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Airport contractor has many more questions to answer P. 3

“China Harbour has not given us a grant… it is a loan, and what we need to know is what are the terms and conditions of the loan?” - APNU Jagdeo vs. Kissoon libel case …

Former President never called to

P. 3

testify on own behalf NAACIE calls for GPL CEO's removal P. 2

- says differences “untenable and irreconcilable”

Soesdyke children murder…

Court rules father fit to stand trial

Foulis shallow grave murder accused remanded P. 6

P. 12

Supenaam stelling ramp collapses again P. 14

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NAACIE calls for GPL CEO’s removal The workers’ union at the state-owned Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) is calling for the removal of the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), citing an irreconcilable situation.

According to the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) yesterday via a statement, Bharat Dindyal’s “relationship with” and “attitude” to the union, the recognised bargaining agent for a significant proportion

- says differences “untenable and irreconcilable” o f t h e c o r p o r a t i o n ’s workforce, has imposed an irreconcilable situation.

NAACIE represents a vital category of the e m p l o y e e s attached to Operations and Transmission and Distributions (T&D) of GPL. The union pointed out that over the last decade it

GPL CEO, Bharat Dindyal has “endeavoured to compromise, negotiate and exist with the Managerial leadership of the Chief Executive Officer Bharat Dindyal, all within the tried

NAACIE General Secretary, Kenneth Joseph and tested and negotiated framework of industrial relations principles and practices”.

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Airport contractor has many more questions “China Harbour has not given us a grant… it is a loan, and what we to answer need to know is what are the terms and conditions of the loan?” – APNU

By Leonard Gildarie A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) insists that the contractor China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has a number of outstanding questions to answer in relation to the US$150M Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion project.

Speaking to the media yesterday during APNU’s weekly press conference, Joseph Harmon, the coalition’s Shadow Public Works Minister, asserted that the Chinese company “missed an excellent opportunity to clear the air with the Parliamentary Opposition”.

CHEC officials were in Guyana recently to defend several allegations of corruption dogging the firm and its parent company, China Communications and

Construction Company (CCCC).

According to Harmon, APNU wanted a “full explanation of the project” so that the concerns of Guyanese citizens could have been raised.

Among these issues include conditions under which Guyana will be granted the massive loan, along with details of the repayment. It should also include details like interest rates, Harmon stressed.

“China Harbour has not given us a grant… it is a loan, and what we need to know is the what are the terms and conditions of the loan… will the number of passengers in years to come help repay the loan?”

According to Harmon, the project could be likened to a Guyanese wanting to build a home and applying for a loan at a bank. The bank would have

From left: Lance Carberry, Joseph Harmon and Winston Felix at yesterday’s press briefing. to be satisfied that the client has the capacity to repay.

“You must satisfy yourself that you have the capacity to repay this money that you are going to borrow or that your children will be able to do so…and that is what we are doing. We are

mortgaging the future of our children and our grandchildren in these major projects.”

Over the weekend, APNU had written CHEC protesting its failure to meet with the Parliamentary opposition - an opposition that had many

Jagdeo vs. Kissoon libel case…

Former President never called to testify on own behalf Former President Bharrat Jagdeo was not called to defend his charge of libel against Kaieteur News Columnist Freddie Kissoon, Editor-in-chief Adam Harris and Publisher Glenn Lall.

Jagdeo’s lawyers wrapped up their case yesterday, after calling but three witnesses: Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon, and Office of the President workers Raul Kissoon and Jason Abdulla.

Now, it is time for Kissoon’s lawyers to launch their defence, and they intend to go the whole nine yards to prove that Jagdeo’s term in office was characterized by a racist ideology.

The defence team plans to call over a dozen witnesses to establish their case. The first of these witnesses would be called on July 30 and is expected to be an international academic who has examined the issue of racism and marginalization under Jagdeo’s presidency.

The defence team is unlikely to bring Jagdeo to the bench. As far as the defence is concerned, Jagdeo had his chance to back up his case and refused to take the stand.

Jagdeo has sued for $10 million, claiming that a column

entitled “King Kong sent his goons to disrupt the conference” pointed to Jagdeo as “King Kong.” The President has claimed that the article suggests that he is a racist and that “by extension, the State and Government of Guyana, practice racism as an ideology, dogma, philosophy and policy.” The publisher of Kaieteur News and its Editorin-Chief are also named in the charge filed by Jagdeo.

In court yesterday, Attorney for Kissoon, Nigel Hughes, further questioned Jason Abdullah, who claims to be employed as a Media Officer at the Office of the President.

Abdulla confirmed that his job was to look for certain words in articles written by Freddie Kissoon, and to “carry” it to Kwame Mc Coy, the Information Liaison Officer to the President. In his news-carrying job, Abdulla testified that he was not required to carry any other news to McCoy. A b d u l l a could not remember when he was first asked by Mc Coy to start making the compilation of the reports which contained certain words. The witness said that one of the words he was not looking for was “ideological racist.”

Freddie Kissoon Bharrat Jagdeo Abdulla told the court that he was asked to look at an article in which the former President is quoted as accusing Hughes of being associated with criminals.

To an initial question, Abdulla said he did not believe that Hughes was

associated with criminals. To another question, however, Abdulla said he believed what was said because it came from (continued on page 23)

questions.

According to Harmon, CHEC responded to APNU and indicated its commitment to meet.

“In a sense, it is an apology,” the Parliamentarian said.

The US$150M expansion of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) has been under fire after it was announced in Jamaica in November. There was no mention of it in the press locally.

The Guyana Government has said that CHEC’s regional office in Jamaica inadvertently released the details of the deal before it could have been blessed by this government’s Cabinet of Ministers, the administration’s highest decision-making body.

The seeming secrecy under which it was signed was heavily criticized by the opposition, especially in light of the fact that it was done days before former President Bharrat Jagdeo was due to complete his term in office, and days before the November 28th General and Regional Elections.

There were startling revelations also that CHEC and its parent company had

been debarred from road and bridge contracts funded by the World Bank until 2017 after investigations found corruption links of a project in the Philippines.

Last year, a Chinese court sentenced a senior port official there to death for taking bribes from CHEC. A Bangladeshi court also sentenced the son of a former Prime Minister to six years in absentia for laundering money he had received in bribes from CHEC. Earlier this year, the Sudan government temporarily halted a Euros 900M airport project over fears of the high costs.

Last week, CHEC insisted that the incidents were isolated ones within its subsidiaries. The Guyana government has also said that a local review of the allegations did not find any reasons to stop the project and that it will continue.

Some 1,800 persons living in proximity to the Timehri airport are to be relocated.

Also at APNU’s press conference yesterday were Parliamentarian Winston Felix and executive member Lance Carberry.

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EDITORIAL

CARICOM and Food Security At the CARICOM Heads of Government meeting in St Lucia, President Donald Ramotar is reported to have bemoaned the failure of his fellow WI leaders to implement the “Jagdeo Initiative” on food production in the region.

Noting that not even a dent has been made on the US$3 billion bill CARICOM countries foot annually, he posited this has to be seen as “an indictment on the entire region”.

As head for Agriculture, Agricultural Diversification and Food Security in CARICOM, President Ramotar affirmed that “The Jagdeo initiative could encourage production and productivity, strengthen our competitiveness and secure better market access.” We couldn’t agree more.

Back in 2008 we wrote about “the hollowness of CARICOM’s purported commitment to the “Jagdeo Initiative” which has been articulated as a strategy for fast tracking the regional drive for realising its agricultural potential - the Regional Transformation Programme (RTP) for Agriculture and its successor, the Caribbean Community Agriculture Policy, and not so incidentally, deliver us into sustainable food self sufficiency.

Ever since the strategy was broached in 2003, and fleshed out the following year, there have been innumerable meetings, seminars, conferences and other talk-shops involving Heads of Government, Core Group of Institutions, Forum Ministers of Agriculture, Agri-Business Private Sector, National Consultations etc. The meetings produced a mountain of documents but not a basket of vegetables.”

The Jagdeo Initiative was supposed to have cut through the previous mountain of paperwork produced by the previous forty years of pontificating about our need to produce our own food and producing plans to accomplish the same. It identified “ten key binding constraints” that needed to be overcome, and recommended that Agriculture Ministers from the region take responsibility for addressing particular constraints within a stated time line.

The constraints and matched Ministers were: 1. Limited financing and Inadequate New Investments: Barbados; 2.

Inadequate R&D: St. Lucia; 3. Outdated & Inefficient AHFS: Trinidad/Tobago; 4. Fragmented & Uncoordinated Private Sector: Vincent/Grenadines; 5. Deficient & Uncoordinated Risk Management Measures: Antigua/Barbuda; 6.

Inefficient Land & Water Distribution & Management Systems: Guyana: 7. Inadequate Transportation Systems: St. Kitts and Nevis; 8 & 9. Weak and Non-integrated Information and Intelligence Systems and Services and the Need to Participate in Growth Market Segments: Jamaica; and 10. Lack of Trained Human Resources: Dominica.

The goal was that by 2015, there would have been substantial progress towards contributing significantly to national and regional development and to economic, social and environmental sustainability; a transparent regulatory framework at national and regional levels, that promotes and facilitates investment and attracts (direct and indirect) inflows of capital; significantly transformed its processes and products and stimulated the innovative entrepreneurial capacity of Caribbean agricultural and rural communities; and enabled the region (as a whole) to achieve an acceptable level of food security that is not easily disrupted by natural and or manmade disasters.”

Three months later, a two-day “CARICOM Agriculture Investment Forum” was held right here in Guyana and the CARICOM Secretariat announced that “twenty-five projects ranging from food production to ethanol production were presented to investors”.

Based on the historic paralysis of CARICOM on food production, we wrote: It was reported at the beginning of the Forum that “bankers and financiers pointed out that government guarantees, crop Insurance, export credit and tax and other concessions, and the removal of cross border barriers to trade in agriculture were factors they considered important when making investments in agriculture.

Adequate infrastructure and research were also factors that financiers said were important in alleviating the

Racial bigotry pervades some minds DEAR EDITOR, Response is made to KN July 4, 2012 letter “Lewis may be his worst enemy.” Let me from the outset say, as per the letter’s stated title, no such fear resides; the fear resides in those who seek or expect silence or compliance in the face of their bigotry.

They are assured that there will be no such silence or compliance on my part, and they will be exposed for whom they are- an enemy to peaceful co-existence, racial harmony and equitable development.

I stand by my statement that Ravi Dev’s bigoted writings and pander for empathy in the claim that my response to his bigotry is ad hominem, shall not deter me.

Those who now seek to defend him, shall too, not succeed!

Refer to my letters “Don’t expect silence on my part, Mr. Dev. Not now, not ever!” and “My position is in sync with international prerequisites for good governance and social justice” –KN 30/6/ 2012 and 29/5/2012 respectively.

By biological identity I am African Guyanese, which foremost defines me. The other attributes of personal identity comes through association and achievements. The former is not of one’s making; the latter, one can influence.

The United Nations has declared “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.” This is also enshrined in the Guyana Constitution. As such this is not a tenet to be treated lightly.

Further, if I cannot stand up and represent that tenet against those engaging in acts/actions to threaten and/ or deny the African race, then I lose the moral authority, as a citizen with a civic responsibility and trade unionist with a global responsibility, to speak for any group-be it those affected by race, class, gender, creed, or other diversity.

This responsibility is

Standing up for decency THE EDITOR, As a fairly young political activist, I shared an anger because, after the High Court declared the Houston Constitution Election flawed and ordered a by-election, the PPP refused to comply with the High Court’s decision.

I was the PNC Candidate; as such, I was acquainted with all of the members of the PPP Council of Ministers; they were the late Dr. Cheddi Jagan, Brindly Benn, Balram Singh Rai, Ranji Chandisingh, Jocelyn Hubbard, Charles Jacobs (Jr), Cedric Nunes, Gladstone Wilson and still alive, D. Fenton Ramsahoye, but, in particular, I remember fondly Boysie Ramkarran, Minister of Works and Hydraulics.

He was an affable, oft time jovial personality, and so, in spite of the vast political gap that existed between us, this I can say, they were all honourable men, committed

to carrying out the policies of reform they believe were in the best interest of their Party and Country.

Ralph Ramkarran must have been embarrassed with this obvious loss of a sense of honour and patriotism by the present PPP Leadership.

His father ‘Boysie’, in his grave, must have noted how far away the Party that nurtured him and all the Ramkarrans, had moved away from the past to what appears a new ‘ideology’ of greed, and to look askance at blatant corruption.

Ralph Ramkarran, your noble father must be exhaling with relief that his son has severed links with a cabal that he, Cheddi and others never believed would infest the PPP and Guyana, Let us hope his courageous move will help others to see the light and give Guyana a chance to be a decent, democratic place.

Hamilton Green„ J.P,

challenges associated with funding projects in the sector.”

The question is why should these constraints be only brought up at a Forum that was supposed to be focused on linking money with concrete projects?

What were the CARICOM bureaucrats doing before the Forum was convened? Hadn’t the Jagdeo Initiative already identified ten binding constraints to agriculture in the region?

Wasn’t financing one of those constraints?”

A year later we noted that nothing had been done and concluded “we should not waste too much (if any) time with CARICOM on agriculture any longer. Today that remains our view.

seriously taken and shall not be ceded to any or under any pretext.

Those who think they can so challenge it, are urged to do so in the face of evidence and not on wild suppositions and fictions, because my intolerance will not be contained under any lid!

Making light or being contemptuous of the tenet declared by the United Nations and enshrined in our Constitution has opened the doors for the bigotry that now finds mainstream acceptance and forms part of the government’s policy, which pose clear and present danger to our peaceful co-existence and equitable development.

Such depraved thinking allows the Editor of the taxpayers’ funded Guyana Chronicle in his July 2, 2012 titled “Opposition rampages to sow disunity in the country” to write “Hatred of Indians is ingrained into [African] psyche. Many Indian persons, who grew up in the arms of black people in rural communities have today become fearful anytime a black youth gets too close to them.”

Was a similar editorial targeting Indians written by Courtney Gibson, Adam Harris, Carl Blackman, or any previous Guyana Chronicle editor during a PNC administration, Indians and others would have been offended and would have spoken out against it. This would be the right thing to do.

I am equally convinced that had such been written under the presidency of Forbes Burnham and Desmond Hoyte, the editor would have been removed for misusing his pen, abusing his

public responsibility and using the state media to publish such divisive and unsubstantiated opinion.

Today such bigotry finds acceptance and silence from President Donald Ramator, the PPP leadership and wider society, who would not have correctly tolerated it under the PNC. To this end it became a ray of hope reading the Roman Catholic Church’s moral leadership in condemning the editorial. The society needs a floodgate of similar voice of reason to halt this degeneracy.

A similar offensive statement is Dev’s who claims that, “In addition to the nurtured tradition of revolt, African socialisation patterns pre-dispose them into aggressive habits and frustrating situations elicit aggressive responses, even against authority figures, i.e. there is a normative support for violence in the African community.”

He and those advancing/ representing/defending such effrontery are bigots, even moreso given what is happening today and of which they have opted for silence in the midst of escalation. It also reinforces my position that some are not interested in welding this nation together, fostering racial harmony, ending discrimination and poor governance.

Finally, nothing shall deter me in the quest for creating a just society. My loyalty is to principles, not principalities. Justice must prevail in this society, and it must not be for one, it must be for all!

Lincoln Lewis

Deteriorating Roads in Kaneville DEAR EDITOR I have been a resident of Kaneville, Grove, East Bank Demerara for the past ten years. During this time there have been several attempts to get the relevant authorities to assist us in changing the state of our roads.

From time to time, you would hear that some Minister would be visiting to speak to residents about any issues that are making them uncomfortable. But time passes and these visits never occur.

About a year ago we were blessed to see that the main access road was done but the cross streets were left in the same “shabby” state. Every time it rains the potholes in the streets are getting deeper and this is mostly due to the big sand trucks that work ply this route on a regular basis.

Because of the state of the roads you don’t get short drop cars to take you home after certain hours at night; taxi services refuse to work in the area because of this also.

Some of these holes are like ponds on the streets. It is very uncomfortable to travel in a vehicle to go through any one of them. And then you have to drive very slowly in order not to get the bottom of your vehicle scraped and damaged.

I am pleading on behalf of all the residents residing here for someone to hear our call for help and assist us, even if it is to grade down the cross streets and level them.

Anything that would make us a bit more comfortable while we are traveling would be appreciated.

Concerned resident

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Celebrating America’s Independence Investigate Rose Hall Town Council

DEAR EDITOR, Guyanese and other Caribbean Americans celebrated their adopted country’s independence on Wednesday. Americans of all backgrounds, especially Caribbean nationals, demonstrate patriotism by hoisting the flag and partaking in traditional festivities – BBQs, sports, fireworks, etc.

As it is for other nations, Independence Day is the foundation of America and is the most celebrated of America’s festivals.

People are celebrating the Declaration of independence that limits powers of the government whose purpose is to “secure” peoples’ rights – the people are supreme over their government unlike, say in Guyana, where the government is supreme over the people.

On July 4, 1776, some 236 long years ago, the thirteen British colonies in America united with one another and declared that they had broken away from Mother England and had formed their own nation. A great nation was built and millions of Caribbean people (who came much later than other immigrant groups) have come and settled in the U.S to experience the American dream and they take time to celebrate the country’s achievements and its freedom.

July 4 has meant opportunities for Guyanese and others to lead a more prosperous life, to acquire freedom and to get an opportunity to pursue one’s

goals (with limited inhibitions) and to realize dreams (a car, home, higher education, etc.) that are virtually impossible in one’s homeland.

It is not surprising, therefore, that every Caribbean immigrant is glad and grateful to come to America.

Although different ethnic groups celebrate the event differently, they all have one thing in common – to stand up for the nation against enemies and in solidarity against adversity. Many were at the fireworks on Wednesday evening and millions watched the display of the fireworks on TV. Whatever people take America’s independence to mean, it is valuable to remember that people braved harsh conditions to settle

down in the former colonies, establishing a nation and fought (resulting in deaths for many) for this independence as well as for the protection of the country.

Coming as immigrants, Caribbean people show their pride in the new nation they call home by participating in activities relating to nationalism cheering the nation in battle.

But it is essential that people think of what it means to live in America and to live responsibly. July 4th has given people a taste of freedom and to own material possession unimaginable in their native lands.

July 4 is a patriotic day and it is heartening to see so many Guyanese and other Caribbean people being absorbed into the celebration.

They flew the American flag and thought about their country.

This is their new homeland and they are becoming mainstreamed into American life.

This is a positive step for Guyanese and other immigrants as they cannot be isolated from other groups.

They need to further this integration and interaction and build coalitions to fight against common threats.

They must register and vote responsibly for people who are pro-immigrants.

They should let their voice be counted in how the country is governed. Only through active political participation can one get the politicians to listen to them and to treat all with full equality.

Vishnu Bisram

We did not ask the Canadians DEAR EDITOR, I refer to the article in Stabroek News dated Sunday, July 01, 2012 captioned “Pepper Sauce Cocaine Probe in Limbo – Canada Ignored Request for Information, says CANU” and wish to note the following: Specifically as it relates to the Customs Anti Narcotic Unit (CANU) not receiving assistance from the relevant Canadian officials, it should be noted that in this case no request for information was made by the Ministry of Home Affairs (on behalf of CANU) to the Canadian authorities under the mutual legal assistance mechanism as established by the Mutual

Assistance in Criminal Matters Act No. 38 of 200°.

Subsequent to the seizure in December 2008, in Canada, local investigations commenced and discussions were held with Canadian counterparts.

However the information and assistance provided to CANU was insufficient for charges to be instituted in Guyana.

I wish to state that the impression given when the article is read leads one to believe that our Canadian counterparts are reluctant to assist with local investigations which are of mutual interest. This is totally inaccurate.

I should be grateful if the

foregoing could be communicated to the public via your publication.

James Singh

DEAR SIR, The Ministry of Local Government is currently investigating the Georgetown Town Council with much vigour which I fully agree with. But I would like to urge both Ministers Ganga Persaud and Norman Whittaker to do the same with the Rose Hall Town IMC. As a concern citizen of the town, can the Ministry please explain to us how can the Chairman of the IMC be removed after a noconfidence motion by Councillors four years ago and then be returned in that same position four years after to work with those same Councillors.

I would also like for the Ministers to get the Rose Hall Town IMC to explain to the township how in 2011, they took a decision to disassociate itself from the Rose Hall Town Anniversary Committee and to ban them from any activities of the

township anniversary due to alleged corruption and other problems in past events.

A check was made of the newspapers for August to September 2011 of the differences between the IMC and the Committee.

To residents’ surprise, we have learnt that the IMC in 2012 has once again associated itself with this group for the town week celebrations.

I have lived in this township for over 50 years and I can say without doubt that no group exists by the name of the Rose Hall Town Anniversary Group and that it has no record of achievements.

This group is about one man and only comes alive when the month of July arrives in time to raise funds from the town week.

The Ministry and the Town Council owe the residents some answers.

Name Withheld

The Doobay Medical Centre Inc. DEAR EDITOR, We of the Doobay Medical Centre Inc (DMC) of Annandale wish to thank Kaieteur News for your continued interest in our activities.

For the record, we would like to clarify a few points in your recent article: I am not the owner of the Centre. DMC is a not for profit company that has no shareholders or owners.

Our President is Dr Budhendra Doobay and he is

supported by a group of dedicated Guyanese who share a collective vision to provide affordable health care, irrespective of race, gender or status.

Our Canadian partners include the Humber River Regional Hospital which provides technical support,

and McMaster University, which provides Nephrologists support.

DMC does not have a physician from GPHC. Our physician recently migrated and we are in the process of recruiting a replacement.

Vickram Oditt Chief Executive

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Bel Air heist trial…

The third hearing of the trial involving the persons accused of robbing prominent businessman Malcolm Panday continued yesterday with one new police witness taking the stand to explain his involvement in the high speed chase that led to four of the accused reportedly being cornered in a city hotel compound.

Tactical Services Unit (TSU) rank Constable Kelvin Liverpool presented evidence before Chief Magistrate Priya SewnarineBeharry yesterday. He was led in his evidence-in-chief by special prosecutor Senior Counsel Bernard De Santos.

The policeman alleged that on the day in question while he and another rank were patrolling on motorcycles along Sheriff Street, they received information via their mobile handset and as result of that information, proceeded to Bel Air Park.

The officer said as they reached the Bel Air area, he noticed two vehicles heading towards him at a very fast rate. He said a white Toyota AT 212 motorcar was leading with a silver Toyota Premio trailing. He said as the cars passed, the driver of the Premio signaled him to follow,

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Police witness explains high speed chase which he said he did.

He said for some time the two cars raced, taking various streets, travelling along Sheriff Street, into Kitty and then onto Vlissengen Road.

The police said all this time, he and his partner were trailing behind the two speeding cars. He then alleged that he saw the Silver Premio park in the middle of Vlissengen Road, in front of the Ocean Spray Hotel.

The TSU rank said that the AT 212 had entered the hotel compound and the driver of the Premio was signaling him to enter the hotel compound.

The police rank said he parked his motorcycle outside the compound gate and then proceeded into the hotel compound on foot.

He said after passing the gate, he noticed four males who had exited a car now heading towards the exit gate; that is, towards him. The policeman said he then yelled to the men, “freeze, police.”The officer said one of the accused, Jermaine Mitchell, pulled out a firearm and discharged two rounds at him. The police said he returned fire and the men ran away and scaled the hotel fence.

Liverpool explained that

three of the men jumped the fence while the fourth man took cover in the compound.

Liverpool said he too jumped the fence and upon doing so he noticed that a gun was lying in a pathway. He also alleged that the men had some distance in front of him and they had each taken different directions.

He said he continued the chase, and while running, a man of East Indian descent on a motorcycle had stopped him and told him something.

Liverpool further said that the man offered him a lift “to the head of Pike Street” where he saw Mitchell lying on the ground, with several members of the public holding onto him.

Liverpool said by that time, a Criminal Investigation Department (CID) vehicle had already come to the scene and the suspect was placed in the van. The police said he walked back to the hotel compound and saw Rabindra Seemangal, who he identified as the suspect who took cover in the compound, in the possession of his colleague who was at his side during the chase. He said two other suspects were also in the compound having been brought in by two separate patrol vehicles.

The policeman concluded his evidence by saying that he took another police rank to the place where he had seen the firearm behind the wall. After the chase, the rank said he played no other part in the investigations.

None of the accused requested to cross examine the witness. Attorney-at-law

Randolph Kirton was brief in his line of questioning, and he did so on behalf of his client, Rayon Jones.

The attorney based his questioning on the time the witness had seen the accused and for what length of time.

Re-examination was denied by De Santos. The matter will resume on July 17.

Charged with the offence of robbery are Mr. Panday’s mother-in-law, Chandrada Rampersaud; Hardat Kumar, 23, of Owen Street, Kitty; Jermaine Mitchell, 20, of YY 15 North East La Penitence, Rabindra Seemangal, 20, of 100 Sheriff Street and Rayon Jones of Lot 2 Hardina Street, Wortmanville.

It is alleged that the female accused who had worked at the Pandays’ home noticed that large sums of money were being kept at the house.

It is alleged that the woman after being fired from her job with the family as a domestic aid told persons about the money and they conspired to rob the businessman and his family.

Things went sour when the businessman was able to slip away during the robbery and contact the police. After an alleged chase the suspects were cornered at the Ocean Spray Hotel compound on Vlissengen Road.

Panday’s wife and the hotel owner have so far given evidence in the matter. Mrs. Panday gave evidence as to what transpired in her home during the alleged robbery.

The hotel owner gave evidence as to what reportedly occurred in the hotel compound.

Friday July 06, 2012

Foulis shallow grave murder accused remanded

Foulis shallow grave murder accused Joel Persaud

Victim: Gangaram Bharat

Clad in three quarter pants with a checkered shirt and a pair of rubber slippers, a shackled Joel Persaud made his first court appearance, charged with the murder of Gangaram Bharat.

Persaud, 26, was not required to plead to the charge which was read to him by Magistrate Nyasha WilliamsHatmin at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

The police are alleging that between June 28 and July 3, Persaud clubbed Bharat to death and then attempted to burn his body before burying it in a shallow grave in his backyard at 14th Street, Foulis, East Coast Demerara.

The young man who was unrepresented by counsel stood in the dock and stared intermittently at the prosecutor’s desk while the charge was read to him.

Except for his mother, who turned up during the brief court hearing, no relative was present.

From all appearances, even the relatives of the deceased were unaware of Persaud’s court appearance, which came a day after he was captured by police in Berbice where he had taken his wife in an effort to avoid arrest.

At the time of his capture, he was reportedly planning to flee to neighbouring Suriname.

Police had arrested four of Persaud’s neighbours on the day that Bharat’s body was discovered, but they were all subsequently released yesterday, along with the wife of the accused.

Persaud’s wife reportedly told police that she knew nothing about the murder until her husband was arrested.

Meanwhile, speaking to Kaieteur News outside the courtroom, Persaud’s mother said that she believes she did the right thing.

“The police assured me that they would not ill treat him and as a mother I did the right thing,” the woman declared.

She recalled seeing Wednesday’s newspaper headlines about the incident and immediately recognized the photograph of the house she and her husband had built for their only son.

She quickly made enquiries before travelling to the Foulis house where she met the police and it was at that point that she decided that she would cooperate fully with them.

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Obama knocks China trade policy, Romney on campaign tour MAUMEE, Ohio (Reuters) - President Barack Obama took a shot at China and Republican rival Mitt Romney yesterday, complaining to the World Trade Organization that Beijing is abusing trade laws by imposing more than $3 billion in duties on U.S. automobile exports.

“Americans aren’t afraid to compete,” Obama told an enthusiastic crowd in this northern Ohio city hours after his administration filed the complaint with the WTO. “As long as we’re competing on a fair playing field instead of an unfair playing field, we’re going to do just fine. We’re going to make sure that competition is

Barack Obama fair.” The Democratic president’s speech kicked off a two-day campaign bus tour aimed largely at blue-collar workers in Pennsylvania and Ohio, crucial battleground

states in the November 6 presidential election.

The complaint to the WTO seemed directed particularly at Ohio, home to thousands of auto-supply workers, many of whom have jobs likely saved by the U.S. government’s $80 billion bailout of the industry Obama supported and Romney opposed.

It was also a counterpunch to Romney’s claims that Obama has not been tough enough on China’s trade policies, and gave Obama’s campaign another way to remind voters of its efforts to tie Romney’s work as a private equity executive to the outsourcing of American jobs to China.

The WTO in Geneva confirmed it had received the complaint from the United States, the nation’s third such challenge to China following action against duties imposed

by Beijing on the exports of certain U.S. steel and chicken products.

The president’s bus trip his first of the 2012 presidential campaign included stops in the Toledo area, where auto plants have been affected by the Chinese duties.

The trade duties cover more than 80 percent of U.S. auto exports to China, including cars manufactured in Toledo and Marysville, Ohio, and Detroit and Lansing, Michigan.

Iran losing billions as oil exports

extend slump SINGAPORE/TOKYO (Reuters) - Iran will see its July oil exports more than halved from regular levels seen last year because tough new Western sanctions are stifling flows and costing Tehran more than $3 billion in lost revenue per month.

Declining oil exports, the lifeblood of the Iranian economy, will increase Tehran’s struggle to contain spiraling inflation and mounting unemployment amid its standoff with the West over its nuclear program.

They will eventually have to close down production. Right now it seems very unlikely that they will get any relief from sanctions any time soon,” said an executive with a

Western oil firm with a long history of dealing with Iran. Exports in July will be a maximum of 1.1 million barrels per day (bpd), said an industry source familiar with Iran’s monthly shipping plans and who declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter.

Iranian exports have declined steadily from the 2.2 million bpd average in 2011, as its oil buyers cut imports to comply with U.S. and European Union sanctions imposed due to concerns the country is attempting to build a nuclear bomb.

Iran says its nuclear activities are peaceful.

It was estimated to have shipped between 1.2 million and 1.3 million bpd in June, industry sources said last

month.

But actual July exports could be even lower as top buyer China disputes freight costs with Iran’s top tanker company, delaying the loading of cargoes set to flow east.

India, Iran’s secondlargest oil buyer, could also reduce July loadings as Iran struggles to find tankers of the size Indian refiners require.

Japan and South Korea, a m o n g I r a n ’s t o p f i v e buyers, have halted all Iranian imports this month due to complications with shipping insurance, also sanctioned by the EU. Japan is expected to resume buying this year. It has been granted exemption from U.S. sanctions last month after having already steeply reduced purchases.

If Iran exported 1.1 million bpd in July, it would mean the country’s budget losing around $3.4 billion revenue this month compared with a year ago, when exports amounted to 2.2 million bpd and Brent oil prices stood at around $110 versus $100 today.

Iranian oil usually sells at a discount of several dollars to benchmark dated Brent.

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NAACIE calls for GPL CEO’s...

From page 2 NAACIE said, the CEO has caused the November 2001 Collective Labour Agreement (CLA) to be breached.

“The issues, conditionalities and clauses were/are varied. From the issue of “Contracting out of jobs”, to the reduction of staff, to the current unfriendly payment of salary decision, the CEO’s every recent edict has served to undermine constructive company union engagement as well as worker morale,” NAACIE said in its statement.

Clause 52 which governs “contracting out of jobs which falls within the bargaining unit of the Union, without prior discussion and agreement with the Union” has been constantly violated with the full knowledge of the CEO, the union claimed.

NAACIE accused Dindyal of engaging in “the unsavoury practice” of “arbitrarily employing” workers from certain communities, following which GPL would then advertise for vacant positions despite the positions being filled.

NAACIE also blasted the GPL practice of considering

the time spent by workers to uplift their salaries as lost days and Dindyal’s “imposition of no time off to collect or cash cheques but to use ATMs even way into night time”.

This, the union said, reeks of unconscionable non-consideration for individual workers’ circumstances. “The corporation is never considerate when workers pay is late as was frequently the case.”

NAACIE said that only three employees are in receipt of cheques for the Garden of Eden location while six have received theirs for the Victoria location.

The union claimed that there are other numerous grouses over the period 2007 to present. “NAACIE now calls for the removal of Mr. Bharat Dindyal as CEO of the GPL. Differences between his office and the union are now untenable and irreconcilable.”

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CARICOM 33rd Annual Summit...

Regional leaders updated on Europe’s changing policy with ACP group CASTRIES, St Lucia CMC - Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders have been told that despite a changing global environment and Europe’s paradigm shift regarding its future relations with its former colonies, the “imminent demise” of the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) grouping “has been grossly exaggerated”.

The Caribbean leaders are being urged to show their commitment to the ACP and have a “strong showing” at its seventh summit in Equatorial Guinea in December.

In an address to the regional leaders on the first day of the three-day summit here, ACP Secretary General Dr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas said that the meeting in the African country will be “of historic import to the future of the ACP as we seek to consolidate on our achievements while mapping the path to a more viable future”.

The summit from December 13-14 will be held under the theme “The Future of the ACP Group in a Changing World: Challenges and Opportunities” and ACP top official said “given that the Caribbean – through the Georgetown Agreement – is the birthplace of the ACP, we expect that you will all make a strong showing at the coming summit so that the Caribbean voice will be heard loud and clear.

Guyana’s Ambassador to the ACP in Brussels, Dr.

Dr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas Patrick Gomes is heading a Working Group mandated to explore various alternative scenarios and to come up with suggestions for repositioning of the ACP within the global arena. It has up to the end of 2014 to complete its work.

“The imminent demise of the ACP has been grossly exaggerated,” said Chambas, who was specially invited to address the regional leaders on the issue of the ACP future relations with Europe.

The ACP comprises 79 member countries with the prospect of the new Republic of South Sudan increasing the number to 80.

“We are today the largest trans-regional intergovernmental organisation of developing countries in the international system. “ There is potential to build on this numeric strength to promote the collective cause of some of the poorest countries in the world – including vulnerable small island states — with opportunity to establish crucial alliances not only with Europe but with some of the emerging global players in the world economy.”

Chambas said that while

there have always been cordial relations with Europe, last month’s 95th Session of the ACP Council of Ministers held in Vanuatu, chaired by St. Lucia’s Foreign Minister Alva Baptiste, “provided a great opportunity not only to dialogue among ourselves but also to reach better understanding with our European colleagues on how to take the ACP-EU partnership forward”.

He said when the Lomé Agreement linking the ACP and EU was signed in 1975, it was widely greeted as symbol of hope in a divided world; a model of North-South cooperation based on dialogue rather than confrontation.

“Its successor, the Cotonou Partnership Agreement, signed in 2000 for a period of 20 years, has provided an element of continuity and predictability in a world of increasing uncertainty. “ Chambas said that the European Development Fund (EDF) has been the main vehicle for ACP-EU development financing, in addition to the private sector window available from the European Investment Bank.

Chambas said that the ACP-EU partnership remains the best model there is for the contractual approach to world development based on interdependence, dialogue and mutually shared responsibilities.

Chambas told the leaders that one of the principal concerns facing ACP-EU relations is obviously the slow progress that has been made so far on the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) negotiations.

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If the government is serious about corruption it should begin its anticorruption campaign within the most corrupt institution in Guyana: the Guyana Police Force (GPF).

And a good place within the GPF is traffic. It is an open secret in Guyana that many new recruits to the Guyana Police Force favour placements within the traffic section because they know that when they are given duties on the road they can use their powers to extort bribes from motorists.

If the government is serious about wiping out corruption - especially in those areas where the greatest number of people is directly affected - it should begin by reducing the fines payable for traffic offences.

These high fines are an incentive for corruption.

When someone is stopped on the road and they are

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threatened with a charge, they have to weigh their options.

If they try to defend their actions, they may be fearful that they will not find a sympathetic ear from more superior ranks and may even end up instead of with a ticket with a charge hanging over their head.

If they decide to contest the charge, they will lose valuable time going to court.

They may even have to take a lawyer which will cost them a fortune. Faced with such alternatives, many opt to simply pay a bribe to the police rank because it saves time and trouble.

This, of course, only encourages those corrupt officers and perpetuates the cycle of corruption.

For many ordinary drivers, they are often pressured into yielding to the solicitations of corrupt ranks.

Consider an ordinary driver

who works for $10,000 per week. This is the money that the driver has to use to take home to maintain his family.

He needs every dollar of that $10,000 because it is not easy to survive on a small salary in Guyana. It is not easy at all!

Now imagine that this driver is stopped on the road and either justifiably or unjustifiably is threatened that he will receive a ticket.

Now suppose the fine on this ticket, if the driver does not contest, is $7,500. This means that this driver, if he has to pay this ticket, is left with a mere $2,500 to take home to his family at the end of the week. How is he going to make ends meet with this pitiful sum?

He cannot, and therefore he is quite prepared to pay to the corrupt police rank a raise of $3,000 just to not give him a ticket.

This is one of dangers of

DPP orders inquest into suspected burglar’s death The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has ordered an inquest into the death last Sunday of alleged burglar Ryan Ramkarran in a Brazilian-owned building in Second Avenue, Bartica.

The 23-year old Ramkarran, called ‘Budhram’, of Fourth Avenue, Bartica, was slain during a confrontation with Cary Bhojedat, allegedly while attempting to burglarise the apartment of a Brazilian woman.

Bhojedat was hospitalised with stab wounds. He was questioned by police after being discharged but has since been released. A post mortem revealed that Ramkarran died from manual strangulation compounded by blunt trauma to the head.

Ramkarran’s mother, Ophelia Persaud, said that she had received conflicting information about how her son died. Inquests are usually held to ascertain the circumstances surrounding sudden, unexplained and violent deaths.

According to one report, Bhojedat was in the apartment when he heard unusual sounds, and upon checking, encountered Ramkarran in the building. At the time, the intruder was allegedly attempting to burglarise the apartment, which is owned by a Brazilian woman and located above a restaurant and beer garden.

A confrontation ensued during which Bhojedat receiving several stab wounds while Ramkarran was strangled.

The police said that a toque mask with two eye-

holes and two cell phones that are suspected to have been stolen, were found on the body of Ramkarran, But Ramkarran’s mother, Ophelia Persaud, suggested that his death was linked to a relationship he had with a Brazilian woman.

Persaud related that her son went to a party in Bartica on Sunday night after which he went to the Brazilian club with the woman.

She said that another man, who is a friend of the woman, saw her son with the Brazilian and attacked him.

The woman said that her son retaliated by stabbing the man but was eventually overpowered and killed.

Ms. Persaud alleged that the money that her son had on him was missing.

According to an eyewitness’s account, several patrons were at the club imbibing and listening to music when at around 10:30pm some of the patrons heard unusual sounds emanating from the apartment overhead, where the proprietor of the business, 33year-old Nubia Maria Labre Cardoso resides.

The woman contacted Bhojedat, an employee of the Guyana Forestry Commission, and asked him to check the upper flat of the location to see what was happening. When Bhojedat ventured upstairs he detected that the sounds were indeed coming from the main bedroom of the upper flat.

He then pushed open the bedroom door and saw Ramkarran rummaging through a wardrobe, while the room was in disarray.

According to the source, Ramkarran upon seeing Bhojedat, attacked him with a nine-inch piece of sharpened wire, stabbing Bhojedat about his body. Although wounded in the back, ribs, left arm, face and left side chest, Bhojedat managed to grab Ramkarran by the neck.

The scuffle between the two reportedly lasted several minutes, after which Ramkarran’s body was left lifeless on the bed.

The Bartica Police were then summoned to the scene where an undisclosed sum of cash was found in Ramkarran’s pants pockets along with the Brazilian woman’s cellular phone.

Some residents suggested that Ramkarran was involved in a number of criminal activities.

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having high fines for traffic offences in a country in which the income of the population is very low.

If on the other hand the fine was a mere $2000, the driver would be more willing to go and pay this fine and this would discourage a great deal of the corruption that exists today on our roadways.

Having to pay that fine would also act as a deterrent from committing a traffic offence in the future.

It therefore makes no sense trying to implement systems that would improve the payment of traffic tickets.

Once the fines are high, these prohibitive amounts will become an inducement for corruption.

As such what is needed is a general reduction in traffic fines. This will bring in far more revenues than are presently being collected, since the rate of delinquency at the moment is very high, with only about 20% of the total tickets issued being paid.

Of course, there is also a need to increase salaries of the lower ranks of the Guyana Police Force. There is no reason why this cannot be done.

Once the government gets serious about wastage within the Guyana Police Force it would be surprised by the amount of monies that it can save, monies that can be ploughed back into paying better salaries.

They are many senior officers of the GPF who drive their personal vehicles to work, for which they are paid allowances, and when they are at work they use the official police vehicles when they should be using their own vehicles.

Further, there are many times when police ranks can be seen using the GPF’s vehicles to undertake their own personal business. All of this has a cost to the GPF and the savings from the reduction and eradication of this cost can be ploughed back into increasing wages of

junior police ranks.

We seem to have an aversion to bringing in foreign help to run our police force. But if corruption and inefficiency are widespread then there is no other option but to recruit foreigners to help us out.

But if Guyanese have problems with having someone head the GPF who is not a national, then at least persons of integrity and ability should be tolerated to head other key positions within the GPF. If the government is serious about corruption it should designate certain critical positions and hire expatriates to fill these positions, until such time as corruption is substantively reduced or totally eliminated.

Argentine naval visit arrives in Port G/T The Argentine’s School Navy Ship “Fragata ARA LIBERTAD” (Frigate Liberty) is visiting Port Georgetown, once more on a three-day visit. The Tall Ship sailed from Buenos Aires on June 2, last, on her voyage across the South Atlantic, visiting countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and Africa.

Each year the ship makes an annual trip around the world for the graduating naval cadets as part of the completion of their four years of training.

The Frigate Libertad was built in 1960, has a length of 104 metres, a breadth of 14.30 metres, weighs 3,765 metric

tons, and has a draft of 6.60 metres. With a crew of 330, of whom 110 are cadets drawn from Argentina and other Latin American countries, the vessel is under the command of Captain Pablo Lucio Salonio.

This cordial visit to Georgetown is intended to enhance the friendship and cooperation ties with Guyana, as well as develop the bonds of mutual trust between the armed forces of the two countries.

The Argentine Naval officers are scheduled to meet with the Chief of Staff, Commodore Gary Best, Mayor Hamilton Green and officials of the Ministry of

Foreign Affairs.

A reception is scheduled for the Pegasus Hotel this evening. The visitors will also be touring the City of Georgetown and will play a football match with the Guyana Defence Force team tomorrow.

The Embassy’s Chargé d’ Affaires, Minister Alejandro Amura, and Captain Salonio and his crew, will also meet with the local press this evening at the Savannah Suite, Pegasus Hotel.

Tomorrow the press will be welcomed aboard the ship from 08.30hrs to 12:00hrs at the Coast Guard Wharf at Ruimveldt.

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THE FREDDIE KISSOON COLUMN

The recent rise of pessimism It must have been heartbreaking for the average Guyanese citizen to see what is taking place in the land of optimism, an optimism born out of the results of the November 28 national elections.

The 10th Parliament is about to go into recess.

When it comes back into session, it will be close to a year since the opposition parties won more votes than the PPP in those elections.

There can be no doubt that as we head into the recess, Guyanese will reflect on what the 10th Parliament brought in terms of democracy and the lessening of the excesses of the PPP regime.

A paradox so large is

staring at Guyana that it may be bigger than a million elephants put together.

People are saying that the PPP is afraid to hold a snap poll because it may lose further ground. With the Ramkarran larva spreading over Freedom House, some feel that is the end to any thought of another contest.

There isn’t any higher ground in the opposition parties. Who says the AFC and APNU may increase their standing in the eyes of the electorate? Voters are a very cruel species. When you lift their expectations to the skies and you then disappoint them in painful ways, they become insanely uncompromising. This is the reason for the electoral birth

of extreme right-wing parties in Europe. Once European mainstream parties fail to deliver, people turn to the extremists.

The possibility is a strong one that in a snap poll the dents to the combined opposition may be so devastating that the PPP could achieve a majority parliament. It has to do with the unforgiving nature of voters who expected promises to become reality but they were not delivered.

As we go into the holiday season for parliamentarians, the opposition has not lived up to expectations. It is this columnist’s view that more votes for the opposition may turn out to be mythical if another general election is

called this or next year.

The Opposition campaign will be hard pressed to get voters to believe in them again. The major casualty will be APNU. Nothing is going APNU’s way. The Linden electricity controversy has damaged APNU badly.

Lindeners will either stay home or vote AFC if there is an election today or next year.

Mr. Granger did not become what PNC supporters wanted him to be.

With Corbin out of the way, and the PNC hibernating to a new formation named APNU, PNC constituencies, though not knowing much of Granger, were looking for a dynamic leader with characteristics of an alternating radicalism and

Sections of N/A under water as unusual high tides hit town

By Leon Suseran Extreme high tides and heavy downpours early yesterday morning caused discomfort for the residents of New Amsterdam, particularly the Stanleytown and Strand areas. The Municipal market was also affected by the Berbice River, located nearby, and which had overflowed its banks.

Several yards and homes of residents were under several inches of water. The owners incurred some losses.

A resident of Stanleytown, Lydia Amsterdam, who operates a shop, stood atop her house shed in order to speak to the

media, since she did not want to tread in the dirty flood waters.

“The shop— I sell greens and fruits and paddy and other things dem and everything soaked. The water come up...this morning when I got up and came down, everything soaked!”

The resident believes negligence on the part of the authorities was the cause of the problem.

“I believe it’s part of neglect...the Mayor, the town council and who is in government, because the inter- lot (drains), they need to be cleaned!”

“I called one man (from

....Deputy Mayor calls for sea defence the M&TC) two months ago and showed him the inter- lot and he told me I have to move my fence before he cleans the inter-lot, so the whole water just take over the place. It ain’t getting to run out or get out”. “And the whole place stink, because the septic tank and everything stink up the whole place, you can’t even be in your house.”

She stated that she had four gallons of crab oil “which I paid $10,000 a gallon for— all throw away inside there!”

She also lost fruits, greens, cigarettes, etc.

The Mayor of New

Amsterdam, she said, passed, “but I ain’t get to talk to he and he ain’t stop— the Mayor pass in he vehicle with he windows wind up and he ain’t stopping to see what’s bothering we. He place is to come out and walk around. He is not walking around; he driving in he fancy vehicle in air condition on his phone!”

Concerned resident of the town, Eli Hazel was harshly critical of the government for the flooding situation.

“Building schools and roads is good, but then water takes away everything is a waste of time. Guyana is below sea level. Building road, it just cannot help you and building schools cannot help you, you have to protect yourself and protect the people by building sea- walls,” He said that one could get all the roads and all the schools and money “and the water will come and take away all— this government and the relevant authority should take serious note to get the sea defence looked after.”

“You got to be prepared!

If they had put systems in place, it could have never reached where it is here today.

Some people’s homes are in water, their fridges and these things, who will compensate them for those losses?”

When asked what he had to say about the M&TC of the town, which is supposed to manage the affairs of the town, Hazel was less harsh in his comments.

“I cannot blame them for this, because the tide that came was just nature, but they should get things better prepared in terms of (continued on page 24)

buoyancy.

The integrity and decency of Mr. Granger can never be debated, but it is doubtful he can acquire the Hoyte confrontationist style or that he wants to. It is the only available option open to APNU in a country that has a dictatorship. But it is doubtful that Mr. Granger will ever become for PNC supporters the man to rally the troops.

Again, APNU voters throughout Guyana will either stay home or vote AFC if a poll is planned for the near future.

The AFC itself may take some vicious blows to the body if Guyanese vote again.

This is simply because there are dashed hopes out there.

Voters may punish the AFC because they will say whether it is AFC or APNU, they are opposition politicians and they didn’t perform.

As we move closer to a year since the historic election, both the AFC and APNU have failed to build on the optimism that was born on the GECOM table after the votes were counted.

Take away the budget cuts and there is nothing to be elated about. One national stakeholder, the University staff went out last week to Parliament to direct their picket against the opposition.

Frederick Kissoon Their explanation is that seven months after the elections, nothing has been done for them by the opposition since the industrial dispute in January.

Dr. Roopnaraine promised them to table a motion on UG, but with August around the corner that will not happen.

On the other hand, with August fast approaching it was the PPP that got a few goodies from the 10th Parliament.

A few Bills from the Government benches were passed and the Finance Minister’s wife and eleven other staff at the audit office got their confirmation from the Public Accounts Committee because an AFC MP was absent, and according to Moses Nagamootoo, Mr. Carl Greenidge erroneously accepted the PPP’s advice that he, Greeenidge couldn’t vote.

In the meantime, Jagdeotype governance continues.

The PPP may get a majority in another election.

Dem boys seh ...

Jagdeo on de run or in hiding?

Whenever people hear somebody on de run or in hiding everybody know that is something terrible and shameful dem do. Tek de case of Jagdeo. He was executive president.

In a fight, he was like a soldier wid a AK47 in he hand against a teacher wid a wild cane pun he shoulder.

Nobody can sue he. He was above de law. But not now seeing that he lef office. He did sue Freddie. When he done sue he tell de nation that he will have his day in court. The day in court arrive but no Jagdeo to be seen.

One judge ask fuh him, one call fuh him and another went looking fuh him, but de man couldn’t be found. He couldn’t be seen or hear from. Dem boys seh that according to another judge he had dem lawyer waiting.

Dem lawyer did done chew up an spit out de Lunch man.

Dem sharpen dem teeth, dem fingernail, dem toenail and even dem eyeball fuh Jagdeo. Dem lawyers did want mek mince meat out of he. De case close and nobody ever hear from de man. Not even he own liar dem wha he tek couldn’t find he much less get he in de court. He cut good card.

But he was around. Dem boys ketch he hiding in de Santa complex at Ruimveldt. A lot of people want fuh know how long he gun hide. Not even Peeping Tom can find he and he is a see man.

Dem boys tease Jagdeo, almost on a daily basis, hoping he gun sue but like he tun chap sue what Babbie drinking every day since he hear dem people coming back fuh dem money wha dem got hideaway right in de complex.

Dem boys hear quiet that de hag of de money dem buy in raw gold and dem got it tuck away somewhere in de complex.

Dem boys also hear that nuff of de perks from de treasury and kickbacks from dem kantractors deh in de same Santa complex.

When dem boys study this thing, dem start fuh think whether Jagdeo really hiding or he sitting down in de Santa complex and watchmanin’ de tons of raw gold dem got deh.

Talk half and you watchman de other half.

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Bare Roots rape trial …

Accused takes stand as conclusion nears

By Latoya Giles Rape accused Devon McFarlane called ‘Kang’ testified yesterday that he did not rape the security guard who has leveled the accusation against him.

McFarlane, who is represented by Attorney Ronald Burch-Smith, is charged with raping a mother of three as she walked to her home in Bare Roots, East Coast Demerara, in the wee hours of January 11, 2009, having worked the 4:00 pm to midnight shift.

The accused was called upon to lead a defence by Justice Roxanne George, who had earlier overruled no-case submissions made on his behalf. The Judge gave the accused three options: remain silent, make an unsworn statement from the dock or take the witness stand and give sworn testimony. He

Nessa Gopaul PI… Attorney for the number two accused in the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the death of 16-year-old Queen’s College student, Neesa Lalita Gopaul, Senior Counsel Bernard De Santos, on Wednesday submitted that his client, Jarvis Small, has no case to answer in relation to the death of the teen.

The senior lawyer made a no-case submission before the presiding court head Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Along with Small, the number one accused Bibi Gopaul, mother of the deceased, is also charged with the teen’s death. She is represented by Attorney-atlaw Vic Puran who was absent on Wednesday.

De Santos was responding to the prosecution’s evidence which was given throughout the PI. On June 14, state prosecutor Pritima Kissoon closed her case, putting forward that there was enough evidence to get a committal for the two accused.

De Santos refuted all the evidence provided by the prosecution. He said that there was n o e v i d e n c e provided that could link his client to committing the crime. He specifically claimed that the prosecution provided no admissible evidence in this regard.

The lawyer further put forward an authority that

opted to take the witness stand.

The accused, a father of three children, ages 6, 3 and 1 year-old, testified that on the night in question, he was at home with his wife and children and maintained that he did not rape the Virtual Complainant (VC).

He claimed that on the morning of January 11, 2009, he was standing on a bridge with a friend when a police vehicle came up and an officer told them not to move. He was then asked to point out where he lived and he was taken by two officers, including Constable Tirat, to his home where they conducted a search for a white hat and a gun. They found no weapon, but they found a white hat which belonged to his wife and could not fit his head.

The accused said he and

his friend were arrested and placed in the lock-ups at Vigilance Police Station.

Shortly after, a “tall” police officer said to him, “Rasta Man, let me see yuh penis,” and he was wondering if the officer was “gay” but then the policeman said that the woman had claimed she was raped by a man who had beads in his penis. He said he showed the officer his penis.

The following day, he was taken to Court, and that was when he first learnt of the allegation being made against him.

However, when crossexamined by State Counsel Renita Singh, who is associated with Judith Gildharie-Mursalin, the accused admitted that on the day of his arrest, he was told of the charge against him by Constable Tirat and he had

denied same, indicating that he was a married man.

He was cross-examined as to his not telling the police he was home with his wife that night and neither did he tell the Magistrate before whom he had first given evidence.

The accused, who said he could not read the depositions, accepted from Justice George that such evidence was not recorded there as him having told the Magistrate that.

The accused, who claimed he was working in the interior at that time, and is now employed at Puran’s sawmill at Non Pareil, said by way of explanation, that Tirat never asked him if he was home with his wife, causing the Prosecutor to put to him that Tirat never asked him if he was married, but he volunteered that information and similarly, he could have

Defence attorney makes no-case submission

Bibi Gopaul

Jarvis Small was directly related to suspicious evidence. De Santos spoke of the 1945 court case in British Guiana of Thomas vs. Balla and Ramcharran.

De Santos said that the principle of suspicion, no matter the magnitude, is not proof.

He further said that “suspicion plus suspicion equals suspicion” and he opined that that was the case of the prosecution.

De Santos had spoken and touched on certain evidence brought out during the PI and spoke of it as being inadequate to prove that his client had committed the crime.

The matter will resume on July 19. Kissoon is expected to reply to De Santos’s submissions and Puran is also expected to make himself

available to make his submission in relation to his client.

Jarvis Small and Bibi Gopaul are accused of the October 2010, murder of

Neesa Gopaul on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway.

The girl’s body was found in a creek tucked inside of a suitcase a short distance from an abandoned resort.

said he was at home.

She also put to him that he was now making up this evidence for the first time since his arrest, but he denied this, and claimed he had told the Magistrate so. However, it was not in his depositions.

McFarlane admitted he was wearing his wedding ring at the said time, but denied that a confrontation was held by the police between him and the VC, where she had told him that he stuck her up with a gun and raped her and he was wearing his wedding ring. The VC and Constable Tirat had earlier testified about this confrontation.

The accused also said he had known the VC from the area and that he would say “good morning and good afternoon” to her. He also knew the woman’s husband, a soldier, as they would drink together and he had visited their home for their wedding anniversary celebrations. The VC’s husband had testified to this earlier.

Following his testimony, the wife of the accused, Shenisha McFarlane, testified that he was at home with her on the night in question. She said that at that time, her baby was five months old and she would get up during the nights to breastfeed him and she would wake up her husband each time she did so, so he could “keep her company.” On that particular night, she said she woke up sometime after 10:00pm, 12 midnight, and again after 2:00am.

Each time she woke up, her husband was there. In answer to the jury, she said it would not have been

possible for her husband to leave their home between midnight and 2:00am as she is a light sleeper and the door makes a noise whenever it is opened.

The witness claimed she was not called by her husband’s lawyer to testify in the Magistrates’ Court even though she was there on each occasion the case was called up. She also said the police had asked her where he was at the time of the rape and she had indicated that he was at home with her, but they never requested a written statement from her to that effect.

When cross-examined by the Prosecutor, the witness admitted that she loved her husband and would want to help him, but she denied that she was a witness of convenience, giving evidence of this nature now in an effort to protect him.

She said that her husband worked in the interior and would be away from home for three months at a time, but that he had come home from the interior since October 2008.

She admitted that from October, 2008 to January 11, 2009, he was not working. She also said that they had to move out from the rented apartment they lived in at Bare Roots, as the rent of $7,000 per month was too high, and the place was leaking also. This witness also said that the police went to their apartment in search of a white hat and a gun.

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Audit Office didn’t probe NCN …investigation was contracted out to private firm The Auditor General (ag) Deodat Sharma was preparing to undertake an emergency audit of the affairs at the National Communications Network (NCN) following allegations of financial impropriety, but this did not materialize.

Kaieteur News has been reliably informed that the Board of Directors of NCN had approached the Audit Office with a view to contracting out the Audit.

This was agreed upon and the company contracted to undertake the investigation was Parmeswhar Chartered Accountants, and it was that entity’s report that was submitted for consideration.

Kaieteur News understands that this report

is also yet to meet the Audit Office.

The Audit Office undertake s t h e r e g u l a r annual audits of the Stateowned media entity and will take into account the report generated by the special audit done by the private firm.

The Audit Office was in the process of preparing a team to conduct the audit of NCN in relation to allegations of financial irregularities involving the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company’s Jingle and Song Competition, when it was approached with the “contracting out” proposal.

Entiti e s that are required to submit financial statements to be audited by the Auditor General must

complete this task by April 30, each year.

NCN, however, as is the case with several other companies that fall under the ambit of NICIL, was lagging behind.

The Auditor General is currently in possession of the Financial Statements from the company for 2009 and has completed the audit for 2008.

This publication had reported Auditor General (ag) Deodat Sharma, saying that, there have been some discrepancies raised in the past, but nothing reflecting the magnitude of the more recent allegations at NCN. Some of the audits that are required under law to be undertaken by the Office of the Auditor General are contracted out, given the constraints as a result of limited human resources.

Following the probe launched by NCN’s Board of Directors and conducted by Parmeswhar Chartered Accountants, the entity’s Chief Executi v e O f f i c e r (CEO) Mohamed ‘Fuzzy’ Sattaur was forced to resign and Programme Manager, Martin Goolsaran was suspended.

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Soesdyke children murder…

Court rules father fit to stand trial Magistrate Leslie Sobers yesterday ruled that murder accused John Blanchard, the father charged with killing his three children, is fit to stand trial. The matter was called at the Providence Magistrate’s Court.

Psychiatrist Dr. Bhiro Harry took the stand where he gave an evaluation on his findings on Blanchard. Dr. Harry having given his assessment to the court was cross examined

by Blanchard’s lawyer Ms. Oneka ArcherCalder.

The magistrate’s ruling means that a Preliminary Inquiry will be conducted and this will commence on July 30 at the Providence Court.

On October 11, 2011, Blanchard was detained for the chopping of his three young children causing the death of two of the minors. Belika Blanchard and her five-yearold brother Daniel Blanchard died instantly after reportedly being attacked by their father.

Six-year-old Joy Blanchard subsequently succumbed to her injuries.

The family resided at Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara, and according to persons, at the time of the incident, the children’s mother had left for the interior where she sought a better job. It is alleged that the chopping incident stemmed from a phone conversation Blanchard allegedly had with the woman moments before.

Blanchard who sold clothing to sustain his family had reportedly been experiencing difficulty with his companion. The two had allegedly spilt up with the woman leaving the

Murder accused John Blanchard children behind. It was indicated that Blanchard had sought the support of his younger sister on the night of the incident.

She claimed that Blanchard had tried to contact her but was unable to do so.

The death of the children had sparked nationwide interest and outrage. Blanchard was attacked twice while in police custody.

The man had been beaten severely by fellow inmates who sought to teach the alleged “child murderer” a lesson.

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Govt. reluctant to deal APNU slams houselot allocation process with corruption - APNU The opposition coalition, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), has accused the ruling party of being reluctant to deal with corruption.

According to APNU’s Lance Carberry, while there are growing concerns by citizens over the growth of corruption, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/ C) remains unfazed. He refused to be drawn into comments as to whether APNU is considering a vote of no confidence in Parliament against the PPP/C. Carberry was yesterday responding to questions in relation to last weekend’s resignation of PPP’s Executive Member, Ralph Ramkarran.

Ramkarran came under fire in an executive committee meeting last Friday for his stance on corruption, which he outlined in the party’s newspaper, The Mirror.

“It is unfortunate that the PPP/C, as a party, seems not to be too concerned as the rest of us, and therefore what we see is that Mr. Ramkarran has become a victim of seeking to have the truth exposed,” Carberry said.

Ramkarran’s resignation had come at a time when the party is attempting to reassert itself as a result of the loss of its parliamentary majority in last November’s General and Regional Elections.

According to Carberry, corruption has severely

APNU’s Lance Carberry affected Guyana’s credibility.

“That is really what has happened, and it is very unfortunate that a situation like that has occurred, where we have gotten to the stage in our history where nobody in the world respects any document coming from Guyana. If you submit a document, people want all sorts of verification.”

The APNU official said that the ruling PPP/C has a responsibility to tackle corruption as it has been in government for almost two decades.

“It is that level of corruption that has seeped into the country, and I believe that the PPP/C which has been in office for over 20 years has a responsibility to this

country to deal with the corruption very frontally but they seemed to be very reluctant…they seem to be in a denial mode…seeking to deny that there is corruption.”

Carberry was unclear what evidence the government may be seeking before it addresses the issue of corruption.

“I don’t know what additional evidence they need to prove to themselves that there is corruption, so really I think we are very sympathetic that Mr. Ramkarran has become a victim.”

Meanwhile, questioned about whether APNU, a 10party coalition that contested the November elections, was considering a no confidence vote against PPP/C in Parliament, Carberry was not yet willing to commit the body.

“The opposition will have to consider very carefully how to deal with something like that. I really would not want to anticipate what they will do at the moment. The opposition as a whole will have to consider this carefully.”

There have not been any instances where public officers have been jailed for taking bribes in Guyana.

However, recently the head of the state-owned television and radio company, NCN, resigned and his deputy was suspended after payments from a client was routed through the personal account of the latter.

Plastic City murder accused remanded Cane juice vendor Michael Powley has been remanded to prison after being charged with murder. The charge was read to him at the Vreed-enHoop Magistrate’s Court.

The accused made his appearance on Wednesday before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus.

It is alleged that on June 8, last, at Plastic City, Vreeden-Hoop, Powley killed 26 year-old Vishnauth Narine.

The accused was not required to enter a plea to the indictable charge. Powley is being represented by

Attorney-at-Law Basil Williams, who was unavoidably absent from court.

The matter will be called again on August 2.

Powley was arrested on Tuesday morning after being on the run for nearly a month.

On June 8, Powley and Narine were involved in a confrontation during which Powley allegedly stabbed Narine to the left of his chest.

Narine was rushed to the West Demerara Regional Hospital where he died while receiving medical attention.

Murder accused Michael Powley.

Powley fled the scene. The incident reportedly stemmed from both men being involved in a gas bottle theft and being locked up.

…says it is “a system gone horribly wrong”

Parliamentary opposition, A Partnership of National Unity (APNU), has called for an urgent review of the houselot allocation process.

APNU’s Shadow Minister of Public Works, Joseph Harmon, yesterday said that his party has been receiving numerous complaints over the process. It was brought more starkly to the forefront following last month’s Ministry of Housing “One Stop Shop” which left scores of persons upset.

During APNU’s weekly press conference, Harmon asserted that the current house lot allocation problem needs urgent intervention.

APNU’s offices in Georgetown, East and West Bank of Demerara, have received several complaints from persons who were at the stadium for the “One Stop Shop” on June 14.

About 30 persons who were a part of the exercise complained that they were issued with allocation letters to go to the stadium to pay half of the sum on their house lots, and were there from as early as 06:00hrs. They were

issued with numbers and told to wait. As at 18:00 hrs, some twelve hours later, despite evidence of over 2,000 waiting, only 400 house lots were allocated.

The APNU official pointed out that it came as a shock for many persons allocated houselots for $300,000, when they were told later that evening by housing officials that they had an option of paying $900,000 or $1.2M to acquire a plot of land or lose the opportunity altogether.

According to Harmon, this resulted in the hopes of many Guyanese being dashed.

“The spectacle of hundreds of Guyanese citizens leaving the stadium in the dark of the night with sums of money ranging from $150,000 to $600,000 is a clear manifestation of a system gone horribly wrong,” Harmon said.

The official said that APNU was firmly of the position that the entire houselot allocation process should be subjected to an urgent and independent

inquiry so as to restore the credibility of the Housing Ministry in the eyes of the Guyanese citizens, especially in the eyes of the poor people who are trying to acquire houselots.

Harmon said one of the suggestions being tabled by the opposition is that after the interviews are conducted and before issuing persons with allocation letters, the Ministry should ensure that the houselots are available within the specified price ranges.

Once this is made clear, then it reduces the possibility of persons from the Housing Ministry asking for “compensation” outside the price of the houselots.

Meanwhile, on the question of the Housing Ministry’s repossession of vacant lands, Harmon disclosed that he is still waiting to see a report on an audit carried out last year on these.

Several persons have already received letters requesting that they start building. New houselot owners are given six months to start construction.

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Taunting leads Supenaam stelling ramp collapses again to sacrilege - lands teen in jail for three years A teen who told the court that he burglarised a church because his friends were teasing him about his shabby clothes, will spend the next three years in prison having being charged with breaking and entering a divine place of worship.

The accused, 16 year-old Allan Azimullah made his appearance at the Providence Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Leslie Sobers.

It is alleged that on July 3 at Second and Tank Street, Grove, East Bank Demerara, he broke into the Grove Seventh Day Adventist Church and stole one metal canister valued $35,000 and two cash receipt books valued $2,100. To the charge the accused pleaded guilty.

The court was told that on the day in question, a church member heard a strange noise coming from the building. Upon checking

she noticed the accused attempting to escape. Other persons in the area were alerted as the man jumped through a window. A chase ensued and the accused was caught and subsequently handed over to the police.

When asked if he had anything to say in court yesterday, Azimullah told the court that he was fed up of his friends taunting him about his ‘old clothes’ so he decided to see if he could get some money. While pleading for leniency, the accused told the court that he knows the Magistrate well since he grew up in the same area where he lives.

“So if I release you, you will come into my area and do the same thing,” the Magistrate enquired from the accused who responded in the negative.

Azimullah was sentenced to three years in prison.

Over 50 vehicles heading to Parika were unable to make their daily trip across the Essequibo River because of another complication with the ramp at the new stelling at Supenaam.

According to vehicle owners, the ramp broke again under pressure after a truck attempted to go onto the ferry.

This caused a sudden halt to the loading operation.

Construction of the Good Hope/Supenaam stelling began about five years ago after a $400

million contract was awarded to BK International. The pontoon attached to the stelling collapsed when the first vehicle was loaded.

The government intervened and spent another large sum of money to re-fashion the pontoon. The stelling was put into operation, but from time to time there were problems.

This collapse of the ramp is the latest problem.

Frustrated vehicle owners said although the incident happened during morning hours, they were only informed

by management at Supenaam, some time yesterday afternoon.

“Since Monday, vehicle owners have being encountering difficulties to cross.”

In the wake of the problems at Supenaam, vehicle owners said they were directed to the old Adventure stelling.

Benn, while on a visit to the Essequibo Coast, in May, tried to reassure Essequibians that the stelling would be fully operational in August.

But while that promise was made, no works have been

ongoing at that site, except for a few piles driven by some contractual workers earlier this year. One driver has described the situation as frustrating.”This is a spare wheel.”

The driver said that some of their fellow truck drivers have been left stranded at the Supenaam stelling since Monday.The abandoned Adventure stelling had to be swiftly put back into operation until the repair works at Supenaam were completed.

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AG holds consultation on Common Law Union Bill Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall yesterday convened a meeting with relevant stakeholders and representatives from the Red Thread Association, political parties, Women and Gender Equality Commission and the legal fraternity at his Carmichael Street Office to discuss issues relating to the Civil Law (Rights of Persons in Common Law Union) Bill 2012, which was recently laid in the National Assembly.

Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Jennifer Webster was also present.

Minister Nandlall explained that the session should have been held before the actual tabling of the Bill since he hadn’t anticipated that it would have been fully supported. The bill seeks to address a lacuna (missing section) in the law that has caused many miscarriages of justice.

In 1990, a series of legislation was passed in Parliament with the objective of equating the status of common law unions with that of legal marriages. This came in light of the proliferation of common law unions and the law then did not accord to spouses and the products (children) of these unions the rights that marriage confers.

Parliament then enacted two pieces of legislation, the Married Person Property (Amendment) Act and the Family Dependents Provision Act. Persons living in a common law union who decide to go their separate ways are dealt with in the former.

In this instance, it was left up to judges to devise all types of mechanisms to address what was an injustice especially to women of those common law unions.

The Family Dependents Provision Act on the other hand, allows for a woman, whose common law spouse has died, to make an

application to the court for provisions out of the estate of the deceased, in the event that she feels that a will or the rules of intestacy or both, do not make adequate provisions.

Minister Nandlall explained however, that a gaping hole was left, relating to the non-availability of a right given to a spouse of a common law union to approach court in the absence of a will that would have appointed him/her executrix or executor; giving that person the right to apply for letters (a legal mechanism that allows for a person to assume control the estate of the deceased) of administration in court.

“Not being equipped with the ability to do so, a common law spouse was really left in the cold…this was raised by the Bar Association with then Chancellor, Desiree Bernard, who accepted that it was an oversight. This Bill is intended to correct that oversight,” he said.

Clause Two of the Bill deals with the conferment of the right of the spouse to access the law in relation to intestate succession, same as a married spouse; while Clause Three, is seeking to amend the Family Dependents Provision Act to reduce seven years to five.

Over the past few weeks, articles have surfaced in the press that the Bill is confined to a single woman and a single man living in a common law union for less than five years and does not address instances where parties of a legal marriage have physically separated for a long time and have developed common law unions with third parties.

“In the crafting of the amendment we addressed our minds to that, but the reason why the Bill is crafted in the manner in which it is, is because we would have had to deal with a different problem, one which the

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall discussing the provisions of the Civil Law (Rights of Persons in Common Law Union) Bill 2012 with stakeholders (GINA photo) religious organizations would have raised their arms at; we would have, in a sense, been legitimizing adultery and bigamy as we would have been condoning two unions,” Minister Nandlall said.

In essence, unless a marriage is lawfully dissolved by a court, a man and woman still remain legally married and to ask for the law to recognise another union in the face of an extant marriage, there would have been serious implications in relation to the laws of bigamy and would have legitimised an adulterous relationship.

He said that, this piece of legislation must be looked at against the background of the recommencement of discussions and consultations no fault divorce.

Stakeholders were given the opportunity to discuss their concerns and seek clarifications with regards to the provisions of the Bill, which is set to be debated in Parliament shortly. The bill was tabled on June 27.

(GINA)

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WCD bus operators say ‘wide wheels’ campaign may trigger strike On Wednesday, some three days after a campaign to remove mag wheel rims from all public transportation started, some West Coast minibus operators informed Kaieteur News that the police have since restored their fitness certificates. However the men are distrustful about the procedure. Thus they are seeking the attention the Home Affairs Minister to address the issue. The operators said that if the campaign continues it will most likely trigger strike action.

“Why they give we back we papers if this thing is wrong? We want the attention of the minister to fix the ongoing situation on the West Coast, because they give back we certificates today, but tomorrow could be another story… they might take away we fitness again,” one driver said.

The operators say that they have consistently been under duress by the officers of the law. “Is a whole set ah nonsense. Is every two day we got campaign. The police deh pun we back all the time for nothing at all. We wukkin and dey pull we in and empty we whole load of passenger.

Dese people got to go to work and so, and sometimes when we can’t work they are inconvenienced; because the police got we stall up whole day… no charge at times and we lose a whole day’s pay waiting until they feel pleased to release we,” another operator noted.

Kaieteur News was told that the exercise which started on Tuesday, last, saw more than sixty-five minibuses taken off the roads for possessing mag wheel rims.

The minibus operators claimed that they have not broken the law, because none of their vehicles have exceeded the legal width that is required to maneuver.

The workers said that when the police took away

Some of the minibus operators assembled in the vicinity of the West Demerara PPP/C office their fitness certificates it prevented them from earning their “daily bread”. Some commuters on the West Coast complained that the campaign further complicated their access to public transportation. They said that for the past two days, Route 32 minibuses were scarce, especially for persons traveling long distances on the West Coast.

This development on Wednesday sparked a protest among the route 32 minibus operators. More than 34 of them assembled in the vicinity of the West Demerara PPP/C office. The operators were calling on officials there to make some form of intervention on their behalf.

They maintained that they are constantly hassled by the cops When Kaieteur News arrived at the scene, several minibuses were seen parked along the sides if the road the drivers and conductors anxiously voicing their disapproval of the campaign, calling it inadequate.

“We can’t work, the police tek away we papers and tell we we gon get it back if we tek off the mag rims but we measure we bus and we rims is below the maximum 7 feet 6 inches that the law requires; they suspend we

Former President ...

From page 3 the mouth of Jagdeo and that he had heard the accusation before from other sources.

Abdulla was also asked if he would check to see if the information he was gathering was factual or not, to which he said he did not check.

Defence attorney Christopher Ram in his crossexamination of the witness sought to get information on Abdulla’s employment.

Abdulla could not remember who signed the letter giving him employment.

Asked about his

qualifications, the witness said he received passes at CXC, including a Grade 3 in English, and also pursued a course in Public Management at the Institute of Distance and Continuing Education, while also doing a few computer courses.

Asked if he has any positive regard for the writings of Freddie Kissoon, Abdulla said he has regard for all writings because he realizes a great deal of effort is involved in writing, but that doesn’t mean he agrees with all of the contents.

fitness til we get fine rims, you know how much it cost to get fine rim fuh all four wheels” one driver argued.

“Is only we dey targeting.

Dis thing ain’t happening nowhere else, not in Linden or Georgetown. Dey eyes pass we on the West Coast,” another shouted.

In addition, the operators are claiming that they are unable to get the “fine rims” for the vehicles because the majority of importers have only mag rims in stock. They affirmed that they should not be prosecuted for the rims, because some of the vehicles are sold with them, while adding that it is the importation of this spare part

that should be stopped.

The men also argued that when they were granted fitness certificates for their minibuses it was with those very rims that they are now being told are unfit to operate on the roadways.

They are of the opinion that the mag rims are better for minibuses because they “give the vehicle a more sturdy balance in all weather and road conditions”.

The operators also expressed dissatisfaction at the route 32 minibus association, describing the union as a waste of time and money.

“We paying them and we ain’t getting’ the kind of representation we need. A

number of issues need to be addressed and nobody ain’t doing anything. We got ‘no stopping’ sign stretching quarter-mile along the road in Parika…we can’t stop there to collect passenger, but a whole line of vehicles could park there, that sign needs to be removed.”

The men had earlier asked for time to be given for them to remove the fixtures from their vehicles as this was first time that there was such a campaign.

However a police source told Kaieteur News that the campaign had been an ongoing one. The source said that a manuscript from the Home Affairs Ministry

was sent to the station since May 22 of this year.

“The document clearly stated that all minibuses with wide wheels will be targeted during the campaign,” the source said. This publication was told that all the minibuses found in breach of the traffic regulation were taken off the roads.

According to the source, the campaign was in “an ease and press motion”, but that a recent incident whereby an accident was caused by a defective mag rim tire sparked the campaign.

This newspaper was told that the exercise was only to caution the minibus operatives.

(Rehanna Ramsay)

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UG lecturer sexual molestation allegation …

File still with DPP The police have completed taking statements from the woman who reported that a University of Guyana Lecturer fondled her. They have sent a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions.

According to a source close to the investigation, the file was sent off to the DPP including statements from the accused as well. However, up to press time Wednesday the file was not returned to the police.

The University of Guyana Lecturer who has been at the centre of an attempted rape allegation has since been released on $50,000 station bail as police continue their investigations.

According to a source close to the investigation, the man has since denied the allegation made against him while his victim maintains her story.

This publication was told that the police are still in the

From page 10 drainage...the water must run out speedily”.

High winds also nearly toppled the transmission antenna of the Little Rock Television Station (LRTVS). It collapsed against another antenna close by. The transmission for the channel was knocked out for a few hours, too.

Persons could not have accessed the Department of Education compound in the town since it was inundated for most part of the morning as well as the Region 6 Democratic Council Office in Vryman’s Erven.

Residents were discussing among themselves who was responsible for the flooding.

Some pointed fingers at the

government while others criticised the New Amsterdam Mayor & Town Council (M&TC) for negligence in cleaning the town of garbage which they said contributed to the flood woes.

Member of Parliament and resident of the town, Faizal Jaffarally was critical, too, of the M&TC. The Region 6 Administration, he said, has been repairing kokers, digging drains, cleaning canals, building streets in the town, “but people need to understand— and sometimes people make unfounded and unnecessary criticisms of the Region 6 Administration. The New Amsterdam Municipality is an autonomous body and is governed by the Mayor and Town Council and in this case,

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process of putting together statements as the allegations have boiled down to the lecturer’s word against that of his victim.

Meanwhile, a UGSSA representative, when asked about the issue, said that the union has not received any specific information on the incident.

There were also reports that two other females have made similar allegations against the lecturer.

Sections of N/A under water as ... the council is controlled by the political opposition, the People’s National Congress (PNC).”

When contacted, Deputy Mayor of New Amsterdam, Mr. Harold Dabydeen defended the town council and said that a sea defence is badly needed in the town to prevent such occurrences from happening often. He also made a call for the Berbice River to be de- silted, since the last occasion of such was more than a decade ago.

“We had several inches (of water) before, but nobody is taking a corrective measure to do when a high tide is coming— neither the authorities nor the sea defence authorities”

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Murdered: Roxane Jones

(Brisbane Times) Brisbane, Australia- - The Guyanese family of a woman allegedly murdered by her son in central Queensland are trying to raise US$30,000 to have her buried in her homeland.

The body of Roxane Jones – also known as Roxane Gilbert – was found in her four-wheel-drive last Saturday in a bushland area which is popular with people for walking, motorbike riding and fishing near Gladstone.

On Tuesday, police charged her son 19-year-old Horace Jones with the murder and he has been remanded in custody until September 24, when he will appear before Gladstone Magistrate’s Court.

Police are yet to determine how Ms Jones died, but they believe she was killed last Friday, the day before her body was found.

Ms Jones and her son were both born in Guyana and the pair migrated to Australia soon after Mr. Jones’s birth.

She has two other children, a five-year-old boy and a 16year-old girl. Family in Guyana reportedly said that it would cost US$30,000 to fly her body to that South American country to be buried.

Ms. Jones has three brothers and three sisters living in various parts of the world, including the United States of America.

Members of her family have changed Facebook profile photos to a picture of

Ms. Jones in a red dress as a tribute. “Still in disbelief, just cannot be true, someone tell me this is all a terrible mistake,” her niece wrote on Monday. Police Inspector Cal Lynch said Ms. Jones had only been living in Gladstone a few weeks when she was murdered and had moved to the town from Bundaberg, the Gladstone Observer reported. Police were this week searching Mr. Jones’s home in Cairncross Street in the suburb of Sun Valley.

Ms. Jones’ 4WD was a silver 1999 Kia Sportage, with the rear tailgate painted white, and with alloy wheels.

Ms. Jones’ corpse has been flown to Rockhampton for an autopsy, but it is not known when the results will be released.

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From page 11 Scheme, East Coast Demerara.

The virtual complainant, who was employed with Federal Management Systems at the time, had testified that the accused, whom she knew from seeing him in the area and who would greet her whenever he saw her, had held her up at gunpoint, taken her to an unfinished concrete house

and raped her for some fifteen “painful” minutes.

She said she had told him it would not make sense to rape her as she had a baby that she was nursing and he assured her that because of that, he would not ejaculate in her. Following the rape, he then took her, still at gunpoint, to her home as he wanted money and gold but at her home, he looked through a window and saw

her husband sitting on the bed holding their baby. He had left then, warning the woman not to tell anyone or he would return for her in the morning. She claimed she was accosted at 00:45hrs and the accused was with her for about an hour, during which time she was able to see him clearly with the aid of street lights and lights from nearby houses. She had taken the police to the unfinished

house and while there, had pointed out the accused as the man who raped her. At that time, he was standing with another man on a nearby bridge.

The trial continues on Monday when the defence and prosecution are expected to make their respective closing addresses to the jury.

Justice George is likely to sum up the evidence for the jury’s consideration on Tuesday.

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The Abigail Column It’s time to write this one off

DEARABIGAIL, “Mary” used to be my friend until I told her I felt stronger feelings for her than just “friends.”

I don’t think I told her in any kind of way that would tick her off, but she keeps telling me, “We can’t be friends until you don’t like me.” She says it makes her

feel uncomfortable that I like her. I knew her for about two years before I said anything about having these feelings for her, so I don’t think it was “creepy” or anything.

She will text me every once in a while, just to see if I still have strong feelings for her. If she detects any attraction at all, she will go back to ignoring me.

If a girl likes me more than I like her, I do not believe we can’t be friends. I just go about my daily business and still show her respect by at least communicating with her. I do not see why she

couldn’t do the same.

Stacy Dear Stacy, “Why” is a legitimate question, because understanding people is often the shortcut to finding a productive way of dealing with them.

But when you’ve tried to figure someone out, to no avail it’s OK to give up on understanding and take the facts at face value: In your current condition (i.e., smitten), she doesn’t want you around. So, it’s time to write this one off.

Friday July 06, 2012 ARIES (MAR 21 - APR 19): Think ahead: plan your day with the thought in mind that your energy or concentration may wane later. Sort out jobs that demand the utmost attention as early as possible. ************************* TAURUS (APR 20 - MAY 20): Normally you feel at ease when sticking to familiar routines and methods; not so today! A farsighted friend or colleague may tentatively suggest more modern ways of doing things. ************************* GEMINI (MAY 21 - JUN 20): Family matters and close personal relationships come under favourable light. By way of a bonus, you’re looking at life through optimistic and sensible eyes. ************************* CANCER (JUN 21 - JUL 22): A problem that has been preying on your mind will be resolved today. What stopped you from settling this earlier is the fact you kept it to yourself. Once you open up and discuss the matter with those who are in a position to help you, everything starts to fit neatly into place. ************************* LEO (JUL 23 - AUG 22): Money goes out as fast as it comes in; some bills are pricey but there are bargains to be had as well. A partner needs more of your time than you’d planned to give but you can’t complain: they also have something special to tell you. ************************* VIRGO (AUG 23 - SEP 22): Find a way to push duty to one side if you feel like taking a day off. Do what must be done to keep your conscience clear and to keep life ticking over in a tidy fashion. Persuade a friend or partner to join you in giving in to a whim to do something out of the ordinary.

LIBRA (SEP 23 - OCT 22): Loyalty is something you value in relationships; today you feel as if one-to-one unions couldn’t be better.

Having good friends and mixing with kindred spirits means more to you than money or material possessions. ************************* SCORPIO (OCT 23 NOV 21): Today, you’ve got a sense of humour, you’re sociable, outgoing and in the mood to share time with friends. People are bound to enjoy your good-natured company. ************************* SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22 - DEC 21): You might feel you will get on better today if you rely on no-one’s resources but your own but this is not so at all. You would regret it later if you don’t make full use of the team spirit around you. ************************* CAPRICORN (DEC 22 JAN 19): Those who matter are impressed by your optimism, faith in yourself and willingness to take each day as it comes. Jump at any and all opportunities to travel as these will be lucky for you. ************************* AQUARIUS (JAN 20 FEB 18): Bring any thoughts you have about financial matters out into the open.

There’s a lot to be gained from taking others into your confidence. You might be thinking about branching out in new career directions or starting up in business on your own. ************************* PISCES (FEB 19 - MAR 20): Consider suggestions other people make rather than sticking strictly to your own set of rules. If a personal problem isn’t responding to any of your home-grown solutions, a friend might come up with a better idea.

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CAKES & PASTRIES

FOR SALE

Courses in cake decoration, pastry making & cookery, tel: 670-0798. Wedding dresses for sale & rental.

One Hilux Vigo (2011) New Call:231-5171,619-7134

WANTED Workers for landscaping Call: 656-1326,626-1044 Sawmill workers Call: 6539752, 261-6412 Action Tyre 17 Croal Street & Sendall Place,Georgetown.Drive/ Salesman,Mechanic,Sales Clerk.Please Apply Within Urgently needed live in waitress to work in bar.

Reasonable salary offer Call: 259-0574 1 Handy boy to work in the interior Call: 688-0197 1 Mechanic to work in the interior Call: 688-0197 Need extra cash? Invest is going PEANUT business!!

For more information Call:680-3573 One general domestic to do cleaning Call:227-5500 Handyman to clean yard,must have knowledge of dogs Call:227-5500 Experienced hair dresser needed at Xpressions Salon call 226-7268 1 Cook Call:223-5798,6477432 Cook for bar,Age 25-35 Years Call:658-6829 One experience hire car driver C ontact Mrs.Z.Khan 226-7948,646-6000 Responsible hire car drivers Call:231-7474 One general domestic to work in Georgetown.Must be honest & reliable Call:656-6388 Canter driver $20,000,Porter to worker $15,000 on the W.C.D Call:684-8231 Live in waitress 18-25 Yrs Salary $50,000,boarding & lodging free Call:610-5043

SERVICES Permanent &Visitors Visa Applications Professional Immigration Consultant Sabita - Room E-4 Maraj Building 225-6496/ 223-8115/662-6045.

Problems with PC? Call Roul for assistance 610-9490 We refill HP cartridges for $1800 Call: 650-7699 US & Canada VISA application services. Call: 643-6630. Family discounts available.

Would you like to have the grass in your yard spray?

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FREIGHTLINKEXPRESS@ GMAIL.COM WE FILL OUT PASSPORT & VISA FORMS:USA,UK & CANADA.TEL:231-5789 Imported Wedding, Invitations, Printed Brochure, Flyer etc. ANY SHAPE & DESIGN STAMP. FREE DELIVERY. TEL: 2254968, 621-3345 We repair fridge, freezer, AC, washer, dryer Call:2310655,683-8734 Omar FOR RENT Complete salon to rent: dryers, chairs, workstation, sink; Hadfield Street, Simone 227-0501 Bobcat for rent Call:610-3575

1 Shop assistant to work in the interior Call:688-4905

East Street hospital vicinity,two flats,residence and doctor’s office.B&G’s Realty 227-4125,6179717,682-4094

To work at bar male & female to work in kitchen, female cashier and waitress Call:225-0963,626-0189

WANTED Apartment to rent Call:6480797

1 Handy boy to work in the interior Call:688-4905

(Cleaner)-3 days a week,Tuesday,Thursday & Saturday between Unity & Enmore.Call:259-0953 on the above days or 623-3231

One female bartender to live and work in interior,Attractive salary Call:662-8052 or 616-7241 Live in family.Husbandlabour services, Wife-light domestic.Car/Van licence driver Call:227-1830 Porters to work at grocery stall Stabroek Market Call:226-9800, Experience is an asset.

One handyman/gardener for East Coast residence Call:6246392,222-7003 Two welders,Five apprentice weldess Call:624-6391 Males & Females to work in Grocery Store.I.K.J & L Bourda Market Age 18-24 Call same address.

Friday July 06, 2012

Anchorseal Call:BR&T Paint Store 265-3541,695-4785 MINELAB & GARETTE GOLD DETECTORS. 6097625, 675-7292 Roofing shingles Call Mr. Skepmire 227-5195 (8AMto5PM)

EDUCATIONAL Imperial College- CXC 2013.

Forms (1-5)/ lessons/adults classes, flexible hours.

Affordable fees Call: 2277627, 683-5742 Private Custom Brokerage Certificate Course for all importers/exporters and other learn how Call:6091824,681-7567 Academia : Summer classes and courses July 9thAugust 24th,entire package $4500, age 8-18 Call: 600-3775 SUMMER CLASSES, Reading, Phonics, Language, Mathematics, Art, Games, lots more!! Roxanne Burnham call: 619-4355, 218-2076 Live and work in Canada, get Canadian certificate as a Caregiver Call: 227-4881 or 416-674-7973 Princeton College Summer Classes,Primary/Secondary School,Students Age 618,CXC Adults Classes,Affordable Fees Call:690-5008,611-3793 SUMMER CLASSES : Phonics & Reading, Mathematics & Language, Science & Social-Studies, Craft & Fun day, Garnett Street Kitty Call: 654-8650 Summer computer classes, age 5-16, Micrographics Technology, Vreed-en-Hoop Call: 264-3057 Summer computer classes, age 5-16, Micrographics Technology, Parika( Bollywood Building) Call: 264-3057 Summer computer classes, age 5-16, Micrographics Technology, Grove Public Road Call: 266-3976 Special Advanced Diplomas in computers for students completed 2012 CSEC, Micrographics 264-3057 $15,000 Discount Vreed-EnHoop Registered Now!! Monar Educational Institute 163 Crown Street, Queenstown.Day care,Play school,Nursery,Primary & Secondary Call:2237226,227-3338 DRESS MAKING 6 weeks course in designing and sewing Call Sharmie 225-2598, 641-0784

NARS lipgloss, eyeshadow & Clinique Chubby Stick. Tel: 669-8374.

SALON Make up courses, artist trained & certified in Trinidad: 660-5257,647-1773 Cosmetology Classes & Small Classes from as low as $4,000.Learn in our peaceful & happy environment Call: 226-9448 Summer special from July 16-August 31 in C o s m e t o l o g y, N a i l s & Make-up Call Abby 2161950,666-5241,619-7603

New Honda Pressure washers Call:614-8564 15-15-15 Fertilizer Call: 2662711,609-4594 One wooden boat, just cork, sand & paint ,53-9-5 ½, excellent condition Call: 2620316

CAR RENTAL

Pure breed Rottweiler puppies,8 weeks old,fully vaccinated & dewormed Call: 602-5541

Progressive auto rental, cars from $4,000 per day. Call: 6435122, 656-0087, www.progressiveautorental.com

New 5 Speed Drill Press,4 ton portable poller, energy saver bulbs Call:641-1127

FABS RENTAL, cars & jeeps rental Call: 600-6890 or email fabsrental@yahoo.com

Games for PS2 $900,PSP $900,PS3 $2,600,Xbox $2,600 Call Junior 672-2566,265-3231

Al’s car pick up & canter rental Call:698-7807

Earth delivery on spot also bobcat & excavator rental Call: 626-7127 Prime Property @ Corriverton Opposite Skeldon Estate with metal workshop on 5.5 acres land for business Call: 335-3347/ 626-6245 Printer ink cartridges $2,500, Power inverter $20,000 Call: 650-7699 Turkey,Creole Chicken, Ducks (French & Peeking) Call:668-9113,697-4555 Mechanic tool sets, 230 pieces, mastercraft also 80 GB HD Call: 675-5196,267-1513 Moulders, multirip saws, resaws, cross cut saw and genset. Call Rodney 6165595 1-Doosan Excavator,1-290 Dayou Excavator.In Excellent Condition,Can Be Inspected At Itaballi.Call:223-2573-4 SONY PLAYSTATION 2 (New) with free game $35,000,Original gamediscs for PS2,PS3 & XBOX360 6098132,264-2498 (Max) One PC 300 Komatsu bigger than 320 Caterpillar.Price $ 2 4 Million Call:2258334,640-4627

Be part of our World Class customer care team. Send CV to: 64 Industrial Site Beterverwagting ECD Call: 220-0401-3 IT Technician & Occupational Health & Safety officer. Please send CV to: 64 Industrial Site, Beterverwagting ECD. Call: 220-0401-3 or email: recruitmentguyana @qualfon.com.

Teachers for Nursery,Primary & S e c o n d a r y. M o n a r Educational Institute 163 Crown Street,Queenstown Call:223-7226,2273338,Email.monar_gy@yahoo.com 1 Mature pleasant & experience general domestic to live in at Parika Call:2269492 Mon-Fri 9:00am to 4:00pm Vacancy for gardening boy 18-25 Call 8:00am-5:00pm 621-2453 Receptionist, Maid, Handyboy: 233-6284

2009 Seadoo jetski 18 ft 6 inch x 7 ft 6 inch fiberglass speed boat with 175 Yamaha 2336161,651-8870 1996 T 100 V6 4X4,2002 Tacoma V6 4X4,2005 Tacoma 4 cylinder Call:651-8870,2336161

VACANCY Bilingual representatives.

Must be fluent in Portuguese and English.

Send CV to: 64 Industrial Site, Beterverwagting ECD Call: 220-0401-3

FOR SALE 1 ERF Hauler,1 45 ft Trailer Call:653-4455 Stainless steel meat saw,meat grinder,display freezer,walk in freezer Call: 233-6161,6518870 1-50 Gallon, electric water heater (brand new) Call: 647-1773 Slate pool table, merry-goround,music set Call: 2282098

MASSAGE American style massage service Call: 609-4036 Get massaged by a professional Call Nicole: 612-7209 Luxury full body massage at your home or hotel 622-6256

Dell computers complete with 17 & 19 inch LCD from $50,000 Future Tech 231-2206 1 CAT D379 Marine Engine 700HP, 2 CAT 399 Marine Engine (Parts),3 Rebuilt Cummins KTA19 600HP,4 Cummins NTA 855 400HP Call: 623-7498 MAC POWDERS $7,900, SACHA 2in1 $2,000 MAKE UP – top Brands Tel :647 1773 Honda ATVS 4X4 500,2012 LIC Dealer Call:622-5762 or 691-3851 Ducklings (French Peeking) Call:686-5656

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LAND FOR SALE 1 ½ acre, 48ftx1300ft V/Hoop Call: 627-9351 Eping Ave B.A.P 150’ X 100" US$500,000, Carmichael Street 100" X 62" US$500,000, Grove H/S 86’ X 50’ G$4.5m Norbert A.DeFreitas 592 609 2302/645 2580/233 5711 defreitasassociates@gmail.com Adventure Linden highway 150 acres G$40m 592 609 2302/645 2580/233 5711

1 Mercury boat 7.5 HP engine Call:645-9459

Ogle Public Road 140’ X 100’ G$45m, Land of Canaan Wharf 140’ X 50’ on lot 11.88 acres US$2.5m, 592 609 2302/ 645 2580/233 5711

Live meat birds Call:650-4421

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Used STHIL 51 Chainsaw Call:662-7034

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Premier League could use goal-line technology in 2012-13 Goal-line technology could be introduced in the Premier League midway through the 2012-13 season after it was approved by the International Football Association Board (IFAB) in Zurich.

Two systems - Hawk-Eye and GoalRef - have passed Fifa’s criteria for use.

The technology will first be used at December’s FIFA Club World Cup and, if successful, at the 2013 Confederations Cup and 2014 World Cup. The Premier League said it wanted it “as soon as practically possible.”

A statement following IFAB’s announcement added: “The Premier League has been a long-term advocate of goal-line technology.

“We welcome today’s decision by IFAB and will engage in discussions with both Hawk-Eye and GoalRef in the near future with a view to introducing goal-line technology as soon as is practically possible.”

FA General Secretary Alex Horne said it was up to the Premier League to decide on a timescale for implementation.

“It may be December until the technology is absolutely finally approved and installed in stadia,” he said at a press conference in Zurich. “Priority is given to the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan.

“The Premier League need to talk to the two [technology providers] and the clubs. My understanding is that clubs are supportive and, in principle, as long as all clubs agree it could be introduced part-way through the season, it could be before the start of 2013-14 season, it could be part way through.

“We have already got Hawk-Eye at Wembley, it needs to be calibrated and make sure it’s working properly and licensed so we are nearly there and we could turn it on quite quickly.

“The FA Cup would be our decision and we could say for the semi-finals and finals of the FA Cup we could turn it on, I don’t think that is a very controversial decision.”

Horne added that he felt it was “a hugely important day” for football.

“We believe that it is a great day for football. From an English perspective, today is a hugely important day. It is a cause we have had on our agenda for a number of years.

“This is about having the right technology helping the referee in a relatively rare occurrence.”

The systems will require testing after they are installed

in each stadium to ensure they are working properly before they can be used, with licenses lasting for 12 months.

Hawk-Eye was tested at Southampton’s St Mary’s Stadium in May and FIFA thanked the FA for its assistance.

A FIFA spokesman said: “We would like to place on record our sincere thanks to the Football Association for their willingness to support the live match tests, a critical part of Test Phase 2 for goalline technology.”

IFAB was keen to stress that technology will not be used to help referees make any other decisions. The desire to bring in goal-line technology increased after Ukraine were denied an

equaliser after the ball appeared to cross the line in a 1-0 defeat by England at Euro 2012.

That incident led to FIFA President Sepp Blatter throwing his weight behind calls for goal-line technology.

Chelsea Manager Roberto Di Matteo said: “We see every season, every big tournament, we need it because there are some crucial moments within those games where you could find the right solution with a bit of technology.”

UEFA President Michel Platini is believed to prefer the use of five match officials, something which was also approved by FIFA on Thursday. The system, which sees an extra official posted behind each goal-line to

monitor action in and around the penalty box, has been on trial since 2008 and was in use during Euro 2012 as well as last season’s Champions League.

Football’s governing body also lifted a ban on women wearing headscarves during games, clearing the way for the participation of many Islamic nations in topflight competition.

(BBC Sport)

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Titan 4x4 GMM,tray cover,rims $3M Negotiable Call:227-2027,227-5500,6234045 Dually Dodge RAM for interior Call:227-2027,2275500,623-4045 AT 192 $600,000 Call: 6251499 Toyota IST PNN Series Excellent condition Call:6783148,672-5166 Toyota Premio, 2002, silver, CD, fogs, never registered 269-0432,686-0323 Toyota IST,2002,Silver,4 wheel disc brakes, mags, CD, never registered 269-0432, 686-0323 Toyota Corolla (NZE), magrims, music system etc. mint condition $1.950M Negotiable Call:6915703,627-6317 1 EP 71 Starlet,1 Toyota Ceres,192 Carina,AT 170,1 Mitsubishi RVR and Lancer,1 Carry Pickup Call:6445096,697-1453 Toyota Caldina Wagon,New Engine & Transmission Call:623-5252 VVTI,1 RZ Stick gear buses,Spacio,Wagon Jag’s Auto Call:616-7635 1 Spacio (Unregistered) new model,fully loaded $2.5M,1 Premio (dark grey) Unregistered $3M Call:6210956,641-0795

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Sixty-five horses, $6.5M at stake as Bush Lot United Turf Club stages one-day Meet Eight races, among sixty five horses, are listed for the day and jockeys would be battling for over $6.5M in prizes when the Bush Lot United Turf Club stages a one day horse race meet at the Club’s Bush Lot Village, West Coast Berbice, facilities on Sunday July 8 next.

Jockeys would be straddling the nation’s best thoroughbreds in several exciting encounters and the feature attraction in the A and Lower category, will be contested over a distance of 1500M. The winner carts off $1M and a trophy compliments of Jumbo Jet Auto Sales.

Already, several big guns have indicated their participation and a starstudded field is anticipated.

Turfites could expect a keen contest with animals the likes of ‘Who So Ever’, ‘The Message,’ ‘Marathon Man,’ ‘Donut Prince,’ ‘Jet Set Go,’

‘Work Force,’ ‘Who’s On the Case and ‘Fresh Again’ among other top horses.

The feature race will be supported by the event for the 3 year-old animals. These horses are born and bred in Guyana and the West Indies and will compete over 1200m for a first prize of $500,000 and a trophy. This race is sponsored by BLUTC. Several other races will whet the appetites of spectators including Classes ‘A,’ ‘E’ and ‘G,’ events among the two and three year-old animals which are the top drawing cards.

Additionally, the ‘E and Lower’ class race will field horses going after a first place prize of $450,000 and a trophy over a distance of 1200m, compliments of Buddy Shivraj Auto Sales.

Another event, the G Class race, will see horses covering 1000m for a winning

purse of $300,000 and the Dr. Brandeo Singh trophy. There is also the event among two year-old horses, Guyana and West Indies bred over 1000m.

Sponsored by Banks DIH Limited, this event offers a first place prize of $400,000 and trophy. The ‘I and Lower’ event is also slated for a distance of 1000M and carries a first place prize of $150,000 and trophy. This event is sponsored by owner of the Shariff Racing Stable, Mohammed ‘Nankoo’ Shariff.

The final two races will pit the skills of those animals in the ‘J Class,’ competing for a first place prize of $100,000 and a trophy over 1000m and the K and L class match up over a similar distance. The winning jockey for the first event will receive $80,000 and trophy, the same as the winner of the latter. Romel Jagroop Construction will put up the prize for the first event

while BLUTC will pick up the tab for the latter.

Special prizes will also be given to individual performers including the top jockey, stable and trainer. They will be presented with trophies compliments of The Trophy Stall, Bourda Market.

Several other entities will join Banks DIH in the sponsorship of events including Mohammed Shariff of the Shariff Stable, Buddy Shivraj, Jumbo Jet, Rommel Jagroop, Trophy Stall Bourda Market, Dr Bramdeo Singh, Inshan Bacchus, Lenny Singh, Chatterpaul ‘Chen Singh’ Deo, and Phagoo General Store.

Persons interested in participating may contact Coordinator and Treasurer, Lakeram B Sukhdeo on telephone #s 232 0558 or 672 0810 or President R. Jagit 232 0231. The first race gets underway at 12:30hrs.

Murray, Tsonga, Djokovic, Federer set for semis Andy Murray will attempt to become the first British man to compete in a Wimbledon final for 74 years when he takes on Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on today. Murray will contest his fourth straight semi-final after fighting from a set and a break down against David Ferrer.

The last Briton to reach the Wimbledon final was Bunny Austin in 1938, two years after Fred Perry’s

famous win. Defending champion Novak Djokovic will take on six-time winner Roger Federer in the first semi-final.

Fourth seed Murray, 25, has beaten France’s Tsonga in five of their six previous meetings. But Murray, who lost his last two Wimbledon semi-finals to Rafael Nadal, insists he is not underestimating the fifth seed, who came from two sets

ECB names team for Inter County U15 tourney The Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) selectors have shortlisted a squad of fourteen (14) to represent the County in the upcoming Inter County Under-15 competition.

However, surprisingly no player from Wakenaam was considered for selection.

According to an ECB Executive Committee Member, no player from that Island turned up for the trial matches. Meanwhile an official from one of the clubs on the Island told Kaieteur

Sport that the players were not informed of the matches.

The Board has not yet named the Captain; coach is Andy Ramnarine with Viren Chintamanie as Manager. Full squad reads: Akini Adams, Nathan Persaud, Mark Williams, Satesh Latchana, Sheik Fazal, Beesham Dasrat, Jonathan Fernandes, Lavesh Surujpaul, Rendell Reddy, Siddiq Mohamed, Randy Rooplall, Kevin Matinborough, Mohan Singh, Cristopher Latchman.

(Zaheer Mohamed)

behind to beat Federer in the quarter-finals 12 months ago.

“Jo’s a tough opponent,” said Murray. “He’s served very well so far. It’s a very different match to playing against Rafa, but he’s one of the best grass-court players in the world, that’s for sure.”

The British number one has beaten Nikolay Davydenko, Ivo Karlovic, Marcos Baghdatis, Marin Cilic and David Ferrer to reach the last four. “When you start each tournament, you want to try to win,” said Murray.

“Everyone kept telling me I had such a hard draw and how tough it was going to be to get through. I managed to do that. I’ve beaten some very good players. “But I want it to continue. I’d be disappointed if I lost before the final in any tournament, but I don’t just expect to get there. It’s a very difficult thing to do. You need to make sure you perform properly.”

The 27-year-old Tsonga, who beat Germany’s Philipp Kohlschreiber to reach the last four, said: “It’s going to be a big fight for sure and I have to get ready. I will not

be a player who most support but I will play my game, try to be good and see what happens. I know the crowd already like me here and I like them too.”

Serbia’s Djokovic will try to put himself in position for a second Wimbledon title and sixth Grand Slam victory when he meets Federer in Friday’s first semi-final on Centre Court. But the 25-yearold world number one will need to be at his best in his first meeting on grass against the 16-time Grand Slam champion.

The 30-year-old Swiss is aiming for his eighth Wimbledon final, but his first since he beat Andy Roddick in 2009, the longest men’s singles final in terms of games played.

Federer, ranked third in the world, can reclaim the world number one ranking from Djokovic, while a seventh Wimbledon title would also take him level with Pete Sampras and William Renshaw, who reigned in the 1880s. He would also match Sampras’s record of 286 weeks at the top of the rankings.

RHTY&CS makes financial donation Vijai Rahim The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC), on Wednesday last made a financial donation to Commonwealth Powerlifting record holder Vijai Rahim at its Area ‘H’ Office.

Apart from a cheque for $20,000, Rahim also received other items that will assist him in his day to day training.

RHTY&SC first Test cricketer Assad Fudadin handed cheque to Rahim, congratulating the champion on his achievement while urging him to remain committed and disciplined.

Club Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster stated that he was elated to learn that a fellow Berbician was a record holder at the Commonwealth level via a newspaper article on Wednesday last, this prompted the Club to come to Rahim’s assistance the same day.

Foster told Rahim that it is sometimes hard to become the best but it is always harder to remain at the top

and as such he would have to work harder, be more committed and to always remain rooted to the ground as success tends to destroy people’s humble ways.

The long serving Secretary/CEO pledged his club’s continued assistance to Rahim and his Coach Fazim Abdool and wished them more success in the future. He also pleaded for more NGOs and businesses in the Ancient County to assist Rahim in his quest to break the World record in his category.

Both Rahim and his Coach expressed gratitude to the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club for its timely assistance and pledged to continue to make Berbice and Guyana proud.

RHTY&SC, Rahim stated is a role model organisation which he admires and he was grateful that the Club has come on board in support of his career.

Usain Bolt withdraws from Monaco after suffering ‘slight injury’ Usain Bolt has withdrawn from his final race before London 2012 after suffering a “slight” injury problem. Bolt, 25, was scheduled to run the 200m at the Diamond League meet in Monaco on July 20.

But the three-times Olympic gold medalist has withdrawn so he can undergo treatment. His Coach, Glen Mills, said he wanted to “give him sufficient time for treatment and time to train and prepare for the Olympic Games.”

Despite the withdrawal, Bolt said he would be in London to defend his three Olympic titles, which also includes the 100m and the 4 x 100m relay gold he won in Beijing four years ago.

The world record-holder had his right hamstring stretched out on the track after finishing second to Yohan Blake in the 200m at the

Jamaican Olympic trials last weekend. He was also beaten by world champion Blake, who won in a time of 9.75 seconds, in the 100m in Kingston.

Blake’s time was the fourth fastest in history. The only people faster in the world are Bolt, who holds the world record of 9.58, American Tyson Gay, who has run 9.69, and Asafa Powell, whose quickest time is 9.72.

“I am happy to have earned my spot on the Jamaican Olympic team despite the challenge,” said Bolt, who ran 9.76 in Italy in May. “I will be in London to defend my titles in the 100, 200 and 4 x 100m.

“I want to congratulate my fellow Racers Track Club Members along with the other athletes who made the team. I thank everyone for their support.”

DOWNES UPSETS MEKDECI ON OPENING NIGHT From page 31 to the task at hand, playing reserved shots while allowing Mekdeci to take the risks. Although his fitness did not seem to permit it, Downes entertained Mekdeci in a few lengthy rallies instead of trying to kill the ball, but the ea-

ger 13-year-old could not resist the urge to go for winners.

Mekdeci’s game was off and inconsistent on this occasion and Downes was able to prevail 10/12, 14/12, 11/9, 11/8.

Earlier in the evening Ben’s father Joe Mekdeci lost to Joshua Abdool (3-0), while

Raphael deGroot defeated Ian Mekdeci 11/5, 11/4, 11/7.

Patrick Fraser put up a decent fight against Under-19 campaigner Steven Xavier but it was not enough to avoid a straight game beating. National Under-17 champion Nyron Joseph also made light work of Brian Yong

(3-0) in one of the penultimate encounters of the night.

Joven Benn took apart Davendra Sahadeo in straight games, which was the same margin that Adam Alves defeated Antonio Joseph. Jason Van Dyke also enjoyed a comfortable three-game win

against Dwayne Yan while Nicholas Narain hammered Lee Fung-A-Fat (3-0).

Mainly juniors competed in the women’s draw on the opening night with Caribbean Under-15 champion Akeila Wiltshire brushing aside Rebecca Low (3-0) while Ashley

deGroot got past Larissa Wiltshire in straight games.

The tournament will continue until Sunday with most of the hype surrounding the participation of world ranked squash star Nicolette Fernandes who will be competing in both categories once again this year.

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GHB & Hockey fraternity mourns loss of Hon. Sect. Elton Gregory Sills The Hockey fraternity in Guyana is in a state of shock following the passing of long serving Honorary Secretary and former player, Elton Gregory Sills. Following is the full release issued by the Guyana Hockey Board.

The Guyana Hockey Board mourns the passing of long-time Honorary Secretary, Mr. Elton Gregory Sills. Gregory served as an administrator of hockey from as far back as 1997. He has served with distinction as the Honorary Secretary of the GHB since 2001. Gregory was the longest serving administrator on the current Executive Committee of the GHB and, apart from his very important function as Secretary, provided the sport with experience and vast institutional knowledge of the sport.

Gregory began playing the game in Linden where he lived in his younger years and was one of a long list of outstanding players to emerge from the mining town.

He represented Guyana in International competition back in 1989 as a midfielder in the South American Championships held in Caracas Venezuela. He was also an instrumental player for Mack’s Ace Hockey Club which ruled hockey in Guyana for several years in the 1980’s.

After his playing days were over Gregory utilized his knowledge of the game as a

Team Captain Elton Gregory Sills (left) receiving the winning veteran’s trophy on the 2009 tour to Washington good friend and tournament organiser, Jeremy Roberts. coach. He eventually was challenged with the task of coaching Guyana’s male junior national team in the Junior Caribbean Championships and the Junior Pan American Championships in 1992.

Under his guidance, Guyana won Gold medals in the Junior Caribbean Championships.

Gregory went on to further success in coaching the senior men’s national team for several years before retiring from coaching after his team’s creditable performance in the Central American and Caribbean Games in 1994 where they narrowly missed the Bronze medals.

Gregory also served on several occasions as team

manager for Guyana’s national hockey team with his last such appointment being as recent as the Caribbean Championships of 2007 in Trinidad.

In addition to all these contributions, Gregory coordinated many junior summer camps and coaching courses locally and represented the Guyana Hockey Board as a Council Member of the Guyana Olympic Association.

The Guyana Hockey Board has lost a great resource and friend in Gregory Sills. He has surely made an impact on everyone in the current hockey fraternity and will be sorely missed. May he rest in peace.

Williams & Radwanska through to final Serena Williams moved closer to winning a fifth Wimbledon singles title with a formidable straight sets victory over Victoria Azarenka on Centre Court.

The American produced a record 24 aces to overpower Azarenka 6-3 7-6 (8-6) in one hour and 36 minutes to set up a meeting with Agnieszka Radwanska.

Third seed Radwanska convincingly beat Angelique Kerber of Germany 6-3 6-4 to reach her first Grand Slam final. Radwanska said: “There is one match to go. I’m really going to try my best.”

Radwanska only needed one hour and nine minutes to complete a 6-3 6-4 win on Centre Court.

When Kerber’s backhand bounced into the tramlines, Radwanska celebrated becoming the first Polish woman in 75 years to earn a

place in a Grand Slam final with a subtle jig on the baseline.

It did not look promising for the world number three when she was broken early in the opening set. But she bounced back in the sixth and eighth games to win five games in a row, relentlessly forcing her German opponent into a number of errors.

The 23-year-old, who could top the world rankings if she defeats Williams in the final, admitted nerves played a part in her poor start.

She said: “You really want to try your best but sometimes you want it too much and your hands are shaking. After that I concentrated on every point.

“I had a tough quarter-final and it was good to have a day off and rest because it’s always tough against Angie.

“We are really good

Serena Williams friends but on court we’re opponents and you’re trying everything to make the final.”

Radwanska concluded the first set with an ace and continued to play with poise in the final set, breaking in the sixth game. She secured victory when a disappointing Kerber - hoping to become Germany’s first women’s finalist since Steffi Graf 13 years ago - followed a wayward forehand with a backhand into the tramlines.

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Bartica student wins inaugural Malta Supreme Chess tourney Bartica Secondary School student Daryl Joseph placed first in the inaugural One-Day Malta Supreme Rapid Chess tournament held on Sunday July 1 at the Bartica Secondary School.

The fifth form Science student edged past his nearest rival, second place winner and teacher Julia Do Campo of Three Miles Secondary. Yusuf Hinds, also of placed third; the tournament was played using the roundrobin format.

Players expressed optimism about future tournaments which remain a possibility. All the participants were presented with chess sets as prizes for practice and future competitions.

Banks DIH under the Malta Supreme brand sponsored the competition and the company has extended congratulations to all the players for participating in the tournament.

Banks DIH Communications Manager Troy Peters said that the company recognized

the outstanding performance of Daryl Joseph who emerged winner of the event.

Peters urged the Guyana Chess Federation to continue its crusade to take the sport around Guyana and pledged his company’s continued support.

The Guyana Chess Federation, in collaboration with Ms. Sharon Chow-Chee, Headmistress of Bartica Secondary, specially organized and conducted the one-day event for Bartica Chess players, a first for the resuscitated local chess body.

President of the Guyana Chess Federation Shiv Nandalall extended heartfelt thanks to Banks DIH, the Headmistress and the Regional Administration for making the tournament possible. Plans are in the making for an “Introduction to Chess” workshop in Bartica which would target an estimated 50 schoolchildren and teachers during the upcoming annual school vacation.

Cavendish well beaten by Greipel in sprint Tour de France:

Andre Greipel

Mark Cavendish was well beaten by Andre Greipel in a sprint finish in the fifth stage of the Tour de France. The Team Sky rider, who was involved in a crash on Wednesday, trailed home in fifth as Lotto’s Greipel powered to his second stage victory in a row.

Australian Matt Goss and Argentine Juan Jose Haedo finished second and third at the end of the 196.5km (122.1mile) stage from Rouen to Saint-Quentin.

Bradley Wiggins remains second overall, seven seconds behind Fabian Cancellara.

Following Wednesday’s crash that left Cavendish with a sore left hand and teammate Bernie Eisel with five stitches in a gash above his left eye, Team Sky were intent on keeping their riders out of trouble on the run-in to SaintQuentin.

All eight of their remaining riders in the race rode in a train on the left-hand side of the peloton during the closing kilometres and it looked as though their plan had worked when Garmin’s sprinter Tyler Farrar rider

brought several riders down in the middle of the main bunch with around 3km remaining.

None of the Sky riders were affected but the leader of the green points jersey category, Peter Sagan, was among those taken out.

While the main bunch regrouped, Jan Ghyselinck, who had been part of a fourman breakaway from early on in the stage, attacked his fellow escapees and was within sight of the finishing line when Greipel, Goss and Cavendish surged past him.

However, Cavendish, who had picked up 11 points in the race for the green jersey at the intermediate sprint as the first rider from the peloton to cross the line, did not have the legs to make further inroads into Sagan’s lead.

“I’m very happy with this second win and I want to say thank you to my team-mates for all their hard work,” said Greipel, who also won a stage on last year’s Tour. “I don’t know why everyone believes I can’t beat him [Cavendish],” the German added. “I already beat him last year and I have the best team around me.

“[On Wednesday] he crashed, but [on Thursday] he was there.” The pancakeflat stage went very much to form from the off with France’s Matthieu Ladagnous leading a breakaway and being followed down the road by Ghyselinck, Julien Simon and Pablo Urtasun.

The peloton allowed the quartet to build up a lead of more than five minutes before reeling them back in, although the late crash almost saw Ghyselinck stay away for an unusual victory.

Stage five result: 1. Andre Greipel (Ger) Lotto - 196.5km in 4h41’28" 2. Matt Goss (Aus) Orica GreenEdge- same time 3. Juan Jose Haedo (Arg) Saxo Bank 4 . Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis 5 .

Mark Cavendish (GB) Team Sky. Overall standings: 1.

Fabian Cancellara (Swi) RadioShack - 24 hours, 45 mins, 32 seconds 2. Bradley Wiggins (GB) Sky - @ 7" 3.

Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Omega Pharma - same time 4.

Tejaay van Garderen (US) BMC - @10" 5. Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Sky @11". (BBC Sport)

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P&P Insurance Brokers Tennis Camp starts July 9

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Gayle, Smith follow Russell’s lead as WI win

The P&P Insurance Brokers Tennis Camp for juniors is here again! This event features high on the Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA) activity calendar since its reestablishment nine years ago in 2004 when it was determined that more juniors need to be exposed to the sport though a fun activity before they join a tennis club for further development.

Mr. Bish Panday of P&P who has sponsored this event for eight years since 2005 is passionate about sports as a developmental tool for young children and he has pledged continuous support for annual camps such as these.

He continues to show his appreciation for the quality of the activities camp as well as the large number of children

who participate and are able to play tennis and compete at the conclusion of the camp.

Each year there are 60-80 children who participate and many find themselves continuing to play the sport.

Most of the advanced junior players currently at the top of their game were once participants in this great event.

They have all developed their game initially through the Park Players Tennis Club which took full advantage of this activity from the onset under the guidance of former National Coach Debbie Bunbury and National Coach Shelly Daly-Ramdyhan.

The Park Players Tennis Club along with the Non-Pareil and Roraima Tennis Clubs are all currently operating out of the Racquet Centre at Woolford and Camp Streets.

Other clubs with budding junior programs are Le Ressouvenir Tennis Club and Diamond Tennis Club.

The camp is geared for children aged 6 to 18 years and will be carried out at the Pegasus Hotel Tennis Courts on weekdays for two weeks from Monday July 9th – Friday July 20th.

Play time is scheduled from 09:00 – 11:00hrs for (for 6-11yrs) and 12:00 – 14:00hrs (for 12-18yrs). Camp fees per child is $3000 for the two week period.

Registration is being done by telephone by contacting 642 5672 or 643 4423. All parents are asked to be present to complete registration with fees at 08:00hrs on Monday July 9th so that the Opening Ceremony for the Camp can start on schedule at 08:30hrs.

Kingston, Jamaica – Chris Gayle and Dwayne Smith followed up a incisive spell of fast bowling from Andre Rusell to canter West Indies to a nine-wicket victory under the Duckworth-Lewis Method in the first One-day International against New Zealand on Thursday.

Gayle marked his first international match on home soil in just over 1 ½ years with a typically spectacular 63 and Smith, enjoying a new lease of life under the maroon helmet, made an equally entertaining 65, as West Indies successfully chased a revised target of 136 from 33 overs in the rain-affected contest at Sabina Park.

Left-hander Gayle struck four fours and fives sixes – including a monster onto South Odeon Road over the mound on the eastern side of the ground – from 57 balls and Smith smote six fours and three sixes from 77 deliveries, as they put on 130 – unbroken – for the second wicket either side of a near two-hour stoppage for rain, following the early departure of Lendl Simmons for a duck.

The result meant that West Indies took a 1-0 lead in the five-match series, which continues on Saturday at the same venue.

Russell had used the advantage of familiar conditions to grab four wickets for 45 runs from 10 overs and upstage a resolute half-century from B.J. Watling, as the Black Caps posted 190 for nine from their allocation of 50 overs, after they sent in to bat under sunny skies on a hard, true pitch.

The West Indies fast bowler earned the Man-of-

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) under the Presidency of the Keith Foster continues to be the shining example when it comes to dedicated work and progress even as the entity faces its fair amount of challenges.

The BCB at the start of 2012 had set itself a target of 75 activities/programmes after completing a total of 240 such events during the period 20082011.

The year 2012 is only six months old and the Board has proudly announced that it not only surpassed its aim of 75 but has also passed the once seemingly impossible target of 100. On Wednesday June 27 the Special Events

Committee under the chairmanship of Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club Secretary/ CEO Hilbert Foster completed programme number 102.

The events organised so far this year include cricket development, tournaments, youth development, charity, assistance to clubs/cricketers, educational, social, community development, public relations, coaching and awards.

Chairman Hilbert Foster explained that the success of the Special Events Committee in 2012 has been due to the committed work of members Angela Haniff, Anil Beharry, Gregory Rambarran, Winston Smith and Leslie Solomon.

To achieve 100 activities/ programmes in six months, Foster stated is no easy task and the Special Events Committee has now set a new target of 150 to be completed

by December.

The Board, the veteran cricket administrator stated is passionate about the development of cricket and has no interest in the power struggle at the national level.

The completed activities this year has continued the massive upliftment of Berbice Cricket which the entity has started back in 2008. Since the formation of the Special Events Committee a total of 324 activities have been successfully completed and

Foster expressed total gratitude to the numerous sponsors who have supported the Berbice Cricket Board over the years.

The outspoken Foster also expressed disappointment that no other County Board or Sub Association in Guyana has followed the BCB’s example and established a Special Events Committee.

Once the other Boards establish their Special Events Committee with committed and honest members, Foster said the BCB was willing to share its vast experience with them in the overall goal of transforming Guyana’s cricket.

He has expressed confidence that with a

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the-Match award after he flattened the New Zealand top order before Watling gathered 60 from 98 balls to help the visitors reach a respectable total, after they crumbled to 71 for five in the 24th over.

Simmons was caught behind down the leg-side, when he glanced a delivery from Kyle Mills in the third over, but Gayle and Smith had put West Indies firmly on course for victory, taking them to 98 for one after 18 overs, when rain stopped play.

On resumption, Gayle reached his 50 from 43 balls with the first delivery he faced after the stoppage from Tim Southee, which he steered to third man for a single.

Smith followed up with his 50 from 62 balls in the next over with a slog/sweep for six off Nethula into the fifth level corporate boxes in the Great Northern Stand.

dynamic Special Events Committee in every County Board and Sub Association, great progress would be made and the level of cricket locally would see a massive improvement.

Meanwhile, among the Board’s plans for the second half of the 2012 includes the hosting of the 5th Annual Cricket Academy from July 23, the junior and senior Elite Training Programme, Tribute to Coaches, Tribute to Groundsmen, Tribute to Heroes, Tribute to Retired Cricketers, Inter County MVP, First Aid Clinic, Assistance to school children for the new school term and Assistance to another 30 clubs.

BCB Special Events Committee achieves historic 100th programme for 2012

The pair marched West Indies to victory, Smith formalising the result with a scoop over cover for a deuce off Martin Guptill’s part-time medium-paced bowling.

Earlier, after Russell removed Guptill, Daniel Flynn and Rob Nicol in his opening spell, Watling was the glue that held the bottom half of the New Zealand batting together, reaching his 50 from 86 balls, and sharing valuable stands with Jacob Oram and Andrew Ellis.

Russell gave West Indies an early breakthrough, when opener Martin Guptill was caught at second slip for one, driving loosely in the second over. Two wickets in successive overs from Russell left New Zealand rocking on 33 for three in the 10th over.

He had left-hander Daniel Flynn bowled for 12 chopping the ball into the stumps off the inside edge, and opener Rob Nicol was caught at deep mid-wicket for 14 from a miscued hook.

Sunil Narine trapped Dean Brownlie lbw for one in the 15th over with a flat, fast, full delivery, as New Zealand further crumbled, and West Indies Captain Darren Sammy had his opposite number Kane Williamson caught behind for 24.

West Indies met resistance, when Oram joined Watling, putting on 46 for the sixth wicket, before Rampaul bowled him for 32 in the 35th over, and Ellis added 44 for the seventh wicket with Watling before Narine bowled him for 14 in the 45th over before there was token resistance from the tail-enders.

Narine finished with two for 26 from 10 overs and Rampaul grabbed two for 42 from 10 overs.

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Ravens remembers Damian Liverpool

Vieira’s absence opens the door for a new king to be crowned

- GABA also expresses condolences Ravens Basketball Club has described the death of former national forward, Damian Liverpool as a “severe loss” to the club and basketball in general.

Liverpool was involved in a motorcycle accident last Friday while in Suriname.

His 1000cc superbike crashed into a tractor. He was part of a group of bikers o n t h e a n n u a l t o u r.

Yesterday, former national point guard, and now Coach of Ravens, Darcel Harris said that the death of Liverpool comes at a time when the club is still recovering from the loss of Kevin Lawrence, who died two years ago also on the Suriname route.

“This is a severe loss. It is only two years since Kevin died and that is still in our memory, now we have to mourn yet another major loss,” Harris, who has been friends with Liverpool since the two were in nursery school, indicated.

“We enjoyed every moment of his company.

When we heard that news, it was tears and shock all around. We just could not control ourselves as a team.

Damian was an integral part of Ravens and this has been

difficult for us,” a distraught Harris noted.

Liverpool was born on June 29, 1978 and attended St. Roses Secondary and Queens College. At the time of his death he was an Enforcement Officer at the Guyana Revenue Authority.

He spent most of his senior basketball career at the Ravens Basketball Club.

“We will miss the physical defense he brought to our team. No one else could have matched him physically and we will miss that and his rebounding especially,” Harris said, adding that the club will continue to honour his input to their development.

Ravens held a wake for the late Liverpool last night and will ceremoniously bid farewell in their traditional colours of black and orange on Saturday at the Funeral Service that is set for the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall at a time to be announced.

Meanwhile, the VicePresident of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Kester Gomes, who has been running the affairs of the club since President, David Carto stepped aside, also expressed condolences to

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Damian Liverpool Ravens, family and friends.

Their full message read: “The Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association and the entire basketball fraternity would like to extend sincere condolences to the family and friends of Damian Liverpool. Damian Liverpool was a vibrant and free-spirited athlete, whose passion for winning was evident from his tenacity on the court.

A stellar defender and rebounder, Damian dominantly outworked his opponents with lesser intensity. His on-court tactics was a joy for both fans and players and will be surely missed.

The association is therefore taking steps to h a v e t h e L e a g u e ’s rebounding champion trophy, be called the Damian Liverpool Trophy in his memory. Guyana basketball lost one of its greatest characters and he will be forever missed but not forgotten. R.I.P Damie”.

Downes upsets Mekdeci on opening night

Digicel National Senior Squash C/ships...

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aribbean Under-13 champion Benjamin Mekdeci was outplayed by Allan Downes on the opening night of the Digicel Senior National Squash Championships on Wednesday evening at the Georgetown Club’s Squash facility.

On a night when most of the top ranked players received byes to the second round, the Downes/Mekdeci matchup proved to be the most scintillating encounter. Mekdeci was warming up for the Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) Junior Championships later this month, while Downes is simply a middle aged adult keeping fit and active; not exactly the

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ingredients of a battle for the ages, yet it proved to be quiet the duel.

Mekdeci had been desperately trying to snap a Mekdeci losing streak on opening night after his older brother Ian and his father Joe both lost their first round matches by respective 3-0 margins.

Brandishing power and clean, hard hitting close to the end of the first game allowed Mekdeci to come from behind and steal the first game from Downes 12/10.

After losing the first game and the momentum, the situation looked bleak for Downes, who also appeared to be fatigued.

Nevertheless, Downes remained committed (Continued on page 28)

i t h t h e unfortunate and forced withdrawal of reigning champion Stephen ‘Valentino Rossi’ Vieira from this Sunday’s Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club ‘Race of Champions’ Meeting at the South Dakota Circuit, all eyes will be on the riders who are most willing to seize the advantage in his absence.

Vieira, who has been the best local rider for a number of years, will not be taking to the grid due to his involvement in an accident last week in neighbouring Suriname where national basketball player Damian Liverpool lost his life.

The local speedster it was reported suffered injuries to his hands thereby making it extremely difficult for him to ride on Sunday. Riders such as Carlos Rodrigues, Maurice Menezes, Joel Neblett, Carey Griffith and Gregory Lopes will be licking their lips in anticipation of being crowned new champion.

In the go-kart category, Marcus Fiedtkou, Shane Ally, Jerry Max Gouveia, Alex Gouveia, Nikhil Seereeram and Denzel Hopkinson as they’ve done in the past is anticipated to treat the fans to some breathtaking daredevilry, while the Group 3 division is also expected to be just as competitive with the likes of Gavin and Ryon Gayadin, Ryan Rahaman, Kemal Rahaman, Kamal Seebaran and Raj Boodhoo tussling it out for top honours.

The Group 2B is another

Joel Neblett

Maurice Menezes category that will excite the fans with the Dutch driver Oliver Tjin-Liep-Shie, Shairaz Roshandin, Afraz Allie, Marcel Profitt, all capable of producing some fantastic performances and exhilarating displays.

One thing is certain with the various groups fully

subscribed, fans heading to the South Dakota Circuit are guaranteed an unforgettable day of racing among the best in the Land. Twenty races are carded for the day and the price of admission is adults $1500, while children and vehicles are free. The first race is set for 08:30 hrs.

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Chris Gayle

Dwayne Smith

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The winner and top performers display their silverware

Windies player Assad Fudadin (R) hands over cheque to Vijai Rahim, coach Fazim Abdool looks on.

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