PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - Prime Minister Patrick Manning has announced a cutback on the construction of new schools, hospitals, housing units and the postponement of the start of construction of a Carnival Centre, as the Trinidad and Tobago government implements measures to deal with a projected shortfall in revenue caused by the global economic crisis.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados captain Norman Forde is anxious to shock more fancied teams at the 2008 Digicel Caribbean Football Championship Finals as he and his teammates take aim at their first ever regional title.
LONDON, England, Dec 2, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago-born golf ace Stephen Ames dipped further in the men’s Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR) this week and is now ranked 35th.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Dec 2, CMC – Jacques Deschamps, the Haitian manager of rising Jamaican professional boxer Nicholas Walters, is encouraged by the progress the 22-year-old featherweight is making at his training base in Panama.
For over 40 years, the man known to many as “the Dragon” from his early days at St Georges Boys School in Kingston ignited Jamaica, the wider Caribbean and the world with pulsating soca rhythms.