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BAHAMIAN fish ermen are facing “an endless battle with crimi nals” poaching and stealing with impunity amid fears crawfish prices have plunged by up to 50 percent compared to 2021’s “amazing” highs. Paul Maillis, the National Fisheries Asso ciation’s secretary, said that with lobster season less than one month old he has already received multi ple reports from fishermen throughout The Bahamas that their condos and traps have been “speared” by poachers during the closed period.MrMaillis also said fish ermen are fearful over early-season indications of “a pretty drastic change” in lobster prices compared to 2021. Last year saw the industry achieve $20-$21 per pound for its catch, but Mr Maillis disclosed he has received reports that some fishermen are presently get ting “as low as $8-$10”.
PROSECUTORS have withdrawn charges against Gregory Miller, the man who was accused of defam ing former Water and Sewerage Corporation executive chairman Adrian Gibson, after the Long Island MP had the case dropped on Friday. In January, Miller was accused of transferring $200 to Mr Gibson’s Royal Bank of Canada account that he shared with his ex-fiancée, in an attempt to defame him in December 2018 after his company was not awarded contracts for WSC works.
PRIME Minister Phil lip “Brave” Davis is urging Bahamians to be frugal with their spending habits due to rising inflation, saying it appears that the coun try is “in for a rough ride for another few months” based on the predictions of finance experts. Mr Davis was asked whether Bahamians could expect further economic hardship given the expected rise in Earlierinflation.thismonth, John Rolle, the Central Bank’s governor, warned locals to brace for higher infla tion rates, saying the cost of living crisis facing many Bahamian families has yet “toYesterday,peak”. Mr Davis said: “Well, there was a meet ing from the central bank governors of the world just very recently and they are predicting that it’s going to get a bit worse before it gets
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By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
THE Opposition’s leader yesterday accused the Prime Minister of “not tell ing the full story” after the latter posted on Twitter that the government is “spend ing millions each month” to minimise electricity costs. Michael Pintard said that Philip Davis QC was giving Bahamians a mis leading impression his administration was saving them “a substantial amount of money” by using tax payer dollars to subsidise Bahamas Power & Light’s (BPL) fuel costs.
A MAN died from an apparent dog mauling over the weekend leading to calls from authorities for the public to keep a tighter leash on more aggressive animals.This comes about six months after a 51-year-old woman was nearly killed in a brutal attack by four pit bulls at the end of January. Police are currently inves tigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man who was found on the southern side of Palm Tree Avenue at the intersection with East Street around 4am on AccordingSaturday.to initial reports the victim was discovered lying on the sidewalk with severe inju ries to his lower extremities.
PM urges people to be frugal with inflation on rise
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis, Education Minister Glenys Hanna Martin and Works Minister Alfred Sears toured schools around the capital yesterday before students retun to the classroom. for the full story.
ADRIAN GIBSON DROPS COURT CLAIM DEFAMATIONOF
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Photos: Austin Fernander putting finishing touches on one of the schools yesterday.
‘WE’RE IN FOR A ROUGH RIDE’ from page one
better even though there are signs that are so inher ently contradictory when you look at all what I call the economic indices that speaks to whether inflation is going to be stabilised and/or it’s going to be a runaway horse as it has been and from their prognosis, it seems that we are in for yet a rough ride for another few months. “Hence, they’re talking about lowering the interest rate again or increasing the interest rates and so those are some of the things so we just have to continue to watch and try to do the things that we could do. A lot of it is beyond our control and all we can do is just work with what we can control and that’s some of the things that we’ve been doing.” When asked if Bahami ans are advised to brace for another few rough months, Mr Davis only said he rec ommended that people be more conversative with their money. “I’ll advise that they be vigilant and be frugal and let us work together to combat the challenges that we have for inflation,” he added. Surging gas prices and high food costs – largely a direct result of inflation and the ongoing RussianUkrainian war - have been among the list of grievances expressed by Bahamians in recent months. And Bahamians could expect to see the situation worsen in the days ahead as Super Value owner Rupert Roberts recently predicted a rise in prices of items such as rice, cooking oils, tomato products and evap orated milk. Elevated costs are expected up until next March, he added. In his budget communica tion in May, Prime Minister Davis announced a series of relief measures aimed to assist Bahamians struggling with the inflationary high cost of living. The proposed measures include increased social assistance, targeted mini mum wage increases for workers in the public sector, duty reductions on certain food items among other things.Helater revealed that the government was consider ing reducing fuel taxes for gas retailers with a view to bringing relief to both retailers and consumers. When questioned on the matter earlier this month, he told reporters that a decision on the issue will be made soon, adding “we’re working on it now”.
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis, Education Minister Glenys Hanna Martin and Works Minister Alfred Sears toured schools around the capital yesterday before the reopening of schools.
A 14-YEAR-OLD boy is in stable condition in hospital after he was shot while on his front porch on Saturday.Police said they are aggressively searching for the person/s responsible. The incident occurred around 2am on Saturday in the Kemp Road area.
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14-YEAR-OLD BOY SHOT ON HIS FRONT PORCH
According to initial reports from police, the victim was sitting on the porch of his residence when he observed a gunman walking in his direction. Police were told this gunman fired several shots in the direction of the teen, which resulted in him being shot to the upper body. He was taken to hospital by ambulance and at last report was in stable condition. Police are also searching for two men believed to be responsible for an armed robbery that occurred at a business in Centreville on Friday. Police said shortly after 3pm, two masked men wearing dark cloth ing entered the business on Mackey Street. One of the assailants allegedly produced a gun and demanded cash. The men reportedly robbed the establishment of an undetermined amount of cash and stole an employ ee’s cell phone before fleeing the area. Police also said two weapons were confiscated and one man was arrested in separate incidents on the weekend. In the first incident, a 31-year-old man was arrested after he was found in possession of a high-powered weapon and ammunition. Shortly after 2.30am, while in the area of Bougainville Avenue West, officers attached to Operation Ceasefire, acting on intelligence, stopped and searched the driver of a silver Nissan Note. During the search, officers confiscated a high-powered weapon along with over 160 rounds of ammunition. The driver was arrested and is assisting police. In the second incident officers attached to Opera tion Ceasefire, acting on intelligence, confiscated a handgun and a quantity of ammunition on Friday. Shortly after 10pm, offic ers went to the area of Joan’s Heights and conducted a search of a bushy area where they discovered the weapon. No arrests were made. Anyone with information on any of these incidents is asked to contact the Criminal Investigations Department at 502-9991/2 or Crime Stoppers at 328-TIPS.
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THE completion of school repairs, inclusive of capital works, throughout the country is projected to cost the government some $30m, Works and Utilities Minister Alfred Sears said yesterday.MrSears’ comments came as he toured and inspected several schools that were under renovation with Prime Minister Phillip “Brave” Davis, Education Minister Glenys Hanna Martin and other officials. Schools visited by the del egation included Palmdale Primary, Uriah McPhee Primary, Government High, TA Thompson Junior High andAccordingothers. to educa tion officials, some of those schools were left in a deplorable condition and in need of serious repair. One of them was TA Thompson.WhenThe Tribune first visited the site earlier this month, wooden beams were being installed on the roof and construction work was also being done on some of the school’s stairways and balconies.However, it was a differ ent scene yesterday as most of the work appeared to have been completed. While touring the area, Mr Davis described the school works as transformative.“Thisisawhole trans formation from the TA Thompson school. As you are aware, students relo cated from the school about a year ago because this place was just uninhabitable and the building was con demned, but it’s been saved and restored from what it is today,” he said. He also thanked Mrs Hanna Martin, Mr Sears, their team as well as the contractors involved for their hard work in getting schools ready. “We visited those schools that were in the most dire state insofar as works were concerned and let me just say that I am gratified and I am satisfied and I am elated and I want to say congratulations to the min ister of education and the minister of works for their commitment and passion to ensuring that these works were“Onedone.of the contractors just told me a while ago that the minister called him out of church one evening because she was concerned about the pace of the work and for that we must take our hat off to our minister of educa tion for leading the charge and the minister of works for lending support as was necessary to have these works“Schoolscompleted.will open on schedule,” he added. As for the cost of the school repairs, Mr Sears estimated it at $30m. In her budget commu nication speech earlier this year, Minister Hanna Martin said $15m was allo cated for school repairs in the 2022/23 fiscal year. “The school repairs, it’s not only been in New Provi dence but throughout the archipelago, bearing degree in terms of the scope and it is projected at $30m,” Mr Sears“Nowsaid.as you will see, in some of these projects, the scope comprise repair (work) but as we saw at Uriah McPhee, we also have capital work and the repair of the schools is com pleted but capital works are being undertaken such as the building of the pavilion, the tuck shop, the covered walkway from the main school building to that area so that is the estimate.” Schools are set to re-open in the country today.
NEW TEACHERS RECRUITED’
$30m cost for repairs as students go back to school
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On the issue of school security, she said the ministry’s security staff are undergoing specialised training with the Royal Bahamas Police Force. The first squad graduated two weeks ago and training for the remaining officers will take place “Additionally,soon.several officers of the Royal Bahamas Police Force have been assigned by the commissioner of police to Junior and Senior High Schools throughout the country. “These officers are specially trained having received international certifi cation as school resource officers and they will work in collaboration with the principal of the respective schools to assist in securing campuses and in guiding students on an array of vexing social issues by way of a curriculum which these officers will deliver.”
‘MORE THAN 100
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis, Education Minister Glenys Hanna Martin and Works Minister Alfred Sears touring schools yesterday. Photos: Austin Fernander
THE Ministry of Education has recruited more than 100 new teach ers to address shortages while safety in public school campuses is expected to be increased with a new training programme for security officers, Edu cation Minister Glenys Hanna Martin said last night. Her comments came in a national address about the state of public edu cation ahead of the opening of schools today.Ms Hanna Martin highlighted the learning loss and challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and highlighted strides made to address these issues since she took office. On the teacher shortage, Ms Hanna Martin said the new recruits have var ying specialties adding that additional recruitment is underway to meet scarcity subject areas and deficits in someSheschools.alsosaid: “It is imperative that we match teachers with every subject that is needed. We have been working to accomplish this task, particularly in many disciplines that have become even more urgent during the period of remote learning. One such area is special educa tion, and in fact, children with special needs have perhaps suffered most in the virtual learning environment. Special education teachers are in short supply. “To address this deficit the ministry is currently in discussion with a major international university to provide an opportunity for our teachers to read for a Master’s degree in Special Edu cation, a programme not currently available at the University of The Bahamas.”
YOUNGSTERS at a Securities Commission back to school drive at the weekend, which included offering free haircuts, below. Photos: Austin Fernander
By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter
The family wished to thank Dr. DuVaughn Curling and the Oncology Consultant staff, Dr. Dean Tseretopolos and the staff at Drs. Hospital for all their hard work and efforts.
By LETRE SWEETING WHILE addressing an Abaco Weather Symposium on Friday, Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis said all Bahamian islands are “vulnerable” to climate change and weather threats, especially hurricanes.
The symposium, held at Friendship Tab ernacle Church, in Dundas Town, is part of a series of events held as the third anniver sary of Hurricane Dorian approaches.
Also all of the wonderful staff at Naughty Johnny’s who Mike considered his family, he loved them all. A special thanks to Merlene Ferguson, Sherelle Watkins, and Derick Carey who’s support he always treasured. Barry Pinder, Paul Rolle, Whitney Evans, the David Hughes Family, the Christian Coquoz Family, the John Dunn Family, the Norman Hoffer Family, the Peter Kemp Family and a host of many other friends and family.
Mr Davis noted that earlier in August, The Bahamas hosted the first ever Car ibbean regional conference, specifically focused on building a consensus for the United Nations negotiations on climate change.
The family request that donations be sent to The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, 11 West Bay Street, P.O. Box N. 823, Nassau, or The Lord’s Kitchen at Artemissia Zervos at (242) 426-6127.
‘ALL OUR ISLANDS ARE VULNERABLE’
PAGE 4, Monday, August 29, 2022 THE TRIBUNE WEATHER officials met on Friday to discuss recently formed tropical systems and any potential impact they may have on the country in the coming days.Yesterday, the US National Hurricane Centre said it was watching four disturbances. One of them had a 70 percent chance of forming into a tropi cal depression over the next five days, signalling the fairly quiet hurricane season thus far may be coming to an end.
He is survived by his wife, Kristine Pikramenos; daughters, Amalia Hughes and Calliope LeBlanc; brothers, Harry Pikramenos and Theo Pikramenos; sons-in-law, Anthony Hughes and Jacob LeBlanc; brothers-in-law, Gus Constantakis and Thomas Houliares; sisters-in-law, Denise Pikramenos, Cynthia Constantakis and Debi Houliares, many other relatives and close friends.
On Friday, Captain Steven Russell, director of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), which has responsibility for disas ter management, said the National Disaster Committee, including representatives from the Bahamas Department of Meteorology met that day to discuss disturbances on the radar and their poten tial“Theimpact.Department of Meteorology gave us a briefing on those tropical waves. One is currently in the southern Caribbean Sea and one is just off the coast of Africa. So, we are moni toring those tropical waves. We’ve appraised all of our agency representatives as to what is out there and to ensure that they are pre pared for what may come for the remainder of the hurricane season,” Mr Rus sellShouldsaid. the system develop further, Mr Rus sell said, The Bahamas is only able to withstand that of a category three hurricane.“Dorian was a category five storm. A category five storm when you look at the scale, produces cata strophic results, storm surges in excess of 20 feet and wind gusts up to 220 miles per hour. We expected catastrophic damage. In the future when we see those types of storms approach our way again, the government has implemented manda tory evacuation. “And we pray that people, once the evacuation orders are announced or issued for certain areas, people would adhere to those warnings and get themselves out of harm’s way.” He added: “Our struc tures were probably just built to withstand a cate gory three, according to our building codes. Of course the modifications are now taking place in our building code. But to build a house to withstand a category five storm is going to be expensive.”Despite the expense, Mr Russell said pro gress with The Bahamas’ building codes and stand ards for building designs would mean progress with the resilience of homes and building struc tures withstanding more hurricanes.“Thebuilding codes are being modified and gradu ally as we look at building new homes and new struc tures or reinforcing our homes, we will have to adhere to the building codes. That would further mitigate and make sure our homes and structures are more resilient to deal with these dangerous storms that are coming our way from hereon. And that’s a work in progress,” Mr Russell said.In October 2021, the Davis administration referred to plans to enhance the country’s building code during the Speech from the Throne, read at the opening of InParliament.February, Works and Utilities Minister Alfred Sears said the government would bring a revised build ing code to Parliament this year and would undertake consultation with all of the relevant stakeholders shortly.Hurricane season in The Bahamas is June 1 through to November 30 and nor mally peaks in August and September.
ADRIAN GIBSON DROPS COURT CLAIM OF DEFAMATION from page one PRIME Minister Phil lip “Brave” Davis says his administration is seeking to engage more psychiatrists and psychologists to have them speak with Hurri cane Dorian survivors who may still be suffering from trauma associated with the deadly storm. Mr Davis comments comes as the country observes Dorian memorial week, which ends Septem berEvents4. planned for the week include a Dorian memorial service, a wreath laying ceremony and sev eral memorial concerts that are scheduled to be held on Abaco, Grand Bahama as well as New Providence. However, the govern ment has received heavy backlash over the events, specifically the manner in which they are being held and the terms that were previously used to describe it, for which officials have sinceYesterday,apologised.Mr Davis responded to continued criticisms of his adminis tration over the events, saying “I think the concern was because of the use of the word ‘celebration’ and I never used the word celebration.”Headded: “As I’ve indi cated to the press before, we are commemorating one of the most tragic events are country has experienced and we need to continue to remind ourselves of those events because people are still“Wehealing.”stillhave to identify some of those bodies that were laid in the mass grave. We are still trying to sort that out. We have lessened the period of time for the presumption of death to bring closure in respect to the person’s bank accounts and to be able to deal with inheritance issues, insur ance issues and we did that and so that’s one step towards assisting and bring ingMrrelief.”Davis also said: “The more important thing for me in respect to all of this is the mental health of per sons traumatised by the events so we have to be sen sitive always and, yes, we get exuberant and carried away with our language at times but words do matter and we need to be care ful with the words that we use and even though it would’ve, it was an unin tended consequence, I hope that those know that there are some lessons learnt on the manner of which we speak and that we be sensi tive to the healing process people go through, particu larly after a traumatic event like Hurricane Dorian.” Asked yesterday how the government was assisting those still suffering from trauma related to Dorian, Mr Davis added: “We are seeking, the Minister of Health is seeking to engage more psychiatrists and psy chologists and making them available to persons to call and talk to their challenges and that’s one of the things that we’re Hurricanedoing.”Dorian hit Abaco on September 1, 2019, as a Category 5 hur ricane before barreling toward Grand Bahama. Three years later, the islands remain in recovery mode.According to Prime Minister Davis, work continues to restore the storm impacted islands to normalcy.“Wehave been provid ing relief and we have been identifying the areas of which we can lend immedi ate relief. Some are more long term than short term. For example, housing in Grand Bahama and in Abaco are acutely short, particularly Abaco,” he added.“And so we have started a housing programme. Houses are being built there. We are just now resolving the dome city where we are asking per sons to move from those places so we can move those domes to build more homes at that site and in addition to that, we are pro viding some assistance to them to be able to take care of themselves in another place until we find alterna tive residences for them.”
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Relatives and friends may pay their respects at Kemp’s Funeral Home Limited, 19 Palmdale Avenue, Palmdale, Nassau on Tuesday, 30th August, 2022, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Arrangements by Kemp’s Funeral Home Limited. Funeral Service for Mike Nick Pikramenos, 66
“This was historic for many reasons, not least because our country has now firmly stepped up to take on an influential role in the global response to climate change,” he said.While issues of funding, carbon credits and so on grab many of the headlines, for us here at home, climate change is already affecting our way of life,” he added. “Moreso than ever before, we need to be prepared.”Healsonoted that the past July was the hottest on record worldwide, and that, overall, the past summer tied for the second hottest on record. “The data isn’t in as yet, but this summer must also be among the hottest,” he said. He pointed out there was a serious pos sibility that from that point on, all may look back on those past two summers as the coolest.“Itis a sobering thought,” he said. “But the mention of the name ‘Dorian’ gives us even greater pause for thought.”
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis at the weather sym posium in Abaco on Friday.Photo: Eric RoseBIS/ of Nassau, The Bahamas, who died on Wednesday, 24th August, 2022 at Doctors Hospital, Collins Avenue, Nassau, will be held at The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, West Street, Nassau, on Wednesday, 31st August, 2022 at 10:00 Fathera.m.Irenaeus
Cox will officiate and interment will follow in Lakeview Memorial Gardens and Mausoleum, John F. Kennedy Drive and Gladstone Road, Nassau. Mr. Pikramenos was predeceased by his parents Nick and Calliope Pikramenos.
He was also charged with intentional libel over allegations that he made defamatory remarks about Gibson on a Jones Com pany television programme in June 2019. At the time of his arraign ment, Miller denied the allegations and the matter continued through trial with testimony heard from several witnesses. The trial was supposed to continue on Friday but proceedings took a surpris ing turn when Mr Gibson told the court he no longer wanted to proceed with the case.Miller — who was rep resented by attorney Ian Cargill — was discharged as a result.
“The people of Abaco and Grand Bahama know far better than I do, the trauma and destruction of a Category 5 hurricane,” Mr Davis said. “Apart from the extreme heat, the threat of annual hur ricanes, along with rising sea levels, means we have to make vigorous efforts to pre pare ourselves more effectively to deal with natural disasters.”
PM: Govt is seeking aidpsychiatricmoreforvictims
OFFICIALS KEEP WATCH ON WEATHER DISTURBANCES
‘GIVE BAHAMIANS CHANCE TO BUY LOW-PRICE BONDS’ By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS lmunnings @ tribunemedia.net
By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net
The attack comes as the FNM is battling the public perception of a rift inside the party between those who support Mr Pintard and those who support Dr Minnis.Asked yesterday if this was posing a major chal lenge for party officials as it seeks to rebuild the FNM
FNM chairman Dr Duane Sands.
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FREE National Move ment chairman Dr Duane Sands wants people, includ ing those who identify themselves as party sup porters, to understand that the “Hubert Minnis era is over,” warning the organi sation will not support anyone who has different agendas from the party’s leadership.“DrMinnis would’ve said in 2012 in very pointed words that the ‘Hubert Ingraham era is over.’ Well, ten years later, the Hubert Minnis era is over,” Dr Sands said in an interview with The Tribune yesterday. “We have elected a new leader. We wish Dr Minnis well as he is a member of our parliamentary caucus and that said, the strategic direction of the Free National Movement now will be determined by the duly elected leader of theDrparty.”Sands’ comments to this newspaper comes after a FNM Meritorious Council
following its crushing elec tion defeat last year, Dr Sands replied that it was not.In fact, the party chair man said the organisation has become more vibrant and active over the last sev eral“So,months.the FNM as of August 20,2022 is a far more vibrant and active organisation than it was in November of 2021,” he con tinued. “The structure of the party has been strength ened. Its participation of party officers in many of these appointed and elected committees, there is consensus building that is taking place on a weekly basis.“We have outstanding and working committees that are engaged in devel oping platforms for the organisation. We recog nise that our primary focus ought to be on national building first in preparation for the opportunity to lead this country once again and that is our primary focus.”
Member was assaulted last week by another party member, said to be a sup porter of former Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis. The incident was said to have taken place at the FNM’s Golden Isles Constituency Association meeting at Gerald Cash Pri mary School on Tuesday. FNM officials later said the man who was assaulted required medical attention due to “significant” injuries that included a fractured jaw. FNM leader Michael Pin tard has since condemned the attack. The Tribune also under stands that the altercation, including potential disci plinary action for the said member, was discussed at the FNM’s executive committee and the cen tral council’s end of month meeting last week. While Dr Sands could not speak to the outcome of those meetings yesterday, he said all members agreed that the action was out of line and will not be toler ated in the future. He said: “So, when you look at the situation now, bear in mind that there are many people who identify as supporters of the Free National Movement, but they may not be actually members.“With that said, I am being very intentional about the metaphor, if you identify as something, then that’s what you are. So, you know, the public doesn’t see the technicalities and, you know, we want to be very clear when I think the leader, Michael Pintard, the leadership, chairman, myself, secretary general, etc, want to be very, very clear that violence of any kind, whether it’s verbal or physical, whether it’s bul lying, that there is no place for it in a Michael Pintard led Free National Move ment, none whatsoever.”
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OPPOSITION leader Michael Pintard has urged the government to pro vide Bahamians with the opportunity to purchase international bonds while they are trading low. In a press release issued recently, Mr Pintard noted the Davis administration’s “reckless” fiscal manage ment contributing to the country’s declining bond position.“The Opposition notes that The Bahamas bonds continue to trade well below their par value as has been acknowledged by the government’s own hired experts in the field,” said Mr“WePintard.recall that upon coming into office, the prime minister back in October 2021 said in his contribution to the supple mentary budget that then bond price performance was due to what he termed poor fiscal management which led to weakened investor confidence.” Mr Pintard noted that The Bahamas’ bond series 20/32 was trading at over 90 cents on the dollar in Octo ber of last year when Prime Minister Phillip “Brave” Davis commented on the matter, however currently those bonds are trading at 63 cents on the dollar. He said despite the gov ernment’s critiques of the former administration, due to the Progressive Liberal Party, the situation has been made worse. “In other words, despite his critique of the FNM government, all of the reck less fiscal actions of the Davis administration has only made the situation worse. As we have said before, the PLP needs to put down its incessant PR campaigns and photo-ops and get to the business of serious governance,” Mr Pintard said. Mr Pintard urged the PLP to focus on “serious governance.”Hesuggested in his state ment that the government work with the Central Bank of The Bahamas to allow Bahamians to take advan tage of the nine percent plus returns on the bonds. “The FNM also recog nises though that there is an opportunity with these heavily discounted bonds to allow more Bahamians to purchase these bonds and take advantage of the nine percent plus returns on the bonds.“This will require the government to work with the Central Bank to perhaps create a special window to facilitate for ordinary Bahamians. But our under standing is that right now only a select number of sophisticated and wealthy Bahamians have access to these bonds.” He said this partnership will allow the government to bring more of its foreign debt holdings onshore and allow ordinary Bahamians to participate and gener ate decent returns over the little or no interest being offered by most commercial banks.
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MAN ACCUSED OF CAUSING FIRES
A 30-YEAR-OLD man was charged in the Free port Magistrate’s Court on Friday with multiple counts of causing damage by fire and endangering property. Kevin Honore, of no fixed address, was arraigned before Magistrate Laquay Laing.This is in connection with a number of fires that occurred through out the Freeport area between August 15–24. Honore pleaded guilty to five counts of caus ing damage by fire and six counts of endangering property by the negligent use of fire. He was sentenced to three years in prison at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services (BDCS).Ina separate case, a 43-year-old Grand Bahama man was charged with rape and causing harm. John Cherry, a resident of Pinder’s Point, appeared before Magistrate Simone Brown accused of rape and causing harm. He was not required to enter a plea. The accused was denied bail and remanded to BDCS until November 28.
Roadworks Motorists may be frustrated with the prospect of the Village Road roadworks continuing until November – but ought it really be a surprise? Back in June, when The Tribune asked for an update, engineer Albrion Symon ette said that the project was estimated to be fully completed by November anyway.Hesaid: “In a worst-case scenario we want to be completely finished with everything by November, just in time for school to reopen, which is our intention.”MrSymonette was wildly wrong on the date that school would reopen –but it looks like he was on the money about when the roadworks would be completed.Notthat such accuracy will bring par ents stuck in traffic any comfort… disasterboat letters@tribunemedia.net
DENIAL OF SER VICES TO NON-CARD HOLDERS. Non card holders would be denied banking services, vehi cle licensing and drivers’ licenses, landlords would be required to ensure that a potential tenant is here legally by viewing the card. Service at medical clin ics or hospitals would be provided, but patients without the cards would be reported to the Immigration Department. Parents taking migrant children to schools must present the card. The card must also be presented by migrants for use in food stores, etc. Thompson wanted to make it extremely difficult for illegal migrants to reside here. He thought that this policy would send a strong message to those wishing to enter our coun try illegally. I did not agree with some parts of the plan, but I was all for ridding the country of the Shanty Towns and the identifica tion Card, which would provide records of persons residing. Decades later we are still struggling with Shanty Towns and illegal immigration. Thompson’s plan was for immigrants, but he knew that Haitian nationals exceeded others by thousands and there was the continuous flow. His plan never adopted as many influential persons thought it to be inhumane. The Shanty Towns continue to exists and human trafficking continues.
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PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis took his warnings over climate change to Abaco on Friday. At a symposium there, he said that all islands in The Bahamas are vulnerable to climate change and weather threats, especially hurricanes. Of course, the people of Abaco know that better than most – and Mr Davis was quick to recognise that fact, given the impact of Hurricane Dorian on Abaco and Grand Bahama three years ago.He also pointed out the scorching temperatures this summer, but added that we may look back on these past two summers as among the coolest. He said: “It is a sobering thought. But the men tion of the name ‘Dorian’ gives us even greater pause for thought.”
EDITOR, The Tribune. THE swift response by the police and the efficient and effective investigations conducted into the disaster involving the Human Traf ficking vessel, that sank in our waters recently is commendable.Scoresofpersons died, which is very sad. Persons involved in this human traf ficking disaster have been arrested and charged. It is obvious, that the previous boating disaster involv ing the sinking of the human trafficking vessel in waters off Abaco in which scores of Haitian nationals drowned did not receive the prompt attention and the efficient and effective ingestion conducted by the Police in the recent disaster. There was no identifica tion of the traffickers and the crew even though we had eighteen survivors and 25 Haitians identifying dead bodies. Aggressive and skillful interrogation should have resulted in exposing the identity of those persons, who were criminally involved. I presume, that the eight een survivors have been deported, but the persons identifying, who are likely relatives of the deceased may still be here and could be interviewed in an effort to expose those responsi ble for that disaster. Could it be the same traffickers involved in the present dis aster? The silence of the Haitian government or any representative was noted in the Abaco disaster. For the very first time we are hear ing a representative speak about illegal migration from Haiti to our Bahamas. His recommended solu tion is Visas. Nothing has been said by him about his government’s failure to take action to stop the ille gal traffic, that has caused the demise of so many of its citizens. I had the expe rience of working with the Haitian Police for several weeks on two occasions in Haiti in search of a bank robber, who had escaped to Haiti. I found them to be very efficient and capable and their Intelligence Unit very effective. I have also been associated with Inter pol representatives from Haiti while attending sev eral Interpol conferences in the Caribbean region. When given the opportu nity I would always speak about illegal migration from Haiti. The Haitian delegates would remain silent. I have been told discretely on numerous occasions by senior law enforcement personnel from Haiti, that if their gov ernment wanted the illegal traffic stopped it could be done promptly. The Hai tian Police through their Intelligence Unit knows where the boats depart from, when they depart and the persons involved in the operations. Many decades ago Sir Lynden Pindling devised a plan for the orderly employment of Haitian nationals in The Bahamas. That did not stop the illegal traffic. The issue of Visas will not stop the traffic. Those per sons who fail to qualify due to criminal/terrorists back grounds would continue the illegal traffick. The human trafficking from Haiti could be stopped immediately if the Haitian government instructs and supports appropriate action by the country’s law enforcement agencies to do so. When Salathiel Thompson was made Commissioner of Police just after Independ ence in the seventies he had three major concerns, that he frequently discussed with(a)me.the removal of the maximum security prison from our tourist mecca, New(b)Providence;anindoor shooting range for law enforcement officers to practice and become proficient in the use of the firearms they carry;(c) Illegal Immigra tion. Those persons arriving here from other countries and the ones residing here of whom we have no records and no per sonal information. We both looked at the situation as a major security risk. Sala thiel Thompson devised a plan to deal with illegal migration.Briefinformation of his plan as I recall follows: SHANTY TOWNS: Prosecute the builders and landlords for breaches of the building regulations and Town Planning laws of The Bahamas. If convicted ask for appropriate sentences (fines) and compensation for the demolition of the buildings and cleanup of debris. Investigations would have been launched to determine how residents of the Shanty Towns were able to receive utility services and those persons involved would have been exposed and prosecuted where pos sible. The first assault was to be on the Shanty Towns in Abaco where he was told Police Officers feared visit ing unless armed. Identification card. The card, similar to the US Green Card. with pho tograph and antecedents would confirm that the migrant is here legally. The illegal migrants would be given the opportunity to register and have their employers apply for the cards. Failure to acquire the card would result in volun tary or deportation.
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A YOUNGSTER during a face painting session at the Securities Commission back to school drive at the weekend. Photo: Austin Fernander
PAUL THOMPSON, Sr AugustNassau, 26, 2022.
What are we doing to tackle climate change at home?
While we agree that the signs are indeed sobering – and also agree on that pause for thought, a question hangs in the air that has yet to be answered. We all recognise the danger of hurricanes, we have long talked of the threat of cli mate change so what are we going to do about it? Mr Davis spoke on Friday about the recent regional conference in The Baha mas, focused on building a consensus for the United Nations negotiations on cli mate change. He said: “This was historic for many reasons, not least because our country has now firmly stepped up to take an influential role in the global response to climate change. While issues of funding, carbon credits and so on grab many of the headlines, for us here at home, cli mate change is already affecting our way of life. More so than ever before, we need to be prepared.” All well and good, so how are we preparing? International negotiations obviously have a place, not least of all in securing funding to compensate for the effects of climate change and to help fund preparations for what is to come. But in practical steps here at home, what are we doing? Back in February, Mr Davis said his administration was working on a climate change plan to be released “in the coming months” that would begin with raising awareness about climate change in The Bahamas. He said the country was developing web-based tools to monitor the impact of changing sea levels and is revising building codes as we face the prospect of more intense weather. Months have come and months have gone and we haven’t seen that plan appear yet. This week’s memorial events for those affected by Hurricane Dorian are a keen reminder of the dangers we face from major climate events, but are we substantially any safer today from the impact of storms than we were three yearsForago?all the international talks and diplomacy – and make no mistake, those are a vital part of focusing the world’s attention on the need for action – there seems to be a disconnect between the supposed urgency we talk about in such meetings and the pace of change here on theSoground.letus see this plan, Mr Davis, we would dearly like to know what’s in it.
GINGER Moxey MP with the branded bags and shirts.
MOXEY: BRANDED
AFTER coming under fire on social media for handing out backpacks with her name on them at a back-to-school event, Pin eridge MP Ginger Moxey said the branded bags were originally meant for her team members but were given out widely due to too many being “printed in error”.Photos circulated on social media yesterday of the bags, which bore the logo “Ginger Moxey for Pineridge”, with some sug gesting Ms Moxey was self-centred.Inastatement, Ms Moxey acknowledged the “misstep,” and explained what she said occurred. “With regards to social media posts, my heart is for the people and our backto-school giveaway was intended to ensure our chil dren received backpacks and school supplies. The logo and branded bags were for our team members and their“However,families. too many of the branded bags were printed in error, and due to time constraints, it was too late to place another order for the scheduled back-toschool event date. “There was heavy demand and therefore we utilised branded bags in conjunction with unbranded bags to ensure that every child received a bag. “We acknowledge this misstep.”Shesaid the event was organised from “per sonal funds” and not the government.Somepeople on social media likened the devel opment to the 2019 controversy involving then Youth, Sports and Culture Minister Lanisha Rolle after pins with images of her face were given to young people who partici pated in Youth Parliament events. BAGS WERE ‘MISSTEP’
GINGER Moxey MP gets a hug from a child wearing one of the branded bags in this image posted to Facebook.
THE TRIBUNE Monday, August 29, 2022, PAGE 7
Are we really ready to go back to school?
Witness, for example, the imminent frustration on Village Road, where road works due to be completed in September will now rumble on into November. That will have a knock-on effect not just for Queen’s College students but for a host of schools around that area whose students will have to make their way through the long tail backs likely to be caused by construction.What’sthe cause of the delay? Well, that wasn’t exactly clear on Friday when Minister of Works and Utilities Alfred Sears talked about the need for additional work to be done. He said: “There are some additional works which are being scoped related to installing a roundabout in the front of Queen’s Col lege and Bahamas National Trust. We will be meeting with both of those stake holders to discuss further what is intended in order to make this roadway more efficient and also improve the quality of life.”
We suspect there won’t be much quality of life for people sitting in traffic on the first day of school. So the explanation there is additional works – but no mention of when the decision was made to con duct those works, how much they will cost, why extra works are needed beyond the original plans and so on. Shouldn’t all of that have been decided before the first digger moved in? Rather than being announced the week before schoolchildren start to Forreturn?those who pass the area regularly, it will have been noticed that there are lengthy spells in the day when not a lot of work has been seen to be done lately – so have things ground to a halt while they figure out what to do? It doesn’t give a lot of confidence when it comes to other areas – Mr Sears has previously insisted that work will be done on time to repair other schools across the country. On August 18, it was reported that he said there were a great number of structural defects that needed to be addressed but he said after criticism from FNM chair man Dr Duane Sands: “He didn’t say it’s impossible. It’s almost impossible and it will be done. You know, that’s the commitment we have made and we’re doing it with the partnership of contractors.”Inthecoming week, we will know which of those two was right, and which wasMrwrong.Sands did however add a qualification, saying: “Some of the projects will have to be cut back, because there’s just not suf ficientQuitetime.”what those projects are and how vital they are, he did not say. You can’t, for example, simply decide not to repair a roof then declare the project com plete as the rain falls on children’s heads. Credit however goes to the government for resolving another area of contention – the long-run ning dispute with teachers. Teachers decided to go back to the classroom rather than taking industrial action. Have we reached the end of that saga? Perhaps not entirely – returning to the classroom always seems to have its share of tensions with things that aren’t quite right or working environ ments where construction isn’t quite finished. But par ents can seemingly be more confident that their chil dren’s school hours won’t be interrupted by a teacher walkout than they could have been six months ago. Which brings us to the last part of the bargain struck between parents and schools – what we can expect our children to achieve.Because once we have the roads fixed to get to school, the classrooms fixed for our children to study at school and the teachers in agreement over their con tract to teach – how well are our children learning? The latest exam results to come out last week were not encouraging. About 13 per cent of candidates received a C or higher in at least five subjects in the latest BGCSE examinations. That’s less than one in eight. Even when being fair in pointing out that we have come through a challeng ing time with children using virtual learning platforms, that’s not an encouraging number.Thetotal number of can didates dropped – again, perhaps that’s not surpris ing given the talk of how many children have not engaged with remote learn ing – and while there are some minor positive shifts here and there, overall it is not a pretty picture for our children.Whatis more concerning still is there doesn’t seem a burning drive to put edu cation at the forefront of elevating our nation. We should be moving heaven and earth to give our children the best education –instead, we can barely move enough earth to get road works completed on time. Going back to school this week, parents will be hoping the best for their children – but beyond hope, we need to take practical steps as a nation to give those children the edu cation they deserve, the education they need, and the education that will ulti mately take us forward as a country. It’s not just about fixing roofs and keeping the lights on.
By STRACHANMALCOLM
FNM chairman Dr Duane Sands and Minister of Works and Utilities have expressed differing views on the likely state of school readiness.
THE STORIES BEHIND THE NEWS MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 2022
IT’S that time of year when parents will be set ting off on the school run again. Children will be wak ened early, freshly bought uniforms will be put on, and out the door to school they go, with shoes that might stay unscuffed for a week and bags that parents hope willAslast.much as parents will have done everything they can to get their children ready for school, however, there is only so much they can do – there are things they can’t control once they have provided their chil dren with all they are able. Whether your child is going to a public school or a private school, there are things they depend on that are provided by the school itself – or the government.
CONSTRUCTION work earlier this summer as schools got ready for the return of students for the new term.
Rebekah has an irregu lar heartbeat so when the knife angled upwards pen etrated her clothing, tearing through her flesh and sub cutaneous tissue, her heart began to vibrate rapidly. The knife was so deep that it contused her lung inducing the most severe pain that she’d ever expe rienced. Her first thoughts were her chil dren, knowing that their life would forever be deleteri ously marred if she didn’t survive. And so, she did. The day she left the hospi tal, still barely able to walk without elicit ing pain, is the day that she took her chil dren and moved in with her parents.Hermother and father were married for 60 years so it was comforting to be surrounded by the warmth of their love to remind her what was possible and what she truly deserved. Unfor tunately, a few years later her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer but it wasn’t until her father died from prostate cancer did her mother’s health truly take a turn for the worse. The loss of her father was pain ful but when her mother became ill, Rebekah also felt physically sick. The thought of living in a world without her mother and closest confidante was too unbearable to imagine. She cried, begged and pleaded with her not to die. As her mother’s organs began to shut down, Rebekah never left her side. She prayed daily for a mira cle but within weeks, her mother died from kidney failure. Rebekah acknowl edges that long before her mother’s kidneys failed and her legs and feet became swollen and blistered; long before the weakness, nausea and shortness of breath occurred and her skin became dry and gray, her heart was broken from the death of her husband and she’d given up on life that very same day. In an effort to help support herself and her chil dren, Rebekah got a second job at a clothing store to augment her teacher’s salary. For a while, though exhausting, she developed a routine. She’d learned how to be independent watching her mother take care of their home, saving and budgeting her monthly finances according to how much money her father made from his fishing trips. Adopting this same philoso phy, soon enough Rebekah was able to stay financially afloat. She paid all her bills, her children were thriv ing in school and she was happy. For the first time in a long time, she felt free and her life was moving in a positive direction. Then one Saturday even ing, after locking the store that she managed and get ting into her car, an armed assailant approached. Rebekah had been dis tracted for a moment, wondering if she should go home and cook or stop to buy something for dinner. It wasn’t until she felt the coldness of his gun and body aggressively jamming into her back that she real ized her life was in danger. Her mind raced. She’d hoped, given her previous stabbing incident, that she’d be better prepared. She wasn’t. Rebekah felt tears roll down her cheek and she managed to say please and then softly mutter that she had children at home waiting. But within seconds, while attempting to steal her bag, his gun discharged and Rebekah was shot at close range. The assailant ran off with her belongings and was never captured. Laying there on the ground, bleeding to death, Rebekah once again thought of her children. The beeping sound from her car drowned out any other thoughts. Unable to help herself, she depended on the assis tance of people, who came from a night club across the street. She couldn’t under stand how something like this could happen to her. Rebekah had spent her entire life being a kind and caring person, forgiving to a fault, perhaps. But being kind wouldn’t save her now so Rebekah dug deep within and was determined to fight. She prayed to God for her life to once again be spared. Patients, like Rebekah, with an irregular heartbeat are at an increased risk for blood clots, heart disease and stroke so the stress of getting shot added threat ening pressure to her heart. Prompt surgical interven tion was paramount if she were to survive the night. Fortunately, once she arrived at the hospital and was whisked into the oper ating theatre, her surgeons realised that the bullet went through her stomach and out through her back, missing all of her major organs in its path. Rebekah would be in an excruciating amount of pain for the next few weeks, but her prayers were answered and she survived.Oncedischarged from the hospital and still recuperat ing, Rebekah had to attend her son’s college graduation in a wheelchair. Over time, physical therapy helped her to regain her strength but it would take years before her nightmares finally stopped. Regretfully, little did she know that her nightmares had only just begun. This is the KDK Report.
ABOVE ALL ELSE
MANY of us spend so much of our lives consumed by what’s happened in the past or what should or could happen in the future, that we fail to live in the present. Those who fall into this category aren’t truly living, they’re simply surviving day by day and hoping that their next day is fraction ally better than the last. But then there are others who live in the moment. Grate ful for every second of life, oftentimes because they’ve come so close to losing it. In 1944, my patient who we’ll call Rebekah, was born on an outer island of The Bahamas called Andros during a simpler time and as World War II was nearing its end. She had a stay-athome mother who raised her and her three siblings with a warm heart and a gentle touch. Her father was a fisherman who went to sea for weeks at a time conch,catchingfishand crawfish that he sold in Nassau before returning home. Her entire childhood was peaceful and happy, which is a cruel juxtaposition to the multi ple trials that she’s had to endure in her adult life. Rebekah relocated to Nassau with her parents and siblings so that she could attend college to become a teacher. She met her future husband during this time but shortly after their wed ding, their marriage became irreparably damaged by constant bouts of his infi delity. They were married for nearly twenty years and had three children together. After the fourth or fifth incident, she lost count of how many times he cheated on her. Every time he was unfaithful, she forgave him but lost a piece of herself in the process. It left her broken and lonely. She’d grown up under standing that a husband often has to leave his family for an extended period of time to provide for them financially. So the fact that her husband came home every night left her grate ful, no matter how late the hour. It never dawned on her that he could be spending time with another woman and raising another family. To this day, she regrets her naivety. It wasn’t until one of his mistresses came after her and stabbed her with a butcher knife in her left lower back that Rebekah, while fighting for her own survival from the attack, finally found the courage to leave him.
‘Within seconds, while attempting to steal her bag, his gun discharged and Rebekah was shot at close range. The assailant ran off with her belongings and was captured.’never
Nicknamed ‘The Prince of Podiatry’, Dr Kenneth D Kemp is the founder and medical director of Bahamas 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 co-vice-chairman.as
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By DR KENNETH D KEMP
• Part 2 of this series will be published nextSeptemberMonday,5.
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ONCE again, politicians in the US are entangling the internal politics of their country with US obliga tions to the international community.Thistime, Senator Rick Scott, a Republican from the State of Florida, wants the Biden administration to deny visas to three Latin American and Caribbean leaders, stopping them from attending next month’s General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) in NewReminiscentYork. of last June’s Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, Senator Scott wrote to President Biden on August 24, urging him “to deny visas for Miguel Díaz-Canel (Cuba), Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua), Nico lás Maduro (Venezuela), and their respective delega tions to attend the United Nations General Assem bly meetings”. Similar calls were made on President Biden, prior to the Summit of the Americas, to exclude Díaz-Canel, Ortega and Maduro.These calls have much to do with mid-term elec tions in November that will decide whether the Republican or Democratic party will control the US Senate. They have come from members of the US Congress and vocal groups of exiles who want regime change in Cuba, Venezuela, andForNicaragua.theSummit of the Americas, President Biden bowed to the political risk his party would face at the mid-term elections, particu larly in Florida. He did not invite the three leaders to attend.This decision occasioned criticism from governments of several Latin Ameri can and Caribbean countries. Many Caribbean governments, in the interest of tackling urgent prob lems that confronted their countries, requiring interna tional cooperation, opted to attend with the understand ing that, at the meeting, they would strongly rep resent the interests of the Cuban and Venezuelan governments.Other governments continued not to accept President Biden’s decision to exclude Díaz-Canel, Ortega and Maduro. Nota ble among these, were the governments of Mexico and St Vincent and the Grenadines, both of whose leaders boycotted the Summit. The last thing President Biden should want is a large-scale boycott of a UN General Assembly while major issues confront the global community. So, President Biden is, again, caught on the horns of a dilemma. He recog nises the importance for his party and his admin istration of the Florida mid-term Senate elections and the contest for the State’s Governorship. At the same time, he knows that the US government has obligations to the UN organisation which are enshrined in the agree ment that established the headquarters in New York. Refusing visas for lead ers to attend UN meetings is inconsistent with the terms of the headquarters agreement.Thestakes are high in Florida. The Democrats are trying both to unseat Republican Senator, Marco Rubio, who is virulently opposed to the governments of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, and to replace Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, who is also work ing for the nomination by the Republi can Party for the 2024 US
NASA’s Artemis 1 mis sion is poised to take a key step toward return ing humans to the Moon after a half-century hiatus. The mission, scheduled to launch on Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, is a shakedown cruise – sans crew – for NASA’s Space Launch System and Orion Crew Capsule.
Artemis 1 is going to be the first flight of the new Space Launch System. This is a “heavy lift” vehicle, as NASA refers to it. It will be the most powerful rocket engine ever flown to space, even more powerful than Apollo’s Saturn V system that took astronauts to the Moon in the 1960s and ’70s. It’s a new type of rocket system, because it has both a combination of liquid oxygen and hydrogen main engines and two strap-on solid rocket boosters derived from the space shuttle. It’s really a hybrid between the space shuttle and Apollo’s Saturn V Testingrocket.isvery impor tant, because the Orion Crew Capsule is going to be getting a real work out. It will be in the space environment of the Moon, a high-radiation environ ment, for a month. And, very importantly, it will be testing the heat shield, which protects the capsule and its occupants, when it comes back to the Earth at 25,000 miles per hour. This will be the fastest capsule reentry since Apollo, so it’s very important that the heat shield function well. This mission is also going to carry a series of small satellites that will be placed in orbit of the Moon. Those will do some useful precur sor science, everything from looking further into the permanently shadowed cra ters where scientists think there is water to just doing more measurements of the radiation environment, seeing what the effects will be on humans for long-term exposure. What’s the goal of the Artemis project? What’s coming up in the series of launches? The mission is a first step toward Artemis 3, which is going to result in the first human missions to the Moon in the 21st century and the first since 1972.
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By JACK ColoradoUniversityBURNS,ofBoulder
• Originally published www.theconversation.comon
THE NASA moon rocket stands ready less than 24 hours before it is scheduled to launch on Pad 39B for the Artemis 1 mission to orbit the moon at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, yesterday.
NASA’S ARTEMIS 1 MISSION TO THE MOON SETS THE STAGE FOR ROUTINE SPACE EXPLORATION BEYOND EARTH’S ORBIT – HERE’S WHAT TO EXPECT AND WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
The spacecraft is sched uled to travel to the Moon, deploy some small satellites and then settle into orbit. NASA aims to practice operating the spacecraft, test the conditions crews will experience on and around the Moon, and assure every one that the spacecraft and any occupants can safely return to Earth.
The Conversation asked Jack Burns, a profes sor and space scientist at the University of Colo rado Boulder and former member of the Presidential Transition Team for NASA, to describe the mission, explain what the Artemis programme promises to do for space exploration, and reflect on how the space programme has changed in the half-century since humans last set foot on the lunar surface. How does Artemis 1 differ from the other rockets being launched routinely?
Artemis 1 is an uncrewed testArtemisflight. 2, which is sched uled to launch a few years after that, will have astro nauts on board. It, too, will be an orbital mission, very much like Apollo 8, which circled the Moon and came back home. The astronauts will spend a longer time orbiting the Moon and will test everything with a human crew. And, finally, that will lead to a journey to the sur face of the Moon in which Artemis 3 – sometime middecade – will rendezvous with the SpaceX Starship and transfer crew. Orion will remain in orbit, and the lunar Starship will take the astronauts to the surface. They will go to the south pole of the Moon to look at an area scientists haven’t explored before to investi gate the water ice there.
Artemis is reminiscent of Apollo. What has changed in the past half-century? The reason for Apollo that Kennedy envisioned initially was to beat the Soviet Union to the Moon. The administration didn’t particularly care about space travel, or about the Moon itself, but it repre sented an audacious goal that would clearly put America first in terms of space and technology. The downside of doing that is the old saying “You live by the sword, you die by the sword.” When the US got to the Moon, it was basically game over. We beat the Russians. So we put some flags down and did some science experi ments. But pretty quickly after Apollo 11, within a few more missions, Rich ard Nixon canceled the programme because the political objectives had been met. So fast-forward 50 years. This is a very different envi ronment. We are not doing this to beat the Russians or the Chinese or anybody else, but to begin a sustain able exploration beyond Earth’s orbit. The Artemis programme is driven by a number of different goals. It includes in situ resource utilisa tion, which means using resources at hand like water ice and lunar soil to pro duce food, fuel and building materials.Theprogramme is also helping to establish a lunar and space economy, starting with entrepreneurs, because SpaceX is very much part of this first mission to the sur face of the Moon. NASA doesn’t own the Starship but is buying seats to allow astronauts to go to the sur face. SpaceX will then use the Starship for other pur poses – to transport other payloads, private astronauts and astronauts from other countries.Fiftyyears of technol ogy development means that going to the Moon now is much less expensive and more technologically feasible, and much more sophisticated experiments are possible when you just figure the computer technology. Those 50 years of technological advance ment have been a complete game-changer. Almost anybody with the financial resources can send space craft to the Moon now, though not necessarily with humans.NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services contracts private compa nies to build uncrewed landers to go to the Moon. My colleagues and I have a radio telescope that’s going to the Moon on one of the landers in January. That just wouldn’t have been possible even 10 years ago. What other changes does Artemis have in store? The administration has said that in that first crewed flight, on Artemis 3, there will be at least one woman and very likely a person of color. They may be one and the same. There may be several.I’mlooking forward to seeing more of that diver sity, because young kids today who are looking up at NASA can say, “Hey, there’s an astronaut who looks like me. I can do this. I can be part of the space programme.”
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FORINTHOMPSONGIVEAWAYSTUDENTS By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net
KWASI Thompson, MP for East Grand Bahama and his team held a backto-school giveaway on Friday, distributing bags with school supplies to hundreds of children in the East Grand Bahama constituency.Thedrive-through givea way took place between 3pm and 5pm at the East Grand Bahama Constitu ency Office located in the Thompson Real Estate Building at No 5 Lillian Court, off Royal Palm Way. As vehicles drove up, Mr Thompson, and his wife, Tammy, along with mem bers of the EGB Team greeted constituents and their children and pre sented bags with school supplies. The children also posed with cartoon charac ters, received a snack bag, and a cool treat. Mr Thompson said that they expected at least 500 children.“Itis a wonderful day for all of the kids in East Grand Bahama because we are doing our annual back to school giveaway,” MP Thompson said. We have already seen hundreds of kids - it is just our way of giving back to the com munity. One of the ways in which we can help is to help to meet the needs of some of our school kids - that is what we are doing here today”.MrThompson and Team EGB also put smiles on the faces of the children. “We have our characters out and they are enjoying the kids and making sure they have fun. We also give them a snack, and finally ending the day with a nice cool ice-cream because it is so hot out. We are just having fun with the kids and giving back.” Mr Thompson said the turnout was excellent. “We had persons lined up (in vehicles) at 2.30pm before we started at 3pm so there has been a lot of interest. We had a drive through again because of COVID restric tions and we are still very mindful of those. We have a steady flow this afternoon and we expect to continue a steady flow today.”
“I wanted to come out side, but he didn’t let me out,” she said, adding that he didn’t hit Magistrateher.Kelly said that she had got the impression that some information was being withheld or that she “frivolously” called the police.The magistrate then asked, “Are you afraid of Mr Saunders?” “No“ was the woman’s reply adding that she was withdrawing the complaint of her own freeCrownwill. prosecutor, Sgt Vernon Pyfrom then asked the court to make an exam ple out of her for wasting officers’ time, explaining that there were too many cases of people calling police “whenever they feel like.” Magistrate Kelly then chastised the woman, saying it didn’t appear that she was serious when making the complaint.“Whenyou make a com plaint to the police, that’s a serious matter,” she said. “You cannot say… that when I’m angry with him, I’m going to call the police because he could’ve been going to jail for a matter that could’ve been resolved. If a relationship isn’t work ing, just leave.” The magistrate then told her that she should’ve been fined but said she decided against it out of mercy.
Kendra Kelly ordered the accused to complete 150 hours of community service. Upon completion, she would be granted an absolute discharge.Magistrate Kelly also told Newbold to learn from her past mistakes and added that it would be in her best interest to stay away from her former boyfriend. She further advised the accused to deal with her children herself or put the man in court for child support.“Don’t chase a man,” she said. “The worst thing to do is go looking for him when he’s not answering your calls.”
To which the accused later said: “I feel so stupid after all of this.”
YOUNGSTERS with some of the items at the giveaway hosted by Kwasi Thompson MP.
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A MAN accused of murder was charged with violating the conditions of his bail in the Magistrate’s Court on Friday. Police say Lethario Davis, 28, breached the conditions of his release between August 3–23 when he failed to comply with his 8pm to 6am daily curfew as ordered by the Supreme Court.However, Davis, who is represented by Ryszard Humes, denied the offence during his hearing before Magistrate Kendra Kelly.Still, Crown prosecu tor Sgt Vernon Pyfrom objected to his bail given the nature of the charge. He reminded the court that the accused was granted bail before and sug gested that Davis may not adhere to more bail condi tions as it is alleged that he breached his release requirements.“Ifhedoesn’t respect the higher courts, your worship, it could be inferred what he may think about the condi tions of the (Magistrate’s) Court,” the prosecutor told theBut,court. Mr Humes responded that remarks were inappropriate as his client has proclaimed his innocence.Afterlistening to both arguments, Magistrate Kelly sided with the Crown prosecutor, saying there were no other conditions the court can impose to ensure that the accused appears for trial. As a result, bail was denied, and Davis was remanded to prison. Magistrate Kelly informed him that he can apply to the Supreme Court for bail.
“Don’t let it happen again,” she added. As a result, Saunders was discharged.
MURDER SUSPECT CHARGED WITH VIOLATING BAIL TERMS
TWO taxi drivers appeared in the Magistrate’s Court on Friday accused of several fraud related offences.Henry Walkine, 51, and Otis Clarke, 41, faced Mag istrate Kendra Kelly on charges of possession of a forged document, utter ing a forged document and attempted fraud by false pretences.Policesay Walkine and Clarke tried to defraud the Road Traffic Department sometime between June 1 and July 29 by using certain forged documents. In Walkine’s case, it is alleged that he tried to obtain a livery registra tion from the department in his name by using a fake Road Traffic conditional approval letter for a livery plate.Meanwhile, police allege that Clarke tried to obtain a taxi registration from the department by using a fraudulent conditional approval letter for a taxi plate.Both men denied the allegations during Friday’s hearing.Onthe issue of bail, the prosecutor did not object to the men’s release, but he asked the court to impose sign-inHowever,conditions.the men’s attorneys argued against it, insisting that their cli ents had no previous convictions.Asaresult, the mag istrate agreed with the attorneys and granted the men $3,000 bail with one or twoTheysureties.willreturn to court on October 28.
TAXI DRIVERS ACCUSED OF FRAUD
In another case before Magistrate Kelly, a woman dropped an assault com plaint against her boyfriend, Gavargo Saunders. Police arrested the 29-year-old after the woman alleged that he had assaulted her at their home on August Magistrate9. Kelly asked the woman why she had made the complaint. Her reply was that she had done so out of anger. The woman said the two were involved in a heated argument that day when her boyfriend held her down in the chair because she claimed he didn’t want her to leave the house.
A 36-YEAR-OLD woman who punched her former boyfriend’s lover in the face earlier this month was ordered on Friday to complete 150 hours of com munityPoliceservice.arrested Romona Newbold after she assaulted the woman on August 20 on seeing her in the car with her now former boy friend and father of her nine-month-old child. Newbold, who is also pregnant with her former boyfriend’s baby, told the court the incident hap pened after she approached her child’s father about not answering her calls. She claimed she was call ing him multiple times on the day in question because their child was sick. However, while the two were speaking, a lady who was in the car with him got out and “brushed” her and then assaulted her. As a result, Newbold said she punched her in the face in Newboldself-defence.also claimed that she told officers of the woman’s attack, but when the prosecutor checked the police report in court, he didn’t find that to be the case.Still, the accused main tained that the woman assaulted her first. When asked if she and her child’s father were still in a relationship, “no“ was herMagistratereply.
Students will be returning to school next week. MP Thompson said that the opening of school is an exciting time for children. “The kids are excited. They have been out of school for some time because of COVID restric tions and they are very pleased to be going back in the school,” he said. “One thing we want to make sure is that all our schools are ready.”“We need to make sure all the teachers are ready and one thing we want to continue to advocate for particularly in EGB is a need for us to construct a school,” said the MP for EGB.Mr Thompson, former minister of Grand Bahama in the Minnis Adminis tration, stated that the previous FNM government left funds in the budget for the government to con struct a “Thisschool.(PLP) government decided that they would not do it this year, but next year. So, we are going to continue to follow-up with them to ensure that the people of EGB are not left behind or neglected. And so, one of the things we continue to advocate for particularly in Sweeting’s Cay, High Rock, and the McLean’s Town. That kids in those areas unfortunately still must be bused to Freeport. So, we want to make sure the gov ernment does not forget our kids in EGB.” Mr Thompson was refer ring to the building of a new All Age School in the East End area. “We are very interested in making sure that school happens, and that it is constructed in the shortest period of time,” he said.
While authorities are actively investigating this matter they are also encouraging members of the public to be more vigilant and restrictive of their more aggres sivePolicedogs.have asked dog owners who have overly aggressive or uncontrollable dogs that they cannot restrain in aggressive situations or circumstances, con sistently bark, are always agitated, fight, create disturbances with other animals, or try to attack people, to ensure their yards are properly secured and enclosed to prevent their animals escaping. Authorities also asked mem bers of the public to contact them in reference to any breaches in the Animal Control Act at Royal Bahamas Police Force K-9 Unit at 397-9600, or 397-9635, or Animal Control Unit at 325 -1178. Police further warned that pet owners’ failure to register their dogs would result in that person receiving a fine.
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Mr Symonette Jr said: “So are we aware that the Queen’s College school reo pens on Monday; what we have established is where our construction crews will come at that time. “We are actually going to be diverting traffic through Brooklyn Avenue. So off of Village Road onto Brook lyn Avenue through the residential area around the TuckawayAdditionally,Road.”the engi neer also highlighted the construction of the rounda bout would be beneficial to the efficiency of traffic flow. Mr Symonette added: “So the placement of the roundabout would require us to do some demolition, some relocation of walls, some relocation of veg etation, and then once that is done, the roundabout would improve the effi ciency flow of the Village Road and also improve safety for motorists and pedestrians alike.”
HAITI REVEALS ‘COLOSSAL’ $4M COST OF CORRUPTION
He called on Haiti’s judicial officials to act on his agency’s findings.Jacques Lafontant, government commissioner for the capital of Port-au-Prince, told The Asso ciated Press on Friday that he would order all those named in the report to appear before a judge.“The process will start without any delay,” he said.
The 30-page report released to the public summarises lengthy investigations launched by Joseph’s agency and provides a window into rampant corruption across Haiti, where more than 60 percent of its more than 11 mil lion people struggle to survive on about $2 a day. The agency pursued ten unrelated investigations, find ing alleged corruption in places including two schools, three mayors’ offices and three govern ment agencies. It accused the general direc tor of Haiti’s National Lottery of diverting more than 41 million Haitian gourdes ($300,000) with help from her brother — a legal professional — and of not charg ing companies operating rights, resulting in a shortfall of 269 mil lion gourdes (more than $2m) to the public treasury.
CSP Skippings said the dogs believed to be involved in the incident were removed from the home in question. She could not say if they will be put down. In an official statement, the Ministry of Agriculture, Marine Resources and Family Island Affairs extended heartfelt condo lences to the family and friends of theWhilevictim.the ministry acknowl edged that it is still not clear if negligence played a role in this man’s death, officials still called on the owners of more violent dogs to ensure that their animals are safely enclosed to prevent similar“Officialstragedies.ofthe Animal Con trol Unit were on the scene this morning (Saturday) and are working closely with police to determine the cause of the attack and if negligence played a part in this incident. The ministry admonishes dog owners to keep them in a safe and enclosed area to prevent events such as this,” the statement noted. “Under the Animal Protec tion and Control Act, 2010, the government is seeking to ensure that the Animal Control Board mandates that pet owners provide proper animal care and proper housing of animals deemed as aggressive. The board further seeks to review the minimal stand ard of competence of the owners/ handlers/trainers of such aggres sive animals as well as advise on animal welfare matters.”
In addition to pledging contin ued support to work with humane societies to spay and neuter ani mals to keep the stray population under control, the ministry urged the public to ensure that all their dogs are licensed. “The ministry will continue working closely with non-profit spay/neuter organisations and other stakeholders to educate the public about the benefits of spay ing and neutering, thus reducing the number of unwanted animals in the “Thecountry.Animal Control Unit within the Department of Agriculture is integral in the enforcement of the Act, specifically, public education on animal care and control, issu ance of dog licences for all dogs over three months old, attending to animal attack cases and animal breeder facility inspections. Should the public encounter a breach in the Act, they should contact the Royal Bahamas Police Force and The Animal Control Unit of the Depart ment of Agriculture (325-1173).”
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Associated Press A SOCCER field that was paid for but never built. A school that diverted resources from its stu dents. A mayor who ran city hall out of his mother’s home and avoided property taxes. Officials say these and dozens of other alleged acts of corrup tion cost Haiti’s government a “colossal loss” of some 500 mil lion gourdes ($4m) at a time when state infrastructure is collaps ing amid political instability and deepening poverty. The allegations were released on Thursday by Haiti’s antigov ernment corruption unit, whose general director, Hans Joseph, pledged to go after those who “torpedo the public treasury and asphyxiate the country’s economic and social development efforts”.
In addition, it found irregulari ties with debit cards that Haiti’s National Police issued to employ ees, noting that benefits illegally given to those who were fired or retired resulted in a loss of more than 18.2 million gourdes ($140,000) in the span of just three months. It also accused the former mayor of the southern coastal town of Petit-Goave of diverting nearly 12.8 million gourdes (more than $98,000) slated for several projects.Theformer official also alleg edly set up city hall in his mother’s home, “putting himself in a situ ation where it was necessary to choose between protecting the interests of the mayor’s office or those of his mother”, the report said. It accused him of not paying taxes on the property and said money was missing from the employee payroll. A former mayor of the north coastal town of Anse-Rouge was accused of creating more than two dozen fictional employees whose checks were going to the city’s accountant. In addition, the report said there was no evidence of five purported sanitation pro jects on which 835,000 gourdes ($6,400) was spent and no proof that 595,000 gourdes ($4,500) offered by the international aid group Oxfam to buy fuel was used for that purpose. Also in the north, a former mayor of Saint-Raphael was accused of paying a company more than 2 million gourdes ($15,000) for a soccer field and reading center that were never built. The anti-corruption agency said it tried to track down the company’s officials but said the physical address provided did not exist.The agency accused the former director of a school in Maissade in central Haiti of diverting more than 2 million gourdes ($15,000), alleging he had only 735 students instead of the 1,004 registered. Joseph said that despite Haiti’s “major structural differences,” he hoped the government could recover its assets and fully punish those whom he called “enemies of the republic”.
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Man dies in dog attack
“Members of the public are reminded that all dogs should be licensed and can visit the Depart ment of Agriculture, Gladstone Road to pay the requisite fee of $6.72. Failure to licence your animal will result in the owner/s being fined in the amount of $250,” police said.
to Mrs Bowen-Forbes, there were 22 cases reported in 2020, and 17 cases in 2021. “With the statistics, it is not a high number, and the reason is this: we have a cultural thing where per sons would grin and bear it. So, a lot (of victims) do not come to report what they are going through. And so, we want to stop that way of thinking.”TheDepartment of Social Services has estab lished a hotline at 351-7763 for daytime callers. There is a 24-hour hotline that is also“Weavailable.areworking dili gently to sensitise the public and educate people of the importance of report ing domestic violence,” she said. “One case of abuse is one case too much.” She stressed that the police are now mandated to report domestic vio lence complaints to Social Services.Pastor Eric Clarke, presi dent of the North Bahamas Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists (GB, Abaco, Bimini, and the Berry Islands), said ‘End It Now’ is an annual programme that is worldwide in the SDA Church. “In its beginning in 2009, it targeted women because abuse was primarily increas ing against women. Since then, we expanded it across the board. We believe any form of violence against anyone is unacceptable. We encourage folks to call the police and to report vio lence,” Pastor Clarke said. “We support the laws of the land, and the pro gramme of the church, and all those who have joined us in the struggle to end it now,” she said.
THE $6.4m Village Road Improvement Project, originally expected to be completed in September, is now expected to be done in November, said Minister of Works and Utilities Alfred Sears.During a tour of the pro ject on Friday, Mr Sears spoke about the additional work to be done. He said: “There are some additional works which are being scoped related to installing a roundabout in the front of Queen’s Col lege and Bahamas National Trust. We will be meeting with both of those stake holders to discuss further what is intended in order to make this roadway more efficient and also improve the quality of life.” With schools set to reopen on Monday, con cerns have been raised about how the road clo sures in the area will be a challenge.Resident engineer Albrion Symonette, Jr, explained they will be diverting traffic to assist with the reopening of schools.
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When asked about the details of the project he said it consisted of the instal lation of roughly about a mile worth of a BPL duct bank which is 16 pipes. The engineer noted there being an eight-inch water main along with improvements to several junctions, lane wid ening, and road paving in the“We’reproject.also adding new smart traffic signals,” Mr Symonette said. Mr Symonette noted that one of the primary chal lenges his team faced was a lot of underground utilities in the area. He explained damage caused to existing pipes did result in some delay in the Additionally,process. when asked if there will be water drainage, Mr Symonette responded that they are improving the drainage system as well. During the tour one reporter asked for an update on the Gladstone Road project. Mr Sears said consultations will com mence shortly. He noted the project would be similar to the work being done in Vil lage Road as it would aid in improving the efficiency of thatMrthoroughfare.Searsalso thanked residents and business owners for their coopera tion during the Village Road project. He emphasised that by November there will be a dramatically improved road, sidewalks, and more efficient infrastructure. TO CONTINUE UNTIL NOVEMBER
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ACTIVISTS MARCH AGAINST ABUSE OF POWER IN SOCIETY
CONSTRUCTION work ongoing on Village Road on Friday. Photo: Moise Amisial
An initial examination of the body suggests the victim may have been attacked by dogs in the area, as the injuries appear to be consistent with bite marks. Although his identity was not released, police say he is believed to be in his 50s or 60s. At the scene, police press liai son officer Chief Superintendent Chrislyn Skippings told reporters if there is evidence that negligence led to the suspected dog attack, those responsible will be “held accountable” for their actions. She said police believe the dogs in question belong to residents in theShecommunity.couldnot say how many dogs were involved in the inci dent nor their specific breed, but said two to three different breeds could have been involved in the attack.
Social worker Pauline Bowen Forbes, a senior manager, noted that a new division called the Domes tic Violence Counselling and TIP (Trafficking in Per sons) Unit will be located on the second floor of NIB Building Complex. “This new unit will begin specifically to deal with per sons with domestic violence where we work with them from ground zero to get them where they need to go,” she told the gathering. Mrs Bowen-Forbes said there is also a safe house on Grand Bahama for victims. “We cannot say where it is located, but I want to say that it is ready,” she said. “Domestic violence is not a joke, it is very serious,” she said, urging people to report instances of abuse. “You have to be very observant as it relates to persons who may be suffer ing. Do not take anything for granted no matter how simple it looks. And the victim of domestic vio lence is always going to have an excuse for whatever they are going through,” sheShesaid.noted that statistics at Social Services in Grand Bahama relating to reports of domestic violence does not reflect the true extent of theAccordingissue.
Mr Russell commended the Northern Bahamas Seventh-Day Adventist on the island for taking a stand and responding to abuse in the“Wecountry.are committed to partnering to deal with this thing called abuse. We must ensure that Social Services can deal with the cases piled to the roof when people feel they can take advantage of little children and get away with it.”
MEMBERS of the Seventh-Day Advent ist Churches on Grand Bahama took to the streets of Eight Mile Rock on Sat urday taking a stand against abuse of power in all areas of Thesociety.“End It Now” March started around 5pm at Ste phen’s Anglican playing field and ended at the EMR SDA Church, in Hanna Hill, where a rally was held featuring various speakers. The event is a part of a major church initiative, which was initially launched in 2009, to raise awareness to all forms of abuse. This year’s focus is on abuse of power.Attending on behalf of the government, Senator Kirkland Russell said they are committed to address ing issues of abuse in the country.“This phenomenon is a true crisis in our country, and we must address it,” he said.He noted that steps are being taken to deal with abuses concerning children and“Inwomen.thenext few weeks, right here there will be a new department coming to Social Services just to deal with abuse of children. And, in the next legisla tive session, you will see a Bill coming to deal with abuse of women coming for debate because policies must be changed, and laws must be strengthened.”
THE END It Now march in Grand Bahama.
“I always humble myself and hold myself accountable.“Ichallenge myself every single day to be better and improve and see how I can represent the Common wealth of Bahamas and the people of The Bahamas and be that example. “For me, I always use myself as that vessel and the example. And if I don’t set the standards for myself, how can I expect someone else to set the standards? So, I just try to live by it and make sure the next gen eration has seen leadership that reflect results.” Brown said he loves coaching as well. “I love my athletes, and I am just an athlete,” he said. Bahamians can also expect the return of the Chris Brown Invitational. “I hope it comes back bigger and better than it was before,” he said. “I am excited about it. The same way I give A-class performance on the track, I intend to do the same thing. I look forward to making a big announcement and executing one of the perfect events in the region, if not the world. I am excited for what the future holds and brings and God has been continuing to bless and use me,” he said. BROWN: JUST BLESSED AND HONOURED’
BAHAMIAN Olympic athlete Chris “Fireman” Brown said that his tran sition to being appointed sports ambassador has been a blessing and an honour. “The transition has been pretty smooth,” he said while in Grand Bahama serving in his official capac ity for the first time at the recent NACAC Champion ships in Freeport.
ROCKIES 1, METS 0 NEW YORK (AP) — Germán Márquez out pitched Max Scherzer, allowing one hit over seven innings and denying the New York Mets’ ace his 200th career win. Brian Serven’s sacrifice fly off Scherzer in the sev enth gave the Rockies their second 1-0 win over the Mets. The other one came in August Colorado2012.avoided a fourgame sweep by the NL East leaders.Márquez (7-10) struck out five and walked two, improving to 2-1 with a 1.42 ERA in three road starts against the Mets. Scherzer (9-4) gave up four hits and racked up 11 strikeouts over seven innings in his 110th doubledigit strikeout game. Daniel Bard worked the ninth for his 27th save, fin ishing a three-hitter.
NATIONALS 3, REDS 2 WASHINGTON (AP) — Major league losses leader Patrick Corbin ended Washington’s record 43-game drought without a starting pitcher earning a victory.Corbin (5-17) allowed one earned run and four hits in six innings. A Wash ington starting pitcher had not earned a victory since Josiah Gray won at Philadelphia on July 6, shattering the previous big league record of 35 games set by the 1949 Wash ington Senators. Stuart Fairchild homered for Cin cinnati, which was trying for a weekend sweep. Nick Lodolo (3-5) permitted three runs and five hits in seven innings.
As sports ambassador, Brown’s role off the field is to ensure that athletes are comfortable and to hear any concerns they may have.He is also there to observe, take notes and to provide feedback to ensure that future events are better for the athletes. “At the end of the day… we are here to make the sport better, but again we still have a long way to go and a lot of work to do. We got to make sure all the right things are in place going forward for the future so that we won’t repeat the same mistakes again.” Brown feels that adjust ments can be made in every area. “It could be better from the welcoming at the airport to making sure everybody is comfortable sleeping at night, just the overall experience. You want to have an overall experience where persons will want to come back and keep coming back, and that they had a great experience. That’s what we are going to focus on. So, running is one thing, but the overall experience is another,” he explained.Ambassador Brown felt that the decision to host NACAC in Grand Bahama was the right decision. “It is great for the econ omy and the people,” he said. “I think that with more events like this, spreading it throughout the Bahamas I think is a good way for ath letes and persons to know we have more than one venue that can host a major championship, and the future is bright,” he stated. When asked why not Nassau, Brown said that Nassau will host the CAR IFTA Games next year. “We got to spread it out, we have to learn how to share and be able to sup port each other. At the end of the day once every island is up and running, we don’t intend to keep everything in one place, we intend to spread it out.” “And I think this is a good way of showing how we can host not just in one island or one city, but we can do different events in different places,…and this just shows the potential that GB has to continue to grow and build to able to host a major championship and accommodate everybody.”
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TORONTO (AP) — Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout homered, and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Toronto Blue Jays 8-3 yesterday to complete a three-game sweep. Ohtani had three hits and scored twice one day after he pitched seven crisp innings in a 2-0 victory. Trout went 2 for 5 with two RBIs and also scored twice. Ohtani’s two-run drive made it 6-1 in the seventh, and Trout added a solo shot in the ninth. It was the 28th homer for each slugger.
ROYALS 15, PADRES 7 KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Michael A. Taylor homered and drove in four runs, sending the Royals to theSalvadorvictory. Perez also went deep for Kansas City, and Hunter Dozier had four of the Royals’ 18 hits. Nick Pratto drove in three runs, including a two-run double off Josh Hader during a sixrunKansaseighth.City had dropped the first two games of the series and 11 of 15 overall. Jonathan Heasley (2-7) got his first win since June 10. Manny Machado homered twice and drove in four runs for San Diego, which had won four of six. Juan Soto also connected for his third homer with the Padres. San Diego’s Sean Manaea (7-7) was tagged for six runs and 10 hits in four innings.
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PIRATES PHILLIES5,0 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Oneil Cruz, Tucupita Marcano and Bryan Reyn olds all tripled and scored, and Pittsburgh’s Roansy Contreras struck out seven over five innings. The Pirates stopped a seven-game slide and snapped the Phillies’ sixgame winning streak. The Pirates became the second team this season to hit three triples in a game. It was the first time they had accomplished that feat since May 25, Philadelphia2018. righthander Noah Syndergaard (8-9) was charged with five runs and nine hits in 5 2/3 innings.Contreras (4-4) allowed three hits and walked two in his first win since July 7.
TIGERS RANGERS9, 8 ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Adolis García struck out during a Texas rally that fell short in the ninth inning, ending his 23-game hitting streak. García’s streak was the longest in the American League this season. He went 0 for 3 with two walks and fell one game short of matching the longest hitting string ever by a Cubanborn big leaguer, set by Rafael Palmeiro in 1994 for Baltimore.HaroldCastro drove in five runs and Jeimer Can delario homered for the second straight day as the Tigers built a 9-0 lead in the sixth inning. Drew Hutch ison (2-7) got the win, and Joe Jiménez earned his secondCoreysave.Seager homered twice for Texas. Kohei Ari hara (1-2) was charged with the loss.
MARINERS GUARDIANS4, 0 SEATTLE (AP) — Robbie Ray tossed seven dominant innings for Seat tle, and Dylan Moore and Ty France homered. Seattle took three of four from Cleveland in a poten tial postseason preview. All four games were tight and well-pitched, and the Mariners squeezed out just enough offense to earn a seriesThevictory.Guardians’ lead in the AL Central was trimmed to two games over Minnesota.
ASTROS ORIOLES3,1 HOUSTON (AP) — Astros ace Justin Ver lander pitched three scoreless innings before departing because of right calfAlexdiscomfort.Bregman homered for AL West-leading Hou ston, and Yuli Gurriel had a two-run single. The Astros dropped the first two games of the weekend set after winning four in a row. It was the shortest outing of the season for Verlander, one of the front-runners for the AL Cy Young Award. Manager Dusty Baker said Verlander was going in for imaging on Houston’sMonday.bullpen then allowed one run and four hits over six innings. Ryne Stanek (2-1) tossed a per fect seventh for the win, and Rafael Montero worked a rocky ninth for his ninth save.Orioles starter Austin Voth (4-2) allowed one run and one hit in six-plus innings.
RAYS 12, RED SOX 4 BOSTON (AP) — Isaac Paredes homered over the Green Monster in each of his first two at-bats, and Tampa Bay avoided a three-game sweep. Randy Arozarena hit three doubles off the leftfield wall at Fenway Park and drove in two runs. David Peralta had three hits for the Rays, who came to town on a six-game win ning streak before losing two straight. J.D. Martinez, Tommy Pham and Franchy Cordero homered for the Red Sox. Nick Pivetta (9-10) allowed five runs in fiveCoreyinnings.Kluber (9-7) went six innings for the victory, allowing three runs and eight hits.
TWINS GIANTS8,3 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jake Cave homered and drove in four runs, and the Twins beat the Giants to finish a three-game sweep. Cave gave the Twins a 3-2 lead with his second homer of the season in the fourth inning. He added a two-run double in the fifth. The Twins have won three straight following a six-game losing streak that knocked them out of first place in the AL Central. Devin Smeltzer (5-2) earned his first win since JuneBrandon23. Crawford sin gled three times and drove in a run for the Giants, who have dropped eight of 10. Jakob Junis (4-4) got the loss.
LOS Angeles Angels designated hitter Shohei Ohtani (17) hits a two-run home run during the seventh inning yesterday against the Toronto Blue Jays in Toronto. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press via AP)
“The experience has been amazing, and I am just blessed and honoured, and I am grateful for it,” Brown said.As one of the most dec orated Bahamian track athletes who has won gold at the Olympics and World Championships, Brown says he is not quite ready to retire from the track. “The transition has been nice, but I am not ready to hang up my spikes yet, the quarter-miler said. I am looking to make one more splash, hopefully, next year and then I can make my announcement. If it does not work out, I will make it sooner.”“Butbeing able to wear the cap of lead organiser, athlete, spectator, and now as an ambassador, is truly a blessing. I don’t think I know anybody who has worn the hats of so many. Being able to transition in all those different hats have been a blessing for me, and I will continue to do the good work the Lord set for me. Without Him, none of that would have been possible. So, I am blessed and honoured for it.”
ATHLETICS 4, YANKEES 1 OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Minor league call-up Adrián Martínez held New York hitless into the fifth inning and the Athletics shut down the powerful Yankees for a second straight game. One night after the vaunted Yankees lineup managed one hit in 11 innings against Adam Oller and the Oakland bullpen, New York wasn’t much better against another starter who entered the game with an ERA above 6.00.Martínez (3-3), called up from Triple-A before the game, was charged with one run and three hits in 5 1/3 innings. A.J. Puk got three outs for his fourth save. New York’s Clarke Schmidt (5-3) was charged with four runs in 4 1/3 innings in his second start of the season.
DIAMONDBACKS 3, WHITE SOX 2 CHICAGO (AP) — Jake McCarthy hit a tiebreaking double in the ninth inning, and the Diamondbacks completed a three-game sweep of the struggling WhiteStoneSox.Garrett launched his first major league home run and Sergio Alcántara also went deep for Arizona, which earned its first inter league sweep since 2019. Noé Ramirez (5-4) pitched a scoreless eighth and Ian Kennedy got three outs for his ninth Kendallsave.Graveman (3-3) took the loss in relief of Dylan Cease, who allowed Arizona’s two solo homers while striking out eight in a career-high eight innings. The White Sox, who allowed 17 runs in the first two games of the series, have lost nine of 11.
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Ohtani, Trout homer as Angels beat Blue Jays 8-3
According to Brown, Grand Bahama is now in the history books because several records were broken at the NACAC event in Freeport. “To be able to see sev eral records fall on the first day of competition is a huge accomplishment,” he recalled. “Those athletes will remember that forever, that their best time was run in the Bahamas, and that they set NACAC records in the Bahamas that would forever be down in history and so that sets a good pres ence to let everyone know it is not just Nassau, that it was done in Freeport,” he said.Highlighting his journey in track and field, Brown talked about the lows and highs of his career. A low point for him was at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, he said. “I was push ing for that gold medal, he said. I also lost the bronze in 2008 by a dive and that was a low point. There were so many low points, but I would say those two were the lowest,” he added. A high point for Brown, he said, was in 2012 when he and his teammates got on the “Whenpodium.Igot on the podium for 400m at the Olympics, it was the high of my career. It was a tough race and I was going through a lot at the time and to be able to get the vic tory and get on the podium as number one was the high point,” he noted. Asked whether he had any regrets looking back on his career, without any hesi tation Brown said that he has “no regrets at all.” “Every competition I competed in I always got a lesson from it. And always hope and pray that what ever lesson it was, that the next generation coming behind would take note of that. So, no regrets from the start to end of my career. If I had to do it all over again, I would go right back and do it all over again because it was meant to be at the end of the day. “What happened to me on those days, whether it was to inspire someone, whether it was to teach me a lifelong lesson, it was all apart of the journey and I just had to fulfill the jour ney, with the highs and lows to show that you are not going to win them all. You win some and you lose some. You learn how to bounce back and brush yourself off and get back up and do it all over again. Even when you win, you brush off and you got to come back and do it all over again.”Brown said he learned lots of lessons, including how to be humble. “I also learned how to accept defeat and so once athletes learn how to do that they would understand that it is bigger than just winning and losing. They would understand that the lesson and what you learn is what carries you through life’sWhenjourney.”asked who is his toughest competitor, Brown modestly said: “I would say that would be me. I am my toughest competitor. I don’t compete against the field, I compete against myself and I want to improve every time I get on the track with my performances, my standards, and being a better individual overall.
CHRIS Brown shares a special moment with his family.
BREWERS 9, CUBS 7 MILWAUKEE (AP) — Christian Yelich and Kolten Wong each homered for the second straight game, leading Milwaukee to the victory.Garrett Mitchell, one of the Brewers’ top prospects, drove in two runs with his first hit as a major leaguer. Eric Lauer (10-5) worked five innings for the win, and Devin Williams got three outs for his ninth save. Nico Hoerner and Fran mil Reyes homered for Chicago. Hoerner finished with three hits and three RBIs. Sean Newcomb (2-1) was charged with the loss.
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DODGERS 8, MARLINS 1 MIAMI (AP) — Mookie Betts homered for the third straight game, powering the Dodgers to the victory. Justin Turner and Max Muncy had three hits apiece for the NL West-leading Dodgers, who are 28-8 since the All-Star break. Julio Urías (14-7) pitched six innings of one-run ball. Betts hit a leadoff drive in the first for his 31st homer. Brian Anderson hit his sixth homer for Miami. Edward Cabrera (4-2) allowed six runs in 5 2/3 innings.
Ray (11-8), last year’s AL Cy Young Award winner with Toronto, scattered three hits, struck out seven and walked Clevelandnone.was blanked for the eighth time this season, while Seattle posted its seventh Guardiansshutout.starter Aaron Civale (2-6) allowed four runs in 6 1/3 innings.
“There was something inside both of them,” said Rick Macci, a tennis coach who worked with both Wil liams siblings in the early 1990s, starting before they were teenagers. “When we competed or did com petitive drills, I just saw something I never saw. They tried so hard to get to a ball, they almost fell over. Now you can try hard; that doesn’t mean you’re going to be world champion. But it was just another level.”
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COMEBACK KINGS Man City is making a habit of digging itself out of holes. Pep Guardiola’s team has fallen two goals behind in four of its last six league games, but has not lost any of them. This time City trailed 2-0 after just 21 min utes against a clinical Palace side after an own-goal by John Stones and a header by Joachim Andersen. After Bernardo Silva pulled one back eight min utes into the second half, Haaland took over with three goals in the space of 20 minutes to take his tally to six in his first four league appearances.
Serena, Venus get US Open doubles wild-card entry
DOUBLESUSPAIRFACESISTERSWILLIAMSTOCZECHINOPEN game. And I feel like she really inspired women of colour, because we’ve seen a lot more women of colour playing the game. And I think that she’s changed the way women compete, as far as it’s OK to be ferocious and passionate and vocal out there, emotional out there on the court, and still be a Thewoman.”waysin which Wil liams — and, to be sure, 42-year-old Venus, the owner of seven Slam singles titles herself and Serena’s partner for 14 major dou bles trophies — changed the game are varied and numerous, and extend beyond the way their speedy serves and booming groundstrokes prompted, or even forced, other play ers to try to either match that style or figure out how to try to counter it.
A line can be drawn to the decision this year by the US Tennis Association to allow in-match coach ing for women and men at a Grand Slam tournament for the first time from the chaotic 2018 US Open final in which Williams ended up being docked a game after being warned about receiving instructions from her then-coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, during a loss to TheOsaka.proliferation of elec tronic line-calling, to the point that there are no line judges at US Open matches anymore, can be traced back to a 2004 quarterfinal match at Flushing Meadows in which multiple errone ous rulings went against Williams during a loss to Jennifer Capriati. At the US Open alone, there were other run-ins with officials (who can forget the foot-fault brou haha in her 2009 semi-final against Kim Clijsters), groundbreaking fash ion choices (a catsuit in 2002; knee-high boots two years later) and plenty of triumphs, dating all the way back to 1999, when a 17-year-old Williams beat Martina Hingis for her ini tial Grand Slam trophy. So the Ashe court pro vides a fitting backdrop for a farewell, although Wil liams did not quite explicitly say that she would never compete again after the US Open while telling the world via an essay in Vogue magazine that she was pre pared to begin “evolving away from tennis” to focus on having a second child and pursuing her business interests.Every time she steps on court in New York will be treated as if it might be the lastEventime. her practice ses sions have been attended by throngs of fans in the days prior to the toura ment’s“Whostart.knows if there’s going to be another Serena again? I doubt it,” said Kovinic, who is ranked 80th this week and never has been past the third round at a major tournament. “I’m honoured to have this chance to play her.” It will be only the fifth singles match for Williams over the past 12 months, because the American was off the tour from a firstround injury at Wimbledon last year until a first-round loss there this year. Since returning from that hiatus, Williams is 1-3, including straightset defeats against Tokyo Olympics gold medallist Belinda Bencic and 2021 US Open champion Emma Raducanu in her two most recentThereoutings.wasa time — not all that long ago, in the scheme of things — that Williams was considered the favourite in every match and at every tourna ment, especially at the four events that matter the most in the sport. “I say: Don’t underesti mate her,” said Evert, an ESPN analyst. “But the problem is the field. The problem is everybody else is getting better, too. ... There’s a lot of good play ers out there now who, No. 1, aren’t intimidated by her; and No. 2, know that she’s not at her best at the moment; and No. 3, want to beatTwoher.”days before her loss to Bencic in Toronto, and a day before revealing her thoughts about retirement (a word she said she dis likes), Williams said at a news conference: “I can’t do this That’sforever.”true, of course. No one, though, expects this to be the last the world hears of her, even if there really aren’t any matches left to play. “At the end of the day, her biggest stage was tennis,” said Macci, the Williams’ coach from years ago, “but I think her great est act is yet to come.”
defender Wesley Fofana was left out of Brendan Rodgers’ squad amid reports he is close to finalising a transfer to Chelsea.
NEW YORK (AP) — Serena and Venus Williams were drawn to face the Czech pair of Lucie Hra decka and Linda Noskova in the first round of doubles at the US Open. The US Tennis Asso ciation announced the doubles brackets yesterday, a day before the tourna mentSerenabegins.has said she is preparing to retire and the expectation is that the US Open will be her last event. She plays in singles tonight.Thedoubles competition will begin on Wednesday, with first-round matches spread over that day and Thursday.Itisthe first doubles event for the Williams sis ters together since the 2018 French Open. They have won 14 Grand Slam cham pionships in in doubles as a team, most recently at Wimbledon inn 2016. Two of their doubles titles came at the US Open, in 1999 and glesGrandoldOpen.USHlavackovableswhoHradecka2009.isa37-year-oldwontwomajordoutrophieswithAndrea—atthe2013Openand2011FrenchNoskovaisa17-year-whoneverhaswonaSlammatchinsinordoubles.
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Williams has said she doesn’t know how to define her legacy, but it is all around, whether embodied by players who credit her with being an inspiration, such as four-time major champion Naomi Osaka or French Open runnerup Coco Gauff, or in rules changes that clearly, or at least likely, are a product of episodes involving her. “Her legacy is really wide, to the point where you can’t even describe it in words. She changed the sport so much. She’s intro duced people that have never heard of tennis into the sport. I think I’m a product of what she’s done. I wouldn’t be here without Serena, Venus, her whole family. I’m very thankful to her,” Osaka said. “I also was trying to figure out how to sum it into words. I honestly think that she’s the biggest force in the sport.”
SERENA WILLIAMS, left, of the United States, and her sister Venus examine the championship trophy after winning the women’s doubles championship over Cara Black, of Zimbabwe, and Liezel Huber, of the United States, at the US Open tennis tournament in New York, September 14, 2009. Serena and Venus Williams were given a wild-card entry for women’s doubles at the US Open on Saturday, making it their first tournament as a team in more than four years. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
SERENA Williams practices at Arthur Ashe Stadium before the start of the US Open tennis tournament in New York. Williams faces Danka Kovinic in the first round of singles tonight. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
UNITEDRESURGENT Fernandes has been serv ing as Manchester United’s stand-in captain since man ager Erik ten Hag decided to drop Harry Maguire to the bench, and the Por tugal midfielder seems to be relishing wearing the armband.Fernandes steered in a cross from Diogo Dalot in the 55th as United fol lowed up Monday’s win over Liverpool with another campaign.team’sandfacedTenbitAribokeepdecleanperformance.morale-boostingItwasalsotheteam’sfirstsheet.ThanksinparttoDavidGea’sreflexsavetooutaheaderfromJoeinthe66th.It’saresultthatwillgiveamorebreathingspacetoHag,themanagerwhoatorrentofcriticismskepticismafterthedismalstarttothe
NEW YORK (AP) — Serena and Venus Williams are getting their Sister Act back together for doubles at the US Open. The American siblings, who have won two of their 14 women’s doubles Grand Slam titles at Flush ing Meadows, were given a wild-card entry by the US Tennis Association on Sat urday, making it their first tournament as a team in more than four years. Serena announced this month that she is preparing to end her playing career and, while she did not explicitly say the US Open would be her final event, she has indicated it will be. Serena, who turns 41 next month, and Venus, who turned 42 in June, won women’s doubles champi onships at the US Open in 1999 — the year Serena won her first major singles trophy at age 17 in New York — and 2009. Their other Grand Slam triumphs in doubles: six at Wimbledon, four at the Australian Open and two at the French Open. The most recent came at the All England Club in 2016.They’ve also won three doubles gold medals at the Olympics.That’s all aside from their combined total of 30 major trophies in singles — 23 for Serena, and seven forTheVenus.sisters have not com peted anywhere in doubles as a pairing since losing in the third round of the French Open in June 2018. Since then, each Wil liams has entered two doubles events with other partners.ForSerena, one was with Caroline Wozniacki in January 2020, and the other with Ons Jabeur this June — that came in Eastbourne, England, in a grass-court tune-up ahead of Wimbledon. That marked Serena’s return to competition after nearly a full year away from the tour.She has gone 1-3 in sin gles in 2022, including a first-round loss at Wim bledon in June, and said less than three weeks ago that “the countdown has begun” to the close of her time as a professional player so she can focus on having another child and on her business interests. For Venus, the first dou bles event since 2018 was with Harriet Dart in June 2019, and the other was with American teenager Coco Gauff at last year’s French Open. In singles, Venus was off the tour for nearly a year until returning at a tourna ment in Washington this month.Other women’s doubles teams receiving wild cards from the USTA on Satur day were Sophie Chang and Angela Kulikov, Robin Montgomery and CoCo Vandeweghe, Katrina Scott and Elizabeth Mandlik, Peyton Stearns and Ashlyn Krueger, Hailey Baptiste and Whitney Osuigwe, and Clervie Ngounoue and ReeseMen’sBrantmeier.doubleswild cards went to Brandon Holt — who qualified in singles on Friday and whose mother, Tracy Austin, won sin gles titles at the US Open in 1979 and 1981 — and Govind Nanda, NCAA champion Ben Shelton and Chris Eubanks, Nicholas Monroe and Keegan Smith, Max Schnur and Hunter Reese, Alex Michelsen and Sebastian Gorzny, Robert Galloway and Alex Lawson, and Nicholas Godsick and Ethan Quinn.
LIVERPOOLRAMPANT Firmino lost his start ing place to new signing Darwin Nunez this season, but showed he can still be a vital part of Liverpool’s attack. With Nunez serv ing a suspension, Firmino set up Liverpool’s opening three goals before netting the fourth himself in the 31stTheminute.blowout against visiting Bournemouth con tinued, and when Luis Diaz netted his second to make it 9-0 in the 85th it looked like Liverpool could become the first league team to score 10 goals in a game. As it was, Klopp’s team settled for a share of the record for biggest win held by Man United — which has won 9-0 twice — and Leicester. Perhaps the only thing as remarkable as the scoreline was the fact that Liverpool star forward Mohamed Salah didn’t register either a goal or an assist in the rout.
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HAPPY BLUES Sterling netted his first two for Chelsea following his offseason move from City, as the Blues bounced back from their 3-0 loss to Leeds. Aside from Gal lagher being sent off, Chelsea was also without manager Thomas Tuchel as he was serving a touchline ban following his confron tation with Antonio Conte in the opening home match against Tottenham. But Sterling broke the deadlock just after halftime with a shot from the edge of the area, and doubled the lead in the 63rd with a tap-in from Reece James’ cross at the far post. Leicester pulled one back through Harvey Barnes three minutes later, but Jamie Vardy and Ayoze Perez both missed chances for an Leicesterequaliser.
LONDON (AP) — After a winless start to the season and a dispiriting loss to its archrival, Liverpool needed to make a statement against Bournemouth on Saturday. A 9-0 win, equalling the record for the biggest ever victory in the English Pre mier League, sends a loud messageLiverpoolindeed.blew away Bournemouth at Anfield to put its early season strug gles behind it, with Roberto Firmino scoring two goals and setting up three more. After opening the cam paign with two draws and a loss, it was the kind of performance that will erase many of the ques tions about whether Jurgen Klopp’s team had lost its edge.Manchester City also showed that it can never be counted out after the defending champion found itself trailing by two goals for the second straight game. Erling Haaland netted a second half hat trick as City rallied to beat Crystal Palace 4-2 at home — having managed to sal vage only a 3-3 draw at Newcastle last weekend. Manchester United and Chelsea also won on a good day for the traditional powers.United made it backto-back wins in the league for the first time since February by beating South ampton 1-0 away thanks to a second-half goal by Bruno Fernandes.Chelsea overcame the early sending off of Conor Gallagher to beat Leices ter 2-1 at Stamford Bridge behind two goals from Raheem Sterling. Also, Brighton beat Leeds 1-0 and Brentford drew at home against Everton 1-1. Arsenal, the only team to start the season with three wins, had a chance to main tain its perfect record when it played Fulham at home in the late game.
FIRST POINTS FOR WEST HAM West Ham recorded its first points and first goal of the league season with a victory at Aston Villa. Pablo Fornals scored the only goal of the game. His deflected second-half strike was enough to see the Hammers open their account for the top-flight campaign after losses to Manchester City, Notting ham Forest and Brighton. The win will ease some of the pressure on West Ham coach David Moyes but increase the tension for counterpart Steven Gerrard, whose side were booed off at full time. Villa thought it had taken the lead in the 14th minute but Ezri Konsa’s goal was disallowed as Lucas Digne’s corner kick had gone fractionally out of play. For nals opened the scoring at Villa Park with 16 minutes remaining.KurtZouma brought the ball forward and found captain Declan Rice, who picked out Fornals and the Spaniard’s 25-yard effort deflected off Konsa and looped over Villa goal keeper Emiliano Martinez .
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McIlroy referred to the final round of a “specta cle,” and not just because of the pro-McIlroy crowd that chanted his name along the closing holes. “Two of the best players in the world going head on the best tour” he said. McIlroy needed plenty of help from Scheffler, the No. 1 seed, who began with a two-shot lead and never trailed until the 70th hole. Scheffler, who birdied four of six holes Sunday morning to finish the third round and build a six-shot lead, lost it in the first sevenAndholes.then it was a nailbiter to the very end, a stunning afternoon at East Lake that turned on two shots.McIlroy holed a 30-foot birdie putt on the par-3 15th hole to tie for the lead. After he flew the green by some 20 yards, his pitch was running fast and headed off the front of the green when it hit the pin and settled 7 feet away. He saved par. Schef fler missed his 10-footer and took bogey, and they matched pars the rest of theScheffler’sway. 4-iron on the par-5 18th sailed short and right and into a bunker, and he blasted out over the green. McIlroy went left against the grandstand, took relief and got onto the green for an easy par. McIlroy won in 2016 in a playoff. He won the FedEx Cup again in 2019, the first year of a staggered start. But this might have been the sweetest of all, coming off a year in which the PGA Tour has been in a nasty battle for players with Saudi-funded LIV Golf.Itwas McIlroy who has declared fierce loyalty to the PGA Tour over the last few years, and who joined Tiger Woods in leading a momentous player-only meeting last week that led to significant changes ahead.“Ibelieve in the game of golf. I believe in this tour, in particular. I believe in the players on this tour,” McIlroy said in the trophy presentation. “It’s the greatest place in the world to play golf, bar none, and I’ve played all over.”
CHICAGO (AP) — DeWanna Bonner had 15 points and Jonquel Jones scored 12 points with nine rebounds to lead the Con necticut to a 68-63 win over the Chicago Sky in Game 1 of their WNBA semifinals series last night. Alyssa Thomas had 12 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists, and Brionna Jones added 12 points. Jonquel Jones was 5 for 8 from the field and Brionna Jones shot 6 for 8. Candace Parker had 19 points and 18 rebounds for the Sky, and Kahleah Copper scored 13 points on 5-for-10Gameshooting.2isback here Wednesday night. After Emma Meese man’s 3-pointer with 2:12 remaining gave Chicago a 63-62 lead and whipped the Wintrust Arena crowd into a frenzy, Jonquel Jones scored inside 27 seconds later to put the Sun back ahead.Bonner made two free throws with 1:31 left to extend the lead, and Con necticut got two offensive rebounds to kill some time off the clock, and Bonner made a layup with 3.8 sec onds left to seal the win. Chicago missed its last four shots after Meeseman’s goaheadConnecticut3-pointer. outscored Chicago 20-12 in the third quarter as Natisha Hiede man and Bonner made 3s and Bonner hit a pullup jumper to move into doubleParkerfigures.strung a slick pass to Copper in transition for her first bucket since the first quarter to pull Chi cago within four points with 8:47 Copperleft.knocked down a pair of free throws to nudge Chicago in front with 5:13 to go, shortly before she and Courtney Williams received double technical fouls for refusing to let go of a called jump ball.Copper went 4 of 4 and hit a 3 for 11 points in the first half as the teams entered the break tied at 34.Connecticut built an eight-point first quarter lead by scoring 11 points off six Chicago turno vers, but the Sky climbed back into it as Copper and Parker combined for 18-first half points. Jones hit 3 of 4 shots to lead Connecticut with eight points and snagged four rebounds and two steals in a first half that had seven lead changes and five ties.
NAVA, Spain (AP) — Remco Evenepoel dropped his main challengers on the gruelling final ascent in Les Praeres to increase his overall lead in the Spanish VueltaSouthyesterday.African Louis Meintjes won the ninth stage, crossing the line more than a minute ahead of Samuele Battistella, Edoardo Zambanini and Evenepoel.Evenepoel launched his attack about three kilome tres (1.8 miles) from the summit to overpower his rivals and extend his lead ahead of today’s rest day and Tuesday’s time trial in Alicante.TheBelgian rider from team Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl increased the gap to Enric Mas from 28 seconds to 72 seconds overall. His advantage over defending champion Primoz Roglic went up by more than 50 seconds and was at nearly twoRoglic,minutes. seeking an unprecedented fourth straight Vuelta title, was only 10th in Sunday’s stage, crossing the line 2:26 behind Meintjes.Evenepoel got the help he needed from his team despite the surprise absence of Pieter Serry, who had to withdraw before the stage after testing positive for the coronavirus.“I’mreally impressed by my team,” Evenepoel said. “I’m so happy with the guys, it actually makes me a bit emotional seeing these guys working their hearts out for me. In a climb like this, it’s all about the power, there’s no drafting or anything because it’s too steep.”Meintjes became the second South African stage winner in the Vuelta since Robbie Hunter in 1999 and 2001.“It’s something special,” the 30-year-old Meintjes said. “I’ve never been on the podium of a World Tour race except for a team clas sification so that was one of my main goals before stop ping my career. The last few days, I was just not quite fast enough in the mountain finishes. If I can’t (get) a result that way, the best was to go in the breakaway and it worked out perfectly.” Meintjes moved to 16th in the general classification, nearly seven minutes off the lead.
MOVING UP Kane scored in either half to draw level with Andrew Cole on 187 Premier League goals — behind only Alan Shearer (260) and Wayne Rooney (208) — and ensure his side’s unbeaten start to the season continues. Totten ham is third with 10 points from four games, two points behind leader Arsenal. Kane’s perfect day was only spoilt when Hender son’s second penalty save in back-to-back home games saw the England striker’s run of 21 successful spot kicks come to an end. Antonio Conte’s Spurs found the perfect way to quieten down the home ground as it took the lead after just five minutes. Kane’s touch set Dejan Kulusevski away and, after advancing up the pitch, the Swede returned the ball to the England captain, who found the bottom corner from 20 yards in clinical fashion.Tottenham was awarded a penalty eight minutes after the break as Steve Cook deliberately handled Ivan Perisic’s cross. When the penalty was finally taken after a VAR check Henderson produced the heroics again — just as he did against West Ham — as he dived full length to his right to palm away Kane’s powerful kick. It was the first spot kick Kane had missed for Tottenham since February 2018. The visitors did eventu ally double their lead with nine minutes remaining. Richarlison won the ball back and sent in a delicious cross that Kane headed into an empty net.
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LONDON (AP) — Harry Kane used to be regarded as a slow starter to Premier League seasons. Not this time. The England captain scored for the third straight game with his double earn ing Tottenham a 2-0 win at Nottingham Forest yes terday and taking Kane to third in the all-time Premier League scoring charts. Kane also scored a stop page-time equaliser against Chelsea in the second round and the winner against Wol verhampton last weekend. Kane had never scored in the season-opening month of August until 2018, a run of 15 matches across differ ent seasons. He also had a poor start to last season, after a summer move to Manchester City didn’t materialise, before finding form in the new year. After a full preseason, he has hit the ground running in the 2022-23 campaign — and should have had another goal to his name against Forest, only for a second-half penalty to be saved by Dean Henderson. Yesterday, West Ham beat Aston Villa 1-0 to earn its first points of the season and Newcastle struck in the 90th minute to leave Wolverhampton with a 1-1 draw.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jewell Lloyd scored 26 points, including Seattle’s final six, and the Storm edged the Las Vegas Aces 76-73 yesterday to take a 1-0 lead in the WNBA semi-finals.Lloydmade a go-ahead free throw with 1:16 to play, then a jumper for a three-point lead with 34 seconds remaining before the Storm held on in the opener of the best-offive series. She had 10 of Seattle’s 16 points in the fourthAssociatedquarter.Press MVP Breanna Stewart had 24 points and six rebounds for the fourth-seeded Storm, while Tina Charles added 13 points and 18 rebounds. Sue Bird had 12Chelseaassists. Gray scored 21 points for the top-seeded Aces. Kelsey Plum added 20, but missed a tying 3-point attempt with 2.9 seconds to play. Jackie Young finished with 11 points but Aces star A’ja Wilson was held to just eight on 3-of-10 shooting.Seattle controlled much of the game, lead ing through the first 3 1/2 quarters after building a 12-point lead in the first half.Las Vegas didn’t enjoy its first lead until the fourth quarter, when veteran guard Riquna Williams’ 3-pointer from the corner made it 65-64 with 6:09 left. The Storm wasted no time in attacking early, as they built a 15-4 lead midway through the first quarter. Seattle got bal anced scoring, with five players contributing, including Ezi Magbegor coming off the bench to addLasfour.Vegas struggled to find any sort of rhythm, as a pop-and-shot approach left them with a paltry 5-of-18 (27.8%) shooting performance in the first quarter. Both Wilson and Plum went scoreless while the Storm held a 26-15 lead after one. The Aces responded with a much better defen sive effort and seemed to be much more comfort able attacking the rim to climb back into the game.
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Allan Saint-Maximin’s stunning 90th-minute equal iser saw Newcastle snatch a draw at Wolverhampton, salvaging its unbeaten start to the Premier League season.Under pressure from Jacob Murphy, Hwang Heechan sliced a clearance into the air and it dropped for Saint-Maximin to thump a brilliant volley into the corner from 20 yards. The Magpies then almost turned the match around completely in stoppage time with Elliot Anderson hitting the crossbar. Ruben Neves’ first-half screamer had given Wolves theNewcastlelead. needed SaintMaximin to produce as Eddie Howe was unable to call on new $70 million signing Alexander Isak, with the Sweden interna tional yet to receive his work permit, while Bruno Guimaraes and Callum Wilson were injured. The point does little to raise hopes at Molineux with Wolves still looking for the first league win of the season.
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GAMESTODAY’S In Group F, Mexico plays at Brazil, Puerto Rico goes to Uruguay and the US plays at Colombia. In Group E, the other six-nation field in Americas qualifying, the Dominican Republic (5-2) plays at Ven ezuela (6-1), the Bahamas (2-5) goes to Argentina (5-2) and Canada — at 7-0, the last unbeaten team in the Americas region — plays at Panama (2-5). It’s basically win-or-else time for the Bahamas and Panama.
The next window of World Cup qualifying games is in November. The US will play home games against Brazil (Novem ber 11) and Colombia (November 14) at a yet-tobe-announced site. The final window of qual ifying is in February.
Vice President’s 15, President’s 7: In the ladies’ opener, Sunshine Auto Wildcats’ shortstop Lari kah Russell went 3-for-5 with four RBI and two runs scored in the win to earn the ladies’ MVP honours for the Vice Presidents, managed by Anthony Bul lard and coached by Sidney ‘Bobby Baylor’ Fernander. She was followed closely by the battery mate of catcher Vashawna Bastian of the Black Scorpions, who was 4-for-5 with two RBI and three runs scored and R&B Operators’ ace pitcher Brendia Ferguson, who went the distance with a four-hitter and five strike outs to go along with her perfect 3-for-3 night at the plate with a RBI and two runsButscored.while celebrated, prayers and best wishes were offered for Johnson’s Lady Truckers’ shortstop Kendalia Turner, who suf fered an ankle injury, was treated on site and then rushed to the hospital for further evaluation.
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Prices have risen not just for the rarest items, but also for pieces that might have been collecting dust in garages and attics. Many of those items make it onto consumer auction sites like eBay, while others are put up for bidding by auction houses. Because of its nearperfect condition and its legendary subject, the Mantle card was destined to be a top seller, said Chris Ivy, the director of sports auctions at Heritage Auctions, which ran the bidding.Some saw collectibles as a hedge against infla tion over the past couple years, he said, while others rekindled childhood passions.Ivysaid savvy investors saw inflation coming down the road — as it has. As a result, sports memorabilia became an alternative to traditional Wall Street investments or real estate — particularly among members of Generation X and older “There’smillennials.onlyso much Netflix and ‘Tiger King’ people could watch (during the pandemic). So, you know, they were getting back into hobbies, and clearly sports collecting was a part of that,” said Ivy, who noted an uptick in calls among potential sellers.Add to that interest from wealthy overseas collectors and you have a confluence of factors that made sports collectibles especially attractive, Ivy said. “We’ve kind of started seeing some growth and some rise in the prices that led to some media“Andcoverage.Ithink it all it all just kind of built upon itself,” he said. “I would say the beginning of the pandemic really added gas oline to that fire.” Before the pandemic, the sports memorabilia market was estimated at more than $5.4 billion, according to a 2018 Forbes interview with David Yoken, the founder of ByCollectable.com.2021,that market had grown to $26 billion, according to the research firm Market Decipher, which predicts the market will grow astronomically to $227 billion within a decade — partly fuelled by the rise of so-called NFTs, or nonfungible tokens, which are digital collectibles with unique data-encrypted fingerprints. Sports cards have been especially in demand, as people spent more time at home and an opportunity arose to rum mage through potential treasure troves of child hood memories, including old comic books and small stacks of bubble gum cards featuring marquee sports stars.That lure of making money on something that might be sitting in one’s childhood basement has been irresistible, according to Stephen Fishler, founder of ComicConnect, who has watched the growing rise — and profitability — of collectibles being traded across auction houses. “In a nutshell, the world of modern sports cards has been going bonkers,” he said.The Mantle baseball card dates from 1952 and is widely regarded as one of just a handful of the base ball legend in near-perfect condition. The auction netted a handsome profit for Anthony Giordano, a New Jersey waste manage ment entrepreneur who bought it for $50,000 at a New York City show in 1991. “As soon as it hit 10 million I just turned in. I couldn’t keep my eyes open anymore,” Giordano, 75, said Sunday morning. His sons monitored the auction for him. “They stayed up and called me this morn ing bright and early to tell me that it reached where it reached.”
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Perez finished second to jump ahead of Leclerc in the season standings. “It’s a great team result,” PerezCarlossaid.Sainz Jr. started from pole for Ferrari and finished a disappointing third. Leclerc started 15th and finished fifth behind the Mercedes of George Rus sell, but Leclerc dropped to sixth after he was handed a five-second penalty for speeding in the pit lane. That pushed Alpine driver Fernando Alonso into fifth, and Leclerc, who is now 98 points behind Verstappen in the standings, was shocked by the penalty and appeared defeated in the championship race. “I didn’t even know, no one told me,” a surprised Leclerc said of the pen alty. “Why did I get the penalty?”Asforhis title race with Verstappen?“I’mnot focusing so much on the champion ship now. Red Bull were on another planet today,” Leclerc added. “We need to know why we’re so far away.”Lewis Hamilton’s bid for a sixth straight podium ended on the first lap when he clipped Alonso and briefly went airborne. Sainz started from pole because Verstappen and Leclerc were among several drivers to be hit with grid penalties. Sainz got away at the start and Russell and Hamilton zoomed past Perez and behind Alonso. Hamilton then overtook Alonso on the outside but clipped the side of his Alpine, sending Hamilton’s Mercedes up in the air. Race stewards reviewed and took no action, though Alonso clearly felt Hamil ton had not left him enough room as he tried to regain the“Whatposition.an idiot closing the door from the outside,” Alonso ranted. “We had a mega start but this guy only knows how to drive and start in Hamiltonfirst.”later cut off an interviewer who attempted to relay Alonso’s comments to “Ithim.doesn’t matter what he said,” said Hamilton, who added he didn’t see Alonso “in my blind spot.” But in a separate inter view, Hamilton accepted he hadn’t left enough room for Alonso. “It was my fault,” Hamilton said. “I paid the price. I was ahead though.” For Hamilton it was the fifth time he’s retired on Lap 1, with three retire ments coming at the 7-kilometer pulledasof—Spa-Francorchamps(4.3-mile)circuitthelongestinF1andonethebestforovertaking,Verstappenshowed.SecondsafterHamiltonover,NicholasLatifi slid across the track and nudged the Alfa Romeo of Valtteri Bottas into the gravel, bringing out the safetyHamiltoncar. stood next to his car as smoke billowed out, then walked slowly back to the team garage. He was later issued a warn ing for refusing to visit the medicalBottas,centre.hisformer Mer cedes teammate, was also out while Leclerc came in early as his team changed his tires and removed some debris from another car stuck inside Leclerc’s front rightLater,wing.Ferrari made yet another bizarre call in this strange season of botched strategy decisions when the team called in Leclerc for new tires with one lap remaining in a futile bid to score the fastest lap. Leclerc was overtaken by Alonso as he came out of the pits, and then had to overtake the Spaniard back, consequently failing to reg ister the fastest lap. Esteban Ocon of Alpine was seventh and followed by Sebastian Vettel of Aston Martin, Pierre Gasly of AlphaTauri and Alex Albon of Williams. Next up for Verstappen? His home race in the Neth erlands, where he won in style in Zandvoort last year.
CHAMPS,SPA-FRANCORBelgium (AP) — Formula One cham pionship leader Max Verstappen quickly carved his way through the field from 14th to win the Bel gian Grand Prix yesterday and widen his lead in the titleVerstappen,race. who in the final race before F1’s summer break drove from 10th to win the Hungar ian Grand Prix, produced another imperious drive and moved closer to a second straight world title. “It’s been a weekend I couldn’t have imagined before,” Verstappen said. “But I think we want more of them and we’ll keep working hard.” His lead in the standings is now 93 points — but it is over Red Bull team mate Sergio Perez because Charles Leclerc dropped to third in another poor Fer rari“Itshowing.wasquite a hectic first lap to try and stay out of trouble. So many things were happening in front of me, picked the right places to pass people, looked after our tires,” Verstappen said. “Once we were in the lead, it was all about man aging everything but this whole weekend has been incredible.”Verstappen was lead ing the race by Lap 12, and he earned a bonus point for fastest lap. His third straight win was his ninth this season and 29th overall. “Amazing Sunday guys, haha!” Verstappen said on his radio after crossing the line.“Max you have been bril liant, class of your own all weekend,” team principal Christian Horner replied. The 24-year-old Verstap pen — the youngest driver to win a race when he was 18 — said it was probably the most complete drive of his“Ifcareer.you look at the whole weekend, yes,” he said. “This track just seemed to be perfect for the car.”
FIRST place Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands waves to the crowd as he steps on to the podium during the Formula One Grand Prix at the Spa-Francorchamps racetrack in Spa, Belgium, yesterday. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert) coach Jim Boylen said after Thursday’s 105-71 over Uruguay in Las Vegas, before he and the team rushed out for a red-eye flight to Miami and then a connection to Colombia. “I think this group will enjoy playing on the road. It’s something that matters to them.”There are 12 teams left in qualifying from the FIBA Americas Region, split into two six-nation groups. Of those, seven will make the World Cup field -- the top three finishers in each group, and the best fourthplace team. At 6-1 and sitting alone in Group F, one game ahead of Brazil (5-2) and two games clear of Puerto Rico, Mexico and Uruguay (all 4-3), the Americans are in an ideal position. But Colombia (3-4) has little margin for error, plus has the emotional lift of coming back from 20 points down to win at Mexico on Thurs day night -- essentially keeping its hopes alive. The Americans know they’ll be facing a hostile environment.“Playingthe USA is the biggest situation for every team playing us,” US guard Mac McClung said.
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ANTHONY Moss couldn’t ask for a better transition from the basket ball court to the softball playing field. In his initial season in the New Providence Softball Association, the towering catcher for the Atlantis Titans was named the most valuable player after he drilled a two-run home run over the centre field fence to bring the Vice President team back from an 11-9 deficit to a 12-11 victory over the President’s men in Saturday night’s All-Star Classic.Moss’ shot was in the last of two games played in the Banker’s Field at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex.Inthe ladies’ opener, it was the Vice Presi dents who also prevailed with a 15-7 win over the Presidents.Afterthird baseman Thomas Davis of the Cyber Tech Marlins was walked and eventually scored their 10th run on Ren egades’ Dylan Culmer’s run-producing single, that set the stage for Moss, who came through on a fast ball from C&S Hitmen’s losing pitcher Martin Burrows Jr of the President’s team. In picking up Culmer from first base, Moss’ two-run shot earned the one-run victory for the Vice President’s men. “It started off a little rocky for me behind the plate. I played the whole game and I was a little tired at the end, but I just had to give it that extra push,” said Moss, who went 1-for-3 with three RBI and two run scored. Moss, who hit a shot to right field but was caught in the fourth inning, said his aim was to go for the $100 challenge that was being offered to the first person to hit the Sunshine Auto sign inside However,centrefield.hewas just inches of it with his home run out the park. “This is my first AllStar in my first time in the league, so it’s amazing. This is the highlight of my career,” said Moss, who didn’t win anything sub stantial as yet in the New Providence Basketball Association.“Theonly thing that could top this is the championship.”Centrefielder Angelo Watson of the Marlins was 1-for-3 with a RBI and two runsAtlantisscored.Titans’ ace Car dinal Gilbert, who came in relief for his Marlins’ teammate Deon Whyte in the fourth, got the win on the mound and he helped his own cause by going 1-for-2 with a run scored. Marlins’ catcher Garfield Bethel enjoyed a perfect 3-for-3 night at the plate with a walk, two RBI and four runs scored to lead the President’s men. Burrows helped his own cause by cracking a tworun homer to left field in the third inning to extend theirTheirlead.only two runs after that came in the fifth on Bethel’s two-run homer.
“The game actually went well on both ends, offen sively and defensively,” Russell said. “We were having a lot of fun out there. That’s what it’s all about.”
Russell, however, echoed the sentiments of just about everybody in the park as the game was held up to ensure the safety of Turner.“You don’t want to see players get hurt. It was very unfortunate, but I want to wish her the best. When you see something like that, it’s very unfortu nate. We just have to check up on her to make sure she’sBastian,alright.”one of the rising young stars in the league, said she’s only getting better as time progresses. “I feel like I could do better, but because I’m just getting into it, I am very competitive against play ers who have been playing for more than 10 years,” she said. “The more I face different pitchers in the league, I can only get better.”The President’s team, managed by Shane Albury of the University of the Bahamas Mingoes, saw second sacker Eilayah Johnson of the Operators, catcher Sophia Cartwright of the Mingoes and losing pitcher Diva Burrows of the Operators all get one hit.However, Johnson scored twice, while Cart wright and Burrows came home once. Burrows gave up 16 hits and struck out four in the loss. The NPSA is scheduled to resume play on Thurs day night with a double header starting at 7pm as the second half of the season gets underway towards the race for the playoffs.
NPSA president Dwayne Stevens presents men’s MVP winner Anthony Moss with his gift bag.
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— Thanks to Serena Wil liams, this US Open will be like none other. Whether or not it actually does turn out to be the final event of her lengthy, storied and influential playing career — and in professional tennis, perhaps more than in any other sport, goodbyes sometimes end up being see-you-agains — the two-week hardcourt tournament that begins today at Flush ing Meadows and wraps up the 2022 Grand Slam calendar will be, first and foremost, about Williams. As long as she remains in the field, at least. Williams faces Danka Kovinic, a 27-year-old from Montenegro, in Arthur Ashe Stadium in the first round of sin gles tonight and also is entered in doubles with her sister, Venus. The focus on Williams is fitting, because so much of the past two decades, and then some, of tennis, in general, and at the US Open, in particular, have been about Williams, who turns 41 next month. There is that unmistak able skill with a racket in hand and indiminishable drive to be the best that led to 23 major singles championships, the No. 1 ranking and Olympic gold medals, and that transcendent, attentiondemanding quality that made her a celebrity as much as a superstar athlete.“Inmy view, she revo lutionised tennis,” said Chris Evert, who won 18 majors in the 1970s and 1980s. “She revolu tionised the power in the
Although they would have preferred to com pete at the 49th Central American and Caribbean Bodybuilding Champion ships earlier this month, the Bahamas Bodybuild ing and Fitness Federation made up for their absence with an impressive showing at the Miami Grand Prix Classic over the weekend. Competing against 14 countries, including Poland, Iceland, Chile and Ecuador, Team Bahamas amassed two professional cards from their pair of gold-medal performances from Davin Johnson and Kaif Young, along with a silver, three bronze, a fifth and a sixth “Despite,place.the recent offset and not being able to compete at the 49th CAC Championships in Barbados last month, I am pleased to announce that Team Bahamas hur dled its way through and had a successful showing at the Miami Grand Prix Classics,” said federation president Joel Stubbs. “We were privileged and most excited to showcase our talent to the world and as I mentioned before, if we are afforded the oppor tunity, we will bring back the“Oncehardware.again we have delivered and the record speaks for itself.” The federation had to abort their trip to Barbados for the CAC Champion ships at the 11th hour after they failed to secure the necessary funding in time to send the team off. It left a bitter taste in the mouths of the competitors, but while some remained train ing in preparation for the trip to Miami, others shut it down for the rest of the year.Atotal of 11 competitors represented the Bahamas at the show where Johnson and Young both achieved their gold medals in the Men’s Physique categories, taking the E and F classes respectively, while plac ing first and second overall in the pose down. Judah Forbes and Gemo Smith both got fourth in their respective dicvisions.
NEW YORK (AP) — A mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card sold for $12.6 million yesterday, blasting into the record books as the most ever paid for sports memorabilia in a market that has grown exponentially more lucra tive in recent years. The rare Mantle card eclipsed the record just posted a few months ago — $9.3 million for the jersey worn by Diego Maradona when he scored the conten tious “Hand of God” goal in soccer’s 1986 World Cup. It easily surpassed the $7.25 million for a cen tury-old Honus Wagner baseball card recently sold in a private sale. And just last month, the heavyweight boxing belt reclaimed by Muhammad Ali during 1974’s “Rumble in the Jungle” sold for nearly $6.2 million. All are part of a boom ing market for sports collectibles.
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Stubbs publicly thanked the Bahamas Government and the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture for the financial assistance and for making this trip possible.
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By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer MIAMI (AP) — For the USA Basketball World Cup qualifying team, there was no time to celebrate after moving into first place in theirTheregroup.was an overnight flight to catch. A game at Barran quilla, Colombia awaits the Americans tonight, the second and final matchup in this two-game qualifying window.Awin would put the US on the brink of clinching a spot in the 32-team field for next year’s World Cup, and probably would mean the Americans need to win just one of their final four quali fying contests to get the job done. A loss wouldn’t doom hopes, but would make the task of qualifying a bit more challenging. “We know what’s at stake,” US qualifying COLOMBIA FOR
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“I wish to state that the overall team effort, support, and morale was exceptional. Much love, care and encourage ment was demonstrated,” Stubbs said. “These ath letes persevered and worked extremely hard to get to the world stage and I commend them for the sacrifices made on behalf of the federation and the Bahamian people. “As we close the season and while athletes regroup, we encourage others to come forth and explore bodybuilding, wellness and fitness, as we are expecting next year to be even more electrifying with new tal ents gracing the stage.”
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In the bodybuilding seg ment of the show, Giovanni Farrington got a bronze medal and Grand Baha mian Orick Nesbitt was fifth.Fania Joseph picked up a silver medal in the women’s Bikini Short Class, Cara Saunders came out with a bronze medal in the wom en’s Bikini Wellness and Dorcus Cox was fourth in the Women’s Figure. In addition to the hard ware they received, head judge Charles Sealy and public relations officer Leonardo ‘Nardo’ Dean were both presented with their international refer ee’s red card, which allows them to officiate at any international competition.
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A MICKEY Mantle baseball card is displayed at Heritage Auctions in Dallas, on July 21. A mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card has sold for $12.6 million, blasting into the record books yesterday as the most expensive ever paid for a piece of sports memorabilia.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Rory McIlroy, the strongest voice for the PGA Tour in a tumultuous year, had the final say with his clubs yes terday when he rallied from six shots behind to win the Tour Championship and capture the FedEx Cup for the third McIlroytime.won $18 mil lion, pushing his PGA Tour earnings to over $26 million for the season. He closed with a 4-under 66 to over take Masters champion Scottie Scheffler, who made only one birdie in a 73. Sungjae Im fell back with a double bogey on the 14th hole and still managed a 66 to tie for second with Scheffler.
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