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Sandals Regency La Toc Golf Resort and Spa recently closed off its “Football against Cancer” Interdepartmental Competition with a bang. The competition is the brainchild of Sandals Regency La Toc Golf Resort and Spa’s Earth Guardians Group powered by the Environment Health and Safety Department.

The aim of the competition was twofold, providing aid to team members recently diagnosed with cancer while fostering teamwork, comradery and friendly competition throughout the Resort.

The Watersports Team dominated the competition emerging the champions, followed by the Maintenance Team in second place and the Cost Control Team in third place.

Nicarge Edward from the Watersports Team was awarded Most Valuable Player (MVP). In a special match the Management team took on the Watersports Team but was no match for Watersports as the Team successfully defended its title, remaining undefeated in the competition.

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Sandals Regency La Toc Golf Resort and Spa’s Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Manager Rodesha Reid touted the event as a success.

She explained, “It is important that team members are able to have a well-balanced work life experience. While they work hard, there should be time for fun and games as well.” She noted that this is only the beginning as team members are already calling for the next event and are eager to participate.”

The EHS Manager also highlighted the many benefits derived from such an activity including physical fitness.

Sandals Regency La Toc Golf Resort and Spa remains committed to creating a balanced work environment, where team members are able to benefit from both work and play.

Football against Cancer Interdepartmental Competition
 
Departmental Showdown
Winning Team
Stewarding vs. Watersports
Watersports
Cost Control vs. Butlers Elite
Cost Control
Maintenance vs. Housekeeping
Maintenance
Club Sandals vs. Landscaping
Landscaping
Semi-Finals
Winning  Team
Maintenance vs. Landscaping
Maintenance
Cost Control vs. Watersports
Watersports
Finals
Winning  Team
Landscaping vs. Cost Control (Competing for 3rd place)
Cost Control
Maintenance vs. Watersports (Competing for 1st place)
Watersports
Special Match
Winning  Team
Management vs. Watersports
Watersports

SOURCE: Sandals.  Headline photo: Stock image

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door Valerie Fris PARAMARIBO — De aanpassing van de regels voor bouwvergunningen is niet in goede aarde gevallen bij ‘kleine’

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Coach Lorne Donaldson has selected four new players in the national senior women’s football squad for the international friendly against South Korea on September 3.

The game will be played at the Hwaseong Sports Complex in Gyeonggi, South Korea, starting at 3:00 am Jamaica time.

The new players named in the 23-member squad are Kameron Simmonds of the University of Tennessee, Liya Brooks of Hawaii Surf Soccer Club, Sioban Wilson of Birmingham City FC, and Maliah Atkins the University of South Dakota.

The Reggae Girlz will also engage the same opposition in a practice match on September 6.

“The call-ups reflect a strong unit with the majority being members of the World Cup Qualifying squad,” said the Jamaica Football Federation in a press release. “A few of the more popular names are missing from the list through injury. As part of his stated policy, the coach will be using the opportunity of this and other windows this year, to look at other players who were not involved in the recent World Cup qualifiers.”

The squad and the technical staff are scheduled to assemble in Hwaseong on August 30.

Full Reggae Girlz squad: Sydney Schneider (Kansas City Current FC), Yazmeen Jamieson (Simcoe County Rovers), Chantelle Swaby (FC Fleury 9), Allyson Swaby (Angel City FC), Vyan Sampson (Charleton FC-W), Chinyelu Asher (Aik Stockholm), Kayla McCoy (Glasgow Rangers FC), Atlanta Primus (London City FC), Marlo Sweatman (Szent Mihaly – Hungary), Khadija Shaw (Manchester City), Tiernny Wiltshire (Houston Dash – on trials), Drew Spence (Tottenham Hotspur FC-W), Mireya Grey (unattached), Trudi Carter (FC Gintra), Olufolasade Adamolekun (University Of Southern California), Deneisha Blackwood (GPSO 92 ISSY – France), Tiffany Cameron (ETO FC Gyor), Shania Hayles (Bristol City FC), Kameron Simmonds (University of Tennessee), Liya Brooks (Hawaii Surf), Siobhan Wilson (Birmingham City FC), Giselle Washington (University of Tennessee), Maliah Atkins (University of South Dakota).

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It’s a well-worn trope in literature to point out that while some in the world are laughing, others are crying. We live in a world of opposites and contradictions!! And right now, we in Guyana, who’ve been inundated with floods for over a year – with no end seemingly in sight!! – will find it hard to appreciate that half of the world’s been hit by drought during that same period!! And this is no ordinary drought we’re talking about!!

Rivers that have been flowing for thousands of years have suddenly actually DRIED up!! So, we have the great Yangtze River in China – the third longest in the entire world, and the centre of some of the earliest civilisations on earth – drying up to such an extent that a submerged island has been revealed with three Buddhist statues, believed to be 600 years old!! The Yangtze is called the “Yellow River” because of the amount of yellow silt it brings down and deposits on the plains to create one of the most fertile deltas in the world!! So, with the Yellow River down to its bottom, you can imagine what that’s done to food supplies in China. Dried up??

But if we’d been following the news, we’d know that the same situation has hit parts of Europe that had NEVER KNOWN DROUGHT!! The River Loire in France is now completely dry?? And the Danube’s so shrunken that dozens of sunken German warships from WWII are now exposed?? And let’s not even talk about the forest fires sweeping Europe – you’d think Germany, France and Britain were in California!! And moving to the US, how about the great Colorado River that carved out all those canyons drying up?? You’re talking about millions of acres of land that were irrigated from its waters now dry as a bone!!

Now, if you detect a note of schadenfreude in your Eyewitness’s prose, it means you’ve got his drift. Right now, East Africa’s experiencing a severe drought that’s been going on for years. Haven’t we seen enough of those starving children and cattle dying with their ribs touching their backs?? Right now, in Tigray province of Ethiopia, hundreds of thousands are starving as war rages on. Have these countries up north ever taken notice long enough to do something about the crisis, other than shipping in some grains – but with more guns to warlords??

And we all know – or should know – that these droughts and floods are all symptoms of “climate change”, don’t we?? So, now that the ones who caused this disaster are feeling the heat – pun intended! – your Eyewitness hopes it’s focusing their minds to throw their weight and funds to address the problem!!In the meantime, your Eyewitness says, “Burn baby!! Burn!!”

…prejudiceGetting back to the theme that life in Guyana’s becoming increasingly like a Hollywood “B” Movie, it appears that taking care with folks “with extreme prejudice” is becoming commonplace. In military and other covert operations, “terminate with extreme prejudice” is a euphemism for aggressive execution. Like when Obama ordered, “Osama bin Laden be terminated with extreme prejudice”. Get it?? Believe it or not, while it originated in movies like “Apocalypse Now”, the expression “termination with prejudice” was part of employment contracts!! In a military intelligence context, it’s generally understood as an order to assassinate.

So, here in our dear mudland, are we to believe Sgt Bascom – who’s been singing like a canary about the nexus of business and crime – when he insists his life’s in danger?? Now, being a sucker for the aforementioned B movies, your Eyewitness is convinced the man’s fears are justified, and he should immediately be placed in a witness protection plan.You know, with a new name, identity, and home in, say, the Pakaraimas?? But that’s where they dig the gold??

…verificationYour Eyewitness was pleased to learn that after all the loose accusations, in 2021, IPADA-G conducted a $4.9 million flood-relief survey of 3,868 persons to check if there were “disparities” in the distribution.Well???

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