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Since the government announced its implementation of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) on December 23, 2011, over the past 42 days the IMC and the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) have been at loggerheads.

The Georgetown Dominoes Association (GDA) will be hosting a wake tonight from 19:00 hours for the late Robert Williams at the Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC), Thomas Lands.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Zorol Barthley has urged Gregory Shillingford to resign from the post of president of the Leeward Islands Cricket Association.

MALABO, (Reuters) – Equatorial Guinea’s lower-league footballers and little-known journeymen will try and upset a side containing household names like Didier Drogba and Yaya Toure at the African Nations Cup tomorrow.

BAGSHOT, England, (Reuters) – Three men will pull on an England senior shirt for the first time and walk out proudly together to face Scotland at Murrayfield tomorrow but the routes they have taken to get there could not have been more different.

Softball in Region Ten will become more structured with the recent formation of the Upper Demerara Softball Cricket Association (UDSCA) and now an affiliate member of the Guyana Softball League (GSL).

LONDON, CMC – West Indies Women will play a five-match Twenty20 International series against England Women in September this year.

After one of its worst years last year, basketball is  set for  positive changes this year, and special assistance is being sought from the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), according to president of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) David Patterson.

(Jamaica Observer) Out-of-favour West Indies batsman Brendan Nash said any thought he had of pulling out of the Jamaica cricket set-up was swept aside by the prospect of being a part of the nation’s quest to win a historic fifth consecutive regional four-day title.

St, John’s, Antigua (WICB)  — The West Indies Cricket Board’s Regional Four-day First-class competition is set to bowl off toiday with the return of PINK ball matches under lights.

St John’s, Antigua – (WICB) The West Indies Cricket Board yesterday lauded the Government of Antigua and Barbuda for its support in ensuring that the Antigua leg of the recently concluded Caribbean Twenty20 Tournament was an overwhelming success.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Rafa Nadal issued a statement yesterday saying he had met all his fiscal obligations after a Spanish website published details about several companies linked to the world number two it said had been set up to drastically trim his tax bill.

(Reuters) – FIFA has requested a full report from Egyptian authorities into the violence at a soccer match in Port Said that left 74 people dead, world soccer’s governing body said yesterday.

HAVANA, Cuba, CMC – Jeff Webb said the Caribbean Football Union is looking to write a new chapter in its history following the bribery scandal that ripped apart the organization last year.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Celebrated boxing trainer Angelo Dundee, Muhammad Ali’s cornerman in his greatest fights, died on Wednesday at the age of 90.

(Reuters) – Milwaukee continued to relish the role of giant-killers when a storming second-half performance led the Bucks to a 105-97 victory over the Miami Heat on Wednesday.

(Reuters) – Construction workers’ strikes at Brazil’s World Cup venues continue to plague preparations for the 2014 showpiece with the northeastern city of Salvador hit by a stoppage in demand of improved wages on Wednesday.

The International Cricket Council’s board has condemned the Guyanese government’s interference in the functioning of cricket in Guyana.

The Guyana Government yesterday stated that despite the protestations of the International Cricket Council (ICC) the Interim Management Committee (IMC) it set up late last year was going ahead with its work.

The ICC Board held the first of its scheduled 2012 meetings in Dubai on 31 January 2012 and 1 February 2012.