BACHAN PARIAG, secretary of the Princes Town Constituency Executive of the UNC, has denied writing the letter bearing his name and published on page 19 of Monday’s Newsday under the headline, Time for change at the top, UNC. Pariag told Newsday that he had nothing whatever to do with the letter.
THE EDITOR: I wish to express my thanks to your paper for publishing my letters which requested road repairs and street lighting, among other things, for the residents of Edinburgh 500.
The authorities having read your paper responded positively. Thanks must also be conveyed to the present Councillor for the area Mr Bernard Bailey. It is widely accepted that he worked tirelessly and pleaded unendingly with the Minister to have these projects implemented. Edinburg 500 can now boast of smooth roads and adequate street lighting. However, I take this opportunity to plead for the construction of a community centre and the refurbishing of the sporting complex.
HORACE HUTSON
Edinburg 500
SANTO DOMINGO: AMERICA-based Candice Scott collected Trinidad and Tobago’s first official medal, in the women’s hammer throw, at the 14th Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic yesterday.
Scott, the current US collegiate champ and record holder, had a best attempt of 69.06 metres, with Yunaika Crawford claiming gold in a new Pan Am record of 74.25 metres and fellow Cuban Yipsy Moreno silver in 69.57. Crawford’s feat was the highlight of the morning’s track and field events, which also featured the 100m heats, as she smashed the previous mark of 65.36 set by American Dawn Ellerbe in 1999. Bodybuilder Damien George took bronze in the men’s middleweight division while Karen Walcott grabbed silver in the fitness competition on Monday. But both events are demonstration sports at the Games and the medals would not count on the official tally.
In the 100m heats yesterday morning, TT sprinter Niconnor Alexander, who is currently enrolled at the Abilene Christian University, won the fourth preliminary heat in 10.45 seconds while national senior sprint double champ Jacey Harper was fourth in heat two in 10.55, and advanced to last night’s semi as one of the four “fastest losers.” TT senior 100m queen and World Under-18 bronze medallist Kelly-Ann Baptiste were also expected to feature in the semis after the women’s 100m first round was scrapped. Annaleise Rose was the only TT tennis player to record a victory on the courts yesterday, with a tough 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 first round win over Marcela Rodezmo of El Salvador. Rose, who lives and trains in Florida, will meet Dilmarie Pastellvi of Puerto Rico today.
Top national server Shane Stone failed to progress past the second round, after he was soundly beaten 6-2, 6-2 in 53 minutes by ex-world number one Marcelo Rios of Chile. Stone’s younger brother Troy was also eliminated 6-0, 6-0 by Uruguay’s Marcel Selder in his first round contest. The women’s hockey squad were beaten 3-1 by Chile with 2002 Women’s “Player of the Year” Oire Trotman scoring the consolation goal in the 53rd, after the Chileans found the backboard in the 26th, 32nd and 45th minutes. The men’s beach volleyball pair of Nolan Tash and Sean Morrison were expected to face Paraguay at 8 pm yesterday, with a greater incentive of winning after they were trounced 21-7, 21-10 by Puerto Rico on Monday.
A TOP Trinidad and Tobago cricket official has come to the defence of the role of the Executive Committee of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).
Ellis Lewis, first vice-president of the TT Cricket Board (TTCB) and a director of the WICB, said yesterday that the Executive Committee is essential to the efficient running of West Indies cricket. The committee has come under fire after their decision to support Chetram Singh of Guyana for the presidency of the WICB. The TT representative on the committee is Richard de Souza. Recently a newspaper editorial questioned its validity especially with an executive already in place. “The West Indies Cricket Board Inc is registered as a business and its constitution has Articles of Association. The Executive Committee exists under these Articles of Association and runs the affairs of the West Indies Cricket Board in between their meetings,” said Lewis.
The WICB executive which comprise 14 members, are the managers of the Board he said. The president, vice-president and 12 directors come from the six cricket playing territories around the Caribbean. “The 14 members are really the managers of the Board and they meet twice a year. Due to financial constraints it is difficult to assemble these 14 men in one place every month, so an Executive Committee has been formed with less officials to run the day to day affairs of the Board,” Lewis said. “The Executive Committee comprises the president of the WICB, his deputy and three other members. These guys meet regularly and attend to the needs of West Indies cricket,” he said. Lewis added that Wes Hall, who served as president for the past two years, was the chairman of the Executive Committee that took the decision to support Singh for the presidency. At the moment no president has been installed and vice-president Val Banks is acting in the post. “This committee is essential in the running of the Board and cannot be disbanded just so. It is very difficult to have all the directors together regularly and hence this committee performs that vital role,” Lewis said. “I want to make it clear that there is just one executive not two and this distinction has to be understood,” said Lewis.
TRINIDAD and Tobago golfers will today begin their quest for regional golf supremacy in the 47th annual Caribbean Amateur Golf Championships.
The four-day contest gets underaway from 7 am with the first round on the Plantations Beach and Golf Resort at Lowlands, Tobago. Competition ends on Saturday with an awards function at the club house. The last time Trinidad and Tobago staged the tournament, popularly known as the Hoerman Cup, the hosts made a clean sweep of the four crowns at stake at the St Andrew’s Golf Club at Moka, Maraval. Ten years later, expectations are high that the TT team, led by their leading golfer, Carlos “Sexy” Baynes will give a good account of themselves and pose a serious challenge to the defending champions Puerto Rico. The TT team is: (Hoerman Cup) Carlos Baynes, Shane Costelloe, Dion Gonsalves, Corey Hamel-Smith, Randy Mohammed (Reserve); (Ramon Baez Figueroa) Barry Ferdinand, Arjoon Samlal, Jesse Jattan Snr (Reserve); (Francis and Steele-Perkins) Louis de Meillac, Raymond Roberts; (Higgs and Hill) Asraph Ali, Edward Grell, Peter Hale (Reserve); (George Teale) Diana Torry, Michelle Torry, Tracey Clarke (Reserve).
Speaking over the weekend, Tournament Director Bill Agard said the homesters are certain to make the best of home advantage having practised extensively on the relatively new Plantations Championship course. However the fickle weather patterns currently affecting the sister isle is a cause for concern. But over the past couple of days, brilliant sunshine has graced the scenic 7,000-yard par-72 course whose greens are expected to play on the quick side. The countries represented in the tournament are Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Turks and Caicos, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands and hosts Trinidad and Tobago. Of added interest will be the appraisal of the Plantations course which is hosting a tournament of this magnitude. Director of Golf, Chris Patey, an Irishman who has been at Plantations for the past four years is confident that all is in place to accommodate the competitors and he is certain that they will go back home with a positive impression of their visit. Patey’s aim is to project Plantations Beach and Golf Resort into the top ten desirable destinations to holiday and play golf in the entire Caribbean. The golfers are staying at the Hilton Tobago which is located on the beach front of the spectacular 750-acre Master Planned Community comprising condominiums, cluster villas and villa lots.
Teams:
Hoerman Cup: (Bahamas) Stephen Bain, Peter McIntosh, Jarrod Sweeting, Keno Turnquest; (Barbados) Darren Boardley, James Johnson, Carlsen Leacock, Scott Stollmeyer, Sean Eddey and Bill Tempro (Reserves); (Cayman Islands) Oliver Burton, Greg Downer, Alan Geraghty, Tracy Moore, Matthew Wight; (Jamaica) Owen Samuda, Michael Scott, Paul Thompson; (Dominican Republic) Juan Campusano, Otto Guerrero, Marco Midence, Robert Smith; (Turks and Caicos) David Carrion, John Donatien, Rodney Lavard, Serge Paradis; (OECS) Ivan Hixon, Cliff Alcide, Eugene Edwin, Trevor Levine; (Puerto Rico) Max Alverio, Erick Morales, Raul Rivera, Raul Slavonia; (US Virgin islands) Robert Behling, Raymond Berkeley, Mike Graci, John Streibich.
Ramon Baez Figueroa: (Bahamas) Alex Gibson, Mike Mike Toporoski; (Barbados) Dennis Blackman, Michael Haynes, Roger Bleale (Reserve); (Cayman) George Christie, Robert Wood; (Jamaica) Michael Gleichman, Fred Sutherland; (Dominican Republic) Miguel Feris, Fabio Santoni; (Turks and Caicos) Greg Hurd, Jack Sims; (OECS) Canice Louis, Terry Verdant; (Puerto Rico) Mike Santin, Frank Thomas; (US Virgin Islands) Ed Gittens, Conrad Stancliffe.
Francis and Steele-Perkins: (Bahamas) Bobby Rose, Vernon Wells; (Barbados) Robert Piggott, Ricky Skeete, Roger Beale (Reserve); (Caymans) Paula Chilman, Robert Chilman, Tom Crawford; (Jamaica) Dennis Atkinson, Hamar Dayes; (Dominican Republic) Andres Dilone, Hector Then; (Turks and Caicos) Brian Kennedy, JP Srinark; (OECS) Alex Blanchard, John Wright; (Puerto Rico) John Benner, Israel Ortiz; (US Virgin islands) Oliver Hendrickson, Austin Overby.
Higgs and Higgs: (Bahamas) Harcourt Poitier, George Turnquest; (Barbados) Goslin Griffith, Peter Lashley, Dr Robert Gaskin; (Caymans) Michael Cantin, Don Stewart; (Jamaica) Jason Garbutt, Herman McDonald, Cleo Taylor; (Turks and Caicos) Bob Gaynor, Ken Liroff; (OECS) Brad Paul, Errol Samuel; (Puerto Rico) Luis Elvin Gonzales, Osiris Melemndez; (US Virgin Islands) Jim Hymes, Cosmo Williams.
George Teale: (Bahamas) Jameica Duncombe, Giselle Pyfrom; (Barbados) Muffin Johnson, Jamie Hole, Lynn Johnson (Reserve); (Caymans) Nicole Chin-Coe, Samantha Widmer; (Jamaica) Mahie Lyn, Jodi Munn; (Dominican Republic) Debra Luna, Carole Tremblay; (Turks and Caicos) Tammy Glugosh, Chris Pretorius; (Puerto Rico) Karen Calvesbert, Laura Diaz; (US Virgin Islands) Cathy Colburn, Allison Bourne-Vanneck.
BARBADOS champion stayer Feet On Flames will make another attempt to win the Sagicor Independence Cup.
The colt owned by Luther Miller and trained by Eddie Greenidge will lead a three-pronged attack on the event to be run off on September 1 over 1,850 metres on the turf course. Arima Race Club racing secretary Robin Jaising, just back from a visit to the land of the flying fish, managed to lure not only Feet On Flames, but Hard Dancer, which is owned by Sir Charles Williams and trained by MA Nunes and Lion Country, owned by CTA Stables SRL and trained by JM Cozier as well. Should these horses face the starter at the Arima Race Club Independence Day programme, owners will be looking at a $200,000 purse to share. According to conditions of the event, the race will be worth $75,000 if there is no horse from either Barbados or Jamaica in the field, but if one “foreign” runner is in the field the purse will mount to $100,00 and will go to $200,000 with two or more foreigners in the race. But Jaisingh did not stop there, and the owners of Sweet Dreams, winner of the Mid-Summer Classic last month, Ginger Bay and Royal Red, third and fourth in the same race, have decided to challenge leading local contender Top of The Class for the Royal Oak Derby over 2,000 metres on September 24.
Sweet Dreams is owned by Derek Crowson and trained by ex-champion jockey Chally Jones, while Ginger Bay is owned by veteran horseman Sir David Seale and trained by Robert Pierce. Royal Red is owned by the Turf 2000 Syndicate and trained by Naz Issa. But before this, the three Bajan runners will line up in the Barbados United Derby on Saturday. Following their Derby run, the horses will be shipped to Trinidad and have a prep race at Santa Rosa Park on September 1. The Independence Day event for West Indies-bred three-year-olds will be over 17,590 metres, which will allow the Bajans to get a feel of the main track ahead of the Royal Oak Derby classic. The three runners for the Independence Cup will also be in action on Saturday at the Garrison Savannah.
Trinidad and Tobago striker Maylee Attin-Johnson scored a beaver-trick while fellow midfielder Tasha St Louis netted a treble as TIAHCO Stingrays opened the Trinidad and Tobago Women’s Football Association (TTWFA) 2003 season with a 12-0 rout of Cruz International last Saturday.
Also finding the back of the net at the Rosemary Street Grounds, Cantaro, Santa Cruz were Sedonna Agard and Keisha Charles, who each scored twice, and Roxanne O’Brien, who notched the other. Another national midfielder Leslie-Ann James converted a penalty as Jane Public edged a tough Petrotrin outfit 1-0 at the Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya, Tunapuna while Tyechia John and TT playmaker Nadia James were the goalscorers for Real Dimension, who turned back Police 2-0 at the Queen’s Park Savannah.
At the Diego Martin Secondary School grounds, Toco were unable to stop the might of Diego Martin Corpius, who prevailed 4-2 with a double from Abiola Steadman and one apiece from Kelly-Ann Foderingham and Geneva Edwards. Memphis also defeated Central United 4-2 at the Arima Municipal Stadium while, at Onus Memorial Park, Grand Chemin, Moruga edged Arima Ball Masters by a 1-0 scoreline.
Today’s Matches — Arima Ball Masters vs Memphis, Larry Gomes Enclosure, Arima; Police vs Cruz International, Police Training College, St James; Toco vs Joe Public, Anglail Road Recreation Grounds, Cumana; TIAHCO Stingrays vs Diego Martin Corpius, Queen’s Park Savannah; Central United vs Moruga, Homeland Gardens, Enterprise, 3.30 pm; Petrotrin vs Real Dimension, Guaracara Park, 6 pm.
Sensei Darryl Williams, chief instructor of the Trinidad and Tobago Karate Alliance (TTKA), has retuned from a twelve-day trip (July 19 to 29) which included special training with his teacher, Shihan Kunio Miyake, Eighth Dan, and Chief Instructor of Shuko-Kai International.
This was at the Hombu (headquarters) in Fountain Valley, California. After Williams went to the USA —National Karate Federation 2003 National Championships in San Jose. There, he participated in the referee course where he was re-certified as a league referee with the USA-NKF. The USA-NKF is the USA National Governing Body for karate. He also took the International Kata course and was promoted to Regional kata judge. Accompanying him was Archie Leiba who trained at the hombu but did not participate in any of the coaching, or referee courses. Sensei Williams is the General-Secretary for Shuko-Kai International. He is based in New York, USA and is expected to visit Ghana, Tamilnadu (South India) and Sri Lanka later on in the year to conduct technical seminars.
Shihan Kunio Miyake is expected to be in Trinidad and Tobago next April to conduct special training for instructors from the Caribbean Shuko-Kai. Shuko-Kai Trinidad and Tobago will now be under Triad Council. Indira Ramlogan, the Technical Supervisor for Trinidad and Tobago is expected to meet with the head instructors for all dojos soon. Other instructors are Curtis Carrera, Douglas Khan, Dwayne McLean Parris, Helen Jack, Kelvin Clarke and Pundit Gaya Persad Maharaj and Ricardo Sookram.
Elton Prescott, an executive member of the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee and lawyer by profession has been selected to the first ever Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (CANOC).
This was in Santo Domingo during the current Pan American Games. The official launching of CANOC follows four years of deliberation and the development of a constitution. CANOC’s inaugural chairman, Steve Stoute, who is also president of the Barbados Olympic Association, said the vision of the new grouping would be to promote, encourage and assist sport, sport development and physical recreation throughout the Caribbean for the benefit of the nations. The other members of the committee are: Secretary, Elton Prescott of Trinidad and Tobago; Vere Bird (Antigua), Don Anderson (Jamaica), Larry Davis (Bahamas), Guno Van Der Jagt (Suriname).
Stoute, who was the interim chairman since 1999, said CANOC would acknowledge the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the supreme authority of the Olympic movement. “CANOC would also ensure the observance of the Olympic charter, and contribute to the achievement of the goals set out therein, while upholding the fundamental principles of Olympism,” he said. “We will work assiduously to promote the shared values of integrity, fair play, discipline, commitment to excellence, and respect for gender equality and tolerance. “We will continue the fight against the use in sport of performance enhancing drugs and other unhealthy or psychotropic substances, consistent with the objectives of the World Anti-Doping Association,” he added. “We will provide a forum for the discussion and implementation of ideas and programmes for the development of sport, athletes, administrators and other professionals,” he said.
Former West Indies off-spinner Jack Noreiga is now bed-ridden after successful abdominal surgery last week.
His daughter, Jackie Noreiga, said yesterday her 67-year-old father had a surgical operation at the Sangre Grande General Hospital to remove an obstacle in his intestines. “The obstacle was removed but the doctors told us that he is responding very slowly. My father is conscious and knows everybody who comes in to visit him at the hospital. It is just that he is not responding as well as we had hoped,” she said. Noreiga, the former Paragon stalwart who lives at La Florisante, Arima made his Test debut for the West Indies in the 1970/71 series against India at Sabina Park, Jamaica. During the series he grabbed nine wickets for 95 runs in front of his home crowd the Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain which is still a West Indies record for the most wickets taken in an innings. His remarkable figures read 49.4-16-95-9.
In all Noreiga played four Tests and captured 17 wickets at an average of 29.00. In 27 First Class matches he nabbed 67 wickets at 29.67. Up until the last local cricket season Noreiga was attached to the Moosai’s Sports Club of El Dorado as coach. The team campaigns in the Carib National League Second Division. ”When my father gets over this I would like him to settle down a bit and take it easy. He has to remember that he is not young anymore and the hustling cannot continue.” she said. Jackie is one of nine Noreiga siblings comprising, five boys and four girls.
