Daily Archive: Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Articles published on Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Jamaican men advance to 200 metres semis

(Jamaica Gleaner) LONDON, England: All three Jamaicans have advanced impressively and comfortably to the semi-final of the men 200m with Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake – the two fastest men in history over the distance, talking up the possibility of a world record in the final.

Caricom salutes Kirani James

Chairman of the Caribbean Community  Dr Kenny Anthony, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia has saluted the achievement of Grenada’s first Olympic medallist, Kirani James who won the 400 metres at the London 2012 Games on Monday.

MoBay lockdown

(Jamaica Gleaner) Western Union International has ordered its operators in St James to close their businesses until they implement security measures capable of combating the multibillion-dollar lottery scamming industry.

Grenada’s Kirani James celebrates after winning the men’s 400m final at the London 2012 Olympic Games yesterday. REUTERS/DYLAN MARTINEZ

James wins 400m gold

LONDON, CMC – The outstanding Kirani James added Olympic gold to his fast-growing resume by racing to a personal best time to win the 400 meters in dominating fashion at the London Olympic Stadium here last  night.

Windies ready to take U-19 World Cup

Brisbane, Australia – Third seed West Indies and two-time former champion and number-six seed India are odds-on favourites to qualify for the Super League stage from Group C of the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2012, which will be staged from August 11-26  in Queensland, Australia.

Dr Pradeep Balram

GTTA name teams for C/bean c/ships

The selection committee of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) has stuck to its guns and omitted three of the country’s top players Idi Lewis, Christopher Franklyn and Godfrey Munroe from the men’s team named to compete at the 54th Senior Caribbean Championships later this month in Santo Domingo.

Former national chess champion Kriskal Persaud makes a move against Anthony Drayton during Sunday’s fifth round of the inaugural Red Cherry tournament at the Kei-Shar’s Sports Club.

Persaud wins fifth round despite loss to Khan

Despite losing to national chess champion Taffin Khan; former national champion Kriskal Persaud was declared the winner of the penultimate round of the inaugural Red Cherry ladder tournament on Sunday at the Kei-Shar’s Sports Club, Hadfield Street.

Nick Clegg

UK coalition in crisis over parliamentary reform

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s coalition government suffered its worst crisis to date yesterday when the junior partner in the two-party administration rebelled after its ally in power, the Conservatives, killed its plans to reform the House of Lords.

Syria and the failure of the Annan Peace Plan

Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Anan would probably be the first to concede that his assignment as the United Nations and Arab League Peace Envoy to Syria which he undertook in February this year was always likely to be a tough diplomatic task and that the chances of failure were high.