5th S eptember, 2022 MONDAY No.106836 PAGE 03 PAGE 09 $100PRICEVATINCLUSIVE ' PAGE 03 PAGE 03 Massive growth expected –– manufacturing sector projected to grow by 7.5 per cent; construction sector by 19 per cent, says Mid-Year Report Amerindian Affairs Minister, Pauline Sukhai City NicholasbusinessmanDeygoo-Boyer Guyana expected to earn US$1.1B in oil revenue this year All land Womenbytodemarcationstitles,besorted2024trained to take businesses to next level PAGE 02businessmanProminent flags Opposition of‘campaigndivision’
Carlotta John, owner of Children R Us Day Care and Nursery School, also spoke about how much she took away from the programme “I would’ve learnt so much. How to budget, how to market and so on. It has helped me so much and it was such a great programme,” JohnThecommented.Accelerate-Her 2.0 targeted women owners, op erators and managers to build their leadership and business skills to grow their compa nies across a wide variety of
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NINETEEN women en trepreneurs on Saturday successfully completed the Centre for Local Busi ness Development Kingston.attificates2.0gramme,entrepreneurship(CLDB)proAccelerate-HerandreceivedtheircerduringaceremonythePegasusSuitesin
Women trained to take businesses to next level
The participants display their certificates of completion of the CLBD Accelerate-Her 2.0 programme Durant Property Management Inc CEO/Manager, Tiffany Durant via social media and de cided to sign up because she thought it would be an in valuable learning experience. “It was a time in Guyana where everyone is looking for areas to grow in and I thought that this would be perfect for me. There aren’t a lot of free programmes that push you and challenge you and give you all of these free resources so that played a major factor also,” she said.
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The businesswomen who completed the programme came from across Guyana. They are involved in various business types rang ing from real estate and child care, to agro processing and transportation services. They commended the training pro gramme, saying that it has equipped them to now grow their respective businesses. “My time here at Accel erate-Her has made me think of how to push the business long term so I’m excited about that,” shared Tiffany Durant, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Manager at Durant Property Manage mentDurantInc. learnt about the Accelerate-Her programme
Young and old alike, when they stop me in the street ask me questions such as, “How can I start a business?” or “How will I benefit from the oil money,” he said. He added that President Ali looks solidly on his way to his second term with poli cies like ‘One Guyana.’ “I have noticed persons who were not traditionally PPP supporters waiving the One Guyana flag. My sym pathy goes out to those who think that ‘Apartheid’ is an appropriate response. (They should also feel ashamed for using the word so trivially, given the gravity of the word to Black South Africans). I only hope that for our country’s sake, the next generation of leaders both Government and Opposi tion learn from and build on President Ali’s One Guyana,” he said.
–– predicts sound policies on inclusion and development of President Ali will ensure his second term City NicholasbusinessmanDeygoo-Boyer
Guyana expected to earn US$1.1B in oil revenue this year
WELL-known City busi nessman Nicholas Dey goo-Boyer said the use of the term apartheid by some in Guyana will offend the victims of the apartheid system in South Africa, and predicted that President, Dr Irfaan Ali will return to office with initiatives he has introduced such as “One Guyana”. In a facebook post, Dey goo-Boyer pointed out that apartheid was a totally rep rehensible system of racial segregation, essentially lim iting the civil rights of Black South Africans in a similar fashion to Jim Crow laws of the Southern USA. This system was explicitly spelt out and legally enforced, he noted. The term apartheid was used by the Coffee 250 Cuffy Committee for a con ference titled, “Resisting the Emerging Apartheid State”. The conference has since been postponed amid wide criticism.Thebusinessman said when the masses objectively look at President Ali’s strat egy for governing, and his “One Guyana” campaign, they see someone who gen uinely wants to build bridges across the different Guyanese groups.“You see in the governing party a strategy of inclusion, setting the stage for a solid platform for the future. With the Opposition, you see old leaders who are playing to a core base, but who will not be able to win support out side of that small base. Their campaign strategy is one of division. What they will miss is the shift in the mood of the ‘man & woman-in-the-mid dle’ who no longer is interest ed in populism, but instead in their own economic interests.
GUYANA is expected to earn some US$1.1 billion in oil revenue this year with an expectation of eight lifts of profit oil for the remain der of 2022. This was revealed in the Ministry of Finance’s Midyear report for 2022 which stated that in the first half of the year, the Government received US$307 million as revenue from their share of profit oil, along with US$37.1 million in royalties. To this end, it was stated that the cumulative balance, inclusive of interest income at the end of June 2022 was US$753.3 million, following the withdrawal of US$200 million in May 2022. The report stated that the Government at the beginning of 2022 anticipated that it would have 13 lifts of profit oil from the Stabroek Block and this projection has not changed.With the price of crude oil increasing following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the report said that deposits to the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) are now projected to be 32.5 per cent higher than the US$957.6 million which was projected during the preparation of Budget 2022. “Government is now projected to earn US$1.1 bil lion as revenue from the sale of our share of profit oil, and US$147.7 million in royalties in 2022, subject to the evolu tion of world market prices,” the report said. It noted that during the period of January to June 2022, the Government had five lifts of profit oil from the two producing Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessels (FPSOs) Liza Destiny which saw three lifts, and Liza Unity with two lifts.
Opposition ‘campaign of division’
Manufacturing, construction sectors to experience massive growth
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GUYANA’S manufac turing sector is expected to grow by some 7.5 per cent in 2022, according to the Ministry of Fi nance’s Mid-Year report for 2022. The report anticipates a positive outlook after some contractions in the first half of theTheyear.report notes that during the first half of this year, the manufacturing sector is estimated to have contracted by some 11.4 per cent, while other man ufacturing declined by 4.5 per Ascent.it relates to the oth er manufacturing, it was noted that the performance for the first half of the year was largely as a result of the significant increase in prices of inputs, along with a decline in the produc tion of pharmaceutical and chemical products which include the manufacturing of medical However,oxygen.thesector is not anticipated to grow at 7.5 per Meanwhile,cent. the report noted that the services and construction sector ex panded by 7.6 per cent in the first half of the year. It was noted that the services industry started on the road to recovery last year, and continues to be supported by increased public and private sector activity in 2022.The expansion in this sector was said to be driv en by wholesale and retail trade, and the transport and storage industries which reportedly grew by 17.2 per cent and 13.6 per cent, respectively, during the first half of 2022. As such, it was dis closed that the increase in wholesale and retail trade was driven by the expan sion of the construction industry, and the demand for building Additionally,materials.thereport said that the growth in the transport and storage sector was due to the increased demand for haulage and warehousing for the oil and gas sector. These services are expected to grow by 6.3 per Further,cent. the mid-year report said that escalat ed activity in the public and private sectors led to an estimated increase in the construction sector at about 20.4 per cent for the first half of 2022. With the magnitude of activities, the construc tion sector it said is antic ipated to grow by 19 per cent in 2022.
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“This as engineers and technical staff of the DHB have completed re pair works, after an accident earlier today (Sunday) shifted the bridge out of alignment, resulting in the bridge being closed off for several hours,” the release said.
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TRAFFIC on the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) was halted following an accident early Sunday morning, but resumed hours after engineers and technical staff of the bridge sprang into action to complete needed repair works. According to a release, the team had to repair Retractor Span Nine after a passing vessel hit the edge of it and pushed it out of line, also causing breakage of the con necting end post at Spans Eight and Seven.
Accident halts traffic on Demerara Harbour Bridge
President, Dr Irfaan Ali and Minister within the Ministry of Public Works Deodat Indar on an inspection visit to the bridge on Sunday Engineers were busy at work to get the bridge back into operation (DPI Photos)
The accident also caused several buoys to burst, the release said. Hours after the accident, Public Works Minister Bishop Juan Edghill said the De merara Harbour Bridge has been reopened to vehicular traffic.
The release noted that at around 11:31 hrs, a vessel by the name of Desal 1 with two tugs, Alpha 1 and Chaka, transporting sand was travelling northbound when it hit a retractor span (the edge of Span 9) of the Demerara Harbour Bridge. The hit pushed the bridge out of alignment, causing the breakage of the connecting end post at Spans Eight and Seven; this in turn caused a transom to be warped (slight opening).
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A 42-year-old man has died after being hit by a car in the vicinity of the Blankenburg Nursery School, West Coast Demerara, on Saturday night. The Guyana Police Force in a press release said that they are investigating the hit-andrun accident that caused the death of Azaad Khan, 42, of Lot ‘S’ Blankenburg, West Coast Demerara.Initial investigations indi cated that a black Toyota Allion motorcar was proceeding along the southern side of the public road at a fast rate of speed and collided with Khan, who was walking across the roadway from north to south. As a result of the impact, the pedestrian was flung on the southern side of the road with his left leg broken off and ending up in a yard some four housesKhan’saway.body was picked up by members of the Community Policing Group and the police and transported to the West Demerara Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.OnSunday, the police say that the vehicle involved in the hit-and-run accident has been found and the driver identified as Vickey Balgobin, 28, of De Willem, West Coast Demerara. He reportedly admitted to police that he was the driver of the vehicle bearing regis tration PTT952 at the time of the accident and fled the scene because he “panicked.”
According to the fire ser vice, one water tender and crew from the Lethem Fire Station, along with additional firefighters responded to the scene and with the use of a pressurised fire hydrant, they were able to extinguish the fire and save several build ings in proximity to the su permarket.Thesupermarket was however destroyed, leaving two persons homeless and more than 10 out of jobs.
GUYANA CHRONICLE Monday, September 5, 2022 5 industries and sectors. The programme is part of the CLBD’s direct assistance to femaleThebusinesses.programme receive financial support from the Greater Guyana Initiative, which is funded by the Sta broek Block co-venturers Exxon Mobil, Hess and CNOOC.Applications for the Accelerate-Her 2.0 pro gramme were advertised in March, with the centre receiving some 130 appli cations. Of that list, 35 of the women were shortlisted for Phase One of the pro gramme, while from that number 19 were shortlisted for Phase Two. Phase One featured a three-day boot camp where the 35 participants engaged with peer and mentor con nections, brainstorming for growth, pitch develop ment and building business modelMeanwhile,canvases. in Phase Two, the 19 participants took part in a further 12week mentorship and en trepreneurship experience where they benefited from courses covering pitch de velopment and delivery, market research and sizing, digital marketing, impact measurement assessment, financial management and operations and exporting, among other skills.
Blankenburg man killed in hit-and-run accident
The ladies were also paired one on one with a volunteer mentor from the business community, including mentors from Exxon Mobil Guyana, Bak er Hughes, GTT, Matpal Marine Institute and others. The programme.successfullycommendedNatashaers,community,toheldfinednessesceremony,urday,theworkedebratedaexperienceentrepreneurshipculminatedwith“DemoDay”,whichceltheskillsthattheytorefineduringprogramme.OnSatduringtheclosingthe19busipresentedtheirrebusinesspitchandabusinessshowcasemembersofthebusinesspotentialbuyinvestorsandmentors.CLBDDirector,Dr.Gaskin-Petersthewomenoncompletingthe
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“As we bring Accel erate-Her 2.0 to a close, I must comment the 19 entrepreneurs sitting in front of me today. These ladies have elevated their business through train ing and mentorship fo cused on key gaps they were able to identify in their businesses. They have been through a very fast paced 13-week pro gramme which helped them to better define their business today and plan for growth tomorrow,” Dr. Gaskin-Peters said, adding: “As Guyana’s economy continues to grow, we will see the in creased need for more businesses in all economic sectors. These ladies have taken the first step to wards benefiting from that growth.”
Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn, Chief Fire Officer Gregory Wickham and a team of investigators visited the location to assess the damage and investigate the cause of the fire. The fire service team met with the Mayor of Lethem and the operators of the su permarket to discuss the way forward and how to prevent recurrence of such losses in the future. It was noted that the is sue of certification of build ings in the commercial area, to ensure that they are in keeping with the building codes, will be addressed. The fire service said the design of the supermarket and materials used in its construction hampered fire fighters from gaining access to the building.
Dead: Azaad Khan
The vehicle that was involved in the accident
The flattened structure (GFS photo)
An aerial view of the burnt-out supermarket (GFS photo)
Supermarket in Lethem destroyed by fire
THE China Star Su permarket located at Commercial Zone Lethem, Region Nine, was on Satur day last destroyed by fire. The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) said the fire started around 20:15hrs; firefight ers noticed smoke and flames emanating from the Thebuilding.wooden and concrete building housed two floors. It was operated as a general store and served as the living quarters of Wuumo Cheng and Wuujian Giun, a release from the GFS said.
several funding priorities which I hereby elaborate for the benefit of readers.
The Slattery report is more of a slaugh tered mish-mash of mixed-up partisan local political views and morally atrocious exter nal attitudes aimed at sowing doubt about the ability (or planting seeds of disbelief about the eligibility) of developing coun tries and people of colour, to take and make decisions about their own resources that will redound to the benefit of their peoples.
The hapless writer, on his quick hunting trip to the latest Oil Dorado, found himself snaking through plain waters searching for fish to fry that just wasn’t (and still isn’t) there, ending up like writing without ink. Fortunately, Guyanese know better that the report suggests, because, what none of the writer’s quoted sources told him was that citizens of Guyana today, -- home and abroad -- have been able to see and feel what it’s like to finally have a government that prefers to put people before party and politics and is determined to ensure the nation’s new oil wealth continues to benefit all in One Guyana – bar none.
The PNC/R is unable to disprove the loud claim that this PPP/C administration has done more for Afro-Guyanese in two years than the PNC-R did between 2015 and 2020, when Guyana’s oil and gas industry was developing and resources started flow ing in. Instead, it is this government that’s made it a duty to put in place the mecha nisms and structures, laws and regulations, rules and guidelines that have led to Guy anese of all races and walks of life having renewed confidence in the near future. It’s indeed an interesting case of the negative highlighting and underlining the positive, when the whole concern of the article was not about oil-and-gas money being stolen and ferreted out of the national treasury and the sovereign wealth fund, but about whether Guyana has minds and brains (of any race) big and bright enough to guide government’s hands safely in the handling of the volumes of money that will flow Guyana’s way between now and 2027.Obviously, the specialist writer on matters of white-collar crime in oil-and-gas industries was unable to scoop up even a spoon of related liquid or natural evidence to fuel his wide-awake effort to dream up a story to suit his tailored specialty.
Grand challenge 1. Investing in Human Capital and the Sustainable Future of Guy ana which includes the following priorities: creating scholarships, especially for students in need and partnerships with international academic, research and innovative centres; contributing to the rapid increase and up grade of UG faculty in obtaining terminal degrees and post-doctoral fellowships, as well as post-graduate studies at UG; funding endowed chairs and professorships to attract high-profile researchers and professionals to enhance UG’s reputation; and establishing an omnibus endowment fund.
People Before Party And Politics
UGF welcomed partnership with Demerara Distillers Limited
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University of Guyana Foundation Inc. (UGF) was launched on February 8, 2022, several articles were distributed by the University of Guyana Publicity and Communications Division and were carried in the media, including in your newspaper. These have fully detailed the aims and activities of the UGF whose website www.ugfoundationinc.com establishes the foundation’s mission to raise funds and develop partnerships in support of the University of Guyana’s strategic plan, (UG Blue Print 2040). Following intensive discussions with in a highly dedicated board and groups of distinguished associates in USA, UK and Canada, UGF agreed on major fund-raising activities based on four Grand Challenges, each accompanied by
Grand Challenge 2: Creating a “Green” UG for a Green Guyana and a Sustainable Global Environment with priorities that include developing sustain able housing for students on all campuses; creating safe spaces, walkways and side walks and beautifying/landscaping the Turkeyen campus as well as UG’s other campuses.Grand Challenge 3: Modernising essential systems and services. This in cludes preserving Guyana’s special col lection housed at UG’s library; upgrading UG’s student facilities on all campuses; creating dedicated sports facilities, in cluding a modern sports complex Grand Challenge 4: Accelerating inno vative centres of excellence and research institutes with emphasis on developing an institute for the empowerment of women; a creative arts centre and a performing arts to enhance Guyana’s cultural enter prise by promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.Anomnibus endowment fund has attracted a series of programmes and projects supported by a cross- section of alumni and friends, and corporate spon sors globally. To celebrate UG’s 60th anniversary, 2023-2024 the Office of Vice Chancellor Paloma Mohamed-Martin, has planned approximately 60 activities involving numerous partners in Guyana and in the diaspora. In this context, UGF welcomed the partnership with Demerara Distillers Limited for a specially blended rum. This important gift was conceptual ised and developed by a master distiller and two associates, all graduates of UG, a tribute to their alma mater. It is the foundation ’s hope that alumni, friends and others will join the UGF in its efforts to sustain UG as a vi able national university, and a critical enabler of Guyana’s development.Yourssincerely,EdwardGreene Chair University of FoundationGuyanaInc
Clearly intent on writing an article to suit a predetermined headline, the writer sidestepped everything this PPP/C admin istration, led by President, Dr Irfaan Ali has done, in just two years, to reverse the cor rupt trends that have, over time and under successive PNC-led administrations, given rise to the continuing ridiculous claim that Guyana will always be the same, no matter which party is in office.
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AS if once is never enough, another international news correspondent has come to Guyana with clear prior intent to give capital and credence to a prede termined headline. First it was the salacious Vice News that virtuously but unsuccessfully tried to imply that Vice- President Bharrat Jagdeo was either on the take or up for the taking. Now, a Reuters correspondent, flashing credentials claiming to be a specialist in sniffing out corruption in South America, is suggesting that Guyana might not have what it takes to manage the oil money that’s already flowing into the coffers of the world’s fastest-growing oil-producing nation. Reuters published an article online on August 25, 2022, headed: Oil Money Is Flooding Into Guyana – Who Will Ben efit? written by Glam Slattery, a Massa chusetts-born, Harvard graduate based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and described as “a correspondent specialising in the oil and gas industry, as well as white-collar crime andAscorruption.”ifonatrip to find the bricks and mortar to build the article already in and on his mind, the writer’s report drew expected quotes from selected sources to give new credence to the old and worn-out claim that the politics of race will prevent any Guyana Government from handling the nation’s new wealth in ways that will benefit all Guyanese.Employing a condescending claim that resource-rich Guyana does not have the capacity to manage its resources for lack of expertise, the writer paints a sorry picture of a nation where government takes care of only its supporters through highly selective application of the principle of equitable distribution of resources.
Perspective: Stabroek News’ editorial gives a blind eye to the current work and inherited challenges of GuySuCo
·In September 2020, we are advised that the corporation found two functional tillage tractors at these four shuttered estates when the records will reveal that over 18 were left on these estates when the APNU+AFC ad ministration came into power. In September 2020, over 150 cane punts were found rotting at Skeldon from lack of use when all of these punts were fabricated under the PPP/C government to support the sugar industry. We have been reliably in formed that the corporation has been able to repair and recover some 80 of them since then and they are now actively in use at Albion and Blairmont.Thesocio-economic implosion that occurred across the sugar belt when approx imately 7,000 workers were sent packing by the APNU+AFC administration. The most important fact remains the callous disregard for the human beings at the micro level and the urgency of the need in September 2020 to get these human beings back to a life of pro ductivity and in work. Since then, some 1,200 former sugar workers were offered jobs at all of the estates with the biggest group gaining employment at the Rose Hall Estate. ·When the PPP/C administration took office in August 2020, the objective of all the sugar stakeholders was not to put chains on the gates at these four estates, but to in vest in the life of the ordinary man, so as to convert a human tragedy created under the APNU+AFC, into a human development opportunity. An ILO report revealed that immediately after the closure of these estates that the suicide rate increased by 100 per cent at both Rose Hall and Skeldon (Study of the Socio-Economic Impact of the Closure of GuySuCo sugar estates on sugar workers in Guyana – January 2021). GuySuCo’s current reality is that it employs some 7,477 persons and funds the pension benefits of an additional 7,000 pensioners. The corporation in its quest to reduce costs cannot divorce itself from this reality and while every effort is being made to rationalise its workforce, since August 2020, every single one of these beneficiaries of the corporation has had their benefits being met on time. For the first time in years, GuySuCo is now up to date with its NIS contributions.
IT is appreciated in the world of jour nalism that an editorial is essentially an opinion piece which attempts to influence policy. That is a newspaper’s right as the Fourth Estate. However, with rights comes the respon sibility to impart a balanced opinion. The Stabroek News editorial of September 3, 2022 captioned “GuySuCo – a ward of the state,” fell short of what a true editorial should be with respect to a balanced position. It is a fact that since September 2020 to June 2022, the National Budget has allocated some G$20.1 Billion to the sugar industry which comprises both the GuySuCo-owned and managed grinding estates at Albion, Blairmont and Uitvlugt and the NICILowned, non-grinding estates at Skeldon, Rose Hall and Enmore (vested estates). The empirical evidence shows that Skeldon, Rose Hall, Wales and Enmore Estates were vested and transferred in 2017 to NICIL by way of Vesting Order No. 45 of 2017 signed by the then Hon Minister of Finance Mr Winston Jordan on the 29th of December 2017. If it can be recalled, the Wales, Rose Hall, Enmore and Skeldon estates were closed between 2016 and 2018. In September 2020, when the current Ex ecutive Management of GuySuCo examined the stock of standing canes, it found that some 30 per cent of the fields were left in bushes by the previous team under the previous AP NU+AFC government. To compound that situation, it was also found that in September 2020, there was a deficit in the tillage fleet on the grinding estates totalling 27 machines. Any sugar expert will advise that GuySuCo as per practice should have been ploughing 20 per cent of the land every year. But this was not done since 2016 and we were advised that this situation can only be remedied if the tillage is accelerated. But it takes functioning tillage machines to prepare the land and what the new team found in September 2020 was an inadequate and old stock of machines that were out of service more often than not.
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This situation was further complicated when the 2021 national flood occurred, caus ing a mortality rate at Albion computed at 30 per cent of the standing canes. The fact re mains even today that since the APNU+AFC administration closed four fully functional estates, Albion was saddled with the produc tion responsibility of producing 50 per cent of the sugar. The direct impact of this flooding significantly reduced the stock of standing cane and production at all three of the re maining grinding estates. Every cane cutter is aware that sugar is not made from “panicum maximum” (guinea grass), but actual standing sugar cane stalks. What is also a fact is that since September 2020, G$8.6 Billion of this G$20.1 Billion was allocated to the financing of the projects associated with the vested estates owned by NICIL. Included in that is some G$0.98 Bil lion allocated to cover the payment of over 3,000 pensioners left with no sure source of fi nancing as a result of the 2017 Vesting Order. Upon assuming office in August 2020, one of the first acts of the incoming government was to release funds to meet the pension ob ligations of the thousands of retirees at these shuttered estates. While it appears that the Stabroek News is attempting to chronicle events which it asserts contributed to the current status of GuySuCo, that newspaper failed to take the following into account:Thefailure of the past APNU+AFC ad ministration to professionally de-commission fully functional estates following the highest of agricultural, mechanical and engineering standards between 2016 and 2018 which resulted in billions of dollars in lost stateowned assets at Wales, Rose Hall, Skeldon and Enmore.Thepast APNU+AFC administration under the former Minister of Agriculture Noel Holder and his team oversaw the shaving of G$80 Billion of assets from the books of GuySuCo and returned only G$17 Billion in cash by way of the “Sugar Bond” from a prominent bank.
Why does the Stabroek News assume that the corporation has not conducted meticulous strategic planning with the objective of chart ing a course for the industry to return to a state of viability? The facts will reveal that the cor poration does have a Five-Year Strategic Plan that is actively being implemented to recover from a situation where sugar estates were shuttered and no meaningful investments were being made. For example, in 2019 only G$0.076 billion (only G$76 million) was invested by the corporation in capital equipment as a result of lack of funding. Since September 2020, an average of G$4.1 billion in capital equipment was plugged into the industry to push this Strategic Plan forward. When last was the vitally needed cane punts fabricated in the industry? In 2022, over 100 were fabricated and commissioned on the waters at the Albion and Blairmont Estates.
Why does Stabroek News assume that the sugar stakeholders are not actively pur suing public-private partnerships to bring down the cost of production and ramp up its production? This is actively being pursued at Uitvlugt and from a newspaper advertisement, some 25 per cent of the land is being re-posi tioned for productive use by the private sector in sugar cultivation. In closing, the challenge in the sugar industry is real. This can be highlighted by a report from Stockholm Environment Institute which stated that climate change will “dra matically impact agricultural production all around the globe,” and will reduce crop yields in certain areas. In their report, the researchers con cluded that “global sugar cane yields could fall 59 per cent in the last three decades to 2100, compared to yields in the period 1980-2010.”
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“When we think about agriculture, we see it as a labour-intensive job for older folks. Now, with the tech nological advances in the sector, younger people are expressing an interest and coming on board. Here is your opportunity to integrate your youth groups into the project so that they too can understand the importance of agriculture to our country’s and the region’s development and growth,” he said.
Help for Plaisance Seventh-Day Adventist Church to develop agri programme
Also present at the meeting were MoA’s Di rector-General, Madan lall Ramraj; CEO (ag) of GLDA, Dr Dwight Wal dron; CEO of NAREI, Jag narine Singh; MoA’s Chief Technical Officer, George Jervis; the Chief Fisher ies Officer, Denzil Rob erts; New GMC’s Senior Marketing Officer, Asraf Narine; and other officials from the GLDA and NA REI, the release said.
A section of the land to be developed
Alison Wilson-Hetsberg er, one of the church’s direc tors, said given the emphasis being placed on developing Guyana’s agricultural sector and the government’s call for organisations to get involved, the leadership decided to utilise some of the lands it had available to develop an agricultural“Plaisanceprogramme.would’ve an swered the call of the Pres ident and the Minister ( of Agriculture) to get involved in agriculture. We planned a project and began the process of putting together a proposal to commence our shadehouse project. We’ve already com menced part of the process and received assistance in the form of virtual training from NAREI. We also partnered with the UNDP to get this project going. We are happy that the minister is here and look forward to partnering with the ministry to get this project going,” she explained. After assessing the avail able land space, Minister Mustapha told the members present that teams from the ministry will be returning to the site during the week to see what is needed and develop a plan of action to move the process forward.
Minister Zulfikar Mustapha with Agriculture Ministry officials and members of the Plaisance Seventh-Day Adventist Church Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha
AGRICULTURE Minister Zulfikar Mustapha on Sun day visited the Plaisance Seventh-Day Adventist Church to discuss develop ing the church’s agricultur al programme. According to a release, members of the church’s leadership recently met with Minister Mustapha at his office seeking the ministry’s guidance in developing a section of their compound for agricultural purposes. During the engagement, Minister Mustapha told the members that he was elated to know that organisations were taking the initiative to get involved in agriculture. He further stated that when religious and other private and public organisations get involved in agriculture, Guy ana will be able to play its part in ensuring regional food security.“Iwant to commend the members for taking this step. You’ve shown interest in developing an initiative that is new in many organisa tions. When we speak about agriculture, many persons only relate those activities to persons in the fields or the farming communities, but if we can have persons emulating what is being done here, then Guyana can remain food-secure. Even taking it further, with these efforts, we can move closer to achieving Vision 25 by 2025,” he ex plained.The release noted that Minister Mustapha encour aged the membership to in clude the youth arm of the church in the project.
–– Minister Mustapha calls on more organisations to get involved in agriculture
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All land titles, demarcations to be sorted by 2024 ––SukhaiMinistersays
Amerindian Affairs Minister Pauline Sukhai of existing and alterna tive mechanisms to resolve land-titling disputes; and a communication strate gy, including a handbook describing the process of titling, demarcation, and socio-economic impact of secured land tenure.
CHALLENGED with a backlog, the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs is working to distribute all land titles and demarca tions by 2024, subject min ister Pauline Sukhai has said. Minister Sukhai, on the sidelines of an event on Fri day told the Guyana Chron icle that the government had envisaged that some 36 land titles and 68 demarcations would have been remaining when they assumed office in 2020. However, that was not the case. “When we left office, our programme envisaged that we would have about 36 or so titles to be addressed, and 68 demarcations,” she said, adding: “We came back, and we arrived at almost zero level, where we have to pick up from where we left off.” The government, she said, is working to clear the backlog, and have all titles and demarcations completed within the next two-and-ahalf“Weyears.are working on it to ensure that we complete it in the next two-and-a-half years from now. At the end of 2024, we expect that all the demarcations should be completed, and the titling, mainly extensions to vil lage,” she told this publi cation.During this period, the ministry will be able to con duct investigations and con sultations to deliver titles, she Further,added. she said: “It’s a work in progress. We were able to negotiate the exten sion for two years, so, over that two years, we have quite a lot to do. It’s like picking up from 2015, and trying to complete what we should have done in 2017; so we are wayInback.”July of this year, two absolute grants and five cer tificates of title were handed over to the leaders of several Amerindian villages. In 2013, the PPP/C gov ernment signed off on the implementation of the $2.2 billion (US$11M) Amerindi an Land Titling and Demar cation project, which was later concluded in 2016. The functioning unit of the project was disbanded by the previous administration, but was later restored when the President Irfaan Ali-led government made good on its promise to resuscitate the project, with a proposed 2021 budgetary allocation of $630Anmillion.additional $561.6 million was allocated in Budget 2022 to achieve a target of 20 certificates of title. The ALT project has three primary goals: Completion of land-title issues and demarcation process for all Indigenous villages that submitted requests; increased use
The public consultation also comes after the IDB, in 2019, launched a review of its Access to Information policy and ap proved a Policy Profile that was submitted for public consultation. Based on the out come of that consultation, and following recommendations from the IDB’s Policy Evaluation Committee, the bank presented a new policy proposal to the Board of Ex
IT is back to school this week for many children across Guyana, and they will be smartly turned out in their clean, neat ly-ironed uniforms (at least on their way to school) and haversacks. Parents will advise them on what to do and how to behave, and the children, once they meet with friends, will be excited and forget - on occasions, it is adults who forget, and young children are stranded at school or get lost trying to make their way home Many teething problems occur as parents and children settle into routines during the new school term. It is a busy time for everyone, but adults must not overlook the fundamental place that matters most to children – their home. The principles of behaviour are created in the home along with children ’s physical, emotional and psychological development. Whatever they take into a classroom stems from what goes on at home. Therefore, homes should be peaceful, comfortable and as secure as possible, ensuring children have a safety hub when needed. If someone bullies a child or makes im moral advances, steals their money, or they see something traumatic, there should be someone at home they can rely upon to talk to, someone who will listen without judge ment and offer guidance or advice. So many things happen to children daily that parents do not know about and would undoubtedly react to if the child informed them.
The public consultation will consist of three phases, details of which will be shared through the Public Consultation Process Portal. The IDB is inviting all in terested parties to participate in the process and offer feedback about how the bank can improve its Access to Information Policy. To engage with the widest possible audience, the IDB will carry out a virtual consultation session open to receive inputs for a wide range of organisations, as well as multiple real time meetings with civil society organisations working on trans parency, open government and access to information related issues to receive tech nical comments, the release noted.
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The best homes have a structured routine that children know and can rely on – this makes children feel secure and able to plan. They know when it is time for bed and what they should do at home—for example, keep ing their personal space tidy, helping with household chores, taking out the garbage, cleaning up any mess they make, etc. When adults and children make household rules together, adults can explain why specific rules exist, and children can ask questions if necessary. If parents agree to the rules and break them, they set a poor example in their household. Adults must consistently follow through with promises , commitments and disciplinary measures they have put in place for children.Itisunpleasant when youngsters live in a disharmonious home, where they feel constantly burdened with adult problems or emotional conflict. Parents should never make children choose between them or take sides in an argument. Responsible grown-ups create a home of joy, comfort, safety, support and fun for their children - sharing positive, uplifting, optimistic experiences for the future suc cess of their offspring. If you are concerned about the welfare of a child call the CPA hotline on 227 0979 or write to us at childcaregy@gmail.com CARE AND PROTECTION AGENCY, MINISTRY OF HUMAN SERVICES AND SOCIAL SECURITY
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The new policy proposal aims to max imise access to information by adopting clearer language, reducing exceptions to disclosure policies, facilitating procedures, and making it easier and more efficient for people to ask questions and get answers.
The ability for children to make and sus tain quality relationships begins in the home environment - this is where children should observe positive adult role models who treat each other with respect, love and apprecia tion. If the adults are divided and carry around negative emotions due to their problems, they will affect their children’s well-being, and the home will not be happy. Instead of being a sanctuary that children want to run to, it will be a place that feels sad and hollow. Some homes have the latest modern conveniences; flat screen television, nice furniture, immaculate flooring and well-kept front and back yard, yet the place feels unwel coming and ‘empty’. There is no love, joy or comfort in the home. The children who live there may not realise what is wrong. They strive and grow in an environment void of warmth and nurturing. They will not miss what they do not have during childhood - but may find it difficult to be warm and nurturing as adultsMany children grow into adults searching for experiences and knowledge denied them, though not intentionally, in childhood. Most young women and girls, who grow up in a home without a father figure, are unsure how to relate to a man or what they seek from the same.They have missed out on the bonding and rearing necessary from their first male role model (their father). They run around craving something, unsure of what it is, and end up victims of physical abuse, taken advantage of, or with children they never planned. Yet they don’t know what is missing and why they are still unfulfilled. Only some adults, who take the time to look within (introspect), can trace the child hood discrepancies to their family life. Most children belong to a family and live in a home. The home environment helps shape the future adult- how the adult thinks, needs and desires, integrity, determination and attitude. Why do some men walk around ready for an argument? They tend to be in a constant state of dissatisfaction. They can liaise with others and get things done when need be, but if a person says one thing out of place, they are ready to attack at the slightest provoca tion - as if they are carrying around some childhood pain they must release. People who walk away from an argument without cussing, swearing or needing to make a point, where did they learn their contentment? Some man nerisms are hereditary, but children acquire behaviours primarily from adults at home. An adage says, ’home is where the heart is, but for many children, ‘home is where the hurt is. Instead of their homes being a refuge of sacred comfort, it is a place where they are consistently abused, mistreated, and disre spected. Their only reprieve is when they are out of their homes, away from the people who are meant to be creating positive childhood memories – but lacking dismally in their role.
Interested individuals and institutions can register online to receive updates and participate in the public consultation process. They can also submit feedback via email and visit the following web page for more information: access-information-policy-update.www.iadb.org/en/access-information/https://
ecutive Directors in April 2022.
A MESSAGE FROM THE CHILD
No place like home
THE Board of Directors of the In ter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved the launch of a public consultation process to obtain robust feedback from all interested parties about its proposal to adopt a new Access to Information policy, which aims to in crease transparency, enhance corporate governance and improve accountability.
The public consultation comes as the IDB, whose transparency standards already rank among the highest of any international financial institution, aims to increase trans parency and trust not just at the bank, but also across the whole of Latin America and the AsCaribbean.IDBresearch shows, trust and trans parency are vital to economic development and the IDB aims to lead the region by example, showing that the bank itself is committed to adhering to the highest stan dards of transparency and accountability, a release said.
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By Cassandra Khan
BLACK cake is a Guyanese delicacy not many can resist. Saralise Ming, the owner of Noodle Cake Creations, on September 2 launched the CM Black Cake, her flagship product. The Guyanese baker related that in 2012, she took a chance and started a custom cake business, which she named Noodle Cake Creations.“Noodle, because it was strange enough to make it memorable, and Cake Creations because that’s exactly what it was; creative cakes,” Saralise said. The year prior, she had graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in New York with a Masters of Business Ad ministration (MBA) in Marketing and New Product Development, and, four years before that, a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from the University of Guyana. Saralise related that while it wasn’t an obvious career choice, she did come from a family of bakers. “My maternal grandmother baked as a single parent to support her four children. Mom was her assistant, and she later taught me. I grew up around cake decorating mag azines and icing tools,” she said. Saralise related that her family friend had asked her to do a wedding cake after her original cake vendor suddenly cancelled. Saralise’s friend later put in an order for three birthday cakes after realising she had made a wedding cake. “Another family friend expressed frustra tion over how difficult it was to find someone who made the more modern style cakes. There was an opportunity, and it was coming at me,” she said. The day-to-day operations had started in her parents Saralisekitchen.reflected on when her father would come home for lunch and watch her bake. Her father, Colin Ming, had realised that she was serious about her cake business, and so he pitched the idea of perfecting her mother’s black cake, since he thought it could be a “world class product”. Her mother had fully supported the vi sion, and even told Saralise that the black cake was a gift from her because she was sure she would make it something amazing and “take it places”. The first part of her journey was learning the fruit ratios. “At the end of 2012, and under the guid ance of mom, I set my very batch of boozy fruit mix. This mix eventually became what we’ve been calling the ‘Mother Mix’. Some was used for cake; some was mixed with new fruit to facilitate the curing process. New fruit is always added to old fruit to keep the aging process going. The alcohol keeps it nicely cured,” she explained to this publication.Saralise’s fruit has been in rotation from then to present, for almost a decade, which, according to her, is what makes it so special. She said that the fruit blending aspect was the easy part. Her black cake is unlike any other, she said before relating that the mixing and baking techniques were com pletely“Evenunique.with a recipe and mom’s guidance, it took a while to first learn her version and then to figure out the tweaks. As the orders came in, I was working on it,” Saralise said. Around May each year, her father would travel to play golf with his buddies in Myr tle Beach, where he would usually take her mother’s black cake. In 2019, Saralise was allowed to bake the black cake for the trip, and after, her father called her and said someone wanted to speak with her. “We exchanged our greetings and a bit of small talk. Then, he said, ‘but I was asking to speak with your mother, where is she?’ I could hear Dad in the background saying, ‘No; you asked to speak with the baker, and I gave you the right person.’ The next thing I heard was, ‘Did you really bake that cake? I wanted to talk to your mom to tell her that this one is the best one that we’ve ever had over all these years.’” She related that her father had come back to the phone and said, “Well, I wanted you to know. You did it. You have a world-class product.”Sheadded: “From there we started dis cussing packaging ideas, but as the pandemic hit in early 2020, our work paused. Then, in early 2021, my dear dad suddenly passed. His last slice of our black cake was still in the fridge waiting for him to finish.” She expressed that the journey had be come harder, knowing that he was no longer there with her, and she thought about scrap ping the project.
“One thing about dad, though, he didn’t like quitting. He wouldn’t have wanted me to quit. So, I took all the memories of the con versations we would have had over the years and pulled them together,” Saralise said. “What we have here is exactly as he described it to be. The packaging needed to be a sturdy material to support the weight of the cake; it needed to represent luxury, finesse and class. The cake needed to be rectangular in shape to facilitate easy sym metrical cutting. The almond paste needed to be generous, just because he liked it so,” she told this Saralisepublication.saidthebranding was done in his honour, because he was popularly known as CM, and the style of the font was inspired by hisThesignature.cakeisa representation of a father and daughter’s love, and is a product of the time they spent together. It is available at her store, located at Lot 12 Light Street. She can also be contacted on 685-6122.“Sincethis is an artisan product, it’s recommended that orders be placed in advance, especially as we get closer to the holiday season. It takes time to handcraft each cake through the baking, curing and packaging process. Also, at any given time, there’s only a specific amount of fruit mix which can be extracted for use. This is not a mass-produced item. For this reason, it’s be ing priced at US$100 [approximately G$20, 000],” she Saralisesaid.added: “In keeping with
CM Black Cake, a dream realised Saralise Ming dad’s devotion to the sporting commu nity, I’m giving back to the Guyana Squash Association. For every black cake sold retail for the 2022 black cake season, US$5 [approximately G$1,000] will be donated. Dad would have been over the moon proud of the performance of the athletes in the recent international tournaments.He would definitely be supporting them, and I’ll honour that for him.” Additionally, she said that, unofficially, customers have been travelling with black cakes in their suitcases for quite some time now, and recently, one customer took six of them to Canada. “It only makes sense that getting the official CM Black Cake on the interna tional market would be the next step,” she related.
WAPOR is proving of great use in ensuring that agricultural water resources are managed sustainably (FAO photo)
The additional fund ing of $4.95 million, an nounced at World Water Week in Stockholm, will al low for a global expansion of the database and the addition of two new partner-countries in Asia and Latin America. “This portal is proving of great use in ensuring that agricultural water resources are managed sustainably.
patterns for agricultural pro duction and can help ensure that this precious resource, especially irrigation water, is best“Waterharnessed.isthe key enabler of the transition towards sustainable food systems and improved water governance is needed,” said Kitty van der Heijden, Director-General In ternational Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. That’s the reason we are keen to invest in knowledge and open data. We notice that the WaPOR has impact; it is increasingly used by both public and pri vate sectors. “Making WaPOR glob ally accessible is a very wel come opportunity and will bring enhanced informa tion, including on trends in vegetation growth and wa ter stress, to more farmers in developing countries,” said Jippe Hoogeveen, team leader for FAO’s WaPOR project.WHAT ofallowreliableersmationelliteWaPORDOESWAPORprocessessatdatatoprovideinforthatcanhelpfarmachievehigher,moreagriculturalyields,fortheoptimisationirrigationsystems.
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The portal presently of fers data that, at the coarser resolution, covers Africa and the Middle East.
The FAO has developed and used data and informa tion presented in a portal, known as WaPOR – Water Productivity through Open Access of Remotely sensed derived data – to provide near real-time data that can be used for a range of appli cations in agriculture and wa ter-resources management.
Sustainable water management: Groundbreaking digital tool gets global boost
Already in high demand, scaling it up to a global level is a challenge we are eager to lead,” said Lifeng Li, Direc tor of FAO’s Land and Water Division.Asseen through the historical drought in many Asian and European coun tries this year, sustainable water use is a key component of achieving food security, especially with increasingly frequent extreme climate conditions and increased water scarcity. Earth obser vation technologies allow for a variety of uses including the monitoring of water use
AN innovative water-man agement tool will expand to become available around the world, thanks to a con tribution from the For eign Affairs Ministry of the Netherlands to the Food and Agriculture Organisa tion of the United Nations (FAO).
Globally, agriculture ac counts for 72 per cent of all fresh water withdrawn from rivers, aquifers, and lakes; therefore, it is a major water user. In attempting to find the best way to use this limited resource in a global context of water scarcity and erratic weather events, focusing solutions on agriculture is a winning course of action. Fostering a technological tool with near real-time informa tion, a digital public good to enhance water productivi ty, is an increasing impera tive and being implemented with pastoralist communities in Burkina Faso and Mali and soon in AmongIraq. other data, WaPOR provides evapo transpiration data, relating to a key phase in the natural wa ter cycle consisting of water that directly evaporates into the atmosphere and water that returns to the atmosphere after moving through a plant and emerging as vapor exud ed byThisfoliage.metric offers an ac curate assessment of how much water a crop consumes during any given period, such as a growing season. When related to the biomass and harvestable crop yield, it offers a way to measure the water productivity, which is a measure of output in relation to water used as input, and of specific crops in specific places. The tool produces maps – which show biomass and its yield per cu bic meter of water. In short, water productivity is offered at scales as fine as 30-meter grids, which is updated every one to 10 days, with data queries going as far back as 2009.WaPOR is applicable in a variety of contexts such as in the assessment of irriga tion performance of a sugar cane estate in Mozambique; the assessment of water re sources in the Nile River basin (in a water accounting process); the monitoring of conflict impact on agricultur al areas in Syria. Currently, WaPOR data is being used in Mali and Burkina Faso, in combination with local data, to assist transhumant herders in assessing animal feed pro duction. In 2020 WaPOR was presented during the In ternational Conference “Artificial Intelligence (AI), Food for All”, where it was showcased as concrete example of using artifi cial intelligence to support decision makers in fac ing the global agri-envi ronmental challenges and to help farmers produce more nutritious food with less water. At this year’s World Water Forum held in Dakar, Senegal, WaPOR was recognised as a Dakar 2022 Initiative project, rec ognising its real economic, social and environmental values and the positive im pacts on the lives of popula tions. (FAO)
The WaPOR project, cen tred on the database, works closely with 10 partner-coun tries to help build their ca pacity to use the data for op timising water management and policy needs.
A FFTP official (centre) and some of those who will be receiving new homes in the coming months
Visually impaired man among 10 to receive houses from Food For The Poor
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PAST President of the Disabled Person Net work, Mark Archibald, a 55-year-old resident of Re gion Five, and nine others will soon receive the keys to homes that are being built for them by Food for the Poor (FFTP) Guyana Inc. Following the announce ment, an elated Archibald thanked the organisation for selecting him. He said that he was unable to construct his own home as he could not afford it. Officials from the FFTP’s General Housing Programme, in the presence of the beneficiaries, signed the contracts for the con struction of the houses in its conference room on August 30. The beneficiaries live in Region Two and Region Five. Each beneficiary will re ceive a 20ft by 16ft wooden two-bedroom house con
FFTP’s Senior Project Manager, Andrea Benjamin and Project Associate, Orin Nelson, recently visited the beneficiaries and conducted a needs assessment. Benjamin told the Guy ana Chronicle that the proj ect is part of the organisa tion’s aims and objectives and vision of restoring dig nity, eradicating poverty, building sustainable and resilient communities and making families happier and more comfortable across Guyana. Nelson, during the visits, spoke to the beneficiaries and their families about good hygiene, use of the sanitary facility and caring for the new structure. During the construction period, the beneficiaries will be required to participate in Parental Skills, Anger Management, Self-care, Do mestic Violence and Child Abuse workshops. These sessions will be facilitated by Child Link Guyana. Those selected are legal citizens of Guyana, have dependents under the age of 16 and are living in a low standard building/envi ronment.Meanwhile, Nadira Seecharan, a mother of four, also expressed gratitude to FFTP for selecting her and for ensuring that her chil dren will be comfortably housed.
taining a modern flush toilet facility for those in Region Five and an outdoor modern flush toilet facility for those in Region Two. The homes will also be furnished with four metal folding chairs, one plastic folding table, two small beds with mattresses (cots), one two-burner tabletop gas stove and one solar panel. Additionally, a rain har vesting component will be installed at no cost to the beneficiaries.
“This really makes me happy to know that come Christmas, my family and I will be housed in a new home,” Seecharan said.
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JOURNALISTS were on Saturday sensitised on the rights of persons with disability, access, inclusion and sensitive terminology at a work shop at the Pegasus Hotel held by the FoundationInternationalofElectoral Systems (IFES) Guyana, through the USAID-sup ported Youth ALLIES programme. The workshop was seen as important, given that media professionals play a unique role in shaping the public image of persons with disabilities, and can contribute towards a more inclusive and equal society, through the dissemination of information and knowl edge, and influencing pub lic opinion and attitudes.
Some of the media workers participating in a diversity activity during the IFES Disability Rights Workshop (Elvin Croker photo)
“We had really good feedback, and I’m really glad. It was an engaging session, and I hope that the journalists who were pre sent would make use of this information and continue to do their great work on inclusion in Guyana.”
Journalists sensitised on covering issues on disability
During the session, journalists were apprised on data on disability, Con vention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD), the laws and poli cies in Guyana related to the rights of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs), and the importance of the sen sitive terminology used to refer to persons with dis abilities.“The terminology we use in reference to dis ability is very important, because this is how we represent disability in our media, and it is very im portant for journalists to understand the accepted terminology, which refers to terminology that is ac cepted by the people with disability themselves. Ter minologies that celebrate their diversity, identify them and give them the recognition they require,” Daskon explained. She underscored that disability is an ever evolv ing term that is often re vised as more information is available on the various disabilities affecting per sons, so there is need for continuous updating of the media on their under standing of persons with disabilities.Alsomaking remarks at the event was IFES Coun try Manager Meredith Ap plegate. She was heartened by the turnout of media representatives at the event. “We were very pleased to see an excellent group of journalists and editors come for the training today, and have fruitful discus sions about how we can all be more sensitive towards the words we use when we talk about disability and how we see it in the me dia,” she said. She added: “IFES Guy ana is really excited to be working with a number of journalists and rights based reporting, especially when it comes to how we talk about and discuss disability and inclusion in a respect ful way that recognises the CRPD.” The countries.grammesandworkedSinceemergingstakeholderselectionssistance1987organisationternational,SystemsFoundationInternationalforElectoral(IFES)isaninnon-profitfoundedinthatprovidesasandsupportforandelectoralinnewanddemocracies.1987,IFEShasin145countriescurrentlyhasproinmorethan50
“These refreshers are very important to have, so that we understand what is going on with various groups, and see how we can better report and em power ourselves. I thought it was a well-organised session; very short,” Presi dent of the Guyana Press Association (GPA) Nazima
Deputy Country Director of IFES Sri Lanka Lasanthi Daskon Raghubir said. The two-hour session was facilitated by Dep uty Country Director of IFES Sri Lanka, Lasanthi Daskon, and featured a presentation by Programme Coordinator of the Guy ana Society for the Blind GaneshDaskonSingh.said the session was very productive.
MINISTER in the Office of the Prime Minister with Responsibility for Public Affairs Kwame McCoy, and Tourism, Industry and Commerce Minister Oneidge Walrond, and Counsel General Michael Brotherson addressing Folk Festival 2022 in Brooklyn, New York. The event was organised by the Guyana Cultural Association of New York Inc. under the theme, “CAR IFESTA@50 - Reflection & Legacies”. During the visit, the ministers also met and inter acted with New York State Senator Roxanne Persaud (a Guyanese), and Advisor on Diaspora Affairs Joe Yusuf.
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SEVERAL of the more than 100 women who re cently completed life skills courses that were organ ised by Humanitarian Mis sion are encouraging other women to sign up for the training so that they can become a better version of themselves. A participant from New Amsterdam said that her three months of “cake class” was enjoyable because of the teachers and the other women by which she was surrounded. She said that when she first started the course, she had no idea how to ice a cake or cup cake, or even make pastries, but now she can continue practising at home and soon enough, she will be able to open her own business and have an income. The partici pant said that she was grateful for the Anothercourse.participant from that class is from Lancaster village. She said that she would encourage other wom en to join the classes that are available because it has helped her to elevate herself and it can elevate others as well. She said that the cake class is not expensive and it does provide a better future She said she is now go ing into an advanced class and urges women to join the basic class, so they too can be in the advanced class laterEleimaon. Ramdial, who completed a makeup course, said it was very affordable. “I would like to encour age other women to come and participate in the differ ent courses here. It’s very affordable and the admin istration and the teachers are very kind. My makeup teacher, she’s a very kind, caring and talented teacher,” she Thesaid.participant thanked the founder, Suresh Sugrim, for the Theopportunity.Humanitarian Mis sion Inc. (H.M .I) Guyana came into being in August 2005. The non-governmen tal organisation (NGO) is situated in Babu Jaan in Ankerville , Port Mourant, East thanmarkableH.M.Ioverthroughandof2015,commissionedTheBerbice-Corentyne.trainingcentrewasonAugust9,withthesolepurposeeducating,empoweringelevatingindividualslifeskillseducation.AccordingtoSugrim,thepastsevenyears,hasbeenmakingreinroadsasmore4,000peoplehaveben efitted from different types of skills training, with many becoming entrepreneurs in their communities and others becoming more marketable and earning more to support theirHavingfamilies.seen what their peers were able to achieve,
Humanitarian Mission training courses
A scene from the ‘cake class’ Cake décor done by some students more people had been flocking to the H.M.I headquarters to sign up for vocational classes. Some of the classes offered are electrical repairs or instal lation, electronics, food prepa ration, cake decoration and sewing at both the basic and advanced levels, information technology, cosmetology, and food handling, among others. Classes are being offered at a minimal cost which cov ers the expense of materials used and provides a stipend for the facilitator or lecturer. “Moreover, the or ganisation partners with other NGOs and govern ment agencies regularly in hosting health outreaches. There are programmes that involve food ham pers distribution to persons with disabilities, [who are] bedridden and shut -ins; provide counselling, and host workshops that aim to combat social ills,” Sugrim said.
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Starc has become the quick est to 200 off-spinnerbenchmarkeclipsinginternationalone-daywickets,a23-yearsetbySaqlain Mushtaq. In his 102nd ODI on Saturday in Townsville, Starc dismissed Ryan Burl when he spooned at catch to Cameron Green at mid-off to reach 200 scalps in two fewer matches than the Paki stani great (104). The 32-year-old’s latest feat only adds to the case for him to be considered the greatest white-ball bowler Aus tralia has ever had, reach ing the double-century in fewer matches than Brett Lee (who took 112 ODIs), Shane Warne (125), Mitchell Johnson (129) and Glenn McGrath (133).Of those Australians, only McGrath (22.02) has a better ODI bowling average than Starc (22.30 after the wicket of Burl) while none has a better strike-rate than his 26.20. Back in 2016, Starc was also the quickest ever to 100 ODI wickets (after 52 matches), although that mark was bettered in 2018 when Afghanistan spinner Rashid incredibly got there in eight fewer matchesThe left-arm quick has spent over 12 months stuck in the 190s such is the lack of ODI cricket he has played of late. After putting him self within five wickets of 200 with a dominant 11-wicket ODI campaign against the West Indies in July 2021, he looked set to steam past the figure against Sri Lanka in June thisHowever,year. a freak inju ry, in which Starc sliced the tip of his left index finger on his bowling spikes in the preceding T20 campaign, meant he did not play a single match of the five-game series.In an interview with cricket.com.au just pri or to that series, Starc was reminded of how close he was to the record and explained that prior experience has taught him he was better off not knowing“The last time we were talking about this I think I had had to get like a certain number of wickets in a couple games in the West Indies,” Starc said, referring to him ar riving in the Caribbean for a 2016 tri-series when he was 10 shy of 100 scalps.“Ijust didn’t want to think about it. “I remember Josh (Hazlewood) and Beaks (team physio David Beakley) were on my back about it for a few games in a row. Once I was past 100, I was like ‘All right, we don’t have to talk about it any more’.”Onindividual hon ours, he remained philo sophical.“It’salways something that’s nice to look back on when you’re done. “I like to think that I’ve probably got a few more wickets left in me hopefully.“I’venever been about the personal stuff. It’d certainly be probably something to reflect on afterStarccricket.”has said that one-day cricket was where he first felt at home at the highest level He made his interna tional debut in the 50over format back in 2010 and went on to play in 11 ODIs before his first T20I, all of which took place well before he was a regular in the Test arena. The longer white-ball format perfectly suits Starc’s unique blend of fast, full in-swingers with the new ball and ability to shift the old er ball the other way at the death, particularly from around the wicket to right-handers.Hewasintegral to Australia’s 2015 home World Cup triumph, where two of his most memorable career perfor mances came; his stun ning six-wicket haul in a tense defeat at Eden Park and then his famous opening-over wicket of Brendon McCullum in the final at the MCG He then broke Mc Grath’s record for the most wickets at a men’s World Cup when he took 27 scalps at the 2019 tournament, leading the Aussies to a semi-final berth.“It certainly started out as my best format,” Starc“It’ssaid.obviously where I first got a chance in the Australian group and then probably grew from there with a few more responsibilities over the first period of my whiteball career, bowling at the death and then obviously the World Cups in recent times.“So it was probably my most consistent for mat for a long time. “It was probably the first format that I felt like I belonged. It took me a lot longer in Test cricket to feel comfort able or like I belonged in Test cricket with the stop-start (nature of his early Test (Cricket.com.au)career).
Nadal maintains perfect record over Gasquet Nadal is making his first appearance at the US Open since winning the title in 2019, but had to come back from a set down in both his first and second-round matches. It was an entirely differ ent story on Saturday as he wrapped up the first set in 42 minutes, saving five break points along the way. After the opening set ba gel, a scoreline that suggests dominance but that did not actually reflect the true tale, Gasquet finally got his first game on the board with the clock reading one hour and 10 minutes; raising his hands in almost celebration as Ashe jumped to its feet. He was soon brought back down to earth, however, with a Nadal love hold from which the 22-time Grand Slam cham pion easily saw out the set. In the third, former semi-finalist Gasquet launched somewhat of a resurgence, responding to an early Nadal break with one of his own and then not allowing his opponent a sniff of another break point. That was until what proved to be Gasquet's final service game of the match, though Na dal needed four break points to get it over the line. He went on to clinch the match with his 34th consecutive set win against the Frenchman.
MAX Verstappen’s serene march to a second title con tinued with a comfortable victory in an eventful Dutch Grand Prix. The Red Bull driver had to pass Lewis Hamilton’s Mer cedes after a late safety-car period to take his 10th win in 15 races this year to extend his lead to 109 Hamiltonpoints.was left fum ing after Mercedes failed to change his tyres during the cautionThatperiod.left him vulnera ble and allowed team-mate George Russell and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc to pass him after the restart to take the other podium places. Hamilton, who briefly had slim hopes of a victory with about 20 laps to go, saw them evaporate in a situation re markably similar to the way in which he lost his eighth world title in Abu Dhabi last year. He managed to hang on to fourth ahead of Red Bull’s Sergio Perez, Fernando Alon so’s Alpine and Lando Norris’ McLaren. Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz finished fifth on the road but was demoted to eighth after a five-second penalty for an unsafe pit stop release. Verstappen had been cruis ing to victory until a couple of caution periods in the final part of the Hamiltonrace.and Russell had moved past Leclerc using what was planned to be a onestop strategy rather than the two used by Verstappen and Ferrari.Verstappen would have had to pass both Mercedes af ter his second stop but he was saved needing to by a bizarre sequence of events involving Yuki Tsunoda, driving for Red Bull’s sister Alpha Tauri team. Tsunoda stopped on track after a pit stop saying a wheel was not on, but was told by the team that it was and to con tinue. He pitted, only to stop on track and force a virtual safetyVerstappencar. used the VSC to pull in for his second stop and switched on to the hard tyre for what he expected to be the remainder of the race. Mercedes, who had al ready made what they expect ed to be their only stop at that point, took the opportunity of the VSC to stop again and fit mediumWhentyres.the VSC period ended, Hamilton began clos ing in on Verstappen, reduc ing his lead from 15.4secs to 10.7secs in six laps. But then with 16 laps to go there was a safety car when the engine in Valtteri Bottas’ Alfa Romeo failed and he stopped on the pit straight. Verstappen pitted again for soft tyres, putting him behind both Mercedes but on better tyres, and then a lap later, as the field was directed through the pits, Russell made the call to do the same, while Mer cedes did not change Hamil ton’sThatmediums.leftVerstappen right behind Hamilton for the restart on much grippier tyres, and he swept around the Mercedes at the first corner after the restart to take back control of the race.Hamilton swore on the radio to his team, saying he could not believe how much they had messed him up, as first Russell and then Leclerc passed him and deprived him of the podium place it ap peared he had earlier locked away.Verstappen’s second home win in as many years since Zandvoort returned to the cal endar last year sent a capacity crowd of 105,000 wild, on a weekend that was effectively a festival devoted to worship ping a national hero. “We had to push the whole race,” said Verstappen. “Of course with the virtual safety car, making the right calls is always a bit of a question mark but it worked out really well once we got back to the soft tyres. We had great pace again.“I had a good run in the restart [after the full safety car period], we had a bit more top speed and that helps to attack into Turn One and from there onwards we had really good balance in the car again. “It’s always special to win your home grand prix, this year I had to work for it even more. An incredible weekend.” (BBC Sport)
Max Verstappen took his 10th win in 15 races this year to extend his lead to 109 points (Photo: F1)
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GUYANA Football Federation (GFF) pres ident Wayne Forde has met Minister of Cul ture, Youth and Sport Charles Ramson Jr. to present the federation’s 2021 audited financ es and to thank him for providing financial support for the recent ly-concluded annual FIFA referee training course. The government min istry partnered with the GFF and offered finan cial support to offset the costsfor this annual FIFA capacity building course, which was held at the GFF National Training Centre in August, as well as the GFF’s ongo ing referee development work and recruitment drive.“The Government of Guyana (GOG) is com mitted to continuous in vestment in the future of all sports,including football, and that must include the capacity building and upskilling of match officials,whoplay a vital role on the field of play,” Minister Ramson said. At the same meeting between the GFF and the Ministry last week, the GFF president Forde handed overthe GFF’s audited finances for 2021 to Minister Ramson. The audited finances are available for public ourhowouresshareregulations.tionsfinancesindependentlywasusesensibleuments,publishingsations,nationalandgreaterofsaid.resultsandansports,intoments/ball.org/financial-statehttps://www.guyanafootviewing“TheGFFcontinuessetaleadingexamplegoodgovernanceinbyhavingitsfinancesauditedbyindependentauditorthenpublishingtheforalltosee,”MinisterRamson“TheGovernmentGuyanawantstoseeresponsibilityaccountabilityfromsportsorganibothintermsoffinancialdocbutalsointheandtransparentoffunding.”FordesaidtheGFFrequiredtopublishauditedaspartofitscomplianceobligaunderFIFAfunding“Weareobligedtoourauditedfinancpublicly,sothatallstakeholderscanseewemanageandinvestfunding,”Fordesaid.
Verstappen wins Dutch GP to extend title lead
Nadal will play Tiafoe for a third time in the fourth round, after the crowd favou rite delighted the home fans again by beating 14th seed Diego Schwartzman 7-6 (9-7) 6-4 "Tiafoe6-4. is a great player, he is very charismatic, very fast, so I need to keep improv ing, keep playing better and better to have chances to go through," said Nadal. "Hopefully a victory like today helps me to grow. I'm happy to be in the fourth round and I hope to give myself a good chance to keep going.
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United’s £82m new boy Antony scored on his debut and Marcus Rashford got two as Erik ten Hag’s men ended Arsenal’s 100% start to the season at Old Trafford. The Brazilian opened the scoring 10 minutes before half-time in the pulsating duel, sweeping a shot into the far corner.Rashford claimed the assist for that and then, after Bukayo Saka had levelled on the hour, the England striker profit ed from two clinical United counter-attacks.BrunoFernandes was at the heart of both, splitting the Arsenal defence for Rashford’s first, then sending Christian Eriksen clear as the Dane pro vided the striker with a tap-in. It was Rashford’s first Pre mier League double since De cember 2020, helping lift them to fifth in the table. Arsenal remain top. How ever, after their excellent start to the season, manager Mikel Arteta will be concerned at how easily his side were opened up, although the Gun ners did have a first-half Ga briel Martinelli goal ruled out by VAR.Arteta said: “The game was there for the taking. We haven’t won it because we lacked some discipline in some moments and we weren’t ruth less enough in front of goal. “If we play with more courage we win the game. It is a big lesson - if you want to win here you have to do every thing so Havingright.”failed to prise Ant ony out of Ajax at the start of the summer and with the attempt to sign Ten Hag’s first choice transfer window target Frenkie de Jong stalling, Unit ed went back for the Brazilian in the wake of those awful de feats to Brighton and Brentford at the start of the season. Evidently, United were not in a strong bargaining position and the eventual price - the fourth highest sum ever paid by a Premier League club - is accepted by most to be signifi cantlyYetinflated.itisimpossible to quantify financially how a positive attitude transfers to supporters.Itwasclear, with his tricks and flicks and teasing of de fenders, the 24-year-old is not short on confidence.
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Colin Munro (16) showed he had the muscle to end things in a hurry, launching a six and two fours, but could not match it with durability and holed out with 53 still Theneeded.Originals kicked their innings of 9-120 off with a hapless powerplay; a couple of quick-fire boundaries from Salt proving a red herring as they me andered towards a score of 3-23.
United have now won two of their last eight Premier League games against Arsenal, having drawn three and lost four
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RAFAEL Nadal continued his quest for a third Grand Slam title of 2022 with vic tory over Richard Gasquet to reach the fourth round of the US Open. Spain's Nadal, a four-time winner in New York, pre vailed 6-0 6-1 7-5 in his 18th win over the Frenchman. The 36-year-old won the Australian and French Opens earlier this year before injury saw him withdraw before his Wimbledon semi-final. He will face American Frances Tiafoe for a place in the quarter-finals.EarlieronSaturday, Na dal's compatriot and world number four Carlos Alcaraz marched into the last 16 with an impressive straight-set victory over American hope JensonAlcaraz,Brooksby.who reached the quarter-finals on his Flushing Meadows debut in 2021, won 6-3 6-3 6-3 on Arthur Ashe Stadium.Ninth seed Andrey Ru blev came through a final-set tie-break against Denis Shapovalov to set up a fourthround meeting with Britain's CameronRublevNorrie.won 6-4 2-6 6-7 (3-7) 6-4 7-6 (10-7) in a fourhour epic, while Norrie earlier beat Danish teenager Holger Rune in straight sets.
Perth Scorchers captain Ashton Turner (26) and Tristan Stubbs (18) began to make a fist ofTheirit 35-run stand was just beginning to find its legs when the canny Samit Patel (3-23) swiped them. He found himself on a hattrick when Stubbs top-edged across the line before picking up Paul Walter for a golden duck. He was unable to make it three in three but circled back for Turner, whose fluent knock was cut short courtesy of a slog sweep that came up short. (PA Sport)
The Rockets' Sam Cook, who claimed 4-18, was the pick of the bowlers in helpful conditions. With a modest target on the board, a place in England's T20 World Cup squad waiting to be filled following Jonny Bairstow's injury and Phil Salt failing to seize his moment in the first innings, the stage had earlier seemed set for an Alex HalesOnespecial.trademark 'Hales storm' would have cranked up the vol ume around the end of his threeyear stint in the international wilderness, but he was unable to obligeHemustered nothing more emphatic than a run-a-ball eight before the tournament's leading run-scorer, Dawid Malan, as sumed responsibility. On the occasion of his 35th birthday, he seemed intent on making it a double celebration but was out for 19.
Anthony scores as Man United end Arsenal’s winning run
TRENT Rockets captain Lewis Gregory has snatched victory from the jaws of defeat with a match-winning cameo against Manchester Originals, sealing a tense men's Hundred final in dramatic fashion. On a slug gish, low-scoring Lord's pitch that allowed ball to dominate bat in a manner that would have had the England and Wales Cricket Board's market ing department in a cold sweat, Gregory conjured a box office finish for the showcase. Chasing what had looked a slender target of 121, Gregory faced up with the score at 8-110 and needing 11 to win from the final set of five from Richard Gleeson.Helaunched the first of those riotously over mid-wicket for six - just the fourth maximum of the day, in a format designed to encourage big hitters - before flicking the subsequent full toss for four to effectively settle matters in the Nottingham side's favour.Gregory lashed the next ball through the covers before leaping into the air, sealing a two-wicket win with two balls to spareIna match that saw a top score of 26 and included 74 dot balls, his 17 not out from six deliveries was a game-changer when the pressure was peaking.
David de Gea acrobatically denied Martinelli as well, so Arsenal did have the oppor tunities to make more of their dominance of possession. Odegaard and Xhaka were excellent in midfield and it is clear they have a more consis tent goal threat with Jesus in their side. However, immediately after this month’s interna tional break, the Gunners have a five-match sequence that includes home games against Tottenham, Liver pool and Manchester City. After these, far more will be known about this Arsenal
Trent Rockets celebrate with trophy after beating Manchester Originals in Lord’s on
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Referee Paul Tierney, who played an excellent advantage for the Brazilian’s goal after Bruno Fernandes had been fouled in the build-up, had to warn him about his celebration in front of the Arsenal fans with the ball up his shirt. Not long after that, Antony was upended from behind by Granit Xhaka. Had he con nected with his immediate response, trying to slice Xha ka down from behind, the response from Tierney would almost certainly have been more than a ticking off. The United fans loved it all. And while he lasted less than an hour before being re placed by Cristiano Ronaldo, Antony was afforded a stand ing ovation as he left the field. However Antony’s time at Old Trafford works out, it isn’t likely to be Althoughdulthey failed in their attempt to start the season with six wins in a row for the first time since 1947, it wasn’t a completely disastrous day for Arsenal.Inthe current climate, Martin Odegaard bundling Eriksen over to win possession and start the move that led to Martinelli finding the net was always going to see the goal ruledHowever,out. Arteta spent a long time debating with fourth official Simon Hooper about Lisandro Martinez’s penalty box lunge on Saka, where he did touch the man and not the ball.Arsenal should have equal ised when Gabriel Jesus got the better of Martinez and set up Odegaard but neither the Norwegian, nor Saka as Arsenal continued to press could find the target when well placed to do much better.
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In the fifth game, Zhang was forced to save two break points herself before break ing in the eighth, with Gauff throwing in regular double faults.But it was from that point that Gauff started to assert control. After Zhang missed a set point, the American reeled off four straight games, sav ing a break point along the way.On facing Garcia next, Gauff said: “She’s obviously been playing really good tennis, I’ve been playing well too so I think it’s going to be a great match.
Today’s Quiz: (1) Which two teams first contested a CPL final? (2) Who were the captains involved?
Mushfiqur Rahim has scored 1,500 T20I runs at an average of 19.48
Coco Gauff beats Zhang Shuai to reach last eight in US Open
Coco Gauff has yet to drop a set in this year’s US Open WBC heavyweight cham pion Tyson Fury says he will announce his next op ponent next week - but confirmed it will not be Oleksandr Usyk. Fury, 34, said he was retiring from boxing after beating Dillian Whyte in April.Ukrainian Usyk retained the WBO, IBF and WBA (Super) titles with victory over Anthony Joshua last month. Both have spoken of fighting each other in 2023 but Fury says he will be fighting someone else soon.
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Answers to yesterday’s quiz: (1) Andre Russell-16 sixes (Jamaica Tallawahs) (2) Umar Akmal-8 (3 catches/5 stumpings – Tridents)
Answers in tomorrow’s issue COCO Gauff reached her maiden US Open quar ter-final with a straight-set victory over China’s Zhang Shuai. The American 12th seed, competing at her home Grand Slam, won 7-5 7-5 on Arthur AsheGauff,Stadium.who is yet to drop a set at Flushing Meadows this year, will play France’s 17th seed Caroline Garcia in the next round. “It feels insane,” said the 18-year-old. “Ashe Stadium chanting my name, I was trying not to myitythree-setter.allyPrime,Speakingsmile.”toAmazonshesaid:“Itwasrephysical,itfeltlikea“Ireallythinkmymentalhelpedmetoday.“I’msohappy,beinginhomeSlamandfinally
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“All of a sudden Olek sandr Usyk has stated he does not want to fight any more - he wants to fight next year not this year,” the undefeated Briton said. “I am not going to wait around for anybody and I will be announcing a fight nextFuryweek.”was speaking at a news conference following an appearance at WWE’s ‘Clash at the Castle’ in Car diff.He had earlier appeared in the ring and floored Aus tin Theory - then closed WWE’s first UK stadium event for 30 years with a rendition of the song Amer icanHePie.also said he would “definitely be open to” joining WWE full-time in the future, but added: “At the moment I am a heavy weight world champion and I have lots of fights I have to take care of in the next few years.” On Friday Usyk, 35, told the BBC of the pro spective Fury unification fight: “It won’t happen this year, that’s for sure. I’m totally healthy and don’t have any injuries, but I have old traumas which have resurfaced, and which need to be treated. I will need up to two months to recuperate. (BBC Sport)
Tyson Fury to announce opponent next week - but it won’t be Usyk
BANGLADESH wicket keeper-batter Mushfiqur Rahim has announced his Twenty20 International retirement. The 35-year-old has called time on his T20I ca reer in order to “focus on Test and ODI formats of the game”.An Asia Cup defeat to Sri Lanka on Thursday will be Mushfiqur’s 102nd and final appearance for his country in the shortest format.He tweeted on Sunday: “Today, I am announcing my retirement from T20 Internationals.“Iwillproudly continue to represent Bangladesh in Test and ODI formats. I am hopeful that I can bring success for our nation in these two formats. I will continue to take part in Ban gladesh Premier League (BPL) and other franchise tournaments.”Mushfiqur’s decision comes just over a month before the T20 World Cup gets under way in Australia. He has scored 1,500 T20I runs at an average of 19.48, taking 42 catch es and finishing with 30 stumpings after making his debut back in November 2006.
getting to a quarter-final. This tournament has always been special for me, growing up watching it. I’m just so excited to continue to play and experience this atmo sphere.”Like Gauff, this is the fur thest Garcia has progressed in New York, after she com fortably dispatched American Alison Riske-Amritraj 6-4 6-1.It is only the second time Garcia - now unbeaten in her past 10 singles matches - has reached the last eight at a Grand Slam, previously do ing so on the clay of Roland Garros in Facing2017.Zhang for the sec ond time, having beaten her in Miami earlier this year, Gauff conceded the break in her first service game, but broke back immediately to cancel out her opponent’s advantage. The pair again exchanged breaks later in the opening set, with Gauff again breaking Zhang’s serve in the penul timate game before serving out the set. As the rain started to fall in the Bronx and the stadium roof was closed, Gauff made a nervy start to the second set, staring down the barrel of break point before recovering to avert the danger.
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Bangladesh wicketkeeperbatter Mushfiqur Rahim announces T20I retirement
Tyson Fury said he had retired after beating Dillian Whyte at Wembley in April but still holds the WBC belt
“No matter what, win or lose, I know I’m going to give it my all.”(BBC Sport)
Mohammad Rizwan top-scored
Kyle Mayers peels away in celebrating after bowling Johnson Charles. (Photo courtesy Getty/CPL)
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A half-hour rain break at 10 for four after four overs saw Kings set a revised tar get of 103 from nine overs, and captain Faf du Plessis smashed a 20-ball unbeaten 47 and Alzarri Joseph, an 18-ball unbeaten 29, to make the finish more exciting than previously anticipated as the last year’s losing finalists ended on 91 for Man-of-the-Matchfour. May ers had earlier top-scored with 36 from 23 balls while opening partner Rahkeem Cornwall belted a 17-ball 32 as Royals romped to 162 for seven after they were sent in.
David Miller arrived to hit two sixes in an unbeaten 24 from 15 balls in a 34-run, seventh wicket stand with Jason Holder (15) to give Royals late ac celeration.Mayers then hurt Kings as early as the first over, removing Johnson Charles’s middle stump for four before having Mark Deyal skying to square leg without scoring. The 29-year-old Mayers followed up with another two wickets in his second over, bowling Roston Chase (2) with a full length deliv ery and then getting Roston Primus (0) to drill to cover. With the innings in shambles at the rain break, Kings took real aim at the revised target afterwards, du Plessis lashing two fours and four sixes and Joseph, a couple of fours and sixes, but the effort fell short of what was required.
for Pakistan yet again in the side’s close win Pakistan down India in another last-over thriller Mayers fireworks keep St Lucia Kings winless
ANN’s Grove were de served winners on Satur day when the 2022 Edition of the ExxonMobil U-14 Schools Football tourna ment continued at the Min istry of Education ground. The eventual winners opened the scoring early with Shaquan David netting in the 2nd minute before Antwan Payne’s 14th minute goal doubled the lead. Selwyn Fraser put the game 3-0 in favour of Ann’s Grove and it seemed done andHowever,dusted. the Cummings Lodge team had other plans.
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BASSETERRE, St Kitts, (CMC) – All-rounder Kyle Mayers played two vital roles before rain inter vened to create a tense finish as Barbados Royals kept St Lucia Kings win less with a 11-run victory under is-SternDuckworth-LewhereSunday.
Chasing 162 at Warner Park, Kings plunged to sev en for four in the third over, Mayers blowing away the top order with his brisk me dium pace to finish with excellent figures of four for four from his two overs.
MOHAMMAD Rizwan’s half-century (71 off 51) and Mohammad Nawaz’s inspired promotion (42 off 20) helped Pakistan notch up the sec ond-highest run-chase (182) in the UAE and beat India by five wickets in Dubai. It was yet another last-over thriller between the teams, who had met at this very venue only last Sunday. India had come out on top then and it was Pakistan’s turn to return the favour a week later.A story of nervous last overs Earlier in the evening, Fakhar Zaman misfielded twice in the 20th over and allowed India an extra seven runs on the board. Luckily for Pakistan, India were no better when it came to handling pressure in the crux overs and let the match slip. Arshdeep Singh, dropped Asif Ali’s simple catch at short third man. Then on nought, Asif scored 16 off 8. How Nawaz stunned India Through sheer muscle pow er and nous, cleverly using the left-hander’s angle to explore the shorter boundaries on the ground. Coming in to bat at No.4, Nawaz hit 6 fours and 2 sixes and helped all but changed the course of the game. It meant that India couldn’t really build on their legspinners getting rid of Babar Azam and Fakhar Azam early. In fact for Nawaz, the two legspinners in the opposition played to his (Scores):Indiastrengths.181/7 in 20 overs (Kohli 60; Shadab 2-31, Nawaz 1-25) lost to Pakistan 182/5 in 19.1 overs (Rizwan 71, Nawaz 42; Bishnoi 1-26, Arsh deep 1-27) by five wicket Nawaz and Rizwan, limping after a jarred knee while keeping, added 73 runs for the third wick et, taking India by surprise but as it’s the case more often than not with Pakistan, they got to the target after a bit of a wobble. The Pakistan wobble Once Rizwan was sent back, Bishnoi followed up with an eight-run over, leaving Pakistan with 26 to get from two overs. Bhuvneshwar conceded 19 runs in the penulti mate over, with Asif Ali doing majority of the damage to rub salt in India’s wounds. Arshdeep, bowling the final over and under pressure, got a yorker right against Asif but in the end was left with too much to do on a very good pitch for batting.Indiamade the most of their PowerPlay“There’s pace on the deliv eries and no respect for them.” This from Waqar Younis on air summed up what was happening in the middle in those first six overs. Sent in to bat, India were off to a fast start thanks to Rohit Sharma, who took on Naseem Shah in the opening four and set the template for India. KL Rahul took a little more time with a run-a-ball five before he got going, hitting the ball on the up and stroking some glorious fours and sixes down the ground. Even though Rohit fell in the final over of the PowerPlay, miscuing a slower delivery from Haris Rauf, India had already added fifty off the board in 26 balls and finished with 62/1 in the first six, their best ever Pow erPlay score in T20Is against Pakistan.Spinners pave a way back for PakistanConsider this: Pakistan’s three pacers picked 3 for 121 whereas the two spinners had combined figures of 3 for 56. India were 46/0 after four overs when left-arm spinner Mohammad Nawaz was called on to bowl in the PowerPlay. And he fared well, conceding only nine runs and bowling the most economical over of the innings until then. Shadab, the legspinner, struck with his first delivery of the match, getting Rahul to hole out at long-on in the seventh over. The two spinners bowled in tandem and only 31 runs came off the next four overs, slowing down India in theirKohlitracks.scores fifty but India limited to 181 With India taking on the high-risk approach, Kohli played the anchor’s innings for most of his time out there. He, however, got to his second consecutive fifty with a six and then was tasked with finishing India’s innings, something that he struggled a little with. After three dots in the final over, be ing bowled by Haris Rauf, he was run out trying to run the second. (Cricbuzz.com)
The left-hander Mayers struck half-dozen fours and a six while Cornwall thumped five fours and a six, the pair posting 49 from 29 deliver ies for the first wicket. Mayers added a further 27 for the second wicket with Azam Khan (10) who put on 28 for the third wicket with South African Quinton de Kock (24) before Royals lost four wickets for 18 runs in 20Captainballs.
Two goals in the space of five minutes -- one from Nicholas Watts (40th) and another from Keshawn Dan iels (45th) -- saw a comeback brooding from in the wings. However, it was not to be as Ann’s Grove held their slender margin until the final whistle.Inthe other semi-final, Charlestown beat West Rui mveldt 4-2 thanks to a brace from Malcolm Hendricks (14th and 38th) and single strikes from Colwin Kissoon (10th) and Jerimiah David (40th) while Donavan Wel come (43rd and 46th) scored West’s two goals. In the girls’ semi-final, it was East Ruimveldt that beat New Campbellville 4-0 thanks to a hat -trick from Azaria Wilson (7th, 21st and 30th) and Antwana Williams 39th minute strike. The other semi-final was a needling effort from Charlestown who got past New Central High School thanks to Aquenna Griffith (48th). The tournament is be ing organised by the Petra Organisation with support from the Ministry of Edu cation and Pepsi. action in the ExxonMobil U-14 schools football tournament
Ann’s Grove, West Ruimveldt to clash in ExxonMobil U-14 final
GFF president Wayne Forde (right) presents audited finances to Hon. Minister Charles Ramson Jr.
Ann’s Grove, West Ruimveldt to clash in ExxonMobil U-14 final
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A captain’s knock from Deandra Dottin and bowl ing brilliance from Anisa Mohammed steered the Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) to a 10-run victory over Barbados Royals to see them crowned champi ons of the inaugural Massy Women’s Caribbean Pre mier League (WCPL). After losing the toss and being asked to bat, it was the Knight Riders’ captain Dottin who shone, scoring the maiden half-century in WCPL history and helping her team to a defendable first innings score of 100/7. Hayley Matthews was the pick of the Royals’ bowl ers, taking three wickets in the 19th over to finish with 3/22 including the key wicket of Dottin.Inresponse, Aaliyah Al leyne and Britney Cooper went early in the chase, while Matthews dug in and looked to be the key to leading her team home. But wickets fell around her, and when she went for 46, the run-chase was all-but done. With just the tail to clean up, Knight Riders had the momentum and it was only fitting that Anisa Mohammed should take the final wicket and finish the game with 3/16 as her side cleaned up the Royals for 90.
Reggae Girlz put up good fight in 1-0 defeat
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Trinbago Knight Riders celebrate their inaugural Massy WCPL title
SEOUL, South Korea, (CMC) – Jamaica’s Reggae Girlz improved after the break before going down to a 1-0 defeat against South Korea on Saturday as they gear up for next year’s Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zea land. Choe Yu-ri, 27, scored the only goal of the game in the 13th minute at the Hwaseong Sports Complex Stadium to decide the first of two friend lies against the Donaldson,needarewenotthefirstSchneider,GoalkeeperJamaicans.SydneywhomadeherstartsinceFebruary,toldJamaicaGleaner:“Itwastheresultwewanted,butputupagoodfight.Weworkingonthingsthatwetoworkon.”InterimheadcoachLornewhoseteamwill face the higher-ranked South Koreans again on Tuesday, said it was important to see how they reacted to a dif ferent style of play, which caused them difficulties in adjusting.“Playing the Koreans, we are not used to playing this style of football. We want to get used to it.,” Donaldson told the “WeGleaner.don’tknow in the World Cup draw who we are going to play. So we want to at least have a look at it. But we are here to get some good competition in and get some good evaluation, and that is what we are doing. And we are not going to change that,” Donaldson said. “I think in the first half we were very tentative. We gave up a goal which we shouldn’t have. We gave up the ball in the midfield and we got and“SecondDonaldsonpunished.”continued:half,wecameoutitwasamuchbetter(performance).Wemighthavescoredbutthat’sfootball.“Butwewillmakesomeadjustments.Winningisgoodbutsometimesjustevaluatingandseeingwhatyouhave,thatiswhatweareherefor,playinggoodcompetition.”
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The starting line-up in cluded familiar faces from the team that helped Ja maica qualify for back-toback Women’s World Cups last July, but also saw En gland-born Siobhan Wilson make her international de but in the centre of defence, alongside Allyson Swaby.
Siobhan Wilson … made her international debut for Jamaica
With their male counterparts watching on and the eyes of the world on the game, it was a mas sive moment for the Trinbago Knight Riders and for women’s cricket after a ground-breaking tournament.Whenthe Knight Riders were put into bat, it wasn’t the explosive start they might have hoped for and just as the bound aries began to flow, Kirby was dismissedDottincheaply.andSune Luus be gan to accelerate before Luus’ South African team-mate, Chloe Tryon, who hadn’t yet bowled in the tournament, dismissed her national captain to put the Royals in the driver’s seat with the Knight Riders 43/2. In true Deandra Dottin style, the World Boss was the lynchpin of the innings, playing shots to all parts and bringing up her half-century from just 54 balls. Bragging rights went to her counterpart Matthews who removed her for 59 off 62, in an over that also claimed the wickets of Kyshona Knight and Jannillea Glasgow. The Royals’ openers came out of the traps flying, reaching 14 from the first two overs but when Alleyne fell for 7 and Cooper soon after without scoring the chase looked more tricky.When Tryon was stumped just as the rebuild was on, the game was in the balance and all hopes rode on Matthews with the Royals Wickets36/3.continued to tum ble and the key moment came with 13 needed off 12 as Mat thews couldn’t clear Glasgow at mid-wicket. She went for 46 leaving her team needing 12 from 10. It was too much for the tailenders facing the bowling of Anisa Mohammed, who cleaned up the tail sending Mandy Man gru’s bails flying. The Knight Riders, who lost the final of the inaugural SKYEXCH 6IXTY against the Barbados Royals, now have their payback. It was a phenomenal team perfor mance led brilliantly by the power-hitting and elite display of batting from Deandra Dot tin and a fitting finale for an incredible inaugural Massy Women’s CPL.
