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GEORGETOWN, Guyana’s former Commis-sioner of Police, Henry Greene was killed on September 7 after he was involved in a head-on collision with a truck at Harlem, West Coast Demerara. A 10-year-old child, Shaffiya Jam-aluddin, also died in the three-vehicle crash. Five others were injured.

According to Police Commissioner Leroy Brumell, Greene was driving a vehicle that col-lided with the truck on the Harlem Public Road and ranks rushed the injured former commis-sioner to the hospital. He was said to have been pronounced dead at the West Demerara Hospital. This was confirmed by Brumell who said the death was “shocking and surprising” particularly so following the recent death by natural causes of another former Police Com-missioner, Laurie Lewis. Greene was 58.

Greene retired as Police Commissioner in

April this year after a scandal over allegations that he had committed rape. He was never charged. Months of pressure had been piled on both Greene and the government to act fol-lowing the former Top Cop’s ad-mission that he had had sexual relations with a woman who had gone to him for assistance with a criminal matter. Greene made the revelation in a court affidavit only after he had been accused by the woman of rape. The af-fidavit was drawn up in support of a motion brought by lawyers for Greene to thwart advice by the Director of Public Prosecu-tions, Shalimar Ali-Hack for a charge of rape to be brought against him.

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Leela’s Tropical Nights, (1154 Morningside at Sheppard) celebrated its Official Grand Opening over the September 7 – 9 weekend. Hundreds of well wishers dropped by during the three day

celebration, including the photographed Tassa drummers.

Leela’s Tropical Nights is a partnership of co-owners Leela’s Steve Dindyal and the former Tropical Nights’ Nizam

Ally. From the Septem-ber 14 weekend onwards, Leela’s Tropical Nights will be offering the same delicious 30+ items Buffet that made the original Tropical Nights as highly popular as it used to be.

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Despite the fact that we live in a society that provides great health benefits, people still have concerns about their overall health and well-ness. Whether the anxieties relate to serious ailments, nutrition, obesity or mental health, there’s no short-age of health issues to be concerned about.

Jamaican-born Andre Henriques, who has been operating Nutrition Sales Network (NSN) since 1989, is well aware of such health concerns. He’s had some of his own since arriving in Canada in 1967.

One of his personal experiences was with a prostate condition that began in 2004, with high PSA readings that continued to rise. His remedy was to increase his usage of Shaklee’s Saw Palmetto. Saw Palmetto is an al-ternative treatment for men with an enlarged prostate. Now, eight years after the problem first showed itself, Mr. Henriques has seen his PSA readings decrease.

Wanting a more balanced lifestyle than what he had previously experienced as an employee in the banking, insurance, marketing, and loss prevention industries, in 2006 he switched from doing his busi-ness part-time to full time. With Shaklee as NSN’s preferred supplier, he reckoned that this change from employee to full-time business owner would allow him to take more control over both his health and finances. At the same time, he could help other people to also have similar control, if they wanted it.

At the time, Mr. Henriques had been using Shak-lee products for about 27 years. He knew its value. And when his PSA decreased with use of the Saw Palmetto that was his greatest motivator to change his career path.

Shaklee has been operating for over 50 years. As early as 1960, it produced one of the first biodegrad-

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able household cleaners. Its website makes the claim to be “the first com-pany in the world to obtain Climate Neutral™ certification” and totally offset its CO2 emissions.

Of his business venture, Mr. Hen-riques says, “The quality of the prod-uct and the integrity of the company

are the reasons I joined with Shaklee. I was tired of being downsized. Close to retirement, I realized my income-producing possibilities were decreasing. Younger people who were smarter (than me) were willing to work for less.”

Elaborating on Shaklee’s integrity, Mr. Henriques says about eight years ago the corporation was faced with a situation where management had to make a choice that resulted in removing product from the market, even while other companies continued to sell the product. Mr. Henriques says the Shaklee owner determined to do what was right to avoid hurting customers, even though he knew it would cost them millions of dollars in lost revenues.

The businessman highlights some points of inter-est about the products. He says, “The average Shak-lee consumer has been in Shaklee for 17.4 years. That tells you that people who use Shaklee love them. The company guarantees that it uses products that are not genetically modified. Further, he adds, “Shaklee isn’t cheap, but it’s not the most expensive. And it has ridiculously high standards.”

Mr. Henriques acknowledges that there’s a tension today in society: people are living longer, but most North Americans don’t have enough money to retire on. He says that after the age of 40, it’s more likely that the average person’s income will decrease as op-posed to increase. People who used to earn $80,000 a year find themselves earning half that amount in

their older years. The NSN owner, who is supported in his venture by his wife Beth, says his nutrition business has enabled him to have an attractive retire-ment income.

A former student of Wolmers Boy School in St. Andrews, his Jewish ancestors went to Jamaica from the Iberian Peninsula. To avoid possible persecu-tion near they coast, the family chose to go inland, making their ancestral home in Mandeville. Jamai-cans who know their history know that the syna-gogue in Kingston was established by the earliest members of the Henriques family.

Mr. Henriques says his father, who eventually moved his family to Kingston, and opened a success-fully jewelry store, became a Christian, and he fol-lowed in his father’s footsteps.

Today, the 61-year-old Andre Henriques is more concerned with quality of life and an overall lifestyle that allows him to do things he couldn’t do when he was employed by other people. He enjoys life, is thankful for good health, uses his time to sup-port causes he truly believes in, and he’s continually looking to engage people he can help to earn extra income through his nutrition business.

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Gonna Be A Star is a Kids TV Show geared towards at risk teenagers six-teen years old and under, with special emphasis on the 13 priority neighbor-hoods of Toronto. The Show’s goal is to create an atmosphere that is both entertaining and educational, but most of all inspirational.

The Show’s ambassador, Omri, is a dynamic and talented eleven year old who has been performing locally since age five. Loved by the camera, Omri is a natural performer. A profes-sional, multi talented rapper, dancer, actor, who seems destined to continue adding to his already impressive port-folio.

“Gonna Be A Star” features inter-views with children who are excelling in their respective areas: kid’s theatre, field trips, Academic Accomplishment Awards and music videos. The first Annual “Gonna Be A Star Talent Show, “Where The Kids Get To Shine,” will take place on Sunday September 22, at

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the Forest Creek Pathway Community Center, located at 24 Forest Creek Path-way in Scarborough (Morningside and Sewells).

The September 22 Show will include 3 prize Competition Categories: Rap-ping/Singing; Dancing and Talent for ages 5-16. The Show will also feature rides and games, live performances plus lot of prizes and surprises. There will be Special guest appearances by Omri, Talijah, Kofi, and Rhamondo performing their hit “Me n my gang,” Jah Jah the six year old drumming sensation, Break dancing from Elissa Kirby, a live steel pan band, El Guerre-ro with his reggae flavored reggaeton and lots more.

Doors open at 2pm and show time is 3:30pm. The event is scheduled to finish at 10 pm. The show will be hosted by Quinn from Toronto Talent. This is a free event for the entire family. For more information email kerland-brown@yahoo.com or 416-877-5659.

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“I expect more from you.” Those five words became deeply entrenched in Courtney Carroll’s consciousness the moment they were uttered by his home-room teacher in his adolescence years, after getting into a physical altercation with another teacher. That statement was one of the chief catalysts to moving his life in a constructive direction.

After migrating to Canada from Jamaica in February 1975 with his siblings, he soon came to the under-standing that there were innumer-able financial difficulties facing the family. The Ontario housing complex where they lived was weighed down by drugs, violence and poverty. Car-roll recalls that there were no avail-able well-to-do role models for gainful mentorship. Within the first five years of living in Canada, Carroll lived in five different homes and attended six different schools. He witnessed loved ones and friends engaging in poor money management practices and the ramifications lead them into high consumer debts and personal bank-ruptcies.

In the midst of the financial chaos taking place around Carroll, his broth-er passed away in a fatal car accident and there were no pre-allotted funds

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for funeral expenses. This unpleasant inci-dent prompted Carroll to take stock of his fi-nancial future; he knew there had to be a per-manent discontinuation to living this way.

Carroll immediately began to better himself through the vehicles of edu-cation and surrounding himself with high achievers. Even though in his im-mediate circle there was no one flour-ishing economically, Carroll knew he had a destiny with financial well being and stability. He took it upon himself to establish a goal of achieving a more healthy monetary hygiene. The gener-ational cycles of financial delinquency began to break.

Carroll quickly identified that at-tending university was the only option for him to explore and he obtained degrees in psychology and physical education at York University. Being a focused individual with a self starter attitude and natural teaching abilities has always worked well for Carroll. He has been employed at the YMCA as a personal trainer and in group homes as a counselor. Outside of his current role as a principal with the Toronto District School Board, Carroll teaches martial arts and has obtained a third degree black belt. He has also attained licenses in mutual funds and

life insurance.Real estate is also one of Carroll’s

niches. The leading reason for get-ting involved in this area of work was to protect his family and create more financial breathability around him. At present Carroll is lucratively progress-ing in the real estate market as an in-vestor and plans to expand this seg-ment of his portfolio with the team he securely and strategically positioned, as well as bringing on others to par-ticipate in this journey. Carroll avows that part of succeeding in real estate is “having a very strong team and it takes time to establish that team.

Carroll’s latest book titled The Fi-nancial Fitness Blueprint draws em-phasis on the philosophical approach to dealing with money. The content of his book is far from mundane and it provides detailed accounts of his financial journey. “What’s different about this book is it shares some of the successes, not just my success in real estate and finance, but the successes of others and what they’ve done to accumulate wealth.” said Carroll. He did not shy away from sharing the fi-nancial debacles that he encountered along the course of producing mone-tary stability. “In the process of trying to obtain financial freedom, I’ve made some mistakes. I’ve made some major money mistakes.” In one instance, Car-roll swiftly lost a large sum of money

due to a partnership that had gone amiss.

Attaining affluence is not an obsta-cle free path and it’s certainly not an overnight success. There is plenty of trial and error involved; nevertheless, with consistency, intelligence and a willingness to delay gratification for a short period of time in order to safe guard your future, your sacrifices will undoubtedly pay off. The Financial Fitness Blueprint gives no false sense of hope by making counterfeit claims that you will become financially free in a year. This book illustrates a plan that if you adhere to it, Carroll guaran-tees that in five to ten years using real estate as an instrument you will garner the benefits of fiscal freedom.

The representation of Ghett’a Life makes it an intense and life-affirming drama. It’s an “against the odds” motion picture set in the populated central district of Kingston, Jamaica.

Karen Robinson, a Gemini-nominat-ed actress who has acted in many the-atre productions, films and television shows than it is possible or convenient to count, plays Dawn who is the mother of the lead character Derrick. Her son finds himself caught in the precarious position of having to choose which “side” he fits in with. Derrick has now reached a point in his life where he needs to make critical decisions about who he aspires to become and what he is willing to do to get there. With con-fidence and courageousness, Derrick makes a bold choice that will have a lifelong effect on his future along with his family.

As a parent, your innate instinct is to protect your child at any cost and forgo your own needs in order that their needs are looked after. “Parents don’t often fully understand the conflicts that their children encounter but they have to try their best to somehow protect the child, to sup-port the child, to correct the child if that is what is needed” Robinson ex-plained. Although her character Dawn often times had difficulty fathoming

Ghett’a Life Goes Abroadthe choices her teenage son made, she defended his decisions in moments where it mattered most. Robinson ac-knowledged that she drew from the unshakable strength and dedication of her own mother for this role.

Robinson was extremely elated to go back to the land of her birth to film Ghett’a Life along with the opportu-nity to portray a character in the voice she learned to speak in. Ghett’a Life has received international acclaim and it has won Best Script at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006 prior to its pro-duction. It also nabbed other notable awards at the San Francisco Black Film Festival for Best International Film, and the Jury Award at the Aruba In-ternational Film Festival. All aspects of this movie from the cast, crew and funding are Jamaican. Director Chris Browne wanted to ensure that Jamai-cans watching it in their homeland and abroad would be able to form a corre-lation with the film and how it authen-tically corresponds with their lives.

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Major banks are duking it out to attract Canadian immigrants, a key market in a retail banking sector that is grappling with an aging population and a tighter lending environment. Some of Canada’s largest financial institutions are offering unsecured credit cards, multilingual banking services, periods of no-fee banking and help sending money to rela-tives overseas.

Banks are looking to the immigrant market in a bid to broaden their retail divisions; as the growth of the Canadian-born population slows, these newcomers represent a key category for banks and the economy as a whole.

The most recent census showed two-thirds of Canada’s population growth over the previous 10 years came from immi-gration. In 2010, about 280,600 immigrants became permanent res-idents in Canada, more than in any of the 50 preceding years. Some projections show immi-gration will account for 72 per cent of growth by 2036. Traditionally, a lack of credit history barred recent immi-grants from taking out loans or applying for a mortgage until they built a credit history; that often meant start-ing from the ground up with a secured credit card for $1,000 or less.

Similar to Scotiabank and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, RBC’s unsecured credit card for new-comers has a base limit of $1000, and an interest rate of 19.99 per cent. The limit may be increased on a “case-by-case” basis.

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While these products can be helpful, offering unse-cured credit cards to immi-grants introduces them to risks too, said Adam Fair, a program manager for the Canadian Centre for Finan-cial Literacy.

“Some people come from countries where they didn’t even have credit or credit cards … there needs to be a good understanding of what credit is useful for, how it can be helpful, but

how it can also be harmful,” he said.The immigrant unemployment rate is close to

double the figure for the population as a whole. In 2011, 14.2 per cent of immigrants who had been in Canada five years or less were jobless, compared

with 7.4 per cent for all Canadians, according to Sta-tistics Canada. Nearly two thirds of immigrants ex-perience periods of low-income during their first 10 years in Canada.

Source: Globe & Mail.

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Commentary

CARIBBEAN GRAPHICPublisher/Editor: Tony McWattEditorial Consultant : Malcolm CliffeContributors: Sandra Ann Baptiste, Beverly Brown, Akua Hinds, Christine Reid, Sir Ronald Sanders,Legal: Oumarally and BaboolalGraphic Design: Susan Zelinski

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Last May the European Commis-sion – the implementation organ of the 27-nation European Union (EU) – told Caribbean Ambassadors in Brussels, the EU headquarters, that Middle-Income Caribbean coun-tries would be given reduced aid or no aid at all.

This should be very worrying news for the Ca-ribbean Community (CARICOM) countries which, except for Haiti, are all classified as Middle-Income countries. The EU is one of their biggest aid donors, and, despite 50 years of independence for Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and 46 years of sovereign status for Guyana and Barbados, and more than 30 years for the others, the governments still rely on aid to provide goods and services to their citizens.

Because of that fact, it would have been a fair ex-pectation that the CARICOM governments would have joined together to make a strong case to the EU not to “graduate” them from aid. But, little seems to have been done.

Officials of the European Commission argue that countries such as Trinidad and Tobago, the Bahamas and Barbados enjoy a very high per capita income and, therefore, justifying aid to them is extremely difficult when the EU countries are themselves facing high unemployment rates, perilous levels of debt and grave austerity conditions.

The argument of the Commission officials reflects a wider feeling among the public and the media in the EU.

They also contend that, given the fact that they have to reduce spending on their own people sig-nificantly, their aid should be focussed only on the poorest of the world’s poor nations. These would include countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Bangladesh and Haiti.

EU officials also contend that over the last 35 years, the EU has poured billions of dollars into all Carib-bean countries, and by now they should have uti-

lised that money to diversify their economies, strengthen their agricul-tural and manufacturing production and made themselves competitive on the world market. But, in reality Caribbean countries have remained primary producers of goods and they have not diversified their economies

away from conventional production and traditional services such as tourism.

At the present time, with the exception of Guyana and Suriname (both of which are benefitting from the exploitation of their mineral resources, particularly gold), the economies of CARICOM countries are in the doldrums with large budget deficits, high debt, reduced revenues from tourism and export trade. So, even though the majority of them are Middle Income Countries, their overall situation is perilous, and any reduction in EU aid will lead to an expan-sion of poverty and a reduction of social welfare pro-grammes, with an attendant increase in unemploy-ment and violent crime.

That is why they should be working diligently and collectively to convince the EU not to cut aid. But they appear to be relying on the Cotonou Agreement – a Treaty between the EU and the African, Carib-bean and Pacific (ACP) Group that was negotiated in 2000.

Under the Cotonou Agreement, the terms of devel-opment assistance to ACP countries should not be altered unless there is an amendment to the Treaty when it comes up for review in 2015.

I say “should not be altered” instead of “cannot be altered”, because the EU walked away unilaterally from a “Sugar Protocol” that Caribbean countries thought was unbreakable. Effectively, their prefer-ential market for sugar in the EU eroded overnight, creating havoc in the sugar industry and leading to unemployment and loss of revenues. It has to be hoped that a similar approach will not be taken by an EU unilateral imposition of its “differentiated ap-

proach”.But even assuming that the EU continues to

honour the Cotonou Agreement until 2015, there is no guarantee that they will do so afterwards in rela-tion to aid. Hence, it is now up to Caribbean govern-ments to do the hard work necessary to ensure that the terms of the Agreement are not altered in 2015. However, there has been no evidence since May of any collective attempt to do so.

If any of them – and the CARICOM Secretariat – is doing any work on this issue, they have kept it secret from the publics who they represent. If they are simply convinced that the terms of the Cotonou Agreement will hold, this may prove to be a danger-ous expectation.

Worryingly, officials in the European Commission are now calculating allocations to ACP countries for the 11th European Development Fund for the period 2014-2020. If they conduct the calculations and allo-cations on the basis of “graduating” Middle Income Countries, then the battle to resist amendments to the Cotonou Agreeement in 2015 will be lost even before it begins.

This is why CARICOM countries should lose no time in organising a united front to resist the Euro-pean Commission’s proposal. Solid technical rea-soning is as necessary to the process as are vibrant diplomatic arguments and high-level government contacts between the Caribbean and the EU. The technical work should be carried out by a single Ca-ribbean unit utilizing the best skills available to the region, and it should set out measureable outcomes for the funds that are being requested. For if Middle-Income countries are to justify why aid should not be reduced now, they must be prepared to show how it will be used effectively to transition to diversifying their economies, enhancing their productive sector, and standing on their own feet. A begging bowl is not enough.The writer is a Consultant and former Caribbean diplomat Replies and previous commentaries: www.sirronaldsanders.com

Caribbean Begging Bowl Not Enough

An article in the September 10 issue of the Globe and Mail on doctors continued use of pagers, has sparked a lively and interesting debate on the Medical Profession’s use of technology. According to the article, some doctors use of modern devices such as iPhones to communicate with colleagues at work is at odds with the profession’s traditional use of pagers. Though virtually obsolete in other industries pagers - portable electronic devices that can be used to transmit short messages - continue to be the communication tool of choice in the medi-cal profession.

Dr. McKenna, a general internist at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto and an avid iPhone user, is one who thinks it is time hospitals joined the 21st centu-ry and ditched their pagers. In hospitals, nurses use pagers to send phone numbers to doctors, which the doctors are then meant to call. They’ve had re-markable staying power because of their simplicity.

But research has revealed deep flaws in the effi-ciency of the technology, which is why Dr. McK-enna and other clinicians across the country are trying to make their institutions switch over to smartphones. They face a range of barriers, how-ever, from a jump in cost to questions on how to protect patient information on devices that allow for much more sharing.

Doctor Debate: Smartphones Or Pagers?

In contrast to the majority of her colleagues, Dr. McKenna now routinely uses her iPad which, with an app developed by Amcom Software, can trace all the communiqués between nurses and residents in internal medicine who are also using the app. The much-evolved “pages” that nurses send can be rated high, medium or low priority so doctors know when an urgent response is needed. They can also include detailed patient information.

In a study, Dr. McKenna found that with pagers, nurses would wait more than six minutes for a re-sponse. However, when smartphones were used, allowing for text replies, the average response time dropped to 1.6 minutes.

A more pressing need for the switch stems from lack of accuracy with numeric paging. When re-searchers at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Toronto General Hospital analyzed all the pages sent to their internal medicine residents during a

two-month period in 2008, they found 14 per cent were sent to the wrong physician. About half of those were classified “emergency” or “urgent” pages. That could mean 4,300 misfires a year, with about 2,000 being high priority.

The article indicates that funding the switchover is the biggest reason hospital staff aren’t commu-nicating via smartphones. While pagers cost the institution $5 a month, equipping employees with smartphones and data plans would be in the neigh-bourhood of $60 to $80.

As a solution to the cost challenge some hospitals, such as St. Michael’s, are adopting a bring-your-own-device approach. The cost of the app, in that case, is the same as the monthly pager subscription, Dr. McKenna said.

From this end it sounds like the good Dr McK-enna is on to something her industry colleagues would be well advised to embrace. With all the money they earn $80 a month should be a very small price any well intentioned doctor should be willing to pay to further efficiency within their pro-fession. From our perspective the benefits of smart-phone use therefore seem to be sufficiently clear to warrant their preference over pagers.

Tony Mc

night into a colorful carnival scene, featuring soca and reggae music and a “street dancing jump up.”

Pigeon Island, a 40-acre islet connect-ed by a causeway to St. Lucia’s west coast, is a beautiful nature park which reflects a thousand years of history. There are marked trails with a number of historical sites, like the remains of an 18th-century British fort and Fort Rodney, where the Admiral for which it is named spied on the French ships from its strategic viewpoint. The island also has two secluded beaches and is the major venue of St. Lucia’s annual Jazz

Diving off the waters of St. Lucia is ideal for both beginners and experts alike as there are a variety of dive op-erators on island who are dedicated to

ensure an exceptional diving ex-perience. With some of the most captivating deep sea wildlife in the Caribbean, you can experi-ence an underwater carnival as you swim amongst schools of brilliantly colored exotic fish.

Not interested in diving or lazing on the beach all day long day after day? Saint Lucia offers

overwhelmingly beauti-ful scenery to be found anywhere in the world. Amongst the natural beauty of its splendid for-ests and soaring peaks are ancient fortresses, gem-like fishing villages, and gracious town squares, places waiting like buried treasure to be discovered by newcomers.

Castries, St. Lucia’s bustling capital, is home to several of the island’s historical sites, like the La Toc Battery, and beauti-ful architecture, includ-ing the uniquely decorated Cathedral and the Central Library. There is ex-cellent shopping in the town market and Bagshaws, where the art of silk-screening can be observed. Derek Walcott Square, located in the capital, Castries, hosts a 400-year-old samaan tree which shades the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, built in 1897.

Overlooking Castries is Morne For-tune (Hill of Good Luck), which used to be a key bat-tleground during the period of skirmishes over colonial possession of St. Lucia. The French began constructing a fortress at this strategic out-post in the 17th century, but it was the British who finished it when the French surren-

dered in 1796.Marigot Bay is another

vital wartime base, where a British Admiral once ambushed the French by camouflaging his fleet with palm fronds. This picturesque bay is now a yacht haven and one of St. Lucia’s most beautiful spots.

Anse-le-Ray & Canaries are tiny fishing villages which offer an inter-esting study of one of St. Lucia’s main traditions, fishing in dug-out canoes.

Soufriere Located in the south is the oldest town in St. Lucia, established by the French in 1746. Of particular note is its unusual marketplace, decorated with colorful murals and gingerbread trim. Choiseul, midway between Sou-friere and Vieux Fort on the southwest coast, this village is rich in history, crafts and spectacular views.

Like Cinderella preparing for the Ball, Gros Islet is a fishing village which transforms itself every Friday

Before colonization, the Caribs and the Arawaks occupied the island, surviv-ing on its various natural fruits and vegetables like mangoes, oranges, tangerines, avocados, and breadfruits. St Lucia is known for its famous dish banana and salt fish; breadfruit and salt fish is also popular. One famous dish, bouyon, can be cooked with fish, chicken, meat, plantains, bananas, da-sheen, ground yams and dumplings. Some bouyon recipes include coconut water or coconut milk.

The biggest festival of the year is the Saint Lucia Jazz Festival. Held in early May at multiple venues throughout the island, it draws visitors and musi-cians from around the world.

In natural beauty, St. Lucia seems like an island plucked from the South Pacific and set down in the Caribbean. Its dramatic twin coastal peaks, the Pitons, soar 2,000 feet up from the sea, sheltering magnifi-cent rain forests where

wild orchids, giant ferns, and birds of paradise flourish. Brilliantly-plumed tropical birds abound, including en-dangered species like the in-digenous St. Lucia parrot. The rainforest is broken only by verdant fields and orchards of banana, coconut, mango, and papaya trees.

There is a broad array of exciting and exotic activities available on St. Lucia. The island’s steep coastlines and lovely reefs offer excellent snorkeling and scuba diving. The rainforest preserves of St. Lucia’s mountainous interior are one of the Caribbean’s finest locales for hiking and bird watching.

Saint Lucia is the perfect destination, for romance, rejuvenation or adven-ture. A genuine, natural landscape of gorgeous palm-fringed beaches, miles of unspoiled rainforest and the ma-jestic Piton Mountains, are sure to in-dulge every taste. Natural waterfalls, breath-taking views, friendly locals and authentic culture impress the most travelled individuals for a holi-day with lasting memories.

For those planning a family getaway there are on-site water parks, kids’ menus and evening entertainment for everyone. Adventure seekers can surf and sail in the pristine waters. ATV ad-ventures and rainforest zip-lining are family favorites.

St. Lucia has some of the most

St. Lucia is the sort of island that trav-elers to the Caribbean dream about. A small, lush tropical gem that is still relatively unknown. One of the Wind-ward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, it is located midway down the Eastern Caribbean chain, between Martinique and St. Vincent, and north of Barba-dos. St. Lucia is only 27 miles long and 14 miles wide, with a shape that is said to resemble either a mango or an avocado. The Atlantic Ocean kisses its eastern shore, while the beaches of the west coast owe their beauty to the calm Caribbean Sea.

St Lucia was named after Saint Lucy of Syracuse by the French, the first Eu-ropean colonizers. They signed a treaty

with the native Carib people in 1660. England took control of the island from 1663 to 1667.

In ensuing years, it was at war with France 14 times and rule of the island changed frequently (it was seven times each ruled by the French and British). In 1814, the British took definitive control of the island. Because it switched so often between British and French control, Saint Lucia was also known as the “Helen of the West Indies”.

From 1958 to 1962, the island was a member of the Federation of the West Indies. On February 22, 1979, Saint Lucia became an independent state of the Commonwealth of Nations associ-ated with the United Kingdom.

The population of 174,000 is evenly divided between urban and rural areas, although the capital, Castries, contains more than one-third of the population. Saint Lucia’s population is predominantly of African and mixed African-European descent, with a small Indo-Caribbean minority.

The official language is English, however Saint Lucian Creole French (Kwéyòl), which is a French-based Creole colloquially referred to as “Patwah” (Patois, is spoken by 95% of the population. It is derived chiefly from French and West African lan-guages, with some vocabulary from Carib and other sources.

About 70% of the population is Roman Catholic, influenced from the days of French Catholic rule and evan-gelization. Most of the rest belong to other Christian denominations, in-cluding Seventh-day Adventisms, Pen-tecostalism, Anglicanism, Evangelical Christianity, and the Baptist faith; in addition, about 2% of the population adheres to the Rastafari movement.

Saint Lucian cuisine is a combina-tion of French and British dishes.

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the opportunity to explore nature in its most absolute beauty.

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Simply Beautiful, there couldn’t be a more apt description for St Lucia.

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Barbados Beat

BRIDGETOWN, Two customs bro-kers charged in connection with a more than $2.6 million, 664-pound marijuana find in a container at the Bridgetown Port were released on bail when they appeared in the Bridgetown Traffic Court on September 6. However, the court confiscated the passports of both men before ordering them to report to the police stations nearest to them twice weekly.

Dwight Anderson Michael Clarke, 33, of Mangrove, St Philip, and Corrie McCauley Brathwaite, 34, of Dash Valley, St George, were not required to plead to possession of cannabis; possession of the drug with intent to supply; having a traffickable quantity of the drug and importing it on Sep-tember 3.

Prosecutor Sergeant Ensley Grainger objected to bail, pointing to the serious-

BRIDGETOWN, Grounded Barba-dian based airline REDjet owes well in excess of $2 million in landing and other fees to the airports of Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago, but under a new company plan, just released to creditors, the airports will only get back $580,000 collectively.Grantley Adams International Airport Inc. is owed $1,557,86.14, Cheddi Jagan International, $234,408.62; Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) Limited, $222,243.52; and the Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago, $305,195.92.

However, REDjet is only proposing

to repay them and other creditors, in-cluding passengers who are owed in excess of $250, a maximum of 25 cents in every dollar of debt.

A Local media entity has obtained a copy of the detailed proposal, pre-pared on behalf of Airone Ventures Limited and signed by director of busi-ness development Robbie Burns.

It includes a full list of creditors, in-cluding the Guyana Civil Aviation Au-thority ($76,976); the Antigua and Bar-buda Airport Authority ($16,007.92); the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority ($15,192); and the Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation Authority ($1,542.22).

BRIDGETOWN, Two of the region’s top assets – its youth and tourism prod-uct – continue to benefit from scholar-ships and grants awarded by the Ca-ribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) Scholarship Foundation. This year, a number of Caribbean nationals are in a better position to pursue studies in tourism/hospitality, with assistance to the tune of more than US$65,000 pro-vided by the Foundation.

Over US$35,000 in scholarships has been awarded to successful applicants from the Bahamas, Barbados, Domini-ca, Guyana, Jamaica, and St Kitts, who are pursuing post-graduate studies at various educational institutions within and outside the Caribbean. A total of US$29,400 was injected into grants and awarded to applicants from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago.

More than 190 Caribbean nationals

Customs Brokers Charged

ness of the offences, the weight of the alleged find, and the street value – $2 685 720. Magistrate Douglas Freder-ick said he would grant bail, but with strict conditions.

Tourism Scholarshipshave benefitted from the CTO schol-arship and grants programme in the amount of over US$700,000 since the CTO Foundation was founded in 1997.

The CTO Foundation was formed exclusively for charitable and educa-tional purposes and its main aim is to provide scholarships and study grants to students and industry personnel who are Caribbean nationals from CTO-member countries, who wish to pursue studies in the areas of tourism/hospitality and language training.

The Foundation supports individu-als who demonstrate high levels of academic achievement and leadership potential and who express a strong interest in making a contribution to Caribbean tourism. Major CTO Foun-dation sponsors include American Express, American Airlines, Interval International, LIAT, Universal Media, the CTO chapters worldwide and nu-merous CTO allied members.

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BRIDGETOWN, More than 2,000 jobs could be created over the next five years as a result of the Caribbean Digital Media Centre (CDMC) which was officially launched September 8 at the Harbour Industrial Estate. Chief executive officer James Corbin said with the help of global partners Toon Boom Animation Inc. and Bento Box Entertainment, the Caribbean’s larg-est animation studio would target the offshore animation industry and earn valuable foreign exchange for Barba-dos.

“We have a staff of 30 and we are highly focused and very passionate about our mission, which is to create world-class animation products which elevate Barbados to a globally recog-nized centre for animation.

“By successfully executing our mis-

BRIDGETOWN, As the possibil-ity of another food crisis looms in the wake of the worst drought faced by the United States in 56 years, the Min-istry of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and Water Resource Management is urging Barbadians to produce as much of their own food as possible. A state-ment from the ministry is also encour-aging local farmers to take advantage of the opportunity to expand local food production, and is dissuading im-porters of food items from exploiting the situation.

The statement outlined recent re-ports indicating that corn production was expected to drop by 11 percent from 2011, with yields 23 percent below normal. Additionally, soya bean yields are due to decline by nine per-cent, and wheat yields are also project-ed to decline. It added that the situa-tion had already resulted in increases

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in food prices in some countries, with the future price of corn anticipated to increase by as much as 60 percent as stocks shrink to their lowest levels since 1973. It warned that the situation threatened to increase food prices to unprecedented levels in Barbados and urged citizens to take action, adding that the ministry would be expediting the distribution of planting materi-als, seeds and other inputs in order to stimulate local food production.

sion, we shall elevate not only Barba-dos but also the entire Caribbean and put this region on the map as a glob-ally recognized centre for animation,” he said.

Corbin noted that the staff was fully trained in Toon Boom Harmony, which is the flagship product of Toon Boom – the number one software ani-mation company in the world.

The team is led by Hungarian Darko Belevski who has worked in the re-newed Zagreb and Pannonio Film Stu-dios.

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ST GEORGE’S, Grenada -The Chief Organizer of Grenada’s ruling party says he wants no part of the next exec-utive of the divided party, but vowed to remain fighting as a candidate and a people’s advocate. To cheering sup-porters at a recent town hall meeting in St George’s, David said he is not returning as general secretary of the National Democratic Congress, saying the “cancer of division’’ has eaten into the ruling party. But he said he is re-turning as a candidate for the Town of St George’s because “our people must not lose their voice at the table and they must not lose hope.’’

“For all those who have been won-dering, let me make this abundantly clear: I am running once again to be the Member of Parliament for the Town of St George,’’ David declared at the meeting as the crowd rose to its feet.

But David said he was not satisfied with the state of the party.

“Given what has gone before us these past two years, there are legiti-mate questions as to whether this cur-rent vehicle as presently constituted can transport the people of Grenada to a destination of prosperity,’’ David said in explaining his position. “What I am clear about is that I don’t want

Payment DemandedST GEORGE’S, Grenada- The Tech-

nical and Allied Workers Union (TAWU) has written to the Antigua-based regional airline, LIAT, demand-ing that it pays one million dollars (One EC dollar =US$0.37 cents) by the end of this month as part of the out-standing five million dollars in arrears to workers here. The union said that the arrears are owed for overtime and meal allowances dating back to 1983 and last month, LIAT workers downed tools in protest over the non-payment of the outstanding wages, forcing the airline to re-schedule or cancel many of its daily flights.

TAWU president Chester Humphrey said despite efforts to reach a settle-ment on the issue, nothing has ma-terialised and the letter to the airline is the latest proposal to bring about an amicable solution. He said the re-quest for the one million dollar pay-ment had been done on the basis that

the “company would have paid off in three instalments beginning of August 2011, half a million dollars, comprising EC$410,000 payable by LIAT and the government of Grenada...proposed 90,000 dollars.

The workers have been on a work to rule for the past three weeks and Hum-phrey said that since Antigua and Bar-buda Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer made a recommendation to end the previous work stoppage “nothing has been done. Spencer had suggested an offer of EC$ 800,000 in December last year following industrial action by LIAT workers that threatened the is-land’s carnival

In August, the airline, whose major shareholders are the governments of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, said it was not willing to make any other offer than what has been outlined by Prime Minister Spencer.

Major Investment Forthcoming For Nevis

CHARLESTOWN, Nevis- Canadian Global and its investors and affiliates are proposing to bring a CAN $400 million dollar fuel storage facility to Nevis. According to a release by the Canadian company, they have been in ongoing discussions, negotiations and meetings with the Nevis Island Ad-ministration and since March this year on project.

It is projected that if the fuel storage facility gets the green light following the environmental impact assessment, it will bring to the island 200 to 300 hundred jobs in direct employment on the construction phase and an on-going plant operation opportunity for 150 persons at various levels. The Canadian company suggested there would also be several indirect jobs and entrepreneurship opportunities generated by this venture, which also enhances the marketability and use of other lands in the designated area.

Apart from job creation, the compa-ny said the project would bring signifi-cant revenues/royalties to the island and would reduce energy and trans-portation costs, as well as reducing the cost of living while improving the stan-dard of living on the island. Canadian Global has already earned the rights to

Three Murders In Four DaysKINGSTOWN, St Vincent- St Vin-

cent and the Grenadines’ top cop has sounded-off against a disturbing trend in the country and has warned citizens against taking the law into their own hands as law enforcement authorities probe the murders of three people in four days. Police Commissioner Keith Miller told a local newspaper that “there is blatant disrespect for the law”.

Authorities are continuing their in-vestigations into the three murders, including that of a witness killed less than an hour after he was released from police custody. Uroy “Layaby” Robinson was shot dead in Sion Hill, an east Kingstown community on the outskirts of the capital, after assisting police with their investigations in con-nection with a robbery.

In July, 24-year-old Robinson had

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any part of tearing this nation fur-ther apart. People are hurting too much. So our mission going forward is for us to invest in unity; not divi-sion,’’ he added.

He then made the big announce-ment. “And so I have informed the po-litical leader that I will not be offering myself again for the position of Gen-eral Secretary or any other executive position for that matter.’’

David said his 12 years in the posi-tion had borne fruit. The former For-eign Minister said he has set his sights on other things.

“There is a bigger battle to wage – a battle against high debt and low growth,’’ he declared.

“I cannot be concerned about my job, when so many of my friends and supporters don’t have one. I cannot be satisfied to walk in comfort, when the streets are littered with people who know no comfort,’’ David said in set-ting up his argument.

He ended with applause from the crowd over-flowing into the streets: “And at this defining moment in the history of this nation; we must have a defining politics. We have to tear up the old playbooks and create a new path.’’

given testimony resulting in the con-viction of two men for a 2007 murder. He told the court that he was present when the men plotted the crime. On that occasion, Robinson was shot in the arm just nine days after the court sentenced the men to life imprison-ment.

Meanwhile, in another of the three recent murders, 38-year-old Evans Lynch was shot and killed in Layou, a town on the south-western coast. Law enforcement authorities believe Lynch’s death may be related to an ongoing feud that has already claimed the life of his brother and resulted in another being sentence to 30 years in prison for murder.

Police are also probing the death of 48-year-old taxi driver Calvert “Boom Shack” Patterson whose body was found in an abandoned building.

the Pembroke Estates Land in Nevis where the facility will be located.

The company revealed that it has partnered with American Tank and Vessel Inc, worldwide leaders in the design, construction and operation of tank storage facilities, to build this project.

The Canadian firm has also entered into a renewable five-year contact with Mike Van Croonenburg of Petrol Stor-age Brokers out of the Netherlands, for the brokerage of refined and unrefined products from around the world.

Canadian Global Investments Ltd. of Ajax, Ontario, was founded in Decem-ber 2011 for the purpose of bringing investment opportunities and large-scale capital projects to the Caribbean and other countries, where there is a need for such investment and econom-ic development. The company is in the process of setting up a subsidiary in Nevis called Canadian Global Investment

Recovery Held BackROSEAU, Dominica- While the Do-

minican government is being praised for trying to drive the island’s recovery through its own investment initiatives, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) finds this not to be enough to drag the country out of its economic doldrums. This follows an IMF mission led by Aliona Cebotari visited Dominica during August 13–23 for the 2012 Arti-cle IV consultation on economic devel-opments and macroeconomic policies, wherein the IMF representatives met with government and private sector representatives as a customary part of this consultation.

While Cebotari conceded that, “the authorities’ decisive actions to support the recovery through public invest-ment have helped Dominica withstand a challenging economic environment,” she also acknowledged that: “weak

demand and an outbreak of banana leaf disease will continue to hold back the recovery. Growth is expected to remain subdued this year, accelerat-ing gradually to around 2 percent over the medium term. Rising global food prices may contribute to a modest rise in inflation and weigh on the balance of payments in 2012, but pressures are expected to subside later next year.”

The mission leader said this put the need to maintain fiscal sustainabil-ity without derailing the economic re-covery and on ways to safeguard the stability of the financial system at the forefront of the discussions between the authorities and the IMF staff fo-cused on government policies.

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Because the hardware store had been well secured, firemen were forced to tear down sections of the

GEORGETOWN, Police say that at about 1100h on September 8, fisher-man Shameer Safeek, 44 years of Good Hope, ECD, and three crew members were fishing in the Pomeroon, Esse-quibo area when they were attacked and robbed by four men in another

boat who were all armed with firearms. Police say that the armed men took away a fishing seine, fuel, a cell phone and $6,000. They also assaulted Safeek about his body and damaged his boat engine before escaping.

Investigations are in progress.

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GEORGETOWN, The body of the son of a well-known city beverage dealer was recovered from the Lama Canal also known as the ‘Blacka,’ on September 9 plunging family mem-bers into a state of shock and grief. An autopsy and police investigations are expected to determine whether he drowned or any other circumstances that led to his death.

Dead is 15-year old Daniel Younge. He was a student of Nehemiah Com-prehensive Secondary School, Queen-stown, Georgetown. He is the son of ColinYounge, who is the owner of Yams beverage outlet, La Penitence, Georgetown, and June-Ann Peters. Before moving to South Ruimveldt D’urban Park, the boy lived on James and Calendar Streets, Albouystown,

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Georgetown. His father and the boy’s eldest brother were due to return to Guyana from a short visit to the United States.

The lad’s fully clothed body was found during the early afternoon, prompting one of his sisters to specu-late that he was pushed into the canal because it is highly unlikely that he would have swam with clothes. Rela-tives said police are looking for several boys with whom Daniel Younge was in the company of shortly before he died. One relative said a doctor, who examined the body, believed that the boy might have died four hours earlier. Daniel Younge was apparently often cautioned against going places without the knowledge and permission of his family.

GEORGETOWN, Arsonists were behind the September 8 fire which de-stroyed an office in the lower flat of the traffic court building on Croal Street, Chief Fire Officer Marlon Gentle has disclosed Gentle said that incendiary devices, including a plastic container with gasoline, were found inside the office where the blaze erupted.

The building on Croal Street houses several lawyers’ offices, magistrate’s court and other legal affairs establish-ments.

The fire erupted during the night and response by the fire service was immediate. The power supply was then severed from the building and fire fighters managed to contain the blaze.

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In marking World Suicide Prevention Day on Monday, September 10, Choose Life International hosted a seminar: ‘Strengthening Protective Factors & In-stilling Hope’ at the Wyndham Kings-ton Hotel. The seminar was endorsed by the Ministry of Health, Medical As-sociation of Jamaica and Nurses Asso-ciation of Jamaica, Dr Thomas said.

VATICAN CITY, Rome- The Catho-lic News Agency (CNA) reports that the world’s fastest man, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, has been invited to address a Vatican conference on re-ligious liberty.

The TEDx Via della Conciliazione conference will be held in Rome on April 19, 2013, and will focus on the theme “Religious freedom today.” It is being coordinated under the auspices of the Pontifical Council for Culture’s “Courtyard of the Gentiles” outreach, which aims to create a “dialogue be-tween believers and non-believers.”

Those already confirmed as partici-pants are drawn from the worlds of sport, music, culture and academia, in-cluding Vlade Divac, the former NBA basketball player; Gloria Estefan, the Cuban-born American pop singer; and the Japanese architect Etsuro Sotoo. It is the invitation of Bolt, however, that has made the headlines. The 26-year-old recently won three gold medals at

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the London Olympics and made sport-ing history as the “double-triple” man.

As a Catholic, Bolt is known for making the Sign of the Cross before racing competitively. He also bears the middle name Saint Leo. The TED – Technology, Entertainment and Design – initiative was founded in Cal-ifornia in 1984 to disseminate “ideas worth sharing.” It allows speakers 18 minutes to state their case in what-ever way they choose. Due to modern technology, many of the presentations have become online hits.

Minister of Health, Dr Fenton Fergu-son was to be the keynote speaker at the opening ceremony.

Among the areas to be covered at the September 10seminar were: ‘The Role of the Health Sector in Strength-ening Protective Factors and Instilling Hope Against Suicide’ led by Dr Mau-reen Irons-Morgan; ‘Exploring School Strategies for Instilling Hope and Strengthening Protective Factors, with presenter Dr Grace Kelly, chairperson, Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences, Northern Caribbean Uni-versity, ‘Empowering the Family to Build Resilience against Suicide’ with presenter Dr Judith Leiba and ‘The Church as an Agent of Strengthening Protective Factors and Instilling Hope Against Suicide’ led by Dr. Anthony Allen.

KINGSTON, Shereen Williams did her best to put on a brave face after a fast-moving September 9 fire de-stroyed everything she had in her Maj-esty Gardens, St Andrew, home. How-ever, the gloom over the prospects of rebuilding her life was apparently too much and soon the mother of four was in tears.

“I would appreciate some help, but otherwise, I don’t know what I am going to do,” she said when asked about her next move.

Williams’ house was one of 15 that were destroyed in the blaze yesterday afternoon that left more than 50 per-sons homeless. The houses, which are constructed from concrete, board and zinc, are all attached to each other and residents believe the fire was started by a group of children in a room oc-cupied by an elderly man, then quickly

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down operations, scores of persons searched through the debris trying to salvage whatever they could. Williams said her loss is particularly difficult be-cause she has two children in school, one of them a student at Norman Manley High School.

Tufton Rejects Mugabe’s Comments On Jamaican Men

KINGSTON, A diplomatic stand-off between Jamaica and Zimbabwe seems to be bubbling following recent com-ments attributed to the president of the African country, Robert Mugabe, who has been quoted as labelling Jamai-can men “drunkards and perennially hooked on marijuana”.

Minister of Foreign Affairs and For-eign Trade A.J. Nicholson has indicat-ed his office would be seeking to verify the statements, after which Prime Min-ister Portia Simpson Miller would re-spond.

But going one step further, Opposi-tion Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Dr Christopher Tufton described the statement as un-fortunate and said if it were found to have been made by Mugabe, the Zim-babwean president would have a re-sponsibility to shed light on his com-ments, as well as provide an apology.

Tufton went on to add that the com-ments generate questions as to wheth-

er Mugabe should retain membership in the Order of Jamaica, which was conferred on him during a state visit to the island back in 1996. Nicholson has said that the Government “strongly re-jects the suggestions contained in the news item”, while adding that Jamaica is a nation characterised by adherence to democratic principles and the rule of law.

In the online article posted Septem-ber 7 on a Zimbabwean radio station, Mugabe, who was speaking during a distinguished lecture at a university function, reportedly urged Zimbabwe-ans never to follow in the footsteps of Jamaicans whose influence on the country is all too pervasive.

“In Jamaica, they have freedom to smoke (men are always drunk) and universities are full of women. “The men want to sing and do not go to col-leges (some are dreadlocked). Let us not go there,” the African president was quoted as saying.

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Murder Victim Kayann Lamont

KINGSTON, The police officer who shot and killed an eight-month preg-nant woman and injured her sister now faces murder and other charges. On September 4, Acting Director of Public Prosecutions Lisa Palmer-Hamilton ruled that Corporal Dwayne Smart be charged with murder, illegal possession of a firearm, wounding with intent, and assault.

The prosecution is expected to skip the preliminary enquiry stage of the case in the St Thomas Resident Mag-istrate’s Court and have the matter transferred to the Home Circuit Court in Kingston, which is due to reopen on September 17.

Corporal Smart shot heavily preg-nant, 27-year-old Kayann Lamont in the head in Yallahs square following an altercation. He had accosted Lamont over the use of indecent language.The deceased woman’s sister Novia Lamont was shot in the shoulder while running to her aid. Shemean Lamont, another sister, was allegedly assaulted by Smart, who also turned the gun on her. In that instance, the weapon did not fire.

According to reports, Smart had to be restrained by colleagues on the scene. The wounded women were taken to the Princess Margaret Hos-pital where Kayann was pronounced dead and Novia admitted. Novia was later discharged from hospital.

The tragedy, which is said to have taken place in front of several eyewit-nesses, has drawn widespread con-

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demnation, including that from the rights group Jamaicans for Justice, the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party and its affiliate Generation 2000. The Police High Command, speaking for the first time since the incident, expressed regret at the shooting and pledged to take all possible steps to minimise the use of force in their interaction with citizens. The high command pointed out that Smart had been taken into cus-tody the same day of the shooting and investigators from the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDE-COM) were contacted.

The high command also stated that police chaplains had been deployed in the community and have been provid-ing counselling for the affected fami-lies, and that an administrative review of the operation will be conducted.

Beaches Negril Voted World’s Best

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New Buses For Crime FightKINGSTON, The Jamaica

Constabulary Force (JCF) and the Ja-maica Defence Force (JDF) have re-ceived a donation of 10 brand new Volvo buses, valued at approximately $300 million, in support of their crime fighting efforts.

The buses, which will be distrib-uted equally between the two entities, were provided by the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC). They were officially handed over by the Minister

of Transport, Works and Housing Dr Omar Davies during a ceremony at the JUTC’s Spanish Town Depot in Twick-enham Park.

Dr Davies said the buses are from a recent shipment of 230 new units from Belgium, which were ordered by the previous administration. He said the JUTC continues to have a strong part-nership with the members of the se-curity forces and is committed to sup-porting their crime fighting efforts.

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Anton Monsegue

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Five killings in ten hours, including that of a 51-year-old mother of eight, between the eve-ning of September 7 and the following morning, have pushed the country’s murder toll to 289 for the year so far.

Police reports indicated the first kill-ing took place around 10 o’clock on the night of September 7. Kerwin Birch-wood, 20, of Phase 1 Powder Maga-zine, Cocorite was liming with friends and playing cards near his home when neighbours heard gunshots. After in-vestigating, neighbours found him bleeding on the ground where he suc-cumbed to his injuries. Snr Supt David and Insp John of the Western Division visited the scene.

Later, around 1.30 a.m. an 18-year-old construction worker of Guayamare Main Road was stabbed in the chest and died following an argument with two of his neighbours. Three and a half hours later Alma Noray was shot while sleeping on the ground of her Beverly Hills, Laventille apartment.Thirty min-utes later Ragoonath Sooknanan, 50, of Tumpuna Road, Tunapuna was found slumped mere metres away from his variety store. According to police Sooknanan, the owner of Carnelia’s Variety Store was on his way to his business place around 5.30 a.m. when

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Donna George’s killer slit her throat, covered her body with a sheet and then sat in a hammock downstairs, waiting for the police to arrive. He surrendered the murder weapon and her identification card to homicide investigators, before giving a detailed confession.

Police said George, 48, was killed around 7 am yesterday, at her Preau Village East, St Mary’s, Moruga home four days after she left the safety of her sister’s house at La Rufin. Her alleged as-sailant was found at the murder scene, holding a cutlass. Police said George was in her living room when she was attacked by a man. He chopped her repeatedly about the head and neck, slitting her throat and jugular veins. He then placed her body on the bed and covered it with a sheet.

George’s stepson, Anton Monsegue, arrived a short while later and saw the man downstairs. “He told me that he fed up and he killed Donna. He said to call the police,” Monsegue recalled, his eyes brimming with tears. Monsegue said he did not know what triggered the murder.

However, the murdered woman’s sister, Debbie James, said the problems started three months ago when a man accused George of having an affair

Woman Murdered

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Unplanned shut-downs of the multi-million-dollar machinery at State-owned Petrotrin triggers a $135 million loss on a daily basis.

Petrotrin president Khalid Has-sanali circulated an internal memo to Petrotrin employees after the recent protest action by workers led to fluc-tuations in plant operations .

Hassanali recently met with Oil-fields Workers Trade Union (OWTU) president general Ancel Roget and his team for more than seven hours to dis-cuss the now contentious issues affect-ing progress at the oil company.

According to an internal memo, the issue of the bunkering license, the un-filled job vacancies and the issue of variable pay were discussed, with no major resolutions.

“In the current situation, the compa-ny lost revenue estimated at approxi-mately $135 million per day which adversely affected the company’s prof-itability as well as its long-term viabil-ity,” he said. Hassanali, said the plant has been off-line since September 1 and, to use his calculations, Petrotrin lost more than $945 million in one week.

Hassanali said these accumulated losses will no doubt affect the compa-ny’s ability to pay out variable pay for this fiscal period, 2011-2012.

While the lack of variable pay has, in part, triggered the most recent shut-down at the refinery, it is not the criti-

$135 Million A Day

cal issue. The protest action stemmed from the award of a bunkering licence to an unknown private party. This, Roget insisted, is the Government’s attempt to satisfy party supporters as Petrotrin has a bunkering licence and should capitalise on that instead of giving away revenue.

Roget said there was no reason to give a private company a job that local Petrotrin workers can and have been doing.

He said the country was not earning any revenue and instead of the Gov-ernment aggressively pursuing every available revenue stream they were handing it over to foreigners to earn money.

Roget said the union was willing to forgo the 2011-2012 variable pay “on principle” to get what was promised for the 2009-2010 period.

Bloodbath

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Six years after he survived a car crash in which his mother was killed, T&TEC foreman Navin Mahabir lost his life when his car ran off the road and collided with two vehicles in La Romaine early on the morning of September 9 Mahabir, 38, of Guapo Main Road, Fyzabad, died on the spot after his Nissan Cefiro spun out of control along the South

T&TEC Foreman Killed In Car Crash

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams has suggested that media workers seek police assistance before venturing into high-risk areas to carry out their assignments. Williams expressed con-cern over reports that media person-nel were shot at on September 8 in Laventille, as they attempted to inter-view relatives of murder victim Alma Noray, 49, of Marcano Quarry, Laven-tille. Noray was killed as she slept at her home around 4.30 am that day. Warring gangs in the area shot at re-porters and photographers who were following up on the story around 4 pm on Saturday. The journalists were

forced to seek cover and call for police to escort. Head of the Port-of-Spain Di-vision, ASP Ajith Persad, sent officers into the area on two separate occasions to escort media personnel.

Williams told the T&T Guardian: “Going with what I have read, I would express concern for members of the media proceeding to high-risk areas because as the name speaks, they are exposing themselves to serious risk. I would proffer by suggestion, if we are alerted to the intentions of the media, we can, in fact, have an obvious polic-ing presence which can prevent situa-tions like those described by the media from occurring.

Media Should Seek Police Help

Trunk Road at around 1.30 am and collided head-on with a black Mer-cedes Benz driven by Adrian Wong, of Feroze Khan Avenue, St Augustine.

Police said Mahabir’s car also col-lided a yellow Galant driven by Isiah Francois, 33, of New Village, Point Fortin. Wong and Francois were taken by ambulance to the San Fernando General Hospital. Mahabir’s brother

Prakash said he did not know where Mahabir was heading when he left home at around 11 pm.

He said Mahabir was promoted to the rank of senior foreman at T&TEC two weeks ago and was looking forward to buying his own home. He said Mahabir’s common-law wife Marion Balkaran was inconsolable and had to be sedated. Mahabir had two children,

Mark, 13, and Javid, nine, from a previ-ous relationship. “Since his promotion he was putting in a lot of extra hours,” Prakash said.

residents heard gunshots. Sooknanan aka “Bull” was found lying on the pavement. He died at the scene.

The last murder occurred around 10.40 a.m.on September 8. The dead man was identified as Joel “Garlic Sauce” Bodkin, 29, a former cadet. Police said Bodkin, of Beverly Hills, Laventille, was at a shop at Straker Vil-lage when a group of men approached and opened fire. Bodkin died at the scene.

Mother of eight Noray slept on the ground of her Beverly Hills, Hous-ing Development Corporation (HDC) apartment at Laventille for one reason: she hoped she would be safe from the bullets that frequently hit her home from the other side of the hill. Her safe haven did not prevent her death after she was shot while sleeping on a mattress in her living room. Her two grandchildren, six-year-old Mickel and two-year-old Nickel, who usually sleep with her on the same mattress, were unharmed.

Police reports stated that Noray, 51, a mother of eight was asleep around 5 a.m. when a single shot broke through her living room window and hit her in the left hip. She was rushed to the Port of Spain General Hospital where she died while undergoing surgery.

with his relative. She said last week Sunday, the man locked George in the house, tied her and was about to stab her but she defecated which temporarily pre-vented her demise. After that incident she moved out of the St Mary’s home and came to stay with James at La Rufin. However, the suspect begged George to come back, James said.

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Belly Bustas Take 3

DJ’SDJ’SEvery Friday!Every Friday!

Liva An’ Cheese

Neighbours

The father of the young Caribbean woman said to three Caribbean men: “which eva one a yal could make me laff wit the words liva an cheese get to marry me daughter”.

The first man - a bajan - said “ eat me sone liva and chees fo free.”

Two Guyanese neighbours were living in Florida. One called the FBI...

The phone rings at FBI Headquar-ters:FBI Agent: “Hello?”Guyanese: “Hello, is dis de FBI?”FBI Agent: “Yes. What do you want?”Guyanese: “Mi calling to report mi neighba dey! Dey name Seymour, Sah. Dey a hide marijuana in dey firewood.”FBI Agent: “This will be noted, Sir.”

Next day, the FBI goons went over to

Accent

The second - a jamaican - said “me no eva eat me liva an cheese mon. Dat stuff taste like mash bullfrog dip in pee.

The TRINI said “yo man dat jamican know he eat liva, and dat bajan he eat cheese. But me, i say dat when it come to dat gal man, liva alone; cheese’s mine!

the Seymour’s house. They search the shed where the firewood is kept, broke every piece of wood, find no marijua-na, swear at Seymour and leave.

The phone rings over at Seymour’s house:“Hey, Seymour! di FBI dey come?”“Yeh Man!”“Dey chop yuh firewood?”“Yeh Man, Dey chop up de whole ah it - mi have nuff firewood now. Mi can even sell some.”“Okay, a fi mi turn now. Yuh hafi call dem. A need mi garden plow up.”

A young Trinbago Yankee was having a conversation with a Trinida-dian one day and told him that she had returned to Trinidad to get married. He couldn’t understand why after living abroad for so many years she couldn’t find a nice man to marry instead of coming back to Trinidad. She eventu-ally told him that she was getting mar-ried to a “Mexican doctor” (in a very pronounced American accent at that). Well the guy couldn’t believe what he had heard and told her.”A Mexican doctor! But girl, ah real happy for yuh.

Yuh real do good for yuhself!”. Eventually the day of the wedding

came and the same guy who she told about the wedding decided that he wanted to pass by and see for himself how things were proceeding. He how-ever noticed that all that was playing at the reception was dub music. He couldn’t understand how they would only be playing dub music and the guy was Mexican, so he decided to ask someone about it. He said, “Hear nah...how come dey playin so much ah dub, an de fella is a Mexican doctor?”. The other person said, “Mexican doctor?...man... de fella is a maxi conductor!!”

On a cloudy and overcast day in April 2012 at 11:30 p.m. John Lall was operating a motor vehicle, a 2001 Chevy in the city of Toronto. At approximately 11:30 p.m. Mr. Lall exited a parking lot on the eastside of Hurontario Street and drove across three lanes of traffic. The victim was travelling southbound on Hurontario street and collided with Mr. Lall’s vehicle. The victim was forced off the road and collided with a hydro pole. The victim sustained minor back injuries. Mr. Lall left the scene and drove to his home which was less then a kilometre away. The Police located Lall’s vehicle in the driveway and noticed extensive damage. They entered the residence and spoke to him. He admitted to consuming alcohol and being involved in an accident. Officers noted that Mr. Lall’s speech was slurred and he was unsteady on his feet.

Once the officers formed the opinion that Mr. Lall’s ability to operate a motor vehicle was impaired by alcohol and that he was in fact the operator of the motor vehicle involved in the collision, he was arrested, handcuffed and informed of his rights. The officer also requested a breath sample and advised him of the consequences of the failure to comply. Mr. Lall was transported to the station where a qualified breath technician took a breath sample. Mr. Lall is an older gentleman and despite several attempts failed to provide a suitable breath sample. He has a history of asthma and advised the officer.

Mr. Lall reported that he stopped at the scene of the accident and spoke to the other driver. As he lived only a short distance away, he decided

to go to his house and report the accident later.

Under the Highway Traffic Act 200 (1) (a) it is an offence to not remain at the scene of an accident. Under the Act it is also an offence to Fail to Report an

Accident, H.T.A. 199 (1) and to Fail to Render Assistance, H.T.A. 200 (1) (b).

Mr. Lall was also charged with careless driving under the Highway Traffic Act 130.

Impaired Driving, which is a criminal offence, is perhaps the most serious charge Mr. Lall faces. It is important to note that although no suitable breath sample was obtained, the police could have charged Mr. Lall with refusing to provide a breath sample. If convicted of the charge of refusing a breath sample, the punishment is the same as that which would be meted out to someone convicted of impaired driving.Mr. Lall now faces the following charges:

Fail to Report an Accident, H.T.A.Fail to Remain at the Scene of Accident, H.T.A.Fail to Render AssistanceCareless Driving, H.T.A.Impaired Driving, Criminal CodeIs there anything Mr. Lall could have done

differently? It certainly would have been prudent to call and speak to a lawyer, before leaving the scene of the accident. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse. It is incumbent upon you to know the law and if you are unsure contact a lawyer.Selwyn R. Baboolal is a partner at Oumarally Baboolal practicing

in the area of litigation for the past 18 years.The foregoing is intended for information purposes only and

you should consult a lawyer if you need legal representation or a legal opinion.

September 11, 2012CARIBBEAN GRAPHICPAGE 16

Home Affairs

Selwyn R.

Baboolal

The following is a real fact scenario. In order to safe guard solicitor-client privilege and confidentiality, names, dates and locations have been altered.The facts: Mortgage FAQsMortgage FAQs

Bianca

Aziz

Can I take my mortgage with me when I move?

Yes. Subject to credit approval, when you move from one home

to another in Canada, you may be able to take your existing mortgage balance with you, at the same interest rate, for the remaining term. Alternatively, you may be able to combine your existing mortgage balance with additional financing at a blended rate to finance a new home (applicable to fixed rate mortgages only). No interest penalty is charged.

Can I renew my mortgage early?Yes. You may be able to renew your mortgage at any

time during the term under the Early Renewal Program. Depending on the time remaining until your renewal date, an Early Renewal penalty may apply. Ask your Mortgage Representative for details.

Can I switch my mortgage from another lender to Scotiabank?

Yes, if you already have a residential first mortgage on your home in Canada with another approved lender, we can help you switch to Scotiabank. Certain conditions may apply and prepayment penalties or other costs may be charged by the other lender.

When is mortgage insurance required?If the amount of the mortgage exceeds 80% of the lend-

ing value of the mortgaged property, the mortgage is con-sidered “high ratio”. Accordingly, and as required by law, mortgage insurance must be purchased for the full amount of the mortgage. Mortgage insurance is available from CMHC Canada Guarantee and Genworth.

The “Kids” are back to school and if they aren’t already they soon will be swamped with homework assign-ments. For those women who oversee their children’s educational develop-ment here are some Tricks to “Hap-pier Homeworking” that may come in handy.1. Foster a We’re-in-This-Together Vibe

“Do your homework as your child does his,” advises Trevor Romain, author of How to Do Homework Without Throwing Up. “If you have checks to write or e-mails to re-spond to, you’re role-modeling by just sitting and doing it.” Plus, if he needs help, you’ll be there.

2. Divide and Conquer “I wish I could be the one with the great math skills, but I don’t think it’s in the cards,” says Andrea Tom-kins of Ottawa, Ontario. Instead, Tomkins helps her fourth-grader with subjects she is good at (Eng-lish, French, and social studies), while her husband takes math and science. “It makes the process more pleasant.”

3. Let Him Take the Lead Sometimes, asking your child to explain what he does know about a subject or problem can help him figure it out. When he comes up with something, “remark on it, so that your child feels encouraged,” says Joan Rooney, a vice president at Tutor.com, an online tutoring re-source.

4. Dangle the Carrot When your child is this close to

the answer but it’s just not clicking, say, “I know you don’t have the so-lution yet, but what do you think it might be?” suggests Romain. Or, “Is there a different way we can come up with it?” Ideally, you won’t give him the answer, but you’ll help him reach for it.

5. Remember Your Goal It’s not only to help but also to let your kid know that you’re there for her. So while you generally want her to work things out for herself, Rooney advises parents not to with-hold the answer if frustration is making her hate you and hate the subject and hate the world. Your re-lationship is much more important.

6. Know When to Quit If either of you is threatening to disown the other, ask your spouse to step in, or limit your involve-ment. “This doesn’t mean you have

to walk away from a struggling child,”

says Rooney; offer to help G o o g l e

things, be a sounding board, or find someone better equipped to assist her directly.

7. Seek Ways To Unstick a Stuck KidWhen some kids hit a block, they’re quick to decide that a particular subject is not their thing and stop trying. Your instinct, of course, is to say, “That’s not true! If at first you don’t succeed...” If your child is beyond a certain level of despair, however, that’s not likely to work, says Sam Goldstein, Ph.D., the co-author of several books, including Raising a Self-Disciplined Child.

Goldstein says that, often, your child

just wants to be heard, and she knows she has to do the work. If she proposes not doing it, remind her that’s not a valid long-term choice, and tell her she can either give it a go by herself or with your help, since you’d be glad to give her a hand. Seeing that you get how she’s feeling, she might involve you further. “Once she’s asking you for your input, you can suggest, ‘Maybe you can try it this different way,’” says Goldstein. Then, if you both do your best but still can’t seem to move for-ward, jot a note to the teacher explain-ing that your child needs extra atten-tion, so she is in the loop, too.

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Women’s World - Parenting

Happier Homeworking For ‘Kids” Of All Ages

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Sports Beat

PORT-OF-SPAIN, - Former nation-al head coach and captain, Russell Latapy, has been described as the per-fect number 10 player by former Por-tugal-born player Rui Capela Batista. Both Latapy and Batista played against each other during Latapy’s days at Ac-ademica and FC Porto. Capella played for Farense and Esp Lagos.

On hearing Latapy being named as one of the top 50 sporting legends in T&T, Capella, now a coach in Para-guay, said the “Little Magician” made quite a name for himself at every club he played for in Portugal. He later played for Boavista before joining Hibernian in Scotland. “I remember him…very good player Russell Latapy.

BRUSSELS, Belgium, - Sprint icon Usain Bolt and fellow Jamaican Yohan Blake scored contrasting victories to headline the Friday September 7 sea-son-ending Memorial Van Damme Diamond League meeting.

While Bolt coasted to a time of 9.86 seconds to win the 100 meters, Blake stormed to a 19.54 clocking to capture the 200 meters.

Bolt, however, looked sluggish and had to come from behind to win the contest. Running out of lane five, the Olympic champion was away slowly as compatriot Nesta Carter grabbed the early lead. However, Bolt powered through in the last 40 meters to clinch victory.

“I was just happy to be done. I went

out there just for the fans,” Bolt told re-porters afterwards.

“ I told my coach (Glen Mills) that I felt slow and lazy. I felt drained. He told me ‘make sure you go out there and execute right and it should be ok’ and that’s what I did.”

Blake, meanwhile, looked sharp as he impressively dominated his field in the half-lap.

The 22-year-old, who has not lost a race since taking silver in both sprints at the London Olympics last month, jetted through the curve to enter the stretch in front. He was chased down by fellow Jamaican Jason Young but was hardly challenged in the final 75 meters as he crossed the line well ahead of the field.

Latapy Described As the Perfect #10

He was the perfect number 10 to have in your team,” Capella said. “I think every time he was about to play for his team, the people would look forward to see what he was up to.”

Season Ending Wins For Bolt and Blake!

Upset Win For Jamaica, Draw for Guyana

BOA Race

Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz halted a 24-year-old jinx when they stunned United States to record their first ever win over the CONCACAF giants, while Guyana twice came from behind to snatch a share of the points with El Salvador, in the September 7 semi-final round of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers.

Playing in Kingston, Luton Shelton grabbed the winner for the hosts with a brilliant 62nd minute free kick to hand Jamaica a 2-1 victory, breaking an 18-game winless streak against the Americans.

In San Salvador, Guyana broke their two-game losing skid thanks to a brace from 19-year-old Treyon Bobb as the Golden Jaguars earned a 2-2 result on the road.

There was no such success for 10-man Antigua and Barbuda as they crashed to a 3-1 defeat in Guatemala City to remain rock bottom of Group A.

With their victory, Jamaica are now top of Group A with seven points, with Guatemala and the US tied in second on four points each. The

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Weeks after the 2012 London Olympics at which Barbados fielded its smallest team in recent times and did not win a single medal, the leadership of the Barbados Olympic Association (BOA) is under challenge.

After 16 years at the helm of the BOA, president Steve Stoute and secre-tary general Erskine Simmons will be facing some competition at the upcom-ing election of officers.

Lieutenant Colonel Trevor Browne,

president of the Barbados Table Tennis Association, will be facing off against Stoute for the top post, while Craig Archer, president of the Barbados Squash Association, is challenging Simmons for the position of secretary general.

The annual general meeting of the BOA will be held on October 17, mark-ing the end of the 2008 to 2012 Olym-pic cycle, as well as four successive four-year terms for both Stoute and Simmons.

Reggae Boyz entered the contest with the weight of history against them and were further hampered in the opening seconds when new Totten-ham Hotspur signing Clint Dempsey scored from close range.

Stoke City’s Maurice Edu fed Her-culez Gomez down the right side of the penalty area, but the two resulting shots on goal were turned away, first by goalkeeper Dwayne Miller and then by defender Nyron Nosworthy. How-ever, the last rebound fell for Dempsey who calmly slotted the Americans in front.

Forced to chase the game, Jamaica pushed forward and were rewarded at the half-way stage of the first half.

Rodolph Austin was fouled by Kyle Beckerman in a dangerous position 30 meters from goal, and the Leeds United forward made little mistake as he equalized, his shot deflecting off the wall and past custodian Tim Howard.

Deadlocked at half-time, Shelton proved the difference between the two teams in the second half. Austin was again involved, earning another free kick, this time 25 meters away

from goal. Shelton’s right-footed strike cleared the wall and beat Howard.

The two teams will now travel to Ohio for the return leg on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Guyana earned their first point in Group B thanks to the bril-liant marksmanship of Treyon Bobb. Entering the game at the Estadio Cus-catlán on the back of two defeats, the Guyanese displayed great character to twice come back from a goal down to force the stalemate.

The hosts were ahead as early as the fourth minute through Isidro Gutier-rez, only for Bobb to cancel out the strike with a superb near post volley in the 20th minute.

Only moments later, however, El Sal-vador were back in front when Gutier-rez set up Osael Romero with an ac-curate right-sided cross for the former Chivas USA forward to drill home.

Down 1-2 at half-time, Guyana were back on level terms just nine minutes after the resumption when Bobb got on to the end of Gregory Richardson’s through ball to beat goalkeeper Dago-berto Portillo.

Guyana will return to Georgetown

to host El Salvador on Tuesday. At a rain-soaked Estadio Mateo

Flores, prolific striker Peter Byers handed Antigua a surprise 38th minute lead, but hosts Guatemala re-sponded three times in the second half to settle the issue convincingly.

Carlos Ruiz nodded home Marco Pappa’s cross in the 58th minute before adding a second in the 79th, after Anti-gua goalkeeper Molvin James was sent off in the 68th for a second bookable of-fence. In stoppage, Dwight Pezzarossi added to the visitors’ woes when he converted another pass from Pappa.

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Ernest Hilaire, the outgoing chief executive of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), has revealed that a “commercial Twenty20” league in the Caribbean is in the works. Hilaire’s term comes to an end on September 30, but he said he would like to leave having finalised the deal, which was being supported by an unnamed in-vestor.

“We’re in the advanced stages of discussions to have a commercial Twenty20 league in the region and I have been leading the negotiations on that. We’re very close to completing the negotiations. I would like to com-plete that whole process before I move on,” Hilaire said in an interview with the Antigua-based Observer Radio. “We are in discussions with an inves-tor. Once we have an understanding, we can move forward with it.”

Hilaire did not elaborate on the exact structure of the Twenty20 league and if it would be a mirror image of other popular domestic leagues like the IPL. He did make it clear though that the existing Caribbean Twenty20 will be played next year. “We will be having the Caribbean Twenty20 in January as scheduled. The board will meet next

Commercial T20 League In The Works

week and make some decisions on its structure and how it will be organ-ised.”

On September 14, the WICB direc-tors are scheduled to meet to discuss the governance structure of the board. Hilaire said the board would also dis-cuss the planned T20 league and final-ise its structure. He would be bring-ing on board both the Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations (FICA) and the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) to discuss issues pertaining to players, he said, to make sure there were no hurdles. “We will need to speak to WIPA and FICA, and other stakeholders, to make sure ev-erybody is on board.”

Ernest Hilaire

The outstanding Chris Gayle took centre stage with an exciting half-century in a smooth all-round per-formance, as West Indies beat a UWI Select XI by 77 runs to sweep their September 6 warm-up doubleheader at the 3W’s Oval. Gayle cracked 62 from 42 balls as West Indies cruised to 175 for four off 20 overs after opting to bat first.

Rising star Johnson Charles ham-mered 46 off 39 balls while exciting all-rounder Andre Russell chipped in with a cameo 33 in the dying stages. Opener Dwayne Smith suffered his second failure of the night when he fell for seven in the second over, but Gayle and Charles combined to put on 100 from 73 balls. The left-handed Gayle struck two fours and six sixes, while Charles stroked three fours and two sixes. Both batsmen fell within the space of 11 deliveries, but Russell

Another West Indies cricketer has shrugged off the favourites’ tag being heaped on the Caribbean side pre-paring for the ICC Twenty20 in Sri Lanka later this month. Big-hitting all-rounder Kieron Pollard says being labelled as favourites could only put the West Indies players under a cer-tain amount of pressure going into the tournament.

Pollard, a T20 specialist and one of the world’s most valuable cricketers, said it’s only performance on the field of play that counts.

“We have a very good team and a lot of people are saying we are fa-vourites. But, you know, when you are favourites, it comes with a pres-sure tag as well,”said Pollard, part of a 15-man squad involved in final preparations at the High Performance Centre at UWI, Cave Hill, Barbados.

“But you know, hopefully names on paper comes for nothing. It is per-formance in the field. So it’s a matter of putting, all what you have prac-tised into play.”

Pollard’s comments follow similar statements from West Indies captain Darren Sammy earlier this week play-ing down the favorites tag. Wind-ies are currently fifth in the ICC T20 rankings, below South Africa, Eng-land, Sri Lanka and India.

The likes of New Zealand skipper Ross Taylor, Australia all-rounder Shane Watson, and former India cap-tain Sourav Ganguly, have publicly lauded Darren Sammy’s men as one of the favourites to win the World

Gayle Shines In T20 Warm Up

and Kieron Pollard (20) put on a hasty 51 from 25 balls for the fourth wicket. Russell blasted two fours and three sixes in a lovely 15-ball cameo.

Gayle then grabbed three for 28 with his off-breaks, and leg-spinner Samuel Badree, two for 13 to help restrict the UWI side to 98 all out off 17.3 overs. Veteran left-hander Floyd Reifer, who led West Indies in two Tests during the players strike three years ago, top-scored with 31 from 20 balls.

Twenty20.“Twenty20 is about who does the

basics right. You have a situation to play to the best of your ability and try to execute as properly as pos-sible and, hopefully, it comes off for you on that day,” said Pollard, the joint highest paid player in the 2010 Indian Premier League, representing Mumbai Indians.

“It’s another day of cricket. Anoth-er tournament and, once we relax and play our cricket, we are going to do well.”

West Indies defeated New Zealand in series involving all formats of the game earlier this year, and are cur-rently involved in a weeklong train-ing camp ahead of the limited-overs showpiece, which gets under way in Sri Lanka in September. Pollard said he is anxious to show his worth in bowling after recovering from a shoulder injury that affected his bowling last year.

The West Indians have been pooled with Australia and Ireland in Group B in the 12-team tournament. Their campaign gets under way against the Aussies in Colombo on September 22.

Pollard Shrugs Off Favorites Tag

Sammy Feeling The Love

BRIDGETOWN, Darren Sammy urged fans to continue to “rally around the West Indies”, as his side flew out to Sri Lanka on September 9 for this month’s World Twenty20 Tourna-ment.

The West Indies captain said the World T20 was a big deal for the team and fans around the region, and his team was already “feeling the love” from fans across the Caribbean. “The people are really behind us and that’s a fantastic feeling,” said Sammy. “The players in the team have been talking about it and everyone is excited and very happy to see the way the people have come out and offered their sup-port.

“A few days ago, we played two practice matches at the Three Ws Oval here in Barbados, and it was truly amazing to see how many fans came

out to watch the matches, talk to us, and encourage us. People have been talking to us on the streets and have just been warm and friendly. ”He said: “It is always good to have the ‘team of supporters’ rallying behind the team and I want to urge everyone to con-tinue to rally around the West Indies.

“This is a huge tournament for the team and the fans as well, so we will go to Sri Lanka and give it all we’ve got. We believe we can win, but it will be hard, tough work.

Once we play together and continue to get the backing of the fans, we know we can lift the title.” West Indies spent the last nine days in Barbados, where they held a preparatory camp under head coach Ottis Gibson at the Sagicor High Performance Centre. Sammy said the team has depth and star-quality in all departments.

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