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EDITORIAL

Violence in schools The intensity and frequency of violence in schools have turned the prevailing thinking regarding corporal punishment on its head. The current fad is an overwhelming concern for the well-being of students to the point where their own potential for violence against adults, particularly teachers, seem to have taken a back seat. Remarkably, it is not the usually expected male against male violence. Rather, the incidents of student violence against teachers have taken a new direction with female students’ assaults against female teachers apparently on the increase. The incidents of school-age youth violence are becoming pervasive so much so, that serious interventions are necessary in the short to medium term. All stakeholders have a responsibility; we all have an unswerving duty to ensure that our young people and their teachers are provided with the opportunities to become productive citizens in a school environment free from fear. Parents need to feel confident about not only their children’s safety in school, and on their journeys to and from school, but they must show consideration for the safety of teachers. Using a multi-sectoral approach, a carefully designed and well run programme, can be adopted from among the implementable short term measures. Such a broad-based multi-stakeholder arrangement could provide the type of positive influences for young people who may not have a good support system readily available to them. With the proliferation of trained social workers coming out of university, there is no acceptable reason why one could not be placed in each school to attend to students’ concerns on security and welfare issues. At the 48th Convocation of the University of Guyana, 73 social workers graduated with diplomas and degrees. Placement within the public school system is surely not outside the competence and imagination of the relevant authorities. Utilising the professional skills of social workers in association with a mentorship arrangement which speaks to guidance and counseling could prove invaluable. They can provide the necessary supervision and support to face challenges associated with schoolwork; social issues, such as pressure to drink, smoke, or use drugs; family problems or tension; and other typical difficulties of growing up. In other words, it is important that the extra support that many young people need is available to assist them to resist the strong influences of peer pressure and the temptation to be deviant. The case for the placement of social workers in schools is further established by the fact, that the daily presence puts the professional in a position of knowing the students with problems and those who are problems. However, it would be most unrealistic and unfortunate to expect the social worker to supplant the parent or guardian. Neither should the authorities anticipate dramatic changes in attitudes towards authority figures, self-esteem or school attendance and behavior. Mutual trust will have to be earned and gained if the solutions to the issues facing student and teachers are to be sustainable. The multi-sector methodology with the inclusion of the private sector and its corporate social responsibility, the quality of the future workforce can definitely be enhanced through advocacy and material support for a revitalised and relevant schools system with a focus on improved student performance; attendance; increased student retention; and positive student behaviour change. But all of these desirable reforms cannot occur in isolation; there must be an incorporation of other strategies to affirm and promote the ultimate goal of good conduct and school safety. Included in the mix should be an enforceable code of good behaviour which addresses even the most minor of breaches. This suggestion should not be seen as excessive simply because persistent misbehavior can disrupt the smooth functioning of the school environment and ultimately pose a threat to the safety of students and teachers.

Saturday November 22, 2014

Letters... Where your views make the news

A waste of time and the people’s money DEAR EDITOR, When the announcement was made that there was going to be a 500 milliondollar expenditure on cleaning up Georgetown, including its drainage, I said nothing and waited to see if the money would be spent properly, but somehow I knew that it was probably going to be a waste of time and the people’s money. I felt that the knowledge which was needed and the management skill necessary to return the system to normalcy were not there. On 20th of November 2014 we had our answer. When I saw people using hydraulic excavators, especially short boom excavators, to dig the drainage trenches starting from the middle or back end of them, I knew that we were in trouble. Drainage trenches should be dug from the front near the sluice towards the back, away from the sluice, not the other way around. Because in doing so the water would have been “tracked” out and the excavators would have been digging in shallower water as the system began to function from the excavator to the sluice which was moving towards the back, away from the sluice, exposing the areas

where it was necessary to dig as the water level dropped. But digging as they did, starting in the middle of the drainage trench or from the back end means that they were always excavating in deep water and thus their efforts were establishing no gradient to make them more efficient, also because the water level was so high, those supervising had no concept of the slope that was being created by the operation. One also assumes that there cannot possibly be a renovation of any gravity drainage system if the work did not start in the outfall of the channel i.e. that part which goes from the Koker to the river or ocean we are draining to. Ideally a drainage trench should begin at a slope which starts from a depth equal to the floor of the Koker at the front and gently “sloped” towards the back. Since the trenches would be dug from the front as the excavator goes further from the Koker towards the back, the water in the front of the excavator would, given the fact that it was now cleaned of all encumbrances, garbage, weeds etc., function properly, and at every tide the level of water in it would decrease, exposing where has to be dug/graded next.

In the longer term, changes will have to be made to to the schools curricula to include violence prevention initiatives focused on pro life skills, peace culture and conflict resolution techniques with the target audience comprised of both students and teachers.

Also when the excavators were digging, given our past experience, they would have had to leave a slope of around 45 degrees from the top of the parapet to the bottom of the trench, and not the deep slopes I saw them digging some nearly 70-90 degrees. Some years ago in a video I did on the number one canal, I showed where the road was falling into the #1 since the slope was too deep and the soil, in trying to naturally achieve this 45 degree angle, was taking the road into the number 1, and one could see huge cracks in the middle of the road where the slippage was happening, through a process which the engineers describe as rotational slippage. As a result, I did see some months after I did that video, the authorities started using draglines instead of the excavators. In addition to the fact that we have probably wasted 500 million, the damage to our roads which has been done will become apparent in time. Also, this was an exercise which was essentially to clean them of all weeds, and encumbrances etc. and establish a gradient from front to back, I saw no excavators which had cleaning buckets which are designed to take out weeds and debris, the excavators which I saw, without exception, were using digging buckets which are designed to dig virgin lands,

these digging buckets were particularly inappropriate for this task, and all they were doing was deepening and not cleaning the drains. The cleaning bucket is a shallower bucket and considerably wider, perhaps 6 ft. wide, they have holes in them which allows the water to run out the back of the bucket - in this way weeds, plastic bottles etc. that would have been collected in the process are not left behind for an army of manual cleaners (as I saw happening). The digging buckets they were using are singularly inappropriate to taking weeds out since as the boom comes out the weeds run out of the bucket with the water. They could have been employed more productively elsewhere. This is not to say that cleaning buckets cannot also dig when the necessity arises, since they are digging soft mud from the bottom of a trench and not virgin hard land as were the buckets I saw them using. I estimate - as the first manager [then assistant field manager] who could operate an excavator - the Hymac 580 C - at Versailles in 1970, since my father was a director of Bookers and a close friend of Eric Vieira who was then head of the Agricultural Machinery branch of Guyana Stores and we got one of the first hydraulic excavator ever brought to Guyana to help evaluate it [I don’t want to be (Continued on page 23)

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Letters... Where your views make the news Letters... Where your views make the news

Who will the army be securing, the people or the govt. from the people? DEAR EDITOR, It is reported that Brigadier Mark Phillips of the Guyana Defence Force briefed his officers on the political situation in Guyana (Stabroek News 11/15/14), particularly as it related to President Ramotar’s prorogation of Parliament. According to the report, the Brigadier emphasized the need for officers “not to become emotional but to remain vigilant and task oriented….We have a role to play as providers of our nation’s safety and security”. He quoted Section 5, Chapter 15.01 of the Defence Act which states among other things that “the Force shall

be charged with the defence and maintenance of order in Guyana”. Brigadier Phillips did not explain to his officers the origin of the circumstances that have given rise to conditions that will make Guyana unsafe and insecure. What if the same Government, through the act of prorogation and Defence Board directions that he is referring to, is the source of the problem? Is he prepared to take the necessary action to ensure safety and security? Action to address this national problem would not be outside of his terms of reference; he has already addressed same, as well as

there is support from Sandhurst, an institution from which the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) has historical and organizational link, since the GDF is the postindependence evolution of the British Guiana Volunteer Force The Sandhurst Military Guide on Developing Leaders - Pilot version 2012, paragraph 203 states clearly that: “Effective leadership…is characterised by the projection of personality and purpose onto people and situations in order to prevail in the most demanding circumstances. For this to be moral, just and acceptable it has to be underpinned by moral values, which to be

truly authentic, must be practised by all ranks.” Does the Brigadier believe that supporting a minority government that has effectively disenfranchised the majority of the people by denying their elected representatives a right to represent them is a reason to send his troops into the street for defence and maintenance of order? Isn’t this a moral issue that the Brigadier must consider? Who will the army be securing the people or the government from the people? The Brigadier may not want to address this question but maybe one of his Colonels should. Keith Branch

The PSC is fooling no one, except itself DEAR EDITOR, I wonder how much longer the Private Sector Commission (PSC) can look at a dog and call it a cat. I am referring to the statement issued by this body (20th November) following extensive flooding in Georgetown and elsewhere on the coast after several hours of rainfall. In their statement the PSC called on the government ‘both central and local’ (I would welcome to learn from this august body where in Guyana the latter, as defined by the Constitution of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, exists?) to provide assistance and relief and listed five things that should be done. The unreality then steps in. Members of the public are then urged to ‘allow the spirit of goodwill and friendship to prevail at this time so that communities can work together to overcome this problem (flooding).’ The coup de grâce is then delivered in the final paragraph where it identifies the cause of the flooding to be as a result of both a natural phenomenon and a governance problem. The solution to the latter it says,

lies in having a ‘national inquiry’ to identify lapses in the system so that processes can be improved in the future! Yea, next pigs will fly. Let me save the PSC and anyone who may be tempted to participate in any such a charade, their time, trouble and money. The process to begin remedying the collapsed drainage system and infrastructure in general, in the capital city and elsewhere can only commence when the PPP/C administration allows for the eighty-one local government bodies (local democratic organs - LDOs), i.e. the ten regional democratic councils, six municipalities and sixtyfive neighbourhood councils to function in accordance with EXISTING constitutional provisions and enabling legislation, namely Cap. 28:01; 28:02; 28:03 and 28:09. It will require as well (i) operationalization of the Local Government Commission (LGC), a body

that was identified in a constitutional provision of 2001 (resulting from the Herdmanston Accord of January 1998) (eventually leading to the miniaturization of the Local Gov’t Ministry as the work of the eighty-one autonomous LDOs will be regulated by the LGC) ; (ii) holding of local government elections (overdue since 1997 and mandated by the National Assembly to have been held by 1st August, 2014) and (iii) fiscal transfers in accordance with the Fiscal Transfers Act 2013, where it says that ‘central government has a responsibility to provide financial resources to local authorities … to assist them to discharge their functions and responsibilities.’ (Section 6. (2)

Unwillingness of the PSC to call for anything less than the foregoing will continue to make this body, part of the problem and not part of the solution. It will as well cause many persons, including myself, to ask if they are genuinely interested in rehabilitating the woeful state of communities countrywide and meaningfully addressing the chronic problems of flooding, or to perpetuate PPP rule? The PPP/C administration has degutted and destroyed the system of local government, which is now at a point of near-total collapse. The PSC is fooling no one, except perhaps itself. Ronald Bulkan, MP A Partnership for National Unity

PROROGATION DEAR EDITOR, ‘Prorogation’ – easily the most used (misused) word in local parlance over the last two weeks; possibly second only, to ‘corruption’ in the recent years. The taxi driver erupted: “What is this going on in Guyana? I hear dey say the president is a rogue! I thought was the AG!” Just one of many examples of the confusion surrounding what has generally been called a constitutional malpractice. There is a suspicion that so many did not know the word ’prorogation’ until two weeks ago; and these they say include MPs (and perhaps even the President), and who quickly confused it with ‘proroguery’ so that the exposition on TV 28 on Sunday night 16 November 2014 was most welcome. It consisted of presentations by AFC’s Moses Nagamootoo and APNU’s Carl Greenidge expertly elicited by Ms. Carolyn Walcott, the moderator. (There was nothing moderate about the latter’s performance). However succinctly, she quite brilliantly extricated from the respective speakers their own elucidation of the concept, the action; constitutional implications and political ramifications of the perceived malpractice of ‘prorogation’. The responses of the two

interviewees rose to the heights (depths) of Ms. Walcott’s probing questions, offering the viewer (listener) a most comprehensive series of lessons about the constitutional environment in which the prorogation was instituted. It was a display of erudition deserving of several replays, as the gentlemen in turn instructed on local political history (and histrionics) while providing a thoughtfully crafted backdrop of international incidents of comparable significance. It was touching to watch the polite history lesson delivered by APNU’s Greenidge when once the moderator repeated the misinformation of other prorogations in the Commonwealth – a misstep that in no way detracted from her own exemplary performance. Also promising was the absence of disagreement between the differing perspectives offered, the quality of argumentation which while competitively high, did not reflect any contestation. It was a combination enlightened by a chemistry that gives hope for the future for which this crisis may provide opportunity. The engagement closed on a high note that resonated as if all three players were future presidential candidates. E.B. John

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Saturday November 22, 2014

Pres. Ramotar’s invitation for dialogue...

Woman with scissors in stomach Ramotar knows why I have fighting for $10M compensation

not responded - Granger Opposition Leader, David Granger seems intent on making the Head of State, Donald Ramotar “sweat a little” as he indicated to the media that he has not replied to the President’s invitation to engage in dialogue, but for the moment, he is considering a response. Granger made this announcement at his press conference yesterday which was held at his Hadfield Street headquarters. The APNU Leader has been reported as saying that he is not going to engage the President in talks until the Parliament has been reconvened. It has been suggested that to avoid the No-Confidence Motion, Ramotar had on November 10, suspended the Parliament for six months. Kaieteur News questioned Granger as to why, considering that he has been so clear on not engaging in talks, why the hesitation to express same in writing to the President and promptly at that. To this he responded, “I will write when I get around to it. He (Ramotar) knows why I am doing this; he has been conducting his communication through the press, through the National Toshaos Conference for example. We had a meeting on the Local Government Election and he was to write to me and he didn’t. He spoke at the Conference instead about his decision on the Election. He never wrote me to say that there will not be Elections. He wants to communicate with me through the press, well then I will communicate with him through the press. I will write him

Opposition Leader, David Granger when I am good and ready.” The Opposition Leader was further pressed on the timeframe by which he will respond to Ramotar’s invitation, to which he responded, “I don’t have a time frame.” Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Luncheon had said on Wednesday that when one considers the behaviour of the “body politics” it is not

unreasonable to assume that there could be talks, be it in secret or by third parties. However, Granger said that as far as he is concerned, there will be no talks until his condition is met, insisting that his response to the President is still being considered. He said he has no objection to communication but he cannot prevent the Alliance For Change or the Working People’s Alliance from making contact with the President. He said too that while he is not entirely opposed to persons from his camp reaching out to Ramotar in an effort to try an dissolve the gridlock, he cannot imagine that any third, fourth or fifth party can bring to the table, topics for discussion to which he and the President have not discussed. He does not believe that even foreign observers can help. “What we are seeing is not a lack of understanding but a lack of acting on the will of the people by President Ramotar,” Granger concluded.

Nurse jailed for beating neighbour with hammer A 38-year-old nursing assistant may now get a chance to use her medical skills in the New Amsterdam Prison after being jailed last Tuesday for hitting her neighbor with a hammer. Marva Reynolds, the 38year-old accused of Lot 33 Belladrum, West Coast Berbice, is married, has two children, and is a staffer at the Fort Wellington Clinic. According to Prosecutor Corporal Orin Joseph, on

Tuesday, June 3, 2014, her neighbor, Paula Reynolds, a distant relative of the accused of Lot 32 Belladrum, returned home around 10:00 hrs to see most of her ducks in the nursing assistant’s yard. She summoned her son to chase the ducks from the nursing assistant’s yard and saw that there was a hole in the fence that separates the two homes. The woman, a vendor, blocked the hole, then went out on a roadway to sell. Shortly after, the neighbor heard a knocking coming from the direction of her home. Upon investigating she noticed the nursing assistant with a hammer removing the boards from the hole in the fence. An argument ensued between the two women and the accused allegedly struck her neighbor on the head with a hammer. The woman collapsed and was taken home by her son. She then left to report the matter at the Weldaad Police Station, but collapsed outside the station. She was the admitted to the Fort Wellington Hospital. Marva Reynolds was charged with unlawful and malicious wounding. She appeared before Magistrate Rhondel Weaver at the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court and was jailed for three months after being found guilty.

She underwent a surgical operation 24 years ago to save her life. Today, Romona Barak-Oada is still suffering from a dreadful mistake believed to have been made back then. The woman, now 56 years old, said, yesterday, that it was after the operation conducted at the Georgetown Public Hospital that a pair of surgical scissors was left in a section of her abdomen. And according to her she is prepared to do whatever it takes to make the hospital pay for its mistake. This situation made international news about a decade ago and shocked the medical community. “I don’t want an exorbitant amount but I need to be compensated...I’ve told them to use their conscience,” said Barak-Oada. She considered compensation of no less than $10 million although according to her “it’s deserving of more than $10 million. I need my compensation; I want closure to this matter.” The woman said that attempts to reach Minister of Health, Dr. Bheri Ramsaran, and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Michael Khan, were all futile. She however noted that a Government official with whom she has spoken of the issue has promised to look into the matter. But according to Mr. Khan, yesterday, the hospital has on several occasions sought to have the instrument removed from the woman’s abdomen to no avail. She has continuously refused to have a corrective operation done, disclosed Mr Khan. Recalling the day it all began, Barak-Oada in an interview yesterday revealed that she was home alone at her then New Market Street, Georgetown premises when it was invaded by some bandits. She was robbed of a quantity of money and physically attacked. The woman, who was 32 years old at the time, suffered several stab wounds, one of which was inflicted close to

Romona Barak-Oada the region of her heart. Her liver was damaged, too. Her condition warranted the surgical operation. There are reports that the traumatic event also left the woman somewhat mentally unstable. Nevertheless, the successful operation at the public hospital was instrumental in saving her life. Not only was she unaware of the scissors in her abdomen after the surgery but from all indications the medical practitioners, including the African surgeon, who spearheaded the operation, Dr. Innocent Muchenagumbo, hadn’t a clue. She remained hospitalised for about two months but recounted that even after recuperating she was plagued with intermittent stabbing pains in her abdomen. No one at the medical facility was able to tell her what was the source of the pain, a state of affairs, she said, that forced her to expend a lot of money seeking medical help at several private health facilities. She remembers requesting that x-rays be done but none was done. It was not until she decided to seek the services of Dr. Carl Max Hanoman, her last resort, some 10 years after the surgery that the scissors was discovered. Dr Hanoman recommended an x-ray and was able to ascertain that a pair of surgical scissors was lodged in the left side of the

woman’s stomach. Barak-Oada had made known the discovery to doctors at the public hospital but informed that she was reluctant to have the situation corrected there. She has ever since been going about her daily life with the foreign object contained in her stomach but continues to experience “excruciating” pains intermittently. The woman is convinced, too, that the presence of the instrument had resulted in her suffering at least two miscarriages. “I have lost confidence in the doctors; I am scared,” said the woman of the medical practitioners of the GPHC. X-rays of the woman’s abdomen done a few days ago revealed that the scissors has moved slightly from where it was originally located. As he examined the most recent x-rays of the woman’s abdomen yesterday at his Brickdam, Georgetown, clinic, Dr. Hanoman informed that from a medical perspective it would be wise to have it removed as soon as possible. “If you have an instrument in there (your stomach) and fall on your tummy it can hit an organ and cause damage...She must have been very careful over the years,” said Dr Hanoman. He noted that while the scissors has moved to a position less threatening, failure to remove it still remains a risk to the woman’s wellbeing. Dr. Hanoman is convinced that there are some well qualified surgeons currently employed at the GPHC who can remove the scissors. But although he has expressed the need for this to be done urgently, Dr. Hanonman has noted that the ultimate decision can only be made by Barak-Oada. The woman who claims to have a home at Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, said that she has for the past three months been staying at the East Ruimveldt, Georgetown, Night Shelter.

Dr. Carl Max Hanoman displays an x-ray of the woman’s abdomen revealing the lodged scissors

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Country braces for more heavy rains …as city grapples with flood aftermath Businesses and civilians in Georgetown and surrounding areas are still grappling with the effects of the major flood which occurred on Thursday. Even as many are counting their losses, there is the promise of more heavy rainfall in the upcoming days. Thousands of Guyanese in the capital city, and other coastal districts, awoke on Thursday to find their homes and environs inundated. This was caused by incessant overnight rainfall. The inclement weather also forced the closure of both public and private schools for the remainder of the week. Checks around the city yesterday by this newspaper revealed that civilians and business persons are still reeling from damages to their homes and entities. Several persons, who spoke to Kaieteur News, said they tried to take swift action to decrease the damage associated with floods. Some said, however, that their efforts proved futile since they continue to be plagued by the presence of not only flood waters mixed with garbage, debris and other items, but the strong stench accompanying it. Cummings, Light, Wellington, King, Alexander, Carmichael as well as sections of Regent and Robb Streets,

are among the city thoroughfares still under water. The larger percentage of vehicles around the city was spotted either parked in water or driving through the flooded streets. Although most businesses had closed their doors on Thursday, yesterday most of them barred their entrances with sand bags and resumed operations. Some had resorted to using bags filled with sand as pathways. The water had accumulated to such an extent that the operations of one Regent Street mechanic shop was moved, as workers were seen tending to clients’ vehicles out in the streets. Scores of civilians, some clad in rain boots, made every effort to maneuver their way around town but the water caused quite a few to walk in the middle of the streets, inadvertently affecting the smooth flow of traffic. At the Bourda Market, vendors were plying their trade despite the fact that the market was under approximately 6 inches of water in most parts. The vendors erected makeshift stalls on the streets hoping to sell their products. The water, they said, had not “moved an inch” and the drainage system, among other things, came in for

severe criticisms. A cry for flood relief Market vendors issued calls for flood relief as they explained that Thursday’s heavy downpour has resulted in massive losses in infrastructure and goods. Despite the awful conditions, the merchants informed this newspaper that they have not received a visit from neither City Hall nor the government to address the issue or pave a way forward. Kaieteur News was told by a number of vendors that they are in need of immediate help. The situation, they explained, has escalated to a point where persons are looting the abandoned stalls in the market. Barbara Brutus said she experienced upwards to $20,000 in losses. Brutus detailed that the flood waters have started to reek. This has caused her to move from her usual spot inside the market to sell on the streets. However, while some vendors have chosen to relocate to the “higher grounds,” others, like Dale Davis, a butcher, have remained in the flooded market. At the time of this newspaper’s visit, he was taking orders from customers who were reluctant to enter. He explained that many of the merchants suffered massive losses, particularly the grocers and clothes vendors.

Hundreds stranded as Berbice Bridge breaks down

Hundreds of persons were stranded on both sides of the Berbice River last evening as the retractor span of the Berbice River Bridge stopped working. The bridge was closed to vehicular traffic at around 15:30 hrs yesterday, but when it was time to close the span to allow flow of traffic at around 17:00 hrs, there were problems. Technicians were feverishly working to ascertain the root cause of the problem. Meanwhile, irate motorists and passengers at both the Palmyra and D’Edward ends of the bridge wondered when they would get to their destinations. Many feared that they would miss their flights out of the country. Among those stranded were Prime Minister, Samuel Hinds and his team who were in Berbice yesterday. According to reports, the Prime Minister checked into a New Amsterdam Hotel for the night. Angry commuters, speaking with this newspaper last evening along the eastern end of the Bridge (Crab Island road) related their

...PM Hinds among those stranded frustrations, especially since no official from the company visited the scene to inform them about what has been going on and when the problem would be fixed. One vendor was transporting an entire vehicle of cabbages to the Rosignol Market which were supposed to have been sold today. He is afraid the entire batch would spoil overnight if he does not make it across the Bridge. Many commuters were also left stranded in pitch darkness since only two of the approximately thirteen road lights along the Berbice Bridge road are in working order. Many feared the threat of bandits robbing them of their valuables, especially since there was little or no police presence. A police vehicle and a few ranks were seen close to the barrier that was put across the road just metres away from the bridge, but commuters were worried that there was no other police presence. Other vehicles stranded included fuel shipments and

dry goods as well as persons heading to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri. The Berbice River Bridge Company was running a notice on all of the Berbice television stations apologizing for the inconvenience caused and related the cause of the problem as a failure of the retractor span. A statement on the bridge’s FaceBook page said last evening that, “Management of the Berbice Bridge Company Inc. sincerely regrets that the Berbice River Bridge Retractor Span is experiencing technical Issues, which has resulted in an unexpected delay in the scheduled re-opening of the bridge to vehicular traffic.” Transport Minister, Robeson Benn, confirmed that ferries were activated between Rosignol and New Amsterdam. Engineers managed to effect a temporary fix around 21:00hrs and it is expected that traffic across the Bridge would have resumed.

A glimpse at the effects of the flood at the Bourda Market

See Photos on page 19 Davis even related that some persons were in tears over the losses incurred. Troy Johnson, a vendor who has been selling in that market for 25 years, related

that this is the worst flood he has witnessed since 2005. “We need flood relief,” said Johnson, “as taxpayers we should get relief because in the end we are the ones that

got to clean up the place.” Kaieteur News was told that the only official who visited the market was Leader of the Opposition, David (Continued on page 27)

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Latin American leaders, OAS chief praise Obama’s immigration reprieve MEXICO CITY (AFP) — M e x i c o ’s president yesterday joined Central American leaders and Latino celebrities in applauding US President Barack Obama’s landmark offer to shield millions of undocumented migrants from deportation. “I wish to express our appreciation, as a country, to the president of the United States for his announcement,” President Enrique Pena Nieto said at a gathering of justice officials in Mexico City. “Speaking of justice, this is an act of justice that values the great contributions made by millions of Mexicans to the development of our neighbouring country of North America,” he said. Mexican and Central American officials said they would provide information about the programme to their citizens through their consulates in the United States. Jose Miguel Insulza, secretary general of the Organization of American States, praised “the courage of the US executive, who decided to move forward toward a fair goal that did not deserve to be further postponed.” The measure shared the

Barack Obama spotlight at the Latin Grammy Award ceremony in Las Vegas late Thursday. “I don’t think I have heard any US president speak so beautifully about our Latinos as Obama did,” Colombian singer Carlos Vives said as he dedicated his award for best contemporary tropical album to the US leader. Defying his Republican Party rivals, Obama announced Thursday that he would offer up to five million undocumented migrants protection from deportation. The controversial overhaul provides threeyear relief for those who

have lived in the United States for more than five years and have children who are US citizens or legal residents. The order will affect about 44 percent of more than 11 million people — mostly from Mexico and Central America — living in the United States illegally. “We thank President Obama for his decision,” Guatemalan President Otto Perez said late Thursday, shortly after the US leader’s announcement. El Salvador ’s foreign minister, Hugo Martinez, voiced “the satisfaction of President Salvador Sanchez Ceren’s administration because many of our compat r i o t s w i l l h a v e temporary relief regarding their migratory situation.” The Honduran government said the move was “a great step in the right direction by the United States to r e s o l v e t h e migratory problem of 11 million people.” Central American migrant rights groups also welcomed the move. “While they are temporary, these are actions for which we have fought for years,” Cesar Rios, director of the Salvadoran Migrant Institute, told AFP.

RBC pulls out of Caribbean markets BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) becomes the latest Canadian bank to cut its losses in the Caribbean, with confirmation that it will be shuttering its international wealth management business in the Caribbean region, as well as several international advisory businesses in North America. The move follows RBC’s sale of its Jamaican operations earlier this year – on which it made a loss – and an announcement by

The Bank of Nova Scotia earlier this month of its plans to downsize around 120 branches in Mexico and the Caribbean, in preference for high-growth areas. CIBC, which operates in the region as First Caribbean International Bank, also suffered a netloss for the six months ending April 30, 2014, incurring a CDN $420 goodwill impairment charge, largely related to its under-performing operation in the Bahamas. Speaking to media

sources in Canada, media sources in Canada, Craig Fehr – an analyst with Edward Jones – said: “What we’re seeing is the banks are doing a thorough evaluation of their business mix and figuring out what makes sense long term and what is probably best left in the hands of someone else.” Sources indicate that t h e c l o s u r e o f R B C ’s regional wealth management divisions – domiciled in The Bahamas, Barbados and the Cayman Islands – as well as management teams in Toronto, Montreal and the United States, could affect over 300 employees. While heads of RBC’s regional wealth management divisions in the Caribbean declined specific comment to Caribbean360 on the e x i t and its impacts, RBC s p o k e s m an, Claire Holland, confirmed the closures to media sources, but declined specifics on the bank’s exit strategy:

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WILL APNU RESPECT THE RESULTS OF THE ELECTIONS? APNU has reportedly challenged the government to bring on elections. In other words it is saying that it is ready for general elections. But while it may be ready for elections, the Guyana Elections Commission may not be as ready. No amount of fancy talk by GECOM is going to convince anyone that all systems are primed. GECOM is yet to offer either a comment or an explanation about the alleged foul-up of the Region Three results in the last elections and of the conduct of certain persons in making life difficult for some voters at some polling stations, including the polling station at which the

President voted. There is still a lot of suspicion over the electoral process. There is still a great deal of controversy over what happened in both 2006 and 2011. The political parties have all expressed some reservations, including reservations about the long time it takes for the results to be declared. One way of reducing the suspicions over the results of the elections would be to have a preliminary result declared, but this is point of contention amongst the parties involved. There is clearly a need for some independent monitoring of the results. The Elections Affairs Bureau was intended to be this sort of

body but it has not performed to expectations. In 1992, when the PNC unleashed unrest in the city, the EAB abandoned ship. In 1997, it still was unable to obtain sufficient results from polling stations to make an early pronouncement on the results which would have avoided all the problems that followed. In 2001, it is not clear what happened to the EAB. In 2006 it depended on some political parties to supply it with results. It is not clear whether the EAB’s final report of the 2011 elections results have been published. There is therefore a clear need for a more competent independent monitoring of

Dem boys seh...

Sam lef De Duck fuh swim alone Go. People stand up and dem does shout fuh tell people to ‘go.’ Is either fuh go home or got to a hotel or go to court. Sometimes it mean get out de way. Sam Hinds go to Berbice and he lef deh. De bridge bruck down. De place dark, mosquito nuff and all dem got fuh eat is plantain chip. And everybody know Sam like he belly. Dem boys tell he don’t go to Berbice because de place can be hell. De only body missing is de man wha resemble de devil. Fuh sure, de things he do to de poor people of this country, and de way he living, dem boys want to know if he does sleep when de night come. He rob dem cane cutter and fuh add insult to injury he give dem a factory that wasting de cane and shortening whatever bonus money dem was to get. He never fix de drainage system in town although he spend millions, never attempt to fix de sewer so that de drinking water and that mixing together; indeed he got most of de people walking, eating and

sleeping in it. Sam run way to Berbice because he couldn’t tek it. He lef de Duck alone fuh swim de whole Georgetown. Dem boys hear that he deliberately bruck de Berbice Bridge. One thing though, Sam stay in Berbice is temporary. Jagdeo is a different kettle of fish. Dem boys swear when dem done wid he and Babbie and de Bees, who nah end up in jail gun end up in de Berbice mad house. Go-pall already look like if he heading deh. De Ombudsman do he wuk in which Gopall name appear. He shame of de report suh he running to court fuh get de Ombudsman report pull. Dem boys hear that is not de Magistrate Court, de High Court or de Appeal Court he going to. Is Courts furniture store he heading to. He hear too much Courts ads. Of course, de news is that Go-Pall moving. Dem boys seh that in he case, is one moving he got to expect and that is de movement of he bowels. Talk half and send some suh-wah fuh Sam plantain chip.

Guyana’s electoral process and particularly the actual results at the respective polling stations. This would require whichever body does this to field observers at each polling station. This in turn would mean that GECOM would have to certify each one of these observers and to allow those who are eligible to vote to vote wherever they are stationed. This is obviously a lot of work for GECOM since it also has to facilitate international observer groups as well as party polling agents. If the EAB is resuscitated, it should try to involve some of our secondary school children who are not eligible to vote. They will be honest. Utilizing them means that there will be no need for special arrangements to be put in place for them to vote wherever they are stationed. It will also be a good introduction to Guyana’s electoral system. This brings us to the second and perhaps the most

major problem facing Guyana’s electoral system. This is solely a problem for the PNCR to address because it is the PNCR that is at the heart of this problem. Election after election, the PNCR has a problem with accepting the results of the polls. Even in the 2011 polls where they did better than in 2006 and where the combined opposition narrowly got a majority in the National Assembly, the combined opposition took to the streets to protest the results. They did the same, but to most frightening levels in 1997, which they lost and ought to have known that they lost. In the process, they subjected this country’s electoral system to shame because when an international team went through each ballot box, they did not find any basis to overturn the final results. The PNCR has put this country through turmoil for no justifiable reason. If the PNCR cannot accept its defeat at elections, it should not contest elections.

People are getting tired of Guyana having to shut down for weeks in fear of what the PNCR will do during elections. It is time for some maturity on the part of the PNCR. They have indicated that they are ready for elections. They must now indicate their readiness to accept the results of elections. Guyana needs a respite from the post- election histrionics of the PNCR. If they are not prepared to accept the results of the polls, they should not contest the elections.

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== THE FREDDIE KISSOON COLUMN ==

Evil, silence and floods 2013; evil and floods 2014 When Parliament failed to approve the amendments to the anti-money laundering Bill, I wrote on this page that I would welcome the international sanctions that Guyana will have to endure and the consequent national disruption to the economy. I stand by that position, unapologetically. The financial upheaval will hurt all of us, some in thin ways, and others in extensive ways. The ones who will suffer the most are those with their super profits and are the biggest supporters of the PPP Government. I want them to

be hurt. I don’t have any objection to the wealthy strata earning their billions. It is the manner in which they treat freedom, justice and democracy. A minority government refuses to compromise in a Parliament and the wealthy classes that support it refuse to lean on it to make concessions. Why then should people like me bother with the hardship these people will face if sanctions hit Guyana. I have the same attitude to crazy drivers and minibus passengers. I saw an accident on Vlissengen Road in which

two drag racers hit two carpenters off their bicycles and buried them in the trench. They died before they hit the trench. I was right there when it happened. I took a huge swipe in my column at the Magistrate who freed them. If crazy drivers want to drag race on crowded streets, our hope is that they kill themselves and not poor souls going about their business. What right do we have to care about minibus passengers who are laughing and enjoying loud music in a vehicle going over a hundred and sixty kilometers an hour?

I adopt the same conceptual approach to the business community with regard to flood. I penned columns since the Great Flood of 2005 on the disaster waiting to happen again with clogged alleyways, drains and trenches that have become jungles. Here are quotes from two such columns. On November 15, 2013 under the caption, “25 minutes of evil,” I wrote; “The downpour lasted for 25 minutes. For sure it was not beyond half an hour. As we drove back home from Carmichael Street, most of the roadways we passed were flooded. Citizens yards were flooded, including my nephew’s. You cannot read about it. Even if you watch it on video it would not be potent in your eyes. You had to be around in those 25 minutes to see the failure of Guyana. “What is so frightening in this country is that you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that if 25 minutes of rain can bring such swollen streets, what would four hours of a downpour do? If you saw College Road between Brickdam and Hadfield Street in Wortmanville on Monday where the technical head

office of GT&T is located then you know that GT&T cannot avoid total wreck of its lower buildings if we have eight hours of a thunderstorm. “We are talking about a national disaster if we have those four hours. We are talking about the devastation of Georgetown if those four hours go into eight hours. We are talking about the erasure of Georgetown if those eight hours repeat themselves the next day. “In celebrating 21 years of office for the PPP in Lusignan, Bharrat Jagdeo told his listeners that Guyana is a good country and that they must not be disillusioned by a few clogged drains (see my response to Jagdeo’s horrific statement, “No one in Lusignan and Guyana can be that silly,” KN, Wed., Oct 19, 2013)”. On November 28, 2023 in a piece titled, “Predicting the continuation of evil,” I stated, “Well yesterday my prediction came through. We had much more than 25 minutes of rain. We didn’t have four hours; we had just about 95 minutes, and what I predicted about GT&T came true. It was the entire Georgetown that was flooded.

Frederick Kissoon It was not confined to downtown Georgetown. It was all over – it took in Kitty, Campbellville. Wortmanville, Lodge, Prashad Nagar etc. One day I looked at the gutter that runs along Garnett Street in Newtown where that road meets Middleton Street and so thick was the mud that I said that if the rains came it is going to flood that area. Well, yesterday, it happened. I saw it. We are creeping towards a major national disaster. We are seeing it but the entire population of this country stays silent and refuse to act. Yesterday the rains lasted about ninety five minutes and Georgetown was inundated. Why would there be any Guyanese out there who thinks it cannot last for four hours?” The business community has finally found its voice. It discovered the people responsible for the tragedy this country is in. After the profits got hit, the businessmen and women saw the connection between evil and floods.

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GECOM ready for elections - Business community Representatives of the business community have expressed satisfaction on the readiness of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to host Local and General Elections at a short notice. According to GECOM which is tasked with managing elections for the country, senior representatives of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) “have expressed satisfaction” pertaining to the state of its preparedness, relative to the conduct of General and Regional or Local Government Elections, should a date be set for any at short notice. “This sentiment was expressed collectively by the PSC’s representatives at the conclusion of a meeting between these two entities on Wednesday, November 19, 2014, at the GECOM Boardroom.” GECOM said it arranged the briefing session in response to a request from the business body for a meeting to be held to discuss several germane issues. “With regard to the probable conduct of Local Government Elections,

Senior representatives of the Private Sector Commission and GECOM during Wednesday’s meeting. GECOM emphasized that the President’s non-assent to outstanding legislation relative to Local Government, which were approved by the National Assembly, has no bearing on the Commission insofar as the conduct of these elections are concerned.” The PSC representatives were also provided an update on the demarcation of boundaries, and plans for the implementation of a comprehensive voter education programme. “With regard to General and Regional Elections, GECOM underscored its readiness to efficiently and effectively manage Elections should they be announced at

short notice.” The other issues discussed at the meeting included continuous registration; the Preliminary and Revised List of Electors 2014; the integrity of the Official List of Electors, the resuscitation of the Media Monitoring Unit and local and international elections observers. “The PSC had sought the meeting to get clarity on the above mentioned specific issues which were subjects of public and political discourse that were published in the media. At the conclusion of the meeting, the PSC’s representatives were pleased with the explanations and information provided. They

departed with the sense of confidence that GECOM was indeed in the position to successfully hold any of the two sets of elections, should the Commission be required to so do at short notice.” Representing GECOM at the meeting Wednesday were its Chairman, Dr. Steve Surujbally; Chief Election Officer, Keith Lowenfield; Deputy Chief Election Officer, Vishnu Persaud and GECOM’s Legal Officer, Juanita Barker. The PSC was represented by its President, Ramesh Persaud; Captain Gerald Gouveia, Kit Nascimento, Elizabeth Alleyne and Ornetta Dophin.

Long wait for DNA results taking toll on missing teacher’s mom Carol Green, the mother of missing teacher Nyozi Goodman, fears that she may enter the New Year still not knowing whether her child is dead or alive, due to further delays in uplifting DNA samples sent to Trinidad over three months ago. Commissioner of Police Seelall Persaud disclosed this week that police are awaiting funds from the Home Affairs Ministry to enable a rank to travel to Trinidad to pick up the DNA results, taken from skeletal remains of a female found at Pattensen. At the same time, the rank will hand over DNA samples from human remains believed to be that of missing businessman, Mohamed F. Khan, for DNA analysis. “I don’t want to wait until the New Year; I don’t even want to wait until Christmas,” Mrs. Green told Kaieteur News yesterday. “This is talking a toll on me. All I want is to know whether it is my child or not, so I can give her a decent burial.” Mrs. Green also expressed disappointment that police officials had rejected an offer from social activist Mark

Nyozi Goodman Benschop’s foundation to pay all expenses for the DNA tests. “Why didn’t they take up the offer? Now they are saying that the family can go and pick up the results if they have the money (to travel). Where will I get the money from?” It was more than three months ago that samples for DNA testing were taken from the skeletal remains of a female found in a bushy lot at Pattensen, Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara. A canvas belt (Continued on page 23)

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Catholic Church meets with GHRA says no substitute - criticizes fruitless AFC on Parliamentary impasse for Parliament civil society meeting with President

President Donald Ramotar and Government officials during the meeting with civil society organizations last week. The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has criticized last week’s meeting between President Donald Ramotar and representatives of civil society. The meeting last week Tuesday was to apprise the various bodies of the President’s decision to prorogue or suspend Parliament. The proroguing was done so that the Administration can have dialogue on key issues that had been stymieing work in the National Assembly. Several legislations are in limbo. However, the Opposition had viewed the move by President Ramotar as a preemptive one to avoid a noconfidence motion that could have resulted in snap elections being called if it was debated. Following his announcement to prorogue Parliament for six months, the President had met with a number of key stakeholders, including civil society. According to the GHRA, failure of the meeting with selected civil society organizations to discuss the political crisis predictably resulted in no conclusions. “The meeting took place in the wrong place with the wrong people. There is no substitute for the Government speaking to the elected representatives of the people in Parliament, rather than random groupings of the people themselves. That the meeting occurred in the OP (Office of the President) aptly symbolizes reversal of the constitutional reform process that devolved Presidential powers to Parliament.” GHRA pointed out that the failure of the meeting to convey any clear message to the President also prompted questions about the lack of coherent and sustained involvement of civil society as a sector in political life in

general. “As a sector, our routine silence in everyday politics, for example, over short-comings in the health and education services, abuse of the media licensing process and other social and economic issues, has left us ill-prepared to comment constructively on a political crisis.” While pent-up frustration over the “disreputable state of political life” in Guyana repels both the average citizen and civic bodies from political engagement, evasion is not a constructive option. “Nor is the fact that loyalty to party leaders has supplanted political accountability to electors. Taken together, however, these factors have served to distance citizens from politics, robbing them of opportunities to transform

undemocratic politics and infuse the political culture with democratic values and practices.” GHRA urged civic and religious organizations to recommit to a continuous process of rehabilitating civic life based on values-driven solutions. “In addition to reinvigorating political life, more systematic engagement would also generate the leadership and advocacy skills required in times of crisis. Finally, civil society playing a continuous role will lay the groundwork for addressing the serious constitutional and political reforms required for long-term stability.” The civil society grouping comprised representatives drawn from the private sector, unions and religious bodies.

The Catholic Church has continued its meetings with political parties on the current political situation regarding Parliament. According to Bishop Francis Dean Alleyne, OSB, Bishop of Georgetown, following meetings with President Donald Ramotar and A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), the largest Opposition block in the National Assembly, he yesterday met with a delegation of the Alliance for Change (AFC) in his office. “This meeting was at my request and follows my earlier letter on the proroguing of Parliament, and subsequent meetings with His Excellency, President Ramotar, and Leader of the Opposition, Honourable David Granger.” AFC was represented by General Secretary, David Patterson; MPs Valerie Garrido-Lowe and Cathy Hughes, and Treasurer, Dominic Gaskin. Representing the Catholic Church were the Bishop, Gino Persaud, Lawrence Lachmansingh and Albert Rodrigues. According to the church official, the AFC outlined the timeline and associated details that led to their tabling of the motion of no confidence. They also inquired as to the future steps that the Church would be taking to assist Guyana through this difficult period. “We discussed the Christian obligation to promote justice and peace in both word and deed, and the specific measures that the Catholic Church would be taking, as outlined in my

Catholic Bishop, Francis Alleyne

earlier letter.” The Bishop said that the discussions delved into the challenges that lead to lowered levels of political trust in Guyana and its impact on the people. “We agreed that both political parties and civil society have a critical

role to play, through dialogue and respectful engagement, in promoting reconciliation and trust in our beloved nation. I remain grateful to the AFC and its delegation for taking the time to meet with me and my delegation from the Church.”

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Disgruntled family finally receives cash grant voucher After weeks of trying to ascertain how a stranger could have uplifted a $10,000 Ministry of Education Cash Grant voucher intended for his son (Reyaid Baksh) who attends the West Coast Demerara Uitvlugt Secondary School, Saleem Baksh’s concerns were on Wednesday morning finally appeased. Although he was able to receive the voucher, Baksh was however, not afforded an explanation as to how the voucher reportedly ended up in the hands of a stranger. The Hubu, Parika, East Bank Essequibo resident, along with his wife, Nandranie Chandra, were trying to ascertain exactly what went wrong during the Ministry of Education’s Cash Grant distribution process on Monday October 20 last. Chandra was the one who claimed to have stood in line at the Uitvlugt Community Centre Ground for nearly two hours before being turned away allegedly, because the Cash Grant Voucher was already collected by a man

Saleem Baksh and his son Reyaid Baksh

AFC Region Three Councillor, Harry Narine Deokinanan who said he was the father of her son. But the name and identification number recorded by the officials facilitating the distribution did not match that of Chandra’s husband. Moreover, the woman returned home and related the state of affairs to her husband, who in turn informed teachers at the school her son attends, of the

Long wait for DNA... From page 12 was tied to the victim’s right arm and Goodman’s mother, Carol Green, subsequently identified the belt as her daughter’s. In early October, police officials had assured that they would have uplifted the DNA results from Trinidad. Goodman’s mother had said that she is still seeking closure even though

taxi driver Royston Waldron, the prime suspect in her daughter’s disappearance, is now dead. Waldron, an expoliceman, was shot dead two Fridays ago during a confrontation with police in Kitty. He is also a suspect in the disappearance of policewoman Patriena Nicholson, who disappeared in August, 2013.

situation. Baksh was told that the matter would be immediately investigated and was even given assurance that they would soon be afforded their voucher. But days went by and no update was forthcoming thus, resulting in Baksh taking his concerns to Alliance for Change (AFC) Region Three Councillor, Harry Narine Deokinanan. Deokinanan sought an audience with several senior regional officials and was also able to engage Assistant Chief Education Officer, Ms. Doodmattie Singh, He recalled that the senior education official informed him that the Ministry was aware of the situation and was looking into it. Deokinanan had in fact provided this publication with written details of his encounter with Singh. But despite many

promises which suggested that the matter was being addressed, it was only on Wednesday last when the matter was publicised in this newspaper that Baksh got the response he was ultimately looking for. The man yesterday told this publication that “the same day (Wednesday), around 9am, a teacher at the school (Uitvlugt Secondary) call me and tell me come for the voucher, so I send my wife and she collect it right away.” He said too that Assistance Chief Education Officer, Doodmattie Singh, also claimed to be ignorant of the matter as she profusely apologised for it ever happening. Baksh and his wife have another child attending the Stewartville Secondary School also in Region Three, and disclosed that they were

able to uplift a voucher for that child incident free. However, based on reports reaching this publication it is believed that the error occurred on the part of the officials distributing the vouchers. This publication was told that while the recipient of the voucher in question was in fact a parent of a child attending the very school, the error was particularly disturbing as the names were not similar. Baksh is convinced that the support of the AFC Councillor was instrumental in helping his family to solve the Cash Grant dilemma. Government, through the Ministry of Education, commenced distribution of its inaugural Cash Grant distribution initiative as part of its efforts, to ensure that more children are furnished with the means to attend school on a regular basis. All children attending public schools at the levels of nursery, primary and secondary were eligible for a Cash Grant of $10,000 each. In order to distribute the financial aid in a secure way, the Ministry made available vouchers to parents or guardians of children which can only be encashed at money transfer outlets – Western Union/Bill Express locations across the country. For those areas without such facilities, the Ministry provided other means for the support to be afforded.

From page 4 held too harshly to the year since I am speaking from memory] - that with this digging bucket, every hour the machines I saw working in Georgetown were doing perhaps 30% of what they could have achieved it they were using the right bucket. We have people in this country, like the Managing Director of GENEQUIP, Renger van Dijk, whose knowledge of these matters is at least good if not profound and who could recommend the right bucket for the job, I am sure that there are others, but I know Mr. van Dijk personally, so I can offer him as a good example. Also what I saw during the exercise was that too many people have covered their drains outside of their property without making proper provision to clean them periodically, so whilst the army of people we saw cleaning drains had passed, I could see no discernible difference in water level after

they completed digging, compared to before, especially given the extremely dry period we were experiencing at the time. August, September, October 2014. Editor, we have to place blame where it is due, and the public and the Engineer’s Department of the City Council will have to take some of the blame. In the US, and maybe even in little Trinidad, if you want to change the way your bridge is built in front of your house, you have to get a permit from the city to ensure that what you are doing meets the codes of the city, especially since outside of your fence is the city’s property, not yours. So no one should be allowed to build anything on the city’s property unless it meets the present requirements or standards of the city, and this is clearly a situation which has gotten completely out of control, with people building not bridges but wide culverts covering almost the entire length of their property

frontage on the city’s property, which are ultimately encumbrances to drainage, and when they are flooded they complain the loudest, notwithstanding the fact that they are the ones causing the problem - ditto those who throw trash and other materials into the main drainage canals. Since we are on this subject of the City Engineer’s Department not doing their jobs, as these drains are on the city’s property, guess whose responsibility it is to clean them? It’s because they have now delegated this responsibility, with the disastrous results we are seeing, to the citizens, who are totally ill-equipped to do it, that all of these drains are dysfunctional if not non-functional. Now we come full circle to the government, the City Council’s engineer, like the Town Clerk, according to our Mayor, is more likely to take his orders from the Ministry of Local Government than the City Council, so this problem

now comes back to Central Government, and since it is a matter of record that the city has been asking to raise the ridiculously low property taxes currently applicable and the government continues to say no to increased property taxes, the fact that the government is the largest debtor to the council for rates and taxes is also compelling. We have courts and we don’t use them and we don’t demand that they work, by taking matters, which if we don’t get satisfaction in the local courts, to the CCJ; it always comes home to roost. Currently there is the important case which involves the spending of more than 4 billion dollars of our money without the permission of parliament, which must to go to the CCJ for resolution. We cannot chart unknown waters without going through the difficult process of doing it. We cannot be lazy and disinterested when it is our job to do it. Tony Vieira

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Mon Repos carpenter jailed Gunmen cart off $13 M from for four years for child’s death CB & R Mining employee A speeding driver who struck down and killed a four year old child has been jailed. The man, Naresh Gafoor, 39, a carpenter of 446 Block 8, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, was on Friday sentenced to four years in jail by Magistrate Rhondell Weaver, when he appeared before her at the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court on a charge of causing death by dangerous driving. Gafoor is accused of driving motor car PGG 2527 in a manner dangerous to the public, thus killing four year old Trichel Williams on Tuesday 25th June 2013 on the Plantation Foulis Public Road, West Coast Berbice. According to Prosecutor Corporal Orin Joseph, around 08:10 hrs on the day in question, the child and some other siblings were standing on the corner of the public road.

Gafoor with four occupants in his vehicle was heading towards Rosignol at a high speed when he lost control and collided with the child. She was picked up and rushed to the Mahaicony Hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival. Gafoor was subsequently arrested and charged. In court he told the Magistrate that the child ran across the road about 10 feet in front of the vehicle and there wasn’t anything he could have done. He called two witnesses. However, Prosecutor Joseph presented nine witnesses, including a number of persons who saw what occurred. He also submitted that the impression and 160 ft skid marks on the road after the accident tells a different story from the defence. After summing up the evidence Gafoor was found guilty and jailed.

EMPRETEC SALUTES LOCAL ENTREPRENEURS

As over 150 countries gear to host events to celebrate outstanding women in business, in observance of Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), EMPRETEC Guyana is also seizing the opportunity to salute and congratulate all of the local entrepreneurs. Significantly, within the EMPRETEC Guyana experience, there has been the development of the growth potential of women entrepreneurs through a series of specially customized training programmes. Representatives of EMPRETEC told Kaieteur News that according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor’s latest statistics; an estimated 126 million women started or ran new businesses in 67 economies around the world. This astounding figure alone they said proves that the influence of women in business should not be overlooked. The firm also

made reference to a new study (Aberdeen Business School) which claims that women entrepreneurship within ‘pink collar’ work, a term used to typify female dominated industries such as Public Relations, retail and fashion, has enabled women to break the glass ceiling. The company said too, that the report also explores the idea that entrepreneurship within pink collar work may have enabled women to get out of the pink ghetto, defined as primarily low paid, female dominated jobs, whilst fulfilling ‘accepted’ gender roles. In the circumstances, EMPRETEC Guyana sought to specially salute yesterday, women entrepreneurs within its network, and, in particular, Mrs. Tracy Antoinette Green Douglas, of Pandama Winery and Retreat, who was selected among the 10 finalists for the fourth United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

EMPRETEC Women in Business Award (WBA) recently held in Geneva, Switzerland. Mrs. Douglas follows on the heels of Irene Bacchus Holder and Lucia Desir who were finalists in 2008 and 2010 respectively. The Global EMPRETEC Women in Business Awards have been presented every two years since 2008 with the main aim of celebrating exceptional women entrepreneurs who have benefited from UNCTAD’s EMPRETEC training programme across the 35 National EMPRETEC Centres in which the programme is being implemented. The Global Entrepreneurship Week initiative is now in its seventh year and continues to expand its reach since it began in 2008, founded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, with 77 countries. GEW runs from November 17 to 23.

Port Kaituma clerk charged for embezzling over a million dollars A former clerk, Latoya Wilson, of Beacon Hotel in Port Kaituma appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to face an embezzlement charge yesterday afternoon. It is alleged that between June 3, 2013, to November 17, 2013 at Port Kaituma while being a clerk or servant at Beacon Office embezzled $1,082,000 in the name of Denton Clark. Wilson was represented by Attorney-at-Law, Latchmie Rahamat, who told the court that her client is 24 years old with a fixed abode at Citrus Grove, Port Kaituma. Rahamat described Wilson as a single mother of one with no prior convictions. The lawyer told the court that her client is not

the only clerk at the office at the time of the alleged crime and on those grounds, requested reasonable bail. Police Prosecutor Dinero Jones had no objections to bail but requested that it be substantial. Prosecutor Jones also told the court that the defendant was the sole person in the office that could act on behalf of her employer; whom she worked with for one year. Magistrate McLennan granted the former clerk bail in the sum of $200,000 with the conditions that she reports to the Port Kaituma Police Station on the last Friday of every month. The matter has been transferred to the Port Kaituma Magistrates’ Court. The case is expected to come up on February 2, 2015.

Latoya Wilson accused of embezzlement

The wounded Fazil Ali.

A procurement officer employed at CB & R Mining, Bartica, is nursing gunshot wounds at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). He was shot twice to his forearm and robbed of $13M on Monday, while reportedly waiting in his vehicle that was parked at the front of Sleep-In Hotel, Brickdam. The hotel is a mere two doors east of Brickdam Police Station. According to 46year-old Fazil Ali, the incident occurred around 8:30 hours, while he was waiting for a fellow employee to join him. They were to purchase “machine parts, food supplies and other goods to carry in the bush.” “When I reached the hotel, I made a phone call to my workmate and told him to come downstairs, so we could go and buy the boss goods early. About one minute after

that, I get shoot and rob by a bandit dressed in all over black with a rag over his face,” he related. Ali, of 104 Agricultural Road, Triumph, East Coast Demerara, said that the lone gunman approached the passenger’s side of his vehicle and discharged three rounds at him, before making off with a bag containing $13 M that was just below the passenger’s seat. Ali said that he immediately exited his vehicle after the shooting and saw the gunman “running over the road to a blue Toyota 212”, in which he escaped. Ali said that there were two others in the car. The procurement officer, who works for prominent gold miner Chunilall Baboolall, said that his situation could have been worse, if the magazine for the gunman’s weapon did not fall out during the shooting.

“The police recover some spent shells and a magazine from the scene. I thank God that the magazine fall out the man gun when he was shooting me. With the way he was squeezing the trigger, I feel he would’ve emptied it on me,” Ali expressed. When asked about a possible “set-up”, Ali said that neither he nor his workmate would have conspired to so do. He said that the gunmen could have been watching his movements over the last two years, as he usually meets with his workmate at the Sleep In Hotel whenever they needed to procure goods for his employer. Ali sustained two gunshots to his left arm and a “bullet graze” on his stomach. The matter was reported at the Brickdam Police Station and investigations are currently ongoing.

Ombudsman's report on NBS fraud... From page 15 the Ombudsman's office in January by former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NBS, Maurice Arjoon. Arjoon, in his complaint, said he and two managers, Kissoon Baldeo, and Kent Vincent, were deliberately and maliciously charged by police for a $69M fraud committed in late 2006. Arjoon said that he believed that the trumped-up fraud charges, later dismissed in the Magistrates' Court, stemmed from his refusal to lend $2B for the construction of the Berbice River Bridge. Government had been seeking financing for the project. Arjoon reportedly told his Board of Directors that the regulations barred the institution from lending that much. NBS voted to invest $350M in the project. Arjoon claimed that his refusal to illegally lend the $2B angered former President Bharrat Jagdeo, who was in power at that time. Arjoon, who has been insisting his innocence from day one, said

Ombudsman, Justice Winston Moore in his complaints that over seven years were taken away from his life. Justice Moore, who has sweeping powers to investigate abuse by public officers, hired former Deputy Commissioner of Police, Henry Chester, DSM, who, in reviewing a copy of the police files, found that based on the evidence, there was no way that the three men could have

been charged. The police files did not include a key exhibit. The men were sacked by NBS in 2006. Arjoon has filed a high court action to overturn the decision of NBS to dismiss him saying that he lost his benefits as a result. The explosive report raised serious questions about the rush by the police to lay charges; the role of the Director of Public Prosecutions, and the role played by the Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana. The publication of excerpts of the report has seen Minister of Labour, Dr. Nanda Gopaul, denying that he had a conversation with the former CEO that Jagdeo was upset with him. The Minister was a former Board member and Chairman of NBS. Gopaul also questioned whether the Ombudsman even had jurisdiction to examine the complaint. However, the Ombudsman in a recent statement insisted that Gopaul should read the report.

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In blow to Cameron, UKIP wins second parliamentary seat (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives lost a second parliamentary seat to the antiEU UKIP party on Friday, an embarrassing defeat heralding a possible fragmentation of Britain’s two-party system in next year’s national election. With distrust of mainstream parties and anxiety about immigration rising, UKIP, the UK Independence Party, overturned a majority of almost 10,000 to beat Cameron’s party in a special election in the southeast English constituency of Rochester and Strood six months before an unusually close-run national vote. UKIP, which favours an immediate British exit from the European Union and sharply lower immigration, won the contest despite Cameron ordering his party to do everything it could to hold the seat and visiting himself five times. Its victory will unsettle businesses, investors and European partners who fear Britain could be slipping towards an exit from the European Union as Cameron becomes ever more Eurosceptic to try to see off the threat from UKIP.

Comments by Mark Reckless, UKIP’s winning candidate, won’t steady those nerves. “If you believe that the world is bigger than Europe, if you believe in an independent Britain then come with us and we will give you back your country,” Reckless told clapping supporters after his victory. Nigel Farage, UKIP’s leader, said the vote showed it would be much more difficult to forecast who would govern the world’s sixth largest economy in future. “It is now unpredictable beyond comprehension,” he told BBC radio after celebrating with a pint of beer, a drink he has used to portray himself as being in touch with ordinary voters. Cameron’s right-leaning Conservatives and the opposition left-wing Labour Party have taken turns to rule Britain since 1945, with a much smaller party, the Liberal Democrats, playing a supporting role in government since 2010. UKIP’s challenge to the Conservatives and a simultaneous Scottish nationalist threat to Labour could force much more complicated alliances after the

election in May. SETBACK FOR CAMERON Reckless was a Conservative lawmaker until he became the party’s second member of the lower house of parliament to defect to UKIP, triggering Thursday’s vote. His new party hopes his electoral success will spur other defections. He won 16,867 votes or just over 42 percent of the vote, giving him a majority of 2,920. That was less than polls of voter intentions had suggested but a comfortable win. Cameron’s Conservatives, who won the seat in 2010 with a majority of almost 10,000, came second with 13,947 votes even though they had initially been very bullish about victory. Labour came third with 6,713 votes. It had hoped the result would focus media attention on Cameron’s woes. But instead it found itself on the spot after Emily Thornberry, the party’s top legal expert, tweeted a photograph of a voter’s home draped in England’s national flags with a white van parked outside. Thornberry’s decision to tweet the image was interpreted as mocking by some on the social network

U.S., Iran in last-ditch bid to clinch historic nuclear deal

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran and the United States on Friday intensified efforts to overcome deep divisions in talks on Tehran’s nuclear program days ahead of a deadline for agreement. With the deadline for a deal to defuse a 12-year stand-off over Iran’s nuclear ambitions due to expire on Monday, U.S. Secretary of

State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif unexpectedly met for a second time in Vienna on Friday evening. The United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China began a final round of talks with Iran on Tuesday, looking to clinch a pact under which Tehran would curb its nuclear work

to help ensure it cannot be diverted to bomb-making in exchange for a lifting of economically crippling sanctions.But officials close to the negotiations in Vienna said at mid-week the two sides remained deadlocked on key issues, were unlikely to secure a definitive accord by Nov. 24, and might need to extend the deadline.

and proof her party had lost touch with its working class support base. She quit Labour’s team of potential future government ministers as the issue threatened to overshadow the vote. UKIPTHREATENSALL PARTIES The electoral loss is a bitter blow to Cameron’s personal authority after he ordered his party to “throw the kitchen sink” at the contest to try to hold Rochester. He said he was determined to win the seat back at the national election, arguing only a Conservative government could safeguard the country’s economic recovery. Labour is talking up the possibility of a leadership challenge against Cameron from within his own party. There is, however, no evidence that such a challenge is imminent. If it did occur analysts believe Cameron would survive but be damaged. Labour have their own

problems, with polls showing they may be wiped out next year in Scotland, a stronghold for generations, where the separatist Scottish National Party has surged despite losing a pro-independence referendum in September. Labour controlled much of the Rochester constituency before 2010 and its relatively poor showing could resurrect internal party grumbling about the performance of its leader Ed Miliband. Cameron once sought to dismiss UKIP as full of “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists”. But in May, the party won European elections in Britain — the first time a nationwide vote had not been won by Labour or the Conservatives since World War Two. Last month, it won its first directly elected parliamentary seat after former-Conservative Douglas Carswell defected and won the subsequent byelection. Cameron tried to neutralise UKIP by promising to renegotiate Britain’s EU ties before holding an “in-out”

referendum on membership in 2017. But he has yet to spell out exactly what changes he wants or forge strong alliances with EU partners to win them. His strategy has alarmed some EU allies. Opinion polls show the Conservatives are narrowly behind the opposition Labour party with around 32 percent of the vote nationwide. UKIP currently stand at around 15 percent. Douglas Alexander, the man coordinating Labour’s campaign to win power next year, said UKIP was a problem for all parties. “The principle fuel in UKIP’s tank is more antipolitics than antiEuropeanism,” he said. “There’s a deep anger in the way that the country’s run and who it’s run for and people feel shut out of the economy and ignored by politics. “There is no single policy answer to this, no speech or campaign tactic that can address all of the disengagement that people feel.”

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Obama unveils U.S. immigration reform (Reuters) - President Barack Obama imposed the most sweeping immigration reform in a generation on Thursday, easing the threat of deportation for some 4.7 million undocumented immigrants and setting up a clash with Republicans who vow to fight his moves. In a White House speech, Obama rejected Republican arguments that his decision to bypass Congress and take

executive action was tantamount to amnesty for illegal immigrants. It was his biggest use of executive actions in a year in which they have become his signature way of working around congressional gridlock. “Amnesty is the immigration system we have today, millions of people who live here without paying their taxes or playing by the rules,”

he said. Republicans pounced quickly, charging Obama had overstepped his constitutional powers a year after declaring he did not have the authority to act on his own. In a video released before Obama’s televised speech, House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said: The president has said before that ‘he’s not king’ and he’s

‘not an emperor,’ but he sure is acting like one.” With 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, Obama’s plan would let some 4.4 million who are parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents remain in the country temporarily, without the threat of deportation. Those undocumented residents could apply legally for jobs and join American

society, but not vote or qualify for insurance under the president’s healthcare law. The measure would apply to those who have been in the United States for at last five years. An additional 270,000 people would be eligible for relief under the expansion of a 2012 move by Obama to stop deporting people brought illegally to the United States as children by their parents. MIXED REACTIONS The president, speaking two weeks after he and his Democrats were trounced in midterm elections, appeared confident and determined at the White House podium. Outside, pro-migrant demonstrators watched his speech on their smartphones and chanted support for him. “Si se puede (Yes we can),” they shouted and sang the American national anthem. Obama urged Republicans not to take steps against his plan that could lead to a government shutdown, raising the spectre of a crisis that some conservatives would like to push but Republican leaders of Congress want to avoid. Republicans were blamed for a shutdown over spending a year ago and are seeking ways to deny funding for his immigration steps without provoking a year-end budget crisis. “Congress certainly shouldn’t shut down our government again just

because we disagree on this,” Obama said. Obama’s moves have ramifications for the campaign to succeed him in 2016 by possibly solidifying Hispanic support behind Democrats. Republican candidates may tread carefully around the issue to avoid a Latino backlash. But polls show many Americans would prefer Obama not act alone. Obama said trying to deport all 11 million people living in the country illegally was not realistic. His voice took on an empathetic tone as he described the struggle of illegal immigrants to avoid getting deported. “I’ve seen the heartbreak and anxiety of children whose mothers might be taken away from them just because they didn’t have the right papers,” he said. But Michael McCaul, Republican chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, warned: “We will see a wave of illegal immigration because of the president’s actions, and in no way is the Department of Homeland Security prepared to handle such a surge.” He pledged to “use every tool at my disposal to stop the president’s unconstitutional actions from being implemented.” Lindolfo Carballo of Arlington, Virginia, who was among the demonstrators outside the White House, said: “It is personal for him (Obama), I think.”

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Digicel welcomes intervention by regulatory authority into CWC/Columbus deal CASTRIES, St. Lucia CMC – The Irish-owned telecommunications company, Digi c e l , h a s welcomed the announcement by the Eastern Caribbean Te l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n s Regulatory Authority (ECTEL) regarding the merger between Cable and Wireless Communications (CWC) and Columbus Communications Inc. (Columbus). The St. Lucia-based ECTEL says the proposed agreement is a matter of significant public interest

Colm Delves for the region deserving of rigorous regulatory attention and diligent review. “We very much welcome this intervention by ECTEL

and its expression of support for a rigorous regulatory examination of the proposed acquisition,” said Digicel chief executive officer, Colm Delves. “Digicel was taken aback by the dismissive position of CWC/ Columbus that the Governments of the ECTEL Member States and the established Regulatory Authorities in those countries were essentially powerless and had no right to oversee the proposed merger,” he added.

Country braces for... From page 07 Granger. More rain, flood expected A weather report from the Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy said that significant rainfall is expected for the next few days and flooding conditions will result. He divulged that “while overnight (Friday) and tomorrow (today) will see significant amounts of rain, Sunday is likely to be worse.” According to Guyana’s Hydromet Office, there will be overcast conditions over Coastal to Inland areas this morning, which are expected to be accompanied by moderate to heavy showers and thunderstorms. “The afternoon,” the weather experts reported, “will see a decrease in intensity and frequency in the showers, but the cloudy to overcast conditions are expected to continue. It is also expected that the

precipitations will recommence during the early morning hours.” On Sunday, overcast conditions over Coastal to Inland areas are expected to be accompanied by moderate to heavy showers and thunderstorms. “The afternoon will see a

decrease in intensity and frequency in the showers but the cloudy to overcast conditions are expected to continue. It is also expected that the precipitations will recommence during the early morning hours,” they reported.

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Jamaica signals intention to borrow US$1b Jamaica Observer Jamaica will consider floating up to US$1 billion in debt over an unspecified period within the United States, according to its registration filing this month. This prospectus forms part of a ‘shelf registration’ statement that the Government filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which signals to the market the possibility of such a float. “Under this shelf process, Jamaica may sell, from time to time, any of the debt securities described in this prospectus in one or more offerings up to a total US dollar equivalent amount of $1 billion,” stated the prospectus posted on the SEC last week. The Government raised US$800 million in a bond offer earlier this year in a move which followed an earlier shelf registration issued in 2012 for up to US$1 billion. As such, the Ministry of Finance told

the Jamaica Observer yesterday morning that this new shelf forms part of plans to replenish previous amounts floated. “Government is replenishing its US$1 billion shelf after executing the Clarendon Alumina Production (CAP) Debt Exchange a n d Consent Solicitation of approximately US$161.9 million in 2013 and selling US$800 million bonds in July of this year,” stated the Ministry of Finance in an emailed correspondence with the Caribbean Business Report. “The shelf was last replenished in 2012. The shelf replenishment is compliant with the extended fund facility (EFF) [agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)].” The prospectus, signed by Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips, added that in the event of floating a bond the Government would honour its debt obligations and avoid

market uncertainty by remaining a member of the IMF. It added that “each time” Jamaica sells, purchases or exchanges securities under this shelf process it will provide a prospectus supplement that will contain updated information about Jamaica, “if necessary”, and specific information about the terms of that offering. “Jamaica has pledged that so long as the debt securities are outstanding, it shall maintain its membership in the IMF, and continue to be eligible to use the general resources of the IMF under the IMF Articles of Agreement,” stated the prospectus. Brokers and experts that spoke to the Caribbean Business Report declined to comment up to press time. The country’s external debt was estimated at US$9.1 billion (J$1 trillion) in July this year, which formed part of its roughly $2.06 trillion in total debt.

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CFU to look at changes to Cup format in the near future CATHERINE HALL, St James — There could be a new, more player-friendly format for the next staging of the Caribbean Football Union’s Men’s Caribbean Cup in two years’ time, according to president of the CFU Gordon Derrick. The format that saw four of the eight teams in the tournament hosted by Jamaica at the Montego Bay Sports Complex playing four gruelling games over an eight-day period has been widely criticised by players. Derrick said changes have been considered but it will take time and asked for

understanding and patience. In an interview with the Jamaica Observer after Tuesday’s final in which Jamaica beat Trinidad and To b a g o 4 - 3 o n p e n a l t y kicks in front of a capacity crowd at Montego Bay Sports Complex, Derrick said: “Yes it’s tough, but let us look at it and let’s see how we can tweak it and maybe we can come up with a different format which would be less taxing.” He said, however, one must not lose sight of the progress made. “We are going to do that (look at the format again) but let’s not be

too ungrateful; it’s the first time we are playing in the FIFA dates. Having done it now, the format has always been the same for 16 years, we have had the same format without the FIFA dates,” explained the Antiguan. Jamaica, who came into the competition on the second day, played their four games — three in Group B and the final in a seven-day period — while Trinidad, who started a day earlier, had to play theirs over eight days. A d d i t i o n a l l y, Tr i n i d a d , who completed their group play on Saturday, had an

Saturday November 22, 2014 ARIES (Mar. 21–Apr. 19) You have a very dynamic day ahead of you, Aries. You may feel the need to put all your energy into a group project. You will want to roll up your sleeves and get to work. TAURUS (Apr. 20–May 20) Have you ever thought of yourself as a CEO or any o t h e r k i n d o f l e a d e r, Taurus? Today is a great day to begin a project involving other people. GEMINI (May 21–June 20) There's a lot of tension in the air today, Gemini. Perhaps you feel like no one is listening to you, and that people are draining your energy. CANCER (June 21–July 22) As a Cancer, you have an innate gift for healing and calming other people in crisis situations. If this isn't what you do for a living, you should think about doing something with this natural talent. LEO (July 23–Aug. 22) You seem to be a specialist at relationships, and you're very sensitive to the ups and downs in your own. But today you may wonder if people love you less than they did before. question. VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22) You're usually full of energy, Virgo, but today you may not feel so vivacious. There's nothing to worry about.

LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22) You may have had a hard time lately reaching your objectives. Unfortunately for you, today will be no different. SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21) Your sense of responsibility is probably the catalyst for most of your motivation. But what happens when events are beyond your control and you're powerless to do anything about them? SAGIT(Nov.22–Dec.21) Today you could put a stop to your activities for a little while. You may take a good, hard look at things and realize that the climate of trust you need in order to be productive and creative is missing at the moment. CAPRI(Dec.22–Jan.19) What are you after in life? Deep down, does the kind of work you do satisfy your most intimate desires? The little problems you encounter in your professional life over the next week could be the straw that breaks the camel's back. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18) It's possible that you're trying to do too much. If look at the days you spend working, you may realize that too much of your energy goes to some very meager results. PISCES (Feb. 19–Mar. 20) It's possible that you could be in conflict with people of the opposite sex today. You may feel as if they put obstacles in front of you and slow you down.

e x t r a day to rest, while Jamaica who played on Sunday had just Monday to rest for the final. Derrick, who replaced Jack Warner as president of the CFU two years ago, said the event was successfully staged. “We got all the guidelines that we wanted to accomplish and things went exceptionally well and we can’t argue at all.”

Girls Schools Football matches postponed until next week The Petra Organisation organised Ministry of Health/Health 2000Inc/ Ministry of Education/ Ansa McAl Girls Schools Football Competition, which was scheduled to resume today at the Ministry of Education ground on Carifesta Avenue, has been postponed until next Saturday, at the same venue, due to the inclement weather, according to a release from the Organisers.

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WICB four-day Franchise cricket

Deonarine (79*) set for 2nd consecutive ton on truncated day at Providence By Sean Devers At a venue where artificial lights were used in the first round, bad light stopped play yesterday at the Providence Stadium with six overs remaining on a truncated opening day of the second round Regional First-Class four-day cricket Franchise between Guyana Jaguars and Windward Islands Volcanoes, with the host, led by an unbeaten 79 from Narsingh Deonarine, on 168-3. The 31-year-old lefthanded Berbician, with five fifties from 18 Tests, followed up his undefeated 110 against the Leewards in the opening round last week, with a cultured unbeaten 79. His 79 came from 194 minutes, 194 balls and was decorated with nine well struck boundaries. Deonarine, who has 10 First-Class hundreds and eight for Guyana at the Regional level, shared in halfCentury partnerships with fellow left-handers Assad Fudadin for the third wicket and Shiv Chanderpaul for the fourth as the Jaguars batted cautiously on a sluggish track that again made driving a tedious adventure after the entire first session was washed out. Even though most St r e e t s i n t h e N a t i o n ’s Capitol were under water for the second day in a row due to pounding rain which did not miss Providence, the Stadium proved that it is one of the fastest drying International Cricket Venues in the world when the sun replaced the heavy downpour just before Lunch resulting in the contest commencing at 12:30 hrs on a lush green and dry outfield. Deonarine endured a nightmare season earlier this year with the bat but reminded the handful of spectators yesterday of his class with a wonderfully compiled knock in his 119th First-Class match to stake an early claim to a Test recall when England tour the Carribean next year. His stroke-play yesterday and his fantastic start to this season suggested that he is capable of reproducing his 2008 form when he became the first batsman to reach 1,000 runs in a regional season. His 1068 runs with two hundreds paved the way for his West Indies recall for the 2009 tour by England. One of 17 players from Berbice and one of five from Albion to play Test cricket,

Deonarine mixed caution with aggression as he progressed to his 43rd First Class half-century from 107 minutes and 93 balls on the still fast outfield. After Rajendra Chandrika (5) inexplicably played no shot to pacer Nelon Pascal and had his stumps scattered at 5-1, Skipper Leon Johnson (19) batted for 53 minutes and faced 44 deliveries to take the score to 39 with Fudadin, who has been drafted into the West Indies team to tour South America next month as Darren Bravo’s replacement. But after hitting three fours and looking set for a big score, Johnson, Guyana’s newest Test player, played an impetuous pull to a ball from left-arm seamer Kenroy Peters that ‘stopped’ on him and top-edged a catch to cover. Deonarine joined Fudadin, who at times failed to score as quickly as he should, but looked sound and by Tea the Jaguars had reached 99-2 in the extended session. Fudadin, the only Test player produced by Rose Hall Town, rocked onto the backfoot and delightfully cut Pascal for four before he repeated the shot when leftarm spinner Alton Bobb, who had 11 wickets in the first round, pitched short. The 29-year-old Fudadin, playing the sheet anchor role, looked set to celebrate his Test recall with a fifth FirstClass ton and Deonarine disdainfully pulled Bobb for four to gallop into the 20’s and overtake the solid Fudadin. Deonarine soon began to flow and dispatched offspinner Liam Sebastian for four past mid-on, while Fudadin pounced on Sebastian and pulled him viciously for four. Andre Fletcher bowled a solitary over of leg-spin and disappeared to the cover boundary as Deonarine stepped on the gas as the run rate increased towards Tea. By Tea the third wicket stand between Fudadin and Deonarine was worth 60 runs with Deonarine on 41 and Fudadin on 32. After Tea, Fudadin was LBW to Mervin Matthew for 34 after batting for 111 balls and 154 minutes to leave the Jaguars on 110-3. Chanderpaul, one of nine over-40 West Indian Test players, batted with consummate ease in overcast conditions against a spin

attack which looked ordinary after the three-prong pace attack had utilized the pitch and conditions with controlled, if not penetrative spells. While Deonarine continued to ooze confidence Chanderpaul, with the most centuries (15) by a Guyanese in Regional cricket, looked set for another long innings when he played a rare bad shot when on 19 with the Jaguars on 140-3. The second highest West Indian run-scorer in Tests behind Brian Lara, miss-timed a ball from Peters that failed to ‘make the pace off the pitch’ that Chanderpaul anticipated and his pull lobbed over the bowler’s head only to see the mid-on and mid-off fielders converge on the ball without any communication resulting in a crucial chance going to waste. Chanderpaul could make the Volcanoes pay dearly for their lapse today, while Deonarine will be eying his second consecutive century and both could be praying for no rain when play is scheduled to start at 09:00hrs today to make up for the overs not bowled yesterday when the lights were surprisingly not called for by the Umpires. Meanwhile, the T&T Red Force restricted the Leeward Islands to133-6 from 55 Overs on a rain hit day in St Kitts. Austin Richards Jr (34), Akeem Saunders (34), Devon Thomas (24) and Lyndell Richardson (18) all got starts as Imran Khan had 3-47 for the visitors. No play was possible in the match between Jamaica and Barbados after heavy rain on that island put a damper on proceedings there.

Saturday November 22, 2014

Advantage Hamilton in Abu Dhabi practice

Mercedes Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain drives during the first practice session of the Abu Dhabi F1 Grand Prix at the Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi November 21, 2014. REUTERS/Caren Firouz ABU DHABI (Reuters) Lewis Hamilton claimed an early advantage over Mercedes team mate and title rival Nico Rosberg yesterday with the fastest lap in practice for Formula One’s seasonending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The Briton, chasing his second title, was quickest in the afternoon and after-dark floodlit sessions at the glittering Yas Marina circuit that hosts Sunday’s decisive ‘duel in the desert’. The bragging rights were limited, however, by the slender margin between the two with Hamilton 0.133 faster in the first session and a mere 0.083 in the cooler evening conditions. He produced his best lap of one minute 42.113 after nightfall. “I’ve just got to drive the way I usually do and what will be, will be,” said Hamilton. “I feel good in the car. Undoubtedly, there is more

time to find so I’ve got to go and chip away at it tonight.” The other drivers waged a familiar battle to be best of the also-rans, but with an even greater gap than usual. Spaniard Fernando Alonso, preparing for his last race with Ferrari, was third quickest in the opening session but a massive 1.7 seconds off Hamilton’s pace. Hamilton leads Rosberg by 17 points but, with double on offer for the first time, the specter of mechanical failure hangs over tomorrow’s race. The 2008 champion need only finish second, however, to be champion even if Rosberg wins. Mercedes are also on course for a record 16 wins in a season, having already notched up an unprecedented 11 one-twos. McLaren’s Kevin Magnussen filled third spot in the second session, when Alonso stopped on

track without setting a time, but was still 0.782 off the pace. Quadruple world champion Sebastian Vettel, last year’s race winner, was fourth fastest in both sessions as he geared up for a farewell to Red Bull before replacing Alonso at Ferrari. Britain’s Jenson Button, maybe facing his last race in Formula One, improved to eighth for McLaren after a troubled first session. Mercedes-powered Williams, who stopped their cars in the first session after they shed bodywork on track, had a normal second stint with Finland’s Valtteri Botttas fifth. The first session also saw some less familiar names in action, with Britain’s Will Stevens slowest as he prepared for a race debut with administrator-run Caterham. Hong Kong Chinese racer Adderley Fong gained some experience at Sauber.

Raiders stun Chiefs, earn first win in a year (Reuters) - The Oakland Raiders earned their first win in more than a year on Thursday as rookie quarterb a c k D e r e k C a r r rallied the team with a late scoring drive to stun division rivals Kansas City 24-20. With the Raiders (1-10) trailing 20-17 in the fourth quarter, Carr marched the team 80 yards downfield in a drive that took seven minutes off the clock and culminated with a nine-yard touchdown pass to James Jones. Kansas City had little time to recover and could only make it to their own 48 yard line with their last

possession, which ended with Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith throwing an incompletion on fourth down. It was Oakland’s first win since beating Houston o n N o v. 1 7 2 0 1 3 a n d snapped a 16-game losing streak. “I don’t even know how to explain the feeling,” Oakland linebacker Sio Moore told reporters. “I’m just happy to see that on both sides of the ball, we finished it.” The defeat halted the Chiefs’ (7-4) five-game win streak and saw them drop out of a tie for first place in the AFC West.

The only sour note for the Raiders was the loss of running back Latavius Murray, who had dominated the first half with 112 yards and two touchdowns but exited with a concussion in the second quarter. Murray had just recently begun seeing more playing time for Oakland, and he needed only four carries to leave his mark in a performance that included a 90-yard touchdown scamper. “He did a great job and gave us a spark taking the ball 90 yards,” said Raiders running back Darren McFadden. “We finally came out and put the game together and finished the way

we’re supposed to.” The Raiders led 14-3 at halftime and moved ahead 173in the third quarter. The Chiefs began to seize the momentum when Smith threw a 19-yard touchdown pass to Anthony Fasano late in the third. Jamaal Charles tied the score at 17-17 on a sparkling 30-yard touchdown reception with 12:20 remaining, and Cairo Santos kicked a 25-yard field goal a few minutes later to put the Chiefs up 20-17. Charles finished with 80 yards rushing and 42 yards receiving for the Chiefs, who have a big divisional matchup with the first-place Denver Broncos on Nov. 30.

Saturday November 22, 2014

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2014 NBS Second Division 40-Over cricket competition

Boodram’s unbeaten ton steers Cotton Tree Die Hard to quarter-finals Chesney felt themselves in a comfortable position when they posted a challenging 241 for 9 in 40 overs against Cotton Tree Die Hard in their last 16 playoff of the 2014 New Building Society Second Division 40Over cricket competition in Berbice. Cotton Tree was up to the challenge having had an opening stand of 84 from Jagdeo Persaud (49) and Permaul Singh (36) and after they slipped to 116 for 2, Romain Boodram came in and took complete charge, firstly putting on 51 for the 3rd wicket with Singh. Two more quick wickets fell, leaving them at 172 for 4. However, Abdul Subhan joined Boodram and together they saw their team home with a 90 run unbroken 5th wicket stand with 9 overs to spare. At the end Boodram was 100 not out which included 7 fours and 9 sixes and Subhan 28 not out. In another playoff, Police did well to score 252 for 7 in 30 overs against No. 55 Mayflower whose No.3 batsman, D. Harvey when they responded, refused to accept being given out by the standing umpire. He hurled aggressive remarks at the umpire for about one minute. The umpires complained then Harvey eventually went off the field. The No.55 Mayflower team refused to

- Police advance

Jagdeo Persaud Romesh Boodram send in another batsman to replace Harvey and after waiting for eight (8) minutes, the game was awarded to Police. It has been reported that a spectator assaulted one of the umpires. The Competition Committee of the Berbice Cricket Board, which takes a strong view for the dissent shown by players and officials during BCB organized matches, will meet with all parties involved on Tuesday. A decision will then be made. Police in their innings were spearheaded by Michael Campbell who made 72 (5 fours and 6 sixes) and Don Farley with 51 (4 fours and 3 sixes). In summarized scores: At Cotton Tree, Cotton

Tree Die Hard beat Chesney by 6 wickets. Chesney 241 for 9 in 40 overs with Ravindra Somwaru 50, David Harilall 35, Imran Khan 27, Shastri Persaud 27. Romesh Boodram 3 for 42 and Roshan Gaffoor 2 for 21. Cotton Tree Die Hard 242 for 4 in 31 overs with Romesh Boodram 100 not out, Jagdeo Persaud 49, Permaul Singh 36, Abdul Subhan 28 not out. Anishwar Deonarine took 2 for 24. At No.55, Police 252 for 7 in 30 overs with Michael Campbell 72, Don Farley 51, Cylus Gibson 43, Marlon Shepherd 27. Mahadeo Annand took 3 for 45 and Oudal Budhram 2 for 60. No. 55 Mayflower 3 for 27 from 4 overs with Kellan Henry 2 for 8.

Australia v South Africa: Steve Smith century secures series win BBC Sport - Steve Smith scored 104 off 112 balls as Australia beat South Africa by three wickets to take an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match one-day series. Smith shared a sixthwicket stand of 121 with wicketkeeper Matthew Wade as the hosts chased 268 in Melbourne. Australia had slumped to 98-5 before Wade and Smith guided them to 219-6, and James Faulkner’s unbeaten 34 helped secure victory with an over to spare. Captain AB de Villiers top scored with 91 in South Africa’s total of 267-8. The fifth and final oneday international - which is the last match of South Africa’s tour - takes place a t S y d n e y o n S u n d a y. Australia then begin a four- Test series against India on 4 December - with skipper Michael Clarke battling to be fit for the first Test in Brisbane because of

Steven Smith produced a wonderfully paced innings to secure the series for Australia © Getty Images

a hamstring injury which has kept him out since the first one-dayer against the Proteas.

Scores: Australia 7 for 268 (Smith 104, Wade 52) beat South Africa 8 for 267 (de Villiers 91) by 3 wickets.

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Singh makes donation to District Nine’s Lawrence, Leandrew and Harding Former chairman of the Region nine Athletics Club Sugreem Singh yesterday made a donation to three of the District’s athletes for their performances at the 54th Ministry of Education/Guyana Teachers Union National Schools’ Athletics championships. The event was cancelled on Thursday after heavy downpour left the Guyana Defence Force ground at Base Camp Ayanganna waterlogged. At a simple ceremony held at Richard Ishmael School, Woolford Avenue, Sugrim presented a pair of running boots, trophies, cash incentives, water bottles and bags each to Simona Lawrence and Mary Leandrew, while Velesa Harding received two trophies. Lawrence won the Girls 10k road race in a time of 41 minutes 55:09 seconds, while Leandrew took first place in the Girls U-20 800m race and Harding copped the female teachers’ long jump and 800m events. Speaking during the presentation, Singh

who is also a life member of the club said that Athletics is on the rise in the District and they will continue to support the athletes. “I am sure you would have bettered last year’s performance where we captured 14 gold medals, I know how disappointed you are that the event was cancelled, but I would like to encourage you to continue training hard and take the sport seriously,” Singh told the Athletes. He also pledged to support Lawrence with $10,000 per month for her continuous development. Chairman of the club, Kenrick Lewis stated that the Districts’ main aim was to capture 20 gold medals at the championships and was confident they would have achieved that feat. He thanked Singh and said his input will serve to motivate other athletes. In an invited comment, Lawrence said that she wants to represent Guyana at next year’s CARIFTA games and is working towards doing her country proud.

Manny Pacquiao reiterates desire to fight Floyd Mayweather

Pacquiao (left) is a congressman in his native Philippines. (Getty Images) BBC Sport - Manny Pacquiao has again expressed his desire to fight Floyd Mayweather ahead of defending his WBO welterweight title against Chris Algieri today. Eight-weight world champion Pacquiao, 36, faces undefeated light welterweight champion Algieri, 30, in Macau. He told BBC Sport: “My killer instinct is back and victory will be ours.” On the prospect of fighting Mayweather, Pacquiao added: “I would like it to happen. I’ve told him my phone line is open 24 hours, seven days a week.” Filipino fighter Pacquiao, who has won 56 of his 63 fights, with five defeats, and American Mayweather, 37, are generally considered the best fighters of their generation. But their camps have never been able to agree a deal over a bout, with one stumbling block being Mayweather’s insistence on a strict blood-testing programme during training. Saturday’s bout is being contested at a catchweight of 144 pounds, three fewer than the welterweight limit, with

Pacquiao considering a future return to the 140-pound light welterweight division if the fight with Mayweather does not materialise. Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach has predicted his man will end the contest in the opening round, believing Algieri is “in over his head” before adding: “They’re trying to make out like Algieri is the next Rocky. But this isn’t a movie.” Pacquiao, whose last knockout was against Miguel Cotto to win his first welterweight title in 2009, was not as bullish. “I’m motivated to make a statement by actions, not my words,” he said. “I’m not predicting the fight but want to entertain people and make it a wonderful fight for the fans. “He’s young, never

experienced a loss and that’s why I’m excited because I love to fight undefeated fighters. “I’m not underestimating him, he’s a world champion and I have to focus but the advantage I have is my experience, power and quickness.” Algieri has won all 20 of his paid fights and claimed the WBO light welterweight belt in June despite being knocked down twice in the first round by Russia’s Ruslan Provodnikov. The former kickboxer, who also has a master’s degree and ambitions to become a doctor, claims he has the ability to win at the slightly heavier weight. “We’re not worried about what Manny’s going to do, we’re focused on what I’m going to do,” he said. “And if I fight my fight, I win.”

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GFA/Stag Beer 2014 Futsal Football tournament

Sparks will fly as Alpha United and Rhythm Squad go after championship honours All roads lead to the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) tonight for a potentially explosive night of football action as the curtains come down on the GFA/Stag Beer 2014 Futsal Football tournament. Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United FC and Rhythm Squad FC will go head to head in a match that promises to be electrifying. Alpha, a formidable team, are unofficially the favourites and from all appearances enter tonight’s game bursting with confidence. Popularly known by the sobriquet ‘The Hammer,’ the team led by seasoned coach, Wayne ‘Wiggy’ Dover has had a fairytale sojourn in the tournament defeating all comers. Beacons were the first to feel their wrath and succumbed 4-1 before Alpha dished out a 13-1 drubbing to Renaissance. The other teams to suffer humiliating defeats to Alpha were GDF (51), Fruta Conquerors (6-2) and Western Tigers (5-1).

Dover said that tonight’s match will be a juicy encounter and he intends to come out victorious. Notwithstanding, he’s cognizant of his opponent’s ability and said that he will not be caught napping. “Alpha played really well in this tournament and it’s no surprise that we are entering the finals as the favourites but Rhythm Squad has played really well and we will not take them lightly,” pronounced Dover when asked to predict a winner. Naturally, he will be placing great responsibility on his strike force of Dwight Peters, Travis ‘Zorro’ Grant, Aldair Paredes and the man between the uprights, Ronson Williams among others. Kavin Pearce, Dover’s opposite number on the Rhythm Squad unit, is just as confident and feels that his boys could pull it off once they remain focused and employ the tactical moves learned during training sessions. Sceyon Hope has proven his worth and much responsibility will be placed on his shoulders in tonight’s game. Teon Jones has also been on fire and Pearce regards him as his ace in the hole. Include the versatile Amos Ramsay and his dependable cousin, Steffon, and even the uninitiated would admit that Rhythm Squad is in with a shout. “I believe the teams are evenly balanced and in the end it will depend on which makes fewer mistakes and is

tactically stronger,” declared Pearce. Those evaluations have set the scenario for a no holds barred encounter tonight and football fans should go out for a night of unbridled action. . Apart from bragging rights the winner carts off $400,000 with the loser pocketing half that amount. One match earlier, Santos FC and Western Tigers will lock horns in the third place playoff in another potentially fiery encounter that nets the winner $125,000 with the losers getting $75,000. But even before those matches are contested, fans will be treated to several others as the organizers attempt to make the night’s activities as memorable as can be. There is the highly anticipated duel between the media team and the referees. The former squad prevailed with a 4-1 drubbing of the latter earlier in the tournament and the referees will be out to reverse their fortunes. There will also be a match between the East All Stars against the West All Stars while Ansa McAl and Wartsila clash in a return game. Sparta Domino team will also oppose Phantom Domino team for bragging rights while a GT Masters team oppose their counterparts of Brazil to cap off the night of activities. Popular comedian, Jumbie Jones will also provide entertainment for patrons when the action gets underway at 18:30hrs. (Michael Benjamin)

Saturday November 22, 2014

Gittens dominoes commences today Lyall Gittens 39th Birth Anniversary dominoes competition will commence today at the Girl Guides pavilion, Brickdam. Entrance fee is $9,500 and action gets under way at 15:00hrs. The winning team will take home a trophy and $150,000, the runner up a trophy and $80,000 while the third and fourth place teams will pocket a trophy and $40,000 and $10,000 respectively. The Most valuable player in the finals will receive

$5,500. The tournament which is being sponsored by Strikers Sports Club, Kaieteur Spring, Boom Town DVD, Gobin and Sons, Becks Lumber Yard, Big Boss Transportation Service, All Season Racing Service, Trophy Stall Bourda Market, Stream Café, Next Level Entertainment, AJ TV, Faye Joseph and H J Boom Station, will culminate tomorrow night at the said venue. There will also be a king dominoes competition on the same day and venue starting at 14:00 hrs.

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Annual Balram Shane cricket, Volleyball competition venue changed to Port Mourant CC A close reviving Starting time is 09:30 hrs. Date remains encounter is anticipated in The fourth edition of the cricket match, which is the Balram Shane Volleyball almost always the scenario competition will start at 10:00 the same Whilst the date remains Sunday, the venue for the 15th Annual Balram Shane challenge fund raising 50 overs cricket match between archrivals Albion Community and Port Mourant and the third annual Volleyball competition has been changed. Originally set for the Albion Community Centre the venue has now been shifted to the Port Mourant Community Centre and hard court, a stone’s throw away. The cricket match and volleyball competition are sponsored by popular Rose Hall Town businessman Deonarine Balram of The Balram Shane General store situated in the township. The sponsor is once again guaranteeing fans a full day’s activity despite the change of venue.

when the two teams meet in any competition. Although defending champions Albion has been the dominant factor winning 12 of the encounters, with Port Mourant winning twice and one encounter suffering a wash out, the encounters have been close. Last year Albion rebounded to snatch victory when they were down and almost out. The winning team will receive the Balram Shane Memorial trophy and cash incentives, while the runnersup will also be adequately rewarded. A number of individual awards will also be up for grab including the man of the match, best bowler and best batsman among others, all compliments of the sponsor and his family who will be on hand to bowl the first ball and present the winners with their accolades.

hrs. Most of the top volleyball teams in Berbice including defending champions GuySuco Training Centre/ Port Mourant (GTC/PM), Port Mourant Jaguars, Albion Community Centre, Falcons of East Canje, Rollers of New Amsterdam and Three door strikers of West Berbice are expected to participate. According to Organiser Deonarine Balram the competitions are being played in memory of his father who was a former cricket and sports enthusiast. He stated that apart from Cricket it is way of giving back to the community from which they garner support. Proceeds from the game will be divided and distributed to the two teams and other entities to assist them with cricket and other sporting developments. (Samuel Whyte)

Preparations abuzz for Rising Sun/Shariff horserace meet The horserace meet organised by the Rising Sun Turf Club in collaboration with Mohammed ‘Nankoo’ Shariff of the Shariff Business Enterprise and racing stable is turning out to be a keenly anticipated encounter. With race day set for Sunday 30 November 2014, which is just over a week away at the club’s entity Arima Park West Coast Berbice, most of the stables are rounding out preparations for the big meet. Word out of the organizers is that the venue is in good shape and over 50 horses have entered for what is expected to be an action packed day of racing. With an impressive eight-race card on the programme and incentives totaling over $6.5M in cash, trophies and other goodies, entries have been

high so far. The feature A class event will see the winner set to race away with a sumptuous $1M and trophy over 1400M. Word is that most of the top stables are training more than one horse to enter the e v e n t . Wi t h c h a m p i o n horse Score’s Even of the D e n n i s D e R o o p Simple Royal Stable beaten in its last two meets by two different horses and preparing to participate again, revenge will definitely be on cards. The stable is also preparing Church House and Run Nana Run. Likewise the Jumbo Jet stable is preparing Grande De Roja, Captain Crook, Jack Is My Style and Got to Go. The Shariff Stable is also putting four animals, three of which has defeated Score’s Even

before, through their paces namely Princess She Not, California Strike and Settle in Seattle. The fourth is the newly imported Plum Plum coming with a tremendous record from overseas. Guyana Cup Champion CP Got Even is expected to lead a three horse entry from the Colin Elcock Racing Stable. The inform Treacle is also expected to be among the starters from the Habubulla Dookie Stable. While the Jagdeo stable is also expected to enter more than one animal for the big race. Other horses such as Red and Lovely and Dark and Lovely are also expected to feature. The other events listed are for horses classified E3 and lower over 1400M for a winning tag of $400,000 and trophy. The three year old race

for West Indies and Guyana Bred horses winning prize is $400,000 and trophy. The G3 and lower race for the $300,000 first prize is also over 1400M. There is an event for two year old West Indies bred animals for a winner’s prize of $300,000 and trophy over 1100M. The two year old event for Guyana born animals has a first prize of $200,000 and trophy also over 1100M. The ‘I’ class horses will race over 1100M is for a $200,000 top prize and trophy. The J and lower event has a $180,000 winning and trophy over 1100M. Among the sponsors on board so far are Beverage Giants Banks DIH Limited, Trophy Stall, Republic Bank, Gene Equipped (John Dere) Company, Jumbo Jet, Shano

Seenarine, Younas Construction, KP Jagdeo Construction, Colin Elcock’s Delmur Shipping Company and the Shariff Business enterprise. The Trophy Stall, Bourda Market, will provide sponsorship for the top individual performers including champion jockey, champion trainer and champion stable. Entries close tomorrow. Persons interested in being a part of the day’s action can make contact with Fazal Habibulla at Chester Fry at Bush Lot West Coast Berbice on Telephone No 2320232 or 648-6522, 657-7010, Donald or Zaleena Lawrie on telephone nos 225-4530 or 225-4565 or Mohammed ‘Nankoo’ Shariff on 611-0684. Bugle time is 13:00 hrs. (Samuel Whyte)

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Saturday November 22, 2014

Stag/Cell Smart Futsal Final set for tonight in Linden - Roti Hut, Bella Lumber Yard join last hoorah

Bella Harry (right), Manager of B. Harry Lumber Yard, supports the MVP when they presented a sum of cash to Kendrick Noel.

Manager at Roti Hut, Jacob Nanan (right), hand over an undisclosed sum of cash to Aubrey Major Jnr. ahead of the NEE Futsal Final tonight in Linden. T h e N e w E r a Entertainment (NEE) Stag/Cell Smart Futsal tournament, which began three weeks ago, will host its final tonight from 7pm at the Mackenzie Sports Club Hard Court, following the past weekends of intense rivalries in the Mining Town. As such, Roti Hut have joined a list of sponsors for the night. Along with Roti Hut, Bella Lumber Yard,

S.S Little Corner and Foreign Links Auto Spares have thrown their weight behind the tournament as the curtains come down on the 2014 edition. The winner of the tournament will get $250, 000, second $116, 00, third $91, 000 and fourth $41, 000 respectively. Trophies will accompany all cash prizes. The Most Valuable Player gets a cash prize while the youngest player rides off with a bicycle.

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Saturday November 22, 2014

Massy Gas Products presents uniforms to Invaders Cricket Club

Invaders Captain Vaickesh Dhaniram receives the uniforms from Massy Gas Products Customer Services Officer Elicia Chapman while some members of the team look on.

Massy Gas Products has renewed its sponsorship of Invaders Cricket Club following the presentation of a set of uniforms, during a simple ceremony at the Company’s head office at Eccles, East Bank Demerara. Mr. Shameer Hoosein, Chief Executive Officer of Massy Gas Products said this has been the third time that the Company has provided sponsorship to Invaders Cricket Club, one of the leading cricket teams in West Demerara. Elicia Chapman, Customer Services Officer

made the presentation on behalf of the company to Va i c k e s h D h a n i r a m , captain of the Cricket Club. Dhaniram said the Club was extremely grateful to Massy Gas Products for its generous support and the team looks forward to closer collaboration with the Company in the future. Invaders Cricket Club has been outstanding in recent competitions in Region Three. Last month the team w o n t h e W e s t Demerara/Independence C r i c k e t C l u b ’s 2 0 / 2 0 competition and has earned a quarter-final place in the

current West Demerara 40over Cricket tournament. The multi-talented team also secured the runner up position in the Kares Construction countrywide 10/10 tapeball competition two years ago. The team comprise of several several national junior and inter-county players including Harrinarine Bissoondyal, Shawn Jairaj, Mark Jeffers, Av e n a s h D h a n i r a m , Lincoln Leander, Kemraj Ramsundar and Ganesh Narine among others who are residing between the villages of Cornelia Ida to Zeeburg.

Fudadin named for South Africa Test tour WICB - St John’s, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board’s Selection Committee yesterday named Assad Fudadin to the West Indies Test tour to South Africa. Darren Bravo, who had been offered a contract for the series, wrote to the Chairman of Selectors, Clive Lloyd, and citing personal reasons, requested that he not be considered for selection for the Test series. The 29 year old Fudadin has been named to replace Bravo. A left handed batsman from Guyana, Fudadin played 3 Tests in 2012 against England and New Zealand. In addition, the Selection Panel has requested that fast bowler Sheldon Cottrell play for Jamaica in the third round of the Professional Cricket League in order that the selectors have an opportunity to evaluate his match readiness. Cottrell will therefore not depart the Caribbean with the rest of the squad for South Africa on November 30th. Cottrell, a left arm fast bowler from Jamaica, recently returned from the West Indies A Team tour of Sri Lanka with a hamstring injury. SQUAD: Denesh Ramdin (Captain), Sulieman Benn, Jermaine Blackwood, Kraigg Brathwaite, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Sheldon Cottrell, Assad Fudadin, Shannon Gabriel, Christopher Gayle, Jason

Assad Fudadin

Holder, Leon Johnson, Kemar Roach, Marlon Samuels, Jerome Taylor and Chadwick Walton. MATCH SCHEDULE December Wed 17 to Sun 21: First Test – Super Sport Park Fri 26 to Tue 30: Second Test – St. George’s Park January Fri 2 to Tue 6: Third Test – Centurion Fri 9: First Twenty20 International – Newlands Sun 11: Second Twenty20 International – Wanderers Wed 14: Third Twenty20 International – Kingsmead Fri 16: First One-day International – Kingsmead Sun 18: Second One-day International – New Wanderers Wed 21: Third One-day International – Buffalo Park Sun 25: Fourth One-day International – St. George’s Wed 28: Fifth One-day International – Super Sport Park

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Saturday November 22, 2014

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Guyana women draw CAC Hockey match with favourites Trinidad

Midfielder Marzana Fiedtkou at full stretch with Sweeper Ulrica Sutherland in close support. After severe winds shut down the hockey centre in Vera Cruz, Mexico on 17th November, the Guyana versus Trinidad scheduled match had to be postponed u n til 7 :3 0 am o n 2 1 s t November. In the cool of the early morning, the two familiar sides took the field to determine who would secure the final spot in the women’s semi-final to face either Cuba or hosts Mexico who had both qualified from Group B. With Trinidad having greater success in previous matches of the competition, the Guyanese needed a win to make the semi-finals while a draw would suffice for the islanders. The last time the two teams met on the hockey pitch was one year ago in the PAHF Cup in Mendoza Argentina. Pool rounds results resulted in Guyana and Trinidad having to face each other twice in the competition with Trinidad enjoying victories on both occasions, each by a single

goal margin. Despite the mismatch in their records, Guyana began in an attacking mode as they moved the ball swiftly around the pitch with much more poise and control than they appeared to have in their opening match against the Dominican Republic. Trinidad however soon stamped their authority on the game, creating several penalty corners and opportunities to score. Pan American All Star goalkeeper, Guyanese Alysa Xavier, seemed untroubled by the Trinidadian raids however and calmly organised her troops and dispelled all attempts at goal with relative ease. Xavier’s older sister, Gabriella, made several forays into the Trinidadian scoring circle up the right wing to keep the Guyanese threat alive. With both teams unable to score before the halftime whistle, Guyana would need to press harder for the win in the second half. It was the

Trinidadians however who came the closest in the opening ten minutes when a hard cross from the right found Trinidadian Captain, Patricia Wright-Alexis unmarked on the far post. Wright-Alexis however swung her first-time shot wide much to the relief of the Guyanese. Sweeper Ulrica Sutherland was her usual dynamic self throughout the match providing good cover for goalkeeper Xavier with her unmatched speed and fearless tackles. While the Trinidadians held the edge in possession, Guyanese striker Samantha Fernandes excited the morning crowd with her pace and deception, creating a few promising attacks. The clock would have the final say on the match as both teams failed to make a mark on the score sheet ending in a 0-0 draw. It was a tacit victory for the Guyanese as, although they failed to make the semifinals, they played above expectations and drew with

Samantha Fernandes surrounded by Trinidadian defenders in red. the defending champions who were leaps and bounds ahead of them at the last CAC Games. The result leaves Guyana to face Jamaica today 22nd

November at 11:00am for the placements of 5th through 8th. The other teams vying for these spots are Barbados and Bermuda. The semi-finals see hosts

Mexico playing the Dominican Republic, while Trinidad go on the face Cuba. The ladies hockey competition of the games concludes tomorrow.

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Deonarine (79*) set for 2nd consecutive ton on truncated day at Providence P.30

Singh makes donation to District P.31 Fudadin named for P.34 Nine’s Lawrence, Leandrew and Harding South Africa Test tour Stag/Cell Smart Futsal Final set for tonight in Linden

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Manny Pacquiao P.31 reiterates desire to fight Floyd Mayweather

Advantage Hamilton in Abu Dhabi practice P.30

The Athletes with their trophies and kits standing from left, Valesa Harding, Mary Leandrew and Simona Lawrence. Former chairman of the Region nine Athletics club Sugreem Singh is at far right, while present chairman Kenrick Lewis is at extreme left.

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