In a letter to Senate President Almando "Rocky" Liburd, Senator Douglas E. Canton Jr., chairman of the Committee on Health and Hospitals, has protested the jurisdiction and protocol of a Finance Committee public hearing scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday in St. Croix.
Calling the Finance hearing, "an unnecessary and unwarranted encroachment on the health committee," Canton has requested Liburd to intervene with Finance Committee Chairwoman Alicia "Chucky" Hansen's hearing to "address the issue of the Ingeborg Nesbitt Clinic in Frederiksted under the guise of 'Potential for lost Revenues to the Department of Health'."
Canton said he has a scheduled meeting with leadership of the Frederiksted clinic, and they are scheduled to testify at a Health and Hospitals Committee meeting at 9 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 22 on St. Croix, and at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28 on St. Thomas.
Canton told Liburd he has already met with the Juan F. Luis Hospital board, "and, as you are aware," he said, "we are scheduled to meet with the Roy L. Schneider Hospital Board Tuesday." Liburd is vice-chair of the Health and Hospitals Committee.
Canton said Hansen or any other senator is always welcome to participate in Health Hospital Committee meetings.
Neither Liburd nor Hansen was available for comment late Monday afternoon.

In a letter to Senate President Almando "Rocky" Liburd, freshman Sen. Douglas E. Canton Jr., chairman of the Committee on Health and Hospitals, has protested the jurisdiction and protocol of a Finance Committee public hearing scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday in St. Croix.
Calling the Finance hearing "an unnecessary and unwarranted encroachment on the health committee," Canton has asked Liburd to intervene with Finance Committee Chairwoman Alicia "Chucky" Hansen's hearing to "address the issue of the Ingeborg Nesbitt Clinic in Frederiksted under the guise of 'Potential for lost Revenues to the Department of Health.'"
Canton said he has a scheduled meeting with leaders of the Frederiksted clinic, and they are scheduled to testify at a Health and Hospitals Committee meeting at 9 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 22, on St. Croix and at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28, on St. Thomas.
Canton told Liburd he has already met with the Juan F. Luis Hospital board "and, as you are aware," he said, "we are scheduled to meet with the Roy L. Schneider Hospital Board Tuesday." Liburd is vice-chair of the Health and Hospitals Committee.
Canton said Hansen or any other senator is always welcome to participate in Health Hospital Committee meetings.
Neither Liburd nor Hansen was available for comment late Monday afternoon.

The makers of Cruzan Rum have a plan to comply with the airline industry’s decision to ban passengers from carrying the venerable distiller’s 151-proof libation on flights: tone it down a little.
Last week, Sen. Adelbert Bryan voiced concern that American Airlines employees were requiring passengers boarding outbound flights to leave behind bottles of 151 rum. Because 151 rum is flammable, the International Air Transportation Association lobbied successfully for its ban on flights.
In a letter to Delegate to Congress Donna Christian Christensen, Bryan said the prohibition against tourists carrying the potent rum on flights could damage rum sales, from which the V.I. government receives money. He urged the delegate to take the issue to the Congressional Black Caucus and the Department of Interior, which has oversight of the territory.
"This could very well lead to a serious decline in retail rum sales," Bryan said. "The economic viability of the territory is inextricably bound to the economic health of the Virgin Islands Rum Industries Ltd., the manufacturers of Cruzan Rum."
Bryan said the Internal Revenue Matching Fund depends on excise taxes returned by the federal government to the territory on rum manufactured on St. Croix. The territory now receives approximately $50 million a year in rum excise taxes.
Gary Nelthropp, V.I. Rum Industries' senior vice president for production and sales, said he was grateful for Bryan’s efforts. However, he said the company is already planning a move to make up for any lost 151-proof rum sales.
V.I. Rum already distills a 120-proof rum for the mainland market, called Clipper. The company will make that rum available in the territory until it starts to produce a higher-proof product that meets the airline industry’s limit, which is 140 proof.
"The specifications for the airlines is that it needs to be under 140 proof. They made an internal decision … we have to work within those parameters," Nelthropp said. "We’re going to start making that within the next two or three months."

Say there's an art auction to raise funds for a good cause. You like the idea of supporting the organization, but how do you know if the art to be sold even includes anything you might like to bid on?
Well, has St. John's Safety Zone got a marketing tool for you!
Coming up Saturday, Feb. 17, the not-for-profit social services agency is hosting its third annual art auction. If you want to see at least 70 of the items up for bid, all you need to do is click on the link given below to the web page displaying each piece individually with a "click and enlarge" function built in. What's more, you can even telephone in your bids in advance of the event – with the understanding that somebody might outbid you in person Saturday night.
Safety Zone is known primarily as St. John's crisis intervention and counseling agency, providing assistance to victims of domestic violence, sexual abuse and other crimes. Like its counterparts on St. Thomas and St. Croix, it sees education through community outreach as a part of its mission. The proceeds from this year's auction are earmarked for a new initiative, agency executive director Iris Kern says: introducing a dating violence prevention program in the high schools on St. Thomas. "We have permission already from Eudora Kean, which is where most of the St. John students go," she says, "and we are hoping to be able to extend it to the other schools."
Among the items to be auction are paintings, artist's prints and drawings by Les Anderson, Aphrodite, Anethea Barton, Laura Brego, Jerry Cajko, Kathy Carlson, Janet Cook-Rutnik, Donald Laurent Dahlke, Alvin Dalmida, Susan Edwards, Lee Eng, Elaine Estern, Lisa Etre, Edney Freeman, Calvin George, Marcia Reed Hendricks, Bente Hirsch, Traci Kegeweis, Allison Kibbe, Diane Kreiner, Moe Kunsch, Maud Pierre-Charles, Robin Clair Pitts, Jennifer Robinson, Jean Rosow, Lucinda Schutt, Eunice Summer, Aimee Trayser, Corinne Van Rensselaer, Pat Whitehead and Denise Wright; photography by Fritz and Tina Henle, Chickie Lenga, Greg Miller and Constance Wallace; woodturning, ceramic, glass and mosaic works by Lisa Crumrine, Avelino Samuel, Donald Schnell, Shomo, Joy Stillman and Maho Bay Camps glassblowers; a mobile by Larry Lipski, sculpture by Jon Euwema, batiks and wearable art by Juliana Aradi, Miller Graves and Doreen Walsh; and quilts by Karen Samuel and from an Amish collection.
Historic prints, Haitian art, teak furniture items from Bali, vintage jewelry, leather goods and cases of champagne also will be auctioned.
While "St. John is an artist's colony," Kern says, "the participating artists and businesses are from St. Croix and St. Thomas as well." Some are donating items outright. Others are agreeing to Safety Zone's terms of a sales split, 60 percent going to the agency and 40 percent to the artist. Others have specified that it's an outright donation "up to a certain point," and if the bidding goes higher, they will get a percentage.
The art auction is one of two annual fund-raising events for The Safety Zone. The other is Island Stylin,' a fashion show held in August. Between the two, Kern says, the agency reaches out to just about everyone – both donors and attendees – on St. John, and beyond. "The fashion show is a big draw for locals," she explains. "With the art auction, we're focusing on snowbirds and other island visitors, as well as residents."
From the start, St. John's two resorts have supported the efforts – the Westin as the site of the auction with its attendant dinner dance, and Caneel Bay as the venue for the fashion show.
Saturday's event will get under way with cocktails and previewing of the auction items at 6 p.m. There will be a silent auction through the evening of items valued at $250 and under. Dinner is at 8 p.m., with the live auction to follow. Former St. John resident Tate Conkey, who owns an auction house in New Hampshire, will call the bids, with Jamz radio's Robert Luke and the government television channel's Lorna Nichols serving as master and mistress of ceremonies. Carlie Powell and Paradise People will provide music for listening and dancing.
Introducing an element of chance into the proceedings, as many as a hundred teddy bears will be offered for outright sale at $20 apiece. Each will hold a miniature shopping bag. "All but one of the bags will contain a chocolate kiss," Kern says. "One will have a $600 gold ring from Verace St. John" – designed by John Kennedy, who pioneered the use of cylindrical gemstones set into gold. How many bears will be up for sale will depend on how many the auction committee members can lay their hands on. "We've got 45 so far," Kern says, "and we're looking for more."
Internationally recognized artist Don Dahlke, a former St. Croix resident, donated the oil painting used for this year's auction poster. It's one of his signature "portal" images, depicting an architectural exterior with a window enticing the viewer's eye into the dark interior and then, through a window on the other side, to a bright sea view beyond.
As of Monday evening, 70 of the auction items were up on the web site, with at least 10 more recent arrivals awaiting posting. "The site will be updated throughout the week," Kern says. To view it, just click here www.zoneauction.org.
Those wishing to submit bids in advance on any of the displayed items may do so by telephoning the Safety Zone office at 690-7233 or 693-7233. Successful bidders – to be confirmed at the end of the auction – may pay for purchases by cash, check or charge card.
"If an artist has specified a reserve (minimum) opening bid, we will respect that," Kern says. "When people call in to bid on such an item, we will give them that information."
While the web site is a work in progress, Kern says, "We thought this was an excellent first step. Kevin Patrick donated the work and we got it up. The government has been talking since last year about a $750,000 web site that still isn't up."
Tickets for the dinner and auction are $65 per person, or $600 for a table for 10. Admission to the auction without dinner is $20. Tickets are being sold at Connections, the St. John Drug Center and the Safety Zone office on St. John, and at Color of Joy (American Yacht Harbor) and Blue Turtle Gallery (Government Hill) on St. Thomas.

Say there's an art auction to raise funds for a good cause. You like the idea of supporting the organization, but how do you know if the art to be sold even includes anything you might like to bid on?
Well, has the Safety Zone got a marketing tool for you!
Coming up Saturday, Feb. 17, the not-for-profit social services agency is hosting its third annual art auction. If you want to see at least 70 of the items up for bid, all you need to do is click on the link given below to the web page displaying each piece individually with a "click and enlarge" function built in. What's more, you can even telephone in your bids in advance of the event – with the understanding that somebody might outbid you in person Saturday night.
Safety Zone is known primarily as St. John's crisis intervention and counseling agency, providing assistance to victims of domestic violence, sexual abuse and other crimes. Like its counterparts on St. Thomas and St. Croix, it sees education through community outreach as a part of its mission. The proceeds from this year's auction are earmarked for a new initiative, agency executive director Iris Kern says: introducing a dating violence prevention program in the high schools on St. Thomas. "We have permission already from Eudora Kean, which is where most of the St. John students go," she says, "and we are hoping to be able to extend it to the other schools."
Among the items to be auction are paintings, artist's prints and drawings by Les Anderson, Aphrodite, Anethea Barton, Laura Brego, Jerry Cajko, Kathy Carlson, Janet Cook-Rutnik, Donald Laurent Dahlke, Alvin Dalmida, Susan Edwards, Lee Eng, Elaine Estern, Lisa Etre, Edney Freeman, Calvin George, Marcia Reed Hendricks, Bente Hirsch, Traci Kegeweis, Allison Kibbe, Diane Kreiner, Moe Kunsch, Maud Pierre-Charles, Robin Clair Pitts, Jennifer Robinson, Jean Rosow, Lucinda Schutt, Eunice Summer, Aimee Trayser, Corinne Van Rensselaer, Pat Whitehead and Denise Wright; photography by Fritz and Tina Henle, Chickie Lenga, Greg Miller and Constance Wallace; woodturning, ceramic, glass and mosaic works by Lisa Crumrine, Avelino Samuel, Donald Schnell, Shomo, Joy Stillman and Maho Bay Camps glassblowers; a mobile by Larry Lipski, sculpture by Jon Euwema, batiks and wearable art by Juliana Aradi, Miller Graves and Doreen Walsh; and quilts by Karen Samuel and from an Amish collection.
Historic prints, Haitian art, teak furniture items from Bali, vintage jewelry, leather goods and cases of champagne also will be auctioned.
While "St. John is an artist's colony," Kern says, "the participating artists and businesses are from St. Croix and St. Thomas as well." Some are donating items outright. Others are agreeing to Safety Zone's terms of a sales split, 60 percent going to the agency and 40 percent to the artist. Others have specified that it's an outright donation "up to a certain point," and if the bidding goes higher, they will get a percentage.
The art auction is one of two annual fund-raising events for The Safety Zone. The other is Island Stylin,' a fashion show held in August. Between the two, Kern says, the agency reaches out to just about everyone – both donors and attendees – on St. John, and beyond. "The fashion show is a big draw for locals," she explains. "With the art auction, we're focusing on snowbirds and other island visitors, as well as residents."
From the start, St. John's two resorts have supported the efforts – the Westin as the site of the auction with its attendant dinner dance, and Caneel Bay as the venue for the fashion show.
Saturday's event will get under way with cocktails and previewing of the auction items at 6 p.m. There will be a silent auction through the evening of items valued at $250 and under. Dinner is at 8 p.m., with the live auction to follow. Former St. John resident Tate Conkey, who owns an auction house in New Hampshire, will call the bids, with Jamz radio's Robert Luke and the government television channel's Lorna Nichols serving as master and mistress of ceremonies. Carlie Powell and Paradise People will provide music for listening and dancing.
Introducing an element of chance into the proceedings, as many as a hundred teddy bears will be offered for sale outright at $20 apiece. Each will hold a miniature shopping bag. "All but one of the bags will contain a chocolate kiss," Kern says. "One will have a $600 gold ring from Verace St. John" – designed by John Kennedy, who pioneered the use of cylindrical gemstones set into gold. How many bears will be up for sale will depend on how many the auction committee members can lay their hands on. "We've got 45 so far," Kern says, "and we're looking for more."
Internationally recognized artist Don Dahlke, a former St. Croix resident, donated the oil painting used for this year's auction poster. It's one of his signature "portal" images, depicting an architectural exterior with a window enticing the viewer's eye into the dark interior and then, through a window on the other side, to a bright sea view beyond.
As of Monday evening, 70 of the auction items were up on the web site, with at least 10 more recent arrivals awaiting posting. "The site will be updated throughout the week," Kern says. To view it, just click here www.zoneauction.org.
Those wishing to submit bids in advance on any of the displayed items may do so by telephoning the Safety Zone office at 690-7233 or 693-7233. Successful bidders – to be confirmed at the end of the auction – may pay for purchases by cash, check or charge card.
"If an artist has specified a reserve (minimum) opening bid, we will respect that," Kern says. "When people call in to bid on such an item, we will give them that information."
While the web site is a work in progress, Kern says, "We thought this was an excellent first step. Kevin Patrick donated the work and we got it up. The government has been talking since last year about a $750,000 web site that still isn't up."
Tickets for the dinner and auction are $65 per person, or $600 for a table for 10. Admission to the auction without dinner is $20. Tickets are being sold at Connections, the St. John Drug Center and the Safety Zone office on St. John, and at Color of Joy (American Yacht Harbor) and Blue Turtle Gallery (Government Hill) on St. Thomas.

In observance of February as Black History Month, the Source undertook a survey of scores of web sites found by searches on that subject. What follows are highlights, with links, of what we found to be the most extensive, informative, interesting and/or attractive sites.
Most of those cited here are aimed at a general adult audience, although some target young people and several are intended mainly for teachers in search of classroom materials and study guides. Unless noted otherwise, those visiting the sites can access and/or download the information on the spot at no cost.
Newer, our survey found, is not necessarily better. Some of the most attractive and extensive web sites we came upon were created two or more years ago. But since the topic is history, that's not a deterrent to currency.
The Pacific Bell Education First site, created five years ago and last updated in July 2000, is intended "to integrate the World Wide Web and videoconferencing into classroom learning." (Pacific Bell would be a teleconference hookup provider, of course.) Each of several sub-sites makes numerous optional links available to the browser. One of these sites, "Black History Hotlist: a Collection of Internet Sites," www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hotlist.html is accurately described as "a starting point for anyone studying African-American events and issues." It carries this sage bit of advice: "Remember to read critically and look for hidden agendas, bias, or errors that might creep into the Web pages."
The "Hotlist" provides web links to historic, academic, journalistic and other writings in areas of background to Black History Month, Slavery and African-American History, African-American / Buffalo Soldiers, the Civil Rights Movement, the Million-Man March, a poetry section and profiles and writings of dozens and dozens of African-American leaders, from Sojourner Truth, Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. DuBois to Michael Jordan and Oprah Winfrey.
One link from this site is to the Christian Science Monitor newspaper's "Black History Project," at www.csmonitor.com/atcsmonitor/specials/bhmonth/bhindex.shtml. The Monitor, for generations regarded as one of the most objective, incisive newspapers in America, offers its own multiplicity of historic and contemporary sources, including newspaper accounts, games, interviews and event listings. Its introduction states that, "combining original material with the Monitor's archive, with the latest technology, this site aims to educate, entertain, inform, and elevate thought."
Another telephone corporate site, that of AT&T, features separate black history quizzes covering civil rights, the arts and education for each week in February on its site at www.att.com/black_history_month/quiz/week1/dyk_quiz_week1.html . The answers are given on the spot, and it's a good thing, as many of these are not "everybody knows" questions.
At afroamculture.miningco.com/culture/afroamculture/cs/blackhistory/index.htm is the Black History section of the About.com Guide e-magazine on black life, lifestyles and issues (replete with advertising). There are more than 40, mostly broad-interest, links. Two not often cited elsewhere:
First, "African-American History, U.S. Department of State," at http://afroamculture.about.com/culture/afroamculture/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http:%2F%2Fusinfo.state.gov%2Fusa%2Fblackhis%2F. This is the State Department's Office of International Information Gateway to African-American History, "which has been established to assist its international audience in acquiring information on the rich and varied contributions of African-Americans to the culture and history of the United States and the world." That translates in some tongues to "propaganda," which is not necessarily a bad thing. It's got links to several strong non-government sites (with the disclaimer that such links "should not be construed as an endorsement of the views contained therein"), publications, bibliographies and articles.
Second, "African-American Resources at the Smithsonian," for which the link given is outdated; the correct one is www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/afroam.htm, and it, too, is full of further subtopical references, including reading lists and images from a collection of works by black photographers, www.si.edu/anacostia/reflections_in_black2.htm.
A site linked repeatedly throughout black history web sites is to "African-American Mosaic," a Library of Congress resource guide to the institution's African-American collections, at lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html. Among its features is an encapsulated history of the impact on Liberia of black emigration from the United States to that West African nation.
Among the numerous sites providing accounts of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, in which the U.S. government used blacks unknowingly as guinea pigs for 40 years, one that is dispassionate and interestingly illustrated is www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmtuskegee1.html. It has multiple cross links as well. The parent page of this site, www.infoplease.com/spot/bhm1.html, also has lots of offerings in sports and the arts, as well as crossword puzzles and quizzes broken down by subcategories (Motown music lovers, there's a crossword just for you!).
The be-all of sites has to be blackhistory.eb.com/, that of the Encyclopædia Britannica. It offers a historic timeline spanning from 1517 – when Spaniards first imported African slaves to work on plantations, replacing Amerindians who died from harsh working conditions and exposure to disease – to the present. (Which landed first in the English colonies – the Pilgrims or enslaved Africans? You may be surprised.) The nearly 500 mini-biographies are heavy on sports and the arts but include many contemporary figures. There's an interlink page with some of the intellectually oriented sites mentioned elsewhere in this article and a number of others, as well as an awesome bibliography section – that unfortunately is laid out in all but unreadable paragraphs, rather than in lists.
The Gale Group, a publishing / archiving enterprise, also has a timeline within its African-American history site at www.galegroup.com/freresrc/blkhstry/time.htm. It consists of hundreds of factoids listed in chronological order from the 16th through 20th centuries. There's no continuity, but the information is fascinating, if not easy to commit to memory.
TheAfro-centrist site AFROAmeric@'s Black History Museum, at www.afroam.org/history/slavery/main.html, has numerous anecdotes under the subtopic of "Women Resisted," as well as a "Chronolo
gy of Revolts."
The Institute for Global Communications (IGC) web site at www.igc.org/igc/pn/hg/blkhis.html apparently hasn't been updated for two years, but it has a number of links to interesting pages, many of them with non-U.S. perspectives.
Among the sites aimed at teachers is www.socialstudies.com/c/@uUGVV6fxgDyVk/Pages/blackhistory.html, promoting available materials, teaching tools and techniques – sometimes to be ordered through the web site.
Another teacher resource site, Educational CyberPlayGround's www.cyberpg.com/culdesac/bhm/bhm.html, features "more than 50 pages of information you can print out" and even two Anansi e-stories that can be heard in either standard English or American Virgin Island Creole. But it's a subscription-only service.
Among the sites aimed as students, Worldbook Encyclopedia's www.worldbook.com/fun/aajourny/html/index.html has historical readings on From Africa to America, From Slavery to Freedom, The First Years of Freedom and The Modern Civil Rights Movement. The site provides information in bite-size bytes with interactive quizzes and, unfortunately, distracting mini-graphics (a pencil, a late-comer to a seated audience) in constant motion. Just for fun, go to www.worldbook.com/fun/aajourny/html/bh022.html to find a familiar name that you may not have known was a part of the history of black rebellion.
National Geographic Online, as visually stunning as its print progenitor, has an interactive 1999 site on The Underground Railroad, at www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/j1.html that's intended for kids and teachers but is hard to resist even if you're neither one.
For those who genuinely love to read essays, The Atlantic Monthly offers a treasure trove of its own reprints at www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/black/blahisin.htm. The offerings, "some of the seminal essays by African-Americans that have appeared in The Atlantic," date from Frederick Douglass on "Reconstruction" in 1866 and include Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Another monthly, The Nation, has a similar site, past.thenation.com/historic/bhm2001/. Its own reprints are of essays dating from 1866, including pieces by Langston Hughes. W.E.B. DuBois, James Baldwin and Alice Walker.
Most of these web pages have multiple links to other, related sites, and you'll find a lot more there that's not even touched upon here. And if February runs out while you're still immersed in online pursuit of the past, that's no problem. The whole idea is to learn about, and learn from, African-American history – and all history – year-round.

Jazz drummer and V.I. native Dion Parson will be joined by musician and teacher Louis Taylor in a talk on the influence of Caribbean music on jazz at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Virgin Islands Cultural Heritage Institute.
Caribbean music has filtered into jazz practically from its beginnings and the music of Jelly Roll Morton, through the experiments of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie in melding Caribbean rhythms with bebop, and more recently in the stylings of saxophonists Sonny Rollins and Oliver Lake.
Parson, along with tenor saxophonist Ron Blake (also from the V.I.), has been extending that tradition, particularly with his band 21st Century.
The public is invited to the free discussion Tuesday. The institute is located at 5-6 Kongens Gade, across the street from the "White House." For more information, call 774-9537.

The University of the Virgin Islands Buccaneers defeated Technical University of Jamaica, 101-82, in the championship of the 2001 Caribbean University Sports Association Basketball Tournament Sunday at the UVI Sports and Fitness Center.
The first quarter of the championship game was a close one. The Bucs took an early 11-2 lead before UTech's offense started to roll. The game was tied at 21 after the first quarter.
UTech even took a quick two point lead at the start of the second quarter, 23-21. However, the Bucs answered with an 8-0 run to reclaim the lead. The Bucs scored 21 more points than UTech in the second quarter.
The Bucs offense was on a fire, led by tournament most valuable player Bertrum Foster. Foster scored 23 of his game high 27 points in the first half.
The Bucs shot a sizzling 63 percent from the behind the 3-point arc in the first half. They added a 47 percent shooting performance in field goals. UTech was held to just 25 percent in field goals and 23 percent from 3-point range.
UTech outscored the Bucs in the third quarter but just by six points, 22-16. UTech held the Bucs scoreless for the last three minutes of the quarter to accomplish the task. Meanwhile, UTech scored 10 unanswered points.
The fourth quarter saw the Bucs offense come back to life with 27 points in the period. By the end of the game the only question was whether the Bucs would be able to pass the century mark in points.
Top scorers for the game were Foster for the Bucs. His teammate Kevin Abbott added 16 points and John St. Luce contributed 11 points and grabbed 12 rebounds. For UTech, Narada Wellington had 22 point and Nicholas Bogle added 16 points and 17 rebounds.

The Charlotte Amalie High School Lady Chicken Hawks beat up on the female all-stars of the Caribbean University Sports Association by a score of 58-35 Sunday afternoon, at the association's basketball tournament at the UVI Sports and Fitness Center.
The Lady Chicken Hawks proved to be too much for the Caribbean University all-stars. The All-Stars took a 16-10 lead after the first period only to see the Lady Chicken Hawks use their trademark full-court press to retake the lead and control the game in the second quarter. The stifling defense held the All-Stars to just two points in the second quarter.
The Lady Chicken Hawks took a 24-18 half time lead thanks to shooting 60 percent from the free throw line, as the All-Stars shot only two free throws and converted one.
In the third quarter, it was more of the same as the All-Stars doubled their offensive output with four points in the quarter. The Lady Chicken Hawks increased the lead to 20 points after the quarter making the score 42-22.
In the final quarter the All-Stars regained their offense scoring 13 points, but the Lady Chicken Hawks offense spotted an additional 16 points to end the scoring.
The Lady Chicken Hawks shot 34 percent in field goals and 55 percent from the charity line. The All-Stars were held to under 20 percent in field goals and 31 percent in free throws.
Top scorers for the game were Rena Stephens with 16 points for the Lady Chicken Hawks and Geralda Bamby had 12 to lead the All-Stars.

Despite a strong headwind on the Waterfront on Sunday afternoon, 20 runners ran one mile and half mile races to participate in the annual Ultrasprint road race held to commemorate Black History Month. The 2001 event benefitted the Special Olympics and was directed by the St. Thomas Association of Roadrunners.
The children, 12 and under, ran a half mile course. The only girl to run was Francie Lenahan who came in at 6:14. The boys’ field was very competitive. Adam Fuller crossed the finish line first at 3:26, followed by Shamari Davis at 3:34 and Tabari Davis at 3:48.
The Charlotte Amalie track team were the leaders in the one mile adult field. Dwayne Allen was the first male in 5:27; his teammate Adrian Williams was next in 5:36. Frank Jackson was the third male in 6:36.
Annicia Wiliams of CAHS, the first female ran at 6:50. Five seconds behind was Charlotte Morris in 6:55. Benissa Stanislas at 7:50 was third.