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Passenger boat en route from Venezuela explodes...
ONE DEAD, CAPTAIN Parents must know about the Importance of the HPV vaccine AND OTHERS MISSING DEAR EDITOR, We wish to contribute to the ongoing dispute regarding the vaccination of children in public and private schools, the health effects of vaccines, and the matter of consent. We will be responding more specifically to concerns surrounding the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. Regarding the safety and efficacy of the HPV vaccine Gardasil, health experts and scientists around the world have rigorously studied the matter for years, all of which essentially demonstrate that the vaccine Gardasil is safe for human consumption and effective against the most common strains of the Human Papillomavirus. Government funded health institutions, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States, and international health organizations, such as the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), including countless institutions within the scientific community comprising of leading educational institutions and scientific associations, all provide corroborated research to attest to the safety and efficacy of the HPV vaccine. Side effects of popular HPV vaccines are not severe, often minor or rare. According to the CDC, the most notable side effects, if at all, include nausea, muscle aches, tired feeling, and headaches. Some people may experience fever-like symptoms, but studies have shown no link between getting a fever after being vaccinated and the vaccine as the cause of that fever, since the HPV vaccine contains no trace of a ‘live’ virus to cause fever. Knowing about the safety and efficacy of any vaccine is paramount to alleviating global health risks such as HPV. This brings our attention to the ongoing HPV vaccination campaign throughout Guyana. The Ministry of Public Health has an ongoing vaccination campaign in schools to have children receive the HPV vaccine. Although this is of resounding importance, equally important too is parents’ awareness of what vaccines aim to do, and how getting their child vaccinated is good not just for their child’s health but everyone’s health too because viruses such as the flu virus and HPV are transmittable, meaning that they can be easily passed from person to person. Therefore, there is a social responsibility for everyone to get vaccinated, since the efficacy of vaccination in any society depends on the number of people vaccinated. Therefore, a country’s ability to eradicate serious viruses that causes deadly illnesses, such as HPV, depends on people adhering to their social responsibility in ensuring they are healthy and vaccinated. However, there are a few concerns with the ongoing HPV vaccination campaign led by the Ministry of
Public Health. Some have written letters to the editor expressing their dissatisfaction with the way the campaign is being managed and executed. Others have commented on the need for parental consent, and not have the government impose their will as there is no national emergency to warrant mandatory vaccination without consent. These concerns have caused distress and, possibly worse, distrust in the government’s ability to properly execute an important vaccination campaign. We understand these concerns. Countries that experienced positive outcomes from vaccination campaigns initially, just prior to the mobilization of the campaign, sought to inform and consult with the general public regarding its vaccination plans. Public consultation is an important aspect of any vaccination campaign; especially since misinformation and disinformation, regarding the safety of vaccines is abundant on the internet and among people who distrust public institutions. Consequently, people do not know who to trust, and what source(s) of information they should rely on. Moreover, what is needed to help parents build trust in governmental institutions is to have government representatives work on educational resources to aid with vaccine understanding and why it is important to get vaccinated. Understandably, parents need suitable reasons why they should not worry about their child’s wellbeing, which in turn helps them to make an informed decision. Implementing easy to read documentations, such as Vaccine Information Statements (VISs), will certainly help to alleviate concerns about vaccines in general. Along with a VIS form, parents can be given included or separate consent forms indicating that they’ve understood the material and the potential side-effects that may occur. There should be clearly outlined procedures on what parents or guardians need to do in the event of the child experiencing illeffects after receiving vaccination. This is common practice around the world, which helps to improve vaccination efforts. In conclusion, we feel the public’s concerns are warranted, and we wish to implore the Ministry of Public Health to do more to address these concerns. Promoting educational content will help to better inform the general public. In addition, respecting parents’ role and involvement will help to ensure the Ministry’s important vaccination programme succeeds. Yours faithfully, Nastassia Romanova, MPH Ramona Chanderballi Ferlin Pedro Mahendra Doraisami
...elderly woman among 13 survivors Ranks from the Police Marine Division were up to late yesterday scouring the Waini River for possible survivors from a boat explosion that has reportedly left at least one person dead and several others missing. Kaieteur News understands that the explosion occurred at around 08:00 hrs shortly after the vessel, which had ferried some 24 passengers from Venezuela, arrived at Barima/ Waini, Region One. Sources said that the body of an unidentified man, with lacerations to the legs, was taken to Mabaruma Hospital. Police later reported that the body of a badly burnt man, identified as Antonio Wells, a Venezuelan, washed ashore at Shell Beach. The captain of the vessel is said to be among the missing. Kaieteur News was told that at least 13 other
passengers made it to shore. Among them was 73year-old Phyllis Archer, who suffered burns to the face and hands. She was treated at the Mabaruma Hospital before being transported around 17:00 hrs to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation. A police release issued late last night indicated that some 19 of the passengers were Venezuelans who were subsequently rescued by a Venezuelan vessel. Reports indicate that the elderly, Mrs. Archer lives in Venezuela and was travelling with her husband, Carl Archer, who is blind, when the mishap occurred. She has reportedly said she was holding onto her husband, but was forced to release him. Her last sight of her spouse was seeing “his head on fire.” There is speculation that sparks may have ignited the
gasoline-fuelled vessel. In a release late last night, police said that the passengers included five Guyanese, while the others were Venezuelans. Police said that the vessel had come from Sanfille, Port a Das, located near the Venezuela border, at around 11:00 hrs on Saturday. The vessel, captained by a Guyanese, left for Charity via the Barima River at around 04:00 hrs. Phyllis Archer and her husband were sitting in the back seat when she heard an explosion. The boat immediately burst into flames and she saw passengers jumping overboard. The elderly woman remained in the boat as it began to sink and suffered burns to her body. She was rescued but there was no sign of her husband. (See tomorrow’s Kaieteur News for an update)
SOME CRUCIAL TRAFFIC LIGHTS ARE INOPERABLE DEAR EDITOR, For some time now, the traffic lights controlling the junction of the Rupert Craig Highway and Sheriff Street have not been working. This remains an extremely dangerous situation. Traffic travelling north on Sheriff Street and attempting to enter and cross the Rupert Craig Highway do so at the peril of their lives. There are other traffic lights on Sheriff Street, which are not working for some considerable time, for instance, at the crossing of Duncan and Sheriff Streets. There is also a traffic light, which controls the crossing
of the Railway Embankment Road and Ogle Airport Road which is left permanently flashing. The result is that anyone attempting to cross the Railway Embankment Road and the Ogle Airport Road, again, does so at the risk of their life. The Ogle Airport Road is the main road with appreciable traffic to and from the Eugene F. Correia International Airport. At peak
traffic hours in the morning and in the afternoon, this light should be turned on to full operation. It’s noteworthy that as a result of the repairs being carried out on Sheriff Street, the Police Traffic Department has placed officers at the Sheriff Street and crossing roads in the early morning hours, but only up to 9:00 a.m. Yours sincerely, Kit Nascimento
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A Response to Ralph Ramkarran’s The attention of many people ‘Dim Political Fortunes Await Guyana’ is on our beautiful land MR. EDITOR, Please permit me to share a conversation that I was part of. At that gathering, I met with some Int’l NGO Reps and two Diplomats who visited Guyana. We were introducing ourselves and I was the second person to do so and mentioned my place of birth Guyana. Immediately one of the representatives of the NGO said, “WOW, you have a beautiful country.” I love visiting the many places of interest in your country, another NGO Rep joined in expressing the concerns of seeing Foreign Investors exploiting the country and its people in so many ways, mentioning the forestry, the mineral industry, ExxonMobil and the situation at the bauxite company as examples, and government’s inability to address the situations. Then a Diplomat spoke about the country’s economy, he mentioned that pass and present governments officials lack the ability to enforce the economic policies and laws to protect against exploitation, labour laws to protect the Guyanese people and a fair trade deal. He said officials, government officials, the chamber of commerce, opposition parties and other important groups are not supportive, nor are they standing together against the exploitation of the country’s natural resources. He said the country is so divided, each group just care about standing in support of what
is beneficial to them, so there are the blame games and finger pointing. Another NGO Rep said she traveled and work in many countries alongside local NGOs, and Government, she said she can’t remember ever hearing politicians so verbally abusive and disrespectful berating the highest office of the c o u n t r y. S h e a s k e d t h e question of the leadership of the opposition, so arrogant and obviously obsessed with winning the e l e c t i o n ; h e ’s d o i n g anything and saying anything inappropriate to win the election. One of the Reps immediately asked the question of that person’s agenda. She said this doesn’t do well for a person who sunk so low beneath the level of decency to be the leader or part of an elected government. Another Diplomat then said in light of what is happening when politicians who misrepresent the truth and the people, happens to be among other leading officials from other countries in an official capacity, little respect and regards is shown to them, or their proposals or any important ventures of interest. It was noted that respect should always be shown to the highest office of a country or the people of that country will be treated indifferently in
many different ways. I felt ashamed and very embarrassed, there was nothing I could have said that would have made a difference how these NGO Reps and Diplomats felt about my country; they were there and had seen and heard it all. That night the conversation was more about how beautiful Guyana is…its natural resources, the political situation and the people. One Rep spoke about the Government’s ability to aggressively move the c o u n t r y ’s economic policies forward in a way that the people would begin to feel comfortable but to be respectful. He said they are trying and need to be more transparent as a government. He said what is most uncomfortable and very important is the insinuation of the opposition leader threatening and his intimidation towards various ministry employees, agencies, contractors and politicians, the calling for International Agencies and Foreign Governments to sanction persons of the opposing side, and calling for their involving in the country’s domestic affairs. He said it’s grossly inappropriate for a former president to demonstrate such behaviour. He feels that the people of Guyana should pay keen attention to the decision they are going to make. Some NGO Reps feel the government is not doing enough to resolve the situation and should be more upright in upholding the constitution. They are afraid Guyana could be heading to a pathway of unrest and hope that all leaders act responsibly, I wish I can write everything but it’s too much, we never know how much attention is paid to our beautiful country. David Sandiford
DEAR EDITOR, I use to read Mr. Ralph Ramkarran column, Conversation Tree, in Stabroek News without question because in the vein of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, ‘For Ramkarran is an honourable man’. In his recent column, “Dim political fortunes await Guyana” (March 10, 2019), the now leader of the political party ‘A New and United Guyana’ (ANUG) states among, other things, “CARICOM may be forced to take a stand against an unlawful Government having failed to do so between the 1970s and 1980s against the PNC and then eagerly doing so against a then lawful Janet Jagan Government in 1999.” On a cursory read of Ramkarran’s statement it might appear innocuous. His Trumpian assault on CARICOM might even be forgiven as we would the US President’s diatribes on NATO. But the statement’s deficit of facts, especially that last bit “lawful Janet Jagan Government in 1999”, in this era’s fake news proliferation it has dire implications for the masses from someone who recently launched his party’s bid for public office. What Mr. Ramkarran omitted to state is that he was the lead counsel when the validity of the Janet Jagan presidency and administration was litigated in the Elections Petition/Ester Perreira Casa. A case he lost. In January 2001, Chief Justice Claudette Singh voided the 1997 General and Regional Elections hence the Janet Jagan became illegal and thus unconstitutional. By this time Mrs. Jagan had resigned for health reasons and Bharrat Jagdeo was President. However, Chief Justice Singh begin the delivery of her ruling by stating explicitly, “I have no jurisdiction to order the President or
the government to demit office.” Mr. Ramkarran had presented a proposal for the court to rule that: “(1) All acts and things done by the National Assembly, the Court and all state agencies, bodies and institutions from December 15, 1997 are valid, lawful and binding. (2) The National Assembly, the Government, and all state agencies, bodies and institutions shall remain in existence and shall continue functioning until the president is sworn in and are valid, lawful and binding. (3) And all acts and things done by the above until the president is sworn in are valid, lawful and binding.” What is even more grave is that Mr. Ramkarran also fails to state that even with the greatest constitutional crisis in our nation’s history thus created by Singh’s vitiating of 1997 Election and thus the Janet Jagan’s government, in the Chief Justice’s definitive ruling she advised: ‘because of the consequence of the invalidity on the executive, parliament and all laws passed since 1997, in an act of necessity, to uphold the rule of law and to avoid a constitutional vacuum, the government is to remain in office and the National Assembly is still in session but with some noted restrictions until elections were held.’ To their credit amid their “dim political fortunes” at the time the PPP/C still managed to pull off three electoral successes in the polls on 2001, 2007 and 2015 and I have absolutely no doubt the APNU+AFC Government will likewise be victorious again when elections are called. Sherod Avery Duncan Citizen
Make our land, the land of destiny... From page 4 used by strong nations to colonize and usurp resources of some nations. Some Multi-National Co-operations try to penetrate smaller nations after studying the weaknesses of corrupt Politicians and induce them financially with “Creature Comfort Gifts. We have the example of Africa the great motherland blessed with natural resources and riches and flora and fauna that still astounds Multi-National Co-operations and wealthy nations. “They cause warfare among the peoples in mass confusion creating hate and some of the most vicious wars and warlords, all for the sake of putting their hands on the wealth of Africa”. We have seen nations destabilize, we have seen governments destabilize, where economic saboteur was sent to break nations and governments, we saw this in Guyana during the 1960’s and even
in the early 80’s. Economic assassins unleashed in some countries to break those countries so that the power hungry Multi-National Co-operations and the rich countries may have their way. We have seen violence used and heads of states good for the countries made into criminals, we have seen nations held at ransom, we have seen leaders and heads of state assassinated and countries brought to ruination, because of individuals who sell their honour and country with their people for their personal gain.”Government of Guyana and opposition sit and talk, let your parties marry and let us save our country and bring sense of wisdom and make our land, the land of destiny of goodwill and love and make it an inspiration for other nations.” Sincerely, Roshan Khan Snr.
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Constitutional Crisis is being engineered, and Jagdeo is its mastermind By Kiana Wilburg A constitutional crisis is being engineered by those who do not want to accept the role of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) in rendering advice on when elections is to be held. The mastermind of this crisis is none other than Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo. This assertion was made by GECOM Commissioner, Vincent Alexander during an interview with this newspaper. Alexander said that the GECOM Commissioners representing the Opposition’s interest, namely Bibi Shadick, Robeson Benn and Sase Gunraj, can also be seen as mere instruments in Jagdeo’s plan. Alexander said his opinion in this regard, is premised on the very behaviour of the said Commissioners. Alexander said, “...On one hand, it is double standard for Jagdeo to accuse us, Government nominated Commissioners of taking instructions from Congress Place , when in fact it is glaringly known that his commissioners are tied. The PPP Commissioners have press conferences at Jagdeo’s facilities and have not, in any way, distanced themselves.” The GECOM Commissioner continued, “Jagdeo makes a statement before the Commission meets and they
- GECOM Commissioner Alexander
GECOM Commissioner, Vincent Alexander (Shadick, Benn and Gunraj) come and they parrot everything that he says. He talks about letters to the GECOM Chairman being fraudulent and they come and say the same thing...” He added, “...Let me say this, we are not known to vacillate. Bibi very early in this process was the one who had said we can’t make 90 days. And she sought to have it captured in the minutes of GECOM. And then (she) comes back and takes a different position...Why do they vacillate? (It is) because when they go and they get directions, they have to come and fall in line. And there is evidence of this...” Alexander also pointed to
the walkouts of the PPP Commissioners. He said that the first time it was done, one can see it as a walkout, but the second time, it was more on a technical issue. He said that the PPP Commissioners wanted to discuss the schedule for elections the second time around, and since that was not being discussed, Shadick and Benn asked to be excused. As a result of this behaviour, Alexander explained that there is no longer a quorum. STATE OF READINESS There are some who argue that the Constitution stipulates for elections to be held in 90 days following the successful passage of a No-Confidence motion. As such, GECOM as a creature of the Constitution should always be in a state of readiness. Alexander on the other hand, does not agree with this. He contended that GECOM has sought over time, to improve its operations so that it may be in a state of readiness. Notwithstanding this, Alexander said that GECOM has determined that for the conduct of elections, the minimum time required is six months. Alexander argued therefore that a state of readiness is not absolute.
He said, “...You just can’t call an elections date and get one. Our argument is that the range of things, which have to be done will take 180 days. The difficulty with the situation we are in now is, in normal circumstances, GECOM would know in advance of the 180 days that there is likely to be elections and it is catered for in the work programme... This is not the circumstance we are in...” Alexander then reminded that it was decided some time ago by GECOM that the periodic review for the list for elections would be held every seven years. The independent body is now beyond that deadline by three years. He said the reason house-tohouse registration was not done in that three years was due to the non-provision of funds. He said, “Since money was not provided, we were handicapped. But then it was provided in the 2019 budget, at which time, there was no No-Confidence Motion. Now that it is provided for, I believe we should use the opportunity to do so. Furthermore, the argument that the said list was used for Local Government Elections and so it can be used again is null and void. It was only used for Local Gov-
ernment because we had no option. It speaks to the circumstance that we didn’t have the funds to do what we were supposed to do.” In addition to this, Alexander said that the list is bloated by close to 200,000 and needs to be sanitized. The GECOM Commissioner said, “Some will say that there are controls like the ink but people have been ingenious. There are instances of people using all sorts of chemicals to remove it. So while it is a mechanism that reduces the possibility of electoral fraud, it does not remove it. With a bloated list of close to 200,000 and the value of a seat being as small as 7000, the possibility of elections being corrupted is great...” He continued, “We want to produce not just a 90 day elections, but a credible elections. We can’t just look at the provision which says 90 days, but the provision that says we must produce efficient elections. And you cannot ignore the fact that the said Constitution provides for
us to go beyond 90 days with the agreement of the political parties.” The GECOM Commissioner added, “The Constitution anticipates that the 90 days is not enough. So to hold on to this 90 days as it if is gospel is to ignore that the book from which we are reading...If there is a Constitutional crisis in this country , it is a consequence of the political directorate not being able to come to a compromise on what is needed .” Alexander said that it may be a reflection of the political directorate not being prepared to take from GECOM, the body that has to prepare for elections, its advice on its state of readiness and what it considers necessary for elections. “The making of a constitutional crisis largely has to do with the inability, if that arises, of the political directorate to behave in an objective, a mature and responsible manner given the fact that GECOM is the authority which says we can or we cannot...”
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AID IN REVERSE:
How poor countries develop rich countries By Jason Hickel New research shows that developing countries send trillions of dollars more to the west than the other way around. Why? We have long been told a compelling story about the relationship between rich countries and poor countries. The story holds that the rich nations of the OECD give generously of their wealth to the poorer nations of the global south, to help them eradicate poverty and push them up the development ladder. Yes, during colonialism, western powers may have enriched themselves by extracting resources and slave labour from their colonies – but that’s all in the past. These days, they give more than $125bn (£102bn) in aid each year – solid evidence of their benevolent goodwill. This story is so widely propagated by the aid industry and the governments of the rich world that we have come to take it for granted. But it may not be as simple as it appears. The US-based Global Financial Integrity (GFI) and the Centre for Applied Research at the Norwegian School of Economics recently published some fascinating data. They tallied up all of the financial resources that get transferred between rich countries and poor countries each year: not just aid, foreign investment and trade flows (as previous studies have done) but also non-financial transfers such as debt cancellation, unrequited transfers like workers’ remittances, and unrecorded capital flight (more of this later). As far as I am aware, it is the most comprehensive assessment of resource transfers ever undertaken. What they discovered is that the flow of money from rich countries to poor countries pales in comparison to the flow that runs in the other direction. In 2012, the last year of recorded data, developing countries received a total of $1.3tn, including all aid, investment, and income from abroad. But that same year some $3.3tn flowed out of them. In other words, developing countries sent $2tn more to the rest of the world
than they received. If we look at all years since 1980, these net outflows add up to an eyepopping total of $16.3tn – that’s how much money has been drained out of the global south over the past few decades. To get a sense for the scale of this, $16.3tn is roughly the GDP of the United States What this means is that the usual development narrative has it backwards. Aid is effectively flowing in reverse. Rich countries aren’t developing poor countries; poor countries are developing rich ones. What do these large outflows consist of? Well, some of it is payments on debt. Developing countries have forked out over $4.2tn in interest payments alone since 1980 – a direct cash transfer to big banks in New York and London, on a scale that dwarfs the aid that they received during the same period. Another big contributor is the income that foreigners make on their investments in developing countries and then repatriate back home. Think of all the profits that BP extracts from Nigeria’s oil reserves, for example, or that Anglo-American pulls out of South Africa’s gold mines. But by far the biggest chunk of outflows has to do with unrecorded – and usually illicit – capital flight. GFI calculates that developing countries have lost a total of $13.4tn through unrecorded capital flight since 1980. Most of these unrecorded outflows take place through the international trade system. Basically, corporations – foreign and domestic alike – report false prices on their trade invoices in order to spirit money out of developing countries directly into tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions, a practice known as “trade misinvoicing”. Usually the goal is to evade taxes, but sometimes this practice is used to launder money or circumvent capital controls. In 2012, developing countries lost $700bn through trade misinvoicing, which outstripped aid receipts that year by a factor of five. Multinational companies also steal money from developing countries through “same-invoice faking”, shifting profits illegally between
their own subsidiaries by mutually faking trade invoice prices on both sides. For example, a subsidiary in Nigeria might dodge local taxes by shifting money to a related subsidiary in the British Virgin Islands, where the tax rate is effectively zero and where stolen funds can’t be traced. GFI doesn’t include same-invoice faking in its headline figures because it is very difficult to detect, but they estimate that it amounts to another $700bn per year. And these figures only cover theft through trade in goods. If we add theft through trade in services to the mix, it brings total net resource outflows to about $3tn per year. That’s 24 times more than the aid budget. In other words, for every $1 of aid that developing countries receive, they lose $24 in net outflows. These outflows strip developing countries of an important source of revenue and finance for development. The GFI report finds that increasingly large net outflows have caused economic growth rates in developing countries to decline, and are directly responsible for falling living standards. Who is to blame for this disaster? Since illegal capital flight is such a big chunk of the problem, that’s a good place to start. Companies that lie on their trade invoices are clearly at fault; but why is it so easy for them to get away with it? In the past, customs officials could hold up transactions that looked dodgy, making it nearly impossible for anyone to cheat. But the World Trade Organisation claimed that this made trade inefficient, and since 1994 customs officials have been required to accept invoiced prices at face value except in very suspicious circumstances, making it difficult for them to seize illicit outflows. Still, illegal capital flight wouldn’t be possible without the tax havens. And when it comes to tax havens, the culprits are not hard to identify: there are more than 60 in the world, and the vast majority of them are controlled by a handful of western countries. There are European tax havens such as Luxembourg and Belgium, and US tax havens like Delaware and
Manhattan. But by far the biggest network of tax havens is centered around the City of London, which controls secrecy jurisdictions throughout the British Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories. In other words, some of the very countries that so love to tout their foreign aid contributions are the ones enabling mass theft from developing countries. The aid narrative begins to seem a bit naïve when we take these reverse flows into account. It becomes clear that aid does little but mask the misdistribution of resources around the world. It makes the takers seem like givers, granting them a kind of moral high ground while preventing those of us who care about global poverty from understanding how the system really works. Poor countries don’t need charity. They need justice. And justice is not difficult to deliver. We could write off the excess debts of poor countries, freeing them up to spend their money on development instead of interest payments on old loans; we could close down the secrecy jurisdictions, and slap penalties on bankers and accountants who facilitate illicit outflows; and we could impose a global minimum tax on corporate income to eliminate the incentive for corporations to secretly shift their money around the world. We know how to fix the problem. But doing so would run up against the interests of powerful banks and corporations that extract significant material benefit from the existing system. The question is, do we have the courage? Jason Hickel is an anthropologist and author, who writes for The Guardian, Foreign Policy and American Journal Experts. He has taught at the London School of Economics, the University of Virginia, and Goldsmiths, University of London, where he convenes the MA in Anthropology and Cultural Politics. His research focuses on global inequality, political economy, post-development, and ecological economics.
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Government has to ensure value for money The next time the President is leaving the country, via the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, he should take a tour of the public departure lounge and the public arrivals’ area. He should and inspect the quality of the work done and the materials used in the construction of the terminal building. Perhaps if this is done, the President may send for the design plan of the building and request that an audit be done to ascertain whether Guyana got value for the US$150M which was spent to build this facility, and which has to be repaid to China by taxpayers.
Recently, the publisher of this newspaper had reason to pass through that facility. What he saw and experienced was far more shocking than the shortcomings, which this newspaper had earlier highlighted. Passengers were complaining about the putrid smell, which was invading the Departure Lounge. This is unacceptable in an international airport. When the publisher investigated, he found that the smell was coming from the urinals and was sourced to the interconnected piping. He also found a doorknob, which was broken and pasted back with tape. Parts of the ceiling
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were also missing. All of this was discovered at an international airport renovated at the obscene price of more than thirty billion Guyana dollars and which is soon to be handed over to the government. Some of the internal doors in the terminal building bore a striking similarity in quality to those doors, which Food for the Poor distributes to poor people across Guyana. Is this what Guyana is paying US$150 M for? Is this the quality of work, which one expects in an international terminal? Is this the quality, which Guyanese should expect after the Treasury would have given billions in
West Indies got people blood pressure going up When people want to get vex dem must watch West Indies play cricket. Dem start off hot and win couple matches. Now dem playing like a club team and people want to know if dem was ever better than a club team. Dem announce how dem turn de corner when dem win de first Test. Then dem win e second one and people really believe dem. Now dem getting beat like when a mudda vex and she clap two lashes pon she child. De odda day dem mek de lowest score in a T20 match. People want to know if is de same team dat dem was cheering de odda day. Now de doctors warning people wid high blood pressure to avoid watching
West Indies play cricket. Dem also seh dat if people want to watch at least dem must consult a doctor. Of course, de doctor gon tell dem not to watch. But dat is not de only thing dat sending up people blood pressure. De elections doing de same thing. One minute people hear dat de elections got to be held dis month. Soon after dem hear elections can’t be held dis year. Dem people who wukking in de bush did plan to vote then go and look fuh wha dem didn’t put down. Now dem got to change dem plans. Changing de plans isn’t nutten. Dem wives seh dem got to eat suh de husband better go back in de bush. De
situation is enough to mek de man get high blood pressure and a heart attack. Dem politicians can cause heart attack too. De crime situation was around all de time but all of a sudden some people believe dat it is new. Ran Jattan seh dat he gon equip de police to deal wid de situation. He gon give dem guns. Jagdeo seh dat he didn’t understand wha Ran Jattan seh. Of course, everybody believe dem smart, suh Ran Jattan public relations man decide to spell de word. G as in Jesus, U and in Europe, N as in pneumonia and S as in psychology. Talk half and don’t worry when people laugh Guyana.
West Coast Berbice man dies after pickup overturns
A 23-year-old is now dead following an accident along the Experiment, Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice public road.Dead is Yognarine Jaggit, of Lot 3D Bath Settlement, WCB. Jaggit was proceeding west along the southern side of the public road in his pickup bearing licence number PJJ 5229 at a fast rate when he lost control of his vehicle, which toppled several times before ending up on the northern side of the public road. He was rushed to the Fort Wellington Hospital in an unconscious state where he was examined by a doctor and subsequently transferred to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital where he succumbed.
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tax concessions to the contracting firm? The government has been dodgy in providing answers to the questions posed by this newspaper as to the design of the airport and the specifications, which that designed necessitated. One does not need perfect vision to appreciate that there is a need for a value- for- money audit of this project. It is the responsibility of government to ensure that it gets value- for-money. This task cannot only be left to the consultants on projects. Government has to undertake its own inspections and audits to satisfy itself that it has gotten its monies worth. The fact that China is providing the loan to finance the works at the airport does not mean that government should abandon its fiduciary responsibility to ensure that what is being built is valued at the US$150M which has to be repaid by our children and grandchildren. In 1992, Guyana was categorized as a highly indebted poor country. Guyana’s per capita debt was then one of the highest in the world. The past and present generations bore the pains associated with such a high
level of indebtedness. The same missteps, which led to Guyana becoming a highly indebted poor country must not be repeated. The government must get off of its ‘high horses’ and get down to the task of ensuring that we have a world class facility, since this is what is being paid for. The government has to stop pretending that there are no problems with the airport project. Those who have on blinkers must be asked to take them off so that they can see for themselves what is about to be handed over to the nation. In 2006, the Government of China handed over a Conference Center to the Jagdeo administration. When the APNU+AFC came to office, it discovered major defects in the building. It signed a project for 1.4 billion dollars to have China renovate the facility. No one in the government seems to have realized that that sum could have built three new conference centers. And no one in government will question that price tag because that money was provided via a grant from China. The airport however is
different. This is a loan, which has to be repaid. It is not a gift from China. The government therefore has to ensure that there is value for money. It has to practise management by wandering around (MBWA). As bizarre as its sounds, MBWA is actually a theory of management. It involves management wandering around a workplace randomly in an attempt to get first-hand information and feedback about what is taking place rather than sitting in an office and barking out instructions. The publisher of this newspaper, as he had offered with Project Gold – the packaging plant project of the Guyana Sugar Corporation – has offered to conduct an audit, at his expense, of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport Extension Project. In fact, if information being received is accurate, Guyana could have had more than one airport for the cost of the present project at the CJIA.
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City Constabulary faces uphill task tackling crime in market squares - some vendors allegedly colluding with criminals The Georgetown Constabulary is facing an uphill task of tackling crime in the city market squares. The challenge faced by the crime-fighting unit under the command of the Mayor and City Councillors, (M&CC) of Georgetown was highlighted during a recent meeting with the media. According to Chief of the Constabulary Department, Andrew Foo, the common criminal activities in the market squares form a link in a chain of planned and organized offences orchestrated by groups, who have become part of the aesthetic of “life in the marketplace.” The Chief Constable noted that while it is common for the blame of illicit activities in the city to fall on the shoulder of “pick pockets,” and “choke and robbers,” other crimes are being committed in a more organized manner. According to the city official, illicit drugs transported in the marketplace in
Chief Constable, Andrew Foo significant quantities appear to go unnoticed. A closer look at the issue revealed that “legitimate vendors” play a vital role in the continuance of the criminal. “In some cases, narcotics are even found in stalls, which mean that stallholders or persons operating stalls are partakers of the illegal trade activities. “There is a much larger operation because there is a constant move of people
in the market. “What we have found is that these persons are organized, they communicate via WhatsApp and other means of technology so that by the time the ranks get on the ground, they have already stashed the items.” The Constable cited instances where items suspected to be cannabis were found stashed in parcels, black plastic bags, food boxes and bottles. However, Foo noted that the city department is collaborating with the Guyana Police Force to address the situation. “We would have routine raids conducted especially at the Stabroek Market square. “We would sweep the areas regularly. We think implementing a regular search and check would help put a dent in ring of activities.” At present, Foo said that the constabulary ranks have been policing the Bourda and Stabroek Market. The Stabroek Market has been labeled a hot spot for criminal activities. “It’s a [business] hub; there is a minibus park, a host of vending activities...a vast number of people venture into those parts to conduct their trade. “In the midst of the hustle and bustle, there are criminal elements looking to operate within that environment. Daily criminal acts are conducted in that environment, robberies and acts of larceny, particularly in morning hours and evening. “You would have pick pockets at the area so as a law enforcement agency, we have to be vigilant and pro-
Law enforcement officials carrying out the recent raid at Stabroek Market vide a police presence. We have some uniform and plain clothes ranks in that environment.” Recently, the City Constabulary expressed concern over a growing number of juveniles committing criminal acts in and around the municipal markets. The city cops also highlighted the low success in
“When the matters go to court and the persons do not turn up, the cases are eventually dismissed.” City officials noted too that the thieves have a tendency of choosing their target carefully. “What we have found too is that several persons who are being targeted are often living overseas – they
“These persons are organized, they communicate via ‘WhatsApp’ and other means of technology so that by the time the ranks get on the ground, they have already stashed the items...” - Chief Constable Andrew Foo prosecution of markets crimes due to the reluctance of victims to offer evidence in court. “Sadly, in most of the instances when we apprehend persons for crimes, the victims are fearful and tend not to want to go to court and testify against these persons due to the intimidation of crime and the perpetrators.
don’t belong to Guyana – or they live in far reaching places such as Linden or Bartica.” In relation to the increase in more juvenile detainees, the Chief Constable said that the constabulary, in working with the Guyana Police Force (GPF), ensures that the arrest and processing of juveniles are done in keeping with the
Juvenile Justice laws. “What we are finding now is that a number of crimes are being committed by the youth. The pickpockets and phone snatchers particularly at the Stabroek Market are under 18 years. Some of them are even in their school uniforms.” “These laws provide for proper systems to hold minors… their well-being is paramount whenever the authorities make decisions on offering rehabilitation, reintegration and education for juveniles. The Act sees the involvement of parents in the cases of juveniles as pertinent for the advancement of a better society. Akin to this, the Juvenile Justice Bill seeks to hold juveniles accountable for their actions by measures that reemphasize respect for societal values. The criminal capacity of the law presumes that no child under the age of fourteen be deemed capable or guilty of committing an offence. Consequently, the attorney representing the child will request that an evaluation be done, assessing the child’s social, emotional and cognitive development. The Act repeals the 1931 Juvenile Offenders Act and the Training School Act. Last week, members of the Constabulary joined the Guyana Police Force to conduct a sting operation at the Stabroek Market. This was done in light of the numerous complaints about illegal activities and constant robberies in and around the market. Police ranks were stationed at the entrances to the market while the operation was carried out. The police also had sniffer dogs assisting in the search even as the police prison truck was parked a short distance away. The operation also saw searches being done at the Ferry Stelling area and route 31, 32, 40, 41, and 44 minibus parks. During the search, a quantity of marijuana seeds amounting to 128 grams and 561 grams of cannabis were found.
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Refusal to review terms APA executing land tenure assessment for dialogue with Govt. could be destabilizing A final report on a Land Tenure Assessment Project for Region Seven (Cuyuni Mazaruni), executed by the Association of Padawong Amuk (APA) is earmarked to be released in April 2019. It is one of the reports that should provide Indigenous communities with material to clarify their occupation, use and ownership of their land. It will also enable them to engage in dialogue with the government and other relevant agencies for drafting of legislation and other public policy that affect Indigenous communities. The APA, which recently changed its name, has contended that many Indigenous communities have expressed concerns over not having title to the full extent of their traditional lands or no title at all, in some cases. Further, there have been complaints about poor demarcation, which has left out parts of the communities’ lands. This has reportedly resulted in the erosion of their customary land rights or causation of boundary conflicts with other neighbouring communities. There are also problems with extractive activities such as mining and logging on community lands. Former President of the APA, Mario Hastings, said that the government is disregarding Indigenous land rights, in favour of profits gleaned from those extractive works. To ensure that Indigenous people are involved in dialogue and decisionmaking about their land rights, the
(APA) has been working on Land Tenure Assessments, with funding from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD). For the Region Seven project, preparatory activities began in 2017, with most of the field work being carried out in 2018. The report on this particular region is of significance because it will assist indigenous communities in the Upper Mazaruni area with their advocacy for the legal recognition of their traditional and ancestral lands. The organisation stated that it is urging the government to resolve longstanding land issues that indigenous communities have with the
government and mining companies, particularly foreign companies. The APA is urging a quick resolution to the 20-year long litigation over traditional lands in the region, for the Arecuna and Akawaio tribes. It contends that there is a proliferation of roads and destructive mining across the region generating resource conflicts, water pollution, environmental damage, deforestation and social harm, and that government actions to address these problems are wholly inadequate or absent. Land Tenure Assessment Projects have been concluded in Regions One, Two, and Eight, as well. Prior to the 2016, research studies were carried out to compile a report titled “Participatory Assessment of the Land Tenure Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Guyana: Regions 1 and 2”. It was launched in December 2016, and copies of the document were distributed to villages that participated in the activity. For Region Eight, Land Tenure Assessment Work began in late 2015, continued through 2016, and concluded in 2017. That report, titled “Our Land, Our Life: A Participatory Assessment of the Land Tenure Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Guyana – Report For Region 8”, was launched in May 2018. Executive Director of the APA, Jean La Rose, informed this publication that the next region the APA intends to include in its Land Tenure Assessment Research is Region Nine.
and unfair to countries – Chatham House
By Kiana Wilburg The sky will not fall nor the earth obliterate into nothingness if a country desires to change the investment terms in oil contracts to reflect fairness. According to UK based Chatham House, this is quite reasonable and normal practice in the petroleum industry. In fact, the not-for-profit organization said that the refusal to do so can have a destabilizing effect on countries. Chatham House is a non-governmental organization whose mission is to analyze and promote the understanding of major international issues and current affairs. The organization which has worked with local authorities on oil related matters since 2015, said that new data about a country’s reserves may prompt its governments to seek to revise the terms of investment to its advantage. Similarly, Chatham House said that companies sometimes come to governments to ask for a revision of terms to reduce the taxation or operational obligations they face during periods of economic difficulty. Chatham House said, too, that over the course of 25–30 Continued on page 24
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Jamaica fire brigade Despite pressure, Venezuela’s Maduro more women seems set on staying put: U.S. envoy recruiting KINGSTON, Jamaica — Buckle said increased WA S H I N G T O N (Reuters) - There are no signs that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is open to negotiations to end the political impasse with opposition leader Juan Guaido, Washington’s envoy for Venezuela said. Elliott Abrams, who served in the administrations of both Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, said any negotiated solution would need to be reached among Venezuelans, and that the United States could help by lifting or easing U.S. sanctions and travel restrictions once Maduro agreed to go. Abrams, however, played down any possibility that the Venezuelan president was ready to talk about his exit. “From everything we have seen, Maduro’s tactic is to stay put,” Abrams said in an interview weekend. Some 56 countries have recognized Guaido as Venezuela’s interim head of state, but Maduro retains the backing of Russia and China as well as control of state institutions including the military.
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Abrams has met with Russian representatives to the United States about Moscow’s support for Maduro. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier this month, after a phone call with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, that Moscow was ready to take part in bilateral talks on Venezuela. “The Russians are not happy with Maduro for all the obvious reasons,” Abrams said. “In a couple of conversations I have been
told they have given advice to Maduro and he doesn’t take it.” “They continue to support him and there is no indication that I have seen that they are telling him it’s time to bring this to an end,” he said, adding: “There could come a point where the Russians reach a conclusion that the regime is really unsalvageable.” Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
...Nerves fray, tempers flare as Venezuela blackout hits fourth day
Venezuelans, including doctors, hold banners that read “Solidarity” as they gather outside a church after a mass during an ongoing blackout in downtown Caracas, Venezuela yesterday. REUTERS/Marco Bello CARACAS (Reuters) - Furious Venezuelans lined up to buy water and fuel yesterday as the country entered a fourth day of a nationwide blackout that has left alreadyscarce food rotting in shops, homes suffering for lack of water and cell phones without reception. Authorities have managed to provide only patchy access to power since the outage began on Thursday in what President Nicolas Maduro called an act of U.S.-backed sabotage, but critics insist it is the result of incompetence and corruption. With no coherent official explanation of the problem or likely time frame for solving it, Venezuelans, who have for years found ways to laugh about the privations of the economic
crisis, are now fretting that the blackout could extend indefinitely. The country’s worst-ever power outage comes as Maduro faces a hyperinflationary economic collapse and an unprecedented political crisis. Angry residents of the Caracas neighborhood of Chacao yesterday set up barricades along a main avenue and on side streets to protest the continued outage. State oil company PDVSA said yesterday that fuel supplies were guaranteed, but many service stations remained shuttered for lack of power. Merchants unable to maintain refrigerators working began giving away cheese, vegetables and meat to clients.
The Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) is reporting an increase in the number of female recruits. Acting Assistant Commissioner Julian Davis Buckle cited, as an example, the 22 women comprising the latest cohort of 130 recruits now in training to become firefighters. Additionally, she said, women are stationed in every department and occupy key positions, including instructors, incident commanders, sub-officers, and turnout officers. This, the JFB officer indicated, “is a far cry from a few years ago when we were confined to answering telephones and sit in watch rooms”. She was speaking at an International Women’s Day symposium organised by the Bureau of Gender Affairs in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston on Friday. The forum was held under the theme: ‘Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change’.
recruitment of females as firefighters in Jamaica is consistent with the growing trend across the Caribbean and globe. She pointed out that in the United States, females represent 7.3 per cent of firefighters, and account for 3.1 per cent and four per cent of the complement in the United Kingdom and Canada respectively. “We are making strides in this male-dominated profession, drifting from the coast of marginalisation and towards the isle of equality, as opportunities for all women present themselves,” she added. Meanwhile, Buckle said the JFB has developed a Sexual Harassment Policy as part of measures to safeguard the welfare of female firefighters. The Policy, she explained, stipulates that “sexism, slurs and abusive behaviour are not tolerated in the Jamaica Fire Brigade”, and that “females are also called firefighters and not firewomen”. Buckle, who serves as the
Julian Davis Buckle JFB’s Acting Chief Fire Prevention Officer, is the highest ranked female in the service. She proudly shared that she leads a team of “awesome women” within the Fire Prevention Division, which she heads. “We are fearless, defiant, progressive. We accomplish anything that we put our minds to,” she emphatically stated. The symposium was hosted in partnership with the High Commission of Canada in Jamaica, European Union, LASCO Chin Foundation and JFB. It was one of several activities marking Jamaica commemoration of International Women’s Day on March 8.
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Ethiopian Airlines flight crashes, killing 157 …Passengers from 33 countries were aboard
People walk at the scene of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 plane crash, near the town of Bishoftu, southeast of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia yesterday. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri NAIROBI/ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet bound for Nairobi crashed minutes after take-off yesterday, killing all 157 people on board and raising questions about the safety of the Boeing 737 MAX 8, a new model that also crashed in Indonesia in October. Yesterday’s flight left Bole airport in Addis Ababa at 8:38 a.m. (0538 GMT), before losing contact with the control tower just a few minutes later at 8:44 a.m. “There are no survivors,” the airline tweeted alongside a picture of Chief Executive Tewolde GebreMariam holding up a piece of debris inside a large crater at the crash site. “The pilot mentioned that he had difficulties and that he wanted to return,” Tewolde told a news conference. Passengers from 33 countries were aboard, said Tewolde. The dead included Kenyan, Ethiopian, American, Canadian, French, Chinese, Egyptian, Swedish, British, Dutch, Indian, Slovakian, Austrian, Swedish, Russian, Moroccan, Spanish, Polish, and Israeli citizens. At least four worked for the United Nations, the airline said, and the U.N.’s World Food Programme director confirmed his organisation had lost staff in the accident. Weeping relatives begged for information at airports in Nairobi and Addis Ababa. “We’re just waiting for my mum. We’re just hoping she took a different flight or was delayed. She’s not picking up her phone,” said
Wendy Otieno, clutching her phone and weeping. The aircraft, a 737 MAX 8, is the same model that crashed into the Java Sea shortly after take-off from Jakarta on Oct 29, killing all 189 people on board the Lion Air flight. The cause of that crash is still under investigation. A senior U.S. government official said it was too early to tell if there was any direct connection between the two accidents, but that reviewing the issue would be among the top priorities for investigators. The 737 is the world’s best selling modern passenger aircraft and is seen as one of the industry’s most reliable. A preliminary report into the October crash focused on airline maintenance and training and technical questions about the response of a Boeing antistall system to a recently replaced sensor. Boeing is working on a software patch on the system, while insisting cockpit procedures were already in place to deal safely with problems the Lion Air crew experienced. Ethiopian’s new aircraft had no recorded technical problems and the pilot had an “excellent” flying record, Tewolde said. “We received the airplane on November 15, 2018. It has flown more than 1,200 hours. It had flown from Johannesburg earlier this morning,” he said. Flight ET 302, registration number ET-AVJ, crashed near the town of Bishoftu, 62 km (38 miles) southeast of the
capital Addis Ababa, with 149 passengers and eight crew aboard, the airline said. The flight had unstable vertical speed after take off, the flight tracking website Flightradar24 tweeted. Data released by the Sweden-based service suggested the aircraft had climbed almost 1,000 feet after taking off from Addis Ababa, a hot and highaltitude airport whose thinner air requires extra effort from an aircraft’s engines. It dipped about 450 feet before rapidly climbing another 900 feet until the point where satellite tracking data was lost. The aircraft had shattered into many pieces and was severely burnt, a Reuters reporter at the scene of the crash said. Clothing and personal effects were scattered widely over the field where the plane came down. There was no immediate indication of what caused the crash and safety experts said it was too early to speculate, adding most accidents are caused by a cocktail of factors. They said investigators would examine the wreckage and bodies for any signs of burns or unusual forces and study the shape and size of the wreckage field. An urgent priority will be to find the two crash-protected cockpit recorders - one for data and the other for pilots’ voice recordings. Boeing said it was sending a technical team to help with the Ethiopian-led investigation.
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Arsenal end Solskjaer run with 2-0 win over Man United
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Arsenal’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scores their second goal against Manchester United from the penalty spot. (Action Images via REUTERS/John Sibley) LONDON, (Reuters) ARSENAL 2 MANCHESTER UNITED 0 Arsenal beat Manchester United 2-0 yesterday, lifting the Londoners above their opponents into fourth place in the Premier League and ending Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s unbeaten domestic run as United’s caretaker manager. Goals from Granit Xhaka and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang earned the Gunners a victory that sent
them into the Champions League places while pushing United back down to fifth. It was United’s first league defeat since Dec. 16, Jose Mourinho’s last game in charge, and ended Solskjaer’s remarkable unbeaten start in the league as United’s manager. Arsenal went ahead in the 13th minute when Xhaka belted a swerving shot from 30 metres out, with United keeper David de Gea
seemingly wrong-footed by the curve of the ball. United hit the woodwork either side of the goal, with Romelu Lukaku heading against the crossbar first and Fred striking the post minutes later. Lukaku had a golden opportunity to score from close range early in the second half but his first touch was heavy and, as he lunged to shoot, goalkeeper Bernd Leno blocked the shot with
Restarting HPC in Barbados, Rebuilding CWI partnership with UWI across Caribbean Bridgetown, Barbados – Restarting the High Performance Centre (HPC) in Barbados and reviving a strong partnership with UWI will be a key strategic message that Team SkerrittShallow delivers today, when they speak to administrators, stakeholders, media and fans at UWI Faculty of Sport, Cave Hill Campus. Last Wednesday Mr. Ricky Skerritt and Dr. Kishore Shallow held an interactive conference call with the Caribbean media, where details of the 10 point ‘Cricket First plan’ proposed by the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates were heavily discussed. In explaining point eight in the manifesto, ‘Decentralization of HighPerformance System’, Skerritt endorses Sir Wes Hall’s recent message that it was a strategic mistake of the incumbents to move the HPC from Barbados that left the Windies legend “discombobulated” and vowed to correct it. “Here is a classic example of where CWI missed an opportunity to build sustainability into our cricket development. When I heard what Sir Wes Hall said, it
brought tears to my eyes”, said Skerritt. “So this breakdown in the CWI partnership with UWI is clearly an example of where CWI allowed the focus to shift away from cricket into corporate and personality issues which distracted us from the good the UWI based HPC was doing. The very presence of so many legends of cricket makes Barbados an obvious attraction for supporting and mentoring young cricketers.” Skerritt said the recently acquired Coolidge facility in Antigua will be developed in tandem with the UWI HPC. “With cricket legends Sir Vivian Richards, Sir Andy Roberts and Sir Curtly Ambrose all residing there, Antigua will continue to be a focal point in our strategy to decentralize cricket development and help our best talent grow to the highest level.” “We are not what we would call ‘either or’ leaders, instead we look to see where and how often we can make a difference. Our team intends to rebuild the CWI relationship with UWI in a focused way to help our cricket”, explained Skerritt. He continued: “We want
to build the high performance system, so that we can have multiple opportunities at supporting young developing cricketers and preparing cricketers for battles abroad. “UWI is also well positioned in Trinidad and Jamaica to help CWI move these HPC support programs all over the Caribbean, wherever we have the partnership, resources, and technical expertise combined with the science and technology.” It must be noted: The discussion forum is scheduled to take place from 6:30 p.m. this evening at the Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination UWI, Cave Hill Campus. The event will be streamed live o n w w w. u w i t v. o r g a n d moderated by Head, Cave Hill Academy of Sport, UWI Faculty of Sport, Miss Amanda Reifer and Mr. David Ellis. On the live stream there will be chat box where viewing media and fans can interact with candidates. Media is kindly advised to state who you are and organization representing when asking questions.
his body to send the ball spinning up and over the bar. Arsenal won a very softlooking penalty in the 67th minute when Fred was judged to have brought down Alexandre Lacazette, with the replay showing that the Brazilian barely brushed the Frenchman’s side as they ran for the ball. Aubameyang then converted the penalty, making up for his missed spot kick at Tottenham Hotspur a week earlier. The win lifted Arsenal to 60 points, just one point behind their north London rivals Tottenham Hotspur, who are third, and two points above United who slipped to fifth. Earlier on Sunday, second-placed Liverpool had beaten Burnley 4-2 to move on to 73 points, one behind leaders Manchester City.
Under brilliant sunshine, host Sebai Sports Club defeated neighbours Hobodeia by 60 runs in a T20 fixture which was held Saturday last at Sebai Recreational ground, Port Kaituma. Hobodeia won the toss and inserted Sebai on a bowler friendly pitch and fast outfield; they made 153 all out in 16.1 overs. Sherlon Rodrigues struck a fluent 47, while Randolph Benjamin and Orin Hutson chipped in with 23 and 26 valuable runs respectively. Ellon Hutson was the most successful bowler for the lads from the Aruka River picking up 5 wickets for 12, while his team mates Leslie Thompson 2-21, Floyd Willis 2-14 and Martin Willis 1-15 were the other wicket takers for Hobodeia. In reply, Hobodeia were restricted to 93 all out in 12.4 overs. Aron Moses top scored with 18 while Leslie Thompson made 17 and Leon Moses 11. Sebai fast bowler Kelwin Benjamin made inroads into the top order early on as he finished with 4-23 off his four overs, while medium pacer Dexroy Benjamin grabbed 4-22, Randolph Benjamin and Devon James picked up 1 wicket apiece. Meanwhile, Sebai males defeated Hobodeia 1-0 in the football encounter, while the females joined the party by overpowering Hobodeia by 36 runs in the T10 softball. Sebai’s Donette Henry was the female star with the bat as she slammed 42 not out.
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David Willey four-for leads De Kock smashes ton as South Africa clinch ODI series win England series sweep as West DURBAN (Reuters) Quinton de Kock’s swashbuckling century inspired South Africa to beat Sri Lanka by 71 runs under the Duckworth-Lewis system at Kingsmead yesterday to secure a winning 3-0 lead in their five-match one-day international series. After South Africa had been put into bat, De Kock smashed 121 off 108 balls at the top of the innings — his 14th ODI hundred — as they went on to make 331-5 off their 50 overs. Sri Lanka, set a revised target of 193 after a rain delay, fell a long way short, managing to score only 121-5 off 24 overs in reply. Sri Lanka had already been falling behind the required over rate at 75-2 off 16 overs when a rain storm took the players off for a two-
hour break, after which the visitors were set a Herculean target of 118 runs off just eight overs to win. Kusal Mendis was caught and bowled by Imran Tahir for 41 just as Sri Lanka looked set to take on the challenge but despite the best efforts of Thisara Perera, who swung at every ball, the tourists were always fighting a losing cause. De Kock had earlier announced his intent with a four off the first ball of the game and kept up the attack before eventually getting to three figures off 89 balls, having fallen just short in the last ODI in Pretoria last Wednesday when he scored 94. Rassie van der Dussen added 50 and a cameo from Andile Phehlukwayo, who hit 38 off 15 at the end of the
innings, ensured South Africa went past 300 as they continued their World Cup preparations with some aplomb. Sri Lanka lost key batsman Kusal Perera early on in the game when he looked to have hurt his hamstring in the field and was taken to hospital for scans. Officials said he would not have been able to bat had he been needed but it is unsure how serious the injury is. South Africa and Sri Lanka will play the fourth match of the series in Port Elizabeth on Wednesday. Scores: South Africa 331 for 5 (De Kock 121, van der Dussen 50, Udana 2-50) beat Sri Lanka 121 for 5 (Kusal Mendis 41, Tahir 219) by 71 runs (DLS method).
Indies are dismissed for 71
Mark Wood joined the procession ... ©AFP ESPNcricnfo - David Willey made an emphatic point, while Mark Wood didn’t miss a beat as West Indies were bowled out for an abysmal 71 and England cruised to an eight-wicket win in St Kitts to sweep their T20I series 3-0. Willey claimed 4 for 7 and Wood 3 for 9 in a staggering West Indies innings lasting just 13 overs in which four
players reached double figures but none of them passed 11 runs. Chasing just 72 to win, Alex Hales signalled his intent when he smashed Sheldon Cottrell for 16 runs in the first over of England’s innings and the tourists reached the target for the loss of just two wickets with 57 balls to spare, England’s largest T20I victory in terms of balls remaining.
Quinton de Kock remained in good touch, putting up handy partnerships with both Faf du Plessis and Rassie van der Dussen ©AFP
Jonny Bairstow underpinned England’s pursuit with a brisk 37 ©AFP
West Indies’ paltry total was their third-lowest in T20Is and only marginally better than their 45 in the second match against England at the same ground on Friday night. Playing on the same pitch which, by all accounts, appeared tacky, West Indies made the surprising decision to bat first upon winning the toss. Sure enough, Willey struck with the first delivery of the match, a fuller-length ball that dug into the surface slightly and, as he pressed forward uncertainly, Shai Hope spooned a simple catch to Hales at short cover. In his next over, a Willey slower ball tempted Shimron Hetmyer into a loose shot that sailed straight to mid-off where star fielder Chris Jordan took an easy catch. Man of the Match Willey, who before the final fixture had questioned the noise surrounding Jofra Archer’s potential World Cup selection, did his best to press his own claims for inclusion when, in his next over, he claimed two wickets in three balls, dismissing debutant John Campbell, who skied a catch to Joe Denly in the covers, and Darren Bravo, caught behind. Wood, who was rested for the first two T20 games, picked up where he left off after an impressive showing in the third Test and the ODI series, after replacing Liam Plunkett for the tour finale. Wood had Jason Holder put down off his second ball in a rare fielding mistake by Joe Root but, after Denly’s part-time spin dismissed Holder next ball, easily caught by Jordan, Wood had Nicholas Pooran out to an athletic catch by Player of the Series Jordan running round to his right at mid-wicket. With West Indies in disarray at 48 for 6, Wood and Adil Rashid cleaned up the tail and left England’s batsmen to chalk off the run-chase with minimum fuss. Hales made a sharp 20 off 13, while Bairstow, dropped by Hetmyer off Holder’s bowling when he was on 19, went on to reach 37 off 31 before he was bowled by Devendra Bishoo. At that point, England needed just 12 more runs for victory and Eoin Morgan saw his team over the line with a six and a four in consecutive balls off Bishoo. Scores: England 72 for 2 (Bairstow 37, Hales 20) beat West Indies 71 (Willey 4-7, Wood 3-9) by eight wickets.
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Gold and Bronze for Narayan Ramdhani
Narayan Ramdhani (3rd left) along with teammates display their medals won at the recent Canadian event. Narayan Ramdhani made an excellent achievement getting gold in the team championship and bronze in the individual championship at the2019 CCAA National Badminton Championships (Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association) in Dalhousie Agricultural Campus in Nova Scotia Canada March 6-9, 2019. He is now Ranked No. 3 in Canada, No.1 at ACAC and No.1 at the Kings University Eagles Badminton Team. The Guyanese Badminton Champion representing the Kings University Eagles Badminton Team & Alberta ACAC (Alberta Colleges Athletic
Conference), played in his first Nationals with only 7 1/2 Months training in Edmonton Canada and was crowned the No. 1 Singles Player in Alberta. In the Round Robin playoff Narayan Ramdhani was able to win an over-all 3 matches and lost two to make it into the Semi-Finals rounds. In the Men Singles SemiFinals he lost to Nicholas Pitman of Concordia: 21-17, 21-23, 21-12. In the third/fourth placed playoff Narayan came back strong to defeat Yuge Zeng of George Brown: 21-15, 2113 to take the Bronze Medal and 3rd Place. Zeng was last year Silver
Medalist who did not drop a match during the Group Playoff making it a great comeback for Narayan to beat him. Narayan also did well in the Team Championship when his Men Singles match was the deciding match to win Gold and it was here Narayan beat Ramnish Kumar of Humber College:13-21, 16, 21, 21-11. This is a great accomplishment for Narayan with his consistent performances throughout the years. Gratitude has been extended to all who have supported him and a call made to all who should be supporting him.
Narayan Ramdhani displays his medals following the recent Canadian event.
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International Women’s Day & Shafura Hussain Foundation Golf Tourney staged at LGC
From left Mike Mangal, Aleem Hussain Paton George, Dr. JoaanDeo, SiyaPersaud, Michelle Codrington, Max Persaud, and Captain Chen, flanked by two Representatives of the Foundation. The Shafura Hussain Foundation sponsored a tournament on Saturday last in recognition of International Women’s Day and to offer encouragement to women golfers to show off their skills. This exciting tournament was played under the Stableford format, the first time in several years that this format has been used at the LGC. In conjunction with Trophy Stall who provided
magnificent trophies and special International Women’s Day buttons, the LGC hosted over 35 players who came out in support including Siya Persaud, daughter of PurPersaud from Crown Mining who joined the other women golfers to participate in her first ever golf tournament, but in the end it was Dr. Joaan Deo, the reigning Suriname Women’s Champion (31 points) who
prevailed in the Women’s category. But once again and for the second week in a row, Club President Aleem Hussain turned in an excellent day of golf to win the Title. Playing with Brian Hackett, Joseph John and Carlos Carbo from Saj Rice Mills, Hussain took full advantage of the points system to shoot a tournament best of 36 points. Second place was taken
by Kassim Khan (33 points); Third place by veteran Patrick Prasad (32 points) who edged out Fourth Place winner and former Guyana Open Champion Mike Mangal (32 points) on a countback. Magnificent long drives by Mario Acuna of Macorp and Paton George of Brusters were the showcase of the tournament with Paton emerging the winner with a
‘Raising the Standard’ is the theme as Bartica... From page 33 brought back to life. Mayor Marshall also came in for high praise for the tremendous contributions he has been making so far along with his Council towards the development of young people and in this instance, football. Forde, who informed that
gathering that he is a son of Bartica, committed the Federation to fully supporting the BFA in all its endeavors on and off the field of play; reminiscing on the days when the community churned out a number of quality players including the late Neil Hernandez. Speaking to
North Soesdyke overcome Peter’s Hall by 66 runs North Soesdyke defeated Peter’s Hall by 66 runs when play in the East Bank Demerara Cricket Association Neville Sarjoo Memorial 40-over tournament continued recently at Laluni. North Soesdyke batted first and posted 225-9. Chris Deonarine slammed 10 fours and one six in a top score of 90, while Hemraj Garbarran made 76 including 13 fours. Martin Salick grabbed 3-37 and Sunil Tulsidass 3-47. Peter’s Hall were bowled out for 158 in reply. Rickey Seamer made 32 with three fours and one six while Salick got 27 including three fours and one six. Troy Gonsalves captured 3-15 and Rakesh Gangaram 334.
empowerment of the BFA, Forde stated, “Every competition that will be organised over the next year and beyond under my leadership by this association will receive significant funding from the Guyana Football Federation. This league is receiving one million dollars for its operation with balls and other materials; the under13, 15, 17 and very soon the under-20 will receive funding at various levels.” Forde challenged the members to hold the BFA executive accountable as they do not have any reason not to be playing the game in the community. I will be sitting down with them later today {yesterday} and I would be absolutely candid in how I feel about the present, my thoughts about the past and my expectations for the future. Bartica can restore itself to a progressive
and productive football community within this country. The raw talent that exists in this community is the envy of many other parts of Guyana. Bartica needs to stand up and be counted; it has been too long.” Forde also noted that this new beginning can yield huge dividends as long as the body remains committed and focused on development, reminding the GFF is committed. He called on the business community to get on board and partner with the BFA for the empowerment of the youths of the community citing that the rewards will be colossal in time to come. The clubs that would be competing in the three tournaments are Beacons, Lazio, Rising Stars, Potaro Strikers, Mil Ballers, Wolves United, Rivers View and Agatash United.
drive of over 330 yards. Parmanand ‘Max’ Persaud claimed the Nearest to Pin prize and Siya Persaud the
Most Honest Golfer award. Unfortunately, Counselor Kamal Hussain and Dr. Anwar Hussain were not on hand to award the winners, but Michelle Codrington of CARICOM did the honours on their behalf. The late Shafura Hussain (Aunty Shaka) had been a patron of kids and sports in her Albouystown neighborhood throughout her life, and with the firm conviction that sports led to better opportunities for kids, she offered support to sports activities in her area and encouraged her nine children -, of whom Club President Aleem is one - to participate in sports. Last September the New York Chapter of the Foundation William and Aleena Knight (daughter and son-in-law of the late Shafura Hussain), donated more than 100 brand new golf clubs, bags, balls and tees to the Lusignan Golf Club.That equipment is available at the club to be used in assisting anyone (adult or child) interested in learning the game, for whom the Club offers free coaching from Mon-Sun between 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon. Interested persons can call 220-5660 for further information.
Pride survive late slump to hold off Scorpions KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Barbados Pride’s Jamaican import, Marquino Mindley, smashed rookie off-spinner Akim Fraser for six to ease the tension and hand the visitors a nervejangling two-wicket victory over Jamaica Scorpions, on the final day of their 10th round match here yesterday. Resuming the day on five without loss in pursuit of a modest 158 for victory, Pride appeared on course for an easy win when they reached 136 for four, behind captain Shamarh Brooks’ top score of 71. But left-arm spinner Nikita Miller (3-43) and Akim Frazer (355) tore through the middle order as Pride lost four wickets for 11 runs to crash to 147 for eight, to set up a tense finish. The 24-year-old Mindley, however, who made his first class debut for Jamaica five years ago at Sabina Park, then proved the hero for the visitors, displaying a cool head and allowing them to pick up their fifth win of the competition. No such drama was envisioned even though Pride stumbled to 26 for two in the first session after losing both openers Kraigg Brathwaite (17) and left-hander Shayne Moseley (3), both bowled by ex-Test seamer Jerome Taylor. Brooks, who has endured a wretched campaign with the bat, came to his side’s rescue with his first half-century of the season, facing 146 balls in a shade over 2-¾ hours, and striking nine fours. More importantly, he stitched together three small successive partnerships, putting on 33 for the third wicket with Jonathan Carter (6), adding a further 30 for the fourth wicket with Test batsman Roston Chase (18) before posting 47 for the fifth wicket with all-rounder Shamarh Springer (18). Scores: SCORPIONS 250 (Nkrumah Bonner 97, Paul Palmer 66, Derval Green 27 not out; Marquino Mindley 3-36, Miguel Cummins 3-37) and 218 (Brandon King 46, Garth Garvey 37, Jermaine Blackwood 31; Roston Chase 5-63, Keon Harding 4-80). PRIDE 311 (Jonathan Carter 91, Kraigg Brathwaite 57, Shayne Moseley 40, Tevyn Walcott 35; Derval Green 3-35, Nikita Miller 3-63) and 161 for eight (Shamarh Brooks 71; Nikita Miller 3-43, Akim Frazer 3-55).