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Former champions St George’s College continued their brilliant start to the ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup competition with an away 8-0 mauling of Meadowbrook High on matchday four on Thursday.
St George’s College, which were picking up their second consecutive win, took their goal tally to an impressive 14 from their two Group A games.
In the other Group A encounters, defending champions Kingston College (KC) blanked Ardenne High 2-0 while Calabar High and Waterford High battled to a 1-1 draw.
Brian Burkett netted a three-timer for St George’s College to take his goal tally for the season to five. Joshua Jackson, Adrian Reid Jnr, Ranza Toomer, Raheem McIntosh, and Taesean O’Neil scored a goal apiece.
The ‘Light Blues’ lead the group with six points courtesy of goal difference. Second-place KC are also on six points from two games.
Waterford High moved into third spot with four points while Calabar inched to one point in fourth spot. Both Ardenne and Meadowbrook are without a point.
Meanwhile, Haile Selassie High grabbed pole position in Group C with a 2-1 win over Vauxhall High. They moved to four points.
Charlie Smith also moved to four points with a 1-0 win over Bridgeport High but remained in second spot.
Tivoli Gardens slipped to third spot on three points following a 3-2 defeat at the hands of Edith Dalton James High School, which are also on three points but in fourth spot. Bridgeport High are down to fifth also on three points.
In Group F, former champions Excelsior High whipped Cumberland High 6-0 and surged to the top of the group with four points. Cumberland are third on three points.
Kingston Technical High are second on four points following a 2-1 win over Clan Carthy High while Campion College and Jose Marti High played out a 0-0 stalemate.
Thursday’s results
Group A
Ardenne High 0, KC 2Meadowbrook High 0, St George’s College 7Waterford High 1, Calabar High 1
Group CCharlie Smith 1, Bridgeport 0Edith Dalton James 3, Tivoli Gardens 2Haile Selassie 2, Vauxhall High 1
Group FClan Carthy 1, Kingston Technical 2Campion College 0, Jose Marti 0Excelsior High 6, Cumberland 0
Friday’s games (Home teams named first)
Group BSt Catherine High vs Jamaica CollegeSt Mary’s College vs St JagoCedar Grove vs Holy Trinity
Group ECamperdown High vs Papine HighHydel High vs Mona HighKingston High vs Wolmer’s Boys
All games are scheduled to start at 3:30 pm.
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Virginia has denied parole to convicted sniper killer Lee Boyd Malvo, ruling that he is still a risk to the community two decades after he and his partner terrorised the Washington, DC, region with a series of random shootings.
Malvo was 17 when he and John Allen Muhammad shot and killed 10 people and wounded three others over a three-week span in October 2002. Multiple other victims were shot and killed across the country in the prior months as the duo made their way to the nation’s capital region from Washington state.
Malvo was convicted of capital murder in Virginia and sentenced to life in prison without parole. But a series of Supreme Court rulings and a change in Virginia law gave Malvo the opportunity to seek parole after serving nearly 20 years in custody.
The Virginia Parole Board rejected his request on August 30, finding that Malvo remains a risk to the community and should serve more of his sentence before being released on parole, state records of Parole Board decisions for August show.
“Release at this time would diminish seriousness of crime; Serious nature and circumstances of your offence(s),” the Parole Board wrote.
Malvo’s accomplice, John Allen Muhammad, was executed in Virginia in 2009. Malvo, now 37, was sentenced to life without parole for the three Virginia killings. But after the US Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that mandatory life sentences for juveniles are unconstitutional, two federal courts found that Malvo was entitled to new sentencing hearings.
The Virginia legislature also passed a law in 2020 that gave juvenile offenders an opportunity to seek parole after serving 20 years.
Malvo was a 15-year-old from Jamaica who had been sent to live in Antigua when he met the much older Muhammad.
Muhammad trained and indoctrinated Malvo, and in 2002 the pair embarked on a nationwide killing spree that ended with the 10 slayings in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
Trial testimony indicated the shootings were a plan for Muhammad to regain custody of his children by killing his ex-wife and making her death appear to be a result of random violence.
Malvo is serving his sentence at the super maximum-security Red Onion State Prison in Virginia.
Even if Malvo had been granted parole in Virginia, he also received a life prison sentence in Maryland for crimes in the neighbouring state. Last month, Maryland’s highest court ruled that Malvo must be resentenced for his crimes there.
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Jamaica’s COVID-positivity rate increased to 17.9 per cent amid 95 new COVID-19 cases recorded over a 24-hour period up to Wednesday afternoon.
There was no coronavirus related death recorded for the one-day reporting period.
The overall coronavirus death toll in Jamaica remains at 3,288.
There were 112 recoveries on the day, bringing that tally to 97,902.
The newly confirmed COVID-19 cases brought the total number on record for the island to 151,016.
Notably, the 17.9 per cent positivity rate was based on the samples that were tested on Wednesday.
Of the newly confirmed cases, 54 are females and 41 are males, with ages ranging from one month to 99 years.
The case count was made up of Kingston and St Andrew (24), Westmoreland (16), St James (11), Clarendon (11), St Elizabeth (10), St Catherine (seven), Portland (six), Manchester (four), St Mary (two), Hanover (one), St Ann (one), St Thomas (one), and Trelawny (one).
There are 32 moderately ill patients, six severely ill patients and four critically ill patients among 833 active cases now under observation in Jamaica.
There are now 104 COVID-19 patients hospitalised locally.
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The SAINT model army was among the Jamaicans dominating the just-ended New York Fashion Week (NYFW).
Sprint legends Usain Bolt and Elaine Thompson-Herah were also in the city that never sleeps, on the runway for Puma by June Ambrose.
The in-demand catwalkers from Saint, however, racked up a formidable slate of runway appearances for the most influential fashion houses that previewed their Spring/Summer 2023 ready-to-wear collections across multiple locations.
Led by resurgent Jamaican supermodel Kai Newman whose impeccable bookings included walking for Tom Ford, Tory Burch, Altuzarra, Marni as well as Vogue World, AmericanVogue’s 130-year-anniversary runway showcase, the SAINT squad comprised of Tomiwa, Wayne Booth, Winston Lawrence, Jamie Melbourne and Naki Depass.
Jetting in from Paris, SAINT’s Nigerian supermodel-in-the-making Tomiwa, making her second trip stateside for NYFW, clocked runway time for Ulla Johnson, Theory and Gabriela Hearst.
For Hearst’s show at Brooklyn Navy Yards, the African beauty wore Look #4 in a gold leather tuxedo pantsuit.
The New York Times fashion critic Vanessa Friedman raved Hearst’s new collection “was pretty terrific…big gold staples lined the edges of tailored pantsuits and long gold dusters topped simple tank dresses.”
In the case of Jamaican-raised, United States resident fashion designer Edvin Thompson, winner of the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s American Emerging Designer of the Year Award 2021, who presented his runway show this past Wednesday which featured Portland-born SAINT Lawrence, Voguehailed it as being “a tightly edited and focused collection loaded with budding signatures (for which), Thompson confirmed that for him, there is no such thing as a sophomore slump.”
Lawrence showed up too, on the catwalks for menswear designer Nicholas Raefski and Italian luxury brand Marni which crisscrossed the Atlantic to debut its upcoming collection under the Manhattan Bridge.
At Spring Studios in Tribeca, SAINT’s 60-year-old male stunner Jamie Melbourne defied ageist constructs with a runway appearance for the men’s and womenswear brand Deveaux’s 41-piece collection reveal.
SAINT top model Wayne Booth made it a triple with her catwalk turns for Christian Cowan, Marrisa Wilson and Aliette. Meanwhile, Brooklyn resident Naki Depass who is the face of Tibi’s current Fall/Winter 2022 global advertising campaign, showed up on the catwalk in two separate looks for the brand’s new collection.
Sprint legends Usain Bolt and Elaine Thompson-Herah hit the runway walking for Puma’s Futrograde 76-piece collection by Antiguan-American stylist and the brand’s creative director June Ambrose (inset). (Photos: Hypebeast)
Then, Bolt and Thompson-Herah decked out in Puma’s Futrograde threads – designed by Antigua-born American celebrity stylist and creative director June Ambrose – hit the runway in a collection of old classics reworked for Ambrose’s debut as Puma’s Creative Director. The ‘Forever Faster’ collection was revealed at Cipriani’s Great Hall in Manhattan.
For SAINT CEO Deiwght Peters, their collective brilliant start for this season’s Fashion Month will shift to London, then Milan and end in Paris.
He shared “New York’s always been great to SAINT, and I’m proud of Kai’s triumphant return to NYFW, and how exceptionally well all the models did, it was blessings upon blessings.”
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Lieutenant General Rocky Meade, the immediate former Chief of Defence Staff, has declined an offer from the prime minister to serve in the position of Cabinet Secretary.
The development followed what some legal sources have contended to be an unconstitutional element to the planned appointment.
It has been posited that as a member of the military, Meade was not a member of the public service because the army is not formally considered to be part of the public service.
Consequently, with the Cabinet secretary role being supposedly constitutionally required to be held by a serving or former member of the public service, it has been contended that Meade is not eligible to take up the position unless he is appointed to the public service and then as Cabinet Secretary.
Arising from increasing political discourse around the appointment, Meade issued a statement through the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) on Thursday evening.
Below is the full text of the release:
“I was advised by the Office of the Cabinet that I would receive a letter of appointment from His Excellency, the Governor-General, through the Office of the Services Commission, for the post of Cabinet Secretary on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, with input from the Public Services Commission.
“After almost four decades of service to the people of Jamaica, I was convinced to continue to serve, and had initially indicated my intention to accept the offer.
“Although I was invited by the Public Services Commission to be considered for the post while I was still a serving officer, the current public discourse does not provide a sufficiently settled environment for the assumption of such a significant office, and I will therefore seek His Excellency’s understanding of my decision to decline (the offer).
“I would again like to thank His Excellency, the Governor-General, the Most Honourable Prime Minister and the Public Services Commission for the consideration and confidence, and (I would) appreciate their understanding of my position.”
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TOBAGO Chamber of Industry and Commerce president Diane Hadad says the organisation is deeply concerned about the island’s economic progress.
She made the statement on Thursday, hours after Progressive Democratic Patriots (PDP) political leader Watson Duke resigned as THA Deputy Chief Secretary. However, he remains the party’s leader and the assemblyman for Roxborough/Argyle.
Duke’s resignation as Deputy Chief Secretary was the latest development in a public feud between him and THA Chief Secretary Farley Augustine over the assembly’s response to the plight of some 27 members of the Roxborough Folk Performers who had gone to New York to perform at Labour Day celebrations.
Duke had claimed that outside of airfare for the members of the group, the THA did not provide additional funding to cover other expenses.
As a result, he claimed the members of the group were stranded, stressed and hungry.
Augustine has denied Duke’s version of the events, saying the assembly provided finding for airfare and other expenses to the tune of $400,417.50.
Augustine subsequently said he was reviewing Duke’s role as Deputy Chief Secretary as he had not been fulfilling several of his responsibilities.
On Thursday, Duke held a news conference at the PDP’s Barataria head office, saying he had lost confidence in Augustine.
Hadad said the development does not augur well for Tobago’s development.
“Based on what I have read and some of what I have heard it seems to be that we are not in a good place,” she told Newsday.
“It seems to be that Mr Duke has made himself very clear that he is not in a position to continue to participate and, therefore, he has made a very powerful decision in that he has removed himself.”
She added, “That leaves a lot now to the younger minds to deliver and he did speak to youth, he did speak to childishness, he did speak to a lot of questions that, of course, we have had in terms of concerns as to the delivery of the island’s way forward and economics. So the spotlight will now be on the team however strong, weak or medium.”
Hadad said since the PDP formed the THA in December 2021, the chamber “Has seen nothing of it.
“So it leaves us to wonder, ‘Where is this Tobago space or place or great little island that he (Augustine) speaks about?’”
She believes Tobago needs serious minds to carry it forward.
“Whether Farley and Duke will co-operate or go in search of the assistance and expertise that is required is another issue and we would need to look at it.”
Tobago Business Chamber chairman Martin George said the relationship between Duke and Augustine now appears unsalvageable.
Reacting to Duke’s sudden resignation, George said, “The fractures in the PDP party appear, at this point, to be beyond the point of no return and we reached the tipping point.
“So in those circumstances, it does not appear that this relationship is salvageable. We had hoped that it would have been otherwise but it seems for whatever reason that it has gone past the point of no return.”
He added, “Even if they try to give the impression of unity at a later stage, I think the public will be very suspicious of it and they will think that look this is a case of two men hugging each-other, each one holding a long knife behind his back waiting for the moment to strike. This unfortunately appears to be the end of the Watson/Farley relationship at this time.”
George said the chamber wants to see how the THA, under Augustine’s leadership, will navigate its way “out of the current crisis and debacle.”.
“We, as the Tobago Business Chamber and myself as an attorney hope that we can find a smooth, easy and effective transition to ensure that the business of Tobago continues and that the people of Tobago are not thereby disenfranchised or made to suffer as a result of this clash of personalities and this warfare within the belly and bosom of the PDP. It does not seem that they can remain together within the party.”
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Your Eyewitness put some more thought about Queen Elizabeth’s passing. Well, to be honest, he – a news junkie! – couldn’t really help it, since there wasn’t a news site he could visit and not be bombarded by titbits about her!! Which he really could’ve done without!! That she was the only person in the UK allowed to drive without a licence didn’t impress…half of the drivers in Guyana have that privilege!! Anyhow, after the inundation, he’s decided there actually ARE some things we in Guyana ought to be thankful about because of Elizabeth. Can we call her “full mouth” like that?
Take the Coronation Mug with Royal Coat of Arms that all schoolchildren in then British Guiana – and across the Empire?? – were given back in 1953. For most of them – in BG at least – it was the first ceramic piece of pottery they ever saw or held. And became a prized display piece in their homes for decades!! Gotta be thankful for that since it might’ve pushed some of those children to move up from enamel cups to porcelain!! And taking that thought to its conclusion, the poverty and inequality that Elizabeth’s Empire was built on – motivated all of us to aspire to “better” ourselves!!
Then there were the nice British books we all read…like Bobbsey Twins and Famous Five and such like. How else would we have known about scones and crumpets and suchlike that were so much better than our conkies!! We never tasted them, but they HAD to be better!! No one wrote books about adventurous kids eating conkies, did they?!! Books get written about IMPORTANT things!! And, of course, our tastes were expanded across the board to include tinned sardines and condensed milk – which were so much superior to the fresh fish and fresh milk those unwashed women vendors brought to our doors!!And let’s not talk about clothes! All we were used to were chintzy cotton fabrics that just wouldn’t hold a “seam”. Those colonial woollen suits with silk ties were a God-send that made us look “civilised” – like folks in the Queen’s circle. Your Eyewitness was grateful – as he espied in a retrospective pic he saw in the papers – that on her visit to Guyana, Elizabeth was able to make Cheddi Jagan drop his shirt-jac and don a spiffy white dinner jacket – with a bow-tie!! Priceless!!
Then there were her government’s policies that kept us from overeating and getting obese!! She thoughtfully ensured our parents’ earnings from working from day clean to sundown in the cane fields of Bookers couldn’t buy too much rich foods!!Kept us from getting spin-off diseases like heart attacks and diabetes!! God save the Queen!!
…for Elections Inquiry
Now that the CoI into the PNC’s rigging attempt has been constituted, your Eyewitness hopes they’ll get on with it and answer questions that’ve been troubling him since March 3, 2020!! And that’s a long time to be troubled!! The first one is this. Up to the evening of March 2, when the polls closed, all the PNC coalition leaders – Nagamootoo, Granger, Harmon and Ramjattan expressed their total satisfaction on the conduct of the elections.Under the new communications regime with cell phones and all that, they would’ve all received calls on what went on in the polling stations – from their party agents and even workers friendly to them. Surely, they would’ve reported discrepancies or unusual numbers of persons who had to be vetted before voting – because of mismatching between their bio-metric details and their physical details??So, what made Mingo make rectification for the “dead and emigrated voting” by March 3rd and 4th?
…for our donkeys
Your Eyewitness was amazed to read the following from AP: “Nigerian officials have seized thousands of donkey penises that were about to be exported to Hong Kong. Sacks of the donkey male genitals were seized at the international airport in Lagos.”What are donkey penises used for in Hong Kong??
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In the Road Town park named for Queen Elizabeth II, who died last Thursday at age 96, government officials and other residents gathered on Friday afternoon to commemorate the late monarch and her record-setting 70-year reign.
Squinting under the hot September sun, attendees watched as eight police officers presented a gun salute, each firing a dozen shots to mark the number of years the Queen lived until her death last Thursday at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.
Premier Dr. Natalio “Sowande” Wheatley and Governor John Rankin both spoke at the short ceremony.
Mr. Rankin noted that the Queen, who ascended to the throne in 1952 at age 27, was the longest-serving British monarch in history.
“For most of us, she has been a constant in our lives,” he said. “Long did she, indeed, reign over us.”
He added that the Queen “remained steadfast” throughout her reign, serving with “dignity, decency, grace and dedication.”
The premier reflected on the Queen’s accomplishments and recalled her two visits to the Virgin Islands.
“Her Majesty stepped into her role and owned it with confidence for every moment of the last 70 years since — ruling through international social, political and technological revolutions and many periods of challenge and triumph,” Dr. Wheatley said. “Virgin Islanders and residents who are old enough will remember Her Majesty’s two visits to the Virgin Islands. First in 1966, Her Majesty was accompanied by her husband, His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edin- burgh; then again in 1977, when my grandfather, Chief Minister Dr. Willard Wheatley, had the honour of hosting her here in the territory.”
He added that the Queen “leaves a legacy” and that the VI “joins the world in mourning” her.
Born in 1926, young Elizabeth became heir presumptive about ten years later when Edward VIII abdicated the throne to her father, who became King George VI.
She married Royal Navy Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten in 1947, and the following year gave birth to Prince Charles.
While representing her father during a 1952 tour, she and her husband received news of her father’s death while in Kenya. The couple flew back to England, and her coronation was held in 1953. Her long reign encompassed many landmark events in global history, including the moon landing, the Cold War, the advent of the internet, Brexit, and the independence of more than 20 countries that were once part of Britain’s overseas “empire.”
The Queen also greeted 15 British prime ministers, starting with Sir Winston Churchill and ending with Liz Truss, who she officially invited to assume the role just two days before her death last week. In June, Britain celebrated the Queen’s 70 years on the throne with the “Platinum Jubilee,” a four-day national holiday. An observance held in the VI the same month included a parade through Road Town.
The Queen was preceded in death by her husband Prince Philip, who died in April 2021.
On Saturday at St. James’s Palace in London, the Queen’s eldest son was officially proclaimed King Charles III and head of the Commonwealth, an association of 56 independent countries and 2.4 billion people. His coronation date has not yet been announced.
Here in the VI, another ceremony was held at Government House on Sunday afternoon, where Mr. Rankin proclaimed allegiance to the King before another gun salute.
Dr. Wheatley, who is currently in the Cayman Islands for business meetings hosted by the Caribbean Tourism Organisation, plans to travel to London for the Queen’s funeral on Monday in Westminster Abbey. The same day, the territory will observe a special public holiday in honour of the funeral.
Queen Elizabeth II visited the Virgin Islands for the second time with Prince Philip in October 1977. (File Photo: RONALD WALKER/VINTAGEVIRGINISLANDS.COM
Meanwhile, at the Gover- nor’s Office and Government House, the Union Flag has been raised to half-mast each day and will remain at half-mast until Tuesday.
Other government offices are expected to do the same “as a mark of respect,” the Governor’s Office noted in a press release last Thursday.
The office also opened a book of condolence at the Old Government House Museum, which was open to the public from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday.
The book will remain open until Monday.
A virtual condolence book is also available online at www.royal.uk.
According to the Governor’s Office, Buckingham Palace discouraged the sending of wreaths or flowers in the Queen’s honour, instead urging people to donate to a charity.
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