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U.S. senator - CIA interrogation tactics helped get bin Laden (Reuters) - Republicans on the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee will soon release a report asserting the CIA’s use of harsh interrogation techniques helped bring down Osama bin Laden and disrupt terrorist plots, the panel’s top Republican said yesterday. “Information gleaned from these interrogations was in fact used to interrupt and disrupt terrorist plots, including some information that took down bin Laden,” Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Democrats who control the Senate Intelligence Committee are expected to issue their own report that alleges the CIA techniques, such as “waterboarding,” did not help yield valuable intelligence and were not necessary. The two reports will come five years after the committee authorized a probe into the CIA’s possible use of torture
Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) (L) and Vice Chairman Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) listen during the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on the House-passed Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act reform bill while on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 5, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Larry Downing after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
It is unclear when the Democrats’ report will be
Ukrainian army steps up attacks on rebel-held Donetsk (Reuters) - Pro-Russian separatists battled yesterday to keep advancing Ukrainian government forces at bay in heavy fighting on the outskirts of Donetsk, the rebels’ main stronghold in eastern Ukraine. Shelling by Ukrainian troops, some of them in sunflower fields outside the large industrial city, killed six people over the weekend, city officials said, as well as setting buildings ablaze and leaving shell craters in roads. The army has all but encircled the other main rebel redoubt of Luhansk, where three civilians were killed in the latest fighting, and is trying to tighten the noose around Donetsk. Fighting has intensified since the downing of a Malaysian airliner in rebelheld territory on July 17 and, with each side blaming the other for the deaths of the 298 crew and passengers, relations between Russia and the West are deteriorating rapidly. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to persuade the rebels to end the conflict and to ensure they do not hinder international experts trying to recover human remains from the plane’s wreckage. “It is an unspeakable abomination that, two weeks after this crash, there are still bodies on the crash site unrecovered and the Russians have not used their influence with the separatists,” Hammond told
the Sunday Telegraph newspaper. “I said last week that there is one man who can snap his fingers and make this happen and he hasn’t done so. He must now do so,” Hammond said, urging Putin to cut off arms to the rebels and “stop destabilising and interfering” in Ukraine. A military spokesman in the Ukrainian capital Kiev told a briefing the army had now recaptured threequarters of the territory the rebels once controlled in their self-proclaimed ‘people’s republics’ of Luhansk and Donetsk. But Russia has firm control of the Crimea peninsula it annexed in March and the separatists are putting up fierce resistance in the last two big cities they hold in the east. A Reuters reporter in central Donetsk heard shelling through the night and saw the smoke from burning buildings in the outlying Petrovsky district drifting as far as the city centre. “I work in the city centre. It’s easier for me to be at work than to come home. You never know if your house will still
be standing when you get back,” the financial director of a small company who gave her name only as Antonina said in Petrovsky. “I know people who have come back from work and found they have nowhere to live.” In another outlying district, Maryinka, roads and houses were pock-marked by shells and some buildings were burnt-out carcasses. The rebels control a checkpoint there, but an abandoned military truck with the Ukrainian flag by the side of the road bore witness to the fighting there. Streets were deserted and shelling could be heard nearby. Buildings were without electricity or running water. Dutch and Australian forensic experts have gained access to the site of downed Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 for three successive days and have recovered more human remains to send back to the Netherlands for forensic tests. On Sunday they also sent some personal belongings to the government-controlled city of Kharkiv and then to the Netherlands.
released because Senator Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the committee, has said she may challenge some redactions made by the Obama administration. President Barack Obama, who banned the practices after taking office in 2009, said on Friday the CIA had
“tortured some folks” during former President George W. Bush’s administration. “We did some things that were contrary to our values,” Obama said. Republicans on the committee have long disagreed with Democrats about the use of the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques, and they largely boycotted the committee’s probe. “I thought it was a mistake then. I still think it is a mistake,” Chambliss said on CBS. The investigation has been plagued with difficulties. The CIA conceded last week it had improperly monitored computers used by committee investigators looking into the torture allegations. The revelation prompted two Democratic senators to call for the resignation of CIA Director John Brennan, who took over the spy agency last year. Senate committee members appeared yesterday on television news shows did not call for Brennan’s resignation, but said the CIA had committed a breach of trust that needed to be addressed. Arizona Republican Senator John McCain, a
survivor of torture, said on the Fox News program “Sunday Morning Futures” he was in some ways more concerned about the CIA spying on Senate staffers than the torture issue, and he called for an independent investigation. U.S. Representative Mike Rogers, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, warned against over reacting. “I don’t think this is some conspiracy notion that they wanted to spy on either of our committees. That would of course be intolerable. I think it would be a crime,” Rogers said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” But these were CIA computers at a CIA facility, he said. “That’s a little bit different than spying on Congress.” Senator Angus King, who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the CIA’s biggest mistake on the interrogations was not being able to admit a mistake. “They’re still trying to justify it and argue it wasn’t torture, which is nonsense,” the Maine independent said on CNN. “I think we could put this behind us. But they keep, they keep trying to justify it. And it’s unjustifiable.”
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THE OPPOSITION IS IN DISNEY LAND We have an incredible Opposition in this country. It has been decided that the Minister of Finance acted outside of the constitution and the law when he restored sums not approved by the National Assembly in the Budget. The Opposition did not ask the Court to determine whether the Minister of Finance acted outside of the law. It decided that he did and filed a Motion asking that he be referred to the Committee of Privileges. It decided that in its opinion, the Minister had acted outside of the law and his conduct was not covered by the Constitution. Yet, this same opposition
has the temerity to suggest that the President of Guyana should not decide that a Bill passed by the opposition parties has unconstitutional features. It wants the President to approach the Court to decide whether these features exist since in its opinion, it is for the Court to determine the constitutionality of legislation. The Opposition wants to eat its cake and have it too. It does not want the President to pronounce an opinion on the constitutionality of a Bill but it has done this very deed in relation to the spending by the Minister of Finance. This is one of the reasons why the
Opposition should not be taken seriously in this country. Its positions on a number of issues are more porous than sand. The President is not obligated to assent to any Bill passed by the National Assembly regardless of whether the Bill was tabled by the government or by the Opposition. Indeed, former President Jagdeo refused to assent to a constitutional amendment that would have deemed discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation a breach of a fundamental right under Guyana’s Constitution. So it is not unusual for a President to refuse to assent to his
Dem boys seh...
Bobby got everything Bobby is a man who don’t like trouble. In fact, he does do everything to keep out of de limelight. He don’t like pose fuh photograph and most of all he don’t like publicity. That is why when he went fuh hunt ducks, he mek sure that he had everything in order. And when de police pull he over, he know that he didn’t have to worry. De police ask he fuh show he his hunting license, and Bobby pulled out a valid Enmore hunting license. De cop look at the licence, then reached over and picked up one of the ducks, sniffed its butt, and seh, “This duck ain’t from Enmore. This is a Lusignan duck. You got a Lusignan huntin’ license, bai?” Bobby reached into his wallet and tek out a Lusignan hunting licence. De cop look at it, then reached over and grab the second duck, sniffed its butt, and said “This ain’t no Enmore duck. This duck from Mon Repos. You got a Mon Repos licence?” Bobby reached into wallet and pulled out a Mon Repos hunting license. De cop then reached over
and picked up the third duck, sniffed its butt, and said, “This is not ah Enmore duck too, this duck from Better Hope, you got a Better Hope license?” Again Bobby reached into his wallet and tek out a Better Hope license. De cop did expect to collect a raise and that is why he get extremely frustrated and he shout at the Bobby, “is where the hell you really come from???!!!” Bobby turned around, bend over, dropped his pants, and said, “You tell me, you is the smell expert.” Dem boys seh that Bobby ain’t no ordinary man. De government put out a tender to supply drugs fuh de whole
country. In dat tender dem say you have to meet certain requirements. Dem say you got to have a big, big storage bond, Bobby got one. Dem say you got to have 50 staff, Bobby got dem. De government seh you must got a billion dollar turn over, Bobby got nuff billions. Bobby got everything lock, and dem boys seh dem mean lock. Dem say you got to have $500 million in assets, De Rat mek sure Bobby got um. Dem say you got to pay $50M tax every year, Bobby got dat covered. Suh who else gun get de contract? Talk half and pray fuh Guyana.
government’s own Bill. Indeed this prerogative is seen as necessary to avoid mutiny within the Cabinet because there is no way that a Cabinet, not having full Executive Authority, can conspire behind the backs of the President to pass a Bill and expect that the President would be forced to sign his own death warrant. The President does not need to establish the constitutionality of any Bill before him. He can refuse assent on the grounds that he does not agree with the Bill before him. That is reason enough to withhold assent. There is no parliamentary supremacy in Guyana. As such the idea that the President is not conforming to the will of the legislature is nonsensical. He does not have to. The President can veto that Bill as can the President of the United States. But that veto can be overturned by a two thirds majority of the House, as is the case also in the United States. The Opposition parties should not be tabling any Bills in the National Assembly except those relating to moral issues or matters of
conscience, without the expressed consent of the Cabinet. This is an established Convention in the Westminster system and one that is premised on the separation of powers. Indeed the Court has already ruled on the issue of financial Bills which require the consent of Cabinet. If the Opposition parties are allowed to pass any and every Bill as they please, they would effectively be determining the legislative agenda of the government. The determination of what laws are to be passed is an Executive function. The approval or nonapproval of these laws is the prerogative of the legislature. The Constitution makes provision for any member to introduce a Bill. But it also makes exceptions on what types of Bills cannot be introduced with the consent of Cabinet. By convention also the Opposition is exempted from introducing certain Bills that do not find approval by Cabinet. The Opposition has no place in determining what laws are tabled, except as mentioned before by convention they may table
Bills on matters of conscience. But when the government tables a Bill, the Opposition can refuse to give its approval to that Bill as they have done during this present parliament. The job of the Opposition parties is not to attempt to run the country from the Opposition benches. That is for the government to do. The Opposition can refuse to lend its support to Bills and to criticize government within the legislature. They can also offer themselves through a democratic process as an alternative to the government. But that is hard work for the present Opposition parties. It is easier for them to play make-believe and to pretend that they have the right by virtue of the one seat majority they hold to determine what policies should be pursued by the government and indeed which Bills the President should give assent to and which he should not. Dream on fellows! Dream on!
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Bare Roots top students rewarded for NGSA performances Thanks to a public-spirited Guyanese national who resides in Grenada, in collaboration with the Mark Benschop Foundation, two outstanding students from the village of Bare Roots, Paradise on the East coast of Demerara are now the proud owners of brand new bicycles. The two students are Teneassa Francis who will be attending Annandale Secondary and Samantha Beveney secured a place at the Bishops’ High School. The Grenadian based Guyanese had donated cash to the students after reading of their performances at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment Examination. His cash donation was made through the Benschop Foundation which procured much needed school supplies and threw in the two bicycles for good measure. In photo Mark Benschop poses with the two students Teneassa Francis and Samantha Beveney.
Say no to corruption it, it hurts us all.
Monday August 04, 2014
Unused Diamond Market Tarmac to be fenced The unused $24.5M Diamond Market Tarmac is among a number of markets and tarmacs to be rehabilitated and extended under the Guyana Solid Waste Management Improvement Programme. On November 20, 2009, Khemraj Nauth inked a contract with the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development to establish a 4,600 square metre market tarmac located between the first and second bridges on the southern side of the Diamond Housing Scheme. Construction of the structure was completed in 2010. Four years after, the structure is not being used for the purpose it was built for. It is a venue for barbeques, limes, kite flying, and regular cricket matches. However, vendors are not too keen on occupying the tarmac since they prefer to vend on the shoulders of the East Bank Demerara Public Road. Perhaps that is why the Ministry is moving to have a fence place around the structure. But erecting a fence
around the structure may not coincide with plans of the Ministry of Public Works. It was reported that the Ministry of Public Works is planning to move the temporary car park to the tarmac to accommodate public transportation operators plying the “Diamond inside route.” The Ministry is hoping that this would motivate vendors to utilize the structure instead of
encumbering the roadway. In an advertisement placed in Kaieteur News yesterday, the Ministry invited bids for “The Procurement of Works: Major Rehabilitation/Extension of Markets and Tarmac (Lots 1 to 7); Anna Regina, Rosignol, Rose Hall, Corriverton, Linden, Lethem and Diamond.” Bidders could apply for one or more Lots.
Men dressed as cops... (From page 13) for Madewini Police Outpost instead. Kaieteur News understands that during the journey, the ‘policemen’ asked Mr. Gopaul about ‘the cocaine’, and he responded that he and his wife ran a private school and knew nothing about ‘cocaine.’ The ‘policemen’ then took the Gopauls and Teekaram to a secluded spot near the abandoned glass factory at Yarrowkabra. There the ‘ranks’ tied up their three captives and relieved them of their valuables. However, Kaieteur News understands that the Gopauls were allowed to keep their travel documents. Teekaram said that he saw a blue car in the area and it is believed that
the robbers fled in that vehicle. The victims were eventually rescued by the occupants of a passing vehicle. According to reports, the Gopauls flew out of the country immediately after their ordeal. Kaieteur News was unable to ascertain whether police have made any arrests. There has been an apparent upsurge in persons being robbed while heading to the Cheddi Jagan Airport or returning from overseas. Just last Wednesday, Pastor Sewnauth Poonalall of the Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church was gun-butted and robbed shortly after returning from the airport with some overseas guests.
Guyana’s accounting... From page 16 to recommend that agencies or individuals are prosecuted once there is failure to act after one warning. “But who can take such action if the Ministers and Permanent Secretaries do not? The PAC cannot. The body can only recommend action to the Assembly. Admittedly, it could have done more in the past,” the Parliamentarian asserted. In addition, Greenidge said that since the Public Sector’s accounting and auditing framework is weak, the AG devotes a lot of time to relatively significant as well as very insignificant matters (inevitably mostly the latter) and the PAC has to be drawn in. He posited that this is not the best use of Parliamentarians’ skills. “If the basic accounts were not so improperly managed, instead of 400 page reports, we could, like the United Kingdom, have a 12 to 20 page AG report which would allow us to look at matters such as debt and also allow the Auditor General to do the same,” Greenidge concluded.
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Court won’t increase accused attorney’s $477K allowance Jamaica Gleaner - A HIGH Court judge has refused to grant any further increase in the amount of money the State should make available monthly to Dawn Satterswaite, the Kingston attorney whose assets were restrained after she was arrested on money laundering charges. According to lawenforcement insiders, the ruling means Satterswaite will continue to have access to approximately $477,000 per month through the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) to cover living expenses and run her law practice. Satterswaite and three others - Paulette Higgins, Janet Ramsey and Ann-Marie Cleary - were arrested and charged last December by the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Task Force for allegedly laundering hundreds of millions of dollars for confessed Jamaican drug dealer Andrew Hamilton. Hamilton, a former member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, is now serving a four-year prison term in the US state of California. In January, the Supreme Court granted several orders requested by the ARA that placed a freeze on some of
Dawn Satterswaite Satterswaite’s assets, including accounts held at a number of financial institutions. By February, Satterswaite, through her attorney, successfully applied to the Supreme Court to have those orders varied so she could have access to more money. However, it was her second application less than a month later to again have the orders varied that was met with opposition from the ARA. To support the application, lawyers for Satterswaite argued that the section of the Proceeds of Crime Act used to restrain her assets was unconstitutional and should not have been
made in the first place. In addition, her attorneys argued that a person’s funds or assets cannot be restrained by any court in a manner that would prevent the individual from meeting their reasonable legal expenses, especially since access to legal assistance is a fundamental right afforded by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to anyone charged with a criminal offence. In his ruling, Justice Kirk Anderson said he did not doubt that such rights exist. “This court, though, cannot vary an order made by another judge of this same court, on the grounds that the law, forming part and parcel of the statutory laws of Jamaica, upon which the said order was founded, is an unconstitutional law,” the judge said. Prosecutors revealed that over an 11-year period between 1998 and 2009, 30 high-value properties were bought for Hamilton. The prosecutors said the properties were later registered to Hamilton’s relatives as well as close family friends. The prosecutors further alleged that the properties were purchased by Satterswaite for a total of $500 million.
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Caribbean travellers to the US can expect new customs declaration forms WASHINGTON D.C., United States - CMC - The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency says it has issued a new customs declaration form “in print and online” that expands the definition of family members for arriving Caribbean and other travellers. CBP said the definition expands to “members of a family residing in the same household who are related by blood, marriage, domestic relationship, or adoption”. The agency said it has accepted this family definition since the final rule became effective on January 17. It said the new form – CBP Form 6059B – provides the expanded definition in the first paragraph. CBP said the recent regulation change allows more returning US citizens, residents and international visitors to file a joint customs declaration for items acquired abroad. “This produces less paperwork for people travelling together as a family and streamlines passenger processing, thereby increasing efficiency for CBP, airline personnel and the travelling public,” the statement said. “Travellers may complete the declaration form online,
print it and bring it on their trip to present to CBP when they arrive in the US or at a CBP preclearance site,” it said. CBP said air and cruise lines also will hand out the declaration forms for travellers to complete before disembarking in the US. In addition to clarifying the definition of family members, the final rule also clarified the term domestic relationship, which includes foster children, stepchildren, half-siblings, legal wards, other dependents, and individuals with an “in loco parentis or guardianship relationship”. The definition also includes two adults who are in a “committed relationship including, but not limited to, long-term companions and couples in civil unions or domestic partnerships where the partners are financially interdependent, and are not married to, or a partner of, anyone else”. CBP said “domestic relationship” does not extend to roommates or other cohabitants not otherwise meeting the above definition. “Members of a family residing in one household” will continue to encompass relationships of blood, adoption and marriage, CBP
said. Under the new definition of domestic relationship, CBP said one combined family declaration can now be presented to the officer upon arrival. As with any joint declaration, verbal or written, it said the person making and/ or signing the declaration will be held accountable for its validity. For returning US residents, to be considered members of a family and to group exemptions from customs duty and internal revenue tax, CBP said the travelers must have lived together in one household at their last permanent residence and intend to live together in one household. US regulations allow US residents to combine the personal duty exemptions of each family member. For example, CBP said a family of five members returning directly from France would be entitled to a combined personal duty exemption of US$4,000. For international visitors, such as those arriving from the Caribbean, CBP said the regulations allow them certain exemptions “gifts, tobacco, personal effects, etc,” adding they can file a single family declaration.
The CII works to create and sustain an environment conducive to the growth of industry in India by partnering industry and government alike through advisory and consultative processes. With India seeking to forge a greater path into the new economic order, the delegation of journalists was given a glimpse into the business of the Observer Research Foundation (ORF). That organisation was launched in the early 1990s during the early period of
India’s transition from a protected economy to a new engagement with the international economic order, such as liberalisation. At the time, a need was felt for the emergence of an independent forum that would examine the critical problems facing the country and develop a cohesive policy response in the rapidly changing global environment. Thanks to its scholars and participants, today, the ORF is reportedly known, among policymakers both in India and internationally, as a place pulsating with fresh promises. Journalists also got a glimpse into the huge and vibrant media landscape in India through Shri Prakash Javadekar, minister of state for information and broadcasting. During a tour of the famed tertiary institution, the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, she indicated that not only its architectural designs were impressive but its reputation as one of the world’s best in the academic arena.
Jamaica embraces relationship with India Jamaica Gleaner Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade A.J. Nicholson has disclosed that the Jamaican Government has begun to play its part in strengthening the nation’s relationship with India by appointing a special envoy for the Asian country. Nicholson has embraced the overtures of new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi to deepen ties with Jamaica. “Jamaica would welcome the deepening of relationships with India, one of the acknowledged emerging economies listed among the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) group of countries,” Nicholson told The Sunday Gleaner, following a week-long familiarisation visit by journalists from this country. He echoed sentiments of India’s officials that the relationship needs to go beyond that of trade arrangements. “We have recently appointed a special envoy to India and while there must be efforts that are aimed at
strengthening our trading relationship, we would wish that a wider scope be embraced to include areas such as tourism, cultural activities, sports and the film industry,” he said. Added Nicholson: “The fact of so many persons of Indian extract living in our land of ‘Out of many one people’, such a widened scope has perhaps long ripened into an imperative.” He said it would also augur well for the strengthening of the framework for south-south cooperation. The Indian government which was recently swept to election victory, said it would be moving to consolidate its unprecedented initiative to host a delegation of senior journalists to a familiarisation visit to the South East Asia nation, by making subtle changes that would propel India to the forefront. Two Jamaican journalists from eight small island developing states participated in the July 20-27 familiarisation visit. The journalists were from as far as the Maldives,
Mauritius, Seychelles and Fiji and as near as Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname. General Vijay Kumar Singh, the minister of state for external affairs, has described such an occasion as historic, saying it was the first time that a government of India had hosted such a diverse group of journalists to the country. “We will be following up on these visits with practical actions,” promised the former chief of army staff, who successfully contested one of the 453 seats up for grabs in the recent general elections. Singh was supported by Navita Vinayak, head - Latin America and the Caribbean at the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), who works closely with the Modi administration. Vinayak said Jamaica was one of the countries that had been targeted as fertile ground to deepen relationships in order to strengthen its multi and bilateral systems. She told The Sunday Gleaner after a meeting with the delegation, that energetic and focused efforts are in the
General Vijay Kumar Singh, state minister in the External Ministry
works to target and engage Jamaica and other Caribbean countries. “As an official who handles this region, I am assuring you that our engagements will definitely increase in the coming months,” said Vinayak, who stressed that it was critical to forge new paths to build Brand India. To this end, Vinayak said the plans at deepening ties by the new government were intended to go beyond mere trade arrangements that currently exist.
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In Liberia’s capital, fear of Ebola hampers official response MONROVIA (Reuters) Health workers turned up in Monrovia’s Clara Town district yesterday to remove two bodies of possible victims of the Ebola virus, four days after they dropped dead there when nobody would take them to hospital. At a swampy field elsewhere in the Liberian capital, the health ministry ordered 100 graves to be dug for victims of the deadly tropical virus, but only five shallow holes partly filled with water had been prepared by Saturday evening. Monrovia’s overcrowded and understaffed Elwa Hospital has had to turn away Ebola cases this week, a scenario exacerbated by the withdrawal of some international staff following the infection of two U.S. health workers here. One of them has arrived for treatment in the United States and the second is due to follow on an overnight flight today. Strong resistance like this from workers too afraid to handle infected corpses or communities opposed to burying them nearby has
slowed down stretched West African governments as they seek to control the worst Ebola outbreak in history. The Ebola virus has killed 227 people so far in Liberia and at least 826 people in the region, according to the World Health Organization. Nema Red, a resident of Clara Town, said the two men who lay dead in the street for days had shown symptoms of Ebola such as bleeding and vomiting. “They started seeking help from the community to take them to the hospital, but community members ran for their lives ... they both gave up and dropped dead on the ground in the streets of Clara Town,” she said, saying they lay there four days. Information Minister Lewis Brown confirmed the bodies had been collected but said they had only been there for a few hours. “They have been removed,” he said, adding their houses would be fumigated and relatives placed under surveillance. Ebola, which is fatal in more than half of cases in the current outbreak, is transmitted by direct contact
with the blood or fluids of the infected, including the dead. Monrovia’s first burial site for 30 bodies, in the poor township of Johnsonville, was abandoned by health workers after the land owner refused to sell the land to bury Ebola victims. A few of the corpses were left floating in body bags in pools of water, which led to complaints from the residents. A local man, Bill Marshall, said residents had not been consulted before the cemetery was created. “Ebola, we don’t know where it came from and we don’t know its effect,” he said. “The grave will give us Ebola, it will kill us.” At a second site, an angry crowd gathered, shouting at health workers dressed in white protective suits who sought to appease them by handing out Ebola information flyers. “You will have to kill us first,” shouted one group. Soldiers from the Liberian army with shields and bulletproof vests arrived on the scene shortly afterwards. A source in the health ministry said the bodies were
finally buried overnight with the help of around 40 additional workers. The government says that high levels of mistrust and resistance from local communities justifies a series of strict new measures designed to control the outbreak. Liberia plans to close
schools and consider quarantining some communities as part of an action plan outlined this week by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. In a crisis meeting yesterday attended by the president, officials decided that the names of those in contact with suspected Ebola
cases would be shared with airport and security authorities to restrict their movements. Brown added that the government had decided to enforce mandatory cremations to limit contact with the dead and to avoid contamination of water sources.
At least 367 dead after quake hits southwest China
A general view shows collapsed houses after an earthquake hit Ludian county, Yunnan province yesterday. Credit: REUTERS/China Daily (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck southwestern China yesterday, killing at least 367 people and leaving 1,881 injured in a remote area of Yunnan province, and causing thousands of buildings, including a school, to collapse. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake registered at a shallow depth
of less than 1 mile (1.6 km). Chinese state media said it was felt most strongly in Yunnan as well as in the neighbouring provinces of Guizhou and Sichuan. The official Xinhua news agency said the epicentre was in Longtoushan town in Yunnan’s mountainous Ludian county. Communications have been seriously affected and
rescuers have begun arriving on the scene, the report said. Pictures posted online by state media showed troops stretchering people away and cars damaged by fallen bricks. Many people rushed out of buildings onto the street after the quake hit, electricity supplies were cut and at least one school collapsed, Xinhua added, with more than 12,000 houses having collapsed and 30,000 sustaining damage. Ludian resident Ma Liya told Xinhua the streets were like a “battlefield after bombardment”. The government is sending 2,000 tents, 3,000 folding beds, 3,000 quilts and 3,000 coats to the disaster zone, where heavy rain forecast for the coming days will add to the misery, the report said. Ludian is home to some 265,900 people, Xinhua added. This region of China is frequently struck by quakes, with one killing more than 1,400 in the same part of Yunnan in 1974. A quake in Sichuan in 2008 killed almost 70,000 people.
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Islamic State grabs Iraqi dam and oilfield in victory over Kurds (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters seized control of Iraq’s biggest dam, an oilfield and three more towns yesterday after inflicting their first major defeat on Kurdish forces since sweeping across much of northern Iraq in June. Capture of the electricitygenerating Mosul Dam, after an offensive of barely 24 hours, could give the Sunni militants the ability to flood major Iraqi cities or withhold water from farms, raising the stakes in their bid to topple Prime Minister Nuri alMaliki’s Shi’ite-led government. “The terrorist gangs of the Islamic State have taken control of Mosul Dam after the withdrawal of Kurdish forces without a fight,” said Iraqi state television. The swift withdrawal of Kurdish “peshmerga” troops was an apparent severe blow to one of the only forces in Iraq that until now had stood firm against the Sunni Islamist fighters who aim to redraw the borders of the Middle East. The Islamic State, which sees Iraq’s majority Shi’ites as apostates who deserve to be killed, also seized the Ain Zalah oil field - adding to four others already under its control that provide funding for operations - and three towns. Initially strong Kurdish resistance evaporated after the start of an offensive to take the town of Zumar. The Islamists then hoisted their black flags there, a ritual that has often preceded mass executions of their captured opponents and the imposition of an ideology even al-Qaeda finds excessive. The group, which has declared a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria to rule over all Muslims, poses the biggest challenge to the stability of OPEC member Iraq since the fall of Saddam
Hussein in 2003. Yesterday its members were also involved in fighting in a border town far away in Lebanon, a sign of its ambitions across the frontiers of the Middle East. It controls cities in Iraq’s Tigris and Euphrates valleys north and west of Baghdad, and a swathe of Syria stretching from the Iraqi border in the east to Aleppo in the northwest. Iraq’s Kurds, who rule themselves in a northern enclave guarded by the “peshmerga” units, had expanded areas under their control in recent weeks while avoiding direct confrontation with the Islamic State, even as Iraqi central government troops fled. But the towns lost yesterday were in territory the Kurds had held for many years, undermining suggestions that the Islamic State’s advance has helped the Kurdish cause. Witnesses said Islamic State fighters were also trying to take control of the town of Rabia near the Syrian border and were engaged in clashes with Syrian Kurds who had crossed the frontier after Iraqi Kurds withdrew. The latest gains have placed Islamic State fighters near Dohuk Province, one of three in the autonomous Kurdish region, which has been spared any serious threat to its security while war raged throughout the rest of Iraq. Since thousands of U.S.trained Iraqi soldiers fled the Islamic State offensive, the Kurdish fighters were seen alongside Shi’ite militia to the south as the main lines of defence against the militants, who vow to march on Baghdad. By calling into question the effectiveness of the Kurdish fighters, yesterday’s advances may increase pressure on bickering Iraqi
leaders to form a powersharing government capable of countering the Islamic State. Two people who live near Mosul Dam told Reuters Kurdish troops had loaded their vehicles with belongings including air conditioners and fled. Islamic State fighters attacked Zumar from three directions in pick-up trucks mounted with weapons, defeating Kurdish forces that had poured reinforcements into the town, witnesses said. The Islamic State later also seized the town of Sinjar, where witnesses said residents had fled after Kurdish fighters put up little resistance. It was not immediately clear why the Kurds, usually known as formidable fighters, pulled back without a fight.On its Twitter site, the Islamic State posted a picture of one of its masked fighters holding up a pistol and sitting at the abandoned desk of the mayor of Sinjar. Behind him was the image of a famous Kurdish guerrilla leader. In a statement on its website, the Islamic State said it had killed scores of peshmerga, the Kurdish fighters whose name means “those who confront death”. Those deaths could not be independently verified. “Hundreds fled leaving vehicles and a huge number of weapons and munitions and the brothers control many areas,” the Islamic State statement said. “The fighters arrived in the border triangle between Iraq, Syria and Turkey.” The Islamic State has systematically blown up Shi’ite mosques and shrines in territory it has seized, fuelling levels of sectarian violence unseen since the very worst weeks of Iraq’s 2006-2007 civil war. The group, which
shortened its name after June’s offensive from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), has stalled in its drive to reach Baghdad, halting just before the town of Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of the capital. The Islamic State has been trying to consolidate its gains, setting its sights on strategic towns near oil fields, as well as border crossings with Syria, so that it can move easily back and forth and transport supplies. So far, the Islamic State is not near the major oil fields of the northern city of Kirkuk, which were seized by the Kurds in the chaos that followed the Islamic State’s advance. It controls part of a pipeline from Kirkuk to Turkey which has been idle for months because of its attacks in the area. The Islamic State has capitalised on Sunni disenchantment with Maliki by winning support or at least tolerance from some more moderate Sunni communities in Iraq that had fought against al Qaeda during the U.S. “surge” offensive of
2006-2007. Maliki’s opponents say the prime minister, a Shi’ite Islamist who is negotiating to try to stay in power for a third term after an inconclusive parliamentary election in April, is to blame for galvanising the insurgency by excluding Sunnis from power. Kurdish leaders have also called for Maliki to step down to create a more inclusive government in Baghdad. The Kurds have long dreamed of their own independent state, an aspiration that has angered Maliki, who has frequently clashed with the non-Arabs over budgets, land and oil. In July, the Kurdish political bloc ended participation in Iraq’s national government in protest against Maliki’s accusation that Kurds were allowing “terrorists” to stay in Arbil, capital of their semiautonomous region. In another move certain to infuriate the Baghdad government, the Kurdish region is pressing Washington for sophisticated
weapons it says Kurdish fighters need to push back the Islamist militants, Kurdish and U.S. officials said. Yesterday’s withdrawal may help them press their case. Maliki needs the Kurds, who gained experience fighting Saddam Hussein’s forces, to help defend his country from the Islamic State, whose leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head. The Islamic State’s ambitions have alarmed other Arab states who fear their success could embolden militants region-wide. Islamic State fighters were among militants who clashed with Lebanese forces overnight in and around Lebanon’s border town of Arsal. At least 10 Lebanese soldiers and an unknown number of militants and civilians died in the fighting, security officials said. There has been no indication so far whether the advance in northern Iraq and the fighting in Lebanon were coordinated.
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41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway underway
Guyana suffer double whammy By Michael Benjamin Guyana’s representatives at the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway have suffered poor fortunes, after the first two rounds concluded Saturday and yesterday morning. The Guyana team faced off with their counterparts from Albania on the first day and lost their respective encounters. Efforts to regain some footing in the second round yesterday morning against a team from Kyrgyzstan produced similar results and all four players surrendered their individual games. After conceding their respective matches on Saturday, the Guyanese players resumed duties yesterday morning but did not fare better. Anthony Drayton (1828) lost to FM Tologontegin (2354) while Ronuel Greenidge (1630) surrendered to IM Abdyjapar A (2368). Maria Varona Thomas (1777) and Haifeng Su (1724) lost their games to Mamotov M(2106) and Takyrbashev (2229) respectively. The players resumed duty this morning and hope to better their fortunes. Meanwhile, Guyana suffered a double whammy after two of its key players, National (Senior) Champion, Wendell Meusa and his predecessor, Taffin Khan, were omitted from the tournament for differing reasons. Khan was denied a visa after officials in the Dutch Embassy revealed that a certain Taffin Khan is on a terrorist watch list. Ironically,
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Oasis Café and Café Bean. With more than 150 participating countries, the Chess Olympiad is the world’s third largest sporting event. An estimated 600 million people play chess worldwide and Norway is home to the world’s best chess player, Magnus Carlsen. A total of 1500 chess players are currently in Tromsø to participate in the Chess Olympiad. Further, and unlike Guyana, where chess has not been regarded as a spectator’s sport, more than 100 million unique internet spectators will get an opportunity to view the proceedings through the Olympiads Internet Portal. A 14-day cultural event is also planned for the period of the tournament and will be staged in collaboration with the Chess Olympiad.
Andrea Foster delivered the Girls’ 800m race for Guyana in 2:21.80 with teammate, Shontel Hinds second in 2:35.90. Suriname’s Davinia Asantiba (2:45.60) was third. Cassey George then doubled up after winning the 3000m event. George won in 10:58.50 after winning the 1500m the day before. Team-mate, Claudrice McKoy was second in 11:19 while Suriname’s Amania Esmeralda
(12:07.60) was third. In the Boys’ 5000m, Grivon Grant won in 17:30.50 with teammate, Mathew McKenzie second in 18:01.00 and Suriname’s, Gilberto Aloeboetoe (18:40.30) third. Guyana won both the male and female 4x400m races, but lost some ground in the field events owed to Suriname winning the male Shot Put and Javelin, female Javelin and Shot Put and male and female Long Jump events.
The players hope to better their fortunes when play resumes this morning. From left are: Anthony Drayton, Haifeng Su, supporter Yolander Persaud, Coach/Manager, Wendell Meusa, Maria Thomas and Ronuel Greenidge. along with the name, the suspected terrorist also carries the identical date of birth as the former chess champion and the officials chose to be on the safe side and denied the visa. Officials of the Guyana Chess Federation requested, and was granted a review, but failed to have the decision overturned. President of the GCF, Irshad Mohamed when asked to comment on this development said, “I am saddened with the loss of (Taffin) Khan as he is one of the stronger players the country has presently and would have definitely augmented our chances of a satisfactory placing in the tournament. The GCF President said that Meusa’s case is vastly
different but just as disappointing. He said that the local champion had once resided, and represented, Barbados and despite returning to play for Guyana years ago, was still on record as a Bajan representative. Mr. Mohamed further said that his executives are currently in dialogue with the Barbados Federation to have Meusa’s transfer completed. He said that this procedure would last for approximately three months which effectively debars Meusa’s participation in Norway. Nevertheless, Meusa’s presence in Norway is still an asset as he is performing the role of coach/manager of the team. The players received support from the Office of the President, Guyana Telephone
Kerwyn Clarke muscles his way to... From page 29 Following are the full results: Category (lbs) Name Flyweight - Un 132 Sheed Totaram Bantamweight - Un 143 Devon Davis Lightweight 144 – 154 Marlon Bennett Mahondra Singh Rawl Cole Welterweight 155 – 165 Sylvester Andrews Careus Cipriani Lloyd Thomas Orlando Dublin Light Middle 166 – 176 Kerwyn Clarke Godfrey Stoby Clint Duke Delon Harlequin Lindy Sharp Heavyweight 177 & Over Alex Hamilton Dwayne Mars Tremel King Owen Jordon Rhon Lonke Adrian Andries Jagdesh Budhram Masters 40 years & Over Clint Duke Lindy Sharp Lloyd Thomas Adrian Andries
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GUYANA RECLAIM IGG ATHLETICS TITLE By Edison Jefford Guyana reclaimed the Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) Athletics title they lost to Suriname last year, against dominant performances in the sprint and middle distance events, with Natricia Hooper the lone Guyanese athlete to win two field events. Guyana amassed a total of 333 points, as opposed to Suriname’s 295, to come away with the win. French Guiana did not compete in track and field in the 2014 IGG in Guyana. Therefore, the athletics competition was a straight fight between Guyana and Suriname. Avon Samuels continued a sprint double when she won the Girls’ 200m in 24.9 seconds ahead of Jevina Sampson (25.20) and Suriname’s Carine Pavion who ran 26.40 seconds. Samuels had also won the 400m race on day one of the event at the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Ground. Tevin Garraway avenged his controversial 100m loss the day before with a commanding 200m in the Boys’ race. He ran 21.40 seconds to beat Kevin Abbensetts, who ran 21.50 and Suriname’s Romario Pansa (22.10). Ornesto Thomas finished with a double in the middle distance events when he also won the 800m after his 1500m win on day one. Thomas won in 2:00.70 from Suriname’s Uracio Seedorf (2:01.50) and Miquel Shepper (2:10.90) respectively.
Pepsi Hikers and... From page 28 disappointing tournament with a quiet 7 - 8 loss to the Under-19 mix with the latter enjoying a 7 goal handicap. The Tigers fought bravely and managed to score seven goals but a long strike from Robert Brumell left them a goal shy in the end. Tournament top scorer so far, Ashley DeGroot turned in another impressive offensive effort for the Tigers with 5 goals while Trisha Woodroffe and Tiffany Solomon mustered on each. The Old Fort Shooting Stars seem to be aiming at the very top as they cruised to yet another victory, this time at the hands of the Pitbulls. Enjoying the competition’s largest goal advantage (+15), the Stars were able to once again deny the Pitbulls from closing the gap leaving the final outcome at 15 – 12. With the Pitbulls beginning on +6, the daunting task of nine goals proved too much for the young team and despite double strikes from Rosario Ramsammy and Lorenzo Vanzo and singles from Lennox Carroll and Eon Burke, their 12 goal haul would not be enough to see them advance to the semi-finals. With few matches remaining, the PEPSI Hikers have already secured their place in the senior division final having all but one of their matches, failing to earn full points only in their 3-3 draw with GCC. GCC are the likely rivals to make the final but an upset in their final pool match against Saints could threaten that position. In the junior division, Revelation were to face Saints in the first semi-final while the Old Fort Shooting Stars were come up against the Under-19 mix. The finals were played last evening.
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4TH Annual Digicel Schools Football Competition
CWSS crowned champions for the third straight year The question about whether defending champions Christianburg/ Wismar will extend its dominance over Waramadong or whether the team from Region Seven could redeem its previous losses into a win was answered last evening when the Lindeners strolled to a comfortable 2-0 triumph to capture the trophy outright in their final showdown, at the National Stadium. Watched by Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, Opposition Leader Ret. Brigidier David Granger, Digicel CEO Gregory Dean, Marketing Executive Jacqueline James, Guyana Football Federation President Christopher Matthias, and Ministry of Education CEO Olato Sam among others, the two teams treated a crowd of over three thousand to an exciting barnd of football that received genuine applause from the fans. The defending champions went on the offensive early in the game and managed to get the ball in the back of the nets only to see the Referee whistle for off-side. Bouyed by the early exploits, CWSS led by Shane Luckie and Donavan Francis continued to attack the Waramadong backline, but a counter attack by the two-time losing finalist nearly stunned the Linden supporters, but
Waramadong Secondary School Captain Gerald Isaacs receives the runner-up trophy from Prime Minister Samuel Hinds during the presentation ceremony last night. the effort by Myles Albert sailed agonizingly just outside the right upright. Both teams craeted a few more chances, but soft shots on goal were easily snapped up by the respective goalkeepers as the half saw no team managing to score a goal. That meant that supporters from each side had to brace themselves for a terrific remaining 45 minutes and they were not disappointed as CWSS came out in the second period just as they had done in the first half looking more purposeful
7th Annual Guyana Cup Horserace meet launches on Thursday The seventh annual Guyana Cup Horserace meet will be launched on Thursday at a venue to be announced. The event is set for Sunday 24th August at the Port Mourant Turf club, beginning at 12:00 hrs. Known as the ‘Sport of Kings’ horseracing is being dubbed as the number one sporting event here with by far the largest prize money on offer for any sport in the country. Thus the Jumbo Jet conglomerate and friends is offering big winnings for the races. According to the provisional programme there are nine events on the day’s card. The feature event presently is for C class horses, one event for three year old horses. Two events for two year old horses and another race for horses classified E and lower. While events for G, H class horses are also big drawing cards. The C class event has A class money on offer totaling close to a whopping $8M at stake in cash and prizes with the winner taking home $4M and the Guyana Cup trophy over 1800M and trophy along with bragging rights. In the Co-feature 1600M event for 3 yrs old horses, bred and born in Guyana and the West Indies, the organizers have put up a mouthwatering $2M and trophy. The Two year old event for West Indies bred horses has its first prize tagged at $1.5M and trophy is a 1000M event. The other races for E class, G1, two years Guyana bred, H1, I and J has lucrative prize money and other winnings at stake which will be revealed at the launching ceremony. The top Jockey along with the runner up, the top stable and champion trainer will all be rewarded for their performances.
and menacing and took the lead one minute after the resumption courtesy of an own goal. It came as a result of a sweeping attcak that saw a fierce shot from Francis deflect off a defender and ended in the back of the goal much to the relief of the Linden supporters and worry to the Waramadong fan base.
The goal seemed to have ignited the Lindeners and they kept up a relentless pursuit to stretch their advantage, while Waramadong, beaten all three times by the same opponent inexplicably seemed to move away from the game plan and conceded possession frequently in the mid-field alowing the defending
champions to expose their usually robust defence. Francis, who was tormenting the Waramadong defence all night eventually, got his reward when he combined beautifully with the lanky Kurd Johnson to slide the ball past a beaten Gerald Isaacs. The goal came in the 68th minute of play. After that it was all CWSS
and had it not been for their loss of focus the scoreline might have been more emphatic as the Waramadong team looked fatigued and frustrated by the relentless onslaught. However, they held on grimly and never conceded another goal before the final whistle sounded. The champions walked away with $1million, trophy and medals; runner-up $600,000, trophy and medals, 3rd place$400,000, trophy and medals and 4th place $200,000, trophy and medals. The monies will go to projects of the respective schools choices, while all four teams received smart phones. Earlier, Bush Lot Secondary also endorsed the prediction of the pundits, registering a 3-1 victory over Betterverwagting Secondary to finish the tournament in a commendable 3rd place. An 8th minute success by Paul Kingston represented the sum total of Betterverwagting’s effort while the Berbice based team benefitted from a brace from Elon Fordyce (68, 82) and a solitary contribution from Jeavon McKenzie (5).
Noble House Goals Galore Indoor Hockey Competition
PEPSI HIKERS AND GCC WERE TO DECIDE SENIOR TITLE PEPSI Hikers and GCC seemed poised for a final showdown, while the junior division remains wide open with some surprise frontrunners in Old Fort Shooting Stars and Under 19 Mix in the Noble House Goals Galore Indoor Hockey Competition at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall yesterday. Saturday evening’s matches saw Blue Steel turn in two impressive performances to remain in contention to challenge GCC for a place in the final. After despatching Kingston hockey 14 - 10 earlier in the day, Blue Steel returned for their second challenge of the evening, a head to head battle with GCC. GCC dominated possession in the opening half but could not penetrate the solid Blue Steel defence which included a fine performance from goalkeeper Rawl Davson. With GCC conceding a three goal handicap at the start, theirs was the urgency to attack but apart from a lone Andrew Xavier deflection goal, the first half remained quiet.
The Steel conceded a penalty corner two minutes into the second half and GCC captain Devin Hooper sent the ball screaming into the net to signal his team’s determination for success. Young Keon McKenzie however responded three minutes later with an impressive solo run up the left side before cutting right and slipping the ball past Medroy Scotland in the GCC goal. With GCC being the more dominant side, Orland Semple and Devin Hooper with his second drew the side within one but time was running short. With four minutes remaining, GCC took a gamble in withdrawing their goalkeeper in favour of an extra field player to apply greater pressure on the GCC defence. The ploy proves worthwhile as Kevin Spencer received a pass on the left in open field and blasted home a low hard shot to the goalkeeper’s left. The final buzzer would leave the two sides with one point each and both hanging on to a chance for the final.
The Hikers secured yet another victory, this time a 13 – 11 score over Kingston hockey which had begun the match with a 10 goal disparity in their favour. Aroydy Branford hammered home a match-leading five goals for the Hikers in the one-sided affair while Captain Robert France added a hat-trick, Jamarj Assanah a double and the smiling Andrew Stewart completed their tally with a single. Dwight McCalman, who has been having a consistently solid tournament, scored the lone goal for Kingston. The Gladiators and Saints played to a 10 – 10 stalemate in the remaining senior division fixture with both teams finishing out of the running for a top spot. The junior division moved to the knockout stage and the thriller of the day was the duel between the Spartans and Saints. With the Spartans beginning on +1 and Saints with +6 goals, Captain Marzana Fiedtkou and striker Aliyah Gordon got to work from the opening whistle and
scored three goals between them in the first half. The second half would see a similar performance from the Spartans as Fiedtkou and Aliyah both accumulated hatricks in the match. Saints Captain Ezekiel Springer and Meshach Williams however each managed a second half goal which drew the teams even at the final whistle on 6 – 6. The resulting penalty shootout seemed to lean in the favour of the more experienced Spartans, but newcomer Delmar Ng in goal for Saints stepped up to the challenge and denied two of the Spartans three attacks. With Saints scoring two of their own tries, the youngsters were swarmed by excited supporters in making their first semi-final. Revelation with a +8 handicap proved too much for the Hikers ladies (+3) in their knockout clash as the Hikers managed only one goal through Latacea Chung in an otherwise fairly even duel between the sides. Perennial favourite, the GCC Tigers finished a Continued on page 27