regional Four-Day contest here Friday.
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES(Reuters) – Chanting “Not my president” and “Love trumps hate,” thousands of demonstrators took the streets in cities across the United States yesterday to protest against President-elect Donald Trump, who they say threatens their civil and human rights.
Today’s column continues consideration of the likely cost-price relation that might be anticipated during Guyana’s coming time of oil and gas production and export.
This past weekend I was in Orlando hosting the Caribbean American Passport Connection event (I had the name wrong in my previous column) where they honoured outstanding Guyanese contributors to America as part of our Jubilee Year celebrations.
RAJKOT, India,(Reuters) – Debutant Haseeb Hameed struck his maiden fifty and shared an unbroken century partnership with captain Alastair Cook to push England’s lead over India to 163 runs on day four of the first test on Saturday.
]Stiff penalties A few months ago, a few persons, expressed an interest in cultivating industrial hemp as part of the economic production of Guyana.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton stormed to pole position at the Brazilian Grand Prix on Saturday with Mercedes team mate and title rival Nico Rosberg joining the triple Formula One world champion on the front row.
A framework for the reform of Guyana’s security sector is being developed with members of an advance team working with Guyanese investigators to assess the strengths and weaknesses of our current security programme.
WASHINGTON/MARRAKESH, Morocco (Reuters) – Donald Trump is seeking quick ways of withdrawing from a global agreement to limit climate change, a source on his transition team said, defying widening international backing for the plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Against all expectations, Donald Trump was elected as the 45th President of the United States of America.
Gym bag? Check. Water bottle? Check. Gloves? Check. Hair Tie? Check Snack?
(The Sports Xchange) Kyrie Irving scored 29 points and LeBron James added 27 points and 10 rebounds as the Cleveland Cavaliers rebounded from their first loss of the season with a 105-94 win over the Washington Wizards.
Minister of State Joseph Harmon last Thursday said that any dispute between Commissioner of Police Seelall Persaud and former acting Commissioner David Ramnarine should have and could have been handled internally.
QAYYARA, Iraq (Reuters) – The skin on five-year-old Doaa’s legs, arms and neck is blackened and hard even weeks after the attack.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Anger was rising across India yesterday as banks struggled to dispense cash after the government withdrew large denomination notes in a shock move aimed at uncovering billions of dollars of unaccounted wealth hidden from the taxman.
The National Drama Festival (NDF) 2016 is now in progress. Among its key objectives are the grand exhibition of the best of Guyanese theatre; the advancement of the dramatic arts and the improvement of theatrical skills; the promotion of new theatre both in terms of written plays to enlarge the corpus of Guyanese drama and extending the frontiers of theatrical form, dramatic styles in both writing and directing techniques; providing instruction through drama; and addressing national and social issues through the use of the stage.
I am sometimes accused by bloggers, and often gently told by friends, that I am inclined to view life, and particularly life in Guyana, through a glass not darkly, but one beautifully rose-coloured.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government and opposition yesterday reached tentative deals in the areas of elections and foreign aid as part of a Vatican-backed dialogue process, though the agreements fell far short of initial opposition demands.
Guyana will soon see a corps of wardens operating within the natural resources sector performing such diverse tasks as supporting compliance, enforcing policy and performing emergency rescue and disaster recovery.
CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Former South Africa test player Alviro Petersen has been charged with contriving to fix domestic Twenty20 matches last year, Cricket South Africa (CSA) said on Saturday.
HOBART, (Reuters) – South Africa routed Australia for 85 and then weathered a batting crisis of their own before pushing to a lead of 86 runs after a bowler-dominated opening day of the second test in Hobart on Saturday.
Three weeks ago in my Tastes Like Home column, Nuttier for Coconuts, in celebration of all this coconut, I mentioned making potato pie and using fresh homemade coconut cream instead of dairy cream to make the pie.
(Trinidad Guardian) – Desperate to conceal the corpse of her teenaged daughter’s baby born out of wedlock, a La Brea grandmother hid the body for eight months inside a secret room of a La Brea house, before it was found by police on Wednesday.
With approximately 1.6 million hectares of forest free after Barama Company Ltd refused to renew its Timber Sales Agreement, the government is currently reviewing a number of options for its alternative use.
Dear Editor, Over the last few years, much has been said about the Sparendaam development, better known in the press, as Pradoville 2.
(Reuters Health) – Studies on the long-term effects of habitual barefoot walking or running are scarce, and there is only limited evidence for more foot problems and no evidence for higher injury rates among people who are often barefoot, according to a new review.
By John Lloyd John Lloyd co-founded the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, where he is senior research fellow.
Silver-beaked Tanager Adult male Silver-beaked Tanagers are velvety crimson black with a deep crimson throat and breast.
STRASBOURG, France, (Reuters) – Caroline Garcia stunned Petra Kvitova 7-6(6) 6-3 to pull France level at 1-1 with champions Czech Republic in the Fed Cup final after Karolina Pliskova won an epic first singles earlier on Saturday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – A 12-year-old boy is dead and his eight-year-old twin sisters are now in hospital, one of them in critical condition, after boulders fell on a house in Broadgate, St Mary on Friday night.
During the 1960s into the 70s, even today when someone says you are playing chess like Tal, that person is paying you an enormous compliment.
Dear Editor, I write to address the recent fiasco in West Indies cricket.
Pruning can improve the look of all plants that are leggy, lopsided or too large.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century in industrial England, skilled weavers and others who were losing work to mechanization went on a five-year rampage destroying machinery and sometimes burning factories.
Dispossessed by economic globalisation, faced with growing economic inequality, and wanting change, the people of the United States have elected Donald Trump to be their President.
Police in ‘B’ Division are reporting success with the Guyana National Road Safety Council’s White Knight campaign, which was launched on November 5, in an effort to reduce road fatalities.
HAVANA/BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s government and Marxist guerillas said yesterday they agreed on a revised peace deal to end a 52-year war, six weeks after the original was narrowly rejected in a referendum amid objections it was too favorable to the rebels.
