June 2025

Steven Smith suffered a compound dislocation of the little finger on his right hand when he spilled a catch at first slip on the third day of the World Test Championship final at Lord’s, leaving him a major doubt for the upcoming tour of the West Indies. Smith suffered the injury when he dropped a sharp chance offered
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Aiden Markram made a brilliant unbeaten century to put South Africa within tantalising distance of a historic victory over Australia in the World Test Championship final. Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood had shared a stand of 59 for Australia’s last wicket in the morning session of day three which appeared to give them the upper
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The 2025 CPL Playoffs and Finals are set to take place at the Guyana National Stadium in Providence from September 16-21. To ensure all fans have a fair opportunity to attend, tickets will be released in batches. Ticket Release Schedule Visa Pre-Sale: The first batch of tickets was exclusively released for Visa cardholders as part of
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(BBC) Bhoomi Chauhan remembers being angry and frustrated. Bumper-to-bumper traffic had delayed her car journey to Ahmedabad airport – so much so that she missed her Air India flight to London Gatwick by just 10 minutes. Ms Chauhan, a business administration student who lives in Bristol with her husband, had been visiting western India for
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(BBC) A doctor and his family have been named among the victims of the Air India plane crash. More than 240 people were killed on Thursday when a Boeing 787 bound for Gatwick crashed shortly after take off in Ahmedabad. Dr Prateek Joshi, a radiologist at Royal Derby Hospital, his wife and three children were
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Two marijuana farms at Yarrowkabra Backdam, Soesdyke/Linden Highway was destroyed by ranks of the Guyana Police Force on Friday. Police revealed that the narcotics destroyed on both farms had an estimated street value of $21, 083, 664. The ranks were led by a woman Deputy Superintendent during the exercise. The farms measured two acres and
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Even if talks resume with the Alliance for Change (AFC), Aubrey Norton will be the presidential candidate of a Coalition of APNU, which has the PNC as the main party. This is according to PNC Central Executive Committee member Ganesh Mahipaul, who was the lead speaker at a press conference Friday. “I am maintaining that
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A 25-year-old security guard was on Friday charged with the murder of 29-year-old Rondell Clarke, who was shot and killed on June 8. Messiah Mussenden of Buxton/Friendship, East Coast Demerara, was arraigned before Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court where he was read the murder charge, which states that he fatally shot Clarke,
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Dr. Karen Pilgrim is the new Chairperson of the Caribbean Regional Anti-Doping Organisation (RADO), becoming the first female Chair in the organisation’s history. Dr. Pilgrim, the current Member Country Representative for Guyana, was elected unopposed during the recent Annual General Meeting held in Barbados. The retired veterinarian and a former Vice-President of the Guyana Olympic
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A hard-fought 14-18 loss to Paraguay knocked Guyana out of the Under-23 3×3 tournament at the quarter-final stage in Asunción on Friday. The tournament served as the culmination of Guyana’s week-long 3×3 High Performance Training Programme in Paraguay, held in preparation for this year’s Junior Pan Am Games. Guyana’s squad featured US-based Anish Ramlall, alongside
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