David Bedingham fired in a quick throw, after fumbling the ball initially.© Twitter Leicestershire skipper Colin Ackermann was forced to walk back early to the pavilion, following an excellent throw by opposition wicketkeeper David Bedingham in England’s T20 league, the Vitality Blast. The dismissal was captured in a video posted onContinue Reading

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The Caribbean’s ‘double standard’ on the enforcement of COVID-19 protocols · Global Voices

‘These laws should be across the board’ Screenshot of the introductory section of Trinidad and Tobago’s Public Health Regulations, 2020, as they relate to COVID-19. Across the Caribbean, the COVID-19 pandemic has widened the gap of social inequity — including the various treatments of citizens who flout safety regulations. In TrinidadContinue Reading

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World Shorebirds Day in the Caribbean: The beauty of wetlands and the birds that visit them · Global Voices

Many shorebird species are migratory, but some do stay Least Sandpiper at Great Pedro Ponds, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. This very small sandpiper spends the winter in South America, via the West Indies. Photo courtesy Ann Haynes Sutton, conservation ecologist, with permission. Not only do birdwatchers the world over love lookingContinue Reading

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ICC has charged the two cricketers on five counts of the anti-corruption code.© AFP Two United Arab Emirates (UAE) players, Amir Hayat and Ashfaq Ahmed, have been charged by the International Cricket Council (ICC) with five counts of breaching ICC’s anti-corruption code. The players have been provisionally suspended with immediateContinue Reading

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