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Life Lessons from Albert Einstein FOLLOW YOUR CURIOSITY “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”

What piques your curiosity? I am curious as to what causes one person to succeed while another person fails; this is why I’ve spent years studying success. What are you most curious about? The pursuit of your curiosity is the secret to your success.

PERSEVERANCE IS PRICELESS “It's not that I'm so smart; it's just that I stay with problems longer.”

Through perseverance the turtle reached the ark. Are you willing to persevere until you get to your intended destination? They say the entire value of the postage stamp consist in its ability to stick to something until it gets there. Be like the postage stamp; finish the race that you’ve started!

FOCUS ON THE PRESENT “Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”

My father always says you cannot ride two horses at the same time. I like to say, you can do anything, but not everything. Learn to be present where you are; give your all to whatever you’re currently doing. Focused energy is power, and it’s the difference between success and failure.

THE IMAGINATION IS POWERFUL “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

Are you using your imagination daily? Einstein said the imagination is more important than knowledge! Your imagination pre-plays your future. Einstein went on to say, “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.” Are you exercising your “imagination muscles” daily, don’t let something as powerful as your imagination lie dormant.

MAKE MISTAKES “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

Never be afraid of making a mistake. A mistake is not a failure. Mistakes can make you better, smarter and faster, if you utilize them properly. Discover the power of making mistakes. I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again, if you want to succeed, triple the amount of mistakes that you make.

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Jagdeo and Ramroop will not stop KN from exposing their greed - Glenn Lall Guyana Times over a prolonged period, has been leveling scurrilous attacks against Kaieteur News, its publisher, Glenn Lall and its Editor-in-Chief Adam Harris.

These attacks began when the newspaper uncovered rampant corruption involving some sister companies of the Guyana Times.

Kaieteur News also questioned the operations of owner of Guyana Times and a host of companies owned by Dr. Ranjisinghi Ramroop, former President Bharrat Jagdeo’s best friend.

Last week, the newspaper reported on some deals between the New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation owned by Ramroop, and the Ministry of Health.

These revelations have now spurred the libelous attacks by Guyana Times.

Observers say that they are designed to stop Lall and Harris from reporting on the questionable dealings involving Ramroop and the government.

Mr. Lall said that Guyana Times is indulging in the belief that if one tells a lie often enough some of it will stick in the minds of some.

Bharrat Jagdeo

Dr. Ranjisinghi Ramroop

Publisher Glenn Lall

The big lie that Guyana Times keeps peddling daily is that Mr. Lall was involved in “alien smuggling”. Jagdeo, while he was president, told Harris that he would produce someone whom Lall smuggled, that the person would return to Guyana to testify. He even asked the police to mount an investigation. There was nothing to investigate.

Lall has denied ever being involved in “alien smuggling”.

The efforts by Guyana Times to add this comment to WikiLeaks is also a sick ploy.

There was no such report in

the WikiLeaks documents.

Guyana Times is fabricating reports.

Kaieteur News had reported that one of the owners of Guyana Times is Bharrat Jagdeo. Jagdeo never denied. However, he became angry when Lall confronted him at Office of the President about the fake invoice used to import the Guyana Times printing press. That invoice is still in the custody of Kaieteur News.

Lall said that after this

confrontation he was approached with the offer of substantial bribe to shut him up. He angrily rejected the offer and caused more hate from the Jagdeo camp.

Ever since that confrontation and the exposure of the manner in which Ramroop acquired the Sanata Complex, Jagdeo and Ramroop have set out to tarnish Lall’s reputation and to damage Kaieteur News.

Mr. Lall said that he was (continued on page 13)

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Publisher: GLENN LALL Editor: ADAM HARRIS Tel: 225-8491, 225-8458, 225-8465 Fax: 225-8473 or 226-8210

Editorial

Understanding China China has been in the news recently – for not entirely positive reasons. But behind these stories is that of a nation that has latched on to a unique method of generating growth.

The following are some facts by one China watcher; in a second editorial we offer his conclusions.

China has huge underlying economic growth from moving peasants into the modern economy. Every economy that has moved peasants to an export-orientated manufacturing economy has had rapid economic growth. Great Britain industrialized at about one percent per annum. It was slow because all the technology needed to be invented for the first time.

During the 19th Century US economic growth – once started – ran about twice the rate of the UK. They copied the technology which was faster than inventing it. Later economies (e.g. Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Korea) went later and faster. As a general rule the later you industrialized the faster you went – as the ease of copying went up. In the globalized internet age copying foreign manufacturing techniques and seeking global markets is easier than ever – so China is growing faster than any prior economy.

One fortuitous key to China’s success has been the onechild policy, which drives massive savings rates. In most developing countries the way that people save is they have multiple children hopefully to generate a gaggle of grandchildren all of whom are trained to respect their elders.

Given most people did not live to old age if you did you became a treasured (and well cared for) family member.

This does not work in China. Longevity in China is increasing rapidly and the one-child policy results in a grandchild potentially having four grandparents to look after.

The “four grandparent policy” means the elderly cannot expect to be looked after in old age. “Four grandparents, one grand-child” makes abandoning the old-folk look easy and near certain. Nor can the elderly rely on a welfare state to look after them. There is no welfare state.

So the Chinese save. Unless they save they will starve in old age. This has driven savings levels sometimes north of fifty percent of GDP. Asian savings rates have been high through all the key industrializations (Japan, Korea, Singapore etc). However Chinese savings rates are over double other Asian savings rates – this is the highest savings rate in history and the main cause is the one-child policy.

Bank deposits rates are regulated. You can’t get much different from one percent in a bank deposit. Life insurance contracts (a huge savings mechanism) are just rebadged bank deposits – attractive because the regulated rate is slightly higher. But this is not a good savings mechanism because inflation has been between six and eight percent (but is now lower than that and is falling fast).

At almost all times (except during the height of the GFC) the inflation rate has been higher – often substantially higher – than the regulated bank deposit (or life insurance contract) rate.

In other words real returns for bank accounts are consistently negative – sometimes sharply negative. But why would people save with sharply negative returns? The answer is the “four grandparent” dilemma. Moreover because of the underlying economic growth (moving peasants into a manufacturing economy) there are increasing quantities of these savings every year.

This is the critical point – the negative return to copious and increasing Chinese bank deposits drives a surprising amount of the global economy and makes sense of many things inside and outside China.

Apart from the bank and life insurance savings that give negative returns Chinese have property. Bank deposits have sometimes five percent negative returns.

If you got one percent negative returns from property, that is doing better. Buying an empty apartment and leaving it empty will do fine provided you can sell the property at some stage in the future.

It is commonplace amongst Western investors to view the see-through apartment buildings of China as insane. And they may be a poor use of capital. But from the perspective of the investors – they look better than bank deposits.

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Where was the Mayor & City Council for the past 15 years?

DEAR EDITOR, Kindly permit me to state my humble opinion as a law abiding, hardworking tax payer of this city of Georgetown. I have for some time now, been following the ups and lots of downs of the workings of the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown.

More often than not there’s been a round-about of blame being placed on either the Mayor and City Council or the Ministry of Local Government.

This to me has been nothing more than a political ball game the end result of which the city itself has been suffering.

As of recent I’ve been following the news and have

seen a lot being mentioned about the Burrowes Inquiry and the recommendations and findings. Only recently one of our daily newspapers yesterday, SN, wrote an editorial depicting the findings of an investigation done by the same committee which was established by Burrowes himself.

The article also dealt with what actions may or should be taken against the so call “M&CC Mafia” which was implicated in the report. Now as a citizen of this city, if these things that are being said are true, I honestly hope that they get rid of these persons once and for all and have a new set of qualified and competent persons manage

the affairs of the city. I also hope that the report submitted by the Burrowes committee is not misrepresented and watered down to make it look as if the M&CC actually knew what was going on and all along was planning to get rid of this faction.

One of the more puzzling questions I haven’t yet seen or gotten an answer for is “after all this time what has the Mayor and the City Council been doing to deal with all this corruption, mismanagement and downright incompetence?”

It’s been so many years I’ve basically lost track counting.

To crown it off, I have noticed in the Honorable

Mayor of our city on TV seems to be taking credit for these new revelations of corruption, an exercise he had no part of. Our mayor always seems to be taking credit for something he did not do. In fact it is our very mayor who has been presiding over this shameful situation and should be ashamed of the state of affairs at city hall.

I cannot believe that the Mayor and councilors do not know what is happening right under their noses. If this body was a Board of Directors of a private company they would have been sacked or asked to resign. Shame on the whole lot – Management, Councilors and Mayor.

S. Jones

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The president as per the Constitution Empower People, not the politicians DEAR EDITOR, that will reduce their powers Leader and the central plays a participatory role in Seven months into the and empower the people. The government.

The party had also new parliament, the AFC is supposed to be parliament, not a dominant one opposition has not made different from them and promised to reverse the law DEAR EDITOR, Having followed the ongoing discussions regarding President Ramotar’s threat that he “will not assent to any bill that [the opposition] carry unless it is with the full agreement of the Executive and the full involvement of the Executive,” I’d like to state the following as per the Guyana Constitution: a) Article 50 outlines, ‘The supreme organs of democratic power in Guyana shall be – i) the Parliament; ii) the President; and iii) the Cabinet.

Clearly the supreme authority is vested in the Parliament; b) Article 67 (1) says, ”The President may at any time attend and address the National Assembly [and] “( 2) The President may send messages to the National Assembly and any such message shall be read”; c) Articles 89 and 99 state the “supreme executive authority of Guyana” shall be the President”; d) Article 51 states, “There shall be a Parliament of Guyana, which shall consist of the President and the National Assembly”; e) Article 106 (1) states, “ The Cabinet shall aid and advise the President in the general direction and control of the Government of Guyana and shall be collectively responsible therefor to Parliament”; f) Articles 171 (1) expressly states, “Subject to the provisions of this Constitution and the rules of the procedure of the National Assembly, any member of the National Assembly may introduce any Bill or propose any motion for debate in, or may present any petition to, the Assembly, and the same shall be debated and disposed of according to the rules of the procedure of the Assembly”; g) Article 165 (1) says, “Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the National Assembly may regulate its own procedure and make rules for that purpose;” h) Article 170 (2) requires, “When a Bill is presented to the President for assent, he shall signify that he assents or that he withholds assent” and 170(3) “Where the President withholds his assent to a Bill, he returns it to the Speaker within twentyone days of the date when it was presented to him for assent with a message stating the reasons why he has withheld his assent.”

As per our Constitution the separation of power is clearly demarcated, the

checks and balance of the three branches of government and moreso the oversight role of the Parliament- the People’s House- is one that allows any decision/policy of the executive or legislature be, in concurrence with the Constitution which all public officials and every citizen must uphold. When a Bill is approved by the National Assembly, after a debate process, involving both sides of the House and taking into consideration the merits of both sides consistent with our representative democracy, the Bill is no longer an Opposition or Government/Executive’s Bill but a National Assembly Bill.

Note, it is the National Assembly that is designated the responsibility of passing Bills, which is different from the Parliament that comprises the President and National Assembly, but in local parlance oft referred to as Parliament instead of National Assembly.

The citizenry expects any Bill coming from the House to be consistent with the Constitution and represent the legitimate interests of various groups in the society.

The President (Ramotar)

by virtue of the Constitution is allowed to have his input in the National Assembly and Parliament by addressing the House, sending messages to the House and via his Cabinet who are Members of the House. As such Mr. Ramotar should be given opportunities to assent to Bills, regardless of which Member initiated it, or which side of the House it emanated from. And if he refuses to assent to any Bill, consistent with the Constitution he ought to tell the nation via the Parliament his reason(s) for declining.

If Mr. Ramotar fails to comply with the Constitution, it ensures the supremacy of the Law and people’s wellbeing as per Article 180(1) which says, “If notice in writing is given to the Speaker of the National Assembly, signed by not less than one-half of all the elected members of the Assembly, of a motion alleging that the President has committed any violation of the Constitution or any gross misconduct and specifying the particulars of the allegations and proposing that a tribunal be established under this article Continued on page 6

much effort to empower the people. While the opposition has attempted to make the government more accountable in its expenditures, no effort has been made to reduce the powers of government and the opposition.

The opposition should use its majority to take powers away from the elected officials and return them to the people.

The Alliance for Change pointed out during the campaign that it was a party different from the PPP and PNC (APNU) and promised that it would move to reduce powers of the President and the central government and empower local government and let the people rule themselves.

Instead, the AFC has shown that it is no different from the other parties – it seems like it wants more power for itself than for the people.

It has been almost seven months since Parliament met following the last elections and the AFC is showing that it is no different from the PPP and PNC – more of the same.

The AFC and PNC are comfortable with the current distribution of powers in which they are in charge and as such one does not expect them to advocate for change

pursue legislation to benefit the nation and not the party elites.

The AFC seems to have forgotten that if a snap election is held and a party wins a majority of seats, we will return to the status quo.

Now is the time for the party to take advantage of its position and severely cut the powers of the President, Parliament, government and put in place institutions that will make the people most powerful as in the US. The AFC is yet to table legislation to cut the enormous powers of the President and the Opposition

that prevents crossing of the floor (or to vote on one’s conscience or not to follow the party line). Instead, the party is playing stupid like it never was against that law.

The party should cut a deal with the PNC, in any future cooperation, that the crossing of the floor act would be abolished. It should also seek to amend how M.Ps are chosen instead of the party leader selecting the M.Ps. The people should have a say in who is chosen as the M.P and each area should have a designated M.P to Continued on page 6

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Is the lotto like the three –card game?

DEAR EDITOR, Sometime after a good run of the introduction of the new format of the lotto- super 6, where instead of choosing numbers between one to 36, it was reduced to one to 28.

A customer wrote a letter stating that someone who understands the arrangement and magic of numbers –I think he mentioned Mr. Christopher Ram- to give an explanation as to how on earth with lesser members to select from it has become much more difficult to win, not even wining a consolation of having 3 members correct while the cost of a ticket had double.

What this individual who was both baffled and upset was expressing was exactly the very same feeling/and experience of endless chance players with this new format even winning a free ticket seemed a million to one chance.

One man said to me that with the amount of money he has spent on lotto – he feels he has a better chance with a three-card man. Well, when people start to feel that they have more chances of winning with “3 card”-which is illegal-then you have to wonder.

Good for those who win big time and again and which company is glad to show off an enticement which is small potatoes.

This is not a guessing game; its well programmed; somewhere down the line, at some point in time there is a million, 10, 20, 30, 40

million, a pot of gold waiting for someone, and that is the ideal, the dream the great imagination that lures and drives the poor and that maybe, just maybe same day she/he might be the holder of a ticket to change life around completely. But you can’t beat the odds, as I m e n t i o n e d i t ’s s o w e l l programme.

And yes, even so we do keep playing, reaching for the sky. I was so amused lately when I purchased a scratch and got four matchups-four wins on that card but won only a measly $800.00, $200.00 each for every win! Which reminds me of “pull the string;” as a l i t t l e b o y, w h e r e t h e strings for the radio, clock, pyrex bowl and pressure cooker are never pulled.

Sometime we even would ask them to show us the strings attached to these items just to make sure, and they do! But then the strings are cut short at the top, never among those we are selecting from.

I can imagine the voices of condemnation from the pure at heart: “don’t waste your money on a game of chance”. Good advice, but easier said than done. Poor people do take chances.

If my memory serves me will I think that it was elder brother Eusi Kwayana who in making reference to the use of the lotto fund stated that it was the money of the poor.

And who can deny that. The rich play for the sake of playing and obviously hoping to win also, but the money they risk is affordable, I think they call it disposable income, which the poor never have On the other hand, the poor risk more, since they

would often stake from the little they have – even their last dollar and hope and pray to all the Gods that their luck spring. Based on common sense, logics, the odds and the daily disappointments we can condemn such chances / actions as foolish, but still that’s what many do daily, acts of desperation that often times sinks them deeper in their impecunious states.

But they damn their lot and take risks hoping for a miracle, and that’s life! There was this brother who said to me: “buddy is either lotto or coke because is like I forever broke” but I gon try with the lotto, ah too old fuh tek lockup now”.

Illusive as wining is, try telling people not to play, there is this hope, a genuine hope that burns within, and for long as it is around people will play until they have totally lost every ounce of faith and cease to dream. And make no mistake, there are some who by their religion are condemned if they play but do feel the need to take a chance.

Editor, there is a very annoying situation in Linden

with respect to purchasing of lotto and scratch. As far as I know there are only two machines in Linden both on the Mackenzie shore-just about 300 yards apart; one at “Richard’s Cheap Corner” store, the other at Joe Barns Electrical Store. Would you believe that one has to wait for five minutes for one ticket!

Yes sir; someone buying four/five tickets in front of you and the waiting sends you nuts, not to mention having ‘ten persons to wait on.

At Joe Barns sometimes it’s a bit quicker, but at Richard’s cheap corner it terrible! ridiculous; they tell customers that the machine does the processing very slow, sometimes it brakes down completely.

If one is lucky to win on a scratch, it’s no different, you stand there at Richard’s for five /ten minutes to collect your $500.00 or another tickets as you please. This is totally un acceptable; when poor folks have to endure all sorts of poppycock, staking their last dollar on taking a chance.

Frank Fyfee

Ralph Ramkarran should be applauded for his courageous move DEAR EDITOR, This is in reference to Freddie’s recent comment on Ralph Ramkarran.

Freddie, you should look beyond Mr. Ralph Ramkarran’s past and support of the PPP regime, rather than taking cheap shots at his candid and outspoken comments on the ongoing corruption of the PPP administration.

As a matter of fact RK should be applauded for his courageous and bold move on this issue, and it is time that the AFC, ANPU and all those (including FK) who want to make Guyana a better place, embrace each other to

bring about change, eradicate corruption and prosecute ALL those present and past PPP Government officials and their associates to answer for their wrongdoing.

Justice must be swift and penalties should include but not be limited to jail term, restitution and confiscation of property whereever it may be located.

I am sure such action will resonate well with the Guyanese whom for too long have suffered under the PPP regime. Time for mud slinging and finger pointing are over.

Do the right thing and act now .

M. Hassan

YCT should rethink its position on the call to boycott targeted businesses DEAR EDITOR, The Youth Coalition for Transformation (YCT) members should rethink their position on the call to boycott targeted businesses and rescind such calls.

Countries can only achieve economic prosperity that benefits its people through the realization of high productivity.

This productivity comes from two primary sources: government spending and investments and private sector activities. Therefore, it is difficult to fathom and justify why any group or organization would call for the boycotting of productive private sector activities that lead to overall development and prosperity of our society.

Moreover, the preference of the owners of these companies to support any political parties they endorse should be respected. Freedom of expression is a fundamental attribute in any democratic society.

I commend the YCT for the civil and political activism that they have shown over the months since its formation. More young people should get involved in joining or forming organizations that call for social and political change that addresses the values and aspiration of young Guyanese.

However, these organizations have to be responsible and apply careful examination and analysis before making public their positions. Hurting the productive sector not only injure the proprietors of those entities but also inflict greater harm to our national economy and our development.

Clinton Urling

Empower People, not the...

From page 5 advocate its interests.

Unfortunately, the AFC is yet to use its new found powers to change the status quo of the dominance of the two large parties. The AFC is yet to present legislation to change the fraudulent constitution replacing it with one with the people running the country not a small party elite.

The APNU leader recently complained that local government is not working but neither he nor APNU (PNC) has proposed any change to give powers to the local communities. Instead, both the PNC and PPP want the central government to maintain control over all aspects of the peoples’ lives. They don’t want to decentralize power. They distrust the people and don’t want powers taken away from the party leader and the center. The country needs local government reform and the AFC, the party that is supposed to have a conscience against abuses of power, needs to keep its promises to pursue legislation to shift power away from the party elites and towards the people - empower the people. So far, the AFC has shown it is no different from the PNC and PPP which it seeks to replace as the ruler.

Vishnu Bisram

The president as per the...

From page 5 to investigate those allegations, the Speaker shall [effect certain course of action].”

Conclusively, the Parliament remains the supreme organ of the State. The president as per the Constitution plays a participatory role in parliament, not a dominant one, or the impression being given that he has supreme authority over the land and the National Assembly (law making arm). This country yearns for actions that would allow the enabling environment for equitable development and peaceful coexistence. We, the citizens, yearn for a meaningful environment where our parliament, executive and judiciary function consistent with the laws. We long for an environment where all are subject to One Law and play by the Same Rules.

It is time to make our Constitution work for All of Us! Lincoln Lewis

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Police killings down significantly

Almost two weeks ago, ranks of a police mobile patrol shot and killed a criminal suspect following the robbery of a money changer and a brief exchange.

And even as this article was being written, police killed another notorious bandit, Randy Morris.

There was a time when such incidents would have sparked condemnation of the highest order, with many claims of extra judicial killing by the police, even without proper knowledge of the circumstances.

No so today; in fact the killing of Odel Chase and Morris was greeted to a large extent with relief by members of the public.

Not that he was notorious, but there is the feeling that the public is fed up with criminals, both seasoned and petty that such actions by the police are not frowned upon as they used to be a few years ago.

Statistics will show that police killings have been drastically reduced over the years despite the rise in serious crimes for the same period.

From the unprecedented highs of the late 1990s and early 2000s, the figures of the past two years have been single digits.

Recorded fatal shootings by the police show numbers for 1980-85 and 1995-2001 to be equally high at 15 persons per annum, with the intervening decade experiencing considerably lower figures at an average of six deaths annually.

A total of 105 deaths by shootings were recorded in the period 1995-2001.

How many persons may have subsequently died from their wounds, following shootings by the police, is unknown.

According to a Guyana Human Rights Association

- five so far this year report the vast majority of all shootings recorded were justified by the police on the grounds of: “wanted by the Police”,’ “escaped from custody”, “resisting arrest”.

“Self defence” was often invoked in reference to attacks with a cutlass, even in the most unlikely circumstances.

The GHRA said, “It is interesting to note that the first half of the PNC administration 1980-1985 had an average of 13 per year, while in the second half, under the Hoyte administration (’86-92), the average fell to slightly over five per year. A similar disparity occurred during the PPP administration.

Between 1992-97 (March), the Cheddi Jagan Presidency, numbers continued relatively low (nine per year), but under his successors rose sharply to close to 15 deaths per year.

1997 saw an all-time high of 28 deaths at the hands of the police.”

Then there was the period between 2002-2007, when Guyana experienced an unprecedented crime wave that sparked a series of

killings that actually put the police on the back foot.

There response was an offensive that almost put them in trouble with the Guyanese population-for although they had to find a way to combat brazen criminals that ruled the streets, their overzealousness led to some ugly situations.

One such incident was the fatal shooting of University of Guyana student Yohance Douglas, which mobilized thousands in protests against extra-judicial killings, forced unprecedented action from the police and led to calls for independent international intervention.

By that time, despite the rampant criminality and fear that had gripped Guyana, the public cared less about the excuses and explanations given by the police for any fatal shooting.

This forced the police to adopt a concerted approach to repair its battered image.

Their efforts have so far borne fruit with the fatal shootings by the police showing a significant decline within the past three years.

Figures show that there

The killing of UG student Yohance Douglas sparked a public outcry that led to drastic changes in the use of force by the police.

Odel Chase was among the five persons killed by the police so far this year.

Tyrone Rowe, notorious criminal is lucky that he has had his day in court after surrendering to the police.

are so far for this year five police fatal shootings, the same as last year and the year before.

These figures are far lower than those of 2009 when there were 14 police killings and 2008 when 17 persons were killed by the police.

In those days we had to deal with armed gangs. There were frequent engagements and confrontations, which naturally resulted in killings,” Crime Chief Seelall Persaud told this newspaper.

Of course those were the

days when every criminal had a gun in his hand and there was a significant increase in gun crimes.

“The situations that existed then necessitated some amount of force which in most cases resulted in deaths both for law enforcement and criminals,” the Crime Chief explained.

Since those worrying days, with all the criticisms leveled at them, the police force has changed its posture to a much more humane one.

Even hardened criminals who were initially inclined not

to surrender out of fear that they would have been executed nevertheless, have been turning themselves in.

The case of Tyrone Rowe called ‘Cobra’ comes readily to mind.

While there have been police shootings, most of the victims have lived to have their day in court.

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Randy Morris killed after another robbery bid The curtain finally came down on the life of Randy Morris who was shot dead by police following a high speed chase through the streets of Georgetown yesterday afternoon.

Morris,32, of Freeman Street East La Penitence, who police believe is responsible for a series of armed robberies in and around the city, met his end in an alleyway between Church and Forshaw Streets, Queenstown, after he and an accomplice were cornered by ranks of a mobile police patrol.

The ranks had chased after Morris after he had tried to rob a Bourda Market businesswoman and her husband just after 16:00 hours yesterday.

Eyewitnesses said that the businesswoman and her husband had just closed their stall and were exiting the market when they were attacked by Morris who grabbed the woman’s bag, which reportedly contained over $500,000 in cash, including foreign currency.

There are reports that the businesswoman, Nandrani Sookwah, 45, held onto her bag and Morris struck her in the head with his firearm.

The woman’s husband, Kishore Sookra, a licensed firearm holder, discharged two shots at Morris but missed.

Sookra was subsequently treated at a private hospital and discharged.

Morris meanwhile jumped into a rented white Toyota Raum and tried to make good his escape.

Police on motorcycles got wind of the robbery and quickly tracked down the car that Morris was driving. The ensuing chase led the ranks through Cummingsburg and

Randy Morris then back into Queenstown.

An eyewitness told this newspaper that Morris actually managed to lose the police who were trailing him but thanks to public spirited persons the police were given the direction the car went.

Morris, in trying to evade the police drove up the wrong way on Church Street, crashing into an oncoming vehicle.

His car stalled, Morris and his accomplice exited the vehicle and tried to seek refuge in an alleyway with the police hot on their heels.

A source who did not wish to be named told this newspaper that even public spirited licenced firearm holders joined in the chase and one of them discharged several rounds at the fleeing bandits.

Morris was finally cornered after scaling a fence into one of the yards in the posh Queenstown area, where he was eventually shot dead. Police said that they have recovered a .32 pistol.

His accomplice however managed to cheat death and surrendered to the police.

The accomplice, identified as Troyan Moore, 28, of Joseph Pollydore Street, Lodge, claimed that he was unaware that they were going on a robbery.

He said that Morris had picked him up and told him that they were going for a ‘lil ride’ in the car which was rented from one Charles Mars, of North East La Penitence.

Mars has also been taken into custody by the police.

As news of the shooting spread, several of Morris’ relatives including his mother and his reputed wife converged at the accident and emergency unit only to have their worst fears confirmed.

His mother, June Ann Morris, told this newspaper that she had just come home from work when the mother of her son’s child called her and asked her when last she heard from him.

“I told her last night. I Continued on page 51

Sunday June 24, 2012

Female warder says woman gave her ganja bag to take into Camp Street - “disgraceful, unacceptable and unlawful,” says Rohee One of the prison warders implicated in the smuggling of marijuana into the Camp Street Prison has reportedly told investigators that a woman gave her the bag in which the drug was found.

Kaieteur News understands that the junior rank claimed that the woman, who was at the prison gate, asked her to take the bag into the prison. However, the 28year-old rank has not admitted to receiving any money for the transaction.

The rank and another female, who is a corporal, were taken into custody on Wednesday after the bag containing some 125 grammes of marijuana was found in an office within the prison. The bag was handed over to an official at the prison. The corporal was in charge of the night shift.

Kaieteur News understands that a report is being prepared for the Director of Prisons and charges are likely by tomorrow.

Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee, told journalists yesterday that he didn’t have all the details and is awaiting a report from Director of Prisons Dale Erskine on the matter.

“I am awaiting a written report from the Director of Prisons. That written report will give me all the details. All I got was a phone call (on Thursday) telling me what happened.”

He described the incident as ‘disgraceful, unacceptable and unlawful.”

“It’s a very serious matter.

It’s like smuggling a cell phone or any prohibited item into the prison. I know as a fact that based on the evidence that was provided to me that they indeed were caught; that they were found in possession of marijuana with the intention of providing this to some prisoners.

That fact by its very nature is disgraceful; it is unacceptable; it is illegal it is unlawful.” The Home Affairs Minister noted that the prison environment is a very sensitive one. “I don’t think that that is a place where you have to go and light a match and create a problem.”

While their male colleagues have been fingered in the past in illegal transactions, this is one of the few times that female prison warders have been implicated.

Kaieteur News understands that the marijuana was smuggled on Thursday into the prison for an inmate who is serving a three-year term.

According to one report, a woman who is related to the inmate gave the recruit the marijuana. The recruit then stashed the marijuana in an office at the prison.

A source said that the inmate who was to collect the narcotics began to suspect that the warders had made off with his stash.

The inmate reportedly began to threaten the prison warders who were on duty.

It is alleged that the female corporal who was in charge of the shift searched the office and found the drugs stashed in a bag. She initially opted to throw the narcotics away, but then handed over the bag to a prison official.

However, Kaieteur News understands that the recruit alleged that it was the corporal who had given her the drugs.

Police were informed and both ranks were detained at the East La Penitence Police Station.

Family of murdered businessman fearful after fire The family of slain Pest Control plus owner, Mohammed Shalahudeen Baksh, are now fearful for their lives following, what they are calling another attempt by someone to wipe out their relative’s legacy.

This comes after fire was set to the bond of the company.

Speaking with Kaieteur news via telephone, former Magistrate Faizul Azeez, a cousin of late Baksh, stated that security precautions have been put in place as it relates to the lives of the dead man’s family members.

Azeez said that they believe that whoever wanted Baksh dead, will stop at nothing to wipe out his legacy.

He said that the murdered man’s family is being cautious as they conduct their daily routines.

He said that the family has provided the police with

all the necessary information as it relates to the case adding that the police should have very strong leads. However, Azeez expressed dissatisfaction on how the police have conducted their investigations so far.

Azeez said that a person was held in connection with the killing but that person was released because he gave an alibi.

He noted that a person giving an alibi does not mean that that person was not involved in the crime but that it just means that another person may have been employed to do the killing.

Azeez said his cousin was a man who enjoyed dining out, but that the place where he was shot was not a usual venue for him.

He added that those involved in the shooting must have known where he was going at the time and followed

Mohammed Shalahudeen Baksh him. The former Magistrate expressed frustration at the justice system. Azeez said that his cousin has a matter before the court but the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) was postponed more than 40 times despite pleas to have the case concluded.

Speaking about the close relatives of the deceased, Azeez said that they are still in a state of shock because Baksh was the foundation of their family. As it relates to the dead man’s nine year old son, Azeez said that the boy had stopped attending school since the unfortunate incidents because of security concerns.

However, Azeez stated that it is their profound spiritual belief in the teaching of Islam that has given them the strength to go through this time.

“We believe that during Ramadan Allah has preordered the deaths of some persons and thus we submit to the will of the almighty.”

Azeez said that it is uncertain what will become of the dead man’s business.

Mohammed Shalahudeen Baksh was gunned downed at a city restaurant last Friday; reports are that Baksh was shot several times by two armed men who entered the restaurant he was dining at, despite the presence of his body guard.

He sustained injuries to the head and body. Baksh succumbed early Saturday morning. The murdered businessman was laid to rest the following Tuesday, but vendetta followed as fire was set to his Prashad Nagar office.

Sunday June 24, 2012

Kaieteur News

From the Diaspora

So here I am in Guyana experiencing all the highs and lows

By Ralph Seeram It was a long, exhausting hot and sticky day, but I am not complaining. I can “man up” without air conditioning.

After all, I “born and grew up in New Amsterdam”. I can take whatever is served up to me except when I want my shower. I have to take a shower before I go to bed at night; it is the highlight of my day.

So here I am enjoying a cool bath washing the day’s grime and sweat when it happened, BLACKOUT, total darkness in the shower, what’s going on here I wondered forgetting that I was in Guyana and not Florida, Welcome to Berbice, welcome to New Amsterdam the land of blackouts. Naked and wet I was kind of stunned, figuring my next move when my relative shouted “Ah coming with de candle”.

My day started when I arrived at Cheddi Jagan airport at 1.30 in the morning after being a guest of Caribbean Airlines for the previous eight and a half hours. Yes, you are not a passenger of the airline any more. You are now a guest. I wish they treat their guests like Guyanese do; always make sure “you belly full”.

I was prepared for Caribbean Airline for this trip.

I had my back up food, since one ounce of plantain chips from Orlando to Jamaica (yes they deceptively take you to Jamaica first even though

when you booked the ticket it says first stop Trinidad) a baby sandwich from Jamaica to Trinidad and another oneounce bag of chip from Trinidad to Guyana could not cut for me.

I was up at 6am after going to bed at 3.30am. In Georgetown the incessantly barking dogs make sure you are kept awake. I have no problem with that; its part of the experience I look forward to it.

First order of the day is a visit to Digicel headquarters on Barrack Street. I have become a slave to my Iphone, computer and Internet; I have to be connected, so anyone in the Diaspora visiting with the need to be connected whether it’s Iphone or Ipad needs to visit Digicel first.

Setting off to Berbice by 9.30am with my friend Mara, we stopped in New Amsterdam to drop off our “bundle” and headed to Crabwood Creek on the Corentyne courtesy of my friend “Django” to drop off gifts to relatives. There a delicious meal of labba awaited us along with some fresh fried snapper. I must have labba when I visit Guyana. The fried snapper flavour is a welcome relief from the frozen ones I get in Orlando.

This may not sound like a big deal to my local Guyanese readers, but to us in the Diaspora it’s an experience.

Back in New Amsterdam with my friend Gregory it was off to a “rum shop” in Canje that offers wild meat. If you

need to know the mood of the Guyanese people you have to go to a “rum shop”.

I can tell you the conversation is not good from a PPP point of view, and I am in the heart of PPP country.

Obviously, corruption dominated the conversation.

I am not sure if those higher up in the PPP are aware but people are fed up and disgusted of the constant revelation of corruption and cronyism within the PPP Government.

From what I gathered, the PPP dare not think of snap elections; they will do worse.

I get the feeling that people are waiting anxiously on President Donald Ramotar do something drastic to demonstrate that he is serious about eliminating grafts and corruption.

People are looking forward for him to rid himself of the Jagdeo “holdovers”.

People view this holdover as a total liability to the President, and I am sure that he, President Ramotar, is aware of it.

However some feel that he is caught in a “catch 22” situation. How strong is his influence within the PPP hierarchy against former President Jagdeo, is the big question.

I have been told and shown examples of the rampant corruption in the Ancient County stronghold of the PPP. It became clear to me that if the PPP does not change course before the next election, it will lose the Presidency.

President

Ramotar needs to bear this in mind.

New Amsterdam is changing rapidly as evidenced by the spate of multi-story construction taking place in the town. The town is still as dirty as ever.

While I am proud of the town I was born in, I feel I may have some hesitancy to encourage visitors.

Some who recognized me congratulated me on the article condemning the authorities for allowing the New Amsterdam Town Hall tower to crumble. A member of the committee established to help save the tower, Mavis Sukraj La Bennett, owner of Penguin Hotel, informed me that the decision was taken to pull the tower down after it was seen swaying during high winds.

Afraid of causing damage or possible loss of life the authorities decided that the tower be pulled down.

Here is the stupid part of this episode; I was informed that the New Amsterdam Town Council wants to preserve some wood from the fallen tower. What a joke. I was asked to mention that the large silver water tank that lies behind the historic Scots Church and adjacent to the prison farm on Vryheid Street is being corroded and rotting.

The tank should be preserved for historic purposes. For those too young to know, that tank along with one that was located around St. John Continued on page 51

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Dem boys seh

Uncle Donald gun faint When people back deh against de wall is then dem does realize how serious things serious. Dem boys hear how Randy Morris cry when he friend get kill. He cry again when he hear that people want kill he. He find he back against de wall de other day and he beg fuh see he family. Dem boys seh that he seeing de Big Man face instead.

But dem have other people who would never see de Big Man face. Dem doing things wuss than Randy. Dem ain’t got fuh use gun. Dem got de key to de Treasury. And nuff of dem does stretch out dem hand fuh tek bribe. Uncle Donald know but he can’t get de evidence.

If he guh over de river and he peep in a garage he might see something that gun mek he drop dead. A man who ain’t got money and who claim he ain’t got property got a Mercedes Benz S-500 cover up in he garage.

De car worth more than a palace and it come in duty free.

But de man shame suh he got it cover down. Uncle Donald can never own a car like that and he is president. Dem boys seh that if dem call de man name is another lawsuit because de man and he friends want people stop talk bout dem.

But fuh all de things dem thief dem can’t be happy because dem wife ignoring wha dem got. Something got to be wrong fuh a woman to prefer to live in poverty than to live wid some of dem who rotten to de core.

Talk half and wait fuh de blow up.

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Sunday June 24, 2012

South African firm hired to GDF participates in Tradewinds 2012 in Barbados salvage Skeldon factory Guyanese soldiers are among law enforcement and defence force officers from the United States, Canada and 15 Caribbean countries taking part in Exercise Tradewinds 2012. The Caribbean countries are Antigua-

of Guyanese officers is expected to return home today while the final batch will arrive tomorrow.

Tradewinds is a U.S. Southern Commandsponsored annual security training exercise. The

Federal Bureau of Investigation.

They work and train alongside the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency, the Regional Security System (RSS) and military and law

Participating ranks in Exercise Tradewinds Barbuda, Barbados, the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.

Guyana has sent a number of military officials to participate in these annual events.

The Officers are from various ranks within the Guyana Defence Force, two of which are: Infantry Battalion and the Coast Guard. Guyana participated fully in this year’s exercise.

Tradewinds 2012 commenced June 24 and concludes today. One group

Tradewinds participants engaged in three main areas of training—ground, maritime and a command post exercise.

Some of the ground and maritime training will include improvised explosive device recognition, search and rescue operations, countering transnational organized crime, interdiction at sea, small arms, non-lethal weapons, dive operations and human rights awareness.

The exercise features U.S. personnel from the Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Army, Navy, Air Force, National Guard, Joint-interagency Task Force-South, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and the

enforcement personnel from the 14 independent full CARICOM states, the Dominican Republic and Canada.

Tradewinds 2012 focuses on strengthening existing regional partnerships and encouraging the establishment of new relationships through the exchange of mission-focused knowledge and expertise so each participating country will improve capabilities in what it considers key security mission areas.

This year’s exercise marks the first time a Tradewinds host nation’s National Emergency Operation Centre and Joint Operation Centre have joined together with the CARICOM, CDEMA, the RSS and U.S. military and law enforcement agencies to conduct the exercise.

A South African firm has been hired by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) to help ensure that the Skeldon Sugar estate is fully operational, Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy has announced.

Specifically, the company, Bosch, is being paid US$130,000 to design the modifications that are needed at the Skeldon plant, Paul Bhim, the Chief Executive Officer of GuySuCo told Kaieteur News.

The estate was commissioned at a cost of US$181 million in August 2009, and was hailed as the boon to the survival of the sugar industry.

However, the factory has been plagued by numerous

the Skeldon Estate.

But the new Agriculture Minister said he is unaware that the government had or has such a plan.

Ramsammy said he remains “unconvinced that we need outside managers.”

However, he stated that management agrees with him that there is a need for some technical experts to assist in certain aspects of the factory operation.

“In this regard, we are contracting the South African Engineering firm, Bosch to assist in ensuring the factory is fully operational,” Dr Ramsammy stated.

The South African firm is looking to design the modifications of three main aspects of the factory, the

obtaining a clean water supply to the factory,” Ramsammy stated.

The establishment of the factory was part of a modernisation plan by GuySuCo that was not achieved. The project involves expanded cane cultivations, the establishment of a refinery, and the co-generation of electricity for the national grid.

The factory was constructed with a combination of selfgenerated funds and loans from the Caribbean Development Bank, the People’s Republic of China and the Government of Guyana. The Project Engineer was Booker Tate, UK Ltd and

A section of the Skeldon estate problems and has not been able to function as was intended.

Former Agriculture Minister, Robert Persaud, had said that the government was looking for an Indian or Chinese company to manage

GuySuCo CEO told Kaieteur News. He said these are the bagasse plow (the feeder system, that leads to the boiler), the conveyor system and the condensate tank.

Dr Ramsammy said that the plan to fix most of the design flaws of the factory commenced this out of crop period and is expected to be completed by the first crop in 2013.

“A decision has not yet been taken on correcting the problems with the punt dumper. The defects which will be fixed are those in relation to the bagasse feeding system, the cane conveyor system, installing a condensate tank and

the Contractor was CNTIC Ltd. The Skeldon estate was designed to produce 110,000 tonnes of sugar per annum.

In 2010, production was 33,237 tonnes and in 2011, production was 29,410 tonnes.

According to Dr Ramsammy, attaining the full operation depends on the defects of the factory being fixed and addressing the field issues.

He said that the mechanization of the field operation now means that the weather conditions will have a greater impact on operation and this has been a major impact in 2011 and so far in 2012.

Sunday June 24, 2012

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CHEC gives one price for CJIA expansion and another on its website The Chinese firm that landed a contract to rebuild the Cheddi Jagan International Airport is now quoting different prices for its projects after a string to stories highlighted the company’s reputation in the Caribbean and around the world.

The company, China

Harbour Engineering Company Limited (CHEC), took out a full page advertisement in the Kaieteur News after it was revealed that its parent company was banned by the World Bank.

In the advertisement, published last Thursday, CHEC listed the projects which it successfully bid for

HPV vaccination programme continues in schools The vaccination of young girls with Gardasil to protect against cervical cancer is continuing, with advocates against the vaccine saying their concerns are being washed away.

On the East Coast of Demerara, a medical team headed by Dr. Ameeka Breedy recently commenced a school intervention programme to educate the students and parents on the importance of the HPV vaccines.

Dr. Breedy noted that her team comprises mid wives and nurses. The team has so far visited the Cove and John and Victoria Primary schools.

Earlier this year a group of concerned citizens, including Ms. Sherlina Nageer, staged a protest in front of the Ministry of Health, to express a number of concerns surrounding the implementation of the HPV vaccine. Among these concerns were the side effects of the HPV vaccine, the evidence or data to show that this vaccine is indeed needed in Guyana, and the manner in which the vaccine was introduced.

During an invited comment, yesterday, Ms. Nageer stated that it is clear that the Ministry of Health is not open to criticisms and views from the public as it relates to the HPV vaccine. However, she said that it is a good initiative t h at the C.C. Nicholson Health Centre has undertaken to raise awareness on this vaccine.

Dr Breedy said that the response from both these schools were negative since the parents were not educated or informed on the importance of the HPV

vaccine, hence the majority of them were not supportive towards the initiative.

However, she said that even though the response has not been what they expected, the team will continue to carry out their visits to the schools with hopes of ensuring that the parents of these young girls understand the importance and benefits of the vaccine.

The team will be conducting its visit to President’s College during next week.

The Health Ministry, in January, introduced Gardasil, a vaccine to defend against cervical cancer to Grade Six girls in Regions Three, Four, Five and Six. At the official launch of the new vaccine on January 11 at the East La Penitence Health Centre, several girls between the ages of 11 – 13 years old from the East La Penitence Primary School were the first to benefit from the vaccine.

Over the years, Guyana’s vaccination programme has received much recognition internationally for its extensive coverage of over 98 percent. Most recently, its robust immunisation programme received accolade for its efficient and sustained vaccination coverage.

The programme has been a success since it commenced in the early 1970s and has resulted in the eradication of illnesses such as polio in 1962, yellow fever in 1968, measles in 1991 and whooping cough in 2000.

Success also hinges on the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) four and five which are aimed at reducing child mortality and improving maternal health, respectively.

and completed.

One of those projects, it said, was the new Sudan Airport, at a cost of US$100 million.

However, a check of the company’s website quoted a price of 900 million Pounds, or US$1.2 billion. This was the price that international news agencies reported on when the Sudan project was signed.

Political watchers are wondering why the company did not reveal the correct cost of the project when the advertisement served to clarify recent news reports about its activities.

The company is a subsidiary of China

Communications Construction Company (CCCC).

According to the company’s website, “The construction projects mainly include a breakwater project at the south side of the terminal, one berth for 50,000tonnage container ships as well as one 40,000-tonnage multi-purpose terminal, with a construction duration of three years.”

However, according to the African Aviation Tribune, “The airport’s construction was stopped owing to the Ministry of Finance’s concerns over the huge amount required; that of one billion, three hundred million

dollars.”

CHEC signed a secret deal with the former President Bharrat Jagdeo administration, a mere one month before he, Jagdeo, left office.

The project will be the biggest capital project in the country after the US$200M Skeldon factory, which was built by the Chinese and is still plagued by problems.

The Office of the President late Friday evening confirmed that the construction contract has been put on hold pending investigations regarding the fact that the company is one of those blacklisted by the World Bank.

“The media was informed that the Project execution construction work at the site awaited the conclusion of ongoing engagements of the Chinese authorities and those of the representatives of the stakeholders, Government of Guyana/ Ministry of Public Works and the Embassy of the Peoples’ Republic of China/the Chinese firm who are all engaged in an examination of the World Bank action against the firm,” the Office of the President stated.

However, the Office of the President noted that geotechnical investigative work for the project’s final design continues at the site.

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Sunday June 24, 2012

Months after relocation…

CJIA expansion dictates moving multi-million $$$ landing equipment A multi-million-dollar piece of equipment to help land planes at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, was only commissioned in February after being moved from another location, but it is likely to be relocated yet again if Government moves ahead with the US$150M expansion project for that area.

The localizer for the Instrument Landing System (ILS) is at the northern end of CJIA’s main runway, the same runway that government wants to extend by another 1,000 meters (3,000 feet). It is mere feet away from the northern end of the main runway where the Caribbean Airways flight lost control and broke into two back in July 2011.

It was only in February that the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), regulators of the country’s airspace, announced that the localizer was installed.

While no figures have been released for the cost of the equipment, earlier this year, during a celebration of GCAA’s decade long existence, Transport Minister,

Robeson Benn, said that over $1B was being spent to upgrade flight safety and operations at CJIA and Ogle.

According to one aviation official, the current location of the localizer is a clear indication that the US$150M CJIA expansion project may have been rushed through.

“I don’t believe a lot of thought went into this final plan we have here that was signed with the Chinese contractor. There were no consultations with the Guyanese community and the localizer is a blatant example of how the project was rushed through. This will be a waste of taxpayers’ money spent,” on Timehri resident said.

The localizer may not be the only casualty of the controversial CJIA expansion.

The Timehri Prisons is in the way also, being one of the closest of buildings to the runway. Last year, millions of dollars was spent on that facility. It is still unclear whether it will have to be removed.

Government has announced a halt to the

project, to facilitate a probe into allegations that Chinese company, China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), was involved in a string of incidents tied to corruption. But CHEC officials are already in the country and were gathering soil samples in areas where the runway is to be extended.

On Wednesday, Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, speaking with reporters, disclosed that local Chinese Embassy, CHEC and Minister of Transportation, Robeson Benn, are meeting to discuss the concerns that have been raised about that construction company.

CHEC is under fire in Jamaica for being awarded a major road and highway contract without any clear evidence of bidding taking place.

A senior port official in China was sentenced to death last year after being found guilty by a court there for taking bribes from CHEC. In Bangladesh, a son of a former Prime Minister was also sentenced to six years in absentia for laundering monies taken in bribes from the same company.

CHEC and its parent company, China Communications Construction Company Limited (CCCC), have also been barred by the World Bank from participating in any of its roads and bridges contracts until 2017.

CHEC and its parent company have also been barred by the World Bank from participating in any of its roads and bridges contracts until 2017.

The localizer for the Instrument Landing System (ILS) The fact that the CJIA deal was signed, secretly, in Jamaica last November, days before former President Bharrat Jagdeo was due to step down because of term limits, and the other revelations of corruptions, have raised serious questions about the project and added pressure for government to review the contract.

Recently, both Jagdeo and the Chinese Ambassador, Yu Wenzhe, said that they were not against a review of the project.

Government has said that the final cost of the CJIA expansion project could go upwards of US$150M, making it the second largest infrastructure project to date in Guyana, after the US$200M Skeldon sugar project.

Already, angry residents of Timehri North, a community of almost 1,800 residents have vowed not to move. They have received notices to remove. Some of them have

been living there for 40 years.

Many of them were born there. The one-month deadline to move ends this week. According to Daniel Fraser, Chairman of the Timehri (North) Community Development Council (TNCDC), a group formed to represent residents and businesses, they are examining legal action.

“We have remained silent until recently. But we want the Guyanese community to know about what is happening,” the official said during a meeting.

The soil testing work has seen over $7M in damage to the cash crop farms, residents said. “They want us to move.

We have light, water, telephone. We are not in the path of the runways. The Timehri prison is even closer to the runway. They spent millions of dollars on it last year. Nobody has told us about compensation,” another resident said.

There are over 30 shops in the community, three churches, a fire station, and living quarters for prison workers.

Several residents living in Timehri North work at the CJIA. Over 300 homes will have to be removed if CJIA goes ahead with its plans to relocate.

Residents are claiming that the lands do not belong to CJIA but to the state and the area even falls under a voting division with the Guyana Elections Commission.

Government, in its justification of the CJIA expansion, had said that it was targeting Africa and Asia for its markets.

The project will include a brand new, larger terminal building, a longer runway, CCTV, improved baggage handling capacity and safety features, loading bridges and other amenities.

Sunday June 24, 2012

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Mother in fear as abusive husband remains on the run - Repeatedly raped in front of toddler son A young mother of one said that she is living in fear as her reputed husband of six years remains bent of beating her despite dozens of reports to the police.

Nandine Narine, 23, a mother of one said that she has been suffering six years of violent beatings at the hands of her reputed husband, Rafeek Saffee.

As a result of the beatings, Narine said that she suffered two still births and had to be rushed to the hospital on several occasions.

What is more disturbing, Narine said, is the fact that she has been making constant reports at the Ruimveldt Police Station but nothing has ever been done.

“Every time he beat me and I go to the station, by the time I reach home he deh behind me and is another beating and he parents does live right next door. If they see he beating me they don’t say nothing.”

Because of the constant abuse the woman said she was forced to flee her home with her four- year-old son.

“I never left he before because me son like he bad and at the end of the day is he father and he would always promise to stop but he don’t ever.”

According to Narine, her

last straw was a few weeks back when she decided to leave her home with her son.

“I couldn’t tek it no more and I talk to me boss lady and she offer me a room fuh me and meh son.

I went again to the police and the welfare and they advise me to go to legal aid to get a restraining order but still them ain’t charge he.”

Narine said that her reputed husband kept her prisoner for years as he stopped her from seeing her relatives.

“When he beat me, if I go to bathe he got to come and stand up and watch me; if I want go toilet he behind me when I go to work he does come and sit at me work place whole night”.

Even after Narine moved out, she said that her reputed husband continued to show up at her work place although her employers had banned him from the place.

“He still would come and when he find me beat me up.”

Narine said her nightmares and beatings were not over as two weeks ago her reputed husband sneaked into her work place and began making demands.

“He come and again he start beating me and he go in my bag and tek away $20,000 and my boss lady tell me go

to the station.”

A report was made at the Brickdam Police Station about the theft and the beating. However, only last Wednesday Saffee was arrested and taken to court.

The woman related that having realized that Saffee would be charged she felt a bit of relief knowing that he may have been locked up.

“Friday morning the case call but when the Magistrate call fuh he, he didn’t come to court yet.

Later in the day police bring he in handcuff”.

Unfortunately when the matter was called again the Magistrate merely fixed another date for the matter to be called.

“I honestly think he was still in the lock ups because he left court in the police vehicle and with handcuff but I was wrong.”

Narine said that around 23:00 hours on Friday night she had just put her son to sleep and came out of the room to tend to some other business when she noticed a shadow at her room door.

To her surprise it was her reputed husband.

“He drag me in the room with my son and he had a knife and he start slapping me up and I ask he wha he doing here and he say once

I got money I can’t get lock up.”

His entry to the building was recorded on surveillance cameras.

According to Narine, Saffee then shut the room door and kept beating her asking her to drop the court matter.

The woman said that fearing for her life she agreed to drop the court matter but that was not all her reputed husband wanted.

“He tell me tek off me clothes and I tell he no and he start beating me again and by then me son wake up and he just beat me and tek off me clothes and in front me son he rape me. I deh hollering all the time but nobody ain’t come to help.”

Amidst tears, Narine related that her son was forced to watch the entire ordeal as she was raped and sodomized.

“When I finish I go and bathe and he start cussing.

‘Oh you bathing; you got a next man coming over.’”

The woman further related that she sat the entire night crying and pleading with her reputed husband to leave but he refused.

“Is till like five in the morning he go away and I never see he back and I went to the police again and mek a report but the police didn’t

want tek me report and so I go to the Police Complaints Authority.”

Up to press time yesterday the woman said she was merely told that investigations are ongoing.

These events have now left many questions in

Narine’s mind about her safety and the duty of the Guyana Police Force to serve and protect.

The woman said the system has failed her and now that her estranged partner is on the loose she is afraid of what he may do next.

Jagdeo and Ramroop...

From page 3 not inclined to respond to the falsehoods in Guyana Times because, as he put it, the newspaper is insignificant. He said that the newspaper was hoping that Lall would sue, or respond, thus helping it to get some recognition and boost its circulation.

Guyana Times has been repeating the same story without change almost every day.

Mr. Lall said that that was the main reason for him totally ignoring the paper. He said that he learnt that tactic from the late David de Caires of Stabroek News.

He said that he will never sue Guyana Times, nor will he respond to the newspaper again.

He stressed that the

wholesale corruption in Guyana under Jagdeo that is being exposed is attracting the publication.

Mr. Lall said that he and Kaieteur News have only now started to expose the corruption and nothing that Jagdeo or Ramroop with their Guyana Times do, will stop him.

“I have evidence to show that they are not only among the richest in the region, but that they have already set up to own and control the bulk of Guyana.

The Guyanese nation must know what played out under that man (Jagdeo)’s rule.

The things they have done to the people of this country are what you would associate with selfishness, wickedness and greed.”

A mini health check is the first step to donating blood

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ImmigrationTALK Elderly man left to suffer on busy N/A Road Traveling Under Advance Parole may not lead to Inadmissibility

By Attorney Gail S. Seeram

The elderly citizen lying in an unconscious state in the middle of the busy Strand Road yesterday.

Nearly after an hour being on the road, a good Samaritan finally moves the man to safety and out of the hot sun.

A senior citizen collapsed on the Strand Public Road some time after 10:00 hrs yesterday, in front of the Bank of Nova Scotia and in the busy New Amsterdam Market/ Strand shopping area.

Vehicle after vehicle passed by as did shopper after shopper and nobody lifted a finger to get the man off the road.

Interestingly, too, a traffic rank (in photo) was less than fifty metres away from where the man was lying in an unconscious state.

The rank stood at the corner of the road and pretended to see nothing unusual, even though drivers and cyclists had to maneuver around the man to avoid running over him.

Kaieteur News was informed that the man was lying in the hot sun on the hot road for nearly an hour, before a good Samaritan who was waiting in a line to use the Scotia Bank ATM machine volunteered to move him on to the pavement and away from the hot sun.

From all indications, after the man was removed by the good Samaritan from the roadway, he was left there on the bank pavement.

The guard at the bank then questioned why the man was placed there since he was in the way of persons and vehicles that may turn up to use the 24- hour- deposit facility at the bank.

Under U.S. Immigration laws, individuals who depart the United States after having lived there without lawful status for one year or more are barred from returning for 10 years. The “10-year bar” is a statutory penalty for having accrued one year or more of unlawful presence in the U.S. The bar is triggered upon departure from the U.S. If an individual with a 10year bar seeks to return to the U.S., before remaining outside the U.S. for 10 years, then that person must file a waiver in order to be lawfully admitted into the U.S. Individuals who depart the United States while their application for adjustment of status is pending incur an additional problem.

Normally, when one leaves t h e U .S. while one’s adjustment of status application is pending, that application is considered a b a n d o n e d . To avoid abandoning the application, the applicant must apply for and obtain advance parole prior to leaving the US. Noncitizens who had one year or more of unlawful presence in the U.S. but had received advance parole from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reasonably believed that they would be readmitted into the U.S. upon their return without having incurred a 10-year bar.

Unfortunately, USCIS did not agree.

USCIS had taken the position that a person who

obtains advance parole and returns lawfully is subject to the 10-year bar. The position was based on the conclusion that the person “departed” the U.S. However, recently, that position has been overturned by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) in the case, Matter of Arrabally.

This important decision by the BIA, in essence, established the following conditions under which certain noncitizens who are not legal permanent residents could travel abroad, while awaiting adjudication of their adjustment of status application in a situation in which they would have been otherwise inadmissible as legally barred from being admitted into this country.

To travel, such an individual needs (1) to have his or her bona fide adjustment of status application pending before the USCIS; (2) be otherwise not inadmissible or have a prima facie eligibility for a waiver of such inadmissibility; (3) to have been granted advance parole by the USCIS; (4) travel abroad temporarily; (5) be returning to the USA in order to continue pursuing this very application for adjustment of status.

If all of these conditions are met, such individuals, the BIA held, do not make a “departure” from the USA for purposes of triggering the overstay bars.

This is a significant victory for individuals who need to travel during the pendency of their adjustment of status application. Matter of Arrabally is also a significant victory for those who have previously been denied adjustment based on their ineligibility for an unlawful presence waiver

Gail S. Seeram after departure under advance parole. These individuals may now have grounds to reopen their adjustment of status application, pursuant to new case law.

The Board of Immigration Appeals cautioned that the decision did not protect an applicant of other grounds of inadmissibility. Applicants who are subject to inadmissibility for prior criminal convictions or misrepresentations will still need to obtain waivers in order to obtain their green cards.

Moreover, if for any reason, the pending application for adjustment of status is denied, the applicant could be placed into removal proceedings as an “arriving alien,” which could significantly affect their eligibility for relief.

Leaving the United States, where one has accrued unlawful presence is a very intricate issue. Many different factors play a part in determining whether a bar is in effect, and if so, if any relief is available from that bar.

Therefore, it is imperative to consult an experienced and knowledgeable immigration attorney before leaving the country to find out the risks of departure and the possibility of return.

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One dead, several injured in Mabura head on collision

Leroy Floyd Trevor Trotz

Driver of the minbus Ephraim Parris

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ne person is dead and several others rushed to the Linden Hospital Complex for emergency medical attention yesterday after an early morning accident between minibus BMM 7746 and pickup GMM 5690l at 58 Miles Mabura Road. Nine persons were reportedly in the minibus, while the pickup had two.

The minibus was on its way to Linden from Mabura, while the pickup was heading in the opposite direction, about 5:30 am when the accident occurred, reports indicated.

According to the reports the vehicles collided after the minibus 'veered' into the lane of the pickup.

Those in the minibus feared the worst, as the driver Ephraim Parris and two passengers, Leroy Floyd and Trevor Trotz, sustained severe head and other injuries.

The three men were transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital, after being 'stabilized' at the Linden Hospital.

Other persons in the minibus who also sustained injuries were Michael Giles,

Ezzard Anthony, Anthony Harris and La Toya Blakes a n d h e r b a b y, w h o miraculously escaped unscathed.

Most of the passengers in the minibus said that they were asleep, when the accident occurred.

Driver of the pickup, Elton Newton, and his p o r t e r, J a m a l P a r r i s , sustained minor injuries and were treated at the Linden Hospital.

As news of the accident spread relatives and friends of the injured raced to the hospital. Tempers flared and there was much drama and delay at the hospital, as one of the patients slated for transfer was twice taken off both the ambulance and the hospital bus and returned to the emergency unit.

It apparently became evident to staffers tasked with loading the ambulance and the bus that the two vehicles could not transport two men simultaneously.

In both instances the patient Leroy Floyd, could not be accommodated alongside the other two patients, Ephraim Parris and Trevor Trotz as both men were of ‘ample proportions.’ Police are investigating.

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Meet the lovely Vanessa Singh of East Coast Demerara; she loves cricket and all the new experiences that life offers as each day unfolds. Her belief is that success is a journey and not a destination while she advises young women to do their best and God will do the rest.

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Preaching God's message to all corners, Winston Campbell is a 'Special Person'

By Leon Suseran

W

e feature different kinds of people each week in this column and each and every one of them has their distinct special qualities. Our 'Special Person' this week has a flare for preaching the word of God; he is well respected and well- known around the religious circles in Guyana since he has travelled the length and breadth of this beautiful country, delivering his power- packed sermons and messages.

He gave up his job at the Rose Hall Estate after being 'called' to deliver divine messages. He left what he was doing to become a preacher whose skills would be perfected in the years to follow and whose life would never be the same again. At one time, he wanted to call it quits, but prayers are said to be powerful and prayers helped him to stay on through the narrow road.

Winston Edward Campbell was born on 25 November, 1929 to housewife, Arata Rebecca Campbell and farmer and labourer, William Bert Campbell at Gibraltar, Corentyne.

Sadly, when he was six years old, his mother passed away, leaving his father to shoulder much of the responsibilities in the home.

Winston was one of six

children in the home.

“I grew without a mother; I grew a little with my grandmother, a little with my stepmother and then myself.”

Losing his mom at quite a young age left young Winston to deal with the tragedy and it only sank into his head-- young as he was-that she was indeed gone a few days after she was buried.

“She was a very slim person- a little brown skin, very quiet,” he recalled.

“When she died, I was not sad or so at first, until after a day or two when I really, you know, missed a mother...then it took effect in me.”

As a young 'country boy', he recalled working in the farms with his grandmother and cousin.

Afterwards, his father took ill and “I had to take the responsibility to maintain the entire family and got my sisters married. I remained with my father.”

After his mother's death, his elder brother left home and went away and so, young Winston had to take up several responsibilities such as working in the rice fields.

For 36 cents a day he worked on the maintenance of the old Corentyne brick road at age 14 years. He then left and went to work at the Rose Hall Estate with one of the

“I have ministered to the family and they have come back together, living together and made great progress too,” He noted that the family pulled through during the tough times because “two years after her death, he [my father] got married and then he left home and was living at Bramsfield, working with Bookers' Estate as a Ranch Manager and we were back h o m e w i t h m y grandmother.”

Winston attended St. Columbia Scott's School in Canje up to Form four.

He left school at the age of 13 years due to having to care for his sisters and he took up fishing. He had no other choice, he added.

Overseers as House Messenger Boy after which he worked in the fields, loading punts until 1969.

Afterwards, he became a contractor with the road project until he got married to Stella Amanda Thomas at age 18 on September 22, 1952. The union bore 12 children. However, one died in a truck accident at age 12 while another was stillborn.

On July 25, 2002 Winston left his job thereafter to become a preacher.

And that began a new chapter of his life. He had already “accepted the Lord

as my Saviour in 1962.”

In explaining how he made the huge leap of faith, Campbell recalled that his wife was very sick and he was spending all his money to get her better. “I had to stop plant rice, because I ran out of finance and then a preacher came up here, a missionary, Harry Dass, with another fella, Dennis Elliman, and they were stopping not too far from where I was living.”

At first he was very hesitant to attend their services even though he had been invited. Although he attended the local village Anglican Church, Campbell was never the regular churchgoer.

He sent his wife, though, to the missionaries' church, “and she would come back and tell me what they would preach and what they would do; praying for people who were sick and so. She was prayed for and she felt the pain in her back disappear, so she invited me.”

He did go, out of curiosity, and he continued to attend. After praying and communicating deeply with the Divine Being, and going back home one night, he kept feeling the need to return for more and “I started to feel free in my spirit and I started to pray and praise God and felt nice.”

He was approached by the missionaries to become a preacher and that he did, after quitting the job he had.

He later acquired a land and a church was built, the Christian Global Network at Number 1 Road Corentyne.

“I continued the ministry unto this day and I think until I die...” He recalled how many lives he has touched over the years.

He would meet persons from all over, especially overseas, and they would remind him about the exciting crusades “and you prayed for me and I was healed”.

“God has been using me to work miracles, great signs and wonders. Many broken homes, I have ministered to

Brother Winston Campbell the family and they have come back together, living together and made great progress too,” he added.

Brother Campbell, as he is famously called by the people in his community, is nationally known. He had preached at Siparuta along the Corentyne River, North West District, Sand Hills, Kwakwani, even Suriname Trinidad, Canada, Venezuela and USA. And when asked how he prepares his powerful messages....he said “prayer is the key”.

“Sometimes, you sit down and prepare your message-- but sometimes when you go to preach-- the Holy Spirit guides you and may not allow you to preach the message I prepared.”

He added that every area in which he has gone to preach “has different needs and the only person that knows the needs of the people of that community is God and he knows what message the man of God must preach.”

When reminded about the confusion that seems to exist around the world today and the societal breakdown and what effect the preaching of so many religious leaders have had on this, Bro Winston noted that all are results of “the last days which are upon us.”

“The preaching is reaching the people ...but in the last days, iniquity and wickedness will abound more and more, but the grace

of God will abound too.”

Campbell does not get discouraged as a preacher in that regard. “I can't get discouraged because the word [of God] has taught me that many will follow the broad road.”

Recalling challenges and difficulties he has had over the years, he spoke about falling sick and of deteriorating health.

Traveling across the length and breadth of Guyana and in other countries, preaching and doing what he loves, can from time to time make him ignore his health “and God may be trying you to see where you are going to put your faith.

When the sickness comes, you have to run to a doctor and this man and that man, but you have to put your faith and trust in God that he will heal you.” “Take him at his word, he will not fail you...maybe not today, not tomorrow, not next year but he wants to see how you are going to react [with illness].”

Brother Campbell feels a great amount of satisfaction in doing what he does. “I feel happy.”

Had he not become a preacher, he noted, he would have remained working in the estate “but I would have died too, because what was in my mind and what I wanted to achieve, I wasn't your ordinary guy...I always had in my mind that I wanted to be independent and (continued on page 47)

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MARKING TIME FOR THE THIRD TIME I

n 1953 after a united People's Progressive Party swept the polls in the first election held under adult suffrage in Guyana, Britain at the instigation of the sugar barons suspended the country's constitution and sent troops to ensure order and stability.

The hopes of the working class were dashed, as many of its leaders were placed under detention and the movement of others restricted. For four years, the country would mark time.

In 1985, the PNC woke up to the realization that it did not know what it was doing. All the billions that it had obtained in foreign loans and grants had come to nothing.

It ended up governing an economy that was no longer creditworthy and unable to pay the debts that would have secured a financial lifeline.

For four years between 1985 and 1989, the country was to mark time again.

During this period the economy decelerated even further and living and working conditions became more deplorable and humiliating, especially for the workers.

The damage done to the country's economy during those periods of marking time was irreversible. Apart from the fact that very little could have been achieved economically, these periods had a devastating effect on the psyche of the Guyanese people with many, including droves in the business class, abandoning their homeland and moving their assets out of the country.

I n t e r e s t i n g l y, b o t h periods of marking time occurred just as the world economy was undergoing recovery and preceded extended spurts of prosperity. In 1953, one of the longest periods of global economic growth was just commencing following the Second World War. In 1985, there were problems in developed economies in both Europe and the United States, but that year was also a turning point which saw the intensification of the globalization of the world economy and an increase in foreign direct investment in the latter half of the 1980s.

Guyana lost out on both of these waves because instead of positioning itself to ride the future global crests, it was stuck domestically marking time.

Fast forward to today.

While the global financial

crisis seems to be entering a new phase, the entire world is not catching the flu. The success of emerging economies, in particular Brazil, India and China, provides evidence that even amidst the financial turbulence that is sweeping many rich countries, that there are opportunities for developing countries to achieve greater levels of economic growth and development.

Guyana's prospects looked very good at the start of this year, considering the direction the economy was taking and the fact that Guyana could easily tap into the growth being achieved

by China, India and Brazil, as well as the rise in commodity prices.

Guyana was in fact in an ideal position. The debt problem was no longer a hindrance and both China and India are interested in Guyana's resources while Brazil represents a large market for our goods. Gold prices hit new highs; export prices for rice were favourable and there was increased foreign investment lined up, particularly in the natural resource sector.

Guyana was enjoying its best years economically, but politically, the failure of the government to gain a m a j o r i t y a t t h e 2 0 11 elections placed the country's future at risk.

It need not have been that w a y. I n s t e a d o f t h e opposition recognizing the timeliness of their achievements and the need to ensure that Guyana capitalized on its present economic position, it has been content to flex its political muscle and thereby has pushed the country inevitably now towards another period of marking time.

The situation in the National Assembly d e m a n d e d a d i ff e r e n t approach by the opposition.

It required them to work together rather than against the government. They have failed to do this.

The opposition is all out to try to get back at the government. Their politics is not about creating anything.

Instead of boosting investment, they have sent a terrible signal to the international community and to international investors by cutting important projects which were being financed under the Low Carbon Development Strategy.

Already the damage has been done, with the consortium which is putting together the deal for the financial closure of the Amalia Falls Hydroelectric Station indicating that financial closure has been delayed. There is now not likely to be financial closure, because which investor is going to put monies into a project which will take years and which can be hijacked by the opposition majority in the National Assembly?

But that is only part of the danger. The opposition is not achieving any progress for the country by its antics in parliament. In fact, if you examine the record of the opposition so far, nothing has been achieved in the National Assembly.

The mood in there is tempestuous. The opposition's parliamentary agenda has been destructive.

Nothing has been achieved in parliament. Nothing has been achieved through the Budget cuts; nothing has been achieved by not approving the re-submitted financial paper for 2011.

Absolutely nothing!

All these things have done is to sour relations between the govenrment and the opposition, and once relations are sour, the country cannot move forward given the make-up of the National Assembly.

More has been achieved outside of the public glare

through the tripartite process than what has been achieved by the opposition in parliament. The tripartite process has yielded cooperation which has brought some benefits.

However, the tripartite is now bound to be blanketed with mistrust, because of what the opposition is attempting to do in the National Assembly. They are abandoning their role as an opposition and are taking steps to stockpile motions.

This is all part of a scheme to run the country from the

legislative branch.

Instead of sitting with the government and developing a common plan upon which there can be cooperation, the opposition is sniping away at the government policies on one hand and on the other hand they are attempting to run the country from the opposition benches through motions. Instead of cooperation, what we have is pulling and tugging. This approach will only aggravate relations between the opposition and the government - in the long run

leading to further gridlock and a reversal of the economic fortunes of the country.

Politically Guyana is headed towards a stalemate, and perhaps more dangerously, to four years of marking time.

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SUNDAY SPECIAL SHOT PEST CONTROL PLUS OWNER SUCCUMBS Pest Control Plus owner Mohamed Baksh succumbed last week Saturday (June 16) to gunshot injuries he sustained during an execution-style attack the previous night.

Police immediately sought to locate a city businessman with whom the 42-year-old Baksh had a prolonged dispute.

Pest Control Plus owner Mohamed Baksh

Baksh, 42, passed away around 11:00 hrs in the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.

Police sources said that he was shot twice in the head at close range with a 9mm pistol.

A 9mm bullet casing was recovered at the scene.

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leading to protests by both GINA and NCN. Along with this startling disclosure, there were also questions about the operations of NCN after a number of complaints reached the board that cameramen and other production crew of that state-owned agency were not paid for work done in last year’s highly successful GT&T Jingle and Song Competition.

The board had started an investigation into reports of suspicious payments and three Fridays ago sent home the Programme Manager, Martin Goolsarran.

Goolsarran was required to submit a report of his involvement in the competition and he admitted received cheques totaling $3.9M which were paid to him personally.

He also admitted depositing them into his personal bank account and making withdrawals to pay to HJTV. Goolsaran reportedly said that between September and December 2011, NCN committed to record and broadcast the show which was being held in various parts of the country.

However, NCN later determined it could not handle the job and decided to hire Hits and Jams Television (HJTV) to do the production.

Goolsaran claimed that the NCN’s CEO, Mohamed Sattaur, was fully aware of the deal and even approved it.

MONDAYEDITION

SEVERAL QUESTIONED, SPECIALAUDIT UNDERWAYAT NCN

AFC PRAISES RALPH RAMKARRAN’S TOUGH STANCE ON CORRUPTION

A special audit has been ordered by the state-owned National Communications Network (NCN) Board of Directors, following testimonies from several persons earlier this week.

According to officials, a special auditor is focusing on several documentations as these relate to payments from the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) Jingle and Song Competition.

The probe was triggered earlier this year by claims from NCN’s Chief Executive Officer, Mohamed Sattaur that the entity raked in more than $500M in revenues last year.

The disclosures were made during debates in Parliament over an $80M subsidy to NCN

by Government.

An upset opposition had accused NCN and the Government Information Agency (GINA) of a reporting bias in favour of the government. The $80M subsidy was reduced to $1,

Alliance For Change (AFC) Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan is calling on the leaders in the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) to take a page out of the book of former Speaker of the National Assembly, Ralph Ramkarran and publicly condemn the scourge of corruption in society.

Ramjattan was referring to an article published in the Mirror Newspaper last week, where Ramkarran called corruption “a tax on development, and retards growth and development by a significant degree.”

“I am so happy that Ramkarran is coming now, that he has seen corruption on all the levels…I would like to see more PPP leaders who know exactly what is transpiring to be honest with themselves to come out as openly as he has done.

There are many of them that I speak to, but they only want to tell me that privately,”

Ramjattan said.

Ramjattan reminded that he paid the penalty for being outspoken in the PPP and this led to his destiny within the AFC, and as such “Ramkarran should be commended since he is above being disciplined…because he has reached that threshold where nobody can tell him anything and the party should take charge in transparency and accountability.”

The Senior Counsel and former Speaker of the National Assembly posits that Guyana has not been able to contain corruption, and suggests that its existence cannot be denied.

Ramkarran stated in his article that while instances of corruption are known to m a n y, d i s c l o s u r e o f evidence is a major problem…”victims of corruption do not wish the circumstances or their names to be revealed because they fear victimization in their continuing lawful activities.”

He noted that President Donald Ramotar needs to articulate new, more advanced and comprehensive legislative and administrative programmes in a timely manner which would strengthen transparency and accountability.

He warns that the Government ought not to wait for more accusations from the Opposition or more allegations in the press.

Ramkarran stated that Government should immediately initiate discussions with one or more international agencies to seek

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NCN’s Chief Executive Officer, Mohamed Sattaur (R) and Programme Manager, Martin Goolsarran out assistance in dealing with corruption.

TUESDAYEDITION DEPLORABLE ROAD CONDITION SPARKS PROTEST IN LINDEN Nurses and auxiliary staff of the Linden Hospital Complex, downed tools on Monday for several hours and formed a human barricade to block traffic along Casaurina Drive, to protest the deplorable condition of the road.

“Enough is enough,” many of them shouted. They collectively vowed to continue the protest until, ‘something is done’.

“This is the state of the art hospital, but look at the road we have to use to get to work.

You know how many pairs of shoes we break up just by

trudging through this slush; and the thing is, some taxis dropping you off in front the old hospital and we got to walk through it with we white shoes. This is totally unacceptable,” one nurse complained.

“We’re sick and tired of this road, and we will continue to do this (protest) until this road is done to our satisfaction,” another declared.

It was pointed out that persons visiting the hospital often fall ‘into the mess’, with the latest incidents occurring Monday.

Casaurina Drive is one of the main thoroughfares in Mackenzie, Linden, which apart from being the access road to the hospital, also connects Linden to remote communities like Coomacka, Kwakwani and Ituni.

There have been numerous complaints about

the state of the road for several years now, but apart from promises, nothing tangible has been done to rectify the situation. In the meanwhile the road continues to deteriorate. Residents are convinced that the “big trucks” traversing the road, are responsible for its continued deterioration.

WEDNESDAYEDITION CHINESE CONTRACTOR SAYS…BANNED FROM ROADS, BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION, NOT AIRPORT PROJECT The Chinese contractor of the US$150M Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion says that while it is banned from participating in roads and bridge projects by the World Bank, there is nothing stopping it from being Continued on page 37

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The Sage of Buxton and the PNC’s Apology Mr Eusi Kwayana is a remarkable Guyanese. I used to refer to him as “Elder Kwayana” out of respect – until he took offence.

He first came to my consciousness in the early sixties in the newspapers.

As a country boy on a sugar estate, we didn’t buy newspapers.

I would hang around the ‘barber tent’ that was set up on Sundays in front of the village and sneak a read when the adults were finished.

The enduring image I have from that era is of him sitting on a chair (or stool?) in front of a government building fasting or protesting for ‘his’ people.

He had a shawl or cover over his legs. As one gets older there is the tendency to reify and even embellish old

There is no end to the madness on the roads and as the population moves further inland there are people who would take the madness with them.

The hinterland roads are going to be dangerous largely because of the unfinished surface and because of the rainy conditions coupled with speeding.

There will be a serious accident within hours and there would be injuries.

The regional hospitals would be hard pressed to cope so it is more pressure on the major hospital. ****

images: one of these days I have to hit the archives to find out if the image is real.

But what is real for me is his reputation during the ethnic riots of the sixties as the ‘warlord of Buxton”, who was more ‘hardline’ than Burnham. More recently, he explained he was actually the ‘defender’ of Buxton.

I met Mr Kwayana in the flesh finally in the early eighties in New York when he addressed a Guyanese political pressure group of which I was a member.

I remember being taken aback by his soft voice along with his modest and almost self-effacing demeanour. This clashed with the mental picture I had of him from childhood.

On my return to Guyana from 1988, I became a frequent

visitor to Rodney House and Mr Kwayana was unfailingly accessible and helpful.

Even though during the 1992 elections I took what Dr Clive Thomas called a “PPP line” which clashed with the WPA’s, when we were both selected to be on the Race Relations Board during 199495, Mr Kwayana retained his characteristic equanimity towards me.

In fact during that time, I found we had a great deal in common on the approach towards better ‘race relations’ in Guyana.

The Board fell apart because the PNC objected to the appointment of Bishop Randolph George as Chairman.

Mr Kwayana was of the view that Dr. Jagan and the PPP should allow the Board

There would be a spate of serious clashes in various parts of the country. In the coming days the police would be pressed to deal with incidences of stabbing.

These days, because of the position of the moon, some people, are going to be influenced.

There is also going to be a serious gunpoint robbery in the eastern part of the country. He victims would not realize that their attackers are the very people commissioned to protect them. **** There will be another boating accident in the western part of the country.

Again a failure to heed the rules of the river will play an import part.

With the water being high people are going to go to extremes in seeking the shortest distance to travel.

This is what will cause the accident.

to function even in the face of PNC’s disapproval.

On a personal note, I recollect that Mr Kwayana suggested that I should take the six-month qualification exam at Hugh Wooding to extend my New York attorney status so that I could hand my shingle in Guyana. He was, and remains, the only politician to make a suggestion that would ‘improve my access” to the local movers and shakers – as he put it.

He was that kind of person, always personally kind and considerate.

In the public sphere, I have had occasion to differ with Mr Kwayana – strenuously on occasions – but this has never dimmed my respect for what I once called “his fidelity to his cause.”

Recently Mr Kwayana raised quite a few eyebrows – including mine - when, in the penumbra of the anniversary of the assassination of Dr Walter Rodney he responded to the PNC’s call for ‘a more inclusive political culture”.

He dourly predicted that PM Sam Hinds would be responding with a call for the PNC to ‘apologise”.

Mr Kwayana then made a statement – which he vouched was his and his alone: “I would only state that the PNC in 1992 conceded a fair election and a fair count and paid the political price.

That was more than a verbal apology.” I have spent the past few weeks intermittently reflecting on Mr Kwayana’s amazing absolution to the PNC. What troubled me was

the rationale that was transmuted into an ‘apology’: specifically the notion of the ‘political price’.

The PNC paid a ‘political price’ when it observed the democratic norms of ‘oneman, one vote’?

What is the currency by which this price was paid?

To forego remaining illegally in office as advised at the time by Hamilton Green?

But that counterfeit political currency had been rejected by the US - the PNC’s sponsor for the previous (in) famous 28 years.

The Russian Bear had been defanged and Jagan was not such a bugbear any longer. Carter had told Hoyte in no uncertain terms the PNC cheque had bounced.

I am interested in Mr Kwayana’s reasoning in granting absolution to the PNC. Over the past five years or so, I had been pushing the

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notion that for Guyana’s politics to regain an even keel, the PNC had to be treated as a ‘normal’ party and not as some sort of pariah.

For this reason I argued against it going along the ‘street protest path’ and welcomed the formation of APNU. I had encouraged the AFC to join in APNU in furtherance of that process of ‘normalisation”.

But, like Raphael Trotman, I’d always assumed the PNC had to first apologise to the Guyanese people. Do we really have to count the ways as to why?

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Sunday June 24, 2012

The girl in the pleated pink skirt

By Michael Jordan He was a former friend of mine. He may also have killed a young girl over 30 years ago.

And I might have known for sure—maybe even have helped put him away, if I had kept my ears open.

You see, as a boy, my dream was not to be a crime reporter but an investigator of crime. I read magazines like True Detective. I learned the various fingerprints. I got my hands on old books about famous pathologists and their cases.

Back then, I was living at my parents’ home in Latchmansingh Street, Tucville. Back then, we had a tennis table and a sort of club, and boys from all the neighbouring communities would gang up at our home for a game.

One of the occasional visitors was a stocky, affable youth whom we all called ‘Fat Man.’ He was in his midtwenties and also lived in South Tucville, in close proximity to a pretty, 14-yearold girl named Ann Stewart.

At that time I didn’t know her name. I just knew that occasionally I would see this tallish girl who always seemed to be smiling, and who was always dressed in neatly pleated pink uniforms when I went to follow my little sister to catch her bus to school.

Then on Thursday, December 8, 1976, all that changed.

At around 7:30 A.M., Ann caught an East La Penitence bus that took her to Alleyne’s High School in Regent Street.

She returned to her parents’ South Tucville home at around 3.30 P.M, and, dressed now in white blouse and matching mini-skirt, headed for basketball practice at the Parade Ground in preparation for a league competition.

Ann was a member of the Bristol Celtics and her basketball sessions usually ended late in the evening.

This had caused her mother, Stella Knights, some concern, but Mrs. Knights had eventually consented to allowing Ann to have her way, after friends and relatives persuaded her that she was being over-protective.

Ann’s neighbours usually knew when she was passing by the sound of her bouncing her basketball on the roadway.

But when 9 P.M. came and Ann had still not arrived home, her parents began to suspect that something was amiss.

After checking at relatives and friends, the parents went to the Ruimveldt Police Station to report her missing.

They also visited the Georgetown Hospital to see if she had been admitted there.

The teen was still missing next day when, at around 8.00 A.M., Stella Knights, on her way to the police station, spotted a crowd of schoolchildren standing near an alleyway about 100 yards from her home.

She was so consumed by her own troubles that she thought nothing of it. But when she was returning from the station, the children were still there. This time, she went to look and saw something that made her faint.

In the alleyway, propped up against a fence, was her daughter Ann. She was fully dressed, except for her underwear, which lay about three feet away. She was still wearing a pair of gold earrings and a ring.

Ann Stewart had died violently.

Someone had bitten her just below the left eye. There were bruises on the left side

of her chin. A postmortem would later reveal that someone had broken her neck.

The story of Ann’s murder, written by a reporter named Albert Alstrom, was on the front page of the evening paper called The Citizen. It was accompanied by the photograph that still sticks in my memory; that aroused no outrage back then, as it would have now. There was the dead Ann Stewart in the alleyway, with her head tilted at a strange angle.

From the boys who gathered under our house to play table tennis, I heard rumours that Ann had been walking with her boyfriend , who also lived in Tucville, when a gang of youths attacked them. The boyfriend reportedly fled, leaving Ann to the mercy of the young men.

A few days later, detectives rounded up several young men from Tucville and the neighbouring communities of Stevedore Housing Scheme, Meadowbrook and Festival City. One of the prime suspects was ‘Fat Man’, the guy who sometimes played table tennis at my home.

I learnt that the police believed that ‘Fat man’ had killed Ann Stewart. The word back then was that he had broken her neck with a karate chop. Adding to the sense of tragedy were rumours that Ann’s stepfather, a joiner, had made her casket.

‘Fat Man’ was never charged, but he never again played table tennis with us.

Overnight, it seemed, he became a sullen young man. I would occasionally see him sitting alone, with a scowl on his face, on the bridge separating Tucville and South Ruimveldt.

I never spoke to him. In fact, I hardly spoke of the case. I believe that part of me was in denial that it had happened. So here I was, this youth who sometimes fantasized about being a detective, surrounded by friends who seemed to know

so much about how Ann Stewart had died. Later on, I even worked at the same place with Ann Stewart’s boyfriend. But yet, I never asked him if he knew who had killed his girlfriend.

Time passed, we all grew up; but the case continued to haunt me. Years later, I became a crime reporter, and I again turned my attention to the Ann Stewart murder. I began by enquiring about her parents, only to learn that they had migrated.

And it seemed that most of the Tucville residents who had information about the murder had either dead or were living overseas.

I was surprised to discover that the few who remembered were still apprehensive about speaking about the case, since Ann’s killed had never been caught.

One old resident even cautioned me about awakening a ‘sleeping murder.’

Fortunately, I managed to contact two of Ann’s relatives. They managed to fill me in on her movements on the day she was slain.

I also re-read the story that I had seen so many years ago in en evening paper called The Citizen.

The photograph of Ann propped up in the alleyway was not as large as I had imagined it to be back then.

Yet, as before, that picture with the dead girl in the alleyway caused my stomach to churn.

I also tracked down Ann’s coach. He told me that on the day of Ann’s death, she had turned up at the Parade Ground, but then complained of having a sprained ankle. He recalled that she then walked off the ground and left in the company of a young man who was waiting for her.

One of the detectives who had worked on the case said that the boyfriend admitted leaving the ground with Ann. But he said she was still alive when they parted company. The detective also explained why they had zeroed in on ‘Fat Man’ as the prime suspect.

At the time, ‘Fat Man’ had lived a few houses away from Ann. The alleyway where the (Continued on page 38)

SEEKING HELP TO LOCATE RELATIVES OF EIGHT CHILDREN KILLED BETWEEN 1969-1970 Michael Jordan is trying to contact relatives of eight children who were murdered between March 20, 1969 and June 1970, by Harrynauth Beharry, also known as Harry Rambarran, Charles Bissoon, Charles Pereira, Anant Persaud and Maka Anan.

Some of the victims are Basmattie, an eight-year-old schoolgirl from Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara. David Bacchus, 15, of Tucville, 11-year-old Mohamed Fazil Nasir, of Number 78 Village, Corentyne, Mohamed Faizal, of Crabwood Creek, Corentyne, Jagdeo Jagroop, Mohamed Nizam Ali; Paulton of Hogg Island, Essequibo; Orlando Guthrie, of Grove Village, East Bank Demerara.

Please contact him via his email address mjdragon@hotmail.com., or on telephone numbers 22-58458, 22-58465, or 22-58491. HeI can also be contacted on 6452447.

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== THE FREDDIE KISSOON COLUMN ==

Usain Bolt, his white girl friend, Black Guyana and Freud Many of the theories of Sigmund Freud have been under attack as early as the beginning of Freud’s birth of psychoanalysis.

In fact, as early as that time, Freud’s student, Carl Jung, began to question some of the sexual bases for some of Freud’s discoveries (see the recent film “A Dangerous Method” that explains the antagonism between the two great philosophers starring Keira Knightly) but Freud’s explanation of the role of the subconscious (the ID) and its permanent intrusion into our consciousness (the EGO) will remain part of human knowledge. It was a brilliant discovery.

Essentially what Freud is saying is that certain instincts, desires and traits are there in our mind acting on us and we don’t know it because they are in our subconscious.

They are ever present in our minds and show up in forms that are essentially deceptive in appearance.

A person simply dismisses his fascination with the colour purple as just a love for it and nothing more but when he sits with the psychoanalyst and he is evaluated then he gets the hidden meaning of why he is so smitten by purple.

Two months ago, I examined the faces that are in the commercial advertisements in both the print and electronic media in

Guyana. My findings were reported in the column, “White days, white nights in white satin with white lace, “April 8, 2012).

I found that almost a hundred percent (call it 98 percent) of the faces in the advertisements were Caucasian (white) people or persons with very light complexion.

Two weeks ago I looked at those advertisements since the April 8 piece. Nothing has changed. I telephoned twenty of the business places for an explanation. Here are their responses.

Not one owner or manager disagreed with my complaint that there should be a quota of darker skinned personalities. No one was rude to me. All agreed that I have a point. But listen to this.

All the owners and managers said to me, “Freddie, we never thought of what you are saying. It is just an advertisement and we pulled down the faces from the internet.” One businessman called me from Toronto after his assistant told him I made contact with her.

The guy was very nice to me and advised me that there is a certain software he uses thus the reason for the white faces. Then something went wrong.

This very businessman ran a placement for a vacancy and had two white women in the frame. I couldn’t understand it. Why two white women and not two East

Indian or African Guyanese?

Nothing has changed the past two weeks. In four places I have seen repeated appearances of brown or dark-skinned faces – GT&T and Digicel (ironic since both are white foreign owned), Banks DIH (ironic again since the estate of a Guyanese Portuguese has majority shares) and Ashmins. So why the profusion of Caucasian faces? None of the business persons I have spoken to can explain that though they have no objection to Black images in their advertisements there are none in their media placements.

The answer lies in the philosophy of Sigmund Freud.

Inside the subconscious is the preference for white complexion but it is not in the conscious part of the mind when they spoke to me.

The answer lies in the study of the psychology of someone like VS Naipaul. If you read the fantastic work of Noam Chomsky on the science of linguistics then there is no way Naipaul, ten years after migration into the UK could have an Oxford accent.

I grew up in this country hearing all kinds of Guyanese talk about how the West Indian islands have people and leaders that are hooked on white people and light complexion. Commentators put Guyana as the only real anti-colonial culture in the West Indian family of nations.

People told me Guyana would never elect a leader as white as Michael Manley or Edward Seaga. We Guyanese were supposed to be more conscious of colour than Bajans who we looked down upon as country that love white people.

Look at the reality today.

Usain Bolt’s ex-girlfriend was a former white European beauty queen (from Slovakia) who lived on the island with

him. The Jamaican media and bloggers were relentless in their commentaries. Some of the condemnations were harsh. In Guyana, 98 percent of our media ads feature white people and there isn’t a whisper of criticism from any section of the Guyanese society.

Guyanese East Indians see nothing wrong with all Bollywood actors being whiter than snow. Even India sees

Frederick Kissoon nothing wrong with that. The actors must be white-skinned in Bollywood. I wonder how the Indian people would take to Wesley Snipes?

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Sunday June 24, 2012

Con man fools Volda Lawrence lone female police into thinking in PNCR Leadership race he’s not home

By Gary Eleazar This coming week, the Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR) will fine tune arrangements for its 17th Biennial Congress but all eyes and ears will be focused on Leader of the Parliamentary Opposition, David Granger, former Finance Minister Carl Greenidge and the lone female vying for leadership of the party Volda Lawrence.

The PNCR will be hosting its Biennial Congress from July 26 to 29 at which point in time the election will be held for party leadership.

The two key men and the lone female were the ones given the nod of approval from the various party groups when nominations closed recently.

Robert Corbin currently still holds the post of Leader of the PNCR but he has already indicated an unwillingness to continue at the helm of the party.

While Lawrence has been nominated to contest for the post, the battle lines have already been drawn between Greenidge and Granger, both of whom had already competed for the post of presidential Candidate of the PNCR. Granger won that race and this time around things have already begun to heat up, with Greenidge receiving strong support from PNCR big wigs such as Aubrey Norton.

Norton had served as a

- Placed padlock on his door

David Granger

Volda Lawrence

Carl Greenidge

Member in the House in the 9th Parliament but did not make the cut among the APNU Parliamentarians despite playing a pivotal role in securing votes in Linden.

“Guyana is in a new political situation for which there is no blue print,” according to Corbin when he indicated that he would not be contesting this party election.

Volda Lawrence is an Accountant by profession with an Accounting Degree from the University of Guyana and a Masters Degree from Gloucester University, England and is a Certified Chartered Accountant (ACCA Level II). Ms. Lawrence is currently employed by the American School in this capacity.

She also heads the Human Services and Welfare Department of the Party. She has done and continues to do sterling work among the Old

and Elderly and families who have encountered misfortune.

Carl B. Greenidge is a former Minister of Finance, Planning and Trade of Guyana. He is most closely associated with the design and management of the Economic Recovery Programme in the early 1990s following the crisis of the 1980s.

He is the only person to have headed the ACP Group of States at both the political and technical levels President of the ACP Council of Ministers (and CoPresident of the Joint ACPEU Council) as well as Secretary General ad interim of the ACP Group.

Greenidge also headed the joint EU-ACP institution responsible for information communications technologies and capacity building in the rural sector (CTA).

Brigadier David Granger is a former Commander of the Guyana Defence Force and National Security Adviser to the President.

He was a member of several defense and security agencies, holding the Chairmanship of the Central Intelligence Committee, CoChairmanship of the Border and National Security Committee and membership of the Guyana Defence Board, National Drug Law Enforcement Committee and the Disciplined Forces Commission.

He is currently the Leader of the Parliamentary Opposition, having led the political alliance, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) during the most recent Regional and General elections.

The wanted bulletin issued by the police for a con man, Gopaul Tawari, also called “Onkar” last week has resulted in more persons coming forward with tales of being fleeced by him.

Kaieteur News had published the man’s photo and the story of a Craig, East Bank Demerara (EBD) woman, who claimed that the man had posed as one of her relatives and fooled her into putting $6,000 credit in his phone.

The article was published four days ago and that had led to more persons coming forward, identifying Gopaul Tawari as the person who robbed them.

A woman, who asked not to be named, said Tawari is hiding in his house in Diamond, (EBD), and he is paying someone to place a padlock on his door, so that the police would believed that he is not there.

Among the people who have identified Tawari as the person who tricked them, was Mohanie Jagir, also called “Date” of Little Diamond, EBD. Jagir operates a wholesale and retail liquor store at the entrance to Roger Street, Little Diamond. She claimed that Tawari owes her

Gopaul Tawari, also called “Onkar” a total of $300,000.

She stated that Tawari used to purchase items in bulk from her for a while and in February last; she credited him $300,000 worth in alcohol and beverages. She claimed that was the last time she saw him.

“He come and he took the things and since then I never see he back. When I call, he always promising me that he would come and pay me but he never did,” the woman related.

Kaieteur News understands that the con man forged his wife’s signature and robbed her of her property.

That matter is currently in court. (Romila Boodram)

Boa Vista to host tourism meeting of Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela The Boa Vista, Roraima Convention & Visitors Bureau, in collaboration with the Tourism & Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) and in partnership with the Government of Guyana and the State of Roraima, will host the first Tourism Meeting of the Three Nations- Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela on June 28, 2012.

The Meeting is the result of an initiative taken by the President of THAG, Mr. Paul Stephenson, and Director of THAG, Colin Edwards and Mr Magno Silva, Roraima Adventures.

The meeting will be attended by the Governor of the State of Roraima, Mr. Jose Anchieta Junior. The Guyana delegation will be led by the Minister Irfaan Ali, Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce (a.g.) and will include Mr Daniel Gajie; President of THAG (a.g.), Mr. Kit Nascimento, Mr Colin Edwards, and Mr Sydney Allicock; Directors of THAG, Ms. Treina F. Butts; Executive Director of THAG, Mr Indranauth Haralsingh; Director of the Guyana Tourism Authority, Members of the Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG), staff of the Ministry of Tourism and the Guyana Tourism Authority.

Guyana will be represented by a delegation of 40 participants comprising public and private Sector interests in the tourism, local aviation and business sector of Guyana.

Nineteen representatives of the Bolivar Tourism Association comprising tour operators and accommodation service providers will participate in the event.

Among the topics to be discussed are security, customs, passport and visas, border transit vehicles to transport tourists, tourism activities in indigenous communities. Upon conclusion of the meeting, tourism operators in Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela, will participate in a Business Roundtable.

This inaugural meeting will conclude with the development of a work programme that will seek to accomplish those activities in anticipation of the hosting of the second conference of the three nations.

This will be an opportunity to promote the tourism products of the region, to encourage the increased length of stay and average spending of tourists in regional market, expand the product offering for operators involved in the three countries and promote the region as a destination for foreign markets.

The meeting is indicative of the continued efforts by the three countries to market and develop the destinations along the South American Coast and creates the opportunity for the Association’s membership to understand the logistical and regulatory framework within the varying destinations as well as to develop meaningful partnerships and packages.

Over the years, Guyana has marketed itself as the “Gateway to the Amazon”, this in effect will afford Caribbean and North American visitors alternatives for selection when choosing their next travel destination.

Our partnership can be further facilitated through the development of packages for travellers.

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My column

Death and violence dominate my world The news came as a surprise; my friend, schoolmate and now middleage colleague was dead. I thought that Gregory Delmar Gaskin had suffered a heart attack because I was unaware that he was ill. I called the security firm he established and a woman, as is the case these days, was full of euphemism.

I asked whether there was any truth in the report that Gregory was dead. The woman said that she could not say that I should speak to some secretary. The secretary was a little better.

She said that she was aware that he was in hospital and that I should call his brother in law.

The brother in law told me that Gregory was dead, that he had crashed at the South Dakota circuit. So there it was.

Another of my schoolmates had gone to the Great Beyond. The last time I penned a column along these lines some of my workmates laughed. They concluded that I was getting scared because death was now lurking by me.

The truth is that I couldn’t care less; it is just that as I look around I realize that my

circle of friends was shrinking. But as someone once said, death is just another arc in the circle of life.

But without waxing philosophical, I must wonder about Gregory wanting to be playing with bikes at his age.

Indeed, I have seen much older people riding some monster bikes but for me, the days of the adrenaline rush are long over. If I want a thrill then I can get it from television. I am not like the people who over the past few days have been using their cutlasses with a vengeance.

A young man got chopped to death in the hinterland this past week. A photographer provided me some shots of the injuries.

Suffice it to say that they were so gruesome that I doubt any doctor could have stitched them. Life was declining in value.

But what really got to me was the report that a magistrate had jailed a man for six weeks for beating his fourteen-year-old daughter. I had cause to lay my hand on my children perhaps not as violently as my mother did with me.

I never brutalized my children. I would apply a few

strokes to their backside. On one occasion I slapped my daughter because she had stepped out of line. I am for corporal punishment as opposed to physical abuse and I must say that none of my children slipped into a world of crime. I had no problem in knowing where they were and what time they would be home.

They are all adults and none of them hates me. In fact, they would tell their friends and associates that I am the best father they ever knew.

And so it was that I was shocked at the jail sentence imposed on this father. The little girl was said to be in constant pursuit of sex, regardless of what her parents tried. The father lost it one day when she failed to come home. I could never understand a child of fourteen not coming home. My

fourteen olds had to be home by eight without fail.

I enquired about the reason for the jail sentence and I heard that the father had taken the law into his own hands; that he failed to use the support system provided.

I had no support system and in any case, if the father wanted to ensure that the police did not kill his child then he had a right to adopt the nest method to prevent this.

I have seen parents cry because the police shot and killed their errant child and on each occasion I concluded that if the parent had applied the rod in the early days then the situation would have been different.

I have already said that we are following those countries that seek to enforce the view

that beating a child encourages violence in later life. I grew up in the age when floggings were the norm and I can say that the extent of violence was never what it is today. I expect to see a lot of comments. I still hear a SASOD member saying that parents beat children because they could. The inference is that if the child could beat us then we would not be too quick to use the whip. My 88year-old mother still slaps me.

One reason for the jail sentence, I learnt, was that the father took the law into his own hands. Perhaps such actions are responsible for parents leaving children to their own devices and the society pays. And it pays in a big way. We have law enforcers now involved in crime. A case in point

Adam Harris involves two female prison officers who are now behind bars for smuggling marijuana into the prisons to feed the very prisoners who may have gone to jail for drug possession.

And I just learnt of another prison officer who was held with a gun at a roadblock in the vicinity of Sparendaam. Was he taking the gun to help fuel crime?

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The information below was published previously.

However, in light of the constant distortions, untruths and blatant lies being hawked on NCN, the Alliance For Change thinks it is in the best interest of the public to have this information re-published. The AFC challenges NCN to dispute the information set out below.

WHAT IS THE GUYANA LCDS? According to the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) website, the LCDS sets out Guyana’s

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approach to transition to a green economy. Its stated aim is to combat climate change while simultaneously providing economic growth and development.

It sets out how Guyana’s economy can be realigned along a low carbon development path by investing payments received for avoided deforestation into strategic low carbon sectors.

THE LCDS AND GRIF The Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF) is the fund for the financing of activities identified under the LCDS. The Government of

Norway has committed to provide up to US$250 million to the Fund by 2015.

Under the agreement with Norway, the World Bank will be the Trustee of GRIF. It will receive the money from Norway and transfer this money to the Partner Entities when a request is made.

WHOARE THE PARTNER ENTITIES? The Partner Entities are the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank.

(Not the Government of Guyana) The Partner Entities carry out the projects that are requested by Guyana and approved by the Steering Committee that is made up of representatives from Norway and Guyana.

HOWARE PAYMENTS MADE FROM GRIF? Once the Steering Committee agrees to the allocation it will notify the World Bank and the Partner Entity (IDB, UNDP or WB) of such approval.

- The Trustee (WB) will the issue a Letter of Commitment to pay over the approved allocation When the Partner entity receives this letter it will send a Transfer Request to the World Bank.

When the Transfer Request is received the World Bank will pay the requested allocation to the Partner Entity.

- The Partner entity will then make all payments to the implementing agency.

CAN THE POLITICAL OPPOSITION STOP PAYMENTS FROM THE GRIF? No! The process clearly sets out that the money from Norway will be kept by the World Bank. Payment from the Fund is the sole responsibility of the Steering Committee and the Partner Entity and payments will only be approved when the Steering Committee (including Norway) is satisfied that the project meets the eligibility criteria.

Can Amerindian

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Communities and other local entities still access money from the GRIF for LCDS projects?

Yes! The agreement provides that once the projects are approved by the Steering Committee and do not exceed the amount in the Fund, money will be allocated.

All projects approved by the Steering Committee whether it be Amerindian Land Titling, provision of solar panels for Hinterland communities, Micro and Small Enterprise Development or any other approved project, will receive funding once they reach the eligibility criteria of the Partner Entity and the Steering Committee.

CAN THIS INFORMATION BE VERIFIED? Yes! Persons can check this information against what is provided by the World Bank by visiting the World Bank website: www.worldbank.org/grif To attempt to mislead the Parliament into thinking that the $18 billion was money that

would form part of the treasury was dishonest to say the least, and could very well be intended to establish a false defensive position the government intends to take when it fails to reach the standards set by IDB and UNDP for accessing the fund.

This would not be the first time that the PPP/C Government would have failed to meet internationally set standards for accessing financing.

Guyanese well remember the negligence of the PPP/C administration in 2011 that resulted in Guyana not accessing $3.8 billion of EU funding for the sugar industry and the failure of that same administration to agree to benchmarks that would have allowed Guyana to secure a $4 billion security sector reform project fund from the British Government.

It is clear that that the PPP administration is unwilling to actively pursue any foreignfunded project with high standards of accountability and transparency.

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UG workers protest re-election of Chancellor Unions representing the teaching staff and workers of the University of Guyana are protesting the re-appointment of Professor Compton Bourne as Chancellor. “ As far as the Unions and Operation Rescue are concerned, Prof. Bourne has not demonstrated the leadership qualities that are needed to rescue the University as it approaches its 50th Anniversary. The University of Guyana, and indeed Guyana itself, needs a Chancellor who is courageous, bold, resourceful, a consensus builder, and one who can make change happen,” the unions said in a statement.

The University Administration Friday announced that Bourne was re-elected for another three years, pushing aside the views of the teaching staff and the workers.

“The University Administration, in response to questions raised by a few media houses about recent calls by the University of Guyana Workers Union and Senior Staff Association, for the resignation of Chancellor Professor Compton Bourne, advises that it does not support the call for his resignation,” the University said in a statement.

The University Administration stated that Bourne was re-elected at a recent meeting, and that it “looks forward to working with Chancellor Bourne, the Council, all university staff and stakeholders, to charter a new course for the institution.”

In a statement yesterday, the Workers Union and the Senior Staff Association said they were profoundly disappointed.

The two unions noted that the “re-appointment that was styled a re-election” was made by a Council whose life had expired since March 31 but which was extended by two months to June 30 “and therefore has a limited life span.”

The unions stated that the Council remains and more so is making critical decisions notwithstanding a strong call by the Unions, supported by hundreds of signatures on a petition to be laid in Parliament, for the appointment of a new Council. They consider Bourne’s continued tenure to be an affront to them.

Further, they said it was with a mixture of sadness and disgust that they were not informed of the decision.

According to the unions, Mr. Bourne’s three-year reappointment comes after a year at the helm of the Council. They noted that the initial appointment of Prof.

Bourne was met with great optimism by all University

staff, particularly academics.

“Here we believed was an eminent academic who had led a University of the West Indies Campus and the regional Caribbean Development Bank and who therefore was unquestionably capable.

Prof. Bourne’s stewardship of the UG to date however has been more than disappointing. In his first year, Mr. Bourne has managed to make a mockery of the UG Acts and Statutes and alienated the very staff he leads,” the unions stated.

They accused Bourne of presiding over the Appointments Committee to declare ‘null and void’ contracts that were properly executed by Council even though it is only Council that could make such a declaration.”

The unions said that Bourne facilitated the setting of a precedent that University lecturers can be fired at any whim and fancy of the Council because they are employed at the pleasure of the Council.

The unions accuse Bourne of showing manifest contempt for all the

stakeholders of the University Community, “other than perhaps those whom he considers his social equals, by refusing even to acknowledge our correspondence, much less dialogue with us despite our several attempts to engage him.”

The unions further stated that Mr Bourne attracted precious little by way of funding,”thereby entrenching the sense we have that the University is condemned to continue to operate with a 250-million dollar recurring financial deficit at Turkeyen.”

In addition, the unions stated that he has by consent or silence sanctioned the practice of financing this deficit by taking an annual advance from the Student Loan facility and has overlooked the illegality that the University does not remit the GRA tax, NIS and Credit Union deductions from employees’ salaries to these agencies on a timely basis.

“He ignores the fact that our students and staff continue to work and study under grossly substandard

conditions that he would have never dared to offer the staff and students at the St. Augustine Campus thus displaying disdain for his fellow Guyanese,” the unions stated.

For this reason, the Workers Union and the Senior Staff Association said that the offer and acceptance of a new three year appointment that was made behind closed doors “ a process that revealingly lacked transparency” fills them with dread.

The two unions said they believed that outstanding Guyanese living in Guyana, such as Mr. Yesu Persaud, Prof. Sr. Noel Menez, and

Prof. Winston McGowan, could serve with great distinction.

The unions contended that two of Prof. Bourne’s similarly eminent predecessors, Prof. Calestous Juma and Prof Bertie Ramcharran resigned as Chancellors of the UG rather than preside over a Council that compromises longstanding, globally held academic principles.

“Prof. Bourne would be advised to consider the real possibility that his tenure at

Professor Compton Bourne the University of Guyana has already started to tarnish his hitherto distinguished reputation,” the unions stated.

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By TARA MULHOLLAND W E A R I N G both hiking boots and nightclothes, blearily rubbing the sleep from our eyes, we jerked and bumped our way by jeep across the Rupununi savannah of southwestern Guyana. As the sun rose over the Kanuku Mountains, we passed sinewy cattle, plump black vultures and giant Jabiru storks hunched like skinny old men.

Suddenly, a cloud of dust and sounds of hollering men: we were nearing our goal.

Jolting to a halt, we staggered out onto the scrubby plain to see a large, furry, absurdly proportioned and clearly disgruntled giant anteater lolloping at high speed toward us, followed on horseback by three Amerindian cowboys, or vaqueros, who grinned as we dazedly fumbled to get out our cameras.

How did I end up in this remote spot, chasing anteaters? First, my maternal

grandmother was born and raised in Georgetown, the Guyanese capital, and oft-told tales of monkeys, macaws and boating on the chocolatebrown Demerara River had long stoked my resolve to visit this country I knew so little about.

Second, Guyana is truly off the tourist path — a place, as Evelyn Waugh wrote in “92 Days,” his 1932 travel memoir

of what was then British Guiana, “of conflicting cultures and states of development where ideas, uprooted from their traditions, become oddly changed in transplantation.”

N e s t l e d between Venezuela, Brazil and Suriname, Guyana — South America’s only English-speaking country — is a place that rarely registers as a vacation spot.

In recent years, however, the country has started pushing to capitalize on its often stunning scenery, abundant wildlife and rich Amerindian heritage, repackaging itself as a haven for adventurers, naturalists and eco-tourists.

I arrived from London with my two brothers and our mother in the bustling post-

colonial capital of Georgetown, and we soon left for the Guyanese interior.

Most tours take in the same trail of villages: ours swooped up to the Arrowpoint Nature Resort north of Georgetown, then south through the ranches of Dadanawa and Karanambu and the Amerindian village of Surama in the Rupununi savannah, before looping back up to the Iwokrama research center in the center of the country, where guests live alongside researchers studying sustainability in rain forest management.

Once in the interior, you can forget any ideas of rambling off on your own, thanks to a lack of roads and often limited accommodations and food supplies in the rural villages.

(And don’t even think about visiting the rain forests without a local guide, unless you are fully prepped in the niceties of dealing with caiman, black widow spiders and armadillo wasps.)

This isolation, though, has resulted in the emergence of eco-lodges across the country, built with the help of both foreign aid and Amerindian knowledge — meaning that visitors get in-

depth, personal, insider perspectives.

In Surama, where we stayed, a tiny Macushi village of about 300 inhabitants set in a five-square-mile patch of open savannah in the northern Rupununi, two fourbed eco-lodges have drawn a steady stream of visitors.

(Built in 2004 as part of a sustainable tourism initiative between Guyana and the United States, the lodges are now managed and operated by the local Macushi tribe.)

On our first day in Surama, we rose at 4:30 a.m. to meet our guide, Gary Sway, a Macushi villager whose knowledge of local plants and animals seemed inexhaustible.

He led us into the dark canopy of the rain forest, where we stared in awe as spider monkeys jumped and shrieked in the treetops above our heads. “They don’t like people being on their territory,” Gary told us calmly.

“Sometimes they start throwing branches or even defecate to make you move away.” We looked up, checked that no monkeys were looming directly overhead, and continued our climb, while Gary identified pink candle-shaped flowers of

wild ginger, brilliant blue morpho butterflies and the distant wail of the howler monkeys.

Later that day, we paddled down the Burro-Burro River, spotting colorful toucans and armies of bullet ants, which, Gary told us, are reputed to have the most painful sting of any insect known to man.

As the sun started to set, we trudged back to camp, exhausted, ready to turn in as the immense savannah sky filled with stars.

Of course, this level of solitude isn’t for everyone. At the Karanambu ranch, we ran into two Frankfurt-based couples, who, upon finding that Guyana did not provide the on-tap wildlife, chilled wines and lizard-free log cabins that, say, a chic safari trip might, had chartered a private plane to take them back to Georgetown.

And yet it is this lack of frills and modern conveniences that has allowed Guyana to keep its unique, unspoiled beauty, in a way that other South and Central American countries have not.

As we bumped back to Dadanawa ranch from our excursion on the savannah, I turned to one of our guides to ask if she finds it frustrating that so few people visit her country. She paused.

“Well, Guyana’s not for everyone,” she finally said.

“You can’t go and spot anteaters at dawn if you are in a group of 20.”

The jeep jerked over a particularly tough piece of terrain, and our heads knocked against the roof.

“And,” she added, “Guyana’s special. It’s not a place to come if you just want a vacation — you have to really want to come here. If you don’t, maybe we don’t really want you.”

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Chinese crackdown boosts Norway men asked to don artist Ai on world stage condoms for “Sex Hour”

(Reuters) - The worse things get for Chinese d i s s i d e n t A i We i w e i a t home, t h e greater his reputation as an artist and activist becomes abroad, a point campaigners say Beijing may want to bear in mind as it seeks to muzzle him.

The thick-set, bearded 55year-old was back in the headlines this week when he left his house for the first time in a year without having to report his whereabouts to police.

He used his new-found freedom to tell the media he had been informed by police that, in addition to an ongoing tax evasion case, he was suspected of other crimes including pornography, bigamy and illicit exchange of foreign currency.

Ai, China’s most prominent critic whom authorities are desperate to silence, is barred from travelling, although the less he goes abroad, the more, it seems, he matters.

“It’s certainly true that it (the crackdown) has the unintended effect outside of China,” said Patrick Griffith of Freedom Now, a U.S.-based campaign group representing prisoners of conscience around the world.

The group has not worked with Ai but represents Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel Laureate jailed for 11 years for inciting subversion.

“He’s almost universally known in the States not only because of his art, which he was fairly well known for, but for his disappearance last year which launched him to international stardom,” Griffith added.

Ai was held for 81 days

without charge in 2011, mainly in solitary confinement, until his conditional release.

Chinese authorities may well be aware of the impact of their actions abroad, but see it as a necessary trade-off for limiting the audience at home for Ai’s critique of everything from politics and corruption to pollution and education.

“They are very scared of this information getting out,” said Griffith. “To some extent they’ve been successful.

(But) people are increasingly aware of Ai Weiwei and his message. Internet activists are able to get around the ‘great firewall’.”

There is little doubt Ai’s outspoken views and subsequent travails have placed him at the “high table” of contemporary art in the West, although many of his works are not overtly political and their conceptual nature limits their market value.

“In terms of his impact, it

makes him an even more important artist,” said Anders Petterson, head of ArtTactic which analyses trends in the art market, commenting on the latest headlines.

“This is going to reignite interest in him among nonmainland Chinese collectors, and I guess we will see collectors and art institutions rallying around him.”

In October Ai was named the art world’s most powerful figure in the ArtReview magazine’s ranking, topping familiar names like gallery owner Larry Gagosian and renowned artists including Gerhard Richter (who ranked 11th) and Damien Hirst (64th).

He has exhibited in Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Switzerland and beyond in recent years, and, while he cannot always be present due to travel restrictions, he enjoys a strong following among critics and the public.

(Reuters) - A Norwegian sexual health charity has asked the men of the country to don condoms for a “sex hour” on Thursday evening to raise public awareness about safe-sex.

Non-profit sex education organization RFSU would like Norwegian men to tear themselves away from the television coverage of the Euro 2012 soccer quarter final game between Czech Republic and Portugal for an hour of prophylacticprotected pleasure with a willing partner starting at 1900 GMT. The campaign is a result of a study which found that Norwegians were the most sexually active Scandinavians, while at the same time using the least protection, exposing themselves to sexually transmitted diseases, Chlamydia in particular.

“Our motto is sex is good, sex improves your health,” RFSU sexologist Sidsel Kloeew said. “This is meant to be this year’s most pleasant hour in Norway.”

According to the study, 62 percent of Norwegians between the age of 20-35

years did not use a condom the last time they had casual sex. Norway has 20,000 cases of chlamydia every year.

Kloeew said it was important to always be

prepared on the longest day of the year, when the sun was shining and casual sex encounters were more likely.

“The guys should take this as a challenge.”

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Interesting creatures‌

The Oncilla high as 4500 metres in Colombia, in the Andean highlands in Ecuador, and in the subtropical forest highlands in Brazil.

They are typically distributed from Costa Rica through Northern Argentina.

They have been recorded in northern Panama, but the remainder of the country appears to be a gap in the species' range.

Oncillas produce one to three kittens (usually only one), after a gestation of 74 to 76 days. The estrus is from three to nine days, with older

The Oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus), also known as the Little Spotted Cat, Tigrillo, Cunaguaro or Tiger Cat, is a small spotted felid found in the tropical rainforests of Central and South America.

It is a close relative of the Ocelot and the Margay.

The Oncilla grows to be about 40-50 centimetres (cm) (18 inches to 2 feet) long, plus a 30-40 cm (10-20 inches) long tail.

While this is somewhat larger than the average domestic cat, Leopardus tigrinus is slightly lighter, weighing 2-3 kilograms (510 lbs.), less than a standard domestic cat.

Its coat is a rich ochre, spotted with black rosettes.

This coloration helps the oncilla blend in with the mottled sunlight of the tropical forest understory.

The Oncilla is a nocturnal animal, which hunts for rodents and birds.

A zone of hybridization between the oncilla and the Colocolo has been found through genetic analyses of specimens from central Brazil.

Although the Central American Oncilla is listed as a separate subspecies, based on analysis of mitochondrial DNA, Johnson et al (1999) found strongly supported differences between L.t. oncilla in Costa Rica and L.t. guttulus in southern Brazil, comparable to differences between different neotropical species.

Researchers have argued that there should be a splitting of the Oncilla into two species, as there is pronounced difference in appearance between the

Oncillas in Costa Rica as compared to those in central and southern Brazil. Further samples of L.t. oncilla are needed from northern South America to determine whether this taxon ranges outside Central America, and whether it should be considered a distinct species rather than a subspecies.

The Oncilla is similar in appearance to the Margay and the Ocelot. The underside is pale with dark spots, the tail is ringed, the backs of the ears are black with bold ocelli, and the fur is thick and soft, ranging from light brown to dark ochre. Its spots are dark brown or black rosettes, open in the centre, and are irregularly shaped.

The legs have mediumsized spots tapering to smaller spots near the paws.

The Oncilla's jaw is shortened, resulting in fewer teeth, but it does have welldeveloped carnassials and canines.

And though it is primarily terrestrial animal is also an adept climber. Like all cats, the Oncilla is an obligate carnivore, requiring meat for survival. This cat eats small mammals, birds, eggs, lizards, and the occasional tree frog.

Occasionally, the cat will eat grasses.

It is known to stalk its prey from a distance, and once in range, it pounces to catch and kill the prey.

This species shows a strong preference for montane forests, and are usually found in elevations higher than those of the margay or ocelot. They have been found in habitats as

cats having shorter cycles.

Oncillas have a life span of about 11 years in the wild, but there are records of these cats being as old as 17 years.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has classified the oncilla as vulnerable.

The chief threats to these felines are deforestation and poaching. Oncillas are killed for their pelts, which are highly prized and often sold or made into clothing.

Reports in 1972 and 1982 in South America showed that

the Oncilla is one of the four most heavily hunted of all the small cats.

Another factor contributing to Oncilla mortality is human expansion settling in what was once an open terrain for wild cats.

There are a few oncillas in captivity in North America, and a few in zoos in Europe and South America. In captivity, the Oncilla tend to have high infant mortality rate. The Convention on International Tr a d e i n E n d a n g e r e d

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(Leopardus tigrinus) Species (CITES) places the Oncilla on Appendix I, prohibiting all international commerce in Oncillas or products made from them.

Cat specialist groups are involved in studies and conservation of cats in all continents. There is a breeding facility in Brazil for several small native felines, where their natural conditions and native food encourage reproduction similar to that in the wild.

(Source: Wikipedia – The Free Online Encyclopedia)

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Rio+20: No closer to a safer global environment

By Sir Ronald Sanders The Rio+20 Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has brought the world no closer to a safer global environment. Indeed, if the measure of its success is that the large and influential countries stood still while the dreadful effects of climate change sped along, the conference was a disappointment.

Heads of government, who bothered to turn up for the summit meeting, could do little to alter the 'outcome document' that had been laboriously negotiated by their officials over weeks of painful talks that sometimes threatened to reverse the fundamental principles that were agreed 20 years ago at the first Earth Summit in Rio. Such heads of government, who could have made a difference, were not there. They included Barack Obama of the US, Stephen Harper of Canada, Angela Merkel of Germany and David Cameron of the UK. Their four countries are among the top ten polluters in the world, and an enlightened approach by them could have made a difference.

As it turned out, the conference did absolutely nothing to help small island states, such as those in the Caribbean, and developing countries with low coastal areas, such as Guyana and Belize.

The 'outcome document' was made public in Rio on the day before the summit began. In its effort to include language that addresses the concerns of governments, rich and poor, small island states and land-locked countries, as well as nong o v e r n m e n t a l e n v i r o n m e n t a l organizations, the 'outcome document' is 283-paragraphs long and repetitive in many places. But, it is not a document that moves the world forward. The most that can be said of it is that it averts the fears, expressed during the negotiations, that the fundamental principles agreed at Rio in 1992 would be reversed.

At paragraph 15, it states: “ We r e a ff i r m a l l t h e principles of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, including, inter alia, the principle of common but d i f f e r e n t i a t e d responsibilities, as set out in

Principle 7 of the Rio Declaration”.

This is an important reaffirmation, because the original Rio undertaking recognized that while all countries have common responsibilities for protecting the environment, rich countries (among the biggest polluters) also have a responsibility to provide the resources, both financial and technological, to help poorer countries.

Some developed countries wanted to change that language to make it conditional; the fact that the language has remained in place at least gives developing countries a basis for insisting that the big polluters stick to their commitment.

For small island states and developing countries with low-lying coastal areas, the specific paragraph on sea level rise is extremely disappointing.

Paragraph 165 of the 'outcome document' merely “noted” that sea level rise and coastal erosion are serious threats for many coastal regions and islands, particularly in developing countries. All that it then did was to call on the international community “to enhance its efforts to address these challenges”. No specific actions are proposed and no specific measures are adopted.

Reflecting the fact that the developed countries and the large developing ones, such as China and India, are now more concerned about the risks to their economies posed by the Eurozone debt crisis, no new monies were pledged for combating climate change and global warming. Instead, the 'outcome document' appears to have postponed the entire issue by agreeing “to e s t a b l i s h a n intergovernmental process under the United Nations General Assembly” that will “assess financing needs, consider the effectiveness, consistency and synergies of existing instruments and frameworks, and evaluate additional initiatives, with a view to prepare a report proposing options on an effective sustainable development financing strategy to facilitate the mobilization of resources and their effective use in achieving sustainable development objectives”.

That long process is to be undertaken by a group of

experts who will report to the UN in 2014.

Time, meanwhile, is running out. In a paper to be published shortly in the Journal of Developing Studies, on “Climate Change and the Future of Caribbean Development”, Matthew Bishop and Anthony Payne point out that small states are the least contributors to pollution and that they need help not with mitigation (reduction of domestic emissions) but with

adaptation (establishing policies and infrastructure to cope with the effects of climate change).

But such limited sums as have been made available are open to all developing countries.

Small island developing countries “have limited advocacy capacity to help them gain a slice of what is still a relatively meagre pie; there is no mechanism in place to ascertain which states are most in need of

adaptation finance; and the vast majority of the money (all but approximately US$250 million) is being channelled through either the World Bank or Western NGOs and donor agencies, rather than the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), itself 'the most appropriate institution to make this and other key decisions about adaptation financing'.

Of the Caribbean islands,

Sir Ronald Sanders Barbados has invested resources and is 'one of the few countries in the Western Hemisphere to develop and implement a national policy for sustainable development'. But, for all Caribbean countries, however good their national (continued on page 38)

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According to China Harbour Engineering Company Limited (CHEC), Guyana has nothing to fear from the World Bank banning its parent company, China C o m m u n i c a t i o n Constructions Company Limited (CCCC) from certain projects, and that it is unaware of any issues it (CHEC) has that would cause Guyana to lose investments.

“CHEC is also making clear that it knows of no issue arising from the matter between CCCC (China C o m m u n i c a t i o n Constructions Company Limited) and the World Bank that could result in Guyana losing investments if CHEC is allowed to construct the expansion of the airport in accordance with the existing agreement.”

CHEC insisted that it has already made it clear that the company has never been involved in any activity which has attracted sanctions by the World Bank or any other international agency.

CHEC made no mention of the fact that last year, Arafat ‘Koko’ Rahman, a son of the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Khaleda Zia, was jailed in absentia for six years for laundering millions of dollars in bribes taken from CHEC. The statement also did not mention the fact that in November 2011, former Chairman of the China’s Hebei Port Group, Huang Jianhua, was sentenced to death for taking bribes from the CHEC and its parent company, CCCC. BOBCAT OPERATOR BURIED ALIVE AS SAND PIT CAVES-IN A bobcat operator who was working in a sandpit at Sibirien/Old England, Linden,

was buried alive on Tuesday after the pit caved-in.

According to reports, the incident occurred at around noon while the man was heaping sand to load onto a truck.

The dead man has been identified as Ray Garraway of Number 41 Village, West Coast Berbice.

This publication was told that Garraway was loading sand to carry out construction works on a church building in Linden.

Reports reaching this publication stated that while the man was piling up the sand, a top layer of the pit caved in covering the entire bobcat.

capture of a hijacker because the car he and his accomplice had hijacked careened into a trench along the Lusignan Golf Road.

The young hijacker, Vernon Benn, from Sophia went all the way to Coldingen, East Coast Demerara to hijack the Toyota Premio motorcar.

Benn was spared a sound thrashing thanks to the prompt arrival of the members of the Lusignan Central Community Policing Group.

Benn and his accomplice had hijacked the car from its driver, Latchman Rattan, called ‘Naresh’ in Dazzell Housing Scheme, Paradise, around 14:00 hours after they pretended to be legitimate passengers.

THURSDAY EDITION FRIDAYEDITION MOTHER, SON SHOT IN ‘FOWL COCK’ ROW A row over a “fowl cock” ended Wednesday with a McDoom, East Bank Demerara man opening fire and critically wounding a 38-year-old woman and her 21-year old son.

Abiola Edie, who was shot in her face, is now a patient at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital. Her son, Martin Barker, who was shot twice in his chest, has also been admitted to the same hospital.

The suspect, who is said to be their neighbour, has gone into hiding. The incident has left a wedge between residents of the East Bank Demerara community forcing relatives of the suspect to flee their home to escape possible retaliation.

SUSPECT CAUGHT IN CRASHED HIJACKED CAR Residents of lower East Coast Demerara were treated to a movie style high speed chase which ended with the

CJIA PROJECT HALTED – SAYS LUNCHEON - BUT EVIDENCE SUGGESTS OTHERWISE Almost seven months after a controversial US$138M deal was signed to rebuild the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) and extend the runway, it has now been revealed that the Chinese contractor has been in Guyana for weeks conducting critical soil tests.

This is despite Government’s disclosure on Wednesday that it had decided to put a hold on the execution of the project until allegations of corruption against China Harbour Engineering Company Limited (CHEC) are investigated.

On Wednesday, Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, speaking with reporters, disclosed that local Chinese Embassy, CHEC and Minister of Transportation, Robeson Benn, are meeting to discuss the concerns that have been raised about that construction company.

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Some of the homes that CJIA is planning to remove in Timehri North

CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS WILL ERUPT IF PRESIDENT REFUSES TO ASSENT TO OPPOSITION BILLS – AFC “There will be a constitutional crisis if the President intends not to sign any of the Bills put forward by the opposition. This would also cause gridlock… and such a position demonstrates contempt and disdain for the National Assembly. It is tantamount to holding the National Assembly hostage.”

These sentiments were expressed by Alliance For Change (AFC)’s Chairman, Khemraj Ramjattan, at the party’s weekly press conference held Thursday at the Sidewalk Café on Middle Street.

This was in response to a statement President Donald Ramotar made, threatening not assent to bills passed in the National Assembly by the combined opposition, in which his government’s input was not taken on board, state television, National Communications Network, reported two Wednesdays ago.

SNR. POLICE OFFICERS’ ANNUALLEAVE SLASHED IN HALF Senior Officers of the Guyana Police Force are once again venting their anger at the Ministry of Home Affairs, this time over the slashing of their annualized vacation leave.

The Ministry, by way of a circular dated June 4, 2012, and addressed to Commissioner of Police (acting) Leroy Brumell, has advised that only 21 days annualized leave will be granted to senior officers of the Force.

The Officers, from Senior Superintendents up, previously enjoyed 42 days Annual Leave.

The move is being seen by the officers as another move by the Ministry to micromanage the Guyana Police

Force and its operations.

The circular which was signed by Debra Lewis, Human Resource Manager of the Ministry of Home Affairs, for the Permanent Secretary, stated “….a decision has been taken that only twenty-one (21) days Annualized Vacation Leave will be granted to senior officers within the Guyana Police Force.”

No reason has been given for what some officers described as the arbitrary decision by the ministry,

which they claimed was done without any regard for the Public Service rules that stipulates the leave structure for officers and others by their ranks.

Usually, officers and other ranks have been requested to defer their annual leave at certain times such as election periods and unrest.

This obtained last year when the force was preparing to provide security for the General Elections in November.

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Prostitute of 28 years The girl in the pleated pink... now seeks decent job A woman, who has been a prostitute for over 28 years, yearns for a better way of life but feels constrained by her lack of education and her inability to find a stable job.

Only last month, she decided to quit prostitution and take up a job as a cleaner at the National Stadium but got fired because she suffers from asthma. Without a job, she was eventually forced to go back on the streets in order to get food.

She refused to give her real name but proudly gave her nick names as “Long Mouth” and “Push and Go.” She is 42-years-old.

Yesterday, “Push and Go” shared her experiences as a child and a teenager. She recalled growing up with her step mother and being locked in a house and was forced to stare at the four walls for years.

“My step mother use to lock me up and go and walk and I use to peep out and see children in their school clothes and how I use to admire them.”

She recalled at the age of 14, her stepmother sent her to the shop to purchase a bottle of coffee and when she returned “she tell me somebody waiting on me upstairs and when I go I see a man in the room and he tell me that he pay the woman downstairs and that I ga do what he want me to do.”

She said when he refused; the man held a knife to her neck and forced her to perform oral sex on him.

“Duh wuz the first time meh feel upset and I bite it off and he bleed and bleed.”

“Push and go” said that her step mother thought he had died and she went into hiding.

“She think he bin dead and he get away but he na bin dead, some people tek he to the hospital and I never hear back anything.”

She said she remained at her stepmother’s D’Urban Street home and went out into the

streets in the nights. “I use to go at High Street but business de get bad and I started working in front the Cathedral.”

She said after a few years, her stepmother’s home fell down and she was forced to sleep on the pavements.

“The streets them get hard with all this robbery and I am not getting enough customers because I am not that pretty so I had to go at a hotel in South and work for $3000 a night.”

She explained that a prostitute’s job is divided in two - long time and short time. A short-time worker earns $3000, while a longtime worker gets $7000. According to her, short time is three hours and longtime is the entire night.

She said she charges that cost because she is not “that young” and her shape is not that of “coca cola bottle.”

“Sometime them man does come and them does want you fah do you everything and when you don’t do it them does go to the owner of the hotel and tell him that we didn’t please him enough and the boss man does tek away we money and give it back to the men them.”

She said that the men are not attractive.

She described them as being beggars and “nasty skin people.”

“Some of the men them does come and spend the whole night with we and when we wake up they does disappear with the money and we clothes, them does even thief we undies.”

“Sometimes I does want commit suicide because many days I does work and don’t get pay.”

“Push and Go” said that she is eagerly waiting for someone to come and offer her a good and decent job.

From page 22 body was found was behind his home. ‘Fat Man’ also practised karate and judo, skills that the police felt made him capable of snapping Ann’s neck.

They found out that Ann’s death coincided with the suspect’s birthday. He had been drinking heavily on the night that Ann went missing.

Police believe that on the night of December 9, 1976, Ann Stewart was passing ‘Fat Man’s’ house when he either lured or forcibly carried her into his yard.

They believe that she was taken upstairs, sexually assaulted, slain and dumped in the alleyway.

They also believe that the teen was killed during a struggle or because she knew her assailant.

“We have always believed that the act was committed by the suspect and others,” the detective told me.

“However, no one confessed to the murder. No eyewitness came forward with information about the crime. People in the area were reluctant to talk to the police and nothing f evidential value was ever found.”

While the clothing of the suspects was checked for bloodstains and their bodies examined for scratches and other recent injuries, no checks were made for fibres and other forensic evidence from Ann Stewart’s garments.

Finally, I mustered the courage to speak to ‘Fat Man.’ I had not spoken to him since Ann Stewart’s death. He was now a grey-haired, dreadlocked man; a virtual outcast in Tucville. After some persuasion, he gave his version of the events that had occurred so many years ago.

Yes, he had celebrated his birthday on the night of the murder. Yes, he had practiced karate and judo. Yes, back then he had a reputation of being a ‘bad man’ for ‘representing’ youths who were being bullied.

But he was not the only martial arts exponent in the community back then. And he had not killed Ann Stewart. In fact, ‘Fat Man’ claimed that had not even known Ann, although they had lived just a few houses apart.

On that fateful birthday of December 8, 1976, he had gone drinking with two friends. The ‘session’ had begun at around 3.00 P.M. in Georgetown. They had then driven in a ‘Mini-Moke’ to Tyrone’s liquor shop in Aubrey Barker Street, South Ruimveldt, where they remained until around 9.00 P.M. The friends then parted, and ‘Fat Man’ said that he headed home, jogging all the way as was his custom when he was ‘high’. His ‘child mother’ and one-year-old daughter were at home when he arrived.

According to ‘Fat Man’, he went to work the following day, unaware that Ann’s body had been found in the alleyway behind his home.

He said that two days later, policemen came to his home and said that they wanted to question him about a murder. He was taken to the East La Penitence Police Station, where detectives accused him of breaking Ann Stewart’s neck.

“They said that is only somebody who know karate could do that. I keep telling them that I don’t even know the girl, but they keep telling

me that I kill her. They also said that the boyfriend claim that he and Ann were by the National Park (on the night of the murder) and that they saw a ‘fat man’ riding behind them.

The boyfriend claimed that he ran way.”

According to him, the detectives made him remove his clothing and examined him for recent injuries. None were found, he said.

His clothes were examined and returned to him a few days later. The friends that he gone drinking with were able to support his alibi for the might of the murder, he said.

He was kept at the station for another 24 hours then released. He was picked up again in 1977 and held for a day. Police then told him he was free to go, and he had not been questioned since.

But by then, his old life in Tucville had been wrecked.

He lost his job as a heavyduty operator. Children pointed him out in the streets.

Friends shunned him. And according to ‘Fat Man’ he continued to receive threats from Ann’s boyfriend, who occasionally returned from the US where he now resided.

‘Fat Man’ said that he is as eager as everyone else to have the murder solved.

“Nothing don’t hide,” he said.

“Time will tell.”

I’m not so sure. There remains that niggling, depressing feeling that 36 years is way too long, and now I will never, ever know who killed the girl in the pink pleated dress.

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From page 35 programmes, a regional response is necessary through empowered joint machinery to negotiate financing for the region.

As Bishop and Payne put it: “If Caribbean states and societies can develop a range of original and compelling approaches to the issue (as, in some respects, they have been seeking to do both individually and collectively), they may be able to help shift the nature of those structures a little further in the direction of a creative response”.

Rio+20 was not a turning point for a better future for the planet. But, at least, it was not

a turning back.

The Caribbean should now take advantage of the continued stated commitment to sustainable development (meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs) to ensure that, collectively, it gains access to the funding for adaptation it urgently needs. No one country can do it alone.

(The writer is a Consultant and former Caribbean diplomat) Responses and previous c o m m e n t a r i e s : www.sironaldsanders.com

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Country profile: OVERVIEW Vanuatu - a string of more than 80 islands once known as the New Hebrides achieved independence from France and Britain in 1980.

Most of the islands are inhabited; some have active volcanoes.

Vanuatu is mountainous and much of it is covered with tropical rainforests. Like most of the area, it is prone to earthquakes and tidal waves.

Most of the people live in rural areas and practise subsistence agriculture.

Vanuatu has been spared the unrest which has befallen neighbouring countries such

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VANUATU

President Iolu Abil as the Solomon Islands and Fiji, although the largest island, Espiritu Santo, experienced a brief

insurrection in 1980.

Local traditions are strong. Women, for example, generally have lower social standing than men and have fewer educational opportunities.

Despite strong growth, the economy has struggled to meet the needs of Vanuatu’s expanding population.

The main sources of revenue are agriculture and eco-tourism. Both depend on the weather, and when, as in 1999, cyclones and persistent rain hit Vanuatu, both suffer.

Tax revenue is derived from import duties, and neither personal income nor

company profits are taxed.

Vanuatu tightened up its tax and regulatory systems after the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development warned that it could face sanctions if lax taxation regimes were exploited by criminals for money-laundering.

Australia, a key donor, has pushed for good governance and economic reform in the islands.

FACTS Full name: Republic of Vanuatu Population: 245,800 (UN, 2010)

Capital: Port-Vila Area: 12,190 sq km (4,707 sq miles) Major languages: Bislama, French, English Major religion: Christianity

Life expectancy: 70 years (men), 74 years (women) (UN) Monetary unit: 1 vatu = 100 centimes Main exports: Copra, timber, beef, cocoa GNI per capita: US $2,760 (World Bank, 2010) Internet domain: .vu International dialling code: +678 LEADERS President: Iolu Abil Iolu Abil was chosen as president by Vanuatu’s electoral college - comprising the 52 members of parliament and the heads of the six provincial governments - in September 2009.

He served as a cabinet minister in the first Vanuatu government after the country gained independence in 1980.

He succeeded Kalkot Mataskelekele when his fiveyear term in office expired.

Prime Minister: Sato Kilman Parliament chose Sato Kilman as prime minister in June 2011 after six months of constitutional confusion. He had first been chosen as prime minister in December, but a legal challenge found that he had not been elected by secret ballot as prescribed in the constitution.

Mr Kilman and his People’s Progressive Party have moved in and out of government since 2004, in keeping with the fluid nature of Vanuatu politics.

MEDIA The single TV channel on Vanuatu was established with the help of Radio France Overseas (RFO) and broadcasts in French and English.

Radio Vanuatu runs a shortwave and mediumwave (AM) service, as well as a commercial FM station.

BBC World Service (99 MHz), Radio Australia, Radio France Internationale and China Radio International are available on FM. There is a government newspaper, Vanuatu Weekly, and a handful of privatelyowned papers.

There were 17,000 internet users by November 2008 (InternetWorldStats).

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Steam Baths and how you Benefit from them

Many health spas, gyms and clubs offer steam baths that have numerous benefits.

IMMUNITY A regular steam bath can improve your immune system. During a steam bath, the body temperature becomes very high, which in turn destroys most of the viruses and bacteria that are present in the body. Such an action stimulates the body’s immune system and helps it to activate its own forces.

CANCER The high temperature of steam baths is very effective in destroying malignant cells. Such baths also speed up the generation of antibodies as interferon (an anti-viral protein) is produced that has effective properties to fight cancer.

TOXINS As a steam bath induces perspiration, it helps the body to get rid of waste products and toxins that are accumulated. After a massage, getting a steam bath can help to throw out those toxins that the massage has dislocated.

RELAXATION A steam bath offers relief

from stress as the steam that enters the body helps the tired muscles to relax.

Having a warm shower after a steam bath helps to enjoy a good sleep at night.

CIRCULATION Steam not only improves blood circulation but also offers several cardiovascular benefits by increasing the pulse rate without causing an escalation of the blood pressure.

This happens as the heat causes the blood vessels to expand and have room for an increased blood flow.

Consequently, a larger amount of nutrients are carried to the skin, thereby giving it a healthy and youthful radiance.

WHO SHOULD NOT TAKE A STEAM BATH People having heart diseases or fever, small children, pregnant women and old people should not have steam bath.

HOW TO TAKE A STEAM BATH Don’t take a steam bath for over fifteen minutes at a time. Drink enough water before such a bath as such baths have a dehydrating effect.

SOLUTION FOR LAST WEEK’S SEARCH & FIND

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Born Loser

GI INSURANCE Airman Jones was assigned to the induction center where he was to advise new recruits about their government benefits, especially their GI insurance.

It wasn’t long before Captain Smith noticed that Airman Jones had almost a 100% record for insurance sales, which had never happened before.

Rather than ask about this, the Captain stood in the back of the room and listened to Jones’s sales pitch. Jones explained the basics of the GI Insurance to the new recruits, and then said: If you have GI Insurance and go into battle and are killed, the government has to pay $200,000 to your beneficiaries. If you don’t have GI insurance, and you go into battle and get killed, the government has to pay only a maximum of $6000.”

“Now,” he concluded, “Which bunch do you think they are going to send into battle first?” ***************** A STUCKARMY JEEP During an Army war game a commanding officer’s jeep got stuck in the mud. The C.O. saw some men lounging around nearby and asked them to help him get unstuck.

“Sorry sir,” said one of the loafers, “but we’ve been classified dead and the umpire said we couldn’t contribute in any way.”

The C.O. turned to his driver and said, “Go drag a couple of those dead bodies over here and throw them under the wheels to give us some traction.” ***************** IN GOOD HANDS? All the good knights were leaving for the Crusades.

One knight told his best friend - “My bride is without doubt one of the most beautiful women in the world. It would be a terrible waste if no man could have her.

Therefore, as my best and most trusted friend, I am leaving you the key to her chastity belt to use should I not return from the Crusade.”

The company of knights were only a mile or so out of town when they noticed a cloud of dust approaching.

Thinking it might be an important message from the town the column halted.

A horseman approached. It was the knight’s best friend.

He yells - “Hey, you gave me the wrong key!!” ***************** MILITARYCOMPUTER Officers at a military installation were being lectured about a new computer. The training officer said the computer was able to withstand nuclear and chemical attacks.

Suddenly, he saw that one of the officers had a cup of coffee and yelled, “There will be no eating or drinking in this room! You’ll have to get rid of that coffee.”

The officer said meekly, “Sure, but why?”

“Because a coffee spill could ruin the keyboard.” ***************** DUMPED SOLDIER The soldier serving overseas, far from home was annoyed and upset when his girl wrote breaking off their engagement and asking for her photograph back.

He went out and collected from his friends all the unwanted photographs of women that he could find, bundled them all together and sent them back with a note saying........... “Regret cannot remember which one is you — please keep your photo and return the others.”

PEN P ALS PALS NA M E : Kavita Singh Age: 16 A D D R E S S : Lot 157 Manager ’s Line, Cane Grove, E.C.D. H O B B I E S: Reading, writing and swimming.

NAME: Asha RAM AGE: 20 A D D R E S S : Lot 51 Coconut Dam, Cane Grove, E.C.D. H O B B I E S : Travelling and writting.

NAME: Nirvanie SINGH AGE: 14 A D D R E S S : Lot 157 Manager ’s Line, Cane Grove, E.C.D. H O B B I E S : Playing outdoor and indoor games, dancing, watching television, etc.

NAME: Ravi AGE: 19 ADDRESS: Lot 52 Coconut Dam, Cane Grove, E.C.D. H O B B I E S : Watching television and meeting new friends.

Garfield

Non Sequitur

Peanuts

Shoe

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Preaching God's message to all corners ... over the years? His response was “practice and a lot of praying”. “The Bible says, cease not to pray....so you got to be prayerful in everything you do-- and fasting, that is the key-- if you can't pray and fast, you cannot do the work of God.” At 83, Campbell plans to continue preaching the wise words “until there is life in me.”

Health-wise, he

Brother Campbell is surrounded by his children and some kids from the community who are being cared for by his family.

From page 18 achieve certain things”.

After his parents' death, he knew he wanted to go forward and had a plan to climb the ladder of life, “and did not want to be left down here to be a poor man...I always had a plan in my mind to go forward, even though I came off of school early and did not have an education, I said I must make the money.” But that ideology changed since he took up the task to leave the

business- minded orientation behind to become a preacher.

He conducts church services every Sunday mornings and evenings, as well as Wednesdays.

He is also in high demand as he is invited to other churches on many occasions to preach his sermons and minister to the people.

“There's a church in New Amsterdam and they are begging me to go every

Wednesday and I did go and they want me to go back and they asking me, 'Brother Campbell, when are you coming back?”

So what about his preaching that attracts the masses? “The gift of the man makes way for the man”, was his biblical reply. “That people always desire you.”

One of his sons is also a preacher, so it seems to have been running in the family.

How did he nurture the special gift of preaching

“okay”. He rears chickens in his spare time and rides his vintage bicycle. He keeps himself very active. He also farms in his garden, planting cassava, bananas and vegetables.

When asked what were a few good words for Guyanese and other readers out there from a preacher's standpoint, our 'Special Person' said, “Have faith in

God...no matter how things may seem hard to you, you have to continue putting your trust in God-- He will turn your darkness into light, your sorrows into joy, all you have to do is trust Him and put your confidence in Him and He will never fail you and that is what I try to encourage every man, every woman, whether what race or creed you may be.”

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Parika Roll on/Roll off stelling ‌

Pontoon sinks, further delaying project

By Rabindra Rooplall The two US$14M Roll on/Roll off ferries will be further delayed going into operations as one of the two pontoons which was floating a section of the ramp sank next to the Parika Stelling yesterday.

Speedboat operators noted that they turned out for work and noticed the pontoon on its side with the ramp partially in the water, while another pontoon sank.

Another delay which is also contributing to the setback of the roll on/ roll off stelling is the need for 75foot greenheart piles for the modifications to the design.

The Public Works Ministry is having difficulty in sourcing the piles.

Public Works Minister Robeson Benn had blamed the delay in launching the roll on/roll off ferry service on design changes and a difficulty in sourcing certain supplies required for the project.

One of the major problems had to do with the concrete piles being driven.

Some broke and had to be replaced and driven again.

He had also noted that commuters plying the Parika/Supenaam route will have to wait until August before these vessels can be used.

BK International has undertaken to modify the

The ramp on the two pontoons a week before it sank.

Parika Stelling at a cost of $240.1 million and the Supenaam Stelling at a cost of some $138 million.

BK International had won the initial contract to construct a stelling at Good Hope/Supenaam on the Essequibo Coast. This crossing is intended to reduce the travel time between Parika and the Essequibo Coast. However, this has caused an extensive delay for commuters as many issues were raised towards the completion of the project.

But the need to get the

stelling operational caused the government to inject money into the project.

At a press conference Works Minister Robeson Benn accused BK International of faulty work.

He threatened legal action against the contractor. A similar view was expressed

by Prime Minister Sam Hinds who was mandated by the then President Bharrat Jagdeo to mount an investigation into the project.

The Works Minister had blamed the company which in turn insisted that it

performed according to the design specifications. The company also blamed the Wo r k s M i n i s t r y f o r contributing to the problem of the stelling by attempting modifications.

Initially it took more than four hours for the ferry to travel between Parika and Adventure.

The government decided to limit the travel time to less than three hours by constructing the stelling at Supenaam.

At a cost of more than $400 million BK International constructed the

stelling which then remained idle for nearly two years.

There had been concerns after B.K. was awarded the contracts, especially following problems with the new Supenaam stelling a few years ago. Shortly after that stelling was commissioned, there were issues with the support beam holding the ramp leading from the stelling to the ferry.

The two vessels arrived late December as a “gift� from the Chinese Government and are said to be worth around US$14M ($2.8B).

Each vessel has three decks and can hold up to 800 persons, 44 cars, and 20 lorries and can travel at a test speed of 12.5 knots.

The ferries will continue to provide a crucial link between Essequibo Coast, Region Two, and the city.

Rice and cash crop farmers are heavily dependent on ferries to transport their produce. They also provide a link to Wakenaam and Leguan, two islands in the Essequibo River.

One of the two Chinese vessels will be plying the Essequibo route by August.

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Police arrest gang that robbed gas station, elderly woman on East Coast Quick action by ranks of the Vigilance and Cove and John Police Stations on Friday afternoon led to the capture of four suspects who are responsible for two robberies which took place along East Coast Demerara (ECD) during the past two weeks.

Reports are that the young men staged a robbery at Mon Repos Village, East Coast Demerara, where a woman was stabbed several times about her body on June 16, last.

The young men also allegedly robbed the Chico Ramas Service Station at

- gun recovered Coldingen, East Coast Demerara on June 19, last.

The quartet was caught on the gas station’s security cameras and after viewing the tapes police investigators were able to get fair descriptions of the young men.

Kaieteur News understands that the police decided to stake out one of the bandit’s residence and monitor his movements.

When he began behaving in a suspicious manner the ranks moved in and the young man’s disposition instantly gave him away.

He was questioned and

admitted to the police officers that he was involved in the crimes.

He also provided the ranks with information that led to the arrest of his three accomplices.

After a few hours the police, with the assistance of the Community Policing Group (CPG), were able to apprehend all four male suspects.

They also recovered a gun at one of their homes where a female was present. She is also in police custody at the Beterverwagting Police Station, East Coast

Demerara.

Shortly after their capture, the young men admitted to both robberies and are said to be cooperating with the police.

Kaieteur News also understands that two of the men hail from Annandale while the other two are from Buxton.

One of the culprits was identified as Neville Williams, an ex convict who was shot at the New Amsterdam Prison, Berbice, after he tried to escape during a “jailbreak” there.

He is known for staging robberies and was previously also arrested for piracy.

On June 16, last, 63-yearold Chitranti Narine, who resides alone, was relieved of her gold earrings, two rings and her two bangles.

The woman’s daughter, Babita Narine, had told Kaieteur News that she had just returned home after visiting her mother, who resides next door when one of her cousins called and informed her “that a man with a big gun was standing on the road, in front my mother and she say that she calling my mother phone but it ringing out.”

Narine said she went over to her mother’s and shouted but got no response.

“I start banging on the door and then Trevor (a relative) open the door and run out with blood all over he face and then a man come and hold his gun to my chest and tell me to shut my mouth.”

She claimed that the men then escaped but fired one

shot before they left.

“I run to my mother and I see a hole in her chest and blood pouring out and I collect a towel and put it to her chest and we rush her to GPHC,” the daughter said.

The woman sustained stab wounds to her back, abdomen, chest and hands.

The daughter claimed that her mother’s palm was split in two.

Meanwhile the gang of youths carrying shotguns stormed the Chico Ramas Service Station on June 19, around 03:00 hrs.

They held up two pump attendants at the service station and relieved them of the cash, jewellery and cellular phones that they had in their possession.

The owner of the facility, Chris Ramas, told this newspaper that three armed men raided his business and threatened his two female pump attendants.

Footage from surveillance cameras on the building showed three young men, wearing masks, moving around the premises.

One of them was shown carrying what appeared to be a gun.

“One had a pistol grip shotgun. They told the girls to shut their mouths, threatening to harm them,” the businessman said, adding that the entire ordeal took merely three minutes.

He said that after the men left, the employees contacted him, but by then there was nothing much he could do but call the police.

(Kristen Macklingam)

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GRANGER CONGRATULATES 100-YEAR-OLD BERBICE VETERAN Leader of the Opposition, Brigadier David Granger, travelled to Number 41 Village, West Coast Berbice on Thursday, to congratulate and to spend time with Mr. Arnold Bascom on his 100th birthday.

Born at Number 42 village West Coast Berbice on June 21, 1912, Mr. Arnold Egerton Bascom at 100 is mentally alert and in good spirits. He told the Leader of the Opposition that the secret to his longevity was “not taking on stress and not letting people or things bother him”.

A military veteran, Mr. Bascom was a member of the South Caribbean Forces during the Second World War and is a life member of the Guyana Legion. The Veteran

proudly displayed his military discharge certificate to Brigadier Granger as relatives, friends and well-wishers listened with pride as he recalled his days in uniform.

The Opposition Leader said that he had travelled to Number 41 Village to wish the veteran a happy birthday on his own behalf and on behalf of A Partnership for National Unity and the People’s National Congress Reform.

Mr. Arnold Bascom is a widower whose wife passed away eight years ago. He fathered seven children, six of whom are still alive.

On July 7, several family members and friends from around the World will travel to Bascom’s residence to celebrate his milestone. Brigadier Granger

Centenarian Arnold Egerton Bascom acknowledges the gift from APNU Leader David Granger was accompanied on this visit

by Member of the National

Assembly, Ms. Jennifer Wade and Regional Democratic

Councillor (Region Five) Ms. Carol Joseph.

Guyanese found guilty of smuggling cocaine into Jamaica Jamaica (Go Jamaica) Guyanese national, Ivan Noel, who has pleaded guilty to importing 21 pounds of cocaine into the island is to be sentenced in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court on June 28.

Forty-two-year-old Noel has been charged with possession of, dealing in, conspiracy to import and importing cocaine.

It is alleged that on June 11 around 12 p.m., the accused arrived at the Norman Manley International airport on a flight from Curacao and the drug was found in his luggage. He was subsequently arrested and charged. It is reported that Noel told the cops that he was paid US$5,000 to take the illegal substance to Panama.

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Dian: 227-2256,626-9382 Carwash with or without equipment in G/town Call:231-1786/625-1874 Furnished room for single decent working female Call:231-1786/625-1874 Busy 4 corner business spot, Cummings & Middle Street, presently housed Brazillian Saloon, immediate possession US$850 Negotiable Call: 6906000 Nandy Park US$2000 Call Steve 699-5490 FOR SALE Generator 28KVA SDMO Diesel silent needs fuel pump, digital panel, sold as is $1.2M Call: 621-4000 Generator 28KVA SDMO Diesel, needs fuel pump, general overhaul $800,000 Call: 621-4000,690-6000 Generator Mitsubishi SDMO diesel, silent 27KVA on 400 gallon fuel tank, keystart, like new $1.7M Negotiable Call: 690-6000 Slate pool table, merry-goround,music set Call: 2282098 Dell computers complete with 17 & 19 inch LCD from $50,000 Future Tech 231-2206 Tractor for sale Ford 6640 4WD,Good Working condition $2.8 Million Call Gilbert 609-4372 Brand new 2700 PS1 Honda Pressure Washers Call: 6148564 2.5 ton pallet jacks Call: 6148564 Blackberry-Brand new 9900,9780,9800.

All accessories included. Prices negotiable 680-1722 Cheap earth delivery to spot E.C.D,E.B.D Call: 627-9977, 698-0182 Generac Generator/ American made, 7000w, fully enclosed; low noise.

Propane/gas cylinder, ATS available. Call: 612-1486, 6468326 American Ladders/Scaffold, 30ft/10ft, adjustable/ platforms. 20 ft heavy duty scaffold, platform/locking wheels. Call: 612-1486, 6468326 Clean garden earth and builders waste, also Bobcat rental, excavating, clearing and leveling. Phone: 6160617, 663-3285 Cheap model M cab & 1400x2 tyre & 1200x20 new tyre Call: 648-2413 (Continued on page 56)

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The Abigail Column The up side of a long distance relationship the future?

Miles Away

DEARABIGAIL, My friend and I have been involved in a long distance relationship for six months now.

We keep in touch with each other on a regular basis, calling and visiting each other.

I feel that the distance between us will cause our relationship to end. We have been seeing each other for a year and a half. What are our chances of being together in

relationship still fulfilling, or would you be happier on your own? Depending on how you feel, it may provide clues to a future direction.

Have you considered talking with your partner about how you’re feeling?

Maybe s/he is wondering about the same things. Before running away from your longdistance relationship, take time to think about your feelings and ways to make the most out of being apart. There are many “right” ways to be involved in a loving relationship, and only time will tell if yours will last.

Dear Miles Away, There’s no crystal ball that can predict how long a relationship (long-distance or not) will last, but your current feelings may offer some clues about what the future holds for you and your friend.

To consider the future of your relationship, it might be helpful to take a few steps back and evaluate your own feelings. Do you still care deeply for your friend, or have your feelings waned after six months apart? Is your

Sunday June 24, 2012 ARIES (MAR 21 - APR 19): You might regret turning down an opportunity for the sake of a loved one’s feelings.

Maybe they object to an o f f e r that gives you the chance to travel or they aren’t happy because you’re working with someone they don’t approve of. ****************************** TAURUS (APR 20 - MAY 20): Proving that you are capable of a special job, assignment or commission could be harder than you think.

Prepare yourself for battle! ****************************** GEMINI (MAY 21 - JUN 20): Make room in your life for new ideas to be expressed and this could lead to an exciting fresh start later in the week. ****************************** CANCER (JUN 21 - JUL 22): Does it feel as if you always have to fit your schedule around another person? And they can’t see why you sometimes find this difficult? If a phone call today results in their wanting you to fall in with yet another change of plans, be firm and say ‘No’! ****************************** LEO (JUL 23 - AUG 22): Hold back before cementing a professional association or financial deal and consider the motivations behind this act. If, for instance, it is purely inspired by material gain, what happens if the rewards being promised don’t materialise? ****************************** VIRGO (AUG 23 - SEP 22): Don’t lose sight of your own dreams even if you find you’re spending more time supporting everyone else with theirs. Going out of your way to please others won’t be a waste of time if, through your assistance, they get to make steps towards their goals.

LIBRA (SEP 23 - OCT 22): Especially if your love life isn’t all you want it to be, you might be inclined to give in to temptation. Consider your partner’s reaction, however, should they discover your little indiscretion. ****************************** SCORPIO (OCT 23 NOV 21): You’re full of ideas and keen to spring into action.

But one or two things are holding you back. Not everyone feels the same way you do and if you won’t listen to their points of view, they can make it awkward for you. ****************************** SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22 - DEC 21): Hold on to your temper, especially if an older person who can’t understand your methods looks set to destroy all your hard work. It is unlikely this will happen.

You might not know it yet but there are plenty around who do support you. ****************************** CAPRICORN (DEC 22 JAN 19): Someone who holds a special corner of your heart might say or do something that seems out of character.

Possibly there is something that is causing them upset or disappointment. If they can’t take this out on their loved ones, who can they take it out on? ****************************** AQUARIUS (JAN 20 FEB 18): You might reluctantly admit to the need to make some changes to a private project that hasn’t turned out as you anticipated.

Chances are, you have rushed the last few stages in an effort to get things done. ****************************** PISCES (FEB 19 - MAR 20): Are you making the most of the chances that come your way to enhance your circle of friends?

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Greatness 08:30 – Round Table 09:30 – Twenty/20 West Indies VS England 13:00 –President’s Diary 13:30 – Dharma Vani 14:00 – Feature 14:30 – Catholic Magazine 15:00 – The Naked Truth 15:30 – GRA in FOCUS 16:00 – Family Forum 16:30 – Shape 17:00 – Farmers’ Connection 18:00 – NCN Week in Review 18:30 – Guysuco Roundup 19:00 – Weekly Digest 19:30 – Kala Milan 20:00 – Inside the Government 21:00 – Guyana Model Search 22:00 – Ravi D Show 23:00 – Movie

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(From page 54) VEHICLES FOR SALE Just arrived: Allion and Premio, tel: 624-2000, 622-1610 1 New Model 212 & 2-RZ Excellent condition & 1 3 Y Minibus Call: 678-0191,2201693 or 658-7034 One 2005 Nissan Titan, limited edition, fully loaded (Black), price $3.500,000 Neg. Call: 618-1480 3 ton enclosed & open back canter, unregistered. 6172891 Toyota Runx, special edition, PNN $2.3M, New Model Nissan Wingroad Sports Wagon $2.3M unregistered Call: 6122522,645-5893 One Allion for sale $2.1 million Call: 647-9470 1 Toyota Wish $3.750M,1 Toyota Noah Unregistered $2.3M Call: 648-6869 Toyota Corolla (NZE),fully loaded (rims etc),mint condition Call: 627-6317,691-5703 Thundra,4x4 Titan, all fully loaded with tray covers,magrims,GKK & GMM series going cheap Call: 227-2027,623-4045 1 AT 192 PJJ 6038 $1,050,000,One Mitsubishi Mirage PJJ 2096 $1.2M Call: 639-9528,694-4827 1 Dodge Ram Dually 3500 fully loaded ,good for interior $3M Call: 2272027,623-4045,227-5500 Toyota Hilux pick-up, solid DEF, 4X4 long base, diesel, excellent condition Call: 6230243 Just Arrived Pitbull, VVTI, 2 RZ, Minibuses, Allions, Corollas, Fielders, Spacious, Dump, Long & Short Canters Call: 2593178,650-5657 1 PHH Minibus $360,000 Call: 602-5165,601-8104 Nissan X Trail,white,PMM series,$3.6M Negotiable Call: 695-1333 or 692-3806 The AutoBARN Auto Sales,Never Registered Toyota Premio,Cami,Runx,Raum.Call: 618-9260 2006 Toyota Premio & New model Toyota Spacio Call: 615-4114,665-4480 w w w. f a c e b o o k . c o m / rashanautosales Unregistered Titan,2005,back lights, price $3.5M Call: 6621396,678-0573 1 RX8 PMM,1 Altezza PPP series Call: 619-1435 or 600-1435 One Toyota Corolla AE91 PHH series Call: 696-9078 1 Toyota RZ longbase EFI BLL series ,manual, hardly used price$1.7M Rocky 2251400,621-5902

VEHICLES FOR SALE

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First Class Auto- Spacio, Allex, Raum, Runx and Carina Call: 609-8188,602-6307 Jags Auto: Spacio, Premio, Wagon. Cheapest. Call: 6167635 1 Toyota RAV 4, automatic, fully powered, A/C, CD, mags price $2.3 M Rocky 2251400, 621-5902 1 Toyota AT 212 Carina automatic, fully powered, AC, alarm, CD player price $1.4M Rocky 225-1400,6215902 1 AT 170 Toyota Corona (full light) automatic, fully powered, CD Price $750,000 Rocky 225-1400,621-5902 1 Toyota Hilux Surf (hardly used),automatic, fully powered, alarm price $2.3M Rocky 225-1400,621-5902 1 Toyota Land Cruiser 2003 automatic, fully loaded, immaculate condition price $14.5M Rocky 225-1400,6215902 1 Toyota Vios (PMM series) Automatic, fully powered, A/ C ,mags, alarm ,price $2M Call Rocky 621-5902,225-1400 1 AT 212 Toyota Carina (New model) automatic, fully powered, A/C, alarm, mags, price $1.6M Call Rocky 6215902, 225-1400 1 Mitsubishi Pajero (New model) crystal, automatic, fully loaded, immaculate condition price $8.5M Call Rocky 621-5902,225-1400 Mercedes Benz S300,fully powered, armoured, DVD system $4.5M Call: 621-4000, 690-6000 Cherokee Lorado,4 doors, AC, powered locks & windows PHH series $1.8M Call: 621-4000, 690-6000 Mercedes Benz A140,fully powered, sound system, PMM series $2.8M neg. 6214000, 690-6000 Hummer H2 SUT model-22" rims, multiple TV, back-up camera, DVD/CD, sound system Call: 639-7700 Stretch Limousine 160inch, fully powered, DVD/TV, sound system, see & make offer $10M 621-4000 Mercedes Benz 190E, needs repairs, view @ Sandy Babb Street & Railway Kitty ( Davo Lumber yard) $600,000 Call: 690-6000 Blue Mitsubishi Lancer, complete with press start alarm and music set $1.2 Neg. Call: 651-9983 Lexus LS400/Luxury, BMW 740IL/Luxury, BMW 635CSI/ Sports. Bring mechanic, make offer. Call: 612-1486, 646-8326

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Business spot Cummings & Middle Streets Albertown, 3 lots,2 buildings including store with glass cases, vacant possession 690-6000 Friendship $15M,Church Street US$600,000 Call Steve 699-5490 CAR RENTAL Progressive auto rental, cars from $4,000 per day. Call: 6435122, 656-0087, www.progressiveautorental.com Al”s car pickup & canter rental Call: 698-7807 FABS RENTAL, cars & jeeps rental Call: 600-6890 or email fabsrental@yahoo.com DRESS MAKING 6 weeks course in designing and sewing Call Sharmie 2252598,641-0784

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=== Letters to the Sports Editor ===

Christopher Nurse is Guyana’s most successful World Cup captain DEAR EDITOR, Guyana National Football Team have contested 28 World Cup qualifiers since 1976. Although the National Team won its inaugural World Cup match 2-1 against Suriname at GCC Bourda, July 4, 1976 and defeated Grenada 5-2 at GCC Bourda, July 4, 1976 and defeated Grenada 52 at GCC Bourda March 1980 and 3-2 in the return fixture in April in St. George’s.

The next time Guyana tasted World Victory was 31 years later when the Christopher Nurse led Jaguars defeated Barbados 2 Nil at the Providence National Stadium August, 2011.

Please find below Guyana’s World Qualifiers record after eliminating Grenada 3-2 in St. George’s in April 1980.

Lost to Suriname One Nil GCC Bourda September 1980 Lost return fixture 4 Nil Paramaribo October 1980 Lost to Cuba One Nil Havana October 1980 Lost return fixture 3 Nil at Mackenzie Sports Club Lost to Suriname One Nil 1984 August Paramaribo Drew return fixture One All GCC Bourda 1984 Lost to Trinidad & Tobago 4 Nil Camp Ayanganna March 1988 Lost return fixture One Nil

Christopher Nurse Arima April 1980 Lost to Suriname 2-1 GCC Bourda 1992 Drew return fixture One All Andre Kamperveen Stadium Paramaribo1992 Lost to Grenada 2-1 GCC Bourda 1996 Lost return fixture 6 Nil St. George’s 1996 Lost to Grenada 5 Nil St. George’s 2004 Lost return fixture 3-1 Blairmont 2004 Lost to Suriname One Nil 2008 Andre Kamperveen Stadium Paramaribo Lost return fixture 2-1 Providence National Stadium 2008 Defeated Barbados 2 Nil Providence National Stadium 2011 Defeated Barbados 2 Nil Bridgetown 2008

Defeated Bermuda 2-1 Providence National Stadium 2011 Drew with Bermuda One All Hamilton Stadium 2011 Lost to Trinidad & Tobago 3 Nil Port-of-Spain 2011 Lost to Mexico 3-1 Azteca Mexico City 2012 Lost to Costa Rica 4 Nil Providence National Stadium 2012 Please find below Guyana’s World Cup Captains since 1976: Maurice Enmore 1976 – Santos Earl O’Neal 1980 – Thomas United Gordon Brathwaite 1984 – Western Tigers Deon Barnwell 1988 – Thomas United Andrew Grogan 1988 – Santos Ewart Grenville 1992 – Police Anthony Stanton 1996 – Western Tigers Shawn Beveney 2004 – Western Tigers Charles Pollard 2008 – Net Rockers Christopher Nurse 201112 Miami FC Strange enough Nurse is the only Guyana World Cup Captain to score a goal in a qualifier and is the only Captain with four qualifiers win.

Charwayne Walker

Does This Score line reflect the Sad State of Local Football?

DEAR EDITOR, I laud the commitment of Digicel in sponsoring the 2nd edition of the Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition, which according to a previous report have attracted 154 participating teams. However, my point of contention is the clobbering that Bygeval Secondary inflicted over a hapless Buxton lineup, by an embarrassing 11-1 margin in the lone opening encounter on Friday, June15, 2012 at the GCC ground, Bourda.

Editor, as I remain supportive of the local Creole saying” it takes a village to raise a child”.

This nevertheless can be equated with the support of the village for a football team/ club and more importantly a school team, which normally is traditional and established on the East Coast.

As a consequence the result remains utterly disgraceful! More so, when it’s taken into serious consideration that the village have two football clubs, one

that participates in the GFF National League, and the other in the East Demerara FA Senior League.

Further, both Buxton clubs have qualified coaches, with one actively involved with Bakewell Buxton Stars, and the other is the Technical Development Officer, of the Guyana Football Federation, who also is the holder of an English FA B License Certificate. Apart from these two pertinent issues the village also has a ground of its own.

So, in actuality how much would it have taken from both coaches to voluntarily conduct coaching sessions for the school age youngsters, many of whom can be subsequently absorbed into their respective clubs and save that proud village with its rich cultural and historical background of the undue public embarrassment and humiliation.

As a consequence it ought to be incumbent upon all clubs and associations to

assist the relevant schools with proper coaching and administration wherever necessary. Since most coaches and administrators in some way or the other would have benefitted from courses and seminars under the auspices of the GFF, while not foregoing refereeing.

The COM-UNITY SEMINAR funded by FIFA, was one of those, which also facilitated ADDIDAS sponsored uniforms being distributed to the participants, along with certificates of participation. At the end of the day which ( C o m m u n i t y ’s / c l u b ) benefitted?

Should I, resort to saying “the answer my friend is blowing in the wind”! Photo opportunities for participants, executive the GFF and instructors, still doesn’t translate into actual learning, retainance and imparting of knowledge, from perceivably well attended seminars/ courses. At the end of the day was it COM-UNITY! Lester Sealey.

Guyana’s most decorated and successful bodybuilder DEAR EDITOR, I read constantly in the national media that Hugh Ross (congratulations on his most recent accomplishment) is, and has been Guyana’s most accomplished bodybuilder which is totally inaccurate.

The most accomplished, decorated and successful bodybuilder (easily) from the land of many waters happens to be a woman by the name of Laura Creavalle who performed in Guyana in the 1990s and was inducted into the IFBB Hall of fame in 2007.

While Mr Ross’s performances are noteworthy, he would be Guyana’s most accomplished “Masters” bodybuilder. This however is no comparison to Ms Creavalle’s exploits on the international stage.

See below for a profile and personal accomplishments for Ms Creavalle as compiled by Wikipedia.

Laura Creavalle Last updated 9 months ago Personal Info Born January 25, 1959 (age 53) Country Guyana Professional Career Pro-debut NPC USA Championship, 1986 Best win Ms. International 3 times, 19892002 Active Retired 2002 Laura Cordelia Creavalle is an IFBB professional female bodybuilder, originally from Guyana.

Creavalle was born on January 25, 1959 in Essequibo, Guyana. Laura was one of the most successful female bodybuilders of the 1990s.

Creavalle earned her pro card by winning the heavyweight class at the 1988 IFBB World Amateur Championships in Puerto Rico.

She made her pro debut six weeks later at the 1988 Ms. Olympia contest. She was the first woman to win the Ms. International title three times (since matched by Vickie Gates, Yaxeni Oriquen, and Iris Kyle), and was twice runner-up in the Ms. Olympia contest. She

Laura Creavalle

holds the record for the most consecutive Ms. Olympia appearances with twelve (from 1988 to 1999), finishing below sixth place only in her first appearance.

Now retired from competition, she operates Club Creavalle, offering personal training, nutrition training, and related services. Laura has written two cook books, A Taste of Club Creavalle (ISBN 0-9669168-16) and The Lite Lifestyle: 150 Ultra Low Calorie Recipes for Rapid Weight Loss! She also coauthored The Health Handbook with former husband Chris Aceto. Laura has been a feature editor for Muscle & Fitness magazine on low fat cooking in the Muscle Fare column.

Creavalle now lives in Toronto with her husband Colin Maragh, whom she married in 2000. They operate a company called Healthy (Continued on page 58)

Clyde ‘Oiler’ Watson, Vurlon Mills the only Guyanese to score World Cup doubles DEAR EDITOR, Guyana National Football Team has competed in 28 World Cup Qualifiers since their inaugural match July 4, 1976. In the 28 matches completed to-date the National Team have won 7, drawn 3 and lost 18.

Guyana biggest World Cup Victory is a 5-2 win over Grenada at GCC Bourda in March 1980, while their worst lost is a 6 Nil drubbing by Grenada in St. Georges in 2004.

To date 28 goals have been scored by Guyanese players in World Cup qualifiers since 1976 and the only National Players to registered doubles in qualifiers are Pele Football Club’s, Clyde ‘Oiler’ Watson and Fruta Conquerors Vurlon Mills.

‘Oiler’ Watson registered doubles against Grenada March 1980 at GCC Bourda and April 1980 in the returned fixture in St. George’s, while Mills emulated the feat 2011 against

Bermuda at Providence.

Please find below players that scored for Guyana in World Cup Qualifiers: Vibert Butts 1976 vs Suriname GCC Bourda Keith Niles 1976 vs Suriname - GCC Bourda Gordon Braithwaite 1980 vs Grenada - GCC Bourda Clyde ‘Oiler’ Watson 1980 vs Grenada (2) - GCC Bourda Ashton Taylor 1980 vs Grenada - GCC Bourda Clyde ‘Wolly’ Forde 1980 vs Grenada - GCC Bourda Clyde Oiler Watson 1980 April vs Grenada (2) - St George’s Ashton Taylor 1980 vs Grenada - St George’s Terrence Archer 1984 vs Suriname - GCC Bourda Anthony Stanton 1992 vs Suriname - GCC Bourda Kevin Archer 1992 vs Suriname Andre Kamperveen Stadium Paramaribo Brian Joseph 1996 vs Grenada - GCC Bourda

Carey Harris 2004 vs Grenada - Blairmont Nigel Codrington 2008 vs Suriname Providence National Stadium Shawn Beveney 2011 vs Barbados - Providence National Stadium Charles Pollard 2011 vs Barbados - Providence National Stadium Christopher Nurse 2011 vs Barbados - National Stadium Bridgetown Anthony Abrams 2011 vs Barbados - National Stadium Bridgetown Ricky Shakes 2011 vs Bermuda - National Stadium Hamilton Ricky Shakes 2011 vs Trinidad & Tobago National Stadium Providence Leon Cort 2011 vs Trinidad & Tobago National Stadium Providence Gregory Richardson 2012 vs Mexico Azteca - Mexico City Charwayne Walker

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Sunday June 24, 2012

Spain ease past toothless French into semis (Reuters) - Holders Spain strolled into the Euro 2012 semi-finals after two goals from Xabi Alonso on his 100th appearance secured a 2-0 victory over a listless France team on Saturday.

Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo and Nani will surely give Spain more to think about than a limp France did in a match which, despite being between two of the powerhouses of European soccer, produced little incident or excitement.

Spain again played without a recognized striker with Fernando Torres left on the bench, and their patient ‘Tiki Taka’ football at times became little more than negative possession designed to cajole the French into opening up.

At the other end, Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas had just one attempt on goal to save as the world champions completed their eighth successive knockout game in a major tournament without conceding a goal.

“It is very difficult to create danger for them, they are so tough to beat, you have to be very clinical when you only get 30-35 percent of the possession,” said France coach Laurent Blanc.

The win was the first for Spain in a competitive match against France at the seventh

attempt and avenged their loss in the second round of the 2006 World Cup. Alonso gave Spain the lead in the 19th minute with a powerful header and made sure of the win with a stoppage-time penalty. In between, the world champions were content to keep the ball, often with little attacking purpose.

“We controlled the match well from start to finish and Iker hardly had a save to make.

The important thing now is that we recuperate for the next game,” said Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque.

France came into this tournament having apparently resolved the internal disputes which wrecked their 2010 World Cup campaign but they leave with just a solitary win over Ukraine and they bowed out with a strange lack of determination.

Blanc set up his team in a defensive fashion, bolstering the right flank to try to contain Andres Iniesta.

Right back Mathieu Debuchy was moved forward into midfield ahead of full back Anthony Reveillere and the defensive-minded Florent Malouda started in midfield in preference to Samir Nasri and Alou Diarra.

LONG STRETCH It was a logical, if negative,

Spain's Xabi Alonso (R) celebrates with teammates his goal against France during their Euro 2012 quarter-final soccer match approach for Blanc to take but it was only going to work if the French succeeded in frustrating Spain for a long stretch.

metres out with the goalkeeper blindsided by a host of defenders.

It was clear that the momentum had shifted and they netted two more goals within the space of three minutes to make the contest real interesting.

First, John completed his double, while McKenzie netted from a free kick, before the final whistle sounded handing QC a well deserved victory and a place in the next round.

Meanwhile, Hosororo Secondary despite their 11-0 lost to Region One defending champions Port Kaituma are through to the finals today where they will face Santa Rosa Secondary, at the Settlement Ground, Mabaruma.

Port Kaituma Secondary was disqualified from the tournament for fielding over aged players.

Nigel Peters, Coach of Hosororo Secondary filed a protest after some of his players informed him that a number of players on the Port Kaituma team participated in the competition last year when it was an under 19 tournament.

According to him it was impossible for the players to still be under 18 this year.

with no sign of change to the rather weary pattern of the game, Blanc brought on Nasri and Jeremy Menez just after the hour.

The expected creativity and urgency never really arrived, however, and a spiritless exit for the French was confirmed when in stoppage time Spain substitute Pedro was tripped

by Reveillere and Alonso confidently converted the spot-kick.

Spain now have an allIberian clash to look forward to back in Donetsk where the fans can at least expect Portugal’s aggressive counter-attacking style to provide some moments to raise them from their seats.

Big Benn ready to prove he’s back Port-of-Spain, Trinidad — Sulieman Benn is feeling refreshed and ready as he prepares for a return to West Indies colours. The tall leftarm spinner has been named in the West Indies A Team for this weekend’s Digicel Twenty20 Series against India A at Queen’s Park Oval.

The 30-year-old is the most experienced player in the West Indies 13-man squad. He has taken 51 wickets in 17 Test matches, 29

QC, Freeburg latest to register...

From page 62 defenders, before piercing the goalkeeper with a clinical leftfooter into the far corner.

That goal came in the 17th minute of play.

Threatened by the opposition’s sudden resurrection, QC went on the offensive once again and got their reward when Roberts burst into the penalty area to reach on to a pass delivered from the left flank and he controlled it beautifully, before flicking a shot past the goalkeeper stationed on the near post.

It was a competent finish from clearly the best player on the pitch.

The half time whistle sounded with no addition to the score-line and QCC leading 4-1.

On the resumption, QC extended their lead when Roberts netted after five minutes, but even then it was evident that they were feeling the effects of playing in the hot temperature, while David Rose looked more energetic and produced frequent raids on the opposition backline.

The spirited fight back saw them reduced the deficit by one when Hicks hit a powerful shot from about 25

Instead, however, Spain got ahead in the 19th minute and exactly from the side which Blanc had tried to lock down.

“We had analyzed the

Spanish line-up well because they had two very strong players on the left but what is the most frustrating thing is that we conceded the goal from that side,” said Blanc.

Iniesta fed the overlapping Jordi Alba who got to the line and put in a deep cross which Alonso met with a powerful downward header.

France needed to find an attacking response but they went in at halftime having managed only a curling free kick from Yohan Cabaye which Casillas pushed around the post.

After the break, Franck Ribery did well to create space for a rare cross which Debuchy headed over but

Coordinator of the tournament Lavern FraserThomas made the decision to disqualify Port Kaituma after several players were called upon and their date of birth they gave did not correspond with those provided by the school.

However, Peters said that despite the inaccurate ages provided, his team lost to the better team which was Port Kaituma. “They will be trained better for next year, I had one year to prepare them for this competition”.

Peters also said that once the school will be a part of such tournaments in the future, they will need gears which he is seeking the Ministries of Education and Sport assistance.

This he said will give him a better opportunity to produce one of the best football teams in the region.

Meanwhile, Santa Rosa secured a 3-1 victory over North West Secondary.

Scoring for Santa Rosa was: Dominique Heyliger in the 15th minute, Keith DaSilva in the 27th and Brendon Rodrigues in the 30th.

The lone goal for North West was scored by Quincy Melville.

wickets in 25 One-Day Internationals and 15 wickets in 17 T20 Internationals. He made his first-class debut 12 years ago for Barbados and first played at the international level in 2008 against Sri Lanka.

Benn looked eager and enthusiastic during the Windies’ training sessions on Thursday night, under lights, and in the scorching heat on Friday morning. He outlined his aim to “give it my all” this weekend. Standing six-feeteight-inches tall, Benn could prove to be a difficult proposition for the Indian batsmen with his ability to bowl the new ball in the shortest format of the game.

“Obviously it has been a while since I last put on my West Indies shirt. Being called up and selected to play in the West Indies A Team is a privilege and a big opportunity. I am bowling well and I am confident in my game and the way I am playing, so I will be looking to make an impact this weekend and enjoy my time in the middle,” Benn said after a three-hour

training session at Queen’s Park on Friday.

“Training has gone really great since in I joined the team. It is good to be back in this type of professional set-up again.

Coming from club cricket in Barbados and coming back into the international environment is a few steps up, but I have been around for a while now and I know how to make the adjustment.”

Benn added: “Not looking too far ahead, I just want to enjoy my weekend and perform for West Indies. The team did a huge job to win the four-day series after going a match down, so I just want to come back, fit into the system under coach Hendy Springer, and build on what has been done before.

“I am feeling very confident and I am backing myself to do well. It’s all about being ready when the call comes. I’m fully prepared when the opportunities come along. I had a long time to prepare for these opportunities and I will grab it will both hands.”

The Digicel T20 matches are being played at Queen’s Park Oval yesterday and today. First ball is 7 pm (6 pm Jamaica Time).

WEST INDIES A TEAM T20 SQUAD: Kieran Powell (Captain), Samuel Badree, Christopher Barnwell, Sulieman Benn, Nkrumah Bonner, Jonathan Carter, Jason Holder, Danza Hyatt, Delorn Johnson, Garey Mathurin, Jason Mohammed, Krishmar Santokie, Devon Thomas (Wicket-keeper) Digicel Series Schedule Digicel Test Series 1st Test: India A won by 2 wickets 2nd Test: West Indies A won by 125 runs 3rd Test: West Indies A won by 10 wickets Digicel T20 Series at Queen’s Park Oval, Trinidad 1st Digicel T20: June 23 - 7 pm 2nd Digicel T20: June 24 - 7 pm Digicel 50-over Series at Queen’s Park Stadium, Grenada 1st One-Day: June 27 - 9.30 am 2nd One-Day: June 29 - 9.30 am 3rd One-Day: July 1 - 9.30 am

Guyana’s most decorated and successful...

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Contest history 1983 Novice Canada - 1st 1983 Toronto Championships - 1st 1983 Ontario Canadian Championships novice - 1st 1985 Toronto Championships - 1st 1985 The Choice of Champions - 1st 1986 NPC Southern California - 1st (HW) 1986 NPC California State - 2nd (HW) 1986 NPC Nationals - 4th (MW) 1986 NPC USA Championship - 1st (LHW and Overall) 1986 NPC USA Mixed Pairs - 1st 1988IFBBCaribbeanChampionships-1st(HW) 1988 IFBB World Amateur Championships - 1st (HW) 1988 IFBB Ms. Olympia - 11th

1989 Pro World - 8th 1989 IFBB Ms. Olympia - 6th 1990 Ms. International - 1st 1990 IFBB Ms. Olympia - 4th 1991 IFBB Ms. Olympia - 3rd 1992 Ms. International - 3rd 1992 IFBB Ms. Olympia - 2nd 1993 IFBB Ms. Olympia - 3rd 1994 Ms. International - 1st 1994 IFBB Ms. Olympia - 2nd 1995 Ms. International - 1st 1995 IFBB Ms. Olympia - 5th 1996 Ms. International - 2nd 1996 IFBB Ms. Olympia - 4th 1997 IFBB Ms. Olympia - 4th 1998 IFBB Ms. Olympia - 5th 1999 Pro Extravaganza - 1st 1999 IFBB Ms. Olympia - 3rd 2002 IFBB Ms. Olympia - 6th (LW) Linden Alphonso

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European GP: Vettel takes Sangakkara’s unbeaten 199 lifts Sri Lanka pole position in Valencia Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel took a stunning pole position at the European Grand Prix.

The world champion was 0.324 seconds clear of McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton in an otherwise closely fought qualifying session on the Valencia street track.

Williams’s Pastor Maldonado was third, ahead of the Lotus drivers Romain Grosjean and Kimi Raikkonen, with Jenson Button ninth.

Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso and Red Bull’s Mark Webber were 11th and 19th.

The Force Indias looked like they might challenge at the front but Nico Hulkenberg and Paul di Resta ended up eighth and 10th.

Di Resta admitted that a mistake in the final corner on his final lap cost him the chance to be much higher up.

“I think we wouldn’t have been far away but I just locked a wheel,” Di Resta said.

Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg was sixth, ahead of Sauber’s Kamui Kobayashi.

Vettel’s pole was his third in a row at this track, and the 33rd of his career, matching the great Jim Clark and Alain Prost.

Red Bull brought a major aerodynamic upgrade to Valencia and Vettel has appeared to be the man to beat from the outset.

“A surprising gap,” he said. “But the boys have been working very hard this weekend to bring a couple of new parts to the car. They seem to work.”

Hamilton, who had struggled in practice, said he did not expect to be on the front row.

“To be honest I expected to be a lot further back,” he said. “We have been struggling all weekend, and we had to make some guesses as to what kind of set-up we wanted and it seemed to work OK. “The gap is quite big here and it’s going to be a tough race here as always.”

Webber was unable to take advantage of Red Bull’s

Sebastian Vettel (centre) will start on pole ahead of Lewis hamilton (left) and Pastor Maldonado improved performance after suffering a series of problems on Saturday.

Webber failed to get out of the first session after his DRS overtaking aid failed. He had earlier missed most of the final practice session with brake problems.

“We had no DRS so that’s 1.3 seconds,” said Webber, who is only nine points off the world championship lead.

“Makes it very difficult. The car has put up a good fight today, we only did four laps today and three of these were in qualifying.

“We put on the soft tyres but we were in a desperate situation, we had to try and get through.

“The lap time wasn’t too bad with the DRS out. It’s a big hit for us, here and Barcelona through no fault of my own, but that’s the way it can go in 20 races.”

Alonso, who battled for victory in the previous three races, found his car was simply not competitive on the twisty Valencia street circuit.

The Spaniard, two points behind championship leader Hamilton, was just over 0.2secs off the pace in the second part of qualifying, but that was good enough only for 11th place on the grid.

Button was nearly 0.4secs slower than Hamilton and said he struggled with locking his front brakes on his final run and was pessimistic about being able to make any

progress in the race.

“We’re in Valencia, not a lot happens here in the race. You can’t overtake around here.

“If you get it right on the strategy maybe, but the way the tyres seem to hold on for most people it’s not going to be the most exciting race. The only person who’s will maybe move up is the Lotus in fourth [Grosjean].”

However, the 2009 world champion later took to Twitter to soften his initial pessimism: “Hey guys, another tough day. Sorry for my negative comments about Valencia.

Now I’ve calmed down I think there is still a lot to play for on Sunday!”

Michael Schumacher was 12th, failing to get into the top 10 shoot-out after being 0.266secs slower than Rosberg in the second session.

Heikki Kovalainen did an impressive job in the Caterham to beat Toro Rosso driver Jean-Eric Vergne and make it through into the second part of qualifying.

The Finn was not able to make any further progress, however, and will line up 17th.

HRT confirmed the steady progress they have been making in recent races with both their drivers out-qualifying the Marussia of Charles Pic. The Frenchman’s teammate Timo Glock did not take part in qualifying because he was feeling unwell - the German has been battling a stomach upset.

AFP – Kumar Sangakkara was stranded on an unbeaten 199 even as Sri Lanka took charge of the first cricket Test against Pakistan in Galle on Saturday.

The left-hander’s monumental nine-hour effort saw the hosts recover from 335-5 in the morning session to post 472 in their first innings on the second day.

Pakistan were tottering at 48 for five in reply at stumps with seamer Nuwan Kulasekara and off-spinner Suraj Randiv both taking two wickets each off successive deliveries.

Kulasekara removed opener Taufeeq Umar and Azhar Ali, while Randiv dismissed skipper Mohammad Hafeez (20) and nightwatchman Saeed Ajmal in gloomy conditions.

Asad Shafiq fell to Rangana Herath, leaving veteran Younis Khan unbeaten on 15 with Pakistan still 225 runs away from saving the follow-on.

Sangakkara missed out on his ninth double-century in Test cricket partly due to an error in the scoreboard on the ground which showed him on 194 when his score was actually on 193.

With last man Nuwan

Pradeep at the other end, Sangakkara smashed Ajmal for a six and raised his arms in celebrations believing he had reached the coveted doublecentury.

Team-mates, who saw the correct score on television, immediately signalled to Sankgakkara that he still needed one more run — but to no avail.

Unable to get a run off the last ball of the over, Sangakkara could only watch from the non-striker’s end as Pradeep was bowled by Hafeez for no score in the next over. Sangakkara, who was on 182 when the ninth wicket fell, scored all the 17 runs in the last-wicket stand, but found himself agonisingly short of the coveted mark.

Sangakkara, a 34-year-old veteran of 109 Tests, has eight double hundreds in his 29 three-figure knocks in Test cricket.

The left-hander held the innings together after Ajmal claimed his sixth five-wicket haul in 21 Tests to restrict Sri Lanka when the hosts resumed at 300-2.

The off-spinner, who had taken both wickets on Friday, struck thrice in the morning session.

Ajmal dismissed Sri

Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardene for 62, before removing Thilan Samaraweera and Angelo Mathews off successive balls soon after the drinks break.

Mahela Jayawardene added seven runs to his overnight score of 55 when he was bowled by Ajmal, ending a 128-run partnership for the third wicket with Sangakkara.

Ajmal had Samaraweera stumped by Adnan Akmal for six and beat Mathews in the air to pick up an easy return catch with the fifth and sixth deliveries of his 30th over.

Sangakkara denied Ajmal a hat-trick in the bowler’s next over and put on 80 for the sixth wicket with Prasanna Jayawardene, who made 48.

Ajmal, 34, was the world’s leading Test wicket-taker in 2011 with 50 scalps in eight matches. He grabbed 24 wickets in Pakistan’s 3-0 whitewash of top-ranked England earlier this year.

Prasanna Jayawardene fell soon after a 16-minute interruption due to rain in the post-lunch session when he was caught behind off Hafeez.

The tourists cleaned up the tail on either side of tea with Hafeez finishing with three for 55 and Abdur Rehman with one for 126.

Scores: Pakistan 48 for 5 (Randiv 2-5, Kulasekara 215) trail Sri Lanka 472 (Sangakkara 199*, Dilshan 101, M Jayawardene 62, Ajmal 5-146) by 424 runs.

Ireland v Australia one-day international abandoned Ireland’s one-day international against Australia at Stormont has been abandoned after only 10.4 overs of play because of bad weather on Saturday.

The umpires took the decision to call the match off after making a final inspection of the pitch at 16:00 BST. The start was delayed until 11:30 BST and Ireland were 36-3 when the players came off the pitch due to rain.

Australia bowler Brett Lee bowled William Porterfield with his first ball and Ed Joyce with his third delivery.

Heavy rain on Friday had put the game in doubt, but the players were able to come onto

the field after Australia had won the toss and elected to field. Paul Stirling was the other Irish batsman to fall as he was caught by Michael Clarke off the bowling of Pat Cummins for 24.

Niall O’Brien was 11 not out and Gary Wilson had yet to score when play was halted.

News of the abandonment came as a major disappointment to the large crowd at the east Belfast venue.

Ireland will now turn their attention to the two forthcoming one-day internationals against Afghanistan on 3 July and 5 July.

Australia now face Essex at Chelmsford on Tuesday, before their five-match ODI series with England starts at Lord’s on Friday.

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RCMTC&SF, Banks DIH Caricom Day Horserace Meet...

Charlotte Edwards steers England women Entries close today, over 65 entered so far past Ireland

Charlotte Edwards England’s women warmed up for their one-day series against India by beating Ireland in a Twenty20 international.

Having lost the toss, captain Charlotte Edwards opened for England and anchored the innings, batting through the 20 overs for 72 not out from 61 balls.

Arran Brindle (29) helped them to 136-4 in their first summer international. Ireland openers Clare Shillington (29) and Cecelia Joyce (16) added 47 but both fell to spinner Danni Wyatt as the Irish finished on 85-5, 51 runs short.

England’s miserly spin trio of Wyatt (2-12), Laura Marsh (1-10) and Holly Colvin (1-12) put the brakes on in mid-innings, while Marsh trapped Ireland captain Isobel Joyce lbw.

The Joyce twins had earlier combined to remove Lydia Greenway, with Cecelia taking a catch off Isobel’s bowling.

Edwards said: “It was good to get out and play after the conditions have been against us for most of the week. “We were a little bit rusty in the field, but that’s understandable given we haven’t had that much cricket due to the rain. “I feel in good form, but credit to Ireland, they bowled really well up front.”

India, who were beaten by the England Women’s Academy side earlier in the day, now face Ireland in a Twenty20 international at Loughborough on Sunday, before England begin their limited-overs series against India with a T20 international at Canterbury on Tuesday.

With the big day just over one week away, entries and sponsors are rolling in for the Grand Annual July 2nd Caricom Day Horserace meet organized by The Ryan Crawford Memorial Turf Club and Sports Facilities in collaboration with beverage giants Banks DIH Limited.

A whopping $9M is up for grabs and a total of 10 races on the day’s card. With this being the opening meet for the second half of the 2012 racing season, horseracing fans are gearing up for an action packed and scintillating day of racing.

So far over 65 top horses which represent the cream of the crop in the horseracing circle in Guyana have taken entry in what is expected to a signature opening event.

The organizers both the RCMTC&SF and Banks DIH, which are well known for their organizing abilities and bring off outstanding and successful events, have vowed to make this occasion a memorable one and set the stage for the rest of the year.

The events listed to be contested are the B and lower Private Dancer stakes over 1700M compliments of the Elcock Family of the USA and Banks DIH Limited for a luxurious first prize of $1M and trophy.

The E and lower River Dance Spring Classic for the Ryan Crawford Memorial Trophy compliments of the Elcock family of the USA over 1200M with a first prize of $500,000.

The 3 years old Guyana and West Indies Bred Alness Derby will be run for the 31st time. The 1600M event will see the winner taking home $500,000 and the Sunil Tickram trophy.

The race for 2 years old Guyana and West Indian bred horses over 1100M will see the winner racing away with $450,000 and the Robbie Tickaram trophy

complements of the Tickaram family of the USA. The Guyana Bred Three Year old 1000M event will have a first prize of $400,000 and trophy compliments of the Elcock family of the USA. The Guyana bred two year old horses will compete for a winners money of $400,000 and the Kingsway Memorial Trophy complements of the Suknandan Family of the USA over 950M. The G and lower1600M event will see the animals racing for a $400,000 winner’s money and trophy compliments of Roopnauth Sewsankar of the USA. The other events will have trophies compliments of Trophy Stall and various other donors. The Races are the H and lower clash over 1400M affair with a first prize of $300,000. The animals in the ‘I’ class event will be competing for $180,000 winners money over 1400M. The K&L (Division 2 and 3) event will fetch a winning prize of $150,000 over 1400M. Banks DIH Limited has been joined by a number of sponsors both in Guyana and

overseas to be a part of the day’s activity. Among them are - Guyana Bank of Trade and Industry (GBTI), Hand in Hand Insurance Company, Delmur Company Limited, P & P Insurance Brokers, Dequan Shipping and Trading, Ramesh Sunich of the Trophy Stall Bourda market, Mohammed Rahim, the Elcock Family, Ryan and Julio Perreira, Bobby Misir, R.N Poonai Attorney – At – Law. The overseas sponsors include Aubrey Elcock and Family of the U.S.A, the Tickaram Family of the U.S.A, Roopnauth Sewsankar of the U.S.A, the Suknandan Family of the U.S.A and Sunil Tickaram of the U.S.A. Among the horses entered so far are The Message, Night Crescendo, Majestic, Donut prince, Ferry Landing, Swing Easy, Face De Fire, Dubai Duchess, Mission King, Work Force, Storm in a Tea Cup, Red cloud, Come Dance with Me, California Strike, Prince Charming, Wicked Intention, Royal Champion, the Legend, De Gump, Awesome Warrior, Who So Ever, Nandani, The

Baliff, Dream Girl, Stormy Lass, Bridle Stone Corner, Savion, Wad – A – Luck, Technology, Third World, Mona Lisa, Pick Pocket, Flying Baby, Gold Princess, The Shariff, Jusin, Red Man, Windy Killer, Lucky Gamble, Care Taker, Wonder Flower, Royal Time, Sporting Time, Speed Vision, Extra Heat, Funny Sided, Apostle, Try Again, Silver Kid, Kevin, Sleeping Thong, Gold Plated, Jasmine, Party Time, Peeping Tom, Sport Again, Motor Vator (Jr.), Easy To Win and Custom Warrior.

Outstanding individual performers including top Jockey, trainer and stable will be presented with accolades compliments of the Trophy Stall Bourda Market and the RCMTC&SF. Interested persons can contact the club’s office at Number 13 Hermitage East Coast Berbice (19 Road), Bobby Vaughn on telephone number 624-6788 or Noresa Saul on numbers 333-0290 or 333-0301 or Doctor Dwight Walrond on Telephone numbers 623-0100 or 2206557. (Samuel Whyte)

Parnell leads South Africa to final AFP – Wayne Parnell spearheaded a much improved South Africa attack as they defeated Zimbabwe by six wickets Saturday in the final mini-league match at a non-cap Twenty20 tri-nations tournament.

Zimbabwe failed to build on a bright start in perfect midwinter conditions at Harare Sports Club and made only 124-6 off 20 overs while South Africa reached 130-4 with 14 balls to spare.

South Africa, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh finished with eight points each after two wins and two losses and the Asian Tigers were eliminated as they had the poorest net run rate.

So South Africa and Zimbabwe clash at the same venue Sunday for the third time within five days with each team having beaten the other in a warm-up tournament for the ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka during September and October.

Parnell put a poor start to this week behind him with figures of 3-16 off four overs, including a maiden, and his first victim was Zimbabwe dangerman Hamilton Masakadza (36) before a big, lively crowd.

Leading tournament run getter Masakadza struck a half-volley into the covers where Farhaan Behardien took a low catch off the first ball of a crucial eighth over.

A couple of balls later and Parnell struck again with Malcolm Waller out for a duck in his first appearance of the week after edging the second ball he faced to wicketkeeper Dane Vilas.

Unbeaten Graeme Cremer (36) and Stuart Matsikenyeri (22) helped lift Zimbabwe to 124 runs on a slow, gripping and turning wicket, but it was never going to be enough, bar a South African collapse.

Big hitter Richard Levi got the Proteas off to the perfect start with 54 runs off 30 balls — including four sixes and four fours — and the dismisssal of captain Hashim Amla for a duck hardly affected the run chase.

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GOA host successful BMX Meet for IOD 2012

By Franklin Wilson In observance of International Olympic Day 2012 the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) ran off the first of a series of events at the Inner Circuit of the National Park yesterday; a BMX 5-Race Meet that saw the best riders in the

country competing.

The short, crisp and entertaining event, which was witnessed by GOA President K.A Juman Yassin and President of the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) Cheryl Thompson, saw 25 cyclists competing.

Isaiah Sahadeo won the 69, 2-Lap contest in 7 Minutes

OLYMPIC DAY RUN/ JOG/WALK TODAY

- GDF looking to retain title All athletes and interested participants will assemble today to partake in the symbolic Olympic Day Run/Jog/Walk at the YMCA in Thomas Lands, Camp Road from 6am.

The staging of the activity that symbolises the spirit of the Olympics across the world will see contestants starting at YMCA, proceeding to the East Coast to the Old Turkeyen Road and concluding at starting line to observe the global “International Olympic Day’.

There will be a 10km Team Run among teams from the athletic clubs across Guyana.

Participating teams in this segment must comprise of two females and four males.

Each competitor is expected

to finish the race before their points are formally tallied.

The 10km Team Run is also extended to Associations and Schools, each allowed to register a maximum of two teams.

Defending champions, Guyana Defence Force (GDF), will be looking to retain their title again, last year they sent in ‘A’ and ‘B’ Teams to secure their title, this year will their plan will be no different.

Ashanti Scott will be the front runner for female team as Cleveland Forde will be the lead runner in the male team.

The winner of the Team Run will pocket $60,000 while the second and third place teams will get $42,000 and $30,000 respectively.

Participants are asked to assemble at 5:30am.

41.02 Seconds with Christopher Gorin and Nicholas D’Andrade 2nd 3rd.

Linden’s Jamal Arthur ruled the roost in the 9-12 category; winning the 3-Lap event in 11 Minutes 04.41 Seconds. Denzil Hartley settled for second and Keon Harris, third.

Kapildev Diaz won the 1214 (3-Laps) match-up in 8 Minutes 49.28 Seconds, crossing the line comfortable ahead of Yusuf Latiff and Shamaun George in that order.

In the first open race which saw the competitors pedaling for 3 Laps, Makel Diaz topped the field in 7 Minutes 36.36 Seconds; Adrian Sharma crossed the line behind Diaz and before Julio Melville.

The final event of the morning, another open contest, this time for 4 Laps, saw Sharma ending in winners’ row clocking 10 Minutes 44.36 Seconds. Julio Melville improved to second place while Khemraj Sanichar took the third place.

Mr. Yassin in remarks to the riders before the presentation complimented them for turning out in full numbers inclusive of the Linden competitors. He thanked the GCF and National Coach Hassan Mohamed for the roles they played in

GCF National C/ships 2012 – Time Trials...

Bentley, Jeffery, Newton and FraserGreen win respective categories

By Franklin Wilson There were new winners in each of the four categories of the Time Trials when the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) National Championships 2012 rode off yesterday in sweltering heat on the Linden Soesdyke Highway.

Overall, 36-riders competed in the event which preceded today’s big Road Race which is set to start and end in the Bauxite Mining Town of Linden for the first time ever.

Even before the sun set yesterday, the champions of the respective categories in the Time Trials were decided; and guess what at least in one instance; there was a pleasant surprise.

Yes, in the much talked about senior category which incidentally, did not see participation from Alonzo Greaves nor Robin Persaud even though they could have competed based on a senior official of the GCF; Jude Bentley rode his way to the top spot in 21 Minutes 36.39 Seconds.

Pedaling off from the Hill Top at Madewini on the Linden Soesdyke Highway riders proceeded to the old Toll Gate and returned to the starting line for the finish.

Bentley dug in deep to win the senior category from Marlon ‘Fishy’ Williams (22: 00.10) and Enzo Matthews (22:00.14) in that

order. Last year’s winner, Walter Grant-Stuart was not able to repeat.

London based Claire Fraser-Green was the top female on the day winning this category in 25 Minutes 58.25 Seconds comfortably ahead of last year’s winner Hazina Barrett (27:31.61) who had to settle for the third position behind Naiomi Singh who completed the distance in 27 Minutes 04.70 Seconds.

Raynauth Jeffrey stamped his authority in the junior class by taking the top spot in 21 Minutes 52.22 Seconds relegating last year’s winner Paul DeNobrega to the second place with a time of 21 Minutes 55.79 Seconds.

Linden’s Michael Anthony copped the third spot in 22 Minutes 36.73 Seconds.

Raymond Newton was the top veteran winning this division in 22 Minutes 33.41 Seconds. Shameer Baksh followed in 24 Minutes 15.76 Seconds with Kennard Lovell next in 24 Minutes 35.60 Seconds.

With the first part of the championships completed, riders will now turn their attention to the second stanza of the whole today, the Road Race set to pedal off at Amelia’s Ward, Linden proceed to Madewini Hill and return to the starting line for the finish.

Junior riders will turn back at Kuru Kuru, while the female riders and the veterans will turn back at Dora, all on the Linden Soesdyke Highway. Race time today is 08:00hrs.

helping to bringing off the successful event.

“I do hope that out of this bunch of riders Guyana will have a few Olympians in a few years.”

Yassin also encouraged the young cyclists to focus on their education informing them that if they look at the successful sportsmen and women of the world, they all have a solid educational foundation.

“Ensure that you focus on your education along with sports because this is a vital combination for your success as a person.”

Thompson also commended the competitors for turning out to participate in an event that is observed around the globe. The top three finishers in each category were rewarded with trophies.

Olympic Day, held annually on June 23, is celebrated by thousands of

Category winners from left: Makel Diaz, Jamal Arthur and Kapildev Diaz.

(Franklin Wilson photos) people in more than 160 countries. Commemorating the birth of the modern Olympic Games, Olympic Day is not only a celebration, but an international effort to promote fitness and wellbeing in addition to Olympic

ideals of Fair Play, Perseverance, Respect and Sportsmanship.

Meanwhile, the GOA will today host another Olympic Day activity beginning at 06:00hrs from the YMCA. They will host a jog, walk and run.

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Sunday June 24, 2012

Guinness F/Ball Ambassador Kenwyne Jones visits ‘Back Circle’

By Sean Devers Twenty-seven year-old Trinidadian star footballer Kenwyne Joel Jones, the Striker for English Premier League club Stoke City was in Guyana as the Guinness brand ambassador during the inaugural Caribbean Guinness Street Challenge and yesterday afternoon paid a visit to ‘Back Circle’ in East Ruimveldt, the area from which the Guyana team comes from.

The 6 feet 2 inches Jones held a motivational session with an eager group of under15 footballers mainly from GFC, Santos and the Back Circle area.

Jones began his football career with Joe Public in T&T and moved to W Connection in 2002 before representing T&T as a utility player the next year against Finland. In 2004, he joined Southampton, where he was converted to a striker before being loaned to Sheffield Wednesday and Stoke City during the 2004– 05 Season.

In 2007 he joined Sunderland for £6 million where he spent three seasons before signing for Stoke City on a four-year-deal for a club record fee of £8 million in August 2010.

One of Jones’ task as the Guinness Brand Football Ambassador is to travel around the Caribbean promoting Street Football and encouraging players of all ages with mentorship and inspirational talks.

Since ‘Back Circle’ are the 2011 Guinness in the Street

Trinidadian says hard work & discipline key to success

Kenwayne Jones (back centre) and a number of youths share a photo op.

National Football Champions in Guyana that area was chosen for Jones’ talk yesterday and also as the area that a street Football playing arena would be build if team Guyana won the Caribbean Guinness Street Challenge which concluded at the National Park tarmac last night.

Jones, who was born in Point Fortin, Trinidad to Lydia and Pamphile and attended St. Anthony’s College in Trinidad along with his future Sunderland team-mate Carlos Edwards, told the youths that belief in your dreams,

discipline in every area of your life and hard work were the keys to success.

His uncle, Philbert Jones was also a forward for the T&T Strike Squad that came within a point of qualifying for the 1990 World Cup and was a similar player to Kenwyne both in style and celebration and Kenwyne told the gathering that he was at one time just like the children present; playing Football in the Street with nothing but a passion and a dream.

Jones had trials at Manchester United and

Middlesbrough in 2002, and further trials at West Ham United and Rangers in 2004 and revealed in an interview that he had to travel around Europe looking for a football club, or face a career in the Trinidad army.

“It was hard because I’d just had my son and it was make it… or join the army. I had a family to support and at that time, it was either this is it... or I go into the services.

I was ready for that life.” He explained.

Today Jones is just as imposing off the field as on it

and said he hoped that someday he would be sitting somewhere watching some the kids present yesterday playing on TV. “It’s not easy to be a professional Footballer. It looks nice on TV but it takes hard work and discipline to be successful at the highest level. I would wake up to train at six in the morning and then go to school. I would then practice during the lunch break, train again in the afternoon and then make sure I do my homework. I did this for about six years. It was

Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition...

QC, Freeburg latest to register wins

By Rawle Welch Queen’s College (QC) nearly squandered a handy lead, before holding on for dear life to escape with a narrow 5-4 win over David Rose in their clash in the Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition which continued yesterday, at the Carifesta Sports Complex.

At one point they led 5-1, before David Rose produced a spirited fightback.

They were led to victory through a helmet-trick from striker Walter Roberts, who netted in the 5th, 11th, 26th and 40th minutes, while Stephen Rutherford supported with his strike in the 3rd minute of play.

On target for David Rose was Jamal John, who hammered in a brace in the 17th and 57th minutes, while Reshawn Hicks (55th) and

Matthew McKenzie (60th) added the others.

In the opening game, Freeburg defeated Ascension 5-2 through double strikes from Selwyn Foster (13th and 34th) and Alex Murray (16th and 25th), while Shurland Profitt had opened the scoring for them in the 9th minute of play.

Antonio Roberts (51st) and Keron Duesbury (60th) were the marksmen for Ascension.

In the feature affair, QC took the lead as early as the 3rd minute when Rutherford latched on to a ball from the right wing and crashed a shot into the far corner from about 15 metres out.

Bouyed by their early success, QC showed offensive urgency and increased their advantage two minutes later when Roberts received a pass

The victorious Queen’s College team pose for a photo op following their win over Davis Rose yesterday. down the middle and eased past two defenders, before beating the advancing goalkeeper to the right.

The boys from Eve Leary were not done and stretched their lead in the 11th minute

when Roberts, found himself unmarked just outside the penalty area from a scrimmage and unleashed a vicious shot past the hapless David Rose custodian to make it 3-0.

However, David Rose,

despite falling behind managed to pull one back through a moment of brilliance that saw John exhibit sheer artistry when he waltzed his way past a host of (Continued on page 58)

hard but you need to work hard on Football and your school work if you want to be an International Footballer,” Jones said.

“If you want to be a doctor, Lawyer, Cricketer, Footballer…whatever you want to become it takes discipline and hard work because nothing comes easy.

Never give up on your dreams even when you fail the first time and people discourage you. Discipline and a positive mind help you in every area of life especially when things don’t go your way and that is very, very important if you want to be successful,” Jones said.

Jones was married to Avalon and has three children: Isaiah, and twins Arianne and Kaelyn but went through a ‘messy’ divorce in March last year which affected his performance at Stoke’s at the beginning of his signing. But he rebounded to repay the faith his Manager Tony Pulis had in him.

“We need goals in our team and we also need strong competition among our strikers if we are to continue improving at this level.”Kenwyne will give us that. It’s no secret that I am one of his biggest admirers.

He did a smashing job for us when he was here on loan.

“He was very young back then but I believe that he has the best years ahead of him as a top striker.” said Pulis at Jones’ signing.

Banks DIH Guinness Brand Manager Lee Baptiste said he felt the inaugural Caribbean competition in Guyana was very good for exposure and branding and was a great way of giving back to the community, especially at the grass root level.

“Due to the high cost to stage the competition here (approximately $5Million) we had to charge an entrance fee for the first time which might have resulted in the crowds being less than we anticipated. If Guyana wins tonight (last night) we have already spoken to the Sports Minister and Minister Benn to try and get some land in the vicinity of Back Circle once it’s available, to set up the Street Football facility,” Baptiste informed.

“A lot of people think that because this is street football and involves many grass root areas, discipline is not important but it is very important. I am pleased with the level of discipline from the players and fans. Our National Guinness Street competition is fixed for November and the competition should be keen since an added incentive is now making the Guyana team and traveling overseas,” Baptiste said.

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Team Guyana clear favourites after ending unbeaten in preliminary rounds

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Action in the clash between Team Guyana and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Guinness Brand Ambassador Stoke City star and Trinidad and Tobago Captain Kenwyne Jones speaks to the Press on Friday evening at the National Park.

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eam Guyana went into the final night of competition last evening as clear favourites to capture the inaugural Guinness Caribbean Street Challenge Futsal title after producing some inspiring performances in the preliminary rounds, playing unbeaten to end the phase with the maximum points.

Just as they had done on the opening night, the local ballweavers maintained their unbeaten streak with another top class performance to end the second night of competition at the National Park unconquered and a place in the semi-final against St. Lucia who finished the preliminary rounds on 3 points.

In the other semi-final, Trinidad and Tobago, who was next best after ending on 9 points from four matches, will face St. Vincent and the Grenadines, who closed on 6 points.

Antigua finished the preliminary phase without a point.

In results of the final round of preliminary matches: Antigua and Barbuda 0 versus Trinidad and Tobago2 Goal Scorers Kerwin Simon 2nd and 3rd

Guyana 2 vs. St Vincent 0 Goal Scorers Andy Duke 2nd min Vincent Thomas 11th min Antigua and Barbuda 0 vs. St Lucia 4 Goal Scorers Douglas Marcellin 4th and 18th min Kevin Edwards 17th min Tamil Joseph 20th min Trinidad and Tobago 0 vs. St Vincent 0 Trinidad won 1-0 on penalty kicks Goal Scorer Cory Carrington Guyana 2 vs. St Lucia 1 Goal Scorer Guyana Daniel Favorite 5th min Travis Grant 10th min St. Lucia Kevin Edwards 18th min Last night’s final round of matches will be preceded by two exhibition games involving Antigua and Barbuda taking on Albouystown and Broad Street vs. Island All Star.

Following those matches, the third place playoff with be played, before a live performance from Bugle and then the final will follow.

Category winners: from left, Jude Bentley, Claire Fraser-Green, Raymond Newton and Raynauth Jeffrey.

(Franklin Wilson Photos)

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