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Iraq accuses Islamic State of Yazidi atrocity, U.S. conducts new strikes (Reuters) - Islamic State militants have killed hundreds of Iraq’s minority Yazidis, burying some alive and taking women as slaves, an Iraqi government minister said yesterday, as U.S. warplanes again bombed the insurgents. Human rights minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani accused the Sunni Muslim insurgents - who have ordered the community they regard as “devil worshippers” to convert to Islam or die - of celebrating what he called a “a vicious atrocity”. No independent confirmation was available of an event that could increase pressure on Western powers to do more to help tens of thousands of people, including many from religious and ethnic minorities, who have fled the Islamic State’s offensive. The U.S. Central Command said drones and jet aircraft had hit Islamic State armed trucks and mortar positions near Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region which had been relatively stable throughout the past decade of turmoil until the insurgents swept across northwestern Iraq this summer. That marked a third successive day of U.S. air strikes, and Central Command said in its statement that they were aimed at protecting Kurdish peshmerga forces as they face off against the militants near Arbil, the site of a U.S. consulate and a U.S.Iraqi joint military operations centre. The U.S. State Department said yesterday it had pulled some of its staff from the Arbil consulate for their safety. The Islamists’ advance in the past week has forced tens of thousands to flee, threatened Arbil and provoked the first U.S. attacks since Washington withdrew troops from Iraq in late 2011, nearly nine years after invading to oust Saddam Hussein. Sudani said in a telephone interview that accounts of the
Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar west of Mosul, take refuge at Dohuk province. (Reuters) killings had come from people who had escaped town of Sinjar, an ancient home of the Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking community whose religion has set them apart from Muslims and other local faiths. “We have striking evidence obtained from Yazidis fleeing Sinjar and some who escaped death, and also crime scene images that show indisputably that
the gangs of the Islamic State have executed at least 500 Yazidis after seizing Sinjar,” he said “Some of the victims, including women and children were buried alive in scattered mass graves in and around Sinjar.” Consolidating a territorial grip that includes tracts of Syrian desert and stretches toward Baghdad, the Islamic State’s local and foreign
fighters have swept into areas where non-Sunni groups live. While they persecute nonbelievers in their path, that does not seem to be the main motive for their latest push. The group wants to establish religious rule in a caliphate straddling Syria and Iraq and has tapped into widespread anger among Iraq’s Sunnis at a democratic system dominated by the Shi’ite Muslim majority
following the U.S. invasion of 2003. President Barack Obama warned on Saturday that there was no quick fix for the crisis that threatens to tear Iraq apart. Kurdish regional president Masoud Barzani urged his allies to send arms to help his forces hold off the militants, who have bases across the Syrian border. During a visit by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, Barzani said: “We are not fighting a terrorist organisation, we are fighting a terrorist state.” Another senior Kurdish official said Kurds retook two towns southwest of Arbil, Guwair and Makhmur, with the help of U.S. strikes. But he did not expect a rapid end to the fighting. In Jalawla, 115 km (70 miles) northeast of Baghdad, a suicide bomber killed 10 Kurdish forces and wounded 80 people yesterday. Kurdish fighters and Islamic militants are locked in fierce clashes in the town. Fabius, noting how Islamic State fighters had taken the upper hand after seizing heavy weaponry from Iraqi troops who fled in June, said the European Union would look into bolstering the
Kurds’ arsenal to help them hold out and hit back. Iraqi rights minister Sudani said: “The terrorist Islamic State has also taken at least 300 Yazidi women as slaves and locked some of them inside a police station in Sinjar and transferred others to the town of Tal Afar. We are afraid they will take them outside the country. “In some of the images we have obtained there are lines of dead Yazidis who have been shot in the head while the Islamic State fighters cheer and wave their weapons over the corpses,” he added. “This is a vicious atrocity.” A deadline passed at midday yesterday for 300 families from the Yazidi community - followers of a religion influenced by the Zoroastrianism of ancient Persia - to convert to Islam or die. It was not immediately clear if the victims to whom the minister referred were from that group of families. Obama said it would take more than bombs to restore stability, and criticised Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s Shi’ite-led government for failing to share power with Iraq’s Sunni minority, which was dominant under Saddam.
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GUYANA FESTIVAL The inaugural Guyana Festival can be described as highly successful. Tens of thousands of Guyanese from all over Guyana flocked to the National Stadium over the past three days to be part of the many entertaining events that were held there. The acting Minister of Housing must once again be commended for adding yet another notch to the many successful events that have been hosted under his direction. He is certainly a very good organizer of events. However, the end of one event should be an occasion to reflect and analyze what took place and to begin to plan for the second edition. Some
observations and comments are hereby suggested for the benefit of the Minister and his capable team. Firstly, the Guyana Festival should not be a Georgetown alone event. For any Festival to be truly national in scope, it should reach far more persons than it would have done. As such it is hoped that when the planning begins for the next Guyana festival that there will be events hosted in both Berbice and Essequibo so that more persons from these areas can be part of the festival. This of course would be dependent on the business community from those areas coming on board. But for example, a similar cricket
match that was held at the National Stadium could have been held at the Albion Sports complex which now has lights. Those from outside Region Six interested in seeing the match would be able to drive up to see the match thereby promoting economic activities in Berbice. It would be nice also if instead of having one food festival, there can be three of four food festivals hosted in different parts of the country so as to give these areas some boost economically. This brings me to the second major suggestion. At the end of these festivals, there should be something concrete left behind so that the festival contributes in a
Dem boys seh...
Sweet in mouth does cause problem in behind When people walk de straight and narrow dem does get peace and respect. Is when dem decide fuh tek de crooked path that dem does deh in real trouble. Today, nuff of dem big ones can’t find peace. Dem now want de courts fuh help dem get some peace from answering questions about de wrang things dem do. Tek de case of all de contracts that de government give to people. Dem boys talk bout one contract that see a Chinee company selling timber to Guyanese sawmillers when dem done ship out all wha de boat can hold fuh carry timber to China. If was local contractors who get a cease order fuh stop cutting wood and dem
did continue, de government would move in and seize every piece of equipment that dem had. Then dem woulda fine dem and if de local contractors couldn’t pay de fine, then de very government would seh that dem sell de equipment. Dem boys want to know wha happen wid Bai Shaan. How come nobody didn’t know w h e n d e m w a s bringing in all dem trucks and skidders and thing fuh cut down trees? And how come nobody ain’t seize de equipment after one authority order Bai Shaan fuh stop wukking? Long time, people use to seh that Guyana got complex fuh foreigners. If a Guyanese walk pun you toe you want fight de man.
But if a foreigner mash you foot, you does smile and tell he sorry and ask he if he want mash you other foot. Bai Shaan come and spit in Guyana eye and dem who ruling de country open de other eye fuh more spit. And all because de Chinee government spend money fuh carry dem to China fuh a good time. Old people does always seh that wha sweet in people mouth does be bitter in dem behind. De trip to China was sweet, wha de Chinee doing is more than bitter in dem behind. And de Chinee got a proverb which seh that sweet mouth does end up wid pepper backside. Talk half and brace fuh wha more got to happen.
tangible way to the development of the various areas where they are hosted. It would be nice, for example, if some of the monies raised at the Guyana Festival can be used to improve the parking facilities near to the Stadium. When this stadium was first constructed, it had sandfilled parking lot. That was seven years ago when the Cricket World Cup was hosted in Guyana. The number of motor vehicles in the country has more than tripled and therefore there is a need for increased parking facilities. Instead of increasing the size of the parking lot, the opposite has happened. The size of the lot has decreased with some lands being allocated to certain firms. This is obviously a retrograde development and it is hoped that the monies earned during the Guyana Festival will be ploughed into developing the existing and additional parking facilities. The police were obviously slack in allowing persons to park their vehicles along the sides of the carriageways of the East Bank Public Road. This brings me to my third suggestion. You do not need the Guyana Police Force to be controlling traffic and security at the National Stadium. The fact that so many vehicles were allowed to park so dangerously at the edges of the roadways demonstrates why the police should be used sparingly during such major events. There is a need for more private security and for
private traffic control. Fourthly, I believe there is need for greater attention to be paid to safety at the National Stadium. There is a reason why there is large expanse of land in front of the stadium stands. That reason is so that when an event is over there will be no crushing of persons leaving the venue because there is considerable space for a large number of persons between the stands and the roadways. As such there should be no tents placed on that tarmac when there is an event within the stadium proper. In fact, there should be no concerts held on that tarmac because it is not safe to do so for the reasons alluded to above. F i f t h l y, t h e t r a ff i c situation leading to and from the stadium is now a nightmare. What has to happen is that whenever there are large events at the
stadium, persons coming from West Demerara should be encouraged to park their vehicles at the Joe Vieira Park and five shuttle buses arranged to move persons. An incentive should be created to encourage persons to park there. One way of doing this is to increase the cost of parking to $1000 at the stadium car park. Persons coming from East Coast and Georgetown should be similarly encouraged to Park at the tarmacs of the National Cultural Center, the National Gymnasium and the National Sports Hall and special shuttles arranged. This should go not just for future Guyana Festival events hosted at the National Stadium but for any event hosted at that venue.
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EDUCATION IAE (Secondary Educational) 194 Camp Street, register for Forms 15, Lessons, CXC Adult Classes for repeaters & beginners – Tel:223-0604; 683-5742 Princeton College @ Cummings & Church Street, CXC Adult Classes, $1,200 per subject, Phonics Class for 4 to 17 years, Grade 5 & 6 classes –Tel:223-8672; 690-5008 Grand re-opening Terpsichorean Dance Studio, Monday 11-08-2014 @ DCC Lance Gibbs St Queenstown – Tel:683-7928 or 685-0270 Kids summer computer classes, ages 4-16 - $4,500 @ Micrographics, Vreed-EnHoop: 264-3057, Parika Location: 626-4833 9 Courses Diploma In computers, Free job training/ placement, $30,000 Register Now @ Micrographics, Vreed-En-Hoop -264-3057, Parika: 626-4833 TOURS El Dorado Bus Service, Suriname Summer Tour 1417 Aug. Special packages offer of groups – Contact: 624-0622 FOR SALE/RENT 6 Plot of mining land in Bartica – Tel: 613-6815
RCUG Rotaractors working hard with students of the Victoria Primary School during a Saturday morning session. With projects the likes of a literacy programme at the Victoria Primary school, the Rotaract Club of the University of Guyana (RCUG) has been making an indelible impression on the local society by helping to reverse a daunting trend of illiteracy. And come September, RCUG will celebrate three years since the commencement of this flagship project, which is regarded as one of its most ambitious yet. At least this was recently outlined by Rotaractor and Public Relations Officer, Marcelie Sears. Conducted on Saturdays at the East Coast Demerara primary school, Sears quipped that the project, which was introduced in 2012 is one characterized by twohour long tutoring sessions for students of Grade Three through Six.
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The project, which is facilitated by Rotaractors, together with volunteer teachers from the school, was in fact prompted by an evident need for more focus on reading, writing and comprehensive skills among children along the East Coast Demerara. And in order to ensure that project is in keeping with what is required at the level of public schools, Sears said that sessions fully embrace the curriculum developed by the Ministry of Education’s National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD). The laudable outcomes of the project thus far have allowed for it to be singled out, along with six other projects across the globe, by Rotary International for auspicious recognition in 2013. The Recognition was the Rotaract Outstanding Projects Award in Latin America and the Caribbean. Like the others recognized, the project easily stood out as it aligned with
two of Rotary’s areas of focus: Basic Education, Literacy, Economic and Community Development; and assisted in changing the lives of many children in the target community. RCUG has however been making an even greater impact in the society since its establishment a decade ago. With a mission to nurture leadership, responsible citizenship, high ethical business standards and ultimately foster a better lifestyle for young adults, the RCUG was brought into being in 2005. The Club, which is a service group sponsored by the Rotary Club of Georgetown consists of membership drawn from current and past students of the University of Guyana. Moreover, RCUG is recognized as an organization of talented and motivated young professionals who demonstrate a capacity for leadership, intelligence, proven work ethic and
integrity. According to Sears, the goals of the Club are often accomplished through projects. These, she outlined, fall under the umbrella of five committees – Community Service, International Service, Professional Development, Club Service, and Finance. Speaking to the genesis of RCUG, Sears said that it was first envisioned by The Rotary Club of Georgetown (RCG), which is regarded as the oldest Rotary Club in Guyana with a solid track record of supporting Rotaract and Interact programmes. However, the first Rotaract Club, which was established in 1985, was the Rotaract Club of Georgetown. But it was with a view of ensuring that future leaders were nurtured and developed, the RCG felt that the establishment of a new Rotaract Club to celebrate 100 years of Rotary International in 2005 would be a fitting project to pursue. Acknowledging that University-based Rotaract clubs were becoming a popular phenomenon throughout the Rotary world, moves were soon made to introduce the RCUG. RCUG was therefore the first and remains the only University based-Rotaract club in Guyana. According to the ‘New Generations Director’ of Rotary Georgetown, Sheldon Hazelwood the RCUG started out with just nine members. “Though its beginning was somewhat shaky, the club was able to stabilise and emerge as winners of District Awards with great effort from a few notable Rotaractors,” Hazelwood noted.
It was therefore the dedicated efforts of those involved, he added, that has allowed for the Club to survive 10 years. Hazelwood is convinced that although the Club is still considered young, its development will continue to be consistent. In the quest to sustain its development, RCUG has a plethora of activities planned this year under the theme – “Igniting Service through Innovation, Living the Rotaract Way.” This theme, according to Sears, was presented at a forum last month and is meant to encapsulate the RCUG mission for this year. Moreover, the creation of service projects with more impact and better execution will be demonstrated while maintaining the values of Rotaract. Efforts, according to her, will also be made to create fresh impactful projects even as attention will be directed to sustaining and improving on former projects. Among the planned projects are: fun-filled fellowship activities like the club Weekend Retreat and Go-Cart Racing; development opportunities in the form of multiple workshops for its membership; and even various service projects intended to benefit the community as a whole. Currently RCUG membership meets at the Health Sciences Building at the University of Guyana’s Turkeyen campus on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month. And for those desirous of making contact with Club officials, an email can be sent to rcugdistrict7030@gmail.com or persons could also visit the Club’s Facebook page.
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Members of the Rotaract Club of the University of Guyana proudly flank UG’s Registrar, Vincent Alexander and Public Relations Officer, Ms. Paulette Paul, at a Club Handing Over ceremony last month venued at the Grand Coastal Inn, East Coast Demerara.
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FOR SALE LARGE QUANTITIES OF HIGH PURITY MERCURY (QUICK SILVER) 99.99995% PURITY$19,000 PER POUND CALL: 592-227-4754. Spares for washing machine, microwaves, fridges, stoves, timers, gearbox, pumps, etc call: 225-9032, 647-2943 New American made Werner, aluminum ladder: 17 feet$28,000; 24 feet- $38,000, 32 feet- $55,000 – Tel: 609-7257, 602-5794 German shepherd and Doberman mixed pups – Contact: 615-0513 Game Shop Closing Sale! Lots of Original systems, games, controllers and HD TV’s – Tel: 683-8386 Dressed and mill cut lumber: Kabukalli, silverballi, greenheart, crab wood etc – Call: 688-6579 Aluminum pot sets, crock pots, stove, rice cookers, washers, freezer, vacuum, Dewalt Saw, compressors, generators – Call: 660-5449; 691-5400 I have some nice Greenheart Logs and Green heart piles for sale @ the best prices guaranteed – Tel: 639-3450 German shepherd - pure line dogs – Tel:619-9643; 2223560; 694-7210 22RB Dragline, CAT 428 Back-hoe, 10-Tons compactor, CAT 320 BL Excavator, CAT 120G-MotorGrader. All in working condition – Contact: 6604021; 275-0538 Hotel white sheets, pillow cases, bath towels, floors towels slightly used & excellent condition, low prices – Tel: 626-6335 Games for PS2, PS3, XBOX360, WII, consoles also available – Call: 6722566, 265-3231 Galaxy S5 (clone) looks & operates like the regular S5 only with less resolution – Tel: 683-8386 Click Pens, black ink, instant write, wholesale, cheap – Contact: 626-6335 Cosmetics - lipsticks, lip gloss, foundation by Revlon, Maybelline & Cover Girl. Contact: 626-6335 Dell/Hp computers complete with LCD’s 49,000, Laptop from $50,000, I-phone 3GS $30,000 @ Future Tech: 2312206 American 8ft Pool Table – Tel:622-9917, 660-5309
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FOR SALE Front cabin fishing boat 31" with 15HP Tohatsu Engine – Price $1M negotiable – Tel:690-7231, 697-0648 1 Nintendo Wii with 3 games: Mario Kart & Mario Bros, 1 Nintendo 3DS with 3 games, Pokemon & Donkey Kong 3D – Tel: 683-8386 1 Car and Truck Hoist 12000 LB 2 Post almost new forward made in American $800,000– Tel: 604-5440 or 698-2929 1-2010 Mazda Pick up 2WD 38,000 Km, show room condition with ray cover $2.5M – Tel:698-2929 or 6045440 1-2010 Mitsubishi Fork lift, 3 stage side shift indoor, outdoor - $1.5M like new – Tel:698-2929; 604-5440 Boat Engine Yamaha (2) (4) (6) even rude 6, 9.9 6, 18 from $100,000 to $200,000 – Tel:604-5440; 698-2929 1 Car/ Truck Hoist, extra heavy duty – 12,000 Ton like new - $800,000 firm – Tel:6982929; 604-5440 270 Amps Portable Honda Welders – Tel: 611-5114 Automatic Waterer, 4 gl & 1 gl fount – Tel:627-7835 4" & 6" exhaust box, Stihl brush cutter parts, 6HP & 13PH Honda Engines, 2 pressure washer – Tel: 627-7835 Used internet café equipment: Brother multifunction printer, VPN boxes, cordless phones & computers (Dell & HP) – Call: 697-1243
VACANCY 24 Hour East Coast Guyoil needs night pump attendants, salesgirl, office assistant & handyman- Call: 669-4755/ 695-9880 Urgently needed live in waitress, affordable salary – Tel: 259-0574 Vacancy for sales clerk at Plant Shop – Contact: 646-2108 Accounts Clerk, must have knowledge of NIS, PAYE, Computer Literate. Apply in person @ Technical Service, Industrial Site Eccles One babysitter/ housekeeper between ages 28-40yrs. Contact: 225-8205/ 225-8203 Vacancy for porters: apply in person to Alabama Trading, Ferry Stelling Stabroek. Female Accounts Clerk to work in distribution vehicle, apply at Alabama Tr a d i n g , F / To w n F e r r y Stelling Stabroek Porters, Moulder and wood mizer operator, timber grant manager, tractor operator – Call: Richard 609-7675, 6741705, 233-2614 1 Experienced female private tutor – Call: 681-3812 between 8:00am to 4pm Male Security to work in Coverden East Bank Demerara, apply to Alabama Trading Ferry Stelling Stabroek. One experienced Hauler driver, apply in person at Alabama Trading, Ferry Stelling Stabroek. International Cruiseline Purser officer, waitresses, waiters, cooks, receptionist, storekeeper, cleaners, electrician, carpenter, plumber, musicians etc – Tel: 650-9880
One used 320CL Bucket, 110 KVA Lister generator – Contact: 648-0121 CG 125 Honda Motorcycle, in excellent condition – Tel: 6729530 Zmodo Surveillance Security systems with CMOS cameras, 50ft night vision - $85,000 with free installation – Tel: 609-2815. DRESSMAKING Jean offers courses in Dressmaking, curtains, floral arrangements, cake decoration @ 153 Barr St Kitty – Tel:670-2653, 618-1706 MASSAGE The Gent’s Spa: Be pampered by beautiful masseuses, new attendant Candy, four hands massages, drinks available – Tel: 657-5979 VACANCY DRIVER and SALESMAN for Gas Trucks on East Coast, West Coast and East Bank Demerara. 266 4427
TO LET Furnished executive one or two bedroom suite in Diamond. Ideal for foreigners. Call 609 2466.
WANTED Salesgirl/boys and porters apply in person, to Avinash Water Street 8:30 to 4:30 Salesgirls & porters apply with written application @ Best Buy Food Supplies, Lot 1E Dennis & Milton Sts Campbellville. 1 Male to look after layer birds in the Interior – Tel: 669-6030 Live in waitress and domestic must know to cook. Salary $50,000 $70,000. Boarding and lodging free – Tel: 610-5043 Shop assistant to work in the interior – Salary - $80,000 age 25-35yrs – Call: 664-5199 Mon-Sat Between 9-6 Carpenters, Mason and labours – Contact: 668-9863 or 615-7526 Live out domestic/ babysitter and live in babysitter –Call: 225-0188, 225-6070 (Monday to Saturday) (8:15am-4:15pm) One part time or full time gardener/handyman- to work in Bel-Air Gardens – Tel: 225-6070 Paper Money from British Guiana or Trinidad or other old bank notes- Call 650-17133 1 Live in domestic or maid, must be able to cook age 3040 - salary - $55,000 per month – Tel: 664-5199; 675-7043 Two wash bay attendants to work in Georgetown – Contact: 227-5169 Driver for contract with mini bus license living in Georgetown – Tel: 676-1286 One male or female to work in shop in the Interior, must have experienced – Tel:6696030 1 Land to buy in Linden – Tel: 686-2201 Attractive live in waitressCall: 327-0252/674-4665 Peach Tree Technical support programmer monthly contract, W.B.D resident preferably email: info@aracariresort.com One male or female to look after layer birds – Tel:669-6030 One live in maid for home in Georgetown – Tel: 681-6044
Meadow Brook – 3 bedroom top flat – Tel:691-5400; 6605449 Two bedrooms Cottage at Lot 526 11th Street Paradise E.C.D – Call: 614-1723 Furnished two bedroom apartment in Linden for short term, local & overseas guests – Tel:444-4704, 614-4415 Three bedroom house in Sophia, Dennis Street $120,000 per month- Tel:6580494 or 666-3907
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SALON Make Up Courses, Artist Trained & Certified in Trinidad. Call: 660-5257, 647-1773 Professional hairdresser needed urgently at Misikko Salon & Spa, Lot 68 Sandy Babb Street Kitty – Contact Bonita: 675-1667
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FOR RENT PLANNING AN EVENT? BIRTHDAY PARTY, GRADUATION,WEDDINGS, ANNIVERSARY, ETC. CALL DIAMOND TENTS: 216-1043; 677-6620 Furnished apartments for overseas visitors – Call: 6685198 2- 8000 Square foot warehouse space, high ceiling for rent at Friendship E.B.D – Tel: 225-7643 GT TOOL RENTALS: FREE DELIVERY, CONCRETE, STEEL, TILE CUTTER, SAWS, JACKHAMMER RANSOM PUMPS & MUCH MORE – TEL: 675-0767; 627-5098 Vreed-en-Hoop junction – Salon, barbershop, snackette, shop, store games shop, lessons class, office, bond – Call: 680-9905 Furnished apartment to rent, perfect for students, single or working couple @ Industry E.C.D – Tel:222-6001; 6192388; 684-7853 ACCOMMODATION Tourist Villa: Furnished Rooms & apartments- 1, 2 &3 bedroom apartments at affordable rates – Lot 95 Fifth Avenue, Subryanville – Tel: 227-2199; 227-2189; 227-2186
VEHICLE FOR SALE 2006 Blue Nissan Titan. Fully Loaded GSS Series. Contact: 604-6108. One RZ Minibus for sale, Colour: Blue & White, Number – BLL 7002 – Contact: 616-0739; 698-3486 2004 Toyota Spacio- Back & front camera, TV/DVD/ CD, unregistered - $2.2M – Tel: 617-2891 2 FORD 350 Diesel 2006 (4x4), 1 F150 2007 (4x4), 1 Chevy Van 2007, 1 1999 Tacoma, excellent condition – Tel: 610-5370 Toyota Tundra 2003, fully loaded GPP 4554, Bubble back$3.2M–Contact:641-3812 Deals! Deals! Deals! Venus Auto Sale: 2002 Toyota Regius fully loaded bus, $1.8M Negotiable – Tel: 6245617 Mercedes Benz C180 Kompressor Wagon, good condition, all weather mats, car cover, 18" AMG Rims – Call: 690-0998 1 -V.V.T.I RZ bus for sale & serious enquiries only. Owner leaving country – Tel:255-0909; 679-9350 or 651-0435 or 664-0709 Unregistered Spacio 2003, TV, Navigator, dark interior, rims, rear spoiler, fog lamp – Tel: 617-5536 ToyotaAllion 2005 unregistered, 20,600 km - $2.7M negotiable – Tel:652-1364, 689-7325 Unregistered Premio, Noah, Spacio – PRR 738 – Tel: 697-0297 1 Hilux pickup solid DEF $2.9M – Tel: 613-6815 Rav 4 2004 Model PMM Series – Call: 685-1302 or 652-4283 2006 Premio - $2.6M, 2003 Spacio - $2.1M, New Model 212 - $1.9M, All Vehicles are fully loaded & unregistered – Tel: 642-7295 O.J’s Auto imports- New arrivals: Spacios, Axela, Bluebirds, Premio, Noahs – Tel: 609-2815 One new model Toyota Spacio fully loaded, newly registered – Contact: 6704484 Like new Leyland DAF CF65 dump truck with long tray, hardly used. Excellent condition- $5.5M Neg. Call:627-7261
LEARN TO DRIVE Soman Son & Outar Driving School at Maraj BuildingTel: 644-5166; 622-2872; 6150964; 689-5997 Maison’s Driving School, Lot 287 Albertown QueenstownTel:650-4291, 652-6993 Continued on page 18
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Trinidad Constitutional Reform Commissioner hits back at AG PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - CMC Constitutional Reform Commission Member, Dr Merle Hodge has lashed out at Attorney General Anand Ramlogan, asking if Constitution Reform commissioners were “handsomely paid” to be silent on dishonesty, and describing his criticisms of her as “convoluted gossip” In a statement entitled Government Dishonesty About Run-Off Proposal, Hodge said the comment by Ramlogan was very unfortunate “Mr AG, for it suggests that your Government pays professionals not for their work, but to buy their acquiescence. You must know that you will never be able to buy everybody.” Hodge, who has called for a postponement of today’s parliamentary debate on the Constitution Amendment Bill is one of five commissioners on the Constitution Reform Commission (CRC), chaired by Legal Affairs Minister Prakash Ramadhar. In a statement on Thursday on Government’s Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2014, she said the contentious run-off proposal was not in the People’s Partnership manifesto, the main consultations around the country or in the commission’s final report. The Attorney General in a response Friday, said he
Dr Merle Hodge found her position strange since the commissioners were “handsomely paid” and linked her position on the bill to the defeat of the Winston Dookeran faction by the Ramadhar faction in the Congress of the People’s (COP) internal election. In her second statement in three days, Hodge reiterated the run-off provision did not arise during consultations. “The run-off provision did not come from the people, and it was never revealed to the people before Monday, August 4, 2014, one week before it was to be debated in the Parliament,” she said. “It is therefore dishonest to claim that the people were consulted on this provision, especially as the Government is turning a deaf ear to what the people are saying about it during the week.” Hodge, a former University of the West Indies (UWI) lecturer, describes the run-off ballot as “anti-
democratic” and a contradiction of “the principle of proportional representation”. On Thursday, the main opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) described the proposed legislation as “dangerous’ with Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley saying it offers the people of the twin-island republic “the potential for a defeated party to hold on to power while secondary elections are held, elections which they (the government) can easily and corruptly attempt to influence.” Rowley told a news conference that the proposal for a run-off vote has dangerous implications for any government to follow. Last week, Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar told legislators that the new measures were contained in the 2010 manifesto of the four-party coalition government, headed by the United National Congress (UNC) and that the constitutional amendment would provide “more power to the people”. She said that the new measures were as a result of the recommendations of a Constitutional Reform Committee headed by Legal Affairs Minister Prakash Ramadhar and leader of the Congress of the People (COP) party, the second biggest member in the coalition government.
Venezuela to close Colombia border at night to fight smuggling Caracas (AFP) Venezuela will close its Colombia border at night starting today to combat smuggling of various Venezuelan products, including food and gasoline, officials said last weekend. The border closure will take place from 10:00 pm (0230 GMT) to 5:00 am (0930 GMT) each night “to strengthen policies tackling smuggling from Venezuela to Colombia,” said a press release from the state news agency AVN. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos agreed on the border closure during a meeting held August 1 in Cartagena focused on smuggling, officials said. “We are sealing the entire border — all 2,200 kilometers (1,400 miles) of it between Venezuela and Colombia,”
said the military commander in charge of the operation, Vladimir Padrino Lopez, from the border state of Zulia, one of the main contraband thoroughfares. On Friday, Maduro appointed Padrino Lopez, head of the strategic command of the armed forces, and Vice President Jorge Arreaza to head a civilianmilitary unit to combat smuggling. Venezuela, which has the largest proven oil reserves in the world, also sells gas for some of the cheapest prices — allowing consumers to fill the tank of a car for the
equivalent of a candy bar or bottle of water. The low prices have long led to smuggling of fuel to Colombia. In the past year, more food and commodities have crossed the border. Prices in Colombia can be up to 10 times higher than in Venezuela, which has price controls. The Venezuelan government estimates that 40 percent of basic commodities are smuggled across the border with Colombia, plus 100,000 barrels of oil, equivalent to annual losses of $3.7 billion.
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Upcoming Bahamas referendum could be cancelled NASSAU, Bahamas CMC - National Security Minister Dr Bernarnd Nottage has hinted at the possibility of not having a national referendum on November 6 if unanimous support of the proposed constitutional amendments on gender equality is not forthcoming. Nottage, who also has responsibility of elections, in reiterating a statement from the prime minister, said a referendum would not be held without agreement between the parties concerned. He also believes the questions should be simplified for the average Bahamian. The Perry Christie led administration recently tabled four bills to amend the constitution. The bills will institute full
equality between men and women on matters of citizenship and will eliminate discrimination based on sex. Debate on the bills began last Wednesday and should continue this week. Leader of the opposition Free National Movement, Dr Hubert Minnis, has already stated that the party will not oppose the bills. However, the member of parliament for the constituency of Tall Pines, Leslie Miller, is concerned about one of the bills, saying he does not believe that a foreign man should be granted automatic citizenship if he marries a Bahamian woman. That amendment seeks to enable a Bahamian woman who marries a foreign man to secure the same access to Bahamian citizenship that a Bahamian man enjoys under
Dr. Bernarnd Nottage the constitution as it relates to his foreign spouse. Another area of concern surrounds the questions related to the constitutional amendments. The government has budgeted US$1.4 million for the upcoming referendum.
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Jamaicans in Southern US seek to revive role in Diaspora Jamaica Gleaner - After slipping under the national radar for the past three years, Jamaicans in Southern United States are moving to resuscitate their waning Diaspora movement. Attorney-at-law Wayne Golding, who resides in Orlando, Florida, has attributed the diminishing visibility of the Jamaican Diaspora that covers 13 states, primarily to changes in political administration. Prior to those changes, Golding said both People’s National Party (PNP) and Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administrations had been supportive forces. “There were certain things that were supposed to be put in place and didn’t happen, so a lot of people became disillusioned with how things were moving within the context of actual interactions in the Diaspora,” he said. Golding stressed that it was hoped that new partnerships would be built with the Government. “In the past, Government facilitated this partnership, whether it was the PNP or JLP
Wayne Golding who was in government.” He told The Sunday Gleaner that, with the vast array of professionals ready to assist, it was time to move to surmount the obstacles that have sparked disillusionment among Jamaicans abroad. Golding, who has lived for more than 30 years in the US, is among several Jamaican professionals who believe that Jamaica is losing out on too many benefits. He has never been silent on the issues facing Jamaicans and now considers it necessary to throw his hat
in the ring in elections for new Diaspora Advisory Board representatives. Three Jamaicans are vying for the two-year volunteer position serving the 13 southern states Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. Golding is one, while the other two are Courtney G. McFarlane, resident of Atlanta, Georgia; and Alexander A. Williams, resident of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. “We need to get the Southern Diaspora in the United States on track,” said Golding. “We already have people who have been a part of the Diaspora movement for 10 years.” However, he lamented that the decline of the movement over the last three years has resulted in “Jamaicans standing on the sidelines, who need to get back in the game”. Said Golding: “We have qualified, willing and able people who want to help... it’s
just a matter of getting organised here so that we can be recognised.” Golding asserted that time for dawdling has been far spent, with Jamaica desperately in need of tangible and intangible assistance that the Diaspora has to offer. He complained that many other movements across the globe, which started long after that in the Southern United States, were more advanced. “It’s not rocket science; it has been done before, and people have come after we started this Diaspora movement and have been very successful... That’s my main focus.”
Citing what he described as a small sampling of the Jamaicans with expertise in Southern United States, Golding said one city engineer, who controls a budget of anywhere from US$600 million to US$1 billion, is a Jamaican. He said another professional, who controls the technical elements of the electricity grid in a vast area that serves hundreds of thousands of residents, is also a Jamaican. “He is the one who deals with coal, solar or other forms of fuel for electricity,” Golding said. “That budget is anywhere between US$400 million to US$600 million.” “We (also) have a deputy
fire chief here who is Jamaican, as well as security experts, and that’s just a small sampling of the direction and assistance we can give to Jamaica,” he said. “That apart, we have organisations which are doing things on the ground every day in Jamaica, but we recognise that we need to get organised so that we can effect changes, whether it’s through persons becoming (US) citizens or through advocacy through the political system,” he added. “The opening is there, and we have a chance to play an advisory role with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Diaspora issues.”
Anand on Range Rover case -
Integrity Commission never contacted me Trinidad Express Attorney General Anand Ramlogan says officials at the Integrity Commission are yet to contact him for information regarding the purchase of two Range Rover vehicles. Speaking with reporters during a media briefing over the weekend at his St Vincent Street, Port of Spain, Cabildo Chambers, Ramlogan was asked if he had been interviewed by officials of the Integrity Commission. He said: “No one has ever contacted me from the Integrity Commission. I’m quite disappointed I’ve never been given the opportunity to put my case and that only happens in law when the allegations made against you were never made out and if a case is not made out you are therefore not called upon to answer. “I can only conclude that matter they found it to be frivolous and vexatious without any merit and didn’t need to trouble me.” When the Sunday Express contacted the Integrity Commission on Wednesday afternoon, three questions were posed to the Commission: Have they interviewed Ramlogan? Is the investigation completed? and has the Commission interviewed Dave Debideen? In an e-mailed response to the questions on Friday morning, Registrar Martin Farrell said: “I wish to acknowledge receipt of your email but to advise that I am not authorised to answer any of your questions. I thank you for your interest in the
work of the Integrity Commission.” The Sunday Express understands that a brokerage owner received a letter from the Commission last year and has been interviewed. Debideen, who said in an interview with the Sunday Express last year that he bought one of the Range Rover vehicles - a TDV Vogue PCR 2- from Ramlogan, was contacted on Friday afternoon and asked whether he had been interviewed by the Integrity Commission. Debideen said: “I am not answering nothing to nobody. If the Integrity Commission want me to answer anything, let them write and talk to my lawyer which is my son (Varun Debideen). I have a daughter who is a lawyer too they could talk to her too. “So everything that they want to know, let them talk to my lawyers and they could talk to the AG as well who is my friend...like my brother.” Asked whether the vehicle has been transferred to his name yet, Debideen said: “I don’t know, tell the Integrity Commission to go and check Licensing Office.” He said: “This bacchanal...Anand is entitled to duty free, tax free, VAT free vehicle which he can sell after two years. Every minister does that. I don’t know whether the vehicle was transferred, my son (Varun) will know about it. He handles that,” Debideen said. Last year, the Commission received a complaint from then People’s National Movement (PNM) Senator
Anand Ramlogan Fitzgerald Hinds on the issue of Ramlogan’s car on July 29. The Commission, on September 23, devised “an investigation plan” but it was only on November 14, following written enquiries by Ramlogan on whether he was being investigated, that the Commission confirmed to him an investigation was underway. Procedurally, the Commission is required to notify a person in public life that a complaint has been filed against them and an investigation is being conducted. Following a series of investigative pieces last year by the Sunday Express regarding the acquisition of the Range Rovers, Farrell in his November letter wrote: “The Integrity Commission regrets that this matter was not brought to your attention before but now does so with apologies.” The articles which appeared in the Sunday Express raised questions about the registration and licensing of the two Range Rovers owned by Ramlogan.
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West Africans fill churches to pray for deliverance from ‘devil’ Ebola (Reuters) - People in Sierra Leone and Liberia filled churches yesterday to seek deliverance from an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, defying official warnings to avoid public gatherings to contain an epidemic that has killed nearly 1,000 people in West Africa. With their creaking healthcare systems completely overrun, Sierra Leone and Liberia have both declared states of emergency to tackle the highly contagious and incurable disease, which has also stricken neighbouring Guinea. People still flocked to sing and pray at churches in Liberia’s ramshackle oceanfront capital Monrovia, many of them comparing Ebola to the brutal civil war that ravaged the country between 1989 and 2003, killing nearly a quarter of a million people. One of the deadliest diseases known to man, Ebola kills up to 90 percent of those infected. Discovered nearly 40 years ago deep in the forests of central Africa, its symptoms include internal and external bleeding, diarrhoea and vomiting.
“Everyone is so afraid,” said Martee Jones Seator at Saint Peter ’s Lutheran Church. “Ebola is not going to shake our faith in any way ... because we’ve been through difficult times.” With the disease now in four African countries following the death in Nigeria last month of a U.S. citizen who arrived from Liberia - the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday classified the epidemic as an international health emergency. The WHO has said that the world’s worst outbreak of Ebola — with 1,779 cases and 962 deaths — will likely continue for months as the region’s healthcare systems struggle to cope. It has appealed urgently for funding and emergency medical staff. A WHO medical ethics committee will discuss next week the use of experimental drugs to tackle the outbreak after two U.S. aid workers showed improvement after being treated with ZMapp, a drug developed by Californiabased Mapp Biopharmaceutical. Spain yesterday
Medical staff working with Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) prepare to bring food to patients kept in an isolation area at the MSF Ebola treatment centre in Kailahun. Credit: Reuters/Tommy Trenchard authorised the use of the ZMapp on 75-year-old Spanish priest Miguel Pajares - the first European infected who was evacuated to Madrid last week after contracting the haemorrhagic fever while working in a hospital in Monrovia. A Congolese nun who worked with him died there on
Saturday. British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said yesterday a clinical trial of a vaccine was due to start shortly. Three U.S. laboratories established to quickly make vaccines in the event of a public health threat also said they were standing by to support any U.S. effort to tackle Ebola. With no other treatment available, churches in Monrovia furnished plastic buckets containing chlorinated water for worshippers to disinfect their hands. Inside, pastors told their congregations to follow instructions from health workers, some of whom have been attacked by locals terrified by the disease. “We are in trouble here.
We are in trouble,” Reverend Marcus MacKay, dressed in a green gown, said before the altar. “But you know what? There is no way this devil is going to do its work!” Though this outbreak was first identified in March in the remote forest region of southeastern Guinea, scientists have traced the first recorded case as far back as early December, to a 2-yearold boy near the town of Gueckedou. Many believe the virus was carried by fruit bats from central Africa, where it is regarded as endemic. Yet it is not clear how it jumped into the human population in West Africa. Quarantine measures imposed on infected communities have hit trade
and food supplies in some of the world’s poorest countries. In Sierra Leone, Bishop Abu Aiah Koroma of the evangelical Flaming Bible Church in Freetown said price hikes were destroying the nation’s economy, branding Ebola “a devil”. Speaking amid chants of “Alleluia” and “Amen” from his packed church, Koroma called for penitence “to avert this plague from our country”. Concern over the spread of Ebola grew after it spread to Nigeria - Africa’s most populous country - in late July. Seven cases of Ebola have now been confirmed there, including two deaths, and authorities have declared a national emergency. In a bid to prevent Ebola reaching the United States, health officials in North Carolina said on Sunday they would require missionaries and others coming home after working with people infected with Ebola to be placed in quarantine. Burkina Faso became the latest African country on Sunday to announce stringent airport health checks and border controls to protect itself from infection. In Senegal, which borders Guinea to the north, a man has been isolated in the northern region of Matam while tests were conducted for Ebola, the APS state news agency reported. Tests on suspected cases in Hong Kong, Canada and Saudi Arabia in recent days have all proved negative.
Cameron will lose election on ethnic minority vote: Muslim ex-minister (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives will lose next year’s election because they have neglected ethnic minority voters, Britain’s first Muslim cabinet minister, who last week resigned over the government’s Gaza policy, warned yesterday. Sayeeda Warsi, a former Foreign Office minister who has played a key role in the Conservatives’ appeal to Muslim voters, last week embarrassed Cameron by resigning via Twitter over what she said was the government’s “morally indefensible” approach to the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Yesterday she dominated the front pages of Britain’s newspapers again, this time warning that what she called Cameron’s neglect of ethnic minority voters would cost him an outright victory at next year’s national election. “The electoral reality is that we will not win outright Conservative majorities until we start attracting more of the ethnic vote,” she said in an interview with the Sunday Times and Independent yesterday newspapers. “We’ve probably left it a little too late to take this part of the electorate seriously.” The criticism from Warsi, the daughter of Pakistani immigrants to Britain who speaks
fluent Urdu, Punjabi and Gujarati, will hit a sore spot for Cameron. Poor support from ethnic minority voters - which make up around 14 percent of the electorate - was one factor that cost Cameron an outright win in 2010, forcing him into a coalition government with the left-leaning Liberal Democrat party. An academic study showed that only 16 percent of ethnic minority voters backed the Conservatives in 2010, while Labour, the main opposition party, won 68 percent support. Current opinion polls give Labour a lead of around 4 percentage points over the Conservatives going into the May 2015 vote. Cameron’s political spokesman would not comment on the interview, but pointed to a letter last week in which the prime minister said he was sorry that Warsi had decided to resign and thanked her for her work in government. Warsi, a baroness who sits in the upper house of parliament, in 2010 became Britain’s first Muslim to serve in cabinet but was later demoted to be a senior minister of state at the Foreign Office and a minister for faith and communities. She also chaired the Conservative Party between 2010 and 2012.
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Israel, Palestinians Hillary Clinton distances herself from Obama’s foreign policy agree new Gaza truce
People watch as a fire burns in a building that witnesses say was hit by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City August yesterday. Credit: REUTERS/Siegfried Modola (Reuters) - Israel and the Palestinians agreed yesterday to an Egyptian proposal for a new 72-hour ceasefire in Gaza starting at 2100 GMT (2200 BST), officials from the warring sides said. “Israel has accepted Egypt’s proposal,” a senior Israeli government official said, adding Israeli negotiators would return to Cairo today to resume indirect talks with the Palestinians if the truce held. The Israeli team had flown home on Friday before a previous three-day truce expired and hostilities in the month-old conflict resumed. A Hamas official said Palestinian factions had accepted Egypt’s call and that the Cairo talks would continue. In a statement, Egypt’s Foreign Ministry urged “both sides to exploit this truce to resume indirect negotiations immediately and work towards a comprehensive and lasting ceasefire agreement”. Earlier, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “Israel will not negotiate under fire” and warned of a protracted Israeli military campaign in the Gaza Strip if rocket salvoes continued. Hamas has demanded an end to Israeli and Egyptian blockades of the coastal territory and the opening of a Gaza seaport - a project Israel says should be dealt with only in any future talks on a permanent peace deal with the Palestinians.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said negotiations during the new truce would be “the last chance” for a deal. Israeli air strikes and shelling yesterday killed nine Palestinians in Gaza, including a boy of 14 and a woman, medics said, in a third day of renewed fighting. One air strike destroyed the home of Gaza City’s mayor, Nezar Hijazi, across the street from the Reuters bureau where reporters and cameramen hit the floor as the explosion occurred. There were no casualties in the attack because Israel telephoned warnings to residents in the house and neighbouring buildings. The Israeli military said it targeted 11 “terror squads” in Gaza among them gunmen involved in or preparing to fire rockets. Since the previous ceasefire expired, Palestinian rocket and mortar salvoes have focused on Israeli kibbutzim, or collective farms, just across the border in what appeared to be a strategy of sapping the Jewish state’s morale without triggering another ground invasion of the tiny Gaza Strip. A month of war has killed 1,910 Palestinians and 67 Israelis while devastating wide tracts of denselypopulated Gaza. But international pressure for a ceasefire has been weaker than in earlier rounds of Israeli-Palestinian conflict given other international security crises, notably in Iraq and Ukraine, distracting major
powers. However, the violence over the past three days has been less intense than at the war’s outset, with reduced firing on both sides. Israel withdrew ground forces from Gaza on Tuesday. Before the truce ran out, Israel said it was ready to agree to an extension. Hamas did not agree, calling for an end to the economically stifling blockade of the enclave that both Israel and Egypt, which regards the Islamist movement as a security threat, have imposed. Israel has resisted easing access to Gaza, suspecting Hamas could then restock with weapons from abroad. A sticking point has been Israel’s demand for guarantees that Hamas would not use any reconstruction supplies sent to Gaza to build more tunnels of the sort that Palestinian fighters have used to infiltrate the Jewish state. Egypt is meeting separately with each party, given that Hamas rejects Israel’s right to exist and Israel regards the group as a terrorist organisation. Gaza hospital officials say the Palestinian death toll has been mainly civilian since the July 8 launch of Israel’s military campaign to quell Gaza rocket fire. Israel has lost 64 soldiers and three civilians to the war, where losses of noncombatants in Gaza and the destruction of thousands of homes have drawn international condemnation.
(Reuters) - Distancing herself from President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, potential 2016 U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said in an interview published yesterday that the U.S. decision not to intervene early in the Syrian civil war was a “failure.” Republican critics and others have faulted Obama for doing too little to support Syrians who rose up against President Bashar al-Assad. Syria has been torn apart by a civil war for three years, with Assad staying in power and Islamic militants among the opposition gaining strength. “The failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad - there were Islamists, there were secularists, there was everything in the middle - the failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled,” Clinton said in an interview with The Atlantic. Clinton was Obama’s secretary of state during his first term as president, stepping down in early 2013, so she was part of the administration during the start of the Syria uprising. Seen as a possible strong
Hillary Clinton contender for the 2016 U.S. Democratic presidential nomination, she ran unsuccessfully against Obama for the party’s nomination in 2008. Asked about Obama’s slogan of “Don’t do stupid stuff” to describe his foreign policy thinking, Clinton said, “Great nations need organising principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organising principle.” In the interview, Clinton also offered strong support for Israel and for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has a tense relationship with Obama. Israel has drawn international condemnation
for the deaths of Palestinian non-combatants in Gaza and the destruction of thousands of homes during its month of war with the Islamist movement Hamas. The Obama administration, while supporting Israel’s right to defend itself, has rebuked Israel at least once during the current conflict over the deaths of civilians. “I think Israel did what it had to do to respond to the (Hamas) rockets. Israel has a right to defend itself. The steps Hamas has taken to embed rockets and command and control facilities and tunnel entrances in civilian areas, this makes a response by Israel difficult,” Clinton said. Questioned about whether Israel has taken enough steps to prevent the deaths of civilians including children, Clinton said the United States also tries to be careful to avoid civilian casualties in war but sometimes mistakes are made. “We’ve made them. I don’t know a nation, no matter what its values are and I think that democratic nations have demonstrably better values in a conflict position - that hasn’t made errors, but ultimately the responsibility rests with Hamas,” Clinton added.
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‘For the Good of the Game’ By Rawle Welch It has been over 24 hours since the FIFA/ CONCACAF mandated Extra Ordinary Congress of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has been aborted despite the threat by the two governing bodies about possible sanctions if the local landscape is not normalised. Well, all those who are connected with the game whether as a stakeholder, lover or just a sport loving Guyanese must be extremely disappointed with the outcome and the possible consequences our footballers could face due to the actions of our administrators. Irrespective of who is to blame for this ongoing ugliness, the fact that our footballers have once again been placed at the altar of sacrifice for the personal ambitions of some should not come as a surprise to anyone? The administration of Guyana’s football has once again failed to demonstrate common sense and that is why promoters and organisers of the game will remain lamenting about the lack of support by the corporate community. A sport which has so much to offer our youths, especially those from the depressed communities, continues to be mistreated by many whose only apparent aim is for personal enrichment, a feature that typified previous administrations. Guyana’s football received a much needed release from the iron grip that literally choked the life out of its development for over two decades and even the most uninformed Guyanese without any prior knowledge of what transpired in the past if given a factual account would have to agree that the opposing factions have remained in campaign mode since the Electoral Congress that was held at the Pegasus last year ended with incumbent President Christopher Matthias being declared the new Boss for Guyana’s
football. How could you explain the numerous negative letters in the Press and the failed attempts to bring a vote of no-confidence against the President without proper foundation and the constant desire to see the administration fail? Is it that they feel that they are the only ones qualified to run Guyana’s football or is there something more sinister about their unremitting challenge to get back into office? If one is to check the performance of those vying to return to the helm of Guyana’s football they will see that almost all of them have failed in the areas of accountability and transparency after governing over multimillion of dollars, the largesse of FIFA/ CONCACAF and the exploits and energies of our footballers. Every official that holds office in any sphere of endeavour should be open to scrutiny and be held accountable for the governance of his or her area of responsibility, so this missive is in no way meant to give a pass or turn a blind eye to bad governance it merely seeks to expose the problem (s) facing the current football administration and at the same time show cause why those that enjoyed the luxury of being in office in the past should not be presented with another opportunity to return. How could any right thinking set of stakeholders even contemplate bringing them back to office? They have never explained how the coffers of local football were left entirely deplete of funds, a situation that has evidently hindered the game’s further development and then now invoke the nerve to ask stakeholders for another chance. It just shows their impudence and contempt for as they like to say ‘for the good of the game’.
Teshina Marcus is MHA Emancipation Queen Dominoes winner
MHA Emancipation Queen Dominoes winner Ms. Teshina Marcus receiving her trophy from Mrs. Mohammad in the presence of other participants. Teshina Marcus was crowned Queen of Dominoes when the Ministry of Home Affairs brought off their annual Emancipation competition which was contested on Friday last at the entity’s Brickdam, Head Office. In the closely contested match, Marcus won by the slimmest of margins, one point, tallying 11 games to Roshonda Burnett and Stacey Joseph who both marked 10 games. Burnett was awarded the second place ahead of Joseph who was loved in the second sitting by Burnett.
Medals were presented to the second and third place finishers whilst a medal and trophy were handed over to Marcus by the wife of sponsor, Mr. Nazeem Mohammad. Coordinator of the competition, Ovid Glasgow DSM, MHA Administrator complimented the ladies for participating in the competition which he said forms part of the ministry’s focus of building strong camaraderie among its employees. Also contributing to the tournament were Banks DIH and NALICO/NAFICO.
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Night of Nostalgia at Providence…
Legends turn back clock in Guyana Festival t20 By Sean Devers A galaxy of former stars shone under the floodlights at the Guyana National Stadium at Providence as they turned back the clock in a specially arranged exhibition game organized by the Tourism Ministry on Saturday night as part of its three-day Guyana Festival which culminated last night. Thousands of fans packed the stands to see the Ex International cricketers play for a ‘Masters X1’ against a President’s X1 made up of players of a more recent vintage which included present West Indies Test batsman Shiv Chanderpaul, Skipper Ramnaresh Sarwan, Sewnarine Chattergoon, Assad Fudadin, Reon King and Mahendra Nagamootoo. While they were heroes in the glory days of West Indies cricket in the 1980s and early ‘90s to the ‘old stagers,’ who tolerated the Tassa drumming and loud music ‘booming’ from massive speakers during the breaks in between overs which is now the standard operating procedure at t20 matches, this was the first time, and most likely the last time, the younger folks were seeing Guyanese players like Faoud Bacchus, Sew Shivnarine, Clyde Butts, Clayton Lambert, Sudesh Dhaniram, Derrick Kallicharran, Sheik Mohamed, Rabindranauth Seeram, Travis Dowlin, Reon King and Colin Stuart on a cricket field. That the clearly ‘not so fit’ ‘Masters’ were playing at Guyana’s newest cricket venue and involved in t20 cricket for the first time, and the organizers did not bother to have any scorer record the scores in the match, were irrelevant issues to their wonderful idea to incorporate such a match in their event and few bothered that the
local legends, most of them well into their 50s, chased down balls to the boundary like old Morris Oxford cars. The feeling of nostalgia was satisfying enough for the fans, who got more than their $1,000 worth of entertainment at an event where there was also football match between two of the top local teams (Slingers & GDF) in addition to a concert where a number of Guyanese music Legends performed. Several overseas Guyanese and many visitors to this country were among the crowd of close 6,000. President Donald Ramotar bowled the first ball to Chattergoon after the President’s X1 won the toss and opted to bat first on the slow track and immaculately manicured Providence sward and the memories of titanic battles in the Shell Shield Regional First-Class competitions came flooding back to many old enough to have witnessed them live. That the President’s X1 won or that the contest lacked the intensity or number of sixes usually seen in t20 matches and began over an hour late were of little importance to many at venue on Saturday evening. Lambert and Dhaniram opened the innings before Bacchus and Seeram, who both played some audacious shots, joined forces in a nice little partnership to remind of the days when Regional cricket was of a very high standard and money was not a main motivating factor for the players. The left-handed Kallicharran, with his hair, which was tinged with grey, blowing in the cool night breeze, lofted Sarwan for six after caressing him through cover to get off the mark first ball with an imperious
boundary. Seeing Butts bowling to present day West Indies batsmen without being destroyed and leg-spinner Arjune Nandu being hit for six by Chanderpaul but still getting the left-hander caught by ‘flighting’ the ball, should have been an education to the young spinners, interested enough to watch. Azeemul Haniff played some delightful shots in his innings and was particularly severe on Stuart, stroking the former West Indies quickie for three gloriously timed boundaries in the same over. Former Guyana pacer Kevin Darlington opened the bowling for the Master’s X1 while Gavin Nedd, Lennox Cush and wicket-Keeper Vishal Nagamootoo, who many felt should have gotten a few games for the West Indies, were also on show as were former West Indies under-19 players Amir Khan and Keon Joseph. The fantastic atmosphere created by the public Address Announcer, who kept the spectators informed throughout the match and the smiles on the faces of the fans proved the match was a resounding success although at an event titled ‘Guyana Festival’ a little less foreign music could have been played by the DJ. In the end the President’s XI proved too strong for the Masters XI.
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Regional U-19 50-over tourney
Windwards scrape pass Trinidad and Tobago by 2 wkts
Off spinner Samuel Roopnarine in action. By Zaheer Mohamed An unbroken ninth wicket stand of 40 between Sherman Lewis and Deron Hypolite guided Windward Islands to a hard fought two- wicket victory over Trinidad and Tobago in the fifth round of the Regional U-19 50-over tournament yesterday at Enmore. Chasing 149, the pair came together with the game evenly balanced at 110-8 and saw their team to safety in the penultimate over with sensible batting. Lewis faced 30 balls and ended unbeaten on 26, while Hypolite finished on 13 off 33 balls. Roland Cato (24) and Ryan John (29) rescued Windwards with a sixth wicket stand of 64 after they were reduced to 45-5. Melvin Gordon (07) and Gidron Pope (12) added 22 for
the opening stand before off spinner Samuel Roopnarine uprooted the stumps of Gordon. Pacer Akil Seetal then bowled Pope one run later while Anderson Phillip sent back Tonis Simon (01) to leave Windwards in trouble at 28-3. Kershaskie Jno Lewis (04) played back to the steady Roopnarine and lost his stumps who also accounted for Anson Latchman (04). But Cato and John steadied the chase with levelheaded batting. The pair fought bravely especially Roopnarine and Seetal. Cato took advantage of Roopnarine over-pitched deliveries hitting him for a couple of boundaries while John also drove Seetal for a few when he pitched wayward. However it was Seetal that brought his team back into
the contest, he removed both Cato and John within a run of each other leaving the score at 110-7. Justin Joseph trapped Doran Edwards (01) LBW before Lewis and Hypolite took the game away from the Trinis. Seetal ended with 3-31 from eight overs and Ropnarine 3-36 from 10. Earlier Jeremy Solozano and Justin Joseph gave Trinidad and Tobago a rousing start with a stand of 41 after they were asked to bat on a pitch with some assistance for the bowlers. Joseph was the first to go bowled by Hypolite for 13. The watchful Solozano struck one four before he was taken off Pope for 28 which came off 56 balls. The Trinis then suffered a collapse which saw six wickets falling for 44 runs. Continued on page 26
Monday August 11, 2014
Guyana Amazon Warriors chase a big total to beat St. Lucia Zouks CPL - The Guyana Amazon Warriors defeated the St. Lucia Zouks in a game that featured the two highest opening stands in the history of the Limacol Caribbean Premier League. First, Andre Fletcher and Johnson Charles set a new record in the first innings of the match, only to see that mark broken by Lendl Simmons and Martin Guptill in the second dig. Barbados Tridents beat the Jamaica Tallawahs in the second match of the day to move top of the table and secure a place in the final, while the Warriors ended second. Bowlers struggled to find any control as the runs flowed freely from the bat throughout, but Simmons was the star of the show as he made 97 off 60 balls before he was run out agonisingly close to his century. When he departed, he had done enough for his side to secure victory in the highest chase in the history of the CPL but the Zouks just didn’t have quite enough to defend in a game that thrilled the noisy St. Kitts crowd. The thing that has been missing most from the Zouks so far in the tournament is a good start. Early wickets in the Powerplay have blighted Darren Sammy and his side. The best opening stand before today was the 41 that Johnson Charles put together with Henry Davids in their very first match. Since then, they have come nowhere close to the 139 run stand they achieved today. There could have been a wicket for the Amazon Warriors in the fourth over when a colossal mix up between Andre Fletcher and Charles saw both batsmen at the strikers end. The throw went to the wrong end and the chance was missed. The bowling options for the Warriors have been very settled this tournament, and it spoke volumes of how well the Zouks were going that Lendl Simmons came into the attack for just the second time in the tournament. Even Sunil Narine couldn’t apply the brakes during the Powerplay as his first over went for nine runs. Teams Barbados Tridents Guyana Amazon Warriors Trinidad Red Steel Jamaica Tallawahs St Lucia Zouks Antigua Hawksbills
Finish second in points table, Barbados Tridents end top At the halfway stage of their innings, the Zouks were still yet to lose a wicket and had set a platform to go on to make something very impressive. There could have been yet another run out chance when Johnson set off for a run that wasn’t there. Krishmar Santokie couldn’t get the ball in over the stumps and the opportunity was lost. Both batsmen reached higher scores than any Zouks batsman has scored this season. Thoughts would have turned to a score in excess of 200, but it would be down to the middle order to get them there when Charles was well caught on the boundary by Martin Guptill for 62 off 46 balls. The crowd would have hoped to see Kevin Pietersen, but in a legitimate move by the Zouks they sent in Sohail Tanvir; he is the man with the second highest strike rate in this year’s event and would be well placed to go hard from ball one. The spectators did not have to wait long for Pietersen, as Fletcher went the same way as Charles, well caught in the deep. The departure of the two openers saw a loss of momentum. Tanvir hit his first ball for six, but could not repeat the trick off the next delivery to see him caught out. That brought together Darren Sammy and Pietersen and both were in six hitting form from the very get go. Pietersen nearly made it two in two but for an outstanding one handed catch from Guptill that cost him his wicket. The Zouks did not quite make it to 200, but thanks to some big blows from skipper Sammy, they still went on to record their highest ever total. For the second time in the match, there was an excellent opening stand as Guptill and Simmons set about making the Zouks t o t a l l o o k o r d i n a r y. Simmons was in scintillating form, but he could have gone twice before he reached fifty. He was dropped on nought by
Mat 9 9 9 9 9 9
Won 6 6 6 6 2 1
Lost 3 3 3 3 7 8
Tied 0 0 0 0 0 0
Liam Sebastian and on 45 by Shillingford, although neither was a simple chance. The bowler that struggled most for control was Tino Best, as his second over went for 26 runs as Simmons put him to the sword to get the run rate under control. He did not look back as he continued to find the boundary with ease. He was well supported by Guptill, the New Zealander happy to just give the strike to his fellow opener. Best came back into the attack and nearly secured revenge against Simmons. A top edge was nearly taken, but the wind took it out of the gloved hands of Fletcher. While Simmons had his luck in this innings, he interspersed those moments of good fortune with shots of power and precision. He lost Guptill with work still to be done, but he did not slow down as he destroyed a Mervin Mathew over, scoring three consecutive sixes. He could not quite make it to his hundred, but it was a match winning performance of the highest order from the Amazon Warriors opener. Meanwhile, the second match of the day yesterday resulted in the Barbados Tridents beating the Jamaica Tallawahs comfortably and got top of the table and secure a place in the final. The Warriors ended second and will be in action on Thursday against the winner of the first semifinal between the Tallawahs and Red Steel set for Wednesday at Warner Park in St Kitts. Scores in the Tallawahs versus Tridents match: Barbados Tridents 175/8 (20/ 20 ov) with Kieron Pollard 63, Rusty Theron took 4-35; Jamaica Tallawahs 87 (15.3/20 ov), Nkrumah Bonner 47. Barbados Tridents won by 88 runs. Scores: St Lucia Zouks 189/7 (20/20 ov); Guyana Amazon Warriors 194/2 (19/20 ov). Result: Guyana Amazon Warriors won by 8 wickets (with 6 balls remaining). N/R 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pts 12 12 12 12 4 2
Net RR +0.675 +0.414 +0.317 +0.071 -0.790 -0.820