Kaieteur News

Mother, 7-year-old son chopped to death at Rose Hall …fourpersonsarrested

Amotherandher7-year-old son were on Wednesday found dead in their Mangrove Street, Rose Hall Town home with chop wounds about their bodies. Four persons, three of whom are relatives of the deceased,havebeenarrested.

Dead are Melissa and AnthonyArokium.

Regional Commander, Shivpersaud Bhaccus told reportersatthescenethatpolice received a call just around noon on Wednesday informing that there was an alleged wounding. Hesaidwhenpoliceresponded, thebodiesofthewomanandher sonwereseeninbloodandchop wounds. The child was found onthebedinthebedroomwhile the woman was found in the

hallway

Kaieteur News understands that the youngest brother for the woman made the discovery when he ventured to the house to use the washroom Melissa has another brother who lives in another house behindhers.

Bhaccus said four persons are being questioned in relation to the alleged double murder and noted that the matter is still an active investigation but that based on preliminary investigations traces of bloodwerefoundbyinvestigatorsin the backland area (not far from the crimescene).

Melissa's uncle, 52-year-old

LeonMooresaidhewastoldthatthe woman's older brother, who lives behind her home, left for work at the sugar estate at around 4:00am

Neighbours flocked the street the Arokium's lived as word spread of their gruesome death

Wednesdayandreturnedhome around11:00am.

Apparently, that brother was unaware that his sister and nephew had been killed since he reportedly did not check on them. Moore said that Melissa would takeAnthony to lessons and he had seen the duo on

Wednesday However, Moore related that it was the deceased's younger brother who ventured to the houseanddiscoveredthebodies. Meanwhile, neighbours said they did not hear or see anything suspicious to alert them that the motherandsonwereindanger Investigationsareongoing.

Dead: Melissa and Anthony Arokium

Opposition demands proof of quarterly assessments to justify Exxon’s 1 year extension for oil blocks

- says “spineless, shameless” PPP trying to distract citizens from wholesale

out of Guyana's oil assets

Former President, DavidGrangerdid not give the ExxonMobil-led consortium an unconditional one- year extension on the Stabroek Block, thereby postponing until 2024 the return of 20 percent of the lucrative concession.

This position was articulated yesterday by the Alliance For Change (AFC), one of Guyana's main oppositionparties.

The AFC's clarification sought to counter the release of signed documents by the Ministry of Natural R e s o u r c e s a n d t h e Department of Public Informationwhichshowthat it was Granger and not the current administration that gaveExxontheextensionfor not just the Stabroek Block but also the Canje and KaieteurBlocks,itoperates.

ExxonMobil Guyana officials also confirmed the authenticity of the documents with this newspaper, stating that the former administration grantedtheextension.

The ministry said on TuesdaythattheAFCaswell as its opposition partner, the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) have been wrongfully criticizing the government for failing to secure this year, the 20 percent portion of the Stabroek Block as required byitsagreement.

Inresponse,theAFCsaid Granger did not grant an extension in July, 2020 “ It was a conditional process to recalibrate or deduct time after (quarterly) reviews, where obviously Exxon had to show cause. This first show-cause was to be done in September 2020…,”thepartysaid.

“ W h e r e i s t h e documentation of the quarterly assessments to arrive at this decision per the Grangerletter?

That apparently has been

thrown over [Vice President, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo's shoulders,”theAFCsaid.

Theoppositionpartysaid the approach of the former regime stands in contrast to the “lay-down-and-tek-allyou-want attitude of the PPP.”

The party also described the relationship between the government and Exxon as

what quarterly assessments it conducted to justify Exxon's extended hold on 100 percent of three oil blocks.

“Granger issued a letter for extension but the caveat is that it allows for periodic reviews to make any adjustments and these adjustments can be to increase or reduce the time granted because your circumstances can change. So you have to do quarterly assessment to warrant any such action,” Dr Adams said.Dr Adamsdidnotethat the publication of the

about a key decision for a lucrative block is only released three years later in the midst of controversy does not bode well for the industry

“We have to get into the c u l t u r e o f h a v i n g transparency for key decisions,” the former EPA Headsaid.

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development activities were allowed to continue for 24 hoursdaily

Oilwasactuallylistedas anessentialservice.

Bank of Guyana's quarterly reports also show that at the end of December 2020,thecountrystillearned $11 2B in royalties and profitoil.

The opposition also said that every possible

“undoubtedly incestuous” now as both continue to rely o n t h e C O V I D - 1 9 circumstances to delay by a year, the relinquishment of 20percentoftheblock.

It further deemed the release of the documents by government agencies as an attempt to distract from the “unadulterated cowardice andwholesaleselloutonthis matter of relinquishment... It is just a poppy show of a pretext, and a false pretense.”

The party continued, “The PPP Government and Jagdeo have gotten so spineless and supine on their dealings with this company, itisjustshocking.

This is shameless from a party which scripted in its manifesto that it will, upon taking Government:

Immediately engage the oil companies in better contract administration/renegotiation …”

without a review or any questions from the original deadline of October 2023 to next year is certainly not b e t t e r c o n t r a c t administration, nor holding t h e o i l c o m p a n y accountable,theAFCstated.

In a separate interview with Kaieteur News, former head of the Environmental ProtectionAgency(EPA)Dr Vincent Adams echoed similarsentiments.

He said it is incumbent on the government to show

documents came as a surprise to many individuals who were part of the hierarchy of the past administration.

“Many of them were caught by surprise and that should not be. Information should be made available to the public; what is there to hide about giving Exxon an extension and the conditions attached?” the former EPA questioned.

He said the entire situation, where documents

Opposition members have also questioned government's motives for allowinganextensionforthe Stabroek Block, especially when one recalls that Exxon was allowed to continue its production operations at the Liza Phase One Project for allof2020.

The AFC in particular had reminded last week that a public health order was issued on April 9, 2020 which categorically stated that oil exploration and

exemption was granted to ExxonMobil and its partners which included Hess Corporation and CNOOC Petroleum Guyana Limited to ensure production and development works were unhindered.

As a result of this, opposition policymakers find it puzzling that the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic could be used as an excuse to extend Exxon's hold on three oil blocks.

sell

An extract of the Public Health Order which shows that oil exploration was listed as an essential service.

Former EPA Head, Dr. Vincent Adams

AFC Leader, Kemraj Ramjattan

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Billions to assist the vulnerable

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security is seekingaUS$30millionloanfromtheIDBtoimprovesomeof itsprograms Theseprogramsincludethoseservingrecipients of senior citizen pensions, persons with disabilities, and those who have been impacted by gender-based violence The systems around these programs need to be centralized and strengthened,sothatthemostvulnerableinGuyana’spopulation could be assisted in a more efficient, timely, and professional manner The US$30 million (GY$6 billion) loan could, indeed,streamlinetheassistanceprocessforGuyanese.

Currently, there are over 68,000 recipients of a monthly amount of GY$33,000, through the auspices of the Human ServicesMinistry Thisiscloseto9%ofGuyana’spopulation (using 800,000 as a population approximation), who benefit from this provision It is a positive that this longstanding programhasbeenkeptgoing,andalsohasbenefitedfromsmall increases in the last few years. The concern is that this monthlypensionofGY$33,000totheelderly(65yearsand over)representsonlyabout30%ofwhattherecipientsused toearnduringtheirworkingdays. Whilesomeofthe68,000 plus pension recipients may also receive some monthly pensionamountfrompreviousplacesofemployment,there istherealitythatsuchdoesnotapplytomanyseniorcitizen pensionbeneficiaries. Inotherwords,theonlyincomethey havepastage65istheGY$33,000theycollectfromoneof the local Post Offices, or other places that have been approvedtoprocesstheirpensionvouchers.

WhatthismeansisthattheelderlyinGuyana,whosesole source of income is their monthly pension from the State, are livingwithwhattheWorldBankreportedistheplightofcloseto half of Guyana That is, 48% of Guyanese are forced to deal with,liveonGY$1000aday,howevertheycan Byhookor crook,onemealortwoaday,thisiswhatpensionersstareat,and whichisthesourceofmuchlocalbewilderment. Guyanais not like before, for today it has oil in abundance, and Guyanese read, or hear, or learn about how this is an extremely rich country and, better still, they are among the richest people in the world, if not the richest per person overall. Yet, they grapple with how to get by, actually survivedaily

When this context is extended into the indigenous community,tensofthousandsmoreinthelocalpopulation, facethesamegrimreality TheWorldBankhadnotedthat hinterland communities are particularly hard hit, and virtually function at the barest subsistence level As can be seen, the numbers are already creeping up with these two groups only. When those with disabilities, those victimized and then economicallywoundedbygender-basedviolence,arebroughtinto the picture, there are a significant number of citizens, who are severely impacted and struggling to make ends meet. Further, when eyes are cast at other segments in Guyana’s demographics, poorer Indians andAfricans also have their backs to the wall. Whether there is agreement or dispute over the World Bank’s report that almost half of Guyanese are living under the tightest economic conditions, what is obvious is that the total number of weak, vulnerable, and deprivedGuyaneseareaconsiderablenumber

Occasionalremittancesfromoverseasmaytidethesituation overtemporarily So,too,wouldpost-retirementwork,onafulltimeorpart-timebasis,ifsuchwasavailable,andhealthconditions permittedsuchparticipation FormanyelderlyGuyanese,andothersin vulnerablegroups,thisismoreawishandadream,andnotpartof theirreality Therealityinwhichtheyliveisthatofaveryrichoil country,buttheyhavelittlethatiscomingtothemtoliftthemoutof poverty Thisisthebiting,terrible,ironyofGuyanese amid the grand pronouncements and projections about this world class oil patrimony Thecountryisnowsupposedlyawashin money, but the ordinary people are condemned to an impoverished existence The US$30 million (GY$6 billion) shouldcertainlycontributetoenhancedsystems,andsmoother delivery,ofsocialservices Somemeaningfulmoneyinthehand of the struggling and anxious in Guyana would be infinitely better

VPJagdeo ought to know that ‘Fraud and illegality vitiate and void any contract’

DEAREDITOR,

My attention has been drawn to Bharrat Jagdeo’s mostrecentpressconference and to his usual rantings aboutmyselfandothers,and in particular, about the Exxoncontract.

Ihavegrownaccustomed t o t h e s e t o t a l l y unsubstantiated statements and accusations, and understand where they are coming from. I am told by persons close to him that he has neither forgotten or forgiven me for our last encounter in Parliament someyearsago.

As such, I know that I walkaroundwithabigtarget on my back, and in his own words, he’s “vindictive”. It seems that no press conference can be held by him without my name being featured.Jagdeoisobviously unabletoreleasemefromhis mind.That’sunderstandable. Thehauntingwillcontinue. However, what is more

immediate, and of critical importance, is the statement that I, unknown to anyone else in the Cabinet, went off on my own, in the dark, conspired with Exxon, and committed an act of criminality in signing the agreement in June of 2016. Toquotehim:“Trotman...he is the biggest villian, the biggest criminal in signing theagreement.”

Thankfully, I have addressedmuchofthisdrivel in my book, and have the documents to dismiss it as ridiculous.

For now, putting aside the very slanderous aspects of the statement, from a purely legal and objective point of view, it occurred to me that Jagdeo has just delivered, wittingly or unwittingly, the pièce de résistance-theverybasison which his government can set aside, if it sincerely wishes to, the 2016 agreement that he endlessly

gripesabout.

Every student of the law knows, and I am sure he has access to first-rate legal advice to confirm, the fundamental principle that fraud and illegality vitiate andvoidanycontract.

All Guyanese should be happy at this latest pronouncement, or mispronouncement. In essence,itmeansthatthereis no need to “renegotiate” anything.JustinformExxon and its partners, Hess and CNOOC that because of the allegecriminalityassociated with the signing, there is no valid contract and call on them to come to the table to hammeroutanewone.

G i v e n J a g d e o ’s statement, ‘Sanctity of Contract’ cannot be applied in this instance by either Guyana or the other parties. Becauseofthe“criminality” there was no contract from thebeginning.

In the circumstances

adumbratedbyhim,itwould bevoidabinitio.I’mnotsure ifExxonanditsshareholders will be pleased to hear him say that the contract was predicated by criminality, as they would obviously be considered co-conspirators and accessories, but that’s notanyofourconcern.Now, the genie is out of the bottle and these words will go far and wide, and can’t be recalled. The Vice President of the Cooperative Republic ofGuyanahasspokenonthe “criminality” attending the agreement between the Government of Guyana and Exxon, Hess and CNOOC, and his words cannot be ignored. He thereforehas an obligation to do something aboutit.

The ball is now in his court,andallGuyanaawaits his action to do something about this so-called “criminality”.

Sincerely, RaphaelTrotman

The slave owner’s descendant visit

not become a political football

DEAREDITOR, Ireadwithsomeconcern of the visit by the descendants of slave owner, John Gladstone to Guyana. According to reports gleaned, they will make a formal apology If this happens it will be the first step to the process of Reparation. Further, I have been assured that one hundred thousand pounds is

a falsehood. This is good news because if that be the case, it constitutes an insult to every Guyanese with one drop of African blood surging through their veins. Truth can be hidden, Truth canbedistorted,butIfirmly believe Truth can never be destroyed.

Thefollowing,therefore, isthetruth.

First, I look forward to

this apology being followed by an ungarnished apology from the Dutch and British governments,sothatwecan work out the modalities for reparation.

The enslavement of black people is the worst of human cruelty inflicted on the group because they look different and in some cases, were too trusting. With a treacherous government we

mustbecareful,allofus,not to accept this ruse of a similarity between enslavementofAfricansand indentureship.Itislikechalk to cheese and you heard this President once said that we all came to Guyana for betterment.Afurthertruthor factisthattheTrans-Atlantic Trade completely severed therootsofthosewhowere

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Historians describe indentureship as close to slavery, apology also due to those descendants

DEAREDITOR, Iwriteinreferencetoan invitation from the University of Guyana (no office mentioned) for a ceremony on FridayAugust 25 relating to the official o p e n i n g o f “ T h e International Institute for Migration and Diaspora Studies” with a talk or dialogue on “Legacies and theFuture”attheuniversity I wish to commend the initiatorsandplannersofthis institute and the talk and/or dialogue, which the organizerssayisbeingdone now to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the 1823 slave rebellion that occurred on the Gladstone Plantation (estate) The 200th anniversary of c o m m e n c e m e n t o f indentureship is 15 years

away; it is hoped there will also be a commemoration at UG.

The invitation and an accompanying press release do not say whose legacies and whose future will be addressed. It is hoped that the dialogue and or talk will address the legacies of the native indigenous people, slavery and indentureship although we can’t draw that conclusionormakealogical rational inference based on the invitation and an accompanyingpressrelease.

The feature address or dialogues are announced to bedeliveredbyheirsofJohn Gladstone of England. The Gladstonefamilyintroduced the exploitative inhumane Indian indentureship system in British Guiana and the WesternWorldin1838. One

oftheGladstones(William), son of John, was Prime Minister of Britain multiple terms.William Ewart Gladstone was the Liberal primeministeroftheUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on four separate occasionsbetween1868and 1894 during Indian indentureship in Guyana (1838 to 1920). A Liberal PM that was a promoter of slavery and indentureship. There were great debates between him Benjamin Disraeli.

William’s father, John Gladstone, was the one who experimented with the indentureship system in the Indian Caribbean and found it very profitable, more lucrative than slavery He institutionalized Indian indentureship that led to

some two million girmityas being engaged in forced, exploitative labor in Africa, Pacific, Caribbean, and IndianOceanterritories.The Gladstone family-owned ships that were used to transport indentured labourers from British India to the Caribbean. Whitby and Hesperus, the two ships that transported the first batch of indentureds (girmityas) to British Guiana, arriving on May 5, 1838, were owned by the Gladstone family The family also owned slaves, indentured laborers and plantations Slavery was abolished in 1834. A period ofapprenticeshipresultedin the ex-slaves remaining on the plantations or estates workingorbeingtrained (Continuedonpage06)

must

The old physical slavery has been replaced by the new economic slavery

DEAREDITOR

, Slavery has always occurredsincethebeginning of mankind. We know of European slavery since it’s why we are here. Slavery, however, preceded the European empires, it happened in the African empires, Indian empires, Arab empires, Chinese empires, the Incas, the Aztecs, the Mayans etc Slaverycontinuestothisday likeintheoldtimes,inIndia, Africa and the third world where people are still propertyandwomenandthe poorhavenorights.

In rich and poor countries, there is sex slavery; many investigative journalists were shut down trying to expose this since it leads them to the rich and powerful in high societies, and even to top officials in the UN with the human sex trafficking of refugees. Labour is a huge expense to most businesses, so slavery will continue as this is the mostprofitablewayofdoing

business. The abolitionists fooled the world by saying they ended slavery, but didn’t mention the slave rebellions from African slaves forced the slave masters to end the form of slavery we know since the rebellions were making the plantations unprofitable Even when the slaves were officially freed, it took decades to attain their rights to vote, get educated, own land, and businesses, and hold public office even as they faced discrimination at everyturn.

The slave masters, however, didn’t end slavery, theytransformeditintowhat is called modern-day slavery

Theyremovedthevisible ironchainsandshackles,but merely replaced them with invisible chains, which are based on money and economics, stemming from forcingthirdworldcountries into resource and debt contractsandgettingforeign currency to conduct trades,

using local sellout house slaves into deals, which are lopsidedbenefittingonlythe slavemasters known as foreignexploiters.

Relevant to Guyana was the Monroe Doctrine where USPresidentJamesMonroe in 1823 declared that all countries in the western hemisphere were subjected to US policies, where Americancorporationswere to exploit these countries as they wished, and the countries who resisted were labeled as communists, whichcoups,assassinations, s a n c t i o n s , a n d destabilization destroyed those countries right in Guyana’s backyard. But Guyanese with access only towesternmedianeverknew this;theCIAkeepingCheddi Jagan out of power was part oftheMonroeDoctrine.

In 1844 there was the Bretton WoodsAgreements, wheretheIMF,WorldBank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) would controlthefinanceandtrade

Dead men tell no tales

DEAREDITOR, Firstly,sympathiestothe family of the late Dr Roger Luncheon.

His contributions to Guyanawereimmense.

OnAugust18,ataNight of Reflection on Dr Luncheon’s life, former President Jagdeo stated that he and Dr Luncheon were among a select few at the epicenter of Guyana’s tumultuous crime wave in the early 2000s He suggested that our nation’s interests were betrayed by individuals in the highest tiers of leadership in the security services Most importantly, he noted that the realities of that period hadtobekeptsecretandwill “go to the grave” with Dr. Luncheon.

He promised to delve further into this during Dr.

Luncheon’s funeral, and intimated that he, too, intends to keep such secrets classified.

On August 22, at the funeral and despite the promise, former President Jagdeo steered clear of details, though he did reiteratethatsecretsarenow confined“tothegrave”.

Editor, our family has been unrelenting in its 17year plea for a further and better investigation into the death of our loved ones on April 22, 2006 (including a member of the very governmentintheeyeofthe storm).

To declare that there is informationfromthatperiod that has now gone with Dr. Luncheon and will go with other central figures of that time “to the grave” is disturbing.Itisindefensible.

It smacks of rank insensitivity to those who remain in the dark all these yearslater Itisanaffrontto the memories of those who losttheirlives.

Mostofall,itdisregards a fundamental expectation of law, order and justicethat a government owes its citizenry all necessary information, be it good, bad or ugly, to identify wrongdoing and to allow justice to run its course. Simply put, the intellectual authorship behind that anarchic period cannot be treated as the privileged bailiwick of a cloistered group.

Wearenotnaive.

Thereisnodoubtthatthe details of that time must be troubling. But to declare, nearlytwodecadessince,

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of third world countries whichcausedthemajorityof third world to suffer, due to currency devaluation and debt, rendering them powerless, these policies also killed the vibrant economicsectorsofthethird world and got them hooked into oil and mineral resources economies, where the exploitation destroyed thelivesofthepoor TheUS dollar became the standard currency for trading, and that’swhycountriesruninto issuesfromforeigncurrency shortages,Burnhammustbe creditedfornotallowingthe Guyana dollar to devalue preventing Guyana’s resources from being exploited.

Todayifsomeonebrings US$1M to Guyana, they get over200MworthofGuyana dollars,yetUS$1Mcan’tbuy youahouseinaniceareain the ABC countries, Hoyte should be credited for bartering with Venezuela exchanging rice for oil eliminatingforeigncurrency risk, the PPP continued this under NICIL, subsequently BrassingtonsuedGlennLall for Lall alleging corruption atNICIL,yetkeydocuments to support Lall was never presented as they were p r o t e c t e d b y “confidentiality”clauses.

Today’s modern slavery has been highlighted with the Niger coup exposing France’s enslaving West Africa and other France colonies way after these countries were given their independence, France’s former colonies still have to pay France a “colonial tax”, an invasion of Haiti in 1959 by The Democracy and Freedom Champions of the world The USA was to ensure Haiti comply with

France’s claim for loss “investments”, however, France nor the USA gave anything to their victims of exploitation.Francestillhas therighttodictatehowthese countriesarerun,andwhere they do their banking and trade, and these colonies have to beg France for money from their own wealth to run their economies.

The Exxon contract in Guyana has Exxon taking 85.5%oftheoil,andthenonwithstanding (stability) clause has Guyana compensating Exxon for losses due to any renegotiation Guyana’s infrastructure and other resources are diverted from Guyanese for Exxon’s operations, the VP himself saidifExxonhastopaytaxes it will be deducted from Guyana’s share, Exxon will not be subjected to the new oil laws, Exxon will not be liable for full coverage in case of oil disasters and Exxon banks Guyana’s oil money and decides when and how much Guyana shouldreceive.

All these terms makes the oil contract just like the dealsFrance’scolonieshave withFrance.

Exxon says if Guyanese wantabetterdealgotocourt, where Exxon fully well knows their house slaves in Guyana will fight tooth and nail for Exxon against Guyanese, just like the ECOWASmembercountries in Africa, some of the most corrupt and sell out house slavesoftheirpeople,willbe sending troops to Niger to kill their own kind just for France to keep collecting their“dues”.

Whitepeoplecanalways get black and brown to kill

their own for Whites to benefit, but it can never be the other way around, that’s whyoverUS$3trillionfrom oilandresourcewealthflow from the third world to the developed world annually Norton has been lauded for encouraging blacks to own businesses, but how can these businesses succeed if Guyanese don’t have disposable income to support them and how will they compete with Chinese businesseswhopaynotaxes andimportgoodsduty-free? Wouldn’t these blacks fighting for their rightful shareofGuyana’swealthbe abetteroption?.

VP Jagdeo is throwing tantrumslikeatoddlerwhen being asked questions about the oil sector. Both Jagdeo andNortondanceallaround like Basmati rice when it comestotherenegotiationof theoilcontractterms.

In today’s world, real emancipation is economic emancipation where people get their rightful share of their wealth and have purchasingeconomicpower, speechesandceremoniesare just cheap imitations of emancipation. Guyanese if you can’t emancipate yourselvesfromtheclutches of the PPPand PNC and the racism and divisiveness festering among you, and if you will not fight for your rightfulshareofyourwealth to attain economic emancipation, then Guyanesecontinuetolivein economic slavery, and hopefully the comedy satire presentedbyAubreyNorton and Bharrat Jagdeo at their press conferences can bring you all some peace and comfort.

Yoursfaithfully, R.David

Whatistheretohide,Mr.Jagdeo?

DEAREDITOR

,

IsawMr.JagdeolosttheplotwithaKN journalistatarecentnewsconference.

This is unacceptable and, worse, unprofessional from a senior member of the government.Itsetsabadexampleandmakes one wonder if a nerve was touched and, by extension, within the PPPC administration.

Any journalist has the right to ask whatever questionstheywishinordertoextractaclear picture of what the is going on. A senior member of government losing his temper would seem to indicate they’ve got somethingtohide.

Yourssincerely,

PeterHays

Historiansdescribeindentureship...

Frompage04 withpayment.Some240,000girmityaswere indenturedinGuyanaasagainstsome72,686 slaves.

Historians described the indentureship system as not being much different from slavery In fact, it was called a “new form systemofslavery”.

The Gladstone family became extremely wealthy as a direct result of Indian indentureship.

The family also reaped profits from slavery although not profitable in later years as historian Eric Williams revealed inhisbookCapitalismandSlavery

Curiously, the talk or dialogues by heirs of John (and William) Gladstone and the launching of the Migration Institute at UG is being done in collaboration with the National Reparations Committee and Heirs of Slavery,anAfricanGuyanesegroup

No Indo-Guyanese spokespersons, no descendants of indentureship, no Indian scholars such as Ravi Dev, Ryhaan Shah, Tota Manager or no ethnic Indian organizations whose ancestors were indentured, such as the Indian Arrival Day Committee, has been approached as collaborators or co-sponsors No Indian (historian or activist) speaker or counterpart from another ethnic group

Ministry of Education should consider issuing annual School Report Cards

DEAREDITOR, This week the CXC results will be released for 2023.

hasbeenadvertisedintherelease.

Thereleasenotesthatthepublicisinvited “to witness an apology from Gladstone Heirs”.

It is not known if the apology is related exclusively to the former slaves or will also include the indentureds from India (girmityas) and the native people (Amerindians) whose ancestors like the African slaves and indentureds were also victimsoftheforcedinhumane,abusivelabor systems.

A (Christian) church service is also planned.

ThereisnomentionofaHinduorIslamic prayerservice.

The victims of slavery and indentureship were Christians, Hindus, and Muslims, and Hinduism and Islam were discriminated against by the plantationowners

Those faiths should be included in prayer services and the Gladstone family shouldalsoseektheirforgiveness

Iwilleagerlylookattheprogrammeon FridaytoseeiftheUniversityofGuyana’s principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion are being upheld The apology shouldbecomprehensiveinclusiveofslaves, indentureds,andtheindigenouspeople.

Yourstruly,

Dr.VishnuBisram

These student results would determine the d i r e c t i o n o f o u r children’s future whether they get good jobs or can continue to do postsecondary education But whiletheseresultswilltellus about student performance, they will also tell us about the effectiveness of our schools, and how well the schoolsaredoingagoodjob atprovidingaricheducation forourstudents.

There are instances of some schools having a high percentage of graduate teachers, they are provided with all kinds of resource materials by the Ministry, yetthereisahighpercentage ofstudentfailures.

Why? We need to do some root cause analysis, as part of ratcheting up our ongoing school accountability system andeducationreform

As our Ministry of Education continues its quest for “Excellence Through Equity,” we need to implement some measures similar to those done by the USA in the landmark “No Child Left Behind” (NCLB) initiative which has dramatically transformed American education In Guyana, there seemed to have been a misunderstanding of what the concept of NCLB was all about NCLB was never about social promotion of

children who failed It was themostrigorous,dramatic, earth-shaking federal accountability system ever implemented in US education

NCLB required all states in America to disaggregate their student achievement data by subgroups - Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans, Students with Disabilities, Students with Limited English Proficiency (See Glatthorn and Jailall, The Principal as CurriculumLeader:Shaping What is Taught and Tested, 2008).

The disaggregation of data was meant to track whether all students are making progress, and whether schools are i m p r o v i n g t h e i r performance every year In theolddays,noonebattedan eyelid whether students in a school were passing or failing, but NCLB changed allofthat.

No longer could any staff be sitting on the payroll waiting for

retirement Everyone was now accountable for results.

AsGuyanaemergestobe an economy transformed by its oil riches, as enormous shortages of skilled labour loom large, as we seek to avoid the “Dutch Disease” and maintain a diversified andstrongnon-oileconomy, the education system needs major realignment and revamping.

It cannot be business as usual. We have to shed all

those outdated, colonial-era practices that are irrelevant as we build a new, modern twenty-first century education infrastructure

What NCLB did in the USA was to make school boards, school principals, teachers, and parents accountableforresults.

No longer could you blame the students and their parentsforstudentfailuresat nationalexams.

NCLB placed much focus on the quality and effectiveness of school administration, faithful implementation of the school curriculum infused w i t h t e c h n o l o g y, improvements in teaching and learning, and the use o f d a t a - d r i v e n i n t e r v e n t i o n s I n Guyana, the colonial “methuselah” practice of teacherswiththemostyears of experience being made principals is an outdated notion.

IntheUSA,forinstance, states require a Principal or Assistant Principal to have special licensure in school Administration, usually requiringaMaster’sDegree Maybe a name change from “head teacher” to “Principal” might be a n i c e u p g r a d e o f terminology.

I hope the Ministry of Education publishes the CXC results from all high schools so we may start this conversation about Annual School Report Cards and schoolaccountability

Sincerely, Dr JerryJailall

Deadmentellnotales...

Frompage5

that knowledge and informationwillnotcometo light and call to account those who walk among us with blood on their hands is outrageous.Itbearsmacabre reminding that, in our harrowing episode alone, Satyadeow Sawh, Rajpat Sawh, Phulmattie Persaud and Curtis Robinson all gruesomely lost their lives. Others were devastatingly injured - Aga Khan lost a

kidney and faced further medical complications

Omprakash Sawh was shot.

Ourfamilydog,Brutus,was riddled with over 30 bullets. Our community was a murder scene. The nation was psychologically traumatized. To this day, people still lament the horror

We reiterate - remarking that information about that murderous time will “go to thegrave”isscandalous.The

gravity of death opens the eyes of those left to mourn. Thereisnothingheroicabout taking vital information “to the grave” Whatever is known must be brought to light without delay so that thememoriesofthosewhose lives were extinguished and the lived realities of those left behind are no longer insulted.

RogerSawh

On behalf of the family ofthelateSatyadeowSawh

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MarriottHotelsale

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Per Jagdeo the sale of the Marriott Hotel is in its final stages.

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Guyanese know little of the hotel's arrival, and its life.

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Oil sector employees continue to face threats against being unionized -GAWUHead

Efforts are underway by the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) to inform local oilfieldworkersoftheirright to be represented by a labour union This comes as employees within the sector continue to face threats not jointheunions.

GAWU's President, SeepaulNarinetoldKaieteur news on the sidelines of the nd Union's 22 Delegate's Congress held at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC) on Wednesday that many of the Guyanese workers within the oil sector a r e s t i l l a f r a i d o f unionization.

His statement comes more than a year after GAWU signed an agreement with the Trinidad-based Oilfield Workers' Trade Union (OWTU) to offer support to locals employed withinthesector

Narine noted that while one of the main purposes of the agreement is for the two unions to merge knowledge, information and provide

technical support to provide better representation to the workers, many local employeesarenotawarethat they have a legal right to be unionized He said, “Workers in that sector need to know their rights and who they can turn to in terms of representation.”

Narine said since the agreement was signed

of those issues we were able to send the workers to the Ministry to have them addressed through the Chief LabourOfficerandthedirect intervention of the Minister,” he told this publication.

According to Seepaul, the issues which were addressed include issues related to occupational

GAWU has engaged the MinistryofLabouronquitea number of issues facing the localoilandgasworkers.

“I commend them for their support because many

safety measures within the workplace, remuneration, overtime,andannualleave.

The GAWU Head noted that in some instances oil companies are including in a

clause in their employees' contracts preventing them fromjoiningtheunions.

Narinedisclosedthatthis clear violation of the workers' rights has been addressedbyGAWUandthe MinistryofLabour

He explained that, “The Ministry's intervention caused the removal of that clause from the contract because in our laws, an employercan'ttellyounotto beamemberofaunion…”

Inmeantime,Narinesaid that the Union will continue its efforts to sensitize workers on the right to representation.

“Some of workers are still being scared away from the unions by their employers… So we have to do more awareness- we have billboards, flyers and so on telling them of their right,” hesaid

In July 2022, GAWU

signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with the Oilfield Workers Union (OWTU) of Trinidad and Tobago.

Following the signing of the agreement, the GAWU President had noted that the Guyanese union hopes to leverage the OWTU's vast experience in the oil and gas sector amid efforts to officially represent oil workersinGuyana.

He said the agreement is necessary, because oil workers in Guyana already face issues that include employers' unwillingness to pay overtime and to provide appropriate Personal and Protective Equipment (PPEs).

In resolving issues of workers, Narine said one cannot only depend on the Ministry of Labour whether thegovernmentisfriendlyto thecontractorornot.

“…Itisonlyunionisation that will be able to take workers out of their difficulties,”hesaid. Another challenge in representing workers is that different hiring companies source workers on behalf of the contractors. As such, Narine said that it becomes complicatedrepresentingthe workers.

Notwithstanding, the M e m o r a n d u m o f Cooperation will allow GAWU to benefit from OWTU's knowledge and skills in representing workers.

The Trinidadian union has been involved in that country's oil sector for some 85 years. Additionally, the Memorandum recognizes that collaborative efforts between developing countries are an essential prerequisite in stemming the tideandprotectingworkers.

BlackBushPolderresidents protestdeplorableroad

Residents and vehicle owners in Black Bush Polder, East Berbice – Corentyne (Region Six) on Wednesday blocked the Lesbeholdenaccessroadinprotestoverthe deplorablestateoftheroad.

Agriculture machinery were dragged across the road Wednesday morning as angry residents lamented the condition of theroaddespitesectionswere“patchedup” recently Kaieteur News understands that the

road is being "patched up" but the contractor did not seal off the patches that werefilledwithbricksandsand.

The frustrated residents stressed that the work being executed by the contractor is shoddy and unacceptable while noting thatthecontractorleftincompleteworkfor overfourweeks.

Police were reportedly summoned and upon arrival removed the machinery that layacrossthestreettoallowthefreeflowof traffic.

GAWU's President, Seepaul Narine

Oil sector employees continue to face threats against being unionized

Residents blocked the Lesbeholden access road, Black Bush Polder with agriculture machinery on Wednesday.

The President does not believe in bureaucracy

Yesterday, the President made an interesting revelation Addressing a conference of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU), the President said that he does not believe in [governmental] bureaucracy butratheraflatstructure.

Thiscolumnhaslongbeen arguing that Guyana has a bloated bureaucracy which has become an albatross aroundthenecksoftheState The bureaucracy needs to be trimmed because the cost of running the bureaucracy has become prohibitive and unsustainable, even with the gushofoilrevenues

The President’s words yesterday were therefore like music to my ears A flat governmental bureaucracy allows political decision makerstointeractdirectlywith thepeople,ratherthanhaving polices made by bureaucrats many of whom are aloof and disconnected from the people and many of whom promote vested interests It is understandable that for a nation weaned on over heavy bureaucracies, there may be skepticism to the President’s suggestion, especially regardingtheefficacyofsuch an approach But it is imperativetorecognizethata flatstructureoffersamultitude of benefits that can revolutionize governance in the areas of transparency, responsivenessandefficiency.

A flat governmental bureaucracy facilitates greater transparency. By bypassing the bureaucratic intermediaries, the leader can directly communicate policies, decisions, and intentions to the citizens. This direct line with the

people helps to avoid misinformation and disinformation which often result when policies have to be channeled through bureaucracies.

Directinteractionbetween the people and the President and his Ministers also brings the people directly into the decision-making process It also allows them to better understand the policies and plansofthegovernment

The bureaucracy is the greatestvillainwhenitcomes tothelackofresponsivenessto public concerns Areport has tofirst receivedandrecorded byaclerk,whothenhastopass this to his or her deputy supervisorwhowillthenpass it to the supervisor who will then refer to the Assistant Manager for onward transmission to the Deputy Manager thence for the Manager to authorize and investigation.And when the investigationiscompletethe process has to start all over again However, a flat governmental bureaucracy streamlines decision-making processes by eliminating the bureaucratic bottlenecks that result in delays Without the layers of bureaucracy, approvals, responses and decisions can be made with more promptly this agility is particularly beneficial during emergency and urgent situations

In a flat bureaucracy, decisions are made swiftly, enabling the government to respond promptly to the people. A direct line of communication between the decision maker and citizens eliminates the timeconsuming processes of information dissemination through a hierarchical chain

Dem boys seh...

of command As the President said, dealing directly with the people is a formofempowerment.Aflat governmental bureaucracy empowers citizens by involving them in the governance process It allows them to be heard and seen by the President and viceversa.

Now that the President has seen it fit to admit his revulsion towards bureaucracy, perhaps he can let the nation know what he intendstodoaboutit.Forthe past three years, the only news coming out of the Public Service Ministry has been “scholarships, scholarships,scholarships.”

But what about public service reform? What about streamlining the public servicetomakeitflatterand more efficient? What about removing the bloat from the public service? What about r e m o v i n g s p e c i a l appointments which seem plentiful under the PPPC administration and in which almost every stalwart of the PPPC has to be provided with a job in the government?

ThePresidentcanperhaps showhiscommitmenttoaflat bureaucracy by having a flat Cabinet Do we really need a second Minister in the Ministry of Local Government, the Ministry of PublicWorksandtheMinistry ofHousingandtheMinistryof Natural Resources? Would thesenotbreedfriction?

The government needs to flattenthebureaucracy Butthe President can do better by removing the fat from his Cabinetandtrimmingthebevy ofadvisors DoesthePresident really need advice on

Dress to impress!

The funeral fashion sceneisturnin’livelierthan a carnival. Dem days of de past people used to attend funerals in all black or blackandwhite.

It used to be inappropriate to attend a funeralinanyothercolours andthatiswhynuffpeople usedtostayaway Demdid not have a proper black dress or white shirt. Dem used to mek excuse how dem nah bin feeling well. But was a case where dem wardrobewasnotuptothe occasion.

De fashion gods decide fuh spice up de funeral attires. You won’t believe your eyes, when yuh go to funerals dese days. Some women struttin’ in with

outfits so colorful, you’d thinktheywereauditioning forafashionshow Someof ‘em, bless their hearts, are wearin’ outfits skimpier than a politician’s promises. I mean, I ain’t complainin’, but if you’re gonna show off more skin than a butcher’s display, might as well bring some sunscreenfortheafterglow And the men? Oh boy, you’d think they’re preparingtowalkdownthe aisle instead of mourning. They’reshowin’updressed dapper enough to make a peacock blush. Top hats, bow ties, and shoes shinier than a used car salesman’s smile.

Change is the spice of life,andmaybeit’stimewe

constitutional affairs? Is the Attorney General not supposed to be the principal advisor to the President on constitutionalaffairs?

Is there also a need for a Director of Presidential Affairs,aForeignSecretaryin theMinistryofForeignAffairs oranon-careerdiplomatasthe Headofadepartmentdealing with the Diaspora? Does the publicknowthattheMinistry

ofAgriculture has a DirectorGeneral? The bureaucracy needstobestreamlined.The present structure is not in sync with the philosophy of the President to have a flat bureaucracy The ball is in thePresident’scourttoshow that he’s serious about a flatterbureaucracy

(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not

necessarily reflect the opinions and beliefs of this n e w s p a p e r a n d i t s affiliates.)

shook up the funeral fashion game. But I can’t help but wonder if Granny is up there lookin’ down and wonderin’ if she accidentally stumbled into the wrong event. “Is this a celebration of life or a costume party?” she’s probably mutterin’ to herself.

The funeral fashion fiesta is upon us, and it’s a sight to behold. If you’re attendin’ one of these modern memorials, just remember:dresstoimpress anddon’tbesurprisedifthe dearly departed is rockin’ some neon angel wings up there Dem boys seh, funeral fashion just got a makeovertodiefor!

TalkHalf!LeffHalf!

GHK LALL

Bharrat Jagdeo on morals, really

Ittakesalottostartleand shock and stop me in the Guyana of today Surprise, yes; but shock and make me come to a full stop: absolutely not. Well, my dear brother Bharat Jagdeo did so the other day. The factsareasfollows.

A snippet of less than a minute from Dr J's press conference held last Thursdaywasplayedforme, and I was pressed for my thoughts on the fact that brother Jagdeo mentioned the word “morals.” Though I listen to this leader only when pushed, I jumped out ofmyskin,soincrediblethis was. Let's face this simple fact: morals and the man are a stretch, a long, curvy one. What is the world coming to these days, where are we all heading, when there is the utterance of the word “morals” from Dr Jagdeo, and all that it means? Obviously, the world is coming to an end. For there isthehardconclusionthathe mixed up “morals” with

morale. Meaning, that he was working furiously to give his flagging troops a boost; that he was engaging in one of his now patented pompom and gyrating cheerleading exercises, with a view to denying reality, whichisbecausehistalesare of the fairyland variety. When brother Jagdeo speaks of “morals” it is the equivalent of him showering fairy dust on his audiences, and blinding them to truth, justice, ethics, principles, honor, and the honorable, all sacred attributes; and all interwoven with the imperativesof“morals.”. To me. Istillponderabouthim, especially with this latest marvelfromhim.

For the learned Dr. Jagdeo enlightenment “morals” is more than the sexual; it envelops and encapsulates, then expands a n d e x t o l s , t h e transformational in leaders, the constant quest for the high ground by men and women, and seeing the same

in others Though the practices of Dr Jagdeo as a leader, a politician, and as a person has been of what is curiously near darkness and the dark arts, I still insist that he can be redeemed (from himself), can be saved, and can be remade into the kind ofpersonandpresenceatthe peakofthepyramidofwhich most Guyanese would be pleasedandproud.

I would be humble enough to engage in a moment of rare selfcongratulation that efforts have led to the wiser, the better, the cleaner from Bharat Jagdeo, a former Chief Executive of Guyana, now turned into a chief lecturer and chief preacher Aboutmorals,ofallissues.

Frankly, I appreciate this side of the brother, and offer up to upstairs a fervent prayer

No! I don't pray to myself, but for others, including Dr Jagdeo that his better angels will struggle through and make it through

the'pimplabush'inwhichhe has imprisoned them. Yes, I know that the man making “morals”hisnewmantracan be, shall I say, a bit on the mysteriousside,butheisnot beyond redemption. No manisthatfargone,somuch of dreadful wretchedness, that the graces of goodness andgodliness,andtherecord of deeds suffused with righteousness, elude his handandhisheart.

I persevere in this dogged belief, even though some of brother Jagdeo's own people hold him as the personification of a fourletter word that begins with an'e.’

They ought to know, as they are near to him, have dealingswithhim.

Come to think of it, I am sensinganewBharatJagdeo in motion. For sure, it is a labored, uphill work in progress, with many slips and false starts and setbacks, but the commendable development is that a start has been made. He breathes

heavily from his exertions As a quick digression, reference is made to what brother Jagdeo made it his duty to reinforce and ensure that all Guyana heard during the last Local Government Elections. In the instance of former mayor, Lady Patricia Chase-Green, and her crossover from green to red, Dr Jagdeo spoke of the 'forgiving' party that the PPP is Ye gods, and little fishes…. Since the PPP is Jagdeo and Jagdeo is the PPP, then the significance of his usage of that word is that the man has mellowed, has foundpeace,andnowknows what it is to be forgiving (well, at least, for political andpropagandapurposes). I take him at face value, and say: way to go brother, tell them,soldier Itakemyleavebysaying that intaking Bharat Jagdeo on 'forgiveness' and “morals”onemustbecareful nottotakehimtooseriously,

get carried away. I wish to give him the benefit of the doubt on his fresh stance on “morals” and many other thingsinlife,leadership,and governance, but there are someconditions. There must be moral force, moral tone, moral truth, and moral proofs. In tight summation, or huge expansion, it boils down to this: ethics in government. Starts with ethics in leadership. And before that, ethics in the man himself, or the woman, as the case may be.Tryit,sometime,skipper (The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions and beliefs of this newspaper and its affiliates.)

ExxonMobil looking for Guyanese companies to supply testing equipment for blow out preventers

ExxonMobil's subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL), recently published a Request for Information (RFI)seekingcompaniesthat can provide Blow Out Preventer (BOP) testing equipment to support drilling activities within the Georgetownarea.

A BOP is a large specialised unit weighing up to 400 tonnes that is used to prevent an oil spill from occurring. It works like a valve to close an oil well, similartoaplumberclosinga valve in a pipe, and are proven to be highly effective in ensuring well safety The BOP testing equipment is used to ensure that BOPs were well functioning and capable of oil spill prevention.

The company which is the operator of the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana, uses the above mentioned equipment for all of its projects. In its RFI, EEPGL notedthatcompaniesbidding tosupplytheequipmentmust meet the precise parameters

set. This includes offering a universal 3-1/2” x 5-7/8” test joint designed specifically for testing Subsea Blow Out Preventers. The test joint must meet stringent pressure requirements of 15,000psi, with the seals utilized on the test joint capable of handling pressureratingsof30,000psi. Additionally, the test joint shouldadheretoDS1Cat3-5 inspectionrequirements.

EEPGL is also seeking the provision of a 4-way manifold test stand, engineered to accommodate various connection sizes, and

boasting a pressure rating of 15,000psi. Furthermore, the supply of a Blind Shear ram test tool and an emergency retrievaltoolisalsorequired.

The company noted that central to its operational strategy is a steadfast commitment to local content requirements As such, prospective bidders are expected to demonstrate a clear understanding of the LocalContentAct(2021)and itsimplicationsfortheirwork within the specified scope and have a local content certificate.

initiated five developments.

Notably, the Liza Unity and Liza Destiny projects are currently producing an average of 400,000 barrels per day, with expectations to reach 1.2 million barrels per day by 2027. The upcoming Payara development is scheduled to commence first oil production in the fourth quarter of 2023, while the Yellowtail development is projected to deliver first oil by2025.

Furthermore, the Uaru project,theconsortium'sfifth development, is anticipated to commence first oil production in the second quarter of 2027. Upon its completion,Guyana'soverall production rate is set to exceed an impressive 1,200,000 barrels of oil per day, further solidifying its

positionasakeyplayerinthe globaloilmarket.

The company is also eyeing a sixth development called “Whiptail” which is estimated to cost US$12.9 billion and has filed an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) with the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA). IntheEIAExxonsaidthat the project will consist of drilling approximately 33 to 72 development wells (including production and water/gas injection wells), installation and operation of Subsea, Umbilicals, Risers, and Flowlines (SURF) equipment; installation and operation of a Floating Production, Storage, and Offloading (FPSO) vessel and ultimately, project decommissioning.

Venezuelan woman charged for Kumung Kumung backdam murder

Oriamna Naomi Silva Figuera, the Venezuelan national, who was arrested and had reportedly confessed to the fatal stabbing of John Fitzpatrick called 'Sunny' which occurred at Kumung Kumung Backdam, Region Seven, was on Tuesday charged for thecrime.

Twenty-three-year-old Figuera made her first court appearance at the Bartica Magistrates' Court on Tuesday before Magistrate Crystal Lambert where the chargewasreadtoher She was not required plead to the charge which alleges that betwee August 17 and 18 at Kumung Kumung Backdam, Puruni River she murdered 2 9 - y e a r - o l d Fitzpatrick.

F i g u e r a w a s remanded to prison andisexpectedtomake h e r n e x t c o u r appearanceon September 13,2023.

23:00hrs onAugust 17, Fitzpatrickwas in the companyoftwofemaleVenezuelannationals andothersdrinkingalcoholatashop,whenhe approachedoneoftheladiesandrequestedto dancewithher

Reports are the Venezuelan woman declined Fitzpatrick's request, which caused himtobecomeannoyed,andheheldontoher The woman, police reported, pushed him away which then led to an argument between them Eyewitnesses reported that e argument, the woman broke two bottles d t h r e a t e n e d Fitzpatrick.

Remanded: Oriamna Naomi Silva Figuera

Following her arrest, Guyana Police Force (GPF) revealed that Figueira told detectives at the Bartica Police Station that she stabbed the miner with a retractable knife that she had in herpossession.

The police stated that Figueira was cautioned and told of the allegation of the murder of Sunny, to which she admitted, stating that the deceased had attacked her when she refused to dance with him at a shop inKumungKumung.

The woman told the police that she later went to the victim's camp later that night, where she saw him lying in a hammock. She then took a retractable knife and dealt him threestabsabouthisbody

Kaieteur News had reported that around

Persons at the shop attempted to calmthesituation, but Fitzpatrick b e h a v e d disorderly and assaulted two of the men that were trying to subdue him. According to the police, the two men, in turn, dealt him several cuffs and lashes about his body He was later taken to his camp in an intoxicated state and sometime after, retired to bed. On August 18, at about 06:00hrs, it was reported that the Venezuelan woman who Fitzpatrick had the argument with, was seen running away from his camp. He was later discovered covered in blood, lying motionless in his hammock.

Police said, upon arrival at the camp, observed Fitzpatrick's body and it was examined with one stab wound seen to his upper left side chest, two stab wounds were also seen below his left armpit, and one to his upper left side back Subsequently, an investigation was launched into the fatal incident.

A blow out preventer

$47M to extend Mortuary at recently retrofitted $150M Mabaruma Hospital

The Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of Region

One is currently seeking a contractortoextendthemortuaryatthe recently retrofitted $150 million Mabaruma Hospital at an estimated costof$47million.

This is according to a recent invitation for bids (IFB) published in Wednesday's edition of the Guyana Chronicle.

According to the IFB, the project is saidtobeopenforbidsonSeptember5, 2023 at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB)office.

Kaieteur News had reported that back in December, President IrfaanAli hadcommissionedthenewlyupgraded Mabaruma Hospital, a project which

falls under the United Kingdom US$4.2M 'Smart Hospital Initiative'.

The Mabaruma Regional Hospital located in Region One was upgraded into a 'smart' health facility to the tune ofUS$750,000(GY$150M).

The Mabaruma 'Smart' Hospital was among five hospitals upgraded through the Smart Health Care Facilities in the Caribbean Project. It is an initiative of PAHO/WHO that was being financed by the UK Department for International Development (UK DFID).

This publication had reported also that the Mabaruma Hospital was upgraded by contractor Chung Global Enterprise and some of the works done includes, refurbishing of the operating theatres, the hospital's Intensive Care

Unit (ICU), the recovery room, the maternity wards, pharmacy, roof repairs, retiled the kitchen area of the facility, construction of battery room, resurfacing of wheelchair ramp just to nameafew

Meanwhile, in the same IFB, the RDC is seeking contractors to complete infrastructure works at the Matthew's Ridge Hospital, which are estimated to cost $42 million. Further, another project is out for the rehabilitation of the health centre at KaraburiVillage,inRegionOne.

This project is pegged at $41 million.

Earlier this month, the National Assembly approved $1 billion in supplementaryfundsfortheupgradeof healthfacilitiesacrossthecountry

Machel Montano, Sean Paul, and Shenseea to headline Guyana Super Concert 2023

After two years

Guyana still paying for army boat

By Shervin Belgrave

The Government of Guyana is still paying for an offshore patrol vessel (OPV) it had procured for the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) some two years ago. The army vessel was procured in 2021 from an American Company called Metal Shark Boats for US$11.5M (G$618M) and wasexpectedtoarrivewithin one year after a US$3M

delivery of the offshore patrol vessel that is being procured,” Singh told the National Assembly while further explaining that it has incurredrecurrentcosts.

He added that monies for the vessel were set aside in the2022aswell.

Thearmyboat,according to Singh is near completion, and is expected to arrive in the country sometime in October2023.

Government on May 20,

International superstars Machel

Montano, Sean Paul, and Shenseea are set to perform live at Guyana's Super Concert. This riveting concert is part of a host of events slated for Cricket Carnival 2023 and forms part of the government's 'One Guyana' goaltounitethepeople.

AccordingtoStabroekTravel,the event will be held at the Guyana

National Stadium on September 23, 2023 The Soca, Reggae and Dancehall stars will be joined by Guyana's talented Adrian Dutchin and Nekeita among other local artistes.

www stabroektravel com, general tickets cost US$30; VIP is US$140; VVIP is US$250. Early bird tickets

are also on sale and will end on August28,2023. Further information on the physical ticket locations and sponsors will be revealed soon. For the latest promotions and announcements, please follow

@cricketcarnival592 on social media.

down-paymentwasmadebut itneverdid.

Two years have passed since then and on August 9, 2023, the government went to Parliament seeking additional funding for the completion and delivery of thevessel.

The amount sought was some $50 9M for an expanded work programme. Opposition Member of Parliament (MP), Volda Lawrence, noted that the government had set aside $96M in the 2023 budget for the same line item and questioned the need for more money

Senior Minister with Responsibility for Finance

within Office of the President, DrAshni Singh in hisresponserevealedthatthe additional millions were needed for the upgrade GDF's ICT (Information and c o m m u n i c a t i o n s technology) capability and the completion and delivery ofitsOPVvessel.

“The second and third sir is in connection with the completion, transport and

2021 had dipped its hands into the Contingency Funds (Monies only used for emergency purposes), to procure the boat and a month later during a Sitting of the N a t i o n a l A s s e m b l y explained why it was an emergencyforGuyana.

M i n i s t r y o f Parliamentary Affairs, Gail Teixeira had said that it was urgent to protect Guyana fromVenezuelanincursions.

“Mr Speaker the decision to move to acquire an offshore patrol vessel, a new one, was taught to be an urgent matter, because of s o m e ( Ve n e z u e l a n ) incursions that have taken place in our waters,” MinisterTeixeirasaid.

TheMinistersaidtoothat Guyanacurrentlyhasoneold vessel, the GDFS Essequibo, whichshesaid,“hasnotbeen doing well.” She said that in order to better protect Guyana's territory, acquiring thenewvesselisnecessary

According Minister Teixeira, the new one will be custom built to suit Guyana's needs.

Senior Minister with Responsibility for Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh

Task Force to be set up to address concerns of Baramita residents following DPP outreach

Fo l l o w i n g discussion with law enforcement officers during an outreach to the Region One community of Baramita by Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Ali-Hack, SC, it wasagreedthataTaskForce be set up to help address the incidence of crime in the area.

The DPP travelled to Baramita, Region One on Monday for a three-day outreach to the remote Amerindiancommunity

According to a release from the DPP’s Chambers, Ali-Hack addressed residents during a public meetingheldattheBaramita Primary School hours after shearrivedbyplane.

T h e D P P w a s accompanied by Assistant DPP Dionne McCammon and Communications Officer Liz Rahaman. The D P P ’s O ffice had

collaboratedwiththeJustice Education Society (JES) Guyana on a 4-day Gender and Cultural Sensitivity Training for police ranks of the Guyana Police Force at the Baramita Police Station, local village councilors, health workers, and the ToshaoOnikaMelbourne.

Toshao Melbourne and Medex Holly Edghilp translated what was said by both residents and the visiting team. The residents of Baramita spoke in their Caribdialect.

Meanwhile,theDPPtold the residents of the dangers of alcohol consumption specifically by teenagers, andinthecaseofadults,she said abuse of alcohol often leads to Domestic Violence (DV).

Further,theDPPpointed to the use of marijuana and its dangers as well as the prevalence of human trafficking.

Parents were warned

against sending their children to work in mining c o m m u n i t i e s a n d particularly gold fields without consulting their Toshao.

Inresponse,theresidents complained that alcohol is being sold to children in the community and this poses a significantchallenge.

Man wanted in connection with Clay Brick Road murder captured

In this regard,Ali-Hack charged the police stationed at Baramita to pay keen attention to this issue and bringitundercontrol.

The DPP suggested that the Toshao in collaboration with the Police and Village Council meet with the parents along with social workers to confront the

sellingofalcoholtochildren.

Additionally, the residents also told Ali-Hack of their challenges with the registration of births, no resident probation and Welfare officer and the propermaintenanceofroads.

In response to the challenges, Assistant Superintendant of Police,

JamesTappinsuggestedthat theVillageCouncilsetsupa Task Force comprising government and nongovernment representatives to address the concerns raised.

This is the first time the DPP have visited a community to listen to the challengesfacingresidents.

Bandits Chop Indian National to head for cell phones

ByShervinBelgrave

Two bandits on Tuesday reportedly choppedanIndiannationalmultipletimesto his head while robbing him of his two cell phonesatLombardStreet,Georgetown.

The victim, Venkatesh Ravi, had just finished quoting paint prices at Pinto Paint Store Complex on Lombard Street when he wasattacked.

He recalled that it happened between 09:00and9:30hrs.

“Iwaswalkingtothebusstop,”Ravisaid ashedetailedbeinggrabbedbytheneckfrom behindbytwomen.

Theyreportedlypulledhimtotheground andbeganattackinghimwiththeknife.

Ravisaidthathedidnotfeelthechopsat the time but remembered begging them for hislife.

“I tell them to leave me alone I will give youwhatyouwant,”Ravirecounted.

Ravi’s chopped up head

The man wanted

forquestioningin relation to the murder of Clay Brick Road resident, Bharrat Gendalall has been captured. Police said that they arrested the wanted man, MarkAnthony Mohan,around14:00hrson Wednesday and he is assisting the detectives with theirinvestigation.

Gendalall of Clay Brick Road,CanalNumber2,West BankDemerara(WBD)was brutally beaten by six persons–fiveofwhomwere wearing masks - on Saturday OnTuesdaypolice

issued a wanted bulletin for MohanofBelleWest,Canal Number 2, in connection withGendalall’skilling.

According to reports, Gendalall a father of three had just returned home on Saturday evening and was hanging out with some friendsinfrontofhishouse. He reportedly crossed the street to urinate when a car stoppedbesidehim.

The driver, according to police,steppedoutofthecar and started arguing with Gendalall During the argument, Gendalall allegedly cuffed the man to

his face. The man then enteredhisvehicleanddrove off while Gendalall entered hisyard.

A short while after, the car returned and stopped in front of Gendalall’s home. The driver and five masked men ran out of the vehicle and ambushed Gendalall who was reportedly stabbed to the chest and in the process,felltothegroundas themenescaped.

Relatives picked up Gendalallandrushedhimto theWestDemeraraRegional Hospital He died while receivingmedicalattention.

Themenreportedlycontinuedtheirbrutal attack and shoved their hands into his pants pocket and relieved him of his two phones before making good their escape. Ravi reportedlyhad a smallamountof cash in his shirt pocket but somehow the bandits didn’t findit.

It was while struggling to get back to his feetthatRavirealizedhewaswounded.

“ItouchedmycheeksandIfeltblood,”he toldKaieteurNews.

Heimmediatelysoughthelpfrompersons intheareaandaskedthemtousetheirphone sothathecouldalerthisacquaintancestopick himandtakehimtoahospital.

Ravisaidthatnoonewaswillingtohelp buttheydidpointhiminthedirectionofthe BrickdamPoliceStation.

Wounded, Ravi walked to the location where he reported the matter Police ranks immediately rushed him to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where hereceivedtreatment.

Therehewasabletoalertfriendsandthey picked him up and took him to a private

hospitalforfurthermedicalattention.

Ravi believes that his attackers might havebeenwatchinghimsinceheenteredthe paintstore.

He recalled that a man in a white t-shirt had approached him and asked if he was shopping He did not respond to the individualbutnotedthatwhilehewasbeing robbedonethebanditshadonasimilarwhite T-shirt.

Ravi later that day attempted to track his phone and found that it was last seen somewhereclosetoPrincessStreet. He had even called the number and someone had answered but they remained silent.

Thedeviceshavesincebeenswitchedoff. Investigationsareongoing.

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack, SC addresses a gathering during an outreach at Baramita, Region One

Mark Anthony Mohan

Murdered: Bharrat Gendalall

Residents complain about substandard work on young professional homes

Electrical lights that are falling out from one of the home

The discrepancy with the expected 10 feet (expected) floor-to-ceiling height)

A section of the area where the young professional homes are located in Prospect, East Bank Demerara

One of the young professional homes that cost $14 Million

The exposed wires on the houses

Technological advances must be adopted for trade unions to remain relevant

Trade Unions in Guyana mustfocustheirattentionon adjusting to the everevolving world by adapting to technological advances, President Irfaan Ali said at the opening of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers' Union's (GAWU) nd22 Delegates' Congress held at the Arthur Chung Conference Center, Lilendaal.

He said failure to do so would see unions such as GAWUexperiencingunique challenges The Head of State emphasised the need for the Unions to devise creative ways to remain relevant in an ever-evolving andcompetitiveworld.

President Ali challenged trade union bodies in Guyana and the wider Caribbean to invest in addressing the changes while pointing specifically to the role of Artificial Intelligence(AI)andtheuse ofrobotics.

“How can we remain competitive without adjustingorevenrelevantin thisnewworld?

AI, the digital economy androbotics,areuponusand we are seeing what this new reality can do and how it is rapidlychangingthings,”the headofstatesaid.

GAWU's two-day conference is themed, “Advancing Workers' Rights, Economic Progress andSocialJustice.”

The President noted too that this change will require collective effort and hard work.

He asserted that: “It requires changing mindsets. It requires building our competitive ability It requires building the capacity and capability of ourworkforce.Itrequiresthe diversification of skills within the workforce It requiresthecoming-together of our people under the umbrella of a common vision that will drive and upliftthiscountry.”

According to the President, failure to address thechangesnowwillleadto more inequality between countriesandworkforces.

“This is where the leadership of trade unions has to step up and advance work in these areas to avoid monumental change and consequencesforworkersin thefuture….Allofushaveto take this responsibility of building this country seriously

Thisisthereality…This is the real world, the real environment. And that is why these congresses are important. It is to examine the reality of what we are facing,”PresidentAliadded.

Even as he challenged the trade unions, the President noted that the Government of Guyana has already led the way by signing an agreement with the UAE to train 150,000 childrenincoding.

“Thechildrenofworkers willnotbeatadisadvantage in this new world. We are building smart classrooms, we are teaching digitization now so that the children

comingupwillnotbeplaced a t a c o m p a r a t i v e disadvantage,”thePresident said

In the meantime, Ali promised to engage with sugar workers on a one-onone basis to ensure that the

concerns of workers are directlyaddressed.

Meanwhile, in his address, President of GAWU, Seepaul Narine lauded the President's effort to uplift the working people andtheirfamilies.

“Indeed, we are conscious of the efforts in this direction and were heartened to see President Ali highlighting, in a recent media report, his government's commitment to “creating greater transferable value through investments, stimulating job creation, providing people with more disposable income, helping people to

generate wealth…” Narine told the gathering on Wednesday

He continued: “We fully support the admirable goals as they pave the way for a promising future. In today's world, prioritising equity is crucial,andweareconfident that the Government shares thisconcern.”

Additionally, the GAWU President told the caucus that [the] Union stands ready to engage thePresidentandhisteam on the very important matters that would ultimately result in improving the standard of livingoftheworkingclass.

Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft lands on the moon in ‘victory cry of a new India’

Reuters - An Indian spacecraft became the first to land on the rugged, unexploredsouthpoleofthe moon on Wednesday in a mission seen as crucial to lunarexplorationandIndia’s standing as a space power, just days after a similar Russianlandercrashed.

“This moment is unforgettable It is phenomenal This is a victory cry of a new India,” said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who waved theIndianflagashewatched the landing from South Africawhereheisattending a BRICS summit, a group that joins Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

Scientists and officials clapped, cheered and hugged each other as the spacecraft landed and people across India broke

outincelebration,settingoff firecrackers and dancing in thestreets.

“India is on the moon,” said S. Somanath, chief of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) as the Chandrayaan-3 landed, making India the fourth nationtosuccessfullylanda spacecraftonthemoonafter theUnitedStates,Chinaand theformerSovietUnion.

ISRO shared pictures fromthespacecraftshowing the moon’s surface and the legandshadowofthelander

Rough terrain makes a south pole landing difficult, but the region’s ice could supply fuel, oxygen and drinking water for future missions. Russian President V l a d i m i r P u t i n congratulated India in a message to Modi published ontheKremlinwebsite.

“This is a big step

forwardinspaceexploration and of course a testament to the impressive progress madebyIndiainthefieldof science and technology,” he said.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson congratulated theISROonthelanding.

“And congratulations to India on being the 4th countrytosuccessfullysoftland a spacecraft on the Moon,” he said on X, formerly Twitter “We’re glad to be your partner on this mission!”India’s muchawaited moon mission Chandrayaan-3 has been scheduledforlaunchonJuly 14, 2023.This was India’s second attempt to land a spacecraft on the moon and comeslessthanaweekafter Russia’s Luna-25 mission failed. People across the country were glued to television screens and said

prayers as the spacecraft approachedthesurface.

Nearly 7 million watched the YouTube live stream.

Chandrayaan means “moonvehicle”inHindiand Sanskrit. In 2019, ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 mission successfully deployed an orbiter but its lander crashed.The Chandrayaan-3 is expected to remain functional for two weeks, running a series of experiments including a spectrometer analysis of the mineral composition of the lunarsurface.

Themoonroverwilltake afewhoursoradaytocome out of the spacecraft, Somanath told reporters, adding that the landing has given India confidence to extend its reach to possible voyagestoMarsandVenus.

India is also planning to

launch a mission in

September to study the sun, Somanath said. A human space flight is also planned and, while no official date has been announced, preparations are likely to be readyby2024.

The landing is expected to boost India’s reputation for cost-competitive space

e n g i n e e r i n g T h e

Chandrayaan-3 was launched with a budget of about 6.15 billion rupees ($74 million), less than the cost to produce the 2013 Hollywood space thriller “Gravity”.“Landing on the south pole would actually allow India to explore if there is water ice on the moon And this is very important for cumulative data and science on the geology of the moon,” said CarlaFilotico,apartnerand managing director at

consultancy SpaceTec Partners.Anticipationbefore the landing was feverish, withbannerheadlinesacross Indiannewspapersandnews c h a n n e l s r u n n i n g countdownstothelanding.

Prayers were held at placesofworshipacrossthe country,andschoolchildren wavedtheIndiantricolouras they waited for live screeningsofthelanding.

Childrengatheredonthe banks of the Ganga river, considered holy by Hindus, to pray for a safe landing, and mosques offered prayers.

AtaSikhtemple,known asagurduwara,inthecapital New Delhi, Petroleum MinisterHardeepSinghPuri alsoofferedprayers.

“Not just economic, but India is achieving scientific and technological progress aswell,”Puritoldreporters.

A section of the gathering at the GAWU Delegates' Congress held at the ACCC on Wednesday

President Irfaan Ali

‘Ram sheep’ thief jailed 16 months

Jailed: Vikesh Bharrat

Vikesh Bharrat, a 29-year-old labourer of Henrietta, EssequiboCoast,RegionTwo,wasonTuesdayjailedafterhe wasfoundguiltyofstealingthreerams.

Bharrat was charged with larceny of cattle, when he appeared before Magistrate Esther Sam at the Anna Regina Magistrates'Court.

He had initially denied the charge which stated that between May 28, 2023 and June 1, 2023, he stole three rams valued$180,000fromAyubeMohamed,a49-year-oldfarmer ofHenrietta,EssequiboCoast.

However, he was later found guilty and sentenced to 16 monthsimprisonmentbyMagistrateSam.

DCSN Manufacturing Inc. now

'Made in Guyana' certified

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) on Wednesday

c e r t i f i e d D C S N Manufacturing Inc., to use the GNBS approved 'Made in Guyana' certification mark for its pre-stressed concrete elements, cationic rapid setting bitumen emulsion CRS – 2 and RC –250 rapid curing cutback bitumen.

The 'Made in Guyana' standards mark is a registered mark that aims to provide recognition to locally manufactured products on the local and international markets and is a signature of quality for authentic Guyanese Products.

In a brief ceremony held at DCSN Manufacturing Inc., Minister of Housing and Water, Colin Croal congratulated the company which is now the eight b u s i n e s s e s i n t h e construction industry to be

certified under the GNBS Permit to use the 'Made in Guyana'certification.

The minister lauded the company for remaining competitive as the demand for construction materials increase It was also highlightedthatthebusiness wascertifiedone-daybefore

the opening of the International Building Expo 2023.

The 'Made in Guyana' certificate was handed over

b y G N B S H e a d o f

Marketing, Mr Syeid

Ibrahim to Managing

D i r e c t o r o f D C S N Manufacturing Inc , Ms

Chaitanya Jagmohan, in the p r e s e n c e o f G N B S Technical Officer, Mr Orlando Sturge, among others.

Also in attendance were Vice President of Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association, Mr Rafeek Khan,amongothers.

DCSN executives and Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal

The slave owner’s descendant...

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From page 4 captured, kidnapped and subsequently enslaved. The wounds of enslavement were deep and have left to this day gaping wounds. Our conversations should be directed to finding ways to heal those deep wounds and not be tricked again by the other people.

A daunting, difficult task, but one that must be taken with courage and perspicacity.

Amerindian groups came to Guyana; one hundred to two hundred years after Africans were brought here. As a matter of fact, they were not here during the 1763 rebellion. Furthermore, the Amerindian Act of 2006 is the only Reparatory Justice Act in South America and the Caribbean.

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We must teach in our schools the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth of our history. That’s the only way to achieve this utopia of oneness. For example, while we have no difficulty with the rights for Amerindians, three of the nine

This is a legal precedent that should also apply to Reparations in Guyana since almost 400,000 Africans died to build Guyana. Our ancestors cleared 15,000 square miles, using crude implements and lost their lives in the process. There were no bulldozers and hymacs.

In reality, they cleared one hundred million tons of earth with their bare hands and this c overed 9 million acres of land.

fore that the issue in Guyana is not so much about race but the emergence of a class, power-drunk and greedy who use a well-funded propaganda machine to ignore our history, the plight of the Afro Guyanese and the role that the British and Dutch governments played during enslavement and after Emancipation.

At a recent lecture I delivered, young and old listeners were surprised when I mentioned that only the Portuguese were given licenses to import goods, which they then sold through their outlets to the majority Indo and Afro Guyanese.

Before the Gladstones arrive, let us begin to discuss the key issue of our identity. I listened to a prominent Hindu leader being interviewed on the question of Hinduism and the need to preserve their identity.

I scored the person A+. The Africans were severed from their roots when they were brutally transported from Africa to Guyana.

Today, as was the case of Jack Gladstone and Quamina Gladstone who led the 1823 Uprising, they were forced to use British and Anglo-Saxon names, like any product, a deceptive label for the contents.

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The Africans in Guyana cleared more land than all the other countries in the Caribbean during enslavement.

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This must allow us to ensure that the Gladstone visit is seen in its proper context. Knowing the proclivities of our Government, I have no doubt that efforts will be made to make this visit another political football to enhance the fortunes and increase the power of the ruling elite.

I have contended be-

This gave that group economic power.The children of Manumitted Africans must utilize every opportunity to secure economic power. To recapture the zeal for learning and putting to the fore the acquisition of skills as craftsmen, tradesmen, and entrepreneurs.

Unless, our real history is taught in our schools, this generation, all of them constitute a disabled group, ill-equipped to deal with the uncertainties of a Guyana in a very complex and chal lenging global environment.

The monumental task is to work towards change and to ensure that with the BBC and the international media coming, that the Government, do not, so to speak, steal the show, for that is their wont and I know that is what they are planning.

As the apology is proclaimed this weekend, Afro-Guyanese must learn to listen and learn and not leap into the dark and endure another form of enslavement. With tears in my eyes, I sign this letter using the name of my erstwhile persecutors and enslavers.

Yours truly, Hamilton Green Elder

Residents complain about substandard work on young...

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I, MALLORINE JONAS of Lot 1379 Section C Block X Diamond East Bank Demerara, Guyana., hereby give notice that I have applied to the Magistrate of the Georgetown Magisterial District for a Certificate under the Money Lenders Act, authorizing the grant to me a Money Lender’s Licence to Carry on the Business of a Money Lender under the Title of R AND AND J’S INVESTMENTS of LOT 1379 SECTION C BLOCK X DIAMOND EAST BANK DEMERARA, Guyana. NOTICES of any objections to this application should be sent forthwith to the CLERK OF COURT OF THE GEORGETOWN MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT, and a copy of any such Notice should be sent to the Subscriber.

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From page 18 was installed on his house was not working and another was not properly installed (falling out), no plumbing in the laundry room. Also, standing in the main bathroom and toilet the ceiling is low (a tall person’s hands could touch the ceiling).

“From the inception I was never actually shown where I would be located until after a few weeks then I found out where I was… I had also written a letter to the minister and I never got a reply,” he said.

Another homeowner said, “Builders Hardware is the contractor of my home in the young professionals’ scheme in Prospect.

They are currently building my house and it’s a nightmare at best.

I’ve been paying my mortgage since October of last year. It’s been over one year since I signed an agreement with them which states that the house will be completed in six months, it’s very unreasonable.”

“My front and back doors have large spaces in between, water also seeps through the back door when it rains, my step is incomplete, the gutter over the porch is leaking, most of my windows are not opening, no plumbing in the laundry room…” she said.

The resident said they

were not given the houses free and even if that were the case, they ought to receive quality houses.

Their expectations have been shattered, since they are not receiving that which they have been promised.

CONTRACTOR UNAVAILBLE

The residents disclosed that that several times they have tried contacting the contractor to get him to rectify the defects on the houses to no avail.

“I got onto him once and he promised to look into it and he never did, when I tried calling him again, I never got back onto him,” one of the residents said. All of the residents who spoke with Kaieteur News said that making contact with the contractor is “one of the hardest things.”

A resident said, “Most of all there is a complete breakdown in communication, that is, Builders do not answer the phone, which I tried multiple times, even in the presence of a CH&PA engineer.”

Housing Minister’s response On Wednesday, this publication made contact with Minister Croal.

The minister was asked if his ministry inspects the quality of the homes before it is handed over to the residents and he stated that they are designated persons in his

ministry and CH&PA who are tasked with inspections before the k eys are handed over.

However, the residents showed that they have received the keys to their homes that are not built to standard.

The Minister said that he met with the contractors to address the issues reported by the homeowners.

Further, the Minister told Kaieteur News that the CH&PA contacted some of the residents who made complaints.

However, the residents who spoke to Kaieteur News said they were not contacted by the representatives of the Ministry of Housing much less the subject minister.

Minister Croal assured Kaieteur News that the issues are being addressed while adding that the residents need to contact CH&PA to have their problems rectified.

Additionally, the minister disclosed that two contractors have since been terminated for the substandard work done on the young professional homes.

An update will be forthcoming on the actions taken by the Ministry of Housing and Water, CH&PA and Builders Hardware to rectify the defects of the houses.

Four Guyanese students to commence petroleum studies in China

The first four Guyanese students in the CNOOC Petroleum Guyana Limited (CPGL) Scholarship Programme are travelling to ChinaonFridaytocommence their degree programs for the 2023-2024academicyear

Nechemiyah Levans,Aria Matthews, Ishika Singh and Nazeela Williams were officially awarded their fully funded degree scholarships in a simple ceremony at the CPGL Head Office, Kingston backinJuly

The initiative, funded by CPGL, is part of a program with the Ministry of Natural Resources to award 10 petroleum science-related

undergraduate degree scholarships over the next three years Notably, two morestudentswillbeselected annually over the next three years.

CPGL is fully funding the c o s t s o f e d u c a t i o n , transportation and living expenses for each student. Upon completion of studies, each student is required to work with either the Ministry of Natural Resources or with CPGLforafive-yearperiod.

The scholars were selected after public advertisementbyajointpanel comprising personnel from the CPGLand the Ministry of NaturalResources.

CSEC, CAPE results can be accessed at 6pm today

T h e C a r i b b e a n ExaminationsCouncil(CXC) hasannouncedthattheresults of this year's May /June 2023 CXC®regionalexaminations for the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) and Caribbean

Secondary Education Certificate® (CSEC) examinations will be released onlineat6:00pmtoday

In a brief statement on

examinations.

This was due to a breach of the Mathematics Paper 02 examination which had occurredinJamaica.

CXChadstatedthat“Asa result of the breach and the c o m p r o m i s e o f t h e examination, as well as consideration for the mental health and wellbeing of our candidates, timely release of results, and matriculation

Wednesday CXC stated that “Candidates may access their results via the CXC® Student P o r t a l a t www cxc org/studentresults.”

This year, candidates that wrotetheCSECMathematics examination were not graded for Paper 02 of the examinations. Back in May CXC had stated that students writing the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC®) 2023

Mathematics examination will only be graded on their School Based Assessment (SBA) and Paper 01 of the

requirements, CXC has determined that for this examination the modified approach will be used to award fair and valid grades. The modified approach entails assessment of: (1) the School Based Assessment or Paper 032 (Alternative to SBA) for private candidates; and(ii)Paper01.”

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education will announce Guyana's CAPE and CSEC results at a ceremony being held at the Anna Regina Secondary School in Region Two This ceremony is scheduledfor14:00h.

Liu Xiaoxiang, President of CPGL, Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat and the scholarship recipients

Moon, Kennedy share world championship pole vault title

BUDAPEST, (Reuters)American Katie Moon and Australia’s Nina Kennedy decided to share the gold medal in a dramatic women’s pole vault final at the World Athletics Championships yesterday.

The two women cleared 4.90 metres in an event that stretched two hours and 10 minutes, but both missed on all three attempts at 4.95 and decided to share the victory rather than go to a jump-off.

It was the second consecutive world title for Moon, who also won Olympic gold in Tokyo. Armed with a per-

sonal best of 4.95 and a season’s best of 4.90, the 32year-old Moon appeared to be the favourite.

But Kennedy had other ideas. She surpassed the Australian record and her own personal best by eight centimetres when she sailed over 4.90, and then held back tears as she looked up at the steady bar in joyful disbelief.

The two chatted briefly to decide the outcome, then embraced, conjuring memories of the Tokyo Olympics where good friends and rivals

Mutaz Barshim of Qatar and Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy opted to share men’s high jump gold.

Thursday August 24, 2023

ARIES (Mar. 21–Apr. 19)

In order to reach your destination, you may have to take an unusual route today, Aries. Zigzag your way to the finish line. Don't automatically assume that this is a bad thing.

TAURUS(Apr.20–May20)

Get out of the doldrums and enjoy life, Taurus. The situation is such that if you remain stagnant for a little while, you will soon sink into a spiral of depression and downward thinking.

GEMINI (May 21–June 20)

This morning is your time to shine, Gemini. You should be in a good mood, with a positive outlook that helps you attack the day's tasks with vitality. Elements of the unexpected.

CANCER (June 21–July 22)

You may get a bit frustrated in the morning because of a lack of commitment on the part of others, Cancer. You may find it hard to pin down an answer when everything seems to be up in the air.

LEO (July 23–Aug. 22)

The energy you put out today will most definitely fuel the fire, Leo, so make sure you have an extinguisher within reach.

VIRGO (Aug. 23–Se pt. 22)

You may feel indecisive today, Virgo, especially in the morning. Other people's actions may confuse you. Don't worry. Concentrate on your projects and goals.

Richardson and Jackson...

From page 30 going to be fast. The track is really fast, it really is.

“I feel like I’m in the best shape I’ve ever been in so I’m ready to roll. Being part of women’s sprinting now can have its ups and downs, you can run extremely fast and still lose a race but it’s really exciting and having that pressure brings out the best in all of us.” Briton Dina AsherSmith, the 2019 champion and bronze medallist last year, also went through with 22.46 and echoed Thomas’s views on the sport at the moment.

“As long as you’re on the start line for the next round you have a chance,” she said.

“I’m using an ice vest, ice towel, shade - those are the basic tricks,” she said.

“Obviously I’ve got to warm up and make sure everything is working as efficiently as possible but even this morning I had to save something because this saps your energy and with the semi-finals tomorrow it’s going to be fast.”

Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, silver medallist last year and who took bronze in the 100m on Monday, opted not to run in 200 but plans to return to the track for the sprint relay.

LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22)

Emotionally, you should be feeling quite good today, Libra. This is important since you may get thrown off balance by a strange, unexpected force. The more stable you are on the inside,

SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21)

Free your mind and consider alternative options, Scorpio. This is a time to throw away the old to make room for the new. There's a distinct advance in original and forward thinking today.

SAGIT (Nov.22–Dec.21)

You might find your energy comes in strong, erratic bursts today, Sagittarius. Don't be surprised if you're high as a kite one moment and down in the dumps the next. Even if you're driving everyone.

CAPRI (Dec. 22–Jan. 19) The

You may feel a tendency to do things the same old way today simply because it's what feels most comfortable, Capricorn. Even though the familiar route may be tempting now,

AQUARIUS(Jan.20–Feb.18)

An extra log has been thrown on your fire today, Aquarius, so don't be surprised if you burn especially hot.

PISCES (Feb. 19–Mar. 20)

Don't feel like you have to rationalize everything, Pisces. Accept the fact that there are some things in life that occur without a specific logical explanation. More than likely these are the most interesting

“I am a big softie, it is so beautiful, it really displays what our sport is about,”

Britain’s 2012 Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill said on the BBC. “Two epic performances and they’ve both come away with that gold medal.”

Wilma Murto of Finland tied her season’s best of 4.80 for bronze, missing all three of her attempts at 4.85. The 25-year-old became the first Finnish woman to win a Diamond League title when she beat Moon at the London event on July 23.

The event captivated the National Athletics Centre crowd who - prompted by an ominous rhythmic thumping over the sound system when each jumper stepped up to the runway - clapped in time.

Warriors, Patriots...

From page 33 batting-heavy lineup, which features Internationals Corbin Bosch, Indian T20 star Ambati Raydu, coupled with West Indies stars like, Guyanese Sherfane Rutherford, Andre Fletcher, Evin Lewis and Joshua DaSilva will all play big roles during tonight’s encounter.

Bowling-wise, left-hand pacer Sheldon Cottrell and right-arm Oshane Thomas should do the trick for their team with the new ball, with spinner Yannick Cariah likely to play a big factor with his fellow slower bowlers.

The Guyana Amazon Warriors have built a reputation on their bowling over the previous seasons, with the legspinner Tahir arguably being their X-Factor, alongside Windies spinner Gudakesh Motie.

The pacers Shepherd, Paul and South pacer African Dwayne Pretorius will have their cut out while the interchanged bowlers will need to pull their weight.

Action bowls off at 19:00h.

“The talent level in this event now is off the scale, so it’s amazing to be even considered among the best in the world. I do think in 40 or 50 years people will look back and say, ‘That era was amazing’.” Asher-Smith also said the athletes were having to work hard to deal with the heat.

Poland’s Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who defected from Belarus after her high-profile fallout with her home country at the Tokyo Olympics, finished fifth in her heat in 22.88 but advanced as one of the fastest losers, having gone out at the heat stage in the 100m.

The semi-finals are today, Thursday, with the final tomorrow, Friday.

Australia’s Nina Kennedy and Katie Moon of The U.S. celebrate after winning joint gold in the women’s pole vault final. (REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach)

National Gymnasium facility now equipped to host multiple sport disciplines

T h e N a t i o n a l Gymnasium’s outdoor courts, which now include a newly designed basketball court, a lawn tennis court, and a Futsal turf, were officially inaugurated by the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sports (MCY&S). This enhancement allows the facilitytohostawiderrange of sporting disciplines e f f e c t i v e l y T h e commissioning of these courts over the weekend marks a significant step in diversifying the offerings at theMandelaAvenuevenue.

Minister Charles Ramson of MCY&S emphasized that this achievement contributes to theversatilityoftheMandela Avenue facility The conceptionandrealizationof these courts spanned two years and have notably elevated the capabilities of the indoor facility In recent months, this facility has become a hub for more than halfadozensports.Minister Ramson expressed his

enthusiasm during the unveiling, stating, “This marks a historic moment, as we now have four sports concurrently played at a single facility This capability, I believe, is unparalleled not just in Guyana but likely in the entire region. Our pride in this accomplishment is immense.” He continued by elaborating, “This initiative began taking shape in 2021, and our vision for this location steadily expanded. Recognizing its significance as a connecting point between North and South Georgetown, inhabited by a substantial population, we seized the opportunity presented by various initiatives and projects to fully realize the potential of thisfacility.”

With a sense of accomplishment, he proudly declared,“Ourobjectiveisto offereveryonethechanceto engage in different sports at various times of the day or night. Witnessing numerous

young individuals participating in diverse sports concurrently is incredibly gratifying for the government.”

The unveiling event also saw the presence of key stakeholderswhoappreciated the new courts Jermain Slater, representing basketball;ChristyCampbell, representinglawntennis;and several notable futsal players acknowledged the positive impact these upgraded facilitieswouldhaveontheir respective sports Jermaine Slater, President of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA), expressed his satisfaction, “We’ve long desiredsuchfacilities Thisis no ordinary facility; it boasts FIBA-approved hoops, ample lighting, standard court dimensions, comfortable bleachers for spectators, and a dedicated space for basketball It fulfillsourneeds,andwecan now avoid scheduling conflictswithotherevents.”

Deandra Dottin advocates for improved treatment of West Indies cricketers

SportsMax - Former WestIndiesWomen’scricket sensation Deandra Dottin has issued a passionate call to Cricket West Indies, urgingtheboardtoprioritize playerrespectandresources. Dottin, known for her explosive performances on the field, has warned that neglecting these crucial aspects could have dire consequences for the future ofcricketintheCaribbean.

In a candid conversation on the Ladies Who Switch podcast, Dottin opened up about her thoughts on her r e t i r e m e n t f r o m international cricket and the issues she encountered within the cricket establishment She expressed concern over the lack of attention given to players’needs,bothinterms of resources and respect.

Dottin stressed that without proper support and a conducive environment, players cannot perform at theirbest:

“To be honest, there’s been a lot going on in the

Deandra Dottin

Christy Campbell, President of the Guyana Tennis Association (GTA), also shared her delight, stating, “It’s a wonderful sensation, and the tennis communityisbothdelighted and appreciative to witness the completion of this facility We are currently

Keep Your Five Alive Futsal tournament contested their first match on Saturday evening on the new Turf.

campandsomuchI’vebeen through,somanythingsthat needed to be sorted out, and the players not getting the respect and basically the attentionbecausethereare things that needed to be done in order for players to actually perform to the best of their ability,” she said Dottin, who announced her retirement from

international cricket a year ago, cited issues with the teamenvironmentasafactor in her decision Her

illustriouscareerspanned14 years, featuring remarkable achievements like the 2016 T20 World Cup title and the firstcenturyinWomen’sT20 Internationals.

Presently, Dottin is part of a growing trend among cricketers, both male and female, who are opting to focus on franchise tournamentsworldwide.She isassociatedwithteamssuch as Manchester Originals, Adelaide Strikers, Trinbago Knight Riders, and Barmy Army

hosting a mini-tournament here, with the overarching goal of expanding tennis, especially in South Georgetownarea.”

In conjunction with the i n a u g u r a l e v e n t , tournaments for each court were held on Saturday evening, marking a vibrant

start to the utilization of these newly improved facilities.

These events also coincided with the Winfield Braithwaite Schoolboys and Girls and Junior Boxing Championships staged inside the National Gymnasium.

Guyana in pursuit of a third consecutive Senior Caribbean C/ship

Afterfourdaysofintense competition at the 2023 Senior Caribbean Squash Championship, Guyana’s senior squash players are already making their mark w i t h i m p r e s s i v e performances in both the Women’sandMen’sSingles events.Thetournament,held in the scenic Cayman Islands, has witnessed some thrilling matches and spirited displays of athleticism.

Starting with the Women’s Singles category, the Guyanese female contingent displayed their prowess, securing four impressive victories Simultaneously, the Men’s Singles event saw a commendable six wins for Guyana, further solidifying their dominance on the squash court. With a strong showingonthefirstday,the Guyanese athletes went into thesecondday,burstingwith c o n f i d e n c e a n d determination to continue theirwinningstreak.

Meanwhile, on the second day of the championship, marked by outstanding performances

from Nicolette Fernandes, Mary Fung-A-Fat, and Ashley Khallil who all had successes in their singles’ matches Nicolette Fernandes, in particular, delivered a spectacular performance, triumphing overJamaica’sJessicaDavis andMaryFung-A-Fatinthe singlescategory

The Men’s Singles matches saw Samuel InceCarvalhal prevailing over Stephan Morrison of Jamaica, while Alex Arjoon faced a setback against Cayman’s Cameron Stafford. Adding to their achievements, Fernandes partneredwithDanielIncein theMixedDoublescategory, clinching their first victory oftheseason.TheGuyanese duooutperformedBarbados’ Jada Smith-Padmore and DarienBennwithadecisive 2-0 victory, further exemplifying Guyana’s dominance on the internationalsquashstage. However, Tuesday broughtaboutamixedbagof results for Guyana The Women’s Singles matches saw both Fernandes and Fung-A-Fat facing defeats.

Fernandes, after her initial success, went down in a closely contested match against Maregot Prow of Barbados, ending with a score of 2-1. On the other hand,Khallilshowcasedher strength by securing a victory against Fung-A-Fat witha3-1scoreline.

Khallil, together with Ashley De Groot, continued to make an impact by overcoming Cayman’s Marlene West and Jade Patcarininagrippingmatch that ended 4-11, 11-5, and 11-9 in favour of the Guyanese.

Asthecompetitionentered its fourth day yesterday, the excitement escalated with the onset of the Men’s and Women’sTeammatches The Guyana Men’s team were scheduled to face off against formidable opponents Trinidad and Tobago, as well as the host nation Cayman Islandsat21:00hours.While, the Women’s Team took on Barbados at 23:30 hours, in two separate matches that promised intense action Resultsofthosematcheswill be provided in the Friday’s edition.

Brampton Gladiators retain ORSCA/Adana Homes trophy

Canada-based

Guyanese batsman Avinash Sookdeo

slammed a brilliant, unbeaten 71 to spur

Brampton Gladiators to an exciting 25-run win over Sunshine in this year’s OntarioRound-ArmSoftball

Cricket Association (ORSCA)/AdanaHomes1010final.

Playing last Sunday at Emancipation Park, in Brampton, Ontario, the right-handed Sookdeo clobbered nine sixes and a four helping Brampton Gladiatorstoadaunting1464from10-overs.

Sunshinerespondedwith 121-5whenthe10-oversran out.

Sookdeo got support from Zaheer Allard who contributed 18 after skipper

and veteran player Bobby Parasnauthwonthetossand opted to bat. Ryan Dhoray ended with 2-21 from his maximumtwoovers.

When Sunshine batted, another Canada-based Guyanese Imran Ali hit a fighting 36 and ex-Guyana youth player Ricardo Peters making25.

Riaz Kadir captured two wickets for 19 runs in his two-over spell to be most successful bowler for the winningcombination.

Sookdeo was named player-of-the-match for his batting brilliance and he receivedatrophy

Each player from both sidestookhomeatrophyfor being in the championship game as well. The winner and runners-up teams also

cartedoffoneapiece. At the post-match presentation ceremony,

AAG on potential link with Adidas

ByRawleToney

Apotential turning point for Guyana’s track and field endeavors is on the horizon, as the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) is solidifying a collaboration with the renowned German athleticapparelandfootwear company,Adidas.

Emanuel Archibald and Aliyah Abrams took to the stage at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest,Hungary,adorned in Adidas gear that undoubtedly caught the attentionofmany

Amanda Hermonstine, the President of AAG, is personally present at the World Championships and shedlightonthissignificant development.

She elaborated on the partnership, revealing that Guyanese representative CubieSeegobin,actingasan agent forAdidas, worked in conjunction with the local track and field governing body to outfit the Guyanese athletesfortheglobalevent.

Describing this collaboration as “the beginningofarelationship,” Hermonstine shared, “I contacted Cubie and we discussed the possibilities. He assured me that Adidas would sponsor uniforms for the World Championships,

Guyana’s track and field team latest kit, designed by Adidas.

President of the ORSCA, M i t c h B a c c h u s , congratulated the champion

side while he thanked ManagingDirectorofAdana Homes, Satishwar Persaud,

for his sponsorship again. The competition had attracted18teams.

RepublicBankGCBU23Super50tournament… North Essequibo, Achievers, Blairmont notch up victories

Excellent allround performances by senior Berbiceinter-countyplayers Seon Glasgow and Nigel Deodat led Blairmont Blazers Cricket Club to a 5 wicket victory over Tucber Park, when RB/GCB U23 50-Overactioncontinued.

TucberParkposted93all out after Zeyul Ramsammy (26) and Ricardo Ramdehol (15)offeredresistance.

Altave Balman 3-11, Chris Harry 1-4 along with the experienced duo of Deodat2-16andGlasgow223, kept things in order for theirside.

When the chase ended, Blairmont ended on 96-5 thanks to the pair of Glasgow,whohit48notout and Deodat (23), who returned to lead their team homewiththebat.

and they did He also confirmedtheircommitment for uniforms for the Pan AmericanGames.”

H e r m o n s t i n e emphasisedthatthereisalso keeninterestfromAdidasin signing Guyana’s standout athletes, such as the sprint champion Emanuel Archibaldandthecelebrated T i a n n a S p r i n g e r

F u r t h e r m o r e , s h e highlighted Adidas’ support for the upcoming CARIFTA Gamesnextyear

Cubie Seegobin emphasised the ongoing supportfromAdidas,stating, “Moving forward, they (Adidas) probably will be supporting you (Guyana) in whatever way they can; it is the beginning of a relationship.”

Under Hermonstine’s leadership, the AAG is enjoying a successful season, following the suspension of former President Aubrey Hutson earlierthisyear

Leon Swamy (3-14) and Adbool Ramsammy (1-20) , Ramsammy (1-5) were the successful bowlers for TucberPark.

Achievers defeat

D’Edward/Bathby211runs

Achievers racked up a massive315allout,ledbya splendid hundred from SheltonRamsay(118)with5 fours and 12 sixes, 74 from Shamal Angel and 57 from TomariAnthony HemrajHarilallsnatched 2-37 as three other bowlers

snappedup2wicketsapiece forD’Edward/Bath.Inreply the latter were kept 104 all outwithalmosthalftheruns in extras andAyinde Rogers top-scoringwith31.

Brilliant bowling from Jayden Samuels (5-32) and Angel(4-17),cleanedupthe oppositionbattersinnotime.

North Essequibo beat South Essequibo by 2

wickets

South Essequibo 166 all outaftersometag-teamwork from Amit Persaud (4-41), Raj Ramballi (4-32), who ranthroughtheorder

In reply, their combined efforts with the ball gave NorthEssequibotheedgeas theywouldendon167-8,led by Shazif Mohamed, who strokedanunbeaten53.

The winning Brampton Gladiators team strike a pose with their trophies.

Shazif Mohamed

World Cup warm-ups: India begin against England; Pakistan take on NZ

ESPNcricinfo - Less than 72 hours after they finishtheirthree-matchODI series in Rajkot, India and Australia will begin their final round of dress rehearsalsfortheWorldCup with warm-ups against England and Netherlands respectively on September 30.

Pakistan, meanwhile, will warm-up against New Zealand on September 29, while South Africa take on Afghanistan Bangladesh willplayagainstSriLanka.

While India travel far east to Guwahati for their firstwarm-up,Australiawill fly down south to

Trivandrum Both these sides, along with

Afghanistan and New Zealand have warm-ups scheduledindifferentcities.

The other six teams will allbestationedinonecityfor their warm-ups. Hyderabad

playshosttoPakistan,while GuwahatihostsEngland,Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The southern coastal town of Trivandrum will host Netherlands and South Africa.

India and Pakistan will round off the tournament’s warm-ups by playing Netherlands and Australia respectively in the final day on October 3, before the teamsdispersetowardstheir respective venues for their tournament opener All warm-up games are daynight fixtures that will commence at 2pm local time,withall15membersof the playing squad permitted to play The captains’ event will be held on October 4, a day before the tournament proper begins on October 5 in Ahmedabad with defending champions England taking on New Zealand, the runners-up

from2019.HostsIndiaopen their campaign against Australia in Chennai on

RichardsonandJacksonon coursefor200mshowdown

Sha’carri Richardson of the U.S. and Cote D’Ivoire’s Marie-Josee Ta Lou in action during heat 2. (REUTERS/ Sarah Meyssonnier)

India and Australia will have to switch to World Cup mode less than three days after they finish their ODI series next month. (BCCI)

BUDAPEST,(Reuters)-

American Sha’Carri

Richardson and Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson, first and second in the 100 metres final on Monday, safely negotiated the next step in their World Championship rivalry as they cruised through their 200m firstroundheatsyesterday

On another roasting morning Richardson, seeking to become the first U.S, winner since Allyson

Felix in 2009, looked sharp before easing up to win her heatin22.16,thefastesttime ofthesixraces.

Fourth-placed 100m

finisher Marie-JoseeTa Lou of the Ivory Coast went through from the same heat, while defending champion Jacksonwasincruisecontrol winningherheatin22.50.

GabbyThomas,quickest in the world this year with 21.60towintheU.S.trialsin July-makingherthefourth-

fastest woman in historylookedsuperbinwinningher heatin22.26.

“I felt very comfortable. It’smyfirsttimeonthetrack and I managed to get out strong and come through,” Thomassaid.

“I think I can run my worldleadtimeagainwhenI needtobutIdon’tthinkthat willbeenoughtowingold.I thinkallthegirlsinthefinal willbeunder21.60,soit’s

(Continuedonpage27)

October8.

Yesterday, the ICC also announced the official

ticketing partners, while confirming the pre-sale of tickets for the tournament

fromAugust24,whichis42 days before the start of the tournament.

CWI Rising Stars U17 2-Day tournament Round 1…

Guyanavs.JamaicaDay1

century give Jamaica 135 run lead

BrianBarnesscoredacenturyforJamaica on the opening day, as his team enters day 2 with135runsleadoverGuyanawhenRound 1bowledoffyesterday

The Jamaicans were indebted to Barnes after he smashed 114 off 117 with 10 fours and5sixes,topropelhisteamto200-9in53.1 overs. Opener Kev’Aundre Virgo (18), Jordan Pinnock (22), David Dewar (16) and Roshwan Mckenzie (15), were the other scorersforJamaica.

Guyana’s bowling was shared up amongst a few guys who returned a wicket

each, but it was the consistent Matthew Pottoya who continues to impress, leading with (3-32) while BruceVincent (2-34), lent support.

When stumps arrived, Guyana were solidly placed on 65-2, needing to do some work come today in order to save/win this firstencounter Rampersaud Ramnauth dug in for 21 off 49 before he was dismissed while opener Romeo Deonarain (33*) and Nicholas Shiopersaud (8*) will resume their innings todayastheyseektopressonwards.

Barnes’

- Guyana 65-2, (Deonarain 33*, Shiopersaud 8*)

Romeo Deonarain

Mathew Pottaya

Dominican Republic’s Paulino claims 400m gold

BUDAPEST, Aug 23 (Reuters)-MarileidyPaulino of the Dominican Republic wonWorldChampionshipgold in the women’s 400m on Wednesday, finally claiming top spot on the podium after silvers at last year’s worlds andTokyoOlympics

The race was wide open in the absence of injured A m e r i c a n S y d n e y McLaughlin-Levrone, the 400m hurdles world record holderandfastestintheworld thisyearovertheflat,andwith Olympicanddefendingworld champion Shaunae MillerUibo going out in the heats four months after having a baby. Paulino, secondfastest this year, was out in lanesevenandranacontrolled race to come off the final bend in the lead and drive home for an emphatic victoryin48.76seconds.

Poland’s Natalia Kaczmarek took silver in 49 57 followed by Sada Williams of Barbados in 49.60.

Barbadians Cumberbatch, Prow, snare Men’s, Women’s singles titles at Caribbean Senior Squash Champs

Ashley Khalil andAshley De Groot claim doubles title

SportsMax - It was always expected to be two hard-fought encounters to decide the Men’s and Women’sSinglestitlesatthe 28th edition of the Senior Caribbean Championships, and both lived up to billing, as the Barbados pair of Khamal Cumberbatch and Margot Prow claimed top honours in Cayman Islands onTuesday

Cumberbatch and

Cameron Stafford of the host’s nation entered the one-week tournament as top seedsinthemen’sdrawand, soitwasnosurprisethatthey locked horns in a keenly contested best-of-five final, whichtheformerwon3-2.

The ding-dong battle which lasted 47 minutes, saw Stafford winning the first game 11-6, before Cumberbatch rallied to win the second 11-3 The Cayman Islands top man again found himself in front winningthethirdgame11-9, but Cumberbatch asserted authority in the last two gamestowin11-9,11-3.

Predictionswerethatthe women’s showpiece would have been an all-Guyana battle between Nicolette Fernandes and Ashley

Khalil, but Prow had other ideas, as she bettered Khalil inthesemi-finaltosetupthe gold medal battle with Fernandes.

And the Bajan proved superior to her Guyanese counterpart in the Best-offive final, registering a 3-1 win.Shewonthefirstset117,beforeFernandesralliedto take the second 11-9, but Prow, like her compatriot Cumberbatch, showed class at the backend to win the nexttwogames11-9and117. Earlier, Julian Jervis and Stafford, handed Cayman Islands the Men’s Doubles goldmedal,astheybattledto a come-from-behind 11-7, 11-5winovertheBarbadian pair of Cumberbatch and Shawn Simpson in an entertaining finale Cumberbatch and Simpson wonthefirstset7-11.

To get to the finals, both pairs had to endure almost hour-long battles in their respective semi-final encounters, Cumberbatch andSimpsonmoreso,asthey had to come from behind to better the Jamaican pair of Bruce Burrowes and Julian Morrison 11-9, 11-8, after losingthefirstset9-11.

WhiletheCaymanduo’s

battle against Guyana’s Daniel Ince and Jason-Ray Khalil lasted 48 minutes, they won 2-0 with scores of 11-9,11-10.

IntheWomen’sDoubles, Guyana secured gold courtesy of top seeded AshleyKhalilandAshleyDe Groot, who justified favouritism with a comefrom-behind 11-5, 11-9 win over the second seeded CaymanIslandspairofJade Pitcarin and Marlene West,

whowontheopeningset114.

KhalilandDeGroothad earlier bettered Barbadians Karen Meakins and Margot Prow 11-5, 5-11, 11-5 in a competitive three-set battle lasting just over half-hour, while Pitcarin and West got by the Jamaican duo of Karen Anderson and Mia Todd,11-9,11-6.

Jamaica’sTahjiaLumley andJessicaDaviscoppedthe Mixed Doubles title by

virtue of a walkover The reason for such an outcome remains unclear, as the Jamaicans were expected to face the number two seeded Guyanese pair of Jason-Ray Khalil and Nicolette Fernandes in the showpiece event.

After entering the event as the number five seed, the Jamaicans registered an 115,11-2winovertheTrinidad andTobago pair ofAnthony Allum and Faith Gillezeau,

andlaterscoredatwo-set115, 11-5 win over top seeded pair of Alex Frazer and Michaela Rensburg of the host nation, on their way to thefinal.

Meanwhile, Khalil and Fernandes bettered the Barbadian pair of Darien Benn and Jada SmithPadmore11-5,11-8,ontheir waytothefinal.

Margot Prow (right) of Barbados in action against Guyana’s Nicolette Fernandes during the women’s singles final at the Caribbean Senior Squash Championships in Cayman Islands on Tuesday. (Inset) Male singles champion Khamal Cumberbatch also of Barbados.

Dominican Republic’s Marileidy Paulino wins gold in the women’s 400m final. (REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo)

Carebaco Junior badminton tournament concludes as Gianna Ramnarine takes bronze concludes

The Carebaco

Juniorbadminton tournament came to an end last Sunday at the National Racquet Centre in Trinidad Ms Gianna Ramnarinesecuredabronze medal in the Girls Under13 Singles.

Itwasatoughoutingfor the rest of the athletes as it was their first tournament outside of Guyana However, they were enthusiastic and look forward to attending more international tournaments for the exposure, competitiveness and of

courseachancetomedal.

The Guyana Badminton Association would like to especially thank the Parents whomadethistrippossible, some of the sponsors, Macorp, Guyana Oil

Company, Devendra

PersaudandJasonStephney

Coaches Priyanna

RamdhaniandAkiliHaynes willnowbecompetinginthe Trinidad and Tobago International in the Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles, DoublesandMixedDoubles Categories.

The competition started yesterday,August23,2023.

TTFA extends Angus Eve’s tenure as senior national team head coach until March 2024

Hudson, Dwyer advance to second round of 200m; 100m medalists, Lyles, Tebogo and Hughes win respective heats

SportsMax - The

Trinidad and Tobago

Football Association (TTFA) has announced that ithasextendedAngusEve’s tenureastheHeadCoachof the Senior Men’s National TeamuntilMarch2024.

Following Eve’s instrumental role in leading the team to a well-deserved promotiontoLeagueAinthe Concacaf Nations League, heisnowpoisedtoguidethe team through their upcoming challenges On September7,2023,theteam willfaceoffagainstCuracao at the iconic Hasely Crawford Stadium Subsequently, they will

embarkonajourneytoclash with El Salvador on September10,2023. Reflecting on this extension, Robert Hadad, C h a i r m a n o f t h e Normalization Committee, expressed his enthusiasm, saying, “Angus has injected the role with unwavering stability,exceptionalquality, and a profound sense of belief, all of which have resonatedwithintheteam.”

He further added,

“Throughout the journey, we’ve confronted various challengesasaunitedforce, and it is our firm conviction that Angus is the ideal individual, embodying the

right character, to lead us confidentlyintoLeagueA.”

Eve himself shared his thoughts on this honor, stating,“Continuingtoserve my country and contribute positively in this capacity is animmenseprivilege.”

In conjunction with Eve’scontractextension,the TTFA has initiated the formation of a Technical Advisory Panel, which will play a pivotal role in supportingEve.

The identities of the members comprising this panel will be conclusively d e t e r m i n e d a n d subsequently unveiled withintheupcomingdays.

SportsMax - Andrew HudsonandRasheedDwyer ofJamaicabothadvancedto the semi-final round of the 200m during the opening sessionofDay5ofthe2023 W o r l d A t h l e t i c s ChampionshipsinBudapest, Hungaryyesterday

Hudson, the Jamaican champion, came home in second place in Heat 2 that waswonby100mchampion NoahLyles.

The American who is favoured to win the sprint double, cruised through the finish line in an impressivelooking 20 05, barely breaking a sweat in swelteringconditions.

Hudson, meanwhile, who challenged Lyles over the first 150m, visibly

backed off to take an automaticqualifyingspot in 20.25. Ondøej Macik of the Czech Republic also advancedfromtheheatafter finishingthirdin20.40.

Dwyeralsoran20.40for thirdplaceinHeat5.

Towa Uzawa of Japan surgedtotheleadlatetowin the heat in 20.34 with the USA’s Courtney Lindsay closebehindin20.39.

Alsothroughtothesemifinal round are medal contenders, Letsile Tebogo of Botswana, Zharnel HughesofGreatBritainand Erriyon Knighton of the USA.

Tebogo, the 100m silver medalist,whoisexpectedto challenge Lyles for the gold medal, was in complete

commandofHeat3,striding to victory in an easy 20.22 while Knighton won Heat 6 in 20 17 over Canada’s Andre DeGrasse, who ran 20.28.

Hughes, the bronze medallistinthe100m,easily won the opening heat in 19 99, the fastest time heading into the semi-finals withCanada’sAaronBrown aclosesecondin20.08.

Brown’s compatriot, BrendonRodneywonHeat4 in a season’s best 20.14 as did the USA’s Kenny Bednarek, who sped to a 20.01 clocking to win the final of the seven heats.

Alexander Ogando of the Dominican Republic crossed in second place in a timeof20.14.

Andrew Hudson and Rasheed Dwyer of Jamaica advanced along with the favourites Noah Lyles, Letsile Tebogo and Zharnel Hughes. (Loop News/Marlon Reid)

The Guyanese badminton players take time out for a photo.

Angus Eve

GAPLFRawNationals2023...

Fitness Express maintains support

Passionate corporate partner of sports and its development in Guyana, Fitness Express, located at John and Sheriff Street, Campbellville, has maintained its commitment topowerlifting.

Yesterday, the Manager and Owner, Jamie McDonaldhandedovertheir contributionto the President of the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPLF) Franklin Wilson forSunday’seventsetforthe National Gymnasium, MandelaAvenue.

McDonald said that FitnessExpressismorethan gratified to continue its unflinching support of the sport, through the Federation.

”It’sanabsolutepleasure forourcompanytocontinue this partnership with Powerlifting and this new executive, led by Mr Wilson We have been keeping a keen eye on the sport and have seen how busy you guys have been

since taking over in March. Wearealsowellawarethatit takesquitealotofresources to pull off events so we are pleased to support your efforts to host Raw nationals.”

McDonald further stated that their support of individual athletes will also continue which has been the caseforoveradecade.

The sport is growing in popularity and awareness as more persons are coming on board to compete at the variouslevels.

Wilson, in response, expressed gratitude to McDonald and Fitness Express for their continued generosity which will contribute towards the Federationbeingabletopull offtheRawnationals.

”I am really happy for this continued partnership withFitnessExpressandyou Mr McDonald. You have become one of the main pillars on which this sport stands and for this, and as a Federation,wearemorethan

indebted. You have been doing this for well over a decade and the fact that we can rely on you for all our local competitions, every year, speaks to your commitmenttothesportand most importantly, our athletes.”

Wilson posited that all the athletes who have been competing on the regional and international scene would have benefitted from Fitness Expresses’ investment in the sport over theyears.

”Despiteyoubeingjusta small business, you have alwaysseenitfittogiveback to the sport and athletes and this is a wonderful example of fulfilling your corporate responsibility of giving back, and this in itself, empowersathletestodotheir best.”

Thetopfemaleandmale athletes can be assured of walking away with respective hampers, and compliments of Fitness Express, which will also be

Republic Bank CPL 2023… Warriors, Patriots lock up in anticipated thriller

After having their respective matches ruined by the weather, the Guyana Amazon Warriors and St. KittsandNevisPatriotswill square off when tonight’s Republic Bank CPL continues tonight at Warner Park,St.Kitts.

The Warriors intentions during their rain-affected game was one of pure aggression, something they will look to replicate today, whilethePatriotstoowillbe keen on some action after theirmatchwasalsowashes out.

Given that their last playing XI was robbed of their blazing 56-2 start before the weather had its day on Saturday last, it’s likely that Captain Imran Tahir will stick to his previousXI.

The overseas duo of SayimAyubandAzamKhan have already signaled their intentions given their last approachandwillbekeenon continuingtheirrunatinthe top3order

Chandrapaul Hemraj willwanttomakeupforhis

Sayim Ayub will play a big role again for the Guyana Amazon Warriors.

having a booth to display their products including the equipment they sell apart from answering any questionspatronsmighthave with regards to the products theysell.

There will also be some giveaways for the patrons. Admission is $1000 and liftingtimeis09:00hrs.

ThedefinitionofRAWor ClassicPowerlifting

“RAW or Classic” determines the assistance you are allowed to use for training and testing your lifts 100% RAW means without any assistive equipment at all, as if you were only lifting in shorts andat-shirt.

RAW or Classic lifting allows for some safety equipment to promote the safety of the lifter, above all else.To be considered RAW or Classic when lifting you can use the assistance of: *a weightlifting belt, *non-

supportive knee, *chalk as needed, *and wrist wraps if needed.

Non-supportive knee sleeves are used to promote jointsafetybykeepingthem warm but add little to no

actual lifting support. This amount of equipment promotes the safety of the lifterwhileallowingforonly necessary assistance Overall, the lifter has to do thelift,nottheequipment.

woes in the last match and with the likes of Shai Hope, Shimron Hetmyer, allrounders Keemo Paul and RomarioShepherdandafew tail-end power hitters, the

Warriors should feel comfortable heading into thisbattle.

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Franklin Wilson (left) accepts the sponsorship from Jamie McDonald of Fitness Express.

Guyana in pursuit of a third consecutive Senior Caribbean C/ship

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Apeek of the newly commissioned Futsal Turf at the National Gymnasium facility.

GuyaneseAshley Khallil andAshley Degroot (right) share photo with Caymanians Marlene West and Jade Patcarin at the 2023 Senior Squash Championship.

AAG presidentAmanda Hermonstine in Budapest, Hungary.