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anthonyp 2024-10-02 03:36:35 

Apologies: Joint Statement from the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport and the Guyana Power and Light Inc. on the Floodlight Failure at Providence National Stadium

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport and the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) wishes to inform the public of the loss of three of the six floodlights at the National Stadium during the nineteenth over of the match between Trinidad Knight Riders and the Barbados Royal tonight.

All CPL matches at Providence Stadium, Guyana, were successfully powered from independent Generating Sets located in the National Stadium and not by the GPL grid. GPL has been on standby at all matches to render technical assistance to the Stadium at all times.
During the nineteenth over, three (3) floodlights that were powered by an independent generator lost power, thus causing a disruption to the match. The GPL technical team on standby immediately began rendering assistance and restored power to two of three floodlights on the same circuit.

The Stadium’s Technical staff and GPL worked assiduously to restore power to the third floodlight, which had a technical fault with the underground cable feeding power to that Floodlight, a substitute cable was installed quickly to have this floodlight operational. This was achieved around 10.51 pm.

This is an unprecedented and unfortunate situation as all CPL matches have been successfully hosted at the National Stadium.
The National Stadium offers its sincerest apologies to cricket fans in Guyana and around the World for this match disruption and deeply regrets this technical incident and disruption to this exciting event.

 
cumberland 2024-10-02 03:41:07 

In reply to anthonyp

Independent generating sets....no flak for GPL. Charles yuh boy three shades badder dan you!

 
anthonyp 2024-10-02 03:43:47 

In reply to cumberland

Ali gonna got all of them in his office tomorrow... those same lights failed a few weeks ago and tonight again.

Let's hope it don't happen tomorrow night too.

 
SnoopDog 2024-10-02 03:46:08 

In reply to anthonyp

That entire stadium needs an overhaul Bro.

 
cumberland 2024-10-02 03:46:31 

In reply to anthonyp

Not betting on that at all. The sniff test hasn't been passed. Irfan must be seeing red...literally!

 
Realsteel 2024-10-02 03:48:35 

I feel the President pull the plug

 
Jeremy 2024-10-02 04:15:43 

Hope they fix this floodlight failure permanently.

If it failed a few weeks ago, they should have fix it properly since then.

 
anthonyp 2024-10-02 11:45:43 

From one of Guyana’s leading sports journalist... apparently it happened during a GAW practice session too. The Minister of sports needs to be held accountable for for this shyte. 3 times in a few weeks?

The lights at the Guyana National Stadium going out during an elimination match in one of the world’s top T20 tournaments, with the President of Guyana in the stands, is a national embarrassment.

Why? Because so much is impacted by these delays caused by the lights failing at Providence.

For the record, the custodians of the Guyana National Stadium are fully aware of the ongoing issues with the lights.

These outages occurred during a recent T10 tapeball tournament finals and again during the Warriors’ practice just before the start of the CPL.

 
BeatDball 2024-10-02 13:14:41 

In reply to anthonyp & the technical staff didn't fix it?!!!

 
doosra 2024-10-02 14:40:51 

In reply to anthonyp

when we talk about incompetence daily people does cuss yuh bout you anti ppp etc

this level of malaise and incompetence transcends the society...is not only Providence

 
anthonyp 2024-10-02 15:24:52 

In reply to doosra

Incompetence is a norm in GT these days... the Schoonord road fiasco is another example. De ppl that approved those works should be held accountable.

Guyanese are so accustom to the corruption and Incompetence that they turn a blind eye and just ignore or move on.

 
doosra 2024-10-02 15:29:43 

In reply to anthonyp

wasn't Charles in some cass cass last week with the Carnegie people

 
anthonyp 2024-10-02 15:57:49 

In reply to doosra

Think it was the Burrowes school of art... Charles behaved like a lunatic on de man at some meeting. De man resigned immediately.

Story reached to social media and people started to behave bad... to save face BJ called de man and asked him to recind his resignation... damage control.

When last yuh hear Sports ministry complete a project?

All projects that fall under dem man still ongoing... and its years now.

 
Maispwi 2024-10-02 16:00:07 

In reply to anthonyp

Aren't these the lights that were put up at all the World Cup Venues in the Caribbean?