West Indies Cricket Board, Stanford strike accord
ST JOHN'S, CMC IT'S NOW OFFICIAL - the Stanford Twenty20 competition - has been included on the annual calendar of the West Indies Cricket Board (WIBC). Territorial board presidents had been slow to embrace the competition...

Expect a rich haul of medals
THE NEWS THAT most of Jamaica's top athletes will be taking the long trip to Australia for the March 15-26 Common-wealth Games will warm a lot of hearts at the Jamaica Olympic Association. Jamaica should be represented by as many as eight sports...

Queen's top Lasco/RBBT chess qualifier
QUEEN'S HIGH TOPPED the qualifying tournament for second-place teams, as the Lasco/RBTT National Schools Chess Championships continued over the weekend at Montego Bay Community College (MBCC).

Pimlico hit by equine herpes
BALTIMORE (AP): THE HOME OF the Preakness Stakes is eerily quiet this week, the result of a quarantine that has raised questions whether troubled Pimlico Race Course can regroup in time to host the middle leg of the U.S. thoroughbred Triple Crown...

Cable & Wireless to fund UTech scholarship for tennis player
THE 12TH STAGING of the Cable & Wireless Secondary Schools Tennis Competition was launched on Monday at the Eric Bell Tennis Centre by corporate affairs and communications manager Errol Miller.