Richard Arkwright Austin, the former Jamaican and West Indies allrounder, has died at the age of 60. Nicknamed ‘Danny Germs’, Austin was born in Kingston Jamaica, and represented the West Indies in two tests and one ODI against Australia in 1978 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, at Bridgetown, Barbados and St. John’s , Antigua. Regarded […]
Guyana Jaguars comfortably defeated the Jamaica Franchise by 105 runs last Monday in their fifth-round match of the WICB four-day Professional Cricket League to stay at the top of the standings. Guyana Jaguars in their first innings scored 314 all out with Man of the Match Veerasammy Permaul topscoring with an undefeated 86 off 107 […]
Cricket with Dalchand Bissoon West Indies lost their first 50 over ICC World Cup warm-up match against England by nine wickets last Monday at Sydney Cricket Ground, Australia. The West Indies took first strike and were bundled out for 122 in just 29.3 overs with Lendi Simmons topscoring with 46. Dwayne Smith made 21, Darren […]
The Pan Am basketball schedule is now online, meaning Team Canada fans can buy tickets to see Canada’s basketball teams take on top competition such as Argentina and Venezuela in preliminary action. The Canadian men’s basketball team will see a tough test in the first round of the tournament. They face Argentina, third-ranked team in […]
Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) that forms part of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has expressed disappointment that national left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul was overlooked as a replacement for Sunil Narine for the 2015 Cricket World Cup. The Berbice board believes that the 25-year-old spinner should have been the automatic replacement for Narine, instead of Jamaican left-arm […]
Some of the most in-demand tickets for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games are going fast, while tickets to key events such as the opening ceremony are already snapped up. Other high-demand events include the men’s football (soccer) gold-medal game and medal rounds for aquatics, track cycling, BMX, canoe / kayak, beach volleyball and equestrian […]
Cricket with Dalchand Bissoon Five senior players of the Trinidad & Tobago Red Force have withdrawn from the squad for the WICB Professional Cricket League (PCL) Four- Day competition which resumes tomorrow (Feb. 6). The five players are Dwayne Bravo, Sunil Narine, Kieron Pollard, Ravi Rampaul and Kevon Cooper. According to the chairman of the Trinidad […]
Cricket with Dalchand Bissoon The West Indies Cricket Board last Tuesday announced that mystery off-spinner Sunil Narine has withdrawn from the West Indies squad for the World Cup 2015. Narine was instrumental in Trinidad & Tobago Red Force winning the Nagico Super50 tournament last Sunday against Guyana with an unbroken eight-over spell taking six wickets for […]
Cricket with Dalchand Bissoon Canada lost to host Namibia in their final round robin match of the World Cricket League Division 2 tournament last Friday, finished in fifth place on net run rate and was relegated to the lower division three. Namibia won their fourth ICC Cricket League Division 2 and will join Netherlands, moving up […]
Detroit Auto Show review By Claudette de la Haye DETROIT, Michigan – My ride with Ralph Giles, a Canadian and senior VP of design at Chrysler, in the Dodge SRT Charger Hellcat was a rolling thunder on my virtue, reminiscent of Jane Austin’s Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice. Simply put, a total raging beast under the […]
