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NECOCLI, Colombia, Oct 1 (Reuters) – An influx of thousands of mostly Haitian migrants seeking transport northward toward the United States is pushing locals in the Colombian beach town of Necocli out of housing, residents said, as landlords favor migrants able to pay in dollars.

The backlog of migrants waiting in the town for scarce places on boat transport toward the jungles of the Darien Gap in Panama, where smugglers guide groups northward on foot, has swelled to up to 19,000 after the lifting of COVID-19 border closures.

Though many migrants, low on cash, are sleeping in tents or on the town’s beach, others are able to rent rooms by the day or share houses.

That has pushed out dozens of permanent residents.

“The owners of the house, without mincing words, just said they needed us to move out as quickly as possible,” said dance teacher Yesid Puche.

“From a moral standpoint it’s a bit sad that the same people from the town where you grew up will turn their backs on you for a few pesos.”

The journey north is a long and dangerous one for the Haitians. read more

Many have spent years in other Latin American countries like Chile and Brazil, where some say they experienced racism. Families, many including young children, want to reach the United States to seek better opportunities than those available in their home country, which has been repeatedly battered by political crises and natural disasters.Renting to migrants is advantageous for locals, especially amid the Colombian peso’s 11% depreciation this year.

“It has all the basic requirements, electricity, water, they have a kitchen where they can make their food, which is really different to ours, and they have a bathroom,” said Francisco Mejia, whose family rents to migrants for $6 per person.

Even commercial properties are being re-purposed.

“Around 100 homes have been taken from local renters to give them to Haitians and around 50 commercial locales also have been taken or contracts have been ended to rent to Haitians,” Necocli’s procurator Wilfredo Menco said.

U.N. agencies on Thursday called on countries not to expel Haitians without evaluating their needs and to offer protective measures for them to legally remain, after the United States expelled some 4,000 Haitians in recent weeks.

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QUITO/GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Ecuador is planning to pardon up to 2,000 inmates in order to relieve overcrowding at its detention centers after 118 inmates died and a further 79 were injured in the country’s worst-ever prison riot earlier this week, an official said on Friday.

Bolivar Garzon, the director of the South American country’s SNAI prison authority, said the government aimed to prioritize the elderly, women, and prisoners with disabilities and terminal illnesses in the wake of the clashes on Tuesday at the Penitenciaria del Litoral in the southern city of Guayaquil.

The country’s prisons are currently home to some 39,000 inmates, Garzon added.

Garzon said the riot, the latest in a wave of prison violence in the Andean country, was sparked by “a battle for control by organized crime groups.” Riots left 79 dead in February and 22 in July of this year.

Officials say gangs have alliances with transnational criminal groups and are battling over drug trafficking routes.

Ecuador has sent 3,600 police and military reinforcements to prisons across the country to maintain order, Interior Minister Alexandra Vela told reporters on Friday. She added that forensic units had identified 41 of the victims, and had delivered the bodies of 21 of the victims to their families.

Dozens of inmates’ relatives have gathered outside a Guayaquil morgue seeking information about their loved ones. Authorities said at least six victims were decapitated.

Eduardo Montes, 60, was awaiting news of his 25-year-old brother Vicente Montes, who is due to be released in one month.

“They sent us a photo where you can see the head of one victim, and we believe it is my brother, but we do not know if he is really dead or if he is alive,” Montes said. “I have hope that he is alive and that they release him.”

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TEGUCIGALPA, Oct 2 (Reuters) – A huge fire destroyed or damaged more than 200 houses and businesses on the Honduran island of Guanaja on Saturday, forcing hundreds of residents to flee for safety and ravaging the tourism-dependent resort, relief authorities said.

Dramatic video footage shared on social media showed rows of seaside houses engulfed in flames and wooden homes collapsing in Guanaja, a Caribbean island about 70 kilometres (44 miles) off the north coast of Honduras.

Honduran Air Force dropped water on the island to douse the fire but not before it had destroyed many homes. Footage taken after the inferno was brought under control showed dozens of concrete houses with no roofs and windows.

“We can confirm that we have no human losses but vast material losses,” said Max Gonzales, minister of the National System for Risk Management and National Contingencies (SINAGER) agency.

Four people were injured in the blaze, which destroyed 90 houses and damaged another 120, including some used as businesses, Gonzales said.

The fire broke out before dawn and residents struggled to bring it under control as the island does not have a firefighting service.

Guanaja is one of the country’s three picturesque Bay Islands, where snorkelers and divers come to see dolphins and a big coral reef.

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The number of people admitted to the hospital with Covid-19, who at the peak of the Delta surge filled some intensive care units to capacity, has followed a similar downward trajectory in recent weeks.

Still, while those experts said they do not expect another surge as big as previous ones during the pandemic, they emphasized the virus remains a significant threat due to the large number of people who have not been vaccinated and the risk of a new variant, possibly even emerging from the unvaccinated population.

“Will the next surges be as big as this current one? It’s not likely, but it’s possible,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. “When you have 70 million people left who have not been vaccinated, many of whom have not yet been infected, that’s a lot of human wood for this coronavirus human forest fire to burn.”

America’s vaccination rate has slowed at a rate below many of its industrialized peers where the vaccine is widely available. Reasons vary, but are a mix of rightwing and religious opposition and skepticism, fears over safety, and concerns from communities of color wary of previous racist treatment by American healthcare institutions.

The downward trend can be attributed to increased immunity in the US population because of vaccination or natural infection and because of behavior change, such as people again wearing masks and avoiding travel or the large gatherings that they participated in before the recent surge, said Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University.

“We saw that as we relaxed everything at the end of June and July, then we saw another surge, partially attributable to Delta but also behaviors changed, and people went back to living in pre-Covid ways,” said Nuzzo.

Still, while there has been relief across much of the country, seven states have seen at least a 14% increase in Covid-19 cases over the last two weeks, according to data compiled by the New York Times.

That includes Maine and North Dakota, which have seen 29% and 25% increases during that period. The hardest hit appears to be Alaska, which has experienced a 75% increase in cases. Two of its hospitals have had to start rationing care, the Associated Press reported.

Bill Hanage, an epidemiologist at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, said this year was following a similar trend to last fall, when Covid-19 surged through the south and then through more sparsely populated parts of the country.

“The difference this year is that spread is going to be impeded – or not – by vaccination,” said Hanage.

Ali H Mokdad, professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington, projects that the number of cases will eventually start to go up again in winter because of the unvaccinated, seasonality – with the weather getting colder and people gathering indoors rather than outdoors – and waning immunity among those who are vaccinated.

The size of that increase could be determined by whether more people get vaccinated – though that rate has largely plateaued – and by how people behave during Thanksgiving and Christmas.

“If Americans wear masks, we will not see a surge this winter,” said Mokdad. “So basically if we all take the vaccine and wear a mask, we could have a very close to normal winter.”

There is also an ongoing worry about a variant emerging that can evade the vaccines, Mokdad said.

Still, he and the other epidemiologists do not expect that we will again see a surge like August, when more than 100,000 people were hospitalized across the country.

“Mortality could start going up, but it will never reach the level that we had seen during the summer surge or during the last winter surge because the vaccines have been effective in preventing hospitalizations and deaths,” said Mokdad.

Despite that promising assessment, the virus experts were not ready to make predictions as to when life will return to normal.

“It’s not really fully answerable by science. It’s also about people’s comfort,” said Nuzzo, the Johns Hopkins epidemiologist. “One of the challenges for me in sorting through all this data is I actually don’t know what the off ramps are” from Covid precautions. “We haven’t defined that as a country.”

Osterholm, the University of Minnesota epidemiologist, thinks that “people are feeling like this is the end, [but] we’re vaccinating very few people for the first dose,” he said. “There will be more to come.”

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HAVANA, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Cuba is speeding up its COVID-19 vaccination program as it aims to fully inoculate 90% of its population against the coronavirus by December, an ambitious goal that has yet to be reached by even wealthier nations.

The health ministry reported on Thursday that more than 80% of Cuba’s 11.3 million people had received at least a first shot of a three-dose immunization regimen with Cuban-made vaccines Abdala, Soberana-2 or Soberana-plus.

Close to 50% were fully vaccinated, it said – well ahead of the global average of 34%, according to the Our World In Data website.

The government has said Cuba is on track to become the first country to inoculate so much of its population with its own vaccines. It is administering them to those as young as two years old after clinical trials testing them on children. The United States by comparison has yet to authorize COVID-19 vaccines for anyone younger than 12.

Currently Cuba is lagging China, which has fully inoculated an estimated 79% of its population with its own vaccines. But Cuban authorities are vaccinating at a faster clip per capita.

“We will be the first in the world to reach everyone with our own vaccines,” Ileana Morales, director of science and innovation at the health ministry, said on state television.

State developer BioCubaFarma said its vaccines reduce serious illness and death by 90%, even if breakthrough infections are possible.

It has not yet published data supporting that claim for the scientific community to review.

The World Health Organization recently launched the process to evaluate all three Cuban vaccines.

“It will be a unique case in the world,” said Jose Moya Medina, the Pan American Health Organization’s representative in Cuba. “I hope and think Cuba will be an example for all countries in the world as only full vaccination can stop the pandemic and possible emergence of more dangerous variants.”

Cuba missed its early vaccination targets – partly due to U.S. sanctions hampering production, the government said – and suffered one of the world’s worst COVID-19 outbreaks in July and August, fueled by the highly contagious Delta variant of the virus.

But the government said this month that BioCubaFarma had produced enough shots to fully vaccinate the entire population.

GETTING READY FOR TOURISM

The cash-strapped country, which boasts pristine beaches and towns with colonial-era architecture, is banking on success to fully open its borders by mid-November for the tourism high-season.

Its vaccination campaign could give it an advantage over other countries in the region – one of the world’s most reliant on tourism – which is struggling with surging cases in part due to vaccine scepticism and low uptake.

Cuba is already lifting domestic restrictions in heavily vaccinated provinces, including Havana, as it tries to revitalize an economy severely battered by the pandemic, U.S. sanctions and domestic inefficiencies.

Shortages of food, medicine and just about every consumer good have led to severe hardship for many, on top of pandemic lockdowns, layoffs and inflation.

Cases and deaths per 100,000 residents in Havana, where around 80% of adults are vaccinated, are less than 20% of what they were two months ago, according to official data, and far below the rest of the country.

In 2020, Cuba’s pandemic response outperformed most countries. This year, however, the Delta variant swept through the populace and, in some provinces, overwhelmed its much acclaimed health services. At one point, Cuba had the highest per capita infection rate in the world, as daily cases peaked at nearly 10,000 in July and 98 deaths.

The health ministry reported a pandemic total of 11,863 cases and 146 deaths as of Dec. 31, 2020. Those tallies skyrocketed this year and stood at 877,428 cases and 7,436 deaths as of Wednesday.

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The notorious sex predator’s estate said it would compensate his victims. But those who took money feel shortchanged while almost $200 million remains in Epstein’s trust.

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By MAGGIE SEVERNS

Politico

Three months after Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in a Manhattan jail cell, a trio of crisis professionals announced plans for a fund to help pay restitution to Epstein’s victims. The “distinguished” experts, a press release announcing the fund said, would give victims an opportunity for money and closure through a “confidential, non-adversarial alternative to litigation.”

The press release boasted that the experts — Kenneth Feinberg, Camille Biros and Jordana Feldman — had “extensive experience in fashioning similar claims programs.” Feinberg, it said, was “the nation’s leading expert.”

Feinberg, a former aide to Sen. Ted Kennedy, has designed so many high-profile programs like the Epstein fund over the last 20 years that he is virtually the only big-name figure in his field, a lawyer so celebrated that he is the subject of a new Netflix feature film starring Michael Keaton. Feinberg and his colleagues occupy a niche in the criminal justice system that belongs almost exclusively to them: After high-profile disasters and public scandals, they are who politicos and corporations call to run compensation funds, the pools of money set aside to pay restitution to survivors.

Following the 9/11 victims’ fund — which the U.S. government asked him to oversee and which he did for no fee — Feinberg’s approach has blossomed over the last two decades, becoming an increasingly common strategy for responding to crises. But it has rarely been questioned — until recently, when he was hired to design the program for survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged abuse.

After Epstein’s death, his estate hired Feinberg and Biros to establish a victims compensation fund administered by Jordana Feldman, who previously worked with Feinberg at the 9/11 victims fund. The operation soon set about taking applicants and received more than 200 claims from women claiming to be victims of Epstein’s abuse before it came to a halt this March. But something happened that some of Epstein’s alleged victims say they did not expect: While the compensation fund doled out roughly $125 million overall, it offered small settlements or no money at all to some women who anticipated receiving it, creating concern among some applicants and their lawyers that the fund was falling short on its stated mission to help victims.

Ultimately, some alleged victims fear, the fund may have helped victims less than they’d expected — and protected people who aided Epstein’s abuse.

Unlike the 9/11 fund and some other Feinberg missions to help victims, such as the Boston Marathon bombing, the Epstein victims compensation pool isn’t being filled by government funds or charitable donations. Nor is Feinberg’s team working for free. The fund was initiated by the overseers of Epstein’s estate, which was valued at $635 million in court filings after his death, and Feinberg’s team has been paid more than $3 million to administer it, not including staffing and expenses, according to court records and information provided by the estate

Despite being announced with much fanfare, the Epstein fund raises fundamental questions about who benefits most when a pot of money is created to help victims after a crisis. While such funds are often touted for their benefits to victims, the organization putting up the money for the fund often has as much to gain, including better public relations, significantly fewer lawsuits and control over how a scandal gets resolved.

Many Epstein victims accepted settlements from the fund and waived their right to sue not only Epstein’s estate but those who he retained for his alleged trafficking operation, including Ghislaine Maxwell, according to a former victim who applied for a settlement. In addition, lawyers said, the settlements received by victims were significantly smaller than what a court would award if the victims prevailed — and they may have prevented and shut down lawsuits that could have unearthed the full extent of Epstein’s crimes.

“I’m pretty confident they’re not awarding anything close to the entire amount [of the estate]. And why shouldn’t they?” —Lisa Bloom, a lawyer who represents alleged Epstein victims

Given all that, critics, including many prominent lawyers, are wondering why more of Epstein’s estate hasn’t been allocated to victims through the fund.

“I’m pretty confident they’re not awarding anything close to the entire amount [of the estate]. And why shouldn’t they?” said Lisa Bloom, a lawyer who represents eight alleged Epstein victims. “Jeffrey Epstein was the most prolific sexual predator I’ve ever heard of. He’s had hundreds and hundreds of victims, if not thousands. He’s purported to have abused three girls a day at some times.”

“This is a very elaborate sex trafficking ring,” Bloom continued. “Why shouldn’t his entire estate go to those victims?”

Epstein’s estate has purview over which former associates cannot be sued by the women who accepted settlement money. Alleged victims have been told they include two lawyers who act as his executors and his ex-girlfriend, Maxwell, who is slated to stand trial for sex trafficking later this year. The lawyers, Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, have been accused by the Attorney General of the U.S. Virgin Islands Denise George in court filings as being “indispensable captains” of Epstein’s alleged trafficking enterprise.

Daniel Weiner, a lawyer for the Epstein estate, said in an email that there was “no monetary limit on amounts awarded” by the fund and said the notion that the fund protected money for other interests “is completely off-base.”

“The Co-Executors owe a fiduciary duty to ensure that the Estate’s assets are protected for the benefit of all relevant parties,” which includes debtors and more than two dozen women who are separately seeking lawsuits against Epstein. Some victims’ lawyers gave input into the fund, Weiner said, as did Attorney General George, who was initially critical of the fund.

Indyke and Kahn “emphatically deny” the accusation that they were part of Epstein’s alleged wrongdoing, Weiner said.

Still, plaintiffs lawyers say the estate created the compensation fund in part because it served its own interests.

“A compensation fund did not fall out of the sky,” said Mitchell Garabedian, a lawyer who represented hundreds of sex abuse cases against the Catholic Church, which later turned to Feinberg’s team to compensate victims in an arrangement similar to that of the Epstein fund. “It was created by the institution to compensate victims who were sexually abused while perpetrators were associated with the institution.”

“There are mixed emotions” among sex abuse survivors about compensation funds, Garabedian added.

Feinberg, Biros, and Feldman, who have dedicated much of their lives to dispensing compensation funds, argue the funds are a way to help as many people as possible while avoiding lawsuits, which can be expensive and grueling for victims. Feinberg referred questions about the Epstein fund to Biros and Feldman. In administering the Epstein fund, Feldman said in an interview that she had total independence from the estate.

“This is an imperfect exercise, an imperfect substitute for undoing the wrong. There’s no way to do that,” Feldman said. “There is value in the process of coming forward, and having someone acknowledge and validate suffering. We designed this process to create a safe space for victims to resolve their claims in a compassionate, non-adversarial way.”

For some of the survivors of Epstein’s abuse, the compensation fund did not bring feelings of resolution, but of confusion, anger and even regret.

“It makes me so angry that these women know these things about me without me getting anything,” said one former model who met with Feldman and the other people administering the Epstein victims compensation fund late last year.

The former model said she was 21 years old when she met Epstein while on a photo shoot in Tortola, not far from Epstein’s Virgin Islands estate. A friend on the shoot knew Epstein, who sent a boat to pick up the woman and her friend and take them to his island, she said. Later that day, Epstein and their mutual friend assaulted her, she said.

“He started touching me. She did too. I didn’t think that was going to happen when I got there,” she said.

She didn’t talk to Epstein for a year after the initial assault, but Epstein repeatedly reached out and they eventually reconnected, she said. Epstein introduced her to the head of a prestigious modeling agency, she said. She said she became part of Epstein’s social crowd, and estimates she had 10 sexual encounters with him.

The former model said she hesitated to participate in the compensation fund because she had buried the memories of Epstein for years and didn’t want to revisit them. But after being encouraged by lawyers to help bring Epstein’s abuses to light, she decided to file a claim: Last September, she spent two hours on a Zoom call with Feldman and the other administrators laying out the details of the time she spent with Epstein and presented evidence, like cards he had sent her and affidavits from friends whom she said she had told about the abuse when it happened. The conversation felt like talking to supportive friends, she said.

Her claim was denied a few months later. Per the rules of the compensation fund, she didn’t receive an explanation for why, and she can’t appeal the decision.

“It’s like saying to me, ‘Your story wasn’t valid. We don’t believe you,’” the former model said.

POLITICO spoke to four women about their experiences with the compensation fund, as well as half a dozen lawyers representing alleged Epstein victims who spoke about their clients’ experiences. Two of the women said they were satisfied with the settlements they’d been offered, one had been offered no settlement, and one said she had not heard back from the fund after her interview. The fund said that it received 225 applications overall and gave settlements to approximately 150 women. The fund issued payments that ranged from low-six figure settlements to more than a million dollars, lawyers representing Epstein’s alleged victims said, and gave out more than $121 million in all.

Because the compensation fund didn’t explain its decisions about how much money it handed out and who received it, the experience left women who were dissatisfied with questions they had no way of getting the answer to: Had the fund denied them money because they continued to see Epstein after the initial abuse? Did the fund operators not believe their stories? Were they offered less money if they applied for money later in the process, after the fund had handed out millions? Such questions weren’t purely financial — they spoke to whether the women were being heard and believed when they spoke with the fund about painful experiences with Epstein, sometimes for the first time, women and their lawyers told POLITICO.

Feldman, the administrator in charge of the estate, said she took a “ground-up” approach, looking at the women’s cases claim by claim to make a determination.

“The compensation is determined based on the information that’s available to me, based on my experience, and my independent judgment,” Feldman said. Her decisions were based on factors such as the impact of the abuse on the claimants and the credibility of their claims, and not on factors that weigh on civil lawsuits such as whether the women were outside the statute of limitations to sue the estate, she said.

Gloria Allred, who represents 20 alleged Epstein victims and has represented clients in abuse cases against men such as Bill Cosby, said she believed Epstein’s victims “should have been compensated with a much larger share of Epstein’s estate.”

Given that the estate was at one point valued at $635 million, the $121 to $125 million provided by the Epstein victims compensation fund “seems to be a very small amount paid to victims for the harm that they suffered,” Allred said. “The amount awarded to many of them was insufficient and undervalued the sexual abuse that they suffered, the fact that many of them were sex-trafficked to him when they were underaged girls and the damage inflicted on them.”

“There’s no appeal from the [Epstein fund] award and there are no reasons or findings of fact provided when an award is made,” Allred said. “That means some victims are left wondering about the basis for their award, and that also means the awards do not always seem consistently tied to the potential claims or the actual harms experienced.”

Allred noted there were positive components to the Epstein fund. The women who applied for funding were treated respectfully when they met with the administrators, for example — a markedly different tone from a tough, drawn-out courtroom battle. And, as Feldman noted, it is significant that the fund allowed all women to apply, not only those who were within a statute of limitations for a lawsuit.

But ultimately, the settlements offered to women who had been allegedly abused by Epstein seemed scattershot in their amounts and, multiple lawyers said, were surprisingly small given Epstein’s vast wealth.

“There could be a lot of money left in the estate,” said Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer representing alleged Epstein victims. “At the end of the day, they compensated the victims — I don’t think they compensated them overly well.”

“Overall, we’re disappointed,” said Bloom, the lawyer who is representing eight alleged Epstein victims.

Bloom, who once came under criticism herself for having advised accused sex offender Harvey Weinstein, said she had multiple Epstein clients whom she expected to be offered settlements but were offered nothing.

In the past, Feinberg has been open about the fact that victims are often dissatisfied with the results of a compensation fund. People come to a fund hoping it can fix horrible wrongs that they experienced — but it’s difficult for money to do that, he has argued.

“I’ve never done a program where anybody was happy. Money is a poor substitute for joy and happiness in these cases,” he told news host Charlie Rose in 2012.

People are inclined to look over their shoulder at what the next person is getting, Feinberg further warned: “It’s not just what I am going to receive from Mr. Feinberg as a result of this program. What did my neighbor get?”

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BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, October 1, 2021 (MMS-SKN) — Sylvers Domino Club, the only team captained by a female in the 26th edition of Constituency Number Seven Dr the Hon Timothy Harris Domino League, caused tremors on Thursday evening September 30 as they beat defending champion team Tabernacle Domino Club 14-10.

In the game that was played at the Tabernacle Community Centre, Sylvers captained by Octavia Huggins-Sewell went for an early kill. Galvanised by the gallant showing by the pair of Kemar Francis and Shaquille Sewell who won seven games, Sylvers were 4-0 before Tabernacle earned their first game.

They then moved to 7-1 and 9-4, the time at which Tabernacle pulled back some games to their favour. The last game, with Sylvers leading 12-10, was so one-sided that Sylvers raced to 100 points before Tabernacle could earn a single point, a feat which earned them a bonus game. The feat also earned the champion team a one dollar fine.

This is the second game Sylvers Domino Club from Hidden Alley in Lodge Village would have won in the 26th edition of Constituency Number Seven Dr the Hon Timothy Harris Domino League, as on the opening night on Tuesday September 28 they floored Guinness Domino Club 13-8.

Two former Constituency Number Seven Domino League champions met at Cuban Bar in Lodge Project, on Thursday September 30, where Unity Domino Club emerged winner after beating Parsons Domino Club 13-8.

Another former champion, Lodge Domino Club, had an easier task in a game played at the old Lodge Community Centre in Lodge Project as they scuttled Small Corner Bar Domino Club 13-4. In the second game at the same venue, Christ Church Domino Club beat Unstoppable Domino Club 13-7.

At the Edgar Gilbert Sporting Complex pavilion in Molineux, Ottley’s Domino Club’s return to the league after a number of years’ absence got a rude awakening when in their very first game they suffered a 6-13 beating at the hands of Guinness Domino Club. Phillips Domino Club playing at the same venue beat Mansion Domino Club 13-11.

The game between Saddlers Domino Club and Molineux Domino Club, which was supposed to have taken place at Tabernacle Community Centre, did not take place as a player on the Saddlers side had a funeral earlier in the day and his colleagues were away supporting him. The game has been rescheduled to be played on Sunday October 3.

It therefore means that Molineux Domino Club is yet to play a game, as their game on the opening night against Ottley’s Domino Club was shelved as the teams could not raise the full complement of players. The game was as a result rescheduled but a new date is yet to be announced.

Constituency Number Seven Dr the Hon Timothy Harris Domino League is sponsored by Prime Minister of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis, and Area Parliamentary Representative for St. Christopher Seven, Dr the Hon Timothy Harris.

Third segment of play in this first and only round of play in the 26th edition of Constituency Number Seven Dr the Hon Timothy Harris Domino League will be on Tuesday October 5 at the same four venues with all games starting at 7:00 p.m.

Tabernacle Community Centre will host the games between Saddlers and Unstoppable, and Parsons and Ottley’s. The Edgar Gilbert Sporting Complex pavilion in Molineux will host games between Phillips and Guinness and Molineux and Sylvers.

The old Lodge Community Centre in Lodge Project will be the venue for the Mansion vs. Small Corner Bar, and Lodge vs. Christ Church games. The final game, between former champion Unity and defending champion Tabernacle, will be held at Cuban Bar in Lodge Project.

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