Nov. 13, 2002 – Sean Georges is the new head coach of the Buccaneers men's basketball team at the University of the Virgin Islands
Georges, whose many years of basketball experience includes playing for the UVI men's team, made his coaching debut this summer as head coach of the St. Thomas summer league team "To Win It" (on the scoreboards as TWI). He led TWI to the regular season first-place finish.
Georges said he is honored to be named to the post and looks forward to a successful season. "It's an honor to be selected as UVI men's basketball head coach after being a basketball player here for so many years," Georges said. "I plan to use the skills I learned from the four coaches I played under here at UVI to lead this squad to wins."
Georges said that what the team lacks in size will be made up in speed and accuracy. Georges himself, at 6'4", is not short of size.
Georges is a student housing supervisor on the UVI St. Thomas campus.
The UVI men's basketball season officially begins in the 2003 spring semester; however, several games are scheduled for this semester. The team will play its first game under Georges' leadership this weekend in what is titled the "Ferry Boat Series." The "Ferry Boat Series" features games between UVI and Tortola's H. Lavity Stoutt Community College. Games are scheduled for 9 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 15, and Saturday, Nov. 16, at the UVI Sports and Fitness Center. The games are free and open to the public.
Georges replaces Cyril Benjamin, who coached the UVI men's and women's basketball teams last season. Benjamin will continue to coach the women's team.
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Nov. 13, 2002 – Sean Georges is the new head coach of the Buccaneers men's basketball team at the University of the Virgin Islands
Georges, whose many years of basketball experience includes playing for the UVI men's team, made his coaching debut this summer as head coach of the St. Thomas summer league team "To Win It" (on the scoreboards as TWI). He led TWI to the regular season first-place finish.
Georges said he is honored to be named to the post and looks forward to a successful season. "It's an honor to be selected as UVI men's basketball head coach after being a basketball player here for so many years," Georges said. "I plan to use the skills I learned from the four coaches I played under here at UVI to lead this squad to wins."
Georges said that what the team lacks in size will be made up in speed and accuracy. Georges himself, at 6'4", is not short of size.
Georges is a student housing supervisor on the UVI St. Thomas campus.
The UVI men's basketball season officially begins in the 2003 spring semester; however, several games are scheduled for this semester. The team will play its first game under Georges' leadership this weekend in what is titled the "Ferry Boat Series." The "Ferry Boat Series" features games between UVI and Tortola's H. Lavity Stoutt Community College. Games are scheduled for 9 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 15, and Saturday, Nov. 16, at the UVI Sports and Fitness Center. The games are free and open to the public.
Georges replaces Cyril Benjamin, who coached the UVI men's and women's basketball teams last season. Benjamin will continue to coach the women's team.
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Nov. 13, 2002 – Sean Georges is the new head coach of the Buccaneers men's basketball team at the University of the Virgin Islands
Georges, whose many years of basketball experience includes playing for the UVI men's team, made his coaching debut this summer as head coach of the St. Thomas summer league team "To Win It" (on the scoreboards as TWI). He led TWI to the regular season first-place finish.
Georges said he is honored to be named to the post and looks forward to a successful season. "It's an honor to be selected as UVI men's basketball head coach after being a basketball player here for so many years," Georges said. "I plan to use the skills I learned from the four coaches I played under here at UVI to lead this squad to wins."
Georges said that what the team lacks in size will be made up in speed and accuracy. Georges himself, at 6'4", is not short of size.
Georges is a student housing supervisor on the UVI St. Thomas campus.
The UVI men's basketball season officially begins in the 2003 spring semester; however, several games are scheduled for this semester. The team will play its first game under Georges' leadership this weekend in what is titled the "Ferry Boat Series." The "Ferry Boat Series" features games between UVI and Tortola's H. Lavity Stoutt Community College. Games are scheduled for 9 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 15, and Saturday, Nov. 16, at the UVI Sports and Fitness Center. The games are free and open to the public.
Georges replaces Cyril Benjamin, who coached the UVI men's and women's basketball teams last season. Benjamin will continue to coach the women's team.
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Nov. 13, 2002 – The slices of life that will be portrayed on the stage this weekend and next in the fall Little Theatre production of "The Dancing Mice" are not unlike those that come to the big screen in the hit movie "Barbershop."
If there are any mice in John Patrick's 1972 play, they're out of sight, and there's not much in the way of fancy footwork, either. The work is, according to publicity, "a sad and funny play about a group of the modern city's underprivileged who, like mice, are unable to escape the cage of their environment, but who accept their destiny with courage and humor."
The setting is a coin-operated laundry where denizens of the neighborhood "expose their laundry and their hearts."
Amid the anonymity and alienation of urban poverty, the neighborhood laundry, like the neighborhood barbershop, "is a cozy place to hang out for a while, even if you do not need a little off the sides," the publicity observes. Or if you still have clean socks at home.
Patrick's inspiration for the drama came from observing the ghetto streets of New York filled with the anonymous masses, "working out their day-to-day existence, accepting their destinies without resentment, grateful for their small jobs and infrequent joys," the publicity states. Bickering, ragging, joking, affection, loss, resilience and redemption are all part of the mix.
The characters span a wide range of human experience, and their interactions in many instances reflect the tensions, fears and anger that drive people of diversity apart when compassion and tolerance could bring them together. In memory sequences, the play reveals the characters' inner feelings and motivations which contrast with the violence, intrigue, romance, comedy and pathos played out in their daily lives.
University of the Virgin Islands Prof. Rosary Harper is directing "The Dancing Mice," as she has dozens of other Little Theatre productions since the 1970s. She says she chose the play for several rather pragmatic reasons.
For one thing, "it allows us to have a diverse cast — i.e., Afro-Caribbean, Afro-American, Caucasians, blacks, browns, West Indians, East Indians, younger, older individuals. You name it, we got it." For another, "the problems are current — poverty, dropouts, discontent, matters of the heart."
The laundromat is symbolic of the world the play's dozen characters inhabit, Harper adds, "drab, cold, indifferent." But the characters "bring color and personality to the setting. They have come there to wash and air their clothes and their problems."
The late Patrick, a prolific playwright and screenwriter, is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning "Teahouse of the August Moon," first produced in 1953. But it's his 1961 play "Everybody Loves Opal" that is perhaps best known, having been staged by most every community theatre in the country, Harper notes.
There's also a peripheral St. Thomas connection here. Patrick lived most of his final years on the island's West End, putting on plays in a small theater at his Fortuna Mill home.
The cast of seven men and five women in "The Dancing Mice" comprises Trey Thomas (Angelo), Dwyght Browne (Bozo), Melanie Graham (Elma), Princess Penn (Miriam), Gerda Morales (Mrs. Perkins), Nick Sawyer (an old man), Tavis DeWindt (a mugger), Alan Byers (Mr. Taylor), Sameer Melwani (an evangelist), Bentley Brown (Nat), Patricia Hector (Ms. Karatoukis), and Lacy O'Connor (Cynthia).
In addition to Harper as director, the behind-the-scenes talent includes her UVI theater faculty colleagues Dennis Parker as set designer and technical director and Michael Prenevost as lighting designer and sound supervisor; Feja Wenner as stage manager; and Doug Salisbury as lighting consultant.
And Jessica Otto and Sharnese Armstrong-Mark as lighting crew; Bonnie Braga and Candice Tesch as sound crew; Elynne Lockhart and Kahlilah Gordon as sound crew; Urbane Chinnery, master carpenter; Cheryl Ward, Trey Thomas and David Edole as construction crew; Anna-Lee Hosier and Anique Thomas handling publicity and house management; Trey Thomas doing makeup; and Renee Benjamin coordinating the freshman class concession at intermission.
You get six opportunities to see "The Dancing Mice" — this Friday, Saturday and Sunday and the same next weekend, Nov. 22-24. Curtain time is 8 p.m. for all performances. Tickets are $10 general admission and $5 for students. They are being sold at Dockside Bookshop, Nisky Pharmacy and on the UVI St. Thomas campus in the bookstore and the Humanities Division office. If a given night's performance isn't sold out in advance — and that's definite "if" — tickets also will be available at the door that night.
For more information, call Harper at 693-1354.

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Nov. 13, 2002 – The Virgin Islands Carnival Committee is planning ahead: they're now accepting applications for participation in the Carnival 2003 Prince & Princess Competition.
Boys and girls nine to 12 years of age who have a letter grade average of "C" or better are welcomed to participate. The lower age limit is new, since last year's princess was eight years old.
Application forms are available at the office, which is located on lower Main Street where the V.I. Personnel Division was years ago, in the block west of Market Square.
For the past three years, three would-be princes and princesses have competed for the titles. They have vied for Best Evening Wear, Talent, Mister and Miss Intellect, Most Photogenic, and Most Cooperative. So, none of that complaining about the pea under the mattress.
And now is the time to apply: the deadline for return of applications is Nov. 25, 2002.
For more information call Prince & Princess Committee Chairperson Francisque Roberts at 774-1343.
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Nov. 13, 2002 – The slices of life that will be portrayed on the stage this weekend and next in the fall Little Theatre production of a play called "The Dancing Mice" are not unlike those that come to the big screen in the hit movie "Barbershop."
If there are any mice in John Patrick's 1972 play, they're out of sight, and there's not much in the way of fancy footwork, either. The work is, according to publicity, "a sad and funny play about a group of the modern city's underprivileged who, like mice, are unable to escape the cage of their environment, but who accept their destiny with courage and humor."
The setting is a coin-operated laundry where denizens of the neighborhood "expose their laundry and their hearts."
Amid the anonymity and alienation of urban poverty, the neighborhood laundry, like the neighborhood barbershop, "is a cozy place to hang out for a while, even if you do not need a little off the sides," the publicity observes. Or if you still have clean socks at home.
Patrick's inspiration for the drama came from observing the ghetto streets of New York filled with the anonymous masses, "working out their day-to-day existence, accepting their destinies without resentment, grateful for their small jobs and infrequent joys," the publicity states. Bickering, ragging, joking, affection, loss, resilience and redemption are all part of the mix.
The characters span a wide range of human experience, and their interactions in many instances reflect the tensions, fears and anger that drive people of diversity apart when compassion and tolerance could bring them together. In memory sequences, the play reveals the characters' inner feelings and motivations which contrast with the violence, intrigue, romance, comedy and pathos played out in their daily lives.
University of the Virgin Islands Prof. Rosary Harper is directing "The Dancing Mice," as she has dozens of other Little Theatre productions since the 1970s. She says she chose the play for several rather pragmatic reasons.
For one thing, "it allows us to have a diverse cast — i.e., Afro-Caribbean, Afro-American, Caucasians, blacks, browns, West Indians, East Indians, younger, older individuals. You name it, we got it." For another, "the problems are current — poverty, dropouts, discontent, matters of the heart."
The laundromat is symbolic of the world the play's dozen characters inhabit, Harper adds, "drab, cold, indifferent." But the characters "bring color and personality to the setting. They have come there to wash and air their clothes and their problems."
The late Patrick, a prolific playwright and screenwriter, is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning "Teahouse of the August Moon," first produced in 1953. But it's his 1961 play "Everybody Loves Opal" that is perhaps best known, having been staged by most every community theatre in the country, Harper notes.
There's also a peripheral St. Thomas connection here. Patrick lived most of his final years on the island's West End, putting on plays in a small theater at his Fortuna Mill home.
The cast of seven men and five women in "The Dancing Mice" comprises Trey Thomas (Angelo), Dwyght Browne (Bozo), Melanie Graham (Elma), Princess Penn (Miriam), Gerda Morales (Mrs. Perkins), Nick Sawyer (an old man), Tavis DeWindt (a mugger), Alan Byers (Mr. Taylor), Sameer Melwani (an evangelist), Bentley Brown (Nat), Patricia Hector (Ms. Karatoukis), and Lacy O'Connor (Cynthia).
In addition to Harper as director, the behind-the-scenes talent includes her UVI theater faculty colleagues Dennis Parker as set designer and technical director and Michael Prenevost as lighting designer and sound supervisor; Feja Wenner as stage manager; and Doug Salisbury as lighting consultant.
And Jessica Otto and Sharnese Armstrong-Mark as lighting crew; Bonnie Braga and Candice Tesch as sound crew; Elynne Lockhart and Kahlilah Gordon as sound crew; Urbane Chinnery, master carpenter; Cheryl Ward, Trey Thomas and David Edole as construction crew; Anna-Lee Hosier and Anique Thomas handling publicity and house management; Trey Thomas doing makeup; and Renee Benjamin coordinating the freshman class concession at intermission.
You get six opportunities to see "The Dancing Mice" — this Friday, Saturday and Sunday and the same next weekend, Nov. 22-24. Curtain time is 8 p.m. for all performances. Tickets are $10 general admission and $5 for students. They are being sold at Dockside Bookshop, Nisky Pharmacy and on the UVI St. Thomas campus in the bookstore and the Humanities Division office. If a given night's performance isn't sold out in advance — and that's definite "if" — tickets also will be available at the door that night.
For more information, call Harper at 693-1354.

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Nov. 13, 2002 – Crucian-born fashion designer Wayne James has been commissioned by the University of the Virgin Islands to design its Festival 2003 troupe. James, who is also a lawyer and historian, has titled the troupe's theme "From the Schoolhouse to the Technological Park."
James said the troupe will depict the history of education on St. Croix, from its humble beginnings to UVI to the upcoming technology park. The focus will be on education's impact on careers, from fishermen and cane cutters to schoolteachers to careers in cyberspace.
"The costumes will draw on our age-old masquerading traditions," James said, adding that the focus will be on authentic fabrics rather than feathers and skin.
"Worn with detailed white blouses inspired by the Victorian era of the 1880s, the madras skirts of the schoolteacher section will each feature over 15 yards of fabric and tulle crafted into a bustle silhouette," James said. "And like the head mistresses of the era, each section-member will have her parasol in one hand and a tamarind whip in the other."
In the fishermen section, 30 wheelbarrows filled with real fish on ice will roll down King Street in Christiansted, pushed by traditional fishermen dressed in straw hats, over-sized cotton shirts and burlap (krukus bag) pants.
In the futuristic section, 100 college and high school students "will captivate the crowd in their skin-tight body suits adorned with space helmets, light-up sticks and high boots," James said.
James began his career as a fashion designer after completing his law degree in 1987. Last year he designed the prize-winning Festival entry for HOVENSA, which featured bamboula dancers in voluminous dresses of white silk.
James said it is a pleasure working with UVI this year. "It is always invigorating to be surrounded by the enthusiasm of youth," he said.

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For the 21st year, the Coral Bay Thanksgiving Regatta sets sail on the two days after Thanksgiving. The dates are Nov. 29 and 30. The Coral Bay Yacht Club sponsors the event, held in the waters outside Coral Bay Harbor on St. John. All other activities happen at Skinny Legs Bar and Restaurant in Coral Bay.
The regatta kicks off on Nov. 29 with races for crewed gaff-rigged boats and sailors who go solo.
Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. at Skinny Legs, with the skippers' meeting following at 9:30. Registration is $35 for both days.
Crewed traditional, cruising, multi-hull and PHRF racing boats set sail on Nov. 30. The skippers' meeting is at 9 a.m. at Skinny Legs.
Skinny Legs will host the awards ceremony at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 30.
Call 776-6036 or 776-6030 for more information.

For the 21st year, the Coral Bay Thanksgiving Regatta sets sail on the two days after Thanksgiving. The dates are Nov. 29 and 30. The Coral Bay Yacht Club sponsors the event, held in the waters outside Coral Bay Harbor on St. John. All other activities happen at Skinny Legs Bar and Restaurant in Coral Bay.
The regatta kicks off on Nov. 29 with races for crewed gaff-rigged boats and sailors who go solo.
Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. at Skinny Legs, with the skippers' meeting following at 9:30. Registration is $35 for both days.
Crewed traditional, cruising, multi-hull and PHRF racing boats set sail on Nov. 30. The skippers' meeting is at 9 a.m. at Skinny Legs.
Skinny Legs will host the awards ceremony at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 30.
Call 776-6036 or 776-6030 for more information.

Little League Baseball will hold umpiring and coaching clinics in the territory with professional instructions given by Major League Baseball scout Basil P. Tarasko and certified umpire Jack Conway. Tarasko is the head coach at Baruch College and a scout for the San Diego Padres.
The St. Thomas clinics begin Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m. and continue Monday from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at Lionel Roberts Stadium.
Day 1 topics include on-the-field behavior, when and how to discipline, techniques in getting parents involved, setting reachable goals, fundamentals of the game, and communication with parents and players.
Day 2 topics include current coaching and teaching techniques, rules of the game, organizing practice sessions, safety, sportsmanship and umpire issues.
For general information, contact Joseph Samuel at 772-3168. For St. Thomas information, call Bobby Thomas at 693-3628.