Monday, September 20, 2010

Harry Best to sing at Phil Hawkins CD launch

Harry Best will be a guest vocalist Oct. 3 in the new CD release concert for Phil Hawkins' Sugarcane Suite. The concert will be held at Mission College (Main Building)3000 Mission College Blvd. Santa Clara, starting at 4pm.
Harry will sing Pan Wisdom, one of the featured tunes on the CD which was sung by calypsonian Edwin 'Crazy' Ayoung, and on which Harry was the lyricist.
The band will be lead by Phil Hawkins on steel pans, Bob Crawford on keys, Ray Obiedo on guitar, Dave Belove on bass, Paul VW on drums with Michael Spiro on percussion.
Other special guest performers will be Martiniquan vocalist Jessica Vautor and jazz vocalist Michelle Hawkins.
CDs AVAILABLE AT THE SHOW!

Jahvid sets NFL record, Fantasy's Best Rookie!



By now, you've heard about Jahvid Best becoming the first NFL rookie to have 75 rushing yards, 150 receiving yards, and three TDs in a single game. He was electric, although it's mind-boggling to think of what he could have done if he wasn't so silent for the majority of the second half.
I made a big, big mistake.With Brandon Jackson stepping right into a tasty matchup against Buffalo on Sunday, I plugged him to the lineup -- and benched Jahvid Best. Apparently, Best does not like to be slighted.The Lions rookie rolled up 78 rushing yards, 154 receiving yards, and three TDs on Sunday against the Eagles, as Detroit again fell just short of successfully completing a four quarter rally.
The Eagles did a pretty good job of containing top receiver Calvin Johnson, so the burden fell on Best to deliver, which he did in spades en route to being fantasy's Riser of the Week.Through two games, Best has notched five TDs, making him unbenchable in any fantasy leagues moving forward and the early favorite for Offensive Rookie of the Year.
Now that he's establishing himself as a No. 1 fantasy back, he's in my lineup every week from here on out, bye notwithstanding. Sorry Brandon, but you're headed to the bench. Across the field, LeSean McCoy took advantage of an easy matchup to gain 120 rushing yards and three TDs on 16 carries.
So if you have running backs that face Detroit in a given week, please use them, as long as you don't have to bench Best to do so.Our Faller of the Week, other than the four QBs listed below, is C.J. Spiller. A week ago, Spiller was the unquestioned No. 1 as the healthy guy in the Buffalo backfield.
This week, he saw Marshawn Lynch receive 17 carries and Fred Jackson earn nine carries (one for a touchdown). Spiller received just one carry and caught four balls. Bench him and pray you can convince someone he has some trade value moving forward. I want no part of that backfield.

Man killed waiting to see prime minister

Prime Minister Hon. Stephenson King


CASTRIES, St. Lucia (AP) — Authorities on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia say a gunman walked into the prime minister's home-district office and killed a man who was waiting to see the government leader.
A police statement says Premier Stephenson King was in the building during Friday's shooting, but was never in danger.
The identity of the attacker is not known, and police haven't speculated on a possible motive. Local media say the victim was an ex-convict who intended to ask King for a job.
King says in a statement that the incident shows no one is safe on St. Lucia.
The island has recorded 35 killings so far in 2010, putting it on pace to equal or surpass 2008's record high of 43. Police blame the violence on the drug trade.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Condolences to the Andrew family

(L-R Standing): Augustus 'Pan' Andrew seen here in a photo (circa 1950s) with members of the CYO football team. Also pictured (center stooping) is teamate Albert Best, grandfather of Jahvid Best and resident of Nor. Cal.
Condolences go out to Antonia Andrew of our Northern California community on the loss of her father Augustus 'Pan' Andrew who died Saturday in St. Lucia.

“Pan”, as he was affectionately known, has been recognised as a cultural hero in St. Lucia for his contributions in the areas of sports and music. He was a pioneer in the development of steelpan music in St. Lucia dating back to the early 1950s when he led the island's first organized steelband, Turks. He was also one of the first in St. Lucia to explore the craft of building pan instruments locally. But he was best know for leading what was once St. Lucia's most popular band, Big Six, in which he played the piano.

Antonia's sister Jackie and brother Adrian 'Buffalo' Andrew was also a member of the St. Lucian community in northern California for a number of years. Buffalo played bass guitar with a numbe of bands here before moving back to St. Lucia in the late 90s.

We share in their loss.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Soca Superstar Arrow passes


Arrow - special soca rumba

Internationally acclaimed recording artiste Alphonsus “Arrow” Cassell died on Wednesday one week after he had been airlifted to Antigua for medical attention.
The cause of death has not yet been disclosed, but relatives said Cassell, 56, who was taken to the Mount St John Medical Centre in Antigua, had not been in the best of health in recent months.
Cassell, who won the local calypso monarch competition on four occasions before focussing exclusively on his recording and touring career, shot to international fame with his 1982 smash hit “Hot, Hot, Hot”.
Among his other notable hits are “Long Time” and “Groove Master”, both of which also enjoyed success on the international charts.
Arrow was Grand Master of the San Francisco Carnival in 1994 where he met Harry Best. The two collaborated on two hit tunes, "Lolay Lolai" on the 1995 Classics album, and "Come Girl" on the 1996 album 'Turbulence".
"I was saddened by the news that my good friend Arrow had passed," Harry said. "I knew he was ailing but losing a friend is never easy accept."

Read more here:
http://www.caribbeanworldnews.com/middle_top_news_detail.php?mid=3926

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Norwegian Cruise Line Drops St. Lucia


St. Lucia News On Line reports that Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL) dropped St. Lucia from its 2010-2012 schedule.
The article states that NCL abandoned St. Lucia because of attacks on cruise passengers which occurred on three occasions while the cruise passengers were sight-seeing on the island.
Last December, we reported on out-of-control crime in St. Lucia, and the cruise line's failure to warn passengers:
14 Cruise Passengers Robbed at Anse-La-Raye Waterfall in St. Lucia
Crime in Caribbean Ports of Call Against Cruise Passengers
According to the report, there has been high rate of crimes against Americans in Caribbean countries like St. Lucia, Jamaica, Antigua and the Bahamas.
Cruise lines face legal liability when they take passengers into dangerous locations and fail to warn them of crime, particularly during cruise sponsored excursions.

Non, Sa pa Joseph!


There was a buzz of excitement among the mourners in the village church in St Lucia when I arrived for the funeral of Joseph, a farmer.
The open coffin stood in the porch with a crush of people around it so great that I made no attempt to look. The extended family was there in force, led by his four daughters.
Suddenly, one daughter flung herself on the coffin and began pounding it with both fists. "No!" she screamed. "No! No!" The cry sounded like a vixen in the night.
The church erupted, with half the people shouting "No!" and the other half "Yes!" "What's up?" I asked my neighbour in the pew. "They brought the wrong body," she said. "So now they must take it back to the funeral home." --guardian.co.uk

Full story here:

Monday, September 6, 2010

Tisson honored as St. Lucia loses 1-0


This is a picture of the Saint Lucia soccer team moments before the game vs Jamaica, in the finals of the Digicel Carribean Cup in New York. A moment of silence was held for the young player Isidore Tisson who was shot to death in Brooklyn one week ago. The Saint Lucian fans were out in full force to support their team which lost one to zero in a very close match.