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Finn Allen made 96 and Tim Southee took four for 22 as New Zealand beat the West Indies by 50 runs under the Duckworth-Lewis system in the second One-Day International (ODI) Friday to level the three-match series.

New Zealand made 212 batting first and the West Indies were in dire straits at 27 for six, potentially facing their lowest-ever total in an ODI, until a long rain break and bold late-order batting changed the course of the match.

When the rain stopped late in the evening at Kensington Oval, the West Indies, who were 63 for seven at the break, were left to chase 212 from only 51 overs.

West Indies’ Keacy Carter is run out by New Zealand’s Martin Guptill.

They found an unusual hero in Yanick Cariah who posted a half century in his first innings in an ODI and shared an 85-run partnership with Alzarri Joseph (49) which raised the hopes for the home team.

Joseph fell with the total 157 for nine and Cariah was the last man out for 52 with the total 161 to make Sunday’s third international the series decider.

“We were disappointed to lose six wickets in the powerplay,” West Indies captain Nicholas Pooran said. “Having said that, having Yanick coming into the team and putting on that partnership with Joseph was great but it came a bit too late.”

Trent Boult and Southee combined to crash through the West Indies top and middle order, leaving the home team six wickets down in the 10th over. Southee finished with four for 22 and Boult three for 18.

New Zealand’s Finn Allen plays a shot.

Earlier, Allen fell four runs short of a maiden century as New Zealand overcame the loss of their captain and a stuttering start to post 212 in 48.2 overs.

Skipper Kane Williamson was ruled out with a quad muscle strain suffered in the first match of the three-match series which the West Indies won by five wickets.

Stand-in captain Tom Latham was among three batsmen to fall early as New Zealand struggled to 31 for three in the 10th over. He was out for a three-ball duck while Martin Guptill fell for three and Devon Conway for six.

The 23-year-old Allen revived the innings in a 84-run partnership with Daryl Mitchell (41) for the fourth wicket. The pair stayed together for 20 overs to steer New Zealand into a stronger position at 115 for four when Mitchell mis-hit an attempted slog over mid-wicket and was caught at square leg from the bowling of spinner Kevin Sinclair.

New Zealand failed to build on that promising position. Allrounder Michael Bracewell (6) and the power hitters Phillips (9) and Neesham (1) came and went quickly.

Allen finally was out for 96 from the first ball of the 41st over when New Zealand were 165 for seven. He had faced 117 balls and hit three sixes and seven fours, taking many of his runs from the fast bowlers behind square leg.

West Indies’ Kevin Sinclair celebrates taking a catch from his own bowling.

The New Zealand innings again lost direction in his absence, though Mitchell Santner made an effort to rally the tail. He found an able partner in tail-ender Trent Boult who stayed with him for five overs during which the pair added a valuable 31 for the last wicket, guiding New Zealand past their total of 190 which proved inadequate in the first match.

Boult finally was out for 16, giving off-spinner Sinclair his fourth wicket of the innings. Sinclair finished with four for 41 as spinners shared six wickets. Santner was left not out on 26, taken from 27 balls.

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Construction of a museum to honour and memorialise Jamaica’s first National Hero, the Right Excellent Marcus Mosiah Garvey, will be finished during the country’s 60th year of Independence, says Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange.

She said that the facility, which is being erected at 32 Marcus Garvey Way in St Ann’s Bay, St. Ann, where Garvey spent his formative years, is near completion.

“I am heartened that …the Garvey museum, conceptualised in 2011 for Jamaica 50, and re-engineered during Jamaica 55, is about to become a reality within the legacy of Jamaica 60,” Minister Grange said.

“I am proud to say that our efforts to establish a museum in Marcus Garvey’s honour on the site of his boyhood home is almost a reality,” she added.

Minister Grange was speaking at a civic ceremony to mark the 135th anniversary of the birth of Garvey and his 58th year as a National Hero, held at Lawrence Park, St. Ann’s Bay, on Wednesday, August 17.

Grange said that the legacy of Garvey will be protected through the establishment of the museum, noting that it will capture all aspects of his life.

“The museum will be a place where every child and adult of Jamaican heritage, local and foreign-based, will be able to enter physically and virtually to proudly do research, to know the great man Garvey was, and leave more conscious of their ancestral pedigree and heritage, ” she said.

Minister Grange noted that the space will be reminiscent of Garvey’s focus on cultural enterprise and achievements as well as “one that constantly reminds us of our capacity for greatness – every one of us”.

She informed that three houses are being constructed on the Seville Heritage Park property in St. Ann to relocate the family that occupied the house where the museum is being established, two of which have already been completed.

Minister Grange said that the two-bedroom units, which were constructed under the New Social Housing Programme (NSHP), will be handed over by Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, in short order.

For his part, Dr. Julius Garvey, son of the National Hero, urged Jamaicans to look to his father and other heroes who paved the way for the nation to achieve Independence, “for an understanding of the way in which we should go” to attain greatness.

“Marcus Garvey has set us an example in terms of his ideals but also in terms of his organisational ability, his confidence in self and his ability to triumph over obstacles,” Dr. Garvey said.

The civic ceremony, hosted by the St. Ann Municipal Corporation, included the laying of floral tributes at the life-sized statue of Garvey erected at the entrance of the St. Ann’s Bay Parish Library on the Lawrence Park grounds.

Flowers were placed by Minister Grange; Dr. Garvey; Mayor of St. Ann’s Bay, Councillor Sydney Stewart, and other political representatives from across the parish.

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The Antigua and Barbuda government says it intends to spend an estimated US$39 million towards the expansion of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Five Island Campus here.

A statement issued following the weekly Cabinet meeting, said that the matter was discussed with a delegation from the campus, including Principal and Vice Chancellor, Densil Williams and Registrar Hyram Forde.

According to the statement, the campus which started out in 2019 with 178 students will by September have an enrolment of 1,700 students with the number increasing 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,” the statement said.

It said that faculty housing will also be constructed near the campus and a clinic site will be arranged on campus.  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 Centre for Excellence for Oceanography 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 statement said.

It said that the UWI principal also made a presentation of the plans for a UWI Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Department which will be a major focus of the campus.

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The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court of Appeal has affirmed the conviction and sentence of two men who were found guilty of murder, and who, therefore, must continue serving the sentences imposed by a High Court Judge.

Isaiah Benjamin, Edwin Gomez and Jerome Benjamin were jointly charged, tried and convicted for the murder of Lyndon Isaac on September 24, 2010. However, only Isaiah and Gomez had appealed the judge’s ruling.

At the sentencing hearing, the Judge imposed a 30-year prison sentence on Gomez, with a review after 23 years. Isaiah was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment to be reviewed after 18 years.

The men filed several grounds of appeal, but the main substance focused on whether the judge had erred in rejecting the no-case submission made by defence attorneys and in leaving the issue of joint enterprise to the jury.

Wendel Robinson, Isaiah’s counsel, also submitted that – in deciding whether there was a case to answer – the trial judge applied the wrong test as to what constitutes joint enterprise in murder.

However, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Anthony Armstrong countered, saying that the Judge had used the correct test: that is, the Galbraith Test.

The limb of the Galbraith Test put forward by the appellants during the no-case submission hearing was that there was no evidence; therefore, the Judge was duty-bound to stop the case.

But Armstrong asserted that, at the time, the Judge had to consider that the prosecution’s case was one of joint enterprise and that Isaiah had been present to effect the escape.

After hearing from the defence attorneys, who included Sherfield Bowen, representing Gomez, and Crown Counsel Shannon Jones- Gittens, who appeared along with the DPP, the Court of Appeal issued a 19-page judgment.

It ruled that Benjamin’s appeal against conviction and sentence is dismissed and the conviction and sentence affirmed.

Gomez’ appeal against conviction was withdrawn during the appeal hearing, the appeal against sentence was dismissed, and his conviction and sentence were affirmed.

Reports are that the duo, along with Benjamin and another person, went to T’s Natural Bamboo Bar to commit robbery. All the men were inside a vehicle being driven by Isaiah, and they were masked and armed.

The men reportedly entered the bar and one of them discharged a firearm close to a patron, George Lewis, whom two of the assailants then dragged outside. One of them patted him down, took some steps backward, and fired the gun.

Lewis, the owner of a licensed firearm, returned fire, hitting Jerome. At this point, Gomez and Isaiah reportedly ran back to the vehicle and sped off, leaving the wounded man.

However, they later returned in the vehicle and picked him up. It was while leaving the scene that Gomez discharged two shots from within the car, killing a pedestrian, Lyndon Isaac.

Gomez admitted to discharging the firearm that killed Isaac. However, Isaiah said he had remained in the vehicle, was not aware of the robbery, and denied any participation in the joint unlawful enterprise.

Justices Davidson Kelvin Baptiste and Mario Michel, as well as Paul Webster, an acting Justice of Appeal, heard the matter.

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