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Kaieteur News Printed and Published by National Media & Publishing Company Ltd. 24 Saffon Street, Charlestown, Georgetown, Guyana. Publisher: GLENN LALL Editor: Adam Harris Tel: 225-8465, 225-8491. Fax: 225-8473, 226-8210
EDITORIAL
BLACKOUTS AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
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here is a saying that change is the only con stant in life, but what about when nothing changes? Does it mean that the world is less constant? If that is the case, then what does it say about the electricity situation in Guyana which has struggled to change in the last 30 years? Power blackouts have been constant in Guyana for decades, especially in the rural areas. This government like all of its predecessors has promised to solve the problem, but there has been very little action. The power blackout on the Essequibo Coast which is in its third week is a classic case of this government promising to fix the problem. Its rhetoric that it is committed to providing reliable electricity supply to its valued customers has not calmed the anger of the consumers. Action speaks louder than words. The nation needs a proactive government. There was a time when citizens had become accustomed to having electricity readily available at the flick of a switch. There was also a time when the urban population was expanding due to the creation of new housing schemes and industries outside of the city, and with them came the demand for more electricity. Electricity did expand alongside the housing schemes and the new industries, but unfortunately, it was not enough to meet the demand. However, a few years after independence, Guyana began to experience power outages – initially sporadic, then very frequent and widespread. Power failures have taken their toll over the years in terms of the environment. Public safety has always been at risk. Institutions such as hospitals, sewage treatment plants and manufacturing entities etc., will usually have backup power sources such as standby generators. The rich and powerful have alternate sources of power in the event of a blackout, but not the masses who have to suffer due to their dependency on GPL. While there are many causes of power failures which range from faults at power stations to damage to electrical transmission lines and substations, or the overloading of the system, people are fed-up with the interruptions in their daily lives, the poor quality of service and the incompetency of GPL and by extension the government. GPL is only competent when it is time to cut off electricity from the poor for failing to pay their bills Despite promises by governments to solve the problem, blackouts continue . There has been little change under this government, which promised that if elected to office, it would end blackouts by the end of 2016, and that there would be greater stability in GPL’s service. This has not materialized. The psychological effects and the actual trauma of blackouts on the citizens have generally been ignored. The nation is suffering from the syndrome of blackout-fatigue and there is no end in sight. Despite promises, underpinned by international loans and financial aid from several countries and financial institutions, governments have failed to address this issue in an effective manner. Blackouts have unfortunately become a part of life for the people, many of whom cannot even remember a time when there were no power outages. This is an indictment on our leaders. Even though the situation today is much more improved than what had existed years ago, yet, there has not been anything close to a solution. With added power generation capacity over the years, neither GPL nor the government has reached the stage where they can say with certainty to the public that there will be no more power blackouts. The constant setbacks have cost us immensely. We could ill afford this.
Time to pay teachers a salary befitting the importance of this noble profession DEAR EDITOR, The APNU+AFC government, like the PPP/C before it, has shown itself to be antiworking class and insensitive to the suffering in our society. It seems that the much vaunted “good life” is for the political and corporate elite – the one percent. Millions of dollars can be found to pay for ministers of government to pursue tertiary education, and to travel the world to obtain the best healthcare, not to mention the hefty increase in salaries they awarded themselves only months after assuming office, but the teachers still cannot be paid a decent salary. Very “democratic” indeed. OVP expresses its solidarity with the striking teachers and demands that the Granger administration pay the teachers what they so rightfully deserve. Is it not
time that we pay teachers a salary befitting the importance of this noble profession, and reward them appropriately for the dedication that teaching and molding the minds of the next generation demands? Do not allow the government to peddle the line that we cannot afford to invest more money in our education system and pay our teachers better salaries. This is nonsense! It is all about who and how we determine our priorities. Of course, a government imprisoned in a neo-colonial mindset, that puts the interests of foreign capital over and above the interests of the Guyanese people will fail to prioritize education. However, a government that is free to think for itself, and chart a course for Guyana that leads to true in-
dependence, and the advancement and dignity of our people, will most certainly invest in education, prioritizing our youth and their teachers. We are a resource rich nation with a small population quality e ducation, healthcare, decent salaries for teachers and other public servants, decent and affordable housing etc., are well within our reach. What we need to make this a reality is a government that has the political courage and will to take back ownership of our vast resources and ensure that the revenue from these resources is used to benefit all Guyanese. Sadly, this government is not prioritizing the needs of the Guyanese people. Instead, they serve foreign masters for whom education and empowerment of our people
is simply not a priority. That is why they could sign a contract with ExxonMobil that makes Guyanese the losers, but will still manage to find millions to pay European and foreign oil industry consultants, while treating locals as second class citizens. Unfortunately, the plantation arrangement is very much intact after 52 years of flag and anthem independence, and education and decent salaries for teachers are not priorities on a plantation. We stand with our teachers as they demand their rights and invite them to join OVP in the struggle for true independence and economic freedom in our lifetime. Sincerely, Gerald A. Perreira Organization for the Victory of the People (OVP)
The crisis of credibility continues to stalk Guyana DEAR EDITOR, We are indeed facing a crisis of credibility in this country. People in high positions in this country would say or do provocative things today and a few months after they come out in defiance of what they said or did, as if the Guyanese public has no eyes , ears or memory. For example, President Granger scrutinised several lists containing names of prominent Guyanese supplied by the opposition leader as prospective candidate for the GECOM chair and did not find any one “fit and proper”. A few day ago , in delaying his choice of a police commissioner. He said he was looking for someone “unbribable “and that, “If I put somebody there who is not trustworthy the public would laugh,” Incredulous! Was laughable ever a consideration for GECOM chair? After asking two 82-year-old PUC and Police Complaints Authority chairmen to resign because he felt that they were too old, he unilaterally appoints an 84year-old for the GECOM chair. That’s laughable! Another example. Governor of the Central Bank, Dr. Gobind Ganga did not utter a word to the media or anyone when he received the letter from the finance Ministry, instructing him what to do with the “signing bonus”. The bank had received the US$18 million and he remained silent too. After the lid on the signing bonus broke he did not comment. Now! Learning that Central Bank would be appointed the operational manager of the Natural Resource Fund, Dr. Ganga
told KN that,”We (Central Bank) will not allow any abuse of the Natural Resource Fund. The withdrawal rules will be upheld.”One would have expected Dr. Ganga to make that statement to a few inebriated patrons at a barnot KN, the paper with the widest circulation in Guyana, knowing that with KN, his remarks would have to stand the scrutiny of the public. It’s difficult to comprehend his incredulity! You have to cringe at his audacity for saying, “The withdrawal rules will be up-
held”-rules not made as yet, while the written rules in article 216 of the Guyana constitution state that all monies paid to the state must be placed in the consolidated fund were disobeyed. Being the Governor of the Central Bank, I am inclined to believe that Dr. Ganga is knowledgeable about all the articles in the constitution pertaining to the Consolidated Fund, since the said fund is kept in the central bank. Why did he not comply? Or did he interpret article 216 differently? If he did, he
could have given us his version. How can he defend the central bank insularity from political interference, given his silence or lack of action on the signing bonus fiasco? This crisis of credibility had pervaded our society since independence. It is testimony that important people in the top echelons of society have the perception that we the people are all underlings, incapable of analyzing and detecting the fake personalities they present to us. Rudolph Singh
ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATIVE GUYANESE (ACG) DEAR EDITOR, In year 2020, voters will elect their leaders to improve their well-being in a potentially oilrich economy. The existence of windfall-oil revenues doesn’t automatically translate into development unless the newly elected leader is a person of vision, honesty and committed to unifying the country. Under these circumstances, Guyanese voters must make informed decisions about their Members of Parliament and potential politicians who wish to lead the next general election in 21st Century Guyana. How do voters know whether political leaders are making the best choices under the circumstances of huge oil revenues? Are they misguiding the public by using their positions to develop the country or to personally enrich themselves? Informed decisions, based on past and current information on key political celebrities, must be readily and easily accessible . The Association of Conservative Guyanese (ACG) in response to the lack of data on presidential hopefuls, has decided to investigate key political figures who have directly and indirectly expressed an interest to represent Guyanese in 2020 General Elections. The ACG is a non-governmental organization of volunteers who are dedicated to champion the cause of the poor, and the working poor
Guyanese. The list of criteria used to reveal information about potential candidates, whether AFCAPNU or PPP/C, is based on evidence, Newspapers publications, videos, and public statements which are verifiable; hence, ACG is a fact-finding mission to offer information to the Guyanese voters and key institutional stakeholders at home and abroad. The published facts will facilitate voters to assess politicians at two stages: in the first stage, we will offer a descriptive statistic of the candidates based on verifiable public data; and, in the second stage, profiled politicians will have an opportunity to deny or verify the facts. The criteria-list is not exhaustive and covers three broad categories as follows: Socio-biographic data, Family values, and Leadership in an oil-rich Guyana. Over the course of the next several weeks, we will present our findings. In this week fact findings, we begin with Mohabir Anil Nandlall (Known as Anil) who is currently engaging the Guyanese Diaspora to elicit his intention to lead the PPP/C in the 2020 General Election. Note that 55% of Guyanese reside abroad and is known collectively as the Diaspora which is a key stakeholder in Guyana’s elections. Sincerely, Nandalall Singh
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A FEW QUESTIONS FOR GUYANA’S ASPIRING PRESIDENT DEAR EDITOR, In all her Ministries, Gail Teixeira achieved very little. Health, Home Affairs, Sports and as advisor to the President are some of the portfolios she attained but never excelled. She even usurped the position of Chief Whip at the University of Guyana Council. The worst sojourn was as Minister of Home Affairs, where, amidst the rampage of drugs and home grown terrorism, her solution was as she boldly declared:‘TURN OFF YOUR LIGHTS! DO NOT BUY GOODS FROM THEM! Now this powerful apparatchik from the PPP’s era of Marxism/Leninism aspires for the
highest position in the land. For someone who holds a degree in Political Science, Gail Teixeira was inconceivably trust into the position as Minister of Sport and Culture. It might be superfluous here to ask: What culture does she possess? What sport did she play? Here are a few questions for Guyana’s aspiring president: · What is your main support base? · What is your religion (if any)? · Have you ever been married? · Who would you chose as Prime Minister? · Did you ever declare your assets upon assuming
high office? Let’s be pragmatic here. When elections come around in 2020 she would be 70 years of age, and handling the country’s vast oil wealth. Can we be safe in our standing with the oil companies with this Stalinist cadre? In contextual terms, given that her idol, the avowed Marxist Cheddi Jagan, perpetually sounded the bugle for nationalization this creature can no longer glow in the Marxist light of the Jagans. She has been relegated to twelfth man in the team; now she wants to open the batting! Leyland Chitlall Roopnaraine, New York
The impetus for change has to come from the people of Guyana DEAR EDITOR, There is a story that is told about Bob Marley. Bob Marley was shot while at his home (Jamaica) in December, 1976, two days before he was due to perform at a concert. The story goes that when he showed up to perform at the concert and was asked how he found the strength and courage to show up, he answered “The people who are trying to make this world worse..they are not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness.” I am reminded of a group of people in Georgetown, Guyana who lit up the darkness in a way that Guyanese have seldom seen. They are the civil society group, the Movement Against Parking Meters (MAPM). The entire country (except the political elite) watched in awe as this group went up against City Hall and exposed its corrupt negotiations, stopping them in their tracks. The sheer awesomeness of the strength and power of a spontaneous movement of Guyanese united against injustice was a small signal of the potential of a United Guyana. A secondary, but no less important, observation is that the organisers who were a part of MAPM had more knowledge, principles and a greater sense
of justice than those corrupt officials in City Hall. What if these roles can be reversed? Dare we dream of a day when principled, decent, law-abiding Guyanese are the administrators of the city? What would Georgetown be like if the best of us, instead of the worst of us, were its Administrators?At a national level, politics is dominated by opportunism. There is no space within the major political parties for development focused individuals. They are pushed to the side while the biggest opportunists take centre-stage. The moral corruption has now completely extended into the public sector, where the ruling party decides who is hired and who is fired. When the Guyanese politicians invite qualified competent overseas based Guyanese professionals to return to Guyana, they need to add the fine print ‘to be our stooge or to do our bidding.’ The political culture of Guyana is now so corrupt that the worst of us are elevated into positions of power at both National Elections and at Local Government Elections, creating a huge human resource crisis and condemning us to permanent third world status. Decent, law-abiding, straightthinking citizens and profes-
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sionals are marginalised, pushed out and excluded from the decision-making processes of nation building and replaced by weak-minded individuals. The country is being run by the worst of us. Guyana is a third world country and will remain a third world country because the best and most qualified of us are deliberately excluded from being involved in decision making and administration. This is a direct consequence of an opportunistic political culture. The Human Resource crisis that is facing the nation and stifling our development is a created crisis that can be reversed, but only if there is a radical change in the political culture. The impetus for change has to come from the people of Guyana. If we fail to take our responsibilities to our nation seriously, especially with the threat by the militaryindustrial complex on the horizon, we can be assured that we are the only ones taking the day off. Sincerely, Sandra Khan
The PPP will never allow Freddie Kissoon to determine its Presidential candidate DEAR EDITOR, Freddie Kissoon has got some nerve, trying to desecrate the character of my friend and colleague, fellow Member of Parliament Gail Teixeira. She is well-respected, dignified, cultured, highly educated, and one of the leading candidates to replace Granger as President in 2020. More importantly, she is a woman with a vision and a patriotic Guyanese. In his usual condescending way, Kissoon uses a statement made by the PPP General Secretary to disqualify Gail Teixeira’s electability on account of her age. Here’s my take on this to show just how hypocritical Freddie Kissoon really is: Since when does it matter to Kissoon what Bharrat Jagdeo says? He has never agreed with the former President before on anything. Further, with Guyana having a 72 year-old retiree as President, and other senior citizens in his Cabinet, the likes of 72 year-old Dr. Rupert Roopnarine, 70 yearold Moses Nagamootoo, 72 year-old Noel Holder, and 69 year-old Carl Greenidge; and also with the appointments of 80 plus year-old Dr. Clive Thomas as the Head of SARA, 84 year-old Justice James Patterson as GECOM Chairman, and others too numerous to mention but I’m sure you get the drift. President Granger has now ensured that a person’s age could no longer be an issue in public life. In any event, Gail Teixeira is much younger and better-looking than all those mentioned above. In his diatribe, Kissoon also references the Tennessee Williams’ play, “Orpheus Descending” to describe Teixeira. This time he readily admits to not being a literary critic, as “Orpheus Descending” is about trying to live bravely and honestly in a fallen world. Ironically, this sums up the character of Gail
Teixeira. Living one’s life according to one’s convictions and bravely defending them is thought to be something honourable. But only the venomous mind of Freddie Kissoon could view it otherwise. This self-righteous individual has a long-standing axe to grind with Gail Teixeira, so it is necessary for me to debunk some assertions made in his column. Freddie was opposed to her being appointed to serve on the Council of the University of Guyana, and blames the PPP for his dismissal. The truth is, as stated in a press statement in February 2011, the UG Council did not renew Kissoon’s contract by a majority vote on two grounds: He was past retirement age, and had produced no research or academic publications in the 20 years he worked there. His columns in the Kaieteur News did not count. By the late 1980s, both Teixeira and Kissoon served on the Patriotic Coalition for Democracy (PCD), for the PPP and WPA respectively, a body that was set up with all the opposition political parties to push for free and fair elections after decades of dictatorship under the PNC. Back then, even the WPA could not handle Kissoon and soon banned him from PCD meetings after it was recognized that he would prematurely break up the PCD. But his bitterness festered and has since turned to pure ha-
tred for anyone associated with the PPP. Hence his daily anti-PPP rhetoric in the Kaieteur News. The WPA however, ultimately in 1991, broke up the PCD with their demand that firstly, Cheddi Jagan should not be the Presidential Candidate as Afro-Guyanese would revolt against an Indian leader, and, when they subsequently acquiesced, they demanded that Dr. Jagan could be the Presidential Candidate, but the PPP could only have 13% of the seats in Parliament regardless of how many they won. We all know how that turned out. Gail Teixeira was involved in the thick of all these battles and yes, she fought on principle against such opportunism on behalf of her Party. Time has also shown that the PPP was right, as look at the WPA today… totally compromised and in bed with the PNC, the party which assassinated their leader, Dr. Walter Rodney according to the findings of the 2016 Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Dr. Walter Rodney’s assassination. Let us not be fooled, Freddie Kissoon has his own agenda. He has openly declared his preference for my other friend and colleague, the former PPP/C Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, who gave him $50,000 while he was building his house. Kissoon said so himself in a previous column. It therefore seems that Kissoon wants to crush any potential threat to his (Continued on page 6)
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Teachers and their Union need to be firm with the Coalition Administration DEAR EDITOR, This letter provides the corrected version of a table on teachers’ salaries published in Guyana Times on August 27, 2018. With America and the United Kingdom having vested interests in Guyana for strategic geopolitical reasons and as a former colony respectively, these countries, particularly the United Kingdom, must be shaking their heads at what continues to obtain in Guyana in our political and economic affairs. Not only they, but Guyanese can very probably attest for themselves that granting Guyana independence in 1966 was premature, because while there was no doubt a need to curtail the extraction of our wealth while a colony, as a means of promoting development locally, releasing Guyana as an independent nation has, in retrospect, been disastrous. After 52 years of economic mismanagement and retrograde politics, many Guyanese workers and their families survive on depressed incomes while our govern-
ment ministers, with the approval of the president himself, made themselves right by granting themselves multimillion-dollar annual salaries, deliberately ignoring public servants on the lower salary scales.The people whose votes brought the administration into power are being treated like fools. I was made to understand that the Police Force did not receive an increase in their salaries in one of the more recent years. It is my considered opinion that underpaying workers is equivalent to robbing them. The last three years of the PNC-led coalition administration has been a display of utter ignominy, having learnt nothing from its previous misadventure in the political economy of Burnhamism. It is impossible for an economy to prosper, or a government to survive, by casting aside the private sector and marginalizing close to 50% of the population. These I think were thoughts of Dr. Cheddi Jagan on Burnhamism. This aside, I wish to address the concerns of our teachers and public servants in general.
The current administration has adopted measures, which clearly demonstrate that it intends to de-emphasize workers and their rights both in respect to working conditions and compensation. I reiterate that public servants and workers in general have to make their welfare a priority of this government, and for that matter, any government.
In respect of salaries for teachers and public servants in general, I have already demonstrated that G$146,000 leaves workers with just over G$12,000 per week to look after food, their dependents and other miscellaneous needs, clearly inadequ a t e t o t h o s e f a m i l i a r w i t h our cost of living. This is not even consid-
ering the impending impact of the recent increase in bus fares. I have consistently maintained that the salaries of all public servants should be adjusted by an amount,whichbrings the salary of the lowest paid worker up to an acceptable ‘living wage’. While there has been no agreement as yet on this figure, the adjoining
table places the current demands of the teachers’ union in context, excluding miscellaneous items. These I suggested should be dealt with subsequently, since I think that ensuring that all workers receive at least an acceptable living wage is more important. The annual increases have been applied to the base figures alone, since this method produces reasonable numbers. Examination of these figures, the base numbers of which are estimates, reveals that the total of $900 million put up by government is nowhere close what teachers are asking for. They are encouraged to stand firm with their union, since it is clear the administration has little intention of paying them their just salaries. They should avoid being ‘bought’ by any little bits of money the government pays out as a me ans of breaking their strike. Yours faithfully, Craig Sylvester
The PPP will never allow Freddie Kissoon to determine... From page 5 choice for the PPP Presidential Candidate. I expect that other uncomplimentary articles will soon be written by Freddie Kissoon on those that stand in the way of his choice, but let me make this pellucidly clear… Anil Nandlall, if elected, would be an excellent Presidential Candidate as well as any of the other front-runners, but this decision must be the collective wisdom of the Party. The
PPP will never allow Freddie Kissoon to determine who its Presidential candidate should be. Although Gail Teixeira is a household name in Guyana, not much is known about this lady who has dedicated so much of her life to the land of her birth and its people. She is not one to blow her own trumpet. From the early age of 14, Gail migrated to Canada with her parents. Years later, she met Dr. Cheddi Jagan while he was visiting Toronto in 1976. Obviously impressed with the work she was doing in support of the People’s Progressive Party, Dr. Jagan, after consultation with the PPP Secretariat, invited her to return to Guyana to be his Personal Secretary. The rest is history. Cheddi Jagan must have seen something in this young woman that made him make such a bold move.
Throughout the years that followed, the astuteness of Dr. Jagan and the PPP has not been let down by the choice they made, as they gained a woman who has been trustworthy, disciplined and loyal to the party, and dedicated to the people of Guyana, the country of her birth. The Gail Teixeira I know never flinched when the issues of principle were at stake, even when she was attacked both physically and publicly, as some people did not then understand the position of the People’s Progressive Party. Years later the PPP has now been vindicated. Freddie Kissoon maliciously and falsely attacks Gail Teixeira as an “ideological Stalinist”. In fact, Stalinism died since 1953. The newly formed PPP of 1950 never supported or defended Stalinism and Gail Teixeira was a toddler when that era ended, thankfully. As an adult she has always stood up for human rights and the respect and dignity of people. Her life has been dedicated to Parliamentary Democracy. But by now, we should all recognize that Freddie Kissoon is deliberately dropping these loaded terms for a reason; he is the ‘Pied Piper’ playing to someone else’s tune and sending signals to anti-PPP forces, both internal and external, that Gail Teixeira would not be acceptable. These forces know too well that it was the PPPC despite the “communist bogey” accusations of the 1960s - that moved this country forward as never before in the
23 years of its successive administrations as it did when in government in the early 60s. These same forces are now watching closely at the demise of Guyana again under an undemocratic, inept and corrupt APNU+AFC Coalition government. In his column, Freddie Kissoon as usual, praises the late PNC Leader, Forbes Burnham, and demonizes Janet Jagan. Kissoon seems to have a fetish about Mrs. Jagan as he repeatedly attacks her, a great woman leader of Guyana, who is recognized internationally as one of the revolutionary women of the 20th century. In this case Kissoon uses this to opportunistically attack Gail Teixeira. Kissoon refuses to accept that in 1997, Guyanese voted overwhelmingly for Janet Jagan at the age of 77, giving her an even larger majority than her husband received in 1992. He conveniently ignores the fact that Burnham robbed the people of this country of their dignity, and the right to have their voices expressed freely and fairly at elections held in 1968, 1973 and 1980. This was repeated by Hoyte in 1985. When Burnham died, he left the country broken, fractured, and on its way to bankruptcy. The historian David Granger and the former PNC Minister of Finance, Carl Greenidge can both testify to this, but that would never happen. HARRY GILL PPP/C Member of Parliament
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Teenage Suicide 5,000 apply for UG: over 3,000 admitted Prevention group embarks students from 35 different countries on awareness activities
New students of the University of Guyana at the 2018/2019 Orientation Staff of the University of Guyana (UG) on Monday welcomed the new batch of 2018/2019 university students, at the George Walcott Lecture Theatre at its Turkeyen Campus. Registrar at the Univ e r s i t y o f G u y a n a , D r. Nigel Gravesande explained that the diversity of the student and faculty population has seen massive growth this year, with members coming from 35 different countries, and all the administrative regions in Guyana. Dr. Gravesande congratulated the students on gaining successful entry to the various programmes offered at
the university. “As you join this spec i a l c o m m u n i t y a t U G, you need to know and understand what its purpose and core values are. We are a community of scholars engaged in the generation, dissemination and application of knowledge.” The registrar told the students, that while engaging in the gathering of information at the tertiary institution, they should be invested in the details of knowledge making. “I urge you as new students beginning a journey in tertiary education, to never sacrifice the hallmarks of critical thinking and critical in-
quiry.” Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Guyana, Professor Ivelaw Griffith encouraged freshmen to embrace and foster certain values in order to attain success. “The habituation of excellence is a value you want to practise if you want to be successful. The value of integrity must also be practised, you are not allowed to plagiarise.” Professor Griffith also advised them to make their university life worth the experience and by being involved in extracurricular activities on campus. “It is not just about
the classes, do other things; join a club, get involved in sports, get involved in undergrad research, find other things and build relationships.” Over three thousand new students were enrolled at the Turkeyen Campus f o r th e n e w a c a d e m i c year 2018/2019.
The Prevention of Teenage Suicide Guyana, (POTS) Guyana has embarked a number of awareness activities in observance of World Suicide Prevention Day scheduled for September 10. According to a release from POTS Guyana, the activities kick off with a memorial walk at 6am, from Charlotte and Camp Streets, on Sunday September 9. This is the third annual memorial walk held by POTS Guyana, which helps to raise awareness about suicide prevention and mental health issues. On September 10, in observance of World Suicide Prevention Day (POTS) is hosting a suicide prevention seminar at the Umana Yana starting at 10am. At 2:30pm a suicide prevention awareness concert is scheduled for the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall for students and teenagers. And at 6pm a candlelight vigil will be held outside the Sports Hall. According to the President of POTS Guyana, Lisa Punch, “the activities are imperative to our young people who are despairing and having suicidal thoughts, to know that there is help available”. “All you need to do is to ask for help. We expect at least 100 people to turn out to the walk as we’ve collaborated with Mass Distribution Company. These
walk means so much to the survivors of suicide. We expect 50 persons at the seminar which is in collaboration with PYARG (President’s Youth Award Republic of Guyana). The concert will feature our best artists. It’s amazing to see entertainers take time out to give back to our future generation,” Punch said. POTS Guyana is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to reducing suicide in Guyana by providing bereavement support services to survivors of suicide, and education talks. Established in 2014, the organization has grown to 60 volunteers. World Suicide Prevention Day is sponsored by the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP), a global association of academics, mental health professionals, crisis workers, volunteers and suicide survivors from over 50 countries who are devoted to p r e v e n t i n g suicidal behaviour, and alleviating its effects. The World Health Organization reports that over 900,000 people worldwide die by suicide each year. This corresponds to one death by suicide every 40 seconds. The number of lives lost each year through suicide exceeds the number of deaths due to homicide and war combined.
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Guyana deserves more in future oil contracts; fiscal regime must change – Chatham House By Kiana Wilburg No one has to wonder anymore. It is a fact that Guyana is rich with oil. As such, future contracts with oil operators must reflect that the government is aware of the value of its resources. The Government must ask for what it is entitled to. But it can only do this if the fiscal regime governing oil deals is changed. This appeal was recently made to the Government by Chatham House. Like others, this international organization wants Guyana to get a fair deal from the next crop of billion-dollar oil companies that want in on the country’s black gold. Chatham House told the Guyana Government that the risks are highest for exploration companies in frontier areas where no discovery has been made. It noted, however, that a major discovery significantly de-risks the country. “This is what happened with Guyana, ExxonMobil’s discovery has de-risked it.” Chatham House explained that when no oil
discovery has been made, fiscal regimes tend to be favourable to investors. The anti-corruption entity said it is for this reason that oil companies get significant tax breaks, a low royalty percentage to give the government and its split of the profit oil is greater. Chatham House noted, however, that these fiscal benefits are scaled back following commercial discovery. It said, “When oil is found, fiscal regimes tend to be more stringent. The significant discovery offshore Guyana has important implications for the evolution of the fiscal regime for subsequent licences in Guyana. As such, the authorities need to make urgent changes.” Chatham House also noted that in the development of the fiscal regime, the government will be faced with a number of challenges. It said that these challenges will include adjusting current fiscal terms to fairly reflect the change in Guyana’s risk profile without upsetting investor confidence; preparing early for the establishment of a robust revenue management mechanism;
legislative and regulatory reform to reflect changes at an appropriate speed (balancing urgency with the need for comprehensive reform); optimizing support and assistance from various agencies and service providers; and capacity to design, benchmark, negotiate, implement and audit the petroleum fiscal system. (SEE LINK FOR ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: https://www.chathamhouse. org /sites /default /files/ events /special /24022017 % 20 Guyana % 20 National % 20 Seminar % 20 Summary . pdf CAPACITY Chatham House is not the first organization to point out the need for Guyana to im-
prove its capacity to effectively manage the oil and gas sector. Global financial bodies such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have said multiple times, that more needs to be done. A c c o r d i n g t o t h e I M F, there is limited capacity at all levels in the Ministry of Finance and in the line agencies. It said that this is a significant constraint for the possibilities to implement and institutionalize Public Financial Management (PFM) reforms. As for further capacity building efforts, the Fund said this could and should have been coordinated with local training institutions. In this regard, it said “The Ministry
of Finance should explore further the options to cooperate with local training institutions (e.g. recently opened Bertram Collins College of the Public Service; University of Guyana) and other partners to deliver necessary training programs on a continuous basis.” It added, “Other, costeffective and efficient solutions, such as developing a partnership arrangement with other countries in the region could be a viable option as well. New capacity-building actions should be designed to channel appropriate training programs through these institutions, and to use their staff to perform training. In this way, training skills could be further built up in those institutions to provide sustain-
able ongoing training in years to come.” Given the state of affairs, the International Monetary Fund made several recommendations in areas that Guyana needs urgent capacity building. The Fund said that the country needs to develop capacity to interpret and administer Production Sharing Agreements (PSA). It said that officials should understand thoroughly all the fiscal provisions in these arrangements, including the accounting annex. It added, “Government needs to establish formal and structured working relationships on responsibilities between agencies with regulatory responsibilities for the petroleum sector. It needs to develop petroleum fiscal regime models and train officials on tax policy, fiscal modeling and revenue forecasting for the sector. They also need to strengthen the fiscal reporting including on natural resource revenue flows and statutory bodies and public corporations, and ensure consistency with international standards (e.g., the IMF general template on natural resource revenue statistics).” It noted too, that the Government needs to build capacity to undertake long term revenue forecasting from extractive industries.
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The Teachers’ Union is buckling under pressure The Guyana Teachers’ Union is about to fall apart. It is weak-kneed. It is not standing firm in the wages impasse it has with the government. The pressure that the government has applied and the inadequacies of the union is creating panic within the leadership. The union is hesitant. It is retreating from its original position of a 40% top-up for 2016 plus 5% annual increases. The union is floundering. Instead of sticking to its original demand for an immediate 40% across the Board increase in wages for 2016, it is now weakening its own negotiating positions by saying that it is willing to accept less than 40%. The government is winning the propaganda war and the union has been unable to convince many of its own teachers that the 40% is affordable. The government has been peddling the line that the teachers want an increase
of 40% for 2016, 45% for 2017 and 50% this year. This is not the revised position of the union. The union has said that on top of the 40% for 2016, it will accept annual 5% increases. The union has not managed to convince the public that the sums that it is claiming are sustainable. They are sustainable. The 2018 Budget estimates give the total employment costs of nursery, primary and secondary schools at $3.3 billion. A 40% increase therefore on the 2016 employment costs is therefore likely to only amount to about $1.5 billion. The government, despite lower revenues from public corporat i o n s , collected $9 billion dollars more so far this year than from the first half of 2017. GuySuCo can no longer be the excuse. The government has dismissed more than 5,000 sugar workers, and therefore has no reason to provide the hefty subventions of the
past few years. In fact, the government has floated a bond to raise more than US$150M to finance GuySuCo. The money is there, and therefore it is surprising that the union is now saying that it is prepared to accept less than 40%. This is a position of weakness and it signals that the union is really not as prepared for the long haul as it claims it is. There are two main risks which any union faces. The first is that once you call a strike, it is not easy to call it off, unless major concessions are made from the employers. The government is not budging. It has even refused a lastminute offer by the union to call off the strike in return for arbitration and no loss of benefits. The second risk facing the union is that unless it delivers on its promises to the workers, it is going to implode. The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU)
Dem boys seh ...
Exxon can be a messy tenant
When yuh rent a house to somebody yuh got to keep yuh eye pun dem, because people who rent don’t treat de house like dem own. Nuff people cry when dem tenants move out. De place look so bad that it would tek all de rent yuh collect to fix de place. Guyana rent out it property to Exxon and now it got to keep it eye on the tenant. Dem boys know that Exxon deh in a business that does cause a lot of mess. And dem know that is no ordinary mess. If Guyana don’t look out people can dead. Everybody know that oil sweet, but wha coming wid it far from sweet. Dem got de sludge that Exxon will dump
anywhere. Guyana got to monitor de dumping. But dem boys know bout de water that Exxon gun use to bring up de oil. That water got sulphur and nuff odda things that dangerous. Every day is 400,000 gallons of sea water going through de system and bet yuh bottom dollar Exxon gun dump that water back in de ocean. People does seh that de ocean big and it can handle li’l pollution but wha dem don’t know is that fish deh in de water and Guyanese does eat nuff fish. Dem boys hear some people talking how Exxon deh far out in de ocean. One man claim how it deh suh far that people can’t even stand up
at de seawall and see anything. Wha dem don’t realize is that we have deep sea fishermen who gun ketch dem same fish that live in de water wha Exxon gun pump back in de river. Fish does suck up anything. There is a saying we are what we eat. Fish is what we eat. Is not by accident that tilapia does taste like mud. When we eat de deep sea fish it might taste like oil waste. People gun get sick. Dem boys don’t intend to get sick, so dem gun watch how Exxon gun dump de waste, and if dem can’t do it dem gun hire people to do it. Talk half and mek sure yuh control yuh tenant.
175 primary schools, 120 govt. agencies connected – Telecoms Minister At the half-year mark, the Ministry of Public Telecommunications had completed over eighty percent of its 2018 work programme. This was disclosed by subject minister, Catherine Hughes during a recent interview. “We at the Ministry of Public Telecommunications are very excited at the things we have been able to achieve. This has been a very fastpaced and rapidly moving year for us so far,” the Minister said. In total, from September 2016 to present, the ministry has provided 175 primary
schools, over 120 government agencies, 37 technical and other tertiary institutes with free internet access across the e-government network, “…that is safe and secure, and that allows citizens, students, administrators, the public service to be able to do more, because they’re connected,” Minister Hughes noted. She said the ministry, through the National Data Management Authority (NDMA), continues to establish Information and Communication Technology (ICT) hubs across the country, with
the current total at 135 hubs. A total of 35 hubs were built and commissioned this year including Yakusari and Baracara villages in Berbice, and Victory Valley in Linden. Minister Hughes informed that the ministry is now clear to begin the 5-year ICT Access and eServices project for Hinterland, Poor and Remote communities. The first shipment of materials is expected in Port Georgetown shortly. This is a US$17Million project funded by the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF).
never recovered from calling off the 1999 strike. It has never called another because of what happened to the leadership when the time came to urge the workers to go back to work on a promise of arbitration. One union leader had to be escorted under guard out of the GPSU headquarters. The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) is buckling under the pressure. And the government knows this. The Union in trying to reduce its demand is weakening its position. It is doing the same by saying that it is prepared to call off the strike in return for certain conditions. The union has been protesting in the wrong places. The problem is not the Ministry of Education. The problem is the Ministry of Finance. The die has been cast. The union cannot now go to the negotiating table – even if it is called to do so – from a position of weakness. It will lose credibility and negotiating muscle unless it strikes and shows that it can shut down the education sector. There is division within teaching ranks. Many teachers cannot afford to
strike. Their salaries are already small and many of them got house lots under the PPPC and have taken out mortgages. Many of them have loans on cars which have to be paid. Striking is not an option for many of them. The union is now realizing how divided is its membership. There is also the additional problem of many of its members not wishing to be seen as striking against the present government. Instead of panicking, the union should be rational. It should make an appeal to those trainee teachers and retirees which the Ministry has hinted can be hired during the strike. The GTU should call
on these trainees and retirees to not be used as scabs. If the union does not get what it wants from the government, and if its proposed industrial action fizzles, then the implication is that teachers will revolt against their union leadership. Either a new leadership will emerge, or the same one will be retained but will be alienated from the membership.
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=== The Freddie Kissoon column ===
Guyanese cannot be so insanely hypocritical Long before the APNU+AFC regime reached three years, it embarked on unpopular policies that had echoes of the PPP’s imprint. Just a mere year after it came into power, the government had done identical wrongdoing that characterized the rule of the PPP. In the days of PPP domination, countless voices were heard denouncing those unpalatable things the PPP did. The nation always reminded the PPP government about its depravities. The dissenting voices during the reign of the PPP have either migrated to the cemetery or have suffered from carcinogenic laryngitis.
Take the WPA. It leads the chorus of protection of neoliberal economics, a cruel ideology that Clive Thomas wrote countless manuscripts denouncing from the seventies onwards. The WPA warned Minister Jaipaul Sharma that he must be careful what he says doesn’t play into the hands of the PPP. In a long letter in the newspaper, the WPA put it this way; “Minister Jaipaul Sharma joins PPP leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, in labeling the cash-transfer proposal a gimmick aimed at getting votes. We wonder which party he thinks will benefit from this so-called gimmick.”
It doesn’t need any explanation whatsoever. You help the PPP’s cause if and when you criticize the APNU+AFC government. This attitude comes a mere three years after this country showed relentless vexations with the unacceptable policies and cruel decisions of the PPP. From 2015, when it got power, the APNU+AFC leadership decided with graphic clarity that they will not be pleased with people telling them that they are doing wrong things. Such a state of mind is best exemplified by what Minister Khemraj Ramjattan said on television. Just one year after
the APNU+AFC coalition
Mother who fatally stabbed three-year-old son remanded Brenda Ferreira, the 26year-old mother who stabbed her three-year-old son twice to the heart, last Saturday, killing him, was yesterday charged with murder at the Cove and John Magistrate’s Court. The mother of two was remanded on the indictable charge and will return on September 12th pending a psychiatric evaluation.
The woman, who was unrepresented, was escorted in handcuffs to the court by two female police ranks. She was then placed in the prisoners’ dock, where she sat with a blank look on her face. When questioned by Magistrate Peter Hugh as to her current address, the woman first said it was 15th Street, Foulis. The magistrate
then rephrased the question and asked the woman what her lot number was. She answered in a very low tone, “no we renting”. There was some back and forth on the next court date, since a psychiatric evaluation that has already commenced has not been completed. The Prosecutor asked the magistrate for (Continued on page 23)
came into power, Ramjattan was interviewed by Christopher Ram. When Ram pointed to castigations by me and David Hinds of the overbearing mistakes of the government, Ramjattan declared that perhaps Hinds and I want to bring back the PPP in power. This was an exclamation by a minister whom I fought alongside and knew the oppression I went through under the PPP regime, including victimization of my wife. But why point to the intolerance of the leaders of APNU+AFC. Their supporters who had unlimited energy are now silent. Just think of what would have happened if Jagdeo or Ramotar was in power and a huge delegation from the US House of Representatives accompanied by military personnel had arrived in Guyana on a visit that was shrouded in secrecy. The delegation came, spent one day, did not meet the press and the official opposition. Let your imagination roam. The leadership of every opposition party, civil society groups, social media fanatics and the energetic detractors of the PPP government would have come up with eerie, weird, and surreal
speculations that words could not have scientifically described. Some of the semantic atrocities would have included – (1) they come to warn the government not to argue with Exxon; (2) they are here to discuss the upcoming elections; (3) it is to set up a military base to deal with Venezuela. So where are the pens and voices during the days of PPP’s misrule? If teachers went on strike during the hegemony of the PPP, many of us from non-teaching professions would have been seen in the picket line. This columnist is going to join the picket for one fundamental reason only – it is the decent thing to do. I did it when the PPP was in power. The use of power is still onesided in 2018, and I have an obligation to show moral support for our teachers. We boycotted the 1823 monument on the seawall road during the rule of the PPP. Now the PNC is in power, Granger goes to the site yearly to give his talk, and dozens and dozens sit at that very site to listen to him, a site that they ridiculed when the PPP was in power. The logic is weird
Frederick Kissoon and unacceptable, but it is understandable, and it goes something like this: We rejected the site at that time because the people in power were not our leaders. Our leaders are now in power, so we should accept the site. I remember at one public meeting, Walter Rodney once wondered how the then leaders did not choke on their words when they fooled the masses. I am wondering myself if those who rejected the 1823 monument being put on the seawall road do not fear that the seats would collapse as they sit on them. So I guess we live in a Guyana today where it was good guys versus bad guys when Jagdeo and Ramotar ruled. All of a sudden Guyana has only good guys now.
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Scales to monitor overweight hinterland vehicles to be installed in three months
Green Paper on Natural Resource Fund deeply flawed - contradicts the Constitution, increases discretion of Finance Minister – Ram By Kiana Wilburg Government’s Green Paper on the establishment of the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) is filled with worrying flaws. It also holds opportunities for abuse by its managers, the principal one being the Finance Ministry. This point was made yesterday by Chartered Accountant, Chris Ram. During his interview with Kaieteur News, Ram said that the Green Paper proposes that moneys earned from the extractive sector will be transferred to the Natural Resource Fund. When the government needs a portion of the money, it will transfer the sum to the Consolidated Fund and then proceed with using it. Ram notes however that this process is in conflict with the Constitution. He said, “The Constitution does not allow for this. The Constitution clearly states that all funds are to be transferred to the Consolidated Fund, the country’s main bank account. When it goes to the Consolidated Fund, then moneys can be
A section of the Linden/ Lethem roadway
The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) and the Ministry of Public Infrastructure are taking the necessary steps to ensure vehicles traversing the interior roads adhere to the specified weight limits. According to Manager of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC)’s Special Projects Unit, Arun Richard, a number of scales have already been acquired by the Ministry of Public Infrastructure and will be installed shortly. “I would say within about three months they will be installed. We are still to define which sections of the carriageway we are going to put the scales on, but they are going to be strategic so that they can have a wide effect. For example, one placement can be used to determine vehicles that will use maybe several roads like Linden for example,” Richard told the Department of Public Information. The move to install scales comes at a time when the GGMC has ramped up maintenance efforts and recently awarded contracts valued at almost $700M for the upgrade and maintenance of interior roads from Linden to Kwakwani and Linden to Lethem.
In addition, Richard says stakeholders of the mining and logging communities have indicated their willingness to comply with the new arrangements which will rely on the law rather than unofficial agreements. “From a transportation engineering perspective, we would rather rely on the strength of the system as opposed to a gentleman’s agreement, and this is why we have resorted to installing scales and advocating for the more responsible use of the road. So, I am thinking to have an enforced system in place that would be the ideal situation to aim for,” he added. According to the Special Projects Manager, the interior roads are unpaved and are therefore susceptible to being
damaged if improperly used. He said a major problem is the overloaded vehicles traversing the roads, particularly during the rainy season. There is nothing worse that can happen to a road than it being used outside of its design specification… the vehicle is overloaded and you have additional axle weight beyond the design of the road which leads to rotting and failures. Adherence to load limits is important,” Richard said. The hinterland roads have been in a terrible state this year, from rains, with numerous vehicles stuck, and in some cases, bridges broken with overweight vehicles. Gold production has reportedly been badly affected, with some communities left isolated.
Chartered Accountant Chris Ram withdrawn. The people who came and wrote that thing (the Green Paper) don’t know what they are doing with respect to our domestic laws.” The Chartered Accountant added, “What is also alarming is that the Green Paper does not minimize the discretion of the Finance Minister when it comes to making decisions regarding the use of the Fund. In fact, the Finance Minister controls every-
thing, and this is just not Winston Jordan, but any Finance Minister. I would not trust any Finance Minister of this country to have control over such substantial funds.” Ram said he is a proponent of Natural Resource Funds, once they are independently and professionally administrated. “But this paper seems to be predicated on the assumption that it is always going to be this government that will be in charge of those funds.” JAGDEO OPPOSED The Green Paper also reveals that Bank of Guyana will share some responsibility in the management of the Natural Resource Fund. It will also be overseen by a committee that encompasses several independent interest groups, including a representative nominated by the Leader of the Opposition. But Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo revealed that he is (Continued on page 22)
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Disciplinary action recommended for engineer overseeing Eccles, Supply Health Centres …Payment made to contractor questioned The Region 4 (Demerara/ Mahaica) administration has dispatched a letter to the Min-
istry of Communities requesting disciplinary action be taken against an engineer overseeing the construction of the Eccles and Supply
Health Centres on the East Bank of Demerara. Regional Executive Officer (REO), Pauline Lucas last Thursday informed the Re-
gional Democratic Council (RDC) about her decision to write the Ministry about the performance of engineer, Yogesh Narain. Officials became concerned after a payment was authorised by the engineer for the construction of the Eccles Health Centre without the approval and knowledge of the REO. The contract for the Eccles Health Centre is $27M. The project should have been completed in June, but work is still ongoing. Kaieteur News understands that works recently started on the health centre at Supply, which has a contract cost of $30.1M. The region became concerned following interventions from the Clerk of Works, who raised questions about the quality of work being done. According to regional officials, about three weeks ago, the contractor, with the blessing of the engineer, poured concrete for the floor of the health centre against the recommendation of the Clerk of Works. Further, regional officials
Region 4 engineer, Yogesh Narain have also questioned the engineer over his intervention in projects while on leave. As recent as June, accounting officials were appalled over the performance of Region Four engineers, during a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). It was revealed that contractors were being overpaid. Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Communities, Emil
McGarrell, had explained further that the issue of overpayment stemmed from the fact that the engineer had just returned from a scholarship programme and lacked the kind of experience to handle such matters properly. Chairman of the PAC, Irfaan Ali, had noted that tremendous issues are coming out of the regional administrations in relation to the engineering officers. He called on the REO to ensure that there is proper supervision of the engineers. Last April, at a meeting of the PAC, it was noted that the accounting officers were not implementing measures to avoid the recurrence of overpayment in its entirety. The PAC said that accounting officers and engineering staff appear to persistently sign off on incomplete projects. It noted that this is not a matter that affects one budget agency, but all. The issue of overpayment was even noted by Auditor General Deodat Sharma in his latest report. He viewed it is a matter of “grave concern.”
Construction of the Eccles Health Centre is behind schedule.
Alleged con woman faces another fraud charge Nazia Persaud who has pending matters before almost every magisterial district, was brought before Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday to answer to a charge of obtaining money by false pretence. The 36-year-old woman who hails from Grove, East Bank Demerara, pleaded not guilty to the charge which alleged that on October 19, 2016, at Georgetown, with intent to defraud, she obtained $1.2M from Margaret Daly, by falsely pretending she was in a position to construct a low income house for her, knowing same to be false. Persaud who was represented by Attorney-at-Law Stanley Moore was released on $400,000 bail and was ordered to make her next court appearance on September 26. In her address to the court, Persaud admitted that she has pending matters of a similar nature in other courts around the country. The defendant said that she has been attending all of her court hearings and would like to be granted bail so as to
continue to assist with the development of the Electra Foundation, where she works as an officer. Police Prosecutor Quinn Harris revealed that the woman has matters of a similar nature at the Linden, Providence and Anna Regina Magistrates’ Courts. According to the prosecutor, on the day in question Daly met with the defendant and handed over the monies which were to be used for the construction of a house at Number 52 Village, Corentyne, Berbice. A fair amount of time passed and Daly was unable to make contact with the defendant so she reported the matter to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Headquarters, Georgetown. Investigations were launched and Persaud was arrested and charged. In the Linden Magistrate’s Court, Persaud faces a similar charge. The court was told that the woman obtained a large sum of cash from Niomi Ceon by falsely pretending that she was in the position to construct a house for her.
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Man relates odd confrontation that leads to vehicle ‘repossession’ Fallen victim to a slothful system and an apparent fraud scheme, 24-year-old Deodharry Odit is at a loss as to when or if he will be able to get back his car that he would have purchased just about three years ago. In today’s society it is the dream of every aspiring young adult to own their own means of transportation, and at the age of 21, young Odit was able to make this dream a reality. On the 15th of April 2015, he successfully purchased himself a vehicle on terms, through a reputable bank. Fast forward three years and in the month of June this year, he finally paid it off, and was clear of all indebtedness for the vehicle by the bank, and thus the full owner of the vehicle, PPP 6881. Upon returning from a trip on the 31st of July 2018, he was picked up by his father at the airport, and driven to Georgetown. However this trip would be the last time he would use his vehicle.
Odit claims that on their way down, a vehicle behind them (registration number provided), was repeatedly flashing its lights in their rear view, but they paid it no mind. However upon traversing through Providence, a man ran onto the roadway. So as not to hit the man they were forced to stop, which led to the vehicle that was trailing them to overtake and cut them off. The man that ran in front of the vehicle then brandished a document claiming that the vehicle belonged to another bank, and he was there to repossess it. In order for this exchange to happen, Odit’s father rolled down the window on the driver’s side of the vehicle - an opportunity the man took to push his hand into the vehicle and take out the key. Odit however would not budge, and using quick thinking, called the police who responded promptly. The officer instructed him to take the vehicle to Provi-
The vehicle being contested dence police station where it has since been lodged. Odit was of the opinion that he needed only to produce his relevant documents, to support his ownership, for him to be on his way with his vehicle, but this was not so. He claims that upon arriving at the station, he was met by an Officer (name provided) who immediately called him a fraudster and ordered that he be placed in handcuffs,
to which lower ranks complied. Odit also claims that he was placed on a bench and kept from speaking with his father or anyone else. He says it was from there he was able to overhear an officer and the man who cut him off chatting it up like old friends. Odit says he was then transferred to the Brickdam
Station in the back of the police car. It wasn’t until he made it here and spoke to an officer from the fraud department that he was able to be taken out of handcuffs and released on his own recognisance after explaining the situation. It has been one month since this incident oc-
curred, Odit would have submitted all his documents to show legal ownership; that he bought the vehicle, and that he no longer owes any Bank for the vehicle. Based on recordings heard by this newspaper, the only thing keeping the young man from being reunited with his vehicle, is a statement from the “other bank” so as to indicate whether they wish to claim the vehicle or not. When contact was made with the loan department of that bank, they claimed to have no knowledge of any vehicle being repossessed with the licence plate number PPP 6881. Odit is left at his wits’ end as to what to do next, as the bank refuses to communicate further, and every day that he does not have his vehicle, he is forced to rent a vehicle to get his work done.
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From page 11 completely against this arrangement. The former President said, “We don’t want politicians to manage this money. This fund has to be independently (and) technically managed, not by politicians and stored by Central Bank. We have a problem with that model and it departs radically from best practices such as (those observed by nations like) Norway and others where they have an independent group that manages this.” Jagdeo added, “So even the model for this will present a lot of problems. (Finance Minister, Winston) Jordan can call the Central Bank and get moneys whenever he wants it or bully people…” The Opposition Leader reiterated that the Finance Ministry’s model for the management of the Fund leaves him and his party concerned. VACANCY Manager to work at Xenon Hotel in Charity. Call#2235273/74 Driver/Expediter. Call: 2235273/74 Vacancy exists for 2 assistant cooks @ People’s Choice Kitchen. Strictly night shift. Tel: 679-9449 Office Assistant: 5 subjects CXC (inclusive of Mathematics & English), Computer Literate. Submit application to P.O box 16005 Georgetown, Guyana.
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Minibus operators using decade-old statement to justify own fares “Drivers seem to be getting away with the idea that they can make a new bus fare whenever they feel like and enforce it upon passengers anyhow they want,” were the claims made by one passenger. Another stated that “when you ain’t want pay the fare they asking for, or you ask them for your right change, they does want buse you”. And the list of complaints continues. Route 42 minibus operators along with others are now publicising statements made by Eon Andrews (President of the United Minibus Union) and Former Minister of Tourism, Manniram Prashad over a decade ago (2007) to support their very own fare structures. The statements being alluded to are - from Andrews: “Minibus operators will not be committing any traffic breaches if they ask commuters to pay higher fares” and from Prashad: “Ministry does not have any legal authority to fix a fare”. This has led to commuters “facing all sorts of harassment and embarrassment over as little as $40 to $100”, verbal abuse, demanding behaviour and sometime even demands for them to “jump out the bus” if they refuse to pay the increases or stand up for their rights by the minibus drivers themselves and/or conductors. However, what minibus operators are unaware of is the fact that these statements are no longer of consequence or applicable, and that demanding additional money and/or the extra twenty dollars is illegal, and can lead to
A fare sheet posted on a Route 42 bus commuters reporting them to the Police. The Government of the Guyana through the Ministry of Business, in association with the United Minibus Union, have already made changes to the fare structure, scheduled to take effect on September 1st, 2018, detailing a twenty-dollar increase across the board. “This serves to remind Commuters that they should not pay an increase in fares until September 1st and that all minibuses regardless of route, from September 1st are expected to have the official fare structure displayed in their
buses. The official fare structure is to have a stamp from the Ministry of B u s i n e ss and/or United Minibus Union,” a Ministry statement indicated. Commuters that face any form of harassment by drivers or conductors for additional fares before September 1st have the right to report the matter to the Police Station. Additionally, commuters have since been advised to pay with change or if not, request their change for the time being, as the increase is yet to come into effect and minibus operators do not possess the authority to arbitrarily increase fares.
Six months jail for man who punched uncle in the face A thirty-one-year-old porter who admitted to punching his uncle to the face causing him to receive injuries was yesterday jailed by a City Magistrate. Wesson Hinds, of Newtown, appeared before Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, and pleaded guilty to the charge which stated that on June 20, last, at Newtown, he unlawfully and maliciously wounded Stanford Williams, so as to cause him actual bodily harm. Police Prosecutor Quinn Harris stated that around 06:15 hrs, on the day in question, Hinds was beating his nephew with a piece of wood and Williams intervened. However after Williams spoke with Hinds, the latter became annoyed and started using abusive language towards him. Williams being fearful for
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his life ran inside his home and locked himself in his bedroom. The court heard that Hinds ran behind Williams and kicked down his bedroom door. It was there that he dealt him a punch to the jaw and threatened to chop him to pieces. Due to the punch, Williams received injuries and was taken to the hospital where he received treatment and was sent away. The matter was then reported and Hinds was arrested and charged for the offence. Hinds when asked by the Magistrate why he punched his uncle, stated “He should have minded his own business. I was beating my cousin to learn his book. He (Williams) should have stayed out.” Magistrate Latchman after listening to Hinds told the court that she took into consideration his early guilty
Jailed: Wesson Hinds plea and the fact that Williams had to receive medical treatment for his injuries. She sentenced him to six months in prison.
Mother who fatally stabbed three-year-old... From page 10 six weeks to return to court with the evaluation. This request was denied, since the magistrate said such an evaluation should not take more than two weeks. The date was set as September 12 for Ferreira’s next court appearance. Ferreira was seen last Saturday running behind her son, three-year-old Ramdeo Mahadeo, with a knife in her hand, in the yard of their Lot 585 15th Street, Foulis, East Coast Demerara premises. One eyewitness claimed to have seen the woman thrusting the knife into the child’s back. The witness said that after hearing the screams of the child, she immediately called the Enmore Police Outpost. The woman said that “at this time she had dragged the child back into the house. I was in shock, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing!” The police responded promptly, and the child was found in a bloodied state, lying on a bed in the small wooden structure they call home. The ranks that responded, immediately rushed the child to the Georgetown Hospital, where valiant attempts were made to save the child’s life, but unfortunately he succumbed.
Brenda Ferreira being led away from the court after being remanded to prison. When Kaieteur News spoke to 50-year-old Shamlall Mahadeo, the husband of Ferreira, and father of two children with the woman, he was at a loss as to why the woman would kill their child. He was visibly in distress and was clutching to their other son, who is said to be four years old. The child witnessed the whole incident. After Saturdays unexplained act, a number of questions have been raised, in relation to how mental health issues are being addressed in Guyana, and if
enough is being done in relation to identifying the issues and making sure persons get the relevant help. The mother has not explained why she would have committed this gruesome act, although there are unsubstantiated claims that the woman said that she had a dream she would die and she wanted her favourite child with her. There is some hope that the psychiatric evaluation will shed some light on what would have caused this mother to kill her child.
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Costa Rica, Panama ... From page 26 Yomira Pinzon 49´, Lineth Cedeno 90+ 4 Costa Rica (11) El Salvador 0 Daphne Herrera (3 ) ( 5 ‘, 45 + 1’ and 55 ‘ Shirly Cruz (2) (19’ and 21 ‘) Katherine Alvarado (9 ‘), Gloriana Villalobos (30’), Raquel Rodriguez (36 ‘), Cristin Yorleny Granados Gomez 64’, Fabiola Villalobos (82 ‘) and María Salas (84’). Wednesday, August 29 Costa Rica (4) Nicaragua (1) Fabiola Sanchez Jimenez 3´, Raquel Rodríguez Cedeno 61´, María Fernanda B a r r a n t e s 6 7 ´ , We n d y Patricia Acosta 84´., Doriana Aguilar Omeir 71´Panama (6) El Salvador (2)Natalia Millis 41´, Karla Paola Riley 42´, Kenia Rangel Villarreal 58, 69´ and 90´+1 Lineth Cedeno Villarreal 80´, Damaris Beatriz Quelez
38´, Brenda Damaris Ceren 4 5 + 1 2018 Concacaf Women’s Championship Dates: October 4-17, 2018 Venues: Sahlen’s Stadium (Cary, North Carolina), H-E-B Park (Edinburg, Texas) and Toyota Stadium (Frisco, Texas). Teams: North America (3), Caribbean (3) and Central America (2) Number of teams to qualify for the World Cup: 3 (Champion, runner-up and third place). The fourth place finished will dispute a homeand-away intercontinental playoff, with Argentina, the third-place finisher of C O N M E B O L’s 2018 Women’s Copa America. The winner of the playoff will qualify to the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019.
Limacol football tourney kicks off tonight at MOE ground
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he third annual Limacol Football Tournament which will see 12 teams matching skills in a round-robin/ knock out format, kicks off tonight at the Ministry of Education (MOE) ground, Carifesta Avenue with a double header from 18:00hrs. Pele Football Club (FC) will clash with Northern Rangers in the first match of the competition which has seen the 12 teams divided into three groups for a chance to win the top prize of $600,000 and the Limacol championship t r o p h y. In the feature match tonight, Police FC, which has been one of the most consistent second division teams in the past two years, will play East Coast Demerara based Mahaica Determinators from 20:00hrs. The runners-up in the tourney will pocket $300,000, second place $150,000 and third $75,000. Meanwhile, fans will enter the MOE venue that will host the competition throughout free of cost for all the group stage g a m e s . Below are the respective groups: Group A – Police FC, Pele FC, Northern Rangers FC, Mahaica D e t e r m i n a t o r s Group B – Camptown FC, Georgetown Football Club, Riddim Squad, Buxton Stars Group C – Santos, Pouderoyen, Grove Hi Tec, Beacons FC
Thursday August 30, 2018 ARIES (Mar. 21–Apr. 19) Peace reigns in the home today. Members of your household could communicate with each other almost telepathically, Aries. TAURUS(Apr.20–May20) You could attend a social event today, Taurus, but you won't feel like talking. You could be content just to listen to what everyone else says, feel at peace, and enjoy the warmth, music, and company. GEMINI (May 21–June 20) Someone, perhaps a close friend or partner, could present you with a small gift today, Gemini, possibly a book. There might not be any special occasion other than your friend thought you'd enjoy it. CANCER (June 21–July 22) Your intuition should be keener than usual today, Cancer, but right now you're apt to be more interested in historical figures, perhaps people associated with spiritual disciplines. LEO (July 23–Aug. 22) Happiness reigns in the home, Leo, as everyone seems to have reached a new understanding of one another. You could also experience a new sense of peace and quiet. VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22) Today you might attend a group event of some kind in your neighborhood, Virgo, possibly in the company of a partner.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22) Circumstances are changing regarding your professional goals, Libra. You may have been thinking about a change for a long time, but someone you meet today, perhaps in a social or casual situation. SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21) You're probably good at applying your spiritual principles to the way you live, Scorpio. You're especially good at it today, particularly when it comes to understanding others deeply. SAGIT(Nov.22–Dec.21) Sagittarius, you're usually more outwardly directed, but today you might break that pattern. CAPRI (Dec. 22–Jan. 19) Today you might crave the companionship of friends and lovers alike, Capricorn. You're probably in the mood for some good food, good music, and great conversation, and that's just what you'll get. AQUARIUS(Jan.20–Feb.18) You're feeling pretty strong now, Aquarius. You're probably in fairly good health and your mind is sharp. You've outgrown some areas of your life that no longer seem what they once were.. PISCES (Feb. 19–Mar. 20) Are you getting along better than ever with a significant other, Pisces? If so, it's probably because you're more attuned to what your partner thinks, feels, needs, and wants.
BWF CAREBACO Regional Championships 2018
Priyanna Ramdhani takes U17 Girls Doubles gold; Mishka Beharry cops U11 Singles Bronze
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he third annual Limacol Football Tournament which will see 12 teams matching skills in a round-robin/knock out format, kicks off tonight at the Ministry of Education (MOE) ground, Carifesta Avenue with a double header from 18:00hrs. Pele Football Club (FC) will clash with Northern Rangers in the first match of the competition which has seen the 12 teams divided into three groups for a chance to win the top prize of $600,000 and the Limacol championship trophy.
In the feature match tonight, Police FC, which has been one of the most consistent second division teams in the past two years, will play East Coast Demerara based Mahaica Determinators from 20:00hrs. The runners-up in the tourney will pocket $300,000, second place $150,000 and third $75,000. Meanwhile, fans will enter the MOE venue that will host the competition throughout free of cost for all the group stage games. Below are the respective g r o u p s : Group A – Police FC, Pele FC, Northern Rangers FC, Mahaica Determinators Group B – Camptown FC, Georgetown Football Club, Riddim Squad, Buxton Stars Group C – Santos, Pouderoyen, Grove Hi Tec, Beacons FC
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Digicel joins Williams as title sponsor of CMRC International
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igicel will join Wil liams Industries as joint title sponsor of this weekend’s third round of the 2018 Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC) at Bushy Park Barbados, rekindling a successful partnership dating back to 2010. The Williams Digicel International Race Meet (September 1/2) will play host to regional Champions past and present on two and four wheels in a 22-race programme organised by Bushy Park Motorsports Inc (BPMSI). Digicel was co-sponsor of Bushy Park’s major annual fixture from 2010 to 2016 . The communications giant, which marked its 14th Anniversary in Barbados in February, took a step back last year, but remained as sponsor of the popular and highly-competitive Group 2; the return to joint title sponsorship will result in an enhanced presence for the brand at the St Philip facility over race weekend. In addition to the two title sponsors, BPMSI has at-
Part of the scene at the first of two Meet and Greet sessions which took place at Skymall last Friday evening in Barbados where fans took a peep at some of the cars competing in the upcoming International Meet. tracted further local support for the individual Groups Crane & Equipment (Gp2), Glassesco (Gp3), Percy King Auto Parts (Gp1) and SeeSash (Gp4) – while Hilti will again lend its name to the traditional end-of-day Handicap Race. BPMSI Treasurer Kurt Thompson said: “As we head
into the 2018 Williams Digicel International Race Meet, I would like to thank all our sponsors for their support of this event. Corporate Barbados continues to support motor sport, even through these tough economic times and I know that the committee and members of BPMSI
Guyana surge to fifth 50-Over U-19 C'ship with 7-wicket win over Windward Islands Kingstown, St Vincent, CMC – Guyana’s last round victory over the Windward Islands coupled with Trinidad and Tobago’s heartbreaking loss to Jamaica helped them to capture the Regional Under-19 50-over title here yesterday. Both teams headed into the final round of matches with a similar record of four wins and one loss, but Guyana was crowned champions after they soundly whipped the Windwards by seven wickets, while T&T lost by four runs to Jamaica. Guyana’s victory was spurred on by a spirited bowling performance by opening bowlers Joshua Jones and Qumar Torrington, along with Kevelon Anderson. Jones struck with just the second ball of the innings, dismissing Jaheil Walters for a duck without a run on the board and 12 runs later he also accounted for the wicket of Teddy Bishops. And once Anderson was
brought into the attack, he quickly snapped up the wicket of top scorer Jahseon Alexander for 22, to spark a middle order collapse which saw the Windwards lose their last seven wickets for 54 runs. Anderson was the main culprit, finishing with figures of 4-26 and he received good support from Torrington (326) and Jones (2-23). Guyana was actually in early trouble at 14 for two at one stage, before a 63-run partnership between Sachin Singh and Kevin Sinclair carried them to safety, with Sinclair topscoring with 39 and Singh stroking an unbeaten 27. Needing a win to have any hope of doing the double after capturing the 4-Day title, T&T fell agonisingly short. They looked to be on their way to victory when Justyn Gangoo (3-4) and Crystian Thurton (3-17), ran through Jamaica’s middle order to rout them for just 107 runs.
But Sanjay Browne and Kirk MzKenzie had other ideas, as they reduced T&T to 73-9. However, the last wicket pair of Jayden Seales and Gangoo put on 30 runs to carry their side within a whisker of an unlikely win. It was not to be though, as Roberto Simpson trapped Seales lbw for 24 to spark wild celebrations among the Jamaican players. The day’s other match between Barbados and the Leeward Islands ended in a no result due to inclement w e a t h e r . Barbados were seemingly on their way to victory, having posted a total of 174 for six in their 20 overs and then restricted their opponents to 33 for four before the rains came. Guyana ended with 27.8 points, T&T was second with 22.3 points, Jamaica third on 20 points, Barbados fourth on 18.8 points, the Windwards finished fifth on 17.2 points, with the Leeward Islands (8.8) and Canada (0.6) points bringing up the rear.
are grateful. I am especially grateful to the returning title sponsors this year, first ‘Bizzy’ Williams and the management at Williams Industries, also Alex Tasker, Leia Walker and the team at Digicel Barbados Ltd.” Over the past few days, BPMSI members have been
putting the finishing touches to their preparations for the Club’s biggest race meet of the season, making ready to welcome veteran regional drivers such as Guyana’s Andrew King and Mark Vieira, both regular visitors to Bushy Park since the early 2000s.
In contrast, rising young stars from Trinidad & Tobago, including teenager Isa Deen, Luke Bhola and Kristian Boodoosingh, can expect their racing careers to stretch well into the 2030s. While some of the T&T contingent has been in the island since last weekend, preparing their cars for action, containers carrying further race cars from T&T and both cars and bikes from Guyana will clearing the Bridgetown Port in the next 48 hours. With Practice & Qualifying on Saturday, ahead of the Sunday race programme, the Williams Digicel International Race Meet will encompass around 10 hours of action on the 2.01kilometre International Circuit; the schedule includes the CMRC categories, Groups 1 to 4 for cars and Superstock 600 Bikes, all incorporating BPMSI’s own points-scoring classes, along with the Radical Caribbean SR3 Cup’s third round and the BimmaCup Challenge, with the Hilti Handicap rounding off the Sunday programme.
Costa Rica, Panama punch tickets to CWC Bradenton, Florida– Costa Rica and Panama punched their tickets to the 2018 CONCACAF Women’s Championship with victories on Wednesday on match day 2 of the Central American Zone of CWC Qualifying at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida. Costa Rica (2W-0D-0L, 6 points, 15GF, 1GC) will play in the CWC for the seventh time in its history after posting a 4-1 win over Nicaragua. Fabiola Sanchez Jimenez gave the Ticas a dream 1-0 start with a goal in the 3’, but a sturdy Nicaraguan defense would keep Costa Rica in check until the hour mark. Costa Rica would finally break through for a 2-0 lead in the 61’ thanks to Raquel Rodriguez and six minutes later Maria Fernanda Barrantes Rojas stretched it to 3-0. The Pinoleras would not go away though, and Doriana Nachelly Aguilar Omeir cut the deficit to 3-1 in the 71’, but Costa Rica finished strong and earned the 4-1 final scoreline with Wendy Patricia Acosta Salas’s goal in the 84’. Meanwhile, Panama (2-0-0, 6, 10GF, 2GC) will compete in its third CWC thanks to its 6-2 triumph over El Salvador. It
Kenia Kristel Rangel Villareal (FEPAFUT) was no easy task for the Canaleras, who found themselves behind after Damaris Beatriz Quelez Jimenez earned El Salvador a 1-0 lead in the 38. But goals in the 41’ and 42’ from Natalia Didelka Mills Urrunaga and Karla Paola Riley Serracin, respectively, gained Panama the lead. El Salvador fought right back and moments before halftime Brenda Damaris Ceren Delgado evened things up at 2 2 . Panama took control in the second half and was led by Kenia Kristel Rangel Villareal,
whose hat trick (58’, 69’, 90+1’), coupled with Lineth Isabel Cedeno Valderrama’s goal in the 80’, paced Panama to the three points. The Central American Zone of CWC Qualifying will wrap up on Friday with El Salvador facing Nicaragua and Costa Rica dueling with Panama. Central American Zone of Concacaf Women’s Championship Qualifying IMG Academy, Bradenton, Florida United States Monday, August 28 Panama (4) Nicaragua (0) Karla Paola Riley (2) 9´y 68´, (Continued on page 25)
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Albion lift BCB/Mike’s Pharmacy U-15 Championship
Lakeram Singh presents Albion Captain P. Ganesh with the winning trophy.
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uyana Under-15 Player Jonathan Rampersaud played one of the best innings ever in youth cricket in the Ancient County of Berbice but still ended up on the runner up side. Albion Community Centre Cricket Club (ACCCC) defeated prefavourite Rose Hall Town Farfan & Mendes by just six runs in a dramatic final which was described as one of the finest hosted by the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) over the last three decades.
Albion won the toss and as expected batted first on their home pitch. Openers Hemendra Gurdyal and Tameshwar Mangal added 37 for the first wicket before Mangal was run out for 13 in the 3rd over. The inform Leon Cecil was then dismissed for 13 with three successive boundaries. Albion eventually ended on 167 for 6 from their allotted 50-overs. Gurdyal top scored with 40 with support from Tameshwar Mahadeo (17) and Damien Cecil 28.
The BCB/Mike’s Pharmacy U-15 Champions, Albion Community Centre Cricket Club. Extras contributed a healthy 38 runs as the Rose Hall Town Farfan & Mendes bowlers had a bad day at the office. Needing to score 168 from 50overs to win, Rose Hall Town reached 40-1 but then collapsed to 45-5 in the 12th over as the Albion spinners took control. National Under-15 player and Rose Hall Town Captain Jonathan Rampersaud then played the innings of his life to score a magnificent 93 with six boundaries. He singlehandedly led the effort
and with his team down and out at 116-9. He added 45 for the 10th wicket with Shamar Scott who contributed with just 3. With 6 runs required from 16 balls, Rampersaud was beaten in flight by part time spinner Tameshwar Mahadeo and was caught and bowled for 93 to spark celebrations from the Albion team. Leon Cecil took 4-24 and P. Ganesh 3-39. De Veira was the only other batsman to support Rampersaud with 24 as two of his teammates ran them-
selves out. Rampersaud was named player-of-the-finals and also took home the Best Batsman award. Over $200,000 worth of cash and prizes were shared out. Four batsmen Mahendra Gopilall, Leon Cecil, Jonathan De Veira and Rampersaud received either batting pads or gloves for scoring centuries during the tournament. Rampersaud and Cecil received batting gloves each for being named Best Batsman and Bowler respectively. The
winner team took home $60,000 and trophy while the runner-up received $30,000 and trophy. Berbice Cricket Board President Hilbert Foster hailed this Mike’s Pharmacy sponsored tournament as a tremendous success and also noted that it was the first final in Berbice for over three years. Foster expressed gratitude to Mr. Lakeram Singh for his support of the BCB and stated that they are looking forward to a fruitful relationship with Mike’s Pharmacy.
Stephens survives scare to reach third round in New York New York (Reuters) Defending U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens overcame scorching heat, a blister and an inspired performance by qualifier Anhelina Kalinina to advance to the third round with a hardfought 4-6 7-5 6-2 win y e s t e r d a y . The third-seeded American fired an ace on match point to complete the comeback, which took 2 hours and 46 minutes on a hot and humid day on Arthur Ashe Stadium. ”I wasn’t playing my best,” the 25-year-old said in an oncourt interview. “It was super hot and that was no fun at all. I was sweating a lot,” she added. “But I came out in the third set bouncing around.” The 21-year-old Kalinina blitzed Stephens at the start,
racing out to a 4-1 lead in their first meeting before capturing the first set to make the partisan New York crowd nervous. Stephens bounced back in the second, jumping out to a 3-0 lead before taking a medical timeout to receive treatment for a blister on the palm of her right hand. The bandage on her serving hand seemed to hamper her and Kalinina broke Stephens in the first game after the timeout and leveled the set at 5-5. But Stephens regrouped and crushed a running forehand winner to level the match and force a decider. Stephens emerged from the 10-minute heat break following the second set the fresher of the two players, committing eight unforced errors to Kalinina’s 17 as she cruised to the finish line. Next
Maurice Solomon & Co. 20th ... From page 29 are collectively worth more than $500,000 during the Guyana Open tournament by participating in putting contests at the Giftland Mall, Pegasus, Marriott, Princess and Grand Coastal Hotels.For more information on how you can be a part of the Lusignan Golf Club’s activities, please visit their Facebook page or call 220-5660. Free lessons and equipment are available for persons of all ages who are desirous of learning the game.
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Sloane Stephens. Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports up for Stephens is hardhitting former world number one Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, who thrashed Australian Daria Gavrilova 61 6-2. Despite the marathon match yesterday, Stephens is battle tested in New York. She won four threesetters en route to last year’s final, where she defeated fellow American Madison Keys in the straight sets to claim her first Grand Slam t r o p h y . Venus Williams beat Italy’s
Camila Giorgi 6-4 7-5 in the U.S. Open second round yesterday to set up a possible third-round match against her younger sister Serena. Venus, seeded 16th, powered through the first set but appeared to lose energy toward the end of the second in broiling conditions inside the newly built Louis Armstrong Stadium. She said the crowd’s encouragement had helped her. ”I felt the energy, definitely,” Venus said. “That love-40 game at four all was not
looking good and you guys really got me through that.” Venus Williams won U.S. Open in 2000 and 2001. Meanwhile, Maria Sharapova overcame a shaky start and survived a spirited fightback from Patty Schnyder to defeat the Swiss veteran 6-2 7-6(6)
in the first round of the U.S. Open on Tuesday. Five-times Grand Slam champion Sharapova, who won at Flushing Meadows in 2006, struggled with her serve at times in the opening set but Schnyder failed to take full advantage.
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Athletic road race and fitness walk in New Amsterdam successful Athletics returned to the town of New Amsterdam with a bang when Country Pride Television in collaboration with the Guyana Committee of Services (GCOS) and some Business entities organised a series of age group Road Races and a Fitness Walk. The activities were held on Sunday last where competition in the athletics race took place in the U12, U14, U16, U18 U20 and Open in both the male and female categories. The race which began at approximately 08:00hrs saw the runners using the Republic (Back Dam) Road, instead of Main Street as the main route. Athletes travelled as far as from Linden and Georgetown with one person in a wheelchair making the journey from the City to participate. New Amsterdam Mayor Winifred Haywood sent the athletes on their way from the Amsterdam Arch at the junction of Main and Vryheid Road. The route continued right into Vryheid Road, right turn into Republic Road into Stanleytown, right at Tacama Turn into Strand (Water Street), north along Strand into New Amsterdam where they finished at the entrance of Payless Variety Store at the junction of Strand and Pitt Streets, opposite New Amsterdam Market. Athletes who participated in the fitness walk and the person in the wheel chair took a similar route, covering a distance of approximately three miles. The U12 and U14 athletes turned right into Philadelphia Street, right into
The respective category winners following the presentation of prizes.
Strand to finish at the same point as the seniors. The various winners were as follows: U12 Girls - Jennifer Byass 1st, Shelly Ann Sampson 2nd. U12 Boys Jamal Woolford 1st, Walton Alleyene 2nd, Tyrone Johnson 3rd. U14 Girls Naiomi Paddy 1st, Amrista Hector 2nd while the Boys U14 category winner was Kelon Singh with Jarred Mohabir, 2nd. Daniel Quinton won the Boys U16 category ahead of Nicholas Rudder with Shaquana Tyrell winning among the Girls from Tessa Grimmond and Ashanti Simon in that order. The winner in the Boys U18 category was Devon Grimes, Defroy Yorrick 2nd and Carlos Crawford, 3rd. The Girls U18 winner was Tia
Murphy Nash (right), the U20 winner and first athlete to cross the finish line being rewarded.
Azore with Julez Henry, 2nd. The male U20 winner was Murphy Nasha, Royston Souvenir 2nd and Royston Fordyce 3rd while Sheana Tyrell won Girls U20 trophy. Prison Officer Eon Rodney was the first to finish in the Open category with Andrea Thomas, 2nd. Uttamkumar Isurdeen was the lone wheelchair competitor. Participants were presented with trophies, medals among other gifts. Sponsors included Star Party Rentals, Payless Variety Store, The GCOS and Country Pride Television. Coordinator Andy Henry thanked all those who supported the event and the athletes and fitness enthusiast that came out to make the vent the success it was. (Samuel Whyte)
Eon Morgan, the Open winner
GFF-RAP capacity building underway
The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) / FIFA Refereeing Assistance Programme (RAP) commenced yesterday at the Conference Room of Critchlow Labour College, Woolford Avenue. Proceeding the in-house session was an opening ceremony with remarks from GFF’s President, Wayne Forde and Peter Prendergast, FIFA’s Technical Instructor and facilitator of the session. The RAP is a capacity building programme which seeks to create uniformity among referees and enable same to meet the demands of the game. This year, the programme will feature some 35 referees being a part of the sessions which are usually both classroom and field based with a fitness test being scheduled for today at the National Track and Field Centre (NTFC), Leonora. Pendergrass noted before the start of the programme that
Sitting from left, Peter Prendergast, Wayne Forde, Wilson Toledo and Stanley Lancaster pose for a photo with the participants of the RAP. the new Video Assistant Referee (VAR) will not be covered in the during the five-day training since it will not be coming to the CFU anytime s o o n . The facilitator noted that off
the field behavior is very important because, “If you’re not fit, focused and fair then you will not get the opportunity to go on the pitch. Whenever you are on the streets of Guyana or overseas, you
never know who is watching, so it’s important to stay disc i p l i n e d . ” Meanwhile, President Forde hailed the officials for their commitment to the game despite the challenges, “There
are 22 passionate people on a football field who are willing to abandon every rule in order to carve out a win and in order to do that consistently for 90 minutes sometimes 120, no one should envy you for
that.” Forde further stated that people who do the most are often least recognised, in reference to the usual harsh treatment towards officials. The programme will conclude on Monday, September 3.
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Chess Grand Master Bologan visits Guyana Chess Federation
Campaigns for Russia’s former Deputy PM for President of Fide By Sean Devers
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resident of the Guyana Chess Fed eration (GCF) Attorney of Law and Politician James Bond said the one-day visit by 46-year-old Viktor Bologan Moldovan, Chess Grandmaster and Chess author has many benefits for the GCF, especially with the 43rd Chess Olympiad Batumi set to start in Georgia from September 23. Bond told the gathering at the National Resource Centre on Tuesday that the development of Chess in small federations like the GCF does not get the attention or funding they need to move Chess forward. ”The federation will benefit from the Grandmaster’ experience and his ideas on Chess in Schools, Chess in Prisons and this trip could be the first of many,” Bond informed.
Bond feels another benefit will be the training of the team here for the Olympiad and the Grand Master will give some tips to team members. There is also a benefit for Bologan, who in 1996 successfully defended a doctoral thesis on the structure of preparation of high level chess players at the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism and is throwing his support behind a new candidate for president of the global chess body, Fide. Russia is backing 46-year-old Arkady Dvorkovich, who Bologan says has an impressive CV in both chess and politics. He stated that Dvorkovich was Deputy Prime Minister for six years and headed the Organising Committee for the FIFA World Cup, and organised the 2014
Viktor Bologan, Moldovan chess grandmaster play against members of the National Chess team including National champ Wendell Meusa (left).
Arkady Dvorkovich Magnus Carlsen vs Vishy Anand world title match at Sochi. If Bologan get Guyana to pledge their support for Dvorkovich that would be his benefit of his brief trip to Guyana. Bond disclosed that Greece’s Georgios
Maurice Solomon & Co. 20th Anniversary Golf Tournament on this weekend
Makropoulos, the FIDE Deputy President and Chief Administrator, is contesting against Dvorkovich at the elections set for October 3. Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov, a businessman and politician, was the President of the Republic of Kalmykia in the Russian Federation from 1993 to 2010, and he has been the President of FIDE, the international governing body for the game of chess, since 1995.
Before the parties had a closed door session to debate what Bologna’s man could do for small Chess Federations like Guyana, the Grand Master took on members of the national Chess team which included National Champion Wendell Meusa at the same time. The Chess Olympiad is a biennial tournament where teams from all over the world compete. FIDE organises the tour-
nament and selects the host nation. Guyana’s 2018 Chess Olympiad Batumi team to Georgia comprise 10 players; a five-member Guyanese open and a five member women’s team.The Open team is Glenford Corlette, Anthony Drayton, Taffin Khan, Wendell Meusa and Loris Nathoo while the Women’s team is made up of Sheriffa Ali, Nellisha Johnson, Shazeeda Rahim, Sasha Christina Shariff and Maria Varona-Thomas.
Guyana Beverage Company Oasis Water Cycle Race set for Sunday in Berbice
Maurice Solomon sits while a member of staff presents LGC head, Aleem Hussein, with the sponsorship cheque for the tourney.
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he Maurice Solomon & Co. 20th Anniversary Golf Tournament is scheduled to tee off at the Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) Course this Saturday from 12:30hrs and it promises to be a fun filled but challenging event for the players. The course is in immaculate condition and a full line up of players are expected in support of long time member, Maurice Solomon. Managing Partner of the Accounting Firm, Maurice Solomon, is the LGC’s longest active member and his company has provided auditing services for the club for many years. Solomon has been an ac-
tive member, winning several times in his category in 2018 and strongly intends to continue winning both on a personal and corporate level. The tournamen t w i l l b e played in three categories and special prizes will be awarded for Longest Drive, Nearest to the Pin, Best Gross and Best Net Overall and is open to players of all handicaps. A special invitation is extended to clients and friends of the Company, members of the ex-pat community and visitors in Guyana, especially those who have never visited the magnificent grounds at the Lusignan Golf Club. The LGC has been trans-
f o r m e d i n 2 0 18 having hosted more than 25 tournaments so far and the next few months will see an increase in activity at the club as almost every major company in Guyana is set to host a golf tournament leading up to the 2018 Guyana Open set for November 3-4. A massive marketing campaign will be launched next week and players from more than 12 countries have registered to participate in an effort to wrest the Men’s and Women’s title from Guyanese hands. Fans will be able to obtain free tickets that will allow them an opportunity to win attractive prizes that (Continued on page 27)
Guyana Beverage Company Brand Manager Raymond Govinda (2nd right) hands over the sponsorship cheque to Coordinator Randolph Roberts. Also in pic are Berbice Sales Representative Albert Budhoo (right) and cyclist, Balram Narine. The Annual Guyana Beverage Company/ Oasis Water Cycle 85-mile Road Race organised by the Flying Ace Cycle Club will be held this Sunday in Berbice and is open to cyclists throughout Guyana. On Monday last the sponsors handed over the cheque to cover the cost of the race to Coordinator Randolph Roberts. The simple ceremony was done at the Beverage Company’s Berbice Office, Palmyra East Coast Berbice. Brand Manager Raymond Govinda did the honours on behalf of the Company.
The event is expected to be keenly contested since all of the top riders in the country are preparing to be present. The riders will peddle off at10: 00hrs from the Guyana Beverage Company’s office at Palmyra East Coast Berbice, proceed to Skeldon and back to the place of origin. Prizes will be awarded to the first 10 finishers, the first three juniors, first three 12-14 riders while there will also be 10 prime point prizes up for grabs. There is also expected to be a special race for BMX riders.
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Ambris, Warrican back for India tour St John’s, Antigua, CMC – Left-arm spinner Jomel Warrican and opening batsman Sunil Ambris have made their return to the West Indies team having been named in a 15-man squad to tour India in October and November. The duo has been selected to replace fast-bowler Miguel Cummins and seasoned opener Devon Smith, who both had disappointing performances in the recently concluded series against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. During the month-long tour, the regional team will play two Test matches, five One Day Internationals and three T20 matches. Warrican last played for the senior squad in 2016 when the Windies toured Australia. The 26-year-old Barbadian has played four Tests and has taken 11 wickets, with a best bowling performance of 4-67.
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Rugby Americas Challenge Series
Green Machine no match for trounced by Paraguay A line up between the Green Machine and Paraguay (in possession) during their match in Colombia yesterday.
Jomel Warrican
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he national Men’s 15s Ruggers who are popularly known as the ‘Green Machine’ caem in for a fine trouncing at the hands of Paraguay, 7-86 yesterday
Warrican has been recalled following an outstanding series against England Lions in February of this year while representing West Indies ‘A’. During that three-match home series which the Windies ‘A’ won 3-0, Warrican snared 31 wickets, including a best of 8-34, at an average of just 8.96. Ambris, 25, had his short Test career halted after playing just two matches when he sustained a broken hand last December during an ill-fated test debut in New Zealand.In those two matches he scored just 25 runs and has an average of 8.33. Smith’s exclusion will most likely mean the end of his 15-year international career, in which he failed to live up to his full potential. In 43 Test matches, Smith averages 23.78, with one century and eight half-centuries, while his average of 24.62 in 47 ODIs is only slightly better. The 36-year-old Smith endured a miserable outing against Bangladesh, scoring just 76 runs in the two-match Test series which the Windies won 2-0. It was an equally disappointing series for Cummins who took just six wickets in the two Test matches at an average of 13.50. In 13 Test matches, the 27-year-old has taken just 27 wickets at an average of 37.59, while in 11 ODIs he has nine scalps. Fast bowler Kemar Roach has recovered from a hamstring injury which he sustained in the second Test against Bangladesh and along with the burly Shannon Gabriel will spearhead the Windies’ attack. Jason Holder has once again be named as captain.SQUAD – Jason Holder (captain), Sunil Ambris, Devendra Bishoo, Kraigg Brathwaite, Roston Chase, Shane Dowrich, Shannon Gabriel, Jahmar Hamilton, Shimron Hetmyer, Shai Hope, Alzarri Joseph, Keemo Paul, Kieran Powell, Kemar Roach, Jomel Warrican.
Sunil Ambris
morning. This was the Green Machine’s second consecutive thumping in the Rugby Americas Challenge Series being hosted in Medellin, Colombia, after going down to the World ranked 40th Colombia 71-7 in their opening game on Sunday.
The 48th ranked Green Machine was looking for a better result against Paraguay but instead were handed a heavier loss by 37th ranked opponents. Selwyn Henry scored a try while skipper Ryan Gonsalves successfully converted it to help tally Guyana’s points. The Guyanese will fancy their chances against the 55th ranked Mexico when they tackle them in their final round-robin match on Saturday.
Kyokushinkai Guyana outstanding in Suriname The Kyokushinkai Guyana Team
The Guyana International Kyokushinkai Martial Arts Academy (GIKMAA), led by Grandmaster, Soke Dr. Nazim Yassim and his seven (7) members team has excelled once again at the Shuirken Martial Arts School Tournament.The team, comprising Christian Freeman, (13 years), Joshua Bascombe (17 years), Govindanauth Persaud (17 years), Vikash Somwaru (17 years), Bhudesh Shilchand (18 years), Shakeel Rahat (23 years) and Maranda Bennett (23 years) won a total of 9 medals - 3 Gold, 5 Silvers and 1 Bronze.Five students competed in the same division, Bascombe, Persaud, Somwaru, Shilchand and Rahat. The outstanding students were: Christian Freeman of Wales - 1 silver in the 13-15 years Kumite Division. Joshua Bascombe of Wales - 1 silver in the 16-19 years Kumite Class. BhudeshSchilchand of Wales - 2 silver in the 16-19 years Kata and Kumite Divisions.
ShakeelRahat on debut got bronze in the Kumite competition. Instructor Vikash Somwaru of Enmore in the 16-19 years - 3 gold, for Kata, Weapons Kata and Kumite. Instructor Maranda Bennett the lone female of Wales – 1 silver in the Kata 20-25 years Division. Govindanauth Persaud of Enmore fought extremely well but lost the bout in the quarter finals. Over all the Guyanese athletes did well yet again, meanwhile, Soke Nazim will focus on getting the team ready for the Open International Championship on September 23rd next when Kyo-Kushin-Kai Guyana would be doing battle against Suriname, Trinidad and other teams from Guyana at the national Gymnasium in Georgetown. Gratitude was extended by Dr. Nazim Yassim to the National Sports Commission, Gafsons Industries Ltd. and all the Parents that supported the Kyokushinkai Guyana Team.
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Berbice Volleyball Association host second 4x4 competition
Outstanding Volleyball players pose with their silverware.
The Berbice Volleyball Association (BVA) on Sunday last held the second phase of its 4x4 volleyball and softball cricket competitions and fun-day at the Bound Yard Playfield, Port Mourant, Corentyne, B e r b i c e . The volleyball segment of the activity saw teams participating in the senior male, novice and female categories. In the male category seven teams participated namely Port Mourant Training Center (PMTC1) & 2, Port Mourant Jaguars 1, Port Mourant Jaguars 2, Corriverton Jets, Training Center (TC) and R o l l e r s . After some keenly contested games in the playoff stages contested on a knockout basis, Rollers and PMTC1 met in the finals. On this occasion it was Rollers that gained revenge over PMTC1 defeating them 21-19 in a closely contested encounter. The first and second place teams were presented with trophies while Errol Chase of
Rollers was adjudged the MVP. In the Novice category, No.47 Challengers A, No.47 Challengers B, Letter Kenny and Rollers B participated. No.47 Challengers ‘A’ defeated No.47 Challengers B in the finals 30-27. The first and second placed teams were awarded trophies. The MVP trophy went to Vikash Seenauth of No. 47 Challengers A. The games in the Novice category were played on a round-robin b a s i s . Rivals, Corriverton Jets and Port Mourant battled in the female category with Corriverton Jets defeating Port Mourant 30-27. In the six-over softball cricket competition, three teams participated namely No. 47 Challengers Combined, Bound Yard and Rising Star. Rising Star defeated Bound Yard in the final. Rising Star made 48-8; Bound Yard were bowled out for 18. The MVP award went to Devendra Etwaroo who made the most runs, 15. (Samuel Whyte)
Rising Star Softball Cricket team receiving the first place trophy from Levi Nedd.
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Guyana surge to fifth 50-Over U-19 C'ship with 7-wicket win over Windward Islands P.26
Five in a row! The victorious Guyana U19 Team shows the magic number yesterday.
GFF-RAP capacity building underway P.28
Peter Prendergast (right) and one of the Referees during a classroom demonstration.
BWF CAREBACO Regional Championships 2018
Priyanna Ramdhani takes U17 Girls Doubles gold; Mishka Beharry cops U11 Singles Bronze P.25
Priyanna Ramdhani and Mishka Beharry.
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