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(CWI) On this International Women's Day, Cricket West Indies proudly celebrates the remarkable progress we've achieved in championing gender equality and empowerment within our cricketing community.
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South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
David Weigel: \"Democrats are fretting about President Biden’s weaker numbers with Black voters. The new messaging shop Blueprint has a solution: Keep talking about his record until these voters hear about it.\"\"In a new batch of polling, Blueprint found that Black voters, while overwhelmingly D
(Reuters) – England players will wear training shirts bearing the names of key workers before the start of the first test against the West Indies next month to honour their service during the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s cricket board said yesterday.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said people whose names will feature on the shirts have been nominated by their local cricket clubs and include teachers, doctors, nurses, social workers and carers.
“As we get back to playing the game we love, we want to take the time to honour the brave key workers who went into bat for their country under the toughest circumstances,” England skipper Joe Root said in a statement.
The ECB said the series would be called the #raisethebat test series in honour of key workers.
“It has been a long and challenging journey to cricket’s return and while this pales in comparison to what the country has faced, we hope the #raisethebat test series will bring some enjoyment… to people’s lives,” ECB CEO Tom Harrison said.
the original name of Dominica in the West Indies is Wai tukubuli, the name given by the Caribs. it means her tall body and is one of many Carib names which still survives on the island. a leading dance group is known as the Waitukubuli Dancers.
[WHO] Geneva -- As health leaders prepare to gather for a virtual session of the resumed 73rd World Health Assembly (WHA), WHO has three messages to share.
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The M23 rebels have retaken the village of Kishishe in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where they are accused of having committed a massacre at the end of November 2022, killing some 170 people according to the UN, local sources said on Tuesday.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Kenya Meteorological Department has issued a heavy rains advisory at the Coast, Central, Western, Lake Victoria Basin and Southeast lowlands.
In the wake of the global pandemic, Black communities across the nation have been quietly leading a revolution—one centered around the adoption of remote work and homeschooling. As the world grapples with unprecedented challenges, these communities are redefining education and employment, seeking safety and sanity in the midst of uncertainty. Homeschooling on the Rise Homeschooling … Continued
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By MSN News A 12-year-old boy is set to make history as the youngest student to study aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech. Caleb Anderson is expected to gain admission to the prestigious university this fall after meeting with the school's president earlier this month. The tween prodigy, who hails from Marietta, Georgia, has stunned administrators with […]
Playing without the captaincy could allow Faf du Plessis to have even more of an influence on young players in the Proteas set-up.
Du Plessis has since stepped away from international captaincy entirely, but he remains committed to representing his country in all formats.
Quinton de Kock has taken the reins in both limited overs formats while a decision on the new Test captain is yet to be announced, but in Du Plessis the Proteas have an experienced campaigner who can continue to influence the newcomers in the squad.
This past summer, Proteas cricket entered a new era under the leadership of head coach Mark Boucher and Director of Cricket Graeme Smith, and with the T20 World Cup in Australia still tentatively scheduled for later this year, Du Plessis could have a major role to play in that transition.
Van der Dussen has now broken through into the Protall three formats for the Proteas, making his Test debut against England in December, and he remembers the immense impact Du Plessis had on him when he first entered the international stage.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s team will arrive in England tomorrow before entering a two-week quarantine period ahead of their tour, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said yesterday.
“They will start a 14-day isolation period at Blackfinch New Road, Worcester before transferring to Derbyshire’s The Incora County Ground on July 13 to accelerate their preparation ahead of the first Test, which will include two four-day internal warm-up matches,” an ECB statement said.
The Pakistan Cricket Board said on Tuesday that a total of 10 players, including all rounder Mohammad Hafeez, had tested positive for COVID-19.
All members of Pakistan’s touring party will have been tested prior to travel, the ECB said, with those testing positive for COVID-19 not permitted to travel with the advance group tomorrow.
England return to action following the COVID-19 stoppage with three tests against the West Indies next month with the first scheduled to begin in Southampton on July 8 without fans.
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MANCHESTER, England, CMC – Jermaine Blackwood’s struggles with the bat continued but reserve Joshua DaSilva shone with an unbeaten half-century on a rain-hit day two of the four-day ‘inter-squad’ warm-up match here yesterday.
Another reserve Sunil Ambris chipped in with 25 but Blackwood managed only one and Test captain Holder made just five.
Blackwood’s form will be cause for some concern especially since he is expected to feature in the West Indies XI for the opening Test next week in Southampton.
The leading scorer in the West Indies domestic first class championship, Blackwood made three and 15 in last week’s three-day tour match also staged here at Old Trafford, leaving him short of time in the middle ahead of the first Test.
Ambris, who struck a half-century in the first warm-up, faced 46 balls in nearly an hour-and-a-half before becoming Chemar Holder’s first wicket.
(Reuters) – England all-rounder Moeen Ali has been included in a 30-member group that will begin training at the Ageas Bowl from June 23 ahead of their first test against the West Indies on July 8, the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said yesterday.
Moeen, 32, had announced a break from test cricket in September last year after losing out on a central contract for the longest format for the 2019-20 season.
He played the last of his 60 tests in last year’s Ashes series opener against Australia.
The training group, which includes eight uncapped players, will take part in a three-day practice match on July 1 after which a squad will be named for the first test, the ECB said in a statement involved with England is delighted that cricket is returning soon, and that the players are reporting for group training,” National Selector Ed Smith said.
The first test is scheduled to take place at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton from July 8, with the last two matches to be held at Old Trafford in Manchester.
John Chavis, early 19th Century minister and teacher, was the first African American to graduate from a college or university in the United States. Chavis was born on October 18, 1763. His place of birth is debated by historians. Some scholars think that Chavis hailed from the West Indies. Others believe that he was born in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, or that he was born in North Carolina. Available records document that Chavis was a free African American who probably worked for Halifax, Virginia attorney James Milner beginning in 1773. It is likely that Chavis utilized the books in Milner’s extensive law library to educate himself.
In 1778, while still a teenager, Chavis entered the Virginia Fifth Regiment and fought in the Revolutionary War. He served in the Fifth Regiment for three years. In the 1780s Chavis earned his living as a tutor and while working in this capacity he married Sarah Frances Anderson. Although an excellent teacher, Chavis’ own intellectual capacity was not satisfied. He soon moved his family to New Jersey to enter a tutorial program with John Witherspoon, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. In 1792, at the age of 29, Chavis was accepted into the College of New Jerseys’ Theological School, later renamed Princeton University.
In 1794, after Witherspoon’s death, Chavis left New Jersey, transferring to Liberty Hall Academy in Virginia, which was later renamed Washington Academy and which would eventually become Washington and Lee University. Chavis was licensed to preach in the Presbyterian Church of Lexington, Virginia upon his graduation from Liberty Hall Academy in the fall of 1799.
In 1808, John Chavis opened a private school in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he taught black and white children. Chavis specialized in Latin and Greek, and his school soon gained a reputation for excellence. Before long, however, white parents protested the presence of black pupils, and Chavis re-arranged his school, teaching white children during the day and African
MANCHESTER, England – West Indies players will wear the Black Lives Matter logo on their playing shirts when they face England throughout the upcoming #RaiseTheBat Test Series, starting July 4, as part of the Sandals Tour of England 2020.
According to a release from Cricket West Indies, the decision was taken by the players and team management with the full support of Cricket West Indies (CWI).
West Indies captain Jason Holder said: “This is a pivotal moment in history for sports, for the game of cricket and for the West Indies cricket team.
Troy Deeney said: “Alisha and I are immensely proud to be asked and take part in a monumental moment in world sport, this amazing decision by the West Indies cricket team to show their support for Black Lives Matter.
Watching cricket with my grandad, and seeing Brian Lara transcend from being a cricketer to a worldwide superstar, shaped my childhood, so it’s great to be able to help West Indies Cricket show their support in such a meaningful way.”
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KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Windward Islands batsman Desron Maloney starred as La Soufriere Hikers thrashed Botanic Garden Rangers in the second match of the inaugural T10 Vincy Premier League here Friday.
The 29-year-old right-hander, who made his first debut during the recent domestic season, stroked a lively unbeaten 41 from 20 balls to help Hikers chase down 71 for victory at the Arnos Vale Stadium.
Maloney struck four fours and three sixes and put on 58 for the first wicket with former Windwards first class batsman Salvan Browne, whose 22 came from 26 deliveries and included a couple of fours and a six.
In the opening game, Test batsman Sunil Ambris shone with the ball but failed with the bat as his Salt Pond Breakers beat Grenadine Divers with four balls to spare.
Opener Shem Browne smashed 24 from 13 balls but was the only batsman to reach double figures as seamer Wesrick Strough snatched three wickets in his only over – the final one of the innings.
CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) - South Africa’s women’s side have pulled out of a proposed tour of England next month due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, ending hopes they would be able to return to the pitch after series against Australia and West Indies were cancelled.
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England seems vulnerable with the bat too —Inexperience, lack of recent form could play into WI’s favour
A lot of negative takes have surrounded the West Indies’ team’s batting ahead of its three-match test series against England next month.
However, England’s batting too may be a cause for concern for the hosts when the two sides clash in the first test which begins July 8.
Things could get dicey for England due to a mixture of inexperience, the unavailability of their leading batsman – Joe Root, and lack of recent form by some of their senior players.
The foregoing may hand Kemar Roach et al just the kind of opening West Indies need to make the series a competitive and exciting one or even go on to clinch a first series win on English soil in over three decades.
Lois Leveen occupies an unusual role as both historian and novelist. Leveen is the author of The Secrets of Mary Bowser,which is based on the true story of a black woman who became a Union spy in the Confederate White House during the Civil War. Very few details about the historic Mary Bowser can be proven, and many ostensibly nonfiction, scholarly accounts of her life make claims that are either untrue or at least undocumented. Although The Secrets of Mary Bowseris a work of fiction, Leveen has also done substantial research on the real Mary Bowser, including debunking many of the claims about her. In this article, originally published on TheAtlantic.com under the titleThe Spy Photo That Fooled NPR, the U.S. Army Intelligence Center, and Me, Leveen explains how a story of a mistaken identity reveals a lot about the history of black women in America, the challenges of understanding the past, and who we are today. Leveen and BlackPast.orgthank the editors of The Atlantic for allowing us to share this piece here. Readers interested in learning more about the real Mary Bowser should consult the Encyclopedia Virginia entry about her, also written by Leveen. Students and scholars interested in doing their own original research on Bowser can begin by exploring what Leveen describes as the most promising areas for further research. This is a wonderful opportunity to practice real research techniques and to increase our collective understanding of the how black women havecontributed to the history of the United States.
Its a blurry image. But in some ways that makes it the perfect portrait of Mary Bowser, an African American woman who became a Union spy during the Civil War by posing as a slave in the Confederate White House. What better representation of a spy who hid in plain sight than a photograph whose subject stares straight at the viewer yet whose features remain largely indecipherable? Small wonder the photograph has been circulated by NPR, Wikipedia, libraries, history projects, and in my book,
Jamaica is an island in the West Indies, 90 mi (145 km) south of Cuba and 100 mi (161 km) west of Haiti. It is a little smaller than Connecticut. The island is made up of coastal lowlands, a limestone plateau, and the Blue Mountains, a group of volcanic hills, in the east.
Constitutional parliamentary democracy.
Jamaica was inhabited by Arawak Indians when Columbus explored it in 1494 and named it St. Iago. It remained under Spanish rule until 1655, when it became a British possession. Buccaneers operated from Port Royal, also the capital, until it fell into the sea in an earthquake in 1692. Disease decimated the Arawaks, so black slaves were imported to work on the sugar plantations. During the 17th and 18th centuries the British were consistently harassed by the Maroons, armed bands of freed slaves roaming the countryside. Abolition of the slave trade (1807), emancipation of the slaves (1833), and a drop in sugar prices eventually led to a depression that resulted in an uprising in 1865. The following year Jamaica became a Crown colony, and conditions improved considerably. Introduction of bananas reduced dependence on sugar.
On May 5, 1953, Jamaica gained internal autonomy, and, in 1958, superheaded the organization of the West Indies Federation. A nationalist labor leader, Sir Alexander Bustamente, later campaigned to withdraw from the federation. After a referendum, Jamaica became independent on Aug. 6, 1962. Michael Manley, of the socialist Peoples National Party, became prime minister in 1972.
The Labour Party defeated Manley in 1980 and its capitalist-oriented leader, Edward P. G. Seaga, was elected prime minister. He encouraged private investment and began an austerity program. Like other Caribbean countries, Jamaica was hard-hit by the 1981–1982 recession. Devaluation of the Jamaican dollar made Jamaican products more competitive on the world market, and the country achieved record growth in tourism and agriculture. While manufacturing also grew, food prices rose as much as 75% and thousands of
Former West Indies seamer, Ian Bradshaw, believes the West Indies will enter their series against New Zealand as the underdogs but said that he is happy to see Darren Bravo and Shimron Hetmyer returning to boost the batting.
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MANCHESTER, England, CMC – Head coach Phil Simmons will spend five days in isolation as a precaution after leaving the secure West Indies facility here to attend a funeral on Friday, media reports have said.
Simmons will not oversee the final four-day warm-up match starting tomorrow at Old Trafford but fast bowler Alzarri Joseph told reporters yesterday his absence would not impact preparations.
West Indies arrived here June 9 and underwent two weeks of quarantine, while beefing up preparations in the nets.
West Indies arrived in the UK on a secure chartered flight, were transported to Old Trafford in several buses to ensure social distancing and have been hunkered down ever since.
All three Tests – the first carded for Southampton and the last two at Old Trafford – will be played behind closed doors with strict sanitisation and social distancing measures in place.
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[New Times] President Paul Kagame has called on the African Union Commission and African Union Member states to accelerate consultations on aspects of the reforms process such as division of labour.
