… also recommends umpires enforce laws relating to penalty runs for repeated time-wasting more strictly, and time drinks breaks better THE Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), through its World Cricket Committee, has called for the ICC to speed up restarts after DRS reviews, and tighten up the DRS process itself, in a bid to address the…
The family of the fisherman who was struck by lightning Thursday night while out fishing with his brother and another fisherman, are hoping that he could still be alive, despite the odds. Hemnarine Chandradeo called Ravin, 28, a father of two was struck by lightning on his fishing vessel in the waters off the Rose…
THE first match of the evening saw the U20 girls in action with YMCA Old Fort Samurais versus GCC Tornadoes. With only two minutes on the clock the brilliant Kalifa Hicks of YMCA Old Fort Samurais found the back of GCC Tornadoes net. The ambitious striker found the net several other times, scoring two goals…
The Lucozade Indoor Hockey championship continued on Thursday evening with teams recording big wins at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. The first match of the evening saw the Under-20 girls in action, with YMCA Old Fort Samurais versus the GCC Tornadoes. With only two minutes on the clock, the brilliant Kalifa Hicks of YMCA Old Fort…
LONDON, (CMC) – Callum Harriott, a 28-year-old Guyana international based in England, says his United Kingdom football career has been shattered despite being cleared of raping a woman by a jury at Ipswich Crown Court. Harriott, a winger who most recently played for League Two club, Colchester United, said he was “devastated” by the allegation…
Guyana’s Under-16 boxers were feted on Thursday evening as a form of appreciation for their outstanding performance at the just concluded Winfield Braithwaite Caribbean Schoolboys and Junior Championship. Contested at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall from August 26-28, the championship attracted participation from four countries, with Guyana emerging overall champions. Guyana finished on 23 points,…
SHERICKA Jackson inflicted a first loss of the season on Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the women’s 100m at the Memorial van Damme Brussels Diamond League yesterday. Lined up in a stock field at the King Baudouin Stadium in the final meet before the season-ending Zurich Diamond League Finals set for September 6 and 7, Jackson finished…
Some two hundred (200) families were allocated house lots in Stewartville and Meten-Meer-Zorg, Region Three, during an outreach at the West Demerara Secondary School on Friday. The outreach, which was geared towards addressing housing matters in the region, was led by Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal and a team from the Central Housing…
THE way of life of Guyana’s first peoples must be protected. This is a point that has been echoed over the years through programmes that preserve Indigenous languages and ways of life, and as recently as Thursday evening by the Amerindian Affairs Minister, Pauline Sukhai, who recognised the annual Amerindian Heritage Month celebration as directly…
A 70-year-old unvaccinated man from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) is the latest COVID-19 death, the Ministry of Health’s daily COVID-19 dashboard reported on Friday. The man died on September 1, taking the total number of deaths from the pandemic to 1,279. Meanwhile, a total of 14 persons were infected with the COVID-19 disease after another 240…
