Hudson, Salmon, Smikle strike gold on final day of NACAC Championships Loop Jamaica

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Jamaica’s athletes won 12 medals on the third and final day of the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC) Championships at the Grand Bahama Sports Complex in Freeport, The Bahamas, on Sunday.

The final day haul comprises three gold, six silver, and three bronze for a total of 24 following one on Friday’s opening day and 11 on Saturday’s second day.

Traves Smikle opened the golden path for Jamaica on Sunday and was joined by Shiann Salmon and national 200m champion Andrew Hudson.

Jamaica’s Traves Smikle in action in the men’s discus.

Smikle hurled the disc 62.89m on his third attempt to beat compatriot Fedrick Dacres for the men’s discus gold.

Dacres, who led after the first round with 62.11m secured the silver medal with a throw of 62.79m in the fifth and penultimate round.

Mario Alberto Diaz of Cuba won the bronze with an effort of 62.13m.

Shiann Salmon of Jamaica celebrates after winning gold in the women’s 400m hurdles.

Salmon led home another one-two finish for Jamaica in the women’s 400m hurdles by taking gold in 54.22 seconds.

Janieve Russell finished second for the silver medal in a time of 54.87 while Cassandra Tate (55.62) of the USA took the bronze medal.

Hudson, who was born in the USA and completed for them before changing his allegiance to Jamaica last month, beat the USA pair of Kyree King and Josephus Lyles in the men’s 200m.

The 25-year-old Hudson secured the victory in a new personal best time of 19.87. King crossed the line in 20 seconds flat and Lyles in 20.18.

Tajay Gayle and former Great Britain athlete Adelle Tracey joined Dacres and Russell as individual silver medal winners.

The women’s 4x400m relay quartet of Andrenette Knight, Junelle Bromfield, Shiann Salmon, and Janieve Russell and the men’s 4x400m relay team of Demish Gaye, Karayme Bartley, Jevon Francis, and Christopher Taylor were responsible for the other two silver medals.

Jamaica’s Tajay Gayle in action in the men’s long jump.

2019 World champion Gayle, who has been hampered by injury this season, had to settle for silver in The Bahamas with an effort of 7.81m. Gayle’s countryman Shawn-D Thompson secured the bronze medal with 7.75m.

William Williams of the USA won the gold medal with 7.89m.

Tracey finished second in the women’s 1500m to earn her second medal at the championships. She completed the course in 4:08.42, well behind Heather Maclean of the USA who won the gold medal in 4:04.53.

Tracey won her first medal on Saturday when finishing third in the women’s 800m, her first medal in Jamaican colours.

Jamaica closed out the championships by winning bronze medals in the women’s and men’s 4x100m relays.

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Prime Minister Andrew Holness says that despite the purveyors of doom and gloom within the country, the Jamaican economy is continuing its strong recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and other external shocks.

Speaking at the handing-over of a house under the Government’s New Social Housing Programme (NSHP) in Aberley district in South West St Ann on Friday, Holness pushed back at critics of his Administration’s stewardship of the economy.

“I am saying this to you that in spite of the purveyors of doom and gloom – those people who can only thrive by breaking down Jamaica and making everything look bad – this economy, your country, is recovering nicely and showing resilience,” he declared.

He cited Thursday’s disclosure by the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) that the country’s economy grew by an estimated 5.7 per cent during the April to June 2022 quarter as an example of the economy’s resilience amid global crisis.

“In the midst of crisis when all the negative people saying things are bad, the economy is projected to grow this quarter, as the PIOJ (Planning Institute of Jamaica) has pointed out, by over five per cent.

“My God! When has that ever happened that in a time of crisis where everybody saying recession looming, our economy is still showing strong signs of recovery?” Holness questioned.

While admitting that times are hard due to the economic onslaught brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and the geopolitical tensions in Europe, the prime minister said steady leadership of the country is required to create the right balance between the management of the economy and providing social support.

This, he said, the Government has managed to achieve.

“I am here to say to you, ‘Yes, times are hard, things rough, inflation a beat all a wi, fuel and food prices moving like crazy’, and there are those who would say to you, ‘Give up hope and blame the Government and create chaos’. That not going work!” Holness insisted.

“In these difficult times what you want is steady management, steady leadership, you want a Government that can see beyond the crisis and ensure that we don’t do things in our economy that will destroy it.

“In the midst of crisis, the Government’s steady handling of the economy has resulted in unemployment going down,” he stated.

Though the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) and some citizens have been clamouring for the Government to hand out more social safety net support, Holness said his Administration has, in fact, done so.

“We put social safety net support on electricity for those people who consume below a certain threshold… We give food packages through the CDF (Constituency Development Fund) and that is helping,” he said, adding that special support has also been given to the transport sector, small businesses and the entertainment sector.

However, he opined that “the biggest help” that every independent Jamaican would want in a time of crisis is “if you are not employed and you don’t have (an) income, the best thing for you is to get a job and get some income.

“… And that is what this Government is doing. The critics don’t want you to hear that! They don’t want you to remember that we have brought down unemployment from the highs of 13 per cent. Unemployment is now down to its lowest ever (at) six per cent, and it’s going to go even lower.

“So the best protection against inflation and crisis, (and) the best social safety net that a Government can give to anybody is a job,” Holness insisted.

Meanwhile, the prime minister said the state is moving at pace with the construction of more social houses under the NSHP.

“I am very satisfied with how the programme is working and very soon we will be able to do 500 (houses) a year, and then we can increase that up to a 1,000 a year,” Holness stated.

“Within 10 years, if the programme continues, we should be able to address this housing situation affecting the worse, but the situation will get better as the economy grows and people get employed and they don’t have to rely on social housing,” he indicated.

In the meantime, Holness said the challenges that are being faced by many Jamaicans, including lack of proper housing, can be resolved, as the Government has “the resources and the strength and the will to overcome them.

“… And we are going to do it if it is even one house at a time, one job at a time, one new road at a time, we are going to continue to do it.

“I want you to keep on the side of the positive, keep on the side of the hopeful, (and) keep on the side of the progressive, because if you listen to the negatives, then they become self-fulfilling prophecies,” urged Holness.

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Jamaican born Cayman-based dancehall artiste, Lavaido, is excited about his newest collaboration with fellow upcoming female artiste, Renay Music. The track called ‘Love You Right’ is Lavaido’s first official release as a recording singjay, and already he has been getting positive feedback.

Considered a rarity, Lavaido believes that love song collaborations in dancehall are necessary to preserve relationships. Unlike other genres, however, few songs are released by dancehall acts talking about true love and not only sex. This idea was said to have been the chief inspiration when penning the lyrics to Love You Right, co-produced by Primetime and Unstoppable Music labels.

“It’s definitely a nice dancehall song with meaning that both men and women can relate to. It’s a stay together forever relationship vibe and fits into all occasions, even weddings,” Lavaido indicated.

The artiste also said it is a bit harder to excel as a new dancehall artiste while based in Grand Cayman, but believes real quality songs will transcend any geographical boundary.

“Cayman is not really a place that is known to break out new dancehall artistes, especially with such few local events. But the world is a super small space now digitally, so real music fans will get to enjoy dancehall music from all over the world,” Lavaido added

Visuals for Love You Right are being finalised and should be shot in Jamaica this fall.

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Dominica’s 2022/ 2023 budget has been signed and sealed; Prime minister Roosevelt Skerrit will deliver it today, Tuesday, 26 July at the parliament building on Victoria Street in Roseau.

So, nothing we say here will change the content of the budget presentation but that doesn’t stop most of us from suggesting that Dominica, more than ever before, has to make tough choices to halt our economic decline and put us on the road from crisis to recovery. We have concluded that many times and for many years during the presentation of the annual budget. Covid -19 and the current world economic situation makes that suggestion a no-brainer.

So, we hope and pray that this new budget will recognise the precarious social and economic position that Dominica is in today. But to make these fundamental changes require courageous leadership and the Prime Minister has to be willing to risk the loss of political capital in the process.

The unwillingness and, or inability of our current government and the government of the past two decades, to take these risks may explain why the nation seems to be stuck in neutral gear, unable to embrace new ideas that might disturb their political comfort zone.

For many years the enormous potential of our people to be creative, productive and strong has been crying out to be released. We hope and pray that the government has heard their cry this time and makes a genuine effort to halt our economic decline and set the country on a new path towards real development. Talking alone will not get us there; policies that only guarantee election victories will not get us there; only bold, and maybe unpopular, decisions will get us there.

Undoubtedly, the presentation of a country’s annual budget is an important event because it gives citizens an indication of the policies and programmes that their government intends to implement over a financial year. But unfortunately, budgetary debates and other discussions on the management of the country’s finances have become opportunities for political parties to score points.
On this occasion, we hope that the verbal diarrhoea that passes for substantial debate in parliament is abandoned and discarded. This is not the time to play politics, not the time to fiddle while the nation decays, not the time to turn brother against brother, neighbour against neighbour, one political party against another political party. These precarious times require statesmanship, require putting the country before the party and self, require honesty and transparency and building better together-blue and green and red.

We also hope too that the prime minister will banish the barren boast that his government was proud of its achievements and that the current government had demonstrated a certain level of disciplined economic management characterized by prudence and fiscal responsibility. He said these same words many times in the past. But one look at the size of the Cabinet of ministers, for instance, and you will know that this description, of prudent fiscal responsibility, is misleading, to put it mildly.

There’s no doubt about it: Dominica has one of the most bloated Cabinets in the Eastern Caribbean. And now that our economic survival is at stake, maybe the best time to make that bold move – cut the Cabinet by 50 per cent.

This year, we expect the same pronouncement. We also anticipate that the Prime Minister will list some of the same projects that he did last year under the Public Sector Investment Programme (PSIP). Last year too, we expressed the view that the budget that Prime Minister Skerrit presented to the people of Dominica did not contain the innovative programmes that could haul Dominica out of the precipice of economic stagnation into which the country has plunged.

As we said then, given the overwhelming 18-3 mandate that Mr. Skerrit received from the Dominican voters at the December 2019 general election, we expected much bolder, more daring budgets that would serve as a catalyst for action as Dominicans grapple with problems of the Covid-19 pandemic, the hurricane of 2017, unemployment, shrinking production and productivity and the debilitating effects of the migration of some of our brightest and best.

In budget presentations over the past years, it has been obvious that government adopts unimaginative approaches to solving the country’s problems. Consequently, there have not been any dramatic improvements in the economy-in tourism, agriculture and manufacturing- over the past two decades, at least.

A bolder budget, coupled with the removal of our current self-delusion, could set the stage for Dominica to be economically free, at last.

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Twenty-four-year-old Omar Thompson, otherwise called ‘Maya’, a farmer of Litchfield district, Wait-a-Bit ,Trelawny, has been arrested and charged with illegal possession of firearm, robbery with aggravation and discharging a firearm within 40 yards of a public thoroughfare following an incident in Dryland district in the parish on Wednesday, April 6 this year.

Reports from the Wait-a-Bit police are that about 10:10 am on April 6, a woman parked her pick-up truck and was awaiting someone.

Thompson then allegedly pounced on her and robbed her of $250,000 and a black LG cellular phone valued at $25,000.

Thompson then reportedly fired shots in the air before escaping in the area.

On Saturday, August 20, he was arrested, and was charged after an interview.

His court date is being being finalised.

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Fourth in the St Leger and Jamaica Derby, D HEAD CORNERSTONE outstayed UNRULY DUDE, sweeping by a half-furlong out for a comfortable win at odds of 3-1.

Trained by Gary Subratie, D HEAD CORNERSTONE won by four and three-quarter lengths in 1:40.3, upstaging United States-bred REAL BOSS, the even-money favourite in the event open to local-bred, non-winners of two races, and imported maidens.

REAL BOSS finished third in the 10-horse field, making mild headway in the straight after being among the backmarkers for most of the backstretch.

Thomas, who landed a three-timer on Saturday, is now four winners off Dane Dawkins, who rode two winners to get the better of his rival in their battle atop the jockeys’ standings.

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