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Cricket enthusiasts across Guyana can mark their calendars as registration for the highly anticipated 2025 Kares One Guyana T10 Tapeball Blast officially begins on Wednesday, May 14. Organised by FL Sport, this year’s tournament promises unprecedented reach and excitement. It will expand to include matches in all counties and culminate in a grand finale at
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Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti will leave the Spanish club at the end of the season to become the new national team coach of Brazil. The 65-year-old Italian will officially take charge of Brazil on 26 May following the conclusion of the La Liga season. He leaves the Santiago Bernabeu as one of the club’s
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At the 39th Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Association of Caribbean Commissioners of Police (ACCP), outgoing President and Police Commissioner of Antigua and Barbuda, Atlee Rodney, called for greater attention and support for the mental health of Police Officers. This meeting is being held this week in Guyana. At the opening ceremony, Rodney
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In compliance with new statutory requirements that were introduced in  December 2022, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has posted, on its website, the revised manuals for General and Regional Elections titled (i) Official Manual for Returning Officers, Supernumerary  Returning Officers and Other Election Officials, and (ii) Official Manual for Presiding Officers and Other Polling  Day
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Cricket West Indies (CWI) has taken a significant step in streamlining its talent identification pathways, with Director of Cricket Miles Bascombe convening a three-day workshop for territorial talent identifiers in Trinidad. Held from May 8-10 during the West Indies Breakout League, the initiative aimed to foster closer alignment between regional scouting efforts and the strategic
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Guyana’s horse racing is set for an unprecedented boost with the announcement of a record-breaking GYD $20 million (approximately USD $100,000) purse for the feature race at the 17th running of the Guyana Cup set for August 17 at the Rising Sun Turf Club. The move follows the long-awaited passage of new Horse Racing Legislation,
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The Guyana senior women’s cricket team etched their name into the history books on Sunday night, claiming their maiden Windies Cricket T20 Blaze title with a dramatic Super Over victory over defending champions Jamaica at the Arnos Vale Playing Field. Led by a captain’s knock from Shemaine Campbelle and a nerve-wracking final over from leg-spinner
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Virat Kohli has announced his retirement from Test cricket, ending a career that spanned 14 years and included 123 Tests—68 of them as captain—in which he scored 9230 runs at an average of 46.85. “It’s been 14 years since I first wore the baggy blue in Test cricket. Honestly, I never imagined the journey this
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Last Saturday, during a series of meetings with hundreds of residents and farmers from several villages along the Corentyne Coast, Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha said that the Ministry of Agriculture’s National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) is scheduled to commence a number of critical drainage works intended to bring relief to flood prone areas. The
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As the Demerara Cricket Board’s highly anticipated Independence T10 Cup draws closer, Naven’s Construction has embraced the fund-raising initiative, pumping the biggest sponsorship to date to the May 25 event. Exactly two weeks prior to the exciting championship at the LBI Ground, Naven’s Construction has committed G$440,000 to the tournament, which is geared to generate
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