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  • Sublime Barath brightens Windies' gloom at the Gabba

    … becomes seventh youngest Test batsman to post century on debut By Alex Brown at the Gabba SELDOM can positives be drawn from an innings defeat, particularly one sealed inside three days. Yet from the wreckage of West Indies' lamentable Brisbane camp...
  • Warner offers England hope after meeting Prime Minister Brown

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Caribbean football strongman Jack Warner has made an about-turn on England’s World Cup chances, Friday assuring British Prime Minister Gordon Brown his country had an excellent chance of hosting the spectacle. Warner,...
  • Windies crash to innings loss despite Barath’s debut century

    … Trinidadian player eclipses George Headley’s 79-year-old record BRISBANE, Australia (CMC) – Adrian Barath rewrote the record books becoming the youngest-ever West Indies player to score a Test century but the Caribbean side imploded spectacularly ...
  • GCA/BUSTA T20 Police arrest DCC, MSC stop TSC

    … Burnett takes hat-trick as Stoll walks off field HOST teams Police Sports Club (PSC) and Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) successfully defended their home turf when they recorded victories over Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) and Transport Sports Club (TSC) r...
  • Alpha, GDF clash in GFF Super League final tonight

    … Camptown, Milerock seek third place honours GEORGETOWN Football Association’s (GFA) Premier League champions Alpha `The Hammer’ United and the Guyana Defence Force football teams will collide tonight in the final of the Guyana Football Federation...
  • GCB 3-Day roundup Bishun and George put DCC in command; MSC take points

    … ‘Nagas’ takes another 5-wicket haul ANOTHER five-wicket haul by national Under-19 back-of-the-arm spinner Totaram Bishun, coupled with a resilient but pugnacious ton from Kevin George, helped place home team Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) in a comman...
  • Gayle: Windies must rebound

    IT was a 'disaster' in the eyes of Chris Gayle, but the West Indies captain has nonetheless called upon his team-mates to rally and remain positive after slumping to a demoralising loss to Australia inside three days of the opening Test at the Gabba. Th...
  • Ruthless Aussies rewarded

    AUSTRALIA captain Ricky Ponting has called upon his side to continue its ruthless pressure and aggression that was rewarded with an innings-and-65-run win over the West Indies on day three of the opening Test at the Gabba. There were a handful of moment...
  • Nanan says Benn is not Test quality spinner

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Former West Indies off-spinner Rangy Nanan believes left-arm spinner Sulieman Benn is out of his depth at Test level and says he unlikely to have much success there. The Trinidadian Nanan, who played a single Test again...
  • Rooney hat-trick helps Man Utd close gap

    By Mitch Phillips LONDON, England (Reuters) - Wayne Rooney scored a two-penalty hat-trick as Manchester United won 4-1 at Portsmouth yesterday to trim Chelsea’s Premier League lead to two points. Ryan Giggs also struck for the champions who now have 3...
  • Bond and Martin guide New Zealand to tense win

    A MATCH-winning performance from fast bowler Shane Bond propelled New Zealand to a tense 32-run win against Pakistan in the first Test in Dunedin. Playing in his first Test in more than two years, Bond took three for 46 on the final day at University Ov...
  • 4R Company sponsors Over-40s countrywide softball tourney

    4R COMPANY has pledged sponsorship to a countrywide softball tournament that will be organised by the Guyana Softball League in collaboration with the Floodlight Association and will feature male and female players 40 years and over. The male category w...
  • The Trials of Bangladesh

    By Gwynne Dyer If a Shakespeare should ever arise in Bangladesh, he would have plenty of tragedies around which to weave his history plays. The country is only 38 years old, but the vendettas between the leading families, the murders and plots and coups, ...
  • Perspectives

    The PNCR has a history of trying to gain political power through the back door and creating camouflages to conceal their weakened political status. The latest example of this chicanery is their usage of a dossier with the aid of some acolytes to support t...
  • 'DEMOCRACY' CHALLENGE--

    IN THEIR end-of-summit communique today, we should learn what decision, if any, was taken to advance the Commonwealth Secretariat's work agenda for the creation of an "electoral management" project designed to establish a network of independent bodies com...
  • For Maldives, climate deal is a survival issue

    By Pascal Fletcher PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - For Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed, the cold scientific numbers of the climate debate add up to the very survival of his tropical Indian Ocean state. If global temperatures rise just 2 degrees Celsius (3....
  • Construction Corner

    CONSEQUENT upon the Government’s thrust in the housing sector to improve and provide affordable housing to all, the Guyana Chronicle, with assistance from experts at the Ministry of Housing, is continuing to provide valuable tips for new home owners. ...
  • HIV/AIDS mail box

    The effects of Stress, Burnout on Orphans and Care givers Care givers may experience stress for a variety of reasons, which can gradually build up until a person can no longer cope. But whilst it is invariably, caregivers who tend to suffer stress or burn...
  • Amerindians must contribute…but positively…

    I was elated when I saw the caption “Excuse me; I have a view” in K/News of November 21, 2009. The caption was what stirred my interest to read on as I was expecting some new thoughts or concepts that can change our society. As I read along, I realise...
  • Commonwealth Summit set to end on high note of optimism

    THE 60TH Commonwealth Summit is set to end on a high note of optimism this evening for mobilising support at the forthcoming international conference on climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark. ...