Daily Archive: Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Articles published on Wednesday, August 15, 2012

 Dwayne Bravo

Hits and Jams postpones Jamzone T20 Masters Cup

The organizers of this weekend’s scheduled second annual Jamzone T20 masters Cup four-team tournament was yesterday forced to pull the plug on its staging following a release from the West Indies Cricket (WICB)  Board that it had not sanctioned the tournament.

Executives of the ECCB pose with the participants of the 2012 ECCB Cricket Academy at the launching yesterday. From left to right are Robert Adonis, Samaroo Jailal, ECCB Vice President Rayman Barton, Clive Lloyd, ECCB President Bissondial Singh, Tota Mangar and Judister Rampersaud.(Orlando Charles photo) 

Lloyd stresses discipline, education at ECCB Academy

Legendary cricketer and former West Indian captain Clive Lloyd yesterday stressed the importance of education and discipline while delivering the feature address at this year’s 11th annual East Coast Cricket Board (ECCB) Cricket Academy which was launched yesterday at the Lusignan Community Centre compound.

The Bolivia national team.

Smith, Millington set to make Golden Jaguars debuts

Nick Millington, a former United States of America Under-17 footballer and Jamal Smith who plays in Sweden are likely to make their debuts for the Golden Jaguars when the play the Bolivia national side in a friendly international today in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.

Taylor stars with bat and ball

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – World Player-of-the-Year nominee Stafanie Taylor continued her voracious appetite for runs and completed another fine all-round performance to upstage out-of-favour West Indies Women’s teammate Cordel Jack, spurring Jamaica to a 25-run victory over St.

David Granger

PNCR calls for early restart of Linden talks

The PNCR issued a statement yesterday condemning the most recent phase of Joint Services operations which began on Friday, August 10 and continues to the present time in Linden and called for the resumption of talks and for the crisis to be brought to a peaceful resolution.

Linden shows we need new governance

Even allowing that the unconscionable shooting and killing of protesters at Linden may have complicated matters for the government, how is it possible for a ruling party to concede so much on the major issues brought to the table by the other side but yet achieve so little?

Dember (6-45) stuns J/ca

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Off-spinner Kenneth Dember’s six-wicket haul undermined defending champions Jamaica and put Windward Islands in control of their final round encounter of the Regional Under-19 three-day Championship here  yesterday.

Independences and Olympics

As both Trinidad & Tobago and Jamaica have been celebrating fifty years of independence this month, the rich results of their countries’ participation in the recently concluded London Olympic Games will undoubtedly have brought a welcome relief to their citizens, and even more importantly, to their governmental leaderships.

Reuters World News Highlights

CAIRO – A blunder by the Egyptian army that left 16 border guards dead at the hands of Islamist militants gave President Mohamed Mursi an unexpectedly early chance to claw back powers from a military whose political influence he had always wanted to restrict.