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From Donald Duff in Barbados The International Cricket Council (ICC) will later this week make a decision on the governance of cricket in the United States of America based on a report of a task force it set up earlier this year.

By Donald Duff in Barbados   Barring any last minute hiccups, former Pakistan batting great Zaheer Abbas is tipped to be installed as the new president of the International Cricket Council (ICC) when the body stages its annual conference at the Hilton Hotel here in Barbados.

By Donald Duff in Barbados In another groundbreaking attempt to assist in the development of cricket in the United States of America, the International Cricket Council (ICC) yesterday said that a team from the Americas will participate in next year’s WICB Nagico Super50 tournament and its top players in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL).

Asks Donald Duff Chess is not an altogether popular game in Guyana.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) has officially selected their final roster for the impending 2015 Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Championships.

The Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) has been forced to withdraw from participating in this year’s Carifta Games in St Kitts/Nevis, AAG president Aubrey Hutson said last night.

If one though that the individual success of Anthony Drayton and Ronuel Greenidge at this year’s chess Olympiad in Tromso, Norway was about it for chess this year, one had better think again.

Guyana’s chess team at the 41st World Chess Olympiad in Tromso, Norway ended the tournament on a winning note by defeating Palau 3-1 in the 11th and final round of the Open division.

She was for a long time the golden girl of Guyana’s athletics.

National table tennis player Natalie Cummings yesterday departed Guyana for Brazil where she will undergo a two-month training stint at the Jaceiri Table Tennis Club, Sao Paulo.

The Guyana table Tennis Association (GTTA) is looking up give its players some amount of overseas training as it prepares to participate in a number of upcoming international events.

By Donald Duff The Lusignan Golf Club’s Noble House Memorial Cup golf tournament, aimed at honouring past stalwarts of the club is expected to get cracking today and will subsequently be held annually.

Ivan Persaud, a vice president of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), says that a perusal of the GFF Constitution has found several irregularities in the ruling by the GFF Congress which recently suspended executives of the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) for deliberately ignoring its directive.

From Donald Duff in New York Fresh off his exploits in the recent Berbice Open table tennis championships where he won the coveted men’s singles crown, para athlete Gibran `Gibby” Hussain is eyeing similar success at this year’s Mike Dempsey Memorial championships which serves off tomorrow in San Diego, California, United States of America.

National table tennis player Christopher Franklin last weekend smashed his way to the men’s singles title at the French League team and individual tournaments in French Guiana.

Says Donald Duff Just about a year ago then Deputy Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Lolita Applewhaite, in her address at the opening ceremony of the 17th Special Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development with a focus on sport held at the CARICOM Secretariat in Guyana, said that sport should be one of the tools used to boost economic activity in the region.

Trinidad’s Dexter St Louis and the Dominican Republic’s Eva Brito were crowned king and queen when the 55th annual Caribbean Table Tennis championships  ended Saturday night at the Beausejour Indoor Facility in St Lucia.

By Donald Duff in St Lucia Traditional powerhouse, the Dominican Republic prevented Trinidad and Tobago from making a clean sweep of the team events by winning the marquee men’s final at the 51st annual Caribbean Table Tennis Championships in St Lucia here on Wednesday night.

By Donald Duff in St Lucia   Trinidad and Tobago continued to stake a strong claim for top honours at the 51st annual Caribbean Table Tennis Championships here in St Lucia when their France-based pair of Dexter St Louis and Rheann Chung combined to win the mixed doubles title yesterday afternoon.

By Donald Duff in St Lucia For the second year in succession, the Guyana women’s table tennis team was forced to settle for the silver medal following their three games to one defeat at the hands of   Trinidad  and Tobago last night as the curtains came down on the final of the team events of the 51st annual Caribbean Table Tennis championships in St Lucia.