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Last season’s beaten finalists Jamaica College (JC) returned to winning ways with a 4-2 victory over Holy Trinity High on matchday eight of the 2022 ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup competition, at the Bell Chung Oval, on Wednesday.

Having opened their season with a 13-0 hammering of St Mary’s College and then being held to a 0-0 draw by St Catherine High last Friday, JC fell behind early but recovered well for their second win of the campaign.

Jahvier Lynch grabbed a brace but it was the goals of Kevaughn Wilson and Javon Taylor, sons of two former Jamaica players – Kevin Wilson and Fabian Taylor, respectively, that stole the spotlight for JC.

The Dark Blues jumped to the top of Group B with seven points, the same as second-place St Catherine High, which defeated St Jago High 1-0 on Tuesday. St Jago are third with six points.

Over in Group A, defending champions Kingston College (KC) continued their good form with a 3-1 win over Meadowbrook High at the Stadium East field.

Jaheim McLean, Ashanie Kennedy, and Dujuan Richardsm with his fifth goal of the season, pushed KC to their third consecutive win and onto sole leadership of the group with maximum nine points.

St George’s College suffered a 3-2 defeat against Waterford High and slipped to third spot with six points. Waterford moved into second with seven points.

Calabar High secured their first win by hammering Ardenne High 6-1 to be fourth with four points.

In Group D, Norman Manley High blanked Spanish Town High 3-0 while St Andrew Technical High School (STATHS) and Jonathan Grant battled to a 2-2 draw.

STATHS remained top of the group with seven points, one ahead of Norman Manley with six points. Jonathan Grant are in third spot with four points.

The competition continues on Friday.

Wednesday’s results

Group ACalabar 6 Ardenne 1KC 3 Meadowbrook 1Waterford 3 St George’s College 2

Group BHoly Trinity High 2 JC 4

Group DSpanish Town High 0 Norman Manley 3STATHS 2 Jonathan Grant 2

Friday’s matches

Group CBridgeport High vs Haile Selassie at DunbeholdenTivoli High vs Charlie Smith HighVauxhall High vs Edith Dalton High

Group DSpanish Town High vs STATHS at Prison Oval

Group ECamperdown High vs Kingston High at Alpha InstitutePapine High vs Mona HighWolmer’s Boys vs Hydel High

Group FCumberland High vs Clan CarthyJose Marti vs ExcelsiorKingston Technical vs Campion College

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PARAMARIBO — De VHP heeft woensdag stilgestaan bij de 106de geboortedag van haar eerste voorzitter, Jagernath Lachmon. Waarnemend voorzitter Glenn

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Tekst en beeld Ricky Wirjosentono PARAMARIBO — Met de leuze ‘Iedereen hoort erbij, dat maakt bij blij’ heeft de stichting

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The passing of Elizabeth II has brought home how similar we are to other ex-colonies in her former empire: all our heads of states and officials representing us at her funeral had to use the bus to get to Westminster Abbey!! Now…let’s not get our dander up and knickers in a knot – except for Joe Biden, almost every other of the 170 or so leaders had to queue up for the ride! And Joe gets a pass to ride in his limo (“The Beast”) only cause the Brits wanna cling for dear life to their “special relationship” to remain relevant!! Joe also got an aisle seat inside the Cathedral. In case he had to get to the loo?

But a pic of newly-elected President William Ruto of Kenya – with President Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania and other African leaders shoehorned into a bus – went viral across Africa!! Most folks back home thought it was quite infra dig, and that it made them look like a bunch of school kids on a field trip. Ruto, however, said he used the occasion to network with folks who could help move Kenya out of its brewing economic crisis. One wonders who our rep – Minister of Parliamentary Affairs – networked with.

President Ramaphosa of South Africa, however, didn’t even wait for the final rites – he flew back home because of the crippling blackouts that have hit the once-most-developed country in Africa!! Everything has ground to a halt to intensify the skyrocketing crime wave and xenophobia that had already put the nation on the back foot. And more than anything else, this should force some introspection by all of us as to what have we done to make ourselves REALLY independent from Britain. It’s a cryin’ shame that apart from outliers like Singapore and Mauritius, we seem to have wasted our possibilities and stifled our peoples’ dreams.

But there are some bright spots. Ruto’s Kenya has shown we can make progress from the greatest fetter the Empire placed on us – arbitrarily cobbling together groups of people from entirely different cultures and insisting we’re individual “nations”!! Kenya alone has 44 tribes!! This was sure to create conflict, as we all vied to “rule” like the departed Brits. Divide and conquer!! Meaning literally lording over everybody else!! Well, like us and Ghana, Kenya returned to multiparty democracy in 1992, and, after some serious ethnic violence in 2007, worked out constitutional changes in the political system that have led to peaceful changes in governments.

Back in the day, Burnham picked up his ideas of one-party dictatorship and “Big Man politics” from Africa, and maybe his successors can now observe that peaceful electoral politics is the way to go!!Let’s learn from Mama Africa!!

…on rice farms’ size

When the average Guyanese – outside of rice-farming areas – think about this industry, that’s the largest employer in the country, they see endless acreage of green (or golden) fields fading into the horizon. But the reality is that most rice farmers cultivate small plots of less than 5 acres – and barely scrape out a precarious existence. With President Ali promising his Government would facilitate increasing our rice production from 650,000 tonnes to 850,000 tonnes annually, the path is clear: increase the size of plots for new and existing farmers.

We just gotta follow the identical path that got us in large scale rice-farming, to begin with – convert abandoned cane fields into rice fields!! Studies have now shown that the optimum size for family-run farms is about 25 acres, and, at least with the Skeldon lands, the terminated sugar workers can be leased such lands to put into rice.If this could be done when there was barely any mechanisation in the 1920s, what about now??

…on audited records

It’s been several weeks since IPADA-G said they submitted the financial records demanded of them by the Min of Culture – to account for their $468M grant. So, were those records kosher??Inquiring minds want to know!!

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