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LEWIS GETS BAIL ON SEX RAPDr. Paul Lewis, will return to court,July 7, to face charges that he sexuallyassaulted two teenagers, last month.

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GONSALVES DEFIES THREATSPrime Minister says there will beno letting up in the war againstcriminal gangs in SVG.

KING IN ON PONZI SCHEMEAntigua & Barbuda’s LeroyKing has made a career for himself inthe world of finance.

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BROOKLYN, NY -- The Caribbean-AmericanChamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc., (CACCI) hon-ored business and community leaders its 24th AnnualEntrepreneur of the Year Corporate and Partnership Rec-ognition Awards Fundraising Luncheon, June 19, atSteiner Movie Studios, Stage 6, Brooklyn, NY.

This year’s award recipients were: Kim L. Jasmin,Vice President, Northeast Region Community RelationsManager, JPMorgan Chase Foundation, DistinguishedCorporate Diversity Recognition Award; CharlesSessoms, Director of Customer and Community Mar-keting, Coca Cola Bottling Company; PatriciaSampson, Managing Director, Bank of New YorkMellon; Brenda Scott, Director, Vendor DevelopmentProgram, Macy’s East, CACCI’s Distinguished Corpo-rate Partners Award; Valerie Oliver-Durrah, President,Neighborhood Technical Assistance Clinic, Distin-guished Business and Community Award; Sylma BrownBramble, Director (Actg.), Caribbean Tourism Organi-zation, (CTO),Distinguished Business/Community Part-nership Award.

Entrepreneurs of the Year Awardees were: AlfredoThiebaud, President, Delicioso Coco Helado; SandraBryan, Owner/Franchisee, Goldenkrust Caribbean Bak-ery; and Cliff Roye, Owner, Cool Tech Air Condition-ing & Refrigeration. Scott and Natasha Nigro, Own-ers, Nationwide Credit Counseling will receive CACCI’sEmerging Family-Owned Business Award. CACCI’sYear 2009 “Roving Ambassador” Award will be pre-sented to Senator Erno L. Labega, Member of Parlia-ment of the Netherlands Antilles.

A Proclamation was received from HonorableBarack Obama, President of the United States proclaim-ing the month of June 2009 as National CaribbeanAmerican Heritage Month. Greetings and Salutationswere also received from elected officials and govern-ment leaders in recognition of CACCI’s 24th AnnualAwards Celebration to include: Governor David Pater-son, Secretary of State Lorraine A. Cortes-Vazquez,NYS; Mayor Michael Bloomberg, GongresswomanYvette D. Clarke, Comptroller William “Bill” Thomp-son, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz,Speaker Christine Quinn, Former Ambassador ofGrenada H. E. Dr. Lamuel Stanislaus, Derek E. Broomes,CACCI Board Chairman, Caricom Secretary GeneralDr. Edwin Carrington, Assemblyman Peter Rivera, andCouncilmembers John Liu and Darlene Mealy.

Caribbean Leaders Honored By Chamber

(From left to right) CACCI Board Chairman Derek E. Broomes, CACCI President and CEO Dr.Roy Hastick, Sr. and Judge Sylvia Hinds-Radix, stands for the singing of the U.S. NationalAnthem during the 24th Annual Entrepreneur of the Year Corporate and PartnershipRecognition Awards Fundraising Luncheon, June 19, at Steiner Movie Studios, Stage 6, inBrooklyn. (photo by David Lester)

NYS Assemblyman Peter Rivera (Bronx, NY) and NYC Councilmember John Liu (Queens,NY) at the luncheon. (Photo by David Lester)


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Dr. Paul LewisGets Bail OnSex Charges

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- UnitedStates-based evangelist, Dr. Paul Lewis,will return to court, July 7, to face chargesthat he sexually assaulted two teenagers,last month.

The Jamaica-born Lewis was releasedon J$500,000 (US$5,649) bail, Monday,but was ordered to remain in the countryuntil his trial.

He was also ordered by the court tosurrender his travel documents and to re-port to a Kingston police station everyMonday, Wednesday and Saturday.

Court officials said that the US Em-bassy in Jamaica has been alerted to pre-vent Lewis from obtaining alternativetravel documents.

A judge had earlier refused to grantbail to Lewis when he appeared in the Sa-vanna-La-Mar criminal court in WesternJamaica two weeks ago.

Lewis, who heads Paul Lewis Minis-tries, was in Jamaica at the invitation of alocal church. He was charged on June 17with sexually assaulting the two teenagegirls in his hotel room in the resort townof Negril.

The evangelist, who resides in Brook-lyn, was arrested on June 14 as he wasabout to address a crusade.

BarbadosImmigrationPracticesRepugnant

BROOKLYN, NY -- The Guyanese-American President of the New Yorkbased Caribbean Guyana Institute forDemocracy (CGID), Rickford Burke, hassaid that Barbados’s new immigrationpolicy is “divisive” and “supercilious,”and undermines the Caribbean Commu-nity.”

“The extant immigration practices inBarbados lack careful thought, have beenfundamentally discriminatory and are an-tithetical to the values of the integrationmovement,” Burke asserted.

His comments come weeks afterPrime Minister of Barbados, David Th-ompson, announced a new policy that al-low undocumented Caribbean nationalswho began residing in Barbados prior to2005 to be given Barbadian governmentidentification and work permits, but sub-ject those who entered thereafter and re-main undocumented to deportation.

Thompson’s policy has come underwithering criticism from fellow regionalHeads of Government and other individu-als, forcing the Prime Minister to make astrong defense last Saturday.

In a statement Tuesday, Burke chargedthat “Prime Minister Thompson is at-tempting to build a protectionist wallaround Barbados, and has created the per-ception that “Barbados is only for“Bajans.”

"This is unquestionably repugnant toCaricom and is undermining Caribbeanunity,” he added.

Blasting Thompson’s increased de-portations and early morning raids againstundocumented Caricom nationals, Burkeaccused the Bajan leader of promoting“national insularity” in the Caribbean andof stoking jingoistic fears in Barbados.”

Guyanese constitute the largest immi-grant block in Barbados. The CGID headnoted that many Guyanese, particularlythose residing in Barbados, believe thatimmigration enforcement disproportion-ately and calculatedly targets Guyanese.He said that the Prime Minister’s own sta-tistics, which he disclosed at a press con-ference last Saturday at Grantley AdamsInternational Airport, validate this assess-ment.

According to media reports, Thomp-son disclosed that from June 1 to 26, raidswere made on 15 residences between 3am and 6 am, leading to the detention andremoval of 47 non-nationals, 34 of whomwere Guyanese.

However, Guyana’s Foreign AffairsMinister, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett yes-terday disputed Thompson’s figures, an-nouncing that in May, twenty-nine (29)Guyanese were deported from Barbados,and twenty-four (24) so far for the monthof June. In total, 53 Guyanese have beendeported from Barbados sinceThompson's policy was implemented onMay 5, 2009.

Burke labeled the tactics of Barbadosimmigration authorities as draconian, andmore aligned with “George Bush’s” ap-proach to immigration” than Caribbeanunity. He condemned the ongoing raidson suspected undocumented nationals asinhumane. “This must stop. These arefamilies who seek a better life in a sisterCaribbean state,” he said.

Jamaican Chef Sheron Chin-BarnesDefeats Food Network’s Bobby Flay At

Jamaican‘Throwdown’

KINGSTON, JAMAICA – Chef Sheron Chin-Barnes’ cuisine reigned supreme on Food Network’sprimetime series “Throwdown with Bobby Flay” Wednes-day, June 17. On the episode, Chef Bobby Flay challengedJamaican Chef Sheron Chin-Barnes, owner of Harlem’sposh Mo Bay Restaurant, to a traditional Fried FishEscovitch throwdown.

Miss Jamaica World 2007 Yendi Phillips who was oneof two judges offered some personal insights into the cul-tural significance of the spicy Jamaican meal. JamaicaTourist Board representative Chris Dobson also partici-pated in the show.

“Cuisine has always been an important part of Ja-maican culture,” commented John Lynch, Jamaica’s

Director of Tourism. “We are so pleased that ChefChin-Barnes was able to extend her knowl-

edge and expertise of Jamaican cuisine toFood Network viewers and ultimately

come out on top of this challenge.”The History of EscovitchEscovitch is thought have roots

from the Spanish escabeche, mean-ing pickled, when brought to Jamaicain the early 16th century. As one ofJamaica’s oldest dishes, escovitchhas always been popular, partly dueto the fact that its acidic marinadeof vinegar or citrus juice acts as apreservative, allowing it to keepwell without being refrigerated.This was especially useful in thetimes before electricity and on re-ligious days for Christians andJews when no cooking was done.Escovitch now appears around theworld, from Asia to Italy to NorthAfrica, and is usually served as alightly fried fish, served with onions,carrots, hot peppers and other ingre-dients in a marinade of vinegar. It is

a popular dish to be brought to thebeach or on a picnic in Jamaica.

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NEW YORK, NY - St. Vincent and theGrenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph

Gonsalves says although his administra-tion has made a “dent” in the operationsof criminal networks, there will be noletting up in the war against gangs.

Gonsalves, addressing a town hallmeeting in Brooklyn, New York, said he

will not yield to those who are engagedin gang violence, pointing out that suchbehaviour has no place in a small countrylike St Vincent and the Grenadines.

“You have some people (who), be-cause they have some money, illegally ob-

tained, think they can run your country;well, we are acting to engage those

against gang violence.”He said there has been a

marked decrease in crimesince his administrationstepped-up actionagainst gang violence,stating that, whereasthere were 15 murdersin gang-related vio-lence about this timelast year, the figure isdown to eight forthe correspondingperiod this year.

The PrimeMinister said fur-

ther that in 2007, there were 18 gang-relatedmurders in the country and that there were over100 police reports handed to him on the issue.

Gonsalves Defies Threats,Continue To Battle Gangs

But he said he has been only receiving fewerthan 30 reports in recent times.

“This is not to say the battle is over,”Gonsalves said. “But we’re making a dent.This is an on-going war. I’m determined.

“As you’re aware, there have been threatsagainst my person,” he added. “There’ll beconsequences for those who make threats.

“We must not allow anybody to frightenus,” he continued.

Gonsalves told the gathering that “whathappens in Jamaica, Trinidad, and other coun-tries, is not going to happen on my watch,”and highlighted some of the accomplishmentsof the recent anti-crime “Vincy Pac” campaign.

During Vincy Pac, security forces raidedand destroyed marijuana plantations in thehills and mountains of mainland St Vincent.

He said “big criminal operators” had pre-viously taken over the plantations, linking theiroperations with cocaine and guns.

“We had to liberate vulnerable people inthe hills,” the Prime Minister said, disclosingthat 8.7 million marijuana plants, includingseven million seedlings, were destroyed in therecent operation.

“We found up there generators, compres-sors in places where donkey can’t go up,” hesaid. “There are no helicopters, they (druglords) hire two-legged mules, who are coke(cocaine) addicts.”

“I have an obligation to free them fromthe crutches of gang leaders,” Gonsalves con-tinued. “I’m determined not to make it hap-pen again.”

“What happens in Jamaica, Trinidad, and othercountries, is not going to happen on my watch.”

St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves

St. Vincent & The Grenadines Prime MinisterDr. Ralph Gonsalves addressed a town hallmeeting in Brooklyn, last week.

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Prime Minis-ter Bruce Golding says his government is com-mitted to executing persons convicted of mur-der.

He told a town hall meeting that his ad-ministration is prepared to honour the “yes”vote taken by Parliament last year on the capi-tal punishment issue.

“Once Parliament has taken that position,this government has given a commitment thatwe are going to honour it. We are obliged bythe resolution of Parliament,” he said.

Golding pointed out that there were aboutnine persons on death row, who are now go-ing through their appeals process, in keepingwith the provisions of the Constitution.

“But you have an undertaking from me,as head of this government, that once thoseprocesses are exhausted, then the appropriatewarrants will be issued. We are not backingoff of that position that we have taken,”Golding said.

He noted that the biggest weapon againstcrime is the certainty of being caught and be-ing punished, and urged the public to providethe police with information to resolve thecrimes.

“If a man feels that he can commit mur-der and the chances of him being arrested arethree out ten, and even after he is arrested, thechances of anybody coming as a witness totestify against him are two out of ten, and ifthey even testify, the chances of him beingconvicted is one of out ten, then he is not evengoing to squint, he is going to commit the

crime,” the Prime Minister said.“We have to get to the stage where with

the partnership that must come from thepeople, when a man is considering doingsomething that he knows is against the law,something that he knows will attract severepunishment, he must be given cause to thinkthat once, not twice, not thrice but severaltimes; because in committing that crime, hemust factor into his mind an acceptance of thepunishment that he must feel is going to beserved on him,” he added.

Golding said that the country cannot becrime-free, unless the people become partnersin the effort. He said that not in all cases that

Jamaica Gov’t To Hang Criminalsthe police can forensically procure evidence.

“If people are not prepared to recognisethat everyone of us needs to be a constable inour own house, and in our own community,where we become part of the law enforcementprocess, then we will forever have situationswhere we are not going to achieve the bestresults,” Golding said.

The Jamaican House of Representativesvoted last November to retain hanging, whilethe Senate voted similarly a month later. How-ever, no one has been hanged in Jamaica since1988. Last year more than 1,000 persons weremurdered and the figure has passed 600 so farthis year.

Jamaica’s Prime Minister Bruce Golding says his government is committed to executingconvicted murderers.

US DiplomatWantsTougher LawsTo Deal WithIllegal DrugsTrade In Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – AUnited States diplomat has said that Haitineeds to enact tougher laws to deal withthe growing illegal drugs trade in thecountry.

“You can't sort of turn over responsi-bility for such a major national issue tothe United States only. We need betterlaws here if we are going to help the Hai-tians defeat the drug dealers and drug traf-fickers,” said outgoing United StatesAmbassador to Haiti, Janet Sanderson.

Sanderson, who is ending a three-and-a-half year tour of duty here, said thatshe regretted not being able to put a ma-jor dent, through increased aid, in address-ing Haiti’s bourgeoning drug trade.

“It is a regret that we have not beenable to, until recently, mobilise more re-sources in the war on drugs. It is a veryserious issue here, and I share thePresident's (Rene Preval]) concerns. Ihave all along,” she added.

Sanderson who is returning to Wash-ington to take up a post within the Bu-reau of Near Eastern Affairs at the USState Department said Haiti is “an extraor-dinarily complicated and complex coun-try,” and even more “difficult for foreign-ers to understand”.

“This position in the past, for betteror for worse, has been controversial.That's inevitable, given the close relation-ship between the United States and Haiti.Very few people are neutral about theUnited States and the American ambas-sador.

“Who ever is sitting in this chair,draws the flowers or draws the fire, de-pending on how things are going.

But I think, sometimes, it's better tobe receiving advice, rather than giving it,”she said.

Daniel Erikson, a top policy advisorwith the Washington-based think tank,Inter-American Dialogue, said Haiti has“traumatized virtually every US ambas-sador posted to the country since the endof the Cold War,” adding that most hasleft behind a “nation in trauma.”

“Janet Sanderson appears to be theexception,” he said, adding, however thatshe benefited from timing.

“While the food riots and hurricanesthat struck Haiti in 2008 were severelydisruptive, even these dramatic eventspaled in comparison to the uprisings, sto-len elections, dissolved parliaments, andespecially the 2004 ouster of Jean-Bertrand Aristide,” he said.

Sanderson said she was overallpleased with her duty in Haiti.

“We really have reached out beyondPort-au-Prince and reached out beyondthe normal levels of contacts. It's beenquite a ride. The interest of my govern-ment has coincided with my very real pas-sion for trying to help the people that I'vemet,” Sanderson said.


ST GEORGE’S, Grenada --Former prime minister Dr. KeithMitchell has described as “bi-ased”, the preliminary findings ofa poverty assessment study thatsuggests there has no been noprogress made in the fight againstpoverty over the past decade.

The Tillman Thomas admin-istration has released the study,which showed that more than aquarter of the population now livesbelow the poverty – an increasecompared to 10 years ago.

But Mitchell, whose New Na-tional Party (NNP) was removedfrom office last July after 13 years,said there has been an “inappro-priate interpretation of the results”.

He said the findings of the sur-vey did not take into account theincreased use of cell phones,which is one of the variables indetermining the level of poverty ina country, as well as the effects ofHurricanes Ivan and Emily whichravaged the island in 2004 and2005.

“We are truly concerned aboutthe recent media reports in whichthe Minister of Finance broadcastto the world a most biased and in-appropriate interpretation of theresults of the Poverty Assessmentcommissioned under our watch inFebruary 2007, and with prelimi-nary results presented in May2009.

“The results of the poverty as-sessment were never intended tobe interpreted across time andspace or circumstance in the man-ner that the Minister has sought todo,” Mitchell said.

According to the survey con-ducted between September 2007

and June 2008, 37.7 per cent ofthe population is considered poorcompared to 32.1 per cent a de-cade ago.

The Caribbean DevelopmentBank (CDB) funded survey alsosuggests a 10 per cent growth inthe number of persons consideredindigent or extremely poor.

But Mitchell in challengingthe preliminary findings of the sur-vey said that public records showthat on account of the two hurri-canes over a 10 month period,Grenada lost the equivalent oftwo-and-a-half years of GrossDomestic Product (GDP).

“Results from two differentstudies cannot be compared in theface of “exogenous shocks, this isbasic economics. If one study isundertaken in ‘normal circum-stances’ without any such exog-enous shock it cannot readily becompared with another resultwhich occurs in the face of such ashock,” Mitchell.

Mitchell Says Gov’tReport On Poverty Bias

NEW YORK, NY – It was theperfect opportunity to present a col-lective front to the internationalcommunity and Caribbean countriesused the occasion to put forwardtheir case for a new global economicorder that would take into consider-ation their current level of develop-ment.

The regional leaders used theextraordinary, high-level, three-daysummit on the global crisisorganised by the United Nations toremind the international communitythat poor developing countries liketheirs should not be made a scape-goat for the greed that brought aboutthe current global financial crisis.

“Why are we once again payingfor the mistakes of others?” askedSt. Vincent and the GrenadinesPrime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves.

The developed countries havesaid they are willing to pump billionsof dollars into the multilateral fi-nancing agencies, such as the Inter-national Monetary Fund (IMF) andthe World Bank, to help reverse thecurrent problem but regional lead-

ers have said such restructuring mustnot be from the top down as hadbeen the case in the past.

But Gonsalves notes that whilethe IMF and World Bank “may viewmany of our developing friends inthe periphery of globalisation as be-ing heavily indebted...the debt ofresponsibility for this crisis lies inthe unregulated financial centers ofthe developed world; in the arrogantignorance of those who consider ittheir right to prescribe and proscribeour policy space; and in the un-founded ideological sanctimony ofthose who hold us to a higher stan-dard than they hold themselves”.

Grenada’s Prime MinisterTillman Thomas said the new ap-proach being advocated “must ad-dress the fundamental imbalances inthe global economy.

“We believe there is a need fora new financial architecture with astronger regulatory framework inorder to protect our global societiesand secure a better future,” he said,while the Barbados junior FinanceMinister Darcy Boyce urged thatsmall countries be allowed “a seatat the table when decisions are be-ing made on issues of global con-

cern. We must not squander the op-portunities for creating a fair andmore equitable system,” he said,insisting that “our small countriescan continue to be effective part-ners”.

Caribbean countries havebeen critical of the plans by theinternational community tocrack down on so called tax ha-vens and the UN conference af-

forded the Bahamas an opportu-nity to reiterate calls for a level play-ing field and implementation of in-ternational standards of transparencyand exchange of information for off-shore jurisdictions.

Junior Finance MinisterZhivargo Laing said it was interest-ing to note that while developingcountries, in particular offshore fi-nance centres, did not cause thepresent financial crisis, the most spe-cific and immediate reform beingproffered is that of these small cen-tres.

“The Bahamas joins with oth-ers, who, have for some time now,cautioned against the unfair and dis-criminatory actions taken by someof the developed countries and/ortheir limited membershiporganisations against small offshore

jurisdictions in this regard. Suchactions are not justified by the cur-rent crisis,” he added.

But even as they have called fora new thinking from the developedcountries and the multilateral finan-cial institutions, the Caribbean coun-tries say there is no need to cut theexisting bilateral programs.

Belize’s Prime Minister DeanBarrow, who is also the Chairmanof the 15-member CARICOMgrouping, said the outcomes of manyof the existing bilateral support pro-grams have been put at risk by thiscrisis.

“But, it is in the interest of allof us not only to keep these programson track but to expand them,” headded.

Jamaica, which is contemplat-ing an approach to the IMF in thecoming weeks, said that access tofinancing on the international capi-tal market has been “significantlyrestricted” and that there has been a“concomitant slowdown” in foreigndirect investment.

“In short, the livelihood anddevelopment prospects of the major-ity of our population have alreadybeen affected (and) that there is astrong possibility that, as the crisisevolves, the situation could worsen,”said the island’s Deputy Prime Min-ister and Minister of Foreign Affairsand Financial Trade Kenneth Baugh.

Jamaica is not likely to be theonly Caribbean country going to theIMF for assistance.

St. Kitts-Nevis and St. Vincentand the Grenadines are now the ben-eficiaries of a programme with theWashington-based financial institu-tion, and there are discussions in St.Lucia among various stakeholdersthat Prime Minister StephensonKing’s government may be next.

King used the UN conference toplead for more concessionary aid todeveloping countries like his as wellas a “significantly larger amount ofgrant funding” over the next twoyears.

“We simply cannot afford thestranglehold of additional debt,” hepleaded, calling for “a greater under-standing and practical appreciationof” the region’s economic situation.

Guyana, which apart from Haiti,has benefited from debt forgivenessfrom the Paris Club, a grouping ofrich countries, is advocating the needfor a “post-crisis multilateral archi-tecture.”

Dr. Keith Mitchell

Caribbean LeadersDemand Fair Share In Aid

Prime Minister Tillman Thomas


FormerMinisterGets NewTrial Date

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Amagistrate’s court has adjournedthe corruption trial of formerjunior energy minister KernSpencer after defence attorneyssaid they were not given ad-equate time to get full instruc-tions from their clients. The trialis now set to begin on July 27.

The defence lawyers forSpencer and his assistant Col-leen Wright said they needed theextra time after the prosecutionamended the money launderingcharges against the two accused.

The amendments - whichwere proposed last week byPaula Llewellyn, the Director ofPublic Prosecutions - were ap-proved on Monday by SeniorResident Magistrate JudithPusey.

Spencer, Wright and busi-nessman Rodney Chin were ar-rested in February last year fol-lowing a probe into the distribu-tion of four million energy-sav-ing light bulbs, a gift from theCuban government in 2006,which cost taxpayers $114 mil-lion (US$1.28 million).

The charges against Chin,who is now a crown witness,were dropped in January thisyear.

Spencer and Wright are alsocharged with breaches of theCorruption Prevention Act,while Wright is facing the chargeof aiding and abetting.

The prosecution says it in-tends to prove that Spencer, withthe aid of Wright, formed fourcompanies to provide manage-ment and other services to theproject.

It said that millions of dol-lars were transferred from theaccounts of the companies anddeposited to the personal ac-counts of Wright and Spencerand later transferred overseasand back into the country to givethe appearance that the fundswere legitimate.

ROSEAU, Dominica – The Antigua andBarbuda High Court has ruled against theBaldwin Spencer government over its decisionto deport a Dominican journalist two yearsago.

Lennox Linton told reporters that he hadbeen informed by his lawyers that JusticeLouise Blenman has ruled that his expulsionfrom the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)country on June 13, 2007, was unlawful andthat he had also been awarded dames total-ling EC$20,000 (US$7,407).

Linton, who managed Observer Radio andalso hosted a talk show on the station in St.Johns, said he was elated at the court ruling,insisting that the case was not one where hesought monetary compensation for his removalfrom the country.

“What I wanted from the court I got it. Igot the court to rule that the Antigua govern-ment behaved illegally,” he said, adding “it is

a very important judgment especially in thecontext of the free movement of skilled na-tionals within the Caribbean Community(CARICOM).

Caribbean leaders have agreed to the freemovement of journalists, and other skillednationals as part of the CARICOM SingleMarket and Economy (CSME) as the regionseeks to consolidate its integration movement.

Linton said that while some governmentshave been “dragging their feet” on the matter,in the case of the Antigua and Barbuda gov-ernment he had long argued that “I was inAntigua legally, I had done nothing wrong.

“The government therefore had no rightto do what it did, it behaved illegally, it be-haved in an oppressive manner and it behavedin a manner that was contrary to the letter andspirit of the free movement of skilled nation-als within the Caribbean Community.”

Linton said the ruling felt “like a weight

has (been) lifted off my shoulders finally.“This was a completely arbitrary decision.

I’m not even entirely sure what motivated itbecause when you listen to the government’scase in the court, they really presented no realreason why I was deported from Antigua andso I knew from the date of the trial back onthe 7th of October, 2008 that there was onlyone party that could win that case and that wasme,” Linton stated.

Linton said when he was forced to leavethe country in 2007, he was only able to packa few essentials in a travel bag and secure hishome.

At the time of the dispute, Prime MinisterRoosevelt Skerrit had attempted to solve thematter by speaking with his Antiguan coun-terpart but to no avail.

Linton was one of two regional journal-ists deported by the Antigua government inJune 2007. The other is the Trinidad-born

Vernon Khelawan, who served at one time asthe editor in chief of the Antigua Sun news-paper.

Deported Journalist Wins Case Against Antigua Gov’t

Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer


Leroy King has made a careerfor himself in the world of finance,serving as Antigua and Barbuda’schief financial regulator for the pastseven years.

However, his time as Chief Ex-ecutive Officer of the Financial Ser-vices Regulatory Commission(FSRC) came to an abrupt end whenhe was fired by the Cabinet of PrimeMinister Baldwin Spencer.

His dismissal came after he wasimplicated by financial regulators inthe United States in an alleged US$7billion investment fraud involvingTexan financier Sir Allen Stanford.

The Securities and Exchange

GuyaneseChildrenDetainedBy IndianHospitalReleased

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The ten Guyanese children,who underwent cardiac surgeryat a private hospital in India,have been allowed to returnhome after the NGO KidsFirstFund agreed to pay up over a six-month period.

The Indian press reportedKM Cherian, the chairman ofFrontier Lifeline Hospital, assaying, "On the assurance fromthe NGO to settle the dues in sixmonths time, the children havebeen permitted to go."

The dues add up to nearlyUS$90,000, he said.

Early this month, the chil-dren were taken to the hospital,which specializes in cardiac sur-gery, by Guyanese NGOKidsFirst Fund. The childrenwere operated upon and were setto return home on Friday whenthe hospital detained them fornon-payment of bills.

KidsFirst Fund, under thecharge of former first lady ofGuyana Varshnie Singh, hasbeen sending children for heartsurgery for the past four years tothe hospital.

According to Singh, the pastpractice has been to settle thedues after returning to Guyana.

On Friday evening, Singhsaid here that the hospital hadchanged the payment system andthe children were detained at theinstitute.

Hospital officials, however,maintain that the system waschanged after the NGO de-faulted on the payment last time.

Meanwhile, the governmenthere has, however, promised topay the bills for the children.

King Snags $100K To HelpStanford In Ponzi Scheme

Commission (SEC) has accusedKing of helping the billionaire in-vestor in exchange for US$100,000in bribes. The charges against himinclude wire fraud, mail fraud andconspiracy to obstruct an SEC inves-tigation.

King appeared in an Antiguancourt on June 25, after turning him-self over to local authorities less than24 hours after a warrant was issuedfor his arrest. He was grantedEC$500,000 (US$190,800) bail.

Prior to his appointment to theFSRC in June 2002, King was anadvisor to the Minister of Financeand Special Envoy in the Ministry

of Foreign Affairs in the governmentof then Prime Minister Lester Bird.

In 1999, he was appointed Am-bassador at Large in the Ministry ofForeign Affairs. He has also been thee chairman of the Social SecurityBoard since 1999.

King has spent over 20 years inbanking in the United States ofAmerica. Most of those years werespent working at Bank of Americain various capacities.

He holds a MBA in Finance, aMSC in Advanced Business Studies,a BBA in Accounting and a BBA inFinance and Economics from IonaCollege, New York, as well as a Post Masters Certificate in Taxation.

Leroy King

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad-- Trinidad and Tobago's PrimeMinister Patrick Manning saidWednesday that sending liquefiednatural gas to stimulate invest-ments in Jamaica's alumina sectorwas now a matter of national pri-ority.

Trinidad and Tobago signedan agreement in 2004 to supply Ja-maica with 1.1 million tonnes ofLNG per year for 20 years, begin-ning in 2009, for use by theJamalco refinery and the JamaicaPublic Service Company's electricpower plants.

Trinidad later said it could notsupply LNG to Jamaica becausesupplies were inadequate. ButManning told Parliament supplieshad become available because theglobal supply and demand situa-tion for gas has changed.

In the new environment, thereis no longer the need for Jamaicato build regasification terminals,and floating terminals can be used,

he said."In those circumstances, the

government of Trinidad and To-bago now considers that a supplyof LNG to Jamaica for the stimu-lation of investments in the alu-mina sector, to be a matter of na-tional priority," he told Parliament.

The Jamaican governmentowns 45 percent of Jamalco andAlcoa Inc (AA.N) owns the rest.The global financial crisis andsharp falls in metals prices havehurt Jamaica's alumina sector, withsome refineries cutting produc-tion.

The island's largest bauxiteand alumina producing company,Alumina Partners of Jamaica, sus-pended production in May forwhat was expected to be a year-long shutdown.

Manning said he hopes to en-ter into an arrangement for Ja-maica to supply alumina forTrinidad and Tobago's first alumi-num smelter plant.

Trinidad and Tobago, throughthe Atlantic LNG plant, also ex-ports LNG to the United States,Europe and the Dominican Repub-lic. New technological develop-ments in regasification have alsoallowed it to export gas to Braziland Chile.

Atlantic's four processingtrains cool natural gas to convertit to liquid for transport, and havea total production capacity of 15million metric tonnes a year. It isregasified at terminals for trans-port ashore through pipelines.

TrinidadSays Will

FinallySend LNG

To Jamaica

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The21-year-old man accused of attempt-ing to hijack a Canadian airline inApril this year, is to stand trial onJuly 13 after a court-accepted a psy-chiatrist declared him fit to take thestand.

Stephen Fray allegedly at-tempted to highjack a CanJet aircraftat the Sangster International Airportin the western city of Montego Bayon April 18. He has since beenslapped with nine counts of illegalpossession of a firearm; shootingwith intent, robbery with aggrava-tion, assault at common law andbreaches of the Airport Act.

In a report to the court on Tues-day, Dr. Kevin Gouldbourne said theincident was influenced by delu-sions, false beliefs that have no fac-tual basis and that Fray is fit to stand

trial. Independent psychiatrist, Dr.Wendel Abel, who examined Fray atthe requested of the family, said heis suffering form schizophrenia andneeds to be placed in a psychiatricfacility.

Fray, is said to have used hisfather’s licensed revolver and by-passed checkpoints at the airportbefore attempting to highjack theCanadian-bound aircraft.

182 passengers and crew werehostage on the aircraft after Fray al-legedly demanded to be taken toCuba.

Reports are that Fray eventuallyreleased the passengers, but he keptthe flight crew on board. He waslater arrested after a security teamstormed the aircraft.

Fray is scheduled to return tocourt on July 13.

Alleged HijackerFit To Stand Trial

Jamaican soldiers stand on a ramp beside a CanJet aircraft in MontegoBay, Jamaica, April 20, 2009, while Stephen Fray seized 180 hostagesaboard the Canadian charter jet.

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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- In a musical quilt laced with thetextures of creative dance, funk,R&B, and pop, Michael Jackson,dead at 50, is enshrined as theworld’s greatest superstar, by many,many miles.

His musical legacy of 13 num-ber one hits will continue to bemarked by gratitude for decades tocome. His songs are engraved in trib-utes of thankfulness and his perfor-mances frozen in an explosion ofmemorable pride.

What can be said of his child-hood talent, except that he fine-tunedit throughout his life, and trans-formed the era of the 1980s, whileshifting to accommodate variousstyles and musical genres, best feltin recording sales well over 751 mil-lion albums.

Michael alsopaved the way for fu-ture black stars in allregions, who after see-ing his success, be-lieved that artisticmagic can be createdand that anything ispossible.

Prior to the shock-ing news of cardiacarrest, he lived a lifedraped in mystery,braided with majesticfame and super wealth,and dogged by harshcontroversies.

Yet Jackson personified a kindof musical culture that brought di-verse people from all over the worldtogether. He changed the confiningrole of black music and expanded thedefinition of greatness.

Whether he will be rememberedfor his incredible riches, fame andinfluence or not, there is an inex-pressible sadness that hits the heartsof fans and admirers with the dev-astating power of an emotional tropi-cal storm, given the suddenness ofhis death.

This outpouring emotion fromevery quarter of the world revealsthat Michael is truly a transcendentfigure who comes to us, once in ev-ery solar system.

Not just because the radar of hismusical range kept widening beyond‘Thriller’, ‘Bad’, ‘Billy Jean’, ‘Offthe Wall’, ‘Beat It’, ‘Dangerous’ andmany others, but also because he hada magical touch for piercing ourhearts.

It is felt that his life ended toosoon against the backdrop of his sto-len childhood and in line of the manyshocking litigations and scandalsthat plagued his reputation.

Now that he is gone, fans arewilling to appreciate the finer sideof a very complex but gifted icon,where the green pasture of his enor-mous genius will neither be stillednor silenced, by the valley of hisdeath.

By far, Jackson’s legendary

musical talent was inspirational onmany levels--- personal, cultural,musical and spiritual.

Doubtless, Michael remarkablyimpacted the world of culture, race,image, values, vocal genius, sound,soulful ideals and business on a pla-teau, beyond extraordinary flair.

In the Caribbean, Jackson’sdeath reminds so many of us, of thepassing of one of our own legends,Bob Marley-- whose life and legacyreshaped the world with propheticyet liberating songs.

Since many of us in the islandsand around the world, continue toremember Marley, for the way hefused conscious lyrics with clarioncalls to break psychological shack-les, Jackson too will never be for-gotten, for his vast oceanic talent, forstanding alone on the Everest oforiginal greatness, and for his be-seeching call, to heal the world.

He embodiedat depths un-known, a talentthat elevated blackpride beyond thenarrow confines ofethnic affirmation.Though trans-ra-cial in scope, hislegacy will bebranded with animpossibility tosurpass in reach.

Now, that wemay review thequality of his talentbetween the cradle

and the grave, one thing is certain,Michael’s superstar- iconic energy,warmth and revolutionary break-throughs, gave to the art of music,the voice of an angel!

Through his personal civilityand new frontier gift, he expandedthe meaning of civil consciousness.No wonder we feel so compelled tocelebrate his charitable exploits, so-cial initiatives, humility, generosityand inner strength.

But it is the historical radiancethat defined how he managed theglobal platform that demonstratedhis triumph through struggle. To thelittle ones, the young, the middle-ageand the old, Michael Jackson’s in-fluence proved that indigenous tal-ents, if given star-like structures andtwinkling opportunities, will scaleuncharted heights.

Yet his life renders another ver-dict: that the weaving of fame andpain, showcased in public glory andprivate financial troubles, are notinsoluble when wired to a robustdetermination to recover.

Symbolically, Jackson empow-ered the dispossessed and commu-nicated to ‘the wretched of the earth,’that boldness conquers all, and thatthe will to become, gives endlesshope to shine.

Through countless images ofmourning and messages of reflec-tion, there seems to be a unique mixof tears stirred by celebration, andcelebration fermented in tears as

Michael Jackson: GlobalMusical Genius Lives On

Dr. Isaac Newton

people give vent to the passing ofthe King of Pop.

This is a wonderful testamentthat in life as in death, Michael Jack-son, like no one else, had the abilityto flex his many muscles ofaloneness, celebrity, inner turmoil,public adoration, private disappoint-ment, and sweet peace.

True to his mysterious person-ality, ‘MJ’ left us while in thetrenches of preparing for a worldtour. This was probably his ultimateattempt to give back to his fans andreclaim his image.

In that sense, his legacy shouldpush us to remain firm to the thingswe love, and persist in spite of per-sonal inhibitions, to achieve them.

What better memory of him thatwe should cherish than the one,where in the company other greatmusical talents, he sang, “We are theWorld,” in response to a global cri-sis.

Perhaps we should rememberhim, most strikingly, through a rarekind of universal legacy, which chal-lenges each one of us, to reach be-yond every barrier, and cross everyboundary, for the undying cause, ofmutual caring and global kinship.

Emulating ‘MJ’ is an act, whichcuddles admiration. Yes, the King ofPop is gone, but the royal dignitywith which he enacted his greatmusical talent, lives forever!

Michael Jackson


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KC JB Hideway is the triple-decker entertain-ment complex for everyone. This was realized bythose attending the Grand Opening of this uniquefacility on Thursday, June 25th, 2009.

Among those at the grand function: BobbyVeiera, General Manager of One Caribbean Radio,Michael Babwar – Marketing Executive CaribbeanLife, David Lester – New York Liberty Star, RecordProducer and Recording Industry ExecutiveRoyston Charles aka Charlie from Charlie’sRecords, Wassy, George Stanislaus, prominent ship-ping executive Joseph Henry, Peter Flinch, Tony

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The occasion was crowned with a scintillatingperformance by The Godfather of Soca Himself –KC; a fitting climax in a night dedicated to honorThe Godfather of Soul – James Brown, whose ini-tials ‘JB’, the Hideaway Carries.

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Day turned out be a wet, wild, andsomewhat wacky day in Brooklyn asthousands of Caribbean music fansstormed Floyd Bennett Field to wit-ness rousing performances and out-rageous stage antics from some ofthe biggest names in Dancehall andReggae, and up and coming cultur-ally diverse Caribbean-inspired acts.

With funky performances fromReggae fusion acts like the African-Asian-Jamaican Ska band the BrownRice Family, 'Skragga' band TheRudie Crew, King Django, down-home Reggae/Soul band ThePeoples led by acclaimed actor Leon,and the original Jew-maican BennyBwoy with this partner in rhymeLynx, the good vibes and lively pacewere set very early, despite the fre-quent rain showers.

Rhythm and Blues sirensKendra Granville and Kayla Blisscooled down the pace with syrupysweet vocals while Essence broughtin a wild and colorful Caribbeancarnival vibe with an up tempo per-formance complete with costumesand carnival masqueraders.Dancehall/pop songstress Barbeewas well receiv ed, while GuyaneseRoots Reggae crooner Natural Blackgave a magical performance that hadthe swelling crowd singing along tonearly every word.

Hip Hop legend Doug E. Fresh,proved that he is the 'world's great-est entertainer' with a brief, yet en-gaging performance that was remi-niscent of the classic Hip Hop thatwe all know and love with rapping,beat boxing, and call-and-response.Special guest Vicious (formerly Lil'Vicious) performed his cross over hit"Freaks" while Doug E. Fresh beat-boxed the Dancehall 'riddim'.

Dancers Ding Dong andMilkshake kept the crowd bothamused and entertained with wildstage moves and wacky antics thatpulled members of the crowd onstage. Dancehall vixen Spice alsocaptivated the crowd with a routinethat showed off her agility and ver-satility as performer, while showcas-ing her bold and frank nature as adeejay. Her controversial hit single"Ramping Shop" earned her a boom-ing forward, as she deejayed over arecorded track with lyrics from songmate Vybz Kartel.

Despite a particularly roughdown pour, the crowd stayed put fora robust, soul-stirring set by Rootssensation Tarrus Riley. From hitslike "Beware" to "Lion Paw" to"She's Royal" to "Start Anew" thecrowd hung on every word. Ac-cented by legendary saxophonistDean Fraser, Riley's set earned thun-derous applause and cheers from the

Spice performing with dancers at Brooklyn Music Festival. (Photo by Leonardo Harrison)

Beenieman gets ready to perform. (Jason Taylor photo) Capleton sets the crowd a blaze. (Jason Taylor photo)

Destra singing away. (Photo by Leonardo Harrison)

Tarus Riley performs during the pouring rain. (Photo by Jason Taylor)Leon (right) charms the crowd at the fest. (Photo by Leonardo Harrison)


moved, albeit soaked, audience.The night belonged to the 'Fire

Man' Capleton whose blazing stageperformance halted the rain and fullyconsumed the audience. Famous forboth his socially conscious lyrics andhis hyper energetic performances,the Fire Man did not disappoint, withboth brand new and classic materialfrom his 20+ year catalogue of 'hitspon top a hits.'

The 'doctor' Beenie Man waswell received, giving his usually vi-brant performance inclusive ofcrowd favorites like "Girls DemSugar," and recent hits like "GimmeGimme."

Clad in purple and white withone studded glove, the 'Energy God"Elephant Man commanded the stagewith his usually unusual 'punk rock'Dancehall style and rowdy stagemanner as he scampered from oneside of the stage to the other, reelingof dance hits like "Nuh Linga,""Gully Creeper," "Signal the Plane,"and "Sweep."

Dancehall's Alliance broughtdown the house with a triple doseof star power. Dancehall crooningsensation Serani delighted the ladieswith his billboard hitting single "NoGames," along with "Doh," "SheLoves Me," and other popularsingles. Alliance leader and 'FiveStar General' Bounty Killer came outto a thunderous cheers from the au-

Brooklyn Music Festivaldience and delivered a well-receivedset of classic Dancehall material like"Miss Ivy's Last Son," "Coppershot,"and "Lodge." The night ended withthe 'Gully God' Mavado, who hadpatrons beating down the side of theAviator Sports Center building inresponse to monster anthems like"Gully Side," "On the Rock," "I'mBlessed" and "So Special."

While the night ended on a verypositive note, the Brooklyn MusicFestival was not without hiccups.The Aviator Sports and Recreationsecurity did an excellent job of main-taining crowd control and quicklyhandling any security issues, and themajority of the show was incidentfree. Very wet, wild, and at time evenwacky, the Brooklyn Music Festivaldefinitely made its mark as a celebra-tion honoring both Caribbean-American Heritage and Black Mu-sic Month.

"The promoters, producers, andstaff of the Brooklyn Music Festi-val are thankful to Aviator Sports andRecreation, our sponsors, the artists,and most of all, the patrons thatmade the Brooklyn Music Festivala glowing success," states festivalorganizer George Crooks. "We lookforward to having a bigger, and bet-ter festival next year-and hopefullya dry one too," Crooks jokes, stat-ing that this year the rain provided"showers of blessings."

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Elephant Man had the crowd in a frenzy with his dancing routine. (Photo by Leonardo Harrison)Hip Hop legend Doug E. Fresh salute the audience. (Photo by Jason Taylor)


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Late Goal SpoilsGrenada’s PushFor Victory InFriendly

ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada – An in-jury-time strike helped Antigua &Barbuda snatch a 2-2 draw with Grenadaat the National Stadium on Sunday, asthe hosts put the finishing touches ontheir preparation for the CONCACAFGold Cup which kicks off later this week.

Grenada seemed on course to claima morale-boosting win when they led 2-1 at the end of regulation time but agoalkeeping error by Desmond Munro inthe third minute of added time allowedRoy Gregory’s shot to slip in and put adamper on the hosts’ performance.

Antigua, still fresh from a tourna-ment in Suriname, equalized twicethrough goals from the Gregory broth-ers, Roy and Gayson while Grenada gottheir goals from Ricky Charles (14th) andRimmel Daniel (77th).

Grenada, who face the United Statesin their opening fixture of the Gold Cupon Saturday, opened the scoring in the14th minute when Charles scored fromthe penalty spot after an Antiguan de-fender deliberately handled the ball in aneffort to stop striker Mark Julien fromconverting, after he dribbled past twoplayers.

The visitors found the equalizer inthe 33rd minute off the boot of GaysonGregory who stunned the Grenada de-fense with a volley from about five yardsoutside the 18-yard box.

After struggling in the first half, theSpice Boyz lifted their game in the sec-ond and took the lead again in the 77thminute through the effort of the England-based Daniel, only two minutes after hewas brought on.

Daniel, who plays for EnglishLeague Two side Gillingham FC,pounced on a ball that ricocheted of anAntiguan defender and tapped it in fromjust inside the six-yard box.

The home side looked more orga-nized in the second half, frequently raid-ing the Antiguan defense. In fact,Grenadian striker Julien missed at leastthree clear chances before he was sub-stituted.

The hosts appeared headed for a vic-tory until an embarrassing gaffe byMunro helped Antigua in the dying mo-ments of the game.

Roy Gregory’s low trajectory shotfrom 25 yards out seemed like a regula-tion save until it slipped through Munro’shands and legs and rolled into the nets,much to the dismay of his teammates.

The match was played on a NationalStadium ground significantly upgradedweeks after Central American championsPanama refused to play a friendly warm-up against Grenada because of the poorquality of the field then.

“That is the nature of football and some-times it’s a situation where you either sink orswim.”

Latapy identified two young players thathave impressed him from the number of home-grown players that have come into the nationalset-up.

“There is something special about youngHayden Tinto,” he said. “He’s quick with alow centre of gravity and aggressive offen-sively – which is something we need to getmore in our game if we need goals. Thenthere’s Radanfah Abu Bakr who is a very con-fident young lad and very composed.”

Latapy felt that the Soca Warriors had anumber of senior player that would make waysooner rather later, and he expected some ofthe young players like Tinto and Abu Bakr toemerge.

“We have a lot of old players involvednow and this will be the changing of a gen-eration which looks positive also,” he said.

“We have to start giving these players theexperience because they are the ones who will

Latapy Sees Bright FutureFor T&T ‘Soca Warriors’

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – RussellLatapy is excited about the future of theTrinidad & Tobago Soca Warriors.

The Soca Warriors’ head coach was speak-ing after he announced an 18-member squadthat will travel to Basseterre to take on St. Kitts& Nevis in a friendly international on July 4at Warner Park.

“We’ve always had a lot of talent espe-cially with some of these players we have com-ing through now,” said Latapy on Saturday.

“But I am a realist, and I know football isalso a game of results, so it’s one thing to per-form to a decent standard, but I would muchprefer not to play well and win points particu-larly when we are in a competition.”

Latapy added: “I’m quite happy with theyoung lads who came in. It was always verydifficult to throw them into fire.

“I would much prefer to breed them andtake my time with that process, but that’s thesituation we’re in where I’ve had to ask theseyoung players to go out and perform at thehighest level without having much experience.

be flying the flag for us. I know it was a diffi-cult situation to throw them in our previoustwo matches, but I thought they came out withflying colours.”

T&T are now last in the final round ofCONCACAF qualification for the 2010 FIFAWorld Cup in South Africa, and face El Sal-vador on August 12 at home in a crucial quali-fier.

“We will take the good with the bad. . .andin football, like in life, you move on and try toimprove yourself and the team,” he said.

“You stick to your beliefs and once thishappens. . .you can be sure there will be animprovement.”

To prepare for the El Salvador match, theSoca Warriors will travel to Scotland for a live-in training camp.

The camp will coincide with the endingof pre-season and the beginning of the newseason in Britain.

The trip to Scotland is expected to includeat least three matches against Scottish PremierLeague clubs.

Trinidad and Tobago's forward Russell Latapy (2ndL) celebrates after scoring a goal during a Concacaf qualifier football match for the FIFAWorld Cup South Africa-2010 at the Hasely Crawford stadium in Port of Spain.

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- West Indiesturned in a brilliant performance on Sundayto stun India and win the 2nd Digicel One-Day International at Sabina Park, Jamaica.

Led by career-best 4-37 off 10 overs byfast bowler Ravi Rampaul, the West Indiesdismissed the visitors for 188 off 48.2 overs.Wicket-keeper Denesh Ramdin took fivecatches as the first eight wickets all fell tocatches either by the keeper or in the slips.Dwayne Bravo and Jerome Taylor also bowledwell taking three wickets each.

After the bowlers did their job, RunakoMorton, with a brilliant 85 not out and cap-tain Chris Gayle with a shot-filled 64 from 46balls, added a century opening stand as theWest Indies romped to 192-2 and victory by 8wickets.

Morton ended the match with a huge sixover long-on which sparked celebrationamong the colourful crowd as the West Indies

rebounded to square the series 1-1, afterFriday’s defeat at the same venue.

It was a superb spell of bowling fromRampaul, who was recalled to the side aftermissing Friday’s match. Speaking after thematch he said it was one the best performancesof his career as he collected the Man-of-the-Match award.

“It was the best I have bowled for a longtime. I was playing four-day cricket and com-ing back to One Day, my rhythm and every-thing went well - today I bowled really well,”he said.

“I was getting a little swing with the ballso I was just waiting for them to play the rashshots. The Indian batsmen did not appear toocomfortable with the short balls so I used it asa surprise delivery.” The Digicel One-DaySeries switches to Beausejour, St Lucia for thethird Digicel ODI on Friday, July 3 and thefourth Digicel ODI on Sunday, July 5.

Rampaul Bowls Windies To Big Win

West Indies' bowler Ravi Rampaul celebratesthe dismissal of India's batsman RavindraJadeja for 7 runs, during the second one-dayinternational cricket match at Sabina Park,in Kingston, Jamaica, Sunday.


KINGSTON, Jamaica – As ex-pected, Olympic champion UsainBolt completed the sprint double forthe second straight season, whileVeronica Campbell-Brown ran awaywith the women’s 200 metres dash,on the third and final day of the Na-tional Track and Field Champion-ships here.

Bolt sealed the double with aneasy-looking 20.25 seconds, runninginto a headwind of -2.5 m/s at theNational Stadium to beat SteveMullings who placed second in20.40 and Marvin Anderson, thirdin 20.63.

“I’m feeling alright. I’m a littlebit tired because I am not really inthe best shape of my life, but I’mOK,” Bolt said afterward. “Therewere a lot of fast guys behind me soI ran the corner pretty hard, came off,saw where I was and shut it down.”

Campbell-Brown, who willchase her first World Championships200m crown in Berlin, finished firstin 22.40 seconds into a headwind of-1.1 m/s.

Shelly Ann Fraser, who won the100m on Saturday, finished secondin 22.58 seconds with former juniorstar Simone Facey taking third in22.96.

Campbell-Brown said: “I’m not100 per cent over the toe injury butit is good enough. I can get the train-ing done.”

Kerron Stewart, who was thirdin the 200m at last year’s Olympics,did not start because of a sore ankle,her coach Henry Rolle explained.

Sherone Simpson was also anon-starter but her coach StephenFrancis could not be reached for anexplanation.

Delloreen Ennis-London wonthe women’s 100m hurdles in 12.79seconds, with CommonwealthGames champion Brigitte Foster-Hylton second in 12.87 seconds andLacena Golding-Clarke close behindin third in12.89 seconds.

The 110m hurdles went to pe-rennial winner Maurice Wignall,who raced home in 13.48 seconds,defeating former double sprintChampion Dwight Thomas (13.50)and Richard Phillips (13.61).

Novlene Williams-Mills sur-prised Olympic silver medalistShericka Williams to crown herselfNational champion over the 400mdash.

Williams-Mills, the bronzemedal winner in this event at the2007 World Championships inOsaka, posted 50.21 seconds to de-feat Williams (50.39) and ChristineDay (51.54).

The men’s title went to RicardoChambers in 45.55 in a thrilling fin-ish, with Allodin Fothergill the sec-ond place finisher with a time of45.57 and Lansford Spence, third in45.78.

Kenia Sinclair won the women’s800m in two minutes, 01.63 sec-onds.

An interesting field event resultsaw Alain Bailey securing the WorldChampionships ‘A’ standard (8.15metres) by jumping 8.21 metres.

Bolt MoreWorriedAbout PowellThan Gay

KINGSTON, Jamaica --Usain Bolt has hinted that AsafaPowell may be more of a threatto his 100 metres world recordthan American Tyson Gay.

The 22-year-old Bolt recov-ered from a typically slow starton Saturday and ran past Powellat the halfway stage to set theyear's fastest non-wind assistedtime of 9.86 seconds over thedistance at the Jamaica nationalchampionships.

"I would say Asafa is com-ing into shape and that is a goodthing," said Bolt following therace.

Powell, the former 100mworld record holder, was fasterout of the blocks, and seemed tohave control of the race beforeBolt took command.

The 27-year-old Powell hadto settle for second in a time of9.97 seconds, with MichaelFrater finishing third in 10.02.

"His ankle is getting better,"he added. "It is going to be agood season. As soon as he getsinto shape, it's going to be veryinteresting," Bolt added.

Powell injured his ankle ear-lier in the season, running in theUnited States, but has slowlybeen regaining his form.

Similarly, Gay was a non-factor at last year's OlympicGames in Bejing, where Boltmade a name for himself.

Bolt Wins Sprint Double,Campbell-Brown Shines

Veronica Campbell-Brown sprints tothe finish line ahead of compatriots

Anneisha McLaughlin (L) andSimone Facey in the Women's 200meter finals at the JamaicanAthletics National Championshipin Kingston, Jamaica June 28.


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West Indies' bowler Ravi Rampaul celebrates after taking the wicket of India's opener Gautam Gambhir for a duck during thesecond one-day international cricket match at Sabina Park, in Kingston, Jamaica, Sunday.

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