Daily Archive: Friday, May 31, 2019

Articles published on Friday, May 31, 2019

GFF names team for CONCACAF Gold Cup

The Guyana Football Federation [GFF] has officially revealed their 23-member roster for their maiden appearance at the impending CONCACAF Gold Cup in the United States of America [USA].  The team which comprises six locally-born and based players, also features several unattached [players without a club] overseas born players.  The squad reads Goalkeepers Alex Murray, Akel Clarke, Quillan Roberts, Defenders Sam Cox, Jordan Dover, Terence Vancooten, Kadell Daniel, Ronayne Marsh-Brown, Matthew Briggs, Kevin Layne, Liam Gordon, Midfielders Neil Danns, Warren Creavalle, Elliot Bonds, Daniel Wilson, Stephen Duke-McKenna, Anthony Jeffrey and Forwards Emery Welshman, Keanu Marsh-Brown, Pernell Schultz, Terell Ondaan, Callum Harriott and Sheldon Holder.

Guyana’s oil & gas point man - Bharrat Jagdeo

Jagdeo says SARA too biased to probe PPP/C oil block awards

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) will support an investigation of the award of several oil blocks shortly before the 2015 general elections once it is led by an internationally recognised firm and not the State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA), which it believes is biased.

Members of the launch party for the ExxonMobil U14 Football Championship from left to right, Petra Organization representative Mark Alleyne, Lorraine Barker-King, Petra Co-Director Troy Mendonca, ExxonMobil’s Nicholas Yearwood and Deedra Moe and GFF President Wayne Forde.

Second edition of U14 school football launched

The Petra Organization launched the second edition of the ExxonMobil Boys and Girls U14 School Football Championship yesterday at the Cara Lodge, Quamina Street.  The event which is slated to commence on June 8th at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue, will feature 24 Boys and 12 Girls Teams competing for the coveted title in the seven-week affair.  In the Boys section, the top two teams from each of the six groups will advance to the knockout round following the conclusion of the round-robin stage.

Raphael Trotman

Govt still seeking options to arrest gold smuggling

Challenging the assertion by the Guyana Gold Board (GGB) in the headline of the Stabroek News story of Sunday May 25th that “unknown” forces were smuggling gold out of Guyana, a source close to the industry told Stabroek Business earlier this week that “nothing could be further from the truth.”

Major food safety concerns could threaten lucrative international markets

Growing global demands, particularly in developed countries, for a greater mindfulness of food safety concerns in their importation policies continue to bring the international food processing industry, particularly in developing countries, under pressure to conform or else, to forfeit lucrative markets, according to a recent report published under the name of the international Pest Control Company RENTOKIL.

COI Report

Dear Editor, With respect to the letter you were good enough to publish on Wednesday May 29, 2019 titled `Report of COI into the Public Service should be used to inform work of this high-level Committee’, I shall be most grateful if you will publish a correction to the effect that the COI Report referred to, was actually laid in Parliament on May 24, 2016.

First Lady mobilizes for women’s group

First Lady,  Sandra Granger, yesterday morning, presented a quantity of sanitary supplies, including  adult and children’s clothing, school supplies, toys and other accessories to the Women Across Differences (WAD) at its Anira Street, Queenstown office.  A Ministry of the Presidency release said that Mrs Granger is the patron of the organisation.

Market prices

*Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana Marketing Corporation or Ministry of Agriculture.

Vigilantes and the police

The week before last a 37-year-old Wismar man, Leonard Moriah, died from injuries he had received from the residents of Block 22 who had caught him in the act of robbing someone’s house.