Month: December 2011

December 21, 2011

Ricky Ponting keeps Australia spot as Hughes & Khawaja dropped

Australia have dropped batsmen Phillip Hughes and Usman Khawaja for the Boxing Day Test against India at Melbourne - but former captain Ricky Ponting keeps his place in a 13-man squad. Hughes and Khawaja were omitted after Australia's humiliating…

December 21, 2011

Bulls Rose signs $94M extension

Derrick Rose says there isn't much that excites him. A maximum contract extension, though, just might. The reigning MVP agreed to a five-year contract extension with the Chicago Bulls worth approximately $94 million, a person familiar with the…

December 21, 2011

Iraqi PM urges Kurds to hand over VP al-Hashemi

The Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has called on the autonomous Kurdish region to hand…

December 21, 2011

Cuba and Venezuela sign $1.6 billion in cooperation accords

Venezuela and Cuba have signed 47 new cooperation accords, valued at $1.6 billion,…

December 21, 2011

Several major projects to start or be completed in 2012 in St Kitts-Nevis

Construction on several projects, including a world class private jet terminal, a mega-yacht marina and a resort, is to begin and continue in 2012, Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Dr Denzil Douglas has disclosed. He said, in an effort to…

December 21, 2011

Former Trinidad Police Service Commission boss appeals his dismissal

The former chairman of the Police Service Commission who was fired in early April following controversial statements about the ethnic composition of the force has challenged the matter in court. Nizam Mohammed has filed a constitutional motion…

December 21, 2011

Edwards aiming to be fastest bowler on earth

Batsmen around the world may start to shiver in their boots after Fidel Edwards threatened to touch the 160 kilometre-an-hour mark in the next year. The 29-year-old West Indies fastbowler, who is playing for Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash, said…

December 21, 2011

Boxing star remanded

SOBBING LOUDLY that he did not want to go to prison, Barbados’ boxing star, Anderson Fitzgerald Emmanuel, was remanded to Her Majesty’s Prisons Dodds yesterday when he appeared in court charged with committing robbery. The 26-year-old heavyweight…

December 21, 2011

Jamaica 50 celebrations blast off on New Year’s Day

Plans for the country's 50th anniversary celebrations next year are well advanced, with the activities set to begin on January 1, with fireworks on the waterfront, downtown Kingston, and at various locations across the island. The celebrations,…

December 21, 2011

Argentine minister Ivan Heyn dies at Mercosur summit

A senior Argentine official has been found dead at the Mercosur summit in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo. Undersecretary for foreign trade Ivan Heyn was found hanged in his hotel room, police said. He is thought to have taken his own life. Mr…