ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada says it has paid in full the arrears owed to the United Nations and as a result has regained its voting rights at the international body. Grenada was listed among three Caribbean Community (CARICOM) governments owing the United Nations, according to a January 15 letter UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon sent to the President of the General Assembly. Grenada is said to have owed US$40,100 while while St. Lucia is in arrears to the tune of US$35,727 and Dominica US$7, 231.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - IT is unbelievable that former Guyana and West Indies cricket captain Clive Lloyd has failed to get a seconder as a nominee for the presidency of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). One would have thought that Lloyd who led the West Indies cricket team for over a decade as the number one in the world and possesses a formidable knowledge of the game would have been an obvious choice to lead the WICB, but as circumstances dictate he could not even get a seconder.