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  • DTrinidadamp Tobago doesnt want to figure in CPL name

    Cricket officials in Trinidad and Tobago are raising objection to a decision by organisers of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) to name the Port-of-Spain based franchise after the twin island republic. Organisers have announced that the Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel is among six franchises participating in the inaugural CPL, which starts July 30 in Barbados. However, the governing body for ...

  • Kim Collins to be honoured by a Texas university

    Caribbean sprint legend Kim Collins is to be inducted into the Texas Christian University's (TCU) Hall of Fame during an official ceremony later this year. Collins, who competed for the TCU Horned Frogs and received six All-America honours, will be inducted into their letterman's Hall of Fame along with six other former TCU athletes. The 37-year-old former World Champion attended TCU between ...

  • Goan musician ties up with Trinadad and Tobago rapper

    A Goan musician has teamed up with a Trinidad and Tobago rapper to craft an album with an eye to putting it out on international music channel VH1. The new music video 'Cozy Together' by Varun Carvalho, a self-confessed dentist-by-day and singer-by-night, features rapper and musician Nkenge Ross aka Nick, who has earlier played in Caribbean Bands like Ecstatic and Matrix. Speaking to reporters ...

  • Injury concerns force Blake to withdraw from Nationals

    Injury concerns have forced double Olympic silver medallist Yohan Blake to pull out of the Jamaica National Senior Championship scheduled to begin on Thursday. Manager Cubie Seegobin says the Jamaican sprinter has not fully recovered from a hamstring injury he suffered in April to run the 200m rounds this week. "Yohan Blake has withdrawn from the National Championships," Seegobin confirmed ...

  • Puerto Rico hopes to net $100 mn from tax amnesty

    The Puerto Rican government expects to net around $100 million from a tax amnesty that expires June 30, Treasury Secretary Melba Acosta said Wednesday. There are many tax debtors who have the chance to get up to date with the tax office, she said in a statement on WKAQ radio. "These debtors have the opportunity to get up to date without paying interest," Acosta said, though adding that after ...

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(500) Days of Summer [Blu-Ray]

(500) Days of Summer [Blu-Ray]

(500) Days of Summer, a romantic comedy that coyly wraps its moments of sharp-edged truth in a comfortable blanket of indie-film quirk, is built on a clever temporal structure that whips us back and forth through the eponymous 500 days of the relationship between a yo ... ...

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  • Maykel Reyes a gift for Football World from Cuba FIFA U 20 World Cup News

    None of the members of the campus with which Cuba go to Turkey plays in clubs abroad, and the stars are the wheel Arichel striker Maykel Hernandez Reyes, who were crucial to his goals, five and six respectively. Cuba on Wednesday named 21 players for the football team that will compete in the U-20 Turkey, from June 21 to July 13, will mark his debut in a tournament of this category, a radio ...

  • Debutants Cuba eyeing bright future

    Cuba 's last appearance at a FIFA competition came all the way back at the 1938 FIFA World Cup(TM) in France, the young players preparing to compete at the FIFA U-20 World Cup Turkey 2013 are determined not to make their nation wait so long again. Fully focused on both present success and future growth, this crop of promising Cuban talents look well-placed to continue their country’s ...

  • Dominican Republic in crossfire of two deadly wars Washington

    Santo Domingo.- While the Dominican Republic wages a successful fight against the dealing with humans, it will have to escalate its war on drug trafficking, according to two reports released separately in Washington on Wednesday. The Annual Report on Trafficking in Persons keeps Dominican Republic in Category 2, along with others in the region such as Mexico, Chile, Brazil and Argentina, ...

  • Haiti PM files new complaint in defamation case

    MIAMI -- Following a judge's order, Haiti's prime minister has filed a more detailed complaint in his defamation case against a Haitian-American journalist.Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe and South Florida businessman Patrice Baker originally sued Leo Joseph in September over his reporting in the New York-based Haiti-Observateur. They allege that Joseph knew his reporting about the ...

  • Jamaica seeks closer ties with diaspora to boost business investment

    The Jamaican government is seeking to forge stronger ties with its diaspora, estimated by the World Bank to have some 5.4 billion USdollars in savings, to spur its economic growth and development.Emulating some successful models such as Israel, China and India,Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller earlier this week pledged to put in place the necessary framework."We are resolutely ...

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