August 2017 – Guyana Times International

Warriors end home matches with dominant 7-wicket victory over Stars

August 25, 2017 TIMES INT'L

By Akeem Greene The Guyana Amazon Warriors ended their home matches with a dominant seven-wicket victory over a miss-firing St Lucia Stars in Match 21 of the 2017 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) on Tuesday evening at the National Stadium, Providence, East Bank Demerara. Warriors late run at the play-offs continued to be well intact as they made light work in pursuit of 101, reaching it in 14.4 overs. For the Stars, their lights continued to get darker as they sank to their seventh loss in eight matches. The thumping…

Nedd confident of retaining Title

August 25, 2017 TIMES INT'L

The National Under-18 Male Volleyball team participating in the Inter-Guiana Games in Suriname should return home still champions. Head Coach of the team, Levi Nedd expressed confidence in his players who he believes have what it takes to hold off any challenge. “I have talked to them about what is expected of them and I have full confidence in them, they are not doing too badly, last weekend we had a warm up match against a first division team and we didn’t do badly,” Nedd told Guyana Times International. The…

CPL 2017: Warriors Captain Guptill replaced by fellow ‘New Zealander’ Ronchi

August 25, 2017 TIMES INT'L

The Guyana Amazon Warriors have replaced their Captain and opening batsman, Martin Guptill with fellow ‘New Zealander,’ wicket-keeper/ batsman, Luke Ronchi for the remainder of the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) tournament. According to Warriors Media/ Marketing Officer and Assistant Operations Manager John Ramsingh, unfortunately, Guptill has to return to New Zealand because of an important family health matter and as such the Guyana Amazon Warriors team will be without their appointed Captain for the rest of the 2017 Hero CPL. Ronchi has just completed his stint in the Natwest…

Eastville top Flamingo, GFC and Western Tigers draw

August 25, 2017 TIMES INT'L

By Michelangelo Jacobus When action in the Corona Beer Invitational Football Tournament continued on Monday evening at the Georgetown Football Club ground, Eastville FC scored two late goals to beat Flamingo 3-1. In a fairly one sided game, Eastville were clearly the superior team throughout the match and opened the scoring after only four minutes in the first half with Michael Charles goal. Flamingo would equalize 23 minutes later through Carl Sanmelo who poked home a rebound after the Eastville custodian fumbled the ball in the box. As they teams…

It’s Alive! Warriors ‘back on the road’ with playoff qualification in sight

August 25, 2017August 25, 2017 TIMES INT'L

After four home games that were chockfull of excitement and thrills on and off the field, the Guyana Amazon Warriors will soon depart to continue their 2017 Hero Caribbean Premier League quest for ultimate glory – deserving capture of the CPL 2017 Championship Trophy. With two key round-robin matches remaining, the Warriors will hopefully subdue the Barbados Tridents on Tuesday before disappointing the Jamaica Tallawahs on Friday, September 1, and thus qualify for the playoffs. Incredibly, for the first time in CPL history, the Guyana Amazon Warriors have found themselves…

Mararunau – keeping their Indigenous language alive

August 25, 2017 TIMES INT'L

Mararunau is a small indigenous village located deep-south of the Rupununi in Region Nine. It has a population of over 800 persons, all of whom are Wapishanas. It is surrounded by the majestic Kanuku Mountains, which create a mesmerizing view for your eyes, no matter how many times you have seen it. It would take you approximately nine hours to reach the village from Georgetown. This includes almost one and a half hours flying from the Eugene F. Correia International Airport to Lethem, and the remaining hours travelling overland. It…

Not all equal…

August 25, 2017 TIMES INT'L

…academically Your Eyewitness feels this Lall fella – who keeps pumping out those letters with their convoluted prose – was quite mean-spirited with his backhanded “compliment” to the kid who passed 25 subjects at CSEC!! He at least had the grace to admit his “congratulation” sounded “lame”. So why offer it in the first place? Well, now that Roopnaraine’s banished, Lall’s the flag-bearer of the brigade that insists that kids should be limited in how many CSEC subjects they can write. Lall dubs the ever-increasing number of subjects written an…

Alleged rapist remanded for escaping police custody

August 25, 2017 TIMES INT'L

Police contend that Cleveland King, charged with allegedly engaging in sexual activity with a minor (child), was on August 17, 2017 under lawful custody at Kuru Kururu on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway when he escaped from the police outpost. At King’s arraignment before City Magistrate Judy Latchman on Monday, Police Prosecutor Shawn Gonsalves contended that the 24-year-old excavator operator of the Kuru Kururu, EBD community simply walked out of the police outpost on the day in question. He also strenuously objected to King being placed on bail because of the serious…

Amazon Warriors take on role of ‘Big Brother’

August 25, 2017 TIMES INT'L

…mentor students at Diamond Special Needs School By Ashraf Dabie Just hours after the Guyana Amazon Warriors swept their way to the first home victory in this year’s CPL tournament, the local team on Monday morning took on the role of ‘Big Brothers’ to a batch of students attached to the Diamond Special Needs School. A group of young sport fanatics currently enrolled at the Diamond Special Needs School were afforded the opportunity of their lifetime as they met with, and were mentored by, players of the Guyana Amazon Warriors…

British envoy urges appointment of GECOM Chair

August 25, 2017 TIMES INT'L

…before preparations commence for Local Gov’t Elections With GECOM to begin preparing next year to hold Local Government Elections in 2019, British High Commissioner Gregory Quinn is calling on the authorities to appoint a Chairman for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) as soon as possible. The British diplomat told reporters last Thursday that the appointment of a GECOM chairman should be fast tracked. “I think next year, 2018, is gonna be fairly a crunch year to make sure all the preparations for 2019 are in place… The sooner we get…