BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, November 24, 2021 (MMS-SKN) — Former champion team Unity Domino Club and Mansion Domino Club ensured there would be no third game in the best-of-three semi-finals when on Tuesday November 23 they powered their way into the finals of the 26th edition of Constituency Number Seven Dr the Hon Timothy Harris Domino League.

Not making it into the finals were defending champion team, Tabernacle Domino Club, which fell at the hands of Mansion Domino Club, and Sylvers Domino Club felled by Unity Domino Club in classic supercharged games played at the new Lodge-Ottley’s Community Centre.

Former champion team Unity, out to reclaim the coveted crown beat Sylvers 14-9, while Mansion brought an end to defending champion Tabernacle’s chance to retain the title won last year by beating them 13-8.

When the semi-finalists first met on Thursday November 18, Unity beat Sylvers 14-8 and the scores were not very different in the second of the best-of-three semi-final games when the former champion team beat the new entrant into the league’s semi-finals Sylvers 14-9, other than the drama and pure energy put in by Unity players.

The game started with Unity leading 4-0 before Sylvers earned a single game. When the game got to 5-2 in favour of Unity, Simeon ‘Cuban’ Liburd and Davin Henry playing on Table Two managed 100 points before Sylvers could earn a single point, to earn a bonus game and move the scores to 7-2.

Sylvers, the only team captained by a female, fought back and levelled the scores at 7-7 but before they could celebrate, Unity went three up to 10-7 in their favour. Even before Sylvers players could even organise themselves, they got hit by two 0-100 games as Bernard Wilson and Everton Boon for Unity on Table 1 raced to 100 points, and before even the scorer could write on the scoreboard, on Table 2 Captain Desmond ‘Fergie’ Rawlins and Antonio ‘Mash’ Phillip reported a 100-0 win that gave Unity the commanding 12-8 lead.

With Unity needing only one game to sail into the finals, Sylvers grabbed one game on Table Two to have the points at 12-9 in Unity’s favour. Captain Rawlins of Unity, this time playing with Davin Henry raced to 100 points before Sylvers players realised what was happening to them, which left former champion team with the 14-9 win at 10:22 p.m. which assured them a place in the finals.

In the second semi-final game, defending champion Tabernacle started with promise by grabbing the first game, and when leading 4-3, Cremoy Aggard and Thomas Henderson on Table Two won a bonus game to allow Mansion take a 5-4 lead. Before Tabernacle knew that they had been hit, the same pair of Aggard and Henderson raced to a follow-up 100-0 win to earn them another bonus game for a 7-4 lead.

At one time Mansion led 10-5, but Tabernacle reduced the deficit to 10-8 in favour of Mansion, after which Mansion upped their game and won another three games, with Calvin Farrell and Cremoy Aggard taking the final wining game at 10:47 p.m. for the overall 13-8 win.

According to the league’s Public Relations Officer, Allington Berridge, former champion team Unity Domino Club will meet Mansion Domino Club for the first best-of-three games final encounter on Tuesday November 30 at the same venue. No date, as at the time of going to press, had been set yet for the third/fourth place clash between Tabernacle Domino Club and Sylvers Domino Club.

Constituency Number Seven Dr the Hon Timothy Harris Domino League, which is the longest running such league in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis, is sponsored by Prime Minister and Area Parliamentary Representative for St. Christopher Seven (Bellevue to Ottley’s), Dr the Hon Timothy Harris.

In the meantime, domino action continues tonight Wednesday November 24 with Best of Rest round robin eliminations, where Phillips Domino Club will be coming up against Unstoppable Domino Club, while tomorrow Thursday Phillips Domino Club will be facing Saddlers Domino Club.

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Caricom Chair Expresses Condolences At Passing Of Sir James Mitchell

St John’s, 23 November…  The Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Prime Minister Gaston Browne, has expressed deepest sympathy at the passing of Sir James ‘Son’ Mitchell, the former Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines.

Prime Minister Browne telephoned Dr Ralph Gonsalves this morning to convey the condolences of the Caribbean Community’s  Heads of Government to the nation of St Vincent and the Grenadines on the death of one of their iconic figures.

The CARICOM Chair recalled that Sir James has served for 16 years as Prime Minister of his country and during that time was an active regionalist, promoting several initiatives for the deepening of integration in the region.

Prime Minister Browne also noted that Sir James had been an active advocate of the idea of a political union of the countries of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States in the early 1980s.

“The region has lost a true champion of our CARICOM integration and a significant figure in advancing the region’s causes in the global community.  We join the people of St Vincent and the Grenadines, especially the people of the island of Bequia where he was born and in which he spent his happiest times”, Prime Minister Brown concluded.

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An 8-year-old boy became the sixth person to die Tuesday as a result of a man driving his SUV into a suburban Milwaukee Christmas parade, with a criminal complaint alleging that the suspect in the case steered side-to-side with the intent of striking marchers and spectators.

Darrell Brooks Jr., 39, was charged with five counts of first-degree intentional homicide, a charge that carries a mandatory life sentence if convicted. He rocked back and forth in his seat and cried throughout his court hearing on Tuesday, his attorney’s arm on his back, as the charges against him were detailed. His bail was set at $5 million, and a preliminary hearing was scheduled for Jan. 14.

Eyewitnesses described the aftermath of the crime as nothing short of horrific.

Angelito Tenorio, an alderman and candidate for state treasurer, was marching in the parade when he heard a loud bang. “Then I heard deafening cries and screams. It was very gut-wrenching,” he told the New York Times. “People were running away, leaving their belongings behind, sobbing. When the crowd cleared out, it looked like there were people on the ground who might have been struck by the vehicle.”

“There were pom-poms and shoes and spilled hot chocolate everywhere,” one person told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal. “I had to go from one crumpled body to the other to find my daughter. My wife and two daughters were almost hit. Please pray for everybody. Please pray. My family is safe but many are not. I held one little girl’s head in my hand; she was seizing and she was bleeding out of her ears. I held her mother as she collapsed. Please pray.”

The suspect

Police soon recovered the vehicle and took into custody the driver, Darrell E. Brooks. Officials said Brooks, 39, had apparently been involved in a domestic incident just before driving the SUV down the parade route. “There was no pursuit that led to this incident,” Waukesha police chief Daniel Thompson added during a press conference Monday, saying officers hadn’t yet responded to the scene of the earlier incident. In a court appearance on Tuesday, prosecutors charged Brooks with five counts of first-degree intentional homicide. His bail has been set at $5 million, and he is expected to face a sixth count for the death of 8-year-old Jackson Sparks, who passed on Tuesday.

On Monday, the Associated Press reported that Brooks has a lengthy criminal record and has been charged with crimes 16 times since 1999:

Online court records showed a person named Darrell Brooks, with a birthdate making him 39, has two open criminal cases in Milwaukee County. In one case, filed Nov. 5, he is charged with resisting or obstructing

“The nature of this offense is shocking,” said Waukesha Court Commissioner Kevin Costello.

Additional charges related to the sixth death and the more than 60 people injured will be coming later this week or next, said Waukesha County District Attorney Susan Opper. The criminal complaint said 62 people were injured, up from the 48 previously announced by police.

Brooks is accused of speeding away from police and entering the Waukesha Christmas parade on Sunday night, refusing to stop even as an officer banged on the hood of his SUV. Another officer fired three shots into the vehicle, but it did not stop.

Five people ranging in age from 52 to 81 were pronounced dead within hours. Jackson Sparks, 8, was the first of many injured children to have died. He was walking in the parade with his 12-year-old brother Tucker, who was injured in the crash and was being discharged from the hospital, according to his GoFundMe page.

“This afternoon, our dear Jackson has sadly succumbed to his injuries and passed away,” the page’s organizer, Alyssa Albro, wrote.

The city’s livestream video and bystander video captured the chaotic scene when an SUV sped along the parade route and then into the crowd. Several of those injured remain in critical condition.

According to the criminal complaint, witnesses told police that the vehicle “appeared to be intentionally moving side to side,” with no attempt to slow down or stop as it struck multiple people and sent bodies and objects flying.

Brooks ignored several attempts to stop him, according to the criminal complaint.

A detective — wearing police insignia and a neon orange safety vest — stepped in front of Brooks’ vehicle and pounded on the hood, shouting “Stop,” several times but Brooks drove past him, according to the complaint.

A uniformed police officer who saw Brooks’ SUV traveling toward the parade route also tried to get his attention, yelling “Stop, stop the vehicle” several times but was ignored, according to the complaint. The officer “observed the driver looking straight ahead, directly at him, and it appeared he had no emotion on his face,” the complaint said.

Brooks braked at one point, but instead of turning away from the parade route, he turned into the crowd and appeared to rapidly accelerate, the complaint said.

Another police officer shot at the vehicle, striking it three times as it entered the parade route. Brooks was not hit by the bullets, the Waukesha police chief said Monday.

The complaint said one witness who spoke with police said the SUV “continued to drive in a zig zag motion. It was like the SUV was trying to avoid vehicles, not people. There was no attempt made by the vehicle to stop, much less slow down.”

Waukesha Police Chief Dan Thompson said Brooks was leaving the scene of a domestic dispute that had taken place just minutes earlier when he drove into the parade route.

He had been free on $1,000 bail for a case in Milwaukee County earlier in November in which he’s accused of intentionally striking a woman with his car. Prosecutors said they’re investigating their bail recommendation in that case, calling it inappropriately low.

Brooks has been charged with crimes more than a dozen times since 1999, mostly in Wisconsin but also in Georgia and Nevada, and had two outstanding cases against him at the time of the parade disaster. That included resisting or obstructing an officer, reckless endangering, disorderly conduct, bail jumping and battery for the Nov. 2 incident.

 

Thompson said that there was no evidence the bloodshed Sunday was a terrorist attack or that Brooks knew anyone in the parade. Brooks acted alone, the chief said.

NBC News published doorbell camera footage that appeared to capture Brooks’ arrest. It showed Brooks, shivering in just a T-shirt, knocking on a homeowner’s door and asking for help calling for a ride. Moments later, police surrounded the house and shouted, “Hands up!” Brooks, standing on the porch, held up his hands and said, “Whoa whoa whoa!”

Hundreds gathered at a downtown park Monday night in Waukesha, Wisconsin, for a candlelight vigil in honor of those lost and hurt. A pair of clergy solemnly read the names of those who died. Volunteers handed out sandwiches, hot chocolate and candles at the vigil, which was attended by interfaith leaders and elected officials.

“We are parents. We are neighbors. We are hurting. We are angry. We are sad. We are confused. We are thankful. We are all in this together. We are Waukesha Strong,” said a tearful Amanda Medina Roddy with the Waukesha school district.

Mayor Shawn Reilly described the parade as a “Norman Rockwell-type” event that “became a nightmare.”

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Bauer reported from Madison, Wisconsin. Associated Press writer Doug Glass contributed from Minneapolis.

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NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS — Residents of the Flamboyant Nursing Home in Nevis were presented with a donation from the St. Kitts and Nevis Bar Association as part of the organisation’s annual Law Week activities.

In presenting the gift to Registered nurse Kella Didier, who at the time is in charge of the facility, and nursing assistant Cecilia Stanley; Ms. Anmarieta Staines, on behalf of the association, noted that the donation is not the first of its kind to the nursing home.

“Today we are here doing our presentation to the Flamboyant Nursing Home which is something we would have been doing for several years now and this is our little token. Because of the pandemic we were not able to fellowship with the residents of the Flamboyant Home so today we are doing our part in giving back to the community…

“We hope that they appreciate the little gesture from the St. Kitts and Nevis Bar Association. Some of the items that we have today: – standing fan, we have wipes, tumblers, toiletries and this is just a portion. We do intend to continue throughout the week but today is just the first day for our presentation,” she said.

Ms. Staines also used the opportunity to encourage members of the public to participate in the final activity which will herald the end of Law Week 2021.

“Law Week ends this Saturday, November 27, where in St. Kitts we will be going on a Hash at the Romney Manor and that starts at 3:30.

“In Nevis we will be going on a hike to the lighthouse. The cost is just $30 so we encourage persons to come and get fit with us in our ‘Fit to Practise’ activity in Law Week,” she said.

Meantime, in response to the gift nurse Didier thanked the association.

“On behalf of the residents and the staff of the Flamboyant Nursing Home, we would like to thank you for your donations over the years.  We really do appreciate your kind gesture and we thank you for thinking about the residents,” she said.

Also present were Ms. Shemica Maloney and Ms. Janicia Hodge both members of the association.

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