4R Masters Cup and Female Softball Cricket tournament resumes
After a well deserved break from activities, the 4R Masters’ Cup and Female Softball Cricket tournament, organized by the Guyana Softball League in collaboration with Floodlights Association resumes tomorrow, March 28 with several matches. In the first match scheduled for the Softball Cricket ground, Carifesta Avenue, starting at 10:00hrs on Pitch # 1, Floodlight X1 [...]
Guyanese Donna Makeda on a musical Mission
Heads home for GAMA When the curtain is raised on April 25 at the National Cultural Centre to honour Guyanese artistes at home and in the Diaspora, Canada-based Guyanese artiste, Donna Makeda, will be among the lot. This very conscious, positive vibes, reggae queen in her own right is among the nominees who will perform [...]
It’s an honour to play for Guyana says Terry Holder
National U-15 cricketers wing out for T&T The National youth team which was scheduled to depart Guyana this morning for Trinidad for this year’s Regional under-15 cricket tournament were guests at a farewell dinner held for them by the Guyana Cricket Board at the Water Chris Hotel last night. Led by Shawn Perreira and coached [...]
Guilty unlicensed hire car driver off to jail
Brian Backer, of 6 Republic Road New Amsterdam, will be spending the next few months in jail after he pleaded guilty of nine charges for traffic offences and disorderly behaviour that included him assaulting a peace officer. He appeared before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo for behaving disorderly on Tuesday March 23, last, at New Amsterdam Public [...]
BCB SEC honours U-15 players
The Special Events Committee (SEC) of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) on Thursday last honoured two outstanding members of the Berbice Under-15 team which recently won the Inter County tournament. Shawn Pereira, Captain of the team received a bicycle valued at $16, 000 after being named the County’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) while Gudakesh Motie [...]
Works at Guyana Gold Fields Inc. on schedule
… over US$400M will be invested locally Plans for the consolidation of the Guyana Gold Fields Inc. operation are well underway, according to the Company’s President, Claude Lemasson. Mr. Lemasson said that the company is currently in the proprietary work stages. He explained that construction work on the site will start by year end and [...]
Georgetown take DCB U-19 title
E/Coast lose by 8 wickets By Sean Devers In sweltering heat on a flat Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) track, Georgetown defeated East Coast by eight wickets in yesterday’s final of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) Inter-Association 50-overs under-19 cricket competition. East Coast were bundled out for 93 in 39.3 overs as all of the batsmen [...]
IGG Athletics team impresses at practice
-Track and Field starts today By Edison Jefford in French Guiana In association with YK Investments and Fon-J Cycle Store Guyana’s national junior athletics team adjusted to the synthetic facility at the Baduel Stadium in Cayenne, French Guiana yesterday morning during a practice session that was used to get them acclimatised ahead of today’s track [...]
‘El Nino’ fight could cost additional $600M-Jagdeo
The fight against the ‘El Nino’ weather phenomenon will cost the Guyana Government an additional $600M, according to Head of State, Bharrat Jagdeo, during a press briefing at the Office of the President, yesterday. Jagdeo said that the budget has catered for several programmes to help tackle the phenomenon but in his estimation the gravity [...]
Guyana misfires on opening day of IGG competition
- fall 3-0 in football, win only two medals in swimming Guyana misfired badly on the opening day of competition at the Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) after three second half goals from French Guiana downed its male football team and with Henk Lowe and Brittany Van-Lange the only medallists in swimming. The football team opened with [...]
Adams’s 105 steers West Berbice to victory over Young Warriors
Leitch, Joemal La Fleur also hit tons The Berbice Zone of the 2009/2010 Guyana Cricket Board First Division 3-Day Cricket Competition continued with the conclusion of the latest round of matches over the last weekend. Registering centuries were Steffon Adams of West Berbice as well as the 17 year old Bermine pair of Kelvin Leitch [...]
Famous Football victory: Guyana last defeated T&T in 1977
Dear Editor, The last time Guyana defeated Trinidad & Tobago (the Soca Warriors) at the senior international level was September 22, 1977 at the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground. The two countries were contesting a three match series as part of the Guyana Football Association 75th Anniversary celebration. Guyana the “Land of Many Waters” playing under [...]
Berbice barber gets five years, fined $4.9M
Joel Alert, a 35-year-old barber of 35 Canefield Village, East Canje, Berbice, has been fined $4.9M and sent to jail for five years for trafficking in narcotics. Failure to pay the fine would lead him to a further ten months in jail. He was charged for possession of narcotics for the purposes of trafficking after [...]
What is good for the goose is good for the gander
Dear Sir, I refer to an article carried on page 27 of your Issue of Thursday 25th March, 2010 under the caption “Ranks of the GCUC are on a mission to disrupt progress”. In this article, the PRO Mr. Grantley Culbard laments the practice of persons being changed at general meetings even though they might [...]
Cycling, Road Relay to high light Felix Austin Training School B division activities
The Felix Austin Police Training School B Division under the command of Superintendent of police Ian Amsterdam is at present observing a week of activities. This is in observance of their first anniversary since reopening its doors in 2009, after a five year closure. The College, which is situated at Adventure on the Corentyne Cost, [...]
400 Diamond cane cutters request severance pay
- refuse to work on East Coast Some 400 workers of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) are asking to be let loose after talks failed over the proposed shifting of the Diamond workforce to the East Coast Demerara. Two sugar workers unions, the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), and the National Association of [...]
Blucher guides North to victory with even century
A fine unbeaten century by Christopher Blucher guided North Essequibo to a 9 wicket victory over Central Essequibo as the Goodwood U-19 50 overs cricket competition continued recently in Essequibo. In Zone A, at Lima, Central won the toss and elected to bat first and scored 161 all out in 39 overs. Ravindra Mohabir made [...]
Local Red Cross delivers messages of compassion from Guyana to the Haitian People
The needs in the wake of the 7.2 magnitude earthquake of January 12, in Haiti are proving to be immense, requiring a massive response from the international community. The Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement are responding by sending in personnel, emergency response units (ERUs) and relief to meet these needs. The Haitian National Red [...]
Blucher guides Gunners to R&D Engineering Service 20/20 title in North E’bo
A fine half century by Christopher Blucher guided Gunners to a 3 wicket victory over Lima in the final of the R&D Engineering Service twenty/20 cricket competition played recently at the Anna Regina Community Centre Ground in North Essequibo. Lima won the toss and batted and were restricted to 126 all out in 19.4 overs. Fizal [...]
Teen in shoot-out remanded on firearm, ammo charges
Robin Holder, who was wounded last week Wednesday during a shootout with police, was remanded to prison Thursday on two charges related to that incident. The 19-year-old of North East La Penitence was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm as well as unlawful possession of ammunition during his appearance in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. [...]
Digicel to kick off FIFA World Cup promotion with football festival at Parade ground
Digicel, Guyana’s leading mobile communications operator will be kicking off its highly anticipated FIFA promotion today March 27 at the Parade Ground. This launch event takes the form of a football competition which will see eight of Guyana’s best “street football” teams going head to head for a chance to claim the first prize. Digicel [...]
Why don’t you come home Rickey Singh
Guess where PPP propagandist and Chronicle columnist (please read what Caribbean icon, Eusi Kwayana said about the Chronicle last week), Rickey Singh lives? In one of the most populated territories on earth that does not have space for more inhabitants. It is the island of Barbados. Mr. Singh is a supporter of President Jagdeo (for [...]
Lennox ‘Pretty Boy’ Allen confident ahead of bout in New York tonight
Approximately five months after returning to the United States of America Lennox Allen enters the ring tonight against Puerto Rican Amador Aceveda at the Mid Hudson Civic Centre, Poughkeepsie, New York in a middleweight scrap. Allen sports an impeccable record of 10 fights without a loss while Acevedo has won three of his ten fights, [...]
CHEDDI DID NOT CAPITULATE
The triumph of imperialism at the end of the 1980s had led to some amazing reassessments. Instead of lauding individuals for their ideological consistency, capitulating to neo-liberalism and its values has become a virtue. Today we read that Cheddi Jagan was a failure because he was an unrepentant communist and further failed to adapt his [...]
Ragnauth hits century, Prashad, Khan take six-wicket hauls
A fine century by Chandreka Ragnauth and six wicket hauls by Somnauth Prashad and Wazir Khan highlighted the fourth round of matches in the Igloo Ice cream 40 overs cricket competition played last Sunday in Wakenaam. At Maria’s Pleasure, Good Success overcame the host by 200 runs. The visitors batted first and lost two quick [...]
