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Dawn Barker squatting during NAPF Power lifting championships
Dawn Barker squatting during NAPF Power lifting championships

Barker aspiring to return to winning ways

After lifting multiple gold medals and smashed Commonwealth records to en route to earning Female Sports Personality of 2011,powerlifter, Dawn Barker was sidelined for most of 2012 due to an injury but is now healthy and aspiring to return to her winning ways.

Chelsea slump to shock home loss to Swansea in Cup

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Swansea City inflicted the second shock home defeat in eight days on Chelsea, goals from Michu and Danny Graham giving the Welsh club a 2-0 win in their Capital One (League) Cup semi-final first leg yesterday.

England’s Pietersen signs central contract

LONDON, (Reuters) – England batsman Kevin Pietersen has signed a full central contract with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to complete his reintegration into the international fold, the ECB said the team had confirmed yesterday.

 Dwayne Bravo

Nervy T&T quiets CCC to pick up first win

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago brushed aside a ragged Combined Campuses and Colleges team by seven wickets to register their first win and get their Caribbean Twenty20 campaign up and running here Tuesday night.

MVP Tagenarine Chanderpaaul during his unbeaten 103 on Tuesday.

Chanderpaul’s ton in vain as Essequibo records first win

Essequibo on Tuesday recorded a massive 148-run victory over the President’s XI despite Tagenarine Chanderpaul’s maiden limited overs century as the final round of the Guyana Cricket Board’s senior Inter County one day tournament ended at the Demerara Cricket Club ground.

Shiv joins Derbyshire

DERBYSHIRE, United Kingdom,  CMC-Veteran West Indies middle order batsman, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, has signed a two-year contract to play for English county side Derbyshire.

Nervy T&T quiet CCC to pick up first win

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Trinidad and Tobago brushed aside a ragged Combined Campuses and Colleges by seven wickets to register their first win and get their Caribbean Twenty20 campaign up and running here Tuesday night.

This  picture tells it all, the agony of defeat and the unbridled joy of victory. At left, Guyana’s ninth wicket pair of skipper Veerasammy Permaul and Devendra Bishoo celebrates the stunning last over victory while at right fast bowler Jason Holder is despondent, left to rue what might have been. (Photo courtesy of WICB media)

Great Escape!

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A sloppy final over from beanpole seamer Jason Holder gifted Guyana a dramatic last-ball win over Combined Campuses and Colleges in the Caribbean Twenty20 here Monday night.

Vernon Burnett

Burnett sees light at the end of the tunnel with FIFA, CONCACAF officials visit

The impending arrival of CONCACAF and FIFA representatives signals the possible beginning of the reconciliation process between two disgruntled football organisations, the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) and the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) and the hope of fixing the already fractured and tumultuous football situation in Guyana seems a little more realistic.

Marlon Samuels

Samuels out of Big Bash

SYDNEY, CMC-Injured West Indies all-rounder Marlon Samuels was yesterday replaced by England batsman Alex Hales in Melbourne Renegades squad for the remaining matches of the Australian Big Bash league.

Chris Gayle

– but Sydney Thunder still winless

MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC- Chris Gayle emerged from a run drought to hit a record half century but the Sydney Thunder squandered his heroics and succumbed to a 13 run loss against the Melbourne Stars in the Australian Big Bash League yesterday.

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