Daily Archive: Thursday, May 28, 2009

Articles published on Thursday, May 28, 2009

Dwayne Roberts

How will Charlestown/Albouystown adjust?

-team to square off with North Ruimveldt for place in final North Ruimveldt and Charlestown/ Albouystown will face off  tonight in the third and final game of their best-in-three semi finals of this year’s Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA), Hits and Jams Television (HJTV) and Lens Craft Inter-Ward basketball tournament at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Barcelona outclass United to win one-sided final

ROME, (Reuters) – Barcelona deposed Manchester United  as European champions with an outstanding 2-0 victory in the Champions League final at the Stadio Olimpico yesterday.    Striker Samuel Eto’o struck the opener after 10 minutes when he cut in from the right past Nemanja Vidic with surprising ease and his low shot beat United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar at his  near post. 

Sharapova and Murray stage great escape

PARIS, (Reuters) – Maria Sharapova flirted with  danger and Andy Murray suffered a mid-match meltdown before  their survival instincts kicked in to carry them into the third  round of the French Open yesterday.    The duo have never felt at home in the heartland of  claycourt tennis and after Murray was forced to change tactics  to tame Italian Potito Starace 6-3 2-6 7-5 6-4, Sharapova  maintained an aura of calm despite being five points from defeat  to subdue 11th-seeded fellow Russian Nadia Petrova 6-2 1-6 8-6.

LeBron could have triple-double season – ex-coach

BEIJING, (Reuters) – LeBron James is now such a  dominant force in the NBA that he has the potential to become  only the second player to average a triple-double over an  entire season, according to his former coach at the Cleveland  Cavaliers.    While James was starting his almost single-handed attempt  to drag the Cavaliers into the NBA Finals against the Orlando  Magic last week, Paul Silas was running drills with Chinese  teenagers in a Beijing gymnasium. 

General Manager of Guyana Beverage Company Robert Selman hands over the sponsorship cheque to president of the Enterprise Busta Sports Club Karran Ramdhoon while vice-president Jitlal Jowharilalol and Shameiza Yadram look on.

Second EBSC T20 launched

The second annual Enterprise Busta Sports Club (EBSC) 20/20 cricket festival was launched yesterday at a simple ceremony held in the boardroom of the Guyana Beverage Company (GBC), the distributors of Busta products locally.

De Jesus’ 95 not enough to stop Edinburgh

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) 2009 Tenelec Inc. first division 50-overs-a-side cricket competition continued last Sunday with five third round matches which saw newcomers Edinburgh continuing their good showing with another upset victory over Bermine despite Keon De Jesus’ 95.

Slight gain for Chanderpaul in world rankings

LONDON, England, CMC – West Indies batting star Shivnarine Chanderpaul made a slight gain to No.2 this week in the One-Day International (ODI) cricket ratings, trading places with his captain Chris Gayle.  In the latest Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings released yesterday, Mahendra Singh Dhoni retained the No.1 spot after the West Indies stars Gayle and Chanderpaul had tame outings in the NatWest series against England — that ended Tuesday – and failed to unseat the India captain.  Gayle went into the NatWest series trailing Dhoni by just 33 ratings points but after managing just 42 runs in the series, the Jamaican has dropped one place to third.  Chanderpaul, who is ranked fourth in the Test cricket batting ratings, climbed from third to second on the ODI list after scores of 27 and 68 in the Caribbean side’s 0-2 series loss to the English.  The only other West Indies player among the Top-20 batsmen is Ramnaresh Sarwan, who slipped three places to No.19.   Gayle is ninth-ranked on the all-rounders’ list that is headed by Shakib Al Hasan, of Bangladesh, over England’s Andrew Flintoff and India’s Yuvraj Singh.  Jerome Taylor, at 14th, and Daren Powell (No.20) are the only West Indians among the Top-20 bowlers, headed by Sri Lanka’s Nuwan Kulasekara.  South Africa remain No.1 in the team rankings, followed by Australia and India with New Zealand fourth and Pakistan fifth.

GWI collections were up 44% in 2007

-annual report The Guyana Water Incor-porated (GWI) was able to collect $2.25b from customers in 2007 – 44% more than in the previous year – but the utility still racked up a loss of $10M which was however a far cry from the $847M loss in 2006.

No fight

More gloom

To say that the future of the West Indies as a test-cricketing region is in a state of deep uncertainty would be to indulge in considerable understatement.

How MEN can make a difference

At a forum on Monday last to launch what will initially be a year of anti-violence activities targeting men, Dr Marlon Hestick, executive member of Men Empowering Network (MEN), gave a case study of a group of 14 teenagers who had broken into a mall and stolen items.

History this week

Slavery and indentureship in Guyana: a comparative perspectiveBy Winston McGowanDuring recent weeks this newspaper has published several articles and letters pertaining to a controversial issue in Guyanese history.