Daily Archive: Sunday, August 20, 2017

Articles published on Sunday, August 20, 2017

A fire eater entertains the crowd at yesterday’s CPL encounter between the Amazon Warriors and the Trinbago Knightriders  at the National Stadium, Providence (Orlando Charles photo)

Knightriders crush Warriors by seven wickets

The Guyana Amazon Warriors’ horror run in this year’s edition of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) continued yesterday, as they crumbled to yet another defeat, this time falling by seven wickets to top of the table Trinbago Knightriders at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

Michael Bhopaul

QC boy scores 25 CSEC passes

Michael Bhopaul, 16, doesn’t know if he is this year’s best performer at    the Caribbean Secondary Examination Certificate (CSEC) Examinations, but with preliminary results showing that he has obtained passes in 25 subjects, he will be hard to top.

Camp St escapees believed to still be in the country

Seven weeks after they stormed out of the Camp Street Prison during a carefully planned escape, high profile prisoners Mark Royden Williams and Uree Varswyk are still on the loose and though little has been released about their possible whereabouts, law enforcement officials are adamant that they are still in Guyana.

Think about our own dilemma

It is sometimes the case, in this age of the extensive flooding of information on subjects of the day, that a particular item can be of such long standing and of frequent and vigorous treatment, that we lose sight of the original propulsion in the matter.

 Roderick Walcott

The forgotten Walcott

There is a substantial body of work by a writer who was one of St Lucia’s most outstanding dramatists and who was quite dominant among West Indian playwrights throughout the 1960s into the 1970s. 

Roses

(Continued from last week) There are five classes of roses: Hybrid Tea, Floribunda, Miniature, Climbers or Ramblers and Shrub roses.

Wins for Lazio, Strikers F C

Lazio secured their third win in the Bartica zone of the NAMILCO under-17 League, hammering Riverview 5-0, compliments of an Ariel Burnett hat-trick on Thursday at the Bartica Secondary School ground.

English Premier League scores

English premier league matches on Saturday: Stoke City 1 Arsenal 0 Bournemouth 0 Watford 2 Southampton 3 West Ham United 2 Burnley 0 West Bromwich Albion 1 Leicester City 2 Brighton and Hove Albion 0 Liverpool 1 Crystal Palace 0 Swansea City 0 Manchester United 4

New visitors

The ‘badlands’  of Guyana have long been some of the mining areas, particularly those close to the frontier and far from government centres of control.

White-chinned Woodcreeper (Dendrocincla merula) under the Iwokrama Canopy Walkway. (Photo by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)

White-chinned Woodcreeper

The white-chinned woodcreeper  (Dendrocincla merula) is a species of bird in the Dendrocolaptinae subfamily. It is found in  Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana,  Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and  Venezuela.

Police hammer Black Pearl 12 – 0

The Guyana Police Force (GPF), Northern Rangers and Riddim Squad, secured contrasting wins, when the Corona Invitational Football Championship coordinated by the Petra Organization, continued on Friday.

Lessons

Dear Editor, Your editorial yesterday, on the non-implementation of CoI recommendations among other accepted policies, brings to mind two of my ‘Rules for Living in the Rupununi’: 4.