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NIS registers alarming 25% drop in employers - eyes external help to improve operations By Leonard Gildarie Government has not ruled out “external” help to place the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) on firmer footing. The $30B fund is facing a situation where annual income from contributors, for past few years, falls below what is being paid out in pensions and other benefits. The situation is a worrying one for Government and the managers of the fund as the long term sustainability is under question. This week, the scheme is celebrating its 44th anniversary but there is an urgency to tighten operations, cut costs and increase contributions. According to Chairman, Dr. Roger Luncheon, who has been at the helm of the fund for over 20 years, NIS was not forceful in dealing with the situation. There may be a need to infuse help, both
internally and externally. During the Annual General Assembly at the NIS head office on Brickdam yesterday, Dr Luncheon in urging staffers and management to lift services, made it clear that any such measures could include a “cross fertilization” of skills. Under any model to be examined for an improved NIS would have to include “novel” and “innovative” thinking. He admitted that there is “room for improvement” with more to be done. Yesterday, General Manager, Doreen Nelson, who signaled increased monitoring and visits to businesses, disclosed that there is an alarming reduction of 25 per cent in the number of active employers in 2012, as compared to the previous year. Public disclosures indicate some industries and large employers as having financial difficulties. BUSINESS LICENCES
To ensure compliance, she is calling for measures to be introduced that link the issuance of business licences with NIS. “We are still hopeful that by law, compliance with the NIS laws and regulations would be a requirement for the issuance or renewal of business licences.” With 14 offices countrywide, between 1969 and 2012, NIS has on its database some 27,000 employers but only 4,500 are active and remitting contributions. Employees total 660,000 persons but only 117,000 are active or paying contributions. According to the General Manager, the number of actives declined over the last decade and does not augur well for the future of the scheme since it is expected that those in the workforce would be able to sustain payments to the pension population. “The trend of movement from the structured
NIS Chairman, Dr. Roger Luncheon, and GM Doreen Nelson workforce to an expanding informal workforce that is not complying with NIS regulations seems to be continuing.” In terms of self-employed persons, there are 29,900 registered with 8,800 active and many are not remitting regularly. Others are reluctant to register. “Generally, there are still many workers in the country
IDB’s US$300,000 contribution aids Audit Office development Auditor General Deodat Sharma, yesterday handed over his report on the Public Accounts of Guyana and on the accounts of Ministries, Departments and Regions for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012 to House Speaker, Raphael Trotman. The handing over ceremony was done at Parliament Buildings. Sharma declined to reveal the content of the report. However, he provided a synopsis of the affairs of his office. The Auditor General made known that the Audit Office’s accounts have been audited up to 2012 by a private chartered accountant. He added that the staff of the Audit Office has increased from 131 in 2005 to 212 in 2013. This, Sharma said, represents a vacancy rate of seven per cent. On the developmental aspect, Sharma acknowledged the US$300,000 donation from the
Auditor General, Deodat Sharma (right) hands his report to Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman Inter American Development Bank (IDB) for increasing the Audit Office’s technical capacity. According to
Sharma, that money helped to: purchase computer hardware and software and assisted in training through
online courses in Forensic and Fraud investigation from Algonquin College of Canada. Also, Sharma noted that the money has also facilitated a consultant “who is helping us in auditing controls. The Auditor General said that a consultant will also be appointed to assist in enhancing Human Resource Development. The Audit report will be laid in the National Assembly by the Speaker who will pass it to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to be examined. Sharma said, yesterday, that the Accounting Officers are required to appear before the PAC to answer the queries raised. He noted that those sittings will be open to the public. “You could come and hear if your tax dollar has been spent wisely. That is why I say sometimes that the Auditor General is a taxpayer’s best friend.”
who are not covered by the scheme and surprisingly, many still think it is not mandatory to be registered and have contributions on their behalf.” At the end of last year, income from contributions was approximately $11.8B with total expenditures of $13.2B of which $11.7B are related to benefit payments. The year ended with deficit of $474.2M. CHALLENGING This year, the finances did not improve. Contributions collected between January to August was $7.754B with expenditures of $9.12B. The projections at 2013 show that income from contributions is likely to be approximately $11.631B while expenditure $13.684B. According to Nelson, another major challenge facing NIS this year and onwards, is the fact that more pensioners would be eligible for benefits. This is because all those who joined the scheme at age 16 in 1969 would be attaining age 60 years. “…and therefore from
this year onward, the number of old age pensioners with full contributions and cost for those pensions are expected to increase significantly. This will put a greater strain on the fund.” In terms of compliance, this is perhaps the most challenging. Investigations have found a number of illegal things done by employers, including instances where workers are given contracts forcing them to pay the contributions instead. This is in addition to collusions between employers and workers not to pay NIS. Nelson said that NIS has moved in a systematic manner to reduce in house costs with more employers sending electronic schedule submissions of contributions. This has reduced paper use and improve record keeping, she said. Several long serving workers and children who have performed well in recent exams were honored yesterday. So too was Dr. Luncheon, for his 20 years as Chairman.
AG exempt from Tax Act requirement Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, says that he is exempt from the requirement of having a Professional Practice Certificate to ply his trade as a lawyer. Nandlall says that this exemption is by virtue of the provisions of the Tax Act which precludes persons employed in the service of the State, from the requirement of
a Practice Certificate. “The holder of the office of Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs falls into that category of persons so exempted.” This publication on Sunday last had named Nandlall as one of the practicing Attorneys doing so without a Practice Certificate.
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Letters... Where your views make the news Printed and Published by National Media & Publishing Company Ltd. 24 Saffon Street, Charlestown, Georgetown, Guyana. Publisher: GLENN LALL Editor: Adam Harris Tel: 225-8465, 225-8491. Fax: 225-8473, 226-8210
EDITORIAL
Making Death Row obsolete
Guyana is at present deliberating the wisdom of maintaining the death penalty on the statutes. Many countries have abolished the death penalty, some from as far back as five or more decades ago when the world began moving to the position that to kill someone was barbaric. The United Nations spearheaded the campaign against the death penalty; the body created some conventions and before long many countries became signatories to the convention. Guyana was one such signatory but it withdrew from certain aspects of the convention. The death penalty clause was one of them. Many prisoners on Death Row began to petition the United Nations. Such was their determination to fight the gallows that the matter reached the National Assembly and it remains there to this day. A few months ago Guyana at the United Nations meeting presented its report on many aspects, including human rights and the rights of the child. The death penalty is seen as a violation of the right to life under the Human Rights convention. The result is that the Parliamentary Select Committee of the National Assembly is now deliberating the issue of corporal punishment and the death penalty with a view to abolishing them. However, the nation is sharply divided on both issues. Those who support the death penalty argue that it is only fair for the person who deprived someone of his life to lose his own by judicial means. The opponents of the death penalty say that execution makes the state as barbaric and equally guilty as the person who kills someone. These conflicting views actually forced the government to fashion certain conditions under which the death penalty could be executed. The late President Desmond Hoyte, when the nation was in the throes of a crime wave at a time when people forced their way into homes and robbed and killed people, ordered that the death penalty be applied to such people. It would seem that capital punishment did the trick because such crimes immediately disappeared from national life. The state then proclaimed that it would not execute anyone guilty of a crime of passion but that it would not spare those who in pursuit of crime, would kill another person. It has been sixteen years since the last execution in Guyana. Since then more than two dozen people have been sentenced to death but the sentence is not being carried out largely because of a legal challenge and largely because the government is not inclined to face the wrath of the section of the international community opposed to the death penalty. And so there is a judge who believes in alternative sentencing. Having taken note of the reluctance on the part of the state to execute the death penalty the judge has worked out a penalty system that is effective. He said that his system achieves the same result as the death penalty; it keeps the individual off the streets for a very long time, if not forever. Guyana does not impose a system in which the court encroaches into the area of the court. For example, in the United States judges sentences people to a term of imprisonment without parole. In Guyana parole the prerogative of the prison system so no judge can rule that a prisoner must be denied parole. Over the past year, the courts commuted many death sentences to life sentences much to the anger of the relatives of the victims. Indeed some of those whose sentences were commuted had been on Death Row for nearly two decades. Some had been there for longer. The court found that the men were not being executed and that they had been there for longer than a traditional life sentence. But the relatives feel that the intention was to keep to men off the streets for good. When the National Assembly completes its deliberation on the issue one may find that the vast majority of the people in the society would opt for the death penalty to remain on the statutes. But will it be applied? If a law is not applied then it becomes obsolete.
THE PPP OPERATORS ARE EXTREMELY DISHONEST PEOPLE
DEAR EDITOR: I note with utter disgust an article in the independent media that was attributable to the Minister of Legal Affairs and captioned “PPP blames opposition for crime”. What is clear is that the PPP operators are extremely dishonest people when it comes to their accountability and performance in the “fight against crime”. The historical records will reveal that since the death of Monica Reece in 1993, Guyana has never been the same again; we are a nation at war with ourselves. During this entire war, the hopelessly incompetent leadership from the PPP in the security sector has failed to offer any serious solutions. Since the murder of Monica Reece, over nine (9) incidents of serious crime are reported per day and it all happened under an avalanche of failed PPP Ministers starting with Feroze Mohammed, Gail Teixeira, Ronald Gajraj and now the worst of this failed bunch – Clement Rohee. Judge them on their record! How dare Clement Rohee and his PPP reactionaries lecture the nation on the PPP’s failure to “confronting crime” by trying to pin the tail on people who do not have the executive authority over
the crime-fighting machinery of the state? Do these PPP failures have any modicum of dignity to propagate such an “ugly untruth”? The crime situation is so bad under the PPP that even the family members of many PPP big-wigs are paying US$1 million to become economic migrants to Canada and other countries. By their actions, are the family members of the PPP bigwigs telling the rest of the nation something? Then there is that elementary Budget mistake that occurred in April 2013 where one of the opposition parties committed “political befuddlement” by claiming that the explanation given by the Minister was “sufficient” to provide them reason enough to vote G$1.1 billion to fund the Ministerial Secretariat of Clement Rohee. This “political befuddlement” must be contextualized against a background that only nine (9) months before that Budget vote in favour of Rohee, those same MPs of that political party raised their hands and voted for a “Motion of No-confidence against the said Rohee”. This issue has bothered me for months and I continued to comfort myself that it was a political oversight even
though one politician tried to bamboozle me with the excuse that “we cannot cut policemen’s salary” which is a deliberate attempt to confuse the facts. The truth remains the funds for the Ministerial Secretariat have nothing to do with the Guyana Police Force. I trust we all will practice “politics of principle” in the 2014 Budget by sticking to the principle that the majority in the opposition has lost confidence in Mr. Rohee as the Minister of Home Affairs and thus his Secretariat cannot be funded. For clarity sake, the Office of the Minister of Home Affairs (Ministerial Secretariat) is distinct and separate from the Budget Line item for the Police and other Departments in the Ministry of Home Affairs. Why are these opposition politicians prepared to prop-up Mr. Rohee with taxpayer funds although he continues to fail the parents of so many of our young people, and this is just a small sub-set of those cut down in the prime of their lives by the criminals - Arjune Narine (age 21) who was riddled with bullets at the corner of Drury Lane in May 2008; Luciana Bhagwandin (age 22) who was found
dumped in a trench at Harlem on the West Coast; SheneseAnn Richardson-Austin (age 25) who was murdered in her bed at the hands of bandits in West Ruimveldt; former St Stanislaus College student, Trevor Fung (age 18) who was stabbed to death by robbers on one Valentine’s night and the case that has rocked the nation - Seema Mangar, the former bank employee who was run over by someone who is allegedly very close to a PPP big fish. There remain over 500 unsolved murders in Guyana since the death of Monica Reece in 1993. With such a track record, the PPP leaders have no moral authority to lecture anyone. All of it happened under their watch, but they were too busy plundering the Treasury to have any time to concern themselves with the most significant developmental retardant in the nation. It is only a “political novice” who will not get it that Rohee is an absolute failure in the fight against crime and thus he should not be the beneficiary of any taxpayers’ funds once he continues to sit in that Chair in the Ministerial Secretariat at the Ministry of Home Affairs. I rest my case. Sasenarine Singh
Life has become a living hell in Guyana DEAR EDITOR, Not a day passes without Guyanese being reminded of the scourge of crime, especially the armed robberies and the murder of innocent law-abiding citizens in their homes or places of business. In deep rural Guyana, the plague of farm theft, gold theft and equipment theft from miners by armed bandits continues unabated, thus making life more difficult for all, except the rich and the powerful. The poor and the working class are heavily burdened to put food on the table but the thought of them being robbed by armed bandits is sending them crazy. Life has become a living hell for them and for those who make the effort and sacrifice to provide financial security and jobs for the rest of the nation. In addition to putting food on the table, this working class group continues to struggle against crime in the face of great odds against them. As if that was not bad enough, residents of rural communities who use to walk miles, day and night, with no thought of being robbed or
harmed, now live in great fear of violent criminals. And the situation is much, much worse in the urban centres, especially in Georgetown and its surroundings, where heavily armed bandits roam the streets robbing and killing innocent citizens without fear of being caught. As Guyanese from coast to coast cower in fear, statistics have shown that armed robberies and murder have increased significantly since Clement Rohee assumed the Ministry of Home Affairs. People everywhere are complaining about the violence (gun attacks) being carried out on them in their homes and the minister and the police have done nothing to ease their fears or combat crime. Almost every day, someone is being killed by gangs or armed bandits, and instead of Rohee creating polices to deal with the crime wave, he has accused the opposition APNU of being behind the skyrocketing crime rate. This is so absurd that it does not warrant a comment. Simply put, Rohee has failed miserably to safeguard the security of the citizens and should be removed from office. And for Nandllal to join
him and say that civic organizations including the bar associations are responsible for crimes is beyond being ridiculous. This is how ludicrous Rohee and Nandallal are? Angry, frustrated, demoralized and scared to death for their lives, Guyanese are running away from Guyana in drools to the Caribbean and North America in search of a better life. The sentiment is not new. During Jagdeo’s presidency,
crime has increased tremendously and has become the single greatest disincentive to investment of every sort in Guyana and anecdotal evidence suggests that it is getting worse under Ramotar and Rohee. Despite all the armed robberies and all the murders that are occurring daily in Guyana, Rohee continues to lean on the police statistics that the crime has reduced. Where is he living? Not in (Continued on page 5)
Mr. Persaud needs to rid himself of such duplicity DEAR EDITOR, I find Mr. Persaud’s comments amusing. If the Tax Act gives the GRA the authority to issue professions the wherewithal to practice in Guyana, then GRA does have that authority! Moreover, Mr. Persaud, a CPA (USA certification) should be aware that although the AICPA may certify you, yet, each state has the prerogative to license you to practice within its boundaries.
Why does he accept that position (I assume he does for he holds a CPA certification), and yet refuses to acknowledge that Guyana as a sovereign state ought to have the prerogative to deteremine who practices his or her profession within the confines of Guyana? Mr. Persaud needs to rid himself of such duplicity. Professor Winston Aubrey Imhoff Accounting Faculty School of Business Wolfson Campus, MDC
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A clear intent to Such discriminatory policies contribute to an embarrass professionals environment which nurtures hatred and contempt gazette. In the same manner as the inaccurate list was submitted to your newspapers, and to which you gave prominence, not only as front page headlines, but in your musings – Dem Boys Seh – likewise should there be a class-apology with similar prominence! What was written in yesterday’s (Sunday’s) Kaieteur News had a clear intent to embarrass professionals, and to allow the public to – wash dem mouth pon we . . . hence who was benefitting? I wish to end this letter with this quote provided by a friend: “Whether it’s Rosa Parks on a bus or a striking worker on a picket line, the moments that have given birth to the greatest progress are when people found the inner courage and peace to look power in the eye and say, ‘no.’” [Chris Hayes, MSNBC Host]. Power does expire. Janice Imhoff (Private medical practitioner)
DEAR EDITOR, It has been reported that President Jammeh of Gambia addressed the UN on 26th September and said that “homosexuality, greed and obsession with world domination “are more deadly than all natural disasters put together”. This lament that promotion of equality for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people) means an end to the human race, or a ‘threat to human existence’ is often expressed in different ways. Homosexuals are not only seen as threats because they ‘will not procreate’ but also because they have been labelled as ‘the cause of AIDS’. While some might ignore President Jammeh, it is regrettable that the
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DEAR EDITOR, I have been following the impasse of the captioned project. The bottom line is that the public and the opposition are claiming that adequate information was not provided to them for review. In order to remove all doubts, this is a proposal to reconsider the project: 1. Expert review of all documentation on the project, from the inception to the present, including the feasibility study. 2. If not done, air photo (photogrammetry) and localized contours at approximately 500ft or 1000ft intervals. 3. Examine cost of preserving the environment, watersheds, bridging of streams, small rivers, large rivers, in addition to all other associated capital works. 4. Scope the entire project, quantify, qualify and budget. 5. Do a revised Class D estimate. 6. Do a break-even analysis which will include all capital cost, operation and maintenance cost, interest, etc. over a thirty and fortyyear period. 7. The review will also consider comparison of alternatives, using ethanol, fuel over a thirty or forty-year period. 8. Prepare a draft Terms of Reference for the government, the opposition and public sector organization for their reviews and comments, to execute the above. For those of you who know me, I am not a friend or an enemy of the government or the opposition of Guyana. I was the former Director of Primary Education
DEAR EDITOR, I was just preparing my letter, and copy of my receipt as proof of payment for my 2013 Tax Practice Certificate, when I read in today’s newspapers the apology from the Guyana Revenue Authority [GRA]. Reading this apology felt once again like the abuse of power – Heh tek dis. This is my conclusion since the list of professionals licensed is provided for the official gazette by the GRA. And so the question is – how could this mistake have been made? What was the real reason for this publication compared to a deadline that was earlier this year, and the fact that GRA is not shy to write you about monies owed! It is insufficient and an absence of moral standing for the GRA to just list scores of other popular names, then state – among others, who are these others? Then, they proceeded with what felt like the suggestion . . . that your readers check the official
From page 4 Guyana for sure! The awful truth is that fear spawned by wanton criminality has and continues to destroy the confidence of the people and the fabric of the nation. If this trend continues, the day will come when Guyana will become a vigilante state; ungovernable and unviable. Minister Rohee and his PPP cabal should understand that Guyana will descend into chaos and become a failed state if they do not solve the high crime rate. But first, Rohee has to go. Investment in new vehicles and equipment for the badly stretched and under-resourced police force is no more than a drop in the bucket. And shifting senior police personnel from one area/region to the next would not solve crime or ease the fears of the people. A different area or region will not change anyone or anything, and recycling them is like transferring incompetence and ineptness from one area to the next. Reforms and proper and professional training are needed in the force. The minister should know that no amount of money and equipment or the transfer of personnel will solve crime if the society is not mobilized to help the police. The people must gain the trust of the police in order to partner with them to help solve crime. And therein lies the problem. For while there is plenty of disjointed talk about
neighbourhood watches and community policing, we strongly believe that the minority PPP regime is clueless as to how to go about solving crime. Those neighbourhood watches and community policing groups are Band-Aid solutions. There is no way around it; the PPP regime must understand that crime in itself is not an isolated issue, but is closely related to societal problems such as poverty, lack of jobs, marginalization, and ignorance that must be addressed. We contend that the PPP is more interested in marginalizing one ethnic group and imprisoning the youths rather than getting to the root causes of crime and solve it. Again we say change is coming to Guyana with APNU’s Pro-Guyana initiative aimed at promoting unity among the races, reducing crime, ending corruption, eradicating poverty, creating jobs for the youths, ending racial discrimination, providing good health care, and making university education available to all. APNU’s Pro-Guyana initiative will safeguard the security of the citizens, respect their human rights, encourage freedom and promote equality for all under the law. In other words, it will provide a good life for all. Its motto of ‘Guyana is for Guyanese’ offers renewed hope and a new direction and we encourage all to join. Dr. Asquith Rose and Chandra Deollal, Esq.
Government of Guyana seems to believe that LGBT people are not suitable as blood donors because they ‘threaten’ the lives the of those who receive blood. With all of the knowledge about HIV/AIDS and how it is transmitted through risky behaviour, regardless of whether a person is gay or straight, the question is asked by the blood bank; What is your Sexual Preference? Women and men who imply that they are not heterosexual are not allowed to donate. Does the Government believe that a heterosexual person who might have had risky sexual behaviour with one person is more suitable to be a ‘hero’ than a gay or lesbian person who has been practicing the Abstinence Be Faithful Condomise practice? Does
the Government believe, as President Jammeh does, that LGBT people are potential threats to the existence recipients of blood donation regardless of their sexual practices and behaviour? Spain, Australia, Italy, Mexico, Uruguay do not discriminate in their acceptance of blood donors. Russia ironically had lifted its ban years ago, but its recent homopobic ideologues have been calling for a return. There are calls in the United States and other places to end the ban on accepting donations from gay men since there is no justification for the ban. Guyana seems to be one of the few countries which do not accept from lesbians (or women who have sex with women). There are many who do
not believe in blood transfusions as a good thing. The Government and supporters of blood donations do encourage blood donation as a public service and identify blood donors as heroes who save lives. The Government’s refusal to accept donations from lesbians, gays and bisexuals is not consistent with its own policies of not promoting stigma and discrimination in its health services. While no President of Guyana has yet called for the heads of LGBT people as President Jammeh did in 2008, the discriminatory policies reinforced by the Government contribute to the environment which nurtures the hatred and contempt for LGBT Guyanese. Vidyaratha Kissoon
to six months to complete a comprehensive review of the above. I suggest that since the IDB was doing a review,
the IDB through a technical cooperation funding or the government, provide the cost for this expert review. Don’t kill the project without a proper analysis. Joe Persaud
A proposal to reconsider the implementation of the Amaila Falls hydro project Improvement Program (PEIP) during 1994-1997. I am prepared to have a team of experts within three
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Air Services Limited faces temporary shut down ….as RUBIS suspends fuel supply to Ogle One of Guyana’s leading local aviation providers, Air Services Limited (ASL), is facing a possible halt to its services following the immediate suspension of fuel supply to the Ogle Airport by major fuel supplier, RUBIS. The fuel company stopped the supply of fuel after it discovered that the fuel it supplied to its into-plane provider at Ogle, Caribbean Aviation and Maintenance Services (CAMS) was comingled with other fuel that was sourced from another provider. “We are suspending supply at Ogle with immediate effect until we are able to verify the integrity of the comingled fuel,” Rubis informed ASL in a letter yesterday. “In the meantime we can offer supplies at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport. Please let me know if you wish to accept this as an alternative,” the RUBIS correspondence added. At a hastily arranged press conference yesterday, ASL, through its General Manager Annette ArjoonMartins, informed that its operations may be grounded indefinitely as a result of the development, since it will not be feasible to source fuel from Timehri for its fleet at Ogle. “This development is the result of a dispute between RUBIS and CAMS. It has nothing to do with Air Services, but it obviously means our aircraft cannot get fuel from RUBIS and could be grounded until the dispute with CAMS is resolved. As it is, ASL only has enough fuel to carry it through today and the first flights tomorrow. It means that ASL will now
have to ration its supply to accommodate its schedule. “We do not want to interrupt our schedules and of course we will have to balance our charters too because those are our big customers,” the ASL General Manager explained. While since 2011, ASL has developed its own stateof-the art fuel farm to supply its large fleet of aircraft at a competitive cost, it is still forced to go through CAMS to source fuel from RUBIS. CAMS is owned and operated by the Correia Group of Companies, a competitor, which holds the monopoly on the supply of fuel to all other airlines operating from the Ogle Airport. However, ASL secured a deal to have RUBIS supply its fuel but this is done through the tanks controlled by CAMS. According to ArjoonMartins, this places ASL at a disadvantage, since the Ogle Airport management is allowing CAMS to maintain a monopoly on the supply of fuel at the airport, by not permitting ASL to operate its own US$1M fuel farm. “They keep shifting the goal posts on us,” ArjoonMartins declared. A few years ago ASL and the Ogle Airport management were locked in a bitter dispute over the supply of fuel when CAMS objected to ASL tankers bringing fuel into the airport. The ASL General Manager informed that following RUBIS’s notice of interruption, CAMS wrote to her company indicating that it can supply ASL with fuel. But on this point ArjoonMartins said that “Air Services would be reluctant to re-engage with CAMS.” From all indications, ASL prefers to wait out the crisis rather than purchase fuel from CAMS. “In the past their prices
were exorbitant, were continuously rising and they were never open to negotiation despite collective lobbying by ASL, Wings Aviation and Roraima Airways at that time. Additionally, and more importantly, they also interrupted our fuel supply in August 2011,” ArjoonMartins explained. “We do not want to go back to the same company that cut off our fuel supply in 2011. That is the whole reason while we had our fuel farm investment in the first place, to become independent of having any supplier hold us to ransom,” she added. Following the RUBIS move to suspend fuel supply, the situation at Ogle, according to Arjoon-Martins, could reach crisis stage. “With a fleet of 21 aircraft serving every single corner of
Guyana every single day, you could do the Maths and understand what that means to us,” Arjoon-Martins said. Normally ASL services 70 locations in Guyana, using $20M in fuel per week. With the possibility of a temporary shutdown of its operations, the mining sector as well as other commercial ventures that rely on the service will be severely affected. “I consider this an emergency situation. We serve all the regions of Guyana, including some of the big industries and we simply cannot entertain the thought of having to suspend operations much less to ground it,” ArjoonMartins said. She said that the development is a “perfect example of the hurdles for any aviation company who is at the mercy of a sole supplier
of aviation fuel.” “This is a national crisis as far as I’m concerned and I see no doubt why the powers that be will not also see that because of course air services contributes tremendously to national development and what I would want is for us to have a fast track mechanism to have our fuel farm operationalised and remove some of these unrealistic request, which in my opinion are being asked to delay our operation even further.” Apart from the local commercial flights, the ASL Flight School will also be affected since the training aircrafts will also be grounded for the want of fuel. She expressed optimism though, that in the interest of national development, the policy makers will intervene and end the monopoly on the supply of fuel at Ogle. It is not to clear if the
ASL General Manager Annette Arjoon-Martins recent developments has had an impact on the operations of LIAT, but according to sources at Ogle, the regional airline did not land at the airport yesterday. “They normally have a flight everyday but they did not come today (yesterday),” a source told Kaieteur News.
Marriott to borrow US$2M more after it opens The feasibility study conducted by the US-based, HVS Consulting and Valuation, has revealed that the Marriott Hotel, five years into its operation will have to borrow an additional US$1.75M (G$350M). This is the latest in the glaring revelations being unearthed, as it relates to the financing structure of the Marriott Hotel currently under construction in Kingston, Georgetown. This US$1.7M loan is in addition to the US$58.5M required for the completion of the proposed construction of the Hotel and Entertainment complex. Chairman of Atlantic Hotel Inc (AHI), Winston Brassington, was asked to comment and clarify why the
Hotel would need this second loan, five years into the operations of the project, but he asked that the questions be submitted via email. AHI is the Special Purpose Vehicle created for the construction and ownership of the Marriott Hotel. AHI is currently wholly owned by the Government of Guyana. According to the feasibility study, “additional financing is drawn at the end of the fifth year, while maintaining a Debt Coverage Ratio (DCR) above 1.30.” This loan is scheduled to be repaid at an interest rate of seven per cent. The report further states that this additional money that will have to be borrowed, will be considered ‘junior debt’ and will be repaid
immediately after payments are made to the loans sourced by Republic Bank. News of the additional loan to be taken for the Marriott Hotel comes on the heels of the word that Guyana’s equity in the hotel will not be repaid a dollar until the 10th year of its operation. This too is documented in the feasibility study, of which only an extract was released by Brassington. The hotel is designed to be a debt and equity project, with a US$12M investment securing ownership of the project and will in turn be responsible for an initial US$46.5M in loans to complete the hotel and entertainment complex. Money from the accounts of the National Industrial and Commercial Investment Limited (NICIL) was used to invest in the Marriott Hotel Project, as well as a loan, totaling US$19.5M. This is made up of a
AHI Chairman, Winston Brassington US15.5M loan and an investment of US$4M. The US$4M invested as equity by NICIL gives it 33 per cent ownership, according to Winston Brassington. The unnamed private investor that is slated to put US$8M into the project will own 67 per cent of the hotel and will receive returns on their money from the first year of the hotel’s operation. AHI is still to execute financial closure for some US$39M of the required US$58.5M for the completion of the hotel but Brassington has downplayed any notion that this would not happen. According to the AHI Chairman, “When we started the project, we knew that we were still missing the equity investor.”
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Norway’s new govt. concedes on oil, immigration for support (Reuters) - Norway’s Conservative leader Erna Solberg said she would form a minority cabinet with the populist Progress Party after talks with two centrist parties broke down yesterday, giving ground on oil exploration and immigration. Solberg agreed to give up plans to drill for oil in several promising Arctic areas and also agreed to tighten asylum policies to win the support of her eventual coalition partner and the outside backing of the centrist Liberals and Christian Democrats. “We were very close to finding good solutions... This is the second best option,” said Solberg, who is set to become Norway’s second female premier after winning elections earlier this month. “This is not the end of cooperation between the four parties.” She now faces a difficult alliance with the right wing, anti-immigration Progress Party, which will enter government for the first time. Since it was founded in 1973, and until now, mainstream parties had considered it too radical for power. “We can’t hide the fact that we are very pleased with the immigration issues here. We have got a fairly strong tightening,” said Progress leader Siv Jensen, who is likely to become finance minister when the government takes office Oct 18. Progress, whose members once included mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, has toned down its policies in recent years and moved
Norway’s Conservative leader Erna Solberg closer to the centre, but still faces criticism over its radical spending and tax proposals and warnings about a “creeping Islamification” of Norway. New immigration rules agreed yesterday could increasingly differentiate among asylum seekers, making it easier for the government to forcibly return people. However, the changes will not affect immigration from the European Union, which accounts for the vast majority of migration to Norway. Progress has also won concessions on pensions and road building but agreed to back the current budget rule that sharply limits how much of the lucrative oil revenues the state can spend. DEFEAT? “When you have a majority in parliament, and still end up forming a minority government, then that’s a
defeat,” Frank Aarebrot, a political science professor at the University of Bergen said. “This government will be considerably less stable than if they got all four parties in there.” The oil industry, which accounts for a fifth of the country’s economy, quickly denounced the deal, with the Norwegian Oil and Gas Association, an industry lobby, calling the decision to prevent drilling in some new areas “disappointing and undemocratic”. Waters off the Lofoten islands are thought to hold around 1.3 billion barrels of oil equivalents while Jan Mayen, a speck of uninhabited land north of Iceland could contain some 566 million barrels of oil equivalents. With fields maturing in the North Sea, the industry needs new areas to explore and oil firms argue that these areas are vital to maintaining the sector, Norway’s lifeblood for decades. Still, a minority government does not mean automatic instability as Norway, like neighbours Sweden and Denmark, has a long tradition of well functioning minority governments. Laws do not allow for early elections and parties have developed a culture of cooperation even in case of major policy differences. In the case of minority governments, negotiations over policy are moved into Parliament and deals are often made in the public eye instead of cabinet rooms.
CNN drops Hillary Clinton documentary, director cites political pressure (Reuters) - CNN dropped plans for a documentary on Hillary Rodham Clinton as the filmmaker charged in a scathing online essay that the Democrat’s camp froze him out while Republicans grumbled about meddling in the 2016 presidential race. “Neither political party wanted the film made,” Charles Ferguson said in a blog post yesteray on the Huffington Post website. Ferguson, who was tapped by CNN to direct the film last year, said he began receiving messages from Clinton’s staff almost immediately after he signed the contract and in the ensuing months found it difficult to get anyone to speak to him. “But when I approached people for
Hillary Clinton interviews, I discovered that nobody, and I mean nobody, was interested in helping me make this film. Not Democrats, not Republicans - and certainly nobody who works with the Clintons, wants access to the Clintons,
or dreams of a position in a Hillary Clinton administration,” Ferguson wrote. A CNN spokeswoman yesterday confirmed the film would be canceled. Clinton representative Nick Merrill said “Lights, camera, no reaction,” in an email to Reuters. Clinton is widely expected to run for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. The former U.S. secretary of state has said she is still considering her options. In his blog post, Ferguson also cited pushback from Republicans whose leaders complained that the documentary amounted to political ads for Clinton, a former U.S. senator from New York and the wife of former President Bill Clinton.
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THE GOLD STANDARD FOR SOCIALISM The Cubans did not instigate the defections within the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) that witnessed the departure of persons such as Ranji Chandisingh and Vincent Teekah to the People’s National Congress (PNC). The Cubans also saw Cheddi Jagan as a Marxist hero since his involvement in struggling for socialism preceded the Cuban Revolution and the coup against Salvador Allende of Chile. And Cheddi himself had been a victim of imperialist destabilization. What happened at the meeting in Cuba which was attended by Ranji Chandisingh, just before the PPP declared critical support, was part of a development within the international communist movement. The struggle against imperialism
had reached the stage where it was necessary to give recognition to all forces fighting against imperialism and to reduce conflict between socialist parties, since this could further fracture the anti-imperialist struggle. Such fractures would fortify imperialism and weaken the gains made by the socialists. Burnham had begun to take progressive steps against imperialism, both in terms of his foreign policy and also within the domestic sphere. He had, for example, signaled his intention to create a socialist society, had begun the nationalization of the commanding heights of the economy, and reshaped the PNC along the lines of a vanguard party through the promulgation of the principle of paramountcy. Following the direction in
which the global communist movement was moving and the PPP’s own failure over its boycott of parliament following the massively rigged elections of 1973, a decision had to be taken by the PPP as to the new phase in the struggle. This, of course, triggered a debate within the party. Not many of the existing leaders, including the recently departed, would have firsthand knowledge of this debate, but they surely could contact the older heads who are still alive and outside of the party who would have knowledge of this issue. There were some persons within the party and leadership who saw Burnham as a bogus socialist, a political opportunist who would play any card to keep power. There were others who, like Jagan, knew Burnham better
than most, and believed that despite his political opportunism, Burnham had socialist sympathies. Jagan, of course, also had a soft spot for Forbes, and always viewed him like a son who had gone astray. The PPP was faced with a choice. Should it challenge Burnham and thus force him to reverse some of the progressive policies which the PPP felt he had begun to pursue? Or should they jump in bed with him and build a solid local anti-imperialist front even though the PPP was at odds about the admixture model of socialism that Burnham was fiddling with? Ranji Chandisingh felt strongly that it made no sense to go halfway. He felt that the best option for the PPP was to join ranks with the PNC and create a strong socialist front
Doorga Persaud to Chair GEA Board of Directors …Finance Secretary, Rekha will serve as deputy
After weeks of repeated requests for the names of the Board of Directors, of the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA), Prime Minister, Samuel Hinds, has, in keeping with the relevant legislation, published in the Official Gazette the members. According to the Official Gazette of September 28, 2013, Doorga Persaud will serve as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the GEA while Finance Secretary, Nermal Rekha, will serve as the ViceChairman. The other members of the board include the GEA’s, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mahender Sharma, Elwyn Marshall, Clinton Williams, Badrie Persaud and People’s National Congress Reform Executive Member, Lance Carberry. According to the notice published in the Official Gazette, the appointments are valid for a period of one year, coming to an end on June 30, 2014. The order by Prime Minister Samuel Hinds is dated September, 23, 2013. Financial Analyst, Christopher Ram, sought the identity of the Board of Directors, when he had questioned the accounting methods of the Energy Agency. Ram at the time had suggested, “There are clearly severe gaps in the Agency’s governance arrangements with the identities of the Directors a matter of secrecy.”
in Guyana. Jagan and others were more cautious, knowing how cunning Burnham could be and because of suspicions about the manner in which Burnham was proceeding with his peculiar brand of socialism. As such, the party opted for the middle road, that of critical support. Critical support meant that the party would support those policies that it was in agreement with and which it felt represented a genuine movement towards socialism. But the party would reserve the right to criticize what it saw as deviations from socialism. There was an ideological difference on this count between Chandisingh and others within the party. This was the difference that caused the defection. It was a tactical difference. Ranji felt that if the PPP was going to support the building of socialism in Guyana, it needed to join with the PNC and not stay outside of the process. Now Ranji may have had personal and opportunistic reasons to adopt this stance. He may have, for example, recognized the futility of Jagan’s struggle and may
have believed that Burnham would forever keep Jagan out of power through fraud and deceit. As the foremost ideologue, behind Jagan, he also had his enemies within the party who saw him as the likely successor to Cheddi. He therefore took a decision to join forces with Burnham. But he did not go alone. Ranji was influential enough to take along some prominent members of the party with him, many of whom felt that the PPP was not going anywhere under Cheddi and they were not getting any younger. To blame the Cubans for these defections totally ignores the local and international context in which these defections took place. Both the Cubans and the Russians had the highest regard for Cheddi Jagan and would never have engineered divisions within his party, because they always felt that when it came to socialism he represented the gold standard.
Dem boys seh...
People thiefing wid pride Chairman of the Board of Directors, Doorga Persaud
Chief Executive Officer of the GEA, Mahender Sharma
Board Member, Lance Carberry
Board Member, Badrie Persaud
Board Member, Clinton Williams
Board Member, Elwyn Marshall
This was in response to its CEO, Mahender Sharma, who up until recently, in relation to the Directors, said that “we are awaiting the finalization of one more Director from the Private Sector. When we have the complete list, the names can be made available to you.” Head of the Presidential
Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon, as recent as a week ago had committed to having the Government Information Agency (GINA) supply the names of the Directors, but this was not forthcoming. Prime Minister, Samuel Hinds, subsequently conceded that the names of
the Directors of the Board will have to be published in the Official Gazette. The Energy Agency is yet to pronounce on why it seeks to align itself with the Companies Act in relation to its accounting procedures when it is in fact a Statutory Body, created by the Guyana Energy Agency Act.
Times change. People always use to thief but dem use to shame when people talk. Wuss yet was if dem had to go to jail. When dem come out from jail people use to shame fuh be seen talking to dem. But not today. Times really change. These days people thiefing and boasting. Contractor does boast how dem thief and smart de government. Dem Minister does thief and boast too. In fact dem does race fuh see who can thief more. De more dem thief is de more proud dem does get. Well dem boys seh that all this only happen de other day. Not one of dem ain’t get jail. In fact, dem even refusing to pay dem taxes. Some company that does do billions of dollars in business paying less tax than a man wukking for $200 grand a month. De income tax boss man know this but he frighten de Rat. He got to be careful who he touch when he want to investigate. And dem Chinee know this suh dem and all get in de act. Some of dem does pay rent—sometimes as much as $20 million a year but dem claim that dem mekking a loss. Dem and all don’t pay tax. Dem tell dem boys that de money dem does pay at Home Affairs is de tax money. De Brazilians does pay dem taxes at de Home Affairs Ministry too. But that is life. All dem business people. Chinee and Guyanese does bring in some big container worth millions of dollars but dem does still claim how dem ain’t selling nutten. Yet is every other day dem bringing in container. That is why Guyana poor and Khurshid ain’t doing nutten fuh change de situation. He allowing de rich to tek from de poor. Talk half and watch how shameless dem business people get.
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EZjet boss applies to Volunteers bridging change plea to guilty gap in teacher shortage Embattled EZjet boss, Sonny Ramdeo, facing up to 90 years in jail for allegedly stealing more than US$20M from a US hospital chain, has made an about turn and seems set to change his plea. On Friday, Ramdeo, through his lawyer, gave notice on Friday that he wants to change his plea from not guilty. The hearing is set for this morning in a West Palm Beach court, Florida, before Judge Kenneth Marra. Ramdeo, formerly of Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara, was known more to Guyana for EZjet, a low-cost charter company he reportedly founded and operated between New York and Guyana. However, he was arrested by US federal agents late last year, after being on the run following his interdiction. He was accused of embezzling more than US$20M from a hospital chain and using some of the proceeds to keep EZjet afloat. Ramdeo was set to face trial this month in Florida. A change of plea at this time would come as a shock as Ramdeo has steadfastly proclaimed his innocence. Ramdeo was arrested late last year after reportedly hiding from FBI agents who were hot on his trail from Florida, where he lived. He
Guilty plea: Sonny Ramdeo
was caught after agents, monitoring his phone calls, tracked him to a Brooklyn basement in which he was staying. The room he was found in, according to US prosecutors, was disguised to look like a storeroom. In April, Ramdeo’s application for bail was denied, with the court saying that it was not convinced that he would not flee while awaiting trial. He has dual citizenship – Guyana and the United States. The case is generating lots of interest not only for the amount of money that prosecutors say he stole but because of the high profile role played by Ramdeo in bringing the low-cost airline to Guyana. Ramdeo’s legal woes riveted Guyana last year after
his months-old airline venture fell from the sky. The low-cost charter was started in December 2011 amidst much fanfare in Guyana. But there were questions by players in the industry who wanted to know the source of his funding. Ramdeo had said the monies came from his savings and mortgage taken from his Florida home. The airline was flying the Georgetown/New York route and had introduced flights to Canada and Trinidad as well. But the seeming success crashed late last year after Promise Healthcare, a hospital chain for which Ramdeo was managing the payroll, claimed he stole over $20M starting in 2005. Ramdeo, according to court documents, disappeared after an audit and in November 2012, the US Department of Transportation suspended EZjet after the plane company which operated the flights, claimed he owed them hundreds of thousands of dollars. The suspension left hundreds of passengers stranded in Guyana, the US, Canada and Trinidad. Court documents claimed Ramdeo created a payroll company and made it appear, using fake emails, as if it was a legit one with links to another similar, established one that had been doing business with the hospital chain. Prosecutors said that Ramdeo appeared to be moving thousands of dollars around, instructing staffers to make payments and deposits in a manner and amounts that would not have raised the curiosity of the US authorities. They are still investigating where the monies that the accountant allegedly stole is hidden. Ramdeo is facing several charges of wire fraud and money laundering and could be jailed up to 90 years if found guilty. EZjet, since being suspended last year by Guyana, US, Canada and Trinidad, has stopped operations.
Volunteer teachers have over the years been filling a crucial gap in the education sector. They are open to render their services wherever it is needed, even if in the farflung Regions of the country. And although funding for the Youth Challenge Guyana (YCG)-driven Volunteer Teachers Programme will come to an end next year fervent efforts have already been engaged to ensure that the programme does not flop, given its importance. The Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), until next March, will continue to receive funding from CUSO International, a non-profit development organisation based in Canada. And in order to ensure sustainability of the volunteer teachers’ programme, YCG’s Executive Director, Dmitri Nicholson, disclosed that “we are looking for ways that we can continue to support these volunteers.” He revealed that although a number of trained teachers graduate from the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) on an annual basis, volunteer teachers are still playing a very active role in supporting the education system. These volunteer teachers, he said, are dispatched to Regions One, Seven, Eight and Nine and some are even sent to Regions Two, Three and Four as well. However, the majority of the volunteer teachers are sent to the outlined Regions, which often has a more dire need for teachers. In fact, at the beginning of the new school year, a few weeks ago, a total of 58 teachers were dispatched with the majority being sent to interior locations. In fact, most of the volunteers were drawn from the outlined Regions. “Although CPCE keeps graduating, there is still a need for more teachers...many teachers are coming out of the college and they all are not opting for places in the interior but the volunteers more or less appreciate that opportunity to serve wherever the need is
- NGO Director
YCG’s Dmitri Nicholson (left) and Jermaine Watson necessary...I think they have an innate desire; the drive to do good that is what comes out when we talk with them,” explained Nicholson. Nicholson further dispelled claims that have been made by some individuals that volunteer teachers are not qualified to teach even as he speculated that some may even opt to volunteer because of the unavailability of jobs. Teacher volunteers are accepted on the basis of their qualifications, which can be no less than the attainment of five Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) subjects. They are required to undergo a rigorous interview process which takes into consideration their personality and general fitness for the teaching task for which they applied. He disclosed that some volunteer teachers are in fact persons who would have retired from the teaching profession and that there are yet others who are passionate about education and opt to offer their service to the field as well. All persons accepted for volunteerism are however required to undergo a monthlong basic training programme in preparation for their
anticipated teaching spells. During this training, which is facilitated by YCG, CUSO International and the Ministry of Education through the National Centre for Education Resource Development (NCERD), the accepted volunteers are also exposed to life skills development sessions. YCG has been working in close partnership with the Ministry of Education for several years in this regard. “It is a very collaborative relationship,” said YCG’s Programme Manager, Jermaine Watson, who is hopeful that when the CUSO International funding comes to an end, the Education Ministry will take up the financial slack. “Right now the Ministry supports two-thirds of the cost for the volunteers when they go into the field and we are primarily in charge of training the volunteers and supporting their well-being while they are in the Region,” explained Watson. Each volunteer is paid a monthly stipend of $35,000 and an additional $5,000 as a remote area allowance. According to Watson it is such support that motivates persons to keep on volunteering.
Slain TSU rank given military funeral Relatives, friends and colleagues yesterday paid their last respects to Tactical Services Unit rank, Constable Michael Cumberbatch, who was slain at his Sophia home two Mondays ago. He was accorded a military funeral following a service at the Bethel Gospel
Hall in Camp Street. A senior police official explained that all slain ranks are accorded military funerals, once they are killed in the line of duty and have no blemishes in their careers. Cumberbatch, 29, was shot dead on September 23,
last, when he came out of his house to confront a strange man who had come into his yard. He is survived by a wife and two children. Vickram Persaud, a La Grange, West Bank Demerara resident, was subsequently detained and charged with Cumberbatch’s murder.
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ST THOMAS MORE PRIMARY SAYS…
‘No teacher; No school!’ The transfer of a Grade Five teacher from the St Thomas More Primary School in D’Urban Street, Wortmanville, sparked a muddled protest by students and parents in the school’s compound yesterday. The teacher, Mervina Thomas, is soon to be transferred to the Cummings Lodge Secondary School. The uproar from the students drew a crowd outside of the school. At the school, yesterday, dozens of pupils dressed in their school uniforms were outside repeatedly shouting “We want justice. No teachers, no school”, while parents held placards. President of the ParentTeacher Association (PTA) of St Thomas More Primary, Trisha Massiah, said that last Friday her daughter came home and notified her that one of the teachers would be removing from the school. The woman further explained that at present there is one teacher who is on maternity leave, while another teacher maintains another class along with a
substitute teacher in the Grade Five level. “What we are saying is that if they remove Miss Thomas what is going to happen to our school,” the PTA president said. The concerned parent further said, that unknowing to the parents and teachers of the school Miss Thomas was ordered to be transferred to the Secondary School by the Ministry of Education. The woman further avowed that due to the fact that the students in Grade Five are upcoming candidates for the Secondary School Entrance Examination (SSEE), the removal of the teacher will pose a setback for the students. The President said that while most of the teachers living in Georgetown are now being taken to East Coast Demerara Schools, the committee will not allow Ms Thomas to be removed without a “proper” replacement. Massiah told reporters that based on information forwarded to her; the reason for Ms Thomas’s removal is because of the school being over staffed. It is however
The pupils of St Thomas More Primary protesting at the school yesterday.
unclear if the school indeed is over staffed. The Head Mistress was unable to confirm this information. However, another parent said that the removal of her daughter’s teacher is now a great concern to the parents. “Miss Thomas was there from the beginning with my daughter and she has improved in every subject area. I don’t see why they would want to remove such a
good teacher from here,” the parent said. A release from the Ministry of Education stated that it strongly denounces the recent actions by some small pockets of persons to disrupt the functioning of schools by illegally protesting and behaving in other unhealthy and unwholesome ways. “The Ministry is referring specifically to two new features that were introduced
56 murder trials set for new Assizes …Neesa Gopaul’s mother, Picture Boy among high profile lot
MURDERED: Neesa Gopaul The next Criminal Assizes session for the county of Demerara commences today in the High Court with 228 cases listed for hearings, including 56 Murder trials and 27 for Manslaughter. Among the cases to be heard is that of Tyrone Rowe, called ‘Cobra’ who has already been sentenced to 78 years behind bars on a previous murder case. He now appears to answer charges of robbery under arms. The State has also appealed the not guilty verdict of Sherwin Anthony Hyles who is accused in the Lusignan massacre and that case will also be called up today when the Assizes resumes.
Bibi Gopaul and Jarvis Small The couple accused in the murder of 15 year-old Queen’s College Student, Neesa Gopaul, will also have their cases called up for hearing. The dead teen’s mother Bibi Shareema Gopaul and her lover Jarvis Small called Barry have both been committed to stand trial for the gruesome murder that had shocked the nation. Another of the high profile cases to take the stand during this session is that of Cyon Collier called ‘Picture Boy’ who is facing three separate murder charges. At the last assizes Collier was ordered to face a retrial. Bissoondial Mahadeo, also called Weedman, Bibi Shamiza Khan and Bibi Farida
Khan called Pum will all be tried for murder charges in this session. They had been accused of killing US-based Guyanese, Motilall Singh in 2009 at Windsor Forest. The High Court will also be tasked with hearing 58 cases of Carnal Knowledge. Some of the carnal knowledge accused are jointly charged with buggery. Among those cases is that of former President of the Guyana Teachers Union, Colwyn King. Michael Assanah, the driver of the minibus ‘Red Rat’, who was involved in the horrific smash causing the death of seven persons will also be called up for trial.
Cyon Collier called ‘Picture Boy’
Former GTU President, Colwyn King Those killed were Sewsankar Sewdat, Pamela Yaw, Sharon Lall, Sharon Simmons, Cheryl Primo, Leslyn Boucher and Leyland Prince.
into complaints over the last week and a half; one, the locking of school gates and compounds as a form of protest and two, the usage of children during school hours as protesters,” the release stated. The release further noted, that the ministry will not tolerate the locking of school gates as a form or part of protests and the utilisation of school premises as a location of protests. It was also stated that threatening and traumatising teachers, parents and students as a means of forcing their involvement in illegal, unconstitutional activities
and exploiting children during school hours by utilising them to hold placards, congregating on the roadways, shouting unwholesome slogans will not be tolerated. “The Ministry of Education is working with the Guyana Police Force to ensure that any school compound that is locked will be opened immediately and those responsible for locking same will be dealt with condignly by the law. The Ministry will also treat condignly parents who keep their children away from instructions to be used at protests,” the release stated.
Businesswoman charged with trafficking in person A businesswoman who tricked a young female into thinking that she would be well pampered in the interior and only work in a bar and earn millions, was charged, after it was revealed that she intended to sexually exploit the woman. Patricia Crossman, 47, of Lot 3046 North Ruimveldt, was yesterday brought before Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. The court heard that on June 14, last, at Lot 36 Sussex Street, Charlestown, the defendant recruited and transported a 20-year-old to the interior for the purpose of sexual exploitation. To the allegations, the defendant pleaded not guilty. According to Police Prosecutor Bharat Mangru, on the said date, the defendant approached the victim, whom she knew and made a proposal. She told the
complainant that she would work at her bar at Issano, Essequibo as a bartender. When the young girl got to the said location, the accused took her to a salon to do her hair and nails. The accused then took her shopping. As she was decked out in a short pants that exposed her rear end a bit, the woman then took her to the bar. Upon their arrival, the girl noticed that a bartender was already there and at that point the accused told her that she is there “to pick fare.” The matter was later reported and Crossman was arrested and charged with the said offence. Attorney at Law, Mark Waldron, told the court that his client maintains her innocence. She denies having any knowledge of any human trafficking allegation. Crossman was remanded to prison until October 22.
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== THE FREDDIE KISSOON COLUMN ==
If the people of Guyana want it this way, then so be it I begin with a question. Why is it that UG students are perhaps the least protesting students anywhere in the world including countries where there are vicious dictators? What takes at UG would meet with vociferous disapproval in dictatorships like Uzbekistan, Cuba, Burma, etc. University students are university students in whichever country you find
them except Guyana. What is your answer? Every UG student says to her/ himself, that they will bear up and after they get their degree they are gone from Guyana. There is no reason to protest because they know they are leaving. In the just concluded students’ election less than twenty percent of the student population voted. They didn’t care because they know they are going away. The World
Bank puts the migration of Guyanese graduates with a tertiary education at 82 percent. If the Guyanese people want Guyana to remain as backward and angst-ridden as it is, then what can anyone do? There comes a time when people say they had enough thus the world was surprised by the Arab Spring. I wrote this column based on what a very prominent Guyanese said to me last Friday. He told
me that I should not have published two pieces of commentary because they would end up being counterproductive. He pointed to my public comment of a retired teacher who lives a solitary life with his family on the Canje Creek. I met the teacher while on a trip on the Canje and he told me that he believes that he is the only public sector worker who gave thirty-seven years of teaching to the hinterland communities. He was interested in a suggestion made last year that he would be honoured. I merely published what I thought was a good story for Guyanese to know about. I was told by this eminent Guyanese that I have now done a disservice to the retired teacher because the issue would never be taken up because Freddie Kissoon wrote about it. He went on to say that I should not have written about the students whose guarantors can no longer sponsor them at UG because the sponsors have
reached the age of fifty-five. He advised that I should have suggested that the student take their plight to Freedom House or the President because once Freddie Kissoon writes about it, the issue is dead. Though I agreed with him, my point was that I have an undying obligation to publish the sad stories people ask me to. That is the obligation of both a commentator and a human rights activist. I know the famous Guyanese is right – once the AFC or the PNC or the TUC or Chris Ram or Freddie Kissoon or David Hinds take up a cause, the PPP will distance itself no matter how nationalist is the cause. I know this. I believe most Guyanese know it. But what can you do? The answer is nothing. If the people in the leadership of the Government refuse to give the teacher his honour because Freddie Kissoon wrote about it then, then that is a matter for the people of Guyana to deal with. If the people that
Frederick Kissoon administer the nation’s bureaucracy want to harm three poor students because Freddie Kissoon wrote about their dilemma, then that is a matter for the Guyanese people to confront. I entered political activism with my eyes wide open. I know what the consequences would be like. I did not cry when my wife after fourteen years of service in the public sector was victimized. She didn’t cry either. She didn’t blame me either. I repeat; I have an obligation to help publicize the wrong-doings that visit the poor and the powerless of my country. I cannot be blamed if a spiteful regime chooses to descend to the level of the depraved and inhuman. It is for the Guyanese people to defend themselves. If they choose not to, then so be it. It is this columnist’s most sincere belief that comes both from my analytical mind and from inside my soul that the PPP will not do things to develop Guyana out of basic human spite and depravity. In another column, I will develop the theory that the Indian mind-set in the PPP does not believe in the concept of the State as we see it as it evolved in Europe from the time of the breakup of the Holy Roman Empire. The PPP has no interest in the State. Georgetown will continue to decay and they just will not care. But do the Guyanese people care too?
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Judge explains his “new” - death penalty sentencing method not mandatory By Latoya Giles One High Court Judge says that although the death penalty is the maximum sentence, it is not mandatory and as such he has developed a new sentencing scheme. Justice Navindra Singh, who spoke to Kaieteur News yesterday, explained that last December, he made a ruling stating basically that he did not think that the death penalty was mandatory. “It’s the maximum sentence so therefore there is the discretion if I want to go with it.” He explained that he worked out from various sentencing schemes a base, then goes to the aggravating factors. Justice Singh explained that if they are mitigating
Brazilians killed in mining pit… The four Brazilians who were killed last Friday when a mining pit at Region Seven collapsed were ordered out of the area three weeks ago for mining illegally. The owner of the dredge is also to be charged shortly with unsafe mining and employing foreigners without a working permit, according to acting Commissioner of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), Rickford Vieira. At a press conference held yesterday at the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners’ Association (GGDMA) Brickdam Office, Vieira disclosed that investigations into the incident will officially begin today. The dead Brazilians are Taigo Nunes Pinto, Ronaldo Da Silva Sousa, Joao Nelson Pinto Mands and Joao Gonsalves Martins. The men were killed when a 40-foot deep pit caved in at Arau, Region Seven. According to Vieira, last Friday his organization received a report that “a dredge owned by Miss Wendy Barbosa was working
factors it would be subtracted. That’s how he comes up with the sentence. “It’s a long list I made up of various aggravating factors which I find the most common, and based on the North American and British sentencing schemes I try to set out ( a duration) that is applicable to this society,” Justice Singh explained. The judge went on to state that one reason why he does not institute the death penalty; is that there has not been an execution in Guyana for the past 16 years. Justice Singh told Kaieteur News that he believes that the purpose of the death penalty is that if the person is found guilty it means that the person is
dangerous to society. He said that if there is no execution the person would be on Death Row which could lead to their sentence being commuted to life imprisonment as what has happened already. He said that once the sentences are commuted there is a great likelihood that the person could be released at some point in time. Justice Singh said that he believes that is contrary to the concept that the legislators wanted. Against this backdrop he said that’s how he has worked out his method. Touching briefly on Tyrone Rowe, also known as Cobra, Singh said he had a serious aggravating factor that is, a person died while he was committing a robbery.
Justice Singh explained that another aggravating factor was that he had a gun and also he is serving time on two robbery under arms sentences. He said that even if some people think it is high (the sentence) it is nowhere close to what North America would do. He noted that although his ruling last year has been appealed, he will continue to use his method for sentencing. In an invited comment, Attorney General Anil Nandall explained that by virtue of an amendment during the ninth Parliament of Guyana, the death penalty legislation was modified to a degree that not every murder accused is liable to receive the death penalty.
Justice Navindra Singh “In accordance with the legislative amendments there are certain categories of murders which will retain the death penalty. One would be the murder of law enforcement officers and there are others… Besides those stipulated categories, the judge holds the power to impose a sentence other
than the death penalty” When asked if the opportunity exists for parole after the handing down of such a sentence, the Attorney General said that parole is a matter for the prison. “After sentencing the judiciary no longer has any role to play.” Nandlall said.
Illegal miners ordered to remove three weeks ago, Dredge owner to be charged at the Arau settlement and four persons perished because of slope failures… we immediately sent out a senior Mining Engineer and an Occupational Health and Safety Officer to do an investigation but because of the low level of water in the Cuyuni river they only arrived today (yesterday)… communication was also not at its best.” Thus far, he said investigations show that the deceased came through Venezuela, checked in at Eteringbang, but was not in possession of valid work permits. However, authorization to mine in the area was given by the Village Council which controls private lands that fall under their purview. “Our mines officer visited the area about three weeks back and ordered those Brazilians out, they subsequently left but went back… the dredge owner will be charged with unsafe mining and employing foreigners without a working permit.” Vieira said. Also present at the press
Ag. Commissioner of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), Mr. Rickford Vieira and Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud. conference were Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud, Administrative Coordinator of the Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) Colin Sparman and Assistant Chief Labour Occupational Safety and Health Officer Ms. Lydia Greene among other officials.
According to Lydia Greene, the Ministry of Labour is always proactive in looking at work place accidents, adding that two officers have been identified to join the team of investigators. “We will be going in there to mount investigations, and we are also planning to go to
Mahdia in the mining areas to do some inspections because we know what happens in the hinterlands, and we also get support from the GGMC which will feed us with information from time to time and we are expected to be there before the week is out.” She mentioned. Minister of Natural
Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud explained that the Arau community is an Amerindian village and the GGMC has no direct purview of dictating the types of operations in the area. The Village Council is responsible for granting permission as is provided under the Amerindian Act, he noted. “We are always hopeful that when Village Councils grant permission they would ensure that persons operate in a safe environment or do not undertake mining activity techniques that can jeopardize life, limb and even property. Secondly, we expect that persons should have good legal status and they should establish that people enter the country legally and have the necessary permits so that they can operate in whatever pursuit… and we have developed the mechanism working closely with the Ministry of Home Affairs so we can expedite those applications, so there is no excuse to say persons were unable to get their permit,” Persaud emphasized.
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CRASH DOCTOR SUCCUMBS The badly mangled car
The truck driver (left) with Drs. Sooknanand and Yacoob
Dead: Dr. Phyzul Sattaur
By Leon Suseran Dr. Phyzul Azeem Sattaur, the Berbician who crashed his vhicle along the Number 19 Highway succumbed to his injuries late Sunday evening. Sattaur, a well- known Physician/Surgeon of Lot 6 LFS Burnham Street, New Amsterdam, was driving his car PJJ 6228 home from a cricket match at the Albion Cricket Ground when he slammed into the back of a lorry GPP 251 which was heading in the same direction. A public-spirited citizen who was in the area, pulled Sattaur, 69, out of the mangled car; placed him in his canter truck and rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital, shortly after 18:45 hrs Sunday evening. Efforts to transport Dr. Sattaur for further medical attention at the Georgetown Public Hospital were
abandoned since his condition was at its worst. Senior colleagues in the medical fraternity including Dr. Mohamed Yacoob and Dr. Narinedatt Sukhnanan were seen consoling the wife, Dolly. An autopsy performed yesterday by Dr. Vivekanand Brijmohan on the body at the N/A Hospital concluded that Sattaur died as a result of multiple injuries. Yesterday, Sattaur’s wife, Dolly, was not in a state of mind to offer any comment. She however stated that her husband had telephoned her around 18:30 hrs that evening telling “me that he will be home in half an hour.” She stated that she later received another call from a friend asking her to confirm her husband’s licensed plates number, which she did, and was informed that her husband’s car was badly mangled along the Number 19 Highway and that “I should go to the hospital,” which she immediately did. Mrs. Sattaur added, too, that the family does not know the name or identity of the person who pulled her husband from the wreckage and took him to the hospital. She asked the nurses and doctors “and nobody knows.” Her husband left home earlier in the day to
attend a meeting with some other doctors at Albion after which he stepped across to the Sports Complex to see the cricket match. Mordecai Ramsundar, the truck driver of Number Two Village, East Canje was still visibly shaken from the accident on Sunday. “Me just hear ‘bram’!” he said. “The impact pushed me in a
corner,” he stated. He stated that he was driving at the regular speed when he heard a loud impact at the rear of the truck. The owner of the truck, Edwin Ramcharran, too, was present on the scene, inspecting the rear of the truck. Mrs. Sattaur claimed that Ramsundar stated that he was going to make a stop.
“The truck driver said that he was going to stop…I believe he stopped and did not have on any rear lights!” The owner of the truck, Edwin Ramcharran, stated yesterday that his driver was not about to make any stop. “The man was driving the vehicle all the time. He was coming home from Black Bush. All the
lights were operable. I’m now in unnecessary expense…the [truck] spring break-the chassis bent, the u- clamp…all damage!” Sattaur will be laid to rest on Thursday. He leaves to mourn his children Sharrin, Lana, Michelle and Andre. He was educated in Warsaw, Poland in the 1970’s.
Hinterland power station operators complete training
Some of the power station operators who received the one month training. After undergoing four weeks of training, 30 H interland power station operators have graduated from specialized courses. The graduation ceremony was held last Friday at the Guyana Power and Light (GPL), Sophia branch. According to a Government report on the training, it focused on identifying and understanding the major components of a diesel engine, parts of a generator and describing the
relationship of associated equipment to the generating unit. The training was a collaborative effort of the Office of the Prime Minister and GPL. The training which commenced on September 2, and concluded on Friday, attracted operators from Mahdia, Lethem, OreallaSiparuta, St. Cuthbert’s Mission, Moraikobai, Port Kaituma, Kwakwani, Mabaruma and Matthews Ridge. GPL’s Training Manager, Dennis Swan, noted that this
was only the first phase of the training as the second will be conducted in the participants’ respective communities. That phase should commence within another three to four months. He added that in November, a similar training programme will commence for network operators residing in the same communities. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GPL, Bharrat Dindyal, pointed out that there have been reports of major operation failures in
these areas due to the lack of experience, hence, the need for the training sessions. GPL is aiming to support similar training interventions and urged operators to return to their communities and contribute to it by demonstrating what they have learnt and implementing it in their work places. Prime Minster Samuel Hinds told the batch that this was just the beginning of a still long road ahead. “You have taken your first step on your new journey.”
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NICIL vs Guyana Stores
Brassington tells court he had to reduce net current assets, to avoid buyer’s windfall By Latoya Giles As the trial between the National Industrial and Commercial Investments
(NICIL) and Royal Investments continued yesterday Mr. Edward Luckhoo continued his cross-examination of
Winston Brassington. Luckhoo dealing with the Audit report noted that no reference to the word Guarantee or Assumptions
can be made from that Audit Report (NICIL #6) from the Auditor General. Luckhoo said that a preliminary report was done
and circulated to Brassington and Mr. Tony Yassin of Royal Investments by an accompanying letter sent by Mr. Wilson. That letter was dated November 27, 2000 re Draft Audit Report. As the witness was questioned about the documents, he kept repeating “I don’t recall”. Brassington was asked to read a copy of the letter. He said that he could not recall, but that he had no reason to doubt that he had received it. The lawyer then asked Brassington if he would agree that Mr. Yassin expressed his concern with respect to obsolete and slowmoving stocks. Brassington again could not recall. The witness was then asked if he would agree if there is a right for the party to express concern under the Agreement. Brassington replied, “Subject to the agreement, Yes”. Luckhoo further asked Brassington whether he
could recall that Mr. Yassin on December 7, 2001 wrote the Auditor General a letter which was copied to the Prime Minister and yourself. Even though a copy of the letter was shown to Brassington, he said that he did not recall the letter “specifically” but would not doubt it. That letter was later tendered into evidence as NICIL #32. Luckhoo then asked Brassington to look at the letter, and to see if it was fair to say that Mr. Yassin was expressing disagreement with the statement of the Net Current Assets. Brassington replied in the affirmative. Luckhoo asked Brassington if he was aware that the Auditor General responded to Mr. Yassin’s letter. Again Brassington could not recall. The lawyer then pointed out that after Mr. Yassin had raised those issues, whether it would be correct procedure that a (Continued on page 21)
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hree persons are now homeless following a fire which ripped through their one- bedroom home at Lot 19 Goed Intent, West Bank Demerara early yesterday. The fire, which started about 01:00 am, quickly ravaged the one -flat building located in a yard with two other buildings. Luckily the fire only scorched one neighbouring building. Those without a place to call home are Taemattie Neils, 39, her husband,
The burnt out house
Leroy Dixon, and their daughter. Neils and her husband operate a fish shop just a few doors from their now burnt out home. A c c o r d i n g t o information, the family was standing at the front of the yard when they heard a loud blast and within a few minutes, the entire building was engulfed in flames. Yesterday, Taimattie Neils told Kaieteur News that she was standing on a bridge in front of her yard when she heard a loud explosion. “We just come from the
creek and I was standing outside with a family friend when the house burn down. I
can’t say what happened. I just hear ‘pow’ and when I look I see the entire house in flames. We couldn’t do anything and it would have been impossible to save anything from the house,” a distraught Neils stressed. A still shaken Neils
Neils and her husband pointed out that she could have been dead had she gone into the home earlier as she had wanted to do. “While I was talking to the guy (her family friend) I wanted to go home and bathe and sleep but he was just talking. It’s a good thing I continued talking with him.” The woman is puzzled as to what could have set off the explosion stressing that her house did not contain a gas cylinder or any other highly flammable substances “I only have two bulbs in the house and a television and everything was unplugged. We does cook and do everything at the fish shop, only in the nights we does go there and sleep.” A seemingly frustrated Neils said that she is heartbroken. “This is not the first time fire destroy my home. I was living at Lot 868 Sisters Village, West Bank Demerara when fire started on a mattress and burn down the house. Since then I started fresh but my house gone again with everything inside.” Investigations are continuing
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No alarm over slothful operation of Accreditation Council - ACTT Director An apparent sloth in the processing of registration applications by the National Accreditation Council is in fact nothing alarming but rather an expected outcome of such a fledging body. At least this is according to Director attached to The Accreditation Council of Trinidad and Tobago (ACTT), Curtis Floyd. “What is happening here is something that we encountered as well.” This state of affairs could perhaps be linked to staff size
and the fact that there is a great deal of work that a National Accreditation Council is required to undertake outside of the processing of applications, said Floyd. Floyd, who recently facilitated a session with local education institutions, said that similar challenges were had when the Trinidad Council commenced its operation in 2005. The session with the education institutions was spearheaded by the local Accreditation
Council in collaboration with the Ministry of Education. “We would have experienced that as well but one of the things that you have to understand with this Council here is that there is very limited staff (members)...I understand that there are maybe just two or three persons in the office and particularly when you are dealing with 42 institutions...” “I am sure that there will be more to come as time goes by but it is something that could become very time
Contractor lags with $237M Patentia Pump station The foundation is far from completion and the coffer dam (right) is collapsing
Engineers Fredrick Flatts and Lionel Wordsworth, along with Junior Finance Minister, Juan Edghill and Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, are deeply concerned about a pump station at Patentia, West Bank Demerara. Construction started some two months ago and the foundation is far from complete. The pump station which costs $237.1 million, according to Dr. Ramsammy, is a part of the Agricultural Diversification Programme (ADP). He said that it is one of the components of the programme that is aimed at improving drainage and irrigation. This pump in particular, is intended to improve the drainage system for Canal Number Two, West Bank Demerara. It is one of the three separate structures being done for Region Three. However, since the contractor, Harrychand Tulsie, has been awarded the project, only 13.5 percent of the work has been completed. Engineers who were on site yesterday, explained to the Ministers that the contractor is way behind
schedule; that at least 40 percent of the work should have been completed. Flatts said that the foundation work should have been completed by now. It is surprising that 39 piles should have been laid on the site in addition to the mere five that have been laid during the past two months, he added. Minister Edghill was critical of both the contractor and the Inspector of works, Robert Mc Alman. “My concern is time, and there is a timeframe by which this project has to come in. We are here for two and a half months now and we just have roughly six weeks left and we are still working on foundation. We have to mobilize all the resources. We have to bring this in on time. We don’t have an option.” Tulsie, the contractor, told the Ministers that the major problem is the soil. He said, “While we are hopeful to lay the rest of the piles by this weekend, there is no guarantee that it is the answer to our problem. “The reason the foundation work has not been completed is because of the soil and I guarantee that if you put an excavator there, it will
…Govt sets sixweek deadline
sink. We are trying to get the work done in a safe manner and avoid losing any lives. We tried building a dam but even that started to collapse despite efforts to put reinforcements in place.” “The soil presents a great challenge for us. We are trying to mix the soil and lay some sort of foundation to get the excavator into the pit to commence the work but it is very hard to do that at the moment.” In the wake of his explanation, Edghill asked him, “When you tendered for this project didn’t you check the soil?” But the contractor said, “No. I just assumed that it would be of average condition.” One engineer said that what is of concern to him is that the staff working with the contractor is not professionally and technically trained. He said that they are just labourers. This is also contributing to the work being held up, he said. Edghill before leaving the site, once again reminded the contractor that there are certain contractual agreements that have to be honoured.
consuming and very onerous on the staff because apart from the processing of the applications for the registration there are other services that they are engaged in and those too will need their due attention,” added Floyd. He disclosed that ACTT started off with a staff of no more than 20 individuals but has since been required to expand to about 50 in order to ensure its efficiency. “I can tell you that with the institutions that we have and the services that we offer, it is still very challenging to get through with everything because you want to make sure that whatever you are doing as the Council is of quality so you don’t shortchange the institutions,” said Floyd. His recent visit here was intended to provide needful accreditation support to Guyana by helping the relevant stakeholders compile a submission that is of standard which specifically deals with the evidence that is required to show that there is adherence. “We too had problems with our institutions going through this because it was all new to them and they didn’t know what to expect...but now they have become expert at it,” added Floyd who noted too that “...we have had very, very little or no problems at all with our institutions now going through the process.” It was not so long ago that concerns relating to the operation of the local Accreditation Council were amplified. Some educational
institutions in Guyana are reportedly at a disadvantage, since they have been faced with some level of difficulty in securing an accredited status from the National Accreditation Council. This state of affairs has been linked to reports that the Council has not been operating optimally. Chairman of the Private Sector Commission’s (PSC) Sub-committee on Communications, Kit Nascimento, recently disclosed that “there are a number of education organisations in this country that have been seeking accreditation and the National Accreditation Council has some catching up to do.” Nascimento added that “from experience elsewhere the Council has not been, until recently, functioning, and I am not altogether certain if it is even functioning fully yet.” He intimated too that there are a lot of applications with the Council and “it is indeed a significant process from registration to accreditation.” Nascimento’s remarks were forthcoming even as this publication sought to enquire of the accreditation status of the Texila American University which recently became a member of the PSC. It was just a few months ago that Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, disclosed that moves were being made to amend the Accreditation Act with a view of allowing the Accreditation Council to not only have the authority to accredit individual programmes but also entire
ACTT Director, Curtis Floyd institutions. And the plan to amend the local Accreditation Act is not unique to Guyana since according to the Minister it is supported by the Caribbean with moves already being made to accredit institutions. “This makes sense…If we are to accredit programme by programme then the kind of resources necessary would be very, very burdensome for offshore type universities,” said the Education Minister. The amendment, she said, will be made to Section 4(3) (c) of the National Accreditation Council Act Number 12 whereby it grants the Accreditation Council the power to do institutional accreditation. Manickchand noted, “We are amending the Act to give additional power to the Accreditation Council to deal with entire institutions rather than programmes alone.” Already regulations have been drafted under the Accreditation Act, which the Minister had said in May was being reviewed before being sent to the National Assembly. However, before reaching to the National Assembly, the draft regulation was expected to be sent to the Chambers of the Attorney General to be finalised.
Women lawyers take umbrage at AG’s comment The Guyana Association of Women Lawyers (GAWL) has taken objection to some comments by Attorney General, Mr. Mohabir Anil Nandlall. Those comments were contained in the Guyana Chronicle of September 16, 2013, and captioned “Recent upsurge in crime a consequence of rejection of Firearms Bill in the National Assembly.” “It is not within the mandate of GAWL to comment publicly on issues which is not perceived to concern them but we make an exception in this case since a direct challenge was issued to the Association. “The GAWL condemns the assertion of the Honourable Attorney General that we support criminals and will contend that any lawyer worth his salt would not propagate as a general rule that silence equals consent.” In a statement issued over the weekend, the association said that it finds it very disappointing that the leader of the Bar who ought to be a conspicuously apolitical figure is making comments on an ongoing legal matter that is yet to be finally decided by the Courts. “We feel that Mr. Hughes is well capable
of defending himself should he see it fit and urge the Honourable Attorney General to vent his concerns at a more appropriate forum. “If indeed, as the Honourable Attorney General asserts, Mr. Hughes is a criminal then a report should be made to the Police or to the Legal Practitioners Committee.” The association insisted that if Mr. Nandlall has evidence in support of the accusations made against Mr. Hughes then he should “seek an audience with the Courts without delay.” The Attorney General should use his position to provide sound, mature leadership rather than being abusive and disrespectful to Civil Society Organizations, GAWL said. “We look forward to reading articles of similar prominence where the Honourable Attorney General comprehensively addresses issues such as violence in society especially domestic and sexual violence and trafficking in persons. “The GAWL would be happy to engage publicly in such instances in fulfillment of its mandate with respect to the support of justice and equality, especially for women and children.”
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Kitty bar execution…
Former murder accused in hiding after surviving attack Police are trying to locate a freed murder accused who was sitting with businesswoman Shelliza Basir-Lall when she was shot and killed and who only escaped a similar fate because one of the gunmen’s weapons jammed. The man is a Pomeroon resident who was implicated in the suspected drug-related murders in 2009 of a father and son. The ‘person of interest’ and others were charged, but subsequently acquitted, for the March 2009 murder of Romeo De Agrella and his son, Clint De Agrella, whose bullet-riddled bodies were found at Iron Punt, North West District. Police have been told that the man and his spouse were sitting with Mrs. Basir-Lall, her husband Raymond Lall and others in Mambo’s Beer Garden when two gunmen entered. One of the gunmen reportedly pointed his weapon at the former murder accused and attempted to shoot, but the weapon ‘snapped’, a senior police official told Kaieteur News. The ‘back-up’ gunman then opened fire, riddling Mrs.
Basir-Lall and wounding her husband and two of the couple’s employees. Reports indicate that the survivor and his spouse have gone into hiding. “We are trying to question a person of interest,” the official said. Like the murder of the De Agrellas, police also believe that Sunday’s attack was drug-related. Investigators yesterday continued to question a 19-year-old Sophia resident who was nabbed with a submachine gun and ten nine millimeter rounds, shortly after Mrs. Basir-Lall was slain. However, police are still to conduct ballistic tests to ascertain whether the same weapon was used at the Kitty beer garden. Investigators who visited the scene of the attack also recovered 14 spent shells along with 11 warheads which could have been used in a 9mm sub-machine gun. Shelliza Basir-Lall, also called Shelly Lall of Charity, Essequibo, was shot at least four times as she sat with her husband and about six other people at a table. She died while receiving treatment at the Balwant Singh Hospital.
Her husband, Raymond Lall, 36, who runs a trucking company and operates a speedboat service, was shot five times. He underwent surgery at a private hospital in the city. Sources said that he was shot in the leg and his injuries are not life threatening. Two of Lall’s employees were also injured. They were identified as Parmanad Persaud of Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, and Babatunde Nedd of Parika, West Coast Demerara, who is said to be in a critical condition. An eyewitness recalled seeing at least two gunmen enter the premises and head straight for the table where the couple and others were sitting. After the gunfire ceased, the patron saw four persons lying on the floor. He said that the woman appeared to be motionless while her husband was moaning. Kaieteur News was told that the couple would normally travel to Georgetown to conduct business. The relative explained that the two would spend about a day or less in Georgetown before travelling back to Essequibo.
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Preparations for GuyExpo near completion With just two days remaining before the curtain falls on this year’s annual trade fair and exhibition, the Tourism Minister (Ag) Irfaan Ali, has assured that preparations are a far way completed and the stage is sure to be set for the Thursdayopening of the four-day affair. The Minister was at the time addressing media operatives yesterday during the pre-opening walkthrough of the Exhibition Centre, Sophia. He said that the works currently ongoing at the site include measures to prepare both the exterior and interior of the exhibition compound for the events. Among these are rehabilitative works by the Ministry of Public Works to the main bridge and roads leading into and out of the compound. As for the internal infrastructure, the Minister said that preparations are about 85 per cent complete and works should conclude by Wednesday night. Directing his attention to the scene beyond the main entrance, depicting a number of advanced pieces of machinery in the manufacturing and services sector, the Minister said that it serves to portray important aspects of this year’s
Operation El Dorado ongoing - Persaud “We don’t have a difficulty with non nationals being involved in the mining sector or any sector, but they must conform to national laws.” Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Robert Persaud registered those sentiments yesterday in reference to the four Brazilian miners killed Friday last when a 40-foot deep pit caved in at Arau, Region Seven. He reiterated a ‘zero tolerance stance’ for illegal operations, adding that in the coming weeks more information pertaining to operation El Dorado will be forthcoming. The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has vowed to continue to enforce the Mining Regulations to reduce illegal mining and other illicit activities within the sector. These operations intend to target illegal mining and unregulated mining activities, since many Brazilians have been caught engaging in illegal mining activities. Operation El Dorado involved inspection of mining camps and operations to determine the status of the
- Intends to target illegal mining
The Guyana map as centre piece depicting all existing sectors and economic activity
GuyExpo theme towards advancing and expanding our economy. It also demonstrates the progress of the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) on its 50th anniversary. “Along the main entrance there is a depiction of the ‘50 glorious years’ but also what is to come, the potential that exists beyond today,” he said. The Minister made reference to the Amaila Falls Hydro Electric Project and the Marriott Hotel project, these have the potential to open up the manufacturing and services sector of the country, he said. Media operatives were also taken to different locations on the site to view the ongoing works. GuyExpo 2013 will be significantly larger as it is expected to accommodate a greater number of participants than it did last year. Minister Ali noted that as opposed to last year’s 288 booths and 237 exhibitors, GuyExpo 2013 will see 410 booths with 290 exhibitors. According to the Minister, the increase is largely due to the number of international companies participating this year as opposed to last year.
He recalled that while GuyExpo 2012 hosted 35 international participants, there are 85 this year. These include 17 companies from China, seven from India and companies from St. Lucia, Argentina, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Nepal, and USA. Also to play a part would be four business delegations from Brazil, Barbados, St Vincent and Suriname, who are primarily visiting in order to attend a business forum hosted by the GSMA on Thursday. As congestion will be inevitable due to the wide variety of products and services to be offered, Event Coordinator, Tameca Sukhdeo-Singh, urged that patrons purchase their tickets before going to the exhibition site in order to “ease the congestion.” She reminded that two additional pedestrian entrances will be utilised. Also recognised during the pre-opening event were a number of corporate sponsors on board with the annual affair, including Ansa McAl, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) and Top Brandz Distributors.
Guyanese drug mule nabbed in Dubai
property being worked; verification of mining privileges and certificate of registration for persons employed; inspection of the requisite documentations, including dredge licenses and production books, sanitation, environmental and occupational health and safety compliances.
The Guyana Police Forces’ Tactical Services Unit also carries out checks for guns, ammunition and drugs, while an immigration team checks the status of foreign workers. In most cases, these foreigners have no workpermits, certificates of registration and in other
cases are found with expired visas. The GGMC is being supported by the Guyana Police Force in the ongoing ‘Operation El Dorado’. Further, the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) have been urging the authorities to step up its campaign on illegal mining.
Dubai: Airport security officers intercepted two drug mules carrying 5.361kg of cocaine, reported the Dubai Police Anti-Narcotics department on Sunday. In the first operation, the police intercepted a Tanzanian man who had arrived from Sao Paulo in Brazil. He was arrested at Dubai International Airport following a tipoff that he was carrying drugs. Anti-narcotics and custom officers subjected him to a body search and detected suspicious lumps in his stomach. He was taken to Rashid Hospital where 103
capsules containing 2.177kg of cocaine were seized. In the second incident, a Guyanese woman, identified as NR, was intercepted at the Dubai airport on her way from Sao Paulo to Johannesburg in South Africa. As per the information with the police, the officers checked her handbag and seized three plastic bags containing 3.184kg of cocaine. During police questioning, she reportedly claimed that a female friend in Guyana had lured her with a big cash reward in case she agreed to smuggle the (Continued on page 21)
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Tackling Human Trafficking in Guyana - 7 reports for 2013
While Guyana remains on the tier two watch list of the US State Department for Trafficking in Persons (TIP), a specially designed unit within the Ministry of Human Services (HSM) has been actively involved in the struggle to counteract the scourge. This is according to the Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Jennifer Webster. The Minister related that the TIP Unit continually provides psychosocial support for victims and their families along with accommodation as well as counseling services provided by skilled and professional counselors. The Minister explained that TIP Unit comprises four (4) staff members including the Coordinator. “The work of the department is structured according to the TIP Act No. 2 of 2005. Section 18 (1) of that Act states that The Minister of Home Affairs in conjunction with the Minister of Labour, Human Services and Social Security shall develop plans, in consultation with non -governmental organizations and other representatives of civil society, for the provision of appropriate services from governmental and nongovernmental sources, for victims of trafficking and dependent children accompanying the victims.” This newspaper was reliably informed, that Trafficking In Persons is most prevalent in the mining districts of Guyana. Guyana has been touted as an easy target for TIP because of its geographical closeness to Venezuela, Brazil and Suriname. “In most common cases TIP occurs because many persons enter the country through the porous borders of Guyana looking for greener pastures; they come from Suriname, Brazil, Venezuela, other South American countries, and even the Caribbean …sometimes not to ultimately settle here but our country is a target because of our geographic situation. An increasing number of Brazilians have entered the country illegally
and consequentially engage in similar activities. Most of these persons are females who are very young ranging between fourteen to twenty five years old,” a source told Kaieteur News. As it relates to domestic cases of TIP, this newspaper understands that the victims are very young and mostly solicited from poor households in rural and hinterland regions of the country. “People living in these areas need to be especially careful because most times, women are used to recruit young girls from deprived homes and communities….Sometimes their parents allow them to go off with strangers, because they are told that they will have a better life … these operations are quite subtle, someone may answer to an advertisement for someone to work in a shop in the interior and end up being trafficked,” the source further said. Minister Webster said there have been seven reports of TIP for this year, three of which are matters pending in the courts. The Minister outlined the legislative benefits for victims of human trafficking to include – appropriate housing taking into account the person’s status as a victim of crime; safe conditions for sleeping, food and personal hygiene; psychological counseling in a language the victim can understand; medical assistance, employment, educational and training opportunities; and legal assistance.
She revealed that a special sum of US $75,000.00 is allocated for TIP through a project funded by the UNDP to support training and sensitization activities on the issue in the ten Administrative Regions, and to provide support to victims. “To date training has been conducted in Regions 1, 7, 8 and 9. Activities of Trafficking in Persons form part of the Ministry’s work programme annually and funds are provided in the Ministry’s budget.” The Minister says that the National Mechanism to combat trafficking in persons is based upon the premise of the 4 P’s - Protection, Prosecution, Prevention and Partnership, which has proven to be effective in the fight thus far The 2013 US State Department had painted a gloomy picture on the Guyana Government’s role in combating trafficking in persons, citing a lack of conviction. As a result Guyana was once more placed on the tier two watch list for Trafficking In Persons (TIP) by the US State Department. However Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee reported that the local Trafficking In Persons Task Force is convinced that the report is a complete misrepresentation of Guyana’s situation. Trafficking in Persons is ranked number two in the world on the list of modern day crimes. Human trafficking enslaves over 30 million women children and men every year.
Guyanese drug... From page 20 contraband. She directed her to a man in Sao Paulo who gave her a handbag of drugs to be taken to Johannesburg. “He requested me to deliver them to a man in South Africa and that the latter was waiting for me at the airport with a reward of US$3,500 if all went well,” said NR. Both defendants have been referred to the Dubai Public Prosecution. The police urged the public for more cooperation in its crackdown on drug-related activities. (GulfToday)
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Guyana seeks Chief Elections Officer The Guyana Elections Commission is seeking a Chief Elections Officer to replace Gocool Boodoo who was not supported by the majority of the Guyana Elections Commission. Amid allegations of having attempted to illegally alter the results of Guyana’s 2011 general elections, commissioners of the Elections Commission voted in July by majority, through a casting vote of the Chairman, Dr Steve Surujbally, not to re-new the contract of Chief Elections Officer, Gocool Boodoo, and now the search is on home and abroad for a person of integrity to fill the position. An advertisement appearing in the Barbados Nation newspaper yesterday, reads in part, “The Chief Elections Officer is required to play the key leadership role in the Secretariat of the Guyana Elections Commission (GEOCOM) with responsibility for implementing all aspects of its operations, and ensuring that results achieved are consistent with the laws of Guyana and the policies determined by the Chairman and Commission”. Notice of this vacancy in a Barbados paper suggests that invitations to apply for the post might also be placed in publications across the Caribbean, and even further afield. The deadline was yesterday. Reports are that following the 2011 elections vote count, Boohoo sought to rush through an allocation of seats that would have given the People’s Progressive Party a majority of one over the combined Opposition,
and in so doing would have defrauded the Alliance for Change of one of its seats in parliament. The erroneous allocation of seats was s p o t t e d b y C o m m i s s i o n e r Vi n c e n t Alexander, whose identification of the miscalculation resulted in AFC receiving seven seats, and A Partnership for National Unity 26, for a combined majority of one over the PPP’s 32 seats. It was only this year, and following numerous denials by Boodoo that he attempted to fudge the figures, that Alexander went public showing that the Chief Elections Officer’s ‘error’ was no mistake, but a deliberate act. At a July 16 meeting of the Commission, the six commissioners voted to a three-three deadlock on whether to renew Boodoo’s contract, with the Government members in favour and Opposition nominees against. In making his casting vote with the opposition commissioners and breaking the deadlock, thereby shutting the door on Boodoo, Dr Surujbally said that among his reasons for going against the former Chief were his poor leadership qualities Even a blunt accusation of dishonesty was made. “There was a time when I used to make a collection of Mr Boodoo’s duplicities and dishonesties. After a while I discontinued this practice because no amount of talking to or admonishing Mr Boodoo on these issues resulted in any meaningful change,” the Chairman said.
Brassington tells court he had... From page 15 meeting be convened to address the concerns raised by Mr. Yassin? Brassington said that it would be one method of addressing the issue. The witness was asked if he was aware, whether a meeting was convened to address those concerns raised by Mr. Yassin, Brassington said he could not recall. Luckhoo then asked Brassington if he had no specific recollection of attending such a meeting. The witness replied, “No”. Luckhoo further asked Brassington if he recalled receiving a letter dated 21st January, 2002, regarding a meeting to discuss the Findings of GSL Net Current Assets Audit. Brassington said that he could not recall receiving the letter. The witness was asked if he had any reason to
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believe you did not receive that letter, and a copy of the letter was shown to Mr. Brassington. Brassington replied, “No”. Mr. Luckhoo then pointed out to the witness that the letter in the first Para. speaks of a request for a deferral of a meeting set for January 22, 2002 to discuss the findings of the GSL Net Current Assets Audit. The letter dated January 21, 2002 was tendered as NICIL #33. Mr. Brassington was asked to read the first Para. of the letter, following which Mr. Luckhoo asked, “Now that you have seen a reference to the meeting, do you recall that such a meeting was set”. Brassington said that he could not recall. He said that there were several meetings with Mr. Yassin after the closure of agreement. Attorney for NICIL and the Government Rafeek Khan in his reexamination asked Brassington if between the period - that is, the date of advertising – and the date of confirmation of the Preferred Investor if any dividends were paid. Brassington replied, and said that he was “not sure”. Khan asked if prior to the signing of the Share Sale Agreement, was any Dividends paid. Brassington, in reply, said that various Dividends were paid in 2000. Khan noted that at the
time of payment of the Dividends, Royal Investments Inc had not purchased the shares in GSL. The lawyer then pointed out that it was stated that Dividends of $542M was paid in 1999. Also a loan of $300M was taken. Profits for Year 1999 were $51M. The witness was further questioned about a letter written by Mr. Manniram Prashad – the Chairman of GSL in which Brassington said that they were taking steps to reduce the Net Current Assets of GSL. He further told the court that at the time, GSL’s Net Current Assets was $600M and had we not reduced the Net Current Assets, we would have sold the Company and given the buyer a wind fall. Brassington said that he could have been accused of giving the Company away. NICIL and the Government of Guyana are suing the Guyana Stores Limited (GSL) majority shareholder, Royal Investments Inc, to recoup monies claimed following the privatization of the company. NICIL/the Privatisation Unit moved upon claims that GSL failed to pay an outstanding balance of US$2 million of the purchase price of US$6 million for the acquisition of GSL. The matter was subsequently called up before the High Court in the latter part of 2010.
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Tuesday October 01, 2013
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Fire side, Barbeque grill and hand truck- Call:627-7835 Games PS2 $900, PSP $900, X-Box 360 $2600 & PS3 $2600- Call:672-2566
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Seven weeks old Pitbull pups. Ideal for breeding, security and show purposes- Call Krishna 6225717
X-box 360 $55,000- Call:2231719
Original Games- Call:6722566 1 New Samsung LCD 51" TV $195,000, 1 new Westing house LCD 46" TV $180,000- Call:696-9702/6727194 Pork wholesale only $300 per LB- Call:266-2711/6094594 Generator sets: Husky 5000 watts, Honda 6000 watts, Power left, etc. Call:2278519/653-4287 Cellphone accessories at Halema’s Fashion 104 Regent street next door to the Multicomplex MallCall:622-7740/696-4008 Pure bred German Shepherd puppies, fully vaccinated and de-wormed- Call:6822148/655-8674 Air brush machine, nail station, hood dryer, single cupboard, stove iron set, hair & nail productsCall:625-8522 1 RZ Rotor 6,000, 192 Drum 4,500, 192 Fender, Trunk, door- Call:654-6394 Net work printer & copier. HP colour laser jet 4700Call:223-1719 Dell laptops & desktops complete computers from $45,000 Futuretech call: 2312206 One new model Tacoma, one 12ft Aluminum boat & one 14ft Aluminum boatCall:220-1981/641-6162 (1) Music set with (3) power amps with a total of 5,500 watts etc. Price negotiable. For information Call:682-3481
Potting Soil and quality cow mould- Call:656-1326/6780058 ALL-IN-ONE PRINTER/ SCANNER/ FAX/ COPIER $22,000 EACH- CALL:6509999 1 German Roller & 1 Hauler Truck (Low bed)Contact:681-2995 1 Honda ATV 450 bikeCall:626-3817 Video recording spy pen $6,500- Call:671-6177 Premium and slightly damaged corrugated zinc sheet- Call Tel: 226-7054 (2) Toyota Tundra, year 2003 & 2006. (1) F150 year 1997 & (1) Suzuki E90- Call:227-8519/ 653-4287 Ice machine, smoothie machine & small fridgesCall:231-0655/683-8734 Outboard engines, Mercury 150, Force 75HP- Call:2278519/653-4287 Portable arch and welding sets, air compressors, vacuum cleaners & Power washers- Call:227-8519/6534287
Energy saver bulbs - Call: 680-6374 Live/pluck chicken-Call:6504421/220-9203 Honda, Ridgid, grass cutter, Stihl, Robin etc. Call:227-8519 or 653-4287
VERSAILLES: Furnished 5 bedrooms, self-contained rooms, modern facilities, g e n e r a t o r, beautiful landscape, gated community- Call: 592-6248704/ 592-684-9203 One Charlestown property with business potential- Call: 673-5882 ‘BB’ Eccles- Concrete house 3 bedrooms upstairs, downstairs 2 self contained apartments, 2 bedrooms each toilet & bath $28M- Call:2278409/660-4764 Robb Street $125M, Kitty $30M, Section ‘K’ $40M, Princess Street $62M- Call Diana @227-2256/626-9382 Prime property with business potential close to Leonora Primary School public road- Call:652-0709/ 268-3572
Plastic fuel drums (55 gal)Contact Nicky:226-7948/6466000
Weeding machines $35,000Call:223-1719
Pitbulls 16 weeks old $25,000contact 619-1570/ Beckles Lumber yard 1- 5705 John Deere tractor, 1Rome plough 20 dish, 1- 1630 Bedford truck articulated with 2 trailer- Call:693-4596
WANTED One experience hairdresser to work at P&P Beauty Salon, Eccles. Contact: 645-3010, 639-7672, 619-0007.
New ATVs: Introductory price $1,450,000 (Duty Free)Call:691-0234
Experience Taxi driversCall:667-9013/627-9424
New 2013 Isuzu: D-Max single & double cabsCall:691-0234 1 Leyland DAF 60 single axle & dump- Call:216-1315/ 613-6615 1- AA60 Carina- Call:6895254/643-0332 (2) AT 170 Carina and Corona both EFI automatic, fully powered $580,000 eachCall:619-1047 Sand truck for sale- Call:6861616 or 255-0690 One Toyota Minibus BJJ series, price $650,000 negotiable- Call:682-9003/ 621-0161 Mitsubishi Galant $1.1MCall:645-3605 1 Low Bed (hauler & trailer), 1 Freight Liner Hauler, 1-48ft trailer- Call:613-6979 Smart Choice Auto: Premio, Allion, IST, Runx, FielderCall:652-3820/665-4529 1 Toyota Allion PNN seriesCall:225-0709 Best 2007 Nissan Titan flair, trunk cover, 22" mags, air brush $3.5M- call:674-9593 AT192, 212, Allion, Premio, Audi, BNN RZ mini buses, AT170, Marino. Cash or terms- Call:680-3154
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One RZ minibus for saleCall:601-2144 1 White 2004 Premio 38,000km, PPP series, chrome rims, music set & all accessories$3.2M neg- Call: 6616793 (Owner migrating) ALYEA’S AUTO SALE: PREMIO 2002/2003, AXIO 2008. ALL PRICES ARE NEG. 40 CROAL STREET STABROEK- TEL:2317284/622-3823
1 Gold land @ PotaroCall:628-7605
Pit Bull puppies for sale, parents from TrinidadCall:624-7991
Diving Suits- Call:265-3449/ 613-5158
Kitty $30M, Queenstown $26M, Robb Street $125M, Prashad Nagar $39M- Call Diana 227-2256/626-9382
Hand tools, drills, saws, car ruffen, house holder speakers and lots more itemsCall:227-8519/653-4287
Hifi Sound Connection: Car Audio, Pro Audio, complete sound system powered boxesCall:610-1230/673-5828
Playstation games $3,000 each-Call:223-1719
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2006 UNREGISTERED PREMIO FULLY LOADED $2.8M.2003UNREGISTERED SPACIO BODY KIT, FULLY LOADED $2.25M- CALL: 642-7295/ 617-2891
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Contract Cars @ Gem’s TaxiCall:667-9013/627-9424 Female worker needed, 3 CXC subject or sound secondary school education- Call:612-1595 CASHIERS WITH COMPUTERKNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE ONLY AND SALE PERSONS @ BUILDING MATERIAL DEPOT- CALL:231-8529 Boys to learn mechanical trade, attractive salary. Preferably from the W.C.D and W.B.D- Call:697-3756/ 616-6007 1 Maid to work half day. Must produce a medical. $10,000 per week & must know to make puri- call:619-1570
One room mate to share apartment. Preferably working person- Call:6825798 Looking for contract car preferably Wagon, Raum or Fielder- Call:682-5798 Experience Graphic ArtistCall:225-1445/225-1478 Labourer to work on concession. Accommodation provided $5,000 per day. Also chainsaw operator (Call 9am-4pm)-Tel:612-1082 Cook/ counter Call:223-1719
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HOUSEKEEPING STAFF FOR HOTEL- CALL:2257372/602 0945 Contract cars @ Atlas Taxi Service, South Ruimveldt Gardens- Call:661-3043 50 5D engine- Call:642-6664
1 Motor Rewinder. Must have knowledge of rewinding three phase motor- Contact Latchman Singh Rewinding Service 622-3940 Urgently needed live-in waitresses to work in Bar reasonable salary offeredCall:259-0574 Bill writers and porters to work in Grocery stall, Stabroek market- Tel:2269800/683-9500 1 Office assistant with own transportation & 1 Security Guard. Apply with written application @ Comfortsleep 49 Eccles Industrial, E.B.D Porter age 18-30 apply in person to Hardware Emporium 78 Church Street, Georgetown. Between (National Library & GT&T) Live in waitress- Call:6439007/ 697-2978
CAR RENTAL Wings Car Rental- Call:6431131 Aidan’s Car Rental & Pickup- Call: 645-7981/ 6987807 Premio, vitz call: 679-7139 Dolly’s Car Rental- Call: 225-7126/ 226-3693dollysautorental@yahoo.com/ www.dollysautorental.com First Choice Car Rental: Cars as low as $5,000 per day- Call:668-0306/6947817/225-6337
Live In Live Out Babysitter Domestic- Call:225-6070 One live in & one live out babysitter from 12-8pmCall:225-6070
Make Up Courses, Artist Trained & Certified in Trinidad. Call: 660-5257, 647-1773 FOR RENT Fully furnished apartment in Nandy Park, suitable for a single person or coupleCall:619-4824 for further information.
Experienced Dispatcher, contract cars & drivers- Call: 613-0419.
WANTED Urgently needed 1 plot of land to buy in Parfaite Harmony, Eccles & Herstelling- Call:675-7295/ 218-5591
LEARN TO DRIVE Soman & Sons Driving School , First Federation Building Call 225-4858, 6445166,622-2872,615-0964
Sales Representative. Apply in person with written application @ Rite Price Wireless stall 13&14 ‘A’ Bourda Market Attractive live in WaitressCall:228-5129
TOUR Suriname return trip 12-16 October. Shopping site-seeing lots of fun- Call:644-0185/ 639-2663/227-8290/665-5171 (Continued on page 23)
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FOR RENT
LAND FOR SALE
Rooms- Call:225-9223
One land located on Princess street, Georgetown for sale- Call:601-2144
Coolers and ScaffoldingCall:657-0424
FOR SALE Pumpet and Tibetian Terrior pup. Call: 619-6086/699-7077
VACANCY One professional seamstress & one frame builder- Call: 610-7005/ 2191342 Car wash attendantCall:694-4148 or 225-6296 24 Hour East Coast Guyoil needs night pump attendants, salesgirl & office assistantCall: 663-1751/684-2838 1 Female Clerk- Call:231-5171 1 Whole day Domestic- Call: 667-5717/ 650-4761 (between 7am to 6pm) Jump Start your Career!!! Phone: 220-0401-3 or 220-3488 to schedule your Interview Or Email:recruitment_guyana@ qualfon.com Albion Truck DriverCall:330-2399/623-5920
SERVICES Permanent & Visitors Visa Applications, Profressional Immigration Consultant Room D5 Maraj Building Call:225-6496,6626045,223-8115
To rent 2 Bedrooms fully furnished Short term apartment- Call:222-7891/ 609-9202
Professional and affordable landscaping and tree trimming services. Budram’s Landscaping ServicesCall:656-1326/678-0058
Apartments to rent US$500 upward- Contact:223-8479/ 647-3768 www.spaceseek.gy
Repairs, sales & spares air conditioning, microwaves, washer, fridges & stoves. Ultra Cool, call:225-9032,647-2943 We repair fridge, freezer, AC, washer, dryer call:2310655,683-8734 Omar HOUSE PLAN DRAFTING FOR ONLY $10,000CALL:694-9843/227-2766
Vacancy exists for welders. Apply at Alabama Trading Georgetown Ferry Stelling Vacancy exists for Accounts Clerk. Apply at Alabama Trading Georgetown Ferry Stelling Experienced roti/puri cooks, pastry makers, counter servers, cleaners & handy boys. Apply @ Hack’s Halaal 5 Commerce Street Male janitorial clerk between the ages 18-25 at American Xchange Barber shop. Interested persons Contact 225-3644/643-7339 Pump Attendant & Cashier @Shell Service Station Providence, E.B.D. Must be able to work shift (5am-3pm & 3pm-12pm)- Call:265-7305
(1)- One bedroom apartment @ ‘B’ Field Sophia $40,000Call:661-3801
Houses to rent- Contact:2238479/647-3768 www. spaceseek.gy 329 acres of land on Linden Highway- Contact:223-8479/ 647-3768
Tattoo & body piercing @ Halema’s Fashion 104 Regent street next door to the Multicomplex MallCall:622-7740/696-4008 We Refill HP cartridges for $1800 call: 650-7699
TO LET Fully furnished Vacation home with all amenitiesCall during working hours227-1218 Fully furnished short term apartments, Eccles call: 679-7139 Secret Villa apartment, fully furnished apartments Landof-Canaan E.B.D- Call:2665243/266-5245
VACANCY Gardener/ Handyman $3,000 per day & domestic/cook $2,500 per day to work in New Providence- Call:265-7550 Secretary/ assistant @ Berbice-Call:622-6355 (1) Customs Clerk (3) subjects CXC (English, Mathematics & must be computer literate). Due 1110-13. Contact 669-6874/6823481/ windsortechhomes @gmail.com
One kitchen/ canteen at Secret Villa apartments, Land of Canaan, E.B.D- Call:6680306/689-5838 Diamond $35,000, Campbellville $100,000, Bel-Air $80,000- US$1000, Atlantic Gardens US$900- Call Diana @227-2256/ 626-9382 1 Upstairs for business or offices- Call:223-9727/673-0373 Newly built apartmentCall:698-6496
4- Semi skilled labourers & 1 diesel mechanic. Apply in person @ Technical Services Inc. Eccles Industrial Site
Campbellville $100,000, BelAir $80,000, Lamaha Gardens US$1200, Atlantic Gardens US$900- Call Diana 227-2256/ 626-9382
2 Cashiers/ office clerks (computer literate) & 2 porters. Apply with written application @ May’s Shopping Centre, 98 Regent St. Georgetown
Harmony Inn: Apartments fully furnished, airconditioned apartments: As low as $5000 per night- Call: 668-0306/602-8769/694-7817
Trainee refrigeration & AC technician- Call:231-0655/ 683-8734
Parfaite Harmony $1.2MCall:675-7292 50x200 riverside Land for sale @ 46 Friendship, E.B.DCall: 216-2654/ 1-917-6225810 2 Medium scale mining properties in Frenchman (843 acres) and Mahdia Potaro (79 acres)- Call:2591264 Monogomery Stuart Waiakabra, Linden Highway: 1,409’x403’ or 13.73 acres. Concrete house thereon. 1,100 feet from Highway- Call:619-4152 Gold land at EkeurkuCall:223-1719/info at iksservices.com Bel-Air 40x20 $28MCall:223-1719
Lessons or storage bond @ Vreed-en-Hoop junctionCall: 680-9905
Cellphone repairs at Halema’s Fashion 104 Regent street next door to the Multicomplex MallCall:622-7740/696-4008
Sales person for Plant Shop 18-25 years. Must have secondary education- Call between 8:00am-4:00pmTel:648-1821 Evening Salesgirls (1:15pm10:30pm), Cashiers & cleaners. Send application & passport sized photograph @ Survival Shopping Complex 173 Sheriff St. Call:227-5286-89
Upper flat apartment and shop below for rental at 66 Broad Street CharlestownCall:225-8305/661-7527
FOR SALE/RENT American Pool Table - Call: 277-0578
EDUCATIONAL I.A.E (Camp street): Forms 1-5, lessons & adult CXC classes: Maths, English, Business & Science- Call :223-0604/ 683-5742 Electronic Course- hands on training. Starting 2nd October. Abdul electronicsCall:226-655/225-0391 Kids Computer Courses $4000 monthly @ MicroGraphics Technology Vreed-En-Hoop- Call: 264-3057 Advance Diploma in computer technology: Windows7, Office 2013 6 months course @ MicroGraphics Technology Vreed-EnHoop- Call: 264-3057 Institute of Academic Supremacy East Street forms 1-5. Adult CXC classes: Maths, English A, Science & BusinessCall:226-8468/ 690-5008 Hooked on Phonics classes for children and adult classes- Call:694-0689 Interested persons in Indian dance classes on E.C.D and E.B.D- Call Shellita 628-6855 Enroll Now! Critchlow Labour College: Industrial & Social Studies, care for the Elderly & CommunicationCall:226-2483 FOR RENT 2 bedrooms cottage @ 526 11th Street Dazzel H/S, E.C.D. $40,000 per month, preferably person with transportation - Call:614-1723
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Tuesday October 01, 2013
School boy freed Remigrant now in charge of solid waste disposal in Berbice in vigilante murder .... plans in pipeline for processing plant
Advanced Environmental Solutions at work in New Amsterdam Garbage collected from Berbicians will soon undergo processing at a processing plant at which plastics, electronics and glass will be separated. The plastics will be washed and shredded while the other kinds of garbage will be pushed into a landfill site at Belle View, East Bank Berbice. This will take place by year end, according to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Advanced Environmental Solutions of Princess Elizabeth Road, New Amsterdam, Mr. Zaheer Osman who plans to undertake such an operation. Yesterday, the remigrant from Orlando, Florida said that
he has chosen to return to Guyana and invest here in the area of solid waste disposal. Advanced Solutions was awarded the contract by the Local Government Ministry after the government terminated the contract of Concept Solid Waste because that company failed to meet the requirements stipulated by the contract. ‘Advanced’ also has the job for garbage collection and disposal from Number 1 Road to Mara along the East Bank of Berbice, giving that company the task of collecting and disposing of most of the garbage and sold waste in Region Six. “When we collect
garbage it’s all mixed up. Pickers will go through—kind of like sorting the garbage— and take out the plastic bottles, glass bottles, and electronics. Once that’s done, the plastic is sent to the processing area to be washed and shredded and the rest pushed into the landfill site,” Osman said. Osman stated that by November he hopes to acquire another piece of garbage collecting equipment to improve and boost the services. “The response is growing. The more they [people] see the truck in the area, the more trust they are getting for the company. Like
every week the numbers are growing.” The company started operations here in June. “Anybody can open their eyes and see proper waste disposal was what the country needs. It’s a basic infrastructural need,” he stated. Currently, Osman is temporarily utilizing the Mayor & Town Council (M&TC) Municipal dumpsite but hopes that the Belle View location-which is his own sitewill be ready for use within two weeks. After that, the municipal dumpsite will be ordered closed. “I have another vehicle coming in at the beginning of November.”
GuyExpo 2013... Systems
in place to improve comfort of patrons Persons participating in GuyExpo 2013 will be relieved to know that more is being done to increase their comfort and quality of experience. The Ministry of Tourism and coordinators tasked with implementing and making GuyExpo successful have put in place among other things, mechanisms such as a GuyExpo Taxi Service, strategic medical outposts and inspections for food handlers who will be selling food to patrons. Speaking a b o u t these developments to Kaieteur News yesterday was GuyExpo Event Coordinator Tameca Sukhdeo-Singh. She explained that their committee, in collaboration with the Taxi Drivers Association has implemented a GuyExpo taxi service for persons attending the event. She explained that this decision was twofold; Firstly, to remedy the exploitation that commuters have suffered at the hands of taxi drivers who during the four day GuyExpo event increase their fares by “100 even 200 per cent,” knowing that commuters are forced with no
other choice but to pay for the services. As such five taxi services (Sherriff, Double O seven, Green Ice, GR and RRT) have been contracted to operate at this year’s GuyExpo. These services will be outfitted with the GuyExpo logo and will be charging the normal rate that commuters would pay on any given day. According to Singh, the second reason for putting the taxi services in place; is to address the annual problem of congestion which plagues the event. With taxi services readily available Singh posited that it would help in reducing the large buildup of persons who ‘mill’ around waiting for transportation. Further, on the issue of congestion, the Event Coordinator said that in order to decrease the buildup of persons waiting to enter the ‘Expo’, two additional pedestrian entrances will be provided, one adjacent to the main entrance, and the other adjacent to Garnett Street. With respect to the medical outposts, Singh highlighted that there will be three-one main and two
Jafar Seeteram, 18, of Rose Hall Town, Corentyne, Berbice who was on trial with five others for the vigilante murder of Corentyne resident, Alfred Munroe, called “Guana Man”, 45 of Manchester, Corentyne, on Thursday April 9 last, at Bound Yard, Port Mourant, Corentyne, Berbice has been freed. On Monday the teenager walked out of the Whim Magistrate’s Court a free man after Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh upheld no case submission by Attorney at law Mursaline Bacchus. Attorney at Law Bacchus argued that there was no evidence to link Seetaram to the murder. This was after the prosecution had closed its case. Bacchus who is also representing Randolph Samuel is expected to make another no case submission. Also on trial for the murder is Randolph Samuel called ‘Rudy’ 22; Aris Cecil 21, of Port Mourant; Richard Griffith, called ‘Buck Head’ 19; Michael Lewis, called ‘Mickey’ 31; and Khruhnaraj Jagdeo, 47, all of Rose Hall Town, Corentyne. Also in court yesterday defence attorney Sanjeev Datadin who is representing four of the other accused made no case submissions.
Stall being erected at the GuyExpo Site.
secondary- in the event that medical attention is required by persons attending. The outposts will be strategically positioned to cover the whole venue. These facilities will be fitted with doctors, nurses and a fully equipped ambulance, according to Singh. In previous years, the Guyana Red Cross provided the medical services at the event, however, this year the Ministry of Health has come
on board and is sponsoring the outposts. Singh says worth of note, is the fact that there have never been any medical complications since GuyExpo began in 1995; a situation that the coordinators expressed optimism will remain the same. Ms. Singh said that they will be working with the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) to ensure that stall owners will be inspected and certified to prepare and
handle food for the patrons who will be present. She reminded that tickets are on sale, and is encouraging patrons to buy early to avoid a crowd build up at the venue. Tickets can be uplifted at Churches Chicken, Lucky Dollar, Ashmins and N&S Mattai, Survival and Nigel Supermarkets. The event which will run for four days is scheduled to start on Thursday October 3.
Jafar Seeteram Prosecutor Corporal Sherlock King is expected to give a response when the matter continues on October 7. On that date attorney Charles Ramson Jr is also expected to make a submission. . The prosecution which is being led by Corporal Sherlock King called nine witnesses, including police officers, Detective Corporals Primus Sam, Andrew Ward, Detective constables Eustace Leitch, Emanuel Ragnauth. Lawrence Gray, the dead man’s son and civilians’ witnesses, Milton Ramphal, Nizam Khan and Shazeena Khan, testified to seeing the accused beating Munroe. Dr Vivikanand Brijmohan was also among those testifying in court. The case for the prosecution was that on the day in question the men are alleged to have beaten Munroe and one Annie Persaud called “Short Hair” 18, of Rose Hall, Corentyne and tied them with rope before placing them in the trunk of a car and driving away. The incident allegedly took place around 07:30hrs. The court heard that as the beating was taking place, passersby objected and urged the perpetrators to take the two badly injured persons to the nearest police station which was a stone throw away. However, the perpetrators refused and dumped the victims in their car trunk and sped away. When ranks arrived on the scene and were told what transpired the police went in search of the car and intercepted the vehicle at Williamsburg, Corentyne. They found Munroe and Persaud in the trunk of the vehicle tied with rope and with visible signs of injuries about their bodies. They were taken to the Port Mourant Hospital where Munroe succumbed to his injuries while Persaud was treated and sent away. Persaud has since died following an accident on Sunday June 30, at Port Mourant Corentyne Berbice.
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Syria at U.N. compares militant onslaught to 9/11 attacks (Reuters) - Syria’s foreign minister yesterday compared what he described as an invasion of foreign terrorists across his country to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, remarks that Washington dismissed as offensive and disingenuous. In a speech to the annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem also said that “terrorists from more than 83 countries are engaged in the killing of our people and our army under the appeal of global Takfiri jihad.” “There is no civil war in Syria, but it is a war against terror that recognizes no values, nor justice, nor equality, and disregards any rights or laws,” Moualem said. The United Nations says more than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria’s 21/2 year conflict. It began in March 2011 when the government tried to crush pro-democracy protests and eventually became a full-scale war. Now more than half of Syria’s 20 million people need aid. “The people of New York have witnessed the devastations of terrorism, and were burned with the fire of extremism and bloodshed, the
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid alMoualem same way we are suffering now in Syria,” Moualem said, referring to the September 11 attacks that brought down the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon. “How can some countries, hit by the same terrorism we are suffering now in Syria, claim to fight terrorism in all parts of the world, while supporting it in my country?” he said. The U.S. mission to the United Nations responded angrily, saying Moualem’s comment was “as disingenuous as it is offensive,” adding that his statements “have no credibility.” “The fact that the Syrian regime has shelled schools
and hospitals and used chemical weapons on its own people demonstrates that it has adopted the very terrorist tactics that it today decried,” said Erin Pelton, spokeswoman for the U.S. mission. Assad’s government accuses Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Britain, France and the United States of arming, financing and training rebel forces in Syria. Moualem dismissed the idea that there are moderate rebels in Syria, which Western nations say are the ones they intend to support. “The claims about the existence of moderate militants and extremist militants have become a bad joke,” he told the 193-nation assembly. “Terrorism means only terrorism. It cannot be classified as moderate terrorism and extremist terrorism.” Moualem also referred to video footage on the Internet earlier this year of one rebel fighter eating what appeared to be the heart of a government soldier. “The scenes of murder, manslaughter and eating human hearts were shown on TV screens, but did not touch blind consciences,” he said. “There are innocent civilians whose heads are put on the grill just because they violate the extremist ideology and deviant views of al Qaeda. “In Syria ... there are murderers who dismember human bodies into pieces while still alive and send their limbs to their families, just because those citizens are defending a unified and secular Syria,” Moualem said. Earlier this month U.N. human rights investigators said hard-line Syrian rebels and foreign fighters invoking jihad, or holy war, have stepped up killings, executions and other abuses in northern Syria since July. Last week the U.N. Security Council achieved a rare moment of unity on the Syrian war by passing a resolution demanding the elimination of Syria’s chemical arsenal by mid-2014. Assad’s ally Russia supported the resolution, which was based on a U.S.-Russian plan agreed upon in Geneva. Moualem said the Syrian government is committed to fulfilling its obligations after having acceded to the Chemical Weapons Convention that bans the use of such weapons. But he repeated the government’s position that it is the rebels who have been using poison gas, not forces loyal to Assad.
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Canadian envoy to T&T hits back after MP’s attack (Trinidad Express) Canadian High Commissioner Gerard Latulippe said Sunday he was “deeply offended” by Opposition MP Colm Imbert’s “personal attack” on him in Parliament on Friday. “Mr Imbert’s Googlebased speech in an irresponsible manner tarnished me personally, and my reputation as representative to Canada,” Latulippe told the Express in an interview at his residence in Maraval. Imbert moved a motion in Parliament on Friday calling on the Government to terminate all contractual arrangements with controversial Canadian construction firm SNCLavalin. In his speech, Imbert noted that Latulippe had been Solicitor General for Quebec and resigned in 1987 because of “allegations of conflict of interest and improper practices”. While Latulippe was Solicitor General (also known as the Minister for Public Security), the law firm at which he previously worked was alleged to have been awarded contracts from his ministry totalling Can$83,000. “I never resigned for conflict of interest; never for a breach of integrity, but rather because of my integrity. I resigned as minister for an appearance of conflict of interest. I wanted the
democratic institutions to be completely free to do work and investigate whether the contracts were given according to the law. I did not want it to be seen that as minister I could have intervened. The facts presented (by Imbert) are not accurate, not complete,” Latulippe said. He said after he resigned, a parliamentary committee was appointed to investigate the matter. The contracts that had been awarded were submitted and the committee found every contract was granted correctly, according to rules, he added. Latulippe said the experience was one of the worst of his life, and after that he decided to leave politics. “What I see today is a precedent that a diplomat
doing his work as a representative of a country for the reason of doing his work and duty is personally attacked for reasons related to internal politics. I have been all my life in public space. When you do that you face... small politics. So the price is to accept to be attacked, even personally. In T&T, what matters to me is to support and enhance if possible the strong relationship between this country and Canada,” he said. He said he had not spoken to Imbert since the MP’s Parliament presentation, but he noted that he had invited Imbert for a meeting to explain the findings about SNCLavalin by the Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC). “He refused. I was surprised; I believe in a democracy it is important for both the government and Opposition to have an understanding of all the angles. If he had accepted he could have also asked by about what he found on Google,” Latulippe. He noted that Imbert would have made his statements under the privilege of parliamentary immunity. “Freedom of expression even under parliamentary immunity bears responsibility and respect for human rights,” Latulippe said.
(Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday he was expelling three U.S. diplomats he accused of meeting with opposition leaders and seeking to destabilize the OPEC nation. “I’ve told the foreign minister ... to proceed with their immediate expulsion
from the country. They have 48 hours to leave the country,” Maduro said during a televised broadcast. “Get out of Venezuela! Gringos go home! ... I’m not going to allow any action that stirs violence in this country.” The U.S. Embassy in Caracas did not have any immediate comment on the
announcement. Maduro has for weeks been denouncing a Wa s h i n g t o n - b a c k e d “economic war” that has led to product shortages and blackouts. His critics say those problems are the result of an inefficient currency control system and underinvestment in the country’s power grid.
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced its approval of the first review of Jamaica’s four-year Extended Fund Facility arrangement clearing the way for a second drawdown from the multilateral body. The ministry of finance says the approval also paves the way for support from other multilateral development partners, including the Inter-American
Development Bank and the World Bank. It also says the Board was advised by the Fund’s staff of a revised date for the tabling of the Omnibus Incentives Legislation. The ministry says Jamaica remains on track to meet all the quantitative targets for the quarter ending September 30. And it says it expects that it will successfully complete the second review which is
expected to go to the IMF Executive Board for approval before the end of December. Minister of Finance and Planning Dr Peter Phillips will make a statement in the House of Representatives today on the status of the IMF programme. The Extended Fund Facility arrangement amounts to $615.3-$8 million in special drawing rights, or about US$932.3 million.
Canadian High Commissioner to T&T, Gerard Latulippe
Venezuela says it’s expelling three U.S. diplomats for ‘stirring violence’
IMF Board approves first review of four-year arrangement with Jamaica
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Four cases of H1N1 flu in Barbados
Acting Chief Medical Officer, Dr Elizabeth Ferdinand The Ministry of Health has confirmed there are four cases of influenza A H1N1 in Barbados, with one death among these cases. News of this comes following results from the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) in Trinidad which tested ten samples which were sent to them last week. The other six samples were negative for the H1N1 virus. Acting Chief Medical Officer, Dr Elizabeth Ferdinand said the best way to reduce transmission of the virus was by practising good respiratory hygiene measures. “Keep disposable tissue handy, so that you can cover your nose and mouth when coughing and sneezing, or use your elbow. Used tissue should be discarded in a covered garbage can or placed in a plastic bag. Frequent and proper hand washing is essential and we should avoid touching our eyes, nose or mouth as germs can enter our body this way,”
she said. She advised those persons who may be exhibiting flu-like symptoms (i.e. fever, coughing and sore throat) to avoid being out in public and to stay away from work or school until fever free for 24 hours without the use of fever reducing medication. If the symptoms persist and worsen, she notes, then these persons should go to their doctor or polyclinic. The acting CMO stressed that sick children “must not be sent to day care”, adding that where higher risk categories are concerned – pregnant persons, children under five years of age, persons over 65 years of age, and those with chronic medical conditions, including asthma and other lung conditions, sickle cell anaemia, heart disease, diabetes, and any other condition which may weaken the immune system –should seek medical attention at the onset of the symptoms. Ferdinand also indicated that the country had
adequate supplies of Tamiflu which is recommended for persons in high risk groups, and those who need hospitalisation. In addition, the Ministry of Health is expecting a shipment of the seasonal influenza vaccine today, she added. This vaccine contains the H1N1 virus and will be offered to frontline workers in the public sector and persons in high risk groups. Ferdinand reiterated that most persons who suffer from influenza will experience only mild illness and will recover in three to five days without the need for medical attention. The senior health official said the Ministry of Health would be intensifying its public awareness efforts through various media as a way of sensitizing the public about the do’s and don’ts in relation to Influenza A H1N1. Ferdinand encouraged members of the public to cooperate with public health guidelines as was done during the 2009 Influenza Pandemic. “Your cooperation and support helped us to effectively respond at that time. The same level of response will help us to manage this current challenge,” she emphasised. Influenza A H1N1 is caused by a virus that was first brought to the attention of the global community in 2009. The Caribbean Public Health Agency recently reported that the H1N1 virus is the most commonly identified influenza virus circulating in the Caribbean Region. (Ministry of Health/ CL/BGIS)
No need for alarm - CARPHA Port of Spain, Trinidad – The Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has sought to quell fears of an outbreak of the deadly HINI influenza virus in the region, noting that the Caribbean, like other regions in the Americas, experiences seasonal influenza activity. In a statement, CARPHA said that improved health monitoring by the ministries of health “is providing more timely and detailed information on viruses currently circulating in the region. “This has resulted in the recent confirmation by the Caribbean Public Health Agency of the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus from samples received from St Vincent,” the
statement said, adding the identification of 2009 H1N1 influenza virus from persons seen at health care facilities in St. Vincent is “as a result of the increased investment by Ministries of Health, CARPHA and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in laboratory services and surveillance”. Over the weekend, Barbados health authorities denied there is an “outbreaks or suspicion of outbreaks” of Avian Influenza, commonly known, as Bird Flu on the island. Senior Veterinary Officer in the Ministry of Agriculture, Dr Mark Trotman, said that recent media reports had made reference to H1N1 and that the error had caused problems for the island.
“There have been some reports in the media about (an) outbreak of influenza H1N1 in St. Vincent and an influenza-like illness in Barbados, and it has been erroneously referred to as Bird Flu, which has created a number of challenges for us in the Veterinary Services Department with respect to international trade issues and international opinion about the status of the health of the animals and the birds in Barbados,” he said. Trotman said that one of the strongest animal surveillance programmes on the island was that of Avian Influenza and that if a case had been detected it would have been reported immediately to the World Organization for Animal Health. (CMC)
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SA players want CSA... Ageday, Braithwaite unbeaten in Mackeson Fight Nights
From page 32 the game and will be affected by whatever happens,” he said, explaining the impact is two-fold. “It’s not just a financial thing, it’s also about the opportunity to play in in a high-profile Test series and substantial limited-overs competitions.” The South Africa Test team, ranked No. 1 in the world, has not played a match since February. They were due a bumper summer including two Tests against Pakistan and three each against India and Australia in a bid to extend their lead at the top of the rankings. “This is the best Test team we have ever had and it’s a very settled
unit. They need to be playing in order to keep that momentum,” Irish said. While seven ODIs were considered overkill, the financial gains would have benefitted South Africa’s smaller grounds. Should the tour be curtailed, which seems a certainty in light of India’s other series against West Indies and New Zealand, South African cricket could lose up to R200 million (US$20 million). Irish and the players are not the only people who want to see the issue sorted out. South Africa’s provincial affiliates are anxious to know who will host matches and even Richardson expressed
concern. “The ICC does not like the fact that two of its strongest members are in dispute. Historically, South Africa and India have been the strongest of allies. The game needs both,” he told South Africa’s Sunday Times. The FTP is a non-binding agreement and should countries not reach consensus over the composition of tours, the ICC requires them to play a minimum of two Tests and three ODIs. It looks increasingly likely that maybe that’s all South Africa will get out of India this summer, although Graeme Smith’s team would obviously like more.
Thursday October 1, 2013 ARIES (Mar. 21- April 20) Alienation may be the result of a misunderstanding. Your boss may be on the rampage and you certainly don't want to be the one to take the brunt of a bad situation. Travel will promote romantic connections. TAURUS (Apr. 21- may 21) Someone may be trying to take advantage of you. Your high enthusiasm will be sure to inspire anybody around you. Be careful that you aren't saddled with the responsibilities of others. GEMINI (May 22-June 21) You can make extra money. Rewards will be yours if you put in the overtime required. Believe in yourself and so will those who count. You may be admired by colleagues and employers for your diplomatic way of handling your work and those you work with. CANCER (June 22-July 22) Don't take advantage of your expense account. Don't prejudge. You may get drawn into a personal situation that will not be to your liking. Look for something entertaining to do. You've got that competitive edge. LEO (July 23-Aug 22) You will have a problem dealing with groups. Your self esteem will benefit. Friends will be loyal and caring. Travel is evident, but be cautious while in transit. VIRGO (Aug. 23 -Sept. 23) Insincere gestures of friendliness are likely to occur. You need to make changes that will raise your self esteem, such as a new hairstyle or a new image.
LIBRA (Sept. 24 -Oct. 23) Moneymaking opportunities will surface. Don't be too quick to sign documents. Get on with business. SCORPIO (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22) Your high energy and discipline will enable you to complete any seemingly insurmountable tasks. Escapist tendencies may lead to overindulgence. You will make new friends through physical activities. SAGIT (Nov. 23 -Dec. 21) Your ability to be practical in business will help. Get together with friends for some competitive physical activities. Try not to spend too much on children or entertainment. CAPRI (Dec 22.- Jan. 20) Don't be afraid to speak in defense of others. Investments that deal with property will pay off but could cause conflict with some family members. A second chance will result in good work. AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 -Feb. 19) Focus on your own domestic problems. In-laws or relatives may oppose your personal intentions. Minor accidents could cause trauma and major setbacks. PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20) You can get a lot done if you get your hands on the right equipment. Don't let individuals with wild schemes talk you into a financial deal that is not likely to be successful. You will be emotional about family matters.
- heads to Berbice atop Middleweight, Junior Welterweight divisions By Edison Jefford Marvin Ageday scored a controversial split decision win against William Hendricks Sunday night at the National Cultural Centre tarmac when the Mackeson Fight Night continued with night two of the inaugural amateur boxing open-air contest. Ageday won two of the three rounds even though Hendricks knocked him down in the final round to come away with the win in the Middleweight division and increase his record to two wins following his victory against Kevin Rodney in Linden. His win Sunday night will keep his hope of topping the Division alive when the Mackeson Fight Night wraps up in Berbice this weekend. Rodney left the division wide open after he defeated Trevon King, who won against
Hendricks last weekend, with a unanimous decision Sunday night. The Ageday and Hendricks bout was the featured of the evening, and sparked lots of banter from a very vocal crowd. Hendricks was the busier opponent in the two latter rounds even though he was subjected to some flush combinations from Ageday. In what seemed to be an even contest after two rounds, Hendricks went on the offensive to gain the advantage, forcing patrons to shout “beat him William, beat him”, which forced a lusty blow from Hendricks that put Ageday on the canvas in the final round. However, Ageday would himself force a mandatory eight-count, which seemed to level the score after a nippy right-hand combination. For the laymen, it looked as if
Hendricks had secured the win, but the judges’ scorecards told a different story. In the Middleweight division thus far after two cards, Ageday remains unbeaten, while King and Rodney have a win and a loss each. Hendricks is yet to score anything in the win column ahead of one remaining card in the Ancient County. Ron Smith defeated Clifton Graham in the Welterweight division while Bert Braithwaite kept his unbeaten record intact with a unanimous decision against Aquincy Harvey in the Junior Welterweight division, which places him on a collision course with Kurt Kendall, who lost a unanimous decision to Kelon King. In the Lightweight division, Stephan Gouveia knocked out Kevin Ting-AKee, who had given a spirited account of himself in Linden, in round two to end the fight. Gouveia is unbeaten in the category while Clairmont Gibson, who outlasted TingA-Kee last week, lost a split decision to Anandram Dharamraj. Gouveia had beaten Dharamraj last week.
Everton too... From page 33 Their first goal came after five minutes when Belgium international Kevin Mirallas left Newcastle full-back Davide Santon in the blocks and sped down the right flank before delivering a low ball for his compatriot Lukaku. The 20-year-old, on loan from Chelsea, produced enough power with his strike at the near post to beat Tim Krul. Everton came close to doubling the lead straight from the restart, when Barkley’s snap-shot whistled past the left-hand upright. The England international was on loan at Sheffield Wednesday last season, but has been given a key role in midfield this season by new manager Martinez. His close control is brilliant for a 19-year-old and he made the Newcastle midfield pair of Moussa Sissoko and Cheick Tiote look like sluggish veterans. The Everton youngster scored his side’s second with a well-placed finish from 15 yards after Lukaku showed both his physical superiority and craft in one move to turn his marker and set up the chance. The first two goals both came as a result of poor defending, which was even worse for the third goal.
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South African cricket could lose up to R200 million (US$20 million) as India’s tour of South Africa has been curtailed © Getty Images. ESPNcricinfo - South Africa’s players would like to see an “urgent engagement” between their board, CSA, and its Indian counterpart, the BCCI, to resolve fixtures over this summer’s India series. The national team is due to leave for the UAE this Friday but their home tour against India has no confirmed itinerary after the BCCI objected to CSA’s schedule of three Tests, seven ODIs and two Twenty20s. Tony Irish, the South African Cricketer’s Association (SACA) chief executive, told ESPNcricinfo that the BCCI’s leadership structure has been formalised
following yesterday’s AGM and the players are hopeful the series can be discussed as a matter of importance. ICC chief executive Dave Richardson also spoke on the issue for the first time when he said they could not intervene in bilateral arrangements. “This is the main tour of the summer and has a massive financial implication on cricket. We are about six weeks away from it and to have it all up in the air is really worrying and frustrating,” Irish said. “The players want to see it sorted out. Until yesterday, CSA did not know who they were dealing with
at the BCCI because they had not had their election but now that that is sorted it, they need to do whatever it takes to get the discussion going.” CSA has confirmed it is awaiting the dates of a meeting with the BCCI, although it was earlier mooted that the presidents of the boards would meet at the ICC board meeting on October 16 and 17. Irish, in the meanwhile, met with all the players as part of his usual pre-season get together and said the issue of the India tour came up among many of them. “The players are stakeholders in Continued on page 31
(Reuters) - Rafa Nadal starts the final push to what he hopes will be a return to the top of the world rankings when he gets under way at the China Open today. The Spaniard has played only one singles and a doubles match since winning the U.S. Open earlier this month, during a crushing Davis Cup victory over Ukraine, and is re-energized for the final stretch of a season that started under a cloud but has turned into one of his best. Since returning from a seven-month injury lay-off in February the 27-year-old has been virtually unstoppable, winning 10 titles and compiling a 61-3 record. Novak Djokovic, who he beat in the French Open semifinals and in the U.S. Open final, remains number one but with no points to defend between now and the ATP
World Tour finals, Nadal looks a strong favorite to climb above the Serb. It could happen as soon as next Monday if Nadal at least reaches the final in Beijing, even if Djokovic wins the title. “It will be very tough to become number one,” Nadal was quoted on the ATP website (www.atpworldtour.com), although to all intents and purposes the hard work is already done. “If I am still playing the same way that I have the past couple of months, I hope to have my chance here or in the next few weeks. I am completing a great season. “I’m playing one of the best seasons of my career. That’s why I’m in a good position in the rankings and I had great successes in the important tournaments.” Djokovic has ended the year as number one for the
past two seasons but only a Nadal injury relapse looks likely to allow him to make it a third year in succession. He said he has no complaints about his imminent drop to second, although he will keep fighting. “With no doubt (Nadal) has had the best results this year,” Djokovic said. “This year, he’s been the best player in the world. I have been having ups and downs throughout this year. “But still it was quite a good season for me. But it’s not over.” Nadal begins as second seed in Beijing against Colombian Santiago Giraldo while Djokovic faces Lukas Rosol. World number three Andy Murray is missing having undergone back surgery while former world number one Roger Federer is also absent.
Nadal breathing down Djokovic’s neck in China
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Universal DVD T/20 Berbice Cricket
Bharrat slams 84 for Bush Lot Rising Star The 2013 Universal DVD First Division T/20 Cricket Competition in Berbice continued last weekend with some more rescheduled matches. Bush Lot Rising Star of West Berbice had a good day emerging victorious in both of their matches of their double header at Bush Lot in West Berbice on Friday. Leading them to their victories was Sumnath Bharrat who blasted a 36 ball 84 against Edinburgh. His knock which included 6 fours and 7 sixes together with 29 from Asif Khan - the two of them putting on 100 for the 3rd wicket off just 10.1 Overs - steered Bush Lot to 166 for 4 in their 15 Overs. When Edinburgh replied, they could not cope with pacer Dellon Joseph who took 3 for 2 from 3 Overs and offspinners Asif Khan and Javed Saywack who each had figures of 2 for 8 from 3 Overs. They were bowled out for 58 in 14 Overs.
In the second match, it was former Guyana Under-17 allrounder Keno Gravesande who took 3 for 15 and then scored 27 to lead them to an upset win over West Berbice. The next day West Berbice completed a bad weekend by suffering another upset, this time at the hands of Skeldon Community Centre despite medium pacer Keith Fraser taking 3 for 23 from 3 Overs and then opening the batting and scoring 45 N.O. In scores from the matches played: At Bush Lot, Bush Lot Rising Star beat Edinburgh by 108 runs. Winning the toss and batting first in the match which was reduced to 15 Overs-a-side because of a late start Bush Lot Rising Star 166 for 4 in 15 Overs with Sumnath Bharrat 84, Asif Khan 29, offspinner Geraish De Gees 2 for 2 from 3 Overs. Edinburgh, 58 in 14 Overs with Rocky Seebarran 20. Dellon Joseph 3 for 2, Asif Khan 3 for 8 and Javed Saywack 2 for 8.
At Bush Lot, Bush Lot Rising Star beat West Berbice by 6 wickets. West Berbice choosing to bat first made 112 all out in 17.2 Overs with Keith Fraser 25, Dellon Joseph 3 for 28 from 4 Overs, Keno Gravesande 3 for 15. Bush Lot Rising Star 113 for 4 in 17.2 Overs with Keno Gravesande 27, national pacer Keon Joseph 3 for 24 from 4 Overs, former West Indies pacer Brendon Bess 2 for 19 from 4 Overs. At Skeldon, Skeldon Community Centre beat West Berbice by 2 runs. In the match which was reduced to 13 Overs-a-side because of a late start due to late preparation, Skeldon Community Centre choosing to bat first made 99 all out in exactly 13 Overs with Totaram Ramoutar 38, Calwin France 32, Keith Fraser 3 for 23, Brendon Bess 2 for 17 from 2 Overs and former Guyana Under-19 pacer Raun Johnson 2 for 20 from 3 Overs.
Lewis on ICECP at University of Delaware
Former national player and Caribbean Men’s singles bronze medallist, Idi Lewis, who Coaches at the Malteenoes Sports Club, is currently at the University of Delaware undergoing studies for his International Coaching Enrichment Certificate Programme (ICECP). “On behalf of the (USOC) United States Olympic Committee, and the University of Delaware, we are delighted to confirm your acceptance to the ICECP that is taking place at the University of Delaware and at the US Olympic Committee Training Center,” Lewis acceptance letter stated, adding that the course will take place during September 28 - November 1. According to the document, the programme will conclude following the last module, which will take place in Lausanne, Switzerland in May next year, following which Lewis will make a public presentation of his project. “Special thanks to the Guyana Olympic Association, Godfrey Munroe on behalf of the Guyana Table Tennis Association for the opportunity. I plan to make the best of it,” Lewis told Kaieteur Sport in a brief comment from the United
Idi Lewis on his way to the University of Delaware for his ICECP Certificate in-transit in Miami last weekend. States yesterday. Lewis has seen immense success as a table tennis coach with top regional players under his smart leadership; Caribbean celebrated juniors Chelsea Edghill and Shemar Britton are among two of his brightest prospects at the Malteenoes Sports Club. According to the US Olympic Committee website, the mission of the ICECP is to provide national level coaches and those
responsible for the development of the sport, national coaching structures in their countries with a practical programme orientated toward developing proficiency in the areas of sport sciences, talent identification, athlete development, coaching education, coaching management, grass roots sport development and ethical aspects of coaching at all levels of competition.
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The FIFA World Cup Trophy jets Guyanese help Canadian club gain historic promotion off in style on the Caribbean leg By Sean Devers Guyanese cricketer Travis Blyden concluded a fine performance for his Canadian club Civics Cricket Club as the North American club became the first club to get two teams promoted in the same season. CCC won the Premier League and will be going up to Elite division, while the second division side won to move up to first division for the 2014 season. In Sunday’s finals, played at Kind City between Civics and Gasnavy Sport Club, Civics batted first and made 226/6 in 50 overs with Guyanese Elton Baker top scoring with 63, Ankush Vohar (52), Freddy Pestano (35), Javed Bacchus (23) and former Guyana and West Indies ‘B’ team wicketkeeper Kenneth Wong (20) supported well. When Gasnavy batted they were bowled out for 138 in 39 over with Baker taking 3-29 and Pestano 2-18. On Saturday’s semi finals, Civics took on Brampton Masters Civics emerged
victorious with Blyden making an unbeaten 67 with two sixes and three fours. Baker contributed 20 as Civics were bowled out for 143 in 42 overs. When Brampton Masters batted they were bowled out for 93 in 30 overs. “After scoring over 600 runs for my club in Trinidad, making the most runs for them in the championship League, I again scored over 600 runs in the Toronto league with two hundreds,” Blyden said. His 122 not out and 104 were also supported by four half centuries and only 12 wickets with his leg spin. Baker scored over 400 runs and captured 19 wickets. He made two tons for the season (129 and 100). “Pestano, the other overseas player for civics, played some important match winning knocks for us when he got the chance to bat and helped with the promotion of the team. He got over 200 runs with a highest score of 75,” Blyden informed. Former Guyana and West Indies ODI batsman Keith
Semple now reside in Canada and was very consistent, scoring over 400 runs with his highest being 93 not out. The right-hander also took 13 wickets. “Semple was the guy the whole team took example from and Wong had a great time with the gloves, taking the most dismissals in the League, he also made some runs whenever he got the chance to bat,” Blyden informed. The GDF all-rounder thanked God for the health and strength to complete another successful season. He thanked Semple, former Guyana left-arm spinner Glen Robinson who resides in Canada for their assistance with his cricket development and Neil Barry and Roderick Lovell of the GCA for allowing him the opportunity to play overseas. “I also want to thank the President of Civics Cricket Club Arif Juman Yassin and everyone who were involved in the success of the team,” Blyden concluded.
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Kings suffer shocking loss to Falcons 47-42, Jets too hot for Flames 67-48 The returning Bankers Trust Falcons stunned the Kashif and Shanghai Kings 47-42, while Amelia’s Ward Jets avoided an upset by coasting past Block 22 Flames as the Trophy Stall, Linden Amateur Basketball Association run Regulation Open Basketball Championship continued at the Mackenzie Sports Club Hard Court on Saturday. The Kings were cruising 38-33 in the final quarter but were held to four points, the Falcons pulled off another upset of the top ranked Kings, this time outscoring their opponents 14-4 to emerge as a threat to reach the final four after both teams were tied at
23 at half time. Once again the Falcons were led by the power forward Lawrence ‘Bolo’ DaCosta who produced 17 points and guard Leonard Caleb w h o continues to be an offensive threat in this tournament as he supported with 12 points. The Kings, even with the return of their inspirational leader Abdulla Hamid, failed to click in the end game and were unable to avoid going down to the eight ranked Falcons. Young forward Akeel Primo was their best player with 14 team high points as Orin Rose and Omally Sampson each got eight points.
And the other top club Amelia’s Ward Jets blew out the Flames from Block 22 winning 67-48 after having leads throughout the periods at 17-14, 41-16, 46-32 and finally 67-41. National player Shane Webster was their leading scorer with 11 points as Dennis Niles got nine with Javon Nelson and Joel; Webster adding six apiece. The top scorer in the game was Block 22 Flames’ Kerwin Williams with 14 as Aubrey Johnson got 10 and Shavin Cameron eight. The competition continues tomorrow with two more matches at the Mackenzie Sports Club Hard Court.
BBC Sport - Everton’s unbeaten start to the Premier League season continued as they moved up to fourth with an excellent display against Newcastle. Loic Remy’s late strike ensured a nervy finish for Everton, who deserved the win after taking a 3-0 first-half lead. Romelu Lukaku opened the scoring at the near post and prodded in the third, either side of feeding in
midfielder Ross Barkley for his well-taken goal. Yohan Cabaye’s superb shot made it 3-1 before striker Remy poked in. French striker Remy then almost levelled for the Magpies with a stoppagetime strike that flew just a foot above the Everton bar. Had he scored and rescued a point for Newcastle, it would have been a bitter and unjust blow for
Everton, who were outstanding, especially during the first 45 minutes. Roberto Martinez’s side were sharp, showed great movement and closed down the opposition superbly. Everton, who travel to Manchester City on Saturday, remain unbeaten in the Premier League under Martinez, who succeeded David Moyes in the summer.
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Jamaica Observer (By FIFA.com) - After a successful launch at the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with a bird’seye view of the iconic Estádio do Maracanã, the FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour by CocaCola jetted off to start its international tour by visiting Tahiti, Fiji and Vanuatu. With three of 89 countries having already welcomed the trophy, it was now time to set off on the Caribbean leg of the tour. In true superstar fashion, the most sought-after symbol of football had at its disposal its very own branded plane. This plane has started to carry world football’s most coveted trophy and the global trophy tour team all over the world, with the final destination set to be back in the FIFA World
Cup host country to start its domestic tour. The plane was first spotted when it landed in Costa Rica last Friday, where the trophy spent three days before heading off to an unprecedented 34 member associations from the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF). Joining the tour in five of the upcoming stops is former Aston Villa, Manchester United and Trinidad & Tobago forward Dwight Yorke, a man who has great experience winning trophies, with UEFA Champions League, English Premier League, and FACup titles to his name. Yorke was also captain of the Trinidad and Tobago squad during the 2006 FIFA World Cup campaign. He
will be accompanying the trophy in Haiti on the 25th to the 27th of October, Grenada on the 28th, Suriname on the 29th, Guyana on the 30th, and finally in his home country Trinidad and Tobago on the 31st of October. “Having won almost every trophy there is in my career, this is still the one that got away,” joked Yorke. “It’s just as surreal for me to have the opportunity to be so close to the trophy as I’m sure it will be for all the people that get the chance to see it on this worldwide tour. It really is the ultimate prize for any football fan or player. It’s a great opportunity and a joy to have it brought over to a part of the world that doesn’t often get these opportunities. I can’t wait to join the tour,” added Yorke.
Yuvraj back in limited-overs squad ESPNcricinfo -Yuvraj Singh has made a comeback to India’s limited-overs squad for the Twenty20 and first three ODIs of the home series against Australia. There were four changes made to India’s last first-choice ODI squad, the one that won the Champions Trophy in England. Yuvraj replaced opener M Vijay, Dinesh Karthik lost out to his Mumbai Indians team-mate Ambati Rayudu, the injured Irfan Pathan made way for Mohammed Shami, and Jaydev Unadkat’s left-arm seam was preferred to Umesh Yadav’s erratic-at-times pace. Yuvraj’s last ODI was against England in Dharamsala in January 2013. He was dropped from the squad for the Champions Trophy and did not feature in the Zimbabwe series either, when India had rested several first-choice players. However, following a fitness programme in France, he has shown a return to top form in List A cricket. He was the leading run-getter for India A in the limited-overs series against the touring West Indies A, with 224 runs from three matches, including one hundred and a fifty at an average of 74.66. He also scored a half-century for India Blue in the Challenger Trophy, a domestic 50-overs tournament. A fit Yuvraj is seen as a bigger asset than Karthik. Karthik had a decent run in England and in Zimbabwe, but he failed to reach 50 in the tri-series in the West Indies. In effect, Karthik has lost out to Rayudu, who scored 101 runs off 163 balls at an average of 50.5 against Zimbabwe.
Yuvraj Singh was in red-hot form against West Indies A earlier this month © BCCI Two other changes from the Champions Trophy squad mostly explain themselves. Vijay struggled in West Indies, and Irfan is injured. Yadav, though, remains a curious case. He cannot have been considered unfit because he played the Challenger Trophy last week. He cannot have been rested because he is just coming out of a break. The selectors have either begun to look at him as a Test-only prospect or it was his performance in the Champions Trophy that has got him the axe: four wickets and an economy rate of 5.55 in a mostly low-scoring tournament. His economy rate in the West Indies triseries hovered around the same mark. His career
economy rate also stands at over six, and an average of 41.58 doesn’t do him any favours. The seam-bowling replacements, Shami and Unadkat, played all the five ODIs in Zimbabwe, and have been retained. Mohit, who played two of them and was Man of the Match in the first of them, was expected to replace Vinay Kumar, but the Karnataka quick has retained his place. Vinay went at 6.03 in the recently concluded Challenger Trophy, although he did pick up eight wickets in three matches. Batsmen Karthik, Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane, seamer Mohit and spinner Parvez Rasool missed out from the team that played Zimbabwe.
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Clive Atwell tackles Jamaican as Guyana Fight Night resumes with a bang Boxing buffs that have missed the monthly Guyana Fight Night affair would be delighted to hear of the resumption of action when the Guyana Boxing Board of Control presents the 30 th edition of the cards at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH), Sunday October 30 next. Clive Atwell is the hottest boxer currently on the local scene and he will want to endorse that view when he tangles with Jamaican pugilist, Glenroy Augustus Beckford in an eight rounds lightweight affair, while Berbician, Richard Wi l l i a m s o n will engage Dexter ‘The Kid’ Marques in the toughest fight of his fledgling career. That bout will be another eight round contest but in the
bantamweight division. Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) middleweight champion, Edmond DeClou will square off with Derick Richmond in an 8 rounds middleweight contest just after welterweight pugilists, Kishawn Simon and David Thomas goes after each other in a 4 rounds welterweight scrap. The boxers have already commenced training sessions and now that the date has been affirmed they will intensify activities. Those pugilists are also scheduled to convene at the Avenue of the office of Abdool and Abdools Insurance Brokers at 14:00hrs today for the official signing ceremony before gym sessions at their respective gyms.
Clive Atwell
Satro take Phyllis Carter Memorial T\20 title Satro defeated Young Warriors by 6 wickets and 2 overs to spare to win the final of the Phyllis Carter Memorial Twenty\20 cricket competition which was contested last Sunday at Enterprise ground in Leguan. Young Warriors scored 168 after they were asked to bat in front of a fair size crowd. Tyrone Narine top scored with 65 while Brian Murray made 39. Huchumchand Savitir grabbed 2-27 and Kevin Gordon 2-32. Mustapha
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Zaman 47, Ajmal Arjune 40 and Savitir 38 then spearheaded Satro chase as they won the game in 18 overs losing 2 wickets in the process, ending on 172-4. Tyrone Narine and Brian Murray took 1 wicket each. Rick Stephen of Falcons took the award for the picking up the most wickets in the competition while the best batsman prize was shared by Savitir and Narine. Speaking at the presentation ceremony Terry
Carter son of the late Phyllis Carter said that he was pleased with the performance of both teams which would encourage his family to come on board once again to sponsor cricket on the island. President of the Leguan Cricket Committee (LCC) Viren Chintamanie thanked the carter family for being part of their calendar of activities. The competition was played in memory of the late Phyllis Carter who was a resident of Leguan.
MYO, GCC and Everest are latest winners
Ramdeen slams half century for Everest Muslim Youth Organization (MYO), Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) and Everest were the victorious teams when action in the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)\ New Building Society (NBS) Second Division 40-over tournament continued last Saturday with three matches. At MYO, the host defeated Third Class by 2 wickets. Third Class batted first and were bowled out for 151 in 3.4 overs. Andre O’Neal top scored with 31 (6x4), while Alvin Castello and Shawn Hussein supported with 26 each and Shaun Garnett chipped in with 17. Parmanand Parsram picked up 4-21 and Imran Ayube 2-23. MYO replied with 152-8 in 20.3 overs. Chien Gittens was their leading batsman with 35
(7x4,1x6), Shafiek Ishmile scored 32 (4x4,1x6) and Zulfikar Alli 18 (3x4,1x6); Trevor Hossain claimed 4-52, Alvin Castello 3-67 and Yovindra Ramnauth 2-16. At Bourda, Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) overcame Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) by 27 runs. Martin Pestano-Bell 44 (4x4), Khemraj Jaikaran 25 (3x4), Winston Forrester 22 (2x4) and Gavon Charles 22 (1x4) led GCC to 158-7, taking first strike after the game was reduced to 30 overs due to a late start. Nikosie Barker grabbed 3-23 and Danny Narayan 2-20. MSC were routed for 131 in 27.1 overs in reply. Barker top scored with 37 (5x4); Winston Forrester claimed 3-25, Shamar Graham 2-9, Devon Lord 2-9 and Bernard Bailey 2-36. At Malteenoes, Everest
got the better of St. Stanislaus by 110 runs in a match which was reduced to 32 overs. Taking first turn at the crease, Everest rattled up 219-6 off their allotted overs. Khemraj Ramdeen who cracked 65 (6x4,1x6) and Rishi Heeralall 27 (3x4) laid the foundation for Everest challenging total with a second wicket stand of 84, Azad Mohamed supported with 48 (4x4,3x6); Antonio DeFreitas picked up 2-28, while Lyndon Wilson, Michael Salim, Stephen and Deon Sookai had 1 each. St. Stanislaus were skittled for 109 in 25.2 overs in response. Daniel Williams made 22 not out while Travis Belgrave scored 21 and Micheal Salim 19. Javed Rasheed bagged 4-14, Chris Surat 3-17 and Rafael Singh 2-12. (Zaheer Mohamed)
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First Class Cricket returns to Albion after GCB lobby After lobbying at the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) by the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), last week, Albion Community Centre Cricket Club ground regained first class cricket status. It has been over three years since the Albion Community Centre Cricket Club ground lost its first class status when it failed a WICB inspection. Subsequently, lots of work was done to rebuild the outfield and ensure it was completely covered with grass, one of the stands was refurbished, and some work was done on the commentators’ booth. Also, the Government of Guyana will start to install flood lights during the month of October. Hence, the facility was deemed fit to have first class matches and other high level competitive cricket. Secretary of the Guyana
Cricket Board and WICB Director Anand Sanasie had promised the Albion Club, in a meeting a few months ago, that he will do his best to ensure first class cricket returns to Albion. He has since delivered on that promise with one of the Bangladesh touring team matches fixed to be played at Albion. The first match that greeted the ground after the declaration was the final of the GCB/Pepsi Senior Inter-County Competition which was played on Sunday October 29, between Demerara and Berbice. Then on October 19, 2013, the sixth match between West Indies and Bangladesh in an Under-19 50-Over Tournament will be competed at the venue. Manager of the club, Muthuswammie Permaul, expressed his jubilation about having cricket returning to Albion. According to him, cricket fans in the area are also excited
and are eagerly awaiting the matches. He added that it would be a blessing to have cricket at the venue whenever first class cricket and higher level of cricket is played in Guyana. Albion Community Centre Cricket Club is located in Corentyne, Berbice, and house one of Guyana’s most famous cricket grounds. It is among the first set of clubs that played cricket in Berbice during the plantation era. And apart from being a venue for first class matches for decades, it was the venue for the first ever One Day International in the West Indies. Also, it produced a number of well-known cricketers; among them are Shew Shivnarine (1st Albion player to play test cricket), Narsingh Deonarine, Sewnarine Chattergoon, Veerasammy Permaul, Devendra Bishoo, and Jonathan Foo and most recently Gudakesh Motie Kanhai.
Executive committee installed for Little Diva Flames Football Club
Lawrence ‘Sparrow’ Griffith was elected to the helm when the Little Diva Flames Football Club held elections of Office Bearers at the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Office, Dadanawa Street, Section K Campbellville, Saturday September 28 last. Dr George Norton is the Vice President, while the Secretary is Charmaine Wade. The election of a Treasurer is still pending but Carlica Pollydore is the Assistant Secretary/Treasurer. The Committee Members are Monica Ferreira and Sibby Sancho. Top coaches, Joseph ‘Bill’ Wilson and Sheron ‘Sherry’ Abrams have been appointed as the coaches. The committee has already started working and the young ladies will commence training on Saturday, October 12 at 09:00 hrs. Sessions will continue
Lawrence ‘Sparrow’ Griffith every Saturday and Thursday thereon. Officials are contemplating the use of the Ministry of Education Ground on Carifesta Avenue. Administrators are guided by several aims and objectives enshrined in the
Constitution to promote, foster and develop in all aspects of the sport among females in Guyana; to assist the mental, moral and physical development of females in all forms of competition; To encourage proper attitudes to the game and to promote the highest traditions of sportsmanship consistent with the Olympic ideal, and to provide quality coaching, education and welfare within all age groups and ability levels. Several other objectives have also been included and will be stringently pursued by the new executives. Already, the club has benefitted from the largesse of the proprietors of the Sports Plus Sports Store who have donated 10 footballs for club use. Two other corporate entities have committed to the donation of football boots and other training gears.
Four Guyanese in West Indies Lawyers Team for 2013 World Cup in India Guyanese Charles Ramson, Timothy Jonas, Sanjeev Datadin, and Tejnarine Ramroop have been included in the West Indies Lawyers Cricket Team for the upcoming Lawyers Cricket World Cup 2013 to be held in New Delhi, India. The tournament is schedule to run from October 12 to 22nd and will see eight teams vying for honours.
Teams from India, England, Sri Lanka, Australia and Pakistan are expected to participate. Each team will play six 40overs matches in eight days and the top two teams at end of the preliminary round will contest the final. This will be the 4th Lawyers Cricket World Cup after tournaments were held in Hyderabad, India in 2008; Cambridge, England in 2009
and Barbados in 2011. India is the defending champions having defeated Sri Lanka A in the final of the last Tournament which was played at the Kensington Oval, Barbados. The West Indies A team was knocked out by India in the Semifinals which was played at the University of the West Indies Stadium under floodlights.
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Angoy’s Avenue get playground Squash and Hockey may have compliments of Joint Services the Blueprint for success
Tree planting exercise on the outside of the Angoy’s Avenue Play ground. Persons residing in the Angoy’s Avenue area now have some where to play and have some recreation. This is following the intervention of the Joint Services which has adopted the Angoy’s Avenue Playground, which was recently commissioned and handed over to the members of the Angoy’s Avenue community. This is part of the Joint Services new initiative in doing things differently as part of the community relationship which is being done along with the Safe Neighbourhood Council in the area. The area which was earmarked a long time ago for the development of the playground, which is located in Timmers Dam, next to the Mount Sinai Nursery school, was reduced to a swamp and
overgrown with bushes and was a haven for unsavoury characters. However since the intervention of the Joint Services the bushes have been cleared and the area land filled. Trees have been planted and several benches have been erected around the ground which will be fenced soon. A sign has also been erected in the area. According to the members of the Joint Services their main aim is to develop the space and hand it over to the community. In fact that has already been done, but the services want to maintain a presence in the community, by working closely together in a number of initiatives. Speaking at the handing over ceremony was Commander Police B Division
The sign at the ground being erected
Assistant Commissioner Brian Joseph. Mr. Joseph stated that the force is willing to work along with the people in the surroundings in developing the sporting potentials of the community and help to change the stigma of the area. He stated that the force is not only about fighting crime with guns and batons, but has different ways in doing things and is willing to work with any community for the development of youths. He promised the residents to continue the initiative and join with other members of the Joint Services to further enhance the community. Also speaking was Divisional Officer of the Guyana Fire Service, Senior Superintendent Compton Sparman-who said that the initiative wasn’t anything new as the Fire Service has worked with and formed partnerships in many communities before. He pledged to do all he can as long as he remains the officer-in-charge of Berbice to assist what has been started. The Fire Service do not want to be available only when there is a fire or another disaster, but, also in peace and friendly times. The department had earlier donated personnel and machines to assist with the clearing of the ground. According to members of the Safe Neighborhood Council –a safe neighborhood is a basic right and it is communities in which people and organizations come together to do things. Among other partners on board are Banks DIH and Republic Bank.
By Rawle Welch Three examples of sporting achievements by our national teams in 2013 served to underline the importance of having a long term vision which could almost guarantee success. The two feats that readily come to mind are the outstanding performances of the senior and junior Squash teams and the gradual improvement of the national Ladies hockey team that recently participated in the Pan Am Cup, having qualified from the Pan Am Challenge Series. Many may ask why the ladies hockey team, but the mere fact that they were able to battle traditional powerhouse Trinidad and Tobago courageously in two matches, before succumbing to narrow defeats, speak volumes of the vision of the coaching staff. The three teams are ideal cases of what it takes to produce athletes who if afforded the best opportunities to perform will do so with success. The ladies hockey team failed to qualify for the World Cup, having finished last of the eight teams that competed in the Pan Am Cup in Mendoza, Argentina, enduring lopsided defeats against some of the powerhouses in the Americas, but managing to close the gap between them and Caribbean champions Trinidad and Tobago and this was so due to the Plan of Head Coach Philip Fernandes, who had started a programme sometime ago that would have included affording the team international exposure in the absence of an artificial pitch. Fernandes appears to have mapped out a long term strategy which evidently is paying dividends with the team’s recent results against the Trini stickwomen, who in recent times were enjoying the upper hand over the Guyanese. It emphasises the point that if local administrators of sports work in tandem along with unmitigated support from the Government and corporate community what can be achieved by our athletes. The Ladies quest to make it to the Pan Am Cup commenced more than three years and during that period they toured Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Canada and it was no smooth sailing both in terms of securing the financing for such huge undertakings, while the disappointing results would have made anyone without a long term aim quit in the face of such adversities, but Fernandes plodded on cognisant of what the real aim was. The current President of the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) Fernandes, who would have benefitted from attending FIH Congresses and Courses, was acutely aware that in the absence of an artificial turf, the specified prerequisite for international hockey to be played on, the only other alternative was to tour as much as possible so he set out on the arduous task of accomplishing all that was needed to fulfill that ambition. It required numerous fund raisers and soliciting assistance from the corporate sector and the Guyana Olympic Association, and
he would tell you that it was not easy to convince those Bodies, especially in light of the less than encouraging results. He, however, stuck to the task and the two encounters against T&T at such a high level tournament that produced two close finishes, going down 1-0 due to a defence error in the first game and losing 2-3 after leading 2-0 is enough evidence to suggest that we might just be a short distance away from joining or even surpassing them as the new regional powerhouse. The Squash teams, however, have established themselves as the strongest in the Caribbean, a fact borne out of their dominance at regional competitions at both levels. The Guyana Squash Association (GSA) undoubtedly has the most vibrant junior programme and this strength has been manifested with the continued production of individual champions and countless team titles on the circuit, while the seniors, though, not as dominant as the juniors in the Team events previously, managed to duplicate the juniors’ feat by winning the overall title.
They captured the Men’s and Women’s titles to end up as the top nation in the championships and as many would know, many of those players were graduates from the GSA’s junior system which is structured with a revolving mechanism that consistently churns out new players. These two Bodies are clear illustrations of how important it is to have a long term plan which should be backed up by personnel with the acumen to navigate the rough pathways when they arrive and stay resolutely on course. Amateur boxing, tennis and table tennis have started similar programmes, but they are still in their infancy stages so only time will tell the effect of their respective initiatives, but all three seem to be heading in the right direction. It is just a matter of sharing the information and in some cases working together.
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Azarenka undone by Marc Marquez is too aggressive, double faults and Petkovic says team-mate Dani Pedrosa
Andrea Petkovic of Germany hits a return against Victoria Azarenka of Belarus at the China Open tennis tournament in Beijing September 30, 2013. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (Reuters) - A deluge of double faults coupled with bad time management left Victoria Azarenka cursing her luck as she floundered in the first round of the China Open following a 6-4 2-6 6-4 defeat by Germany’s Andrea Petkovic on Monday. Azarenka’s 15 double faults, to go with 44 unforced errors, mirrored the defending champion’s erratic display
over two hours 22 minutes against Petkovic who appeared to be feeling dizzy in the second set. “It was an awful match and very bad performance from me, so not much to say. It happens once, twice a year to every player, and happened to me today,” the Australian Open champion, who has endured a miserable run in Asia as she suffered a secondround exit in Tokyo last week,
BERLIN (Reuters) Bavarian capital Munich, which hosted the 1972 Summer Olympics, will make a bid to stage the Winter Games half a century later in 2022, the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) said on Monday. Munich, which failed to land the 2018 Olympics after being comfortably beaten by South Korea’s Pyeongchang, will have to wait for a November 10 referendum before formally announcing a candidacy with the International Olympic Committee by the November
14 deadline. Should Munich be elected in 2015 it would be the first city to have been awarded Summer and Winter Olympics. “The DOSB is moving ahead with its plans for a bid for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games 2022,” it said in a statement. “The next step is a referendum in the communities of Munich and Garmisch-Partenkirchen as well as in the counties of Berchtesgadener Land and Traunstein on November 10, four days before the bid has
told reporters. “If I’m going to be doing it again, I probably should have taken a longer break (between tournaments) and just prepared myself. I don’t feel like I was ready to play. “It’s just my mistake for not paying much attention after the U.S. Open how I managed my time and how I managed my health.” On Monday, it was Petkovic who appeared to be less than 100 percent fit in the second set as she needed a medical time out. The German seemed to be a spent force as she lost seven straight games and allowed Azarenka to level and take the contest into the decider. The defending champion traded breaks with Petkovic to level at 4-4 in the third set but her 15th double fault on break point left Azarenka in a foul mood as the German served for the match. “I was saying a lot of things. I’m not going to repeat them... there was a lot of emotions and frustration that I let myself get into because I wasn’t doing the right thing,” said the U.S. Open runner-up. “I just feel from my part there was no execution. There were too many unforced errors and too many double faults.”
Munich decides to bid for 2022 Winter Olympics
to be announced to the IOC.” The previous Munich bid had faced several obstacles from Garmisch residents as well as German environmental groups and the Greens political party over the impact to the Alpine community as well as land disputes. DOSB officials said their new plans would reduce the burden on Garmisch while also spreading the Games to a three-cluster complex after moving the biathlon and cross-country skiing events from Garmisch to Ruhpolding. Apart from Kazakhstan’s Almaty, there have not been any other official candidacies yet but more are expected with Poland, Ukraine, Spain, China and Norway among those considering a bid. Oslo residents voted in favor of a bid earlier this month. Newly-elected International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach was among the 2018 bid leaders for Munich and his influence could prove vital though it is unclear how willing fellow IOC members would be to opt for Germany again after electing him earlier this month.
Marc Marquez
BBC Sport - Dani Pedrosa has accused Repsol Honda team-mate Marc Marquez of being too aggressive in his riding. Pedrosa, 28, crashed out of Sunday’s race in Aragon soon after contact with Marquez broke his traction control system. Marquez went on to win. The incident is being investigated by race stewards. Pedrosa told BBC Sport: “I would like to know where is the limit in racing because I also can ride aggressively and over the limit.” The official MotoGP twitter account confirmed on Monday that both riders have been summoned to a hearing at the next race in Sepang next month to “technically analyse the Aragon race
incident”. Pedrosa, who finished second in the championship last year, is 59 points behind leader Marquez with four rounds left, while Jorge Lorenzo sits 39 points behind the rookie. The maximum any rider can collect over the remaining four races is 100 points. Marquez has courted controversy in the past, twice receiving a sanction from race stewards while riding in the Moto2 class, and also being condemned by Lorenzo after the pair clashed in Jerez earlier this year. Marquez escaped a sanction after the Jerez incident but was given two penalty points for not observing yellow flags in a practice crash at Silverstone. If he reaches four penalty points, he will have to start the next race from the back of
the grid. Following the latest controversy, Pedrosa said: “I think everyone should have the same cards to play the same rules. “The relationship has always been fine with him but it’s hard that this comes from your team mate. “I can only say that I was doing the right thing and it’s a shame that the guy that is trying to do the right thing always gets the worst part.” Marquez is aiming to become to first rider to win the premier class championship in his rookie year since Kenny Roberts in 1978. World championship standings Marc Marquez (Spa) - 278 Jorge Lorenzo (Spa) - 239 Dani Pedrosa (Spa) - 219 Valentino Rossi (Ita) - 185 Cal Crutchlow (GB) - 156
Sunrisers v Brisbane Heat, CLT20, Ahmedabad
Sunrisers eliminated after washout
ESPNcricinfo - The match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Brisbane Heat was abandoned without a ball being bowled in Ahmedabad. This puts Sunrisers out of the Champions League after they finished with six points from four matches, winning once and losing twice. This was the third washout in Motera, after the double-header on September 23 took the same route due to rain. Heat were already knocked out having lost their
first three matches. This leav e s t h e T i t a n s a n d Trinidad & Tobago battling for the second position in Group B behind Chennai S u p e r K i n g s who have already qualified. All T&T need to do is not lose by a great margin against Super Kings in their final group match. The match scheduled for an 8:30pm start couldn’t go through after heavy rain began during the first match between T&T and Titans. That match ended with three
overs to spare, the Caribbean side winning by six runs by the Duckworth/Lewis method. The two matches were retained in Ahmedabad, after an earlier game was moved out of the city due to weeklong rains. Though there was 60% chance of rain today, the first game was uninterrupted until rain struck 17 overs into Titans’ chase. Scores: Brisbane Heat v Sunrisers Hyderabad Match abandoned without a ball bowled.