PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Disgraced former FIFA vice-president Austin ‘Jack’ Warner is among former executives of football’s governing body who United States prosecutors say accepted bribes in exchange for Russia and Qatar World Cup votes. A new indictment unsealed in the US District Court in Brooklyn on Monday, after a long-running FBI investigation, alleges […]
AUCKLAND, New Zealand – New Zealand Cricket Chief Executive David White says the Black Caps tour of West Indies in July is now “most unlikely” especially with the country currently into day eight of a four-week lockdown, and the deadly coronavirus pandemic continuing to engulf the globe. Speaking to media on Friday, White said series […]
MELBOURNE, Australia — The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is set to deal a harsh blow to the earnings of Caribbean stars in the Australia Super Netball League after the players’ association here struck a deal with organisers for a reduction in player salaries. With the start of the league suspended until at least June […]
Canada won’t participate in the Tokyo Olympics or Paralympics — at least this summer. The Canadian Olympic Committee and Canadian Paralympic Committee issued joint statements on Sunday saying that they refuse to send their teams to Tokyo unless their respective Games are pushed back a year. The Tokyo Olympics are currently scheduled to start July […]
LONDON — The West Indies upcoming tour of England will begin later, if at all, following the England and Wales Cricket Board’s (ECB) announcement of a seven-week delay to the start of the professional season because of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The season was scheduled to get underway on March 24, and West […]
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies (CWI) has announced it would suspend the last two rounds of the marquee first class championship, along with an entire suite of youth tournaments for the next 30 days, as it braces for the full impact of the deadly coronavirus across the region. In a statement, CWI said […]
HAMILTON, Bermuda– The CARIFTA Games will not be held next month in Bermuda as scheduled, with organizers concerned about the threat of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) that has reached several Caribbean countries. At a press conference held last Friday with Sports Minister Lovitta Foggo, the chairperson of the Local Organizing Committee Donna Raynor said the […]
HAMILTON, Bermuda – President of the Bermuda National Athletics Association (BNAA) Donna Raynor says next month’s Carifta Games, which is set to attract more than 600 athletes from 27 Caribbean countries, should not be affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) that is spreading across the globe. The virus has reached non-English-speaking Caribbean countries, with a few […]
PALLEKELE, Sri Lanka – An explosive 40 not out from Andre Russell hastened West Indies to a seven-wicket win in the second Twenty20 International over Sri Lanka on Friday, to sweep their two-match series. Russell smote six sixes in only 14 balls that put a successful chase of 156 beyond doubt for the Caribbean side […]
SYDNEY, Australia — West Indies missed out on the semi-finals of the Women’s Twenty20 World Cup for the first time in six tournaments when they suffered a 46-run defeat to England in a lopsided contest here on Sunday. Needing a victory to remain in the tournament, West Indies once again struggled with the bat, failing […]
