Thirty-one year-old Certified Pastry Chef and Certified Chef de Cuisine, Nicholas Douglas, is the only Jamaican chef to be twice certified by the World Association of Chefs Societies (WACS), the leading authority in global cuisine, dedicated to defining and promoting standards within professional cooking and hospitality around the world.

Though inspiring, Douglas’ story is one that seemed to lack promise initially. And though the writings were on the wall for a success-filled future, it didn’t help that the young chef-to-be literally couldn’t read. By today’s standards, he was, at the very least, destined to become a failure, and at best, no more than an average Jamaican. But a superhuman commitment to his passion, as well as with the support of key figures in his life, Nicholas is now a model figure of not just overcoming all odds, but destroying them in the process.

After finishing the Swallowfield Primary and Junior High back in Kingston, Nicholas, whose dyslexia got the best of him, found that his only option for advancement was through JAMAL – the Jamaican Movement for the Advancement of Adult Literacy. While there, he pursued his studies in Food Preparation, and was subsequently encouraged by his mother, Etta-may Taff, and principal of the institution, Ms. Wright, to continue his culinary pursuits at the Professional Development Institute. Nicholas heeded, and would soon be on the path to becoming one of Jamaica’s most decorated chefs.

Studying a one-year course in Level One Food Preparation, Nicholas decided to put his blossoming skills to the test and took part in a cake-baking competition, put on by Dr. Cecil Cornwall, which he won. He was subsequently awarded a scholarship to the Western Hospitality Institute, where he pursued a diploma in Culinary Management. By this time, Nicholas was fully engrossed in his studies, that he was recognized by Dr. Cornwall and given an extension on his scholarship, which should’ve only lasted that year. With the extension, he continued, this time with his eyes set on attaining an associate degree in his discipline – Culinary Management.

NO LIMITS
After all his academic successes, Douglas soon found out that there were no limits to the heights he could reach, and in 2005, was offered a scholarship, through the European Union, to attend the prestigious and world-renowned Apicius International School of Hospitality in Italy. There, Douglas honed his culinary skills, and went on to study basic Italian at the Linguaviva Scuola di Italiano. With an aching to come back home and share his newfound knowledge, Douglas headed back to Jamaica and back to the Western Hospitality Institute, but this time in the capacity of Lecturer. As well as lecturing duties, Douglas also headed the Institute’s Culinary Department. He had found a level of satisfaction that he had been unfamiliar with it, but the star chef was not content, and took a break from lecturing to engage in matters of self-development. Having long overcome his dyslexia, Nicholas took conversational French as his next challenge, and would go on to excel in it, with a range of other subjects. For a portion of time that spanned 4 years, Nicholas taught in a number of institutions, studied different culinary techniques, and kept improving.

Still not satisfied, however, Nicholas re-enrolled at the Western Hospitality Institute, this time to study for his Bachelors of Science in Hospitality and Culinary Management. He soon ended up in Canada, a requirement for the completion of his degree, and there he impressed, so much so that in the duration of his 10-week stint at Liaison College, he was thrust into a supervisory role, managing a staff of 15 at one of Canada’s leading catering companies, Tradeline Catering. Added to that, Douglas was drafted to a team of ten, as the only black person, on behalf of Tradeline Catering, to cook for high-ranking government officials. The list of feats would not stop there as while mastering his culinary techniques at Liaison College, for a while, he singlehandedly catered for a crowd of over 700 persons at Canada’s annual ‘We Day’.

In 2012, Douglas completed his Bachelors of Science degree, and though he did not receive it until later in 2013, Douglas was worlds away from the boy he once was.

HISTORY-MAKING SCORES
“When I came back, I felt like it was time to test where I was, so I entered the Taste of Jamaica competition. I had no intention of winning, I just wanted to see how much more I had to improve on,” Douglas shared. As history would have it, however, Douglas not only won the Taste of Jamaica competition, but was awarded Pastry Chef of the Year and Showpiece Champion. Added to his already decorated profile, Douglas has the distinction of being the first chef in the history of the competition to receive perfect scores from all international judges in that competition – a feat many thought impossible.

Now, Douglas is pursuing his Masters in Business Administration, and has his eyes set on opening a chain of Jamaican-themed restaurants around the world, with a special interest in the fusion of Jamaican cuisine with French, Italian and Japanese dishes. Eventually, the young chef hopes to elevate himself to the rank of a Master Chef, and has no doubt that he one day will.

-Michael Nattoo – Staff Reporter

One dead, five injured in accident

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-Shamir Brown photo — The mangled remains of the Honda City and Nissan Sunny motorcars which collided along the Unity Hall main road in St. James on Wednesday, resulting in the death of one person and the injury of five others

Shamir Brown – Trelawny Correspondent

The death toll on the nation’s roads inched up by one on Wednesday, when a woman lost her life in a two-vehicle collision along the Unity Hall main road in St. James, which also resulted in five other persons being injured.

Sixty-five-year-old Grace Holmes, of Atlanta, Georgia in the United States of America (USA), was reported dead at the Cornwall Regional Hospital as a result of injuries she received in the accident.

Reports from the Freeport Police are that about 10:40 a.m., Holmes was a passenger in a Honda City motorcar travelling towards Hopewell district, when on reaching a section of the Unity Hall main road, the driver of a Nissan Sunny motorcar, travelling in the opposite direction, proceeded to overtake a line of traffic and allegedly lost control of the vehicle, which collided head-on with the Honda City in the vicinity of the Chalet Caribe. The impact caused both vehicles to careen off the roadway and into a nearby ditch.

According to eyewitness reports, Holmes, who was travelling with two other female friends en route to Negril, was sitting in the back seat, when she was reportedly flung forward, head first into the windshield. Her two traveling companions, who were in the front, were reportedly wearing seatbelts at the time.

Three persons were also travelling in the Sunny Nissan motorcar, two males and a female, with the female reportedly receiving chest injuries.

All six occupants of both motor vehicles involved in the crash were taken to hospital for treatment, where Miss Holmes was pronounced dead.

Meanwhile, Gary McKenzie, Deputy Superintendent of Police in charge of Operations for St. James, indicated that the driver of the Nissan Sunny motorcar had just passed a vehicular checkpoint mounted by the police prior to the accident.

He is appealing to motorists to take greater responsibility when traversing the roads.

“It is very important that we get this right; our road safety and responsibility, as drivers because we continue to have incidents of this sort when clearly, the roadway and the amount of traffic that is on the road does not allow for this kind of driving. And so we continue to appeal to drivers to be more responsible in their approach to driving”, DSP McKenzie said.

History of wealth and poverty in Jamaica

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By Shalman Scott

Two European powers in particular, namely the Spanish and English, dominated economic activities in Jamaica during the period of colonization and slavery spanning a period of four hundred and fifty six years. The Spanish period of occupation officially began in 1506 and ended with the signing of the Treaty of Madrid (1670) between England and Spain when the island was finally ceded to the English. So although our history, written by the English, gave the impression that the capture of the island from the Spaniards in 1655 by the British invasion forces, led by Admiral Penn and General Veneable, gave ownership to the English, that was just not the case. It was the Treaty of Madrid fifteen years later that finally, after several failed attempts by Spain to recapture Jamaica, that gave the English invaders full legal control of the country.This was in exchange for the English to get rid of their pirates and buccaneers including Henry Morgan, who was put before a firing squad and shot in Honduras.

The defeat of the Spanish by the English at the battles of Ochio Rios (1658) and the battle of Rio Nuevo (1659) resulted in the last Spanish Governor, Arnaldo de Yassi, “running away” from the island to Cuba. The cave in which he was hiding and from which he fled is today known as the ‘Runaway Caves’ in the parish of St Ann. The name of the caves was NOT derived from it being a hiding place for runaway slaves, as is commonly believed, although undoubtedly, slaves running away from their plantation would avail themselves to the use of such facilities.

During Spanish occupation, Montego Bay became prominent as a port from which huge amount of Lard (hog fat) was exported to Spain, and which saw a Spanish Governor, Alonso de Miranda, having his official resident at Miranda Hill across from the Spanish Fort next to the present craft market on Fort Street in the city. The Spanish military base was at Success Property, a few chains north easterly from the John Rollins All Age School at Rose Hall.

Both the Spaniards and the English used predominantly African slave labour to maintain the economic activities, whether it was cattle rearing by the Spaniards or sugar, logwood and tobacco production by the English. Although the island saw a change in colonial ownership between the two European powers, one thing remained consistent and that was a progressively increasingly massive inflow of African slave labour until the abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807, but not the abolition of slavery itself until thirty one years later. It is these African slaves, and later the indentured labourers from Ireland, India and China, that became the new working class within the Jamaican labour force, with Africans outnumbering by a wide margin the composition of that labour force.

COMPENSATION
The African former slaves received no compensation for their enslavement for a period of four hundred and fifty six years, while at the time of British emancipation of the slave, the slave masters were compensated in the British West Indies to the tune of ten million Pounds, and absentee plantation owners living in England, most of whom never knew or even visited their plantation in Jamaica, received an additional equal amount for the loss of their slaves, totaling twenty million pounds. So the African slaves who worked on the sugar, cattle, logwood plantations and in the mines throughout the British West Indies, were organized into persistent poverty through the colonial system’s denial of any reward for labour or compensation at the end of that slave labour. That historical injustice has created an energy force of its own dynamic to manifest in a historical landscape of organized wealth and poverty in Jamaica. And so, the generations of the rich continue to be rich and the generations of the poor continue to be poor.

Same pattern can be seen also in a broader context as the warlords and landlords of Feudalism became the oligarchs of Mercantilism, and the Oligarchs of Mercantilism became the Capitalist entrepreneur or the new Industrial Bourgeoise of the Industrial Revolution and the birth of Capitalism. Different rigging of the world economy over centuries, but the same families and classes continue to dominate through organized slavery and organized poverty, even in “freedom” so-called.

Adam Smith, a Jew and known as the ‘Father of Free Market Capitalism’, in 1776 at the time of the American Declaration of Independence across the Atlantic, produced his treatise on the “Wealth of Nations”. Smith argued that of the elemental factors of production: land, labour and capital, any factor that can be put to the greatest alternate use when combined in production, such factor must receive the greatest reward/returns from the wealth or revenue created from such combining activities. It stands to reason that cash (capital) is the factor that can be put to greatest alternate use. So a medical doctor whose labour skills may not be able to fly an aircraft, but has cash can pay to hire the services of a pilot. Since capital gets the greatest return from income generated in productive activities arising from the combination of the factors of production, and since income determines one’s social class, then the owners of land and capital in particular become the ruling class.

FREE MARKET CAPITALISM
Adam Smith’s maneuver, which strengthened the hands of descendants of Feudalism’s Warlords and Landlords of Mercantilisms Oligarchs and of Capitalism Entrepreneurs, saw the Industrialists and landed gentry of Europe unreservedly and enthusiastically giving their support to Smith’s propositions, creating a philosophical model of ‘Free Market Capitalism’, that would dominate the world economy arriving at its zenith with the advent of globalization and liberalization, consolidating, through a sleight of Smith’s hand, a polarization of income between the rich and the poor of this world. From the land barons, to oil barons to railroad barons and now to Hedge Fund Managers, the owners of money particularly (not labour despite your number of academic degrees), have been running the world.

And, that’s where true political power in the world economic system really resides. Not so much in the political realm, be it Democracy or Communism, as it is the rich who finance revolutions resulting in a government’s overthrow or a political leader’s assassination, on the one hand, or finance also of political parties’ election campaign, on the other hand. For example it was the rich and powerful Jewish Rothschild’s Family, based in democratic America, that funded the overthrow of the Tsarist Autocracy of Russia’s Nicholas 11, to establish Communism on that side of the Atlantic Ocean. Take careful note! No wonder that the number one concern of the United Nations and international agencies in the 21st century is not just the fear of war and terrorism, but growing global income inequality and increasing poverty.

Feudalism warlords and landlords a different capitalist economic phase but same families and same social class, Mercantilism Oligarchs, another different economic phase in the evolution of capitalism, but same families and social class and the Capitalist entrepreneurs yet another different phase and name but same class and families as in mercantilism. The common thread weaving throughout human history from the Dark Ages to the Enlightenment to the Industrial Revolution into Globalization and Post-Modernism, is that the ownership of money and arable lands trumps the ownership of labour as capitalism evolved through its various stages and phases. It should not be difficult to see by now that if wealth is globally and historically organized, poverty is also organized. And the Jamaican situation is no exception.

The Spanish Maroons, in their Palenques (settlements), led by Juan de Sierras and Juan de Bolas, who received a mountain named after him between St Catherine and Clarendon, the Juan De Bolas Mountain, by the English after switching sides from supporting the Spaniards and received acres of infertile mountainous land, their black descendants fared no better economically than the English Maroons who fought and captured for a fee the remaining black population fleeing from slavery on the island of Jamaica. Poor quality land and lots of it has been the consistent cause of their persistent poverty of both the descendants of the Spanish and English Maroons. The rest of the majority Black population while fighting and winning their freedom, which they bequeathed to their descendants, remained in a rigged economic structure where many are only free to decide on the best ways to remain poor.
Denial is one such useful tool it seems.

PPM ends week-long eye clinic today

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-Contributed photo — Praying Pelican Missions volunteers conduct an eye examination during their week-long eye clinic in Frome, Westmoreland

Praying Pelican Missions (PPM), a non-denominational, voluntary Christian organization with its headquarters in Minnesota, USA, will conclude its week-long vision care clinic at Frome in Westmoreland today.

A vision care team of 17 second to fourth year Optometry students and one member of staff, Dr. Richard Savoy from Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, Tennessee, partnered with the PPM staff and journeyed to Frome, Westmoreland, to serve at the Gamertsfelder Mission Centre with Mission of Sight and the Church of The Nazarene. These Doctors-in-training are also a part of an organization called Fellowship of Christian Optometrists, whose aim is to meet both the Visual and Spiritual needs of the patients.

PPM merges partnership with the local churches in parishes throughout the island and assists with various projects, identified by the pastors. The most recent partners are the hosts, Pastor Lionel Brown and his wife Pastor Jennifer Brown, local pastors of the Burnt Savannah Church of the Nazarene.

The team performed eye exams with Dr. Douglas McCloy and Dr. Tessah Kanter at the Eye Clinic and performed eye screening for approximately 250 staff members at hotel resorts in Negril and dispensed glasses to 70 students in three local schools.

Dr. Douglas McCloy, who is also Chairman of the non-profit compassionate ministry, Mission of Sight, said he has been in Jamaica since 1995 when he did a one-year Optometric Internship at the Mandeville Public Hospital.

“That is the most significant clinical year of my life,” recalled Dr. McCloy.

Prior to his internship in 1995, he frequented Jamaica for pleasure; the fun of Spring Break in Negril, but after completing the Internship in Mandeville, Dr. McCloy shared that: “I went back home and found grace with God in my life and returned to Jamaica, with my wife, on a more purpose-driven mission to share the good news I have discovered and to help strengthen the Church of the Nazarene.” He also stated that the beauty of the Jamaican people and the relationship formed is a bond of friendship which kept him coming back.

Acting on his vision to help the blind to see both physically and spiritually, in 2008 he helped to break ground for the Gamertsfelder Mission Centre in Frome to facilitate the care of Cataracts and Glaucoma.

The first eye surgery was successfully done in 2014, since which Cataract and Laser surgeries are being successfully performed. Dental care is now also being operated at the Centre. In addition, there is also vision care offered to children in schools, under the theme “See Better-Learn Better”

PPM has been operating out of Jamaica for over six years. Its Jamaican Operations Manager, Brent Kirk, who has been living in Jamaica for over 25 years, shares a passion for the holistic approach to missions and the expansion of PPM, which presently serves in over 14 countries of which Jamaica plays an integral part.

Sandals recruitment fair attracts hundreds

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JOBFAIR3 — Job seekers await their turn to be observed and interviewed during the recently conducted job fair at Sandals Negril.

Over 700 job-seekers, armed with resume in hand, personal branding tips and a desire to be employed in the tourism industry, turned up at Sandals Negril in response to the resort’s recent job fair advertisement.

The fair, spearheaded by the resort’s Human Resources Department, was aimed at filling casual, fulltime and training positions in the food and beverage, Club Sandals, revenue, housekeeping and entertainment departments.

Applicants were subjected to a series of interviewing strategies as the management team sought to fill positions with the most suitable candidates. The day started with applicants being placed in groups of 10 and asked specific questions about themselves and their group members. They also had to participate in team-building exercises under the observation of the managers for the departments they were interested in. Each group member was graded based on communication skills, appearance and team work. Those who scored well were then interviewed by the Human Resources Manager, the Hotel Manager and/or the General Manager and if successful, would later receive a call from the resort with a job offer.

“We have been conducting a series of job fairs throughout the year and this has been our biggest one yet. The aim of these recruitment drives is to always attract as many local talents waiting to work in the industry. The interviewing strategies used gives heads of departments a chance to see the different personalities based on how they react to their peers,” shared David Latchimy, General Manager for Sandals Negril.

He explained that for those who did well at the fair but did not receive a job offer, they would be placed on the list of suitable candidates who would get first preference whenever a position becomes vacant.

The job fair also catered to persons who lacked the requisite qualifications and experience but had a strong interest in working in the field. These persons were also interviewed to join the company’s Hospitality Training Programme. The free six-week training initiative aims at helping unemployed youths to acquire internationally recognized certification in various departments.

Sandals Resorts International is committed to hiring the best local talents to fill positions within its award-winning resorts, recognized world-wide for its exceptional service standards.
Employees are further provided with a vast array of training opportunities through the Sandals Corporate University, allowing team members to grow, develop and realize their full potential both personally and professionally.

MUSCHETT HURTING – 2nd student murdered within a month

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Principal of Muschett High School in Trelawny, Leighton Johnson, has described the feeling at the institution as one of hurt, following yet again the tragic death of one of his students.

The students and staff, who are still trying to come to grips with the death of young Shanique Rose, who was shot in the back on the way back from a party some four weeks ago, are again faced with a similar situation following the untimely death of 16 year-old Octavia Leslie, a Grade 10 student who hailed from Deeside in the parish. She was shot and killed coming from a wake in Linstead, St Catherine in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Principal Johnson was in a solemn mood and expressed that it was a similar sentiment throughout the school population. He related that students are asking when this is going to stop, and that the school has to do something about it. However, he points out that no matter how they might try, there is little the school can do when students are in the confines of their families and incidents like these take place.

Information reaching the Western Mirror is that Octavia was at a wake with family members and was set to attend a funeral the following day. However, things turned deadly for her when she was gunned down along with a man who seemed to have been the target of the attack. Larude Hartley, who is from Linstead, had been incarcerated for murder and had just been released last year from prison.

Principal Johnson described the situation as something he does not want to get used to as they are still rocking from Rose’s murder. He also disclosed that he doesn’t want the students to become immune to these things where they feel it is another day, another situation, another student dying and it is just business as usual. “I do not want the students to get to the point where they forget the sanctity of life. I want them to understand that life is sacred and we have to treat it as such,” he lamented.

THREE FUNERALS
He further points out that the school will now have to attend three funerals as the young lady, 18-year old Shanae Grant, who took her own life on April 25, was a past student of the institution. “She had graduated last year and had done fairly well in her CSEC exams and was now attending Knocalva Technical High School and to hear this increases the sadness,” he related.
A team from the Victim Services Division was on hand to provide grief counselling to students and staff alike, who were trying to deal with the trauma. Owen Watson, director of the Trelawny office, remarked to have visited so soon after the previous incident was not something they wanted to do. However, they were there to provide the best support possible for the school community and her residence in Deeside.

Octavia was described as a hardworking young lady who knew where she was going. Principal Johnson pointed out that she had spent Friday evening completing an assignment due on Monday because she knew that she would be busy over the weekend.

Thousands support MoBay City Run

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Phillip Green photo — AND THEY ARE OFF! Thousands of participants in the 2017 staging of the MoBay City 10K-5k Run/Walk, are sent on their way by the starter – Homer Davis, Mayor of Montego Bay, at the beginning of the race on Sunday, May 7, which started at the Old Hospital Park on Gloucester Avenue. Following what seemed to be a successful event, all the runners/walkers gathered in a festive atmosphere inside the Park and were presented with commemorative medals, while the top finishers walked away with cash awards, airline gift certificates, laptops, smart phones and other incentives courtesy of the many sponsors. The annual event, now in its 4th year, aims to raise some $5m to assist needy students of tertiary institutions in Western Jamaica.

When the dust was finally settled at the 4th staging of the MoBay City Run on Sunday, Kirk Brown, representing Wards Power Tools, was named the male 10k winner while his teammate, Dwayne Graham, copped the 5k title.

Defending champion Chris-Ann Lewis, running under the Rainforest Seafood umbrella, was once again crowned the 10k female winner.

Young Conrad Daley Jr. and Samantha ‘Pumpkin Pie’ Collie topped the 3k Boy and Girl sections respectively, while it was Dwayne Graham in the 5k Men and defending champion, Juliett Dinnal, in the female category that were also in the winners’ circle.

This is also Dinnal’s second time as 5K champion of MoBay City Run.

“I am very happy to have been able to win my section again this year,” a very excited Dinnal told reporters. “I won last year in my first attempt and so I am hoping that next year it will be three times the charm.”

Dinnal and her counterparts took home several prizes including JetBlue Airways Travel Certificates to any destination that they fly to from Jamaica.

10k winner Lewis, was no less ecstatic. “I enjoyed myself last year and am feeling even better today,” she quipped.

The winners outpaced more than 3,600 runners and walkers who descended on the streets of Montego Bay, Sunday, May 7 for the increasingly popular event.

LOUD ROAR
The charity event, which provides scholarships for needy tertiary students across Western Jamaica and, for the first time, included a 3k section for children 12 years and under, officially kicked off at approximately 6:10 am from the Old Hospital Park, Gloucester Avenue (Hip Strip), to a loud roar from the sea of participants.

For his part, Mayor of Montego Bay, Homer Davis, who was also amongst the participants, said he was pleased with the turnout and that an event such as the MoBay City Run was a welcome respite from some of the problems which have been plaguing the tourism capital.

“Almost every sector in the Montego Bay business community was represented here today which by no means is an easy feat to pull off,” Mayor Davis remarked.

Again, RIU Resorts, with over 559 participants from their six resorts on the island, walked away with the top Corporate Challenge prize, with Scotiabank and Itel BPO, placing second and third respectively.

Supported by the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), that organisation’s president, Omar Robinson, said the big winners were the students, some of whom will now be able to get some much-needed assistance to continue with their courses.

Platinum sponsors, Unicomer Jamaica (trading as Courts) said the organizers must be “warmly congratulated” for orchestrating yet another successful staging.
According to Brand Manager, Jacqueline Edwards-Locke, “Unicomer Jamaica prides itself on supporting education which is evidenced by the 30-year commitment that Courts has made by awarding a total of 1510 scholarships of excellence to date.

“The Mobay City Run team is playing a crucial role in securing a better life for many of the less fortunate in Jamaica by providing well-needed scholarships.”

Sandals hoist first CONFED title

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Elated team members of Sandals South Coast are in a celebratory mood, following victory over Montego Bay Boys and Girls’ Club in the Charley’s JB Rum CONFED Super League on Sunday with their victor’s trophy. Pavel Smith (fourth from right) Brand Manager of the title sponsors, made the presentation. -Noelita Lawrence photo

Noelita Lawrence – Staff Reporter/Sports Writer

Sandals South Coast are the JFF/Western CONFED Super League champions following a scintillating 4-3 victory over a spirited Montego Bay Boys and Girls Club in the championship game played at the Montego Bay Boys and Girls’ Club on Sunday.

Leonardo Rankine, with a first half double and the irresistible Devin Campbell, with a double in the second half, did the scoring for the eventual winners who gained their first-ever hold on the crown, bettering their position of last year, which saw them beaten in the final.

In what was their first appearance, Sandals were defeated on penalties in last year’s final by Granville.

Campbell, who had an influential hand in the contest, was also named Most Valuable Player of the final.

Leroy Christie, with two powerful headers and Shane Reid, replied for the first-time finalists Boys’ Club.

For their efforts Sandals gained qualification to JFF National League playoffs, scheduled to get underway later this month, which will yield two qualifiers to the Red Stripe Premier League and also walked away with $200,000 plus the winners trophy.

In a feisty affair which got very competitive towards the end, MBBGC were forced to play the final 20 minutes with ten men after veteran, Michael Thompson, was given marching orders for two bookable offences.

The beaten finalists received $120,000 for their efforts, while Wadadah, for finishing third, bagged $90,000 and Faulkland collected $60,000.

A delighted Aaron Lawrence, coach of the Sandals South Coast team, told reporters afterwards that it was a title thoroughly deserving. “We have been fighting for the past three years to get this championship and we have it now. We have to regroup as we made some mistakes and gave up some soft goals and we just need to work on them.

“It was an excellent game tonight, Montego Bay Boys’ Club came out and gave a good fight, but we were superior to them but all said and done, it was a good show.

We will now just start our preparations for the playoffs,” he noted.

FAST-PACED ENCOUNTER
Sandals started out the better of the teams and got the early goal just six minutes in when Rankine dropped his head low to direct a ball past Garnett Dennis in the goal for the Boys’ Club team.

Boys’ Club found the equalizer on the half hour mark when a mistake by their custodian gifted Christie a sitter, which he duly nodded in to level the scores at 1-1.

Boys’ Club had barley settled when Sandals re-established their lead when Rankine carved open the Boys’ Club back line to slot in the ball past an advancing goalkeeper, as they went into the break with a narrow 2-1 advantage.

Sandals continued where they had left off in the second half and went 3-1 ahead when Campbell powerfully headed into an unguarded side of the net, after a driller had sucked the entire defense to the other side of the goal.

Boys’ Club again clawed their way back from the penalty spot after they were hacked down, before Campbell put the game to bed in the 75th minute, firing home from just outside the 6-yard box low into the left hand corner of the net with precision.

Campbell got at least two other chances to widen the margin of victory but was thwarted by stunning defending and a faulty shooting in one instance.

ALV finish fourth

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IMG-20170504-WA0003 — Tiana Wilson, the Western Conference MVP, poses with her tablet received for being named the best player in the West. –Contributed photo

Western champions, Mt. Alvernia High School, controversially claimed third spot in the ISSA All-Island Girls’ Basketball Competition after going down to St. Elizabeth Technical High in the third place playoffs at National Stadium East.

ALV coach, Errol Thompson, told the Western Mirror that he played the game under protest, as he was forced to play three games in quick succession, including the third place playoff against STETHS just twenty minutes after coming off court.

STETHS, who were late in arriving at the venue and were ducked their first game against Camperdown, are reported have not played a single game up to that time.

The blue-and-white-clad ALV had qualified to contest for the minor placings after falling 25-40 to Holy Childhood in one semi-finals.

The MoBay school trailed 13-21 at the halftime interval and were down 21-33 at the close of the third quarter, falling to the defeat.

ALV had opened their campaign with an impressive 29-25 victory over Christiana in their first game of the day.

Tiana Wilson, who suffered a hand injury and had to be taken to the hospital, received a tablet after she was named Western Conference MVP as ALV lifted their second title in three years.
Camperdown won the crown with victory over Holy Childhood. noelita67@yahoo.com

‘DAMAGE’, ON THE ROAD TO SUCCESS

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Dwayne ‘Damage’ Parkinson can stake a claim as being one of the most successful record producers in Jamaica at the moment. This is due to the stellar achievements of his Damage Musiq Record Label.

In recent times, he produced Tommy Lee Sparta’s song “Soul Reaper “, which is getting over 2.5 million views on YouTube, as well as three other songs which he produced, those being “God’s Eye”, “Not a Badness” and “Last Days” by Shane –O which are also getting rave reviews. The song “Last Days” by Shane O was the scene of major money ‘pull-up’ at the Weddy Weddy in Kingston, which saw Down Sound Producer and CEO, Joe Bagdanovich, putting up several thousand dollars for the song to be replayed.

Other notable songs on his Damage Musiq Label are ‘Savage’ by Tommy Lee Sparta and Real Link, a combination with Masika and Tommy Lee Sparta. At the moment he is working on an EP called ‘Diamond Blessing’ with Tommy Lee Sparta which will have 10 songs.

He has upcoming works to do with Bounty Killa, Monado, Jah Meil, Vershon and Masika, and also work to be done with Africa’s biggest artiste, Shatta Wale .

His studio is located at 29-31 Union Street in Montego Bay and musicians who wish to use the studio can call 979 -1558 and they can visit or follow Damage Musiq on Twitter @ damagemusiq and Instagram : damagemusiq
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