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BOOSTER JAB FOR AT-RISK PATIENTS Third injection may be offered for elderly and those with health issues

By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Senior Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net HEALTH and Wellness Minister Dr Michael Danville said local officials are examining whether third shots should be made available to Bahamian residents who are immunocompromised and/or over 60 years old.

His announcement comes against the backdrop of the

US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention now authorising booster shots for all adults over 18.

The CDC announced last week that Americans over 50 as well as those 18 and older who live in long-term care facilities “should” get booster shots of the PfizerBioNTech or Moderna vaccines. The CDC said all adults over 18 “may” get booster doses.

SEE PAGE FOUR

UNION’S FURY AS BPL DEAL STALLS

By TANYA SMITHCARTWRIGHT tsmith-cartwright@ tribunemedia.net

AN industrial agreement for Bahamas Power and Light Company workers thought to be a done deal before the September general election is now being questioned due to a challenge by the Registrar of Trade Unions.

On September 8, just before the country’s general elections, an industrial

agreement was signed between executives of the power provider and the Bahamas Electrical Workers union.

The agreement, four years in the making, was the source of a contentious relationship between BPL and the union. It was one of the sore points for workers and led to staff withholding labour and staging walk outs.

On Sunday, a BPL source SEE PAGE FIVE

BAZAAR BLAZE

THE BLAZE at the International Bazaar in Grand Bahama yesterday is seen in this image from video, The fire left a commercial building gutted and destroyed. See PAGE THREE for the full story.

‘233’ RECRUITED BY GOVT PRE-ELECTION

TAX RECOVERY SCHEME MODEL FOR COUNCILS

By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Senior Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net

STATE Public Service Minister Pia Glover-Rolle said the Minnis administration approved the hiring

of 233 people two months before the general election and gave some official letters of employment without telling them where to report.

SEE PAGE THREE

ABACO councillor Jeremy Sweeting is hoping “the third time” is a charm in persuading the Government

to honour an agreement where it has “not got a dollar back” from unpaid taxes it has recovered. He said councillors were “cautiously optimistic”.

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SEARCH FOR KILLER AFTER MAN SHOT INSIGHT

By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Senior Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net

POLICE are investigating the country’s latest murder, which took place on Sunday night.

Assistant Superintendent of Police Audley Peters said police are following significant leads in the matter.

“Police were called to Murray Street, Sunshine Park, sometime after 8pm

A BODY is taken from the scene.

Photo: Racardo Thomas/ Tribune Staff

received of gunshots in this community,” he said.

“On the arrival of the first responders they were directed to the western side of a house where they discovered the body of a male lying on the ground unresponsive.

“Emergency medical services responded and following their examination of the male he was pronounced lifeless.”

as a result of a report

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‘MOTHER’ PRATT SWORN IN AS DEPUTY GG GOVERNOR General Sir Cornelius A Smith will participate in a special investiture ceremony and receive several honours at Windsor Castle, London, this week.

He left the country on Saturday for the United Kingdom.

A press statement from his office over the weekend said Sir Cornelius will receive Knighthood Honours, the Order of Chivalry and Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG).

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Lady Clara Smith, Sir scheduled to return on SatCornelius’ wife, ASP Edgar urday, November 27.

Kemp - aide-de-camp and Cynthia “Mother” Pratt woman constable Doris has been sworn in as deputy Whyms will also attend to the Governor General the ceremony. They are all until their return.

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Monday, November 22, 2021, PAGE 3

Building destroyed at International Bazaar

By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net

A DILAPIDATED commercial building was gutted and destroyed following a massive fire at the International Bazaar early yesterday morning.

The blaze started around 6am, and took three to four hours for firefighters to contain and stop it from spreading to the other buildings.

The Royal Bahamas Police Force Fire Division initially responded to the scene. Fire units at Buckeye Bahamas Hub and the Grand Bahama Shipyard also assisted.

When The Tribune arrived around 8am, several fire trucks were still on the scene battling an active fire.

Flames and thick smoke were coming from the building. A portion of the building and the roof had collapsed.

Tyrone Thomas, fire safety specialist and agency advisor at Buckeye Bahamas Hub, said he received a call from the RBPF around 6.30am Sunday requesting assistance with a massive blaze at the Bazaar.

“When I arrived, we assessed the situation and looked at the best mode to extinguish the fire,” he said.

“As usual, we had a challenge with the water supply and pressure. So, we decided to relay water from one truck to the other to try boost the pressure to reach the blaze,” explained Mr Thomas, who is also a Police Reserve Sergeant with the RBPF. “As a result of that, we were able to contain the blaze. I believe due to the lack of pressure, we ended up losing the front section of the building, but we were able to contain the fire and stop it from spreading to other buildings in the Bazaar.”

Mr Thomas said they

FIREFIGHTERS tackling the blaze at the International Bazaar. finally got the fire under control around 9am, after some three hours.

He said the major challenge was the lack of water supply.

“We have five responding fire trucks, but if you can’t get water to the trucks, you can’t extinguish the fire,” he said.

Mr Thomas stated there are some issues concerning firefighting in Grand Bahama.

“The challenge throughout GB and Freeport is the challenge with water pressure and the strategic location of fire hydrants,” he said.

He said they were not able to utilise two hydrants at the Bazaar as they were too far away.

“With such a large facility as the Bazaar, we should have hydrants strategically placed throughout the Bazaar area,” said Mr Thomas.

“I have made clarion calls for this in GB before. We need to drill fire-wells into the ocean so we can draft (suck up) water to the fire trucks. All our fire trucks

have drafting capabilities.”

He said the ocean can provide adequate water supply and the pressure needed to help fight fires.

Mr Thomas said it should be made mandatory that large buildings or facilities, such as a mall or major complex, install fire wells on their property in the event of such fires to assist firemen.

“If we had water supply we could have extinguished the fire in five minutes.

What happened this morning we took three-plus hours to get that fire under control. I have responded to so many fires with the Fire Department, but if you don’t have water to supply the trucks, we have this situation.

“I have been asking the authorities to build fire wells strategically throughout GB,” he said.

Also at the scene, PLP Senator Kirkland Russell agreed with Mr Thomas.

He also expressed concerns about the safety of vagrants who are known to occupy the run-down vacant buildings at the

‘233’ RECRUITED BY GOVT PRE-ELECTION from page one

Her statement on Friday came after former Minister of Public Service Brensil Rolle said her recent comments that the Minnis administration hired people up to the day of the September election were false.

Mr Rolle said her threat that some of those hired will be disengaged is a “disgraceful act of victimisation”.

Mrs Glover-Rolle said in a statement issued on Friday: “Firstly, if Mr Rolle wishes to ‘fire back’ at me, a good place to start is to provide a plausible explanation for the displacement of more than 2,500 public servants within six months of the FNM coming to office in 2017 - according to the Department of Statistics.

“Two hundred and thirty-three persons were approved by the former government for employment in July 2021, just two months before the 16th September general elections. Of that amount, 85 remain un-posted because upon assuming office, an immediate hold was placed on those hires pending a status review.”

“Sixty-eight persons hired just prior to the General Elections, mostly in the Family Islands, were already placed on the government’s payroll, however, they are under review due to gross attendance irregularities.”

“I note that the persons mentioned above exclude those unposted for reasons of (lack of) vaccination.

Further, the matter of contract extensions executed in the days and weeks prior to the general elections is a separate matter.

Mrs Glover-Rolle said it is “egregious” and “disgraceful” to give people official letters of employment without telling them where to report to, “or to have them report to agencies that in turn send them back to the Public Service.”

“Mr Rolle must answer for this,” she said.

“Responsible hiring practices call for the placement of individuals in posts that are needed, complete with established and approved job descriptions and not

rushed hiring of individuals for posts that are unavailable.

“Additionally, responsible leadership in public administration demands that the engagement of skilled workers in critical areas that lead to defined career paths should be the standard practice if we are committed to building organisational capacity to consistently improve on the delivery of public goods and services.

“Regrettably, all indications are that the hiring

decisions by the former minister in the lead up to the general elections smacked of electioneering, heavily influenced by political considerations and nothing Mr Rolle said to the media in his defence remotely addressed or refuted the facts as presented above.

“We, however, remain committed to addressing these issues in an efficient and objective manner and will provide further updates to the public as soon as practicable.”

Photo: Vandyke Hepburn Bazaar.

After the Royal Oasis Resort closed in 2004 following Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne, many of the small shops and stores at the Bazaar closed their doors. The area has become an eyesore and there have been calls for it to be demolished.

Mr Russell said when he received a call about a fire at the Bazaar, he immediately went to the scene.

When he arrived around 7am, the building was completely engulfed in flames, he said.

“The RBPF Fire Department was single-handedly trying to battle the fire. And shortly afterward, Buckeye came with larger trucks, and the Shipyard also. So, there was a collaboration of fire departments here to fight the fire.

Mr Russell indicated that he was made aware by firefighters that there is only one functioning fire truck at the RBPF. “There is a serious concern as it relates to firefighting equipment. We were told that…one fire

truck on this island is working. That is something we have to look into it,’’ he said. “Had it not been for the fire departments from those various companies we would have been in a whole lot of trouble.”

“Secondly, is the lack of proper fire hydrants that exist on this island.

The Grand Bahama Port Authority has to take an immediate look at… getting hydrants up and running, and a proper maintenance programme to maintain the hydrants.”

“The firemen often complain of the lack of pressure with the hydrants and their inability to get enough water to the trucks to fight the fire.”

“We have to look at these concerns on this island.

We have to look at drilling wells. We can’t call ourselves a second city if we are unable to do these basic things such as fight fires,” he said.

Senator Russell said he is certain the government will expedite its responsibility to the people of Grand Bahama and ensure that concerns are addressed.

Iram Lewis, MP for Central Grand Bahama, commended the fire department for its responsiveness.

“My major concern was whether or not persons were in the building who might have been in danger because we know persons who are homeless from time to time occupy the buildings there,” he said.

“There was nobody in the building,” Mr Lewis said.

He also expressed his support for suggestions made to help fight fires.

“Having a water source is one thing, but having the ability to get the requisite pressure to fight the fire is also necessary. What was suggested is critical. Having fire wells at critical areas and high-density areas where you have high occupancy is very important,”

he said.

Last night, Ginger Moxey, Minister for Grand Bahama, said an investigation would be launched into the blaze and issues facing local fire services.

“On Sunday, 21st November, 2021, shortly after 6am, the Grand Bahama Fire Services received a call that the International Bazaar was engulfed in flames,” Ms Moxey said in a statement.

“Upon arrival to the Bazaar, firefighters encountered a massive blaze, and requested urgent assistance from two industrial companies on the island, the Grand Bahama Shipyard and Buckeye Bahamas Hub. “I am advised that the Grand Bahama Shipyard and Buckeye responded immediately and dispatched fire trucks to the International Bazaar, bringing additional water to assist fire fighters in containing the blaze.

“A relay water system was assembled connecting the Grand Bahama Fire Services truck to Buckeye and Grand Bahama Shipyard trucks, to quickly provide additional water and increase the water pressure flowing to fire hoses.

“As firefighters worked feverishly to contain the blaze, I prayed for their safety and I am thankful to the Grand Bahama Shipyard and Buckeye for their quick response and much needed assistance. This is public-private partnership at its best.

“Under the Christie Administration, a new fire station was built, and firetrucks purchased, to ensure that our firemen were equipped. My Ministry will immediately review all aspects of this catastrophe with the relevant authorities to formulate a plan that will bring a resolution to the recurring issues encountered by Grand Bahama Fire Services.”

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Booster jab for at-risk patients from page one Recipients of Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose vaccine were already cleared to get a booster at least two months after their initial shot. Officials in the United Kingdom have also cleared the AstraZeneca vaccine as a booster shot.

Dr Darville said yesterday: “We’re looking along with the vaccination committee to move to offer a third dose for individuals who are immunocompromised, while discussions are ongoing with the vaccination committee and the Pan Health American Organisation for the possibility for

21 COVID CASES CONFIRMED OVER WEEKEND THE Ministry of Health announced 21 new COVID-19 cases over the weekend.

Three of the cases were recorded Friday, while 15 cases were confirmed Thursday.

On Friday, the three cases were recorded in New Providence and another three on Saturday.

Thirteen of the cases Thursday were

a third dose for individuals over the age of 60. Even though that is not conclusive, other countries around the world are doing it and The Bahamas needs to take it into consideration.

“We are hoping to jumpstart us in the direction we need to head in with individuals over 60

DR NIKKIAH FORBES

also in the capital, while one case each was recorded in Eleuthera and Andros.

Twenty-three people are in the hospital due to the disease - 19 are moderately ill and four are being treated in the Intensive Care Unit.

The death toll remains at 671 and 222 cases are active.

who qualify, who want it.

The report from the CDC was interesting. We have looked at it in our settings, with young adults such as 18-year-olds. We could hold off from them because they seldom go into hospitalisation. They may not need a booster but we would like to target

those individuals who have not had any vaccines and to use up the vaccines for third doses when there are other individuals in the country who have not even gotten their first dose, that is the big debate because these vaccines are very precious.

“But with that being said,

we have vaccines that––and I don’t like to say this in the public domain because it creates the false impression that it may not be good–– that are near expiration or close to expiration. The reality is there are people who need the third dose and there are people who qualify for the third dose and who want it, the question is should we prevent them from getting it, or should we do it simultaneously? I’m of the view that we should go after the third dose as well as target those individuals who have not gotten any.”

Dr Darville said the vaccination committee and Ministry of Health are

actively considering making third doses available at least to people who are immunocompromised.

The push for boosters come as infection rates rise in the United States and soar in much of Europe.

Locally, officials are now struggling to get more people to take the vaccine.

Elsewhere, officials have used cash or lottery incentives to encourage people to get vaccinated. Research has shown that cash vouchers help support vaccine uptake. Asked yesterday if the government will consider such incentives to get more people vaccinated, Dr Darville said he will look into the matter.

DAVIS PRAISES FORBES AS SHE EARNS TOP HONOUR PRIME Minister Philip ‘Brave’ Davis has extended congratulations to Dr Nikkiah Forbes for being named a Fellow by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (ISDA).

Dr Forbes, the director of the National HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Programme at the Bahamas Ministry of Health, provided the country with wise counsel as it battled the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mr Davis said in a press statement Saturday.

“The fight against COVID-19 has been a journey of immense struggle for our nation,” Mr Davis said. “We have battled tirelessly and continue to battle against this unprecedented source of adversity however, we are a resilient people.

“We have found that hardship has brought out the best and brightest in our nation, one of whom is Dr Nikkiah Forbes. Dr Nikkiah Forbes has provided this country

with wise counsel during a period of great uncertainty and her advice has helped steer our country closer to winning the fight against this virus.

“I extend my sincerest congratulations to Dr Nikkiah Forbes, for being named a Fellow by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, which is that nation’s leading infectious diseases professional society. “(She) has been on the forefront of this fight against COVID-19. On behalf of the government and the people of this great nation, we thank her for her contribution and commitment to The Bahamas,” Mr Davis said.

IDSA president Dan McQuillen, MD, FIDSA, has said the 199 individuals chosen to receive the FIDSA designation this year are committed to blazing trails in the field of infectious diseases, and IDSA is proud to honour them.

“There has never been a more

critical or more exciting time for the field of infectious diseases,” Dr McQuillen said. “These ID physicians and scientists are on the front lines of research and clinical care and represent the passion and commitment to educate and protect us from dangerous illness. We all benefit as a result of their vital contributions to local communities and expertise within the field of medicine. I am proud to call them my colleagues.”

“Applicants for IDSA Fellowship must be nominated by their peers and meet specified criteria that include continuing identification with the field of infectious diseases, national or regional recognition and publication of their scholarly work.

Nominees are reviewed and elected by the IDSA Board of Directors. Fellows of IDSA work in many different settings, including clinical practice, teaching, research, public health and health care administration.”

SANDALS RAMPING UP FOR JANUARY 27 REOPENING SANDALS Royal Bahamian Resort is ramping up preparations for its reopening on January 27.

With extensive renovations to the re-imagined resort continuing to unfold, the resort is also well advanced in recruiting nearly 1,050 team members across several levels and varying departments.

As a result, the resort is proceeding with an immersive orientation and training exercise, preparing the team to welcome guests for the first time since closing in March 2020.

In the most recent onboarding session Adam

Stewart, Executive Chairman of Sandals Resorts International said the resort’s all new features were on target to set it apart from others in the country.

“I want to use this opportunity to officially welcome you to the World’s Best Team- team Sandals,” Mr Stewart said in a welcome to new team members.

“Having witnessed the progress of the renovations, I can tell you all that the reimagined Sandals Royal Bahamian and all its new features is going to be the most exquisite resort in this country. The reopening of Sandals Royal Bahamian

will be magical and I’m looking forward to all of us growing and evolving together. Any company that is growing is a company that provides opportunities and those opportunities are for you to seize.”

He added the reopening provides an exceptional opportunity for Sandals and the Bahamian government to continue an amazing and mutually beneficial partnership as the tourism industry and the region continue to chart the way forward on the path to economic recovery.

“My family and I have a love affair with the islands of The Bahamas, there is nothing quite like this country. We made the decision to keep this resort closed

so that we could invest in it and invest in this country, as we wanted to ensure that when we stand the test of time for the next 20 years, we have a resort like no other. As a company we promote brand Bahamas using various marketing strategies from traditional to new media, as this is a partnership between you and our organization,” he said.

Philippa Adams, returning team member from the laundry department said that she is delighted about the reopening.

She said: “I would scream right now but that may not be appropriate but I’m overjoyed that the resort will be reopening in January. The orientation

sessions have been so empowering and refreshing and have given me a major boost in confidence. The sessions are furnishing us with all the tools we need to get back to work and execute at an optimal level.

The orientation commenced on November 1 and will run through to November 26, 2021.

Utilising technology and new state of the art training mechanisms, the orientation sessions are being held in adherence to COVID-19 protocols and are therefore being conducted in phases using dual modality of face-to-face sessions and virtual courses by way of the company’s Learning Management System (LMS).

Director for Learning, Development and Service Standards, Dr Phillip

Brown said: “As a team, we pride ourselves on innovation. As the company forges ahead, we elevate our systems to incorporate new ways of ensuring our Sandals standards are maintained, our guests’ expectations are exceeded and our team members are fully equipped for success.

During these phased training sessions, team members will be exposed to our company’s world-renowned service standards, our ethos of community involvement, particularly through our Sandals Foundation as also the myriad of personal development opportunities through our Sandals Corporate University.”

Dr Brown is part of the company’s training team that is on the ground at Sandals Royal Bahamian.

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Monday, November 22, 2021, PAGE 5

FNM TORCHBEARERS BACKING PINTARD TO LEAD

By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Senior Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net

THE Free National Movement’s youth arm, the Torchbearers Youth Association, has endorsed Marco City MP Michael Pintard for leader of the FNM. Carlyle Bethel, president of the association, said in a press statement yesterday that Mr Pintard enjoys large support from young people throughout the country.

“At the beginning of this leadership race,” he said, “the Torchbearers Youth Association made a

MICHAEL PINTARD MP commitment to approach the leadership question with maturity and understanding. We raised the concerns

of young people throughout The Bahamas. We gave all candidates a fair opportunity to present their vision, plans and solutions.

“All candidates have run very strong campaigns.

They’ve all dedicated themselves to the Free National Movement and to public service, and we thank them for that.

“After a majority vote, the consensus of the Torchbearers Youth Association is that we will support Michael Pintard for Leader of the FNM. Michael Pintard enjoys large support amongst young people throughout

The Bahamas. He has committed to fighting for the inclusion of young people at all levels in the party and in government.

“We are confident that he will fully embrace the advancement of young people as we move our party forward together.”

The FNM will host its one-day leadership race on Saturday. In addition to Mr Pintard, Central Grand Bahama MP Iram Lewis and East Grand Bahama MP Kwasi Thompson are vying for the top post.

Last week, FNM members Maurice Moore and

Lady Naomi Wallace Whitfield signed Mr Thompson’s nomination form. Former Attorney General Carl Bethel and former Golden Gates MP Michael Foulkes were also present to support Mr Thompson.

As for Mr Pintard, former parliamentarians Don Saunders, Miriam Emmanuel and Travis Robinson supported him as he was nominated for the post.

The decision of the Torchbearers Association to endorse Mr Pintard does not come as a surprise, with many young members of the party convinced he can

best unite the party and energise young people.

One member, who chose to speak anonymously to discuss internal party members, said: “Michael Pintard represents the best choice for leader of the FNM at this particular time. Neither of the other two candidates excite the base or are able to deliver the type of change Bahamians have grown to expect from the FNM. The other two leaders, their hearts may be in the right place but I think the tide is definitely shifting toward Mr Pintard.”

Union’s fury as BPL deal stalls from page one told The Tribune the agreement was now being held up by the trade unions’ registrar after management at BPL tried to get the union to add in clauses after the document was already signed.

BEWU president Kyle Wilson confirmed the issue and expressed extreme frustration over the situation.

“This is really driving us crazy,” the BPL source said.

“It seems like we take one step forward and two steps backward. The executives of BPL really have it in for the union. They do not want to see us go forward and they cannot seem to understand that staff is the driving force behind this place.

“We had to swallow so much for this agreement we waited on for four years.

We finally got it, we signed it, they tried to trick us into changing things after it was signed and now the Registry trying to stop it. It’s like we can’t win for losing. “ In an interview with The Tribune Mr Wilson blamed BPL for the issue and alleged that there were attempts to trick him into signing things to which the union did not agree.

“I’m being asked to

THE BAHAMAS Power and Light head office. change and sign a new these dirty tricks being contract for reasons unex- played on me because plained and no law quoted they think I’m young and we are breaking or that inexperienced. we are in breach of,” Mr “On the eighth of SepWilson said yesterday. tember there was an official “BPL had its team of law- signing ceremony between yers on this and so did the BPL and the union. The union. deal was sealed. The devil “Over five times BPL is a liar and we won’t be tried to slip in clauses tricked or made pawns in that were not agreed, or these games.” ratified by the memberHe stated that an Indusship and tried to trick me trial Agreement signed to sign them. I’m tired of under a previous union

chief, which is very similar to the current agreement, was certified by the Registry of Trade Unions without hesitation. He said he cannot understand what the problem now is.

“Frustration is now setting in and the members are becoming concerned over this contract situation,” Mr Wilson said. “We fought like hell only to now be met with more frustration from the Registrar of Trade Unions.

“In Jesus’ name we demand you to certify our agreement. How can the same document this registrar certified when Paul Maynard was president is now illegal when I’m president?

“What’s is perplexing is that Paul Maynard was one of BPL’s facilitators during negotiations and now all of a sudden the same contract, except for slight changes in benefits, is illegal? The

devil is a liar and I don’t know what game is being played here, but I won’t be a part of it.”

When contacted yesterday Labour Director Robert Farquharson refused to comment on the matter. “I have no comment on that, ma’am,” he said.

“That’s a matter before the registrar. I cannot comment on no matter that is in the process of being addressed by the registrar.”

Pressed further as to what elements of the document were problematic, Mr Farquharson said: “I cannot say what is wrong with it. I said I have no comment on the matter.”

In continuing to express disappointment in the process, Mr Wilson wanted to know where was the “new day” for his union.

“When these former trade unionists retire, they go and get jobs with the government and hurt the very unions that made them who they are,” Mr Wilson said. “Shame on them.

“We won’t be taken for a ride anymore. Where is the new day for BPL workers?

Why are we being treated like this? We want our new day Where is the new day for BPL?” Calls made to BPL executives went unanswered up to press time.

NEW BPL BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO BE ANNOUNCED TODAY

By TANYA SMITHCARTWRIGHT tsmith-cartwright@ tribunemedia.net

PUBLIC Works and Utilities Minister Alfred Sears will today announce Bahamas Power and Light Company’s new board of directors, amid concerns it could be stifled due to an extension for the power provider’s previous board to remain in place.

A notice for a press conference to announce the board was issued yesterday.

It said an announcement would be made at 2pm today at BPL’s head office on Baillou Hill Road.

Mr Sears confirmed on Friday that BPL’s board of directors appointed by the Minnis administration obtained a one-year extension to remain in place despite the completion of new board appointments.

The Tribune had reported on Thursday that a BPL source revealed an extension was granted by Governor General Sir Cornelius Smith preventing the new board appointed by the Davis administration from carrying out its duties.

Yesterday, Mr Sears did not respond to calls regarding the status of the extension.

Previously, former Minister of Works Desmond Bannister side stepped the issue, while board chairman Donovan Moxey and Pedro Rolle, appointed by the former Free National Movement government and now Davis administration respectively declined to address the subject.

They redirected this newspaper to Mr Sears saying he should address the matter.

Mr Sears confirmed

the board remained in place, adding there is an appeal by the current government to have the Governor General revoke the extension so there is one Board that can get on with its work.

“The boards in this ministry extended their tenure by one year, by a letter signed by the Governor General,” Minister Sears said Friday.

“So that’s the issue.

“We are trying now to get the Governor General to revoke those extensions so that the people that the Cabinet wants to appoint can be appointed and we don’t have two sets of people holding letters of appointment for the same period.”

The BPL source said the extension did not just apply to the board of directors, but the BPL executives as well.

The FNM appointed Board of Directors and BPL’s executive staff, in particular CEO Whitney Heastie, had a tumultuous relationship with the president and members of the Bahamas Electrical Workers Union.

There have been demonstrations, walk outs and withdrawals of labour over the years in protest of alleged bad treatment of staff, disrespect of the union and staff and breach of industrial agreement by management.

In one case the union cited inhumane treatment when it was discovered that certain staff located on remote islands had to relieve themselves in the bush as there were no facilities for them to use.

BEWU President Kyle Wilson on Friday said he wishes the matter would be cleared up. He put his union’s full support behind the new board.

“In reference to today’s article in The Tribune, the union is aware that the government has appointed a new chairman and board and the BEWU is in full support of the incoming board and chairman and as far as we are concerned the old board is no longer in existence,” Mr Wilson said.

“There seems to be some confusion stopping the new board from practising and this confusion is unnecessary and is counterproductive and only frustrates and angers the membership. We welcome

the new board and are ready to work with them.”

During the many BPL union protests, members always called for the FNM appointed Board and Executive Management to leave the Corporation. Nothing has changed, as the BEWU president is still calling for them to leave in this now awkward situation.

“As far as the old Board is concerned, the best recommendation we can give is to clean up your desk, pack up and go,” Mr Wilson said.

“We have suffered too long under this seemingly uncaring Board who were only focused on pandering to their Shell deal and putting workers last. We look forward with glee to the incoming new day.”

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Booster shots are to be welcomed AFTER the push to get Bahamians fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the time has come to look forward to the next stage – and for many people, that means booster shots.

Across the world, a number of nations have already been offering booster shots. Here at home, the first concern was getting enough vaccines to get people fully vaccinated in the first place.

With the end of that challenge in sight, the prospect of booster shots has now appeared on our own horizon.

The reasoning is simple – booster shots do just that, boost your resistance to the COVID-19 virus. Over time, resistance can fade and this reinforces your defences.

The first step here is, it seems, to offer booster shots to those Bahamian residents who are immunocompromised and/or over 60 years old.

That makes a good deal of sense – offering it first to those who are most at risk.

There is a good deal of evidence from other countries by now about the efficacy of such a booster shot, with the CDC announcing last week that Americans aged over 50 as well as those aged 18 or older who live in long-term care facilities “should” get booster shots of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, while all adults over 18 “may” do so.

Across the Atlantic in the UK, the AstraZeneca vaccine has been cleared as a booster shot.

It’s a sensible move to offer it to those most in need here – but we hope that once that target group has been offered the boosters, it would become available for others across the country.

The state of the pandemic has definitely improved – with just three new cases in the country in the latest update – but that’s no reason to let up in the fight against the virus. We must not let up when the virus is on the run.

It is a sensitive topic on who should get booster shots – as Health and Wellness Minister Dr Michael Darville recognises.

He said: “We would like to target those individuals who have not had any vaccines and to use up the vaccines for third doses when there are other individuals in the country who have not even gotten their first dose, that is the

big debate because these vaccines are very precious.”

The debate over young people, particularly, getting their vaccines will come more into the spotlight as we edge closer to children returning to in-school classes.

Another factor is that some of the vaccines we possess are close to their expiration date – so it’s almost a case of use them or lose them.

Part of that is up to us. Those who haven’t been vaccinated yet, for whatever reason, this is the time to step forward.

The stronger our collective resistance is, the better our chances of weathering any future wave of the virus. We’ve seen the number of deaths that has brought in recent months – and we need to do all we can to prevent that happening again.

It is encouraging to hear the plans for boosters – and the consideration for those who haven’t had their first shots.

We welcome such thoughtfulness as we plan the path ahead.

Signed and sealed?

When is a done deal not a done deal?

When it is with workers at Bahamas Power and Light, apparently.

Back before the election, a deal was thought to be all sewn up. On September 8, it was even signed.

So now what is the hold up? Apparently the trade unions’ registrar is upset that management at BPL has tried to get the union to add in clauses after the document was signed.

A deal is a deal, and a signature is a signature.

BPL executives have yet to answer about these claims. But if the document has been signed, you can’t change it after the fact.

Either way, everyone involved needs a little more clarity over why there is a hold up. It took years to get to this point, it can’t be undone over a rethink so late it’s past the last minute.

Honour the deal and carry on. And if the management isn’t happy with the deal it signed? Go back to the table and try and get a new deal. Given the four years this one took, good luck with that.

Poor service by the banks EDITOR, The Tribune.

I’M young enough to remember the bank’s advertising how “friendly” they were and they tried hard to improve and encourage customer relations –you know get to know your Bank manager and staff of your “friendlier than friendly Bank”... all gone like dinosaurs.

Today impersonal one Canadian bank has a poster on its front door which states, paraphrase - If you wish personal customer service come to the bank on Saturday... blow me down

now they want to inconvenience customers.

The bank and their ATM policy... wonder would they try excluding a $20 Canadian dollar bill in change to their Canadian customers? Never first of all the customer would report the bank to Consumer Affairs and they would deal with them.

Try getting anything done to your online services correct info on accounts... wait at least seven-ten days!

Hmm digitised!

Clearly banks would love to close all their retail and operate online virtually.

If only banks would not be directed by some person in Ottawa who might not even be able to point where The Bahamas is let alone understand our customs and what customers demand.

Where is Consumer Affairs... Central Bank... seems they are eaten up by the banks and they “do what the banks demand.”

Truly annoyed with the banks.

J HUTCHINSON Nassau, November 14, 2021.

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Benefit from billionaires?

Tax them!

EDITOR, The Tribune.

WITH all due respect to Mr Tony Gomez, whom I know to be a well-informed Bahamian professional, the answer to getting value from wealthy foreign residents in our country is far simpler than he suggests.

We just need to tax them more.

If anyone is expecting wealthy residents to miraculously create economic growth just by being rich and being here, then they are fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of capitalism.

COVID-19 is infectious.

Wealth is not. In fact, the very wealthy are so good at keeping their wealth to themselves that a whole industry exists to support their efforts. This industry was once huge in The Bahamas but ironically seems to thrive less where its customers are physically resident – hence “offshore”.

In neo-liberal capitalism, people who become billionaires do so by extracting profits either from other people or from natural resources. If you are sane, rational and have a choice in the matter, you do not want foreigners doing either of these things unrestrictedly inside of your country – especially if you are tiny and trying to sustain your own nascent local business class.

Rather, you want to attract investors that bring their own (foreign) customers from which to extract their profits, while you determine (through immigration, tax and labour policies) how the benefits of that profit-extraction are leveraged and distributed domestically. No added benefit accrues from these investors actually living in the country.

That is why the creators of that ingenious thing called “Bahamianization” explicitly prohibited foreigners from operating within our domestic economy. Instead, they limited them to selected, major investment activities that comprise the ‘external’ economy. When we began to blur this distinction is

LETTERS letters@tribunemedia.net when our economic model (and the middle class that it created) began to falter.

Atlantis and Baha Mar are of course owned by foreigners.

But since they form part of the external economy, they extract their profits almost exclusively from other foreigners, rather than from the domestic Bahamian economy. The only parts of the exchange that Bahamians are involved in are the beneficial ones: jobs, contracts and the purchase of local business and professional services (all of which are reserved for Bahamians).

Contrast this to the impact of the myriad wealthy foreigners now resident in The Bahamas.

Quite apart from pricing Bahamians out of scarce land resources, they often complicate efforts to protect domestic businesses and labour from competition. The Filipino community clearly benefits from Lyford Cay, but it is hard to see how, on balance, the wider Bahamian one does.

Moreover, when wealthy foreign residents are pressured to invest locally, they naturally look to areas historically reserved for Bahamians. Inevitably, the conversation then turns to the impediments to doing business in The Bahamas by which they do not mean, for instance, the ambush predators known locally as “banks” (and to which, unlike Bahamian businessmen, they themselves are not prey). Rather, they tend to mean such things as our pro-Bahamian immigration rules and other polices that created our middle class.

Having gotten into the business of massive foreign residency by accident, rather than design, successive Bahamian governments have been convinced by self-interested professional lobby groups that this policy is a natural recipe for economic growth, which we are somehow not

properly harnessing.

The reality, however, is that it is far from a natural recipe for economic growth. In fact, it is a more natural recipe for economic malaise (displacement of locals, inflationary price rises and a consequent reduction in local spending power and living standards) if not managed carefully.

That is why well-governed places that attract lots of wealthy second homeowners all have one thing in common: extremely high taxes on luxury properties.

West Palm Beach does not have to ask itself how it can benefit from its many billionaire second home owners. It is too busy benefitting itself by building its schools and libraries and keeping its roads immaculately manicured, courtesy of the high property taxes that it collects from them.

If they don’t pay, it takes their homes and sells them to others who will. Far from harming its luxury real estate market, this keeps it active and within reach of enterprising locals.

No mansion in West Palm Beach has anything on the average cay in the Exumas.

Yet while both are prohibitively expensive to most locals, the latter carries a tax concession so extreme that it signals a government literally begging for rich residents merely for the sake of having them around – then expecting economic benefits to magically drop from them.

Unless we propose to slash local wages to Filipino levels and retrain our professionals as maids and gardeners, the only benefit that most Bahamians can ever possibly derive from the presence of wealthy foreign residents here is the opportunity to collect high, progressive taxes on the luxury properties that they alienate from Bahamians.

Yet this is the very thing our governments seem determined not to do - and our professional classes and media equally determined not to talk about.

ANDREW ALLEN Nassau, November 21, 2021

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Monday, November 22, 2021, PAGE 7

BIMINI RESIDENTS ARE ‘NOT FEARFUL’ AFTER DAYTIME SHOOTING ON ISLAND

By TANYA SMITHCARTWRIGHT tsmith-cartwright@ tribunemedia.net BIMINI Chief Councillor Robbie Smith says residents there are not fearful in the aftermath of a daytime shooting last week. He said the incident was “isolated”.

On Friday, police said they were on the hunt for two men involved in the incident. One of the men was captured Friday, while authorities continue to search for the second.

The shooting, captured on video, was widely circulated on social media platforms showing two men fighting in the street followed by one of them receiving a gun from another man nearby.

One of the men was shot several times while trying to flee as his assailant pursued him.

Police later revealed that the men wanted for questioning in the incident were Maurice Mikkel Cartwright, aka “Joe” or “Miguel,” 39, of Kitty’s Apartment Queens Highway, Bailey Town, Bimini, and Derval Anson Cornell Hanna, aka “Val” 33, of Zion Hill Corner, Bailey Town. They were alleged to have attempted to commit murder.

Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis and Health and Wellness Minister Dr Michael Darville were in Bimini at the time of the incident. Dr Darville quickly assembled a team to stabilise the victim who was seriously injured.

The team was able to stabilise him for transport to New Providence where he remains in critical condition.

Despite the seriousness of the incident, Mr Smith on Sunday said the men were friends and no one felt fearful.

“To me and after feeling out everybody in Bimini, everybody feels safe, especially when you

POLICE are seeking Maurice Cartwright, left, and Derval Hanna following the shooting in Bimini. know the persons that were involved,” Mr Smith said when he was contacted. “It seems like it was just an isolated incident as those guys are friends.

“Down here just about everybody is familyoriented. You are either good friends or family to those involved in that incident. So, there’s no fear here.

“It’s not stopping anyone from going on about their business. It’s not like it was a gang related incident. It’s something that started out as a fight with friends and it escalated to that.”

He also said: “No one is worried about anything because we know those involved. I would call it an isolated incident and it just happened at the wrong time.

“Everybody knows them, as you know this island is small.”

Police Superintendent Terecita Pinder confirmed yesterday that Cartwright, the man seen handing the gun to the shooter is now in police custody.

Erica Saunders, a Bimini resident said people weren’t experiencing any anxiety following the incident.

“Fearful? No, ma’am,” Ms Saunders said. “We are not fearful of anything. It’s business as usual on the island today. I mean the residents are talking about what went down, but that’s about it.

“We know the guys had

TEEN STABBED TO DEATH GRAND Bahama police are investigating a homicide that occurred early on Sunday morning when an 18-year-old youth was stabbed at a business establishment in Eight Mile Rock.

The victim was taken to hospital, where he later died of his injuries. Five men are assisting police with their investigation into the youth’s death.

Superintendent of Police Terecita Pinder reported that police received a report

shortly after midnight on Sunday of a stabbing at a business in Jones Town.

According to initial investigations, a group of people were involved in an argument when an 18-yearold male resident of Jones Town, was stabbed in his upper body. Supt Pinder said the victim was taken to the Rand Memorial Hospital in a private vehicle. He was seen by a doctor, but later died of his injuries.

She said five suspects are in police custody.

FOUR ARRESTED OVER DRUGS

By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net

FOUR male residents of Freeport were arrested after they were allegedly found in possession of suspected marijuana, police on Grand Bahama reported on Friday.

According to a senior police official, officers of the Drug Enforcement Unit, along with other law enforcement officers, initiated “Operation Thunderstorm” to crack down on illegal drugs.

He said the joint operation was conducted on Thursday, November 18, between the hours of 9.45am and 2.45pm by DEU and Bahamas Customs officers in the Nelson Road and Wellington Drive areas.

A search warrant was executed at a residence where a quantity of suspected marijuana was

found concealed inside a vehicle.

A male resident was arrested and taken into police custody.

In a second incident, officers while on East Sunrise Highway, acting on information, intercepted a 2010 silver coloured Nissan Tida vehicle with three male occupants.

While searching the vehicle, officers allegedly found a clear plastic bag containing a quantity of suspected marijuana. All three men were arrested and taken into police custody.

Officers then executed a search warrant at a residence in Pioneers Loop where one of the arrested males reside. They discovered a plastic bag inside a bedroom that contained a quantity of suspected marijuana.

All four suspects are expected to be arraigned in the Magistrate’s Court early next week.

MAN HELD OVER GUN FIND

By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net

GRAND Bahama Police arrested a man allegedly found in possession of an illegal firearm and ammunition in the Freeport area.

According to reports, shortly after 8pm on Saturday officers of the Criminal Investigation

Department, acting on a tip, went to Polaris Drive, Caravel Beach, near a business establishment.

The officers searched four men in the area. They discovered a .9mm pistol with seven live rounds of ammunition under a bucket on which one of the men was seated.

Supt Pinder said the man was arrested and taken into police custody.

some sort of row and it ended up in one shooting the other one, but that really was between those two, not us. It’s not a widespread thing if that is what people were thinking. That was between them and now, unfortunately it is between them and the police.”

Hanna who remains at large, is five feet seven inches tall, of heavy build and weighs 250 pounds. He has a light brown complexion with dark brown eyes.

Anyone with any information on the whereabouts of Mr Hanna is asked to call Alice Town Police Station in Bimini at 242-347-3144.

A BODY is taken from the scene of last night’s shooting.

Photo: Racardo Thomas/Tribune Staff

SEARCH FOR KILLER AFTER MAN SHOT

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members of this community who may have any information in regards to this incident to contact the

police at 502-9992 or 91.”

Family members of the deceased were inconsolable at the scene of the murder.

SUSPECT CHARGED OVER ATTACK ON WOMAN IN STREET A MAN accused of brutalising a woman in the street has been charged with two counts of attempted murder and with exposing a child to grievous harm.

Assistant Superintendent of Police Audley Peters said Ray Latarieo Sands, 32, was

charged in the Magistrate’s Court on Friday.

“This is in relation to the viral video of a male assaulting the female and subsequently running her over with a car,” he said. At last report, the woman was in critical condition.

In an unusual move, the

press was not alerted to the arraignment and did not attend. “I do apologise for you not being informed of the time of this arraignment,” ASP Peters said.

“There were some circumstances beyond our control. Thank you for your understanding.”

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It’s past time for just talking about domestic abuse

By MALCOLM STRACHAN THEY say a week is a long time in politics – and Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis has just seen that at first hand.

When he effectively shrugged off the issue of marital rape, saying “I have too many other things on my agenda to be thinking about”, it sparked an outcry that led to him taking a small further step forward.

He took to Twitter where he declared that “marital rape is wrong” – it’s sad to say that this most obvious thing of all is a step forward, but it is. He went on to say: “We remain one of the few countries where that is not recognised in the law. An effort to change the law should be part of a larger national conversation and consensus. I very much support having that national conversation.”

So a conversation, without a timeline or a direction, was his solution.

Within a week, the broader picture of the scale of domestic violence in The Bahamas played out in the streets, with a video circulating of a man dragging and beating a woman before running her over with his car.

National Security Minister Wayne Munroe talked about the video, which police said was a domestic dispute, saying: “I would call that more than a domestic dispute. You think of a domestic dispute as a row, that’s much more than a row.

“This is some of what I’ve spoken about which is what we have to address ourselves, our behaviour.

That’s completely, completely unacceptable. When I was raised I was raised that you didn’t hit women.

That’s much more than hitting a woman, so we have to address again as I say the socialisation of persons. We

THE SCENE in Key West Street were a woman was struck by a vehicle in an incident described as a domestic dispute. have to address the anger We need change now! Rape hardly come as a surprise. Will Commissioner Rolle that seems to be rampant in is not statute barred.” He Time and again in the pages treat the issue with enough this country but that’s com- ended the tweet with an of The Tribune, court cases importance that he actually image of a green parrot and are reported where women finds those figures rather pletely unacceptable.”

Transport and Housing the words “deal with it” in are victims of abuse by male than just fire off a tweet partners or former partners, and move on?

Minister Jobeth Coleby an animated image.

However, when The Trib- ranging from smashing the Davis also commented At least those speakon Twitter, saying: “I just une asked if there was an windows of their homes ing about the issue now saw the video! What is increase in certain sexual or their car to assaulting are taking it more serigoing on? I am completely offences, the Commissioner the women or their new ously – rather than when outraged! This type of treat- said he didn’t have those partner. then Speaker of the House This is a moment of out- Halson ment must be condemned figures and was “simply Moultrie said by all. Women, men, boys voicing my opinion on the rage that is being felt at a that spiritually a husband and girls, we must join our public debate”. He added: perceived lack of inter- cannot rape his wife, or voices in the fight against “Whether an increase or est in action followed by when former Social Serdomestic violence. So bla- decrease is really not the a demonstration of why vices Minister Lanisha issue. It has to be con- action is so clearly needed. Rolle declared marital rape tant, my goodness.”

Police Commissioner demned otherwise it will The question is, will our was a private issue. Her sucleaders respond to this cessor, Frankie Campbell, Paul Rolle also took to continue unabated.”

While this latest incident outrage with more than also declared that more Twitter, saying: “No more tolerance for the abuse – playing out on video on tweets? What happens discussion was needed, just that existed for years social media – might be in after those tweets? What as Prime Minister Davis unchecked. Truth is, many the spotlight, the issue of will Mr Davis do to further does now. So, where is the of us are products of rape. domestic violence should the national conversation? discussion?

In 2017, the UN’s special rapporteur on violence against women, Dubravka Šimonović, said marital rape was the most pressing gender-based issue facing The Bahamas. She said the legality of marital rape was “a sign that something is deeply wrong”.

She was right – and not one thing has happened since she said that to change matters.

This is a subject with deep roots – remember when then DNA leader Branville McCartney said that he didn’t think marital rape should be illegal and the outrage that followed in 2012? His response at the time was to open a discussion with women’s rights groups and religious leaders. More discussion, and nothing happening.

While leaders are talking about having a discussion, women are being beaten in the street. Women are being raped in their homes.

Few of those women will have faith in any kind of swift action.

To show how slowly our country moves in taking such action, we need only look to the image of Mr Munroe alongside Ann Marie Davis, wife of Prime Minister Davis, holding up phones to show a successful test of the MARCO alert system last week. Mrs Davis said: “I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. I think maybe seven or eight years, ever since young Marco Archer was found brutalised and killed.”

It was on September 23, 2011, that 11-year-old Marco Archer went missing and was found dead days later in bushes. That’s more than ten years and we’ve only gotten as far as a successful test on a cellphone.

The people being hurt and abused now do not have ten years to wait. If there is a national conversation to be had, it’s past time it started.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2021 PAGE 9

TIME WE GOT REAL AND ENDED THE STIGMA OF MENTAL ILLNESS

By TANYA SMITHCARTWRIGHT tsmith-cartwright@ tribunemedia.net

King said. “The access to mental health services on the Family Islands is almost zero.

“When we talk about ALTHOUGH the Minis- stigma, it also affects access. try of Health has tried very This is an approach that hard to lessen the stigma of needs to be strategic and mental illness, health pro- making sure that these comfessionals admit there is a ponents are addressed. This whole lot more to be done is not just only resources, to assist those suffering but also access. from mental disorders.

“Most persons who are Mental health profession- maybe struggling, they als, the world over, have have one choice for public constantly educated their option. Otherwise they will various publics that mental have to pay for it in priillness is like any other vate practice. How many illness. people can afford to go Medication and or hos- private? What happens pitalisation is applicable to people on islands like to those who suffer from Mayaguana or Crooked symptoms of mental disor- Island? How many of those ders, be those symptoms islands have mental health mild or severe. professionals?”

Not only does society While she commends stigmatise those who suffer the Ministry of Health’s from these disorders but attempt to normalise many of those who have mental illness, she is asking these conditions stigmathat the necessary action tize themselves because of take place to minimise the embarrassment and often stigma it attracts. end up refusing to seek “We know that persons help. who may have severe cases Mental health is imporare sent to New Providence tant in every stage of life, for inpatient treatment, from childhood and adolescents through to adulthood. but when they are released If affects how we handle from that, where is the stress, relate to others and support after?” she asked.

“You are sending them make good decisions.

Poor mental health can back to an island that has lead to one being alienated no mental health services.

“This is all wrapped up in by one’s peers due to perthe stigma and that’s why I ceived unattractive traits or behaviours. Fear, anger, said it’s multifaceted. So I sadness and feelings of commend the Ministry for helplessness can also set in its continuation of normalif a person does not know ising mental health issues or understand what is hap- and encouraging persons to say mentally healthy. We pening to them.

Dr Tracey King, presi- just can’t do the awareness dent Bahamas Mental and the education.

“We have to do the Health Association, speaknecessary action to start ing with The Tribune said more attention needs to be minimising the stigma and put on mental health in The increasing the bridges to access and Bahamas. breaking “People ‘Sometimes I get down the are silently brain fog and I feel barriers that suffering sustained out of it completely. because the stigma they don’t That’s side effects of itself.” want to Dr King be called the medicine. I roll also said with the punches.

It’s ‘crazy’,” Dr there is little King said. very frustrating, but to no data “That word to support is a perpetu- I am mindful that I numbers of have a disorder and I ation of the mentally ill stigma. That have to live with it.’ people in word fuels The Bahathe wheel of mas or the mental problems the stigma.

“In addressing it in this they suffer from.

The importance of getcountry, it has to be multifaceted and it has to be ting help is paramount if from the top, straight down one cannot control their feelings or to the bottom and encour- thoughts, aging people to make it a actions.

Not every case of full priority.

“Even when we talk blown mental illness results about the budget and where in things like people walkdoes money go and you will ing the street, undressing see more money allotted to publicly or talking to Sometimes physical issues and some- themselves. times mental health is just untreated mental illness can at the bottom and gets the end in regrettable tragedy.

In most cases, that tragedy scrapping.”

Dr King pointed out the could have been prevented importance of good mental with the correct treatment.

Doris McKinney is an health.

“I always say that mental administrative assistant who health affects every aspect copes with the highs and of our lives,” she said. lows of her mental illness as “It affects how we feel, it best she can, knowing she affects how we think and must be responsible for her it affects how we behave. own mental health.

She spoke to The Tribune Those are the three compoexplaining her illness and nents on how we navigate.

“If we are not doing how she copes with it.

“As I said I have my well emotionally, then the way that we are thinking is good days and my bad affected, the way we feel is days,” she said. “I was affected and the way that diagnosed many years ago we behave is affected. That with Manic Depressive in itself should highlight Disorder. Nowadays they the importance of mental call it Bipolar Disorder.

Unmedicated I can be very health.

“We need to have more low and depressed to the and more conversations point of contemplating suito dispel these myths; to cide and the next day I can dispel the misconception. be too happy and or very The more conversations we aggressive.

“I am on medication and have, the more community education that we have, the for the most part it is conmore effort that we take trolled. Sometimes I get to make sure that mental brain fog and I feel out of health is inclusive from the it completely. That’s side schools straight up to busi- effects of the medicine. I roll with the punches. It’s nesses and organizations.”

The health official very frustrating, but I am pointed out the lack of mindful that I have a disormental health facilities in der and I have to live with The Bahamas and the need it. for proper access for those “You’re asking me what’s who might need mental the worst thing that can help. happen in my case? Well if I “We have one outpatient do not take my medicine or mental health facility – follow up with my doctor, I Community Mental Health get very aggressive. I won’t and Assessment – on Col- intentionally physically lins Avenue, compared to harm anyone, but the feelthe multiple clinics,” Dr. ing is overwhelming and if

someone gets in my face it may not end well.”

Ms McKinney said the aggression is not frequent and also mentioned what she does when side effects are great.

“That (aggression) has happened a few times since I’ve been diagnosed, but not in recent years at all,” she continued. “I realize I have a disorder and it’s not going away any time soon, so I act like a responsible adult and take my medicine daily and try to cope with the side effects.

“For the most part I live as normal a life as I can. I go to work and perform my duties and if the brain fog or side effects get overwhelming, which they do from time to time, I call in sick and notify my psychiatrist. Sometimes new meds are prescribed or dosages are juggled.”

Anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are the more common forms of mental Illness and their prevalence in society appears to be tremendous.

DEPRESSION

Depression is a common and serious mood disorder.

It causes severe symptoms that affect how one feels, thinks, and handles daily activities, such as sleeping, eating, or working. To be diagnosed with depression, the symptoms must be present for at least two weeks.

Some forms of depression are slightly different, or they may develop under unique circumstances. Talk Therapy and Prozac are commonly used to treat Depression.

SCHIZOPHRENIA

The mental disorder called Schizophrenia is characterized by disruptions in thought processes, perceptions, emotional responsiveness, and social interactions. Schizophrenia can vary among individuals, is typically persistent and can be both severe and disabling.

The symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, unusual ways of thinking, reduced expression of emotions, reduced motivation to accomplish goals, difficulty in social relationships, motor impairment, and cognitive impairment.

Talk Therapy and Risperdal can be used to treat Schizophrenia.

ANXIETY

Those who suffer from Anxiety have feelings of fear, dread, and uneasiness. Anxiety may cause one to sweat, feel restless and tense, and have a rapid heartbeat. To some it is normal to feel anxious when reacting to stress.

However, for people with anxiety disorders, the fear is not temporary and can be overwhelming.

The common treatment for Anxiety Talk Therapy and Xanax.

BIPOLAR DISORDER

Bipolar disorder causes extreme mood swings that include emotional highs, mania or hypomania and lows as in depression.

Experts say with Bipolar Disorder when one becomes depressed, one may feel sad or hopeless and lose interest or pleasure in most activities. When the mood shifts to mania or hypomania, one may feel euphoric, full of energy or unusually irritable. These moods can affect sleep, energy, activity, judgment, behaviour and the ability to think clearly.

Although bipolar disorder is a lifelong condition, one can manage ones mood swings and other symptoms by following a treatment plan of Psychotherapy and or usage of Risperdal.

With all mental illness, if untreated they can advance to one being institutionalised for prescribed periods.

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Bad habits, bad health - how do we break the cycle?

PLEASANTLY PLUMP - PART 2 EVERY human being has at least one physical characteristic they’d like to change or, in the very least, enhance. That demand has fuelled a multi-billion-dollar global make-up and skin care industry. Weight loss products, hair dyes, weaves, spanx, press-on nails, contact lenses and all manner of plastic surgery comfortably and directly benefit from this thirst.

For the most part, I think it’s natural and healthy to want to be better and feel better about ourselves. But when the pendulum swings too far in the opposite direction, individuals can become aberrant and put their physical and mental health at risk.

Earlier this week my brother and I were discussing how years ago in an effort to lose weight, women had their mouths sewn shut to prevent them from eating. It was something we had long since forgotten and demonstrated the extreme subversive measures some individuals employ in this pursuit.

In Part One of this series on our country’s obesity epidemic, I talked about my patient who died in her bathroom at the age of 48 weighing 400 pounds.

Unfortunately, in my profession, stories like that are the norm and not the exception. In that regard, I have another patient, still alive, who in her early 50s stands at 5’3 and weighs 380 pounds. Her body mass index is approximately 67 (twice what it should be even at the borderline measure) and she has a past medical history significant for Diabetes. Her blood pressure is consistently elevated but against

medical advice she doesn’t take any medication for this condition. That alone exponentially increases her risk of developing a stroke but she continues to ignore the pleas of her physicians.

She, like so many other patients, has a long family history of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like Diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

The quality of this patient’s life is severely reduced because walking is a challenge as is breathing and standing on her feet for a prolonged period of time.

So, performing rudimentary tasks like simply cooking causes her physical pain in her back, knee, feet and ankles - long before the meal she has prepared for her family is complete.

Research now shows obesity may substantially increase the risk of developing over ten different types of cancer, a finding that can help to explain why the level of cancer within our country is so breathtakingly high.

The case of this patient will hopefully have a happier ending as she is slowly beginning to realise the risks she’s taking with her health and is now seeking ways to curb this dissent.

Leading Bahamian nutritionist, Dr Patti Symonette explains that the pathogenesis of the obesity epidemic can in part be blamed on a learned behaviour for many individuals. This behaviour is then recycled from generation to generation since bad eating habits are taught at home and reinforced within the school cafeteria.

But for every story of despair, there is a story of hope and I had initially

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planned this week to talk about one of my patients who underwent a dramatic weight loss via an intense diet and exercise regimen.

After talking to her last week, however, she admitted she regained almost all of her weight within the past two years. Every other patient I knew who had lost weight in the past sheepishly admitted the same thing. The weight was back to their dismay. One patient blamed it on the devil.

The rest blamed it on the

COVID-19 pandemic.

Clinical psychiatrists define obesity as a behavioural problem with a high rate of relapse. They further espouse that its effective management must employ behavioural interventions given the increased risk of depression and decreased quality of life. But you can’t heal what you don’t speak so the need for more Bahamians to not only seek but embrace getting professional mental health is a burgeoning dilemma.

During our interview, Jimmy Mackey, the founder and president of MacFit360 fitness facilities, echoed this sentiment. He added many people start and stop their weight loss and fitness journey, oscillating from one trendy Hollywood diet to the next, but the ones who endure and enjoy the most success are those who embrace it as a lifestyle.

He refers to it as breaking a mental barrier on weight loss and fitness. We also both reflected on the financial constraints associated

with being healthy and deduced that the system is severely broken when a hamburger, fries and soda are less expensive than a fruit smoothie with a tunaspinach wrap.

His first tip is for clients to consult with a physician to determine where they are in terms of starting their health journey.

This is essential because every client is different and understanding their health can help better facilitate an effective diet and exercise regimen. Once that’s completed, he suggests clients simply get started. Whether at a gym, with a professional certified trainer or simply engaging in an activity that brings them joy (and doesn’t necessarily feel like exercise) like swimming, jogging, tennis or dance.

From there you can slowly work your way up to something more challenging.

Regarding nutrition he recommends following the 90-10 rule where 90 percent of the time you eat clean (i.e., fruits, vegetables, lots

of water etc) and 10 percent of the time you indulge in your favourite foods. Most importantly Mr Mackey believes in getting sufficient sleep, mindset training and surrounding yourself with like-minded individuals who share a commonality of interests. Being around people who are more motivated than you and are conducive to your new lifestyle reinforces good habits and the second you change your behavioir; the universe naturally and simultaneously changes in tandem.

I’ll be following-up with my patient over the next few months to see if she’s finally able to overcome a half a century of bad eating habits and self-doubt. I reminded her that (legendary professional basketball player) Kobe Bryant once said that ‘we all have selfdoubt. You don’t deny it but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it’. It’s easy to understand then why self-doubt ultimately kills more dreams than fear.

But the question is, when your alarm goes off every morning do you get up and go, or do you turn it off and try to get another few minutes of sleep? If it’s the latter then some form of selfreflection is advised because as unintentional as it may be, these lessons are erroneously transmitted to each successive generation. Breaking this cycle may someday perhaps be considered the greatest legacy that we can bestow upon our children; for their good and the good of the entire nation.

• Nicknamed ‘The Prince of Podiatry’, Dr Kenneth D Kemp is the founder and medical director of Bahamas Foot and Ankle located in Caves Village, Western New Providence. He served as the deputy chairman for the Health Council for five years and he currently sits on the board of directors for the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation in his role as co-vice-chairman.

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World Bank recommendations not enough for Caribbean countries to prepare for new climate shocks A NEW analysis by the World Bank provides a troubling analysis of the new shocks Caribbean countries can expect from the worsening effects of climate change, particularly as there is no slowing down in its magnitude. But, the recommendations place the entire burden of preparation for these new shocks entirely on the governments that are already faced with beleaguered economies.

Nowhere in the analysis entitled, “360° Resilience: A Guide to Prepare the Caribbean for a New Generation of Shocks”, is there any recommendation that the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or the major polluting countries should do more to help these countries which are victims of the conditions of climate change and global warming to which they are the least contributors.

In its introduction, the analysis states quite clearly that: “Caribbean countries are not prepared for the new challenges posed by climate change, compounded by uncertainty on future tourism markets and a lack of fiscal space. The strategies that have worked in the past will not be enough in the future. Climate change threatens to intensify natural hazards and brings new sources of volatility through impacts on health, agriculture yields, and coastal

By SIR RONALD SANDERS landscapes.”

Investigating each country toward 2050 – less than Against this background, points out that many sec30 years away – the analy- it is nearly impossible to tors of the society would sis suggests that, even with figure how governments benefit, including tourism, moderate CO2 emissions, could pay to implement the education, and provision of 13 percent of nearshore recommendations in the financial services. Indeed, hotels will experience report, particularly as the many Caribbean countries beach loss resulting in a 17 Paris Club (a group of pow- started down this path percent decrease in tour- erful countries) is refusing prior to the COVID-19 ism revenue for the region to write-off or reschedule pandemic. Several sectors, by 2050. Specifically, the burdensome debt. Addi- especially education and analysis projects that, in tionally, the IMF, World financial services benefitted the absence of adapta- Bank and other European- during the pandemic. But tion, by 2050, countries based agencies continue to the decline in revenues and like Trinidad impose the significant GDP loss caused and Tobago, ‘It is nearly criterion of governments to slow investAntigua and per capita ment in favour of building impossible to figure Barbuda, St public health facilities and income, Lucia and how governments rather than supporting the vulnerable, The Baha- could pay to evident vul- including the poor and mas will see nerability, for unemployed. Unlike the implement the a large proaccess to con- governments of rich counportion of recommendations tries, they did not have the cessionary hotels unable in the report, option to print money their financing. to profit economies did not generate.

Further, particularly as from proxThe report is valuable the lending imity to a the Paris Club (a policies of for the data it provides sandy beach. group of powerful the inter- showing that a large proThe scenario portion of the region’s national countries) is is equally assets is exposed to hurrifinancial troubling refusing to writecanes and landslides, and institutions with regard off or reschedule are not suf- that a significant portion is to flooding, also exposed to floods and ficiently loss of land burdensome debt. aligned to earthquakes – all of which mass from Additionally, the development are set to worsen. The analsea level rise, IMF, World Bank needs. For ysis solidly substantiates the impact of instance, the that the region is vulnerable and other Europeanhurricanes, However, it falls short by report states financial based agencies that, “In the missing the essential point instability, continue to impose absence of that, given the battering and other these economies have had approprithe criterion of socioate funding over the last 40 years, plus economic per capita income, and asset the significant socio-ecoeffects, such management nomic and financial blows rather than evident as the loss of systems for that they have endured skilled work- vulnerability, from COVID-19, internaadequately ers through for access to tional assistance is urgently maintainmigration. ing coastal required. concessionary The report The resilience that Carprotection makes three financing.’ infrastructure, ibbean governments are broad recomgovernments being told to build is not mendations should consider alterna- the result of their abuse of for governments to build tive strategies, including the global environment. resilience to the new gen- natural barriers and man- Those who are responsieration of shocks that it aged relocation”. The ble for the damage should anticipates is coming. These latter two suggestions are compensate. are: increase government not free of cost. Managed • Responses and previefficiency, empower house- relocation of populations ous commentaries: www. holds and the private sector, should not continue to be sirronaldsanders.com and reduce future physical deferred in places such as

risk. Each of these recom- Belize, Guyana and Suri(The writer is Antigua mendations are high cost name, but significant costs and Barbuda’s Ambassador and require funding that are involved, and, thereto the United States and the Caribbean governments do fore, will not be easily Organization of American not have, particularly in the achieved.

States. He is also a Senior current COVID-19 crisis Fellow at the Institute of The report also rightly whose effects will last for recommends that govCommonwealth Studies at years to come. the University of London ernments should invest The analysis admits in digital infrastructure and Massey College in the that the 2008 global and build digital skills to University of Toronto. The financial crisis and the strengthen businesses and views expressed are entirely COVID-19 pandemic have build human capital. It his own). had devastating effects, with debt-to-GDP ratios increasing by approximately 15 percent between 2008 and 2010. It also records that the pandemic’s impact on debt-to-GDP ratio has also been adverse: apart from Guyana, which started producing oil in 2020, all countries saw an increase in debt-to-GDP ratio between 2019 and 2020.

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SUDAN MILITARY LEADERS REINSTATE PRIME MINISTER CAIRO Associated Press SUDAN’S deposed prime minister signed a deal with the military yesterday that will see him reinstated, almost a month after a military coup put him under house arrest. A key prodemocracy group that has mobilised dozens of protests had dismissed the deal as “a form of betrayal”.

The deal, announced in a ceremony broadcast live on Sudan state TV, envisages an independent technocratic Cabinet to be led by Hamdok until elections can be held. It remains unclear how much power the government would hold. It would still remain under military oversight.

It also remains unclear whether any political parties or pro-democracy groups have signed off on the agreement.

The deal expects the military to release government officials and politicians arrested since the October 25 coup.

The coup, more than two years after a popular uprising forced the removal of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir and his Islamist government, has drawn international criticism.

“The signing of this deal opens the door wide enough to address all the challenges of the transitional period,” said Hamdok, speaking at the signing ceremony.

Sudanese have been taking to the streets in masses since the military takeover, which upended the country’s fragile transition to democracy. The agreement comes just days after doctors said at least 15 people were killed by live fire during anti-coup demonstrations. Hamdok has been held under house arrest by military leaders for weeks.

The deal also stipulates that an investigation shall be conducted to identify those responsible for the killing and injuring of civilians and troops that marred protests following the coup.

KENOSHA County Sheriff’s Department officers question a protester carrying a rifle outside the Kenosha County Courthouse on Wednesday during the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial.

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In Kenosha and beyond, guns become more common on US streets

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press AS KYLE Rittenhouse was acquitted in two killings that he said were self-defense, armed civilians patrolled the streets near the Wisconsin courthouse with guns in plain view.

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The two proceedings sent startling new signals about the boundaries of self-defense as more guns emerge from homes amid political and racial tensions and the advance of laws that ease permitting requirements and expand the allowable use of force.

Across much of the nation, it has become increasingly acceptable

for Americans to walk the streets with firearms, either carried openly or legally concealed. In places that still forbid such behavior, prohibitions on possessing guns in public could soon change if the US Supreme Court strikes down a New York law.

The new status quo for firearms outside the home was on prominent display last week in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Local resident Erick Jordan carried a rifle and holstered handgun near the courthouse where Rittenhouse was tried for killing two men and wounding a third with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle during a protest last year.

“I got a job to do — protect these people. That’s it,” said Jordan, referring to speakers at a news conference that was held in the hours after the verdict.

Speakers included an uncle of Jacob Blake, the Black man whose death in a shooting by a white police officer touched off tumultuous protests across the city in the summer of 2020.

“This is my town, my people,” Jordan said. “We don’t agree on a lot of things, but we fight, we argue, we agree to disagree and go home safe, alive.”

“That’s real self-defence.”

The comments were a counter punch to political figures on the right who welcomed the Rittenhouse verdict and condemned his prosecution.

Mark McCloskey, who pleaded guilty in June to misdemeanor charges stemming from when he and his wife waved a rifle and a handgun at Black Lives Matter protesters outside their St Louis home in 2020, said the verdict shows that people have a right to defend themselves from a

“mob”. He currently is a Republican candidate for US Senate in Missouri.

The verdict arrived as many states are expanding self-defence laws and loosening the rules for carrying guns in public. Both gun sales and gun violence have been on the rise.

At the same time, six more states this year removed requirements to get a permit to carry guns in public, the largest number in any single year, according to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. In all, 30 states have enacted “stand your ground” laws, which remove a requirement to retreat from confrontations before using deadly force.

Wisconsin has a tougher standard for claiming selfdefense, and Rittenhouse was able to show the jury that he reasonably believed his life was in danger and that the amount of force he used was appropriate.

Ryan Busse, a former firearms-industry executive who now supports moderate gun control as an author and consultant, said the case reinforced the normalisation of military-style weapons on city and suburban streets.

“Reasonable gun owners are freaked out by this,” he said. “How is it that we see this and people are just like, ‘There’s a guy with an AR-15.’ That happens in third-world countries.”

He highlighted that a lesser charge against Rittenhouse as a minor in possession of a dangerous weapon was dropped before the verdict.

“There’s a facet of Wisconsin law that allows kids to take their hunting rifle out with their dad or uncle,” Busse said. “Well he’s not hunting... The old

gun culture is being used to cover up for this new, dangerous firearms culture.”

Gun-rights advocates seeking greater access to weapons and robust selfdefense provisions argue that armed confrontations will remain rare.

Republicans including former President Donald Trump have been quick to applaud the verdict.

They stand by Rittenhouse as a patriot who took a stand against lawlessness and exercised his Second Amendment rights.

Discord over the right to carry guns in public places spilled over into state legislatures in the aftermath of a 2020 plot to storm the Michigan Capitol, the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol and other threats.

States including Michigan and New Mexico this year banned guns at their capitols, while Montana and Utah shored up concealedcarry rights.

At the Supreme Court, justices are weighing the biggest guns case in more than a decade, a dispute over whether New York’s gun permitting law violates the Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms”.

Defenders of the law say that striking it down would lead to more guns on the streets of cities, including New York and Los Angeles.

During oral arguments this month, justices also appeared to worry that a broad ruling might threaten gun restrictions on subways and at bars, stadiums and other gathering places.

New York’s law has been in place since 1913. It says that to carry a concealed handgun in public for selfdefence, an applicant has to demonstrate an actual need for the weapon.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Epic matchup in Battle 4 Atlantis

By RENALDO DORSETT Tribune Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net

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he inaugural Bad Boy Mowers’ Battle 4 Atlantis Women’s Tournament will conclude with an epic matchup between the top two teams in all of college basketball.

The No.1 ranked South Carolina Gamecocks will face the No.2 UConn Huskies in today’s championship game at the Atlantis resort’s Imperial Arena.

Tipoff is at noon and the game will be broadcast live on ESPN. It is the second consecutive year that the two storied programmed will face off in a No.1 versus No. 2 matchup. The Huskies won last year’s game in overtime.

Both teams had to emerge from hard-fought games against ranked opponents in yesterday’s semifinals.

The Gamecocks pulled away late and advanced with an 80-63 win over the No. 9 Oregon Ducks.

“We’re excited.

We chose to play in this tournament because we got an opportunity to play top teams in the country,’’ said South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley. “That’s been our theme all season long, so why not? UConn has always been on our schedule the last couple years and still are on our schedule. It’s great for women’s basketball.’’

Staley was named the Naismith, United States Basketball Writers Association, Associated Press, and Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Coach of the Year in 2020.

She led the Gamecocks to a Final Four last season.

Second leading scorer Zia Cooke, who scored 20 in the semifinal, said she relishes the challenge that the Huskies are expected to provide. “I love when we play good teams early so we can get tested early,’’ Cooke said. “I think it will be a pretty good game.’’

The Huskies advanced to today’s final with a 60-53 win over the No. 23 South Florida Bulls.

Reigning AP and Naismith player of the Year, Paige Bueckers, finished with 21 points and seven assists while freshman sensation Azzi Fudd scored 18 points and shot 6-9 from three-point range.

Huskies legendary Hall of Fame coach Geno Auriemma said for his team to continue its development as a unit, he continues to encourage his

THIS photo provided by Bahamas Visual Services shows UConn forward Aaliyah Edwards (3) battling South Florida for the ball as UConn’s Azzi Fudd (35) looks on during an NCAA college basketball game at Atlanta Paradise Island in Nassau, Bahamas, yesterday.

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(Donald Knowles/Bahamas Visual Services via AP) young underclass women to accept a larger role.

“I think being a great teammate is shooting every time you’re open when you’re a great shooter,” Auriemma said.

“For young kids, I think it’s somewhat natural at

times to not want to put yourself in that situation.

Some kids just take a little bit longer to kind of see it. It’s not a bad thing, it’s what it is.”

Fudd added: “Coach has been telling me to shoot and every game so far I’ve

been overthinking,” Fudd said. “... And when I got the ball and my defender’s hands weren’t there, to just shoot.”

The Huskies opened the tournament with an 88-58 win over the Minnesota Golden Gophers.

Team Bahamas falls to 1-1 at ITF/COTECC 12U Team Finals THE three-member team of Tatyana Madu, Kaylah Fox and Briana Houlgrave suffered a 2-1 loss to top seeded Mexico’s top team yesterday on day two of competition at Santo Domingo, The Dominican Republic.

In the No.1 singles match, Madu lost to Mexico’s Hanna Estrada (6-0, 6-1) while Houlgrave lost the No.2 match to Azul Vazquez-Lopez (6-0, 6-0) to give Mexico the tie.

Mexico completed the sweep in doubles play when Vazquez-Lopez and Monsteratt Cano would team up to secure the win over Madu and Kaylah Fox (6-0,6-1).

The Bahamas faces Costa Rica today as they look to regain a winning

record. Mexico Team One leads Pool A at 2-0 with The Bahamas and Costa Rica at 1-1. The Dominican Republic Team One is still searching for its first win.

Coming off a second-place finish at the subregional level, Team Bahamas will now face off against the top finishers from the other regions and the host country in the Under-12 category.

With a 4-1 record in the subregion 3, Team Bahamas returns to the Dominican Republic to compete amongst the best of the best.

Mexico Team 2 leads Group B at 2-0 followed by Dominican Republic 2 and Guatemala at 1-1 and El Salvador at 0-2. The Bahamas opened

competition with a win over The Dominican Republic.

In singles play, Madu defeated Amelia Gerrero 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 and Kaylah Fox defeated Paz Cabral 6-3 6-2 to give The Bahamas the tie.

The Dominican Republic rebounded to win doubles play 6-2, 6-2 as Gerrero and Cabral defeated Houlgrave and Fox. The event, played in boys and girls, begins with the group stage, from which four nations will qualify for the semifinals to later play the final. Team Bahamas comes off a second-place finish (4-1) at the subregional level to advance to the U-12 Team Final.

Marion Bain serves as the head coach.

The Gamecoks opened their run in the tournament with an 88-60 win over the Buffalo Braves.

Oregon will face USF in the third place game, scheduled to be broadcasted at 2:30pm on ESPNU.

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ORIOLES CLAIM LUCIUS FOX OFF WAIVERS

By RENALDO DORSETT Tribune Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net LUCIUS Fox is headed to the fourth franchise of his Major League Baseball career.

FOX The Baltimore Orioles claimed the 24-yearold versatile infielder off waivers from the Kansas City Royals on November 20.

Fox joins Baltimore’s 40-man roster and is expected to contend in middle infield position battles.

Last season, he rose as high as No.26 in the Royals’ prospect pipeline and spent the bulk of his season at the AAA level with the Omaha Storm Chasers in the International League.

Fox had a strong conclusion to the season with a 10-game hit streak and produced six multi-hit games with three home runs in that timespan.

In 57 games with the Storm Chasers, Fox hit .245 with a .353 OBP, .729 OPS, 56 hits, five home-runs, 24 RBI, 44 runs scored, and 19 stolen bases.

Earlier in the season, Fox became the eighth Bahamian to join a Major League Baseball roster for the regular season.

His brief call-up lasted just a single game when the Kansas City Royals announced his promotion on July 30, hours ahead of a 6-4 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays in Toronto, Canada.

Fox did not make his official debut on the field in the contest and the following day, he was optioned back down to the Storm Chasers.

Fox was the marquee prospect of the San Francisco Giants’ International Signing Class in July, 2015.

In August 2016, he was traded to the Tampa Bay Rays along with Matt Duffy and Michael Santos in the deal which sent left-handed pitcher Matt Moore to the Giants.

In four years with the Rays, he received numerous accolades in the farm system, including a 2017 selection to the MLB Futures Game.

Fox was traded for the second time in his young baseball career in August, 2020 when he was traded away from the Rays to the Royals in exchange for outfielder Brett Phillips.

In five minor league seasons, Fox is hitting .244 with a .339 on base percentage and a .332 slugging percentage.

The Orioles continue their rebuilding phase after totaling 100 losses in three of the last four seasons.

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Ayton and Suns win 12th straight with ease, roll past Nuggets 126-97

By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Cam Johnson scored a careerhigh 22 points, Deandre Ayton added 21 and the fast-starting Phoenix Suns ran their winning streak to 12, routing the shorthanded Denver Nuggets 126-97 last night.

The Suns scored 48 points in the first quarter for a 20-point lead, shooting 17 of 22 (77.3 percent) from the field, including 7 of 8 from 3-point range.

Johnson, Devin Booker and Jae Crowder all hit two 3-pointers during the early run. The Suns haven’t lost since October 27 against Sacramento when Harrison Barnes made a 3-pointer at the buzzer. It’s the longest winning streak for the franchise since they won 17 straight during the 2006-07 season.

Denver star forward Nikola Jokic missed his second straight game with a sprained right wrist. The Nuggets have lost four straight to fall to 9-8

NUGGETS forward Aaron Gordon (50) reacts after being called for an offensive foul against Suns forward Jae Crowder (99) as Crowder celebrates with Suns’ Deandre Ayton, middle, and Suns’ Devin Booker, right, shouts on the bench during the second half.

SUNS centre Deandre Ayton shoots over Nuggets forward Jeff Green (32) during the second half yesterday in Phoenix.

(AP Photos/Ross D Franklin) Denver is one of the few The Nuggets became even Jeff Green led the Nugteams that has beaten the more short-handed late gets with 19 points. Gordon Suns this season — winning in the third quarter when had 16. the opener 110-98 — but Aaron Gordon was ejected The Suns took a 100-78 that’s when the Nuggets had after two quick technicals lead into the fourth. Denver a healthy Jokic and Michael for arguing with an official recovered from the lopPorter Jr (low back pain). after he was called for an sided first quarter to cut This was much different. offensive foul.

Phoenix’s advantage to

73-60 by halftime. Ayton led the Suns with 18 points while Crowder and Booker each had 11.

Gordon led the Nuggets with 16 points before the break.

GOOD AGAINST GOOD The Suns have a 6-0 record against teams that have been above .500 this season. They’re 13-3 overall.

TIP-INS Nuggets: Jokic was listed as probable on the injury report but still didn’t play.

The Nuggets were also missing F Zeke Nnaji (right ankle sprain).

G Bones Hyland appeared to injure an ankle during the first quarter. He tried to play through the pain for a possession but

eventually had to leave the game.

Suns: F/C Frank Kaminsky missed his third straight game and the team announced he’s out indefinitely with a stress reaction in his right knee. Kaminsky is averaging 10.6 points and 4.6 rebounds and scored a career-high 31 points this season. ... F Abdel Nader (right knee injury) also didn’t play. ... The 48 points were the second-most in franchise history in the first quarter. They scored 50 against the Nuggets in the first quarter during a game in 1990.

UP NEXT Nuggets: At Portland on Tuesday night. Denver plays eight of the next nine games on the road.

Suns: At San Antonio tonight.

LeBron James ejected, Lakers rally to beat Pistons 121-116 DETROIT (AP) — LeBron James was ejected early in the third quarter after drawing blood by hitting Isaiah Stewart in the face, leaving Anthony Davis and Russell Westbrook to rally the Los Angeles Lakers to a 121116 victory over the Detroit Pistons last night.

Davis had 30 points, 10 rebounds and two big blocked shots late on 20-year-old Dertroit rookie Cade Cunningham. Westbrook had 26 points, 10 assists and nine rebounds.

Cunningham, the No. 1 overall pick in the draft, had 13 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists to become the youngest player in franchise history with a triple-double.

James was sent to the locker room after his left elbow and hand appeared to make contact with Stewart’s face when they were tangled up while boxing out for a rebound.

Detroit’s centre had to be held back more than once, keeping him separated from the NBA superstar, and he also was ejected.

Westbrook was assessed a technical after the officials reviewed the play and the fallout from it.

PISTONS centre Isaiah Stewart (28) is held back after a foul during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Los Angeles Lakers yesterday in Detroit.

(AP Photos/Carlos Osorio) James had 10 points and beat Dallas to end a two- have dropped three straight points in the fourth quar- points and seven rebounds five assists in his second game skid.

— the first two in Phoenix ter to help Chicago win its and NBA-leading Golden game back in the lineup.

Reggie Jackson scored — to open up a four-game second straight and fourth State beat Toronto to After missing eight games eight of his 23 points in the trip. in five games. Julius Randle improve to 15-2. with an abdominal strain, third, when the Clippers BULLS 109, had 34 points on 13-for-18 Poole shot 10 for 13 and he played Friday night in a turned a one-point deficit KNICKS 103 shooting for New York. made eight 3-pointers.

130-108 loss at Boston. into a nine-point lead.

CHICAGO (AP) — WARRIORS 119, Stephen Curry had 12 CLIPPERS 97, Kristaps Porzingis had 25 DeMar DeRozan scored RAPTORS 104 points and eight assists after MAVERICKS 91 points and eight rebounds 31 points, Zach LaVine SAN FRANCISCO (AP) sitting out at Detroit on LOS ANGELES (AP) for Dallas. added 21 and Chicago ral- — Jordan Poole had his Friday night to rest his sore — Paul George scored 12 With Luka Doncic out lied in the fourth quarter second straight 30-point hip. of his 29 points in the third with a sprained left knee to beat New York. Coby performance with 33, Pascal Siakam scored 21 quarter and Los Angeles and ankle, the Mavericks White scored 10 of his 14 Andrew Wiggins added 32 points for Toronto.

HERBERT THROWS FOR 382 YARDS, CHARGERS HOLD OFF STEELERS

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer INGLEWOOD, Calif.

(AP) — Justin Herbert threw a 53-yard touchdown pass to Mike Williams with 2:17 remaining and the Los Angeles Chargers held off the Pittsburgh Steelers 41-37 last night.

Los Angeles (6-4) had a 27-10 lead going into the fourth quarter before the Steelers (5-4-1) rallied to take a 37-34 lead on Chris Boswell’s 45-yard field goal with 3:24 left.

Los Angeles took over at the 25 and scored four plays later when Williams was wide open and went untouched up the left sideline.

Herbert was 30 of 41 for 382 yards and three touchdowns. He had 90 yards rushing, which is the most by a Chargers quarterback in a game. Keenan Allen had nine receptions for 112 yards, and Williams had 97 yards on five catches. Austin Ekeler

scored a career-high four touchdowns.

Ekeler, who had 115 scrimmage yards (65 receiving, 50 rushing), is the ninth player in the Super Bowl era with at least two rushing and two receiving scores in a game. Ben Roethlisberger passed for 273 yards and three touchdowns for Pittsburgh after missing last week’s game against Detroit after testing positive for COVID-19.

Diontae Johnson had seven catches for 101 yards.

Najee Harris was held to 39 yards and a TD. Two of Pittsburgh’s scores during its rally came off Chargers’ mistakes. Harris scored on a 1-yard run to get the Steelers to 27-20, four plays after Miles Killebrew blocked Ty Long’s punt and it rolled out of bounds at the LA 3.

Ekeler put the Chargers back up by two scores with his fourth score of the game before the Steelers scored 17 straight points to take the lead. Roethlisberger

LOS Angeles Chargers running back Austin Ekeler (30) reacts with teammates after scoring a touchdown during the second half of an NFL football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, yesterday in Inglewood, Calif.

(AP Photo/ Ashley Landis) connected with Eric Ebron for a 5-yard TD to draw them ton 34-27. On the ensuing drive, Cameron Sutton picked off Herbert’s pass intended for Allen and returned it to the 10.

Pat Freiermuth tied it three plays later on a 5-yard TD run. After Pittsburgh took the opening

kickoff and scored on Chris Boswell’s 36-yard field goal, Ekeler put Los Angeles on top 7-3 with a 6-yard carry off left tackle.

Ekeler extended the lead to 14-3 with 3:42 remaining in the second quarter with a 10-yard reception on a check-down from Herbert. His best play of the

night though came on his third TD, when he took a screen from Herbert, juked Steelers’ cornerback James Pierre, broke a tackle by Terrell Edmunds and then dragged Taco Charlton the last 3 yards into the end zone to make it 24-10 three minutes into the third quarter.

SECOND GUESSING The Steelers were on the verge of taking the lead on their second drive. They had first-and-goal at the 5 and got to the 2 but could not score.

Roethlisberger completed a pass to Friermuth on fourth-and-goal but was stopped by Derwin James and Joe Gaziano for no gain.

INJURIES Steelers: G JC Hassenauer suffered a shoulder injury during the first half and did not return. ... CB Maulet was evaluated for a concussion during the fourth quarter.

Chargers: CB Asante Samuel Jr suffered a concussion during the fourth quarter. ... Assistant offensive line coach Shaun Sarrett missed the game due to a non-COVID illness.

UP NEXT Steelers: At Cincinnati on Sunday.

Chargers: At Denver on Sunday.

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Dolphins win third straight, top Jets 24-17

By DENNIS WASZAK JR AP Pro Football Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Tua Tagovailoa showed up to his postgame news conference decked out in pajama pants speckled with dogs sporting Christmas hats.

Yep, the Miami Dolphins quarterback is already in the holiday spirit. And the team’s third straight victory had him feeling pretty jolly.

“We had some mishaps, but it didn’t matter,” Tagovailoa said after a 24-17 win over the New York Jets yesterday. “We just kept going.”

Tagovailoa, who threw a go-ahead 5-yard touchdown pass to Myles Gaskin early in the fourth quarter, finished 27 of 33 for 273 yards and touchdown passes to Gaskin and Mack Hollins with one interception.

“I love Christmas and I have three dogs, so I have dogs with Christmas hats on,” a smiling Tagovailoa said of his postgame bottoms four days before Thanksgiving. “I’m thankful for a lot of things, I really am.”

Add this win to the list.

A week after an impressive victory over Baltimore, the Dolphins (4-7) overcame some penalties — and the Jets had some sloppy plays of their own — to get their first three-game winning streak since winning five in a row in the middle of last season.

“It’s been a long season and we didn’t start out like we wanted to,” Gaskin said.

“I just think we’re getting more hungry.”

With the game tied at 14, Tagovailoa was facing heavy pressure when he got a throw off to Gaskin, who

DOLPHINS quarterback Tua Tagovailoa throws during the first half against the New York Jets yesterday.

(AP Photo/Bill Kostroun) held onto the ball to put the Dolphins ahead 21-14 with 10:15 left despite getting hit by both C.J. Mosley and Elijah Riley in the end zone.

The drive was helped by a roughing the passer penalty on John Franklin-Myers

on third down from the 6, when Tagovailoa’s pass to Gaskin fell incomplete.

“That was unacceptable,” Jets coach Robert Saleh said.

A penalty hurt the Jets (2-8) again on Miami’s next

possession, when Tagovailoa was sacked on third down — but it was wiped out by a holding call on Jason Pinnock.

The Dolphins milked the clock and took a 24-14 lead with 1:57 remaining on Jason Sanders’ 24-yard field goal.

Matt Ammendola, who missed two field goals, made a 35-yarder in the closing seconds to cap the scoring.

Receiver Jaylen Waddle had a 1-yard TD run for Miami, which took the alltime series lead for the first time since 2000 by going up 56-55-1 in the head-to-head matchup.

The Jets, who rebounded defensively after allowing at least 45 points in three of their past four games, couldn’t make key stops late. And they couldn’t get much going consistently on

offence. Joe Flacco made his first start in place of the injured Zach Wilson, who missed his fourth straight game.

New York opted to go with the 36-year-old Flacco over Mike White, saying the veteran would give them a better chance against Miami’s aggressive defence.

Flacco was 24 of 39 for 291 yards and touchdowns to Elijah Moore and Jamison Crowder. Moore finished with eight catches for a career-best 141 yards.

“We did some good things,” Flacco said. “But we made too many mistakes to win the football game.”

UP NEXT Dolphins: Host Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers next Sunday.

Jets: Travel to Houston to take on the Texans next Sunday.

VIKINGS KEEP RODGERS OFF THE FIELD LATE, NIP PACKERS 34-31 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Greg Joseph made a 29-yard field goal as time expired to give the Minnesota Vikings a 34-31 victory over the Green Bay Packers yesterday, finishing a classic back-and-forth with Aaron Rodgers by making sure the three-time NFL MVP didn’t get to touch the ball last.

Kirk Cousins passed for 341 yards and three touchdowns for the Vikings (5-5), who watched yet another game come down to the final play after Rodgers threw three of his four touchdown passes in the second half.

Unable to practice much at all this week because of a toe injury, after missing much of the first half of the month with COVID-19, Rodgers finished 23 for 33 for a season-high 385 yards for Green Bay (8-3).

Justin Jefferson had eight receptions for 169 yards and two scores, including a third-down catch against rookie Eric Stokes that Cousins delivered for a 23-yard touchdown while being decked on a blitz by Darnell Savage.

On the next play from scrimmage, Rodgers threw a rainbow to Marquez Valdes-Scantling streaking past safety Xavier Woods for a 75-yard score to tie the game just before the twominute warning.

Cousins then led the Vikings into position for the winning kick.

Green Bay had given up just 34 points over its previous three games.

TEXANS 22, TITANS 13 NASHVILLE, Tenn.

(AP) — Tyrod Taylor ran for two touchdowns and threw for 107 yards and Houston snapped the NFL’s longest active skid, beating Tennessee to end the league’s longest winning streak.

The Texans (2-8) came in having lost eight straight since winning their season opener and hadn’t scored a TD on the road since September 19.

Desmond King had two of the Texans’ four interceptions — three in the fourth quarter to snuff out the Titans’ attempted rally.

Houston turned those and a fumbled punt into 13 points. The Texans also had two sacks.

The Titans (8-3) snapped their six-game winning streak with their first loss since October 3. That came to the then-winless New York Jets.

Tennessee outgained Houston 420-190. But the banged-up Titans couldn’t overcome their mistakes on a day when wide receiver A.J. Brown was knocked out of the game in the third quarter with an injured chest.

CHIEFS 19, COWBOYS 9 KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Clyde EdwardsHelaire ran for 63 yards and a touchdown in his return from injured reserve, Chris Jones and the Kansas City defense made life miserable for Dak Prescott, and the Chiefs beat Dallas.

Patrick Mahomes was 23 of 37 for 260 yards with an interception and a fumble for Kansas City, but he was bailed out by a defence that played its best game of the year. Charvarius Ward picked off Prescott in the end zone near the end of the first half, and Chris Jones had 3 1/2 sacks while forcing and recovering a fumble.

The result: The Chiefs (7-4) improved to 4-0 against the NFC East with their fourth straight win overall.

Prescott was held to 216 yards passing and two interceptions for the Cowboys (7-3), though he was missing a whole lot of help. Left tackle Tyron Smith missed his third straight game with an ankle injury, Amari Cooper tested positive for COVID-19 and fellow wide receiver CeeDee Lamb sustained a concussion just before halftime.

COLTS 41, BILLS 15 ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Jonathan Taylor set a franchise record by scoring five times and took over the NFL lead in both yards rushing and touchdowns as Indianapolis routed Buffalo.

Taylor scored three times in the first half, including a 23-yard catch, en route to the first five-touchdown game in the league this season.

Taylor finished with a season-high 185 yards rushing and four touchdowns and has 1,122 yards this season after beginning the day tied for the league lead with the injured Derrick Henry of Tennessee. Taylor has 14 touchdowns, moving ahead of Arizona’s James Conner, who began the day with 12.

Taylor topped 100 yards from scrimmage and scored a touchdown for the eighth consecutive game, matching an NFL record set by Lydell Mitchell of the Colts in 1975-76 and the Chargers’ LaDainian Tomlinson in 2006.

The Colts (6-5) continued their roll by improving to 5-1 in their past six games.

Indianapolis had gone 0-5 against opponents who made the playoffs last year, including two losses to AFC South rival Tennessee.

The Bills (6-4) fell a halfgame behind New England in the AFC East.

RAVENS 16, BEARS 13 CHICAGO (AP) — Subbing for star quarterback Lamar Jackson, Tyler Huntley led a winning drive capped by Devonta Freeman’s 3-yard run with 22 seconds remaining, and Baltimore beat Chicago.

Jackson was sidelined by illness for the AFC Northleading Ravens (7-3), who ruled him out 90 minutes before kickoff. The 2019 MVP was a full participant in practice Friday after being held out the previous two days. Coach John Harbaugh said Wednesday the illness was not COVID-19.

Justin Tucker kicked three field goals for the Ravens, who rebounded from a loss to Miami. The

Bears (3-7) lost their fifth straight.

Chicago’s Andy Dalton threw two touchdown passes after Justin Fields left the game with a rib injury in the third quarter.

The Bears appeared to be in good shape after Dalton found Goodwin deep down the middle on fourth-and-11 to put Chicago on top 13-9 with 1:41 remaining.

But the Ravens answered with the 72-yard touchdown drive. Freeman ran it in after Huntley’s 30-yard pass to Sammy Watkins put the ball on the 3. Huntley completed 26 of 36 passes for 219 yards in his first career start.

CARDINALS 23, SEAHAWKS 13 SEATTLE (AP) — Colt McCoy was outstanding filling in for Kyler Murray, throwing for 328 yards and two touchdowns, Arizona beat Seattle.

For the second straight season, McCoy was a backup thrust into a starting role at Seattle and walked away with a victory.

Last year, McCoy was with the New York Giants. This season, it was with Murray missing a third straight game due to an ankle injury.

McCoy went 35 of 44 and outplayed Seattle’s Russell Wilson, who made his first home start since undergoing finger surgery. McCoy threw touchdown passes of 1 and 2 yards to Zach Ertz in the first half, got a bit of luck in the third quarter when a potential interception was overturned on replay, and had his first 300yard passing game since 2014.

Arizona (9-2) had scoring drives of 92 and 82 yards in the first half that ate up 16 minutes. After 20 straight offensive drives without a touchdown, DeeJay Dallas scored on a 2-yard run with 7:08 left to pull Seattle (3-7) within 16-13.

But McCoy put the game away with another terrific possession. James Conner capped the drive with a 1-yard run with 2:20 left.

WASHINGTON 27, PANTHERS 21 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Taylor Heinicke threw for 206 yards and three touchdowns against the league’s top-ranked pass defence, and Washington beat Carolina in Cam Newton’s return to Bank of America Stadium.

Terry McLaurin had five catches for 103 yards and a touchdown for Washington (4-6) and former Panthers coach Ron Rivera, who won in his return to Carolina.

Newton, making his first start since signing a oneyear contract to return to the Panthers, threw for 189 yards and two touchdowns and ran for a 24-yard score.

But Newton’s final two potential game-winning drives ended when the Panthers turned the ball over on downs. Daron Payne and James Smith-Williams sacked Newton with 1:11 left to seal the game.

Christian McCaffrey combined for 119 yards from scrimmage and a touchdown for the

MINNESOTA Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson (18) celebrates with teammate Dede Westbrook (12) after catching a 23-yard touchdown pass during the second half against the Green Bay Packers yesterday in Minneapolis.

(AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn) Panthers (5-6).

After Newton connected on a 27-yard touchdown pass to McCaffrey down the seam to tie the game at 21 midway through the fourth quarter, Heinicke led Washington into Carolina territory behind a fourthand-2 completion to tight John Bates. That set up former Panther Joey Slye’s go-ahead 36-yard field goal with 4:13 left in the game.

Slye added another field goal after Carolina turned the ball over on downs.

EAGLES 40, SAINTS 29 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jalen Hurts ran for three touchdowns, Darius Slay returned an interception for a score and Philadelphia beat New Orleans.

The Eagles (5-6) have won two in a row for the first time this season and rookie coach Nick Sirianni earned his first victory at home in five tries.

The Saints (5-5) dropped their third straight since losing quarterback Jameis Winston to a season-ending ACL injury. Trevor Siemian threw three touchdown passes and two picks and ran for a score without several missing starters around him. The Eagles led 20-7 with under a minute left in the second quarter when Slay stepped in front of Siemian’s pass intended for Deonte Harris and returned it 51 yards for his third TD in four games.

Facing the NFL’s topranked defence, the Eagles racked up 242 yards on the ground.

Miles Sanders ran for 94 yards, Hurts had 69 and Jordan Howard added 63.

The Eagles have surpassed 175 yards rushing in four straight games, including 200-plus in three victories in that span.

BROWNS 13, LIONS 10 CLEVELAND (AP) — Nick Chubb caught a touchdown pass and ran for 130 yards as Cleveland Browns held on to avoid a season-wrecking upset and keep Detroit winless.

Chubb returned to Cleveland’s lineup after a one-game absence due to COVID-19. He caught a 5-yard TD pass from Baker Mayfield and then helped the Browns (6-5) run out the clock. Chubb gained 36 yards on the final drive.

Wide receiver Jarvis Landry ran for a score as the Browns bounced back after being blown out last week at New England.

The Lions (0-9-1) made some critical mistakes while growing their winless streak to 14 games.

D’Andre Swift ran for a career-high 136 yards, breaking off a 57-yard TD run in the second half to keep the Lions close.

Aldrick Rosas made a 43-yard field goal in the fourth quarter to pull the Lions within 13-10. However, Detroit couldn’t come up with one more big play to put more pressure on the Browns.

BENGALS 32, RAIDERS 13 LAS VEGAS (AP) — Joe Mixon rushed for 123 yards and scored two touchdowns and Cincinnati beat Las Vegas.

The well-rested Bengals (6-4) came out of their bye week and snapped a twogame skid to climb back into the AFC North race, while the Raiders (5-5) lost their third straight since their bye.

Joe Burrow was 20 of 29 for 148 yards and a touchdown pass to Ja’Marr Chase for Cincinnati. Chase leads all rookies with eight touchdowns this season.

Bengals kicker Evan McPherson became the 13th player with three field goals of 50 yards or more in a game. McPherson was perfect on four fieldgoal attempts. Cincinnati’s defence limited the Raiders to 278 yards, the second time the Bengals held an opponent to fewer than 300 yards in a game. It was the

third-lowest tally for Las Vegas this season.

Derek Carr finished 19 of 27 for 215 yards, one touchdown and one interception.

Tight end Darren Waller caught seven passes for 116 yards.

49ERS 30, JAGUARS 3 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jimmy Garoppolo threw two touchdown passes for the third consecutive week and San Francisco dominated Jacksonville for its third win in four games.

Coming off their best game of the season — a 31-10 stunner against the Los Angeles Rams on Monday night — the 49ers (5-5) travelled crosscountry on a short week and looked every bit like a playoff contender for the second time in six days.

They scored on their first five possessions, including opening the game with a 20-play field-goal drive that took more than 13 minutes, and set the tone for what would be another long day for the Jaguars (2-8).

San Francisco ran 33 of the game’s first 37 plays and had more first downs (14) than Jacksonville had yards (12) midway through the second quarter. Garoppolo completed 16 of 22 passes for 176 yards. He connected with Brandon Aiyuk and George Kittle for scores.

It was Kittle’s third TD in as many weeks. Deebo Samuel ran eight times for 79 yards and a touchdown.

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Brady aims to avoid first 3-game skid in nearly two decades

By FRED GOODALL AP Sports Writer TAMPA, Florida (AP) — One of the perks of winning as much as Tom Brady has during an unmatched NFL career is rarely having to answer questions about prolonged stretches of losing.

The seven-time Super Bowl champion hasn’t lost more than two games in a row in 19 years, a streak he’ll try to keep alive when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers host the improving New York Giants (on Monday) tonight.

Brady is on pace to set personal bests in yards passing and touchdowns, but is also coming off a pair of losses at New Orleans and Washington in which he and a usually stout Tampa Bay defence were not at their best.

The only time the 44-year-old quarterback has lost as many as three consecutive starts was 2002 — Brady’s first season as a full-time starter with the New England Patriots, who endured a four-game skid on the way to a 9-7 finish.

The Bucs (6-3) haven’t celebrated a win since

dominating the Chicago Bears 38-3 on October 24.

That’s a nearly month-long stretch that includes the team’s bye week.

Brady, who has more regular season (236) and postseason (34) wins than any player in league history, is unaccustomed to such droughts.

“It feels like most teams when you don’t win. It’s not nearly as fun putting all the work in and us trying to grind and get it right,” Brady said in response to a question about how the past three weeks have felt for the reigning Super Bowl champs.

“We’re not doing what it takes on the field in order to win. In order to do it right, you put in a lot of time and energy and detail into what we’re doing,” Brady added. “It will feel a lot better when we win.

But we have to go earn it, and we’re going against a team that challenges you to do it.”

The Giants (3-6) have won two of their past three games following a 1-5 start and are excited about the prospect of injured running back Saquon Barkley returning to the lineup for

BUCCANEERS quarterback Tom Brady prepares to put his helmet on while sitting on the sideline in the second half against the Washington Football Team last week Sunday. Washington won 29-19.

(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) the first time in more than a month.

Brady has thrown for 2,870 yards and 27 touchdowns vs. seven interceptions. Four of those picks came in the past two games, contributing to losses in which costly penalties and an inability to get off the field on third downs defensively also undermined Tampa Bay’s chances.

The quarterback was asked if he’s ever tempted to remind people that just like every player in the NFL, he’s capable

of having bad games. “I prefer to just win and just erase that from people’s mind,” Brady said.

“I have great teammates and a great group of coaches and we’re going to work to get it right. ... I think the expectations are high for a reason because we have a lot of talented players, and we know that we can play at a high level,” he added. “We just have to go do it.”

Tampa Bay also had a two-game losing streak last season, Brady’s first with the Bucs. It finished

a stretch in which the team lost three of four, dropping to 7-5 heading into an early December bye.

Brady not only rebounded to avoid a three-game skid, but Tampa Bay went 8-0 the rest of the way.

The quarterback is confident the defending champs will play better, beginning tonight against the Giants, who played Tampa Bay tough in a two-point, prime-time loss to the Bucs last season.

“Winning football is about doing the right thing as often as possible, everyone being on the same page, great communication and just giving the best effort as possible on every play,” Brady said.

“Things aren’t always going to be perfect out there, but you have to have as few mistakes as possible. I think there’s a real urgency for us to have it right,” he added.

“We played this opponent last year and they gave us a big challenge. ...

It’s going to be a big challenge for us, and we have to get back to playing the way we’re capable of playing.”

Jayson Tatum scores 33 points, Celtics beat Thunder 111-105 BOSTON (AP) — Jayson Tatum scored 33 points, Dennis Schroder had 29 and the Boston Celtics beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 111-105 on Saturday night.

Al Horford added 10 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists for Boston, which won for seventh time in 10 games. Grant Williams added 14 points.

Lu Dort scored 16 points for Oklahoma City, and Josh Giddey had 15 points and eight rebounds. The Thunder have dropped four of five.

Coming off an emotional 22-point victory over the rival Lakers a night earlier, the Celtics didn’t have any letdown, charging to a double-digit lead midway into the second quarter.

Tatum had 37 points and 11 rebounds in the win over Los Angeles on Friday.

WIZARDS 103, HEAT 100 WASHINGTON (AP) — Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Spencer Dinwiddie each scored 16 points and hit two 3-pointers during a crucial late stretch and the Wizards rallied to beat Miami.

Bradley Beal had 21 points to help Washington split the home-and-home series with Miami and move a half-game above the Heat in the Southeast Division standings. Miami, beat Washington 112-97 in Florida on Thursday night.

The Wizards trailed by as 16 in the third quarter and by 10 with 4:42 to play before Caldwell-Pope and Dinwiddie scored every point during a 15-2 run to give Washington a 99-96 lead with 1:43 left.

Jimmy Butler scored 29 points for the Heat.

BUCKS 117, MAGIC 108 MILWAUKEE (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo had 32 points and 20 rebounds and Milwaukee held off Orlando to open a two-game set.

The teams will meet again tonight in Milwaukee.

Bobby Portis had a season-high 24 points along with 15 rebounds to help the Bucks win their third straight and improve to 9-8. They’re above .500 for the first time since they were 3-2 on October 27.

R.J. Hampton had 19 points off the bench for the Magic. Orlando lost for the fifth time in six games to fall to an East-worst 4-13.

TRAIL BLAZERS 119, 76ERS 111 PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Damian Lillard scored a season-high 39 points to help Portland beat Philadelphia.

CJ McCollum added 18 points, Norman Powell had 17, and Jusuf Nurkic finished with 11 points and 11 rebounds. Portland improved to 8-1 at home and, at 9-8, is above

CELTICS’ Jayson Tatum dunks during the first half against the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday in Boston.

(AP Photo/Michael Dwyer) .500 for the first time since LaMelo Ball had 15 points, October 31.

12 assists and 10 rebounds.

Tobias Harris and Tyrese KNICKS 106, Maxey each scored 28 ROCKETS 99 points for Philadelphia.

NEW YORK (AP) — Joel Embiid missed his Alec Burks scored 17 of seventh straight game his 20 points in the fourth after entering the NBA’s quarter, Evan Fournier COVID-19 health and added 19 and New York safety protocols. handed Houston its 14th HAWKS 115, consecutive loss, HORNETS 105 All-Star Julius Randle ATLANTA (AP) — added 16 points and 10 Clint Capela had 20 points rebounds, and Immanuel and 15 rebounds, Trae Quickley had 13 points off Young scored 19 points and the bench for the Knicks.

Atlanta beat Charlotte.

Christian Wood had Cam Reddish and Kevin 18-points and 12 rebounds Huerter each added 17 for the NBA-worst Rockpoints, and Danilo Galli- ets. They are 1-15. nari had 16 to help Atlanta PACERS 111, win its fourth consecutive PELICANS 94 game. John Collins had 15 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) points and eight rebounds.

— Domantas Sabonis had Miles Bridges scored 35 20 points and 10 rebounds points for Charlotte, and and Indiana’s starters

bounced back from being benched a night earlier to beat New Orleans.

Yanked by coach Rick Carlisle in the third quarter of loss at Charlotte, Indiana’s starters opened with 23 points in the first quarter for a 32-19 lead. The one change to the starting lineup was shooting guard Justin Holiday, who scored 17 points.

Jonas Valanciunas had 19 points and 13 rebounds for the Pelicans.

TIMBERWOLVES 138, GRIZZLIES 95 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — D’Angelo Russell scored 28 points, Anthony Edwards added 23 and Minnesota routed Memphis for its third straight victory.

Karl-Anthony Towns finished with 21 points in a game Minnesota led by as many as 45, its biggest lead in a game this season and the Grizzlies’ largest deficit.

Desmond Bane scored 21 points for the Grizzlies.

Ja Morant tied a season low with 11.

JAZZ 123, KINGS 105 SACRAMENTO, Calif.

(AP) — Donovan Mitchell scored 26 points, Rudy Gobert added 21 points and 14 rebounds and Utah beat Sacramento.

Richaun Holmes had 22 points and seven rebounds for Sacramento. The Kings have lost seven of eight.

JAMES DRAWS BLOOD ON STEWART’S FACE IN MELEE

By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer DETROIT (AP) — LeBron James was ejected from the Los Angeles Lakers-Detroit Pistons game after drawing blood on Isaiah Stewart’s face when they were tangled up while boxing out for a rebound last night.

James’s left elbow and hand appeared to make contact with Stewart above the neck, sending him into a bloody rage. Detroit’s centre had to be held back more than once, keeping him separated from the NBA superstar.

Stewart was also ejected from the game early in the third quarter.

Lakers guard Russell Westbrook was assessed a technical after the officials reviewed the play and the fallout from it.

James was escorted off the floor and fans did not throw anything at him as he walked toward the team’s locker room.

A cup was tossed from the stands in suburban Detroit on an infamous night on November 19, 2004, triggering perhaps the worst brawl in US sports history when a melee with the Pistons and Indiana Pacers spilled into the stands.

During Sunday’s game against the Lakers, former Pistons Ben Wallace and Rip Hamilton were close to the latest fracas because

they had courtside seats. Stewart’s face was covered with blood after he and James were trying to get position for a rebound off a free throw. James appeared to attempt to apologise to Stewart as he lay on the court, but the 20-year-old centre tried to charge toward the 36-year-old forward.

Stewart broke free more than once and appeared to be running into a tunnel that potentially provided a path toward the Lakers’ bench.

Earlier this season, Stewart faced off with former teammate Blake Griffin of the Brooklyn Nets after they were tangled up during a game.

LAKERS forward LeBron James is ejected after fouling Pistons centre Isaiah Stewart during the second half yesterday in Detroit.

(AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

HAMILTON WINS IN QATAR, SLICES INTO VERSTAPPEN POINTS LEAD LOSAIL, Qatar (AP) — Lewis Hamilton inched closer to the Formula One championship lead with a dominating victory yesterday in the inaugural Qatar Grand Prix to earn backto-back wins and chip away at Max Verstappen’s points advantage.

Hamilton, who also won last week in Brazil, has trimmed 11 points from Verstappen’s lead in the title race in seven days.

Verstappen still holds an eight-point lead with two races remaining in one of the most dramatic F1 title fights in at least a decade.

“The last two weeks have been fantastic, just amazing,” Hamilton said.

“There’s no time for celebration. I don’t really have too much emotion. But it’s been amazing to be able to get so many points in these past two races.”

The seven-time champion started from pole for Mercedes and was never challenged on the Losail International Circuit as Hamilton won his 102nd career race. It was his seventh victory of the season.

Verstappen finished second for Red Bull, around 25 seconds behind Hamilton.

“It was pretty lonely at the front,” said Hamilton, who is enjoying the challenge from Verstappen.

“I love it. I love the close battle and the pressure and the demands it puts on you and the whole team. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it.”

Verstappen was hit with a penalty before the race even began when he was dropped five spots on the starting grid for violating a yellow flag in Saturday’s qualifying. The Dutchman had qualified second but the stewards ordered him to drop back on the grid following Sunday hearings for Verstappen, Valtteri Bottas and Carlos Sainz.

All three were accused of not following yellow flag rules near the end of qualifying. Bottas, who had qualified third, was penalised three starting sports.

Sainz was not penalised.

Red Bull was mystified by the grid penalty for Verstappen, who lost any chance to challenge Hamilton for the win when he was penalised.

OLYMPIC OFFICIALS: CHINESE TENNIS STAR PENG SAYS SHE IS SAFE BEIJING (AP) — Missing Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai told Olympic officials in a video call from Beijing that she was safe and well, the International Olympic Committee said Sunday after Peng reappeared in public at a youth tournament in Beijing, according to photos released by the organizer.

The 30-minute call came amid growing global alarm over Peng after she accused a former leading Communist Party official of sexual assault.

China’s ruling Communist Party has tried to quell fears abroad while suppressing information in China about Peng.

Sunday’s call — with IOC president Thomas Bach, athletes commission chair Emma Terho and IOC member Li Lingwei, a former vice president of the Chinese Tennis Association — appears to be Peng’s first direct contact with sports officials outside China since she disappeared from public view on Nov. 2.

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German Zverev wins ATP Finals for second time

DJOKOVIC TO ‘WAIT AND SEE’ IF HE’LL GO TO AUSTRALIAN OPEN

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer

TURIN, Italy (AP) — Audacious swinging volley winners. Serve-and-volleying. An ace out wide on his first match point — with his second serve.

Alexander Zverev showed off new, more aggressive, tactics in a dominant 6-4, 6-4 win over second-ranked Daniil Medvedev yesterday to lift the trophy at the ATP Finals for the second time.

A day after beating topranked Novak Djokovic over three sets in the semifinals, Zverev raised his game to a new dimension.

“It was definitely a game plan,” Zverev said. “He’s one of the best baseline players in the world, and against him you need to take control over the points, and I did that today and that’s why it worked out very well for me.”

It was a similar approach to how Djokovic beat Medvedev in the Paris Masters final earlier this month, when the Serb attacked the net more often than usual.

“He’s been playing great tennis for a while but now he’s also playing very intelligent tennis,” said Zverev’s older brother and fellow pro, Mischa, who has been coaching him in the absence of Alexander Zverev Sr. “He’s improving his game,” Mischa said in an on-court interview shortly after the final, as Zverev was still basking in the crowd and signing autographs. “I’ve seen him hit his backhand slice approach shot and hit a volley drop shot to finish off the point, serve-andvolley. ... I really enjoyed watching it.”

Mischa, a pure serveand-volleyer who reached a career-high ranking of No. 25 in 2017, is clearly urging his brother to come forward more.

At 6-foot-6 (1.98-metres) and with a huge wingspan, Zverev can be quite an imposing figure at the net.

“That’s what I told him.

I’m like, ‘Just be creative and play smart, play with your heart and your brain,’” Mischa said.

“That’s what he was doing.

He wasn’t just playing solid tennis, he was playing mostly creative tennis.”

Medvedev, the US Open champion, won this event last year and had beaten Zverev five consecutive times.

“There’s no better way to end the season than winning here,” Zverev said.

“I’m also now very much looking forward to next year already.”

The title culminates quite a year for Zverev, who also won the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics and who has now finished 2021 with more wins on tour — 59, one more than Medvedev — than anyone else.

The main thing missing in Zverev’s trophy collection is a Grand Slam title, having lost an epic final to Dominic Thiem in last year’s US Open final, when Zverev served for the title in the deciding fifth set.

“I kind of succeeded on every level and there’s one thing missing,” Zverev said.

“So I hope I can do that next year.”

Medvedev said that Zverev “is capable of beating anybody.

“He definitely can win a Grand Slam because it’s just obvious,” the Russian said. “But he’s not the only one. That’s where it gets tough. ... You need to win seven matches to be a Grand Slam champion.

Is he capable? Yes. Is he going to do it? We never know.”

Added Mischa on the prospects of a major title: “It’s coming. You never know. I can’t predict the

ALEXANDER ZVEREV, of Germany holds his trophy after winning the singles final tennis match of the ATP World Tour Finals, at the Pala Alpitour in Turin, Italy, yesterday. Zverev defeated Daniil Medvedev of Russia 6-4/6-4.

(AP Photo/Luca Bruno) future but I feel like it conditions inside the Pala title in 2018. “Obviously could be coming.”

Alpitour, Zverev was vir- London was an incredible The final was a rematch tually untouchable on his event but I think ... Italy of a round-robin encounter serve, winning 20 of 25 ser- has topped it,” Zverev said. on Tuesday, when Med- vice points in the first set.

“What makes it so spevedev beat Zverev in a Zverev broke again in cial here in Italy is the third-set tiebreaker. the opening game of the fans, because the fans are This one went Zverev’s second set and hardly absolutely insane,” Zverev way from the start, as wavered the rest of the added. “It’s the loudest the German crushed a way. crowd, it’s the most enerhuge backhand to the This marked the first edi- getic crowd.” corner then benefitted tion of the season-ending Earlier, Pierre-Hugues from a net-cord winner to event for the top eight Herbert and Nicolas Mahut break Medvedev’s serve players in Turin — after won the doubles title by in the third game of the 12 years in London, where beating Rajeev Ram and match. Helped by fast Zverev won his first finals Joe Salisbury 6-4, 7-6 (0).

Barty finishes year as WTA’s No. 1 for 3rd consecutive time ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Wimbledon champion Ash Barty finished No. 1 in the WTA singles rankings for the third consecutive season, while Katerina Siniakova topped the doubles rankings for the second time.

Barty, a 25-year-old from Australia, joins Serena Williams, Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova and

IRISH HAND PUMAS RECORD 53-7 LOSS WITH ANOTHER LAVANINI RED DUBLIN (AP) — Most of the Ireland pack which edged the All Blacks was retained to neutralise Argentina and it duly delivered to set up a record 53-7 victory at Lansdowne Road yesterday.

Late changes to the pack were made just before kickoff after injuries to lock Iain Henderson and No. 8 Jack Conan, but they weren’t missed as the forwards bossed the Pumas in the tight and the collisions and tellingly scored all seven of their tries.

“We did the things we wanted to do; we won the gainline, ball carrying was good, and we fronted up defensively,” flanker Josh van der Flier said after his two-tries shift.

Ireland completed an autumn series sweep and an eighth successive win after starting the year losing to Wales and France.

But even in putting its highest score and biggest winning margin on Argentina, the Irish didn’t live up to the thrills of the Japan or New Zealand wins.

Chris Evert as the only women to lead the year-end tennis rankings three straight times.

This week is Barty’s 95th in a row atop the WTA and 102nd overall.

Barty’s title at the All England Club in July was her second at a Grand Slam tournament. She also won the 2019 French Open and

soon after moved up to No. 1 for the first time in June of that year.

Siniakova is coming off a title Wednesday at the season-ending WTA Finals in Guadalajara, Mexico, alongside doubles partner Barbora Krejcikova. Siniakova, a 25-year-old from the Czech Republic, ended 2018 as a co-No. 1 in doubles with Krejcikova.

They won the French Open and a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics together, part of Siniakova’s total haul of five doubles titles in 2021. Barty also collected five titles, going 42-8. She last competed at the US Open in September and announced in October she was done for the year and would not enter the WTA Finals.

ENGLAND BEATS BOKS 27-26 IN CLASSIC LONDON (AP) — Marcus Smith kicked a penalty with 20 seconds remaining to give England a 27-26 win over world champion South Africa in a Twickenham classic on Saturday that followed a very different script to the teams’ last meeting in the 2019 Rugby World Cup final.

Trailing 17-6 midway through the first half, the Springboks used relentless physicality, forward power and bench depth to recover and lead 26-24, before captain Siya Kolisi’s 76th-minute yellow card for a tackle in the air gave England renewed hope.

One last home attack saw Boks replacement Frans Steyn give away a reckless penalty in front of the posts and Smith, England’s flyhalf and new hope, made it five successful kicks from five to settle a breathless test match.

It gave the English a measure of revenge after losing the World Cup final 32-12 in Yokohama two years ago, when they were overwhelmed pretty much from kickoff by the trademark brutality of the Springboks.

That didn’t happen at Twickenham — where South Africa hasn’t won since 2014 — until the second half. Before that, England’s inexperienced pack, containing a prop winning his second cap and a thirdchoice hooker, held its own in the scrum, even winning two early penalties. The team’s backs were sharper, too, and scored tries through center Manu Tuilagi in the left corner and fullback Freddie Steward from close range on the other side.

Tuilagi was injured in the act of scoring his try — his right knee was heavily bandaged even before

SOUTH Africa’s Siya Kolisi is shown a yellow card during their match against England on Saturday.

(AP Photo/Alastair Grant) kickoff — and was forced off the field.

Handre Pollard’s penalties kept South Africa in touch, with the sides turning around with the score 17-12 at halftime. And the Boks were dominant after the break, a change of their entire front row in the 45th helping to turn the tide.

The English finished the game having conceded 18 penalties, double that of the Boks, with one of them allowing replacement Elton Jantjies to boot a penalty to put South Africa ahead for the first time in the 64th.

Within a minute, England was back in front and it was another try that owed to the team’s creativity in the backs as Henry Slade sent Joe Marchant through a gap and he passed inside for replacement scrumhalf Raffi Quirke to sprint over for his first international try.

It was soon advantage South Africa when replacement prop Will Stuart was yellow-carded for an accumulation of team offenses and the visitors capitalized, with Makazole Mapimpi romping over in the left

corner for their only try and Steyn then kicking a penalty for 26-24.

There was still time, though, for another big turning point when Kolisi attempted to challenge for a high ball with Marchant. He was beaten to it and ended up pulling down England’s winger while in the air.

Kolisi protested but he had to go to the sin-bin. England launched an attack, got a penalty advantage, but still continued going forward and earned a penalty in a much better position after Steyn slid, knee-first, into the back of an England player on the ground.

Smith made no mistake again and England managed to claim the restart to see out a brilliant test, completing a sweep of autumn victories after previous wins over Tonga and Australia.

“We dug in, we fought,” said Steward, who had to field a stream of high kicks at fullback. “South Africa are so physical and you can’t shy away from that. “It was a whole squad effort and it was unbelievable.”

The South Africans have been on the road pretty much since late August, starting with games in Australia to finish off the Rugby Championship, and they couldn’t quite complete a year when they backed up their third World Cup success by winning a series against the British and Irish Lions.

“Very disappointed with the loss,” Kolisi said. “It was a great game — both teams turned up — and it was a pity we couldn’t finish strong this tour. “They defended well and we made a couple of mistakes. Getting so close to their line and not capitalizing made it tough for us.”

TURIN, Italy (AP) — Novak Djokovic says he’s going to have to “wait and see” if he plays the Australian Open after tournament chief Craig Tiley confirmed that everyone who attends the first Grand Slam tennis tournament of 2022 will need to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 — including all the players.

Djokovic, a nine-time Australian Open champion, has refused to say if he’s vaccinated — or if he intends to get vaccinated.

“We’ll see. We’ll have to wait and see,” Djokovic said after getting beat by Alexander Zverev in the semifinals of the ATP Finals on Saturday — marking his final match on tour this year.

“I haven’t been talking to them, to be honest,” the top-ranked Djokovic added. “I was just waiting to hear what the news is going to be and now that I know we’ll just have to wait and see.”

If he does go to Australia, Djokovic can attempt to break a tie with Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal and win a record 21st Grand Slam singles title.

The tournament is scheduled for January 17-30. The Victorian state government had earlier said only vaccinated persons would be allowed into the site for the tournament, and Tiley reiterated that on Saturday.

“Everyone on site, the fans, all the staff, the players, will need to be vaccinated,” Tiley said at the tournament’s official launch. “There’s been a lot of speculation about Novak’s position, he’s said it’s a private matter.

“We would love to see Novak here, but he knows he needs to be vaccinated in order to play. He’s always said that the Australian Open is the event that puts the wind in his sails.”

The third-ranked Zverev was asked if Djokovic’s handling of the vaccine issue should be better respected.

“This is a very tough one because it’s very political,” Zverev said. “At the end of the day I don’t know his criteria.

“But we are visiting another country. This is not about tennis. This is about the virus that is going on, right? ... At the end of the day, the country is allowing us to enter. We need to follow the rules and follow the guidelines,” Zverev said.

FRANCE STUN NZ 40-25 FOR 1ST TIME IN PARIS SINCE 1973 PARIS (AP) — A moment of genius by Romain Ntamack overturned a New Zealand fightback and returned France on course to a stunning 40-25 victory in their gripping rugby test on Saturday.

The All Blacks responded to a wretched first half by punching in three tries in 12 minutes to trail France only 27-25 going into the last quarter.

They swept back downfield and kicked the ball into the French in-goal. Ntamack gathered and appeared trapped, but he slipped past Richie Mo’unga and Jordie Barrett and burst upfield in a counterattack that almost ended with a team try.

The outcome was even better. All Blacks No. 8 Ardie Savea was sin-binned for a cynical foul, and the faultless Melvyn Jaminet kicked over the penalty for 30-25 and some breathing space.

Ntamack was brought off to a huge ovation. He had been restored to flyhalf from the midfield in the previous autumn wins against Argentina and Georgia, and had his best game since he made his name at the 2019 Rugby World Cup.

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Miller-Uibo, Gardiner named Senior Athletes of the Year

By RENALDO DORSETT Tribune Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net A weekend of celebration highlighting National Sports Heritage month was aimed at bridging the gap between generations, honouring the country’s local sporting heroes both past and present.

The Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture hosted its National Sports Awards and welcomed the newest members of the National Sports Hall of Fame at their respective ceremonies over the weekend at the Baha Mar Convention Centre.

Quartermilers Shaunae Miller-Uibo and Steven Gardiner were named the Senior Athletes of the Year at the Ministry of Youth Sports and Culture’s National Sports Awards.

Miller-Uibo overcame injury struggles and won her second consecutive Olympic women’s 400m title at the Tokyo Games in August to earn the Female Athlete of the Year.

The 27-year-old obliterated the field in a new personal best and North American, Central American and Caribbean (NACAC) area record time of 48.36 seconds at the Tokyo National Stadium to repeat as Olympic champion.

“This is definitely going to encourage me to work hard to represent the Bahamian people,” she said in a pre-recorded address to the award ceremony attendees.

“To my Bahamian people to I love you guys so much thank you for all your support and we will continue to make you guys proud.”

Gardiner, 26, became just the second Bahamian to simultaneously hold both the World Athletics and Olympic titles after his 400m triumph at the Tokyo Games and earned Male Athlete of the Year honours.

Gardiner claimed his gold medal in a season’s best time of 43.85 secs.

“This is a great achievement for me and I really appreciate it. I would like to thank the Bahamian people for the encouragement and the push that they continue to give us out there on the track. It’s unbelievable what we can do as a country and we the athletes really appreciate it,” Gardiner said in his recorded address.

“I’m just looking forward to next year to bigger and better things going on in sports and to bring home the victory for the Bahamas once more.”

Miller-Uibo and Gardiner were among the list of eight elite athletes recognised for their outstanding achievement. The list also included Connecticut Sun forward Jonquel Jones, Miami Marlins infielder Jasrado Chisholm Jr, Charlotte Hornets forward Kai Jones, Sacramento Kings

Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture hosts its National Sports Awards, welcomes newest members of National Sports Hall of Fame in ceremonies at Baha Mar

SHAUNAE Miller-Uibo celebrates after winning the gold medal in the women’s 400-metre final at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

STEVEN Gardiner reacts after winning the final of the men’s 400-metres at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

Photos: Matthias Schrader/AP guard Chavano “Buddy” Hield, Phoenix Suns centre Deandre Ayton and Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Mike Strachan.

The Ministry also recognised several young athletes that have excelled in their respective disciplines and appear on the path to stardom at the senior level.

The list of recognised “Rising Stars” stars included - Fredrick King (basketball), Rhema Collins (basketball), Shonari Hepburn (volleyball), Marvin Johnson (swimming), Nigel Forbes (swimming), Ian Lewis (baseball), BJ Murray (baseball), Michael Major Jr (tennis), Abigail Simms (tennis), Rhema Otabor (athletics), Keyshawn Strachan (athletics), Reine Pagliaro (equestrian).

Sports Heritage month is recognised as a time period reserved for the

celebration, promotion and awareness of activities designed to showcase the contributions of sports to the national development of The Bahamas.

The theme for this year’s celebrations is “Chasing Dreams and Achieving Excellence.”

To celebrate the past, two classes of National Sports Hall of Famers - 19 members in total - received their official induction. The 2020 class included seven inductees while the 2021 class included 121.

Making up the Class of 2020 of The Bahamas’ National Sports Hall of Fame are: Allan Ingraham (football) Andre Wood (baseball), Ernestine Butler-Stubbs (softball), Joseph Smith (volleyball), Cora Hepburn (volleyball), William Elliott (baseball) – posthumously; and Colin Knowles (softball and baseball) – posthumously.

The Class of 2021 includes Laverne Eve (athletics), Rev Dr William Thompson (softball and baseball), Stella Knowles (basketball and softball), Apostle Charles W. Thompson (basketball), Jena Mackey (bodybuilding and fitness), Hartie Johnson (tennis); Sheila Culmer (sports administration), Oral Hudson (volleyball), Joseph Demeritte (volleyball), Nell Wildgoose-Russell (softball), Barbara Thompson (gymnastics) – posthumously, and Bert Bell (aquatics) – posthumously.

The National Sports Hall of Fame has now inducted 194 members since its inception in 1989.

“It is during this month that my ministry recognises the many outstanding contributions of athletes of today and heroes of yesterday” Minister of Youth,

Andrade stops Quigley in 2nd to keep WBO middleweight title

By STEPHEN TOBEY Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Demetrius Andrade stopped Jason Quigley of Ireland in the second round Friday night to retain his World Boxing Organisation middleweight title at Southern New Hampshire University Arena.

The 33-year-old Andrade, from Providence, Rhode Island, improved to 31-0 with his 15th knockout, dropping Quigley (19-2, 14 knockouts) three times.

In the second round, Andrade sent Quigley to the canvas with a left to the temple. After Quigley got up Andrade swarmed over him and dropped him in a corner with a right hand to the top of the head.

Referee Arthur Mercante Jr stepped in and stopped the fight at 2:24 of the second round.

In the final minute of the first round, Andrade floored Quigley with a left hand to the body and a right to the top of the head.

“I set up a nice shot” Andrade said. “I just slowed down and tried not to be so anxious.”

Andrade successfully defended the WBO middleweight title he won in October of 2018 for the fifth time.

In his last defence, he won a unanimous decision against Liam Williams on April 17. All five defences were against European fighters.

Andrade is now turning his attention to other top middleweights such

as World Boxing Council champion Jermal Charlo, as well as undisputed super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez.

“We’ll do whatever makes sense,” he said.

“I’m with (promoter) Matchroom Boxing. They can sit down and make a deal.”

The co-main event between World Boxing Council flyweight champion Julio Cesar Martinez of Mexico and McWilliams Arroyo was a no-decision after two rounds due to a cut along Arroyo’s left eye that he sustained due to an accidental head butt.

Martinez (16-1, 1 no contest 14 knockouts) retained his title.

Both fighters knocked each other down in the first round.

In the second, after the cut opened, Martinez dropped Arroyo (21-4, 1 no contest, 14 knockouts) in the second.

World Boxing Association and International Boxing Federation super bantamweight champion Murodjon Akhmadaliev of Uzbekistan retained his titles with a 12-round unanimous decision over Jose Velasquez of Chile.

All three judges scored it 119-109. Akhmadaliev improved to 10-0, and Velasquez dropped to 29-7-2.

Kali Reis of Providence, Rhode Island retained her WBO, WBA and International Boxing Organisation super lightweight titles with a 10-round split decision against Jessica Camara of Montreal.

Sports and Culture Mario Bowleg said.

“It is a privilege for me to watch this class get the honours that are due to them because they truly were there in those days in their prime and gave so much to sports.

“At the end of the day the hard work and dedication they put in, those persons you affected and mentored, like myself, who can now stand at a podium and recognise your contributions.

“We should not take this lightly, it is an honour to be in the Hall of Fame and I think each and every one of you deserve it.”

Sports Heritage Month also included a church service for the Hall of Fame members at Faith United Missionary Baptist Church yesterday and will conclude with a fun run/walk hosted at the Thomas A Robinson Stadium on November 27.

INDIA SWEEPS SERIES AGAINST NEW ZEALAND WITH 73-RUN WIN KOLKATA, India (AP) — Axar Patel took three wickets as India completed a 3-0 sweep against New Zealand with a 73-run win in their third Twenty20 match yesterday.

Martin Guptill scored 51 off 36 balls as T20 World Cup finalist New Zealand crashed in its chase to 111 all out in 17.2 overs against India in Kolkata.

Rohit Sharma’s 56 off 31 balls had led India to 184-7 after winning the toss and choosing to bat.

India won the first T20 in Jaipur by five wickets and the second T20 in Ranchi by seven wickets.

It was the sixth time India has won a T20 series with a 3-0 margin, joint top with Pakistan, and New Zealand’s fourth biggest defeat by runs in T20 cricket.

“Credit to India for the way they played throughout the series,” New Zealand stand-in skipper Mitchell Santner said.

Chasing 185, New Zealand had a torrid start to its innings. Patel took three wickets in 10 deliveries as the Black Caps were reduced to 30-3.

Daryl Mitchell (5), Mark Chapman and Glenn Phillips were Patel’s victims.

The latter duo didn’t even open their accounts, facing six deliveries in all.

Patel finished with 3-9 in three overs.

“It feels good to start well. Everyone played really well right through the series. It was a good series win,” said India’s new coach Rahul Dravid. “We have to keep our feet on the ground and be realistic about this win. It was not easy for New Zealand to play a World Cup final and then turn up three days later to play three games in six days.

We have to learn from this series and move forward. It is a long journey ahead in the next 10 months.”

Guptill, who struck four fours and four sixes, fell to Yuzvendra Chahal (1-26) and was caught in the deep after his half-century.

India’s superiority saw Tim Seifert (17) and Lockie Ferguson (14) as the only other batters to reach double figures. Harshal Patel finished with 2-26.

Earlier, Sharma struck his 30th half-century in international T20 cricket.

He put on 69 runs with opening partner Ishan Kishan (29) off 38 balls.

Santner took 3-27 in four overs as India suffered a minor blip.

Santner dismissed Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav and Rishabh Pant in two overs. Then, Sharma fell after his half-century as India stumbled to 103-4.

Shreyas Iyer (25) and Venkatesh Iyer (20) stabilized the innings. Deepak Chahar’s 21 not out off eight balls took the score past 180.

A two-test series begins Nov. 25, with the first match to be played in Kanpur.

PAKISTAN CLINCHES T20 SERIES WITH EIGHT-WICKET WIN VS BANGLADESH DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Fakhar Zaman hit 57 not out to guide Pakistan to an eight-wicket victory over Bangladesh that clinched the three-match Twenty20 series 2-0 on Saturday.

Zaman and opener Mohammad Rizwan put on an 85-run stand that was instrumental in overhauling Bangladesh’s paltry 108-7 with 11 balls to spare.

Rizwan scored a patient 39 off 45 with four boundaries.

Zaman was watchful after captain Babar Azam (5) dragged fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman’s (1-12) delivery on to his stump in the third over, similar to his dismissal in the first match.

“Wasn’t easy to play shots early on, wanted to build partnerships and succeeded,” Zaman said.

“Thankfully we finished it off well.”

He paced the innings, especially after being reprieved on 26 when Saif Hassan dropped his catch in deep midwicket off legspinner Aminul Islam (1-30).

Zaman brought up his seventh half-century off 40 balls and then finished the game off on his own, as Pakistan got to 109-2.

Shaheen Shah Afridi (2-15) and Shadab Khan (2-22) caused the damage to Bangladesh amid Najmul Hossain’s resistance after captain Mahmudullah opted to bat first.

Najmul struck 40 off 34, hitting five fours.

Afridi, replacing Hasan Ali, continued his habit to strike in the first over as he trapped Saif Hassan leg-before for duck in the fifth ball.

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