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Title-chasing jockey Dane Dawkins on Sunday moved seven winners clear of three-time defending champion Anthony Thomas after landing a two-timer on the 10-race card at Caymanas Park.

Among Dawkins’ two-timer was Richard Azan’s POWER RANKING in the six-and-a-half furlong O & S Tack Room Trophy event for non-winners of four races, the second of back-to-back winners for the veteran trainer.

POWER RANKING easily attacked AWESOME RICH and BUZZ CITY LIGHT a half-mile out after 7-5 favourite YELLOWSTONE’S scrappy start from post-position one.

A 3-2 winner, POWER RANKING clocked 1:21.0, turning the tables on YELLOWSTONE, who had beaten him into fourth when finishing second to EMPEROR OF THE CATS on July 9 at five and a half furlongs.

Meanwhile, ARTESIA upstaged even-money favourite THE GOOD WITCH, who had to be taken in hand by Dick Cardenas after suffering traffic problems in the seven-furlong restricted overnight allowance event.

THE GOOD WITCH fell back to 11th in the 16-horse field while Omar Walker made his move with 9-2 chance ARTESIA down the backstretch to run past RAW LIQUID early in the straight, posting a quick 1:26.1 for the trip.

Dawkins had earlier opened the card with ONE LIKE IT, beating three-year-old maidens at five furlongs round.

Thomas’ lone winner was 4-5 favourite CHRISANLI at five and a half furlongs in a $250,000 claiming event.

Racing continues on Saturday.

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A motorcyclist was killed earlier this evening after colliding with a car along the Berbice River Bridge Access Road, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne).

The dead man has been identified as Aubrey Sears of No.9 Village, West Coast Berbice (WCB).

Reports are that the motor car bearing registration number PPP 2020 was heading east while the motorcyclist was proceeding in the opposite direction.

This publication understands that the motorcyclist was looking backwards while riding and rode into the car. After the collision, he reportedly fell onto the roadway where he sustained injuries.

The injured man was picked up and taken to the New Amsterdam Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Last year March, a couple lost their lives following an accident which also occurred on the Berbice River Bridge Access Road. Speeding was said to have been the cause of that accident as the driver lost control and collided with a concrete culvert and ended up in a nearby trench.

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[Update: Sunday, August 28 at 9 am]

The Barbados Meteorological Services continues to closely monitor an area of disturbed weather embedded within the monsoon trough about 1400 miles east of Barbados.

This system remains disorganized and is still not expected to change much in terms of its structure as it tracks west-northwestward around 10-15mph over the next few days.

Over the past 24 hours extended forecast tracks have been persistent in a projected track well north of Barbados by late next week.

The next update will be issued by at 6 pm on August 28.

[Original publication: Friday, August 26 at 9:53 pm]

Met Office warns we are heading in to peak Hurricane Season now

Barbadians are being warned to remember, “We are entering the peak of the hurricane season and the public is asked to ensure that their hurricane preparedness checklists have been completed” to ensure they are in a state of readiness.

This comes from the Barbados Meteorological Services.

At the moment, the Barbados Meteorological Services is closely monitoring an area of disturbed weather embedded within the monsoon trough about 2550 KM or 1585 Miles east of Barbados.

This system remains disorganized and is not expected to change much over the next few days as it moves very slowly westward to westnorthwestward. Extended forecast tracks at this time takes the system well north of Barbados by late next week however, the Met Office is strongly recommending that the public listens for daily updates over the weekend and early next week.

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Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation (MEGJC), Senator Matthew Samuda, has hit back strongly at critics who have made snide remarks about the frequent cutting of ribbons at ceremonies by the Government.

There has been much criticisms, especially from supporters of the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP), that such ceremonies, including the presentation of houses under the New Social Housing Programme (NSHP), are being used by Prime Minister Andrew Holness and his Administration as a distraction from the state of the nation’s economy.

However, Holness has used such handing-over ceremonies to lash such critics by pointing to the economic growth the island is experiencing even amid inflation and rising food and energy prices both locally and internationally.

In commenting on the criticisms at the commissioning of a water supply project in Negril, Westmoreland on Thursday, Samuda argued that a ribbon-cutting is symbolic of the completion of a multi-million dollar investment made by the Government or any other investor.

“This is yet another ceremony that has almost been religiously scheduled on a Thursday as our project and… we have called it ‘Turn on the Pipe Thursdays’, but generally, we have been on the road every single Thursday commissioning water systems,” he explained.

“Now that speaks to the amount of work that has gone into creating the volume of systems and to building the amount of new pumping stations and connecting and replacing old pipes, to have several Thursdays of work to do,” the minister continued.

“I have heard a recent criticism in the press which I found very strange. I’ve followed politics all my life through the news, and I’ve never heard in all my life someone being criticised for cutting ribbons,” Samuda lamented.

He described the criticisms as being “very strange”, as the process to bring such developments as the water system project to a reality in Westmoreland started in 2004.

“A ribbon is a representation of the closure or the completion of thousands of man hours. In many cases, hundreds of millions and sometimes billions of dollars in investment,” he shared.

Samuda, in responding directly critics of the Government’s efforts, said more ribbon-cutting ceremonies are on the horizon.

“So, when a Government is cutting ribbons, is breaking ground, commissioning projects, it is because that Government is working hard!

“So, I can’t understand where this criticisms could come from for cutting ribbons. I want to put on record this afternoon that we will be cutting a lot more ribbons,” he assured.

The minister also promised further ribbon-cutting ceremonies for projects in the Western Westmoreland constituency where the Jamaica Labour Party’s Moreland Wilson is the Member of Parliament (MP).

“… And MP you have my commitment that while I have my hands on the baton, you can expect more ground-breaking, more ribbon cuttings, and more commissioning within your constituency,” declared Samuda.

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