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Amazon Warriors to contest outcome of CPL final

The Management of the Guyana Amazon Warriors Team has taken a decision to contest the outcome of the second Caribbean Premier League (CPL) final played between the Amazon Warriors and the Barbados Tridents on August 16 at Warner Park, St…

LICA Offers Congratulations to CXC Top Performer

President of the Leeward Islands Cricket Association, Mr. Auckland Hector, has offered heartiest congratulations to Leeward Islands Under 17 player – Zubin DEYAL – who was successful in passing an astounding 16 subjects at the Caribbean…

Ross Powell set to go places

Ross Powell the son of Ronald Powell, former Leeward Islands off spinning allrounder and Joan Powell, is a young man who knows where his head and his heart are. He has set himself some really high goals which he has every intention to…

Jeannette Grell Hull back as SKN Netball President

Sports Page -- Local Netball icon on Nevis, Ms Jeannette Hull has been reelected as President of the St.Kitts-Nevis Netball Association. This was done at a meeting on July 19th. The outspoken former top Netballer and administrator stated…

Tridents win rain-marred CPL final

Sports Page -- In a final plagued with rain interruptions, Barbados Tridents won the Caribbean Premier League 2014 by a slender margin of eight runs on Duckworth-Lewis, leaving Guyana Amazon Warriors with yet another disappointment at the…

Tigers roar to warm-up win vs Grenada

Grenville, Grenada, CMC -- Tamim Iqbal and Mahmudullah warmed up for the higher intensity battles with West Indies, when they set the Bangladeshis up for a 95-run victory over Grenada with purposeful batting in a 50 overs-a-side tour match…

India befuddled as England complete humiliation

Sports Page -- India might have been transported to another world, a world so unfamiliar that their senses were befuddled, their physical prowess lost, their lifetime's knowledge entirely inadequate. One by one their batsmen came and went…

Serena Williams wins Cincinnati open

CNN -- World number one Serena Williams won her first ever Cincinnati Open, and her 62nd career WTA title, by brushing aside Ana Ivanovic 6-4, 6-1. Williams needed just 62 minutes to dispatch her Serbian rival and win her second title in a…

Manchester City win as Liverpool begin life without Suarez

CNN -- Reigning English Premier League champions Manchester City began the new season as they ended the last, at the top of the table. But City was made to work hard for their 2-0 victory against a lively Newcastle United side. The match…

English Premier League season starts today, the top five

LONDON, England (AFP) - With the new Premier League season kicking off on Saturday, here are fact files on the five leading contenders to win the English title. MANCHESTER CITY Manager: Manuel Pellegrini (CHI) 2013-14 position: 1st; FA…

Sponsors persuade Bolt to run until 2017

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) - Sprint superstar Usain Bolt revealed Friday that he will put back his planned retirement until 2017 at the request of his sponsors. The six-time Olympic gold medallist and 100m and 200m world record holder…

Tage is MVP of U-19 three-day tourney

Georgetown, Guyana - Guyana’s opening batsman Tagenarine Chanderpaul was crowned Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the three-day version of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional Under-19 competition on Wednesday evening when the…

Amazon Warriors storm into CPL final

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) – Huge crowds at St. Kitts’ Warner Park witnessed Thursday Guyana’s Amazon Warriors storming into a second consecutive CPL final with a thumping ten-wicket win over defending champions Jamaica Tallawahs.…