November 27 - December 3, 2010
TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS
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Sports National Josh for Sports
TCI’s rejection equals Bahamas’s gain SHORTLY after the rejection of my birth country, I returned to my home country where I grew up, Nassau, Bahamas. I knew what my motives were for going to my birth place. However the temporary setback would only teach TCI what it is to reject refined gold and accept lead instead (a mentality which still prevails today). Dr. Norman Gay, who had been fighting very hard for me to be named in the 1972 Bahamas team, now, approached me to form a track and field club to fall under the umbrella of the Bain Town Sporting Club. Bain Town was the constituency for which he had been elected as a member of parliament in the House of Assembly. He became the minister of health under the Pindling Administration. The Bain Town Sporting Club existed as a conglomeration of diverse sporting teams formed in the Bain Town constituency with the expressed purpose of uplifting the image of its ghetto and to instill a sense of pride in the residents of the area. Some of the teams in Bain Town represented the club in sports such as: track and field (the Bain Town Flyers), volleyball, basketball, American football and softball. MENTAL SLAVERY Without going into much ado about sports in the Bahamas, it is important that you realise that what I did in the Bahamas fresh out of SIU in 1974, suffering from Multiple-Sclerosis, was what I could have, should have and would have done, here in the TCI before I was rejected by TC Islanders and the Colonial Government. “The stone that the builder refuses shall become the head of the corner.” “A prophet is not without honour, except within his own home town.” Those are the words of Jesus Christ and they loudly and clearly are most applicable to us TC Islanders to describe how we historically and constitutionally refuse to exploit and honour our own indigenous natives. Some who have a world of experience which is offered to help elevate our level of proficiency and effectiveness on the national and international scene. My analytical brain diagnoses that we are still in the mindset of emotional and mental slavery. I feel that perhaps we are not truly free thinkers, but that we have the indoctrinated mentality that we as a people and as individuals are brain-washed with low self
By Joshua Gardiner esteem. I, on the contrary, am not affected by this brainwashed mentality, because, I was not brought up here. I have literally gone through the process of de-colonisation through the virtue of having been brought up as a Bahamian from the age of four months old in 1951 until the Bahamas actually and literally acquired their independence when I was 22 years old. Thus I went through the process of de-colonisation. Additionally I had been schooled in the progressive thinking island of Jamaica. The deciding or clinching factor that helped to put the proverbial icing on the cake, as far as progressive thinking was concerned and transform it to proactive action was my university experience level of education. Some TC Islanders were bounded to the dogmas of their life’s limited experience and thus rejected anything and anyone like myself (purporting to be a native) who did not share such. This is my only logical conclusion as to why, up to this day, some Turks and Caicos Islanders systematically reject anything, and any native to go with it, universally progressive and world classically accepted. By exposing and sharing my analytical analysis of this, our stagnant disposition, it will bring about national awareness of this most grave default with the hopes of having it corrected. I am most grateful for the opportunity to be of assistance in this regard. I humbly accept that for this purpose providence dictated that I should be born in the TCI. My input in this and several other contributions throughout the years can help extract us as a people from the bonds of the colonial slave mentality to a progressive country through the avenue of sports. The said Bain Town Flyers Track Club would become responsible for the Bahamas’s first Olympic medals: gold, silver and bronze.
Provo Hockey League:
Owls maintain lead with victories GREAT goalkeeping from the lone female in the mini-division, Zoe Diotte-Joly, and slick stick work from the division’s leading scorer, Sebastian Turbyfield, carried the Grace Bay Car Rentals and Sales Owls to two victories last Saturday. The Owls defeated the Gansevoort Gators 8-6 before they whipped the Coco Bistro Dragons 10-6 at the Graceway Sports Centre. In the first game Turbyfield scored five goals while Javed Shearer assisted with two goals and two assists. The Gators were led by brothers Bradley and Dylan Ayer who scored three goals each. Turbyfield scored six against the Dragons while Shearer made the other four. Orin Campbell fired in four for the losing side. BANTAM DIVISION Gabriel Diotte-Joly led The Sands/ The Palms Sharks to an 8-6 victory over the Saunders and Co. Hurricanes. The sharp shooter scored six goals while Kennon Higgs led the Hurricanes with three. In the closing game the Sharks drew 4-4 with the Star Foundation Lightning. Diotte-Joly scored all the goals for his team while Cole Nickson made two for the Lightning.
Zoe Diotte-Joly, who is the lone female in the mini division, has been impressive in goal.
Monster Energy Drink Twenty20 Cricket:
Quality Supermarket lose opener QUALITY Supermarket went down to Jam Turk in their opening encounter of the PCA Monster Energy Drink Twenty20 Cricket League last weekend at the Downtown Ball Park, in Providenciales. The new side, made up of a number of players from India and Sri Lanka, lost by 20 runs after they failed with the bat. Jam Turk were inserted to take first strike when they lost the toss. The hard-hitting Douglas Brown seized the initiative with a quick score of 48 (6X4s and 2X6s) while Jeffery Bascome added 19, but the end result was a modest score of 128-9 in the 20 overs. Pawan Kumar finished with respectable figures of 3-14 from four overs. Quality could not reach the target and fell for 108 in 16.1 overs when they took to the crease. Skipper Andy Kuthalingam scored 25 runs (3X4s) while Allenius
Douglas Brown scored 48 runs for Jam Turk.
Augustin contributed 17 runs. Dane Ritchie was the main strike bowler with 3-13 from four overs.
U12 Provo Boys’ League:
No clear winner yet THREE teams are battling for the top spot in the U12 Provo Boys’ League at the Academy Ground. With two weeks left it’s a ding dong fight between Long Bay Revolution, the Leeward Knights and Bight United. The Knights have won seven of their 12 games for a top-of-the table 24 points, while the Revolution and Bight United have 21 points each after six wins in 11 games.