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SignUp Now!TT bag 13 medals on 1st day including three golds
Monday, April 5 2010
At the end of the first day, Trinidad and Tobago had a bag of 13 medals – three gold, eight silver and two bronze.
Ahye crossed the finish line in 11.50 seconds, ahead of Allison Peter of the United States Virgin Islands (11.51) and V’Alonee Robinson of the Bahamas (11.57).
In the 400 metres, Trinidad and Tobago copped silver medals in the respective Boys Under-17, boys Under-20 and Girls Under-20 deciders.
In the Boys Under-17, Darvin Sandy was second in 48.62, between a pair of Jamaicans Lennox Williams (48.01) and Omari McDonald (48.99).
Sparkle McKnight, who clocked 53.96 in the Girls Under-20 quarter-mile final, trailed Bahamian Katarine Smith (53.71) with Grenadian Kanika Beckles (54.04) placing third.
And highly-rated Grenadian Kirani James smashed his 2009 CARIFTA mark as he breezed to gold in the Boys Under-20 one-lap final. James ran 45.02 on Saturday night, lowering his previous standard of 45.45, to beat the field which included Trinidad and Tobago’s Deon Lendore (46.59) and Jamaica’s Jermaine Gayle (46.80).
Mark London was Trinidad and Tobago’s first gold medallist at the meet, as he won the Boys Under-17 1,500m in four minutes 8.28 seconds, while compatriot Nicholas Landeau got silver in 4:12.37 and Juma Mouchette of Bermuda got bronze in 4:12.82.
Shaunna Downey notched the second victory for Trinidad and Tobago – 34.79m in the Girls Under-17 discus. Gleneive Grange of Jamaica got silver with 34.57m while another TT entrant, Sherisse Murray, got bronze with 30.98m.
Ashley Smith took silver in the Girls Under-20 shot put, with a throw of 13.06m, 0.32m behind Jamaica’s Candicea Bernard who made a gold medal effort of 13.38m. Racquel Williams of the Bahamas was third in 12.40m.
Dawnelle Collymore was a bronze medallist in the Girls Under-20 1,500m, as she ran 4:46.03, well behind the Jamaican duo of Natoya Goule (4:36.34) and Sharlene Nickle (4:42.13); while Carisa Leacock was edged out by Rochelle Farquharson of Jamaica in a dramatic Girls Under-20 long jump.
In their respective sixth and final jumps, Farquharson leapt 6.03 metres to take gold, while Leacock managed 6.02m, and Jasmine Brunson of Bermuda was a distant third in 5.86m, also her last attempt.
In the morning session, Trinidad and Tobago earned silver medals in the Boys Under-20 discus and the Girls Under-17 shot put through Quincy Wilson and Sherisse Murray respectively.
Two weeks ago there was the first-ever beach clean-up exercise at the Fishing Pond beach, Genda Road, Fishing Pond. Although this beach is one of the significant nesting beaches for leatherback turtles in Trinidad, a concerted exercise to make the nesting area free from debris was never undertaken. This year, spurred on by similar initiatives at other nesting beaches, the Fishing Pond community in conjunction with the Wildlife Section, Forestry Division, Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Marine Resources engaged in cleaning the beach area.
The event began at 7 am and volunteers to this important exercise were transported by boat along the Oropouche River to the beach where the clean-up exercise began.
This was necessary as access by foot was hampered by the inundated swamp bordering the beach area.
One hundred and fifty bags of litter were collected and removed from the beach. Volunteers to this event included St Augustine Girls’ High School, Fishing Pond Presbyterian School, Nature Seekers, Michael Nanan URP (Sangre Grande), Sangre Grande Regional Corporation, Turtle Village Trust, DESALCOTT, Ministry of Agriculture (El Reposo), residents of the area and members of both community groups in Fishing Pond.
RauCous said:This sport related but good anyway: CARIFTA GAMES
http://www.newsday.co.tt/sport/0,118540.html
TT bag 13 medals on 1st day including three golds
TT bag 13 medals on 1st day including three golds
Monday, April 5 2010
At the end of the first day, Trinidad and Tobago had a bag of 13 medals – three gold, eight silver and two bronze.
Ahye crossed the finish line in 11.50 seconds, ahead of Allison Peter of the United States Virgin Islands (11.51) and V’Alonee Robinson of the Bahamas (11.57).
In the 400 metres, Trinidad and Tobago copped silver medals in the respective Boys Under-17, boys Under-20 and Girls Under-20 deciders.
In the Boys Under-17, Darvin Sandy was second in 48.62, between a pair of Jamaicans Lennox Williams (48.01) and Omari McDonald (48.99).
Sparkle McKnight, who clocked 53.96 in the Girls Under-20 quarter-mile final, trailed Bahamian Katarine Smith (53.71) with Grenadian Kanika Beckles (54.04) placing third.
And highly-rated Grenadian Kirani James smashed his 2009 CARIFTA mark as he breezed to gold in the Boys Under-20 one-lap final. James ran 45.02 on Saturday night, lowering his previous standard of 45.45, to beat the field which included Trinidad and Tobago’s Deon Lendore (46.59) and Jamaica’s Jermaine Gayle (46.80).
Mark London was Trinidad and Tobago’s first gold medallist at the meet, as he won the Boys Under-17 1,500m in four minutes 8.28 seconds, while compatriot Nicholas Landeau got silver in 4:12.37 and Juma Mouchette of Bermuda got bronze in 4:12.82.
Shaunna Downey notched the second victory for Trinidad and Tobago – 34.79m in the Girls Under-17 discus. Gleneive Grange of Jamaica got silver with 34.57m while another TT entrant, Sherisse Murray, got bronze with 30.98m.
Ashley Smith took silver in the Girls Under-20 shot put, with a throw of 13.06m, 0.32m behind Jamaica’s Candicea Bernard who made a gold medal effort of 13.38m. Racquel Williams of the Bahamas was third in 12.40m.
Dawnelle Collymore was a bronze medallist in the Girls Under-20 1,500m, as she ran 4:46.03, well behind the Jamaican duo of Natoya Goule (4:36.34) and Sharlene Nickle (4:42.13); while Carisa Leacock was edged out by Rochelle Farquharson of Jamaica in a dramatic Girls Under-20 long jump.
In their respective sixth and final jumps, Farquharson leapt 6.03 metres to take gold, while Leacock managed 6.02m, and Jasmine Brunson of Bermuda was a distant third in 5.86m, also her last attempt.
In the morning session, Trinidad and Tobago earned silver medals in the Boys Under-20 discus and the Girls Under-17 shot put through Quincy Wilson and Sherisse Murray respectively.
The express has us up to 29 medals on day 3
: http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl ... =161622390
Embacadere and the glory days of sugar
Louis B Homer South Bureau
Monday, April 5th 2010
EMBACADERE, on the outskirts of San Fernando, has a history dating back to the early 18th century when sugar was a prime export commodity.
Some refer to the area as Backaday, but it was from the shipping of sugar from there to the Caribbean and Europe that it got its name. The embarkation of sugar from the factory to vessels anchored in the Gulf of Paria was a thriving trade in those days.
’Those were the glorious days of sugar production, when the Cipero River was used for transporting sugar in small boats and loaded onto the vessels lying out at sea,’ recalled Stephenson Paul, a resident living close to where the operations used to take place.
Paul said his father told him that ’Martinique and Guadeloupe were two important destinations for the sugar which was used in those islands for the manufacture of rum’.
He said, ’Sugar in those days went through various phases and different types of transportation. First it was carted by mules and bulls from the fields to the scales. Then it was loaded in heaps on train carriages.’
After processing the cane at the factory at Usine Ste Madeleine, it was loaded onto barges or boats that took the sugar to large vessels lying at anchor at Embacadere.
He said, ’Cipero River was a principal waterway for commercial vessels and Embacadere was the ultimate destination for the small boats.’
That time is gone. Embacadere is now one of the major housing settlements of the Housing Development Corporation. It consists of some 20 high-rise apartment buildings.
The area where the boats operated during the sugar boom has been taken back by the mangrove.
Carla Singh and her family live on the road leading to the river. She has seen many physical improvements in the area, but her major concern is the protection of the environment.
She said, ’During the rainy season it is a haven for crab catchers, and, along the seafront, oyster vendors have almost extracted every oyster living in the rocks.’
In spite of the environmental problems, the area is a precious piece of wetland that could be transformed into a local tourist attraction.
’The place has everything for healthy recreation. It has facilities for sea bathing, river sports and other marine entertainment. The mangrove growing near the river is a special type that is not found elsewhere,’ Singh said. Â
Standing on the seashore and looking in the direction of the Cipero River, one could hardly imagine that it was once a deep channel that ran straight into the sea.
Singh said, ’The river has dried up, but during the rainy season a lot of water comes down and sometimes causes flooding at Green Acres.’ Green Acres is a residential area on the southern bank of the Cipero River.
The residential area at Embacadere has its own history, perhaps more recent than the river area.
Paul, 65, a former employee of the San Fernando Borough Council, recalled that ’the area where the high-rise apartments were built was called the dump. All the solid waste from many areas was dumped there to fill up the area’.
He recalled that, at one time, the people living around the dump made a living from salvaging discarded material brought to the dump in truckloads. He said dumping on a large scale has stopped.
Paul said, in the past, the area was called ’the labasse’ and some people used to call it ’cacatway’.
He said the soil in the area was fertile and many short crop farmers had small gardens at Embacadere. He also remembered when there was the sugar house on the present site of WASA’s sewage treatment plant.
’That was a long time, but it brings back pleasant memories of the days when we used to walk along the river bank catching birds and squirrels and large blue crabs,’ he said.
’Those days will never come back,’ Paul moaned.
The river mouth was an exciting place to visit, he said.
’There were painted poles stuck in the ground to serve as reflectors for the boats plying on the river. Nearby, there were acres of grass planted as fodder for mules working the estate. People used to come and cut the grass with curved grass knife, tie them in bundles and take the bundles to the estate.’
Paul said when he moved to Embacadere it was the first time he saw a ’three-storey’ box cart.
’The boys made those box carts to carry drums of water because there was no pipe-borne water at the time,’ he said.
The houses are now supplied with pipe-borne water.
One resident recalled that at the entrance to the area was the ’paupers’ cemetery’, where people who died penniless are buried.
’I used to dread that place. It was frightening,’ the resident said.
The paupers’ cemetery, no longer used, is now part of the Roodal Cemetery.
Embacadere is also home to the headquarters of the South Trinidad Scout Movement. Every year, a special Emancipation Day programme is organised by members of the community.
Living on the banks of the Gulf of Paria is an asset to the community, but there are those who fear that one day those living close to the sea might be moved to another area to give way to the expansion of the proposed San Fernando King’s Wharf facility.
A homeless man living under a bridge in Ste Madeleine lost his few belongings to the floods that swept across South Trinidad on Wednesday.
But Randolf George was taken in that night by good samaritan Radhica Burton, who said yesterday he could build a home on her land, if citizen would help.
George, 55, ended up on the streets 35 years ago, when his mother died.
With no relatives to care for him, George wandered the village, residents said.
Yesterday George said he would like help.
helping hand: Radhica Burton assists Randolf George in making a telephone call at her St Madeline home yesterday. - Photo: Dave Persad
Burton, of Coquette Street, Ste Madeleine, asked for the public’s help yesterday.
She said, ’I really don’t want him to go back out on the streets. I have a little piece of land to the back of my home. If someone could help him to build so that he does not have to go back under the bridge, that would be good.’
Burton, a single mother who has for the past year offered food to George, said he slept on the living room couch Wednesday night.
She said George does not have a birth certificate or a national identification card but he remembers his date of birth. She said he was deserving of public assistance.