NAS­SAU– Jem­i­nise Par­ris won T&T's fourth gold medal on the sec­ond day of ac­tion at the 42nd an­nu­al Carif­ta Games at the Thomas A Robin­son Sta­di­um in Nas­sau, Ba­hamas yes­ter­day.

Par­ris won the Girls Un­der 17 300m hur­dles fi­nals in a per­son­al best time of 43.24.

The gold medal fol­lows the suc­cess­es of Machel Ce­de­nio, Mark Lon­don and Chelsea James on Sat­ur­day's open­ing day when T&T cap­tured three gold medals.

Ce­de­nio scorched the track in 45.93 sec­onds to win the Un­der 20 400 me­tres ti­itle. Lon­don took cap­tured the Un­der 20 1500 me­tres while James re­peat­ed as Un­der 17 shot put cham­pi­on.

How­ev­er, yes­ter­day Ja­maican throw­ers dom­i­nat­ed the morn­ing ses­sion on the heels of a less than out­stand­ing ef­fort from their sprint­ers on the open­ing day of the meet.

Gold medals in the un­der-17 boy's shot put and girl's un­der-17 dis­cus high­light­ed a very good ses­sion for the re­gion­al ath­let­ic pow­er­house at the Thomas A Robin­son Sta­di­um in Nas­sau.

War­ren Bar­rett, son of a for­mer Ja­maica goal­keep­er with the same name, threw 16.88 me­tres, in his sec­ond at­tempt, to win the Un­der-17 boys shot put.

Bar­rett's coun­try woman Vashon Mc­Carthy, who won the Class Two event for As­cot at Champs, was sec­ond with a throw of 16.47 me­tres, his on­ly mark over 16 me­tres. Grena­da's An­der­son Pe­ters picked up bronze with a throw of 15.53 to fol­low up an im­pres­sive throw of 64.01 which gave him top ho­n­ours in the boys' Un­der-17 javelin Sat­ur­day.

Two Ja­maican ath­letes were al­so the main con­tenders for gold in the dis­cus throw as well.

Shan­ice Love se­cured top spot af­ter hurl­ing the dis­cus to a dis­tance of 40.16 me­tres sur­pass­ing the 39.91 me­tres set by her team­mate Janell Fuller­ton.

Love, who was rep­re­sent­ing Ja­maica for the first time, was elat­ed by her ac­com­plish­ment.

"To come and win a medal on my first na­tion­al trip, it feels like a star," de­clared Love.

"So I want to thank staff here and my sup­port­ers for help­ing me to achieve my goal."

The out­stand­ing per­for­mance by Ja­maican ath­letes in the field Sun­day morn­ing was a con­trast to their sprint­ers on the open­ing day which saw them win­ning on­ly one of four 100 me­tre fi­nals. CMC