KINGSTON, Jamaica –The WICB Selection Panel today announced a change to the squads for the upcoming One-Day Internationals against Ireland and England. Dwayne Smith has been called up as replacement for Chris Gayle for the four matches. Gayle experienced stiffness in his lower back following the first T20 International against […]
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Pybus excited about forthcoming Regional 4-Day Tournament
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – New West Indies Cricket Board Director of Cricket Richard Pybus said recently that he was looking forward to this year’s Regional 4-Day Tournament to further understand the depth of talent in the Caribbean. The WICB advised on Saturday that the West Indies first-class championship will begin […]
Regional 4-Day Tournament begins on Friday
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board advised on Saturday that this year’s Regional 4-Day Tournament will begin this coming Friday, February 28, with two matches. Jamaica will open the season on home soil, when they face Guyana at Sabina Park, five hours later Windward Islands host defending […]
The mimic men of Caracas
By Arley Gill The so-called Arab Spring has provided the world with a successful model of modern-day coup d’états. Granted, Egypt and those other Arab countries did not have western-style Westminster democracies. To those of us who live in countries where Westminster is practiced, attempted and is prominent, we said to […]
Santokie and Badree thrilled with match-winning bowling efforts
KINGSTON, Jamaica – West Indies opening bowlers Krishmar Santokie and Samuel Badree were both pleased with their efforts in Friday’s series-levelling victory over Ireland. Santokie, the left-arm seamer had figures of 4-0-12-1 to mark a successful return to international cricket in front his home supporters at Sabina Park. Badree, the […]
West Indies vs Ireland LIVE from Sabina Park
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Cricket fans across the Caribbean and around the World will be able to see the ongoing series between West Indies and Ireland at Sabina Park. TVJ will produce and make available LIVE ball-by-ball coverage of the second Twenty20 International on Friday and the one-off One-Day International on […]
Windies go under by 6 wickets as Ireland score famous victory
KINGSTON, Jamaica – West Indies started the 2014 International Home Series on a losing note when they went under to Ireland in the first T20 International on Wednesday afternoon. It was a huge upset by the Irish who recorded their first ever victory over the reigning World Champions in this […]
Comrade Naz and the leadership deficit
By Hamlet Mark The ascension of Nazim Burke as leader of the National Democratic Congress has been noted – and on a personal level you want to wish every man well in the context of everything. In politics, especially in this small society as ours, we cannot get so mean […]
St Lucia leads off Caribbean innovation workshops
Feb 10, 2014: CASTRIES, St Lucia. Caribbean history is the picture of a region lacking in physical and financial resources, but constantly finding ways to confront those realities through human resourcefulness and ingenuity. St Lucia, like many Caribbean islands, does not have a history of economic reliance on extractive industries based on the abundance of indigenous minerals. Instead, the […]
Junior Murray’s team wins first-ever Celebrity Cricket Match
February 10, 2014: The Junior Murray Cricket Academy along with Made In Grenada hosted the first ever Junior Murray Celebrity Cricket Match on Sunday February 09th at the Progress Park in St. Andrew. The game formed part of the festivities to commemorate Grenada’s 40th anniversary of Independence and the support […]
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“(Caribbean Travel Marketplace is) a forum where you bring all your leading tour operators together with all the Caribbean hoteliers. What you can achieve in a two-day period here, it would take an awful lot of resources to go all around the world to meet people you deal with and […]
Steven Jacobs to lead UWI Vice Chancellor’s XI vs England
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Please see below University of the West Indies Vice Chancellor’s squad to play against England in a match on February. The match will be 50 overs per team and the venue is the Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Stadium in Antigua. First ball is 9:30 am […]
Leeward Islands all-rounder, Tonito Willett has been cleared of charges relating to marijuana possession
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad: At the hearing for the matter, Willett’s WIPA-appointed attorney, Mr. Rajiv Persad, informed the court that on February 5th 2014, the Director of Public Prosecutions of Trinidad and Tobago, Senior Counsel Roger Gaspard, advised that his office would be discontinuing the proceedings. The Notice of Discontinuance was signed […]
Hard-working Lesporis benefits from return to Sagicor HPC
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – Last December when most persons were preparing for the Yuletide Season one young man had other ideas. Keddy Lesporis decided to go back to basics and try to do some remedial work on his batting. The tall right-hander was a member of the Sagicor High Performance Centre in […]
Time to speak up on criminal deportees to the Caribbean!
By Neals Chitan In a January 13, 2014 post on Spiceislander Talkshop- a discussion forum predominantly accessed by Grenadians at home and abroad, Brian the poster, suggested that REALFM a local radio station reported that in 2013, Grenada received 108 deportees with 60% or 65 of them being “criminal deportees” […]
