Daily Archive: Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Articles published on Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Logan van Beek’s blitzkrieg of 30 not out in the Super Over saw the Netherlands to a famous win over the West Indies after the
two sides had battled to a tie in the 50-overs-a-side affair.

Pooran hundred in vain as Nidamanuru, van Beek stun WI

HARARE, Zimbabwe, CMC – Teja Nidamanuru defied Nicholas Pooran’s hundred with a scintillating one of his own while Man-of-the-Match Logan van Beek produced a fearless all-round effort, as Netherlands stunned West Indies in a dramatic Super-Over to leave the Caribbean side’s World Cup hopes hanging by a string here yesterday.

Winner’s Row! (From left) Melitha Anderson, Romelton Siland, Seon Budhan along with Vanisha Munroe pose with their hardware with President of the bodybuilding federation, Keavon Bess and organizing Secretary of the body, Videsh Sookram. 

Budhan cops Mr. Berbice title

As expected Vanisha Munroe, Melitha Anderson and Seon Budhan took home the marquee trophies when the Intermediate Bodybuilding Championships concluded on Saturday night at the Berbice High School.

Hayley Matthews

Matthews hundred hands hosts opening win

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Captain Hayley Matthews carved out a fourth One-Day International hundred and then grabbed three wickets as West Indies Women repelled a spirited challenge from Ireland Women, to come away with a 58-run win here yesterday.

Guyana has one of the fastest growing economies but this is irrelevant to its people’s actual living experiences

Dear Editor, In a letter to the Editor in March this year (titled ‘Gov’t has scant interest in utilizing statistics in relation to living standards and quality of life of citizens’), I wrote: “The starkest indication of the government’s avoidance of creating and using statistics on people-centric development is its approach to poverty elimination.

Give the legal process time

Dear Editor, It seems, from all accounts, some sections of society are not happy that a decision on the way forward in the rape allegation matter has not been arrived at.   The perceived calling for the head on a platter of the alleged perpetrator is tantamount to justice denied and is not how justice is served in a democratized world. 

Local golfers preparing for Tobago Open 

Members of the Guyana Golf Association (GGA), the Westside Golf Club and Lusignan Golf Club are getting ready to take on the top players from around the Caribbean at the Tobago Plantations, Magdalena Grand Beach and Golf Resort in Tobago from July 14-16.

The open day at NA

Procurement commission hosts open day in NA

The Public Procurement Commission (PPC) on June 23, 2023, hosted a Public Open Day from 10am to 2pm at the New Amsterdam Recreational Park, Vryman’s Erven, New Amsterdam, Berbice, Region 6.  A release yesterday from the PPC said that his event was held as part of the commission’s ongoing public awareness campaign to apprise stakeholders of the rules and procedures of the public procurement system so that they may better navigate, comply and benefit therefrom.

Greater good

In quick succession, between June 8th and June 25th, the Government of Guyana released news, first, of the signing of a contract worth $688 million for the rebuilding of a new Christ Church Secondary School to replace the one destroyed by fire back in January, and just last week, the commissioning of a $585 million ‘state-of-the-art’ Abram Zuil Secondary School in Region Two.