Daily Archive: Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Articles published on Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Sulieman Benn

WIPA/WICB Player Awards

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Following is the list of award winners at the West Indies Player Association/West Indies Cricket Board Players Award ceremony held here Tuesday night.

Marcel Barrington

Overseas blow!

Guyana has been dealt a severe blow before the start of their 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifying Opener today as four players were unable to travel to St.

Bishoo jumps into top 50

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC– West Indies leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo has jumped into the top 50 of the Reliance ICC Player Rankings for Test Bowlers, following an outstanding bowling performance in the First Test against Australia in Dominica last week.

Chris Lewis released from jail

LONDON, CMC- Former England all-rounder Chris Lewis was released from prison yesterday after serving less than half of a 13-year sentence for a 2009 conviction for cocaine smuggling.

GABA’s King of the Hardcourt final June 27

Due to Guyana’s participation in the 2015 Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) in the British Virgin Islands later this month, the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) has pushed back the final match of their King of the Hardcourt Championship to June 27.

US Embassy to host college fair

The United States (US) Embassy will be hosting a College Information Fair at Queen’s College next Wednesday and graduates from 15 US universities will be sharing their experiences about studying in the United States.

Correction

In yesterday’s edition of Stabroek News under the headline `Parliament must approve GuySuCo bailout – Jordan’, Minister of Finance Winston Jordan was reported as saying that the Guyana Sugar Corporation has not received bailout money and this will not happen until Parliament approves this.

Members of the Guyana Defence Force and the Florida National Guard who were involved in the exchange.

GDF, Florida National Guard in expert exchange

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) recently concluded a Non Commissioned Officer and Officer Leadership subject matter expert exchange with the US Embassy Security Cooperation Office and the Florida National Guard where they shared best practices in the art of military control.

Global relations this week

This week the so-called Group of Seven, essentially the major capitalist countries, subsequently known between 1998 and 2014 as the Group of Eight when post-communist Russia joined, met again in Germany this week.