HEALTH and Wellness Minister Dr Michael Dar ville said The Bahamas has reached the moment where “tremendous progress is being made” and that the “end of the AIDS epidemic is in Hesight.”.revealed that his min istry could report that 95 percent of persons in The Bahamas living with HIV now know their HIV status. Moreover, 73 percent of persons who know their status are on treatment while 81 percent of those on treatment are virally sup pressed, which he said is the “gold standard” for HIV care.The minister highlighted the joint United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS leads and motivates the world to achieve its shared vision of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimina tion, and zero AIDS-related deaths. END OF AIDS EPIDEMIC IN SIGHT
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THE family of Olympian Shavez Hart said in the final moments of the athlete’s life he was trying to be a “peacemaker” in a fight, but unfortunately was killed in the process. Sidney Hart, the victim’s father, revealed that Shavez had just returned to his home in Abaco about a year ago after graduating from Texas A&M University, earning a degree in businessAccordingsports.to police, on Sat urday a group of men got into a physical altercation in the parking lot of a local nightclub in Mount Hope, North Abaco around 2am, before one of the men left and returned with a firearm.Thegunman then reportedly shot the victim in the chest. He was taken to the local clinic where he was pronounced dead. A suspect was later arrested and taken into police custody. The grieving father said when he initially heard that his son was killed, he was shocked and was in denial that it was him.
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AFTER the reported kidnapping of a local staff member of the Baha mas embassy in Haiti, former Foreign Affairs Minister Darren Henfield expressed confidence in the ministry, but stressed that there should be short notice to repatriate Bahamians home if things get to the point where the embassy staff determine they are unsafe.Hiscomments came after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted in a press release that it received communication from the embassy in Port-au-Prince advising of the apparent kidnapping of a member of its locally employed staff.
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POLICE Commissioner Clayton Fernander said officers have “the right to do what they have to do” when confronted with armed people who put their lives in danger. He added that police are not “in the business” of let ting off “warning shots” in these situations. His comment came three days after a man was shot dead during an encoun ter with police when he produced a handgun and engaged the officers, offi cialsCommissionersaid. Fernander spoke about police-involved shootings, rising crime and the establishment of a new task force while a guest on the Jones and Company ‘NO SHOTS’WARNINGFOR POLICE SAYS FERNANDER By LETRE SWEETING
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Indrick Tilme, the younger brother of the deceased, said Anthony Tilme was like a “father” and his “best friend” in one. Mr Tilme, spoke to The Tribune on Friday, the day after he found his brother dead with cable wires wrapped around his neck at his residence on Kelly Lane.Although Mr Tilme was deeply distraught over the loss of his brother, he explained that they often confided in each other and talked about the problems they were facing. It was revealed that the day before Anthony’s death he said that he wanted to kill himself and that he was “tired of this life” as he broke down in tears. Mr Tilme said his brother would usually express his displeasure about his cur rent circumstances in life, however, he always tried to encourage Anthony in those moments. “I used to tell him to read the Bible and try to calm down, that better days are coming,” Mr Tilme said. However, the day of Anthony’s death neigh bours said the victim went about his normal routine even hailing some of them, Mr Tilme noted. During the interview, he recalled being the one to find his brother dead, hanging from a tree. Intially, Mr Tilme was at work that day and came home to check on Anthony, not knowing that his brother had allegedly com mittedWhensuicide.asked if he thought there was something anyone could have done to prevent the tragedy, Mr Tilme said he would have tried to talk to him. The grieving brother said: “If he had come around me, we could have sat down and talk. We could have figured something out.”
When asked his final thoughts on the incident, he said: “I just hope he’s in a happy place where he doesn’t have to go through life’s struggles anymore.”
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THE family of an alleged suicide victim revealed that despite the 41-year-old man being loved by many there were times when he still struggled with depression.
Chief Superintendent Chrislyn Skippings on Thursday urged people to speak out and to talk to someone if they are going through a difficult time.
“He changed his life because he didn’t go back to certain things in his past life. He made a lot of changes,” he said. Mr Tilme is grateful for the relationship he shared withThehim.two brothers would look out for each other, which is why they became, not only close brothers, but also close friends. He added: “He used to keep me tough, when I (was) growing up, he taught me how to fight.”
Mr Tilme said his brother had five children and would sell fruits on the road to make an honest profit.
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The Royal Bahamas Police Force has advised that anyone feeling suicidal can contact the Suicide Prevention Hotline at 3222763 or the Bahamas Crisis Centre at 328-0922.
JUST two days follow ing the tragic death of 41-year-old Anthony Tilme from suspected suicide, a 51-year-old German was found dead by alleged sui cide at a condo construction site on West Bay Street. On Saturday, police responded to a call about the incident after employ ees there found a Caucasian man “hanging by tie straps” on the second floor of the building. When police arrived, they found the deceased on the second floor of the complex with injuries to his neck, Chief Superintendent Chrislyn Skippings said. The coroner, who arrived on the scene later, is assist ing with the investigation into the alleged suicide, said CSPThisSkippings.isthe fourth sus pected suicide in the last month.OnThursday, a 41-yearold man was found in the area of Kelly Lane off Johnson Road with cable wires around his neck. Last month, police were investigating two alleged suicides.Thefirst one was in the Carmichael Road area. Initial information sug gested that shortly after 11am a man in his early 20s was found unresponsive, hanging with a sheet around hisEmergencyneck. Medical Services responded and confirmed no signs of life. This came after another alleged suicide occurred in late July when around 7pm police responded to a report of a male hanged in a property in the area of Marathon Road, north of RobinsonEmergencyRoad. Medical Services responded and confirmed that the man showed no signs of life. These incidents come ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day, which has been observed around the world every September 10 since 2003.
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Sharmaine Hart, the vic tim’s mother, was deeply upset over the loss of her son and noted they had a beautiful relationship with eachSheother.was in Freeport get ting Shavez’s younger sister ready for school but quickly flew back to Abaco when she heard the heartbreak ing news that her loving son had been killed. Mrs Hart said that when she received the awful news, she was with the mother of Shavez’s child, with whom he shared a 13-month-old son. Mrs Hart said: “He and I were very close, we weren’t distant at all. I’m not dis tant with any of my kids, my sons are mummy boys.” The mother said the day of her son’s murder she had spoken with him on the phone as they regularly would just to catch up. “I knew that he loved me,” the mother said. She described her son as a “caring” person who did his best to look out for others and his family. When asked how she feels that her son fell victim to the rising incidence of gun violence in the country, Mrs Hart said it makes her feelTryingterrible.tocontain her grief, she said: “They seem to wear guns like a keychain in their pockets. They are using guns loosely, the gun violence that’s going on is serious and becoming out of hand.” Both parents empha sised that they loved their son very much which is why they did their best to sup port his dreams as a person and an athlete. The athlete also had three siblings who echoed the same love and admira tion for him. The sprinter represented The Bahamas in the 100m and 200m at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.On September 6, Shavez would have cele brated his 30th birthday.
“It is with great sadness that I join the sporting fraternity in expressing heartfelt condolences to the family of the late Shavez Hart, Olympian,” Bowleg said. “Hart, a graduate of Texas A&M University pursued a career in the sport of track and field run ning under the PUMA brand, on the professional level.“As a junior athlete, he represented The Baha mas at the Carifta Games and Junior Pan American Games. Hart’s personal best in the 100m, 10.10s made him the third fastest Bahamian of all time in the event. The former national standout, also competed in the 200m, closing his career with a personal best of 20.23s in the event.” Bowleg, on behalf of his ministry, also extended heartfelt condolences to the executive branch of the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations (BAAA), all other mem bers of the organisation, and the sporting community. “As Minister, I pray for healing and comfort to the family of the bereaved during this difficult time,” Bowleg said. “May his soul rest in Sandrapeace.”Laing, a BAAA’s executive out of Grand Bahama, noted: “He was such an awesome young man, a mannerly and respectful young man. Truly heartAndwrenching.”coachVogal Wil liams, who played an integral role in Hart’s early development, added: “It was sad news for me this morning when I heard about Shavaz being shot. I taught him in primary school at Treasure Cay Pri maryFemaleSchool.”sprinter Antho nique Strachan, who was competing in Padova, Italy, added she “hopes he’s at peace”. She said it’s just sad to know he died trying to help, knowing that the type of “sweet, kind hearted and caring” individual that he is. “He’s a guy who wears his heart on his sleeve. He shows minimal emotions. He’s very tender hearted, very soft hearted and I’m still a little shock by it,” Strachan said. “I don’t believe it so much. It was like wow. This was a blow to Strachan,me.” the Athletes Rep for the BAAA, recalled how close Hart was to Trinidad and Tobago’s 29-year-old sprinter Deon Lendore, who died on January 12 in a head-on collision in Texas where he was working as a volunteer assistant at Texas A&M when he crashed on his way home from practice. “Both of them were really close to me too,” she said. “I enjoyed their com pany on national teams and even the (relationship) surpassed that into my per sonal life.” In expressing her con dolences to his family, including his son and his mother, Strachan said “the gun violence is get ting out of hand, There are too many innocent people being killed for no reason. For somebody who live by peace and helping people and this is how they went our, it’s like wow.” Hart was a four-time Bahamas national 100m champion (2014, 2015, 2016 and 2019) and 200m (2014 and 2015, 2017 and 2018), had a personal best of 10.10 seconds that he posted on April 18, 2015, in Waco, Texas, but he ran a windaided 10.08 in Hutchinson, Kansas on May 18, 2013. Only three other Baha mians have ran faster than Hart. They are national record holder Derrick Atkins with 9.91 from his silver medal performance at the World Champion ships in Osaka, Japan, in 2007; Samson Colebrooke in 10.01 on July 5, 2019 and Grand Bahamian Terrence Jones on May 27, 2022. In the 200m, Hart had a lifetime best of 20.23 he did in Starkville, Missouri, on May 16, 2015, which is tied for the fifth best with Grand Bahamian Demetrius Pinder, who did his feat on April 14, 2012, Olympic and world champion Steven Gardiner, also from Abaco, holds the national record at 19.75 on April 7, 2018. Grand Bahamian Michael Mathieu followed with 20.16 from May 6, 2012; Dominic Demeritte did 20.21 on June 22, 2002 and Andrew Tynes trailed with 20.22 from April 10, 1993. Hart also did 46.43 in Tempe, Arizona on March 21, 2015, the 31st fastest as a Bahamian. The list is also headed by Gardiner with his national record of 43.48. A graduate of St George’s High School in Grand Bahama, Hart went on to compete for South Plains Junior College, win ning a sprint double at the 2012 National Junior Col lege Championships, before transferring to Texas A&M University.Hartwon the bronze medal in the 100m and was a member of the men’s 4 x 100m relay team at the 2011 Carifta Games. That same year, he participated in the 2011 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships where he had a false start in the 100m, but joined his teammates for the bronze in the men’s 4 x 100m relay. At the CAC Champion ships in Morelia, Mexico on July 6, 2013, Hart anchored the men’s 4 x 100m relay team of Adrian Griffith, Jamial Rolle and Trevor vano Mackey to the gold. He also ran on both the men’s 4 x 100 and 4 x400m relay teams that picked up the bronze medal at the Pan Am Under-20 Champion ships in Miramar, Florida, on July 24, 2011. Hart ran the third leg on the men’s 4 x 400m relay team of Michael Mathieu, Alonzo Russell and veteran Chris “Fireman” Brown that secured a silver at the World Indoor Champion ships in Oregon, Portland on March 20, 2016. And he was on the men’s 4 x 100m relay team that finished fifth at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scot land on August 2, 2014.
SHAVEZ Hart passing the baton on to Chris Brown in the men’s silver medal performance at the World Indoor Championships in Portland in 2016. from page one SHAVEZ HART, right, and, above, pictured with family.
Mr Hart said: “I won dered which Shavez they meant because it couldn’t be my Shavez they were talking about. But then sure enough it turned out to be him; his lifeless body was on the ground just covered up.”Although Mr Hart was not there when his son was fatally shot, he said some people who were there told him his son was breaking up a fight and protecting one of his former classmates from high school. “Other people who were there were saying that this argument did not start with my son. It started with somebody else who Shavez recognised because they went to school with him at St George’s. These fellas wanted to beat on the guy, but Shavez intervened. “He was like the peace maker, but by intervening my son met his death,” Mr Hart said as he held back tears.During the interview, Mr Hart said his son was someone who loved to give back despite facing his own challenges.Thefather explained that the star athlete was prom ised a job in the Ministry of Youth, Sports, and Cul ture however, the job never came through. But that did not stop Shavez from volunteering his time to the local kids in the community. Mr Hart added: “He was very active in the commu nity. He came home and gave back to the commu nity by training the local kids and organising a bas ketball camp for them.” He said Shavez did eve rything in his power to freely devote his services to empowering the youth through sports. When asked what kind of person Shavez was, Mr Hart described him as being “humble”, “introverted”, and someone who loved to laugh.“He was not a show-off, if someone didn’t tell you that was Shavez you could pass him by,” Mr Hart said. “He didn’t boast about any of his achievements. He’s seen all over the world a couple of times and never bragged. He never spoke down to his peers or friends; he just wasn’t that kind of person. He had many rings and gifts that people gave him that he chose not to wear just so he would be a regular boy.” The distraught father, reflecting on his son’s murder, said it seems this generation cannot reason without things becoming violent or causing someone’s life. But he urged young people to change their ways and to choose a life of pur pose rather than pain.
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ABACO Olympian Shavez Hart, one of the country’s top male sprinter, was killed on Saturday morning in his hometown, sending shock waves through the sporting com munity, in particular track andHart,field. who represented The Bahamas from Carifta Games, the top regional junior track and field com petition, to the Olympic Games, the premier sport ing event in the world, was reportedly killed as he tried to intervene in a physical altercation between a group of men in the parking lot of a local nightclub in Mount Hope,Hart,Abaco.who would have celebrated his 30th birth day on September 6, leaves behind his parents Shar maine and Sidney Hart; a son Chase Hart; two broth ers Simardo and Sharmal Hart and a sister, Sarai Hart.Condolences poured in from the sporting com munity, led by Minister of Youth, Sports And Culture, Mario Bowleg.
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As for a breakdown on the demographics, the director indicated that women on treatment for HIV have more viral sup pression than men right now.“I think it’s about 80 percent of the women are virally suppressed, 82 percent. And the men are more at about 70 percent,” sheMeanwhile,said. Dr Forbes noted, thanks to support, no babies were born with HIV in The Bahamas in the years 2010, 2015, 2019, 2020, and 2021. There was zero percent HIV trans mission mother to baby in the last three years in the country.Hoarding, as it relates to medication, was identified as an issue in The Bahamas. Dr Forbes explained: “When I mentioned that we really need better partnerships to have one single patient profile, it’s very important, because if someone is coming in who’s living with HIV, and they’re using multiple names, for example.“They’re using three dif ferent names, and then going to three differ ent treatment sites and collecting three times the amount of medication. There can be hoarding in that way and that is some thing that we have noticed as we tried to have more accurate information and have confidential ways of ensuring that we have one patient profile, like using unique identifier numbers and other information. “That is something that we have found and there also can be, well, some of our providers collect medi cations and give it on behalf of the patient. And so there is the potential, for exam ple, if a patient doesn’t pick up medicines, there could be medicines sitting in the offices.”She emphasised offi cials have a very important responsibility to make cer tain that they have enough medications and how hoarding can make manag ing supplies difficult.
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Mr Cooper apologised on behalf of the government for the long delay in recovery in East Grand Bahama over the past three years. “In the months after Dorian hit, we were extremely critical of the terrible job we thought was being done at recovery (during the Minnis admin istration). We believe there was neglect, ambivalence, and grand standing while action was very limited. And we were right. When we came to office, we found a tangle of bureaucracy that designed more inefficien cies. We are not here to reflect on the past, but to chart the way forward we must recognise where we come from. “I want to tell you frankly from my perspective as DPM, it is about the des tination ahead more so than the route travelled, so far. So, I start by taking accountability and apolo gising on behalf of the government of The Baha mas over the past three years for not having done more fast enough to help you to restore your lives. “And so today we bring all the players in the room and just so you know I tend to write what I say to you so I can be accountable to myself and to you.” He said the government is looking to make an imme diate impact in the area to restore police services, post office, local government administrator services, NIB services, and provision for schools for children in East End.He noted that the Cleve land Baptist Church in Freetown will be used to facilitate 30 students from K-3 to grade one by October, and students from grade two to nine will be placed at the high school in High Rock. Ms Moxey said residents of EGB have experienced tremendous loss and that the government supports them. “We feel your pain and we come here today to say we are standing with you. We want you to know you matter and we will put action behind our words. We are still grieving the loss of family and loved ones, and many homes need repairs, and many need assistance, and the road to recovery has been long. Real help is here,” she said. Mr Thompson, MP for East Grand Bahama, noted that residents in the area are emotionally and men tally scared because of Dorian.“Wemust be mindful of the psychological needs of the community in EGB and what they have gone through in the last three years and what they are going through. One of things we like is for Social Services and the churches to put in place a programme that is going to meet not just physical needs, but also mental, emotional, and psy chological needs of EGB,” heEastsaid. Grand residents were very emotional and expressed their feelings to officials.Awoman identified as Deborah Andrew thanked them and implored them to “stand for Authority.byinchurchshow.”talkingtiredpeople.”andpeople.wantando“BothwomanwantaboutbepeopletheexpressedbecameAnotherrighteousness.”resident,whoveryemotional,concernsaboutdelayinrecoveryforinEastEnd.“Wewantourvoicestoheardbecausewecareourpeople,andwetoseechange,”thetoldMrCooper.governmentsdidnotjusticeandIcomeasEsthertodaybecauseItoseechangeforourIcomebymyself,IwouldstandformyThewomansaidtheyareofpoliticians“tongueandputtingonaOnSunday,memorialserviceswereheldEastEndandinFreeporttheGrandBahamaPort
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The Tall Pines MP added: “The Bahamas shared those global fast track strategies to end AIDS by the year 2030. The interim targets for the year 2025 includes identifying 95 per cent of people living with HIV, placing 95 percent of positively identified indi viduals on antiviral therapy, ensuring that 95 percent of those on therapy achieve undetectable viral loads indicative of treatment success.”Hegave the data during a press conference on Friday giving a situational update in regard to the fight against AIDS and HIV. Dr Nikkiah Forbes, director of the National HIV/AIDS and Infec tious Disease Programme, explained that the most current data collated will reflect the period to the end of 2021. The data shows that approximately 4,447 per sons were living with HIV at the end of 2021 and that means the HIV prevalence is estimated at 1.3 percent of the population at this time.Asked if new cases were reported last year, Dr Forbes answered: “So I can tell you what our most recent data is, and that is actually in the year 2019there were 133 new HIV infections. This is gener ally actually, there were no babies born with HIV in the year 2019 and this deferred in the year 2010. There were 285 new HIV cases.” She said health officials have seen remarkable pro gress in terms of a decline in the number of new infec tions. She said that the number of newly reported HIV diagnoses decreased by 53 percent in the years between 2010 and 2019. “AIDS deaths, that is something that we know is preventable, once people are on effective treatment, and are getting effective care, and that has also decreased by 40 percent, between the years 2010 and 2019. So we are seeing some progress,” she said. The milestone of diag nosing 94 percent of people who are living with HIV by official estimates was achieved in 2021. “Further to that 73 per cent of people living with HIV who know their status, were on treatment and that was a very high number, the highest numbers we’ve seen currently in our program ming. And of those persons who are on treatment 81 percent of persons have achieved viral suppression and that is also increasing,” Dr Forbes said.
TWENTY-SIX memo rial markers for the Hurricane Dorian victims who lost their lives in East End, Grand Bahama, were officially unveiled on Sat urday during memorial ceremonies held on the third anniversary of the storm. Seven markers, with name plaques of each victim, were erected in McLean’s Town; 17 in High Rock; and two in Freetown, representing the 26 victims who died in those settle ments on September 2, 2019 during the storm. Deputy Prime Minister Chester Cooper, Minister for Grand Bahama Ginger Moxey, Minister of Social Services and Urban Devel opment Obie Wilchcombe, Minister of State for Housing Lisa Rahming, Alex Storr, chairman of the Disaster Reconstruction Authority, and East Grand Bahama MP Kwasi Thompson attended and laid wreaths in memory of the victims. Wreaths were also laid at the foot of the Jack Hayward Bridge for those victims who died in the ‘Over the Bridge’ commu nities and the Lady Lakes Subdivision.MrCooper said that the memorial landmarks erected in the settlements are a fitting tribute to the victims of East End. “Those are most fitting for our brothers and sisters we have lost. I thank the families, friends, and mem bers of the community for coming, but importantly, for allowing us to establish these memorials as land marks in memory of your fallen loved ones,” he said. “Today was extremely memorable for me; I was able to experience and feel your pain,” he said. “I want you to know that today is an unforgettable day for me, and I assure you that I will never forget you.” Mr Cooper, who had vis ited EGB right after Dorian, recalled: “What I saw was a very different place; I saw homes you lost and infra structure you relied on torn apart. I saw pictures of loved ones you were looking for. I heard story after story of despair and tragedy. “I was heartbroken by what I saw and heard and still by what I see and feel today. So, I can only begin to imagine what it is that you have gone through and still going through. “We have memorialised this occasion and we will continue to do so. But we wanted to come and tell you today that for us, this is not an exercise coming, laying a wreath, and erecting a memorial and going away until next year, we are here to give you our assurances that more will be done and quickly,” he vowed.
“So I can tell you that the number of people living with HIV on treatment has nearly doubled from 2012 to the end of 2021. We had about 1,043 persons on treatment, HIV treatment, in 2013. The treatment guidelines were a little dif ferent then and we moved to treating all persons with HIV infection regardless of their illness stage, or whether they were having symptoms. We were one of the first Caribbean coun tries to do that in 2015 and so the number of persons on treatment in 2021 was about 3,047.”
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Growing up, you never thought that someone will actually shoot at a police officer in uniform. Just their presence in uniform, should say, ‘boy I can’t do that.’” He also spoke about steps taken to establish a new task force that will include officers from all law enforcement agencies to better combat violent crime.He echoed his state ments made last month as a guest on Jerome Sawyer’s “Beyond the Headlines” television show, saying officers’ work is more burdensome when courts release those arrested on bail and police then often arrest the same person for the same offence. “It’s hard for a family to see the person responsi ble for the death of their brother, their loved one, you in the food store shop ping and they on bail and they on the side of you shopping. It’s hard to see that,” he Therefore,said. assembling a joint task force is necessary, Commissioner Fernander added.“Iwill move quickly to identify a firearms task force. Our task force unit will consist of those same agencies (law enforcement agencies). We have already identified two officers from all of those agencies who will be a part of this task force, including our US partners.”Healso said, “The office will be housed at police headquarters. We have already done our vetting with police offic ers. That office should be open between now and the second week in September.” The police chief added that the majority of the ille gal guns are coming from the United “FirearmsStates.continue to come into our country and get into the hands of crimi nals and eventually being used in the commission of offence,” he said. He also noted some improvements and restruc turing happening to the police intelligence unit, as he promised during the official handover ceremony at police headquarters on July 5. “We continue to upgrade and we continue to train. We have officers now and we have our US partners who (are) assisting with the training and we have to continue to step up our game,” he said. “I’m not happy to that level to brag about it, but we are doing an excellent job in terms of executing, because we are an intel ligent, driven police force and we had a lot of success based on our intel and we could only take it to another level,” he said. “We should be in a posi tion to say, based on who gets killed tonight - if we don’t pay attention - we almost could tell you who the next victim could be,” heHesaid.added that the Fire arms and Gang Units of the police force will become more active in the com munity and a stand-alone Domestic Violence Unit also will be Commissionerimplemented.
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Fernander’s comments come as the country faces around 90 murders recorded so far for the year. Just last weekend, Baha mian track and field Olympic sprinter Shavez Hart was tragically shot dead early on Saturday in Abaco. On Thursday, a man was shot and killed by police when he produced a handgun and engaged the officers.Last year, 21 policeinvolved shootings were recorded, 13 of which were fatal.
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A MAN was shot and killed by police on Thursday when he produced a handgun and engaged the officers, according to the Royal Bahamas Police Force. Shortly after 10pm on Thursday, police officers from Operation Ceasefire responded to information about people with illegal handguns on a property on Miami Street, between Cordeaux and Bal four Avenues, police said. A man was found on the property and shot by a police officer when he produced a handgun and engaged officers on the scene, policeShortlysaid.after the shooting, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) arrived and con firmed the man’s death. Officers then recovered a handgun and some ammuni tion from the body, police said. This was the third fatal shooting involv ing a police officer this year. In April, a man wearing a bulletproof vest was shot by police when they responded to an armed robbery after 1am in the area of Delancey Street. In January, a police officer shot and killed a Royal Bahamas Defence Force officer who allegedly “charged” at him and tried to disarm him. Last year, 21 police-involved shootings were recorded, of which 13 were fatal. The Tribune previously reported The Bahamas has one of the highest per capita rates of police involved killings in the world, with 11 recorded in 2017, 2018 and 2020. Two years ago, a backlog of Coroner’s Court inquests into police involved shootings caused concern. The hearings were initially delayed because of COVID-19 in 2020. Later, former Coroner Jeanine Weech-Gomez was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice, causing further delays as officials waited to replace her.
programme on Jones Com munication Network with host Dr Godfrey Eneas. “We are not in the busi ness of no warning shots,” the police chief said. “If your officers’ lives are in danger, or any civilians (are in danger), they have the right to do what they have to “Ifdo. an individual pulls a weapon on you, you can’t wait for them to (shoot).
Currently, Magistrate Kara TurnquestDeveaux is the acting coroner, as of September 2021. Meanwhile, investigations into Thursday’s incident are being led by the acting coroner and are continuing.
“According to informa tion received from the family of the long-time employee at the embassy, the incident took place around 6am 1 September 2022 in the employee’s neighbourhood. The matter has been reported to the police in Haiti and is being investigated,” the release read.“Our prayers are with the victim and family for a safe and speedy return. We will assist the authorities to the extent that we can. We are advised that the diplomatic staff generally are not at risk. However, additional security measures are being taken.“The embassy will con tinue to monitor this situation along with the general security situation in the Port-au-Prince area, and advise the ministry accord ingly on recommended courses of action to take,” officials said. Mr Henfield told The Tribune yesterday that he was also assured that it was a local staff member, a Haitian national, who was kidnapped — not a Bahamian. He said it was not directly associ ated with anything with the embassy — describing it as “something exter nal”. However, he added, that in any event, it is “disconcerting”.“Itissomething to keep an eye on. That should con cern us in The Bahamas because kidnappings and criminal enterprise are far too frequent and rampant in Haiti which I view per sonally as a failed state,” Mr Henfield said. “It’s also our view in the opposition that the inter national community must make a more concerted effort to bring some kind of resolution to what’s going on in Haiti. The Bahamas alone cannot do it. There must be more urgency from the international com munity in response to the challenges that the Haitian people are facing because we feel the brunt of it, par ticularly the region feels it generally, and so for The Bahamas it’s an urgent matter in my view.” Asked if it is time for the embassy to bring Bahamian workers home, the former minister answered: “While I was in office as foreign minister, we had occasion to bring Bahamian staff back to The Bahamas more than once when things got a little out of order in Haiti. Then it became a little violent and criminality ruled the day.“I know the ministry is well disposed and capable of determining when people ought to return home, but I emphasise that there should be a short notice to move to repatriate Bahamians home if things get to that point where the embassy staff from The Bahamas in Haiti determined that they are unsafe. That’s normally the rule of thumb how I judged it - how we judged it in our administration.”Hearguedthat he did not believe that the Haitian authorities, whatever “sem blance of that authority is left in place”, have the abil ity to control or deal with these criminal enterprises that seem to act with impu nity. He again stressed that the international commu nity must begin to look at Haiti with a little bit more urgency so “we can begin to look at bringing some reso lution to the issues”. As for if there was more the Davis administration could have done to protect the worker, Mr Henfield answered that is something he would not put at the “foot of the government”. “These things happen all over the world. We rely mainly — when I was a part of the administration that was in office — on the information received from the embassy staff. They had a mission, the chief of mis sion, to see whether or not they felt safe or unsafe. And as soon as they signalled that they feel unsafe, they will be returned home.”
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THE Ministry of Educa tion is facing a dire need of new teachers for growing classrooms. Our learning institutions are lacking the experience necessary to propel our students into the next level of tertiary discipline after graduation. Technical, trade and work experience is an essential element of training pro grammes when mentoring students. Most university graduates and professionals already possess the neces sary skills required for this undertaking to enhance stu dents logical and analytical thinking qualities they acquire.Myproposition to the ministry of education is simply to recruit those qualified impressions that are already in the work environment and are knowledgable about sub ject matters and literacy which correlates to career choices. Social education interaction will prove that qualified professionals are the best teachers for learn ing forums. I myself was a candidate for the minis try of education but took another appointment with the ministry of finance. Our government min istries are filled with such professional personalities that are willing to volunteer scheduled teaching partici pation on the same salary base for this invaluable ser vice. Subjects and courses are taught in higher tertiary institutions by working accountants, engineers, Bankers, computer science majors, doctors, lawyers, and culinary chefs not to mention our world class athletes, these attributes are key beneficial factors in career choices and are able to expand learning capabili ties beyond the classroom.
The Tribune Limited NULLIUS ADDICTUS JURARE IN VERBA MAGISTRI “Being Bound to Swear to The Dogmas of No Master” LEON E. H. DUPUCH, Publisher/Editor 1903-1914 SIR ETIENNE DUPUCH, Kt., O.B.E., K.M., K.C.S.G., (Hon.) LL.D., D.Litt . Publisher/Editor 1919-1972 Contributing Editor 1972-1991 EILEEN DUPUCH CARRON, C.M.G., M.S., B.A., LL.B. Publisher/Editor 1972Published daily Monday to Friday Shirley & Deveaux Streets, Nassau, Bahamas N3207 TELEPHONES News & General Information (242) 322-1986 Advertising Manager (242) 502-2394 Circulation Department (242) 502-2386 Nassau fax (242) 328-2398 Freeport, Grand Bahama (242)-352-6608 Freeport fax (242) 352-9348 WEBSITE, TWITTER & FACEBOOK www.tribune242.com @tribune242 tribune news network PAGE 6, Monday, September 5, 2022 THE TRIBUNE
ORTLAND H BODIE, Jr SeptemberNassau, 4, 2022.
THE end of the AIDS epidemic is in sight?That’s what Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Michael Darville pro claimed at a press conference on Friday. It’s an eye-catching thing to say, but does it stand up to closer scrutiny? Well, a little bit of yes and a little bit of no. Certainly, the latest figures on the fight against HIV/AIDS are promis ing. Perhaps the most remarkable is the reduction in deaths from AIDS – down by 40 percent between 2010 and 2019. How does that figure come about? That’s where the other numbers come in. Reportedly, 95 percent of people living with HIV in The Bahamas now know their HIV status. Those free events you see in The Tribune from time to time with health workers offering tests so people can find out their status? Each of those pays off in helping people to learn whether they do or do not have HIV.Once people know, then action can be taken – precautionary to prevent the spread of the infection, and in terms of treatment.Infectious disease expert Dr Nikkiah Forbes said: “I can tell you that the number of people living with HIV on treatment has nearly doubled from 2012 to the end of 2021. We had about 1,043 persons on treatment, HIV treatment, in 2013. The treatment guidelines were a little different then and we moved to treating all persons with HIV infec tion regardless of their illness stage, or whether they were having symptoms. We were one of the first Caribbean countries to do that in 2015 and so the number of persons on treatment in 2021 was about 3,047.” That’s more people being treated – which doesn’t show more people infected, just that the treatment is getting out there to those who were in need.Better still, no babies were born with HIV in The Bahamas in 2019, 2020 or 2021. Prior to that, the years 2010 and 2015 were also years with no babies born with HIV. Progress that’s clear to see and for the most important of us all our children. It has been a long fight against HIV/ AIDS in this country – and it has been one that has been fought across all social lines.There have been the Red Ribbon Balls to raise funds and awareness, bringing in corporate and private donors.There have been the efforts of health care workers, either helping people to know their status or to ensure treatment is available.Andthere have been the efforts of successive administrations, focusing resources and efforts towards the fight. We’re not there yet. This is progress, not our journey’s end. We’re ahead of target on reaching the 95 percent figure of people living with HIV knowing their status.But those who have ensured we have reached this point know the areas we still need to work on – Dr Forbes highlighted the need for better partner ships, for example, and issues regarding hoarding of medication or patients using multipleGettingnames.thenumber of deaths to zero is still a goal we are working towards. But this is good news. We applaud every person who has devoted time and energy towards this forward progress. Now is not the time to let up, but to see us to those remaining targets. Well done, all. This is an achievement that can literally be measured in life and death.
JB SeptemberNassau, 2, 2022.
EDITOR, The Tribune.
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The long battle to defeat HIV/AIDS
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I HAVE been privileged to have known the Hon Algernon SPB Allen and his lovely wife, Dame Anita Allen, for all of their lives. They are both a few years older than myself, but I well remember them from the days when we were all at ‘the’ Government High School, then located at Poinciana Drive where the University of The Bahamas is now housed. It would appear that the ‘love affair’ began way back then. A few years later they were married and have produced at least two chil dren, both lawyers like their parents. Algernon Junior currently serves the nation as a magistrate. The daughter has been in the securities and financial services industry for many years, successfully. Last week the Allens celebrated 48 years of what Dame Anita implied were ‘good years’. This speaks vol umes for Bulgie as a good husband and father. They have demonstrated what the Bahamian family used to be like and which will be emulated.Bulgie,of course, entered front line politics way back in the 1960’s when he served as a campaign advi sor and worker for the late Hon Sinclair Outten for what is now the St Barna bas constituency. Sinclair was successful. Years later, after he had departed from the PLP, Bulgie was elected as the MP for Mara thon. He was appointed to several ministerial posts, inclusive of the Minister of Youth; Sports & Culture. I was privileged to work with him at the then Minis try of Social Development & Housing, at the behest of former Prime Minis ter, the Rt Hon Hubert A Ingraham.Bolgie coined the phrases: little darlings and precious pearls. He was also instrumental in obtaining the then cabinet’s approval and funding for: Peace on the Streets and Operation Redemption, according to Pastor Dave Burrows of Bahamas Faith Missions. He excelled as a practitioner at the Criminal Bar and was, in my opin ion, almost as smart as I would have demonstrated when he was my ‘rival’ at the Bar. The rivalry, if it could be called such, was always professional and respectful. Algernon also mentored outstanding prac titioners like former Chief Magistrate Roger Gomez and Barry Sawyer, who both emerged from Bulgie’s chambers which are still around serving the people of The Bahamas. His wife, of course, served as a Crown Coun sel; an acting Magistrate; a Justice of the Supreme Court; Chief Justice; President of The Baha mas Court of Appeal and recently as Chairperson of The Bahamas Law Reform Commission. And so, I congratulate the Allen family and the whole clan, inclusive of the celebrated sister, Pauline, a former managing executive at The Bank of The Bahamas and other leading financial institutions.Last,but not least, the Allen family has devel oped a vibrant real estate subdivision in the prime Coral Harbor region, which is bustling. As a former Minister with responsibil ity for Housing, Bulgie was instrumental within the Ingraham administra tion, of conceptualising and actually putting boots on the ground and shovels in the ground for the show case subdivision of Millen nium Gardens. Both of the Allens have been honoured by successive administra tions, but they have much more contributions to make to the advancement of our wonderful nation. May The Lord Jesus Christ continue to bless you both and undergird the children. Selah.
BAGS lined up for collection during a Rotaract Back to School event at the weekend. See PAGE 12 for more. Photo: Moise Amisial
Solution to the teachers problem
EDITOR, The Tribune. THIS morning while stopped at a red light, there was a car in the adjacent lane with a woman driver and two children, in the back seat. One child, about 18 months old was in a car seat behind the passenger’s seat. The older child was behind the driver’s seat and the woman was shouting at him and pointing her finger in his face threatening to hit him and calling him names. The child was visibly dis traught and dejected. I was sorely tempted to inter vene, but decided against confronting an angry female in Recentlytraffic.in your daily there was an article with a local group asking the gov ernment to do more about “gender” related issues. They voiced concerns about domestic violence and rape, etc, but when will we address the real issue here. Men were once boys who were most often raised in homes with women. Abuse first takes place in the home and even if it is not physical abuse, there is likely verbal abuse like I witnessed. The scars and trauma from hurt ful words last far longer than those of physical abuse as most people should know from personal experience. We see this culture of abuse all around us. Angry women (sometimes men too) shouting at their chil dren in public, forcefully pulling them by the arm or threatening what they will do to them when they get home. Those entrusted with innocence destroy it with angry words that adversely affect a child’s perception of themselves, their self worth and that of others. These children are allowed to marinate in an environ ment of anger and hostility, being unloved for most of their childhoods and then we expect them to be kind, responsible, loving and pro ductive members of society? What I saw this morning was sad, but it is also reflec tive of a simple truth, many women are responsible for creating the monsters that become abusers of others. Too many children are being raised in a culture of abuse. Too many people have children before they are emotionally or finan cially ready for them. Too many do not understand their responsibilities as par ents. We are reaping what we have collectively sown. It’s time to face that simple truth and change!
EDITOR, The Tribune.
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NO ARRESTS OVER FATAL DOG ATTACK
The new investors will also establish an after-salesservice centre at the marina property for their high net worth clients. The project is expected to be completed over the next two to three years. About 30 to 40 new fulltime jobs will be created for Bahamians.Thesale announce ment was officially made on Friday at Running Mon and was said to represent “a transformational day” for the resort and marina facil ity, which closed in 2019 due to Hurricane Dorian and then the pandemic. In attendance were Grand Bahama Minister Ginger Moxey, who welcomed the investors to the island; Tamas Hamor, CEO of Xquisite Yachts; David Townsend, CFO; Stephen Joyce, Xqui site Global Service Manager, and Eugene Samarin, the company’sXquisiteattorney.Yachtsowns and operates several yacht man ufacturing factories around the world, including in Por tugal and South Africa. According to Mr Townsend, they will under take “a comprehensive repair programme and rejuvenation plan” for the Running Mon facility. We anticipate at the end this will be a $3m to $5m project for us with the build-out, and it will take us two to three years, but we are hoping to speed that up,” he said. “But once this project is finished, we anticipate there will be 30 to 40 in full-time employment here, a service centre to repair boats, an upgraded suite hotel, and we will open the marina and the restaurant – which has history in Freeport. And we will be doing some sailing charters here and doing some sail training for customers.” Mr Townsend said they would like to have local people run the fishing and scuba charters for them. “We want to have an allinclusive facility to bring high net worth customers and offer them different experiences in the Bahamas, and we want to partner with Bahamian businesses to achieve that,” he explained. “We actually completed the purchase last night (Thursday), so we are fully committed,” he said. According to Mr Hamor, Xquisite Yachts started eight years ago. “Our goal was to do it better than other builders to create a brand where we not just hand over the boat to the owners, but we take care of them during the lifetime of the boat,” he said. “We created an aftersales service unmatched in the industry. We started one model that became an instant success,” he stated. He said their partner Felix Marine in South Africa build quality world-class boats for them. He said their first model, the X5, won Boat of the Year in America in 2017. And their second model, which just recently launched, the X5 plus 1, won Boat of the Year 2022. The company is growing and is now working on four new models at the same time with the new factory in Por tugal, Hamor reported. Due to the company’s growth, he noted they needed to expand their after sales ser vice and infrastructure to grow together with more boats they have on the water. “This led to us needing to have a base, with the proper service centre where owners can bring in their boats for commissioning the new boats, repair of the new boats, upgrades further maintenance of the boats, and have a hub where owners can get together,” heMrsaid.Hamor said Grand Bahama was the right place for their new venture.
Arthur Swan, the brother of the deceased, told The Tribune in a recent inter view that his brother used to be on the streets asking people for money due to his mental condition, however that did not stop his family from loving him. “He’s been in that con dition for some 40 plus years,” Mr Swan explained. “As a result of the drugs and the drugs led into a mental issue, he never rebounded. As much as my family tried, because we had him committed to Sandilands on numerous occasions. We paid a private psychologist and psychia trist to deal with him on numerous occasions, but to noPoliceavail.” are encourag ing members of the public who have overly aggres sive or uncontrollable dogs that they cannot restrain in aggressive situations or circumstances, consistently 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.Members of the public are reminded that all dogs should be licensed and can visit the Department of Agriculture, Gladstone Road to pay the requi site fee of $6.72. Failure to license your animal will result in the owner(s) being finedFor$250.more information regarding breaches of the Animal Control Act resi dents are encouraged to contact the Royal Baha mas Police Force K-9 Unit @ 397-9600, or 397-9635, or Animal Control Unit at @325 -1178.
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POLICE said no arrests have been made in connec tion with the death of the man attacked by a dog last weekend.According to reports, around 4am on Saturday, August 27, police were called to the intersection of Palm Tree Avenue and East Street where they discov ered the man’s body with injuries consistent with bite marks.When asked by The Tribune if any arrest had been made in connection with the incident police press liaison officer Chief Superintendent Chrislyn Skippings said “not as yet”. “Police are presently con ducting their investigations and once they have gotten to that point in the investi gation where they feel like they need to speak to some body else they will make an arrest,” CSP Skippings said. “Once we have the infor mation that someone is in custody, we will forward that information and if it leads to someone being charged, we will keep members of the public informed.”Anthony Swan was the 61-year-old man police suspect was mauled to death by several dogs.
“This is one of the pro jects that we spoke about over the last few months which is part of the over $1billion worth of projects in the pipeline for Grand Bahama,” he said. “This is one of major projects to bring about great oppor tunity for members and citizens in Grand Bahama, and the Bahamas,” he stated.Derek Newbold, chief investment officer at GBPA, said Running Mon Marina has been a part of Grand Bahama’s landscape for decades. “Unfortu nately, over the past six years they have experienced a number of challenges as a result of hurricanes that came through and now the global pandemic,” he said. “However, today represents a transformational day for Running Mon Marina and Resort.“With the acquisition of this property by Xquisite Yachts Bahamas Limited and the planned upgrades, they will help to re-estab lish Running Mon as one of the premier marinas in the northern Bahamas.” Mr Newbold believes the introduction of a service centre for the multi-million yachts that they manufac ture will attract high net worth individuals to Grand Bahama.“Weexpect that to have spin off impact for the island and the city in terms of employment opportunity, stemming from the con struction period, but also by the time the phases are com pletely built out,” he said. “But even more impor tantly is the fact that it will create footprintlishtheyNewbold.timeandBahamiansmians,opportunitiesentrepreneurialforBahaandalsoexposetonewskillstraininginthemarisector,”addedMr“ItisourhopewilleventuallyestabamanufacturinginFreeportgiven the proximity to America, and they will operate from a special economic zone where they have access to certain trade advantage and benefits.”MrsMoxey believes the investment has “enormous potential”.“Thisis indeed a grand day for Grand Bahama island, and we welcome this investment,” she said. “We welcome the faith you put in this resort here. We have been through a lot and the potential is so enormous. In our Blueprint for Change, Grand Bahama is envisioned to become home of maritime logistic, home of events and entertainment, and the home of innovation. What you plan to do here is innovative. “And to hear that you are going to be reviving the restaurant is great for our island,” she said. “There are a lot of projects to come, and I believe people will be excited about what is going to happen.”
“I like Grand Bahama and the Bahamas in gen eral,” he said. “Over the years of sailing around the world to over 90 countries, we spent so many months in the Bahamas, and year after year we came back. And my wife and I got married in Eleuthera seven years ago. And strategically, the closeness to Florida where 90 percent of our four boats are sold in the US market. And so, this is the perfect spot.”“We believe Running Mon is not the best tourist location; it does not have direct beach access; it’s overlooking the boat yard. It is not what the average tourist would want. How ever, this is the location that we need, for this boating centre where they can come in and know we have a crew here to take care of the boats. It was perfect match made in heaven.” Ian Rolle, Grand Bahama Port Authority president, said this investment is one of several major invest ments in the pipeline for GB.
THE Running Mon Marina and Resort in Grand Bahama has been acquired by Xquisite Yachts, an award-winning yacht manufacturing com pany that plans to invest in the region of $3m to $5m to undertake major upgrades at the property.
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Marina and resort bought by yacht firm
AN OFFICIAL announcement of the sale of the Running Mon Marina and Resort in Freeport to Xqui site Yachts was made on Friday. Pictured from left, Eugene Samarin, counsel for Xquisite Yachts; Derek Newbold, chief investment officer at GBPA; Ian Rolle, GBPA president; Minister for Grand Bahama Ginger Moxey, Tamas Hamor, CEO of Xquisite Yachts; and David Townsend, CFO.
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Holes, bumps and shoddy road repairs
TRAFFIC veering around a gaping hole on Eastern Road yesterday. way over a rough patch of road at Montagu.
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IS it just my imagination or are our roads getting worse and worse again? Driving along Eastern Road last week, suddenly there’s another badly filled in hole after one of the util ity companies had done some digging. It looked like they’d done nothing more than thrown in some sand after they’d completed their work, leaving a gaping hole that either left drivers rattling their teeth as they drove over it or caused traffic to back all the way up as eve ryone slowed down to veer around it on one side or theIt’sother.far from the only one – further down on Bay Street, there’s another simi lar hole not far beyond the bridges, leaving drivers to hit the brakes and pull around it, hopefully with traffic coming down the outside lane seeing them in time to avoid a collision. I can think of half a dozen other spots with potholes right away too, and I’m sure you can too, in your own local neighbourhoods or on your regular traffic routes. So is it getting worse? It seems so. What happened to those fines that were being brought in to make sure potholes got filled in quickly and properly by utilityBackcompanies?under the last administration, amend ments were passed in February 2019 to the Road Act to clamp down on companies that were lax in restoring roads to an acceptable standard. And throwing a few buckets of sand in and driving away isn’tTheacceptable.oldfine used to be just $75 – cheaper to take the fine than to pay for the items you needed to do the job properly. The change bumped that fine up to $10,000, with an extra $5,000 for every day the nuisance continued. So where are the fines? Where even are the inspections of the roads to see where the problems are? Did you know there was a WhatsApp line set up to report such pot holes? Former Minister of Works Desmond Bannister announced it at the time –376-0939. He said: “Nobody should be calling the minis ter about potholes. Send it to our WhatsApp line and you will get an immediate response.”Still,asystem that leans on citizens reporting after the fact isn’t a proactive one. Why not simply have utility companies having a requirement to report to the ministry the location and extent of works, and a standard inspection being carried out afterwards. If they’ve done it right, that inspection is a two-minute drive-by. If they haven’t, then break out the fines. Of course, works car ried out under the auspices of the Ministry of Works can be frustrating too –as anyone who has been in the vicinity of Village Road lately will tell you. Both ends of the road were blocked last week, and par ents of children at Queen’s College were left to devise ways through backways and side roads to get there. Even the places that are open are only navigable with caution. The junction with the traffic lights at Shirley Street resembles the surface of the moon, while further down, the junction at the lights by Montagu has a bone-juddering rift that runs the full width of the road. Slow down or find out exactly how good your car’s shock absorbers are. Half the time, you see potholes in the same places over and over again. Even former minister Mr Ban nister commented on that when in the job back in 2018. He said: “The pot holes that are there have been appearing in the same places at the same time of year for many, many, many years. The problem has been that we’ve had quick, temporary solutions rather than holistically looking at them and dealing with them appropriately.”Trueenough, but we’re stillEventhere.having had a Royal visit lately hasn’t helped – that Village Road con struction dug up some of the smooth new surface laid for visitors who we didn’t want to disturb with a bump.No,bumpy roads are just for commoners like you or me, it seems. I know this all seems like a grumble – and it prob ably is to some extent – but really what is the point of putting forward laws to clamp down on such things and then never using them? We all know the places that have the same holes and bumps over and over again, so I’m sure the staff working at the ministry must be aware too. And relying on public reporting leads to detective work to figure out which company did what rather than just having a simple log of what has been done where.Itseems we could still be doing better – so why not do so? If only for the sake of all our bones as we rattle our way across sub-stand ard roads and inadequate repairs.
The KDK Report.
• 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
THERE are certain definitive sink or swim moments throughout our lives that define each and every one of us. Those moments, while outwardly silent but internally scream ing, require hope, stamina and strength of character to survive. This necessary strength is bolstered by knowing that someday, over time and as the seasons change, life will once again become bearable and if for tunate enough, happy and fulfilled.Last week we started with part one of Rebekah’s life story, a true life tale of a Bahamian who’s endured more than any one human being should ever be asked to tolerate, especially a woman of such kindness and courage. We pick up today where we left off last Monday.Stillreeling from the breakdown of her near 20-year marriage, get ting stabbed, shot and the death of her beloved par ents, Rebekah had made it through each ordeal emotionally strong and aware of the consider able alchemy required to push forward. As the years passed, she focused on her three children, her teaching career and her life regained some level of comfortable normalcy.Rebekah’s sons had moved out and started a life of their own but her daughter and young grand son lived at home with her determined never to leave her side after nearly losing her in two separate acts of violence. But in a cruel twist of fate, it was Rebekah who had to take care of her daughter after she was abruptly diagnosed with an aggressive form of Lym phoma. When her daughter began to lose weight and constantly felt tired and out of breath, Rebekah knew something was wrong. It wasn’t until she began to palpate swollen masses in her armpits and neck region that they both truly became concerned.Abattery of tests revealed that the cancer had extensively invaded her immune system. Rebekah now knew that the trials she’d endured and the strength she mustered to survive were so that she could teach her daughter how to do the same. She had her entire life ahead of her and once again Rebekah found herself in the position of pleading with someone she loved desperately not to die. But unlike her elderly mother, Rebekah’s daughter agreed to fight. She endured long bouts of chemotherapy and radiation and a roll ercoaster ride of good, followed by bad news.
By DR KENNETH D KEMP
The death of her children left Rebekah emotionally vacuous and broken. She wasn’t finished loving them, worrying about them and seeing them every day. But despite it all, her take-home message is that even though you face trials in life, you can never give up. You have to have faith, keep moving forward and keep surviving. Now, at almost 80 years old, Rebekah reflects on her life with a small measure of sadness and despondence. It wasn’t the life that she dreamed of as a young girl growing up on the island of Andros, happily running in her parent’s backyard and dreaming of a day when she’d be an adult with her own home and family. But despite it all, Rebekah gives God thanks daily. Others may think that she’s cursed based on the challenges that she’s faced but Rebekah willingly shared her story because she knows that she’s infinitely blessed. Whatever storm has come her way, she’s survived against all odds, stronger, wiser, more empathetic and above all else, fully capable of finding absolute happiness in the simplest of things; the things that truly matter.Thisis
Rebekah stood by her side through every attack of nausea and vomiting and moments of crying, anger and despair. They enjoyed every second that she was pain free and talked a lot about food and family. In the end, her fight proved unsuccessful. Rebekah’s daughter died having fought a remarkably heroic fight, entrusting the care of her only son to her mother. The loss of her daughter caused a painful and dark void in Rebekah’s soul that she never thought possi ble. She’d been through so much – the regular infidelity of her husband, the stab bing attack by a mistress, moving back in with her parents, losing both of them one right after the other and being shot at close range by an armed robber – in each case, Rebekah fought through the dark ness and struggled to find the light. But this time, the loss was almost too much. She fought depression and being swallowed by its never-ending abyss, day and night for months to stay strong for her remain ing children and grandson. Because of it, she and her grandson became incred ibly close. Her sons were now grown so having him need her gave her the will to get up every day. Seeing him smile again as she hugged him every night before bedtime filled her soul with love. One night a year later when he awoke to the smell of something burn ing, he quickly ran to be at his grandmother’s side. Rebekah got up to deter mine where the smell was coming from but by then it was too late. An electrical surge had caused the fan in her grandson’s bedroom to spontaneously burst into flames, quickly igniting his window curtains. Before Rebekah knew it, his bed room was engulfed in fire. She ran with him outside to safety but within less than an hour, her entire home, the home of her parents, with all its cherished pos sessions collected over the course of several lifetimes, was now Rebekahgone.felt numb and powerless as her grandson held a tight death-grip on her leg sobbing over what had just transpired. She felt like she’d somehow failed her parents and her daugh ter, frantically worrying if something she had done or failed to do had caused the fire.Using a neighbour’s phone, she called her sons. When they arrived on the scene, she left with one son as the other stayed to preserve any uncharred belongings that he could retrieve in the dark. Unable to bear the sight and unwill ing to expose her grandson to any further fumes, Rebekah had to go. She smiled as her son kissed her goodnight but cried as she lay in his guest bed, unable to fall Rebekahasleep.overheard her sons talking on the phone about rebuilding her home. It comforted her to know that she wasn’t alone and their support, along with that of her siblings, her co-workers and church community was the tower of strength that she needed to push through the pain and doubt. But as the construc tion of her home neared completion, everything stopped as the COVID-19 pandemic struck. She and her family followed every precaution and initially they fared well but a year in, one of her sons was exposed. His symptoms pro gressed quickly. He went from having a mild fever with general fatigue and complete loss of taste to a dreadful cough, extreme body aches and difficulty breathing. Being isolated from him was insuffer able and Rebekah never got a chance to hold him and plead with him to fight because three years follow ing the death of his sister, he died. Rebekah was illprepared to outlive another child. Now, the woman with an irregular heartbeat that had been stressed time and time again felt as if her heart were broken in two, never to be mended. The loss was unbearable and yet, eventu ally she did rebound enough to share her story and leave us with a message about the importance of living in the moment.Among us, there are many unsung heroes who quietly live grateful for every second of life, often times because they’ve come so close to losing it. They’ve endured so many egregious hardships that hearing and reading about them simply seems unbelievable. I’m amazed at the resilience that so many of my patients have shown throughout their lives and I am forever more grateful that they are willing to share their jour ney so that others can grow.
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COP-27 failing before it begins
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THE most ominous sign of what the forthcoming COP-27 meeting on climate change portends for small states is that officials from a Group of 20 (G20) major economies, who met on August 31, failed to agree a joint statement at the con clusion of the meeting. The meeting, held in Bali, started with a stark warn ing from the Indonesia Environment Minister, Siti Nurbaya Bakar, that the planet was being pushed to the point “where no future is sustainable”.AttheCOP-26 meet ing in Glasgow last year, world leaders acknowl edged that their pledges to reduce carbon emissions have not met the previously agreed goal of keeping global temperatures “well below” 2 degrees Celsius. They vowed to do better. It appears now, that they won’t.In Bali, some coun tries objected to language, agreed at COP-26 in Glas gow on how they would contribute to limiting the global average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Not for the first time, countries, which are among the world’s biggest pol luters, are reneging on commitments made as far back as Pledges,2009. which were announced with great fanfare and rousingly wel comed by the desperately hopeful, are now being backpedalled. This back pedalling has come in a year when the brutal effects of climate change have been painfully undeniable. Yet, these distressing con ditions have not moved governments, which place their short-term domestic political interests over the well-being of the planet and, specifically, the small countries, such as those in the Caribbean, that are worstExtremeaffected.weather events have also battered several parts of the world, not only small states which can least withstand or recover from them. Fires, floods, and heat waves have pummeled Euro pean countries, the United States, Africa, and Asia. In recent weeks, unprecedented flooding killed at least 1,000 persons in Pakistan. And, East Africa is now experi encing the driest conditions it has faced for 70 years. More than 20 million people are affected and suffering from foodTheshortages.Caribbean is still amid the 2022 hurricane season, enduring heat waves, unexpected high rainfall, and floods, followed by long periods of drought. Above all, the islands are anxious that no hurricane befalls them, although the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra tion (NOAA) has predicted a 65% chance of an abovenormal season, which does not end until November 1. But, even in the face of evidence and authori tative warnings that human-caused climate change is increasing in severity and frequency, as the planet is pushed closer to the perilous thresh old of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the world’s worst polluters refuse to budge. This caused Britain’s cli mate delegate in Bali, Alok Sharma, who chaired the Glasgow COP-26 meet ing, to lament that “It is certainly the case that a number of countries are backsliding on the commit ments that they made in Paris and in Glasgow”. He described the situation as “incredibly worrying”. And so, it is. The G20 countries account for 80% of global emissions. Ten of them are most responsible for the current CO2 emis sions that cause climate change. They are China (28.6%), the U.S. (16%), and India (5.8%) Russia (5.4%), Japan (3.7% ) Germany (2.4%), South Korea (1.7% ), Canada (1.6% ), Indonesia (1.41% ) and Saudi Arabia (1.4%).
The first five countries are responsible for 55.8%. It is they who must cut their emissions.Further, the rich nations, which expect other coun tries, including small island states, to cut their already minuscule CO2 emissions, must also satisfy their financing pledges. Since 2009, the promise was made to provide $100 billion to help developing countries to meet their nationally determined contribution (NDC) to fight climate change. The figure has never been achieved. COP-27 in Egypt should not be yet another handwringing exercise, followed by long and lofty dec larations and worn-out promises, with no binding commitment to severely cut emissions and to provide the necessary funding to developing countries. Small island states and countries with low-lying coastlands should not simply indulge in negotia tions on documents replete with escape clauses and no genuine path forward. At all the past conferences, small states have been fobbed off with promises. They have been persuaded to defend the indefensible and to describe the unac ceptable as an achievement. Meanwhile, their conditions are worsening. So, too, are their long-term prospects as they suffer increasing damage and losses with no compensation, or even a readiness to discuss such compensation meaningfully. That is why small island states should now sup port two initiatives that have been taken by their own. The first is a deci sion by Vanuatu to seek an advisory opinion by the International Court of Jus tice on the rights of present and future generations to be protected from climate change. Vanuatu needs at least 97 votes at the UN General Assembly, which begins later this month, in order for the matter to be referred to the ICJ. Every small state should be present and voting to show their solidarity and seriousness about resist ing the climate change tide that is drowning them increasingly.Thesecond initiative that should get the fullest par ticipation of small states is the work of the Commis sion of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law (COSIS), which was launched at COP-26 by the Prime Minis ters of Antigua and Barbuda and Tuvalu, to pursue climate justice for their countries and other small island states, through a legal approach to the Interna tional Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. This initiative has now attracted the backing of 14 legal experts in interna tional law who are actively working on the project. Meanwhile, serious note must be taken of the gravity of the statement made by the Chair of COP-26, who said that the position, taken by some countries in Bali on August 31, was unac ceptable. “The big emitters absolutely need to look these climate vulnerable countries in the eye and say they are doing absolutely everything they can to deliver on the commitments they have made”. If that does not happen, small states should col lectively and visibly take action to seek climate justice outside the COP process. None should resign themselves to the conse quences of abandonment.
The problem First, I asked respondents a series of basic questions about American politics. This quiz included topics like which party controls the House of Representa tives – the Democrats – and who the current Secretary of Energy is – Jennifer Gra nholm. Then, I asked them how well they thought they did on the quiz. Many respondents who believed they were top performers were actually among those who scored the worst. Much akin to the results of a famous study by Dunning and Kruger, the poorest performers did not generally realize that they lagged behind their peers. Of the 1,209 people who participated, around 70% were overconfident about their knowledge of politics. But this basic pattern was not the most worrying part of the results. The overconfident respondents failed to change their attitudes in response to my warnings about political falsehoods. My investigation showed that they did read the statements, and could report details about what they said. But their atti tudes toward falsehoods remained inflexible, likely because they – wrongly – considered themselves political experts. But if I could make over confident respondents more humble, would they actually take my warnings about political falsehoods to heart? Poor self-assessment My experiment sought to examine what happens when overconfident people are told their political knowledge is lacking. To do this, I randomly assigned respondents to receive one of three experimental treatments after taking the political knowledge quiz. These were as follows: • Respondents received statements teaching them to avoid political falsehoods. • Respondents did not receive the statements. • Respondents received both the statements and a “reality check” treat ment. The reality check showed how respondents fared on the political quiz they took at the beginning of the survey. Along with their raw score, the report showed how respondents ranked among 1,000 of their peers.For example, respond ents who thought they had aced the quiz might have learned that they got one out of five questions right, and that they scored worse than 82% of their peers. For many overconfident respondents, this “reality check” treatment brought them down to earth. They reported much less over confidence on average when I followed up with them.Finally, I asked all the respondents in the study to report their levels of skepti cism toward five statements. These statements are all common political false hoods. One statement, for example, asserted that vio lent crime had risen over the prior decade – it hadn’t. Another claimed the U.S. spent 18% of the federal budget on foreign aid – the real number was less than 1%.Iexpected most respond ents who had received my cautionary statements to become more skeptical of these misinformed state ments. On average, they did. But did overconfident respondents learn this lesson too? Reality check: accomplishedMission The results of the study showed that overconfi dent respondents began to take political falsehoods seriously only if they had experienced my “reality check” treatment first. While overconfident respondents in other condi tions showed no reaction, the humbling nature of the “reality check,” when they realized how wrong they had been, led overconfident participants in that condi tion to revise their beliefs. They increased their skepti cism of political falsehoods by a statistically significant margin.Overall, this “reality check” experiment was a success. But it reveals that outside of the experiment, political overconfidence stands in the way of many Americans’ ability to accu rately perceive political reality.The problem of political overconfidenceWhat,ifanything, can be done about the widespread phenomenon of political overconfidence?Whilemy research cannot determine whether political overconfidence is increasing over time, it makes intuitive sense that this problem would be growing in importance in an era of online politi cal discourse. In the online realm, it is often difficult to appraise the credibility of anonymous users. This means that false claims are easily spread by unin formed people who merely sound confident. To combat this problem, social media companies and opinion leaders could seek ways to promote dis course that emphasises humility and self-correc tion. Because confident, mistaken self-expression can easily drown out more credible voices in the online realm, social media apps could consider promot ing humility by reminding posters to reconsider the “stance,” or assertiveness, of their Whileposts.this may seem far-fetched, recent devel opments show that small nudges can lead to powerful shifts in social media users’ online behavior. For example, Twitter’s recent inclusion of a pop-up message that asks wouldbe posters of news articles to “read before tweeting” caused users to rethink their willingness to share potentially misleading content.Agentle reminder to avoid posting bold claims without evidence is just one possible way that social media companies could encourage good online behaviour. With another election season soon upon us, such a corrective is urgently needed.
YUNA SEONG, centre, looks over her completed ballot while vot ing at the Vilas Park Shelter in Madison, Wisconsin, on August 9 this year. Photo: Kayla Wolf/Wisconsin State Journal via AP
AMERICANS THINK THEY KNOW A LOT ABOUT POLITICS – AND IT’S BAD FOR DEMOCRACY THAT THEY’RE SO OFTEN WRONG IN THEIR CONFIDENCE
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AS statewide prima ries continue through the summer, many Americans are beginning to think about which candidates they will support in the 2022 general election. This decision-making process is fraught with dif ficulties, especially for inexperienced voters. Voters must navigate angry, emotion-laden con versations about politics when trying to sort out whom to vote for. Ameri cans are more likely than ever to view politics in moral terms, meaning their political conversations sometimes feel like epic battles between good and evil.But political conversa tions are also shaped by, obviously, what Americans know – and, less obviously, what they think they know – about politics. In recent research, I studied how Americans’ perceptions of their own political knowledge shape their political attitudes. My results show that many Americans think they know much more about politics than they really do. Knowledge deficit, confidence surplus Over the past five years, I have studied the phe nomenon of what I call “political overconfidence”. My work, in tandem with other researchers’ studies, reveals the ways it thwarts democratic politics. Political overconfidence can make people more defensive of factually wrong beliefs about politics. It also causes Americans to under estimate the political skill of their peers. And those who believe themselves to be political experts often dismiss the guidance of real experts.Political overconfidence also interacts with political partisanship, making parti sans less willing to listen to peers across the aisle. The result is a breakdown in the ability to learn from one another about political issues and events. A ‘reality experimentcheck’ In my most recent study on the subject, I tried to find out what would happen when politically overconfi dent people found out they were mistaken about politi calTofacts.do this, I recruited a sample of Americans to participate in a survey experiment via the Lucid recruitment platform. In the experiment, some respond ents were shown a series of statements that taught them to avoid common political falsehoods. For instance, one statement explained that while many people believe that Social Security will soon run out of money, the reality is less dire than it seems.My hypothesis was that most people would learn from the statements, and become more wary of repeating common political falsehoods. However, as I have found in my previous studies, a problem quickly emerged.
STRONGER Neigh bourhoods Bahamas Foundation (SNB) will be partnering with the Royal Bahamas Police Force for an upcoming student speech competition focused on crime prevention. SNB president Giovanni Ferguson and his team of SNB Foundation executives met with Police Commis sioner Clayton Fernander and other police officials on Thursday to discuss issues related to crime preven tion, community support, and support for non-gov ernmental entities and community efforts. With the country’s murder climbing, as well as what police called a “startling” rise in reported cases of rape this year, Mr Ferguson said the need for discussion about crime prevention is more impor tant than ever. “SNB will be working with RBPF on an upcom ing speech competition on crime prevention,” said Mr Ferguson.TheYouthSpeak Speech Competition will be held at 5.30pm on Wednesday, September 21, at the Paul Farquharson Conference Centre at Police Headquar ters on East Street. The speech competition will be held in honour of 13-year-old Quinton Danny McKenzie, a student of L W Young, who died in hospital after being shot at a park in the Kemp Road area in June.Mr Ferguson said: “This competition will engage school students from grades seven through 12 who will give their views and ideas on crime prevention.” SNB Foundation is a Bahamian non-profit that seeks to build and sustain strong com munities through empowerment, the crea tion of social opportunities and other efforts through partnership.Thespeech compe tition is one of four initiatives SNB Foundation has planned, in conjunc tion with the RBPF. This partnership also aims to develop a centralised plan for non-governmental and charitable entities, increase community assistance in giving known information that can assist with inves tigations and developing a database system for com munity initiatives such as food drives for manage ment and monitoring.
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THE Rotaract Club of SouthEast Nassau Cen tennial held its second back-to-school “Snack Attack” event on Satur day which provided snack boxes to primary and high school students within the community.Theevent was held at the National Stadium and each box had an estimated one week supply of snacks, organisers said. The organisation had a goal of providing snack boxes to 500 returning students.“We understand the hardship that many have endured due to the global pandemic which is why we choose this project to give back to families in need,” a representative of the club said.The Rotaract Club of Southeast Nassau Cen tennial is a non-profit organisation which prides itself in supporting and ensuring the needs of the local and international community.
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KILLED OUTSIDE HOME
“No one in this town is ever going to sleep again. They’re going to be terri fied to open their door,” said Weldon resident Ruby Works, who was close to one of the victims. Police, meanwhile, said a vehicle reportedly car rying the two suspects had been spotted in Regina, about 208 miles south of the communities where the stabbings occurred. Regina police chief Evan Bray said late yesterday they still believe the sus pects are in Regina. “If in the Regina area, take precautions & con sider sheltering in place. Do not leave a secure location. DO NOT APPROACH suspicious persons. Do not pick up hitch hikers. Report suspicious persons, emer gencies or info to 9-1-1. Do not disclose police loca tions,” the RCMP said in a message on Twitter.
INVESTIGATORS gather in front of the scene of a stabbing in Weldon, Saskatchewan, Photo:yesterday.Heywood Yu/The Canadian Press via AP
CANADIAN police searched across the expansive province of Sas katchewan for two suspects believed to have stabbed to death ten people in an indigenous community and a nearby town in one of the deadliest mass killings in the country’s history. The suspects also injured 15 people in the series of knife attacks that led the James Smith Cree Nation to declare a state of emer gency and badly shook residents of the nearby vil lage of Weldon.
The suspects were identi fied as Damien Sanderson, 31, and Myles Sanderson, 30.“It is horrific what has occurred in our prov ince today,” said Rhonda Blackmore, the Assis tant Commissioner of the RCMP in Saskatch ewan, adding there were 13 crime scenes where either deceased or injured people wereBlackmorefound. said some of the victims appear to have been targeted by the suspects but others appear to have been attacked at random.Shecouldn’t provide a motive, but the chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations gave a statement suggesting the stabbings could be drug related.The elected leaders of the three communities that make up the James Smith Cree Nation, including the Chakastaypasin Band and the Peter Chapman Band, declared a local state of emergency and opened up two emergency operations centers.Chakastaypasin Chief Calvin Sanderson - who is not related to the sus pects - said everyone’s been affected by the tragic events.“They were our relatives, friend,” Sanderson said of the victims. “It’s pretty horrific.”“This is the destruc tion we face when harmful illegal drugs invade our communities, and we demand all authorities to take direction from the Chiefs and Councils and their membership to create safer and healthier commu nities for our people,” said Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations. Among the ten victims killed was Lana Head, who is the former partner of Michael Brett Burns, and the mother of their two daughters.Burns told the Abo riginal Peoples Television Network that “It’s sick how jail time, drugs and alcohol can destroy many lives,” he said. “I’m hurt for all this loss.”Last May, Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers issued a wanted list that included Myles Sanderson, writing that he was “unlawfully at large.”Itis among the deadliest mass killings in Canadian history. The deadliest gun rampage in Canadian his tory happened in 2020 when a man disguised as a police officer shot people in their homes and set fires across the province of Nova Scotia, killing 22 people. A man used a van to kill 10 pedestrians in Toronto in 2019. But mass killings are less common in Canada than in the United States. Deadly mass stabbings are more rare than mass shoot ings but have happened around the world. In 2014, 29 people were slashed and stabbed to death at a train station in China’s south western city of Kunming. In 2016, a mass stabbing at a facility for the mentally disa bled in Sagamihara, Japan, left 19 people dead. A year later, three men killed eight people in a vehicle and stabbing attack at London Bridge.Doreen Lees, an 89-year grandmother from Weldon, said she and her daugh ter thought they saw one of the suspects when a car came barreling down her street early in the morning Sunday as her daughter was having coffee on her deck. Lees said a man approached them and said he was hurt and needed help. But Lees said the man took off and ran after her daughter said she would call for help. “He wouldn’t show his face. He had a big jacket over his face. We asked his name and he kind of mum bled his name twice and we still couldn’t get it,” she said. “He said his face was injured so bad he couldn’t showSheit.”said the man was by himself and “kind of a little wobbly”.“Ifollowed him a little ways to see if he was going to be OK. My daughter said ‘Don’t follow him, get back here.’”Weldon residents have identified one of the victims as Wes Petterson. Ruby Works said the 77-year-old widower was like an uncle to “Iher.collapsed and hit the ground. I’ve known him since I was just a little girl,” she said, describing the moment she heard the news. She said he loved his cats, was proud of his home made Saskatoon berry jam and frequently helped out his“Heneighbors.didn’t do anything. He didn’t deserve this. He was a good, kind hearted man,” said Works. Weldon resident Robert Rush also described the victim as a gentle, widowed man in his 70s. ``He wouldn’t hurt a fly,” heRushsaid. said Petterson’s adult grandson was in the basement at the time and phoned police. At the Weldon Chris tian Tabernacle Church the congregation began their regular Sunday service by saying a special prayer to the victims and their families.Atthe James Smith Cree Nation, a convenience store that also serves as a gas station became a gather ing place for community members, who greeted each other with tears and hugs. A sign on the door said: “Due to safety concerns with our community we will remain closed until further notice.”Thesearch for suspects was carried out as fans descended on Regina for a sold out annual Labor Day game between the Cana dian Football League’s Saskatchewan Roughrid ers and Winnipeg Blue Bombers.TheRegina Police Ser vice said in a news release that with the help of Mounties, it was working on several fronts to locate and arrest the suspects and had “deployed additional resources for public safety throughout the city, includ ing the football game at Mosaic Stadium.” The alert first issued by Melfort, Saskatch ewan RCMP about 7 a.m. was extended hours later to cover Manitoba and Alberta, as the two suspects remained at large. The Saskatchewan Health Authority said mul tiple patients were being treated at several sites. “A call for additional staff was issued to respond to the influx of casualties,” author ity spokeswoman Anne Linemann said in an email. Canadian Prime Minis ter Justin Trudeau said in a statement he was “shocked and devastated by the hor rific attacks”.
LIZ Truss, who is widely expected to become Brit ain’s new prime minister this week, has pledged to act within a week to tackle a cost-of-living crisis fueled by soaring energy bills linked to the war in Ukraine. But Truss, speaking to the BBC on Sunday, refused to provide any details on the actions she would take. She said that she understands the magnitude of the prob lems facing Britain.
A LAS Vegas investiga tive reporter was stabbed to death outside his home and police are looking for a sus pect, authorities said. Las Vegas Metropoli tan Police officers found journalist Jeff German dead with stab wounds around 10.30am on Sat urday after authorities received a 911 call, the Las Vegas Review-Jour nalThereported.ClarkCounty Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner said that German died from “multiple sharp force injuries” and the manner of his death was homicide.Itappears the 69-year-old German was in an alterca tion with another person that led to the stabbing, which is believed to be an isolated incident, police said.
“We believe the alter cation took place outside of the home,” Capt Dori Koren, a Las Vegas Metro politan Police Department spokesman, said at a news conference. “We do have some leads. We are pursu ing a suspect but the suspect is outstanding.”GlennCook, the ReviewJournal’s executive editor, said German had not com municated any concerns about his personal safety or any threats made against him to anyone in the news paper’s leadership. “The Review-Journal family is devastated to lose Jeff,” Cook said in a state ment. “He was the gold standard of the news busi ness. It’s hard to imagine what Las Vegas would be like today without his many years of shining a bright light on dark places.”
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The government has been unable to address soar ing inflation, labour strife and strains on the nation’s health-care system since early July, when Johnson announced his intention to resign and triggered a con test to choose his successor. The Conservative Party will announce the winner today. “I want to reassure people that I am absolutely determined to sort out this issue as well as, within a month, present a full plan for how we are going to reduce taxes, how we’re going to get the British economy going, and how we are going to find our way out of these difficult times,’’ said Truss, who has been foreign secretary for the past year.
Stabbing spree leaves ten dead, 15 injured
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RAYS YANKEES2, 1 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Corey Kluber lim ited the Yankees to a pair of singles over seven shut out innings and Tampa Bay withstood Aaron Judge’s 52nd home run to cut itsr deficit in the AL East to fourThegames.first-place Yankees, who have seen their 15 1/2game advantage slip away, have lost six of seven. This was the second of six games between the teams in a 10-day stretch. Yandy Diaz hit a two-run single in the third inning and the Rays made it stand up. Judge boosted his major league homer lead with a leadoff drive in the ninth inning off Jason Adam. But Adam retired the next three batters for his eighth save.Kluber (10-7) struck out four without a walk as the Rays improved their ALbest record since Aug. 3 to 20-9. It was the first time the 36-year old has thrown a pitch in the seventh inning since his no-hitter for the Yankees on May 19, 2021, at DíazTexas.put the Rays up 2-0 on a two-run single in the third that deflected off Clarke Schmidt (5-4) and into right field. Schmidt allowed two runs and four hits over 4 1/3 innings.
GIANTS PHILLIES5, 4 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Joc Pederson drove in three runs, drawing a basesloaded walk that broke a sixth-inning tie and send ing San Francisco past Philadelphia.TheGiants won their second in a row following a seven-game losing streak. The Phillies have lost five of six. Philadelphia pitchers again had trouble with their control. With the score 3-all and the bases loaded with two outs, reliever Brad Hand (3-2) got ahead of Pederson in the count 0-2, then walked him to force home the go-ahead run. Zack Littell (2-2) got one out in the sixth. Camilo Doval, the seventh Giants pitcher, worked a perfect ninth for his 19th save. Jean Segura hit two doubles for the Phil lies, including a hit in the sixth that made it 3-all. Bryson Stott homered for Philadelphia.
small forward Caris LeVert at the deadline in February. However, he was slowed by injury and struggled to fit in to coach J.B. Bickerstaff’s system.Mitchell has averaged 23.9 points in his five pro seasons and will play alongside Garland, who improved across the board in his third year. It’s a smaller backcourt — both Mitchell and Garland are listed at 6-foot-1 — so there could be some defen sive issues, but with Allen and Mobley on patrol, the Cavs do have proven rim protection.Cleveland hasn’t made the playoffs since James left for a second time in 2018, ending the Cavs’ four-year run to the Finals. They’ve been patient in putting things in place to take another shot at a title. Mitchell gets them closer to one.
MARINERS GUARDIANS4, 0 CLEVELAND (AP) — Robbie Ray started September the way he fin ished August with six solid innings as Seattle won its sixth GuardiansThestraight.ALCentral-leadinglosttheirfourth in a row and have been shut out in three of them. Ray (12-8), who won the AL Cy Young Award last year, was one of the league’s top pitchers last month, going 3-0 in five starts. The left-hander allowed six hits, but not a costly one. Seat tle’s bullpen combined to finish the shutout with Matt Brash, Andrés Muñoz and Paul Sewald working one inningMarinersapiece.first baseman Ty France homered in the first inning off rookie Xzavion Curry (0-1), who struggled with control in his second career start and was pulled in the fifth after walking the basesSeattle,loaded.trying to end a 20-season playoff drought, currently holds one of the AL’s three wild-card spots and has won 13 of 17.
CLEVELAND (AP) — With one bold, unexpected move, the Cleveland Cava liers raised their profile in the Eastern Conference considerably.They’reback in the title hunt.The Cavs made official Saturday their acquisition of three-time All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell in a trade with Utah, and can start figuring out ways to best integrate his talents into their young core. Considered outsiders to land the dynamic player for much of this offseason, the Cavs swooped in and put together a package that the Jazz, which had offers from several other teams, couldn’tClevelandresist. sent guard Collin Sexton, forward Lauri Markkanen and rookie guard Ochai Agbaji to Utah along with unprotected first-round draft picks in 2025, 2027 and 2029. The teams will also swap their first-round drafting rights in 2026 and 2028.Sexton, who was a restricted free agent, signed a four-year, $72 million deal as part of the package, his agent Rich Paul of Klutch Sports told the Associated Press on Thursday. In adding Mitchell, the Cavs have, at the very least, entered the conversation to contend in the overloaded East, where Boston, Brook lyn, Miami, Milwaukee and Philadelphia are all consid ered cialoperations.presidentAltman,todynamicofopportunitysentedDonovan“Thechampionship-worthy.acquisitionofMitchellpreuswithanincredibletobringonetheNBA’smostyoungAll-StarsCleveland,”saidKobytheCavaliers’ofbasketball“Alreadyaspeandproventalentat
just 25-years-old, Donovan brings a competitive men tality that organically fits with the core group of this team.“We are excited to see the impact that someone of Donovan’s calibre can bring to the Cavaliers with his ability to score the basket ball, but also make plays for hisForteammates.”Utah,the massive roster teardown contin ues. The Mitchell trade is the second major one this summer. Utah also dealt All-Star center and defen sive force Rudy Gobert to Minnesota in July for a slew of draft picks. It wasn’t long ago that the Mitchell-Gobert tandem made the Jazz a team to fear in the Western Confer ence. Now, Utah is starting over with a new coach and at least 13 first-round picks over the next seven years. In Cleveland, which had a 22-win team two years ago, the rebuild is complete for a franchise that got accus tomed to winning when LeBron James was around. Mitchell may have been the missing piece. The 25-year-old gives Cleveland the type of megastar it takes to win it all. A fearless driver, explo sive scorer and creator, Mitchell is a thestagnatinggethavingmajorforlasttheir(21)(24),StarGarlandAll-Starjectedelderteammates’whoball-in-crunch-timegive-me-the-playerraiseshisgameandhisgame.HealsocouldbethestatesmaninaprostartinglineupwithpointguardDarius(22yearsold),All-centreJarrettAllenforwardEvanMobleyandIsaacOkoro(21).WhiletheCavsimprovedwintotalby22gamesseasonandqualifiedtheplay-ingame,theirdeficiencywasnotsomeonewhocouldconsistentlyscoreandaoffence.TheCavstriedtoaddresssituationbytradingfor
NATIONALS 7, METS 1 NEW YORK (AP) — Mets ace Max Scherzer exited with left side fatigue after five sharp innings and 67 pitches and NL Eastleading New York lost to theScherzer,Washington.who missed almost seven weeks ear lier this season with a left oblique strain, had his fast ball clocked as high as 96 mph. He retired his final seven batters before head ing straight to the tunnel leading to the Mets’ club house following the fifth. The three-time Cy Young Award winner allowed three hits — including Luis Garcia’s homer with one out in the first — and walked one with five strike outs. Scherzer is 9-4 with a 2.26 ERA this year. Lane Thomas hit a tie breaking solo homer with one out in the eighth off Adam Ottavino (5-3) for the last-place Nationals. Garcia also doubled twice, then singled in a five-run ninth.Patrick Corbin (6-17), who leads the majors in losses and has the highest ERA (6.28) among quali fied pitchers, earned his second straight win. He gave up three hits, including Eduardo Esco bar’s homer in the third, and walked one with five strikeouts in seven innings.
UTAH Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) reacts after hitting a 3-point shot against the Boston Celtics in the final minute of an NBA basketball game on December 3 in Salt Lake City. Cleveland made its acquisition of All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell in a trade with Utah official on Saturday and now the Cavs can start figur ing out ways to best integrate his talents into their young core of rising players. (AP Photo/Rick Egan)
CHICAGO (AP) — Dylan Cease came within one out of his first career no-hitter before Luis Arraez lined a single, and the Chicago White Sox pounded the Minnesota Twins 13-0 on Saturday night.Cease, vying for Chi cago’s third no-hitter in as many seasons, got a huge ovation when came out to start the ninth. With fans on their feet, he struck out Caleb Hamilton swinging on a 1-2 slider and retired Gilberto Celestino on a fly to center. Arraez with his line-drive single to right on a 1-1 pitch. After a meeting on the mound, Cease struck out Kyle Garlick to end the game for his first nineinning complete game. The only other run ners Cease (13-6) allowed were when he walked Jake Cave in the third and Gil berto Celestino in the sixth. Cease had seven strikeouts. He threw 103 pitches, 68 for strikes.Eloy Jiménez gave the White Sox a 4-0 lead in the first with a long, oppositefield drive to right-center against Tyler Mahle (1-1). Romy Gonzalez added a three-run shot in the fourth against Aaron Sanchez for his first career homer. Elvis Andrus added a grand slam in the eighth. The White Sox rolled to their fourth straight win after losing 10 of 12, and pulled within one game of second-place Minnesota in the AL Central.
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ANGELS 2, ASTROS 1 (12 INNINGS) ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Matt Duffy’s bloop single in the 12th inning drove in Taylor Ward with the winning run to lead Los Angeles on a night Shohei Ohtani reached 400 major leagueWithstrikeouts.Wardas the auto matic runner in the 12th, Max Stassi drew a walk from Will Smith with two outs. Seth Martinez (0-2) came on and Astros center fielder Mauricio Dubon appeared to make a diving catch on Duffy’s ball, but first-base umpire Jordan Baker said Dubon didn’t come up with it in time. Instant replay upheld the call as the ball hit the ground before Dubon was able to get his glove on it. Ryan Tepera (3-2) pitched a scoreless inning to pick up the win. Ohtani threw a a seasonhigh 111 pitches over eight innings, allowing six hits and striking out five. It was the fourth time in the majors — and second this year — he has gone eight innings.Itwas the third time this season the Angels won when being held to four hits or fewer.
ROYALS 12, TIGERS 2 DETROIT (AP) -- Kyle Isbel hit his first grand slam, Bobby Witt Jr. added a three-run home run and Kansas City routed Detroit. Nick Pratto and MJ Melendez also homered for theNateRoyals.Eaton had four hits and drove in two runs. Winning pitcher Jonathan Heasley (3-7) gave up two earned runs and eight hits, with two walks and two strikeouts in seven innings. Isbel, a 25-year-old out fielder, hit his grand slam over the wall in right field off Jason Foley in the fifth to give the Royals a 9-1 lead. The slam was Isbel’s fourth of the season and fifth of his two-year major leagueTuckercareer.Barnhart hit his first home run of the season for Detroit. Tigers starter Michael Pineda (2-7) allowed five runs and six hits with three strike outs and two walks in four innings.
Taylor, who also hit a solo homer in the fifth inning, put the Brewers up 8-6 with his homer off Joe Mantiply (2-5) in the top of the 10th. Devin Williams (6-3) worked a perfect ninth and Taylor Rogers struck out two and fielded Stone Gar rett’s hard grounder in the 10th to close out his 30th save.Daulton Varsho homered and had two RBIs for the Diamondbacks. Arizona rookie Corbin Carroll hit a run-scoring single in the first inning to become the fourth Diamondbacks player — first since 2009 — to have six RBIs in his first five big league games. BLUE JAYS 4, PIRATES 1 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bo Bichette hit a tie breaking three-run double in the seventh inning to lift Toronto.George Springer and Bichette each had two hits for the Blue Jays, who won for the fourth time in five games and maintained their lead for the third and final wild card in the American League.Toronto drew within six games of the division-lead ing New York Yankees in the AL East. With the score tied 1-1, the Blue Jays loaded the bases against Duane Underwood Jr. (1-4) in the seventh on a single by Springer and walks to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Matt Chapman. Bichette then doubled to left field with two outs. Pirates rookie Oneil Cruz opened the scoring with a run-scoring triple to the right-center field gap in third inning. The Blue Jays tied it an inning later when Raimel Tapia’s groundout scored Bichette, who led off with a Yimisingle.Garcia (4-4) got the win as the third of seven Blue Jays’ pitchers in a bull pen game. Garcia retired all four batters he faced. Jordan Romano pitched a perfect ninth for his 29th save.
Cavaliers add All-Star Mitchell, jump into NBA East title hunt
BOSTON (AP) — Brayan Bello pitched six scoreless innings in his first major league win and John Schreiber escaped a jam in the ninth, helping Boston beatBelloTexas.(1-4) allowed three hits, struck out five and walked one in the long est of his eight big league appearances. Rafael Devers drove in two runs in Bos ton’s fourth straight victory. Devers, Xander Bogaerts and Trevor Story each had twoMarcushits. Semien and Nath aniel Lowe homered for Texas in the eighth. Dennis Santana (3-7) pitched two innings of one-run ball in his first major league start, serving as an opener for the Rangers, who lost their sev enthBostonstraight.manager Alex Cora turned to Matt Barnes for the ninth, and Texas loaded the bases on con secutive one-out singles by pinch-hitter Jonah Heim and Bubba Thompson. Schreiber then came in and struck out Semien on three pitches, and then got Corey Seager to ground out for his sixth save. BREWERS DIAMONDBACKS8, 6, (10 INNINGS) PHOENIX (AP) — Tyrone Taylor hit a two-run homer in the 10th inning after pinch-hitter Rowdy Tellez’s tying solo shot in the ninth, lifting Milwaukee pastAndrewArizona. McCutchen pulled the Brewers within 6-5 with a run-scoring single in the eighth inning after an out call at the plate was overturned on review. Tellez then tied it with his 28th homer of the season in the ninth, a solo shot off Ian Kennedy.
CHICAGO White Sox starting pitcher Dylan Cease throws against the Minnesota Twins during the first inning of a baseball game in Chicago on Saturday. (AP Photos/ Nam Y Huh)
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CARDINALS 8, CUBS 4 ST. LOUIS (AP) — Paul Goldschmidt hit his 34th homer, and St. Louis won its third Tommystraight.Edman and Tyler O’Neill also went deep for NL Central-leading Car dinals, who improved to 27-8 in their last 35 games. Yadier Molina had two hits and three RBIs, and Adam Wainwright (10-9) pitched five innings of four-run ball for the Goldschmidt’swin. two-run homer off Drew Smyly (5-8) in the first lifted the All-Star slugger to an NLbest 107 RBIs. He also tops the NL with a .331 batting average and trails Philadel phia’s Kyle Schwarber for the NL lead in homers by two.With the win, the Car dinals have won their last seven series and are 10-1-1 in their last 12 series. In his first start since turning 41 on Aug. 30, Wainwright allowed nine hits, struck out two and walked two.
ORIOLES ATHLETICS8, 1 BALTIMORE (AP) -Ryan Mountcastle hit two of Baltimore’s five homers and drove in four runs in a win over Oakland. Adley Rutschman, Cedric Mullins and Anthony San tander also homered for the Orioles, who have won four straight and are 1 1/2 games behind Toronto in the race for the American League’s third wild-card spot. Baltimore improved to 71-61 and is 10 games over .500 for the first time since May 12, 2017. The Athletics jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first on a sacrifice fly by catcher Sean Murphy off Austin Voth. Keegan Akin (3-1) earned the win, and Adam Oller (2-7) took the loss.
DODGERS 12, PADRES 1 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Julio Urias continued to solidify his spot atop the Dodgers’ rotation while Mookie Betts hit one of Los Angeles’ four home runs in a win that ended its threegame losing streak. Trea Turner, Justin Turner and Will Smith also homered as the Dodgers ended their first skid of three games since they were swept by San Francisco in June. Betts’ home run was his career-best 33rd. Manny Machado homered for the Padres, who had won four in a row. Urias (15-7) gave up just one run on two hits over six innings to earn the win for the 11th time in his last 13 starts to go along with a loss and a no-decision. San Diego’s Sean Manaea (7-8) gave up eight runs and nine hits over 4 1/3 innings while allowing three home runs.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Robbie Grossman drew a tiebreaking bases-loaded walk against Steven Okert in the ninth inning, bailing out closer Kenley Jansen and giving Atlanta the win. Matt Olson singled to begin the ninth to break an 0-for-22 skid and advanced to third on Michael Harris II’s double. After Okert (5-2) intentionally walked Vaughn Grissom to load the bases and pinch-hitter Travis d’Arnaud lined out against a five-man infield, Grossman took drew the walk to win it. The Marlins tied a sea son-high with their sixth straight loss. It was their 30th one-run loss of the year, most in the majors. Jansen loaded the bases with no out on two singles and a walk. Jerar Encar nacion then hit a sacrifice fly to tie it the score at 1. Jansen was replaced by Tyler Matzek (4-2) with a 2-2 count on Miguel Rojas and runners on first and second with two outs. Matzek retired Rojas on oneAustinpitch. Riley homered in his fourth straight game and Bryce Elder pitched six strong innings in a spot start for Atlanta. The Braves have won four in a row and 19 of 24 to move within two games of the first-place New York Mets in the NL East.
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PUJOLS HITS NO. 695, NEEDS 1 MORE HR TO TIE A-ROD FOR 4TH ST. Louis Cardinals’ Albert Pujols tips his cap after hitting a two-run home run during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022, in St. Louis. Photo/Jeff Roberson)
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Albert Pujols hit his 695th career homer in the eighth inning and Miles Miko las tossed eight shutout innings, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a 2-0 win over the Chicago Cubs on Sunday.Pujols hit the two-run pinch-hit homer off reliever Brandon Hughes (2-2). The 42-year-old Pujols has 16 homers this season. Pujols trails only Barry Bonds (762), Hank Aaron (755), Babe Ruth (714) and Alex Rodriguez (696) on the all-time list. Pujols has seven pinchhit homers in his career, and two this season. He has homered against a record 451St.pitchers.Louis has won four in a row, 18 of 20 home games and is a season-best 24 games over .500 at 79-55. It was the Cardinals’ eighth series sweep of the season. Mikolas (11-10) gave up two hits, striking out three and walking one. Ryan Helsley earned his 13th save in 17 Chicagochances.starter Marcus Stroman allowed four hits in seven shutout innings. He struck out five and did not walk a batter in a 98-pitch outing.
BRAVES MARLINS7,1 ATLANTA (AP) — Max Fried allowed no hits in five scoreless innings against Miami, Marcell Ozuna homered and Atlanta won its fifth straight game. The defending World Series champion Braves have taken five in a row and 20 of 25 to move a seasonhigh 33 games over .500 at 84-51. They are within one game of first place in the NLFriedEast.(13-5) didn’t allow a baserunner, retiring 12 in a row, until Nick Fortes walked to begin the fifth. Fortes was erased as a double play ended the inning before a rain delay of 1 hour, 51 minutes. Fried didn’t return after the delay. Miami, which managed three hits, has dropped a season-high seven in row and has been held to two runs or fewer in eight straight. Pablo López (8-9) was given the loss. He allowed two runs and five hits with one walk and seven strikeouts in four innings. Since becoming a full-time starter in 2019, Fried has 51 wins, secondmost in the majors to the Yankees’ Gerrit Cole (53).
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BLUE JAYS 4, PIRATES 3 PITTSBURGH (AP)
ASTROS 9, ANGELS 1 ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Jose Altuve had three hits and drove in three runs, and José Urquidy pitched four-hit ball over seven innings as Houston beat Los Angeles Angels. Mike Trout helped the Angels avert a shutout with his 29th home run, a solo shot to center in the eighth inning off Astros’ reliever Brandon Bielak. Altuve chased Angels’ starter Tucker Davidson (2-5) with a two-run homer to left field for his 23rd of the season. The All-Star second baseman — who went 6 for 13 in the series — also had an RBI double during a five-run second inning. Urquidy (13-5) struck out eight and retired 12 straight from the third through seventh innings before Mike Ford lined a base hit to right field. Kyle Tucker also went deep for the Astros, who have won five of their last six.
Prior to Bulgaria, he began the season with PAOK Thessaloniki in the Greek Champions League where through 12 games he averaged 6.3 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. In Greece, he also played 16 games in the Greek A1 League where he averaged 9.3 points and 7.8 rebounds perIngame.2018-19 Knowles was in the French ProB League with Etoile CharlevilleMezieres. In 27 games with the club, he recorded 9.3 points and 6.7 rebounds per game.Knowles spent his first professional season with Siarka Tarnobrzeg and King Wilki Morskie Szczecin of the Polish Bas ketball League or Tauron Basket Liga, the highest level of pro basketball in theHecountry.hasalso played pro fessionally in Japan (Tokyo Cinq Reves and Wakayama Trians) where he averaged 9.2 points, 8.3 rebounds, and 1.1 blocks in 24 total appearances before making the move to France. KNOWLES SIGNS WITH NEW CLUB
TWINS 5, WHITE SOX 1 CHICAGO (AP) — Carlos Correa homered for Minnesota and Dylan Bundy shut down Chicago onceJoseagain.Miranda added a two-run double in the ninth inning as Minne sota salvaged the finale of the weekend series. Max Kepler scored on Kend all Graveman’s wild pitch in the eighth, and Jhoan Duran turned in some impressive relief work. The Twins finished with 12 hits. Correa connected in the fifth, hitting a tworun drive to left-center off Lucas Giolito (10-9) for his 16th homer. Bundy (8-6) pitched five score less innings to improve to 7-0 with a 3.15 ERA in 10 career appearances against the White Sox. Elvis Andrus had two of Chicago’s seven hits. Giolito pitched five innings for Chicago, allowing six hits and finishing with five strikeouts and two walks.
ATHLETICS 5, ORIOLES 0 BALTIMORE (AP) — Seth Brown hit a pair of solo homers, rookie Adrián Martínez threw six innings of three-hit ball and Oak land stalled Baltimore’s playoff surge. The Orioles fell 2 1/2 games behind Toronto in the race for the American League’s third wild-card spot.Martínez (4-3) was recalled from Triple-A Las Vegas on Aug. 28, for his fourth stint with Oakland this year. He finished with four strikeouts and two walks and retired 10 con secutiveOaklandbatters.took a 1-0 lead in the second on a run-scor ing single by Sheldon Neuse off Spenser Watkins (4-6). DIAMONDBACKS 5, BREWERS 1 PHOENIX (AP) — Zac Gallen tied the major-league record with his sixth consecutive score less start to lead Arizona overGallenMilwaukee.(11-2) extended his scoreless streak to 41 1/3 innings, allowing two singles and a walk in seven innings. It was his sixth straight start with out allowing a run, tying Don Drysdale (1968), Orel Hershiser (1988) and Zack GreinkeDaulton(2015).Varsho hit his 20th homer and helped preserve Gallen’s scoreless streak with a running catch on Tyrone Taylor’s drive to right center in the second. Jason Alexander (2-2) got the loss for Milwaukee.
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ZANE Knowles has signed with the CSKA Sofia Reds in Bulgaria’s National Basketball League.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — J.P. Crawford singled in the go-ahead run in the 11th inning, Cal Raleigh added a two-run homer and Seat tle beat slumping Cleveland for its seventh straight win in a game that was delayed by rain for 4 hours, 33 minutes.With one out, Craw ford bounced a single past Trevor Stephan (4-4) and into center field to score Eugenio Suárez, who began the 11th as the auto matic runner. Raleigh, who homered twice on Friday, followed by belting a 2-2 pitch to right for his 22nd homer.Matthew Boyd (1-0) worked out of a basesloaded jam in the 10th and Chris Flexen pitched the 11th for his second save of the season as the Mariners completed a three-game sweep.Seattle’s rookie star Julio Rodríguez hit his 23rd home run of the season in the third, a solo blast off starter Cal Quantrill. The Guardians’ loss dropped them into a tie with Minnesota for first place in the AL Central.
BOSTON (AP) — Trevor Story hit a three-run homer over the Green Monster, Xander Bogaerts had his eighth straight multi-hit game and Boston completed a four-game sweep of Texas. The Red Sox have a fivegame winning streak as they try to climb back into the AL’s wild-card chase. The Rangers have lost eight straight.Bogaerts had an RBI double and run-scoring single in his three hits. His stretch is the longest for a Boston player since Kevin Youkilis tied the club record with nine in 2007. Adolis García had an RBI double for Texas, which lost for the 15th time in 18 games in Fenway Park and fell to a season-worst 17 games under .500. Reliever Kaleb Ort (1-1) was credited with his first MLB victory, and John Schreiber earned his sev enthRangerssave. starter Dane Dunning (3-8) took the loss and is winless in his last 26 road starts, the majors’ longest active streak. His only career road victory came Sept. 9, 2020 with the White Sox.
— Teoscar Hernandez delivered the go-ahead RBI single in the seventh inning and Toronto edged Pittsburgh to complete a three-gameHernandezsweep.lined a shot up the middle against Duane Underwood Jr. (1-5) with two outs to push Toronto in front, and the bullpen did the rest. The Blue Jays improved to a season-best 14 games over .500 (73-59) to maintain their hold on the third and final wild-card spot in the American League. Toronto begins a fourgame series against Baltimore, which is chasing Toronto for a postseason berth, starting Monday at CamdenHernandezYards. and Ale jandro Kirk had two hits apiece for Toronto, which has won five of six and 12 of 17. Cavan Biggio hit his fifth home of the season and second in five days for the Blue Jays. Ross Stripling (7-4) allowed three runs on two hits with three walks and eight strikeouts in six innings. Blue Jays closer Jordan Romano collected his 30th Rookiesave.shortstop Oneil Cruz hit his 12th home run for the Pirates. 3 (11 INNINGS)
ROYALS 3, TIGERS 2 DETROIT (AP) — Bobby Witt Jr.’s eighthinning double drove in the go-ahead run and Kansas City edged Detroit. MJ Melendez scored a run and drove in another while Michael A. Taylor had three hits and scored a run. Witt reached base threeWinningtimes. pitcher Dylan Coleman (4-1) pitched 1 1/3 innings of scoreless relief. Scott Barlow collected his 21stDetroitsave. starter Matt Manning gave up two runs and five hits in four innings. Gregory Soto (2-8) took the loss.Harold Castro’s tworun homer accounted for Detroit’s runs. Riley Greene extended his hitting streak to 13 games with a third-inning single.
REDS ROCKIES10, 0, GAME 2 ROCKIES 8, REDS 4, GAME 1 CINCINNATI (AP) — Aristides Aquino hit his first career grand slam an inning after entering as an injury replacement in the nightcap and Cincinnati split a doubleheader with Colorado.Aquino entered as the designated hitter in the fifth after Jonathan India fouled a pitch of his right foot and wasAquino’sremoved.fifth home run of the season came off Chad Smith with two outs in the Indiasixth.went 0 for 3, ending his career-best hitting streak at 16 games. Derek Law (2-1) got the win. Jose Urena (3-6) allowed six earned runs in 5 1/3Ininnings.theopener, Charlie Blackmon’s pinch-hit tworun single highlighted a four-run seventh for Colo rado, and C.J. Cron hit a two-run homer in the ninth for the RookieRockies.left-hander Nick Lodolo tied a career-high with nine strikeouts, TJ Friedl homered twice and Jonathan India hit a tworun homer for Cincinnati. Joe Kuhnel (2-3) took the loss.Rockies starter German Marquez (8-10) allowed just one hit through the first five innings. GIANTS PHILLIES5, 3 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Carlos Rodón reached the 200-strikeout mark for the first time in his career and Wilmer Flores hit a two-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning as San Francisco completed a three-game sweep and sent Philadelphia to its sixth loss in seven Rookiegames.Bryce Johnson, who got his first major league hit and RBI earlier in the game, drew a lead off walk in the ninth for the Giants.David Robertson (3-2) struck out the next two bat ters before Flores hit his 17th home run. J.T. Realmuto hit a tying, three-run homer in the PhilliesCamiloeighth.Doval (5-6) pitched the ninth. Ranger Suárez was done after four innings for the Phillies and saw his win less stretch reach five starts since beating the Nationals on August 6.
Keibert Ruiz and Ildemaro Vargas.Hernández’s drive was his first since Aug. 26, 2021, a span of 155 games. Enter ing Sunday, only the Los Angeles Angels’ Magneu ris Sierra (223 games) and the Cleveland Guardians’ Myles Straw (157 games) had gone longer without homering among active players.Erick Fedde (6-9) gave up one run — McNeil’s second-inning sacrifice fly — over six innings and earned his first win since June 21.
NATIONALS 7, METS 1 NEW YORK (AP) — César Hernández hit his first homer in more than a year in Washington’s vic tory over New York. The last-place Nation als took two of three in the series.Luis García had an RBI single in the first inning, then the Nationals scored four unearned runs against Carlos Carrasco (13-6) in the third after second base man Jeff McNeil’s error led to two-run singles by
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ZANE Knowles will continue his career in Bul garia’s National Basketball League.Theveteran centre has signed with the CSKA Sofia Reds for the upcom ing season as they return to the top tiered league in the country. It is also Knowles’ third tenure with an NBL club.The Reds earned a pro motion to the NBL after winning the BBL, Group A title last season and will play in the Bulgarian bas ketball elite for the first time after a 13-year hiatus. Knowles returned from injury last season to con clude the year with Levski Sofia and helped the team reach the NBL semifinal. In five regular season games, he averaged 10.4 points and 7.6 rebounds per game.He had some of his best performances of the season in the semifinals against Spartak Pleven. In game one, Knowles came off the bench to finish with eight points and four rebounds in an 80-74 loss. Moved into the starting lineup for game two, he fin ished with 17 points and five rebounds in a 76-72 loss. In game three he nearly posted a double double with nine points and 11 rebounds in a 66-56 win. In the finals he aver aged 11 points and 6.7 rebounds per game in three appearances.Priortothe 2021 season in Hungary with Zalak erámia ZTE KK, Knowles sought treatment for what he described as a minor hamstring injury when doctors discovered a rare Arteriovenous Fistula (AVF) that required sur gery. In addition to his comeback on the court in Bulgaria, he also made a senior men’s national team appearance over the summer.Knowles competed the first round of the FIBA World Cup ‘23 Qualifiers in July against the Dominican Republic at the Baha Mar Grand Ballroom. In an 88-80 loss for The Bahamas, he finished with four points and four rebounds.Inabusy 2019-20 season, Knowles played in three leagues and two countries before the COVID-19 pan demic brought basketball to an end globally. He concluded the cam paign with Levaki of the NBL.In just two games with the club, he averaged 13 points, seven rebounds, and 1.5 steals per game.
YANKEES 2, RAYS 1 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Aaron Judge led off the game with his major league-leading 53rd homer and New York stopped Tampa Bay to avoid a three-game sweep. Judge set a career high for homers, topping the 52 he hit as a rookie in 2017. He also doubled, singled and scored both New York runs.Frankie Montas (5-11) allowed one hit over five shutout innings as the AL East-leading Yankees increased their lead to five games over Tampa Bay. The Rays trailed by 15 1/2 games on July 10. Down 2-0, Tampa Bay tried to rally in the ninth against Clay Holmes, the fourth Yankees reliever. David Peralta led off with his second double of the game and scored on a oneout single by pinch-hitter FranciscoJonathanMejia.Aranda dou bled with two outs before Holmes struck out Yandy Díaz looking at a 3-2 pitch for his 18th save.
“We’re excited to prove we belong,” Henry said, “and not only we belong, but we’re one of the best in the country.”
ATLANTA (AP) — At most schools, 10 wins is the indicator of a successful season.Not so for Clemson, which considered it a major letdown.TheNo. 4 Tigers are in comeback mode after set tling for a 10-3 mark last season, which brought an end to a pair of impres sive streaks. Clemson had won six straight Atlantic Coast Conference titles and appeared in every College Football Playoff except the first in 2014, winning a pair of national championships. Now, as the Tigers open the season tonight against ACC rival Georgia Tech in Atlanta, they are eager to return to a more customary level.“We’re going to get back to doing what we do. It’s that simple,” defensive end K.J. Henry vowed. “A lot of times, especially for myself, we knew what we capable of, but we were in our own way. There are a lot of good teams that we play every year that fed off of Clemson’sthat.” down season seemed even more pronounced because it plays in a league that doesn’t carry the same rep utation as the Southeastern Conference or Big Ten. “We aren’t given the respect we deserve,” Henry said. “Clemson finally has a hiccup year and it’s like everybody’s surprised that there’s a close game.” One of those close games came against Geor gia Tech. A late defensive stand preserved Clemson’s 14-8 victory and its seventh straight win in the series. The year before, the Tigers romped past the Yellow Jackets 73-7 in Atlanta. At Georgia Tech, the bar is set much lower than 10 wins.Three consecutive sea sons with just three wins apiece have put coach Geoff Collins on the hot seat.“We’re all tired of losing,” he said. “We’ve got a collective edge and a collective chip on our shoulder.”Given Georgia Tech’s brutal schedule, a .500 record might be out of reach.Clemson is one of three 10-win teams the Yellow Jackets must navigate in their first five games.
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EARNIE Shavers, whose thunderous punches stopped 68 fighters and earned him heavyweight title fights with Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes, has died. He was 78. Former British boxer and close friend Kenny Rainford told The Associated Press in a telephone call from Liverpool, England, that his close friend died on Thursday in Virginia at the home of one of his“Hedaughters.hada hard career, trav elled a lot and slowed down all the sudden,” said Rainford when asked about a a cause of death. Rainford’s aunt (Sue) was mar ried to Shavers for a decade. Their marriage ended amicably when Shavers wanted to return to the United States to be with his children and she wanted to stay in England, Rainford said. Shavers’ death came a day after hisRainfordbirthday. said a funeral is planned for Sept. 17 in Warren, Ohio. Shavers was born in Gar land, Alabama, in 1944 and grew up in the Youngstown, Ohio, area. He didn’t take up boxing until he wasShavers22. fought from 1969-1995, which included two abbreviated returns from retirement. He fin ished 74-14-1 with 68 knockouts. Shavers lost a unanimous deci sion to Ali in September 1977 at Madison Square Garden in a fight for the WBC and WBA world heavyweight titles. Ali pulled out the victory with a strong rally in the 15th round. In March 1979, Shavers beat Ken Norton by knockout in the first round, in what was consid ered one of his finest victories. Shavers later faced Larry Holmes for the WBC heavy weight title in September 1979 in LasHolmesVegas. won the bout by TKO in the bout stopped in the 11th round. Shavers did knock Holmes to the canvas in the seventh round.Holmes had worked with Shav ers in Cleveland at an event run by promoter Don King. “He was one of the hardest punchers in boxing,” Holmes said of Shavers in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on FormerFriday.New York State Ath letic Commissioner Randy Gordon said Shavers always had time for the fans, whether it was signing autographs or exchanging a word or two. “He was one of the nicest guys in the world, until he got into the ring and tried to take your head off,” Gordon told The AP Friday. Shavers had surgery for a detached retina after the Holmes fight and was stopped by Randall “Tex” Cobb in the eighth round the following year. In 1982 he fought Joe Bugner, also on the comeback trail. Bugner was knocked down in the first, and was stopped by cuts in the second round. Shavers con tinued to fight professionally for several years, but never fought for a title again. He was named among the top-10 punchers in boxing history by The Ring and others.Before turning professional, he won the 1969 National AAU heavyweight title. Shavers was married to Laverne Payne. They had five daughters from their marriage together: Tamara, Cynthia, Catherine, Carla, and Amy. He also has four daughters from other relationships: Cath erine, Lisa, Natasha and Latonya. He worked at General Motors in Lordstown, Ohio, in the late 1960s.
Georgia Tech is expecting a much better performance. “He’s a dangerous runner. He throws a nice deep ball,” Collins said. “We’ve got our hands full.”
The Steve & Marjorie Harvey Foundation which is run by CEO and managing director Stormy Paige, made an indelible impression with the thousands of dollars given out to the many charities. The Sister Sister Foundation, represented by Andrea Sweet ing, was given $5,000, Walter and Minalee Hanchell were given $10,000 for their feeding network, while the Ranfurly Home was given $10,000 and the local BGF Junior Pro gramme was given $15,000 at first and another $15,000 for scholarships for golf. The tournament was a huge success and was won by the Georgia Power team with 53 points and which comprised of Michael Anderson, Charles Wood and Greg Wyon and Royce Jones. Coming in second was the Coca-Cola 1 team with a total of 57 points. The team was made up of the legendary Jim Thorpe, Jansel Hester, Joe Gentry and Percy Williams. Coming in third was the Coca-Cola 2 team with 58 points. Making up that team was Marvin Jones, Micvhael Young, Derrick Douglas and Dwayne Irvin. Two young Bahamian golf ers were the recepients of two Invictus watches donated by Senator Roni Dumcombe, but was decided upon to be the recipient by Steve Harvey after witnessing them play. For one, Elisha Delancey won because Steve felt he hit ball the hardest. The other was for the golfer with the ball closest to the pin. The Steve & Marjorie Harvey Foundation Invitational Charity Golf Tour nament was sponsored by the Atlantis, Chick-fil-a, Micro soft, Coca-Cola, Puma, Nike, Georgia Power, Bahamasair, Indoggo, Courvoisier, Odyssey Aviation and many more. Also on hand to witness the event was Mrs Ann Marie Davis, wife of the Prime Min ister, Mario Bowleg, Minister of Youth, Sports & Culture and Senator Roni Duncombe.
MORE TO PROVE DJ Uiagalelei is slimmed down and ready to fulfill the potential he showed in his first crack as Clemson’s No. 1 “Mentally,quarterback.Ifeel really good, I feel like my head’s in a good spot right now,” he“Isaid.feel good with my body, 100% healthy. I’m ready to go.” Two years ago, Uiagalelei turned in a pair of stel lar performances against Boston College and Notre Dame while filling in for TrevorAfterLawrence.claiming the job when Lawrence departed for the NFL, Uiagalelei was plagued by injuries and dogged by critics as he completed less than 56% of his passes, with nine touch downs and 10 interceptions.
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Clemson coach Dabo Swinney opens a season with new offensive and defensive coordinators for the first time in his 14 full seasons.After Brent Venables left to become the head coach at Oklahoma, analyst Wes Good was elevated to lead the defense along with cocoordinator Mickey Conn. Quarterback coach Bran don Streeter takes over the play-calling on offense after Tony Elliott moved on to Virginia.
No player is more impor tant to Georgia Tech’s hopes for a turnaround season than quarterback JeffCollinsSims. acknowledged as much when he made a couple of key changes to his coaching staff, bringing in Chip Long as offensive coordinator and Chris Weinke as quarter backThosecoach.moves were made specifically to get more out of the third-year QB, who has a strong arm and plenty of mobility but has been unable to put it all together on a consistent basis. “His ability to throw and run, that’s kind of what the game has come to now a days,” Henry said. “That’s what he brings to the game. Very fast, very elusive, the second you think you’ve got him, you probably don’t.”
have a good performance,” said Strachan, running out of lane one. “My quad still isn’t 100 percent and the 100 metres is 10 times more aggressive and more detailed than the“But200m.running so many bends backto-back has made my legs so sore and it’s very uncomfortable and I’m just learning how to bear with the discomfort to see how it goes. I have one more 200m in Hungary and hopefully it goes better there than it didMarie-Joséehere.” Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast won the second heat in a meet record of 10.94 for the fastest time overall, followed by American Terry Twanisha in 11.14. Jamaica’s Natasha Morrison, the winner of heat two, had the third fastest time of 11.22 and American Sha’Carri Richardson, third in the second heat, was fourth overall.Also at the meet, Commonwealth Games’ gold medallist LaQuan Nairn had to settle for sixth place in the men’s long jump with a best leap of 24-feet, 10-inches or 7.57 metres on his first attempt. Winning the event was Tajay Gayle of Jamaica with 27-1 ¼ (8.26m) on his third attempt. Strachan and Gaither earn 1-2 finish in the 200 metres In their first head-to-head show down since the Bahamas Amateur Athletic Association’s National Championships at the Thomas A Robinson National Stadium in June when Gaither took the 100m over Strachan, while Strachan came back for second ahead of Gaither in the 200m won by Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Strachan took the title over Gaither in the 200m on Friday. Strachan, getting back to full form after she suffered an injury at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon in July, won the 200m in Budapest on Friday in 22.63 with Gaither taking second in 22.89, while Jamaican Natasha Morrison got third in “The23.95. meet was good. I’m happy with it,” said Strachan of her performance.Comingoff her victory on Tues day in Lucerne, Switzerland in 22.68, Strachan said she didn’t have any expectations going into Friday’s race. “All I wanted to do is stay sub-23 to set me up for next season,” Stra chanStrachan,said. however, said it was good to have a compatriot competing in the event. “I enjoy competing with familiar faces especially my fellow country competitors,” she noted. The feeling was neutral for Gaither, the NACAC 200m silver medallist and member of the wom en’s 4 x 100m relay team of Printassia Johnson, Strachan and Charlton that clinched the silver behind the USA on her brilliant comeback effort over Jamaica on the anchor leg. “It was nice having Anthonique there,” Gaither said. “Anytime I line up with one of my countrywomen, it feels like we’re doing it for our coun try. I love that feeling.” Gaither, also 29, even noted that she was content with her perfor mance in the race. “It was my first out of the last four races of my season and so I’m just really allowing myself to fully enjoy these last few moments and trust my body,” she stated. Charlton sixth At the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Brussels, World Indoor Commonwealth Games silver med allist Charlton, running out of lane one, ended up sixth in the women’s 100m hurdles in 12.66, but secured her berth into the finals in Zurich, Switzerland, from September 7-8 with a fourth place with 19 points. Running a season’s best of 12.27 for a meet record, the power packed Olympic champion Jasmine Cama cho-Quinn of Puerto Rico took the title over the American duo of Tian James (personal best of 12.38) and former world record holder Kendra Harrison (12.40). The Jamaican pair of Britany Anderson (12.44) and Megan Tapper (12.51, a personal best as well), fin ished ahead of Charlton in fourth and fifth Camacho-Quinnrespectively. pushed her lead in the field with 32 points, fol lowed by world record holder Tobi Amusan, the World Championships and Commonwealth Games’ cham pion from Nigeria, in second with 29 and Anderson in third with 23. Charlton, 26, was the only Baha mian competing at the meet.
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THE Sports in Paradise brand got a major boost this past weekend when the Steve and Marjorie Harvey Founda tion presented at The Bahamas Invitational Charity Golf Tour nament at the Atlantis Ocean Club Golf Course on Paradise Island.Thousands of dollars were given away to several local charities that were on hand to receive their gift from the Foundation. It was a fun-filled event and packed to capacity as hundreds witnessed Steve Harvey thank so many people for making the event a success and supported the tournament. Sports in Paradise was the recepient of all of the public ity by the hundreds of tourists that flocked to The Bahamas to participate in this event. Steve also used his platform to high light Bahamian professionals and the talent that exists here in the islands. He pointed out that we have golf professionals and others who are more than qualified to lead and head the quest to build The Bahamas through theirHeexpertise.furtherpointed out that they should be used for more than just maids and store assis tants and medial jobs. He said that we have top professionals and that we need to start using them in more key positions. “I had a meeting with the Prime Minister (Philip Davis), he’s a wonderful man and he has a heart for this country”, said Steve. “I also told him that he must use the professionals that you have here in golf and put them in more meaning ful positions. I might not get invited back for speaking out, but hey I said.”
THE WINNERS of the 2022 Steve & Marjorie Harvey Invitational Charity Golf Tournament at the Atlantis - the Georgia Power team - receive their awards.
DEFENSIVEGETTING Collins is spending more time working with a defense that ranked near the bottom of the ACC in most categories. In particular, he knows the Yellow Jackets must generate more sacks and turnovers.
Clemson’s defensive front has claimed nicknames from the Marvel movie uni verse. For example, Justin Mascoll is going by “Dr. Strange.”Why?“It’sbecause strange things happen when I’m out there,” Mascoll said with a smile.He pointed to his batted pass in the Cheez-it Bowl win over Iowa State, which Tigers defensive back Mario Goodrich took back for a pick six.
Clemson, of course, is on an entirely different level. Another 10-win season simply won’t do.
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CLEMSON quarterback D.J. Uiagalelei (5) looks for a receiver during the second half of the Cheez-It Bowl NCAA college foot ball game against Iowa State. Veteran quarterbacks are plentiful in the Atlantic Coast Conference this season. In all, 12 of the 14 league teams have at least one quarterback with nine or more career starts. (AP Photo/Phelan M Ebenhack)
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“Nothing’s easy,” Collins said. “You’ve got to fight through things. How we handle the hard things will say a lot about us.”
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COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Lithuania pro tested its double-overtime loss to Germany at the EuroBasket tournament on Sunday, arguing that refer ees did not award it a free throw following a technical foul in regulation. It was not immediately clear how, or if, FIBA would respond to the protest.Fornow, it’s a German win — and a huge one for the hosts. Franz Wagner scored 32 points, Dennis Schroder added 25 and Germany held off Lithu ania 109-107 in a game that was tight throughout, with neither team ever leading by more than nine points. “We are not happy,” Lithuania coach Kazys MaksvytisAccordingsaid. to FIBA, Germany coach Gordie Herbert was called for a technical with 1:26 left in the third quarter, after a personal foul was whistled against his team. Jonas Valanciunas shot two free throws for Lithuania for the personal foul, but no free throw for the technical was awarded.Herbert said he was told by one of the refer ees with 7 seconds left in regulation that there was “a situation” regarding the technical and what should have“Thathappened.wasthe first time I heard about it,” Herbert said.Arnas Butkevicius’ 3-pointer from the left wing for Lithuania — the potential game-winner — bounced off the rim as the clock ran out in the second extraMaodosession.Lo scored 21 points for Germany (3-0) and Daniel Theis added 11. Valanciunas had game highs of 34 points and 14 rebounds for Lithuania (0-3), while Marius Grigo nis scored 17, Domantas Sabonis finished with 13, Ignas Brazdekis scored 12 and Mindaugas Kuzmins kas added Lithuania’s11. three losses have been by seven, four and two points. “It was a tough game,” Valanciunas said. “They played well. I thought we responded for most of the time. ... Congrats to them.” Valanciunas scored the final four points of regula tion as Lithuania rallied from down 89-85 in the final 42 seconds. Schroder missed a stepback jumper at the buzzer of the fourth, and Wagner missed one at the end of the first overtime.
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But in the second OT, the Germans scored the first five points and never trailed. Valanciunas was subbed out with 2:29 left, Lo made a 3-pointer 17 seconds later for a 106-102 lead and Germany held on. “To come out on top, after all of that, I think it’s definitely a sign of our char acter and togetherness as a team,” Lo said.
Also at Cologne, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2-1) surprised Luka Doncic and defending EuroBas ket winner Slovenia (2-1) behind 23 points from John Roberson and 22 from DzananMiralemMusa.Halilovic scored 13, while Jusuf Nurkic and Edin Atic each had 12 for the winners. Doncic had 18 points, eight rebounds and eight assists for Slove nia but went 0 for 8 from 3-point range. Vlatko Cancar led Slovenia with 22 points, Goran Dragic added 20, Klemen Prepelic scored 12 and Mike Tobey finished with 11.
GROUP BELGIUMA 83, SPAIN 73 At Tbilisi, Georgia, Manu Lecomte scored 20 points and Belgium ended the game on a 12-0 run to surprisePierre-AntoineSpain. Gillet scored 14 points for Bel gium (2-1), which got 11 from Retin Obasohan and 10 from Ismael Bako. Willy Hernangomez scored 18 for Spain (2-1), while Juancho Hernan gomez and Lorenzo Brown each had 11. MONTENEGRO 91, BULGARIA 81 Vladimir Mihailovic scored 23 points and Mon tenegro (2-1) ended the game on an 18-6 run to rally past Bulgaria (0-3). Igor Drobnjak and Bojan Dubljevic each had 17 points for Montenegro, Nemanja Radovic added 16 and Kendrick Perry scored 12.Aleksandar Vezenkov led all scorers with 26 for Bul garia, which led 75-73 in the fourth before missing eight of its last 10 shots. Andrey Ivanov fin ished with 17 and Chavdar Kostov added 10 for Bul garia, which tried 64 shots in the game — 40 of them from 3-point range.
NEW YORK (AP) — Coco Gauff raised a fist, then wagged her right index finger, responding to, and riling up even more, a loudlouder-loudest Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd that was standing and screaming. Gauff’s US Open oppo nent, Zhang Shuai, covered both ears with her hands to shield them from what she described later as a “Boom!” of sound. Gauff and her fans were reacting excitedly to quite a point, one in which the 18-year-old Floridian raced to her right for a defensive forehand, then changed directions to sprint and slide into a backhand that drew a netted volley from Zhang. Just four points later, Gauff was a quarterfi nalist at Flushing Meadows for the first time. Gauff, the French Open runner-up in June, came back in each set to beat China’s Zhang 7-5, 7-5 yesterday to become the youngest American to make it this far at the US Open since Melanie Oudin was 17 in 2009. “Here, I can’t hear myself scream. Makes me want to do it more. I think I’m feed ing off the momentum a lot. I enjoy it,” said No. 12 seed Gauff, who meets No. 17 Caroline Garcia of France on Tuesday. “New York is bringing out a side of me that I haven’t had since I was 15, so it’s nice.” Nick Kyrgios is play ing much better than he ever has at Flushing Mead ows, too, building off the momentum of his run to the Wimbledon final in July, and he eliminated defend ing champion and No. 1-ranked Daniil Medvedev 7-6 (11), 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Sunday night. The 23rd-seeded Kyrgios was up to some of his usual behaviour — warned for cursing, yelling at his guest box, playing to the crowd — but he also outplayed Medvedev in a high-quality match.“I’m just glad I’m finally able to show New York my talent,” said Kyrgios, never past the third round at the US Open until now. “I haven’t had too many great tripsHe’llhere.”play No. 27 seed Karen Khachanov on Tuesday, when the other’s men’s quarterfinal on the top half of the bracket is 2022 French Open runnerup Casper Ruud against 2021 Wimbledon runner-up Matteo openinghim.ersandRuudaftertheMedvedevBerrettini.willrelinquishtopspotintherankingstheUSOpen,withjoiningRafaelNadalCarlosAlcarazasplaywithachancetoreplaceAftertrailing5-4intheset,then5-3in
the second, which she was a point from losing, Gauff was buoyed by spectators who cheered her every point and chanted “Let’s go, Coco!” as the end neared. She improved to 4-0 in Ashe this year after having never previously won a match at the biggest arena in Grand Slam tennis. How loud was it? “It got so racuous in there that I got a headache. I had to take an Advil,” said Gauff’s father, Corey. “I kept pinching myself. I’m like, ‘My gosh, all of these people here for my daughter.’ You dream about this, but you never know if you’re going to realize that. She was pumping herself up and they responded to her. It sent chills up my spine.” Zhang, at 33 the oldest woman to reach the fourth round, said it was more noise than she’s ever heard at a Shematch.praised Gauff’s play, calling her “a superstar” and adding: “Everything is very good. She’s so much younger than me. Her energy is so much better. She’s faster. She’s powerful.”Theycompeted mostly from the baseline, and the longer the exchanges, the more success Gauff found: She claimed a 45-26 edge in points that lasted five or moreGarciastrokes.is coming off a hard-court title at Cincinnati and stretched her winning streak to 12 matches by defeating No. 29 Alison Riske-Amritraj of the U.S. 6-4, 6-1. “I’m super excited, actu ally, to play Coco — in U.S., in New York, quarterfi nal of a Slam. It’s great,” GarciaNonesaid.ofthe eight women in action Sunday had ever been past the fourth round at Flushing Meadows; only two have reached semifinals at any Grand Slam tourna ment: Gauff and No. 5 Ons Jabeur.Jabeur, a finalist at Wimbledon in July, was scheduled to meet No. 18 Veronika Kudermetova at night.In Gauff-Zhang, the whirring of the Ashe retractable roof being pulled shut accompanied the start of the second set because of showers that started soon after, and it took a while for the artificial lights to reach full strength. The match proceeded, even though it was rather dark — and quite humid — indoors. Zhang started getting a bit better of the back-andforth midway through the second set, and when she hit a backhand winner of her own, she broke to lead 5-3.Last year’s U.S. Open doubles champion — she and Sam Stosur beat Gauff and Caty McNally in the final — served to force a third set, and was a point away from getting there, but Gauff steeled herself and stood her ground. That set point was frit tered away when Zhang sent a backhand long. Gauff smacked — what else? — a down-the-line backhand winner for her third break point of that game, then delivered a good return to a corner that drew a long backhand to make it 5-4 and start a four-game, match-closing run. Everyone’s known how talented Gauff is for a while now. After all, at 15, she became the youngest quali fier in Wimbledon history in 2019, beat Venus Wil liams in the first round of the main draw and made it all the way to the fourth. There have been more steps along the way, more achievements — last month, she became the second-youngest doubles No. 1 in WTA history — and her ever-developing game — the most notable recent improvements were to her forehand and second serve — keeps carrying her closer to the top of the sin gles rankings and closer to a Grand Slam title. And at this point, having the full sport of more than 20,000 folks in Ashe doesn’t hurt,“She’seither.found a home there,” Dad said. “I hope she’s going to play there for the rest of the tournament.”
COCO GAUFF, of the United States, returns against Shuai Zhang, of Chi na, during the fourth round of the US Open tennis championships yester day in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)
SIERRA NEVADA, Spain (AP) — Still feel ing stiff from his crash and facing the high est summit finish of the Spanish Vuelta, Remco Evenepoel held his ground Sunday to take a big step toward winning his first Grand Tour race. Evenepoel, who was injured after a crash on Thursday, fended off another challenge by three-time champion Primoz Roglic to keep the leader’s red jersey and a considerable gap to his main challengers. Roglic made a late attack on the final climb of the 15th stage but could only cut 15 seconds from Evenepoel’s overall lead.Thymen Arensman won the stage for his first Grand Tour victory, crossing the finish line safely ahead of EnricMas, Miguel Ángel López and Jay Vine. “It’s hard to believe, it really has to sink in,” said Arensman, a Dutch rider from team DSM. “I can’t believe it on the queen stage of the Vuelta. Everybody was talking about this stage. To be honest, I didn’t feel super good during the stage but apparently the others felt the legs evenRoglic,more.”seeking an unprecedented fourth straight Vuelta title with Jumbo-Visma, was fifth in the stage, moving within 1 minute, 34 seconds of Evenepoel overall. Mas also made up time entering the final week of the last Grand Tour race of the year. “It’s actually my first time finishing so high, so I think I did quite well,” said Evenepoel, the Belgian rider from Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl. “I felt a bit stiff from the crash, but it’s getting better every day. So, I’m really happy that it’s a rest day tomorrow and I actually lost almost noth ing. A good day for us. With the crash it was not so easy to handle, but the third week is a bit of another story. The climbs are not super super hard anymore.”Ridershave a rest day on Monday before a flat 16th stage that should allow the overall leaders to comfortably stay at the top.
SCHEDULETODAY’S Group C and Group D return to the floor. Group A and Group B get a rest day. In Group C, at Milan, Ukraine (2-0) will look to remain unbeaten when it faces host Italy (1-1). Also in Milan on Monday: Greece (2-0), which has won its two games by a combined eight points, takes on Great Britain (0-2) and Croatia (1-1) faces Estonia (0-2). In Group D, at Prague, Serbia (2-0) plays Finland (1-1), Israel (2-0) takes on Poland (1-1) and the Czech Republic (0-2) meets the Netherlands (0-2). All four groups are in action Tuesday, with 12 games on the schedule. Group play continues through Thursday and the round of 16 starts in Berlin on Saturday.
GROUP B BOSNIA HERZEGOVINAAND 97, SLOVENIA 93
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GERMANY’s Dennis Schroeder sits on the ground after a foul dur ing the Eurobasket, preliminary round, Group B match between Lithuania and Germany in Cologne, Germany, yesterday. (Federica Gambarini/dpa via AP) TO
“It’s a scandalous deci sion,” the Scottish manager said. “Absolutely rotten decision.”Maxwel Cornet ham mered the ball into an open net after Chelsea goal keeper Edouard Mendy managed to only push the ball into his path, but ref eree Andy Madley ruled it out after a review. He judged Jarrod Bowen fouled Mendy when attempting to jump over him.The decision bailed out Chelsea after an under whelming performance that once again highlighted the team’s lack of firepower up front.With new signing PierreEmerick Aubameyang watching in the stands, Chelsea didn’t produce a single shot on target by the time Michail Antonio put West Ham ahead following a corner in the 63rd minute.
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But defender Ben Chilwell equalized from a tight angle then teed up Kai Havertz to side-foot home in the Tuchel88th. gave United States international Cris tian Pulisic his first start of the season alongside Raheem Sterling in attack but he was taken off after anRESPITEhour.
Remember crisis? United beats Arsenal for 4th win in a row
LONDON (AP) — It might be time for Liverpool to start worrying about its slow start to the English PremierJurgenLeague.Klopp’s team dropped points for the fourth time in six games after an eventful 0-0 draw at Everton in the Merseyside derby on Saturday, with Mohamed Salah hitting the post in stoppage time. Chelsea has VAR to thank for not being in a similar position. Thomas Tuchel’s team, having lost two of their previous three games, held on for a 2-1 victory over West Ham at Stamford Bridge after the visitor had an injurytime equalizer overturned by what Hammers man ager David Moyes called a “scandalous” and “rotten” decision.Chelsea already has two losses and a draw in the opening six games, while Liverpool has three draws and one loss, having needed a goal in the eighth minute of injury time to beat New castle in midweek. “It’s not the start we wanted,” Liverpool man ager Jurgen Klopp said. “It’s not a dream, it’s exactly 50% of the points available. But that’s the points we got, and let’s go from here. If we go through these really hard moments together we have a good chance to create better moments in theThefuture.”good news for Klopp is that Liverpool didn’t lose any more ground to defending champion Man chester City, which was held to 1-1 at Aston Villa despite another goal from Erling Haaland — the Norwegian striker’s 10th. City is tied with Totten ham for second place in the table on points, giving leader Arsenal a chance to take a four-point lead on Sunday if it can maintain its perfect record when it trav els to Manchester United. Tottenham also remained unbeaten after beating Fulham 2-1 at home in another London derby, with Harry Kane scoring his fifth goal to take sole posses sion of third place in the Premier League’s list of alltime scorers. In the highest-scoring game of the day, Ivan Toney had a hat trick for Brentford in a 5-2 win over Leeds, whose American manager Jesse Marsch was sent off in the second half for protesting a refereeing decision.Bournemouth — still without a manager after Scott Parker was fired this week — came from 2-0 down in the second half to earn a 3-2 away win at Not tingham Forest in a game between promoted sides, while Wolverhampton earned its first victory of the season by beating South amptonNewcastle1-0. missed a host of chances as it was held at home by Crystal Palace to 0-0.
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Viktoria Azarenka was a 6-3, 6-0 winner against Petra Martic; two-time major runner-up Karolina Pliskova beat Tokyo Olym pics gold medalist Belinda Bencic 5-7, 6-4, 6-3; No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz, a 19-yearold Spaniard, defeated unseeded Jenson Brooksby, a 21-year-old Californian, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3; No. 7 Cam Norrie beat No. 28 Holger Rune 7-5, 6-4, 6-1 in the men’s draw; No. 9 Andrey Rublev got past No. 19 Denis Shapovalov 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4, 7-6 (10-7); No. 11 Jannik Sinner beat Bran don Nakashima 3-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-1; and 2014 U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic beat No. 20 Dan Evans 7-6 (11), 6-7 (3); 6-2, 7-5. Upcoming matchups include Azarenka vs. Bencic; Alcaraz vs. Cilic, and Norrie vs. Rublev.
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including runs to quarterfi nals at the Australian Open each of the past two years and the French Open this year.The 28-year-old Ameri can, whose parents own the NFL’s Buffalo Bills and NHL’s Buffalo Sabres, came into Saturday with an 0-2 record in third-round matches at Flushing Mead ows, including a loss to Kvitova in 2020. Pegula gets another shot at her “PetraMonday.issohard to play. I feel like when she’s on, she blows you off the court. And then sometimes she can be off. .. She’s a fighter. When it clicks, it’s really difficult,” Pegula said, then was sure to add: “I think I’m a much better player now than I was when I played her last time.”
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EVERTON’s goalkeeper Jordan Pickford saves a ball as Liverpool’s Roberto Firmino falls in the net during the English Premier League soccer match between Everton and Liverpool at Goodison Park, Liverpool, England, on Saturday. (AP Photo/Jon Super) ways, the sport as a whole — without its biggest star and storyline. Still, the show must go on. So there was Kvitova, undaunted as ever, despite dropping the first set, despite trailing 5-2 in the third, despite being a point from defeat twice at 6-5.Here’s how close this one was: Kvitova won 109 total points, Muguruza 108. “Left everything on the court today,” said No. 9 Muguruza, a two-time Slam winner whose departure means the bracket is with out six of the top 10 women entering the fourth round. No. 1 Iga Swiatek advanced by beating Lauren Davis 6-3, 6-4, and No. 6 Aryna Sabalenka defeated Clara Burel 6-0, 6-2.During the night ses sion in Ashe, 22-time major champ Rafael Nadal improved his career mark against Richard Gasquet to 18-0 with a 6-0, 6-1, 7-5 victory. Nadal won the opening nine games and was on his way to improv ing to 22-0 in Grand Slam matches in 2022. Nadal did not have stitches or a bandage on his nose, two days after acci dentally cutting it with his racket during his previous victory.“Alittle bit bgger than usual, but it’s OK,” he said with a smile. “The nose is stillNadal’sthere.”win was followed by Australian Open runnerup Danielle Collins’ 6-4, 7-6 (11-9) win over Alizé Cornet.OnMonday, Nadal will take on No. 22 Frances Tiafoe, the first American man since Mardy Fish in 2010-12 to get to the U.S. Open’s fourth round in three consecutive years. Tiafoe eliminated No. 14 Diego Schwartzman 7-6 (7), 6-4, 6-4. It was going to be tough for any of the day’s matches to live up to the sort of attention Williams drew, or the atmosphere she helped create, during her threematch run in Ashe. “I just can’t believe the ‘era of Serena’ on the tennis court is over,” Pegula said. “I mean, it’s just hard to picture tennis without her.” In other action Saturday, two-time Aus tralian Open champion
MANCHESTER United’s Antony celebrates after scoring his side’s opening goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Arsenal at Old Trafford stadium, in Manchester, England, yesterday. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson)
FOR GERRARDVillamanager Steven Gerrard was under heavy pressure following three straight league losses, but a point against City could go a long way toward safe guarding his position. Gerrard went with a more defense-minded lineup than usual by leaving Philippe Coutinho and Emiliano Buendia on the bench, and the changes paid off. “I’ve had to tweak a few things and look at myself behind the scenes,” Ger rard said. “It’s not just about players, it’s what I can do better. Do I have to sacrifice things for the biggerHaalandpicture?”became only the second player to reach 10 goals in his first six Premier League games — joining Coventry’s Mick Quinn in 1992 — after volleying in a cross from Kevin de Bruyne at the far post. But he then had two shots saved by goalkeeper Emiliano Mar tinez before Villa equalized in the 74th through Leon Bailey.“We had chances to score a second when the game was in our hands but we didn’t,” City manager Pep Guardiola said.
REMEMBER that time, not so long ago, when there was a crisis at Manchester United?After four straight wins, it seems like a dim and dis tantThememory.latest sign that United is well on the road to recovery came yesterday with a 3-1 win over Arsenal, whose 100% start to the season came crashing to an end.There were still antiGlazer chants inside and outside Old Trafford — it feels like they are here to stay, whether the team wins or loses — but they are now accompanied by frequent and jubilant roars for goals. Two of them were scored in the second half by Marcus Rashford to sweep United to victory after Arsenal pulled it back to 1-1 through Bukayo Saka, but the opening goal felt the most Antony,significant.United’s latest big signing from Ajax for $95 million, marked his first match in English soccer with a goal from a curling, first-time finish in the 35th minute, crowning a perfor mance that featured a slew of jinks, feints and exagger ated stepovers that thrilled home fans. He came off in the 58th to a standing ovation to be replaced by Cristiano Ronaldo, who again had to settle for a starting spot on the bench. Since that humiliating 4-0 loss at Brentford that sparked a crisis and some doubts around the wisdom of hiring Erik ten Hag as manager, United has beaten Liverpool, Southampton, Leicester and now Arsenal, the league leader. After six games, United is only three points behind Arsenal and two behind Manchester City, the title favourite.Howquickly things have turned around.
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FURIOUSMOYES Moyes didn’t hide his anger at the decision to rule out West Ham’s equalizer at Stamford Bridge.
Perhaps the only two players to be happy with 0-0 at Goodison Park were the goalkeepers. Everton’s Jordan Pickford and Liv erpool’s Alisson pulled off stellar saves while Liver pool also had three shots hit theThatwoodwork.included Salah’s shot five minutes into injury time which brushed the fin gertips of Pickford before slamming against the near post.Everton also hit the post once in the first half while Alisson’s best save came in the 85th when he was at full stretch to push Dwight McNeil’s deflected shot over the Evertonbar. thought it scored in the 69th when former Liverpool player Conor Coady turned in a low cross-shot from Neal Maupay at the far post, but it was disallowed for offside after a VAR review.
There’s a strong chance Brendan Rodgers won’t be Leicester manager by the time the team plays its next game.Leicester was embar rassed in a 5-2 loss at Brighton, leaving Rodg ers’ team in last place on just one point from six games. It wasn’t just the defeat but the manner of the performance that will worry Rodgers, and more importantly Leicester’s owners. The defending was extremely soft as goals by Moises Caicedo, Leandro Trossard and Alexis Mac Allister -- via a penalty and a direct free kick -- along with an own-goal by Luke Thomas saw Brighton cruise to a victory that could have been even heavier. That’s 16 goals conceded by Leicester already and it seems neglectful for the club to have only signed one outfield player and a third-choice goalkeeper in the summer transfer market given the state of the squad. Rodgers even called out Leicester’s owners in midweek, saying he had “not had the help in the (transfer) market this team needed.”Scott Parker made a similar remark after Bournemouth’s recently 9-0 loss at Liverpool and was fired a few days later. Rodgers could yet be heading the same way after 3 1/2 years in charge.
In 2010, the Bahamas won the first match 1-0 but Bermuda took the next two matches 5-1 (2010) and 4-0 Bermuda(2014).isthe top team in the group, undefeated at 3-0 with nine points. They are also the top scorers with 15 goals without sur rendering a single score. Guyana, Bonaire, and the Bahamas are all tied at 2-1 with six points. The British Virgin Islands and Saint Martin remain winless at 0-3. The Bahamas opened the competition with a 2-1 win over Saint Martin. After an early goal from Saint Martin’s Jaheim Lake, they surged ahead with goals from Reuben Edge combe (32’) and Kai Perez (63’) to get the win. In their second match, Team Bahamas suffered a 4-0 loss to Guyana.
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Gray had been quiet in the fourth quarter but scored eight of her 29 points in overtime including a pair of 3s that silenced Storm fans that had been roaring only a few minutes earlier when it appeared Seattle was on the cusp of winning the pivotal game. Seattle led 92-90 with 0.8 seconds left in regula tion after Sue Bird hit a corner 3. It was a storybook moment to be another high light in Bird’s final season before retiring. But on the ensuing inbound play, Young got free on a switch and scored in the lane ahead of the buzzer to send the game to overtime.LasVegas outscored Seattle 18-6 in overtime. A’ja Wilson finished with a playoff career-high 34 points and 11 rebounds. Gray added 12 assists and Riquna Williams added a key 14 points off the bench. Plum had 16 points, includ ing a key three-point play to start overtime for the Aces.Breanna Stewart led Seattle with 20 points, while Bird and Jewell Loyd both hadTina17.
There are four games on the slate today. In Group A, Canada (1-1) plays Colombia (1-1) and Brazil (2-0) meets Uruguay (0-2). In Group C, Mexico is to meet Ven ezuela and Panama is set to play the GroupUS.B is off and is scheduled to finish its round-robin play Tuesday, with the Virgin Islands facing Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic play ingThereArgentina.areno games on Wednesday’s schedule. Quarterfinal games - fea turing the top two teams in each group, plus the two best third place-finishing teams - start Thursday.
The qualifying round robin group stage will be played through September 8. Team Bahamas includes James King, Toby Cart wright, Claudius Curtis, Kai Perez, Kristan Watchorn, Luca Chiac chiari, Jaxon Bethel, Matthew Holst, Conry Raine, Nahum John son, Cameron Pratt, Ahmaad Smith, Jack Massey, Jordan Cheetham, Reuben Edgecombe, Wil liam Gardiner, Robert Holcombe, Atarri Moss, Dylan Archer and Deron Ferguson.NeslyJean is the head coach, assisted by Kevin Davies and goalkeeper coach Avery Kemp. The four group winners will advance to the 2023 CONCACAF Men’s U17 Championship, joining the top 16 ranked nations that have been seeded directly into the group stage of the 2023 CMU17 Championship. PAGE 20 outs, while Michel Ingraham suffered the loss on 12 hits. Catcher Rashad Martin was 3-for-3 with five RBI and two runs scored to lead Chances, whose manager Alphonso ‘Chicken’ Albury tried to keep them motivated throughout the game. Shortstop Stephen McKenzie went 2-for-3 with three RBI and a run scored and left fielder Juneil Bain was 2-for-3 with two runs scored. Operators 20, Lady Truckers 0 In a dominating pitching performance, strongwoman Brendia Ferguson tossed a no-hitter, striking out two and she helped her own cause by going 2-for-2 with three RBI and three runs scored in their shutout. “It’s been a long while,” said Fergu son of her performance that earned her the MVP honours. “I’m just coming back after being out of the league for about four years. I’m pretty proud of what I’m doing now. It takes a lot of work, but I’m happy with the results.” R&B also saw third sacker Michelle Thompson go 2-for-3 with a RBI, left fielder Sheryl Evans 1-for-1 with four runs scored, catcher Lathera Brown 1-for-2 with a RBI and three runs scored and centre fielder Melinda Bastian 1-for-3 with two RBI and three runs scored. “I’m pretty confident in my team. We didn’t come out tonight with a full team, but we were able to place our members anywhere,” Ferguson said. “We have a ver satile team and we got the job done, so I’m pretty happy with the way we performed tonight.” Hitmen 8, Marlins 0 Edney ‘the Heat’ Bethel had another masterful performance on the mound, firing a no-hitter with nine strike outs in the C&S whitewashing of the Marlins on FridayRichardnight.Bain went 2-for-4 with a RBI and two runs scored, Sherman Fergu son was 1-for-3 with a run scored, Deno Sweeting was 1-for-3 with a RBI and Philp Johnson was 2-for-3 with a run scored. Thomas Davis threw a seven-hitter, strik ing out five, but it wasn’t enough to stop the Hitmen. Operators 20, Mingoes 9 Diva Burrows picked up the win on an eight hitter and two strike outs and she got all the support she needed from her team mates to seal the deal on Friday night. Melinda Bastian went 3-for-5 with three RBI and four runs scored, Jeanette Hilton was 2-for-2 with two ERBI and two runs scored, Michelle Thompson was 3-for-5 with a RBI and three runs scored, Vanessa Sawyer was 2-for-5 with a RBI and two runs scored, and Brendia Ferguson was 1-for-3 with three runs scored. Solana Brown was tagged with the loss for the University of the Bahamas. Sophia Cartwright went 2-for-3 with a RBI and run scored, Nabria Hamilton was 1-for-3 with two runs scored, Ramazia Rolle was 1-for-1 with two RBI and a run scored and Aallyah Williams was 1-for-2 with two RBI and a run scored.
Loyd was fouled and hit both free throws with 11 secondsWilliamsleft.hit a 3 with 8.9 seconds left for Las Vegas before Charles missed her foul shots. Wilson put Las Vegas ahead 90-89 with a spinning drive in the lane with 2.2 seconds left. Then it was Seattle’s turn to have an apparent on Bird’s 3. But that was muted moments later when Young scored.
“The challenge is trying to get them some touches before they are loaded up. Once they get into the half court and they have their style of play defensively and schemes defensively situated they’re just sending so many bodies toward our postgame so it’s difficult at times,” Miller said. “Everyone gets hung up on shot attempts but we want to know that we are taking good shots, taking shots when we can get the spacing and have them spread out. In stretches we won that battle and stretches they forced us to do different things.” Each game in the series has been a single-digit margin for the winning team through three games with the Sun taking a 68-63 win in game one, followed by the Sky’s 85-77 win in game“We’vetwo. talked a lot in this series about how hard we have to play and how we have to make the game messy, we got the game way that we truly relieved we can be successful. Our defensive energy and effort was unwavering even when they made some plays,” Miller said. “We were excited we got the game in the style of play we thought we could be ourget“Unfortunately,successful.wedidn’ttothefinishlinebutplayershavetoleave confident that we can make games against Chicago the type of style we want and desire to have,” explained Miller.
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TIP-INS Seattle lost a home play off game with Stewart healthy for the first time. The Storm were 10-0 previ ously. ... In the 14 previous series tied at 1-1, the winner of Game 3 has gone on to win the series eight times. UP NEXT Game 4 will be Tuesday night with Las Vegas look ing to advance to the finals. together, they would have all sorts of momen tum. ... We just couldn’t put together that offensive run when we needed it.” Connecticut led 23-21 after one quarter but Chi cago took a 40-38 lead at the half and a 56-55 lead heading into the final period.Jones is averaging 15.2 points on 51 percent shoot ing from the field, 43 percent from three-point range, and 8.5 rebounds per game this postseason. She shot just 5-8 from the field in game one, fol lowed by 10-17 shooting in game two. “They’re trying to limit shots by Jonquel and shots by Bri Jones and really coming with doubles. It’s hard sometimes to score through that, step through that, I think they’re making good plays out of doubles. Can we repost?
LAS Vegas Aces forward A’ja Wilson (22) shoots over Seattle Storm centre Tina Charles (31) in the first half in Game 3 of a WNBA basketball semifinal playoff series yesterday in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Craig Sword had 12 points in the first half for the US, and 11 of the 12 Americans had scored by the time play was halted.
CONNECTICUT Sun forward Jonquel Jones, right, knocks away a shot-attempt by Chicago Sky guard Kahleah Copper, centre, as Sun guard Natisha Hiedeman, left, defends during Game 3 of their WNBA basketball semifinal playoff series yesterday.(APPhoto/Jessica Hill) 20 PARKER HELPS SKY BEAT SUN 76-72, TAKE 2-1 LEAD IN SERIES
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SEATTLE (AP) — Jackie Young sent the game in overtime with a buzzerbeating basket and then Chelsea Gray and Kelsey Plum hit big shots in the extra session to help the Las Vegas Aces beat the Seattle Storm 110-98 yes terday to move within a victory of advancing to the WNBA Finals. Las Vegas took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five WNBA playoff semifinal series after some wild final moments of regulation and a dominant performance in overtime.
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Charles added 16 points but missed a pair of free throw with 7.2 seconds remining in regulation that could have given Seattle a three-point lead. Seattle trailed by as many as 15 in the first half, and now have to a way to rebound from an emotion ally draining loss. The Aces victory also moved Bird one step closer to retirement. Bird has announced this will be her final season, and Las Vegas can send her off into retire ment as one of the greatest players in league history with a victory in Game 4. The second half was filled with wild emotional swings and a conclusion to regula tion that featured big plays one after Stewartanother.hadbeen held in check but scored on three straight possessions as the teams traded baskets for most of the final three minutes. Stewart’s driving finger roll with 55 seconds left gave Seattle an 87-85 lead.Plum missed a 3-pointer on the net Las Vegas pos session. Stewart missed a contested shot, but the rebound went to Seattle.
RECIFE, Brazil (AP) — USA Basketball needed a win yesterday at the Ameri Cup tournament and was well on the way to making thatThathappen.is,until it rained. The Americans’ game against Venezuela was post poned at halftime with the US leading 48-21. Heavy rain caused multi ple leaks inside the Geraldo Magalhães Sports Gymna sium, prompting officials to determine that the game could not be resumed safely.FIBA did not immedi ately disclose if the game would be considered official or if there was a plan for its resumption. Venezuela and the US both have their final group-stage games sched uled for today. The delay also called into question whether the later games on yesterday’s slate — the Dominican Republic against the Virgin Islands, and Argentina against Puerto Rico — would be played as planned. It’s a crucial game for the US, which entered Group C play yesterday with a 0-1 mark after falling to Mexico in Friday’s opener. The Americans will need at least one win in their three group games, and pos sibly two victories, to make the quarterfinal round that starts later this week. Mexico (2-0) clinched a quarterfinal berth ear lier yesterday by topping Panama (0-2). The Americans gave up the game’s first basket, then went on an 18-2 run and only kept adding to the lead.The US shot 56% in the first half, compared with 33% for Venezuela, and the Americans held a 24-0 lead in points from 3-point range.
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“That’s(12-10). what Serena showed last night,” said Kvitova, who dropped her racket and covered her face with her ends when what she called a “nightmare” of a tiebreaker was over. “It was nice to see her yester day, fighting until the end.” Yes, Williams is gone, leaving the year’s last major tournament — and, in some
ALTHOUGH they com peted in two different heats, Bahamas national cham pion Tynia Gaither had a better showing than runnerup Anthonique Strachan in the women’s 100 metres at the XXXV Meeting Citta’ Di Pasdova, CompetingItaly.atthe Assin dustria Sport Padova in Padova, yesterday, Gaither got fourth in the first of two heats in 11:42 seconds for ninth place in the two heats combined, while Strachan was eighth in the last heat in 11.66 for 15th overall. Strachan was a little per turbed by the news of the passing of her former team mate and friend Shavez Hart in Abaco on Saturday morning.Shesaid she tried not to let it affect her as she con centrated on the task ahead of her. “Today, I didn’t Parker helps Sky beat Sun 76-72
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“It was very special. She didn’t want to leave the court, for sure. That was the same case with me today, actually.“Ididn’t want to go out of this tournament, so I was just there hanging (in), somehow,” said Kvitova, who erased deficit after deficit, including a pair of match points, to edge Garbiñe Muguruza 5-7, 6-3, 7-6
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“You feel kind of sad that’s how it ends. But, I don’t know, like I got a little, like, sentimental, too, watching her, how emo tional she was getting.” Kvitova, a two-time Wim bledon champion from the Czech Republic, credited Williams’ last stand — the owner of 23 Grand Slam titles fended off five match points before bowing out in three sets against Ajla Tom ljanovic on Friday night in what is expected to be her final contest — with offer ing inspiration.
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“It was 66-64 forever,” Miller said. “I wondered if one team would have an offensive run. It was to the point where if a team could put back-to-back baskets
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SERENA WILLIAMS, of the United States, motions a heart to fans after losing to Ajla Tomljanovic, of Austrailia, during the third round of the U.S. Open tennis championships in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) By RENALDO DORSETT Tribune Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net
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AFTER getting shutout on a no-hitter the night before by the front running C&S Hitmen, the second place Mystic Marlins bounced back on Saturday night and took their frus tration out on the fourth place Chances Mighty Mitts in a slugfest. In their back-to-back nightcap in the New Providence Softball Asso ciation’s 2022 fastpitch season in the Banker’s Field at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex, the Marlins pulled a 25-14 rout over the Mighty Mitts after their 8-0 shellacking to the Hitmen on Friday night. Second baseman Ste phen Russell went 3-for-3 with four runs batted in and scored four times, highlighted by a three-run home run in a four-run fourth inning that sealed an abbreviated four-run stop page to push their second place win-loss record to 8-2 behind the Hitmen’s 8-1 mark.Just before their game was played, the R&B Operators also played their second game in two nights, but they won both of them, producing a high scoring 20-9 decision over the University of the Baha mas Mingoes and a 20-0 whitewashing of the John son’s Lady Truckers on Saturday night. With the victories, the Lady Truckers pulled even with the Sunshine Auto Wildcats for first place in the ladies’ division with a 7-2 win-loss record. The losses kept the Lady Truckers in third at 4-5 and the Mingoes in fourth at 2-6. The Black Scorpions occupy the last spot at 1-6. Marlins 24, Mighty Mitts 14: While Stephen Russell earned the most valuable player award for his efforts, just about every player except one got at least one or more hits as they redeemed themselves from Friday night. “Last night (Friday) was one of those nights. I guess the guys were a little scary or shaky against Edney (Bethel), but tonight we came out and played with heart and hit the ball,” said Charlie Rolle, a coach for the“LastMarlins.night (Friday) was one of those nights. That is behind us. We’re looking forward“Forwardnow. ever, back ward never. The next time we meet them (Hitmen), come to the park and see. I think it will be a much betterCentregame.”fielder Angelo Watson led off the parade by going 2-for-2 with four runs scored, left fielder Winston Seymour Jr fol lowed with a 1-for-2 outing with three RBI and three runs scored, catcher Gar field Bethel was 1-for-4 with four runs scored, shortstop Austin Hanna was 1-for-3 with two RBI and three runs scored, first baseman Thomas Davis was 2-for-3 with two RBI and two runs scored, third baseman Anton Hanna was 1-for-4 with two RBI and two runs scored and centre fielder Elli Adder ley was 1-for-3 with two runs scored. Deon Whyte went the distance for the win on the mound, giving up nine hits with two strike
Jonquel Jones and Sun fall in 2-1 hole
NEW YORK (AP) — Much like for so many other folks, Serena Wil liams’ last match at the US Open was must-see TV for players still in the tourna ment, so Jessica Pegula and Petra Kvitova tuned in from their hotel rooms the night before their victories led off Saturday’s schedule and set up a fourth-round showdown.“Ofcourse I watched Serena.“I’m like everyone else,” said Pegula, a 28-year-old American who is seeded No. 8 at Flushing Meadows and beat qualifier Yuan Yue 6-2, 6-7 (6), 6-0.
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The Sky’s Kahleah Copper made a three pointer to give her team the aforementioned 66-64 lead with 6:14 left to play. Both teams followed with a nearly four-minute drought.
CONNECTICUT Sun forward Jonquel Jones reacts during Game 3 of a WNBA basketball semifinal playoff series against the Chicago Sky yesterday in Uncasville, Connecticut.(APPhotos/Jessica Hill)
TEAM Bahamas is cur rently fourth in Group A at the CONCACAF Men’s U17TheQualifiers.sideimproved to a 2-1 record as they blanked the British Virgin Islands on Saturday, September 3 at the IMG Academy Field in Bradenton, Florida. William Gardiner was named the man of the match and Robert Hol combe scored the lone goal at minute 33. The Bahamas continues play this morning against Bermuda at 9am. This match will mark the fourth CONCACAF Men’s U-17 qualifying meeting between the two sides.
The Connecti cut Sun lost a pivotal game three of the WNBA semi finals and surrendered home court advantage for the remainder of the series, but the story emerging out of yesterday’s game was the limited time Jonquel Jones received down the stretch. With Connecticut trail ing 66-64 with 3:37 left to play, Sun head coach Curt Miller subbed Jones out of the game. She checked back in with 54 seconds left to play and the Suns down byJonessix. finished with just six points on 3-10 shooting from the field with eight rebounds and two blocked shots in just 24 minutes. Miller explained his late game substitution pattern in his post-game avail ability. “It’s sometimes offence-defence and it’s so much harder at the pro level to do that unless there’s a dead ball, you can’t be canissubstitutingoffence-defenceattheproleveldifficult.Attimes,nowwegetthemspread out moving with a smaller lineup,” Miller said. “I have to make those calls, difficult decisions, all the time. At times they don’t come with as many doubles to Bri Jones so at times do we get the ball inside with spacing that we want because they send so much attention to JJ. “It’s kind of a feel and there’s always going to be second guesses when you don’t win. When you win people will say you pushed the right buttons. Searching, when we were struggling to score and trying to find some more movement late in that game when we were strug gling to score.” The Sky leads the bestof-five series 2-1. The Sun will host game four 8pm Tuesday night at Mohegan Sun Arena.
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