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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Mar 24, CMC – Barbados Pride were closing in on victory on the penultimate day of the fourth round  match in the West Indies Championship.

The Bartica Easter Regatta 2023 Organising Committee, chaired by Regional Chairman, Kenneth Williams received a solid boost toward the successful hosting of this year’s event, from, Team Mohamed’s.

The Golden Jaguars will resume their Concacaf Nations League campaign today against Bermuda at the Dame Flora Duffy National Sports Centre, Devonshire Parish, with a win needed to keep their hopes alive of securing a berth in the Gold Cup Preliminary stage.

The annual Dr. Cheddi Jagan Memorial 55-mile cycle road race is scheduled to get off to a fast start tomorrow in Berbice from 08:00hrs.

Sebert Blake, is on the cusp of receiving his certificate from the International Boxing Association (IBA) Cutman Technician Certification Course.

The 9th Milo Secondary Schools U18 Football Championship will officially resume today at the Ministry of Education ground on Carifesta Avenue.

The Guyana under-15 team will be encamped from today in preparation for the Cricket West Indies (CWI) Rising Stars Regional U-15 tournament scheduled for Antigua and Barbuda from April 2 to April 13.

Cuba’s Andy Pereira and the Dominican Republic’s Shary Munoz won the men and women’s singles as the qualifying event for the Central American and Caribbean Games came to an end Wednesday at the National Gymnasium.

CENTURION, South Africa, CMC – West Indies will hope to salvage something from the tour of South Africa when they face the hosts in the opening Twenty20 International of the three-match series here today.

SYDNEY/LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Transgender athletes have condemned World Athletics’ exclusion of transgender women from elite female competitions, while the decision was welcomed by some sportswomen as a win for fairness.

PARIS, (Reuters) – New France captain Kylian Mbappe lived up to expectations with two goals in a 4-0 statement home win against the Netherlands as Les Bleus got their Euro 2024 Group B qualifying campaign started in ruthless fashion yesterday.

Isaac Okoro hit a game-winning 3-pointer in the final second as the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers rallied in the final two minutes for a stunning 116-114 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday night in New York.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku scored a hat-trick as they claimed a 3-0 win over Sweden which overshadowed Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s much-anticipated return to international football in their opening Group F Euro 2024 qualifier yesterday.

Guyana suffered defeats on the opening day of the Men’s and Women’s team section in Caribbean Regional Table Tennis Federation (CRTTF) Senior Championships yesterday at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

Mohamed’s Enterprise continued their long standing partnership with the Kashif and Shanghai Organization by donating the first place prize and the respective trophies for the impending ‘One Guyana’ National Futsal Championship.

Beacons and Wolves United battled to a 1-1 stalemate when the Bartica division of the Namilco u17 Boys Football League continued on Wednesday evening.

The highly anticipated National Novices and Mr. Linden Championship will be staged tomorrow evening at the Lichas Hall in the Mining Town.

Another corporate entity has partnered with the organisers of next month’s Kares CrossFit Caribbean Championship to ensure that it is a satisfying experience for athletes and supporters.

(Reuters) – Bayern Munich have fired their coach Julian Nagelsmann, Bild newspaper reported yesterday.

(Reuters) – World Athletics has voted to end its eight-year ban of the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) but the country’s athletes, and those of Belarus, will remain excluded from international competition because of WA’s ongoing separate ban over the invasion of Ukraine, the governing body said yesterday.