Daily Archive: Sunday, August 26, 2018

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) today called for national support for teachers in their battle for better wages.

(Trinidad Guardian) History was created in Caracas yesterday when Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley signed on the dotted line for the importation of cheap natural gas from Venezuela.

A three-year-old boy succumbed in hospital yesterday after being stabbed by his mother at their Foulis, Enmore, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home.

Despite a delightful 93 and three-wicket haul from Jonathan Rampersaud, Albion dethroned Rose Hall Town Farfan and Mendes in the final of the Berbice Cricket Board/Mike’s Pharmacy Under-15 50 overs-a-side knockout tournament on their home ground yesterday.

The Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ended day one of their Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA), GISE, Star Party Rental and Trophy Stall first division two-day match against the Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) on 281 – 2 and 167 runs ahead at the DCC ground, yesterday. 

Gafsons Industries Ltd has sold its Plantation Houston, East Bank Demerara complex to United States oilfield services provider Schlumberger, in a deal said to be worth billions.

Tucked between Lima and Danielstown on the Essequibo Coast is the tiny village spanning a hundred rods in length called Coffee Grove. The village, which now thrives mainly on rice farming, was previously a coffee plantation and this is where it got its name.

PPP General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo believes the party’s presidential candidate for 2020 will gain the support of the majority of the 35-member Central Committee (CC).

Sixteen-year-old Priyanna Ramdhani settled for the silver medal in her challenge for the Badminton World Federation (BWF) CAREBACO Senior Women’s singles and women’s doubles titles as the curtain came down on the tournament in Suriname Friday.

The August vacation ended tragically for a nursery school headmistress who lost her life during the wee hours of yesterday morning after a vehicular accident along the Good Hope Public Road, on the East Coast of Demerara.

A squash delegation departed Guyana yesterday en route to the Cayman Islands to participate in Pan America Squash qualifiers which begins today and ends September 2. 

Samuel Johnson, that great man of letters and heavyweight of good sense in eighteenth century England, commonly said the people whom we should most beware in the world are those who constantly insist on finding fault, those whose clouds are never lit by silver linings, those who everlastingly “refuse to be pleased.”

A suspected bandit was shot by the police during an attempt to arrest him after the robbery of a vendor outside the Stabroek Market yesterday morning.

The Petra Organization officially launched the 3rd Annual Limacol Football  Championship Friday at the New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation [GPC] headquarters.

For the first version, I’m going back in time quite a stretch, back to the early 1950s in my youthful years in West Demerara, first at Hague and then at Vreed-en-Hoop. 

An unfortunate motorcycle accident ended Kester Hackett’s military career and today he is a US Marine veteran at just the age of 31.

Citizens Bank Guyana Inc., through the High Court, is seeking to recover more than $320 million from Chinese logging company Baishanlin and its affiliate company Puruni Woods Products Inc.

Ivor Archie has been the Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago (TT) for ten years and is a prominent judicial personality in the Caribbean.

Though he is only 13-years-old, West Indies Under – 15 batsman, Mavendra Dindyal is already keenly focused on realizing his childhood dream of playing for the Caribbean side at the highest level.   Dindyal, the lone Guyanese to tour the United Kingdom recently with the West Indies Under – 15 team, said that particular experience served as a significant motivating factor for him to now believe in the possibility of ascending to the top.   “I want to play test cricket for the West Indies, I want to play at the highest level,” the young man told Stabroek Sport following his return to Guyana. 

Everyone wants to get rid of fat and there are varied opinions about how best to achieve that goal.

“When my mother left I was small. My father use to beat her up and she left me and my sister and took the three boys.

After receiving a whopping 298 applications, the British High Commission has awarded Chevening Scholarships to 17 Guyanese and one Surinamese.

Fresh off the successful hosting of the third Caribbean School Boys and Juniors Tournament last week, it was disclosed that this year’s Caribbean Senior Championships will also be staged here in December.

Introduction This week, I conclude my discussion on the requirements for avoiding the perils of enclave-type development in Guyana’s economic structures.

With GuySuCo’s four shuttered estates on the market, recently-appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr.

Guyana’s national rugby outfit opens its inaugural Americas 15s Rugby Challenge campaign against host Colombia today.

Frustration is growing among residents along the Essequibo Coast as they continue to endure an unstable and irregular electricity supply from the Guyana Power and Light Inc.

Recently appointed Golden Jaguars head-coach Michael Johnson, has hailed the inaugural and historic Guyana Football Federation (GFF) “Train and Play” Camp in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as excellent. 

Dear Editor, A recent report of the World Bank discloses that the “hinterland areas, where only 9.6 percent of the total population resided, housed 64 percent of the Guyanese population with acute deprivation in health, education and standard of living.”

Ulysses by the Merlion                 (For Maurice Baker)   I have sailed many waters, Skirted islands of fire, Contended with Circe Who loved the squeal of pigs; Passed Scylla and Charybdis To seven years with Calypso, Heaved in battle against the gods.

CATANIA, Italy (Reuters) – Thirteen sick migrants on Saturday left the Italian rescue ship docked for five days in a Sicilian port and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said he was working on a “positive solution” for the remaining 137 people on board.

The Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation will stage its Raw National Championships on September 9 at St.

The threat to the Arapaima is among the issues being explored in the exhibition by the E.R.

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) – Refugees in Bangladesh held demonstrations and prayers on Saturday to mark the passing of a year since the outbreak of a conflict in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state that drove hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from their homes.

Dear Editor, Recently the news media carried an article on the operations of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) arising from a bi-partisan Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Social Services meeting with the senior officials of the NIS.

Defending Cricket West Indies’ Regional 50-overs champions Guyana,  led by a disciplined bowling effort, registered  a three-wicket win over table toppers’ Barbados and move to the top of the table at Sion Hill Playing Field yesterday.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – A senior Russian official warned the United States on Saturday against making any “reckless” moves in Syria, the RIA news agency reported.

Dear Editor, The early Tuesday, August 21, 2018, morning robbery and beatings of the proprietors of the Real Value Supermarket is the latest incident that confirms the fact that crime has our nation in a strangle hold.

  A joint celebration: This year David Rose School for Handicapped Children and Massy Services are each celebrating their 50th anniversary and the regional conglomerate yesterday spent time enhancing the Thomas Lands play area of the school for special needs students to mark the occasion.

(Trinidad Guardian): Some local businesses have not yet been paid for goods delivered to Venezuela, said Christopher Alcazar, President, Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA).

(CPL) St Lucia Stars skipper Kieron Pollard kept his team’s Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) season alive with a six-wicket victory over table-toppers Guyana Amazon Warriors at the Daren Sammy Stadium Friday night.  Pollard ultimately proved the difference in a cagey, low-scoring game.

The Guyanese owner of the airplane detained by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) at the Eugene F.

(Reuters) – Iran awaiting European guarantees on the sale of Iranian oil and banking relations, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday, according to the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA).

Whether it is the sensational Olympic games or the lesser idolized chess Olympiad, the participants’ wish is to fully realize they have the undeniable support of an entire nation.

Last week a 23-member US Congressional delegation, including military personnel, breezed in here for reasons which were never officially explained.

(Barbados Nation): Barbados needs to pick up new business in the area of international business and financial services.

The Grey-necked Wood Rail (Aramides cajaneus) lives primarily in the forests, mangroves, and swamps of Central and South America.

The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) rose 2.90 percent during the third period of trading in August 2018.

Dear Editor, I see that British High Commissioner to Guyana Gregory Quinn has waded into the discussion on how Guyana should spend its oil money.

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints painting the pedestrian crossing at the junction of Woolford Avenue and Albert Street as part of an annual community outreach.

BERLIN,(Reuters) – Washington is pressing the European Union to speed up trade negotiations launched after last month’s meeting between U.S.

Herman John, the pedestrian who was struck on Friday evening by a vehicle belonging to the presidential convoy along the Friendship Public Road, East Bank Demerara, has been discharged from the hospital, while police are now investigating the circumstances surrounding the accident.