FORMER Prime Min ister Hubert Ingraham has described the Davis admin istration as being reluctant to make decisions on con troversial issues since being elected, adding that “not long from now” the government will be held accountable for its actions or perceived inaction. As Mr Ingraham gave his view on the Progressive Liberal Party government post the September 2021 vote, he said the only major decision made by the administration has been the reduction of value added tax to 10 percent from 12 percent. While admitting that gen erally the government was at this point receiving good reviews, Mr Ingraham said this was “on the surface” and could change at any time.“The PLP won the elec tion. There was a low poll 65 percent or thereabouts of the population that voted. They won convinc ingly,” Mr Ingraham said on Friday.
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By KHRISNA RUSSELL Tribune Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net at the scene last night after gunmen opened fire at a baby shower, killing one man and injuring four boys. Austin Fernander
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A JOYOUS occa sion quickly turned into mayhem when two men “indiscriminately” opened fire on people gathered for a baby shower, killing one man and injuring four boys. The incident, at Stack Avenue, Nassau Village, was the third shooting since Saturday and the second to end with a fatal ity - and people at the scene were screaming and crying after the gunshots. The incidents took the country’s murder count to 89 for the year, according to The Tribune’s count. The first incident happened in the early hours of Saturday where a man was fatally shot after getting into an argu ment with another man at the Charms night club at Centreville.Whilepolice did not identify the victim in that murder, relatives con firmed to this newspaper that he was George Sey mour Jr. Police believe he was in his early 20s. The assailant made his escape in a pink col oured Nissan March, with the license plate number AU6488. However, last night police press liaison officer Superintendent Chrislyn Skippings said a man was in custody
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“Let us know because the same person who may have that weapon who you do not inform us of, that same person can turn that weapon on you or your family member.”
She continued: “And so I want to encourage family members and members of this great Bahamas, those of you who know persons who are in possession of illegal weapons, you need to reach out to our department.
On Tuesday, the partially decomposed body of Davis, Jr, was found in a garbage bag inside the trunk of a vehicle along with a large knife, near the Centreville FoodPoliceMarket.Chief Superinten dent Michael Johnson at the scene said it appeared that the body was in the early stages of decomposi tion and could have been inside the vehicle for about 24Ithours.wasalso confirmed that Davis, Jr, knew his killer.
On Wednesday, Davis Jr’s mother, Gia Whymns, said she was struggling to come to terms with her son’s death and revealed that leading up to her son’s murder he was badly beaten.This incident sparked reaction from politicians and citizens alike. Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis described the murder as “truly unbearable” and Official Opposition leader Michael Pintard said there needed to be an end to “senseless bloodshed.”National Security Min ister Wayne Munroe also warned the public to stay away from speculation and rumours as police would investigate and find out what led to the murder.
WHILE revealing that only one of the five men in police custody will be charged in connection with Omar Davis Jr’s murder, police commissioner Clayton Fernander said officers were still looking for another person believed to be also involved in the crime.Last week, he said some one would be charged by Monday.Meanwhile, Inspec tor Makelle Pinder further explained the police’s thought process as investigations continue. “We’re still investi gating that murder,” Inspector Pinder said. “But we’re thinking that based on the circumstances in terms of putting the body and everything in the vehi cle, he had to have had help even though he is saying that he didn’t. So, we’re still in the preliminary stages of the investigation in terms of gathering all of that information.”Asforwhether police believe another person will be charged in the matter, Inspector Pinder replied: “We’re hoping, but that’s nothing concrete because we can’t force the evidence. So, if he’s saying that he did it on his own, even though commonsense is saying hold on that might not be the case, we have to go with what it is we have so far.”
assisting police with their investigations.Theshootings continued yesterday, police said, when two incidents occurred. The first of them hap pened at around 8.30pm at Fleming Street. The victim was walking when two men came from a dark-coloured Cube and opened fire on theHeman.was able to evade his assailants and was being treated for injuries that did not appear to be life threat ening, Superintendent Skippings said. But the same could not be said for a 22-year-old man who was shot multiple times at Stack Avenue. He succumbed to his injuries at the“Itscene.wasaround 9pm when officers received a call that a shooting took place in the area,” Mrs Skippings said. “Once officers arrived on the scene they discovered that five people were shot, an adult male and four juveniles.“Preliminary informa tion is that persons had gathered for a baby shower at the triplex just behind me, when two males exited from a grey Nissan Note and opened fire indiscrimi nately on the crowd, which resulted in the 22-year-old being shot multiple times.
“He succumbed on the scene and was pronounced dead.“The four juveniles were taken to the hospital. They are presently seeking medi cal attention at this time and so at this time I am unable to say to you exactly what their condition is in hospital at this time. How ever in short order in a subsequent press release we will be updated as to their conditions.“Allof the victims are males in this particular incident.”Shewas unable to reveal a motive, whether the victim was known to police or if he was the intended target.Due to the nature of the shooting, Superintendent Skippings said a lot could be said about the mindset of “Personscriminals. attending a shower, a shower. Again, family members, parents, siblings, you know exactly who your family have con flicts with. You know. Let’s help you to save them. The only way that can happen is by partnering with your police“Bringdepartment.theinformation to us. Let us sit down. Let us show these young people how to resolve conflicts. Picking up a weapon does not resolve the conflict. It actually escalates the con flict and then it extends the conflict because then you have innocent people who end up being shot.”
A BODY is taken from the scene at last night’s fatal shooting at a baby shower.
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SUSPECT EXPECTED TO BE CHARGED IN OMAR DEATH
Photos: Austin Fernander THE SCENE of the shooting at the baby shower.
POLICE press liaison officer Chrislyn Skippings speaking to the press last night.
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Shot dead at baby shower
“It is important to govern effectively and the truth is that many times there are persons who have the abil ity to win but not necessarily the ability to govern,” Mr Pintard said. “And this is precisely why that cultural change ushered in by the 1992 team must be the guid ing light for what we do going forward and one of those prisms of that guiding light is that the Free National Movement leadership under stands that we work for the Bahamian people. Hubert Ingraham ingrained that in many of us who followed him either closely or from a distance, that we are your employ ees. You get to decide when you’ve had sufficient of our leadership and you make a determination on when we transition. That is an impor tant lesson. The second prism of that light that we ought to be honest in the way we manifest leadership in The Bahamas.
MICHAEL Pintard, Free National Movement leader called on FNMs to return to some of the principles that guided the party in 1992, during a service com memorating the party’s first victory at the the polls 30 years ago. At a service of thanksgiv ing at Evangelistic Temple on Collins Avenue, party members of the FNM past and present, includ ing former prime ministers Hubert Ingraham and Dr Hubert Minnis, came together to mark the occasion.OnAugust 19, 1992, the FNM under the leader ship of Mr Ingraham won 32 of 49 seats ushering in what Mr Pintard called the emergence of the modern Bahamas.During his remarks, Mr Pintard highlighted that the first FNM government liberalised the Bahamian airwaves for the first time and restored investor con fidence in the country. In addition to remarking that accountability and trans parency became hallmarks of that government, Mr Pintard said that he hoped to return the FNM to these guiding principles.
“We have come here today to ask you and your members to pray for our leadership past and present. To pray that we would govern with humility, to pray that we would be inclusive in our decision making, that while we represent this incredi bly beautiful red, that we ought to govern in a manner that includes all Bahamians.
“And finally we ought to recognise what brought us into politics. We came to politics to change people’s lives for the better. It’s not a come up, it’s not an oppor tunity to put something else on the resume, it’s not an opportunity to start a business or a company. It’s an opportunity after we’ve been touched by infirmities and afflictions of our people to use all of the talents that we have to improve their lives for the better.” Mr Pintard ended his speech by giving his heart felt thanks to the FNM’s leaders of 1992 for their service and setting the standard to which his party should continue to aspire. Reverend Vaughn Cash of Evangelistic Temple in his sermon, while calling the leader of the opposition a skill ful orator, said that he needed to humble himself before the people and the Lord in order to succeed politically. “Mr Pintard, God gave me these scriptures here for you,” he said. “You are a young man. God gave me them for you. There will be a lot of people who will tell you what they feel you need to do, where they feel you need to go, how they feel they need you to do this and need you to do that. There will be a whole lot of people who will try to script your future and try to out line the road that you are to walk on going forward to the next election, but God says to you, sir, in all your ways acknowledge him and he shall direct your path.
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“The FNM is made up of this large number of persons who were originally PLPs. The FNM was formed by original PLPs. Its leader Sir Cecil Wallace Whitfield was the chairman of the PLP, Orville Turnquest was a sec retary general in the early days of the PLP. I myself was a former chairman of the“AllPLP.of the dissident eight were PLPs. So, the reality is that people are moved one way or the other.” “In the PLP now there are known FNMs,” Mr Ingraham continued. “In the FNM government that Minnis had there were known PLPs who came over.“Unfortunately for The Bahamas I think we don’t have a sufficient number of people who come into public life who are signifi cantly grounded and firm in their beliefs. So, they will go over to the side that they think is going to win. “That’s the reality.” Mr Ingraham said that while there were good rea sons why the FNM was voted out of office, he was of the view that the party would correct the issues. “I expect that the FNM will do all the necessary things to regain public confi dence,” he said. “There are good reasons why the public decided to vote against the FNM last election. “The FNM knows what they are and so they must take steps to not repeat them and to demonstrate to the public that they are sin cere and that they will not repeat those things that the public found offensive.” WILL REGAIN PUBLIC CONFIDENCE’
“The FNM is a party that’s in movement,” Mr Ingraham said as a guest on Guardian Talk Radio’s Z Live: Off the record with Zhivargo Laing on Friday. He was asked to com ment on the party under the leadership of former prime minister Dr Hubert Minnis. “People move in and out. For instance some of those 49 candidates we had in 1992, 11 are deceased, some of the others have decided to pitch their tents elsewhere.“Many of the persons who voted against us in 2002 came back in 2007 and some of those who went against us in 2012 came back in “What2017.both major politi cal parties have to come to terms with and their sup porters come to terms with is that neither party has sufficient supporters to guar antee their election victory.
“Promotion, God’s pro motion doesn’t come from the East, doesn’t come from the west, doesn’t come from the north, doesn’t come from the wilderness. God is looking for people with a heart towards, a people with an ear to hear his voice, a people with a willingness to obey him and follow his direction. And if you go, my friend, if you go my friends and it’s God’s will for you to govern this country again then nothing can stop it.”
The former prime min ister also noted that one of the concerns he has for the country is how immigration is handled.“Weare very skittish about foreigners. We want them here. We want their money here, but we don’t really want them here. “We have large numbers of people who are here who have no status, who are entitled to status, etc, but we keep kicking that can down the road. “I fear that that’s going to be a problem for us at some point in time.” He said other than this, there was a need to find a means to offer more ser vices in The Bahamas.
Ingraham: PLP avoids the tough decisions
The service concluded with a presentation of plaques of appreciation to the entire slate of FNM ministers from 1992. Speaking on behalf of himself and the other honorees, including his father Orville Turnquest, former party leader Tommy Turnquest thanked event organisers for their awards. Mr Turnquest also extended special thanks to former prime minister Ingraham for his steadfast leadership as the first FNM Prime Minister in 1992. “On behalf of the entire slate of FNM candidates that contested the August 19, 1992 election, we thank the leader, the executives and the members of this great party for honouring us in this way. “While we justly give credit and honour to the right honourable Hubert Alexander Ingraham who led us to victory, it was nec essary upon each of us as standard bearers to be the best that we could’ve been, to work hard in our con stituencies and to represent the brand of the FNM to the best of our ability. Back then we were mobilised by a fearless committed leader, one whose love for The Bahamas remains stead fast and undisputed up to this day. Thank you, thank you prime minister (Ingra ham),” Mr Turnquest said. Mr Turnquest also pledged to continue to offer advice and service to the current FNM party to ensure its success.
“The other thing is there is clearly a scarcity of money.“Many people are com plaining who can’t get paid, but the government is not acting as if there is financial difficulty or challenges.”
“My one regret was that when the FNM won in 2017, that I did not have an oppor tunity to speak to all of those new ministers who had been appointed for the first time, who had never been in gov ernment before, cause I was not invited to speak. I think I could’ve helped them,” Mr Ingraham said. “I hope that the party will focus on what’s best for The Bahamas as opposed to what’s best for individuals,” he also said. In June, Mr Gibson along with several others were charged for offences related to his tenure at WSC. He is alleged to have illic itly gained more than $1m from contracts granted to Elite Maintenance and Baha Bay. It is alleged that he gained a financial advantage of a collective $1,279,532.97 after he allegedly received a variety of payments in cheques and wire transfers. This money was then allegedly laundered through the purchase of properties and vehicles, including those used in Gib son’s Rental Company in LongOverIsland.the weekend, the FNM celebrated the 30th anniversary of its first elec tion victory on August 19, 1992.The celebration events included a midday power panel, which consisted of FNM standard bearers former House of Assembly speaker Alvin Smith, Dame Janet Bostwick - the first woman to serve as deputy prime minister, former attorney general Carl Bethel and former House of Assembly speaker Rome ItaliaLaterJohnson.thatday, Mr Ingra ham reflected on his time in office under the theme “Government In the Sunshine”.OnSaturday, the FNM’s fundraising committee hosted a Grill and Chill Fun Day event and on Sunday, the party held a church service at Evangelistic Temple on Collins Avenue to conclude the anniversary celebrations.
DECISION TO GIVE GIBSON WSC ROLE QUESTIONED
FORMER prime minis ter Hubert Ingraham called into question a decision made by the former Minnis administration to appoint a member of Parliament as chairman of a utility company.Thedecision by the FNM to appoint Long Island MP Adrian Gibson to the post of executive chairman of the Water and Sewerage Cor poration left the party with “all kind of egg over our face,” Mr Ingraham said. On Friday, Mr Ingraham addressed the FNM for the first time in 10 years at the party’s headquarters as part of celebrations in commem oration of the FNM’s first election victory 30 years ago. He delivered bold state ments about some decisions made by the former admin istration to over 100 people present, including many of the 1992 FNM party officers. Asked by former ZNS reporter Anthony Brown what the FNM should do now under the guidance of leader Michael Pintard to get it “clicking” like it was in 1992, Mr Ingraham, as the longest serving FNM party leader, said: “We deter mined for good reason that we would not make MPs chairman of the utility com panies. Yet still we went and made Adrian Gibson execu tive chairman of Water and Sewerage Corporation and now we got all kind of egg over our face.” Mr Ingraham said, with the abundance of first time members of Parliament elected in 2017, he had hoped himself or another experienced parliamentar ian would have been invited to speak with the party in advance of appointments.
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FNM leader Michael Pintard and former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham. Photo: Austin Fernander
THE Free National Movement knows what it must do to be re-elected to office, former prime min ister Hubert Ingraham has said, adding he was confi dent the party would regain publicHowever,confidence.Mr Ingraham said both the FNM and Progressive Liberal Party must realise that neither organisation has sufficient supporters to guarantee elections.Hesaid the reality was that politics was fickle and supporters become disen chanted quickly.
By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net
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PINTARD: LET’S GET BACK TO PRINCIPLES
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He was a guest on Guard ian Talk Radio’s Z Live: Off the Record, with host Zhi vargo Laing and asked for his views of the government nearly a year after it took office. The former prime minister’s participation on the show was also to mark the 30th anniversary of the Free National Movement’s first election victory. “They have, since they’ve been in office, put on a first class show of public rela tions. I envy them. I could never have produced such a show when I was in office. “The public is very happy that the FNM govern ment is gone because they really wanted the FNM out and the public is willing to excuse many things that the present government is doing because they’re just happy to say ‘Well, at least they ain’t here now.’ “But as time goes on they will be judged by the public as we all have been up to now. “They’ve not done any thing major since they came in except they reduced VAT from 12 to 10 percent and put it on breadbasket items and they were able to get away with that and the public accepted that 10 percent is better than 12 even though it’s costing lots of money for lots of people who can’t afford it. “But generally speak ing they’re getting a good review by the population so far but that’s on the surface. I expect that not long from now they will be held accountable for their actions or inaction just like everybody else. “What I do know is they have been very reluctant to make decisions about anything that’s possibly controversial. As you know they can only push that back so far.” He suggested that this was the case with issues associated with the National Insurance Board. Mr Ingraham was also critical of the government’s conduct in acting as if the country did not have finan cial“Ichallenges.wasinInagua last week and Inagua had a resident doctor when Sir Arthur Foulkes, who is now just over 90 years of age, father was up there as a doctor. “We have built a wonder ful mini hospital up there and then they told me that there was no doctor there. “So, it’s that kind of a thing that the government needs to take account of and try to ensure order that the public is getting the ser vices that they require and deserve. Public relations can only do so much.
By KHRISNA RUSSELL Tribune Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net
“Both parties need to attract persons from the other side to them and so the FNM’s job is to not only get back FNMs who didn’t come back, but also to encourage and persuade disgruntled PLPs to vote forHethem.”continued: “One of the things about politics is as soon as you win the election you start to lose support ers the next week because more and more people start to get disappointed by what you promised and didn’t do. They become disenchanted and they become pickings for the next side. “So, the reality is if you are 100 today, well you’ll come down and so that other side has to make it attractive for those disen chanted persons to come and support the other side.
By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS lmunnings@tribunemedia.net
“What the union asks and expects is for communica tion to come to us, so once we know which schools are not going to be ready and that’s communicated to us, and we are able to say that to our members then we can work on alternative sites,’’ she told reporters. “So, when you don’t com municate with us then you will have an adversarial relationship with us, or you will have action taken in those schools if we are not certain as to what is sup posed to happen.” Mrs Wilson said if the government fails to commu nicate with the union, they will take a stand against going into any school that is considered to be unsafe. In June, union members voted unanimously to take industrial action. However, none was taken because consideration was given to internal exams, external exams, and report cards.
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PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis. Photo: Moise Amisial
“In an effort to further extend water supplies on Long Island, the corpora tion has also been in active talks with the Ministry of Works to ensure that these works are coordinated with the road-paving works,” the corporation said in a statement Thursday.
TEACHERS UNION REVIEWING PROPOSAL FROM GOVERNMENT
“This includes the com munities of Millertons, Stella Maris, Burnt Ground, Glintons, and Seymours.”
“We could go into the core question of the inter national economic structure where power is vested in the IMF and the World Bank principally. All these institutions were designed at a time when Africa was under imperial control, when the Caribbean were all colonies - who spoke for us? Who spoke on our behalf and the time has come and long past when we the people of the Carib bean and we the people of Africa must have our pres ence felt at the deciding table when we are changing the present world architec ture derelict and unfit for purpose.“Wethe people of Africa must have our presence felt at the deciding table when we are changing the present word architecture which is derelict and unfit forHepurpose.”added: “I want to make bold to say gath ered here is the cream of intellectual thought and professional capacity and business acumen, which exists in our hemisphere. But pardon me for saying it, and saying it bluntly: those of you who come from the United States are supposed to have a voice in the fash ioning of your democracy in a country which beyond argument is the most pow erful in the world today. “We in the Caribbean are placed here by geography, but we have our own inter ests to protect as well and we will never accept that we are in anybody’s back door anymore than you will accept that you are not in a situation where what you do and what you say has a decisive impact which goes beyond the borders of your ownThecountry.”event, hosted by Sigma Pi Phi fraternity and grand Sire Archon Dwayne Murray, said it is expected their “footprint” will be at least a $4m economic con tribution to The Bahamas before leaving.
By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS lmunnings@tribunemedia.net
“The last hurricane we had was Dorian. Our loss in damage amounted to more thanThe$4bn.”Prime Minister also noted that it was “very interesting” to observe the recent passing of a bill in the United States that spoke to climate issues. While he did not specify the bill to which he referred, American media reported the passing of the Democrats’ health care and climate bill. “What was obvious to me is that the conflict in Ukraine is used as a cloak to not do what is neces sary to prevent further emissions because now it’s being said - I think it was Senator Minchin who is concerned about them not being able to produce more oil because of the disrup tion of supply in the world today. So, we then need to, as America has, look out for our self interest and we need to open up the coal mines again. We need to give more licences out for drilling and exploring and production,” Mr Davis said. “But all that is counter productive to the overall goal to which the commit ment was made many years ago when the wealthiest countries in the world were committed to put a fund together for a $100bn about 15, 20 years ago for small island developing states like ours to be able to access, to be able to adapt and miti gate and to access for loss and damage. But where’s the $100 billion? Never put up.“The question was asked of me the other day and I think this will come clearer home to yourselves. Is it political will that is retard ing progress in this space? I had to pause and really, because I listened to Presi dent (Joseph) Biden in Glasgow when he was reengaging the US into the Paris agreement and recom mitting the efforts of the US government to do what is necessary for climate change. But it occurred to me that it really wasn’t political will. It was political change because recalling that President Trump with drew from the Paris Accord and questioned whether or not climate change is real. So, it retarded and rolled back many of the advances that the world has been made led by the United States and so we have now a dorre-engagement.”FormerUSAmbassatotheUnitedNations
“Currently unused vehicles, equipment and excess materials from a completed Non-Revenue Water (NRW) project were redeployed on a tempo rary basis, and the sitting vehicles returned for initial servicing.“The second island tanker was long redeployed once the new systems extensions were activated, as it was no longer needed.”
The union president also urged the government to communicate, so the neces sary provisions can be made.
BAHAMAS Union of Teachers president Belinda Wilson said the union is actively review ing a recent proposal from the government as par ties involved seek to bring closure to a new industrial agreement.Theunion previously delivered a seven-day ulti matum for the government to sign off on a full indus trial agreement that will benefit more than 3,000 members of the union. Union members were set to take industrial action today.Yesterday, Mrs Wilson could not be reached for comment regarding whether this was still the case.When asked by report ers on Friday how close the union was to finalising the agreement, Mrs Wilson explained that the union was still in negotiations with the government. “Well as you know we would’ve been to the table now for over three years, yesterday (Thursday) we spent from 11am to about 6.20pm making sure that we covered all of the areas we did not have agreement on,” she said “I got a final draft from the minister of education officials this morning (Friday) and I am awaiting a few more documents and at 4 o’clock today (Friday) I will be having a general membership meeting and the member ship will decide whether we accept the government pack age. We are talking about the full industrial agreement or if we will have industrial action onTheMonday.”president said the industrial agreement for the union comprised more than just the salary package. “Everyone is speaking about the salary increases that the government would have given, but the industrial agreement for the Bahamas Union of Teachers is more than just a salary package, so we have a number of terms and conditions of service that we have been advocating to have changed,” she told reporters.MsWilson explained that the curriculum, school safety, salary increases, and other benefits are inclusive of the agreement. The union president also said she is not confident that school repairs will be completed in time for the upcoming school year. “I am not confident that all the repairs will be done. Every year I do my own school repairs tour and look at what is happening. We already visited T A Thomp son, which is doing massive work, but I must say the contractor has a large number of workers that are there, and they are working around the clock.
“Hopefully they will have the classrooms, the restrooms- which will be the main areas for the stu dents and teachers ready.” She said she has been informed that there will be some areas of T A Thomp son not ready in time for the reopening of school, however, the information will be disseminated to teachers and staff.
THE Water and Sew erage Corporation has outlined its plans for Long Island following criticism on social media. Water and Sewerage (WSC) says the corporation remains committed to the completion of all works on Long Island, which include the extension of water sup plies to the settlements of Millers, McCanns, Thomp son Bay and Turnbull.
WSC also said it is in the process of advancing dis cussions with the Caribbean Development Bank for a further loan extension. “These efforts have been approved by the board of directors and the Minister of Works, and negotiations are now being advanced at the Ministry of Finance,” the press release said. WSC added that while various efforts are “aggres sively” being pursued, the corporation contin ues to execute its various programmes on all islands.
By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
FIFTY percent or more of the country’s national debt was found to be con nected directly to the consequences of climate change and having to borrow money for recovery, resilience and returning to normal.Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis made the revelation over the weekend, adding that the findings came to light when this nation’s debt was profiled.Hewas speaking during a round table discussion at the 56th Grand Boule at Atlantis on Saturday. During the discussion, Mr Davis spoke in great detail about climate change and efforts, as well as the appar ent lack of it, to address the issue.“One of our challenges that I put to you, which I again don’t want to get into the long history of, but the industrial revolution has caused quite a challenge to the world today,” he said to the“Theaudience.existential threat of the consequence of climate change and the United States is one of the biggest emitters of carbon in the air, which has caused sea levels to rise, more and more intense hurricanes and the challenge with small island developing states like ours. When I did a profiling of my national debt, 50 percent or more of it is connected directly to climate change, the consequence of climate change because we have to borrow money for the pur pose of recovery, resilience and get back to normalcy.
PM: Half our debt direct result of climate effects
WSC OUTLINES PLANS
Andrew Young and former Jamaican Prime Minister PJ Patterson also participated in the roundtable discussion and made a position for the Caribbean protecting its interest.Mr Patterson said: “What’s happening now shows that the entire global architecture is in ruins and is incapable of dealing with the problems which we face as mankind in a changing world. Why do I say that? In the United Nations, the power was vested in the security council. It has five members - each with a veto power, which essentially means they can do what ever they like in defiance of what the rest of world thinks and wants to do.
The corporation said all of the approved project materials remain on Long Island and further materials are expected to be procured in “Thetime. corporation is also in the process of updating its reverse osmosis strategy to maximise production, to minimise potential dis ruptions to our existing customers, and ensure current, medium and longtermWSCsuccess.”pledged to its cus tomers on Long Island and every other island in The Bahamas its commitment to the extension of water supplies.“Thecorporation, there fore, wishes to emphasise to its customers on Long Island and every other island throughout the length and breadth of The Bahamas, that as was also articulated in the Speech from the Throne, the corpo ration remains committed to the extension of water supplies wherever possible to all of its currently unser viced areas, and is actively planning for, and executing the same.” FOR LONG ISLAND AFTER CRITICISM
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MINISTER of National Security Wayne Munroe on Friday. Photo: Austin Fernander
Equality Bahamas pre viously launched the #Strike5ive campaign in 2019 to criminalise marital rape, calling for the amend ment of Section 3 of the Sexual Offences Act by removing “who is not his spouse” from the defini tion of rape, and the repeal of Section 15 on “sexual assault by spouse”.
Ms Wallace said: “We are preparing our reports for treaty bodies this month, and it would be helpful to see the current draft and how it may change follow ing consultation.
“Without inclusion in the consultation process, we are left to focus on the government’s failure, thus far, to criminalise mari tal rape and its refusal to engage civil society in ways that strengthen democracy and prioritise human rights, especially the human rights of people in situations of vulnerability.”Moreinformation on the organisation’s #Strike5ive campaign can be found at tiny.cc/strike5ive.
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NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe has described marital rape as a “social issue”, adding there was a need to define exactly what should be criminalised if the country were to make legislative changes in this regard. “It’s a social issue that will require sensible reflec tion and retrospection,” Mr Munroe told reporters Friday. “It impacts the insti tution of marriage, which is one of our social pillars. So, we have to be circum spect and exact. We need to define what it is we want to criminalise.”Askedtorespond to the Official Opposition’s call for the Davis administra tion to amend the law to criminalise marital rape, Mr Munroe said: “My approach to them is when you give me advice on something I should have done first tell me why you didn’t do it in the last four-and-a-half years.”“They just came out of government in the last fourand-a-half years. Before that they were in govern ment for five years. So, in the last 14-and-a-half years, they were in government for 10 of those years. What exactly is there to com ment on about why it isn’t criminalised? Sometimes you have to recognise when people are blowing smoke.” Mr Munroe advised that it would be productive for the opposition party to engage on matters that advance the country. In March, the Free National Movement called on the Davis administration to amend the law to crimi nalise marital rape. The issue captured headlines again after Mr Munroe said marital rape should be referred to as something other than rape if convictions were being sought. His comment came at a Progressive Liberal Party men’s branch event where others attending expressed their views on theThematter.FNM said in the Westminster tradition fol lowed in The Bahamas, ministers are bound by the collective decisions of Cabinet, adding that public announcements made by ministers are not personal opinions, but the view of theThegovernment.partyadded that Mr Munroe “gave troubling insight into the policy position of the Davis administration and the lack of a progressive legislative agenda.”Later, in June, Baha mas Christian Council president Bishop Delton Fernander said the church would support efforts by the government to tighten the law to provide pro tection against rape for spouses in the period between legal separation andMrdivorce.Fernander said it was the clergy’s understanding that martial rape frequently occurs during that time and the church would stand behind tightening the law to ensure there are penalties for this kind of abuse. He was asked what his personal views on the matter were as the coun cil waits for a meeting with the government on how to tackle the issue. The discussions were at the time foreshadowed by Social Services and Urban Development Minister Obie Wilchcombe in the House of However,Assembly.Bishop Fer nander admitted then that the church remained gener ally divided when it comes to marital rape.
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CAMPAIGNERS call ing for the criminalisation of rape within marriage have been left in the dark about the state of proposed legislation.Inastatement released to the media yesterday, Equality Bahamas noted the failure of the gov ernment to provide the draft amendment bill for legislation, and of Attor ney General Ryan Pinder and Minister of Social Services and Urban Development Obie Wilchcombe to meet on theAliciasubject.Wallace, director of Equality Bahamas, said: “We have requested the draft amendment bill, and we have requested meet ings with the Attorney General and the Minis ter of Social Services and Urban Development. We have received neither, and note that it was announced that earlier this month that the minister would meet with religious leaders this month.“Itis quite telling that the government continues to prioritise religious leaders who frequently oppose the recognition and expansion of women’s human rights while it ignores organi sations promoting and advocating for the rights of women.”Thecomments come as National Security Minister Wayne Munroe has spoken on the issue of marital rape, saying there was a need to define exactly what would be criminalised if the law were to be changed.
THE Bahamas Chris tian Council and the Ministry of National Security announced a partnership that will offer clinical counselling as part of the fight against crime. National Security Min ister Wayne Munroe on Friday in his remarks urged people to seek the resources of local churches so that they can receive counseling and help with any challenges they may be facing.MrMunroe said: “There are many churches in this country, their doors are open and I would wish you to reject the advice of the naysayers who simply criti cise the church. “I would urge you if you are feeling stressed, if you are feeling at your wit’s end, if you do not know how to contend with the relation ship pressures that you are under, to reach out for help. Do not let things go until you react in a manner that you will regret. We have a goodly Christian heritage in this country. There are a variety of church organi sations to choose from anywhere.”Theminister noted that in times of crisis the church has been sought out for its role and value in addressing social issues in the country. BCC president Bishop Delton Fernander in his remarks explained the active push that all churches have put to provide Clinical Chris tian counseling for the public. “We took the initiative as the Christian Council, first of all, to ask all of our churches and pastors to make their facilities avail able so that the persons can call and come in and receive counseling at those facilities,” he said. “But specifically, beginning Monday, a line will be set up from 10am to 3pm.”
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“There has to be some objective, contemporaneous, evidence-based cor roboration of the claims that they’re making. And of course there won’t be because they’re making it all up.” The decision to keep classified docu ments at Mar-a-Lago — a property frequented by paying members, their guests and anyone attending the wed dings, political fundraisers, charity dinners and other events held on site — was part of a long pattern of disregard for national security secrets. Former aides described a “cavalier” attitude toward classified infor mation that played out in public view. There was the dinner with then-Jap anese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Mar-a-Lago’s patio, where fellow diners watched and snapped cellphone photos as the two men reviewed details of a North Korean missile test. There was the time Trump revealed highly classified information alleg edly from Israeli sources about Islamic State militants to Russian officials. And there was the time he tweeted a highresolution satellite image of an apparent explosion at an Iranian space center, which intelligence officials had warned was highly sensitive. Trump insisted he had “the absolute right” to share it.
Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said Trump was “careless” with sensitive and classi fied information and “seemed never to bother with why that was bad.” Grisham recalled one incident involv ing Conan, a US military dog hailed as a hero for his role in the raid that killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Bagh dadi. She said that before the dog’s arrival at the White House, staff had received a briefing in which they were told the dog could not be photographed because the images could put his handlers in danger. But when the dog arrived, Trump decided he wanted to show it off to the press. “Because he wanted the publicity, out went Conan,” she said. “It’s an example of him not caring if he put lives in danger... It was like its his own shiny toy he’s showing off to his friends to impress them.”
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Bolton said that, during his time working for Trump, he and others often tried to explain the stakes and the risks of exposing sources and methods. “I don’t think any of it sank in. He didn’t seem to appreciate just how sen sitive it was, how dangerous it was for some of our people and the risks that they could be exposed to,” he said. “What looks like an innocuous picture to a private citizen can be a gold mine to a foreign intelligence” entity. “I would say over and over again, ‘This is really sensitive, really sensitive.’ And he’d say, ‘I know’ and then go and do it anyway.”
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THE following is the body of a letter sent to the Central Bank Governor a week ago for attention. To date, however, I have not received acknowledgement of same, and would there fore wish to share it with the public in your publi cation as well as on social media so that many more of ‘we, the people’ can also register our concern over this situation that continues to plague the ‘customers’ of banking institutions in this country. Our voices must be heard, as we too have rights. Speak up Bahamas!
I am writing in connec tion with the proposed fee increases slated for Septem ber 1, 2022 from another International Bank, and would wish to register my concern to learn that yet another bank is planning to impose new fees, along with some being a 50% increase, to their customers at this difficult time. One must ask why and where has cus tomer service gone, as the customer surely is no longer king!Iwas extremely pleased when the Central Bank stepped in to mitigate the outrageous fees being charged by other Cana dian banks last year, as these were also uncon scionable. In addition, staff teller decreases seemingly continue to be instituted throughout Bahamian banks which leads to longer wait times for cus tomers standing on lines to receive service during these COVID times. This also negatively affects the business customers’ pro ductivity, which seems to be of no concern to the banks. Although the banks claim that these impositions are a means of encouraging more ‘digital banking’ there are still many Bahamians, par ticularly in the senior citizen category, who do not have knowledge of nor access to, computers, I-phones, or even have credit cards. Surely their needs must be taken into consideration. Further, the announce ment that cheques are being phased out is also cause for much concern in the personal as well as the cor porate business world. One also wonders if the banks, realising that they will be losing significant income related to the processing of cheques, are therefore looking for other ways to supplement this loss. Cheques help signifi cantly as a deterrent to crime by eliminating the need to have cash on hand. Not being able to use cheques will not only negatively affect the local cheque printing industry, but will encourage custom ers to use credit cards as a means of payment, thus more money will be leav ing the country to pay for foreign credit card fees. Although this might well increase demand for the use of digital currency such as the Sand Dollar, unfor tunately there is much more education needed in this regard in order to make the public aware of its use. Even though I have attended several webinar presentations, I still do not understand how the Sand Dollar works. It has always been my contention that the banks, particularly the foreign branches set up here for decades that have made considerable profits from their Bahamian customers, continue to hold us hostage by these unfair practices, charges, and fees. Yet they continue to garner interest from our deposits whilst no longer offering custom ers any interest on savings! Consequently, the balance continues to dip in their favour to the detriment of we, the people, and this is notItright.ismy hope that the Central Bank will once again step in to correct this imbalance. We, the people, look forward to such an intervention!
EDITOR, The Tribune. PINERIDGE MP Ginger Moxey and Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations (BAAA) President Drumeco Archer should not be raked over the coals by the people of Nassau for choosing Freeport as host for the North American Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association event over the weekend. Both were attempting to give Freeport a much needed economic shot in the arm. I am sensing that the vitri olic pushback coming out of Nassau is being motivated by jealousy, even if the complaints are legitimate. To Nassau people, Nassau is The Bahamas. The issues at the Grand Lucayan Resort that the foreign athletes encoun tered coupled with the pathetic state of the Grand Bahama International Air port might embarrass The Bahamas internationally. I am hoping that the over 400 athletes and their massive entourage did not see the dilapidated International Bazaar and the Royal Oasis Resort and Casino, which would’ve further added to theThisembarrassment.justmight be the final nail in the coffin that motivates the Progressive Liberal Party government and the official Opposition Free National Movement to take a bipartisan drastic measure in fixing Freeport once and for all.
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MOUNDS of paper piled on his desk. Framed magazine covers and keep sakes lining the walls. One of Shaquille O’Neal’s giant sneakers displayed along side football helmets, boxing belts and other sports memorabilia, crowding his Trump Tower office and limiting table space.Well before he entered politics, former President Donald Trump had a penchant for collecting. And that lifelong habit — combined with his flip disregard for the rules of government record keeping, his careless handling of classified infor mation, and a chaotic transition borne from his refusal to accept defeat in 2020 — have all culminated in a federal inves tigation that poses extraordinary legal and political challenges. The search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club earlier this month to retrieve docu ments from his White House years was an unprecedented law enforcement action against a former president who is widely expected to run for office once again. Officials have not revealed exactly what was contained in the boxes, but the FBI has said it recovered 11 sets of classified records, including some marked “sensitive compartmented information,” a special category meant to protect secrets that could cause “exceptionally grave” damage to US interests if revealed publicly. Why Trump refused to turn over the seized documents despite repeated requests remains unclear. But Trump’s flouting of the Presidential Records Act, which outlines how materials should be preserved, was well documented throughout his time in office. He routinely tore up official papers that later had to be taped back together. Official items that would tradition ally be turned over to the National Archives became intermingled with his personal belongings in the White House residence. Classified information was tweeted, shared with reporters and adversaries — even found in a White House complex bathroom. John Bolton, who served as Trump’s third national security adviser, said that, before he arrived, he’d heard “there was a concern in the air about how he han dled information. And as my time went on, I could certainly see why.” Others in the Trump administra tion took more care with sensitive documents. Asked directly if he kept any classified information upon leav ing office, former Vice President Mike Pence told The Associated Press on Friday, “No, not to my knowledge.” The investigation into Trump’s han dling of documents comes as he’s facing mounting legal scrutiny on multiple fronts. A Georgia investigation into elec tion interference has moved closer to the former president, with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a top defender, informed earlier this month that he is a target of a criminal probe. Meanwhile, Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrim ination as he testified under oath in the New York attorney general’s long-running civil investigation into his business dealings. A top executive at the business pleaded guilty last week in a tax fraud case brought by the Manhattan district attorney. But few legal threats have galvanised Trump and his most loyal supporters like the Mar-a-Lago search. The former president and his allies have argued the move amounts to political persecution, noting the judge who approved the war rant has given money to Democrats. The judge, however, has also supported Republicans. And White House officials have repeatedly said they had no prior knowledge of plans to search the estate. Trump allies have tried to claim the presidency granted him unlimited power to unilaterally declassify documents without formal declaration. But David Laufman, the former chief of the Justice Department’s counterintelligence sec tion, said that’s not how it works. “It just strikes me as a post hoc public affairs strategy that has no relation ship to how classified information is in fact declassified,” said Laufman, who oversaw the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s personal email server during her tenure as secretary of state. While he said it is true that there is no statue or order that outlines procedures the president must abide by to declassify information, “at the same time it’s ludi crous to posit that a decision to declassify documents would not have been contem poraneously memorialised in writing.” It’s “not self executing,” he added.
Bolton said that top intelligence offi cials would gather before briefings to discuss how best to handle sensitive sub jects, strategising about how much needed to be shared. Briefers quickly learned that Trump often tried to hang onto sensitive documents, and would take steps to make sure documents didn’t go missing, includ ing using iPads to show them to him. “Sometimes he would ask to keep it and they’d say, ‘It’s really sensitive.’ Sometime he just wouldn’t give it back.” Trump’s refusal to accept his elec tion loss also contributed to the chaos that engulfed his final days in office. The General Services Administration was slow to acknowledge President Joe Biden’s win, delaying the transition pro cess and leaving little time to pack. While other White House staff and even the former first lady started making arrangements, Trump largely refused. At the same time, White House staff were departing in droves as part of the regular “offboarding process,” while morale among others had cratered in the aftermath of the Jan 6 attack on the US Capitol. Bolton said he doubted that Trump had taken documents for nefari ous reasons, and instead thought Trump likely considered them “souvenirs” like the many he’d collected through his life.
SINCE the last hanging during PM Ingraham’s time there has been no hanging for murder. I recall within 24 hours of the much publi cised hanging ZNS outside the walls of Fox Hill live coverage there were two murders (the point of hanging being a deterrent possibly minimised). Privy Council says none except for the worst of the worst, but what is that three? To the highly respected retired Asst Commissioner Thompson might it be the lack of parental discipline and adherence to the Law that the generation you seem to talk about simply threw them out with the dirty bath water and we got what we got venge ance - retaliation sole conclusion till they kill each other off and there will be no more to kill then it will Thenstop.there is the advo cate the Talk Show host, he proclaims at the begin ning of every one of his Shows he is a Catholic he better ask his priest what is the position of the Catho lic Church on hanging - it certainly does not support hanging nor the loss of life through abortion. We as a society must take the responsibility for the mess to resolve this it will take genera tions, not fangled police scheme-programme reprogramming of young people and society where the aide disciplines will be now the norm not extinct. Start with petty tiefing. Be strict on that anyone ben efiting from crime increase the punishment, watch out, mama, we will take you to Court for receiving what Johnny tiefs and gives to you as a Hanginggift.will not resolve the crime environment. Violence will not cure violence.Untilthose the very small minority simply run out of people to kill nothing is going to change operation this and that will not stop it. There is not the official resolve to eradicate quickly you have to put in place very unpopular ideas — disciplines and programmes virtually to the limit of breach of Human Rights/ Civil Rights no politician here will do that.
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Asked her response to critics who said preparation was rushed, the minister said she would continue to fight to get GB whatever it needs.“Isay to them that since Dorian and the pandemic we have people who haven’t had a job in two years,” she said. “We had hotel proper ties that have been closed. We had businesses that closed, and we have fami lies hungry that need help. So, whatever we can do, and I can do to ensure that GB gets what it needs to get, I am going to do it and I am going to fight for it. “And so our govern ment is one of compassion where we look to bring to this island and to Abaco, and areas that have been impacted, the much-needed help that it deserves.” Minister Moxey said the island is experiencing a sig nificant economic impact because of the NACAC Championships.“Ican’tbegin to say how important it is. We have people who are now able to earn money. They are able to pay their bills - the taxi drivers, bus drivers, ven dors, hotels, transportation providers, everyone. And so, the impact is widespread. The island is booked out solid,” she added. “I am grateful to the gov ernment and NACAC, and all those working to make it happen. And the teams for being here and making GBI the home of this NACAC Championships, and help ing us honour Anita Doherty who has done so much for the sporting community.”MsMoxey was also pleased that residents sup ported the event as well. LUCAYAN
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“Y’all have three gaming licenses for hotel and casino in GB, and us in the Gaming Board, we ain’t get a penny from them for hotel casino gaming and licences in almost 20 years,” he said. “That’s what I come here for. By the end of this year, Minister Moxey, we want to issue one licence. “By next year, I want to be true to my fatherin-law’s mandate and my father’s mandate. I want to issue another licence to a Bahamian group in GB.”Inthe Family Islands, Dr Johnson said licences will be granted to Bahamians for“Wei-gaming.are going to extend something called i-gaming into these bou tique hotels. The licences again should be issued to Bahamians in those islands,” he said. Dr Johnson noted that the gaming entertainment industry is large in the United States. The Baha mas, he said, has been left behind.Herecalled that over 50 years ago a commissioned report recommended to the new Bahamian government that it Baha mianise the gaming industry.“Icome to tell you 55 years later you have not carried out that man date,” said the executive chairman.In1965, Dr Johnson said Nassau, Bahamas, Orlando, Florida, and Las Vegas, Nevada, were the three kingpins of the tourism and gaming entertainment industry in the world. Today, Nevada welcomes 50 million visitors a year, Orlando welcomes over 40 million a year, and Nassau only 5 to 7 million a year. “They have gone to 50 (million) and we on 5. The thing that puzzles me why I am going to challenge you is that 55 years later we are way behind our peers,” Dr Johnson said. “The cruise ship pulls up to our front door and offloads 5,000 people a day, and we got no native show in Nassau, and you got no casino in GB. “We are in a tropical par adise. I come to announce to y’all today we want this business back and we coming to get it. I (am) issu ing that license this year,” heDrsaid.Johnson said that a few weeks ago the world stood still as a 1.2B jackpot was being offered in the US.“That’s how big this thing is,” he said. “The recommendation of the commissioned report is not just for you to have a ticket - it is for us to own it. “So, the mandate of this new board is very clear. We are in a rebrand, renew, and rebuild phase. I am seri ous about my people, and I think y’all in GB have been through enough. This is now the time to go for it,” he said.
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MINISTER for Grand Bahama Ginger Moxey said athletes who were not satisfied with their accom modations at the Grand Lucayan Resort were accommodated at another property.Theresort - which served as the athlete’s village for the NACAC Champion ships held in Freeport over the weekend – experienced a loss of power as a result of a blown transformer on Thursday.Whenasked to respond to reports regarding issues about accommodations at the Grand Lucayan, Minis ter Moxey said the concerns of the athletes were imme diately“Thereaddressed.hasbeen an issue which started with a transformer that blew and created some chal lenges, but immediately we went into action and allowed some athletes to go to another property,” she explained.Thereare three hotels on the property, but she did not say where the athletes were moved to. Around 400 athletes were in Freeport to compete in the fourth edition of the North American Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association at the GB Sports Complex, AugustMinister19-21.Moxey left the Heads of Government meeting in New Providence to fly to Grand Bahama when she learned of the challenges.“Weare on top of it, and I believe the visitors are now in a good place. I have spoken to the teams individually, hearing their concerns, and allowing them to express their con cerns, and we have been addressing them. They are now happy,” she said on Friday.MsMoxey indicated that hosting the NACAC Cham pionships in Grand Bahama was done in record time. “One thing that needs to be said is The Bahamas took this on and did this in 90 days when it’s actually an 18-month process. “Grand Bahama island was selected because GB needs it. We have been through Dorian; we have been battered, and that’s why that property, Grand Lucayan, would have pre sented some issues,” she explained.MsMoxey explained that the system has not been utilised for a long time and could not handle the volume (of usage), causing a blow-out of the transformer.“Itisabeautiful prop erty, it’s working the way it is supposed to work, and the guests are happy and excited. The buses pick them up and take them to the stadium,” she said. “You know we look at GBI as the home of events and entertainment. We want to make sure we go above and beyond to exceed their expectations. “This happened and we have been addressing it immediately. I was at a Heads of Government Meeting and left there to come here to be on the ground ensuring that eve rything is in order. I am satisfied to say it is, and we are catering to the needs of the visitors.”
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come up with any name to call it. But if you call it rape, in the modern-day Baha mas, it will have a very low conviction rate. Then, you would only be successful if your objective was to call it that as opposed to get people punished for it.” He also suggested –bizarrely – that the divorce law would need to be adjusted. He said: “We would have to change our divorce law in two ways: If your spouse can withdraw consent for sex, then adul tery ought no longer be a ground for divorce. “Will wilfully refusing to criminalise marital rape did so an entire century ago, in 1922. As of 2019, about 150 countries around the world had criminalised marital rape. In some countries, that means specific laws about rape within the marriage, in others the law makes no distinction between rape by a spouse or rape by anyone else. In the United Kingdom, with which our legal system has many historic con nections, marital rape has been illegal since a marital exemption was overturned by the House of Lords in 1991. The maximum penalty is life imprison ment – while there are also measures such as personal protection orders and pro tection exclusion orders for female victims of violence. Look across the water in the other direction, and you’ll find that marital rape has been illegal in all 50 US states since 1993. As for a definition, well, 150 countries aren’t work ing without a definition. The European Institute for Gender Equality describes it as “Non-consensual vaginal, anal or oral pen etration of the body of another person where the penetration is of a sexual nature, with any bodily part or with an object, as well as to any other non-consen sual acts of a sexual nature, by a spouse or ex-spouse or by a former or current part ner with whom a victim of rape is or has been living in a partnership recognised by the national law.” So this talk of working out what it is that we have to define under the law seems like obfuscation at best.Mr Munroe has long seemed opposed to laws on marital rape – back in 2009, he said: “The problem that this creates is this: All you need is for there to be dys function in a household and a woman to be upset at a man and rape does not require any trauma – and she calls the police and says my husband raped me. You would be arrested and you would be the subject of domestic orders. And it will be your word against hers as to whether she said no.” This idea of women crying rape ignores the reality of how hard it is for a rape case to reach the courts and be successfully prosecuted.ButMunroe’s is far from the only voice on the issue – just one in a prominent position in government as the minister handling the issue of crime, of which rape is one, but not marital rape. Under our laws, the defini tion of rape is “the act of any person not under 14 years of age having sexual intercourse with another person who is not his spouse a) without the consent of that other person; b) with consent which has been extorted by threats or fear of bodily harm; c) with consent obtained by personating the spouse of that other person; d) with consent obtained by false and fraudulent repre sentations as to the nature and quality of the act”. Earlier this year, some of the voices that sounded out on the issue included gospel artist Christopher Huyler Roberts who said on social media: “There is no way a man married to a woman can be guilty of raping his wife. Utter nonsense. “ Politician Ali McIntosh, who has a long record of failing to win seats in elec tions with the Bahamas Constitution Party, said marriage and rape should not be in the same sen tence as duty-bound women would submit to their spouse. She said: “Only sex after violence, involving the beating and wounding of an individual in marriage, should be considered rape.” Former DNA party leader Branville McCart ney, back in 2012, was a prominent voice against marital rape laws, saying that because a married couple is considered “one”, he did not think there should be an act or law for raping a spouse. If a husband hits his wife with a hammer, he can be charged with assault – one flesh or not. But if he rapes her, he cannot be charged. If a spouse stabs their part ner and kills them, they can be charged with murder. But rape is somehow impossible to prosecute? At the heart of the issue for many is this idea that one gives oneself com pletely to one’s partner in a marriage. And perhaps in an ideal marriage, that is the case. Some may comment from within the bounds of such marriages, without looking too closely at those marriages where a husband might rape his wife. To reach that stage, the mar riage is broken already. If we actually want to proceed with laws on mari tal rape – and Mr Munroe himself has noted that we have signed international agreements to criminalise marital rape – we do not need to look far for the def initions and the laws to use. The reality is that it will not likely lead to large numbers of criminal con victions, as rape cases can be hard to prosecute already. But to pretend that this is somehow a new thing we need to work out is disingenuous.However, for the moment, it’s not something we’re likely to see progress on. The way this is being talked about is exactly the way an issue gets discussed that a politician has no intention to do anything about. So perhaps this is a fool’s errand – but equally, we should not let our lead ers treat us like fools.
Will our politicians ever tackle the issue of marital rape?
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• Nicknamed ‘The Prince of Podiatry’, Dr Kenneth D Kemp is the founder and medical director of Baha mas Foot and Ankle located in Caves Village, Western New Providence. He served as the deputy chairman for the Health Council for five years and he currently sits on the board of directors for the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation in his role as co-vice-chairman.
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Corey grew up during a different era when children played outside until the sun went down, oscillating from one neighbour’s yard to the next without any safety concerns. It was during this time, playing T-ball, that he learned the concepts of the game. From there, his love of the sport was fostered and his competitive streak wasHisborn.father built a batting cage for him and his broth ers to practice and his dad became his de facto per sonal baseball coach until the age of 10. At that point, he transferred to Freedom Farm; a local non-profit baseball club for children ages four to 18. Given all his years of early practice, Corey quickly stood out and he was selected to com pete at a game in Kentucky, US. There, he and his teammates won every game on their trip. It was his first time winning at a sport internationally and he was determined that it wouldn’t be his last. In high school, Corey began to participate in other sports outside of baseball like track and field, volleyball and softball but he struggled balanc ing all of them with a full school curriculum. Inevita bly his grades suffered and in grade 7 he was placed on academic probation. His parents threatened to stop him from ever playing sports again if his grades didn’t improve. The threat worked. He became more disciplined and by the fol lowing semester, his grades skyrocketed to a 3.0. By then, however, he’d lost his opportunity to transfer along with his teammates to a competitive baseball programme at American Heritage High School in Florida.Disappointed and afraid that his friends would now surpass his abilities, Corey, who was doggedly determined to become a professional baseball player, exercised day and night to get faster and stronger. On the field, he only played with guys who were much older, convinced that by pushing himself he wouldWithinimprove.ayear, he got his chance to attend Ameri can Heritage where he graduated with honours. In college, he continued to excel but suffered an injury to his right elbow during an intense training session. It resulted in a small avul sion fracture in his arm that became completely detached after he threw the ball to the catcher. Corey heard a pop and his arm immediately began to swell. Fortunately, he recovered quickly with rehab and the following season was his best. He was finally on track to be drafted by a major league team, fulfilling a lifelong dream. By that spring, however, he threw a pitch off that same arm and rup tured one of the ligaments in his elbow so extensively that he had to undergo sur gical repair and a 12-month recovery period. During his recovery he transferred to a larger university for better access to more advanced rehabilitation facilities for the necessary therapy, strength coaching and train ing that he required. The injury once again caused his grades to diminish and many nights he was the only athlete on the bus with a light on, studying while travelling to games. Then, in a routine game in New York, he got in posi tion to bat and glanced over for a quick second toward the batter’s eye, which is the dark-coloured area behind a pitcher that a batter sees waiting for a pitch. The glaring sun obscured his peripheral vision and he looked away for a second. Without warning, a ball travelling at 90 miles per hour struck him in his face, just below his right eye. The pain was instant and agonising. The force of the impact felt like a missile had exploded on his face. His cheeks and mouth vibrated uncontrollably. Within sec onds, Corey’s face swelled to double its size. He was so dizzy that the world around him swirled. Fortunately, his coach caught him as he was about to collapse and supported his neck until he could be placed on a stretcher and transported to the emergency room at a small local hospital. His right eye was swollen shut, his headache so excruci ating that he felt like his brain and face were being repeatedly squeezed and stabbed. Corey was unable to lay down because it elic ited severe pain to his neck and head, so extreme that his body began to shake. But, because the hospital staff were distracted by another emergency case, he never had any head scans performed. Instead, he was given a prescription for Tylenol and discharged home on bed rest. A week went by and Corey’s headache was still severe. He was unable to open his eye or breathe properly through his nose. He also suffered with alarming balance issues. He couldn’t be in a room with a bright light and any loud noises intensified his symptoms. When he began vomiting blood, his host-parents came home immediately and drove him to a larger hospital in New York where he was diag nosed with an internal brain haemorrhage, three frac tures to his lower occipital bone, three fractures in his jaw and extensive facial nerve damage. Just a few more hours without any medical intervention and he would have died. The neu rosurgeon on call opted to treat him with intravenous medication and his symp toms improved quickly. When it was time to return to playing baseball, Corey failed his concussion protocol five times before finally getting cleared but he was never the same. He suffered with short term memory loss and difficulty concentrating; symptoms he continues to grapple with to this day. It was the end of his career in baseball and the final death kneel to a lifelong dream that started side by side with his father during one of the happiest and most formative times of hisCorey’slife. take home mes sage is that playing sports helps to mold you as an individual. It teaches you discipline and the importance of hard work, listening to and learning from constructive criticism, how to work within a team, accepting loss and persever ing until successful. It’s also taught him that hard times don’t last forever and he has no regrets. As a married father of two sons, Corey intends to share his love of sports with his children because beyond the batter’s eye, and despite his earlier set backs, he’s determined that their world, through God’s eternal grace, be filled with endless possibilities. This is The KDK Report.
By DR KENNETH D KEMP
THERE’S something uniquely American about baseball – its simplicity, the hot dogs and the cheering fans in the stands create what feels like a commu nity connected. It’s not surprising that we in The Bahamas also feel a connec tion, given that the major contributor to the origins of baseball was a man with the common Bahamian sur name, Cartwright. I went to my first major league game when I moved to New York in 2008 and it was only then, watching the game in person surrounded by tens of thousands of fans, did I truly understand and appreciate the national appeal. Baseball, unlike any other sport, doesn’t overwhelmingly demand that their professional players be young, tall or muscular. It’s a game of tac tical shrewdness that places more emphasis on disci pline and less on speed and strength. It’s a sport where anyone from any back ground can succeed.
Corey, the patient dis cussed in today’s report, fell in love with baseball at the age of four because of his sports-loving father. Little did he know that almost twenty years later, while on track for the Major Leagues, he’d be carried off the field after shattering multiple bones in his face and suffering a major con cussion that brought him dangerously close to the brink of death.
Almagro is clearly right in saying “resources have to be provided to Haiti through an institutionalized process by the international community with a strong monitoring component and capacity to combat corruption and prevent the resources from being diverted and misused”. As I observed at the OAS meeting, Haiti cannot expect an international response to its needs “with out some assurance that, within Haiti, there will be a collective, solidified position, both in terms of the requests they make, the cooperation they will give, and the openness with which they will deal with the international community”.Forhis part, Foreign Minister Généus said that the Government has tried to promote dialogue, sug gesting that its efforts have not been successful, but that “the Prime Minister will continue tirelessly in this quest for dialogue and consensus”.Ofcourse, such a dialogue will not happen, nor will any agreement be sustained, unless there is good offices mediation to facilitate it and over see the implementation of its agreements. Mediation cannot happen without an invitation from the Ariel Henry provisional govern ment and the agreement of the other Haitian groups. Neighbouring countries are already struggling with the failure of the Haitian State. The Bahamas, with a population of 400,000, has an estimated 150,000 Hai tian refugees in its territory. This year alone, the Baha mas Government has spent millions of dollars repatri ating Haitian refugees. In the words of the Ambas sador of the Dominican Republic to the OAS, Josue Fiallo, the situation in Haiti “constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to my country’s national security, foreign policy and economy”. And the US has deported or expelled thousands of Haitians, flee ing from their desperate conditions.Inhis statement of August 8, Almagro iden tified what amounts to a programme of action to try to save Haiti. It includes: bringing violence under control and disarming the gangs; providing technical and financial resources to address the current security situation; creating a cen tral mechanism to deploy assistance without overlap ping and wasteful efforts; a strong monitoring compo nent to combat corruption; drafting a new Constitu tion that fixes deficiencies in the existing constitution, including by establishing an autonomous Central Bank, an independent justice system, a functioning and effective education system; and investment to create employment and alleviate poverty.Fewwould disagree with this agenda. The questions it raises are: who would provide the financing and which agency would be trusted to implement it? These are questions, which must be addressed before Haiti sinks even deeper into an even bigger catastrophic humanitarian crisis than it has suffered so far. Haiti must become a priority on the agenda of all international and regional bodies now.
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HAITI has never been far from wide-scale human suffering, grave political instability, and grim eco nomic underdevelopment. But its circumstances today are worse than they have beenThebefore.country has become a battle ground for rival crim inal gangs, whose weapons are superior to those of the police, both in quantity and fire power. These gangs have established fiefdoms in which they rule supreme, terrorising communi ties, kidnapping people, demanding huge ransoms, committing vile murders and even burning their vic tims – alive or dead. Even more disturbing, some gangs appear to have estab lished links with politicians. Beyond the loss of con trol of law and order, the country is being governed, in name, by unelected officials with no inde pendent judiciary or functioning national assem bly. An accord among civil society groups and political players, fashioned in Sep tember 2021, has collapsed. This makes fulfilment of the desire for a “Haitian-led” solution to the country’s problems most unlikely, and not credible. What makes this situa tion worse is that Haiti has no strong institutions to support governance and to address the deep-seated problems of the country. Some nations – among them countries whose gov ernments have contributed to the underdevelopment and weakness of Haiti –now conveniently hide behind the Haitian call for a “Haitian-led” solu tion, to do little or nothing. The United Nations (UN) withdrew its Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUS TAH) in October 2017 after 13 years. Despite the dire situation which now exists, the UN Security Council opted to extend the mandate of its Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) until July 15, 2023, but not to expand it to tackle the spiral of violence, lawlessness, and the terror of armed Againstgangs.this back ground, Luis Almagro, the Secretary-General of the Organization of Ameri can States (OAS), issued a rousing public indict ment of the “international community” and the selfinterested political elite in Haiti. Almagro minced no words when he declared: “The institutional crisis that Haiti is experienc ing right now is a direct result of the actions taken by the country’s endog enous forces and by the international community”. He stated unequivocally that, “The last 20 years of the international community’s presence in Haiti has amounted to one of the worst and clear est failures implemented and executed within the framework of international cooperation”. To be clear, “the international commu nity” in Haiti amounted to “a core group”, compromis ing the European Union, the UN, the OAS, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, and Spain. I publicly agreed with his assessment. It was the most honest and compelling statement by a high official of any regional or inter national institution ever issued, concerning Haiti. In agreeing with his statement, I interpreted his defini tion of the “international community” as includ ing every country, every international financial and development institution, the United Nations and its organs, and the OAS itself. But I also recognized then, what I later said in the Permanent Council of the OAS on August 17, when the Foreign Minister of Haiti, Jean Victor Généus, clearly prompted by Alma gro’s statement, asked for a meeting.WhatI said, in brief, was that “many countries in the international community are perfectly innocent of what happens in Haiti or has happened there. There are others - both countries and institutions - that have damaged Haiti irreparably over many years. Now, it is up to those countries to do something to correct the situation. Financial support is the obligation of those members of the interna tional community with the resources to do so. And many of them, incidentally, bear responsibility for the situation in Haiti today.”
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Haiti sinking deeper into catastrophewho will save it?
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RONALD SANDERS ViewWorld
• Responses and previ ous commentaries: www. sirronaldsanders.com (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassa dor to the United States of America and the Organiza tion of American States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Common wealth Studies, University of London and Massey College in the UniversityToronto)of ,
BLUE tarps serve as roof coverings in Camp Devirel set up by earthquake refugees in Les Cayes, Haiti, last week. A year after a magnitude-7.2 quake hit southern Haiti, the hundreds that were left homeless are still living in the same makeshift tents.
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Of the students who went by pronouns other than just “she/her” or “he/him,” nearly 97% indicated using “they/them” as one of their pronoun sets. Just 19 stu dents reported using only neopronouns, or new pro nouns – that is, third-person singular pronouns other than the common ones of she, he, they and it – for themselves.Theuse of “they/them” in the singular is not new. The practice goes back at least to the 1300s. The singular “they/them” fell out of favor in the 1800s, when “he/him” began to be widely used generically to refer to someone in the third person, despite oppo sition from many women.
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Through their use of dif ferent gender labels and pronouns, young nonbinary people are making detailed distinctions between dif ferent gender identities and showing how gender is unique to the individual. For example, the most common gender identity written in by the students was “genderfluid,” which was given by more than 40% of the write-ins. At the same time, many students named the specific way that their gender is fluid, such as genderfae individuals, whose gender can be fluid between feminine genders, nonbinary genders and gen derlessness but which does not encompass masculine genders.Incontrast to the prolif eration of gender labels, the other major trend among the college applicants was the common use of “they/ them” pronouns.
• Originally published www.theconversation.com.on College students are increasingly identifying beyond ‘she’ and ‘he’
By GENNY BEEMYN , UMass Amherst WHEN students today fill out their college appli cations, they are not just identifying as “she” or “he.” More than 3% of incom ing college students use a different set of pronouns. That’s according to my anal ysis of the more than 1.2 million applications submit ted for the 2022-23 school year through the Common App, an online application platform used by more than 900Whilecolleges.3% may not seem like a lot, it represents nearly 37,000 students. It is also indicative of a growing number of young people who identify outside of a gender binary – that is, they do not identify as female or male. For example, the per centage of college students who indicated that they are nonbinary on one national survey has nearly tripled from 1.4% in 2016 to 4.1% in 2021.
Unlike earlier attempts to create a singular thirdperson pronoun, the singular “they/them” has caught on in the larger society. It is considered appropriate language by online dictionaries, writ ing style guidelines and the news media. “They” in the singular was even declared “word of the year” by Mer riam-Webster in 2019. The American Dialect Society designated “they” as “word of the decade” for the 2010s.The widespread usage of “they/them” may be a recognition by many non binary students of the difficulty of getting others to use pronouns that may not be well known even in trans communities. This was my own experience. When I came out as non binary decades ago, I asked others to use “ze/hir” – pro nounced “zee” and “here” – for me. But few people did. Unlike “they/them,” it was not language they knew or were comfortable using. After a few years, I decided to go by “they/them” and found people generally more willing and readily able to respect my identity. It certainly helped that I worked in higher educa tion directing an LGBTQ+ center.
Despite the growing vis ibility of neopronouns today, people who use these pronouns still struggle to get others to learn and respect them. Neopronouns are hardly more accepted in the larger society now than they were when I used them in the late 1990s, or when they were proposed as early as the 1700s. To learn all the gen ders and pronouns used by nonbinary people today would be a difficult task and never-ending, as more and more genders and pronouns will undoubtedly continue to be Butdevised.knowing all possible gender options should not be the point. What I think matters is knowing how the people in our lives see their gender and what pronouns they use for themselves and then using these pronouns. This may involve learn ing different words to refer to someone, but people are always learning new terms. How many people knew the word “coronavirus” five yearsUsingago?new pronouns for others affirms who they are and enables them to feel respected and seen. For many young nonbi nary people who report that they are often misgen dered, receiving support for their gender identities can improve their mental health and reduce their sense of social stigma. It really does not take much to learn to use pronouns like “ze/hir” or “xe/xem” (pronounced “zee” and “zem”), but it can go a long way toward building a positive relationship with someone and creating an inclusive culture for nonbi nary people.
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BEYONDBINARYTHE In analyzing the data from the Common App, I found that 2.2% of students – more than 26,000 individu als – who applied to college for this fall identified as transgender or nonbinary. This figure is likely an undercount because some students may be reluctant to indicate their gender identity on an admissions form. For instance, students often complete their col lege applications with their families and are unlikely to state that they are trans or nonbinary if they are not out to them. The leaders of the Common App provided me with data from the college applications for the 2022-23 school year so that I could analyze how students today identify their gender and what pronouns they use. Students’ names and other identifying information were withheld. In looking at how stu dents named their gender and pronouns on the Common App, two con trasting trends stood out to me.One is the number of ways that nonbinary stu dents have developed to describe their gender. Whereas trans people used relatively few gender iden tity labels for themselves when I came out as non binary in the late 1990s, these students provided approximately 130 different genders and about 78 dif ferent pronoun sets – from “ae/aem,” which was first used in a 1920 science fic tion novel with third-gender characters who were born from air, to “ze/zir,” which is likely based on the German plural third-person pronoun “sie.”
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By KHRISNA RUSSELL Tribune Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net
HEALTH and Well ness Minister Dr Michael Darville has admitted that paediatric doses of the COVID-19 vaccine “are moving a little slower than we expected” with only about 320 to 330 adminis tered so far. The Pfizer vaccines were started for children aged five to 11 on Thursday, July 28, days after 24,000 doses were delivered to the coun try from France through the COVAX facility.
“The first rollout will be about 15 schools in New Providence and they also identified about four to five Family Islands,” she said. Commissioner of Police, Clayton Fernander was in attendance as the keynote speaker. He expressed his support for the initiative.
Tensions have grown since the collapse of the second meeting between former President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in early 2019. The Americans then rejected North Korean demands for a major release of crippling US-led sanctions in exchange for dismantling an aging nuclear complex, which would have amounted to a partial surrender of the North’s nuclear capabilities. Kim has since vowed to bol ster his nuclear deterrent in face of “gangster-like” US pressure.South Korea’s mili tary has not revealed the number of South Korean and US troops partici pating in Ulchi Freedom Shield, but has portrayed the training as a message of strength. Seoul’s Defence Ministry said last week that Ulchi Freedom Shield “normalizes” large-scale training and field exercises between the allies to help bolster their alliance and strengthen their defense posture against the evolving North Korean threat. Before being shelved or downsized, the United States and South Korea held major joint exercises every spring and summer in South Korea. The spring drills had included live-fire drills involving a broad range of land, air and sea assets and usually involved around 10,000 American and 200,000 Korean troops. Tens of thousands of allied troops participated in the summertime drills, which mainly consisted of com puter simulations to hone joint decision-making and planning, although South Korea’s military has empha sized the revival of field training this year. The drills follow North Korea’s dismissal last week of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s “audacious” proposal of economic benefits in exchange for denucleari sation steps, accusing Seoul of recycling propos als Pyongyang has long rejected.Kim Yo Jong, the increasingly powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, described Yoon’s proposal as fool ish and stressed that the North has no intentions to give away an arsenal her brother clearly sees as his strongest guarantee of survival. IN YEARS AMID DRAGONS
US AND S KOREA START BIGGEST DRILLS
Asked by The Tribune whether he was concerned inflation will discourage new construction in the country, Mr Sands said: “I think it is a concern and I think it should be a concern that everyone looks at. I think not unless they are driven by other fac tors where no matter the cost, they are going to see a recoup in their investment. I think it is something that should be watched and be mindful that it could impact the amount of newFollowingconstruction.”the pan demic, the president said there is a high demand for construction, specifically in Grand Bahama and Abaco as a result of Dorian. “To speak categorically across the board is a bit reckless, but I can say that there is a very, very strong demand and activity in the islands of Grand Bahama and Abaco, obviously post Dorian,” he told this newspaper. “Whether it’s costly or not you still have to reconstruct homes and businesses that were once there and destroyed in the hurricane.”
“We understand that inflation from the govern ment’s indication and on the ground, have impacted an increase in construction and materials across the board. Construction material on the whole post the pandemic has increased probably some 60 percent,” he said yesterday. According to Mr Sands, in addition to inflation con tributing to the rising cost of construction, the demand in other regions plays a sig nificant“Morerole.often we are finding that it’s just the results of demands in other regions where persons are purchasing supplies and grabbing them up, and so suppliers are having to sell to the most profitable market. “If somebody is offering double what you are selling, you are going to sell it to them. You are going to say to the other customer you are getting strong demand here what are you going to do? So, it’s affecting us.”
THIRTY police officers successfully graduated and trained to serve in public schools.OnFriday, the school of Professional Develop ment in conjunction with the National Association of School Resource Officers hosted the graduation cere mony for the police officers. The National Association of School Resource officers is said to be the world’s leader in school-based policing. Course participants hailed from New Provi dence, Grand Bahama, Abaco, Eleuthera, Andros, Exuma and Ragged Island. After continuously advo cating for the return of police on school campuses, Belinda Wilson, president of the Bahamas Union of Teachers supports the reim plementation of the school policing programme. “I am pleased the school policing programme is back on stream and I wish all of the success,” she said. “I hope that this year 2022 will be a positive year for us, especially with school violence because we have seen an increase in school violence over the years,” she said. “But, as I always say when the police officers are on the campus, I say to our school leaders and to our teacher, they are not there to teach the students, they are there to work along with you.” Ms Wilson is hopeful that the school policing pro gramme will have a positive impact, especially in regard to school violence. “I believe that the officers will make a great impact, because of their training alone-the intelligence that they use and their skill to detect even sometimes when a crime may occur, so the prevention of a crime with the officer is great.
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He said officials were working on a strategy to encourage parents and guardians to have their chil dren vaccinated when asked whether there was a goal in mind for this age group. “School is closed. A lot of our kids are travelling and we have a plan to distrib ute paediatric doses in the schools. We have not final ised how that will be rolled out as yet, but we are work ing very, very assiduously to come up with a strategy. “We know for a fact that if we are going to adminis ter the vaccines in school a guardian or the parent must accompany the child along with a written documentation.“So,we’reworking out the logistics on how to do it in the school but as we speak all vaccines, includ ing the paediatric doses, are available. It’s available. The roll out has been rela tively slow with somewhere between 320 to 330 doses.” Last month, Dr Darville said despite a noted drop in vaccination rates over the last several months, pre liminary data had suggested that vaccine uptake was increasing in the country. “Preliminary reports from our vaccination com mittees indicated that we are seeing some increased uptake,” Dr Darville said at the time. “I’m pleased at what we are seeing at the Mall of Marathon. We’re putting together a new site in Grand Bahama. “The site of the final loca tion, I think, has been agreed to and very soon we will be able to start administering vaccines at that location as well. Meanwhile, at all of our polyclinics, including Grand Bahama, we are administer ing vaccines. We intend to do it for the paediatric vac cine as Morewell.”than 170,000 people in The Bahamas have been fully vaccinated against the disease since the start of the government’s vaccination programme last March.
The allies will also train for drone attacks and other new developments in war fare shown during Russia’s war on Ukraine and prac tice joint military-civilian responses to attacks on sea ports, airports and major industrial facilities such as semiconductor factories. The United States and South Korea in past years had canceled some of their regular drills and down sized others to computer simulations to create space for the Trump administra tion’s diplomacy with North Korea and because of COVID-19 concerns.
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By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS lmunnings@tribunemedia.net
THE Bahamian Contrac tors Association (BCA) says post pandemic inflation has influenced an increase in construction materials by around “60 percent”. In an interview with The Tribune, BCA president Leonard Sands said the increase in construction and material costs has come across the board due to inflation.
“I believe that they bring another layer of support for the security officers whose job is really to protect the government’s property.
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“The only advice I would give to the public is when seeking a contractor’s work, shop around. Get as much estimates and pricing if pos sible, to determine whether this is the best price that you are getting to do said work.”
The minister said a number of factors could have contributed to the slow uptake, despite schools opening on August 29. “It could be a combination of things. One, it could be the fact that kids are moving back and forth, two, the inci dents of COVID are very low in the country at this time and we know that when the incidents are low in the country people are less moti vated to be vaccinated. “Three - the issue of the Omicron variant seems to be less virulent and so a lot people are not in hospital sick from COVID and so all of these combined factors could be associated along with parents travelling could be associated with the slow uptake with the doses, but they are available.”
Freedom Shield exercises will con tinue through September 1 in South Korea and include field exercises involving air craft, warships, tanks and potentially tens of thou sands of troops. While Washington and Seoul describe their exer cises as defensive, North Korea portrays them as invasion rehearsals and has used them to justify its nuclear weapons and mis silesUlchidevelopment.Freedom Shield, which started along with a four-day South Korean civil defense training pro gram led by government employees, will reportedly include exercises simulat ing joint attacks, front-line reinforcements of arms and fuel, and removals of weap ons of mass destruction.
Mr Sands explained that some contractors are heav ily benefiting from the peak, while others may be finding fewer opportunities. He advised members of the public to “shop around” when seeking a contractor.
SEOUL, South Korea Associated Press THE United States and South Korea began their biggest combined military training in years today as they heighten their defence posture against the grow ing North Korean nuclear threat.The drills could draw an angry response from North Korea, which has dialed up its weapons testing activity to a record pace this year while repeatedly threat ening conflicts with Seoul and Washington amid a prolonged stalemate in diplomacy.TheUlchi
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“I spoke with one of the team members and the paediatric doses are moving a little slower than we expected,” Dr Darville told The Tribune in a recent interview.“Todate, we have admin istered somewhere between 320 to 330 doses as of today (Thursday).“Thepaediatric doses are available at the Mall at Marathon, the Fla mingo Gardens Clinic, the Fleming Street Clinic, the Elizabeth Estates Clinic, South Beach, Family Island clinics and at the Seventeen Centre in Freeport.”
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FREEPORT, Grand Bahama — In what could be described as the best showing in the history of the event, the Bahamas wrapped up the 2022 North American, Central Ameri can and Caribbean Open Championships with a total of seven medals. The competitive threeday championships, which produced a total of 22 records, ended with a bang for the Bahamas with the women’s 4 x 100m and the men’s 4 x 400m teams earning silver and bronze medals respectively in yesterday’s final day of competition at the Grand Bahama Sports Complex. Behind the inspira tional anchor leg by Tynia Gaither, bringing the Baha mas from fourth place to second, the remainder of the team, including Printas sia Johnson, Anthonique Strachan and Devynne Charlton, clocked a sea son’s best of 43.34 seconds. The United States of America held on for the victory in 42.35 and Jamaica trailed in third for the bronze in 43.39. “It was a lot of fun run ning in front of the home crowd, so there was no better way to end the meet than the way we did,” she said. “When I got the baton, I just decided to go for it. I was happy to be able to run with these girls. We had a lot of fun out there.”
VICTORY AT HOME: Shaunae Miller-Uibo ended her season at home in The Bahamas by winning the 400 metre finals and set ting a new meet record on Saturday at the North American, Central American and Caribbean Open Championships at the Grand Bahama Sports Complex. Miller-Uibo finished ahead of her competitors in a time of 49.40 seconds – a new NACAC record – to replace the previous mark of 50.82 set by American Courtney Okolo. Photo: Vandyke Hepburn/BIS
Newcastle serves warning by giving City big fright in EPL FREEPORT, Grand Bahama — With the home crowd cheering her on at the Grand Bahama Sports Complex, Tynia Gaither powered through for a silver medal at the 2022 North American, Central American and Caribbean Open Championships. It was her second time on the podium, coming three years later since she ascended the dais for the bronze at the Pan Ameri can Games in Lima, Peru in 22.76 seconds in 2019. This one, however, was sweeter, doing it on home soil in equalling her per sonal best of 22.41.
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BLUE Jays’ Bo Bichette (11) is out at second by Yankees sec ond baseman Gleyber Torres yesterday.(APPhoto/Corey Sipkin)
IN years to come, if Newcastle is contend ing for Premier League and Champions League titles as widely expected, the Saudi-funded team might look back on this game as the one when it truly arrived as a force in soccer.Few opponents have given Manchester City the kind of battering Newcastle dished out in the first half of a rip-roar ing 3-3 draw yesterday. And when Kieran Trip pier curled a stunning free kick into the top corner to put a rampant Newcas tle 3-1 ahead in the 54th minute, it looked as if City was going to slump to one of its heaviest Premier League losses under Pep Guardiola. However, City is the defending cham pion for a reason and goals in the 60th by Erling Haaland and the 64th by Bernardo Silva — follow ing a wondrous pass from Kevin De Bruyne — sal vaged a point that will be gratefully accepted by Guardiola. “We said before the game we
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NEWCASTLE’s Kieran Trippier fouls Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne during their English Premier League soccer match at St James Park in Newcastle, England, yesterday. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira)
METS PHILLIES10, 9 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Reliever Nate Fisher pitched three scoreless innings in his major league debut, Mark Canha hit two homers and drove in five runs and New York rallied pastCanha’sPhiladelphia.second homer was a go-ahead, two-run drive in the ninth inning. Brandon Nimmo hit a solo homer two batters later for the NL East leaders, who took three of four in the series.Fisher, who a year ago was working in a bank. allowed one hit while strik ing out one and walking two.Alec Bohm hit a pair of three-run homers and Jean Segura also went deep for the Phillies, who have lost four of five. Philadelphia entered second in the NL wild-card race. David Rob ertson (3-1) took the loss.
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ASTROS 5, BRAVES 4 ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta outfielder Marcell Ozuna was booed by his AL sweep,YankeesEast-leadingavoidseriesbeatToronto
NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Benintendi hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer in the seventh inning and the New York Yankees got a win they desper ately needed, beating the Toronto Blue Jays 4-2 yes terday to avoid a four-game sweep.The AL East-leading Yankees won for just the 10th time in 30 games since the All-Star break. They top the division by eight games over Toronto. Anthony Rizzo scored on a throwing error by Toronto left fielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr in the first and DJ LeMa hieu hit a go-ahead RBI single in the fourth. Whit Merrifield hit a bizarre home run in the Toronto fourth on a ball that twice bounced on the fence before going over. The Blue Jays had won four in a row. Lou Trivino (2-7) got the final seven outs and the win. Adam Cimber (9-5) took the loss.
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TYNIA GAITHER FREEPORT, Grand Bahama — Rhema Otabor capped off a sensational season by picking up the bronze medal in the wom en’s javelin st the 2022 North American, Central American and Caribbean Open Championships. On the final day of com petition yesterday at the Grand Bahama Sports Complex, Otabor tossed the spear 57.91 metres on her second attempt in the seven-woman field. Americans Kara Winger took the gold with (64.68m) on her second attempt and Ariana Ince got the silver with (59.69m) on her first attempt. “Today, I just wanted to come out and
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Mired in the middle of the championship picture despite having more than twice the wins of any rival, Newgarden is now in the heart of the title hunt. He started the race on the short oval outside St Louis ranked fourth in the standings, 22 points behind leader Will Power, his Penske teammate. Newgarden is now second in the standings and just three points behind Power with two races remaining. Newgarden won for the third consecutive year at WWTR and fourth time in hisThecareer.rain delay saved the race for McLaughlinNewgarden.had taken the lead from him on pit strategy shortly before the race was stopped for rain and lightning with 43 laps remaining. After a delay of just over 2 hours, the race resumed with 36 laps to go and Newgarden needed only one to get past his buddy for the race-winning pass.“Great effort, great team,” Newgarden radi oed his team. “Great, great effort. Perfect car.” David Malukas, the rookie for Dale Coyne Racing, put on a stunning display of picking his way through traffic after the final restart. He passed McLaughlin on the final lap to disrupt the potential Penske 1-2 finish, and had the race gone one more lap, Malukas might have had a shot at catching Newgarden for the Newgardenwin. in a Chev rolet beat Malukas in a Honda by 0.4708-seconds. “They said ‘Do you see them up front?’ and I just see two Penskes and think ‘Oh my God, they’re Pen skes,’” the 20-year-old said. “They were tough. They were tough to even get any kind of suck to get close to them.”With two laps to go, Malukas at last ventured into the top line of the track and found it racy enough to catch McLaughlin. He instantly lamented not trying the lane earlier. “If I would have done that a bit sooner, maybe we could have done something for Newgarden,” Malu kas said. “That is a win for me, a win for the team. We started off this season a bit rough and ever since May we’ve been getting better and better. We knew a podium was in sight.”
UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — Kayla Thornton scored 20 points and Teaira McCowan had 17 points and 11 rebounds to help the Dallas Wings beat the Connecticut Sun 89-79 yes terday to avoid elimination and win the franchise’s first playoff game since 2009. The sixth-seeded Wings, who will host Wednesday’s Game 3, never trailed. They led by double digits for the final 26-plus minutes, despite a 22-2 fourth-quar ter run that trimmed a 31-point Sun deficit to 84-73 with less than 2 minutes left.“I think we have to learn how to capitalise,” McCowan said. “With us being a young team, you know, sometimes we get a little sloppy — as you could see at the end. But, I mean, once we tighten that up, it’ll be good for the next game.”
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DALLAS Wings guard Allisha Gray (15) scores over Connecticut Sun forward Jonquel Jones, left, during Game 1 of a WNBA basketball first-round playoff series. (Sean D Elliot/The Day via AP)
Taurasi was out with a quadriceps strain, DigginsSmith stepped away last week for personal rea sons and Griner is being detained in Russia on drug charges.
Allisha Gray had 15 points, eight assists and three steals for the Wings, and Marina Mabrey scored 14Jonquelpoints. Jones had 20 points and nine rebounds for third-seeded Connecti cut, and Brionna Jones also scoredDiJonai20. Carrington added 13 points. “I knew I had to go in and do what I do best, which is rebound, be a dominant force inside, and that’s what I did tonight for my team mates” said McCowan, who had seven points and five rebounds in Game 1. “We have to put our talent to work. I mean, we know what we can do. We have great players on our team so if everyone plays their role, plays team offence and defence, we’ll beDallasfine. shot 48% (36 of 75) from the field, made 11 of 26 (42.3%) from 3-point range and finished with 28 assists.
LIGHTS FIGHT Matthew Brabham briefly stopped Linus Lundqvist’s rout in Indy Lights by win ning the junior series race earlier Saturday. It was the second win of the season for the Andretti Autosport driver, who is the grand son of three-time Formula One World Champion Jack Brabham.Lundqvist, who has won five of 10 races this season, finished second and Brab ham conceded the title to him. Brabham’s win moved him to second in the stand ings, more than 100 points behind Lundqvist with three races remaining. “I’m just focusing on race wins personally. Anything can happen, but I seriously doubt it,” said Brabham. Lundqvist, meanwhile, has had slow going in talks on a promotion to IndyCar next season. He drive for an affiliate team of Dale Coyne Racing, which is in contract talks on bringing Takuma Sato back another year.“I’m calling people. Not the other way around, unfortunately,” said Lun dqvist, adding his success rate was “about 50% ratio” on getting a team on the phone.“Ijust call them 10 times. They’re bound to pick up sometimes,” he said. Meanwhile, reigning NASCAR Mexico cham pion Salvador de Alba won the Indy Pro 2000 race from the pole. It was de Alba’s second career victory, but he inherited his first win last month at Indianapolis Motor Speedway when his teammate failed post-race inspection. UP NEXT IndyCar races Septem ber 24 on the road course at Portland.Palou won from the pole last year to reclaim the IndyCar points lead and ultimately win his first championship. ROCKETS INTO TITLE CONTENTION WITH 5TH INDYCAR WIN
McLaughlin finished third for Penske and was followed by Pato O’Ward of Arrow McLaren SP in fourth. The race began with seven drivers separated by 59 points in the standings; it ended with seven drivers separated by 58 points — O’Ward gained a point. Takuma Sato finished fifth for Coyne and was fol lowed by Power, who had a near perfect first half of the race and was routing the field until a split Penske strategy pushed him back into traffic. It was a disappointing race for the title contenders from Chip Ganassi Racing; all three lost ground in the standings. Marcus Erics son finished seventh, Scott Dixon was eighth and reign ing IndyCar champion Alex Palou was ninth. Dixon dropped from second in the standings, six points out, to third in points and 14 out. Even so, only 17 points separate the top four in the standings from Power to Ericsson in one of the most gripping title races in years. At Gateway, the 520 total passes were the most since 2017 when IndyCar returned to the track, and a record 179 of those passes were for position.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Chelsea Gray had 27 points and eight assists and hit a career-high seven of Las Vegas’ WNBA playoffrecord 23 3-pointers and the Aces beat the Phoe nix Mercury 117-80 on Saturday night to sweep the best-of-three series. Las Vegas, which never trailed, also set WNBA playoff marks for consecu tive field goals made to open a game (10) and most 3-pointers in a half (11, in theThefirst).top-seeded Aces beat Phoenix 79-63 on Wednesday.LasVegas will play the fourth-seeded Seattle Storm in the best-of-five semifinals.KaelaDavis led shorthanded Phoenix with 23 points.Phoenix was without Diana Taurasi, Skylar Dig gins-Smith and Brittney Griner.
SKY LIBERTY100, 62 CHICAGO (AP) — Kahleah Copper scored 20 points and Courtney Van dersloot added 16 to help Chicago to a record rout to force a decisive Game 3 on Tuesday night in New York. Candace Parker added 12 points, 12 rebounds and four assists for the Sky. They broke their own WNBA record for larg est margin of victory in the playoffs.Chicago won by 36 at home in Game 3 of the Finals against the Phoenix Mercury last year en route to the Hantitle.Xu and Michaela Onyenwere each scored 10 points for New York.
SEATTLE (AP) — Breanna Stewart had 21 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists, Sue Bird added season highs of 18 points and 10 assists, and the Seattle Storm beat the Washington Mystics 97-84 yesterday to sweep their opening-round series.No. 4 seed Seattle plays top-seeded Las Vegas in the second round. The best-offive series begins next Sunday in Las Vegas. Jewell Loyd was 5 of 10 from 3-point range and finished with 19 points for the Storm. Gabby Williams, who suffered a concussion in the third quarter and did not return, scored 14 points and Tina Charles addedAriel10. Atkins hit a 3-pointer 13 seconds into the third quarter to give the Mystics a 46-45 lead, but Stewart answered with a 3 on the other end and Seattle never again trailed. Stewart made a fade-away jumper to stretch the Storm’s lead to 17 points with 6 min utes to Natashaplay.Cloud made 5 of 8 from 3-point range and finished with 21 points for Washington. Atkins added 15 points and seven assists, Elena Delle Donne and Sha tori lowandfinished23)field,ofandscoredWalker-Kimbrough12pointsapiece,AlyshaClark10.TheStormmade3563(55.6%)fromtheshot52.2%(12offrom3-pointrange.with27assistscommittedaseason-eightturnovers.
LAS Vegas Aces guard Chelsea Gray (12) celebrates after making a 3-point shot against the Phoenix Mercury during the second half in Game 2 of a WNBA basketball first-round playoff series in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
JOSEF Newgarden (2) reacts after winning an IndyCar auto race at World Wide Technology Raceway on Saturday in Madison, Ill. (AP Photo/Joe Puetz)
Thornton, Wings beat Jonquel Jones and Sun, force deciding Game 3
MADISON, Ill. (AP) — Josef Newgarden considers teammate Scott McLaugh lin one of his closest friends, his “Bus Bro” at the race track, and the driver he knows who will race him clean with a win on the line. That made it a lot easier for Newgarden to chase down McLaughlin on a restart following a rain delay to reclaim the lead at World Wide Technology Raceway, take his IndyCarbest fifth win of the season, and tighten the champion ship“Withrace. Scott, it’s a little bittersweet because we just have a great friendship,” Newgarden said. “He’s a tremendous com petitor. I rank Scott one of the elite drivers in the world, not just here, but in the“He’sworld.top class, very dif ficult to beat. We get along really great, he’s a tremen dous teammate, a hard worker and it’s not the easiest friendship to have because at the end of the day, we are competing. “He wanted to win the race and I wanted to win the race. But ultimately we have a tremendous working relationship and nights like this are good. “If we’re battling together, things are going well and we want to see that pretty often.”
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STORM guard Sue Bird in action yesterday. (AP Photo/Ted S Warren)
ATHLETICS 5, MARINERS 3 OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Shea Langeliers got three hits, including Oak land’s first triple after an 81-game drought in a win overNoSeattle.teamin major league history had gone longer without a triple since 1901 until Langeliers, a catcher, hit an RBI drive in the eighth inning. He had two triples this season in Triple-A.JPSears (5-0) allowed one run, on Mitch Haniger’s homer, in five innings. Six A’s relievers held the lead for the team with the worst record in the AL.
STEELERS 16, JAGUARS 15 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Kenny Pickett’s second preseason perfor mance was as impressive as his first, and it came against better competition. Pitts burgh’s rookie quarterback was 6 of 7 for 76 yards and a touchdown in a victory at Jacksonville.Pickett,who threw two second-half TD passes while working with back ups last week against Seattle, was on the field much earlier against the Jaguars.Theformer Pitt stand out, who will likely start the season as Mitch Trubisky’s backup, has completed 19 of 22 passes for 171 yards in the preseason, with three touchdowns and no turnovers.
Despite being consid ered the “old man” in the field at age 38, Thomas continues to enjoy a pro ductive career that includes six Bahamas national titles. World champion in 2007 in Osaka, Japan, Pan Am gold (2011), silver (2007) and bronze (2015) medal list, double gold medallist at the CAC Champion ships (2018 and 2010) and gold medallist at the Com monwealth Games in New Delhi, India in 2010. He attributed his longev ity in the sport to keeping his body healthy. “I stay up with my vita mins, I stay in the gym, I stay with my physios and I train hard,” he revealed. “So I just keep a good habit.”Now that he’s done, Thomas said he will shut down his season, go into rehab and get ready for next“Itseason.wasup and down (season). A lot of injuries,” Thomas pointed out. “But I’m glad that it’s over.”The 2001 world cham pion said his goal is come back better than he did this year as he continues his long and illustrious career.
Photo: Vandyke Hepburn/BIS ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Josh Allen needed just six plays to lead the Bills 70 yards for an opening-drive touch down before taking a seat in his preseason debut, and Buffalo routed the Denver Broncos’ backups 42-15 on Saturday.Allen completed all three attempts for 45 yards, capped by a 28-yard touchdown to Gabe Davis in showing he and new offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey are on the same page. Backup Case Keenum continued the scoring by closing out the first half overseeing three touchdown drives.
RAIDERS DOLPHINS15,13 MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Dolphins quarterback Tua Tago vailoa played in just two series in his preseason debut as Miami fell to Las Vegas.
It was the first look at Tagovailoa in the Dol phins’ new system after the team brought in former 49ers offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel as the new headPlayingcoach.with most of his starters, Tagovailoa was 6 of 8 for 58 yards. Jarrett Stidham led the Raiders on a touchdown drive on the team’s first possession and completed 7 of 10 passes for 80 yards and was sacked once. The score came on a 2-yard touchdown run by running back Zamir White, who could be the Raiders’ No. 1 option to back up starter Josh Jacobs. Jacobs did not play.
BUFFALO Bills quarterback Josh Allen looks to throw during the first half of a preseason NFL football game against the Denver Broncos on Saturday in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T Barnes)
home fans in his return, Kyle Tucker singled to drive in Yordan Alvarez for the go-ahead run in the eighth and Houston beat the Braves to avoid a threegameJosésweep.Urquidy (12-4) gave up two runs and five hits. He walked two and struck out six in seven innings for the AL-leading Astros. Matt Olson hit a tworun homer for the Braves. Reliever Dylan Lee (3-1) took the loss.
TITANS BUCCANEERS13, 3 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Rookie Malik Willis threw the first touch down of his NFL career and Tennessee beat Tampa Bay in its exhibition home opener.Itwas the second straight start for the third-round draft pick out of Liberty, who is competing to be Ryan Tannehill’s backup. Willis was sacked three times while playing a series into the third quarter. He ran five times for 42 yards with a long of 24 yards to set up the first field goal and was 7 of 17 for 80 yards passing with a 75.6 passer rating.
TIGERS ANGELS4,0 DETROIT (AP) — Eduardo Rodriguez pitched five shutout innings in his return to Detroit in a win over Los Angeles. The Tigers’ Riley Greene had a 448-foot homer on the first pitch he saw from Angels starter Shohei Ohtani (10-8) — the long est home run Ohtani has allowed in the majors. Greene ended up reaching base four times. Ohtani left the game with a stomach virus after four innings, in which he allowed three runs on five hits and four walks.
COWBOYS CHARGERS32,18 INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — KaVontae Turpin became the first player in nine seasons to have kickoff and punt return touchdowns in the same game as Dallas beat Los Angeles.Turpin signed with the Cowboys on July 28 after garnering MVP honors in the United States Football League this past spring. Before Turpin, the last player to run back a punt and kickoff in the same game — preseason, regular season or playoffs — was Detroit’s Jeremy Ross on Dec. 8, 2013, against Phila delphia. Victor Bolden of the San Francisco 49ers was the last player to have a kickoff and punt return during the same preseason in 2017.
NACACmedallistbest21-year-oldoverBirmingham,monwealthwithhavingmajoren’sperformancegoldnaewatchedwithfinal,otherwithgoldtheback,metres,7-feet,soaredLovettZayasThomas,Championships.LuisEnriqueofCubaandDjangoofCanadaallthesameheightof4½-inchesor2.25butonthecountThomaswasgivenbronze,ZayasgottheandLovettendedupthesilver.ShaunMillerJr,theBahamianinthehadtosettleforsixth7-21/4(2.19m)ashehisbigsisterShauMiller-Uiboclinchtheinherseason-endinginthewom400mfinal.ItwasMillerJr’ssecondinternationalmeet,justcompetedThomasattheComGamesinEnglandjustaweekagowherethewas10thwithaof6-10¾(2.10m).Thomas,thebronzeinthe2018Championships in Toronto, Canada, came into the meet having fallen short of the podium in Bir mingham with a fourth place performance of 7-3 ¼ (2.22m).Aweek before that at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, he was 12th in Group B with 7-3 (2.21m) for a two-way tie for 23rd overall. Just before competing in the event, Thomas said he was advised by the doctor not to compete because of inflammation in his take off knee. But he said he didn’t want to let the people down who came to see him compete.“Itfelt good. This is home, so I wanted to come home and represent the Bahamian people to the best of my abilities,” Thomas said. “I felt a little short, but I will take it.”
LIONS 27, COLTS 26 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Godwin Igwebuike’s 2-yard scoring run gave Detroit a late lead and the defense stopped a 2-point conversion attempt in the final minute to hold on for a victory in a preseason game.Igwebuike’s tiebreak ing score came with 4:03 to play. He had seven carries for 32 yards. But most of the attention was focused on quarterbacks David Blough and Tim Boyle.
RAYS ROYALS3, 2 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Harold Ramirez had three hits and drove in two runs, leading Tampa Bay past Kansas City. The Rays have won seven of nine, and held oppo nents to three runs or fewer in eight of their last nine games.Kansas City right-hander Zack Greinke was lifted after allowing two runs and five hits over four innings. Jose Cuas (2-2) started the fifth and took the loss.
DODGERS 10, MARLINS 3 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rookie Ryan Pepiot celebrated his 25th birth day by getting the best of a matchup with All-Star and Cy Young Award candidate Sandy Alcantara in Los Angeles’ win over Miami. Pepiot held the Marlins to two runs on four hits as Los Angeles won its ninth consecutive home game. Cody Bellinger and Max Muncy hit a home runs and Will Smith drove in three runs for the Dodgers.
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GLENDALE, Arizona (AP) — Rookie tight end Isaiah Likely caught eight passes for 100 yards and a touchdown and the Balti more Ravens ran their preseason winning streak to 22 games, beat ing the Arizona Cardinals 24-17 lastLikelynight. — a fourth-round pick out of Coastal Carolina — was Tyler Huntley’s favourite target for Baltimore (2-0) during the first half.The two hooked up for an 8-yard touchdown play midway through the second quarter. Both teams sat the majority of their star players, including their startingArizona’squarterbacks.KylerMurray and Bal timore’s Lamar Jackson haven’t played at all so far in the preseason. Murray was spotted in the second half with a headset and playsheet, making calls on the sideline. Huntley completed 13 of 14 passes for 129 yards and a touch down. Rookie Anthony Brown threw two touchdown passes and an interception. Trace McSorley got the majority of the playing time at quarterback for the Car dinals (1-1). He was 18 of 34 for 229 yards and two interceptions. Jarrett Guarantano threw a touch down pass in the fourth quarter.
EAGLES BROWNS21,20 CLEVELAND (AP) — Joshua Dobbs ran for a touchdown and looked good directing Cleveland’s backups during a loss to Philadel phia in an exhibition watched by both team’s starters, along with soon-to-be-suspended Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson. Dobbs scored on a 3-yard run in the first quarter and had his second strong performance of the preseason for the Browns (1-1), who are hoping he can be their No. 2 QB behind Jacoby Brissett while Watson serves an 11-game suspension.Dobbsfinished 14 of 20 for 141 yards before Josh Rosen replaced him in the third quarter. With Philadelphia starting quar terback Jalen Hurts sitting out, Gardner Minshew the Eagles (1-1) on two long touchdown drives in the first half.
GIANTS BENGALS25,22 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Davis Webb threw a 15-yard touchdown pass to Alex Bachman with 35 seconds to play to lift New York past Cincinnati. Webb’s second touchdown pass of the half to Bachman capped a 75-yard march that started after Jacques Patrick scored on a 3-yard run with 3:05 to play to put the Bengals ahead 22-18. Webb, who is the Giants’ third quarterback behind Daniel Jones and Tyrod Taylor, finished 22 of 27 for 204 yards, including a 22-yard TD pass to Bachman earlier in the quarter that gave New York an 18-16 lead. Bachman finished with 11 catches for 122 yards. Giants improved to 2-0 under new coach Brian Daboll. The Ben gals (0-2) did not play their starters for the 2nd straight week. Giants top draft pick Kayvon Thibodeaux, the edge rusher who was the No. 5 overall selection in the draft, hurt his right knee in the second quar ter and did not return.
PAGE 16, Monday, August 22, 2022 THE TRIBUNE FREEPORT, Grand Bahama – In his bid to delight his home crowd on his return to Grand Bahama, Donald Thomas defied the doctor’s order not to compete and put on a show for the men’s high jump bronze medal at the 2022 North American, Central American and Car ibbean
CHIEFS COMMANDERS24, 14 KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes led two similar touchdown drives and Kansas City defeated Washington in a preseason game. The first one was a 12-play, 87-yard drive in 5:28, capped by a 5-yard touchdown pass to Jody Fortson. The second was a 12-play, 82-yard drive that took 5:25 and was capped by a 7-yard touchdown to Fortson.Mahomes finished 12 of 19 for 162 yards. In two preseason games, Mahomes has played three series and led three touch downWashingtondrives. starter Carson Wentz played three series and finished 6 of 9 for 64 yards.
ALLEN, BILLS TOP BRONCOS 42-15, MAHOMES THROWS 2 TD PASSES
RANGERS 7, TWINS 0 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Marcus Semien and Nathaniel Lowe homered, Kohei Arihara pitched a career-high six innings and combined with Taylor Hearn for the shutout for Texas.Semien drove in three runs as the Rangers won for the third time in four games. Adolis García extended his hitting streak to 18 games, the longest current streak in the majors.
Competing just in front of a large group of specta tors on the first bend of the track, Thomas said it was an amazing feeling to feel their support. “When I heard the crowd making all that noise, I couldn’t feel the pain anymore,” said Thomas, as he stirred up the crowd on every jump he took. “Something in my mind said ‘let’s go, you gat to do it,’ so I just went for it.”There was more pres sure in the competition than there was from his knee being strapped down. “In the beginning of the competition, the strap was limiting my movement, so I just took it off,” Thomas said. “I just gave it all I had.”
Donald Thomas puts on a show in the high jump, wins the bronze
CARDINALS DIAMONDBACKS6, 4 PHOENIX (AP) — Nolan Arenado hit a two-run single in the sev enth inning and finished with three RBIs, helping St. Louis stretch its winning streak to seven games. Trailing 4-3, the Cardi nals loaded the bases in the seventh after pinchhitter Albert Pujols singled off Joe Mantiply (1-4) and Kevin Ginkel hit Paul Goldschmidt with a pitch. Arenado, who had a runscoring single in the first inning, lined a single to right-center to put St. Louis up 5-4.
BREWERS 5, CUBS 2 CHICAGO (AP) — Keston Hiura homered twice and drove in three runs, and Milwaukee beat Chicago to salvage the finale of the weekend series. Rowdy Tellez also con nected and Willy Adames hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly for Milwaukee, which had dropped three of four.
DONALD Thomas clears the bar in the men’s high jump as Shaun Miller Jr looks on.
49ERS VIKINGS17, 7 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Nate Sudfeld led a 14-play, 79-yard drive for a go-ahead touchdown early in the fourth quarter and San Francisco beat Minne sota in a preseason game featuring mostly backups. Sudfeld started and went 13 of 17 for 102 yards in the competition with rookie Brock Purdy to back up starting quarterback Trey Lance.JaMychal Hasty caught the touchdown toss from Sudfeld and rookie Danny Gray hauled in a 2-point conversion after a busted coverage by Minnesota. It was largely a sloppy performance for both teams after nearly all the projected first-team players were held out.
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RAVENS RUN PRESEASON STREAK TO 22, BEATING CARDINALS 24-17
After two better-thanexpected Premier League campaigns under David Moyes, West Ham might be a set for tough season this time.A 2-0 home loss to Brighton condemned West Ham to a third straight defeat to open the season. Perhaps it was to be expected, given Brighton has never lost this fixture in 10 previous Premier League meetings between theWestteams.Ham, which finished sixth in 2020-21 and seventh last season, has now lost 2-0 to Man City and 1-0 at Not tingham Forest and is in last place.Itwas a tough full debut for defender Thilo Kehrer, recently signed from Paris Saint-Germain. His Pre mier League career started inauspiciously when he brought down Danny Wel beck to concede a penalty converted by Alexis Mac Allister.Leandro Trossard scored the other goal.
BAHAMAS women’s relay team of, from left to Charlton.andTynianiqueJohnson,Printassiaright,AnthoStrachan,GaitherDevynne FROM PAGE 14 do my best and I think I did just that,” Otabor said. “I was about a metre short of my PR, but I was really happy with the per formance. I had a little bit of a hiccup at the end, but overall, I’m still pretty happy.”Shesaid she knew the competition was going to be tough, but she was pleased with how she performed against them, especially with the crowd cheering her on. “I felt the support and love,” she said. Coming off his gold medal performance at the Commonwealth Games a week ago in Birmingham, England, LaQuan Nairn wanted to at least get on the podium here, but he fell short with a fourth place finish. His leap of 7.75m on his first attempt wasn’t enough to propel him into the top two spots. In the women’s triple jump, Tamara Myers came through with a fourth place finish with 44-11 (13.69m).TheaLafond of Domi nica took the gold with 47-6 ½ (14.49m) on her sixth and final attempt to surpass the championship record of 46-9 (14.25m) that was previously held by Shanieka Ricketts of Jamaica in 2018 in Toronto,AmericanCanada.Keturah Orji got the silver with 46-11 3/4 (14.32m) and the bronze went to Fernandez Velazco of Cuba with 46-2 ½ “The(14.08m)field was a good field, so I was compelled to jump well,” Myers said. “It was a tester for me because the runway is very fast, so I was pleased to be jumping on it. “The first jump was a run through jump, so the second jump, I got adjusted, based on my run through. On the third, it was the same approach, same run through. I think I fouled on my fourth and fifth, so I was pleased.”
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“I think there’s some areas where I felt short this season and I want to improve on for next year, so I’m excited to see once I work on those things, how much I can take off next year.”With some unfinished business on the Euro pean circuit, Charlton said she’s looking forward to how the rest of the season will unfold, including an appearance in the Dia mond League Final, having secured sufficient points to make the top eight. “I feel pretty good health wise. At the end of the season, a lot of little things start to pop up, but I’m going to go back to Kentucky and get those things worked on, but I’m in pretty good shape,” said Charlton.Sheiscoached by Baha mian Rolando “Lonnie” Greene at the University of Kentucky.Charlton, 26, is currently tied for ninth place with two others in the Wanda Diamond League with seven points, having only competed in one of the 12 meetings that will take place before the final in Weltklasse in Zurich, Swit zerland, from September 7-8.Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan, who established the world record in the semi-finals before she went on to cap ture the World title and added the Commonwealth crown to her collection, heads the list with 22 points from three events she con tested so far.
Devynne Charlton wins bronze in 100 hurdles
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Having competed in about three meets prior to coming to the champion ships, Myers said she had about two weeks break and the inactivity showed up in her performance, but she will settle with what she got.”
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FREEPORT, Grand Bahama — For the third of her four major interna tional competitions this year, Devynne Charlton got on the podium in the women’s 100 metres hur dles, this time with the bronze at the 2022 North American, Central Ameri can and Caribbean Open Championship.Freshoff her silver medal performance at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England almost two weeks ago, Charlton clocked 12.71 sec onds to trail American gold medallist Alaysha Johnson, the gold medal winner in 12.62 and Jamaica’s Megan Tapper, the silver medallist in For12.68. Charlton, who started the year off as the silver medallist at the World Indoor Champion ship and was seventh at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, it was a great feeling to get back on the podium, especially at home in a major interna tional competition.
“I felt pretty good. I felt like the first part of my race was better execution than yesterday. I think I clipped the hurdle down and paid for it at the end, but I still held my composure,” said Charlton about her perfor mance in the semi-finals where she had the fourth fastest time of 12.76. With the home crowd cheering for her, Charlton said it inspired her even more to go out and com pete in the final for another medal.“Ifelt good. It’s always good to medal,” she lamented. “As much as I wanted to be on top of the podium, you have to be thankful just to come away withAndsomething.”todoitagainst such a high calibre field made it all the more special for her. “All these ladies, when you compete against them, you have to bring your A-game. On any given day, it could be anybody’s race,” she pointed out. “On day’s like this, it could be anybody’s race. So it just comes down to who has the better race.” With all that considered, Charlton said she’s not going to rest on her laurels because she wants to con tinue to ascend the podium every time she competes in these types of competitions for the Bahamas.
In passing the baton to Gaither, Charlton, the bronze medallist in the 100m hurdles, said although it was a last minute decision to put the team together, they did very well.“Everybody was well rested for the race and so I think that made the difference,” Charlton said. “I don’t remember the last time I got to run on a relay team, so for me, it was good to be out there with thoseStrachan,girls.” who got the baton to Charlton, had to be treated after she completed her portion of the race, but she was just as jubi lant as her team-mates with their performance.“Ithinkwe were able to get the baton around. That’s what counted the most,” she said.
“I’m not really fond of relays, but I’m a team player, so when they need me and I’m available, I will step up and help out. But I want them to know that I have my speed, so the start should be mine.”And Johnson, in getting the team off to a great start, said she just wanted to execute a good leg. “It was good for us to get a relay team out there again,” she said. “I just hope that this will be the start of great things for us again in the relay.”As for the men’s 4 x 400m relay, the team of Kinard Rolle, Alonzo Russell, Shakeem Smith and Wendell Miller produced a time of 3:06.21 for their bronze medal behind the United States in 3:01.79 for the gold and 3:05.47 for the silver by Jamaica.
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By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sport Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net wanted to go toe-to-toe with them and that’s what we did,” Trippier said. “It just shows how far we’ve come.”Indeed, this was a warn ing served by one of European soccer’s growing forces nearly a year into the reign of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which has invited accusa tions of sportswashing. After two transfer win dows of the new era, Newcastle is a team trans formed. Even compared to a few months ago, with City having swept aside Eddie Howe’s team 5-0 as recently as May on the way to clinching the title last season.Citywent ahead through Ilkay Gundogan in the fifth minute, only to be pumme led by wave after wave of Newcastle attacks that led to goals from Miguel Almi ron and Callum Wilson before halftime.
DEVYNNE CHARLTON, far left, leaning at the tape for her bronze medal with American gold medallist Alaysha Johnson and Jamaican Megan Tapper, far right. Photo: Vandyke Hepburn/BIS
The men’s 4 x 100m team of Antoine Andrews, Ian Kerr, Carlos Brown Jr and Wanya McCoy ran 39.42, but it was only good enough for fourth place. The USA took the gold in 38.29 with Trinidad & Tobago the silver in 38.94 and Jamaica the bronze in “I38.94.think we did pretty good with the time frame we had to work with these guys,” Kerr said. “We just wanted to come out here, represent our country the best we could.”Andrews, coming off his gold medal performance in the men’s 400m hurdles at the World Junior Championships, said it was a blessing to run in his first senior meet on a relay team. “It’s a blessing to come out here and represent my country at the senior level,” he said. “It’s a blessing to represent my country.”ForBrown, also a participant at the World Junior Championships, he said as the youngest member of the team, he was thrilled to get the exposure and he’s looking for ward to running with these guys again.”McCoy said he’s looking for ward to running with the team and he’s confident that they will be able to run “a lot better in the future.”Buthe’s glad to be able to close out his year on such a note. The Bahamas didn’t field a team in the women’s 4 x 400m, nor the mixed 4 x 400m relay. FROM PAGE 14
With its contingent of Americans, Leeds is prov ing to be one of the big early-season surprises in the Premier League.
Chelsea certainly couldn’t handle them on Sunday. Leeds gained from a bad mistake from Chelsea goal keeper Edouard Mendy to take a 33rd-minute lead through U.S. winger Brenden Aaronson and went on to win 3-0 at Elland Road.Rodrigo, with his leaguehigh fourth goal of the season, and Jack Harrison set each other up for the second and third goals, respectively.Theteam coached by American Jesse Marsch is up to third place on seven points from a possible nine having already beaten Wol verhampton and drawn at Southampton, where it squandered a 2-0 lead.
“We really wanted to win that game to show the world what we are capable of doing,” said Newcastle winger Allan Saint-Max imin, who caused most of the problems for City. Both teams remained unbeaten after three games, with City dropping points for the first time. The cham pions will likely be happy to escape from St. James’ Park with a point. “New castle are becoming one of the toughest opponents, for sure,” Guardiola said.
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“I felt great about my leg,” Miller said. “I was happy with the way things went. I ran pretty well coming off an injury, so I’m happy that they chose me to be a part of this relay team. I’m happy that we walked away with a medal.” Russell, running in front of the home crowd after he had to sit out the men’s 400m, said it wasn’t the result they expected, but he was happy with the way everybody went out and performed for the team.“We got a medal, so we can’t ask for more than that.” For Rolle, who missed making it to the final of the 400 metres, run ning on the team was redemption. “We had to bring home some hardware,” he said. “I tried to run my best on the first leg and get the crowd jumping a little bit.” And after he didn’t get a medal in the 400m hurdles, Smith said he too was delighted to get one on the relay “Despiteteam.we don’t win, it’s okay man. I didn’t think I would get to run this lap. I took a leap of faith,” he said. “I had to put my big boys shoes and be a soldier. We did it. Even though we came third, there’s more to come next year. We will be stronger, healthy, more smarter. We will plan it well in advance what we are going to do.”
BRITAIN’S ANTHONY JOSHUA, right, takes a blow from Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk during their world heavyweight title fight at King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (AP Photos/Hassan Ammar)
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FRENZIED talk of bil lionaires wanting — or, in the case of Elon Musk, not wanting — to buy Manches ter United has topped the sports agenda in Britain this week.A future without the Glazer family as owners? Yes please, many increas ingly disheartened United fans would say after nearly a decade of underper formance by one of the world’s most storied sports teams.And however unlikely that immediate prospect is — after all, the club is not for sale despite Jim Ratcliffe, one of Britain’s richest people, expressing an interest this week — it’s something many of those supporters will be calling for during an anti-Glazer march planned by a fans’ group ahead of United’s game against Liverpool at Old Trafford today. The last time such a protest took place before a home match against Liverpool, in May last year, thousands filled the concourse outside Old Traf ford, flares were set off, the stadium was stormed and one of world soccer’s big gest fixtures was called off.
For some, a repeat scenario would not be unwelcome.Therecannot be many United fans looking for ward to the prospect of Liverpool, the team’s fierc est rival, coming to Old Trafford given what has transpired in the opening two rounds of the season. In fact, it’s enough to fill them with dread. Two games. Two losses. Six goals conceded. Only one goal scored, and even that was an own-goal. Oh, and to top it off, United is in last place. If the 2-1 openingweekend loss at home to Brighton was bad, the ensuing 4-0 thrashing by Brentford on Saturday was widely deemed to be one of the worst results in United’s recentHence,history.the inevitable hysteria. Is Erik ten Hag, who joined from Ajax in the offseason, the wrong appointment as manager? Is Lisandro Martinez the wrong signing at centre back? Why hasn’t United signed a defensive mid fielder yet? Is this the end for Cristiano Ronaldo at United?Over the past week, a slew of players in a number of different positions have been linked with United in the final days of the transfer window, including holding midfielder Casemiro from Real Madrid and Ameri can winger Christian Pulisic fromCasemiro’sChelsea. move looks likely to go through after he told Real Madrid he wants to leave, according to coach CarloRonaldoAncelotti.has teased on Instagram about his future, saying the media has been “telling lies” and, rather cryptically, that “they know the truth when they inter view in a couple weeks.” Then there was the drama of Musk tweet ing he was buying United before saying several hours later that it was a joke, and Ratcliffe emerging as a potential buyer if the club that the majority share holder of chemical group Ineos has supported since childhood was put up for sale.It’s rarely quiet around United, whether the team is doing well or badly. And imagine if United is beaten again today, to open a season with three straight defeats for the first time in the Premier League era (fromHow1992).huge would the fourth game — against Southampton away — be for Ten Hag then? Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk isn’t taking any thing for granted, though, even if his team beat United 5-0 and 4-0 last season. “They are a good team, in my opinion,” Van Dijk said. “They have good play ers all over the pitch. “Obviously they’re not in the best situation, confi dence-wise, probably, but it’s the perfect game to turn it around for them.” The same could be said for Liverpool, which has also underwhelmed so far with draws against Fulham and Crystal Palace and is already four points behind title rival Manchester City. Injuries are taking their toll, with players like Thiago Alcantara, Joel Matip and Diogo Jota out, while the thrust and energy of the departed forward Sadio Mane is sorely missed. The man who effectively replaced Mane, Darwin Núñez, is suspended for the United match after getting sent off for headbutting an oppo nent against Palace. Liverpool keeps get ting off to slow starts, too, having conceded first in eight of its last nine matches in all competitions. If United was to win, sud denly a lot of the heat might switch to Jurgen Klopp. On current form, though, that looks unlikely. Stretch ing back to the end of last season, United is on a fourmatch losing run and its players are still getting used to Ten Hag’s methods. It will be interesting to see, for example, if United continues to play out from the back — the approach which backfired badly against Brentford — or takes a more pragmatic view against a Liverpool team so strong at pressing from the front. And will Ronaldo start again? He was rushed back against Brentford, despite not being match-sharp after missing much of preseason, and there’s still so much uncertainty over his future. “He is in our plans, that’s what I can say,” Ten Hag said Friday, when asked if Ronaldo would be at the club when the transfer window closes on Septem ber 1. First of all, though, let’s see if the match regarded as the biggest in English soccer actually goes ahead this time. “I can only say the owners want to win and the fans – we want them behind the club,” Ten Hag said of the planned prematch protest. “I can understand sometimes (the sentiment) but I am not that long in the club to see all the back ground. “We have to fight together and be unified.”
MANCHESTER United’s Cristiano Ronaldo looks round after the end of the English Premier League soccer match between Brent ford and Manchester United at the Gtech Community Stadium in London, on Saturday. Manchester United lost 0-4. (AP Photo/Ian Walton)
Pride of Ukraine: Usyk beats
BENNETT WINS ANOTHER STAGE AS AFFINI TAKES VUELTA LEAD
vacated by Tyson Fury, who says he is retired. When asked about Fury, Usyk said: “I am sure Tyson Fury is not retired yet. I am sure Tyson Fury wants to fight me. If I’m not fighting Tyson Fury, I’m not fighting at Twoall.” judges gave it to Usyk, one 115-113 and the other 116-112. The other gave the fight to Joshua, 115-113.Joshua, a two-time heav yweight champion, fell to his third loss in 27 fights and his career is at a crossroads. Where Usyk goes from now appears to depend on Fury.
UKRAINE’s Oleksandr Usyk celebrates after beating Britain’s An thony Joshua to retain his world heavyweight title at King Abdul lah Sports City in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, yesterday.
Joshua, keeps heavyweight belts
MAN UNITED IN MAELSTROM AS LIVERPOOL HEADS TO OLD TRAFFORD
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Pakistan resisted a determined chase from the Netherlands to win the third one-day international by nine runs yester day and sweep the series 3-0. The visitors scored 206 in 49.4 overs before limiting the Dutch pursuit to 197 all out with four balls left. Naseem Shah took 5-33 in 10 overs of pace for Paki stan and Mohammad Wasim got key wickets in his 4-36.Pakistan captain Babar Azam won the toss, chose to bat first and hit 91 in 125 balls before the No. 3 was caught and bowled by spinner Aryan Dutt. Azam had seven fours and two sixes. Netherlands pacer Bas de Leede finished with 3-50. In reply, Dutch opener Vikramjit Singh was caught behind off Wasim for an 85-ball 50. Singh shared a 71-run partnership for the fourth wicket with Tom Cooper (62 off 105). The Netherlands needed 56 runs off the last 10 overs with five wickets left but Cooper was finally dismissed by Wasim, leaving his team on 174-7 in the 46th. Wasim bowled Dutt to finish the match. Pakistan had already clinched the three-match series. It won the first ODI by 16 runs and the second by seven wickets.
PAKISTAN SWEEPS ODI WITH 9-RUN WIN VS NETHERLANDS
BREDA, Netherlands (AP) — Sam Bennett went two years without a stage win at a Grand Tour race. Now he has won two in a row. The Bora-Hansgrohe rider pre vailed in another sprint finish at the third stage of the Spanish Vuelta yes terday, with Edoardo Affini taking the leader’s red jersey to keep his JumboVisma team in position to help Primoz Roglic defend his title. Affini is the third consecutive rider from the Dutch team to grab the over all lead during the Vuelta’s start in the Netherlands.“Itallstarted with winning the time trial and it’s amazing to be able to share these moments in our team’s country,” Affini said. “I guess it was even more special for our Dutch guys, but it also is for me. To be the leader of a general clas sification here is really an amazing feeling. It’s crazy to be able to be the leader.”Thetop six riders in the general classification are from Jumbo-Visma. Sam Oomen was behind Affini, with Roglic just behind. It was the final stage before the Vuelta returns to Spain after starting in the MichaelNetherlands.Woods, a two-time stage winner at the Vuelta and one of the title challengers this year, had to abandon the race after a crash. Rich ard Carapaz also crashed but was able to Bennettcontinue.hadn’t won a Grand Tour stage since the 2020 Vuelta before ending his winless streak in Utrecht on Saturday. “It’s quite nice to make it happen two days in a row,” said Bennett, who now has 10 Grand Tour stage victories, five of them at the Vuelta.After a 193-kilometre (120-mile) loop around Breda yesterday, Bennett was dominant on the final metres to take the victory ahead of Mads Ped ersen and Dan McLay. Pedersen had also come in second on Saturday. “It was quite hard because I think a lot of people were fighting for our wheel,” Bennett said. “People started to go up on the inside and squeeze me off. It was quite a hard fight. A big thank you for the boys, they worked all day, looked after me the whole stage.”Roglic, trying to win an unprec edented fourth straight Vuelta title, finished comfortably in the peloton to stay near the front. Robert Gesink and Mike Teunissen also wore the red jersey for team Jumbo-Visma. Riders will get their first rest day today before the race resumes in the Basque Country in northern Spain.
KING ABDULLAH SPORTS CITY, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Oleksandr Usyk kissed the blue-andyellow flag of Ukraine and looked to the Saudi Ara bian sky as he waited to discover if he had honoured his war-torn country by retaining his world heavy weightWhentitles.heheard the win ning words “and still,” an emotional Usyk raised his left arm and pulled the flag over his face. Six months ago, he was patrolling the streets of Kyiv with an automatic rifle and defending Ukraine from the invading Russians. Here, inside the ring at King Abdullah Sport City arena, the still-undefeated Usyk had lived up to his billing as the sporting pride of Ukraine by beating Anthony Joshua in a closely fought rematch on Saturday to keep his WBA, WBO and IBF belts. “I devote this victory to my country, to my family, to my team, to all the military defending this country,” the 35-year-old Usyk said through a trans lator. “Thank you very, very much.”After a gruelling fivemonth training camp, Usyk entered the arena in a blue-and-yellow top car rying the words “Colors of Freedom” and supported by words of encouragement from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his nightly video address to the nation.“We stick together,” the president said. “We help each other. We restore what was destroyed. We fight for all our people. And we cheer for those who represent Ukraine, today — definitely for Usyk, our guy!”And Usyk started as the favourite after outclassing Joshua in the first fight in London in September last year.However, the British challenger, a former twotime champion, came into the rematch with a new game plan from his new trainer Robert Garcia: Attack Usyk’s body and keep the pressure on.And it nearly worked, with Usyk taken to the limit in the ninth round as he was chased around the ring by Joshua, who landed combi nations and targeted Usyk’s ribs.Usyk took a deep breath at the bell, then came out hard in the 10th round, hurting Joshua with an early right hook and forcing him onto the ropes for the first time in the fight. The battering of Joshua was sustained in the 11th while the 12th was evenly fought, the fight ending with both fighters — clearly exhausted — falling to their knees in front of each other on the canvas. They embraced and Joshua appeared to offer his help to the plight of Ukraine.Then, in an expletiveladen speech inside the ring after grabbing the microphone, Joshua — who moments earlier was seen picking up two of Usyk’s belts and throwing them to the canvas — hit back at his critics before praising Usyk for fighting so well in the circumstances.“Iwasstudying Ukraine and all the champions from your amazing country,” Joshua said. “I’ve never been there. What’s happen ing there, I don’t know but it’s not nice. For Usyk to be champion, under those circumstances, please raise your onedoesn’theavyweighttheRingway.”andhard.someoneespeciallygoingheaboutUsykhands.”wascomplimentaryJoshua,too.“Thisisalreadyhistory,”said.“Manygenerationsaretowatchthisfight,theroundwhentriedtobeatmeButIstooduptoitturneditinadifferentUsykalsoclaimedtheMagazinebeltwithwin.There’sonlyonetitlethatUsykown—theWBCthatisabouttobe
SAM BENNETT, of Ireland, wearing the best sprinter’s green jersey, celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the third stage of the Vuelta cycling race with start and finish in Breda yesterday. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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American Brittany Brown took the title in a championship record of 22.35, erasing American Kyra Jefferson’s time of 22.50 she set in San Juan, Costa Rica, in 2015, while her team-mate A’Keyla Mitchell took the bronze in 22.53.The 29-year-old Gaither, coming off her semi-final appearance at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, after she had a false start in the 100m and a seventh place in the 100m at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, said it was a great race. “I felt great. The race itself was really great,” Gaither said. “The energy of the crowd was so moti vating. I never saw the energy like that. I think it made all of the difference. I’m extremely great for eve rybody coming out. It made soShootingmuch.” out of the blocks with the pack in lane six, Gaither came off the curve in contention for the lead. As she surged through the home stretch, only the Americans stood in her way for a medal the exact colour she would secure. “I felt really heathy. Sur prisingly at this stage of the season, I’m dealing with a lot of things, but I have a new coach and a new training group, I think it’s working very well for my body.“I’m in the best shape of my life and I’m excited to see what the rest of the season has in store for me.” With the Wanda Dia mond League still in progress, Gaither said she will continue competing through September before it’s determined whether or not she qualifies for the finals in Zurich, Switzerland September 7-8. She is cur rently tied for fifth place with three other competi tors with 10 points in two events.Inthe men’s final that followed, Ian Kerr had to settle for fourth place in a personal best of 20.53. The race was won by Jamaica’s Andrew Hudson in a cham pionship record of 19.87, erasing the old mark of 20.11 set by Kyle Greaux of Trinidad & Tobago in 2018 in Toronto, Canada. The silver went to Ameri can Kyree King in 20.00 with his compatriot Jose phus Lyles getting the bronze in 20.18. “I was a little nervous going in, but I knew I had to keep my composure because composure brings results,” Kerr said. “So I tried to pick it up coming off the curve and attack the final 100 and just finish strong.”Kerrsaid he was thank ful for the support from his family and the Bahamian people to help propel him through to the finish line. He noted that he was pleased with the way his season ended up. “I kept preserving and with my mentality, I kept pushing and pushing,” Kerr said. “It was rough, but I was glad that I got through it.”
The 28-year-old has now added NACAC to her col lection that includes a gold medal in every major inter national meet, including the CARIFTA Games, World Youth and World Junior, World Indoor, World Championships, Common wealth Games and Olympic Games.The only medal miss ing is the Pan American Games, although she got one on a 4 x 400m relay team at the Pan Am Junior Championships.“IsaidIhad gotten everything before, and NACAC too is a big accom plishment and we’ve pretty much ticked every box in the 400m, and I am glad to finally put the season behind me and go and rest a little bit,” she said. “It was the last one for the season, so I did it at home.” Her win in Freeport gives her automatic qualifying for the World Championships. When she was asked how that felt, she responded: “The main thing was just to come home and put on a show for the Bahamian people. I know a lot of them have not seen me race here before. But it was the last for the season, I got an automatic qualification, and next year we will be focus ing on the 200m. So I am going to get some speed up under our belt and go from there.”
By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune ReporterFreeport dmaycock@tribunemedia.net
FREEPORT, Grand Bahama — Shaunae MillerUibo ended her season at home in The Bahamas by winning the 400 metre finals and setting a new meet record on Saturday at the North American, Central American and Caribbean OpenCheersChampionships.eruptedat the Grand Bahama Sports Complex as Miller-Uibo finished ahead of her com petitors in a time of 49.40 seconds – a new NACAC record – to replace the previous mark of 50.82 by American Courtney Okolo in San Juan, Costa Rica, in 2015. Her goal was to do her best to make the Baha mian people proud. “I just wanted to put on a show for the Bahamian people,” she said smiling as she picked up her first NACAC gold to add to her array of medals in just about every track event in theFor400m.Miller-Uibo, this win was for the Grand Baha mian fans. “It is the end of the season for me and I know it is kind of wind ing things down, and I just wanted to come out here and put on a show for eve rybody, and have some fun,”“Justsaid.hearing them even on the walkthrough to the lineup, you know I felt the support and it is always an honour just to be able to come back home and compete, and this time rep resenting the country at home. So, it is an honour, and I just give God thanks and praise for it.” Grand Bahamians packed the stadium for the race which got underway at 6.15pm. Miller-Uibo ran out of lane five and got off to a great, fast start. Miller-Uibo, the Baha mian national record holder at 48.36, said that she expected some stiff competition from the field that saw Commonwealth Games’ champion Sada Williams take the silver for Barbados in 49.86 with Jamaica’s Stephenie-Ann McPherson getting the bronze in 50.36. “A lot of the girls that made the finals also made the World Championship finals as well and also the Olympics as well last year, and so I knew coming out here it was going to be a little bit stiff,” Miller-Uibo said. “But like I said, for me, it is about coming out here and just having some fun. I wanted to show off a little bit in front of the home crowd. So, I am glad we were able to put on a show and make the Baha mian people Miller-Uibo,proud.” whose brother Shaun Miller Jr was competing at the same time in the men’s high jump where he placed sixth as Donald Thomas captured a bronze medal, said she was pleased with her record-set ting time. “I am pretty happy with it, 49.40 is a pretty decent run, and like I said it is the last one and it was pretty good,” she said. “I am just glad I was able to do it in front of the home crowd.”
SHOWN, left to right, are Barbados’ Sada Williams, Shaunae Miller-Uibo and Jamaican Stephenie-Ann McPherson proudly displaying their medals.
Photo: Vandyke Hepburn/BIS
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