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St. Lucia’s sprint queen Julien Alfred has bagged yet another distinguished award as she was named the Athletics Weekly (AW) International Female Athlete of the Year for 2024. Alfred, who won St. Lucia’s first-ever Olympic medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics when she succeeded in winning gold in the women’s 100 meters and silver in the 200 meters, beat out several other nominees, including Belgium’s Nafi Thiam, the Netherlands’ Sifan […]

Stafanie Taylor will not be available for the West Indies senior women’s multi-format tour of India. The team will compete in this series in three T20 Internationals and three One-Day Internationals (ODIs). The Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced that Captain Hayley Matthews will lead the squad. However, Taylor remains sidelined due to an injury. The tour starts on Dec. 15 with the T20I series at the Dr. DY Patil Sports […]

The West Indies wrapped up the opening Test against Bangladesh in only 40 minutes on the fifth and final day of the match and took a 1-0 lead in the two-match series at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua. Pacer Alzarri Joseph took two wickets as Bangladesh resumed on their overnight total of 109 for seven in pursuit of 334 for victory. They were however limited to 132 for […]

Studies recently done by Matt Schroeder, senior researcher at the Small Arms Survey at the Graduate Institute of International Development Studies, revealed a notable increase in seizures of firearms shipments to the Caribbean and Latin America during the period 2016-2023. The findings were disclosed in the research titled “Trends in Trafficking:  Comparing US-based Firearms Trafficking to the Caribbean and Latin America.” The newly acquired data came through the US Customs […]