Caribbean Times 46th Issue - Thursday 7th July 2016
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<strong>Thursday</strong> <strong>7th</strong> <strong>July</strong> <strong>2016</strong> A n t i g u a a n d B a r b u d a<br />
Vol.7 No.46 $2.00<br />
CABINET TO REVIEW<br />
By Everton Barnes<br />
The policy the where<br />
immigrant students have<br />
been required to attend private<br />
schools for three years<br />
before entering the public<br />
school system is coming up<br />
for review at today’s meeting<br />
of the Cabinet.<br />
Prime Minister, Gaston<br />
Browne, made the announcement<br />
in response to<br />
a reporter’s question during<br />
a break at Wednesday’s final<br />
day of the Caricom Heads<br />
of Government meeting in<br />
Georgetown, Guyana. He<br />
indicated that the policy was<br />
never brought before the<br />
Cabinet for consideration<br />
and it appears to be a policy<br />
EDUCAITON POLICY<br />
unilaterally implemented by<br />
the Ministry of Education.<br />
“We are having Cabinet<br />
tomorrow (<strong>Thursday</strong>) and<br />
it certainly is an issue that<br />
we will address. Clearly we<br />
want to make sure that we<br />
always act within the confines<br />
of the Treaty and that at<br />
all times we honour our obligations<br />
and if there’s any<br />
such violation we certainly<br />
want to address the issue,”<br />
he stated.<br />
Meantime, one government<br />
spokesman is accusing<br />
members of the United<br />
Progressive Party of hypocrisy<br />
on this issue. He said<br />
the policy was designed and<br />
implemented by the former<br />
Administration with Senator<br />
Jacqui Quinn-Leandro as<br />
minister of education.<br />
Chief of Staff, Lionel<br />
Max Hurst said the UPP implemented<br />
the policy as a<br />
way of ‘getting back’ at the<br />
immigrant population in the<br />
country, which it felt was<br />
hostile to its policies. “That<br />
policy was often articulated<br />
in public by senior UPP officials<br />
and because of it, this<br />
gave rise to a growth in the<br />
number of private schools<br />
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<strong>Thursday</strong> <strong>7th</strong> <strong>July</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
Youth campaign for road safety<br />
By Everton Barnes<br />
Many of the nation’s<br />
youth, coming under the<br />
umbrella of the the National<br />
Youth Ambassador Corps,<br />
have been embarking upon a<br />
four month advocacy campaign<br />
entitled “Speak Up,<br />
Speak Out 2”.<br />
A spokesman for the<br />
group said this campaign<br />
follows last years’ successful<br />
campaign entitled “Speak<br />
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Up, Speak Out” which focused<br />
on four (4) health and<br />
social issues: glaucoma, the<br />
decriminalization of marijuana,<br />
alcoholism and diabetes.<br />
For this year’s programme,<br />
the NYAC has focused<br />
on three areas which<br />
include: (i) mental health<br />
and disabilities, (ii) climate<br />
change and the environment,<br />
(iii) sexual health and reproductive<br />
rights.<br />
These according to the<br />
spokesman will be followed<br />
by next month’s campaign<br />
for Health and Safety.<br />
The Road Safety Campaign,<br />
launched on June<br />
27 th , <strong>2016</strong> via ABS TV, is a<br />
joint undertaking between<br />
the NYAC and the Antigua<br />
and Barbuda Road Safety<br />
Group designed to promote<br />
increased road safety and<br />
awareness for both drivers<br />
and pedestrians.<br />
The campaign has been<br />
fueled by the surge in road<br />
fatalities in 2015 which have<br />
claimed the lives of many<br />
including our nation’s youth.<br />
As such, the NYAC will<br />
collaborate with the Royal<br />
Police Force and corporate<br />
Antigua to advocate for<br />
safety and zero fatalities in<br />
<strong>2016</strong> and beyond.<br />
As a part of the activities<br />
for the campaign, the NYAC<br />
will be filming, producing<br />
and publishing several Public<br />
Service Announcements<br />
to be aired via its social media<br />
accounts and ABS Television.<br />
This, the group will undertake<br />
hosting chats with<br />
relevant stakeholders including<br />
the Antigua and Barbuda<br />
Drag Racing Association to<br />
pinpoint several of the dangerous<br />
driving situations<br />
which have been overlooked<br />
but can result in loss of limb,<br />
life and damage to property.<br />
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Meanwhile, as a part of<br />
its <strong>2016</strong> Work Plan, the National<br />
Youth Ambassador<br />
Corps has launched both its<br />
YouTube account on June<br />
18 th , <strong>2016</strong> and a new webisode<br />
entitled NYAC Youth<br />
Chat on Monday, 20 th June,<br />
<strong>2016</strong> at 5:00 p.m.<br />
The focus of the programme,<br />
which airs every<br />
Monday at 5:00 p.m. is to<br />
begin a conversation with<br />
the nation’s youth about social<br />
issues which affect their<br />
daily lives.<br />
The Chat show, which<br />
has focused on the relationships<br />
and Carnival thus far<br />
will be airing videos concerning<br />
Road Safety.<br />
cont’d from pg 1<br />
catering almost exclusively<br />
to immigrant children,” he<br />
declared.<br />
He noted that the ABLP<br />
had complained about it in<br />
opposition as it goes against<br />
Antigua and Barbuda’s longstanding<br />
policy and commitment<br />
policy towards the<br />
regional integration movement.<br />
Recently, a senior official<br />
in the ministry of education<br />
re-affirmed that the policy<br />
will continue that sparks a<br />
public outcry.
<strong>Thursday</strong> <strong>7th</strong> <strong>July</strong> <strong>2016</strong> c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g 3<br />
Shaveesa Gasper’s future looks bright<br />
By Joanna Paris<br />
The government of Antigua<br />
and Barbuda has reiterated<br />
its commitment to<br />
cover the growing medical<br />
expenses of recovering burn<br />
teen victim, Shaveesa Gasper.<br />
The 16-year old returned<br />
home after spending the last<br />
6 months in Paris on Tuesday<br />
at the V.C Bird International<br />
Airport, where she<br />
was greeted by Minister of<br />
Health and Environment,<br />
the Hon, Molwyn Joseph.<br />
The reigning Teen Xplosion<br />
winner has expressed<br />
that she is optimistic about<br />
her endeavours in the future<br />
and is happy and humbled<br />
by the assistance that she<br />
has received.<br />
She is extremely grateful<br />
to God for his mercies and<br />
to family members, friends<br />
and other well-wishers for<br />
their continuous support<br />
and encouragement.<br />
Gasper is eager to continue<br />
her studies in preparation<br />
to take the 2017 CSEC<br />
examinations. She was due<br />
to graduate from the Antigua<br />
Girls High School this<br />
year.<br />
The Health Minister is<br />
optimistic about what she<br />
can achieve and lauded her<br />
strength as an individual.<br />
“She is special. I have<br />
not seen anyone at that age<br />
so stoic, so articulate and so<br />
composed and mature, having<br />
been through that type<br />
of ordeal. I think that there<br />
is a purpose in her life that<br />
Shaveesa Gasper, centre, was greeted at the airport by Minister of Health, the Hon., Molwyn Joseph<br />
we have not yet seen”, Minister<br />
Joseph expressed.<br />
He added that government<br />
is also committed to<br />
assisting her with her future<br />
academic pursuits.<br />
“It is clear to me from a<br />
conversation that I had with<br />
her that she wants to go on<br />
further to do her degree in<br />
the Performing Arts and<br />
that is something that Cabinet<br />
has already discussed.<br />
We anticipate that with her<br />
being such an outstanding<br />
student and students of her<br />
caliber will be assisted with<br />
scholarships. So we do not<br />
see the present situation getting<br />
in the way of her academic<br />
pursuits”, Minister<br />
Joseph said.<br />
Gasper’s father, Joseph<br />
Gasper, is also thankful to<br />
everyone for their continuous<br />
support.<br />
“I really wanna thank<br />
everyone who have shown<br />
their support from the beginning<br />
up until now. We<br />
are also grateful to the<br />
government for their assistance”,<br />
he said thankfully.
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<strong>Thursday</strong> <strong>7th</strong> <strong>July</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
Brexit offers opportunities, threats<br />
By Joanna Paris<br />
A number of the nation’s educators and<br />
other key stakeholders are currently engaged<br />
in a two week training workshop taking<br />
place at the new educational facility in Five<br />
Islands.<br />
The sessions began on Monday, under<br />
the theme “Fostering a Productive School<br />
Environment and enhancing Teacher Capacity<br />
and Commitment”.<br />
According to Education officials, The<br />
Educators’ Summer Institute <strong>2016</strong>, which<br />
By Everton Barnes<br />
Antigua and Barbuda believes that<br />
the <strong>Caribbean</strong> should take its time to<br />
analysis the full impact of the decision<br />
by the British people to leave the<br />
European Union, generally referred to<br />
as ‘Brexit’.<br />
Prime Minister Gaston Browne,<br />
who led Antigua and Barbuda’s delegation<br />
to the just-concluded 37 th<br />
meeting of the Caricom Heads of<br />
Government in Georgetown, Guyana,<br />
said the Brexit decision offers not<br />
only threats but opportunities for the<br />
region as well.<br />
“The implications of Brexit, not<br />
only the threats, but the opportunities<br />
that will arise from Brexit is something<br />
we will consider to see how we<br />
can mitigate the threats. We have got<br />
to position ourselves to capitalize on<br />
the opportunities,” he noted.<br />
PM Browne added that the precipitous<br />
fall in the value of the pound<br />
sterling since the Brexit decision is<br />
something to which the government<br />
has to pay much attention.<br />
He said should the falling value of<br />
the pound affect the road programme<br />
that the British government has committed<br />
to finance, then the government<br />
would be prepared to borrow<br />
to complete the upgrade to the road<br />
network.<br />
However, one official of the <strong>Caribbean</strong><br />
Development Bank, the clearing<br />
Deborah A Parker<br />
Two teenaged boys who<br />
allegedly stole about $6,000<br />
worth of goods from a supermarket<br />
have been released<br />
into their guardians’<br />
care.<br />
The boys 16 and 17 respectively,<br />
reportedly broke<br />
into an Ebenezer grocery<br />
store, taking with them<br />
boxes of condoms, alcohol,<br />
juices, biscuits as well as<br />
the cash register.<br />
One of the offenders was<br />
previously before the court<br />
on a similar matter. This<br />
said accused is suffering<br />
from attention deficit hyperactivity<br />
disorder (ADHD),<br />
and has reportedly not had<br />
medication for about four<br />
years.<br />
He is expected to see a<br />
Education stakeholders engage<br />
in a two-week training program<br />
is now in its 7 th year, is an opportunity for<br />
not only teachers, but individuals working<br />
within the fields of education and training,<br />
to improve on a various skills to include enhancing<br />
their teaching abilities.<br />
In attendance Monday’s opening ceremony,<br />
were a number of ministry officials,<br />
to include Director of Education, Clare<br />
Browne and Assistant Director of Education<br />
Curriculum, Beverly Allen.<br />
The session is being held in collaboration<br />
with the <strong>Caribbean</strong> Development Bank.<br />
house for the funds, said Antigua and<br />
Barbuda need not worry about the<br />
falling value of the pound as it relates<br />
to the road programme. He said the<br />
money was paid in US dollars thus<br />
ensuring that it would not be affected<br />
by the value of the pound.<br />
Secondly, he said the matter of the<br />
timeframe for completing the project<br />
has also been discussed and the bank<br />
has already put in place mechanisms<br />
to ensure that Antigua and Barbuda<br />
does not lose any of the benefits of the<br />
grant funding.<br />
The British government had placed<br />
a deadline of December 31, <strong>2016</strong>, for<br />
<strong>Caribbean</strong> governments to fully utilize<br />
the funds deposited in the CDB.<br />
Teens allegedly steal $6,000<br />
worth of goods, from supermarket<br />
health professional before<br />
he returns to court.<br />
The second offender resides<br />
with his grandmother,<br />
having lost his mother some<br />
time ago.<br />
Both boys have been<br />
placed on curfew, and must<br />
be home by 6:30pm daily.<br />
Magistrate Ngaio Emanuel<br />
before whom the youths<br />
appeared also advised the<br />
guardians of the young men.<br />
She said, “You need to<br />
supervise them, issues or<br />
no issues you must know<br />
where your children are<br />
and who their friends are.”<br />
They will return to court<br />
on August 23.<br />
Sherfield Bowen represents<br />
one of the young<br />
men, while the other is unrepresented.
<strong>Thursday</strong> <strong>7th</strong> <strong>July</strong> <strong>2016</strong> c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g 5<br />
Look out for alleged fraudster, source warns<br />
The Ministry of Education,<br />
Science and Technology<br />
has moved closer<br />
to securing funds for the<br />
new Aquaponics and Organic<br />
Agricultural Farm<br />
which will be established<br />
at the St. Mary’s Secondary<br />
School.<br />
Ms. Miho Harada,<br />
a Consultant-Grant Assistance<br />
for Grass-Roots<br />
Human Security Projects<br />
from the Embassy of Japan<br />
in Trinidad met with Mr.<br />
Craig Cole, Education Officer<br />
of Agricultural Science<br />
(ag), Mrs. Ezra Knowles<br />
Special Project Consultant<br />
for the Ministry of Education<br />
Science and Technology,<br />
the Principal of the St.<br />
Mary’s Secondary School<br />
Mr. Casey Phillip, Mr.<br />
Adolph Audain a specialist<br />
in Aquaponics and Organic<br />
farming and the teachers<br />
responsible for agricultural<br />
science at the school.<br />
Ms. Harada toured St.<br />
Mary’s Secondary School<br />
Deborah A Parker<br />
A man who has fraud-related convictions<br />
may be up to his old tricks<br />
again<br />
The non-national is said to have<br />
succeeded in making a purchase valued<br />
at $1,000 a few months ago, using a<br />
card he had fabricated, using details for<br />
another non-national.<br />
The store from which the purchase<br />
was made only discovered the card presented<br />
was fake, when they received a<br />
call from the woman, whose account<br />
was charged.<br />
Incidentally, the fraudster showed<br />
up at the store again recently, to make<br />
another purchase.<br />
A source who requested anonymity<br />
told <strong>Caribbean</strong> <strong>Times</strong> the man had his<br />
eyes on a very expensive watch and a<br />
charger this time around.<br />
He is said to have had another card<br />
and was briefed on the<br />
plans for the proposed<br />
Aquaponics system.<br />
The project once implemented;<br />
will not only serve<br />
the St. Mary’s School, but<br />
all primary and secondary<br />
institutions, along with the<br />
farming community.<br />
The project is designed<br />
to increase the nation’s understanding<br />
about climate<br />
smart agriculture practices.<br />
Once complete, St. Mary’s<br />
Secondary School will be<br />
the first school in the <strong>Caribbean</strong><br />
to house a commercial<br />
level research aquaponics<br />
facility.<br />
During Ms. Harada’s<br />
courtesy call with Minister<br />
of Education, Science<br />
and Technology, Michael<br />
Browne, she expressed<br />
how impressed she is with<br />
the proposed initiative.<br />
Minister Browne reiterated<br />
the importance of<br />
such partnership for assisting<br />
Antigua and Barbuda<br />
in promoting national food<br />
security.<br />
This undertaking will<br />
support the ministry’s effort<br />
to establish thematic<br />
to pay for the goods.<br />
But as a result of a prior experience,<br />
the source said the man was informed<br />
that card purchases were no longer<br />
done at the establishment.<br />
Meanwhile, the source is advising<br />
store operators to be on the lookout for<br />
the alleged fraudster, who is said to be<br />
very charming.<br />
The police have also been made<br />
aware of the man’s alleged misdeeds.<br />
Gov’t securing funds for Aquaponics<br />
and Organic Agricultural Farm<br />
secondary school; with St.<br />
Mary’s secondary school<br />
focusing on (climate smart)<br />
agriculture.
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<strong>Thursday</strong> <strong>7th</strong> <strong>July</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
Antigua and Barbuda Tourism Authority<br />
appoints Director of Tourism, Canada<br />
The Antigua and Barbuda<br />
Tourism Authority is pleased<br />
to announce that Colin Skerritt,<br />
of Antiguan heritage,<br />
has been named Director of<br />
Tourism, Canada, based in<br />
Toronto, Ontario. He began<br />
his tenure as of <strong>July</strong> 5 th , <strong>2016</strong>.<br />
“We are delighted to appoint<br />
Colin Skerritt, as Director<br />
of Tourism, Canada,”<br />
says Antigua and Barbuda<br />
Minister of Tourism, Economic<br />
Development, Investment<br />
and Energy, Asot Michael.<br />
“Our objective is to increase<br />
visibility and prominence<br />
of Antigua and Barbuda<br />
in Canada.<br />
“With a new airport, increased<br />
opportunities for airlift<br />
and multiple new properties<br />
on the horizon, it is an<br />
exciting time to take on this<br />
role and Colin’s experience<br />
makes him the most qualified<br />
to achieve these goals.”<br />
Skerritt is an experienced<br />
and well-established<br />
travel tourism professional<br />
in the Canadian travel and<br />
airline industry, having implemented<br />
travel marketing<br />
programs across Canada and<br />
in Antigua and Jamaica for<br />
Colin Skerritt, Director of Tourism, Canada, Antigua and Barbuda<br />
Tourism Authority.<br />
more than 10 years.<br />
He joined Air Canada in<br />
2010 as a Global Accounts<br />
Manager with responsibilities<br />
for travel revenue<br />
growth in North America,<br />
Latin America, the <strong>Caribbean</strong><br />
and UK.<br />
While at Air Canada,<br />
Skerritt managed the airline’s<br />
largest corporate and<br />
leisure travel management<br />
partners and also lead Air<br />
Canada Vacations relationship.<br />
Prior to Air Canada, he<br />
worked for Virgin Atlantic<br />
Airways as a Corporate<br />
Sales Manager developing<br />
strategic travel partnerships<br />
in Antigua, Jamaica and<br />
St. Lucia with a focus on<br />
the expansion of <strong>Caribbean</strong><br />
business travel to the United<br />
Kingdom.<br />
He recently gained significant<br />
press coverage as<br />
the host of the Air Canada<br />
Vacations national program<br />
rollout which featured a series<br />
of town hall press events<br />
for over 3,500 travel agents<br />
across Canada.<br />
“Antigua has always been<br />
a very special place for me<br />
as it is the island where my<br />
parents were raised. Antigua<br />
offers Canadians an extraordinary<br />
<strong>Caribbean</strong> tourism<br />
experience.<br />
“It is truly an exciting<br />
time to be in this role as<br />
Antigua and Barbuda are<br />
well positioned for exciting<br />
growth,” Skerritt said.<br />
In his new position, Skerritt<br />
is responsible for the<br />
Antigua and Barbuda Tourism<br />
Authority operations in<br />
Canada. Mr. Skerritt holds<br />
a Graphic Communication<br />
Management Degree, from<br />
Ryerson University in Toronto,<br />
Canada.
<strong>Thursday</strong> <strong>7th</strong> <strong>July</strong> <strong>2016</strong> c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g 7<br />
Caricom Heads meeting update<br />
The unwavering commitment<br />
to the integration movement<br />
and the CARICOM<br />
Single Market and Economy<br />
(CSME) project are among<br />
tangible outcomes of the 37<br />
Conference of Heads of Government<br />
of the <strong>Caribbean</strong><br />
Community (CARICOM).<br />
“The meeting can be described<br />
as an unequivocal<br />
success,” remarked Antigua<br />
and Barbuda’s Ambassador<br />
to the <strong>Caribbean</strong> Community,<br />
Dr. Clarence Henry.<br />
“From the Opening Ceremony<br />
to the commencement<br />
of the substantive debate by<br />
Heads in Plenary and Caucus,<br />
there was consensus on<br />
the relevance and importance<br />
of CARICOM. Pushing back<br />
hard against critics, the meeting<br />
underscored among other<br />
things, that in these times of<br />
myriad challenges, regional<br />
cooperation among the Member<br />
States is critical for the<br />
survival of CARICOM,” he<br />
said. Brexit, correspondent<br />
banking, security issues were<br />
among the challenges that occupied<br />
the minds of the leaders<br />
and in Antigua and Barbuda’s<br />
case, Prime Minister<br />
Gaston Browne underscored<br />
the importance of the tourism<br />
industry to the region and as<br />
such should be a regular item<br />
on their agenda. That was one<br />
of the earliest decisions of the<br />
meeting.<br />
The Heads welcomed the<br />
President of Chile and sought<br />
her assistance on advocacy for<br />
and on behalf of the region in<br />
forums where the <strong>Caribbean</strong><br />
is not represented. Chile reaffirmed<br />
its commitment to<br />
assisting the <strong>Caribbean</strong> in the<br />
areas of economic and development<br />
matters. Special mention<br />
was made of the bilateral<br />
cooperation between Antigua<br />
and Barbuda and Chile. Climate<br />
change, regional security<br />
were among the myriad of<br />
areas mentioned for regional<br />
cooperation with Chile. On<br />
the matter of the CSME, it<br />
was agreed that the regional<br />
project will be a regular agenda<br />
item and that countries<br />
should take appropriate measures<br />
to fulfill the different<br />
obligations so that the CSME<br />
project could realize the ambition<br />
outlined in the Revised<br />
Treaty of Chaguaramus.<br />
The institution of the <strong>Caribbean</strong><br />
Court of Justice (CCJ)<br />
was added to the Agenda of<br />
the Heads discussions particularly<br />
as it pertains to the need<br />
for more CARICOM Member<br />
States to sign onto the<br />
Appellate Jurisdiction of the<br />
Court. Other matters added to<br />
the agenda included the recent<br />
political situation on Suriname,<br />
the on-going CLICO/BA-<br />
ICO issue, an update on the<br />
health situation in the region<br />
and a resolution acknowledging<br />
the passing of the late Patrick<br />
Manning former PM of<br />
Trinidad Tobago.<br />
Countries were reminded<br />
that as an institution anchored<br />
in the Revised Treaty,<br />
it would be in the best interest<br />
of the Community if the CCJ<br />
becomes the final court of justice<br />
for all of CARICOM for<br />
uniformity in the dispensation<br />
of justice across the <strong>Caribbean</strong>.<br />
Antigua and Barbuda is<br />
gearing up for a national referendum<br />
to determine whether<br />
the country should migrate<br />
from the London based Judicial<br />
Committee of the Privy<br />
Council and adopt the CCJ<br />
as its final court in civil and<br />
criminal matters.<br />
“For me, it is clear that<br />
the spirit of cooperation is<br />
alive and well in CARICOM.<br />
Certainly, as a Community of<br />
sovereign nations there will<br />
be disagreements from time<br />
to time, but by sitting down<br />
and engaging, each nation<br />
has an opportunity to bring its<br />
national interest to the table<br />
which is infused as a regional<br />
cross cutting agenda. This<br />
meeting of Heads reaffirmed<br />
that CARICOM spirit which<br />
is alive and working for the<br />
benefit of the people of CAR-<br />
ICOM,” according to Ambassador<br />
Henry.<br />
A strong call was also<br />
made for the Organs of the<br />
Community to meet regularly<br />
in order to fulfill their<br />
mandate as enshrined in the<br />
Revised Treaty. The Council<br />
for Finance and Planning was<br />
single out for special mention.<br />
The two-day meeting of<br />
the Caricom Heads was held<br />
in Georgetown, Guyana.
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Darshanie Singh selected as Antigua and<br />
Barbuda’s <strong>2016</strong> Junior Minister of Tourism<br />
Darshanie Singh, centre, was named Junior Minister of Tourism while Kennyse Lynch,<br />
right, placed 1st runner up and Javon Armstrong was the 2nd runner up<br />
The Antigua and Barbuda Ministry<br />
of Tourism has named sixteen year old<br />
Antigua Girls High School Student, Darshanie<br />
Singh as Junior Minister of Tourism.<br />
Singh outperformed ten other contenders<br />
from high schools across the<br />
country to be named the <strong>2016</strong> Junior<br />
Minister following the Junior Minister<br />
of Tourism Speech Competition held on<br />
Tuesday 5th <strong>July</strong>.<br />
Speaking to the students prior to the<br />
competition, Minister of Tourism the<br />
Hon. Asot Michael expressed his satisfaction<br />
with their participation in the Junior<br />
Minister selection process.<br />
“Clearly, as young people I am very<br />
proud of all of you and the interest that<br />
you have placed in our industry. Your<br />
participation in the Tourism Cadet Corp<br />
and this Junior Tourism Speech Competition<br />
tells me two things about you. One,<br />
that you love you country and want to be<br />
a part of the industry that is the life blood<br />
of the nation and two, you have a deep<br />
strength of character.<br />
As Minister of Tourism I am elated<br />
that at such a young age you are not just<br />
saying you are committed to nation building,<br />
but by participating in this event you<br />
have done something tangible. You will<br />
all collectively lift the image of tourism<br />
and the young people in this nation, by<br />
your research, your preparation and effective<br />
delivery.”<br />
In an enthusiastically contested competition,<br />
Singh in a prepared speech,<br />
presented to the Tourism Minister, Permanent<br />
Secretary in the Ministry of<br />
Tourism, Paula Frederick-Hunte, judges,<br />
students and an audience of well-wishers,<br />
the ways in which she would improve the<br />
“Customers Perception of the Tourism<br />
Brand”. In the Mystery Question, segment<br />
she discussed a social media contest,<br />
she would launch in a bid to increase<br />
the destination’s brand awareness.<br />
Upon winning an overwhelmed<br />
Singh said, “Honestly, winning this was<br />
not expected. The preparation was very<br />
intense. It came down to weeks of preparation<br />
where every day I found myself at<br />
the Ministry of Tourism practicing. To<br />
the awesome people I had to work with<br />
from the Ministry of Tourism, thank you!<br />
It was an awesome experience. And it really<br />
shows that hard work pays off, and<br />
that what you want you have to work<br />
for.”<br />
Singh who is a member of the Antigua<br />
and Barbuda Tourism Cadet Corps<br />
said, throughout her time in the cadet<br />
corps, and in preparing for the competition,<br />
she had learnt a great deal about<br />
tourism in Antigua and Barbuda.<br />
Ken-nyse Lynch also of the Antigua<br />
Girls High School, and Javon Armstrong<br />
of the Antigua Grammar School came<br />
up closely behind Singh. Lynch was the<br />
First Runner up in the Junior Minister of<br />
Tourism Competition while Armstrong<br />
was Second Runner Up.<br />
Armstrong tied with Singh in the prepared<br />
speech segment of the competition,<br />
while Jahson Harvey of the Clare Hall<br />
Secondary School was the best presenter<br />
for the mystery topic.<br />
Tourism Education, Training and<br />
Awareness Manager in the Ministry of<br />
Tourism, Petley Knight, says the next<br />
step for Antigua and Barbuda’s new Junior<br />
Minister of Tourism is an audience<br />
with the Minister of Tourism. Singh will<br />
then journey to Barbados to participate in<br />
the Youth Congress to be held during the<br />
<strong>Caribbean</strong> Tourism Organisation’s State<br />
of the Industry Conference in September.<br />
Judges at the <strong>2016</strong> competition were,<br />
Young Hotelier of the Year Matara Murphy,<br />
National Honours Awardee in the<br />
area of Culture and Community development,<br />
Yolanda Lake-Goodwin, and Online<br />
Coordinator of Marketing within the<br />
Antigua and Barbuda Tourism Authority,<br />
Abena Merchant. The outgoing 2015 Junior<br />
Minister of Tourism is Kia Barnes of<br />
the Antigua State College.
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International Women’s Club Awards $50,000<br />
in Scholarships to Ten Antiguan Women<br />
This week the International<br />
Women’s Club (IWC) was<br />
pleased to award 10 scholarships<br />
to Antiguan women to<br />
continue their tertiary education.<br />
In the previous eight<br />
years, the International Women’s<br />
Club (IWC) has raised<br />
over $600,000 for 160 women’s<br />
scholarships.<br />
Honored guest speaker<br />
for the event, hosted by Scotiabank,<br />
was Koren Norton,<br />
Director of Social Services,<br />
MSJMC. She encouraged the<br />
awardees to work hard, with<br />
enthusiasm, to remember to<br />
have fun along the way, and<br />
to give back to the community.<br />
Gordon Julien, Country<br />
Manager of Scotiabank and<br />
Gold Sponsor of the annual<br />
IWC Golf for<br />
Education Tournament,<br />
reminded those present that<br />
it is educated women who<br />
move a country forward. He<br />
congratulated and encouraged<br />
the awardees in their future<br />
endeavors.<br />
The IWC is pleased to announce<br />
the following <strong>2016</strong><br />
grant recipients:<br />
Lisa Bacchus (21)<br />
Lisa currently works for<br />
National Solid Waste Management.<br />
She is pursuing a<br />
BSC in Human<br />
Resources Management<br />
at Antigua State College and<br />
plans to transfer to UWI Cave<br />
Hill Campus,<br />
Barbados for her final<br />
year in September. She hopes<br />
From Left standing; Aleisha Greenaway, Diane Camacho (IWC),<br />
Amanda St. Romain, Lisa Bacchus, Amanda Lucien, Janessa Griffith,<br />
Faye Henry-David, Diana Edwards-Martin.<br />
Seated from left: Koren Norton (honored speaker, Director of Social<br />
Services MSJMC), Gordon Julien, Sue Sharp (IWC). Three<br />
awardees were unable to attend - Mazie Dangleben, Lisian Thomas,<br />
Trecy Spencer.<br />
her new skills will help her<br />
bring a change in attitudes towards<br />
clients and customers<br />
especially in tourism.<br />
Mazie Dangleben (37)<br />
Mazie is currently a Registered<br />
Nurse at MSJMC. She<br />
is pursuing her BSC in Nursing<br />
Education at<br />
UWI St. Augustine Campus,<br />
Trinidad. She hopes that<br />
her new knowledge will assist<br />
her in helping and guiding<br />
students and newly graduated<br />
nurses with their patient care<br />
at the hospital and eventually<br />
become a tutor at the School<br />
of Nursing.<br />
Amanda Lucien (21)<br />
Currently working with<br />
Lotto and Bargain Centre,<br />
Amanda is pursuing her BSC<br />
in Management Studies at<br />
Antigua State College. She<br />
hopes to transfer to UWI<br />
Cave Hill Campus, Barbados<br />
for her final year in September.<br />
She hopes to use her<br />
management skills to promote<br />
and uplift our tourism<br />
product both here and internationally.<br />
Janessa Griffith (21)<br />
Janessa has completed<br />
the first year of her BSC in<br />
Pharmacy at UWI St Augustine<br />
Campus, Trinidad. On<br />
completion of her studies, she<br />
will return to Antigua where<br />
we have a need for qualified<br />
pharmacists. She will accurately<br />
dispense medicine and<br />
advise patients on drug side<br />
effects, drug/food interactions<br />
and help improve the<br />
health system in Antigua and<br />
Barbuda. (Recipient 2014)<br />
Aleisha Greenaway (19)<br />
Aleisha begins her first<br />
year of her BSC in Psychology<br />
at UWI Mona Campus,<br />
Jamaica in August. On completion<br />
of her studies, she will<br />
return to Antigua and hopes<br />
to help mitigate social and<br />
family problems by working<br />
in the Educational and Health<br />
systems.<br />
Amanda St. Romain (24)<br />
Amanda is a Registered<br />
District Nurse in charge of the<br />
Bolans Clinic. On seeing the<br />
devastation caused by cancer<br />
on families in her purview<br />
and that Antigua needs Oncology<br />
Nurses at the hospital<br />
and the new Cancer Centre,<br />
she decided that she needed<br />
to pursue a BSC in Oncology<br />
Nursing. She hopes to leave<br />
for her 2-year course at UWI,<br />
St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad<br />
in August.<br />
Faye Henry-David (38)<br />
Faye is a secondary school<br />
teacher pursuing her MSC in<br />
Management and Educational<br />
Leadership through the UWI<br />
Open Campus here in Antigua.<br />
She is completely aware<br />
of the behavioural problems<br />
found within the classroom<br />
and of the root causes, often<br />
the inability to be able to read<br />
fluently. She hopes that she<br />
will be able to use her masters<br />
degree to assist her fellow<br />
teachers, parents and herself<br />
to mitigate these problems<br />
and to better lead and motivate<br />
her students. (Recipient<br />
2008)<br />
Diana Edwards-Martin<br />
(34)<br />
Diana is a primary school<br />
teacher pursuing her B.Ed.<br />
in Early Childhood Education.<br />
She is acutely aware that<br />
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these foundation years are crucial for<br />
students to be able to function properly<br />
within the education system and also in<br />
their adult life. She hopes that completion<br />
of this programme will assist her in<br />
becoming a resource person for teacher<br />
and parent workshops for best practices<br />
within the school setting.<br />
Lisian Thomas (36)<br />
Lisian is currently studying BSC<br />
Nursing Oncology at UWI, St. Augustine<br />
Campus, Trinidad. She will be returning<br />
for her final year in September<br />
and upon completion will be assigned to<br />
the Oncology Dept. at MSJMC. (Recipient<br />
2015)<br />
Trecy Spencer (35)<br />
Trecy has completed her first year<br />
of her BSC in Meteorology at the UWI<br />
Cave Hill Campus,<br />
Barbados, returning to continue her<br />
studies in September. She believes that<br />
accurate forecasting of the weather influences<br />
the day-to-day life of all the community,<br />
especially during the hurricane<br />
season. Also, the study of Meteorology<br />
is becoming more important considering<br />
global warming and its consequences on<br />
small developing islands of the <strong>Caribbean</strong>.<br />
(Recipient 2015)<br />
The IWC, established 1986, is a service<br />
organization offering critical programs<br />
for the community. In addition to<br />
the scholarships, IWC provides Christmas<br />
Hampers to the elderly and families<br />
living in poverty. Details of IWC activities<br />
can be found at www.iwcantiguabarbuda.org.<br />
The 9th annual IWC Golf for Education<br />
Tournament, the primary fundraiser<br />
for this scholarship program, has been<br />
scheduled for Saturday, November 19,<br />
<strong>2016</strong> at Cedar Valley Golf Club. We encourage<br />
everyone in the community to<br />
participate with a sponsorship, auction<br />
or prize donations,<br />
as a golfer, or come for lunch and<br />
to bid on exciting auction items. 2015<br />
sponsors included<br />
Scotiabank, <strong>Caribbean</strong> Alliance Insurance,<br />
Elite Island Resorts, Virgin<br />
Atlantic, FLOW, Subway, Island Provisions,<br />
Digicel, Liat, St. Kitts Marriott<br />
Resort Golf Club, Jumby Bay, Furniture<br />
Gallery, Lipstick, Curtain Bluff, Abbott’s,<br />
Blue Waters, Galley Bay Resort,<br />
Buccaneer Beach Club, and Massy<br />
United Insurance. Many additional<br />
local businesses generously sponsored<br />
the event and donated items for the auction.<br />
Cedar Valley Golf Club hosted the<br />
event, with special mention to Daniel<br />
Cadet, Andy Hall, David Kinnell, Tom<br />
Hellier, Claudio Iturriaga, and Johnny<br />
Tved.
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Feds open civil rights<br />
investigation in Louisiana shooting<br />
BATON ROUGE, La. – In a swift<br />
move by authorities to keep tensions<br />
from boiling over, the U.S. Justice Department<br />
launched a civil rights investigation<br />
Wednesday into the video-recorded<br />
killing of a black man who was<br />
shot as he scuffled with two white police<br />
officers on the pavement outside a<br />
convenience store.<br />
A law enforcement official said a<br />
gun was taken from 37-year-old Alton<br />
Sterling after he was killed early Tuesday<br />
in the parking lot where he regularly<br />
sold homemade music CDs from a<br />
folding table.<br />
The official was not authorized to<br />
discuss the investigation and spoke on<br />
condition of anonymity.<br />
It was not clear from the murky<br />
cellphone footage whether Sterling had<br />
the gun in his hand or was reaching for<br />
it when he was shot. A witness said he<br />
saw police pull a gun from Sterling’s<br />
pocket after the shooting.<br />
The shooting in the Louisiana capital<br />
- and shocking videos that found<br />
their way all over the internet - set off<br />
angry protests in the city’s black community<br />
and brought calls for an outside<br />
investigation.<br />
It came at a time when law enforcement<br />
officers across the country are under<br />
close scrutiny over what some see<br />
as indiscriminate use of deadly force<br />
against blacks.<br />
Moving quickly just one day after<br />
the shooting, Democratic Gov. John<br />
Bel Edwards asked the Justice Department<br />
to take the lead in the investigation.<br />
“I have very serious concerns. The<br />
video is disturbing, to say the least,”<br />
the governor said at a news conference.<br />
Edwards also met with black community<br />
leaders to reassure them about<br />
the investigation and to ask their help<br />
in keeping protests peaceful.<br />
He expressed hope that once the<br />
community sees that the shooting is<br />
“going to be investigated impartially,<br />
professionally and thoroughly” by the<br />
Justice Department, “the tensions will<br />
ease.”<br />
In a statement, Democratic presidential<br />
candidate Hillary Clinton called<br />
the shooting a tragedy and said trust between<br />
police and the communities they<br />
serve needs to be rebuilt.<br />
“Something is profoundly wrong<br />
when so many Americans have reason<br />
to believe that our country doesn’t<br />
consider them as precious as others because<br />
of the color of their skin,” Clinton<br />
said.<br />
Baton Rouge Police Chief Carl<br />
Dabadie Jr. said that Sterling was<br />
armed - Dabadie didn’t specify the type<br />
of weapon - but that there are still questions<br />
about what happened.<br />
“Like you, there is a lot that we do<br />
not understand. And at this point, like<br />
you, I am demanding answers,” Dabadie<br />
said, calling the shooting a “horrible<br />
tragedy.”<br />
Sterling was confronted by police<br />
after an anonymous caller reported being<br />
threatened by someone with gun<br />
outside the store, authorities said.<br />
In the cellphone video taken by a<br />
community activist and posted online,<br />
one of the officers tackled Sterling, and<br />
the two officers pinned him to the pavement.<br />
Someone yelled, “He’s got a gun!<br />
Gun!” and one officer pulled his weapon<br />
from his holster. After some shouting,<br />
what sounded like a gunshot could<br />
be heard. The camera pulled away be-<br />
Tawandra Carr, who said she was best<br />
friends with Alton Sterling, is comforted as<br />
people gather outside the Triple S convenience<br />
store in Baton Rouge, La.<br />
fore more shots were heard.<br />
The officers, identified by the chief<br />
as Blane Salamoni, a four-year member<br />
of the department, and Howie Lake<br />
II, who has been on the force for three<br />
years, were placed on administrative<br />
leave, standard department procedure.<br />
Lake was involved in another police<br />
shooting in December 2014. He told<br />
detectives investigating that shooting<br />
that he fired six or seven times when a<br />
suspect refused to drop his gun, threatened<br />
to kill himself and pointed his revolver<br />
at officers. The man was wounded<br />
by police.<br />
In the shooting Tuesday, authorities<br />
would not say whether one or both officers<br />
fired their weapons or how many<br />
times.<br />
The store owner, Abdullah Muflahi,<br />
released a video that he said he shot<br />
from a slightly different angle. He said<br />
Sterling was not holding a gun during<br />
the shooting but that he saw officers<br />
remove one from his pocket afterward.<br />
His video shows an officer reaching<br />
into Sterling’s pocket to grab an object.<br />
Muflahi said an officer fired four to<br />
six shots into Sterling’s chest.<br />
Hundreds protested Tuesday night,<br />
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New St. Lucia PM back in legal trouble<br />
CASTRIES, St. Lucia – Allegations<br />
of breach of trust and misfeasance in<br />
public office have come back to haunt<br />
St. Lucia’s Prime Minister Allen Chastanet.<br />
Just over a year after a High Court<br />
judge threw out the claim against Chastanet,<br />
the Eastern <strong>Caribbean</strong> Court of<br />
Appeal has reinstated it.<br />
It was on December 10, 2013, that<br />
several allegations were made in a<br />
claim filed by the Attorney General<br />
against Chastanet, as a former government<br />
minister, and Chairman of the<br />
Soufriere Town Council, Kenneth Cazaubon.<br />
wChief among the allegations were<br />
that Chastanet, while a minister of<br />
Government and a candidate for the<br />
United Workers Party (UWP) requested,<br />
advised, received, permitted or acquiesced<br />
in the expenditure of the sum<br />
of EC$38,119 (US$) of public funds of<br />
the Council for the unlawful purpose of<br />
a campaign and political event for his<br />
personal and the political benefit of his<br />
political party, the UWP.<br />
The money had been raised by the<br />
government of St. Lucia, from Taiwan,<br />
for specific community projects. It was<br />
also alleged that Chastanet knew or<br />
Prime Minister Allen Chastanet faces allegations<br />
of breach of trust and misfeasance<br />
in public office.<br />
ought to have known or was recklessly<br />
indifferent to the fact that the conduct<br />
in question was unlawful and that as a<br />
consequence, he acted in a manner that<br />
amounted to a breach of his fiduciary<br />
duties as a minister of Government,<br />
bad faith and/or misfeasance in public<br />
office.<br />
It was further alleged that Cazaubon,<br />
as Chairman of the Council, abdicated<br />
his authority and acted in breach<br />
of his fiduciary duties when he acted on<br />
Chastanet’s request, instruction or direction<br />
and gave instructions to pay, or<br />
caused the Council to pay, public funds<br />
for the unlawful purpose of meeting<br />
expenses of a campaign and political<br />
event.<br />
In a judgment delivered on Monday,<br />
the Eastern <strong>Caribbean</strong> Court of Appeal<br />
held that High Court judge, Justice<br />
Belle, made an error in striking out the<br />
application against Chastanet without<br />
first having a substantial hearing with<br />
evidence on the merits.<br />
“The remedy of striking out is a nuclear<br />
option and should only be utilized<br />
in cases where the pleadings are incurably<br />
bad…The learned judge went too<br />
far and made several findings of fact on<br />
matters that were not before him for determination,”<br />
the court said.<br />
The Court of Appeal therefore sent<br />
the case back to the Supreme Court to<br />
be heard by a different judge.<br />
In a statement following the judgment,<br />
the St. Lucia Labour Party, which<br />
was in power when the claim was made<br />
against Chastanet, welcomed the ruling,<br />
saying that the case had always<br />
only been about “safeguarding public<br />
funds, the issue of good governance,<br />
the fiduciary obligation of public officers,<br />
especially ministers to treat with<br />
public funds in a proper manner and<br />
the abuse of office by public officials<br />
including ministers”. (<strong>Caribbean</strong>360)<br />
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and demonstrators gathered<br />
again Wednesday. A vigil<br />
Wednesday evening drew<br />
hundreds of mourners singing,<br />
praying and calling for<br />
justice.<br />
Quinyetta McMillon, the<br />
mother of Sterling’s teenage<br />
son, trembled as she read a<br />
statement outside City Hall,<br />
where a few dozen protesters<br />
and community leaders had<br />
assembled. Her son, Cameron,<br />
15, broke down in tears<br />
and was led away sobbing as<br />
his mother spoke.<br />
She described Sterling as<br />
“a man who simply tried to<br />
earn a living to take care of<br />
his children.<br />
“The individuals involved<br />
in his murder took<br />
away a man with children<br />
who depended upon their<br />
daddy on a daily basis,” she<br />
said.<br />
A cousin of Sterling’s,<br />
Sharida Sterling, said he had<br />
been selling music there for<br />
about six years, often lugging<br />
his box of CDs, table<br />
and folding chair on two<br />
buses to get to the store.<br />
Sharida Sterling said that<br />
the store management never<br />
had any problems with<br />
him but that he was often<br />
harassed by police - she suspected<br />
because he was black<br />
and a “big guy.”<br />
“I don’t want them to get<br />
away with a slap on the wrist<br />
because it could happen to<br />
somebody else’s brother,”<br />
she said.<br />
In announcing the Justice<br />
Department investigation,<br />
the governor was accompanied<br />
by black Democrats<br />
from Baton Rouge who<br />
praised him and others for<br />
quickly asking the federal<br />
government to get involved.<br />
“We know there’s going<br />
to be an external investigation.<br />
I think it makes all<br />
the difference in the world,”<br />
said state Sen. Regina Barrow.<br />
(AP)
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Justice Dept. closes Clinton<br />
email probe with no charges<br />
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department’s<br />
investigation into Hillary<br />
Clinton’s email setup has been formally<br />
closed without any criminal charges,<br />
Attorney General Loretta Lynch said<br />
Wednesday.<br />
The decision had been expected<br />
and was largely a formality given FBI<br />
Director James Comey’s recommendation<br />
a day earlier against any prosecution.<br />
Even before Comey’s public statement,<br />
Lynch had said she intended to<br />
accept the recommendations of the FBI<br />
director and of her career prosecutors.<br />
Even so, it officially closes out an<br />
FBI investigation that had dogged<br />
Clinton for the last year and proved a<br />
major distraction on the campaign trail<br />
as she emerged as the Democratic presidential<br />
front-runner.<br />
Lynch said she met with Comey and<br />
prosecutors Wednesday and agreed that<br />
the investigation, which looked into the<br />
potential mishandling of classified information,<br />
should be concluded.<br />
“I received and accepted their unanimous<br />
recommendation that the thorough,<br />
year-long investigation be closed<br />
and that no charges be brought against<br />
any individuals within the scope of the<br />
investigation,” Lynch said in a statement.<br />
Comey, in an unusually detailed and<br />
public accounting of the investigation<br />
Tuesday, said “no reasonable prosecutor”<br />
would pursue a criminal case and<br />
said he was advising the Justice Department<br />
against bringing any charges.<br />
But he also rebuked Clinton, who<br />
relied exclusively on a private email<br />
server as secretary of state, and her<br />
aides for being “extremely careless”<br />
with their handling of classified information.<br />
“There is evidence to support a con-<br />
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary<br />
Clinton speaks on the Boardwalk in Atlantic<br />
City, N.J.<br />
clusion that any reasonable person in<br />
Secretary Clinton’s position ... should<br />
have known that an unclassified system<br />
was no place” for sensitive conversations,<br />
Comey said.<br />
Clinton’s likely general election<br />
opponent, Donald Trump, unleashed<br />
a methodical attack during a rally<br />
Wednesday in Cincinnati, contrasting<br />
her statements about the email server<br />
with what Comey said and labeling the<br />
former secretary of state “a dirty, rotten<br />
liar.”<br />
Reading from a script, which he<br />
rarely does, Trump ticked off several<br />
of what he called Clinton’s “lies” about<br />
the servers, including that she only<br />
used one email device and that she did<br />
not have any emails marked as “classified”<br />
on the private server.<br />
“She made so many false statements,”<br />
Trump said. “Is she going to be<br />
brought before Congress? Is something<br />
going to happen?”<br />
The Justice Department’s decision<br />
seemed likely to inflame Republican<br />
anger, with Capitol Hill lawmakers<br />
pressing for answers about how Clinton<br />
could have avoided prosecution<br />
given Comey’s stinging characterization<br />
of her email setup.<br />
Comey was scheduled to face<br />
questions about the decision in an appearance<br />
<strong>Thursday</strong> before the House<br />
Oversight and Government Reform<br />
Committee. Lynch herself is scheduled<br />
for an oversight hearing next week on<br />
Capitol Hill.<br />
The Clinton campaign has tried to<br />
move forward.<br />
“With the AG accepting Director<br />
Comey’s recommendation, this case<br />
is resolved, no matter Republicans’<br />
attempts to continue playing politics,”<br />
campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said<br />
on Twitter.<br />
FBI agents spent the last year investigating<br />
the matter following a referral<br />
from the intelligence community’s inspector<br />
general. As part of that investigation,<br />
investigators pored through<br />
tens of thousands of State Department<br />
emails and interviewed top Clinton<br />
aides - and finally, Clinton herself this<br />
past weekend.<br />
Despite his critical assessment of<br />
Clinton’s email practices, Comey said<br />
there was no evidence that anyone intentionally<br />
or willfully mishandled<br />
classified information.<br />
“No charges are appropriate in this<br />
case,” he said.<br />
Lynch on Friday announced she was<br />
prepared to accept whatever findings<br />
and recommendations were presented<br />
to her by her investigative team.<br />
Though she said she had already<br />
settled on that process, the announcement<br />
came just days after she had an<br />
unscheduled meeting with Bill Clinton<br />
aboard her plane in Phoenix. Lynch said<br />
the investigation was not discussed, but<br />
she acknowledged that the meeting had<br />
“cast a shadow” on the process and led<br />
to questions about the independence of<br />
the investigation. (AP)
<strong>Thursday</strong> <strong>7th</strong> <strong>July</strong> <strong>2016</strong> c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g 15<br />
Wednesday’s Sudoku Solution<br />
S U D O K U<br />
CROSSWORD<br />
Across<br />
1. Pieces hiding in 20, 33, 42<br />
and 57-Across<br />
5. Mountain pass<br />
10. Part of Einstein’s formula<br />
14. Horse with a white-sprinkled<br />
coat<br />
15. Egg source<br />
16. Bee, to Opie<br />
17. Part of aka<br />
18. Fang output<br />
19. Ancient portico<br />
20. Wriggling free<br />
23. Dads, to many<br />
24. Polish partner<br />
25. West of Hollywood<br />
26. Links goal<br />
29. Burn it or step on it<br />
31. Viewpoints<br />
33. Gainesville athletes<br />
37. Print, maybe<br />
38. Part of a Dogpatch nickname<br />
39. They’re charged and can be<br />
exchanged<br />
42. Plot development?<br />
47. Garden show favorite<br />
49. F/M choice<br />
50. Poker winning<br />
51. Dog days mo.<br />
52. Wall St. letters<br />
55. Last of 26<br />
57. Sturdy swinger<br />
63. Roulette color<br />
64. Miss Brooks portrayer<br />
65. Someone hysterical<br />
66. French river or department<br />
67. Uncle’s girl<br />
68. Border line<br />
69. Hungarian Premier Imre<br />
70. Classic Dodges<br />
71. General ___ chicken<br />
Down<br />
1. Arafat, for one<br />
2. Playbill listing<br />
3. Fem. counterpart<br />
4. One with an interest in your<br />
business<br />
5. Serbian city<br />
6. It’s within range<br />
7. Sharp tastes<br />
8. Coarse cough<br />
9. Church music composer<br />
10. Jolly Roger’s perch<br />
11. First course sometimes<br />
made with squash<br />
12. Winter transport on treads<br />
13. Vampire slayers<br />
21. Stable visitors<br />
22. Normandy battle site<br />
26. Gomer Pyle’s USMC rank<br />
27. Nothing antithesis<br />
28. Rocky road<br />
30. Buyer’s delight<br />
32. Xeric<br />
34. Not illusory<br />
35. Card player’s shout, sometimes<br />
36. Place for yodelers<br />
40. Cpl. or sgt.<br />
41. Collector’s aim<br />
43. Frodo’s burden<br />
44. Ranch helper without a<br />
bunk<br />
45. Changes city planning<br />
46. Plow animals<br />
47. Finally occur to<br />
48. Borealis preceder<br />
53. Narrow furrow<br />
54. Duck with soft down<br />
56. Plume’s source<br />
58. Discoverer of deuterium<br />
59. Angular lead-in<br />
60. Assists<br />
61. Not for here<br />
62. Hot times in Quebec
16 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g<br />
<strong>Thursday</strong> <strong>7th</strong> <strong>July</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
Today’s weather forecast<br />
Antigua and Barbuda<br />
Mainly sunny skies.<br />
High - 83ºF<br />
Low - 77ºF<br />
Wind: East 12 mph<br />
Sunrise 5.39 am; Sunset 6.44 pm<br />
Wednesday’s Crossword Solution<br />
HOROSCOPE<br />
CANCER (June 22-<strong>July</strong> 22).<br />
If you pretend to be someone<br />
else and they love it, you’ll be<br />
in a pinch, with lots of pressure<br />
to keep pretending. On<br />
the other hand, if there’s no<br />
act, you’ll never have to drop<br />
it.<br />
LEO (<strong>July</strong> 23-Aug. 22). At<br />
the core of this day is an innate<br />
drive to create something<br />
unique from your experiences.<br />
After all, no one ever has or<br />
ever will walk this world in<br />
quite the same way you do.<br />
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).<br />
Before you would have reacted<br />
strongly to frustrations like<br />
today’s, but you’re a lot more<br />
patient now. When you feel<br />
frustration, you know it won’t<br />
be long before your strong<br />
sense of reason takes over.<br />
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).<br />
What you’re involved in now<br />
isn’t really a competition,<br />
though it may be presented<br />
that way. Furthermore, you<br />
can believe in yourself wholeheartedly<br />
without dismissing<br />
the efforts of others.<br />
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.<br />
21). You can’t help but speculate<br />
about what might have<br />
happened if you’d arrived on<br />
this scene a little sooner or a<br />
little later. This will inform<br />
your next move, but it won’t<br />
change where you’re starting<br />
from today.<br />
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-<br />
Dec. 21). You’ll probably feel<br />
more like dancing around the<br />
work than actually doing it,<br />
and that’s OK, too. If you keep<br />
your eyes open while dancing,<br />
you’ll notice something key<br />
that could change everything.<br />
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.<br />
19). Given the luxury of a<br />
long stretch of time, all the<br />
“maybe someday” things will<br />
be put off indefinitely, thereby<br />
remaining in that same category<br />
forever. Want it done? Give<br />
yourself a deadline and do it.<br />
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.<br />
18). Don’t presume to know<br />
what the others are thinking<br />
or how they are judging the<br />
scene. One person’s refreshingly<br />
entertaining enterprise is<br />
another person’s been-theredone-that.<br />
You’ll only find out<br />
by asking.<br />
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).<br />
You’re a true original, a totally<br />
unique presence in the world.<br />
So why do you feel like you’re<br />
blending in, unheard and unseen?<br />
It’s a distortion. Change<br />
the dynamic, and most importantly,<br />
change how you think<br />
about it.<br />
ARIES (March 21-April 19).<br />
You can think of quite a few<br />
things that are best paid for<br />
with compensation other than<br />
money, and today you can<br />
even put “meals” in the category,<br />
as your home efforts will<br />
go much further than anything<br />
you could purchase.<br />
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).<br />
When the energy is off, everything<br />
else will be off, too. Do<br />
what it takes to get your mind,<br />
body and spirit into the right<br />
conditions for creating what<br />
you want. Even if this takes a<br />
few hours, it will be worth it.<br />
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).<br />
When the rituals you rely on<br />
to feel normal get interrupted,<br />
that shouldn’t displace your<br />
entire sense of purpose. If it<br />
does, it’s a signal to come up<br />
with a purpose that’s stronger,<br />
with deeper roots.
<strong>Thursday</strong> <strong>7th</strong> <strong>July</strong> <strong>2016</strong> c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g 17<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 />
<strong>July</strong> 24, <strong>2016</strong> 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 Antigua and Barbuda Athletic Association will host the<br />
<strong>2016</strong> National Athletics Championship on Saturday <strong>July</strong> 9<br />
and Sunday <strong>July</strong> 10, <strong>2016</strong> at the home of Athletics – Yasco<br />
Complex. Vendors who wish to ply their trade in and outside<br />
the Yasco Complex are asked to contact: The Treasurer - Ms.<br />
Judy Blackman at telephone # 728 8500 for Registration.<br />
Please note that spaces are issued at a “First Come” basis<br />
and that there are limited spaces available both inside and<br />
outside.<br />
Are you a Building Technology student and are interested in<br />
furthering your education in this field? Or are you thinking<br />
of entering the field of Architectural Technology? Earn a full<br />
scholarship to the Antigua and Barbuda International Institute<br />
of Technology (ABIIT) to pursue an Associate Degree<br />
in Architectural Technology. Simply apply to ABIIT and enroll<br />
in the Architectural Technology program and write a 500<br />
word essay on “Why the field of Architecture is important<br />
and how will attaining a degree in this field enable you to<br />
achieve your academic and professional goals” Submissions<br />
may be dropped off at the Coolidge campus or emailed to<br />
dmartin@abiit.edu.ag and kbjoseph@abiit.edu.ag. Deadline<br />
for submission is 2nd September <strong>2016</strong>.<br />
The St. Paul’s Community in conjunction with the the Hon<br />
E.P. Chet Greene is inviting all seniors in the area to be part<br />
of an excursion on <strong>Thursday</strong> 28th <strong>July</strong> starting from 9:00<br />
a.m.Interested persons are asked to register with their respective<br />
congregation or by visiting the office back of Yasoso<br />
Bakery Monday - Friday from 9 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.<br />
You can also call either Tonya Robinson 771-0323 0r Paulet<br />
Hinkson 770-9547 for further information.<br />
All vendors desirous in plying their trade at the Annual Mango<br />
fest <strong>2016</strong> on 24th and 25th <strong>July</strong>, at Victoria Park, Botanical<br />
Gardens, is asked to collect a registration form, from the<br />
Ministry of Agriculture Lands Fisheries and Barbuda Affairs<br />
on Independence Drive. Space rental for a 10x10Tent space<br />
is $50Ec and 20x20 is $100Ec.Registration ends <strong>July</strong>, 15th,<br />
<strong>2016</strong>. Remember the date <strong>July</strong> 24 & 25, <strong>2016</strong>.<br />
Grays Green suffer<br />
first loss in two years<br />
By Carlena Knight<br />
Defending Mixed champions in the Village netball<br />
league, Grays Green have suffered their first defeat in two<br />
years.<br />
In the highly competitive match at the YMCA Sports<br />
complex on Tuesday night, the westside team fell to Potters,<br />
17-11.<br />
Grays green struggled to pull together early in the first<br />
half thus resulting in a double digit lead for Potters.<br />
Despite, a few changes, the champions could not find<br />
their winning formula.<br />
In other the other mixed game of the night, St. Georges<br />
defeated Bolans, 26-23 while in the senior division, Freetown<br />
bounced back from their disappointing loss to defeat<br />
Parham, 23-17.<br />
Bolans intermediate however did not follow in the footsteps<br />
of the mixed as they trumped Old Road, 17-2 while<br />
Seatons did away with Potters 21-6.<br />
No Leewards player<br />
in WI Test Hopefuls<br />
President’s X1 Team<br />
By Vanroy Burnes<br />
The West Indies Cricket<br />
Selectors have overlooked<br />
players in the Leeward Islands<br />
as they selected a<br />
twelve-man squad known<br />
as the WICB President’s X1<br />
test hopefuls team to play<br />
against India.<br />
The two 2-day matches<br />
will be played at Warner<br />
Park in St. Kitts on <strong>July</strong> 9 th<br />
& 10 th and again on <strong>July</strong> 14 th<br />
& 16 th .<br />
Leon Johnson will lead<br />
the team which also consist<br />
of Jermaine Blackwood, Rajendra<br />
Chandrika, Roston<br />
Chase, Shane Dorwich, Shai<br />
Hope, Damion Jacobs, Keon<br />
Joseph, Marquino Mindley,<br />
Vishaul Singh and Jomel<br />
Warrican.<br />
The team will be coached<br />
by Henderson Springer, Rayon<br />
Griffith is the Manager/<br />
Coach, and Ariane Mangar<br />
is the Physiotherapist, while<br />
Hector Martinez-Charles as<br />
the Strength & Conditioning<br />
Coordinator.<br />
The warm up matches<br />
paved the way for the four<br />
test matches between West<br />
Indies and India, the first of<br />
which will be played here at<br />
the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium<br />
from <strong>July</strong> 21 st to 25 th .
18 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g<br />
<strong>Thursday</strong> <strong>7th</strong> <strong>July</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
History created in Regional<br />
Women’s Cricket Tournament<br />
By Vanroy Burnes<br />
The Antigua Commercial, Parish League,<br />
Sir Vivian Richards American Airlines<br />
<strong>Thursday</strong> League Cricket competition continues<br />
today <strong>Thursday</strong> 7 th <strong>July</strong> with two<br />
matches.<br />
Cecil Charles Mahico will faced off with<br />
<strong>Caribbean</strong> Union Bank Bethesda Golden<br />
Eagles at Clare Hall with Nigel Browne and<br />
By Carlena Knight<br />
The Wadadli Pitbulls are now one<br />
win away from advancing on to the semifinals<br />
of the Men’s under 16 <strong>Caribbean</strong><br />
Basketball Championships in Guyana.<br />
After edging out the British Virgin Islands<br />
in a nail-biting match, 73-71, Team<br />
Wadadli will face Barbados in their final<br />
group A match.<br />
The Pitbulls dominated the first half<br />
but found themselves trailing late into the<br />
fourth quarter after a lock down defense<br />
By Vanroy Burnes<br />
History will be made<br />
this year in the West Indies<br />
regional women’s cricket<br />
tournament when all six territorial<br />
boards will field a<br />
women’s team.<br />
The Leeward Islands will<br />
field a team for the first time,<br />
while the Windward Islands<br />
will play as a single unit<br />
alongside defending champions<br />
Barbados, five times<br />
winners Jamaica, Multi-time<br />
champions Trinidad & Tobago<br />
and this year’s host Guyana.<br />
The WICB Project officer<br />
for Women’s cricket Josina<br />
Luke said the WICB and<br />
the rest of the region welcomes<br />
the Leeward Islands<br />
women’s team into the fold<br />
and looked forward to them<br />
playing a valuable role in the<br />
expansion of the women’s<br />
game in the region.<br />
The Project officer also<br />
noted that the WICB, spent<br />
the last year working with<br />
the leewards in the development<br />
of the squad, following<br />
a decision by the Directors<br />
of the board to have them<br />
involved this year. This she<br />
said is another step towards<br />
strengthening the base of<br />
women’s game in the region<br />
and expanding our talent<br />
pool.<br />
The Leeward Islands<br />
team will be led by Antiguan<br />
pacer Shawnisha Hector<br />
and the squad also includes<br />
Saneldo Willet daughter<br />
ACB/Parish League<br />
<strong>Thursday</strong> League continues<br />
Richard Dyer as the Umpires.<br />
Diamond International Police versus<br />
Ceco Pharmacy Future Stars at Police<br />
ground with Derwent Watley and Candice<br />
Butler as the Umpires. The two top teams in<br />
the competition will clash for championship<br />
honors, both Bethesda and Future Stars has<br />
so far lost one match. The 30 overs aside<br />
match gets on the way at 1:45 pm.<br />
Pitbulls victorious over BVI<br />
by BVI cut the offensive skill for Antigua.<br />
When all hope seemed to be lost a<br />
shot by Eric Joseph Jr. from behind the<br />
three-point line with seconds left in the<br />
game that secured the victory for the Pitbulls<br />
proving that their ‘never say die’<br />
attitude would prevail.<br />
Despite a valiant effort by the British<br />
Virgin Islands’ Kiandre Clarke with 16<br />
points, Nixon Hamilton 11 points and 15<br />
rebounds and Elain O’Neal’s 10 points<br />
of former West Indies off<br />
spinner Elquemedo Willett,<br />
whose sons Tonito and Akito<br />
Willet have played at the<br />
regional level.<br />
The tournament this year<br />
will comprise of Super-50<br />
matches and T-20 matches.<br />
The Leeward Islands<br />
will have a rough baptism<br />
against Jamaica who is led<br />
by West Indies Women’s<br />
World T-20 winning captain<br />
and World rated all-rounder<br />
Stefanie Taylor on <strong>July</strong> 7 th at<br />
Everest in Jamaica starting<br />
at 9.30am.<br />
The full Leeward Islands<br />
team includes, Shawnisha<br />
Hector Captain, Jasmine<br />
Clarke, Melicia Clarke, Davanna<br />
Claxton, Kimberly<br />
Dookhan, Amanda Edwards,<br />
Sherma Jackson, Rozel Liburd,<br />
Terez Parker, Grace<br />
Persaud, Kenisha Powell,<br />
Jenisen Richards, Eldora<br />
Sylvester and Saneldo Willet.<br />
and17 rebounds, team BVI could not<br />
gain their first win of the tournament.<br />
Anthony Greer once again led the<br />
team in scoring for Antigua Barbuda<br />
with 22 points. He was assisted by Ahmani<br />
Browne with 17 points and Eric<br />
Joseph Jr and Lincoln Weeks both with<br />
13 points.
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cont’d from pg 20<br />
mates so well during his recent whiteball<br />
experiences, both for England at the<br />
World T20 and against Sri Lanka, and<br />
for Mumbai Indians in the IPL.<br />
“I don’t think I’d be trying to bat<br />
time,” he said of his likely Test gameplan.<br />
“Having had time out of the game<br />
and watching certain players in our<br />
team from the sidelines in South Africa<br />
and watching on the TV this summer<br />
- the way Jonny plays, the way Joe<br />
Root plays, the way Ben Stokes plays -<br />
they’re always trying to put the pressure<br />
on. That’s the way English cricket has<br />
gone. It’s about scoring runs. It doesn’t<br />
matter how, it’s how many. You take<br />
your bat out there to score runs, so try to<br />
score them.”<br />
That was something that Buttler conspicuously<br />
failed to do towards the end<br />
of his previous stint in the Test team,<br />
particularly on the slow, low wickets in<br />
Abu Dhabi and Dubai when he appeared<br />
to fear the consequences of trusting his<br />
attacking instincts. But, with Trevor<br />
Bayliss, England’s head coach, cultivating<br />
a “no fear” attitude to his team’s<br />
strokeplay, Buttler believes he’s ready<br />
for another go.<br />
“If that’s what the coach is telling<br />
you to do, it’s a good start,” he said. “It<br />
probably comes down to making peace<br />
with what you guys [the media] are<br />
going to write and what the public are<br />
going to think, and accepting that if you<br />
get caught at second slip having a big<br />
whoosh, so be it.<br />
“I’d rather do that than leave one and<br />
get bowled. The game’s about scoring<br />
runs. What I’ve learned, whatever colour<br />
the ball is, is that me trying to hit<br />
the ball is going to get the best out of<br />
myself.”<br />
Buttler was memorably encouraged<br />
by Bayliss to put his Test ambitions on<br />
the backburner earlier this year, and was<br />
given the go-ahead to sign a lucrative<br />
deal to play a full season of IPL cricket<br />
England batsman Jos Buttler.<br />
for Mumbai Indians. But the time away<br />
from the Test team has merely sharpened<br />
his desire to make amends for his<br />
shortcomings last time out.<br />
“I’ve had some time away to think<br />
and put cricket into perspective,” he<br />
said. “I’ve had some fantastic experiences<br />
over the last six months and learned<br />
a lot - just by siting there watching. I<br />
think the IPL was a fantastic experience.<br />
You come back so much more confident<br />
from that, brushing shoulders with those<br />
kind of guys. A lot more clarity about<br />
the mentality it takes to succeed.<br />
“When you get dropped and left<br />
out, you have a good think,” he added.<br />
“Obviously I’ve experienced some great<br />
things in the Test team, and you realise<br />
why it’s the best form of the game. But<br />
when you get dropped you have that<br />
hunger to get back in.<br />
“I haven’t played red-ball cricket<br />
for a long time, but I’ve really enjoyed<br />
my cricket and enjoyed doing what<br />
I’ve been doing. Whatever happens, it<br />
doesn’t change your ambition. Whatever<br />
colour the ball is, you want to score<br />
runs and influence the game.”<br />
In many ways, the confidence in Buttler’s<br />
game is as significant as his obvious<br />
talent, for he readily admits that, at<br />
the age of 25, and with five years of experience<br />
at international level under his<br />
belt, he is better able now to rationalise<br />
the ups and downs of the sport that so<br />
clearly got to him late last year.<br />
“It’s the most confident I’ve felt,”<br />
he said. “You gain another year. As a<br />
21-year-old, when people said you’ll<br />
become a better player with experience<br />
you don’t really believe it. Maybe now<br />
I’ve understood what that means.<br />
“Some of the experiences of the last<br />
year I’ve gone through, the highs and<br />
lows, have really put it in perspective<br />
- does it really matter, the cricket stuff?<br />
It’s about not getting too caught up with<br />
everything, and just enjoying it. I’ve felt<br />
in good form. You try to capitalise on<br />
that and use your experience to make<br />
the most of it. It really boils down to enjoying<br />
your cricket and making the most<br />
of it.<br />
And with that frame of mind, he feels<br />
really to conquer any logistical challenge<br />
that the international schedule can<br />
throw at him.<br />
“When you’re averaging 10, you’re<br />
not going to be very confident. The word<br />
is conviction. I didn’t have the same conviction<br />
as I had against the white ball.<br />
That’s what I’ll have to do. Show that<br />
conviction, that confidence, and take it<br />
on.” (ESPNcricinfo)
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<strong>Thursday</strong> <strong>7th</strong> <strong>July</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
India arrive for 4-Test series vs Windies<br />
BASSETERRE, St Kitts<br />
– India touched down here<br />
Wednesday evening to begin<br />
preparations for their<br />
with the final Test carded<br />
for Queen’s Park Oval in<br />
Port of Spain from August<br />
18-22.<br />
four-Test series against<br />
West Indies have not<br />
West Indies starting later<br />
this month.<br />
The 16-man squad was<br />
led by stroke-maker Virat<br />
Kohli and included newly<br />
appointed head coach, Anil<br />
Kumble, the legendary former<br />
Test spinner.<br />
Kumble was appointed<br />
by the Indian Cricket Board<br />
beaten India in a Test match<br />
in 14 years, losing the last<br />
five series home and away.<br />
Their last triumph came<br />
in 2002 when Carl Hooper’s<br />
side beat the tourists 2-1 in<br />
a five-Test Home Series.<br />
(CMC)<br />
SQUAD – Virat Kohli<br />
(captain), Ajinkya Rahane,<br />
(BCCI) last week despite<br />
Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan,<br />
K L Rahul, Chetesh-<br />
India Captain Virat Kohli in the nets.<br />
having never coached an international<br />
team.<br />
lowed by another three-day Richards Cricket Stadium war Pujara, Rohit Sharma,<br />
India will have little time game at the same venue, from <strong>July</strong> 21-15.<br />
Wriddhimaan Saha, R Ashwin,<br />
to settle in before they take<br />
on the WICB President’s XI<br />
also against the President’s<br />
XI from <strong>July</strong> 14-16.<br />
Tests will also be played<br />
at Sabina Park in Kingston Amit Mishra, Ravindra<br />
Jadeja, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed<br />
in a two-day game at Warner India and West Indies from <strong>July</strong> 30 to August 3, at<br />
Shami, Bhuvnesh-<br />
Park here starting Saturday.<br />
The fixture will be fol-<br />
will then lock horns in the<br />
opening Test at the Vivian<br />
the Darren Sammy National<br />
Stadium from August 9-13,<br />
war Kumar, Shardul Thakur,<br />
Stuart Binny.<br />
Buttler ready to seize chance for Test return<br />
LORD’S - Jos Buttler has said he is<br />
ready to shelve the reticence that undermined<br />
his last attempt at cracking Test<br />
cricket and believes he will be trusted by<br />
the team management to play his natural<br />
attacking game if, as widely anticipated,<br />
he is handed a recall for next week’s first<br />
Test against Pakistan at Lord’s.<br />
With a space opening up in England’s<br />
middle order following Nick Compton’s<br />
decision to take a break from cricket,<br />
and with doubts about Jonny Bairstow’s<br />
wicketkeeping undermining his revelatory<br />
run of form with the bat against<br />
Sri Lanka, the path is clear for Buttler<br />
to resume his role with the gloves at<br />
No.7, especially if Ben Stokes, his fellow<br />
hard-hitting batsman, is deemed unready<br />
for an immediate recall following<br />
the knee operation that ruled him out of<br />
the last two Tests.<br />
A return for Buttler at Lord’s would,<br />
on the one hand, be something of a leap<br />
of faith, seeing as he has not played a<br />
red-ball match since England’s Test tour<br />
of the UAE more than eight months ago.<br />
On that trip, he was dropped ahead of<br />
the final Test against Pakistan at Sharjah<br />
following a dramatic collapse in form<br />
and confidence. Since the start of the<br />
previous summer’s Ashes at Cardiff, he<br />
had mustered 156 runs in seven Tests at<br />
13.00, with a highest score of 42, at a<br />
strike-rate of less than a run every two<br />
balls.<br />
However, Buttler’s coruscating form<br />
in limited-overs cricket continued at the<br />
Ageas Bowl on Tuesday night, when<br />
his unbeaten 73 from 49 balls eased<br />
England to an eight-wicket win in the<br />
one-off T20 against Sri Lanka, and his<br />
rediscovered confidence is so tangible<br />
that selectors appear sorely tempted to<br />
unleash him once again in the longest<br />
format.<br />
Asked whether he felt it mattered<br />
that he hadn’t played a first-class match<br />
for so long, Buttler responded, tellingly:<br />
“In the olden days maybe it would, but<br />
in the new set-up maybe not.”<br />
And should he be named in this<br />
weekend’s squad, then Buttler believes<br />
that the recent injection of a have-ago<br />
mentality into England’s Test plans<br />
will allow him to play the natural game<br />
that has served him and his teamcont’d<br />
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