Caribbean Times 5th Issue - Friday 30th September 2016

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Friday 30th September 2016 A n t i g u a a n d B a r b u d a 

Vol.8 No.5 $2.00 

YOUTH TAKE OVER 

PARLIAMENT 

By Joanna Paris 

The youth of Antigua and 

Barbuda got their opportunity 

to shine as part of the 

National Youth Parliament, 

which convened on Thursday. 

The event, which was 

televised, was widely attended 

by students who represented 

both private and 

public academic institutions 

across the island. 

The eager youngsters The youth of Antigua and Barbuda got their opportunity to shine as part of the National Youth Parliament, 

which convened on Thursday. 

assembled in the gallery as 

they listened intently to the spective schoolmates on the 

points posited by their re- 

floor. 

The debate on the Sexual Minister of Social Transformation, 

the Hon, Samantha 

Offences (Age of Consent) 

Bill 2016 featured the views Marshall and Youth Development 

Officer within the 

of the young people on the 

sensitive social issue. Ministry of Youth Affairs, 

The bill seeks to establish Senator Govia and her team 

the age for consent to sexual were able to garner the views 

intercourse and related activity. 

country, and it was evident 

of young people around the 

The National Youth Parliament 

is the brain child to the age of consent were 

that inconsistencies relating 

of Senator Shenella Govia, prevalent. 

who indicated her desire Senator Govia has noted 

that she is “very happy” 

to reinstate the event in the 

Prime Minister, the Hon., Gaston Browne, among others, observed country’s yearly calendar. with the level of debate and 

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Friday 30th September 2016 

Italian man murder trial begins 

By Renio Abbott 

A 12-member Jury comprised 

of six (6) male and six 

(6) female will deliberate in 

the murder trial of 73-year 

old Italian, Umberto Schenato 

who allegedly murdered 

his wife Edda Schenato on 

June 3rd, 2013 at the Epicurean 

Supermarket parking 

lot on Friars Hill Road. 

Christina Francis was 

sworn and cautioned as the 

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interpreter who is also from 

Italy by Judge Ramdhani. 

Three persons took the 

stand to give evidence in the 

first day. The first witness, 

an off-duty security officer, 

in their account of the day 

in question stated that they 

went to see their supervisor 

at the supermarket. 

Upon exiting the premises, 

she heard a scream which 

sounded like it came from 

the eastern side of the parking 

lot. She witnessed an old 

Caucasian male (a customer), 

coming out of the supermarket 

and heading towards 

the parking lot between two 

pared cars. 

She followed him thinking 

that someone had fallen 

and was in need of assistance, 

but to her surprise, 

witnessed the accused on top 

of an elderly white lady on 

the ground. 

The customer who just 

came out to the parking lot 

attempted to pull the accused 

off of the lady, but 

was met with aggression as 

the assailant swung a silver 

and black knife at him. As 

the good Samaritan stepped 

back, he witnessed the accused 

stabbed the victim 

twice. 

The witness then observed 

blood flowing from 

the victim’s head. The customer 

tried once again in 

futility to pull him off of 

the victim. The witness ran 

to the supermarket for assistance, 

returning with two 

other individuals. 

A plain clothes police 

officer arrived on the scene, 

making attempts to speak to 

the accused who was still 

brandishing the knife, which 

he had placed squarely on 

his own throat. As the officer 

approached him trying to 

calm the situation, he swung 

at the officer several times, 

while heading to the western 

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side of the parking lot where 

he removed a set of car keys 

from his pocket and attempted 

to get away in a rental car. 

Other civilians tried to 

stop him from leaving the 

scene; after being blocked by 

a delivery truck, police reinforcements 

and paramedics 

arrived finally getting the 

situation under control and 

arresting the accused. 

The second witness is 

a bag packer at the above 

mentioned supermarket stated, 

”I was taking out a customer 

white in complexion 

to his car. In the process of 

packing out his groceries, I 

saw the accused walking to 

an old white lady. 

“I thought he was thumping 

her so the man and I went 

to him n when I got over 

there, I saw the lady bleeding 

lying flat on the ground. 

The accused was still on top 

of her stabbing her several 

times. Another customer 

tried to stop him but he 

turned around and was trying 

to stab the customer”. 

The third witness, a corporal 

of Police, qualified in 

the Forensics department 

with many years of experience 

while in the service of 

the Royal Police Force of 

Antigua and Barbuda testified 

to the photographs and 

fingerprint that were taken 

along with the other evidence 

that were collected 

from the crime scene. 

The case Continue on 

Thursday 29th September 

2016 at 9:00 am

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the quality of arguments that were delivered. 

The National Youth Parliament 

comprised of: 

Abigail Piper- Speaker (Christ the King 

High School) 

Jahmal Gordon – Clerk to Parliament 

(St. Joseph’s Academy) 

Alicia Paul- Antigua Girls High School 

Clare Christopher- St. Anthony’s Secondary 

School 

Georgia Joseph- St. Mary’s School of 

Excellence 

Ikayla Casear- All Saints Secondary 

Jemeul Caleb-Antigua Grammar 

School 

Leshawn Andrews- St. Joseph’s Academy 

Martina Lewis- ClareHall Secondary 

Reon King- Antigua Grammar School 

Shirdel Martin- Christ the King High 

School 

Jahnissi Adams – Pares Secondary 

School



Moravians reject same-sex marriages 

By Everton Barnes 

The Moravian Church 

says it will not sanction 

same-sex marriages as the 

church maintains its tough 

stance against homosexuality. 

The church’s position 

is detailed in the Delegates 

Report from the 43rd Unity 

Synod (27th Synod of the 

Renewed Moravian Church) 

that was held at Rosehall, 

Jamaica, from August 12 

to 19, which has just been 

made public. 

Chairman of the Eastern 

West Indies Province 

(EWIP) Provincial Elders 

Conference, Rev. Dr Cortroy 

Jarvis, said the issue of 

homosexuality consumed 

a significant portion of the 

discussion at the Unity Synod, 

which meets once every 

seven years, and which sets 

broad policies for the church 

worldwide. 

“It ended in Resolution 

#44 “Message to the 

America North Province”. 

It Resolved that, Christian 

Marriage in the Moravian 

Church is between a man 

and a woman; It Resolved 

that, the Unity Synod 2016 

declares to the American 

Northern Province that the 

actions of its June 2014 Synod 

concerning the marriage 

of same gender couples and 

ordination of homosexual 

people is not in accordance 

with the 2016 Unity Synod’s 

understanding of marriage,” 

Rev. Jarvis reported. 

He explained that the 

America North Province 

which comprises the Moravian 

church in the northern 

United States and Canada 

had adopted same-sex marriages 

at its 2014 Synod and 

was rallying to have the Unity 

Synod adopt similar provisions 

at the 2016 Synod. 

“The proposal was overwhelmingly 

defeated with 

the Provinces of the Caribbean 

and Latin American region 

along with all 12 Provinces 

in Africa voted against 

the motion,” Rev. Jarvis revealed. 

He added that the America 

North Province had not 

only approved same-sex 

marriages, but it had also 

conducted such ceremonies 

as well as allowing openly 

gay people to be ordained as 

ministers. 

The EWIP chairman said 

word had reach the worldwide 

body of the Moravian 

church that this policy 

had triggered an exodus of 

people from the church as 

they felt that the church was 

moving away from one of its 

core tenets. 

According to Rev. Jarvis 

the actions of the America 

North Province are against 

the Moravian Covenant for 

Christian Living and Scripture; 

and there was a further 

Chairman of the Eastern West 

Indies Province (EWIP) Provincial 

Elders Conference, Rev. Dr 

Cortroy Jarvis 

motion that the Unity Synod 

2016 commissions the Unity 

Board to observe the developments 

in the America 

Northern Province, to take 

necessary measures. 

Meanwhile, Rev. Jarvis 

has been elected to serve 

as President of the Unity 

Board, the highest administrative 

position in the Moravian 

Church worldwide. 

He currently serves as 

vice-president and he takes 

up the appointment in January 

of next year. He will 

serve in the position for a 

two-year term.


Call for annual youth parliament 


There’s a call for an annual staging 

of the youth parliament following Thursday 

successful event where young people 

fully participated in a parliamentary 

debate. The call comes from the chief 

organizer of the event, Senator Shenella 

Govia, the youth representative in the 

Senate. 

“My overall assessment of the event 

was that it was really good and judging 

from what was on display at the session, 

I feel very confident that the future of our 

nation is in good hands,” Govia stated. 

She said it was clear that the participants, 

all of whom representative a 

secondary school, were well-researched 

and despite only having three one-hour 

practices, were fully conversant with the 

parliamentary rules and procedures. 

The senator made a case for the event 

to take place annually and be placed 

within the activities marking Youth 

Week. 

“We had a bill specifically drafted by 

the Legal Affairs Department called the 

Sexual Offences; Age of Consent Bill, 

2016, which formed the basis for Thursday’s 

session. I hope our policy makers 

were paying attention that the views of 

young people will inform policies,” she 

added. She said it was clear from the 

speakers that no one wanted the age 

of consent lowered; some stated that it 

should remain at 16 years, while others 

wanted it to be higher. 

Govia also wants systems to be put in 

place through which the views of young 

people will not only be heard but will 

By Joanna Paris 

Plans are being made to 

further develop the Villa Primary 

School. 

This confirmation comes 

from Government’s Chief of 

Staff, Lionel “Max” Hurst, 

who has indicated that Cabinet 

was informed by Prime 

Minister, the Hon, Gaston 

Browne and Minister of 

Foreign Affairs, the Hon. 

Charles “Max” Fernandez 

that the United Arab Emirates 

(UAE) will provide a 

grant of US$1.5 million dollars 

to modernize the academic 

institution. 

This decision was made 

during meetings with foreign 

Government officials, 

in the margins of the United 

Nations General Assembly, 

held last week in New York 

City. 

Hurst noted that “the 

UAE’s Minister Responsible 

for Foreign Development 

find a way to influence decision-making, 

especially those affecting that segment 

of society. 

She is encouraging the young people 

to prepare a report of Thursday’s discussion 

and to present it to the government. 

The youth senator added that earlier 

in the year, she had made a promise to 

organize the youth parliament and she 

is real pleased to see that it came to a 

successful fruition. “‘Promises made; 

promises kept’,” she declared. 

Government to receive assistance 

in the Education sector 

Assistance visited the Villa 

Primary School earlier this 

and instantly in love with the 

children at the Villa Primary 

School and made a special 

effort to secure the funding” 

The funds are expected to 

be transferred to Antigua before 

the end of the year. 

Meanwhile, the Government 

has been informed 

right the Kingdom of Morocco 

has agreed, to fund 

one wing of the new Secondary 

School to be built at 

Tomlinson’s. 

Prime Minister Browne 

will travel to Marrakech, 

Morocco, in November, to 

attend the 22nd Conference 

of the Parties (COP22) of the 

Framework Convention on 

Climate Change (UNFCC). 

He has been invited by 

the King of Morocco. At that 

time, it is anticipated that the 

Prime Minister will sign-off 

on the official agreement.



Women police hold three-day retreat 

The women within the Royal Police 

Force of Antigua and Barbuda, in 

the next couple of days will be locked 

away in the first of its kind, “Women 

Police Retreat.” The historic occasion 

will be held at the Grand Royal Antigua 

Resort from October 3rd - 6th, under 

the theme, “Strong Women Bonding 

Together to Make a Difference.” 

The three-day event will commence 

with an official opening ceremony on 

Monday 3 rd October at 7 PM. A number 

of dignitaries are expected to be in 

attendance for the opening. During the 

period, several notable lecturers and 

presenters from a wide cross section 

of society are expected to address over 

150 women police officers, both from 

the Regular and the Fire Departments. 

The Role of Women in Law Enforcement; 

Women in Leadership; 

Emotional Intelligence; Domestic Violence\Gender 

Violence; Life after Policing, 

to mention a few, are some of 

The chairman of Elite 

Island Resorts, Mr. Rob A. 

Barrett, expressed his strong 

support for the statements 

made by Senator the Honourable 

Lennox Weston, 

Minister of State within the 

Ministry of Finance & Corporate 

Governance, as it 

pertains to the Antigua and 

Barbuda Tourism Authority 

(ABTA). 

“It is a national disgrace 

that there are no statements 

given by the ABTA on their 

activities and spending of 

resources provided by the 

people of Antigua & Barbuda. 

the subjects expected to be covered. 

The sessions will to start each day from 

5:00 AM with morning devotions, followed 

by a half hour of physical exercise, 

and then into the work sessions. 

According to a number of senior 

female officers, one the primary objectives 

of this retreat is for women within 

the Royal Police Force of Antigua and 

Barbuda to become more relevant. It is 

also for them to have a sense of purpose 

and belonging, especially within 

There should be at least 

a quarterly statement on the 

achievements and spending 

by the Authority. 

At this time, there are 

no clear benefits and no accountability 

as to what the 

Authority has been doing. In 

my view this entity has not 

been functional from inception, 

even under the former 

administration. 

If the ABTA continues to 

underperform, then this unit 

should be managed by the 

private sector while providing 

clear accounts of what 

the unit is doing. 

I would further want it to 

be known that should there 

be no statements forthcoming 

on the activities and accounting 

of the ABTA, that I 

will start to redirect the 2% 

tax towards the Tourism Authority 

Marketing Fund currently 

being paid by my hotels 

in Antigua directly into 

to the Consolidated Fund.” 

Elite Island Resorts 

represents an impressive 

collection of all-inclusive 

beachfront properties in the 

Caribbean. 

Each resort provides 

something unique for every 

traveller, with offerings 

ranging from destination 

a male dominated organization. It is 

to bring about that oneness and unity 

among women police officers, and to 

give them a distinctive voice. 

Commissioner of Police, Wendel 

Robinson has fully endorsed the bold, 

yet historic move made by the women 

within the organization, highlighting 

that a number of them exemplified 

leadership qualities, and are making 

meaningful marks on the fabric of the 

organization 

Chairman of Elite Island Resorts supports 

ABTA underperformance comments 

weddings and romantic escapes 

to family retreats and 

eco vacations. Resorts include: 

St. James’s Club & 

Villas, The Verandah Resort 

& Spa, Pineapple Beach 

Club Antigua and Galley 

Bay Resort & Spa, all in Antigua; 

St. James’s 

Club Morgan Bay, St. 

Lucia; Long Bay Beach 

Club in Tortola, BVI; Palm 

Island Resort & Spa in the 

Grenadines; The Club, Barbados 

Resort & Spa; and 

Los Establos Boutique Hotel 

in Boqueté, Panama. 

For more information visit 

www.eliteislandresorts.com


Antigua and Barbuda participates 

in World Emergency Services Expo 

Antigua and Barbuda 

will be well represented at 

this year’s World Emergency 

Services Expo in New 

Orleans Louisiana as a seven-member 

delegation departed 

the island yesterday, 

bound for the USA. 

Moments before departure, 

head of the unit, Shawn 

Greenidge, explained that 

the October 1st to 8th Expo 

is the trendsetter for Emergency 

Medical Technicians 

where education, training 

and execution of duties are 

concerned. 

He added that EMS Practitioners 

from across the 

globe will be attendance to 

share ideas in improving 

pre-hospital care. 

One of the individuals 

who is also making the trip 

is Joanna Otto and she is 

hoping that she can come 

Iesha Russel 

back better equipped for the 

task ahead. 

“I am going to just represent 

the Antigua and Barbuda 

EMS. We are off to 

New Orleans and I hoping to 

come back with some fresh 

information and new strategies 

so we can apply here 

in Antigua”, a smiling Otto 

said. 

Another individual on 

the trip is Shift Supervisor, 

Jamon Roberts, and 

he promised to bring back 

something new for the Antiguan 

public. 

“I would like to first thank 

the public for all the donations 

they made to the EMS 

and I look forward to bringing 

back something new for 

the country, new techniques 

and any little thing that I can 

use to help the visitors and 

locals alike”, he said. 

CUB take-over complete 

EMS employees as they leave Antigua to attend the World Emergency 

Services Expo in New Orleans, Louisiana. 


The government take-over of the Caribbean 

Union Bank (CUB) is now complete 

and a signing ceremony is taking place today 

to ‘seal the deal’. 

Cabinet spokesman, Lionel Max Hurst 

has announced that Prime Minister, Gaston 

Browne, surrounded by other government 

officials will participate in a press conference 

where the formal announcement and 

signing will take place. 

During the ceremony at the Prime Minister’s 

office, the transfer of the majority 

ownership shares in CUB will take place, 

with a signing in public. The Prime Minister, 

as Minister of Finance, and other officials 

of Government will join with CUB’s 

other shareholders to consummate the purchase. 

Earlier in the year, PM Browne announced 

that the government would pump 

some $30 million into the struggling finance 

institution to help it better navigate 

its current difficulties. 

At the time, Browne said the move 

forms part of the government philosophy to 

acquire private entities for the purposes of 

generating profits for the people of Antigua 

and Barbuda. The purchase of WIOC also 

fell into that category. 

Janel Joseph, who is also 

a shift supervisor at the Antigua 

and Barbuda Emergency 

Medical Services said that 

she is certain that the Expo 

will take her career to the 

next level. 

“It will help me in my 

day to day runnings at EMS; 

I am certain that it will give 

me new ideas and teach me 

new skills and so on that I 

could help with saving other 

lives. 

“EMS has helped me to 

be a people person, it has 

helped me to be compassionate, 

caring and understanding 

because in some 

situations you have to be understanding”, 

Joseph noted. 

Others making the trip 

are Iesha Russel who recently 

made headlines with her 

lifesaving procedures on a 

toddler, Brandon Browne as 

well as Vermalie Brodie who 

was already in the USA. 

The contingent will return 

on October 9th.



Cost of slavery reparations now within the 

boundaries of the politically acceptable 

A U.N. panel has declared the United 

States owes reparations to African 

Americans, as compensation for “the 

legacy of colonial history, enslavement, 

racial subordination and segregation, 

racial terrorism and racial inequality.” 

The panel’s recommendations, 

which were presented on Monday, in 

no way require the U.S. government 

to make payments and will likely have 

no practical effects — but they could 

occasion a new national debate about 

what the country owes its black citizens. 

In the past, proponents of reparations 

have been stymied by a range of 

practical and conceptual objections. 

For the past year, however, American 

voters have been listening to prominent 

presidential candidates talk about all 

kinds of outrageously expensive proposals. 

By comparison, proposals for 

reparations for slavery look downright 

modest, at least in terms of cost. 

A researcher at the University of 

Connecticut recently published a new 

estimate of the value of U.S. slave labor 

in the 89 years from the country’s 

founding until the end of the Civil War. 

Based on the wages paid to laborers in 

the antebellum period and assuming an 

average of 12 hours of work a day, seven 

days a week, the researcher, Thomas 

Craemer, concluded that U.S. slave labor 

would be worth roughly $5.9 trillion 

today. 

That is equal to the 10-year cost of 

Republican presidential nominee Donald 

Trump’s most recent tax plan, and 

it is significantly less than the price 

tag on former Democratic presidential 

candidate Bernie Sanders’s health-care 

plan. 

Craemer ignored colonial history 

before U.S. independence, when the 

U.K. government would arguably have 

been liable. He also did not calculate 

the costs of thefts and lynchings after 

the war and excluded more modern 

forms of discrimination, focusing instead 

on forced labor, an easily defined 

and indisputable example of economic 

injury. 

Paying reparations “doesn’t bring 

anybody back that’s dead. It doesn’t begin 

to repair for the damages incurred,” 

Craemer said. “At least it is a symbolic 

gesture that is more meaningful than 

just saying, ‘Sorry.’ “ 

His personal interest in the problem 

of reparations results from his childhood 

in Germany. The German government 

has been paying reparations 

to victims of the Nazi regime for more 

than 60 years. Craemer did not know 

about the payments until he learned 

about them from a widow of a friend 

who had survived the Holocaust. 

Incidentally, an independent analysis 

by the nonpartisan Tax Foundation 

estimated Trump’s proposed tax plan 

could cost the government as much as 

$5.9 trillion in foregone revenue over a 

decade. That figure does not take into 

account the effects of tax relief on the 

broader economy. An increase in the 

overall size of the economy because of 

reduced taxes could limit the costs to 

between $2.6 trillion and $3.9 trillion 

over 10 years, according to the foundation. 

On the other hand, those economic 

benefits are uncertain — and a year 

ago, Trump proposed an even more 

exorbitant plan that would have cost 

as much as $9.5 trillion, according to 

the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. Sixty-seven 

percent of the benefits would 

have accrued to the wealthiest one in 

five households. 

While Trump’s revised plan is less 

expensive, he campaigned on the original 

plan for nearly a year. It was his 

official position when the Republican 

Party nominated him. The GOP primary 

contest demonstrated that voters 

will seriously entertain policies that are 

vastly more expensive than the cost of 

compensating slaves’ descendants for 

their unpaid labor. 

On the left, Sanders proposed a 

health-care plan that would have cost 

the government no less than $32 trillion 

over a decade, by the Tax Policy 

Center’s estimate. 

During the campaign, Sanders said 

he was opposed to reparations. 

“Sanders says the chance of getting 

reparations through Congress is ‘nil,’ 

a correct observation which could just 

as well apply to much of the Vermont 

senator’s own platform,” Ta-Nehisi 

Coates, who has argued forcefully for 

reparations, wrote in The Atlantic. 

Indeed, compared with Trump’s 

tax plans and Sanders’s health-care 

plan, compensating the descendants of 

slaves for their ancestors’ forced labor 

would be a modest expense — especially 

considering that these estimates 

for Trump’s and Sanders’s proposals 

are only for the first 10 years, and the 

costs would continue to accumulate 

year after year. 

In the second decade under Trump’s 

tax plan, for example, the foregone 

revenue would exceed $15 trillion, according 

to the Tax Policy Center. 

To be sure, Craemer’s estimate, 

based on an average of 12 hours a day 

of wages for 89 years of slave labor in 

the United States, only accounts for a 

portion of the reparations that could 

conceivably by claimed by African 

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Why is systemic technology training 

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Americans today. 

Craemer developed a second estimate 

of compensation for all 24 hours of the day, 

noting that even slaves’ sleep belonged, in 

a sense, to their masters (since they slept at 

their owners’ discretion and were only permitted 

to so that they could provide more 

forced labor). That debt would amount to 

$14.2 trillion today. Craemer also notes that 

racial exploitation and terrorism continued 

through most of the 20th century, with substantial 

economic consequences. 

What kinds of abuses to include in calculating 

any reparations is just the first of 

many difficult questions that proponents 

must answer. 

Some argue that instead of payments to 

individual descendants of slaves, there are 

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If payment were issued, there would be 

practical problems: Who would be eligible 

to receive payments? Over how many years 

would the reparations be paid off? 

“’What interest rate would apply?’ 

would be probably the most important 

question to ask,” Craemer said. A minor 

difference in the interest rate accruing over 

the century and a half since the end of slavery 

could drastically alter estimates of the 

total liability. 

However, the costs are calculated, this 

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American politicians so rarely talk about 

reparations. 

Source: Washington Post 

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Antiguan among new batch of Sandals’ 

Management Trainee graduates 

After a two-year journey which saw 

her working the ranks in every department 

in various resorts all across the region, 

Antiguan Orena Nurse is among 

25 participants in Sandals Resorts International’s 

(SRI) Management Trainee 

Programme who have officially shed 

the trainee title and will now move into 

management roles, following a graduation 

ceremony held last weekend. 

The new managers were selected 

from a pool of 1,500 applicants two 

years ago and include a number of Jamaicans 

as well as nationals from Antigua, 

Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, 

St. Lucia, and the Turks and Caicos 

Islands and both previous employees 

of the Sandals/ATL Group and new recruits. 

The Management Trainee Programme 

(MTP) identifies and grooms 

outstanding young recruits to become 

managers in the company through 

a two-year programme of hands-on 

learning and training at resorts across 

the region. All participants experience 

rotations through various positions and 

departments across the group before 

selecting an area of specialisation. The 

MTP is the centerpiece of SRI’s Management 

Succession Planning Strategy 

and is one component of the company’s 

ongoing efforts to invest in capacity-building 

throughout its operations. 

Nurse, a former team member at 

Sandals Grande Antigua, is also a graduate 

of the Antigua Girls High School, 

Antigua State College and University 

of the West Indies – Mona. She now 

moves into the exciting role of Front 

Office Manager at Sandals Negril 

Beach Resort and Spa in Jamaica. 

She recalled that the training programme 

was intensive but one through 

which she learned much about the Sandals 

brand and what it takes to be a 

manager. 

“The journey has been an exciting 

and fulfilling one. I had challenges, but 

challenges make you stronger; they 

teach you lessons,” Nurse said. 

“As Mr Mark Pike (SRI programmes 

manager) always tells us, take comfort 

in uncertainty. There were a lot of times 

when I was unsure of what was going 

on, what steps to take, but through it all 

Orena Nurse, left 

I overcame it and I truly believe I am a 

better person because of it.” 

Speaking at the graduation ceremony 

held at Sandals Ochi Beach Resort, 

Wayne Cummings, director of business 

processes and administration, himself 

a product of the MTP, reaffirmed the 

company’s commitment to investing in 

young leaders. 

“This Group is on the move”, he 

said, “this Group is growing and for us 

to grow and evolve we need to invest 

in people. We need to invest in the new 

leaders of the Group.” 

As the graduates move into their 

new roles within the company, Cummings 

urged them to always remember 

their journey and treat their colleagues 

with respect. He said, “Remember the 

things you went through, remember 

your subordinates. They are your colleagues 

and they are even more important 

than you. Have a very healthy 

respect for them as you seek to lead 

them.” 

He also reminded the new managers 

of the limitless potential within each of 

them as well as within the company. 

“You are competent, you are able and 

you are at the right place, at the right 

time and with the right company. The 

journey has just begun. We are a company 

on the move”, he emphasised.


St Vincent schoolboy killed as 

Tropical Storm Matthew passes 

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent 

and the Grenadines – 

A teenage boy is dead after 

being crushed by a boulder 

as Tropical Storm Matthew 

passed St. Vincent and the 

Grenadines last night. 

According to local media 

reports, the secondary 

school student, 16-year-old 

Kenron Antoine, was trying 

to remove debris behind 

his home, to clear a path 

for water that was flooding 

the house in Layou, a small 

town in the southwestern 

parish of St. Andrew. But a 

boulder rolled down from 

the nearby cliff as he was 

doing so, and he was pinned 

against the house. 

Prime Minister Dr. Ralph 

Gonsalves, who is in Barbados, 

called in on the stateowned 

National Broadcasting 

Corporation late last 

night and expressed sympathy 

to the boy’s family. 

He also assured that his 

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Regional airline 

LIAT resumed normal operations this morning, 

for the most part, with Tropical Storm 

Matthew having passed the Windward Islands. 

However, it said, some services would be 

delayed. 

“Although the weather conditions have 

improved, some areas in the network are 

still being impacted by wind gusts which are 

affecting our operation,” the Antigua-based 

airline said in an advisory late this morning. 

Two flights, however, were cancelled. 

Tropical Storm Matthew’s heavy rains caused flooding and overflowed rivers. The photo at left, shows 

the situation at one bridge. At right, occupants of this house escaped unhurt when this wall collapsed. 

government would assist 

those who needed help in the 

aftermath of the storm. 

“I am very sorry about 

the death of the young man 

in Layou, and also those 

who have suffered any physical 

damage, and for those 

LIAT getting flights back on track 

Flights LI527 (Puerto Rico-Tortola-St. 

Kitts-Antigua) and LI650 (Trinidad-St Vincent-Barbados) 

were called off. 

The carrier said that customers affected 

by the disruptions who wish to rebook for 

a later date will be allowed to do so without 

change fees or fare differences for a period 

of two weeks from the date of their original 

scheduled travel. 

Following the two-week grace period, 

passengers will be required to pay applicable 

fare and change fees when re-booking. 

(Caribbean360) 

who have suffered loss . . . 

The authorities are working 

in a focused manner and we 

will mobilize the necessary 

resources, as we have always 

done, not just for this 

relief period but for the period 

of recovery and reconstruction,” 

he said. 

“I want you to know that 

my prayers are with you. 

I’ve been praying for you, 

the people of St. Vincent and 

the Grenadines and I want 

you to know that I love you 

and I’m there with you and 

focused with you at this moment,” 

the Vincentian leader 

told residents. 

Dr. Gonsalves has 

been struck in Barbados in 

Tuesday as he tried to return 

home from meetings in 

the United States and Puerto 

Rico last week, according to 

iWitness News. 

Tropical Storm Matthew 

battered St. Vincent and the 

Grenadines with heavy rains 

and winds during the night. 

(Caribbean360)



Work resumes in Dominica after 

storm but PM urges caution 

ROSEAU, Dominica – Even as 

large portions of Dominica remained 

without power on Thursday after Tropical 

Storm Matthew passed, Prime 

Minister Roosevelt Skerrit announced 

that business and government agencies 

would resume operations as normal today. 

Schools, however, remain closed 

for the rest of the week to ensure the 

safety of the island’s children, he said. 

“We don’t want to have a situation 

where we have our children at school 

and the after effects of the rain manifests 

themselves and our students find 

themselves in difficulties,” Skerrit explained 

on the state-owned DBS Radio 

this morning. 

As for those heading to work, the 

Prime Minister urged them to exercise 

caution. 

“We have received a tremendous 

CASTRIES, St. Lucia 

– Thousands were without 

electricity in St. Lucia, rivers 

overflowed their banks, 

and several communities 

were flooded last night and 

into today. 

And Tropical Storm Matthew 

which passed through 

the Windward Islands 

Wednesday is to blame. 

A tropical storm warning 

that was issued late yesterday 

morning after the storm 

developed was lifted, and 

the all clear given. 

The George F.L. Charles 

Airport was scheduled to 

reopen at 8 a.m., while the 

Hewanorra International 

amount of rain and also wind. Therefore, 

we are asking for people to be 

cautious and careful as they move 

around doing their own business. Because 

of the level of saturation which 

the soil has, one can expect land slippages, 

erosions, landslides, mudslides 

and the like.” 

The tropical storm warning that had 

been in place for Dominica, along with 

five other Caribbean islands has been 

discontinued. 

But Skerrit noted that forecasters 

expected rain throughout the course of 

the day and the weather situation would 

therefore be monitored. 

Also speaking on radio, public relations 

officer of the Dominica Electricity 

Services Ltd (DOMLEC) Adina Bellot-Valentine 

confirmed that there was 

no power in the southern part of Dominica, 

or in parts of the north, west, and 

Flooding was reported all across St. Lucia. 

Airport was set to resume er, people still need to exercise 

caution. Persons should 

operations two hours later. 

However, residents have still try to remain home. 

been urged to be cautious. Small craft operators should 

“The threat from Matthew 

is diminished. Howev- 

Lucia Meteorological 

not go out today,” the St. 

Office 

The Roseau River after Tropical Storm Matthew 

east. 

“As the weather eases up or as it 

permits we will try to restore power as 

quickly as possible,” she said, noting 

that some high voltage lines and poles 

were down. 

Other damage reported as a result of 

the storm’s passage was flooding and 

landslides. (Caribbean360) 

St Lucia reports flooding, power outages as storm impacts 

advised. 

Prime Minister Allen 

Chastanet, who is overseas, 

also appealed to citizens on 

local radio to stay off the 

roads and allow the emergency 

services to do their 

jobs. 

Many bridges and roads 

were impassable because of 

flooding, as well as downed 

electricity poles and trees. 

Officials had indicated 

early in the day that power 

would be restored to most 

areas by the end of the day. 

There were also reports 

of landslides as well as water 

outages in some areas. (Caribbean360)


Thursday’s Sudoku Solution 

S U D O K U 

CROSSWORD 

Across 

1. Makes a choice 

5. Greek vowel 

10. Unclosed 

14. Not messy 

15. Plane’s captain 

16. Colorless 

17. Narrative 

18. Hangar occupant 

19. Mound 

20. Swing back and forth 

22. Copier’s need 

23. Brother’s daughter 

24. West’s opposite 

25. Off kilter 

28. Branch of math 

31. Adult male 

32. Assaults 

36. Burglarize 

37. Bride’s vow (2 wds.) 

38. San Diego athlete 

39. Take advantage of 

40. Brief sleep 

41. Pretend to sing (2 wds.) 

43. Pose 

44. Brunch dishes 

46. Fire remains 

48. Grade 

49. Soup dipper 

52. Insensitive 

54. Fierceness 

58. Chest bones 

59. Roof overhangs 

60. Saturate 

61. Norway’s capital 

62. Move furtively 

63. Green Gables girl 

64. Mediocre grades 

65. Plant beginnings 

66. Moistens 

Down 

1. Atop 

2. Pod dwellers 

3. Powder mineral 

4. Beer mugs 

5. Granny Smith, e.g. 

6. Fragrant shrub 

7. License ____ 

8. Sharpen 

9. Had a bite 

10. Be against 

11. Artist’s need 

12. Model ____ Macpherson 

13. Poetic contraction 

21. ____ Marie Presley 

22. Labels 

24. Comic ____ DeGeneres 

25. Kind of acid 

26. Woman’s title 

27. Unsuitable for surgery 

28. Well-ventilated 

29. ____ O’Donnell of TV 

30. Helps a crook 

33. Grudge 

34. Plant fluids 

35. Commercials 

41. Permits 

42. Serene 

45. Cowboy’s ropes 

47. Playground feature 

49. River embankment 

50. Leading 

51. Students’ tables 

52. Gator’s relative 

53. ____ and shine! 

54. Barn ornament 

55. Not any 

56. Is unable 

57. Squeaks by 

59. Double curve



Today’s weather forecast 

Antigua and Barbuda 

Cloudy with showers. 

High - 84ºF 

Low - 77ºF 

Wind: East 13 mph 

Sunrise 5.57 am; Sunset 5.56 pm 

Thursday’s Crossword Solution 

HOROSCOPE 

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). 

Thinking too much will only 

complicate matters unnecessarily. 

This is one of those 

times when your energy is 

best spent doing, creating, acting 

and reacting. 

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). 

With your combination of expertise, 

grit and passion, you 

have all the internal resources 

necessary to make a creative 

project fly. As for the external 

resources — well, that’s what 

you’ll work on getting today. 

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22- 

Dec. 21). There’s a difference 

between projecting yourself 

into a bright future and just 

wishing to be somewhere else, 

thereby wasting the moment 

you’re in. It’s a day to give 

your full attention to the task 

at hand. 

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 

19). To an outsider, this is a 

very exciting thing you’re 

doing today. Even better is 

how you’re doing it — with 

the smooth style of one who’s 

done it a million times, which 

you practically have. 

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 

18). Often being the bigger 

person is about being the 

smaller person. Extreme greatness, 

in fact, is often achieved 

best by figuring out how to set 

others up to shine and then 

getting out of the way, so as 

not to overshadow. 

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 

20). To endure and prevail is 

to know great fortune. Therefore, 

any little bit of weirdness 

or challenge or discomfort 

that comes your way could be 

your conduit to stellar luck. 

ARIES (March 21-April 19). 

Changes at work are coming: 

This could be the luckiest turn 

of events that’s happened in 

months. To prepare yourself, 

bone up on your skills and 

make sure your client base is 

ample. 

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). 

Exaggerate, minimize, glorify 

or vilify — you’ll play with 

different ways to understand 

what happened to you. There’s 

more than one way that will 

ring true, fit and make sense, 

so don’t be afraid to try different 

directions. 

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). 

What’s making you anxious? 

What do you not want to face? 

It’s time to deal with it. If it 

were the only thing you did in 

this day, you would be most 

supremely satisfied at day’s 

end. 

CANCER (June 22-July 22). 

Some of the stressors can’t 

be eliminated yet, but you 

can combat fatigue by doing 

something every day that 

brings you joy. It’s funny that 

you still see this as a selfish 

move when it’s the move that 

will help you have more to 

give. 

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Certainly, 

there are frustrating 

aspects to living where you 

do, but when you experience 

the kindness of people in your 

community, it makes you happy 

to be a part of it. 

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). 

As you teach, you learn. While 

you’re showing someone how 

to accomplish a task you will 

understand it in a different 

way, and you’ll see how it can 

be done better, too.


Join the members of All Saints Anglican Church at its 

18thAnnual Food Fair on Saturday, 1st October, 2016 from 

1:00 pm until 9:00 pm at its rectory grounds at Matthews 

Road, All Saints. There will be a variety of dishes, dinners, 

cold treats, snacks, sweets, and beverages as well as outdoor 

activities and entertainment. Come out with your family and 

friends and experience an enjoyable afternoon of family, 

food, fun, and fellowship with us. Tickets: $20. 

The National Public Library has extended its opening hours 

to the general public as of Monday,3rd October, 2016. The 

Library will now be open 9:00 am - 7:00 pm Mondays - 

Thursdays and 9:00 am - 5:30 pm on Fridays.The Library is 

also looking for volunteers. Interested persons may contact 

Carolyn Spencer at 5624503. 

VACANCIES REGISTERED AT OSEC 

* Cook/Chef - Restaurant 

• Have minimum 3 years experience 

• Strong culinary skills 

• Strong interpersonal and problem solving abilities 

• Highly responsible & reliable 

• Ability to work cohesively as part of a team 

• Menu creation & analysis 

• Costing and supervisory skills preferred 

• Experience working in a fast-pace restaurant environment 

* Carpenter - Hotel 

• Have minimum 3 year's experience 

• Hard working 


* Sales Representative - Auto 

• Must have driver’s license 

• 2-3 years experience in Sales 

* Deputy Housekeeper –Hotel 

• Report to the Executive Housekeeper & Assistant Hotel 

Manager and responsible for a team of Line Staff 

• Have minimum 3 years Housekeeping Leadership experience 

• Front Office knowledge preferred 

• Computer literate in Microsoft Window applications preferred 


• Ability to focus attention on guest needs, and courteous 

at all times 

• Any overseas experience in USA; Europe or the Caribbean 

at Luxury Hotels of comparable standards will be an asset 

• Experience working in a hotel/resort environment 

If you are currently registered at OSEC and interested in this 

listed vacancy, kindly contact OSEC. If you are NOT registered 

with OSEC you may call the centre for more information 

on registration requirements. 

Our centre is located on Old Parham Road in the Ryan’s 

Building, next to Antigua Motors. OSEC telephone numbers 

are 562-8533/34/35. 

Deadline for applying is Tuesday 4rd October, 2016 

All members of the Antigua and Barbuda Ex-Servicemen 

Association are notified of the monthly general meeting on 

Saturday 1 October at 3 pm, followed by the monthly social. 

Please bring a suitable dish or notify the executive of any 

apologies by calling 723-3452, 720-0058 or 721-1970.



Zimbabwe to host Sri Lanka for 

Tests, West Indies for tri-series 

Zimbabwe Cricket has 

announced that they will 

host Sri Lanka for two 

Tests followed by a one-day 

tri-series that will also involve 

West Indies. 

The two Tests will be 

played in Harare, with the 

first one from October 29 

and the second from November 

6. 

The tri-series will begin 

from November 14 with 

the first match between the 

hosts and Sri Lanka at the 

Harare Sports Club. 

The three teams will play 

each other twice, making it 

a total of six round-robin 

matches, before the final on 

November 27. The last four 

ODIs and the final will all 

be played in Bulawayo. 

Sri Lanka’s tour of 

Zimbabwe was originally 

scheduled in the FTP with 

two Tests, three ODIs and a 

T20I. 

Later, there were chances 

of the tour being replaced 

by the tri-series with West 

Indies, as the Tests were not 

being considered as financially 

viable, but now the 

Tests and tri-series both will 

take place. Had that happened, 

Zimbabwe would 

have gone without playing a 

Test for 11 months. 

There were chances of 

the Tests being scrapped because 

of Zimbabwe Cricket’s 

growing debt and the 

economic situation of the 

country as a whole. 

Recently, the Harare-based 

players had refused 

to train in protest over 

unpaid match fees, which 

dated back to July last year. 

The protests ended after 

being given an assurance 

by the Zimbabwe Cricket 

chairman Wildfred Mukondiwa. 

Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka 

last played a Test in a 

two-match series in 2004. 

They have played 15 

Tests against each other 

overall, with Sri Lanka 

winning 10 of them and 

five ending in draws. (ES- 

PNcricinfo) 

L&S Superette fall to Digicel 

in Cool & Smooth league 

By Carlena Knight 

L & S Superette suffered their second straight defeat in 

the Cool & Smooth Digicel Business Basketball league on 

Wednesday night at the JSC Sports complex losing to Digicel, 

58-45. 

Morlon ‘Little’ Davis had 16 points while teammate, 

Teyon Lake chipped in with 10 points for the losers. 

Digicel’s Jamal ‘Buffy’ Williams had 15 points with Kareem 

Blair contributing 13. 

This win now gives Digicel a 3-0 record. 

In the second match of the night, Antigua Barbuda Transport 

Board Authority bounced back from their upsetting loss 

to the defending champs, Kennedy’s, by defeating Board of 

Education, 67-53. 

Kareem ‘Macky’ Edwards led his team to victory with 

25 points. 

Erol Henry scored 23 points for Board of Education. He 

as assisted by Elvin Anthony with 10 points. 

Action will continue on Saturday night with four games. 

At 6:30, L & S Superette will face Eye Mobile Vision 

Care, Board of Education will battle Sunrise Ballers at 7:30, 

8:30, Antigua Barbuda Transport Board Authority will play 

APUA Head Office and at 9:30, Sandals will face off versus 

Kennedy’s. 

All games will be played at the JSC Sports complex.


Windies hoping to turn corner 

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates – 

On the heels of an embarrassing whitewash 

in the preceding Twenty20 series, 

West Indies’ three-match One-Day International 

series against Pakistan will 

take on new value when it bowls off 

here Friday. 

The reigning T20 World champions 

showed little of their usual swagger as 

they suffered heavy defeats in every 

game and with the tour quickly going 

horribly wrong, it will be left to the ODI 

side to arrest the slide, especially with 

the Test series following. 

West Indies’ batting looked a shadow 

of the fearsome machine it has become 

in recent years as it stumbled and stuttered 

on slow pitches in Dubai and Abu 

Dhabi, and against both pace and spin. 

However, ODI captain Jason Holder 

said he expected a different approach 

from his side in the 50-overs format, as 

batsmen would have the benefit of time 

on their side to explore the Pakistan attack. 

“You have more time. It’s 300 balls 

in one-day cricket whereas in T20s there 

are less balls,” he told reporters here 

Thursday. 

“It’s obviously an opportunity for 

our guys to have a longer look. In terms 

of our opening batsmen they can have 

a longer look and not have to run the 

game down. 

“I just think it’s important that we lay 

that foundation and as we always speak 

about in the dressing room, it’s always 

important for one of our top four batsmen 

to bat as deep as possible and get 

a big score. 

“I think once we do that, more often 

than not we get a very, very good total 

and that’s just the way we go about planning 

our cricket.” 

Holder will also be confident that the 

West Indies fortunes can turn around 

with the several changes made to the 

ODI side. 

He welcomes the experienced quartet 

of wicketkeeper/batsman Denesh 

Ramdin, left-hander Darren Bravo, 

left-arm spinner Sulieman Benn and 

Test vice-captain, Kraigg Brathwaite – 

though the latter is yet to play an ODI. 

Off-spinner Ashley Nurse, another 

seasoned campaigner in domestic cricket, 

has also joined the squad along with 

talented 19-year-old fast bowler Alzarri 

Joseph and experienced left-hander Jonathan 

Carter. 

The Windies, with the same core of 

players, were good enough to reach the 

final of the Tri-Nations Series involving 

Australia and South Africa back in June 

in the Caribbean. 

And Holder believes they can use 

that momentum to get the better of Pakistan 

and also improve their status in 

the international rankings, with qualification 

for the 2019 World Cup also in 

mind. 

“Obviously with the points system 

and the way the ICC has structured 

the cricket going forward, we have to 

take each game as a very, very serious 

game,” Holder pointed out. 

“Every game is points-related obviously 

and the points are very close [with 

Pakistan’s] at this present time. We can 

only control what we can control and 

that’s us playing good cricket so we just 

want to start this series. 

“We had a very good series last series 

in the Tri-Nations Series and it’s 

just important that we continue on from 

there, keep the momentum going into 

that one.” 

The last time the two teams met in 

an ODI, West Indies inflicted a heavy 

defeat on the Asian side, with a 150-run 

victory during last year’s Cricket World 

Cup. 

However, West Indies have not beaten 

Pakistan in a bilateral series in 24 

years, a disappointing trend which the 

Caribbean side will be hoping to end. 

Holder said West Indies were looking 

at different aspects of their game – 

especially the death stages of the innings 

– during planning sessions and were focussed 

now on executing properly. 

“We’ve obviously mentioned the 

death overs in our meetings. If it is one 

area we need to pay special attention to 

is obviously the death,” Holder noted. 

“Most teams around the world structure 

their plans around the first few 

overs and also pay special attention to 

the death overs. Most games are won 

and lost there and I just think it is very, 

very important that we sit down and 

plan properly. 

“I think most of the bowlers have a 

general plan of what they are looking 

to do and it’s just important for me and 

them to be on the same page. I think 

once we have good communication in 

terms of bowlers and the captain, then 

it make life a bit easier, and if you have 

options – in terms of a Plan A and then 

a Plan B – it also makes life a lot easier 

going into pressure situations.” 

The game bowls off at 3 pm (7 am 

Eastern Caribbean time). (CMC) 

SQUADS: 

PAKISTAN – Azhar Ali (captain), 

Sharjeel Khan, Babar Azam, Asad 

Shafiq, Shoaib Malik, Sarfraz Ahmed 

(wk), Umar Akmal, Mohammad Rizwan, 

Mohammad Nawaz, Imad Wasim, 

Yasir Shah, Rahat Ali, Mohammad 

Amir, Wahab Riaz, Hasan Ali, Sohail 

Khan. 

WEST INDIES – Jason Holder 

(captain), Sulieman Benn, Carlos 

Brathwaite, Kraigg Brathwaite, Darren 

Bravo, Jonathan Carter, Johnson 

Charles, Shannon Gabriel, Alzarri Joseph, 

Evin Lewis, Sunil Narine, Ashley 

Nurse, Kieron Pollard, Denesh Ramdin, 

Marlon Samuels.



Sailing Academy students gain 

professional qualifications 

The National Sailing Academy is 

pleased to announce that six of its students, 

all Antiguan, aged 16 – 18 years, 

have now achieved their Royal Yachting 

Association qualifications as certified 

dinghy and keelboat sailing instructors. 

The course, which took place this 

month over a period of 10 days, was 

delivered by two RYA Coach/Assessors 

from the U.K. The first day of sailing assessment 

required the students to demonstrate 

that they had sufficient sailing 

skills to enable them to teach others and 

the remainder of the time was ‘teaching 

them to teach’ 

The RYA Sailing Instructor Certificate 

gives them the credentials to gain 

employment anywhere in the world that 

teaches dinghy/keelboat sailing. 

The Academy regards this as the first 

rung on the ladder of qualifications that 

we would like them to obtain in their 

chosen fields of sailing/yachting – thus 

underlining the fact that sailing is the 

only sport in Antigua that can lead to well 

paid employment for significant numbers 

of our young people. 

The candidates were: 

Jules Mitchell - Age 17 – graduated 

St Joseph’s Academy 2015. Having 

completed his STCW10 and now his 

RYA Sailing Instructor course, he will be 

working at the National Sailing Academy 

in English Harbour where he will teach 

young sailors how to race dinghies and 

also work with disabled children and 

adults on the Sailability programme. 

His ambition is to be a racing sailor and 

to represent Antigua & Barbuda at the 

Olympics. 

Tyrese Loctar - Age 16 – graduated 

from St. Mary’s High School 2016. He 

is already working as an apprentice Marine 

Engineer and wishes to pursue this 

as a career with the aim of becoming an 

engineer on a megayacht. His excellent 

proven sailing skills will add to his credentials 

when he starts to apply for employment 

in this field. He will continue 

sailing as a hobby and enjoys sailing both 

dinghies and yachts. 

Joshua Daniels – Age 17 – graduated 

from All Saints Secondary School in 

2015 and is now attending the Institute of 

Technology for further studies. He started 

sailing in 2014 at the Academy and 

intends to gain further qualifications with 

the ambition of eventually becoming a 

yacht captain. He will be spending time 

at the Sailing Academy, weekends and 

holidays, helping to teach young sailors. 

Maliek Patterson – Age 18 – graduated 

from All Saints Secondary School in 

2015 and is now entering his second year 

at State College. He also started sailing 

in 2014 and enjoys both recreational and 

competitive sailing. He would like to further 

his sailing career in dinghies by becoming 

a Senior Dinghy Sailing Instructor, 

but would additionally like to pursue 

the opportunity of Marine Engineering. 

He will also be helping part-time at the 

Academy teaching young sailors. 

Kamar James – Age 18 – graduated 

All Saints Secondary School 2015 and 

also now entering his second year at State 

College. He started sailing with Joshua 

and Maliek and also wishes to train 

further with the ambition of becoming a 

Senior Instructor. He is also interested in 

training on Yachts and eventually becoming 

a yacht captain. 

Jahdean Jeffers – Age 17 – graduated 

All Saints Secondary School 2016. He 

started sailing at the Academy in 2014 

and now plans to enter further education 

in the field of culinary arts whilst also 

pursuing his sailing career to gain additional 

sailing/yachting qualifications.

Caribbean Times 5th Issue - Friday 30th September 2016

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