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At Providence this week…

Qualfon to open one of world’s largest call centres Page

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- 6,000 new jobs will be created

At Anna Regina…

President launches

$100M

Rice Cereal Manufacturing facility

- says PPP will never allow rice industry to fail Page 12

Joint Services commence internal security training Page

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‘GROUND-BREAKING’: President Donald Ramotar, Minister Irfaan Ali and Dr Suresh Narine turn the sod at the site where the multi-million-dollar Rice Cereal Manufacturing Facility at Anna Regina will be built. Looking on, in this Adrian Narine photo, are Labour Minister Dr Nanda Gopaul (right), Minister within the Ministry of Agriculture Mr Ali Baksh and Region Two Chairman Mr Parmanand Persaud.

Deep-Water Harbour

on the horizon for Guyana Page 2

GUYANA: NO ‘SANDWICH’ Establish facts, fight IN U.S./VENEZUELA ROW 8 with them – Nadir 13 Page

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Deep-Water Harbour on the horizon for Guyana - High-level delegation expected to pursue feasibility study

WEEKS after Guyana would have recommenced i t s s e a rc h f o r c r u d e , the Office of the Prime Minister has announced that Government has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a Chinese Company to undertake a Feasibility Study into the construction of a Deep-Water Harbour at the mouth of the Berbice River.

The announcement came by way of a public missive, and detailed that Mr Zhile (David) Zhang, Chief Representative of the Overseas Operations of China State Construction Engineering Company Ltd in the Latin American and Caribbean Region will be in Guyana this week to followup on the MoU. According to the announcement by the Prime M i n i s t e r ’s O ff i c e , M r.

Zhang will be followed by a technical team from his

company, which will carry out the Preliminary Study, at the company’s expense and without any obligations on the part of the Government.

It was observed in Prime Minister Hinds’ statement, that over the years, there have been a number of interests in a Deep-Water Port in Guyana.

A number of Preliminary Studies/proposals were put to Government by Boskalis, a team sent by the Government of India and Oldendorff (the Germanybased shipping and barging company contracted to the Berbice bauxite operations, BCGI/RUSAL).

“During the recent visits of the President of China to CARICOM and the subsequent BRICS meeting in Brazil, there were announcements that China had committed large funds for infrastructure development in the Caribbean, Central and South

American area. Chinese firms, aware of this financing and always on the search for new business opportunities (like all businesses) have been proposing to be partners in desired economic developments…The desired deep water harbour in Guyana is one such.”

According to the PM’s statement, “Government at this time is welcoming and facilitating offers to carry out and present Preliminary Studies/ Proposals at no costs to and no obligations on the part of the Government.”

It advised too that a team from Dalian Port Corporation visited Guyana during the week of 15th September, 2014 and Prime Minister Hinds led a team on a return visit to Dalian over 10th to 13th October, 2014.

According to Hinds, “It may be recalled that in the mid-1990s, the Aroaima Operations of Reynold’s

The above is a sketch of a proposed Deep-Water Harbour for Nigeria

One of several Deep Water Harbours in China

(ABC/AMC) Bauxite Operations constructed a D e e p - Wa t e r S h i p p i n g Facility at the mouth of the Berbice River, which facility could have been seen as the

first step towards a traditional PANAMAX (65,000-ton) sized port.”

The Government has advised that if a DeepWater Port on a Build Own

Operate Transfer (BOOT) basis was to appear to be feasible, Government at that stage would proceed by way of an open invitation for proposals.

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At Providence this week…

Qualfon to open one of world’s largest call centres - 6,000 new jobs will be created

QUALFON, a leading global business process outsourcing (BPO) provider, will be opening the doors to one of the world’s largest Contact Centre campus at Lot 146 Plantation Providence, East Bank Demerara (behind the Guyana National Stadium) on Thursday (March 26).

Slated to provide some 6,000 new jobs over a five-year period, the new multi-million-dollar, stateof-the-art, multi-building campus will also boast a university, facilities for milk subsidies, free medical services, worksite chaplains, library exchange and caring programmes The Qualfon Contact Centre Campus at Providence

was constructed on 10 acres of land and the first phase of construction will cost approximately US$4M. At the opening ceremony, Qualfon executives and other distinguished invitees will speak following the ribboncutting ceremony, which will signal the official opening of the campus.

There, invitees will get the opportunity to interact with BPO industry analysts and get their perspectives on the Guyana market.

At the ceremony, those in attendance will get a first-hand look at the campus where the basic facilities being constructed are a contact centre, an administrative building and a second operations centre.

This Qualfon call centre campus at Providence will be one of the largest in the world

President Donald Ramotar speaking at the ground-breaking ceremony in September 2013 (Adrian Narine photo) The complex will boast solar power panels and “green” building materials, an indoor/

outdoor cafeteria, an interfaith chapel, an on-site waste water treatment facility, back-up generators, a water pond and landscaping and parking facilities.

AT ‘SOD-TURNING’ On September 3, 2013, the sod-turning exercise took place, with President Donald Ramotar delivering the feature address at the ground-breaking ceremony.

At that event, President Ramotar underscored the importance of investment in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector, which he said has penetrated into

every single section of the economy.

He acknowledged that such a large investment in this enterprise was also important, because it puts Guyana on the cutting edge of present technology, and therefore augured well for the future development of the society.

President Ramotar also stressed the importance of ICT in broadening Guyana’s economy, so as to make it less dependent on only a few businesses.

“This has certainly made a major contribution in the direction of broadening the economy and that is why we have been trying our best to lay the foundation to make Guyana attractive for investment,” he said.

Site Director of the Providence Qualfon Campus, Mr. Mark Boyer, said the company already employs about 1,500 people in Guyana.

He said the new centre

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POWER IS NOT ANY LONGER BY MILTARY FORCE

By Keith Burrowes

IN the news not so long ago, Sony Pictures, the movie-making arm of the multimedia giant has been defeated by hackers who attacked the company’s servers, releasing embarrassing e-mails and sensitive information on the Internet. The hackers have forced Sony to stop the release of a film which features the assassination of North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un. While the U.S. intelligence officials have claimed that the attack came from the North Korean Government, North Korea has fired back calling for a joint investigation into the incident. The reality is that it is entirely possible that sophisticated hackers could have routed its attack through the internet domain (if I have that term right) of a country that has not exactly been on the cutting edge of technology.

The only people claiming responsibility so far is a group calling itself the Guardians of Peace. The complexity and import of this development cannot be overstated. In essence, a company that has revenues that would surpass the GDP of many developing countries has been forced to stop the release of one its most anticipated films of the year.

In addition to that, it has sparked an international incident involving a global superpower and an unstable pariah regime.

There was a time when even cyber-warfare was fairly clear-cut and a natural extension of high-tech espionage, China infiltrating U.S. databases and vice versa. This, however, is something completely different. The UN Economic and Social Council in 2011 held

a meeting on Cyber Security in 2011.

The consensus was, “We have agreed that cybersecurity is a global issue that can only be solved through global partnership. It affects all of our organisations…and the United Nations is positioned to bring its strategic and analytic capabilities to address these issues.”

It is perhaps time that the UN take further action.

Then there is the issue of climate change and the international response to resulting disasters, something I’ve written on before. As I noted then, UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon’s tenure has been preceded by and encompassed extremes of natural disasters, from the tsunami that swept over Asia, to Hurricane Ivan, to Katrina, the Haiti and Chile earthquakes and now the flooding in Pakistan.

Whereas the chief concerns of his predecessors Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Kofi Annan were man-made conflicts – Iraq, the Balkans, Rwanda, Afghanistan, Iraq again – it is clear that the greatest threat to the UN fulfilling its mandate, particularly the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, is the increasing prevalence of environmental/natural catastrophes.

Imagine the setbacks, for example, caused by the flood with relation to Pakistan’s achieving of Goal 1, which is to “Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty”, or Goal 2, which is to “Combat HIV/ AIDS, malaria and other diseases.” Indeed, the very unpredictability of nature within the past decade, calls into question the feasibility of the commitment to Goal 7, which is to “Ensure environmental sustainability”; and this is without bringing into the equation issues like the international gridlock on environmental policy, and multinational corporate irresponsibility as evidenced most clearly in the case of the

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The only option left, in my view, is the mitigation of the effects of natural disasters, and it boggles my mind why the international community, particular as encompassed by the UN, has not been retooling to put a more proactive mechanism in place to deal with the after effects phenomena like earthquakes, flood, tidal waves and hurricanes. As it is now, the approach is reactive, a strategy, or lack thereof, that is appearing more and more absurd when contrasted with the incidence of natural disasters.

How many more catastrophes have to occur before the UN Secretary General or his successor begins to look sincere in their expression of disbelief at the scale of the human tragedy?

The best bet may be some sort of emergency flood, one in which a substantial amount of easily accessible money is placed to deal with extreme natural disasters, with eligibility defined by a pre-established set of criteria. The difficulty of course, is achieving consensus to get the international community, particularly richer countries, to commit their financial resources to something that may or may not happen, with consequences that are thus difficult to project. It’s hard enough to get them to commit funding at adequate levels to existing causes, like poverty reduction and HIV/AIDS. Failing this, or as an alternative to it, is the establishment of an international disaster insurance fund. Of course, the issues which plague regular insurance arrangements are going to come up – like the question of ‘risk’, for example; as well as problems that might by unique to that arrangement, such as the issue of reinsurance for example.

Then finally, there is the issue of the increase in armed conflict and violence by non-state actors. Even as Israel and Palestine continue to fight each other, and even as tensions between Russia and Ukraine continue in the Crimea, the most deadly conflicts appear to be cultural and without any respect for national borders. From the Janjaweed in Darfur, to Kony in Uganda, to Boko Haram in Nigeria, to ISIS in Iraq, to the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan, to the global Al-Qaeda network, violence carried out by groups without affiliation to nation-states has been on the increase. There has not been a corresponding reconfiguration of the global security apparatus however to deal with this threat.

Whatever the mechanisms, global political leadership clearly has to go back to the drawing board to redefine its concept of [state] actors, emergency and global security.

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Joint Services commence internal security training - says it is timely in wake of Guyana’s preparation for elections

Members of the GPF preparing for a crowd dispersal exercise (GDF photo)

Members of the Joint Services demonstrating their firefighting skills during the training (GDF photo)

Qualfon to open ...

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will generate 6,000 jobs, but this cannot be done by Qualfon alone; but rather with the support of the Government and other institutions and agencies.

Boyer posited that just as it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a country to put 6,000 people to work.

He disclosed that there are nine Qualfon centres worldwide, three in The Philippines, two in Columbia, one in Honduras, one in Guatemala, one in Belize and one in Guyana.

Among these, he said, the Guyana centre is ranked at number one in virtually every category in the world.

Qualfon’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mr. Mike Marrow, speaking at the sod-turning ceremony, said the event was an exciting one in the history of the investor and should also be one for the citizens of Guyana.

He said the Providence Campus will be one of the largest call centres in the world.

According to him: “That says something about Guyana.”

He said that, while Qualfon operates in countries worldwide, out of all, Guyana is the ideal place to put one of the largest call centres.

“Qualfon is making this major investment in Guyana because this is the country that has so much to offer.

Guyana provides the perfect location for Qualfon. We find an exceedingly high-calibre workforce, a diverse and friendly culture, as well as a strong government leadership with unwavering dedication to economic growth,” Marrow remarked.

He said over the next few years, the Providence Campus will become the largest business hub for Qualfon and its most significant investment, to date, anywhere in the world.

Marrow declared that the company’s financial investment is also a commitment to Guyana, its people and its economy.

He explained that the campus will be a state-ofthe-art complex, offering career opportunities and educational development for thousands of people in Guyana.

Additionally, the campus will ultimately offer an accredited university which would provide classes, career guidance, learning laboratories, arts and cultural programmes and a shared library system.

Marrow related that there will also be free medical services, vitamins, maternity care and milk subsidy programmes to benefit the children of its employees.

Qualfon will also sponsor caring schemes and volunteer opportunities, so that employees may help those in need and give back to the community.

SEVERAL ranks drawn from the Joint Services have commenced Internal Security Training at the InterServices Institute of Internal Security Studies, hosted by the Guyana Defence Force.

The Guyana Defence Force, the Guyana Police Force and the Guyana Fire Service have provided a cadre of instructors for the training.

The training is geared towards the middle and lower echelons of the services and it is meant to exercise the junior command element in managing different internal security scenarios. During the training, ranks will review regulations, laws and procedures and acquaint themselves with their specific roles in Internal Security operations.

At the end of the training there will be a debriefing session where lessons learnt will be evaluated. Participants will be able to share experiences, observations and make recommendations. This would then see a refinement of techniques based on the prevailing situations.

The GDF, in a statement, noted that while it is not the lead agency in the conduct of Internal Security Operations, the Inter-Services Training brought to focus its supportive role to the civil powers.

The Army also noted that the training is timely in wake of Guyana’s preparation for the 2015 General and Regional Elections.

At the end of the training, ranks would have fully understood their legal obligations and procedures to successfully accomplish the likely tasks to be performed on Internal Security operations such as Patrolling, Conduct of Road Blocks, Crowd Dispersal and Cordon and Searches.

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EDITORIAL

Guyana

Preparations for May 11

IT is encouraging to learn from Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Dr Steve Surujbally, that the independent body is “well set” in required preparations to conduct free and fair regional and national elections on May 11.

As the primary spokesperson for GECOM, on which are experienced representatives of the three parliamentary parties contesting the coming elections, Dr Surujbally would be expected to also reflect the considered views of his colleague Commissioners as well as the Chief Elections Officer.

After all, the sad, tragic period of rigged elections -- a major feature of mis-

rule by the People’s National Congress that had made such a mockery of “democratic governance” -- remained buried with the return to multi-party democratic governance under the People’s Progressive Party from 1992 to this year amid much confidence for free and fair elections on May 11.

The assumption of relevance here is that contrary to earlier reports of political footworks by foreign aid elements in partisan involvement via some “youth” organisations, ALL efforts would be made to guard against any fiddling with legitimate arrangements to deliver free and fair general and regional elections on May 11.

For now we anxiously await to learn of

the policies and programmes to be pursued by the contesting political parties since voters deserve to be reasonably informed and not to be fed a constant political diet of empty promises, devoid of details and often laced with political abuse.

Our understanding is that the incumbent PPP/C is reasonably advanced in preparation for publication of its election manifesto, or ‘blueprint’ on policies and programmes for every development sector.

In contrast, there continues to flow the rhetoric of political bitterness and fanciful promises from the Opposition twin - PNC and AFC – that continue to mask their true identity and intentions while speaking from a co-called ‘common’ political

platform.

The AFC, in particular, seems to face a specific challenge of overcoming the problem it had faced in 20ll in being unable to present a recognised manifesto instead of the few pages of a publication it had circulated, despite the funds it received from abroad and locally.

For now, as the PNC and AFC struggle to get their “coalition acts” together for the May 11 elections, the PPP/C is reported to be moving ahead with a ‘check-list’, as we understand it, of major disruptive activities, in and out of parliament, carried out by those parties to stymie Guyana’s further economic, social and cultural progress.

Both major races in Guyana are ‘guilty’ THE Kaieteur News editorial, ‘The race drum sounds’ (14-03-15) is dangerous as it is deceitful and discrepant. The editorial is fraught with misconceptions and apprehensions, and reflects slothful journalism. There is so much wrong with that KN editorial that I am not sure from where to start.

From the outset, the title of the editorial ‘The race drum sounds’ is rather hazy and baffling. Is it referring to utterances of racism from one, or several factions in the country - or in the world? Is it attributing racism to one particular ethnic group - as seems to be the case in the animadversion?

Please permit me to quote the first paragraph of the editorial: “The Times of India is the largest English language newspaper in India. It is a daily publication that examines sensitive issues in the country. Recently, it examined politics in India and the issue of racism. The comments follow.” Reading this paragraph, one gets the impression that The Times of India (ToI) recently did an article or a series of articles on the issue of politics and racism, and what follows in the rest of the editorial is a commentary by readers and analysts on this subject.

That first paragraph is replete with blatant errors. First, the content of the KN material that followed that paragraph was

taken verbatim from an Indian newspaper editorial - not from the ToI, but from the Economic Times (ET) – entitled: “Where is the moral fight against racism?”.

The ET communique is not “recent”, as stated in the Kaieteur News; rather, it was published on Oct. 18, 2014. The ET is a sister publication of the ToI, but they are not one and the same; they are sold as completely different newspapers.

It is common for news media to print other newspapers editorials. However, there is always an acknowledgement of the source, accompanied with information on the date of publication. KN risks libel in hoisting material from another source without acknowledgement. In the academic world, this is called “plagiarism”!

What many don’t seem to know is that intellectuals, journalists and leading media personnel in India regularly address sensitive issues - not only in newspapers, but also in other forms of media, including television.

India should be commended for their openness in addressing their (many!) short-comings - including that of racism and a mentality that favours lighter-skinned folk. (I thought of my good friend, Freddie, as I flew in one of the more reputable airlines of India less than a week ago. Almost all of the attendants were of very fair com-

plexion. I intend to call on the airline’s head office and do my bit to redress this situation).

It must be noted that India has been kind and generous to foreign students, including those from the African continent.

The unfortunate (isolated) incidents of violence against African students is similar to that which foreign students encounter in countries such as Australia and China.

I whole-heartedly agree with the ET that “Indians are some of the most racist people on earth”. However, one could also easily substitute the word “Indians” with “Africans”, or “Chinese” – or whatever - in that sentence - depending on the context. The editor of the ET should be commended for the direct and in-your-face critique to shock readers on the severity of the problem. (There are scores of African countries - and hundreds of African newspapers; how often have we read in their newspapers that “Africans are some of the most racist people on earth”?)

Following the word-for-word copy of the ET missive, The KN editorial stated, “The question of racism affects Guyana the same way that it does in India and influences decisions in the country.” What is the point of this statement? Is it to show that Indians in Guyana are “some of the most racist on earth” because of the DNA

they inherited from their forebears?

I admit that Indians are “some of the most racist on earth.” But ditto for the Africans, the whites, Chinese, etc.

Eusi Kwayana, however, pointed out in a booklet on racism in Guyana, “there is no guilty race”. (Actually, I disagree profoundly with that statement; in the Guyana context, both of the major races are equally ‘guilty’!)

It would have been helpful if the KN editorial was more specific regarding the era of “ethnic insecurity” that has been referred to, and the advent (and dismantling) of the Ethnic Relations Commission. The references to Rwanda and Dou Dou Dienne’s visit are also rather nebulous.

One would have expected a statement of summary or conclusion on the content of the editorial in the last paragraph. Instead, there was cursory mention of former President Bharrat Jagdeo’s reference to “coolie people.”

The redeeming feature about the editorial is that it ended the way it started: it laboured ardously as it feebly (and dangerously!) attempts to paint Indians (alone) as the “most racist on earth” - and as the lone guilty race in Guyana.

DEVANAND BHAGWAN

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The will of the masses must be respected at all times THERE is not an election - and I am sure you have dealt with it before - anywhere in this world where ‘race’ is not a critical element. It is integral to any political discussion you can ever engage in.

After all, you are calling on people, human beings, to vote for you so race is important. In whatever the jurisdiction you may find yourself, the people who live there must be courted and counted when you are electioneering.

In this regard, the numbers of people who will vote for you are of utmost importance.

We like to selectively quote the USA in our discussions and here we have a prime example, for centuries America was governed by the Caucasian Race.

However, in the last two elections we saw a sudden shift to a “coloured” man leading the nation. Why the change, and how did this come about? There are many theories we can follow, but the one I have come up with is: President Obama endeared himself to the majority race and gained their respect and confidence. Being a coloured man he knew that he could not rely on the Black population alone. So, from the very start he went on a campaign to win the hearts and minds of Whites. He did quite a successful job of it to the point that his fellow Blacks saw the headway he was making and they too threw

in their support.

America is not the only example of a minority heading the government; examples can be sourced from Fiji where Indians are a minority, but successive governments there were ruled by a minority Indian leader, reasons being they endeared themselves to the majority population.

Alberto Fujimori, a Japanese, could have successfully governed Peru.

The common thread woven through all of these stories is that race does matter when discussions of this nature come up and depending on how good your race relations are, that will determine the outcome.

The reason for all of the above examples is the fact that the minority leaders did the right thing, that is, endeared themselves to the people. They could have identified with the masses, struggled with them, felt their needs and as such were willing and able to be their leaders. These leaders were also successful in gaining the respect and admiration of the people.

When you look at the life the Jagans lived and the way they lived it tells you why they were successful in the leadership role they played. They earned the respect of the people across the political and racial divides. The PNC vainly tried to tarnish that image with a “race hate” campaign,

but those of us who know the facts when comparing the two parties quickly come to the conclusion that the PPP/C is the only political entity that qualifies itself for the leadership role.

The PNC/APNU never had our respect, neither can they.

This is the point where race takes centre stage, because you cannot readily ignore a majority race in your country; ignore that racial grouping and you are doomed. This was evident in the Guyana situation when Burnham downplayed the Indian vote and rigged every election thereafter. He bullied his way in Guyana. His poor political posture held an entire country prisoner.

He made himself president for life. It is the real reason why he could not explain his position of not being liked by the race, yet he could have commanded an “overwhelming majority” at every election. For nearly three decades, we were governed by a minority government who governed against our collective will.

That is why he went for the rigging option. This went on for 28 years until the true leader stood up, which was facilitated by free and fair elections. We now steadfastly uphold our democratic rights to choose a leader and are not yet about to surrender that right.

In Guyana, Indians command such im-

portance and I dare say respect, because they are the majority race. Whether you like it or not the outcome of any election here depends heavily on the way they vote. Not that the Afro-Guyanese vote does not matter; the point is the race that will tip the scale in either direction hinges on their vote, hence, this undue obsession and attention with the way they vote.

The PNC/APNU stuck to a non-inclusion of Indians in their party and paid a heavy price when free and fair elections were held.

This they hope will change in the coalition of sorts with the AFC. But even at this stage the situation on the ground is slippery for them, because the hardcore PNC members are singing a different tune. That “unity” stance is not unity at all but an association of convenience for the bigger partner in the coalition. Listen to the comment of a PNC friend of mine, “what do you think we have them there for?”

This in itself is a loaded statement that tells of the way the junior partner is viewed by certain elements within the grouping.

The PPP/C shares blame also, by straying away from the core principles of the party. They did take the race for granted and very nearly paid the ultimate price.

They are in catch-up mode right now.

NEIL ADAMS

We’re not going back to the old days of PNC rule - when bullyism, starvation and wanton elections rigging were the orders of the day

THE Guyanese people would like to know what alternative the Opposition APNU+AFC is really talking about?

These out-of-place rogues who are going around piggy backing on the PPP/C’s success and trying to fool people by promising that they have the alternative for a better Guyana. I think by now the Opposition should have known that judging from their characters and track records, the Guyanese people have a very good assessment of each of them.

They should have known too that under the PPP/C Administration Guyanese

received a much higher and sounder education than under the PNC which is now APNU+AFC. As such, their ability to think and make proper choices for themselves and that of their families have increased tremendously. What APNU+AFC is offering is more of the same that Guyanese received under the PNC dictatorship.

APNU+AFC should know that Guyanese would not trade the healthy living standards they are receiving under the present PPP/C Administration and go back to the old days of PNC rule when bullyism,

starvation, and wanton elections rigging were the orders of the day.

APNU+AFC’s vision for a better Guyana is blurred by their track records and hunger for power; they are totally blind to today`s truth and cannot see tomorrow`s future. Guyana and Guyanese want people with clear vision that can lead them to greater progress; people that can see much further than their nose unlike the pack of power-hungry jokers that made up the APNU+AFC coalition. Guyanese need to understand that the only difference between the old

PNC and that of today`s camouflage version is that they added some new, disgruntled jokers like Moses Nagamootoo and Khemraj Ramjattan to their pack.

The coalition APNU+AFC which is the new PNC does not want to remember its past, but May 11th will be remembrance day for them when they will be rejected at the polls. Except for those in APNU+AFC, all other Guyanese know that those who tend to forget their mistakes in the past are bound to repeat them.

SURESH SILAS

Allegations of draconian style of leadership at Grace Kennedy Remittance Services (Guyana) Ltd I AM profoundly disturbed by the high staff turnover at a supposedly reputable private sector organisation in this country – Grace Kennedy Remittance Services (GUY) Ltd. and call for the removal of the Country Manager. The Country Manager (name withheld) continues to demonstrate a draconian style of leadership which is creating distasteful work experiences for many within the employ of that company.

The issue of high staff turnover has been evident in the many vacancies advertised in the press - the last being for a Business Development Officer - a position the company has been

unsuccessful in filling since the previous two business development officers called it quits.

Just weeks after the most recent departure, the company has now received two more resignations from the Administrative Assistant and the Marketing Manager. This recent development, for reasons still unknown or maybe just for the sake of being vindictive, has seen the Marketing Manager who should now have been in the process of working through her two months’ notice being asked to immediately down tools and leave.

This is someone who served the company for six years with no trace of breaching com-

pany policy, ethics or any other matter that warrants such callous treatment.

While much can be said as to why this senior manager was treated the way she was, it is known that the current leadership has adopted a callous attitude and is well known for such attitude towards subordinates and staff.

Unfortunately, Agents are also being subjected to the same kind of abuse and are being forced to quit one after the other.

The statistics will show that many have “walked,” not only for better working conditions, but for simple peace of mind. The history of Grace Kennedy is a rich one, and as such,

should not be compromised by this draconian style of leadership.

Mr. Editor, in feeling compelled to save a company that has recorded 93 years of celebrated achievements, I do believe that the Country Manager should do the right thing and submit her resignation. She is a dismal failure to that organisation.

I do hope that the superiors in Jamaica would take heed and ensure that the local management be given marching orders.

NAME WITHHELD (by request)

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GUYANA: NO ‘SANDWICH’ IN U.S./VENEZUELA ROW

SUNDAY CHRONICLE March 22, 2015

- timely CARICOM intervention Analysis by Rickey Singh

and social development…”

“Further, that CARICOM has also taken note that Guyana has commenced a review of the available options under Article 33 of the UN Charter as provided for in the 1966 Geneva Agreement (signed prior to its independence from Britain in May 1966). Specifically, that is, in pursuit of a

period, and Guyana became embroiled, once again, in the old dispute that’s rooted in Venezuela’s colonial era claim to two thirds of Guyana’s territory, and quite contrary to the ruling of an independent 1899 international Parisbased tribunal that unequivocally recognised the 83,000 square miles that then and now comprise Guyanese territory.

IN the prevailing deteriorating diplomatic stand-off between the governments of the United States of America (USA) and Venezuela, Guyana must avoid suffering the fate of a ‘sandwich’ bitten at both ends.

The current scenario U.S. ‘FIRM SUPPORT’ involves President Barack Obama’s administrations At the core of today’s and that of President Nicolas escalating rows, is Venezuela’s Maduro’s in Caracas with recurring objections - including Guyana seeking to maintain a forced ejection last year by their “friendship” -- without its navy, of a foreign (U.S. compromising Guyanese owned) oil exploration vessel sovereignty and territorial from what Guyana regards integrity. to be within its territorial That’s quite a tough sovereignty. challenge for a comparatively Amid angry verbal small developing CARICOM exchanges between U.S. PRESIDENT VENEZUELAN GUYANA’S LATE VENEZUELAN member state which became Georgetown and Caracas there BARACK OBAMA PRESIDENT FOREIGN AFFAIRS PRESIDENT an independent nation from surfaced a most significant NICOLAS MADURO MINISTER CAROLYN HUGO CHAVEZ Britain some 48 years ago in the face of a lingering colonial assurance from President RODRIGUES-BIRKETT claim by Venezuela to some two thirds of Guyanese Obama’s administration: Basically, as publicly declared, that demarcated and internationally recognised 83,000 square “judicial option” that could Washington stands in “firm readiness” to support Guyana’s miles of territory. serve to bring an end to the controversy and ensure stability position.

Guyana’s birth as an independent nation was a baptism in the relations between Guyana and Venezuela…”

Last month, following Guyana’s Foreign Minister, in political fire. While the USA had originally opposed its Amid changing governments and political posturings Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett’s initiative to sensitise foreign independence over then claimed “concerns” about a so-called in Georgetown, Caracas and Washington -- particularly governments and international institutions and agencies international “communist foothold” (under to the endangering of peace by what a then Dr Cheddi Jagan-led government) she termed Venezuela’s disruptive in the Caribbean/Latin American Region, policy to her country’s future economic At the core of today’s escalating rows, is Venezuela’s destabilising forces were at work in Venezuela and social development, the U.S. State recurring objections - including a forced ejection with a mix of their own anti-communist Department lost no time in making clear last year by its navy, of a foreign (U.S. owned) oil and sabre-rattling rhetoric, accompanied by its own “firm stand” with the Guyanese exploration vessel from what Guyana regards to be sporadic military incursions into Guyanese government and people. within its territorial sovereignty. Amid angry verbal territory in the sprawling forest and mineralConscious that leading American oil exchanges between Georgetown and Caracas there rich Essequibo Region. exploration companies are also involved surfaced a most significant assurance from President I had already released this column in Guyana search for oil in its own waters, Obama’s administration: Basically, as publicly declared, when the Georgetown-based CARICOM U.S. Charge d’ Affairs, Bryan Hunt, that Washington stands in “firm readiness” to support Secretariat forwarded a most informative made clear the Obama administration’s Guyana’s position. media statement . It was consistent with the “readiness” to support the objections from 15-member Community’s firm support for Guyana without being specific in terms of Guyana in defence of its sovereignty and a precise response. territorial integrity as a consequence of surprisingly new following the emergence of the then iconic revolutionary Meanwhile, the administrations in Washington and threats to its territorial integrity by Venezuela. leader and thrice democratically elected President Hugo Caracas are maintaining their respective diplomatic Chavez, the old territorial dispute between Guyana and offensive that may require conciliatory interventions by THE JUDICIAL OPTION Venezuela kept resurfacing in the post-Chavez period -- hemispheric organisations such as CELAC (Community the more so within the past two years under the prevailing of Caribbean and Latin American States).

In its statement, CARICOM opted to reiterate its “firm, leadership of Chavez’s democratically elected successor, long-standing support for Guyana’s maintenance of its Nicolas Maduro.

(Rickey Singh is a noted Guyana-born Caribbean sovereignty and territorial integrity and unhindered economic Then, surprisingly, Venezuela in the post-Chavez journalist based in Barbados)

SUNDAY CHRONICLE March 22, 2015

A vote for APNU-AFC is a vote for the PNC

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A vote for APNU-AFC (PNC-AFC) is a vote for the PNC. February 26, 1963, indicated that he would still like to have government. And Burnham in his note of June 16, 1964, How so? The AFC has not learnt well from history. The dialogue quickly to produce a ‘coalition’ agenda, utilising indicated his intention to close off all communications on AFC fails to acknowledge, whether intentionally or not, three members from each party; for his party, Jagan proposed the matter of a national government. that the PNC’s (PNC and APNU are pretty much the three persons – Ashton Chase, Ranji Chandisingh, and Burnham’s hee-haw with Jagan’s proposal for a same entity) track record on the notion of ‘coalition’ Moses Bhagwan. After months of waiting for the names of coalition and a national government was disingenuous, is one that is manipulative and despicable; indeed, with superb support from former and perhaps existing ‘imperial’ masters.

Reviewing historical records in the 1960s vis-à-vis exchange of letters (Dabydeen, 2004) between Premier of British Guiana (now Guyana) Dr. Cheddi Jagan and Leader of the PNC Mr. Forbes Burnham would substantiate this description of the PNC’s track record on the PPP offer of a PPP-PNC coalition.

Nowadays and fairly often to score cut-rate political points, the AFC component of APNU-AFC coalition proudly repeats its slogan that if the coalition for national unity was right under Premier Dr. Cheddi Jagan’s leadership in the 1960s, then it is right now. The AFC is correct in so far as Jagan wanted the PPP and the PNC to form a coalition the PNC’s members, Jagan in a letter to Burnham on July 3, despicable and manipulative, aided and abetted by the U.S. government in the 1960s.

1963 persisted in his request for the PNC’s nominees. and British Administrations of the 1960s. Burnham and the But the AFC is wrong in its slogan and that slogan Burnham responded on the same day, this time shifting PNC had no interest in a PPP-PNC coalition or a national also is misleading because the PNC leader Burnham the goal posts. Instead of providing his nominees, Burnham government in the 1960s, unless such permutations would rebuffed Jagan’s coalition plea; and so the AFC should called on Jagan and the PPP to adopt three proposals to end have catapulted it into achieving total political power. tell the Guyanese people about the incorrectness and the political impasse; these were: holding a referendum to And it did not need the PPP for gaining power; it had the disingenuousness of its slogan. Dr. Jagan might have identify a new electoral system; restarting the Independence assistance then of the U.S. and British administrations; thought that it was right then, but Mr. Burnham did not Conference in Guyana; and dissolving the legislature to have and subsequently, assistance from the United Force which share Dr. Jagan’s view on a PPP-PNC coalition, as the letter elections under a new electoral system. Burnham asked the PNC unceremoniously dumped in 1968 after illegally exchanges in the 1960s between the two leaders evidenced. Jagan for his reactions and gave Jagan a 48-hour ultimatum fortifying its own power base.

In a parallel way to the 1960s, as the AFC today claims for his response. In response on July 8, 1963, Jagan felt Here is an example of British and American talk of that APNU-AFC coalition is right, does the PNC standard that bilateral talks as he had proposed could address these assistance to remove the PPP from office and thereby bearer Mr. David Granger share the strategic ‘coalition’ matters, but that he still did not receive Burnham’s response install a PNC government; based on U.S. declassified views of the AFC? on his offer of a PPP-PNC coalition. documents, the U.S. Department of State telegraphed In a letter to Burnham of December 11, 1962, Jagan Then about a year later in a letter of June 6, 1964, Jagan the U.S. Embassy in London on June 21, 1963, saying, advocated for a coalition government “…Our fundamental position is that the between the PPP and the PNC, and called UK must not leave behind in the Western on Burnham to say whether he agreed with Hemisphere a country with a Communist If history is repeating itself with all the aforementioned a coalition of the two parties. Burnham in government in control. Independence of ramifications of the colonial period, then a vote for his letter of January 10, 1963 expressed an British Guiana with government led by APNU-AFC is a vote for the PNC; if history is not intention to resolve tensions in the country, PPP is unacceptable to US. Our objective repeating itself, then AFC is a mere opportunistic and so invited Jagan to have exploratory and in London is to get HMG to take effective appendage to thrust APNU into power and not to promote preliminary dialogue at a neutral terrain. action to remove Jagan Government prior national interest, and so a vote for APNU-AFC is again a Burnham did not say in his letter whether to Independence…” vote for the PNC. he and his party accepted the notion of a Another example: again, based on U.S. PPP-PNC coalition. declassified documents, on June 30, 1963, Jagan in response on January 18, 1963 Mr. Duncan Sandys discussed with the called on Burnham to say clearly whether the PNC accepted proposed a PPP-PNC coalition with the following conditions, U.S. Secretary of State the need for a Burnham-D’Aguiar the proposal of a coalition, as he felt that Burnham’s reply among others, as follows: PPP and PNC should each have government. After the December 1964 elections, the was ambiguous; and if the PNC accepted the coalition five ministries, with the PPP Leader as Premier and the PNC Burnham-D’Aguiar coalition emerged; the coalition was proposal, Jagan intimated his intention to dialogue with Leader as Deputy Premier and that this coalition government the British colonial government ploy in harmony with U.S. Burnham at the site that he (Burnham) proposed. should function until August 1965, the term of office of the foreign policy, and indeed having Burnham’s total support, In another exchange on January 24, 1963, Burnham then PPP Government. Burnham provided no response on to do away with the Jagan Government. And so, is the APNU noted that his suggestion was not ambiguous and that the this matter, as shown in Jagan’s letter of June 10, 1964.

(PNC)-AFC coalition a situation of history repeating itself?

PNC believed that a coalition was not the only channel Jagan again wrote to Burnham on June 15, 1964, where If history is repeating itself with all the aforementioned for reducing tensions and reaching national unity; and he pointed out to Burnham that in his letter of June 6, 1964 ramifications of the colonial period, then a vote for so, Burnham claimed that he was willing to dialogue not he had asked him to participate in a national government, but APNU-AFC is a vote for the PNC; if history is not only on the matter of coalition, but also on exploring pleaded for Burnham’s response to that matter; Burnham then repeating itself, then AFC is a mere opportunistic alternative options. wrote to Jagan three times, on June 10, 1964 and issued two appendage to thrust APNU into power and not to Even though Burnham and the PNC dodged on the letters of the same date on June 11, 1964. None of Burnham’s promote national interest, and so a vote for APNU-AFC acceptance of a PPP-PNC coalition, Jagan in his note of three letters had a response to Jagan’s proposal for a national is again a vote for the PNC.

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SUNDAY CHRONICLE March 22, 2015

FRAYS & FRACTIONS - people seem prone to disagree, to become disgruntled, and to descend to divisive behaviour

By Shaun Michael Samaroo FRAYS and fractions show up everywhere, in every organisation and every society of human beings: people seem prone to disagree, to become disgruntled, and to descend to divisive behaviour.

We must face such facts of human nature with wisdom, good sense and empathetic understanding.

Going on to 50 years now, our nation groans under the weight of the political divide that split us into two antagonistic camps when Forbes Burnham broke away from Dr Cheddi Jagan and the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) to form the People’s National Congress (PNC).

Our nation laments this tragedy every day, in the core of our being. The essential nature of the dynamics of Government-Opposition politics rests on antagonism, opposition and friction. But we’ve got to learn to navigate this slippery slope with deft diplomacy.

We cannot build the Guyanese society into a stable, thriving, progressive and prosperous and peaceful cohesive nation unless we learn to overcome this penchant for dividing ourselves into factions rife with friction, frays and the rhetoric of scapegoating.

In this elections season, we want to put away such defeatist attitudes, and show magnanimity, a spirit of generosity, and an embracing of each other as our nation chooses the Government of the Guyanese people.

President Donald Ramotar shows that he understands this crucial necessity of his leadership of our nation at this hour.

And he reaches across divides to invite folks in his efforts at collaboration, cooperation and conscientious togetherness.

In choosing this path, the President focuses his energies on the programmes and projects of Government, on matters of development and propelling the Guyanese society forward.

He constantly talks of the Amaila Hydroelectric project, the modernising of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, the building of a deep water harbour, the stunning success of Government’s housing programme, and other projects.

Yet, much of the President’s leadership in steering the conversation in the country towards development projects and ideas and concepts for Guyana’s continued progress as a fast-developing 21st century society gets drowned out in the noise and clamour and rhetorical rants that passes for public discussion in this country.

So far this elections season, we’ve heard little from leaders of the Opposition on their proposed development projects, or even their development vision and strategy for 21st century

The attractive thing for those who spout oppositional watchdog views is that the national media laps it up with juvenile glee, regurgitating the emotive and irrational soundbites in the quest for satisfying the public’s base appetite for sleaze, slander and insults.

Guyana. In fact, the Opposition leaders seem to have taken on more of a watchdog role in the Guyanese nation, rather than initiating and developing ideas, innovative projects and creative solutions to the human problems we encounter.

We want to hear from Opposition Leader, Brigadier David Granger, of his development strategy and his core ideas for our nation. We want to hear Khemraj Ramjattan and Moses Nagamootoo and Nigel Hughes and the others regale us with their vision for Guyana. All they seem to do is cuss

Government and point to allegations of corruption, and threaten to jail Government officials. How would that harsh rhetoric of revenge and vengeance build Guyana and contribute to constructive engagement?

What ideas do they propose to reform the Public Service and stem the critical skills shortage that stifles Government?

What new solutions do they propose to develop our hydroelectric potential and open up the hinterland and continue the housing revolution that we enjoy today?

What’s their socio-economic plan for education, health, and GDP growth?

How would they sustain the nine years of consecutive GDP growth Guyanese enjoy today?

This kind of national discussion, and street corner talks this elections season, would inspire,

So far this elections season, we’ve heard little from leaders of the Opposition on their proposed development projects, or even their development vision and strategy for 21st century Guyana. In fact, the Opposition leaders seem to have taken on more of a watchdog role in the Guyanese nation, rather than initiating and developing ideas, innovative projects and creative solutions to the human problems we encounter. transform and lift the conversation in the land.

Despite some over-zealous pro-Government activists descending to the same antagonistic, myopic public behaviour, we must take our cue from how President Ramotar conducts his public conversation: he talks of projects, ideas and initiatives, and he calls for the nation to work together to propel Guyana into a progressive nation.

We hope everyone, from Government and his Party, and from the Opposition, would follow his example. Our nation direly cries out for excellence of leadership at this hour, after three years of Guyanese feeling their Parliament descend into a verbal warzone.

President Ramotar rose above the frays and fractions as the 10th Parliament spiraled into self-humiliation. And today, he works with passionate energy to knit the various communities together, exercising diplomatic finesse and a depth of leadership character that we should recognise as a gift to this nation.

It would serve Brigadier Granger well to cultivate a close working relationship with the President, to seek an audience with him every so often, to open a line of dialogue between them. These two hold together key constituencies in the country, and both exercise leadership skills to keep their camps in unity and unison.

We’ve got to employ a deliberate strategy to overcome this 50-year old habit we’ve developed to divide ourselves, to scapegoat each other, and to avoid making the effort it takes to bring Guyanese hearts and minds together.

Instead of this attitude, we see the Opposition treat President Ramotar’s Government with disdain, disrespect

and dishonour.

Instead of showing respect and honouring the Office of the President, they seem determined to play a narrow watchdog role, constantly harping on rampant corruption in the Public Service (while ignoring the massive entrenched corruption in the Private Sector), and bent on attacking personalities sympathetic to the cause of Government.

Attacking folks like Bharrat Jagdeo and others does nothing positive for our nation, and in fact serves the cause of demotivating, demoralising and depressing Guyanese.

Bharrat Jagdeo’s public activities come in for severe criticisms, with an almost obsessive paranoia from his critics, and this gets plastered across the national media.

And the State media can do more to follow President Ramotar’s lead, instead of seeking to adopt a reactive role, rather than a proactive role in defining the national conversation and showcasing the vision of our President to construct a vision-based, idea-drive public space, where the Guyanese people would discuss the merits of the airport expansion and the Amaila Hydro project, rather than steam in sleaze, slander and insults, obsessed with Jagdeo’s house, for example.

The attractive thing for those who spout oppositional watchdog views is that the national media laps it up with juvenile glee, regurgitating the emotive and irrational soundbites in the quest for satisfying the public’s base appetite for sleaze, slander and insults.

So we see an uneasy symbiotic partnership between powerful media houses and crass critics who contribute nothing to this nation but sleaze, slander and insults.

And this damages the national psyche, and frustrates President Ramotar’s leadership in cultivating a clean, healthy public discourse. If there’s one leader who takes on this atmosphere of frays and friction and fractions, and seeks to transform it into a united, knitted oneness, it’s the President.

It’s a grave pity that he’s so misunderstood, and seen as weak. His strength is so innovative and new, that we can’t seem to understand this new paradigm of a Guyanese President who seeks collaboration and cooperation. We welcomed it with Dr Cheddi Jagan, but we don’t even recognise it in President Ramotar.

Opposition Leader David Granger could bring his own leadership to the table, and showcase to the Guyanese people that he is astute, capable and willing to build a collaborative working relationship with the President, even as they head to the polls. The Opposition Leader has had to battle his own frays, frictions and fractions within his Party, and so he must know how debilitating such fights could be. With such experience, he should make the effort to heal the frays and fractions that bedevil our national public space.

SUNDAY CHRONICLE March 22, 2015

ELECTIONS CORNER:

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The Role of the Presiding Officer and Team on Elections Day ON Elections Day, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will have a cohort of staff that must be present in every polling station to effectively and efficiently manage the conduct of the General and Regional Election.

On May 11, 2015, the GECOM staff present at all polling stations will consist of a Presiding Officer, Assistant Presiding Officer, Poll Clerk, Ballot Clerk, and an Information Clerk. It is important to note that all of GECOM’s Polling Day Officials must take the Oath of Office which commits them to complying with all applicable regulations in place to enable them to fulfil their roles and discharge their responsibilities in accordance with their mandate and the Law. This feature examines the roles of the Presiding Officer and the Assistant Presiding Officer. The public is hereby being appraised on what to expect of these two GECOM officers on Polling Day. The Role of the Presiding Officer (PO) The Presiding Officer is responsible for the efficient operation of the Polling Station to which he/she is assigned, ensuring that it functions in an orderly manner at all times. The relevant duties of the Presiding Officer which electors may observe while at the Polling Station are as follows: • Ensures that all signs and notices are in place – those before Polling Day and others of Polling Day • Determines the six-digit number for the stamp

(official mark) in the presence of Polling Day Staff and Polling Agents • Ensures that the persons, other than voters (e.g.

Certified Political Party Agents), attending the Polling Station are authorised to enter and are in possession of Identity Cards issued by GECOM • Determines when required, whether an elector is eligible to cast his or her vote • Administers voting by proxies • Makes entries in the Poll Book if such are required • Assist differently abled electors to cast their votes • Knowledgeably and efficiently administers oaths/ affirmations • Deals with Certificates of Employment • Ensures that all electors requiring assistance are treated in a dignified manner • Ensures that Polling Agents and observers are permitted to monitor the process without interfering with electors or with the proceedings • Ensures the queues are moving smoothly and orderly • Ensures that all persons waiting to vote do so before the poll is declared closed, once they are in the queue at 6:00pm The Role of the Assistant Presiding Officer (APO) The Assistant Presiding Officer is really the secondin-charge of the Polling Station, and assists the Presiding Officer with a number of the essential duties.In addition

there are a number of specific duties that the Assistant Presiding Officer must perform, and which can be observed by electors entering a Polling Station. These duties are: • Double-checking the National ID Card of all electors against the GECOM Registration record • Entering on the counterfoil of the ballot paper, the serial number of the elector as it appears on the Official List of Electors • Stamping the Official Mark (Six Digit Number) on the back of the ballot paper (Top and Bottom) • Using the specimen ballot paper, the APO enlightens (if necessary) the elector on the procedure associated with marking the ballot paper, thusly therefore choosing the Poltical Party of his or her choice • Demonstrating to and instructing the elector on how to fold the ballot paper after marking vote • Delivering the ballot paper to the elector and directing him or her to the voting compartment and the Ballot Clerk NB: The Presiding Officer assists with the above functions when he or she (PO) is not attending to special cases.

In our next installment we will focus on the duties of the other three elections officials (Poll Clerk, Ballot Clerk and the Information Clerk) that must be present on behalf of GECOM in every polling station on Elections Day.

Nagga Gluteus maximus agitating - in others words, he batty starting fuh bite!

POTSALT want fuh know if something happening in de alliance that others ain’t know about. De other day at de business people fancy lunch at de PeagSUCKS, David holler and seh that he speaking only on behalf of Palm Tree PNC Party which is de Hands-Up Party. He mek it clear is only half of de alliance he talking about and representing. People seh Nagga leff shock; more than what a GPL light bill does do to people! He shock because he believe that de alliance must always be about two half and not one, just like two people in a marriage.

People seh Nagga want fuh know if is dump David dump he already! But Potsalt suspect that can’t be de whole story. At de same lunch, David holler that de “policies” of de Hands-Up and Key Parties ain’t “mesh” yet. That

is what gat people eye open more wide than koker door.

De people asking how come de two Parties tek months fuh de “engagement” in talks but when de “marriage” was announce, it was only about who gon be in what position!

That confirm what Potsalt and plenty others know; de alliance is not about putting de country as priority, is about putting Nagga, RumJ and Kathy and others first!

Some smart people now sehin that APNU/AFC now mean: Against Putting Nation Upwards and Alliance Fuh Comrades! Even de business people at de lunch leff shock because dem invited David fuh talk about de alliance plans, not PNC/APNU own. Dem now wondering if dem gat fuh invite RumJ fuh talk about de Key Party plan and then sit down and collate de two

just fuh get what dem wanted in de first place! De lunch people know that is meking things harder. Everybody know that is what de Opposition was doing all de time; meking things harder!

Potsalt want fuh know what is de real reason Nagga now asking fuh security. Fuh sure, one is because he frighten de Palm Tree Party. That was said before, but people now asking if Nagga is privy to something that others ain’t know about mek he want guards. Dem asking if is he gat insight to what might happen given what happen in de past around election time. If that is de case, then Nagga Gluteus maximus agitating. In others words, he batty starting fuh bite! Potsalt gone!

Fuh now!

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At Anna Regina…

SUNDAY CHRONICLE March 15, 2015

President launches $100M Rice Cereal Manufacturing facility - says PPP will never allow rice industry to fail

By Rebecca Ganesh-Ally “TODAY, rice that we produce we have added value to it, and created new opportunities for this Region,” were the encouraging words of President Donald Ramotar at a ground-breaking event in Anna Regina, Essequibo Coast yesterday to formally launch a $100M Rice Cereal Manufacturing Facility in Region Two. More than 200 jobs will be created for persons living along the Essequibo Coast in the near future with the establishment of the rice cereal factory. The rice cereal is branded ‘Morning Glory’.

President Ramotar lauded the initiative as he noted that this is a step in the right direction to add value to rice and rice products.

“We are meeting today at a very happy and important occasion to launch the construction of a factory to produce in the first instance rice cereal, and the first step to add value to our product”.

The President noted that the players in his, as well as successive PPP/C Governments, are collectively “prize takers”, in that “we have moved the production of rice from a mere 60,000 tonnes in 1990 to some 600,000 tonnes today.”

The Guyanese Head of State recalled that, sometime ago, the Government had said, “We are looking at ways to diversify

our rice; and today, this is one of the ways that we are doing so.”

He explained that, when this new factory comes on stream, the rice cereal can be produced from any grade of rice and “still fetch the price that we have set.”

President Ramotar remains resolute that the PPP/C Government will never allow the rice industry to fail, contrary to what the political Opposition wants.

The Guyanese Head of State declared to loud applause: “We have the confidence that rice will never fail, and under the People’s Progressive Party/Civic Government, we will never allow it to fail!”

President Ramotar also lauded the Director of the Institute of Applied Science and Technology, Dr. Suresh Narine, for aggressively pushing the Rice Cereal Project, as well as the Region Two community for their genuine support and total involvement in the project.

The President also assured residents of Anna Regina that his government will continue to work to create more employment opportunities and also to further develop the Essequibo Coast.

The project will, in its first phase, create some 105 direct jobs for our young people.

Dr. Suresh Narine, in his remarks, explained in details to those gathered at the sod-turning ceremony what this important project is all about. He also thanked the Essequibians for their

President Ramotar urging residents to be proud of the “Morning Glory” rice cereal

support and collaboration, saying: “What we produce must be of a high quality, and this facility that will be built will be the pride of the community.”

Dr. Narine noted that the factory would have an initial capacity to process 2000 tonnes of rice yearly; but, he said, the plant is designed to process to an extended 30,000 tonnes of rice yearly.

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President Donald Ramotar greeting residents of Anna Regina yesterday (Adrian Narine photos)

Essequibians sampling the rice cereal

President Ramotar and Tourism Minister, Irfaan Ali tasted the cereal before giving it the “Thumbs up!”

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SUNDAY CHRONICLE March 22, 2015

Before May 11…

Establish facts, fight with them – Nadir

A QUESTION OF FACTS Nadir underscored the fact that the accomplishments of successive PPP/C

By Vanessa Narine administrations in areas of education, health, housing, youth development and DRIVERS are advised to glance at their empowerment of women are records that review mirrors every few seconds before the Guyanese people can be proud of. returning their focus on the road ahead.

“These are all records that we are very This was the analogy employed by proud of…record achievements that we can People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) be proud of….I don’t fight over facts, I esMember of Parliament Mr Manzoor Nadir, tablish facts and fight with facts,” he posited. who captivated the attention of residents in He noted that a majority of the Guyanese Charlestown, Broad and Russell Streets, last people were not born with “gold spoons in evening at a public meeting. their mouth” and they have had to fight for deAccording to him, Guyana at present is velopment – development that the incumbent not “paradise on earth” but if one were to Party has supported every step of the way. look in the rearview mirror, one would see “The PPP/C has done a good job in manthe progress made. aging Guy“We can see how ana for the far we have come and benefit of all “These are all records that we can see the develGuyanese,” opment ahead…we we are very proud of…record he said. will travel even faster The forachievements that we can be if the Opposition did mer Governproud of….I don’t fight over not put impediments ment minisin our way,” Nadir facts, I establish facts and fight ter acknowlsaid. edged that with facts” Manzoor Nadir He stressed that, challenges come May 11, it is exists, but the Guyanese eleccharged that torate who can and progress begins with education – an area that will eliminate the impediments to progress, has been marked by phenomenal success peace and prosperity in Guyana. stories in the last two decades – and continue “Opportunities do not sometime come by growing the economy and encouraging twice and on May 11 there is an opportunity investments. to re-elect the People’s Progressive Party/CivRelative to the latter, Nadir noted that ic, which had done a fabulous job of building Tourism, Information Communication and lives of the Guyanese people,” he said.

Technology (ICT), and Renewable Energy The former Government minister added are the new frontiers for investors, local and that Guyana today is the result of expanding foreign, which will also see the creation of “a thousand fold” what the PPP/C Adminis- thousands of jobs. tration of 1992 started with.

“Progress will not come by wishful think“On May 11, the decision is yours and ing, it will take action; action that has been the Guyanese people will have to evaluate demonstrated by the People’s Progressive what was done under the term of President Party/Civic,” he said.

Donald Ramotar and under the last five Nadir assured that the ruling Party recPeople’s Progressive Party/ Civic Admin- ognises its responsibility to every citizen in istrations,” he charged.

Guyana and will ensure that development is taken to wherever the Guyanese people are.

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From page 12 “With 400 grammes of rice, we can process and package and be able to resell that for $600 to $700. That is added value,” he stressed.

An upbeat Dr. Narine, who is an award winning and globally recognised Professor, said that with all this new development, “I still have more news for you! Today, we are also launching our nutritional bar, also made from rice!”

Labour Minister, Dr. Nanda Gopaul emphasised that Government was doing everything to promote the rice industry; and “this project is one of the ways that we are diversifying our rice!”.

“Today we have made this project a reality, and (have) given pride to this community, as well as provided jobs for our young people,” Dr Gopaul said.

His colleague Minister in Government, Mr. Irfaan Ali, who was also present at yesterday’s event, was high in praise for the project. He noted that rice farmers and residents, especially of Region Two, will benefit significantly from this initiative which is all part of the country’s overall development

plan.

On this note Minister Ali alluded to the significant improvements in the lives of Guyanese – in most if not all the facets of their social life.

“Life today has changed from the life of yesterday…the development that we are seeing and experiencing is not by accident, but is by having a vision to move our people forward,” Minister Ali said.

Ali, who has ministerial port-folio responsibilities for Housing and Water, as well as Tourism, Industry and Commerce, described the rice project as “a dream which this Government has made into a reality.”

He also encouraged residents to continue supporting and collaborating with the contractors; and their unanimous response was “Yes!” “You must feel pride today that this product is home grown and comes from your fields”, he told the rice farmers and residents of Region Two. Minister Ali also told the residents that Government is in the process of building a Call Centre in Essequibo that would create some 1000 jobs. He noted that under the

“Guyana has the capacity to move to greater heights…while we looking at the review mirror, we must also remain firmly fixed and focused on the targets ahead… and President Donald Ramotar has earned the right to your support on May 11,” he told those gathered at the meeting.

Nadir added, “Let us continue to create opportunities for ordinary people to achieve extraordinary things…get up early and cast your vote next to the ‘Cup’…I am confident that a new dawn awaits us on May 12 (the day after the polls).”

BAD FOR GUYANA

moment he got into office, has been “sitting on stinging nettles in trying to focus on his manifesto….there were budget cuts, this and that.”

All considered, Nadir was emphatic in stressing that it is in the interest of all Guyanese to ensure that they focus on what is a clear choice.

“Let us remain firmly fixed and focus on May 11….vote PPP/C, for the cup, a symbol that has not changed…those who feel that they are on the verge of victory, send them a message, delayed development will not be the order of the day….in the three years that the Opposition had the one seat majority, did they use it to benefit the people? No!”

According to him, the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) represents what is “bad” for Guyana.

“This is not about us coming to talk about how we must fear the danger in Granger (APNU+AFC presidential candidate David Granger)…we are here to talk about development in Guyana. We have proven that we can develop for Guyana and for all Guyanese… it is only those who don’t want to see will ignore that the PPP/C has delivered and has been faithful to its manifesto and governed for the greater good of Guyana,” Nadir told the meeting.

He noted that President Ramotar, from the

Nadir also highlighted that the ruling Party comes to the table with a record, plans for the future and the people to execute those plans – all in the interest of a better Guyana for the Guyanese people.

Similar sentiments were represented by PPP/C Member of Parliament, Reverend Kwame Gilbert, who charged that the future of the Guyanese people cannot be a bargaining chip.

“It is irresponsible to bargain with the future of the Guyanese people…you will hear lots of promises, but take those in the context of facts…the evidence of what is being promised to you is visible…..even as we are wont to be dissatisfied about where we are, do not be blinded to the reality from where we have come,” he asserted.

By the end of the evening, the consensus from the speakers was that the Election on May 11 comes down to making the best of a major opportunity that should be seen in the spotlight of facts, not mere promises.

In addition to last evening’s meeting at Charlestown, the ruling Party held meetings in villages in Regions 2 (Pomeroon/Supenaam), 3 (Essequibo Islands/West Demerara), 5 (Mahaica/Bebrice), 6 (East Berbice/ Corentyne) and 10 (Upper Demerara/Upper Berbice).

These meetings have been the tactic employed by the incumbent PPP for decades as a means of maintaining and nurturing support at the grassroots level.

Small Business Grants, 300 persons would be given grants of up to $300,000 to start their own business.

“We will be training these new entrepreneurs, and also facilitating them with the grant to start up their business,” he said.

Moreover, he assured residents that: “This Government will never allow the rice industry to fail! We will do all in our power

to have this industry continue to thrive.”

Government will invest $100 million into the project to produce a facility which has the capacity to produce five metric tonnes of breakfast cereal daily.

The funding has been secured under the Rural Development Fund, administered by the Tourism, Industry and Commerce Ministry.

Manzoor Nadir stresses that May 11 comes down to a question of facts

A section of the crowd at the launch

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APNU+AFC speaking with ‘forked tongue’ on sugar, says Dr Ramsammy - calls on alliance to ‘come clean’

By Vanessa Narine RECENT reports citing a proposal to close the sugar industry, this time from former People’s National Congress (PNC) Member of Parliament (MP) Mr Stanley Ming, have shadowed the position of the political Opposition on the same matter.

Ming, last Friday, advocated for the closure of the sugar industry in favour of becoming a producer of the South American “super food” quinoa (a protein packed whole grain).

“Sugar (production) all over the world is now being reduced by substitute sweeteners, and the price that sugar is being sold for now in the world is less than our cost of production. There is no way we can bring the cost of production down to meet what is the world cost for sugar,” Ming said.

Before Ming had Stanley Ming commented, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), through its member Tony Vieira, had, in March 2014, called for significant scaling down of operations at the stateowned GuySuCo, suggesting that lands used for sugar cane cultivation be used instead for fish farming and cane-derived ethanol.

Vieira’s comments had suggested that Guyana should entirely get out of the business of producing sugar, because of a number of factors militating against it; such as heavy rainfall, the need for several tonnes of cane to yield just one tonne of sugar; and the inordinate length of time it takes to get the cane to the factory due to a shortage of labour.

AT ODDS These two positions on the future of the sugar industry are at odds with recent statements made by Brigadier (rtd)

the health of the national economy.

In 2013, sugar exports accounted for 8.3 percent of total exports and were valued at more than US$112 million.

Moreover, the industry had contributed 3.9 percent of the country’s GDP. In 2014, GuySuCo recorded a production of 216,147 tonnes of sugar -– the first crop having surpassed the 75,000-tonne target, bringing in about 80,000 tonnes.

The calamitous drop in sugar prices on the global and

David Granger

Dr Leslie Ramsammy

preferred market scene, which challenges all sugar industries, coupled with the dramatic fall in earnings -- and by extension cash flow, and the prevailing weather conditions were among several of the difficulties that affected the local sugar industry during 2014.

ABSURDITY Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy, in an exclusive interview with the Chronicle yesterday, rubbished the political Opposition’s contentions as “absurdities”, and declared them evidence of the Opposition speaking with “a forked tongue”.

“It is an absurdity, and it is part of the mathematical equation of APNU+AFC = PNC! They speak from both sides of their mouth,” he declared.

Dr Ramsammy added: “Mr Ming, being associated with

“The PPP/C position has been consistent: Sugar is important to Guyana!

It is not that it is too large to fail, (but) it remains a pillar of the economy, supporting large groups of people. The PNC is not consistent. APNU+AFC needs to indicate whether they support the PPP/C on ensuring that the sugar sector is preserved as an important industry in our country David Granger, the presidential candidate of the APNU+AFC alliance.

Speaking to Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) stakeholders last Tuesday, he had said, “We are not going to throw the sugar industry through the window…there is no quick-fix, but we are not going to dissolve the sugar industry…it is too big to fail.”

Despite its challenges, the current administration has consistently maintained that the industry remains relevant to

the PNC, has usually advocated for a PNC position, given that his views are aligned to that party. On the other hand, you have Mr Vieira at a PNC press conference giving an APNU position which neither Mr Granger nor anyone within APNU has ever denied.”

Minister Ramsammy stressed that the sugar sector has been -- and remains -- important to Guyana.

“Even after all this, Mr Granger had to go to a private sector (engagement) and there he claimed that sugar is too

big to fail and we must invest in the industry; the same thing they objected to in the 10th Parliament. He claims that sugar is important to Guyana.”

The political Opposition’s stance on support for the sugar sector is a matter of public record, Dr Ramsammy said, and includes a massive protest, last April, by sugar workers when the $6B subvention to the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) was threatened by the parties’ one-seat majority in the National Assembly, which currently stands dissolved.

The $6B allocation to the sugar industry, battling climate change and other challenges, was hit on day one of the 2014 Budget debates, with Opposition Members of Parliament (MPs) maintaining that the monies represent a handout, and contending that good monies are being thrown after bad.

COME CLEAN On that note, the Agriculture Minister Tony Veira emphatically called for APNU+AFC to “come clean” on its actual position regarding the sugar sector.

“They are speaking from different sides of their mouth. If Mr Granger’s position on the sugar sector, as articulated at the GMSA luncheon, is to be taken as the APNU+AFC position on sugar, then Mr Ming’s comments have to be publicly rejected,” he said.

Dr Ramsammy added that, contrary to the political Opposition, the incumbent People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has a clear position and an outlined vision for the sugar sector.

He said, “The PPP/C position has been consistent: Sugar is important to Guyana! It is not that it is too large to fail, (but) it remains a pillar of the economy, supporting large groups of people.

“The PNC is not consistent. APNU+AFC needs to indicate whether they support the PPP/C on ensuring that the sugar sector is preserved as an important industry in our country.”

“It is an absurdity, and it is part of the mathematical equation of APNU+AFC = PNC! They speak from both sides of their mouth” – Dr Ramsammy Given its challenges, the industry saw a dismal sugar production level in past years, but Guyana has since been taking steps to turn around its sugar industry, and hopes to soon meet a 300,000-tonne target. There is also a projection that the sector would reach a 400,000-tonne goal by 2020.

To date, production for the first crop of 2015 has surpassed 24,500 tonnes in a target set at 86,201 tonnes.

The production figure being targeted by GuySuCo for 2015 is some 240,000 tonnes.

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the Opposition’s Agenda

By Teayken A. Dhigg

An imposition of convenient amnesia - as Ramjattan, Nagamootoo now want PNC atrocities to be forgotten

MUCH of what was said in previous instalments can in many ways be summed up to definitively pronounce that the combined Opposition in the form of APNU+AFC, is seeking to extract pre-1992 memories from Guyanese.

This is based on some of the pronouncements of members of that coalition. I alluded to this before, but it would be worthwhile to summarise. Just prior to the official announcement of the coalition, its leader David Granger was hinting on the need for the past to be forgotten in the face of pressure for him to testify at the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the death of Dr. Walter Rodney.

Following the announcement of the collation, leader of the AFC Khemraj Ramjattan boldly proclaimed (barefacedly some believe) that there are no electoral “riggers” in APNU. This unbelievable statement has left some in shock who may have had, at the time, still harbour some semblance of respect for him. History, pre and post 1992, would reveal the many scathing attacks Ramjattan unleashed on the PNC for imposing itself on Guyanese through massive electoral riggings. It must be noted that APNU is the PNC and the few small Parties that have joined, were irrelevant and only served to falsely convey a multi-party impression; window dressing to mask a sordid past.

Ramjattan knew that, and during the 2011 campaign when the PNC contested under the APNU banner for the first time, he told his supporters that the AFC would never be a part of that grouping. That was said in the context in which he didn’t want the AFC to be tarnished by the PNC’s fouled past. In other words, he was very cognisant of the atrocities the PNC inflicted.

Of course history proved differently and today, the AFC is a partner of the PNC. But that aside, Ramjattan, in the past would have accused the former leader of the PNC, Robert Corbin, as being the chief rigger of some of the elections held while that Party was in government.

Robert Corbin was on the stage at the APNU/AFC rally held in Linden on Saturday, March 14, 2015. Ramjattan was also on that stage; they shared it and basked together in the success of the meeting! Based on what he would have said in the past, there were also others present who he accused as being riggers. In Linden, Ramjattan and Moses Nagamootoo were enjoying the company of those they accused of raping Guyana. So what are they trying to tell us in 2015? Are they saying that by being an official part of the PNC now, they are forced to retract their beliefs with regard to that Party’s electoral crime?

What Ramjattan failed to realise during his denouncing, is that he wasn’t fooling anyone but himself. There are

It is common knowledge that politics make strange bedfellows, but despite that, one’s conscience must, in some way, be a guiding beacon. More so, despite whatever alliance one may endeavour to engage in, the level of vulgarity and deception Ramjattan and Nagamootoo have displayed in defending the atrocities that the PNC inflicted on this nation, has to be unmatched. thousands upon thousands of Guyanese, both here and abroad, who lived through the period of PNC rigging of elections and who are aware of Ramjattan’s related sentiments. In other words; they haven’t forgotten. Not to be outdone and wanted to be in the limelight, Nagamootoo chimed in with a statement of his own. He valiantly demanded that the past be forgotten, specifically, the period of the PNC rule. Just like Ramjattan, Nagamootoo having now been given prominence in the PNC, is demanding of Guyanese that they should forget what the PNC did to bring this nation to its knees when they buried it in poverty.

It is common knowledge that politics make strange bedfellows, but despite that, one’s conscience must, in some way, be a guiding beacon. More so, despite whatever alliance one may endeavour to engage in, the level of vulgarity and deception Ramjattan and Nagamootoo have displayed in defending the atrocities that the PNC inflicted on this nation, has to be unmatched. There are tons of accusations they would have levelled in the past against David Granger with regards to what they believe to be his role in aiding former President, Forbes Burnham, to steal power through rigging.

Many stories were written about the army’s role in forcibly removing ballot boxes from polling stations and transporting them to a central location where it is believed the rigging took place. Many stories have been written about the shooting to death of two young men from Corentyne who were trying to safeguard the integrity of the boxes in that area in 1973.

Accusations were levelled at Mr. Granger with regard to that incident. Coming from the PPP, Ramjattan and Nagamootoo would have extreme difficulties to divorce themselves from accusations.

Again, this exemplifies not only shameless deception on the part of these two politicians, but gross disrespect and insensitiveness for the intellect of Guyanese and for the pains and sufferings the people were forced to endured during that time. In the same context, there could not be doubts of both Ramjattan and Nagamootoo vehemently condemning the PNC for the violence which was unleashed following the 1997 elections and the resulting economic loss. Those violent acts precipitated a truncated term for the PPP from 1997-2001.

This again begs many questions as to why would Ramjattan and Nagamootoo want Guyanese to forget the atrocities of the PNC. Clearly, it cannot be because of a need to heal. From all appearances, it’s a more sinister agenda to impose amnesia in an effort to massage their egos and to hopefully satisfy their insatiable appetite for power by any means.

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Bibi’s Back

By Gwynne Dyer MIDWAY through the election campaign Israel’s leading satirical TV show, Eretz Nehederet, came up with a new take on the man who has dominated the country’s politics for the past 20 years. Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu, it suggested, was cursed as a child to be Israel’s prime minister for eternity. His only chance to break the spell was to become its worst-ever leader.

Well, if that was his s t r a t e g y, h e h a s f a i l e d again. Despite having run a government that delivered too few jobs, stagnant wages, a rapidly rising cost of living and a full-blown housing crisis - it now costs the average Israeli 148 months’ salary to buy a home, compared to 66 months for the average American - Israelis voted him back into power in last Tuesday’s election.

Only a week ago, he was running behind in the polls, but a massive last-minute scare campaign turned it around. On polling day, Netanyahu even put a video clip on his Facebook page in which he warned that “the rule of the right is in danger. The [Israeli] Arabs are moving in droves to the polling stations. Left-wing organisations are bringing them there in buses.” And who was paying for those buses? “American money,” explained Bibi’s campaign team.

Israel’s voting system of strict proportional representation has never given a single party a majority of the Knesset’s 120 seats in any election in the state’s 67-year history.

Netanyahu’s Likud Party won 30 seats, while its nearest rival, the centre-left Zionist Union, got only 24. But that gives Likud the first chance to form a coalition with the required 61 seats, and there are enough smaller rightwing parties to make up the numbers.

Bibi is back for up to five

more years (which would make him the longest-serving prime minister in Israeli history). But turning the tide had a price, and Israel has not yet begun to pay it.

Netanyahu won mainly by cannibalising the vote of the parties to Likud’s right, but that strategy required him to say some things out loud that he had previously conveyed to his hard-right admirers only by nods and

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu winks. The most dramatic shift came just one day before the election, when he finally said plainly that he would never allow the creation of a Palestinian state. (He walked back his words on March 19 however, telling MSNBC “I don't want a one-state solution. I want a sustainable, peaceful two-state solution.”)

Only a couple days earlier, he said: “I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate [Israelioccupied Palestinian]

territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against Israel.” Does that mean that a Palestinian state would not be permitted if he were re-elected, asked the interviewer. “Indeed,” Netanyahu replied.

This will come as a vast surprise to practically n o b o d y. N e t a n y a h u ’s entire political career has been dedicated to sabotaging the 1993 Oslo Accords (which envisaged Israeli and Palestinian states living side-by-side in peace) and planting so many Jewish settlers on the Israeli-occupied territories that a separate Palestinian state becomes physically impossible.

He largely destroyed the Oslo agreement in his first term as prime minister in 1996-99 (the creation of a Palestinian state was scheduled for 1998). Almost 10 per cent of Israel’s Jews now live in the occupied Palestinian territories (east Jerusalem and the West Bank) that would make up a Palestinian state.

But to keep his American allies and his European supporters happy, he never actually said he would not allow an independent

Palestine.

Netanyahu finally spoke the truth on Monday last because that’s what the settlers and their supporters wanted to hear, and he needed those votes in order to survive politically. But it destroyed the myth, useful to the United States and the European Union, that there is some surviving “peace process” that must be protected by keeping the Israelis happy. The “peace process” is dead, dead, dead.

Has been for years. There is no “two-state solution” on the table.

This makes it a lot harder for the US to veto resolutions critical of Israel at the Unite d N a t i o n s . Wi t h o u t t h e cover of peace talks, these vetoes become votes for perpetual Israeli rule over the Palestinian people. And it will accelerate the broader erosion of the old pro-Israel reflexes of people in Europe and the US who needed the reassurance that someday, somehow, there would be a just peace settlement.

Netanyahu made matters considerably worse during the campaign by openly showing his contempt for United States President

Barack Obama. His panicmongering speech to the US Congress, painting Obama’s quest for a nuclear deal with Iran as a naive surrender to Iran’s alleged desire for nuclear weapons, was an unprecedented foreign intervention in the US political process. It will not be forgiven or forgotten by Obama.

His election promise to speed up Jewish settlement in the Palestinian territories (which is illegal under international law) was another nail in the coffin of peace negotiations. Still, it did help to get Netanyahu reelected, and for him that’s all that counts.

He still truly believes that only he understands the real and existential dangers facing Israel, and has the will to do something about them.

Except that all he ever really does is kick those dangers down the road a bit. Unable

Gwynne Dyer to believe that a peaceful settlement is possible or even desirable, he condemns his country to perpetual conflict and growing isolation.

(Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries)

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OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER DearEditor, Allow me as Minister Responsible for Energy and Electricity for some two decades to respond to some of what Mr.David Granger is reported to have said in the article in SN of 2015-03-18, entitled,"Granger promises alternative energy boost to growing manufacturing sector-signals retooled Amaila Hydro-project".

The Government has been keenly pursuing alternative energy possibilities for our country. One has to seek to match output, market (inclusive of ability and willingness to pay) and costs.

Thanks to the work o fthe International Agencies in the 70s and 80s there have been studies available to different degrees of detail of 67 hydro sites that could be of economic interest. Many are small, of afraction to 10MW, could not carry a transmission line to the coast and need a local market. A few are in the 50 to 150 MW size that might be considered practical possibilities to supply our coast. A few other larger sites, particularly the Potaro and Mazaruni basins when fully developed would be producing much more electricity, than our GPL would need, about 1500 to 4000MW respectively.

Let me now address more specifically Mr. David Granger's statements on Moco-Moco and Tumatumari.

the Kaburi area, the Government encouraged both Dynamic Engineering and Troy Resources to get them obtaining power from Tumatumari. My latest update from both parties is that there is a great likelihood that a deal of mutual benefit would beconcluded and implemented.

Mr. Granger speaks of a"retooled Amaila" Hydro in a Potaro Development Authority. A Potaro Development Authority would probably entail a water diversion canal from the head of the Mazaruni to raise generation at Amaila to about 1000 MW, (Mr. Fip Motilall has been urging that to me); possibly, a development around the Kaieteur as per a Japanese proposal of the 1980s, say 500MW; and with steadier flow year round at Tumatumari, an up grade to say 60MW. The question would be what to do with the additional power. Unless there are fairly developed plans to utilise the additional power the Potaro Development Authority would be no advance on, and be nothing else than our Amaila plan, which we pleaded unsuccessfully with the Opposition to approve.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds

This Government (on the basis of earlier work) pursued a small hydropower project with the Government of China and about 1995 approved the hydro development at Moco-Moco, including a small network for Lethem which was then still dependent on fuel (and everything else) being flown in from Georgetown, or coming by road from Venezuela and Brazil. On beginning the operation of the MocoMoco Hydro plant in 1999, it was natural to move from "lights at night" to a 24x7 electric supply. Lethem Power Co Inc was born but Moco-Moco was disrupted by a landslide in 2003.A team from China was quickly brought to review the situation and make recommendations. The views of experienced local and other persons were also sought. They all roughly concurred on the following options: Option 1: Replace damaged sections and relay penstock as it was with minimal correction to the sliding of the land. Budget about G$50 to 70 million but the likelihood of repeated sliding would be minimally reduced - you would have to live with that likelihood and would insert enough flexible and rupture joints to minimise damage and quicken repair.

Option 2: Replace damaged section sand relay penstock as it was, but now with significant amount of gee-engineering of the sliding area thus reducing but not eliminating the likelihood of subsequent slides. Budget about G$100million to G$200million.

Option 3: Essentially a total rebuild of the project with the penstock routed along another face of the mountain and a new power station built. Budget about G$500 to $700million.

This was definitely not as Mr. Granger stated a case of some "genius" deciding that we couldn't afford G$70M to realign the tube. Rather, we did not accept Option l , with the chance that the land could slide again in subsequent rainy seasons, as there have since been. One could imagine the PNC Opposition then querying, which "genius" wasted some G$70million of public money, just putting the penstock back in place and having it broken again in a subsequent slide.

I could assure you that we pondered the three options and have been pursuing opportunities with interested Brazilian companies (typically small and not very well known} for the development of Moco-Moco. I may add that it is easily said that a Brazilian investor would come but risks have to be mitigated and returns have to be sufficiently rewarding.

Allow me to disclose (I would normally have considered now too early) that noticing the calls from IRENA(International Renewable Energy Association) for Renewable Energy Projects which they may consider for funding (half the amount at concessional rates) we proposed last year, a Rupununi Electricity Company based on developing Wamakaru falls, about 3-4MW, redeveloping Moco-Moco, judicious quantities of Wind and Solar at various villages, with back-up HFOat Lethem (2x2MW); and with a main transmission back bone linking Lethem, Annai,Sante-Fe Farm, Karasabai,(and as soon as we can, Aishalton). As presently envisaged this would be a public - private – partnership of about US$20million with the Government guaranteeing the US$10million loan from IRENA (if we win the allocation). Last year we got over the first hurdles but the concessionary rate was not concessionary enough for the Government to guarantee the loan. This year we are being offered a lower rate sufficient to attract the Government guarantee. It is projected that if we win the IRENA financing, electricity would be generated and transmitted to the centre of villages across the Rupununi at an average, blended all-incost of less than G$40perkWh. And this could happen in four years if we win an IRENA allocation. If not we would keep looking for a way to get it done but prices would be significantly higher with a purely commercial venture.

With respect to Tumatumari, Dynamic Engineering applied for and was granted a licence to redevelop Tumatumari. The early business plan focused on producing wood and stone products in the area. The startup mini-electricity Utility at Mahdia was then pursued. We could offer only what the demand and readiness to pay of that market would be - no one could offer guaranteed quantities.That market seems not to have been enough to satisfy the financiers. With the knowledge of the Karouni gold mine coming on stream in

As we have made public, we have been pursuing Brazilian interest in obtaining power from Guyana. As previously disclosed, the Government has been:

(i) participating in the IDB sponsored Northern Arc Project, a proposed linking of electricity transmission systems from Roraima state in Brazil through Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana to Ampa state in North Eastern Brazil. (ii) pursuing a Brazilian interest in purchasing power from a developed Mazaruni River. However there would be a completely different design, more or less a run-of-river design to minimise the impact on the Amerindian villages along the river. There would be a head (power) loss of about 10% and the loss of the averaging effect on year round flow provided by the huge storage in the 1973 design, any significant impact on the villages would be avoided.

It was widely reported that we toured the Amerindian villages of Upper Mazaruni and met with the Region 7 RDC and NDC, Bartica, holding discussions on planned Prefeasibility and Feasibility Studies and seeking to assure everyone that the villages would not be ordered to move out and relocate as in 1973.

The Government has been engaged with the Government of Brazil in studies of an appropriate treaty for sale of electricity to Brazil. The "run of river" design is now possible because the Brazil grid could easily manage the variations from say 800MW to 45OOMW over a year. The proposed 1973 sale of electricity to a number of aluminium smelters in Guyana would have required a much steadier level of generation through out the year, hence the huge storage and flooding in that design.

With respect to solar (photo voltaics, PV),the Government has installed about 14000,65 watt PV systems on most homes in the hinterland away from the GPL and other networks and is currently rolling out an additional 6000 systems. With respect to PV for utilities, the Government has been pursuing offers to provide demonstration 1 to 3MW PV farms to be tied into the GPL network but none has materialized so far.

With respect to wind, recall from some years ago the 'synthesized' pictures in the newspapers showing wind farms of about 25MW along the Georgetown seawall and along Hope Beach.

Ten years ago, wind and solar could only beat out petroleum based generation in special circumstances (or with hidden or open subsidies) but prices have been falling rapidly and design and performance have been improving rapidly, so much so that a year ago with crude oil prices at $100/bbl, many were saying that solar and wind were "breaking even" with petroleum products.

It is easy to say as Mr. Granger is reported to have said that "we have wind, we have wave power and we have solar power" - the challenge is in putting together developments that pay their way: and should the Government lead? Assuming the initial risks? It is easy to shout lack of transparency, but at what point in an egotiation that might take a year or two to close, and not knowing whether it would close, at what point does one go public with details any more than we have been disclosing? How much time is the average person in the public ready to give to being kept upto date on things which may not get anywhere?

The Government maintains that in the area of "lowest possible, reliable and sustainable electricity costs" and moving on from petroleum based energy sources to renewable energy sources, it has not been lagging. The blocking of Amaila when proposed by this Government, a possible 100% conversion in the source of GPL's electricity generation from petroleum to are new able, makes Mr. Granger's promises opportunistic. If we are to talk about stunting the growth of our economy and of us Guyanese, and of keeping us poor, there is little that can match the delaying of Amaila.

Yours truly

Samuel A. Hinds, O.E., M.P. Prime Minister

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Solar energy project

- a constructive initiative for hinterland communities SILVIE Henry, a 12-yearold hinterland resident, was elated when for the first time she realised that she didn’t have to find an excuse to tell her teacher why she was unable to do her homework!

She always wished to become a teacher, but could not study at nights. There was no electricity. She was happy because she was being afforded the opportunity to study to achieve her dream.

This can now become a reality as her family recently received solar panel, compliments of

the Government.

When the Government launched its Hinterland Electrification Programme, it was done with a vision to take reliable energy supply to remote parts of Guyana, more so to bridge the gap between ‘coastlanders’ and Guyana’s indigenous people.

Since its introduction in 2005, numerous Amerindian communities are now benefitting from solar powered energy to their homes, and already the beneficiaries are seeing tangible results. Scores of communities in Regions

One, Seven, Eight, Nine, and Ten have benefited from this initiative.

During a recent visit to Monkey Mountain and Campbelltown, Region Eight, it was more than evident that the residents welcome the initiative. For decades, many of the beneficiaries knew nothing other than ‘flambo’, torchlight and in a few instances, mini generator sets, which carried a very high fuel cost, attached to it.

Now just over three months, residents of Monkey Mountain have been enjoying

the benefits of solar energy.

In that community, 140 households have benefitted from this initiative, which has provided much needed relief.

Other residents said they are seeing improved grades from their school age children while the electricity is assisting in their own productivity.

INCREASE IN PRODUCTIVITY This community depends heavily on farming and in some instances, gold mining.

H o w e v e r, m o s t o f t h e women said having the solar panels has now increased productivity as they are now able to work late hours into the night to make cassava bread and spin cotton.

In the past, these trades were only conducted in the day, and now, being provided with the wherewithal to work at nights, most of the women said they are able to give more support to their male partners in the farmlands during the day. Further, this initiative at its initial stage, provided jobs for persons in the community.

As has been the case in every other community where the project has been established, Community Support Officers (CSOs) and other youths were trained for the setting and maintenance of these solar panels. These persons also received a stipend for their work.

Moreover, the maintenance of these panels is of equal importance to the Office of the Hinterland Electrification Programme.

It is for this reason each community was asked to set up a system whereby each

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beneficiary would pay a monthly fee of $500 to their Village Council. This money goes towards maintenance in the event a system develops problems. After a two-year period, this fee would increase by $100 and in instances where a unit is not functioning as it should; one of the persons trained is required to service that system.

Meanwhile, several miles away in a quiet community called Campbelltown, which is located a stone’s throw from Mahdia, 98 households are also benefitting from the

solar panel project.

According to the Toshao of that community, Ms Marbell Thomas, the feedback thus far is overwhelming as many of the beneficiaries are now having electricity in their homes for the first time in decades.

Just four months of having the luxury of electricity to their homes, residents confess that it brings a whole new meaning to life and their day-to-day activities.

In the past, residents said at nightfall the only option was to turn into bed early, while now they can enjoy family time with children while assisting with school work.

Women get to put in a little extra work making their cassava bread, which is a main course meal for many households.

This initiative also allows the beneficiaries to enjoy a little more spending as the money they once spent on kerosene to light their ‘flambo’ now goes to other much needed items in and around the home.

TANGIBLE BENEFITS Teachers of both the nursery and primary schools in the Monkey Mountain and Campbelltown areas have all reported that there has been

was always “we don’t have light”. Parents of school age children have also shared similar sentiments as they too are getting positive feedback from teachers about their children’s performance, much to their delight and satisfaction.

These are the sentiments of parents of many other communities in Regions Seven, Eight and Nine, all of whom have benefitted from this solar panel initiative.

In Region Nine,

Each package distributed thus far included a PhotoVoltaic Panel, a 6A-12V DC charge controller, a 67 Ah -12V deep cycle gelled electrolyte battery fitted with suitable terminals, sunlight resistant cable, 10 A, 1-pole DC circuit breaker, 9 W- 1 2 V D C c o m p a c t fluorescent lamps and a DC lightning arrester, with a unit cost of US$241.

Larger panels have been fitted in primary schools and health centres.

Kaituma and the revamping of the grid work at Lethem.

Some of the pilot installations were of 339 solar PV systems of 125w in group three communities where the populations were less than 1,000 persons.

There was also the installation of 2 grid ties 5kw on the hospitals of Port Kaituma and Mahdia. Mini grids were installed in those communities.

Additionally, in OreallaSiparuta, Moraikobai and St.

Solar panels on the Wapishana Language Institute in Region Nine

Children of Arau in Region Seven doing homework at night. This was made possible through the provision of solar panels by the Government

a dramatic increase in the children’s performance in school.

This is owing to the fact that the students are able to put in extra studies at night under the light of energy saving bulbs. In the past, this was something unheard of in this community.

Homework was done either at day-light and in some instances never done and the most common excuse

Region 9 home outfitted with solar panel

communities which have benefitted from this initiative include Shulinab, Meriwau, Potarinau, Shea, Parishara, Hiowa, Semonie, Katoka, Yupukari, Kaicumbay, Nappi, and Quatata.

In Region Eight, places including Kato, Kurukabaru, Wa i p a , B a m b o o C r e e k , Micobie, Chiung Mouth, Karisparu, and Kamana, are just a few communities that have benefitted.

Improving energy access is recognised as a key area for expanding access to affordable, clean energy which plays a crucial role in realising the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and achieving the objectives of sustainable development under Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy.

As the project unfolded it also saw the provision of a mini-grid at Mahdia and Port

Solar powered water system in Region Nine

Kartabo Health Post

One of the many homes in Monkey Mountain, Region Eight, which has benefited from a solar panel

Cuthbert’s Mission, technical feasibility using small grids is being tested.

Other projects include the upgrade of the Lethem distribution network and the installation of 1390 PV 65w systems in 17 villages.

Only recently, Government announced that another 6000 solar panels would be distributed t o f a m i l i e s a c ro s s t h e country. (GINA Feature)

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Public Servants should always be recognised for their contributions - says President at Berbice Regional Health Authority’s award ceremony

THE Berbice Regional Health Authority (BRHA), last Friday evening, held its 12th annual award ceremony in honour of workers who have made outstanding contribution to the sector and the Region.

President Donald Ramotar lauded the initiative as he noted that all Public Servants should at all times be recognised for their contributions. In extending congratulation to the awardees, President Ramotar lauded the organisers of the initiative.

“This is an extremely good tradition that you’ve started, to let our people know how much they are appreciated.

We need to do this more and more for our public servants,” the President said.

While acknowledging that there have been some blunders on the part of health workers in the sector, the President said

President Donald Ramotar as he addressed the gathering at the Berbice Regional Health Authority’s 12th award ceremony

they should all be hailed for their efforts. “…in a general sense, we must be grateful for the work that our Public Servants have been doing in order to make the world a better place,” he said.

The Guyanese Head of State also pointed out that while the health workers have made sterling contributions, they have significantly added to the development of the sector, and more so a better and higher quality of life that all citizens enjoy.

“It makes a contribution of every aspect of our work because when we have a healthy population we have longer life,” the President said, adding that “health service is one of the areas that contribute to extending human life.”

President Ramotar noted that with a healthy population, it is also expected that there is a more educated population as a healthy body ultimately allows for a healthy mind. “…and then we also expect that we will have a stronger and better economy, because if the people who operate in the economy are healthy and educated and at least three-quarters are happy…it makes a tremendous contribution to life, and makes a contribution to our society,” he posited.

The President, speaking of the health sector’s massive transformation over the years, said that almost every community in the hinterland is equipped with a health hut, health centre, and hospital or has access to basic health care services.

Pointing to other achievements in the sector, he noted that new hospitals have been established while modern facilities

have been installed at existing institutions.

Services that were never available in the past including open heart surgery, dialysis treatment, and cancer treatment are now accessible to citizens.

Chief Executive Officer of the Berbice Regional Health Authority, Dr. Vishwa Mahadeo Unfortunately, the President noted that there were some set-backs in bringing more services to citizens at a reduced cost with the Specialty Hospital project. These and other development projects, the President said, are needed to further advance growth in the country’s economy. The allocation for the Specialty Hospital project was See page 23

A proud sponsor of the event, Yog Mahdeo handing over the Champion Worker award to driver/mechanic Perry Phillips

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cut by the combined political Opposition (APNU and AFC).

Meanwhile, Chief Executive Officer of the BHRA, Dr Vishwa Mahadeo centered his remarks on the famous Albert Einstein’s quote, ‘Only a life lived for others is worth living’.

He noted that while the services of all in the health sector are acknowledged, there are a few who ought to be recognised for going beyond the call of duty. “…this means all the health sector workers of Regions Five and Six have, over the years, lived lives worth living because every

minute of every day, of every month of every year is spent helping others.”

Dr. Mahadeo pointed out that at every stage of life health workers have been giving of their best, as they cater to unborn babies, infants, adolescents, young adults, and elders in their daily routines.

He said the BRHA has the distinction of being the only one that has special programmes that cover all stages of life.

Speaking of the strides made by the BRHA in the Region’s health sector, Dr. Mahadeo said the authority has kept moving forward since its establishment, and will continue to raise the bar of health care delivery.

A section of the gathering

He noted too that, thanks to the Government’s contribution, the sector has seen massive development. However, in going forward he called on all health workers to continue to put their best foot forward even in the face of criticisms.

Meanwhile, some of those who received awards include, Dr. Tameshwar Algu, a Resident Surgeon who copped the CEO’s award, while Perry Phillips, a diver/mechanic copped the Champion

Worker award.

The Crabwood Creek Health Centre got the Best Health Centre award, while Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice Health Centre got the prize for the Best Medical Care.

Awards were also presented to regular blood donors, midwives, retirees, nursing assistants and staff nurses for their outstanding duty in services to persons. (GINA)

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Diamond Hospital gets new ambulance

MINISTER of Local Government and Regional Development, Norman Whittaker, on Friday last, presented the keys of a new, fully equipped am-

bulance to Dr. Serena Bender of the Diamond Hospital on the East Bank of Demerara.

Minister Whittaker said the invest-

ment is important and allows for mobility and the transfer of patients. He urged the hospital’s management and the drivers to care the ambulance. If this is not done, rehabilitation costs would increase tremendously and further funds would have to be directed towards providing another ambulance, he posited.

He urged staff members of the hospital to continue extending care to their patients, even as the residents in the surrounding communities are on the increase.

Dr Bender thanked the Minister for the ambulance, pointing out that it

was well appreciated. She assured him that the service at the hospital should improve once the ambulance begins its work.

The ambulance was catered for in the 2014 National Budget. The hospital previously had two ambulances and one crashed. Dr Bender underscored the importance of the ambulance since the hospital serves from Moblissa to Georgetown.

Meanwhile, Minister Whittaker also handed over to Dr Bender, a computer to be used by the Records Department of the Diamond Hospital.

Minister Norman Whittaker hands over keys of ambulance to Dr Serena Bender of the Diamond Hospital

Minister Norman Whittaker hands over to Dr Serena Bender, the computer to be used in the Records Department of the Diamond Hospital

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Buxton/Foulis Mash delivered as expected - but lack of sponsorship marred expected success

By Alex Wayne

THE 2015 Buxton/Foulis Mash Tramp and Soca Bacchanal generated the expected vibe and festivity that is a customary feature, as it was expected to do.

The crowds turned up in brilliant costumes last weekend, tramping through the streets in wild jubilation. The music boomed from atop several trucks as the large crowds tramped from the Plaisance Market Square to Melanie Damishana Market, thence to the Buxton Centre Ground.

In a brief interview with Promoter Ean ‘Father Moey’ Havercone, this publication was informed that the promoters suffered a huge loss because large crowds joined the costumed groups and stormed their way into the venue.

“It’s a custom each year to allow the costumed revellers to enter the venue free of cost. But the problem we are facing is that large crowds wait along the roadside and join the revelers, and would later force their way into the venue without paying a dime,” he claimed.

“Now, with overseas and local artistes, stereo sounds to pay plus other promotional

expenses, we suffered a great loss. At the moment we are planning to make it a ‘free event’ next year, and modifications will probably have to be made to the artiste line-up,” he said.

Aside from this, Havercone said his promotional team was “faced with the issue of many sponsors who backed out at the last moment, even though they had assured they would have supported the event. As a result of this, we were forced to come up with additional financing to make the event possible.”

Sponsorship, he stressed, is vital in the hosting of such mega-events.

Fans were treated to performances by international act ‘Nadia Batson’, famous for her scorching hits like ‘Shiver’, ‘Manager’, and so many more. She was followed by acts like Lead Pipe and Saddis, with their mega hit, ‘Bend Up’.

On the local side of things, fans received a scalding serving of hits from Buxton’s own ‘Zagga B’, and of course the much celebrated Super Ray and Super Cat One Man Bands.

Sadly, the 2015 Carib Soca Monarch, Jumo Primo, did not get to perform.

Sunday, March 22, 2015 –– 05:30 hrs Monday, March 23, 2015 –– 05:00 hrs Tuesday, March 24, 2015 –– 05:00 hrs

The crowds that turned out at Buxton Mash

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Natural Resources Ministry, UWI collaborate for phase two of furniture industry project THROUGH a collaborative effort, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MNRE) with the Caribbean Centre for Competitiveness (CCFC) of the University of the West Indies (UWI) will spearhead phase two of a project, titled: Global Value Chain and Cluster Study of the Furniture Industry in Guyana.

According to a release by the Natural Resources M i n i s t r y, t h e C C F C w h i c h i s f u n d e d b y t h e IDB, the UK’s Department For International Development (DFID) and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, aims to work with Industry and regional governments to develop competitiveness strategies for sustainable development of targeted industries through applied Cluster and Value Chain Initiatives The ultimate objective, they noted, is to define profitable business segments within which local industries can improve their global competitiveness through the use of Industry Clusters and improved positioning in Global Value Chains.

“Phase one of this project was initiated by CCFC and involved a detailed analysis of the global furniture industry and a preliminary review of the local industry,” the ministry said, adding that this phase concluded with a stakeholders’ consultation at the Herdmanston Lodge on March 16.

Against this backdrop, phase two of the project will be executed during the month of March to early April and will involve a deepened analysis of the local industry, through which a local cluster mapping of all stakeholders will be conducted and the local value-chain constructed.

As such, this activity will seek to determine the competitive strategic segments within which Guyana’s furniture industry should focus its efforts.

Additionally, interviews will be conducted with logging companies, sawmilling companies, f u r n i t u re m a n u f a c t u re r s a n d i n s t i t u t i o n a l s t a k e h o l d e r s i n o r d e r t o d e v e l o p a s t ro n g u n d e r s t a n d i n g o f t h e c u r re n t s t a t e o f t h e industry, and to appreciate possible future industry trends. This phase, the ministry said, will culminate in a second stakeholders’ meeting at which the findings will be presented.

The MNRE requests the continuing valued collaboration of all stakeholders to make phase 2 of this project a success. For additional information, kindly contact Mr. Gavin Agard at gagard@nre.gov.gy or 231-2506-10 ext 217 or Ms. Dianna DaSilva-Glasgow at dianna. dasilvaglasgow@sta.uwi.edu or 627-8119.

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PENPAL PENPAL  friends for lasting relationships. Call Tia on 6466302.  seeking East Indian males, between ages 25 and 37 years for friendship/relationship. Contact 651-7898.

 CITIZEN seeks female pen friends between ages 18 - 30 yrs old while in Guyana, for possible relationship. Text to 621-4000 or send photo to PO Box 101702.  male seeks female with good personality, age 2733 years. Reply with photo to M.D 7475 Goreway Dr. #47 Mississauga ON L4T 3T3, Canada.  your match. One-hour link, lifelong partners/friends/companions. Confidential, singles only. Tel: 592-223-8237, 592-6486098, 08:30hrs - 17:00hrs (both phones same hours). service

SERVICES

 rates for all income tax, VAT, payroll, financial statements etc. Phone 227-6355, 6732896.  installation, maintenance to AC units, fridges and freezers. Tel: 647-2014.  you have properties to rent or sell? Then, we have the clients, professional & reliable services. Tel: 2208596, 643-9196, 686-1091, 610-7998.  you need persons of all levels to work in your business countrywide? Call: 666-3751 or wwwhttp://cfi.netne.net.  & licensed Customs House brokerage services.

Call 681-7567, 223-1506.  plans, estimates, weeding of grass and spraying done within 48 hours. Tel: 2160671, 622-0267, 692-8464.  Jewellery and Pawnshop, Lot 1 D'Urban Street, Werk-en-Rust between Camp and George Streets. Call 223-6331, 227-2307.  efficient repairs to washing machines, refrigerators, gas stoves etc. Tel: 227-0060, 609-8550, 6941778, Freezezone Enterprise.  quality sanding & lacquering of floors, doors, walls etc.

Contact us at 150 Sukhai Street, Better Hope. ECD. Tel: 220-4897, 610-4704. Book-keeping Service, reasonable rates, Quickbooks, personal tutoring for CIMA Operational Level. For enquiries call: 673-7572, Ben Heeralall.  efficient, prompt and reliable service and repairs: refrigerators, washing machines, gas stoves, AC units and clothes dryers, tel: 266-1047, 6959298 Intercool Enterprises 108 Grove, Scheme, E.B.D..  Constructions: Excavator & Bobcat rentals.

Specialised in the construction of buldings, swimming pools, renovations, drawing of plans etc. Call: 628-2330, 225-1499 Mohamed.  all general construction, contact Mohamed. Specialised carpentry, masonry, plumbing, power-wash, painting, troweltex, varnishing. Call 233-0591, 667-6644, (office), 216-3120.  selling, renting property or land? Contact Zinctop Homes Realty. Tel: 231-4041, 6842244, 226-3595. Lot 95 Hadfield Street, Werk-en-Rust. www.zinctophomes.com

 Visa Service. Professional Visa applications to the US and Canada. Fees USA VISA $3000, Canada $4000, Plaza Computer Service, 245 Sheriff Street, C/ville.

225-7 3 9 0 , 6 1 8 - 0 1 2 8 , 6 8 8 1 874. Open Monday to Sunday 09:00hrs 21:00hrs   Building Contractor: Carpentry, masonry, tiling, plumbing, painting, drawing of plans, etc, free estimates, general home maintenance, prompt, affordable and dependable. Lot 1232 6th Avenue Section "A" Diamond New Scheme, EBD. Tel. 216-0671, 6220267, 692-8464, Email klakeram.construction@gmail.com   - Professional Caribbean to international construction, specialised in general work from start to finish, roofing, pool, carpentry, plumbing, tiling, painting, electrical, masonry - 613-7964, 675-1510.                                         .  you have appliances that are not working? Then you can call qualified technicians on 661-8802 for all repairs and servicing to all domestic and commercial appliances such as stoves, refrigerators, washing machines, water dispensers, clothes dryers, pressure pumps, treadmill machines, water heater systems, air condition units, deep fryers, convection ovens, heat extractors, dishwashers, installing 100lb cooking gas cylinder, gas grill, electrical installation also auto diagnostic testing - 661-8802. provides quality designs & construction of terrazzo, also regrinding & polishing of existing terrazzo floors. Contact Athlone Bacchus, 660-7486, 6422289.

SPIRITUALITY Spirituality  Spiritualist: resolving all problems, blockage, love, and money, etc - Tele: 223-6834, 600-7719.  spiritual hel p i n removing evil spirit, bad lucks, evil sickness, spells, reuniting lovers, bring ing prosp e r ity to businesses etc. Tel: 612-6417, 2200708, 6 8 7 - 5 6 5 3 . , a high science spiritual healer solves all purpose problems such as reuniting lovers, husband/wife, marriage, blockage, prosperity, pregnancy, overseas, court, land, removal of evil, enemies, jobs, money, bad luck, visa, sickness, clearing of and dredge operation, etc. Tel: 671-3204.

TAXI SERVICE

TAXI SERVICE

 Runnings Taxi Service and Auto Rental. Tel: 225-6926, 231-5808.

VACANCY

VACANCY

 to do tinting on vehicles. Tel: 621-7560.  exist for teacher call: 220-1819, 641-8764.  part-time Day Care assistant and one part-time Mathematics teacher. Tel 654-6021.  and experienced teachers at IPE, Mon Repos, for Primary and Secondary levels. Tel: 629-5300. Gas Station - Pump Attendants required. Send applications to: The Manager, Vlissengen Road, Georgetown.  Guard to work (on weekends). Contact Mr Danesh.

Tel: 220-7921. 08:00hrs to 16:30hrs.  office clerk, minimum 3 CSEC subjects and salesgirls, Avinash Complex Water Street. Call 226-3361, 227-7828.  attendant, stock clerk, office assistant with three years experience. Contact Vegetarian Gardens, 227-7714. , hauler 4 x 4 driver, Woodmizer operator grant manager. Call Richard 6097675, 674-1705, 233-2614.  experienced, caring, reliable people to help seniors in their own home. Tel: 6091 9 8 1 , Email:www.wecare920@yahoo.com  Between 18-35yrs.

Police clearance is required. Apply at Lens Décor ,8 Sheriff Street, Georgetown. Tel#: 227-0176.  guards to work on a poultry farm at Soesdyke, preferably from East Bank Demerara, age 25-60 years. Live-in accommodation available. Tel: 2259304, 226-0772.  male junior farm supervisor with a small family to live in on a poultry farm, East Bank Demerara, wages $4,200 per day, age 35-55 years, free medical benefits available. Tel: 2259304, 226-0772.  and experienced teachers. Please send applications to: The Director, Xenon Academy, 276 Tank Street Grove, East Bank Demerara. Tel: 266-2551.  porter and driver. Experience will be an asset. Apply in person with written application to: The Manager, Household Plus, 131 Regent Road Bourda.  Guard. Apply in person with written application and one passport size picture to: The Manager, Regency Suites/ Hotel, 98 Hadfield Street, Werken-Rust, Georgetown.  Data clerk. Must be computer-literate. One Counter clerk, must have 2 subjects, CXC Mathematics and English. Send written application in own handwriting to P.O. Box 12118.  Representative: Driver's licence required.

Canter , porter,  ,   . Applicants should reside on EBD - 676-6700.  Desk Clerk. Must be computer-literate. Apply in person with written application t o : T h e M a n a g e r, R e g e n c y Suites/Hotel, 98 Hadfield Street Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown.

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/Trainee to operate offset printing press, must be 20-25 years, qualification 3-5 subjects (CXC). Apply in person to 21 Seaforth Street, Campbellville. Tel: 226-1877.

 $3M, Guysuco Garden $33M, Bel Air $37M. Contact Theresa 648-6033.

 away land East and Quamina Streets corner 120x100 US$1.7M neg., Hadfield Street opposite new expected GGMC $115M, South Road close to Wellington Street 30x112 $65M, Newtown 75x32 $14.9M, William Street 114x45 $28M, Prashad Nagar $26M, 125x62 Blygezight box 80x75 $32M, Phone Mr Boodram 692-3831, 225-2626, Mr Pereira 225-3068, 226-1064.

 for rent/for sale: Newly built 3-storey, Lot 39-40 Broad Street. Tel: 623-4706, 2263810.

/ 'CC'- 3 and 2 bedrooms property with parking$85,000.     

-bedroom, fully furnished apartment in Campbellville with AC. Overseas guest. Tel: 648-0303.

 and gratitude, 5800 sq. ft of land, Bel Air Springs overlooking the sea for apartment complex for oil magnates, must be state-of-the-art. 100 x 50 Sophia Road now fixed $3.8M, another $2.1M, Bel Air Springs land 7000 sq. ft $65M, Lamaha Gardens 2-storey house can be pulled down or can erect 2 more storeys for an organisation, of international status that requires staff house, Blygezight Gardens $22M, Lamaha Gardens $42M, Prashad Nagar land 135 x 62 $26M. Call Mr Carlos Boodram 692-3831, Mr Aloysious Pereria 623-2259, 669-3350,669-0943, Madame Harte 225-2709, Madame Enmore 227-6863, 2252626, 225-3068, 667-7812.

 place at New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop. Contact 621-6880, 264-3072.

 to work in computer store, between ages 18 and 25 years. Experience in the use of computers would be an asset.

Send application to the Manager, 105 Regent Road, Bourda, Georgetown.  /Office Assistance with bicycle, scooter, motorcycle or motorcycle license. Experience not necessary. Come in at 172 Light and Charlotte Streets, Bourda.  Hauler/ dump truck operator for interior .

Applicants must be experienced with verifiable references. Beginners need not apply. Call 6182020.  female secretary - knowledge of QuickBooks, Microsoft Word, Excel. Must be able to do multiple functions & work with little supervision.

Email: sharonsbuilding.com. Tel: 6718883, 621-2677, 225-4413.  for interior location, must know to cook and bake a wide variety of items.

Strictly non-smoker. Applicants must be experienced with verifiable references and must be at least 40 years old. Others need not apply. Call 618-2020.   Application Developer is advertising for nineteen agents for its Realty business across all regions of Guyana. Find details http://www.wafugee.com .sign up, Log in, go to 'Jobs' tab and choose 'Vacancy'. Open Vacancy titled 'Real Estate Agent' and apply within. Applications close March 30, 2015.    a highly motivated and energetic person with A UG degree in Business field plus 2 years management experience.

Very Attractive Salary. Please Contact 227-0176 or Lens Décor, 8 Sheriff Street, Subryanville, Georgetown or email: michelle_lensdecor@hotmail.com Land ForFOR Sale SALE LAND   Street land, double in length, already fenced, $22M front lots 600-4343.  No.2, 138ft. x 1722 ft. - $15M. Phone 227-7734.  acres farm of land, Supenaam. Call 644-6551.  sale or lease: Land for wharf, Timehri area, river and creek. Call 644-6551.   road to river, Pearl, East Bank Demerara $43M neg. Tel: 265-2563.  in Republic Gardens, Peter's Hall, EBD. Interested persons contact 231-5359, 672-7189.  60 x 90 ft Boodhoo Housing Scheme $9.8M Contact 624-0058.   Harmonie $1.2M neg. Call 604-4174, 6195332.  120 acres fruit farm, fenced for sheep, 50 years lease, many more. Call 4446589, 694-1888. Price $20M.  lot, size 75' x 150', Main Road Lethem. Call 6220445, 685-7659.  45 Goedverwagting, 0.447 acre 73x90. Price $12M. Tel: 646-2939.  Creek: 100 acres transported. No reasonable offer refused. Owner leaving. Call 644-6551.  Parika (the market area) size 115x50. Price neg. Contact 644-9520, 223-0816. ¼-acre water front land at Kamarang Landing, Region 7. Ideal for business. Contact 6269810.

 vacant high-income house lot at Second Avenue, Diamond Scheme $6.8M neg. Tel: 629-5300, 697-4659.  Cheap! Cheap!

Gold land in Ekereku Cuyuni and Demerara River Call: 600-0036, 223-1273.  'C' Ogle. Asking price $35M neg., Vreed-en-Hoop land from public road to reserve. Asking Price $50M. Call 689-9222.  community at Versailles, WBD, Roramia Scheme (breezy atmopshere). Contact 6216880, 264-3072.  lease land, ideal for sandpit or farming etc. 5 minutes drive from race track circuit - $30M neg.

Call 220-1068, 626-7684.   Harmonie $1.3M, $1.4M, $1.5M, Eccles $6M, Herstelling $5M, Leonora $3M. Tel: 689-3339, 675-7292.  First 5 Star gated community - community mall, pool, underground irrigation, swipe card entry, shock fence etc. Reserve your land Now! Contact 609-0783, seroj_26@yahoo.com.  Land, 55 Pitt St. New Amsterdam $55m. Residential Land, 5th. St. Diamond EBD. Residential Land & Building. 3rd. St. Diamond $60M, $12M Contact: 625-9900  $4.8M & $5M neg, Laluni Farmlands 30+ acres at $400 000 neg. per acre. Hauraruni Farmlands 37 acres at $325 000 per acre. Tel: 688-3873.  Gardens semi-gated 42x80 $3.6M neg., 54x90 $4.3 neg., Charity Housing Scheme $2.8M neg., Kuru Kuru residential 100x200 - $2.6M, 623-4790, 222-5116, 6244790.  Street: Well developed, fully fenced land measuring 100 feet x 62 feet, next to Scotiabank - $150M. Serious enquiries only. Call 227-5407, 658-2686  Schoon Ord, Harbour Bridge gated compound $7.5M, 8M, Parika 8M, Diamond $9M, Herstelling $6M, $7M. 35 acres highway land at east side of highway Madewini Creek Price $15M. Tel: 225-3737, 651-7078..  business land 125x50 neg., in Smyth Street opposite Jumbo Jet. Valuation $85M Asking price $75M, 3% refund on agent commission earned. Call Lord and Harold Anthony Reid's Realty 627-0288, 667-7812, 225-3068, 225-2626, 231-2864, 225-5198, 225-2709, 669-3350, 226-1064, 227-6949, 646-1712.  Diamond 2nd Street $8M, $10M, Herstelling $6M, $7M, Linden Highway 45 acres $15M, gold claims Sherima 1200 acres $20M, Mazaruni 1200 acres $20M, Winiperu 800 acres $20M. Tel: 2253737, 225-4398, 651-7078.  40x80 $5Mil, farm 50x120 $10M, 6 house lots at Providence at $11M each neg., Ogle Public Road 50x180 for $50M, Sophia 40x80 - $2M, Republic Park, 50x100 - $17M neg.

D'Urban, Norton $29M. Call 2263595, 231-4041, 661-1952, 6725403, 684-2244, 654-9464.  land 52x165 in Kingston US$ 4 9 9 0 0 0 ( f o u r h u n d r e d and ninety-nine thousand US dollars). Phone Mr Boodram 692-3831, Mr Per e i r a 6 6 9 - 3 3 5 0 , 6 2 3 - 2 5 9 1 , 669-0943, 225-2626, 2252 7 0 9 , 2 2 5 - 3 0 6 8 , 2 2 6 - 1 064, 231-2064.  invite you to purc h a se the follow inge land for bond , Chandra & Gange 125x120 corner lot $ 6 5 M , William Street, Kitty 120x45 foefr bond , Gange 1 2 5 x 6 2 i n Pras h a d Nagar for bond.

Phone Mr Boodram 692-3831, Mr Pereira 623-2591, 669-0 9 4 3 , 2 2 6 - 1 0 6 4 , 225-3 0 6 8 , 2 2 5 2626, 225-51 98, 225-2709.

TO LET TO LET      -bedroom apartment at Peter's Hall Call 621-6037.  apartment at Industry Front. Call 670-9606.      -bedroom bottom flat.

Tel: 698-3362, 227-1867.  place on Regent Road. Call: 641-2419.       house with all amenities. Call 222-3059.  $50 000, $100 000 AC. Call 616-5914.  South Road $60 000. Call Eric, 616-5914.  space $25 000 and $50 000. Call Eric, 616-5914.  2-bedroom apartment at Eccles. Call 265-7182, 624-1253.  in Regent Street.

Phone 665-6453.  bottom flat in Craig EBD,$30 000. Tel: 6640580.  furnished house 3 self-contained bedrooms. Call 643-8292.  3-bedroom top flat, preferably students LBI. Tel: 2267585.  house with parking etc, Non Pareil, ECD, $40 000. Tel: 681-2499.  with toilet & bath, kitchen and living room etc, ECD. Tel: 612-1896, 229-6385.  top flat 3 bedroom $85,000 & eccles 3 bedroom top flat $80,000. Tel:684-6266.  farm in Linden, cheap electricity and water, much more. Call 444-6589, 694-1888.  business place $40 000 - $60 000 Contact: 627-1893, 694-4148.  2-bedroom apartment in Triumph Agriculture Road.

Call 698-3854, 220-7937.  1- and 2-bedroom furnished upper flat from US$25 up. Call 681-2499, 679-0757.  flat, 2 bedrooms at Better Hope $50 000. Call 6093311, 220-4298.

  bottom flat, executive u n f u r n i s h e d , price: $85,000 monthly. Tel:646-1712, 693-8532.  Gardens: 3 bedrooms, parking, AC. Call 6139033.

 apartment at 198 Charlotte Street, Bourda. Tel: 650-1319.  bottom flat in Werk-en-Rust. No secure parking $65,000. Call 689-9222.  commercial space, Camp Street for businesses or office. Ground floor, Brickdam, 6806782.

- Spacious 2 bedrooms upper apartment with parking-$60,000       Well apointed 3 bedrooms upper apartment with a/c and parking$75,000.      - 3 bedrooms furnished upper apartment with parking- US$800.      space in Kitty on the main road over 4 000 sq. ft US$1000. Tel: 684-6266.  and two-bedroom apartments at 27 Hugh Ghanie Park and 248 Area J, Industry ECD Tel: 666-8585.

/unfurnished two-bedroom apartment, Kitty.

Decent working person. $65 000 neg. Call 618-9117, 227-1354.  Park (2-bedroom furnished flat US$700, Lamaha Gardens top flat US$800. Diana 227-2256, 626-9382. -bedroom apartment located at Mon Repos Public Road $30 000 monthly, 2 months' security plus first month's rent required. Tel: 616-3902, 220-6530.  top flat three-bedroom, fully furnished. 158 Da Silva Street. Contact Geeta, 227-8651, 661-2082.  two-bedroom house AC, grilled, parking, walking distance to UG & CARICOM. Call 623-3404, 222-6708.

 Gardens: Executive large 3-bedroom, 2 bathroom, semi-furnished, large yard. Tel: 227-0972.

 apartment, Kitty & Success, ECD. Business space, Albert Street Call 6215282.

 centrally located in Georgetown, suitable for business.

Call 225-7131, 664-7525.

 location, ideal for supermarket, general store, franchise, 7 000 sq. ft, 14 Pitt Street, New Amsterdam Berbice. Call 3334002.

 Springs: 3-bedroom upper flat, self-contained, parking, internet, G$120 000.

Metpride Realty, 699-7239.

 two-bedroom, upper flat apartment with self-contained, AC etc. Price $65 000 Location Mon Repos, ECD. Tel: 618-0626.

 Gardens: 3-bedroom bottom flat, self-contained room, parking $120 000. Metpride Realty, 699-7239.

 (Vlissengen// D'Urban): professional, office, business space. No food retailing. Tel: 677-9638, 629-1093.

 Gardens: 1-bedroom apartment, grilled, tiled, parking - $55,000. Metpride Realty. 699-7239.

 3-bedroom upper flat furnished, fully grilled, 24 hours water supply, parking. $100,000 at 57 Austin Street, Campbellville - Call: 643-1414.

 2-bedroom close to Sheriff Street $100 000.

Call 616-5914 Eric.  6 Railway Line, Kitty: 2bedroom apartment bottom flat.

Tel: 227-4157.  3-bedroom on Sheriff Street and Sandy Babb $120 000. Call Eric, 616-5914.  2-bedroom in Kitty $75 000. Call Eric, 616-5914.  furnished 2-bedroom apartment, decent couple. Call 669-7288.  from $50 000 up also house and land for sale. Sandy 222-7986, 638-7237.  two/three bedroom top flat with all conveniences. Tel: 642-0636.  spaces: Regent Street $160 000, $300 000, $60 000. Call 616-5914 Eric.  space, 90ft x 20ft in Robb Street by Bourda Market.

Tel: 697-7967. -bedroom downstairs at Non Pareil. East Coast Demerara.

Contact 617-2408, 642-5356. -furnished bottom flat at LBI. Grille, tile, and carpet. Tel: 220-2968, 629-9920.  business spot at the corner of Albert & Fifth Streets. Tel: 690-0213.  10-room hotel and one 8-room hotel, restaurant and bar.

Call 616-5914, Eric $700 000.  1 large showcase for sale, also pedicure,facials & extention anytime $1,500. Call 669-1662.  2 bedroom upper flat $90,000 Kitty & 3 bedroom lower flat $130,000. Tel: 684-6266.  building in Kitty, 2 storey 3 bath $USD 1,000 & Eccles 3 bedroom USD$800.

Tel: 684-6266.   2 bedroom $90,000 Cummings Lodge% 3 bedroom $50,000. Tel: 684-6266.  bedroom executive apartment, security cameras, AC, good parking and Direct TV etc.

Call 623-5550.  place, central location: Large and fully secured ground floor, no flooding. Tel: 642-0636.

 3-bedroom house in Better Hope Scheme. Call 2204897.

two/three bedroom top flat with internet access, generator and parking. K. Raghubir. Tel: 642-0636.

 place, central location: Large and fully secured ground floor. No renovations needed. Tel: 642-0636.

 spot formerly mining trading Bagotstown: opposite former KFC outlet. Call owner, 671-7114, 233-6987.

 two-bedroom top flat apartment, located in Norton street, Lodge, telephone and parking. Tel: 261-5635, 225-8149, 687-2825.    Unfurnished 1-bedroom apartment $30 000. 614-0166, 601-6639.  Bar, 160 Vryheid's Lust, Public Road ECD, for bar or any other type of business. 220-4372, 690-3129.  and unfurnished 2 bedrooms, with toilet & bath, kitchen, at Chateau Margot, East Coast Demerara. Call 660-0943.  spacious 2-bedroom flat house in La Parfaite Harmonie . Tel: 6806137, 628-3889.  house, fully furnished, diplomat rental, residential at US$2500. Call 6645105.  executive 2-bedroom bottom flat unfurnished, with parking $85,000 neg. Call 646-1712, 693-8532.  New furnished or unfurnished two-bedroom apartment on Light Street.

Tel: 622-8529.  constructed shortterm apartment/rooms in Herstelling, EBD. Contact Handel on 621-6862, 655-3065, 514-4307764.  floor & building in Campbellville, Kitty Regent Street, Kitty. Tel: 684-6266.  2-bedroom bottom flat C Field, Sophia. $33,000 monthly. Contact 672-7145.    bottom and top flats in Kitty and Campbellville for US$500 US$650. Tel: 684-6266.  2-bedroom Cummings Lodge $50 000, Kitty 3-bedroom $80 000. Tel: 6846266.  to rent at Uitvlugt, WCD. Contact No. 6662442.  two-bedroom, semi-furnished apartment, fully grilled, parking space. 1419 Central Amelia's Ward, Linden. Call 617-1648.  3-storey building suitable for bond or industrial purposes US$2800 neg. etc. Diana 227-2256, 626-9382.

 One Studio apartment for decent single working person, preferably female between 25 and 50 years old. Call 668-1913.  2-bedroom bottom flat, 48 Sandy Babb Street, Kitty west of clinic. No agents, no parking $50 000. Tel:227-6444.  house Schoon Ord dairy La Parfaite Harmonie. Reasonable rate, water, light, grilled etc. Call 6837410, 227-4422.  apartments $50 000 - $60 000, furnished (for visitors) US$500 US$1000. D'Urban Street Lodge.

Tel: 677-9638, 629-1093.  new spacious 2-bedroom, kitchen, toilet, living room, grille, security camera, secure yard. Family only. Call 682-5230, 628-9596.   furnished 3-bedroom apartment, long term (6 months and over), short term (per day). Call 227-3203 (home), 2268689, 660-4016, 681-4249.  3-bedroom upstairs grilled, toilet and bath inside, telephone, parking, spacious living quarters at East Bank Demerara.

Tel: 668-5384, 648-3342.  for salon, spare parts, pharmacy, internet office etc, in Kitty, Regent Street, South Road, North Road. $170 000 - $50 000. Call 616-5914 Eric.  fully furnished apartment, long term or short term, 115 Thomas Street Kitty. Tel: 225-0071, 674-7420, 600-5473.  apartments $65 000, office space $100 000, 4-storey building in commercial area. Call 225-3737, 6517078.  Ground floor business any kind, Alexander Street, Kitty $75 000, also complete restaurant with all amenities. Call 225-0571, 638-0787. - Well apointed 3 bedrooms apartment over looking sea; paking, flood free- $85,000.    house Bel Air 5 rooms $150 000, Diamond 3 rooms $150 000, Diamond 2 bedrooms $50 000 and $65 000 monthly. Tel: 626-2243.

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  house, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, semifurnished. US$3000.    

   Atlantic Gardens split level two-storey, 4 bedrooms, all self-contained.

Meadow Brook Gardens two-storey, 3 bedrooms. Both with all modern conveniences.    

 for Commercial/Office purposes Avinash/Ravina's Water Street. Devina's, Berbice Bus Park. Tel: 226-3361, 2277828.  2 bedrooms with utilities included $50 000, Diamond front 2-bedroom $65,000, Blygzeight 5 bedrooms $150 000.

Raul 655-8361, 699-6811.  close to Giftland OfficeMax $12M, CC Enterprise $36M, Diamond $27M and $42M. Troy 626-2243.  & two-bedroom apartments, fully furnished for overseas visitors, AC, internet, hot & cold shower - US$25 daily, monthly also. Call 231-6061, 621-1524.  furnished, large 1-bedroom apartment in Alberttown, AC, grilled, parking. Available.

Suitable for overseas guests. For details 231-9086.  two bedroom, bottom flat apartment fully grilled, parking space, situated in Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara. 216-0416, 623-7831.  building two-bedroom furnished apartment, fully grilled, parking place, internet, Lot 1 Station Street, Kitty US$600, daily rental US$40. Call 227-6046, 621-7519.  Street, Lodge, unfurnished upstairs, 3 bedrooms, $61 000. No parking, wifi available. 6170704 between 19:00hrs and 21:00hrs. -bedroom flat concrete house with inside toilet and bath, telephone, light, water, fully grilled, overhead tank at 'E' Field Sophia. Price $46 000 monthly.

Tel: 610-8890.  Street, Lodge, unfurnished upstairs, 3 bedrooms, $61 000. No parking, wifi available. 617-0704 between 21:00hrs and 19:00hrs.  vacant spaces located in Kitty, suitable for any type of business or bonds For further details, kindly contact Ms Persaud.

Tel: 227-5637, 672-4104.  for Commercial/Office purposes, Avishkar's Regent Street, Avinash La Penitence, Garment Factory Plaisance ECD. Lot D Lama Avenue, Bel Air Park.

Call: 226-3361, 227-7828.  upstairs and downstairs 3-bedroom house in South Ruimveldt Gardens, $130 000. Call 610-5087 between 11:30hrs and 14:00hrs, Monday to Saturday. for residential or business purpose at Carmichael Street, opposite Bishops' High School, threestorey building at Albert and Crown Streets, Queenstown. Contact 6768827, 629-6584, 645-6825, 6974800.  houses from USD$1200-USD$4000, furnished 2 bedrooms USD$500, 1-2 bedrooms aprtment USD$800USD1,000 and office spaces USD$75,000- $USD$2,000. Tel: 226-3595, 231-4041, 661-1952, 672-5403, 684-2244, 654-9464.   Spacious open plan living room, three bedrooms (upper flat), one bedroom (lower flat) can be used as home office, servant quarters, self-contained, parking, secure neighbourhood.

US$1500. Tel: 667-9367.  609-8233 Blygezight: Whole house with huge yard and garage $150, 000, Diamond 2-bedroom apartment with utilities paid, $50 000, fully furnished apartment US$1200, Restaurant spot on Louisa Row $120 000 monthly.  apartments, Republic Park $55 000 monthly, Roof Garden $46,000 for an occasion, office space at $45 000 monthly. Roof Garden $46 000 per occasion. Contact 623-1203, 651-3402, 227-7619

 property in Bel Air Park US$3500 with pool, Prashad Nagar US$1500, Lamaha Gardens US$2000, Eccles US$2500. Apartments from US$400 to US$1500. Foundation Realty 618-0000, 615-0069, 2222300.   & Texila, fully furnished apartment, internet ready, includes electricity and water - $70 000, US$350. 6004343.  (one-bedroom apartment) $55 000, Campbellville (house) US$1000US$900, Campbellville (apartment) $90 000, Atlantic Gardens $800US., etc. Diana 227-2256, 626-9382.  Gardens: large executive, 3-bedroom, apartment, furnished, with lots of yard space & 2-storey building, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, sitting, study room, kitchen, dining, laundry etc.

Fully furnished. Tel: 695-4447.          a p a r t ments in gated compound, 3-bedroom, 2-bedroom, 1bedroom, all self-contained, AC, hot/cold water with fridge, stove, washer, dryer, microwave, living room set, dining room chairs, etc. Call: 678-6887. -bedroom fully furnished apartment Sixth Avenue, Diamond, EBD, telephone, internet, parking, etc, available for long term ,short term rental. - $55,000 per month (negotiable). Short term rental for overseas visitors US$25 per day. Tel:658-1523, 6383622, 231-8567.  flat, Barr Street Kitty front house, 3-bedroom, breezy, I master bedroom self contained, tub hot & cold , two AC, 2 washrooms, house beautifully lacquered, inside ceiling fans (all rooms), huge verandah, seperate entrance, can hold 3 vehicles. Suitable for foreigners. Call: 225-3262, 6766948, 226-4014.  furnished upstairs, two bedrooms, self-contained rooms with grille, MMC, hot and cold, generator overhead tank with pump and water filter system, solar system, AC, internet, water included, very close to sea wall and all main roads. US$1200 Neg. monthly. Call 226-9929  Street Kitty top flat, 3bedroom, unfurnished with parking.

Price $120 000. Close to UG: top flat, 2-bedroom furnished. Price $100 000. Railway Kitty 2-bedroom apartment unfurnished & one 2bedroom self-contained apartment furnished & unfurnished. Price $100 000 & $140,000 respectively. Tel: 220-8596, 643-9196, 686-1091, 610-7998. Viewing by appointment only.      (3200 sq ft ideal for Offices, Bank,etc)US$4,200;   (2 floors for schools, etc)US$1500; (Ideal for Restaurant, Church, SchoolAbove Sankar's)Upper Lower Back US$800;  (spacious bond): US$2500; (ground floor)US$3000 G   "Spaces at   "- 1st FloorUS$700/ 2nd Floor-US$500/ RoofGarden-US$2000;    (3 classrooms spaces with A/C, can accommodate 300 students) $160,000;   (Lower flat ideal for bond, restaurant, etc)- $120,000;  (business space close to harbor bridge)$120,000;

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  W o r l d # 1 R e a l t or Miste r Terry Redford Reid 667 78 1 2, 225-6858, 225-7164, 2261064, 225-2626, 231-2068, 6197945. Have the executive r e ntal r e d u c e d by 35%, Prashad Nagar US$1000, Jacaranda Ave. Bel Air Park US$2000, Barima Ave Bel Air Park US$180 0 , Bel Air Springs US$1000, large bond for rental office small form US$3 75, 10 000 sq ft office space for technology bus i n e s s . 22 5 - 2626, 225-5198, 2261064, 6 2 3 - 2 591, 669-3350.                    (fully furnished)- US$3000; HAPPY ACRES-(3 storied)US$3000/ (2 storied)-US$2200;   US$1500/ US$800/ $120,000/ $55,000 (4 and 3 bedrooms furnished);                  (semi-furnished)-$90,000/ $70,000 (3 bedrooms upper);   (3 bedrooms)- $95,000/ $85,000     (upscale 3 bedrooms)$75,000;       (2 bedrooms upper)$55,000; (1 and 2 bedrooms furnished apartment)- $120,000/ $70,000;   - $75,000/ $35,000;  (2 bedrooms)$40,000.

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PROPERTY FOR SALE   corner lot. Asking $17M neg. Call 689-9222.       2-storey, 3-bedroom house. Call 612-5022.  property.

Price neg. Contact 613-3377.  Rupa Avenue, Bel Air Park, Georgetown. Phone 673-3601.  for sale or rental with pens etc. at Moblissa. Details 6446551.  Gardens: 2-storey concrete house, 60'x100' lot - $42M neg. Contact 603-5988.  Park: 2-storey, 4 bedrooms, laundry room, parking - $19M. Metpride Realty 699-7239. , Success Line Top. Lusignan ECD. Contact 6383636.  business place Barr Street Kitty. Call 225-1923, 6921185.  - $60M,KEYINVESTMENT. TEL:223-1765,641-2664.   -$80M,KEY INVESTMENT.TEL: 2231765,641-2664.   STREET, WORTMANVILLE. Tel: 660-5019, 629-6101.   Street, Kitty Georgetown - $25M. Call 6579013, 628-2044. , opposite stadium, EBD. $35M. Call 657-9013, 628-2044.  Leonora, Water Pump Street 24" x 58". Contact 642-5799.  $40M, Eccles $30M, Cummings Lodge $30M Garnett Street $60M. Tel: 225-0545.  restaurant, Lot 89 Robb & Oronoque Streets. Call 264-1536.  at Coverden Public Road, EBD river side. 65ft x 600ft.

- $55M. Call 657-9013, 628-2044.  Court, Herstelling, EBD $38M. Call 6579013, 628-2044.  $3M, Guysuco Garden $33M, Bel Air $37M. Contact Theresa 648-6033.

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 $40M, Alberttown $30M, Cummings Lodge $30M, Mandela Avenue $25M. Tel: 6420636.

  Park 4-bedroom (two self-contained), 4 toilets & 3 baths, concrete/ wooden property.

Reservoir & overhead tank. Call 639-0135.  Estate Road- 4 bedrooms wooden and concrete property with shop front.- $9.5 neg. JEWANRAM: 227-1988/ 6236431.

PROPERTY FOR SALE  Springs: Transported property,,unfurnished 4 bedrooms (one self-contained), 3 toilets/baths, lots of land space, parking for vehicles. Price neg. Call 625-1684, 226-0891, 651-7538, 610-1273.

  with house Pigeon Island, large land $6M neg. Tel: 621-4000.  lot, 2 Zeelugt EBE with concrete house $8M neg.

Call 621-4000.  commercial property, located on corner of Cummings and Middle Streets, Alberttown, Georgetown. 3 lots, 2 buildings sold as a package $105M neg.

Phone: 621-4000.  in Cumberland, East Berbice and one Toyota Ipsum. Contact 685-3832, 3320202.  $28M, Kitty $35M, Eccles $ 40M, East Coast $6M, Diana 227-2256, 6269382.  Street: Newly constructed four-bedroom, executive building. Vacant possession.

Tel: 642-0636.

 place, Sandy Babb Street: Newly constructed two-storey concrete building, Vacant possession. Tel: 642-0636.  place, Sandy Babb Street: Newly constructed two-storey concrete building.

Vacant possession. Tel: 6420686.

- by owner, 2-storey concrete house, 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. Price $62M. Tel: 696-7145, 352-793-3763.  concrete house with AC, bathtub, hot & cold bath, camera etc. Tel: 622-3449, 220-0612.

Good Hope and Anna Catherina, land in Canal. Owner migrating. Contact 222-3066, 622-6448, 693-5546.

-style 2-storey concrete property, 3 bedrooms (1 master) spacious etc. Granville Park.

Call 693-4706.  properties: Regent Street, Queenstown, Alberttown, Prashad Nagar.  .

Contact 680-5968.  Realty, We value, buy, sell or rent your property. Tel: 694-3875, 6546198, 649-0353.  for business or residence, close to Railway Embankment $12M, Sophia $10M. Raul 655-8361, 699-6811.  Street near Regent Street, parts store. Tel: 2203452, 645-0505.  flat concrete house, newly built, yard space, Charlotte and Bourda Streets. $12.5M. Tel: 652-8970, 6743735.    at Rahaman's Park, Greater Georgetown, Guyana.

Great investment. Price neg. Contact Rudy 690-8962. , First Street, 2-storey concrete house, 4 rooms, fenced etc., great condition $28M neg. Call 225-9882, 681-2499. 2-flat wooden & concrete building on Cummings Street, good for any kind of business. No Agent. Contact 6441004  investment for home or 12-room hotel, 3rd Avenue Diamond, corner lot incomplete, $28M, Call Lese 612-9448.

 $9M neg.

Providence $12.5M, Mon Repos $30M, Good Hope $30M (Kisson Scheme), 3storey building, Queenstown $130M neg. Contact Theresa 648-6033.  property, situate on a double lot, Public Road, Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, Guyana. For further information please contact Kamta Persaud on 220-6634 or Bibi at 226-2885 or 6570902. No agents please.

 $18M, Enmore $9M, Lamaha Gardens $50M, Bel Air Park $50M, Kitty $30M, Land in Queenstown $40M, Prashad Nagar $29M. Foundation Realty 618-0000, 222-2300, 615-0069.

 stalls, Parika Market $760 000, $1.56M; two stalls, Bourda Market $8.8M. Call 2194399, 609-9232.

 large double lot with house on same, situated at 32-33 Unity Village. ECD. Call 227-3355.

 Street, Albertown: 4storey property, Vacant, ideal for business & dwelling., Price $125M neg. Tel: 220-8596, 6439196, 686-1091, 610-7998.

Viewing by appointment only.

 Park $55M neg, double lot in Da Silva Street, Newtown $25M, Duncan St r e e t $ 3 2 M , B e l A i r P a r k $50M neg., Lamaha Garden $60M neg., Enmore $9M neg., Coldingen $6M neg. Foundat i o n R e a l t y 6 1 8 - 0 000, 6150069, 222-2300.

-storey concrete building 14 Pitt Street, New Amsterdam, Berbice. Mint condition. Call 333-4002, 698-2499.

 house & land, wood & concrete, 18th Street Foulis ECD - $11M neg.

Call 691-0869. No Agents.

  require repairs in Brickdam, land size 120x38 $44M was $60M. Phone Alysious Periera 623-2591,2252626, 225-2709,225 - 306 8 , 669-0943 Mr. Pereira.

  Court, Herstelling, EBD 2-storey concrete building, 3 bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom etc., $32M neg. Contact 687-3360, 625-1359.    Marketing and Realty: Mon Repos $16.33M, Garnett Street $49M, La Grange $67M, P/Nagar $68M, Success L/Top $23M. Call 2194399, 609-9232.  concrete property located at          . Five minutes to Harbour Bridge $18M neg (Vacant possession). Contact Ali, 629-7419.  in Bel Air Park, four bedrooms, fully air- conditioned, hot and cold bath, pressure pump etc. Call 669-8985, 613-8308. No agents. Serious enquiries only.  4-bedroom concrete house in Mon Repos with tiled yard and concrete drains. Very good condition. Immediate occupancy. Call 638-0689, 611-9443.  new 3-storey building with going business $80M. 2 houses in Providence $25M. House in Diamond Scheme $9.5M. Call 610-0575, 684-3718. Street, Kitty $40M neg., Somerest Court $35M & 32M neg., Herstelling $23.5M neg. Enterprise $14.5M neg., Tuschen $22M, $11M neg., 'AA' Eccles $80M neg. and Blankenburg gated WCD $18.5M neg. Diamond $5M neg. Tel: 688-3873.  - 4 bedroom property with annex for elderly plus studio apartment Corner location - $60M.JEWANRAM: 2271988/ 623-6431

 3-storey upper Charlotte Street concrete property 2 years old $68M, Sophia 3-bedroom concrete and wood $8M. Mr Boodram 692-3831, Mr Pereira, 669-3350, 226-1064, 623-2591, 669-0943, 225-2626, 225-3068, Madame Harte 2252709, Madam Enmore 2276863.               close to Royal Castle-- 5 bedr o o m s w e l l b u i l t p r o p e r t y, beautiful landscaping, excellent interior design, posh flower garden and bearing fruit trees. Was $50M now $45M neg. Exclusive to Jewanram's Realty: 227-1988/ 623-6431/ 629-6070.\  Lust, one house from main road $18M, Cummings Street business 2flat $39M, Sandy Babb Street 2-storey concrete new business and residence $55M, Eccles 2storey $35M Diamond $17M, $35M. Call Eric, 616-5914.  Front property Enterprise Gardens, ECD, 15 minutes from Grand Coastal International Hotel with fresh Atlantic sea breeze that cures all health problems and in an upscale highly residential area.

Price neg. Contact Rudy 6908962.     Meadow Brook Gardens two-storey, 3 bedrooms, modern conveniences. Atlantic Gardens split level two-storey, 4 bedrooms, all self-contained, fully airconditioned, water reservoir.

La Bonne Intention ground floor business, first floor 3 bedrooms, lots of land space.   

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 & Son Real Estate, Lot 185 Charlotte & King Streets, Maraj Building. Tel: 227-0265, 227-1881, 629-5178, 627-8057. PROPERTY: Republic Park, McDoom Public Road, Robb Street, D'Urban Street business spot, Charlestown, Queenstown, Diamond, North Ruimveldt, New Road West Coast 65. LAND: Croal Street, Non Pareil, George Street, Hadfield Street-South, Friendship land size 115 x 450 (wharf side), Diamond.

 Jewellery stall in Stabroek Market. Tel: 690-0213.

 200cc motorcycle, new, unregistered, with reverse gear $100 000. Phone: 621-4000.

    Solid Def , rear springs, steering grassknife, rear drive shaft, 205/80R16 wheels, lights, fenders. Tel: 691-2077.

 $500 each Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Allure, Seventeen, Instyle, Betterhomes, Cooking, Health, Essence & others. Royal Jewel house, 137 Regent street, 2262708.

 invite you to buy these barga i n s C r a i g S t r e e t 2 - s t o r e y $45M new $34M, Dowding S t r e e t was $42M now $32M, Pere Street Kitty $34M, Section M ranch-type was $60M now $48M, Prashad Nagar $30M, South Ruimveldt $10M, Roxanne Burnham Gardens $12M, D'Urban Backlands $23M, Camp Street & D'Urban South half $30M Phone Mr Budhram 692-3831, Mr Pereira 6690943, 623-2591, 226-1064, 2253068.

 6 Village, West Coast Berbice, roadside property comprising 30 000 sq. ft of land with two buildings thereon. One building is designed for a workshop downstairs and an office/apartment upstairs. Price inclusive of building ($1000) per square foot. More land is available. Call 689-5858.  Sophia Gardens, close to Lamaha Gardens - fully concrete, 6bedroom giveaway, vacant for Christmas.Price $14.5M. Phone Mr Pereira 623-2591, 226-1064,2253068, 669-3350, Mr Boodram 6923831, 225-2626, 667-7812, 669-0943. -bedroom two-storey concrete building (new) at Atlantic Gardens on double lot, complete with AC, furnishings & fittings, ready to move in $65M, Annandale large concrete building on double lot a gift $40M. Tel: 225-3737, 651-7078.  $50M, Ogle, Section 'K' Lamaha Gardens $50M Bel Air Park posh house US$2M. Newtown Kitty $26M, South Rumiveldt $12M, $18M, Diamond EBD $30M, seaside property WCD $18M, Canal #1 $16M. Call Mrs Jordan on 663-1728 for an appointment or visit our office in Royal Castle building Vreed-en-Hoop.  buy these properties out there, not in our thoughts, Republic Park $32M, Providence new $28M, VIP by stadium $17M new, Houston new $36M. South Gardens $18M, Duncan Street $26M, Campbellville $22M, Kitty $23M. Call Madame Harte 225-2709, Mr Boodram 692-3831, Mr A. Pereira 623-2591, Mr P. Pereira 6693350, Miss Enmore 227-6863, 2252626, 225-3068, 226-1064, 6677812, 231-2064.  this now! One almost new 3-bedroom Lamaha Park $15M. Phone Mr Boodram 692-3831, Mr Enmore 227-6863, Mrs Harte 2252709, 225-3068, Mr Pereira 226-1064, 227-6949, 231-2061, 225-2636. inMarch,2-storey Punt Trench Dam $9.5Mwith large land reserve for any type of business. Business & Residence Bent Street $16.5M, 2-storey Guyhoc Gardens $14M, Guyhoc 2-storeyconcrete $14.5M, Lodge 2-storey $14M, Meadow Brook concrete ranch $13.5M. Land 130x50 Middle Road, La Penitence, new concrete Middle Road, La Penitence, Da Silva Street 85x35 Land $15.9M, Campbellville Scheme 8 0 x 5 0 p l u s reserve $15M, Hadfield Street east of Cuffy 120x50 $18M, Republic Park $14M, Continental Park 104x54 plus 3000 sq. ft reserve all land to build dream house $22M, 7 000 sq. ft by the Cultural Centre 280 000 sq. ft, Lamaha Gardens $58M, Prashad Nagar $34M, South Ruimveldt Gardens off Aubrey Barker Street.

Phone Mr Boodram 692-3831,2255198, Mr Pereira 623-2591, 2261064, 669-0944, 225-2709, 2253068,227-6863, 225-2626.

 2015 14% + 20% discount ply 2 % commission on selling commission: Concrete two-storey 4000 sq. ft, 80% complete on double lot in Delph Avenue $36M. Joint Services new 4-bedroom concrete $21M was $28M, New Haven on 7 000 sq.. ft land $52M, Bel Air Park two-storey $52M, Bel Air Park.

Phone Mr Boodram 692-3831, 6232591, 225-2626, 669-0943, 2253068, 627-0288, 667-7812.  these deals, you can only have it when you take action, "God said, let there be light." Executive Prashad Nagar 4-bedroom, fully AC was $65M now $42M, Sandy Babb Street Kitty $68M now $48M, Forshaw Street, Queenstown Business/residence with extra 80ft land Republic Park required repairs $38M. Mr Boodram 692-3831, Mr Pereira 623-2591, 669-3350, 669-0943, Mrs Harte 225-2709, Mrs Enmore 227-6863, 225-2626, 225-3068, 226-1064. (Property on Double lot)- $125M/ Land- $65M;   (properties)-                (furnished)      (Furnished property)    (Agriculture -Upscale 4 bedrooms)-$19M; S   (upscale property)$17M;  (2 Properties)-$28M/ $18M;   (Incomplete)- $9M; UTIVIGHT$9.5M..  227-1988/ 623-6431

HEAVY DUTY EQUIPMENT  110-90 4x4 tractor, Massey Ferguson 175, 275 tractor, Ford 7700, 4 WD tractors, 416 Caterpillar, 4x4 L/backhoe, Cummings Bridge Port Milling machine. Tel; 667-3611, 699-., 671-1809.

FOR SALE

FOR SALE

 stall, Bourda Market.

Call 627-3902.  and trailer. Call 639-6701.  puppies. Contact 222-5671, 641-6162.   Merriman's Mall.

Call 642-6381, 223-6862.  with screen and fax machine. Call 231-2076.  Poodle dogs and pups. Tel: 265-3694.  SDMO, Diesel electrical $6750,000- phone: 621-4000.      breed pit bull pups.

Contact 610-9481.  Mobilis $900.000 Contact:622-8912

 flat screen TV. Price $60 000. Call 666-6661, 225-5735.  new coats-tyre changer. Tel: 267-2329, 6915588.  new Sony Playstation 4 (PS4) Tel: 688-1881.  65KVA Perkins 4236 engine. Tel: 6239761.  - 25KVA Industrial Single Phase 480/240/ 120V. USA. Tel: 623-9761. Newly Arrived: 4 ½ to 6'' cat guts, fish net. Must see!.

Contact 694-5128, 654-6674.  garden earth also excavating, graving and levelling done. Tel: 627-9977. - Superior quality; ½ x 5' x 8', ½ x 5' x 9', 5/8" x 5' x 9'.

Tel: 623-9761.  FT round bottom fishing boat, (keel bottom boat) Price $500 000 neg. Contact 226-5125.  aluminum boat (Hull) 30ft. x 10ft., one 340 Yanmar engine (perfect condition), one trailer.

Contact 623-1387, 220-4507.   Massey Ferguson tractor in immaculate condition.

Call 671-7450, 626-5306.  Garden earth delivered to spot, also road earth. Call 641-6248.  165 tractor, trailer and 5ft bush hog, slasher. Call 444-6589, 694-1888. Price $2.75M.  Seadoo 1000cc jetski. Call 444-6589, 694-1888. Price $850 000.  21ft. x 9' Bayliner speedboat on trailer. Call 4446589, 694-1888. Price $2.2M. -breed Cane Corso 'Italian Mastiff' puppies. Contact number 218-0357, 623-9099.  complete 6" Land Dredge and one Doosan DX 225, excavator with 1000 hours. Call 669-8985.  cases nice aluminum from $25 000 up. Call Eric 6165914.  Radio system for interior calls. Contact 600-0036, 2231273.  125 Jialing motorcycle and 150 Honda motorcycle. Contact 656-4930, 660-7024.  large waterfront land for sale in Crabwood Creek Corentyne, Berbice. Call 692-1471.   /forklift $5M,  $7M, Swingfog machine 676-6700.   Generator, Leyland Daf 45 truck, Toyota Super GL, RZ short base (not registered) Tel: 670-9993, 613-3846.  air condition unit 12 000 BTU, 110 volts, 6o cycles. Call 233-0608 Monday to Friday, 08:00hrs to 16:00hrs  Shepherd pups, vaccinated and dewormed. Call 623-4790, 624-4790.    boat, 40 HP Yamaha 350 lb, five-inch cat gut fish net. Contact: 613-3223.  (Test) strip with monitor, lancet with needles (brand new) $60,000 neg. Tel: 612-0055.  35 Massey Ferguson Tractor Contact. Tel: 691-7167.

Serious enquiries only.  disco lights, some need bulbs, otherwise working. All, $90 000. Phone 621-4000.  800lb, working $180 000 and 100lb, $60 000. Phone: 621-4000.  batteries Maxwell all sizes from $200. Tel: 621-4000.  cooler with 6 5-gallon bottles, hot & cold $30 000, display fridge 6Ft $ 75 000, freezer $40 000, fridge large $45 000, fridge medium $35 000. Tel: 621-4000.

  sports car, 3000cc, 5-speed, 18 mag wheels & alarm.

All - $1.2M cash. Phone 621-4000.  BB 2007, 40 000 km only, auto start, 18" rims, triple TV system, back-up camera $2.2M. Phone 621-4000.  Maxima, need some repairs but selling "as is" with documents $140 000. Phone 621-4000.  Benz S300, fully armoured, fully powered, leather, 19" rims and more $1.5M. Phone 621-4000.  Stealth sports car, 3000cc, automatic, fully powered $1M neg. Phone 621-4000.

 diesel 2.8 litre engine 6-cylinder, Land Rover TDI engines with automatic and manual transmission. Call: 6922521, 231-6322.  saw $25 000, drill $20 000, table electric saw $35 000, hand grinder $10 000 and sac saw $20 000.Tel: 621-4000.   Sony PSP complete with charger and game disc - $25 000 each. Contact 693-4777.

 equipment: Joe Weilder gym set $55 000, exercise bike $25 000; abs board $12 000. Phone 621-4000.

 jack hammers and compressor, jack hammer to work with air compressor, hydraulic jack hammer designated for excavator backhoe use with diesel. Call 692-2521, 2316322.

 boxes for boxes for cars from $5 000, car rims: 22" chrome 6-hole $120 000, 15" rims $45 000. Phone 621-4000.

   Slatwall panel, cash register, cupboard, shades rack, island display. Contact 6117893, 674-4796, 609-9089.

 of 4 original Hummer mag wheels and tyres $100 000.

Phone 621-4000.  3ft $40 000, 24" $15 000, 20" with stand $10 000.

Phone 621-4000.  monitors from $3 000, Star receipt printers from $20 000. Phone 621-4000.

  safes 2ft X 2ft Sentry brand $35 000 each also smaller ones. Tel: 621-4000.  for Jetski built lo  by Heliger. All for $60 000 neg. Tel: 621-4000.   3D with 6 glasses $350 000. Tel: 621-4000.   forklifts 2000lb, 3000lb, 4000lb, lifting capacity.

All, $325 000. Phone 621-4000.  18-carat gold Movado watch, like new $90 000.

Phone 621-4000.  scooter 4 pieces $25 000 each. Tel: 621-4000.   Maxwell watch batteries, all sizes, from $200.

Make offer. Phone 621-4000.  Cream cone machine, similar to Igloo machine, Taylor brand, USA-made. No reasonable offer refused. Tel: 624-3589, 6015500.  Satellite phone comes with minutes, HF-Radio Icom -718, Garmin GPS Map 785 Maglite 2D LED for mining purposes 621-6534.  Ford Sierra wagon in working condition 1600 cc, one CD ladies Honda 50cc in working condition. Both items selling as scrap. Contact 669-0706.  engine, foreignused, 5VZ, V6 3400cc Fit, Tacoma, Prado, four-runner, T100 Pick up. Call 621-4862.  arc welder, electric drills, 14" TV, cordless, tools; screwdriver, surround music set, pool balls & cue etc. Call 2202968, 629-9920.  brands Barbecue grills, refrigerators (Icemakers), gas stoves, Maytag, Whirlpool, Kenmore, Frigidaire $65,000 up.

Tel: 225-0571, 638-0787.  66ft red snapper fishing boat, 3 years old with 100 traps and licences .Everything in excellent working condition. $17M. Tel: 652-8970, 674-3735.  marine parts, engine from 20 to 500 HP, gear box, shaft, propellers, gland, stern tube and all electronics etc. Tel: 6528970, 674-3735.

 New Holland 2120 4-wheel mini backhoe, Kubota engine, 3-cylinder, Cummins diesel 6-cylinder engine, Fordson tractor, good working condition. Call 692-2521, 2316322.  model 'M' truck with winch, GRR series, good condition, 3 used CAT 324 DC, excavator 2500 hrs, used FG Wilson P65 generator and 2 XGMA 955iii wheel loader. Contact 645-9888.

 and sign frame, make an offer, LED signs, 6ft x 3ft $275 000, 36" x 12" $85 000. Phone 621-4000.

 cases all aluminum, different sizes from $10 000. Tel: 621-4000.

, wardrobes, refrigerators, wall dividers, small suite, dinette sets, center tables (all used), generator 35KW 3PH. Contact 628-1203, 651-3402, 227-7619.

   diesel generator $120 000, 15 000 watts generator, general $350 000. Tel: 621-4000.  case 8ft x 2ft x 2ft, 10 pieces $60 000 each, 6ft x 3ft x 10", 10 pieces $55 000 each, motorised glass case $25 000.

Phone 621-4000.  pit-bull dog, 1 year old Red Nose. Trained for family use & fully vaccinated $70 000.

Phone 621-4000.  Karaoke, Blu-ray duplicator 1 to 1, 1 to 3, 1 to 7. All at half price also CD display racks $4 000 each. Phone 621-4000.  2 pieces, 5-ton split system (Midea), like new $200 000, $36 000, cassette a/c $100 000. Phone 6214000.     flat screens $70 000 each, computer printer laser $40 000, colour and black and white Laser printer $20 000. Tel: 621-4000.  15" alloy 5 holes $40 000, 15" chrome, 5 holes $45 000, Mercedes original rims 5 holes $35 000 and 3 pieces 23" rims chrome $50 000. Tel: 621-4000.  saw $20 000, drill $20 000, table electric saw $35 000, hand grinder $8000 and sac saw $20 000.Tel: 621-4000.  aquarium on stand $30 000, exercise bike $30 000, Nordi track $25 000, treadmill electric with electric incline, needs belt, almost new $120 000.

Tel: 621-4000.  pure breed German Shepherd pups, AKC Pedigree, 8 weeks old. Serious enquiries only. Tel: 693-1404, 615-5454.  Bold (new) $8 000, Blackberry Bold 4 $23,000 flash camera, Iphone 3 $20 000, Sony camcorder $15 000. Call 682-2861.  Nyle Kilns with drying capacity of 10 000 to 12 000 BM of lumber and used aeroplane tyres, suitable for trailers size 44 x 16 x 30 ply ratings. Call 600-5872.  machine surface grinder, valve grinder, boring machine, nail guns 62 KVA generator, jointers, late tools other miscellaneous items. Call 642-9032.

 system, 80 mercury engine, 40 Toshiba engine, 60 Evinrude engine, 75 Yahama spare parts, Hilux extra cabs fibreglass cover, Caterpillar skidder spare parts, Madalim Truck Spare Parts. 672-9272, 261-6634.  arrived: wholesale only - area rugs sizes 210x320 cm, 240x340cm, 200x285 cm; special delivery from Georgetown to Rosignol, Georgetown to Parika Contact Tel: Rajin 656-9959.   Fully Automated and Turn Key water purification systems supplied and installed. Call us now for a quotation and start selling drinking water on 623-7212.  We supply and Install Commercial and Industrial Ice factories both Freon and Amonia systems from 10 Tons to 500 Tons per day. Call us today on 623-7212.   Dell Computers Dell CPU Optiplex processor-2.00Ghz memory - 2GB hard drive - 80GB SATA for $25 000, Dell 17" Monitor $12 000, Dell Optiplex 9010 23-inch allin-one desktop and many more.

Call 644-2010.  Bold (new) $8 000,Blackberry Bold 4 $23 000 flash camera, Iphone 3 $20 000, Sony camcorder $15 000.

Call 682-2861.   Pool table imported complete with Ques, balls racks $80,000, also kids pools table $75,000 Tel: 639-2000, 225-2503  212 automatic.

Price $650 000 neg, Mitsubishi Cedia 17" rims. Price $750 000 neg. Toyota Tundra. Price $2.5M neg. 40 Yamaha outboard engines. Price $450 000. Tel: 6622445.  Perkins generator set com. 35 KVA 60c, 120v-240v, Prime Power, no repair, good condition $2.3M. One air condition evaporator 4 tons, 410 gas, new unit $190 000. One Electric-motor, 3HP 60c-120V-240v $120 000. Tel: 227-1287.                  For all Authentic Truck Parts and Accessories new and used for Leyland DAF, ERF, Bedford Model M and TM Etc from the UK. Also Foreign Used Cummins, DAF and Perkins Engine TM Transfer and Gear Boxes Please Call Dave Rameshwar Tel: 592-660-9152, 592-610-2873

32 32 PROPERTY FOR SALE  Sale! Sale! on windows and doors, sash awning, wall-to-wall carpet, washing machines, fridges and stoves. Check us out at Kishan's Aluminum Windows and Doors, Lot E Good Hope. 643-2795, 220-0979.

VEHICLES FOR SALE  L-Touring Wagon, PKK series Price $1.1 neg..Contact 684-2045.

VEHICLES FOR SALE

VEHICLES FOR SALE

VEHICLES FOR

 Toyota RAV 4 (2003-ACA 21) PPP series, mags, $3.1M neg.

Call 622-3015.

 Civic EK3, excellent condition, AC, mag rims etc. Price $1.1M. Contact: 269-0010, 609-0686.

pick-up in excellent condition with Turbocharged engine, 4WD, automatic trans. Call 647-4997, 6459266.

  minibus, CD player mags etc, excellent condition.

Contact 616-0739.

 all types of foot wear, plus size, clothing for men and women, children's clothing, hand bags, house hold items and costume jewellery and Easter clothing. Visit us at 151 Sixth Street Albertown, Tel: 604-3949, 6585454. Ask for Marcia or Diane.  4-cylinder engines, fully bedded, Champion 9000w remote start generator, security cameras, Coleman 10-person tent, sleeping bags, treated mosquito nets, Coleman rainsuit, airbed, grease gun, Husqvarna chainsaw, Garmin GPS, haulmaster lever chain 1.5 tons, Igloo 165-quart cooler - 681-2341.  boats that have to be refurbished, hull in good condition, gear box, propeller and shaft intact, size at length 54.80 metres, width 8.60 metres, depth 3.92 metres. Cargo capacity 785mt, length 51.16 metre, breadth 8.90 metres, depth 3.90 metres cargo capacity 400mt., one H-Beam (6'x4'x20') building inclusive, new zinc, z-pourlin & zinc screws, size 28' x 50'. For further details contact 629-5940, 625-1458

VEHICLE FOR SALE

VEHICLES FOR SALE  , PPP SERIES $3.2M. Contact 225-9230.  Toyota IST, blue plate, PNN series. Tel: 611-2621.  Galant car, Price meg. Call 643-6270.  Toyota Rav 4, PMM series $2.6M neg. Call 660-3385.   minibus BTT 971 for $1.9M. Call 646-8687.  , PRR $1.6M. Call 616-5914, 615-5734.       212 PKK, fully powered. Call 689-9678.  110 PKK series, good condition, Asking price  NZE, lady-driven $1.6M. Call 226-1122, 624-3404.  Toyota Premio, PNN series HID $1.9 neg. Tel: 698-7793.     Premio year 2004, unregistered $2.2M. Call 6179918, 624-0210.  Toyota Picnic family car, good condition. Call 6698985, 613-8308.  Pick-up $2.3M, Isuzu dump truck $2.2M, Caravan bus. Tel: 220-3452.

 Belta PPP series, lady-driven, 2007 model. Price $2.6M. Call Ally at 220-1068, 6267684.

VEHICLES FOR SALE  Toyota Corolla Fielder, 2003, body kit, fog, TV/ navigation, dark interior, rear spoiler, roof rack. Call 6175536.  Sale! 2006 Allion $2.45M, Axela Sports $2.4M, Bluebird $2.75M, 2007 Fielder $2.6M, Premio $2.3M. genuine quality. Call 616-3413 City Motors.

 refrigerator canter, wide body 3 ½ ton, Price $1.950.000.

Call Ally, 220-1068, 626-7684.  192 Carina white, AC, mag rims, CD, clean, alarms & works well. Price $900 000 neg.. Call 6261170.

  2 0 11 Ta c o m a 4x2 real wheel drive, fully loaded extended, excellent condition. No reasonable offer refused. Tel: 614-0949, 2254413, 671-8883.  Corolla AE110, in good condition PKK series, music, ac, etc. $800,000 neg. Tel: 658-9111

 320I, PRR series, 2008 Toyota Premio & 2007 Mazda Axela. Tel: 615-4114.  Altezza, white, with flair, in excellent condition, PPP series. $2.6M neg. Tel: 6808343.   in excellent condition $1.45M neg. Call 642-2289.

 Axela (grey) PNN series TV, fog lamps, automatic, mag rims. $2M neg. Contact 646-9330.

 Mazda Axela, excellent condition 17" rims, Price $1.7M neg. Tel: 226-4356, 6653038.

 Toyota Spacio, front & back camera, navigator, CD, TV, 52 000 km, - $2.25M. Contact 682-5117.

 2008 Premio - $3.495M, One MF 290 - $3.3 neg. Call 6481000.

 Ruimveldt $18M, $20M, $24M, neg, Meadow Brook $15M, Mon Repos $14M, BV double lot $25M neg, Providence $18M, Grandville Park $27M neg, Railway Kitty $22Mneg, Sophia 2 storey 16 mil neg, Montrose newly built $55m, Happy Acres $60M neg, Bel Air $80M, Republic Park- $28M neg, Republic Garden $46M neg, $62M neg, Diamond $27M neg $47M neg, Campbellville $30M neg and Parafaite Harmonie $6M-$20M. Tel: 226-3595, 2314041, 661-1952, 672-5403, 6842240, 654-9464.  & used items by Lot: Lot 1 - Bathroom fittings and fixtures - G$150 000: Bathroom fittings and fixtures, kitchen sink, bathroom sink, door fittings, bathroom toilet set, shower fittings. Lot 2 - Computer hardware supplies G$50 000: CPU - black - AMD, monitor black - AOC, Keyboard black - x tech, mouse black RIP extreme, HP scanjet (4070 Photo Smart scanner) 2400 x 2400 dpi/ 48 bit. For additional information and viewing, please contact 2252676. Serious enquiries only.

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 Toyota Ractis 30 GB, DVD, CD, TV, rear camera, remote start, alarm, alloy wheels and fog lights. 675-7858.  Toyota Fielder wagon, automatic, mag, CD, roof rail. Price $2M. Tel: 227-0613, 645-7248.  F150, 4x4 extra side door, AC, music, bubble back tray etc. $1.650.000. Call Ally 220-1068, 626-7684 neg.  Toyota Hilux pickup, excellent condition, no rust, offroad tyres, unregistered. Price neg.

Tel: 691-2077.

 - 1986 Nissan D21 GFF series 2WD $400 000. Tel: 233-3025, 690-6946.  Allion, 2008 model, fully loaded, never registered. Call 628-3940.  3-ton Nissan Condor open tray. Tel: 671-7114, 2336987.   Super Custom minibus PKK 691, excellent condition. Contact 612-1718, 3253057.  new model Raum, AC, music, alarm start. Priced to go.

Tel: 685-7565.  hard-to-get spare parts for Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Honda, BMW, etc - Call 645-7800.  BMW PLL series, Price $2.5M. Owner leaving country.

Call Adeash 234-0230, 6137238.

 Town Ace bus, good condition, PDD series. Tel: 6806137, 628-3889.  New model 212 Carina $1.1M neg. mag rims, CD deck. Old model Raum mag rims $1.1M neg..

Call 650-4200.

 buses, EFI, stick gear, music, rims, BLL series - $1.3M and BRR series $1.75M. Call 609-4086.

 Toyota Carina 212, HB series working condition $1M neg. Tel: 647-3203.

  in tip top condition with crash bar, fogs, AC, CD, mags. Price $1.45M neg. Tel: 2267464, 628-1682.

 Toyota Dyna with Hiab in excellent condition. Call 6212859.  Rav 4, Good condition $1.450,000. Contact 6283653.  192 Carina AC, alarm, CD deck & spoiler etc. Excellent condition. Contact 612-6192.   minibus.

Price neg . Please call 6119826, 643-0248.  buy and sell vehicles for cash. We also do trade-in of vehicles 2006 Tacoma, AE 100. 6803154.  IST, PSS series.

Price $155M neg, excellent condition and fully loaded. Tel: 611-7639, 220-4922.

 AT 212, AT 192, AT 170, Raum, AE-100, Sprinter, Vitz, EP71 Starlet, RZ minibus, Nissan small bus.

Tel: 644-5096, 697-1453.  Tacoma 4x4, stick shift, AC, bull bar, tool kit, high lift, in immaculate condition. call 6717450, 626-5306.  Toyota Hilux smart cab stick gear 4x4 low mileage, October 2011 manufacture - Tel 6754453, 677-7592.  Voxy and Noah to be registered in 'G' series. Fully loaded and never registered $1.7M. 6172891.  F i e l d e r Wagon (NZE), in excellent condition Price $1.5M neg. Contact: 6845083.

  multipurpose vehicle, 2006 model, 7-seater, 119 000 km, 1500cc.

PSS series, sky blue. Price $2.3M. NEG. Contact 697-2483, 627-0936.

 Hilux Vigo, 2005 year, silver, AC, mag rims, music, fully loaded. Price $3.2M - Tel: 6022222  Inn Apartments Premio, Vitz. Eccles New Scheme.

Tel. 679-7139, 639-4 4 5 2 , 6 1 9 3660.   bus in excellent condition, fully loaded, next to new, hardly used. Call 225-3304, 6536836.  floor, Camp Street area. Ideally suited for office or business. Call 609-7675, 674-1705, 233-2614. 212, L-Touring wagon & 100 Sprinter in very good condition. Interested persons can call 265-2260, 687-2648.  Benz CLK 200 Kompressor PRR, pearl white, mileage 70 000. Immaculate, Serious enquiries 623-5492.  Honda CRV, 2003, PMM series, in excellent condition. Contact 672-9426, 654-6506.

 new model 212 excellent condition, AC, mag rims, lights, music, alarm. Price $1.5M. Contact 269-0010, 609-0689.  wing road car, fully loaded, mag rims, DVD deck etc.

PSS series.Asking $2.2M neg. call 675-8101.

 192 Carina white, AC, mag rims, CD, clean, alarms & works well. Price $900 000 neg..

Call 626-1170.

 grey 2005 double cab, Toyota Vigo with full works, in excellent condition. Priced to go. $6M. Call 623-5550.

 Nissan Datsun pickup, 2 x 2 hydraulic lift, AC, alarm, CD, good for you. Price $1.7M neg. Call 626-1170..

Sale!! Unregistered Toyota IST $2,150,000, body kit, TV, spoiler, fogs, alloy wheels, crystal lights, alarm - 643-6565, 226-9931.

 C-200 compressor, BMW 320I. Allion Premio, NZE Corolla, new model Raum, Belta-Runx, Vitz, IST & RAV-4, AT 212 Carina.

Call 621-6037.

 Massey Ferguson from Canada MF 265 $2M. MF 165 - $1.7M, MF 135 $1.2M, Pick Up Ranger Sport $1.6M.. Call 682-5230, 628-9596.

 192, 212, Allion, unregistered Premio, Hilux Surf, BNN RZ minibuses, Pitbull buses & Super Custom bus. Contact 6803154.

 Toyota car, lady-driven excellent condition, PPP licence plate, low mileage. Call 662-0497.

 Wagon, hire & yellow, good condition. Drives well $650 000 neg. Tel: 622-7762.

 192 car PKK series $600.000, Toyota, NZE car in excellent condition Price $1.650.000 neg. Tel: 667-7010, 646-7777.

 Wagon, excellent condition 15" rims, DVD, alarm, AC - $1.3M neg. Call 6679013, 233-2538.

 Toyota Allion, black, fully powered, DVD, 19" rims, extra set 16" chrome rims. $1.7M neg. Tel 684-4412.

 TOYOTA Premio unregistered, 212 Carina PKK series. Call 642-9496, 699-9496.

 Carina AT 212 fully loaded with CD, rims, AC very excellent condition. Must see, going cheap. Contact 6435306, 685-0299, 226-7855.

 Master Ace small bus $425 000. Any reasonable offer would not be refused. Call 2205802, 676-3103.  Tundra in very clean and excellent condition, unregistered, 4-wheel drive, going cheap. Tel: 645-5306, 2267855.  X-Trail (Turbo), fully loaded, grilles, crash bar steps, pearl white, mint condition, PRR series - $3.6M neg.

Tel: 685-6733.  Wagon, excellent condition, CD, 16" mags, remote start, alarm, flair kit, $1 450 000, AT 192 Carina and Honda CRV. Price neg.. Call 626-2884.  Ford F-150 Pick-up truck in very good working condition, white with fibreglass tonnue cover $2 200 000. Tel: 652-8970, 674-3735.  Toyota Hilux, series GKK, 4WD, colour black, fully loaded. Price neg. Contact Nizam on telephone 650-0679, 226-8008.

 in stock: Allion, Premio, headlamp $24 000, RZ minibuses park light & trafficator $4 000, Pitbull headlamps, bumpers, grilled etc.

Kitty Public Road Call 680-3154.  model Raum, fully powered with mags AC & music.

Price $1.8M neg, AT 212 new model fully powered with mags, AC, music price $1.3M neg and Toyota Ipsum fully powered with mags AC, music. Price $2M neg.

Tel: 625-6397.  & Son Auto Sales.

Lot 185 Charlotte & King Streets, Maraj Building. Tel: 227-0265, 227-1881, 629-5178, 627-8057.

USED: Tacoma, (GRR series), AT 192, Toyota Rav4, Raum, Allion, Marino, AE110 Corolla, 212 Carina, RZ bus, Hilux, 4 doors.  Toyota Raum Hilux 4x4 Tacoma, box freezer truck, RZ minibus, RAV 4, Fun Cargo and lots more. Trade-in & credit facilities available at Paul Camacho Auto Sales ,111 Croal Street (next to GT&T parking lot) .Tel: 225-0773, 226-1893, 656-4104.  buy/sell used vehicles.

Get the best price when buying and selling: Avensis, Verossa, GX110, Mark II, Preimo, Allion, 212 Carina, Raum, Vios, Wagons, RZ buses, all models of Pick-ups, CRV, RAV-4, AE 110, Corolla and Sprinter, SV40, Camry, Honda Axela and many others, Call David 649-0329, 223-1239, Lot 92 Duncan Street, C/ville.

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SUNDAY CHRONICLE March 22, 2015

We will not be just ...

The 12-man team under the guidance of head coach Theodore Henry and technical director Angus Thomson will stop

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over in New York before winging out to the tournament where they will compete for the second time.

“These teams are top level teams we’ll be playing against; some of the highest playing nations week-inweek-out, but we’re going to try our best to see if we can knockoff one or two of them because we have nothing to lose. We are the underdogs heading to that tournament and we’re very confident that we can win two or three games and take it from there,” Gonsalves noted.

Guyana is grouped with Zimbabwe, Tonga and Spain in Pool ‘G’ of the tournament that features all the top rugbyplaying nations.

Gonsalves told Chronicle Sport that “in a high-level tournament like in Hong Kong it’s a faster game than the way we’re accustomed to here in the Caribbean and we’re hoping to get one or two practice matches before the tournament starts to adjust ourselves but we just have to adapt as the time goes by and play the best we can.”.

The Guyanese captain believes that his side, called the ‘Green Machine’, will not be one of the teams there just to participate, but to actually “represent Guyana and the entire Caribbean, we don’t want to be just another small team that no one really cares about”.

Guyana will play Zimbabwe and Spain on March 27, followed by Tonga on March 28 with the high hopes of advancing further in the series.

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Being the owner of Caledonia AIA; a professional team in the Trinidad and Tobago ProLeague, Shabazz is well aware of the ability of St Lucia players, some of whom earn their living competing in the Twin Island Republic.

“We know this team, some of our players know them too, so we have a fair idea of them and likewise they know some of our guys as well. I think the Pro-league players give them a good boost and make the meeting with them more interesting.

Certainly this is going to be a fierce battle because they are very athletic and very aggressive,” Shabazz told Chronicle Sport.

Asked if he considers the game to be a “must win”, Shabazz said that he’s in no way pressured to come out with a positive result, noting, “we certainly want to get a very good result because at the end of the day, we want to build a momentum, but it’s early days yet and in building the programme there will be obvious weaknesses and strengths that will be brought out in games like these.”

St Lucia had defeated Guyana 2-0 last year in the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Championship when then-coach Denzil Thompson fielded a team

of 18 debutants; a move that was highly criticised by many.

The game tonight marks the return of International football to Guyana and the National Stadium for the first time since Guyana lost 3-2 to El Salvador on September 11, 2012 during their CONCACAF Brazil 2014 World Cup Qualifiers.

According to recent rankings by the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), St Lucia sit at 132 while Guyana are placed 166.

Christopher Nurse will once again wear the armband for the Golden Jaguars and will be joined by goalkeepers Derrick Carter (Western Tigers), defenders Jamal Smith (Canada) Dwain Jacobs (Slingerz FC), Colin Nelson (Slingerz FC), Joshua Browne (Slingerz FC), King Solomon Austin (Slingerz FC), Les Charles Critchlow (Slingerz FC), Daniel Whyte (Canada), Eon Alleyne (GDF), Vurlon Mills (Slingerz FC), Clive Nobrega (Slingerz FC), Calvin Shepherd (Alpha United), Jermine Junor (Fruta Conquerors), Konata Manning (Pele FC), Brandon Beresford (USA) and forwards Sheldon Holder (Alpha United), Manasseh Primo (Alpha United), Emery Welshman (Real Monarchs) and Daniel Wilson (Alpha United).

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Warrican breaks record to hand Barbados advantage KINGSTON, Jamaica, (CMC) – Left-arm spinner Jomel Warrican broke the record for the most wickets in a regional first class season by a Barbados player when he snatched a seven-wicket haul to undermine Jamaica on the second day of their final round WICB PCL contest here yesterday.

Responding to Barbados Pride’s 310 all out, Jamaica stumbled to the close at Sabina Park on 222 for nine, with Warrican proving the visitors’ trump card with seven for 68.

The haul took the 22-year-old’s haul for the season to 48, surpassing the 47 taken by outstanding former left-arm spinner Winston Reid in the 1999 season.

Several Jamaica batsmen got starts but failed to carry on. Jon-Ross Campbell top scored with 36, his opening partner John Campbell hit 35 while Test batsman Jermaine Blackwood chimed in with 33.

Due to their enterprise, Jamaica prospered at 147 for three after tea but suffered a collapse to lose six wickets for 54 runs.

Barbados enter today’s penultimate day 88 runs ahead.

The Campbells handed Jamaica a great start, posting 69, allowing the hosts

to reach 67 without loss at the lunch interval.

Overall, Jon-Ross struck three fours and two sixes off 79 balls in just over 1-1/2 hours at the crease while John hit five fours off 58 deliveries in 85 minutes.

On resumption, however, Warrican began to weave his magic, removing both openers in quick time before wrecking the middle and lower order.

He claimed John Campbell in the second over after the interval and then had Jon-Ross stumped four overs later. Blackwood put on 33 for the third wicket with captain Tamar Lambert who got 18 before falling lbw to Warrican.

Blackwood attempted another recovery effort, this time with wicketkeeper Chadwick Walton who scored 12, as Jamaica rebuilt after the tea break taken at 120 for three.

Yet again, Warrican got the breakthrough, removing Blackwood after the right-hander had faced 111 deliveries in just over two hours at the crease and struck two fours and a six.

Wickets then tumbled regularly with off-spinner Ashley Nurse, who claimed two for 96, joining in the fray to ensure Barbados Pride held the advantage at the end of the day.

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SUNDAY CHRONICLE March 22, 2015

Guptill record sets up crushing New Zealand victory

By John Mehaffey

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Reuters) - New Zealand opener Martin Guptill sent the ball soaring and the records tumbling by striking a Cricket World Cup record of 237 not out yesterday to set up his team’s crushing 143-run victory over West Indies in the final quarterfinal.

New Zealand scored 206 off the closing 15 overs to reach 393 for six then dismissed West Indies for 250 from 30.3 overs.

Their reward was a seventh World Cup semifinal appearance, this time against South Africa in Auckland on Tuesday, and another opportunity to reach a final for the first time.

Australia play India in the second semifinal in Sydney two days later.

After captain Brendon McCullum had won a rare toss and opted to bat on a sunny afternoon at the Wellington Regional Stadium, Guptill struck the ball cleanly from the outset.

He became the first New Zealander to score consecutive World Cup centuries, bettered his own national record of 189 not out then overtook Chris Gayle’s World Cup record of 215 set against Zimbabwe at the current tournament.

His innings took 163 balls and included 24 boundaries and 11 sixes.

West Indies were left ruing a dropped chance in the opening over from Jerome Taylor when Guptill, on four, hit the ball straight to Marlon Samuels who was slow to react and dropped the ball at square-leg.

Gayle, who had been in doubt for the match because of a painful back complaint, set off as if he were determined to reclaim his record after Trent Boult had bowled Jonathan Charles for three with his second ball.

He swung Southee for a six and four to leg before turning his attention to the customarily frugal Daniel Vettori whose economy rate took a battering when Gayle heaved three consecutive sixes over mid-wicket.

Boult continued to take wickets at the other end and Vettori took a stunning catch on the third-man boundary, leaping high to haul down the ball with his left hand to dismiss Marlon Samuels (27).

Gayle, now in obvious pain, was on borrowed time and the fun ended when fast bowler Adam Milne, returning to the side after missing the final group match against Bangladesh through a shoulder injury, dismissed the left-hander for 61 with eight sixes.

The remaining West Indies batsmen peppered the boundary but capitulated swiftly. Boult finished with four for 44, overtaking Australia’s Mitchell Starc as the tournament’s leading wicket-taker with 19 victims.

McCullum started the day-night match by whipping a four through square-leg followed by a six, the 400th of the tournament, which was caught in the crowd.

He departed soon afterwards skying an ambitious lofted drive which

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Martin Guptill of New Zealand celebrates after scoring a double-century during the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup match between New Zealand and the West Indies at Wellington Regional Stadium, yesterday. (Photo by Anthony Au-Yeung-IDI/IDI via Getty Images) was well held by West Indies captain Jason Holder running away from the pitch at deep cover.

Ross Taylor, who had been short of runs and uncertain of technique during the group stage, played with increasing assurance after a slow start. He ran a series of quick singles and the score mounted steadily against steady but unthreatening bowling.

Guptill brought up his half-century with seven

fours and his century from 111 balls. He took 16 from a J. Taylor over and a huge six off Benn before R. Taylor ran himself out for 42.

The West Indies’ bowling and fielding disintegrated and Guptill took full advantage, hitting the first ball by Andre Russell in the final over 110 metres into the stands.

Another six went over long-off, a four followed and the 30 000-strong crowd rose to Guptill as the teams left the field.

NEW ZEALAND innings M. Guptill not out 237 B. McCullum c Holder b Taylor 12 K. Williamson c Gayle b Russell 33 R. Taylor run-out 42 C. Anderson c Gayle b Russell 15 G. Elliott lbw b Taylor 27 L. Ronchi c Benn b Taylor 9 D. Vettori not out 8 Extras: (lb-2, w-7, nb-1) 10 Total: (6 wkts, 50 overs) 393 Fall of wickets: 1-27, 2-89, 3-232, 4-278, 5-333, 6-365.

Bowling: Taylor 7-0-71-3, Holder 8-0-76-0 (w-1), Benn 10-1-66-0 (w-2), Russell 10-0-96-2 (w-2, nb-1), Sammy 8-0-38-0 (w-1), Samuels 7-0-44-0.

WEST INDIES innings C Gayle b Milne 61 J. Charles b Boult 3 L. Simmons c Guptill b Boult 12 M. Samuels c Vettori b Boult 27 D. Ramdin lbw b Boult 0 J. Carter b Vettori 32 D. Sammy c wkp.

Ronchi b Anderson 27 A. Russell b Southee 20 J. Holder c Anderson b Vettori 42 J. Taylor c Guptill b Southee 11 S. Benn not out 9 Extras: (w-6) 6 Total: (all out, 30.3 overs) 250 Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-27, 3-80), 4-80, 5-120, 6-166, 7-173, 8-201, 9-221).

Bowling: Southee 8-1-82-2 (w1), Boult 10-3-44-4 (w-2), Vettori 6.3-0-58-2, Milne 4-0-42-1 (w-2), Anderson 2-0-24-1 (w-1).

Misbah-ul-Haq

Blatter tells politicians to ‘leave sport alone’

By Brian Homewood ZURICH, Switzerland (Reuters) - FIFA president Sepp Blatter told politicians to leave football alone on Friday and said the 2018 World Cup could stabilise the situation in host nation Russia.

“There has been increasingly more interference (in football) with cases in Africa, in Europe, in South America... and that is why I made the executive committee take a decision which means, in a nutshell, stop this political interference in sport,” Blatter told a news conference.

His comments came after Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday called on his allies to boycott the tournament if Russia did not pull its troops out of his country’s territory.

“The World Cup will take place in Russia in 2018, it is sure,” Blatter said.

“They are working very hard and a boycott of the World Cup or any sporting event has never brought any solutions.

“On the contrary, (the World Cup) will be able to stabilise the situation in this region of Europe.”

Blatter added that the United Nations had passed a resolution last year recognising the independence of sport.

Pakistan fans hold mock funeral after World Cup exit FIFA president Sepp Blatter “We don’t talk about be the same with the World Cup.” independence but autonomy Blatter also pointed when it comes to organising his finger at the European our competitions, the UN parliament. resolution mentions that “I speak about interference political authorities should when the European parliament not interfere and intervene in committee is asking for the the sport, the message is ‘leave boycott of the World Cup,” he sports alone’. added.

“I’m sure football is stronger “First, three or four months than any other movement and ago it was boycott the World Cup I’m looking at the geopolitical in Qatar, now they are asking to map today, towards Afghanistan, boycott the World Cup in Russia, towards Iraq, towards Syria, this is direct interference.” towards Palestine, in these FIFA’s executive committee countries football is played. reiterated Blatter’s views.

“Syria, in such a difficult “In reaction to various situation, yet the Under-17 team cases of political interference, have qualified for the World Cup the executive, while reiterating in Chile this year, this shows the necessary respect towards what football is and football has national legislation, called never been the objective of any for a stop to interference by attack in this region. political bodies in the affairs of “Football is respected, it is football’s governing bodies,” it connecting people and this will said.

KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) Angry Pakistan cricket fans smashed television sets and carried out a mock funeral after the national team lost to Australia in the World Cup quarterfinals in Adelaide on Friday.

Around 50 supporters in Multan mourned the death of Pakistan cricket and burnt bats and cricket equipment to express their disappointment.

The quarter-final, which began at 08:00hrs local time, was followed nervously by millions in the country with special screenings in public parks, schools, restaurants and hotels on a normal working day.

“Bangladesh can claim they were done in by poor umpiring but what excuse can the Pakistan team give except they played rank bad cricket and couldn’t handle the pressure,” fan Munazza Jillani said at a school for special children in Karachi.

Bangladesh blamed poor umpiring decisions for their defeat

by India in the second quarter-final.

Cricket analyst Aaliya Rasheed said the reaction of the people in some cities was understandable but said generally

cricket fans had taken the defeat sportingly.

“I think our team was good enough to reach the quarter-finals and not beyond that. Give them credit for this given the number of injury problems we faced,” Rasheed said.

Pakistan were without top spinner Saeed Ajmal, fast bowler Junaid Khan and all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez throughout the tournament and leading fast bowler Mohammad Irfan missed the quarter-final.

Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Shaharyar Khan tried to take positives from the tournament.

“The quarter-final loss is disappointing, but what is heartening is that the team showed a lot of fighting spirit and character in trying to defend a low total against the tournament favourite hosts Australia,” he said.

Khan said the board would give a fitting farewell to captain Misbah-ulHaq and all-rounder Shahid Afridi who have now retired from oneday internationals. (Editing by Ed Osmond)

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SUNDAY CHRONICLE March 22, 2015

NSC extends condolences on the death of Shanomae Blackmore THE National Sports Commission (NSC), on hearing the tragic news – the death of Shanomae Blackmore - wishes to express profound condolences to her immediate and extended families, the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA), the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), the entire sports community, colleagues and friends.

S h a n o m a e , a hardworking Administrative Secretary to both the Guyana Olympic Association (12 yrs) and the Athletics Association of Guyana (14 yrs) left these earthly shores to be with her Heavenly Father on Wednesday, March 18, 2015 after a short illness.

Shanomae, who was loved and respected by all, served the sport fraternity with distinction. Her death is indeed a very severe loss to sport and those whose lives she would have touched over the many years.

Because of her efficiency, effectiveness in the performances in her duties in and outside of the office, she was in 2014, a recipient of a plaque for outstanding contribution to sport at the administrative level.

Funeral set for Wednesday THE funeral of the late Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG)/Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) secretary Shanomae Blackmore has been set for next Wednesday, March 25, even as condolences continue to poor in for the former sports administrator.

“The AAG is deeply saddened by her passing, I spoke to her only the day before she died.“ AAG president Aubrey Hutson said yesterday in a telephone interview.

“The whole thing has had a catastrophic effect on me; as a matter of fact I couldn’t even work after I got the news. She was the hub of our organisation, we are really and truly going to miss her,” Hutson continued.

Blackmore has served as AAG secretary under Hutson since he took over as the association’s president back in 2013. Prior to that, she was also incumbent under the tenure of former presidents Colin Boyce, and Claude Blackmore; with over 8 years of service to the AAG. With the GOA, Shanomae has functioned as the secretary since 2007.

Shanomae died peacefully at home last Tuesday following a brief illness.

On Wednesday, viewing of the body will be at Sandy’s Funeral Parlour from 12:30hrs to 13:15hrs, thence to the St James-The-Less Anglican Church in David Street, Kitty for funeral service and paying of tributes, before she is laid to rest in the church compound.

Another Voges ton drives Western Australia Shanomae Blackmore At 34 years, Shanomae fought a good fight, she has finished her course. A wealth of experience and institutional knowledge has been taken away. Filling the void left by her sudden passing is difficult, but it is necessary in recognition of her dedicated service that the work continues as when she was present.

Shanomae Blackmore is gone; her absence must be used as a motivating factor and a driving force to those who are still here, to ensure the continuity of the organisations she so selflessly served.

May her soul have eternal rest!

ADAM Voges continued his remarkable Sheffield Shield season with an unbeaten century on the first day of the final as Western Australia built

with 3 for 65; he looks certain to finish the Shield season as the competition’s leading wicket-taker, with 43 victims so far at 26.00.

Peter Siddle was Victoria’s

GOA’s Administrative Secretary remembered SHE was courteous, funny, easy-going and most importantly, knowledgeable about her job. These are just a few things persons who interacted with her had to say about her. Unfortunately, Shanomae Blackmore is no more, as she passed away just a few days ago.

In remembering Shanomae, who served as the Guyana Olympic Association’s (GOA) Administrative Secretary for the past seven years and who died at home after a brief illness, the association’s General Secretary Hector Edwards who informed members of the media about her passing via e-mail said, “It is with regret that we wish to inform you of the death of Ms Shanomae Blackmore, our Administrative Secretary, who passed away this morning (Wednesday) at her home after a brief illness.”

GOA president K.A. Juman-Yassin said the passing of Blackmore is `unbelievable and is a tragic loss to the GOA as she was a valuable employee and a great person who was greatly involved in the administration of sports.

Like the few athletes and sports

journalists Chronicle Sport spoke to with regard to Blackmore, Juman-Yassin said she was always helpful and willing to assist and she will be missed by many.

At age 34 years, Blackmore was recognised for her `outstanding contribution to the development of Sports at the GOA’s Annual Awards ceremony last year.

Shanomae was very knowledgeable about all Olympic sports and this made her a valuable asset, not only to associations/ federations, but also to the media who relied on her knowledge for information and she was always willing to assist.

Blackmore once served as secretary for the Athletics Association of Guyana when her father Claude was the association’s president.

Many persons, local and international, who learnt of her death, have since been pouring out condolences on her face book page, remembering her.

Chronicle Sport extends condolences to Shanomae’s family and friends.

May her soul rest in peace!

Adam Voges finishes the day with his sixth hundred of the Sheffield Shield season. a strong platform against Victoria at Bellerive Oval.

It was the sixth hundred of this Shield campaign for Voges, who at 35 is in the midst of a career renaissance that will make him a potential candidate for Australia’s Test tours later this year.

Western Australia finished the day on 4 for 310 with Voges on 100 and Sam Whiteman on 37. Legspinner Fawad Ahmed was the best of Victoria’s bowlers

only other wicket-taker on day one.

Voges won the toss and chose to bat, and a 130run opening partnership between Cameron Bancroft and Marcus Harris frustrated a strong Victoria attack, led by Siddle and James Pattinson. Siddle eventually had Bancroft caught behind for 55, but the Western Australia line-up is daunting, with Michael Klinger at No.3 and Voges at No.4 the two

leading scorers this Shield season.

Ahmed bowled Harris for 81 and had Klinger caught behind for 18, and added a third when he had Shaun Marsh caught behind off a wrong’un for 6. But Voges has been the key all year for Western Australia and so it proved again. He compiled an unbeaten 105-run partnership with Whiteman and a hefty Western Australia total will be important in a match they must win to claim the title.

By stumps, Voges had 1315 runs for the Sheffield Shield season, which put him fourth on the all-time tally for most in a Shield campaign. There is every chance he will rise further on that list before the match is out, although he remains nearly 200 shy of the record set by Simon Katich, who amassed 1 506 for New South Wales in 2007-08.

Voges brought up his hundred in the penultimate over of the day when he cut Scott Boland and took off for a second run to take him to 99.

A relay run-out attempt from wicketkeeper Matthew Wade, aiming at the stumps at the nonstriker’s end, allowed Voges to get through for an overthrow as well as the two runs, to give him an even 100, to finish the day with his sixth hundred of the Sheffield Shield season.

(ESPN Cricinfo)

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SUNDAY CHRONICLE March 22, 2015

Ireland overpower Scotland to win Six Nations title EDINBURGH, Scotland (Reuters) Ireland ruthlessly wore down Scotland in a commanding 40-10 victory at Murrayfield yesterday to win the Six Nations rugby title on points difference from England.

England needed to beat France by 26 points at Twickenham in the final game of the tournament but only managed a 55-35 victory to leave Ireland as champions.

“It’s going to be the death of me, it was pretty tough viewing but all of this makes it worthwhile.

The people that have stayed here represent a fantastic support base that we have,” Ireland coach Joe Schmidt told Irish television.

“We were only just glued together towards the end there because the English

really put the pressure on, I’d certainly sympathise with them a little bit. I thought their performance today was superb.

“Thankfully France rebounded each time England did get a bit of a differential and that allowed us to hang in and hang on to the silverware,” Schmidt added.

“I’d love to say I’ve got something to do with it but I think Paul O’Connell grabbed the week by the scruff of the neck, grabbed himself by the scruff of the neck by about Tuesday afternoon and he led them forward.”

Ireland captain O’Connell crashed over from close range to score an early try and flanker Sean O’Brien surged across the line to put the visitors 17-3 ahead.

But Scotland regrouped

NOTABLE DATES

THE message of Cliff Anderson being a feared featherweight boxer somehow never reached the ears of South African Tony Lombard. At the end of the eight-rounder held on March 22, 1949 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England, the Guyanese lost on points to Lombard.

It was the second time that the two boxers had met in the ring with similar results. Anderson first clashed with Lombard in September 1948. That bout was also staged in Anderson’s adoptive home country.

Lombard was then adjudged the winner on points at the end of 12 rounds.

A national boxing treasurer Anderson was born on October 22, 1921 in New Amsterdam. He made his pro debut 19 years later and had his first seven professional fights on home soil before moving to England.

Anderson’s busiest year occurred in 1946 when he was engaged in 13 fights winning 11 of them.

He made two unsuccessful bids for the Commonwealth featherweight title in 1947. Both times the Guyanese fought Al Phillips. On March 18, he lost by points to the Englishman. In the rematch four months later, Anderson was disqualified in round eight by referee Andrew Smith for illegal blows.

He hung up the gloves in 1953 with a record of 87 fights, 48 of which were victories and 11 draws.

Anderson boxed a total of 603 rounds in his 13-year career.

Anderson passed away in 1998 and the National Sports Hall was renamed the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall in honour of his achievements.

Ireland celebrate winning the Six Nations rugby at Murrayfield. (Action Images via Reuters/Lee Smith) and flyhalf Finn Russell scampered over in the left corner to reduce the deficit to 20-10 at halftime.

Ireland dominated possession and were rewarded when centre Jared Payne scythed through the

Scottish defence to touch down with Scotland in chaos.

Scottish hopes took

another hit when prop Geoff Cross was sent to the sin-bin but Ireland flyhalf Jonny Sexton missed two straightforward penalties.

Sexton re-adjusted his radar, however, to extend the Irish lead to 33-10 and man-of-the-match O’Brien burrowed over from close range seven minutes from time.

Scotland fullback Stuart Hogg failed to ground the ball over the line under heavy pressure from Jamie Heaslip and although Ian Madigan missed a late penalty to extend the lead, Ireland were left to celebrate their record victory at Murrayfield.

Scotland’s fifth successive defeat in the tournament left them bottom of the Six Nations standings after another depressing campaign.

Man City cruise past 10-man West Brom, Arsenal win

By Michael Hann

LONDON, England (Reuters) Manchester City kept their slim title hopes alive thanks to a 3-0 win against 10-man West Bromwich Albion but Arsenal remain hot on their heels after a 2-1 victory against Newcastle United in the Premier League yesterday.

Much-maligned after their Champions League exit in Barcelona on Wednesday and a league defeat by Burnley last week, City were helped by a bizarre refereeing decision in the second minute in which West Brom’s Gareth McAuley was sent off instead of Craig Dawson in a case of mistaken identity.

Wilfried Bony, who had been hauled down by Dawson, later scored his first goal for City for whom Fernando and David Silva were also on target to give Manuel Pellegrini victory in his 100th game in charge of the club.

Second-placed City have 61 points from 30 matches, three behind leaders Chelsea, who have two games in hand over their title rivals and play Hull City today.

“I think it was a very good performance,” Pellegrini told BT Sport. “Today we were very concentrated defensively to not allow them to score and after that we created a lot of chances.

“I think that the only thing we must do is try and win the next game.”

IN-FORM ARSENAL Arsenal, knocked out of the Champions League by AS Monaco on Tuesday, remain one-point behind

Referee Neil Swarbrick sends off West Bromwich Albion’s Gareth McAuley Reuters / Darren Staples City, however, after victory against Newcastle at St James’ Park means the Gunners have now won their last six league matches.

Olivier Giroud struck twice in four minutes in the first half but they spent much of the second half on the back-foot after Moussa Sissoko pulled a goal back for Newcastle.

“We started well, on the front foot, we put the pace we wanted to into the game,” Giroud told BBC Sport. “The problem in the second half was we didn’t play, I don’t know why.

“It was a tough game but it is a really important win. Even though we are disappointed with the Champions League exit, we want to fight on until the end of the season.”

KANE TREBLE Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane celebrated his first senior England call-up with a hat-

trick as Spurs beat bottom side Leicester City 4-3 in a thrilling match at White Hart Lane.

Kane scored twice in the opening 13 minutes to give Spurs a two-goal advantage but goals from Jamie Vardy and Wes Morgan drew the visitors level.

Leicester striker David Nugent conceded a penalty that Kane converted before Jeff Schlupp scored an own goal. Nugent set up a nervy finish with a late consolation.

Sixth-placed Southampton stay above Spurs on goal difference after their 2-0 win at St Mary’s against struggling Burnley who remain in the bottom three.

Crystal Palace came from a goal down to beat Stoke City 2-1 at the Britannia Stadium, while Aston Villa’s recent resurgence came to an end with a 1-0 home defeat against Swansea City.

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SUNDAY CHRONICLE March 22, 2015

Holder keen to remain West Indies ODI captain

JASON Holder says he has learnt a lot from West Indies’ World Cup campaign and hopes to continue as one-day captain under new coach Phil Simmons.

Holder’s side suffered a 143-run loss to New Zealand yesterday to exit the tournament in the quarter-finals.

The 23-year-old seamer said he was looking forward to working with Simmons, who takes charge for next month’s three-Test series with England.

“There’s been criticism but I’m proud of the way I’ve stood up,” said Holder.

“I’m not one to shy away from responsibility or duck my head when things get tough.”

West Indies were unable to cope with New Zealand, for whom Martin Guptill scored a

World Cup record 237 not out to propel the co-hosts to a total of 393-6.

Left-arm seamer Trent Boult then took 4-44 as the Windies were dismissed for 250, with Chris Gayle topscoring with a rapid 61 from 33 balls.

“The ball was going all over the place at one stage and when people are set it’s difficult to contain them,” said Holder, who conceded 76 runs in his eight overs in Wellington.

“It was just one of those days when we didn’t execute our game plan and we paid for it.

“We bowled too full and then at the end we didn’t land our yorkers.

“If you were too short

Dramatic 2-1 penalty victory sends GFC through

By Rawle Toney THE Kashif and Shanghai Organisation could not have asked for a better start to its 25th football tournament which got on the way on Friday night at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground.

In the first game of the double-header card Riddim Squad edged New Amsterdam United 2-0 in extra time. In the second, Georgetown Football Club (GFC) overcame Den Amstel 2-1 on penalty kicks after the two sides ended regulation and extra time 2-2.

After the gala opening ceremony, football fans were entertained by fantastic football by the two clubs who, over the last year, have developed a rivalry between them but it’s GFC who always seem to come out on top.

With their goalkeeper and an outfield player picking up injuries in the first half of extra time, GFC had to play with nine men but their stubborn defending was able to keep Den Amstel at bay.

Coach Faizal Khan was forced to put midfielder Dennis Edwards between the uprights and his move paid off for GFC.

Up first to kick was GFC’s Keron Solomon and easily converted his penalty, putting his side up 1-0 and it remained the same after Den Amstel’s Delon Lanferman was denied by Edwards.

Delon Cadogan failed to put his side in full command after sending his shot over the crossbar but thanks to another miss by Den Amstel, the score remained 1-0 in favour of GFC. GFC again missed (Eon Smith saved by Ryan Hunte) and this time around Den Amstel through Hunte equalled the score 1-1.

Edwards saved back-to-back shots by Den Amstel. A conversion

by GFC enabled the Bourda-based club to face the winner between Alpha United and Agricola Red Triangle in the semi-finals.

In the initial stages of the contest, Kurd Johnson scored just two minutes into the game but in the 16th minute, Lanferman equalised for Den Amstel.

But, Johnson scored his second goal of the game in the 38th minute to put GFC back in the lead. Not to be outdone, the ‘West Side’ club again equalised when Jamal Harvey scored a rocket just inside the 18-yard area.

Johnson Holder

it just sat up. In terms of the right length on the pitch you had to be that in-between length and also vary your pace a lot. And what we didn’t do was apply ourselves when we batted but obviously 394 is a big ask.”

West Indies reached the last eight on net run-rate courtesy of a victory over UAE in the final game of a pool in which they also comfortably beat Pakistan and Zimbabwe but lost to Ireland, South Africa and India.

“I had high hopes coming into the tournament, but it has been a rollercoaster,” accepted Holder. “Although we’ve had some good games,

we’ve had some bad games.

“I expected a tough job when I accepted the captaincy and it’s been a tough time but I’ve learned a lot in terms of managing our players and trying to get the best out of them.”

West Indies will have a new coach in place against England after their former player Simmons - whose nephew Lendl has been a Windies regular at the World Cup - agreed to end his eight-year stint with Ireland to take charge of the Caribbean side.

“Our main focus at this point is to get ready for the England series,” added Holder.

“We’ll obviously sit and have some discussions and come up with a plan going forward.

“It’s my first time working with Phil, so I’m just looking forward to that.” (BBC Sport)

Three Georgetown softball teams to play at Crabwood Creek ON Easter Sunday, April 5, softball fans in the Upper Corentyne area will witness three (Male/Female) matches at the Crabwood Creek cricket ground.

Guyana Softball Cup Masters champions Floodlights will play Corriverton Market Vendors in a T20 affair. Match starts at 09:00hrs and the Mohan & Meena Memorial trophy will be at stake. The next match will be Floodlights All Stars versus Crabwood Creek/Scottsburg combined, for the Bier & Prakash Singh Memorial trophy, in a 15/15 contest.

The third match will see the country’s female team champions, Trophy Stall Angels, take on Karibee Girls in a 15/15 contest for the Nand Persaud Memorial trophy. Admission to the venue is $200 and all proceeds from these matches will go to the Crabwood Creek Baba Grant Mandir.

There will be many giveaways, e.g: laptop, DVR, hampers, T-shirts, pharmaceuticals, etc. Spectators will stand a chance to win by simplykeeping the half tickets from the gate, and listening for your number to be called.

This day’s event is organised by the Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association.

The three matches are sponsored by 4R, Nand Persaud & Co. Ltd, and Ganesh Singh & Brothers Sawmill.

Giveaways will be donated by Ago Gopaul and family, Survival Supermarket, Trophy Stall, 4R and Mike’s Pharmacy. Cricket fans are urged to turn out in their numbers and enjoy the day’s entertainment, win a prize and at the same time support a worthy cause.

Trevor Rose

GABA Trevor Rose Memorial fitness run on today

THE Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) will today host the Trevor Rose Memorial Fitness Walk starting at the Burnham Basketball Court.

According to a release from GABA, the event is to not only honour its former president who was murdered last year but also “promote and maintain healthy lifestyles among players and enthusiasts through a fitness run/

walk, while raising funds to develop the game of basketball in Guyana”.

The event, which requires a registration fee of $500 per person, targets basketball clubs and is also open to the public.

Trophies will be awarded to the first male and female finishers in the open category, first male and female basketball players to finish the run as well as the event’s youngest participant.

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SUNDAY CHRONICLE March 22, 2015

Barnwell maiden century highlights Jaguars fightback

WICB PCL Scoreboard Guyana vs Windwards

Barbados vs Jamaica

WINDWARDS 1st Innings 283

BARBADOS PRIDE 1st Innings

GUYANA 1 Innings st

(overnight two without loss) R Chandrika c Robinson b Shillingford 35 A Fudaddin lbw b Johnson 4

(overnight 286 for eight) *K Brathwaite c wkp Walton b Mindley

0

*L Johnson c Peters b Matthew 3

O Phillips c Bernard b Mindley

33

N Deonarine c Matthew

S Hope lbw b Mindley

59

b Shillingford

15

S Brooks c wkp Walton

S Chanderpaul not out

83

b Mindley

Vishaul Singh c Lesporis

R Chase lbw b Jacobs

b Johnson

22

C Barnwell not out

100

104

Extras (b15, w5, nb3)

23

TOTAL (5 wkts, 92 overs) 289 To bat: +A Bramble, V Permaul, D Bishoo, R Beaton.

Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-37, 3-69, 4-70, 5-111.

Position: Guyana lead by six runs with five wickets intact.

T&T RED FORCE 1 Innings 291 st

Leewards 1st Innings

L Richardson c wkp 6

S Peters c wkp Katwaroo 13

M Hodge c Hosein b Imran Khan 3 *D Thomas c Imran Khan b Richards

29

S Liburd b Mohammed

10

CBrathwaitecwkpWaltonbDawes 6 A Nurse not out J Warrican b Dawes

22 3

b Dawes

0

Extras (b1, lb5, w3, nb22) 31 TOTAL (all out, 97.3 overs) 310 Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-92, 3-128, 4-168, 5-251, 6-276, 7-282, 8-286, 9-309, 10-310.

JAMAICA 1st Innings JR Campbell st Dowrich b Warrican 36 J Campbell c Hope b Warrican

35

J Blackwood c K. Brathwaite b Warrican 33 *T Lambert lbw b Warrican 18

+J Hamilton c wkp Katwaroo b Richards

K Stoute lbw b Dawes

Bowling: Mindley 20-3-47-4, Dawes 13.3-2-57-4, Jacobs 27-2-89-1, Bernard 12-3-330, Lewis 19-3-46-1, Campbell 3-0-22-0, Lambert 3-0-10-0.

(overnight 12 without loss)

b Richards

+S Dowrich st Walton b Lewis 33

M Cummins c Blackwood

Bowling: Johnson 15-262-2, Matthew 17-7-501, Shillingford 30-6-642, Sebastien 11-1-45-0, Theophile 3-0-9-0, Peters 162-44-0.

Katwaroo b Gabriel

13

0 93

+C Walton c Brooks b Warrican 12 B King lbw b Warrican

17

R Cornwall lbw b Imran Khan 0

D Bernard Jr lbw b Nurse

9

J Louis c Deyal b Imran Khan 9

D Jacobs c Hope b Nurse 12

G Tonge run out

24

R Lewis c Hope b Warrican 5

Q Boatswain not out

16

J Dawes not out

16

A Martin not out

0

M Mindley not out

10

Extras (b14, nb3)

17

Extras (b5, lb6, nb8)

19

TOTAL (9 wkts, 78 overs) 245

TOTAL (9 wkts, 88 overs) 222

Fall of wickets: 1-24, 2-24, 3-59, 4-59, 5-145, 6-145, 7-163, 8-196, 9-245.

Fall of wickets: 1-69, 2-85, 3-118, 4-147, 5-148, 6-168, 7-184, 8-190, 10-201.

Bowling: Gabriel 14-2-66-1, Hosein 12-4-21-0, Richards 11-3-34-3, Emrit 11-3-42-0, Imran Khan 27-5-67-3, Deyal 1-0-1-0, Mohammed 2-0-2-0.

Bowling: Cummins 8-1-170, C Brathwaite 4-0-10-0, Stoute 4-1-11-0, Warrican 38-19-68-7, Nurse 34-8-96-2.

Position: Leewards trail by 46 runs with one wicket remaining.

Position: Jamaica trail by 98 runs with one wicket remaining.

…Chanderpaul unbeaten on 83

ROSEAU, Dominica, (CMC) – Chris Barnwell stroked his maiden first class hundred in a century partnership with Shiv Chanderpaul, as Guyana Jaguars frustrated Windward Islands Volcanoes on the second day of their final round WICB PCL game here yesterday.

The 28-year-old Barnwell finished on an unbeaten 104, an innings that pushed the visitors up to 289 for five at the close, in response to the Volcanoes’ 283 all out at Windsor Park.

Barnwell was joined by Chanderpaul who carved out an unbeaten 83, in a partnership for the sixth wicket so far worth 178.

The right-handed Barnwell has so far struck 11 fours and three sixes off 165 balls in 216 minutes while veteran Test left-hander Chanderpaul has faced 217 deliveries in just over five hours and counted eight fours.

Left-arm seamer Delorn Johnson has been the best bowler with two for 62 while off-spinner Shane Shillingford has claimed two for 64.

Resuming the day on two without loss, Guyana suffered regular setbacks and were reeling at 111 for five after lunch.

Assad Fudadin fell in the morning’s third over, lbw to Johnson for four with the score on 14 and captain Leon Johnson followed for three at 37 for two, taken by Kenroy Peters at mid-off off seamer Mervin Matthew.

Opener Rajindra Chandrika, who stroked 35, and left-handed Narsingh Deonarine, 15, added 32 for the third wicket to stabilise the innings.

However, Shillingford then struck twice in one over to reduce the Jaguars to 84 for four at lunch. He had Deonarine caught at mid-off by Matthew before having Chandrika caught at short leg by Jerlani Robinson, three deliveries later.

Vishaul Singh, who hit 22, put on 41 with Chanderpaul for the fifth wicket but Johnson returned to break the partnership.

Chris Barnwell ... chalked up his first ever hundred in regional first class cricket.

Liburd falls short of hundred as Leewards show fight COUVA, Trinidad, (CMC) – Veteran batsman Steve Liburd missed out on a second first class hundred as Leeward Islands Hurricanes made an encouraging reply on the second day of their final round WICB PCL game against Trinidad and Tobago Red Force here yesterday.

When rain ended play prematurely in the final hour, the visitors were on 245 for nine, 46 runs adrift of Red Force’s first innings of 291, heading into the penultimate day at the National Cricket Centre.

At the heart of that effort was Liburd’s 93, compiled off 197 balls in a shade over four hours at the crease. He hit 15 fours and a six.

He got support from Montcin Hodge who struck 38, the in-form Devon Thomas who made 29, and tailender Gavin Tonge who scored 24.

Seamer Marlon Richards, with three for 34 and leg-spinner Imran Khan, with three for 67, shared the responsibility of the attack.

superbly held together the lower order with sensible batting.

He put on 33 for the eighth wicket with Tonge and 49 for the ninth with

Quinton Boatswain (16 not out), before he was bowled by off-spinner Jason Mohammed with a century in sight.

CRICKET QUIZ CORNER (Sunday March 22, 2015) Resuming the day on 13 without loss, the Leewards slumped to 59 for four, losing wickets in clusters, as Richards scythed through the top order.

However, Hodge and Liburd combined in an 86-run, fifth wicket stand to steady the innings and take the visitors to lunch at 108 for four.

Hodge, unbeaten on 16 at the interval, faced 113 balls in 165 minutes and counted five fours before becoming the first of Imran Khan’s wickets at 145 for five.

Rahkeem Cornwall was lbw to Imran Khan for a first ball ‘duck’ but Liburd

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Eastman clinches Star Party Rentals-sponsored 35-lap title TEAM Coco’s Hamzah Eastman yesterday rode a clinical race to win the Star Party Rentalssponsored feature 35-lap cycle race in the National Park, registering a time of one hour 17 minutes 39.27 seconds.

The event, which was organised by National cycle coach Hassan Mohamed and sponsored by former national cricketer Lennox Cush, attracted over 35 starters for the feature event and just after the completion of the second lap, Eastman in company with Orville Hinds broke from the pack and was able to establish a sizeable lead which they maintained for the remainder of the race.

After five laps were completed, the chasing pack of Robin Persaud, Horace Burrowes, Marlon `Fishy’ Williams and last year’s champion Godfrey Pollydore closed in on the duo, but this did not last too long as the two leaders extended their lead the following lap and continued to press hard on their pedals to maintain their dominance of the event.

Nazyia Cush (second right, stooping) strikes a pose with the winners of the various categories of the Star Party Rentalssponsored 11-race cycle programme yesterday. Her father Lennox and manager of Payless Variety Store Joseph Ramkumar are standing at centre, back row.

With 10 laps remaining, Eastman and Hinds held an almost 800-metre lead over the main chasing pack and had already lapped at least 10 cyclists.

They maintained their composure until the bell lap when they broke into match sprint mode and it was at the 200 metres mark that

Eastman jumped Hinds who, in the last 60 metres, tried desperately to get past him (Eastman) but it was all in vain, as Eastman went on to win by approximately half a cycle’s length.

Hinds had to settle for second while Persaud, Burrowes, Pollydore and Williams occupied the other

top four slots.

In other results from the day’s 11-race programme, Horcia Dick won the Boys and Girls 12-14 years three-lap race ahead of Daniel Perreira and Brighton John respectively.

Jaikaran Sukhai won the five-lap race for veterans Under-50 years, while Junior Niles placed second and

Shameer Baksh was third.

The five-lap race for veterans Over-50 years was won by Linden Blackman, while Wilfred Thom was the winner of the veterans Over-60 five-lap event.

Andrew Hicks returned 22 minutes 34.59 seconds in winning the 10-lap race for juveniles. Second was

Jaleel Jackson and third was Raphael Leung.

The five-lap race for mountain bikers was won by Keon Thomas. Second was Richard Charles and in third place was Seon Budhan.

Sherwin Sampson won the three-lap event for BMX Boys 9-12 years old, ahead of Jonathan Jagdeo and Chae Sue hing respectively, while Alexander Leung won the two-lap race for BMX Boys 6-9 years old.

The event’s sponsor Lennox Cush witnessed most of the feature event and his daughter Nazyia made the presentation of prizes to the respective winners.

Speaking at the presentation ceremony, Lennox Cush stated that he is pleased to be associated with the activity once more and promised that come next year, local cyclists will be handsomely rewarded for their efforts.

Race organiser Mohamed thanked Cush for being on board a second year. He also thanked those who participated in the event.

Haven’t retired from any format - Gayle … but will miss England Test series

CHRIS Gayle is not retiring from any form of the game, but a recurring back injury will keep him out of West Indies’ upcoming home Test series against England.

“Definitely (I) want to play the T20 World Cup next year for West Indies, there’s no doubt about that,” Gayle told ESPNcricinfo.

“I’ve got a few concerns and a few injury cases to try and solve. I’ll give myself some time and hopefully look back at it and see how well I can actually progress for West Indies cricket at this point in time.

“I’m actually out of the Test series, the back won’t hold up for that format at this point in time. But I haven’t retired from any format as yet. As I go on I will keep informing WICB about my progress in the future with West Indies cricket.”

West Indies were knocked out of the World Cup on Saturday after losing their quarterfinal against New Zealand by 143 runs. Gayle made a 33-ball 61 in an attempt to keep West Indies in touch with the asking rate in a chase of 394. Gayle said he suffered a groin strain during the game, but his back didn’t trouble him too much. “(The back) actually held up well, to be honest with you, in the outfield for 50 overs and then opening the batting,” he said. “It wasn’t too bad, slight scare again with a niggle in the groin, so all that was happening, and you have to take the conditions into consideration, it was a bit cold and you’re feeling some pain.”

West Indies lost to Ireland in their opening match of the World Cup, and went through an up-and-down ride that eventually carried them into the quarter-finals.

Gayle felt West Indies had played good cricket and were a ‘good all-round team’, even though they missed Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard - whose omissions he had spoken out against before the tournament.

“I thought we played some great cricket,” Gayle said. “Yes we missed (Bravo and Pollard), but I thought we did well. We had a good all-round team, and the guys played some crucial innings for us.

“It was a situation where you look at it, we reached a quarterfinal; anything could have happened, you just need two good games. You chase 390 runs, psychologically it will affect your batters, but if we actually had a better plan or structure chasing these sort of targets, it could have helped us in some sort of way. “(We were bowled out for) 250 with 19 overs to go, that goes to tell how dangerous we can be, but just to get the mindset right and get a hold of everything and the players to actually believe we can make these things happen.”

The WICB appointed Jason Holder, the 23-year-old all-rounder, as West Indies ODI captain months before the World Cup. Asked how he rated Holder’s captaincy, Gayle said “There’s always room for improvement, there’s no doubt about it. Nothing wrong with a young captain, but it goes to show (how)

Definitely want to play the World T20 next year - Chris Gayle inexperience can play a big part in this sort of tournament.

Can Jason actually grow from this; get more structure behind him and more support in this area?

Gayle said,.”It’s never going to be easy, coming here and captaining in a World Cup for the first time, it’s always going to be a mind factor and lot of pressure is going to be there on a youngster like that, but in the future, I wish him well. Hopefully he can use this as a learning experience, and can get better. Just keep your players together and just hold them and stick with them.”

Gayle looks forward to

working with Phil Simmons, who will take over as West Indies coach after the World Cup. Simmons, the former West Indies all-rounder, has just ended an eight-year stint with the Ireland team.

“I know Phil from a personal point of view, I know him well,” Gayle said. “He’s a good man, he has done well with Ireland and he’s one of us as well, so there’s no doubt about it. We know how we can actually become a stronger unit.

“I didn’t know he was appointed, so that’s news to me at this point in time, so I wish him all the best

and hopefully he’ll have a successful coaching career with West Indies and can uplift West Indies cricket and take us further in international cricket and help the Regional (Tournament) as well.”

In West Indies’ group match against Zimbabwe, Gayle made 215, the first double-century in World Cup cricket. In Saturday’s quarterfinal, Martin Guptill bettered his effort and smashed an unbeaten 237.

Gayle was one of the first West Indies players to congratulate Guptill when he went past 200.

“Yeah, fantastic,” Gayle said. “(Guptill) batted well, we know his capability. It was a good wicket out there, it was a belter out there, small ground, small boundary, but we can’t take anything away from the fact that he batted superbly.

He set up his innings fantastically. Congrats to him on getting the doublecentury, 237 I think. I wish him all the best furthermore in his career, and he’s a wonderful player as well.”

(ESPN Cricinfo)

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Barnwell maiden century highlights Jaguars fightback See story on page 38

Guptill hits highest World Cup score in New Zealand victory New Zealand’s Martin Guptill made the highest score in World Cup history with 237 not out against West Indies to send his team into the semi-finals.

His 163-ball innings in Wellington featured 11 sixes and 24 fours and beat the 215 made by West Indies’ Chris Gayle earlier in the tournament.

Guptill, 28, hit 137 from his last 52 balls to help his side post 393-6. (See story on Page 34.)

Martin Guptill’s unbeaten 237 was the second best in one-day international history behind Rohit Sharma’s 264.

National 7s rugby team departs for Hong Kong

We will not be just another team in the tournament – captain Gonsalves

By Rawle Toney

The ‘Green Machine’ prior to their departure for Hong Kong

THE North American and Caribbean Rugby Association (NACRA) Sevens champions yesterday winged out for the continent of Asia where they will compete in the prestigious Hong Kong Sevens World Series from

March 27 to 29.

“Hong Kong Sevens is no easy tournament; we all have to stay grounded because even though we didn’t get the exposure that we would have liked leading into the tournament we have to go there and do our best,” said team captain Ryan Gonsalves. Turn to page 33

We will be cautious but confident - Shabazz Jaguars/St Lucia showdown tonight at Providence

By Rawle Toney TONIGHT at the Guyana National Stadium, a sea of yellow is expected to flood the stands as the Golden Jaguars, Guyana’s Senior National football team, face off against St Lucia in their international friendly.

Kick-off time is 19:30hrs and head coach Jamaal Shabazz said that his side will be cautious and he remains confident of a positive outcome.

Speaking on the composition of the squad, Shabazz pointed out that Guyanese will see some “of the

familiar faces, except now that we at home we’re able to put in 23 players to reward everyone. I must say that I’m happy with work and commitment put in by the players” Shabazz added that the game against St Lucia now gives his coaching and technical staff “an opportunity to really see where we are because Barbados were a younger team and fitter while St Lucia are a team of comparable ability.

It will give us a clearer understanding of where we are in Caribbean football.”

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The ‘Golden Jaguars’ train last evening at the Guyana National Stadium. (Delano Williams photo).

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