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Kaieteur News Printed and Published by National Media & Publishing Company Ltd. 24 Saffon Street, Charlestown, Georgetown, Guyana. Publisher: GLENN LALL Editor: Adam Harris Tel: 225-8465, 225-8491. Fax: 225-8473, 226-8210
EDITORIAL
REVISITING THE DEATH PENALTY The debate over hanging in Guyana has sparked discussions by many. It has taken on greater fervor with the recent spate of heinous murders. The capture of the convicted Bartica massacre murderer, Mark Royden Durant, also known as Royden Williams and “Smallie”, helped fuel the discussion especially since he was sentenced to death and was serving his time on Death Row. Durant/Williams was recaptured last week Monday night in a minibus at Weldaad, West Coast Berbice after being on the run for three months. Deeply concerned about the surge in homicides, especially the recent vicious murders of Constant Fraser, 89 and Phyllis Caesar, 77, in their home on 243 South Road, Georgetown and the brutal rape and murder of 13-year-old Leonard Archibald of Sisters Village, East Bank Berbice, the clamour for the reintroduction of hanging has become more strident. They believe that the reinstatement of hanging could deter murderers and have recommended a fast-track mechanism for murder cases to be tried all the way to the Caribbean Court of Justice so that hangings can be resumed in the shortest possible time. However, regional Governments have been dragging their feet on bringing back capital punishment. There is no political will to enforce the death penalty, which remains on the statute books under the Offences against Persons Act, but is not being exercised. The death penalty is the law and ought to be implemented until such time as the Parliament or the people see it fit to change it. But since the turn of the century, successive governments have been making excuses not to hang anyone. It is time for the government to take a position on hanging. It is misleading and is a cop-out for it to acknowledge that it is the law but would allow the people to decide in a referendum whether or not the death penalty should be reinstated. Some churches have taken a moral position in favor of the government to exercise the death penalty. They have urged that convicted murderers be hanged given the type and degrees of murders in the country. However, others including the Roman Catholic Church have debunked the view that capital punishment is the panacea for ridding the country of the spate of violent and senseless murders. They claimed that the death penalty has no place in civilised, progressive societies such as ours. The question is: Do we want to run the risk of hanging people for a crime that they did not commit? They have cited evidence in the United States where in the last five years, DNA tests have exonerated over 300 people who have been on death row in 32 states. And stressing religion, they have made it clear that no matter how heinous the crimes committed; criminals are still God’s children and are redeemed in the blood of Christ. Opponents of hanging are of the opinion that it is a very negative way of dealing with crime. It is based on retribution, waging a vendetta against the criminals because they have done some wrong in society instead of having restorative justice. They feel that Guyana is a punitive society which still uses corporal punishment against children. It is a society that beats children and now wants to hang criminals without taking into consideration the many punitive measures that were rendered against the disadvantaged in society. But then again, the criminal attracts the punishment. They have opined that the focus must be on tackling the socio-economic conditions which give rise to crime in the first place and correct the inequalities in society. They have advocated that the system should be fixed and made more even before capital punishment can be effectively carried out.
Guyana can be the breadbasket of the Caribbean again Dear Editor Let us make Guyana the bread basket of the Caribbean again. Can we do it? Yes, we can! After Emancipation freed slaves had to provide food, clothes, and shelter for themselves. They cultivated lands they once slaved on by doing so; they were able to provide enough food for consumption and sale with the
profit they made. Thus, they were able to purchase the plantation they slaved on; for example, Plantation Buxton, Plantation Belfield, and many more. When indenture servants arrived in Guyana they were able to provide food for them farming/agriculture which was always profitable and is still one of the most secure and profitable investments
one can make. However, America became the food capital of the world by growing more food than they can consume and exporting the surplus. They produced and processed most of what they need and left foot prints in the sand of economic development. If we walk in their foot prints we can achieve the same success. Guyana once
produced and exported fruits, vegetable, plantain, beef, pork, fish, and farm animals just to name a couple of things. By producing and exporting we can maintain a strong dollar and avoid capital flight. Can we do it? Yes, we can!
Dear Editor, In Guyana, the incentives athletes and sporting disciplines generally receive are praises. Sports hardly ever link to economic prosperity in Guyana. Internationally all activities in contemporary society that enjoy incredible development, sports hold an eminent place. In Guyana that is not the case. In sports, the media plays an important role. The media, known as mass communication industry; it includes newspapers, radio, television and internet. The media get people informed of the happening within their locality and beyond. Whenever sport is publicized, do you know who the beneficiaries are? The athletes! Whenever a sports journalist takes the time to creatively articulate on a sport-
ing discipline, obstacles and success something magically happen. Sports in Guyana need all the help it can get particularly from the media. Almost all the sporting disciplines in Guyana do not offer a financial career. For an athlete, association and any sporting discipline, organized sports can provide opportunities such as a. For growth of individuals self-confidence “When you have confidence, you can do anything.” Sloane Stephens. There is a relationship between school dropout and lack of confidence in self. Sports offer an excellent opportunity for growth in that area. Research has found that kids that play sports, especially girls, are more likely to have a positive body
image and higher self-esteem. They also are less likely to be overweight. b. Physical Growth in the form of exercise. “Laziness isn’t merely a physical phenomenon, about being a couch potato, stuffing your face with fries and watching cricket all day; it’s a mental thing, too, and that’s the part I have never aspired for.” Shah Rukh Khan Children involved in sports are less likely to take drugs or smoke because they realize the impact that these destructive activities can have upon their performance. Girls who play sports are also less likely to become pregnant. c. Playing Sports is Fun. To a child, it gives them something to do and a group to belong to. It offers mental growth while having fun at
the same time. d. Sports help children to develop discipline-They learn to set goals and then work to achieve those goals. They learn that by working hard they can accomplish the things that they want to in their lives. e. Sports help develop teamwork and leadership skills. Children quickly learn that they have to work together as a team to win the game. f. Opportunities to travel and learn about different culture and value system. In closing, I encourage the sports media not to take away the praise through which an average athlete uses as motivation to work harder.
Entrepreneur Morris Wilson
For school dropouts, sports offer a future
Jr. Andrew Hercules
A REPLY TO THE BLATANT INACCURACIES OF SAM HINDS Dear Editor, The letter by former PPP Prime Minister, Sam Hinds intended to refute ACDA’s claim that a conspiracy exists to hinder the empowerment of Afro-Guyanese, compels an answer on the grounds of its erroneous opinions derived from ignorance or outright dishonesty. SH begins to imply that Afro-Guyanese should forget slavery because Joseph in the Bible was sold into slavery; I assume that he does not know that the ancestors of AfroGuyanese were enslaved on the coastal plantations created by their muscle, that they were allowed their own kitchen gardens by plantation owners to save them money. Every Sunday, they would travel with their passes to the Township markets, which in the case of Georgetown was located where Demico House and Saint Andrews now stand. SH declares that it was in the 28 years of PNC reign that Afro-Guyanese were steered away from business. In the post emancipation years, the quest of the plantocracy, colonial government was good at divide and rule, they played the indentured Portuguese against the Afro community, the intention was to destroy existing Afro entrepreneurship, apart from the
economic fact that after the implementation of the Earl Grey ‘Sugar Duties Act’, sugar fell, and the colony likewise into continuous heavy unemployment. These manipulations exploded in 1856 with the ‘Angel Gabriel’ Riots, the deception of taking taxes from the villages and not providing drainage services, which destroyed existing agricultural capabilities, while using the taxes instead for the importation of Indentured labour. It was the opening of the ‘Gold Bush’ in the 1880’s that saved the villages. The landscape of the Import-Export business community by 1966 constituted #1 Bookers, #2 Portuguese owned [commercial agents] businesses #3 The Indian National owned businesses invited in by Premier Cheddi Jagan. #4 Chinese Supermarkets and # 5 The Artisan Afro owned businesses; most of the Afro Guyanese however were in the lower to upper levels of the public service that included the Police Force. Stevedores, Pork Knockers, Merchant Marine service, owners of Drug stores, Tailors, Seamstresses, the Entertainment/Arts Industry before and after 1966. Today, many Guyanese who grew up in those 28 years are professionals in diverse fields be-
cause of developmental opportunities during that time. Afro-Guyanese need not be lectured sarcastically on self empowerment, they do face obstacles at various levels, because of the local colonial mythology directed against them and their perception that the principles they apply to engagements also exist among others. When in the 1980’s, the global economy sank into crisis and OPEC tightened its noose especially around non-oil producing third world countries, and Guyana had to question its ideological direction, commodities were restricted, the mainly AfroGuyanese ‘suit case traders’ emerged, supplying private sector stores, some went to North West, where barter with Venezuelan providers were conducted. I recognised from Mr Hind’s essay of the occasion of the 155th commemoration of emancipation that there existed a superficial understanding of the Afro New World condition. It became stronger more obvious that something was wrong with SH when he volunteered to visit Leonard Arokium and convince him of logistical fictions concerning the murder of his crew and sons at Lindo Creek. I will conclude by outlining some personal experi-
ences that I have made public before. In 1992, Norman Beaton came to Guyana to act in my play ‘Shadow of the Jaguar’ produced by Archie Poole, Mrs Jagan claimed erroneously that it was because of the ‘return of Democracy’ the PPP mantra. The Jaguar was a strip published in the Sunday Chronicle at the time, Claudette Earle was the Sunday Editor, Sharief Khan told her that he wanted the series stopped, and his secretary later related that it was considered an Afro-Guyanese super hero, so the PPP wanted it out of the paper. Sharief approached me and said that the two other strips ‘Bugs’ and ‘Times of Vincent’ “we like” but he would like to make inputs. I cannot say in this letter what I said to him, except that they too were discontinued from that very weekend. I had outstanding monies for another newspaper so I had proposed “The Mighty Itanami” and two other illustrated works, but they were rejected. The owner’s wife was brutally honest when she told me “Barry the people on the board would never allow yuh creole black people art stories in this paper,” the owner not long after asked ACDA if it would be okay for him to commission another (Continued on page 5)
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Mabaruma residents want their deplorable roads to be fixed Dear Editor, The Mabaruma residents of Region 1 (Barima- Waini) are crying out bitterly over the extremely bad conditions of their roads that need fixing urgently or rehabilitation by the Ministry of Public Infrastructure because their livelihood is drastically being affected. The residents are claiming that what is even worse is that they have no one in authority to complain to, neither to represent them on the critical issues that are affecting their communities. The Mabaruma – Kumaka roadway to Wauna and beyond is in a disgraced state of neglect with lots of small and large potholes and when the rain falls, pools of water take over the entire road way impassable to the disgust of residents and vehicle drivers. This includes the road to Barabina community which has a never- ending problem
of continued flooding and to date has not being fixed as yet. The extremely bad and neglected state of the Mabaruma roads has caused and is causing transportation cost to rise steeply and what is even worse is that taxi and minibus drivers now think it very hard to transport residents to the Wauna community and beyond because of the horrible condition of the road which is destroying their vehicles. But if taxi drivers decide to take passengers from Kumaka to Wauna, the cost is now $5000 and from Kumaka to White Creek, not far from Wauna the cost is now $8000. The minibus cost per seat is now $400 plus an extra $100 for freight as per small bag from Kumaka to Wauna community. Transportation costs are killing the residents of Mabaruma. The trucks and tractors are further destroy-
A REPLY TO THE BLATANT... (From page 4) artist to do a strip about an Afro vendor with children whose husband had deserted her and the eldest children were turning to badness. ACDA’S response was that we will picket your newspaper on the grounds that other solid strips were offered defining Afro experiences and you rejected it; now you want to define Afro-Guyanese as essentially negative, and he dropped the idea. At a function at the residence of the US ambassador, in the presence of Paloma Mohammed and Malcolm DeFreitas, I asked the then Prime Minister, Sam Hinds about the question of copyright and meaningful public sector participation
with the Arts and Cultural Industries, Sam Hinds brushed away the latter and replied that “too many of our constituency would be affected by copyright,” that justified the strangulation of an entire industry and the livelihoods of people considered not his constituency. This is magnified in numerous ways that include the conflict of small miners today. The Afro-Guyanese community recognises the illegal transfer of billions of state dollars by the PPP to chosen areas of its constituency. This administration has to fulfill its UN obligation to the decade of rectifying wrongs against the Afro-Guyanese community.
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ing the roads and these may soon be the only vehicles to travel to the Wauna community and beyond. The terrible conditions of the road from Wauna community to Kumaka (business centre) and Mabaruma Township are severely affecting the livelihood of the Wauna community residents who have to travel to seek medical attention, school children have to attend school, the buying of foodstuff, conducting business and to meet with RDC Officials. With the rise in fuel prices, transportation cost will further increase, also the cost for every conceivable item which will definitely increase the cost of living in the Mabaruma sub-region. The Mab a r u m a r e s i dents are therefore calling on the Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson to visit the Mabaruma sub-region urgently so as to inspect the condition of the roads and have them fixed within the shortest possible time. Peter Persaud.
The PPP is killing Berbice to spite the Coalition Government Dear Editor, The political interference by the Opposition into the operations of the 52-74 NDC is getting worse by the day as Mr Zamal Hussain, the PPP Supervisor for Region 6, is trying his utmost to effect total control of the NDC. Now workers are not being paid because the acting Chairman refuses to sign the cheques, donations to school sports are being delayed due to this reluctance as well. This includes payment vouchers for expenses as well. What is wrong with Mr Hussain and Mr Deroop? Are they not satisfied with interfering in the granting of contacts for emergency works and the certification of substandard works? These guys want to have their hands in everything to the detriment of the NDC. Now Mr Hussain seems to be obsessed with me. At the last caucus held at # 63 Freedom House, he wanted to know which ‘Judas’ was giving me the news about what
was discussed at the caucus. I want to assure Mr Hussain that these people are not ‘Judases’ but patriots who do not want to see their community fall apart. They want to see development and these PPP officials are killing such development. Imagine the 52-74 NDC is predominantly made up of PPP members and supporters yet they want to destroy the NDC so that the Coalition Government looks bad. This happening countrywide at the all the NDCs controlled by the opposition but Region 6 seems to be the worst hit. Another problem is councilors are commanded to walk out of duly constituted NDC statutory meetings without knowing the reason why they are doing so. This was done at the last statutory meeting when a phone call was received by the acting Chairman. This effectively puts all works on hold including works tendered out. Businessmen with issues to be addressed had to be sent away.
These people had taken time off from their urgent schedule and had to be turned away with great disappointment. How will this NDC progress? I am calling on Zamal Hussain and Dennis Deroop, these two PPP officials, to stop jeopardizing progress in Region 6, the people are watching and they know what is going on. As the Regional Vice Chairman and the man who wants to be the next Chairman, Mr Deroop should know that the PPP will be held responsible for the rot of Region 6, blaming sugar has its limitations. For too long the PPP has been stifling the economic progress of Region 6 and I want the Minister of Communities to take a serious look at what is happening at these PPP controlled NDCs. The Minister cannot and should not take a hand-off approachhe just cannot twiddle his thumb while Region 6 is falling apart. Biilions of dollars are (Continued on page 6)
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Sugar union says it remains open for talk with GuySuCo Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) sees it necessary to respond to a letter by the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc (GuySuCo) which appeared in the October 14, 2017 issue of KN. The company’s spokeswoman accuses our Union of having no responsibility. Though, it is well known, we wish to make it clear as day that the GAWU is very much aware of its foremost, moral and legal responsibility to ensure that the workers’ rights, conditions, and benefits are respected and not trampled upon. We do not need a condescending lecture from GuySuCo. We also wish to repeat that we remain open to discuss matters of concern with the Corporation. We have never shirked from any such engagements. But moving in this direction will require the company to abandon its arm’s length approach to the Union which the Corporation adopted since October 2015 when we began to press for a pay rise for sugar workers for year 2015. The Corporation’s officer, in our view, sought to put an
ignoble spin when she sought to address the delay in the workers’ wages on September 15. Ms Thomas tells the public that “…the Corporation exhausted all efforts to garner financial resources to ensure that employees were paid on time….” The goodly lady’s words are clear and unambiguous. It conveys that the Corporation was well aware that workers wouldn’t have been paid on time long before the company contacted us on the afternoon of September 14 to inform us of the delay. Clearly, it was not a case of a sudden, unexpected occurrence. If the company was indeed sincere about having ‘partnership’ with GAWU, certainly it would have contacted our Union and the workers much earlier than it did to advise of its difficulty. This speaks volumes about the Corporation’s seriousness in transforming its words into actions. The Corporation goes on expressing its dissatisfaction over the workers’ protest activities to demand the payment of their wages. We ask, “What is wrong with work-
ers demanding what they worked for and what is rightfully theirs and which they justifiably require to make ends meet?” Just a few months ago, quite correctly, several teachers picketed outside of the Region #5 office demanding payment of their salaries which were withheld. Those teachers were not criticised by the Ministry of Education or the Government. We ask, “Why the sugar workers should receive different treatment?” But again, it serves to further expose the contempt held by the Corporation’s hierarchy towards the workers, their concerns, and their plight. The missive then comes to the core of the matter in continuing to lay the groundwork to blame the workers and the Union for the very poor production level which is anticipated this year. In recent times, the GAWU has drawn attention to this propaganda ploy by GuySuCo as it seeks to shift blame and find a scapegoat for its utter failures. Ms Thomas rightly says “more sugar that is produced and sold, the more it
will alleviate the Corporation’s financial dilemma”. This succinct statement very much sums up the Corporation’s problems – its inability to produce a sufficient quantity of canes. The fact remains that the Corporation does not have the canes in the fields to reach its targets. How else does one explain that the production target has shifted from about 200,000 tonnes sugar at the beginning of the year, to around 175,000 tonnes sugar in or around July, 2017 and which most likely will be about 150,000 tonnes when production ceases at year-end? GuySuCo then says that our correspondence is dealt with professionally. Maybe it is that GuySuCo has re-defined the word. We say this, taking into account that our correspondence of September 21 to the company’s CEO regarding the payment of wages on September 22 was not even acknowledged. We further wish to remind the company’s spokesperson that the Union’s claim towards improving workers’ pay and conditions and benefits, remain unaddressed at this point in time; in stark viola-
Something is seriously wrong with the Guyana Labour Union Dear Editor, Something has to be seriously wrong with the labour union that represents the ‘fixed’ or permanent employees of the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown, and that union to which I refer is the Guyana Local Government Officers Union. Quite recently, we saw the other union, the Guyana Labour Union which represents the additional category of municipal employees better known as ‘unfixed’ workers undertaking a demarche on City Hall, and under the astute leadership of Mr. Carvil Duncan, they let the council’s administrators know exactly how they felt about the atrocities being committed against their members. But for some strange reason, the Guyana Local Government Officers Union seems to have become dumb, deaf, toothless and completely uncaring to the hardships their membership faces
each day. Could you imagine the workers are faced month after month for the past two years, with receiving their salaries late which causes them to have to pay additional interest on loans acquired, having their electricity and water supply cut off each month due to late payments, having the hire purchase people chase after them for their monthly installments? And not a whimper from this union! Maybe this is because a senior functionary of the union, who recently retired from the Council, does not wish to rock the boat and stymie the release of her seven million plus dollar payout from the Council. The membership of this union is forced to sit and watch helplessly, as the Council employs on an almost daily basis, relatives and friends of senior officials, unlawfully placing them at the highest points of the salary scales and appointing them to super salaried positions superseding persons who have worked at the Council for decades. What does the Guyana Local Government Officers do about this blatant nepo-
tism, cronyism and favouritism that negatively affect their members who are the victims? Absolutely nothing! This might be because the union itself is run like a family business, with leadership positions being passed from brother to sister and to friends. The union quietly watches on whilst some of the senior administrators purchase for themselves, state of the art vehicles, luxury homes and go off on luxury trips abroad whilst its ordinary members struggle to find a place to live, cannot afford to purchase an auto cycle and struggle to find food to feed their children. One wonders whether this has anything to do with the concrete block manufacturing scam and where the blocks ended up. The union is aware that its membership is forced to inhumanely slaughter animals at the Abattoir, made to work without proper tools, without the required protective gear and in workspaces and offices that are derelict, unsafe and an eyesore, but the union says not a word. This might be because their only concern is to gouge
union membership fees from its faithful flock and to travel around the world themselves purportedly on union business. The union quietly observes massive corruption ongoing at the council, including the farming out of work to contractors in violation of all tender and procurement procedures, work which is being taken away from its members and members of the other unions. Inevitably, the Council will have to downsize its gargantuan staff structure but what will be interesting to note is who will get the pink slips. Will they fire the big shots, and their relatives, friends and church pals who were given cushy high paying jobs or will they target the ordinary workers who have no connections and who have worked conscientiously for decades with the Council. Will they close the purposeless Public Relations Section of the Council or will they instead nonsensically get rid of worthwhile departments such as Day Care Centres that take care of the kids of working mothers? Will the Council’s workers ever be properly represented against the atrocities being committed against them by their employers, the rights of workers protected and collectively bargained on behalf of? Let us wait and see. Deodarie Putulall
tion of the timelines set out in the Recognition and the Avoidance and Settlement of Disputes Agreement. We say this because letters concerning workers matters, some weeks old, remain unanswered. We wonder, “Where is the professionalism that the GuySuCo spokesperson speaks about?” Quite clearly, it seems that the word professionalism has taken on a new meaning in GuySuCo’s context. We are then accused of encouraging workers to engage in work stoppages. Again, it seems that the Corporation has fallen off its rocker. Many of those stoppages, GuySuCo speaks of, occur in the early morning hours very much before our Union’s offices begin to operate. One wonders, “How we can encourage a stoppage when we are not even aware of the situation.” Moreover, why would a worker, waking up in the wee hours of the morning and have his wife waking up even earlier than him to prepare his meals, just to go to work to resort to strike? But that is exactly what the Corporation is seeking to say, it seems rationality has completely departed the Corporation’s
mindset. The fact that the workers are forced to engage in work stoppages obviously speaks to the pressures they face when they must confront weedy, vine-infested, and grassy fields which require much greater efforts on their part and an arrogant attitude as they seek to obtain reasonable payments for the additional work they are required to undertake. GAWU is then charged with impacting “production and productivity and the security of employment”. But is it the GAWU that is proposing to close and sell-out estates? Is it the GAWU that is not applying inputs in a timely manner, or not applying inputs altogether, in some cases? Is it the GAWU that is making decisions to cease cane planting? Is it the GAWU that is making decisions on how finances should be allocated and spent? These decisions, policies and directions are not influenced, considered or approved by the GAWU or the workers for that matter. Seepaul Narine General Secretary GAWU
Police lawlessness daily on the harbour bridge Dear Editor, It is a daily frustration for drivers commuting from the West Bank Demerara to Georgetown via the Harbour Bridge. The traffic starts building up from as early as 6:10 am. Now imagine one joins the traffic lines and spends about 40 minutes every morning simply trying to get onto the bridge, all the while there are vehicles that are jumping straight to the front of the lines because they are driving in the oncoming traffic lane. Mind you, there are several police officers all along the route. These police allow their friends, family members, neighbours, etc. to drive illegally in the wrong lane so that they can “bore” to the front of the line. Just before
getting onto the bridge, a police constable even stops the regular traffic to allow these other vehicles to enter the line. It is extremely frustrating, as a regular driver, to be sitting in a chaotic line, for so long and just to have about 30 vehicles fly pass you on the side and “bore” in front of everyone. Here are our police officers that are charged with enforcing the traffic laws of the country, but every single day break those same laws with no discretion for the common man. I am hoping that by having more persons aware of this regular occurrence, that this behaviour will be curbed. Kapil Singh.
The PPP is killing Berbice... (From page 5) being spent in region 6 year after year but yet residents cannot see the value for monies spent since there is massive corruption at the Tender Board level where people with no knowledge and experience are being awarded contracts. It is a known fact that pundits, cane-cutters and fishermen are now contractors. These two PPP officials have a lot of influence in the tender process since one is on
the Tender Board and one is the Head of the Regional Works Committee-responsible for signing off works for payments. It is alleged that ‘kick backs’ and draw backs’ are rampant and this is the reason for awarding contracts to these unqualified contractors. Millions of taxpayer dollars go this route-into the pockets of corrupted officials. Where is Region 6 heading? Raj Lakram
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UG Health Sciences Faculty pursues complete accreditation
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- preparation apace to accredit School of Dentistry It was just a few months ago that the University of Guyana [UG] regained international accreditation for its School of Medicine. However, intense efforts are in motion to have even more programmes accredited in the Faculty of Health Sciences. Topping the list for accreditation in the near future is the Faculty’s Dentistry programme which has never before been accredited. This development was recently confirmed by Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Dr. Emanuel Cummings. Dr. Cummings said, “We have started our discussions for the accreditation of the Dentistry School...We recently launched the task force responsible for the preparation for accreditation of the Bachelors of Dental Surgery...” Like the School of Medicine, accreditation for the School of Dentistry will also have to be undertaken by the Caribbean Accreditation Authority for Education in Medi-
cine and other Health Professions [CAAM-HP]. According to Dr. Cummings, CAAM-HP is not only responsible for accrediting Medicine programmes but it is also responsible for accrediting all other health care professional programmes throughout Caricom. The Jamaica-based institution is the legally constituted body established in 2003 under the aegis of Caricom. It is moreover empowered to determine and prescribe standards and to accredit programmes of medical, dental, veterinary and other health professions education on behalf of the contracting parties in Caricom. Currently, Dr. Cummings disclosed, CAAM-HP has been catering to three programmes: Medicine, Veterinary Medicine and Dentistry. According to the Health Sciences Dean, “Since we don’t have a Vet School, now that our Medical School has been accredited we are now
starting preparation to have our School of Dentistry accredited too.” “We are quite optimistic because there are some benefits of the recent preparation for the Medical School accreditation that will spill over into the preparation for the accreditation for the Dental School,” said Dr. Cummings. He said that preparations in this regard are also forthcoming from the Ministry of Public Health, the UG Vice Chancellor, Professor Ivelaw Griffith, and the entire University’s administration. “They are all very much behind us in this regard,” Dr. Cummings amplified. At present the university is undertaking a self-study as part of its preparation for the accreditation of its School of Dentistry. The self-study, Dr. Cummings anticipates, will be completed before the end of this year. Even as he commented on plans to have other programmes in the Health Sciences Faculty accredited, Dr.
Teen charged for escaping lawful custody A teenager was yesterday ordered to post $100,000 bail by Senior Magistrate, Leron Daly after he denied a charge of escaping lawful custody. Brandon Persaud, 17, of Lot 11 Delph Street, Campbellville, Georgetown, denied the charged which alleged that on October 12, last, at the Brickdam Police Station, while being in custody pending a charge of possession of narcotics, he escaped from lawful custody. The defendant was represented by Attor-
ney-at-law, Tiffany Jeffery; the lawyer asked that bail be granted to her client since he has never been charged before. The lawyer told the court that her client was under the impression that he was free to leave the station and her client walked out the station in the presence of police officers. The lawyer added that he client was later found at his home in his bed. Magistrate Daly then ordered the defendant to return to court on September 30.
Cummings said, “At a meeting I attended in March, we asked about the Nursing School because the nursing programme should be the next in line for accreditation.” But accrediting the nursing programme, according to the Dean, will more than likely require more than simply putting measures in place at UG. He explained that since the nursing programme does not fall entirely under the university, “we will have to assume control of it.” Currently, the Bachelors in Nursing programme offered at UG is in fact, the final stage of a programme administered by the Ministry of Public Health and the privately operated St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. “After completing the Diploma aspect of that programme, candidates would come over to UG for two years to get their Bachelor’s Degree.” But according to Dr. Cummings, “For us to even consider having the nursing programme accredited, UG will have to run the entire programme from the very first year...We will have to have complete control of the programme.” Another programme that UG will support the Public Health Ministry to offer is a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health Nursing. The programme is one that was recently approved by the University’s Academic Board and will be shortly rolled out,
Dr. Emanuel Cummings, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences. according to Dr. Cummings. “This programme is intended to train individuals who will help to address the issues related to maternal and child health.” Another programme recently approved by the University is that of a Master’s of Medicine in Radiology. This programme, according to Dr. Cummings, will be administered in collaboration with the GPHC. “Not only that it will strengthen the imaging service in certain selected hospitals across the country, the radiology services will be enhanced and that in itself is a big plus for us. Once we improve radiological services it
will reduce the number of surgeries that will be done because a lot of the cases you can diagnose early and you can have earlier intervention,” said Dr. Cummings. As part of its efforts to increase the number of accredited programmes, the University will also be eyeing the accreditation of its Pharmacy and Optometry programmes. But accreditation for these, according to Dr. Cummings, will not materialise in the very near future since, “standards will have to be developed. The professionals of these specialities will need to work closely with CAAM-HP to help to develop the necessary standards.”
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IDB identifies major problems with projects last year A key report of the InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB) has pointed to severe weaknesses in Guyana’s system to plan and implement projects. According to the document, the ‘IDB Group Country Strategy with the Cooperative Republic of Guyana 2017–2021’, slow and often stalled disbursements were symptomatic of Guyana’s challenging institutional environment and the lack of strategic planning and vision at the highest level. The document, prepared under the leadership of Country Manager, Sophie Makonnen, and other support staffers, noted that the problems resulted in inefficient planning across the project cycle, from design and financing to implementation and monitoring. The report, dated in August, would come after a recent high-ranking IDB official, Senior Vice President, Julie Katzman, came to Guyana to review the bank’s work. While the administration has labelled Katzman’s visit as a review, sources have said that there was deep worry over project implementations
in Guyana. Recently, Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, even raised questions over IDB’s work here. Over the last few months, there have been reports, including letters, about the performance of projects, including the electricity sector. Even Finance Minister, Winston Jordan, was critical in one case of more than US$60M was sitting doing nothing since 2012. The money was earmarked for the expansion of the Sheriff Street/Mandela Avenue. C o n s e c u t i v e governments have been turning to the bank for financing on projects involving roads, water and other major infrastructure initiatives. According to the ‘Country Strategy’ document, the IDB Group continues to be Guyana’s most active multilateral partner. “The bank contributes 42.4 percent of the country’s external financing and accounts for 70 percent of total multilateral financing. The support of the IDB Group is predominantly focused on the public sector, with outstanding sovereignguaranteed debt totalling
- criticises lack of strategic planning, vision at highest level US$492.3 million.” During the 2012–2016 Country Strategy (CS) period, IDB said, approvals were higher than expected, with additional resources leveraged for programmes in energy, water and sanitation, small and medium enterprise (SME) development, and a forest carbon partnership. PROBLEMS “In total, 13 new loan and investment grant operations and 30 technical cooperation products (TCs) were approved. Loan approvals exceeded the high-scenario lending envelope by 39.1 percent and totalled US$143.6 million (of which US$34.1 million was for policy-based loans).” Investment grant approvals were US$51.9 million through contributions from the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund, the European Union, and the Global Environment Facility. Four Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) operations were also approved for a total amount of US$2.8 million. According to the document, during the previous period- 2012-2016,
Finance Minister, Winston Jordan, in talks with Senior Vice President of the IDB, Julie Katzman, and IDB Country Representative, Sophie Makonnen. the bank’s activities focused on four priority areas- natural resource management, sustainable energy, private sector development, and public-sector managementacross nine sectors, with “modest results”. “By the end of last year, 54 percent of the portfolio was classified as “alert” or “problem,” while the disbursement rate for loans fell from an annual average of 8.6 percent in 2012 to 4.4 percent in 2016.” IDB said that as a result, there was a significant decline in net cash flows to Guyana, with an all-time low in 2016. “The bulk of the IDB’s projects were in
i n f r a s t r u c t u r e — w a t e r, transport, and energy sectors—all of which faced delays during the decisionmaking and procurement stages. The change in administration in 2015, the first after 23 years under regular general elections, slowed execution across the Government’s public-sector investment programme due to a comprehensive portfolio review.” However, IDB’s local office said that although an additional time constraint on execution, this procedure marked the beginning of an iterative process by which the Government, development partners, and the private sector identified bottlenecks
in the current project management system and developed joint solutions. MORE MONITORING With regards to some of the problems faced, the IDB document said that hindrance noted by the country team was the lack of sector specialists on the ground, which prevented real-time problem solving and necessary support for project design. “Recommendations made by the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) are in line with this assessment and have informed the institutional strengthening focus of this new strategy.” Specifically, the Bank’s Board of Directors endorsed four of OVE’s recommendations for future engagement in Guyana. This tightening of monitoring including the local IDB office working even more closely with the government to develop and institutionalise a project management system that combines core procurement functions across programmes. IDB is also moving to introduce an “adequate level” of IDB Group staff support in each area of the programme to enhance project implementation and achievement of results. The bank will also be moving to have design projects that fit the institutional environment, to build on one another, and incorporate its Office of Institutional Integrity (OII) input as part of project risk assessment. IDB is concerned about the statistics of Guyana and wants to increase its support for the generation and publication of data by continuing to work with the government to strengthen the national statistical system.
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The forgotten 50th anniversary The latter half of the 1960s and 1970s were the heavy days for aspiring left wing revolutionaries who wanted to save Guyana in the name of socialism. And in those days, these so called revolutionaries had an iconic idol in the A r g e n t i n e - b o r n revolutionary, Ernesto Che Guevara. Che was more popular in those days than Lionel Messi is today. He was an inspiration for those young men and women who wanted a better world for the poor. Those high ideals which have young left-wing converts in Guyana don jerseys bearing Che’s image, sporting his flowing locks and wearing replicas of his trade-mark beret, have long
gone. The man who was lionised as the greatest revolutionary in Latin America has been forgotten and his ideals abandoned by his former leftwing admires in the PPPC and the WPA. So forgotten and abandoned was Che that on October 9, 2017, the 50th anniversary of his assassination by the CIA, not a whimper was heard in Guyana about Che. It was on October 8, 1967 that Che, and his ragtag, group of rebels were cornered in the mountains of Bolivia. A farmer had betrayed the group’s position to the Bolivian Army and CIA agents which had led the operation to capture Che. Che was shot in both legs, but before he could be
finished off, he told his captors, “Don’t shoot! I’m Che Guevara - I’m worth more to you alive than dead.” He was taken prisoner. It was a decision that he would regret. The CIA decided that he should be executed. When told, Che simply said that it was better this way but he should have died in combat. A scared and frightened soldier, Mario Terán Salaza was given the task of killing Che. The revolutionary noticed the fear in the solider but still urged him on. He told his assassin, “Calm down and take good aim. You’re going to kill a man.” Che had tremendous faith in the people. He once told a medical conference that, “The life of a single human being is
Dem boys seh...
De Mayor and Clown Clerk covering up plugging Is either de Mayor love de city constable or de city constable love de Mayor. This constable arrest a li’l boy because he had he eye pun de li’l boy. He mek de boy sit down pun a bench till everybody sleeping then he mek he move. De boy seh he was threatened wid jail, then forced to plug him up. Another city police hear de love sounds and peep. De man seh wha he see he coulda never believe if he mudda did tell him dem things does happen. De one who see tell dem boys how de li’l boy mek that big man a prisoner. He seh de li’l boy bend him over de table and was spanking him.
Is two months now since he write a statement and give de Mayor but she and de Clown Clerk, King, want more evidence. Dem boys believe she want de li’l boy to spank de constable, again, this time in she presence. Yesterday at a council meeting de matter come up. Dem boys want to know since when de Mayor and de Clown Clerk getting involve in de plugging of a constable. Something ain’t smelling right and it very s**ty. Dem boys hope de police, real police tek over this matter and charge de constable, de Mayor and that clown fuh town clerk. Talk half and watch how dem covering up child ABUSE.
worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth. … Far more important than a good remuneration is the pride of serving one’s neighbour. Much more definitive and much more lasting than all the gold that one can accumulate is the gratitude of a people.” Che Guevara was an extraordinary human being. In paying tribute to him, nine days after his death, Fidel Castro, his former comrades in arms, said that Che was the type of man who was “difficult to equal and practically impossible to improve upon.” He said that “Che died defending no other interest, no other cause than the cause of the exploited and the oppressed of this continent. Che died defending no other cause than the cause of the poor and the humble of this earth.” In recent years, revisionists have tried to disassemble the iconic character of Che. They have tried to spread the idea that Che had major
differences with Fidel and the direction which the revolution was taking and that is why he left Cuba to go and fight in the jungles of the Congo and in Bolivia. Che would have had differences with the direction that the Cuban Revolution had taken following the Bay of Pigs Attack. But Che was totally committed to the Cuban Revolution. He understood clearly, following the Bay of Pigs Attack, that Cuba could not confront imperialism alone. More Cubas were needed. More Vietnams were needed. Che went back into the battlefields to ensure that these new fronts could have been created to help defeat imperialism. Che did not depart from the Cuban Revolution. He left so that it could survive. He sacrificed the trappings of office for a life of struggle in the jungle. One his captors said that Che looked like a beggar when he was captured. Che believed that
socialism could not be built purely as an economic system. For him, it involved the creation of a new man. This was something that Walter Rodney also believed. Incidentally, both men were assassinated before they reached the age of 40. The CIA is also believed to have had a hand in the assassination of Rodney. The ‘new man,’ which Che embodied has not yet emerged. For all the adulation which Che enjoyed during his lifetime and after his death, no one has come near to paralleling the revolutionary virtues which he represented. On the fiftieth anniversary of his death when the Cuban children were pledging that they wanted to be like Che, many of his so-called admirers in Guyana; simply forgot the golden jubilee of his death.
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=== The Freddie Kissoon column ===
GBTI and the courts: Small is beautiful, small is dangerous When I entered the University of Guyana as a freshman, there was a book that was generating interest and admiration around the world. No university missed out on its influence. It was modest-sized book on economics titled ‘Small is Beautiful.” The book’s essential argument, suited for the Third World is that small scale technologies and small scale ventures more benefit citizens of small countries. The author believed that huge projects, macro-scale projects are not workerfriendly and lead to alienation and dehumanisation. I recall in my first year at UG, the book was in vogue. It has left an everlasting influence on approaches to eco-
nomic development in the Third World. But while the book’s main adumbration was in the realm of economics, the phrase “small is beautiful” has found a niche in sociology, political philosophy and psychology unrelated to the main theme of the book. Experts in those fields argue that in large, post modern populations, informal relationships, neighbourhood friendships and other types of interactions are missing thus creating a dangerous situation of mass hysteria and alienation. In Norway, a guy went to a summer camp and shot 85 teenagers dead while laughing. Some of the victims themselves and their relatives contested the general elections
that followed and lost. Maybe one can say that humanity is lost in post-industrial countries. That is where “small is beautiful” comes in. In tiny countries without a post-industrial, post modern base, humanity is more common among folks there. I have heard old people put it in their own learned way. It goes something like this; “You could step across the yard to your neighbour and borrow some sugar.” That is their way of saying people bond closer than in large, industrial societies. But just how “small is beautiful” impacted on me when I was a freshman at UG, “small is dangerous” simultaneously affected me in a deep way. While I was reading,
Frederick Kissoon “How small is beautiful,” in that book, I was also reading how small is dangerous in another book, titled, “The Hero in the Crowd”. This was compulsory reading by Dr. Dennis Bassier in his Caribbean Studies class. Right in my first year as a university student, my mind was being riveted by a weird dialectic-- how could small be beautiful yet dangerous at the same time? I have lived with that oxymoron to this day, which is dialectically sound. The book is about Grenada and the rise of Eric Gairy. But the sub-theme of the book is politics and justice in a small country. The implications have
been frightening for Guyana, and are still frightening. Dale Andrews, of this newspaper, and I once saw a Guyanese of European extraction riding past the Ruimveldt Police Station without a helmet. We went to the station and asked the ranks why they never stopped him. They told us they never saw him. My cousin, William Cox; the editor of the Catholic Standard, Colin Smith; and I saw this man passed through a Linden Highway roadblock without a helmet and the police didn’t intervene. He still does it. This is the problem in a small country. Powerful people are untouchable. Small then becomes dangerous. Why? Because in the society people know who is who, who is untouchable, who gets locked up. This breeds a dangerous psychology in which anger is the overriding content. Guyana is not the US or India. If a company refuses to obey a court injunction in one state, people in several other states within the country may never hear about it. The story of GBTI refus-
ing to comply with a court order can have ugly implications. And this is where the media, human rights organisations and moral leadership comes in. How can a society remain stable when poor people are hauled before the courts for stealing things of inconsequential value and end up in prison but a bank’s decision endanger one of the sacred pillars on which society rests on - the rule of law? The GBTI case is an unnerving one because some of the details revealed in this newspaper are simply incredible if the reporting is accurate. SOCU is after fraud involving over US$500 million. Do you know that sum is a big chunk of our national budget? SOCU applied for a court order to get some papers from GBTI but the bank says it cannot release them. Furthermore, the banks indicated that relevant documents have been destroyed. This is the same bank, that in observing the stipulations of the anti-money laundering law, is requesting people to show the envelope of proof of address. Funny but dangerous country!
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Over half of Berbice daycare centres now licensed The first group of Early Childhood/Day Care centres was officially licensed by the Childcare and Protection Agency (CPA) in East Berbice-Corentyne district on Monday. The 20 licensed facilities, located between Skeldon and East Bank Berbice are among some 37 within the district. Minister of Social Protection, Amna Ally, urged the remaining 17 centres to register in order to receive accreditation. Speaking to the recently licensed childcare representatives, Minister Ally, urged the maintenance of high standards, and delivery of safe and developmentally appropriate services to ensure the holistic growth of their charges. Referring to studies, the minister noted that children who attend high-quality child
care programmes are more likely to do well in school. The Ministry of Social Protection, according to a Government release, has been working to ensure that there is adequate documentation for Early Childhood/Day Care centres, and training for personnel. Based on reports from the CPA, to date, over 200 centres have been registered, and 53 licensed. Daycar e o w n e r s a n d early childcare providers must satisfy the criteria outlined by the Guyana Fire Service, and the Buildings and Public Health Unit of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council before they are certified. This entails completing the CPA’s registration form, providing a valid police clearance, food handler’s certificate and medical certificate to
Minister of Social Protection Amna Ally, regional officials and licensed day care facility representatives recently. Chief Executive Officer of not implemented. be accredited. of service provided by He commended the gov- daycare centres, and is ameThe documents must be the St Francis Community submitted for the approval of Developers, Alex Foster ernment for ensuring that nable to the establishment of CPA before opting for a li- noted that a similar licensing these bodies are licensed and a 24-hour Centre. system, crafted by the Food the necessary personnel cense. To date, daycare facilities have been licensed in Refor the Poor Guyana and the trained. Minister Ally reiterated gions Two and Ten while efUnited Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) under the that CPA will continue to forts continue to have more previous administration was monitor and improve the level licensed before year end.
GPHC sees increasing numbers of late stage cancer of the tongue - Consultant
An increasing number of patients have been turning up at the Oncology Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation [GPHC], with cancer of the tongue. This is according to Consultant and Head of the Oncology Unit, Dr. Justo Despaigne Delisle, who revealed that such cases are increasingly being referred by Dentists. The cases are more than likely not only presenting at the GPHC. According to Dr. Delisle since there is currently no up-to-date study to determine the number of cases, quantifying the cases is not readily possible. He, however, maintained that “There are a lot of patients with tongue cancer.” But these cases are presenting at a very late stage, Dr. Delisle said. In light of this daunting situation, he noted, “We are working in different parts of Guyana to share information about cancer.” He is optimistic that within the next three years,
persons inflicted with cancer will seek attention at an earlier stage. He echoed the assertion of many health officials that “earlier detection can help save lives.” While cancer of the tongue has been linked to smoking, Dr. Delisle revealed that the use of spicy items such as pepper could be a contributing factor. Pepper could even cause stomach cancer too. “I know the people of Guyana like to use pepper and sometimes, too much is not good...you can use it but when you use a lot of it can be a problem,” said Dr. Delisle, who revealed that there have been a number of young individuals presenting with these conditions. The state of cancer in Guyana, Dr. Delisle said, continues to be very worrying with as many as 20 new cases presenting at a single clinic session. But according to Dr Delisle, breast cancer continues to be a major concern. This is in light of his ob-
servation that about half of the patients who present with cancer are those inflicted with breast cancer. “Sometimes 10 or 12 patients have breast cancer, maybe about six with cancer of the cervix and some colon cancer and others,” said Dr. Delisle. The impact of both breast and cervix are very troubling, he said. “They both kill a lot of women,” said Dr. Delisle, who pointed out that while there are treatment that can effectively combat these cancers, the best measure to deal with cancer of the cervix is surgery. Breast cancer, on the other hand, could be adequately tackled with chemotherapy and radiation although surgery may at times be warranted. Currently, GPHC is able to offer treatment such as chemotherapy to cancer patients at no cost to them. However, when radiation is required patients have to seek this service at the Cancer Institute of Guyana. “The Cancer Institute and the Public Hospital [GPHC] work together but the patients need to pay around 50 percent (of the cost),” related Dr. Delisle. Paying has however proven to be a challenge for some patients since they do not have the financial wherewithal to do so. But according to Dr. Delisle, there are some patients who have been able to benefit from financial support from the Public Health Ministry. He considered that since the Ministry can only do so much, thus some patients may not always be able to access support.
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Prosecution closes case in Babita Sarjou murder PI
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MURDERED: Babita Sarjou More than 20 witnesses— among them a doctor and several policemen—were called to testify by Police Prosecutor Neville Jeffers in the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the murder of Babita Sarjou. After months of witnesses, Prosecutor Jeffers closed the case for the state yesterday when the PI continued before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. It is alleged that Sarjou’s ex-spouse, Sharnandand Naraine, called ‘Anand’ of Lot 51 Seaforth Street, Campbellville, Georgetown; and Darrel Ponton called ‘Yankee’ of Lot 54 Broad Street, Charlestown, murdered Sarjou. They are currently on remand. The PI continues today when Naraine is expected to call witnesses in his defence. Attorneys-at-Law Ronald Trotman and Hubert Rodney are representing the murder accused. Sarjou had left her home to go to the Diwali motorcade on the eve of November 4, 2010, reportedly with Naraine who had called her. She went missing and her skeletal remains were discovered in Naraine’s backyard on May 22, 2016. Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum and a team of detectives were able to crack the case after they spent over five hours digging up a site at Naraine’s home. After digging the site, detectives recovered skeletal remains which DNA samples confirmed were those of Sarjou’s. Naraine reportedly picked her up in his car and while she was sitting in the front passenger seat she was allegedly strangled by Ponton who was reportedly seated at the back of the car. Sarjou’s lifeless body was allegedly transported to
MURDER ACCUSED: Darrel Ponton
MURDER ACCUSED: Shardanand Naraine Naraine’s house where it was buried. Reports had indicated that Naraine had dug the grave two days before Sarjou was killed. During the PI, Brazilian doctor Renato Teodoro Ferreira Paranaibo testified in relation to DNA tests he conducted on Sarjou’s skeletal remains. Also testifying was Champa Seonarine, the mother of Sarjou. Seonarine, who said she is a farmer, told the court that she last saw her daughter on November 4, 2010. The woman recalled that her daughter had left home to attend the Diwali motorcade in Georgetown. The mother also identified several pieces of clothing, a pair of footwear and jewellery that were recovered from the shallow grave as her daughter’s belongings. According to the mother, she last saw her daughter wearing those items. Police Inspector Suraj Singh and Police Lance Corporal Jermaine Laundry— both detectives—had testified to interviewing Narine and Ponton at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Headquarters, Eve Leary, Georgetown during which they told them of a murder allegation and cautioned them in accordance to the judge’s rule.
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Florida Guyana Hope Inc hands over US … millions more in equipment, $21,500 to local chapter stocks in the wings
This donation was handed over by President Yassin to Secretary of the local chapter, Carmen Ally The Florida/Guyana Hope Incorporated, a nonprofit foundation, made up of Guyanese living in Florida, USA, is back once again. This time the benevolence is greater with much more cash and other necessities. The organisation which was founded in December 2013 is in its fourth year of giving back to Guyanese. The president is Mohamed Yassin. Since its formation, it has expanded tremendously in the short space of time. A sister body, the Guyana/ Florida Hope nonprofit organisation, based in the Upper Corentyne was
formed subsequently. It is headed by businessman, George Baijnauth. Whilst in Guyana, the Florida-based group is obtaining some assistance from the Regal Stationery and Officer Centre and Steve’s Jewellery for some of the ventures. This year, the group recently handed over a US$21,500 cheque to the Guyana Chapter to be used in assisting Guyanese in need. This donation was handed over by President Yassin to Secretary of the local chapter, Carmen Ally during a simple ceremony held at the Crabwood Creek Sports
Ground. Minister of National Security, Khemraj Ramjattan was among those in attendance. He congratulated the donours and stated that they are an excellent example of what Guyanese overseas should be doing. He called on others to take a page out of their book and emulate the work of the Foundation. Mohamed Yassin said that whilst in the USA, the members saw a need and felt the call to serve and help citizens back home in Guyana. He said that despite many challenges and the devastation of the some of the members’ homes by Hurricane
Port Kaituma murder trial commences The trial of Michael Britton who is accused of killing his workmate at Port Kaituma, North West District, commenced yesterday before Justice James Bovell Drakes at the High Court in Georgetown. A mixed 12-member jury has been empanelled. Britton, also called ‘Rasta Man’, 36, of Vigilance, East Coast Demerara, pleaded not guilty to the charge which alleged that on July 25, 2013 at 10 Miles Back, Port Kaituma, North West District, he murdered Refford Williams. Attorneys-at-Law Mandel Moore and Orinthia Schmidt are presenting the state’s case. Attorney-at-Law Keoma Griffith is representing Britton.
Reports indicate that Britton and Williams were employed at the same mining camp in the area. On the day in question, they were reportedly involved in a heated argument during which Britton armed himself with a length of metal pipe and dealt Williams a lash to the rib cage. After allegedly committing the act, Britton fled the scene, while the injured Williams, who had collapsed, was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. A post mortem examination performed on his remains revealed that he died as a result of a ruptured spleen due to blunt trauma. This trial continues today.
Magistrate sends prison officer to share... From page 20 on November 6. Selman, on October 15, last, had made an appearance before Magistrate Brendon Glasford in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts and was charged for assaulting a 17-year-old schoolgirl. It was alleged that on October 7, last, at the 44 Mini-
bus Park, he unlawfully assaulted Kia Grant. According to Police Prosecutor, Preston John, the defendant and Grant are not known to each other. He said that on the day in question, Selman a p proached Grant while she was standing on the bus park with her mother and
pointed his hand in her face. A scuffle ensued. The prosecutor said that the defendant then told the young lady, “You see them hard card you does want gave me.” The matter was then reported to the police station and the defendant was arrested and charged.
Irma, they still felt the need to continue giving. Mr. Baijnauth stated that the organisation is not a ‘fly by night one’ and is here to stay. He said that, “We want to be a prominent fixture and
of more help to the Guyanese society.” Apart from the sizable cash donation, millions of dollars worth in supplies was shipped home and are ready for distribution. The consign-
ment includes over 40 wheelchairs, 20 walkers, crutches, back/neck/knee brace, clothing and medical supplies among others. This significant donation comes after the group made donations of US$15,000 and US $9,000 to the Guyana Chapter. Since its formation, the Foundation has grown to be one of the leading overseas based non-profit organisations which give yearly help to their counterparts back home. Persons and organisations have been assisted in a number of ways, including eye surgery overseas, treatment for cancer, kidney transplant, acquire prosthesis legs, among others. Also, over 200 computers were donated as well as clothing, footwear, school supplies and wheelchairs. Fire victims throughout Guyana were also assisted. Other than charity work, the Foundation participates in sports and other activities and is a prominent fixture in the South Florida Softball Cricket League, Florida Cup cricket competition.
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North Korea warns states: Don’t join any U.S. action and you’re safe
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspects the January 18 General Machine Plant in Pyongyang, North Korea. KCNA/via REUTERS UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - North Korea warned countries at the United Nations yesterday in a statement: don’t join the United States in military action against the Asian state and you will be safe from retaliation. The caution was contained in a copy of North Korean Deputy U.N. Ambassador Kim In Ryong’s prepared remarks for a discussion on nuclear weapons by a U.N. General Assembly committee. However, Kim did not read that section out loud. “As long as one does not take part in the U.S. military actions against the DPRK
(North Korea), we have no intention to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against a n y o t h e r c o u n t r y, ” according to Kim’s prepared remarks. “The entire U.S. mainland is within our firing range and if the U.S. dares to invade our sacred territory even an inch it will not escape our severe punishment in any part of the globe,” the statement read. Tensions have soared between the United States and North Korea following a series of weapons tests by Pyongyang and a string of increasingly bellicose exchanges between U.S.
President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The U.N. Security Council has unanimously ratcheted up sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs since 2006. North Korean Deputy U.N. Ambassador Kim did tell the U.N. General Assembly committee yesterday: “Unless the hostile policy and the nuclear threat of the U.S. is thoroughly eradicated, we will never put our nuclear weapons and ballistic rockets on the negotiation table under any circumstance.”
Trump believes Cuba responsible for attacks that hurt U.S. diplomats
A view of the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Monday that he believes Havana is responsible for a series of incidents that Washington thinks hurt at least 22 U.S. diplomats over a period of months in Cuba, prompting Washington to scale back its presence there. “I do believe Cuba is responsible,” Trump told
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reporters at an impromptu news conference in the White House Rose Garden. “I do believe that. And it’s a very unusual attack, as you know. But I do believe Cuba is responsible.” The United States has not formally concluded Cuba carried out the attacks, some of which involved high-pitched sounds, but it has said Havana is
responsible for ensuring the safety and security of U.S. diplomatic personnel and failed to do so. At least 22 diplomatic personnel were affected by the unexplained incidents, which have caused hearing loss, dizziness, fatigue and cognitive issues. Some private U.S. travelers also have been affected.
EU defends Iran deal despite Trump, appeals to U.S. Congress LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - The European Union yesterday reaffirmed its support for a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers despite sharp criticism of the accord by President Donald Trump, and it urged U.S. lawmakers not to reimpose sanctions on Tehran. Trump defied both U.S. allies and adversaries on Friday by refusing to formally certify that Tehran is complying with the accord, even though international inspectors say it is, and said he might ultimately terminate the agreement. EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg said a failure to uphold an international agreement backed by the U.N. Security Council could h a v e s e r i o u s consequences for regional peace, and also undermine efforts to check North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. “As Europeans together, we are very worried that the decision of the U.S. president could lead us back into military confrontation with Iran,” German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel told
reporters. After a closed-door meeting chaired by EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on Iran, the ministers issued a joint statement saying the 2015 deal was key to preventing the global spread of nuclear weapons. “The EU is committed to the continued full and effective implementation of all parts of the JCPOA,” it said, referring to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the formal name of the accord with Iran agreed in July 2015 in Vienna. Trump meanwhile renewed his criticism of the accord, and raised the possibility he might try to end it completely. “We’ll see what phase two is. Phase two might be positive, and it might be very negative. It might be a total termination. That’s a very real possibility. Some would say that’s a great p o s s i b i l i t y, ” t h e U . S . president said in Washington. He repeated his contention that the JCPOA was “a horrible deal for the United States.” EU foreign ministers
said the accord was crucial to opening up Iran’s $400billion economy and finding a new market for European investors. Unlike the United States, the EU saw relations with Iran flourish in the late 1990s until revelations about Tehran’s nuclear plans in 2002. “Non-proliferation is a major element of world security and rupturing that would be extremely damaging,” French Foreign Minister JeanYv e s L e D r i a n t o l d reporters. “We hope that Congress does not put this accord in jeopardy.” Mogherini said she would travel to Washington early next month to try to muster support for the accord. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says Iran is complying with its commitments under the accord, which Trump has branded “the worst deal ever negotiated”. The EU still has sanctions in place against members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a major target of Trump’s criticism.
May, Juncker call for faster Brexit talks BRUSSELS (Reuters) British Prime Minister Theresa May and European Commission chief JeanClaude Juncker agreed over dinner in Brussels yesterday that the pace of negotiations over Britain’s departure from the European Union should be stepped up. A joint statement described a “constructive and friendly” two-hour meeting, during which they “reviewed the progress made in the Article 50 negotiations so far and agreed that these efforts should accelerate over the months to come”. Announced less than 24 hours before they sat down, accompanied by their chief Brexit negotiators, David Davis and Michel Barnier, and just three days before May returns to Brussels for an EU summit, the meeting was held well away from reporters. Officials offered no immediate detail on the substance beyond the sixsentence communiqué. Both sides have been calling for a faster pace of talks as time ticks down to
Britain’s withdrawal from the EU in March 2019 and busi n e s s e s w a r n t h a t without clarity on what happens after that they may start switching investments early next year. The joint statement gave little else away, making no reference to the mutual blame game in which London and Brussels accuse each other of creating deadlock: May by failing to detail how much she is willing to pay to settle divorce obligations, the EU by sticking rigidly to a refusal to so much as talk about a future trade deal and transition to that until she does so.
Wary that the prime minister, beset by feuds in her cabinet over a softer or harder break with the EU, might try to divide the other 27 states, some EU diplomats voiced concern she met Juncker and Barnier before meeting the other national leaders. Barnier has, diplomats say, suggested accelerating talks by starting internal EU discussions on a transition period in which Britain would stay in the single market. His idea hit resistance from heavyweights Germany and France, though the 27 now seem set to agree this gesture in an EU statement to be issued on Friday.
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$200 million fraud claim: Govt. goes after former minister, ‘cartel’ contractors
Former Government Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal (Trinidad Express) The State is soon to start legal action against former Government minister Dr Roodal Moonilal over allegations of bid rigging with respect to some ten contracts through the Estate Management and Business Development Company (EMBD) in 2015. Minister in the Office of the Attorney General Stuart Young disclosed Sunday that Government has also, through the Estate Management and Business Development Company (EMBD), filed claims in the court against five contractors for alleged “cartel” arrangements and attempts to defraud. Those claims were filed last Thursday. The contractors - TN Ramnauth and Company Limited, Mootilal Ramhit and Sons Contracting Limited, Kallco Company Limited (Kallco), Namalco Construction Services Limited (Namalco) and Fides Limited (Fides) – have, according to Young, been found to have colluded to defraud the State of over $200 million through bidrigging and contracts with
inflated costs. The work for which the money was paid was mostly the upgrading of traces and roads of former Caroni (1975) Ltd lands, which Young said was examined over the last 18 months and to be mostly of “no value” and “worthless”. The State’s action will include claims against former chief executive officer of the EMBD, Gary Parmassar, who was in 2016 among officials of that company sent on administrative leave, pending a financial audit into the awarding of $400 million worth of contracts through the State-owned company. Yo u n g s a i d Government’s “best in school” forensic team has found evidence of collusion, mostly via text messages, among Moonilal, the contractors and the EMBD official. Young said there is also evidence that the five contractors were “handpicked” for the upgrade and rehabilitation of certain Caroni Roads. Four of the contractors, Namalco, TN Ramnauth, Kallco and Ramhit, last year
commenced legal action against EMBD for recovery of monies that they allege are owed to them, including a Namalco claim in May 2016 for over $1 billion. The claims were stayed in the High Court and while Young could not when the test of the State’s action will hit the court, he said he hoped it would be “soon”. “As a result of the work conducted, evidence has been unearthed, based on forensic work, an analysis of actual work done versus what was claimed to be done, an analysis of the tenders submitted by the contractors and following the money, which supports a conclusion of bid-rigging and cartel behaviour amongst these 5 contractors, supported and/ or encouraged and/ or permitted by persons in public office, including the former Minister of Housing, Dr Roodal Moonilal, who at all material times was the line Minister for EMBD,” Young stated at a press conference yesterday at the Office of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs. The forensic work, a c c o r d i n g t o Yo u n g , included text messages from the phone number registered to Moonilal, instructing Parmassar to prepare cheques for tens of millions of dollars to these contractors and to bring the cheques to him, as the former Housing Minister, once prepared. They also show Mr Ta r a d a u t h R a m n a u t h organising a HDC house for Mr Gary Parmassar, telling him who to award contacts from EMBD to and how much to pay these identified contractors, Young said.
Barbados facing challenges to its international business sector BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – Barbados says it is facing a “myriad of challenges’ daily as it seeks to develop its international business sector. International Business Minister, Donville Inniss, addressing the opening of International Business Week here said that he remains optimistic that the sector would overcome these challenges, particularly from interests within the international community for different reasons.
Inniss said Barbados faces a “myriad of challenges almost on a daily basis from those who are continuing to blacklist” the island. “The challenges we have is to continue to get out there and defend this domicile and its reputation as a country that is not involved in illicit activities, one that is not a tax haven and one that is really and truly seeking to encourage and foster and develop businesses of substance,” he added. Caribbean Community
(CARICOM) governments have consistently condemned actions by European countries to list regional countries as tax havens, saying it was being done so “on the pretext that there is no cooperation on tax law enforcement with the countries of the European Union”. They have said they regarded the financial services as being of vital economic importance to the socio-economic development of the Caribbean.
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Venezuela vote dispute increases threat of new foreign sanctions
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro (C) speaks during a meeting with government members after the announcement of the results of the nationwide election for new governors in Caracas, Sunday. Miraflores Palace/Handout via REUTERS CARACAS (Reuters) Venezuela’s opposition cried foul yesterday over the ruling socialists’ surprise win in gubernatorial elections, raising the prospect of more foreign sanctions against the country as France and the United States both criticized the vote. President Nicolas Maduro’s candidates took 17 governorships, versus five for the opposition, in Sunday’s nationwide poll, according to the progovernment electoral board. The socialists’ strong showing came despite devastating food shortages, triple-digit inflation, and a collapsing currency. Polls had suggested the opposition would easily win a majority. Dismayed leaders of the Democratic Unity coalition decried irregularities, called for street action, and demanded an audit, but they did not offer detailed evidence of fraud. “Neither Venezuelans nor the world will swallow this fiction,” said opposition campaign chief Gerardo Blyde. One losing candidate, Carlos Ocariz who ran for Miranda state, alleged a litany of abuses ranging from multiple voting, state food handouts on the day of the poll, forced attendance at gunpoint, and suspicious phone and power outages. Opposition leaders also said the election board skewed the poll by moving several hundred vote centers out of their strongholds, and confused people by keeping the names of opposition candidates eliminated in primaries on the ballot. “The system is totally fraudulent,” said Ocariz. Many dispirited opposition supporters now hope foreign pressure will hurt Maduro.
The United States on Monday condemned the elections as neither free nor fair and vowed to keep up pressure on Maduro. “As long as the Maduro regime conducts itself as an authoritarian dictatorship, we will work with members of the international community and bring the full weight of American economic and diplomatic power to bear in support of the Venezuelan people as they seek to restore their d e m o c r a c y, ” S t a t e Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement. T h e T r u m p administration has already imposed sanctions on Maduro and top officials, including election board h e a d Ti b i s a y L u c e n a . Washington has also struck at the government’s ability to raise more funds via foreign debt. The European Union could also take measures against Maduro, a former bus driver and foreign minister narrowly elected to replace the late leader Hugo Chavez in 2013. France, whose President Emmanuel Macron has also called Venezuela a dictatorship, expressed concern at claims of “serious irregularities” and “lack of transparency”. Sunday’s disputed results will likely dash opposition hopes the unpopular Maduro can be removed in next year’s presidential election, and could worsen disagreements over strategy in the perennially divided opposition coalition. Venezuela’s government does retain significant support in poorer, rural settings. And it seems unlikely that supporters of the elite-led opposition, which has struggled to capitalize on discontent over the economy, will return to
the streets en masse after months of grueling protests earlier this year. The actions failed to pressure the government into holding an early presidential election, freeing scores of jailed activists or accepting foreign humanitarian aid. At least 125 people died, while thousands were injured and arrested in violence. “Obviously, this was a brutal fraud,” said David Osorio, 21, who lost an eye when he was hit by a gas cannister in the clashes. “But I don’t know if going back to the streets is best ... because the same will happen and many are simply not willing.” Va r i o u s o p p o s i t i o n leaders acknowledged disillusionment and people staying home had played a big role. “We shot ourselves in the foot,” legislator Jose Guerra said, noting record turnout of 74 percent in a 2015 congress vote, which the opposition won, versus 61 percent on Sunday. T h e o p p o s i t i o n ’s electoral setback could further speed a flow of emigrants to other Latin American countries, Spain, and the United States, as many Venezuelans now fear the long-running political crisis will drag on for years. ‘WHEN THEY LOSE, THEY CRY FRAUD’ Flanked by his powerful wife, soldiers, and redshirted party members, a jubilant Maduro painted the opposition as sore losers. “When they lose they cry fraud. When they win they shout ‘Down with Maduro,’” said Maduro, 54. The opposition pocketed governorships including the turbulent Andean states of Merida and Tachira and the oil-producing region of Zulia.
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Meat safety training for Caribbean countries - FAO CASTRIES, St. Lucia (CMC) – A two-day regional training workshop covering hygiene provisions for raw
meat, meat preparations and manufactured meat from the time of live animal production up to the point of retail sale,
gets underway here today. The workshop, to be attended by public health and veterinary officials from 15
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries will place emphasis on the Codex principles of meat hygiene
which have been developed by the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC). The workshop, titled the Joint FAO/Switzerland Caribbean Food Safety Capacity Building Workshop on Foods of Animal Origin, is organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Switzerland in close collaboration with the Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety Agency (CAHFSA), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the St. Lucia government. “Food safety begins with robust food laws and regulations which must be implemented by all stakeholders in the food chain and enforced rigorously and effectively by the control authorities. Codex standards can be applied at the international, regional or national levels in order to protect the health of consumers and ensure fair practices in the food trade,” said Mrs. Awilo Ochieng Pernet, former CAC chairperson. The main objective of the workshop is to increase awareness for food safety particularly in the meat sector using Codex food safety guidelines. Participants will also have an open discussion on issues related to the impact using antimicrobial drugs on food safety, as well as resistance to antimicrobials within
the sector. “FAO’s work on antimicrobial resistance in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region started in 2017. We aim to address these issues and their relationship to food safety to assist countries to develop their national action plans. “As part of the Tripartite Alliance formed by the FAO, WHO and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE); FAO embraces the One Health approach to reduce/minimize/contain Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) under the four pillars of the FAO Action Plan on AMR for the food and agriculture sector: awareness, evidence, governance, and best practices,” said Marisa Caipo, FAO Food Safety and Quality Officer and Regional Focal Point on AMR. “Many Caribbean countries are currently in the process of modernizing their food safety regimes to bring them in line with international standards. “We hope that with the training received, the workshop participants will be able to contribute to the modernization of the meat hygiene system in their own countries when they return home,” said Cedric Lazarus, FAO Livestock Development Officer for the Caribbean.
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Guyana Men off to a winning start, Uruguay... (From page 28) practice match against Uruguay on Friday that finished 2-1 in favour of the Spanish speaking nation. Yesterday morning, Guyana lost 4-3, with a Penalty Strike in the dying seconds by Constanza Barrandeguy, gifting the Uruguayans double success. Scoring for Guyana were Nicole Eastman, Aliyah Gordon and Trisha Woodroofe. Meanwhile, Augustina Nieto, Maria Viana Ache and Milagros Algorta scored before Barrandeguy fired in the winning penalty. Seven (7) hours later, the ladies lost their second match of the day 3-0 a g a i n s t Arg e n t i n a w h o played more dominating
than Uruguay and didn’t give Guyana much time to sniff around their goal. Julieta Luna, Maria Narvaez and Josefina Castaneda scored a field goal each in the win for the powerful Argentina side. Canada Men off to lethal start Defending Men’s champions Canada began their title defence with a resounding 10-0 thrashing of the developing Mexico team. Canada played the way you would expect a reigning champion to against minnows. Although Mexico showed good signs of promise for the future, no way they could’ve overcome the Canadians. “We got here Thursday
and got a lot of practice sessions on the court to get used to it including the heat. It’s good to get our first game under our belt, we haven’t played since 2015, but we hope to keep improving as the tournament moves forward,” captain of Canada, Ken Pereira explained to Kaieteur Sport. The tournament continues today with six (6) matches from 13:00hrs and the last game beginning at 19:15hrs. Defending women’s champion Canada will clash with Guyana in the first match of the day in an encounter that is expected to action packed, as the host women look to get some points in their 3rd round robin match.
Tuesday October 17, 2017 ARIES (Mar. 21–Apr. 19) Someone may be trying to take advantage of you. Avoid lending money or belongings to friends. Don't be afraid to speak in defense of others. TAURUS (Apr. 20–May 20) Unexpected bills will be impossible for you to pay. Stay calm and focus on things that will help you understand the situation better. You should be doing something special with children. GEMINI (May 21–June 20) You may find that purchases or entertainment could be expensive. You can mix business with pleasure to get favorable results. Delve a little deeper if you really want to know the score. CANCER (June 21–July 22) You might not accomplish all that you want to at home today. Don't let your emotions interfere with completing your chores. You will have no problem getting your point across to those in a position to help you. LEO (July 23–Aug. 22) You can help sort out problems that friends are facing. You could have trouble persuading others to accept your ideas and opinions. Dig deep to find out how costly a new venture will be before you sign on the dotted line. VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22) Your efforts will be rewarded handsomely. You will enjoy interaction with others today. Use your ingenuity to manipulate things to get what you want. Someone you live
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with will be impossible. LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22) You're best to avoid disputes. Don't be angry, but be on your guard. Sudden changes at home will affect family members more than you anticipated. SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21) Curb your mood swings; they could result in loneliness. Opportunities for new romantic encounters will unfold through the social events you attend. Problems with gas, oil, or water in your home may disrupt your routine. SAGIT(Nov.22–Dec.21) You might just as well let others do their own thing. Rely on yourself and you will look good to superiors. Don't give up what you have until you can be certain just what it is you're getting. CAPRI (Dec. 22–Jan. 19) Don't be disappointed if you don't get your way emotionally. Your ability to come up with original ideas will bring recognition from superiors. You'll have great insight. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18) You can make major gains if you talk to your boss about your findings. Tone down and put some of that hard earned cash into a safe, long-term investment. Help with your aspirations is likely, and profits could follow. PISCES (Feb. 19–Mar. 20) You will not impress others by being foolishly generous. Use your added discipline to get what you want. Take care of your personal needs.
The Berbice Cricket Board must continue to... (From page 27) of Mr. Somwaru. The Court ordered the elections and appointed the BCB former first Vice President, Mr. Somwaru, to conduct same in accordance with the BCB’s Constitution. Mr. Somwaru was mandated to
comply by that order and stuck strictly with the constitution. The BCB should be allowed to function as per its mandate from the legitimate membership. The non-cricket playing, non-paying and phantom clubs must stop wasting the
court’s time. Somwaru and his Executives must move forward and include all willing participants in the process. Thank You, Stakeholder of Berbice Cricket
‘E’bo reaps reward for working as a... (From page 29) can’t say as yet until we have gotten the OK to work with the plans we want to put in place,” said Hercules. The 50-over format is set for December during the Re-
Sans Souci Jaguars capture... (From page 31) slow the scoring rate with steady bowling, picking up the vital wickets of Chandrika Ragnauth for 11 and Lokram Narine for 15 as Cavaliers finished on 144-6. Khan remained unbeaten on 75 as Nokta Moses supported Zaman with 2-19; Siddiq Mohamed and Daniels had one each. Zaman was named man-ofthe-match while Nokta Moses with 173 runs including a century against the said opponents in the preliminary round and 15 wickets, pocketed the prizes for being the best batsman and bowler in the tournament. Cavaliers received a trophy and $50,000 and Jaguars a trophy and $100,000. Speaking at the presentation ceremony, DOS Jones commended the Wakenaam Cricket Committee and V Net Communications for staging the tournament and pledged to support sports on the island. “I am very impressed with the facility and the passion for the game by the people here, in fact I have re-discovered El Dorado in Wakenaam,” he posited. V Net Communications CEO, Sheriffudeen who has sponsored the competition for the seventh -straight year, congratulated both teams for a wonderful performance and said he will continue with his sponsorship. WCC secretary Nazeer Mohamed expressed gratitude to the sponsor and DOS Jones for his visit.
gional Four-Day tournament break for Christmas and Hercules says he is very confident that Essequibo can win the double. “Our team spirit is high going into the 50 overs tournament but it’s a different ball game and we have to set our mind for a different version of the game and I’m confident that my players can make any adjustment necessary to win the 50 overs title,” explained Hercules. “I recommend that the Essequibo board don’t just be happy with winning just one title. It’s the beginning of a new era for Essequibo and this is the good start we need to continue training, have coaches in all the dif-
ferent zones working on the young players, have more games played between the zones, have clinics for fast bowlers, batsman, keepers etc, even an academy during the August holidays for all players,” said Hercules who copped the best Fielder Award for 2006 Regional U-19 tournament. Hercules thanked all the persons that supported, including Dwayne Stephens from Big Yard Auto Sales, Jerome Bascombe and his family for their support. He urged their supporters to come out and support Essequibo cricket since he believes this is a new dawn for the Essequibo cricket team.
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GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power U-17 League – West Demerara
Two matches on tomorrow; Den Amstel, Wales and Eagles are latest winners The Den Amstel ground, West Coast Demerara is the venue for two more matches in the GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power National Under-17 Intra Association League in the West Demerara Football Association leg of the competition. Wales United, smarting from their upset win over Uitvlugt Warriors will open play tomorrow against Crane Rovers from 09:00hrs with the final match between Pouderoyen and Golden Warriors from 11:00hrs. In latest play which was contested on Sunday last at the same venue, Den Amstel, Wales United and Eagles FC of Stewartville notched wins against Pouderoyen, Uitvlugt Warriors and Crane Rovers, respectively. Den Amstel handed Pouderoyen their first loss of the league thumping them 41 which now leaves Eagles as the lone team yet to taste defeat. Scoring for the home team which totally dominated proceedings after Pouderoyen took the lead on 18 minutes through Keanu Lawrence were Ruben Dainty in the 39th, Malcolm Miggins (48), Keswyn Fraser (52) and Coby Alexander in the 68th minute. The upset of the day was
Adrian Adelph (right), Ronaldo Macey and Glenroy Duncan - Eagles FC of Stewartville. the Wales United 2-0 win over Uitvlugt Warriors which have not been playing to their potential since the start of the second round. The boys from Wales, who seem to be getting better with each game, scored in the third minute through Joshua Glasgow with the sealer coming off the boot of Shaquel Richards in the 38th minute. Eagles FC continue to soar to higher heights with yet another win to maintain their unblemished record. They drove past Crane Rovers 3-0 on account of goals from Adrian Adelph (21), Ronaldo Macey (37) and Glenroy Duncan, five minutes into the second half. Eagles never allowed the
Friendz burst set up victory for Aurora Knightriders over United Warriors A six wicket haul from p a c e r We y o n F r i e n d z handed Aurora Knightriders a comfortable 8 wickets victory over United Warriors in the 4th round of the South Essequibo 40 overs cricket competition. Played under a blue sky with a nice cool breeze blowing across the Hibernia Cricket Ground last Sunday, the Warriors won the toss and opted to bat on a hard, bouncy track. No batsman got into double figures as the
Warriors were bundled out for a paltry 39 in 11.3 overs. The lively Friendz was the chief destroyer with 6-10. Timur Gafoor 2-8, Saieef Ally 1-8 and left arm spinner Garfield Phillips 1-5 all bowled well. The Knightriders got an early scare when the Sohail Ta n v i r l i k e D o n a l d Callendar (2-14) reduced them to 22-2, but Phillips and Deoraj Dindyal saw them across the line with 34.3 overs to spare. The competition continues this weekend with Aurora Knightriders taking on Invader Masters, NOC coming up against United Warriors, Rising Stars verses Tap Shattas and Hibernia facing off with Jaguars.
Shaquel Richards (right) and Joshua Glasgow - Wales United.
From right, Ruben Dainty, Malcolm Miggins, Coby Alexander and Kerwyn Fraser - Den Amstel FC. Rovers to get any way close to their defensive third. Apart from tomorrow’s
double header, two more matches would be played on Sunday at the tournament
venue. Eagles will be in action again against Jetty Gunners from 09:00hrs
followed by a clash between Den Amstel and Uitvlugt Warriors.
Slingerz, Alpha re-file court action against GFF in League matter The matter in the High Court involving the Claimants, Slingerz Football Cub and Alpha United Football Club and the Defendant, the Guyana Football Federation came up for hearing yesterday. According to a legal source, the matter came up before the Honorable Madam Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry. There were two applications before Justice Sewnarine-Beharry. (i) An Application to amend the Statement of Claim filed by the Claimants, and (ii) An Application to Strike out the Statement of Claim field by the Claimants. The Claimants had initially filed the matter as “Alpha United and Slingerz Football Club”. The
Defendant took a preliminary point in its application to strike, that the Claimants were “unincorporated associations” and therefore had no legal standing to file the court action. The Claimants as a result filed and made an application to amend the Statement of Claim to change the capacity in which they would have filed the action. As such in their application to amend the statement of claim, the Claimants would have filed the Action as “Collin Aaron representative of the Slingerz FC” and Odinga Lumumba representative of the Alpha United Football Club.” This is permissible pursuant to Civil Procedure Rules 2016 (CPR) Part 20.01(1) and Part
20.02(2). However, the Court did not accept this argument and accepted the arguments of the Defendant that the Claimants suing in the name of the clubs had no standing to file the court Action as the initial filing was defective. This effective did two things: (i) allowed the injunction grated on May 26, 2017 to be discharged thus paving the way for the GFF to pay the winner of the last Elite League Competition; and (ii) striking out the statement of claim as filed with the names of the clubs as the parties. However, this does not mean that the clubs cannot refile the Statement of claim, which in fact was done
immediately after the decision of Justice S e w n a r i n e - B e h a r r y. Because the matter was decided on a preliminary point of law the substantive cause of action for breach of contract still remains to be pursued by the clubs. The clubs to exercise this right of action have simply refiled the Statement of Claim with the parties now being “Collin Aaron representative of the Slingerz FC” and Odinga Lumumba representative of the Alpha United Football Club as the Claimants.” The Guyana Football Federation now has 28 days to file a Defence to the Statement of Claim before the matter is set for trial by a Judge in 14 days time.
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BCB names executives and committee members The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) has announced the list of appointed executives and committee members who will serve in t h e 2 0 1 7 - 2 0 1 8 administration under President Dhieranidnaurh Sonwaru. Mr Somwaru in keeping with his policy of inclusion has announced the following confirmed appointments. Other positions that are vacant will be filled in a timely manner. Appointed Ececutives
1. Arnold Deosarran 2. Raymond Mohammad 3. Godfrey Persaud 4. Desmond Fraser 5. Vemen Walter 6. Derick McAlmont Junior Selection Comittee: Leslie Solomon Chairman Narine Deonarine Patrick Lewis D. Dharry Shabeer Baksh Orvin Mangru Peter Tulsieram Competitions Committee Julian Moore
Vemen Walters Natasha Gangoo Moses Rampaul Christopher Bissoon Marketing Manager Devindra Persaud Finance Committee Godwin Allicock Imran Sacoor Randolph Latcha Disciplinary Committee Dr. Rishi Thakur Attorney -at-Law Taijnarine Ramroop Imtiaz Bacchus PRO Anthony Khemraj
Rose Hall Town Poonai Pharmacy Under-13 Team off to successful start
Jonathan Rampersaud On September 15th, 2017, the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS, and the popular Poonai’s Pharmacy of Rose Hall Town launched the Club’s ninth team, “Rose Hall Poonai Pharmacy Under-13 Team”. The team has since play three matches in the Guyana Softball League Under-13 Hardball Tournament. They defeated Georgetown based teams Georgetown Cricket Club and Everest Cricket Club but lost to their Berbice counterpart Blairmont by 26 runs. Playing against Everest at the Demerara Cricket Club, Rose Hall Town Poonai Pharmacy batted first scored 111 for 6 with Jonathan Rampersaud and Surrendra Ramcharitar scoring. In response, Everest were shot out for 45 with twelve years old off spinner Matthew Pattaya taking five wickets, while Christopher DeRoop and Jonathan Rampersaud both claiming two wickets each.
Playing the Georgetown Cricket Club at the Jai Hind Ground in Albion, Rose Hall Town Poonai Pharmacy lost the toss and the visitors rattled up an imposing 155 for 9 off their allotted 25Overs with Sanjay Persaud 44 and Rivaldo Phillips 51 both batted well. Bowling for Rose Hall Town Poonai Pharmacy, L. Arthur took 5 for 30 including a hat-trick, while Pattaya, Jeremy Sandia and Jonathan Rampersaud each claimed a wicket. In response, Poonai Pharmacy reached 157 for 3 from 21.4 Overs with Arthur returning with the bat to top score with 43, while Rampersaud was not out on 40. Extras contributed a healthy 46 runs as wides were counted as two runs. Surendra Rampersaud supported with a vital 18. Bowling for Georgetown Cricket Club, A Persaud and Z. Jodan both claimed a wicket a piece. Playing against Blairmont, Rose Hall Town Poonai Pharmacy fielded
first. Blairmont spearheaded by a solid 30 not out from Shridath Roopnarine reached 112 for 8 from 20Overs. Extras were healthy 44 as Arthur 2 for 26, Jonathan Rampersaud 3 for 7, Matthew Pattays 2 for 18 and Christopher DeRoop 2 for 22 bowled well for the Poonai Pharmacy Team. In response, Rose Hall Town Poonai Pharmacy reached 85 for 5 off their allotted Overs as Blairmont bowled and fielded well. Hemchand Ragbeer 2 for 8, S. Roopnarine 2 for 16 and Antoine Alexander 2 for 23 were the main bowlers for Blairmont as only Surrendra Ramcharitar 11, Jonathan Rampersaud 11, Arthur 12 and Shivnarine Ramnarain 16 reached double figures for Rose Hall Town. Manager Rabindranauth Kissoonlall stated that the Management of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club was quite impressed with the performance of the team and noted that the future of the Club would be dependent on the younger generation of players. Special words were reserved for skipper Jonathan Rampersaud who not only led by example but performed well with both bat and ball. The Rose Hall Town Poonai Pharmacy team has also successfully completed eight personal developmental programmes. Parents who are interested in having their children join the Poonai Pharmacy Under-13 Team or the King Solomon Logistics Under-12 Team are encouraged to call 337-4562 or visit the Club at Area ‘H’ Ground.
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GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power U-17 League – East Demerara
Buxton United maul BA Paradise, Buxton Stars shine brighter than Golden Stars
Buxton Stars scorers from right, Teshawn Gordon, Shemar Mc Pherson and Kerwin Maxwell. Captain Kobe Durant led from the front as Buxton United decimated Bachelors Adventure Paradise Sports Club 10-0 in one of two matches contested on the weekend in the East D e m e r a r a FA l e g G F F / N A M I L C O Thunderbolt Flour Power National Under-17 Intra Association League at the Golden Grove Community ground. The other match which featured the stars, Buxton Stars and Golden Stars saw the former shining brighter than the latter in a 3-1 win. Durant, the leading goal
scorer in the league continued to impose his will on opposing teams by blasting another hat-trick of goals as his team continued their impressive undefeated run of form. He {Durant}sent his team on their way to victory with goals in the 2nd, 25th and 39th minutes and got excellent support from the trio of Colin Henriques (8, 23), Jamar Robertson (10,80) and Isaiah Anderson (17, 34) with a brace each. Maleki Grannum netted the other goal for the winners in the 70th minute. A goal each from
Teshawn Gordon in the 20th, Kerwin Maxwell in the 60th and Shemar McPherson ten minutes later piloted Buxton Stars to their win over Golden Stars whose consolation strike came off the boot of Joel Marks in the 50th minute. Matches will continue tomorrow at the same venue w i t h a t r i p l e h e a d e r. Plaisance will take on Ann’s Grove from 11:00hrs with Golden Stars opposing BV Tr i u m p h U n i t e d f r o m 13:00hrs with the feature match pitting Mahaica Determinators and Buxton United from 15:00hrs.
Letter to the Sports Editor
The Berbice Cricket Board must continue to function without court actions Dear Sports Editor, I noticed two interesting letters published on 13/10/2017 in Stabroek News and Kaieteur News that appears quite similar in writing style indicating they were possibly written by the same person. One writer was Mr. Mortimer George claiming this is the first time he is seeing such occurrence, no pun intended as he is visually impaired. Is he aware that after the Hon. Judge issued his order that elections of the BCB must be held some interesting things started to happen. Some four new clubs were formed weeks before the election, surely they cannot be granted voting rights overnight. Anyway, I was told that George was not at the
meeting so his first person rendition can be garbaged. Most importantly one candidate who received a lot of endorsements walked with his own returning officer, Mr. Colin Bynoe, Senior, the very person that performed that role in 2014 and allowed non- members to vote, resulting in another court action. We are all aware that this candidate never announced that he was running neither was he a delegate to the meeting. I don’t think every candidate can walk with their own Returning Officer. I was reliably informed that 18 of a possible 24 delegates presented a resolution to the meeting nominating Mr. Drubahadur to perform the functions as Returning Officer. It is also reported that he did a fantastic job
amid the attempts to disrupt the meeting. One daily newspaper actually carried an article listing club delegates and eligible clubs in a release purportedly issued by the “Stakeholders”. Who are these people hiding behind that name and what stake do they have in Berbice cricket? In Berbice a lot of the clubs were complaining about being harassed and requests were made for their rubber stamps and letter heads. Clubs supporting Mr. Somwaru were being harassed to stay away and complained about being bullied. I was sitting quietly at a GCB Franchise Cricket match at the Cumberland ground and overheard these negative tactics being discussed by the opponents (Continued on page 25)
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Tuesday October 17, 2017
GuyanaNRA 150th Anniversary Shoot
A resounding success despite lack of corporate support – Persaud Franklin Wilson Captain of the Guyana National Rifle Association (GuyanaNRA) Fullbore Team, Mahendra Persaud, which successfully defended both their Long Range, including the International Trophy and Short Range titles at the just concluded We s t I n d i e s F u l l b o r e Shooting Championships, has declared that the competitions which were run concurrently, have been a resounding success. Commenting just after the conclusion of the Short Range Team Match on Sunday at the refurbished Timehri Rifle Ranges, Persaud, who has won the WIFBSC Individual Championship, believed that everything worked out well for what is being described as a memorable experience. ”I think it was very well held, it was a successful tournament. The ammunition issue was a bit of a bother, it wasn’t an issue
Pan Am Cups Hockey By Calvin Chapman Guyana’s National teams had mixed fortunes in their respective Male and Female round robin matches on the opening day of the 7th Pan American Indoor hockey championships which serves as the International Hockey Federation (FIH) world cup qualifiers. The men had success when they edged Barbados 5-4 to begin their bid for the India World Cup 2018 on a positive start. However, coming against a team who has only been training for six (months), Guyana, the reigning Bronze medalists would’ve expected to dominate the visiting minnows. Captain of Guyana, Robert France, steered the bumpy ride with a hat-trick of field goals that were all expertly slotted home, in the 6th, 14th and 36th minutes. Hilton Chester and the skilful Jamarj Assanah smashed a field goal and a penalty corner respectively to see Guyana hold for a win against one of the tournament debutants,
to mess up the tournament, the shooters had fun, they shot well, enjoyed themselves and the country should be proud. I must also say that the rifle association did a wonderful job.” The experienced Persaud who has once again guided Guyana to a clean sweep of all the major team titles was very high in praise for the quality of marking that was done by members of the Guyana Defence Force. ”I must pay compliments to the markers, I’ve shot most places in the world but the marking for the tournament was fantastic, really, really fantastic. We have been repeatedly complimented by the English team which is a very particular team which has always had issues with proper marking in this part of the world. But the marking provided for the championship would have been consistently incredible.” Persaud, however, did not hold back on the lack of
Mahendra Persaud receives the Queensway Long Range International Trophy from Managing Director of Queensway Group of Companies, Mohamed Qualander. sponsorship obtained by the GuyanaNRA for these championships, noting that despite the consistent top class performances of his team over the years, it is not
being matched by corporate and other support. ”It’s a bit of a downer for me and the team as a whole that we are not supported like other sports; the reality
is reality. They don’t perform, they don’t excel and rise to the level that we rise to, yet they are given lots of money from vey corner.
We held an international tournament here with shooters from all over the world including one of the best in the world; the execution was professional but we had to do it off of our own basically. We had to struggle, take loans to meet our budget, but we did it.” Teams from England, Ireland, Canada, Falkland I s l a n d s , Tr i n i d a d a n d Tobago, Barbados, Antigua & Barbuda and Bermuda numbering close to 100 shooters, male and female spent almost two weeks here to compete in two individual championships as well as two team matches over six days of intense rivalry. Persaud reminded that the championship can be described as a great Sports Tourism venture given eth fact that a number of the shooters brought their relatives and would have made a number of trips to historical sites including Kaieteur which would have helped to boost the economy.
Guyana Men off to a winning start, Uruguay edge women Barbados. Early on, Guyana led the bajans 3-0 in the 24th minute of the 40 minutes game but a spirited fight back spearheaded by a double from Che Warner (A penalty strike and a field goal) along with a field goal from Akeem Rudder which was the fruit of hard pressing, allowed the Bajans to tie the game within 7 minutes. But the Guyanese played more expertly than the novice Bajan team and anything less than a win w o u l d ’ v e b e e n disappointing. The talented Aroydy Branford pulled off some superb solo runs and dribbles which wooed the reasonably sized crowd at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, who were witnessing their first ever Hockey World Cup qualifiers, but those exploits didn’t convert into goals. “I’m not satisfied with the overall performance, we had a lot of opportunities that we didn’t take and it almost came back to bite us in the end, but we held our composure and came out with the win and that’s most
Defending Champs Canada Men defeat Mexico 10-0
Jason De Santos of Guyana attempts to score a solo goal inside a crowded Barbados D. important”, stated Guyana’s captain, the hat-trick hero, Robert France. Meanwhile, head coach of Guyana men, Robert
Fernandes, is not bothered with the closeness of the result. He mentioned that the first match is sometimes nervy for a team and Guyana
will keep improving as they continue to compete as they seek a world cup berth. Guyana Women The ladies had a torrid
time on the opening day, losing both of their matches played. Their first defeat was somewhat of a replay of their (Continued on page 25)
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Florida Guyana Hope Foundation defeats Corriverton United by three runs in thriller
Minister of National Security Khemraj Ramjattan presents the winning Florida Guyana Hope Trophy to Captain of the winning Guyana Florida Hope team Anthony Dhannie. The Florida /Guyana Hope Foundation none profit Charity Organisation proved that they are not only masters of charity work and giving hope to the needy, but also good at recreational and sporting activities. The organisation, which is made up mostly of Guyanese residents in Florida, USA, put away their charity baskets as they took on a Corriverton United Cricket team in a feature 18 overs softball cricket match which they won by three runs. The organisation which
has a Guyanese chapter the Guyana /Florida Hope organisation teamed up with the Regal Stationery and Computer Centre and Steve’s Jewelry in the allimportant cricket venture. The game, which was played at the Crabwood Creek Sports Complex, saw a reasonable size crowd including Minister of National Security Khemraj Ramjattan among other dignitaries in attendance. The game turned out to be a thriller with fortunes fluctuating until the final delivery, in the 13 a side
Man of the match Eric Thomas receiving the runner up trophy.
encounter. Winning the toss and taking first strike the Hope Foundation select team scored 161-9 with Eric Thomas hammering 42(4x6), Mahendra Arjune 33 and Eon Abel 25. Bowling for Corriverton James Hart with 4 and Sherwin Murray 3 were the main wicket takers. Corriverton in reply lost some early wickets but rallied to end on 158 in the 18 overs to lose by 3 runs. With 12 needed in the last over being bowled by Thomas, the host managed to score
nine. Their fight was led by Vi b e r t D a n w i t h a swashbuckling unbeaten 45(6x6), whilst Hart contributed 30(2x6, 3x4). Bowling for Hope Foundation Mahendra Hardyal led the way with 3, while David Harper snared 2 wickets. . At the end of the game the beautiful Florida /Guyana Hope Trophy was presented to the winning captain Anthony Dhannie by Minister of National Security Khemraj Ramjattan. Corriverton United and Man of the match
Corriverton United captain James Hart receiving the runner up trophy from Minister Ramjattan’s son. Eric Thomas also received trophies. Among those giving speeches at the activity which they all praised a worthwhile venture include Minister Ramjattan, President of the Florida / Guyana chapter Mohamed Yassin, President of the Guyana/ Florida chapter George Baijnauth and the winning Captain Anthony Dhannie. The members usually get together and accrue resources which they send to Guyana to assist those in need. The Florida based
team participates in the South Florida Softball Cricket League organized Florida Cup with reasonable success. This is their fourth return to Guyana and apart from donating millions of dollars they have shipped over 40 wheel chairs and 20 walking aids among other items. They are also assisting a number of Children’s Homes with supplies. The coordinators were George Baijnauth and Carmen Ally. (Samuel Whyte)
‘E’bo reaps reward for working as a unit’ says Coach Hercules Says Shiv is a role model for young players By Sean Devers On Sunday at Tuschen, Essequibo emerged Champions of the GCB/CGI three-day Franchise League when they drew their last round game with West Demerara to be the only unbeaten team in the League. Their Coach/Manager, 29-year-old Ryan Hercules added the accolade of Essequibo’s first ever national three-day win to his three consecutive Busta Championships for East Bank Essequibo making him Essequibo’s most successive Coach. “The feeling of winning Essequibo’s first National three-day title is a very exciting and happy one as Coach/manager since we worked hard and it’s well deserved. Essequibo did well because we have a balanced squad with young talented
players who listen and execute plans. We bond very well and we work as a good unit,” informed Hercules. Hercules, who began Coaching 2009 in England and has been coaching since then, even when he was playing in Australia, pointed out that the strength of his side was their outstanding performance in all departments. “Kevin Gordon, Kemo Paul and Nealand Cadogan provided a lively pace attack, while Anthony Adams, second highest wicket taker in the tournament, along with Ricardo and Akenie Adams, Chaitram Persaud and Vijai Surujpaul provided a strong spin attack. The main improvement this year was the quality of our fielding and that five of our batsmen scored hundreds,” stated Hercules. Ricardo Adams (2),
Rayn Hercules Kemol Savory, Anthony Adams, Paul and Shiv Chanderpaul all scored centuries making Essequibo the team with the most centurions, while Savory had the most dismissals behind the stumps in the League. Essequibo’s success was not dependant on their two West Indies players, Chanderpaul (who played the last two matches) and Ronsford Beaton, who did not play any. “Shiv joining us was a major plus since he is the
Shiv Chanderpaul best batsman in Guyana at the moment and at 43, he bats like 23. Shiv is a role model to the young players in the side and any team will want to have him in their side and we are happy to have him playing for Essequibo,” said Hercules who represented Essequibo as a pacer from 2004 for nine years. The Coach was high in praise for Assistant Coach Michael Hyles Franco, describing him as an asset to the side with his 35-years experience as a Coach.
Anthony Adams “He is a great character and his experience is an asset to the side. The team spirit was very high from day one and we maintained that level of intensity even on a bad day,” said Hercules, a former National youth player. Hercules disclosed that his biggest challenge as Coach was to take a bunch of young talented players from all parts of Essequibo and turn them into one good unit and to work hard with them and be number one. “My mission is well
Ricardo Adams accomplished since I helped many of them to be better individuals on and off the field and taught them how to be professionals on and off field, while the Essequibo Cricket Board have supported us to a extent and I say thanks for the support,” Hercules stated. “Our plans for the 50overs league, is yet to be discussed with the board but I have already planned what I would like us to do as a team to keep our unit going. So I (Continued on page 25)
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Tuesday October 17, 2017
World Archery Barbados collaborates with Archery Guyana
President of Archery Guyana, Mrs. Vidushi Persaud-McKinnon receives World Archery Barbados’ Plan and developmental information to assist Guyana from President Mr. Richard Morris. On Wednesday 11th O c t o b e r, 2 0 1 7 , representatives from World Archery Barbados met with representatives from Archery Guyana to share best practices and discuss future areas of collaboration between the two regional entities, both of which are duly affiliated to the
international governing body. Archery Guyana was invited to participate in the upcoming Barbados I n d e p e n d e n c e Invitational Archery Games. President of Archery Guyana, Mrs. Vidushi PersaudMcKinnon, expressed hope that in the near
future Guyana can be part of the Southern Games, which venue rotates every year so very soon, this is an area which will tremendously boost Guyana’s visibility and encourage sports tourism. President of World Archery Barbados, Mr. Richard Morris spoke on the major developments in
Secretary-General of Archery Guyana, Mr. Nicholas Hing, receives a complimentary shirt and cap from Mr. Ron Field of World Archery Barbados. Barbados with the Schools Training and Junior Programme and the tremendous support they receive from their National Olympic Committee to ensure that Archery is one of the forward moving sports in Barbados. Mr. Morris together with representative Mr. Ron
Field, exchanged pro-tips for working with Juniors with Archery Guyana representatives and shared best practices. It is also envisaged that Archery Guyana will soon start a Para-Archery Programme. SecretaryGeneral Mr. Nicholas Hing noted that at the recently concluded Indigenous
Heritage Archery Games, there was a wheelchairbound young man who expressed an interest in archery. This is an area Archery Guyana will explore to ensure that all persons with disabilities are also given an opportunity to participate in an Olympic sport.
GT Beer Super Cup final decided
Upper Demerara come-from-behind to stun Georgetown 3-1 Hosts Upper Demerara survived a scare to score three last gasp second half goals to shock Georgetown 3-1, while West Demerara triumphed over Essequibo Pomeroon 4-0 to set up a grand finale in the Upper Demerara Football Association GT Beer Sunday Night Super Cup Inter Association football championship set for tomorrow night at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground. Sunday night’s encounters saw a riveting end to the clash between U pper D e m e r a r a a n d Georgetown with the City side seemingly coasting for a 1-0 win after taking an early lead off the boot of Benjamin Opara in the 32nd minute of the first half. Upper Demerara fought back gamely but were unable to level the scores, and with time not on his side coach Anthony ‘ To t o ’ S t e p h e n s w a s forced to make a change by taking out the usually dependable striker M a r m a l a q u e D a v i d s on and inserted another player of great promise in Shane Luckie. The name change did the trick for the Linden side since it was Luckie who stepped up to the plate and
West Demerara rollover Essequibo/Pomeroon 4-0
Upper Demerara scorers from left Jashawn Moore, Kellon Primo and Denzil Fordyce. collected a ball and scored against Georgetown and it came in dramatic fashion in front of a stunned crowd which panicked, with the thought of losing and not contesting the final of a tournament being hosted by the home association. But luckily, Luckie was there to first flick a cross that was converted with a shattering goal in the 78thminute by Jashawn Moore. That was the beginning of things as Luckie then engineered the go-ahead goal ten minutes later when Kellon Primo received a chip from the left flank and slotted home for a 2-1
lead. With the crowd at its feet, Denzil Fordyce completed a nice move inside to finish against a bewildered Georgetown defence to score in the 90 plus three minutes as the final whistle came with jubilation for the Upped Demerara fans. Earlier in the evening, West Demerara showed grace in turning back a spirited Essequibo/ Pomeroon lineup with Seon Babb netting in the 14th minute with a headshot inside the penalty area. Then they went up 2-0 as Jamal Harvey booted in from just inside the 18 yards area as they ended
West Demera side scorers from left Seon Babb, Jamal Harvey, Morgan Denney and Gideon Payne.
the first half. As the pressure built and Essequibo/Pomeroon being unable to stave off the offensive forays of West Demerara, the defence wilted and West side’s Morgan Denny was there to find the back of the net from close range in the
59th minute for a 3-0 margin. Then they finished off the game in the 79th minute from a goal by Gideon Payne again from close range as they ended the game 4-0. Tomorrow it will be Upper Demerara against
West Demerara in the championship game for $1M as the losers collect $600,000, while the third place game will see losing semifinalists Georgetown and Essequibo squaring off for $400,000 starting at 19.00hrs.
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Windies bowlers make light work of Zimbabwe “A” - 2nd day, Tour Match B U L A W A Y O , Zimbabwe, CMC — West Indies bowlers, led by legspinner Devendra Bishoo, got a flattering boost of confidence in their threeday, tour match against Zimbabwe “A” yesterday. Bishoo was the most successful bowler with 3-28 from 8.1 overs, but Shannon Gabriel, Miguel Cummins and Raymond Reifer all collected cheap wickets, as the Windies dismissed the home team for 143 to gain a first-innings lead of 193 on the second day of t h r ee-day match at the Bulawayo Athletic Club. The visitors reached 74 for one in their second innings at the close for an overall lead of 217 in their only practice match before the first Test of two against
Zimbabwe. Opener Kraigg Brathwaite was bowled in the second over for two, but Kieran Powell, not out on 34, and Kyle Hope, not out on 35, tried to ease concerns about their form and place in the side, batting through another 18 overs before stumps were drawn. Bishoo claimed the last three wickets in the Zimbabwe “A” first innings, as he tried to restore his captain’s confidence in his bowling ahead of the brief Test series. H e h a d Ti n o t e n d a Mutombodzi caught close to the wicket for 12, bowled Tendai Chisoro for 13 and brought the innings to a close when he had Donald Tiripano stumped for 14. Earlier, Gabriel and newball partner Kemar Roach
had failed to make the breakthrough in their opening spells, but Cummins and Reifer soon put things right and undermined the Zimbabwe “A” top-order. Cummins removed opener Brian Shari and Tarisai Musakanda for five and nought respectively, in the space of three balls in his first over to leave the Zimbabweans rocking on 23 for two. Left-arm fast-medium bowler Reifer ended a brief period of resistance to leave the “A” Team wobbling on 55 for four, when he trapped Justice Chibhabha lbw for 25 in his first over and condemned Ryan Burl to the same fate for 16. West Indies captain Jason Holder brought another period of defiance to
a close, when he held a return catch to dismiss Richmond Mutumbami for nine. Gabriel replaced Holder and triggered a further slide, when he removed “A” Team captain Peter Moor for the top score of 32 and bowled Nyasha Mayavo for a fourthball duck in the space of five deliveries in his fifth over to leave the hosts reeling on 99 for seven before Bishoo completed the demolition job. Gabriel ended with 2-5 from six overs, Cummins finished with 2-8 from five overs and Reifer 2-29 from five overs. Starting the day on 301 f o r s i x , t h e Wi n d i e s declared their first inside the first half-hour, following the dismissal of Shane Dowrich for 27, leaving Holder not out on 19.
Devendra Bishoo led the West Indies demolition of Zimbabwe “A”. Scores: WEST INDIES 336-7 decl. (Shai Hope 85, Roston Chase 79, Kraigg Brathwaite 53, Kyle Hope 42, Shane Dowrich 27; Michael Chinouya 2-55, William Mashinge 2-71) & 74 for one (Kyle Hope 35 not
out, Kieran Powell 34 not o u t ) . ZIMBABWE A 143 (Peter Moor 32, Chamu Chibhabha 27; Devendra Bishoo 3-28, Gabriel 2-5, Miguel Cummins 2-8, Raymon Reifer 2-29).
Sans Souci Jaguars capture V Net T20 title in Wakenaam By Zaheer Mohamed Led by a fine all-round performance by Zameer Zaman, Sans Souci Jaguars defeated G Square Cavaliers of Belle Plaine by 37 runs to win the final of the V Net T20 Blast which was contested on Sunday at the Wakenaam Community Centre ground. Zaman struck a fine 72 and shared in two crucial partnerships before returning with the ball to capture 2-29 in front of a fair-sized crowd which included Director of Sports Christopher Jones and CEO of V Net Communications Safraz Sheriffudeen. Opting to bat, Sans Souci Jaguars were off to a good start with Zaman and Safraz Mohamed adding 50 for the opening stand before
Mohamed was caught off left arm orthodox spinner Kamal Khan for 16. Nokta Moses was then removed by Jaggernauth Manbodh for 17, but Zaman and Beesham Moses put on 78 to give their innings much impetus. Zaman hardly put a foot wrong as he mixed aggression with defence, accumulating runs on both sides of the pitch. He smashed nine fours and four sixes before falling to Khan. Moses timed the ball well hitting four fours and two sixes before he was dismissed for 38, while skipper Siddiq Mohamed chipped in with 19 not out as Sans Souci Jaguars posted 181-4. Khan claimed 2-21, while Manbodh and Dr. Dayawant Shiwnandan had one each. G Square Cavaliers
chase suffered an early set back when the inform Satnarine Sahadeo was run out for two with the score on 15. Zaman then uprooted the stumps of Manbodh (11)
before Balli Scott (01) was bowled by pacer Derwin Daniels as the G Square Cavaliers were reduced to 17-3. But Kamal Khan produced an innings that
kept his team in the hunt. He shared in a fourth wicket stand with Satrohan Shiwnandan who was bowled by Nokta Moses for 11. Khan started slowly but
blossomed to hit six well timed fours and two towering sixes, however, while he was striking the ball well, Jaguars managed to (Continued on page 25)
Members of the victorious Jaguars team with DOS Christopher Jones and V Net CEO Safraz Sheriffudeen and officials of the WCC.
The runner up G Square Cavaliers side with Mr. Jones (centre).
MVP Nokta Moses accepts one of his prizes from Mohamed Sheriffudeen.
t r o Sp Guyana Men off to a winning start, Uruguay edge Pan Am Cups Hockey women
Defending Champs Canada Men defeat Mexico 10-0
Team Guyana before their 5-4 edging of Barbados.
GuyanaNRA 150th Anniversary Shoot
A resounding success despite lack of corporate support – Persaud
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