Daily Archive: Sunday, December 27, 2015

Articles published on Sunday, December 27, 2015

Regent St vendor shot

Investigations are being conducted into an incident that occurred about 2000h last night at the Vendors Arcade, Regent Street, Georgetown, in which vendor Teron Hubbard, 29 years, of East Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was shot to his buttocks while closing his stall, the police say.

Christmas glue

Sometimes, epiphanies come in pairs. A few months ago, for example, after a lovely evening with visiting poet John Agard and his wife Grace Nichols (plus a few local pals) I had this epiphany where I realized how lucky I am in the number of enchanting friends I have living abroad (Henry Muttoo, Vic Fernandes, Vibert Cambridge, Clive Rosteing, Terry Ferreira) plus, and almost simultaneously, I had the second epiphany – that I owe the friendship of those people to the music I’ve created over the years.

Opener Kraigg Brathwaite (right) … one of the young West Indies players seen as a future Test star.

Advantage Oz!

MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – Hundreds by Usman Khawaja and Jose Burns condemned under-fire West Indies to another torrid day in the field, as Australia dominated the opening day of the Boxing Day Test here yesterday.

Emmanuel Nanthan

WICB approach differs to that of CA, CNZ

EMMANUEL NANTHAN just doesn’t get it. In an interview with experienced Guyanese cricket writer Sean Devers last week, the vice-president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) reminded us that ‘only the shareholders’ (the individual boards of Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, the Leeward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago and the Windward Islands) can dissolve the company WICB Inc.,

NA United punches way to semis

New Amsterdam United and Santos FC punched their tickets to the semi-final round in the 5th Annual GFA/Banks Beer Knockout Championship, overcoming the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and Rosignol United respectively on Friday.

The sometimes dark tolling of Christmas bells

Christmas Bells   I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play,        And wild and sweet        The words repeat    Of peace on earth, good-will to men!    And thought how, as the day had come,    The belfries of all Christendom        Had rolled along        The unbroken song    Of peace on earth, good-will to men!    Till ringing, singing on its way,    The world revolved from night to day,        A voice, a chime,        A chant sublime    Of peace on earth, good-will to men!    Then from each black, accursed mouth    The cannon thundered in the South,        And with the sound        The carols drowned    Of peace on earth, good-will to men!    It was as if an earthquake rent    The hearth-stones of a continent,        And made forlorn        The households born    Of peace on earth, good-will to men!    And in despair I bowed my head;    “There is no peace on earth,” I said;        “For hate is strong,        And mocks the song    Of peace on earth, good-will to men!”    Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:    “God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;        The Wrong shall fail,        The Right prevail,    With peace on earth, good-will to men.”

Bounty Killer

Bounty blasts Billboard

(Jamaica Observer) Never one to shy away from controversy, Bounty Killer has hit out against Billboard Magazine for naming British singer Joss Stone ‘Reggae Artiste of The Year’.

Warriors in Christmas Day victory over Cavs

(The Sports Xchange) – Highlights of Friday’s National Basketball Association games: – – – Warriors 89, Cavaliers 83 Stephen Curry converted a pair of driving hoops in the final 80 seconds, lifting the Golden State Warriors to an 89-83 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers in a Christmas Day rematch of the NBA Finals.

Martin Guptill

Run machine Guptill guides NZ past Sri Lanka

(Reuters) – Martin Guptill became the highest run scorer in one-day internationalcricket this year as he guided New Zealand to a comprehensive seven-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the first game of their five match series yesterday.