Daily Archive: Sunday, March 3, 2019

Articles published on Sunday, March 3, 2019

Shameik Moore (left) and Jake Johnson hit the red carpet

Voice of Spider-Man Miles Morales is Jamaican-American actor and rapper

(Jamaica Observer) Guess what! Twenty-three-year-old American actor and rapper Shameik Moore, more popularly recognised for his role as Curtis “Shaolin Fantastic” in the Netflix hit The Get Down and who was christened recently at the 91st Annual Academy Awards for his voice-over role as Miles Morales in the critically-acclaimed and multiple award-winning film Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse has deep Jamaican roots and could eat his mother’s oxtail 24 hours a day.

Dave Richardson

ICC assures members of robust security at World Cup

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – The International Cricket Council has assured its members of a tight security plan for this year’s World Cup in England after the Indian cricket board sought guarantees from the governing body following a suicide-bomb attack in Kashmir last month.

Fast bowler Oshane Thomas celebrates another wicket during his demolition of England in yesterday’s fifth ODI.

Series shared as…

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Man-of-the-Series Chris Gayle plundered the fastest One-Day International fifty by a West Indian after Man-of-the-Match speedster Oshane Thomas’s had demolished England for a record low, as West Indies pulled off an emphatic seven-wicket victory in the final ODI here yesterday to level the five-match series 2-2.

The winning Demerara under - 15 team pose for a photo with the tournament’s sponsor and GCB officials (Royston Alkins photo)

Demerara dethrone Berbice to take U15 one-day title 

A match-winning spell from 11- year-old leg-spinner Riyad Latif spun Demerara past defending champions Berbice in the final of this year’s Guyana Cricket Board Dave West Indian Imports Under-15 Inter-County one day competition at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC), Bourda, yesterday. 

A standout lady

It’s easy to get dillusioned or even cynical about mankind in a time of Trump, or of some wayward soul in the interior with a high-powered rifle, and not much else, shooting a beautiful jaguar, or of a man in Georgetown leaving his dog chained up in the hot sun all day long. 

Seaton Floris

Still playing the “Beautiful Game” at 70 years

He is arguably the oldest footballer still playing the ‘Beautiful Game’, here, in Guyana and at age 70 , Seaton Floris can been seen in action on any Sunday morning at the GNS sports ground on Carifesta Avenue  where the Pele Masters and Rastafari Patriarchs have their regular sessions among other players of the Masters football fraternity.

Chandrapaul Hemraj drives down the ground during his half century (Orlando Charles photo)

Jaguars beat Pride by seven wickets with day to spare

Set a small target of 114 to win, Chandrapaul Hemraj stroked his seventh first-class half century to see Guyana Jaguars defeat Barbados Pride by seven wickets before tea on the third day of the Cricket West Indies four-day championships at the National Stadium, Providence yesterday.

Powell, Berridge help Hurricanes whip Scorpions

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Captain Kieran Powell finally tasted form with a half-century but it was seamer Sheno Berridge’s four-wicket burst which earned Leeward Islands Hurricanes a convincing 134-run win over Jamaica Scorpions inside three days here yesterday.

Red Force eye victory after patient Ramdin half-century

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Captain Denesh Ramdin’s unbeaten half-century helped Trinidad and Tobago Red Force take a stranglehold on their ninth round match against Windward Islands Volcanoes, and install themselves as firm favourites to win the contest on today’s final day.

The challenge of developing health tourism

Health tourism is an enormous and highly competitive global business. Reliable estimates indicate that by 2021 the worldwide health tourism market will reach somewhere between US$46.6 billion and US$125 billion per annum and is experiencing a compound annual growth rate of somewhere between 13% and 19%.

A male Northern Slaty Antshrike (Thamnophilus punctatus) in Timehri (Photo by Kester Clarke www.kesterclarke.net)

Northern Slaty Antshrike

The male Northern Slaty Antshrike (Thamnophilus punctatus) is distributed across much of the Guiana Shield, as well as more locally in the foothills of the east Andes, from southwest Venezuela to eastern Colombia, and thereafter reappearing in southern Ecuador and northernmost Peru.