Daily Archive: Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Articles published on Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Captain of the Hustlers  and tourney MVP Jermaine ‘Brown Boy’ Scotland (centre) collecting the championship trophy from New Era Co-Director Andrew Major in the presence of teammates and supporters while New Era Co-Director Shareef Major look on.

Hustlers crowned Futsal champs

Hustlers were crowned the New Era coordinated Cell Smart/Mohamed Enterprise Futsal Champions after dethroning defending champions Magic Stars 2-1 on penalty kicks in the grand finale yesterday.

Windies trio struggle but Thunder win

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – Reigning champions Sydney Thunder overcame Stafanie Taylor’s second straight failure to beat Melbourne Renegades by eight wickets on Boxing Day to go fourth in the Women’s Big Bash League standings.

Latham century helps New Zealand to 77-run victory

(Reuters) – Tom Latham and Colin Munro produced career high scores while Jimmy Neesham ripped the heart out of Bangladesh’s top order as New Zealand secured a 77-run victory in their first one-day international at Hagley Oval in Christchurch on Monday.

Dhananjaya De Silva … to captain Sri Lanka A on Caribbean tour.

De Silva hits defiant 43 to keep Sri Lanka in contention

PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa,  (Reuters) – Dhananjaya de Silva enhanced his rapidly-growing reputation with an unbeaten 43 as he kept South Africa’s strike bowlers at bay to see Sri Lanka to 181 for seven in their first innings at the end of the second day of the first test yesterday.

Taylor leads Thunder to victory

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – A season-best knock from Stafanie Taylor anchored Sydney Thunder to a comfortable, eight-wicket victory over struggling Melbourne Renegades in the Women’s Big Bash League yesterday.

A new American President

As a new year dawns, leaders and populations of most countries will be turning their eyes even more sharply towards the United States as a new president assumes office.

First published December 28, 1988

Power Barge to Boost Electricity Supplies To Be Installed by February, But Blackouts Will Continue By BERT WILKINSON A FULLY-RECONDITIONED 10-mega­watt power barge from the US is to be hooked-up to the Guyana Electricity Cor­poration system by the end of February, but blackouts will continue until new gen­eration facilities are built and until an IDB-funded rehabilitation of generating sta­tions is completed, it was announced here last weekend.

Missteps in the D’Urban Park Project

It is legally, morally and ethically wrong to deny payments to suppliers or contractors who, in good faith, have supplied goods and services or have satisfactorily executed works… In the final analysis, it is the taxpaying public that must come to the rescue of meeting the financial obligations of the Project which, with careful planning, and a highest possible degree of competitiveness, transparency and accountability, would have resulted in significant cost savings.