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This year also marked the resumption of the biannual Rotary/RAM medical outreaches to the Rupununi.

Other impactful initiatives included the Club’s annual blood drive, medical outreaches in Region Two, a “Girls in Stem” initiative, a Wildlife Art in the Park Project, and significant support to the replenishing and establishment of new libraries throughout the entire country through a donation of 50,000 books.

As the Rotary Club of Demerara continues its mission as people of action, President Khan and his board aim to continue to execute the club’s annual projects.

Other members of the incoming board include President-Elect Rot. Quenita Walrond-Lewis; Vice-President, PP Patrick De Groot; Immediate Past President (IPP) Indira Mattai; Treasurer, PP. Ramesh Seebarran; Club Secretary Rot. Cristel Cheong; Club Admin Rot. Elizabeth Gopie; Service Projects Chair, Rot. Domanique Cameron; Foundation Chair, Rot. Keisha Chin; Membership Chair, PP. Hansraj Singh, and Public Image Chair, Rot. Tamika Inglis.

The Demerara Harbour Bridge will be closed to facilitate the replacement of span nine (Photo: Ministry of Public Works/April 29,2023)

“Commuters residing beyond Canal #2 are encouraged to use the additional water taxi service opposite the Wales Police Station,” it said.

According to MARAD, the additional services are in place to ease a potential congestion of traffic at the Vreed-en-Hoop Stelling.

“The Wales water taxi service will offload at Market Street, Grove on the East Bank and the West Bank water taxi service from the Harbour Bridge will offload on the East Bank of the Harbour Bridge,” MARAD explained.

These areas, MARAD said are lit, secured and monitored by the Guyana Police Force.

MARAD monitors and inspectors will also be placed at these locations.

Other measures include shuttle system to transport passengers to and from the Vreed-en-Hoop stelling to the junction and to the main road upon disembarking the crossing at the Demerara Harbour Bridge. There will be enhanced lighting and security.

The closure of the Demerara Harbour Bridge is the facilitate the replacement of the span 9 which was damaged in September last year when the Panamanian flagged vessel, MV Tradewinds Passion, crashed into the bridge during a retraction period and rendered the bridge inoperable for several days.

The closure is scheduled to start from 11:59 pm July 24 to 11:59 pm on July 27.

From left: Romario Shepherd, Kevin Sinclair and Gudakesh Motie

Lead Selector, The Most Hon. Dr. Desmond Haynes said: “We welcome Oshane and Shimron back into the group. Both have played at the international level before, with some success, and we believe they will fit well into the set-up. Oshane brings pace and is a potential wicket-taker with the new ball. Shimron’s style of batting will offer a lot especially in the middle stage of the innings and he is also a potential ‘finisher’.”

Kensington Oval hosts the first two matches in the three-match CG United ODI Series on Thursday July 27 and Saturday July 29.

The teams then move to Trinidad for the third and final CG United ODI at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy on Tuesday August 1. All three matches start at 09:30h local time (08:30h Jamaica time).

Tickets for the matches are available from box offices at Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, as well as Queen’s Park Oval, Port of Spain, and the National Cricket Centre in Couva, Trinidad from Monday July 24.

Additionally, tickets are available online in advance from the Windies Tickets service, presented by Mastercardhere.

Fans who purchase online will benefit from a 20% discount compared to the box office prices, with tickets ranging from the most premium seats with the best and shaded views in each stadium through to affordable standard seats or mounds/grounds entry.

FULL SQUAD: Shai Hope (Captain), Rovman Powell (Vice-Captain), Alick Athanaze, Yannic Cariah, Keacy Carty, Dominic Drakes, Shimron Hetmyer, Alzarri Joseph, Brandon King, Kyle Mayers, Gudakesh Motie, Jayden Seales, Romario Shepherd, Kevin Sinclair and Oshane Thomas.

Additional Players at White Ball Preparation Camp: Dennis Bulli, Roston Chase, McKenny Clarke, Kavem Hodge, Jair McCallister, Obed McCoy and Kevin Wickham.

NOTES:

• Keemo Paul is injured and unavailable
• Nicholas Pooran and Jason Holder are both unavailable for selection

West Indies v India Tour Match Schedule

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27 July: 1st CG United ODI, Kensington Oval, Barbados

29 July: 2nd CG United ODI, Kensington Oval, Barbados

1 August: 3rd CG United ODI, Brian Lara Cricket Academy, Trinidad

Start time at 09:30h (08:30h Jamaica)

T20 Internationals

3 August: 1st T20I, Brian Lara Cricket Academy, Trinidad

6 August: 2nd T20I, National Stadium, Guyana

8 August: 3rd T20I, National Stadium Guyana

12 August: 4th T20I, Broward County Stadium, Lauderhill, Florida

13 August: 5th T20I, Broward County Stadium, Lauderhill, Florida

Start time at: 10:30h (09:30h Jamaica)

(Cricket West Indies Press Release)

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The third and the fourth days were also interrupted by inclement weather, but rapid half-centuries from Rohit Sharma and Ishan Kishan set up India’s victory push.

Ravichandran Ashwin then produced a double-strike on the fourth evening to jolt West Indies in their chase of 365, but no play was possible on the last day.

Mohammed Siraj was adjudged the Player-of-the-Match for taking 5-60 in West Indies’ first innings, while Ashwin was named the Player-of-the-Series for taking 15 wickets at an average of 15 and scoring a half-century.

India won the series 1-0, having brushed West Indies aside in three days in the first Test in Dominica.

India’s next Test series will be in South Africa in December later this year, while West Indies will not be in action in Test cricket until their trip to Australia in January 2024. (ESPNcricinfo)

Minister of Housing and Water Collin Croal (Photo: News Room/ July 21, 2023)

On the East Bank corridor, some 360 persons have been allocated low-income house lots at Block 18 Golden Grove while over 500 houses, including young professional homes, are under construction at Little and Great Diamond in addition to the house lots allocated.

And more than 100 houses under construction at Block Five, Great Diamond. The ministry invested $2.2 billion to enhance the infrastructure at Block 18 Golden Grove.

The minister further said the Cummings Lodge Housing Development is another area where houselot allocations were done and land preparation works posed a challenge. Again the ministry is working assiduously to get the lands cleared.

Minister Croal said that persons who were allocated houselots at all other areas in 2021 should have been contacted to access their area or shown their land. Some 30 moderate-income allottees identified their lands during an exercise by the surveys unit of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) earlier this year.

The minister said as these two areas are being addressed, the ministry has moved on to land clearing and preparations for the allottees from the 2022 batches.

“The infrastructure work we have ongoing is for last year, 2022 allocations and we have a few this year on the East Coast that luckily those persons can be able to have access to by the end of this year.

“Because of the gap in the housing sector we have not been able to do infrastructure work and then allocate [because] the pending applicants are so much,” he noted.

At this time the minister said some 80,000 applications are in the system and some 24,000 houselots were allocated under the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) in under three years.