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Monday 13th June 2016 A n t i g u a a n d B a r b u d a<br />
Vol.7 No.28 $2.00<br />
ABLP: 2 YEARS<br />
AND COUNTING<br />
By Everton Barnes<br />
The activities over the<br />
past week marking the second<br />
anniversary of the Antigua<br />
and Barbuda Labour<br />
Party’s elections victory<br />
have been described as successful.<br />
The assessment comes<br />
from ABLP General Secretary,<br />
Mary Claire Hurst, who<br />
said she was particularly<br />
pleased with how well the<br />
party base was mobilized for<br />
the events.<br />
The activities marking<br />
the second anniversary since<br />
the ABLP’s return to office<br />
on June 12, 2014, included a<br />
ceremony marking the start<br />
of work on the party’s headquarters<br />
building on the Old<br />
Parham Road.<br />
Other activities also included<br />
a church service at the<br />
St. Johnson’s Village Nazarene<br />
Church on Sunday and<br />
an instalment of the popular<br />
Insight radio pprogramme<br />
featuring Prime Minister<br />
Gaston Browne and Attorney<br />
General, Steadroy Benjamin.<br />
The prime minister used<br />
the programme to highlight<br />
the achievements of his over<br />
the past two years. These he<br />
identified as the marked reduction<br />
in crime, over $30<br />
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Monday 13th June 2016<br />
Repeal of the Barbuda Land Act coming<br />
By Everton Barnes<br />
The government is giving<br />
serious consideration to<br />
repealing the Barbuda Land<br />
Act which it has described as<br />
a hindrance to the development<br />
of the country.<br />
The announcement came<br />
Sunday during a radio programme<br />
Insight hosted by<br />
Attorney General, Steadroy<br />
Benjamin and also featuring<br />
Prime Minister Gaston<br />
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Browne. The programme<br />
was part of activities to mark<br />
the second anniversary of<br />
the Antigua and Barbuda Labour<br />
Party’s election victory<br />
of June 12, 2014.<br />
In response to a caller,<br />
Browne announced that repealing<br />
the Barbuda Land<br />
Act is very likely as it was<br />
both a deterrent to development<br />
on the sister as well as<br />
being un-Constitutional.<br />
His comments come as<br />
the Barbuda People’s Movement<br />
has again gone to the<br />
courts in a bid to stop the<br />
proposed Paradise Found<br />
development planned for the<br />
now defunct K-Club properties.<br />
The prime minister said<br />
it is inconceivable that his<br />
government that has been so<br />
progressive on environmental<br />
issues would allow any<br />
development to wantonly<br />
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million dollars in new equipment for<br />
the Mount St John’s Hospital, the stabilization<br />
of the economy, on-time<br />
payments of government salaries and<br />
wages, regular payments to Social<br />
Security, control of government expenditure,<br />
reduction of debt to GDP,<br />
on-going digitizing of government<br />
services, the government’s housing<br />
development programme, establishing<br />
a venture capital facility at the Antigua<br />
and Barbuda Development Bank<br />
and much more.<br />
During the programme, many<br />
people called in to express their confidence<br />
in the government and their<br />
continued faith in the policies being<br />
implemented by PM Browne and his<br />
Cabinet.<br />
destroy the environment of<br />
the country. “We have allocated<br />
some $100 million for<br />
renewable energy, passed<br />
the landmark Environmental<br />
Management and Protection<br />
Act, and have adopted other<br />
measures such as the ban on<br />
plastic bags.<br />
“Nobody can question<br />
this government’s commitment<br />
towards safeguarding<br />
the environment,” he declared.<br />
The attorney general said<br />
nothing is going to stand in<br />
the way of the government’s<br />
plans to develop both islands<br />
in its stated desire to<br />
make Antigua and Barbuda<br />
the ‘economic powerhouse<br />
of the Eastern <strong>Caribbean</strong>’.<br />
“If this means repealing the<br />
Barbuda Land Act, it will be<br />
done!” he declared.<br />
PM Browne has repeatedly<br />
maintained that the Barbuda<br />
Land Act passed by the<br />
UPP Administration in 2007<br />
contravenes Section 1 of the<br />
Constitution of Antigua and<br />
Barbuda “which states very<br />
clearly that Antigua and Barbuda<br />
shall be a unitary, sovereign,<br />
democratic state.”<br />
The prime minister said<br />
that since Barbuda is part of<br />
the unitary state of Antigua<br />
and Barbuda as stated in the<br />
Constitution, “provisions in<br />
the Barbuda Land Act cannot<br />
supersede the provisions<br />
of the Constitution.”<br />
Last October, parliament<br />
adopted the Paradise Found<br />
Act which puts the project<br />
outside the scope of the Barbuda<br />
Land Act.<br />
The BPM is using the<br />
provisions of the Barbuda<br />
Land Act as a basis for<br />
their court action aimed at<br />
stopping the Paradise Found<br />
project.
Monday 13th June 2016 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g 3<br />
Gaston greets the people<br />
By Justin Peters<br />
Over the weekend the<br />
ABLP celebrated the 2 nd Anniversary<br />
of assuming leadership<br />
of the government, an<br />
important milestone for the<br />
people of Antigua and Barbuda.<br />
The Prime Minister of Antigua<br />
and Barbuda the Honourable<br />
Gaston Browne took<br />
to the streets of his constituency<br />
to meet those that matter,<br />
the people who trusted him<br />
with the future of their village<br />
and their nation.<br />
In humble form, he started<br />
his walk from The IT Centre<br />
on North Street and made his<br />
way through Booby Alley, a<br />
maze of derelict housing occupied<br />
by many generations<br />
of Antiguans and Barbudans<br />
who came from humble beginnings<br />
just a he did. He was<br />
well received as a brother and<br />
a son of the constituency.<br />
As the walkthrough progressed<br />
he took the time out to<br />
gather feedback from the denizens<br />
of City West, many of<br />
whom knew him as a young<br />
man before becoming a businessman<br />
and before politics.<br />
The prime minister could<br />
be seen engaging persons<br />
from many walks of life,<br />
young old and in between,<br />
supporters and opposition<br />
alike leading by example giving<br />
inclusion to all, physically<br />
embracing not only his admirers,<br />
but also his skeptics.<br />
Visits to the elderly and<br />
shuti-ns were welcome as he<br />
was answered with shouts of<br />
“Browne” of “Gaston” showing<br />
a high level of familiarity<br />
with all those he came across,<br />
drawing smiles and admiration<br />
from children and respect<br />
from adults who readily<br />
shared their views with a son<br />
of the village who has risen to<br />
the position of leadership but<br />
hasn’t erased his genesis from<br />
his mind.<br />
The meet and greet which<br />
started at 3 in the afternoon<br />
and lasted until well into the<br />
evening with a small crowd<br />
gathering and follow the honourable<br />
Prime Minister past<br />
the Adventist church in Rohan<br />
Henry Street all the way down<br />
to the very back of Villa and<br />
back around to the ball courts<br />
facing the new Dredge Bay<br />
Housing Project.
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Monday 13th June 2016<br />
APUA launches third internship program<br />
By Justin Peters<br />
The Antigua Public Utilities<br />
Authority (APUA) is<br />
the one of the largest employers<br />
on the island. Many<br />
local success stories started<br />
at APUA and the nation’s<br />
indigenous utility company<br />
with the very factual slogan<br />
“Necessary for Life” continues<br />
to do facilitate the growth<br />
of Antiguans and Barbudans<br />
financially and academically.<br />
The APUA Summer Internship<br />
Program, which<br />
started 5 years ago has grown<br />
and has produced successful<br />
professionals each year in<br />
the fields of Civil, Electrical<br />
and Mechanical Engineering,<br />
Computer Programming,<br />
Graphic Design, Marketing,<br />
Human Resource Management,<br />
Hydrology, Communications<br />
and Networking just<br />
to name a few.<br />
The only program of its<br />
kind in Antigua and the best<br />
of its kind in the region, the<br />
program takes young locals<br />
who have completed senior<br />
levels in local tertiary institutions<br />
or are pursuing degrees<br />
in international institutions<br />
and affords them real world<br />
experience in departments<br />
that are deemed to best suit<br />
their courses of study.<br />
This year’s program for<br />
example, is project based<br />
and will see some of the interns<br />
have the opportunity to<br />
work at the recently commissioned<br />
reverse osmosis plant<br />
at Pigeon Point in English<br />
Harbour. Opportunities such<br />
as this has helped interns to<br />
Joanna Paris<br />
Prime Minister, the Hon. Gaston<br />
Browne, said that he declared his assets<br />
of $30 million dollars to the Integrity<br />
Commission before assuming the Office<br />
of Prime Minister.<br />
As opposition forces continue to<br />
question and create allegations as to the<br />
source of the Prime Minister’s wealth,<br />
the nation’s leader during the parliamentary<br />
debate on Friday, made another<br />
attempt to set the record straight.<br />
He frankly stated that he is not obligated<br />
to give the “detractors” any answers<br />
but assured that he will continue<br />
to be accountable to and transparent<br />
with the public.<br />
“I am not an overnight investor<br />
and all of my companies would have<br />
had well in excess of a decade of performance,<br />
so it is not a situation where<br />
companies are suddenly incorporated<br />
into my assets.<br />
“As Prime Minister I have not acquired<br />
a single vehicle, I have been<br />
using the ones that were used by the<br />
former Prime Minister for the last 10<br />
years”, he said.<br />
decide on a career, often returning<br />
to APUA as a full<br />
time employee and being<br />
rewarded as they climb the<br />
ladder based on their expertise<br />
and how well they apply<br />
those skills within the APUA<br />
infrastructure.<br />
As one of the former interns<br />
of 2013, Queens Young<br />
Leader, and Chairman of the<br />
Internship Committee, Mr.<br />
Regis Burton who found a<br />
home at eventually attaining<br />
the position of HR Systems<br />
and Employment Engagement<br />
Officer will tell you,<br />
once you are determined to<br />
come to work on time and<br />
focus APUA is the place for<br />
you and interns are given<br />
preference for available vacancies.<br />
PM Browne declares assets to Integrity Commission<br />
He also stated that he has transferred<br />
some of the assets to his 27-year-old<br />
son, a business man in his own right,<br />
a decision that Prime Minister Browne<br />
said “I have all right to do”.<br />
Prime Minister Browne said that<br />
most of his assets were acquired before<br />
he got into politics and without any assistance<br />
from the government.<br />
He added that most of the resources<br />
are in real estate along with some<br />
heavy-duty equipment. He told the<br />
House that he began his ventures at the<br />
young age of 20.
Monday 13th June 2016 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g 5<br />
Small hotels thank Hon. Asot Michael<br />
By Justin Peters<br />
Tourism has been a strong<br />
revenue generator for Antigua<br />
and Barbuda for many<br />
years. With many more territories<br />
outside of the <strong>Caribbean</strong><br />
engaging in offering their<br />
own tourism product, however,<br />
it has become more difficult<br />
to maintain a consistent<br />
level of visitors to the island.<br />
The Honourable Asot<br />
A. Michael, as minister of<br />
Tourism, Economic Development,<br />
Investment and Energy,<br />
has championed the<br />
cause of local entrepreneurs<br />
working in and benefiting<br />
from the tourism industry.<br />
A recent Road Show<br />
which took small hoteliers<br />
to Trinidad to showcase their<br />
products and attract visitors<br />
to their properties and to<br />
Antigua to enjoy the land of<br />
By Everton Barnes<br />
The building that serves as headquarters<br />
for the Antigua and Barbuda<br />
Disability Association has been<br />
robbed, again.<br />
President of the association, Bernard<br />
Warner, in making the report<br />
said the building, which is still under<br />
construction, has been the target for<br />
thieves at various stages of the construction<br />
process.<br />
According to Warner the latest robbery<br />
was discovered Saturday morning<br />
when members realized that a window<br />
that was removed by thieves a week<br />
earlier and which was secured by plywood<br />
and nails, was ribbed away to allow<br />
for entry into the building.<br />
He said three folding tables and<br />
six chairs were stolen. In the earlier<br />
break-in, tables and chairs were also<br />
removed.<br />
Warner said the building, located<br />
just off the All Saints Road near<br />
the flower show immediately east of<br />
the John I Martin compound, is nearing<br />
completion and that the repeated<br />
break-ins only serve to delay the opening<br />
of the headquarters.<br />
“The work of the association is affected<br />
tremendously by these break-ins<br />
because we are forced to replace the<br />
stolen items, much of which are from<br />
donations and our fund-raising efforts.<br />
We are now forced to undertake more<br />
fund-raising and seek additional donations,”<br />
Warner explained.<br />
The ABDA president said the association<br />
recently purchased the tiles<br />
and adhesive for the kitchen and he<br />
Tourism Minister, the Hon., Asot Michael holds his painting.<br />
365 beaches is a testament of and thoughtfulness that went<br />
Minister Michael’s dedication<br />
to the tourism industry. Humbled by the heart-<br />
into making the trip a reality.<br />
This proactive move yielded<br />
most desirable results ter thanked his hosts for their<br />
warming gesture, the minis-<br />
with the local entrepreneurs generosity and encouraged<br />
making the necessary connections<br />
to help increase good fight and to continue<br />
them to continue to fight the<br />
occupancy at their establishments.<br />
have, stressing that he un-<br />
investing in tourism as they<br />
So it is that they hosted a derstood and felt the hard<br />
small ceremony at the Villas work that goes into keeping a<br />
at Sunset Lane to show their small accommodation business<br />
functioning at the appreciation for the foresight<br />
exceptional<br />
levels of the ones<br />
on the island.<br />
He was joined by cabinet<br />
colleague The Honourable<br />
Sir Robin Yearwood who<br />
chairs the finance committee<br />
responsible for authorizing<br />
the funding for the road<br />
show a cost estimated to be<br />
just over $10,000, which he<br />
expressed was well spent.<br />
Colin James, CEO of the<br />
Antigua and Barbuda Tourism<br />
Authority as well other<br />
officials from the Ministry<br />
of Tourism were also present<br />
for the momentous occasion.<br />
As a token of appreciation,<br />
Minister Michael was<br />
presented with a painting<br />
rendered by a local artist.<br />
Graciously accepting the<br />
gift, he joyously exclaimed<br />
“I have to hang this on a wall<br />
in the ministry”.<br />
Disability Association building robbed again<br />
disclosed that during the construction<br />
that has been on-going for some time,<br />
the thieves seem to wait until there is<br />
a resumption of the work to break into<br />
the building and steal items.<br />
The association has lost windows,<br />
doors and other items including the tables<br />
and chairs during this time.<br />
For this latest break-in, the police<br />
were called, but according to Warner<br />
they were not able to lift any fingerprints<br />
from the scene.<br />
A distraught Warner said he could<br />
not understand why a building to serve<br />
the disabled in the society would be the<br />
constant target of thieves as he issued a<br />
plea for the return of the stolen items.<br />
He said the tables and chairs were<br />
donated to the association a little more<br />
than a year ago by Courts Furnishings.
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Monday 13th June 2016<br />
PIT Amendment Bill debated and passed<br />
Joanna Paris<br />
On Friday, members of the Lower<br />
House of Parliament, gave a nod of approval<br />
towards the passage of the Personal<br />
Income Tax (PIT) Amendment<br />
Bill 2016.<br />
The mover of the legislation, Prime<br />
Minister and Minister of Finance and<br />
Corporate Governance, Prime Minister,<br />
the Hon. Gaston Browne in his introductory<br />
remarks explained the benefits<br />
associated with the removal of PIT.<br />
He indicated that as a result of the passage<br />
of the bill, effective June 30 th , PIT<br />
will be totally abolished and added that<br />
the parliamentary debate was just the<br />
beginning of a long awaited process.<br />
The nation’s leader further noted<br />
that the abolition of PIT will give the<br />
people of Antigua and Barbuda more<br />
By Justin Peters<br />
The professional, the<br />
Vagabond, Superman, Ricard<br />
Drue is one of the most<br />
prolific Soca artists coming<br />
out of Antigua and Barbuda,<br />
something that has<br />
been achieved through hard<br />
work and a love for the art<br />
and his fans. With his rise to<br />
fame after his breakout hit<br />
“Superman” and follow-up<br />
chart toppers “Vagabond”<br />
and “Professional” Ricardo<br />
is here to stay.<br />
Always extremely<br />
thankful for all that he has<br />
achieved, he remembers<br />
where his road began and believes<br />
in giving back to society<br />
in any way that he can. It<br />
is in the spirit of giving that<br />
he decided to produce a fete<br />
for children, about children<br />
economic power to contribute to the<br />
nation’s growth and development.<br />
“The elimination of Personal Income<br />
Tax is designed to empower Antiguans<br />
and Barbudans and will also put<br />
37 million dollars back in the pockets<br />
of the people of this country. This just<br />
one way to ensure that there is greater<br />
equity in the system”, Prime Minister<br />
Browne explained.<br />
He highlighted the fact that 25%<br />
percent of the working class has carried<br />
the burden of paying the tax for the last<br />
10 years and further outlined that the<br />
elimination of PIT is a “promise made<br />
and promise kept”.<br />
Prime Minister Browne also said<br />
that the Antigua and Barbuda Labour<br />
Party (ABLP) has always been opposed<br />
to the tax because of its unfair<br />
and to benefit children.<br />
ID Land as it has been<br />
dubbed is the definitive<br />
event for children this Carnival<br />
season. With all of the<br />
fetes that are hosted every<br />
year, with the exception of<br />
the children’s carnival parade,<br />
preteens tend to be<br />
wholly excluded from fetes.<br />
The event slated for July<br />
10th 2016, fills that gap and<br />
will be hosted by TJ Da DJ<br />
and will feature an explosive<br />
lineup of local entertainers<br />
such as Kid Viscous,<br />
Baby Eve, Junior Rampler<br />
(the reigning Junior Soca<br />
Monarch, MnM Music, the<br />
amazing Gurin Hunte the<br />
Magician, Sprit Starz Cheerleaders,<br />
the Good Vibes<br />
nature.<br />
Now that persons will have more<br />
income available to them, the government<br />
encourages persons to invest<br />
wisely as the government seeks to pursue<br />
a policy of entrepreneurship socialism.<br />
“What we recommend, Mr. Speaker,<br />
is for individuals to invest these<br />
funds wisely, get a loan, invest in a<br />
retirement property basically acquire<br />
assets and not to take the funds and go<br />
and splurge in a foreign country, invest<br />
here”, the nation’s leader advised.<br />
Veteran politician and Seniour Minister,<br />
Sir Lester Bird, gladly voiced his<br />
support for the abolition of PIT, which<br />
he described a further step forward in<br />
the economic development of Antigua<br />
and Barbuda.<br />
Soca artiste giving back to society<br />
Band and the Antigua Dance<br />
Academy.<br />
The charity event is sponsored<br />
by Digicel Joe Mike’s<br />
G Productions Online, ID<br />
Nation, Merryland and Vybz<br />
FM.<br />
100% of the proceeds<br />
from ticket sales will go to<br />
the Mount St. John’s Medial<br />
Centre Children’s Ward.
Monday 13th June 2016 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g 7<br />
Formal process towards CCJ underway<br />
By Everton Barnes<br />
The government has followed<br />
up on its commitment<br />
to see Antigua and Barbuda<br />
delink from the Judicial Committee<br />
of the Privy Council<br />
(JCPC) as its final court of<br />
appeal to acceding to the <strong>Caribbean</strong><br />
Court of Justice in its<br />
Appellate Jurisdiction.<br />
Last Friday, the government<br />
introduced into the<br />
House of Representatives two<br />
pieces of legislation - the Constitution<br />
(Antigua and Barbuda)<br />
Referendum Bill and the<br />
Constitution of Antigua and<br />
Barbuda (<strong>Caribbean</strong> Court of<br />
Justice) (Amendment) Act –<br />
which is the formal signal that<br />
the process towards adopting<br />
the CCJ is fully underway.<br />
“By introducing the two<br />
bills in parliament, the government<br />
is setting the legal<br />
framework for the conduct of<br />
a referendum that will seek to<br />
The Department of Environment will<br />
be conducting surveys within the McKinnon’s,<br />
Yorks and Gambles communities<br />
over the next two weeks.<br />
This survey will assist with data<br />
collection for the proposed “lntegrated<br />
approach to physical adaptation and<br />
community resilience in Antigua and<br />
Barbuda’s northwest McKinnon’s watershed”<br />
project.<br />
This project focuses on increasing the<br />
resilience of the communities to climate<br />
change through three components:<br />
1.Upgrade urban drainage and waterways<br />
to meet projected climate change<br />
impacts<br />
abolish the JCPC as the country’s<br />
final appeal court. As<br />
this is entrenched in the Constitution<br />
changing it requires<br />
a two-thirds majority in the<br />
House of Representatives and<br />
a two-thirds majority of the<br />
people who vote in a referendum<br />
in order for it to be take<br />
place,” he explained.<br />
Further, Benjamin added<br />
Joanna Paris<br />
The Royal Police Force of Antigua and<br />
Barbuda will be begin training a number of<br />
new recruits shortly. Twenty three persons<br />
have already been chosen for the exercise<br />
with plans being made to swear in more individuals<br />
ahead of the six month preparation<br />
process.<br />
This forms part of efforts, as the force<br />
seeks strengthen its numbers to further curtail<br />
illicit activities in the twin island nation.<br />
In an interview with local media, Superintendent<br />
of Police, Atlee Rodney, said that the<br />
that the government is putting<br />
things in place to ensure that<br />
the measure is approved by<br />
the people when they vote. He<br />
said already several interest<br />
groups have indicated a willingness<br />
to work along with<br />
the government in its public<br />
education campaign designed<br />
educate the public about the<br />
JCPC and the CCJ.<br />
2.Revolving Loans for homes in<br />
McKinnon’s watershed to meet new<br />
adaptation guidelines established in the<br />
building code and physical plan<br />
3. Adaptation mainstreaming and capacity<br />
building NGOs and community<br />
groups to sustain project interventions<br />
Climate change has been on the forefront<br />
of many discussions and its impacts<br />
have deleterious affects on the communities,<br />
particularly individuals who may be<br />
classified as vulnerable.<br />
This pilot project will focus on assisting<br />
the vulnerable persons within this<br />
community to adapt to climate change<br />
through innovative means.<br />
The AG said the campaign<br />
will be launched in earnest<br />
right after the annual Carnival<br />
festivities with the referendum<br />
likely to take place in<br />
October this year. The National<br />
Coordinating Committee<br />
headed by Ambassador Dr.<br />
Clarence Henry was appointed<br />
to spearhead the public education<br />
campaign.<br />
Police recruits to begin training soon<br />
training will be facilitated by local officers.<br />
He added that the recruits will be trained<br />
in several areas to include: basic drills, physical<br />
fitness, criminal law and procedures, customer<br />
service, sociology and police procedures<br />
as well as handling domestic violence<br />
and cybercrime.<br />
Superintendent Rodney indicated that the<br />
full training package in currently being prepared.<br />
The law enforcement agency continues<br />
to receive kudos from government officials<br />
and members of the public for the increase<br />
efficiency in its operations.<br />
Department of Environment conducting surveys in<br />
the McKinnon’s, Yorks and Gambles communities<br />
Funding from this project will be<br />
sourced through the Adaptation Fund,<br />
and the surveys, along with the consultations,<br />
which will follow, will add credence<br />
to the project and assist with its<br />
eventual funding and implementation.<br />
This project is being developed with<br />
the collaboration of the Directorate of<br />
Gender Affairs, National Office of Disaster<br />
Services, Development Control Authority,<br />
APUA, and other key partners.<br />
The Department of Environment<br />
therefore seeks the collaboration of the<br />
members of the McKinnons, Yorks and<br />
Gambles communities as we seek to ride<br />
the climate wave.
8 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g<br />
Monday 13th June 2016<br />
Burton gets six months in prison<br />
By Alecia Mc Pherson<br />
On May 29, 2016 Vera Donsalves<br />
aged 74 of Yorks reported her son to<br />
Criminal Investigation Department after<br />
he shattered one of the windows on her<br />
vehicle. It is reported that on the said<br />
day at about 7:20 am, Eric Burton aged<br />
52 of Villa went to his mother’s home<br />
where he demanded that she open the<br />
Alecia Mc Pherson<br />
Prince Charming Graham<br />
alias “DJ Prince” aged 27 of<br />
no fixed place of abode is<br />
before the court facing the<br />
charge of Grievous Bodily<br />
Harm. Kimarley Mc Donald<br />
alias “DJ Skitta” aged 31 of<br />
Joseph Road made a report<br />
to the Criminal Investigations<br />
Department that the defendant<br />
stabbed him with a<br />
knife to the left forearm.<br />
Both the defendant and<br />
complainant are Disc Jockeys<br />
(DJ) and were both booked<br />
ATTENTION ALL EMPLOYERS<br />
AND SELF EMPLOYED PERSONS<br />
The Antigua & Barbuda Social Security Board (ABSSB)<br />
advises of its intent to commence criminal prosecution on<br />
ALL non-compliant employers and self employed persons.<br />
To this end, all employers and self employed persons, who<br />
are in breach of their statutory obligation to Social Security,<br />
are strongly urged to contact the Social Security office to<br />
regularize their status between June 1, 2016 and August 31,<br />
2016.<br />
The ABSSB wishes to commend all employers and self<br />
employed persons who have consistently complied with<br />
their statutory obligation and encourages all employers and<br />
self employed persons to ensure that moving forward every<br />
attempt will be made to adhere to their Social Security obligations.<br />
door and make him a cup of tea.<br />
It is reported that he banged on the<br />
door several times while making the demands.<br />
“I am going to mash up the window<br />
if you don’t give me the tea or open the<br />
door”, he reportedly threatened.<br />
Not having his request met, he picked<br />
up a stone and threw it at the left rear<br />
window of the complaniant’s Kia Picanto<br />
which was parked in her yard, thereby<br />
causing $750.00 worth of damages.<br />
Charged with Malicious Damage,<br />
Burton appeared before Chief Magistrate<br />
Walsh at the St. John’s Magistrates<br />
Court. He pleaded guilty and was convicted<br />
and sentenced to six months at<br />
HMP.<br />
Graham in court for stabbing fellow DJ<br />
to play at a party hosted on<br />
January 4, 2016 at Tunnel<br />
Bar located on Old Parham<br />
Road. Apparently, a disagreement<br />
ensued between the two<br />
during their performances<br />
which reportedly escalated<br />
into a brawl.<br />
The complainant ran<br />
from the building to the<br />
main road after the accused<br />
pulled a knife from his pants<br />
pocket, but moments later he<br />
heard loud screams coming<br />
from the party patrons and<br />
turned to see the defendant<br />
approaching while still brandishing<br />
the knife, the complainant<br />
attempted to run but<br />
fell on his back. It is further<br />
reported that the accused said<br />
to the complainant “*expletive*<br />
fu dead”.<br />
The complainant received<br />
a stab to the left forearm as<br />
he raised his hands to block<br />
multiple stabbing attempts.<br />
Graham fled the scene<br />
shortly after and Mc Donald<br />
was taken to MSJMC<br />
where he was treated for<br />
his wound, a report of the<br />
incident was later made to<br />
the St. John’s Police Station.<br />
Graham was subsequently<br />
arrested and charged with<br />
Malicious Wounding with<br />
Intent to Cause Grevious<br />
Bodily Harm. He appeared<br />
at the St. John’s Magistrates<br />
Court last week, the matter<br />
is ajourned to July 11, 2016<br />
when he will return to court<br />
for committal proceedings.
Monday 13th June 2016 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g 9<br />
Possible $3,000 fine shocks offender<br />
Deborah A Parker<br />
An English Harbour man<br />
who failed to tell lawmen the<br />
source of batteries he had<br />
in his possession was fined<br />
$300, when he appeared<br />
before Magistrate Ngaio<br />
Emanuel recently.<br />
During the execution of<br />
a search warrant at the home<br />
of Devon Joseph at approximately<br />
5:15am on May 21,<br />
officers found three Global<br />
Calcium batteries.<br />
Joseph refused to respond<br />
when he was asked by<br />
the lawmen if he had bought<br />
the items, or if he had any<br />
proof of purchase.<br />
With that attitude, the<br />
lawmen seized the items and<br />
Joseph committed<br />
to stand trial<br />
Alecia Mc Pherson<br />
Walton Joseph alias “Duke” aged 43 of St. John’s Street<br />
is now before the court after reportedly failing to deliver a<br />
vehicle for which he received payment.<br />
It is reported that the accused collected from Markon Mc<br />
Neil of Point the sum of $6725.00EC payment for the importation<br />
of a vehicle.<br />
This arrangement was reportedly made during March<br />
of 2013, several months later after trying to make contact,<br />
the complainant was told that problems were<br />
encountered while purchasing the vehicle.<br />
However, the complaniant is yet to receive a vehicle or<br />
have his money returned.<br />
A report was made to the Criminal Investigations Department<br />
and the accused was subsequently arrested and<br />
charged in the matter. Joseph appeared before the St. John›s<br />
Magistrate Court last week having been charged with<br />
Larceny and Fraudulent Conversion.<br />
He was committed to stand trial at the September›s<br />
assizes in the High Court.<br />
Deborah A Parker<br />
A Dominican national expressed<br />
shock when he learnt he could be fined<br />
as much as $3,000 for praedial larceny.<br />
The man who works as a chef was<br />
hauled before the court for the theft of<br />
a half bucket of mangoes recently.<br />
Though he answered guilty to the<br />
offence, he explained that he had actually<br />
gone on the farm to look for<br />
limes, for a sick woman, when he saw<br />
the mango tree.<br />
He said he did not pick the mangoes<br />
from off the tree, but picked up<br />
what was lying on the ground.<br />
The first time offender was warned<br />
by Magistrate Ngaio Emanuel that for<br />
what he (the offender) described as a<br />
‘childish’ offence, he could be fined as<br />
much as $3,000.<br />
With his eyes wide opened,<br />
and leaning in the direction of<br />
the magistrate the man repeated,<br />
“$3,000....$3,000?”<br />
To send out a strong message, owing<br />
to the prevalence of the offence,<br />
the young man was fined $1,500.<br />
‘Mysterious’ batteries land man in trouble<br />
instructed Joseph to visit the<br />
Dockyard Police precinct<br />
with the receipt for the batteries.<br />
No such action was taken<br />
and Joseph was subsequently<br />
charged.<br />
In court he told the magistrate<br />
that he did not expect<br />
‘these turn of events,’ hence<br />
he did not collect a receipt<br />
when he bought the batteries<br />
‘off the streets.’<br />
He was ordered to pay<br />
the $300 fine forthwith, or<br />
be jailed for seven days.
10 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g<br />
Monday 13th June 2016<br />
Reflections on Walter Rodney<br />
36 years after his assasination<br />
By Dr. David Hinds<br />
I am writing this column on my way<br />
from in Haiti, where I attended the 41 st<br />
annual <strong>Caribbean</strong> Studies Association<br />
conference. For six days more than a<br />
thousand scholars from all parts of the<br />
world of different generations who study<br />
and teach about the <strong>Caribbean</strong> engaged<br />
in scholarly exchanges about our region.<br />
It is always uplifting to be part of any<br />
meeting of our <strong>Caribbean</strong> family, but it<br />
was especially uplifting this year because<br />
we were meeting in Haiti. Despite its<br />
persistent tribulations, there is something<br />
special and magical about that country—<br />
its people, its landscape and its rhythms.<br />
The very fact that it was the vanguard of<br />
Black and <strong>Caribbean</strong> freedom puts Haiti<br />
at the center of our survivalist and freedom<br />
trajectory. As Angela Davis, whose<br />
rich and insightful address to the conference,<br />
asserted ”whatever little freedom<br />
we enjoy today we owe it to the Haitian<br />
people.”<br />
This was my second visit to Haiti.<br />
The first time I landed on Haitian soil,<br />
five years ago, I cried tears of thanks because<br />
I knew that my Buxtonion, Guyanese,<br />
<strong>Caribbean</strong> and Black identities, individually<br />
and together, owe a great debt<br />
to Haiti. Haiti is our living link to Mother<br />
Africa and the mother of our <strong>Caribbean</strong>.<br />
There were no tears on this visit, but I<br />
wrapped my mind around Haiti and tried<br />
to imagine what our <strong>Caribbean</strong> could be<br />
if only we could begin as a people, together<br />
and in our separate island-states,<br />
to reach for our glory and love ourselves<br />
again. As I watched the Haitian people go<br />
about their daily business of surviving the<br />
harshness of persistent neo-colonialism,<br />
I saw and felt hope for our <strong>Caribbean</strong>. I<br />
have never seen a nation of people bear<br />
their burdens, our <strong>Caribbean</strong> burdens,<br />
with such resilience. I never doubt the<br />
beauty and dignity of Black people and<br />
<strong>Caribbean</strong> peoples, but Haiti affirms this<br />
feeling.<br />
Acclaimed scholar-activist, Angela<br />
Davis, gave a memorable address to the<br />
conference linking race, class, nation,<br />
history, oppression, survival and freedom<br />
pioneers. When she got to the point<br />
of her address that discussed underdevelopment,<br />
she asked the audience who<br />
she was thinking about and hundreds of<br />
voices responded in unison—“Walter<br />
Rodney,” followed by a generous round<br />
of applause.<br />
It is common place to hear Rodney’s<br />
work quoted by scholars who speak<br />
about him in elevated ways; after all he<br />
belonged to the world—one of Guyana’s<br />
most precious gifts to world civilization.<br />
But when I heard that audience speak his<br />
name that evening, I felt a rush of pride<br />
as a Guyanese, as a comrade and a descendant<br />
of Rodney and the <strong>Caribbean</strong><br />
, Black, African and Guyanese radical<br />
tradition he contributed immensely to.<br />
But I also felt a gush of pain largely because<br />
Guyanese of the post-1980 generation<br />
do not get to experience moments<br />
like those when their country is lifted to<br />
the mountaintop by the mere mention of<br />
his name. There were several Guyanese<br />
scholars at the conference to witness that<br />
moment, but shamefully, there was only<br />
one scholar from the University of Guyana—lecturer<br />
and historian, Estherene<br />
Adams—who presented a well-received<br />
paper on another outstanding Guyanese,<br />
Eusi Kwayana.<br />
There is something wrong, very<br />
wrong, when a country which has produced<br />
intellectual titans such as Eusi<br />
Kwayana, Walter Rodney, Clem Seecharan,<br />
Alissa Trotz, Ivan Van Certima, Rupert<br />
Roopnarine, Elsa Gouveia and Clive<br />
Thomas could send only one scholar<br />
from its university to the major academic<br />
conference in and about our <strong>Caribbean</strong>.<br />
How can scholars at UG effectively teach<br />
our students when they are cut off from<br />
communion with their colleagues in the<br />
rest of the region and the world? We get<br />
so carried away and wrapped up in our<br />
political mess that we often do not realize<br />
how disconnected we are from the rest of<br />
the <strong>Caribbean</strong> and the world. In the process<br />
we have become a little, isolated and<br />
dangerous island that wallows in its disconnectedness.<br />
As I think about Walter Rodney who<br />
we assassinated 36 years ago on a Friday<br />
night, I think about Guyana and its<br />
slow but steady march towards the edge.<br />
I think about some of the backwardness<br />
I read on Facebook and the newspaper<br />
blogs and I wonder if we can pull ourselves<br />
back. The brutal murders and our<br />
seemingly numbness to them; the national<br />
hypocrisy when it comes to our<br />
ethno-racial condition; the persistent<br />
betrayal by our political leaders replete<br />
with economic and psychological brutalization<br />
of poor people—the doom varies<br />
but it never goes away.<br />
But in the end, we must press on.<br />
Rodney had asked that should he be cut<br />
down, his body should be used as a barricade<br />
for the revolution. The revolution<br />
which he started and for which he was<br />
murdered by the hand of the State, is still<br />
incomplete. Walter Rodney must live<br />
again in Guyana as he lives in the global<br />
space. As CLR James, another <strong>Caribbean</strong><br />
intellectual giant, would say—there is<br />
always work to be done. Let us on this<br />
June 13, whatever our politics, say thanks<br />
to Walter Rodney for making us whole<br />
while he walked our streets and for the<br />
legacy of hope he has left us.<br />
On this 36 th anniversary of Walter<br />
Rodney’s assassination, I call on the<br />
Government to fulfil its promise to have<br />
the Walter Rodney COI report properly<br />
cont’d on pg 11
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Disaster management exhibition well attended<br />
The annual disaster management<br />
exhibition hosted<br />
by the National Office of<br />
Disaster Services (NODS)<br />
on Thursday received good<br />
support from members of the<br />
public and those who were involved.<br />
Participants from 13<br />
groups along with NODS interacted<br />
with mostly students<br />
from several schools and used<br />
the opportunity to educate<br />
them on various aspects relating<br />
to their respective fields.<br />
The exhibition continues<br />
to receive support from the<br />
Fire Department, the Antigua<br />
and Barbuda Red Cross, the<br />
Department of Environment,<br />
the Met Office, the Antigua<br />
and Barbuda Defence Force,<br />
the Health Information Division,<br />
the Plant Protection Unit<br />
and the Emergency Medical<br />
Services (EMS).<br />
Newcomers this year were<br />
the Antigua Public Utilities<br />
Authority (APUA), State Insurance<br />
Corporation, ABI<br />
Insurance, the Antigua and<br />
Barbuda Credit Union League<br />
and the Beach Safety Protection<br />
Unit formerly the Lifeguard<br />
Division.<br />
Social Studies and Science<br />
teacher Christa Christopher,<br />
who attended the event with a<br />
group from St Michael’s Primary<br />
School, said the students<br />
really enjoyed the exhibition.<br />
“They learnt a lot. It was<br />
very informative. The atmosphere<br />
was great for learning<br />
with a mixture of participants<br />
and there was a nice flow to<br />
the set up”, said Christopher.<br />
This is the ninth year<br />
NODS has hosted its disaster<br />
management exhibition.<br />
Plans are in the pipeline<br />
to enhance next year’s event<br />
with additional activities that<br />
would generate greater interest<br />
from the public.<br />
NODS is expressing appreciation<br />
to all those who<br />
participated along with several<br />
sponsors like the St John’s<br />
Development Corporation,<br />
Digicel, Inet and Kennedy’s<br />
Club.<br />
cont’d from pg 10<br />
laid before parliament and be debated. I<br />
hope that such a debate avoids the political<br />
finger-pointing and instead focus on<br />
the big lessons, in particular the banishment<br />
of the use of the state and para state<br />
institutions as a tool of violence against<br />
political opponents and the citizenry in<br />
general.<br />
On this Rodney anniversary I call<br />
upon the President to expand his promise<br />
to inquire into the death of former<br />
PPP Minister Satyadeyow Sawh and his<br />
family to include all politically motivated<br />
killings over the last four decades. I especially<br />
call for inquiries into the deaths<br />
of Ronald Waddell and Courtney Crum<br />
Ewing—the families of these brothers<br />
and all of Guyana need to know the circumstances<br />
surrounding their deaths<br />
I also urge the government to honour<br />
Walter Rodney in the most non-partisan<br />
manner by re-naming the University of<br />
Guyana the Walter Rodney University<br />
of Guyana. All Guyanese regardless of<br />
political affiliation agree that Rodney<br />
was one of our most brilliant scholars. It<br />
would be a fitting symbol of the efforts<br />
to regenerate the university and a living<br />
monument to Rodney and the centrality<br />
of education to Guyana’s national development.<br />
I also call on the Ministry of Education<br />
to introduce Rodney’s two children’s<br />
books—Kofi Badu out of Africa<br />
and Lakshmi out of India into the school<br />
curriculum. Such a move would contribute<br />
immensely to national cohesion,<br />
particularly among the youth. Rodney’s<br />
insights into our ethnic dynamics are invaluable<br />
and should not be wasted.<br />
Finally on this anniversary, I call for<br />
a national stand against attacks on the independent<br />
media. This is an area of our<br />
politics that Rodney was most concerned<br />
about. He saw the assassination of the<br />
journalist, Father Bernard Darke in 1979<br />
as a descent into barbarism. The recent<br />
grenade attack on the Kaieteur News is a<br />
stark reminder that there is still fear of the<br />
“Open Word”<br />
Editor’s Note: The opinions expressed<br />
in this Op-ed are those of the<br />
author and do not necessarily reflect the<br />
views of <strong>Caribbean</strong> <strong>Times</strong>.
12 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g<br />
Monday 13th June 2016<br />
Golden Eye Calypso Review opens its doors<br />
By Vanroy Burnes<br />
The Golden Eye Calypso<br />
Review Calypso Tent was the<br />
first calypso tent to open its<br />
doors for the 2016 Carnival<br />
season on Friday night June<br />
10 th at the newly renovated<br />
Barrymore Hotel.<br />
The Golden eye tent lead<br />
and continues to lead by example<br />
as the first tent to open<br />
its doors every year.<br />
A total of thirteen (13)<br />
Calypsonians appeared on<br />
the program with their 2016<br />
songs backed up by the Specialist<br />
Band.<br />
The Calypsonians included<br />
Baby Eve singing “What<br />
You Go Sing”, Calypso Tempo<br />
with “Don’t Go”, Lord<br />
Shaky with “Mass in Hell”,<br />
King Bandit with “Fight<br />
for Reparation”, King Creole<br />
with “Hitler”, De Arc<br />
with “Antigua Black”, Willy<br />
Wawa with “Ah wha if Me<br />
ah Look”, Sassy with “Every<br />
Body has a story”, Faithful<br />
with “Backbone of Carnival”,<br />
Stumpy with “Sooner or Later”,<br />
Kaseba with “A diamond<br />
is forever”, King Zacari with<br />
“Who Say So” and Queen<br />
Thalia with “My Guarantee”<br />
and “This Tenor Pan is Mine”.<br />
The Mighty ”Bab wire”<br />
whose real name is Vaughn<br />
Walter, Director of Culture<br />
brought the Curtain down<br />
with his song “1969”.<br />
Minister of Culture Paul<br />
Chet Greene and other members<br />
of the Festival Committee<br />
were amongst the fairly<br />
sizable crowd. The tent is<br />
sponsored by KFC, National<br />
Parks Authority, Seafood Friday<br />
and the Government of<br />
Antigua & Barbuda.
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14 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g<br />
Monday 13th June 2016<br />
Scores of workers being hired to complete<br />
the first Park Hyatt in the <strong>Caribbean</strong><br />
BASSETERRE, ST.<br />
KITTS – The construction<br />
of the Park Hyatt St. Kitts,<br />
which is being developed by<br />
Range Developments, has already<br />
resulted in the employment<br />
of 564 people, Prime<br />
Minister Dr. the Honourable<br />
Timothy Harris said at his<br />
May 30 th press conference.<br />
Now, the builder, Kier<br />
Construction Limited, is running<br />
a commercial on local<br />
radio stations until June 24 th<br />
to fill scores of positions.<br />
“We are looking for approximately<br />
150 workers to<br />
complete the project,” Mr.<br />
Richard Havercroft, the Project<br />
Manager, said this week.<br />
The Park Hyatt St. Kitts<br />
is expected to open at Banana<br />
Bay on the Southeast<br />
Peninsula in late 2016. This<br />
highly anticipated opening is<br />
a boon to local construction<br />
workers. The latest round of<br />
hiring by Kier Construction<br />
Limited will benefit people<br />
who have work experience<br />
as plumbers, stonework masons,<br />
finishing carpenters,<br />
carpenters, drywall installers,<br />
tilers, painters, trade supervisors,<br />
and site engineers.<br />
Interested persons should<br />
phone 762-9239 or visit the<br />
site office at Banana Bay.<br />
On the hotel side of<br />
things, the Park Hyatt St.<br />
Kitts is advertising in the<br />
national media until June<br />
30 th for the following locally<br />
based positions: Marketing<br />
and Communications Manager,<br />
Associate Director of<br />
Sales & Events, Assistant<br />
Front Office Manager, Assistant<br />
Manager for Guest<br />
Services, Assistant Manager<br />
for PBX switchboard operations,<br />
IT Manager, Housekeeping<br />
Manager, Training<br />
Manager, Security Manager,<br />
Assistant Manager for Engineering,<br />
Engineering Team<br />
Leaders, Restaurant Manager,<br />
Executive Sous Chef,<br />
Chef de Cuisine, and Pastry<br />
Chef.<br />
“Our regional team will<br />
be supplementing this with<br />
a direct email to the 335<br />
applicants who have previously<br />
expressed interest in<br />
management roles with this<br />
property, as well as with a<br />
geographically targeted ad<br />
on social media for St. Kitts<br />
and the surrounding islands,”<br />
said Mr. Julian Moore, General<br />
Manager of the Park Hyatt<br />
St. Kitts.<br />
Many of those 335 applicants<br />
attended the Employment<br />
Information Day that<br />
the Park Hyatt St. Kitts held<br />
on May 3 rd at the St. Kitts<br />
Marriott Resort. “We were<br />
cont’d on pg 15
Monday 13th June 2016 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g 15<br />
The OECS turns 35 years old this week<br />
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS – Thirty-five<br />
years ago this week, the Treaty<br />
of Basseterre was signed on June 18 th ,<br />
1981 in the capital city of St. Kitts, establishing<br />
the Organisation of Eastern<br />
<strong>Caribbean</strong> States (OECS).<br />
The original signatories were Antigua<br />
and Barbuda (signed by Deputy<br />
Premier Lester Bird); Dominica (Prime<br />
Minister Mary Eugenia Charles); Grenada<br />
(Prime Minister Maurice Bishop);<br />
Montserrat (Minister of Education<br />
Franklyn Margetson); St. Kitts and<br />
Nevis (Premier Kennedy Simmonds);<br />
St. Lucia (Prime Minister Winston Cenac),<br />
and St. Vincent and the Grenadines<br />
(Deputy Prime Minister Hudson<br />
Tannis).<br />
By signing the treaty, they agreed to<br />
cooperate with each other and promote<br />
unity and solidarity among the OECS<br />
membership. The British Virgin Islands<br />
joined the OECS in November 1984 and<br />
Anguilla in May 1995; both are associate<br />
members.<br />
Tomorrow, Monday, June 13 th at<br />
9:00am, the 35 th Anniversary Celebrations<br />
will be launched at a press conference<br />
that is scheduled to simulcast in<br />
all OECS Member States. Dr. Didacus<br />
Jules, the Director General of the OECS<br />
Commission, will deliver welcome remarks.<br />
The outgoing OECS Chairman,<br />
Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable<br />
Keith Mitchell of Grenada, will deliver<br />
a feature address at the press conference.<br />
Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable<br />
Timothy Harris will also deliver a feature<br />
address as the incoming OECS<br />
Chairman. The OECS Authority meets<br />
twice a year and its chairmanship changes<br />
every June.<br />
A Q&A session will follow a presentation<br />
by Mr. Anthony Severin, the<br />
OECS Commission’s Head of International<br />
Relations, on the role of the<br />
OECS institutions. In addition to Director<br />
General of the OECS Commission,<br />
Dr. Jules, the heads of the other OECS<br />
institutions who will be at the press conference<br />
are Chief Justice of the Eastern<br />
<strong>Caribbean</strong> Supreme Court (ECSC), the<br />
Honourable Dame Janice M. Pereira;<br />
Governor of the Eastern <strong>Caribbean</strong><br />
Central Bank (ECCB), Mr. Timothy<br />
Antoine; Director General of the Eastern<br />
<strong>Caribbean</strong> Civil Aviation Authority<br />
(ECCAA), Mr. Donald McPhail, and<br />
Managing Director of the Eastern <strong>Caribbean</strong><br />
Telecommunications Authority<br />
(ECTEL), Mr. Embert Charles.<br />
On Wednesday, June 15 th , starting at<br />
9:30am, a church service will be held<br />
at the Immaculate Conception Church<br />
in Castries, St. Lucia, where the OECS<br />
Secretariat is based.<br />
The complete list of the OECS’s 35 th<br />
Anniversary Week of Activities follows.<br />
cont’d from pg 14<br />
delighted to have the opportunity<br />
to meet many candidates<br />
and were impressed<br />
with the excellent presentation<br />
and positive approach<br />
demonstrated by those in attendance,”<br />
Mr. Moore said,<br />
adding that, “We look forward<br />
to meeting many more<br />
of the citizens of St Kitts and<br />
Nevis in the months ahead,<br />
as we make the journey<br />
of recruitment to identify<br />
unique and dedicated individuals<br />
for our team who can<br />
inspire others and grow the<br />
reputation of the Kittitian &<br />
Nevisian people by delivery<br />
of a truly unique guest experience.”<br />
Applications are preferred<br />
through the www.hyatt.jobs<br />
website, which has<br />
information on all job specifications<br />
and qualification<br />
requirements. Resumes can<br />
also be mailed to Park Hyatt<br />
St. Kitts, Christophe Harbour,<br />
P.O. Box 2472 Suite 1,<br />
Banana Bay Complex, S.E.<br />
Peninsula, St. Kitts. Applications<br />
may also be delivered<br />
to the pre-opening resort<br />
office at Banana Bay.<br />
Overlooking The Narrows<br />
strait that separates St.<br />
Kitts from Nevis, the luxury<br />
5-star Park Hyatt St. Kitts<br />
will have 126 guestrooms,<br />
with many suites appointed<br />
with individual rooftop<br />
pools.<br />
Amenities will include<br />
outdoor infinity pools, a fitness<br />
centre, a signature spa,<br />
three world-class food and<br />
beverage outlets, and 7,000<br />
square feet of meeting and<br />
banquet space.
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Monday 13th June 2016<br />
Violent clashes between teachers and police<br />
OAXACA - Teachers<br />
belonging to the dissident<br />
CNTE union are protesting<br />
against the neoliberal education<br />
reform of President Enrique<br />
Peña Nieto. <br />
The ongoing conflict between<br />
teachers and the government<br />
of Mexico reached<br />
a boiling point Saturday<br />
night in the city of Oaxaca,<br />
with nearly 500 protesters violently<br />
evicted from a public<br />
square by at least a thousand<br />
police officers, La Jornada reported<br />
on Sunday.<br />
Teachers belonging to the<br />
dissident CNTE union were<br />
occupying since the headquarters<br />
of the Oaxaca State<br />
Institute of Public Education,<br />
located in the historic center<br />
of the capital, as part of the<br />
general strike to protest the<br />
education reform.<br />
Officers began firing tear<br />
gas to disperse the teachers,<br />
GUERRERO - Teachers have<br />
been engaged in a strike since May, demanding<br />
the government end testing imposed<br />
by a neoliberal education reform.<br />
Teachers in the southern Mexican<br />
state of Guerrero have allegedly burned<br />
down a building that housed offices of<br />
the state’s education ministry, Proceso<br />
reported on Friday.<br />
The action was conducted in the<br />
state capital of Chilpancingo to protest<br />
the education reforms of President<br />
Enrique Peña Nieto. According to local<br />
press accounts, personnel inside the<br />
building were evicted before a protester<br />
set a fire in the first floor of the facility.<br />
The teachers belong to a local union<br />
called CETEG, which along with the<br />
National Coordinator of Education<br />
Workers, or CNTE, has been conducting<br />
who responded by throwing<br />
stick and stones but were ultimately<br />
forced to leave the<br />
place. They then went to the<br />
main square of the city, where<br />
they began to built barricades<br />
to resist the police onslaught.<br />
Greatly outnumbered, they<br />
were then forced out of the<br />
square as well.<br />
The violent night ended<br />
when teachers reportedly set<br />
fire to a bus, with riots following<br />
the detention of the<br />
CNTE’s leader in the state,<br />
Francisco Villalobos, who<br />
was sent to a federal prison<br />
on charges of aggravated robbery.<br />
CNTE teachers, who are<br />
also occupying a public square<br />
in Mexico City, have said the<br />
detention of Villalobos is “a<br />
provocation by the government<br />
of Enrique Peña Nieto.”<br />
Meanwhile supporters of the<br />
dissident leader in Oaxaca<br />
have denounced the arbitrary<br />
detention of at least seven<br />
union leaders as part of what<br />
they called “schematic government<br />
repression against<br />
a general strike since last May demanding<br />
the government repeal the teacher<br />
testing imposed by the reform.<br />
The phone at the union’s headquarters<br />
was not answered when teleSUR<br />
sought comment.<br />
This is the most violent action so far<br />
since the strike began. Local authorities<br />
say they have already identified the<br />
union leaders who led the burning and<br />
that arrest warrants have been issued.<br />
Peña Nieto unveiled the education<br />
reform in 2013 as part of a set of 11 neoliberal<br />
structural reforms implemented<br />
in his first 20 months of power. Since<br />
then teachers have been protesting,<br />
mostly in the violent southeast states of<br />
Oaxaca, Michoacan, Guerrero and Chiapas,<br />
where millions of children have<br />
been affected by the strikes.<br />
teachers.”<br />
Peña Nieto unveiled an education<br />
reform in 2013 as part<br />
of a set of 11 neoliberal structural<br />
reforms implemented in<br />
his first 20 months of power.<br />
Since then teachers have been<br />
protesting, mostly in the violent<br />
southeast states of Oaxaca,<br />
Michoacan, Guerrero and<br />
Chiapas, where millions of<br />
children have been affected<br />
by the strikes.<br />
The controversial law<br />
imposes teacher evaluations<br />
in order to determine which<br />
applicants will be chosen to<br />
fill open posts in the public<br />
school system nationwide.<br />
Critics say the testing only<br />
justifies mass layoffs and does<br />
not effectively measure teaching<br />
skills, like the special<br />
knowledge and demeanor<br />
needed to teach in rural areas<br />
and Indigenous communities.<br />
(TeleSUR)<br />
Teachers allegedy burn down building in Guerrero<br />
The controversial law imposes<br />
teacher evaluations in order to determine<br />
which applicants will be chosen to<br />
fill open posts in the public school system<br />
nationwide.<br />
Critics say the testing only justifies<br />
mass layoffs and does not effectively<br />
measure teaching skills, like the special<br />
knowledge and demeanor needed<br />
to teach in rural areas and Indigenous<br />
communities.<br />
Education Minister Aurelio Nuño<br />
has refused to negotiate any point of<br />
the reform and has said he has the support<br />
of the Mexican National Educational<br />
Workers Union, or SNTE, which is<br />
the largest trade union in Latin America,<br />
with over 1.4 million members while<br />
dissidents have reportedly 200,000<br />
members. (TeleSUR)
Monday 13th June 2016 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g 17<br />
Worst mass shooting in US<br />
history: 50 slain at gay nightclub<br />
ORLANDO, Florida – It had been<br />
an evening of drinking, dancing and<br />
drag shows. After hours of revelry, the<br />
party-goers crowding the gay nightclub<br />
known as the Pulse took their last sips<br />
before the place closed.<br />
That’s when authorities say Omar<br />
Mateen emerged, carrying an AR-15 and<br />
spraying the helpless crowd with bullets.<br />
Witnesses said he fired relentlessly - 20<br />
rounds, 40, then 50 and more. In such<br />
tight quarters, the bullets could hardly<br />
miss. He shot at police. He took hostages.<br />
When the gunfire finally stopped, he<br />
had slain 50 people and critically wounded<br />
dozens more in the deadliest mass<br />
shooting in modern U.S. history. Mateen,<br />
who law enforcement officials said had<br />
pledged allegiance to Islamic State in a<br />
911 call around the time of the attack,<br />
died in a gun battle with SWAT team<br />
members.<br />
Authorities immediately began investigating<br />
whether the assault was an act<br />
of terrorism and probing the background<br />
of Mateen, a 29-year-old American citizen<br />
from Fort Pierce, Florida, who had<br />
worked as a security guard. The gunman’s<br />
father recalled that his son recently<br />
got angry when he saw two men kissing<br />
in Miami and said that might be related<br />
to the assault.<br />
Thirty-nine of the dead were killed at<br />
the club, and 11 people died at hospitals,<br />
Mayor Buddy Dyer said.<br />
Jon Alamo had been dancing at the<br />
Pulse for hours when he wandered into<br />
the club’s main room just in time to see<br />
the gunman. “You ever seen how Marine<br />
guys hold big weapons, shooting from<br />
left to right? That’s how he was shooting<br />
at people,” he said.<br />
“My first thought was, oh my God,<br />
I’m going to die,” Alamo said. “I was<br />
praying to God that I would live to see<br />
another day.”<br />
At least 53 people were hospitalized,<br />
most in critical condition, and a surgeon<br />
at Orlando Regional Medical Center said<br />
the death toll was likely to climb.<br />
The previous deadliest mass shooting<br />
in the U.S. was the 2007 attack at Virginia<br />
Tech, where a student killed 32 people<br />
before killing himself.<br />
Mateen’s family was from Afghanistan,<br />
and he was born in New York. His<br />
family later moved to Florida, authorities<br />
said. His ex-wife, Sitora Yusufiy, told reporters<br />
that her former husband was bipolar<br />
and “mentally unstable.”<br />
Mateen was short-tempered and had a<br />
history with steroids, she said in remarks<br />
televised from Boulder, Colorado. She<br />
described him as religious but not radical.<br />
He wanted to be a police officer and<br />
applied to a police academy, but she had<br />
no details.<br />
The couple was together for only four<br />
months, and the two had no contact for<br />
the last seven or eight years, she said.<br />
A law enforcement official said the<br />
gunman made a 911 call from the club<br />
in which he professed allegiance to the<br />
leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr<br />
al-Baghdadi. The official was familiar<br />
with the investigation, but was not authorized<br />
to discuss the matter publicly and<br />
spoke on condition of anonymity.<br />
The extremist group did not officially<br />
claim responsibility for the attack, but<br />
the IS-run Aamaq news agency cited an<br />
unnamed source as saying the attack was<br />
carried out by an Islamic State fighter.<br />
Even if the attacker supported IS, it<br />
was unclear whether the group planned<br />
or knew of the attack beforehand.<br />
Mateen was not unknown to law enforcement:<br />
In 2013, he made inflammatory<br />
comments to co-workers and was<br />
interviewed twice, according to FBI<br />
agent Ronald Hopper, who called the interviews<br />
inconclusive. In 2014, Hopper<br />
said, officials found that Mateen had ties<br />
to an American suicide bomber, but the<br />
agent described the contact as minimal,<br />
saying it did not constitute a threat at the<br />
time.<br />
Asked if the gunman had a connection<br />
to radical Islamic terrorism, Hopper<br />
said authorities had “suggestions that individual<br />
has leanings towards that.”<br />
Mateen purchased at least two firearms<br />
legally within the last week or so,<br />
according to Trevor Velinor of the Bureau<br />
of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.<br />
In a separate incident, an Indiana<br />
man armed with three assault rifles and<br />
chemicals used to make explosives was<br />
arrested Sunday in Southern California<br />
and told police he was headed to a Los<br />
Angeles-area gay pride parade.<br />
The Orlando shooting started about 2<br />
a.m., with more than 300 people inside<br />
the Pulse. At 2:09 a.m., Pulse posted on<br />
its Facebook page: “Everyone get out of<br />
Pulse and keep running.”<br />
When he heard shots, Rick dropped<br />
to the ground and crawled toward a DJ<br />
booth. A bouncer knocked down a partition<br />
between the club area and an area<br />
where only workers were allowed. People<br />
were then able to escape through the<br />
back of the club.<br />
Mateen exchanged gunfire with 14<br />
police officers at the club, and took hostages<br />
at one point. In addition to the assault<br />
rifle, the shooter also had a handgun<br />
and some sort of “suspicious device,” the<br />
police chief said. About 5 a.m., authorities<br />
sent in a SWAT team to rescue the<br />
remaining club-goers, Police Chief John<br />
Mina said. (AP)
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Monday 13th June 2016<br />
Friday’s Sudoku Solution<br />
S U D O K U<br />
CROSSWORD<br />
Across<br />
1. Reckless<br />
5. Stage<br />
10. Go away!<br />
14. Korea’s locale<br />
15. Mr. Claus<br />
16. Maui dance<br />
17. Principal<br />
19. Building extensions<br />
20. America’s Uncle<br />
21. Change<br />
22. Bus station<br />
23. Pinnacle<br />
24. Relate<br />
26. Scrapbook need<br />
29. Poverty-stricken<br />
31. Female voice<br />
32. House evaluator<br />
37. Accomplishing<br />
39. CIA employee (abbr.)<br />
40. Horned animal, for short<br />
41. Love song<br />
43. Lyric verses<br />
44. Oscar, e.g.<br />
46. Woman’s garment<br />
47. Blunder<br />
51. Famous canal<br />
53. Zodiac sign<br />
54. Prongs<br />
56. Likely<br />
59. Exceptional<br />
60. Subject to decay<br />
62. Plant stalk<br />
63. Wipe out<br />
64. Took to court<br />
65. Female birds<br />
66. Resource<br />
67. School groups (abbr.)<br />
Down<br />
1. Stadium cheers<br />
2. On an ocean trip<br />
3. Thailand, once<br />
4. Possessed<br />
5. Biblical song<br />
6. Hurry<br />
7. Initial bet<br />
8. Most strict<br />
9. Corn spike<br />
10. Transparent<br />
11. Mea ____<br />
12. Mete out<br />
13. Savor<br />
18. Aromatic spice<br />
22. Laundry machine<br />
23. Repent<br />
25. Classified ____<br />
26. Writing tablets<br />
27. Burn-soothing plant<br />
28. Agitate<br />
30. Zealous<br />
33. Seaside<br />
34. Flank<br />
35. Dollar bills<br />
36. Singer Diana ____<br />
38. Pesky bugs<br />
39. Certain connectors<br />
42. Overwhelm<br />
45. Actress ____ Richards<br />
46. Plate<br />
47. Bog<br />
48. Furious<br />
49. Fire alarm<br />
50. Appears to be<br />
52. Bowler’s button<br />
55. Nest eggs (abbr.)<br />
56. Border<br />
57. Entreaty<br />
58. Williams and Kennedy<br />
60. Pod vegetable<br />
61. Nile viper
Monday 13th June 2016 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g 19<br />
HOROSCOPE<br />
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).<br />
For modern humans, the pains<br />
of life are emotional and existential<br />
as often as they are<br />
physical. For you there will<br />
be a wonderful mix — just<br />
enough stimuli to spur you to<br />
a romantic, brilliant, existential<br />
idea.<br />
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-<br />
Dec. 21). You want to help:<br />
Carry the groceries; hear out<br />
the problem; connect the people<br />
who should know one another.<br />
Whatever the deal, you<br />
want to contribute. You’re<br />
versatile. You’ll find a way.<br />
Today’s weather forecast<br />
Antigua and Barbuda<br />
Partly cloudy.<br />
High - 86ºF/30ºC<br />
Low - 79ºF/26ºC<br />
Wind: East South East 13 mph<br />
Sunrise 5.33 am; Sunset 6.41 pm<br />
Friday’s Crossword Solution<br />
CANCER (June 22-July 22).<br />
It is usually experience, and<br />
not genetics, that makes a<br />
person ruthless. A kindhearted<br />
person makes the ruthless<br />
nervous, as they will find the<br />
kindness beautiful and therefore<br />
threatening.<br />
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Your<br />
idea is still hovering between<br />
the realms of here and not<br />
here. You can sense it on the<br />
other side of a membrane,<br />
wondering about you as much<br />
as you are wondering about it.<br />
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).<br />
Is your dream improbable?<br />
So what? So are you. That<br />
this iteration of you came to<br />
be at all was against the odds,<br />
beyond your comprehension.<br />
Considering how very lucky<br />
you’ve been, you might want<br />
to push that a little further.<br />
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).<br />
Do you know the depth of<br />
what you have loved? Few<br />
can claim that knowledge, but<br />
if you strive for it even a little<br />
this day, you’ll be richer for<br />
the reach.<br />
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).<br />
There’s an impulsiveness<br />
to the day. You have many<br />
friends, and you should call<br />
on one who is particularly<br />
knowledgeable before you<br />
make the move you are contemplating.<br />
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.<br />
19). Your fortune will follow<br />
this dictum: Stacks and stacks<br />
of near misses and then suddenly<br />
a hit. How wonderful it<br />
will feel, this victory you have<br />
so diligently earned!<br />
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.<br />
18). You know what you have<br />
to do if you’re going to walk<br />
your talk: Wean yourself off<br />
the distraction that’s been taking<br />
so much of your attention<br />
and giving so little back to<br />
you.<br />
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).<br />
The dramas on television are<br />
exciting and rapid-fire representations<br />
of lives that no one<br />
lives. Contrastingly, real life<br />
has minimal plot and extraordinary<br />
beauty, which you’ll<br />
enjoy today.<br />
ARIES (March 21-April 19).<br />
What’s the objective? Call it<br />
out, and then direct your power<br />
there at least three times<br />
today and for 50 minutes at<br />
a time. This will be a magic<br />
quick-start recipe for you, especially<br />
if done before sunset.<br />
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).<br />
Helping those in need isn’t<br />
optional to you, as there is<br />
something inside that simply<br />
must commit to the task.<br />
Furthermore, as far as your<br />
family is concerned you’re a<br />
regular superhero.
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Monday 13th June 2016<br />
SeaView Academy’s Annual After-Assessment Lime will be<br />
held this year at the school campus at Scott’s Hill on Friday,<br />
July 24, 2016 from 12 noon to 6 p.m. The event will be a<br />
great opportunity for the entire family to participate in fun<br />
activities, movies and games, enjoy great food and spend<br />
quality time together!!! Entrance is FREE!! Tickets for delicious<br />
BBQ meals are available for sale: $15 – Chicken; $20<br />
– Fish. Don’t miss out on the best event, with exam students.<br />
Call 461 6555 TODAY for your tickets!<br />
The Hon. E.P. Chet Greene Parliamentary representative for<br />
St. Paul's invites all constituents to a Town Hall meeting on<br />
Thursday 16th June, at 7:30 p.m. at the Liberta School. Do<br />
come out and hear a progress report for the last two years -<br />
make your own assessment and contribute to the continued<br />
development of St. Paul's. Make every effort to be there.<br />
Please be informed that the Sons & Daughters of Willikies,<br />
Inc. will be having a meeting on Thursday 16th June, 2016<br />
at 7:30 p.m. at the St Barts Centre. All Sons & Daughters of<br />
Willikies are invited to attend. Do come and participate in<br />
the 2017 Reunion discussions.<br />
The principal and staff of the Ottos Comprehensive School<br />
are inviting Parents/ Guardians of the fifth form class of 2016<br />
to a very important meeting on Wednesday 15th June, 2016<br />
at 4:30pm. Please make a special effort to attend as critical<br />
matters concerning your child/ ward will be discussed.<br />
12 teams qualify<br />
for Guinness Street<br />
Football quarterfinals<br />
By Vanroy Burnes<br />
A total of 12 teams from the three Zones in the preliminary<br />
rounds have qualified to advance to the quarter finals<br />
scheduled for Thursday June 16 th at the Grays Farm Basketball<br />
Complex.<br />
Four other teams will join them from the West Zone preliminary<br />
round on Wednesday night June 15 th at the same<br />
venue.<br />
The teams that qualified so far include East Ballers, Young<br />
In’s, Piggott’s Bullets, All Saints United from the Parham<br />
Basketball Court. Shatttaz United, Sandra’s Hot Grabba, Hot<br />
Grabba FC and Nagazed from the Bolans Court, while from<br />
the Lower Otto’s Basketball Court Rangers 1, New Kids,<br />
Mahico and Rangers 2.<br />
The winner of the tournament will win a grand prize of<br />
$20,000 which includes a cash prize of $ 5,000.00 and a trip<br />
for seven players to St. Lucia all expenses paid to represent<br />
Antigua & Barbuda in the regional finals where they could<br />
win another $10,000.00 cash prize.<br />
Grays Green Community<br />
Football League in full swing<br />
By Vanroy Burnes<br />
The Grays Green Community<br />
Football league is in<br />
full swing as teams prepare<br />
for the ABFA League, which<br />
is just about four months<br />
away.<br />
In the most recent matches<br />
played at the King George<br />
grounds, Ghetto Youth Connection<br />
beat So Sick Ballaz<br />
two goals to nil. Leon Joseph<br />
and Corey Francis scored a<br />
goal each for Ghetto Youth<br />
Connection.<br />
Meanwhile on Thursday<br />
June 9 th , Straight Currant<br />
beat Shines six goals to 1.<br />
Rakeem Henry scored twice,<br />
Kenroy Willock once, Nigel<br />
Roberts also scored twice<br />
and Steven Roberts once,<br />
while Chad Vidal scored the<br />
lone goal for Shines.<br />
On Friday 10 th June,<br />
Point Ville beat El Guapo<br />
by a goal to nil. Teran King<br />
scored the lone goal. Meanwhile<br />
in Saturday matches,<br />
Tamo and Earthquake played<br />
to a one all draw with Anesta<br />
Joseph scoring for Tamo and<br />
Akeem Michael scoring for<br />
Earthquake.<br />
In the second match on<br />
Saturday, St. John’s United<br />
beat Herbert’s two goals<br />
to nil. Gavin Williams and<br />
Garry Barnes scored a goal<br />
each.
Monday 13th June 2016 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g 21<br />
Hundred eludes Hales, wickets elude England<br />
LORD’S - England<br />
would have had two main<br />
ambitions on a bedraggled<br />
fourth day at Lord’s. The first<br />
would have been to make<br />
incursions into Sri Lanka’s<br />
second innings to prepare<br />
a route to victory and a 3-0<br />
clean sweep in the series; the<br />
second, a maiden Test hundred<br />
for Alex Hales. Neither<br />
eventuated as Sri Lanka continued<br />
to resist gamely in the<br />
final Test.<br />
Left with 12 overs to see<br />
out at the end of the day, Sri<br />
Lanka’s openers clipped 32<br />
from the 362 needed for victory.<br />
Alastair Cook’s declaration<br />
at 233 for 7 was well<br />
judged, a touch more generous<br />
perhaps than if the series<br />
had been level.<br />
The pitch is a little uneven,<br />
but nothing excessive<br />
and, judging by the sober<br />
way Dimuth Karunaratne<br />
and Kaushal Silva went<br />
about their work, Sri Lanka<br />
look in the mood to scrap every<br />
inch of the way.<br />
Hales is getting closer<br />
to a treasured first Test hundred,<br />
but he will have to wait<br />
a while yet. He was on 94,<br />
only six runs short, when<br />
he fell lbw only 10 minutes<br />
before tea, trying to turn Angelo<br />
Mathews quietly on the<br />
leg side.<br />
He reviewed umpire Rod<br />
Tucker’s decision, but it was<br />
with a wan expression from<br />
a man fearing the worst.<br />
Ball-tracking technology<br />
held that the ball would have<br />
struck the top of leg stump.<br />
Alex Hales played a solid innings for England.<br />
With two 80s to his name<br />
in the series, Hales could at<br />
least console himself that he<br />
had done much to implant<br />
himself at the top of the order,<br />
his composed, if occasionally<br />
fortunate, innings<br />
providing more evidence<br />
that he can successfully adjust<br />
to the demands of the<br />
he suffered a replica of Joe<br />
Root’s dismissal the previous<br />
day - his off stump hit<br />
by a shooter from Nuwan<br />
Pradeep - only for umpire<br />
Tucker to call no-ball.<br />
TV replays suggested<br />
that Pradeep’s heel was behind<br />
the line on first impact,<br />
the umpire perhaps being<br />
five-day game. Without fooled by the bowler’s foot<br />
repeated self-destruction<br />
against Sri Lanka’s spinners<br />
earlier in the series, he could<br />
have been basking in something<br />
even better.<br />
Rain had prevented a<br />
start until 2.40pm, but England<br />
held an overnight lead<br />
of 237 and, despite several<br />
more pesky showers, the day<br />
yielded 45 overs, enough to<br />
keep the Test meaningful.<br />
Hales’ composure held<br />
England’s second innings<br />
together, even if he was<br />
not without fortune. On 58,<br />
slipping forward on landing.<br />
Understandable complaints<br />
that international<br />
umpires were ignoring repeated<br />
no-balls so that they<br />
could concentrate on events<br />
at the business end of the<br />
pitch seem to have caused a<br />
recent reassessment of that<br />
approach, but Tucker’s noball<br />
call for such a borderline<br />
delivery - a wrong call<br />
as it turned out - will not allay<br />
concerns.<br />
With no chance under<br />
current regulations to use<br />
TV evidence to reverse the<br />
decision, Sri Lanka were<br />
understandably aggrieved.<br />
Those regulations were already<br />
due to be examined at<br />
the ICC annual meeting in<br />
Edinburgh later this month.<br />
Undiplomatically, Sri<br />
Lanka responded by hanging<br />
the national flag from<br />
the Lord’s balcony, which<br />
could either be regarded as<br />
a plucky statement to their<br />
players that they would fight<br />
on regardless of their mounting<br />
ill luck or, conversely, as<br />
an infantile gesture carrying<br />
the implication of umpiring<br />
bias.<br />
The request soon came<br />
through for them to take it<br />
down: Lord’s does not allow<br />
flags of any description,<br />
certainly not from dressing<br />
room balconies.<br />
Thilanga Sumathipala,<br />
cont’d on pg 23
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Monday 13th June 2016<br />
Miguel Francis demolishes Racers Grand<br />
Prix 200m field; sets national record<br />
Deborah A Parker<br />
“I expected the time,” Miguel<br />
Francis told <strong>Caribbean</strong> <strong>Times</strong> after<br />
his amazing 200m run in Jamaica on<br />
Saturday evening.<br />
The 21-year-old Antiguan and<br />
Barbudan stopped the clock at 19.88<br />
in the 200M at the Racers Grand<br />
Prix, staged at the National Stadium<br />
in Jamaica.<br />
In a field that boasted the likes<br />
of Olympic bronze medalist Warren<br />
Weir (20.32) and Commonwealth gold<br />
medalist Rasheed Dwyer (20.58),<br />
Francis was unstoppable.<br />
Not only did he manage to in fine<br />
style out-class his seniors, but in his<br />
feat posted the third fasted 200 m this<br />
year and set at new national record for<br />
Antigua and Barbuda.<br />
“I did expect the time, because I<br />
started off my season really well, and<br />
I’ve been training good....so I know I<br />
would have done it,” an enthusiastic,<br />
focused and very humble Francis told<br />
this newspaper.<br />
Miguel Francis, centre, set a new national record.<br />
With the Olympics now only several<br />
weeks away, the rising star also coaches Usain Bolt, the world-record-<br />
re-known coach Glen Mills- who also<br />
expects to do exploits on the Brazilian er holder in the said event..<br />
tracks, but for now, he is continuing to Next outing for Francis will be the<br />
train hard with the Racers Track Club national trials on July 9th and 10th.<br />
in Jamaica,under the capable watch of Meanwhile, Prime Minister Gaston<br />
Browne is among<br />
those who extended congratulations<br />
to Francis.<br />
The PM on Francis’<br />
Facebook page wrote,<br />
“Miguel! Rio gold, nothing<br />
less. Stay focused, disciplined,<br />
confident; with<br />
your good work ethic you<br />
shall rule the world in athletics.<br />
“You are better than<br />
Usain when he was at your<br />
age. He did it and you can<br />
better him.”<br />
“Be assured of the full<br />
support of the Government<br />
and people.” the prime<br />
minister also expressed.
Monday 13th June 2016 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g 23<br />
Rahkeem Cornwall scalps 10 for 47 to<br />
crush Empire in ABCA Two-Day finals<br />
By Vanroy Burnes<br />
Rakheem “ Jimbo” Cornwall bowling<br />
was simply too good for the Scotia<br />
Bank Empire team in ABCA two day<br />
finals at the Liberta playing field over<br />
the weekend as the crush tom an innings<br />
and 90 runs defeat.<br />
Batting first after asked to bat first,<br />
Scotia Bank Empire was bundled out<br />
for 94 runs in 36.2 overs with Damian<br />
Lowenfield top scoring with 26, while<br />
Mali Richards and Melvin Charles both<br />
hit 20 runs each.<br />
Bowling for the Liberta Black<br />
Hawks, Rahkeem Jimbo Cornwall<br />
picked five for 10 off 12. Overs, while<br />
Karima Gore, Ian Gore, Javy Benjamin<br />
and Daron Cruickshank all had a wicket<br />
each.<br />
In reply, Liberta Black Hawks declared<br />
their first innings on 386 for 9<br />
with Karima Gore hitting 66, Kofi<br />
James 59, Ian Gore 55, Daron Cruickshank<br />
58 and Rahkeem Jimbo Cornwall<br />
58. Lynton Africa was Empire best<br />
bowler with 2 for 71 and Mali Richards<br />
2 for 21.<br />
Empire batting a second time with<br />
a deficit of 292 runs, was bowled out<br />
for 202 runs in 65.3 overs with Damian<br />
Lowenfield 36, Junie Mills 44, Melvin<br />
Charles 27, Brendon Jno- Baptiste 43<br />
and Mali Richards 25. Rahkeem Jimbo<br />
Cornwall again picked five for 37 and<br />
match figures of ten for 47. Kadeem<br />
Phillip had 2 for 34 and Kofi James 2<br />
for 24.<br />
Liberta Black Hawks won the match<br />
by an innings and 90 runs.<br />
cont’d from pg 21<br />
SLC’s president, called the<br />
decision “unacceptable” and<br />
said: “It will be reported to<br />
the ICC. The flag is a symbol.<br />
It is a mark to say we are<br />
not happy with the decision.<br />
To show solidarity and fight<br />
back.”<br />
Sri Lanka also thought<br />
they might have had Hales<br />
on 45 when Shaminda Eranga<br />
brought one back to strike<br />
him on the top of the pad but<br />
umpire S Ravi’s not-out decision<br />
was upheld by virtue<br />
of “umpire’s call” on review.<br />
The breaks in Hales’ favour<br />
were fast adding up.<br />
In reaching 41 by Saturday’s<br />
close, he might have<br />
fallen on 19, if Karunaratne<br />
had clung on to a low chance<br />
to his left at second slip and<br />
again on 39, shortly before<br />
the close, when he glanced<br />
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Pradeep down the leg side<br />
only for Dinesh Chandimal<br />
to grass the chance. There<br />
were no reports of draped<br />
flags then.<br />
Nevertheless, Hales had<br />
some dominant moments,<br />
too, none better than when<br />
he conquered Rangana Herath’s<br />
over-the-wicket attack<br />
into the rough by hoisting<br />
the left-arm spinner straight<br />
for six, then sweeping his<br />
next delivery for four.<br />
England did lose the<br />
nightwatchman Steven Finn,<br />
lbw to Eranga, clearing the<br />
way for Cook.<br />
His place at No. 7 was<br />
purely happenstance, and<br />
not due to regulations limiting<br />
a player’s place in the<br />
batting order after injury,<br />
explained by the fact that his<br />
mishap while fielding at silly<br />
point was regarded as an external<br />
injury.<br />
Cook showed no ill effects<br />
although he, too, flirted<br />
with the vagaries of the review<br />
system.<br />
On 6, Herath spun one<br />
back to hit his thigh, playing<br />
back, but replays showed the<br />
ball had struck him outside<br />
the line.<br />
Then, in Herath’s very<br />
next over, he was struck in<br />
line of off stump by another<br />
sharp spinner, but this Sri<br />
Lanka erroneously chose not<br />
to appeal the original not-out<br />
decision. Hawk-Eye would<br />
have sent the England captain<br />
on his way for 11.<br />
Cook’s unbeaten 49, batting<br />
at No. 7, including a<br />
deep midwicket six into the<br />
Mound Stand off Eranga -<br />
he had hit 10 previously in<br />
Tests - and surely his first<br />
attempted ramp shot. The<br />
latter felt a bit like tipsy dad<br />
on the dancefloor.<br />
Probably judging that<br />
was enough tomfoolery for<br />
one day, he then declared, no<br />
doubt returning to a dressing<br />
room where he commands<br />
so much respect that players<br />
can happily giggle at his adventure.<br />
(ESPNcricinfo)
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Monday 13th June 2016<br />
Warner stars with century at Warner Park<br />
David Warner plays a shot against South Africa.<br />
BASSETERRE, St Kitts – David<br />
Warner’s sixth One-Day International<br />
hundred proved the catalyst as Australia<br />
won their second game of the Ballr Cup<br />
Tri-Nations Series with a 36-run victory<br />
over South Africa.<br />
The left-hander extended his rich<br />
vein of form with 109 as the Aussies tallied<br />
288 for six from their 50 overs on<br />
a good batting surface as Warner Park,<br />
marked its 10 th anniversary in international<br />
cricket.<br />
Seamers Mitchell Starc (3-43) and<br />
Josh Hazlewood (3-52), along with<br />
leg-spinner Adam Zampa (3-52), all<br />
then claimed three wickets as South Africa<br />
folded for 252 off 47.4 overs.<br />
Faf du Plessis top-scored with 63,<br />
opener Hashim Amla stroked 60 and JP<br />
Duminy chimed in with 41, while captain<br />
AB de Villiers scored 39.<br />
South Africa appeared on course for<br />
victory at 177 for two in the 32nd over<br />
but Zampa and Starc mainly triggered a<br />
slide that saw the last eight wickets tumble<br />
for 75 runs.<br />
Earlier, Warner gave the Aussies the<br />
start they needed after opting to bat first,<br />
striking 11 fours and two sixes in an innings<br />
that lasted 120 balls.<br />
He put on 48 for the first wicket<br />
with Aaron Finch, who made 13, and a<br />
further 136 for the second wicket with<br />
Usman Khawaja who scored 59 off 71<br />
balls with four fours and a six, as Australia<br />
controlled the first phase of the game.<br />
Captain Steve Smith chipped in with<br />
an unbeaten 52 from 49 deliveries while<br />
wicketkeeper Matthew Wade made 24.<br />
Leg-spinner Imran Tahir was the best<br />
bowler with two for 45.<br />
Warner’s intent was clear from the<br />
opening over of game when he crashed<br />
the first ball from pacer Kyle Abbott to<br />
the point boundary.<br />
In the fourth over, he punched speedster<br />
Kagiso Rabada to the square boundary<br />
and then lifted him over square leg<br />
for the first of his two sixes.<br />
Tahir accounted for Finch in his<br />
opening over, the 10th of the innings,<br />
when the right-hander missed a sweep<br />
and was bowled off-stump.<br />
Warner and Khawaja then dominated<br />
the Proteas attack, bringing up Australia’s<br />
100 in the 21st over, en route to 127<br />
for one at the half-way point.<br />
Playing in his usual aggressive<br />
style, Warner deposited Tahir onto the<br />
sightscreen in the bowler’s following<br />
over and proceeded to his half-century<br />
off 53 deliveries.<br />
He required 56 more balls to reach<br />
triple figures, arriving at his landmark in<br />
the 32nd over with a single to deep cover<br />
off Abbott.<br />
Khawaja reached his half-century<br />
in the same over but Australia then lost<br />
both he and Warner in the space of 30<br />
balls with 12 runs added.<br />
Warner perished first, pulling pacer<br />
Wayne Parnell to Amla at mid-wicket<br />
in the 35th over and Khawaja followed<br />
soon after, top-edging a sweep at leftarm<br />
spinner Aaron Phangiso to fine leg.<br />
On 196 for three in the 40th, it was<br />
left to Smith to guide the remainder of<br />
the innings.<br />
In reply, South Africa lost Quinton<br />
de Kock for 19 with the score on 35 in<br />
the eighth over but the right-handed pair<br />
of du Plessis and Amla steadied the innings<br />
in a second wicket partnership of<br />
105.<br />
While du Plessis hit five fours off 75<br />
balls, Amla counted six fours and a six<br />
off 64 deliveries.<br />
Amla drove a half-volley from Hazlewood<br />
low to Smith at cover in the<br />
26th over to depart and du Plessis put on<br />
a further 37 for the third wicket with de<br />
Villiers before drivingly loosely at Starc<br />
and falling to a catch at backward point<br />
by George Bailey in the 32nd over.<br />
Things quickly fell apart for South<br />
Africa. De Villiers and Duminy resisted<br />
in a 33-run, fourth wicket stand but once<br />
the skipper missed a swing at Hazlewood<br />
and was bowled in the 38th over,<br />
the innings declined rapidly. (CMC)