For many cricket fans around the world, especially those in India, cricket will never be the same again as one of the game’s most legendary players, Sachin Tendulkar, has finally called it a day. Tendulkar played his last professional game on Saturday against the West Indies where he was given a grand send-off by his teammates and his fans alike. Watching Sachin Tendulkar play for the very last time wasn’t just a historical moment for the cricketing world but also an emotional one. He has brought the entire India together.…
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Int’l political will lacking in climate change fight
– Jagdeo tells Commonwealth heads Former President, Bharrat Jagdeo last week again warned global leaders of the serious threats of climate change as he presented a report on the phenomenon at the just- concluded Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma back in June this year had appointed Jagdeo to lead a high-level team of experts to identify solutions to enable small, poor and climate-vulnerable Commonwealth countries to fight climate change. Jagdeo has been joined by eight others to lobby the international community…
Read MoreGuyana blacklisted by CFATF
Guyana has been formally blacklisted by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) as a result of the non-passage of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill, Attorney General Anil Nandlall and Legal Affairs Minister has said. Nandlall is attending a critical meeting of CFATF taking place in Freeport, The Bahamas. Prior to his departure for the meeting, Nandlall had observed that in May during the Nicaragua meeting, the country had been granted a six-month extension to pass the bill. “Not in my wildest imagination did…
Read MoreGovt announces 2013 public servants salary increases
HEAD of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS), Dr. Roger Luncheon informed, on Wednesday said that public servants will benefit from salary increases for 2013. He said an announcement will be made soon, of the formal approval that was given the Public Service Ministry to go ahead with the payment. Speaking to the media at his usual post-Cabinet briefing in Office of the President, Shiv Chanderpaul Drive, Georgetown, Luncheon said Public Service Minister, Jennifer Westford reflected, last Tuesday, on the output of the engagements of her ministry. “And I think it would…
Read MoreRichmond Hill-South Ozone Park Lions Club celebrates first anniversary
Last Sunday (November 10, 2013), saw the members of the Richmond Hill-South Ozone Park Lions Club present a sparkling first anniversary celebratory function at the elegant Villa Russo Catering Hall on 101-12 Lefferts Blvd. in Richmond Hill. Billed as the club’s first year of service celebration, the event attracted over 150 enthusiastic members and supporters, including several senior Lions from other Districts and prominent residents of Richmond Hill/South Ozone Park. The Richmond Hill-South Ozone Park Lions Club (RHSOP) was chartered as the 78th Club of Lions District 20K-1 just about…
Read MoreOver 70 riders confirmed for “Ride for Life”
By Rajiv Bisnauth Over 70 local and overseas cyclists will compete in the seventh annual five-stage cycling event under the theme “Ride for Life”, an initiative of the Ministries of Sport and Health and the National AIDS Programme Secretariat. Chief organiser, Hassan Mohamed, in an exclusive interview on Tuesday, indicated that 72 cyclists from Guyana, along with two Columbians and a Barbadian have confirmed their participation in the gruelling 226 miles, four-day event. The three foreign riders, Columbians Jaime Ramirez, who is the defending champion, along with fellow countryman…
Read MoreU.S. bound: Four Guyanese athletes awarded scholarships
By Treiston Joseph Four of Guyana’s top track prospects: Stephan James, Jevina Straker, Alita Moore and Chavez Ageday have attained scholarships to attend and train at the ASA College in New York, U. S. A. The four athletes have received student visas for the scholarship that will last two years at the college. However, three of the athletes Straker, Ageday and James will be winging out this morning (Wednesday) at 06: 15 hours to start their scholarship, while Moore will have to travel hopefully in a week’s time. Moore’s…
Read MoreGoodluck ahead at GNRA national championship
A single V-bull separated defending champion Ransford Goodluck from his closest challenger national Vice-captain Dylan Fields after the first day of competition at the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) 2013-2014 national championship, which opened Sunday at the Timehri Rifle ranges. Goodluck shot two possibles at 300 and 500 yards and was declared winner of the prestigious Valladares Trophy, which was up for grabs for the top shooter at 500 yards in an intense battle in ‘X’ Class on a hot and bright day with subtle changing winds. The reigning champion…
Read MoreTrophy Stall, NY Better Hope are softball champs
– Trophy Stall Angels cop women’s exhibition contest By Avenash Ramzan Local side Trophy Stall and the visiting New York Better Hope softball team emerged champions of the Open and Masters categories respectively on Sunday evening when the curtains came down on the Guyana Softball Cup III at the world famous Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground, Bourda. In the Open 20/ 20 final, which was contested by two GT& T 10/ 10 champions, Trophy Stall romped to a commanding nine-wicket win over West Demerara side Wolf’s Warriors, while in…
Read MoreThe ‘New’ New Amsterdam Town Hall
In recent times the more than 140-year-old New Amsterdam Town Hall has seen some refurbishment and renovations in that have also included the removal of most of its historic tower which once rose some 75 feet over the main entrance. Constructed in the 1860s, the New Amsterdam Town Hall was an imposing Tudor timber building which once supported what has been described as a majestic tower capped by a single storey smaller tower encircled by a widow’s walk (also called “widow’s watch” which is a railed rooftop platform often with…
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