Spinner Mendis recalled by Sri Lanka
(REUTERS) – Sri Lanka have recalled spinner Ajantha Mendis for the two-Test series in Bangladesh after he missed this month’s series against Pakistan. He replaces off-spinner Sachitra Senanayake in the...
View ArticleBerdych blames tiebreak ‘lottery’ for semi-final defeat
(REUTERS) – Tomas Berdych blamed the ‘lottery’ of the tiebreak, as he was beaten by Stanislas Wawrinka in the semi-finals of the Australian Open last night. The Czech seventh seed won the second set on...
View ArticleWindies Under-19s start pre-World Cup camp
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The West Indies Under-19 team started their camp in Barbados on Wednesday as they get ready for next month’s start of the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup in the United Arab...
View ArticleWICB to argue its position before ICC
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has adopted a position on a draft proposal that would put power in international cricket in the hands of India, England and Australia....
View ArticleLittle DIVA Flames FC intensify training
THE LITTLE DIVA Football Club will intensify their training as they prepare for their first friendly game to be played on Sunday at the Number 5 Ground, West Berbice, against Monedderlust commencing at...
View ArticleSPR Enterprise three-way dominoes
Fierce encounter expected in final leg A FIERCE encounter is anticipated when the final leg of the SPR Enterprise- sponsored three-way aggregate dominoes tournament climaxes at Zeelugt this Sunday.At...
View ArticleDependable Spares supports DCC for fifth year
YESTERDAY morning and for the fifth successive year, Dependable Spares and King Paul of Eccles, East Bank Demerara, joined forces with the Queenstown-based Demerara Cricket Club (DCC). As a result,...
View ArticleTeenager refused bail on illegal gun, ammunition charges
EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Alex Mendonca, a vendor of Lot 135 Vlissengen Road, West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was yesterday refused bail by Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on charges of unlawful...
View ArticleOld Kai: Chronicles of Guyana…
APNU makes an about-turn –Finally admits PPP/C Gov’t always had Linden’s back OLD Kai has always believed that with the passage of time, everything will be brought into perspective; and he has been...
View ArticleActing in the best interest of country
History seems to be repeating itself. After the many public calls for the Opposition to have an input in the 2013 Budget, shadow Finance Minister and Opposition representative at budget deliberations,...
View ArticleAMNESTY’S SWIPE AT OBAMA ON EVE OF CELAC SUMMIT IN CUBA : –focus on deepening...
PRESIDENT BARACK Obama may have to cease speaking with a forked tongue on the continuing misuse of the Guantanamo Naval Base as a detention centre for political prisoners from other countries and also...
View ArticlePresident Ramotar to attend CELAC Summit in Cuba
PRESIDENT Donald Ramotar will be leaving for Cuba to attend the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) Heads of Government Summit to be held at PABEXPO building exhibition site of...
View ArticleMassive turn out at PPP’s re-commissioning of Linden Freedom House office :...
‘This I pledge to you. For as long as I am President I will work for all the people of Guyana’-President Ramotar AMIDST much speculation and threats of a drama yesterday in Linden, President Donald...
View ArticleWorld Leprosy Day… : Guyana moving towards eliminating leprosy at the...
GUYANA has eliminated leprosy at a national level and the fight is now on to have the disease eliminated at a sub-national level. The Leprosy Clinic based in Georgetown sees fewer than one hundred...
View ArticleArmy ranks receive the spot promotion for exemplary performance
Chief of Staff Brigadier Mark Phillips on Friday awarded on-the-spot promotions and special incentives to eight ranks of the highly professional Three One Special Forces Squadron (31 SF Squadron) of...
View ArticlePresident open to negotiations on public servants’ salary increases
President Donald Ramotar at his press conference on Friday said that he is open to negotiations with unions, to come up with mutually accepted decisions in terms of annual salary increases. The...
View ArticleYoung cop shot by aggressive visitor to Meadow Brook home : –police hunting...
POLICE report that at about 22:30 hrs on Friday, January 24, 2014, Special Constable 14127 Quincy Wright, called Dexter, of the Mounted Branch and of Zeskendren, Mahaicony, East Coast of Demerara, was...
View ArticleParika business people say bold police display of favouritism hampering...
SEVERAL business persons in the Hydronie/Parika area of the East Bank Essequibo are lamenting what they perceive as “naked favouritism” being displayed by officers and ranks of the Parika Police...
View ArticleN/A magistrate advises that complaining defendants should inform station...
NEW Amsterdam Magistrate Sherdell Issacs-Marcus has advised accused persons making allegations of being assaulted by the police to take their complaints to the attention of the station commander prior...
View ArticleUnlucky motorcyclist hit down by allegedly speeding car, allegedly run over...
AT ABOUT 02:00hrs yesterday, the unidentified driver of motorcycle CG 6446 was very grievously injured when the allegedly drunken driver of motor car PGG 8790 struck him off his motorcycle at the...
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