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Guyana will participate in the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Junior Squash Open 2016 which is slated to commence today and conclude on the 21st.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Doubt surrounds the involvement of Youth World Cup heroes Alzarri Joseph and Keacy Carty in the remainder of the Leeward Islands Hurricanes’ campaign in the Regional four-day championship.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka fast bowler Lasith Malinga has recovered from a knee injury and will lead the defending champions at next month’s World Twenty20 in India, the country’s cricket board said yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has praised the West Indies Under-19’s success at the recent ICC Youth World Cup and says her government will continue to pour the necessary resources into sports development.

(Barbados Nation) ST JOHN’S – The Caribbean will have an additional set of activities within the next year from cricket as the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) gets set to host a number of regional and international tours.

With the international friendly between Guyana and Suriname only three days away, the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has officially rescheduled the matches in the Stag Beer Elite League.

(Reuters) – Pakistan spinner Saeed Ajmal dismantled his technique to relearn the art of off-spin and put himself in line for an international recall with a remodelled action.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Retired Australia spin bowling great Shane Warne has suffered a snakebite after dipping his head into a box full of the reptiles for a reality show.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Head coach Graeme West believes the turning point of the West Indies Under-19s’ ICC Youth Cricket World Cup campaign was the chance pairing of speedsters Alzarri Joseph and Chemar Holder, ahead of the quarter-final stage.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – All-rounder Jyd Goolie says one of the keys to the West Undies Under-19s’ recent success at the ICC Youth World Cup was the ability to stay calm under pressure.

CHRISTCHURCH, (Reuters) – Brendon McCullum’s singular contribution to New Zealand cricket extends far beyond the pyrotechnics with the bat which attracted a new generation to the game and helped make the 2015 World Cup such a spectacular success.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Tennis accounted for nearly three quarters of all the suspicious betting alerts issued last year, the European Sport Security Association (ESSA) said in a report published yesterday.

Heroes: Director of Sport, Chris Jones (left) shares a moment with West Indies U19 World Cup winning heroes, Keemo Paul (second from left), Captain Shimron Hetmyer (third from left) and Tevin Imlach yesterday at the GCC Bourda ground.

MANILA, (Reuters) – For all the criticism over his anti-gay comment and the loss of a lucrative endorsement deal with Nike Inc, Philippines world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao still looks set to win election to the country’s senate in May, according to political analysts.

(Trinidad Guardian) Fears that the rapidly spreading Zika virus would hit the shores of T&T materialised yesterday when Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh announced T&T’s first confirmed case. Careful

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – World Under-19 champions West Indies returned to the Caribbean on Tuesday afternoon to a heroes’ welcome, following their triumph last Sunday at the ICC Youth World Cup in Bangladesh.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies Under-19 all-rounder Shamar Springer said his aim in the crucial semi-final against Bangladesh was to silence the home crowd.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados Pride have called up uncapped teenager Keon Harding in a revamped 13-man squad for their seventh round game Regional four-day championship against leaders Guyana Jaguars starting here tomorrow.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The world’s oldest Test cricketer, Andy Ganteaume, has died at 95.

Georgetown (GT) All-Stars defeated Georgetown Football Club (GFC) Masters when the Peter Lashley Memorial Football Match was staged on Sunday 4th at the GFC ground in Bourda.