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  • Chanderpaul out of CPL Pomersbach in

    West Indies middle order batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul has been forced to withdraw from the first ever Caribbean Premier League (CPL) because of his contractual obligations with English county team Derbyshire. Organisers say Chanderpaul signed a contract with CPL, offering himself for selection but later realised that his commitment to Derbyshire provided for release only if it pertained to ...

  • WICB president meets regional dignitaries

    The president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Dave Cameron has described a series of meetings he has been having with Caribbean prime ministers as "crucial" to the development of the sport in the region. Cameron's comments follow his latest round of meetings in which talks were held with St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves in Kingstown and Prime Minister of ...

  • US Cuba to discuss renewal of direct mail service

    The US and Cuba will discuss this week the possibility of re-establishing direct mail, suspended 50 years ago, a State Department spokesperson told EFE Monday. Talks of a "technical" nature will take place Tuesday and Wednesday in Washington among officials of the State Department, the US Postal Service and the Cuban government, said the spokesperson. "We think that re-establishing a direct ...

  • Police identify Oakland man fatally shot by deputy at Castro Valley burger joint

    Quincy Williams, age 32, of Oakland, was shot and killed by an Alameda County sheriff's deputy Friday during an armed robbery at Boulevard Burger in Castro ...

  • Cuba Versus Turkey in Under 19 World Volleyball

    Havana, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban male under-19 volleyball team will make its debut against Turkey in the start of the 13th World Championship of the category on June 27, to be disputed in two Mexican cities. The Cuban team will play its first match against Turkey in the city of Mexicali, the host for Pools B and D, and later it will meet Argentina on June 28, after that they will have a ...

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Shattered Glass

Shattered Glass

Aside from its trite pun of a title, Billy Rays Shattered Glass is a scintillating morality play about the lengths to which some people will go in order to be accepted. The film is based on the true story of Stephen Glass, who has been called the most sustained fraud in modern journalism. A rising star who was already an associate editor for The New Republic by the time he was 25, G ... ...

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  • Eastern Caribbean Fueled by OECS Integration Process

    Port of Spain, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) turned 32 years today with new challenges and immersed in a process of change to increase the links between its members. A key moment of the group was the launch, two years ago, of a regional economic union, which allows greater trade with the signing of the Revised Treaty of Basseterre. The agreement ...

  • Jamaicas Veronica Campbell-Brown suspended after failing drug test

    Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown celebrates victory in the 200m final at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu. Photograph: Kim Jae-Hwan/AFP/Getty ...

  • US-Puerto Rico agents arrest 3 Dominicans with 688Ks cocaine

    SAN JUAN.- Three Dominicans trying to smuggle 688 kilos of cocaine into Puerto Rico were arrested by authorities, U.S. Federal Attorney in San Juan, Rosa Emilia Rodriguez announced Tuesday, EFE reports. She said Ren Pea Almonte, Jose Antonio Toribio and Raul Rodriguez Pascual were intercepted Tuesday aboard a speedboat 195 miles south of Ponce, and the drug seized is valued at US$24 million. ...

  • US senator seeks Congressional Gold Medal for Puerto Rico Borinqueneers

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - U.S. Senator Bob Casey is seeking to honour Puerto Ricans who served in the U.S. military's sole all-Hispanic unit. The Pennsylvania Democrat said Tuesday that he wants to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 65th Infantry Regiment known as the "Borinqueneers." He said the unit endured widespread discrimination as it fought in World Wars I and II and ...

  • Lawsuit filed in Puerto Rico slaying of US banker

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -; The widow of a banking executive slain in Puerto Rico has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the bank's CEO and other high-ranking ...

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