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  • Caribbean T20 League builds momentum

    Caribbean Premier T20 League operations manager Carlisle Powell says the key stakeholders in the six franchise countries have thrown their support behind the inaugural tournament which bowls off in July. Powell and other CPL officials recently held meetings with cricket board executives, stadium management, tourism representatives and government ministers in Antigua amp; Barbuda, Barbados, ...

  • England to tour West Indies in February

    England and the West Indies will play three Twenty20 matches and three One-Day Internationals in the Caribbean early next year, the West Indies Cricket Board announced. The three One-Day Internationals will be played at the Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Grounds in Antigua while Kensington Oval in Barbados will host the T20 games, the WICB said Saturday, reports CMC. The Twenty20 matches will be ...

  • Kirani James talks up Grenada relay team

    World and Olympic 400 metre champion Kirani James has warned that Grenada is capable of producing a relay team as a force to be reckoned with in world athletics. The Grenadian quarter-miler has identified three of the country's overseas-based athletes who he believes can form a quartet with himself to compete against the best in the world, reports CMC. They include Rondell Bartholomew who has ...

  • RFK Center Releases Documents Outlining US Actions to Block Life-saving Funds to Haiti

    RFK Memorial Center for Human Rights and 2002 RFK Award recipient, Loune Viaud of Zamni Lasante, release U.S. Department of Treasury documents revealing that the U.S. and the Inter-American Development Bank deliberately obstructed $146 million in approved IDB financing. WASHINGTON - August 4 - The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights and Zamni Lasante released internal U.S. ...

  • Meeting on Caribbean Biological Corridor in Santiago de Cuba

    Santiago de Cuba, 20 May (Prensa Latina) The 4th Ministerial Meeting on the Caribbean Biological Corridor (CBC) will be held May 21st-May 23rd in this city of eastern Cuba, said authorities from that regional initiative. The previous meetings were held in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, the two countries that, along with Cuba, form the initial nucleus of CBC, which aims, since its creation in ...

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Sawdust and Tinsel (Gycklarnas afton) [DVD]

Sawdust and Tinsel (Gycklarnas afton) [DVD]

Sawdust and Tinsel (Gycklarnas afton) is generally considered to be one of the first films, if not the first film, that truly defined the stylistic and thematic preoccupations of Ingmar Bergman, perhaps because it feels as if it had been drawn directly out of th ... ...

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  • China sweeps Cuba in basketball series

    The Chinese women's basketball team recorded their third straight victory over Cuba after holding off the visitors 75-67 to conclude three-game China-Cuba International Challenge here on Sunday.Chen Nan finished with a team-high 21 points as Lu Wen helped with 14. Shen Yi and Wei Wei added 11 points apiece."I never thought that I would be on the court for so much time. Maybe the coach ...

  • Caribbean Scientist Warns of Climate Change Disaster

    The Caribbean does not have the luxury of time for decisive action on climate change and global warming. In fact, it is on the brink of calamity, according to a prominent ...

  • In Bahamas US Embassy issues crime warning for Americans in islands capital

    NASSAU, Bahamas - The U.S. Embassy in the Bahamas is warning about the threat of armed robbery in the capital of the island chain off Florida's east coast. A statement from the U.S. Embassy in Nassau advises Americans living in and travelling to the islands to be on heightened alert to avoid being a crime victim. It says "armed robbery remains a major threat" facing Americans in ...

  • US Warns of Armed Robbery Threat in Bahamas

    NASSAU, Bahamas -- The U.S. Embassy in the Bahamas is warning about the threat of armed robbery in the capital of the island chain off Florida's east ...

  • NYPD hunts gunman in fatal bus shooting

    New York police said they were looking for an unidentified gunman who shot and killed a teenage girl Saturday as she boarded a city bus in Queens. The 14-year-old victim was on her way home from a birthday party at a neighborhood club when someone on the sidewalk opened fire on the bus at a stop in the Jamaica section of the borough. The girl, whose name was not released, was struck in the ...

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