Australia ended the 1998 Commonwealth Games with the top medal haul, finishing with 80, and as the Games in Kuala Lumpur closed, the athletes and fans of the Commonwealth looked forward to the next competition in Manchester in four years.
To concentrate minds, leaders arriving in the Caribbean will be presented with two reports, both of which are remarkably blunt, considering that one was funded in part by the Commonwealth's small Secretariat, and the other came from the Royal Commonwealth Society, the largest of the NGOs that promote the club.
At a meeting of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group in London this week, Don McKinnon, the Commonwealth secretary-general, said that if the election were to be held in June, international observers would have to arrive at once.
Walking the shoreline, Secretary Sullivan and his team explained the aims of the Commonwealth and the specific details of the project.
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Preparations for Glasgow 2014 are the best for any Commonwealth Games in the past 20 years, according to the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF).
The Man Booker Prize, which is open to writers from the UK, the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland, announces its 2013 winner in October.
This is an athlete who has won gold in the last three major international competitions she has taken part in - last winter's World Indoors, the 2002 European Championships and the Commonwealth Games the same year.
Building this 80-mile extension would normally take 15 to 20 years, but Delhi Metro must complete the expansion by September 2010--in three and a half years--just in time to welcome thousands of visitors who will descend on Delhi for the Commonwealth Games the following month.
The card also features Amir Khan v Willie Limond for the Commonwealth lightweight crown and Matt Skelton v Michael Sprott for the Commonwealth heavyweight title.
The director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Prof Philip Murphy, said the Commonwealth was very important to small states, but questioned the means to impose its values on members.
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In January the group petitioned the Commonwealth, made up of former British colonies, to refer Zambia to the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group and launch an independent investigation.
England last staged the Commonwealth Games in Manchester in 2002, while the next Commonwealth Games will be held in 2014 in Glasgow.
Ephraim Mirvis is to become the next chief rabbi of the UK and Commonwealth, the Office of the Chief Rabbi has said.
Welsh people from all walks of life are already recognised along with others throughout the UK and Commonwealth in the annual New Year and Queen's Birthday Honours lists.
When you cross that line and hear you are the Commonwealth champion for the first time, it gets to you.
To partially hedge its bets in this area, the Commonwealth is designing the Marine Terminal to serve as a commercial port as well.
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Latin American countries claim their share as southern neighbours, while the special relationship with the Commonwealth countries of the Caribbean makes them the largest recipients per person.
Mr Scott said the first minister had an "enormous task" in restoring the confidence in the Commonwealth Games by the time they came to Glasgow in 2014.
But events like the Commonwealth Games do the exact opposite.
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When Ian Thorpe entered the Manchester Aquatics Centre for his first appearance at the Commonwealth Games, the cheer from the sell-out crowd almost blew him into the swimming pool.
As head of the Commonwealth Connector, the official insurance exchange set up in Massachusetts, he has seen at first hand how the raucous politics of reform have unfolded in his state.
Six veteran players have been dropped from the initial squad training for both the Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games, and for the elite six-team Champions Trophy, in Lahore in October and November.
Private consultants, many of them British, have long worked on other globe-trotting events like the Commonwealth games, the Asian games, and football and rugby world cups, on contracts lasting from six months to years.
Yet Milton lived through the execution of a king (which he defended), the establishment of a commonwealth and the restoration of monarchy (which he attacked, even when it was likely to mean death to do so).
It might have been far easier to have overcome this difficulty if the original proposals for a Commonwealth civil service had been imaginatively carried out if the Commonwealth countries had been prepared to send more technicians and administrators of their own to serve the colonies in their transitional stages.
The funding launch was held at the refurbished Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh, built for the 1970 Commonwealth Games.
Legislation in the 15 Commonwealth countries where the Queen is head of state would also need amending.
Evans starred for Wales at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in the weightlifting and judo squads.
Danny Sriskandarajah of the Royal Commonwealth Society describes the experience as a story of evolving disappointments.
Lord Saville and the Commonwealth judges who comprise the inquiry, are not expected to report back until 2004.
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