Guyanese rising to the occasion
-- Luncheon
Guyana Chronicle
March 30, 2007
WITH national spirits understandably high after the successful first test Wednesday with the enthralling and nail-biting Super Eight match in the Cricket World Cup (CWC) tournament here, Guyana is putting on ‘quite a show’ to the rest of the world and the Guyanese people have risen to the occasion, according to Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon.
“The match day event lived up to expectation and the national spirit is understandably flying high,” he told a post-Cabinet news conference yesterday at the Presidential Secretariat in Georgetown.
“The mood is lively, outgoing and infectious. It is demonstrated by rank and file Guyanese and shared by our numerous visitors.”
“Guyana is on show and our people are rising to the occasion,” he told reporters.
His sentiments came in the wake of arguably the most exciting match of the CWC tournament between two giants of the game, South Africa and Sri Lanka, at the Guyana National Stadium at Providence on Wednesday.
Guyana will be playing host to five other matches of the Super Eight leg of the CWC tournament, one of which is set to get under way at the stadium this morning between England and Ireland.
This will be followed by a sold-out cracker of a match between the home team –West Indies and Sri Lanka, billed for Sunday.
“The next five matches and the days to come in Guyana will become recorded in history as another Guyana accomplishment, successfully hosting World Cup Cricket 2007,” Luncheon projected yesterday.
He also said attempts by the privately-owned Stabroek News newspaper at “provocation of our national sentiment” were suitably addressed.