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President, Dr Irfaan Ali and Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley, met with the Governor of Roraima, Antonio Denarium, at the Governor’s Palace in Boa Vista, Brazil. The Office of the President says the discussions focused on agriculture, trade, infrastructure and strengthening bilateral relations among Guyana, Barbados and Roraima. Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha; Tourism, Industry and Commerce Minister, Oneidge Walrond and senior officials of the Barbadian Government were also present at the meeting (Office of the President photo)
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–– Vice-President says, fiscal terms still being worked out for oil block auction
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“We are looking at the 1960 Petroleum Act to see that it allows us to pursue an auction in a manner that we wish. In the past, all the contracts were given out on a first come first serve basis. Now we’ve decided to go to auction so we have to ensure our legisla tion regime supports this process to secure future blocks,” the Vice-Presi dentBIGGESTsaid.
“We have an agreement signed among the CARI COM Secretariat and the Governments of Guyana and Cuba that paved the way for Cuban specialists to be on the ground in Guyana and for persons to be trained to continue the work of the pro ject,” Cheong shared. The Cubans were here for three years and, after the pro gramme ended, the Guyana Government decided that it wanted to sustain it. So the Ministries of Education and Health collaborated to do justThethat.Ministry of Health built the building and the Ministry of Education helped with furniture and staffing. The decision to keep the programme going was both worthwhile and practical as each year the number of chil dren being helped continues to grow.According to Cheong, in 2021, the centre was able to diagnose 145 children and by June of 2022, would have al ready done one hundred. “So we will be surpassing 145 by the end of this year. We also do outreaches to various regions,” he Meanwhile,informed.according to its mission statement, the centre is there to provide effective care for children, adolescents and youths with disabilities by preparing so cio-educational agents of the region; promoting preven tion, diagnosis and early intervention to ensure that all children are included at every stage of their learning. Various specialists are on hand to work with the children including a physi otherapist, social worker, oc cupational therapist and psy chologist. “The doctors may be able to speak to physical disabilities but the centre is there for those disabilities that have to do with intel lectual, learning, and emo tional disorders,” Cheong explained.Someof the services of fered at the centre include counselling for individuals and families; speech, occu pational and physical assess ment; speech, occupational and physical therapy; cogni tive evaluation, diagnostic evaluation, ASD screening/ assessment, learning dis ability assessment, intellec tual disability assessment, behavioral assessment, and individual education plan. Interventions and pro grammes include early stimu lation, school consultations, teacher and parent training, and home visits and plans. An assessment may be rec ommended when there are concerns about a child’s cog nitive, emotional or behav ioral functioning; academic achievement, problems pay ing attention, difficulty fol lowing through and complet ing tasks. Persons can call 2202018 to make inquiries about accessing the services or making an appointment.
–– Vice-President says, fiscal terms still being worked out for oil block auction
AccordingFACTORtoDr.Jag deo, the Government has set August month end as a deadline to reach a decision on several of the issues; however, working out the fiscal arrangement remains the biggest factor that will determine the timeline for the auction. “It’s about putting all of this together in a framework that is fair to the investors, so that they get a decent return on their capital, that will promote accelerated exploration, and will al low the country to enjoy a greater share of future ben efits should they [investors] proceed with production agreements,” Dr. Jagdeo explained.“Thisis a major issue that could slow down the auction a bit. That is the biggest issue, the fiscal terms of the petroleum prospecting licence that would have to be issued to a successful bidder. That is the most contentious and what we are working through at this stage.” It is the fiscal terms that will set out the profit shar ing and taxation arrange ment with the companies.
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“The prospecting li cences that will have to be issued to the success ful bidders will have to say whether we will retain the 50/50 model where after clearing cost profit oil divided equally between investor, what the royalty rate will be and other fiscal terms in the contract,” Dr. Jagdeo said. Guyana currently has a Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with Exxon Mobil, currently the country’s only oil pro ducing company, which sees the country getting 50 per cent of profit oil and a two per cent forbeenHowever,BETTERroyalty.TERMStherehavelongstandingcallsGuyanatogetbetter terms in any contracts with future explora tion. Due to the acceler ated development of the Stabroek Block, which is owned by Exxon, Guyana has gained massive atten tion for its oil finds. Guyana currently has an estimated recoverable resource of 11 billion oil equivalent barrels in the Sta broek Block, which is cur rently the country’s only oil producing block. The block is owned by ExxonMobil, which has 45 per cent stake, in partnership with Hess (30 per cent) and China’s CNOOC (25 per cent).
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Guyana must get best deal
WORKING out the right fiscal terms that will en sure Guyana gets the best deal in the sale of the re maining oil blocks, is one of a number of factors that has influenced the Government to delay the oil block auction, which is now slated to happen before the end of the year. The auction of Guyana’s remaining oil blocks had initially been slated to take place in the third quarter of 2022; however, the Gov ernment has since pushed back this timeline, and, at a press conference, on Friday, at the Arthur Chung Con ference Centre (ACCC), Vice-President, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, explained to the media some of the dynam ics that led to the delay. Other factors still be ing worked out include decisions on whether the Government will keep some of the oil blocks for a na tional oil company, how the Government will divide-up the blocks and a decision on whether or not existing companies in Guyana, par ticularly Exxon Mobil, will be allowed to participate in the auction and if they do participate whether or not there will be a limit to the number of blocks any one entity would be allowed to have.“That is what is current ly ongoing within the Gov ernment circles. The tech nical work is being done, we’re getting some external help to do all of this prepa ration so that when we go to auction we can maximise the benefit to the country,” Dr. Jagdeo explained. The Government is also looking at the legislation to ensure that all procedures will be in keeping with Guyana’s existing laws.
By Telesha Ramnarine UNLIKE obvious physi cal disabilities in children which may be easy to di agnose and treat, there are other ‘hidden’ ones that specialists may need to pay more attention to so as to be able to determine, accurate ly, just what the problem is. This is where the Re gional Special Education Needs/Disability Diagnostic and Treatment Centre makes a real difference in the lives of such children and their families.“Acentre like this makes a difference in everyone’s life. It helps you to under stand who has a disability and who doesn’t. It differenti ates the kinds of disabilities, because not all disabilities are disabling,” acting Coor dinator of the centre, Keon Cheong told the Guyana Chronicle.Located inside the com pound of Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE), Tur keyen, East Coast Demerara, the centre had its start in 2017 subsequent to a Caricom Heads of Government sum mit where the programme wasItsproposed.purpose is to provide an interdisciplinary approach to identifying, treating and preventing disabilities. In this space, each individual has the opportunity to access a comprehensive evaluation. It does not only cater for Guyanese children but all those in the region -- in the CARICOM member states -- can access the services.
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It was earlier this month that Senior Vice-President and Head of Latin America for Rystad Energy, Sch reiner Parker, said having the right fiscal regime will be the most important fac tor if Guyana is to get the most out of the sale of its remaining oil blocks at the upcoming auction. Parker noted that Guyana stands to gain much out of the auction, given the attractiveness of the basin, but that the country could lose out if conditions are not favour able for investors.
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VP calls for investigation into documents showing alleged voter fraud
VICE-President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo is call ing for an investiga tion into the documents that were given to the Guyana Elections Com mission (GECOM) by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and immigration during the March 2020 “elections rigging”. He related that in a statement issued by the GECOM commission ers, they said there were numerous allegations of voter impersonation. “I don’t know of a single allegation of voter impersonation until they tried to sabotage the re count. APNU [A Party for National Unity] had polling agents in almost every one of the over 2,000 polling places in this country,” VP Jagdeo said.He added: “They all signed the SOP, and never a claim of voters’ impersonation until they attempted to create con fusion at the recount. So, that statement is false; absolutely false.” He noted that the commissioners said GECOM was provided with documentation from statutory agencies and bodies to substantiate these“Youallegations.recallthe GRA producing a fictitious list, and immigration producing another list of who was in the country and who was not, and we found people there whom they said were abroad, who never had travelled out of the coun try,” VP Jagdeo related. He urged the govern ment to launch an inves tigation into the allega tions, and the “so-called evidence” provided by the statutory agencies, because they have been a little lax on taking tough action against the per sons that fabricated the data. “Make it public so the media would have that, and then launch an investigation as to how they were put to gether, because there was false information… If false information is provided by statuto ry agencies with the purpose of corrupting an election, then the people who provided that information should face the consequences. So, I am going to urge that that happens,” VP Jagdeo said.
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In a one-on-one interview with the Sunday Express at the National Acad emy for the Performing Arts, Port of Spain, on Friday, the President, who returns to Guyana today after a five-day State visit to T&T, shared his vision for Guyana, and a bit of his personal life that has made him the man and leader he isAskedtoday.how he spends his free time, he said, “I read a lot, but I love to cook, and I love to play a good game of cricket.”Hisbest dish? He replied, “I can cook anything; duck curry and cook-up.”
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Ali said the physical infrastructure of Guyana will also be transformed and it will be a country where there will be state-of-the-art hospitals, housing for the people and an overall development of the land space, including a new city connected to Georgetown.
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The President and his Government are also working on a programme to achieve 50,000 new house lots by 2025, and having every young professional owning their homes.
He said other natural resources such as gold and diamonds also have markets to develop in a low-carbon strategy framework.Guyana is on a path to becoming an oil-rich nation, and, with all of its resources in other areas, the President said he wants to ensure there is unity and equitable distribution of this prosperity across Guyana for all its people.
“We want to position Guyana to be a major health service provider for the diaspora, and for the region itself, so we are investing, and we are sup porting investment in state-of-the-art facilities,” he ANDINFRASTRUCTUREadded.DEVELOPMENT
Ali said he was not born into wealth, but learned the value of hard work, edu cation, and service to people from his parents, who were both educators. “My mother retired as a deputy chief education officer. My father was a school principal, so I grew up in a public service environment. My grandmother was heavily involved in politics; my whole family. So I was exposed to public life at a very early age,” he said. His family made many sacrifices, just like other families in Guyana, to ensure he was educated, and he pursued his aca demic career, and today has many letters of honour behind his name. Ali said as a child, he was well rounded, with focus on both academics, and also having fun playing cricket and volleyball.Hesaid he spent most of his holidays as a child in a rural island called Leguan, where he learned lifelong skills in terms of fishing, agriculture, working in the rice fields, and understanding how an agricultural society works. After writing the then Common Entrance Examination, he went to school in Georgetown; St. Stanislaus College, and from there went on to pursue tertiary education. He is the holder of a doctorate in urban and regional planning from The University of the West Indies, and a Master of Arts degree in manpower planning, among other academic achievements.
Ali said four private hospitals are under construction at present, as well as six new regional hospitals, and one children’s and maternal hospital. He said the Government was working with Mount Sinai on developing the eco system to support these health services.
“What we will see over the next few years is a comprehensive build-out; re build of our infrastructure landscape to meet the demands of the future, and to ensure we create efficiency in the system itself; tremendous investments in new highways, water treatment,” he said.
MEETING WIFE, ARYA As for love, the President met his wife, Arya, at a function in Guyana’s capital of Georgetown. They have been married for five years, and have a young son, Zayd. Questioned on whether it was love at first sight, Ali replied, “Immediately I knew she was an interest to pursue.” He said that as a father, he hopes for the best for his child, and he wants to work to ensure all the children of Guyana have a brighter future to look forwardAskedto.where he sees himself in the future, Ali said, “I just see myself as the servant of the people, as long as the people would have me there. I believe strongly in democratic principles; I believe in building a One Guyana, in which we can bring prosperity to every Guyanese; we can develop Guyana in a way that is socially just; that leads to sustainability and a resilient future.” His vision, he said, is to build a trans formative Guyana in a low-carbon de velopment context; “a Guyana in which transformation means human resource transformation, social transformation, financial transformation, and economic prosperity.”Guyana’s abundance of natural re sources will be instrumental in its de velopment.According to the President, the South American nation can also lead in ad dressing the issue of climate change, as he noted Guyana has 19.5 gigatons of carbon that can earn substantial revenue, once deployed in the carbon market.
“I END on a good note for my friends in Trinidad and Tobago: Whether it is curry chicken or chicken curry, we will have curry.” These were the words of Guyana’s President, Dr. Irfaan Ali, 42, at the Agri Investment Forum on Friday. What he did not say is that he cooks very good curry, and when he is not working to transform Guyana, and pur suing his mission of food security for the region, he enjoys turning a good pot.
SECTOR The President also spoke to the Sunday Express about Guyana’s booming energy sector. Questioned about the possibility of Guyana investing in Trinidad’s refinery at Pointe-a-Pierre, given the country’s access to oil, Ali responded “at this stage in the development of the oil sector, we have reviewed numerous requests and proposals for investment in a refinery in Guyana. We have not yet formalised any arrangement in this direction. Our oil is now marketed through a bidding process whilst Guyana will not invest at this stage in the building of any refinery in or out of Guyana, as we see this as a private sector investment. Therefore, options to refine Guyana’s oil, especially for our regional energy security, can be examined. However, at this point, Guy ana’s policy position is not to have gov ernment investment in these facilities.”
Questioned on what stage Guy ana’s GPL/power facility has reached, Ali said the responses to the Request For Proposals (RFPs) will be submit ted by the middle of September, with the expectation that an Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) con tract will be executed and commenced by the fourth quarter, with a target completion of the power plant at the end of 2024, and the Natural Gas Liq uids facility by fourth-quarter 2025. Guyana has also implemented a policy that local content must be utilised in investments in Guyana. He said this policy facilitates invest ment, and creates an even platform through which the local private sector can develop, and a minimum carve-out can enable the building of capacity, and provision of services by the local private sector.Additionally, he said the local-con tent policy allows for the building of partnerships, transfer of technology, and fostering greater integration and collaboration with local, regional and international companies.
QuestionedEXCHANGEsaid.RATEonwhether he was satisfied Guyana’s exchange rate is appropriate for its stage of develop ment, the President said Guyana’s exchange rate cannot be determined by a singular sector.
“What the world has taught us through this pandemic and this sup ply-chain crisis is that we cannot ever think that we can do this alone; we need a stronger community. We are stronger together; we need to coor dinate more our policies; we need to more strategically align our objectives to fulfil the dreams and aspirations of the people of the region,” he said.
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Asked whether Guyana has decided on usage of its natural gas, Ali said Guyana has already made a decision on the first pipeline, which will be built 225 kilometres long, with the capacity of bringing to shore a minimum of 120 million cubic feet per day of natural gas. He said the initial output for this pipeline will be 50 million cubic feet of gas per day, which will be used primarily to power a 300-megawatt power plant that will reduce the cost of energy by at least 50 per cent, the development of a natural gas liquids (NGL) facility, and lay the bedrock for the building of an industrial estate. Simultaneously, he said the Gov ernment is working on a national gas plan, which includes discussion with other regional partners so as to deter mine the most optimal utilisation of its gas for the benefit of Guyana and the region.LOCAL
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“We are not pursuing ‘look good and feel good’ policies, but rather poli cies that are appropriate to the holistic development of our economy. It is in this context that Guyana’s exchange rate must be viewed. This balance will include managing trade and investment within the context of our balance of pay ments,” he said. Asked about the future of CARI COM, Ali said CARICOM has the po tential to become a stronger group.
“It is, therefore, not a hindrance but a facilitator of private sector development, capacity building, tech nology transfer and human resource development,” he
“We want to position Guyana in the cutting edge of technology. To do this we have to invest at a very early age. We are working on a programme that would see every primary school child leaving primary education with at least elementary training in coding, every secondary school child having intermediate training in coding and software development, we’re build ing a national training centre that will train not only for the oil and gas sector, but will train human resources to meet all the new sectors that will come,” heENERGYsaid.
“Our future will be built on a bal anced and diversified economic system in which various sectors will integrate to meet the developmental aspirations of the country. Our monetary and fis cal systems must, therefore, reflect this delicate balance.
He emphasised the importance of education and noted that with the chang ing modern world there is also a need to modernise the education sector and ensure children at the primary and sec ondary school levels learn coding.
Dr Jagdeo, a two-term President twice selected and elected by the major ity over the best the PNC-R could have put up in two successive elections free and fair and free from fear, has thus far not only assured the PNC/R Leader that the PPP/C is as ready as ever to face the electorate, but will also be just as ready whenever the Elections Commission gives the go-ahead, this year or next.
Sincerely Annan Boodram The Caribbean Voice
Unfortunately for Guyana, the Opposition Leader and his party continue to show how unprepared they are for any role, not even in op position in today’s One-Guyana, far less in government.
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MEMORY loss is an unhealthy hu man condition, as is insomnia. But induced forgetfulness and will ful insomnia can always be invoked to choose what to forget and remember, as is forever the case with the opposition People’s National Congress/Reform (PNC/R).Choosing to forget its sculpted con tributions to Guyana’s long, sad history of rigged and stolen elections and other democratic expressions of people’s will, the PNC/R has, too many times, been accused and found guilty of almost habitually altering voters’ decisions whenever in charge of the national elec tionWhethermachinery.presidential, parliamentary or local government polls, the PNC/R has a long and shameful history of suppressing the expressed will of the people: from ballot boxes walking-out of polling stations with soldiers after a Local Government Election and ‘Over seas Votes’ from a house lot occupied by grazing horses in the UK in the 1970s, to rigging a referendum in the 80s, to five months of brazen theft of an entire election in 2020. With such a background and store houses of proof of exposed efforts and actions to bend election results, with the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) and all election observers in 2020 at testing to the unbelievability of elec toral memorialising details, adjusting facts and displaying election figures on bedsheets, denying living voters their rights to vote while complaining about allegedly dead electors on lists -- and doing everything unthinkable to change results, the PNC/R should have long learned to keep quiet on elections issues. But instead, it’s been resorting to use of useless claims -- like having Statements of Poll indicating they won, which remain invisible over two years later.Every PNC/R Opposition Leader has had equal chances to show slate on elections issues and from the founder leader to the latest lost leader, all have failed to show a pass card, all also fail ing to use the law and the Constitution to score political points they cannot win at theNeverpolls.mind recent rulings by the na tion’s highest courts that ought to have encouraged the Opposition Leader’s legal advisers to rethink (or for him to rethink their results value), Mr Aubrey Norton is again calling on the govern ment to recklessly take his calculatedly misleading advice to break the law and violate the Constitution, by interfering with the registered list of electors.
As CEC president, Wayne Chen, indi cated, “The policy will serve as a guide for employers to address GBV at two levels: primary prevention by informing employers and employees what GBV looks like, so it can be prevented before it occurs, and secondary prevention by protecting and/or reducing the risk of exposure to violence against women and girls (VAWAG).” The CEC pledged to promote the adoption and distribution of the policy across its 14 mem ber states but we hope that it can be implemented in all Caribbean nations and provided institu tional support by governments as a component of overall national GBV prevention frameworks.
Obviously, the PNC/R is still smarting from its largely self-inflicted wounds after losing a Confidence Vote in Parliament while still in office in December 2021, theft of the 2020 poll and the dismantling of all its legal and judicial arguments to justify electoral theft between March and August 2020, after illegally occupying State and government offices for five long and grueling months.
Also, UNFPA Caribbean sub-regional liaison, Aurora Noguera-Ramkissoon, pointed out that, “Any worker who is being abused, the unions have to support them. What we have to recognise is that the challenge won’t be solved overnight but we have given the commitment to engage the wider community, from the point of view of labour, through our shop steward system, our engagement with our workers, constant reminders, constant workshops, constant reminders and re-exam inations and explanations of the goals.”
Do all you can to protect the victims and hold abusers accountable
Dear Editor, THE Caribbean Voice is thrilled that a Caribbean regional Gender-Based Vio lence (GBV) workplace policy has been finalised by employer and labour bodies. Signed by heads of both the Caribbean Employers Confederation (CEC) and the Car ibbean Congress of Labor (CCL) this policy is part of UN/EU Spotlight initiative and “provides an essential framework to ensure that anyone experiencing GBV, including sexual abuse or harassment in the workplace have greater access to co-ordinated support, including special leave, anonymous report ing, confidentiality and employee assistance programmes.” In short, it aims at changing workplace culture relating to GBC with the hopeful goal of eliminating GBV.
Meanwhile, the Caribbean Voice appeals to friends and families of victims who leave their abusers to please do not attempt to get victims and abusers to ‘make up’. As so many cases have shown, such attempts can cause victims to be murdered, the latest being Cindy Ramotar in Guyana, who was killed by her abuser after a well-meaning relative informed the abuser of Cindy’s whereabouts, in order to help them make up. Besides the fact that abuse is an awful, horrible crime, and safety of victims must never be compromised, any sort of interven tion is a job for trained professionals who possess the necessary skills. So, instead of creating scope that can lead to femicide, show your love by doing all you can to protect the victims and hold abusers accountable.
PPP General-Secretary and VicePresident, Bharrat Jagdeo, on Friday, demolished (yet again) Mr Norton’s shallow, baseless and utterly ridiculous claim that the ruling PPP/C isn’t ready for Local Government Elections –something his party would have been expected to be glad about (if true) and therefore feel encouraged enough to challenge the authorities to call the poll earlier than later.
Given the entrenched attitudes of some em ployers, institutionalising the policy will serve to ensure its application across the board at both employers and unions levels. And, it can indeed fill significant missing gaps in attempts to take GBV prevention across each nation, by enabling effective help wherever there are employers and employees. Perhaps, too, victims who fall through the cracks especially because of police inaction and citizens reluctance to be involved, may more effectively be protected.
Dear Editor, I read an ad on social media promoting a rally for August 21 in Georgetown head lined: `Resisting the emerging apartheid state’. I am supportive of peaceful protests and rallies and those who speak out against in justice, racism, and apartheid rule. I am on the side of those who advocate for equality and fairness. Almost every multi-ethnic country, including USA, UK, Canada, has witnessed aspects of discrimination – some government promoted and others the result of peoples’ cultural and social behaviour. There is no evidence to substantiate a claim that the current government in Guyana and during its previous tenures ever practice or condone racial discrimination. One of the principal founders of the PPP, Dr. Cheddi Jagan, would have none of it, and he fought against apartheid at a time when the Burnham regime was in bed with rac ists. In fact, at a conference in New York in 1989, Dr. Jagan referred to the then regime in Guyana as apartheid in nature. Bharrat Jagdeo, during his tenure as President and President Irfaan Ali did not and have not practised or condoned racism and they most certainly have not presided over any apartheid system. They were (are) demo cratically-elected at a time when Indians have not been a majority of the population. They could only have gotten majority by winning over support from other ethnic groups which eliminates any possibility of racist or apartheid governance. I studied apartheid and fought against it and racism in South Africa, USA, and Burnham Guyana. ‘An emerging apartheid state in Guyana’? Are the brains of the organisers and listed speakers of the rally working smartly? Are they not concerned about the embarrassment of the heading of the rally? Mr. Floyd Haynes is wise to dis sociate from such a rally and to condemn the term used to describe it.
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YoursVishnusincerely,Bisram
The term apartheid is misused in the context of post-1992 Guyana. Guyana was an apartheid State post-independence through October 1992 during which time there was a racist minority authoritarian regime modelled along the lines of the apartheid regime in South Africa where apartheid was institutionalised. Guyana held its first democratic elec tions in October 1992. And since then, the country has come a long way from the institutionalised racism it inherited (White domination during colonial rule) and Burn hamite governance (1965 onwards) which was apartheid in nature. Those of us who studied sociology or political science would understand the concept of apartheid rule. Apartheid was the term given to the particular racial-social ideology developed in South Africa (and Namibia) and to some extent in Rhode sia. It was characterised by segregation and racial hatred. Apartheid led to the political, social, and economic discrimination of peo ple not in government such as the Africans, Coloured (mixed race), and Indians by the minority dominant White regime. Burnham led a minority regime in Guyana and imported aspects of apartheid rule and institutionalised it in Guyana during his reign and it continued until his successor, Desmond Hoyte, attempted to dismantle it from 1990. De facto apartheid was practised against Indians, Whites, Am erindians, and Mixed races not dissimilar from how the White minority regime in South Africa used it de jure and de facto against Africans, Indians, and Mixed in South Africa. Under Burnham and Hoyte, the State acquired over 80 per cent of the economy and placed it in the hands of party supporters of one race. Token hand outs were given to a handful of other races that supported the system similar to what took place in South Africa. On that note, one aspect of the apartheid system was the “Pass Book” that granted privileges to non-whites. Burnham established the “PNC card” that was a requirement for govern ment jobs, perks, and privileges. Without the card, people who looked like me could not find employment or access to scarce items and the tax clearance certificate to exit the country. Have the organisers of the August 21 rally forgot that? When one examines governance and employment in Guyana, the government service, police, army, teaching, nurs ing, UG student body, Bank of Guyana, GECOM, and other State institutions, they are predominantly African in composition before and after independence till now. An African was President in 1997 during the PPP tenure in office succeeding Dr. Jagan. An African was Prime Minister during PPP rule from 1992 to 2015. And an African has been Prime Minister from August 2020 till now. The current government is reflective of the ethnic composition of the popula tion. Indians dominate in law, medicine, engineering, mining, fishing, and the private sector in general. Indians are entre preneurial and succeed in business because of their own standing. They didn’t receive handouts from the State that was controlled by Burnham and Hoyte who favoured their own supporters for the combined 28 years they ruled. In fact, Indians have been vic tims of apartheid rule. The time has come when you must call a spade a spade. They have been on the receiving end. Look at the mauling of the young Indian male and his girlfriend last week in Georgetown in the presence of on lookers and police. Indians were brutalised at Mon Repos in July. They were beaten in Agricola and West Berbice. Since the time of indentureship, Indians have been victims. The Whites employed others as security and to beat Indian who dissented against the indentured slave system. As Blacks and Indians did in South Af rica, Indian Guyanese toiled, produced rice and sugar and food for all of the nation. But they are not appreciated. When it comes to upheaval, they are at the receiving end –beaten and robbed, cars stolen, vehicles set on fire, houses and stalls destroyed, shops looted, some Indians killed, females raped andIndiansmore. were displaced (driven out) from African-dominated communities like Buxton, Wismar, McKenzie, BV, among others, and forced into squalid inhabitable conditions in squatter communities such as Montrose, Mon Repos North, etc. What is there more apartheid than suffering that kind of humiliation from militants? Has any of the organisers of the Aug 21 rally ever condemn such apartheid acts? Several individuals (Indians and Blacks) fought against apartheid in South Africa and Guyana over the decades. That era produced a number of notable figures. Among them were Blacks, Whites, and Indians including Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Khatrada, Walter Sisulu, Joe Slovo, Chris Hani, Ismail Ibrahim, Fathima Meer and Oliver Tambo, among others. In Guyana, there were Rupert Roopnarine, Walter Rodney, Eusi Kwayana, Cheddi Jagan, Moses Bhagwan, among others. In New York, several of us Indians, Blacks, and Mixed fought against the racist system. I was in the forefront of that struggle against racism and joined several protests against apartheid in South Africa, Namibia and Rhodesia.During my tenure as an elected student leader, I piloted motions to authorise fund ing through the student government for protest movements in New York. How would the organisers of the Au gust rally feel if a group is formed titled “In defense of Indian rights” and make same set of statements. Would it not be destructive of Guy ana?
The claim that Guyana is an emerging apartheid state is unsound
respondents.Meanwhile, Sukhdeo noted that more public consultation can be expected within the near future as the commission con tinues its work to build public trust and awareness.Headded that the commission will also be exploring face-to-face consulta tions; however, in the meantime, virtual consultations will continue.
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THE Cuffy 250 Com mittee on Saturday an nounced that it would be postponing its upcoming conference, as they intend to seek clarity from the Attorney-General as to whether it can be held. The organization, in a press statement, said that the programme, which is expected to discuss the “state of African Guya nese”, under the title, “Re sisting the Emerging Apart heid State”, was put on hold as they seek to clarify whether it is unconstitu tional to host such an event.
“The rules are just for clarity. The rules really are meant to guide how inves tigations are conducted. They’re meant for transparency so when anyone looks at how the commission functions, they can see that we function in a manner that ideally is impartial to all parties that are stakehold ers in the investigation. So, we’re fair to both the buyer and consumers when we receive an investigation. And this not only extends to the investigation stage of the matter, it also extends to how hearings are conducted,” Sukhdeo said. The draft rules will cover the com plaints that are made, request for action on said complaints and investigation of complaints.Itwill also manage the timeline for completing the investigation, the presentation of the case to the board of commissioners, access to file summary proceedings, evidence and witnesses’ ad journment of the hearing, continuation of the proceedings after death or insolvency of a party and joinder of complaints or
Cuffy 250 Committee postpones controversial conference
“It’s an easier forum rather than physi cally travelling. And we may have persons from different regions so we’re open to any and all forums that can help us get that wider reach,” he said. CCAC was established under the Competition and Fair-Trading Act (CFTA) of 2006. The body is mandated to investi gate complaints by agencies and consum ers and determine if there has been any contravention of the CFTA and to take prescribed actions is there was any. Additionally, the body eliminates anti-competitive agreements and pro vides information to consumers on their rights to enable them to make informed choices. the Thecourts.AG also highlighted the fact that one of the persons that the committee had listed on their poster as a speaker for the virtual forum, rejected the phrase that was used as the theme for the Floydprogramme.Hayneshad said that he was not formally or informally asked to be a part of the programme and called for his name to be removed immediately. In a statement he said, “I completely reject the phrase ‘resisting the emerging apartheid state’ to describe conditions in Guyana. In my view, this statement is a disservice to all Guyanese.” Haynes went on to add that he is a firm supporter of President Dr. Irfaan Ali and is convinced that it is not part of the president’s agenda to create disparity based on race. Meanwhile, the Cuffy 250 group has said that it is consulting its attorneys on whether the statements made by the AG jeop ardize the right to free speech.
Consumer Commission hosts public consultation on draft rules of procedure
CCAC Director, Anil Sukhdeo
The committee made mention of a statement made by Attorney-Gener al and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall, in which he spoke on the title of the said Nandlall,forum.ina column titled, “Apartheid! Delu sions of an irreverent few clamoring for relevance”, stated that the use of the term in title is one that goes against what is enshrined in Guyana’s Constitution. He stated that Article 149 of the Constitution guarantees protection to every citizen against dis crimination, on the grounds of race, ethnicity and reli gion among other things. In the article, the attor ney-general outlined several sections of the Constitution that have outlawed racial and ethnic discrimination in every form and manner. As such, he highlighted that there is no system to which the listed speakers for the forum would be able to point within the country’s constitution or government that will be supportive of the “Neithertheme. is there a sin gular policy of state or gov ernment to which they can advert to aid their perfidi ous hypothesis,” he added. Additionally, he men tioned that if this was the case, they should have chal lenged the racially odious systems or policies before IN a bid to widen the public’s awareness about consumers rights, the Competi tion and Consumers Affairs Commis sion (CCAC) on Thursday held its first virtual public consultation on its recent ly published draft rules of procedure. The interactive session saw several stakeholders and patrons being informed about the consumer rights and policies that have been established to protect those rights. The recently published rules of procedure were also discussed. During the session, CCAC’s Director, Anil Sukhdeo explained that the draft rules will provide the public with an un derstanding of how the commission func tions when complaints are made. He noted that the draft rules provide a platform for transparency in investiga tions to ensure that hearings conclude with impartial outcomes.
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A great help for persons with disability –– activist hails new business centre as transformative project
“We are looking forward for the employment of persons with disabilities which will be major. The majority of PWDs are unemployed,” Singh, also Programme Coordinator of the Guyana Council of Organisa tion for PWDs, shared with Guyana Chronicle. The facility, at Palmyra, Region Six (East BerbiceCorentyne), is the brainchild of First Lady Arya Ali and will house five workstations encouraging commerce, a boardroom, retail space, ther apy room, cafeteria and wash rooms.“It’s a modern enterprise where persons with disabilities would be able to be trained. The significant aspect of the project is that they would be employed. They will make items of craft and other crea tively packaged items that can be exported or sold on the local market,” Singh shared. The plan, according to him, is to get Government agencies to purchase from these PWDs so as to assist them with a more stable market and income. Singh believes that the design of the new building is practical and in keeping with the needs of PWDs. “Some times PWDs cannot sit for a long time. If they work for some time, they may need a rest for a few hours. All of the facilities for this are there, so everything was considered in the design.”Hesaid, too, that the loca tion of the building was based on an informed decision. “It is close to the New Amsterdam Special Needs School and a lot of children go there, so when they leave school, they can seek employment,” he posited. While the facility is ex pected to be replicated in all re gions across the country, Singh feels that the outlying regions should be the first to benefit as there are hardly any opportuni ties for PWDs in those areas. Meanwhile, the official sod-turning ceremony to signal the construction of the centre was done earlier this month. The goal, the First Lady noted, is to promote and protect the social, political and economic interests of every Guyanese, regardless of their age, gender, race, religion or even ability. “Today, we are here to demonstrate our commitment to that cause by making this investment in the lives of peo ple who have historically been excluded from many aspects of society,” Mrs. Ali explained. “The majority of persons with disabilities live in relative poverty… a disability increases the risk of poverty through lack of employment and education opportunities, lower wages and increased cost of living because of that disability,” she added. She thanked the Chinese Ambassador in Guyana, Guo Haiyan, for the sizable contri bution made to the project.
GDF Corporal Deron Jermin Harvey (second left) with High Commissioner of India Dr. KJ Srinivasa (second right), and other senior staffers at the High Com mission in Georgetown and capability enhancement, strengthening of ties with other countries and sharing of military technologies. Such cooperation allows for the examination and imbibing of ‘best practices’, creates abil ity to operate alongside and enhances Maritime Domain Awareness, through a variety of information sharing mech anisms,” the release said. It noted that with the in terest of foreign armies for training in Indian Army es tablishments increasing con siderably, the armed forces personnel from India’s neigh bouring countries, South East Asia, Central Asian Repub lics (CAR), African continent and a few developed coun tries are regularly attending military courses and being trained in India. India is now engaged in a wide range of activities with other friendly coun tries, ranging from Chile and Brazil in the Far-West to Japan and Korea in the Far-East and has concluded suitable defence coopera tion agreements with over 30 countries, the release said, noting that Guyana is the latest addition to this list of Indian partner countries.
GDF Corporal Deron Harvey heads to India for training GUYANA Defence Force (GDF) Corporal, Deron Jermin Harvey has been selected for the Young Bandsmen Course at Army Education Corps Train ing College and Centre in Pachmarhi, India. According to a release from the High Commission of India, the course runs from August 10, 2022 to June 20, 2023, and is part of the In dian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) Defence courses which are designed for Friendly Armed Forces across the world by the In dian Ministry of Defence. Corporal Harvey joined the GDF in 2014, and is now part of the Band Corps of the Army Military Band. He resides on the West Coast of Demerara.HighCommissioner of India, Dr. KJ Srinivasa con gratulated and briefed Corpo ral Harvey on the course, and the ongoing collaboration between the GDF and Indian Armed Forces on training. India and Guyana’s part nership across various sectors now includes a strong col laboration in defence train ing, the release said. “In early 2021, the Gov ernment of India announced 19 defence training slots to the Guyana Defence Force under its Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) Programme. These training slots include: 10 Army Courses, four Naval Courses and five Air Force Courses. These courses of different durations, three to six months, are spread over multiple months that are being conducted in differ ent time periods during the 2021-2022 cycle. This is the first time that Guyana has had access to these military training programmes. Under the ITEC Programme, the Government of India covers all expenses related to this training, and provides the trainees with return air tick ets, accommodation charges, tuition fees, living expenses, medical expenses, external and internal tours as per course curriculum,” the re leaseCorporalsaid.
Harvey is the 15th such recipient of the training scholarship. Cur rently, 11 GDF officers have completed their training, and three are currently in India under training. For the 2022-2023 cycle, India has offered 38 slots for the GDF, the release said. “India extends defence cooperation to a number of countries, where the armed forces work together to achieve mutual aims and objectives, to assist them to strengthen their institutions in relation to security, to strengthen security systems in the context of continued threats of territorial incursion and terrorism, to provide training in various military skills, including combat, marksmanship, emergency medical evacuation, searchand-rescue and recovery responses, etc. The broad objectives of Indian defence cooperation include promo tion of intra and extra region al peace and stability through dialogue and cooperation in the field of defence and security. It also encourages sharing of operational and doctrinal expertise, training
DISABILITY Rights Activ ist, Ganesh Singh, feels that the construction of the stateof-the art business centre for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) is a transformative project since a major prob lem experienced by persons in this community is lack of employment.
Most people build some resistance to stress – enough so that they can process stressful events and move on positively - this is known as tolerable stress. Tolerable stress is more manage able when there is a friend or family member to turn to who helps to cushion (the blow or) how we feel. Toxic stress however, can negatively impact and
Recognising toxic stress in our children shape a child’s future? In severe cases, it becomes an ‘adverse childhood ex perience’ leading to chronic illnesses in later life, such as heart problems, cancer andToxicdiabetes.stress happens when a child with little or no adult support witnesses or is involved in prolonged and extreme adverse events that become traumatic. Events include domestic violence, sexual or physical abuse, neglect or abandonment. A fatal car crash, or sud den loss of a loved one can also cause toxic stress, although you cannot see how toxic stress and trauma affect the mind. In children, it can change their brain’s anatomy and chemistry and in terfere with normal brain growth. A father may think it is okay to throw his 3-year-old across the room in anger if the child does something wrong. ‘That will teach him a les son, he tells himself, ‘I bet he won’t do that again’. Reprimanding children with heinous acts of violence causes pain, distress, and unforeseen problems for their physical and mental future. Leaving children to fend for themselves unsupervised and treating them with contempt or disregard affect their state of mind. Adults who treat children harshly are failing them on several levels. How can children who are mis treated rise to their full potential? What type of adults will they become? Abused children have poor selfesteem and usually have problems mak ing and maintaining friendships. They need to get along with others for their social and emotional development; if not, they feel like misfits. Due to toxic stress children often feel isolated, and may try desperately to be accepted by peers. Such children are known for their persistent disruptive behaviour. When it comes to academics, these children usually have poor concentra tion and are easily distracted. They can not process what is happening because of repeated exposure to the same events and because they have no control over what goes on in their lives. Their frus tration can turn to aggression and they lash out, causing conflict at home or school, which could lead to exclusion. Whether the child is excluded from school or not, he misses valuable learning hours due to his predicament, which re duces his chances of taking examinations and progressing to further education. The lack of suitable qualifications will limit his opportunities in the job market. He may find menial, low-paid work to sur vive. But the job will not boost his morale or confidence, leading to depression. To alleviate depression, he turns to drugs and becomes addicted. This is one scenario of how ‘adverse childhood experiences’ could lead to physical or mental illness in later life. We all have stress response systems, even those who profess, ‘I’m too bless ed to be stressed’. The body’s response system takes effect naturally. For ex ample, we feel positive stress when we are attending a long-awaited event with anticipation, or we rise to and overcome a challenge. (like getting ten out of ten answers right on a test). Positive stress is good for our bodies; it is temporary and causes no harm. But for children with toxic stress, the worse ‘adverse childhood experiences’ they encounter, the more possibility of ill-health, depression, substance abuse, and other mental health problems facing them in adulthood. Research shows that children with adverse childhood expe riences are more likely to go to prison or adopt self-harming behaviour such as drug abuse, smoking or alcoholism. The COVID-19 pandemic sig nificantly impacted our lives, and, as a result, more children have suffered trauma than usual. How children coped during the COVID abnormality was given little attention- being segregated from friends; not having the regular ity of their school day; learning about COVID and restrictions, and the eco nomic pressure faced by their families were a lot for them to process. Many children went for long periods without applying themselves to mean ingful challenges (such as using their brains for academics, sports or achieve ments). Some youngsters still struggle to find their feet in this post-pandemic uncertainty, and others who suffer men tally have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - constantly reliving traumatic events. There are cases where children are overwhelmed to the point where theyTheself-mutilate.goodnews is that we can help children regardless of their frame of mind; we can even reverse toxic stress before it becomes traumatic – but firstly, we must acknowledge where the help is needed and the best way to proceed. Here are some tips: Prevent or reduce exposing children to adverse situations. Offer children support and attention, at their pace, in the way they require, and do not overpower them with advice or expectations. Be receptive if children need to talk or find someone they trust in whom they can confide. Take them outdoors for sport or activity, or just for a brisk walk to exercise. If you are worried about a child’s physical or mental health, seek professional medical advice without delay. If you are concerned about the welfare of a child, call the CPA hotline on 227 0979 or write to us at childcar egy@gmail.com FROM
THE CHILDCARE AND PROTEC TION AGENCY, MINISTRY OF HUMAN SERVICES AND SOCIAL SECURITY
What do you think? Yes, they can - there is so much going on in their lives nowadays. Or no, they can’t –after all, what do children have to stress over? The truth is that stress is a normal part of life for everyone, and learning to manage distress, dis aster or misfortune, is a significant feature of healthy child development.
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CAN children suffer from stress?
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WITH the aim of sup porting countries in Latin America and the Carib bean to develop or update their operational plans to face future pandemics, the Pan American Health Or ganisation (PAHO) is hold ing a regional workshop on preparedness and response to events with pandemic and epidemic potential. This workshop will build on the lessons learned from COVID-19.“Wecontinue to deal with the current COVID-19 pandemic and, at the same time, we are facing an out break of Monkeypox in sev eral countries,” said PAHO Director, Carissa F. Etienne. COVID-19, she said, “has been a formidable chal lenge” and “a stark reminder of the responsibility we all have to invest in prevention, preparedness and response to communicable pathogen events.”Dr.Etienne highlighted that, as of last Wednesday, there were 170 million cases and nearly three million deaths due to COVID-19 in the Americas. She not ed that other respiratory pathogens are re-emerging, and that seasonal influenza causes between 290,000 and 650,000 deaths each year in the “Weregion.must never forget that it is not a question of whether a pandemic will occur due to a new influenza virus, but when it will oc cur,” she warned.
“The COVID-19 pan demic is not over yet,” said the PAHO Representative in Argentina, Eva Jané Llopis, and added that since the declaration of the public health emergency of inter national concern on January 30, 2020, “the response had to be adjusted, to seek fund ing and involve other sec tors” due to its great scope and duration. “Reflecting on what we did, taking it to the level of strategies, and thinking about other epi demiological challenges is crucial to continue moving forward,” she said. PAHO expects to hold similar workshops with oth er countries in the region during 2022. The outputs of this and other workshops will in tegrate the vision of the Americas region into glob al pandemic preparedness and response documents and guidelines. (PAHO)
During a regional workshop in Argentina, the Director of PAHO called for countries to increase investment in epidemic and pandemic preparedness, because the question is not “if there will be a new pandemic, but when” (PAHO photo)
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PAHO seeks to strengthen preparedness for future pandemics
“Our capacity to respond to health emergencies de pends on what we have done before they occur and what we have learned during pre vious emergencies” such as COVID-19, said the PAHO Director during the open ing of the workshop, which brings together technical experts in epidemiology, laboratory, immunisation and risk communication from the ministries of Health of Argentina, Bolivia, Co lombia, Costa Rica, Domini can Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Suriname.Apreparedness and re sponse plan for events with epidemic and pandemic po tential is one of the core capacities required by the International Health Regula tions (IHR), a legally bind ing international convention adopted by Member States of the World Health Organi sation (WHO) to prevent and respond to public health threats that can cross bor ders and affect populations around the “Functioningworld.health sys tems are the foundation of health security,” asserted Dr. Etienne and it is es sential to “secure supply chains of vaccines, medi cines, laboratory reagents, personal protective equip ment and other strategic public health goods” before the next emergency occurs, and “strengthen the resil ience of health systems with human resources and plan ning”.The PAHO Director re called that two centres in Argentina and Brazil were designated by WHO for the future development and production of vaccines using mRNA technology, some thing that is expected to improve timely and equi table access to vaccines in the region and contribute to health“Allself-sufficiency.ofthisiskeyfor us to be prepared to respond and succeed during emer gencies that threaten our region,” she stressed.
The Minister of Health of Argentina, Carla Vizzotti, considered that the COV ID-19 pandemic showed that health “must be a priority for everyone” because “without health one cannot study, work or Afterproduce”.indicating that the Government had to refor mulate its response to the pandemic, Vizzotti said that the region must tackle the challenges around access to medical supplies, some thing learned during the COVID-19 pandemic, and “think about how we can produce and expand access to vaccines”.Reflecting on the coun tries’ response to the emer gency, Vizzotti stated that “we were able to do many things in a very short time. We have to look back to see what we learned, but also forward in order to make improvements and take ac tion that will better position us for the next pandemic.”
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Some members of the teams that represented Guyana at the International Youth Robotics Competition
The International Youth Robot Competi tion is an annual youth competition in robotics, programming, and digi tal technologies, organ ised by the International Youth Robot Association (IYRA). Previous com petitions were held in Korea, Thailand, China and Malaysia.
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Guyana won 16 medals CompetitionRoboticsInternationalat
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GUYANA’S skills in the fields of Science, Tech nology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) were showcased during the International Youth Robotics Competition (IYRC) held virtually in South Korea. Participation in the vir tual competition this year was guaranteed as a result of timely support from the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports and an alloca tion from the Inter-Amer ican Development Bank (IDB), a release said. “The goal this year was to ensure a regional diversity of teams,” said STEMGuyana Direc tor, Karen Abrams. The STEM Guyana Organisa tion was able to prepare four senior teams, com prising persons, ages 13 to 18 years, and 12 junior teams, which included persons ages seven to 12 years, from seven regions of Guyana to compete against more than 1,000 teams representing more than 20 countries. Ten of the 12 junior teams represented youth from the national Learning Pods programme which is largely funded by a grant from the AccordingIDB. to STEM Guyana, all 16 teams medalled this year. Each of Guyana’s participat ing teams earned bronze, while teams from Mon golia, Russia, Thailand, Australia, Malaysia and Indonesia scored gold and teams from Colombia, Mexico, Algeria and India were among those that scoredAlthoughsilver. past teams have earned gold and silver medals, this year, teams were given a lit tle more than two weeks to prepare their robots because of the co-ordina tion of coaches, space and equipment needed to pre pare 16 teams from seven regions for
“How the world has it, only a special group of people or kinds of people could reach cer tain heights. I am happy today that in Guyana that no longer prevails. Provision and opportu nity have been created for young people despite where they live, what is their family name, if they come from [a] twoparent family or sin gle-parent family, don’t matter what is their re ligion, or their colour, once they can do it, the road to success is laid out for you by the gov ernment,” he added. During the three weeks of the camp, par ticipants learnt about Guyana’s rich cultural history and the differ ent art forms includ ing, painting, sketching, dance, and drumming. The camp was held in each region of the country.
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This was told to the participants of the justconcluded National Youth Culture Camp in Region Ten diamond and you polish it and cut it. Queens and kings, billionaires and noblemen use those dia monds, but when they were first discovered, they look like a piece of dirt, they look like noth ing,” he added. The minister used the opportunity to em phasised how valuable they can become if they made good use of the opportunities that are being made available to them.“Today, me address ing you, do you know how I see you? As di amonds in the rough, and once properly pol ished, once properly processed, you will be valuable,” he said. Minister Edghill also noted his happiness at the fact that one’s cir cumstances no longer determined one’s value.
Minister Juan Edghill and youths at the camp’s closing ceremony–– says Minister Edghill
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FOUR batters posted half- centuries as New Zealand overhauled the West Indies’ total of 301 for 8 to win the third ODI on Sunday by five wickets and clinch the series 2-1. Tom Latham scored 69 and put on 120 for the fourth wicket with Daryl Mitchell (63) in a stand which paced the run chase and carried New Zealand in sight of victory.Martin Guptill (57) and Devon Conway (56) had earlier combined to add 82 runs for the sec ond wicket to give New Zealand a platform for a demanding chase. (Scores New Zealand 307 for 5 (Latham 69, Mitchell 63, Guptill 57, Conway 56, Holder 2-37) beat West Indies 301 for 8 (Mayers 105, Pooran 91, Hope 51, Boult 3-53) by five wickets) Mitchell was out with the score on 248 in the 42nd over and Latham at 259 in the 44th, with New Zealand still requiring 43 runs. Jimmy Neesham settled the issue with a deci sive innings of 34 from 11 deliveries, taking 18 runs from the 45th over bowled by Yannic Ca riah. Neesham hit a six from the bowling of West Indies captain Nicholas Pooran to end the chase with 17 balls remaining. “It was obviously nice to make a contribution,” Latham said. “I think the partnership that Daryl and I were able to make put them under pressure. We set a target of getting to that 40-over mark where we needed a run a ball. Latham appeared to have erred when he chose to bowl first and as the West Indies flour ished in good batting conditions. Kyle Mayers made 105 in a 173-run opening partnership with Shai Hope, and Pooran smashed nine sixes in a rapid 91 for the West Indies. The pitch proved
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much better for batting than those on which the West Indies won the first match by five wickets and New Zealand won the sec ond by 50 runs. The high est previous total in the series was New Zealand’s 212 in the second match. Mayers and Hope stayed together for al most 35 overs to shape the West Indies innings. Their partnership ended when Hope was out for 51 off 100 balls and, as often happens with large partnerships, Mayers was out two balls later and without addition to the total. Brandon King fell soon afterwards with the score at 181 for 3 in a sudden reversal for the West Indies. But Pooran picked up the pace again, posting a half-century from 33 balls. He had hit nine sixes and and four fours from 55 balls when he was out in the 49th Mayersover. and Hope made a cautious start to the innings as they found the pace of the new pitch, crawling to 24 after 10 overs, negotiating a short rain break in the seventh over. “I took my time in the powerplay and it gave me the chance to get in. The last two games I got out in the powerplay,” Mayers said in a televi sion interview. “It’s not every day you bat the powerplay for 20 runs but it worked out well in the end.
Mayers hundred in vain as four New Zealand half-centurions seal series 2-1
Fixtures for the 2022 Men’s and Women’s CPL confirmed CPL’S chief executive Officer Pete Russell
WednesdayMen14 September 10am Jamaica Tallawahs Men vs St Kitts & Nevis Patriots WednesdayMen14 September, 7pm Trinbago Knight Riders Men vs Guyana Amazon Warriors Men Thursday 15 September, 10am Barbados Royals Men vs Jamaica Tallawahs
WednesdayMen 7 September, 7pm St Lucia Kings Men vs Jamaica Tallawahs
ThursdayMen1 September, 3pm Guyana Amazon Warriors Women vs Trinbago Knight Riders Women Thursday 1 September, 7pm St Kitts & Nevis Patriots Men vs Barbados Royals SaturdayMen3September, 10am Jamaica Tallawahs Men vs Guyana Amazon Warriors Men Saturday 3 September, 3pm Barbados Royals Women vs Guyana Amazon Warriors Women Saturday 3 September, 7pm St Kitts & Nevis Patriots Men vs Trinbago Knight Riders Men
TuesdayTrinidadMen13September, 7pm Trinbago Knight Riders Men vs Barbados Royals
24 GUYANA CHRONICLE M onday, August 22, 2022 THE fixtures for the 2022 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) and the inaugural Women’s Caribbean Premier League (WCPL) have been confirmed. The tournament will visit St Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, Trinidad & Tobago and culminate in the final in Guyana. The opening day of the tournament will see the Trinbago Knight Riders Women take on the Barbados Royals women before the current Men’s champions, St Kitts & Nevis Patriots, begin their title defense against the Jamaica Tallawahs. The women’s CPL will feature four matches in the inaugural 2022 season in addition to the seven women’s games at the SKYEXCH 6IXTY which takes place immediately before Hero CPL. This is 11 matches in total, representing a big step forward in the scheduling of women’s franchise cricket in the region, with plans to grow this in subsequent years.Pete Russell, CPL’s CEO, said: “It is very exciting to be able to confirm the fixtures for this season with this announcement being all the more special with the WCPL taking place for the first time in 2022. We can’t wait to be back travelling around the Caribbean and we are looking forward to welcoming our wonderful fans back into the stadiums across the region.”
Tuesdayfinisher 27 September, 7pm Eliminator – 3rd place finisher vs 4th place
SundayMen 11 September, 7pm Saint Lucia Kings Men vs St Kitts & Nevis Patriots
ThursdayMen 8 September, 10am Guyana Amazon Warriors Men vs St Kitts & Nevis Patriots Men Thursday 8 September, 7pm Saint Lucia Kings Men vs Barbados Royals
Sunday 4 September, 10am Barbados Royals Men vs Saint Lucia Kings
WednesdayMen21 September, 7pm Guyana Amazon Warriors Men vs Jamaica Tallawahs Men Thursday 22 September, 10am Trinbago Knight Riders Men vs St Kitts & Nevis Patriots Men Thursday 22 September, 7pm Guyana Amazon Warriors Men vs Saint Lucia Kings Men Saturday 24 September, 7pm Guyana Amazon Warriors Men vs Trinbago Knight Riders Men Sunday 25 September, 10am Jamaica Tallawahs Men vs Saint Lucia Kings SundayMen25 September, 7pm Guyana Amazon Warriors Men vs Barbados Royals
TuesdayMen27September, 10am Qualifier 1 - 1st place finisher vs 2nd place
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SaturdayMen 17 September, 10am St Kitts & Nevis Patriots Men vs Saint Lucia Kings Men Saturday 17 September, 7pm Trinbago Knight Riders Men vs Jamaica Tallawahs Men Sunday 18 September, 10am Barbados Royals Men vs Guyana Amazon Warriors Men Sunday 18 September, 7pm Trinbago Knight Riders Men vs Saint Lucia Kings WednesdayGuyanaMen 21 September, 10am Barbados Royals Men vs St Kitts & Nevis Patriots
Wednesdayfinisher 28 September, 7pm Qualifier 2 – Winner of Eliminator vs Loser of Qualifier 1 Friday 30 September, 7pm Final – Winner of Qualifier 1 vs Winner of Qualifier 2
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JEDDAH (Reuters): Anthony Joshua has the “hunger” to fight again and plans to return to the ring in December following a second straight loss to Oleksandr Usyk, the Briton said on Sunday. Usyk retained his WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO heavyweight titles with a split-decision win over Joshua, who fared better in the rematch but proved unable to dethrone the champion in an ab sorbing 12-round contest in Jeddah on Saturday. Joshua said he spoke to his promoter Eddie Hearn, who wants the British heavyweight boxer to have three or four fights next year. “I spoke to Eddie and asked him if it’s possible to get out in November because mo mentum is important in boxing. Eddie said December,” Joshua said. “If it’s about who I fight, it’s come one, come all. Whoever wants it can get it, I don’t mind.”
Joshua fought back tears after the bout as he reflected on his defeat, saying he was deeply “up set” with his performance against the Ukrainian heavyweight champion. “It’s really, really hard for me to say I’m proud of myself. I’m upset, really, deep down in my heart,” he said. “I tried a different style … in the last fight I wanted to compete as a boxer, but it wasn’t good enough, and tonight wasn’t good enough.” Joshua threw down two of Usyk’s belts after the final bell before storming out of the ring, only to return later and deliver an impassioned speech. “When you try and do things from your heart, not everyone is going to understand,” explained Joshua. “It was just from the heart. I knew I was mad at myself. Not at anyone, just myself. I was like I got to get out here because I’m mad. “When you’re angry you might do stupid things. Then I realised this is sport. I came back and did the right thing.”
Joshua hungry to fight again in December after defeat to Usyk
St Kitts & WednesdayNevis31August, 3pm Trinbago Knight Riders Women vs Barbados Royals Women Wednesday 31 August, 7pm St Kitts & Nevis Patriots Men vs Jamaica Tallawahs Men Thursday 1 September, 10am Saint Lucia Kings Men vs Trinbago Knight Riders
Speedster Anrich Nortje took six wickets in the first Test (Getty)
RUTERS/Scott Heppell (REUTERS) - Dean Elgar believes his young South African side could become a formidable team after they beat England by an innings and 12 runs in the first Test at Lord’s. South Africa’s bowling attack proved as venomous as had been expected, but the inexperienced top-six batting line-up also played their part in an unexpected victory inside three days.
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Manchester City’s Erling Braut Haaland celebrates scoring their second goal
“Everything has been a work in progress since I’ve taken over the captaincy but I always felt the core of the group had the basic fundamentals to one day become a world-renowned Test side,” Elgar told a postmatch news conference.
Elgar said the players had grown in experience over the past 18 months into a winning collective. They have won eight of 10 Tests against the West Indies, India, New Zealand and Bangladesh since the 35-year-old took over as
“I did not wake up this morning thinking that I’d be doing a press confer ence before five o’clock,” he joked. “It was a pretty special squad performance. “We haven’t left any stone unturned so far and hopefully we don’t go into a comfort zone … no, well, I’m definitely not going to let us go into a comfort zone, because I know what complacency can do in in ternational sport “But we need to enjoy these moments, we did it at a really unique place and it’s special for a lot of guys who haven’t experienced Lord’sSouthbefore.”Africa’s next Test assignment after the remaining two matches against England is a threeTest series in Australia in December-January, which will be a clash of the two top-ranked sides in the World Test Championship.
December 17-21: First Test, the Gabba, 10:20am December 26-30: Sec ond Test, MCG, 10:30am January 4-8: Third Test, SCG, 10:30am City fight back for thrilling 3-3 draw at Newcastle Pakistan survive Dutch scare to complete clean sweep
Proteas to be Test power captain in March 2021. “They’ve put the in dividual stuff aside and actually focused on the team,” said Elgar. “I’d like to think what we’ve laid down as a foun dation has been pretty true and pretty solid. “Our team’s goals are not unrealistic but pretty achievable. We are a spe cial bunch and we play bloody good cricket when we’re doing well.” Elgar hailed the batting as “pretty sturdy” but la belled the bowling attack, led by Kagiso Rabada, An rich Nortje and spinner Keshjav Maharaj, as “bril liant”.South Africa began the day on 289-7 in response to England’s first-innings 165 and went on to score 326 for a handsome 161run lead. They then bowled En gland out in less than 40 overs for 149 to wrap up the victory before the tea interval.
(AFP)-Pakistan beat the Netherlands by nine runs despite a brave effort by the home side in the third and final one-day international in Rotterdam on Sunday. The Netherlands were all out for 197 in the final over in which they had need ed 14 runs for a first-ever victory over Pakistan.Tight bowling restricted Pakistan to just 206 with captain Babar Azam top scoring with 91. In reply, Tom Cooper (62) and Vikramjit Singh (50) top scored for the Dutch but teenage fast bowler Naseem Shah with 5-33 proved key to Pakistan sweeping the series 3-0. Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat on a cool and slightly overcast day, with another big score expected off the dry and batting-friendly pitch. But Dutch paceman Vivian Kingma struck early when the first ball of his bowling spell saw the bails flying in the second over, sending opener Abdullah Shafique back to the clubhouse at the VOC cricket ground for two runs. Wickets continued to fall at regular intervals to see Pakistan edge to 150-5 by the 40th over. Up-and-coming Dutch youngster Ary an Dutt took the crucial wicket of Azam -- the world’s top-ranked ODI batsman -- when the Pakistani captain was on 91 and seemed set for his 18th ODI century. Azam pushed the ball into the air with Dutt diving and taking a brilliant one-handed catch for his 10th one-day international wicket. Dutt eventually ended with figures of 1-34 following behind destroyer in chief Bas de Leede 3-50, who continues to make an impact in the Dutch squad both with bat and ball. Fellow seemer Logan van Beek also played a crucial role in dismantling the Pakistani innings, removing dan german Fakhar Zaman’s off-stump in the 17th over. Van Beek also took two catches -taking Agha Salman off the bowling of Shariz Ahmad and Mohammad Nawaz off De Leede’s bowling -- just when Nawaz was getting going and smacking 27 runs off 35 balls.
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NEWCASTLE, England, (Reuters)Quickfire goals by Erling Haaland and Bernardo Silva helped Manchester City recover from two goals down to draw 3-3 with Newcastle United in a rip-roaring Premier League clash at St James’ Park on Sunday. Neither side had conceded a goal in the league this season but Ilkay Gundogan opened the scoring for champions City in the fifth minute, ghosting in and catching the Newcastle defence flat-footed before finishing from close range. City should have gone two up in the 16th minute when Phil Foden attacked down the right, but he chose to shoot from a tight angle rather than squaring the ball to Haaland and the chance was wasted. The home side levelled through Miguel Almiron in the 28th minute as he bundled a pinpoint cross from Allan Saint-Maximin into the net before enduring a nervous VAR check that allowed the goal to stand. Saint-Maximin tormented City full back Kyle Walker and he put Newcastle in position to pull off a huge upset when he set up Callum Wilson to make it 2-1 before halftime.Abrilliant free kick by Kieran Trippier nine minutes after the break put them 3-1 ahead.That sparked City into life, however, with Haaland hitting a post before pulling a goal back on the hour mark and Silva converted a glorious pass from Kevin De Bruyne to make it 3-3. Newcastle’s challenge looked set to come unstuck when Trippier was shown a straight red card for a cynical high trip on De Bruyne, but after a VAR review the decision was overturned and he was given a yellow.
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Former South Africa captain Graeme Smith
Broadcast revenue and sponsorships are the two streams that are shrinking, partly because of the state of the global game and econ omy and partly because of CSA’s recent administrative meltdown. “If you are not playing India enough, your broadcast revenue is down,” Breetkze“Sponsorshipsaid. revenue is two-fold because we’re not playing as much and because of the last five years at CSA. No-one wants to get involved in our cricket and that’s the sad reality. There is a lot of work for CSA - and to give them credit they are doing it - to enhance the work of CSA and to get sponsors. That’s more critical than ever. The market has changed post COVID -19. You are not getting those 18-millionrand-a -year Standard Bank sponsorships. The market is more about short -term sponsorship deals, smaller sponsorship and more specif ic sponsorship. That’s where CSA have to up their game.”
CSA chief executive Pholetsi Moseki explained that their calendar was con strained by their new T20 league and the financial im plications of hosting Test cricket but understood there would be disappointment with their sparse fixture list. The South African Crick eters’ Association ( SACA) was among the first to voice frustration.“Weare disappointed with the lack of Test crick et. For youngsters, it’s the optimum test of your crick et ability,” Andrew Breet kze, SACA CEO told ES PNcricinfo.“Withfewer Tests being played and more two-Test series, Test cricket is being diluted. If you look at what FICA and SACA have been saying for the last five years, we said that the ICC should take ownership of this by looking at how we balance bilateral cricket with T20 events and if they don’t do that we are going to see Test cricket being diminished by the non-big three. We are there. And that’s disappoint ing.”
“The board has changed since back in 2018 and when all those sanctions were dealt. It would be great to have a conversation with them and see where we are at.”
Warner open to having ‘honest conversation’ with CA to get captaincy ban overturned
By Firdose` Moonda TEST cricket could be played by only five or six countries with competitive teams in the future, accord ing to former South Africa captain Graeme Smith. Speaking on Sky Sports on day three of the first Test between South Africa and England at Lord’s, Smith, who is now Cricket South Africa’s T20 league commis sioner, said he didn’t think South Africa “have any intent to not play Test cricket,” but that the format appears des tined to shrink overall.
Graeme Smith: ‘You might be down to five or six nations that play Test cricket’
The six teams in CSA’s new league have all been bought by IPL owners, a development that will inject unprecedented amounts of money into the country’s game.“It’s certainly going to be an investment into our game that South African cricket desperately needed,” Smith said. “The pressures on na tions like New Zealand, West Indies, South Africa to stay financially sustainable to keep up with England, India, and the world game to stay competitive is hugely import ant. I don’t think world crick et can afford South Africa or any one of the top nations to start fading away.”
However, there is growing sentiment in the game that the deci sion needs to be over turned to allow Warner to captain in the BBL at least. Thunder will need a new captain for the 2022-23 season after Usman Khawaja moved to Brisbane Heat. “That hasn’t really been brought to the table,” Warner said on Sunday. “As I’ve said plenty of times off the record, it’s upon the board to reach out to me and open their doors. Then I can sit down and have an honest con versation with them.
“For four weeks of an entire year, the priority will be the league.“Ifeel that if we hadn’t done this South African cricket could have probably lost eight to ten players to this UAE league,” he said. “Peo ple also look at those three ODIs wrong. Yes, South Africa hasn’t handled ODI cricket as well and it should never be in this position But for South Africa to be in Australia out of their key part of the summer financially is a huge stress for them. It’s like asking England not to play during your summer. The commitment that South African cricket made to go for the three Test matches is good for the game. It’s something that won’t happen often.” South Africa will not travel to Australia for Tests at all in the next FTP, and overall they also play fewer ODIs than any of the oth er Full Members , and the third-lowest number of bi lateral matches in total after Ireland and Zimbabwe. That number may increase after ongoing discussions with other members. Moseki said CSA was look ing at ways to organise more ODIs before the 2027 World Cup but SACA hoped addition al fixtures can also be secured before then. “It has placed CSA in a position where the officials have to go out and negotiate additional white-ball matches,” Breetzke said. “If you look at that FTP and you look at areas there, there’s a negotiation for additional matches. Rela tionships are going to be critically important as to can we enhance that FTP with white-ball Cricket.” (Cricinfo)
... Says CSA’s new T20 league will bring investment game desperately needs
“With Test cricket, it’s just iconic nations or the big cricketing nations that are contributing to Test cricket at the moment,” Smith said. “I think it’s fantastic espe cially under Virat Kohli that India really took Test cricket seriously. They lead the way with that. But as long as we’ve got competitive teams, you’re not going to have 10, 11, 12, 13 or 14 competitive teams. You might only be down to five or six nations that play Test cricket at this level.” Smith’s comments came on the back of the ICC’s new FTP, according to which South Africa play fewer Tests in the next cycle (2023-2027) than the current one (20192023) and no three-Test se ries in the 2023-2025 World Test Championship (WTC).
DAVID Warner has called on Cricket Aus tralia to approach him about overturning his lifetime ban on holding any captaincy position after he signed a twoyear deal to return to the BBL with Sydney Thunder. Warner was the most heavily punished of the three players involved in the 2018 ball-tampering incident against South Africa in Cape Townalongside Steven Smith and Cameron Bancroftwith him prevented from holding any leadership position in Australian cricket for the rest of his career.
Asked whether he thought there were any dangers to pri vate ownership, Smith said he did not see any drawbacks. “Cricket South Africa is still the major shareholder in this league. The investment into the South African game is still going to happen . It’s not people coming in and taking cricket away from the federation.“Abig part of this pri vate ownership is that these owners had to look at the grassroots programmes, de velopment programmes and how they would impact that. Hopefully we’ll see a talent pool really get stronger and stronger and benefit cricket across the board. We needed partners that were sustain able. They’re not looking to make a dollar early on, they were prepared to invest in South Africa and grow this opportunity with us. And I think the key difference for us is that the money will still flow back into the game.”
Despite that, SACA and its members (South African domestic and internation al players) will throw their weight behind the new T20 league as they recognise the pivotal role it will play in keeping South African crick et sustainable. “We support the league. The league is critical for the survival of cricket in South Africa,” Breetkze said. “We’ve got three sourc es of revenue for cricket in South Africa - broadcast rev enue, sponsorship and ICC revenue. Two of those are reducing, and because of that, we’ve got to find a source of revenue and that is the T20 league.”
Given all the promises of the new league, CSA has been willing to move other commitments aside, includ ing future Test engagements and forfeiting World Cup Super League matches in Australia next January. Smith said it was a necessary sac rifice, which was actually a lot smaller than it may seem.
Australia Test captain Pat Cummins has been a strong advocate of over turning the ban on War ner. “I don’t see why not. He’s a brilliant leader. I hope so,” he said at the recent Chappell Founda tion dinner at the SCG. Smith, who was cap tain at Newlands in 2018, was given a two-year leadership ban and last year led Australia in the second Test against En gland in Adelaide when Cummins was ruled out due to being a Covid close contact. However, regardless of whether he has cap taincy position in Aus tralian cricket again, Warner believes he can play a leadership role. “I’ve got the expe rience, I’m a leader in the side anyway without having a title,” he said. “That’s what I’m about, giving back, so if they [younger players] can pick my brains in any way, my phone is always there, they have my num ber, and they can see me when I’m at the practice facilities.” When announcing Warner’s signing, Thun der said a decision on the club’s captaincy would “be made closer to the start of the sea son” (Cricinfo)
David Warner was handed a lifetime captaincy ban for his involvement in the 2018 ball-tampering incident•CA/Cricket Australia/Getty Images
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A century from Guyanese batsman, Rampertab Ram nauth, and a half-century from Shamar Yearwood were the star performanc es of day one of the third round of matches in the West Indies Rising Stars U-19 Championship on Saturday. Playing at Arnos Vale ground, Jamaica, currently third in the standings with 21 points and Guyana fourth with 19.8 points, entered this third-round encounter seek ing to push up the standings for the first and second placed positions ahead of the final round.After Jamaica won the toss and sent Guyana into bat, the Guyanese openers got a solid start before Tonnani Caesar (19) was dismissed with the score on 49 in the 16thHowever,over. Ramnauth with 107 (170 balls, 11x4, 2x6) controlled and steadied the Guyana innings putting them in a strong position. He shared in a crucial 114 run third wicket stand with Shamar Yearwood be fore he was dismissed with the score on 195 in the 54th over. Rain interrupted play initially and action was ex tended until 6:00pm. After the tea interval the Jamaicans got two quick wickets on resumption, as Guyana slipped from 195/3 to 225/5 in the 76th over, eventually ending the day’s play on 281-6 in 89 overs The left-handed Year wood, whose unbeaten knock of 86 (194 balls, 7x4) quickly resurrected control of Guy ana’s innings sharing in a 51-run sixth wicket alliance with Alvin Mohabhir (19). The highlight of Year wood’s unbeaten knock so far was in the 78th over when he smashed four boundaries off medium-pace bowler, Justin Walters. Left-arm spinner Alex Hinds with economical figures of (25-7-53-3) was the pick of the Jamaican bowlers.
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Fury posted an expletive-laden reaction to the fight on Twitter. “It was one of the worst heavyweight ti tle fights I have ever seen,” he said. “I would annihilate both of them on the same night … the Gypsy King is here to stay forever.”
(REUTERSs) – Oleksandr Usyk threw down a challenge to Britain’s Tyson Fury on Sunday to come out of retirement and fight him for the undisputed world heavy weight boxing title. The Ukrainian made clear he was only interested in fighting Fury after outpointing Britain’s Anthony Joshua for the second time to retain the WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO belts in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. WBC champion Fury announced in April he had promised his wife he would retire but has also declared an interest in fighting Joshua.
Playing At Park Hill: A fighting half-century from Windward Islands opener, Stephan Pascal 52 (65 balls, 5x4, 2x6) and a patient in nings by middle order bat ter, Kirk Murray of 43 (132 balls,4x4), could not prevent the Windward Islands from being routed for 152 runs in 62 overs by Barbados. The Bajans, who are cur rently the competition table leaders, ended the day on 110. They did not let the regular rain intervals affect them as a complete team bowling per formance in utilizing bowling friendly conditions combined to skittle the Windward Is landsThisbatters.was reflected in the bowling figures as firstchange bowler, Jayden Rob erts (8-0-42-3) and Tariq O’neale (12-4-21-3) shared threeWhilewickets.the opening bowl er, medium-pacer Johann Layne (11-2-38-2) and leftarm spinner Nathan Sealey, with a very economical spell of (18-9-12-2) shared two wickets.Playing at Cumberland: Trinidad & Tobago entered the third round needing a strong performance to move up in the points standings. However, on the rain-in terrupted day it was second placed Leeward Islands, in a game watched by Leeward Islands Cricket Board (LICB) president and CWI Director, Enoch Lewis, which had tak en the early advantage. After winning the toss and sending Trinidad into bat, they restricted the young side to 122-5 after 62 tight overs of bowling. Trinidad opener Nick Ramlal, cur rently unbeaten in a fighting innings so far of 37 (190 balls, 2x4) epitomized the run-scoring difficulty on a truncated day’s play. He stood tall as Trinidad & Tobago initially slumped to 53-4 in the 23rd over and then played second fiddle to the more aggressive Andrew Rambarran 44 (110 balls, 6x4) in a crucial 69 run fifth wicket partnership. Afterwards, Ram barran perished to West Indies U-19 off-spinner, Onaje Amory (18-5-38-2), bowled playing back to a full pitched delivery just as the ‘heavens opened’.
Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn paid tribute to Usyk, saying he would have scored the fight 115-113 to the 35-year-old Ukrainian.“He’stoo good and there’s no shame in it,” he said. “They are both tremendous fighters,” added Hearn when asked how the cham pion would stack up against Fury. “I’m not sure anyone can beat Oleksandr Usyk. “Tyson Fury’s a clever man. He had the chance to fight him and chose not to. Will he come out of retirement? Good luck to both of them.”
West Indies men also face a hectic year in 2024 with a daunting all-format tours of Australia, followed by an equally difficult as signment of a three-Test seriesWestinPakistan.Indiesare sched uled to host India, England, South Africa, Bangladesh, Australia and Pakistan be fore the end of 2025.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC – Cricket West Indies (CWI) has welcomed the unveil ing of the men and wom en’s ICC Future Tours Programme, which will be highlighted by major home series against powerhouses India and England next year and the staging of the men’s Twenty20 World Cup in the Caribbean. The men’s side will take on India in July and August while England will tour the Caribbean for a white-ball series in December, the fix tures forming part of over 150 internationals scheduled to be played during the new 202327 FTPWestcycle.Indies Women, meanwhile, will play 66 matches during the first-ever Women’s FTP which runs from 2022-25. The eightmatch series against New Zea land Women in Antigua next month will kickstart the cycle for the Caribbean side before they turn their attention to a Tri-Nation Series in South Af rica Women involving India Women at the start of 2023.
Fury’s promoter Frank Warren said this month that the “Gypsy King” was showing “itchy feet” and was keen to get back into the “I’mring. sure that Tyson Fury is not retired yet,” the Ukrainian told the crowd through a ringside interpreter when asked about a potential clash. “I am convinced he wants to fight me. I want to fight him. And if I’m not fighting Tyson Fury, I’m not fighting at all.”
Ramnauth hits century against Jamaica in rain-affected day-one action Rising Stars U19 championship
King Abdullah Sports City Arena, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - August 20, 2022 Oleksandr Usyk celebrates winning his fight against Anthony Joshua Action (Images via Reuters/Andrew Couldridge)
Rampertab Ramnauth (left) and Shamar Yearwood had excellent outings for Guyana
“Cricket West Indies is pleased that the new men’s and women’s FTP has been agreed as it provides some certainty of our bilateral tours and matches across all formats against all other Full Member nations,” said CWI chief executive Johnny Grave. “The major highlight during the period will be our joint hosting of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in June 2024, where we will partner with the USA to deliver an event of the highest quality on and off the field. “The hosting of the Men’s T20 World Cup will help to inspire the next generation of young West Indians and re-ig nite the cricketing passion of our fans in the Caribbean and around the world, as well as provide a legacy and catalyst for growth of the sport within the HeUS.”continued: “We are also pleased that we have once again been able to se cure full windows for the Indian Premier League and Caribbean Premier League for our players as we try to find a balance between our international commitments and the significant earning opportunities for our players from domestic leagues.” CWI Director of Cricket, Jimmy Adams, applauded the inaugural women’s FTP, and said the regional board would continue to provide the resources needed by West Indies Women to excel. “The first-ever FTP put out by the ICC reflects the increased prominence of Women’s Cricket and will be an incentive for continued investment by Cricket West Indies in the women’s game,” said the former Test captain. “CWI has greatly in creased investment into the women’s game in the last few years and the aim across this upcoming FTP cycle is to increase the levels of consis tency from our women across formats, both in bilateral se ries and world events.”
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In a special brief ceremony after, Prime Minister Phillips was given an award on be half of the members and executives of GCSL, a small yet memorable token of appreciation, highlighting his efforts, support for the frater nity and just wishing him well in life. Upon accepting the award, Phillips engaged in a meet-and-greet with those in attendance, including players, organisers, media and fans. Also, participant and former skipper of Farm XI, Patrick Khan, was among the un sung heroes of the day, donating more than $500,000 to further boost the prize money for both male and female cricketers, on behalf of his business, Khan’s Trading, located in Herstelling, East Bank Demerara. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Phillips also doubled the 1st place prize money from $50,000 to$100,000 while the 2nd place purse was increased from $25,000 to $50,000.
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Prime Minister Mark Phillips and GSCL president Ian John pose with one of the trophies that will be up for grabs in the tournament. (Delano Williams photo)
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Prime Minister Phillips hails softball cricket for its continued growth, as 6th edition of T20 Cup launched
PRIME Minister Mark Phillips praised the strides made by the Guyana Softball Cricket League (GSCL) ahead of the up coming 6th Edition of the Prime Minister Cup T20 tournament, citing the compe tition as one he hopes will continue to grow from strength to strength with every coming year. The official launch of softball cricket’s premier competition took place at the Muslim Youth Organisation (MYO) ground, Woolford Avenue, where the feature address was deliv ered by the Prime Minister to officially usher in this year’s tournament. Prime Minister Phillips, during his ad dress, said he was happy to be here again and be associated with the tournament. “It is a big tournament. This is a signature event for us, this is an event people look forward to”, stated the acting President on Sunday. He noted that it’s impressive how the fraternity ensures that the tournament grows bigger and gets bigger with each edition. With more women teams involved this year, Prime Minister Phillips said he made a special request to have more women on board as it is a huge part of their development too. “We want to contribute and put our money where our mouth is. We also expect better performances from the women. This tour nament must grow as it helps to add to the tourism of Guyana”, said the Prime Minister. Meanwhile, GSCL president, Ian John, called for “discipline and rules to be fol lowed” as he thanked those ahead for ensur ing the length of the competition is incident free. John also thanked the government for its unwavering support for softball cricket. GSCL member, John Ramsingh, credited the teams onboard, the sponsors, the Prime Minister for his support and future support of the matches, as he pointed out that he wishes to attend the tournament should his travel dutiesRamsinghallow. further touched on the impor tance of having more women involved this year and the possibility of having even more women support for softball in the future.
