Shemar Britton won two Double titles when the Senior National Table Tennis Championships continued on Saturday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. Pairing with Johnathan Van Lange, the duo defeated seasoned campaigners Christopher Franklin and Godfrey Munroe 3-1. The young men surged to an 11-5, 5-11, 11-8, 11-9 victory. Britton and Van Lange had defeated…
The Guyana Harpy Eagles departed on Sunday morning for Trinidad and Tobago where they will open their campaign in the Cricket West Indies (CWI) Regional Four-Day championship. The Eagles will play Windward Volcanoes from February 9-12 at the Queen’s Park Oval. The senior national players are keen to get on to the field after a…
Led by the spinners’ seven wickets between them, India cruised to a six-wicket victory in the series opener that lasted just 71.5 overs on a pitch offering turn and variable pace. This was the first time since January 2019 that India’s spinners took more than five wickets in an ODI, but India will be equally…
Shabnim Ismail picked up four wickets as South Africa Women beat West Indies Women by six wickets in Johannesburg to seal the four-match ODI series 2-1 after the first game was washed out. South Africa have now won each of their last five ODI series, a streak that started with a 3-0 whitewash of New Zealand in…
President Irfaan Ali on Sunday expressed condolences to the family, government and people of India on the passing of the iconic singer, Lata Mangeshkar. “The world has lost an amazing voice in the passing of Lata Mangeshkar, the Nightingale of India,” President Ali posted on his official social media account. Mangeshkar, one of India’s most…
From 34 players, Alex Arjoon had the biggest handicap (-36) and though exhausted from a week of gruelling action, he still emerged champion when the Bounty Farm Limited Handicap tournament concluded Sunday at the Georgetown Club Courts. His final hurdle to the title was a young Michael Alphonso Jr. (-15) and the two had a…
Statement by the Indian High Commissioner to Guyana, Dr. K.J. Srinivasa, on the passing of iconic Indian singer, Lata Mangeshkar at the age of 92. The sad passing away of Kumari Lata Mangeshkar has left all Indians across the world, including the Indian diaspora and those who loved music, anguished beyond words. Lata Mangeshkar had…
The Cheddi Jagan International Airport on Sunday teamed up with the Soesdyke Neighborhood Democratic Council, the Prime Minister’s Community Liaison Office, Guyana Defence Force, Guyana Police Force and residents of the community to conduct a cleanup exercise, commencing from Timehri North to the Soesdyke junction. This exercise is in keeping with President Irfaan Ali’s vision…
An 89-year-old unvaccinated woman is Guyana’s latest COVID-19 death. The Ministry of Health reported that the woman from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) died on Sunday, February 6. This means that 11 persons have died in February thus far, while overall a total of 1,181 have died since March 2020. Meanwhile, a total of 196 new COVID…
MINISTER of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, on Friday, disclosed that the government has recently procured a ‘Gene sequencing machine’, to test for the malaria parasite, which he anticipates could be used to test for variants of the coronavirus by the end of 2022. According to the Health Minister, the machine will be put into operation…
