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CARICOM, Japan summit to explore PNCR congress ends in major... From page 3 opportunities for development so let's see what happens.” Greenidge accounted KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent - CMC– Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves says CARICOM leaders will seek opportunities for ‘partnership in development’ when the first ever CARICOM-Japan Summit is held in Trinidad and Tobago today. Gonsalves, however, said the 15-member bloc is aware that Japan is lobbying for its support as the Asian heavyweight seeks to become a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. “They are canvassing for it, but they are not the only people who canvass to get a seat as non-permanent members of the Security Council. “The fact that he has to leave from Japan to come to the Caribbean is indicative of the importance of the countries in the region on a number of matters,” Gonsalves told the Caribbean Media Corporation Saturday. In an indication that Japan holds a favourable status within the region on its quest for that UN seat,
Dr. Ralph Gonsalves Gonsalves, the current CARICOM chairman, said: “Japan is a very strong candidate...and they have had a history of working in the Caribbean, particularly in the area of education and fisheries. “I will like to see that broadened. But they are a very responsible country,” he said, noting that of the developed countries, Japan has the second largest economy after the United
States. Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet CARICOM leaders this morning, then hold bilateral talks with each Head of Government. A number of agreements are also to be signed. “We are hoping that we can put together, individual countries and CARICOM as a whole, a programme for partnership in development, which will involve resources and also for us to collaborate together…to fight for peace and justice globally,” Gonsalves said. This year marks 20 years of relations between CARICOM and Japan, and today’s meeting marks the first visit to the region by a Prime Minister of Japan. A number of events are slated to recognise this milestone, including the designation of 2014 as ‘CARICOM-Japan Friendship Year’, and the proposal to convene the Fourth CARICOM-Japan Foreign Ministers Meeting in Tokyo in November.
Sandals to give B’dos foreign exchange boost with US$53M hotel purchase
Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - CMC - Jamaican hotelier, Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart’s, Sandals Group will within a few days purchase a Barbados flagship tourism property, Almond Beach Village, for US$53 million. Reporting on the matter, the Sunday Sun newspaper, hailed the pending transaction for providing a boost to Barbados’ highly stressed foreign exchange coffers. “It will all be in the form of badly needed foreign currency,” the paper stated. The property is currently owned by state corporation, Barbados Tourism Investment Inc. (BTI), through which government has been borrowing money from another state entity,
National Insurance Service, to keep that premier real estate afloat. The sale of Almond to Sandals was recently examined by Cabinet and approved by prime minister Freundel Stuart. The Sunday newspaper quoted from a note sent to Cabinet by BTI when the purchase was being considered, “It is also worthy of note that Barbados would have been able to convert a Barbados dominated loan facility, namely borrowings from [NIS] and Almond Resorts Inc., which was all in Barbados currency, into United States dollars at a rate of $2 to $13 . The emphasis on the foreign exchange gain from this anticipated purchase comes against the background of an analysis by international rating agency Moody’s on the perilous threat the Barbados dollar faces if its foreign currency reserve suffers further drops. “Any further erosion in reserves would likely put further pressure on Barbados’ currency, which is pegged to the US dollar,” Moody’s stated in a July 21 report. Moody’s added, “After recovering slightly during the previous three quarters, foreign exchange reserves have resumed their decline, and as of 30 June remained around 25 per cent below
early-2013 levels,” Moody’s noted. “This decline occurred despite a slight recovery in long-term private financial inflows that traditionally help support the central bank’s international reserves”. Half-year figures from the Barbados Central Bank show the foreign exchange reserve falling from BDS$1,219.9 (One BDS dollar = 50 US cents) at the end of June 2013 to BDS$1,093.3 at June 30 this year.
similar occurrences to those reported by Norton. The Member of Parliament said that after the problem could not have been sorted out “the entire Linden contingent left.” Greenidge explained that he didn't vote because he thinks the entire process needed to be reviewed. He described the Congress as a sad occasion but said he has hopes for better times. With regards to the discharging of a gunshot, Greenidge said that he hopes that those who saw what happened would lodge a report with the police. Independent reports received by Kaieteur News suggest that the man identified as “Primo” fired the single shot in the air because he felt “threatened.” Damage control Granger tried to dismiss allegations of division within the party but said that the party had survived the loss of other members before and he has confidence that it can again. To support this, Granger pointed to the resignation of the now Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman. He said that he is not suggesting that it is good to lose members, but once the majority is happy, the show must go on. While Williams held out that he couldn't confirm what the “explosive sound” was, Granger said it sounded like a shot from a handgun. Granger then noted that that too will be investigated. The Party leader said that from the little he knows, there was a crowd of persons who broke the barrier and tried to force their way into the auditorium…” at that time it seemed as if someone was in
Dissatisfied longstanding member of the PNC/R, Aubrey Norton danger of being crushed and the shot was fired. I cannot comment further.” Asked why he feels all the problems that characterized the congress was the doing of the PPP, Granger said that the wholepage advertisements and other “statements” suggest that the PPP was interested in seeing an “outcome other than what happened today and we have evidence to indicate such.” Granger said that the PPP has ways and means of doing that. He pointed to Joseph Hamilton who was on the campaign trail with the PNCR in 2006 and said “look at him now,” alluding to the fact that Hamilton is now a member of the PPP.
Addressing Norton's concerns about the different lists, Granger said that this was as a result of attempts to flood the voters list with persons who were not qualified to vote. That too, Granger said, he has ordered an investigation into. With regards to allegations of abuse from his driver, Granger said that he doesn't know his driver to be a person to behave in such a manner in calling someone a dog. And of course Granger said he will launch an investigation into that as well. Granger said that at the end of the several investigations, he will share the findings with the media.
When we pause and experience silence, we discover answers that activity does not have time to reveal. During your day, take threeminute “vacations”. Relax and re-energise. Take time out to feel the peace of silence.
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Reparation process will bring Financing, innovation needed honour, dignity to Caribbean to drive agriculture value chain - Reparations Commission The reparations process will bring honour and dignity to the people of the Caribbean as well as the people of Great Britain and Europe, according to Chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, in a presentation to the British House of Commons on 16 July 2014. He also predicted that “this 21st Century will be the century of global reparatory justice.” The Chairman of the Commission outlined the injustices of slavery and the genocide that occurred as a result of European expansion and stated that the government of Great Britain and other European governments that benefitted from slavery and colonialism “have a case to answer to in respect of reparatory justice.” Sir Hilary asked the government to respond with humility and openness when they receive a request for dialogue on the issue of reparations from Caribbean Governments. He further urged the Parliament to take decisive action to correct “the terrible wrongs of the past.” In discussing the legacy of slavery and colonial rule, Sir Hilary said the CARICOM governments “these past 50 years have been cleaning up the mess left behind by Britain’s colonial legacy”. He said Britain and its Parliament, could not morally and legally turn their back upon this past and walk away from the mess
they have left behind. “This Parliament has to return to the scene of its crimes, and participate as a legitimate parliament, as a legal parliament, in the healing and rehabilitation of the Caribbean” Sir Hillary said. “May the values and the spirit of development cooperation and mutual respect guide us all,” he concluded, to a standing ovation from the Parliament. The issue of Reparations has been high on the agenda for the CARICOM Heads of Government. During a press conference following their Intersessional meeting in March this year, then Chairman, Hon. Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, announced that the Caribbean Reparatory Justice Programme (CRJP) was accepted by the CARICOM Heads of government as a basis for discussions on reparations. The CRJP is part of a strategic and operational plan prepared by the Regional Reparations Commission consisting of ten points that need to be addressed. At the recently concluded Thirty-Fifth Conference of Heads of Government, held in Antigua and Barbuda 1-4 July 2014, the CARICOM Heads agreed to dispatch a Draft Notice of Complaint under cover of a letter from the Chair of the Prime Ministerial SubCommittee (PMSC) on Reparations, the Rt. Hon. Freundel Stuart, Prime Minister of Barbados, to the relevant European Governments, with a request that a Conference be held on the issue. In giving two examples of how this reparatory justice can work he underscored as
Chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission Professor Sir Hilary Beckles follows: (1) Jamaica, Britain’s largest slave colony, was left with 80% black functional illiteracy at Independence in 1962. From this circumstance the great and courageous Jamaican nation has struggled with development and poverty alleviation. The deep crisis remains. This Parliament owes the people of Jamaica an educational and human resource investment initiative. (2) Barbados, Britain’s first slave society, is now called the amputation capitol of the world. It is here that the stress profile of slavery and racial apartheid; dietary disaster and psychological trauma; and the addiction to the consumption of sugar and salt, have reached the highest peak. The country is now host to the world’s most virulent diabetes and hypertension epidemic. This Parliament owes the people of Barbados an education and health initiative. It is the same for all our countries; the Bahamas, the Leewards, the Windwards, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, and beyond.
Financing is one of the main challenges faced by agriculture value chains globally. Recently, over 700 participants from 81 countries gathered in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi to discuss and gain exposure to strategies for addressing this issue. This is according to the Caribbean Agricultural Research & Development Institute (CARDI) in a press statement on the conference which was held from July 14 to 18. CARDI stated that the conference was held at the Kenya School of Monetary Studies and was co–hosted by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) under the theme ‘Revolutionizing finance for agro-value chains’. This event formed part of an International Conference Series: Rethinking smallholder agriculture. According to CARDI, focus was placed on access to financing since it is seen as a driver of agricultural growth and transformation in the ACP countries. It was noted that in recent years, there have been significant value chain finance innovations in certain countries. But, replication and adoption have been slow in other countries, hence the need for a conference to allow stakeholders to discuss and be exposed to these innovations. CARDI stated that at
the opening ceremony, the Vice President of Kenya opined that food security can only come about by making greater use of modern t e c h n o l o g y, including bio technology and developing a correct model for financing in order to bring down the cost of borrowing, among other things. The Caribbean Farmers Network (CAFAN) and the Caribbean Agri-business Association (CABA) delivered presentations on their work programmes at the session titled ‘The Caribbean farmers challenge: factoring for farmers’, CARDI related. The youths also made their presence felt at the conference, with one showcasing his digital platform - ‘Agrocentral’, which links small farmers and businesses; while another profiled the social blog site devoted to agricultural issues.’ CARDI informed that informative sessions were held in the areas of revolutionising finance for agriculture: the tools; policy development for agro-value chain finance; and crosscutting issues in agro-value chain finance (climate change, women and youth). The first day of the Conference included a presentation titled ‘Plug and Play’ which showcased a range of ICTs and mobile platforms being implemented to support access to agriculture finance along the value chain.
Some of the areas covered by ICT platforms include provision of better information to banks, mobile and other financial institutions to aid granting of credit; and digital applications facilitating effective linkages among farmers, businesses and banks for easy access to finance. The conference also addressed best practices in agricultural value chain finance; risk management tools for agricultural finance; building a successful agrovalue chain; investment funds; crowd funding for ACP agriculture: initiatives, challenges and perspectives; and positioning farmers’ organisations in agro-value chain finance debate. CARDI stated that at the conference the Caribbean team agreed to create a platform to bring financial institutions together and sensitise them about the agriculture sectors and its financial needs. In addition, the Caribbean will give consideration to ICT platforms for farm applications. The Caribbean was represented by 15 participants from the private sector (buyers, producers, and micro finance companies) and facilitating agencies, CARDI, InterAmerican Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), CAFAN and the Caribbean Agri-business Association (CABA). (Kassim Khan)
Regional Social Security Heads Discuss Global Crisis The impact of the global financial crisis on social security institutions across the region is at the top of the agenda as CARICOM Heads of Social Security Organisations hold their 25th Meeting in St. Vincent and the Grenadines this week. The crisis has created pressure on the social security systems of Member States as they struggle to respond to the challenge of providing social protection for their citizens in a difficult economic environment. The Meeting is examining the impact of the crisis, how Member States have responded to it and how to prepare for possible future crises. Other issues being tackled include the status of social protection within the Caribbean Community, the pooling of resources among Member States and advancing the CARICOM
social protection agenda. A highlight of this threeday meeting is a discussion on the proposed implementation of a CARICOM software platform for a labour market information system (LMIS). With support from the European Union under the Tenth European Development Fund, the Secretariat plans to establish an LMIS that will contain statistical information on labour markets across Member States. The aim of this initiative is to give Member States and the Community the statistical and analyt i c a l b a s i s o n which to make policy decisions to manage labour markets within the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). The LMIS will have particular significance to the operation of the Free Movement of Persons and
Skills Regime which is one of the more advanced provisions of the CSME. A c c e l e r a t e d implementation and use of the CSME is among the Top Priorities for focussed implementation under the recently approved CARICOM Strategic Plan which seeks to improve the quality of life for citizens in the region through concrete action on matters of direct relevance and benefit to all. Other major stakeholders attending the meeting are officials of the International Labour Organization, the ILO. Dr. Cleopatra Dumbi-Henry, Director of the ILO’s International Labour Standards Department and Dr. Giovanni di Cola, Director of the ILO’s Decent Work Team and Office of the Caribbean will address delegates on critical matters of social security and protection.
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THE FIGHT FOR THE PNC Once upon a time there was one PPP. Then Burnham decided that he was born to lead. He split the party and thus emerged were two parties going by the same name, the PPP. There was the Burnhamite PPP and there was the Jaganite PPP. Burnham was unable to win over the Jaganite PPP and since the two sides could no longer see eye to eye, Burnham changed the name of his PPP to that of the PNC. This is how the PNC was
born. It was born out of a split in the PPP. Fast forward to today! There was once a party called the PNC. The PNC entered into an alliance with a capitalist group called the Reform. This was after the PPP had joined itself to a grouping that referred to itself as the Civic. The Reform eventually inveigled the PNC to be transformed into the PNC/R. There were then and still are up to now, a great many
persons who do not agree with the Reform being part of the PNC. Some of them even dispute that the Reform is part of the PNC. But it is. And many have privately refused to acknowledge the Reform. They still speak only about the PNC. After the loss of the 2006 elections where the PNC failed to gain even 35% of the popular vote, deep divisions emerged within the party. And a number of splinter
Dem boys seh...
Pee and See pee up this weekend Is funny how people does talk bout fairness. Of course, dem boys know that de only fairness is in complexion. De Pee and See keep its congress. Every two years members does meet fuh see wheh dem come from and wheh dem going. Well this time when dem meet, dem didn’t see wheh dem come from and dem didn’t get a chance fuh see wheh dem going. If GECOM ain’t ready then Pee and See certainly wasn’t ready. De first problem was wid de list. From de time Sharma and Norton open dem mouth and seh how dem gun challenge Granger de problem start. Norton and Sharma find that de voters’ list get change. De printer really had to wuk overtime. Some people who name
been pun de list suddenly find that dem couldn’t vote. Dem name fall off. One man seh that de only people who name fall off de list was de Linden people. When dem ask Granger is then dem find out that when dem travel dem lef dem name behind. De elections done and now dem boys know why Pee Pee Pee was supporting everybody except Granger. Norton tell people how he disappointed and he ain’t gun challenge Granger this year because he suddenly find out that he and all name lef off de list although he paying he dues every year. He holler fraud and tell dem reporter that de Pee And See really pee up. De thing is that dem can’t find anybody who gun do investigation to find out wha
went wrang. De AG seh that he busy trying fuh prepare he case against Uncle Glenn and Uncle Adam; de police seh that dem investigating three case and Nehaul Singh seh that he ain’t interested because nobody who got de problem ain’t dead. Dem boys seh that times change. Lang time after congress de whole party use to march to Cuffy fuh a rally. Now de congress come and gone and people ain’t even notice. Dem ain’t got no more congress before election but dem boys sure that Pee And See gun talk about how de voters’ list got faults and Pee Pee Pee gun tell dem that dem own had fault too. Talk half and tell Granger fuh hold over de congress.
groups emerged within the party. At the same time, persons began to capitalize on the weakness of the PNC. In order to maintain control of the party an alliance was forged between the party and military and police veterans. These veterans have now overrun the party. This has in turn led to further consternation within the leadership of the party because many old timers have questioned how it is that persons within no historic involvement in the leadership of the party could have been catapulted into high office within the party. This has led to resentment and deeper divisions more so since long standing members of the party and members of the party’s Executive were either forced to resign or limit their involvement in the party. Numerous stalwarts of the party have been brushed aside. Persons not known to have been connected to the party before 2006 could have in turn risen to prominence within the party. The formation of APNU has complicated things. While the other groupings apart from the PNC/R that make up APNU are considered as electorally insignificant, the very fact that they are part of APNU meant that places had to be found for them within parliament. These small groups therefore enjoy a disproportionate presence in the National Assembly. This too would have bred resentment within the party. What all of these factors mean is that what today is
being presented as the PNC/ R is not what many of the long serving members of the party consider as the original PNC. It is in this context that the leadership tussles between the Norton camp and the Granger camp must be seen. It is not tussles about who is more militant. It is a fight between those who wish to see the party be returned to its PNC roots and those that have taken control of the party and wish to ensure that it is not snatched away from them. In other words it is about a battle between the PNC and the PNC/R. The PNC/R has prevailed for the time being. But for those who now find themselves on the proverbial sidelines, they have to ask, like Burnham did in the 1950’s, what is the next step. Is its feasible to stay within the party and fight? Can the desired change be achieved
within the existing structures within the party? Those who were disenfranchised at yesterday’s elections at the Congress of the PNC/R must decide whether it would be best for them to fight for change with the existing structures of the party or breakaway and form their own party, the PNC. Their political future depends on the decision they will make. But there are many who feel that the PNC/R no longer represents the PNC as they know it to be and would like to see the original PNC emerge. Will that happen? Or will Aubrey Norton turn out to be the latest sacrificial victim in the struggle for the restoration of the PNC?
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LIFE WITHOUT FAIR G
rowing up in Trinidad, I had a more than fair idea of the many uses of the word “fair”. After all, I was deemed to be of “fair” skin and when asked to adjudicate in any contest, especially among warring neighbours, did not let my fear over-rule my attempt to be “fair”. We had the annual village “fair” and when I asked adults about any village occurrence I was told it was “none of my affair” although I had a “fairly” good idea what the answer should be. I knew that people could be “unfair” to me and by an early age had some experience in adults not behaving according to the principles of equality and justice. I will never forget an experience in my youthful days when I played cricket in the Trinidad hinterlands. I considered myself a “fast” bowler and had a “slinger” action – similar to Lasith Malinga and Fidel Edwards – but not as quick. I ran up, bowled, the batsman hit the ball in the air to the fieldsman at cover who caught it and started to celebrate. At that point the Umpire called loudly, “No ball!” The next ball, was short and rising outside the off-stump. The batsman nicked it into the wicket-keeper's gloves and despite the loud snick, heard by people in the next village, the umpire ruled, “Not out!” We expected a certain
amount of visually challenged and hearing impaired umpires in the “bush” cricket we played so at the end of the over we changed over for the next over. It is then that the batsman who had profited so handsomely from the umpiring decisions came down the pitch and asked the Umpire, “How I batting Mammoo.” “Mammoo” is Hindi for “Uncle” and it is at that point with some choice language we retired from the fray, beating a hasty retreat when the word “ g u n ” c a m e u p accompanied by “cutlass” and “shoot”. So I knew “fair” as an adjective, noun and adverb and had read that it could be used as a verb when referring to the weather in one of the English dialects as in, “Looks like it's fairing off some.” I had experienced “unfair”, but until I went to live in Barbados not as a verb. It was in Barbados that I found that I could “unfair” someone or could myself be “unfaired”. I loved it. It was the missing ingredient in the language. If I had a time machine that would take me back to the cricket match, I would carry with me not a bullwhip, gun, cutlass or a big stone. What I would take is the word “unfaired”. It is a word with power. “You unfaired me,” I would say quietly. My behavior would be very much like the very
considerate individual in the calypso who found a nocturnal visitor in the marriage chamber deiporting with his wife. When one of his friends asked, “You beat up youh wife?” He replied, “Worse than that.” “You stab she with knife?” He responded, “Worse than that. Well ah call the Mister by name, out the light in he face and I make him shame.” This would be more than just punishment for unfairing me. I have tried to track down the unique Barbadian usage of “unfair” as a verb and have not been successful. I have to conclude that it is one of those archaic words that came with the English settlers or the army and because it is so useful was kept. What amazes many of us is that the word “unfriend”, which we think of as a Facebook convenience or inconvenience, has a long history that predates social media by several centuries. According to the website “Mental Floss”, “unfriend” showed up in 1659 in this sentence, “I Hope, Sir, that we are not mutually Un-friended by this Difference which hath happened betwixt us.” Actually, “unhand” is also one of those words. An example of its use from the early Seventeenth Century is, “Unhand me you wretched coward!” In the event (an interesting phrase
since you don't have to be in an actual event to use it) that you believe its use stopped with the melodramatic silent movies, Singer-Songwriter, David Cloyd, named his 2009 debut album, “Unhand Me You Fiend.” While we use “hand” as a verb (e.g. Hand me that), it is not often we see “friend” as a verb. Mental Floss says, “A common lament in pieces about 'kids these days and their social whatsawhozits' is “when did 'friend' become a verb?!” The answer is: Sometime in the 1400s. In the earliest examples of the verb 'friend' from the OED (Oxford English Dictionary), it means to make friends. You could go to a place and 'friend' some people there. It also had the meaning of help someone out, be a friend to them, e.g., 'Reports came that the King would friend Lauderdale,' an example from 1698.” While Mental Floss might know that the word “befriend” exists and is a verb, we in the Caribbean have been using “friend” as a verb for a long time now. In my village, when a man and woman got very close, we would say that “Tom friending with Janet” or vice versa but never in the presence of Janet's husband
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or Tom's wife. This is why I am not surprised that a team of researchers has come up with a list of two dozen “ultraconserved words” that have survived 150 centuries. It includes some predictable entries: “mother,” “not,” “what,” “to hear” and “man.” It also contains surprises: “to flow,” “ashes” and “worm.” In fact, they have put together a little speech of four sentences which if you went back 15,000 years and spoke these words to hunter-gatherers in Asia in any one of hundreds of modern
languages, there is a chance they would understand at least some of what you were saying. The speech, “You, hear me! Give this fire to that old man. Pull the black worm off the bark and give it to the mother. And no spitting in the ashes!” I would add, “And furthermore, unhand me before I unfriend you.” *Tony Deyal was last seen saying that the word “Zenzizenzizenzic” is archaic but means “to the power of eight” and was in common use because it represented the square of squares squarely.
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We buy & sell vehicles for cash. Also parts available & 30 seater buses; extra Cab pickups; 2006 Tacoma- Call: 680-3154 First Class Auto: 2006 Premio, 2006 Allion, 2004 Spacio, IST, Axela, Fielder, Rush – Call: 609-8188; 6383045 New Toyota Noah, 2 Televisions, reverse camera, rims, low mileage – Tel: 6292619, 663-2700. Owner leaving country, best offer accepted.
1 – 2storey wooden & Concrete house with 5 bedrooms upper flat & lower flat 4 apartments located@ Shell Road, kitty - $34M – Tel:642-7898 House located @ Republic Gardens - $45M, Atlantic Gardens - $80M, Enterprise $75M. Tel: 223-8479/ 6473768. www.spaceseek.gy House located @ Foulis $75M, Oceanic Ville - $75MTel: 223-8479/ 647-3768. www.spaceseek.gy Houses located @ Nandy Park - $45M, Diamond- $31M & La Parfaite Harmonie $20M. Tel: 223-8479/ 6473768. www.spaceseek.gy 1-2 Storey House &1 Flat house both for $33 Million, prime location, 1-3 storey building with business - $80M – Call: 6864899 or 684-3718 Property @ GoodHope, E.C.D - Tel:621-1722 Section A, 274 Great Diamond, E.B.D, 56’X40’ building on 111’ by 60’ land. $21 Million – Tel: 233-2546, 233-5859 One 2 Storey house & land for sale 25X58 on the West Bank Demerara - $15MContact:622-1782; 658-5803
CAR RENTAL Dolly’s Car Rental - Call: 225-7126/ 226-3693 dollys autorental@yahoo.com/ www.dolly sautorental.com Progressive Auto Rental: Cars & SUV for rental- $4,000 & up per day- Call: 643-5122, 219-3900 ,Email:pro_ autorental @yahoo.com
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TOURS SURINAME SUMMER TOUR: SHOPPING CASINO, DOLPHIN ETC. AUGUST 1ST-4TH, 7TH 13TH & 18TH -22ND – TEL: 639-2663; 644-0185; 6655171 OR 227-8290
SERVICES PLANNING AN EVENT? BIRTHDAY PARTY, GRADUATION,WEDDINGS, ANNIVERSARY,ETC.–CALL DIAMOND TENTS: 2161043; 677-6620 Permanent & Visitors Vi s a Applications, Professional Immigration Consultant Room D5 Maraj Building Call Sabita: 2256496, 662-6045 Repairs, sales & spares, air conditioning, microwaves, washer, fridges & stoves. Ultra Cool, call: 225-9032,647-2943 Repairs to Fridge, Freezer, AC, Washers, Stoves: Call 683-1312, 627-3206 (Nick) We repair fridge, freezer, AC, washer, dryer Call Omar: 2310655,683-8734 Computerise your business or get support for Peachtree, ETC. including payroll, Semitron Business Services semitrongy@outlook.com 227-7950 Repairs to refrigerators, gas stoves, washing machines, A/C units – Call Lindon: 6411086, 694-2202, 227-8907 For low cost: Repairs to fridge, freezer, A/C unit, microwaves, TV & washing machine – Call: 629-4946 or 225-4822 ACCOMMODATION Tourist Villa: Furnished Rooms & apartments- 1, 2 &3 bedroom apartments at affordable rates – Lot 95 Fifth Avenue, Subryanville – Tel: 227-2199; 227-2189; 227-2186 TAXI SERVICES
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LAND FOR SALE Duke Street – 130 x 21 - $80M, Oceanic Ville – 55 x 95 - $35M -Tel: 223-8479/ 647-3768. At Eccles Housing Scheme price $6.5M - negotiable Call:616-6000
I.A.S Second Street Alberttown, summer classes – 4-17yrs ($5,000 for six weeks), CXC classes for adults, $1200 per subject – Tel: 223-7906; 690-5008 Individual tutoring available for CXC P.O.A in comfort of your own home – Call today for affordable rates: 688-3538
MASSAGE The Gents Spa: Beautiful qualified masseuses, new attendants from Cuba & Trinidad, drinks available – Tel: 657- 5979 FOR SALE/RENT Mining blocks for sale or lease in Potaro- Call: 6940145
GR TAXI: 225-7878; 2271982 or 219-5000 WANTED Experienced Taxi drivers at Gem’s Taxi – Contact: 6679013 or 225-4526 Men to burn charcoals – Call: 618-0487 Labours for wood concession, accommodation provided - $5,000 per day – Call: 618-0487
Toyota AT212, AT192, AT170, L-Touring Wagon, AE110 Corolla, Raum, IST, FunCargo, Yamaha R1 1000cc – Tel: 6445096; 697-1453 Smart Choice Auto Sales: unregistered old & new model Spacio, 212, Voxy, BlueBird – Call: 652-3820/ 665-4529 1 AE91 PGG Series, good working condition, $325,000 negotiable – Tel:638-1345; 267-1514 Tractor Massey Ferguson (Canada) MF135- $1.3M, MF165-$1.9M, MF265$2.1M, MF285-$2.5M Pickup - $1.7M – Call: 682-5230/ 628-9596 2004 Toyota Spacio- Back & front camera, TV/DVD/ CD, unregistered - $2.2M – Tel: 617-2891 Premio – PPP Series - $2.2M and unregistered - $2.450M, negotiable, Spacio PRR - $1.8M –Tel:697-0294; 604-9591 Prado Land Cruiser, automatic, PHH series, $6.8M. Tel: 233-2546, 6885554 2010 Toyota Noah, 13,000Km, smart edition, PSS series, $6.8M – Tel: 233-2546, 6885554 Toyota RAV 4 PMM Series, mint condition. Tel: 602-6986 1600 CC Toyota Sprinter AE100- Contact:645-0240 or 629-3814 Toyota Will VS duty free $1.15M negotiable or duty paid $2.3M negotiable, Corolla AE100 Sprinter - $725,000 neg. Contact:656-3944 Toyota Glanza PLL series, lady Driven - $1M negotiable – Call: 670-7206 Unregistered Toyota Premio - $2.350M – Call: 691-7475 or 657-1796 One Toyota RAV4, 2002 Model, engine capacity 2000cc, in excellent condition, Price negotiable - Tel: 611-1385 (Continued on page 24)
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Thanks to the Emergency Doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital
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FOR RENT PLANNING AN EVENT? BIRTHDAY PARTY, GRADUATION,WEDDINGS, ANNIVERSARY, ETC. CALL DIAMOND TENTS: 216-1043; 677-6620 Executive houses & apartments, Queenstown US$1,800, Bel-Air Springs US$2,500, Shamrock Gardens - US$1,800- Tel: 2238479/ 647-3768. www.spaceseek.gy Houses & apartments: One bedroom @ Kitty - $40,000, Bel-Air Park - US$2,500-Tel: 223-8479/ 647-3768. www.spaceseek.gy Houses & Apartments: Durban Backlands US$4,000, Ogle- US$1,200— Tel: 223-8479/ 647-3768. www.spaceseek.gy Three bedrooms bottom flat for rent at Lot 123 Regent Road Bourda – Call: 226-9582 1-2 Storey house with workshop space ( mechanic welding) in Bartica, also 1 land for sale - $11.5M neg. Contact:685-2707 Furnished and unfurnished apartment/house in healthy & safe environment – Call: 698-6496 One spacious 2 bedroom bottom flat (unfurnished, grilled, mesh, parking) in Atlantic Gardens – Contact: 622-4746; 220-0959. Price: $60,000.gy Hair Salon and shop for rent in Mon-Repos – Tel:220-7315 or 626-0020 Fully furnished 1 & 2 bedroom apartments located in Georgetown, for long & short term rentalContact:692-6306, 610-6101 for more info.
WANTED Over edge and straight stitch operator to work at Garment Factory – Call: 2222541 Monday – Friday Salesgirl/boys and porters apply in person, to Avinash Water Street 8:30 to 4:30 Looking for two or three bedroom apartment anywhere in Georgetown – Call: 698-5103 One live in maid must know to cook – Tel: 669-6030 Experienced minibus and hire car drivers also dispatchers, for transportation service Call: 645-0025 Husband & Wife to take care of farm land – Tel:623-2728 Any amount of scrap metal to buy – Tel:618-1967; 6232728; 698-4321 or 629-2912 We buy previously used green heart wood from demolished building in Central Georgetown area – Tel: 653-4797 Handy boys to work live in accommodation and meals are free- Tel:228-5655; 6281756 Lorry drivers to work labour lorry at Enmore Estate – Tel:228-5655; 628-1756 Experienced cashiers, counter clerks, roti/puri cooks, kitchen assistant. Apply in person @ Hacks Halaal, 5 Commerce St. Two salesgirl - $18,000 per week, must know to prepare standard rated bills- Call: 223-9676 One handyman/gardener, age:30-50yrs old, preferably living on the E.B.D – Contact:648-3817 Experienced land dredge worker – Tel: 681-3801 Professional seamstressmust be able to measure and cut- Salary: $150,000 per month Roxie’s Fashion: 6224386 & 696-4397
DEAR EDITOR, I take this opportunity to share a positive story of my family experience with the emergency service at the Georgetown Hospital. On the 17th July my mother had to be rushed to the Georgetown Hospital from Essequibo Coast. She had been involved in a freak accident where she suffered nine fractured ribs, a fractured femur and a fractured hip. Unable to deal with this at Suddie Hospital, she was referred to Georgetown
Hospital. The nurse and doctor at the registration/ reception were very pleasant, quick and informative. The General Surgeon who received her was extremely patient, kind and detailed in his explanation. I was extremely proud and pleased with the interaction with the young orthopedic team and the care they delivered to my mother. Thank you to the emergency medical technician who took care in administering her duties. I
also wish to thank the young female porter who was very gentle and pleasant in the execution of her duties. To the team at the Suddie Hospital, Sister Pearson, Nurse Mentor, the young male doctor and the ambulance driver, thank you, you all did a wonderful job! My sisters and I were very pleased and happy with the service and care our mother received through the emergency care and we like to say a big thank to the teams that worked the 22:30hrs to
9:00am shift 17th July to 18th July 2014. Continue to enjoy and practice great team work, continue to care. I also take this opportunity to express sincere gratitude our neighbours at Henrietta, Essequibo Coast Sirah, her son Eddie, Cousin Iva, Ashna, Cousin Courline and Aunty Norma thank you only because of your quick thinking and care we still have our mother with us. Heartfelt thank to you all. Cassie
Traffic Wardens’ attire not suitable DEAR EDITOR, Permit me space in your column to share my view on the topic, “Traffic Police fitted with bowties!” Not so long ago, some police traffic ranks were seen on the streets of Linden town attired in khaki shirts and black trousers. Quite recently, a change was instituted, whereby, they are now dressed in white shirts and the usual
black trousers but what is very amusing, is the introduction of a bowtie on their necks, which makes them appear as waitresses or attendances in a gambling saloon. During my childhood, I was subjected and was fitted with a bowtie to attend church, which I had to wear or my mother would have beaten the hell out of me, but it’s something I mentally
rejected. It’s my opinion, “a bowtie makes a person or people appear as servant inside houses of those who existed many centuries ago”. I’m not a long-tie person either, but I would have preferred the traffic wardens to be dressed with long tie which would have made them look better, even though, long tie around necks have its historic stigma for a particular
ethnic group. Taxpayer’s money must be spent properly, for example, “if a traffic police works in the sun daily with white shirts, how would he or she look in their white attire in a few months of washing and wearing regularly?” A change must come, but it must be for the better and not just for change. Winslow Parris
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Early childhood education gains attention A community meeting on Friday last at the Sophia Nursery School saw issues ranging from the new nursery age to the $10,000 Government assured cash grant being discussed. The interactive meeting was spearheaded by Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, who was accompanied by senior officers. Speaking at the forum Minister Manickchand highlighted that since the new nursery admission age has been lowered to three years, three months, parents must make serious efforts to prepare their children for the new school year starting in September. The Minister noted that with children properly prepared from home with basic knowledge and understanding of simple but important things like using the toilet and eating by themselves can create children who are less dependent on the teachers. “You have a duty to train your children to do simple things…Take using the toilet for example; every time a teacher has to leave the class to take a child to use the toilet, all the other children are left alone and valuable teaching
time is lost. If you don’t do what you are supposed to do as parents and you send your child to school untrained, you are affecting the lives of all these other children,” the Minister said. Parents were encouraged too to teach their children basic but important information such as their names, address, parents’ names, and basic literacy and numeracy. According to Minister Manickchand, equipping children with such information not only prepares them for school, but also enhances their learning ability. The Minister told residents that their children are coming into the nursery school system at a time when Guyana leads the Caribbean in nursery education. “Your children are actually coming into the nursery sector at a time when it is at its best. We have the most nursery schools Guyana has ever seen, with 85 percent of our
nursery aged children being able to attend a nursery school. These statistics are the highest in the Commonwealth Caribbean,” highlighted the Minister. She stressed that presently 69 percent of the teachers in Guyana are trained. The Head Teacher of Happy Hearts Nursery School, Ms. Gillian Orderson and the District Education Officer (Nursery), Ms. Shirley Madray also attended the meeting with both making presentations to parents about simple but effective ways of teaching children about shapes, colours, letters and numbers. They also emphasized the need for parents to encourage their children to converse with them in complete sentences since this practice plays a pivotal role in developing the expression skills of children. At the forum too, the Education Minister took the opportunity to speak to the Sophia community about the $10,000 cash grant for
children in public schools. Parents were told that this unprecedented move by government to provide this cash grant is as a result of the economic growth experienced by Guyana through the shrewd stewardship of the PPP/C government. “For the first time in the history of Guyana and the first country in this part of the world, the Guyana Government is giving to every single child on the public school register $10,000 the Minister said. Residents were asked whether they preferred to receive the money by way of cash voucher or a goods voucher. The majority of the parents indicated their preference for the cash voucher which they prefer to redeem at the post office. Over the next few weeks, the Minster will be having a series of these meetings at other locations to address the concerns of parents, particularly those preparing their children to enter the nursery sector.
Twenty-one boat operators complete training at Annai - Rupununi area
Monday July 28, 2014 ARIES (March 21 -April 19): A big adventure is yours for the taking today -- all you have to do is step up and claim it! You may find that someone close is aching to come along but just can't quite bring themselves to ask you. TAURUS (April 20 - May 20): A close friend or colleague suggests an alliance to strengthen you both -- and you should go for it! Your personal energy is fine, but when it's combined with another's, it is indomitable. GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): Someone is taking you just a bit too seriously today -- but it's not your fault! They are just not quite on your wavelength, and that could mean that you've just got to speak more carefully. CANCER (June 21 - July 22): Don't worry about how great things are today -- you do deserve this, and you shouldn't fear for the future. Life is getting even better, actually, as long as you push yourself to do things right. LEO (July 23 - Aug. 22): You've got enough heart for any problems that come your way today -- though they may avoid you if they know what's good for them! You can use your energy to solve problems all over town. VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22): YA big plan may be unraveling somewhat today -- so see if you can force it to abide by your will. That could take all your energy, but you can tell that it will soon be replenished.
LIBRA (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22):Explore your creative side today -- things are definitely looking up for you, but you've got to make sure that all options are open. Things should start to settle down pretty quickly. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21):This is not a good time for you to expect privileged treatment from the boss or any other authority figures -- ask for no more than you can reasonably expect to get from them. Lie low, even. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 Dec. 21): Creative juices are flowing today. That could mean it's time to make a cake or that it's time to launch an entirely new career as an artist. It's up to you, but this energy must be put to use. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19): IAt least one -- and likely many more -- of your people could be making trouble for you. Demands flow in more rapidly than you can process them, but the good news is that they should slow down by this evening. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18): Sudden changes just don't faze you like they do most people -- but since you're surrounded by people, that still means you've got work to do today. Help shepherd them through the worst of it. PISCES (Feb. 19 - March 20): Those around you are harder to deal with than usual -- but where can you go? It's just one of those days when you need to accommodate people a little more than usual. You can endure.
Participants of the training programme. Twenty–one boat operators from the AnnaiRupununi area are now better
Squall sends trees crashing ... From page 16 their yard. Fortunately for the family, the room that they chose to seek refuge in was the only on that remained intact. Nadia Cummings is thankful that the entire family escaped unhurt, although there was extensive damage to their roof and she's unsure where the family will sleep. Power was subsequently disconnected from the area to enable repairs to be conducted.
equipped to ply their trade, given their recent participation in a training exercise hosted by Conservation International, the Guyana Tourism Authority and the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD). According to a release from MARAD, the three entities partnered to provide training and certification for boat operators in the AnnaiRupununi area. The training and certification programme was conducted by MARAD at Bina Hill in the Annai area. Participants were drawn from Surana, Apoteri, Yakarinta, Kwatamang, Crashwater, Rewa, and Aranaputa Villages located in
the Annai area. On July 17, 2014, at the end of the training, twenty-one (21) successful participants were awarded with certificates of competency to operate as boat captains under the Licensing of Ships Regulations, 2001. The Maritime Administration Department has said that it is committed to promoting maritime safety throughout Guyana. “In this instant the Department’s effort in the Annai- Rupununi area will now empower boat operators to legally ply their trade and enhance their income earning potential, particularly in the tourism sector,” the release stated.
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Antigua PM wants free movement of goods in OECS KINGSTOWN, St Vincent - CMC — Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, has said that the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) should consider unrestricted circulation of commercial goods within the grouping. Speaking as outgoing OECS Chairman Saturday, Browne also told the opening of the of the 59th meeting of the OECS Monetary Authority and the OECS Heads of Government, that the sub-grouping needs seek new ways to respond to the economic woes of members. “While I would be the first to acknowledge that the free circulation of goods regime is a revenue-sensitive matter, a way can be found to remove the present restrictions on the movement of goods between member states and thus stimulate OECS cross-border trade.” He said that member states are being pounded by international economic turbulence and called for further integration and pooling of resources.
Gaston Browne Browne’s comments on challenges facing the region were similar to those of St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister, Ralph Gonsalves Friday, as he took over chairmanship of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank. Gonsalves said, “We always must remember that the constraints of small size, the effects of the openness of our economies and our essential or indeed existential vulnerabilities, that there are
always issues which we have to address and to overcome those limitations while at the same time taking advantage of the possibilities which are inherent among us and in the regional and global system.” He said the figures indicate that there is only weak to moderate growth in the economies of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union. “These are our main trading partners. But even if we hav e a m o d e r a t e recovery in the global economy, there is always a time lag between what takes place there and what takes place here.” He said that owing to the time lag the region will not see the full impact of that moderate improvement soon. “So that across the currency union, the expectation is that economic activity will remain moderate to low and that we will probably, as a currency union, not return to the precrisis level until by the end of next year.”
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High interest in St .Lucia economic citizenship – PM CASTRIES, St. Lucia CMC- Prime Minister Kenny Anthony has reported significant interest across the globe since St Lucia announced three months ago that it would be exploring possible introduction of an economic citizenship programme. During her throne speech in April, Governor General Dame Pearlette Louisy, said that the government would establish a task force to examine existing programmes in other countries and make recommendations to cabinet. “The announcement by the Governor General has evoked tremendous interest right across the globe on this issue,” said Anthony who last week returned from a number of investment missions in
Dr. Kenny Anthony Europe. Dr. Anthony, who is also Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs, Planning and Social Security, said he felt the real reason for the
interest was because St Lucia has a good reputation with an integrity that was ‘as solid as ever’. “People believe in St Lucia and they know if we have to go that route we will not only introduce an attractive programme, but a programme that can earn us respect and admiration,” he said. While acknowledging that there was ‘a lot of interest’ in the initiative, Anthony however made it clear that St. Lucia could not ‘rest on our laurels’. He disclosed that he had written to the leader of the opposition to nominate someone on the task force mentioned by Dame Pearlette, and said that a proposal on this body would go before cabinet next week.
$1.4B spent on Sugar Barracks Relocation programme
Some of the 39 houses, located in Steelfield (Spicy Hill) Trelawny, which were handed over to sugar workers in the parish earlier this year. The housing development comes under the European Union-funded Sugar Barracks Relocation project. KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) — Government has spent approximately $1.4 billion to construct 84 concrete houses in sugar dependent areas, under the European Union (EU funded Sugar Barracks Relocation Programme. According to former Field Supervisor at the Frome Estate in Westmoreland, Ercelyn Black, “the programme is a blessing”. Black, who worked on the estate for 20 years, is a recipient of a two-bedroom unit in Barham, Westmoreland, where she now lives with five other family members. “It is the most wonderful thing anyone could have done for us the sugar workers,” she said.
The programme is an initiative of the Sugar Transformation Unit (STU), which is funded by the EU in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. The EU’s support for the programme is part of its wider commitment to the local sugar industry, through the Sugar Sector Budget Support Programme, which aims to assist in the economic diversification, social resilience, and environmental sustainability of sugar dependent areas. Head of the STU, George Callaghan said that the Sugar Barracks Relocation Project was undertaken to demolish houses that were built on sugar estates 30 to 40 years ago.
“It was agreed that we replace all the dilapidated houses with new ones on lands reserved during the divestment of the sugar industry. The intention is to build wholesome communities and remove the stigma associated with living in sugar barracks,” Callaghan said. “We are not merely building houses we are also building modern communities with necessary infrastructures such as electricity, roads and water.” The houses are one, two, and three-bedroom units. Thirty-nine have been built in Steelfield, Trelawny; while six have been built at Barham, 17 in Shewsberry, and 22 in Muesmore, all in Westmoreland.
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Barbados Prime Minister ‘opens door’ for Owen Arthur following resignation BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - CMC - Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has expressed no surprise at former prime minister, Owen Arthur’s resignation, from the Opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP), and BLP Leader Mia Mottley, thanked Arthur for his service. Arthur, on Friday, handed in his letter of resignation with immediate effect to the Office of the Opposition BLP, ending 43 years of membership in which he led the party and country as prime minister for 14 years. Owen Arthur, who led the party to defeat in the 2013 general election but retained his parliamentary seat in the constituency of St Peter, indicated that he will remain in parliament as an independent member until his term of office comes to an end in 2018. Arthur was Prime Minister of Barbados from 1994 to 2008, making him the longest serving Barbadian Prime Minister to date. He was also Leader of the Opposition in Barbados from 2010 to 2013. Stuart, who heads the
Freundel Stuart (left) and Owen Arthur Democratic Labour Party (DLP), on Friday cited a historical example of a sitting BLP member of parliament – at the time representing what is now Arthur’s constituency of St Peter – resigning to cross the floor and join the then governing DLP, led by Errol Barrow. Stuart suggested Arthur is free to follow the example of history.
“Soon or later members of parliament get to realise that the Barbados Labour Party is not the place to be…if Mr Arthur has now got to the stage of this realisation, I am glad for him…I’m glad that he has seen the light, the light was there ever since.” Opposition Leader, Mia Mottley, said, “Owen Arthur served the Barbados Labour Party and Barbados at a
Agri ministry provides update on drought mitigation tomorrow Jamaica Gleaner - The acting Agriculture Minister Derrick Kellier is to update the nation this week on some of the strategies being put in place to alleviate the impact of the drought conditions on the sector. The agriculture ministry says Kellier will
also outline the government’s response to any food shortage that may arise as a result. The update will come during a press conference schedule for the ministry’s Hope Road head offices tomorrow. It is reported that the dry spell has resulted in a shortage of some produce.
Prakash again calls on Anil to step down
Prakash Ramadhar
Trinidad Express - Issues highlighted in the LifeSport audit report are a “very grave cause for concern regarding serious breach-es of the law and the practices of good governance and management of the Life Sport pro-gramme,” Congress of the People political leader Prakash Ramadhar has said. “The contents of this report have been referred to several institutions for further investigation to determine whe-ther criminal acts or other breaches of the Integrity in Public Life Act and/or acts of serious misconduct, meriting criminal or disciplinary char-ges being laid, have been committed,” he said in a statement Saturday. “In light of these findings and further investigations, and the very grave implications arising from them, the Congress of the People again calls on Minister Roberts to recuse himself from his ministerial responsibilities until these investigations are concluded and decisions taken in respect of their findings,” Ramadhar said.
critical time before the end of the last century. He helped to lay the foundation for the Barbados that is and the Barbados that we are struggling to preserve”. She added, “These are extraordinary times, and extraordinary times require of us courage and extra ordinary action”.
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UNHCR commends Suriname on amending nationality law Jamaica Gleaner - The United Nations Refugee Agency has welcomed a decision by Suriname’s National Assembly that enables mothers to pass on nationality to their children. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said the important amendment to the 1975 Law on Nationality and Residence ensures gender equality in nationality laws, and brings the laws into compliance with international standards. UNHCR said the changes, including the right of women to confer their nationality to their spouses, “will provide important safeguards to eliminate gender discrimination and prevent statelessness due to loss of nationality”. The new legislation that was passed unanimously this month by the National Assembly made changes to host of matters regarding the Surinamese nationality. The law also made it easier to acquire the nationality and more difficult to lose it. In addition, the new law gives women the same right as men to confer their nationality on their spouses and introduce important safeguards to prevent statelessness due to loss of nationality. Suriname joins Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Kenya, Monaco, Morocco, Senegal, Tunisia, Yemen and Zimbabwe to become the 12th country in the past 10 years to enact reforms to ensure gender parity in its nationality laws. According to the UNHCR, several states are also “actively supporting the recently launched International Campaign to End Gender Discrimination in Nationality Laws”. The initiative aims to incorporate gender equality in legislation. The campaign advances advocacy, training and research initiatives, and leads up to the Campaign to End Statelessness, to be launched by UNHCR in September 2014.
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Fighting in Gaza abates, but truce hopes look fragile (Reuters) - Fighting subsided in Gaza yesterday after Hamas Islamist militants said they backed a 24-hour humanitarian truce and U.S. President Barack Obama called for a ceasefire but there was no sign of any comprehensive deal to end fighting with Israel. Hamas said it had endorsed a call by the United Nations for a pause in the fighting in light of the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which begins today. Some firing of rockets continued after the time that Hamas had announced it would put its guns aside and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu questioned the validity of the truce. Obama spoke by phone on Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and stressed the need for an immediate, unconditional humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, the White House said. Urging a permanent end to hostilities on the basis of the 2012 ceasefire agreement, Obama added that “ultimately, any lasting solution to the IsraeliPalestinian conflict must ensure the disarmament of terrorist groups and the demilitarization of Gaza.” Israeli artillery guns also fired barrages into the Gaza Strip, Israeli media reported, although the objects of the fire was initially unclear. “Hamas doesn’t even accept its own ceasefire, it’s continuing to fire at us as we speak,” Netanyahu said in an interview with CNN, adding that Israel would “take whatever action is necessary to protect our people”. Nonetheless, Gaza Strip residents and Reuters witnesses said Israeli shelling and Hamas missile launches had slowly subsided through the afternoon, suggesting a de facto truce might be taking shape as international efforts to broker a permanent ceasefire appeared to flounder. However, Israel’s military has said it will need more time to destroy a warren of tunnels criss-crossing the Gaza border that it says is one of its main objectives. Egypt had also destroyed 13 tunnels which crossed into its territory, an Egyptian general said on his Facebook page. It was “a continuation of the efforts by the armed forces in protecting the borders of the state from smugglers and terrorists,” Brigadier General Mohamed Samir Abdulaziz Ghoneim said. Israel and the Hamas
Israeli soldiers gather at a staging area after crossing back into Israel from the Gaza Strip July 27, 2014. Credit: REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun Islamists who control Gaza had agreed to a 12-hour ceasefire on Saturday to allow Palestinians to stock up on supplies and retrieve bodies from under the rubble. Netanyahu’s cabinet voted to extend the truce until midnight yesterday at the request of the United Nations, but called it off when Hamas launched rockets into Israel during the morning. Palestinian medics said at least 10 people had died in the wave of subsequent strikes that swept Gaza. Some 1,031 Palestinians, mainly civilians and including many children, have been killed in the 20-day conflict. A Gaza health ministry official issued revised figures, saying that 30 fewer people than thought had died in the conflict. Israel says 43 of its soldiers have died, along with three civilians killed by rocket and mortar fire out of the
Mediterranean enclave. The military said an investigation into an attack last Thursday on a U.N.-run school in which 15 people were killed showed that a single errant mortar shell landed in an empty courtyard, denying it was responsible for the deaths. Israel launched its Gaza offensive on July 8, saying its aim was to halt rocket attacks by Hamas and its allies. After aerial and naval bombardment failed to quell the outgunned guerrillas, Israel poured ground forces into the Gaza Strip 10 days later, looking to knock out Hamas’s rocket stores and destroy the vast network of tunnels. The army says its drive to find and eliminate tunnels would continue through any temporary truce. A poll published by
Aruba to release Venezuelan diplomat sought by US BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The governments of Venezuela and Aruba said yesterday that a former Venezuelan general wanted by the United States on drug charges would be released by authorities on the Dutch Caribbean island and brought home shortly. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua read parts of what he said was a letter from the Netherlands’ ambassador in Caracas agreeing with the Venezuelan government’s position that Hugo Carvajal’s detention violated international law because he was sent to Aruba as Venezuela’s consul and was carrying a diplomatic passport. Jaua said President Nicolas Maduro had sent a highlevel mission to Aruba on a private plane to bring Carvajal home no later than today. Authorities in Aruba had argued that Carvajal didn’t have immunity from arrest because he had yet to be accredited by the Netherlands, which manages the foreign affairs of its former colony that sits off the coast of Venezuela. But at a hastily called news conference in Aruba’s capital, the island’s justice minister said Carvajal would be freed from detention under a decision yesterday by the Dutch government. Dowers said Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans had decided Carvajal did have immunity but also declared him “persona non grata” — a term used by governments to remove foreign diplomats.
Israel’s Channel 10 television said some 87 percent of respondents wanted Israel to continue the operation until Hamas was toppled. Diplomatic efforts led by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to end the conflict have shown little sign of progress. Israel and Hamas have set conditions that appear
irreconcilable. Hamas wants an end to the Israeli-Egyptian economic blockade of Gaza before agreeing to halt hostilities. Israel has signalled it could make concessions towards that end, but only if Gaza’s militant groups are stripped of their weapons. “Hamas must be permanently stripped of its missiles and tunnels in a supervised manner,” Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said, “In return we will agree to a host of economic alleviations,” the security cabinet member said on Facebook. The main U.N. agency in Gaza, UNRWA, said 167,269 displaced Palestinians have taken shelter in its schools and buildings, following repeated calls by Israel for civilians to evacuate whole neighbourhoods ahead of military operations. But in southern Gaza, residents of villages near the town of Khan Younis attacked the offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross, torching furniture and causing damage, saying the
organisation had not done enough to help them. During the lull in fighting inside Gaza on Saturday, residents flooded into the streets to discover scenes of massive destruction in some areas, including Beit Hanoun in the north and Shejaia in the east. An Israeli official said the army hoped the widespread desolation would persuade Gazans to put pressure on Hamas to stop the fighting for fear of yet more devastation. The Israeli military says its forces have uncovered more than 30 tunnels in Gaza, with some of the burrows reaching into Israeli territory and designed to launch surprise attacks on Jewish communities along the border. The military said yesterday it found a tunnel that led directly into the dining room of an Israeli kibbutz. Other underground passages, the military says, serve as weapons caches and Hamas bunkers. One official said troops had found it easier to operate during the truce as the immediate threat to their safety was diminished.
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Fighting complicates Ukraine crash Boko Haram kidnaps wife of Cameroon’s vice probe, U.S., EU prepare Russia sanctions said the fighting itself could (Reuters) - Fierce Department sought to bolster PM, kills at least three fighting affect the crash site, in eastern Ukraine the case for robust action by (Reuters) - Nigerian Boko Haram militants kidnapped the wife of Cameroon’s vice prime minister and killed at least three people yesterday in a cross-border attack involving more than 200 assailants in the northern town of Kolofata, Cameroon officials said. A local religious leader, or lamido, named Seini Boukar Lamine, who is also the town’s mayor, and five members of his family were also kidnapped in a separate attack on his home. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Boko Haram, an Islamist group which made international headlines with the abduction of 200 Nigerian schoolgirls in April, has stepped up cross-border attacks into Cameroon in recent weeks. Cameroon has deployed troops to its northern region, joining international efforts to combat the militants. “I can confirm that the home of Vice Prime Minister Amadou Ali in Kolofata came under a savage attack from Boko Haram militants,” government spokesman Issa Tchiroma, who is also communications minister, told Reuters by telephone. “They unfortunately took away his wife. They also attacked the Lamido’s residence and he was also kidnapped,” he said, adding that at least three people were killed in the attack. Tchiroma told a press conference later yesterday that the Cameroonian army had taken the town of Kolofata back under control
after repulsing the militants, who he said had used “brutal and unqualified violence”. “We do not have all the facts in order to give full information on the exact circumstances and the victim toll of this attack,” Tchiroma said on state television. A Cameroon military commander in the region told Reuters security officials had taken the vice prime minister away to a neighbouring town. He had been at home to celebrate the Muslim feast of Ramadan with his family when the attack happened. Yesterday’s attack is the third Boko Haram attack in Cameroon since Friday. At least four soldiers were killed in the two previous attacks. On Friday, some 22 suspected Boko Haram militants who had been held in Cameroon’s northern hub of Maroua since March were sentenced to prison sentences ranging from 10 to 20 years. It was not immediately clear whether the attacks were related to the sentencing of the militants. Boko Haram have killed hundreds of people this year, mostly in northeastern Nigeria, although they have bombed places across the country. The group rejects Western-style education and is trying to carve out a de facto Islamic state in northern Nigeria. Yesterday, a bomb attack on a Catholic church in northern Nigeria’s main city of Kano killed five people and wounded eight, a senior police officer said. Christian churches have been a favourite target for the militants.
where a Malaysian airliner was downed further complicated an investigation yesterday as Europe and the United States prepared economic sanctions on Russia over the conflict. At least thirteen people were killed in clashes between Ukrainian troops and proRussian rebels which raged in five areas around the wider region. International monitors said they had abandoned plans to visit the crash site due to fears it was not safe, even though Malaysia said earlier rebels had agreed to provide access. Ukraine said it was trying to dislodge the rebels, but denied it was fighting near the crash site, saying the separatists had put the monitors off by falsely claiming that the army was operating nearby. Russia dismissed U.S. allegations it was about to hand over more missiles to the separatists, who Western leaders say almost certainly shot the airliner down by mistake with a Russiansupplied surface-to-air missile. The separatists deny any involvement and Moscow says it has not supplied them, suggesting Ukrainian forces were to blame. “Kiev is trying to destroy the evidence of a crime by its army,” separatist leader Aleksander Borodai said, referring to a Ukrainian army offensive some distance from the site yesterday. With European states trying to minimise the impact of any future sanctions against Russia on their own economies, the U.S. State
releasing images it said showed Russian forces had fired across the border at Ukrainian military in the last week. The images, which show marks on the ground at what the State Department said were launch sites and impact craters around Ukrainian military locations, indicated fire from multiple rocket launchers, the department said. It also said the images offered evidence that Russia-backed separatists inside Ukraine had fired on Ukrainian forces using heavy artillery supplied by Russia. Washington said on Friday another transfer from Russia to Ukrainian separatists, this time of heavy-caliber multiplelaunch rocket systems, appeared to be imminent and that Russian forces were slowly building up along the Ukrainian border. Russia said recent international inspections had revealed no evidence of Russian military violations, without giving details. Members of the European Union, spurred into action by the deaths of 298 people in the airliner, were expected to try to reach a final deal on Tuesday on measures including closing the bloc’s capital markets to Russian state banks, an embargo on arms sales and restrictions on dual-use and energy technologies. The EU added new names on Friday to its list of individuals and companies facing travel bans and asset freezes over their alleged
Aleksander Borodai involvement in Ukraine and could agree to extend the list further as early as today. Washington, which has taken the lead in imposing individual and corporate penalties on Russia, said on Friday it was likely to follow up on any new EU move with more sanctions of its own. The Ukrainian government said its forces were advancing towards the crash site to try to free it from the rebels, who have impeded the work of international monitors and whom Kiev accuses of tampering with evidence pointing to who shot it down. Only a few international experts have so far been able to get to the site, access to which is negotiated with the rebels. “All our troops are aiming to get there and liberate this territory so that we can guarantee that international experts can carry out a 100percent investigation of the site and get all proof needed to deduce the real reason for this tragedy,” said Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for Ukraine’s Security Council. International monitors
underlining the growing complexity of trying to establish who shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. In Donetsk, Alexander Hug, deputy head for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s monitoring mission in Ukraine, said monitors would not visit the site yesterday. “The situation on the ground appears to be unsafe ... we therefore decided to deploy tomorrow morning,” Hug, flanked by Dutch and Australian experts, told reporters. “Fighting in the area will most likely affect (the) crash site,” Hug said. An OSCE spokesman said the group would try again today. The separatists are still in control of the area where the plane was shot down earlier this month but fighting in the wider eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk has been heavy as Ukrainian government forces try to drive them out. It was raging in at least five places yesterday and Donetsk region health officials said 13 people were killed in fighting in the town of Horlivka, known as Gorlovka in Russian. Lysenko said troops were advancing east from the town of Makievka towards Shakhtarsk, around 25 km (16 miles) from the crash site. Shakhtarsk residents said air strikes hit the town. “Our military is advancing, fighting goes on every day, every night, they have already liberated twothirds of the territory,” Lysenko told a news conference in Kiev.
Ebola kills Liberian doctor, 2 Americans infected MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — One of Liberia’s most high-profile doctors has died of Ebola, officials said yesterday, and an American physician was being treated for the deadly virus, highlighting the risks facing health workers trying to combat an outbreak that has killed more than 670 people in West Africa — the largest ever recorded. A second American, a missionary working in the Liberian capital, was also taken ill and was being treated in isolation there, said the pastor of a North Carolina church that sponsored her work. Dr. Samuel Brisbane, a top Liberian health official, was treating Ebola patients at the
country’s largest hospital, the John F. Kennedy Memorial Medical Center in Monrovia, when he fell ill. He died Saturday, said Tolbert Nyenswah, an assistant health minister. A Ugandan doctor died earlier this month. The American physician, 33-year-old Dr. Kent Brantly, was in Liberia helping to respond to the outbreak that has killed 129 people nationwide when he fell ill, according to the North Carolina-based medical charity, Samaritan’s Purse. He was receiving intensive medical care in a Monrovia hospital and was in stable condition, according to a spokeswoman for the aid group, Melissa Strickland.
“We are hopeful, but he is certainly not out of the woods yet,” she said. Early treatment improves a patient’s chances of survival, and Brantly recognized his own symptoms and began receiving care immediately, Strickland said. The American missionary, Nancy Writebol, was gravely ill and in isolation in Monrovia, her husband, David, told a church elder via Skype, according to the Rev. John Munro, pastor of Calvary Church in Charlotte, N.C. Munro said the couple, who had been in Liberia for about a year, insisted on staying there despite the Ebola threat. “These are real heroes — people who do
things quietly behind the scenes, people with a very strong vocation and very strong faith,” Munro said. There is no known cure for the highly contagious virus, which is one of the deadliest in the world. At least 1,201 people have been infected in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, according to the World Health Organization, and 672 have died. Besides the Liberian fatalities, 319 people have died in Guinea and 224 in Sierra Leone. Ominously, Nigerian authorities said Friday that a Liberian man died of Ebola after flying from Monrovia to Lagos via Lome, Togo. The case underscored the difficulty of preventing Ebola victims from traveling given
A man reads a newspaper on a Lagos street with the headline Ebola Virus kills Liberian in Lagos. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) weak screening systems and the fact that the initial symptoms of the disease —
including fever and sore throat — resemble many other illnesses.
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A nation in peril - Iraq’s struggle to hold together (Reuters) - Salman Khaled has already lived through Baghdad’s sectarian disintegration; with Iraq now splintering into Shi’ite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish regions, he says this time the survival of the country is at stake. “Things are really tense and it could get worse,” said the 23-year-old Sunni Muslim student. “If the politicians continue as they are doing now, we are on the path to separation.” When Khaled’s father was shot dead by Shi’ite gunmen at the height of Baghdad’s religious bloodshed seven years ago, his family took shelter in a Sunni neighbourhood of the capital. They made their flight as violence forced apart communities that once mingled in the city. Today the family lives in the Adhamiya district, close to the Abu Hanifa mosque where one of Sunni Islam’s most influential theologians is buried. At his home on an unpaved street, Khaled says he still feels secure in Adhamiya but he rarely goes to the rest of Baghdad where blast walls and security checkpoints hint at the fate of a fractured Iraq. Iraq’s latest - and gravest - crisis erupted when mostly Sunni fighters swept through the north last month. Now the jihadist black flag flies over of most of the country’s Sunni Arab territory. Kurdish forces, exploiting the chance to take another step towards independence, seized the city of Kirkuk and nearby oilfields, leaving the Shi’ite-led government controlling only the capital region and the mainly Shi’ite south. The government is trying to reverse this de facto, threeway split of the country, but its reliance on Shi’ite militia and volunteers rather than the ineffectual national army has deepened sectarian mistrust without pushing the rebels back. Across Baghdad a Sunni living in the Shi’ite area of Maalef, cut off from the rest of the city by a checkpoint where non-residents are turned back, said life there had become unbearable for those who do not belong to the majority Shi’ite community. “The Sunnis all want separation now,” said the 37year-old electrician, who asked not to be named for his security. “Facts on the ground tell you this will be the final result. On both sides now you have extremists who don’t want to get along”. Kurdish politician Hoshiyar Zebari, who still staunchly advocates Iraqi
Members of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF) conduct a patrol looking for militants of the Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in a neighbourhood in Ramadi. Credit: Reuters/Osama Al-dulaimi unity, described the new geography. “The country is divided literally into three states: the Kurdish state; the black state (under Sunni insurgents) and Baghdad,” he said. Iraq’s political elite and world powers have concentrated on the formation of a new government as the best way to save the country, but such a push may come too late. “It’s probably the most serious crisis that Iraq has faced since its inception as a country,” said Ali Allawi, a minister in two governments after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003. “It’s the first time that the territorial integrity of the state as a whole is in question.” This could further destabilise an already tumultuous region. Neighbouring Syria also faces disintegration, with most of its eastern areas under Islamist rebels for more than a year. Iraq’s heritage stretches back to early civilization on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, but the modern state is a colonial fusion of the Ottoman provinces of Basra, Baghdad and Mosul that followed the empire’s disintegration after World War One. Sunni and Shi’ite Arabs have little to unite them, Allawi said, while for most Kurds, non-Arabs who were persecuted under Saddam, the idea of an Iraqi nation is even more fanciful. “Iraq is a failed state,” said Masrour Barzani head of the Kurdish region’s National Security Council. “It is a
fabricated state. It has never been a state by choice by the people or the components of this country. They were forced to live together”. Barzani blamed Baghdad for failing to keep Iraq united, and defended Kurdish aspirations for independence. “I don’t think any rational person in the world would expect the Kurds to live and accept being partners in a country with a terrorist organisation,” he said, referring to Islamic State militants. The long delay in forming a government after parliamentary elections in April and the eclipse of army units last month by better disciplined and motivated Shi’ite militias have revealed the fragility of national institutions. In Samarra, 110 km (70 miles) from Baghdad and one of the most northerly cities under government control, a Reuters photographer saw Shi’ite militiamen on patrol rather than army troops. “We are better than the army because we are fighting for our beliefs,” said lawmaker Hakim Zamili, who supervised deployment of the Mahdi Army’s “Peace Brigades” militia around Samarra. The government’s inability throughout the first half of 2014 to recapture the Sunni city of Falluja, just 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, from the Islamic State underlines how ill equipped it is to reverse far greater militant gains since then which have displaced more than a million people. “One possibility is that
these territories remain outside government control for a long period of time. That would lead to a sort of de facto partition,” said Fanar Haddad, an academic and author on Iraq. If it is to have any chance of turning the tide, the government must lure minority Sunnis away from the radicals now threatening to encircle Baghdad. The Islamic State, a relatively small vanguard, has exploited Sunni disgruntlement with Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to assert itself in the predominantly Sunni regions. Eight years ago when the U.S. army faced a similar challenge from the Islamic State in Iraq - an al Qaeda group from which the Islamic State emerged - it persuaded
Sunni tribal leaders to switch sides, offering millions of dollars as incentive. This time, that’s not an option. Maliki, who distrusted the Sunni paramilitary forces, halted their payments years ago, leaving them embittered and unlikely to fight a second time for the central government. “Unless Maliki makes some very significant concessions to the Sunni Arabs it will be very difficult to peel them away from the Islamic State,” said Robert Ford, a former senior U.S. diplomat and resident scholar at the Washington Institute. Ford, who served in Baghdad between 2004 and 2006, said the Islamic State’s absolutist dogma would lead it eventually into confrontation with its Sunni allies. However, for the time being Sunni factions were united in their opposition to Maliki. Critics accuse Maliki of marginalising Sunni and Kurdish factions during his eight years in power. Even some fellow Shi’ite politicians oppose granting him a third term although his State of Law emerged as the largest parliamentary list in the April election. A U.S. military official who served in Iraq predicted four “warring statelets” could emerge, based around Shi’ite power south of Samarra, Kurdish control in the northeast, and separate Sunni power centres on the Tigris and Euphrates. Many parts of central Iraq are mixed Sunni and Shi’ite regions, and any such partition would probably leave a million Sunnis in those areas stranded under Shi’ite control. “Iraq doesn’t fall apart
easily. There is no such thing as soft partition, because these borders are not clearly defined,” said Emma Sky, a British political adviser to the commander of the U.S.-led international forces in Iraq between 2007 and 2010. “Partition of any type requires a horrible level of killing and ethnic cleansing.” Maliki has urged Iraqis to resist moves towards separation, which he said would mark the disintegration of the nation, but many of his critics say he himself is a divisive force. “This crisis is not about ancient hatreds, it is a massive failure of leadership. And it has been obviously a failure of Western, U.S. policies,” Sky said by phone from northern Iraq. “With leadership they can pull this situation round.” Sunni politicians have offered few solutions to the crisis, partly because their own influence is so limited in Sunni regions compared with the Islamic State and tribal fighters’. The mainly Sunni Arab provinces in the west and north may be eying the same autonomy enjoyed by the three Kurdish provinces of the northeast, but even to start negotiations towards such a deal, which Baghdad would almost certainly block, requires “a new political mix” in the capital, Haddad said. It would also need the defeat of the Islamic State. “We’ve been hearing about Iraq breaking up and Iraq unravelling since 2003,” he said. “But I never thought that Arab Iraq was breaking up. Today I think the prospects for a united Iraq, even if it’s just Arab Iraq, are fading quickly.”
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Bush Lot United Turf Club expresses appreciation The executives and members of the Bush Lot United Turf Club of Sea View Park, West Coast Berbice is expressing their heartfelt appreciation to all the sponsors, the members of the public and the various media houses in Guyana who contributed in one way or the other in making their one day horserace meet, held on Sunday July 20th 2014 at the Club’s Entity, Bush Lot We s t C o a s t B e r b i c e , a success. The members of the management Committee would like to say a big thank you to Banks DIH, Buddy Shivraj, Jumbo Jet Auto Sales and racing Stable, Sandro Sukdeo of Sandro’s Indian Fashion of Bush Lot West Cooast Berbice, Inshan Bacchus Business Enterprise and Trucking Service, Lekeram ‘Buddy’ Sukhdeo,
Steve Jewelry World and friends, Shariff Business Establishment and Racing Stable, Phaghoo General Store of Bush Lot, Business Shamkumar Chattergoon Arjune Singh of Nafico, Nalico, Rohan Oudit, Fizul Subhan and Phagoo General Store among others. The committee would also like to say special thanks to Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner Brian Joseph and ranks of the Guyana Police Force and to all for their support and look for their continued patronage at their next race meet. According to coordinator Mr. Lakeram “Buddy” Sookdeo, the club, which was recently resuscitated a few year ago, has taken back its rightful place in the horseracing circle in Guyana and is quickly moving to be one of the better race clubs in the country.
Nibali’s journey from... From page 37 After Contador was also forced out following a crash in a descent on stage 10, the Astana rider’s lead was not to be threatened, yet the ‘Shark of Messina’ attacked again in the mountains, taking his fourth stage win at the top of Hautacam, a mystic pass draped in eerie fog. MYTHAND DISENCHANTMENT In a sport that was long marred by doping scandals, however, myth has often been mixed with disenchantment. Nibali is no exception to the habit of making Tour de France champions prime suspects. Bradley Wiggins and Froome, in the wake of the Lance Armstrong scandal, faced repeated grillings over their ethics. Nibali, the first Italian to win the Tour since the late Maro Pantani in 1998, inevitably had to answer doping-related questions as comparisons were drawn with his disgraced compatriot who was known as “the Pirate”. “It’s hard to make a comparison between what Pantani did so many years ago and what I’ve done now because Marco won his Tour in the last week, while it was the opposite for me,” Nibali said. “I took the jersey after two days, I don’t know what to say.” He will visit Pantani’s mother to give her one of his yellow jerseys because he admired her son. “I loved his bravery,” he
said. Nibali chose to leave his Liquigas team to work at Astana with manager Alexandre Vinokourov, who served a two-year ban for blood doping on the 2007 Tour de France. “Astana is a team who invested a lot in an Italian group, precisely because they wanted to give it credibility and because they wanted to change their image,” said Nibali. “They didn’t just choose me, they also brought in (coach) Paolo Slongo. Let me remind everyone that I worked with him when I was 17 in the national team, together with Antonio Fusi.” Nibali did not wait to be questioned on the Tour to speak out against doping. Eight years ago, he said that dopers should be locked up and this year, after former team mate Danilo Di Luca said that it was impossible to win a grand tour without doping, he commented: “I can only think that he has become a bit brain-damaged.” On Saturday, after his fourth place in the final time trial effectively secured his Tour title, Nibali was questioned again. “It is true that in 2008, I felt a bit sad and disappointed. I wanted the white jersey (for the best Under-25 rider). But a lot of progress has been made and we can see the results now,” said Nibali. “If there had not been all these controls, targeted controls, the biological passport, maybe I would not be here.”
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LGC President David Mohamad sets record at exciting Dem Life Golf Tourney
From left: Troy Cadogan, William Walker, Joaan Deo, Bolaram Deo, David Mohamad, Colin Ming, Mr. Charles Clarke and Mr. Maurice Solomon at the presentation. The excitingly anticipated annual Demerara Mutual Life sponsored Golf Tournament at the LGC Saturday last lived up to its expectations, with Club President David Mohamad setting a personal record as he won in his category – the 19 – 28 handicappers. Teeing off at about 12:45 p.m. three of last year ’s winners – Haniff, Solomon and Walker were present to defend their titles. But as skill of play would have it, and operating on the Flight play system, new winners emerged. President David Mohamad’s net score, which would have won him the Best
Player score on the previous open system, gave him instead a record for the 19 – 28 handicapper Flight. One wonders if the LGC executive is bent on setting records for the Club this season! Last week’s BK Inc Tournament win of net 60 by Ground Supervisor Mike Guyadin, handicap 15, was a record for the open medal play system. Such enterprising achievements by golfers can only cause greater skill and performance levels for the benefit of the Club. Now using the system of Flights for competitions, the LGC expects much keener competition and records to be set in each Flight.
1st and 2nd place winners of the different Flights were: First Flight - handicaps 0 – 9; Mohanlall Dinanauth, handicap 4, net 69, and William Walker, handicap 7, net 70. Second Flight – handicaps 10 – 18; Bolaram Deo handicap 17, net 66, and Colin Ming, handicap 13, net 68. Third Flight – handicaps 20 – 28; David Mohamad, handicap 23, net 62, and Troy Cadogan handicap 24, net 71. Joaan Deo, handicap 15, net 68, won the Ladies 1st prize. Bolaram Deo won Nearest to the Pin also. Dem Life Branch Manager Mr Charles Clarke was on hand from start to
finish of the day’s play. New to golf, but a player and lover of cricket, in his congratulatory remarks to the winners he added, “Dem Life is honoured to be associated with the Lusignan Golf Club, and on behalf of the Company I can assure you of our continued support. In fact, I am considering becoming a member of the Golf Club myself!” A beaming Club President Mohamad expressed appreciation to Dem Life on behalf of the LGC and took the opportunity to express appreciation for the state of the grounds as well as to encourage golfers to continue good golfing.
Scott’s Jewellery continues support for Boyce/Jefford Classic Scott’s Jewellery and Variety Store Saturday continued its sponsorship of Boyce/ Jefford Track and Field Classic, when it presented a cheque toward the hosting of the fifth edition of the track and field meet set for August 16-17 at Mackenzie Sports Club Ground, Linden. “We sponsored this event last year and we had said that we plan on continuing in the future with this activity. This contribution means that we are keeping our commitment from last year to help the organisers develop the sport,” one of the Managers of Scott’s Jewellery, Steve Persaud, said following the presentation. Chairman of the Management Committee of the Boyce/Jefford Track and Field Classic V, Colin Boyce, thanked the entity for their contribution, indicating that plans to host this year’s event are well advanced with the hope of continuing to improve the meet. Apart from dolling out lucrative cash prizes to clubs and athletes, the Boyce & Jefford Track and Field Classic is aimed at continuing to establish a prominent place for athletics in Guyana, and as was evident last year, leading athletes from the Caribbean and North America scheduled for this year’s edition of the meet.
Sales Representative at Scott’s Jewellery and Variety Store, Savita Budhoo, hands over the sponsorship cheque to Chairman of the Boyce/Jefford Track and Field Committee, Colin Boyce Saturday at its 193 Charlotte Street, Bourda location.
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17th Annual Primary Schools Windball Cricket Competition
Malgre Tout, Vreed-en-Hoop, Bohemia win titles
Double champions Bohemia Primary School Boys and Girls pose for a photo op following their victories in the Canje Zone recently. Malgre Tout, Vreed-enHoop and Bohemia were among the teams that carted off titles when the 17th Annual Primary Schools Windball Cricket Champions Trophy Competition organised by Sport Officer Allister Munroe continued at various venues across the country. At the Wales Community Centre Ground Malgre Tout Primary Girls won their first Windball cricket title after defeating
Vreed-en-Hoop by ten wickets. Defending champions Vreed en Hoop batted first and managed just 30-3. Malgre Tout reply with 31-0. In the semi final, Malgre Tout beat Kawall by 45 runs. Malgre Tout batted first and made 70-1, Elizabeth Emmanuel 25, Ashanatie Anderson 17.. Kawall in reply, were restricted to 25.4. Kimberly Ally grabbed 2 wkts. Boys-
Patentia beat Vreed-enHoop by seven wickets to claim the Boys title. In the final, Vreed En Hoop made 52-5, Surendra Karez 33. Patentia 60-3, Anthony Bharrat 49 not out with 8x6s. In semi-final action, Vreed-en-Hoop eased to a nine-wicket win over Kawall. Kawall 32-4, Rahul Sankar 13. Vreen en Hoop replied with 35-1, Surendra Karez 16. At Welfare Centre Ground East Canje Berbice
New Amsterdam ZoneSt. Aloysius beat defending champion St. Therese by two runs. Final- Saint Aloysius 54-4 Anetra Hamilton 10, Vanessa John 10. Saint Therese reply with 52. Girls’ semi-final – Edinburgh reached 37-4 with extras top scoring with 33. St. Therese replied with 38-2. Serena Cadogan 13. St. Aloysius defeated All
Saints by eight wickets. All Saints 50-2, Roetmoff Sonel 13. Saint Aloysius 51-2. Boys- All Saints 44-3, Isaacs Simeon 19. Overwinning was restricted to 43-3, Devon Saywack 24. St Therese 43-4, Rickford Blair 18. Defending Region #6 champions Edinburgh 48-1, Ashic Henry 18 and Jevon Persaud 10. Edinburgh 46-3, Lloyd David 16. All Saints made 40-5. Canje Zone Bohemia Primary school
won both divisions In the Girls final- St. Patrick’s Primary school batted first and scored 35-1. Bohemia replied with 361. Boys- Bohemia compiled 63-5, Sader Kamall 19, Mohan Harrykhalah 16. Robert Sunthgotam 2-15. St. Patrick’s in reply were restricted to 51-, Jamal Sinclair 10. Mohan Harrykhalah, Sadek Kamall and Giovan Hitnarine each picked up 2 wkts.
REGIONAL UNDER-19 THREE-DAY CRICKET
Guyana in driver’s seat against Windwards By Sean Devers Guyana, enjoying a first innings lead of 104, were in the driver’s seat at the end of the second day of their Regional under-19 three-day cricket match against the Windward Islands at the Everest ground yesterday. A magnificent 125 from 17year-old Shemron Hetymer, who shared in a century opening partnership with fellow West Indies under-19 batsman Tagenarine Chanderpaul (24), built a firm foundation for the hosts who were dismissed on the stroke of Tea for 243 replying to the 139 made by the visitors. The Windwards were 794 in their second innings when play on the penultimate day ended, still 25 runs from making the Guyanese bat a second time. Amidst plenty of confusion, the second day
(according to the regulations) began at 09:30hrs to make up for lost time on the opening day with Guyana on 44-0 in reply to the 139 made by the Windward Islands. However, after just two minutes third Umpire Edward Bowen raced onto the field to inform on-field Umpires Imran Moakan and ICC America’s official Mohamed Baksh that the officials at the DCC game had misinterpreted the regulations, and did not enforce an early start at the Queenstown venue, resulting in the game at Everest being halted after two minutes after two balls were bowled and two runs scored. When the game eventually resumed 28 minutes later in bright sunshine, Chanderpaul played the supporting role to the aggressive Hetymer and the 100 partnership was
posted when Hetymer smashed Gidron Pope for boundaries on both sides of the wicket. Chanderpaul was taken at first slip off the bowling of off-spinner Doran Edward at 108-1 after batting for 110 minutes, facing 51 balls and hitting four fours. Skipper Brian Sattaur played an atrocious drive at the fourth delivery he faced and skied the ball miles into the air before he scored, for mid-off to run around to extra cover to hold the steepling catch and give Deron Hypolite his first wicket at 121-2. Hetymer was in his usual no nonsense mood and deposited an Edward full toss for a colossal six over longleg and played several thumping shots all around the ground to the delight of the handful of spectators in
the stands. The left hander who made a duck and four in his only First-Class match at Providence earlier this year, spared none of the bowlers as he went into overdrive on the slow track and heavy outfield, and seemed set to join Leon Johnson, (whose feat was achieved in St Vincent in 2005), as the only Guyanese with a double century at this level, but was taken at cover off Edward after facing 129 balls, batting for 141 minutes. The Berbician from Cumberland scored his maiden Regional under-19 ton in 2012 against the same opposition in the 50-over version of the tournament with a thunderous 119-ball 116 and yesterday clobbered 13 fours and four sixes in his 125. From 155-2, Guyana
slumped to 159-5 as three wickets tumbled in a heap, Kemo Paul (1) was run out, while Balchand Baldeo (7) was trapped LBW to Edward and by Tea which was taken with the total on 161-5, the last five wickets had tumbled for just 51 runs. After the break, Sharaz Ramcharran was bowled by Hypolite for nine at 188-6 before Askay Homraj and Kemol Savory took the score to 219 with a sensible partnership before Gidron Pope had Homraj caught and bowled for an attractive 40 with four boundaries. Savory (15) was then caught and bowled by Shermon Lewis to leave Guyana on 232-8, while Steven Sankar (3) and Niall Smith (1) departed in quick succession to close the innings on the stoke of Tea. Edward (3-42), Pope (2-
26) and Hypolite (2-67) were the most successful bowlers for the Windwards who were in early trouble when they began their second innings, behind by 104 runs. The Islanders, whose only title was claimed in 2000 in Guyana, lost their second wicket at 29-2 when Melvin Gordon (17) was LBW to Ramcharran. Tonis Simon (21) and Kershaskie Jno Lewis (10) were removed in the space of two balls with the score on 48 as leg-spinner Sankar struck a double blow in the same over to put Guyana in firm control. Sankar, in an improved spell, has so far had 2-22. Ronald Cato (15*) and Anson Latchman (12) arrested the slide with an unfinished 31-run stand to keep the Windwards interest going into the final day today when play starts at 10:00hrs.
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Kaieteur News
Monday July 28, 2014
Harris advances to semis Joseph 4-wkt haul gives Leewards of Commonwealth upper hand against Jamaica 100m for Guyana By Zaheer Mohamed In Athletics news from the Commonwealth Games currently being contested in Scotland; Guyanese sprinter Adam Harris placed second in his heat of the men’s 100m in a time of 10.45secs to advance to the semifinals. He trailed favourite Nickel Asmeade of Jamaica in that race. Jeremy Bascom placed 5th in his heat with a time of 10.58. Adam was an automatic qualifying place for today’s semi-finals where he will hope to bring Guyana medal glory. Meanwhile, in shooting, Lennox Braithwaite and Mahendra Persaud placed 11th and 17th in the Queens’s Prize individuals. They are set for more competition over the next two days. Alexander Arjoon won his match against G. Suwaris
of Sri Lanka in 3 sets to 2 in Squash action. In cycling, the men DNF in the 20km scratch race. Today’s schedule for Guyanese athletes at the Games: Boxing - Eon Bancroft fights the Sri Lankan V. Pathirage Don at 1:40 PM in the men’s welterweight division. Dennis Thomas is up at 2:15 PM against the fighter from Northern Ireland, Connor Coyle. Swimming - Onika George swims her pet event, the 50m backstroke at 11:19 AM. Athletics - Winston George and Stephan James compete in the men’s 400m at 11:25 AM. Adam Harris runs the men’s semifinals of the 100m at 7:42 PM. Squash: Men’s Consolation plate finals are tomorrow at Noon.
Commonwealth Games, Glasgow
Middleweight pugilist, Dennis Thomas advances to round of sixteen after convincing win
Dennis Thomas (left) and Terrence Poole after his victory at the Commonwealth Games. Guyana’s middleweight pugilist, Dennis Thomas, scored a 3-0 verdict over Jonathon Keama of Papua New Guinea (PNG) to register the first victory for Guyanese boxers at the Commonwealth Games at the Sports and Exhibition Centre, Glasgow, Saturday evening last. The lanky Guyanese pugilist will next square off with Connor Coyle in the last 16. Reports are that Coyle progressed to that stage after a convincing, unanimous decision victory over southpaw, Lungile Dyamdeki; he was hardly tested to gain the nod on all three of the judges’ scorecards. The consensus seems to suggest that Thomas will have to be at the top of his game if he is to get past Coyle. Reports of the Coyle victory state that he landed the more accurate and direct punches throughout and dictated the pace of the fight. He kept the dangerous, Dyamdeki at distance with a patient, competent display of boxing to book his place in the next round. On the other hand, Thomas, it was reported, also experienced little trouble taking care of Keama and was adjudged winner on all three of the judges’ scorecards. Earlier, local bantamweight pugilist, Imran Khan had surrendered a lopsided verdict to Kenyan, Benson Gicharu while bantamweight boxer, Eon Bancroft and his female counterpart, middleweight Theresa London, are scheduled to get into action soon.
A fine spell of fast bowling by Alzarri Joseph handed Leeward Islands the upper hand against Jamaica in their second round game of the Regional U-19 3-Day tournament which continued yesterday at the Demerara Cricket Club. Joseph finished with 4-38 from seven overs as Jamaica closed the second day on 978 after 31 overs to take a lead of 91, batting a second time. In response to Jamaica first innings total of 117, Leewards resumed on 5-0 and were bowled out for 123 in 53.4 overs after lunch. Opener Dion West (02) failed to add to his overnight score and was caught at the wicket off Odean Smith in the first over of the day with the score on five. Ross Powell and Kacey Carty added 56 for the second wicket to lay the foundation for a sizeable total. Powell was in an attacking mode as he drove Smith for consecutive fours and took boundaries off Ramaal Lewis and Ryon Burnette. Carty started watchfully and gradually grew in confidence hitting Lewis for consecutive boundaries, but Lewis gave his team the breakthrough when he had Powell well taken at silly mid off for 22. Burnette then uprooted the stumps of Shaquille Martina (00) to leave the score at 58-3. Carty shared in a fourth wicket stand of 20 with Saeed Williams (08), the son of former West Indies opener Stuart Williams who was caught attempting to clear the ropes. Carty after seemingly well set for a half century holdout to Lewis at long on for 40 (6x4) off 88 balls with the
Kacey Carty gathers runs on the off side. score at 78-5. Jaleel Clarke played some lovely shots, reaching the boundary on three occasions and cleared it once before he was needlessly run out for 22. Only skipper Jeremiah Louis of the remaining batsmen offered any resistance with an unbeaten 17; Abijai Mansingh captured 2-5 from 3.4 overs, Lewis 2-32 off 25 and Smith 2-34 from 13. Trailing by six, the Jamaicans were pegged by Joseph who extracted decent pace and bounce from a two paced track. He bowled Ramaal Lewis (00) who opened the batting in place of the injured Leroy Lugg and Ramone Francis in the first over with the score on two. Mc Catty and Mark
Alzarri Joseph Parchment attempted to repair the damage, but Joseph trapped the latter LBW for eight after they had added 22. It soon became 28-4 when
Mc Catty who drove Louis down the ground for a boundary was bowled by the said bowler for 12. Joseph then induced R Morris (05) to nick one to wicket keeper Clarke before Mansingh and Walters added 26 for the sixth wicket. Mansingh looked stood firm as he stir Joseph to third man and flicked the pacer over square leg but was leg before to Martina for 28 after he had done the hard work. Walters (15) and Smith (00) were the other wickets to fall before time was called. Burnette is not out on 15 and with him is Lugg who is yet to score. Martina with 2-5 offered support to Joseph; Louis and Archibald have one each. Today is the final day.
Guyana Hockey Board holds U-19 Camp The Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) recently hosted a two-week national under-19 boys Development Camp which ran from July 14-25, at the GCC ground Bourda. According to a release from the GHB, the camp was designed to develop the individual skills of the participants in the outdoor hockey format, since it was recognised that most of the clubs and schools train on indoor surfaces. The daily sessions started with videos of the various techniques related to
the topic of the day, followed by practical sessions on the field. To p i c s covered included, moving with the ball, 3D skills, passing & receiving, goal scoring, creating space, defending, goalkeeping and penalty corners. The camp was run by a coaching team which included national men’s coach Robert Fernandes, national goalkeeper Alysa Xavier, national player Robert France and Andrew Xavier. Forty (40) players
participated in the camp which concluded last Friday with a mini world cup tournament. The players were split into 4 teams, representing Germany, Argentina, England and Colombia. They played a round robin followed by semifinals and the final. Colombia defeated Germany 3-2 via sudden death penalty shootout after the score was tied at 2-2, at the end of regulation time, while England breezed past Argentina 3-0. England took that momentum into the final and
got out to an early lead through Myron Phillips, before Colombia roared back through a Deheron Wilkinson double and one goal apiece from Rosario Ramsammy and Shemar Boston to take the title 4-1. The release added that it is the Board’s intention to select an under-19 squad to begin training and competing in all local tournaments as part of the p r e l i m i n a r y stages of preparation for the Pan American Junior Championships scheduled for 2016.