England fast bowler Jofra Archer has been ruled out until the summer after having a second operation on his long-standing right elbow injury. Archer, 26, had surgery to address the stress fracture on 11 December. He had a previous operation in May and had returned for Sussex, but was then ruled out of the recent […]
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The Energy Smart Fund is set to receive an injection of more than $26 million as the demand for financing for renewable energy projects, from that facility, continues to grow. Word of this has come from Ferdinand Straughn, Investment Manager of the Enterprise Growth Fund Ltd. which manages the Energy Smart Fund. Straughn said since […]
HALLANDALE BEACH, Florida – Many will not be surprised if Barbadian trainer Saffie Joseph Jr again himself at next year’s prestigious Kentucky Derby. And he will have Make It Big to thank if he does, the two-year-old colt capturing the US$401 200 Remington Springboard Mile at Remington Park last weekend and earning a crucial ten […]
Regional credit rating agency Caribbean Information and Credit Rating Services Limited (CariCRIS) has reaffirmed Barbados’ credit rating of CariBB for local currency and CariBB- for foreign currency, with a stable outlook. The Trinidad and Tobago-based agency said the expected performance of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)-backed Barbados Economic Recovery and Transformation (BERT) programme had contributed […]
As expected Darian King easily earned a place in the Barbados Tennis Association (BTA) Top 8 Invitational men’s final where he is expected to compete against fellow Davis Cup teammate Matthew Foster- Estwick tomorrow night at the National Tennis Centre in Wildey. No doubt this has been one of the most competitive BTA Top 8 […]
Road tennis champions Christophe Nickels and Emma Hoang are elated after winning the grand prize of a trip to Barbados during the 2020 Dubai International Heritage Sports Exhibition and Conference (DIHSEC) held this past week. When the one week of competition concluded today Friday, Hoang captured the women’s category while Nickels prevailed victorious in the […]
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – West Indies Women’s head coach Courtney Walsh says the Caribbean women will have to reset to get focused for the upcoming ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup, following almost two weeks of quarantine in Oman. The team last weekend returned to the Caribbean from Oman – where they had been quarantined for […]
New FIA president Mohammed ben Sulayem has refused to rule out punishing Lewis Hamilton for boycotting its awards ceremony on Thursday. Hamilton and Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff did not attend in protest at the handling of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix last Sunday. Formula 1 rules dictate that the top three drivers in the […]
The many days and nights playing cricket are memories that Jason Parris relishes. Walking home from Eagle Hall Primary on evenings as a child and rather than heading straight to his house, as his mother would have liked, Jason would instead scope out any cricket ground he passed in the St. Michael community hoping for […]
Barbadian shareholders in the Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited (ICBL) who held on to their investments should be experiencing the positive impact of that decision three days before Christmas. That’s when ICBL will make an interim dividend payment to shareholders of five cents per share. Moreover, the company’s directors are promising investors a “more consistent […]