Daily Archive: Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Articles published on Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Windies players association condemns Hilary Beckles over Gayle remarks

(WIPA) The West Indies Players Association has written to the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI) condemning remarks made by West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Director and Principal of the UWI’s Cave Hill Campus, Sir Hilary Beckles, in which he unfairly compares former West Indies Captain, Christopher Gayle to Christopher “Dudus” Coke. 

Cops probing Albouystown shooting

The police say they are investigating an incident that occurred at about 1800h yesterday at James and Hunter Streets, Albouystown, Georgetown, during which Meskshaka Brazilio, 24 years, was shot and injured to his chest.

Mary King

T&T Minister Mary King fired

(Trinidad Express) The appointment of Trinidad Government Senator and Minister of Planning, Restructuring and Gender Affairs, Mary King will be revoked by President Maxwell Richards this afternoon.

GPL completes maintenance

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) said yesterday that maintenance works at its new Kingston plant have come to an end, five days ahead of schedule but a second round is expected to begin later this month.

Marlon Samuels acknowledges the small crowd by raising his bat as he walks off after making a double century. (Orlando Charles photo)

Marlon’s masterclass!

Two years away from all forms of cricket must have roused a beast out of hibernation in Marlon Samuels because certainly the double hundred he plundered yesterday against his West Indies counterparts was as savage as ever.

Linden Branch Manager Shondell Easton presents the winning prize to the Eagles team while Guinness Brand Manager Lee Baptiste (right) looks on.

Eagles are the Greatest of the Streets!

Eagles squeezed past Retrievers Unknowns 3-2 to lift the Guinness Greatest of the Streets Futsal football tournament in front of a mammoth crowd at the Mackenzie market squad Saturday evening to bring the curtains down on the Linden leg of the series.

Guard stabbed in neck, recovering

Security guard Eon Davidson, the father of eight who was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital with a severe stab wound to the neck on Sunday night, was recovering from the incident yesterday following a successful surgery.