Daily Archive: Sunday, July 16, 2023

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Carlos Alcaraz heralded the changing of the guard in men’s tennis as he ended Novak Djokovic’s long reign at Wimbledon with a rip-roaring 1-6 7-6(6) 6-1 3-6 6-4 victory to win the All England Club title for the first time today.

Parliament is to sit on Thursday, July 20 and the government is expected to announce who will replace former Minister of Local Government, Nigel Dharamlall as a voting member of the assembly.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says he is willing to pay more to police officers to be part of what he described as “vetted units” reserved for officers of the highest integrity.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India will push its Group of 20 partners at a meeting it is hosting to support its proposal to raise the share of taxes multinational companies pay to countries where they earn “excess profits”, government officials said.

The Police are investigating a report of a hit-and-run fatal accident earlier this morning at about 0130 hrs on Foulis Access Road, East Coast Demerara.

Excelsior and Dolphin will contest the Region #4 Georgetown divisional final, following semifinal wins yesterday in the 8th edition of the Digicel Schools Football Championship Staged at Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue, Excelsior bested Charlestown 4-2 on penalty kicks after regulation time ended 1-1. 

Dear Editor, I write this in response to the letter entitled `Speed bumps place our country in danger’ appearing in the Guyana Times and Kaieteur News in recent days. 

Dear Editor, Permit me to make this tribute to Sister Clementine Marshall, who began her transition to the world of ancestors on June 22.2023.

By Joseph Allen General Secretary of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), Coretta McDonald is of the opinion that the Government is using delay tactics to eventually award a unilateral across-the-board increase  rather than what the union would have bargained for.

The national team’s forgettable campaign at the Rugby America’s North (RAN)  Men’s U19 XVs tournament ended yesterday without them scoring a single point at the Mona Campus in Jamaica. 

Standout athlete, Quamel Prince once again rewrote the record books, lowering the national 800m record on Friday at the 40th Harry Jerome Classic staged at the McLeod Athletic Park in Langley, British Colombia, Canada. 

Wainwright McIntosh of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) earlier this month was elected the new Mayor of New Amsterdam, while Kirk Fraser, also of APNU was elected as the deputy mayor of the town.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to respond to Dr. David Hind’s request as presented in his letter `WPA calls on Dr.

Local golfers are for the first time competing in this weekend’s Tobago Open being hosted at the Tobago Plantations Magdalena Golf Resort. 

Star cyclist, Briton John made hay in the brilliant sunshine yesterday in the National Park, winning the feature 40-lap race of the Team Alanis-organized event. 

Dear Editor, I have long come to the realization that successful cricketers do not necessarily become good cricket administrators.

Four families from the communities of Good Hope and Lusignan, East Coast Demerara yesterday received keys to newly constructed, two-bedroom core homes.

Residents on the East Bank of Demerara are anxiously awaiting the return of sustained potable water supply by the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) after the collapse of the well servicing their area.

Vengy and Georgetown Football Club (GFC) played to a 1-1 stalemate when the Georgetown Football Association Senior Men’s League continued on Friday evening.

Dear Editor, Ms. Nazima Raghubir, Head of the Guyana Press Association, has elected to respond to my letter to the press of the 13th July, in which I pointed out that at the President’s press conference “I ensured that every reporter present  who wished to ask a question did so with a follow up question and one reporter (Nazima Raghubir) managed to slip in five questions “I further pointed out that “ altogether 25 questions were asked by the media and answered by the President”. 

On the heels of obtaining bachelor’s degrees in law and in political science simultaneously, both with first class honours, former Caribbean table tennis champion and national player Shemar Britton, 25, has qualified to play in the 2023 Pan American Games to be held in Chile in October based on his performance at the just-concluded Central American Games (CAC) held in El Salvador.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping said China must build a “solid” security barrier around its internet under the supervision of the ruling Communist Party, in his latest call to safeguard online data and information.

More than 1500 military personnel from 21 different nations are currently here in Guyana for the US-led Caribbean security exercise, Exercise Tradewinds.

Dear Editor,  Social commentary seems to have become an exercise in futility, especially when targeting those considered to be leaders and role models, who fail in these roles.

(Reuters) – A Moscow court yesterday issued criminal charges against seven people “motivated by national hatred” to kill two prominent Russian journalists in a Ukrainian-backed plot, Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency said.

Dear Editor, When then Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman signed that lousy, lopsided 2% oil contract then came with a book to sell to us an “explanation” or an excuse for his “ordeal”, are we to believe that he pondered, ruminated, agonised, soul-searched, suffered lost sleep before or after signing? 

A captain whose boat was badly damaged on Tuesday morning by the turbulence caused by a cargo vessel in Port Georgetown is calling for compensation from the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD).

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – South Korea’s Foreign Minister Park Jin on Friday called on China to play a “constructive role” in curbing North Korea’s threats, after Pyongyang launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) this week.

(Trinidad Express) Miss Universe Janelle “Penny” Commissiong has urged the graduating class of Rio Claro Secondary School not to be fearful of artificial intelligence (AI) but consider the opportunities it can have in the world of work.

Sixteen BOSAI Minerals Group employees serving on the Joint Workplace and Health Committee in Linden, Region Ten were recognised on Friday for successfully completing a three-day Joint Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) and National Insurance Scheme (NIS) Training Programme.

Dear Editor, As a result of the conspicuous and striking silence from the so-called bastions of press freedom in Guyana, it has become imperative to share this perspective on press conferences hosted by Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton and generally by the PNC-led APNU.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican journalist Nelson Matus was killed yesterday in the coastal resort city of Acapulco in the southwestern state of Guerrero, local media reported.

All agree that there is a democracy deficit when an Opposition is unable or unwilling to hold a government to account.

(BBC) Including Barbie, Oppenheimer and the latest Mission: Impossible – Nicholas Barber lists this month’s unmissable releases.

History often saddles people with reputations that are undeserved. Take Florence Nightingale.

(Trinidad Express) Brinsley Samaroo, “The Boy From Ecclesville, Rio Claro”, came in for glowing tributes on Friday as an intellectual, ace lecturer, knowledge seeker, brilliant interpreter, critical thinker, scholar, walking encyclopaedia, nation builder and indefatigable custodian of Trinidad and Tobago’s heritage and history, including Indo-Trinidadian history, and labour and First Peoples history.

DALLAS, Texas, CMC – There were a series of tidy performances from all the players with ties to Caribbean that appeared for teams in Major League Cricket on Friday in the United States.

(Reuters) – From selling street food in Mumbai to winning the player-of-the-match award in his test debut in Roseau, India opener Yashasvi Jaiswal is international cricket’s latest rags-to-riches story.

On 10th March, 1876 the first phone call in human history was made.

(Reuters) – Former Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar has been moved to a hospital in the Netherlands but remains in intensive care after a brain bleed last week, his wife Annemarie said on Saturday.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Azerbaijan said yesteday that Russia and Armenia are not fulfilling the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave ceasefire deal, hours after the European Union urged Azerbaijan and Armenia to refrain from “violence and harsh rhetoric”.

To say it has been hot would be a massive understatement.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Former Australian coach Justin Langer will replace Andy Flower as head coach of the Lucknow Super Giants, the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket franchise said.

MORZINE, France, (Reuters) – In 1989, Greg LeMond won the Tour de France by a mere eight seconds over Laurent Fignon in a nail-biting finale but this year’s edition might well provide an even closer ending as Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard are locked in a classic battle.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Hosts Trinidad & Tobago are the champions of the Cricket West Indies Rising Stars Under-19 Women’s Championship again.

I wouldn’t consider myself a die-hard Beyonce fan but two weeks ago I guess I could have fooled a lot of people into thinking otherwise.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – When Marketa Vondrousova punched away a volley and fell to the ground after completing one of the most unexpected runs to the Wimbledon title, a jumble of thoughts must have been running through her head.

Back in London in mid-1950, Denis Williams (1923 – 1998) continued to paint.

(Field Level Media) LeBron James is switching back to No. 23 for the 2023-24 season.

(Reuters) – Australian wicketkeeper Alex Carey has said he would not hesitate to repeat his controversial stumping of England’s Jonny Bairstow should a similar opportunity arise in the final two tests of the ongoing Ashes series.

(Reuters) – Argentine great Lionel Messi has completed his signing for Inter Miami on a deal that will keep him in Florida until 2025, the Major League Soccer side said yesterday.

What’s for dinner? I imagine that since it’s Sunday, you are likely having leftovers from the big meal earlier in the day.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – Former Leeward Islands captain Ralston Otto died on Friday at his home in Antigua.

“The worst thing a woman could do is marry to a man that don’t talk.

The dramatic play Anansi by Alistair Campbell will shortly be broadcast on radio.

Dear Editor, Over the past few days we have been greeted by strange and unbelievable statements and for brevity I refer to two, one – my disappointment by my friend, Kit Nascimento who sought  as he did to defend  a restriction on the independent media.

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent,  CMC – Three batsmen got half-centuries and Barbados made a strong start against Guyana to the West Indies Men’s Under-19 three-day championship yesterday in St Vincent.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Carlos Alcaraz will have to kick Novak Djokovic off his Wimbledon throne in Sunday’s final because he will not be given an inch, according to seven-time Grand Slam champion Mats Wilander.

Digicel held its $20 million “Deal” or “No Deal” summer launch at the Theatre Guild in Kingston, Georgetown, yesterday afternoon.

During the month of May a team from the European Union led by parliamentarian Mr Javier Nart came here to assess the extent to which electoral reform recommendations made by the EU Observer Mission in 2020 had been addressed.

Introduction Today’s column addresses the second topic I had identified for consideration in this ongoing evaluation of Guyana’s proposed public auctions of its crude oil blocks.

John Macedo, 68, an accomplished chess player during the 1970s and 1980s, died two Thursdays ago in Guyana following a brief illness.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour presents the second part of the Mike Findlay interview.

By Mia Anthony Emergency Medical Technician Tishana Douglas had a different career goal in mind when she completed secondary school.

President Irfaan Ali on Friday met with a delegation from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), an Indian aerospace company founded in the 1940s.