Daily Archive: Monday, April 25, 2011

Articles published on Monday, April 25, 2011

 Jessica Stephenson

Stephenson swims to breastroke gold

Junior breaststroke specialist Jessica Stephenson collected Guyana’s first gold medal of the CARIFTA Games Swimming Championships when she won the girls 15 – 17 200m breaststroke event late Saturday in Barbados.

Cleveland Forde

Fortune favours Alisha

Alisha Fortune continued to showcase her supremacy as Guyana’s best female sprinter when she won the 100m yesterday at the Mini Athletic meet hosted by the Guyana Police Force (GPF) at the Eve Leary Sports Club Ground.

Ayana Garraway

Bartica woman dies in crash

By Tiffny Rhodius in Bartica A mother of two is dead after her motorbike collided with a car at Bartica yesterday, plunging her family into mourning and bringing a halt to their Easter festivities.

Shane Watson

Watson becomes top-ranked ODI all-rounder

Australia’s Shane Watson has become the top-ranked ODI all-rounder and has also achieved a career-best ranking to date in the Reliance ICC ODI Rankings which were released on Thursday at the end of Bangladesh and Australia series which finished on Wednesday.

REDJet triggers fare war

(Barbados Nation) Low-cost carrier REDjet is yet to receive official clearance from the Trinidad and Tobago government, but its presence in the market has already triggered a price war and concerns that its model is unsustainable.

The Vaitarna matter

A report by the Times of India earlier this month that an Indian company, Vaitarna Holdings, controlled 1.82M acres of Guyanese forest deservedly captured media scrutiny here.