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CRICKET-SAF/WIS-PREVIEW Buoyant Windies ready for smarting Proteas
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Jan 1, CMC – Forced onto the back foot by a shock first Test defeat, and especially stung by the hostility and effectiveness of the West Indies pace attack in Port Elizabeth, South Africa’s batsmen are preparing themselves to weather another early assault in the second Test beginning here Wednesday. ... Full story
SQUASH-RANKINGS-Latest women’s world squash ratings
LONDON, England, Jan 1, CMC – Women\'s International Squash Players Association (WISPA) rankings list for January 2008, showing Guyana’s Nicolette Fernandes at No.112. ... Full story
WASHINGTON-TRAVEL-US approves new passport card for travellers to the Caribbean
WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States Department of State has approved a passport card equipped with new features to allow greater ease for travellers to the Caribbean, Canada and Mexico. ... Full story
UNITED NATIONS-CHILDREN-UNICEF describes 2007 as a ‘milestone’ for the Caribbean, Latin America
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – In reflecting on its work in the Caribbean and Latin America in 2007, the United Nations Children Educational Fund (UNICEF) has described it as a \"milestone\". ... Full story
BERMUDA-CRIME-Road blocks set up following holiday shooting spree
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC - Road blocks were set up across the island on New Year\'s Eve to search people and vehicles in the wake of the Christmas shooting spree that left a 30-year-old father of three dead and two other men injured. ... Full story
NEW YORK-DRUGS-Jamaican man charged in connection with drug smuggling
NEW YORK, CMC – A Jamaican man is being held without bail at a Detention Centre in Brooklyn awaiting charges for smuggling cocaine into the John F Kennedy International Airport using his prosthetic legs. ... Full story
FOOTBALL-TRINIDAD-TTFF boss anxious to resuscitate Soca Warriors
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jan 1, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) president Oliver Camps has promised to resuscitate the fortunes of the Soca Warriors after a moderate 2007 campaign. ... Full story
HORSE RACING-USA-RESULT Shaun Bridgmohan wins Louisiana Futurity Stakes
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Jan 1, CMC – The favourite Cubera, ridden by Jamaican jockey Shaun Bridgmohan, won the Louisiana Futurity Stakes for two-year-old colts and geldings at Fair Grounds on Monday afternoon. ... Full story
GUYANA-MESSAGE-President promises measures to deal with rising cost of living
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – President Bharrat Jagdeo has promised a raft of new economic and social service measures in 2008 to help the vulnerable cope with the rising cost of living. ... Full story
BARBADOS-ELECTIONS-Opposition promises clean election campaign
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC - Democratic Labour Party (DLP) Leader David Thompson has promised that his party will be running a tough, but clean campaign in its quest to unseat the incumbent Barbados Labour Party (BLP). ... Full story
