Daily Archive: Sunday, June 25, 2023

Articles published on Sunday, June 25, 2023

Put tender herbs and tomatoes at the top of the bag (Photo by Cynthia Nelson)

Market chronicles – packing the bag

Whilst on a trip to the market last week with a friend: Friend:  Why are you unpacking the bag to put in  the cassava and plantains?   Me:                        I was taught to put the heavy, sturdy                                 things at the bottom of the bag and the                                 tender, lighter things at the top.   Friend:  Oh ho… makes sense.

 Kapil Dev boosting the 1983 World Cup trophy on his 61st birthday, January 6th 2020 (Photo: @therealkapildev on Twitter)

India’s giant-killing act

By Roger Seymour In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour turns back the clock to 40 years ago today, 25th June, 1983, when India defied the odds to beat the West Indies in the World Cup Final.

The Zimbabwe players celebrate the fall of Shai Hope’s wicket. (Photo courtesy Twitter)

Sloppy Windies fall to energised hosts Zimbabwe

HARARE, Zimbabwe, CMC – Sloppy fielding and careless batting, along with their opponents sense of purpose epitomised by all-rounder Sikandar Raza combined to send West Indies crashing to a 35-run defeat against hosts Zimbabwe in the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier yesterday.

Surviving rape

This week I am sure has been a troubling one for most of us with the horrific allegations of rape against sitting Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall by a 16-year-old school girl.

University research

It was Trinidad Prime Minister Keith Rowley who told the University of the West Indies last week that it had fallen away from its mission in scientific research.

On fixing a time-bound opportunity horizon for the Americas newest Petrostate to flourish

Introduction My two previous columns had addressed taking stock of 1] the ruling resource price on offer to investors for Guyana’s oil exploration and development blocks [that is the Average Effective Tax Rate, AETR, or Government Take ratio, or share of net revenue flows yielded by the  ruling [Stabroek block, PSA] and 2] predictions of Guyana’s supply of recoverable petroleum resources expressed in barrels of oil equivalent, boe [which differs from mine at 28 to 30 million boe;], that is Exxon’s 11 plus billion boe; and the Government of Guyana’s, 24 billion boe].