JC, St George"s, Wolmer"s hunt 6th-straight win in Manning Cup

BY SHERDON COWAN

Monday, September 29, 2014    

DEFENDING champions Jamaica College are among a few top schools who will seek to secure second round berths in the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/LIME Manning Cup football competition as nine games are set to be contested today.

Jamaica College are currently atop Group G on 15 points and they should extend their lead when they face third-placed St Andrew Technical High School (STATHS) who are on seven points.

The Old Hope Road boys came out 1-0 victors when playing away to their opponents and the home advantage could now see them opening up the floodgates.

The other group game will see fifth-placed Jonathan Grant (six points) hosting Norman Manley High, who are sitting in second position on nine points.

Many-time champions St George’s College (15 points) should also extend their lead in Group A when they face the hapless Campion College, who are yet to gain a point. The ‘Georgians’ were ruthless at home when they mauled their opponents 11-1, and a similar fate seems imminent.

Meanwhile, second-placed Kingston College (nine points) will be aiming to stay close to their neighbours when they host fourth-placed Jose Marti (seven points) in the other group fixture.

In Group D, leaders Haile Selassie High (18 points) will play away to fourth-placed Bridgeport High (seven points), while second-placed Camperdown High (16 points) will have a tough game on their hands when they visit third-placed Greater Portmore (10 points). Dunoon Technical (four points) will host Papine High (three points) in a bottom-of-the-table clash.

Wolmer’s Boys (15 points) should have things their way in Group E when they visit third-placed Spanish Town High (six points) following their easy 4-0 victory when the two teams last met. Second-placed Holy Trinity (12 points) will host the struggling Trench Town (four points), who have now slipped to the bottom of the table.

All games will begin at 3:30 pm, with the exception of the Bridgeport High versus Haile Selassie encounter, which is scheduled to begin at 1:00 pm.

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JC, St George"s, Wolmer"s hunt 6th-straight win in Manning Cup

ISSA/Lime Manning Cup schedule

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Verdict expected in Manning case

29 July 2013 Last updated at 21:57 ET Manning has acknowledged disclosing the documents, but his lawyer denies he did it to win notoriety A military judge is set to issue a verdict in the court martial of the US soldier who disclosed reams of secret documents to the Wikileaks website.

Pte Bradley Manning, 25, will hear Judge Col Denise Lind’s ruling at 13:00 local time (17:00 GMT) on Tuesday.

Pte Manning has acknowledged leaking the documents but denies the most serious charge of “aiding the enemy”.

He has already pleaded guilty to 10 lesser charges out of 22 total, and faces life in prison if convicted.

‘Systematic harvest’ Pte Manning, an intelligence analyst, was arrested in Iraq in May 2010. He spent weeks in a cell at Camp Arifjan, a US Army installation in Kuwait, before being transferred to the US.

He was charged with 22 counts including aiding the enemy, unauthorised possession of intelligence material, theft, and violations of computer regulations.

The court martial in Fort Meade, Maryland, opened in early June.

During the trial, prosecutor Maj Ashden Fein argued Pte Manning systematically harvested hundreds of thousands of classified documents to offer them to anti-secrecy organisation WikiLeaks.

Pte Manning’s supporters rallied outside Fort McNair in Washington on Friday

He argued that with his training as an intelligence analyst, Pte Manning should have known the leaked documents would become available to al-Qaeda operatives.

The prosecution has argued the leaks harmed US national security and endangered American lives and those of foreign intelligence and diplomatic sources, and Maj Fein has said some of the documents eventually made their way to Osama Bin Laden.

Pte Manning’s defence lawyer, meanwhile, has argued the young soldier is a well-intentioned whistleblower – and naive and disillusioned after his deployment to Iraq in 2009.

The lawyer, civilian David Coombs, has also said Pte Manning acted without the “general evil intent” that would justify the “aiding the enemy” charge.

In a lengthy statement during a pre-trial hearing in February, Pte Manning said he had leaked the files in order to spark a public debate about US foreign policy and the military.

The BBC’s Ben Wright explains the case against Bradley Manning in 80 seconds

Among the items sent to Wikileaks was graphic footage of an Apache helicopter attack in 2007 that killed a dozen people in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, including a Reuters photographer.

The documents also included 470,000 Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield reports and 250,000 secure state department cables between Washington and embassies around the world.

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Verdict expected in Manning case