Daily Archive: Sunday, August 20, 2017

  BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Guyana remained unbeaten in the Regional Under-19 one-day Championship when they beat Jamaica by 16 runs in round two here Saturday.

  LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Jerry Lewis, the high prince of low-brow comedy on stage and in movies as well as a fund-raising powerhouse with his annual Labor Day telethon, died today of “natural causes” at the age of 91, his family said.

Beharry Automotive Limited (BAL) , the authorised distributor for Toyota parts and lubricants, says that an abundance  of imitation Toyota parts and lubricants have entered the market with the Toyota logo and trademark.

  HARARE,  (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s first lady Grace Mugabe returned from South Africa early today, state media reported, after a 20-year-old model accused her of assault in an upmarket Johannesburg hotel room.

Yesterday, in perfect conditions for racing at the National Park, Paul DeNobrega sprinted off with the spoils of the feature 35-lap event of the fifth Banks DIH’s Non-Alcoholic 11-race programme.

  Back Circle will battle Tigerbay, while Future Stars will oppose ESPN in the semifinal round, following quarter-final wins on Friday, in the 3rd Annual Xtra Beer ‘Ballers in the Summer’ Street Football Championship.

The Guyana Amazon Warriors’ horror run in this year’s edition of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) continued yesterday, as they crumbled to yet another defeat, this time falling by seven wickets to top of the table Trinbago Knightriders at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

Michael Bhopaul, 16, doesn’t know if he is this year’s best performer at    the Caribbean Secondary Examination Certificate (CSEC) Examinations, but with preliminary results showing that he has obtained passes in 25 subjects, he will be hard to top.

BIRMINGHAM, England, CMC – West Indies suffered a humiliating innings and 209-run defeat in the historic day/night opening Test after losing 19 wickets in a devastating capitulation on Saturday’s third day at Edgbaston.

Blenheim, is the second village in the south of Leguan, between Enterprise and Endeavour, less than a mile from the stelling.

Guyana’s Men’s and Women’s teams will have the opportunity to be crowned as Caribbean Champions when the NLA XXV Senior Caribbean Squash Championships conclude today in Kingstown, St.

Inmates at the Lusignan Prison turned over 33 improvised weapons yesterday morning to prison authorities, who say that they also apologised to the prison staff for the unrest at the facility on Friday night.

Well known Berbice attorney Chandra Sohan was arrested on Friday after he allegedly struck a pedestrian in a hit and run accident along the Williamsburg Public Road.

Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952) was a leading Bolshevik and the earliest champion of women’s rights under the new Soviet government.

For a little more than an hour yesterday, the streets outside the Mackenzie Market rang with the voices of dozens of Linden residents who turned out to support a march against homosexuality.

The woman killed during the violent storm in Jawalla, Region Seven on Friday, has been identified as a mother of two, who was seven months pregnant.

Thomas “Tom” Kerridge is a well-known Michelin-starred British chef. His series on The Cooking Channel (US) is equally appealing and appetizing.

Guyana were eliminated from the CONCACAF Under-15 Boy’s Football Championship, losing to Puerto Rico 6-5, on sudden death penalty kicks in their playoff fixture, yesterday, at the IMG Academy, Florida, United States of America.

In this week’s column, we will discuss the benefits of green tea and tips to get rid of love handles.

Seven weeks after they stormed out of the Camp Street Prison during a carefully planned escape, high profile prisoners Mark Royden Williams and Uree Varswyk are still on the loose and though little has been released about their possible whereabouts, law enforcement officials are adamant that they are still in Guyana.

I find it difficult to convince friends – or anyone – that poetry is worth reading.

It is sometimes the case, in this age of the extensive flooding of information on subjects of the day, that a particular item can be of such long standing and of frequent and vigorous treatment, that we lose sight of the original propulsion in the matter.

The National Task Force Commission (NTFC) for the Rehabilitation, Restoration and Renewal of Guyana is planning to embark on an exercise later in the year to relocate the homeless, addicts and mentally ill from the streets, according to Chairman Major General (rtd) Joseph Singh.

BOSTON (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Boston yesterday to protest a “free speech” rally featuring far-right speakers a week after a woman was killed at a Virginia white-supremacist demonstration.

There is a substantial body of work by a writer who was one of St Lucia’s most outstanding dramatists and who was quite dominant among West Indian playwrights throughout the 1960s into the 1970s. 

The Better Hope/La Bonne Intention Neigh-bourhood Democratic Council (NDC) will be assisting the family whose home collapsed on Friday and left a young girl dead and her brother hospitalised.

Students of the Smyth Street Nursery School will begin the school year in a new building, for which works are still ongoing.

(Continued from last week) There are five classes of roses: Hybrid Tea, Floribunda, Miniature, Climbers or Ramblers and Shrub roses.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump will not attend the Kennedy Center Honors in December, the White House announced yesterday, after several honorees said they would boycott a White House reception before the show.

“I just want to be able to walk again,” says Jesse Gibbs.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition-controlled congress yesterday rejected the self-proclaimed lawmaking authority of a new legislative body elected last month at the behest of President Nicolas Maduro, widening the political divide in the crisis-hit country.

Dear Editor, The bombardment of the Triumph front lands community on the East Coast of Demerara, continues.

RIPOLL/BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) – Police were searching yesterday for the driver of a van that killed 13 people when it ploughed into a crowd in Barcelona and were trying to determine whether two other suspected Islamist militants linked to the attack had died or were at large.

Guyana’s Men’s and Women’s teams snatched the Caribbean Squash Championships titles when the event concluded yesterday in Kingstown, St.

By Estherine Adams, Clare Anderson, and Kristy Warren   In August 1956, the Director of the Prison Administration of England and Wales, R.D.

Lazio secured their third win in the Bartica zone of the NAMILCO under-17 League, hammering Riverview 5-0, compliments of an Ariel Burnett hat-trick on Thursday at the Bartica Secondary School ground.

English premier league matches on Saturday: Stoke City 1 Arsenal 0 Bournemouth 0 Watford 2 Southampton 3 West Ham United 2 Burnley 0 West Bromwich Albion 1 Leicester City 2 Brighton and Hove Albion 0 Liverpool 1 Crystal Palace 0 Swansea City 0 Manchester United 4

  At the St Louis Rapid and Blitz Tournament the chess world eagerly awaited the re-emergence of the former 13th world champion from Russia, Garry Kasparov.

The ‘badlands’  of Guyana have long been some of the mining areas, particularly those close to the frontier and far from government centres of control.

Introduction As indicated last week, today’s column initiates a presentation in the coming weeks, of my considered view on the efficacy of Guyana establishing a local oil refinery, in order to exhaust successfully the potential benefits of its recent oil and gas discoveries.

Introduced by Nigel Westmaas   In March 1932, Hubert Critchlow, then General–Secretary of the British Guiana Labour Union, went up to Fyrish Village on the Corentyne to deliver a speech at the Congregational Church on the theme of ‘Jesus and Labour’.

Preventing measures Last week’s discussion of local content around Guyana’s oil industry established two key points based on current talks on the matter.

ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari returned home yesterday from three months of medical leave in Britain where he received treatment for an unspecified ailment.

The white-chinned woodcreeper  (Dendrocincla merula) is a species of bird in the Dendrocolaptinae subfamily. It is found in  Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana,  Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and  Venezuela.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF), Northern Rangers and Riddim Squad, secured contrasting wins, when the Corona Invitational Football Championship coordinated by the Petra Organization, continued on Friday.

Dear Editor, Your editorial yesterday, on the non-implementation of CoI recommendations among other accepted policies, brings to mind two of my ‘Rules for Living in the Rupununi’: 4.

Speaking on August 11, at a press conference at one of his golf courses, the US President, Donald Trump, scored the equivalent of a foreign policy own goal.

  The Guyana team for the Caribbean Pre and Mini Cadet Table Tennis Championships are all smiles as they prepared to depart last night for Kingston, Jamaica.

APUI, Brazil (Reuters) – The small town of Apui sits at the new frontline of Brazil’s fight against advancing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, where vast forest fires belch jet black smoke visible for miles and loggers denude the jungle.

A section of the Kitty Public Road will be closed to vehicular traffic from Wednesday for a period of four weeks as the Ministry of Public Infrastructure extends ongoing works to repair culverts at Vlissengen Road and Carifesta Avenue.

The David Granger-led administration’s failure to establish the Local Government Commission (LGC) after more than two years in office has not been a focus of the UK government, British High Commissioner to Guyana Greg Quinn said last Thursday.