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Hetmyer, Gurbaz, Motie, Tahir fire Amazon Warriors to 40-run win over Patriots in high-scoring war Sep 05, 2024 Sports Shimron Hetmyer dealt exclusively in sixes last night. (CPLT20) 2024 Caribbean Premier League… GAW vs. STKNP – Warriors quietly extending unbeaten run Kaieteur Sports – Marauding fifties from Shimron Hetmyer and Rahmanullah Gurbaz, coupled with 6 wickets between spinners Gudakesh Motie and Imran Tahir, piloted defending champs Guyana Amazon Warriors, to an emphatic 40-run victory over St. Kitts & Nevis Patriots during last night’s high-scoring, boundary-filled war at Warner Park. It was an explosive innings from the Warriors, who racked up their highest total to date and the highest in this year’s competition, a daunting 266-7 in 20 overs; the second largest total in the tournament’s decade long history. Afghanistan and Warriors opener Gurbaz set the tone for Guyana, smashing his way to a 37-ball 69 with six sixes and four fours, adding to the record 22 sixes hit by the champs alone, the most by any, setting a new record in CPL. Useful knocks from his makeshift opening partner Kevin Sinclair, who hit four fours in his 17 and Shai Hope (12) helped keep things flowing. While all-rounders Raymon Reifer (15) with two sixes and Pretorius (13*) never took their foot off the gas up until the final ball was delivered. The innings however belonged to Hetmyer, who dealt strictly in sixes, hammering 11 in total as he narrowly missed out on what would have been one of the more entertaining hundreds in CPL history. The Guyanese raced to 91 off a mere 39 balls, sharing a 19-ball partnership off 44 with all-rounder Keemo Paul, further reinforcing his 3rd wicket stand of 116 off 47 balls with Gurbaz. Gudakesh Motie led his team’s effort with the ball last night. (CPLT20) Paul, striking the ball at 271.42, smacked a quick 38 off 14 balls (4×3 3×6), as the two former West Indies Under-19 World Cup winning teammates, helped propel their franchise into an almost certain winning position. The Patriots, who had a brilliant approach to the chase, managed to scare the Warriors briefly as they finished bravely on 226 all out in 18 overs. Ageless Warriors captain, leg-spinner Imran Tahir pulled things back for his team with 3-48, getting the job done along with young left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie (3-34) and South African fast-bowler Dwaine Pretorius (2-46); who also reached 200 T20 career wickets. Patriots Captain and unsung hero, Andre Fletcher led with a scorching 81 from 33, reaching his fifty off 18 balls to secure his fastest time to the landmark. Reinforcement came from Kyle Mayers who slapped 3 sixes in his 28, while sharing a partnership of 69 alongside his captain; before Guyanese Sherfane Rutherford dished out some punishment to his countrymen. The left-hander hit a 12-ball 34 with two fours and three maximums adding 65 with opener Fletcher, who batted with majority of his teammates. Patriots had an amazing start to the chase, bringing up their 150 in 10 overs, prior to Tahir’s double-wicket maiden. Coupled with Motie’s removal of Fletcher in the 13th over; things were set back tremendously for the home team, as their tailenders resisted before Motie and Pretorius finished the job. (C. Ross) Related Similar Articles

Beggars, Begging, and the Beggaring of Guyana Sep 05, 2024 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Kaieteur News – Dem boys seh beggars multiplying like rabbits in this country. Yuh cyah walk down de road without somebady stretching out a hand. But here’s the kicker—dem beggars might just be showing us a sneak peek into our future. Yuh see, we tink we sitting on a goldmine with all this oil business, but lemme tell yuh, if we don’t fix that oil contract, we might all be beggars too. De government running fast, putting up buildings, bridges and paving roads fuh de oilmen. Butt who gon pay fuh all de damage? Dem fellas drilling here, digging there, and what we getting outta all this? A couple dollars that can’t even fix de damage fuh servicing dee oil industry. Dem boys seh we heading down a slippery slope, borrowing money like it growing on trees, just to patch up de mess we making. We paving roads today, and by tomorrow we begging China, IDB and anybody who listening fuh loans to fix what we broke. Dem oil dollars ain’t enough to cover de bill, and soon we gon find weself in a deep hole, begging just like dem on de street corner. But yuh know how it go—who ain’t hear gon feel. Right now, dem leaders turning a blind eye, smiling like all is well, while we digging we own grave. When de oil done and de bills come due, dem same beggars we see today gon be looking like de lucky ones. Dem boys seh, we better wake up before we all end up on de street, hat in hand, begging fuh a lil change. Or worse yet, begging fuh forgiveness from de generations who gotta deal with de mess we leave behind. Talk half. Leff half Related Similar Articles

P&P Insurance reaffirms sponsorship for GCF Cycling Classic 2024 Sep 05, 2024 Sports P&P Insurance, Director Vikash Panday (left) hands over sponsorship to GCF VP Linden Dowridge during last week’s sponsorship presentation. Kaieteur Sports – P & P Insurance Brokers’ has officially reaffirmed its commitment to sponsor the country’s most anticipated cycling event, the Cycling Classic 2024, scheduled tentatively for September 14 at the Inner Circuit of the National Park. This premier event marks a significant return to the National Park Circuit after a five-year hiatus, with some of the nation’s top cyclists proudly carrying the P & P Insurance banner. The sponsorship continues P & P Insurance’s legacy of significant contributions to the local sporting landscape, further cementing its role as a key supporter of athletic development in Guyana. The brief handover ceremony, held last week at the company’s Lamaha Street headquarters, was attended by prominent figures from both the insurance company and the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF). Among the attendees were; GCF Vice President in charge of the Racing Committee, Linden Dowridge, and P & P Insurance Director, Vikash Panday. During the ceremony, Panday expressed his excitement about the company’s continued support for an event that not only promotes health and fitness but also serves as a platform for showcasing the country’s top cycling talent. “We are thrilled to support an event that embodies the spirit of competition, health, and national pride. This year’s Cycling Classic is set to be bigger and better, and we are proud to be a part of it,” Panday stated. The sponsorship is expected to elevate the Cycling Classic’s profile, attracting more participants and spectators than ever before. Organisers are confident that with P & P Insurance’s backing, this year’s meet will set a new benchmark in terms of competition and organization. Cycling enthusiasts and the general public alike are eagerly anticipating what is set to the historic return of the Cycling Classic event. Related Similar Articles

BIG MAN CRICKET- GY O50s cricket continues this weekend with 3 more matches Sep 05, 2024 Sports – Sponsored by Permaul Trading and Peter Lewis Construction and Asphalt Services Kaieteur Sports – BMC-GY cricket continues this weekend with 3 more matches across Guyana- Berbice, Demerara & Essequibo. On Saturday, the #2 & 3 teams, East Coast Aash Décor and North Soesdyke clash at the Enmore Cricket Club ground to improve their standings. On Sunday, there will be a bottom of the table clash between the 2 Berbice teams at the Jai Hind ground between Jai Hind Jaguars and Ex Berbice Police Masters. Both teams will be looking to get off the mark and win all their remaining matches for a chance in the semifinals. Table toppers Everest Masters take on the Essequibo Invaders who are now placed in the #4 spot at the Parika/Salem ground.  All matches commence at 12 noon. The points standing after last weekend matches. Related Similar Articles

Essequibo under 13 stars benefit from Project “Cricket Gear for young and promising cricketers in Guyana” Sep 05, 2024 Sports Anil Beharry (C) with Ravid and Usain Fredericks. Kaieteur Sports – Opener Ravid Fredericks and allrounder Usain Fredericks, two unrelated outstanding young under13 batsmen from the Cinderella County of Essequibo, were the latest to benefit from this joint initiative between Kishan Das of the USA and Anil Beharry of Guyana. Project partner Beharry was fortunate to witness their innings in the final match of the Guyana Cricket Board Inter County under13 tournament played at LBI facility where both batsmen scored a half century each to lead their team to victory and championship honors. Their innings was full of maturity beyond their age. Usain is from Moruca, Region 1 and attends Waramuri Primary School, while Ravid is from Pomona and attends Abram Zuil Secondary School. They received cash incentives to assist in purchasing cricket gear they need. At a simple presentation just after the game, the young stars thanked this project for the token and promised to continue working hard on their game. This initiative is happy to be part of their development and will continue to assist young people and develop cricket. Total cricket related items received/purchased so far: $460,000 in cash, thirteen colored cricket uniforms, one set of stumps and bails, two trophies, twenty seven pairs of cricket shoes, thirty three pairs of batting pads, thirty five cricket bats, one floppy hat, thirty two pairs of batting gloves, twenty five thigh pads, three pairs of wicket keeping pads, six arm guards, two chest pads, two boxes, twelve cricket bags, six bat rubbers, six helmets, one fiber glass bat, thirteen boxes of white cricket balls, three boxes of red balls and twenty eight footballs. In addition to the above, gear worth more than $600,000 was donated by Sheik Mohamed, former National wicket keeper/batsman. All cash collected is being used to purchase cricket gear requested and not available at the time. To date, eighty six young players, male and female, from all three counties of Guyana have benefited directly from cash, seven gear bags, two trophies, four arm guards, thirty three bats, three boxes, six helmets, thirty one pairs of cricket shoes, twenty pairs of batting pads, twenty four thigh pads, one bat grip, thirty four pairs of batting gloves, one pair of wicketkeeping pads and three pairs of wicketkeeping gloves. Many others benefited indirectly. In addition, two clubs in the Pomeroon area benefited from two used bats. Pomeroon, Leguan and Wakenam Cricket Committees and Cotton Tree Die Hard also received one box of red cricket balls each, Cold Fusion Cricket Club thirteen color uniforms while RHCCCC received six boxes of balls, fifteen white cricket shirts, one pair of junior batting pads, one pair of wicket keeping gloves, two sets of stumps and bails. Other beneficiaries are The Essequibo Cricket Board, the Town of Lethem, youth coach Travis Persaud (one box of red cricket balls), male and female teams playing the traditional hardball and softball in the Upper Corentyne area, No.65 Young Titans with 30 T-Shirts, youths of Just Try Cricket Club, Wakenaam Cricket Academy (one box of white balls), Shamar Joseph, Nehemiah Hohenkirk, Shamar Apple, Leguan Cricket Committee, Tucber Park Cricket Club and Malteenoes Sports Club (nine cricket balls each). Cricket related items, used or new, are distributed free of cost to young and promising cricketers in Guyana. Skills, discipline and education are important characteristics of the recipients. Talent spotting is being done across the country and club leaders also assist to identify same. Progressive and well managed cricket clubs with a youth programme will also benefit. Anyone interested to contribute can contact Anil Beharry on 623 6875 or Kishan Das on 1 718 664 0896. Related Similar Articles

Death brings out the startling Sep 05, 2024 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Kaieteur News – The Latins gave us the immortal de mortuis nil nisi bonum (of the dead nothing but good is to be said).  I completely agree.  Why tarnish those who have moved on, even when they may have left less than the best in their wake.  In the instance of Guyana’s most recently departed attorney general and minister of justice,, it will be extremely difficult, a test for me. GHK Lall I congratulate President Ali for his extraordinarily effusive tribute to a Guyanese now no more.  I also congratulate the Hon Attorney General, Mr. Anil Nandlall, for his ringing eulogy of the fallen.  According to both Dr. Ali and Mr. Nandlall, he was an illustrious son of this terrible soil that sows such grand substances into the DNA of its children, living and dead.  Before proceeding, I would be the poorest example of inconsistency, maybe even stifled honesty, if I did not extend a hand of recognition to PPP General Secretary and former head of state, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo for wisely and majestically holding his peace in this instance of cascading and coruscating applause for the departed one.  Sometimes, the most scintillating eloquence is silence, and I believe that Mr. Jagdeo outdid himself by not saying a single word. True, we must herald to the heavens our heroes.  But they must be heroes through and through, no matter how flawed, especially when the going is at its most perilous.  For what is a hero, if when the day is grim and the hour is tragic, that, like Achilles of Grecian lore, he sulks in his tent, takes himself out of the reckoning in the hour of greatest challenge.  The PPP has made a living, made a killing, and a finely purring global machinery of elections rigging for the 28 long years that they lasted in the first long, uninterrupted season.  And if there is one area of governance and democracy in this country about which the PPP is 150% or 1000% right, it is rigging.  Memory is faded nowadays, but if I remember well, there was a man, a stalwart, an effervescent and irrepressibly luminous presence, around those rigging proceedings.  It would have taken an infant or the infantile in adults not to have known what was at work, and what were the results of that harrowing era in Guyana’s history.  We cannot continue to condemn Burnham and spare the others.  Any other. Why, even former president David Granger came in for his blows about his role around ballot boxes when he was a young soldier. So, if LFS Burnham, Hammie Green, and David Granger are hauled barefoot over the incandescent coals and scalded with an inch of their respective departed and ongoing existences, then the least that there can be is some consistency in this time of hushed tones and solemn syntactical sweetness. I will recognize any man for his achievements, and the fallen former Attorney General and Minister of Justice had many achievements laced with dazzling splendor.  Instead of coming down heavily on him for sharing and participating in, and then condoning, a great fraud and tragedy on Guyana, I simply say that if the run of the PNC was cut short, and in which he ranked so highly and powerfully, then where would he have been.  What would he have been able to leverage, use as his calling card, to reach the heights that he did, since there would have been nothing?  Cheddi Jagan’s dispatch into the political wilderness certainly paved the way for the ascendancy of many a man and woman of Guyana.  On the back of rigging, some ended up riding a stairway to a heaven of their own making, the product of their ambitions, and of neither hearing nor seeing nor knowing.  I am trying to be kind here because it is the dearly departed involved.  I acknowledge it is a struggle.  But there is awe at the distinctive genius it takes to represent two sides in a subsidiary deal, which still results in the home side coming up short.  How’s that for extraordinary skill and craftsmanship? It’s why there is a special regard for President Ali and Attorney General Nandlall and their easy conscience with what they have made a custom to condemn 24/7.  To denounce the outcome is one thing, but I suppose that death spares those who were once in the middle of its celebrations, while their countrymen and women languished wherever they could find succor.  Almost half the population lost to emigration. Almost all the best and brightest lost in the flight of precious human capital. It is why Guyana is the country it is today.  It provides evidence of the quality of what is left, with which there is this great, endless, seemingly futile grappling that leads nowhere but shouting in each other’s faces. Thus, as surprising as it is, and stilted, if not overdone, as the tributes appear to be, it is still a positive to hear the lilting cadences of those practiced in the fine arts of filtering circumstances for their own purposes, and saying what suits the moment.  No matter how much such clashes with was raged about uninterruptedly.  If it were not for death, then what would be left for us to discover the better angels inside.  To a man gone, a Guyanese of standing, perhaps some peace and profoundness will be his wherever he lands.  He usually did. (The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper.) Related Similar Articles

No checks on our oil Sep 05, 2024 Editorial Kaieteur News – For years this newspaper has sought answers regarding how much oil ExxonMobil is deducting for its operations as per the lopsided Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) Guyana signed with that American company. It was refreshing to see International Lawyer, and activists Melinda Janki raising this issue at a recent webinar, where she mentioned that she had sought the answer to this very question from President Irfaan Ali several years ago, but received no answer. Article 11.9 of the PSA states: “The Contractor shall have the right to use in any Petroleum Operations as much of the production as may reasonably be required by it therefore and the quantities so used or lost shall be excluded from any calculations of Cost Oil and/or Cost Gas and Profit Oil and/or Profit Gas entitlement.” However, the country does not know how much oil is being taken out by Exxon to run its operations. Janki during a webinar on Sunday pointed out, “The Petroleum Agreement says that Exxon, Hess and CNOOC can take as much oil as they need for the operations. So when they produce the oil, they can take, each one of them, Exxon, Hess and CNOOC, each one of them can take as much oil as they say they need for their operations.” In 2021, Janki said she wrote to President Irfaan Ali requesting information on how much oil was being deducted by the companies; however, she never received a response.  She said, “Either he doesn’t know or he doesn’t want to say, but this oil does not get counted, it’s just gone and the rest of the oil is divided into cost oil and profit oil, so if you think of the oil, you have got three things- one, the free oil that’s taken off the top, we don’t know how much that is and it doesn’t count and then the rest of the oil which is divided into something called cost oil and profit oil.” It must be noted that all other oil production related data have been made public by the government including how much gas was flared, used for fuel and re-injected, along with the quantity of produced water, however when it comes to how much ExxonMobil is deducting for its operations has been a state secret. It is the same carefree approach that has been taken regarding putting our own meters at the oil pumps being operated by ExxonMobil in order to monitor offshore oil production. So we ask today which leader would be able to look the Guyanese people in the face, and say that there is no move to get meters to keep ExxonMobil honest with actual oil production numbers, but the best is being done?  What is it that we at this paper do not know that can justify having no meters of our own to monitor what ExxonMobil is doing offshore? In the best of circumstances, when there is a partner that has proven to be one that is credible, a chance may be taken in Guyana not having its own meters looking out for us, barrel by barrel. It is ironic that the PPP/C Government has such discomfort, so many anxieties, with citizens clamoring for better from the nation’s oil patrimony, but it does not manifest a single concern about what ExxonMobil could be doing in the oil fields 120 miles from shore, and those in control don’t know the whole story.  What could be made of this standard?  Could it be that the Government of Guyana, of the Guyanese people, is in bed with ExxonMobil, and the tricks that it is pulling on this country with the amount of oil produced?  Who are leaders listening to, being coached by, in slowing down getting vital meters? What the government and its leadership team are doing does not make sense, nor give much comfort, when there is clear awareness of the kind of operator that ExxonMobil is.  The history of this American supergiant is one that is checkered, and its own records have often put it to shame, before regulators and the courts.  Right here, ExxonMobil has been a prime exhibit of the partner from hell. ExxonMobil has been about anything and everything that richly benefits itself, and what suffocates the promise of this country. Starting with an oil contract that is unspeakable, so reprehensible it is, ExxonMobil has been about pulling every trick in the book to get one over Guyana.  A genuine partner does not operate in this greedy manner, not even in the cutthroat world that is about skimming secretly, and profiting perversely at the expense of those who are called partners.  ExxonMobil has gone to great lengths to gouge Guyanese of their oil dollars, as the US$7.3 billion audit of Liza 1 and 2 projects has revealed.  The US millions in expenses claimed are not about what is frivolous, they reek of what is covetous.  From contract to expenses hidden and audits, the reports are of a partner, ExxonMobil, that seeks every opportunity to swindle Guyanese out of their already low oil revenues. In a context such as this, it is unimaginable, therefore, that the Guyana Government (any government), and Guyana’s leaders (any leaders anywhere) could be so casual, so irresponsible, in getting our own meters to monitor the flow of oil from the seabed through the company’s systems, and to the storage tanks.  Whatever the cost of getting our own meters, it would be money well spent, and the earlier that they are bought and installed the better for Guyana. There would be our own metering system, and our own people overseeing firsthand how much oil is passing through the pipes and lines, not some secondhand, probably trumped up, numbers from ExxonMobil. Related Similar Articles