Category: Sports

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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The Guyana Under-15 National football team went down 3-1 to Suriname when the CONCACAF Under-15 Championship continued on Tuesday at the IMG Academy in Florida, USA. Despite scoring first Guyana was forced to constantly fight off the lurking Suriname strikers who inevitably found the nets on three occasions. The Young Golden Jaguars went ahead in the Group F match following a volley from Orville Daniels in the 18th minute. The Surinamese response was swift as just two minutes later, Fernando Heopel equalized after taking advantage of poor defending. Suriname took…

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Assistant Commissioner Clifton Hicken in collaboration with ranks of ‘A’ and ‘C’ Divisions Community Relations Offices on Wednesday enabled children from communities within the Divisions to have an opportunity of a lifetime to interface with members of the Guyana Amazon Warriors Cricket Team. The event was held at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary, Youths between the age of 6-15 years were given the opportunity to meet and greet with members of the famous Amazon Warriors who are scheduled to perform in Guyana today (Thursday) at the National Stadium.…

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…Jamaica Tallawahs 149-6 (Sangakkara 47, Narine 2-21) beat Trinbago Knight Riders 147-10 (Munro 41, Williams 3-21) by four wickets and with four balls to spare A brilliant bowling recovery from the Jamaica Tallawahs that instigated a dramatic batting collapse from the Trinbago Knight Riders was the key to the Tallawahs recording a four-wicket victory in Match 7 of the 2017 Hero Caribbean Premier League. After the Knight Riders had been sent into bat by the Tallawahs a sensational opening half of the innings saw them race to 109 for 2…

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By Delvon McEwan Local tennis ace Nicola Ramdyhan departed Guyana on Wednesday to take up scholarship in the USA where she would seek to develop tennis skill and to pursue a degree in Accounting at Clark Atlanta University in Georgia. The former St. Joseph’s and Bishop’s High School student acquired the scholarship through renowned tennis coach Bill Adams who first spotted her during the Trinidad and Tobago International Tennis Federation (ITF) world ranking tournament in 2015. Earlier this year, in an interview with Guyana Times International Sport, Adams noted he…

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Barbados turned out not to be gracious guest after whipping host Guyana 5-1 when Group D action of the CONCACAF Female U-17 Qualifiers commenced at the National Track and Field Centre in Lenora on Wednesday. The visitors took advantage of shaky defending, which allowed in one own goals, and an out of sync midfield to collect three valid points. The more physical Barbados side outran and outplayed Guyana from the beginning as the inexperienced locals, most of whom were in their first major tournament, crumbled under the floodlights. Guyana would…

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