Daily Archive: Sunday, May 21, 2017

RIYADH, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump urged Arab and Islamic leaders today to unite and do their share to defeat Islamist extremists, making an impassioned plea to “drive out” terrorists while toning down his own harsh rhetoric about Muslims.

The police say that a forty-one year old businessman of Helena # 1, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara was yesterday afternoon arrested with an unlicensed .32 Pistol, fifty (50) .32 and seventeen (17) 9 MM live ammunition.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korea fired a ballistic missile into waters off its east coast on Sunday, South Korea and Japan said, a week after it tested an intermediate-range missile which experts saw as an advancement in the reclusive state’s weapons programme.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Chief selector Courtney Browne has stood by the decision to hand international debuts to the pair of Vishaul Singh and Shimron Hetmyer, despite both players failing miserably in the just-concluded three-Test series against Pakistan.

At just the age of 13, squash dynamite, Abosaide Cadogan is a girl of many talents who scurries around the squash court to the annoyance of her competitors creating, in the process, quite a reputation for herself.

Water levels in the Region Eight villages affected by recent flooding are receding, according to the Civil Defence Commission (CDC), which yesterday also reported that several areas in Region Seven had also been affected and disaster management systems had been activated there.

Rising Pune Supergiant and Mumbai Indians will contest in the season-ending Grand Finale.

“I can’t sit down. I just have to get up, I have to get up and get.

Central Amelia’s Ward is a quiet village in Linden. It is well laid out because it was built as a housing community and was never subject to squatting.

A few days ago, the Prime Minister of Jamaica, Andrew Holness, and the President of the Dominican Republic, Danilo Medina, agreed to work towards a closer relationship.

HOVE, England, CMC – Bermudian all-rounder Delray Rawlins produced his best performance with the bat for Sussex this season when he struck a quickfire 41 in a losing cause against South Africa in a one-day tour match here on Friday.

Cocaine trafficking convict Vishnu ‘Haffa’ Bridgelall is being investigated by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) for alleged money laundering, according to the agency’s head Sydney James.

The collapse of the Palmyra foundation structure intended to support an Indian Arrival Monument which was unveiled on Arrival Day was reported by the Stabroek News on April 27.

My son Tony, who writes for an ad agency in Ottawa, Ontario, is working on a book about Tradewinds, and I have had some interesting exchanges with him on a range of topics that fall under that remit. 

While noting that successful constitutional reform would require bipartisan support, a United Nations team has advised government that the process is only likely to succeed if it is “inclusive and participatory,” meaning the involvement of the opposition and other key stakeholders every step of the way.

With local farmers yielding successful results from the ongoing trial cultivation of both potatoes and onions, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Agricultural Research & Extension Institute (NAREI) Dr.

LISBON, Portugal, CMC – Huddersfield’s Bermuda international Nahki Wells believes the preparation camp here will be a massive boost for the squad’s readiness ahead of their historic Championship final against Reading on May 29.

‘There is a local feeling connected with this occasion, too strong to be resisted… ‘ – Daniel Webster (1782-1852), American lawyer and orator during an address commemorating the 200th anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims.

(Reuters) – Zinedine Zidane hailed Real Madrid’s remarkable strength in depth as the key to his side entering their final game of the season at Malaga on the brink of lifting their first La Liga title since 2012.

A Prospect, East Bank Deme-rara Pandit is now hospitalised at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was shot by bandits at his home, shortly after returning home from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.

Ode To Autumn Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.

On Mother’s Day many of you would have received potted plants and flowers. 

The mother of three of the boys allegedly raped by Muslim Scholar Nezaam Ali reported to the police a few weeks ago that persons have been taking photographs of her sons which she sees as an act of intimidation.

  Kristian Heames, coach of the Finland based FF Jaro club said he is very impressed with the quality of the National u17 players during their scouting and talent assessment session held yesterday at the No.

Today’s column starts with an offering of a few concluding comments on the topic considered over recent weeks: local content requirements/policies (LCRs) in the petroleum industry, as Guyana prepares for its own industry, scheduled to come on-stream post-2020.

Following the success of the Guyana Golden Jubilee Independence 5K Health & Fitness Walk and a 5K run last year, the organizers will team up again today to stage the sequel.

Intangible Intellectual property (IP) is one of those intangible things that is important to the production structure of any country.

An early morning accident along the Philadelphia Public Road, East Bank Essequibo (EBE), yesterday left a teacher of the Guyana Islamic Institute dead and several students injured after the car they were travelling in collided with three cows before slamming into a parked container and a fence.

Last Easter I tweaked my Cross Buns recipe that originally had its flour to yeast ratio from my Butterflap recipe.

(Reuters) – Jason Day made the most of a frantic moving day at the AT&T Byron Nelson yesterday by firing a seven-under 63 in the third round to move within two shots of leader James Hahn at TPC Las Colinas in Texas.

A police rank died yesterday morning after he reportedly lost control of his speeding motorbike and collided with a car at Success, Leguan.

She was just 16 and he was 22 when he visited her home and ‘asked home’ for her (a term used in Guyana to describe when a man requests a woman’s hand in marriage through her parents).

(The Sports Xchange) – Boston Celtics guard Isaiah Thomas will miss the remainder of the NBA playoffs after aggravating a hip injury during Game Two of the Eastern Conference final, the team announced yesterday.

CARACAS/SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets yesterday to mark 50 days of protests against the unpopular government of President Nicolas Maduro, with unrest gaining momentum despite a rising death toll and chaotic scenes of nighttime looting.

Biker Stephen Vieira, who was arrested on Thursday in connection with the recent Zeelugt cocaine find, will remain in custody over the weekend as officials from the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) continue to probe the discovery, according to a source.

(The Sports Xchange) – The defending champion Cleveland Cavaliers exploded to a 72-31 halftime lead — the largest halftime advantage in playoff history — and cruised to 130-86 blowout of the Boston Celtics to take a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference finals.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China killed or imprisoned 18 to 20 CIA sources from 2010 to 2012, hobbling US spying operations in a massive intelligence breach whose origin has not been identified, the New York Times reported yesterday.

According to gym lore, you should train at least three times a week if you want to gain muscle or build strength.

Dear Editor, The latter captioned ‘Could Mr Ram lead the DDL shareholders in taking the matter of dividend size further forward?’

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States yesterday said it hoped Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s newly re-elected president, will halt his country’s support for “destabilizing forces”, end ballistic missile tests and carry out democratic reforms during his second term.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Michel Temer’s refusal to resign in the face of a Supreme Court investigation raises the prospect of a drawn-out fight for survival by an unpopular leader that would stall reforms, deter investors and leave Latin America’s largest economy adrift.

Dear Editor, Long before the just concluded meeting of Caricom Foreign Ministers in Barbados there must have been intense lobbying by some large and influential member states of the OAS in the capitals of Caricom member states, including Georgetown.

The Ash-throated Crake is a secretive bird often found in flooded wetlands. 

Caribbean 2017 junior table tennis bronze medallist Pricilla Greaves has earned herself an opportunity to attend elite table tennis training camps in Shanghai, China.

The police on the Essequibo Coast are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man, who was found dead in a trench at Onderneeming, Essequibo Coast, on Friday morning, just over a day after he discharged himself from the Suddie Public Hospital, where he had been admitted.

Dear Editor, Recently news emerged of the Guyana government intervention in the stone supply contract on the CJIA expansion project involving state-owned Grassalco of Suriname, China Harbour Engineering, (CHEC) Toolsie Persaud Limited, and BK International. 

Just one year after spending more than $1.3 billion for the construction of the D’Urban Park, the government is once again putting money into the venue, which is being readied for this week’s independence flag raising ceremony.

It is hard to claim that GuySuCo’s losses on the scale now obtaining – leading to the diversion of precious taxpayer’s revenue from education and health for instance – can be sustained much longer.

Mahadeo Ramdial, 43, the boat captain who was thrown into the Corentyne River after reportedly being broadsided to the head with a cutlass during a pirate attack last Tuesday, died from drowning, an autopsy has found.

(Reuters) – Novak Djokovic yesterday made a timely return to his brilliant best after a traumatic year and talked of rediscovering his lost “joy” for tennis as he thrashed Dominic Thiem to set up an Italian Open final meeting with young German Alexander Zverev.

From the photographs which have been published in the press, the Kato Secondary School in Region 8 appears an unprepossessing enough edifice.

LOS TEQUES, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Like many Portuguese immigrants to Venezuela after World War Two, Manuel Fernandes spent a lifetime building a small business: his bread and cake shop in a highland town.

OSLO (Reuters) – Norway is repairing the entrance of a ‘doomsday’ seed vault on an Arctic island after an unexpected thaw of permafrost let water into a building meant as a deep freeze to safeguard the world’s food supplies.

HYDERABAD, India, (Reuters) – Mumbai Indians were crowned the Indian Premier League (IPL) champions for the third time after Mitchell Johnson delivered a three-wicket final over to help secure their thrilling one-run victory over Rising Pune Supergiant in the final on Sunday.