Daily Archive: Saturday, April 23, 2016

Articles published on Saturday, April 23, 2016

Jonathan Fernandes played a mature hand to help rescue Essequibo. (Orlando Charles photo)

Chinkoo, Fernandes rescue Essequibo

A gutsy fifty from Looknauth Chinkoo helped Essequibo to a decent first innings score of 197 after the Demerara bowlers did some damage on day two of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Hand-In-Hand Under-19 Inter-County three-day Competition played yesterday at Bourda.

Road to Mecca III replay on today

Following weeks of deliberation the final of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) Road to Mecca Championship between Retrieve Raiders and Colts will be replayed today at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall from 21:30hrs.

Determined Yuvraj sets 2019 World Cup goal

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Once a limited-overs giant, Yuvraj Singh has been in and out of the Indian team in recent years but the all-rounder believes he still has enough cricket in him to look forward to the 2019 World Cup in England and Wales.

PPP meets Gecom on local gov’t concerns

A People’s Progressive Party (PPP) delegation met with the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) on Thursday on its concerns arising from the recently held local government elections, including the handling of ties in some local government authority areas.

China, U.S. pledge to ratify Paris climate deal this year

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – China and the United States, the world’s top producers of greenhouse gas emissions, pledged yesterday to formally adopt by the end of the year a Paris deal to slow global warming, raising the prospects of it being enforced much faster than anticipated.

Our elders

It is no secret that groups of elders in many societies are afflicted by a number of issues, such as health problems, financial woes and loneliness.

Mayor Patricia Chase-Green
at her inauguration

Political style update

Fashion has always offered consumers the ability to open conversation within the parameters of social, economic, cultural and political significance for those who want to truly unravel the semantics of clothes.