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The heat is on in the Caribbean as 20 teams, including defending champions SV Robinhood, prepare to battle for regional glory in the revamped CFU Club Shield. The tournament starts on July 25 in Willemstad, Curaçao, and runs until August 4. Guyana Defence opens its campaign on July 26 against Grenades Football Club from 17:30h.
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The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) expressed its condolences to the family and friends of former youth cricketer Mark Anthony Rigby, who passed away earlier this month. Rigby, born in March 1961, represented Guyana in youth cricket during the 1970s. He was also a dedicated member of the Police Sports Club for many years. The GCB
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BRASILIA, July 22 (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday urged Venezuela’s government to respect the result of next Sunday’s presidential election, saying he was “scared” by incumbent president Nicolas Maduro’s threat of a bloodbath if he loses. The vote pits Maduro against opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez. “I have told Maduro
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Almost a month after he allegedly assaulted two Police officers, a 35-year-old taxi driver was on Friday read four charges and was granted bail amounting to $90,000, Jitendra Baljodah, a resident of Onderneeming Sand Pit, Essequibo Coast appeared before Magistrate Tamieka Clarke at the Suddie Magistrate’s Court. He was charged for assaulting a peace officer,
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In a devastating incident early Monday morning on the Kiltern Public Road in Corentyne, Berbice, an 18-year-old woman lost her life following a car crash involving her husband. Bibi Aleah Ali, identified as a medical technologist, was fatally injured when the vehicle driven by her 24-year-old husband, Niraz Sukdeo, collided with a parked crane and
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Viv Richards and Carl Hooper have strongly hit back at former West Indies team-mate Brian Lara for “gross misrepresentations” in his book – Lara: The England Chronicles. In a joint statement released on Sunday, both former West Indies captains have rejected Lara’s “claim” that Richards made Hooper “cry once a week”, describing it as “categorically
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They had kept at it throughout the morning and afternoon, despite the inhospitable conditions and the odds stacked against them. As England’s fourth-wicket pair pressed towards a double-century stand and the chances for their side apparently receded, spirits remained high. “Baby don’t worry, ’bout a thing, cause every little thing, gonna be all right…” Perhaps
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England surged to a series win by blowing away West Indies in a single session on the fourth day of the second Test at Trent Bridge. Set 385 to win or four sessions to save the game, West Indies disintegrated from 61-0 to 82-5 in a manic blur of five wickets in six overs. Chris
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Officers from the Customs Anti Narcotic Unit (CANU) arrested two men following the discovery of marijuana in two separate searches. The ranks conducted an operation in the Greater Georgetown area on Friday where they intercepted a motor car. A subsequent search of the motor car revealed a large Ziploc bag containing a quantity of cannabis.
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See below the full statement posted on President Biden’s Instagram page My Fellow Americans, Over the past three and a half years, we have made great progress as a Nation. Today, America has the strongest economy in the world. We’ve made historic investments in rebuilding our Nation, in lowering prescription drug costs for seniors, and
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