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September 14 Caribbean Football Union (CFU) President Randy Harris has backed FIFAs plans for a biennial World Cup, arguing that it would offer more high-quality playing opportunities for his member associations.

In an interview with Jamaican newspaper The Gleaner, Harris, a heavyweight in the local football arena, said that in our region, we are not playing competitive football at the level of World Cup qualifying and trying to make it to the finals. We in the Caribbean, would support a World Cup every two years. The World Cup would bring an appeal to the players, officials and the general public that nothing else does.

Harris believes that a World Cup every two years would not be too detrimental to the continental tournaments. In FIFAs plans, those tournaments would either continue or also switch to a biennial cycle.

The truth is if we have it biennially there is more activity, especially in a region such as ours, said Harris.

I think people are a bit worried that the World Cup would take away from the confederations tournaments at this time. But I feel that a system can be worked out where we can all live in some harmony to make sure that the global game gets the exposure that it needs.

At FIFA Congress, the proposal for a biennial World Cup was motioned by the Saudi Arabian Football Federation and the membership duly voted for a feasibility to be conducted.

We just need to manage our time, saidJamaica Football Federation president Michael Ricketts at the time. I honestly think that it could work and we need to just from a national standpoint, play more football.

Harriss CFU represents an important voting block in the CONCACAF region as well as on the global stage, uniting 25 FIFA member nations as well as six territories that are not affiliated to the global governing body.

On Monday, Concacaf said in a statement that in its initial analysis it understood the merits of a World Cup every two years.

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Going on a Royal Caribbean cruise with friends is a great way to travel with your besties without feeling you have to be attached at the hip the entire time. Because there is so much to do on a ship, it allows different personalities to do what they enjoy, while still being together.

Taking friends on a cruise comes with its own challenges to ensure you all have a great time onboard. The good news with a little bit of planning, you can ensure your friends enjoy the cruise without any hiccups.

Before you book a sailing or get onboard with your matching shirts, be sure to heed this advice for a great start.

Whether you have two or ten cabins, book everyone under the same travel agent for simplicity.

Not only could you potentially get group benefits from Royal Caribbean if you book enough cabins, but being booked under the same travel agent really makes coordinating onboard plans a lot simpler.

Travel agents make it so much easier to remind your pals it's time to make final payment, or answer any sort of billing questions with the cruise line. You love your friends, but dealing with friends and their financial situation is no fun.

In addition, a travel agent can easily link everyone's reservations together so that dining together is simple.

If there was a need to cancel or change sail dates, having the same agent makes the process much easier.

Unlike family, sometimes expressing what you really want to do with friends can be tough since you don't want to offend anyone or come off as appearing to be needy. However, you should have a good idea of what everyone wants from the sailing before you book.

There is a fine line between planning ahead and becoming burdensome with a schedule. Everyone comes in with different ideas about how much they want to to do together, or not.

Before the cruise, have a conversation about what they are looking forward to doing, especially together. It is a good idea to figure out is this a trip where you will all hang out all day, or just meet up for drinks.

Onboard a cruise ship, there is no cellular phone service, so you should have a plan on how everyone will chat.

Group chats in apps like Facebook or WhatsApp are very common, but you will all need to get an internet package.

You could use walkie talkies or rely on voicemails in your cabins, but these tend to be more cumbersome.

The key is to ensure you all agree on something before you get onboard so no one is left in the dark.

One of the best pieces of advice for friends on a cruise is at the very least have dinner together every night.

Everyone finds their own activities to do onboard, but it is a good idea to plan to meet up for dinner each night to have a common time to meet.

Whether the main dining room, Windjammer, or specialty restaurants, have a plan for everyone to enjoy dinner together each evening for a time to reconnect and make plans for the following day.

A recent trend among groups is to get matching shirts for everyone in the group.

This not only makes for great group photos, but you can easily identify everyone. This is helpful with large groups.

There are many places online you can customized shirts, or just pick a design and buy one for everyone.

It can be tempting to try to plan every minute of the cruise, but too much of a good thing applies to a cruise too.

If you try to plan too much, things can get quickly overwhelming for some friends in your group, as well as create rifts among friends.

Leave time for everyone to do their own thing, keeping in mind you could still do things together on the fly.

Sharing a cabin with a friend? Set up different billing methods for each person.

You can assign credit cards to specific people in the room at Guest Services, which makes settling the bill later significantly easier.

In addition, it is a good idea to make clear lines of who is picking up what tab. Shore excursions, dinners, and drink orders are all common ways you could pay for someone else, but be certain before the end of the cruise the bills all look good.

If you need to re-arrange any extra costs, a trip to Guest Services could fix that. Alternatively, you could simply send money electronically to friends after the sailing.

The bigger the group, the more likely everyone will arrive at different times to the cruise terminal on embarkation day, so pick a time to meet.

It is a good idea to pick a time in late afternoon for the meet. Sailaway is a good time that everyone will be onboard and ready for some fun.

Here are some good ideas of things to pack to bring on a cruise with friends:

The bigger your group, the more important pre-booking is for certain events and offerings.

Specialty restaurants, shore excursions, the escape room, and pretty much anything with limited capacity is a good idea to pre-book whenever possible.

It is not always possible to pre-book everything, but look for the options in the Cruise Planner.

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10 must have Royal Caribbean tips & tricks for cruising with friends - Royal Caribbean Blog

A simple approach to champagne and caviar

Ariel Arce, dubbed the champagne empress of Manhattan debuted her complex yet approachable ways into champagne and caviar at this weekends seminars where six wines and three caviars were paired.

Here are some fun facts and not-so-fun facts about both delicacies:

On the fish egg front, a lot of people dont realize that all different types of sturgeon are producing all different types of caviar and they all have different flavor profiles.

Kalauga Imperial caviar, which was one of three tasted in Arces seminar, is farmed from China. The country is the leading producer of this one product, which you will see on every single three-star Michelin caviar.

Arce told the crowd that while Fridays tasting procedure was to put a little caviar on a potato chip and wash it down with champagne, a more fun (perhaps Aspen) way is to scoop it out of the jar and put it on your hand and suck it off like a little bump, which drew a collective laugh.

On the bubbly side, the region of champagne was decimated in the 1980s, according to Arce.

There was some really dumb thought out there that if you put trash in the vineyards it would actually reflect the sun when it got very hot out and the region of champagne is littered with garbage, she said, noting that winemakers are trying to undo what was done and be more sustainable on the land.

Arce started a direct-to-consumer caviar company in the past year after her restaurants suffered during the pandemic.

I was having to be creative and pivot for survival, she said. It was not fun.

But she realized that people wanted to buy caviar during COVID-19 and its been a hit ever since. Arce is the author of Better with Bubbles and her caviar website is http://www.cavi-air.com.

Carolyn Sackariason, The Aspen Times

Kwame Onwuachi started off cooking in his mothers kitchen at about five years old before being sent to Nigeria on a what was pitched as a two week vacation to visit his grandfather when he was around 10 years old It was a two year punishment to teach me what I have here in America and what to appreciate, the small things like running water, electricity, things that we take for granted every single day.

That experience directly translated to the career path that I eventually took, he said.

Now, at 31 years young, Onwuachi is leading his own Food & Wine Classic seminar in Aspen, and its an homage to his heritage, Tasting Home: Afro-Caribbean Cuisine.

The Friday afternoon seminar was quick-paced and informative and showcased not only the chefs creativity and talent but also his playfulness and genuine desire to get to know the audience and give them a chance to get to know him.

The audience was treated to Onwuachi cooking up a Creole dish, touffe, to honor his mom along with a Caribbean dish.

But attendees left with a lot more information then just cooking techniques and new recipes. We also learned that one of Onwuachis favorite movies is Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, he doesnt like coleslaw, he is coming out with a nail polish line in the future the color he was wearing during the seminar he said was called chefs kiss the chefs preferred cocktail is a gin and tonic with a little bit of elderflower and his favorite condiment is ketchup. (In fact, he loves ketchup so much, the Heinz company is creating a ketchup cologne just for him.)

So now, if youre ever in a Kwame Onwuachi-themed trivia round, youll have a head start to some of the answers.

Rose Laudicina, The Aspen Times

I finally have been requisitioned to cover a food seminar. Granted, it was Brooke Williamsons Not Your Mamas Grilled Cheese, so not even an idiot like me could mess that up, hypothetically.

Wendsleydale? Gruyere? Halliburton? No, just two dozen slices of good ol American singles on white bread drenched in mayonnaise and a lukewarm griddle, thats the secret. It was like watching AllRecipes.com take acid at 9:30 a.m. and try to sit on its own whoopee cushion.

Williamson presented some culinary tricks definitely out of my purview, such as using fish sauce in your homemade caramel coating instead of, I dont know, Smuckers? If you havent realized already, my kitchen vocabulary is limited. Like, you lost me at bring to a boil. I dont know why the sores on my back need to examine the progress, but whatever.

Everyone here has had breakfast, right? Williamson asked. Noooo, the crowd droned. But please, continue.

I dont exactly know what I was expecting, but probably something like Great British Baking Show with every participant having a mini table and spatula and Easy Bake Oven to make their own lil grilled cheese squares.

At least we probably won the tent crowd scream-off against the denizens of Guy Fee-Eddys how to drink in the mornings lecture. As if we didnt already know.

Ben Welch, The Aspen Times

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Reporters' notebook Day 2: Champagne and caviar, Creole and Caribbean, and even a little cheese at the Food & Wine Classic - Aspen Times

By NAN Staff Writer

News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Sept. 10, 2021: Its been 20 years already since the September 11th attacks; twenty years since some 3,000 perished, including dozens from the Caribbean.

Today, we again put a face to the name of every known Caribbean immigrant victim of 9/11 based on the names and images listed on the September 11th Memorial in New York City.

#NeverForget.

Some of the lost from the Caribbean were:

Guyana

Patrick Adams was a security officer at Fuji Bank at the World Trade Center on the 80th Floor, Tower 2. He was born in Georgetown and lived in Brooklyn.

Rudy Bacchus born May 20, 1953 at Springlands, Corentyne, Berbice, Stockbroker with Nasdaq and former Vice President at Merrill Lynch.

Kris Romeo Bishundat, was 23 at time of his death during the attack at the Pentagon and a Navy Information Systems Technician who was born in Guyana and lived in Waldorf, Maryland.

Pamela Boyce Asst. Vice President, Carr Futures; 92nd Floor, World Trade Center

Annette Dataram, aka Priya born January 20, 1976 in Guyana and lived in Queens, NY. She worked as accountant 107th Floor, World Trade Center at the time of her death.

Babita Guman lived in the Bronx and worked as a computer specialist at Fiduciary Trust Company International 97th Floor, southern tower, World Trade Center.

Nizam Hafiz Former Guyana Under 19 and current USA National Cricket Team Player was born in Guyana, lived in Queens, NY and worked for Marsh & McLennan, World Trade Center.

Ricknauth Jaggernauth worked for NTX Interiors 104th Floor, World Trade Center and lived in Brooklyn, NY.

Charles Gregory John, Security Officer, Fuji Bank

Bhowanie Devi Khemraj worked at the World Trade Center

Sarah Khan worked for Forte Foods/Cantor Fitzgerald 101st Floor, World Trade Center, Tower 1 and lived in Queens, NY.

Amarnauth Latchman from Port Mourant, Guyana and lived in Valley Stream NY. Worked at Cantor Fitzgerald as a contractor from PM Contracting Company and would have turned 59 this year.

Shevonne Mentis worked for Marsh & McLennan, 93rd Floor, World Trade Center, Tower 1 and lived in Brooklyn, NY.

Hardai Parbhu worked for Aon Corporation and lived in the Bronx.

Ameenia Rasool born March 4, 1968 at Mada, near Bush Lot, Corentyne, Berbice and worked for Marsh and McLennan Inc. 98th Floor, World Trade Center (Tower 1). She lived in the Bronx.

Sita Sewnarine worked for Fiduciary Trust Company International97th Floor, southern tower, World Trade Center and lived in Brooklyn, NY.

Kamini Singh worked for Windows on the World 107th Floor, World Trade Center (Tower 1)Ronald Singh worked for Windows on the World 107th Floor, World Trade Center (Tower 1)

Astrid Sohan born September 25, 1968 in Georgetown, Guyana, was an assistant vice pres., Marsh and McLennan,95th Floor, World Trade Center (Tower 1).

Charles Gregory John lived in Brooklyn, NY and worked at Fuji Bank as a security.

Eustace R. Bacchus, lived in Metuchen, New Jersey and was a visitor at Windows on the World at the time of his death.

Vanavah Thompson worked for ABM, assigned to Marsh USA. Was on duty on 73rd Floor, World Trade Center, Tower 2 and lived in the Bronx.

Jamaica

John Sylvester White was from St. Ann, Jamaica and lived in Brooklyn. He worked at ABM Industries, North Tower and would have turned 65 this year.

Keith Bromfield was from Spanish Town, Jamaica and lived in Brooklyn. He worked at Advent Industrial.

Delrose E. Forbes Cheatham lived in Effort, PA and worked at Cantor Fitzgerald at the time of her death.

Joyce Smith was born in Kingston on December 16, 1945 and lived in Queens, NY. She worked at Cantor Fitzgerald, Forte Food Service.

Neal O. Hinds was born in Kingston on September 13, 1972 and worked at Bank of New York. He lived in Queens, NY.

Vaswald George Hall lived in St. Albans, NY and was a visitor at the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey at the WTC when he died.

Derrick Auther Green was born in Kingston, Jamaica and lived in the Bronx, NY. He worked at Fiduciary Trust Company International and would have turned 61 this year.

Courtney Walcott was born in Kingston on March 23, 1964 and lived in Hackensack, NJ. He worked at IQ Financial Systems.s

Lloyd Stanford Brown was born in Portland, Jamaica and lived in Mount Vernon, NY. He worked at Cantor Fitzgerald and would have turned 45 this year.

Michael Howell was born in Kingston on November 2, 1940 and lived in Queens. He worked at Fred Alger Management.

Kerene Gordon lived in Queens, NY and worked at Cantor Fitzgerald, Forte Food Service at the time on her death.

Denise Marie Gregory lived in Queens, NY and worked at Carr Futures.

Michael Parkes lived in NYC and worked at Marsh & McLennan.

Artist Michael Richards, Jamaica, NY, would have turned 55 this year.

Nichola Angela Thorpe was born in St. Catherine, Jamaica and worked at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods while living in NYC.

Titus Davidson was living in Brooklyn and working as a contractor at Morgan Stanley when he died.

Damion Mowatt lived in Brooklyn and worked at Cantor Fitzgerald, Forte Food Service.

Carol Millicent Rabalais worked at Aon Corporation and lived in Brooklyn.

Venesha Orintia Richards lived in New Brunswick, NJ and worked at Marsh & McLennan.

Antigua & Barbuda

Albert Gunnis Joseph, Manhattan, NY worked at Morgan Stanley and would have turned 96 this year if he had lived that long.

Catherina Henry-Robinson, Bronx, NY would have turned 62 this year.

Emelda H. Perry, lived in Elmont, Long Island, New York and worked at Washington Group International and would have turned 69 this year.

Barbados

Colin Arthur Bonnett, Crown Heights, NY would have turned 56 this year and worked at Marsh & McLennan.

Pauline Francis, Brooklyn, NY would have turned 74 this year and worked at Cantor Fitzgerald, Forte Food Service.

Melissa Rene Vincent lived in Hoboken, New Jersey and worked for Alliance Consulting Group. She would have turned 46 this year.

Bermuda

Rhondelle Cherie Tankard worked at Aon Corporation and would have turned 48 this year.

Kevin Patrick York worked at Euro Brokers and would have turned 58 this year.

Boyd Alan Gatton worked at Fiduciary Trust Company International and would have been 56 this year.

British Virgin Island

Calvin Dawson, worked at Euro Brokers, would have turned 63 this year.

Dominica

Virgin Lucy Francis, Brooklyn, NY would have turned 57 this year and worked at Windows on the World.

Fitzroy St. Rose, Bronx, NY and worked at General Telecom. Would have turned 57 this year.

Dominican Republic

Pedro Checo, New York, NY would have been 52 this year.

Faustino Apostol, Staten Island, NY.

Alvarez Victoria Brito, Elmhurst, NY.

David Agnes, New York, NY.

Frank Thomas Aquilino, Staten Island, NY.

Lilian Caceres, Staten Island, NY.

Jaime Concepcion, Manhattan, NY

Nestor Chevalier, New York, NY

Haiti

Karl Henry Joseph was a firefighter with Engine 207 who was born in Haiti and lived in Brooklyn, NY. He was among the first responders who died that day.

Mark Y. Gilles was born on January 15, 1968 in Port-Au-Prince and lived in Brooklyn, NY. He was a consultant at Cantor Fitzgerald.

Andre Bonheur, Jr., was born on April 5, 1961 in Port-Au-Prince and lived in Brooklyn, NY. He was visiting Cantor Fitzgerald on the tragic day.

Francois Jean-Pierre was born in Cap Haitien, Haiti on February 6, 1943 and lived in Elmont, Long Island. He worked at Windows on the World.

Farah Jeudy lived in Spring Valley, NY and worked for Aon Corporation.

Wilbert Miraille lived in Manhattan and worked for Cantor Fitzgerald.

Nolbert Salomon lived in Brooklyn and worked as a contractor at Morgan Stanley.

Trinidad and Tobago

Rena Sam Dinnoo was born in Port-Of-Spain on January 7, 1973 and lived in Brooklyn, NY. She worked at Marsh & McLennan.

Glenroy I. Neblett was born on September 15, 1958 in LaBrea, Trinidad and lived in Queens, NY. He worked at Reinsurance Solutions.

Clara Victorine Hinds was born on November 26, 1948 in Belmont, Belmont, Trinidad and lived in Far Rockaway, NY. She worked at Windows on the World.

Anthony Portillo was born on May 11, 1953 in Fyzabad, Trinidad and Tobago and lived in Brooklyn, NY. He was working Washington Group International when he was killed.

Goumatie Thackurdeen was born in Port-Of-Spain on May 23, 1966 and lived in South Ozone Park, NY. She worked at Fiduciary Trust Company International.

Joyce Rose Cummings was born on June 17, 1936 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. She lived in Brooklyn.

Conrod Kofi Cottoy, Sr. lived in Brooklyn and worked at Carr Futures.

Winston Arthur Grant lived in West Hempstead, LI and worked at Empire BlueCross BlueShield.

Stephen Joseph lived in Franklin Park, NJ and worked at Fiduciary Trust Company International.

Boyie Mohammed lived in Brooklyn and worked at Carr Futures.

Paula E. Morales lived in NYC and worked at Aon Corporation.

Jerome O. Nedd lived in Brooklyn and worked at Windows on the World.

Oscar Francis Nesbitt lived in Manhattan and worked at the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance.

Vishnoo Ramsaroop lived in Queens, NY and worked at ABM Industries, North Tower.

Puerto Rico

Angel M. Pabon, Jr., born on May 26, 1948 in Manat, Puerto Rico and lived in Brooklyn. Worked at Cantor Fitzgerald.

Anna A. Laverty, born in Bayamn, Puerto Rico on March 1, 1949 and lived in Middletown, New Jersey. Worked at Fiduciary Trust Company International.

Edna Cintron, New York, NY

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Caribbean News - 20 Years Later Remembering The Caribbean Immigrant Victims Of 9/11 - Caribbean and Latin America Daily News - News Americas