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July 21, 2014

Summer Basketball Clinic concludes

(Sports Page)— The 2014 edition of the Basketball clinic hosted by the Youth and Sports Department came to an end on Friday 18th July. The sessions were held at the Grell Hull-Stevens Netball Complex under the close supervision of…

Summer Cricket Camp ends

(Sports Page)— The summer Cricket clinic for 2014, hosted by the Department of Youth and Sports, came to an end on Friday 18th July. Despite the absence of the regular coaches who were all overseas on official duty, the clinic proceeded…

WICB/Scotia Bank Kiddy Cricket Summer Camp

(Sports Page)— The WICB/Scotia Bank Kiddy Cricket Summer Camp is set to take place in St. Kitts from 21st - 25th July 2014 at the Molyneaux Sporting Complex and in Nevis from 28th July -1st August 2014 at the E.W.P. Leeward Islands…

Leewards Under 15 Squad released

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The Leeward Islands Cricket Association is pleased to announce its Under 15 team ahead of the start of the West Indies Cricket Board’s Under 15 tournament. The full team reads: Marcus DUBERRY, Captain Jermuel CABEY,…

Nevis Team Selected for CUT Games

(Sports Page)— The Caribbean Union of Teachers' Students Athletic Championship will be held at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain, Trinidad on the 25th and 26th July, 2014. A team of twelve athletes comprising Malchiel Dore,…

One Week Completed In Sailing Program

(Sports Page)— One week has been completed with three to go. Commodore of the Nevis Yacht Association, Mark Theron, confirmed last week that one week in the summer sailing program which has been initiated for interested school children by…

Movie, TV legend James Garner dies

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor James Garner, whose whimsical style in the 1950s TV Western "Maverick" led to a stellar career in TV and films such as "The Rockford Files" and his Oscar-nominated "Murphy's Romance," has died, police said. He was…

Bodies from downed jet piled in boxcars by rebels

TOREZ, Ukraine (AP) -- Pro-Moscow rebels piled nearly 200 bodies from the downed Malaysian jetliner into four refrigerated boxcars Sunday in eastern Ukraine, and cranes at the crash scene moved big chunks of the Boeing 777, drawing…

Two gay men stabbed to death in Guyana by spurned lover

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) -- Two homosexual sex workers were stabbed to death on the streets of Georgetown in the early hours of Sunday, allegedly by the spurned lover of another. The body of Jason John was found on Leopold Street and that…

CPL T20 money stolen in Trinidad

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Close to $200,000 from ticket sales of upcoming matches in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) have been stolen, Police in Trinidad and Tobago have said. The money, for three CPL matches scheduled for this…

Sir Ian Botham: “It’s St. Kitts when I want to escape”

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) – St. Kitts is it for former England cricketer, Sir Ian Botham. In a full length interview headed: “Sir Ian’s Travelling Life,” Sir Ian, who is also a Test team captain, and current cricket commentator, said…

NHC improving its programmes & services

(ZIZ)-- Chief Executive Officer of the National Housing Corporation (NHC), Judith Rawlins, is working hard to raise awareness of how the corporation is improving upon its programmes and services in order to better serve the public Speaking…

Bermuda student at Windsor Medical School gets scholarship

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) – A Bermuda student at Windsor University School of Medicine here in St. Kitts is one of two awardees of the Bermuda Health Foundation. According to Bernews, she is Jacqueline Simons, who was recognized at the…

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