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welcome KINGSTON, Jamaica - CONGRATULATIONS to Jamaican Wycliffe "Dave" Cameron and Dominican Emmanuel Nanthan at being elected
to the ultra-important positions of President and vice president, respectively, West Indies Cricket Board. These are positive examples of youth not at all having been wasted on the young!

? KINGSTON, Jamaica - The former USSR was a politically aligned collection of previously independent states that did little more than serve the egotistic, power-hungry needs of leaders such as Josef Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev, while countering the superpower status of the United States (US).
During the Cold War, the two superpowers attempted to divide the world into one camp or another. This spilled over into sports, as the US led a boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, to which the USSR retaliated four years later in Los Angeles.

Cameron KINGSTON, Jamaica - Mr Whycliffe 'Dave' Cameron takes the president's chair at the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) at a most interesting time in the game's development across the region.
The recent successes of the senior men's and women's teams have heightened expectations of better days ahead for the game. Those expectations will no doubt carry over into how the game's affairs are run by the regional governing body.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Call me Thomas if you wish, but on this Easter Sunday, what is being resurrected for me is a deep distrust for those who are elected and appointed to govern us.
Despite being full of 'knowledge' based on blind faith that Jesus is coming again as a thief in the night, I am worried that he might arrive before the agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is reached. After all, there have been many announcements which lulled us into a false sense of hope.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - SECURITY Minister Peter Bunting yesterday attempted to allay fears that he was among a group of persons robbed at a villa in Portland on Saturday night.
At least one online news outlet reported that Bunting and a female companion were held up and robbed by thieves who brandished knives at them.

probe KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The main opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has called for a full scale investigation into reports that National Security Minister Peter Bunting had been held up and robbed over the weekend.
Opposition spokesman on National Security and Justice Delroy Chuck in a statement said while the JLP had learnt of the “unfortunate incident” and was also relieved that Bunting had not been injured, given the conflicting accounts of what happened, there was need for a thorough probe.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Although tourism numbers in Barbados have been down for the year so far, the diversification of Barbados’ source markets can still prove successful.
This is the word from Chairman of the Barbados Tourism Authority (BTA), Adrian Elcock.
The Chairman acknowledged that things are not looking good for 2013 so far, but maintained that it was expected with the loss of one of the largest hotels in Almond Beach Village.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, CMC - The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says senior officials, experts and private-sector representatives will on Wednesday begin discussing progress and challenges facing the region at a major conference here.

conference ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – A two-day meeting allowing for the heads of Financial Intelligence Units from the English-speaking Caribbean to share best practices and experiences in asset forfeiture, money laundering and proceedings of crime, gets underway here on Wednesday.
The April 3-4 meeting will be addressed by Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer and Jeffrey Robinson, described by the British Bankers’ Association as ‘the world’s leading financial crime author’.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago is to consider establishing another option to provide reliable electricity to customers following last weekend’s power outage that plunged the country into total darkness for more than eight hours.
Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine, who is expected to submit a report to Cabinet on Thursday on the blackout, said “the time has come to examine whether we have too many eggs in one basket, the natural gas basket.