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Shamarh Brooks scored 79 and shared a 75-run partnership with captain Nicholas Pooran which guided the West Indies to a five-wicket win over top-ranked New Zealand on Wednesday in the series-opening One-Day International (ODI) at Kensington Oval in Barbados on Wednesday night.
Brooks reached his fourth ODI half century from 58 balls and had faced 91 deliveries when he was out in the 34th over with the West Indies closing on New Zealand’s inadequate total of 190.
Jason Holder (13) and Jermaine Blackwood (12) were at the crease when the home team reached its target with 11 overs to spare.
Earlier, Akeal Hossain took three for 28 and Alzarri Joseph returned three for 36 as the West Indies bowled out New Zealand for 190 in 45.2 overs after choosing to bowl in the first of three ODIs.
It was the first time New Zealand have been dismissed in a 50-over match since March 2020.
“Watching the Kiwis bat I realized it was a bit tough going early for them,” Brooks said in a television interview. “I guess credit must go to our bowlers for reducing them to a score of 190.
“I was just focused on going out there, getting some partnerships and getting that total off.”
Rain breaks punctuated the West Indies innings but couldn’t disturb the steady momentum set by Brooks. The first came in the opening over of the innings and the second in the 29th when the West Indies were only 42 runs from victory. At that point the West Indies already were well ahead of a winning total under the Duckworth-Lewis system.
Pooran was out for 28 immediately after the second rain break but Brooks retained a strong guiding hand on the run chase.
Hosein, Joseph and debuting spinners Kevin Sinclair and Yannic Carriah turned the tide of the New Zealand innings with accurate bowling in the middle overs on a pitch which rewarded spinners with bounce.
New Zealand made a solid start with a 41-run partnership between Martin Guptill and Finn Allen, who struck two sixes and a four from Holder’s bowling in the seventh over.
A short rain break followed at the end of the 8th over and Allen was out for 25 four balls after the resumption. From then on New Zealand lost wickets regularly and struggled to build the partnerships that were necessary to reach a more challenging total.
Allen was Hosein’s first wicket, caught by Pooran who had to run back and hold onto the ball as it came across his shoulder.
Guptill fell in Hosein’s next over, caught by Kyle Mayers at slip for 24 when New Zealand was 53 for two.
Captain Kane Williamson attempted to lead a New Zealand recovery with an innings of 34 from 50 balls. But he lacked support: Devon Conway (4) Tom Latham (12) were out cheaply as New Zealand slumped to 88 for four.
Williamson’s partnership with Daryl Mitchell held promise and the pair had added 28 for the fifth wicket before both were out to Joseph in the 30th over.
Mitchell had made 20 from 32 balls when he was trapped lbw and Williamson followed in the same manner.
Allrounders Michael Bracewell and Mitchell Santner added 40 for the seventh wicket but weren’t able to tip the match back in New Zealand’s favour. Bracewell was out for 31 from 33 balls, trapped lbw to give Carriah his first wicket in one-day internationals. The Trinidadian wrist spinner finished with one for 49 from nine overs.
The New Zealand lower-order often comes to the rescue of the team but on this occasion there was no fightback. Santner was out for 25 with the total 189 for eight and the last two wickets fell quickly.
“Obviously it was challenging out there to get some rhythm and some momentum,” Williamson said. “Credit to the way the West Indies bowled. They got a lot out of that surface and executed their plans well and ultimately played a very good game of cricket.”
The second game will be played Friday at the same venue.
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HURST REPORTS ON CABINET of Wednesday 17 August 2022
The Cabinet commenced its work at about 10:30 am following prayers, three members joining virtually; the meeting concluded at 4:30 pm, six hours later.
The Cabinet agreed that the first phase of the reverse osmosis plant at Fort James, turning out 500,000 gallons of potable water daily, will soon be completed; all the parts having arrived Antigua. Two storage tanks, each capable of holding 350,000 gallons of potable water, will also be fabricated; the basesfor the tanks have been constructed. The planting of the new pipes will also commence immediately, connecting the new plant to the Deepwater Harbour and homes within the Yorks, Villa, Upper Fort Road, the City of St. John’s, and other neighborhoods. APUA is currently providing 7,000,000 gallons daily and there is an expectation that daily output of potable water will rise to 11,000,000 gallons daily, in a few months. It was also agreed that the Ministry of Agriculture would submit a proposal for the provision of water tanks to farmers operating within the six agricultural zones, including Barbuda. The Minister of Agriculture reminded that drought conditions still hamper production on farms, and threaten our food security ambitions.
2.The Cabinet invited one of the principals of Trimble Company—a firm which specializes in cadastral surveys and land registers—to join its meeting virtually. The firm will work with the Government of Antigua and Barbuda to complete the mapping of Barbuda, and will bring the Barbuda land registration system into the 21st The company provided timelines for the completion of its work, each step being detailed to allow for the measurement of its effectiveness. The Privy Council recently confirmed that all land in the unitary state of Antigua and Barbuda is owned by the Crown,unless privately owned. Since no land in Barbuda is owned by any person or corporation, the land comprising Barbuda is owned by the Crown. Those who have leasehold interest in the land in Barbuda, the Privy Council determined, have a lawful interest in the land as determined by the lawful authorities in Antigua and Barbuda. The PLH project, the Privy Council ruled, has a legitimate interest in the leased land it occupies in Barbuda.
Five officials from Her Majesty’s Prison, including the Prison Superintendent, were invited to Cabinet to address the challenges which they face, and the steps to be taken to eliminate or reduce the prisoners’ access to items that are disallowed. More than 60 cellphones were recently discovered in the cells occupied by prisoners during a surprise search and raid. Investigations have followedin order to determine which prison officials are responsible. Although the Cabinet may make rules for discipline and training at the Prison, the Officials have repeated that prevention is superior to punishment. Screening of those entering the Prison compound, including Officers, should not be left to the Prison authorities, it was determined. Five proposals were put forward to Cabinet.
Changing frequently the Officers who are responsible for checking entry and exit of the Prison,utilizing metal detectors and other kinds of security systems.
Complete the two towersthat are intended to deter folks from throwing items over the prison walls.
iii. One Officer to seven inmates is the ideal ratio; the ratio is now one on duty Officer to almost forty inmates at a time. There are about 250 inmates in the prison. At least 40 more officers are to be trained and deployed.
One additional vehicle and other safety equipment are required in order to effectively manage the prison and movement of prisoners.
An internal buffer fence at the eastern border of the prison should immediately be constructed.
Four Officials from the UWI Five Island Campus were invited to Cabinet. They included the Principal and Vice Chancellor Densil Williams and Registrar Hyram Forde.UWI started out with 178 students; by September 1,700 students will be enrolled at the UWI Five Islands Campus and that number will climb to more than 2,000 by September 2024. The Principal informed that on-campus residences are required as is an administrative complex. The Government of Antigua and Barbuda is about to acquire US$40 million from the Saudi’s and will leverage 39 million towards the UWI Five Islands Campus expansion. Faculty housing will also be constructed near the campus and a clinic site will be arranged on campus which will host a nurse, an ambulance and possibly a fire tender. A Nursing School that meets the high standard set by the Antigua and Barbuda Law will have its beginnings September 2022. The UWI Five Islands will also create “The Center for Excellence for Oceanagrophy and the Blue Economy.” The Blue Economy is expected to have a significant impact on economic diversification through training of youth, taking Antigua and Barbuda to the next level. A Director is to be appointed and is expected to be in place by October 2022.
The Principal of UWI also made a presentation of the plans foranUWI Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Department; this will be a major focus of UWI Five Islands. Comparisons between the OECS and other Caribbean countries were offered and it is clear that the OECS has to step-up; and, UWI Five Islands is intended to do just that. A strong Business School is also needed for outstanding performance in business. UWI will provide the Business Education required in order to move the OECS forward.
The Minister of Health reported that there isNO major surge of Covid-19 after Carnival 2022. He concluded that 57 infections serve as evidence that boosters are working and encouraged Antiguans and Barbudans to get vaccinated and boosted. The Minister drew the Cabinet’s attention to large-scale events before that led to as many as 250 infections following the events. The policies of the Gaston Browne-led administration are clearly justifiable and helpful in the fight against Covid-19.
The Minister of Education invited two parents,two youngsters (8 and 11 years old) and a teacher to the Cabinet to share with the Cabinet the successes of the STEM camp at UWI. More than 280 students were registered and perused four disciplines during the life of the camp: Computer, Robotics, Rapid Design (including robotic drones), and E-Sport.The teacher explained the basis for the selection of the subject areas; and, the eleven year old Zende Hazelwood and the eight year old Kamal Vaswani provided testimony as to the usefulness of the Camp.
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The head of one of LIAT’s shareholder governments wants to see a “humanitarian” resolution to the ongoing pay dispute involving former employees of the cash-strapped regional carrier. CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP FOR NEWS UPDATES.
Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit made the call as former employees of the airline – which is owned by his government as well as the governments of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, and St Vincent and the Grenadines – continue to demand severance and other payments.
The employees’ unions say they are disappointed that the shareholder governments have not addressed severance payments to the former workers, even as the airline operates a reduced schedule since November 2020.
“The issue of the payment of severance pay is a matter of the law but we believe that some form of compromise should occur. That’s our personal opinion. It is not the position of the entire shareholders of LIAT, but our personal position,” Skerrit said, speaking on the state-owned DBS radio.
“Something has to happen and I am hoping that we can find a way of addressing it at some point, especially during the discussions taking place for a new entity. But this will have to be dealt with by individual governments and I am not in a position to indicate what position each government should take. But I believe that we should find a solution. I know some governments have made some proposals to some of the unions. I believe that all of us in it must come to a point of compromise.
“We will have to look at the laws in the respective countries and I don’t want to speak about the issue of the law; I am speaking purely from a humanitarian standpoint,” Skerrit added.
Earlier this week, the general secretary of the Antigua and Barbuda Workers’ Union (ABWU) David Massiah said he would continue efforts to have a meeting with Cleveland Seaforth, the court-appointed administrator for the airline.
He said among the issues to be discussed will be the decision by the shareholder governments to liquidate the company which owes millions of dollars to former employees who were dismissed last year.
Massiah said the administrator must explain to the union what the liquidation means to the former and present employees of the airline in addition to the way forward.
Last month, regional leaders met to discuss the situation regarding air transportation in the Caribbean amidst concerns that both regional and international travellers are finding it very expensive and difficult to commute.
On Tuesday, President of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Dr Gene Leon, at a news conference to launch the 53rd general meeting of the bank to be held in St Lucia in June next year, said while he does not have specific advice for regional governments regarding LIAT, he was willing to offer some advice going forward on plans for improving air and sea transportation.
“If I can offer any advice to governments it would be let us work together to agree on a goal that can address the challenge of connectivity in all of its lines, and let us create the investment opportunities – and that’s both the activity and the financing – that will allow us to overcome the transportation issues that we face in the region.
“It is not impossible, we need to get out of the impossibility trap that nothing is possible. Everything is possible, we just have to be creative enough and if we do that then we are committed to finding solutions, I think we can find solutions,” the CDB president said.
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The Minister of Health reported that there is NO major surge of Covid-19 after Carnival 2022.
He concluded that 57 infections serve as evidence that boosters are working and encouraged Antiguans and Barbudans to get vaccinated and boosted.
The Minister drew the Cabinet’s attention to large-scale events before that led to as many as 250 infections following the events.
The policies of the Gaston Browne-led administration are clearly justifiable and helpful in the fight against Covid-19.
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A 26-year-old woman was killed on Wednesday night while liming with a friend in Arima.
Police reported that at about 10 pm Rianna Mohammed was at Bolo Trace, Hoyte Avenue, Arima with a 37-year-old able-bodied seaman when they were shot at.
Mohammed, of Mc Inroy Street, Curepe, collapsed and died on the spot. The man, who lives at Chatham Village, Chatham, was grazed in the neck.
Police said they have no motive for the killing.
Mohammed is the second woman killed this week. On Monday night Rosanne Granger was with her boyfriend Acori “Bless” Mason, sitting in a car at Jubilee Street, Aranguez Branch Road, at around 10.20 pm when they were attacked. Both died at the scene.
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Workers attached to the Guyana Rice Development Board Research Station at Burma on Wednesday held a picketing exercise to signal to management that they are not pleased with Union dues being deducted and paid to a Union which is not representing them.
The workers are trying to get management to stop deducting Union dues from their wages and salaries. About two months ago, about 80 workers signed a petition asking management to stop deducting Union dues and paying it to the Union of Allied and Agriculture Workers (UAAW). However, Union dues continue to be deducted. Wednesday morning’s picketing exercise was to send a signal to management that the workers do not want those dues deducted.
The petition, which was signed by scores of workers, was sent to the Administrative Manager of the organisation and also to the General Manager.
Sherwin Mingo, who is the workers’ Union representative, said a letter was also dispatched to management.
“Management has denied our request and continues to deduct the money from our wages. We do not want UAAW to represent us,” Mingo said, adding that while the majority of workers have indicated that they are not in favour of the Union of Allied and Agriculture Workers, a handful of staff are still in favour of representation from that Union.
“We don’t know what is the agreement with management and UAAW because things happening and we can’t say what really going on but our dues are still being deducted and that is what we do not want. The Union is not representing us. The Union has 16 persons who they are representing at the present moment,” Mingo added.
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Patrice Downer, who has been working with the facility for the past 10 years, is five months pregnant. She claimed that she is being victimised because she asked for lighter forms of work.
According to the labourer, who is a mother of five, as a result of her request, she was instructed to hoe beds.
“I used to work in the fields when the pregnancy had just started, now it is much older. I asked for inside work but they give me a run-around. They say there is no work to do inside the building and it is fieldwork that I apply to do… They ask me if I could hoe and I told them that I would try because I used to hoe the plots. When I go, if you see this dam that they give me to hoe. I had to call in the HR and so. After that, I am being victimised,” the woman claimed.
Downer explained that for years she would supply food to workers who do not walk with lunch. She explained that it was one way to make extra money to take care of her family. However, after the recent incident, she was told that she can no longer sell food in the compound.
Meanwhile, Wendy Fordyce, who has been with the organisation for 17 years, said she has been recently having high blood pressure and with a job of raking grass, the sun is making it no better for her condition as a worker. She said she tried to engage her supervisors on the issue but to no avail.
The workers say there is no Union to represent them even though they are paying dues to a Union against their will.
Initially, the UAAW was representing these workers at the Burma Research Station, however, the workers were not satisfied with the service they were getting and they sought to have another Union represent them. The Guyana Agriculture and General Workers Union (GAWU) allegedly won an election and started representing those workers and had been doing so for just over a year. However, an injunction was filed in the High Court and granted by Justice Franklyn Holder, making those elections null and void. Management subsequently started deducting Union dues in favour of UAAW. The workers say they do not want that Union representing them and money deducted from their wages and salaries and paid to that Union. (This story was first published by the Guyana Times)
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El informe preliminar de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) reportó el jueves 9 muertos y 386 personas hospitalizadas.
El total de muertes atribuidas es de 4,881.
Hay 333 adultos hospitalizados y 53 menores. El monitoreo cubre el periodo del tres al 16 de agosto de 2022.
La tasa de positividad está a 28.51 por ciento.
Se reportan 9 defunciones adicionales a causa del COVID-19. Unas 386 personas están hospitalizadas; 333 adultos y 53 pediátricos. Al medio día se ofrece una actualización de los datos que incluye el status de vacunación; https://t.co/8KaFLZcGta
— Departamento de Salud de Puerto Rico (@desaludpr) August 18, 2022
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El cielo estuvo variablemente nublado a través de las islas durante la noche. Aguaceros y tronadas aisladas fueron observadas, afectando principalmente los sectores costeros del noreste y sureste de Puerto Rico.
Para las 4 AM, el radar Doppler ha estimado acumulaciones de lluvia de hasta tres cuartos de una pulgada. Se espera que esta actividad persista durante la mañana, afectando mayormente sectores del noreste de Puerto Rico. Los vientos estuvieron leves y variables con ráfagas más altas observadas con los aguaceros.
Las temperaturas mínimas fluctuaron desde los medios 60 grados en las elevaciones altas hasta los altos 70 grados en áreas costeras.
Una vaguada en la superficie y humedad aumentando ocasionarán otra tarde activa con aguaceros y tronadas desarrollándose sobre el interior y oeste de Puerto Rico. Inundaciones urbanas y de riachuelos son posibles con esta actividad. Los vientos estarán del este con variaciones de la brisa marina entre 10 y 15 mph. Las temperaturas máximas deben fluctuar entre los altos 70 grados en las elevaciones altas hasta los bajos 90 grados en áreas costeras.
A través de las aguas regionales, los navegantes pueden encontrar oleaje de hasta 4 pies y vientos de hasta 15 nudos. Se podría observar vientos más fuertes y oleaje más alto cerca de los aguaceros y tronadas. La mayoría de las playas orientadas hacia el norte, este y sureste tienen un riesgo moderado de corrientes marinas.
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ORANJESTAD (ADV): Prensa di e pais, a mustra cu Colombia a cuminza cu e prome ronda di cera contractnan pa instala molinanan di biento den e Parkenan Marino den aña 2023.
E proceso di bid competitivo pa contractnan di molina di biento den lama a inicia y ta spera di keda cla dentro di 18 luna. Colombia Ta buscando interesadonan pa produci 50 GW di energia procedente di biento den e area di costa nort di e pais.
E anuncio ta concidi cu e publicacion di e normanan nobo cu ta establece procedimentonan nobo di destaho publico y di licencia pa e desaroyador di e proyecto. Segun e reglanan, e autoridad maritimo di Colombia, DIMAR, lo ta responsabel pa evalua tur e ofertanan y emiti licencianan pa e ocupacionnan temporal di e areanan den Lama Caribe.
“Den e di dos semester di 2023 e prome ronda di e proceso competitivo lo worde completa”, asina e Ministerio di Mina y Energia a confirma den un comunicado.
E permisonan cu a worde asigna den e prome ronda lo permiti e inversionistanan pa determina e factibilidad di e proyectonan y adelanta e permisonan ambiental necesario. E destaho lo ofrece e desaroyador e oportunidad pa duna un oferta pa e areanan selecciona di e departamentonan di costa den Caribe di departamento Bolivar y deparamento Atlantico, asina e ministerio a remarca, sin duna mas detaye.
Ademas a informa cu e siguiente paso lo ta pa nombra un administrador pa e proceso di destaho. Mientras tanto, ta ser spera cu e specificacionnan tecnico di e proyectonan lo ser publica pa fin di aña.
Colombia a converti su mes den un di e mercadonan di Parke di Molinanan di biento cu mas rapido a crece den America Latina, despues di a publica un plan sectorial a largo plazo na mei. Un Roadmap di 217 pagina prepara pa e compania di London “Renewables Consulting Group (RCG) den asociacion cu World Bank y e gobierno Britanico”, ta bisa cu Colombia tin un potencial pa produci 50 GW di energia di biento den e area Atlantico West.
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