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President of the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Alfred Mentore said yesterday that 2014 will focus on the continued development of the sport’s next ambassadors while plans to turn the club into a multi-sporting facility for the community and country are currently in the works.

Despite the challenges, President of the Berbice Volleyball Association (BVA) Gregory Rambarran said the group completed 70% of its 2013 programme and he anticipates a more productive 2014.

Nigel Hinds, a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and former national basketball and hockey player says he has an action plan to take basketball in Guyana to its pinnacle over the next four years if he is elected president of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) at the upcoming Annual General Meeting.

Despite a drastic decline in its traditional attendance, co-founder of the Kashif and Shanghai Organisation, Aubrey ‘Shanghai’ Major has dubbed this year’s edition of its football tournament a “great success.”

BRISBANE,  (Reuters) – Serena Williams extended her winning streak over Maria Sharapova to 14 matches following a 6-2 7-6 (9-7) win in the semi-final of the Brisbane International yesterday.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – TheWest Indies women’s team will have a full camp in New Zealand ahead of their eight-match series next month The World Cup runners-up will arrive in NewZealand on  February 10 for a one-week camp as they prepare to face the White Ferns in three One-Day Internationals and five T20 Internationals.

NELSON, New Zealand, CMC- West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo has brushed aside speculation that flamboyant opener Chris Gayle will be back in the side in time for the two T20 matches to end their tour of New Zealand.

NELSON, New Zealand, CMC- TheWest Indies will be without the services of their test and T20 captain, Darren Sammy, for the rest of the One Day International (ODI) series against New Zealand.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- Former West Indies cricketer Xavier Marshall is protesting his exclusion from a 44-man Jamaica trial squad preparing for the new regional season starting later this month.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Steve Smith scored a sparkling century and put on 128 for the sixth wicket with Brad Haddin to rescue Australia and push the hosts to a respectable 326 all out on the first day of the fifth Ashes test against England yesterday.

(Reuters) – Angelo Mathews made amends for missing a century in the first innings with a gritty unbeaten 116 in the second as Sri Lanka racked up a solid lead in the opening test against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi yesterday.

A master class performance by Devon Millington propelled Slingerz to a 3-2 victory over Santos in the thrilling finale of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA)/Banks Beer Cup on Wednesday at the National Stadium, Providence.

Tournament favourite, Wismar/Christianburg held their nerve to defeat a game Ash Education, 4-2 on penalties and clinch the championship trophy of the inaugural Chico/Kashif and Shanghai Elite Next Generation Tournament on New Year’s Day.

Gold medallist at last year’s World Sub Juniors and Junior Men’s power lifting championships, Gumendra Shewdas has been banned for two years and stripped of his achievement following positive tests for banned stimulants.

BK Western Tigers edged out the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) 2-1 in their third place playoff when the Georgetown Football Association (GFA)/Banks Beer Cup concluded on Wednesday at the National Stadium, Providence.

Technical Director of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA), Terrence Poole, became Guyana’s first three-star coach after successfully sitting an International Boxing Association (AIBA) exam last October while at the World Boxing Championships in Kazakhstan.

BRISBANE,  (Reuters) – Perhaps unsurprisingly, Serena Williams has a clear memory of the moment her on-court rivalry with Maria Sharapova swung in her favour, leading to one-way domination for the last eight years.

QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand (CMC) — New Zealand outclassed West Indies by 159 runs to win a lopsided and rain-shortened third One Day International (ODI), powered by the fastest international century from Corey Anderson at the Queenstown Events Centre on Wednesday.

QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand, CMC-West Indies’ captain Dwayne Bravo says his players were caught “off guard” by the New Zealand batting assault in the third One Day International (ODI) on Wednesday.

BUDAPEST, Hungary,  CMC- The body of Trinidad and Tobago international footballer Akeem Adams who died here on Monday will be flown home next week, his local agent Dion Sosa has confirmed Adams, who has been in a Budapest hospital fighting to recover from a massive heart attack in September, died two days after suffering a stroke.