Daily Archives: April 15, 2019

GOLF: Tiger Woods wins Masters to claim first major in 11 years

April 15, 2019 – 3:32 am

GOLF: Tiger Woods wins 15th Major Title

 Apr 15, 2019  Sports

Photo: Tiger Woods of the U.S. holds up the Masters trophy and wears the green jacket after winning the 2019 Masters. (REUTERS/Mike Segar)

AUGUSTA, Ga. (Reuters) – Tiger Woods completed one of sport’s great all-time comebacks to end an 11-year major title drought at the Masters yesterday by claiming a fifth Green Jacket.

A gritty two-under 70 clinched a one-shot victory over Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka and Xander Schauffele and earned the 43-year-old a 15th major title that many thought would never come.      Continue reading →

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Guyana Politics: Irfaan Ali’s inauspicious start – By Adam Harris

April 15, 2019 – 2:44 am

Irfaan Ali’s inauspicious start

 April 14, 2019  Features / Columnists, My Column – By Adam Harris

People on the campaign trail always make statements that sound good. The reality is something else. Irfaan Ali is someone who has always found time to talk to me. We shared some interesting moments when he was Minister.

Overall, he is a decent person. I remember doing a story on a fellow who had defrauded Guyana Water Inc. and got dismissed. Of course, he was not the first to stare the truth in the face and decided to contest it in the courts.
This fellow filed a writ. I remember calling him and asking him if he were crazy, if he thought he could win in the courts. It did not matter to him, because I could not seek any compensation from him. And that is a problem with the legal system. People can sue and cost you money. Then they drop the suit, but you have already paid your lawyer. Your money goes down the drain.      Continue reading →

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Guyana Politics: I feel personally insulted by Irfaan Ali’s Press Conference – Freddie Kissoon

April 15, 2019 – 2:26 am

I feel personally insulted by what Irfaan Ali did

April 15, 2019  Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Most people are familiar with that old saying, “whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.” If I had any respect for Irfaan Ali, he has lost it. If I had any admiration for Irfaan he has lost it. I am referring to his recent press conference in which he appointed Kwame McCoy to direct.

Irfaan has gone mad. The gods have destroyed him. Of course the gods rendered him incompetent before sending him off to Hades. How perceptive is Ali? The question is he isn’t at all. Just take a fleeting glance at any PPP rally the past three months and you will see handsome and beautiful young people in the crowd, many of whom have university degrees.            Continue reading →

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Lawlessness at the bus parks by Touts… as Traffic Chief turns up the heat

April 15, 2019 – 1:39 am

Lawlessness at the bus parks…Touts beg for second chance, as Traffic Chief turns up the heat

April 15, 2019  News

Touts who solicit passengers at minibus parks around Georgetown are pleading for a second chance, following last week’s drastic crackdown by traffic ranks.

But they are getting scant sympathy from commuters who bear the brunt of harassment, while Traffic Chief Linden Isles has promised to intensify his campaign, which has led to the arrest of several touts.

Kaieteur News was informed that some of the touts have asked junior traffic ranks to intervene on their behalf.
Claiming that this is their only means of livelihood, the touts have promised that they would operate in a professional manner.        Continue reading →

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Is the U.S. Prepared to Accept a Defeat in Venezuela? – By Marco Teruggi

April 15, 2019 – 12:12 am

Is the U.S. Prepared to Accept a Defeat in Venezuela?

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By Marco Teruggi – Pagina 12 – April 12, 2019

The attack should have been short since the Maduro administration was not strong enough to resist. This was the conviction of the United States as they carried out a strategy to overthrow him: they built a President 2.0 Juan Guaido; they gave him a fictionalized government, international recognition, a collective narrative among mass media companies, accelerated economic sanctions at different levels. Overlapping these variables, different results were expected to be achieved on their path of getting a forced negotiation or the toppling of the government.

Events did not take the planned course. First and most important, the breaking of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB): a crucial element that should have happened but did not. A series of tactics were implemented for it, from internal conspiracy with the support of a lot of dollars, visas and guarantees, or the strategy of a latent threat of a possible U.S. intervention. A combination of bluff – an unloaded weapon pointed at your head – with built up dates to try to achieve a rupture, such as on February 23rd.      Continue reading →

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