WICB salutes Lara’s Hall of Fame induction
Posted By Stabroek staff On September 17, 2012
ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has saluted batting legend and world record holder Brian Lara on being inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame.
Brian Lara
The former West Indies captain joined 15 other West Indian legends in cricket’s elite Hall of Fame during the gala ICC Awards event at the Water’s Edge in Sri Lanka on Saturday evening.
WICB President Dr. Julian Hunte, praised Lara for his contribution to the game and for the role he played as an ambassador for West Indies and Trinidad and Tobago. Continue reading
Our own tourists – commentary
Our own tourists
September 16, 2012 | By KNews | Editorial
At the recently concluded IMF/CDB forum to recalibrate the economic strategies of CariCom to deal with the global downturn, it was suggested that we focus more on inter-regional tourism. We agree but add the caveat that we consider our huge expatriate communities, as ‘intra-regional” – Region 11. With that in mind, we resubmit a recommendation previously offered.
After a decade or more of promoting the eco-tourism attractions of our interior, the fact remains that the majority of visitors to our shores remains the expatriate Guyanese and his generally foreign-born offspring. Not surprisingly, since the majority of them originated from the coastland, they rarely, if ever, think of going into our interior. The forest is not their destination as yet. Continue reading →
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