National swimmer Aleka Persaud has become the first local female swimmer to go below the one-minute mark in the 100-metre freestyle event. Persaud stopped the clock at 59.70 seconds during the ongoing FINA World Swimming Championships in the United Arab Emirates where she is competing alongside countrymen, Patrice Mahaica and Raekwon Noel. According to Persaud’s […]
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The recent promulgation of an Indigenous Peoples Economic and Trade Cooperation Arrangement (IPETCA), which New Zealand’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nanaia Mahuta says is intended as part of a journey “towards achieving greater economic empowerment for Indigenous Peoples” in the Asia-Pacific region is more than worthy of the attention here in Guyana where issues relating […]
GT Panthers recorded the largest margin of victory to date in the Guyana Football Federation (GFF)/Guyana National Women’s Football Association (GNWFA) Super-16 Women’s Festival, mauling Mahdia All-Stars 13-0 yesterday at the National Training Centre, Providence. The score-line eclipsed the previous 8-0 mark set by Fruta Conquerors on Wednesday, as the duo of Annalisa Vincent and […]
Grossly inadequate official monitoring of the importation of beauty care products believed to be harmful to users’ health continue to undermine what a source in the beauty care industry has told the Stabroek Business is the likely continued exposure of users to likely longer term ‘health issues’. Efforts to stem the inflow of these products […]
Former English test player, Roland Butcher, believes that there are several positive signs from the new dispensation of West Indies cricket. According to the Barbados-born 68-year-old, who appeared on the Mason and Guest radio programme earlier this week, West Indies management needs to identify their best talents and give them the chance over a period […]
Even as the global beauty care industry continues to thrive on chemicals-based products, a recently disclosed study undertaken by Rutgers University in the United States is pointing to the role which it says the use of some of those products play in likely impacting maternal health care. The Rutgers researchers are recommending that primary physicians […]
(CMC) – Nicholas Pooran’s career-best fifty pushed West Indies to a 200-plus total for only the third time in three years but Mohammed Rizwan and captain Babar Azam registered equally destructive half-centuries of their own, as Pakistan pulled off a record run chase to make a clean sweep of the three-match Twenty20 International series yesterday. […]
‘Visit Rupununi’ is a non-profit Regional Destination Marketing and Management Organization (RDMMO) comprising private, public and community-based entities in Region Nine. Established in 2015 with the support from Conservational International-Guyana (CI) in response to a recommendation made by the various stakeholders, its designated mission is to coordinate community-based nature tourism initiatives. Its key mandate is […]
Traditional giants, Back Circle, Leopold Street, and North East La Penitence, earned contrasting wins while newcomer Foot Steppers romped to an easy victory when the Guyana Football Federation (GFF)/Kashif and Shanghai Organization Futsal Championship continued yesterday. Staged at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Homestretch Avenue, Leopold Street bested Silver Bullets of Linden 4-3. The […]
National opening batsman Trevon Griffith capped an impressive stint in the US Open T20 2021, finishing as the tournament’s leading run-scorer. After five innings, Griffith, who turned out for runner-ups, US All-Stars, chalked up 233 runs including two half-centuries at an average of 77.67. His opening partner and West Indies veteran, Lendl Simmons, smashed the […]