Daily Archive: Friday, March 11, 2016

Articles published on Friday, March 11, 2016

Hurricanes 237-3 vs Jaguars

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Leeward Islands Hurricanes, opting to bat first against Guyana Jaguars, reached 237 for three at the close on the opening day of their ninth round game in the Regional four-day championship at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground here today.

The participants and the trainers (US Embassy photo)

US Embassy hosts suicide prevention workshop

As part of efforts to help Guyana address its troubling suicide rate, the United States Embassy  hosted a suicide prevention workshop yesterday facilitated by two experts from the Florida Army National Guard, a release from the US Embassy said today.

Belvedere bus driver shot by intruder

At about 2100h. last night, the police say that mini-bus driver Takraj Boodram , 33 years, of Belvedere South Squatting Area, Corentyne, Berbice, was about to enter his premises when three men approached him and one of them, who was armed with a firearm, discharged a round that hit him to his left side shoulder.

Stock Market Update

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 658’s trading results showed consideration of $46,942,154 from 2,087,376 shares traded in 25 transactions as compared to session 657’s trading results, which showed consideration of $15,557,368 from 35,332 shares traded in 18 transactions.

Ring road

Ring road: Works in ‘E’ Field, Sophia have been completed as the Sophia Ring Road Project, which aims to link ‘A’ through ‘E’ fields, continues to progress, a release from the Ministry of Public Infrastruc-ture said yesterday.

Khawaja expects to be fall guy for Finch

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – In-form Australia batsman Usman Khawaja expects to be squeezed out of the top order in favour of former captain Aaron Finch when they kick off their World Twenty20 campaign against New Zealand next week.

Good Hope fire

Good Hope fire: The charred remains of the Good Hope, East Coast Demerara house that went up in flames early yesterday morning.

The Venezuelan opposition ups the ante

Against the backdrop of Venezuela’s worsening political and economic crisis, the country’s opposition coalition, the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD is the Spanish acronym), declared on Wednesday that it would pursue all constitutional mechanisms, accompanied by mass peaceful street demonstrations starting in Caracas this weekend, to force President Nicolás Maduro and the chavista United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) out of power.