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Letters... Where your views make the news... Letters... Where your views make the news
The children of the freedom fighters have become the oppressors DEAR EDITOR, As we celebrate our 47th year of independence, which was fought for in the people’s quest for self-determination, the nation needs to be reminded that 26th May, 1966 represents the beginning of government by the people for the people, as we seek to determine our individual and collective wellbeing. No longer must the notion of rulership exist since this independent era of governance speaks to people’s representation captured in our Constitution and ought to be informing the day-to-day management of our affairs. This is a struggle our forefathers fought for and gave their lives to achieve, starting from the Amerindians
resisting enslavement, Africans fighting against slavery, the indentured labourers fighting indentureship, and the citizenry resisting colonial domination. Today to be told by those who were elected and sent to parliament by the citizens that they are there to dictate and give instructions within the political realm that speaks to the people’s involvement in the decision-making process, is saying to this nation that many who have offered themselves to serve the people do not understand what service means. No president, no politician, no government official should conceive in his/her thoughts that he/she can dictate to the citizenry
in a representative government. The recent letter from the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force is a t i m e l y r e minder and indicative that the authors of this letter understand the intent of Article 13 of our Constitution, which speaks to an inclusive democracy, even as those elected to represent us are prepared to deny us the benefit of the intent and purpose of this Constitution. Those who are today denying the people their rights under the constitution are the children and grandchildren of those who fought brutal slavery, indentureship and colonialism. This nation is coming full circle rather than
This press needs a competent... From page 4 how to hone their craft in writing properly. I have been a judge for the Guyana Annual for several years and I read some really great poetry, short stories and novella by many promising young Guyanese writers who I met and called to encourage their writings. Dr. Dabydeen should realize by now that not every Guyanese writer will write like Wilson Harris dabbling in Metaphysics and Quantum Physics to confuse the average reader and even themselves. Every writer will have to develop their own style and craft in writing as they write and write and never stop. I believe we have some of the greatest writers still living and writing in Guyana but the Caribbean Press will have to be administrated by competent as well as open minded editors to hone, encourage and bring out the best in these writers’ works by careful scrutiny and editing of their works. In my opinion, writing poetry and works of literature is a craft as well as a medium of self expression and like any other craft has to be learned from past and present masters of those skills. The Hon. Minister Dr. Frank Anthony is asking for help with the Caribbean Press; until now he hasn’t mentioned where this press is located, he hasn’t posted a job vacancy; Dr.
Dabydeen is asking to be replaced to concentrate on his own writings, I think Mr. Ruel Johnson is by far more qualified and yours truly to help administrate this Press among many of our literary contemporaries. The big question is many of these financially secured bureaucrats are not willing to pay writers for their services to run this press so they have just one man as the (unpaid editor). This press needs a competent honest body of people to govern it before it becomes a next Caribbean White Elephant. Dr. Dabydeen as well as Minister Anthony said they are reprinting the works of dead Guyanese writers (the classics); while our living writers suffer for publication and proper literary exposure. If this Press is offered money by the former Jagdeo regime then in all fairness, our living Guyanese writers should be the first to benefit from this press for our writers to compete for the Commonwealth Prize, the Bocas Literary Award among other prizes. All these debates alone won’t help unless we go back to the table in a meeting with the Minister and Dr. Dabydeen to work together as a team to help our young Guyanese writers. I am willing to offer my literary skills and services. I can be contacted at 220-7008. Rev.Gideon Cecil
progressing along a continuum. Those who have benefitted from the struggles of those who preceded us have now become the dictators. The children of the freedom fighters have become the oppressors 47 years into our historical colonial political independence. Workers/citizens are denied, abused, oppressed, suppressed, victimised and marginalised. It is time for workers of this era, the youths of this era, for each of us to stand up, define and protect what our foreparents fought for. This is necessary since what is given to us as governance falls woefully short of what our forebears and framers of our Constitution fought for. Instead of a representative government of the people we have an elected dictatorship trampling on the rights of the workers/citizens. Excuses about a President above the constitution, or an executive will continue to do whatever they want regardless of what the people say, is no justification for poor
performance. For the parliamentarians are paid to represent the interests of society. Excuses for good governance are no longer acceptable regardless of whether it comes from the Executive, the Opposition, the judicial or the legislative branches of Government. All must be held accountable. The opposition should not be deterred by the antics of the executive since it has a responsibility to hold the executive accountable. The executive must know that while their appointment is at the behest of the majority party, their responsibility is to serve the entire society using the resources that belong to all. The idea that is perpetuated by some that the President is above the parliament and in some cases above the Constitution is no more than a myth pedaled to demonise a previous regime and presents a narrative of hopelessness to hold this regime head accountable. This myth presented as fact is recently exposed as the President made an appeal to the National Assembly to support a Bill.
There is no total power in the Office of the President. The power of the land is distributed to ensure checks and balances, each holding each accountable and not one riding roughshod over the other. And even as the President sought to appeal to the parliamentarians, Gail Texieria, the executive point person on governance, sought to continue the misrepresentation of the role of the President and cast aspersions to demean the opposition political leaders because they took a position in representing the interest of the people, consistent with the spirit and intent of the constitution. The issue of governance has co n s i s t e n t l y b e e n discussed in this society and the time has come for us to seriously address concerns and deficiencies as we seek to move this society forward. The Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act is put back for continued discussion on 12th June. Other bills that address areas Continued on page 6
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Letters... Where your views make the news... Letters... Where your views make the news
I let my son into an organisation not knowing their policies and penalties
DEAR EDITOR, I am writing this letter in tears and with a pain in my heart to all mothers out there who feel that their child joining the army is a good thing. Please think again. My son joined the army at 17 years, 11 months old and served it until he decided that he does not want to be a part of it anymore, reasons best know to him. He went absent without leave and after much discussion between us, he allowed me to accompany him
into Camp Ayanganna, where he was placed under close arrest from March 5, 2013. He spent 78 days before he had a trial and was sentenced to three months imprisonment which is to be spent in the main prison. When I took him there, I was told by the Base Commander, Mr. Bristol, that whatever his sentence is, the time he spent in the army jail would have been deducted and he would not stay more than 42 days. But he spent in
excess of that, and was then given a three month sentence with no deduction of the time spent in the Camp Ayanganna lock-ups. I went as far as sending a letter to the Chief of Staff asking for leniency, and to date I have gotten no reply. I let my son into an organisation not knowing their policies and penalties. So mothers out there, please put this into your heads; that should your loved one join the Guyana
Defence Force and some day decide that they can no longer take it and become a deserter , they have committed a criminal offence; and if and when caught, would have to go to jail. Your child would be made to rub shoulders with murderers, rape men, thieves and all the rest of it. Don’t go to any officer to look into your matter, because you would be the fooled. It happened to me. Mother in pain
Please end this lawlessness
D EAR EDITOR, We the residents of Station Street, Kitty want to know what is the purpose of the court, since citizens are not obeying court orders. We would like to know why is this disrespect continuing? The owner of this popular bar has persisted with overbearing noise and the customers continue with their unmannerly behavior despite the intervention of the court. This same bar owner had recently appeared in court but has made it clear to other concerned residents that she doe s not mind paying several fines. Their position is that money has to be made at our expense. Even on the day of the court hearing, the operators of the bar defiantly continued with business as usual from 17:00 hours to 04:00 hours the following day. The noise and ruckus continued that day until the other day. We the citizens of station street kitty are calling on the relevant authorities to end this uncommon lawlessness. Concerned residents
The children of the... From page 5 for improvement of governance emanating from the opposition have been vetoed for none other reason than to advance a partisan political agenda. This is presidential lawlessness and against the grain of the constitution and good governance. Those who deny the people must be held accountable by the people in the spirit of a democracy and hard fought for independence from colonial powers. This is what the 26th May 1966 set out to achieve and we, the people, must insist in holding the President/executive and parliament accountable in working together for our collective wellbeing. The children of freedom fighters must not be allowed to become the representation of those whom their parents fought against. Lincoln Lewis
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Bodies of two Cuyuni River victims found The bodies of two men, who were among four feared drowned in Saturday’s boat mishap in the Cuyuni River, were recovered late yesterday evening after army and maritime personnel intensified the search for the missing passengers. The victims were identified as Junior Bandhu 35, of Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo and William Patwa of New Amsterdam, Berbice. Kaieteur News was told that the bodies were found a few miles from the area where the accident occurred, after additional search teams were deployed to find the four missing passengers. However, sources confirmed that the bodies of Shawn Robinson and Clive Welcome are yet to be found. A source later told this newspaper that some conflict arose after the bodies were not placed in the Bartica Hospital Mortuary. “The head nurse and doctors of the hospital are refusing to take the bodies into the mortuary and I can’t understand why this is so, because they have not decayed….we don’t have any other suitable place to lodge
the bodies at this time,” the source said. This newspaper was told that a crowd converged at the scene after news spread, with some pleading with hospital authorities to allow the admittance of the bodies into the morgue. Four men went missing last Saturday, after a transport vessel navigating the Cuyuni rapids capsized. The vessel was transporting Maurice Hopkinson of Second Avenue, Bartica; Junior Lyte, 19, of Batavia, Cuyuni; William Patwa, along with Junior Bandhu, 35, of Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo; Shawn Robinson, Clive Welcome, 19 years, of First Avenue, Bartica and David Prass, 26, of New Amsterdam, Berbice. The vessel which was reportedly owned by Severn Williams was captained by Junior Lyte at the time of the accident. He was taken into police custody. The mishap reportedly occurred after the engine failed in the vicinity of the Matuk Falls, Cuyuni, at around 10:30 hours, Saturday. Passengers of a passing boat assisted in rescuing Lyte, Prass and Hopkinson, who
were attempting to swim ashore. Neighbourhood search teams joined forces with the Maritime Administration and the Guyana Defence Force, (GDF) to continue the search for other persons. That search resulted in the recovery of the two bodies yesterday. Efforts made to locate relatives of the dead men proved futile. Police and Maritime workers are currently conducting investigations. Meanwhile, relatives of survivors related that they are “still shaken up” by the experience. When contacted via telephone yesterday the wife of Maurice Hopkinson said that her husband is still traumatised by the entire ordeal. The woman, Angela Hopkinson told this newspaper that when the mishap occurred, her husband, the proprietor of Hopkinson Mines located at Aranka, was heading out of the area, aboard a vessel with six other passengers. “The boat engine cut out and they begin to drift. The boat hit a rock or something and it topple over the falls…. My husband is still disturbed by the incident … he can’t talk right now … he just trying to forget the whole thing”.
Monday May 27, 2013
Suspected $4.5M fraud at Eccles NDC…
Overseer still missing, Enmore official sent packing State auditors are set to complete their investigations into a multi-million dollar fraud at the Eccles/Ramsburg Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) but there are still no signs of the missing Overseer. Speaking with reporters late last week, Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Ganga Persaud, said that attempts were made to contact the overseer, Raul Kissoon, with police even turning up at his city home. “We are prompting the Overseer and others to come in and have dialogue with us,” the Minister appealed. Kissoon disappeared in January after just a few months on the job. Reportedly missing is $4.5M, representing rates and taxes paid by residents of Eccles, Bagotstown, Nandy Park and Republic Park, Peters Hall and Providence. The Office of the Auditor General was called in after NDC officials could not make contact with Kissoon and were forced to break into his office. According to Minister Persaud, the Audit Office is
finalizing its report on the investigations. According to NDC officials, they had wanted money to pay urgent bills but the Overseer’s mobile phone was going to voicemail. This newspaper has been told that the probe would have gone back as far as six months before Kissoon’s disappearance. He was last seen at the NDC office on January 14. The $4.5M rates and taxes were collections made over several days, this newspaper was told. It had been unclear why that much cash was left at the office as it was the practice, officials say, that cash be deposited daily at the banks. The Local Government Ministry has been on a campaign to clean up NDCs and towns across the country as complaints continue to surface about corruption and neglect. Several NDCs, at least 29 of the 65, have been replaced by Interim Management Committees (IMCs). Local government elections have not been held since 1994. Meanwhile, the Minister also said that the Audit Office
Still missing: Raul Kissoon had completed a special examination at the Enmore NDC, East Coast Demerara. This was after red flags of possible wrongdoing were raised. Some accounting breaches were found but no monies were missing. The Ministry has since parted “working relationship” with the Overseer for the breaches, he said. The Audit Office found weaknesses in the accounting systems and these have since been tightened.
Guyana Public Service Union:
We must find compromise Forty-seven years ago, proud and enthusiastic Guyanese embraced the freedom bestowed by the declaration of independence with spirit and great determination. A determination that stems from the fact that the people of this great country of ours had won the sovereign right to chart their own destiny, the freedom to make their own decisions, create their own rules and govern themselves without interference. However, let us not forget that the struggle for freedom in Guyana started centuries ago to break the chains of slavery; this struggle was then undertaken by the labor movement over a century ago and eventually by local politicians with a refined mandate for independence from British Colonial rule. The end of 164 years of British Colonial rule was greeted with days of celebration, pomp and ceremony. But being an independent nation and having the choice and liberty to pave the desired road called for great thinking minds.
To lead a multi-racial, multi-religious, multi-cultural nation demands mature, tolerant enlightened, inclusive and restrained leadership. This leadership should be non-partisan putting the national interest of decent law abiding citizens first and foremost. Today, the strings that bound our common humanity in cohesive decision making have become frayed, tattered and worn. Widespread enthusiasm has been dashed and deflated by wholesale corruption in highest offices; where suppression and abuse compromises freedom; where there is deliberate exploitation and inequity resulting in inhumane disparity in standards of living; where the rule of law is trampled upon; where lawlessness and political interference is rampant; where quantity is preferable to quality; where quality health care is compromised; where respect for our neighbors is nonexistent in our society. Reflecting on our struggle and our experiences, we must recognize that there have been significant departures from the goals and objectives
that were intended and the sacrifices of our forefathers. The Guyana Public Service Union as a trade union is concerned and disappointed about the erosion of agreements that were entered into and the undermining of worker’s rights, privileges and benefits particularly by those politicians whose very success can be attributed to the support of organized labor. On May 26, after forty seven years, we, as Guyanese must put aside our racial, religious, political and economic differences and aim for common goals whereby everyone can benefit equally. Together we must put an end to the decay and the decline that is affecting us and unite to restore the entitlements won by our forefathers and pave the way to enhance actions in the interest of working class people. As a people, it should be our proud responsibility and committed obligation to protect our country and its image. We should be loyal patriots and support democratic policies that are just, evenhanded and in the interest of all Guyanese.
We must ensure that those we elect to safeguard our nation’s well-being, faithfully fulfill the mandate given. We must not sit idly by and watch a marginal few create the basis of chaos and mayhem, while allowing our country to disintegrate. It is the hope that as a nation, unique as our own, we can find compromise; we can become creative thinkers; cultivate a culture of enlightenment, fairmindedness and evenhandedness and etch out an understanding approach to the multi-faceted governance issues that currently exist. We can be flexible and visionary; we can increase our thoughtful, compassionate and caring nature. Such an approach would undoubtedly be a noble gesture for national harmony; The GPSU calls on every citizen of this country to recapture and rejuvenate that enthusiasm which motivated us to seek freedom from external rule so that we may move forward, together, with this vision as our ultimate goal. Happy Independence Day!
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Home Affairs recruiting staff for Forensic lab (From page 21)
VACANCY Wash Bay attendant for Bel Air Service station- Call: 6803863 Vacancy for one general domestic: Must know to prepare vegetarian mealCall: 225-3809/ 225-5800
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Pump Attendant @ Shell Service Station Providence E.B.D: Must be able to work shift: Email: shellramsburg@ gmail.com, Tele:265-7305
CAKES & PASTRIES Courses in cake decoration, pastry making & cookery, Call: 670-0798. Also wedding dresses for sale Courses for: Bridal accessories, Cake decoration & Floral arrangements, Cake and Pastry - contact Sharon: 672-8768/ 223-3303/612-4193
TO LET Furnished 2 bedrooms Apt to let- call:665-2548/693-0710 Fully furnished short term apartments, Eccles call: 6896668 Furnished 2 bedrooms Apt $US 50-60 daily- call:665-2548 Diamond- $75,000; Kitty$80,000; Bel Air-US $1800; Brickdam -US$6,000- call Diana:227-2256/626-9382 Two bedroom bottom apartments, tiled: C/VilleCall: 650-0716 / 223-1051 SALON Make Up Courses, Artist Trained & Certified in Trinidad. Call 660-5257, 6471773 New classes -Cosmetology , Nails, Wigs, Designs, MakeUp, Hair-Styling; call Abby 216-1950, 666-5241, 619-7603 Natural Beauty Salon & Spa: Grove Market Street EBD tele:265-4138,652-5800 specialized in everything for women & children
VACANCY Popular 24 hour East Coast Guyoil needs day & night pump attendants, sales girl, cleaners/maintenance- Tele: 698-5559/ 684-2838 Clerical Staff: Computer literate: No age barrier: Apply @ Risans 51 Main St. Diesel Mechanic, Industrial Electrician, Welders & Fabricators, Machinists: Technical Services Inc. 18-23 Eccles Industrial Site, E.B.D
Over the next few weeks interviews will be conducted as the Ministry of Home Affairs seeks to get the human resources needed for the soon to be commissioned Forensic Lab, in place. Recently, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee said the contractors have committed that the lab will be completed by June 17th.
- Contractors to complete work by June 17 Already the Home Affairs Minister said the equipment for the lab has arrived. To date Rohee said they have received a total of 38 applications for 21 existing positions at the lab. He
stressed that only the finest will be selected to fill the vacancies. He added that an interviewing panel has been selected by the Ministry and the members will be short listing the candidates who
will then be called for interviews. On December 14, 2012, a US$1.688 M contract was signed for the supply of equipment for the state-ofthe-art police forensic laboratory. The contract to build the forensic laboratory was awarded to Courtney Benn Construction Company.
Monday May 27, 2013
WANTED Business property for rent in Central Mackenzie- Tele: 444-5883/687-9992 One live-in maid to work in Georgetown- Call: 697-6747 One female experienced cook and kitchen assistant to work in home in InteriorCall: 697-6747 One Live-in Babysitter for Georgetown age 18-30- call: 697-6747 Contract Cars wanted: City Taxi Service- call: 660-1100 Live In Live Out Babysitter Domestic - Call: 225-6070 2 Garbage Truck Workers: 1 Pick-up driver: 1 Cook to work out of town- Call: 6122057/614-2464
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Two killed, one held, one wounded in police shootout By Stacy Moore (Trinidad Newsday) A 16YEAR-OLD teenager and his friend who robbed a woman at gunpoint Friday afternoon in central Trinidad, were shot dead by police in a shootout at Carlsen Field, central Trinidad yesterday. Dead is Tishawn Theon Miller, 16, of Circular Road, Crown Trace, Enterprise, and his accomplice, Devon Ferguson, 21, of Point Pleasant Road, Cunupia. They, along with two others, engaged a party of police officers in a gun battle at
about 6 pm on Friday but were cut down by the lawmen. According to a police report, at about 5.30 pm on Friday, a businesswoman was about to enter her home at Caparo Village, central Trinidad when a blue AD station wagon pulled up in front of her house. Four men, including Miller and Ferguson, held up the woman with one of them pointing a gun at her and demanding that she hand over a bag she was holding in her hand. After the men snatched the bag and was about to make good their escape, the woman began to
scream. Neighbours responded and called the police. Police reports state the bandits fired several shots in the direction of the woman which shattered the windscreen of her car parked in her driveway. She was not harmed, but police officers from Central Division responded to the robbery and under the supervision of ASP Johnny Abraham, an All Points Bulletin was issued to police stations in the surrounding districts. Sgts Mohammed, Thompson, Cpl Ali and other officers of the
Central Division Tactical Unit and CID, spearheaded the chase. The report stated police officers spotted the blue AD wagon in Carlsen Field, and a high-speed chase ensued between the lawmen and the occupants of the vehicle. Police said they were fired upon and during the shootout, the vehicle was blocked. Upon checking the vehicle, the lawmen saw the injured men. Two other men, an 18-year-old teenager from Brasso Village in central Trinidad and a 21-year-old
man from Freeport, were held when they attempted to escape from the AD wagon. Miller and Ferguson were taken to the Chaguanas Health Facility, but were pronounced dead upon arrival. The 18-year-old was discharged and taken into police custody while the 21year-old was still warded up to yesterday with gunshot wounds, at San Fernando General Hospital. Police said they seized a .38 pistol with two live rounds of ammunition and a Smith and Wesson firearm with three rounds of ammunition were recovered. Yesterday, when Sunday Newsday visited Miller’s family, his mother Patricia Miller, 52, said she last saw her son alive on Friday evening. “He did not say where he was going, but a vehicle came and pick him up and he left. Then, I got a phone call later that he (Miller) was shot during some robbery,” Patricia said. She said she did not see the vehicle that her son went into, nor did she know the others who were in the vehicle. “My son is no saint. But
he was no bandit either. He was not a person that would point a gun and rob someone, that is not Tishawn,” the crying mother said. Miller was not attending school and had dropped out of the Servol Learning Centre which was the last institution he attended, Patricia said. She said her son had started to follow “bad company”. “I tried to talk to him, but he was influenced by the wrong set of people and he went astray very bad,” the woman said. Miller was the youngest of three siblings. Patricia said her son should have been punished for his crime, but not by death. “He is only 16, he is a boy. They should have at least shot him on his leg or hand but not to kill him,” the woman told the Sunday Newsday. Patricia said she saw the body of her son at the crime scene. “It is sad for a mother to watch the body of her 16 year old son on the ground with bullet holes,” Patricia said. Autopsies on Miller’s and Ferguson’s bodies are expected to be performed at the Forensic Science Centre tomorrow. Investigations are continuing.
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Raid on Clico... Cops search for evidence to build case (Trinidad Guardian) Heavily armed police officers from the InterAgency Task Force (IATF) last week raided the offices of financially troubled insurance company Clico and its parent company, CL Financial, looking for evidence to support the criminal case that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is building against former high-ranking executives of the companies. This was confirmed by police and government sources yesterday. Finance Minister Larry Howai said yesterday that the execution of the search warrants related to “preintervention actions and it does not have any impact on the current negotiations,” between the Government and the CL Financial shareholders for the recovery of the $20 billion spent by the State following the collapse of the group, which was once chaired by Lawrence Duprey. The police officers were granted the search warrants for Clico and CL Financial on Thursday and executed the warrants on Friday. The warrants listed scores of specific documents that the police were searching for and also listed the names of several executives who the police were attempting to question. The 12 to 15 local police officers who were involved in the search of the CL Financial head office were accompanied by two men who appeared to be foreigners, sources who observed the search of the Maraval Road, Newtown, Port-of-Spain, building on Friday told the Guardian. On
Friday afternoon, a Guardian journalist observed two uniformed members of the IATF armed with submachine guns slung across their shoulders, leaning against an unmarked pick-up in the front yard of the CL Financial office. Director of Public Prosecutions Roger Gaspard officially started the criminal investigation into the collapse of the CL Financial empire in early November 2012, according to a statement he issued on November 8, last year. But more than a year before the DPP started the probe, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan on June 7, 2011, directed that all files pertaining to the company should be handed over to Gaspard’s office. The Attorney General’s directive came days after the Central Bank initiated a civil lawsuit against former topranking CL Financial executives and their privatelyowned investment companies, alleging that Clico’s assets and income were fraudulently misappropriated to the detriment of the insurance company’s policyholders and mutual fund investors. The Central Bank’s lawsuit is based on an investigation conducted by forensic accountant Bob Lindquist following the January 2009 collapse of the CL Financial empire. The Lindquist audit is reported to have provided details of at least three suspicious transactions. There was no response from Gaspard to a detailed text message sent to him at 10.42 am yesterday, but in November last year the DPP warned media houses not to
publish “anything which might jeopardise, hinder or otherwise prejudice the investigation or any possible proceedings which might result from it.” And just weeks after he announced the start of the official police investigation on December 3, 2012, Gaspard attempted to convince the sole commissioner into the collapse of CL Financial, Sir Anthony Colman, to suspend the public hearings of the Commission of Enquiry, as such hearings had the potential to provide prejudicial publicity to the investigation being undertaken by the local police. Sir Anthony declined the DPP’s request. The DPP is an independent public office, the holder of which has the power to start, continue or stop criminal proceedings before any court, in respect of any offence against the law of Trinidad and Tobago. In wrapping up the oral hearing stage of the Commission of Enquiry on May 2, Colman said its next stage would be the issue of Salmon letters—a letter sent by the commissioner to individuals or companies identifying areas of potential legal jeopardy and calling on them to respond. At the same time that the DPP is building a criminal case with regard to the CL Financial collapse—and as Sir Anthony contemplates the issuance of the Salmon letters—the Government is conducting negotiations with the shareholders of CL Financial to ensure that the State recovers the $20 billion already spent to bail out Clico and other CL Financial companies.
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AG supports DPP on forensic probe into emails By CAROL MATROO (Newsday) Attorney General Anand Ramlogan is pleased at Director of Public Prosecution Roger Gaspard’s call for a foreign forensic investigation to determine the veracity of the emails presented by Opposition leader Dr Keith Rowley in the Parliament. Rowley, in piloting a noconfidence motion in Prime Minister Kamla PersadBissessar in Parliament last Monday, presented documents purporting to disclose emails which suggested a conspiracy to murder a reporter, pervert the course of justice and to illegally wire-tap the Office of the DPP. The emails suggested involvement of the Prime Minister, AG, Local Government Minister Dr Suruj Rambachan, all members of the Parliament, and the PM’s security adviser Gary Griffith. In a statement on Friday, Gaspard said there was “a burning need to engage the
services of universally heralded and credible professionals.” He said it was to be expected that such persons would play leading roles in the investigation with the Police Service lending support. Gaspard announced he had recused himself from advising the police. “What the DPP said in his statement is what I have been saying from day one, and that is that the Police Service is the duly constituted and lawfully empowered authority to investigate this matter because these are serious allegations that have been made by the leader of the Opposition,” Ramlogan told reporters after a re-enactment of Indian Arrival at Nelson Island, yesterday. Ramlogan noted the Police Service Act had been amended to allow the Commissioner of Police to contract specialist expertise which he did not have in the Police Service to properly conduct any investigation. “In this matter it seems
clear the CoP would want to get someone of such independence and reputation that it could be above board and questioned by none,” he said. The AG said the Integrity Commission’s jurisdiction was limited to breaches in the Integrity in Public Life Act, adding that the email allegations went far beyond the scope and ambit of the act. “They relate to serious criminal offences and therefore the Police Service should be the one to conduct a police investigation, but in a matter like this they would want to get independent IT specialists who are of solid technical competence, and also of a reputation that cannot be doubted by anyone. “I would expect that the Commissioner of Police would choose someone or persons whose reputation precedes them, who would be of unquestionable integrity and independence in this matter,” Ramlogan said.
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Monday May 27, 2013 ARIES (March 21 - April 19): Even though there are no obstacles standing in your way right now, you probably feel held back in some regard. You don't have enough time, you don't have enough money, or you don't have enough support. ******************* TAURUS (April 20 - May 20): If you try to explain something confusing to someone else today, you might get tongue-tied. If you do, go for visuals to get across your meaning. ****************** GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): Displaying too much aggression will do you more harm than good, right now. So try hard to be soft, today -especially with friends and family members who might not realize that you're going through some stuff right now. ******************** CANCER (June 21 - July 22): You shouldn't speak or act too quickly, today -- not only will others misinterpret your goals, they could get annoyed that you're not taking care to make sure they are listening. ********************* LEO (July 23 - Aug. 22): Pressure, what pressure?! The tension you're feeling right now in your life will completely disappear if you just give yourself some time here and there today to process what you're going through. ******************* VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22): Making choices can be tough, but today it will be delightful to examine your options and figure out the best one for you. From picking a lunch item off a menu to deciding where to go on your next big vacation, your brain is going to love weighing the pros and cons in order to come up with the perfect solution!
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Two rockets hit Lebanese Hezbollah stronghold BEIRUT (AP) — A pair of rockets slammed into a car dealership and a residential building in strongholds of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group in Beirut on Sunday, wounding four people in a new sign that Syria’s civil war is increasingly rattling its fragile neighbor. Lebanon’s sectarian divide mirrors that of Syria, and Lebanese armed factions have increasingly taken sides in the fighting next door. There was no claim of responsibility for Sunday’s rocket attacks, but they struck just hours after Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah vowed to propel Syrian President Bashar Assad to victory. In Baghdad, Syria’s foreign minister offered the first direct confirmation that the Assad regime is willing to take part in talks aimed at ending the Syrian conflict. A U.N.sponsored conference, envisioned for next month in Geneva, is to bring together representatives of the Assad regime and the Syrian opposition for talks on a political transition. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said Sunday the government is willing “in principle” to participate in the conference. He added that such talks present a “good opportunity for a political solution for the crisis in Syria,” but did not say under what terms Assad would dispatch representatives. The date, agenda and list of participants for the conference remain unclear, and wide gaps remain about its objectives. Syrian opposition leaders have said they are willing to attend the Geneva talks, but that Assad’s departure from power must top the agenda. Assad said this month that his future won’t be determined by international talks and that he will only step down after elections are held. The foreign minister’s statement puts more pressure on Syria’s fractured political opposition to signal acceptance as well. The main bloc, the Syrian National Coalition, was meeting in Istanbul for the fourth day Sunday to come up with a unified position on the proposed peace talks, elect new leaders and expand membership. Louay Safi, a senior member of the coalition, said participants were bogged down in talks about the expansion, and won’t be able to issue a formal statement on the Geneva talks until membership issues are settled. The opposition’s Western and Arab allies remain skeptical about the Syrian regime’s commitment to negotiations. They have warned Assad that they will step up aid to
Syrian rebels if the regime does not negotiate in good faith — though U.S. reluctance to arm the rebels may have taken the bite out of such threats. Meanwhile, fighting has continued unabated inside Syria. For the past week, regime troops and its Hezbollah allies have waged an offensive against the strategic rebel-held town of Qusair in western Syria. They have gained ground amid heavy shelling, but rebels have held some positions. The Qusair battle has laid bare Hezbollah’s growing role in the Syrian conflict. The Shiite militant group, which has been fighting alongside Assad’s troops, initially tried to play down its involvement, but could no longer do so after dozens of its fighters were killed in Qusair and buried in large funerals in Lebanon. On Saturday, Hezbollah’s leader firmly linked his militia’s fate to the survival of the Syrian regime, raising the stakes not just in Syria, but also in Hezbollah’s relations with rival groups in Lebanon. “We will continue this road until the end, we will take the responsibility and we will make all the sacrifices,” he said in a televised speech. “We will be victorious.” Hours after the speech, two rockets struck neighborhoods in south Beirut, a rare occurrence even in a country used to sectarian strife. Street fighting between rival Lebanese groups has been relatively common since the end of the country’s 15-year civil war in 1990, but rocket or artillery attacks on Beirut neighborhoods are unusual. One rocket struck a car dealership in the Mar Mikhael district on the southern edge of the capital, wounding four Syrian workers, according to Lebanese security officials. After the attack, part of the rocket’s main body was left embedded in the ground, where a Lebanese soldier measured its diameter. Two cars were badly damaged and others had windows shattered by shrapnel. Another rocket hit the second floor of an apartment building in the Chiyah district, about two kilometers (one mile) away. It damaged a living room, but no one was hurt. Lebanese media said security forces were searching for a third unexploded rocket. A security official said rocket launchers were found in the woods in a predominantly Christian and Druse area in suburbs southeast of Beirut. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
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Obama: Govt. with Oklahoma ‘every step’ of the way MOORE, Okla. (AP) — President Barack Obama visited tornado-devastated Moore, Okla., Sunday, consoling people staggered by the loss of life and property and promising that the government will be behind them “every step of the way.” “I’m just a messenger here,” the president said, saying “folks are behind you” across America. He offered moral and monetary support in the wake of the monstrous EF5 tornado that killed 24 people, including 10 children, last Monday afternoon.Standing with Gov. Mary Fallin and other state and federal officials, Obama noted a substantial rebuilding job ahead and said that “our hearts go out to you.” “This is a strong community with strong character. There’s no doubt they will bounce back,” he said. “But they need help.”The White House said the Federal Emergency Management Agency has already provided $57 million in rebates and incentives to help build about 12,000 storm shelters in Oklahoma. “These storm shelters can be the difference between life and death,” presidential spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters accompanying Obama to Oklahoma on Air Force One.For Obama, Sunday’s visit had an all-toofamiliar ring. Only five months into his second term, he has traveled to the northeast to console people in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, and visited Connecticut and Arizona to comfort people traumatized by shooting rampages. He also has undertaken his consoler-inchief role at the site of plant
President Barack Obama explosions and mine disasters, not to mention a series of natural disasters including Joplin, Mo., and the Jersey Shore, which was heavily damaged by Superstorm Sandy last year.Once on the ground, Obama urged the American people to make contributions, saying the damage was “pretty hard to comprehend.”Shortly after his arrival on a partly cloudy day, Obama rode past grassy fields strewn with scattered debris, witnessing devastation so awesome that it appeared as if garbage had literally rained from the sky. His first stop was the demolished site of the Plaza Towers Elementary School, where seven students were killed when the tornado turned the one-story building into a heap of bricks, broken concrete and twisted metal.”I know this is tough,” he told superintendent Susie Pierce as he gripped her hand.
As he walked, the demolished school was on his left and on his right, homes as far as the eye could see were reduced to piles of rubble. Vehicles were turned upside down and toys like a pink doll carriage and children’s books were strewn with furniture and ripped out wall insulation. Every tree had been stripped of its leaves and bark.Obama at one point joined the Lewis family, which lost their home behind the school. He said the important thing was that they survived and could replace their things.” What a mess,” he told their son Zack, a third grader at the shattered school. Zack’s father, Scott, ran into the school just before the storm hit and ran with his terrified son back to their home’s storm shelter.”You’ve got some story to tell,” Obama told the boy. “This is something you’ll remember all your life.”Obama later met privately with victims’ families at Moore Fire Department Station (hash)1, which has turned into a command center with dozens of first responders sitting at folding tables where fire trucks are normally parked. Obama marveled that they saved so many lives “given the devastation.” “I know this is tough,” he told superintendent Susie Pierce as he gripped her hand.
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Missing mom’s diary foreshadows family tragedy SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Susan Powell had been married about a year when she started writing a journal. She was a love-struck, 20year-old newlywed, dreaming of the future she would build with her husband.”I just feel incredibly lucky to have Josh,” she wrote in 2002.Before long, however, she found herself torn. A growing sense of danger was telling her to grab her kids and flee, but her strong religious faith led her to believe she could save her young family. The journal entries turned grim.”If I die, it may not be an accident even if it looks like one,” she wrote in 2008. “Take care of my boys.”She went missing the following year and hasn’t been seen since. Her husband later killed their sons and himself. No one was ever charged in her disappearance, and the people at the center of the police investigation - her husband, his brother and their father - are all either dead or in prison.As leads have gone cold, the chief agency in the investigation, the West Valley City Police
Department, has closed the case saying for the first time they believe Josh Powell played a role in killing his wife and that his brother Michael Powell helped get rid of her body. Both men denied involvement in her disappearance before committing suicide about a year apart.With the investigation over, police released thousands of pages of documents, providing new details about a scandal that made national headlines with each development.Susan Powell’s story first gained attention when she vanished from her suburban Salt Lake City home in the middle of the night in December 2009. The documents released May 20 show that police focused on her husband, doubting his alibi from the outset.Josh Powell said his wife went missing shortly after he left to go camping in the high desert with their sons, who were 2 and 4 years old at the time, despite a snowstorm that blanketed the area. The police investigation led to searches of abandoned
mines in Utah and neighboring Nevada, and authorities kept their attention on Josh Powell even as he moved from West Valley City, Utah, to Puyallup, Wash., where he ultimately attacked his boys with a hatchet last year after saying he “had a big surprise” for them. He then set his home on fire, causing an explosion that killed them all as a social worker watched in horror.It was the sum of the missing woman’s fears, and her journal entries show the downward spiral.Susan Cox and Josh Powell married in spring 2001 at a Mormon temple in Portland, Ore., about four months after meeting at a Latter-day Saints singles dance. They didn’t have much money. But they had their faith and each other.They were regulars at church and sang together in the choir. One Sunday morning they overslept and missed service, so instead they walked together in the fresh snow.”Some kids with a snow fort threw some snow balls at us and Josh did the same,”
she wrote in 2002. “He’s just a big kid.”The newlyweds bounced from job to job and from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with Josh’s father, Steve Powell. Susan Powell wrote that her husband was “computer smart,” but she worried that he couldn’t keep a regular job.Money was a constant problem. They disagreed over whether to tithe 10 percent of their income to the church, with Josh Powell considering it a waste of money, according to the journal. He also wanted to spend as little as possible on food, proclaiming, she wrote, “The food we eat will only be from our garden and if we don’t grow it, we will not eat it. We will only buy dairy products and meat.”Eventually, Susan Powell found steady work at a call center to support the family financially. Her husband’s behavior, meanwhile, grew increasingly controlling, according to both the handwritten journal and police records.Josh Powell tried to cut his wife off from the world, limiting her computer and phone access.
He had calls to their home forwarded to his cell and would decide which messages she received. He refused to let her have a cellphone of her own. According to a police interview, Susan Powell’s sister, who is not identified by name, stated, “He wouldn’t let me talk to Susan a lot, and he monitored my conversations with her.” The sister said she began calling Susan Powell at work so Josh Powell couldn’t eavesdrop.Things weren’t going well, and Susan Powell knew it.”I can’t believe our marriage deteriorated so quickly. I feel so blind and naive and foolish,” she wrote in 2008.She also came to see her father-in-law as a meddlesome and negative influence on her husband.Josh Powell began to distance himself from the Mormon church, as Steve Powell had done years earlier. Father and son took countless family photographs, which she wasn’t allowed to see. And the men talked on the phone for hours each week, conversations that often
triggered fits of anger in the younger man, according to documents.Steve Powell is behind bars on voyeurism charges after being convicted of taking photos of young neighbor girls without their knowledge, a crime that emerged after police seized computer hard-drives from his Puyallup, Wash., home while investigating Susan Powell’s disappearance. He has denied involvement, but Steve Powell became a public figure in the case after going on national television and saying he and his daughterin-law had been falling in love. Documents show Susan Powell was uncomfortable with Steve Powell’s feelings, which she considered a onesided sexual obsession.She sent notes to friends in 2009 from a work email address, saying she needed to “take a shower” after reading lyrics to songs her father-in-law posted on his website. She wrote that his song “I’m Missing You,” is directed toward her: “I can love you in a secret way. I can love you each and every day.””Glance over the lyrics - they are creepy,” she writes.
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Aggressive Mumbai end title drought ESPNcricinfo - Kept alive by Kieron Pollard’s fighting 60 off 32, the Mumbai Indians bowlers attacked their way to a first IPL title. Mumbai were struggling at 52 for 4 in the 10th over, but Pollard batted through the innings to take them 148 even as wickets kept falling as the other end. Lasith Malinga and Mitchell Johnson then were too good for the Chennai Super Kings batsmen, yorking and bouncing them out. Super Kings’ two big Indian batsmen fell to bouncers, their best batsman was done in by a perfect Malinga yorker, and the rest fell under the weight of the pressure and their own conservatism. MS Dhoni came in to bat at No. 7, and Albie Morkel at 8. Twenty20 doesn’t always favour aggressive sides, in that wickets don’t mean as much as they should, but in this match it did. Wickets were there aplenty for Super Kings too. There were three in the first four overs as the ball seamed, and Mohit Sharma and Morkel bowled smartly and steadily. When Dinesh Karthik fell in the 10th over, Super Kings were arguably one big wicket away from killing the game. That one big wicket never came. The first ball Pollard faced he defended away for four. That was sweetly played.
He just pushed at a shortish delivery, but the ball scurried along between the bowler and mid-off. He lost Ambati Rayudu after a 48-run fifthwicket stand, but kept bringing up fours and sixes without taking risks. His countryman, Dwayne Bravo, though, threatened to ruin his plans. Pollard had taken Mumbai to 129 for 6 after 18 overs, and would have been looking for 40 more. A tight Chris Morris over later, Bravo kept Pollard away from the strike through two wickets off the first three balls of the last over. Pollard took the risk fourth ball and ran even though the ball had reached the slip straight on a half-volley. Now Pollard had two balls to do something about the score that read only 136. And do something Pollard did. The first of the two balls was a low full toss and he flicked it for a straight six. Then came a slower ball, which pitched on a length, and Pollard dismissed it out of his presence. Twelve runs taken off the last two balls, Mumbai were reminded by their analyst that they had scored 148 in their first match against Super Kings too. Pollard had scored 57 not out then too. They won by nine back then. This time, though, they would need something special. Malinga, asked to
bowl the first over, delivered nothing less than special. A swinging yorker first squeezed under Michael Hussey’s bat. Out came Suresh Raina. In came a backward short leg. Out came an accurate bouncer. Raina fended at it while looking towards third man. Backward short leg took the catch. Super Kings now sent crisis man S Badrinath ahead of the bigger hitters. If consolidation was his brief, Badrinath exceeded it by driving at a wide length ball from Mitchell Johnson and edging it through. Still no Dhoni. Bravo and Ravindra Jadeja didn’t take too long, and Dhoni had to finally come out at 36 for 5 in the seventh over. However, he ran out of batsmen soon with M Vijay falling to a Johnson bouncer and Morkel to a full Pragyan Ojha delivery, and actually had to begin farming the strike and refuse singles with six overs still to go. Most of Dhoni’s 63 off 45 came after the match had been lost, and only gave Mumbai an extended time on the field to celebrate the title even when the match was on. Scores: Mumbai Indians 148 for 9 (Pollard 60*, Bravo 4-42, Morkel 2-12) beat Chennai Super Kings 125 for 9 (Dhoni 63*, Johnson 2-19, Harbhajan 214) by 23 runs.
Monday May 27, 2013
Forde does it again, Josiah-Tanner unchallenged By Edison Jefford Still recovering from a recurring groin injury, Cleveland Forde was still able to out-sprint Trinidad and Tobago-based, Kelvin Johnson to win yet another distance title early yesterday morning when the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport (MCYS)/Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) held the annual Independence Half Marathon (IHM). Forde and Johnson broke away from the quality pack that also included Trinidadbased, Lionel D’Andrade, Cleveland Thomas and Dennis Horatio around Buxton before Forde for the umpteenth time in his long career used his speed with about 100m left in the race to add another title to his bourgeoning cabinet. Forde won in 1:14.37, while Johnson had 1:14.43 for second. D’Andrade finished third in a time of 1:15.31 while Thomas (1:15.32) and Horatio (1:18.44) sealed the top five in the male version of the race that attracted Guyana’s seasoned overseas-based distance campaigners. The race had started at Paradise on the East Coast and finished outside the MCYS on Main Street. “It (the race) was around the pace I expected, but I felt a little pressured. I had
- IHM attracts overseas-based athletes expected a more comfortable race, but he (Johnson) seems to be more comfortable than I was. My focus is just to overcome this injury fully,” Forde said after the race. His long-time rival, Johnson, when asked why he did not pressure Forde more on the course, said that he did not do any speed preparation leading up to the event. “I wasn’t in the condition to plan really. I just wanted to keep a high pace and hope for the win, but he (Forde) held on then as you know, he used his speed,” Johnson indicated. A junior male pack that included Linden’s Winston Missenger, Rupununi’s Samuel Kaitan and Georgetown’s Kevin Bayley and Devon Barrington finished in that order. Barrington, a National Schools’ Championship standout, said it was his first Half Marathon. The athletes, who finished first to fifth in the Open male and female categories, received cash prizes and trophies while those finishing first to third among the masters were also similarly rewarded. Euleen Josiah-Tanner, who is based in the United States of America, ran
Nico Rosberg wins incident-packed Monaco Grand Prix BBC Sport - Nico Rosberg controlled a crashstrewn Monaco Grand Prix to take his first win of 2013 ahead of Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber. The Mercedes driver led throughout as the race was interrupted by a safety-car period and a red-flag stoppage following two heavy accidents. Rosberg’s team-mate Lewis Hamilton dropped from second to fourth after losing out through the safety car. Force India’s Adrian Sutil took fifth from McLaren’s Jenson Button. The Englishman’s teammate Sergio Perez was running fifth but retired with five laps to go following damage caused in a collision with Lotus’s Kimi Raikkonen, which gave the Finn a puncture and forced him to stop for fresh tyres. In a chaotic final lap, Raikkonen moved up to 10th from 13th to take the final point. Ferrari’s Fernando
Alonso was seventh after a poor afternoon in which he lost places in a series of passing moves by Perez, Sutil and Button. Toro Rosso’s Jean-Eric Vergne was eighth from Force India’s Paul di Resta. The difficulties for Raikkonen and Alonso were a boost to Vettel’s lead at the head of the championship, which is now 21 points from Raikkonen and 31 over Alonso. The race featured two safety car periods and a red flag stoppage following a series of crashes and collisions precipitated by the bunching of the field, caused by drivers measuring their pace to ensure their tyres lasted sufficiently to allow them to the optimum strategy. Rosberg kept his head throughout all the chaos to pace himself to the second win of his career. “It’s amazing,” said Rosberg. “This is my home, I’ve grown up here all my life and it’s really special. The whole weekend went perfectly. I had a terrible start and I was close with
Sebastian and Lewis but after that I controlled the pace. “The car was really good, the tyres held on OK and that was really the key, so a massive thanks to the team. I’m ecstatic.” Hamilton followed him through the first part of the race ahead of the Red Bulls but dropped to fourth when he was forced to make his pit stop on the same lap as Rosberg because neither had stopped by the time the safety car came out. World champion Vettel said he was pleased with gaining second place from Hamilton. Perez’s crash with Raikkonen was the last in a series of controversial incidents involving Perez at the chicane after the tunnel. It came 16 laps after the McLaren driver had initially attacked the Lotus, throwing his car down the inside at the chicane on lap 53 forcing the Finn to take avoiding action and cut the chicane. Raikkonen was able to keep the place because Perez also had to cut the chicane having braked too late to make
Nico Rosberg the corner. Whe n P e r e z t r i e d i t again on lap 69, Raikkonen refused to give way and the two cars touched, damaging Perez’s front w i n g a nd puncturing Raikkonen’s right rear tyre. Earlier, Alonso had been ordered to let Perez by into sixth place following an incident in which he had cut the second part of the chicane when the Mexican tried to pass him on lap 45. The Ferrari driver argued
that he had done so to avoid a collision, but the stewards ruled that the Spaniard had gained an advantage. In the early laps, Perez had to give a place back to Button after cutting the chicane trying to pass to him. The swap between Alonso and Perez came following a half-hour stoppage caused by a collision on lap 46 between Marussia’s Max Chilton and Williams’s Pastor Maldonado which damaged the barriers at Tabac corner. Chilton appeared to move across on Maldonado, who was on the outside trying to pass the Marussia which had made a slow exit from the chicane, and the Englishman was given a drive-through penalty for causing the accident. That incident happened only seven laps after a restart following a safety-car period following a crash by Ferrari’s Felipe Massa at Sainte Devote on lap 30.
unrivalled to defend her female title in a time of 1:30.07 with the Guyana Defence Force’s stalwart, Ashanti Scott second in 1:39.51 and Police’s, Adama Roberts (1:46.56) third. Jevina Straker (1:52.46) and Samantha Williams (2:25.41) were fourth and fifth respectively. Alika Morgan did not compete in the race. Suriname’s Guillermo Udenhout won the male Masters 40-55 race in 1:24.42 ahead of Ian Archibald (1:28.25) and Orin Josiah (1:32.55) respectively. Llewellyn Gardner was the Master’s over-55 winner in 1:32 with Maurice Fagundes (1:50.11) and Carlton Stephenson (2:01.24) finishing in that order. Alicia Fortune captured the female Master’s title in 2:04.16, while Cyrleen Phillips finished second in 2:04.19 and June Joseph (3:02.5) third. Meanwhile, the MCYS Deputy Permanent Secretary, Steve Ninvalle finished the gruelling race along with sports personality, Mark Young among several other enthusiasts. Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony told those present yesterday that he is heartened with the participation of the over 100 athletes and enthusiasts. “We need cooperation and we need people to come together,” he said. “I hope we can meet with the AAG Executive and initiate some things. We want to grow this event and get more people participating. We want to start doing the marathon this year,” he continued, adding that he has already spoken to AAG Vice-President, Gavin Hope about them hosting a marathon in November. Hope answered the challenge, stating that the partnership with the ministry will be successful as they move forward. “We are committed to the sport. The AAG will continue to work with NSC (National Sports Commission) and any organisation that wants to take athletics to the next level in Guyana,” Hope indicated. The former national sprinter said that there were some hiccups yesterday, but the association can be exonerated because it is a new executive. Nevertheless, Hope said that the NSC and Ministry want to support athletics and congratulated all the winners.