Usain Bolt to face Yuvraj Singh in cricket contest
NEW DELHI, India, CMC- Jamaican sprint superstar Usain Bolt will make his first trip to India next week to play cricket against India’s World Cup hero Yuvraj Singh, organisers said today.
Articles published on Tuesday, August 26, 2014
NEW DELHI, India, CMC- Jamaican sprint superstar Usain Bolt will make his first trip to India next week to play cricket against India’s World Cup hero Yuvraj Singh, organisers said today.
Jermain Otto, the second accused in the murder of businessman Ashok Raghoo was this morning remanded to prison after being arraigned on the capital offence before city magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley has descried as “laughable” claims made by Attorney General Anand Ramlogan that the Emailgate scandal is now invalidated.
Facing possible early general elections, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has announced that it is meeting with various stakeholders to gauge interest in the formation of what it is calling a “National Democratic Front” alliance.
With gold declarations still worryingly down, Presi-dent Donald Ramotar last evening said that duty- free concessions for a certain type of vehicle that miners have made representation to Government for are being worked on and should be unveiled soon, the Government Informa-tion Agency said yesterday.
A comprehensive audit has revealed that a number of weapons issued by the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) to ‘R.
A fisherman was found dead with stab wounds to the chest in his friend’s yard at Cummings Lodge on Sunday and two persons have since been held by police.
A West Coast Berbice (WCB) man died after he was struck down on the D’ Edward Village Public Road on Sunday morning by a speeding driver who fled the scene but was later apprehended.
Police have been able to pick up useful information from surveillance footage from the Chinese Delicious Restaurant, where cashier Debra Blackman was gunned down on Saturday night during an attempted robbery.
City Hall Public Relations Officer Royston King was yesterday arraigned on a forgery charge, based on the allegation that he wrote a letter purporting that he was the acting Town Clerk, when he was not appointed to so act.
The commencement of the University of Guyana’s (UG) 2014/2015 academic year has been postponed until Monday, September 1 to facilitate late applications.
Marlon King, one of the men nabbed during the transfer of over eight kilos of marijuana last year, will be spending the next 60 months in jail after being found guilty of narcotics possession.
The Medical Arts Centre Limited and Dr. Sheik Amir are being sued for in excess of $50M after alleged negligence in the death of engineer Mel Sankies, who died three years ago.
A McDoom woman, allegedly caught with just over 250 grammes of cannabis in her bedroom, was remanded to prison yesterday when she appeared in a city court.
A man was yesterday accused of threatening to kill Magistrate Clive Nurse and his family.
No licences have been granted to any Chinese company for deep sea fishing although various companies have expressed interest, according to Minister of Agriculture Dr Leslie Ramsammy.
The Alliance for Change (AFC) is mourning the passing of one of its activists Lionel Peters, who died peacefully after prolonged illness, in New York on Saturday morning.
The Ministry of Education says that all schools are expected to have additional furniture to accommodate every child in the new school term which begins on Monday, September 1st.
(Cricinfo) Denesh Ramdin wouldn’t have had as much fun on a cricket field as he did yesterday afternoon at Warner Park.
The Guyana Islamic Trust (GIT) has strongly condemned the actions of the group known as ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham/Islamic State Group).
The Essequibo Paddy Farmers Association (EPFA) is planning to approach the Venezuelan Ambassador seeking an audience to negotiate an export deal but the association is bemoaning the length of time registration of the body is taking.
A man was critically injured after he was involved in an accident on the Walton Hall Public Road yesterday.
Despite failing to secure a point in their two home fixtures Alpha United tactician Wayne Dover said qualifying for the second round of the CONCACAF Champions League still remains the objective of his team.
A group of 26 Project Trust volunteers have arrived in Guyana to teach.
TORONTO, Canada, CMC-Four of the biggest names from the West Indies cricket team have signed a deal making them co-owners in the new Canadian Premier League T20 set for next year.
Following last month’s fatal stabbing of two members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community, the Guyana Trans United (GTU) has issued a call for justice for the dead, while decrying media coverage of the tragedy.
Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall has charged graduates at the Port Mourant Training Centre to capitalise on the education opportunities available there as their skills are in demand both here and abroad.
The Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) in partnership with W&H Rambaran Marine, bowled off its one week elite Youth Summer Camp yesterday at the Demerara Cricket Club ground (DCC).
By Delvon Mc Ewan National Under-19 leg spinner Steven Sankar is eyeing a senior call up after four years at the junior level ended with him playing a major role in this country’s double crown honours at the recent West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional U-19 tournament held here.
By Delvon Mc Ewan National Under-19 cricketer Balchand Baldeo is happy.
National Fullbore shooting captain Mahendra Persaud has taken his 2014 campaign to Canada with creditable results following his participation at the just concluded Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland and the Bisley Annual Championships in the United Kingdom last month.
By Tony Cozier AT five feet, four inches, no taller than a jockey, even shorter in a characteristic crouching stance behind the stumps like a rider in the home stretch, Douglas Sang Hue was dwarfed by the towering fast bowlers of his time who pounded past him in their delivery stride.
ST. LOUIS, (Reuters) – Family and supporters of Michael Brown on Monday celebrated the life of the black teenager slain by a white officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in a music-filled funeral service ringing with calls for peace and police reforms.
NEW DELHI/LUCKNOW, (Reuters) – Indian federal investigators are analysing a forensic report that found that two teenage girls, earlier believed to have been raped before they were murdered, were not sexually assaulted.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – Hurricane Cristobal formed late Monday with winds rising to 75 miles per hour (120 km per hour) as it veered away from the continental United States, the National Hurricane Center said.
LONDON, (Reuters) – England have no hope of winning next year’s World Cup because of their “old-fashioned” approach to the one-day game, according to former spinner Graeme Swann.
ABUJA, (Reuters) – The leader of Nigeria’s Islamist group Boko Haram said his fighters were now ruling the captured northeastern town of Gwoza “by Islamic law”, in the first video to state a territorial claim in more than five years of violent insurrection.
Dear Editor, I write to make public the concerns raised with me by APNU supporters, who have asked why Mr Basil Williams and I were so adversarial and uncomradely during his cross examination of me in the ongoing Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (WRCI).
MACAU, (Reuters) – Confident and unbeaten, WBO light welterweight champion Chris Algieri believes his strong jab can nullify the speed and power of boxing great Manny Pacquiao and propel the New Yorker to legendary status.
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board announced yesterday that 18 players have been invited to a West Indies Women’s training camp from tomorrow to September 8 in Barbados and St.
Dear Editor, I’ve learned with great sadness the passing of Mr Lionel Peters who was very active politically in the PPP, Hoyte’s PNCR and later the AFC.
HARARE, (Reuters) – Foreign investment into Zimbabwe plunged 59 percent to $67 million in the first half of this year, the central bank said on Monday, reflecting worries over President Robert Mugabe’s policies and the risk of investing in his country.
—says Victor Rutherford The Guyana Cycling Association of North America (GCCNA), has intentions of bringing a team to compete in this year’s five stage road race depending on the date of the calendar event.
HARARE,(Reuters) – Glenn Maxwell and Mitchell Marsh both fell agonisingly short of centuries but still helped Australia to a record one-day international tally at the Harare Sports Club as they crushed Zimbabwe by 198 runs yesterday.
MAPUTO, (Reuters) – Mozambique’s Frelimo government and the Renamo main opposition party have signed a formal end to hostilities, sealing a peace pact ahead of a presidential election scheduled for Oct 15, negotiators from both sides said.
KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s senior batsman Younus Khan has left the one-day series in Sri Lanka following the death of a relation.
NAPA, Calif., (Reuters) – A strong earthquake that jolted residents of California’s Napa Valley wine country from their beds on Sunday caused insured property damage likely in the hundreds of millions of dollars, but the region’s total economic losses will be several times that, experts said on Monday.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – The Indian cricket board (BCCI) has labelled Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s comments as “personal opinion” after the national team’s captain said beleaguered coach Duncan Fletcher still called the shots and would lead them into next year’s World Cup.
Dear Editor, Minister Clement Rohee is a perfect example of the absolutism of power, the arrogance of ignorance, the flagrant lack of comprehension of what the people want and the intellectual wasteland that is the PPP leadership.
Dear Editor Region 6 – East Berbice – is the cricketing headquarters not only for Guyana, but the entire Caribbean.
In the wake of relentlessly mounting evidence pointing to grave irregularities within the forestry sector, the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) has chosen to issue blanket statements in defence of the conduct of operations by the foreign multinationals that dominate the sector.
The government has allowed a discomfiting hiatus to develop between the announcement by Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh in his budget speech last March that government was allocating one billion Guyana dollars to a coastal cleanup exercise and the actualization of the exercise.
Dear Editor, This is in reference to the report on a Guyanese former New York district leader being found guilty in relation to election financing (Aug 12).
The burnt GPL electricity pole (at left) in ‘C’ Field, Sophia Precarious: A GPL pole has been hanging precariously on what remains after a fire one month ago.
BERLIN, (Reuters) – World heavyweight champion Vladimir Klitsckho has postponed next month’s IBF title bout with Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev after sustaining an injury in training.
(Reuters) – The opening one-day international in a five-match series between England and India was abandoned without a ball being bowled in Bristol yesterday due to heavy rain.
(Reuters) – Bangladesh’s Sohag Gazi has become the fifth off-spinner in recent months to be reported to the International Cricket Council (ICC) for an illegal bowling action.