DJ HP Presents: SOUND CITY TRUE MIX 11/2009

Sound City True Mix 11/09

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Action heats up in Helen of the West Netball Festival

Two St Lucian teams, Digicel Elite Strikers and Shamrock have the upper hand in this year’s Helen of the West Netball Festival taking place at the Beausejour Practice Indoor Facility.

Following play Tuesday evening, both teams were undefeated with identical 4-0 won loss records. Not for long. The two teams squared off against each other on Wednesday night in a showdown to determine first place.

In games played Tuesday evening X-Ceed (St Vincent) whose only loss came against Digicel Elite on Monday evening defeated the winless St Lucian Eagles 55-17.

For X-Ceed, goal shoot Mary Ann Frederick had the hot hand making 40 goals from 43 attempts. Goal attack Tamara Samuel did not miss making seven goals from seven attempts while Jasmin frank registered eight goals from 10 attempts.

Goal Shoot Vernell of St Lucian Eagles netted 10 goals from 17 attempts. Goal attack Darna Marius hit five goals from 14 attempts and Gaenaelle Solomon went two for two.

In the second game, Digicel Elite Strikers struck down Avengers 88-21. They led 22-6 after the first quarter and at the half had a comfortable 44-14 lead.

There was no stopping goal shoot Dedra Mathurin of Digicel Elite. She had a field day making good on 71 of 76 attempts. From the goal attack position, Glatta Gabriel had a solid 12 goals from 14 attempts while Shem Maxwell made five goals from seven attempts.

For Avengers goal shoot Lintel Ford netted 13 goals from 21 attempts. From the goal attack position Shirene John went five for nine, Ursula Mathurin two for seven and Gilda Charles one for four.

In the third game on Tuesday evening, Shamrock remained undefeated with a 42-31 win over over Royal Navy A. It was close contest in the first half with Shamrock leading 12-7 after the first quarter and 20-16 at the half. They led 33-24 after the third quarter and went on to win by 11 points.

For Shamrock goal shoot Rebecca Flemius connected for 16 goals from 27 attempts, Denise Charles made good on 25 from 33 attempts and Lydia Leonce made one goal from nine attempts.

Goal shoot for Royal Navy A Kate Scott netted 24 goals from 30 attempts while goal attack Elizabeth Down registered seven goals from 10 attempts.

The action continues today (Thursday) with Eagles going up against Digicel Elite, followed by Shamrock playing a key match against X-Ceed and then there is the battle of the British with Royal Navy A taking on Royal Navy B.

Harlequin Marquis Estate property to open in 2014!

It is often said that one does not know how much something means to them until they lose it. Relating to a recent launch of the Harlequin Hotels and Resorts Marquis Estate in St Lucia, the famous line can appropriately be adapted to; a person hardly appreciates the beauty, intrigue and charm of their own island until foreign investors start appreciating it for them.

On Wednesday, Harlequin Hotels held a first-rate launching of their St Lucian Marquis Estate property; an exceptional undertaking for which investors have high expectations. The event was held at the newly established Cap Maison property in Cap Estate and was attended by elite invites, Harlequin executives and government officials.

David Ames, chairman of Harlequin Hotels and Resorts was the first speaker of the event and made it known that Harlequin was all about emphasizing the five-star hotel experience. He said Harlequin had already started showing people in the Caribbean what they were all about.

“We try to put together a partnership that works with the countries as well, and the people who live in the islands,” said Harlequin’s chairman. “The important thing is that you make money and also share the rewards of what you put together.”

The 500-acre Harlequin Marquis Estate property is expected to open its doors in 2014 and is one of four other Harlequin Caribbean properties. The Las Canas Beach Resort and the Two Rivers Beach Resort both in the Dominican Republic, Merrick’s Beach Resort in Barbados and Buccament Bay Beach in St Vincent and the Grenadines are all included in Harlequin portfolio of Caribbean Resorts.

“You can look at all the brochures but nothing can possibly tell you how special St Lucia is until you’re witnessing it for yourself. [The view from the property] whet my appetite in wanting to help David with the Soccer academy of course,” said Andy Townsend, who was a guest speaker at the event. Townsend, an Irish former professional footballer who played in two World Cups for the Republic of Ireland and also for the Chelsea football team and later, Aston Villa, was speaking of the Harlequin Sports Academy, a key feature of all resorts.

“It’s really cemented my commitment,” said Townsend. “When complete I genuinely feel this resort will be the finest there is. I’m quite honoured to be involved.”

All resorts will feature a premiership football club football academy as well as the Pat Cash Tennis Academy. In addition to giving individual and group lessons, the tennis academy will host pro-celebrity tournaments throughout the year as well as Wimbledon champion Pat Cash coaching clinics. Harlequin will also feature a cricket academy that is expected to encourage youngsters to learn game skills in a fun environment and a signature Gary Player golf course in St Lucia making the property the first in the Caribbean to include a Player designed
golf hotel.

“We firmly believe that Harlequin is going to be one of our strongest partners going forward,” said Townsend. “There’s an obvious great deal of talent in the Caribbean, hopefully having a world class facility will help attract some of these people to St Lucia.”

At Wednesday’s launch Jonathan Kane from Liverpool Football Club presented footballers from the Babonneau Secondary School with official Liverpool football training jerseys. The Liverpool Football Club and Harlequin have already signed an agreement to open Liverpool FC Soccer Schools at each of Harlequin’s Caribbean Resorts.

St Lucia’s tourism minister Allen Chastanet said at the event that the demand to invest in St Lucia had not faltered and expressed the government’s commitment to making St Lucia a premier destination. Prime Minister Stephenson King said he was eagerly awaiting the commencement of the project, but left a subtle warning for developers. As Marquis Estate in the north east of St Lucia was “truly virgin territory,” King said the area required “meticulous development and cautious planning that was in keeping with the dreams and aspirations of our people.”

“So far see you’re putting together a project St Lucians will be proud of,” said the prime minister.

Boxers headed to Martinique

Following an invitation from the Martinique Amateur Boxing Association, six boxers have been selected to travel to there to participate in a Martinique—St Lucia card.

Making the trip to Martinique is Karen Phillip, Yenic Leon Adolph Augustin, Joseph Augustin, Lydnell Marcellin and Miguel Auguste.

The coach and manager for the team will be named shortly. The delegation is expected to travel on October 29 and return on October 31st, 2009.

President of the St Lucia Amateur Boxing Association (SLABA), David “Shakes” Christopher, says that this invitation to compete with Martinique comes at a good time, as it will help our boxers with their preparation for the OECS championship scheduled for November 19 and the Creole games set to begin in early December. This is the third St Lucia Martinique collaboration for the year.

Rough start for St Lucia in Windward Islands Tournament

St Lucia’s mighty bats were silenced on Tuesday, during their opening match against Dominica in the Windward Islands Senior Goodwill Tournament at the Beausejour Cricket Ground.

Dominica won by four wickets after the home side were all out for 140 in 42 overs. Craig Emmanuel top scored with 37 with Garey Mathurin getting 28. They put on 69 for the seventh wicket, after the home side at one stage were a miserable 55 for six in the 18th over. Johnson Charles (21), Gaspard Prosper and Darren Sammy scored nine each, Alex Antoine 10 not out, Sergio Fedee four while Keddy Lesporis, Dalton Polius (on debut), Cyrille Charles and Xavier Gabriel were all out for ducks.

Bowling for Dominica, Kevin James had three for 23, Mervin Matthew three for 28, Shane Shillingford two for 20, with single wickets going to Liam Sebastian and Rick Casmir.

Dominica made short work of the required tally scoring 143 for six in 36.3 overs. Martin Matthew top scored with 38. Junior Jervier was 32 not out.

In the bowling department for St Lucia, Garey Mathurin took two for 41 in 10 overs, Polius was one for nine and Alex Antoine one for 20.

In another game played at Mindoo Phillip Park, Grenada had a four wicket win over St Vincent & the Grenadines.

Batting first after winning the toss, St Vincent & the Grenadines scored 115 not out in 48 overs. Lyndon James top scored with 38 not out.

In reply, Grenada reached 116 for six off 24.1 overs. Devon Smith hit 66 not out.

St Lucia readies to welcome Cruise Tourism delegates!

On its website the Florida Caribbean Cruise Association writes in a press release about the upcoming hosting of the FCCA Conference and Trade Show here in Saint Lucia: “With its natural beauty, St Lucia seems like an island plucked from the South Pacific and set down in the Caribbean. More than 1000 cruise industry partners will come together with 100 cruise executives from the FCCA member lines to share ideas and discuss industry trends. Executives from the FCCA member lines will once again host a series of roundtable discussions in the areas of Marketing, Shore Excursions and Operations. As executives share their expertise and offer ideas for the future, delegates will have the opportunity to participate during the question and answer session allowing for an interactive and informative series of workshops.”

It is this meeting of the minds of some of the most powerful and influential decision makers in the cruise industry that Senator Allen Chastanet, Minister of Tourism, is hoping will bring significant benefits to Saint Lucia. “More than 80 percent of these delegates are coming here for the first time and it is only through an event of this nature that we would be able to get there all here at once,” Chastanet said.

On Wednesday October 14, the Saint Lucia Tourist Board hosted a press conference to announce the local partners for the hosting of the annual FCCA conference and trade show which takes place here October 26-30. The event was held at Palm Haven Hotel at Rodney Bay with heads of main sponsors Digicel, Cox and Company Ltd and Sky Rides in attendance.

In his opening remarks Louis Lewis, director of the SLTB saw the hosting of the FCCA conference as a milestone even though, he admitted, that he was somewhat apprehensive at first, his main concern being the cost and how to excite partners to participate.

“Today I am happy that the sponsors have seen the benefit of Saint Lucia hosting this event, bringing about a very good public sector private sector partnership. I am sure this is also the manifestation of the recognition of the importance of this event to the destination and the potential benefit that we can derive as a cruise ship destination of the tourism industry,” Lewis says.

Country Manager for Digicel Keigan Cox told the gathering Wednesday; “it is certainly a pleasure for Digicel to be associated with this event particular with the importance of cruise tourism,” quoting statistics of close to 7,000 cruise ship passengers passing through Saint Lucia so far this year. “Digicel’s involvement is quite costly and intricate in that Digicel is providing a state of the art telecom service to facilitate the FCCA conference. This will include a wireless internet service which will support over 2,000 users at that one event,” Cox revealed. “And so we are proud to be involved and this continues a relationship with SLTB which started over a year ago so it is a pleasure being on board with the FCCA Conference.”

As the premiere Sky Ride and forest tour on the island, the Sky Ride Company is also proudly associated with the conference noting that most of their business comes from cruise ship passengers. This fact was also highlighted by Matthew Beaubrun of Cox and Company another sponsor. “It is a tremendous opportunity for us in Saint Lucia to take advantage and really grow the industry even bigger and bigger,” Beaubrun stated. “The cruise sector is really a critical part of the tourism sector in Saint Lucia and a lot of tour sites would not survive without the cruise sector so it is really a partnership with the land base, a partnership with the government, the authorities, the private sector. We at Cox and Company are very happy to be a sponsor and we will be involved in ground handling for delegates, the VIP and red cap services.”

Minister Allen Chastanet, who was the last to speak Wednesday said that the person who he had to thank first for the hosting of the FCCA was Prime Minister Stephenson King as he had a meeting with the FCCA in terms of encouraging them to look at Saint Lucia.

“I know a lot of people believe that we stole the event from Guatemala, that certainly was not the case. In fact FCCA had already made the decision to leave Guatemala and in fact they were looking for a new destination. At the Prime Minister’s conversation with the FCCA they indicated that the first choice was Dominican Republic since they were scheduled to host the following year, but they declined and Saint Lucia saw the opportunity at expressed interest,” Chastanet says. Apart from most of the money being spent on FCCA staying here through catering, tours, entertainment and taxes, the tourism minister says there are also many other benefits for the island. Among them he says the island will build its resume, which started with the hosting of CHA marketplace earlier this year. There will also be the opportunity he says to encourage the cruise ships to spend more time in Saint Lucia and to look at Vieux Fort and Soufriere as two other ports. In fact the FCCA delegates will be hosted by the Soufriere Regional Development Foundation for an entire day in an effort to sell some of their ideas and of course expose them to true Saint Lucian hospitality.

The 16th annual FCCA Conference and trade show will take place October 26-30 at the Almond Smugglers Cove and will cost the Saint Lucia Tourist Board EC$4.5 million with just over EC$500,000 in sponsorship coming in to offset that cost.

Marva

Name: Marva
Ethnicity: Middle Eastern
Current Location: St Lucia
Birth Date: December 22
Height: 5’4”
Weight: 112 lbs
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black/Long

If someone asked me to use two adjectives to describe myself, the first two words I’d say would be spontaneous and adventurous. I consider myself to be like a butterfly, very free spirited at that! I’m a young aspiring model. I’ve worked with Kuumba Designs, Caribbean Link Up, and I’ve been featured on many posters. I also am involved in product advertisement.  Modelling is more less a hobbie to me. I graduated from college in 2008. With regards to my future, I do plan on earning my master’s degree in economics or political science.

HAPPY LIFE RIDDIM PRODUCED BY RANKIN & SMOKES

http://www.marxholdings.com/music/life.zip

Mezzo Forte Records is proud to present the first installment of their Riddim Vendor series with the release of the Happy Life Riddim. The reggae dancehall inspired riddim features home grown talents with the likes of Bounty Hype, Baby Blue, Louis Dan, and Mac 11.

The Happy Life Riddim fuses an electric rock guitar with sudden pop overtones dabbed with a signature dancehall bass line. The riddim was produced by production duo Rankin and Smokes who believe that St. Lucian music is poised to arrive at the next level. “The establishment of a recording industry in St.Lucia is inevitable but without quality productions, hard working artists, suitable marketing and distribution channels our music would be lost in a field of dreams.”

The Happy Life Riddim will be officially launched on Friday October 2^nd, 2009. The unofficial release will be available for our local market via digital download on popular entertainment /social website such as partyaccess.com, citylime.com and face book. The compilation will be available for sale digitally in foreign markets by Mezzo Forte Records via, Itunes, Amazon music, E– music, Rhapsody, Imeem and Napster.

Executive producers Rankin Morgan and Irvine Springer are proud to present the following tracks and artiste on the Happy Life Riddim

Track Listing

Happy life – Louis Dan featuring Rankin n Smokes

Up in the VIP – Bounty B featuring Baby Blue

You’re thinking what I’m thinking – Pizo

Bling Bling – Louis Dan

Download link

http://www.marxholdings.com/music/life.zip

Letterman is target of the kind of jokes he tells (AP)

AP – Late-night hosts didn’t waste a moment poking fun at the troubles of one of their own, after a CBS newsman was charged with trying to blackmail David Letterman for $2 million in a plot that forced the late-night comic to acknowledge having sex with some of the women who have worked for him.

FBI: Man arrested in ESPN reporter nude video case (AP)

AP – A Chicago-area man arrested at O’Hare airport who is accused of taping surreptitious nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews was due to appear in federal court late Saturday morning, authorities said.

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