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40 Guyanese, 5 Organisations tell Pres. Ali to pause, take stock of oil sector

risks

There is also shocking 4.7 billion tons of GHG Assessments (EIA) and men and women from all and heartbreaking footage pollution. makes oil production more walks of life along with five showing endangered “We therefore cannot dangerous. civil society organizations giraffes, elephants and other support this Government’s In light of the above, and havewrittentoPresident,Dr wildlife dying from drought policy to produce oil and gas other critical concerns, the Irfaan Ali, to urge that he inKenya. w h e n e v e r y t o n o f 40 Guyanese and five pauses and take stock of the Taking these and other greenhouse gas pollution organizationshavecalledfor oil and gas sector, damning accounts into will help to destroy the earth a national moratorium on all specifically as it pertains to consideration they said, “We and the ocean,” the group petroleum operations in the inherent environmental c a n n o t s u p p o r t toldPresidentAli. Guyana. They reasoned that risks to the country and its Government’s policy to Significantly, the authors thisistoallowforGuyanese, regionalneighbours. produce oil and gas when oftheletterwerekeentonote the owners and beneficiaries

A group of 40 Guyanese

In the letter dated every ton of greenhouse gas that deepwater drilling is of all the oil and gas November 11, 2022, the (GHG) pollution helps to dangerous, as such, they resources, to collectively citizens told the Head of destroy our original were angry to learn that take stock of the oil and gas State that they fear the ancestral home and cause ExxonMobil is operating the situation. They believe that aggressive manner with loss of life in African Liza Destiny and Liza Unity such a step is necessary to 2030. In light of this, they Hurricane Ian killed people which oil development is countries as well as our own Floating, Production, also scientifically fact-check said, “We cannot support the and damaged property in being pursued is bad for country and all of planet Storage and Offloading t h e c u m u l a t i v e Government’s policy to Cuba and the United States. Guyana. Earth.” (FPSOs) above their design environmental and human produce oil and gas, There have been record heat In the letter published in They further noted that capacity TheLizaDestinyis impacts of oil and gas on the especially with a ‘no holds waves in the United the Sunday Stabroek News, t h e U n i t e d S t a t e producing150,000barrelsof country, engage in authentic barred’ / ‘full steam ahead’ Kingdom Europe is they recalled that at the Environmental Protection oil per day when its safe multi-stakeholder process of approach, when every ton of sufferingitsworstdroughtin Group of 77+ China Agency says that each barrel production limit is 120,000 public participation and greenhouse gas pollution over 500 years. There is ministerial and technical of oil emits 0.43 tons of barrels of oil per day For national conversations that contributestothedestruction shocking and heartbreaking meeting in October 2020, it G H G p o l l u t i o n Liza Unity, it is producing are not exclusively of our capital city, coastal footage of floods in Nigeria was Ali who warned that ExxonMobil Corporation overitssafetylimitpeggedat controlled by government, plainsandocean.” whichkilledover500people Guyana is particularly claims it has discovered 220,000 barrels of oil per and take all necessary Since the President’s and forced 1.7 million vulnerable to rising sea more than 11 billion barrels day corrective measures for admission of Guyana’s people out of their homes; levels. of oil They deduced The citizens said this no sustainabledevelopment. vulnerability in 2020, the floods in Pakistan which They said the President’s therefore that the production d o u b t b r e a c h e s They have also asked concerned Guyanese said killed 1717 and affected statement was confirmed by of the discovered resource E x x o n M o b i l ’ s PresidentAlitocommission, climate change conditions another 33 million people; scientific modelling would amount to more than Environmental Impact (Continued on page 15) have gotten worse across the drought killing children in predicting that Georgetown earth They recalled that Somalia. will be under the sea by

Cutlass-wielding man chops scooter, torments Parents at Berbice School

Bohemia Primary School “The man fan the cutlass located at No. 19 Public in front of me and I ask he Road, East Berbice, what happen to him and he Corentyne in a frantic search saidmove...”.Thefrightened for a female parent whom he man, who is employed as a claimedoweshimmoney 10-day worker at the school, The man’s action has left said he complied and sought the children, parents and refuge. He told Reporters teacherstraumatised.Noone that in a bid to find the was hurt. The man, who is woman the visibly angry yet to be identified, manwalkedintotheschool’s reportedly waved the cutlass canteen where several in front of a ‘worker’ at the parents and children were school before entering the purchasingitems.

arrive on the scene and the canteen and sending both After he was unable to man made good his escape children and their parents find the woman he was in on foot. Kaieteur News scamperingtosafety. search of, the man chopped understands that the school

According to Rishi an electric motorcycle that does not have a security Bickram, the person who was parked on the No. 19 guard.TheHeadTeacherhas was stationed at the school’s PublicRoad. reportedly made requests for gate at the time of the It is unclear if the one to be stationed at the incident, he was asked by a motorcycle belonged to the school but approval has not parent to “push in the gate”. womanhewassearchingfor yet been granted by the He enquired why and was The matter was reported to RegionalAdministration. told to execute Shortly the Police Station but the

The matter is being thereafter, Bickram said he Police reportedly took investigated. sawthecutlasswieldingman approximately 40 minutes to

- say high level probe needed to assess all associated

President, Dr. Irfaan Ali

A cutlass wielding man approaching the school’s on Monday entered the compound.

A Police vehicle parked outside the Bohemia Primary School

The electric scooter that was chopped by the cutlass wielding man.

Laws should be in place to penalise Officials for not conducting oil audits

s the nation President Irfaan Ali only issues with the auditors expensesofanyoilcompany

ABharrat had assured that the a w a i t s t h e recently came out to themselves, which is natural should also be a crime and findings of the audit would completion of a announce the delayed time in these circumstances so the Government should also be made public. This is

US$9 billion fortheExxonaudit.Itwasin beforetheendoftheyearwe have a fixed time period particularly important as the review of the expenses May of this year that the expectthefirstreport.”

within which, it must release public is unaware of the handed to the country by oil contract was signed for a To this end Low said, theresultsofanyaudit.” outcome of the audit of the giant ExxonMobil, between four-month review of the oil “That delay is troubling, He believes that

US$460millionpre-contract the years 2018 and 2020, company’s expenses for the because there was silence at Government should be

costs, which was done by Economist Elson Low has offshore activities The the time when the audit was mandatedtosubmittheaudit IHS Markit. The contract to said that amendments to the process was expected to be originally supposed to come reports to a Sub-Committee the UK firm had cost Petroleum Act are needed to completed in September, out. We should have heard of Parliament such as the US$300,000. institute strict penalties on however the team now need this explanation then, not Public Accounts Committee

In January of this year, Officials for failure to an additional three months, now.” Low reasoned that he or one of the Special Natural Resources Minister, conduct such audits and President Irfaan Ali said last formally made his position Committees under the Vickram Bharrat told the attempting to conceal the Friday clear that failing to audit House The Economist National Assembly that the findingsofsame. The Head of State Exxon should be a crime, pointed out, “given that I audit was still ongoing. He Low in an exclusive explained that, “They expect however he went further have said that not auditing said, “The Government of interview with this thefirstreportbeforetheend during yesterday’s interview Exxonshouldbeacrime,my Guyana, when we took newspaper yesterday said he of December and the delay to note that, “concealing the perspective is that we should office was alarmed at the finds it troubling that was because of coordination results of an audit of any really amend the laws, limited work done in this whether it be the Petroleum regard by the previous Actoreventhecriminalcode expected time for it to be a d m i n i s t r a t i o n a n d to ensure it is clear that it co mpleted, is v er y immediately commenced should be against the law for suspicious.” w i t h i n t e r n a t i o n a l youtonotauditExxonorany On May 24 last, consultants and local other oil company and for Government inked an agenciestohaveanumberof concealing the audit agreement for a four month shortcomingsaddressed.” reports.” review of the bills handed to Minister Bharrat added,

Over $52M overpaid on contracts administered by

Ministries and Regional Offices

The Audit Office of Guyana has found eight contracts totaling $106.830M to a that over $52 million were overpaid to contractor who is currently blacklisted until contractors by Ministries and Regional 2030 by the Public Procurement Officesin2021. Commission(PPC)ofGuyana.

According to the AG report for 2021, a During the period under review, total of 411 contracts were examined with contracts for the re-construction of the respect to the Ministries and Regions and Imbaimadai Police Station in Region Seven overpaymentsamountingto$52.996Mwere was valued at $25,993,710, the construction made on measured works on thirty seven of a Primary school atWaramadong, Region contracts administered by the Ministries and Seven valued at $33 006M and the RegionalOfficesin2021. Rehabilitation of Lola Street, Cane Grove,

The Ministries in question were able to East Coast Demerara (ECD) valued at recover $14.853M while $38.143M was $24,898M were all terminated due to poor recovered by the Regional Offices with performancebytheContractor(s). $21.046M still outstanding for four projects Additionally, at the time of reporting, inRegions7,9and10. there were also 162 cheques totalling

Asitrelatestotheawardofcontracts,the $623.404Mwerestillinthepossessionofthe Regional Democratic Council (RDC) for MinistriesandAgencies.Thecheques Region Nine stood out. That RDC awarded (Continued on page 8)

He was keen to note that it by the oil company The “Currently, the Government penaltiesshouldbeinstituted consultancy was awarded to is working to answer every for failing to audit such VHE Consulting which is a questionable detail with the massive bills and hiding the registered partnership operator and the auditor to findings from the country between Ramdihal & ensure that all expenditures Low believes that the Haynes Inc, Eclisar are justifiable and accounted Government has done a poor Financial, and Vitality for as per the terms of the job so far in transparently Accounting & Consultancy agreement.” In light of the managing the oil and gas Inc.TheLocalConsortiumis fact that the Stabroek Block sectorwhichhasresultedina supported by International Production Sharing loss of confidence by firms- SGS and Martindale Agreement (PSA) only stakeholders. Not only that Consultants for the ‘Cost allows the State a two-year but he believes this trait Recovery Audit and timeline to conduct such paintsanuglyimpressionfor Va l i d a t i o n o f t h e audits, Patterson asked the prospective foreign Government of Guyana’s M i n i s t e r t o s a y i f investors on what to expect, ProfitOilShare’. E x x o n M o b i l w a s said Lowe. “The idea of not The audit will cost approachedforanextension. immediately alerting the G u y a n e s e s o m e Minister Bharrat did not nation when the deadline for US$751,000 Minister of state if ExxonMobil was an audit to be released or the Natural Resources, Vickram contactedonthatissue.

Economist, Elson Low

RAMPS LOGISTICS: WE WELCOME FOREIGNERS, JUST DO IT RIGHT

Insomecornerofthiscountry,somepeoplearegoing tobemorethanheavilydisappointed. Infact,theyare

going to be sharply and bitterly upset at a recent judicial decision. The Chief Justice (ag) in Guyana’s High Court has ordered that Ramps Logistics, Inc. be issued a LocalContentCertificatepromptly

Itisproofpositivethatahandfulofjudicialtribunesinthis country will look first, foremost, and always on the law to arrive at their rulings. They will employ the attributes of learning and wisdom that they have accumulated over the years to see to it that justice is served, regardless of who is involved.

They are neither swayed by the weight of the allpowerful,all-encirclingState,noraretheyinfluencedbythe politics that has seeped into every nook and cranny of this country’s life. Though they may look with kindness and sympathyontheunderdogs,thetenetsofthelawstillhaveto beobeyed.

We wish that we had more of these men and women in robes, who could be strongly and accurately assessed and concludedtobeaboutlawandjustice,andthisisregardlessof whoarethepartieslockedinjudicialcontest.

Itsetsthestage,providesthatvitalcheckandbalance,the workingbrakes,onwhatisimproperandcannotpassreview becauseitwouldbeadesecrationofjustice,throughviolation oflawandthepoliciesandproceduresthataresourcedinit.

With that having been said, we must make something clear We have no relationship of any kind with Ramp Logistics,andholdnobriefforthecompany

Butifandwhentherequirementsofthelawaremet,and in the clearest fashion, then only the law must prevail. In viewoftheHighCourt’sruling,itwouldbeinterestingtosee how the Local Content Secretariat responds. That is, how energeticallyandhowfullyitcomplieswiththedirective(s) of the court, and of which there is not much room for misinterpretation,orspacetomanoeuvre.

ItisthatRampLogisticsmustbegiventheauthorityand freedom to operate its business uninhibited by further bureaucraticdelay,oranyotherofficialobstacles.

Among some other subtexts coming out of this Ramps affair, are the extents to which Guyana’s Local Content Secretariat went to put the kiss of death on the company’s operations and business prospects. It seems as though the whole kitchen sink was thrown at the company, under the auspices of State efforts, including identifying its alleged failuresinotherareas,notablywithregardtothehonouringof whatisrequiredunderGuyana’staxlaws.Asaseniorofficial ofthecompanyattested,RampsLogisticswasstaringatthe equivalentof“financialruin”givenitsinvestments,andalso considering its binding commitments, its relationships, and theassociatedexpectations.

That may have been so, but our position is still unchanged, viz., those who break the laws of this country mustbebroughtbeforethebarofjustice,andbemadetobear thefullweightofthelaw,oncefoundguilty.

This is particularly relevant in our oil and gas business, wheresomanyforeigncompaniesandforeignersarerushing to Guyana to seize a piece of the rich opportunities that are presentfortheeasypicking. Wewelcomesuchoutsiders,and hope that they prosper, but only as long as they follow the dictatesofourlawsandstandards.

Wearenotagainstforeigninvestmentsorforeignersinthe least; and any thinking to the contrary only represents that whichismostdistantfromthetruth.

Ontheotherhand,ifandwhenthereistinkeringwiththe rangeofourlocalcontentprovisionsandmandates,thenthe violators should be sent packing on the next plane leaving fromGuyana.Thisshouldbesotosendamessagetoothers coming here and thinking of doing the same scheming and gamingofwhatwehaveonthebooks,whatmustbecomplied withcompletely Ourstanceissimple:thisisourwealth,we own it, and we Guyanese must get first claims on its opportunities,andthebestthatthosehavetooffer

MINISTER PARAG EITHER SUFFERING FROM AMNESIA, OR IS OF HYPOCRISY BEYOND COMPARE

DEAREDITOR, Chair of the Community amnesiasincesuchbehavior opponents are incomparable Thereseemstohavebeen Development Council isnotbyanymeansisolated. yet I cannot remember a recent upsurge of visits by (CDC), Julian David from Ms. Parag could not have hearingasimilaroutcryfrom Government Ministers to accessing the Belladrum possibly forgotten a similar Ms.Parag.ItseemslikeMs. various communities across CommunityCentrebuilding. incident on September 19, Parag is indeed suffering the country and on Tuesday, Now, let me pellucidly 2019, when an unruly, from a serious case of November8,2022,Minister state that as a Government menacing mob, led by Irfan amnesia. How else can one of Public Service, Sonia functionary,Ms.Paragought Ali, at the Pegasus Hotel, describe her deafening Parag, visited Eldorado, not to be debarred from attackedMinisterofForeign silence upon hearing the WestCoastBerbiceto,asshe performing her duties Affairs, Karen Cummings, instructions of her Vice putit,“identifywhatlevelof Whetherthereportistrueor and then blocked and President, Bharat Jagdeo to support Government could false, I cannot say for sure attempted to overturn her his supporters at an event at provide to residents of that since I am told that the vehicle! BabuJohninMarch2019to communityandwhethernew i n c i d e n t i s b e i n g Duringthelifeofthelast “chase Government training programmes could investigated. That apart, I Government, political Officials out of their be established there.” Upon could not help chuckling to hooliganismwasbirthedand communities?” arrival, Ms Parag myself and muttering that encouraged by then Hassheforgottenthevile complained that she was oldGuyaneseidiom‘dosuh, Opposition Leader, Bharat disrespect meted out by her blocked by Opposition nahlikesuh!’ Jagdeo His gas lighting colleagues to President Member of Parliament, The Honorable Minister rhetoric and deep seated DavidGrangerinParliament Vinceroy Jordan, and the must be suffering from abhorrence for his political (Continuedonpage5)

CANNABIS HAS IT POSITIVES, LAW SHOULD BE CONSTRUCTIVELY AMENDED

DEAREDITOR, removing the jail sentence believe the lack of persons who used cannabis The amendment to the for up to 30 grams of commonsense I am seeing. for other health benefits, the Narcotics Drugs and cannabis and done better on We have a billion dollar amendment treated all who Psychotropic Substance thismatter,thantheprevious industry which can create are held with 30 grams of (Control)Actof1988byBill Government, at the same thousands of jobs, bring cannabis or less as a smoker No2of2021fallsshortofthe time I cannot believe the foreign currency in for the and this should not be.This expectation of full Committee send back a bill sales of medical cannabis, unjust law of Guyana from decriminalisation of to Parliament with medicine, cannabis 1988 to now, which forced cannabisunder30grams. It oppressive clauses to cigarettes,andcannabisfood Magistrate and Judge to jail appears that the members of oppress persons who use products,anditisbeingheld our citizens for their leisure the Committee, who had to cannabisformedicine,food, back because some citizens ofsmokingcannabis,should go through the bill are tea, wine and also smoking smoke cannabis. Editor, the havebeenremovedfromthe visionless about the benefits which can get you high and Committee failed to law books for small of cannabis. They blinded the Government MPs who understand that sending a quantitiesofcannabisalong themselves with the were the only ones in person to rehab when they time. prediction that if they fully Parliamentpasseditwithout are not an addict would not AsIreadtheamendment, decriminalise cannabis, they e x a m i n i n g t h e stop a person from using I ask myself why the may create vexation from recommendations with a cannabis in their daily life if educatedmindinparliament persons who are against the fine-toothedcombtofindthe they so wanted to do wantstosendapersonwhois using of cannabis in any defects. Especially with the present- not addicted to cannabis to form especially smoking, Imustsayitissadtosee day knowledge of the berehabilitated. and also lose votes in an how the educated mind benefits of the use of W h e r e w i l l t h e election. operates in Guyana when it cannabisinotherformsthan Government find all the

Editor, while I must say comes to making decisions smoking. The amendment expertsinthe thankstotheGovernmentfor about our future, I cannot discriminates against

GUYANA PUBLIC SERVICE COOPERATIVE CREDIT UNION IS IN CRISIS

Several people told me More importantly, the they have undertaken costly they drove along the avenue Credit Union has failed to overseas travel to Jamaica, to feast their eyes, even hold its Annual General USA,ScotlandandPanama. DEAREDITOR, thoughtheirdestinationsdid Meeting (AGM) in keeping ThesetripsIunderstandcost LastweekIdrovebythe not require they use that with the statutes of the the society in excess of one Guyana Public Service route. Not anymore - the Guyana Cooperatives million dollars per

Cooperative Credit Union rundown nature of the SocietiesAct,Cap. 88:01.A individual. Members are yet (GPSCCU) office on avenueinthisshortspaceof recent petition by members to receive any reports Hadfield Street and I was time has turned it into an calling on the Committee of comingoutofthesetrips. surprised at the extent of eyesore, and should be a Management (CoM) to hold The staff are also deterioration of the recently cause for concern by all a Special General Meeting complaining that while restored avenue between membersoftheGPSCCU. (SGM)hasbeendisregarded ordinary members are being JohnandLimeStreets.

It is not only the avenue bytheCoM,andthematteris denied mortgages and car

In April 2022 amidst thathasdeteriorated;itismy nowacasebeforethecourts. loans, other privileged pomp and ceremony, the information staff morale at Unfortunately, staff members are availing Credit Union commissioned the Credit Union is at its members are complaining themselves of those very therestoredavenue. lowest, and members are that while all this is facilities.

That, together with its sufferingasaresult.Services happening,someindividuals Editor, this situation is renovated Credit Union that up to recently were are flouting the rules of the untenable and must be office building, made that delivered in a day are now CreditUnion. addressed urgently by section of Hadfield Street taking weeks, and premier Theirinterestsseemtobe members of the Credit attractive and popular with products such as mortgages on utilising the resources of Union. residents of the area and and car loans are denied or the Credit Union for their Sincerely, generalpublic. discontinued. personal benefit. Recently JoshuaLuke

NIGELWILLIAMS

MINISTER PARAG EITHER SUFFERING FROM AMNESIA, OR IS OF HYPOCRISY...

Frompage4 herGovernment,thuspaving and also at the Pegasus the way for a clearer Hotel? understanding and

What kind of hypocrisy appreciation of the is that Ms. Parag, that you community development can pointedly ignore the priorities. Minister Parag aforementioned incidents should be advised that whileattemptingtoestablish continued engagement of abonafidecaseforyourself? sycophants, self serving

Now, before you regard villagers, and party loyalists my concerns as blatantly will only serve to deepen, deprecatory, let me clearly rather than resolve existing state that the villagers differences among the two welcome Governmental factions One classical s u p p o r t t o o u r example is the Belladrum developmental agenda at Secondary School Ground Belladrum. What we reject Improvement Project, a is a self-centered approach harebrained initiative that blatantly and obviously proposed by selfdisrespectfully restricts the servingindividuals. input of the elected Even a surreptitious Community Leaders glancewillendorsethewideConsequently, it behooves heldviewthatthisgroundis MinisterParagtoengagethe incapableofaccommodating NDCintheproposedproject a regulation-size football or since this body is an cricketfield. important stakeholder and A more suitable venue should not be ignored. The would have been the CDC’s involvement is also community ground at unavoidable, especially ParadiseVillage. since the building in Had her colleague contention is under its Minister,CharlesRamson,Jr administration. consulted with the

ThePPPoperativesatthe appropriate stakeholders he local level have persistently would have been better shown scant regard for the advised Finally, it is leadership of the NDC and important that Minister CDCthuscompromisingany Parag understand the commendable joint efforts political sensitivity, coupled for improved, and I daresay, withtheindomitablespiritof effectivecollaboration. the people of Belladrum

If Minister Parag is sincesuchknowledgewould sincerely interested in guideherinteractionsandby addressing the concerns of extension her modus the Villagers, she must operandi in effectively demonstrate a genuine dealing with community attemptsotodo. relatedmatters.

Firstly,shemustabandon It is also advisable that party triumphalism while she be tactful in her procuring the requisite interaction with the information that instigates a community,asonlythenwill thorough understanding of she be able to override trust stakeholder management issues, thus paving the way This will improve her for cordial interactions with chances of deepening the villagers. trust and respect of the Should she contemplate citizensofBelladrum. doing otherwise, she will be

TheMinistershouldalso met with formidable s e e k m e a n i n g f u l resistance, which in the end e n g a g e m e n t w i t h will be nothing short of Community Leaders, which counterproductive. canservetodeepenthetrust Sincerelyyours, between the Villagers and LelonSaul

Cannabis has it positives, law should be constructively amended

DEAREDITOR, back because some citizens lambasting them for not offender for the possession The amendment to the smokecannabis. making an effort to amend of small quantities of Narcotics Drugs and Editor, the Committee the act when they were in marijuanawiththehopethat Psychotropic Substance failed to understand that government? I am the person may stop (Control)Actof1988byBill sending a person to rehab disappointed in the duty of smoking, but the forced No2of2021fallsshortofthe when they are not an addict the opposition in Parliament labour will just bring on expectation of full wouldnotstopapersonfrom atpresent. stress and forced the person decriminalisation of using cannabis in their daily The new amendment to take a joint to ease the cannabisunder30grams. It life if they so wanted to do. states in section 4 (b) (2A) stressbyrelaxingthemind. appears that the members of Especially with the present- “The court shall make an Cannabisisnotasevilas the Committee, who had to day knowledge of the orderrequiringapersonwho it is painted to be and go through the bill are benefits of the use of has been convicted for the continues to be demonised visionless about the benefits cannabisinotherformsthan possession of a narcotic by oppressors, some of ofcannabis. smoking. undersubsection(1)or(2)to whom may be alcoholics

Theyblindedthemselves T h e a m e n d m e n t undergo mandatory dictating other people’s with the prediction that if discriminates against counselling by a certified lives, I am sure that studies they fully decriminalise persons who used cannabis counsellor specified by the will show that alcohol helps cannabis, they may create for other health benefits, the courtwherethatpersonhada tocreatetheenergyformore vexation from persons who amendment treated all who quantity of cannabis or any violence and accidents than are against the using of are held with 30 grams of substance represented or cannabis. cannabis in any form cannabis or less as a smoker heldoutbythatpersontobe Yet no law is made to especiallysmoking,andalso andthisshouldnotbe. cannabis which does not force anyone who is an losevotesinanelection. This unjust law of exceed fifteen grams for a addict to alcohol to go to Editor, while I must say Guyana from 1988 to now, period as determined by the counselling and do thankstotheGovernmentfor whichforcedMagistrateand counsellor after an communitywork. removing the jail sentence Judge to jail our citizens for assessment.” W h a t t h e n e w for up to 30 grams of their leisure of smoking Editor, the new clause amendment will do is put cannabis and done better on cannabis, should have been 2B,whichforcesapersonto more burden on the court to thismatter,thantheprevious removedfromthelawbooks the forced labour of deal with such cases, and Government, at the same for small quantities of community work, or pay more money for the police time I cannot believe the cannabisalongtime. $200,000 if he or she is from the person who does Committee send back a bill AsIreadtheamendment, convicted of 15 to 30 grams not want to do community to Parliament with I ask myself why the of cannabis (and does not workorgotorehab. oppressive clauses to educatedmindinparliament appear to work) is madness. It also gives persons a oppress persons who use wantstosendapersonwhois While this section does not criminalrecordfor30grams cannabisformedicine,food, not addicted to cannabis to take you away from your of cannabis or less because tea, wine and also smoking berehabilitated. dailywork,ittakesyouaway the AG has to satisfy the which can get you high and W h e r e w i l l t h e f r o m y o u r f a m i l y people who are against the Government MPs who Government find all the responsibilitytime. cannabis. It is so sad, where were the only ones in experts in the different Most persons leave for arewegoing. Parliament passed it without regions to deal with the work at 7 am or as early as I am calling on the e x a m i n i n g t h e rehabilitation process of 5:30amandbackhomeafter Government to revisit the recommendations with a persons, and why the 5 pm or 7 pm to prepare amendmentsandremovethe fine-toothedcombtofindthe opposition didn’t stay in dinner for the family, or oppressiveclauses. defects.Imustsayitissadto parliament to make washing of clothing to wear Sincerely see how the educated mind representation on behalf of thenextday.

operates in Guyana when it the people who paid money Especially when you

comes to making decisions tohaverepresentation? don’t have much, and also about our future, I cannot Isitbecausetheyseethe spending time with the believe the lack of persons who used cannabis childrenontheschoolwork. commonsense I am seeing. as not worth representing? The amendment is just We have a billion dollar OraretheyafraidofthePPP intended to punish an industry which can create thousands of jobs, bring foreign currency in for the sales of medical cannabis, medicine, cannabis cigarettes,andcannabisfood products,anditisbeingheld

MichaelCarrington

FormerMP

TeachersurgedtopresstheirUniontopursuetheirwelfareincourt

DEAREDITOR, failed mathematics, societies, where these across-the-board adjustment according to one Nigel imposition due much more, As someone who has receivingaGradeIVorless. workers are tasked with benefitstoeveryoneismore Baptiste of the Teachers’ not to mention former trained as an Economist, the While it was observed that performing government equitable than any 10-15 union, the existing teachers, families of blame for my extended ten- this was an improvement, service of administering the percentincrease. agreement between the deceasedteachers. year stint in the teaching this is still a staggering affairs of the country and With respect to teachers, union and the Government The Union itself has the profession is solely mine. number,hasbeenarecurring servicing the needs of the I can only say I know and hasbeencraftedsothatthere glaring issue of conflict of Thissaid,withchildrenwho themeovertheyears. citizensofthenation. understand their struggles, canbenomovetoarbitration interest in which its General are now approaching their The underlying question Theobviousjustification the choices they face. I unless the government Secretary has been CSEC exams, I have had is: Why have these children is that Government must know they have every agrees, which they have appointed to parliament, but much cause to learn and failed? Given the relative ensurethatitsecuresamong j u s t i f i c a t i o n t o shown they will never do. stillretainstheGSportfolio. understandthemechanicsof consistency in performance the best available workers underperform Teachers The Union under this This is an example of the educationovertheyears.My overtheyears,whatisgoing and these workers are know that completing the agreementisjustapuppet,a outrageous attitude to salaryaside,Ihavesoughtto on in our education system adequately compensated syllabus is not the goal. toothless lion, a waste of managing teachers’ welfare ensure that all students that has been causing Payingpublicservantsisnot Getting 90 percent and time,inourcolloquialsense, matters, because there is no passingthroughmyhandsdo thousands of our children to a matter about which above, Grade Ones are. As since it cannot unilaterally way that McDonald as an their best, this for me being fail? Governments waste their tough as I know it is, this is movetoarbitration,whichit APNU Parliamentarian can gettingGradeOnesnotonly It is public knowledge time. the mission, the vision I shouldbeabletodo. be seen to have an unbiased inthesubjectsIteach,butin thatthechiefculprithasbeen It is the right and proper share with them, if only to Ihavesuggestedthatthis interestinTeachers’affairs,a allthesubjectstheysit. compensation of teachers. thingtodo. Ithaslongbeen make our children the matter be addressed in our situation also obviously This may sound Without a doubt, inadequate observed also that many successes we know they all courts at our meetings, with about which the APNU is demanding, but the students compensation has made public servants have been are,andtofeelaccomplished theUnionaskingthecourtto happy with, and which the I teach happen to be among teaching and delivering the categorized among at overcoming the find the existing contract general secretary is quite the most brilliant produced necessary and much-needed Guyana’s working poor, impossible. void since it unfairly happy to play along with. by Guyana. Indeed, I could care and attention to being unable to meet the ButIurgethemtomakeit represents the interests of Teachersneedtoseethatthis saythatIhaveachievedafair Guyana’sstudentsanext-to- basicneedsofhousing,food, unacceptable to have our teachers. is the kind of eye pass, degreeofsuccess,withafew impossible challenge, with clothing, not to mention children fail. It is not our The Union can further disrespect and abuse they being recognized and all the ills associated with education for their children children who have failed - it ask the court to set aside the havehadtoputupwithover receiving awards for their inadequate compensation in our Government is our teachers who have contract and, in light of thedecades. performanceintheBusiness alreadyinthepublicdomain. engineered socio-economic failed them. It is not our government’s wilful Government for itself is streamovertheyears,which Teachers know that it is a tragedy children, our teachers who intransigence to fairly and encouraged to do much is the area in which I w i l l f u l p o l i c y o f Given that education have failed It is our meaningfully address introspection, because there specialize. Government to maintain happens to be the most governmentwhichhasfailed teachers salaries over the is room for improvement in This is of course in depressed salaries for transformative force for them. years, instruct the the delivery of public addition to those who have teachers, and in addition to delivering development by Finally, teachers need to government to immediately education, health, all other beenachievingasuperlative being demoralized, find it creating a skilled workforce understandthatinadditionto proceedtoarbitration. publicservices. number of Grade Ones at next to impossible to have and generating new being able to work, they Either the Union moves They should consider theirexaminations. the energy required to successful entrepreneurs, it mustalsobeabletodemand tothecourts,orteacherswill that they have impoverished My concern, however, deliver on their mandate of is imperative that and get the compensation have to establish another teachers, and robbed them has always been the general educatingourchildren. Government makes the duethem. representative body to and their children of better underperformance of the Tosumitup,thesalaries salaries of teachers They need to know that execute this action, and lives. national student population. of teachers do not afford especially, all public inourdirtygameofnational defund the existing union. It is time teachers For 2022, given the overall themtobuytheirownhome, servants, a priority within politics,theirunionhasbeen Teachersworkingforatleast received the money due pass rate (Grades 1 to 3) for withthemortgageonabasic their economic policy engineeredtofailthem. And ten years are owed an them. And their children the general and technical home costing around 7-9 framework. the Union has been playing estimatedsixmilliondollars compensated. proficiencies was 68 5 million dollars being I have long suggested an alongallthetime. ormore,withthoseworking Yourfaithfully, percentoutofatotalof9,808 $70,000-$90,000 alone, or across the board cost of This is because since the unilateral salary

s t u d e n t s ten thousand dollars for living adjustment, which in (https://www.stabroeknews. everymillionofthevalueof light of the rising cost of com/2022/09/06/news/guya ahome. living,Ihavenowraisedtoat na/guyana records Evenwitharentofthirty least $70,000 per month. improved maths english thousand dollars monthly, Government, their performance-at-csec/). This teachers have to cope with Ministers, are well aware of means that around 3,090 traveling, basic food, the cost-of-living crisis of students received a Grade internet and maintenance teachers,andwellknowthat Fourorless. costsoftheirfamilieswhich this is not an outrageous

The situation is much always keeps them in the amount. worse for Mathematics negativeeverymonth. Their Ministers alone, where only 34 3 For those who are themselves are beneficiaries percent achieved Grades unawareor neverthoughtof of the 50 percent salary OnetoThree. it,itisagiventhatsalariesof increase awarded them by

Thismeansthatatotalof teachers, all public servants, the previous administration. 6,445 students essentially be a standard of living in Further, providing such an

CANNABIS HAS IT POSITIVES, LAW...

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period as determined by the stressbyrelaxingthemind. differentregionstodealwith counsellor after an Cannabisisnotasevilas the rehabilitation process of assessment.” it is painted to be and persons, and why the Editor, the new clause continues to be demonised opposition didn’t stay in 2B,whichforcesapersonto by oppressors, some of parliament to make the forced labour of whom may be alcoholics representation on behalf of community work, or pay dictating other people’s the people who paid money $200,000 if he or she is lives, I am sure that studies tohaverepresentation? Isit convicted of 15 to 30 grams will show that alcohol helps becausetheyseethepersons of cannabis (and does not tocreatetheenergyformore who used cannabis as not appear to work) is madness. violence and accidents than worth representing? Or are While this section does not cannabis. Yetnolawismade they afraid of the PPP take you away from your to force anyone who is an lambasting them for not dailywork,ittakesyouaway addict to alcohol to go to making an effort to amend f r o m y o u r f a m i l y counselling and do the act when they were in responsibility time. Most communitywork. Whatthe government? I am persons leave for work at 7 new amendment will do is disappointed in the duty of amorasearlyas5:30amand putmoreburdenonthecourt the opposition in Parliament back home after 5 pm or 7 to deal with such cases, and atpresent. pm to prepare dinner for the more money for the police

The new amendment family, or washing of from the person who does states in section 4 (b) (2A) clothingtowearthenextday not want to do community “The court shall make an Especially when you don’t work or go to rehab. It also orderrequiringapersonwho have much, and also gives persons a criminal has been convicted for the spending time with the record for 30 grams of possession of a narcotic children on the school cannabis or less because the undersubsection(1)or(2)to work.Theamendmentisjust AGhastosatisfythepeople undergo mandatory intended to punish an who are against cannabis. It counselling by a certified offender for the possession is so sad, where are we counsellor specified by the of small quantities of going. I am calling on the courtwherethatpersonhada marijuanawiththehopethat Government to revisit the quantity of cannabis or any the person may stop amendmentsandremovethe substance represented or smoking, but the forced oppressiveclauses. heldoutbythatpersontobe labour will just bring on

cannabis which does not stress and forced the person

exceed fifteen grams for a to take a joint to ease the

Sincerely

MichaelCarrington

FormerMP

CraigSylvester

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Removalofderelict vehiclesfrompublicspaces

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Govt. plans to remove derelict vehicles and encumbrances from parapets

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Those are eyesores and a positive development

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Similarly, the PPP/C Government should remove derelict Ministers from Parliament

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Govt. now drafting regulations for Local Content Law

Justice raises concerns over arbitrariness

Attorney General and ruling and experience interest.

Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, SC

Ramps Logistics, which Under the Act, the Local Minister of Legal Affairs, garnered in the sector” while On Friday, Chief Justice is originally from Trinidad Content Secretariat (the Anil Nandlall, SC on noting that the “Regulations (AG), Roxane George and Tobago had registered Secretariat) has been Monday said that the and Guidelines will further Wiltshire warned against under Guyana’s Companies established and functions as regulationsandguidelinesto enhance the legislative arbitrariness due to the lack Act, but was denied a Local the focal point for the support and strengthen the framework,aswellassetout of rules and regulations in Content Certificate as monitoring, evaluation, Legislation are being criteria which will inform Guyana’s Local ContentAct required under the Local coordination, and reporting drafted. Nandlall said that theexerciseofdiscretionand of 2021. She was at the time Content Act of 2021, for of Local Content in the Local ContentAct No. 18 of guide the decision-making delivering her ruling in the purportedly not being a petroleum operations of 2021 has provided a “solid processes enshrined in the Judicial Review matter ‘Guyanesecompany.’ Guyana Therefore, the foundation’ which has Legislation.” against the Government of In December 2021, Secretariat’s key role is to guided the oil and gas sector Nandlall said these Guyana’s refusal to provide Guyana passed its Local monitor and evaluate since its enactment. He said measures will also address Ramps Logistics with a Content Legislation, which companies’ performance theLegislationhasenableda the conduct of operators in LocalContentCertificate. caters to locals getting first with respect to the Guyanese Logistics (Guyana) protective network for the the sector, including their Justice George-Wiltshire preference in the country’s utilization targets outlined in Incorporated. interest of Guyanese and compliance levels with ruled that the Director of the oil and gas sector The Local the Act. However, since its “We have not yet Guyanese companies related Legislative and Local Content Secretariat, Content Law is intended to passage, there have been received a copy of Her operatinginthesector”. A d m i n i s t r a t i v e Dr Martin Pertab had until regulate the way companies several local content issues Honour’s written ruling in The Regulations and requirements, as we strive to noon on Monday, November operate in Guyana’s oil and that were raised by the local the cause. Upon receipt, the Guidelines are “already in achieve the Legislation’s 14, 2022, to issue a Local gas sector, employ persons, businesses and the private same would be scrupulously draft and will now benefit core intent, that is, to protect Content Certificate to buy services, and the way sector examined for the purpose of from the Chief Justice’s and promote Guyana’s best RampsLogistics. thattheyprocuregoods. The Chief Justice on determining, inter alia, Fridaysaid,“ThisActhasno whether there will be further rules or regulations and this proceedings ” Further, allows for arbitrariness ” Nandlall said that the Local She explained that from the Content Act “was an initial time the Secretariat realised attempt to create a novel that they needed certain statutory framework in regulations to better execute r e s p e c t o f a n e w the mandate of the Local undertaking, indeed without Content Act, they should compareintheRegion.” have alerted the Attorney The Attorney General General Chambers to get said too that “we promised t h o s e r e g u l a t i o n s that it will remain under implemented “The Local constant review and will be Content Act clearly needs modified and refined with regulations so as to prevent time and experience. We are arbitrary decision-making,” satisfied that the Act theChiefJusticesaid. provides a solid foundation

Meanwhile, on Monday which has guided the sector Nandlall in a Press Release, thus far, and enabled a said that his office has noted protective network for the Justice George Wiltshire’s interest of Guyanese and ruling in respect of the legal Guyanese companies challenge by Ramps operatinginthesector.”

Over $52M overpaid...

From page 3 should have been refunded to the Consolidated Fund in accordance with Section 43 of the Fiscal Management and Accountability(FMA)Act.

Further,theAuditorGeneralreportedthatfiveMinistries and four Regional Offices also had cheques on hand that shouldhavebeenrefundedtotheConsolidatedFundasat31 December 2021, and the necessary adjustments made to the AppropriationAccounts.

“In this regard, 162 cheques totaling $623.403M were still on hand. Of this sum, fifty-nine cheques totaling $351.129M were in relation to Ministries and Departments, whiletheremaining103totaling$272.275Mwereinrelation toRegionNos.one,five,eightandten,”theReportadded

Addedtothis,theReportoutlinedthatsome665payment voucherstotaling$3.061billionwerenotpresentedforaudit, resulting in the limitation of the scope of the audit. Six hundred and fifty-six totaling $3.050 billion were in respect of three Ministries, while nine valued $10.470M was in respect of the Region No. 3. As a result, it could not be ascertained whether value was received for the sums involved, and whether the funds were used for the purposes intended. The Report noted that a number of Ministries, Departments and Regions continued to clear cheque order vouchers long after the stipulated time frame. In addition, at the time of reporting in September, 1,120 cheque orders totalling$2.528billionremainedoutstanding.

Of the sum currently outstanding, 737 cheque orders totaling $1.929 billion were in relation to 2021, while the remaining 383 totaling $598.880M were in relation to prior periods.Asaresult,theauditorscouldnotdeterminewhether thevaluewasreceivedforallsumsexpended.

- Nandlall says, as Chief

CLIMBING THE HILL TO GET TO THE ROAD

Roads are being political meddling that arebeingbuiltwithconcrete. toclimbuptowardstheroad. vehicles could usually pass constructed frenetically in should not be tolerated It is not certain whether the And in many instances each other side by side, this townsandvillagesacrossthe Political Operatives should plan is to pave these homeownersarefindingthat is no longer possible. The country The PPP/C take their concerns to their afterwardswithasphalt. their bottoms of their road surfaces are not only Government, no doubt in authorities responsible for Prior to independence vehicles are grazing against higherbutnarrower preparation for Local the supervision of the road great attention was paid to the incline between the road Greater attention Government Elections next works.Theynotgetinvolved ensuring that the base of the andtheirbridges. thereforeneedstobepaidto be an assessment that these year, is on a road building in reprimanding or rebuking road was strong enough to But there is another quality assurance in the road works are sound, built spree. anycontractor withstand the anticipated, major problem. The ‘black construction of these roads. to the required specification It is well known that the Because of the large both present and future, of top’islaidbyamachineand It is good thing that some and are not narrower than absorptive capacity of the number of road contracts the traffic on the roadway oftenwhenthetopisputonit small contractors are being before. country’s road construction being give out, and the fact As such, efforts were made isnarrowerthantheexisting given jobs to build roads in (The views expressed in sector is limited. There are that many of these are small to dig out the subsoil and to road surface. Thus on many villages and towns. But it is this article are those of the simply not enough contracts,whatishappening create a base on which the redone roads, where two vitally necessary that there writer.) specialized road building is that a number of road would be constructed. companies and machinery inexperienced persons are Sometimesthesoilswereso for the sort of extensive tendering for road works. soft that huge boulders infrastructural road projects Reportsindicatethatsomeof wouldhavetobelaidtohold which the PPP/C is them are winning these it together and provide undertaking. contracts even though they firmness to the foundation The pace of road have limited experience in on which the road will be construction is creating roadconstruction. laid. serious bottlenecks Thisisboundtoraisered Thesedaysthereisanew Contractors who have flagsaboutthesoundnessof wayinwhichmanyroadsare secured road building thesomeoftheworksbeing being built. The popular fad contracts are having to do undertaken. An upcoming thesedaysistoputabitumen some work at one location, contractor has to start cap–knownasa‘blacktop’ then move their equipment somewhere. He has to get – on to the existing road and staff to another location work in order to garner surface. to show that work has experience.Butthosegiving Thisisthemethodwhich commenced at that location, out the contracts should isbeingemployedallacross andthento becontinuously ensure that those securing the country at the moment. shuttling equipment, the contracts have the The‘blacktop’roadshavea materials and staff between necessaryequipmentandthe nice sheeny finish The worksites. This is causing skills needed to do the job, problem with ‘black top’ somedelays. howeversmallitisoratleast finishes is that they elevate

Ithasalsoledtopolitical can prove that they have the existing road surface far interference. unhindered access to such higher than the verges. This

InoneinstanceaPPP/C resources. creates a dangerous incline. Commissar, with no

As a result of some of Homeowners are being standing in a road project, these concerns, questions affected because they now went to a Contractor and have been raised about the find that the road is now castigated him for the time soundness of some of the higherthantheirbridges. he was taking to complete a roads which are being done. Ifyouaredrivingoutof particular road. This sort of In some cases, some roads yourhome,yourvehiclehas

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Is de Licks not de List wah is de problem

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ButdemwantGEEGONEcheckdeList themselvesandgetanideaofwhodeadand fuh dem fuh see who dead and who who migrated. Dem can object to de dead migrated.Butwasitnotdemwahclaimdat people name and create a list of dem wah dead and migrated people voted? So dem migrated and give dat list to dem polling supposedtohavedeevidence. agents.

And is it not dem and not GEEGONE But de List is not de problem. It never who supposed to check de list fuh see who was.De Listnahevenfinalizeyet.Sohowit namenahsupposedtodehon? ganbeaproblem.DeproblemisnotdeList Datiswhatpoliticalpartiessupposedto isdeLicks. do. Dem bin do it juss before the 2020 In 2016 was licks. In 2018 was more elections. Demsendpeopleintodemareas licks.Andin2023itganbelickslikepeas fuhseeifanydeadpeopledehpundelist.In Talkhalf.Leffhalf!

AFC AND WPA: SILHOUETTESOFDISAPPEARINGLIFE

Doyouknowhow Rodney, the WPA was a consultant to Minister, Gildarie Freddie Kissoon people in general donate foot soldiers are gone unique Guyana literally degutted After Amna Ally Rupert Showthathispartydoesget becausetheyarelookingfor Where then is your staying isintermsofthe 1992,withtheadventoffree Roopnaraine became coverage from the a reciprocal relation In power? The AFC has

surreal things and fair elections, the WPA MinisterofEducation. mainstream press I Guyana, ruling parties have becomeliketheWPA.They that happen here? I doubt secured only one seat and We are about to enter promised Dr Bandhu we traditionally received are shells but a few who anycountryintheworldhas drifted into the wilderness. 2023andnooneknowswho will have him on the resourceassistancefromthe cling to yesteryear believe a parallel to the WPA in By2011,whenthePNCand or what is theWPA. No one programmeagain. businessfolks. the dreams are still alive. Guyana.Iamwillingtobeta WPA formed APNU, the knowswhotheleaderis.No TheparallelinGuyanato The AFC had enormous The WPA and the AFC few dollars that there isn’t WPA was virtually a shell oneknowsanythingaboutit. the WPA is the AFC. This state power The AFC had constituterichmaterialfora one nation on Planet Earth withaboutsixpersons.Over FromthetimetheAPNUlost country will make even the Prime Minister and six TennesseeWilliamsplay where you can find another 3 decades, the WPA never power in July 2020, Clive Frankenstein and Dracula Ministersinthegovernment All of Williams’ plays caricatureliketheWPA. had a congress to elect its Thomas in his weekly laughtilltheyget“stitches.” in2018. aredeeplysad. The WPA was born in executives and never Stabroek News column has The AFC announced it will Yet the AFC collected 4 All of Williams’dramas 1974, then, became a announced publicly who its not mentioned the WPA not contest the 2023 local percent of the votes in the constitute variations on one politicalpartyin1976.Itwas leaders are and their party once,Irepeatnotonce. governmentelection(LGE). 2018LGE.TheAFCdidnot theme-lifegoeson,thepast founded at the lower flat at designations. YetDemeraraWavesand Thereisnostrongerwordto win even one of the 38 will never return and those the head office of the trade In 2015, APNU took the Stabroek News carry usethanasinineifyouthink NDCsthatitcontested. who belong to the past and union NAACIE, led at the state power and those six front page coverage of what theAFCcanwinseatsinthe If a ruling party could want it to return will live in time by Dr Nanda Gopaul. persons went into theremnantsoftheWPAsay LGEin2023. lose so badly in 2018, then sempiternalangst.TheWPA Go to Youtube to the government Tacuma The longest surviving third Why would it be asinine you have to be the biggest haditsmoment. Gildarie Freddie Kissoon Ogunseye, Desmond party in Guyana is the foranyonetothinktheAFC fool in the world to think in The AFC had its finest Show for last week and see Trotman and Clive Thomas United Republican Party canwinanythinginthenext 2023theAFCcouldevenget wine.Buttimehasleftthem the feelings of disgust, Dr wenttoSARA. that has contested every LGE? Commonsense not onepercent. behind I close with Gopaul expressed about the Thomas became national election from 1992 analytical ability kicks in If at the height of your ShakespearefromMacbeth: remnantsoftheWPA. chairman of GuySuco. Dr. onwards. here. The party in power is greatness and power when “Comewhatcomemay, After 1980, with the Maurice Odle went to Its leaders, Dr. Vishnu billionsofmilesaheadofthe all you stellar actors are Timeandthehour, assassination of Walter NICIL.DavidHindsbecame Bandhu told me on the opposition because of the assembled on your Runs through the simple fact that it has state bandwagon, you could not roughestday.” power. winoneNDC,thenhowyou (A1,Scene3) People gravitate to doitin2023? (The views expressed in ruling parties because they All your star power is this article are those of the want things from it gone All your financial writer and not this Investors and business donors are gone. All your newspaper.)

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Finance Minister meets with British Trade Mission

- in pursuit of deepening investment and trade relations between Guyana and Britain

Senior Finance Minister, Dr Ashni Singh on Monday participated in a roundtable meeting with the British Trade Mission to Guyana to further discuss how Guyana and the United Kingdom can forgecloserties.

The meeting was held at the Marriott Hotel The Mission, led by British High Commissioner to Guyana, Her Excellency Jane Miller, is a partnership between the DepartmentforInternational Trade of the British High Commission, the Caribbean Council and the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry(GCCI).Itsaimisto increase growth in trade and investment between Britain andGuyana.

During the meeting, Dr Singh spoke of Guyana and the United Kingdom’s longstanding relationship grounded in diplomatic and relationsinGuyana.

Singh said that Guyana is committed to leveraging the two-lane highway between will cost 149 Million political ties as well as The Minister said that considered the premier skills and investment Linden and Mabura Hill pounds. economic ties through because of Guyana’s investmentdestinationinthe potential of the Guyana forms part of the arterial link Other cooperation investment and trade, people ramped-up oil production, world, attractive for Diaspora in the United between Linden and the programmes/projects andculture. thecountryisnowthefastest investment in the oil and gas Kingdom as it continues to Lethem Highway and links between Guyana and the UK HesaidthatBritishTrade growing economy in the sector, infrastructure and implement its aggressive Georgetown to the Brazilian also include the Diamond Mission’s visit to Guyana world, with growth of over requisitesupportservices. developmentagenda. border Diagnostic Centre, the presents an excellent 50 percent now forecasted He said avenues exist for Guyana has recently

Additionally,throughthe Lethem Hospital, the opportunity for both for 2022 and medium-term investment and expansion in collaborated with the UK UKExportFinance(UKEF), Leonora Cottage Hospital, Guyanese and British average annual growth the non-oil extractives, such Caribbean Infrastructure the Government of Guyana the Mabaruma Hospital and companies to forge closer projectedat25percent. as gold, bauxite, agriculture, Fund with the latter is constructing a Paediatric theParamakatoiHospital. ties and look forward to the According to a Press tourism and hospitality, ICT providing US$66M toward and Maternal Hospital. The FromNovember9,2022, expansion of the British Release issued by the and energy The Minister the US$190M Linden to building and equipping of Guyanese have been able to business presence and Ministry of Finance, Dr also said that Government is Mabura road project. The the state-of-the-art hospital travelvisa-freetotheUK.

$172M contract signed for new teaching block at East Ruimveldt Secondary

In the next five months, worth $172 million was no longer will Grade Seven signed by the Ministry’s students of the East Permanent Secretary, Alfred Ruimveldt Secondary King and the Contractor, School be taught in tents, as Delph Construction at the the Ministry of Education on school’s auditorium. Delph Monday signed a contract Construction was among for the construction of a new five contractors who had teaching block to house the placed bids for the project students. when it was opened at the The contract which is National Procurement and

Tender Administration

Ministry The new building, traversetoonelocationtothe

the pipeline for a long time willhouse anadministrative Board (NPTAB) office last even before she assumed block, and that this building month. According to the duties at the institution and will be “fitted with it NPTAB information, the nowthattherequestisfinally separate sanitary block so Ministry had estimated this being fulfilled, she there is no need for the project to cost $120 9 expressed gratitude to the students of this location to million.

Delivering opening accordingtoSpecialProjects other, it also have most remarks at the sod-turning Officer at the Ministry, Ron importantly, an independent ceremony, Headteacher of Eastman,wouldbeamodern electrical infrastructure the school, Ms. Katheryn flatbuildingwhichwillcater where we will have a Frazier, said that the request for 10 classrooms He transformerforthisbuilding. for the new building was in described that the building

Members of the British Trade Mission met with Senior Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh (Second right – headtable) on Monday at the Marriott Hotel, Georgetown. Also present was British High Commissioner to Guyana, Jane Miller (second left – headtable).

The sod-turning for the new Grade Seven block that would be constructed at the East Ruimveldt Secondary School

Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand (centre) alongside, Headteacher Katheryn Frazier (left) and PTA President, Dexter Forde (right) overlooking the signing of the contract between a representative from Delph Constrauction (left) and the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Mr Alfred King (right)

Govt. issues Ramps Logistics Local Content Certificate

- says exploring option to appeal court ruling

n keeping with Friday’scourtruling, the Government of I Guyana (GoG) on Monday issued a Local Content Certificate to Ramps Logistics Guyana Incorporated - but disclosed that it is exploring the option toappealtheruling.

This certification means that Ramps is registered in Guyana’s Local Content Registry and is certified to provide goods and services to Guyana’s Oil and Gas Sector The company can

company’s recent settlement also now seek an extension with the Guyana Revenue of its current contract to Authority (GRA) on the provide services to matteroftaxevasion,aswell ExxonMobilGuyana. b u s i n e s s e s , a n d as the ongoing litigations at Ramps Logistics, which communities.” theMagistracyleveloverthe is originally from Trinidad

For their part, the allegedfalsetaxdeclarations and Tobago had registered Ministry of Natural totheGRAbyRamps. under Guyana’s Companies Resources stated that it has H o w e v e r , t h e Act, but was denied a Local taken note of the recent Government’s contentions Content Certificate as Roxane George Wiltshire using Guyanese nationals to Guyanese roots who ruling by the Chief Justice wereraisedonFridayandthe required under the Local ruled that the Government satisfy the local content purchased 51 percent of a n d s t a t e d , “ T h e ChiefJusticepointedoutthat Content Act of 2021, for acted unlawfully when it requirement for their Ramps Guyana for US$1M, Government of Guyana t h e L o c a l C o n t e n t purportedly not being a denied the certificate to companies to be 51 percent making it 51 percent respects the rule of law and Legislationdoesnotcaterfor ‘Guyanesecompany.’ Ramps - a company that met locally owned. Ramps for Guyaneseowned. the independence of the criminal activity being taken After the Government requirements under the instance, provided detailed In a statement on Judiciary and therefore will intoaccountwhengrantinga denied Ramps its certificate, LocalContentAct. information to the Local Monday the company said, complywiththeruling.” certificatetoacompany-she the company challenged the Contentions surfaced Content Secretariat “We are grateful for all who However, the Ministry also noted that the 10 false decision in High Court and over the manner in which regarding Deepak Lall, a have stood by us during the stated that there are strong declarations charges that on Friday, Chief Justice foreign companies are now Trinidadian born with strong past few months, especially concerns as to the eligibility were filed against the our team members who have of Ramps application for a company’s Chief Executive remained strong throughout local content certificate. As Officer (CEO), Shaun thisprocess. such, it was disclosed that Rampersad, came months

Appeal Court reserves ruling for Pastor convicted of rape

The Court of Appeal has of Marcy Dam, Rosignol, reserved its judgment in an West Bank Berbice. It was appeal filed by Pastor reportedthathealsofounded Andrew Hannibal, who is eight other churches around currently serving a 40-year the country. The story jail sentence for raping a 15- unravelled when the girl’s year-oldgirl. parents reportedly missed

The appeal was heard by her one night and began acting Chancellor of the enquiring about her Judiciary, Justice Yonette whereabouts They went Cummings Edwards, and looking for her but were Justices of Appeal, Rishi unsuccessful. She was found Persaud, Dawn Gregory subsequently and after being Murseline Bacchus, SC questioned, related what had Arudranauth Gossai happened. It was learnt that represented the convicted the Pastor was having an child rapist. The Pastor, who affairwiththechildforsome the summing up of his trial, was convicted for raping a time. the Judge ignored a number schoolgirl in 2018, is hoping

After the matter was of discrepancies in the that the Appeal Court will reported, the man was evidence presented in the overturn his conviction and arrested and placed in matter 40-yearjailsentence. custody and subsequently

The Appellant has

His case came up at the charged The prosecution argued that the Judge failed Appeal Court, last June had called a number of todirecttheJuryonpertinent Hannibal, 46, of Bennett witnesses to support their evidence presented in the Dam, Rosignol, West Bank story At the Blairmont t r i a l i n c l u d i n g Berbice, had appeared Magistrate’s Court, the inconsistencies about the before Justice Sandil preliminary inquiry was location and layout of the Kissoon and a mixed jury in conducted before Magistrate roomthattheactisallegedto the Berbice High Court. He RhondellWeaver have been committed and on was later found guilty as

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We remain committed to the Government is currently after the company had working with the Local exploring all available approachedtheHighCourt. Content Secretariat to options, including an appeal After reviewing Ramps develop local content in oftheruling. and the Government’s Guyana and ensure more Additionally, it was submissions to the court, the opportunities within the Oil noted in the statement that Chief Justice ruled that and Gas sector remain the Government has also DirectoroftheLocal a m o n g i t s p e o p l e , taken into consideration the

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ramps Logistics Guyana, Shaun Rampersad

Director of Local Content Secretariat, Dr. Martin Pertab

Pastor Andrew Hannibal

- PAHO Report says

People with diabetes in the Americas has more than tripled in three decades

Washington, DC, 11 expected to be much higher lifestyles,” said Dr Anselm related

November, 2022 (PAHO) – given that around 40% of Hennis, Director of the Hennis

Growing rates of obesity, those with the disease are Department of Non The Report also notes

poor diets, and lack of unaware they have the communicable Diseases and physical activity, among condition. If current trends Mental Health at PAHO. “At other factors, have continue, the number of the same time, it is crucial to contributed to a more than people with diabetes in the ensure early diagnosis and three-fold increase in the region is projected to reach good disease management, number of adults living with 109millionby2040. which are key to controlling diabetes in the Americas in The increase in cases of diabetes and preventing the past 30 years, according diabetes over three decades diabetes related disability to a new report by the Pan islinkedtoanincreaseinrisk andpoorhealth.”TheReport A m e r i c a n H e a l t h factors Two thirds of shows, however, that just 12 Organization(PAHO). adults in the Americas are countries in the Region have

The PAHO Panorama of overweight or obese, and the six basic technologies Diabetes in the Americas, only 60% get enough requiredforthemanagement released in the run up to exercise. The report also of diabetes in public health World Diabetes Day points to an alarming trend facilities, including (November 14) calls on among young people in the equipment for measuring countries to improve early region: over 30% are now blood glucose, tests for the diagnosis, increase access to considered to be obese or e a r l y d i a g n o s i s o f quality care for diabetes overweight – almost double complications, and urine test control, and develop theglobalaverage. strips for glucose and ketone strategiestopromotehealthy “These high rates of analysis. “It is crucial that lifestyles and nutrition. At diabetes highlight the urgent everyone, everywhere has least 62 million people live need for countries to focus access to these basic with diabetes in the on prevention and the diagnosis and management Americas,anumberwhichis promotion of healthy tools needed to prevent

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the recent opening of schools for Grade We have also included in this building AC SevenstudentsonOctober3last,anumberof unitsforcoolingsomeofthesectionalareas.” schools in the country had an issue of The construction of this project will be overcrowding. Addressing this issue, the done in five months. The new building will Education Ministry had put in place certain accommodate some 300 students when measures- one being the erecting of tents in completed. Minister of Education, Priya the schools’ compound to accommodate the Manickchand during her address mentioned students and a rotation system East thattheexpansionprojectsatschoolarebeing Ruimveldt Secondary along with Graham’s executed to address the long standing of Hall Primary were the only two schools to adequate spacing. “The whole space issue is haveutilisedtentswhenclasseshadresumed. one that has been facing the Ministry for the Meanwhile, Minister Manickchand last couple of years.This matter wasn’t fixed charged the Contractor to provide quality soitfacedusclearlywhenwecamebackinto work, and to do it within the time frame that school for face-to-face education as we had they set. “Do your work well and you can get students in this school who couldn’t fit in the morework,doyourworkpoorlyandyoucan classrooms,”shesaid. see things like liquidated damages and so on Kaieteur News had reported that during beingappliedagainstyou,”shestated.

40Guyanese,5Organisationstell...

From page 2 immediate transition to 100 22.ImmaculataCasimero in collaboration with percent renewable energy 23.AlmaO’Connell independent civil society, a system with net zero 24.TerryRoopnaraine high level independent, emissions. 25.ColinKlautky scientific investigation to The names of the citizens 26.EarlJohn assess all associated risks and organizations that 27.JanetteBulkan and threats emanating from signed the letter to the 28.SandydeFreitas oil and gas production in Presidentarelistedbelow 29.SherlinaNageer Guyana They said this 1.VandaRadzik 30.JocelynDow independent investigation 2.AlissaTrotz 31.ElizabethDeaneand assessment should be 3.VidyarathaKissoon Hughes led by independent civil 4.KarendeSouza 32.MosaTelford society and other regional 5.PaulineMelville 33.SuraiyaIsmail and international experts 6.ChristineSamwaroo 34.LeilaJagdeo and include a process of 7.DanutaRadzik 35.GeraldPerreira consultative sessions at 8.MayaTrotz 36.RomarioHastings grassroots, community 9.SusanCollymore 37.PauletteAllicock based organisations, local 10.JoyMarcus 38.DanielAllicock c o m m u n i t i e s a n d 11.HalimaKhan

indigenouspeoples.

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added. have higher risks for severe importanceofintegrating

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Husband on the run after killing man seen drinking with his wife

A Kwakwani, Region 10 man on Sunday last went berserk, killing the male friend of his wife and also seriously injuring the woman.

The man had seen the pair together drinking beers.

Dead is, 28-year-old truck driver, Joshua Dianid of Kwakwani Staff, Upper Berbice River.

The suspect is a 36-yearold driver of Kwakwani Airstrip. According to Police, the incident happened on Sunday at about 02:10 hrs at Bush Pool, Kwakwani Staff Hill.

According to a police report, Ranks of Regional Divi-

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pect had seen his 36-year-old wife in the company of the now deceased man, drinking beers.

The suspect then approached and confronted his

wife and the now deceased, Joshua Dianid.

The confrontation erupted in an argument, which then led to the suspect arming himself with a broken glass bottle and started stabbing both Dianid and his wife. The two injured were then rushed to the Kwakwani Hospital Complex where they were seen by a Doctor.

While the suspect’s wife is said to be in a stable condition, Dianid had succumbed to his injuries while being treated.

The suspect is yet to be arrested as investigations are continuing.

People with diabetes in the Americas...

From page 15 diabetes care into preparedness and response plans for emergencies.

In order to reduce the prevalence of the disease and enable those with diabetes to lead healthier lives and avoid complications, the Report calls on countries to:

· Improve the capacity for early diagnosis of diabetes and for the prevention of diabetes-related complications.

· Increase availability and access to quality diabetes care, including essential medicines such as insulin, glucosemonitoring devices, and selfmanagement support.

· Build strategies and policies to promote healthy lifestyles and nutrition and

prevent obesity.

· Strengthen surveillance and monitoring to ensure good diabetes control.

Diabetes in the Americas Diabetes is a chronic, metabolic disease, characterized by elevated levels of blood glucose.

Type 2 diabetes is the most common type, which usually occurs in adults when the body becomes resistant to or fails to produce enough insulin. Type 1 diabetes occurs when the pancreas produces little or no insulin by itself.

Diabetes is the sixth leading cause of mortality in the Americas and was responsible for over 284,000 deaths in 2019. It is also the second

highest cause of disability in the region, preceded only by ischemic heart disease. Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness in people aged 40 to 74, lower extremity amputations, and chronic kidney disease.

In addition, diabetes triples the risk of death by cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, or cancer. While type 1 diabetes cannot be prevented, it can be managed. Measures are available, however, to prevent type 2 diabetes, including policies and programs to promote good health and nutrition, regular exercise, avoiding smoking and controlling blood pressure.

PAHO continues to sup-

port countries in designing, implementing, and evaluating strategies to prevent and control diabetes.

PAHO’s Strategic Fund works to strengthen universal access to essential medicines and technologies for the treatment of diabetes in the region, enabling Member States to obtain insulin at low-cost prices.

The WHO Global Diabetes Compact also reinforces this commitment and provides a roadmap for countries to tackle diabetes.

World Diabetes Day is held every year on 14 November on the birthday of Dr. Frederic Banting, a co-discoverer of insulin, to raise awareness of diabetes.

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The CJ even cautioned against arbitrariness due to the lack of rules and regulations in Guyana’s Local Content Act.

“This Act has no rules or regulations and this allows for arbitrariness,” Justice George-Wiltshire said. She explained that the minute the Secretariat realised that they needed certain regulations to better execute the mandate of the Local Content Act, they should have alerted the Attorney General Chambers to get those regulations implemented.

“The Local Content Act clearly needs regulations so as to prevent arbitrary decision-making,” she further stated.

The Chief Justice had granted a declaration that Ramps satisfied the statutory requirements and preconditions necessary for the grant of the Certificate of Registration, a declaration that Ramps Logistics as a Guyanese company is entitled to be issued a Certificate of Registration and to be entered into the local content register, and a declaration that the decision by Minister Bharrat and/or Dr. Pertab and/or the Secretariat to refuse to grant a certificate or registration to Ramps is unlawful, illegal, null, void and of no legal effect.

to refuse to issue a certificate to Ramps and an order of mandamus directing the Director to register and issue a Certificate of Registration to Ramps Logistics on or before noon on November 14, 2022which was complied with.

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Justice George-Wiltshire noted too that the list of requirements under a Form C, that the Secretariat is seeking from companies applying for a certificate, have no statutory basis since it is not a part of the law that governs local content.

The other two declarations that the CJ granted was that the decision of the State Officials or State Agency misconstrued or misapplied Section 2A1 and 2A2 of the Act and that they breached Section 6 of the Act when it refused to grant the certificate to Ramps Logistics.

In addition, the Chief Justice granted an order of certiorari quashing the decision of Minister Bharrat and/or Dr. Pertab and/or the Secretariat

The Local Content Law is intended to regulate the way companies operate in Guyana’s oil and gas sector; employ persons, buy services, and the way that they procure goods.

Under the Act, the Secretariat has been established and functions as the focal point for the monitoring, evaluation, coordination, and reporting of Local Content in the petroleum operations of Guyana.

Therefore, the Secretariat key role is to monitor and evaluate companies’ performance with respect to the Guyanese utilization targets outlined in the Act.

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More foreigners entering mining sector

- Association seeks additional benefits, opening up of mining lands

With an increase in the Association, Alphonso number of persons working announced that through in the mining sector, the lobbying efforts and Guyana Gold and Diamond collaboration with the Miners Association Government, GGDMA has (GGDMA)hascommittedto been able to ‘unlock several continue its lobbying of the benefits for miners’. Among Government of Guyana to the benefits mentioned were address the issues plaguing taxincentives. the mining sector while During his report on the seekingadditionalbenefits. progress for the reporting “The number of persons year, the GGDMA President entering the mining industry said that while concessions is on the rise, we have seen have been given to the more new entrants both industry, there remain a foreign and local The number of issues which industry is continuing to ought to be addressed grow as is our membership,” Among those issues are: the GGDMA’sPresidentAndron rising cost of production, the Alphonso said at the l a c k o f a d e q u a t e Association’s 38th Annual infrastructure, labour General Meeting (AGM) shortages, and the ongoing mercuryfreemining. and subsequently granted by waiverscanbegarnered.

Govt. courts Latin America development

rehabilitation and upgrading heldrecently effort to find a concrete Additionally, a mandate the membership present, to G G D M A ’ s of existing roads, bridges According to a Press solution that will allow the was requested by the allow for a review of the Administrative Manager, and airstrips; to examine a Release issued by the industry to transition to executives of the GGDMA, organisation’s original Avalon Jagnandan said the reductioninlatefeescharged charter and to subsequently Association has launched an by the GGMC, to seek propose necessary changes initiative to support miners additional funding for in keeping with the current in need of work grounds. Mercury Free Mining needsofthesector Jagnandan said that several Technology and to engage According to the Press mining blocks would be with banks and suppliers for Release, Alphonso said that made available to miners of better financial terms for the Association intends to focus allscales.Heurgedminersto industry on and lobby for the renewal visit GGDMA’s Secretariat The 38th AGM meeting o f t h e I n v e s t m e n t formoreinformation. was the first large gathering Development Agreements Meanwhile, miners oftheAssociationsinceMay (IDAs)forminers,improved raised concerns over the 2022, when the members of infrastructure for the sector, increase in malaria cases in the GGDMAmet with Vicethe opening of new mining the hinterland and called on President Bharrat Jagdeo at lands, the allowance for the Ministry of Health to t h e A r t h u r C h u n g miners to have the option to provide more support to the Conference Centre (ACCC). be paid up to 100% of funds miningsector At that meeting, the Viceearned from gold sales in GGDMA Members also President had announced a foreign currency and the urged the Association to numberofmeasuresthatwill removal of restrictions on continue its lobby of the be implemented to assist the the age of ATVs for which Government for new roads; miningindustry

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Shai Hope’s match-winning 88 leads Barbados Pride into the last four of CG Insurance Super50 Cup

SportsMax - An excellent knock from Captain Shai Hope helped the Barbados Pride defeat the Leeward Islands Hurricanes by five wickets at the Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Stadium in Antigua on Sunday and advance to the semi-finals of the CG Insurance Super50 Cup.

The Hurricanes lost the toss and were sent in to bat by the Pride and, propelled by a third consecutive half-century from captain Jahmar Hamilton, they made a competitive 273-7 from their 50 overs. Hamilton made 51 off

71 balls including three fours and two sixes and was supported well by all-rounder Rakheem Cornwall (46), Kieran Powell (40), Keacy Carty (36), Hayden Walsh Jr (33) and Karima Gore (33 not out).

Leg-spinner Javed Leacock took 4-48 from 10 overs for the Pride.

The Prides target was then revised to 268 from 48 overs due to bad light halting the start to their reply.

That did not matter as Hope played a masterful innings to lead his team to vic-

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tory. The West Indies ODI vice-captain made 88 off just 67 balls including six fours and four sixes and was well supported by Zachary McCaskie (49) and Kyle Hope (36) as the Bajans reached 271-5 with an over to spare.

Off-spinner Kofi James continued his good form with the ball by taking 3-48 off 10 overs for the Leewards.

Despite both teams finishing the group stage with 14 points and the Hurricanes having a better net run rate, the Pride will move on to the semi-finals because the first

tiebreaker is the head-to-head record between the two teams.

The first game between the two ended in a no result.

The Hurricanes still have hope of advancing to the last four.

If the West Indies Academy manage to defeat the Jamaica Scorpions for a second time in the tournaments final preliminary game yesterday, Monday, the Hurricanes will advance.

On the other hand, the Scorpions would advance as Zone B winners with a win.

Barbados Pride captain Shai Hope made 88.

UFC 281: Zhang Weili taps out Carla Esparza, reclaims strawweight title

Yahoo Sports - NEW YORK Zhang Weilis athleticism was on display from the early moments of her strawweight title fight with Carla Esparza on Saturday in the co main event of UFC 281 at MadisonSquareGarden.

Zhangwas tooquick,too strong and, ultimately, too good for Esparza, who tried touseherwrestlingskillsbut tonoavail.

Zhang lost her title to RoseNamajunasatUFC261 when she was knocked out by a head kick. She then dropped a split decision to Namajunas in the Garden lastyear

After a win over Joanna Jedrzejczyk in June, she earned a title shot and made themostofit.

ShelockedinthesecondroundsubmissionofEsparza

after a brilliant display of highlevelmixedmartialarts.

“Today is my dream come true,” she said in the cage after her victory made her a two time champion Shes the third fighter in the d i v i s i o n s h i s t o r y, following Esparza and Namajunas, to have two

stintsaschampion.

Zhang closed as a massive 400 favorite at BetMGM and looked every bit of it once the bell rang Esparza tried to circle and move and then use her wrestling, and had moderatesuccess

But Zhang was able to

fend off her attacks and was constantly threatening submissions.

“I had so many ways to finishher,”Zhangsaid.

Esparza would have had to have been at her absolute best technically and she was not that on this night.

Zhang was able to take advantage of her mistakes and began another reign as champion

She only made one successful defence of her title last time before losing it toNamajunas.

Undoubtedly, the new goal switches to making a number of defenses this time around.

With her evolving technique and her physical skills, its not out of the question shell be on top for quiteawhile.

UDFAoneGuyanaPresidentsCupopens

Block 22 edge past Blueberry Hill 4-3 after controversial penalty

Block 22 knocked out Blueberry Hill 4 3 on penalty kicks after a 1-1 stalemate when the Upper D e m e r a r a F o o t b a l l Association region 10 run One Guyana Presidents Cup football championship began Sunday afternoon at the Wisburg Secondary school ground in the mining townofLinden.

Playing the opening fixture Blueberry Hill

overcame opening raids by Bock 22 to push ahead through a goal by Isaiah Adams which came in the 15thminuteofplay

The Blueberry Hill side heldtheleadandatonestage couldhavegoneaheadlatein the second half but the obvious handled ball by Block 22 went unnoticed by the referee as the linesman raise and then lowered his flag.

Soon after that, against the run of play, Andre Websterwouldforcehisway intheboxtobefouledbythe Blueberry Hill goalkeeper which was punished by the referee as he pointed to the penaltyspot.

However, the kick by Webster went to the left upright and as it came out Webster latched on to send the ball past the surprised goalkeeper in the 88th

minute.

However, the decision that allowed that goal to count is being questioned as no other player touched theballbutthekicker

Soon after, regulation ended with the scores 1 1 and extra time failed to separatethetwowardteams.

I n t h e p e n a l t y shootout Block 22 came out winners by a 4 3 score.

Fraser-Prycemakesfinalfive forWorldAthletics’Women AthleteoftheYearAward

SportsMax Jamaicas

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is among the five finalists for World Athletics Female AthleteoftheYearAward.

The five time world 100m champion made the cut after the three way voting process determined thefinalists

The World Athletics Council and the World Athletics Family cast their votes by email, while fans logged their decisions online via the World

semi finals of the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon in July before running a wind-aided 12.06 to win her first global title.

Another world record holder, Sydney McLaughlin of the United States, is also amongthefinalists.

The super talented American broke the 400m hurdles world record twice during the season 51 41 at the US Championships before lowering it to a

Athletics social media platforms where a record 1 3 million votes were registered

The World Athletics Councilsvotecountedfor50 per cent of the result, while the World Athletics Familys votes and the public votes each counted for 25 per cent ofthefinalresult.

Shericka Jackson, the 2022World200mchampion, failedtomakethecut.

Fraser Pryce being among the finalists was not surprising given the outstanding year she had last season when she became the first running athlete to win five world titles in the same event and ran a record seven t i m e s u n d e r 1 0 . 7 s including a world leading 10.62s.

She was also the D i a m o n d L e a g u e champion for the fifth time inherillustrious career

Also among the finalists is the newly minted 100m hurdles world-record holder Tobi Amusan of Nigeria, who added the Diamond League and Commonwealth Games title to her resume duringthepastseason.

She set a new world record of 12.12 during the

jaw dropping 50 68 in the final of the World Championships

McLaughlin won a secondgoldmedalinOregon as a member of the USAs 4x400mrelayteam.

A l s o a m o n g t h e finalists is Venezuelas Yulimar Rojas, the 2022 World Indoor and Outdoor triple jump champion

The 2022 Diamond League champion also improved upon her own world record in the event w i t h a 1 5 7 4 m performance in Belgrade

Perus Kimberly Garcia completes the five finalists.

Garcia, the World 20km race walk champion is her countrys first ever W o r l d A t h l e t i c s Championships medallist. Garcia is also the World 35km race walk champion in a South American record that saw her complete a race walk double

She is also World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships 20km bronzemedallist.

The winner of World Athletics Women Athlete of theYearwillbeannouncedin earlyDecember

At the age of 35, Fraser-Pryce became the oldest woman to win a 100m world title.

Zhang Weili submitted Carla Esparza in the second round of their co-main event bout at UFC 281 on at Saturday in New York City. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) Franklin

GKR Ariel, Regal Masters, Regal Legends and 4 R Lioness triumph

Guyana Knight Riders Ariel, Regal Masters, Regal Legends and 4 R Lioness triumphed in their respective categories when the GeorgetownSoftballCricket League Inc Prime Minister’s T20 Cup concluded on Sunday night at the National Stadium.

GKR Ariel beat Name Brandbyeightwicketsinthe Openfinal.

Name Brand batted first and made 143-5. Sasenarine Sukhu made 56 and Ramnarine Judisteer scored 53. Andy Narine took 2-41. GKR Ariel responded with

144-2 in 13.3 overs. Brian Mangar slammed 94 and ShazGrovesnormade33.

Regal Masters beat Ariel Masters by nine wickets in the over40 division. Ariel Masters batted first and managed 118 all out in 19.2 overs.

Samuel Kingston scored 53, Oslyn Batson 17 and Shawn Hubbard 12. Roy Persaud grabbed 4-24 and ChienGittens2-5.

Regal Masters scored 119-1 in 13.1 overs in reply Gittens struck 43 not out, Khemchandra Dindial made an unbeaten 34 and Patrick

Rooplall31.

Regal Legends beat New York Softball Cricket Leaguebytwowicketsinthe over 50 final. NYSCLbatted first and managed 146-7 in 20overs.

Nandalall Doodnauth made 32, while Ken Sanichar made 22 and Tony Fernandes 19 and Ravi Sahadeo 19. Wayne Jones took3-35.

Regal Legends replied with 147-8 in 19.2 overs. Ramesh Narine scored 47, Rudolph Baker made 33 not out, Jones 18 and Mahendra Hardyal13notout.

Ronald Evelyn claimed 3 4 0 a n d N a n d l a l l Doodnauth2-21.

In the female final, 4R Lioness beat Trophy Stall Angels by nine wickets Trophy Stall batted first and made 100-2 in 12 overs. AliciaAllen made 46 not out while June Ogle scored 30 and T Smartt 14 4R Lionessrespondedwith1031in9.4overs.

Tamika Wilson scored 40 and Amanda DeFreitas 23.

In the Open category, Brian Mangar was named player of the match and

MVP The winning team took a trophy and $600,000 and the runner up a trophy and$50,000.

Gittens was named player of the match, while Patrick Rooplall was the MVP in the over40 category

The winning team took a trophy and $600,000 and the runner up a trophy and $50,000

Rudolph Baker was the player of the match and Ramesh Narine was the MVP in the over50 division The winning team took a trophy and

$600,000 and the runner up a trophy and $50,000 Tamika Wilson was the player of the match and June Ogle the MVP in the female division.

The winning team received a trophy and $200,000andtherunnerupa trophyand$25,000.

Prime Minister, Retired Brigadier Mark Phillips congratulated the teams and thankedthesponsors.

T h e t h r e e d a y tournament was held in collaborationwiththeOffice ofthePrimeMinisterandthe MCYS.

Regal Legends Over50 champions.

Female winner 4 R Lioness.

Regal Masters Over40 winners.

BCB/ Ivan Madray Memorial 20/20 tournament- 2022

Albion hold nerves to defeat Young Warriors in exciting final e citing

The Berbice Cricket Board on Saturday last hosteditsfourthfinalsinless than a month as it continues to push ahead with a packed schedule for 2022. Albion Cricket Club held their nerves under the leadership of Jonathan Foo to defeat a stubborn Young Warriors Cricket Club by nine runs to lift the title of the third edition of the BCB/Ivan Madray Memorial 20/20 tournament. It was Albion’s first, First Division title in several years and their first evergraboftheIvanMadray title.

Playing at the historic Port Mourant ground in overcast condition, Albion won the toss and elected to bat first. They were given an

opening stand of 34 in 5.1 overs before Adrian Sukwa fell for 16 to left arm spinner Trevon Stanislaus. Former West Indies opener Sewnarine Chattergoon was j o i n e d b y S h a r a z Ramcharran and together they added eleven before the former was caught behind for 18 as Stanislaus continuedtobowlwell.

Albionwentontoreach128 for four off the allotted twenty overswithFootopscoringwith animpressive48from35balls with one boundary and three sixes KelvinUmroasupported with an unbeaten 20 and Ramcharran with 14 Stanislaus and Alex Algoo were the best bowlers for Young Warriors with two wickets for 20 and 29

respectively. Needing to score 129 from 120 balls, Young Warriors were immediately set back when national fast bowler Demetri Cameron dismissed Wahied Edwardsfor2at8for1inthe second over Former junior player Alex Algoo then threw his wicket for 13 to leave his team 20 for 2 in the fourth over as Cameron struck again Veterans Sudesh Dhanai and skipper Seon Hetmyer batted confidently to add 27 runs in four overs before a match changing mix up, resulted in the latter been run out by the length of the pitch for ten. Young Warriors were able to reach 76 for 3 before a middle order collapse saw them slide to 91 for 7. They

wereeventuallydismissedin the 20th over for 119 when Ishwar Singh was run out for an attacking 18 Linden Austin18andDhanai26also batted well in the losing chase. The best bowlers for Albion were Ramcharran with3for24fromfourovers, Cameron 2 for 23 from 3.3 overs and off spinner Leon Cecil 2 for 10 from two overs BCB President Hilbert Foster expressed gratitude to Mr Chandradat Chintamani for his s p o n s o r s h i p o f t h e tournamentinmemoryofhis late uncle, who was the third Berbician to play test cricket after John Trim and the legendary Rohan Kanhai Foster informed the gathering that Madray

played two test matches for the West Indies before migrating to England, where he lived until his death in 2009. The BCB President announced a wide range of developmental programmes and tournaments Among them would be a knockout 20/20FirstDivisionwithafirst prize of five hundred thousand dollars Other projects include primaryandsecondaryschools crickettournamentsalongwith coachinginallschools Twenty four junior teams would also receive practice nets from the BCB in an effort to improve the way they train in the afternoon. Foster also hailed Public Relations Officer

Hubert Pedros double secures GFA GFA League title for Western Tigers

- GDF defeat Santos to

It was billed as a match that would have been fought tooth and nail to crown the 2022 senior champions of the Georgetown Football Association(GFA).

However, that was not thecasesincetheexperience of the Western Tigers outshined the youthful e x u b e r a n c e o f t h e

Georgetown Football Club (GFC) on their home turf on Sunday

The match ended 2-1 in favour of Western Tigers, withbothgoalsscoredbythe ever dependable Hubert Pedro,strikingineachhalf.

Even a last gasp effort by GFC in the 70th minute through Daniel Ross could not deny Western Tigers f r o m s e c u r i n g championship glory after manyyears

It was a welcome return to the pinnacle of the sport

take third

in GFA for the West Ruimveldt based team and will no doubt lift their confidence ahead of the 2022/2023GFF season

For much of the game Western Tigers controlled the flow of the exchanges, even as the GFC countered with runs of their own and showed that they will be a force to reckon with in the new season

Meanwhile, in the third-

place match, Benjamin Opara netted a hat-trick to help the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) defeat Santos 4-2. Opara scored in the 12th, 41st, and 55th minutes, while the other goal was scored by fellow forward Sherwin Caesar (87).

Santos goals were scored by Darron Niles (21') and Orin Yard in the 78thminute

that fans can follow the scores around the world. He also stated that the board is working to have a majority of its finals broadcast live on Yo u t u b e i n 2 0 2 3 Chintamani in remarks hailed the BCB for their excellent organising skills and spoke on the importance of education to the two teams. He announced to loud applause that he would be renewing the sponsorship in 2023. Albion received the Madray Trophy and one hundred thousand dollars, while, Young Warriors carried home fifty thousand dollars and the runner up trophy

Foo was named Man of theFinalsandalsoreceiveda trophyandcashprize.

Jonathan Rampersaud for introducing live stream scoring of all BCB finals so

The winning Albion team poses with the Chintamani family

Hubert Pedro after scoring both goals for West Tigers to earn them the GFA title.

Tyrrell hoping for corporate support to attend Commonwealth Powerlifting C/Chips

By Rawle Toney

Dominic Tyrrell, the countrys national junior record holder in the squat and deadlift, is hoping to be o n e o f G u y a n a s representatives at the Mens a n d W o m e n s Commonwealth Classic

Powerlifting and Bench press Championships in Auckland,NewZealand.

However, Tyrrell will first have to list the hefty cost standing in his way of attending the November 2 8 D e c e m b e r 4 championship in the Land

of the Kiwi

Tyrell told Kaieteur News that his attempt to secure corporate support has been futile, and with time running out, hes hoping for a changeoftideinhisfavour

According to the 22 year old Tyrrell, the cost currently stands at approximately US$4,000, but as the time draws near it is likely to balloon, hopefullynottotheextentof itbeingimpossibletoattain.

Tyrrell is one of G u y a n a s b r i g h t e s t prospects in powerlifting, an acknowledgement even from the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPLF), hence his selectiontotheteamthatalso includes Carlos Petterson, Roger Rogers and Nadina Taharally

Apart from the pride of representing Guyana, Tyrrell said he aimed to officially shatter the Junior World Record in the 74kg category

U n o f f i c i a l l y, i n training, Tyrrell surpassed

t h e w o r l d r e c o r d 679lbs/308kg, with a lift of 690lbs/312 5kg

“I aim to make the world record official The world Championship will also allow me to compete with other top juniors, but I can only do that if I attend the championship, so its more than just representing

Guyana,”Tyrrellsaid Tyrrell is based in Trinidad and Tobago. He addedthathehasreachedout to the corporate community in both the Twin Island Republic and Guyana but hascomeupempty-handed.

Meanwhile, Rogers, the GLAPF Secretary, when contacted yesterday,

National Junior Record holder in the Squat and Deadlift, Dominic Tyrrell, during his recent competition in Guyana where he was one of the outstanding performers.

updated that theyre working overtime to help all their athletes secure the resources needed to make thetriptoNewZealand.

H e n o t e d t h e Federation wouldve also reached out to corporate entities and, for the most part, is hoping for a favourableresponse.

Vikings prevail in OT thriller vs. Bills

- Patrick Peterson’s second interception for the Minnesota Vikings sealed a heartstopping, 33-30 win in overtime againsttheBuffaloBillsonSunday in Orchard Park, N YThe play concluded a wild game in which both teams appeared to win in the final minute of regulation Buffalo (6 3)seeminglywonwhenitstuffed KirkCousinsshortofthegoallineon a fourth down quarterback sneak But on the ensuing play, the Bills botched the snap and Vikings linebackerEricKendricksrecovered the ball on the goal line for a touchdown that gave Minnesota a 30 27leadwith41secondsleft

Buffalorecoveredwithaquickstrike drive directed by JoshAllen. Five plays produced 69 yards to set upTylerBass’thirdfieldgoalofthe game,a29-yarderwithtwoseconds leftthatsentthegametoovertime.

On the opening possession of overtime, Minnesota drove for Greg Joseph’s 33-yard field goal that proved to be the game-winner, sealing the seventh straight victory for the Vikings (8-1). Dalvin Cook

hadan81-yardtouchdownsprintto finish with 119 yards on 14 carries, and Justin Jefferson made a sensational one-handed grab on fourth-and-18duringthefinaldrive of regulation before finishing with 10 receptions for 193 yards and a touchdown.

Buccaneers 21, Seahawks 16 Tom Brady threw two touchdown passes and Tampa Bay held off a late rally to defeat Seattle in Munich, the NFL’s first regular seasongameplayedinGermany

The NFC South leading Buccaneers (5 5), who entered last in the league with an average of 61 rushing yards per game, exceeded that by 100 Rachaad White rushed for a career high 105 yards on 22 carriesandLeonardFournetteadded 57yardsandaTDon14attempts

The Bucs, who snapped a three gamelosingstreaklastweekwitha16 13victoryagainstthedefendingSuper Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams, were dominant defensively, allowing 283 yards of total offense on Sunday The NFC West leading Seahawks (6 4) had a four game winning streak

end Lions 31, Bears 30 Jamaal Williamsscoredona1 yardplungefor the go ahead score as Detroit rallied froma14 point,fourth quarterdeficit todefeathostChicago Detroit (3 6) recorded its first road victory since Dan Campbell

became the head coach before last season Jared Goff passed for 236 yards and a touchdown, and Amon RaSt Brownmade10receptionsfor 119 yards Williams ran for 59 yards on 16 carries For Chicago (3 7), quarterback Justin Fields ran for 147

yards and two touchdowns on 13 carries He also passed for 167 yards and two touchdowns, while Cole Kmethadfourreceptionsfor74yards and two Tds Chiefs 27, Jaguars 17 Patrick Mahomes threw four touchdown passes to four different receivers as Kansas City captured a win over visiting Jacksonville Mahomes completed 26 of 35 passes for 331 yards, finding Travis Kelce, Kadarius Toney, Marquez Valdes ScantlingandNoahGrayintheendzone Mahomesalsothrewoneinterception as Kansas City (7 2) won its third straightgame

Trevor Lawrence threwfor 259 yards and a pair of touchdowns to ChristianKirkon29-for-40passing for the Jaguars (3-7), who have lost six of their past seven. In other scores: Dolphins 39, Browns 17 Giants24,Texans16 Steelers20,Saints10 Titans17,Broncos10 Colts25,Raiders20 Packers31,Cowboys28(OT) Cardinals27,Rams17 49ers22,Chargers16 (FieldLevelMedia)

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Dominic Tyrrell

Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady (12) against the Seattle Seahawks at Allianz Arena. (Douglas DeFelice-USA TODAY Sport)

GFF President, Wayne Forde hands over the winning trophy to Western Tigers Captain Daniel Wilson in the presence of teammates and officials.