In a concerted effort to bridge the huge gap between youth and senior cricket, the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has undertaken to introduce Under-21 and Under-23 competitions in 2022. This will be realised once the Board can secure the requisite sponsorship and the weather is conducive at the times earmarked for the competitions, GCB President…
The embattled Permanent Secretary (PS) of the Amerindian Affairs Ministry, Sharon Hicks was on Friday released on $100,000 bail for allegedly obtaining money from a businessman. Hicks appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and pleaded not guilty to the charge. The charge alleged that on October 7, 2021, at 251-252…
A Guyanese family living in Canada had their Christmas holiday plans quashed after they were denied entry into Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) because they are vaccinated with a mixture of Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. A family member who prefers to remain anonymous told the News Room that in October, her mother, her sister, her…
… Narayan, Priyanna also advance to Men’s and Women’s Doubles finals SIBLINGS Narayan and Priyanna Ramdhani will face off in the Mixed Doubles final, while they will also contest the finals of the Men’s Doubles and the Women’s Doubles respectively, when the curtain comes down on the Trophy Stall Badminton Christmas tournament this evening at…
As the government inches closer to achieving its set target of providing 50,000 house lots at the end of its five-year term, the National Assembly on Thursday cleared the way for new housing schemes to be constructed with the approval of $2.7 billion in supplementary funds. Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal on Thursday…
The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs, Sharon Hicks, appeared in Court this morning where she faced a charge of being involved in a corrupt transaction. Hicks appeared before the Chief Magistrate. She was granted $100,000 bail and told to return to Court on the 20th January for the continuation of the case.…
KARACHI, Pakistan (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…
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – Cricket West Indies (CWI) president, Ricky Skerritt, said the board had been forced into “significant decisions” in the “tough times” created by the COVID-19 pandemic, and he believes the correct decision was made in postponing the One-Day International series against Pakistan. West Indies were scheduled to face Pakistan in three ODIs…
Dear Editor, SHOCKING and deserving of legal action is my response to the news that “Approximately 9,284 persons out of 11,098 (83 per cent), who gained eligibility for the COVID-19 Pandemic Assistance Voucher … did not receive anything”. This was the finding of the Office of Auditor General (AG). According to the report from the…
Dear Editor, I have been reading some very interesting letters in the dailies, postings on social media and on WhatsApp group chats about the need for Local Government Elections (LGE) and the arguments are very strong as to why there is no LGE this year. In fact, the opposition blames the PPP government for not…
