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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Purposeful bowling followed solid batting led by Danza Hyatt to lead Jamaica to a third place finish in the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship, following a 10-run victory over Windwards Islands yesterday.

By Marlon Munroe Organisers of the year’s first Pro-Am card boxing card want the event to pack a punch and have added two bonus fights at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on January 28.

President of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) Errol Tiwari says that for chess to develop and spread across Guyana the GCF must transform the game into a culture locally.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Roger Federer made hard work of reaching his 27th consecutive grand slam quarter-final at the Australian Open yesterday but it looked like a short shift after  Francesca Schiavone’s titanic tussle with Svetlana Kuznetsova.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago will return to the lucrative Airtel Champions League Twenty20 this year, after trouncing a docile Jamaica in the semi-finals of the Caribbean T20 Championship on Saturday.

AHMEDABAD, India, CMC – Steady bowling spell from Tremayne Smartt and Anisa Mohammed helped West Indies Women level their three-match Twenty20 International series with India Women, following a tense, three-run victory yesterday.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – David Hussey halted a middle-order collapse and guided Australia to a four-wicket  victory over England in the third one-day international at the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday.

CENTURION, South Africa, (Reuters) – India captain  Mahendra Singh Dhoni has blamed his team’s fragile batting for  the one-day series defeat in South Africa.

CENTURION, South Africa, (Reuters) – Yusuf Pathan’s  blistering century proved in vain for India as South Africa won  the fifth and decisive one-day international by 33 runs yesterday to take the series 3-2.

AHMEDABAD, India, CMC – West Indies women were let down by their batting to plunge to a six-wicket defeat to India in the opening Twenty20 International of their three-match series here yesterday.

The proposed amendment to the constitution of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) was a hot button issue at the organisation’s Annual General Meeting yesterday at the Lusignan Community

Yesterday, sports in Guyana plunged to a new low. It was the first time in recent history that one can recall two separate annual general meetings being held by one organization.

Former secretary of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB), Raj Singh was  elected president of one faction of the  DCB at the first of what was two DCB Annual General Meetings and elections held yesterday.

Former President of the Amateur Athletics Association of Guyana (AAAG) and Attorney-at-Law Martin Stephenson passed away last Thursday at the St Joseph Mercy Hospital at the age of 89.

With the profusion of fast food joints that people throng  and the evident increase in obesity locally, the management team of the newly-opened Body Max Fitness Centre is urging Guyanese to get fit and change their lifestyle.

A number of key matches will highlight the opening round of the Stag Beer and El Dorado Rum male and female

Semi-final action will unravel tonight at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) Ground as the BK International Western Tigers Super Eight Knockout Tournament continues with what is expected

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Rafael Nadal’s quest to win four consecutive grand slam titles survived a feisty third-round challenge from teenager Bernard Tomic as record crowds flocked to the Australian Open in the hope of local success yesterday.

Julian Hunte has advanced “one fundamental reason” why the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has spent US$6 million in the two as yet unsponsored Caribbean Twenty20 tournaments, the second of which comes to its climax with the final at

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A breathtaking half-century from stylish stroke-maker Darren Bravo lit up Kensington Oval here on Friday night, silencing Barbados and powering Trinidad and Tobago into the semi-finals of the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship.