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Kaieteur News Printed and Published by National Media & Publishing Company Ltd. 24 Saffon Street, Charlestown, Georgetown, Guyana. Publisher: GLENN LALL Editor: Adam Harris Tel: 225-8465, 225-8491. Fax: 225-8473, 226-8210
EDITORIAL
That Rodney COI: THE QUESTIONS After a surge of public interest in the ongoing Rodney Commission of Inquiry with the appearance and testimonies of a few high profile personalities ,the public quite understandably awaits further titillating tidbits from an event that has seemingly lost all pretence at achieving its objective(s) or to put it bluntly what it publicly was set up to achieve. To say that watchers are viewing the proceedings with credulity would be like taking a leap of faith into unknown waters. There are burning questions that come to mind when the Rodney COI is mentioned. What really is to be gained from the various exposés which arguably have to be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism? A few examples will suffice. One witness claims that he was a henchman who engaged in thuggery against opponents of the Burnham government; the said thug later was embraced as a privileged member in the upper echelons of various political parties including the PNC. That scenario vividly portrays the self-confessed thug in the classic role of Little Tommy Tucker singing for his supper. One question which probably remained unanswered with the audience was if the very witness was privy to such intimate goings on at senior levels of his organization, what then would have prevented active involvement in or knowledge of any plot(s) to harm prominent antigovernment personalities. The next example would be hilarious if it wasn’t so pathetic. Another witness appears under duress and proclaims an appalling memory lapse for certain details. What the COI got from that hostile witness is only to be conjectured. What is obvious is that someone made a miscalculation and was not properly briefed by those whose intentions with respect to the COI are anything but honourable thereby making what will ultimately turn out to be a fateful blunder of colossal proportions. One cannot move from being a darling of a previous administration and retain that darling pride of place and not be rightly shocked at such an inopportune exposure to public scrutiny. The prevailing contentious terms of reference have certainly not helped to ease any feelings of unease which prospective witnesses are bound to be experiencing at this time. It would have been the height of irony if former Commissioner of Police, the late Laurie Lewis, had been alive and was summoned to attend to give testimony as Major General Norman Mc Clean (rtd) did, and former Deputy Commissioner Cecil ‘Skip’ Roberts is expected to anytime soon. What would have had everyone sitting up and taking notice apart was the fact that Lewis served in a highly sensitive position which had oversight for the intelligence apparatus in the country and was to all intents and purposes the local personification of the first FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover. Therefore there must be some merit in the conventional wisdom which claims that had Laurie Lewis been alive and in full control of all his faculties there is no way that the current drama would have been staged. It would have been the height of folly to attempt to ignore his total involvement as an influential player in a repressive era. What must be going through the minds of the initiators of - what at times has taken on the character of a poorly organized sitcom are thoughts on how to effectively milk the inquiry for all it is worth politically without burning themselves in the process. How can anyone hope to make a particular party look bad because of its former close associations with people who now enjoy favoured position status in influential
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Letters... Where your views make the news
Guyana’s unpreparedness for self-governance is on full display DEAR EDITOR, We need drastic changes in Guyana now, but it will not happen. Not before the country ends up in total ruins. In this context, we speak of the absolute need for this racially polarized, politically bifurcated country to come together to avoid complete collapse. We need an end to nepotism and corruption, a reduction in crime, murders and domestic violence, a decrease in police brutality and drug trafficking, a 10% salary increase across the board for all workers, a monthly pension of $15,000 for our senior citizens and a 2% reduction in VAT. The passage of a Bill in Parliament to lower the toll on the Berbice Bridge is a positive start, but the PPP’s absolute refusal to support the Bill clearly shows that it does not want to help the people, most of whom are their supporters in Berbice. The people should not live in fear of the police, armed bandits and gang warfare. Our sons and daughters who are at New Opportunity Corps (NOC) should not be abused by the very people whose care they are under. Guyana has been sliding downhill for the past 48 years, with accelerated decline during the past 14 years under the Jagdeo/Ramotar regime. Guyana’s condition is starkly revealed by the desperate calls from the opposition and the business community for foreign intervention to reduce Guyana’s high
crime rate which has been an accepted norm. Guyana’s pathetic unpreparedness for self-governance is on full display. No local government elections in 20 years, no plan/strategy to fight crime, corruption and drug trafficking, and to develop the economy. The only plan the regime has in place is to use the state resources to enrich themselves, friends and relatives. It is the business of the government to protect the people of Guyana. A country’s politics is the major determinant in the quality of its civilization, its security and future economic and social viability. Politics springs from a country’s culture or lack of it. In every nation the power of politics is for good or evil. The United States became a superpower because of its Constitution that, inter alia, allowed for the kind of representation that ensured supervision of the executive, freedom of expression and the right to live as free people. The Soviet Union collapsed because of a lack of freedom of expression which it replaced with repression and alienation of the people from the corridors of power. Our politics has failed us miserably in a nation that is congenitally impaired. Our deformed Constitution and its crude articles have trapped our politics in elementariness and tribalism from which it is yet to emerge, as the state of
our main political parties reveals. Guyana’s politics have never demanded or inspired genuine caring, courage and commitment on the part of the leaders of the two main parties. Their circus of campaigning is funded by financiers whose importance has increased with the intellectual bankruptcy of the parties. Today, money is the real power that governs the country. The leaders of the PPP ought to recognize that it is their politics that has brought Guyana to this sorry state, when it should have liberated, elevated and protected them. Had the politics been strong, all else would have had to follow suit. But sustained political shallowness on the part of the ruling cabal will lead to the ruin of Guyana. This is already evident in the poor services at the public hospitals, the collapsing of UG and the near demise of the public schools and the total let down of the youths and the elderly by the Ministry of Social Security. That is the tragic condition the people have found themselves in. So entrenched is the political impoverishment in this country that its demise is at hand and the people can do nothing about it. As the ruling party, the PPP has a solemn responsibility to save the country. It must shoulder the responsibility for where the nation finds itself today. Dr. Asquith Rose and Harish Singh
THE HYPOCRISY SURROUNDING THIS ISSUE IS TRULY ALARMING DEAR EDITOR, The pastor has every right to hold firm on his views on homosexuality based on his religious beliefs. However, what he ought not to do is impose those views on others who do not share his beliefs. To suggest that “homosexuals reside on an island by themselves to spare the multitude from God’s wrath” is most ludicrous. This man of God ought to know that the Bible tells us judge not
lest we be judged. And if we are to believe God made us all and is a loving God, surely this would include homosexuals. Religious leaders and those opposed to homosexuals ought to mind their own business, live their lives according to their beliefs, and leave others to do the same. People’s sexual orientation is a very personal matter. The hypocrisy surrounding this issue is truly alarming. If the truth be told, it is an open secret many gay
people are forced to live a lie pretending they are heterosexual when they are not. Getting into relationships, living on the down low, and eventually breaking hearts and ruining lives. It is time Guyanese deal with reality. Homosexuals are here to stay for they are born every day. They are our children, our grandchildren, our brothers and sisters and yes, at times, even our husbands and wives. June Veecock
Provide necessary information about this fogging exercise DEAR EDITOR, The Environmental Community Health Organization (ECHO) welcomes the ongoing fogging exercise in local communities. However, the organization has serious concerns about this activity, by the Ministry of Health.
First, inadequate notice to residents of local communities is affecting the effectiveness of the campaign. Some citizens expressed surprise about the exercise in their area. Second, residents have no information about the chemicals used to fog and what are the likely side effects,
circles? There is a case to be made against any former administration if the actions of some officials whether centrally directed, or born of personal motivation caused harm and suffering to the nation. Culpability must also be attached to any party which having suffered through the official actions of those officials then turns around and embraces those persons. In a real sense this COI will have to show some justification for its existence at the taxpayers ‘expense. There will have to be some serious maneuverings to get past the doubts that are taking on a life of their own as to the credibility of the Rodney Commission of Inquiry.
if any, particularly to those residents who are living with respiratory challenges; they need to know to take appropriate measures to protect themselves from any potential risks. The dissemination of information is a vital aspect of any public health campaign because it allows world-be beneficiaries to understand and appreciate the benefits of it and the role they ought to play to enhance its effectiveness. Therefore, ECHO is calling on the competent authorities to provide citizens with all the necessary information about this exercise. Royston King Executive Director, ECHO
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Don’t be too alarmed, Mr. Kissoon…it is a worldwide problem DEAR EDITOR, In response to Mr. Frederick Kissoon’s letter “You need proofreaders, Mr. Lall” in KN (06-17-2014), I would like to say to him don’t be too alarmed. It is a worldwide problem. Hardly a day passes without my finding that kind of slip in the prestigious Los Angeles Times. And, by the way, three versions of the word in question are used in the letter: proofreading, proof-reading, and proof reading. Part of the proofreading (one word is the preferred form) exercise is to ensure uniformity of word forms. It is better to use the incorrect form consistently rather than to mix it up (correct, incorrect, maybe). What is very troubling with proofreading errors is that even though meaning is unaffected, the proofreading slip is considered a grave fault, even graver than the falsehood contained in the larger statement of which it is part. For example, if I say ‘four plus four equals sevn’, people would jump upon the misspelling (more a typo than anything else) rather than the fact that the statement as a whole is actually, factually, scientifically, and completely wrong. Good old school proofreading is for sure disappearing. Electronic spellchecking and its variants are taking over. Sometime in the sixties I had to have a booklet on health careers written by Wordsworth McAndrew and me, proofread at the Government
Stationery and Printing Office. I watched the professional lady do her thing. She started to read backwards, from the last page coming to the front page. More so, she was reading each page in reverse, that is, from the right-hand side to the left-hand side. On top of that, she placed a ruler under each line as she read with a pencil moving over the letters-not the words. I am saying read but she was doing something else; in retrospect, she was proofreading I am moved to write this response because I myself am
going through some proofreading blues right now. I am putting together a book written by a friend and I need to have it proofread. The worst thing a writer can do is to proofread his own writing. It is like Mr. Kissoon trying to defend himself without counsel in court against the Jagdeo libel suit. Even a proofreader who has written needs to have another proofreader proofread his stuff. I looked around the schools to see if there are classes in proofreading. None. I called up someone who supposedly does it for a
living. She said she was going to give me a big discount, a penny a word. When I multiply one cent by the number of words I got a figure that the book wasn’t even going to bring in—and this does not include printing costs. So there you have it. And Mr. Lall, if you are going to hire proofreaders, please don’t require that they have a degree in English. The worst proofreaders are graduates with an English degree, especially if they specialize in literature. I know. I am one. P. D. Sharma Los Angeles, CA
Freddie Kissoon’s Opus DEAR EDITOR, When a person, especially one who is known nationally, and is always in the news, does something out of character with his or her position, one is severely tempted to ask: What is the motivation, here? This was the case with Kaieteur News’ columnist, Freddie Kissoon and his employers. Mr. Kissoon wrote a, ‘Letter to the Editor’, who incidentally is Mr. Adam Harris. But the letter is calling the owner, Mr. Glenn Lall’s attention to what he, Mr. Kissoon, sees as a major problem with the proofreading staff, at Kaieteur News, to wit, their lack of proofreading skills. Mr. Kissoon, in his capacity as a paid columnist and as a professed Liberal (whatever that means to Mr.
Kissoon) is berating staff members of Kaieteur News. In the newspaper! What is Mr. Kissoon’s real intention here? Is he trying to embarrass the editor, who one would assume, he would take whatever problems he sees occurring in the proofreading section? Is he really trying to get some KN staff fired? Is Mr. Kissoon looking for an ‘out’ from KN, or trying to ingratiate himself with the owner? As an example, if Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee, has a problem with his secretary, one does not expect him to take it up in the Press, or with President
Ramotar, by way of the Press. This is certainly not the norm for professionals, especially one who constantly reminds the readers of Kaieteur News of his academic stature and accomplishments - real or imagined. This episode certainly needs clarification. I hope Editor Adam Harris will make some comment on it. After all, a gentle reminder to the proofreading staff to investigate, Spelling/ Grammar check, on their computers, would most likely solve the problem. Albert R. Cumberbatch, Ph. D.
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Strict supervisory oversight for road repairs - GWI By Rabindra Rooplall Private contractors attached to the Georgetown Sanitation Improvement Programme (GSIP) are now in a position to repair roadways which were excavated for the rehabilitation of the sanitation infrastructure, according to Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI). Some of the roadways damaged by excavation include Hadfield and Haley Streets, Sussex, Forshaw, New Market, Regent, Barrack, Quamina, Waterloo, Wellington, Smyth and Light Streets. GWI had said that the delay in the execution of road repairs was because of the inclement weather and the shortage of road materials. According to the utility company, currently, civil works related to the GSIP have been accelerated. This has resulted in substantial completion of the rehabilitation of Delivery and Force Mains which are vital to the Georgetown Sanitation System. The company yesterday began decommissioning old sewer mains to facilitate activation of the new sewerage system which was recently rehabilitated under the programme. This will be followed by the activation of the rehabilitated Force and
The damaged carriageway on Light Street that is to be repaired. Delivery Mains as well as 24 refurbished sewer pump stations. This exercise may result in a temporary interruption of the system. In addition, there has been complete replacement of the 5.5 km sewerage ring main in Georgetown, the replacement of all delivery mains. However, GWI and the Ministry of Public Works are collaborating to ensure that road repairs are executed in accordance with the requirements of the contract and high standards of quality.
The utility is executing full measures to ensure that the contractors (S. Jagmohan/ Nabi Consortium) execute the works in compliance with the technical and environmental requirements of the contract to ensure the highest quality of the finished infrastructure. Strict supervisory oversight of the works will continue in collaboration with GITEC/E&A Consultants to ensure attainment of quality deliverables of the project. Upon completion of the programme, expected in the
third quarter of 2014, Georgetown residents can expect a significant reduction in sewage overflows and an overall improvement of sanitation and hygiene in Georgetown. GWI is the Executing Agency for the Government of Guyana and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) funded GSIP. The utility had recently hosted a seminar on the ‘Care and Maintenance of the Georgetown Sanitation System’ for members of the business community. The aim of the seminar was to foster a long-lasting partnership with the Georgetown business community for the effective management of the sanitation system. Speakers included Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Water, Emil McGarrell who urged businesses to utilize their corporate social responsibility programmes to assist in the improvement of sanitation in Georgetown. The seminar is a key component of the GSIP which was initiated through an agreement between the Government of Guyana (GOG) (continued on page 24)
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New Education Bill for National Assembly today Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, will be looking to secure support from her parliamentary counterpart to allow for the passage of a new Education Bill. The Bill comes as a strategic move by the Ministry to reform and modernize Guyana’s education sector. Moreover, Minister Manickchand will be presenting the new Bill today in the National Assembly. This new Education Bill is expected to provide adequate framework for the delivery of high quality, contemporary education, to better develop each student’s potential and maximize their educational achievement. Some of the key areas of this new Bill, once passed, will repeal the old Education Act and include: rights and responsibilities of students and parents, categories of schools and the stages of education, management of public educational institutions, employment of teachers, curriculum assessment of students, inspection and review of the education system. According to a statement from the Ministry “This new Bill comes at a most opportune moment in Guyana’s history, especially since the current Education Act utilized in Guyana came into being since 1876 with its last amendments being made sometime in 1976.” The Government of Guyana in recognizing the
Minister of Education Priya Manickchand misalignment of Guyana’s education legislation with contemporary regional and international education benchmarks, decided since 2005, to set about drafting a new Education Bill that can adequately address the modern education issues and challenges currently experienced by the sector. This Bill therefore is designed to reflect information gleaned by the Ministry through a number of public consultations held countrywide between the Ministry and a wide cross section of key stakeholders. Ministry officials are therefore optimistic that it will get the “unrestrained support of the full House in getting this new Education Bill through Parliament and made into Law from which all of Guyana, particularly her children, will benefit.”
Students urged to return textbooks to access CSEC results Failure to return textbooks will result in students being denied access to their Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) results. This reminder, which was issued by the Ministry of Education yesterday, is an annual feature ahead of the unveiling of the results of the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) administered examination.
According to the Ministry in a statement, “the Ministry of Education wishes to advise all students who wrote the recent Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations, their parents and guardians that all textbooks issued by the Ministry through their school must be returned.” Moreover, students who fail to return the textbooks, which were loaned to them by their schools, will not be able to access their CSEC results. This request, the Ministry statement said, is in keeping with the Ministry's Textbook Policy, which states, “Learners must return books before Progress Reports, Examination Results, Recommendations, or References are uplifted.” The Ministry said that it is therefore forced to adopt “this unfortunate position in an effort to provide adequate text books and similar opportunities to the next batch of students.” The CSEC results are usually released by August.
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Hong Kong’s democracy ‘referendum’ likely to rile China’s communists (Reuters) - Hong Kong holds a controversial “referendum” on democracy today, a prelude to an escalating campaign of dissent that could shut down the former British colony’s financial district and further anger China’s Communist Party leaders. An affluent city of seven million that returned to Chinese rule in 1997, Hong Kong’s longstanding push for full democracy is reaching what could be boiling point with tens of thousands expected to vote in the unofficial referendum for full democracy from today until Sunday. While Beijing has allowed Hong Kong to go ahead with a popular vote for the city’s top leader in 2017, the most far-reaching experiment in democracy in China since the Communist takeover in 1949, senior Chinese officials have ruled out allowing the public to nominate candidates. Instead, Beijing insists a
small committee of largely pro-Beijing loyalists choose who gets on the ballot, which would effectively render the ability to vote meaningless. One of the founders of the Occupy Central protest movement, academic Benny Tai, hopes that its June 20-22 referendum will draw up to 300,000 people to strengthen the legitimacy of the group’s demands for a fair and representative election in 2017 that would include opposition democrats. But a cyber-attack this week crippled the online voting system, meaning the organisers may have to rely on the results from 15 voting stations to be set up on Sunday instead if it is not fixed by then. “As I see it, we are under such serious attack it exactly shows that Beijing is taking us seriously,” law professor Tai said. Chinese and Hong Kong officials, editorials in proBeijing newspapers and
businessmen have in recent weeks strongly criticised Occupy Central, which plans mass protests in the Central business district this summer, saying it will harm Hong Kong. “We are using the civil referendum to tell Beijing what is our baseline, that is true democracy must be something allowing electors to have genuine choices,” Tai said. Hong Kong returned to China with wide-ranging autonomy under the formula of “one country, two systems” - along with an undated promise of full democracy, an issue never broached by the British until the dying days of 150 years of colonial rule. The summer protests could see more activist groups spill on to the streets as political tensions rise. Already last week, the city’s normally peaceful protests took on a violent edge. Today, a group of radical protesters tried storming their
way into the Legislative Council, smashing glass and ramming doors with steel barricades and bamboo poles. Tai stressed his movement hadn’t yet decided on an exact date to launch the street protests, though the results of the referendum would have a strong bearing. Rita Fan, a senior Hong Kong delegate to China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress, said the Occupy protests would hurt Hong Kong and stoke Beijing’s mistrust of the city. “I understand from listening to various people who are officials from the mainland that they do not wish to see this happen, but they are not afraid if it happens,” Fan told Reuters. “It only hurts Hong Kong... If the Hong Kong police force is unable to contain the situation then the international ratings agencies may consider that Hong Kong is politically not stable and that may affect our rating.”
A Hong Kong police source told Reuters that mainland law enforcement officials had stepped up liaison work with police over the past year, forming an informal working group on how to tackle the protests. A police spokesman gave no immediate response, but stressed the force could deal with any “internal security incidents”. Banks in Central have been holding emergency drills and contingency planning for possible disruptions to operations. Several current and retired Chinese officials have warned in recent months, however, that China is prepared to unleash the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) garrison to handle riots in Hong Kong – a prospect dismissed by some analysts. “Disorder that is too intense for the Hong Kong police to handle could justify deployment of the PLA to restore stability,” wrote Hong
Kong-based risk consultancy, Steve Vickers and Associates, in a report. “Such a scenario is unlikely, but would present a major threat to businesses and to Hong Kong’s autonomy and reputation.” Retired Chinese diplomat Zhou Nan said in June that “we could not allow Hong Kong to turn into a base to subvert China’s socialist regime under the guise of democracy”. Hong Kong police have staged drills to prepare for possible civil unrest, including mass mobilization of officers at short notice, according to two law enforcement sources. The PLA remains a relatively low-key presence at bases across the territory it inherited from the British but a foreign envoy in the city said the PLA had this year made improvements to facilities and boosted the quality of troops. A recent visit to major PLA barracks close to China’s border found no unusual activity.
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Ukraine acts to form new team, plans unilateral ceasefire
Petro Poroshenko
KIEV (Reuters) Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko put a proWestern and businessfriendly stamp on his leadership yesterday and made peace proposals for the rebellious east involving a unilateral ceasefire by government forces. Poroshenko, installed as president 11 days ago, nominated Pavlo Klimkin, a pro-European diplomat now serving as ambassador to Germany, for foreign minister. He also asked parliament to approve Valeria Hontareva, an experienced banker widely respected in business circles, as new central bank chief. Both nominations, which require parliament’s approval, confirmed Poroshenko’s determination to shift the exSoviet republic towards the European Union and attract foreign investment for the cash-starved economy. He may present his nominees to parliament today. “We are seeing Poroshenko appoint very credible, pro-western, market and business-friendly people,” said Timothy Ash of Standard Bank in a commentary. Klimkin is a 47-year-old Moscow-educated physicist who entered the foreign service more than 20 years ago, becoming Ukraine’s envoy to Germany in 2012. Seen as ardently committed to European integration, he played a key role in negotiating the association and free trade agreements with the EU, which toppled president Viktor Yanukovich spurned, finally provoking the uprising that brought him down. Hontareva has worked for leading Ukrainian and international financial institutions in Ukraine for 18 years. She held the post of
first deputy chairman of the board and financial markets chief at ING Bank Ukraine from January 2001 to December 2007. Prior to that she served as a member of the board of Societe General Ukraine, where she was responsible for capital market operations. If approved as head of the central bank, she will figure prominently in future negotiations with the International Monetary Fund which last May signed off on a $17 billion bailout for Ukraine with tough conditions including steep hikes in gas tariffs and floating the national hryvnia currency. Poroshenko also nominated Vitaly Yarema, currently first deputy prime minister, to be prosecutor general. In that key lawenforcement post, he will be expected to play a role in reforming the country’s corruption-ridden judiciary Earlier, after a late-night telephone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Poroshenko outlined a 14step plan, including an amnesty for separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine who lay down their arms. He also outlined tighter controls over Ukraine’s border with Russia. “The plan will start with my order for a unilateral ceasefire,” Poroshenko said after speaking to students at a military institute in Kiev. “Immediately after this, we need very quickly to get support for the peace plan ... from all participants.” Acting Defence Minister Mykhailo Koval told journalists in Kiev the ceasefire “will happen in the next few days”. A spokesman for government forces, Vladyslav Seleznyov, said
more than 30 separatist fighters had been “killed and wounded” in fierce exchanges of fire near the small town of Schastye on the edge of Luhansk. Three soldiers had been killed on the government side and 9 wounded, he said. The figures for separatist casualties could not be independently confirmed. But a Reuters journalist in rebelcontrolled Luhansk saw separatists loading empty pine coffins onto a lorry that then joined a convoy heading to Schastye. Others swapped their battle fatigues for white coats or taped Red Cross signs to their backs and arms and then went in search of bodies of rebels killed in the last few days. Mikhail, a rebel fighter who was handing out face masks as protection against the smell of human decay in Schastye, said: “There’s supposed to be a ceasefire, but no-one there trusts them (the government) to keep it ... We’ll be on the alert.” The violence in the east has cost the lives of 147 Ukrainian soldiers and wounded 267 up to now, the defence ministry said yesterday. This figure did not include other law enforcement bodies such as the national guard. Ukraine accuses Russia of backing rebels in the industrial Russian-speaking east who rose up after mass protests in Kiev toppled Yanukovich, who was sympathetic to Moscow. Kiev says the rebels have been bringing in weapons over the long border with Russia. Yesterday, the Ukrainian government said an explosion on a section of pipeline carrying Russian gas through Ukraine to Europe had been caused by a bomb and that it saw “foreign interference” behind the attack. Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk ordered security reinforced at gas pipeline installations to avoid further acts of sabotage. Russian investigators accused Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and Ihor Kolomoisky, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region in the east, of criminal acts in the government’s military push against the separatists. A spokesman for the federal Investigative Committee said they were under investigation on charges including murder, kidnapping and using illegal methods of warfare - although it was not immediately clear under what jurisdiction.
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THE STUDENT LOAN FUND IS BANKRUPT Just before it demitted office after its ruinous twentyeight year rule, the PNC had come under pressure to charge fees for university students. The PNC had surrendered itself to the dictates of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. These institutions would have no doubt demanded fees at the university as part of their conditions for granting the funds for the structural adjustment programme between Guyana and them. The logic of these Institutions must not be lost. A disproportionate amount of the public expenditure on education was being used for the University of Guyana (UG), and given the then stress on allocative efficiency there was, from a market perspective, a sound argument for the introduction of fees at UG. The PNC before it left office did signal that fees were going to be introduced. It made mention of cost recovery, a phraseology that it has attempted subsequently did not necessarily mean fees. Well, what other means of cost recovery could it have feasibly introduced? It was left to the PPP when it took office to do the honors and to introduce fees at UG. The party knew that it had no choice. Cheddi Jagan was aware that critical
balance of payment support was to be had. But he also as a working class champion did not wish to deny anyone entry into the University. So he came up with the scheme to lend students the money for their tuition. It was his way of being compliant with the dictates of the IMF and World Bank while at the same time ensuring that no one would be denied access because of inability to pay fees. The student loan facility was therefore conceived by the PPP as a welfare fund aimed at bypassing IMF/ World Bank stipulations. The plan was that the fund would have been a revolving one. The government would inject annual allocations to cater for the students that were already at UG and those that were entering. Eventually the repayments from the student loans would render such annual allocations unnecessary since these repayments would allow for the replenishment of the fund. The fact that twenty years after, the government still has to replenish the Student Loan Fund to the tune of four hundred and fifty million dollars, suggests clearly that the fund is bankrupt. No one needs the Minister of Finance to signal that billions are owed to the fund. The very fact that annual
Dem boys seh ...
Nuff huge ones deh pon NBS Board Once you wukking wid de government people expect you to thief because dem big ones does thief. And is not dem boys seh suh, is de people who wukking wid de government seh suh. And dem only talk because dem was getting some free drinks from a man who want a favour from de government. Of course de big ones in de government does always seh that people does only talk bout thiefing but dem can’t provide proof. Well dem boys know it hard to find proof just like how it hard to find people who gun answer question when you want find out something from de government. Dem boys know that New Building Society is a private organization but it got nuff people from de government pun de board of directors. Nuff of dem people does wuk at Ohh Pee. When New Building Society decide that it want a new office and it see a piece of government land right away Jagdeo who was de Minister of Finance fix a price. De land deh near St George’s but dem boys seh that it wasn’t a fare price. Is only when dem open de Official Gazette that dem see de very government tek over de old NBS office. Dem ain’t see no price, only that de transport get transfer. Now how much de government pay, if it pay? Dem boys seh ask Donald. How much de government sell de land wheh NBS got it new office for? Ask Ah Kneel because he is de man of business. Wheh de money deh? Ask Brazzy because he is de crook who know wheh fuh hide government money. This is de very government that sell out nuff property. It sell de old Customs House; it sell de office pun Lamaha Street because it claim it want money and in any case, government should own unnecessary property. Well dem boys want to know why it buy de NBS building. Which Government Ministry gun go there? De place smaller than Customs House, and besides de government still trying to build an office wheh de old radio station been. And de government trying to get rid of that Ministry that deh near de Fire Station. Something fishy going on. Talk half and let Donald explain de NBS old building.
replenishments have to be made after twenty years, means that the loan repayments by students are not revolving the fund. The fund is stuck and the rate of delinquency is as such as to deem the fund as bankrupt. But the PPP could not have been bothered because it had conceived this fund not as a commercial fund but as welfare fund which they were using to subsidize university education. The huge debt burden was never a concern because the government had used the loan facility to technically offer free university education. Now that the National Assembly had not approved
of the replenishments for the fund for this year, there is no money to finance the University of Guyana. And of course, the government had now discovered, if it did not know this before, that billions of dollars are owed to the fund by graduates over the past twenty years. The financial crisis faces the University of Guyana at the moment. So what is to be done? The first thing that it has to do is to convert the Student Loan Agency into a Loan Recovery Department. That department should be mandated to go after the billions of dollars that are owed to the government by students. The second thing that has
to be done is for the Minister of Finance to go with a supplementary Bill to the National Assembly to source the $450 million needed to finance the new students entering university. This can be done easily. The opposition will support this measure. The problem however, is what happens next year. There can be no more advances to the student loan fund because for all intents and purposes that fund is bankrupt. Therefore, what needs to be done is that notice should be given to students entering the University of Guyana in September 2015 that they will be required to pay their own
fees; no student loans will be given by the government. There will be a big hue and a cry about where the students will find the money from. Well they can go and borrow it from the banks. If the student loan fund was operating on a commercial basis, they would have to lodge collateral to ensure repayment of the sums borrowed. So they can do the same and borrow from the commercial banks.
Anti Money Laundering Bill Impasse…
Guyana loses chance to take a passed Bill to FATF forum - Luncheon With the compromise between the government and the combined opposition over passage of its Anti Money Laundering legislation going nowhere, the opportunity for Guyana to present a passed Bill and positive report to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) plenary next week has been lost. This is according to Head of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS), Dr. Roger Luncheon, during his weekly post Cabinet press briefing. Dr. Luncheon said that for Guyana, the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) and FATF compliant Anti Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/ CFT) Bill is necessary if it is to exit the blacklisting track that it currently is in. However, “efforts by the government to get the Parliamentary Special Select Committee (PSSC) as an instrument of the Parliamentary political parties to timely consider newer perspectives appear unavailing,” said Luncheon. He said that Government has been attempting to engage the combined opposition (A Partnership for National UnityAPNU— and Alliance for Change –AFC) with newer initiatives but those meetings have yet to take place. According to Luncheon, “The sad reality is that the June 19 sitting of the National Assembly would not be graced by a report from the PSSC that is considering the amended AML Bill, any expectations therefore of a Bill that could be enacted, a Bill that could be assented to at this or subsequent to the June 19 sitting has essentially been lost.” Significantly, Luncheon said that with the Bill not making it to the June 19, sitting of the
National Assembly the opportunity of Guyana appearing with CFTAF legislation to the FATF plenary is also lost. “It goes without saying that whatever it was worth, that loss is going to contribute to a heightening of blacklisting of Guyana and its financial sector, a failure of enactment of legislation and those pronounced effects, events on Guyana and its financial sector,” said Dr. Luncheon. Asked whether an emergency meeting could be held before Parliament convenes to get the legislation fast tracked, Dr. Luncheon replied, “We have been belaboring ourselves for months and months about meeting deadlines. I think when the history of round two, if the multilateral evaluation mechanism of the money laundering legislation is written, I think it would be replete with those instances where
expectations of meeting deadlines have been dashed by the reality of opposition performances and actions at the level of the National Assembly.” He added that determination for the achievement of the current deadline has to be premised on the “basis of our experiences whether such is a realistic ambition.” Guyana has already been blacklisted regionally by the Caribbean Financial Action Taskforce (CFATF) and recently when that body reviewed the country, it was found to be still non compliant and as such was referred to its parent body FATF, which could possibly blacklist Guyana Internationally. CFATF had at its recent review of Guyana opted to introduce even more sanctions on Guyana. It issued a warning to its 27 member-countries to consider Guyana to be a risk
to the international financial system. The regional body advised the implementation of further counter measures to be taken against Guyana in order to protect financial systems from the “ongoing money laundering and terrorist financing risks emanating from Guyana.” The combined opposition has expressed a willingness to give support to the AML legislation to avoid a greater tier of blacklisting and put in place steps to reverse the current local blacklisting, but that support is conditional on Government acceding to constitutional requirements that they are advancing. These include the operationalising of a Public Procurement Commission (AFC) and required assent of the four local government Bills that were passed by the APNU.
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=== The Freddie Kissoon column ===
Desmond Hoyte was one of the best leaders of the post-colonial world. Part 1 I hereby make public a statement I made to Christopher Ram in a private conversation on Monday. I am not at liberty to discuss Chris’ input. As a commentator, political activist and an academic, I need to put in print my revisionist thoughts on the controversy of rigged elections which remains the most deadly accusation made against Forbes Burnham by generations of PPP supporters. I told Chris that I think Burnham’s rigging of election could carry an argument of justification. Let me point out that no PPP leader from the fifties until now has condemned the absence of the general election process in Cuba. The late antiimperialist Caribbean scholar, Norman Girvan, remained to his death, a fanatical
supporter of the Cuban political system. I would like to see a scholarly debate in which the question is posed – can Castro be excused for not having the general election in his country but Burnham could be condemned for rigging the same type of election in Guyana? The national election in a multi-racial population (the term used here to include tribe in the African context) where the winner takes monopolistic power is a scientific fault line. It explains bitter tragedies in Africa, particularly Zimbabwe, Fiji and Guyana. It explains why Quebec wanted to leave the Canadian federation; why Scotland may leave the United Kingdom of Great Britain and why Catalonia wants no longer to be part of Spain.
Countries like Britain, India, Spain and Ireland are very old societies and over the centuries values, mores, and institutions have evolved to suppress instincts and temperaments that conflict with the spirit of the DEMOS (concept from the ancient Greek city-state that means “community” of people living in harmony). In very new born polities, these instincts take on immense measures of insecurity when power is unequally distributed in demographic zones where culture and race have overarching importance. We come to Burnham. I do not agree with all, not most but all, the admirers of Forbes Burnham who see him as a political strategist par excellence. Burnham was a failed political thinker and Guyana could have survived if he was a brilliant political cartographer. Both David Granger, in a newspaper interview, and Norman McLean (at the Rodney Commission) have publicly admitted that Walter
Rodney had seriously penetrated the power base of Burnham. Look at the persons that admitted that Burnham’s rampart was encroached upon by Rodney – David Granger and Normal McLean— two of the most important military persons in the Burnhamite state in the seventies. Just eight years after achieving Independence, Burnham’s radical enemy had undermined his hold on power, then how can the analyst describe such a leader as being great? Burnham was brilliant in doing away with one person, one vote because such an electoral approach would have devastated the African Guyanese population. But power-sharing had to be the alternative, not the monopoly of power. Once he did away with the national election or rigged it, there was no alternative but to include the other demographic half that felt it was entitled to power. Burnham did away with the
national election but also did away with the legitimate demands of the DEMOS. There were no DEMOS anymore but an authoritarian state. If Burnham felt that he had to save the African Guyanese people from the scientific fault line by the dissolution of the general election (a position I think can be supported by political theory), then it was only natural for other ethnic communities to feel threatened. And they did felt threatened. The East Indians did not want compulsory national elections and banning of certain types of foods. All Burnham had to do was to accept the way they felt. Most self-destructively, he did not. Of course there were mountains that stood in his way – Jagan would not have allowed for a democratic Burnhamite state even if Burnham had created oceans of generosity to Indian people. Jagan would not have accepted democracy from Burnham. He wanted to be part of the state machinery
Frederick Kissoon and that demand was logical within the context of the DEMOS. But Burnham did not try that. He never even attempted it before 1985. When he did, he died months later. In an ethnically divided society Burnham knew the concept of a general election was a Westminster danger. But Burnham offered no alternative even though from 1968 he had monopolistic power. To sum up this first part then, one can argue that Burnham was sagacious in understanding the evil a national election brings to a multi-racial polity. But his rule further aggravated the ethnic impulses in a multi-racial country. It was left to Desmond Hoyte to undo the damage Burnham did. Tragically by then it was too late.
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Bai Shan Lin ‘disrespects’ National Assembly - avoids Parliamentary inspection - Harmon It is now two years since the Chinese firm, Bai Shan Lin, has been avoiding invitations to appear before the Natural Resources Sectoral Committee to answer “several burning questions.” This is according to A Partnership for National Unity’s (APNU) Shadow Minister of Public works, Joseph Harmon, a member of that Parliamentary Committee. Harmon said that the “excuses” presented to the committee to avoid parliamentary scrutiny can only be summed up as disrespect for the Committee and by extension, the National Assembly. Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud, seems to be encouraging the actions of
the conglomerate in this regard, Harmon said. “The Natural Resources Committee has several responsibilities, one of which is ensuring that policies within our ambit are not violated. We wrote to the Minister of Natural Resources informing him that the Committee wanted to visit the work sites and to have a meeting with Bai Shan Lin. That was on June 13, 2013. “The Minister replied on June 17 saying that due to the current work programme of the company coupled with the Minister being scheduled to leave the country on the proposed date, it would not be possible. “The letter also indicated that they will communicate with us as soon as is convenient on a revised
schedule and assist with logistics to ensure a successful field trip. Nothing happened.” The Parliamentarian said that once again, the Committee wrote to the Natural Resources Minister, on May 30, last, requesting to visit the Chinese firm in Region Ten. “The Ministry again wrote saying that it would like to acknowledge the letter but due to the agency’s programme…they are unable to accommodate the request. So what has happened is that for two years running, this company has avoided the oversight of the natural resources committee. It is in my view a disrespect to the National Assembly that a company as large as this (continued on page 20)
Outgoing US Ambassador urges for early LEAD project restart Outgoing US Ambassador, Dr. D. BrentHardt, hopes that the USAIDbacked Leadership and Democracy (LEAD) Project will restart shortly. The diplomatic head made the call Tuesday during a goodbye visit to Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman. The Ambassador, according to a statement from the Parliament Office, said that negotiations are ongoing “and expressed his hope that the programme would be re-started in the very near future.” The LEAD project had been a controversial one during the Ambassador’s tenure. Government had objected to the project on the grounds that it was not approved by the administration. In May, the project was put on hold by the Government and the US, pending negotiations. The LEAD project reportedly seeks to enhance the technical capacity and functionality of the legislature through the regular use of consultative practices and mechanisms for legislative drafting, analysis, review and passage. The programme was expected to further reinforce democratic governance in Guyana by broadening political participation through more representative and competitive multi-party engagements. It will include a particular focus on women and youths. It included close collaboration with Parliament Office. According to the
Speaker, Raphael Trotman and outgoing US Ambassador, Dr. D. Brent-Hardt statement from Parliament Office yesterday, the Speaker expressed his gratitude to the Ambassador for his support and involvement in the efforts to strengthen and broaden Guyana’s parliamentary democracy. “Speaker Trotman also shared his expectations that the new Ambassador to be appointed will continue the work of Ambassador Hardt, enjoy similar cooperation and support from the Parliament.” During the visit, Trotman lauded the US Government’s desire to support the promotion of understanding and consensus building;
whilst encouraging greater citizen engagement and the strengthening of other democratic values of the institution. At the meeting, the Speaker and the outgoing Ambassador also discussed his new posting; the establishment of a Parliamentary Women’s Steering Committee of the Parliament of Guyana, and their respective positions on LBGT legislation, among other things. The Ambassador and Speaker Trotman are both alumni of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
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Georgetown Chikungunya virus case was ‘imported’ from Berbice - Health Minister The first confirmed case of the Chikungunya virus in a Georgetown resident was “imported” from Berbice. This assertion was made by Minister of Health, Dr. Bheri Ramsaran, during an interview with this publication yesterday during which he intimated that extensive investigations were done to arrive at this conclusion. This publication was informed that the latest confirmed case of the virus, a 28-year-old man residing in West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was in fact evidence of the virus migrating to the capital city. However, the Health Minister was adamant that “all indications are that this is a Berbice incident. You can get malaria in the gold bush but give your address as Sussex Street or Diamond...” explained Dr. Ramsaran. The investigation relating to this case, according to him, was thrust into the trained hands of Dr. Morris Edwards, an Epidemiologist, who is currently acting as Chief Medical Officer. “We spoke at length yesterday (Tuesday) and we even spoke at a joint
meeting with PAHO, UNICEF and other members of the UN family and the Civil Defence Commission headed by Colonel Chabilall Ramsarup, in my office, and my Epidemiologist was advised to trace this particular case to its infinity,” the Health Minister informed. He pointed out that Dr. Edwards “has reported nothing threatening or untoward. The latest understanding I have, is that this is a person residing in the city but having had his test and his engagement and his interactions of the disease, most likely, in the said restricted area where the other patients were discovered, that is, the restricted area of Berbice.” Guyana recorded its first two confirmed cases of the virus in sections of Canje, Berbice in Region Six, a few weeks ago. Twelve more cases were subsequently confirmed in the Region Six locale and another seven cases after, including that of the West Ruimveldt resident. Moreover, Guyana currently has recorded a total of 19 confirmed cases of the virus, Dr. Ramsaran said.
All of the cases were validated by the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) in Trinidad. Blood samples were sent for testing based on the case definition that the local health sector has been embracing to track the virus. The virus, which is transmitted by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, is characterised by symptoms similar to that of dengue fever including fever, joint and muscle pains. Thus far, just over 150 blood samples have been sent to CARPHA for testing, the Minister asserted yesterday. The West Ruimveldt resident, according to the Minister, is the only case that the Ministry has been able to confirm of a citizen residing outside of Berbice, as of yesterday. This he based on daily epidemiological surveillance data acquired by his Ministry. “Our epidemiological surveys have not shown any other cases outside of Berbice; that is why that one was picked up so easily. The Ministry is so transparent that somebody didn’t have to pick it up and make a big rumour
or big antics about it; the epidemiological significance was recognised immediately.” As part of its continued efforts to tackle the virus, the Minister disclosed yesterday that the Ministry has had to rethink its call for persons to refrain from travelling in and out of the affected areas since according him, this would require “stringent measures, even the restricting of movement and so on...so we have decided against that and embrace transparency, openness and a proactive approach; like we did in the south of the city months ago.” The Minister insisted that from the inception of his Ministry’s efforts to combat the virus, moves were made to embrace transparency so
much so, that it was prepared to disclose the presence of the virus here six hours after it was confirmed by CARPHA. “We immediately held a press conference because we wanted to inform the media and we wanted the people to be informed,” said the Minister. Aside from ensuring that their environments are clean and tidy and free of stagnant water to permit breeding the Chikungunya virus vector, Minister Ramsaran is also advising that people further safeguard themselves by opting to wear long-sleeve shirts and long pants, preferably of a light colour; wear socks; apply mosquito repellents to the exposed areas of their bodies and sleep
Minister of Health, Dr. Bheri Ramsaran under nettings to create a barrier between themselves and the mosquitos. Minister Ramsaran in lashing out at Opposition comments regarding his Ministry’s work to combat the virus, observed that there have been some (continued on page 24)
Cabinet approves whopping $9.7 B in contracts Cabinet at its meeting on Tuesday approved a whopping $9.7 B over eight contracts for various sectors. Cabinet’s no objection to the contracts was reported by Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon at his weekly press conference at Office of the President on Wednesday. The contracts that were given the green light:
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Way cleared for UG Law students to be admitted to Hugh Wooding - matter to be discussed at next Heads of Govt meeting After being in limbo for months, top performing law students of the University of Guyana can rest easy as the way has been cleared for them to be granted automatic placement at the Hugh Wooding Law School. At least this is according to a statement issued by Attorney General and Legal Affairs Minister, Anil Nandlall, who disclosed that the decision was forthcoming following a meeting at the Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Caricom Secretariat on Monday last. The meeting, which was instigated by President Donald Ramotar, specifically addressed the protracted impasse affecting the local law students’ entry to the Trinidad based law school
and the review of legal education in the West Indies. According to Nandlall, “It was decided that the top 25 Guyanese Nationals, graduates of the University of Guyana Law Programme, 2013, will enjoy automatic entry into Hugh Wooding Law School, for the academic year commencing September 2014-2015.” An additional 10 students who are nonGuyanese nationals graduating out of the said programme will secure automatic entry to the Norman Manley Law School in Jamaica or Eugene Dupuch Law School in Bahamas, depending on which zone their territory falls. It was also decided that “there shall be comprehensive review of
legal education in the West Indies, and the modalities extent and financial implications of the same will be discussed at the next meeting of the Caricom Heads of the Government.” The meeting was convened by way of teleconference under the Chairmanship of Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves. It was attended by Ms. Jacqueline Samuel-Brown, QC, Chairman of the Council of Legal Education of the West Indies; the local Attorney General; Sheldon Mc Donald, Head of the Department of Law, University of Guyana; the Principals of the Hugh Wooding Law School,
Norman Manley Law School and the Eugene Dupuch Law School; Safiya Ali, General Counsel, Caricom and the Assistant Secretary General of Caricom. Nandlall had in early April disclosed that Government was anticipating a reversal of the decision made earlier this year by the Council of Legal Education to not renew an agreement to have the top graduates of UG’s Law School automatically secure a place at the Hugh Wooding Law School. According to him in a statement issued then “the Government of Guyana eagerly awaits a response from the Chairman of the Council of Legal Education,” adding that “we expect that the response will be
favourable to the Guyanese graduands.” According to him too, “Government remains ready, able and willing to work with the University of Guyana, the University of the West Indies, the Council for Legal Education and any other stakeholder to bring a speedy and long term resolution to this matter.” In his statement too, Nandlall said that at the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM which concluded its 25th InterSessional Meeting on the 10th -11 th March, 2014, in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, President Ramotar had cause to raise the decision of the Executive Board of the Council. The Council’s decision
was made on February 2014 in Bridgetown Barbados, and was seen as a development that could have serious implications for the access to the Law School and consequently, admission to practice law by persons, other than graduates of the University of the West Indies, more particularly, graduates of UG. The matter was discussed at the Heads of Government meeting and it was resolved that Dr. Gonsalves would write to the Chairman of the Council conveying the views and the decision of the Heads of Government on the matter. Moreover, on the 31 st March, 2014, Prime Minister Gonsalves dispatched a letter to Chairman of the Council for favourable consideration.
Armed bandits attack No. 69 Village couple Armed bandits stormed the home of a Number 59 Village, Corentyne couple around 21:00 hrs on Tuesday and carted off millions of dollars in jewelry and over $160,000 in cash. The traumatized woman,
Shalinie Ramkissoon, 28, said that she went to open the gates for her husband, Michael Peters, who had just returned home. “Me come and opened the gate me son, Lucas, and he sit on the car and then I asked him for us to
go inside because I left the door open.” While going to the house at the back, three masked men dressed in dark coloured clothing were waiting for them, armed with a gun and cutlass. “I saw three men in dark coloured
The couple’s residence which came under attack.
Health Ministry issues fogging schedule for Georgetown As part of its continued vector control activities, the Ministry of Health’s Vector Control Services Department resumed fogging on Tuesday 17th June, 2014 in a number of communities in Georgetown. These fogging exercises, the Ministry has said, will kill the adult mosquitoes which carry mosquito borne diseases. To ensure that the fogging exercise is most effective, residents in the targeted communities are reminded to open their windows to allow the fog mist into the buildings to kill the adult mosquitoes. To avoid any health problems, residents are reminded to cover all drinking
water and secure all food stuff (Uncooked and Cooked) to prevent possible contamination, secure all domestic animals and poultry, and to keep persons who suffer from asthmatic conditions, young children and the elderly away from the direct flow of fog. The continued fogging exercise is being conducted daily from 05:30 hours (5:30am) daily to 22:30 hours (10:30pm). Fogging will be conducted on June 19th, 2014 in the following areas: Lacytown, Stabroek, Bourda, Cummingsburg, Alberttown, Queenstown and Newtown. And then on June 20th
2014 fogging will continue in: Campbellville, Prashad Nagar, Bel Air, Bel Air Springs, Subryanville and Kitty. One June 21, 2014 the areas identified for fogging are: North Sophia, South Sophia and Kingston. The Ministry of Health reminds Guyanese that Vector Control is a partnership. While the Ministry of Health will conduct this fogging exercise, residents are encouraged to keep their yards clean by removing all empty containers that can accumulate water to breed mosquitoes. Citizens are also urged to always sleep under mosquito nets so as to prevent mosquito borne diseases.
clothes and masks,” she related. Ramkissoon said that her husband approached the men and he was chopped on his shoulder. “One of them told the other not to chop, and by that time they fired a load and I told my husband to cooperate with them and do what they told him to do, because I was scared.” So the shot was fired and Ramkissoon’s finger was grazed. “Then they asked where the money was and I told them it was upstairs but when I go
upstairs I did not find the money.” She had no idea that the bandits had already scoured their upstairs and had picked up a quantity of cash and gold jewelry. The neighbours then started to scream for help, “and them boys rushed in and by the time I came down, they were already gone.” The ordeal lasted ten minutes. Police from the Number 51 Police Station, she said, arrived nearly an hour later
and took statements. It should be noted, too, that there is a police outpost in the area. This was the second such robbery for the couple, who also operate a grocery shop. In 2012, bandits stole a quantity of cash as well, while they were sleeping. Peters was treated at the New Amsterdam Hospital and sent home. Ramkissoon, too, was treated for injuries under her eyes and to her left finger.
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Toyota Avensis 2003, PRR series 18" Rims, leather interior, HID, A/C, Alarm, TV, $3.250M, immaculate condition! Tel: 609-7257, 602-5974 2006 – PREMIO - $2.3M, 2008 – BLUEBIRD - $3M, 2005 – SPACIO - $2.1M. ALL VEHICLES ARE FULLY LOADED & UNREGISTERED – CALL: 642-7295 One 8000 Forde Tractor, one 450 Forde tow truck, one Toyota Tacoma – Contact Floyd: 694-5599 Smart Choice Auto: Unregistered 212, Allex, old & new model Spacio, 05 & 03 Allion, Voxy- Call:6523820/ 665-4529 AT192, 212, Allion, unregistered Premio, Hilux Surf, BNN, RZ & Pit-bull, 7 seater super custom. Cash / terms- Call: 680-3154 Mitsubishi Canter 2-Tons enclosed, excellent condition – Call:220-5281 We buy & sell vehicles for cash, also parts available & 30 seater buses; Extra Cab pickups; 2006 TacomaCall:680-3154 Toyota Raum PMM, excellent condition. Documents ready for Bank Purchase – Call: 689-4330 One enclosed canter for sale 3½ Ton, GJJ 8286 – Contact: 613-0830, 666-2549 Noah/ Voxy, unregistered, (private or bus), Toyota Regius/ Super custom, unregistered (goods) – Tel: 603-9700 2001 Mercedes Benz C200, 2000 CC engines, backup camera, sunroof, back & front sensors, leather interior $3.6M- Tel:670-1638 One Toyota Land cruiser Prado, PMM Series Call: 225-0188, 223-7500, MonFri 8:15-4:15pm, Sat – 8:151:15PM Toyota IST $1M – Call Ron’s Real Estate for homes & Land from $1M to $25M – Tel:218-5591, 675-7292
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One AE110 Sprinter, Cooperate Yellow. $600,000 negotiable – Tel: 611-1018
One Leyland Daf dump truck $2,5M, One S130 Bobcat $2,1M -Contact 650-0402; Serious Inquiries Only
One Lancer Motorcar: PJJ375, fully loaded rims & music – Price Negotiable $750,000. Cell: 644-6999
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One NZE, female driven $1.5M negotiable – Tel: 6449356 (Continued on page 23)
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MPs inspect holding centres, recommend improvements A Parliamentary oversight body last week carried out inspection visits to several of the city’s holding facilities and found that several areas need improvement. Among the places visited last Friday by the Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Social Services were the East La Penitence Female Lockups, Sophia Children’s Centre and the Juvenile Holding Centre. According to the Parliament Office yesterday, the Committee has responsibility under the law to scrutinise and examine policies and administrations under its purview and to determine whether they are in consonance with the principles of good governance. In exercising this function, the Committee must also visit government organisations, activities or projects and report to the National Assembly. Also visited was the Amerindian Hostel. There have been complaints of poor conditions at especially the women’s lockups. Among the Parliamentarians were Chairperson, Volda Lawrence; Vice-Chairperson, Indranie Chandarpal; MPs Dr. Vindhya Persaud, Mabel Baveghems, John Adams and Valerie Garrido-Lowe. There were also other support staffers
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The MPs during a visit last Friday at the Amerindian Hostel from the Parliament Office. According to Lawrence, the decision to visit these institutions was a result of concerns raised by the public. “The Committee examined whether institutions are equipped to meet their mandate and whether the complaints we receive have merit,” she said. She said the Committee would also examine what recommendations for
improvements can be made. At the various locations, the Committee met and interacted with occupants and staff and toured the facilities. According to the Parliament Officer, while the Chairperson was not ready to disclose the Committee’s findings before they were presented to the National Assembly, she did note that all of the administrators they
met were cordial, and engaged in open and frank discussions. “She also revealed that the Committee did find many areas at the various facilities where improvements are needed. Where possible, the Committee made on the spot recommendations to the administrators for simple improvements. This will be followed by the official report to the National Assembly.”
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NCN sacks Admin Officer
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…woman escorted out of compound under the cover of night
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The National Communications Network (NCN) on Tuesday sacked its Administrative Officer. The reasons cited were corrupt practices and dishonesty. The woman, Angulie Paruag, had recently returned from leave, having completed one year on the job. However, Information Liaison Officer to the President, Kwame McCoy claimed that the woman was on probation. She reportedly left with a driver and equipment for the NCN facility at La Parfaite Harmonie but never reached the location. When questioned, the driver said that he was told to proceed to Diamond where Paruag lived. A search of her home was ordered and conducted by the security. There they found NCN property, some accumulated over a period of time. The Management attempted to keep the sacking secret. They waited until nightfall to escort Paruag from the compound. No Management person was
willing to comment. Contacted yesterday, NCN’s Chief Executive Officer, Molly Hassan, confirmed that NCN has parted ways with Paruag. She said too that Paruag was asked to leave because her probation period was up and her performance during the stint was unsatisfactory. Hassan said that while the property located at her home contributed to the sacking, it was not the main reason. Hassan maintained that the main reason was the woman’s unsatisfactory
performance which ultimately led to the decision being taken by the senior management. According to Hassan, as it relates to NCN’s property being found at Paruag’s residence it was a matter that was dealt with internally and the police would not be called in. Paruag is the third senior manager to be asked to sever ties with NCN in recent times. General Manager Mohamed ‘Fuzzy’ Sattaur and Martin Goolsarran were sacked over a corrupt transaction.
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his underwear and beaten. The woman, he said, kept warning him to keep away from her daughter. She warned him to move out of the area or the next time it will be more severe. The woman and her accomplice then took him to the Sisters Police Station in his underwear, so that he could be locked up. At the station the woman told the police that he was caught in his underwear, but
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NCN’s CEO, Molly Hassan
Woman beats East Bank Berbice... From page 18 dealt some lashes. The woman, he said, told her, “You crying because yu man getting licks; tek some more”. She questioned them if they ever had sex. When they answered in the negative they were beaten again. He was ordered to stand next to the girl and to strip. When they refused they were beaten again. The girl refused to strip, but he was forced to strip to
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her daughter told the police that it was her mother who had beaten Persaud and forced him to take off his clothes. He was subsequently given a medical and was referred to the New Amsterdam Hospital where he was examined by a doctor. Upon the intervention of his mother, the matter was reported to the Central Police Station and the 44-year-old woman was taken into custody.
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Harmony Inn Car rental: Cars from $5,000, Allion, Premio, Allex, Suzuki, Runx – Tel:6947817, 668-0306
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Speedboat operator dead after Essequibo couple hospitalised after horrific accident accident at Number 71 Village ...driver in custody
The dead man’s wife and two of his three children. A 46-year-old Corentyne rice farmer is now in police custody assisting police with investigations after a deadly accident along the Number 72 Village Public Road on Tuesday evening. Dead is 30year-old Satesh ‘Ravi’ Ramdass of Number 72 Village. According to reports, a motor pick-up, GHH 7827, heading along the eastern side of the road to Skeldon and driven by 46-year-old Christendeo Deo, of Lot 15 Line Path, Corriverton hit the man down. Reports indicate that Deo did not stop. Instead, he continued driving for a further 136 feet, after which he stopped, apparently
Strict supervisory oversight for ... From page 6 and the IDB for the sum of US$10M for the improvement of the operational performance of the Georgetown Sewerage System. The loan was also to enable GWI to improve its financial performance by replacing or upgrading pumps so that they consume less electricity – one of the utility’s major operating expenses. This contract was signed on December 8, 2010 and is a continuation of the first phase of the rehabilitation of the sewer system where US$2M was expended to undertake rehabilitation works. Finally, the loan was also to pay for activities to strengthen the capacity of GWI’s Wastewater Management Division and its Energy Efficiency Group. These will include development of an asset management implementation strategy; knowledge transfer and staff training programmes on wastewater operation and maintenance practices and energy use; and public awareness campaigns, specifically targeting schools and business owners.
realizing what had happened. Ramdass was lying face down and was picked up in an unconscious condition with bruises to his chest and was rushed to the Skeldon Hospital. His uncle, Eno Bharrat, said that his nephew, who owns his own speedboat service in the Corentyne River, was proceeding home on foot around 19:45 hrs on Tuesday evening, when he [ t h e u n c l e] received a telephone call that “there was an accident and he [Satesh] was in the hospital.” “I left the mandir and go to the Skeldon Hospital where I saw him dead on a stretcher,” “The pick- up knocked the boy and killed him,” he asserted.
Dead: Satesh ‘Ravi’ Ramdass “He (Deo) then stopped the vehicle and reversed,” Bharrat complained that he requested that the police administer a breathalyzer test to Deo, “and they said they have no breathalyzer.” “The police did not really ask him too many questions because like they are on his [Deo’s] side.” Ramdass, who has been operating his own speedboat service for many years, leaves to mourn his wife, Roma and three sons: Chris, 12; Rahul, 6; and 6- monthold Avinash. His mother, Meenawattie is currently residing in the USA. The driver is in police custody, and Ramdass’ body is awaiting a post- mortem examination. (Leon Suseran)
The couple’s damaged car. A young Sparta, Essequibo Coast couple remains in critical condition at the Suddie Public Hospital, several days after the stationary car in which they were sitting, at Colombia was hit by a speeding car, which veered off the Columbia Public Road, on Father’s Day. “They had just open and close the door when they were hit by a speeding car.” The incident occurred around 15:55 hours, Sunday afternoon. The injured couple Merene Khan and Danny Latchman, who got married less than a year, were socializing with her mother Salima Khan on Father’s Day, at Columbia. They had momentarily entered their car PGG2137 when they were hit by a speeding driver, who was
purportedly under the influence of alcohol. It is understood, the driver was proceeding south on the Columbia Public Road in a black car PSS4765 when he approached a Canter truck that was traveling in the opposite direction. The driver of PSS4765 lost control of his car and veered off of the road, slamming into the couple’s car and sending it some thirty feet away from where it was parked before hitting a lamp pole and coming to a halt in Khan’s mother yard. Khan and Latchman were subsequently rescued by family members and taken to the Suddie Public Hospital. Merene Khan, who worked, at a cafe at Affiance, sustained a broken shoulder. She is said to be crying out
for severe pains, while her husband Danny Latchman, whose condition is serious, is said to be suffering from internal bleeding. He sustained a damaged spleen. “He wouldn’t be able to walk because of the injury to his spleen.” Doctors attending to the couple, at the Suddie Public Hospital performed emergency surgery on Latchman, Sunday night. “A huge amount of clot blood doctors removed from him.” Khan was transferred on Monday to the Oscar Joseph Hospital for an X-ray and is now back at the Suddie Public Hospital resting. The driver of PSS4765 did not sustain any life threatening injury. He was not taken into custody by the police.
GRPA launches VIA screening as ...
The pick up which was involved in the accident, at the Springlands Police Station Compound yesterday.
Georgetown Chikungunya virus case was ‘imported’ ... From page 12 “misinformed and untimely” utterances. “They came on about two months after but we have been on top of our jobs since last year quietly...we have managed the public awareness programme excellently,” boasted the Minister. In fact, he insisted that the tactic utilised by his Ministry was one designed to not “spook the Guyanese public or drive away investors and tourists by
simply having a ‘big squeak’...we did the fogging, we did the residual spraying in the south of the city...we were shooting in the dark but from intelligent guess.” “This has been expensive and tedious,” said the Minister of ongoing efforts which have seen intensified vector control work being undertaken not only in the capital city and Region Six but Region Five as well even as close attention is being directed to other Regions via continuous surveillance.
From page 3 already offering pap smears and will continue to do so along with the VIA screening; services which she believes will reach a wide range of women across Guyana. “Sexual and reproduction rights are really vital for a healthy Guyana...it is very important for healthy families and for us to address many other problems we face as a nation and we hope at GRPA we will continue to step-up and step-forward and increase and enhance the services that we provide,” said Sheerattan-Bisnauth. Currently GRPA offers a wide range of sexual and nonsexual reproductive health services. And although Guyana is known to have one of the highest cervical cancer burdens in the world, Dr. Varallo observed that innovative strides are continually being made here. This, he said, has been in recognition of the fact that pap smears are not something that cannot be done widely on a national level. With VIA screening, women will be of-
fered an affordable low-tech service that provides high quality results, Dr. Varallo noted. “Although it is low technology it is an accurate test and it links screening with treatment...you get the results in a minute and if everything looks nice and healthy it is empowering, but then if there is a pre-cancerous legion then we can treat it at the same time,” informed the JHPIEGO official. “I am proud to be a part of what Guyana has done...they brought this innovative approach to the country and not only are they doing it in the country but they are being recognised globally. Guyana is actually a leader in the global cervical forums and with the partnership with GRPA we are bringing the other Caribbean countries here,” noted Dr. Varallo. The double launch yesterday was graced by Minister of Health, Dr. Bheri Ramsaran, who noted that Guyana has reached yet another milestone. “We are happy that we have been recognised as a centre for training,” said the
Minister even as he emphasised that VIA screening “is an approach that is best suited for resource-poor environments.” Alluding to the pap-smear which is perhaps still the gold standard to test for cervical cancer, the Health Minister explained that it is however a process that requires a microscopist who takes smears that must then be processed and can at times present some challenges. “I want to make it clear we are not discarding the value of the pap-smear but we are saying that the science of VIA is well established,” noted the Minister. Moreover, the GRPA yesterday started facilitating VIA screening at its Quamina Street clinic and will continue today at the GPHC and tomorrow at the Police Association. The simple launching ceremony yesterday was attended by a number of health officials, including Director of Maternal and Child Health, Dr. Janice Woolford and also in attendance were members of GRPA's Board of Directors.
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Saudis give apparent warning to Iran: DON’T MEDDLE IN IRAQ DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia gave an apparent warning to arch enemy Iran yesterday by saying outside powers should not intervene in the conflict in neighboring Iraq. Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal also said Iraq was facing a full-scale civil war with grave consequences for the wider region. His remarks coincided with an Iranian warning that Tehran would not hesitate to defend Shi’ite Muslim holy sites in Iraq against “killers and terrorists”, following advances by Sunni militants there. The toughening of rhetoric about Iraq by the Gulf ’s two top powers suggested that Tehran and Riyadh have put on hold recent plans to explore a possible curbing of their rivalry across the region’s Sunni-Shi’ite sectarian divide. The Sunni-Shia edge to the Saudi-Iran struggle has sharpened in the last few years. The two see themselves as representatives of opposing visions of Islam: the Saudis as guardians of Mecca and conservative Sunni hierarchy, and Shi’ite Iran as the vanguard of an Islamic revolution in support of the downtrodden. Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, an ally of Iran, has appealed for national unity with Sunni critics of his Shi’ite-led government after a stunning offensive through the north of the country by Sunni Islamist militants over the past week. Maliki has accused Saudi Arabia of backing the militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), who want to carve out a Sunni caliphate in the heart of the Middle East. Speaking at a gathering of Arab and Muslim leaders in
Jeddah, Prince Saud urged nations racked by violence to meet the “legitimate demands of the people and to achieve national reconciliation (without) foreign interference or outside agendas”. “This grave situation that is storming Iraq carries with it the signs of civil war whose implications for the region we cannot fathom,” he said. He did not elaborate but the remarks appeared aimed at Shi’ite Iran, which is also an ally of the government of Syrian President Bashar alAssad. The prince said the threeyear-old civil war in Syria, where a largely Sunni Muslim uprising has failed to unseat Assad, had “helped to deepen the internal disturbance in Iraq”. On Monday, Saudi Arabia blamed the Iraqi crisis on Maliki, citing what it called years of “sectarian and exclusionary policies” by his government against Iraq’s Sunni minority. Maliki and several Iranian officials have for months alleged that several Gulf Arab governments support ISIL. And on Saturday, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said that “terrorist groups” were getting financial and political backing and weaponry from countries in the region and powerful Western states. He named no countries, but was alluding in part to Sunni Gulf Arabs. Western diplomats say it is private Gulf Arab donors who follow an ultraconservative brand of Sunni Islam who appear the more likely source of ISIL’s funding from the Gulf. While the Saudi government has yet to specifically condemn ISIL by name, the group is no friend of Riyadh’s, having battled the kingdom’s allies in infighting among Sunni
Prince Saud al-Faisal rebels in Syria. Riyadh last month designated ISIL a terrorist organization, underscoring concern that young Saudis hardened by battle could come home to target the ruling Al Saud family - as happened after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Saudi Arabia and Iran had begun in recent months to explore ways to lower the temperature of what is widely seen as the region’s most destructive bilateral relationship. Not only do Tehran and Riyadh share the fear that Iraq may disintegrate into a sectarian bloodbath dangerous to all, in the short term ISIL’s advance is likely to raise suspicions between them. While Tehran sees Gulf Arab hands behind ISIL, Riyadh fears not only that Iran will intervene in Iraq but that it will do so in coordination with Iran’s traditional adversary Washington, which is equally keen to roll back ISIL’s territorial gains. Any such cooperation on Iraq would advance Tehran’s own tentative detente with the United States, a process the Islamic Republic began last year by agreeing to talks with major powers on its nuclear program.
Obama, Congress leaders reviewed OPTIONS FOR IRAQ: WHITE HOUSE (Reuters) - President Barack Obama updated congressional leaders yesterday on the situation in Iraq and reviewed what he sees as options for “increased security assistance” for the country, which is grappling with insurgents led by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. “The president provided an update on the administration’s efforts to respond to the threat from ISIL by urging Iraq’s leaders to set aside sectarian agendas and to come together with a sense of national unity,” the White House said in a statement after the Oval Office meeting, which lasted more than an hour. “He also reviewed our efforts to strengthen the capacity of Iraq’s security forces to confront the threat from ISIL, including options for increased security assistance,” the White House said, noting Obama sought the views of the leaders and said he would continue to consult Congress.
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Iraq asks United States for air support to counter rebels
Iraqi Shiite women shout slogans support Iraqi army in Najaf, south of Baghdad. (REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani) B A G H D A D / WASHINGTON (Reuters) Iraq has asked the United States for air support in countering Sunni rebels, the top U.S. general said yesterday, after the militants seized major cities in a lightning advance that has routed the Shi’ite-led government’s army. However, General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave no direct reply when asked at a Congressional hearing whether Washington would agree to the request. Baghdad said it wanted U.S. air strikes as the insurgents, led by fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), battled their way into the biggest oil refinery in Iraq and the president of neighbouring Iran raised the prospect of intervening in a sectarian war that threatens to sweep across Middle East frontiers. “We have a request from the Iraqi government for air power,” Dempsey told a Senate hearing in Washington. Asked whether the United States should honour that request, he said:
“It is in our national security interest to counter ISIL wherever we find them.”In the Saudi city of Jeddah, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Baghdad had asked for air strikes “to break the morale” of ISIL. While Iraq’s ally, Shi’ite Muslim power Iran, had so far not intervened to help the Baghdad government, “everything is possible”, he told reporters after a meeting of Arab foreign ministers. The White House has said President Barack Obama has not yet decided what action, if any, to take following the rebel onslaught, and was due to discuss the options with leaders of Congress yesterday. U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Iraqi request had included drone strikes and increased surveillance by U.S. drones, which have been flying over Iraq for some time. However, any air targets would be hard to identify because the militants did not have traditional supply lines or major physical infrastructure and mingled with civilians. Sunni fighters were in control of three
quarters of the territory of the Baiji refinery north of Baghdad, an official said there, after a morning of heavy fighting at gates defended by elite troops who have been under siege for a week. ISIL aims to build a Sunni caliphate ruled on mediaeval precepts, but the rebels also include a broad spectrum of more moderate Sunnis furious at what they see as oppression by Baghdad. Some international oil companies have pulled out foreign workers. The head of Iraq’s southern oil company, Dhiya Jaffar, said Exxon Mobil had conducted a major evacuation and BP had pulled out 20 percent of its staff. He criticised the moves, as the areas where oil is produced for export are
mainly in the Shi’ite south and far from the fighting. Washington and other Western capitals are trying to save Iraq as a united country by leaning hard on Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to reach out to Sunnis. Maliki met Sunni and Kurdish political opponents overnight, concluding with a frosty, carefully staged joint appearance at which an appeal for national unity was read out. In a televised address yesterday Maliki appealed to tribes to renounce “those who are killers and criminals who represent foreign agendas”. But so far Maliki’s government has relied almost entirely on his fellow Shi’ites for support, with officials denouncing Sunni political leaders as traitors. Shi’ite militia - many believed to be funded and backed by Iran have mobilised to halt the Sunni advance, as Baghdad’s million-strong army, built by the United States at a cost of $25 billion, crumbles. Maliki announced yesterday that 59 officers would be brought to court for fleeing their posts last week as the insurgents seized Mosul, northern Iraq’s biggest city. Like the civil war in Syria next door, the new fighting threatens to draw in regional neighbours, mustering along sectarian lines in what fighters on both sides depict as an existential struggle for survival based on a religious rift dating to the 7th century.
Passenger from Guyana nabbed with cocaine at JFK
New Jersey, USA - A 37year-old Connecticut man tried to smuggle nearly five pounds of cocaine in the handle rails of his bag on a flight from Georgetown, Guyana to John F. Kennedy International Airport, officials said. Warren Hawk, of East Hartford, Connecticut, was stopped for further inspection on June 5, after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers noticed that the handle rails on his suitcase were “unusually thick,” CPB spokesman Anthony Bucci said in a news release. Hawk was escorted to a private search room where officers searched his suitcase, Bucci said. Officers found 4.82 pounds of cocaine with a street value of more than
$82,000, according to Bucci. He was placed under arrest and now faces federal narcotics smuggling charges. Hawk will be prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the U.S. Eastern District Court of New York. “CBP officers continue to adapt to various concealment methods employed by these smugglers, and CBP remains ever vigilant in protecting the United States from the distribution of these dangerous drugs,” said Robert E. Perez, Director of CBP’s New York field operations. In May, a man, also traveling from Guyana to JFK airport, tried to smuggle 18 pounds of cocaine in packages of mix used to make custard. (www.nj.com)
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Gov’t cuts off private schools Shifts Barbados AG worried about funding to public education system recent spate of gun murders
Education Minister Ronald Thwaites looks on while permanent secretary in his ministry, Elaine Foster-Allen, addresses a press conference, Tuesday. (PHOTO: KARL MCLARTY) Jamaica Observer Government’s decision not to place any of the 39,438 students who sat this year’s Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) in private schools is expected to result in savings of $15 million, which Ronald Thwaites said will be used to improve the public education system. Thwaites, the education minister, said that in addition to not placing students in private institutions this year, a decision was also taken to not send any of the GSAT students to any of the country’s all-age schools. “It is not that we are scorning them (private
institutions), but we simply believe that the investment has to be in the public system, and that’s where we are creating the spaces,” the minister told a press conference at his ministry Tuesday, where he gave a preliminary report on the results of the 2014 GSAT. Of those students who sat this year’s examination, 28,883 or a little over 70 per cent were able to gain placement at one of their five preferred schools, while 10,127 were placed by a computer programme to schools in close proximity to their primary schools and, to a lesser extent, to where they live. A total of 34,804 students were placed in high schools, 3,291 in technical schools, and a little over 1,000 in junior high schools. “Our experience is that, while there is heroic effort and exemplary success in some of the junior high schools, by and large, they have not shown the capacity to deliver the best results. As you know, they are
follow-on from the primary school before the grade nine test that takes the student into a higher level, and so we have been trying hard to place as many students without overcrowding any school into the five-year programme,” Thwaites explained. The education minister noted that, while the average scores in the various subject areas have improved over the last six years, the levels were not satisfactory. As such, he said that efforts would be made to readjust the ministry’s budget internally to provide more literacy and mathematics coaches in schools. Students who have scored below an average of 50 per cent in the GSAT will be especially targeted for remedial work. Thwaites noted that girls continue to outdo boys in the national examination and there has been a gradual reduction in the number of students sitting the exam over the last few years.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - CMC - Six murders involving the use of firearms this year have Attorney General, Adriel Brathwaite, vowing to crackdown on people trying to smuggle guns into the country. On Monday, Brathwaite said as of the end of May, there were six murders committed with the use of guns, compared to two for the same period last year. “If firearms are coming into the country illegally, it is not just a police matter. It is a Customs matter, it is a Coast Guard matter,” he said. “I need to speak to the Commissioner [of police] to determine if this is a sign of
things to come, because it could be that guys now feel that they need to resort to firearms, or it could be that there is an increase in the availability of firearms. Whatever the cause it is clear to me that all agencies need to get on board,” he added. “We need to sit down at a national security level and make a determination in terms of what interventions are required.” He also proposed a combination of police and community intervention to deal with gun violence in the communities. The Attorney General’s count of gun-related murders did not include that of a 21-year-old man who died last Wednesday from gunshot
Adriel Brathwaite wounds. Brathwaite said although statistics reflect an overall decline in crime, gunrelated murders is still cause for concern.
Media group wants Cybercrime legislation revisited PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago Publishers and Broadcasters Association (TTPBA) is calling on the coalition people’s Partnership government to redraft and revise legislation aimed at clamping down on computer hacking that opposition legislators have warned could seriously affect press freedom. The TTPBA said that the Cybercrime Bill 2014 had the potential to muzzle the media and undermine investigative journalism. It wants the government to discuss the issues with the bill with media associations and other stakeholders. “In reviewing this Bill, it would seem that no thought was given to the repercussions of a free media nor to the role of the media as watchdogs of our nation. We appeal to the Government to begin a round of consultation and to work with stakeholder associations so that a better
way forward can be defined,” the TTPBA said. It said it has noted other examples of recent legislation which could threaten the work of journalists, such as the Criminal Libel and Defamation Act and the Data Protection Act. The TTPBA said while in the case of the Criminal Libel and Defamation Act, partial revisions had been made, the Data Protection Act still needed to be addressed. “The TTPBA understand the need for a Cybercrime Bill but we urge Government to strongly reconsider this and any other legislation which may ultimately result in the demise of our democracy. “ Last Friday, National Security Minister Gary Griffith, who piloted the Cybercrime Bill 2014, said that it would make it a crime for anyone who engaged in the unauthorised transmission or sharing of electronic mails. Griffith said based on reports from the Cybercrime Unit of the Police Service, Trinidad and Tobago had
Gary Griffith witnessed an increase in the number of cyber incidents including online bullying, attempted domain hijacking, website hacking and defacement. “In April 2012, the Ministry of Finance and Parliament websites were hacked and in July 2012 the ATMs skimming scams whereby well hidden cameras were used by thieves to capture the personal identification numbers for some customers’ debit and credit cards from a few major banking institutions,” he said. The bill, which requires a special majority to pass, would create the offence of “illegally accessing a computer system, whereby a person intentionally and without lawful excuse or justification accesses a computer system for the purposes of securing computer data. But opposition legislator, Terrence Deyalsingh said the proposed legislation would affect the freedom of media. He told legislators that there were provisions in the Bill that will result in heavy fines and jail sentences for media workers.
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Brazil were better against Muttiah Muralitharan hired by Mexico, says Scolari Australia as bowling consultant BBC Sport - Brazil played better in their 0-0 draw against Mexico than in their opening World Cup win over Croatia, according to coach Luiz Felipe Scolari. The hosts scored three times against the Croats and might have matched that tally against Mexico but for the brilliant keeping of Guillermo Ochoa. “In my opinion, the team played at least 10% better,” said Scolari. “They had a very good goalkeeper who had a very good day and that’s why we didn’t win.” He added: “The team is doing better and better. We still have a way to go and we
can play well. I was pretty happy with what I saw on the pitch.” Scolari, who led Brazil to their fifth World Cup victory in Japan and Korea in 2002, also praised Group A rivals Mexico for their performance. “Here in Brazil we tend to believe that other players are not as good as we are and we thought that Mexico weren’t any good - but today they played as well as we did,” said the 65-year-old. “They had around the same possession, around the same number of shots. They know how to play football. I don’t think we got the result we expected yet I’m very pleased.” Meanwhile, Mexico
coach Miguel Herrera praised keeper Ochoa, who twice denied Neymar, blocked an effort from David Luiz and tipped over Thiago Silva’s header late in the game. “I can’t remember a goalkeeper performing like that in a World Cup,” said Herrera. “Playing against the favourites, on their home ground, the team showed that they can compete against absolutely anyone.” Ochoa, who left French Ligue 1 side Ajaccio at the end of the season, added: “It was very difficult, and I’m delighted to leave the field with the zero on the scoreboard. “It was the game of my life.”
Thursday June 19, 2014 ARIES (MAR. 21APRIL 20) Get involved in groups that are creative in nature. You may find it necessary to confront a situation that has gotten out of hand. If you've been under stress and worrying about older members of the family, it's time to come to terms with the situation. TAURUS (APR. 21MAY 21) A romantic dinner, followed by a quiet evening with the one who is enticing you, should be most satisfying. You will meet new friends and enjoy a multitude of new activities. GEMINI (MAY 22JUNE 21) Don't get involved in other people's private doings. You can expect the fur to fly on the home front. Taking on too much won't help the situation. CANCER (JUNE 22JULY 22) Don't deny yourself today. Don't hesitate to take short trips. You can come into money that you don't necessarily work for.
budget carefully to avoid unnecessary stress. Don't be too quick to judge partners or those you work with. Take the day to relax and pamper yourself. SCORPIO (OCT. 24 NOV. 22) Be innovative. You can discuss your findings behind closed doors with your boss. Be prepared to make changes to your personal documents. SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 23 -DEC. 21) Opportunities to show your worth will enhance your reputation and bring possible advancement. They didn't fully understand what was expected. Business trips might prove unproductive. CAPRICORN (DEC 22.JAN. 20) You could be quite erratic regarding your personal relationship. You may have difficulties with family members if you get involved in petty arguments. You can pick up information that will give you an edge.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG 22) It is best not to upset the apple cart if you learn information that may damage a colleague's reputation. Someone may not be thinking of your best interests.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 21 FEB. 19) You'll be tempted to spend extravagantly today. Put your energy into behind the scenes activities. You are best to look into investments that will grow in value over an extended period of time.
VIRGO (AUG. 23 SEPT. 23) Problems with relatives and friends could surface. Relationships will be emotional today. Get help to finish a project if you need it. LIBRA (SEPT. 24 OCT. 23) Monitor your
PISCES (FEB. 20-MAR. 20) You will meet new romantic partners if you get involved in seminars or travel. Attend trade shows that will allow you to look at new products. Sign up for seminars that will expand your business awareness.
BBC Sport - Record Test wicket-taker Muttiah Muralitharan will work with Australia as a spin-bowling consultant for their Test series against Pakistan. The Sri Lankan, who took 800 Test wickets, travels to the United Arab Emirates for October’s two-Test series. “I have bowled to most of the Pakistani batsmen in the past, so hopefully I can help a bit,” said Muralitharan, 42. In 2003 he threatened never to return to Australia because of abuse from fans over his controversial bowling action. Muralitharan, who retired from Test cricket in 2010, was no-balled by umpire Darrell Hair in the 1995 Boxing Day Test in Melbourne and by Ross Emerson during a oneday international in Brisbane the following year. Although his action was subsequently cleared by the International Cricket Council, Emerson later no-balled Muralitharan in a 1999 ODI against England in Adelaide, enraging Sri Lanka captain Arjuna Ranatunga who led his team off the field for 15 minutes. Despite the controversies, Muralitharan has played in the past two Big Bash Twenty20 competitions in Australia. The world’s top-ranked Test side boast a strong pace attack, but have struggled to replace Shane Warne since his retirement from international cricket in 2007. Off-spinner Nathan Lyon, who has 112 Test wickets at an average of 32.99, is currently Australia’s leading slow bowler. Muralitharan said: “Nathan Lyon has been bowling brilliantly, but hopefully I can help him a little bit on how to bowl in these subcontinent conditions.” Despite whitewashing England 5-0 in the latest Ashes series, Australia’s batsmen have struggled against quality spin bowling on turning pitches, losing 4-0 in India in 2013. Muralitharan said he intended to help prepare Michael Clarke’s side to face Pakistan’s 36-year-old spinner Saeed Ajmal. “Ajmal is a difficult customer for all the best batsmen in the world but he bowls a little bit similar to me, so perhaps if I can bowl to the Australian batsmen it might help a little bit and give them some tips,” he said. The first Test against Pakistan starts in Dubai on 20 October, with the second in Abu Dhabi on 28 October.
Muttiah Muralitharan (Getty Images)
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NCE Screen Printers Sanasie, Raj Singh present when Justice Bovell-Drakes Schools Independence ordered DCB factions be restrained from acting Draughts tourney on this Saturday >>> Letters to the Sports Editor <<<
Dear Sports Editor, I refer to the article written by one Jairam Ramjit in your newspaper dated 5th June, 2014 and wish to clarify the deliberate inaccuracies therein. With respect to the Court action, K. Mangal applied for an injunction as Secretary of the Raj Singh Faction of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB). Raj Singh and Anand Sanasie Secretary and Vice President of Demerara Cricket Board respectively in 2009/11 carefully planned to usurp the Presidency of the DCB from then President Mr. Bissoondyal Singh by holding illegal elections at Wales instead of participating
in the official elections held by the President Bissoondyal Singh at Lusignan on the ECD. At this bogus election Krisnchand Mangal was elected Secretary of the breakaway faction; Mangal in this capacity applied for and obtained an injunction against the Bissoondyal Singh Faction. In his ruling at the interlocutory stage, Justice Bovell-Drakes clearly stated that both factions were restrained from holding themselves out to be the Demerara Cricket Board or carrying out duties or functions of the DCB. He stressed that Mangal and his faction cannot take
advantage of the injunctive relief his ruling presented since the matter will be going to normal course. Justice Bovell-Drakes on a query from Ms. Emily Dodson then instructed Mangal, Raj Singh, Anand Sanasie and Lawyer Roysdale Ford that the ruling given was indeed an injunction and that they must so inform the other members of their faction. The Judge was very clear in his pronouncement that neither faction could act. I was there and I am positive that Mr. Jairam Ramjit was never in court during those proceedings, unless he and Anand Sanasie is one and the same person. It is obvious that his name is being used in
the same manner that Intikab Sankar’s name was used. To suggest that the Hon. Judge said one thing then wrote something else in the order is contemptuous since there were in excess of fifteen persons in court who could clarify what was said. Mr. Raphael is an authority on cricket who, could defend himself and represent any issue on cricket. I am willing at any time to meet with Jairam Ramjit, Intikab Sankar, Raj Singh, Anand Sanasie and the other writers individually or collectively at any forum of their choice to debate on any issue of cricket that I have written about and beyond. W. G. Boston
CARICOM, Guyana and West Indies Cricket Dear Sports Editor, It was interesting to read and listen to the dramatic outbursts of Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon and PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee when the West Indies Cricket Board moved their Test Match to Barbados. It was the same Roger Luncheon, when asked by Adam Harris at a press conference sometime ago if he was concerned that the WICB may sanction Guyana after the Government had disbanded the Guyana Cricket Board and established an IMC that he replied, “We will deal with the consequences”. As for Clement Rohee, Mr. Sanasie’s reply was too polite. Rohee admitted that he was not aware of what transpired at the WICB Teleconference but yet called for the gentleman’s
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resignation. One wonders if Rohee is aware that two (2) Guyanese other than Mr. Sanasie are also Directors on the WICB and one of those is none other than Chairman of Banks DIH Mr. Clifford Reis. What Mr. Rohee and company should understand is that the Directors of the WICB are not appointed by the Government of Guyana or even the GCB but this is done at a Members’ Meeting of the WICB Inc. and thereafter these individuals have a corporate responsibility to that entity like in any other corporate entity. Even though insularity will occur, as one’s patriotism will always be to country, it must be understood that directors will have to adhere to code of ethics/conduct and respect their Articles of incorporation. For someone like Rohee to even question the loyalty and patriotism of Mr. Sanasie is appalling as he may very well be sitting in his chair because of the sacrifices of individuals like Sanasie. All and sundry within the PPP are now crying foul when the WICB has delivered on its promise of three years ago. It was always clear to everyone that the Government was increasingly taunting the WICB to take action as every cricket series for the past four years was under threat once a match was fixed for Guyana with the Australian Match also removed in 2012. It was always brinksmanship negotiations, last minute deals and ad hoc solutions. The WICB has
finally decided that enough is enough because despite their concerns the GOG decided to hoodwink everyone and pass the controversial cricket administration bill. Some in the cricket circles are also concerned about the convenient timing of an injunction against officers of the GCB with the learned Judge even ordering the WICB who they can or cannot appoint as their representatives (an interesting article on ESPN “SC denies injunction against Srinivasan” should be read by the GOG and some legal minds). This brings me to the point of engaging CARICOM as Mr. Luncheon is now advocating. Don’t we all have short memories? CARICOM was engaged before and the WICB President and CEO visited Guyana back in early 2012. At that time Mr. Julian Hunte and his CEO Ernest Hillaire attended a meeting facilitated by CARICOM where the GOG was represented by the Minister of Sport Frank Anthony and his Attorney General Anil Nandalall. Mr. Ramsey Alli was the President of the GCB and both Ministers objected to Mr. Alli’s presence at the meeting. Mr. Hunte then objected to the presence of Mr. Clive Lloyd, then the Chairman of the GOG famous IMC. This video conference meeting took place at the CARICOM Secretariat and was joined by CARICOM Prime Ministers who were then members of that body’s
Sub Committee on Cricket. CARICOM brokered an agreement that was agreed to by all parties, significant to which was early elections of the GCB Executive Committee by about 6 months and GOG having a right to make appointments to the GCB Executive Committee in the interim. Mr. Nandalall and Anthony left the meeting saying they had to “consult with their principals” and would sign the agreement in the afternoon of that day. Until today they are still consulting. Mr. Luncheon and Rohee, CARICOM would have the records of that meeting on file so you can get the text since I understand that your Ministers were on a rampage. It would be interesting to release those to the public before you re-approach CARICOM. In Fact, this may very well be news to you. CARICOM is represented on the WICB Board of Directors by Senator Ricky Skerritt of St. Kitts (nominated by CARICOM and appointed by the Board). Maybe you guys should ask him about his opinion on moving the New Zealand Test Match from Guyana. You should also know that CARICOM has a non-voting representative present at all WICB General Meetings of Members, in other words, CARICOM is a member of WICB. Confusing, is it not? But comrades, Rohee and Luncheon are too. We should all hope that good sense prevails. Andy Ramnarine.
Some of the students battle during the NCE competition in March. NCE Screen Printers Independence Schools Draughts Tournament will be staged on Saturday starting at 08:30hrs at the Bladen Hall Multilateral School. Keen competition is anticipated in the event which is sponsored by the Thrill soft drink company. 15 schools are down to participate. Christ Church Secondary School won the last tournament, The Joseph Alexander Gittens Tournament, staged by NCE on March 15 last at the North Ruimveldt Secondary School on Mandela Avenue from a total of 22 other schools that competed.
Guyana to host WUKO-CC3 Karate Championships Guyana Karate Association (GKA) and World United Karate Organization (WUKO) have teamed up to host the WUKO-Caribbean 3rd Karate Championships. This prestigious event, the first of its kind in Guyana, will take place from November 28th to 30th in Georgetown, Guyana. The venue is to be confirmed. The event is already attracting competitors from major Caribbean and North America countries. The Tournament Director is Guyana National Kata and Kumite champion Nadia Rohoman, who is also the WUKO delegate for Guyana. For more information and entry to this prestigious event, contact can be made by calling 592 641 6285 or email Kumarie Jagnarain at guyanakarateassociation@yahoo.com or contact Guyana Karate on facebook.
Tournament Director Nadia Rohoman (centre) is flanked by Sensei Darryl Williams (right) and Lex Springer.
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Rotary Club hosts successful McKenzie, Cave lead Sparton to Golyn and Sons dominoes title day of sports for disabled athletes Shawn McKenzie and Colin Cave marked 11 games each to guide Sparton to victory in the final of the Golyn and Sons dominoes tournament played recently at Little Mark Boutique, Festival City, North Ruimveldt. Sparton ended on 34 games ahead of second place TNT with 30 and Speed 24. Rafeek Khan chalked 12 and Jillian Hyman 11 for TNT while Trevor Smith and Dane
Bynoe scored 11 apiece for Speed who drew the bye to the final. Sparton won the semi-final with 38 games, while TNT placed second on 32 and Mix Up third on 28. Dexter Thompson and McKenzie made 10 each for the winners, Smith scored 12 and Bynoe 11 for TNT, while Mark Wiltshire and Clarence Whitehead managed 12 and 11 respectively for Mix Up. Sparton pocketed a
trophy and $80,000, TNT $40,000 and Speed $20,000. Khan was given the player of the match award. Meanwhile, Mark Wiltshire will be hosting a 20/ 20 tournament on Sunday at La Bell Hotel and bar, Norton Street. Entrance fee is $6,000. The winning team will receive $60,000, runner up $30,000 and third place $15,000. Action gets underway at 14:30 hrs.
Members of the Rotary Club of Georgetown share a moment a Thirst Park
King’s Jewellery softball to conclude tomorrow night King’s Jewellery softball cricket tournament is set to conclude tomorrow night at Thirst Park. Action gets underway at 18:00hrs with Farm battling Princess and Speed Boat playing Hill Foot Loggers in the semi finals of the open division. Frontline Masters will then clash with Phone Paradise in the final of the Over-35
category which will be followed by an exhibition game between Traders/Distributors and Stockfeeds and the open final. The open winner will pocket a trophy and $50,000 and the Over-35 champions will receive a trophy and $20,000. The runner-up teams will receive trophies while the man-of-the-match, best batsman and bowler in the finals will also be rewarded.
World Cup fans camp by the beach to dodge Rio hotel prices RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Hundreds of costconscious soccer fans have found a cheaper way to attend the World Cup in one of Brazil’s most expensive cities - camping by Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach. Most of them drove thousands of miles from other South American countries to support their national teams, avoiding expensive flights as well as Rio’s notoriously pricey hotels. The largest contingent of supporters camping by the beach is Argentine, but Colombians, Chileans and Ecuadoreans could also be seen parking old cars, trailers and even small buses turned into rolling dormitories along Avenida Atlantica, one of Rio’s most famous postcards. Emmanuel Estrada, 29, and Damian Perez, 32, took four days to drive a 1984 Ford Falcon Ranchero from Buenos Aires to Sao Paulo for the World Cup’s opening game on Thursday. Then they came to Rio for Argentina’s first match on Sunday. “We will stay here until Argentina wins the World Cup. And certainly a few extra days after that,” Estrada, who works as a plumber in Buenos Aires, told Reuters as he sipped a cup of coffee he made himself, using a portable stove. Both are part of a larger group of 50 to 60 Argentines who drove rickety buses and vans into Copacabana over the past weekend. Rio will host
The Rotary Club of Georgetown successfully hosted a day of sports for persons with disability recently at Thirst Park. Some 900 male and female athletes from disabled homes across Guyana took part in 30 track and field events with each of them receiving prizes. Past president of the club Afeez Khan told Kaieteur Sport that athletes from the event will be selected shortly for training under Sports Officer of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport Wilton Spencer with the possibility of participating in Paralympics and Special
Olympics. Khan informed that the event will be held every two years and they hope to host several Caribbean territories in the next event. He added that Guyana is the only country in the Caribbean that promotes sports for persons with disabilities and singled out president of the club Harry Parmesar for special mention. East Bank special needs, Lions School for Children with special needs, Ptolemy Rehabilitation Centre, Guyana society for the blind, Ruimveldt parent support group, Linden Centre for the Handicap, St. Rose’s visually
impaired, Arch Achievers, Open Door Centre, Differently Abled Athletic Club, Region Two CBR, Region Three CBR, East Bank CBR, West Coast Berbice CBR, East Berbice CBR and Kuru Kuru Achilles track club were represented at the meet. Khan expressed gratitude to Minister of Sport Dr. Frank Anthony who declared the sports open, King’s Jewellery, Ralph Persaud, Banks DIH, Bacchus and Sons, Bounty Farm, Rahaman, Lall Beharry Poultry Farm, Digicel, Republic Bank, NBIC, Friendship gas station, Shoppers Paradise and Food for the Poor for their input.
New Amsterdam/Canje Primary Schools Windball...
A soccer fan sleeps at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro June 17, 2014. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares the World Cup final on July 13. Planning for the trip started years ago but travelling on the cheap was the only option to deal with Brazil’s sky-high prices and Argentina’s weak currency, which has lost about 20 percent of its value so far this year. “Our money is worth nothing here,” Perez complained about Rio, where a room for two in a dingy hotel can cost as much as $700 during the World Cup. NO HASSLE While their presence has annoyed some local residents, many Brazilians have welcomed them. Nor have they been hassled by police, several campers said. Camping is usually not allowed on Rio’s central beaches and cars must pay hourly parking fees in most of the city, but authorities have largely turned a blind eye to the presence of World Cup campers so far.
A military police officer stationed near the Argentine group said it was the responsibility of Rio’s municipal guard to take action. A nearby municipal guard said he would only intervene if the campers caused trouble. Meanwhile, foreign visitors were pleased to see an extensive police presence in Copacabana. “We feel safe here,” said Fabian Alvarez, a Chilean auto mechanic who drove over 5,000 km (3,107 miles) from Santiago to Cuiaba, where he watched Chile defeat Australia on Friday, and then to Rio on the following day. Alvarez said he decided to sleep in his van after failing to find affordable hotels in Rio. He plans to spend about one million Chilean pesos ($1,789) during the whole trip, including on gasoline, food and maybe even one more World Cup ticket.
Saint Aloysius thump Overwinning by 27 runs St. Aloysius defeated Overwinning by 27 runs when action in the New Amsterdam Canje Zone of the 17th Annual Primary Schools Windball champions’ trophy continued recently at Welfare Centre ground, East Canje. Batting first in the male category, St. Aloysius posted 72-2 with Kelly Amsterdam scoring 43 (6x6) and Anthony Williams 12. Overwinning managed 45-4 in reply. Johil Alphonso made 10; Williams snared 2-12. Overwinning rebounded to beat All Saints by 12 runs in their match-up. Overwinning took first strike and scored 56-3. Devon Saywack cracked 24 and Devin Saywack 10. All Saints made 44-3 in response with Isaacs Simeon scoring 19 (3x6).
Edinburgh got the better of Saint Therese by five runs. Saint Therese managed 43-3, taking first knock. Rickford Blair stroked 18.Edinburg replied with 48-1. Achaic Henry slammed 18. In the female division St. Therese overcame Edinburgh by eight wickets. Edinburgh batted first and scored 37-4. Shellon Sampson claimed 2-13. St. Therese replied with 38-2. Serena Cadogan made 13; Lacresha Woodruff took 2-3. All Saints who were awarded the best dressed team prize went down to St. Aloysius by eight wickets. All Saints mustered 50-2, taking first strike. Sonel Roethoff led with 13. St. Aloysius scored 51-2 in reply. Vanessa John scored 19; Shevon La Fleur captured 2-10.
Members of the best dressed team, All Saints Primary School share a moment.
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The paradigm has shifted in sports in the Caribbean Jamaican Olympic silver medalist, Grace Jackson stated yesterday that the paradigm in sports in the region has shifted and Guyana is not a part of the new dispensation, as she outlined the need for the ongoing Sports Management Workshop. Jackson was speaking at the request of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport at yesterday’s opening of the Sports Management Workshop at the National Sports Resource Center, Woolford Avenue, Georgetown. “We have spent the last two and a half months really putting together, researching and planning how it is we were going to help this group, because the paradigm has already shifted in sports in the Caribbean,” Jackson observed. “The question is: ‘do I see Guyana in the shift?’ I did not see Guyana in the shift, and so it was clear to me, recognising the need to have this kind of workshop, that we must be able to help you sport administrators effect the changes that are needed,”
she added. Addressing dozens of participants, Jackson, who won a silver medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, said she was happy with the turnout, noting that it signaled a clear indication of interest among persons who want to help develop sports in Guyana. In giving a brief description of the methodology of the workshop, Jackson said participants will be placed in groups, and will be given the opportunity to discover ways of ensuring the growth and development of sports here. “We are prepared to work with you; you will be selected into teams; we want you to start putting on your thinking caps and we’re going to ask you to get out of the box. So I’m going to ask you to start thinking outside your normal parameters,” she implored. Jackson told the group to “break down (those) chains as we prepare for the next two and a half days.” The Jamaican track and field icon will be headlining the workshop along with Trinidad & Tobago’s former
- Says Jackson as Sports Management Workshop starts
Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony addresses the participants during the opening of the Sports Management Workshop yesterday while other officials join the head table including Jamaican Olympic silver medalist, Grace Jackson (seated, centre). athletics superstar, Ato Boldon. Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony, endorsed the views of Jackson, stating that the workshop provides the perfect opportunity for local administrators to think about new ideas, which can ultimately lead to an
expansion of the various disciplines. President of the Guyana Olympic Association, K.A. Juman Yassin lauded the Ministry for hosting the workshop and securing the services of such distinguished sportspersons to share their knowledge and expertise. Both Anthony and
Yassin implored on the participants to return to their various sectors and disciplines to share the knowledge garnered during the three-day event, since withholding such information would defeat the purpose of having the workshop. Participants of the clinic
have been drawn from all three counties, and apart from Jackson and Boldon, the other facilitators include Dr. Karen Pilgrim, June Rudder, Christopher Nascimento, Michelle Johnson, Franklin Wilson, Jacqueline James and Olympian Cathy Rattray Samuels.
GCB Inter County U-17 50-over tourney
Demerara humble Essequibo by 10 wkts By Zaheer Mohamed Demerara romped to a 10wicket victory over defending champions Essequibo in the opening round of the Guyana Cricket Board Inter County U17 50-over tournament yesterday. Essequibo were bowled out for 106 after they were inserted by Demerara at the Enmore Community Centre ground. The Essequibo batsmen, with the exception of Kemo Paul, failed to apply themselves as medium pacer Sherfene Rutherford and skipper Travis Persaud shared six wickets between them on a two paced track. The home team’s openers, Ronaldo Renee and Raymond Perez, batted sensibly to ensure their team attained victory without loss. The visitors lost the wicket of Nathan Persaud (03) in the second over with the score on five, but Paul and Mark Williams steadied the innings with a second wicket stand of 46. Paul gradually grew in confidence and punched medium pacer Samuel McKenzie through cover before driving leg spinner Ershad Ali for four, while Williams, who played the
Half centuries for Renee, Paul Ronaldo Renee on the go
Kemo Paul gathers runs through the off side during his top score supporting role, caressed Ewart Samuels to the point boundary as Essequibo looked set for a challenging total. Williams then played down the wrong line to one that came back from outside off stump from Ali and was bowled for six. Off spinner Malcolm Hubbard then uprooted the stumps of Sachin Persaud (03) with the score on 68, to initiate the collapse. Siddiq Mohamed (00) made a lazy attempt to get back into his
crease after he was sent back by Paul and was run out without addition to the score. Paul, the only batsman that made it into double figures, hoisted Hubbard over the mid wicket fence and soon reached his fifty off 72 balls with two fours and one six before he was given out to a low catch at first slip off Persaud at 84-5 who also removed Jonathan Fernandes (01) one run later. Beesham Dasrath (00) nicked a short delivery to
wicketkeeper Judell McAlister from Sherfene Rutherford before Persaud trapped Miguel Jones (01) in front. Rutherford then wrapped up the innings with the wickets of Akini Adams (07) and Christopher Latchana (00) leaving Kevin Martinborough not out on nine as Essequibo were bowled out in 34.1 overs. Rutherford captured 3-7 off 3.1 overs, Persaud 3-14 from five, while Mc Kenzie, Ali and Hubbard had one each.
Essequibo new ball bowler Paul, despite generating a fair degree of pace, was wayward at first, delivering 10 wides in his first three overs and his decision to go round the wicket hardly helped. Renee drove him for two fours in his third over also took boundaries off Martinborough. He and fellow opener Perez, who was dropped at first slip off Paul, survived a few nervous moments off left arm spinner Adams as they
went to lunch with the score on 68. Adams bowled beautifully and could have gotten the wickets of both openers had their fielding been a bit sharper. Renee cut Paul to the point boundary to bring up his fifty off 59 balls with seven fours and ended unbeaten on 65 (8x4), while Perez finished not out on 19 (1x4) as Demerara ended on 107 in 19 overs. The competition continues today with Essequibo facing Berbice at Wales.
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Windies hold upper hand as New Zealand battle for survival By Sean Devers in Trinidad In association with Digicel, Stag Beer, John Fernandes Ltd and Cascadia Hotel On the back of a sixth Test ton from Darren Bravo, a maiden century by Kraigg Braithwaite and an attacking half-century from debutant Jermaine Blackwood, West Indies ended the third day of their second Test against New Zealand here at the Queens Park Oval yesterday holding the upper hand in the contest. The West Indies, who last reached a 500-plus total in 2012 when they made 527-4 declared against Bangladesh, fell 40 short, reaching 460 all out to give them a lead of 239. Blackwood (63), Shiv Chanderpaul (47) and Dinesh Ramdin (32) did the bulk of the scoring yesterday while leg-spinner Ish Sodhi took 4-96 and pacer Trent Boult 3-75. New Zealand reached 73-1 by the close yesterday, still 166 runs away from avoiding an innings defeat with nine wickets in hand. When the Kiwis began their second innings Tim Latham and Brendon McCullum saw them to Tea at 4-0 and soon after the break McCullum (3) was LBW to Taylor at 9-1 to give the Jamaican pacer his fifth scalp in the match. Williamson (38) joined forces with Latham (30) and
the pair batted cautiously and responsibly to add 64 runs in an unfinished partnership from 36 overs. Earlier, play resumed in brilliant sunshine with West Indies on 310-5 in reply to New Zealand’s 221. Night watchman Kemar Roach and the 39-year-old Chanderpaul took the lead past 100 before Roach (6) was dismissed by Boult at 333-6 after surviving for 46 minutes yesterday. Blackwood got off the mark with an edged boundary which dropped just short of second slip off Boult, who beat the outside edge a couple of times. But the 22 year-old, with three First-Class tons to his name, responded with an effortless six back over the head of Boult. Watched by the largest crowd of the match, the usually subdued Chanderpaul mixed caution with aggression and hammered Mark Craig for a boundary before depositing the off-spinner for a huge six over long off in the same over to post the 350. On a track which got better for batting as the match progressed, Chanderpaul, the most capped West Indies Test player, danced into Sodhi and caressed him through extra cover for four. The Jamaican Blackwood rocked back to Craig and smashed him to the cover boundary like a
bullet. But in the next over Chanderpaul, who went back into his shell with lunch approaching, opted to play no shot to a big spinning legbreak from Sodhi and was given out on the review after the on field Umpire had given him not out. Chanderpaul departed just when he seemed set for another long innings and his demise came with him three short of his 64th Test fifty. The innings took 93 balls, 155 minutes and included five fours and a six. By Lunch West Indies were 396-7 with Blackwood, who played a lot of shots, unbeaten on 31 and his Captain Ramdin not out on five. After the interval Ramdin, who scored an unbeaten ton the last time West Indies reached 500 in a Test, greeted Boult with three stunning off-side boundaries as the hosts showed intentions to push the score on. The diminutive Blackwood, who had a reprieve when on 35 after the review overturned an LBW decision off Kane Williamson, crashed a scorching four to extend the lead to 200. Blackwood reached his first fifty at this level from 92 balls with five fours and two sixes and his achievement was acknowledged by a small but raucous crowd which included a stand full of school children.
Blackwood and Ramdin continued to bat purposely and brought up the 450. The debutant celebrated with a six off Sodhi who got the last laugh when Blackwood was taken at slip for 63 from 146 minutes and 110 balls with six fours and two sixes to leave the score on 456-8. Ramdin (32) was next to go off Jimmy Neesham at 460-9 before Taylor (4) fell to Sodhi without addition to the score. Today is the penultimate day and home team is in a commanding position to notch their first win in seven Te s t s s i n c e b e a t i n g Zimbabwe in March 2013 in Dominica when they registered the last of their six consecutive Test wins. Only a vastly improved second innings batting performance and maybe a thunder storm or two can save the Black Caps from defeat. However, New Zealand, yet to win a Test in Trinidad, will be mindful
Jermaine Blackwood on his way to a half-century on debut. (WICB)
that this is not the West Indies’ team of the 1980s and
that anything is possible over the next two days.
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Thursday June 19, 2014
Spain’s reign ends as Chile prove too hot to handle
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I O D E J A N E I R O (Reuters) Holders Spain were eliminated from the World Cup on Wednesday when their 2-0 Group B defeat by Chile brought an end to one of the greatest dynasties of the modern game. On the day when Spain’s King Carlos also signed his abdication papers, Spain’s footballers left their throne as goals from Eduardo Vargas after 20 minutes and Charles Aranguiz two minutes before halftime earned Chile a stunning victory. They advanced to the last 16 along with the Netherlands and Australia
go out with Spain. “We cannot complain we did not deserve to go out, they were better than us,” Spain coach Vicente del Bosque told Spanish TV. “The team showed character, we pressed forward but we had little luck in front of goal. “We were certainly inferior to our rivals here at the finals. It is not the moment to think about the future. Little by little we will make the necessary assessments.” The Dutch, who beat Spain 5-1, and Chile each have six points and they play each other in Sao Paulo next M o n d a y. S p a i n f a c e Australia in Curitiba bidding to avoid finishing bottom.
“I’m happy with the players’ game, the team was up to the challenge, now we have to play against Holland to come first in the group,” Chile coach Jorge Sampaoli said. Spain became the third champions in the last four World Cups to be eliminated at the first hurdle and their departure will almost certainly end the long international careers of the ageing greats who won the 2008 European Championship and their first World Cup in South Africa four years ago. Chile, who had never beaten Spain in 10 previous meetings, looked sharp, composed and confident from the start and even faster and more fluid in the second
Chile’s Eduardo Vargas, left, celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the group B World Cup soccer match at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez) half. Although Spain’s Xabi Alonso had a shot saved in the 15th minute, Chile took
Netherlands survive scare to beat Australia
Dutch players celebrate after Netherlands’ Memphis Depay scored his side’s third goal. (Martin Meissner, AP Photo)
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BC Sport - Netherlands secured a last-16 place in the 2014 Fifa World Cup as Memphis Depay gave them victory over Australia, who are out of the tournament. Arjen Robben angled in a shot to put the Dutch ahead, but Tim Cahill soon equalised with a stunning volley. Mile Jedinak slotted in a penalty for Australia before Robin van Persie lashed home to level it at 2-2. Mathew Leckie then missed a chance for the Socceroos, and Depay sent in a 25-yard shot for the winner. Netherlands demolished holders Spain in their opening game and, though they came nowhere near those heights, they had enough to overcome a bold Australia at the imposing Estadio Beira-Rio in Port Alegre. Progress to the last 16 was secured after holders Spain were beaten by Chile, who join the Dutch on six points in the group.
Having lost to Chile in their first match, Australia’s hopes of reaching the next round are over, but their youthful side certainly gave Netherlands a scare. Socceroos coach Ange Postecoglou said before the game his side intended to attack - and they were true to his words in the opening exchanges. But a flash of quality from Robben saw the Netherlands take the lead against the run of play. The Bayern Munich forward feinted his way past Alex Wilkinson on the halfway line, raced towards the Australia goal and drove in an angled shot for his third goal of the World Cup. The Socceroos responded immediately with one of the goals of the tournament so far, Cahill meeting an angled ball from the right with a powerful left-foot volley which crashed in off the underside of the crossbar. Had midfielder Mark Bresciano and defender Matthew Spiranovic shown
the same poise, Australia could have taken the lead earlier than they did. Bresciano ran onto a low Leckie cross only to shoot over from just inside the area, while Spiranovic got away from his marker at a free-kick but sidefooted an eight-yard shot straight at keeper Jasper Cillessen. Dutch coach Louis van Gaal had complained about his view from the dugout before the match - and much of what he saw is not likely to have pleased him, especially defensively. Cahill and Van Persie were both ruled out of their teams’ final group games after being shown their second yellow cards of the tournament, either side of Leckie having a goal disallowed after he was adjudged to have fouled Daley Blind. But Australia continued to press, and went in front when an Oliver Bozanic cross struck the hand of Daryl Janmaat and Jedinak slotted home from the spot. The lead did not last long, though, as Van Persie netted his 11th goal in 10 internationals, controlling the ball before turning and firing into the roof of the net. Australia again opened up the Dutch and Tommy Oar crossed for Leckie, who chested rather than headed the ball straight at Cillessen. But it was Depay who decided the outcome of the game, the 20-year-old PSV Eindhoven winger curling a shot beyond the reach of Mat Ryan to give Netherlands their first victory in four games against Australia.
the lead five minutes later. A counter-attack on the right set up Aranguiz to provide the cross for Vargas who danced around goalkeeper Iker Casillas before firing home with defender Sergio Ramos arriving too late to stop him. Casillas, who had a poor game in Spain’s mauling by the Dutch, was at fault for the second goal, punching an Alexis Sanchez free kick
straight back to Aranguiz who swept the ball home with a spinning shot with the outside of his right foot. “ We a s k p e o p l e ’s forgiveness,” Casillas said. “We are responsible but also the first ones to feel the pain and the frustration. There is nothing left now but to look to the future. “We will just try to focus on the good things about this team.”
Ten-man Cameroon KNOCKED OUT Cameroon’s Alex Song is shown a straight red for his mindless challenge on Mario Mandzukic. (Fernando Llano/AP)
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BC Sport - Cameroon failed to go beyond the World Cup group stage again as they slumped to a heavy defeat against Croatia. The African side conceded early on when Ivica Olic fired in, and were then a man down when Barcelona’s Alex Song lashed out at Mario Mandzukic. Ivan Perisic made it 2-0 when he punished keeper Charles Itanje’s poor clearance before forward Mandzukic headed in the third. Mandzukic added his second, tapping in after Eduardo’s shot was parried. In the 41st minute with Cameroon trailing 1-0, Song ran up to Croatia’s Mario Mandžukiæ and elbowed him in the back. The referee ran over and immediately showed Song a straight red card.
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Mackenzie High scores impressive 3-0 win over Wisburg
Part of the action in the Region 10 Zone clash between eventual winners Mackenzie High and Wisburg Secondary yesterday at the Wisburg Secondary School ground.
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ackenzie High made its intention clear that defending champions Christianburg /Wismar will not have things their way after registering an impressive 3-0 win over host Wisburg Secondary as play in the 4th Annual Digicel Schools Football Competition continued yesterday, at the Wisburg
Secondary School ground. The visiting Mackenzie High took the lead through Qualan Andries, who netted in the 9th minute of play to give his team a 1-0 lead. Captain Kelon Primo then stretched their advantage 15 minutes later when he fired in a fierce shot past the goalkeeper. Playing in soggy conditions, Mackenzie High
kept a high tempo, orchestrating many dangerous moves inside the opposition half and could have increased their lead, but solid goalkeeping kept the scoreline the same at the end of the opening period. After the resumption, Wisburg created a few opportunities to score, but Mackenzie High custodian Hosiah Nicholson was equal
to the task, producing some brilliant saves to keep their advantage intact. First, he parried a powerful shot into touch for a corner and then he had to make a smart save shortly after. Wisburg continued their relentless assault on goal and were a bit unfortunate not to pull once back after Nicholson was left stranded out of his goal after
attempting to clear a corner with the ball eluding him and landing into the path of a Wisburg striker, whose goal bound shot was cleared off the line by a defender. Mackenzie High made a substitution, inserting Anthony Allicock and his impact was immediately felt as he headed in a corner to give them a 3-0 lead after 55 minutes of play. Despite both
teams showing impresive attacking flair, the conditions underfoot made it difficult for proper ball control and the scoreline remained the same until the final whistle sounded. The next game in the Region 10 Zone will be between Kwakwani and Marcia Craig Education Institute on June 22, starting at 15:30 hrs.
Dolphin upset St. George’s on penalties; St. Mary’s hammer Campbellville
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o l p h i n S e c o n d a r y, playing one of t h e m o s t determined matches of their career, turned back the challenge of last year’s fourth placed team, St. George’s on penalty kicks at the Ministry of Education Ground yesterday when action in the fourth edition of the Digicel Schools Football Championship continued in Georgetown. Over at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary, it was easy sailing for St. Mary’s who hammered Campbellville Secondary 11-1, the winners scoring all the goals. At the Ministry of Education ground it was a fierce battle between two evenly matches sides. Riding on their performance from last year, St. George’s would have been odds on favourites to win but waiting to spoil their party were underdogs, Dolphin. After a goalless first half,
Andel Smith pressure was surely building on St. George’s to get on the score sheets but the Dolphin side was matching them in every department. It was Dolphin who would take the lead 59 minutes on through a well placed shot from Leon Richardson. St. George’s never bargained to be trailing Dolphin and quickly got their act together to neutralize proceedings when
Travis Cotton netted five minutes later. It was back to the goal drought as both teams failed to trouble the nets again. Penalty kicks it was that would be required to decide the winner and Dolphin prevailed 4-2 to register a huge win against St. George’s to send them packing. At Eve Leary, St. Mary’s opened the quest on a high with hat-tricks from Andel Smith and Raphael Bollers who led their 11-1 demolition of Campbellville. Play was concentrated for most of the game in the Campbellville half of play and for that matter, their defensive third which would have been the attacking third for St. Mary’s. Smith sent his team on their way with the game just 9 minutes old; finding the target again in the 35th and 42nd minute. Bollers inked his name on the score sheets in the 19th, 81st and 89th minute.
Raphael Charles converted in the 17th minute, Alyne Haynes in the 60th, Sean Turney in the 65th, Lennox Cort 67th and Colin Denny in the 72nd minute. Charles it was who netted the own goal that handed Campbellville their consolation goal in the 22nd minute.
Play in the Georgetown zone will continue today with two more matches. Christ Church will oppose South Ruimveldt at the Ministry of Education ground, while at the Eve Leary ground, St. John’s College will come up against Sophia Special School. Both matches will kick off at 15:30hrs.
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Spain’s Fernando Torres, second from right, is surrounded by Chilean defenders during their match at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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Dolphin upset St. George’s on penalties; St. Mary’s hammer Campbellville WINDIES HOLD UPPER HAND AS NEW ZEALAND BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL Action in the Dolphin (red) and St. George’s encounter yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground.
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