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THIS LITTLE BOY GRANGER SHOULD RESUSCITATE WAS A HERO GUYANA’S AFRICAN LINKS DEAR EDITOR, The six-year-old who died in the fire trying to save his brother’s life was a hero. We know that he was from Georgetown. We don’t know what moved him to go back into a burning building to save a life but what we do know is that he died a hero. And maybe his act of courage, bravery and unselfishness will inspire, motivate and move us to be like him. When I read about the fire at the Drop-In Centre, I was struck and amazed by the heroic actions of the six-year-old who went back into the burning house to save his two-year-old brother’s life. And I was reminded of Jesus’s words when he said, “This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friend”. By going into the burning building, this child clearly demonstrated love by laying down his life for his brother. He is the youngest hero I have ever heard about in the world. Editor, in a society plagued by materialism, corruption, cowardice, greed, self-centredness and selfishness, this child teaches to be less materialistic, selfish and more courageous. Where did he get the courage to go into a burning house? Where did he get the compassion from to try to save a life? Where did he learn to be so unselfish? Where did he learn to love so sacrificially? Where did he learn to care so much for his fellow human being? Editor, what can he teach us adults about bravery? What can he teach us about the golden rule: Do unto others as you want them to do unto you? What can he teach us about loving our neighbours as ouselves? Can we be like him? What a pity that we don’t have more people like this child in our society. Anthony Pantlitz
Increase in revenues, reduction in VAT need explanation DEAR EDITOR; Recently, the Minister of Finance announced that the Central Government saw an increase in revenues at the end of April, 2016. This increase was for the period January to April as compared to the same period last year. The Minister went on to state the reasons for the increase in revenues. KN July 13, 2016. It is very obvious why revenues are on the “up”, - increased taxes, increased duties on every possible commodity. These increases have a profound effect on the average citizen. The people of Guyana saw increases in fees that were directly passed on to them. Hucksters who travel with a motor vehicle will have to pay $62,500—which is a far climb from the $5000 they were obligated to pay prior to the amendment. Hucksters who travel on foot with a man-propelled vehicle or cycle will now have to pay $3500 instead of $280; hucksters who travel with a horse or other beast bearing or drawing burden are mandated to pay $12,500 instead of $1000 they previously paid for their licences. KN March 30, 2016. Some of these increases are in the region of a 12 fold. This is an ominous indication that the Coalition is (and) will be placing a heavy burden on the citizens with taxes and fees. These and other increases have an adverse effect on the citizens spending ability. This is very evident within the past year. We witness the inability of the average citizens to even afford the basic. However, as the Minister stated, VAT revenues declined. As he stated, a decline compared to the levels achieved to the same period of 2015. This is the troubling part of any economy. In simple terms, it is (or could be) easy to have an increase in revenues by increasing taxes. But when workers are burdened with increased taxes, fees and duties, their ability to spend on the most basic commodities is greatly reduced. This without a doubt will generate less Value Added Taxes. It does not take a “genius” to sum up the direction we are heading. The VAT reduction is a barometer of the direction the economy is heading. VAT (Value Added Taxes) is generated, (collected) when consumers spend. When the people have the ability to reach into their pocket and make purchases, the Government gets the resulting VAT. It is obvious that revenues are not being generated by production in our country (gold seems to be the only shining star). We all know that taxes, duties and fees are essential. I am not complaining or canvassing for their abolition. But unless the Coalition comes to the realization (the sooner, the better) that taxation will never solve our problems, the sooner Guyana will be pointed in the right economic direction. Muhammad Raoof, USA
DEAR EDITOR; Just last week, Guyana participated in an “oil and gas mentorship programme” in Kampala, Uganda. Guyana which recently discovered a mega oil and gas field off its coast, is making preparation for the development of the country’s oil and gas sector, and this is why Minister of Finance Winston Jordan and Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman went to Uganda. Mostly likely, the Guyanese delegation needed a visa to enter Uganda, unless there is a visa abolition policy for diplomats between these countries. Guyanese as a whole need a visa to travel to Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. On the other hand, Jamaicans and Trinidadians don’t need visas to visit most of these countries. Interestingly, Guyana, which championed the South Africa and Southern Africa liberation movements at Caricom, the UN and at the Non-Aligned Movement, hasn’t engaged these countries for the abolition of visas for their respective citizens. Relationship grew
cold in the 1990s after the Peoples National Congress party left office. More disturbing, Guyana does not have diplomatic relationship with over 20 African countries, despite that it is the fastest growing continent today. East Africa most certainly isn’t the basket case economies when President Granger’s PNC party was in power. Guyana was visited by leaders from Tanzania, Botswana and Zambia. This attest to the strong ties between these countries at the time. As well, the late President of Guyana, Forbes Burnham, visited many African countries. A great deal of this history, Guyana and Africa, has been documented by historian and current President of Guyana, David A. Granger. President Granger takes pride in this history. It is highly likely that he will renew ties with these countries in Africa and open a diplomatic mission in Addis Ababa, the headquarters of the African Union. ”Socially, economically and politically things are happening in Addis, everyone is in Addis,” remarked on diplomat from a
CARICOM country. A mission here will focus on the growing economies of East Africa -Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Every sitting Indian President of Guyana from 1992 to 2015 visited their ancestral motherland, India. They included Dr. Cheddi Jagan, Bharrat Jagdeo and Donald Ramotar. Will President Granger who penned a paper titled, Forbes Burnham and the Liberation of Southern Africa, expand Guyana/Africa ties? Will he visit the growing economies of East Africa, Uganda, Kenya or Tanzania? Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India last week concluded a visit to Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. China also has been digging deep to exploit Africa’s abundant natural resources. Strangely, since taking office just over a year ago, no one from the ruling APNU, former PNC Party, travelled to Dodoma, the capital of Tanzania. Tanzania under the leadership of Baba-W-Taifa (father of the nation), Dr. Julius Nyerere inspired the PNC government of Guyana for decades, and now they are back in power looking at a
vastly different Tanzania. Dr. Nyerere visited Guyana twice. Thus, Tanzania maybe high on Granger’s list of countries to visit. Rapidly developing Tanzania today has an investor friendly President, John Magufuli, who is receiving global praise for his battle against corruption. Magufuli is also called the “bulldozer” and is known for firing public servants and heads of government agencies during to do on spot secret visits. He cancelled Christmas and independence celebrations and used the money to put beds in hospitals. Mr. Magufuli is a great example for our Guyanese leaders to follow. When is President Granger going to Africa? He will be proud to see the strides the continent is making and especially in the fields of economics and national cohesion. East African economies are growing at an average of 7% yearly. President David Granger and his Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge should forge stronger times with the growing and prosperous economies of Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda. Ray Chickrie
THE AFC NEEDS TO DEFENDS ITS PEOPLE IN REGION 5 DEAR EDITOR; Please permit me a space in your newspaper letter column to share my views on what has been happening over the past months on the PPP TV Program showing on LRTVS Ch.10 in Berbice, called “Perspective” hosted by Mr. Mustapha. I have been listening to the said program every Sunday evening, whereby there are sometimes panel discussions with top members of the opposition. I really appreciate the program because it educates me as a resident to know where the previous government erred and went corrupt. So it’s a good program for the government to listen to. But I am very surprised whereby in almost every program, the host will badmouth the APNU+AFC members, Mr. Abel Seetaram and REO Dr. Ramayya. Sometimes he goes as far to say things that are not fitting or personal to those men. On Sunday last he lashed out against Mr. Setaram when a caller mentioned about the endorsement of some articles on the flood that were written by Mr. Setaram. He goes on
week after week to accuse the man of breaking up the RDC meetings and much more. I have approached some AFC members in Region 5 as to why they are not reacting to the PPP’s attack on both gentlemen. I was told that the PPP is right to dirty him and that the AFC has nothing to say about the situation. I was also told that they deserve such bad-mouthing. It surprises me to hear such. It now leaves me to wonder if the AFC is working
on a side agenda against the gentlemen and government. Because I can recall that the AFC did not have any candidate at the NDC elections in my area and was told that happened in many other areas also. But this tells me something as to why Mr. Setaram is being attacked by the PPP. Because they know of the support he took from them during the past two elections in Region 5. They know that the man is a man of
the people and has been making inroads in the PPP supported areas. The gentleman is seen interacting with all people no matter of race, religion or political support. He is also a regular letter writer for the APNU+AFC and he attacks the PPP in a very constructive way. So in a sense, if the PPP continues to scandalize both gentlemen and the AFC does not react then they will have Continued on page 6
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Guyanese are disappointed Will the “fry fish” vendor pay the container tax too? with the Coalition Govt. DEAR EDITOR; Here goes the Georgetown City Council again! Another tax, another levy, another burdensome fee placed on the backs of the citizenry of Georgetown. This time it is the $25,000.00 container parking fee on business persons who are seeking to have their container offloaded in front of their store. The Council, in their normal arrogance and contempt for the citizens did not bother to consult with the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry nor the Private Sector commission or its members before imposing this charge. They just got up one morning and decided
to squeeze the citizenry a little more. But what will be most interesting to note is whether the food truck that occupies the corners Regent Street and a certain street in the heart of the city, and which is well known to be owned by the brother of a senior staffer of the Georgetown Municipality, and which is there 24 hours a day, 7 days a week selling fried fish and fried plantains and other fast foods and beverages, will pay the $25,000.00 or the $5,000.00 per day fee, or whether they will be allowed to continue operating free as they are now. There must be equity in taxation otherwise more people will become tax evaders. Sean Moniz
THE ROLE OF SPORTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NATION DEAR EDITOR; In the years preceding 1966, more sports and cultural activities were held regularly in the Africa Guyanese villages. In the communities of Paradise /Bachelors Adventure there were four cricket clubs namely United Cricket Club, Zenith CC, Caracas CC, Paradise CC. The grounds on which these teams played are now taken over by housing schemes. Today the only cricket club is the Paradise /Bachelors Adventure Cricket Club with a larger youth population to
satisfy coming out of Bareroot, Paradise Housing Scheme, Bachelors Adventure, HYMAC housing scheme, and Melanie Damishana. I have noted with keen interest the attitude of the past and present government to sports and cultural development and wish to advise that greater sums be allocated in the national budget, but without sports and cultural policies, the sports and cultural tourism industry will never achieve its true potential. Emphasis
The AFC needs to... From page 5 their way as to get back to their supporters. The APNU+AFC cannot afford to lose any of the men because I know that they made a huge difference since the 2011 elections and mostly in 2015. Will the APNU+AFC throw away those gentlemen because of hearsay and allegations that come their way? Then they need to ask if there are some within the parties that is orchestrating for this to be done to both gentlemen. In Region 5 it seems that the AFC is backing the attacks on Mr. Seetaram because I was told he supports and campaigned with the APNU during the last elections for LGE and the AFC did not campaign. I wonder what is next for both gentlemen from this government? The government cannot afford to lose any of those men at the cost of the PPP or anyone. James Fraser
The Town Clerk... From page 4 without encumbrances on the streets and paves. One can walk along certain streets in Georgetown without fear that a criminal element may attack and flee into the mountain of obstructions along the pavement. Also, the Council has addressed the needs of its staff by initiating negotiations with many prominent international organisations and countries to assist in capacity building for its staff. In fact, Mayor City Council is currently in the process of penning an agreement with one of Guyana’s largest international donor agencies to fund the development of its Corporate Governance and Financial Management Strategy. This agreement will see the implementation of a governance framework that guides the Council’s operation and financial accountability. It also comes with the added benefit of having staff go overseas for training in these two areas. Royston King Town Clerk EDITOR’S NOTE; the second part of this letter will be carried in tomorrow’s edition
must first of all be placed on the fencing of community playfields and the development of playing surfaces for cricket, football, hockey etc, indoor facilities in rural and urban communities. Every school in Guyana must have access to a well kept playfield. We can start by looking at the Jamaican model and see that sports and cultural development starts in schools. Parents in the country must begin to realize that sports and culture play a very important role in the positive development of children’s characters. They must understand that purchasing of sports gear is as important as buying books for the children. The grounds men (curators) across the country are treated as unimportant by an uncaring society. These curators must be respected and organized to understand their responsibilities as the foundation for outdoor sports. They must be trained, paid properly and their jobs made pensionable. This is the only way to retain them and their skills to encourage growth and development. There is need for more coaches to be attached to the many schools across Guyana. We need more n u t r i t i o n i s t s , physiotherapists, psychologists etc, to work with our boys and girls. With well organized sports and cultural activities, boys will stay in school and excel. Our young people need opportunities. Guyanese NGOs in the diaspora and the churches in this country have a role in promoting the industry, the spiritual and material development must go hand in hand if we are going to survive. RAS Aaron Blackman
DEAR EDITOR; When the United Republican Party (URP) campaigned during the last General and Regional elections, one of our mantras was that Guyana needs a change, not an exchange. By now, after just one year, it is the general consensus of the residents and Diaspora of Guyana that we have been duped; we have voted for a change but got an exchange. Except for the cleaning up of the city, the Coalition Government has been embroiled in just about every corrupt scheme that the last administration has been known for. Just look at the latest BK scandals, the parking meter scandal and the refusal of the President to lower the VAT as they had promised. How could the new government just give away tens of millions of dollars to friends and cronies just like that? The PPP did it now the PNC (Coalition) is doing the very same things. Is this the change that the many Guyanese voted for? Like we have said, Guyana got an exchange when they voted on May 11, 2015. The administrators changed but the unpatriotic mindsets, with the intention to rape the country, remained the same. What is even more disturbing is that in just a few months, this new administration is already competing in the area of skullduggery that the PPP took years to perfect. It is scary to imagine what the APNU/AFC group will do to this country over the next four years and beyond. There seems to be one scandal after the next. And with all they are doing the people continue to suffer.
The URP took a team to the Black Bush Polder last week and what we saw and learned were saddening. We saw broken dams and damaged roads. We saw a proliferation of unemployed youths and distraught faces. The farmers were complaining that they cannot get to their farms because of the conditions of the roads. When they approached the representatives for the area, they were told that they will not be assisted in fixing the dams. The farmers are now forced to pay an additional cost to boats, in order to have their fertilizers and workers taken into their farms. Many of the folks we spoke to have expressed that they had decided to move away from the PPP and give the AFC a chance. They are now regretting. One man with deep sadness on his face and a breaking voice, remarked; “We did not expect this! Not this!” The disillusionment of the Guyanese is further complicated by the fact that they are absolutely fed up with both the PNC (Coalition) and the PPP. The URP has been traversing the country and meeting with the ordinary man and woman, seeking to find out how we could help alleviate the sufferings in the areas that have been predominately affected over the last several years. The folks in Essequibo, Wales and the Corentyne have been crying out bitterly. From the loss of their jobs in the sugar sector to the stagnation in the rice industry, the hopelessness is stark. Compounding the issue is the fact that the government seems at a complete loss as to where to go next. Instead of easing the
plight of the broke and broken citizens, every day the administration is showing their selfish lack of concern, by imposing more and more austere measures on the poor folks. There have now added a tax on the importation of manufacturing materials and goods. This will cause a reduction of growth in the sector, or at least, it will drive up cost which will be passed on to the already financially strapped consumer. Additionally, we were told that Guyanese citizens living abroad will no longer be able to benefit from the old age pension scheme. Editor, please be reminded that the pension is a fixed $18,000 per month. The person imposing the restriction on the overseas pensioners just had her pay raised from $500,000 and it was made retroactive to two weeks after she took office. She is now paid $800,000 plus perks, which bring her government income to over $1.3 million a month. Yet she is concerned about an old man’s and old woman’s meager $18,000. It is obvious that this new government is completely aloof from the needs of the Guyanese people who elected them, and completely ignorant as to how to please their supporters. In 13 short months, this government has run out of steam and is now just drifting along. The PPP was voted out of office because of the same behaviors; they had lost touch with the people, additionally, they had become corrupt. Guyana can ill afford to have governments which take us for granted. Hopefully, next time around there will be real, genuine, change. Dr. Vishnu Bandhu Leader, URP
Mr. Lucas needs to know he is a non-executive Chairman DEAR EDITOR; The Non-executive Chairman of a Board of Directors does not occupy an executive management position in a company. The Nonexecutive Chairman operates independently from the company, receives plans and proposals from the Chief Executive Officer, through the Corporate Secretary, and presents these to the Board for approval. In this regard, the Commissioner-General runs the GRA; the Non-executive Chairman runs the Board. Among the Board’s responsibilities is to evaluate the Commissioner-General’s performance. Splitting the duties enables the CommissionerGeneral to focus on running the GRA, freeing him from potentially sensitive Board leadership tasks. The non-executive chair’s role is to improve and maximize the governance process, not to manage the GRA daily operations and as such, he can play an important role in focusing the Board’s
attention on critical issues and helping to set a positive tone for Director’s feedback. In a nutshell, the actions of the present Non-executive Chairman constitutes a serious breach of managerial principles and ethics, and a nauseating affront to good governance, transparency, accountability and probity. To compound matters, the external storage of important GRA files/documents and its access by the Personal Assistant is certainly a travesty on no mean sort. In all the present rigmarole and public caterwauling, the nonexecutive Chairman should be advised to get out of the kitchen if he cannot stand the heat. Removing the pots and pans will only add fuel to the fire engulfing his job. Nevertheless, APNU-AFC government seems bent on making the past administration look angelic in their operations especially where the GRA is concerned. Or, are they bringing innovation and creativity to good governance? Ed Singh
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PPP used Customs Act to allow tax exemptions on ineligibles Over the last 40 years the local manufacturing industries have benefited from tax exemptions on raw materials necessary to create their value added products. Despite the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas (RTC) stipulating which items should not attract exemption, the former PPP/C government had facilitated this using the Customs Act of Guyana. Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo made it known last Wednesday that his party did not breach the Treaty but rather applied its domestic law for the benefit of its local manufacturers. Jagdeo said that the Act was used to process inputs into the manufacturing sector. According to the former Head of State, if Guyana is being asked to comply with the list of ineligibles as highlighted in the RTC, then the other member states of CARICOM should justify the subsidies which they grant their manufacturers. He said that if Guyana is approaching compliance as strongly as it is then Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin should take time out to identify how other jurisdictions treat the list of ineligibles.
Jagdeo said that some CARICOM countries are guilty of providing subsidies to their manufacturing industries particularly in the form of electricity. He posited that for full compliance to be promoted then it must come as a whole and not partially. “Do you know what the policy in Jamaica is? Whether the manufacturers there get their items duty free too?� The former Head of State is of the view that before Guyana concedes, it should ask of the other states to come in range of full compliance as well. He said that at the moment, the APNU-AFC coalition is not representing the interests of its people and he credits this to the lack of
knowledge on certain issues. He said that his government had used its local laws due to the knowledge which they had about what occurred around the Region. The imposition of the import tax on items which are ineligible for exemption under the RTC has been described as a burden on local manufacturers. Jagdeo said that before a total imposition is carried out, negotiations should have been engaged between the Government and CARICOM so as to present a case on behalf of the local manufacturers. It is not the first time Guyana finds itself in a position where it has to bring itself into compliance with the RTC particularly in the area of
trade. On May 8, 2014 the Caribbean Court of Justice handed down a decision in a case between Guyana and the Surinamese company Rudisa Beverages. That case involved an environmental tax within the Customs Act of Guyana (1995) which the CCJ held to be in contravention with the RTC. The tax charged $10 for the importation of each plastic bottle by the company. According to Jagdeo, the charge was not a tax per se, since it could have been refunded if
Rudisa had taken the bottles out of the country. As it is now, Guyana will have to levy the tax on the ineligible items bringing itself in range with the requirements of the RTC. The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) had said that it is working with the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) to review the list of raw materials which are ineligible for tax exemptions under the RTC. The GMSA had stated that the imposition of the tax
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Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo will result in manufacturers paying more for raw materials. Inevitably, this will lead to consumers paying higher prices for certain commodities.
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In the wake of interior tragedies…
Stiffer penalties soon for mining companies that break the law - warns Trotman
By Jarryl Bryan While there has been a string of mining pit collapses,
questions have been raised about the penalties prescribed in Chapter 65:01 of the Mining Act. Some find the
penalties too lenient to be considered a serious deterrent for operators who flout the regulations.
The General Penalty the Act prescribes that an individual found guilty of an offence stated within the act was liable to a fine of $30,000 and imprisonment of one year. In the case of a corporate body, the Act prescribes a fine of $75,000 and imprisonment for one year. But Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman is putting mining companies on notice that work is ongoing to amend the Mining Act. He concurred with the need to establish more stringent measures. “It does make provision for fine and penalties, many of which are very low so that it is not a deterrent,” the Minister told Kaieteur News. “So that is something we are looking at. I actually have a draft which was sent to me about two weeks ago for amendments, which include increased penalties.” On that note, however, Trotman sounded a warning about the need to ascertain the circumstances that would cause a mining operator to flout the rules and regulations. He said that operators who simply do not know what the regulations are cannot be penalized for their ignorance. “It’s one thing to tell a man you will fine him a million dollars,” he said. “But what if
the man says he never knew? Or if GGMC never thought or educated him?” “We just can’t go around taking delight in fining people who do wrong things unless we first introduce them to what is right, teach them the right way and then I believe we can go further and institute (penalties).” Trotman’s statement comes on the heels of a heightened awareness about mining safety. A mining pit collapse occurred as recent as June, when a Russian geologist who was reportedly taking samples from a pit was killed after the walls collapsed. His employer, Innovative Mining Inc. owned by Parmeshwar Jagmohan, was reportedly cleared of any wrongdoing in investigations conducted by Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC). There was also the case of 18 year old Reynold Williams, who was working in a pit at Konawaruk, Mahdia when it collapsed and killed him the month before. Last year, a mining pit at Mowasi, Potaro collapsed and killed almost a dozen miners and their General Manager. In the aftermath of the mishap, a high level Government team and then Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association
(GGDMA) Patrick Harding had visited the site. In the wake of the tragedy, Harding had stated that the accident could have been avoided had the proper safety regulations been adhered to. In an interview with this publication, he also spoke of what played out during his visit, as part of the team of officials to Mowasi. According to him, the operator Imran Khan had initially stated that he was not given advice and instructions on the proper safety practices. However, he had described this as unlikely, given that it was a large scale operation. Government had ordered a Commission of Inquiry (COI), which was chaired by Dr. Grantley Walrond, after the accident. It compiled information from July 1 to July 31, 2015. The COI revealed that 25 deaths have been recorded in 16 accidents within the past 12 months; 75 per cent of these were due to the collapse of mining pits. Some of the findings were that the principal cause of pit failure accidents was the neglect of safe mining practices. In addition there was evidence that shortcuts were being taken in an effort to boost production.
Linden Mayor calls for more support ... From page 3 out as early as this week for the rehabilitation of the roof. Holland said that it had been recommended by Regional Chairman Rennis Morian that the park be asphalted, which he said that he is in support off. It was proposed a few years ago, that buses from
Mahdia, could park near the Wismar Market, instead of using the Linden/ Georgetown bus park. Holland said that this would help to promote business in the market. Holland also posited that another way of attracting more business to the Market is through the establishment of a wholesale hub. With such a facility, offering competitive prices that are equal to those in Georgetown, business people from all across Linden and Region Ten could make purchases there. “So instead of people going to Georgetown to buy stocks for their business, they would be able to do that right here. “The spin off from that would be that more money stays in Linden and circulates within the community. If money leaves the Town, how can we benefit? We have to seek ways to keep more money right here.” Calls were also made by the vendors for later opening hours on Sundays and holidays. However, the Mayor pointed out that implementing later hours might entail additional costs to the Municipal-
ity which has responsibility for market security. Vendors however argued that constables are at the market whether it was open or closed. They were encouraged by the Mayor to “relaunch” “Market Days”, to help boost sales at the facility. Holland pledged to partner with the vendors in their efforts to further promote business and encouraged them to consider advertising. He also encouraged them to write the Municipality about their concerns and some of the things that they would like to see implemented at the market. At present, there are over 200 stalls in the Wismar Market, but on any given day only about one third of the stalls are open. When questioned about this state of affairs, most stall holders that opt to keep their stalls closed, said that they were frustrated because business was slow. Other stallholders are calling for the Municipality to look into this matter, as many of the stalls have been locked up for months, and in a few cases, years.
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A man without a job is a man that will question his usefulness to society The retirement of a person after years of service is an occasion not just to sing the person praises, to serenade others with the value of their contributions but also to drum home the appreciation that goes with long service. A retiree deserves the opportunity for an honorable discharge. Why, then, would the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) send home a long-serving and senior employee a few weeks before he is officially due to retire? The act of sending the man home dishonors him in the eyes of the public. By simply waiting a few more weeks, the Guyana Revenue
Authority could have saved that individual the public humiliation he now faces. The person concerned headed the customs operations of the Guyana Revenue Authority. But unlike the explanation which was given for the mini shakeup at the GRA, the customs operations actually was responsible for the GRA increasing its revenues. The Minister of Finance has indicated that the increased revenues were as a result of strengthening operations at the country’s ports. Would it not have been much better if a change was necessary to simply indicate
that since the person was due to retire soon that he would be removed to another section so as to ensure a smoother transition by his successor. Why send the man home? People’s reputations are important. We cannot allow in this country for person’s reputations to be simply destroyed by callous actions. The man may have children. Those children are going to be the object to remarks about their father. How can any caring government tolerate such actions? It is wrong, plainly wrong. You work within the public service and instead of
Dem boys seh...
Remember when Guyana was blind Old people seh that you can’t expect the impossible. Dem got a good example. If you tek a filly and send it to school by de time de filly meet university is not that you got a bright donkey. What you got is a big jackass. Guyana got a lot of that. People sit down and look at Jagdeo and wonder how a person like that could be so wrong sided. Dem never think about de filly. This is a man who had a lot of love from de people till dem find out that he give away more money from de treasury than he give to de people who want it. This was a man who break all dem laws because that was easy and he didn’t have to answer to anybody. He was chief lawmaker, Anil, had de nerve to announce how de party tun a blind eye when people break de law. He was de man who woulda let everybody do all de wrang thing dem coulda do. Dem boys see wha now coming out of de audit. People tek de taxpayers’ money and put it in dem pocket. Some buy house that dem
couldn’t own if dem was honest. Nuff of dem trying to hide some of that money but dem ain’t got nowhere to hide it. It now look like if de Sheriff was keeping dem money and now that Soulja Bai find it people trying to hide. All of a sudden dem want to lef all that money wid de Sheriff. De hammer starting to fall and Jagdeo hollering how Soulja Bai going against de rule of law. He claim that dem got law to prosecute all who do wrang thing. He don’t want de law to change to mek police investigate de source of de money. That gun expose everything. Another thing. De whole country suddenly seeing how de police solving some crime that people commit when Jagdeo was in charge. Dem boys want to know how come dem same people manage to get away. Jagdeo Attorney General explain everything. He seh de government tun a blind eye. Talk half and understand how Jagdeo dig out Guyana eye and mek it blind.
a farewell party for your long and dedicated service to your country, all you receive is a letter advising you to proceed off the job. That is shameless. What message are we sending to public servants when someone who has given service to their country and is mere weeks away from retiring is not given an honorable send-off. This action by the Guyana Revenue Authority is unconscionable. It is interesting that the person is being sent home weeks before his retirement while in the same GRA, mere weeks after the new government came into office, retirees were put back on the job. This is the contradiction that faces the new government. It is not a simple matter of a misstep. The actions of the Guyana Revenue Authority get to the very
center of governance. If a system of governance allows for persons to be publicly shamed and humiliated like this, then that system needs overhauling. There is another issue of concern in terms of the recent decisions of the Board of the Guyana Revenue Authority. This issue is in the public domain and has implications for the staff of the Guyana Revenue Authority. It is inexplicable for the Board to appoint someone who was recently subject to an investigation to manage the persons who had recently investigated him. It matters not whether the person was exonerated. It simply is not a wise decision to soon after, place that person in a position of authority over the very persons who investigated him. The staff who investigated that person is going to feel very
uncomfortable working under that person. This is something that needs to be looked at closely because it is only an issue of governance. The decision to end the employment of persons has implications. Those persons are going to find it difficult to obtain other jobs when prospective employers learn that they were sent off from their jobs. There has to be great consideration for employees. Guyana is no longer a workers’ state but the state of our workers should still remain of paramount importance. If someone cannot find work, that person is going to feel less useful to society. That person will not be able to take care of his family. That person will not be able to provide for himself. The disrespect for workers under the new government must end.
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=== The Freddie Kissoon column ===
President Granger has to know what moral obligation is President Granger, in my opinion has got tangled up in serious moral and intellectual dilemmas that if he does not extricate himself in the immediate future he can damage his nationally admired credibility. I will not be impertinent to the President to offer him a lecture on what moral responsibility is. I honestly admire Mr. Granger and believe most sincerely that he has a plausible understanding of what is moral responsibility given the fact that he is an intellectual who has authored many books on the social sphere in Guyana Every day in this world we see the power of moral obligation with the latest being the resignation of David Cameron as Britain’s Prime Minister over Brexit. Mr. Cameron did not have to resign. There was nothing in the referendum’s terms of reference or nothing in UK laws that could have made Mr. Cameron resign. But moral obligation caused him to
demit office. As Prime Minister of his country, he led the campaign against Brexit. He lost the vote to get the UK to remain in the EU. For Cameron, it was morally untenable to remain as Head of his subjects when those subjects rejected an open desire he put on the table. Moral responsibility as adumbrated by the great philosophers, especially Immanuel Kant, and to a lesser example John Locke, in my opinion, holds civilization together. The greatest moral thread that reinforces the ethical stability of society is recognition of the principle of conflict of interest. A human will not sit as chairperson on a search committee when his/her child is an applicant. A Minister will not deliberate on a tender when his/her child is one of the bidders. A Judge will not preside over a trial when his/her nephew is the number one accused. The recognition of conflict of interest is society’s acknowledgement of moral obligation. Sadly for Guyana, many aspects of moral obligations went out the window the past fifty years and the reign of the PPP from 1992 further devastated the moral ramparts of this nation. In 1976 the Declaration of Sophia enunciated the role of the PNC as the vanguard party and created the concept of the Paramouncy of the Party thus making the State subordinate to the party.
When he was Premier of Guyana in the beginning of the sixties, Cheddi Jagan weakened the role of moral obligation of a government to its people when he de-professionalised the civil service by taking a party supporter and making him a Permanent Secretary, thus destroying the neutrality of the civil service. The same Jagan took his personal tailor and made him Head of the state-owned Guyana Electricity Corporation. The same Jagan when he became Head of Guyana again in the nineties put his chauffeur on the Board for the Coop Bank. We come now to President Granger Frederick The President said his government will not micromanage the City Council. And clarified what was meant by the review of the parking meter venture. He said it was to determine if there was any fraudulent impropriety. The President is on almost perfect ground when he said his government cannot and will not micro-manage the City Hall administration. But he did not mention the obligation he has to Guyanese to criticize and castigate the leadership of his party when as administrators they engage in misrule. In the concept of moral obligation the President does not have room to manoeuvre. Ninety percent of the councillors are from the
party of which he is head. The Mayor is a long standing member of Mr. Granger’s party. Head of the City’s Finance Committee is Mr. Granger’s General-Secretary, Mr. Oscar Clark. If the City Council misbehaves, President Granger has the moral responsibility to Georgetowners to discipline his party people. He leads them. The Mayor and many PNC Councillors are not into good governance. It would have been different if it weren’t his party people in charge of Georgetown. The parking meter issue is a scandal. There was no tender. The Town Clerk said Kissoon tendering was unnecessary because they couldn’t get a better deal. This is not only business naivety but maybe also a lack of commonsense. The scandal has its facetious side – what do the Mayor, Oscar Clark and Royston King know about the technical side of things that they found themselves in Mexico? Did the President hear the explanations? The Mayor said she found it out of place that someone could use Google to search for the credentials of a company. Oscar Clark belted out the tune – “I is like Joe Harmon, I gat no apology to make.” I heard Joe was livid when he heard that song.
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Was this Good Friday killing a curse on the nation? Those who are strongly religious, those who are superstitious, may say that to do a foul deed on one of the holiest of days, is to bring down the wrath of God on yourself, and perhaps on your nation. Some may say that this is exactly what had befallen Guyana. Call it the hand of God, call it coincidence, but the brazen murder of Monica Reece on the Good Friday of April, 1993, has been followed by a spate of heinous crimes that hasn’t abated after 23 years. In December, 1993, Charlestown resident Marlon De Abreu, was at the Hollywood Disco in Regent Street in 1993 when he was confronted by another man who shot him dead. The suspect, identified as Maxwell Melville, called ‘Lunkie’, fled the scene in a pickup, which was later found abandoned. ‘Lunkie’ was nabbed a few years later in Brazil. However, he escaped from the Georgetown Prison and remains at large. In January 8, 1994, four men forced their way into the Prashad Nagar home of 27year-old, cambio dealer Lloyd Bacchus. While some of the men held other occupants at gunpoint, the others entered Bacchus’ bedroom and shot him behind the neck, killing him instantly. It later emerged that Bacchus had spearheaded one of the largest ‘backtrack’ rings in the country. Charging a reported US$10,000 a client, the Bacchus ring, allegedly aided by Immigration and airport personnel, smuggled about ten clients a week to the United States and Canada. The relatives of clients who failed to pay up were sometimes threatened and even abducted. The US Embassy later revealed that it had revoked Bacchus’ visa because of his connection to alien smuggling. On February 25, 1994, several heavily-armed men broke into the Herstelling, East Bank Demerara home of cambio dealer Herman Sanichar. They riddled Sanichar with bullets and wounded his wife. Police said that the gunmen left large sums of money untouched when they fled. In an interview with then Chronicle Editor in-Chief Adam Harris some two years before his execution, Sanichar had confirmed that he was detained in the US for money laundering. But he had refuted reports that he was also held for drug trafficking. In March 1995, former
police constable Howard Cummings was shot dead in South Ruimveldt. Cummings was dismissed from the Guyana Police Force after it was discovered that he and other policemen were going on unsanctioned raids at drug houses to steal cocaine. In December 28, 1998, gunmen ambushed 30-yearold Watooka residents Roger Bristol and his pregnant reputed wife, Candace Wilson outside their West Watooka, Linden home. Bristol was shot in the back of the head, shoulder and side. Candace Wilson’s body was found lying behind the house, shot at close range behind the ear. Police investigations suggested that the killing of the couple was linked to the murder of 18-year-old Montouth King, whose nude body was found in the vicinity of Millie’s Hideout, an old nightclub just outside Amelia’s Ward. His head was shaven, his throat had been slit, and he had been shot in the head. On January 14, 1999, the battered body of 49-year-old Chronicle computer operator Veeran Veerapen was found near Madewini Creek. It is suspected that Veerapen was slain by backtrack operators who had sought his services. On Emancipation Day August 1, 2003, minibus operators Lennox Baker, 45, and Ron Baker, 34, stopped briefly at Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo, for a passenger to disembark. Reports say that after dropping off the passenger opposite a bus shed, an unidentified man in a white car indicated that he had passengers for the bus. It is alleged that two men came out of the car with guns drawn and fired at the bus, mortally wounding both brothers and injuring a passenger. The brothers’ close relatives alleged that police ranks had executed the men, a claim that the police strongly refuted. Drugs appeared to be the motive when the bulletriddled bodies of Daniel Marcus, 41, Richard Thomas, 33, a farmer of 164 Smythfield, New Amsterdam and Daniel Sylvester Brown, a Jamaican, were found at a marijuana farm at Swan, off the Soesdyke/ Linden Highway on September 17, 2003. Sylvester Brown, called ‘Dandy’, was shot in the chest, Thomas was shot in the right side of the head while Marcus as shot in the left breast. A number of executionstyle killings also occurred at sea. On October 12, 2007, a fishing trawler, the Captain
Jewel, with its six-man crew, departed from the Meadow Bank wharf, with the intention of fishing between Guyana and Suriname. But after setting sail, the vessel and crew disappeared. In late October, the decomposed bodies of three of the crew were found in the Corentyne River. Two of the dead men were bound hands and feet. The victims were identified as Patrick Parboo, 20, the captain; Mahendra Gangadin, called ‘Bready’ of Annandale Sand Reef, both of East Coast Demerara and 29-year-old Mark Sylvester
Persram, called ‘Buddy’ of Good Hope, East Coast Demerara. Still missing are the captain’s 20-year-old brother, Navinda Gangadin, called ‘Dar’; Davindra Persaud, 21 and Christopher Rooplall, 20. The ill-fated Captain Jewel has never been found. In March, 2009, the bulletriddled bodies of Romeo De Agrella, 41, and his son, Clint De Agrella, 21, of Grant Hope, Pomeroon, were found at Shell Beach in the BarimaWaini Region. Their boat, which also bore bullet holes, was also found but the vessel’s 250
horsepower engine was missing. The two men were reportedly slain while heading home from a trip to Venezuela. Romeo De Agrella was the uncle of Rudolph Da Silva, one of three men who turned up dead in Suriname waters in 2007. In December 2007, the bodies of Guyanese, Paul Da Silva, Rudolph Da Silva and
Junior Gomez, were found in Suriname after they had left for a trip to Venezuela, where they had operated a passenger boat service earlier that month. Police believe that the killings were drug-related. And who can forget the killings during the 2003 to 2008 ‘crime wave?’ So, will this ‘curse’ be broken if the Monica Reece case is solved?
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FISHING AROUND The first banks I knew were in the family’s “rice land” where my father and other members of our extended family first built small clay or dirt walls, basically banks, to create little dams or water catchment areas. Later, in the rainy season, we slithered and slid through the mud, reaped the rice, beat the hell out of it, dried it on the road where I stood guard from the front step armed with some stones to throw at the birds and chickens which came for their share and finally, when they said “It ready”, watched as Saddoo
ground it in his mill. The banks also kept in fish and I watched as, with little bamboo poles, small hooks, “fish” pots made with chicken wire and wood, and even with flour as well as worms as bait, they caught fish with names like cascadoo (cascadura), wahbeen or guabine, some of which jumped out of the water, coscorub, catfish, mama-teta and cutlass fish. What scared all of us were eels (jangie or zangie) which, I was warned, could “suck out youh toe”. Since we all went barefoot in the muddy water
this was enough reason for me to stay on the bank “helping”. Then I learned a different kind of “banking”. Technically this is really “bank fishing” and you stand or sit on a solid surface or bank next to a river, pond, lake or sea, and try to catch fish. This is different from “boat fishing” but in Trinidad, if you sit in a boat trying to catch the fish that live close to the bottom (demersal) you are also “banking”. My first experience with “banking” or putting my
money into a financial institution for the said organisation to use my pittance for its own unspecified purposes known broadly as “investing”, essentially to make money for itself, build big offices and pay its staff more money than I got, was when on the urging of my Aunt Doris, my father gave me money to open an account in what was then a national institution which, like all other national institutions in Trinidad, was based in Port-of-Spain. This one was the “Penny Bank”. The theory was that you could
deposit “small” as opposed to “big” money and build up your savings over a lifetime. The fact that the Penny and other Government-run Banks failed during my lifetime, and in fact the penny itself was devalued many times, did not help me to build any confidence in banking. Actually, my banking for fish was safer since I was never sold down the river, thrown in at the deep end or found myself drowning in the murky depths of high finance. My second experience was in what was called a “Post Office” bank and my father again gave me some money to put into a savings “scheme” run by the Government through the postal system. In Trinidad, “confidence” tricksters or “con-men” are also called “schemers” and almost every Government venture is a scheme. There is a National Insurance Scheme, endless Housing schemes, and even more waiting in the political wings while the schematics are being prepared. Needless to say, the one thing you can be sure about is that like the Post Office bank, the schemes eventually collapse and many people are left high and dry mainly because they can use their few remaining assets to buy over-proof or “puncheon rum” and in many parts of Trinidad there is, and has never been, a continuity of supply of running water. My most recent banking experience also left me high and dry but in the sense of being stranded. I’ve had a “debit” card from Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) (or Royal Bank of Trinidad and TobagoRBTT) for the past eighteen years. More than a week ago, it was “declined” by a supermarket. I went home, checked my online internet banking account, and found that my money was still there. It was not fished or “phished”, a term well-known to all forms of banking. Satisfied, I tried another store. Declined again. I then called the “card” center of the bank to be told that my card was stopped
because someone had “skimmed” (another universal banking and fishing term) an ATM at which I had used my card and the bank then declared my card null, void and useless and would issue me another card whenever I could go to my home branch and get it. I had received no notice from the Bank about this and there was none posted anywhere. As far as I know there was no announcement. Because I have a “secure” internet banking account, it should have been easy for RBC to send me a message but I got none. In fact, I had more luck with fishing online (using nylon) than banking. Fortunately, I called the Manager of my “parent” or “home” branch, an extremely helpful lady, to send the new card to the branch closest to where I am now based, and after another mix-up eventually got it and “pinned” it. I was hooked once more on RBC’s concept of customer service banking. . RBC is the largest bank in Canada with a record profit in 2015 of $10billion. Because of its attempt to increase all its rates, fees and charges, it faces a widespread customer rebellion and even “withdrawal” (which as Onan found has a relatively huge cost as well) in Canada and elsewhere (including the Caribbean). I saw a post on www.consumeraffairs.com listing the top 165 complaints about RBC. There are many complaints about its lack of customer relations and the nickel-and-diming which characterizes its operations. It is a pity because most of the lower-level workers and managers are very friendly but seem to lack any input into the decision-making. In fishing terms, they are in the same boat as the rest of us and all we can do is carp until the liquidity goes and the money flow dries up like one of the little ponds my family built. *Tony Deyal was last seen saying that the eels which suck off your toe also disappear when the dry season comes.
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Brexit minister seeks ‘generous’ deal for EU citizens, Britons Reuters - Britain’s Brexit minister said he wanted a generous settlement for Britons living in the EU and for Europeans in Britain after the country voted to leave the 28-nation bloc, but declined to fully guarantee the rights of EU citizens. David Davis, who has said Britain should begin the formal process of leaving the EU by triggering Article 50 in early 2017, said yesterday that the rights of EU citizens living in Britain should be agreed along with those of Britons in Europe. “I want to see a generous settlement for the people here already because they didn’t pick this circumstance,” Davis told Sky News yesterday. “We want to do that at the same time as we get a similarly generous settlement for British citizens living in the EU,” he said. Davis said he backed the rights of those living and
David Davis working in Britain and expected all citizens to be wellprotected. However, he suggested that there could be limits if there is an increase in immigration from the 27 remaining EU countries before Brexit occurs. “One way of dealing with
it could be saying OK, only people arriving before a certain date get this protection,” he said, declining to fully guarantee the rights of those already in Britain. Border control was an important theme in the June 23 referendum in which 52 percent of those who voted backed leaving the European Union, however any limitations could be a concern for Britain’s largest firms, many of which have spoken in favour of free movement. Davis, who said his newly created Department for Exiting the European Union currently has 40 staff but will grow to a “couple of hundred”, said Britain will now be able to negotiate better trade deals and also keep access to the European single market. “It will keep its access, but whether it keeps tariff-free access is the issue and ...that is what we are aiming for,” he said.
Morocco wants to rejoin African Union after 32 years: statement
Moroccan King Mohammed VI, pictured on February 4, 2016, says his country want to rejoin the African Union (AFP Photo/Fadel Senna) Rabat (AFP) - Moroccan King Mohammed VI yesterday announced that his country wanted to rejoin the African Union, 32 years after quitting the bloc in protest at its decision to accept Western Sahara as a member. “For a long time our friends have been asking us to return to them, so that Morocco can take up its natural place within its institutional family. The moment has now come,” the monarch said in a message sent to an AU summit taking place in Kigali, the MAP Moroccan news agency reported. Morocco quit the
grouping in protest in 1984 when the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) was admitted as a member. But although Morocco left the club, “it never quit Africa”, King Mohammed said in his message to AU leaders as they began a twoday meeting in the Rwandan capital. Morocco has occupied the sparsely populated Western Sahara area since 1975 in a move that was not recognised by the international community. It maintains that Western Sahara is an integral part of the kingdom even though local Sahrawi people have
long campaigned for the right to self-determination. In 1991, the United Nations brokered a ceasefire between Moroccan troops and Sahrawi rebels of the Algerian-backed Polisario Front but a promised referendum to settle the status of the desert territory has yet to materialise. In his address to the African Union, King Mohammed urged the bloc to rethink its position on the “fantom state” of Western Sahara, saying that a political solution was being worked on under the auspices of the UN.
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Prime Minister Andrew Holness (left) greets Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr Keith Rowley on his arrival at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston yesterday. (Photo: JIS) KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) – Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr Keith Rowley, and Mrs Sharon Rowley, arrived in Jamaica yesterday for a four-day official visit. They were met at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston by a welcoming party led by Prime
Minister Andrew Holness, and Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister, Kamina Johnson Smith. Other members of the local delegation included: Kingston’s Mayor, Senator Dr Angela Brown Burke; Permanent Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister, Elaine Foster Allen; wife of
the Prime Minister Juliet Holness; Chief Justice, Zaila McCalla; and Chief of State Protocol, Ambassador Elinor Felix. Speaking with journalists, Holness said the visit aims to strengthen the countries’ bilateral relations, noting the strong cultural, commercial, financial and trade links they share. He said discussions with Dr Rowley will focus on these areas as well as matters related to security, among others. Both leaders will also discuss the signing of a Framework Agreement and the establishment of a Joint Commission, currently under negotiation, to provide a structured medium for bilateral discussions and co-operation in areas of mutual interest. Prime Minister Holness noted that the countries’ relations facilitated visits by approximately 16,000 Jamaicans to Trinidad and Tobago last year, while 13,000
citizens of the twin island republic were granted entry into Jamaica. “I am looking forward to a successful visit and at the end of it, I am looking forward to a stronger bilateral relationship between Jamaica and our largest trading partner within CARICOM,” he said. The visit follows ongoing discussions between both Governments towards the resolution of long standing bilateral and regional issues. These include: implementation of the CARICOM Single Market Economy (CSME), and the related Free Movement of Community Nationals and Immigration matters, Trade and Energy Cooperation and Air Transportation. Dr Rowley will also meet with the Chairman of the CARICOM/CARIFORUM Review Commission, Bruce Golding; pay a courtesy calls on the Governor-General, Sir Patrick Allen, the Leader of
the Opposition, Portia Simpson Miller, and the Vice Chancellor, University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor Sir Hilary Beckles. Additionally, he will engage heads of private sector organisations and entities in discussions on trade and business development issues. Rowley is scheduled to address the 22nd Session of the General Assembly of the International Seabed Authority at the Jamaica Conference Centre. He will also meet with the Vice Chancellor and Senior Executives of the UWI, members of the Diaspora, as well as students from the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Rowley will have a scheduled engagement with Trinidadian entrepreneurs in Jamaica. The Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister and his delegation are expected to depart the island on Thursday.
T&T hospitals at crisis point …facing severe shortage of nurses Trinidad Guardian - There is a “tremendous shortage” of staff, especially skilled medical staff including both doctors and nurses, at the public health institutions in this country, the Sunday Guardian has learnt. The issue has reached “crisis” proportions throughout the country resulting in a ratio as high as 22 patients to one nurse currently existing at the San Fernando General Hospital as opposed to a ratio of six patients to one nurse
suggested by the World health Organisation (WHO). The situation at San Fernando General, according to nursing staff there, has resulted “in long hours, excessive overtime, tired workers, denial of legitimate leave” and this will “negatively impact the quality of health care to the population,” the National Worker Union (NWU) stated. “This is unsafe and puts both nurse and patient at risk,” the NWU says. The staff shortages are
First Lady charges... From page 19 community”. Youth from all but the Barima-Waini, Potaro-Siparuni and Upper Takutu-Upper Berbice Regions participated in this latest training programme. Special prizes were given to Mr. Wilton Hinds and Ms. Shareefah Parks who were named the male and female participant, respectively, who best exemplified leadership, and Mr. Akeem Hyndman and Ms. Tanya Hooper, who were named the male and female, respectively, who had the most outstanding personality. These awardees were all selected by their peers. The graduates celebrated their success and charmed the audience with a mixed musical presentation that included a rendition of “I believe the children are our future” and “Lean on Me”. Director of Youth, Ms. Melissa Carmichael, Deputy Director of Youth, Ms. Leslyn Boyce and Mr. Ronald Austin Jr, Training and Education Officer also attended the ceremony.
among a list of growing concerns currently plaguing the public health sector. Among the other issues are drug shortages at the Regional Health Authorities (RHAs), medical staff from Tobago staging a sickout over arrears and confusion over Yellow Fever vaccines. Even as the shortage of specialists exists, more than 150 nationals who have already completed their internship as doctors at the public hospitals who still remain unemployed. These concerns were raised as the Sunday Guardian began an investigation in to this country’s public health care sector. “It is time we take the bull by the horns and find the way forward to deal with these issues,” Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the North Central Regional Health Authority (NCRHA) Kumar Boodram stated. The NWU submitted a letter to the Dr Winston Welch-chaired committee highlighting the situation of staff shortages in this country’s health sector. The NWU lamented that “mechanisms must be put in place to fill the thousands of vacancies in the public health care system”.
The situation at the San Fernando General Hospital has been made worse by the arrival of the San Fernando Teaching hospital in January 2014, the NWU stated. Contacted for comment Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the SWRHA Anil Gosine admitted to a shortage at San Fernando General, but he said the ratio of 22 patients to one nurse, which was quoted, was “too high”. A shortage exists especially among registered nurses, Gosine said. “We have always had a shortage of registered nurses in the health sector of Trinidad and hence you would have found nurses being brought in from Cuba and in the past you would have had from places like the Philippines in the 1980s and 1990s,” Gosine said.Gosine said there is a shortage of specialised nurses in this country including “theatre nurses” and “intensive care nurses”. President of the Trinidad and Tobago Registered Nurses Association (TTRNA) Gwendolyn LoobieSnaggs said she does not have “up to date figures”.
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Struggling cultural institutions and musicians Bandits terrorize La Jalousie family, flee with guns, cash and jewellery A La Jalousie, West Coast Demerara family was beaten and robbed of over $2M and firearms when bandits invaded their home at around noon on Saturday. Police have since held a suspect as they continue their investigations. The suspect has been identified as a 29-year old man from Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara. Boupaul Panday, a 48-year-old businessman; his wife and son were gun butted before they were tied and forced to lie face down while four bandits ransacked their home. The robbers escaped with $2M cash; US$1,000; a quantity of gold jewellery; a Taurus Pistol along with twenty four rounds of .32 ammunition; a 12 gauge shotgun and 42 cartridges. Kaieteur News understands that the family was seated in the shop located at the bottom flat of their home, when one of the suspects entered and purchased a cigarette. However, before exiting the shop, the ‘customer’ held the family at gun point and took them upstairs, where his accomplices helped to tie them up. Panday and his son were beaten about their bodies with a gun during the ordeal. They were treated for injuries at a hospital and sent away. While upstairs the thieves ransacked the home before fleeing with the firearm and other valuables..
From page 20 ethnic division in particular has made it difficult for some to identify a single brand but I've always argued that our ethnic diversity is a positive, a general offshoot of our overall diversity, which is what our real brand is. We are the world in microcosm in a way that you will find in no other place, not even in our closest rivals in that regard, Trinidad and Suriname. KN: I would like to take your attention to the music industry. There have been cries that the Ministry over the years, failed miserably to really support the development of musicians here. Do you agree with this perception and how is the department of culture setting itself apart in this arena from its predecessors? RJ: I've argued for years that the Department has failed creative people in general, not only musicians, and my position on this has not changed – the difference is that I am now in a position to advocate internally as well as in public for the policy-based reform that is necessary to create the environment that is conducive to the creative arts as a holistic sector. Much of my first
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year in office has been building the general framework for policy development and mapping key initiatives, particularly in the creative industries, and linking them conceptually. The thing is, concurrent and probably complementary to the failure of the Department of Culture is the failure of the music industry to develop strong representative associations to advocate and lobby for proper support. Mr. Burchmore Simon has been trying with the Guyana Music Network but support has been down. KN: What is your proposal for how we can better promote our musicians locally and beyond our shores? RJ: The model I have in mind is wherein the reformed Department of Culture serves as an intelligence unit for creative industries development until the eventual introduction of a Creative Industries Development Authority or Commission, one that provides capacity development services, technical assistance, and strategic funding support for creative artists. Locally, specific to the music sector, one of the key initiatives is providing a system that uses quota benchmarks in the public sector and incentives in the private sector to stimulate the hiring of local musicians. What this means in plain language is that in a particular year, government agencies hosting public events should have a specific number of those events featuring a local musician who will be paid a standardized fee for the event – and in the private sector, companies can earn tax rebates or other concessions based on their engagement of local musicians during a particular tax year. Externally, what we need is a strategy based on ensuring promotion of our artistes within the region beginning with a credible system of CSME certification and bilateral cultural exchange
programmes internationally. We can then move towards targeting of developed world promotion of our musicians, particularly shifting the usual focus from the conventional wisdom of targeting the United States and aiming for European and Asian audiences, Germany and Japan for example. KN: Do you think even with copyright legislation, it would be enough to help musicians actually live off of their craft? RJ: As a creative person, I can tell you that even the best environment is not a guarantee
of sustainable income from practice of your art. What is the government's job is to provide the framework for development while work has to be put in by stakeholders, both as individuals and as associations. If we're to use copyright as an example, government's job is to create legislation and the subsequent enforcement machinery – however, it is up to the individual artists to educate themselves and to protect their own work, and to be part of an association that helps to collect royalties.
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ARRESTS HIT 6,000 AS TURKEY CRACKS DOWN ON ARMY AND JUDGES AFTER COUP BID
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan waves to the crowd following a funeral service for victims thwarted coup in Istanbul, yesterday. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis Reuters - Turkey widened a crackdown on suspected supporters of a failed military coup yesterday, taking the number of people rounded up in the armed forces and judiciary to 6,000, and the government said it was in control of the country and economy. President Ta y y i p Erdogan and the government accused the U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, a former ally whom Erdogan accuses of trying to create a
“parallel structure” within the courts, police, armed forces and media, of orchestrating the coup. Erdogan’s supporters of gathered in front of his Istanbul home to call for the plotters to face the death penalty, which Turkey outlawed in 2004 as part of its efforts to join the European Union. “We cannot ignore this demand,” Erdogan told the chanting crowd. “In democracies, whatever the people say has to happen.”
He said a “terror group” led by Gulen had “ruined” the armed forces, that its members were being arrested in all military ranks, and that a purge of this “virus” would continue. Gulen denied any connection with the coup. The president has called on Turks to stay on the streets until Friday, and late into Sunday night, his supporters thronged squares and streets, honking horns and waving flags.
Pictures on social media showed detained soldiers stripped to the waist, some wearing only their underpants, handcuffed and lying packed together on the floor of a sports hall where they were being held in Ankara. One video posted on Twitter showed detained generals with bruises and bandages. Akin Ozturk, head of the air force until 2015 and identified by three senior officials as one of the suspected masterminds of the coup plot, was among those held. The Foreign Ministry raised the death toll to more than 290, including over 100 rebels, and said 1,400 people were hurt. The violence shocked the nation of almost 80 million, once seen as a model Muslim democracy, where living standards have risen steadily for more than a decade and where the army last used force to stage a successful coup more than 30 years ago. It also shattered fragile confidence among Tu r k e y ’s a l l i e s a b o u t s e c u r i t y i n t h e N ATO country, which is a leading member of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State. Turkey had already been hit by repeated suicide bombings over the past year and is struggling
Gunman kills 3 police officers, wounded three others in Louisiana - Obama condemns attack
Baton Rouge police officer Montrell Jackson, who was killed in a shooting attack yesterday, is seen in a photograph from his social media account. Montrell Jackson/Facebook via REUTERS Reuters - A gunman killed three police officers and wounded three others in Louisiana’s capital yesterday, just days after the police shooting of a black man there sparked nationwide protests, one of which led to the
massacre of five Dallas policemen. Officers in Baton Rouge were responding to a call of a man carrying a gun when shots were fired at around 9 a.m. local time (1400 GMT). Two Baton Rouge police
officers and one sheriff’s deputy were killed. The gunman died in a shootout with police a short time after he opened fire on the first group of officers, Colonel Mike Edmonson, superintendent of the Louisiana State Police, said in a press conference. The suspect, identified by a U.S. official as Gavin Long of Kansas City, Missouri, was believed to have acted alone. Investigators suspect a 911 emergency call may have been used to lure police to the scene, the official said on condition of anonymity. It was not immediately clear whether there was a link between the shootings and the recent unrest over the police killings of black men in Baton Rouge and Minnesota. Authorities did not give any information about the
gunman’s possible motive. President Barack Obama condemned the attack, vowed that justice would be done and called on Americans to focus on rhetoric and actions that united the country rather than divided it. “We as a nation have to be loud and clear that nothing justifies violence on law enforcement,” Obama said in televised remarks from the White House. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards called the shootings an “unspeakable, heinous attack” that served no purpose. “There simply is no place for more violence. That doesn’t help anyone, it doesn’t further the conversation, it doesn’t address any injustice, perceived or real. It is just an injustice in and of itself,” he told reporters in Baton Rouge.
to contain an insurgency by Kurdish separatists. Wi t h expectations growing of a heavy clampdown on dissent, European politicians warned Erdogan the coup attempt did not give him a blank cheque to disregard the rule of law, and that he risked isolating himself internationally as he strengthens his position at home. Broadcaster NTV cited Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag as saying more arrests were expected. By yesterday evening, authorities had rounded up nearly 3,000 suspected military plotters, ranging from top commanders to foot soldiers, and the same number of judges and prosecutors after forces loyal to Erdogan crushed the attempted coup on
Saturday. Among those arrested was General Bekir Ercan Van, commander of the Incirlik air base from which U.S. aircraft launch air strikes on Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, an official said. Erdogan’s chief military assistant was also detained, the broadcaster CNN Turk said. Saudi Arabia detained Turkey’s military attache to K u w a i t a t Tu r k e y ’s request, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV said. Security forces also clashed with remnants of the coup plotters at Istanbul’s second airport yesterday and at an air base in central Turkey, an official said, adding that arrests had been made and the situation was under control.
Rebel jets had Erdogan’s plane in their sights Reuters - At the height of the attempt to overthrow Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, the rebel pilots of two F16 fighter jets had Erdogan’s plane in their sights. And yet he was able to fly on. The Turkish leader was returning to Istanbul from a holiday near the coastal resort of Marmaris after a faction in the military launched the coup attempt on Friday night, sealing off a bridge across the Bosphorus, trying to capture Istanbul’s main airport and sending tanks to parliament in Ankara. “At least two F-16s harassed Erdogan’s plane while it was in the air and en route to Istanbul. They locked their radars on his plane and on two other F-16s protecting him,” a former military officer with knowledge of the events told Reuters. “Why they didn’t fire is a mystery,” he said. A senior Turkish official confirmed to Reuters that Erdogan’s business jet had been harassed while flying from the airport that serves Marmaris by two F-16s commandeered by the coup plotters but that he had managed to reach Istanbul safely. A second senior official also said the presidential jet had been “in trouble in the air” but gave no details. Erdogan said as the coup unfolded that the plotters had tried to attack him in the resort town of Marmaris and had bombed places he had been at shortly after he left. He “evaded death by minutes”, the second official said. Around 25 soldiers in helicopters descended on a hotel in Marmaris on ropes, shooting, just after Erdogan had left in an apparent attempt to seize him, broadcaster CNN Turk said.
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Thousands cross Venezuela border shopping for scarce food SAN ANTONIO DEL TACHIRA, Venezuela (AP) — Tens of thousands of Venezuelans, some of whom drove through the night in caravans, crossed the border into Colombia yesterday to hunt for food and medicine that are in short supply at home. It’s the second weekend in a row that Venezuela’s socialist government has opened the long-closed border connecting Venezuela to Colombia, and by 6 a.m., a line of would-be shoppers snaked through the entire town of San Antonio del Tachira. Some had traveled in chartered buses from cities 8 hours away. Some of those waiting to cross made antigovernment chants and sang the national anthem, but there was no appetite for confrontation. They were focused on the prospect of fully stocked supermarket shelves and the opportunity to buy even nonessential indulgences like nail polish and beer. An estimated 35,000 Venezuelans crossed the border on Saturday, the first day of what Colombian government is calling a humanitarian corridor. President Nicolas Maduro is trying to deflate any talk of a humanitarian crisis and instead blames its political enemies and selfserving smugglers for the shortages. He dismissed as a “media show” the jarring images a few weeks ago of 500 women pushing through the checkpoint, saying they were desperate to buy food. Yesterday, state TV ran footage of Venezuelans returning from Colombia emptyhanded, dissuaded by what they said was price-gouging and the threat of violence by their neighbours.
People line up to cross over the Simon Bolivar international bridge to Colombia to take advantage of the temporary border opening in San Antonio del Tachira, Venezuela. REUTERS/ Carlos Eduardo Ramirez
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Offshore Antiguan bank involved in Brazil’s biggest ever scandal Daily Observer - As Brazil arrests scores of its politicians in the country’s biggest ever corruption scandal, an offshore bank located in Antigua is being implicated in the multi-billion dollar scheme. According to several online publications, the Brazilian construction giant, Odebrecht, acquired Meinl Bank Antigua Limited, exclusively to launder, distribute and conceal billions of dollars in bribes. Vinicius Veiga Borin, a whistleblower from the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, says he and other executives from Odebrecht collaborated to take control of Meinl Bank Antigua in late 2010. Borin – a former employee of the now defunct Antigua Overseas Bank, says he and other former employees of AOB joined two central executives to acquire the subsidiary of Meinl Bank. Borin is one of a slew of Odebrecht executives brought in as part of ‘Operation Car Wash’ – the sprawling corruption
Vinicius Veiga Borin investigation ongoing across Brazil. He told Brazilian investigators that he was part of the construction company’s “Kick-back department”. Borin reported that 51 per cent of Meinl was originally bought through third parties for over US$3 million. Odebrecht slowly gained 67 percent control of the bank in Antigua.
According to Borin, he discovered in one instance that US$16.6 million dollars was channelled through the bank to pay for the campaign of the president and former president of Brazil. He says that Odebrecht executives linked to Meinl Bank used special software and code names to move funds and distribute bribes and moved around US $1.6 billion through over 40 accounts. In Brazil, Odebrecht has been implicated as the principle actor in providing hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes to executives of the state owned oil company Petrobras. Petrobras sits at the center of the ongoing corruption scandal that has seen Brazil’s former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrested and its current president Dilma Rousseff suspended from office. More than 50 major politicians are being investigated and scores of businessmen have been arrested.
PSOJ anticipates positive outcome from talks between Jamaica, T&T Leaders The Gleaner - At least one major Jamaican business group is expecting a positive outcome from talks between the Jamaican and Trinidadian leaders to resolve the ongoing trade and immigration row between both islands. President of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), William Mahfood, says the importance of Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago to CARICOM demands that both countries resolve their differences for the benefit of the region. Mahfood says Trinidadian Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has indicated that he is a true regionalist and, therefore, if he is serious about addressing the ongoing trade and immigration issues, then the outcome will be good. He says CARICOM states must appreciate that the region is stronger as a united force.
William Mahfood
OAS expresses concern over ongoing failure to hold elections in Haiti
Luis Almagro
WASHINGTON, USA — The secretary general of the Organisation of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, last week expressed his deep concern over the demonstrated inability of Haitian parliamentarians to meet in the National Assembly to decide on how best to guarantee institutional stability and encourage the continuation of the electoral process. “Haiti can no longer afford to be the hostage of dilatory tactics and other ploys. The situation is critical. It is time to make a decision that should have been made long ago,” the secretary general added. “It is imperative for Haitian political stakeholders, including parliamentarians and those provisionally governing the country, to fully assume their responsibilities towards the nation. The interests of the Haitian people must supersede partisan interests. Every effort should be made for the presidential, legislative and local elections to be held without delay and in a calm atmosphere,” he concluded. (Caribbean News)
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Guyanese Yannick Grimes places 3rd at Sportsworld Classic 2016 Invitational in T&T One of Guyana’s leading Men’s Physique athletes, Yannick Grimes, not fearful of venturing out and always looking for new challenges, turned in his performance in a short but fledgling career as a bodybuilder. Grimes took the bronze medal in a field of 12 competitors at last Saturday night’s Sportsworld Classic Invitation competition held at the Center of Excellence, Macoya, Trinidad and Tobago. Grimes informed Kaieteur Sport that this is his best showing yet at the Regional level, in his second outing, having placed fourth out of 17 athletes at the Darcey Beckles Show last year, a show which is held annually in the Land of the Flying Fish, Barbados. Just one week ago at the Guyana Amateur Body Building & Fitness Federation (GABBFF) Senior championships, Grimes placed second in the Men’s Physique competition. He is hopeful of competing at the 44th Central American Caribbean (CAC) Bodybuilding Fitness Championships set for September 29 to October 2, 2016 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic but says that he has to raise funds in order to be there. Grimes is extending thanks to Mr. James of Interstate Batteries, Mr. Mohamed’s of Mohamed’s Enterprise as well as Mr and Mrs Indira Singh whose
Yannick Grimes displays his medal on Saturday in T&T.
Messi still the best despite international failures: Ronaldinho ( R e u t e r s ) CHENNAI, Lionel Messi is still the best player in the world despite never winning a major international trophy for Argentina, former Barcelona team mate and Brazil great Ronaldinho said on Sunday. The 29-year-old Messi, who retired from internationals last month after Argentina lost to Chile in the Copa America final, is his country’s top scorer with 55 goals. The five times World Player of the Year has played in three Copa America finals and the 2014 World Cup final, but lost them all. Cristiano Ronaldo, his frequent rival for FIFA’s prestigious Ballon d’Or, recently won Euro 2016 with Portugal, to reignite the debate about which of the two is the world’s best player.
“For me, Messi leaving international soccer does not change anything,” Ronaldinho told reporters on Sunday. “He is still the best soccer player in the world. The respect I have for him doesn’t change at all... “And if he really has decided to leave international soccer then the sport will miss his presence, and so will the fans,” added Ronaldinho, w h o p l a y s i n I n d i a ’s Premier Futsal league. Ronaldinho, who played at Barcelona for five years from 2003, said he had nurtured Messi when the pair played together at the Nou Camp. He said the Argentine had followed in his footsteps by helping to guide Brazil forward Neymar at the Spanish champions.
“I am not there to see. But I believe the attention and dedication I had for Messi, is the same thing Messi is doing for Neymar because it’s very important for a more experienced player to share things with younger players,” the 36year-old Ronaldinho said. “And that I believe is one of the reasons that Neymar has adapted to the club and their style of play.” Ronaldinho has been without a club since a twomonth spell at Brazilian side Fluminense last year and has not ruled out playing in the Indian Super League. “I am uncertain but I will go to a place where I feel very comfortable and will consider this possibility (the Indian Super League),” the 2005 Ballon d’Or winner said.
collective efforts, financially, enabled his participation in
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FORENSIC AUDIT INTO CFU…
CONCACAF queries ‘secret’ bank account
With one week to go before the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Presidential Elections, there is word that CONCACAF has instituted a forensic audit into the financial affairs of CFU, and has gone one step by suspending grants to the Caribbean body. The incumbent CFU President Gordon Derrick, of Antigua, is facing stiff competition from Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) President David John Williams, and Hillaren Frederick, President of the United States Virgin Islands Football Association. The elections take place on July 23 at the Sheraton Airport Hotel in Miami and all 31 member associations will attend. During its audit,
CONCACAF has found a secret bank account in the name of CFU Inc. registered in Antigua, where CONCACAF funding has been deposited. CONCACAF only recognises CFU, registered in Jamaica, where is the headquarters of the CFU. The turmoil in world football has caused world and regional bodies to take stock in how they do business, especially financial affairs. With disgraced FIFA President Sepp Blatter banned from football, and criminal proceedings against a number of world football officials, including the Caribbean’s Jack Warner and Jeffrey Webb, soccer confederations are taking no chances. CONCACAF and CFU were plunged into crisis in 2011 when their President, Jack Warner, resigned from all forms of football for his role in the cash-for-votes scandal at the Hyatt Hotel in Trinidad. Warner had distributed US $40,000 in envelopes to CFU members for the support for
FIFA Presidential candidate, Mohamed Bin Hammam. Before FIFA could deal with its suspended vicepresident, Warner resigned without going through a trial. He stepped down from being CONCACAF and CFU President. In 2013, former Barbados jurist Sir David Simmons published a damning report on the financial affairs which implicated Warner in wrongdoing. It came as no surprise in 2015 when the United States requested Warner’s extradition to face trial on charges of corruption, among other things. While many soccer officials have agreed to go to New York to face the charges, Warner is resisting extradition in Trinidad. Following Warner’s departure, Gordon Derrick, former general secretary of the Antigua Football Association, was voted as President of CFU on May 22, 2012. But his stewardship has now come under focus from CONCACAF’s general secretary, Ted Howard. In a letter dated March 10, 2016 to Derrick, Howard wrote: “As you know, CONCACAF has been implementing additional financial controls and audit procedures over the past several months as part of its overall reform efforts.
Gordon Derrick “Part of the reforms CONCACAF has implemented includes the closer monitoring and auditing of payments made to all CONCACAF constituents to ensure proper management of financial resources. As is the case of FIFA’s disbursements of FAP and GOAL Project funds, all disbursements to its member associations and unions must comply with these controls and audit procedures.” Howard stated that in order to properly assess the CFU’s financial situation, CONCACAF will do the following, among other things: 1) CONCACAF will conduct a comprehensive review of CFU’s financial situation and outlook for
2016. This will consist of analysing financial statements and other documents to map out current reserves/debts, all regular/extraordinary expenses, all revenue sources, outstanding payables and receivables, as well as an audit of the funds previously loaned to the CFU by CONCACAF; 2) After such review, CONCACAF will develop a financial plan with the CFU to stabilize its current challenges. The plan include a review of on-going support, host agreements, expense management, and other actions to ensure sustainability of the CFU if implemented accordingly; 3) CONCACAF will work with CFU to execute this plan; 4) CONCACAF will receive from CFU monthly detailed reporting, and; 5) CONCACAF and CFU will hold quarterly meetings to make any necessary adjustments to the action plan and report on progress back to both CONCACAF and CFU Committees. Howard continued, “As part of the review described above, CONCACAF must obtain from CFU information about the disposition of CONCACAF funds by CFU. It has come to our attention upon a review of our financial records that the monthly
payments of US $45,000 CONCACAF has made for the benefit of CFU for support of its administrative and overhead expenses, is now being made to an account that is not in the name of the CFU. Rather, the account into which the payments are being made is to a different entity called “the Caribbean Football Union Inc”. Howard has asked for all the documents relating to CFU Inc and the secret bank account. In his letter, Howard advised Derrick that he (Derrick) must preserve, “and may not delete or destroy, any and all documents relating to the CFU and CFU Inc.” Howard ended, “Until this matter is resolved, CONCACAF will suspend payments to the CFU. However, CONCACAF has been paying the CFU travel agency directly for bookings made by the CFU-related events. These payments have never been suspended, and CONCACAF will continue to make such payments to the CFU’s travel agency.” Howard indicated that CONCACAF would pay directly to CFU staff.
Singh, Persaud guide Guyana to victory over Windwards
Joshua Persaud
Sachin Singh Half centuries from Sachin Singh and Joshua Persaud handed Guyana a 60-run victory over the Windward Islands when the Regional U17 50-over tournament concluded yesterday in Trinidad. Singh and Persaud featured 162 for the second wicket as Guyana posted a challenging 253-5 after deciding to bat at National Cricket Centre. The duo came together after Bhaskar Yadram was dismissed for one in the second over and frustrated their opponents with sensible batting. Singh who faced 123 balls struck four fours and one six before he went for 78, while Persaud hit two fours and one six in scoring 77 off 112 balls. Ashmead Nedd was run out for 33 (4x4,2x6) while Kurt
Lovell made 28 (2x4) not out. Urnell Thomas claimed 3-51. Windwards were bowled out for 193 in 44.2 overs in reply. Micah Joseph scored 64 (6x4,1x6), Tijourne Pope 45 (4x6), Johann Jerimah 31 and Tahj Tavanier 20. Yadram snared 3- 16 off 5.2 overs while Joshua Jones, Alphius Bookie, Nedd and Kevin Sinclair had one each for Guyana who played unbeaten in the tournament but took the runner up spot on 20.3 points, while the Trinidad and Tobago were declared winners with 20.6. The host nation got 0.6 bonus points while Guyana arguably the strongest team in the tournament managed 0.3; both teams suffered two rained out games. Windwards placed third on 14.2 followed by Barbados on 14.0, Jamaica 7.3 and Leewards 1.4.
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Downhill master Pantano wins Yasir leads Pakistan to Tour stage 15, Froome leads victory over England at Lord’s
IAM team rider Jarlinson Pantano of Colombia wins on the finish line ahead of Tinkoff rider Rafal Majka of Poland. (REUTERS/JEAN-PAUL PELISSIER) CULOZ, FRANCE (Reuters) Colombian Jarlinson Pantano showed he is a master of the descent as he claimed his maiden Tour de France win in Sunday’s 15th stage, while overall leader Chris Froome enjoyed a relatively quiet day in the saddle. Pantano outsprinted breakaway companion Rafal Majka (Tinkoff) of Poland at the end of a 160-km trek in the Jura mountains to give his IAM Cycling team, who will be folding at the end of the season, a first victory on the Tour. “I dreamt of this all my life, I’m so happy,” said Pantano. “Majka had won several Tour stages (three) and I was wary of him in the finale but I had good sensations. I knew that if I was catching him in the descent I’d have a good chance to win.” Briton Froome retained the overall lead after his Team Sky easily controlled feeble attacks from top-10 riders Fabio Aru, Alejandro Valverde and Romain Bardet. Frenchman Bardet’s attack, however, hurt American Tejay van Garderen, who lost 1:28 to the leading riders and slipped from sixth to eighth overall as his hopes of a podium finish in Paris took a serious knock.
Froome leads Dutchman Bauke Mollema (TrekSegafredo) by 1:47 and thirdplaced Briton Adam Yates (Orica-Bike Exchange) by 2:45. A 30-man group broke away on the first of the six ascents of the day, up to the Col du Berthiand. It featured seven Tour stage winners including 2014 champion Vincenzo Nibali, Frenchmen Alexis Vuillermoz, Pierre Rolland and Thomas
Voeckler, Dutchman Tom Dumoulin, Majka as well as Spain’s Ruben Plaza. PUNISHING CLIMB Swiss Sebastien Reichenbach, who started the Tour as Frenchman Thibaut Pinot’s lieutenant, was the best-placed rider in the overall standings as he started in 17th place, 11:41 off the pace. After several foiled attacks, a group of 13 were in front, including Reichenbach while Nibali and Dumoulin were dropped in the ascent to the Col du Grand Colombier, a punishing 12.8-km climb at an average gradient of 6.8 percent. Russian Ilnur Zazkarin and Majka jumped away from the group 5km from the top and the Pole went solo in the final ascent on the Lacets du Grand Colombier, an 8.4km climb at 7.6 percent. Pantano, however, descended at breakneck speed to rejoin Majka and he was far too strong in the final sprint. At the front of the main pack, Astana’s brutal acceleration set up an attack by 2015 Vuelta champion Aru in the last climb. The Italian was followed by Spain’s Valverde, only for the duo to be quickly reined in by Froome’s team mates Mikel Nieve and Wouter Poels. Bardet (AG2r-La Mondiale) then attacked near the summit and while the move did not threaten Froome, it was fatal for Van Garderen, who is now 4:47 off the overall pace. Monday’s 16th stage is a 209-km ride from Moirans-enMontagne to Bern. The peloton will then enjoy a rest day before the final week in the Alps.
Yasir Shah is congratulated on the catch of Joe Root, England v Pakistan, 1st Investec Test, Lord’s, 4th day, July 17, 2016 ©Getty Images (Reuters) Pakistan foiled a gutsy England run chase to win a gripping first test by 75 runs at Lord’s on Sunday. Having set the hosts a 283 victory target after their second innings was ended on 215 in the morning, Pakistan’s bowlers, led by leg spinner Yasir Shah, provided a masterclass to bowl England out for 207. Mohammad Amir, back from a five-year ban for spotfixing, sealed victory when he clean bowled Jake Ball. England had never chased down such a total at Lord’s and when Jonny Bairstow was still at the crease they appeared to still have a chance but he was undone by Yasir Shah when he was two short of his half century. The end was nigh after that as the final three wickets went down for 12 runs. Pakistan’s players celebrated victory by doing press-ups in front of their jubilant supporters.
Marc Marquez wins with Cal Crutchlow second in Germany BBC Sport - Spaniard Marc Marquez extended his lead at the top of the MotoGP standings with a victory in Germany as Britain’s Cal Crutchlow finished second. After an earlier downpour, Marquez made the most of a change to slick tyres on his way to a win in a time of 47 mins 03.239 secs at the Sachsenring Circuit. He moved 48 points clear of fellow Spaniard and reigning world champion Jorge Lorenzo, who only finished 15th. Italian Andrea Dovizioso was third, with Britain’s Scott Redding fourth. Marquez finished 9.857 secs in front of Crutchlow, who claimed his first podium finish since Argentina in April 2015, while Redding missed out on a top-three spot as he was passed by Dovizioso on the final lap. With nine races of the season left, Marquez has 170 points and Lorenzo 122,
with seven-time world champion Valentino Rossi third overall on 111 points after an eighth-place finish in Germany. The next race takes place on 14 August from the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria. Overall standings (after race nine of 18): 1. Marc Marquez (Spa) Honda 170 points 2. Jorge Lorenzo (Spain) Yamaha 122 3. Valentino Rossi (Ita) Yamaha 111 4. Dani Pedrosa (Spa) Honda 96 5. Maverick Vinales (Spa) Suzuki 83 6. Pol Espargaro (Spa) Yamaha 72 7. Hector Barbera (Spa) Ducati 65 8. Andrea Iannone (Ita) Ducati 63 9. Andrea Dovizioso (Ita) Ducati 59 10. Eugene Laverty (Ire) Ducati 53 12. Scott Redding (GB) Ducati 45 14. Cal Crutchlow (GB) Honda 40 16. Bradley Smith (GB) Yamaha 35
“It is one of the top wins as captain and for Pakistan as a team,” captain Misbah ulHaq said. “I am very proud of the team and the way they came out and showed really good skills. “Today, mentally everybody was strong, and were patient. Everyone bowled well, especially Yasir Shah.” England began the chase confidently with Alastair Cook striking a boundary off his first ball, but the skipper was dispatched after he stabbed at Rahat Ali’s delivery and was caught by Sarfraz Ahmed. Alex Hales soon followed his captain to the pavilion after top-edging Rahat to Mohammed Hafeez before Rahat removed dangerman Joe Root for nine after he played a careless pull shot and was caught in the deep by Yasir. James Vince (42) and Gary Ballance (43) chipped away at Pakistan’s lead with valuable contributions but Vince got a thick edge driving Wahab Riaz and was caught at the second attempt by Younis at second slip. Ballance had just struck Yasir confidently to the boundary when he was bowled by a beauty, the ball jagging back from outside off stump after pitching in the rough. Moeen Ali hardly helped
England’s cause, dismissed for two when he charged at a Yasir delivery and was bowled to leave England on 139 for 6. Bairstow and Chris Woakes stemmed the flow of wickets and kept the scoreboard ticking during a tense afternoon but England eventually succumbed to Pakistan’s relentless attack. Stuart Broad misjudged one from left-hander and was bowled for one, then and was dismissed as he looked for a second run. Shah took his 10th wicket in the match when Woakes was caught by Younis Khan before Amir finished it off. Earlier England quickly polished off Pakistan’s second innings with the visitors adding only eight runs to their overnight total. Wicketkeeper Bairstow had faced criticism on Saturday, but he got rid of Shah (30) with an athletic onehanded catch in the first over as Broad became the third English bowler to take 350 test wickets. Broad then had Amir caught behind. Scores: Pakistan 339 (Misbah 114, Shafiq 73, Woakes 6-70) and 215 (Shafiq 49, Sarfraz 45, Woakes 5-32) beat England 272 (Cook 81, Yasir 6-72) and 207 (Bairstow 48, Yasir 4-69, Rahat 3-47) by 75 runs.
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Another business entity on board for Golden Jubilee Guyana Cup Another business entity has quickly joined with the Jumbo Jet Business Enterprise and the Port Mourant Turf Club as they come together to stage the mega Guyana Cup Horserace meet. The event which is slated for Sunday August 14th at the Port Mourant “Big Yard’ turf Club, Corentyne Berbice has eight races listed on the programme. So far over $22M in cash, trophies and other incentives are available for the meet which is also a part of Guyana 50 Independence Anniversary celebrations. This year also marks the 10th anniversary of event. On Thursday Operations Manager of the Assuria Insurance Company Clyde H. Muntslag presented a cheque to the organisers of the event at their office, Lot 78 Church Street, South Cummingsburg, Georgetown. Recently Mr. Khemcham Bemal proprietor of Prem’s Grocery and Beer Garden of Wiredam, Bush Lot, West Coast, Berbice joined the list of sponsors on board for the lucrative event. Mr. Khemcham like others before is happy to be a part of the mega event. According to the manager, he relished the hype and publicity garnered from the event and was happy to be a first timer on board. The feature event is for horses classified “A” and lower over 1600M for a winning money of $4M and the Guyana Cup Trophy from a total package of $8M. The other races are the Co-feature 1600M event for 3yrs old horses, bred and born in Guyana and the West Indies, for a hefty $2M and trophy.
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WICB WOMEN’S SUPER50 FINAL
T&T dethrone B’dos without bowling a ball Final should have be shifted to Providence – Coaches
Mr. Khemcham Bemal (left) Proprietor of Prem’s Grocery and Beer Garden of Wiredam, Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice, presents the cheque to Rovin De Souza of the Guyana Cup organising committee. The Two year old event is for West Indies Bred horses for $1M and trophy over 1000M. The E class event has $1M and trophy for the winner over 1300M. The G3 and lower 1300M gallop has a winning tag of $700,000 and trophy. The H and lower 1400M race has a winning pocket of $500,000 and trophy. The animals classified J and K and lower will race for $350,000 and trophy over
Junior Jaguars down USVI 1-0 in CFU World Cup qualifying Guyana’s Junior Jaguars restored some pride yesterday as they were looking to do when they opposed host nation United States Virgin Islands in the feature game of the day in first round play of the 2016 Caribbean Football Union’s Under 17 World Cup Qualifying, Group 4, at the Lionel Roberts Stadium, USVI. Joshua Ferreira (1st half) saw the Guyana team to a 1-0 triumph over the USVI. Guyana had lost to Jamaica in their opening match 4-1 and were hunting redemption which they claimed.
1100M. The L class 1000M race has a winning purse of $250,000 and trophy. Also a number of added attractions and incentives will be up for grabs which will entice the owners and animals to perform to their best. The winners of the A class, the three year old event and the two year old races will collect an extra $500,000, $400,000 and $200,000 bonuses respectively. The jockeys riding the respective animals in those events will all ride away with an extra $50,000 bonus. The list of sponsors already include Assuria Insurance Company, Fix It Vulcanizing and Tire Shop of West Coast Berbice, Hand In Hand Insurance Company, Colours Boutique of Georgetown, Banks DIH Limited, Trophy Stall, B.M Soat Auto Sales, Jameel Bar and Entertainment Lounge, the Muneshwar Store and the Hyper Malt Beverage Company. The top Jockey along with the runner up, the top stable and champion trainer will all be presented with trophies and other incentives compliments of the organizers and Trophy Stall. The coordinator is Nasrudeen (Jumbo Jet) Mohamed Jnr. Bugle time is 12:00 hrs. (Samuel Whyte)
By Sean Devers Trinidad & Tobago with 12 points, dethroned Barbados, who beat Jamaica in last year’s final, when the WICB 2016 Women’s Super50 final at Everest in Georgetown was abandon at 14:25hrs yesterday because of heavy overnight rain. The tournament, in which 12 of the 16 matches were completely washed out, ended in anticlimax due to soggy areas to the Eastern side of the ground, after the Umpires’ final inspection at 14:00hrs. This was despite blazing sun all day and a consorted effort by the ground staff who worked tirelessly to ensure that the fair size crowd which included both the national U-15 and U19 teams and some of the others teams who played in six-team tournament, in which the Leewards made their debut. Coach of Trinidad & Tobago Gerald Garcia and his Barbados counterpart Ezra Moseley, who played two Tests against England in 1990, lamented the lack of GCB Executives at the final adding that the local Board should have made preparations to switch the final to Providence since the CPL matches in Guyana were over. “It’s very disappointing that the fixtures seemed to be set in stone even when it was becoming obvious that we were turning up to the same venues and not being able to play any cricket. The weather was bad even before the tournament began and the
conditions, especially at Enterprise, were not good but we kept going back to the same grounds over and over again,” Garcia said. The T&T Coach pointed out that the lack of cricket was very frustrating to the players especially the ‘new’ ones who were hoping to be seen by the Chairman of the WIBC selectors Courtney Browne and fellow selector Lockhart Sebastien who are in Guyana. “This is also a developmental tournament and while I am happy that we won, I am not pleased how we won. The MVP of the (Regional U-19) tournament bowled only one over here. I feel this was the wrong time for Guyana to host this tournament if these were the only venues available in such a large country,” Garcia continued. Garcia, who has traveled with T&T First-Class teams said that the t20 competition fixed for Providence should be played but stressed that t20 cricket is about balls while 50-over cricket is about overs so it sad that the 50-over format was ruined by rain. “We had eight practice matches before coming here and were preparing all year for this and it seems that no apparent effort was made to shift the venue today (Yesterday) or have alternate days to cater for washout matches. This will not do Guyana’s image and their hosting of regional tournaments any good,” Garcia opined. The teams also complained about the lack of
Ambulances at match venues as is mandated by the WIBC but claimed they were informed that only one Ambulance was available and had to service all the games. Merissa Aguilleira, the T&T Captain and former West Indies Skipper expressed mixed emotions at her team (which includes 10 players with West Indies experience) success. “I am happy that God smiled on us but disappointed on the amount of cricket played. But in tournaments where rain is threatening it’s important that you win early,” said the 30year-old Keeper who has 6 fifties and 83 dismissals from 89 ODIs for the West Indies “The girls have all played in ‘bush’ cricket back home and would have wanted to play but the umpires had to follow the rules on dangerous ground conditions. You would not want to field on a ground where the underfoot is not stable and you get injured,” said Aguilleira, who has 52 dismissals from 79 t20 Internationals. The Windwards in five matches finishing on eight points without bowling a ball and were the most hurt of the teams since they spent their own money to hold a oneweek camp in Guyana which was spoilt by the adverse weather here. The action now shifts to Providence from Thursday to Sunday where three t20 games will be played each day with the last one each day being played under lights.
Why not the Stadium asks T&T Coach after final washed at Everest in sunny conditions.