September 22, 2013
Usain Bolt ‘would run 200m only’ at Glasgow Commonwealth Games
Usain Bolt says he would probably only run the 200m if he decides to compete at next year's Commonwealth Games. The six-time Olympic champion hopes to participate in Glasgow, but will discuss it with his coach Glen Mills. "It's on my to-do list,"…
September 22, 2013
World Athletics Championships: Seven tested positive at Moscow
Seven athletes failed drugs tests at August's World Championships, the International Association of Athletics Federations has announced. Roman Avramenko of Ukraine, who finished fifth in the men's javelin, was the only one of the group to reach a…
September 22, 2013
West Indies outplayed by India
West Indies A were outplayed by India A in the only Twenty20 match of their tour, at the M Chinnaswammy Stadium in Bangalore yesterday. After India A set the visitors a 215-run target, the hosts' bowlers skittled the opposition out for 121 in 16.2…
September 22, 2013
Ambrose turns 50
Former West Indies cricketers have lauded their colleague Curtly Ambrose on his 50th birthday. The former Antiguan, Leeward Islands and West Indies pacer celebrated his half-century yesterday, and former captain Sir Vivian Richards, former pacers…
September 22, 2013
Bermuda U17s claim win over Dominican Republic
Bermuda 3 Dominican Republic 1 Bermuda Under-17s national team made a winning start to their final round of the CFU World Cup qualifiers with a 3-0 win over Dominican Republic in Haiti. Goals by Eva Frazzoni and Zahra Gibbons handed Aaron…
September 22, 2013
Assault On Iraq Funeral, Other Attacks Kill 96
Two suicide bombers, one in an explosives-laden car and the other on foot, struck a cluster of funeral tents packed with mourning families in a Shiite neighbourhood in Baghdad, the deadliest in a string of attacks around Iraq that killed at least 96…
September 22, 2013
Caribbean Grads Struggle For Jobs – World Bank
The World Bank says despite spending nearly 11 years acquiring an education, school leavers in the Caribbean often struggle to find formal employment. The Washington-based financial institution has released a new report titled 'Quality Education…
September 22, 2013
Pilot Error Caused Caribbean Airlines Crash
Director General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), Zulfikar Mohammed, says pilot error led to the July 30, 2011 crash of a Caribbean Airlines flight. According to Mohammed, the report on the mishap will be studied and released by…
September 22, 2013
Gunmen Kills 59 in Mall Attack in Kenya
Kenyan security forces are continuing to work to apprehend gunmen who killed at least 59 people and wounded 175 others at a busy shopping mall in Nairobi. Officials said the operation to capture the gunmen and rescue an unknown number of hostages…
September 22, 2013
Suicide Bombers Kill 50 in Pakistan
Officials in Pakistan say two suicide bombers have attacked a church in the northwestern part of the country, killing at least 50 people and wounding about 100 others. The head of a nearby hospital where victims were taken says many of the wounded…