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HURRICANE Special
Hurricanes devastate the Caribbean
Grenada
On September 7th 2004, Hurricane Ivan struck Grenada and
left that island a crumpled wreck with devastation of unbelievable
magnitude.
Ninety per cent of buildings on the island have suffered structural
damages. Houses have been smashed and lifted off their foundation, roofs
have blown off, windows have been shattered
 | Electricity was completely cut off |
| Water supply was totally severed. |
| Prisons were destroyed setting many prisoners free. |
| Looting compounded problems |
| Most communication systems are down, as landlines and most mobile
phone centers were destroyed |
| No mass media - including radio, television and newspapers – was
in operation and people had to depend on reports broadcast from
neighboring Caribbean countries. |
| All trees were flattened by the powerful storm and stripped bare of
their leaves. |
| "It is estimated that 60,000 out of a population of some 95,000
have been made homeless. Some moved in with others whose homes were
spared, others huddled in undamaged portions of their homes, and
others sought shelter in abandoned buildings such as schools and
churches most of which are badly damaged too. |
Estimates
Grenada’s overall damages from Hurricane Ivan is EC$2.2 billion
(US$371,057,506.69) or twice the current value of its GDP.
| Damage to the tourism sector is estimated at EC$288 million. |
| To education was EC$196 million; |
| To telecommunications EC$126 million |
| To agriculture $97 million. |
Jamaica
In Jamaica, Ivan continued the devastation it left behind in Grenada.
It had increased from the Category 3 hurricane there to a category 5 when
it hit Jamaica with winds up to 155 mph. The eye of the storm passed just
south of the shores of Jamaica but the full force of the hurricane
battered the island with winds and rain, leaving behind a toll of death
and devastation. Ivan claimed at least 17 lives, directly and indirectly,
including those of eight persons in Portland Cottage, south-east
Clarendon. Mr. Patterson cited Portland, Clarendon, Manchester, St.
Elizabeth, Westmoreland, Hanover and St. James as the parishes that have
been worst hit. Some of the damages include:
| Banana plantations were leveled with estimates of losses totaling
over J$1 billion. |
| The dairy, goat and poultry ( losses estimated at 30%) industries
were terribly hit. |
| An unusual item for hurricane damage was correctional institutions.
Ivan was severe on prisons. Prisons all over the island from Kingston,
St. Catherine, to Hanover suffered extensive damages with estimated
totals ranging from J$94 – 125 billion. |
| Roads and bridges were washed out and many other roads blocked with
landslides and fallen trees and electric poles. |
| Storm surges, winds and floods destroyed houses and businesses
leaving many homeless and still holed up in shelters. |
| Electricity, telephone and water was cut off in more than 50 per
cent of the island. Armed looting broke out in some towns. |
However, Jamaica had learned from Hurricane Gilbert, so were better
prepared and mounted and recovery operations seemed to be moving along
well. The airports re-opened within days and even tourism was well on the
way to recovery in a surprisingly short time.
Ivan’s other victims in the Caribbean
Even before Grenada and Jamaica, Ivan was a killer, taking five lives
in Venezuela, one in Tobago, one in Barbados, and four youngsters in the
Dominican Republic. After Jamaica it battered the Cayman Islands and
western Cuba dealing similar destruction there before it hit the US
mainland.
Hurricane Jeanne devastates Haiti
Over 1500 people have been killed in Gonaives , Haiti by floods
generated by Hurricane Jeanne and there are estimates that this total
could rise to 2000. Health experts warned of epidemics in the north of the
country, where survivors are forced to drink, bathe and cook with water
from ditches containing rotting animals and raw sewage.
"The biggest problem is the lack of potable water and a sewage
system that is making the local water supply increasingly unhealthy,"
said Joe Fay, a public health officer at Oxfam, a non-governmental
organisation.
As much as 80 per cent of Gonaïves, a city of about 100,000
inhabitants, was under water and mud for days. The city, the birthplace of
Haiti's independence from France 200 years ago and which also gained
recent fame as the area where the rebellion against Aristide began, has
been declared a disaster zone by national authorities.
Bahamas hit by two Hurricanes
On September 3, 2004 Bahamas was hit by hurricane Frances. Two people
were killed, as it left behind wrecked homes and collapsed roofs, yards
littered with mangled trees, neighborhoods flooded, fallen trees blocking
roads and severed power lines hidden amid debris.
Before they could recover, along came Jeanne, hurricane Jeanne, after
dealing the colossal damage in Haiti. Jeanne tore across the Bahamas,
leaving some neighborhoods submerged under 5 feet of water. No deaths or
serious injuries were reported there.
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(Before you donate, read Donor
Guidlines from the Center for International Disaster Information )
The need is desperate. All over the US, if not the world, Caribbean
organizations, concert promoters, and a wide array of overseas Caribbean
nationals and friends are rallying to provide money and relief supplies so
desperately needed. Supplies urgently needed include: canned foods,
batteries, battery operated radios, flashlights and lanterns; first aid
kits for the shelters, disinfectants, generators, sterile gauzes, oxygen,
cold-chain equipment for vaccines, oral rehydration salts and refrigerated
insulin. Emergency shelter material, communication equipment, light weight
clothing, generators, tents, tarpaulin, water containers, cots, plastic
sheeting, light-weight clean wearable clothing, blankets and bedding.
Supplies, especially clothing, should be sorted in advance.
The US and Florida has been badly hit by 4 hurricanes, but it needs to
be pointed out that the US is a rich powerful super power with abundant
resources, which will recover in months , while these poor Caribbean
countries could well take years. Financial donations are the most critical
for even these vital supplies will require money for distribution of
donated goods.
How to Contribute money
Special hurricane relief funds have been set up. Below is a partial
list of these funds to which you may contribute:
GRENADA
| Grenada Cultural and Civic Association (GCCA) Disaster Relief Fund
at the Bank of America, Account # 005-472370974. The ABA code for all
wires and transfers is: 063100277. The Account name is the Grenada
Cultural and Civic Association (GCCA) Disaster Relief Fund.
For more information, call: 954.538.9615 |
| Grenada Hurricane Fund, Embassy of Grenada, 1701 New Hampshire
Avenue, NW, Washington DC20009. |
JAMAICA
| "Jamaican Hurricane Ivan Relief Fund 2004" and mail to
either:
Jamaican Consulate, 767 Third Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY, 10017.
or
Embassy of Jamaica, 1520 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
20036
Telephone: 202-452-0660, Fax: 202-452-0081, E-mail: info@emjamusa.org |
HAITI
| The Embassy of Haiti in Washington has launched a widespread relief
effort. Monetary donations can be made through checks payable to the
Embassy of the Republic of Haiti and the memo: "Assistance to the
Victims" added. For more on the Embassy’s effort contact Fritz
Fougy, at 202-332 4090 Ext. 142. |
| Donate check or money order to: "Haiti Emergency Relief
Fund/Vanguard," the Vanguard Public Foundation, 383 Rhode Island
St., Suite 301, San Francisco, CA 94103. |
| Send your contributions to:
Mirlande Butler, MSW, Eritaj Foundation Inc., Partnerships for a
Better Haiti,
98 Avenue Lamartiniere, en face de l'Institut Francais, PauP Haiti
509 210-0508
or
Mirlande Butler, MSW, Eritaj Foundation Inc., Partnerships for a
Better Haiti
73 Union Avenue, Framingham, MA 01702, www.eritajfoundation.org
,
eritajfoundation@msn.com, (508)620-1424 |
| The Lambi Fund of Haiti urges donations to be made by mail to The
Lambi Fund, PO Box 18955, Washington, D.C., 20036. |
| Make checks payable to the American Red Cross with a memo stating
Haitian Relief Funds and mail to: 335 SW 27th Avenue, Miami, Florida
33135 |
CAYMAN ISLANDS
| The Cayman Islands Hurricane Relief Fund and mailed to: The
Cayman Islands Department of Tourism, 3 Park Ave 39th Fl, NY, NY 10016
or to: JPMorgan Chase Bank 60 East 42nd Street NYC, NY 10165,
ABA#021000021. |
CARIBBEAN IN GENERAL
| "Caribbean Tourism Organization Relief Fund" set up by the
Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO). Donations may be made by checks
in U.S dollars to Caribbean Tourism Organization Relief Fund and
mailed to the CTO's New York office located at 80 Broad Street, 32nd
Floor, New York, NY 10004, USA. |
| Funds can also be transferred directly to the Caribbean Tourism
Organization Relief Fund, JP Morgan Chase Bank, 401 Madison Avenue ,
New York, NY 10017. The Account number is 134-0821672-65 and the
routing number is 021000021. |
| The British Red Cross are urging people to donate to the Caribbean
Hurricane Appeal by calling 0870 169 9191 of by writing to Caribbean
Hurricane Appeal, British Red Cross, FREEPOST, London, SW1X 7BR |
How to donate goods
As mentioned many overseas organizations have set up collection
operations. Contact Caribbean organizations in your city for details or to
encorage them to join in if they are not already doing so. Here is a list
of what some organizations are doing to collect items.
New York
| 3524 Avenue H, Brooklyn and 1653 Pitkin Avenue in Brooklyn off
between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m, phone 718-345-7266 |
| 221-05 Linden Blvd. in Cambria Heights in Queens, phone 718-527-3776 |
| James & James Hardware, 4322 Church Avenue; |
| G & B (Ellis Maitland) at 569 Grand Avenue; |
| Reliable Shipping at 239-241 Kingston Avenue; |
| Brooklyn Navy Yard 63 Flushing Avenue, Bld. 5; |
| Flatbush/Caton Vendors’ Market 794-814 Flatbush Avenue; |
| Calvary Cathederal of Praise at 58 Caton Place East 8th Street, off
Coney Island Avenue |
| Serene Rose at 331 Fifth Ave (between 3rd and 4th Avenues. |
| Spice Island Records, 4228 White Plains Road In the Bronx |
| City Wide Inc. at 1108 30th Avenue in Long Island City in Queens |
| Spice Island Records at 128-08 Liberty Avenue in Richmond Hill in
Queens. |
| AMCAR Freight, Choice Container Lines, 445 Wilson Avenue in Newark |
| Dr. H. Bianca Japal at 1151 Front Street in Uniondale jn Long Island
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Miami, FL
| Elite Shipping, 311 NE 59 Street between 9-5 p.m. on weekdays and
10-1 p.m. on Saturdays; |
| Radio Carnivale, 185 NE 84 Street from 10-7 p.m. weekdays |
| St. Paul’s Church, 6744 North Miami Avenue from 9 a.m. – 7 p.m |
| SMC Mortgage 10300 Sunset Drive, Suite 411 |
Baltimore, MD
| Brown’s Caribbean Bakery, Park Heights Ave, Baltimore MD, phone
410-542-4985 |
Washington DC Area
(Organised in conjunction with the Embassy of Grenada)
| Metropolitan SDA Church, 6307 Riggs Road, Hyattsville, MD20783,
Sundays 9am to 8pm, Monday thru Thursday 9am to 12noon, Contact
person: Sydney Hosten (301 8096510) |
| 5105 Marlboro Pike, Capital Heights, MD20743, Drop-off days Weekends
12noon to 8p.m., Monday thru Friday 12noon to 10pm, Contact person:
Valencia Bartholomew (301 218 8666 & 301-9673744) |
| Holy Comforter Church, 701 Oglethorpe Street, NW, Washington
DC, Drop-off days: Sundays 3pm to 6pm, Monday thru Friday 10am to 2pm
& 5pm to 8pm, Contact person: Lisda Sawney (301 809 2996) |
| 7404 Maxey Drive, Fort Washington MD, Drop-off day: Mondays
5pm to 8pm, Contact person: John (301 4661744), (301 2484885), (301
4491520) |
| University of Maryland, Comparative Literature Program, 2107
Susquehanna Building, South Campus, Drop-off days: Mondays, Tuesdays,
Wednesdays, Fridays 10am. to 4pm. Thursdays 10am to 12 noon and 2:00
to 4:00pm, Contact persons: Louise Clement (301 4052854), Merle
Collins (301 4053775)
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Some Contributors to Hurricane Relief
Jamaica
| Jamaica’s National Commercial Bank announced that it was
committing up to J$100 million in matching funds, up to October 31 |
| The lottery company Supreme Ventures in Jamaica has donated J$10
million |
| Jamaica National Building Society has announced a lowering of
interest rate for customers seeking hurricane repair loans |
| Air Jamaica provided A340 wide-bodied aircraft, which is the largest
in the company's flight fleet to airlift relief supplies |
| Air Jamaica has introduced a 'family connection' fare today that
will make it easier and more affordable for family members between
Jamaica and North America to get together. The fares will range
between US$199 and US$399 plus taxes. |
| USAID sent via Air Jamaica relief planeload of about 20 tons of
relief supplies consisting of tarpaulin, plastic water bottles
and eight zodiac boats through the efforts of Sue Cobb, United States
Ambassador to Jamaica and the Jamaica Consul General in Miami. |
| The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) will provide a
grant valued at $109,000 Canadian to over 500 families. The grant will
be managed by the Jamaica National Building Society, through its
branch network island-wide. In addition Canada will donate one million
dollars (US$770,000) to Grenada, Jamaica, Cuba and other affected
nations. Thus Canada has provided a total of US$1.3 million. Canada's
contribution will be distributed through the International Federation
of Red Cross and Crescent Societies (IFRC), the Pan American Health
Organisation (PAHO) and CARE Canada. |
| Cable and Wireless Jamaica flew into the island by charter flight
over 1.2 million tons of food and medical supplies. |
| Independent Caribbean American radio producers and deejays aired a
radio telethon on New York’s WRTN radio which netted US$65,000 and
some 50 barrels of food and supplies for the hurricane victims of
Jamaica, Grenada and Cayman Islands. The radio-thon, while airing in
New York, was also simulcast in Jamaica, London and Miami. Several
local businesses joined the relief effort, including Golden Krust,
Royal Caribbean Bakery, Grace Kennedy, Western Union, VP Records and
Cox Nissan. The telethon aired Saturday, September 18, from 11:30 a.m.
– midnight. |
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Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has promised to send members of
the Venezuelan Defence Force to assist with the rebuilding process in
three Westmoreland communities of of Brighton, Little Bay and Salmon
Point which were devastated. Over forty houses were destroyed
and scores of others left without roofs there after high seas
destroyed both wood and concrete structures during the hurricane. |
Grenada
| The U.S government, through USAID and the Office of Federal Disaster
Assistance has provided $50,000 and and airlifted $122,870 in
emergency relief supplies there |
| The European Union is providing EC $17.7 million to Grenada to
assist with the recovery efforts |
| Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Patrick Manning says the
United Nations has pledged US $25 million to the relief efforts in
Grenada. |
| The Barbados government has pledged US $100,000 in financial
assistance to hurricane ravaged Grenada. In addition it has agreed to
send 15 police officers and 30 soldiers from the island's
Defence Force to assist in the rehabilitation process. The contingent
of soldiers are composed of carpenters, medics, combat engineers,
masons and electricians. |
| St. Lucia announced $100,000 in aid for Grenada and offered to
accommodate prisoners from the island if needed. Grenada's main prison
suffered extensive damage, allowing about 150 inmates to escape. About
50 remained at large. |
Caribbean in General
| Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Patrick Manning has promised
US$5 million to other Caribbean countries destroyed by Ivan. Nassau
and Cuba would each receive US $500,000, while more than $600,000
would go to St. Vincent and the Grenadines and US $1.6 million each to
Jamaica and Grenada. |
| Once again, Cuba has rejected the US offer of $50,000. |
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Elections - George Bush has got to go
Editorial
Hot Calaloo has never endorsed a candidate for president of the US before. But, President
George Bush has such an alarming record that we are compelled to endorse
his opponent John Kerry. Caribbean voters have no clout because they tend
not to exercise that right to vote. So be sure to vote and vote for John
Kerry.
According to Hendrik
Hertzberg of the non-political New Yorker magazine, regarding Bush,
he writes that we should be “ alarmed by the performance of the
current administration during the past three and a half years – alarmed
by its mania for shoveling cash to the very rich at the expense of
families of middling means, its servility to polluters and fossil fuel
extractors, its reckless embrace of national insolvency, its hostility to
science, its political alliances with fanatic religious fundamentalism of
every stripe except Islamic, …its partisan exploitation of our city’s
(New York) suffering after the attacks of September 11, 2001, its
transubstantiation of the worldwide solidarity that followed those attacks
into world-wide anti-Americanism, and its diversion of American blood,
treasure and expertise away from the pursuit of al Qaeda to a bloody
occupation of Iraq that appears to have done nothing to weaken Islamist
terrorism and may have done more than a little to strengthen it.”
Caribbean countries and Caribbean people at home and
abroad have much to fear from the actions of
president George W Bush. Some of these actions show a contempt for
and have been particularly threatening to Caribbean countries, blacks and
non-European foreigners in general. They include:
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Threaten and made the UN irrelevant so that
its ability to protect small countries from big predator countries is
in doubt. |
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Overthrow of the democratically elected president
of Haiti, Jean Bertrand Aristide |
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Extortion by threatening to curtail
military aid to Caribbean and other countries if they did not vote to
exempt Americans from prosecution in the International Criminal Court
(see Guyana
caves in to US extortion.........) |
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Crack down on Cuba |
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Freeing of convicted anti-Cuban terrorists in
Panama and allowing them back in Miami while barring musician Cat
Stevens and claiming to fight a war on terrorism |
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Violation of Geneva convention on caged untried
prisoners in Cuba |
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The invasion, destruction and occupation of Iraq
based on lies |
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Humiliating torture of
prisoners in Iraq |
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Stole election by the disenfranchisement and vote
suppression of black
voters primarily in Florida but also elsewhere in the US |
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Disrespect of the foremost civil rights
organization in America, the NAACP, in trying
to make them irrelevant too like the UN |
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Forced Jamaica-owned Super Clubs resort to pull
out of Cuba ( see Jamaica
hotel chain bows to US pressure.........)
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If Bush ever wins re-election, he will interpret that as a mandate of
past policies and do even worse. This time Bush chastised us with whips.
Next time he will chastise us with scorpions. So vote John Kerry.
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Vote
by Michael I. Phillips (Editor)
So you came to me
"Get out and vote"
You said
You interrupted me
With your persistency
"Why should I bother"
What difference will it make"
Instead
I had leaves to rake
Money to make
My job to go to
Already late
No time, no time to waste
No time to vote
"Why bother"
But you said to me
Because
You live in a democracy
And this right
Did not come easy
Martin Luther King,
Stokely Carmichael,
And many others
Just like you and me
Faced fire hoses
So that you could vote
Faced snarling dogs
So that you could vote
Goodman, Schwerner and Cheney,
Not the Dick
In Mississippi
Klansmen took their lives
So you could vote
Three little girls
Bombed In that Alabama church
Yes firebombed
In that Alabama church
So that you could vote
Medgar, yes
Medgar Evers died
So that you could vote
And so I voted
And I was glad
I voted !
I voted !
But now they tell me
My vote
Did not count
Was not counted
And that big fat addicted slob
Rushes to insult me
On the radio
Nationally
Paid twenty four million dollars
To insult me
To insult other victims like me
To deride my heroes
Stole my precious vote
Then insult me
And praise the other
Insulters of me
And praise the beneficiary
Of my stolen vote
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Anti-Cuban terrorists back in Miami
US Secretary of State Colin Powell recently visited Panama. Within days,
the outgoing President of Panama issued a pardon which freed from prison
four notorious convicted anti-Cuban terrorists. Famed musician Cat Stevens
is banned from entering the US, but now three of these convicted
terrorists are back in Miami.
These terrorists were in jail because they were found with explosives,
false documents and
other evidence to blow up a crowded University of Panama auditorium with
33 pounds of explosives, as Fidel Castro was speaking during an Ibero-American
summit in 2000. One of the terrorists, who has stayed in Honduras, Luis
Posada Carriles, was found guilty of among other acts: bombing a Cubana
airline that killed 73 Cuban athletes in 1976. Another one, now in Miami,
Guillermo Novo Sampoll was found guilty of killing former Chilean foreign
minister Orlando Letelier and a US colleague, Ronnie Moffett, in
Washington, DC in September 1976 after setting a bomb in his car.
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Fire destroys Guyanese historical landmarks
An early morning fire in Guyana's capital Georgetown destroyed a
historical landmark and badly damaged several other businesses.
The fire started at the Metropole Cinema, one of the oldest wooden
structures in the capital and spread quickly, damaging Freedom House also,
which is the headquarters of the ruling People's Progressive Party (PPP),
a television station belonging to the political leader of the Justice For
All party, Chandra Narine Sharma, as well as some restaurants. Unofficial
reports indicate that the damage will run into millions of dollars.
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The plunder of Caribbean teachers by recruitment by developed countries
has been tackled by a committee from Commonwealth countries. This
committee was composed of ministers of education from these countries in a
meeting in Scotland. They came to agreement on a structured system of
recruitment of teachers from their territories. In recent years, Caribbean
countries such as Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago have
suffered loss of many teachers by ad hoc recruitments. Between 2000 and
2002 South Africa lost 4,000 teachers through overseas recruitment while
about 2,000 teachers were recruited from Jamaica.
The agreement dubbed the 'Common-wealth Teacher Recruitment Protocol',
establishes that before any hiring attempt is conducted, the recruiting
country must inform the source territory so that a consensus can be
reached on the process of recruitment as well as the number of teachers
who will be involved.
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Reefs bring Caribbean millions of dollars
In a recent report titled "The Reef at Risk in the Caribbean"
the tremendous income that reefs produce and also the great peril which
their survival faces. According to the report:
| Shoreline protection offered by natural Caribbean reefs saves
countries between US $700 million and US $2.2 billion annually. |
| Coral Reefs in the Caribbean span an estimated area of 26,000
kilometers. |
| The reefs dissipate wave and storm energy when hurricanes approach
Florida and the Caribbean. |
| Continuous degradation of the reefs can lead to loss in revenues
from dive tourism by as much as US $300 million per year by 2015. In
the year 2000 alone, approximately US $2.1 billion was earned from the
dive industry. |
| Only three of the 20 per cent Marine Protected Areas (MPA) in the
Caribbean and the wider region is being managed effectively. |
| Recommendations to prevent reef destruction from reaching a crisis
level include heightened awareness, improved management and
international action. |
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Latest Scores as of Oct 10, 2004
T&T 5 St. Kitts & Nevis 1
St. Vincent 0 Mexico 1
Oct 9, 2004
Panama 1 Jamaica 1
USA 2 El Salvador 0
Costa Rica 5 Guatemala 0
Honduras 1 Canada 1
Oct 7, 2004
Mexico 7 St Vincent 0
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Jamaica moves up; T&T lose 1st
Jamaica beat El Salvador convincingly 3-0 in El Salvador to move up from the
bottom to the
2nd spot in their group . This was a historic win as it
marked the first time Jamaica won in Central America. Meanwhile Trinidad
and Tobago dropped its first in a 1-3 loss to Mexico in Trinidad. Play
continues October 9, 2004. For the schedule and all the results see below.
Standings and Results
World Cup playoffs for the Confederation of of North and Central
America and the Caribbean Association of Football (CONCACAF) semi-final
stage games continue for that region.
The top two teams in each of the following three groups will advance to
the final stage. Then, there will be one group of six teams. The top three
teams qualify automatically for the finals. The fourth placed team will
play-off with the winner of a knock-out match in the Asian region. Schedule and results for the three groups are as follows:
| Group A |
Games |
Win |
Lose |
Tie |
Goals For |
Goals Against |
Points |
| USA |
3 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
2 |
5 |
| Jamaica |
3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
3 |
4 |
| Panama |
3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
| El Salvador |
3 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
6 |
3 |
| Group B |
Games |
Win |
Lose |
Tie |
Goals For |
Goals Against |
Points |
| Guatemala |
3 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
6 |
3 |
7 |
| Honduras |
3 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
8 |
5 |
5 |
| Costa Rica |
3 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
4 |
7 |
3 |
| Canada |
3 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
1 |
| Group C |
Games |
Win |
Lose |
Tie |
Goals For |
Goals Against |
Points |
| Trinidad & Tobago |
3 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
5 |
4 |
6 |
| Mexico |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
| St. Vincent |
2 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
| St Kitts & Nevis |
2 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
0 |
Fixtures Through November 17, 2004 (Home team first)
| Date 2004 |
Game |
| August 17 |
St. Vincent & The Grenadines 0 T&T 2 |
| August 18 |
Jamaica 1 USA 1 |
| August 18 |
El Salvador 2 Panama 1 |
| August 18 |
Canada 0 Guatemala 2 |
| August 18 |
Costa Rica 2 Honduras 5 |
| |
|
| September 4 |
Jamaica 1 Panama 2 |
| September 4 |
USA 2 El Salvador 0 |
| September 4 |
Canada 1 Honduras 0 |
| September 4 |
Guatemala 2 Costa Rica 1 |
| September 4 |
St. Kitts & Nevis 1 Trinidad & Tobago 2 |
| September 4 |
Mexico vs St. Vincent & Grenadines |
| |
|
| September 8 |
El Salvador vs Jamaica |
| September 8 |
Panama 1 USA 1 |
| September 8 |
Costa Rica 1 Canada 0 |
| September 8 |
Honduras 0 Guatemala 2 |
| September 8 |
Trinidad & Tobago 1 Mexico 3 |
| September 8 |
St. Vincent & Grenadines 1 St. Kitts & Nevis 0 |
| |
|
| October 9 |
Panama vs Jamaica |
| October 9 |
El Salvador vs USA |
| October 9 |
Costa Rica vs Guatemala |
| October 9 |
Honduras vs Canada |
| October 10 |
St. Vincent vs Mexico |
| October 10 |
Trinidad vs St. Kitts and Nevis |
| |
|
| October 13 |
Jamaica vs El Salvador |
| October 13 |
USA vs Panama |
| October 13 |
Guatemala vs Honduras |
| October 13 |
Canada vs Costa Rica |
| October 13 |
T&T vs Mexico |
| October 13 |
St. Kitts & Nevis vs St. Vincent |
| |
|
| November 13 |
St. Kitts and Nevis vs Mexico |
| November 17 |
USA vs Jamaica (Columbus, Ohio) |
| November 17 |
Panama vs El Salvador |
| November 17 |
Guatemala vs Canada |
| November 17 |
Honduras vs Costa Rica |
| November 17 |
Mexico vs St. Kitts & Nevis |
| November 17 |
T&T vs St. Vincent |
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After experiencing the humiliating whitewash by England in the recent
completed Test series there, the West Indies astonished the cricket world
by rising above the cricket nations to take the ICC Champions trophy for
50 overs cricket. They reached the final by a surprising easy defeat of
Pakistan. Meanwhile Englad advanced there by defeating the probable
favorite, the mighty Australia.
In the showdown final, West Indies clinched the Champions Trophy with a
thrilling two-wicket victory over a surprised England. England were
bowled out for just 217 in bowler-friendly conditions, despite Marcus
Trescothick's 104. But they reduced West Indies to 147-8 before the
Barbadian duo of Ian Bradshaw and Courtney Browne fought back with a West
Indies record ninth wicket stand of 71.
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Another Jamaican-born world boxing champion is on the scene.
Jamaican-born Glen Johnson knocked out American Roy Jones Jr. in the ninth
round in Memphis Tennessee, to retain the International Boxing Federation
light heavyweight title. Johnson, who won the vacant title in February
with a victory over Linton Woods in Sheffield, England, was leading on all
three judges’ score cards, when he floored Jones with a right cross.
Johnson has improved to 41-90-2 with 28 knockouts, while Jones suffered
the third defeat of his career against 49 victories. It was Jones' second
straight knockout, after losing his WBC crown to Antonio Carver on May 15.
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Muhammad Ali’s daughter, Laila Ali, took the International Boxing
Federation light heavyweight championship from the champion Guyanese
Gwendolyn "Stealth Bomber" O’Neil in Atlanta, Georgia on
September 24, 2004. She knocked out O'Neil with only 1:59 into the third
round. O'Neil had previously won six of her nine victories by knockouts.
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For the Life of Laetitia
by Trinidad -born Merle Hodge
Price: $10.54
