THE International Cricket Council (ICC) yesterday released the updated version of the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) System along with the new ICC Code of Conduct and ICC Playing Conditions. These will come into effect from today, when the first ODI between South Africa and Zimbabwe will be played in Kimberley. This is the third version but second
A 40-year-old resident of Melanie, East Coast Demerara (ECD) was crushed to death just after 04:00hrs on Saturday by a motor lorry on the Good Hope public road, also on ECD. The driver was subsequently arrested and is in Police custody assisting with the investigation. According to information received, Cyon Caunders was walking along the…
New York Post)- It’s goodbye, Staten Island, aloha, Hawaii, for this $245.6 million Powerball winner. “I’ve always wanted to go to Hawaii,” newly minted multimillionaire Nandlall Mangal said Thursday. But other than that, he has no plans. “I’m sure my life is gonna change a lot,” he told reporters. “It’s a lot of money,” Mangal said.…
ON Sunday, cyclists will turn out in their numbers for Continental Cycle Club’s (CCC) 40-lap race which promises lots of cash with $2 000 per ‘prime’. The race will be contested across the Veterans, Juniors and Senior categories respectively at the inner circuit of the National Park. The race is being organised by the Continental
By Devina Samaroo With significant pressure already on public and private entities to shape up to benefit from the lucrative petroleum sector, a regional firm stands ready to make local potential suppliers internationally certified to stand a better chance at winning contracts. Qual-Eco Limited, based in Trinidad and Tobago, aims to elevate businesses to the…
Four months after being set free for one set of drug trafficking charges, a Charlestown man was back in Court again today to face a new marijuana possession charge. 38-year-old, Colin Denny, appeared before the Chief Magistrate this morning and immediately entered a plea of not guilty to the charge of being in possession of…
…GRDB explains reasons for rejection of shipment ASSURANCE has been given by General Manager of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), Nizam Hassan, that there is no threat to the lucrative market for Guyana’s rice. This assurance comes amidst claims of local rice being rejected by Trinidad then being shipped to Panama. This resulted in
Police are investigating an accident which claimed the life of a 30-year-old cane harvester of Lot 1 A Cotton Tree West Coast Berbice (WCB). A statement from the police headquarters said Reagan Garrett was proceeding west along the southern side of the Number 6 public road, WCB on his motorcycle CJ 4494. He reportedly lost…
A Surinamese National who claimed that someone broke into his apartment and forged a National Insurance Scheme (NIS) disablement voucher, was today slapped with a $60,000 fine jailed for four months, after being found guilty of committing the crime. Magistrate Annette Singh handed down her judgment today even in the absence of the accused, 45-year-old,…
Dear Editor, THE National Congress of Women (NCW), the Women’s arm of the People’s National Congress Reform wishes to record its disgust at the upsurge of criminal sexual activities being perpetrated on our women and girls. The NCW is outraged at this latest act which occurred in Region 10, (Upper Demerara-Upper Berbice). Raping women, young
