The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) yesterday indicated that the senior franchise will now be named the Guyana Harpy Eagles. According to a press release from the Board, “some level of confusion with the Caribbean Premier League Franchise team, the Guyana Amazon Warriors,” was caused as the board had announced the new name, Guyana Amazon Jaguars […]
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The Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) enjoyed a fruitful 2021 with the female athletes taking most of the spotlight. According to GASA president, Dwayne Scott, “2021 was a very interesting year for GASA, it started out with two athletes at the South American games then we moved on to the Olympics where we had young […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Head coach Phil Simmons has lamented Shimron Hetmyer’s absence for the upcoming series against Ireland and England, saying the gifted left-hander had “let down himself and his teammates” due to his ongoing fitness lapses. The 25-year-old, a successful former Young West Indies captain, was the Caribbean side’s leading batsman at last […]
Brigadier Godfrey Bess was elected President of the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) when the entity staged its Elections and Annual General Meeting on December 30th at the Crown Mining Roof Garden on Dennis Street, Campbellville. Elected alongside Brigadier Bess to serve for four years are Vice-Presidents Enoch Gaskin and Mahendra Persaud, Honorary Secretary Ryan […]
A Badminton Sports Academy was launched yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall and Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Charles Ramson Jr. labeled the occasion as ‘historic’. The virtual Sports Academy which is the brainchild of the Sports Minister, will initially focus on the 12 core sports – cricket, football, athletics, basketball, table tennis, […]
The recent outburst of fretfulness by the World Bank over what it says is the problem of governments seeking to “unfairly determine the winners of government contracts, with awards favouring friends, relatives, or business associates of government officials” (and which is reported in this issue of the Stabroek Business), came shortly before a revelation emanating […]
(CMC) – Calvin Hope, the high-ranking Barbados Cricket Association official who last year mounted a failed bid for the vice-presidency of Cricket West Indies, has revisited the three-year-old axing of head coach Richard Pybus as part of his criticism of the Ricky Skerritt administration. The decision to fire Englishman Pybus, Hope told Starcom Radio’s Mason […]
If the ‘lighting up,’ the product display, and the various other attractions trotted out to ensure that this year’s Main Street Christmas Village offered a ‘lift’ of spirits from the emotional trough associated with the coronavirus pandemic, it appears to have worked. It did other things too. It made the point that almost two years […]
As it enters 2022, the Ricky Skerritt–led Cricket West Indies (CWI) should be seeking to have a much improved year from the annus horribilis that its 2021 can now only be best described as having been. Towards that end here are our top 15 suggestions for resolutions CWI should now be seeking to fulfill during […]
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