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Letters... Where your views make the news... Letters... Where your views make the news Monitor those who receive The problem for this new regime is how to convince presidential pardons the Guyanese people they are to be trusted DEAR EDITOR, It seems as though our new political culture in Guyana these days revolve around being blatantly unapologetic and remorseless for whatever decisions we take, despite raised eyebrows and dissenting comments made by the citizenry. One government minister is adamant that he does not have to justify salary increases. And now the honorable Granger has unequivocally reiterated his stance on pardoning young people for petty offences committed. The former has already attracted and still continues to attract a lot of attention, both in the print and electronic media. However, I want to comment on the position that our President is taking to pardon young people for perceived minor offences. But before I commence, let me state categorically that I am not averse to this. I personally do not see the need for an individual to languish in a prison cell for years awaiting sentence for a lesser offence committed. Obviously this would put a further strain on the taxpayers’ dollars and prolonged imprisonment will only make them hardened criminals. Nonetheless, I am a firm believer that an offence is an offence and no one should receive just a slap on the wrist. I suppose that this is tantamount to parents who are genuinely concerned about the
welfare of their kids, in the sense that any offence committed by them is met with some form of disciplinary measure, after all if they are not punished, then they will never learn. Similarly, I believe that there ought to be some kind of penalty for these offenders, be it community service or any other form of disciplinary action so that they can atone for their actions and subsequently do some introspection. After all, they are not infants. So, I strongly suggest that there should be some form of rehabilitation before they are reintegrated back into the fabric of the society. I am not the moral police here, but one would think that there ought to be some mechanism in place to deal with these offenders. It is my belief also, that these offenders should be monitored by the state just to ensure that they are in compliance with the expectations of the President. While I do acquiesce that they may not be incorrigible, only some may see it as a lifeline to do better; there are those who will incontrovertibly resort to their familiar trade especially if earning an honest dollar is not part of their vocabulary. I know that monitoring sounds like an insurmountable task and it is, but this may just appease the agitated fraction of the population. Name provided
DEAR EDITOR, The madness continues in our dear mud land. Two weeks ago I pointed out that the new regime has started out ingloriously and the extremists jumped at my throat. The extremists are speaking out now only because a majority of Guyanese are against the 50 percent increase in salary for the boys and bosses. Now, this salary increase has been the most inglorious of all previous inglorious starts, plunging Guyana into a tail. The new regime is not concerned that such a move will whittle away any gains made so far. Rather, it is more
concerned with the effusion of loyalty within itself and simply stoic and stubborn to any public outcry. The silence is deafening. Where are the boys and bosses? One would expect that the public needs a follow up. The mantra seems to be: Deal with the salary increase, it is here to stay since the motto is higher income invariably brings greater outcome: less bribery, less stealing. The salary increase emerged not because of design but because of deprivation. Missing from this scenario is that untrained Ministers are not ready to
carry out mandated responsibilities. There also seems to be a mismatch between responsibilities assigned to various Ministers –Carl Greenidge comes readily to mind – and the capacity and capability required for their accomplishment. Moreover, the performance of the new regime has revealed how a short distance it has travelled in a short time. Realistically, the regime seems to be regulated by the very ministries it supposes to regulate. This sounds like putting the cart before the donkey.
The new regime has few choices but to overcome these early inglorious starts and chart a positive course to ensure that the balance between the needs of the people and political preservation is practiced. To do otherwise would run the risk of repeating the mistakes so experienced by stubborn regimes where a one-term party in office is a common echo. It has already started and the problem now for this new regime is not Venezuela and Suriname but how to convince the Guyanese people they are to be trusted. Lomarsh Roopnarine
FLEXIBLE RETIREMENT AGE
DEAR EDITOR, Mr. Claudius Prince must be congratulated for his excellent letter in the media on Monday 12/10/2015, titled “Developed USA uses elderly experienced workers; backward Guyana discards them”, which makes the case for flexible retirement. This letter came on the heels of similar recommendations offered to the COI into Guyana’s Public Service by Mr. Hydar Ally who recently retired as a Permanent Secretary in the Public Service. Both gentlemen echo similar views and recommendations which I have personally and
professionally been expressing at various fora for many years, not only in Guyana but elsewhere during my work as a consultant in Human Resource Management. Particularly in countries like Guyana, with limited competencies in practically all spheres of employment, it is short-sighted and selfdefeating to allow the calendar and birth certificate to make managerial decisions about who and when employees, especially highly competent and productive ones, must stop working because an inflexible pension scheme provides for retirement at a certain age. Recruitment and
Retention of employees are functions of supply and demand for certain competencies; once the demand is establish, why should the establishment be denied the supply already present and proven? B u r e a u c r a t i c justifications about rules, regulations, provisions of pension schemes or obscure references to ‘stifling of promotional opportunities’ are all unimaginative
humbugs in what should be a more dynamic regime anchored on realistic, pragmatic and obviously more progressive Human Resource Management policies and programs which, sadly, are conspicuously absent in our dear land of Guyana from the new political hierarchy to the old established public service, the sugar industry and I dare say most of Guyana. Nowrang Persaud
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Guyana sets sight firmly on Region’s …as Holder calls for level US$4.5B food market playing field across the board Guyana is currently observing Agriculture Month. Yesterday, local exporters spoke of Government’s intention to have a more aggressive push towards capitalizing on the more than US$4.5B food import bill for the Region. Agricultural Minister, Noel Holder, made the declaration as he addressed an Export Facilitation Workshop, organized by the New Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC), at the Arthur Chung International Convention Centre. The activity saw the participation of a number of local small, medium and large scale exporters along with a number of service providers. Stakeholders benefitted from presentations and interactive sessions on preparation of produce for export, export brokerage documentation as well as GMC’s marketing information centre. Presentations were also made by service providers in the industry, including representatives of the National Plant Protection Organization, Caribbean Containers, Tropical Shipping, Amerijet, Caribbean Airlines and Credit Info (Guyana) Inc. among others. Export Earning Holder said that almost 40 per cent of the nation’s total export earning, comes from Agriculture. “Agriculture in Guyana is
Packaging Facilities Manager, C. Butters (L) and Agriculture Minister, Noel Holder ahead of yesterday’s opening of the New GMC Export Facilitation Workshop the foundation through which Guyana has built an export-oriented economy,” the Minister said. He said that Guyana, as part of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and inherently a part of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), “we will make full use of the fact that CARICOM Countries import more than US$4.5B off food from outside of the Region.” According to Minister Holder, “Guyana has its eyes firmly fixed on the opportunities that CARICOM provide as a net importer of food.” As such, the Agriculture Minister drew reference to the trade
arrangements of CARICOM enshrined in the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramus. At the Regional level, Holder was adamant that the Agriculture Ministry will be lobbying its CARICOM counterparts, specifically the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), to ensure that the conditions outlined in the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas are adhered to. “These include the operation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME); enhanced marketing of industrial and agricultural commodities so as to ensure their international competitiveness,” said Holder. He spoke, too, of seeking CARICOM’s help for the accelerated structural diversification of agricultural production, “measures for the accelerated development and marketing of services and to promote and develop policies and programmes to facilitate the transportation of
A section of the gathering at the Arthur Chung International Convention Centre
people and goods.” Level Playing Field Holder also committed the Ministry to “aggressively lobby at the Regional and International levels, to resolve the non tariff barriers that affect the exportation of agricultural produce.” This lobbying by the Agriculture Ministry, according to Holder, “will be done both at the bilateral level with individual trading partners and also at the CARICOM level.” Holder told those present that as a CARICOM Member State, “we strongly believe that a level playing field must be in place.” According to the Agriculture Minister, Guyana believes that the same conditions granted to extra regional countries’ products being imported to the region, must be extended to regional countries, “such as ours when we export to our sister CARICOM countries.” Increased Exports He also used the
opportunity to urge the exporters to up the ante when it comes to their shipments. According to Holder, “we need to move from a subsistence survival level, to higher commercial investments.” The Agriculture Minister did concede that changing market conditions and policy requirements will “contribute to the success or failure of our agriculture policy, specifically marketing.” Guyana’s 2015 Agricultural Month celebration is being held under the theme: “Exploiting our strengths, advancing agriculture and social protection.” According to Holder, “GMC provides assistance and support to boost exports through trade facilitation to exporters and potential exporters.” He said that GMC will also be looking to increase none sugar, none rice exports by 25 per cent over the next five years. The exporter workshop,
according to Holder, provides New GMC with an opportunity to create linkages among the stakeholders, “educate and encourage exporters and potential exporters.” He said the ultimate objective of the workshop “is to increase the exportation of non- traditional commodities both regionally and internationally.” Government, he said, recognizes the need for increased production and agricultural diversification, which are both critical to sustained economic growth. Financing Recognizing that access to financing has been a major bug bear for those who want to scale up production and exports, Minister Holder said, “The Guyana Government will facilitate access to affordable credit to individuals or groups and will investigate in consultation with all relevant stakeholders, reestablishing an Agricultural and Development Bank to meet the financing needs of the Agricultural sector.” The Ministry, he said, “will remain resolute in facilitating and coordinating the development of quality non-traditional agricultural produce for local and overseas markets.” He spoke, too, of the strengthening of collaboration among other government agencies such as the Guyana Office for Investment (GO-Invest) and the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA). This, he said, would serve to expedite export documents. He did use the opportunity to remind that exporters looking to tarnish the image of the country through illegal exports and commodities that this will not be tolerated and defaulters will be dealt with condignly.
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Russian-made missile shot down MH17 - Dutch report Reuters - Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made Buk missile, the Dutch Safety Board concluded yesterday in its final report on the crash in July 2014 that killed all 298 people on board, most of them Dutch. But the long-awaited findings of the board, which was not empowered to address questions of responsibility, did not point the finger at any group or party for launching the missile. A bitter war was raging in eastern Ukraine between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian government forces when the aircraft was downed and, amid a huge international outcry, many Western experts and governments immediately blamed the rebels. “A 9N314M warhead detonated outside the aeroplane to the left side of the cockpit. This fits the kind of warhead installed in the Buk surfaceto-air missile system,” said Safety Board head Tjibbe Joustra, presenting the report. Russia for its part disputes
that a Buk may have been used. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov responded to the report by saying there had been “an obvious attempt to draw a biased conclusion, and carry out political orders”, according to Russian news agencies. The Safety Board report said that simulations of the missile’s trajectory showed it came from somewhere in an area covering some 320 kilometres southeast of Grabovo, Ukraine — an area mostly controlled by separatists. The makers of the Buk said their tests had shown that the aircraft could not have been hit by a missile fired from rebel-controlled territory. Although the report did not assign blame, it is almost certain to further strain diplomatic ties between the Netherlands and its allies and Russia. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte urged Russia to cooperate fully with a separate criminal investigation that the Netherlands is leading, with participation from Malaysia, Australia, Ukraine and
Belgium. The White House called the report an “important milestone in the effort to hold accountable those responsible”. “Our assessment is unchanged - MH17 was shot down by a surface-to-air missile fired from separatist-controlled territory in eastern Ukraine,” National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said in a statement. The report also seemed certain to strengthen calls within the airline industry for a review of how information is shared in conflict zones. The board found that Ukraine should have closed the airspace over the conflict zone, and that the 61 airlines that had continued flying there should have recognised the potential danger. It recommended international aviation rules be changed to force operators to be more transparent about their choice of routes. However, Hennadiy Zubko, head of a separate probe by Ukraine, said Ukrainian authorities had followed the established procedure.
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justifies salary increases -Govt. will not reverse decision By Kiana Wilburg Finance Minister, Winston Jordan, said yesterday that the salary increases for Members of Parliament were necessary for three reasons; to outline an income for Vice Presidents which did not exist before, to correct anomalies in the payment structure and finally, because the work load has increased. Jordan said, “We inherited a system where the President was receiving a salary of about $2M non-taxable. The Prime Minister was receiving a taxable salary of some $1.5M while the Attorney General, the Chancellor and the Chief Justice were receiving $1.6M. “There was no allocation for Vice Presidents; this position did not exist under the PPP. But the senior and junior ministers were receiving the same pay of about $579, 000. What do you notice?” He continued, “It is clear that there are huge anomalies there. The President, Prime Minister and AG are receiving massive salaries and your seniors and juniors are at the same level. Nowhere in the Caribbean does such a system exist.” The Finance Minister explained that for junior ministers, the $579, 000 was increased by 12 ½ percent while for senior ministers it was increased by 50 percent. As for the Vice Presidents, he said, they received a 60 percent increase on the $579,000. He noted that the $1.6M salary for the Attorney General was increased by five percent while the Prime Minister’s salary was increased by 10.7 percent. He confirmed yesterday that President David Granger stands to benefit from the increase as his salary will be raised by five percent. The salary increases were published in the Official Gazette of September 25. Jordan said, “I am not sure why people were saying that it was 50 percent increase across the board because it was not done in that way. The increases were calculated based on fixing the anomalies which do not exist in the pub-
Finance Minister, Winston Jordan lic service system. “The percentages were also used to widen the gap between the payments so that you can be able to have a scale which differentiates between the various positions. There are also some super ministries which we have now and the work load has increased immensely.” Several agencies and letter writers have criticized the government for increasing the salaries at this time stating that no evaluation was done to show that it is deserved. There have also been criticisms that the salary increase was done at the wrong time, especially when the government had said that the country’s revenue earners are not performing and that the Consolidated Fund was in heavy overdraft. The government had also stated that major increases for workers in certain public sectors would not be economically feasible at this time yet increases were somehow feasible for their ministers. The Finance Minister insisted that the salary increases were necessary and justifiable. He said, “There are about 13 senior ministers who got the 50 percent increases. Not 500 or 5000 ministers; just 13.” He then referred to the increases for public servants, reminding that the minimum basic salary of each public servant was bumped up to
$50,000, which translates to a 26.4 percent increase for those who earned the old minimum wage of $39,540 and 17.1 percent for over 4,000 public servants earning the current minimum wage of $42,703. He said that this was complemented by the fact that all other public servants receive an additional $5,000 monthly. “So it is nauseating when you read persons saying that the “five” percent increase is measly when this is not the case.” As for the argument that now is not the opportune time for ministerial salary increases, Jordan retorted, “So when is the opportune time? And who is doing the evaluation of the ministers? The reality is that the people either vote you in or the vote you out based on your performance. “We are saying that these increases are necessary. We are here to do the work of the people and make the systems work. I maintain that these changes were necessary as the President had pointed out before. We are not going to change our decision. “ Over the weekend, Political Activist and University Professor, Dr David Hinds contended that Government’s recent decision to increase the salaries for Members of Parliament (MPs) will go down as its “second, big misstep.” Dr. Hinds said that the decision should have been influenced by a number of crucial social factors. He said that the fact that it was not, suggests “political naivety, arrogance, insensitivity” or all of those. He made the case however that it is not the increase that is fueling the public outrage but rather, “the politics and the principle which underpin it.” He believes that there are three crucial factors at work.
Britain and China to hail ‘golden’ ties during Xi visit LONDON (Reuters) When British finance minister George Osborne told Chinese students his daughter studied Mandarin during a visit to Beijing in 2013, it was a clear personal bid to heal strained ties. Fast forward two years and Osborne’s revelation and his dogged pursuit of better ties have hit the mark, helping to attract billions of pounds in potential investment to Britain in what China calls a “golden time” in relations. A visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to London next week will be in much the same spirit, with officials keen to embrace a much friendlier relationship with Britain which, they say, trumps ties with other Western countries. The tone of the state visit, during which Xi will dine at Buckingham Palace, will be in marked contrast to his trip last month to the United States, where pomp and ceremony failed to mask friction over
cyber theft and China’s moves in Asian maritime disputes. China’s ambassador to Britain, Liu Xiaoming, said Xi’s visit on Oct. 19-23 marked a new milestone for the ChinaBritain relationship. “The ‘Golden Time’ is dawning but it has not come overnight,” he told the Diplomat magazine, which his aides showed to reporters at a meeting this month. In a mark of respect, Xi will be visiting only Britain on his trip - a departure from the traditional practice of taking in several destinations during long-haul trips. And while both sides will emphasize their warm relations, analysts caution there may be little concrete behind the words with final deals on nuclear energy projects and high-speed rail links in Britain a long way off. “I’m sure there’ll be all sorts of contracts lined up for signature ... but most of those will be statements of intent,”
Xi Jinping said Rod Wye, associate fellow of the Asia Programme at independent policy institute, Chatham House. Xi’s visit could include an announcements that Beijing will issue government debt in renminbi in London, making it the first financial center outside China to offer its sovereign debt, the Financial Times reported.
Palestinian ‘Day of Rage’ attacks kill three - Israeli police Reuters - Palestinian men armed with knives and a gun killed at least three people and wounded several others in a string of attacks in Jerusalem and near Tel Aviv yesterday, police said, on a “Day of Rage” declared by Palestinian groups. With the worst unrest in years in Israel and the Palestinian territories showing no sign of abating, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened an emergency meeting of his security cabinet to discuss what police said would
be new operational plans. Officials said Israel was considering whether to seal off Palestinian districts in East Jerusalem - home of many of the assailants of the past two weeks - from the rest of the city. Unlike their brethren in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem Palestinians can travel freely in Israel. It annexed East Jerusalem after a 1967 war in a move not recognised abroad. In Jerusalem, two Palestin-
ians shot and stabbed passengers on a bus, killing two and injuring four, police said. One of the assailants was killed and the other captured. Minutes later, a Palestinian rammed his car into a bus stop in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood of the city, police said. A surveillance video showed him then hacking pedestrians with a cleaver until he was shot dead by a passer-by. One of the Israelis he attacked died and six others were hurt, police said.
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UNREASONABLE I am hearing a lot of chat from women’s rights groups about the increases in salaries that the Cabinet voted for itself and members of Parliament. But I did not hear a squeak out of those voices when Haitian nationals were recently denied entry into Guyana because they did not have adequate funds or what is known as “show money” or did not have anyone there to receive them at the airport.
I do not know if our immigration authorities who now seem to be becoming extremely vigilant understand that the discretion they are exercising must be done in accordance with the law, including the treaties and agreements to which Guyana is a signatory. Haiti is neither a member of the regional Common Market or of the Caribbean Single Market and Economy. It is however a full member of
Caribbean Community and therefore its nationals are entitled to rights derived from membership of that body. In 2007 the Heads of Conference of the Caribbean Community agreed that nationals of members of the Community are entitled to unhindered admission to members states for a minimum period of six months. This is Community law and was affirmed in the decision of the Shanique
Dem boys seh...
Rum Jattan joining Jagdeo wid he stupidness When Jagdeo announce that he was putting cameras pun de streets people believe that crime woulda slow down. In dem big cities de police does use dem cameras to ketch criminals. Of course, all dem big buildings got security cameras suh de cameras pun de road is merely fuh back up. So when Jagdeo put de cameras de business people smile because dem tell demself that dem didn’t have to invest in security cameras. Dem was wrong. De man who install de cameras was one of Jagdeo friends so he didn’t have to really mek de cameras wuk. Imagine a policeman get shoot right wheh one set of cameras was set up and to this day the police never see nutten. People does get
hijack and de car does drive past dem cameras and de police can’t tell you if de car head east or west or north or south. But Jagdeo did promise that when de cameras set up people would see if de cars drive out of de city or not. Jagdeo days done and now Rum Jattan coming wid de same stupidness. He go till in Canada and tell dem how he gun put cameras in every street. Well dem boys live in an area that don’t have street lights and when night fall de place black like pitch. Dem want to know how Rum Jattan cameras gun wuk. And in any case, dem boys want to know who he gun ketch. Police does deh stand up right when a man snatch a chain and dem don’t ketch de man.
But people can forgive Rum Jattan because he travel and he hear bout cameras but he never try to understand that is no poo poo cameras he got to buy. Rohee buy a cabba cabba water cannon that can’t wuk; dem buy a boat that never sail and dem already set up cameras that don’t wuk. If indeed dem putting in more cameras dem mustn’t hire de same Brian. He owe a lady and he claim that he bankrupt. But dem boys know that Jagdeo did pay him good money to install de cameras. Now this man don’t drink and he don’t smoke; he ain’t got no lady. So wha he do wid de money. Dem boys seh that Jagdeo tek it back. Talk half and wait to see if is cameras dem really buying.
Myrie case which was adequately ventilated throughout the Region. There are only two exceptions to this automatic six months entry for Caricom nationals. The first is if the person is deemed an undesirable and the second is if the person will represent “a charge on public funds” that is if the government of the receiving will have to bear the cost of providing some service be it medical, accommodation etc. to the person concerned. If the person was deemed an undesirable, it is on the denying State to prove that the person with either a threat to public safety, public morals or public health. Neither was given as the reason why the Haitians were denied entry. In the Shanique Myrie case, the CCJ did hold that it is reasonable in deciding whether a person would become a charge on public funds for the authorities to assess whether the person has sufficient funds to cover their stay or whether funds can be made available to cover the person’s stay in
Guyana. Reports indicate that the Haitians had come to stay two weeks and the most money any of them had was G$40,000. How was this deemed inadequate when there are Guyanese who survive on less and when it is possible with money transfer services and other means of receiving money from overseas for the Haitians to have access to more funds. No Caricom national can be denied entry on the spurious grounds that the person does not have enough “show money” or insufficient funds on their person to cover the length of stay. Those grounds for denying someone entry have long been dispensed with as a legal basis for denying entry to someone to enter Guyana. The question is not whether the person had enough funds on his person to cover his or her stay but whether such funds can be made available to the person during his stay and whether the absence of such funds would mean that the person is at risk of
becoming a charge on public funds. The Haitians were deported on the grounds of not having enough money to cover the stay in Guyana. That is not a legitimate ground for denial of entry under Community law. What would constitute a legitimate ground for denial was if the nonavailability of funds would constitute a charge on public funds. I have not heard of persons coming from North America and Europe being asked to show that they have sufficient funds to cover their stay in Guyana. And those persons do not have any definitive right of entry for six months as do Caricom nationals. I know of many persons from overseas whose stay is usually covered entirely by the persons whom they are staying with. So why should we be turning back Caricom nationals from Haiti? That is unreasonable.
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THE FREDDIE KISSOON COLUMN
What is Cuba’s position on Venezuela’s claim on Guyana? Fidel Castro became a global icon not so much for his 1959 overthrow of the Cuban dictatorial president, Fulgensio Baptista, but because of his challenge to the United States influence in the world. Young people the world over saw Cuba as a symbol of the courage of a small state trying to survive against the unimaginable might of a superpower. In his 40-odd years as the Cuban president, Castro has sought to protect the sovereignty of many Third World countries from what Castro would inflexibly
denounce as big power domination. Perhaps his greatest success was in Angola. While earning a global image for himself worldwide, Castro didn’t have much success in his own backyard - the Caribbean Sea. In this context, the President of Guyana, Forbes Burnham threw a life-line to Castro when he engineered Caricom’s diplomatic recognition of Cuba with subsequent exchange of resident ambassadors from both sides. Since then, Guyana has been one of the countries
Cuba has had an enduring friendship with, a bond that has survived the break-up of friendships with countries Cuba once regarded as deep brothers. Every president in Guyana after Forbes Burnham, from whichever party they came from, maintained a firm bond of friendship Cuba. With the rise of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Castro got the largest friendship he ever received from a Regional country. Castro regarded Venezuela as special for two reasons. Its president, Hugo Chavez, was more ideologically attuned to Castro’s radical communist orthodoxy, something Burnham and other Third World leaders were not interested in. Burnham and Michael Manley were the products of the western philosophy thus they would have had subtle and philosophical differences on Latin-style communism. Manley in particular was not in the least a communist. In Hugo Chavez, Castro found a soul mate he never had after the Sandinistas and the New Jewel Movement lost power in Nicaragua and Grenada respectively.
Secondly, Castro wallowed in Chavez’s fraternal links because he now had a country whose economic generosity he could depend on. No sooner had Chavez come to power, than free oil began to flow to Havana. It was free in the sense that Chavez exchanged oil for medial personnel from Cuba but Venezuela never really cared about the Cuban medical bandwagons. The story of Chavez and Fidel Castro against the background of the Venezuela claim exposed the hidden hypocrisy of Fidel Castro and his Government. The story of Venezuela’s claim on Guyana is naked big power aggression against a small country, the type of which Castro spent forty years fighting against. But an aging Castro and his brother, very late in life, discovered realpolitik, the chess board of international politics that a young, charismatic Castro loved to condemn the Americans for possessing and practicing. What Venezuela is doing to Guyana is what big, hegemonic powers have done to the countries of the Third World since the end of WW2. Castro earned an international reputation
denouncing what he, Castro, loved to call, “Yankee imperialism.” The Castro Government cannot be that ignorant not to know that the Venezuelan claim on Guyana is pure imperialist hegemony. The Cuban Foreign Ministry’s lawyers and international relations experts either have not read the documents or read them but chose not to lecture Venezuela the way Castro did to the US on what Castro perceived was US aggression. In fact there are two books separated by 55 years, sympathetic to Cuba’s cries against American aggression with the title; “Listen Yankee!” One is the 1960 publication by the world famous American sociologist C. Wright Mills. The other is the 2015 work by Tom Hayden, celebrated US radical and former husband of film star, Jane Fonda. Cuba should tell Venezuela to listen The Cubans have not come out against Venezuelan aggression. They ought to because Cuba has been a victim of bullying tactics by big powers the way Venezuela is now attempting to bully Guyana. There isn’t a border dispute between
Frederick Kissoon Guyana and Venezuela that needs extensive research by International lawyers and UN experts. Guyana’s borders are fixed and legally accepted by International laws and the Global community of nations. What Venezuela has done and is doing is in violation of International law. The very American Government that the Cubans so hate, that the Cubans have so condemned as international aggressors is the very first government that came out with unambiguous grammar and supported Guyana’s fixed borders. The Guyanese people and the Guyana Government ought to learn by now who are its friends. Guyana is being threatened with military violence by Venezuela and our traditional friends like India and Brazil have not uttered one word in support of out territorial sovereignty.
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Govt. re-opens seabob fishing season The Fisheries Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, recently approved the Closed Season for the Guyana‘s Seabob (shrimp) Fishery, following a written request by Bruce Vieira, President of the Guyana Association of Trawler Owners and Seafood Processors(GATOSP). The closure was ratified by Minister of Agriculture, Noel Holder, in keeping with protocols previously established between the GATOSP and the Ministry. The fishery reopened on October 5 having been closed for seven weeks. During this period, the Ministry explained yesterday, all seabob trawlers were docked with the exception of a few, which were used for research purposes. Closed seasons are specified time periods where no legal fishing is permitted for a particular fishery, and has been going on for several years in Guyana. Its implementation is closely monitored by the Fisheries Department on an annual basis. “Such an intervention is not only limited to Guyana, but has fast become a global practice aimed at allowing various fisheries to multiply or replenish, thus ensuring growth and sustainability. During this period, companies conducted fleet maintenance, revision training for fishermen and management staff ventured off on annual vacation leave.” The seabob fishery in Guyana has been well known over the years for generating foreign exchange earnings and revenue through exports regionally, and to markets in North America and Europe. The major industrial stakeholders include Pritipaul Singh Investment, Noble House Seafoods, BEV Processors, Guyana Quality Seafoods and the Fisheries Department which falls under the Ministry of Agriculture. The seabob stock was last assessed in June 2013, where it was deemed fully exploited but not over fished. “As a result of this, a proposed Harvest Control Rule (considered as `best practices` in fisheries management) was drafted following deliberations with the consultant, G ATO S P a n d F i s h e r i e s Department.” According to the Ministry, the current rule
allows for 87 licences each with an allocated 225 days at sea. This implementation of the rule commenced in 2014 and is monitored and enforced by the key stakeholders, in particular the Fisheries Department through the Seabob Working Group (SWG). “Consistent monitoring of vessel catch (Catch Per Unit Effort) and vessel movements while fishing (via Vessel Monitoring System) are currently being managed by officers within the Fisheries Department. Individual companies also have the ability to monitor their respective fleets.” Additionally, final measures are currently being put in place for the seabob fishery to enter into assessment for achievement of Marine Stewardship Council Certification (MSC) in the not-too-distant future. MSC certification, the Ministry noted, basically signifies that harvesting and management of fisheries resources are being done in a sustainable manner, which in turn allows access into global markets for sale of produce. Some of the measures for the certification includes installation of Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) and By-Catch Reduction Devices (BRD‘s) on trawler vessels and the drafting of fisheries regulations. Also drafted, is the Seabob Management Plan and an international press release done on the Fisheries Improvement Plan (Guyana Seabob) which has been posted up on the Fishery Improvement Projects website. There is also a seabob fishery observer programme being conducted through funding from the WWF (Guianas) and supported by the Fisheries Department, Ministry of Agriculture and the GATOSP. This programme will initially run for one year. The fishing industry has been taking a beating in recent years. According to Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan, in his budget presentation in August, despite improved management and monitoring techniques in the industry, overfishing and exploitation of fishing resources, overfishing and exploitation of fishing resources, and piracy have resulted in the sector’s contribution to the Gross Domestic Product declining by 26.7 percent.
A mini health check is the first step to donating blood.
After a seven week mandatory closure, the seabob fishing season has been reopened, Government announced yesterday.
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Trinidad, with an economy 8 times Guyana’s, pays PM less By Abena Rockcliffe Trinidad and Tobago (TT), which has an economy eight times that of Guyana’s, pays its Prime Minister less than what is now given to Guyana’s new Prime Minister. Also, the salaries given to other TT Ministers are relatively in the same ball park of that which is given to those in Guyana. On the other hand, the Caricom member state pays its teachers, police and nurses far more than what is being offered to Guyanese workers even after the recent five per cent increase by the new administration. Further, Trinidad has an economy of US$24.6B while Guyana is struggling with a US $3.2B economy. While public servants received a five per cent salary increase, in addition to $5,000 monthly, the government granted its senior ministers a huge increase. The five percent increase for public servants was announced when the budget was laid, however, the public
- teachers, police there earn more
Minister of State, Joseph Harmon only found out about the increase for ministers and MPs after checks were made in the Official Gazette of September. Minister Joseph Harmon has since said that it has no apologies to make to the public. During the election campaign, the government had promised to give public servants more than the five percent increase they had grown accustomed to under
the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) administration. However, after assuming office the government announced that economic constraints prevented a significant raise for the masses. Nevertheless, economic constraints did not prevent the hike in the salaries of government ministers. Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has benefitted the most. The Gazette report listed the Prime Minister’s salary as $20,580,000 per annum. This amounts to a few dollars more than $1.7M a month. Nagamootoo is now the highest paid Prime Minister in Guyana’s history. Despite presiding over a slowed economy that is said to be buckling under the stain of immense corruption which characterized PPP’s governance in the last few years, Nagamootoo, the head of government, accepted his
increase with open arms. Incidentally, Nagamootoo is one who had said during the election campaign that he is not in politics for the money. Some years ago he had condemned the “PPP fat cats”. Guyana is now paying its politicians on par with what a richer country is paying theirs. Trinidad’s Prime Minister is earning TT$48,000 which works out to just over G$1.5M. Nagamootoo is being paid over GY$200,000 (TT$6,129) more despite the fact that the Prime Ministerial responsibilities of a Trinidadian weigh more than Guyana as Trinidad’s President is only ceremonial. Other than Nagamootoo, who is both Prime Minister and a Vice President, Guyana has three other Vice Presidents. Those are Carl Greenidge,
who is also Minister of Foreign Affairs, Khemraj Ramjattan, who is also Minister of Public Security, and Sydney Allicock, Minister of Indigenous Affairs. While there are no known added responsibilities for a Vice President, they are being given $11,135,064 per annum—$927,992 monthly. For the Cabinet Ministers, their salary was listed in the gazette as $10,439,124 per annum and this works out to $896,927 a month while the Junior Ministers were listed as receiving $8,346,492 per annum, equivalent to $695,541. In Trinidad, Cabinet Ministers are given TT $33,000 just over GYD $1M and non Cabinet Ministers are given TT$27,000, equivalent to $879,121. After news of the increase entered the public domain, Minister of State Joseph Harmon told the media that it was justifiable considering the quality of Cabinet members and thus the Government has no apologies to make. Harmon said that the $560,000 paid to a Government Minister previously was on par with what he, as a lawyer, paid his lawyers in private practice. The Minister said that his government is trying to avoid the temptation of corruption such which existed under the past administration, when Ministers were prepared to accept “lowly” salaries, but would engage in corrupt practices. Harmon described
Prime Minister, Moses Nagamootoo $560,000 as “lowly” even though the majority of public servants, including qualified teachers, University Lecturers and even some doctors, work for less than that. A Temporary Qualified Master or Mistress (TQM) in Guyana takes home $35,000 and a trained teacher takes home just about $60,000. But a trained teacher in Trinidad gets TT $8000, equivalent to $261,145 and more qualification earns a teacher a higher salary. A Police Constable in Trinidad gets about TT$7,000 and that works out to about GYD $ 228,388; but a police constable in Guyana gets a little over GYD $ 50,000. The rumors of the increases were floating since August, but the government had denied it. The Official Gazette of September 25 announced the increases subject to the Ministers, Member of the National Assembly and Special Offices (Emoluments) Act. It also went on to state that the amendments were retroactive to July 1, 2015.
Uitvlugt murder accused to know fate on Thursday Following a summing up of the trial by Justice Navindra Singh on Thursday, a mixed 12-member jury will deliberate on the outcome of the case against Andrew Albert. Albert is accused of the August 2010 murder of Nandlall Bhopat. According to the allegation, the accused is said to have stabbed the victim, during a row over a bicycle. The incident took place at a culvert corner at De Groot, Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara. Subsequent to the stabbing, Bhopat was taken to the Leonora Cottage Hospital where he died on August 13, 2010. A post-mortem examination later revealed the cause of death to be perforation of the spleen and blood vessels due to stab wounds. Albert has since
denied stabbing the 43-year old man. While leading his defence, the accused even contended that the Caution statement presented by a police witness did not belong to him. In his unsworn statement, Albert pointed out that he is unable to read or write, but that the Caution statement presented in the evidence by the officer had a signature affixed to it, purporting to show that he had signed it. The accused claimed that he had related the incident to the police, who transcribed it and later affixed his thumb print to the paper. As such, Albert said he has no knowledge of the Caution Statement which was presented to the court. Yesterday, Albert’s attorney, George Thomas, submitted his closing arguments by pointing out to Continued on page 30
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TAP CARICOM MECHANISMS TO SAVE LOCAL AGRI. INDUSTRIES - PPP The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is calling on the David Granger administration to seek to immediately activate the numerous mechanisms in place under the Treaty of Chaguaramas to protect Guyana’s agricultural industries, particularly rice and sugar. The position was adumbrated by the party’s General Secretary, Clement Rohee, yesterday, at Freedom House, Robb Street. Rohee said the party wants the rice and sugar industries treated as ‘sensitive.’ “The destruction of the rice industry has started once again as was the case in the 1970’s to 1980s,” said Rohee. He said, given the prevailing situation, Guyanese are left to wonder whether the country’s Minister of Agriculture, Noel Holder, took the opportunity to raise the problems affecting the rice and sugar industries with his Caricom colleagues recently in Georgetown. He had met with his regional counterparts when they met at the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED). Rohee wants to know whether Holder sought their collective cooperation and efforts in the search for solutions such as, access to
PPP’s General Secretary, Clement Rohee Regional and extra-regional markets for Guyana’s rice. “Was CARDI’s assistance sought in keeping with the Agreement establishing the Institute?” He questioned, too, if the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) assistance was sought in keeping with the objectives establishing the Agency. “Was the assistance of the Caribbean Food Corporation sought?” asked Rohee. Rohee drew reference to what he called the declared policy of Economic Diplomacy of the Granger Administration. He asked if the Minister of Foreign Affairs, working in close collaboration with the Minister of Agriculture at the
level of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR), sought to invoke the appropriate Articles of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas to secure Guyana’s economic and trade interests? The Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas, treating with Caricom’s Agricultural policy imposes on Member States the obligation to assist each other, according to Rohee. The CARICOM Treaty, he said, places obligations on member states to seek “an enlarged share of the world market for primary and processed of agricultural products” The CARICOM Treaty, according to Rohee also calls for effective support measures to enhance the capabilities of Member States in the area of agricultural trade analysis and negotiations. He stated, further, that the Revised Treaty’s Agricultural Policy treating with the marketing of agricultural products states; “The Community shall, in collaboration with competent National, Regional and International organizations, promote the development of effective agricultural marketing systems in order to respond to; influence and generate market demand for agricultural products of
Member State.” Rohee has since called on the government to immediately seek to invoke Articles of the Revised Treaty treating with Disadvantaged Countries, Regions and Sectors, “to assist the Disadvantaged Countries, Regions and Sectors towards becoming economically viable and competitive by appropriate interventions of a transitional and temporary nature”. The PPP General Secretary surmised that at this juncture in Guyana, the rice industry in particular, and the agricultural section in general, can be deemed a sensitive industry and a disadvantaged sector
respectively within the meaning of the Treaty treating with Disadvantaged Countries, Regions and Sectors. As such, Rohee said the Government of Guyana must immediately by way of application to COTED seek to have the rice industry/ agricultural sector considered sensitive and disadvantaged, by reason of its vulnerable nature. He said the Government of Guyana must also take urgent steps to request support from the Regional Development Fund “which form part of the Special Regime for Disadvantages Countries, Regions and Sectors”. Rohee also wants Government to press for the
further opening up of CARICOM countries’ markets for increased quantities for Guyana’s rice and for the imposition of the Common External Tariff (CET) and quantitative restrictions of a temporary nature on extraregional rice imports. “The PPP is of the view that contrary to the claim by the Granger-led APNU+AFC Coalition, the government is obligated to find solutions for the rice industry utilizing the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas; the Regional Inter-Governmental Agreement to facilitate the free movement of goods and services between Member States of the Caribbean Community.”
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Former Presidents still owe the nation ‘truthful’ explanations - TIGI Head By Kiana Wilburg Head of Transparency International Guyana Inc., Calvin Bernard, has said that the former Presidents of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo and Donald Ramotar, still have some unfinished business with the nation. He argued that as officials who held one of the highest offices in the land, they owe it to the people to come clean on a number of decisions they made while in office. Some of these seemed to reek of corruption. As for Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, Bernard told Kaieteur News that Jagdeo still owes it to the nation to provide “a truthful and clear explanation” on the radio licences granted before he left office in 2011. The former President had unilaterally granted several radio and cable licences to not only his friends but also to close party members and even to the PPP newspaper, The Mirror. It was widely seen as part of a bigger plan by Jagdeo to gain control of the airwaves. Several prominent media houses were ignored by Jagdeo, leading to
…We have allowed the past government to behave as Gods and it has ruined the society morally, economically and politically — says Dr. David Hinds
Former President, Bharrat Jagdeo
Former President, Donald Ramotar
TIGI Head, Calvin Bernard
Political Activist and University Professor, Dr. David Hinds
condemnation locally and internationally, and to protests. Several media houses like HBTV, Kaieteur News, Stabroek News, RBS Channel 13, CNS Channel 6, MBC Channel 46, WRHM Channel 7, GWTV 2 and Capitol News, were among those that complained about being sidelined by Jagdeo. Among those granted approvals for radio licences were Telcor & Cultural
Broadcasting Inc, the former owner of IRadio 90.1 FM and the company closely linked to former Minister Robert Persaud. Also granted five frequencies were Dr. Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop, Jagdeo’s close buddy. He was allowed also to buy over a television Channel (28) from its former owner Tony Vieira under controversial circumstances.
The Mirror, owned by the PPP, was also granted five frequencies through Dharamkumar Seeraj, a senior member of the then ruling party. Single frequencies were granted to Maxwell Thom, singer Rudy Grant, Hits and Jams, and NTN. The APNU+AFC which served in the opposition prior to the 2015 elections had feared that the “PPP-
dominated” radio would have been used as a propaganda machine against them during the said elections. And what they feared actually became a reality. The first report of the elections watchdog body, the Media Monitoring Unit (MMU) of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), for the period March 1 to March 31, 2015 disclosed that coverage by
the new radio stations monitored, was overwhelmingly in favour of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) during the 2015 elections. As for former President Ramotar, the TIGI Head stressed that he should explain his pardoning of convicted child killer, Ravindra Deo, just prior to leaving office. He believes that the motivation for that action needs to be made clear as it “currently suggests something corrupt.” Deo was just 19 when he kidnapped and killed eightyear-old Vishnu Bhim, as the Annandale, East Coast Demerara child was coming home from school. The kidnapper had reportedly demanded a $1M ransom. Prior to the kidnapping, Deo had allegedly gone to the child’s home and asked the victim’s father, Heerlall Bhim, for a job in the man’s carpentry shop. Deo was arrested a few days later in America Street, and on December 1, 1994, he led detectives and villagers to a La Bonne Intention backdam. There, police found Continued on page 25
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Govt. partners with private sector to provide school shoes to Region Nine children delivering the sports gear, the day before, Minister Ally noted that the purpose of the activity was to begin to involve citizens at the community level in the promotion of togetherness and national unity. This, she explained, was one of the primary mandates
Minister of Social Cohesion, Amna Ally making the donation to the students Over the course of the weekend, the APNU+AFC coalition made good on one of its election campaign promises, which was to provide students from the village of Parishara, Region Nine with comfortable and durable footwear. Minister of Social Cohesion, Amna Ally, who made the donations, also handed over sports gear to the Kurupukari community. The provision of the shoes was made possible by businessman, Bishnarine Persaud, the proprietor of Sanjay’s Jewellery. Ally said that this was part of President David Granger’s push to ensure that all school aged children are not hindered from attending school by the lack of basic needs. At the Saraswatie Vidya Niketan School Graduation ceremony for the class of 2015, on Sunday, President David Granger again reiterated the importance of educating the nation, even as he pointed out the challenges being faced by the students
in the hinterland regions in accessing an education. “Anyone who knows about what I’ve been saying on the campaign trail for the past five years would know I’ve been calling for Guyana to become an educated nation once again. Education is one of the greatest gifts that you could ever receive in your life. “I have covered every single region of this country, and I’m pained to go into some parts of our country to see children coming out of school three o’clock on a Friday afternoon and not one of them wearing a pair of shoes. “Some people may be rich, but a lot of people cannot even afford shoes to go to school; Guyanese children, right here in 2015,” the President said. With the President’s promise and agenda in mind, on Sunday morning, Minister Ally handed over 300 pairs of footwear to the village. She said that during the campaign season,
President David Granger had visited the village and had found that most of the children were attending school barefooted. With the President’s focus on education, she said that the provision of the shoes had to become a reality. “When we were here, we saw that many of the children did not have footwear and we had vowed that we will pay attention to that as one of the things to be done. And so, we thought that one of the first places we should go is to Parishara and provide the footwear for the children,” she said. Businessman Persaud, who donated the shoes, also ensured that they were transported to Region Nine, sealing the public-private partnership. Minister Ally vowed that the village will not be neglected under this administration. She reiterated the government’s developmental plans for the people of that region. Visiting Kurupukari and
Former Presidents still...
From page 16 the eight-year-old boy’s bound, gagged and battered body. On December 6, 1994, Ravendra Deo appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, to answer a charge of murder. He was found guilty on December 4, 1995, and Justice Claudette Singh sentenced him to death. Political activist and University professor, Dr. David Hinds totally agrees with Mr Bernard’s position. In an invited comment, Dr. Hinds said that the conduct of the previous government has to be brought under the microscope not for purposes of witch-hunting but as a form of deterrence for future governments. He opined that Jagdeo and the PPP could well come back to power. “If we allow past misdeeds to be swept under the carpet then the party would be emboldened to repeat them.” The political activist said that, “Guyana has to develop a stronger culture of Government oversight even within government itself but crucially in Civil Society. We have allowed the past government to
behave as Gods and it has ruined the society morally, economically and politically. The fact that PPP leaders behaved as if they have done no wrong is very discomforting.” Dr. Hinds said that he is against witchhunting and victimization, but noted that this should not preclude the populace from pushing for transparency. “Mr. Jagdeo and Mr. Ramotar should at least acknowledge their mistakes if they want to continue as credible leaders,” the University professor asserted. As for the issue of the radio licence, Dr. Hinds said that it is a very important one for it has implications for personal enrichment, but remains an issue that also has larger political implications. The University professor asserted, “Who gets to be heard and what gets to be heard? Mass communication is a vital aspect of democracy. And if one group of people unjustly owns the means of communications, it is a clear violation of the civil rights of others. We should not encourage information tyranny.”
of her Ministerial post. “The first set of people I am targeting is the young people. Our young people must have the opportunity to have equipment and materials to play games and socialize like those in Georgetown. Let it be used in the community; let it foster social cohesion;
let us learn by playing games, to start the togetherness,” she told residents. The equipment was received by Mark Holden, Sports Chairman of the Kurupukari community in the presence of Vice President Sydney Allicock and Village Toshao, Russian Dorrick.
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117 murders, 896 armed robberies in eight months A great 117 murders, 896 armed robberies and 224 reported cases of rape are the latest statistics released by the Guyana Police Force. The statistics suggest that the Force may be losing
ground in its bid to curb serious crimes. The Force’s Public relations Department stated that 114 murders were recorded at the end of September 2015, in
comparison to 109 murders at the end of September last year, an increase of five percent. Police recorded three more murders up to Monday. Worrying for the Force is
the fact that there was a ten percent increase in serious crimes for this period this year. For the first eight months of 2015, there were 613 robberies in which firearms were used, in comparison to 589 such robberies for the same period last year. There was a one percent drop in cases in which robberies were committed with other instruments; 283 this year as against 285 last year. The release stated that the force recently published incorrect statistics in relation to rape. “Following advice received from the Police Legal Advisor, it was recognised that there was a flaw in the recording process for the offence of rape. “The statistics have since been adjusted and reveal that there has been an increase of 19 percent in the number of reports of rape, with 224
- rape cases up by 19% reports at the end of September this year compared to 188 for the same period last year. Break and enter and larceny and burglary have shown an overall increase of 14 percent. Unto the end of September this year, police recovered 89 illegal firearms, including one sub-machine gun, 47 pistols, 24 revolvers, 10 shotguns, six rifles and a pen-gun. In contrast, 60 illegal firearms were recovered during a similar period last year. In relation to traffic, there were 90 road fatalities from 76 accidents at the end of September 2015, in comparison to 101 fatalities from 93 accidents for the same period in 2014, a decrease of 18. There were also decreases
in the serious and minor categories of road accidents, and a six percent increase in accidents in which vehicles were damaged. Of those who perished, 31 were pedestrians, eight were pedal cyclists, 23 were motor vehicle passengers, 13 motor cyclists, 11 drivers, three pillion riders and one who was being towed on a bicycle. Traffic enforcement by the police has resulted in 43,071 cases for this year being made against errant motorists at the end of September 2015. Of this total, 17,582 cases were for speeding, 1,666 for driving under the influence of alcohol, 489 for using cell phone while driving and 1,156 for failing to wear seat belt.
FARMERS PUT ON AN IMPRESSIVE DISPLAY
The West Berbice Sheep and Goat Farmers Association staged its eighth annual exhibition at the Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club Ground, Number Six Village, West Coast Berbice, on Sunday. The event attracted a large crowd. Minister of Agriculture, Noel Holder, said that he was quite impressed with the display staged by the Association; some 65 percent of the membership is comprised of women, many of them being the heads of households. Minister Holder classified the event as very important. He said that the efforts of the West Berbice Sheep and Goat Farmers Association could be used as a vehicle to educate people in the regions. The minister advised the farmers to work on increasing their production as well as to work towards quality production for the Caribbean Region which depends heavily on import. He also assured farmers that the government stands ready to support them. He promised that there will soon be improvement in security and the fight against rustling. FAO representative, Dr. Reuben Hamilton Robertson, congratulated the association for having put on a tremendous display. He pledged the commitment of the FAO to provide support with the aim of improving management as well as the quality of animals. Region Five Chairman, Mr. Vickchand Ramphal commended the association for its effort. He suggested that the members of the
association organize activities to attract more members. Mr. Ramphal also said that he felt that the association can be used as a model for the rest of the country. There were prizes on offer for the best animal in each category, and the panel of judges included professionals Dr. Robin Austin –GLDA; Mr. Arnold DeMendonca – IICA; Dr. Nicholas Waldron – Private Vet; Dr. Dexter Allen – GSA. Some of the things that the judges looked for in assessing the animals included the overall balance of the animal, fleshing, positive physical masculine or feminine features as the case may be, the loin, back and rump must be meaty, but
One of the winners at the exhibition.
Minister of Agriculture, Noel Holder the animal should not be too fat. Other attractions included horse race, bun eating competition, and beer drinking completion among others.
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Multi-million dollar bids opened for Ministry of Public Infrastructure heavy duty machinery During yesterday’s session at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB), several bids were opened under the Ministry of Public Infrastructure, for the supply of heavy duty machinery in an apparent bid to boost the Ministry’s arsenal. The engineer supplied an estimate of $105,400,000 for the supply of a low bed trailer, hauler truck, 5-ton and 20-ton dump trucks, a roller vibratory compacter and a pro patch machine.
Under the Ministry of Health’s Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) there were bids opened for the supply and installation of CCTV systems. This project reportedly attracted just one bidder.
There were also bids opened for the rehabilitation work, specifically raising of Colgrain House swimming pool compound.
Bids were opened for the rehabilitation of the entire Cliff Anderson Sports Hall roof at Homestretch Avenue, Georgetown. The engineer’s estimate was $9,996,000.
Also under GPHC was a tender for the supply and installation of surgical lights.
Bids were also opened for the supply of water purification systems for the renal centre.
There were also bids for the construction of a chain link fence around the National Gymnasium, Georgetown on the Western side. The engineer’s estimate was $9,997,953.
Bids were also opened for the supply of fusion pumps for the corporation.
Bids were opened for the construction of a store room at the National Racquet Centre at Woolford Avenue, Georgetown. The engineer’s estimate was $4,999,603. There were also bids for the supply of a scrub sink at the GPHC.
Still under the GPHC was a tender for the supply of 450 KVA Auto transformers. Three firms bid for this project. In addition, bids were opened for the construction of a training facility at the Sophia Training centre, Greater Georgetown. This is Phase 1 and the engineer’s estimate was $14,998,279. And bids were also opened for the supply of a laboratory refrigerator. Five firms bid for this.
Meanwhile, under the Ministry of Education, Department of Culture, Youth and Sport there were several bids opened for works on various sports facilities and the construction of a training facility at the Sophia training school. Bids were opened for the installation of security lights at the Carifesta Sports complex, Carifesta Avenue, Georgetown, Region Four. The engineer’s estimate was $2,924,103.
And finally, bids were opened for the rewiring of the entire National Cultural Centre, Homestretch Avenue, Georgetown- Phase 2. The engineer’s estimate for this was $9,999,770.
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Rottweiler pups with pedigree (certified) fully vaccinated and de-wormed. Call/whatsapp: 592-664-5401 1-8 HP Tohatsu outboard, excellent condition- Call: 6425014
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EDUCATION Princeton College Forms 1-5 CXC Adults Classes, Grade 1-6 Lessons: Phonic lessons @ East Street-Call: 690-5008; 619-7911 Continued on page 29
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Multi-million dollar bids opened... Continued on page 27 Under the Ministry of Social Protection, bids were opened for the construction of a concrete Reservoir at the Mahaica Children’s home. The engineer’s estimate was $9,052,700.
Letters... Where your views make the news Sad that President did not commit to removing corporal punishment in schools DEAR EDITOR, It is good that President Granger and Minister Roopnaraine interacted with the school children at the rally and made several promises to them. The President is right, every child should be in school. All children should have equitable access and the state must provide for every child to go to school. In addition to providing transportation, the state should also ensure that every child is safe from violence in school. It is sad, on the eve of the much touted 50th independence that the President and the Minister did not commit to the children removing the beating of children from Guyana’s schools. It is sad that there are teachers and parents who will insist that the state must beat children and that Guyana, despite its promises to
children, has rejected all recommendations from the most recent Universal Periodic Review in 2015 to repeal the laws which allow teachers to abuse children and which make a mockery of all of our efforts to move to a society in which there is respect for all. President Granger has moved to pardon young offenders. There is debate about the pardons. The President might also want to lead the movement to repeal the offence of wandering - a discriminatory “victimless” offence, which is symptomatic of the inability of some families and the communities to nurture their children. The children are punished for this. It is wrong to steal cell phones - Seema Mangar paid with her life. However wandering is not stealing, and the New Opportunity Corps is not a school despite its best intentions. Vidyaratha Kissoon
Sometimes to be an effective leader one has to do some form of micro management DEAR EDITOR, I read a letter in the Kaieteur News, October 13, 2015 written by Jagmohan under the caption, “Does Conway want Ramjattan to micro manage the police?” I did not want to respond to the missive because it contains a massive dose of unadulterated piffle, inaccuracies and irrelevancies. However, I received several calls from persons in Guyana and overseas requesting that I reply to the letter. Some felt that it is a subtle attempt to belittle my character and integrity. Therefore, I am now making my reply. Jagmohan wrote,” Conway boasts that as a graduate of the Behavioural Science Course at FBI....” Where did he receive that misinformation from? Perhaps from a rum shop from someone who was under the influence of alcohol and drugs and was hallucinating. It is complete fabrication and total distortion of facts. I never attend the course mentioned by Jagmohan. I did not state that in my letter to the editor. I completed fourteen courses at the FBINA covering various aspects of law enforcement. The Behavioural Science Unit is only one of several units that make up the FBINA. I explained that my groundings as a graduant and graduate with the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy, Behavioural Science Unit provided me with the necessary skills and attitude to perform reasonably well in my role as a law enforcement officer, in my interactions with members of the public and relations with my family. I recommended the establishment of a Behavioural Science Unit in the GPF. If in order for such a facility to come on stream and the Honorable Minister Ramjattan has to play a role which the writer sees as micro managing, well so be it. Let the decision maker hasten to micro manage. By the way, what is micro managing? Is it wrong for a leader to micro manage? Name any dynamic leader who has not on occasions micro managed effectively. Sometimes as leaders we fail because we
constantly stereo-type. We lock ourselves in a box. We do not think outside of the box. We fail to employ different styles of leadership. We close the door for situational leadership. We fail to observe the changing environment. Change is inevitable. We either adapt or perish. I quoted from Featherstone who wrote, “It is the Minister Ramjattan’s duty to ensure that the police trainers and educators are first and foremost dedicated professionals.” If that is micro managing, I agree with it. Let the micro managing take place in the interest of public security and safety. Sometimes to be an effective a leader one has to do some form of micro management. I felt that the author of the quote in question would have been the first person that Jagmohan would have attacked instead of me. Maybe, he will do so in alphabetical order because Conway comes before Featherstone. I seldom blow my own trumpet but will state that numerous policemen including Commissioners, Senior Officers, Junior Officers, Inspectors, Subordinate Officers and Constables, both serving and retired, and the Police Force as a whole, benefitted in several ways from my training with the FBINA. Policemen at all levels still continue to do so although I am a retiree. Instead of making hasty generalization, the writer should conduct a Cost Benefit Analysis or a Return on Investment to ascertain whether or not the Guyanese or American taxpayers received value for their money expended on me during my stint with the FBINA. If I am in default I will repay the funds. Let me be pellucid and make a clarion call to Jagmohan, please attack the message not the messenger. In the interest of public safety and security, criticize yes, but please highlight possible solutions. The police and the decision makers might read your letters and act if your points are valid not like the ones under review. This is my one and only response to Jagmohan whoever he or she may be. Clinton Conway
LEGALNOTICE 2015 NO.D-200 DEMERARA IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE DIVORCE AND M AT R I M O N I A L JURISDICTION DIVORCE BETWEEN:(SINGH), SADHNA nee MORTIMER Petitioner -and (SINGH) MAHADEO Respondent CITATION TO: MAHADEO SINGH 291 Tuschen (North), East Bank Essequibo, Guyana WHEREAS, SADHNA SINGH nee MORTIMER, Teacher, of 291 Tuschen (North), East Bank Essequibo, Guyana, claiming to have been married to you has filed a Petition against you in the Registry of the High Court of the Supreme Court of Judicature of Guyana praying for a dissolution of marriage on the ground of malicious desertion. UPON APPLICATION in person or by letter to Mrs. Kamini Parag-Singh, Attorney at Law, whose address for service and place of business is at 160 ‘A’ Waterloo Street, North Cummingsburg, Georgetown, a copy of the said Petition will be delivered or sent to you. If within, 28 (twenty-eight) days after the date of the second and final publication of this Notice no application has been made nor appearance entered the Court may proceed to hear the said Petition and pronounce judgment therein in your absence notwithstanding. AND TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that for the purpose aforesaid you are to attend in person or by your Attorney-at-Law at the Registry of the said Court at the Law Courts, Georgetown, and then and there to enter an appearance in a book provided for that purpose without which you will not be allowed to address the Court either in person or by Attorney-atLaw at any stage of the proceedings in this cause. Dated a Georgetown, Demerara, THIS THE 2ND DAY OF JULY, 2015
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LAND FOR SALE 1500 Acres Transported land 4 Miles from Bartica, 2 Miles River front, sand, loam, forestry, rock quarry, farming, resort-Call: 603-1266; 625-9788 Guyana’s 1st 5-Star Community, modern amenities, luxurious, recreational & business facility, security entry and more- land @ US$ 7.2SqFtCall: 650-0978 80X40ft. Land at B Field, Sophia. Well-developed and ready to build on. Call: 6836200 Houselot @ Wallers Delight W.C.D, 9 lots available in different size; road side land, great investment for business or huge bonds. Call: 670-4036 365 Acres cultivated, 1135 acres-unclean, house 20X60 (porch)- Call: 657-0992 Two (2) Lot in Parika Contact # 650-0402
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Former Catwalk queen now a lawyer Miners’ body to consult members on fuel waiver implementation
Mrs Dazzell is flanked by Justice Sandra Kurtzious (right) and Attorney Kim Kyte Former television host Mrs. Excellence Tricia Dazzell has been admitted to the local Bar. He petition was presented on October 6, last, before Madam Justice Sandra Kurtzious. Her humble petition was presented by Attorney-at-law, Ms. Kim Kyte. Mrs. Dazzell, a former Queen’s College student, was born on October 14, to Mr. Orin Parris and Ms. Denise Best. This mother of two read for, and completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management at the University of Guyana (UG) in 2001. In 2010 she commenced reading at UG for her Bachelor of Laws and was awarded her Bachelor’s Degree in Law in 2013. Upon completing her studies at that
institution she attended the Hugh Wooding Law School, Trinidad and Tobago, where she commenced reading for her Legal Education Certificate. She successfully completed the prescribed course of study and was awarded the Legal Education Certificate on September 4, last. Mrs. Dazzell was the Administrator of Philbert London Ministries and the host of “The Excellence Dazzell Show” which was aired on the HBTV CH9 and National Communications Network (NCN). She was also the 2009 Miss Guyana Renaissance Pageant Queen and a member of the Guyana Women’s Association for Sustainable Development.
GGDMA said it will be meeting its members as early as tomorrow to discuss how it will pass down a fuel tax reduction benefit to its members. More than a week after a deal was signed with Government for tax waivers on fuel, the Miners’ body is expected to meet with its members as early as tomorrow to work out the details. According to Colin Sparman, Executive Director of the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA), details such as the requirements for miners and from where the association will be sourcing its fuel are still to be ironed out. Miners will have to prove that they have bonafide operations and are in compliance with regulatory requirements. Government, based on appeals of the struggling sector, agreed to drop the fuel tax to 10 percent, from 45 percent, with concessions also granted on spares and equipment. The Mining sector, battling low world prices and falling production, had been targeting fuel costs as one of the biggest hurdles to returning the industry to 2012-2013 levels. Production levels, then, reached an all time high with gold pushing ahead of rice and sugar in the earnings of foreign currency. GGDMA was also able to get the new government to agree to waivers on certain spares and equipment. Just over a week ago, the agreements for the fuel
waivers and other concessions were signed in the Ministry of Finance boardroom, between the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA), the Finance Ministry and the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners’ Association (GGDMA). Present were GGDMA, President Terrence Adams; former GGDMA President Patrick Harding; Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) Head; Mahender Sharma; and Guyana Geology and Mines Commissioner; Rickford Vieira. Junior Finance Minister, Jaipaul Sharma, and a representative from the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) were also there. The concessions, according to Finance Minister Winston Jordan, were aimed at small and medium scale miners and were granted for fuel and equipment. However, Jordan warned that as the Government was coming to the aid of miners, the miners in turn should do their part by ensuring accurate gold declarations are submitted and that royalty payments are made on time. “Many other people are depending on you. So this cannot be a game where greed and selfishness overtake the national good. We came to the rescue when you asked; this is a lot of revenue that will be given up but we appreciate the
Uitvlugt murder accused... From page 12 the jury what he termed obvious loopholes in the case. Thomas held that his client had acted in self defence. As such, he urged members of the panel to find his client not guilty of the crime. In her arguments State Prosecutor, Narissa Leander, pointed to testimonies of witnesses whom she described as credible. Leander underlined the testimony of the victim’s grandson Amin Salim, whom is said to have witnessed the incident —— he reportedly saw the accused at the culvert with a knife in his hand and his grandfather standing nearby with blood coming down from his side, back and shoulder. The prosecution noted that the witnesses had nothing to hide, and also urged the jury to concentrate on the evidence and the facts presented in the trial during their time of deliberation. Leander is working in association with State Attorney, Teeshana Lake.
contribution that gold has made throughout the years,” Jordan said. “So we’re asking that in return, you do what is right, which is to declare what is there, pay your royalties on time and look after your workers in terms of their NIS and their taxes,” the Minister charged. Describing the move as a small and positive one, Jordan went back to the A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) General and Regional election campaign of 2015. During the campaign season the party had promised that miners would receive fuel concessions. “What is given, much is expected from also. And while I heard (former GGDMA President ) Mr. Harding put out a very strong statement that it was not his people who were responsible for the smuggling of the gold, I think that it is a concern of all Guyanese that 15,000 ounces of gold could be smuggled from this country on a weekly basis,” the Minister admonished. Jordan was referring to the recent revelations of a multi-billion dollar gold smuggling racket involving local miners. He bemoaned the damage that gold smuggling had done to the economy, noting that not only was the growth of the economy misrepresented, but schools, health centers and developmental projects in the hinterland and in transportation could have been advanced with this lost revenue. Gold had been Guyana’s biggest foreign currency earner. It broke declaration records each year. That was until the world market prices fell two years ago. For this year, declarations have been down by at least 20 percent. As local commercial banks, which supplied start up financing for some miners to purchase their equipment, began to clamp down on operators; many miners were forced to leave the industry.
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Brazil’s Rousseff gains time to avert impeachment BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday won President Dilma Rousseff more time to muster votes in Congress to block opposition efforts to impeach her on charges of manipulating government accounts. Opposition parties had planned to force a vote in the lower house that could have opened proceedings to impeach the president as early as this week. But a Supreme Court justice suspended the maneuver with an injunction sought by lawmakers of the ruling Workers’ Party. Brazil’s worst recession in 25 years and a huge corruption scandal at state-run oil company Petrobras have pushed Rousseff’s approval ratings into single digits and put her political survival at risk. Nine months into her second term, polls show twothirds of Brazilians want to see her impeached. The Supreme Court’s decision gives her some extra time to line up her supporters in Congress, although the speaker of the lower house Eduardo Cunha insisted on Tuesday he would continue
Dilma Rousseff to review impeachment requests despite the injunction. “The decision on impeachment requests is a constitutional prerogative I have and it is not being questioned. I continue to have this prerogative and I will use it,” said Cunha, a former ally of Rousseff’s who recently defected to the opposition. Cunha said he has three impeachment requests to decide on. They include one by lawyer Helio Bicudo that is seen as the most serious challenge to Rousseff because it
alleges she doctored government accounts to allow for more spending in the run-up to her re-election a year ago, a charge based on a federal audit court finding announced last week. The main opposition party said it would file a new request on Friday that will include Bicudo’s petition and add charges that Rousseff continued to misuse government accounts this year. For now, Rousseff appears to have enough votes to block impeachment, but that could change as Brazil’s political crisis deepens. The president’s aides fear Cunha could try to speed up the impeachment process because he is under pressure to resign as speaker following the discovery of Swiss bank accounts in connection with corruption charges against him. If Cunha accepts one of the petitions, a parliamentary commission with representatives of all parties would analyze it and put it to a lower house vote. It would need two-thirds support to open an impeachment trial in the Senate.
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Trinidad Guardian - The foreman of the jury hearing the murder trial of 11 men accused of murdering businesswoman Vindra NaipaulCoolman has been sacked. The juror, who has led the 12 member-jury since the trial began in March, last year, was discharged during a hearing of the case in the Port-ofSpain High Court Monday. In doing so, presiding Judge Malcolm Holdip explained to the juror’s former colleagues that foreman requested to be removed from the jury after he lost his job in August. Holdip was careful to note that the juror’s employment problem was caused by an external issue and not because of the lengthy trial. Holdip then replaced the juror with one of the three alternates and then allowed the jury to select a new foreman.
Since the trial began, four jurors have been removed for various reasons including two who frequently missed hearings without providing a valid reasons. During Monday’s hearing defence attorneys completed their cross-examination of the State’s latest witness—firearm and ballistic expert Derrick Sankar. Sankar was one of two employees of the Forensic Science Centre in St James who inspected and tested a firearm which was allegedly recovered at the home of one of the accused men, weeks after Naipaul-Coolman was abducted from her Chaguanas home on December 19, 2006. Sankar’s testimony centred around tests he and his colleague performed which the State is relying upon to prove that the illegal
weapon matched spent shells recovered on the scene of the kidnapping. Throughout his cross-examination Sankar was repeatedly quizzed on the reliability of his findings as defence attorneys challenged the ability of local forensic experts to conduct tests at international standards. Sankar is among a handful of State witnesses who are left to testify before the State closes its case against the accused men. In addition to the firearm, prosecutors are relying on the evidence of their main witness Keon Gloster who claimed he was present when the former Xtra Foods chief executive was being held captive at a house in Upper La Puerta, Diego Martin and when she was eventually killed and her body disposed of.
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Venezuelan opposition plans to release all political prisoners after Dec. 6 election NEW YORK – Venezuelans are staggering under the weight of a critical shortage of basic goods, said opposition leader Fernando Alban, who is a councilman in Caracas, the country’s capital. The shortages are so acute, Alban told Fox News Latino during a visit to New York, that they have surpassed long-standing problems such as high crime and inflation as the driving daily concerns. Alban attributed the problem to mismanagement by President Nicolas Maduro. “President Nicolas Maduro has failed to solve the structural problems,” Alban said. The mismanagement, Alban said, runs the gamut from failure to address effectively the scarcity of basic goods to lax prosecution of criminals. Alban said that the cost
Fernando Alban of the basic groceries for a Venezuelan family is equivalent to 7 times the minimum wage there, “unattainable for more than 60 percent of the population,” he said. “The social deterioration of our country has been worsening too,” Alban said. “As the basic food basket has increased, so has impunity.” In the summer, Venezuela’s National Electoral Council set December 6
for legislative elections. Slightly more than 160 members of the National Assembly are up for election, which for some 15 years have been held to question because of changes in election laws that viewed as favoring the administrations of Maduro and the late President Hugo Chavez. This time pro-Chavez officials are facing the rare risk of losing, according to Brookings Institution’s analysts. Much of it is due to growing discontent among Venezuelans over the food, economic and social crisis in their country, they said. The think tank reports that the leading Venezuelan polling organization, Datanálisis, found that “84 percent of the population believes that the country is on the wrong path and only 13 percent view Venezuela’s situation positively.” (Fox News)
Marlon James becomes first Jamaican to win Man Booker Prize London (AFP) - Jamaican author Marlon James on Tuesday won the Man Booker Prize for “A Brief History of Seven Killings”, a retelling of the attempted assassination of musician Bob Marley. James, 44, is the first Jamaican to win the prestigious annual literary prize for best novel in its 47-year history. “Oh my god, oh wow,” James said as he took to the podium in dreadlocks and a tuxedo after being announced the winner at the ceremony in London. “This is so sort of ridiculous I think I’m going to wake up tomorrow and it didn’t happen,” he added, as he dedicated the award to his late father. Set in Kingston, the 686page crime tale traces the rise of the drug trade on the Caribbean island and contains a
whole chapter written in Jamaican patois. It beat bookmaker’s favourite, US author Hanya Yanagihara’s “A Little Life” to take the £50,000 (67,000 euro, $77,000) first prize. “It is a crime novel that moves beyond the world of crime and takes us deep into a recent history we know far too little about,” said chair of judges Michael Wood after the winner was announced. “It moves at a terrific pace and will come to be seen as a classic of our times.” Wood praised the book’s “startling” range of voices and ability to range from early crack gangs in Miami and New York to CIA intervention in Jamaica. The New York Times had described the book as “epic in every sense of that word: sweeping, mythic, over-the-top, colossal and dizzyingly complex”. The Man Booker Prize was previously open only to fiction written in English by authors from Britain, Ireland, the Commonwealth and Zimbabwe but this is the second
year it has been open to all nationalities. Yanagihara’s “A Little Life”, a disturbing tale of male friendship with graphic descriptions of child sex abuse, had been the 6/4 favourite to win. Also shortlisted were Briton Sunjeev Sahota’s “The Year of the Runaways”, “The Fishermen” by Nigeria’s Chigozie Obioma, American author Anne Tyler’s “A Spool of Blue Thread” and British writer Tom McCarthy’s “Satin Island”. The relative lack of established big-name authors on the shortlist had raised some eyebrows. Salman Rushdie — whose “Midnight’s Children” took the prize in 1981 and was judged best novel ever to do so in 1993 — said his days of winning were “gone”. “If you look at the list this year, other than Anne Tyler there seems to be a desire to move away from established names,” Rushdie was quoted as saying in Monday’s Daily Telegraph.
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McDonald triumphs in Bakewell Junior Championship wrap up It was unmistakable that Mark McDonald had lots to prove in Saturday’s Boys U18 finals against Heimraj Resaul, after being defeated by Resaul, 2-4, 4-0, (10-4), the previous day in the Boys U14 finals at the GBTI Recreational, Bel Air. In the Boys U18, McDonald had his revenge against Resaul 2-6, 62, (10-6) to claim Bakewell Boys U18 Championship title, which adds to his 2015 GBTI Boys U18 title. It is clear that McDonald fought to set himself apart from his new rivalries and secure a spot in this month’s Tennis Inter Guiana Games (IGG) to be held in Suriname. It was clear that both players showed signs of nerves as the battle started for the prestigious title. Mark started off shaky with tentative ball placement, which gave Resaul confidence to pounce on every opportunity and take the first set easily. However, at change over it was an
energized McDonald that proceeded on court and he raced to a quick 4-1 lead in the second set. It was over for Resaul who appeared under the weather as McDonald stepped up his aggression, took the second set and transferred the momentum into the tiebreaker never relinquishing the lead. While in the Girls U14, Shivani Persaud tried her best to force the match against Afruica Gentle. The tiny Persaud matched the powerful hitting by Gentle but came in as runner up after Gentle displayed her thirst for the win and secured the championship title at 4-1, 4/4 (7-5). Gentle too would have won both the Girls U14 and Girls 18 categories. In the Boys U12 the promising Joshua Kalekyezi emerged as champion over Viraj Sharma in straight sets 4-0, 4-2 to take the title. CEO of Bakewell, Ragindranauth Ganga was
Afruica Gentle (left) and Mark McDonald collecting their double title trophies. able to witness the last match of the day. He recognized that the tournament was bigger than its first year last year and congratulated the GTA on its effort to make tennis a prominent sport and the tournament a greater success. The International Tennis Federation (ITF) Regional Development Officer for the Caribbean, John Goede who was also present, emphasized that the development of Tennis Guyana is not exclusive
to the executive of the Guyana Tennis Association, but there is heavy dependency on parents, players, sports administrative bodies and the wider Guyana. He posited, through partnership and hard effort among those stakeholders we can “attain and get to a quality that is an irresistible product, like Bakewell.” He highlighted to the players after watching them play that there needs to be a strategy or a plan in life and this
should also apply to playing a match on court. Aggression and fitness, he pointed out were key areas to be worked on. He said for tennis to take off in Guyana, there needs to be more courts. “These two courts are not enough. Probably we need about 24 courts in Georgetown with lighting. We need about three hundred players,” this he said would improve the quality of competition and players in general. President of the GTA,
Grace McCalman, on that note, announced plans to develop tennis in Berbice, Linden and outlying regions. This would significantly contribute to a bigger tournament by expanding competitions and drawing entries from a wider cross section of players. The ITF Regional Development Officer will be meeting with sports stakeholders, parents and conduct clinics with players during his visit to Guyana.
Solomon’s direct hit records... Wednesday October 14, 2015 Aries 3/21 - 4/19: You aren’t willing to give up your freedom, even in a trade for a less stressful path in life. However, you might choose being responsible today over being independent — although you may not be happy with your decision. Taurus 4/20 - 5/20: Recent promises have you climbing the walls today, leaving you with little time to enjoy life’s pleasures. Although your goals are straightforward, nothing is simple while everyone is making demands on your time. Gemini 5/21 - 6/21: Your passions are running the show today, making you feel less confident of your decisions. But the intensity of relationship dynamics grows stronger as your emotions sink into the shadows of your subconscious. Cancer 6/22 - 7/22: You strive to see both sides of a relationship issue today, but are forced to take a position later on. The Moon’s afternoon shift into emotional Scorpio reminds you that your feelings control so much of your behavior, you may not be able to change the outcome of the present situation. Leo 7/23 - 8/22: There is still a lot of hard work to do over the next few weeks and you’re thankful that all the noise is beginning to settle down. Virgo 8/23 - 9/22: You’re able to assimilate big changes into your life without too much difficulty now. However, you’re not interested in simply trading a relaxing day for one filled with distractions.
Libra 9/23 - 10/22: You can’t find enough time to kick back today, but you might believe you will get away without fulfilling all of your responsibilities. However, there is a difference between pursuing ambitious goals and simply honoring your promises. Scorpio 10/23 - 11/21: You reach a significant fork in the road today, yet your current map isn’t clear about where either path leads. Unfortunately, your decision-making process is a lot more complicated now because of this ambiguity. Sagittarius 11/22 - 12/21: It’s a whole new ballgame once you decide that you’re ready to step up to the plate and get to work. Capricorn 12/22 - 1/19: Your social life continues to be on the move as the emotional Moon enters your 11th House of Community. Although your friends may be overwhelmed with your relentless intensity, you just want to do the right thing. Aquarius 1/20 - 2/18: You may enjoy the thrill of imagining whatever is around the next bend, but other people’s demands can squelch the excitement today. Pisces 2/19 - 3/20: You aren’t interested in casual conversations today because you feel as if you’re running out of time to connect on an emotional level. You have no patience for social games that distract you from the real issues on your mind.
(From page 37) the last test. With Roy Fredericks in ripping form with two tons in the India series and the first World Cup (1975) under their belt, confidence was high as Lloyd’s men traveled to Australia for the 1976 series. The West Indies boasted a powerful batting line upGreenidge, Fredricks, Kallicharran, Rowe, Lloyd, Murray, Julien and Boyce. That they lost the six-Test series 5-1 is now history. West Indies had no answer for the relentless and hostile pace attack spearheaded by the lethal Denis Lillie and Jeff Thompson who produced raw pace with a slinging roundarm action. Things got so bad that Fredricks, who hit an explosive 169 (71 balls with 18 fours and a six) in the only test the West Indies won, changed three opening partners (Greenidge, Julien and Richards) during the series. Richards scored 30, 101, 50 and 98 in his four innings as opener, while Lloyd scored a century when West Indies won the second test, but the pace was just too much for the Caribbean batsmen on the lightning fast pitches. Lance Gibbs took 5-102 in the first test but, not assisted by the hard tracks, only managed nine wickets in the next five matches. It was a true trashing which brought the West Indies back to earth after their World Cup success the year before.
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Sentinel Security Inc. supports RHTY&SC Slingerz FC refuse to take field for... Tribute to Greatest Cricketers Prog. (From page 37) made light work of Buxton United handing them their fifth loss in six matches. Delon Lanferman slammed in his second double of the league with goals either side of play. His first came in the 21st
minute and the sealer came in the penultimate minute of regulation time. Alpha now take over the lead on the points table with 12 points, one more than Pele who will be in action tonight against
Monedderlust in the opening game at 18:00hrs at the GFC ground. Georgetown Football Club will then take centre stage against Fruta Conquerors in the feature attraction.
FIFA and UEFA were kept in... Sentinel’s Berbice Manger Priya Rampersaud hands over cheque to the Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster in presence of Deryck Taylor and Sandra Andrews of the company. Sentinel Security Inc., has now officially joined the National Sports Commission as Co-sponsor of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) Tribute to its 25 Greatest Cricketers Programme, 1990 - 2015. The programme is slated for Sunday October 25 next, Sentinel Regional Manager for Berbice handed over a cheque valued at $100,000 to club Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster at the company’s New Amsterdam office. Foster in accepting the donation expressed gratitude to the Management of Sentinel, especially Managing Director Noreen Gaskin for their continued investment in the activities of the RHTY&SC. Sentinel Security he noted sponsors the club’s annual Gregory Gaskin Memorial Berbice Sports Award and
also co-sponsors the annual Christmas Charity programme organised by the club’s eight cricket teams. The Security Company also supports their Say Yes To Education and No To Suicide campaign. The 25 Greatest Cricketers Programme forms part of the club’s Silver Jubilee Anniversary celebrations. The players were selected by the general public and the club’s Cricket Development Committee based on performances for the club, Berbice, Guyana and the West Indies. Discipline, loyalty to the club and their roles as positive role models were also traits that were looked at in arriving at the top 25. Heading the list is Assad Fudadin along with Royston Crandon, Neil Williams, James Fraser and Shemaine Campbelle.
Other cricketers to be honoured are Esuan Crandon, Khemraj Mahadeo, Renwick Batson, Ravi Narine, Inderpaul Mohan, Abdel Fudadin, Shawn Grant, Eon Hooper, Clinton Pestano, Jason Sinclair and Erva Giddings. The RHTY&SC would also use the opportunity to honour its top 25 executive members and cricket officials for their service to Guyana’s leading youth and sports club organisation. Several others donors have already came on board and they are Alistair Parris of Len’s Craft Optical, Dr. Jose Da Silva of Modern Optical Service, Vice President and Minister of Public Service Mr. Khemraj Ramjattan, Businessman Johnny Carpenter, Alfred Mentore of Lifetime Real Estate and Gafoors.
(From page 38) website Inside World Football. By the time Platini received the payment in 2011 he had replaced Johansson as UEFA president but the Swede continued to attend UEFA executive meetings as honorary president, and he says the payment was never disclosed. “I would have expected
this payment to be reported to UEFA. Platini should have mentioned it to the executive. I would have done so. I would have said to the executive, ‘I have a contract with Blatter which you may criticize. But this is the truth, this is the money I received and you should know about it.’” A spokesman for Platini
said: “The president is cooperating fully with the ongoing investigations and feels there is nothing more he wants to say publicly for the moment.” The payments will be on the agenda at UEFA’s crisis meeting in Nyon which Platini will unable to attend due to his suspension from all football activities.
UEFA President Michel Platini (R) congratulates FIFA President Sepp Blatter after he was re-elected at the 65th FIFA Congress in Zurich, Switzerland, May 29, 2015. (Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann)
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What Cricket means to West Indians (Part 7)
Solomon’s direct hit records the first ever tied test
Clive Lloyd hooks for six. By Sean Devers In December 1960 at Brisbane in Australia the first ever tie in test cricket was achieved when Joe Solomon ran out Ian Mckkiff with a direct hit with one stump to aim at with the scores level. While Solomon just managed a solitary hundred from his 27 tests he will always be remembered for his part in the tied test. He got out in a bizarre fashion in the first innings when he trod on his wicket after making a solid 65 and then, with a direct hit, ended a century partnership between Alan Davidson and Richie Benaud by running out Davidson for 80 with Australia closing in on victory. Two overs later, with the scores level, Solomon ran out Meckiff to write his name forever in the history books of West Indies cricket. Although Sobers had scored 132 and O’Neill responded with 181, the hero of the match was Solomon, the little man with the magic arm from British Guiana (re-named Guyana after Independence on May 26th 1966). West Indies lost that 1960/61 five-test series 2-1 but rebounded to beat India 5-nil in the Caribbean in 1962. In the third test in Barbados, Lance Gibbs, who became the first spinner to claim 300 test wickets, wrecked the Indians on the final day when
they appeared well set to draw the match at 158-2. The lanky off-spinner snatched eight wickets for six runs in 15.3 sensational overs to finish with 8-32, at that time the best bowling figures by a West Indian in a test innings. He finished with 24 scalps in the series. England lost 3-1 in the 1963 series in England before West Indies defeated Australia 2-1 in the 1964/65 home series with Gibbs bagging 629 at Bourda in the third test. In 1966 West Indies won the 5-test series 3-1 in England, while West Indies beat India 1-nil in the 3-test series in 1966/67 as Conrad Hunte scored the only century by a West Indian in the series in the first-test victory. The 1968 English 5-test tour to the West Indies ended with a 1-nil victory for the visitors before the West Indies lost the 1968/69 series in Australia 3-1. West Indies traveled to New Zealand for the 1969 three-test series and the series ended in a 1-nil draw with Semoure Nurse making 258 in the final test which ended in a draw. England won the threetest series in England 1-nil in 1969 before India registered their only series win in the West Indies (correct to 2006) with a 1-nil triumph in the 5test series in 1971. In the second test in Trinidad, spinner Jack
Joe Soloman’s direct ends the game in the first ever tie in Test cricket in 1960 at Brisbane. Noreiga took 9-95 which still remains the best bowling performance by a West Indian in a test innings but this could not prevent India, set 125 to win, from achieving victory with seven wickets in hand. After Irving Shillingford removed Vinood Mankad for 45 to break a 68-run opening stand, Noreiga captured every other wicket in the Indian first innings as they were dismissed for 352 replying to the home team’s 214. O f f - s p i n n e r Shivaramakrishna Venkataraghavan then bagged 5-95 as West Indies fell for 261 in their second innings despite 80 from Roy Fredericks and an unbeaten 74 from Charlie Davis who made 71 in the first innings. India’s opener Sunil Gavaskar scored four centuries and three fifties in the series despite missing the first test and a calypso about ‘the little master’ was made after he scored a century and a double in the last test in Trinidad. Gavaskar, who finished his career with 10,122 runs from 125 tests at an average of 51.12, scored 13 of his 34 centuries against West Indies. All of the games in the 1972 five-test series against New Zealand in the West Indies were drawn before Australia beat the home team 2-nil in the 1973 five-test series when Kanhai took over
the captaincy. In the series against New Zealand, the elegant Jamaican Lawrence Rowe burst onto the test arena with a double century (214) and 100 not out in the first test on his home ground to become the first cricketer to score 300 runs in his first test and the only West Indian to date to score a double and single hundred on debut. That his career lasted only 30 tests and produced just seven centuries is one of the biggest disappointments in West Indies cricket. Dogged by several injuries including an amazing allergy to grass, Rowe’s career ended when he decided to lead a ‘rebel’ team to South Africa. In that same 1972 series, Alvin Kallicharran made his debut with an unbeaten 100 on his home ground Bourda before registering another century in his next innings in Trinidad. West Indies beat England 2-0 in the 1973 series in England including a commanding 226-run win at Lords with Kanhai making 157 and Sobers scoring an unbeaten 150 as their team piled up a total of 652-8 declared. Bernard Julien made 121, while Roy Fredericks and Clive Lloyd made half-centuries. The 1974 home series against England was drawn 1all with Rowe making three centuries in that series including a brilliant 309 on his home
ground Sabina Park. This was the last series as captain for Kanhai, who along with Sobers, played the final match in their illustrious career in the final test of the that series against England before Clive Lloyd took over as skipper. THE CLIVE LLOYD ERA: Kanhai led the West Indies 13 times before the Clive Lloyd era began in 1974 when the West Indies toured India. Viv Richards and Gordon Greenidge, soon to become two of the world’s best bats-
men, both made their debuts under Lloyd on that tour, which the West Indies won 3-2. Greenidge (a Barbadian who grew up and learnt his cricket in England) made 93 and 107 in his first match, while Richards (from the small 108-square mile island of Antigua) slammed an unbeaten 192 in the second test as the invincible team of the 1 9 8 0 ’s b e g a n t o t a k e shape. Lloyd also led from the front with a brutal unbeaten 242 in (Continued on page 31)
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MOBILE WIZARD OPENING DAY SET FOR THIS SUNDAY The opening day for the Mobile Wizard 10/10 Softball Cricket competition is set for Sunday 18th October, 2015. The tournament will be opened by Regional Chairman Mr. Julius Faber who will witness the entire day’s proceedings. Welcome remarks will be done by President of the Guyana Softball League Mr. Halim Khan, also to be in attendance will be Mr. Dev Hira – Vice President and Mr. Leonard Harprashadexecutive secretary and some special invitees. The tournament sponsor, Mr. Syed Ali, will also make brief remarks. The first match on the programme will be an exhibition match between two top female teams in Georgetown and Linden. The second match will see two school boys’ team clashing; Leonora Primary School and Meten-Meer-Zorg primary school will battle, followed by a police team taking on village team combined. Only one match in the tournament will be played that will mark the start of the tournament and the teams will be chosen from those in attendance who are asked to be there at 9:00AM with only two being able to take to the field therefore the first come first serve system will be applied. There will be lunch
The Linden and Georgetown female teams that will participate in the action. at the venue which is the Leonora Primary School Ground for all the teams in attendance. The sponsor will display the range of cell phones and services that he has to offer and purchases will be accompanied by discounts and giveaways to the public. The tournament which has attracted some 31 teams so far is seen as the revival of softball cricket in the West Demerara. Teams still desirous of participating can contact the following persons as the registration will stop on
Friday: Halim Khan – 6128367; Miss Selena Azeez – 268-2458/646-0568; Ammiel Azeez – 629-0844; Ravendra Ramgobin- 276-1381; Asif Azeez – 657-22220; Mobile Wizard (Parika) – 260-4967. The tournament will see some $100,000 in prizes on offer and a chance to represent West Demerara in an upcoming major tournament by GSL. Teams are reminded that no short pants nor bare foot player will be allowed. The rules of 10/10 as per normal will be applied.
Additionally the West Demerara will select a combined male team to challenge Linden combined mid-way in the tournament under lights. Another Linden female team will be able to challenge another Georgetown team on that day. The GSL are hoping to have a Linden School team to take on West Demerara also on that day. Meanwhile, Georgetown and Linden have named their female teams for the opening encounter. The teams will come from:
Georgetown: Abena Parker(Capt), Amanda Bobbsemple,Haseena Mohamed, Ceylon Daniels, Averita Larose, Joann Van Sertima, Shaneeza Saywack, La Toya Smith, Renika Isaacs, Zola Telford, Susan Davenand, Monique Benn. Linden: Remona Stellingburg (Capt), Romona Stellingburg, Zanette Da Silva, Lavern Cornelius, Basmattie Ramdeo, Sharlene Stellingburg, Dianne Cornelius, Ashanh Stellingburg, Shenessa Cornelius, Sharon Cornelius,
Lucila Da Silva, Kelly Porter, Shavine Joseph, Verna Lorrimer, Lyhn Cornelius, Shenika Chattergoon. Meanwhile, East Bank teams wishing to be part of this tournament, because there are no tournaments being planned in that area for now, can uplift registration forms from the above persons. All matches will be played on the West Demerara. The team that goes the farthest will receive a prize and a chance to represent East Bank in an upcoming tournament.
Rain threat looms over clash of middling teams ESPNcricinfo - Their top orders are young, neither team has a bona fide head coach, and their boards are forever in some state of turmoil. A West Indies v Sri Lanka series pits against each other two sides that face somewhat uncertain futures. A series victory for Sri Lanka would help reassure the team’s fans the future is not so dim. They have only lost all year. It has been 14 months since they won a trophy of any variety. A series victory for West Indies, meanwhile, would be cause for jubilation, in Jason Holder’s first series at the helm. They have not even won a Test in the country, despite Brian Lara’s monumental efforts on the island in the 2001 series, and Chris Gayle having struck a triple
century at Galle in 2010. On paper, this is the rare series where Sri Lanka outgun the opposition. Both XIs will feature several men playing for their place in the side, but Sri Lanka arguably have more out-and-out matchwinners. Angelo Mathews, whose batting is sober sometimes, savage on others, has become one of the leading cricketers in the world. Though Rangana Herath’s body is now held together mainly by hope, he is still more than capable of devastating oppositions, particularly in Galle. West Indies’ major chance lies with their bowlers. Sri Lanka has become a friendlier place for fast men over the past three years, and with the hosts’ top order having proved brittle against movement recently, Kemar Roach may become a key figure to West Indies’ hopes. So too Devendra Bishoo; the last two legspinners who toured the island claimed their wickets at less than 20 apiece. Threatening to spoil the tour, however, is the monsoon, which has begun blowing in from the northeast. It is likely
Jason Holder bowls under the bright sun at a practice session, Galle, October 13, 2015©AFP that both Tests will be significantly hindered. Usually, the rains only become heavier through the month. IN THE SPOTLIGHT
LAHIRU THIRIMANNE has been one of Sri Lanka’s most reliable one-day batsmen over the past year, but has unfathomably been
mediocre in Tests - the format he was expected to excel in. He remains in the team on the strength of his potential, but he knows he can’t keep living on his talent for long. Having been out for a firstball duck in the practice match, the microscope is focused sharply on him in Galle. Having made an encouraging start to his Test career during that rainy 2010 series, Darren Bravo returns as one of West Indies’ most experienced batsmen. He has had a modest run this year, having hit two fifties in 10 innings, but the team will be expecting plenty from him on this tour, particularly as he is one of West Indies’ better players of spin. TEAMS NEWS After scoring an unbeaten hundred in the warm-up game, Milinda Siriwardena is likely to debut for Sri Lanka, probably slipping in to the lower middle order, while Thirimanne moves to No. 3. Dhammika Prasad and Nuwan Pradeep will probably take the new ball. Sri L a n k a m a y c o nsider partnering Herath with Dilruwan Perera, but in the end may opt for Tharindu
Kaushal, even if the bowler has recently been shorn of his doosra. He offers less control than Dilruwan, but turns his offbreaks more sharply. Kusal Perera is likely to take the gloves again, and bat at No. 7. Mathews has an ankle niggle that may prevent him from bowling, but he is likely to play. Devendra Bishoo is likely to return to the XI, having missed the most recent Test, against Australia. They may consider giving left-arm spinner Jomel Warrican a Te s t d e b u t , b u t w i t h Marlon Samuels also capable of providing some offspin, may stick with a three-seamer attack. The selectors may also have to decide between Rajendra Chandrika a n d Shane Dowrich. PITCH AND CONDITIONS There have been intermittent rains in the days preceding this match, but Galle has produced its usual tawnycoloured surface, on which there should be plenty of turn as the game wears on. There may also be a little movement in the air with the new ball, with all the wet weather around.
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Defeat ends Netherlands’ Euro 2016 hopes BBC Sport - The Netherlands’ bid to qualify for Euro 2016 ended in failure as Robin van Persie scored an own goal in a home defeat by the 10man Czech Republic. The Dutch needed to win and for Iceland to beat Turkey to earn a play-off spot, but Van Persie’s error saw them go 3-0 down despite Mark Suchy seeing red. Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Van Persie replied to goals from Pavel Kaderabek and Josef Sural but instead it was Turkey who secured third place. Fatih Terim’s side beat Iceland 1-0. Turkey go through automatically Turkey had Gokhan Tore dismissed in the 78th minute as their match appeared to be heading for a draw, but Selcuk Inan’s last-minute goal saw them claim a dramatic victory. That result means Turkey qualify for next summer’s tournament in France as the highest ranked third-placed team out of all nine qualifying groups. Ukraine and Norway both finished third in their respective groups and had more points than Turkey. But results against the sides finishing bottom in their
respective groups do not count - leaving Turkey with the most points. “As a country we really needed this win to feel happy, even for a few hours maybe,” said Terim. “We are so happy to have offered some happiness to our people.” Blind plans to remain in charge Netherlands coach Danny Blind took over at the start of July after Guus Hiddink left after 10 months in the position. He has lost three of his four matches in charge but says he has “no intention” of stepping down. “I’m going to carry on with my work because I’m under contract until 2018 and I believe in this team,” Blind added. “I haven’t achieved my goal. The aim was to qualify automatically or via the playoffs and I haven’t done that. “Am I the one to blame? I now have to analyse that. The results weren’t good.” Against the Czechs, Van Persie’s cushioned header past his own goalkeeper was the low point - and seemed to spark a reaction from the home side as they scored
These Netherlands players look a dejected bunch following their loss. (Getty Images) twice in quick succession afterwards. But they still failed to capitalise on their numerical advantage, with Suchy having been dismissed for a last-man tackle on Manchester United forward Memphis Depay late
in the first half. The Netherlands, who finished third at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, were crowned European champions in 1988 and were third in 1992, 2000 and 2004.
The last time they failed to qualify for a major tournament was the 2002 World Cup. Before that, they were absent from the 1982 and 1986 tournaments and from the 1984 European Championship. In other results:
Wales 2 - 0 Andorra Latvia 0 - 1 Kazakhstan Turkey 1 - 0 Iceland Belgium 3 - 1 Israel Cyprus 2 - 3 Bos-Herze Bulgaria 2 - 0 Azerbaijan Italy 2 - 1 Norway Malta 0 - 1 Croatia
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Singh’s 123 put Johnson’s X1 in control By Sean Devers
GDF’s Cleveland Forde (centre), Tyshon Bentick (left) and Jamaal Chisholm swept the Men’s 5000m race yesterday at Leonora. The Guyana Police Force (GPF) held on to a slim 11 ½ points lead over Guyana Defence Force (GDF) yesterday after day one of the Inter-Services Annual Athletics Championships (ISAAC) at the National Track and Field Centre at Leonora. Police have amassed 315 points with GDF on 304 points, which also includes the tally from the swimming competition. The Guyana Fire Service is a distant third with 35.5 points with Guyana Prison Service on 26 points
and City Constabulary on 20 points. The soldiers marched to a sweep in the Men’s 5000m with Forde winning in 18:05.2 and Tyshon Bentick a close second in 18:05.5. Jamaal Chisholm (18:07.5) was third in the 2015 competition that began yesterday for the first time on the West Coast of Demerara. Andrea Foster won the Women’s 3000m in 11:42.6 for GDF as well with team-mate Ashanti Scott took second in 11:54.0. Police’s Shion Boyer
(12:02.8) was third. In the Women’s Long Jump, GDF’s Aniquah Powley leaped to 5.48m for first ahead of Police’s Cindy Fraser (5.43m) and Tandica Burgess (5.27m) respectively. Patrick King won the Men’s Long Jump for GDF with a best leap of 6.85m, finishing ahead of Police’s Yoel Benjamin’s 6.70m and teammate, Domain Williams (6.60m) respectively. The competition continues today at the same venue.
REPUBLIC BANK LAUNCHES WEST BERBICE CRICKET FESTIVAL Republic Bank D’Edward Branch has joined hands is supporting young cricketers and the development of Sports in Region 5. The West Berbice Cricket Association and the Bank on Friday October 09, 2015 launched the Tournament at the Bank’s office in D’Edward, West Coast Berbice. At the simple launching Ceremony, President of the West Berbice Cricket Association Mr. David Black described the Tournament as a significant achievement for the Board since for the 1st time the Bank is joining hands as an exclusive sponsor for clubs in West Berbice. He urged all the clubs in atten-
dance at the ceremony to be disciplined throughout so that the Bank can be encouraged as a sponsor to support future events. The Tournament will consist of 16 registered Clubs on the West Coast of Berbice playing two days back to back Tournament. The preliminaries will be played at D’Edward and Bush Lot Grounds where the semi finals and finals are slated for the C3 Recreational Park in Cotton Tree Village, West Coast Berbice. The tournament is expected to be bowled off in November and the fixture will follow in subsequent releases. The tournament will be named Republic Bank/ West Berbice Cricket Festival and will feature a 6/6 knockout style. The tournament is being administrated by the West Berbice Cricket Association. For further details the Association can be contacted.
The Bank was delighted to have been part of this initiative since it believes that investment in youths represents investment for the future. Speaking at presentation ceremony Mr. Imran Saccoor welcomed the undertaking by the Association and urged all clubs to take opportunity of the Tournament and to encourage their communities to come out and support them du r i n g t h e p l a y i n g o f matches. Further he mentioned that the Bank will continue to support the development of communities within which it serves. He also encouraged the cricketers to open accounts and look for opportunities where they can d e v e l o p t h e m s e l ves by starting small business and taking advantages of the many loans products that the Bank has to offer including the Small and Medium Enterprise Loan.
A responsible 123 by Vishaul Singh put Leon Johnson’s X1 in control against Shemron Hetymer’s X1 at the end of the second day of their PCL four-day practice match at Bourda yesterday. Singh scored a matured 123 from 234 balls from 338 minutes with 11 fours and added 105 runs for the sixth wicket with Chris Barnwell (43) to spur Johnson’s X1 to 344 from their overnight score of 238-5. Pacers Raun Johnson (329 from 18 overs) and Keon Joseph (2-60 from 20 overs) bowled with genuine pace on the flat track for Hetymer’s X1, who led with a Captain’s knock of 53 from the West Indies U-19 opener and a shot-filled unbeaten 41 from Kevin Boodie, reached 140 by the close, still 204 behind Johnson’s X1 score. Off-spinner Steven Jacobs has so far taken 3-36. On a day blessed with glorious sunshine the left handed Singh and righthander Barnwell joined forces on Monday with their team on 198-5 and batted confidently as their partnership flourished on the fast outfield. Barnwell stroked leg spinner Steven Sankar for four and edged the impressive Joseph over slip for four more before he was caught behind off the lively Johnson at 303-6. Anthony Bramble (6) whipped Barbadian fast bowler Jevon Searles past square leg for four but then
played no shot at the towering Johnson and was trapped in front by the Berbice pacer who then controversially removed Jacobs for a duck as two wickets tumbled at 313. Jacobs edged one that left him but the ball fell just in front of Kemo Paul at second slip before Hetymer, at first slip took the rebound and Jacobs was given out as Johnson’s X1 slipped to 3138. Singh, who reached his century with consecutive boundaries off left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie from 195 balls, 280 minutes with nine fours, played with wonderful temperament and his bat appeared as wide as the sightscreen. After Permaul was LBW for a duck to Joseph at 322-9, Singh who continued to strike the ball with immaculate timing, added 18 runs for the last with wicket with Beaton who scored 15. Beaton fended at a wicked bouncer from Joseph, who bent his back on the straw colored track and ball crashed into his glove in front of his helmet. But Joseph was smashed disdainfully back past his ankles when he attempted a yorker and pulled brutally past mid-on next ball. But hard working Joseph ended the innings when he had the defiant Singh taken at Slip in an eventful over. When Hetymer’s X1 began their reply the Skipper played in positive fashion and slapped Beaton for four before edging him dangerously over the slips for another boundary.
The 18-year-old lefthander from Berbice pulled Reifer like a bullet past midwicket as Kandasammy Surujnarine was the silent partner. The pugnacious Hetymer slashed hard at Reifer and fortune favored the brave as the ball flew of the edge to the third man boundary. Surujnarine, who never suggested permanence, seemed uncomfortable against the short pitched balls from Beaton and Reifer. Surujnarine (6) was removed by Reifer for six at 31-1 and by Tea it was 39-1 with Hetymer on 28. After the break Hetymer and Tevin Imlach played with confidence and fluency as they took the score to 72. Hetymer pulled Barnwell for four, hammered Jacobs through cover for another four and swept Veerasammy Permaul for his ninth boundary to race to 50 from 66 balls. But when well set for a big score Hetymer fell to Permaul two balls later. Robin Bacchus (1) was LBW to Jacobs at 83-3 before Imlach, who dumped Jacobs over mid-on for four, was well caught one-handed at short mid-wicket by a leaping Shiv Chanderpaul, who looked fitter than many of the younger players. Imlach’s 26 included three fours. Jacobs struck again when Paul (0) was LBW, while Dexter Solomon (2) was bowled Anthony Adams at 106-6. Boodie played some audacious shots and hit five fours off Permaul and Jacobs in his undefeated 41. Today’s play starts at 09:00hrs.
Vishaul Singh gets a yorker from Raun Johnson in his well compiled 123 at Bourda.
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Slingerz FC refuse to take field for feature match last night Alpha beat Buxton in lone game
By Franklin Wilson After five exciting rounds of the inaugural Stag Elite League (SEL) which showcases eight of the top clubs in Guyana, the first real unfortunate experience was encountered last evening at the Guyana Defence Force ground, C a m p Ay a n g a n n a . Slingerz FC were slated to play the feature game against the Guyana Defence Force and it was a game that the fans were looking forward to. Unfortunately, the West Demerara based Slingerz refused to take the field as a result of a letter they received from the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) stating that four of their starters were ineligible to play. The GFF in its missive to the club contends that the Keith James, Jolanshoy McDowall and Winslow McDowall from St. Vincent & The Grenadines and Guyanese Domini Garnett have not yet received I n t e r n a t i o n a l Tr a n s f e r Certificates (ITC) from their originating clubs. The GFF instructed that the players would not be able to take the field of play until a thorough investigation in the matter is done and then reviewed by the GFF’s Normalisation Committee in accordance with the Disciplinary Code of FIFA. The federation has given Slingerz until Friday of this week to submit a detailed
Delon Lanferman report on the transfer application process of the players at the centre of this issue. H o w e v e r, G e n e r a l Manager of Slingerz FC, Colin Aaron is contending that Slingerz FC has no ineligible players on its list of registered players. Aaron notes that the ITC request for the above mentioned players was confirmed by all stakeholders within the FIFA (TMS) Transfer Matching System in the stipulated GFF Transfer Open Window Period. Kaieteur Sport understands that at the time the transactions were to be done and finalized in keeping with the TMS requirements, the GFF was encountering challenges with its internet connection which made it difficult to accept the ITC requests. Efforts were even made to have GFF TMS Manager
Mr. Linden France have internet access elsewhere but this too did not work out which has now resulted in this matter reaching this juncture. Slingerz FC was directed by the GFF to play last night’s game against the GDF minus the contentious players despite a request by the club to reschedule the match pending a meeting to clear up the issue. This request did not find favour with the governing body thus Slingerz’ decision not to play citing unfair treatment. It is understood that a meeting will take place today at the GFF to sort out the matter amicably. Fans that had already paid last evening were given tickets to attend this evening’s encounter free of cost or any other match of their choice. In the lone match that was played, Alpha United (Continued on page 35)
Delon Lanferman nets his first goal in the 21st minute against Buxton last night at the GDF ground.
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Bolt aiming to crack 19 seconds in 200 meters KINGSTON (Reuters) Six-times Olympic champion Usain Bolt has already started his preparations for next year’s Rio Games and has sent a warning to his competitors — he thinks he is capable of breaking 19 seconds in the 200 meters. Bolt’s record of 19.19 seconds for the 200 has stood since Aug. 20, 2009, four days after he set the 100m record of 9.58
seconds, both at the world athletics championships in Berlin. “I really want to run under 19 seconds,” Bolt told Reuters from his training base at the University of West Indies in Kingston as he began preparations for next year’s Rio Olympics. “It’s one of my major goals. “I think it’s one of the toughest ones, because it’s going to be hard to find the right day and sometime the
perfect race to get this (200m record). “It will not be an easy task, but I personally feel I can do it and my coach (Glen Mills) thinks I can do it so it is just about the work and finding the perfect time to do it, so it is one of the things (for 2016).” Bolt is seeking to become the first man to win three successive Olympic titles in the sprint events and the 4x100m relay in Rio.
The lanky Jamaican shrugged off a nagging pelvic injury this year to win three golds at the Beijing world championships in August, which included ending American Justin Gatlin’s almost two-year unbeaten run over both the 100 and 200 meters. Gatlin has already said he feels he is closing the gap on his Jamaican competitor, having only lost the 100m final in Beijing by 0.01
Usain Bolt of Jamaica reacts after winning the men’s 200 metres final during the 15th IAAF World Championships at the National Stadium in Beijing, China, August 27, 2015.(Reuters/David Gray) seconds. Bolt won the 200 more comfortably. “It’s one of the joys to go out there and to compete against the best because when you go out there and beat the best it shows that you are the greatest,” Bolt said in anticipation of facing Gatlin again next year. “So for me, I live to compete and I look forward to my team mate Yohan Blake coming back ... he’s been out for pretty much two
seasons.” The Jamaican, whose initial day of training was thwarted by rain, sounded a warning to Gatlin, Blake and anyone else considering trying to stop him at next year’s Olympics. “Justin Gatlin says he’s coming, but for me, I’m much more focused,” Bolt said. “I’m starting the season in a much better shape than I did the last one, so it is only forward from here.”
FIFA and UEFA were kept in dark about Platini’s Blatter deal: Johansson ZURICH (Reuters) Former UEFA president Lennart Johansson says that the European football body was never told about the payment of 2 million Swiss francs ($2.1 million) from Sepp Blatter to current UEFA boss Michel Platini. Both Platini and Blatter were suspended from football for 90 days by FIFA’s Ethics Committee last week with a 2011 payment from FIFA to Blatter under scrutiny. Both men deny any wrongdoing. Platini has said the payment was for work he carried out under a contract for FIFA as an advisor to Blatter between 1999 and 2002. He said the nine year delay in payment was due to FIFA’s financial situation. The Frenchman’s bid to replace Blatter at the helm of
FIFA in February’s election has been thrown into serious doubt by the affair and UEFA members gather in Nyon on Thursday to discuss the crisis. Swede Johansson, who was UEFA president from 1990 to 2007 says that the FIFA executive committee, which he served on, was not told about Platini’s hiring by Blatter. “I was a member of the FIFA executive then and Blatter should have reported it to the executive but he never did. I never heard about this arrangement in FIFA. “This is quite a lot of money, not a small amount. I have only learnt through the media that Platini claims that he has a contract with FIFA,” the 85-year-old told the (Continued on page 36)
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Lennox Allen confident of a victory Insatiable Insatiable Ronaldo Ronaldo collects collects on return to the ring this weekend fourth fourth Golden Golden Shoe Shoe award award MADRID (Reuters) Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo collected a record fourth Golden Shoe award as Europe’s top scorer on Tuesday for his 48-goal haul in La Liga last season and said he is hungry for more. The Portugal captain and FIFA Ballon d’Or holder netted 61 times in all competitions in 2014-15, although Real missed out on the three main titles as arch rivals Barcelona swept to a treble of Champions League, La Liga and King’s Cup triumphs. Ronaldo, 30, is poised to become Real’s all-time top scorer ahead of former Spain striker Raul, with whom he is level on 323 goals, and has another chance to break the
record in Saturday’s La Liga game at home to Levante. “I never planned on winning four times,” Ronaldo said at a presentation ceremony in Madrid attended by his mother and son. “Maybe one or two yes but never four,” he added. “I always want more. I know I am the only one to have four but I want more. “That implies winning trophies with the world’s greatest club. This year will be no different and we want to win La Liga, the Cup and the Champions League. I hope we see each other again next year.” Ronaldo has had a relatively subdued start to the latest La Liga campaign
with five goals in seven appearances. All five came in one match, a 6-0 romp at Espanyol last month. He has a much better return in the Champions League, hitting five goals in two Group A outings, including a hat-trick against Shakhtar Donetsk. A global icon and one of the most prolific goalscorers of all time, he is the leading marksman in Europe’s elite club competition with 82 goals, five ahead of Barca’s Argentina forward Lionel Messi. Messi, who scored 58 goals in all competitions last term and 38 in La Liga, holds the record for the most in Spain’s top flight in one season of 50 set in 2011-12.
TONING UP: Allen ‘sharpens’ up on the pads in preparation for this weekend’s battle. By Michael Benjamin Following a six months hiatus, Guyana’s super middleweight and Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) middleweight champion, Lennox Allen, has expressed confidence in a victory when he squares off with Hungarian, Istvan Zeller, Saturday evening, at the Eagle Bank Arena, Fairfax, Virginia USA. The fight is Allen’s first in months when he had stepped into the ring at the Mohegan Sun Casino, Connecticut USA, to duke it out with American pugilist, Paul Gonsalves. Allen had pummeled his man into submission and forced the referee to wave the bout off midway into the 7th round. Since then fights have been hard to come by for the Guyanese but all this is about to change when he clashes with Zeller. The Guyanese pugilist was very upbeat when he spoke with Kaieteur Sport from his Brooklyn base yesterday morning. “I have weathered the storm after experiencing poor managerial issues coupled with the unavailability of fights but those things are now behind me and I am ready to resume my career,” said Allen. He said that he operates out of the Cops & Kids Boxing Gym in Brooklyn in the afternoons and starts his
day jogging along the pavements of New York’s dusty streets to whip himself into condition. He says he feels invincible and cannot fathom a loss on Saturday night. Indeed, Allen’s record speaks on his behalf; he has chalked up 20 fights winning 19 of them with the only blemish being a drawn decision against American, Darnell Boone, in August 2010. Since moving over to the USA, Allen has had more than his fair share of managerial issues after signing with the Boxing 360 group and disagreeing with its style of management. He managed to separate himself from that group and said that he has opted to handle his own affairs through an agent g r o u p , D e b e l l a entertainment. “I’m managing myself; most of the managers around are far from honest and demand a hefty sum for their services and I’m not giving away 30% of my money that easily,” pronounced Allen when quizzed of his administrative set up. “I’m doing well on my own when it comes to managing me and my camp,” he further declared. The Guyanese champion is being tutored by Aureliano Sosa and he said that he is satisfied that his trainer has his interest at heart. Quizzed on his next move after this bout Allen
said, “I want to get past this hurdle first then I’ll hold discussions with my promoter.” Nevertheless, he said that he hopes to be in the ring again soon. Allen’s opponent is no slouch and has registered 24 wins while losing 8 fights. He has been victorious in his last 4 bouts, the most recent being a unanimous victory over his countryman, Jozsef Kormany when the two squared off last month, September 5. His knockout ratio stands at a decent 22%.
Real Madrid’s striker Cristiano Ronaldo poses in front of his four Golden Boot trophies during a ceremony in Madrid, Spain, October 13, 2015. (Reuters/Andrea Comas)
t r o Sp Police hold slim lead after ISAAC day one
GDF’s Patrick King (right) leads team-mate, Wayne Harlequin across the finish line yesterday in the Men’s 400m Heats at the National Track and Field Centre at Leonora.
Police’s Tiffany Carto comfortably wins the Women’s 400m Heats yesterday at the National Track and Field Centre at Leonora.
PCL Four-Day cricket practice
Singh’s 123 put Johnson’s X1 in control
Christopher Barnwell (43) plays defensively to Raun Johnson (3-29) who bowled impressively yesterday.
Shemron Hetymer pulls Raymon Refier for during his entertaining 53.
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