Savannah Hawks will seek their third straight win in the National Basketball League West’s pre-season tournament on Sunday when they take on Inner-city Avalanche in the second game of a double header at the Montego Bay Cricket Club.

Hawks has back-to-back wins after beating Hoopers and Catherine Hall All-Stars in the first two series and will seek to maintain their unbeaten run this weekend.

In the first game of the double which starts at 5:00 pm, Catherine Hall All-Stars – who lost both games – and Granville Jaguars will meet. On Saturday, Hawks came back from a slow start to beat All-Stars, thanks largely to a big third quarter which saw them outscoring the St James club 30-14. All-Stars led by a point 17-16 after the first quarter and increased that to five points 37-32 at half-time. Led by Richard Chambers, who scored a game high 27 points, Hawks came roaring back in the third quarter to take a big 11 points 62-51 lead.

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A teenage boy who was arrested following his involvement in a $2 million cheque scam was granted bail.

Charged with possession and uttering of a forged document and obtaining money by means of false pretense is 19 year-old Arthur Coleman of Rosemount Meadows in St. James.

Bail was offered to him in the amount of $250,000 when he appeared before the Montego Bay RM court on Thursday, June 4.

As condition of his bail, he was instructed to report to the Freeport Police Station on Tuesdays and Fridays and is booked to return to court on July 22. The incident came to light in January 2009 after the Chief Financial Officer at a certain Montego Bay business established that the company’s current account was in overdraft and launched an investigation.

It was subsequently discovered that 10 cheques totaling $2.8 million were prepared and disbursed without accompanying documents from the accounts department between October 2008 and January 2009.

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A man who tried unsuccessfully to enter Canada on a fraudulent Canadian Visa, was placed on probation for 12 months. Resident Magistrate Vivienne Harris made the order on Tuesday, June 2 when the case against Junior Beckford was called up for mention in the Montego Bay RM court.

The 28 year-old resident of Mamee Bay in St. Ann was facing a charge of uttering a forged document. Reports are that on April 25, 2009 about 2:40pm, Beckford checked in to board a West Jet flight to Toronto, Canada at the Sangster International Airport and presented a Jamaican Passport endorsed with a Canadian Visa.

The agent became suspicious and as a result, Beckford was referred to the Immigration Investigation Unit. Upon examination of the visa certain irregularities were detected in the security features. The Canadian High Commission was contacted who confirmed that the visa was in fact fraudulent.

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Arriving at the Delveland Community Centre at approximately 3pm, I was quite surprised to see the fiddling number of patrons knowing that the festival has started at 10 am. Being an annual patron I was surprised because at this time at venue would already be packed with patrons by this time. The venue had approximately 15 booths, but the one that got most visitors was one that displayed a variety of mango pastry such as Mango Bread, Mango Muffin, Mango Crumble, Mango Juice and many others.

Smoke could be seen coming from the four corners of the venue as the jerk vendors had turned out in numbers, Jerk Chicken and Jerk Pork was ready with each vendor offering their customers a special home made mango sauce.

However, as soon as Ms. Kitty hit the stage and started to MC the evening entertainment, the Delveland Community Centre gradually got more populated as if there were patrons on the outside just waiting for the real entertainment to start.

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