Daily Archives: Jan 21, 2017

The President of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), Dave Cameron, has labelled a decision to re-name the organisation a necessary one if the institution is to remain commercially viable.

All Saints United were pegged back in their bid for promotion to the top flight after they were held to a 1-1 draw by Potters Tigers in the Antigua & Barbuda Football Association’s (ABFA) First Division on Thursday.

An official in the Ministry of Education is of the opinion that tertiary education should not be limited to the region.

While the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the prime minister chided the opposition United Progressive Party (UPP) within the walls of the Parliament, the party and its supporters protested the 2017 Budget presentation, outside.

The Ministry of Education Science & Technology has been given the largest budgetary allocation of any ministry in the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance’s $1.2 billion 2017 budget.

Prime Minister Gaston Browne, on Friday, presented a $1.2 billion budget that promised to improve tax collection, address pay increases for public servants and provide affordable housing for society’s poor and vulnerable.

Former Manchester United star Dwight Yorke and FA head David John-Williams have been appointed to committees inside football’s world governing body, FIFA.

Former Liverpool and England captain Steven Gerrard is to return to the Premier League club as a youth coach.

Somerset director of cricket Matthew Maynard has hinted that former West Indies captain Chris Gayle may not return to the county in 2017.

Public servants may have something to look forward to after Prime Minister and Finance Minister Gaston Browne said negotiations for increases for them will start this year.