Rafael Hidalgo Reynoso welcomed the New Year celebrating in church, but returned home to find the three-bedroom house he shared with two friends in Ottos gutted by fire.

“If only he had waited for ‘Fives’, then he would have still been alive,” Sharon Thomas said yesterday before breaking down into tears, upon learning her son died in an accident just minutes after he walked out of her home.

Members of Ottos Rangers FC collected their Second Division championship trophy from President of the Antigua & Barbuda Football Association (ABFA), Everton “Batow” Gonsalves, on Friday at the Rangers Playing Field.

Ottos Rangers FC will be looking to keep their current squad closely knitted as they look towards playing in First Division of the Antigua & Barbuda Football Association’s (ABFA) domestic programme for the 2011/12 season.

Plans are in the pipeline to establish a youth media watchdog group that could see young people lobbying to clean up the airways in Antigua & Barbuda.

Ottos Rangers became the first team to secure automatic promotion to First Division next season, doing so in grand style by beating Police three goals to nil at Antigua Recreation Grounds (ARG) on Saturday.

There will be no Premier Division football competition this weekend.

He remained optimistic for as long as he could, but following his team’s 4-0 loss to Champion Footwear Greenbay Hoppers on Saturday, coach of the A&R Smitty FC, St Clair “Nashie” Christian, is ready to admit defeat and build once more from First Division.

Ottos Rangers FC, by 2013, will be one of the teams contesting the Antigua & Barbuda Football Association (ABFA) Premier Division football competition.

Top Ranking Upsetters International Domino Team are the 2010 champions of the Triangular Three-Hand Domino Series, which climaxed over the weekend. The final match was held on Friday night, and the awards