NIGEL HUGHES IN LEGAL HOT WATER AGAIN
Jeopardises 300 students preparing for CSEC exams in April-May, 2014 THEAlliance For Change (AFC) Chairman, Attorney-at-Law, Mr. Nigel Hughes, seems incapable of staying out of legal trouble. On the...
View ArticleCricket South Africa to list revamp objections to ICC
EVEN while it stays engaged in negotiations with the BCCI, Cricket South Africa has laid out some fundamental objections to the ICC makeover proposal, which includes the permanent membership for...
View ArticlePietersen’s England career comes to an end
LONDON, England (Reuters) – Kevin Pietersen’s brilliant and controversial international career ended yesterday as the fallout from England’s woeful Ashes campaign claimed the scalp of one of the...
View ArticleStylish Sangakkara sparkles with centruy for Sri Lanka
(REUTERS) – Kumar Sangakkara thumped his 34th Test century for Sri Lanka before Shakib Al Hasan hit back with two wickets to give Bangladesh something to cheer on the first day of the second Test in...
View ArticleWorld Cup Golden Boot winner to visit Turks and Caicos
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks & Caicos Islands (CMC) – A renowned footballer from Croatia who now heads the country’s football association is due to pay an official visit to Turks and Caicos Islands this...
View ArticleCampbell, Taylor, Russell inspire second Super50 win for Jamaica
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Former West Indies pacer Jerome Taylor made an impressive return to regional first class cricket as Jamaica cruised to an easy six-wicket win over Ireland in their...
View ArticlePlayer’s Cup/GT Beer golf tourney set for Sunday
BANKS DIH Limited and Citizens Bank Guyana Inc. are partnering to host the first major golf tournament for 2014 called the Player’s Cup/GT Beer Championship on Sunday at the Lusignan golf course....
View ArticleGCB to continue encampment of national cricketers
THE Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) will be continuing the encampment for its cricketers in preparation for the upcoming West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional Four-Day cricket tournament which will...
View ArticleSimpson dope case pushed back
… officials find lab report confusing KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – The doping case against Jamaican sprinter Sherone Simpson has been further set back after officials failed to unravel the meaning of a...
View ArticleGuyana sending only athletes and boxers to South American Games
GUYANA is expected to be represented only in athletics and boxing, when a contingent attends the South American Games next month in Santiago, Chile, according to president of the Guyana Olympics...
View ArticleBeaton Man- of- Match as Guyana trump Windward Islands by 22 runs
-book NAGICO Super50 semi-final spot THANKS to half centuries from three of their batsmen, coupled by some discipline bowling midway through the Windward Islands’ innings, Malta Supreme Guyana trumped...
View ArticleThe Observer…Vieira’s politically induced amnesia
CRITICAL moments in a country’s political existence are known to result in a plethora of viewpoints/opinions expounding on the particular issue. It is a necessary attribute of a democratic society,...
View ArticleDigicel makes annual contribution to Parkside Steel Orchestra
DIGICEL (Guyana), on Monday, made its annual donation to the Parkside Steel Orchestra, which will contribute to the band’s participation in the final of the Pan-O-Rama Steel Pan Competition that is...
View ArticleShontelle Gittens is Junior Calypso Monarch 2014
THE Junior Calypso Competition 2014 was hosted with much pomp and fanfare at the National Cultural Centre on Friday last and the line-up showcased creative renditions and riveting competition among...
View ArticleGuyana’s rice marketing efforts focusing on dislodging USA as Caribbean supplier
ORYZA Global Rice Quotes, a recognised information source on rice market trends, reported at January month-end that the sole rice mill in Jamaica completely replaced imports of paddy rice from the...
View ArticleRice farmers put on alert for increase in paddy bug infestation
GENERAL Secretary of the Guyana Rice Producers Association (GRPA), Dharamkumar Seeraj, is urging rice farmers to heed advisories by both the RPA and the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) to keep an...
View ArticleGuyana to migrate from analog TV to digital terrestrial TV by 2020
OFFICIALS entrusted with developing a road map for Guyana’s migration from analog Television to Digital Terrestrial Television have proposed 2016 as the year to commence digital transmissions by local...
View ArticleAfter-effects still uncertain after mother and child fell into ‘grease trap’...
THE mother and her two-year-old child who had a mishap outside of KFC on Water Street Monday afternoon actually fell into a ‘grease trap’ and not a ‘man hole’, a senior Mayor and City Council...
View ArticleAfter briefing on benefits… PSC approves system for local government,...
THE Private Sector Commission (PSC), last Thursday, approved the Automatic Ballot Scan and Tabulation Voting System for use in both local government and national elections in Guyana. The approval...
View ArticleFinance Minister on budget consultations…‘The door is always open’
GOVERNMENT remains committed to its open-door policy with regard to budgetary consultations, as it is through this mechanism that the constant exchange of views is enabled, and suggestions, issues,...
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