Month: August 2011

August 2, 2011

Tiger Woods happy with decision to sack Steve Williams

Former world number one Tiger Woods returns to competitive golf on Thursday insisting he has no regrets about sacking caddie Steve Williams. Woods, who last played in May, is in the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational field. He ended a 12-year…

August 2, 2011

FIFA eyes on the Caribbean

FIFA recently gave all the 25 Caribbean Football Union (CFU) members 48 hours to state what happened at a meeting where it was alleged that some kind of a infraction took place in Trinidad and Tobago on May 10th. Coming out of the ethics…

August 2, 2011

NBA talks appear to be going nowhere

NBA talks have started again and are apparently going nowhere. A downcast Commissioner David Stern said "nothing" gave him reason for encouragement after an over two hours meeting yesterday between owners and players, the first to include…

August 2, 2011

England too good for India

England routed India by 319 runs in the second Test at Trent Bridge yesterday to take a 2-0 lead in the four-Test series, a margin that will give the hosts the No. 1 ranking in the world if maintained. India collapsed to 158 all out with more…

August 2, 2011

Tropical storm Emily threatens region

A tropical storm watch remained for Haiti, the Dominican Republic…

August 2, 2011

Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez appears with close-shaved head

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has appeared with his head closely shaved, saying his hair has begun falling out because of chemotherapy. It was his "new look," he joked in English at a televised meeting at the presidential palace. Mr Chavez said…

August 2, 2011

Plane from New York crashes at Guyana airport

A plane has crashed and broken in two on landing at Guyana's main airport in the capital, Georgetown, causing injuries but no deaths. The Caribbean Airlines Boeing 737-800 flight BW-523 from New York had 163 people aboard. The plane apparently…

August 2, 2011

Panama police seize more than half a tonne of heroin

Police in Panama have seized more than half a tonne of heroin - one of the biggest ever drug hauls in the country's history, officials say. Officers found hundreds of plastic packages of the drug in a car in the remote Caribbean coastal town of…

August 2, 2011

Gun & Ammunition Also Seized From SailBoat

The Bermuda Police confirmed today [Aug.2] that in addition to seizing a “substantial amount” of drugs from a sailboat yesterday, they also found a firearm and ammunition on the boat. Police said that the Latvian man they arrested had diverted to…

August 2, 2011

Norway attacks: Breivik makes ‘unrealistic’ demands

The man who has confessed to killing 77 people in Norway has made a list of "unrealistic"…